This rescue is a team effort!

[zetahatsudo]

Who: The Rescue party (Kamille Bidan and company), the rescue targets (Choromatsu and Jyushimatsu), and the people in the way (the scientists who kidnapped the boys)
Where: The S.S. Panic, then the scientists' lair.
When: Shortly after Choromatsu sends out his distress call.
What: We're going to war, son.
Warnings: This is likely to get violent, and NPCs are likely to die

[WARNING! DO NOT TAG THREADS TWO OR THREE UNTIL PREP WORK IS COMPLETE!]

Your mission, should you choose to accept it (or just want to lurk and read about it, that's fine too), is to storm the lair of a group of scientists that have kidnapped a pair of turdsawfulpeoplesinnerstothecore brothers for sinister reasons that no one wants to elaborate on.

First, if you want in, you'll need to speak with our boy Kamille while he's still on the ship getting ready. He's unlikely to take civilians into a fire zone, though. The only reason he's bringing Karamatsu is because he's their brother, so you'll need to make your case with him.

Second, it's not going to be easy getting in. Kamille's Gundam makes it easier for him to protect Karamatsu while they're both inside, but it's likely the cabal of scientists will have some form of defensive perimeter. You'll have to fend off not only the madmen and their advanced weaponry, but the local undead that are drawn in by the commotion of the fight.

Finally, once we actually locate the Matsuno siblings, we'll need to secure their escape and get while the getting's good. Priority one at this stage will be to exit the battlefield intact, but if you want to bloody the cabal's nose a bit, Kamille won't particularly care unless you do something really insane like use a weapon with the concentrated power of a nuke.

It's going to be dangerous, but that's just part of the fun, no? I can't be everywhere, of course, so if you want to do some inter-team CR building without my input, just keep it in the appropriate section and remember to control your deadmenwalkingtargetpracticehumancattle NPCs.

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Opening Preperations

[zetahatsudo]

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[zetahatsudo]

Kamille thanked whatever god there was that the Guide was allowing him to track Choromatsu. If it weren't for that, he'd have no idea where he was going. He'd already informed the older brother that just appeared what had happened, whether he came or not was on him.

"For a bunch of supposed scientists," he spoke to himself as he made his way through to the hangar they kept his Gundam in, "They're not showing that much precaution." He wondered briefly if it was because the planet was so desolate, that they simply hadn't considered that anyone would be capable of tracking them down. "Not that this is going to be easy..."

What Kamille was likely forgetting was that Choromatsu's SOS had been a public post to the network, and so had been his response that he would rescue him. If you want to make sure that you get your shots in at the kidnappers, you'll have to go and convince him now.

[ichimyatsu]

Ichimatsu was awful with confrontations. He wasn't good at attention from his brothers half the time, much less strangers. And in this case, he was having to force his way into conversation with a complete stranger. His palms were sweating just thinking about it. But Kamille was on a rescue mission, for his brothers, one older and one younger, and one Jyushimatsu. Jyushimatsu was the brother he spent the most time around, the brother he was most comfortable with. There was no way in hell some crazy scientist assholes were getting away without Ichimatsu having a part in setting their asshairs on fire.

...Because that was completely a thing you did to crazy scientists who kidnapped your brothers. You know.

And so, a strange orange cat (wearing what looked like glasses) on his heels, Ichimatsu made his way awkwardly to Kamille, hands balled into fists at his sides and shoulders hunched around already-horrendous posture. He shuffled, at best, but it was obvious from the notion that Kamille had already met Karamatsu that this was yet another of the Matsuno brothers. ...Even if he looked like he'd never seen a hairbrush in his life.

"Going," he spat, abruptly and without preamble, and then made a sound akin to a balloon losing air as he tried to backtrack and reassemble his sentence. "...I'm going with you," he tried again, at a more reasonable volume. "...those are my brothers they've taken."

[zetahatsudo]

Another Matsuno? So quickly? It threw Kamille for a bit of a loop, honestly. Still, if he wants to rescue his brothers, he really couldn't deny him.

"Alright," That was it, as far as he was concerned... although, "You may want to leave the cat behind." He looked around, wondering where the hell Karamatsu was. He should have been here by now, right? "So, which one are you, then?" He seemed fairly together, compared to Jyushi and Kara.

[ichimyatsu]

That was one (of many) problems with sextuplets-- there were six of them. And with a collection like the Matsunos, they tended a bit to grow like weeds, or kudzu. You had one, and then suddenly you had several, and each and every one of them was more than you could handle individually.

Thankfully, Kamille seemed to have a level enough head on his shoulders to roll with the appearance of a fourth Matsuno, and while Ichimatsu didn't react outwardly he was glad for the immediate agreement of his going along. Conflict was something he strictly avoided, seeing as you usually needed to be around another human being for it, and he never had fancied anything remotely resembling socialization. He shoved his hands into the pockets of his track pants, and looked over his shoulder at Nyanko. He frowned, dug one hand into the pocket of his hoodie, and extracted a fuzzy-looking cat toy, which after a moment's deliberation he affixed to some manner of structure, pat the cat on the head, and returned to Kamille with absolutely no change to his facial expression.

"Ichimatsu," he said simply, hoping that would be the end of the small talk.

[zetahatsudo]

Kamille nodded at the man. "It's going to get crowded between the two of you," he said to the Matsuno, "so try to stay secure when you're inside." The Newtype looked at his workbench at the foot of the MS, and grabbed a wrench. Turning back to Ichimatsu, he handed the item to him. "You shouldn't need it, but if you find yourself outside the cockpit, keep it on you."

[ichimyatsu]

He shrugged one shoulder slightly, rolling his eyes. He was used to being in uncomfortably close quarters with all of his brothers, it was just basically always uncomfortably close when it came to Karamatsu. The man had no concept of personal space, and Ichimatsu's bubble was larger than most. But he'd deal, if only for the sake of rescuing the others.

He blinked at the wrench for a moment and then claimed it without question, an alarming grin sliding across his face.

"If this is your permission to brain the assholes responsible for kidnapping my brothers, consider it well-accepted."

[salamandrill]

Thankfully, Sala had made sure to carry out at least some very basic maintenance on Enryugo - just to be certain that it would function should the need arise. Her interest in heading down to this planet had initially been quite low, but with a rescue mission in the works, she couldn't bring herself to sit back and wait.

What was with her life and evil scientists?

[zetahatsudo]

Kamille couldn't begin to guess the correlation between the two, he was just grateful that Sala was willing to come along. "It's going to be rough down there," He told her as he ran diagnostics on the Zeta Gundam. "I doubt we'll see anything like a robot, but it would be stupid to think that they aren't prepared for a rescue op."

[salamandrill]

Never abandon a companion! Even when they're losers, that's no reason to let them be doomed. "The difficult part will be getting in without harming the captives - if it were a matter of destruction, I would not be worried."

[zetahatsudo]

"All we really have to go on is Choromatsu's Guide," Kamille confirmed with a grimace. "The signal's not too weak, which means we're not dealing with multiple basements or similar underground structures, but that's about all we can infer."

He hoped they were safe. He didn't dare imagine what Jyushimatsu was going through. Patience would win the day here.