Riders on the Storm [Open]

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The magic word, as it turned out, was "Med's". If Butterfly hadn't been on a horse already, Millennia would have gladly tackled her for a hug. As it was, she bounced on the balls of her feet quite excitedly anyway.

"Really? That's fantastic! I heard I had nieces, but I didn't hear about more family."

Jack helped Milli up onto his own horse, and she sobered. Having a living creature between her legs was a very strange form of transport, and one Milli was rather nervous about. She edged a bit closer to the Fact, hoping he knew how to navigate this thing because she hadn't even seen the Shobogans do so.

"Apparently, we're on Planet Sexy, amIright?"

"Is that what it's called?" Millennia asked innocently. She wasn't blind, but she wasn't entirely there either, which for better or worse meant she didn't always understand teasing was not the whole of the truth. Of course, she was still living and breathing, so the fact she moved a little closer to Jack before winking to Kikilia was perfectly natural. "Your Paradox looks quite nice, but I prefer the Undying One."

Lord Omega reminded her far too much of the Meddler for Milli to even consider him in a flirting light.

"Shall we go?"

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No, not all Time Lords knew each other. Omega only sensed that Milli found him familiar, and she was familiar to him too. But... he had no family, at least nothing alive. He decided to stick with Millennia, but as soon as it was confirmed that Milli and Kiki were relatives, he relaxed a bit. He glanced down at Kiki as it suddenly dawned on her who he was.

There was a quiet but visible smirk of amusement on the corner of his lips, and his voice had a hint of humor in it. "Took you some time, huh?"

And then a proper introduction, "My name is Lord Omega. God of the Antimatter universe, one of the founders of Time Lord society. And very much alive. I have reports that the rocket you see there is aimed at the Sector of Forgotten Souls."

"Spending the summer in this universe, huh?" Andy piped up. He then focused back on Jack Harkness. "Oh it is indeed quite a pleasure."

He glanced over to Millennia and nodded, hiking the horse to get her awake and moving. Andromeda nodded and did the same thing.

"I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to get to know each other on this trip~." He commented.

[Kikilia]

As Mr. Dark-And-Hot and Mr. Blonde-And-Hot chatted, Kiki spurred her horse forward towards Millennia. "This is so cool, running into you here!" she said, resisting the urge to just hug the adorable blue-haired woman. "You don't know me - probably, anyway - but I'm Med's sister-in-law!"

"Really? That's fantastic!" Millennia responded. "I heard I had nieces, but I didn't hear about more family."

"Yep!" she gushed. "Four nieces and a nephew, actually. Not much younger than I am, really. Maybe fourty or fifty years, tops."

Mr. Dark-And-Hot introduced himself as 'Captain Jack Harkness', and Mr. Blonde-And-Hot didn't introduce himself at all.

"Captain Harkness, hey?" Kiki licked her lips. "I do so love a man out of uniform..."

The brunette haired man glances at the three of them and raises his brow. "You three seem to be on a mission."

Kiki looked from Jack to Omega and back to Milli, and smiled. "A mission to bring the beef, right?" she murmured to her sister-in-law, adding a wink for good measure. "Apparently, we're on Planet Sexy, amIright?"

"Is that what it's called?" Millennia asked innocently.

"May as well be," she grinned, checking out Jack again, before checking Andy out again.

Millennia took a possessive step closer to Jack, then winked back. "Your Paradox looks quite nice, but I prefer the Undying One."

"Well," Kiki said, a devilish tone in her voice as she glanced from Jack to Omega to Andy and b ack, "your brother always says that a double blinded test is the ideal way to prove a point, so..."

"If you came via a telepathic message, then yes..." Omega spoke up.

"Not yet," Kiki laughed. "But I'm up for anything, once..." Her voice trailed away as she really looked at Omega, and her face went pale. To the eyes of a Sidhe, attuned to seeing deep into the electromagnetic and noetic spectrums, he wasn't a man. He was a raging inferno, a storm of power barely contained in a humanoid form. "I mean... that is..." her voice was suddenly respectufll and slightly frightened, "yes. Yes, m'lord. I did."

