Anika did not help Mel right away. Instead she stood watch for a minute, then moved amongst the three drivers. At each one she patted them down. Searched the interior of the vehicles. From all this effort she collected three light pistols, three knives, retrieved her boomerang, and removed a concealed vest from one of the drivers. The latter she put on over her pajama top, even though it was meant to be worn under clothes. Time being an issue, it wasn't worth the extra steps required to conceal the bit of armor. After her savaging gear from the enemy Anika finally moved to assist Mel in hiding the three copses outside of view. When Mel directs Anika to take one of the radio boxes from the drivers, Anika gives a single curt shake of the head.
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Useful as listening in might be, those could give away our location via sound or com-signal. I'm not holding onto one … and you better ditch your's as soon as you hear what you need to."
Now holding a silenced pistol in each hand Anika returns to the corner of the building from which she had sprung her attack on the driver earlier. Her back to the corner she holds her weapons vertical and takes a calming breath to prepare herself for what was to come.
From her hiding spot Mel listens in on the radio intents on getting some kind of useful intelligence on the enemy force. From what she can tell, Mel isn't receiving all the communications from inside the building. There seem to be three separate groups, each operating on a different channel, and then this fourth channel that appears to be meant for operation wide messages. The three teams are operating under the names Poison, Toxin, and Venom. A person with the callsign Toxin One sounds like they are in command of the assault. After a couple minutes of waiting Mel's radios receives a message from Venom team that they're moving to exfiltrate with their package. They request a callback after no acknowledgement is given. The driver's can't respond. The radio channel goes quiet.
A couple minutes later Mel sees eight figures in dark shaded urban camo exit the back of the building. They're all clad in military grade armor vests and helmets. Each has a half-face gas mask, and a set of night vision goggles. Their weapons are raised, on guard, and they move from the door in a strike team formation, each one covering the other and one in back attaching their rear. Their weapons are familiar. While Mel was not trained for use with Hadron-tech military weapons, she knows what they look like. The rifles they carry are sleek with rounded corners. They're dart guns, used for in situations where silence is preferred over raw firepower. While there were many types of chemical concoctions the darts could inject into their targets, they were able to penetrate even the Hard Suit body armor used by Imperator's forces. Like most military equipment made in Hadron City, they were certain be to bio-locked to a specific user, or group of users.
At the center of the eight man formation, two carried limp bodies. Jamie and Russel. Mel moved to attack, breaking from her place of concealment. But the armed men and women were on guard, and those at the lead brought their weapons to bear on her. Primed to attack. In time with Mel Anika turned and brought one of he guns down to draw a bead on one of the people intent on abducting her boyfriend. Raising her voice she called out:
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For Imperator and the First Generation!"
Dreamless sleep. That is what Jamie and Russel experienced. But something in them fought against the darkness and dying of the light. No matter what anyone said, they weren't like everyone else. They were of the First Generation. They had a destiny, handcrafted by Imperator. The future was theirs. No one could steal that from them. Not if they fought. Not if they took it back. Memories and emotions push at the darkness. Body and will struggle against the chemicals used to subdue them. Then they heard a voice shouting a battlecry. They knew that voice. It was Anika!
OOC wrote:Jamie and Russel each get 1 HP for having been incapacitated in the previous scene. Jamie gets an additional 1 HP due to Anika being in danger.
Jamie and Russel may now make a DC 17 Fort or Will save to regain Consciousness. Alternatively they may spend 1 HP to automatically wake up. If you spend the HP, for the duration of this combat you have you Exhausted/Fatigue Condition removed. Afterwards you'll be Exhausted again.
Even though Mel is sneaky, the Antagonists are on guard because they have not received a return call from the drivers and they note their absence from the vehicles on exiting the building. There will be no surprise round. Everyone who is Conscious make an Initiative roll.
Mel may also take any of the Equipment Anika looted (knives, light pistols, weird metal boomerangs) to use for herself.