Planning a caper

The gang and many resistance officials crowd around a very cluttered round table covered in maps as well as folders with various names and pictures on them.

They are currently in the resistance command center above the pyramid staring intently at a map of a large building that appears to be a factory of some sort but the product being made are genetically enhanced priests.

Artificially grown priests made based off of DNA of previous priests mixed with various powered individuals. They are grown and educated at the same time, with all the knowledge of their faith set as the foundation of their mind before they even start thinking.

This facility is still under construction but should be operational within the week. If it starts functioning the resistance would have a serious disadvantage in its battle again the church but if they can secure the blood samples then they could use it to make powerful chimaera monsters that would give them the edge over their enemy.

"We need to get Gara into this facility without raising the alarm as there is a two step screening process: a guard priest which uses its divine sense to notice any irregularities at the gate and a full base scanner that notifies when people pass to stop invisibility or illusion users.

we need to have her get the blood samples and destroy the facility while she gets out and back to us." Mr.Inherst goes over the plan.

"Now the problem lies in the fact that the alarms will go off when she takes the blood samples.

Everything needs to be in place before that happens." He continued "First we need to have her replace either a scientist or technician to gain access to the right areas. We already have a couple targets so that is the easy part. Second we need Gara to plant bombs around the birthing vats to make sure the small army of priests never wake up. Third the blood samples need to be removed from the main system which will set off all alarms so we will need to get the majority of the forces to leave the facility first with a distraction at the nearby town"

Tral raises his hands waving them through the air madly as if conducting getting several stares for his work.

"Yes Tral, you can go to town on the distractions. The more distracting you are, the easier for your sister to escape." Mr.Inherst relented. "now this facility will have multiple powered both as security as well as in bio engineering such as a former associate of yours Gara, maybe you should tell us more about her" he stated as he slid a picture over to Gara who immediately spit on the picture. "She's a stupid stuck up bitch they called the queen of spades at project Hive Queen"

"I'm going to assume that there is no love lost between you two?" Arc questioned, to which Gara replied while putting out her smoke on the picture of Spades "She has a serious ego but shouldn't be a problem as long as she doesn't touch anyone. Her power lets her age any living thing she touches at a rate of one year per every second.. so basically if she holds you for a minute then you will be 60 years older."

Mr.Inherst nods his head " That is good news, we were worried that she could use it long range to rapidly age us. The rest of the opponents are listed down in these folders including pictures as well as some backgrounds that we could find." He said as he had an assistant pass around several folders. "Any more intel would be helpful to have a better idea of how many powered as well as details about those powers."

"well I can already tell your intel is drastically off." Tral proclaimed pointing at a picture of several guards lined up behind the commander in charge of the facility." He was pointing at one guard in particular with very yellow sickly skin and bloodshot eyes.

"That is a.. Sargent Dennis Cenly. He is supposed to be a skilled marksman from Trenton military base without any powers but excellent with a gun." Read out Mr.Inherst.

Tral laughed "He is probably the biggest threat in the facility, I would know since we were in project Blood Sparrow together. You were lucky he wasn't there that day you attacked"

Vishka shakes her head "what would you know. The person in charge of the facility is Commander Stock who is a well trained professional with sky ranked solar discharge which, in terms your little brain can understand means he can shoot beams of light out of his body turning its target to ash."

In response Tral equally shakes his head in mocking "well in terms you can understand the 'sargent' who basically only acknowledges his code name Hidden Wind, is a deadly assassin who's power not only forms invisible wind blades or spears but can make multiple very large tornados putting him firmly into the upper ranks of sky class bordering on heavenly class. Not only could he redirect the light with dense air but shred a body in moments without needing his power to come from his body."

Tral and Vishka swap death gaze's with each other until Mr.Inherst brakes it up "Settle down and stop tearing into each other when there is work to be done."

After a moment of silence he continues the meeting. "So what you are saying Tral is this Hidden Wind is a fully trained Blood Sparrow operative with the power to alter the weather itself and not only that but can make Swiss cheese out of anyone, anywhere without any warning."

Tral nods "That pretty much sums it up with the exception that he clearly has several supporting earth ranked fire and poison elementalists and was ranked second in hand to hand no powers combat"

Darick snickered and wispered under his breath "one rank higher than Tral" receiving a glare from Tral in the prossess.

"The point is that the C.C.N.P (close combat no power) rank was a huge deal in Blood Sparrows with kids beating each other to near death only to be healed and sent back all for a higher rank which dictated food allowances and/or punishments." Arc explained. "I was lucky to be put into the technical courses or I probably would have died. Tral was ranked third so he wasn't beaten , given decent accommodation and had food to spare which they did to install loyalty to those of higher ranks while Darick didn't have a rank due to not being able to turn off his power but in the powered ranking he was only twelfth (mostly due to lack of reach)."

"Those instructors wish they knew my real power ha, I bet they were all punished hard when they found out I could do more than minor explosions" Tral gloated over the suffering of his enemies.

"Back to the point at hand. Tral how do you plan to distract the enemy?" Mr.Inherst asked.

"well I'm glad you asked, you see I start by making some tanks as well as artillery just outside the nearby town which can be operated remotely by a reckless group of insane rebels in a fortified base."Tral started to lay out his grand plan "then Darick, Dusty and me will fly to the facility, parachute down while the plane is set to fly into the military barracks not far away. Dusty will keep us invisible till we meet Gara at the extraction point at which time we will all escape in Dusty's loving embrace as I materialize a new quinjet"

Mr.Inherst looked at Tral seriously. "It sounds good if you're not the ones fighting and dyeing as a distraction outside town. I thought you wanted to be the distraction?" to which Tral responded "They might need distracting at the facility if something goes wrong. If it helps I'll make sure to give your men lots of guns, turret placements, mines and artillery… hell I'll even make them a solid steel fort loaded with cannons and escape bikes for all the most distracting experience possible".

He continued with "worst case I can drop something really big on the facility, can't just blow it up as larger explosions are very difficult to judge in size and I might just end up blowing myself up with it but I'm sure I could do a metal boulder big enough and high enough to do the job if needed."

"I see what you mean, than I will take charge of the distraction outside of town but you need to make sure that the facility is destroyed and those samples taken." Mr.Inherst nodded his approval "the operation is set to begin tomorrow as we can't allow them time to produce these priests"

With the meeting wrapped up everyone prepares to depart on the mission.

Tral creates a decent supply of nutrient bars for the compound which will greatly help the moral of the distraction team as well as a very large armored vehicle that almost looked like a long shipping truck to keep everyone covered by Dusty till they where all in position.