Doom Session 3: Smash & Grab

Morning all,Summary (more like a novel really) of last nights activities follows. The session was characterised by utter brutality. Superbly executed attack by all team members. Had a real comic book feel to it which is what I'm after. ;))Interesting to see that all the below can be achieved in one session....Next and last target for the current Doom is the Naval Shipyard at Newport and the USS Sleepy Hollow, a nuclear powered submarine.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The new team assembles in Doom's hideout below the streets of New York. The Taskmaster (Richard), an expert in all forms of combat, Abomination (Tony), a hulking green scaled creature and Sandman who slithers into the room before reforming into his barrel chested self. Mystique (Paul) completes the line up.The target for tonight is Kingpins Dreadnought factory in South East Canada, just across the border on Lake Ontario.Planning complete, the team take their positions.Mystique infiltrates the airfield, killing both guards on sentry duty and assuming one's role. She then awaits the arrival of the aircraft. As soon as it stops moving and lowers the ramp, she is in picking up some contemptuous looks from the squad of marines that exit the craft. Stepping into the cockpit she answers the captains query by snapping a punch into the radio operators face, breaking his nose. The copilot scrambles for his pistol as the captain launches himself at the rogue "guard", missing his target and crashing into the radio panels. Mystique knifes her hand into the unfortunate co pilots throat, crushing his windpipe before turning to fend off the attacks of the captain and radio operator. Several kicks and punches connect and Mystique jumps into the air to perform a scissor kick on both of her opponents. Sadly she misjudges and drops embarrassingly to the ground just in time to receive a couple more kicks to her side. Even the radio operator who can barely see through the tears and blood manages to land some blows. But Mystique is up and moving with superhuman speed to drive the nose of the operator fully into his brain before spinning and redirecting the captains attack. His head cracks one of the console indicators before Mystique snaps his neck with a twist. She radios that the plane is secure.This is the signal for: a) Taskmaster to open up on the Dreadnoughts at the gate (a jeep has arrived from the airfield with three troopers who are standing talking to the gate guards). B) Sandman to form into a blast of sand and c) Abomination to plummet from Dooms helicopter towards the base.Taskmaster's acid tipped arrow strikes the first Dreadnought in the throat, the acid penetrating the tough armour and quickly eating through intervening material until with a clank, its head drops to the ground. An awesome shot. He knocks a grenade round.Sandman directs an incredibly strong blast of sand into the base of the guard tower before him, scything through the wooden beams and toppling the tower into the fence. The two hapless fellows in the tower land in a heap at his feet. Forming his hands into massive hammers, he crushes the skulls of both before moving into the compound.Abomination hurtles towards the ground at an alarming (except to him) speed assisted by the bag of cannonballs strapped to his side. He flings one and miraculously hits the nearest guard tower with a bullseye that crashes through the roof, through one guard, through the floor and then on through a supporting strut. It collapses. Another awesome strike. With a wild grin on his face he connects with the roof of the security room crashing through like it was paper. He then continues through the floor of the security room taking one security staff member and a panel of monitors with him into the R & D room below. When the dust clears he can see two somewhat startled, bespectacled, white coated technicians. The security guard lies dead at his feet.An exchange of fire ensues with Taskmaster launching grenade and acid arrows into the guards at the gate. After taking a vicious blast from the remaining Dreadnought, he dispatches the hulking mechanoid with a combination of acid followed by explosive in the same spot! He unslings his shield and draws his sword before bounding down to the guards who have backed into the compound in sheer terror at the ferocity of the attack.Sandman flows under the door of the garage and reforms to find that the whole area is lined with Dreadnoughts, 4 trucks also loaded with the mechs. Fear flashes through him at the thought of torrents of flames coming from his nemesis', but the Dreadnoughts are immobile. Two techs are hastily interfacing with the droids in the hope of gaining some defence. It seems our anti hero is not destined for the nearest gallery after all. He rises up into a monstrous wave of sand and rushes through the garage, flinging dreadnoughts and techs aside. One tech crashes into the side of a truck, his broken body lies still upon the ground. Textbook Sandman maneuver.Doom has landed upon the main buildings roof. He catches sight of the two Drrednoughts as they move from the North gate to intercept. His blast of energy strikes the ground at their feet. He pulls away from the edge of the building as two super heated blasts of gamma rays disintegrate the spot upon which he had just stood.Abomination flings a table at the nearest tech showering glass and beakers of mysterious liquids about him. The second tech is frantically keying codes into the air lock door but is fumbling in his panic. Abomination being the understanding fellow that he is decides to help him out by crashing the bag of cannonballs into him. His swing is wide and takes out half the air lock in addition to the tech, sweeping all into the nearest wall. The tech lies broken and bloody amidst the glass and crumpled door. He grabs the other tech who is floundering about the room as acid eats into his comfortable shoes. Tucking him under one arm he launches himself through the ceiling and then through the next ceiling to finally come to a rest on the ground floor. Holes abound. He drops the now deformed technician to the floor