legionmissions | BODY SNATCHERS [modplot]

Who| Rico, Tadashi, Zenyatta, Reinhardt, Joshua, Vance, Locus
What| "Body Snatchers" plot
Where| The planetary senate complex of prospective UP world Epryria, and the capitol city Mejehn.
When| The same time as "After These Messages"
Warnings/Notes| Plot has some really angsty stuff, mind control, character death. Please see ooc post.

Epryria and the UP have had contact for quite some time now, but it took new of the threat of Chronoblivion to finally push the world into joining the United Planets for safety in numbers.

The UP government has had its eye on Epryria for some time now, thanks to its thriving scientific community. The planet's advances in bioengineering even surpass that of the Coluans' in some respects. It's a large part of why why most of the population is sporting different cybernetic implants. The Legionnaires have found that to be something of a hurdle in acting as diplomats for the mission. Half of Epryrian communication takes places nonverbally, due to the sharing of words and images through implants.

Since the team is largely there as extra security and only the most experienced Legionnaires are being expected to help the UP ambassadors with actual diplomacy, Brainiac 5 and Kid Quantum were the ones that had opted to temporarily have optical and cortical implants put in.

There's one day left before the actual signing of the treaty, which is to happen in front of a crowded hall of government officials and special guests.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Joshua frowns as his eyes flick across the duty roster, considering.

He'd questioned his own placement on such an important mission, given his status as one of the newest members of the team, but it was his relevant experience that made him a natural choice, or so he'd been told. And a lot of effort had gone into refining and rewriting those plans - every change Rico had pushed for speaking from his experience as security, Joshua had considered and made suggestions based on his own lifetime of breaking and evading security. It was the entire point of having this group on board.

Or so he'd thought, but now that was apparently out the window. Odd.

Being suspicious was a skill he'd cultivated in his days as the Black Fang as much as sneaking and killing had been, and some habits died hard.

"Is there a reason they waited until this late in the game to put their proverbial foot down? If they didn't want us in crucial positions to begin with, they let us go to an awful lot of wasted effort."

"Possibly bureaucracy at work."

Not that Vance entirely believes it. It's a good reason and probably the one that they'll be given, but something's feeling off. He hadn't had a lot to say when it came to security changes, though he'd had more to say about where to deploy the various Legionaries. What powers would work best where and who might work best with the others, though that came down to Kid Q's choices in the end.

He looks over the roster, frowning slightly. "Not that that doesn't make it a massive pain in the keister."

"Got it in one," she says to Vance. "Apparently there's been increased activity from an anarchist terrorist group that's made the Epryrian president nervous. He wants to handpick some of the government's highest-ranking security agents and is afraid to have outsiders on his personal detail or at the building's most vulnerable points. We've decided to comply. What they won't know is that even though we're putting the Legionnaires that were deployed where they want, we'll be bringing in a few others undercover."

She smirks.

"Timber Wolf, Gates, Dreamer, and Umbra are en route. You'll get your new secret orders that factor in their involvement after they've been briefed. They'll be hiding around the building wearing holodisguises. If something goes down, they'll break cover and we'll ask forgiveness later. If everything goes smoothly, the Epryrians don't have to ever know they were there, do they."

She shrugs.

"It's not ideal but it should still allow us to do our jobs."

Brainy suddenly looks up from his omnicom at Kid Q and for a second it looks almost like perhaps he's saying something wordlessly. Maybe. But she doesn't respond or look at him and he goes right back to looking at his omnicom.

He does hold a finger to his temple, like he's still nursing a head ache.

"It's like working with General Morgan all over again," he says dryly. The man had come around - eventually - but it had taken an uncomfortably long time for him to admit that there were some things better handled by the Bracer Guild than by the army. Organization had its time and place, but bureaucracy was one of the worst hurdles to being able to roll with the punches and get things done.

Having some extra Legionnaires on hand is an improvement, at least, even if the entire situation still reeks of someone high up making decisions they don't understand the consequences of.

"Do we have anything on the terrorists in question?" Joshua likes to do the background reading.

Vance sighs, rubbing his eyes. "Unfortunately, that sort of thing is way too common. Those in power always think they know better than the people with actual experience." He'd run into it fairly often as a New Warrior and as an Avenger. Though the Avengers at least tended to get more leeway.

He starts reading through the information that they have. "It's a good question. Anything, Kid Q?"

At that question, Brainy and Kid Q share another look that's almost concern but that can't be right, can it? Why would they be worried about them asking about the terrorist.

"We're still compiling intel on them. I'll be sending out a packet once we're done. The security forces here dumped their entire database on us and we're still sifting through."

Look noted and mentally filed.

And suddenly, he just really isn't comfortable sticking around in this room any longer than he has to. "Understood. If that's everything, we'll get to it."

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