"Took you some time, huh?" the Ancient Lord of Time asked, sounding amused.

"I... that is... yes." She swallowed hard. "I didn't know who had sent it..."

And then a proper introduction, "My name is Lord Omega. God of the Antimatter universe, one of the founders of Time Lord society. And very much alive."

"Omega!" Kiki echoed, stunned. "The Lord Omega? The one in the Rassiloncsheufayndgljoidadnlgsutsohril, who forged the Eye of Harmony, and gave the Time Lords mastery over History..?"

FOr a moment, she couldn't even speak. This wasn't just an Ancient Time Lord. This was a Time Lord spoken of in the same tones that were used to pronounce Rassilon. He was one of the closest things Time Lords had to gods.

"I have reports that the rocket you see there is aimed at the Sector of Forgotten Souls."

"Wait, what?" Kiki asked. "What... why?"

"Spending the summer in this universe, huh?" Andy piped up. He then focused back on Jack Harkness. "Oh it is indeed quite a pleasure."

She looked back over at Andy, grateful to have something normal to focus her attention on for a moment. "Not yet, it isn't," she smirked. "Maybe later..."

He glanced over to Millennia and nodded, hiking the horse to get her awake and moving. Andromeda nodded and did the same thing.

"I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to get to know each other on this trip~." He commented.

"Oh, I insist," Kiki agreed. Then her attention returned to Omega. "Where is this rocket, my Lord?"

[Captain Jack Harkness]

A small grin curved Jack's lips as he edged his horse forwards, following Omega's lead. Planet Sexy, huh? All in all, things could definitely be worse. For a start, it was good just to be on horseback again, riding in the warm sun, it had been a long time. And, as the innuendo and suggestive comments flowed like wine, the company appeared to be getting more and more promising every moment.

"Your Paradox looks quite nice, but I prefer the Undying One."

He could sense Millennia's warmth at his back and her hands trustingly at his waist as she cuddled closer to him. He wasn't quite sure how her apparent trust in him made him feel. After all the terrible things that had happened back on Earth, he had decided he never wanted to be responsible for anyone again. But Millennia seemed so innocent he couldn't help feeling protective towards her.

"Well," Kiki said, a devilish tone in her voice as she glanced from Jack to Omega to Andy and back, "Your brother always says that a double blinded test is the ideal way to prove a point, so..."

Jack laughed at that. “Sounds to me like her brother is a very wise man.”

He was enjoying the woman's open flirtatiousness very much and, as he rode along, he couldn't help wondering if she was prepared to put her money where her mouth was. Andy Callidium certainly looked like he was game for a bit of fun, going by the looks he was giving Jack.

"Oh, it is indeed quite a pleasure."

Jack returned the man's provocative gaze with one of his most alluring smiles. “The pleasure is all mine.”

"Not yet, it isn't," Kiki smirked. "Maybe later..."

“Promises, promises,” Jack grinned.

"I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to get to know each other on this trip~." Andy commented.

"Oh, I insist," Kiki agreed. Then her attention returned to Omega. "Where is this rocket, my Lord?"

Oh yeah, the rocket, Jack thought, suddenly recalling why they were all actually supposed to be there. For some reason, he'd forgotten all about that.

With an inward sigh, he turned his head to listen to Omega's reply.

After all, he supposed there were ants at every picnic.

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The others were flirting while Milli leaned against Jack, the picture of innocence. Not to say she really was. Milli certainly wasn't a child in terms of age, and she had seen more of Life and Time than most, but she hadn't experienced much more than a century within her own skin. So in many ways, she was a teenager.

That didn't make her oblivious and actually meant she had more hormones to deal with than most Gallifreyans whenever her mind focused, but it didn't focus all that often.

