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9S can do some digging on that front.

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And they can spar and go through contingency plans in the meantime. 

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Back to work.

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Things proceed as planned...

Until they find themselves in a shuttle, about to dock with Ronan's ship, carrying supplies, all under one of Loki's illusions to look like a shuttle tech or officer.

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Well shit. Imagine that. The plan's working. 'Course, it's just the hardest part left, now.

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First step: getting through the docking procedures, and convincing the intake crew that they are who they say they are. 

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Did you know that quite a lot of training material these days is electronic? And that even people working for as fearsome a warlord as Ronan don't always have good digital hygiene? Truly, the wonders of the modern age never cease. They have the proper procedures, so no worries on that front, as long as Gamora has the officer's character correct.

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Gamora is better at pretending to be other people than Loki is, which is honestly terrifyingly good, and also knew the officer. 

She could convince said officer's husband that she's the real one, if the husband was asked to choose between them. She could probably even make the officer seriously doubt which of them is the real one. 

She's not going to be the weak link here, and she can effectively cover for any team members who are less talented at lying. 

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Yeah, might help.

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Chewie is pretending to be a very taciturn tech.

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And Rocket is somehow worse at lying than Ash.

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The others will take the lead, then.

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Luckily, Ronan's army doesn't expect random grunts to say much. 

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We love exploitable security flaws stemming from systemic mismanagement in the bad guy's operation.

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All the superpowered hammers in the universe can't save you from systemic dysfunction.

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Sucks to suck.

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What a nice, lovely infiltration they've got going. It'd be a shame if something were to... Happen to it. 

Like a large black bird perching above the doorframe into the antechamber to Ronan's warroom. The miscellaneous techs coming and going around them only now seem to be noticing it, and a few slow their steps, turn to stare...

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Why is there a bird on a spaceship?

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Loki tenses - 

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And the bird screams. 

And their disguises shatter.

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Oh, fuck.

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At the war table, Ronan's head snaps up. "GET THEM!" he bellows, the eerie red glow emanating from his hammer pulsing in time with his anger.

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Time for Plan B: high explosives launched at higher velocity! 

It's honestly amazing how many guns that glamor was hiding. 

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High explosives are as dust before the might of Ronan.

And indeed, rather than a rain of fire, a soft shower of dust is all Rocket's efforts achieve as the red glow increases.

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Loki knows her magic will be disrupted by the Reality Stone - 

So she aims for the floor under him, deftly slipping around the twisting radius of the Infinity Stone.

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