And I can guide a missile by satellite

[liebe_krieg]

WHO: The Major and everyone who signed up to fight in the City.
WHERE: Locations across the City.
WHEN: 11 PM Friday evening.
WARNINGS: So. Much. Violence.
SUMMARY: Operation Gotterdammerung has begun, and with it Case Schwarze: a full air and ground assault against the ImPort community designed to prevent interference with the nuke in Washington. Missiles and vampires ahoy!
FORMAT: Whatever works.
NOTES: Don't forget to add your characters' tags as they join in!

Leaning back in his chair, occasionally taking the time to dictate a response to his post on the communicator, the Major watched happily as his master plan at last unfolded. It was all worth it, he could already tell. The months of planning, the prison takeover, the theft of the bomb, the kidnapping of the Detective, all the promises he’d made to his new comrades, it was all coming together right here in front of him, in the fire and explosions of detonating missiles and attacking vampires. It was the fulfillment of his most cherished dream: a war beyond any man’s history had ever known. Reports from his crew filtered in from all around him:

”Rot Team reports that they are in position Major. Package is secure.”

”Schwarze One reports commencing attack on police station.”

”Missile hit! Confirmed hit on Turing nightclub!”

”Schwarze Five, commencing assault on the Spark Roast.”

”Confirmed missile hits on both prisons!”

He sat and listened and smiled and watched. In less than an hour the device would detonate, and America’s capital would be swallowed up in a mushroom cloud. There would have to be retaliation, retaliation greater than that after Pearl Harbor, retaliation not just at those responsible but also at those who had let it happen because they were too busy looking after their own homes. There would be war, first native against ImPort, but then as things fell apart ImPort against ImPort, native against native, war between teams, countries, movements, alliances! War upon war upon war!

“It has begun,” the Major said to himself, watching the chaos unfold on the array of screens hanging from the ceiling in front of his seat, as well as through the DEM II’s vast observation window. “The dance that cannot end! The symphony I can revel in for all time! The fire that shall never burn out!”

Below, the prelude to that symphony continued.

Comments

Slam away!!

[nyc-detective.livejournal.com]

Jono's shield protects them from the bullets, but it's not very good on the offensive. They can't take him out like this, so Elisa signals for Jono to drop the shield, shifting to her Gargoyle form once more. She dives immediately low to the ground. An angry roar rips from her throat and her eyes glow with super-human power and fury. She sinks her talons deep into the metal plate of the wall and rips it off, flinging it at the bodyguards. It hits them dead on.

Not wanting to waste the precious few moments free of submachine fire, Elisa tears off another hunk of the wall and destroys the Major's screen before turning her attention to the fat man himself.

Now it's a party!

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

Aaron flinches but when the shield goes up, he straightens. When Elisa takes out the guards he uses the opportunity to start for The Major. He has no idea what other surprises the madman has in store for them here, but Aaron intends to get to him before he can throw anything else at them. He wants him alive, there will be no escapes through death if Aaron can help it.

[liebe_krieg]

"Oh, now really, this is too much!" The Major's smile actually vanishes for once when the screen he was watching explodes, and he draws his Luger, realizing that he might actually have to engage in combat instead of simply specating. "You are interrupting my spectacle. All of you, kill them! A promotion to whoever takes them down!" Instantly the bridge crewmembers are flinging themselves from their seats to tackle the officers or drawing handguns, while the two bodyguards toss off the sheet of metal and regain their feet.

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

Jono does as he's told, and ducks as the shield goes down - this is unnecessary, as Elisa makes short work of the two bodyguards. He sees Aaron go for the Major, and decides to cover him, taking out one of the crewmembers with a sonic pulse and creating another shield at Aaron's back.

This only lasts for a moment, though, as two crewmembers tackle him, and Jono loses concentration on thrown sound as he focuses on hand-to-hand.

[nyc-detective.livejournal.com]

As the Major barks out his orders, Elisa's irrationally reminded of that old Klondike jingle: what would you do for a promotion? It's a good thing that many of the bridge crewmembers are up here and not down there for a reason. Most are not good, seasoned fighters. Elisa moves as fast as she can through them, claws ripping so easily through unprotected flesh. The important thing is to get to the Major. She smashes through several of the consoles that run the ship the few moments she finds a bit of a break in the battle, but they can't last like this.

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

Aaron charges for The Major at his proclamation, but he falls short as he's tackled to the floor. In an instant his mind recalls his capture, and the first time he'd met The Major. Using the memory to fuel his rage, he shouts as he pushes against the opposition, throwing them about as he works to clear his path to the Nazi madman. He ignores any threat the bristling weaponry in the room may present to him, he's too focused on his goal.

[liebe_krieg]

The Nazis fall away from the cops, some being hurled screaming into the air by superhuman blows and sonic blasts, others realizing that their devotion to their race has limits after all and running from the bridge. Soon, Aaron is in front of the Major and his chair. However, the Major doesn't look worried at all- he's still smiling.

"What a display of ferocity!" He says. "But still, that is no excuse for interrupting the much greater performance I was enjoying before you interrupted. Auf wiedersehn, Detective!" The Major points a remote at Aaron and presses a button, and suddenly the floor is opening up beneath the vampire's feet to reveal a long shaft heading straight to the bowels of the airship- a trapdoor. It's a long way down to the acid pit at the bottom.

