Monday, April 10, 2006

Found Nemo and Das Boot up yer Arse

Doom has set his sights on a brand spanking new nuclear powered submarine. The first of its kind the NSSN Centurion is due for launch to much fanfare at the Newport naval Facility located around 150 miles from NY. Our intrepid adventurers set off for Newport in a newly acquired rig complete with living quarters in a rather capacious trailer. Taskmaster takes the wheel wearing his new human facemask to hide his disfigurement as opposed to popular skeletor mask. It won't stand close scrutiny but there are plenty of ugly buggers on the road that this shouldn't cause a stir. Sandman and Mystique accompany him. Abomination and Doom remain at the hideout.
Mystique sets off to the nearest bar with a view to pursuing her usual method of entry to a secure area. There are a number of naval personnel in the bar all getting quite horrendously drunk. In the guise of a pretty blonde she is continually harassed up to the point that one guy seemingly takes over the challenge. He's big enough that noone else approaches whilst he regales our perty lil lady with tales of his prowess as a Chief Petty Officer of the USS Ticondorega, currently refitting in the port. Pressed for details of submarines, Brad confesses that he's always been a little claustrophobic. Mystique decides to shag him. Can't go back to his pad as its on the base but he does the honourable thing and books them in (by the hour - 4 hours booked, he may be overestimating his prowess at this point) to a local motel. Mystique has her way with him and before he so to speak has his way with her she jabs a hypodermic into his butt and sends him to the land of nod. Cue the arrival of Sandman with his pickup (stolen that night and plates switched) who bundles Bradd into the back and returns to the rig which is parked in a truck stop. Sandman and Taskmaster sit down to have a chat with the officer.
Mystique assumes the shape of Bradd and reals back into the bar to raucous shouts of "Hey that was quick buddy." "Whats a matter? Couldn't get it up?" etc. She joins in with the general carousing especially with Bradd's seeming best mate Mickey. They head back to the base and Myst follows Mickey back to their temporary accommodation, a bungalow currently housing 8 crew members. In the morning he/she whatever, takes a stroll round the base noting the main areas for future reference, checking out the dry dock where the sub is being worked on (memorises a foreman's face here). Later, she goes to a bar and tries to pick out a high ranking officer. None here of any note.
Meanwhile back in the rig, the questions start on poor ole Bradd. Sandman reals off a number of questions regarding the disposition of the sub to which Bradd tells them initially to fuck off. Sandman sandblasts one of his hands to tremendous effect. The pain is extreme as the skin is completely flailed off his hand. Amidst the screams he responds that he doesn’t have a fucking clue. A couple of fingers jammed in the right places by Taskmaster draws forth some more screams and more denials. Sandman blasts his other hand before he actually pays attention to what the officer was saying, that being that he is an officer on a guided missile cruiser and has nothing whatsoever to do with goddamn sub. Our cunning interrogators extract some names including the admin chief of the base, sub captain, base security officer etc. Job done, Sandman whips up a storm and rips into Bradd with relish. When he finishes, Bradd is a pile of bones strapped to the chair. Unfortunately blood and gore matt the walls and a pungent smell of faeces and congealing blood hangs in the air. Doom will not be happy about going to Ikea again. Sandman sits down to make a present for him to atone for the trouble he's caused. A nice bone table.
Emil Bronsky has used some contacts from his past to gather together a crew of 20 sailors, 5 Russian and highly qualified (2 of which speak English) and miscellaneous others.
Mystique returns to the sub pen late at night and gains entry to the Centurion in the guise of the foreman losing his tools. Checks it out.
Four trucks are hired together with kinda dodgy types who know the deal. The Drednoughts are loaded and the trucks rumble up the coast.


The Great Plan

On the fateful day the crew decide to scuttle the cruiser. This will be Abominations job. Doom will be in the harbour in a hired boat gathering like all the other civvies. Taskmaster will come in with the trucks. Mystique and Sandman will get on the sub the night before ready to take down the remaining crew.