"The rocket is at the beginning of our journey," Milli murmured, amused as she realized the Fact's presence was comforting. He was an anchor that wouldn't swim in the sea of possibilities.

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Omega wasn't exactly the picture of innocence, but he wasn't a flirt. He was always focusing on business and science, more asexual than anything. Even with the looks that the other three had given him, he chose to just pretend that it was completely normal and would hike his horse, leading the others out of town and towards the rocket. Kiki essentially fangirled at him and he just gave her a smirk of amusement.

"I see you have done your history homework." He spoke up, and then added, "Yes it is I. Surprising, considering that Gallifreyans like to mess with the perception of their own history." Omega did like to make fun of his own species a lot.

When Kiki asked why they were setting the rockets off at the Sector of Forgotten Souls. He shrugged, a simple gesture from the god himself. Either way, Andy had to tear his eyes away from Jack (and the very comfortable Millennia) after the comments, hoping they'd learn about each other later, before he piped up.

"I don't know about sending the rockets to... wherever you say they are going, but they claim it's to advance their prospects of science."

Omega then spoke up, a tinge of very ungodlike sarcasm in his voice, "Yes, and I'm sure blowing up the very center where Time Lord history is mapped out is an 'advancement in science.' I'm sure that would break everything."

[Kikilia]

"Omega!" Kiki echoed, stunned. "The Lord Omega? The one in the Rassiloncsheufayndgljoidadnlgsutsohril, who forged the Eye of Harmony, and gave the Time Lords mastery over History..?"

"I see you have done your history homework."

"M..m...my brother-in-law," Kiki stammered, suddenly feeling awkward at the scrutiny of this being. "He, that is, when he took over my training, he insisted on a very classical education." She swallowed, hard. "Rassiloncsheufayndgljoidadnlgsutsohril is one of the great works of Gallifrey..."

"Yes it is I. Surprising, considering that Gallifreyans like to mess with the perception of their own history."

"Well, he kinda idolized you. In a way."

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"Oh, I insist," Kiki agreed. Then her attention returned to Omega. "Where is this rocket, my Lord?"

"The rocket is at the beginning of our journey," Milli murmured.

Kiki nodded her agreement. Thanks to her heritage she'd spent enough time around the Courts of the Sidhe to be thrown by random-sounding non sequiters. "But will it be at the destination?"

"I don't know about sending the rockets to... wherever you say they are going," Andy said, jumping in to the conversation, "but they claim it's to advance their prospects of science."

Omega then spoke up, a tinge of very ungodlike sarcasm in his voice, "Yes, and I'm sure blowing up the very center where Time Lord history is mapped out is an 'advancement in science.' I'm sure that would break everything."

Kiki considered that for a moment. "Ah... m'lord? Does it actually matter?" She flushed a little. "I mean, Gallifrey and it's History have been utterly uprooted from the universe. Can it really matter whether or not they fire a missile at a point in space that was important to a History that never was?"

[Captain Jack Harkness]

((OOC: Jack might pass on this round, to give Omega the chance to answer Kiki's questions. He's just enjoying riding along in the sunshine with Mili cuddling him, surrounded by Team Smokin' Hot... ))

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((I'm going to have to pass as well. Milli is just listening raptly while cuddling the Undying One, and she refuses to do anything more no matter how much I poke her.))

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OoC: Then we shall get going with the plot! No need to lag a little. ANy detail I'd missed, just let me know and I'll describe it next post.

Ic: Omega, on his horse, trotted along with his horse, still a bit uneven, but still remaining as tall and authoritative as possible at the moment. After all, one did have to keep that air about you when you are a millennia old Time Lord who founded said society. Either way, Kiki asked a couple of important questions on the trip, which he nodded to.

"It may not be important to history that never was, but at the same time, it contains the black hole and universe in which I reside in. I'm not going to run the chance of collapsing a universe and possibly nearby systems for just one planet's sake." He explained.

"I believe we're in for one long trip." Andy spoke, mostly to himself as they headed towards the rocket silo.