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

Jono is being strangled, and from behind, no less. There is a thin wire around his throat, and he has another assailant landing blows on him while his attention is elsewhere. Neither of the neo-Nazis counted on Jono's police baton, however; Jono himself hadn't, until he remembered after a particularly vicious punch to the jaw.

He dispatches the man with the noose in time to see a trapdoor open; Aaron is gone, and Jono can put two and two together. There's no time to talk things over - Elisa is closest to the Major, she's mostly unharmed at this point, and her wingspan looks too wide for the small tunnel.

Jono thus makes his snap decision and dives down the shaft after Aaron before Maza can, hoping and praying he'll have strength of voice to lift the two of them out.

[nyc-detective.livejournal.com]

Aaron is gone before she can do anything about it, and Jono is after him before she can even move. With monstrous strength, she knocks back her assailants and dives at the Major, fully intent on knocking that look off of his corpulent, smug face. She's got a job to do, and if there are any deities looking down on them right now, Jono and Aaron will be all right.

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

Aaron feels the floor, and his stomach, drop as he's suddenly falling. He doesn't even have a chance to get out any sound aside from a surprised grunt. Instinctively, he reaches out for a wall, any wall at all to try and catch himself. His fingertips trace a smooth surface and he does his level best to grip the chute, but his ability to climb sheer walls has its limits, and this is one of them. He slows his descent, but he's still falling. The acrid smell from below bothers his sensitive nose, and he knows he's in trouble if he reaches the bottom of the pit.

Glancing up at the door above, he sees the silhouette of someone following in his path.

[liebe_krieg]

"How extraordinary," The Major muses. "I really-"

But for once he does not get to finish talking to himself because Elisa suddenly dives into him, knocking him right out of his fancy chair and flat onto his ass on the cold, hard deck. The Major snorts in surprise and outrage and, sneering, raises his pistol to shoot at her.

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

The tunnel is instantly dark; luckily, Jono's gone in headfirst and he literally collides with Aaron, having propelled himself weakly with sound. He cuts the forward thrust and wraps his arms around the vampire cop's middle.

"Hold on" Jono grates, power leaking into his voice, and then charges them both with sound. Their fall slows, then comes to a halt; though the tunnel is dark, there's faint light coming from the bottom, where some sort of liquid slaps gently against the sides of their enclosure.

[nyc-detective.livejournal.com]

Elisa doesn't give the Major the chance to shoot her. Her eyes glow white, she snarls, and she pins him down. His gun crunches so satisfactorily in her hands, and its viciously fun to bring her fists down on his soft body again and again. His face is a particularly fun target.

"I told you I'd get you," she hisses victoriously.

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

Aaron grabs on to Jono, trying not to give him his best death grip. The man is all he has to keep from falling into the pit, and this close to the bottom, he can identify the acid. He might survive, but it would be a living hell to drop into it.

"Acid." He motions with a nod of his head to the faint light below them. "Get us up." At least now that his fall is halted, he might have a chance to scramble up the sheer surface should he need to, but it'd be a gamble with Jono if the man can't get them out of the chute.

[liebe_krieg]

"Mfff!" Sparks, and blood fly as bone and circuitry suffer beneath Elisa's assault. The Major writhes on the deck, clutching at his bloodied mouth, the red mixed with unnatural hints of black machine oil. "Mmnn maww! Moo moke mnnn maww!" Which, if his face was not currently being broken by a pissed-off Gargoyle, would be understandable as "Mein jaw! You broke mein jaw!"

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

Jono's eyes widen in the dark; he nods assent to Aaron, who's holding on to him enough that Jono can concentrate mostly on lifting himself into the air, and counting on his and Aaron's combined grips to keep the man safe.

His throat is hoarse from use and from the strangling wire, however; now is not the time for finesse, so Jono refocuses his attention to creating a moving sound shield below their feet. In a sick moment, they drop several inches, but soon are rising as fast as Jono can sound it out, the rough platform rocketing up the shaft like a crazed elevator.

[nyc-detective.livejournal.com]

It's only when her two subordinates have rocketed back out of the trapdoor the Major rigged up that Elisa finally stops beating on the Major. "Good God, do you never shut up?" she snarled at him. Maybe the next punch will be the one to knock him out.

She turns to look at the few remaining crew on the bridge. "Anyone else want some of this?"

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

As they arrive back in the bridge, feet back on solid floor, Aaron eyes the beaten state of The Major. The smell of blood mixed with oil is unsettling to his senses.

"Do you think the cuffs will be enough?" There's something in his voice that sounds almost as if he's not certain The Major has suffered enough. His eyes remain firmly on The Major, but he doesn't make any motion.

[liebe_krieg]

The members of New Millennium still standing look at Maza, look at each other, then haul ass off the bridge and towards the nearest exit from the airship, which is currently on a steadily-accelerating descent course. Through the observation window the water can be seen slowly rising to meet the DEM II as the zeppelin loses more and more gas. Alarms are blaring throughout the bridge, warning of structural failures, spreading fires, and approaching impact.

As for the Major, Elisa's last punch strikes home right between his eyes and sends him hurtling into unconsciousness in an explosion of pain. There is a pop and a whiff of smoke from a blown fuse just before his eyes close. He smiles slightly, despite knowing that he has been completely and utterly beaten, just as thoroughly as his Fatherland once was. At least, he thinks, it has been a really fun war.