Abomination bounds up to the base with a huge bag of C4 strapped to his back in 3 parts. He jumps into the water at a prearranged point and makes his way along the sea bed towards the waiting cruiser. The trucks are rumbling towards the base. Doom is having breakfast. Mystique is a nice metallic lump under a crewman's bunk. Sandman is a pile of sand in the captains drawers….. narrowly escaping a plan busting hoovering.
Abomination successfully attaches to charges to the cruisers propeller shaft. He launches himself out of the bay, rapidly descending towards the stands and waiting cameras. Admiral Danzig is a little dismayed to see this bio bomb plummeting at him. He is even more dismayed when Abominations face cracks into a fang lined smile and he depresses the trigger in his hand. The propeller explodes as both charges detonate ripping enormous holes in the hull.
The trucks come to a halt at the Eastern gate. Out pop the Drednoughts, all 34 of em. Taskmaster stands back as the DN's launch a wave of missiles at the startled guards. In short shrift they're dead. The DN's rip through the fence and continue on their implacable way to the centre of the base. Several brave soldiers die. They catch sight of two humvees.
Abomination lands with a resounding splat on Admiral Danzig. This is also on camera. With a bass sigh he flings the final bag of C4 at the small cluster of 2 Abrams MBT and 4 humvees (2 of which have been mentioned prev.) The crowd scatters and run for their lives. Chaos ensues as the charge detonates, upending one HV and ripping the tracks off one of the tanks. Several brave soldiers die.
Taskmaster makes his way round the back of the storage building to flank the troops on the dockside. Doom orders the boat to the side of the sub where the newly hired seafarers let rip with sub machine guns at the crew who are standing not so much at attention on the deck of the sub. Several brave seamen die.
Turrets on the tanks turn. Humvee 50 cals open up on the DN's. The air is filled with the sound of ricochets.
The troops have now swapped to live ammo and open up with everything they've got. Abomination feels like he's in the middle of a swamp as a prickly sensation envelops his body. He launches himself at the moving tank just missing and landing with a thud to its rear. His great fist engulfs the swinging tank gun and with a mighty heave, he lifts up the tank. However, it’s a bit heavy and the gun snaps at its base. Abomination grins as he wields the 12 foot chunk of metal before him.
The DN's proceed to launch waves of freon gas and searing bolts of gamma rays at the troopers. Taskmaster blindsides them and fires a tear gas round into the midst of one group. All but one fall spluttering to the floor. He throws a grenade at one of the DN's as a last defiant act before he is flame roasted by torrents of heat. The DN sees the grenade coming towards him and attempts to catch it. He fumbles and knocks the grenade into the droid to his side. It explodes with some small effect. A pretty miffed Dreadnought is having trouble working out what just happened. Several brave soldiers die.
Doom has mounted the submarine and raps on the hull in a prearranged signal. The hatches open and the crew rush to get the boat prepped.
Abomination is suddenly swamped by soldiers attempting to wrestle him to the ground. Others close in. Scary. One grabs the end of the gun barrel matching his strength with the hulking brute before him. Abomination is vaguely aware of people sliding off his huge frame as he turns and flips the tank into the air. The gun barrel clatters to the ground crushing our elated soldiers foot. The tank cartwheels through the oncoming squad crushing them to bloody pulp. Several brave soldiers die.
Attack helicopters rush into the fray. A strafing run from one Apache gunship blasts chunks of metal from several DN's who are lining tin can alley. It passes overhead. The second, a Huey gunship takes a wider swing out into the bay.
Abomination picks up the gun barrel with one hand, using his other to brush a trooper off. He sweeps the barrel in a great arc batting two soldiers into the distance.
The Apache makes its second pass successfully blasting the Dn's in tin can alley with its 20mm chain gun. As it sweeps overhead the DN's light it up with gamma rays. Smoke trails the receding chopper. The Huey makes its attack run coming in from the bay, guns aligned. An arrow slams into the rotors and the grenade head detonates. The cab of the chopper disappears in a ball a flame and rotors spin off into the air. It plunges into the ocean. Several brave airmen die. Taskmaster sneers and knocks another arrow to his bow.
Doom strolls nonchalantly onto the dockside with Mystique. Taskmaster runs round and hands Mystique her plasma rifle. She turns and fires a round off at the nearest soldier whose head disappears in a splash of gore.
The DN's are quite happy with their performance so far. They've sent a number of soldiers to an earlier grave, destroyed two humvees and seriously shagged an expensive piece of aviation history. They scan the sky for another chance to pop its clogs.
Taskmaster fires more tear gas into the fray.
Abomination sees a small number of returning soldiers. Two are armed with LAWs, two with heavy chain guns. He leaps towards them. Two streaks announce the launch of tank busting rockets. Both miss. Ooops. He lands amongst them and bats the two hapless fellows into oblivion. Chain guns explode into his body. These feel more like pins…..