glumly informing Doom of his progress at capturing a scientist…..Doom flies across to the garage just in time to see two massive robotic shapes land on the main building roof, lose their footing and slip over the side to land with a hearty crash. Swooping into the garage, he finds Sandman righting the robots. He grabs an interface card from the ground and starts the activation procedure.Taskmaster flips and bounds across the intervening ground landing amidst the three soldiers. With a flashing spin he beheads two and seriously wounds the third. Contemptuously he runs the soldier through and continues towards the garage. Brutal.Abomination sees movement at the end of the corridor. A huge grey shape stomps around the corner a grin upon his face. Standing 7' tall and several feet wide, a long tusk rising from his skull announces the presence of Rhino. He ducks his dead, snorting puffs of air from his wide nostrils, pawing at the ground. The awesome sight galvanizes our anti hero who promptly does the same! The two thunder towards each meeting with a resounding crash in the centre of the corridor. Both assailants are flung into the walls, bricks and mortar shower the corridor and holes appear to either side. Abomination has taken a minor flesh wound and some blood seeps from Rhinos nose.Sandman flows out of the garage and spies the two Dreadnoughts rounding the main building. Taskmaster has seen them too. Doom activates the first Dreadnought (in the garage) and immediately sends it out to earn its oil. Taskmaster launches an arrow satisfyingly into the first mech. The second continues forward, both launching gamma and spiked attacks at the Taskmaster. None hit as he flips and spins to avoid the hail of missiles. The friendly Dreadnought now known as Micky moves to intercept. It sprays a wave of freon gas at the oncoming droid, crystallizing its armour. Not known for their ability to think too quickly or broadly, the mech continues to ram Micky who withstands the rush. Fractures criss cross the attacking robots armour before it completely shatters into thousands of pieces. Micky stirs the rubble with one foot. Alright he doesn't but figuratively at least.Sandman continues into the main building in time to see great ragged holes appear in the mess hall walls.Abomination attempts a grapple on his mighty opponent but loses his footing and takes a hard fist to the jaw. He staggers from the power of the blow and swings one enormous fist at Rhino. Moving fast for such a large creature, Rhino raises an arm and wards the blow before another punch takes Abomination in the stomach. This time Abomination manages to grab his foe and flings him with all his strength through the corridor ceiling. A few seconds later, Rhino crashes back down to the floor in a shower of rubble. Grasping one arm, Abomination decides to try something different and swings and crashes Rhino through all remaining walls, floors, ceilings, anything near. Booms reverberate through the building and Sandman has seen enough. He'll let them get on with it and leaves by slithering under the doors.Taskmaster finishes the last of the Dreadnoughts and turns to the garage where Doom has successfully activated a second mech. Sandman also materializes in the garage to aid in the loading of the trucks.Abomination looks down at his opponent who is on his knees and badly gouged before him. He still holds Rhinos arm. With a twist, he flings the Rhino through the ceiling and into the night to land some 200 yards past the outer fence, crushing trees and gouging the earth into great runnels. He gleefully informs Doom of his work to be met with an order to seek the Rhino out and finish it. Cursing his earlier action, he leaps through the roof and lands in the dark forest. A semi clearing has recently formed and Rhino is ready for him. Thundering feet announce his charge. Abomination..? He charges! The two meet with a deafening clamour. Rhino attempted to skewer his foe through the throat and raised his head at the last second. This turns out to be his last move as Abomination rams into his chest. The clearing echoes to the sound of snapping bones as Rhino is flung into the undergrowth. He lies still apart from large snorts of air filling the cold night and the slow seeping of blood into the loam. Abomination looks down at his vanquished opponent and raises one mighty foot to crush the last breath from the hulking shape. But he is stayed by the voice of Doom who spares Rhino's life. Abomination is satisfied and leaps back into the compound. He enters the R & D and programming room, swapping canonballs for hard disk drives and technical apparatus. Grabbing two more droids he bounds over to the garage.With all hostiles eliminated or driven off, the team load three trucks to the max, 30 in all with two more running alongside. They set off to the airfield where Mystique preps the plane for takeoff. As the squad steps out to greet the trucks they are somewhat surprised to see the faces of Sandman, Taskmaster and Doom at the wheels. They unsling their weapons. The ground shakes as Abomination crashes to the ground denting the tarmac. Raising his mighty fists, he drives them into the ground sending a monstrous shockwave through the entire squad who are flipped into the air like puppets. Twisted and torn shapes fall to the ground, not a movement to be seen amongst them.The trucks are driven onto the plane and a course is set. For mid town Manhattan! Engines scream as Doom steers the great Starlifter to Central Park. A slight pressure on the stick, wheels down, he hurtles onto Fifth Avenue piledriving several taxis and various assorted cars before coming to a rest. Fires are raging as fuel catches light from the torn wings. Taskmaster sends the two activated mechs to spray Freon over the flames. The trucks speed off into the night. At a pre arranged point the trucks are stopped. Sandman summons a swirling storm of sand as Abomination pummels a hole through the ground into the tube tunnel beneath. The Doom train is swiftly loaded, trucks hurled into the distance and our team returns triumphantly to the hideout, which is somewhat more cramped than before!