STEINMAN RESCUE

[chickbro]

Who: Everyone that signed up to rescue the crazy surgeon. CHECK THIS FOR YOUR TEAMS.
What: Rescuing the crazy surgeon in the medical pavilion under the ocean of Promenade.
Where: ...The medical pavilion under the ocean of Promenade.
When: Day.
Warnings: Gore, psychological horror, Dr. Steinman, eventual eye-squick and death. Also language. this log

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BETA TEAM

[splicedsurgeon]

The submarine leaves the members of Beta Team in a docking facility in what seems to be Rapture's general hospital. They are on the top of what appears to be six floors. The elevators in along the wall are marked "OUT OF ORDER", and are clearly older models; Rapture was built in the 1940s, after all.

This seems to be a sitting area of patients; there is a nurse's station a few feet away. There is no nurse or any other sign of life readily apparent, and the lights down the hall are flickering on and off. As with Alpha Team, there are several normal-looking posters and advertisements for tonics and Dr. Steinman's practice, as well as music that seems to be from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

[splicedsurgeon]

While the team is planning, there's a loud 'DING' of a loudspeaker and an announcement -- propaganda -- begins to play.

"Jim: Hey, Mary, why so down in the mouth?
Mary: I don't know, Jim. I guess I just don't know how I feel about those Little Sisters.
Jim: The Little Sisters? Gee, don't you know they're the glue that holds Rapture together?
Mary: Really?
Jim: You betcha! Ryan Industries has seen to it that they're bred to be as happy as clams while they do the work that keeps us safe from the bandits and terrorists. We all need ADAM, and we all need the Little Sisters."

There's a long pause after the announcement, and then another begins to play.

"Approaching a Little Sister is a criminal offense. Do not approach the Little Sisters."

From down the hall and the stairs, the Big Daddy roars again. This time, there are gunshots -- and the sound of a little girl screaming. "Don't let him get me!"

[gumshoewizard]

Buttons. We all have them, little things that, despite our logical ability to deduce otherwise, just set us off. For some it was being insulted, threatened, or something else understandable. The "Yo Mamma" joke didn't become popular because it was funny, after all. But for Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, his single, biggest, most gut-instinct-reaction/Neanderthal Brain triggering/Heigh Ho White Knight Complex igniting button was someone harming an innocent. Especially little girls.

Harry was a father, a father who had walked through hell, the coldest depths of winter, and a few crystal planes to rescue his baby girl from the monsters. And even though he'd only gotten to hold Maggie for a few sparse hours, holding your child for the first time does something to you.

So dangers be damned, along with all the nightmares in this god forsaken place. A little girl was in danger, and Harry couldn't keep himself from rushing to help.

[oldfireturkey]

"Invisible sounds good - if you can do that then you can maybe get a head start on something if we hold them off." Or something like that. The announcement caught him off guard and he looked around, brows drawing together and frowning. "Okay, taking a serious turn towards Uncanny Valley here then."

It was then that he noticed that Harry was pulling the disappearing act on them. Had they not all just heard the same announcement right there? That they were not to approach random little girls down here? Because Isamu and anyone with the ability to hear shit had heard it and here was Harry, about to probably go off and do exactly what they'd been warned not to.

"Oh for the love of...go, go, go!" Trying to get the team moving so Harry wouldn't be confronted alone by whatever might be there or facing reprisals for disobeying the warnings. Sorry to those in front and to Billy next to him but Isamu couldn't pass up the chance to shout after Harry as they followed him. "Ittai nani ga anata ga baka o kuso yatte iru to omoimasu ka!

[failatskypirate]

Harry wasn't the only one breaking into a sprint at the sound of the girl's voice. Did he like the other sounds accompanying it? Not in the least. But though he was a pirate, the boss had always stressed to the entire crew about the proper treatment of women. Then during his travels with Ren and the Arc Aile team, he'd personally developed something of a hero-complex... or maybe it'd just always been there and he'd never had a chance to act on it until he'd been spending time with them

[bloodhounding]

She's been watching this whole time, keeping quiet and not mentioning much except for when she feels it's necessary. The fact that Harry gives her a name makes her blink in surprise- and as she's about to question him for it, the other events occur and she happens to notice Cou place those vials in the bag he's carrying before sprinting off. Most of the time she'd notice everything else with the same amount of attention, but his sudden actions caused her to be alert to his movements specifically

[splicedsurgeon]

The hallway is long, but from the top of the stairs, the team should be able to see what is happening. The stairs curve down into an open area, a waiting room of sorts, and all the doors leading away from it are either blocked, locked, or broken. There is another set of stairs on the opposite side, but below them, there is a fight taking place.

One Big Daddy can be seen fighting the splicer that escaped earlier, but that splicer isn't alone. Nine others are with him, and unlike the ones previous, some of these also have grenades. Cowering on the ground in the corner is a Little Sister"Unzip him Mr. B! Unzip him

[failatskypirate]

One moment he's getting ready to dive right into the action, the next Cou finds that suddenly, he's back among the group that he thought would probably be following right behind him. Certainly that act of reckless charging that Harry had done was equally inspiring to the rest of the team... or maybe not, considering his current circumstance. His expression seeming only modestly annoyed for being recalled in the fashion that he had been, he turns his attention to the lady that addressed him

[oldfireturkey]

Already Isamu's shadow cloaking was being tested and he muttered, focussing harder on it to keep it together. And despite what he might like to say and how he still believed that following the warnings they'd gotten over the loudspeaker was for the best, it took a heart of stone not to want to help a child and so he left 'Courtney' and whoever it was she'd grabbed to it as he came to a halt

[magicprogeny]

"I got her!" Billy said, teleporting his way over to the girl and... he assumed it was a guy in an old fashioned diving suit. Once there, he quickly threw up a dome-like shield over them. "Hey, it's okay," he called over his shoulder in an attempt to reassure the girl. "We'll get you out, don't worry." What the hell was a little girl doing in a place like this? At least it seemed like she hadn't been alone, judging by how upset she was over the diving suit guy.

