11:30 PM, 5th of April 1989.
Location: Falling…
Yeeeehaaaa!!!
High altitude air drop, is a go!
A normal person falling without a parachute would be freaking out. I'm loving it!
My suit of armour drifts overhead, on a parachute platform intended for vehicles. I have eyes on the site of what was originally thought to be a landslide, to the local parks service: Brain's base.
Ryan swoops past, to observe.
Hard talking the guy into it, but he felt a bit of left over anger at being shot down by that ape. Enough to help infiltrate the base. Now from records, we know that the base was originally constructed some three years ago.
Below three squads of infantry are moving on the edges of base, lead by Fleur. May is keeping them covered. A surprise tree will stop a great many things.
I grin as the base remains silent. Of course Brain could detect me utilising my powers, as I have everyday, all day. I have no reason to stop using them with no secret persona. Until now. So you can sense me flying around everywhere? How about when I take a car to the airport being careful to keep it off? All I'm using are my passive senses.
To throw him further off, I took a wrecked car frame and magnetised it to ridiculous levels. To his sensors I should still be in Paris, near Louise's workshop. I've spent hours there before. It shouldn't be suspicious.
As I slide down, angling for a slow descent Ryan turns from his observation and wheels back to catch me by the arms. He drops me off on the ground. It looks ordinary. Rocky ground. But my senses don't lie. A door built into the rock, with an imitation rock cover. Around me wires and devices. Turrets, mines and an elevator tunnel I believe going deeper into the mountain. Metal panels as flooring.
I look at my watch one final time. Three, two… now. Coordinating with the other teams in their aggressive intrusion.
I go power active, with a major EMP throughout my range. I'm pleased as the defences falter, the pulsing electricity killing vital circuits. Heh. These are his original defences. From before I came into the public view. No EMP hardening. I can't expect he'll have much that will be proof against EMPs. Not if he was busy making that pain amplifier for neutralising me instead.
Now it's a matter of speed! Gotta blitz them before they can slip away!
I rip my armour out of the sky and equip it over the course of moments, deforming the metal to open up and swallow me like a horror movie monster before resealing. While holding the suit on my body I emit an immense repulsion from my body as a form of kinetic neutraliser. Anything physical that hits the armour, the armour pushes back instead of absorbing inwards into me vibrations included. Like an extreme version of a positive pressure seal. On top of this, my upgraded barriers cover me.
Palming the silence charm I roar inside, ripping the door off and hurling it aside as I burst into high speed flight. The elevator exists and it is shut down, a strange foam filling the tunnel. Well, I suppose I'll just have to go through it. Cables unravel from my armour and spiral down in the form of a drill as I float down barely slowed down as I bore through the obstacle.
I find the cables are corroding when I finally breech the foam. I cut them off behind the affected area and continue on.
Beam cannons burst into fire as I emerge, but to my great pleasure they simply bounce off my barrier. Thank you Mass Effect! Cyclonic field barriers rock!
I allow myself a hearty laugh as I rip the turrets free, to keep as salvage.
Come on Brain, give me more cool toys to play with! When we're done they will be mine!
Now… if I were a mad genius being evicted from my base in DC… I'd have some giant robotic guard, an escape teleport and I'd wait until my enemy showed their face before leaving to taunt them one final time.
I glance down at the power conduits. HAHAHA!!!
Let's see how smart you really are, Brain!
With a wrench I kill every source of power in the base, sending EMPs into every reactor and emergency backup I can find in the heart of this place. Physically ripping the cables free from the sole backup that appears EMP hardened, with magnetism.
In the darkness of the dead base I fly forward unhindered, following the metal running along the walls and floor as a guide.
Dodging sideways, scraping against the wall I avoid a burst of energy from some hidden chemical explosive left for me personally. Probably magnetically sensitive. Okay, fine. I send waves of magnetic energy ahead of me down the hall, triggering a cluster of traps ahead of me.
Returning to my banzai charge I finally hear voices, frantic.
Recalling my plans, I don't say hello.