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The rocket, as they approached, was met with large barbed wire fencing around a good mile of land, which housed the large silo as well as the bunker that the researchers were in, as well as the main man behind the project. The place was very dry and deserted, various jackalopes skittering about and strange groundhog-like creatures popping in and out of burrows.

It's like they could sense the amount of energy that was in the steel silos. Omega could tell already that the equipment was very behind in times, but at the same time the engineering was quite stellar; Even he was impressed. Large beams framed the rocket as it pointed at the sky and clockwork machinery held it apart (until they had to be de-attached for the takeoff procedure)

Not too far away at one of the barbed wire fences were guards standing along a dirt road that let in horse carriages or old fashioned machinery. Omega eyed that particular guard, but at the same time he was quite sure that they wouldn't just let any group in, no matter how 'sexy' they were.

At this point they were a little too far to see how well guarded the place was.

[Kikilia]

The area around the 'rocket site' - Kiki wasn't sure what a better name would be - was a no-man's land. A broad swathe of flat, nearly featureless ground around coils of barbed wire and towers, with a single gateway allowing admittance. And then inside, wide-open sight lines until you reached the bunker and the launch pad.

And the whole thing, to Kiki's sidhe-inherited senses, crackled with power.

"Interesting," she finally said, committing what she could see of the layout to memory. "Gimme... oh... half an hour, and I can be in there. If you don't want me risking attracting attention, that is."

Tipping her hat a little to shade her eyes, she looked at Omega. "Unless you've got something different in mind, my Lord. But I am an infiltration and covert operations expert."

[Captain Jack Harkness]

Jack scanned the area ahead of them with grim distaste. The guarded gateway, barbed wire, mud, towers, rocket silos...somehow it reminded him far too much of the enclosed compound he had come across at the end of the Universe, on Malcaissaro, with the Doctor and Martha. A prescient prickle ran across the back of his neck - the distinct feeling that something was waiting for them here, just as it had been back then, and that they were about to get in over their heads.

He shifted on the back of his horse and stood up in the stirrups, instinctively trying to look in every direction at once, as if he expected to see a horde of Futurekind converging on them. But there was nothing immediately evident...just long stretches of dry, empty desert.

Kiki, he noticed, was studying it all with narrowed eyes, a professional appraisal that gave the lie to her bubbly, carefree exterior.

"Interesting," she finally said. “Gimme... oh... half an hour, and I can be in there. If you don't want me risking attracting attention, that is." Tipping her hat a little to shade her eyes, she looked at Omega. "Unless you've got something different in mind, my Lord. But I am an infiltration and covert operations expert."

Oh yeah, Jack thought to himself with increased interest. I just bet you are.

Not just a pretty face then. Apparently, Omega wasn't the only one on this mission who was a lot more than what he appeared on the surface.

Personally, Jack's preference would be to deal with this the Torchwood way, which was to go in with some big-ass guns blazing and sort it all out nice and simply. But at the moment, they seemed to be woefully short in the big-ass gun department. And this wasn't his party anyway.

So instead, he looked once more towards the blonde Time Lord, and waited to hear what the plan of attack was going to be.

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The others heard 'infiltration and covert operations expert' and thought something along the lines of 'so she has mad skillz'. Only, well, in a more serious 'she's got the power' kind of way. Milli heard 'infiltration and covert operations expert' and immediately wanted to give her sister in law a hug. She couldn't explain why, if asked. It wasn't as if that was a career that lended itself to people who really wanted hugs, but Milli wanted to give her one anyway.

Because.

The Undying One was standing in the stirrups now, making Millennia's hearts race as she clung on to his legs. She did not trust her ability to use this 'horse' on her own one bit. What if he fell? What if she fell?

The possibilities were dizzying, and the rocking pace of their mode of transport only added to the blur in Milli's head.