[gumshoewizard]

Sometimes seconds is all you have when you're running on adrenaline and instinct. Before he even knew it, Harry was vaulting down the spiral staircase, landing in the next floor with a crash that had everything in the room turning to look at him, Splicers, Little Sister, et all. The hall became eerily silent in that heartbeat of surprise. Glowing eyes wide with fear and dark shadows staring hungrily at him, the wizard stepped forward, grin cocking on his face.

Well, with that kind of attention, there was only one logical conclusion. Point staff at the things hurting the helpless little girl and shout out: "Falcon Punch!"

Silver-blue sparks rippled through the air as he unloaded a boulder-sized Fozare into the middle of the group of Splicers in attempt to send them scattering. Like bowling pins. Bowling for Splicers, the new sport of Promenade.

[splicedsurgeon]

The room is quite large, a makeshift arena now that there's a fight. If Cou is in fact free and swinging, he'll make it short of the group of splicers -- but certainly close enough for one of the Thuggish Splicers, the ones armed with lead pipes, to take notice and decide to attempt to use him as a pinata before he drops to the ground.

His arrival and the Thuggish Splicer's movement away from the group clues the rest of them into the team's arrival. The Nitro Splicers, armed with grenades, look up and immediately hurl them at anyone still on the stairs while the Leadheads, those armed with guns, start shooting. They'll focus on taking the team out before they get the Little Sister, even in the face of Isamu's blade -- these ones haven't fought the team before, after all, with the exception of one.

They're so focused, in fact, that they don't notice Billy shielding her. The Little Sister certainly does, though, and she shrieks again. She's scared. She doesn't know these people, her guardian is dead, the monsters want to get her.Harry

[oldfireturkey]

"Great job!" He shouted to Billy, managing the quickest of grins in his direction and then took a step back because shit son, colour him impressed with whatever the hell Harry had just done. The yell would have made him laugh in any other situation but that was a hell of a thing and it was easy to see just why Harry had run in front. Yes, charging right on in like a steroid infused bull in a china shop was never going to be the smart plan but if you had the balls and the skills to back it up, then it was very hard to keep up an honest complaint against it.

Not that Isamu would let Harry know that implicitly.

"Falcon punch? Jesus, the damn brain trust right there." Loud enough, maybe only just, but definitely loud enough to be heard by anyone close enough. Sword still crackling, he wielded it with one hand, the other shooting small blasts of lightning at the downed monsters. "Everyone! Hit hard and hit fast! This is the best shot we've got to get this done without too much damage!"

[failatskypirate]

Particularly with the going-ons of the newly erupting battle around them, the pirate's struggles somehow got him free of his apparently self-appointed watch dog. At least free enough to get himself into plenty of trouble.

When he misses his mark, he's lined up flawlessly to take a lead pipe to the side, a pained yelp escaping him as he loses his grip and drops to the floor. It hurts, but he's taken worse blows from crueler adversaries without being crippled. A quick yank dislodges his hook from where he'd anchored it, the implement clattering to the ground as his winch kicked in and immediately began drawing it home.

In the meantime, he was hurting too much to want to get up, but he knew that if he just laid there and tried to get a breather, his assailants would finish him off. In a flash his pistol was drawn as he rolled aside to dodge any further attacks. Armed, he aimed at the nearest knee that didn't belong to his teammates and fired a quick two taps. Should he be lucky, strike true and perhaps even get the splicer to collapse

[gumshoewizard]

One Splicer that was on the fringe of the group, and therefore not blown away by Harry's surprise attack, watches its comrades fly off before turning to the wizard and charging him. This is good. By scattering them first, it made an organized rebuttal difficult, if not impossible to stage in the middle of combat. Besides, these mutant things didn't look like the cooperative type.

Harry ducks a swing from a lead pipe and blocks the other with his shield bracelet. In the spray of sparks that ignite when the weapon crashes with the shield, he cocks his arm back and lets loose one of the force rings on his fingers. The little items store a bit of kinetic energy whenever he moves his arm, unleashing it all at once when the ring is activated. The built up force of the ring tries to hit the Splicer dead in the face.

"Keep them scattered!" he bellowed, "dont let them organize!"

[splicedsurgeon]

The splicers, in fact, aren't terribly organized -- they are far more tolerant of others like them than of these intruders, of course, but the demand for ADAM and the destruction it has caused on their minds and bodies makes petty squabbles turn fatal fairly constantly. Against this team, however, their true advantage is being able to swarm, to use their numbers to hit hard and fast. When they're scattered like bowling pins, that is much, much harder to do.

Bullets and grenades still fly while pipes are brandished, but in the end, the splicers are no match for beta team. There is no where to run this time, and so they don't. They die instead.

The Little Sister is still sobbing over her protector when the last Splicer falls, still clutching at his gloved hand with her own. "Mister Bubbles, get up!"