System Crash

[legionnpcs]

[After Brainy and Babbage disappear, cameras start broadcasting from where they were taken to. The entire encounter is shown to the team and the rest of the UP. When Earth is taken through the portal, Legion World lurches, and at the end of it all, when the traps are tripped, it lurches again. Lights all over the ship go out, fires starts, systems fail. Only lockdown procedures that Brainy himself put in place, to protect Legion World’s most vital systems if he were ever compromised by telepathy or other influences, keep the viruses from self-destructing the ship or turning off life support -- but they’re certainly trying to.]

[The network goes back up again fairly quickly, however, but it’s using a much older, inferior form of networking. Something a little more distance-based and analog, a little less hackable.]

[They’ll be able to communicate again, but there’s a lot of interference. Sometimes the video goes out during video calls and sometimes audio cracks up. Text seems to be the only form of communication that’s guaranteed to go through every time.]

[ooc: People can react and start planning things on this post. This is also where information about the Spectre's attack will get dropped.]

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[goddamngrenades]

Tell us what you need. [ Delta's-


York isn't touching that. He's got D plugged in and is trying to get some kind of grasp on exactly how fucked they are other than thoroughly. Any backup he can give the queen of code is the best he can swing. ]

We are here to assist.

[steelandtemper]

Right now I'm putting everyone who asks on search and rescue.

[They're all screwed, but some of them are more screwed than others.]

Delta, whenever you've got a few milliseconds free, start formatting the data from Dox's scan into something organics will be able to parse.

[goddamngrenades]

Got it.

[ He's already suiting up. Delta- delta's reluctant to split up; but this is dire and they will work better independently. ]

Understood. Our Secondary Objective?

[steelandtemper]

Delta, take over the search and rescue monitoring from me. [private] And keep an eye on Theta. I've got him talked down for the moment, but North doesn't need someone else's panic attack happening inside his head. [/private]

York, start brainstorming lateral solutions for the big showdown. Our opposition is too smart for logic on our end--sorry, Delta--so we have to go unpredictable.

[There's always a big showdown.]

[goddamngrenades]

I will do what I can. [ His caring algorithms are shot to hell but he will try to be a good older brother. Or at least a stabilizing influence. ] We may need to employ tactics from the Project.

[ York sighs, scrubbing at his face. ]

Points for style overdramatic over clocked bullshit? We do have superpowers now so that'll be...


Entirely possible and not shit they'll see coming.

[steelandtemper]

Bear in mind she was spying in person for the better part of a year. She has a solid understanding of our capabilities.

[goddamngrenades]

No, I mean- we were ridiculous before.

It's gonna be worse now.

[steelandtemper]

[Deadpan:] I can't wait.

[unrecovered]

If you want unpredictable, talk to Tucker and Grif. It's kind of their thing.

[steelandtemper]

[Does she have to.]

As little as I like to admit it, we're probably gonna need Grif.

[whyarewehere]

I love you too, Cortana.

[whyarewehere]

Just for the record, I don't think anybody's zombie plan was up for this level of bullshit and we're gonna have to improvise.

[ Because the first thing you do is you joke. It's just how this works. ]

I sure hope stupid works over here like it does back home.

[lovernotafighter]

Damn right. Pretty high success rate with bullshit that should have never worked in the first place. What can I say?