Riders on the Storm [Open]

[Captain Jack Harkness]

Jack watched Kiki's transformation with amused appreciation. He had to admit, he was very impressed – which he suspected was the purpose of the demonstration in the first place, going by that flirtatious little pose before she activated her suit. One thing Kikilia wasn't, and that was shy. It was more than obvious that the red-headed woman could handle herself.

Nevertheless, he'd be damned if he'd stand back and let her have all the fun. Since he was here anyway, he may as well make himself useful.

“You need the Head of the Corporation disabled?” he spoke up, his American drawl lazy in the warm air. “Leave that to me.” He raised his arm and pushed back his sleeve, displaying the leather wrist strap to the rest of the group. “Vortex manipulator. I'll be on top of him before he knows what's happening.”

He shot Kikilia a charming grin and tipped his hat to her...or at least at the place he thought she was, since the hi-tech suit made her actual presence rather difficult to pinpoint. “That way, Miss Kiki here can concentrate on using her unique...and very sexy...talents to take out that fuel depot with a minimum of fuss.”

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Milli's eyes were wide as she listened to all of the others forming battle plans. It was almost funny, almost scary, and mostly in the blindside of Millennia's perception. Deciding the others wouldn't listen to anything rational anyway, Milli closed her eyes tightly so she would stop just stop seeing the different possibilities in the gold.

Everyone else had skills at fighting, not planning parties. She wasn't sure what good she would be here. At the same time, the song was screeching at the dissonance this launch would provoke. Milli couldn't leave without guaranteeing herself a migraine.

She would just have to come up with something.

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Andy had already opened himself up to walking right in with Kiki to take those blueprints along the way with her, both of them quickly companioning up with the entire thing. Jack was just as quick with opening up on the missions and Omega couldn't help but feel proud at the fact he had a small group with him.

"Oooh… If you seduce a guard, let me know." Kiki suddenly grinned, and Andy couldn't help but smirk in return. "I wanna watch."

"Hope I don't make you jealous~." He teased back. With that, Andy had adjusted his coat and smoothed out his hair, ready to do anything he could to get those blueprints, and back into Seria's hands...

“You need the Head of the Corporation disabled? Leave that to me.” Jack had spoke up as well and Omega nodded in return, giving him the blessings “Vortex manipulator. I'll be on top of him before he knows what's happening.”

“That way, Miss Kiki here can concentrate on using her unique...and very sexy...talents to take out that fuel depot with a minimum of fuss.” Oh boy, Omega couldn't help but realize he picked three members of the Innuendo Squad for this, and decided he would be more than happy with Millennia's unique… abilities to chat with compared to them. Even if they were rather… amusing to him.

"Synthetic smart metasilk," Kiki shimmered and seemed to disappear into the light, becoming a rather interesting fairy companion for him, despite the muffled voice."It's got a refractive index of -3, it'll stop a knife or a bullet, and I look pretty damn hot in it. When it's off, anyway… C'mon, handsome," Kiki spoke up, tickling the back of Andy's neck and he wriggled in return, grinning. "Let's see what you've got."

"I'd like to see you without the suit." He teased back. "Afterwards, of course."

With his new companion, he slipped off to head towards the silo, where the bulk of the interesting activity was going to be. He decided against going to the entrance as he presumed he wanted to go, and used a pair of clippers to try and go under the wiring, making sure to short it out at the same time on the sections that were electrocuted.

Omega hung back, murmuring to Milli.

"I hope they get this all right…"

[Kikilia]

"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."

"I'd like to see you without the suit." Andy teased back. "Afterwards, of course."

"Maybe. Impress me, first."

Jack HotnessHarkness, meanwhile, was volunteering to use a vortex manipulator to teleport in and kill or disable the president of the corporation. His comments ended with smile that made her knees go weak and left her feeling all melty, and a tip of a hat in the approximate direction of Andy. “That way, Miss Kiki here can concentrate on using her unique...and very sexy...talents to take out that fuel depot with a minimum of fuss.”

She smirked behind her mask. "We can talk about my 'sexy talents' later, Mister Harkness. Right now, we have work to do."

With that, silent as a ghost, she slipped from the camp.

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It took Kikilia thirty-eight minutes to get to the fence, ten of which was spent carefully crawling over barbed wire coils and trip lines. They were comparatively low-tech here, but low-tech could still get you caught and make you dead. But now she crouched by the fence, peering up the heavy adobe walls at the barbed wire and broken glass that studded the upper five feet.

"You'd think they're concerned about intrusion," she sniggered. Then she rested her hands on the wall and began to climb. The static suppression effect of the gecko pads let her work her way up easily, picking her way around the broken glass. Glancing left and right, she vaulted over the barbed wire and landed on the walkway.

::I'm in,:: she called, her telepathic voice a narrow beam. ::You're probably better at this than I am, Millennia. How's the near now looking?::

She'd homed in on the mind that felt most familiar. So, why did she feel like she'd contacted two minds?

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(OOC: Yes, she did accidentally CC Omega in on that as well.)

[Captain Jack Harkness]

Jack sensed rather than saw Kikilia vanish from among them. One minute she was speaking to him - "We can talk about my 'sexy talents' later, Mister Harkness. Right now, we have work to do." - and the next, there was a sense of emptiness, an odd, inexplicable feeling of something that had once been there no longer being so.

Admiration stirred inside him – not just of Kiki's physical good looks, which were attention-grabbing enough on their own – but also of her approach to her work. Her demeanour was flirty and casual and devil-may-care...but when it came down to the wire, she definitely didn't mess around. A small grin quirked his mouth. In a lot of ways, she reminded him of himself.

Then Andy disappeared as well, scurrying off to the fence to do his bit, leaving Jack alone with Omega and Millennia.

"I hope they get this all right…" Omega muttered.

Jack glanced down at his vortex manipulator...so, apparently his destination was to be the bottom floor of the south building. A quick scan of the layout of the compound using the wrist computer soon pinpointed the co-ordinates of where he needed to go. It would be a simple enough matter to teleport across there.

But there was something he needed to sort out first. Turning on the horse, he looked over his shoulder at Millennia, still sitting behind him. For some reason he couldn't explain, he felt strangely responsible for her, even though he had never met her before. Maybe it was because she looked so fragile and waif-like and out of her depth. Maybe it was because of his own stupid latent hero-complex, that always seemed to get him into trouble.

Either way, he was uneasy with the idea of leaving her out here, even with Omega to take care of her. If the pair of them were attacked out here, there was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Of course, taking her with him into possible danger within the compound probably wasn't the best idea either, but he was confident it wasn't anything he couldn't handle. And at least he'd be able to keep an eye on her.

In the end, he elected to allow her to choose for herself. From what he had seen, she had the ability to perceive future time-lines, at least to some degree. Perhaps she was in a position to decide which way was best.

“So, Miss Millennia,” he said in a light, easy tone. “Are you coming with me? Or would you rather stay out here with Lord Omega?”

[Amelia Pond]

((OOC: Millennia has been moved to the Graveyard for lack of IC activity in the month of March; locking this thread.))