AN EYE FOR AN EYE - [modplot/log]

[letsgolegion]

Who| Closed to anyone who signed up
What| The mission against the Spectre
Where| Takron-Galtos, the prison planet.
When| During all the Brainiac shenanigans.
Warnings/Notes| Blood, gruesome death, torture, literal Old Testament stuff

The prison is on lockdown but half of the lockdown procedures aren't working, thanks to the Coluan technology threaded through the prison. Yet there's still some hope. Brainiac 5 himself had worked on some of the systems and some of his backup lockouts are keeping the system secure.

Barely.

Of course, that means that none of the prisoners can get out, none of them can escape it as it rampages through the prison. There's nowhere to go, no safe way of evacuating them, and how can someone escape that anyway? The literal wrath of God?

Upon arrival, Legion Liaison Officer Shvaughn Erin gets the Legionnaires all she can on the threat in the prison. What little video they had, where the Spectre is currently at, maps of the prison. Then she takes over rallying the prison guards to work on keeping the prisoners from escaping while the Legion works. The guards are panicking and need a cool head to get them back on track - and a prison break happening while the Legionnaires are fighting the Spectre is the last thing they need.

Comments

[goddamnwingman]

Nightwing has been on edge since they arrived on the station. Which isn't odd because he's pretty certain everybody else has been on edge, too. Going into the habitat area, though, only solidifies WHY he's been skirting that edge. It's dark and gruesome and he shakes his head as he pulls out his eskrima sticks, the weight of the bag that had been specially made for his powers negligible on his belt but still felt anyhow. Or, rather, what's held in that pocket of space at the moment.

"If this is what the Spectre's like when he doesn't have the usual amount of moral oversight? I'm going to give Corrigan a big hug the next time I see him."

[calibrates_big_guns]

There was a part of Garrus that hadn't been certain about this whole mission. Not that the Spectre needed to be stopped, but that the inmates were worth risking the lives of the guards and the Legion over.

He feels guilty about that impulse, but if Takron Galtos lived up to it's reptutation, these were the worst criminals in the galaxy. Maybe the Spectre was doing everyone a favor by freeing up some room.

Then he saw the mission reports of the things Spectre had done in the past, and he began to understand why they needed to step in. Some of the things he saw were ... well, they went well beyond meting out justice.

What he's seeing now is a whole lot worse than even that. It's enough that, in spite of everything that he's done and everything that he's seen people do, he feels sick to his stomach.

"I'm not sure who that is," Garrus replies, not taking his eyes off of the hellscape in front of them, "But I think we should all get together and buy them a thank-you card."

[ghost_bait]

Miku felt a cold chill roll across her shoulders, before she set them straighter. The people, the sense of malevolence as they walked that sank into her bones and wrapped around her heart scared her. She kept her eyes on the ground. Though she often helped with terrible murders, it didn't mean she enjoyed looked at them.

In fact, she preferred not to. "I'm having an awful sense of deja vu," she murmured to no one in particular.

[goddamnwingman]

"We get out of this in one piece and I'll tell you over drinks." Honestly, it's the 'getting out in one piece' that's the worry at the moment. The Spectre might not normally go after people who aren't murderers or serious criminals, but things seemed to have changed.

"Right. We can't do anything for the dead at the moment, but we have plenty of people here still caught in these traps. Get them out as quickly as we can and keep an eye out for...well. If he gives you the creeps, it's probably our guy."

[calibrates_big_guns]

"Because 'creepy' really narrows things down, here ..." Garrus mutters, trying to find some humor in this for his own sake.

Miku's comment about a sense of deja vu though, that draws an arched eyebrow. He wonders what the hell she could have been through that compares to this, but he decides against asking. Anything comparable has probably left some scars she'd rather not pick at.

Instead, he draws his stun pistol and nods towards the killing fields.

"Sooner we're done with this, the sooner things go back to something resembling normal. Let's get started." He starts walking.

[the_civilian]

Tadashi puts a hand on Miku's elbow, giving her a supportive smile, though a thin and shaky one. He's never seen anything like this, not outside of a movie. Looking at the horrors before them, he's not sure he can really do this, but someone has to help.

"Let's get helping."

[prettycoolguy]

The Chief is quiet on the way in, better to leave the steadying patter to the people who are good at it. He's focused intently on the grisly scene ahead, picking out the shape of their potential battlefield.

"Watch your step," he does say as they move forward. The Spectre's broken Takron Galtos to its foundations, and stable isn't a good word for the ground through here anymore.