"Sit?" Milli pleaded, tugging at Jack's sleeve. "We are only discovered out here in 2% of the current probable futures, and we only see anything worth discovering in this stretch in 4%. Please. Sit while Lord Omega tells us his plan?"

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So there he was, looking back into the silo, trying to size up the situation as the others spoke up, and observed themselves. The men were armed, albeit not with automatic machine guns, which means that they would have to reload, and it would reload slowly. Furthermore, there seem to be little control along the border, but that didn't mean the inside was crawling out the woodwork with these people.

"Interesting," Kiki spoke up. “Gimme... oh... half an hour, and I can be in there. If you don't want me risking attracting attention, that is." Tipping her hat a little to shade her eyes, she looked at Omega. "Unless you've got something different in mind, my Lord. But I am an infiltration and covert operations expert."

Omega nodded this time, trusting Kiki's skills and womanly wiles in being able to get into this place. Furthermore, Millennia's ability to see all different futures also was helpful, as he had noted. Jack Harkness could easily pick up a gun, and considering his giddy nature he could easily see to it. Same with Andromeda.

"I'm going to presume this rocket runs on hydrogen, or some other liquid fuel. We need to find those and dump that out. We also need to take out the head of this corporation which, if I am correct, is in an office on the bottom floor in the south building." He scratched his chin, "Normally I'm the type to run in yelling at everything but this may not do. Kiki, see if you can dump the fuel deposits before we do anything rash. And by rash I mean something explosive that might set that all off."

He then added, "I may need to see to the blueprints to see if there's anything else that we can take out as well..."

Andy finally spoke up his horse shuffling a bit in the sun, "I can see to finding those blueprints if I can. I need those anyway."

[Kikilia]

Kiki listened thoughtfully, picking out locations and marking them in her mind as Lord Omega pointed them out. Millennia's assessment of their odds of discovery were reassuring, of course, but she preferred to make certain that surprises didn't happen.

"I'm going to presume this rocket runs on hydrogen, or some other liquid fuel," Omega was saying. "We need to find those and dump that out."

"Probably those tanks in the northwest corner," she said, pointing. "They're fenced off and guarded, so they've got to be important."

"We also need to take out the head of this corporation which, if I am correct, is in an office on the bottom floor in the south building." He scratched his chin, "Normally I'm the type to run in yelling at everything but this may not do. Kiki, see if you can dump the fuel deposits before we do anything rash. And by rash I mean something explosive that might set that all off."

"Sabotage the fuel depot and kill the chief?" Kiki asked, eying the layout of the compound one more time. "No problem." Slipping down from Chocolate's back, she began to unbutton her blouse.

He then added, "I may need to see to the blueprints to see if there's anything else that we can take out as well..."

Kiki, who was by now wearing only a grey undergarment that resembled a one-piece racing-back swimsuit, looked up from her purse. She'd stuffed all of her clothing into it already, and was now extracting several small cylinders. "You want me to put blueprints on the list, then, and hold off on wrecking the tanks until I get back with them?"

Andy finally spoke up his horse shuffling a bit in the sun, "I can see to finding those blueprints if I can. I need those anyway."

Grinning, Kiki straightened and deliberately posed - just a little - for everyone. "Oooh..." she said, biting her lip. "If you seduce a guard, let me know." The grin turned devilish. "I wanna watch."

Winking, she gave a mental command. The fabric of the suit flowed and thickened, encasing her from head to foot in a sheath of dull grey that blurred and blended with the background. It wasn't invisibility, precisely, but something about the suit made it impossible to follow the contours of her body or to pick her out from the scenery.

"Synthetic smart metasilk," Kiki said, voice muffled and distorted. "It's got a refractive index of -3, it'll stop a knife or a bullet, and I look pretty damn hot in it." A pause. "When it's off, anyway."

The air seemed to blur a little, and then ghostly fingertips were playing with the hair at the nape of Andy's neck. "C'mon, handsome," Kiki purred in her distorted, muffled voice. "Let's see what you've got."