I launch a harpoon chiselled off my wrist armour at the atomic level from around the corner, sending it curving to bag a great ape. Five are following behind the first, they impact the hovering machine thing Brain inhabits… I assume.
"Wha… urgh..." Mallah whimpers as I pin him to the wall by the shoulder.
"What is this?!" Brain demands as his brainmobile falters and crashes. "No! No!"
I sense a surge in a particular component, which looks awfully similar to that teleport beacon. With a shrug I kill it with EMP. A tiny pulse, inside the mechanical body of Brain is enough to fry most of his control software, I can see as whole swathes of circuit-board fall inert.
But it appears I wasn't wrong in my assessment as a stomping echoes. Wait… it's organic with cybernetic enhancements? Hahahaha! Too rich. The Frankenstein's monster is humanoid, but the brain is clearly artificial, that isn't neurons firing. It also seems to be EMP hardened. As I watch it raises it's primary weapon and I can't stop laughing. Sonic Cannon.
I thumb the magic charm a few times and the world becomes quiet. I still have to dive aside as a secondary weapon ignites: a flame thrower. Trying to roast me behind the barrier?
I shake my head in pity.
This is pathetic.
With a gesture the floor tears away beneath the giant, peeling away then rising up to entangle the creation in strips of floor panels. Bet Brain's regretting choosing that kind of flooring. With a casual twist I rip off the giant's head in the coils of steel floor.
The machine parts stay alive for longer than expected after the organic elements die, so I tear off the limbs too.
Focusing back on the pair on the ground I find several parts of Brain's machine body are already repaired… how? Self repair functions? Makes sense. I fuse his chassis with the floor panels. You aren't going anywhere. Driving a spike of steel through his built in teleport beacon I let the silence effect fade.
"Mallah, nice to see you again. Brain, I don't believe we've met… but I have heard such interesting things about you..." I grinned, spinning my magnetic field to form constant electrical arcs of energy which I caged inside a barrier, effectively forming a light globe. "The far side of your base, it exits out the mountain as a hangar I assume? That plane of yours had to come from somewhere after all." I glanced at the hollow, rounded machine. "One of your emergency teleporters?" I walked over and ran a hand over it. "Mine now."
"It will do you no good without a matching beacon, my friend." Brain replied.
I shrugged. "I've seen the inner workings twice now. I'll draw a schematic. The main device is the hard part, you know? The rest is a transmission and coding issue. Even if it's less stable than yours, it's still a possible lifeline in a certain death situation."
"You are hesitating. Is this a business visit rather than a personal call?" Brain asked.
"Well yes, as a matter of fact. I want all of your schematics, all of your designs. Give them to me and I'll spare Mallah the death penalty." I looked at the exposed brain in a glass container, unsure of where his primary sensors were… or if they were still active. "However after bombing the Louvre under your orders, I can't say the same for you. The Brass want you deceased."
"I understand. In a room twenty metres to the south is my computer network. When the base has power restored enter the code 'Surrender' and you will have access to my files." Brain replied.
"That triggers the self destruct I assume?" I asked.
"Sadly yes." Brain replied, chuckling.
"Ah well. I'll just have to have some code breakers rip it apart." I sighed. "So long, traitor to France."
With a surge of EMP I shorted out the critical systems of his body, including the life support.
Mallah screamed in anger and ripped free form the wall, running at me. I wagged a finger at him and cooked off the bandoleer of bullets he wore with friction. His right arm vanished in a puff of red and smoke, the impact of lead and burning pain spinning him over into Brain's metal coffin.
"You promised Brain you'd let me live." He said, pulling himself off the ground. "You killed Brain..."
"Brain didn't live up to his end of the bargain and this isn't an execution: it is putting down a rabid animal." I replied, coldly. Spears lanced from my armour into his chest.
"I'm glad…" Mallah murmured. "Can't live without Brain." The ape slumped over his creator, draping an arm over him. I remained watching until all nerve and blood flow ceased.
I turned, my cape sweeping around as I turned to leave.
"I refuse to pity you, you pair of menaces after everything you put me through." I spat.
I left them there. Rot in hell, the both of you.
Now to resume my masquerade as a hero... for my own safety.