Doom wanders over to the camera which is still filming and scrawls "I owe you one nuclear powered submarine". Bullets tear into him from the nearby troops. Well, tear into his cloak anyway. And into the camera. He's none too happy and Mystique lets rip with the plasma rifle subduing (blowing their heads off) a couple.
Fortunately the tape isn't still rolling as a guided missile (a Maverick fired from the hovering Apache) strikes Doom in the back. The fierce detonation rips through his armour seriously wounding our leader and propels him through the air. He crashes through the stand and rolls to a halt in the middle of the compound. He considers killing everyone to escape the ignominy of this act.
Abomination, no longer faced with any hapless fellows (they've all run off, cept one who is coughing and wheezing on the floor), spies the Apache in the distance and casts the gun barrel a full 400 yards. Mystique pops a shot off at it too. The plasma round crashes into the rotors and just as it starts to plummet, a 12 foot gun barrel pierces the cockpit and the pilots face.
The last soldier clambers to his feet, pulls the pin on a grenade, shoves it in Abominations face and says "Eat this!" It explodes. Abomination shakes his head, a small ringing sound in his ears. He can't see. Until he wipes the gore from his face. The last brave soldier dies.
Doom dusts himself off and floats into the air back towards the sub. A screaming noise is followed by the appearance of a Quinjet, a large 4 painted prominently on its side. With a streak of flame, Johnny Storm hovers above the Dn's. "Is it getting hot out here" he says and launches a wave of fire at the DN's below. Metal cracks and blackens under the intense heat and he swoops away before any response can be made. The Quinjet is subjected to multiple blasts of various energy weapons from the DN's and grenades from Taskmaster, all to no effect. Abomination picks up a humvee as Ben Grim leaps to the ground amidst the DN's. Reed Richards floats to the ground stretching to engulf two DN's around the waist. He stretches to the sky ignoring the electrical shock that courses through his body and flings the DN's out into the bay before assuming his normal form. Ben Grim shouts "It's clobb..", but is cut off as an 8 ton humvee smashes into his face, taking down two DN's too. Abomination can barely stop laughing as he picks up the second humvee.
Dreadnoughts fly into the air to crash into the side of the storage building. Reason unknown. Gamma Rays streak toward Mr Fantastc but are deflected by an invisible force field. Nothing penetrates and Reed takes the opportunity to snatch another DN and flip him off into the distance.
Ben Grim gains his feet in time to be squashed by a second humvee thrown unerringly by Abomination who judders with glee. Doom has reached the sub and sends Sandman out to join the battle. Unfortunately, the Human Torch has been chasing him back. One look at the clambering Sandman and a blast of flame solidifies half his body to the deck. Doom is in and Mystique and Taskmaster rapidly follow.
Abomination picks up the remaining vehicle. A 55 ton main battle tank. DN's flood the underside of the humvee that covers the Thing hoping to spit roast him. With a heave, the Thing regains his feet looking even more pissed off than usual and tosses the humvee at Abomination who is waiting at the plate ready to bat the armoured personnel carrier at Mr Fantastic. The humvee misses, so Abomination flings the tank at Ben. Thing knocks the tank aside with a great sweep of his arm.
Sandman forms his remaining hand into a hammer and shatters himself, slowly reforming whilst pounding some more fragments into smaller pieces for reintegration. Johnny looks on with an amused expression and just when he is almost finished sends a wave of heat into the Sandman, fusing him to the deck. They call him Mr Glass. Johnny turns his attention to the DN's quickly forming 10 duplicates of himself by flying rapidly through the air.
Nothing penetrates the field of the Invisible Woman.
The Thing absorbs a torrent of energy and gas and starts swinging. Two Dreadnoughts charge at Reed and Abomination launches himself through the air hoping to squash Mr Fantastic. The field shatters and the Invisible Woman materializes blood streaming from her nose. Reed has taken a heavy hit and staggers before the leering face of Abomination. The brute grabs Reed and squeezes and pulls, tearing loose Reeds hands as they try to wrap about him. With astonishing speed, Abomination continues to compact the leader of the Fantastic Four gleefully shouting "Can you tell what it is yet?". His quarry is now in a perfectly circular ball, Reeds eyes bulging in astonishment from the midst of it. He pitches the ball off into the distance. The Dreadnought swings at the Invisible Woman who lithely steps aside and disappears. Johnny swoops in and grabs the raised arm of Ben Grim who can be heard shouting caustic comments to his team mate as they fly off into the distance. Taunts follow the Thing from Abomination who is 2 for 2.
The sub has now moved into the bay and submerged sporting a lovely new decoration on its deck.
The DN's are reloaded onto the trucks and roars off before reinforcements arrive. Abomination bounds off over the horizon.

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