Michael nods and then turns to Joe and says, "That is why I asked, there are many ways to take out the generator, but not all the ways will have the same results," as Michael rubs his chin as he thinks he may have just realized a way to disable the generator in that fashion and adds, "Hmm Valin and Emerald probably could bring that somewhat damaged wrench and a wirecutter in similar condition. They could use them to mangle the wires such that it would look like the wires have been chewed threw without someone actually chewing through them. I have tools that I haven't been able to get into good condition yet which would work perfectly for this task. However it would be easy to repair once they find the wires... although if enough wires are 'chewed' it might still take an hour or two to fix simply due to having to track down all the wires. SO they need to 'chew up' more than one wire, preferably several wires in every part of the building they can safely get to."
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Katy says, "Sounds good... speaking of sound, does anybody besides me hear what I'm hearing? It's coming from Middletown. Are they having a party over there?"

A vague sound of Blipvert's antics can be heard all the way in Channelwood, even though they are quite a distance from Middletown.

"No matter. Let's crash that party and execute the plan. Michael, get the preperations for the mission ready. I'll get Valin."

She prepares to go back down to the second level.

Blipvert is wondering why he hasn't heard any pleas yet or seen much movement. Did the SWATbots kill their target? Or is the target long gone?

BLAM! The answer comes quick as Samuel's little gift goes off for Blipvert and the SWATbots, taking out about 2 SWATbots and temporarily blinding 10 others. Lucky for the 13 others, they were behind other SWATbots, protecting them from blindness. Blipvert, of course, dived for cover as soon as he detected a hint of danger. Thankfully, due to his small size, he's also a smaller target. He rolls and quickly calculates a probable origin of the grenades and pulls out his laser pistol to fire. He's off by only a few feet, telling Samuel that while his plan is working for now, he needs to get going while the going's good.
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The two FFs are determined to get out of this mess and have no objection to helping Samuel get outta dodge! The seabear reflexily grabs at Mittens's hand in order to guide her. The skunk is more worried about perminant hearing loss. Either way, when the chaos clears, they, Mittens and Samuel will have all had the chance to get a good 40 yard distance head start.

Samuel knows he only has two more grenades on him and figures they'll be needed later. Right now there is only one thing to do... flee!

Samuel heads off as fast as he can while carrying most of the weight from two SWATBots, although the antigrav features in his shoes does negate enough of his own body's weight to enable him to move at about the same rate the encumbered mobians helping him are moving at, Furthermore Samuel doesn't simply run in a straight line as even a SWATBot would eventually hit him then. Instead he zig-zags a bit using sensor data from his cybernetic implants and his diagnostic bracer to help inform him when to zig, and when to zag to have the best chances of insuring the group can evade the wild barrage of incoming weapons fire till they hit the treeline.

Samuel keeps on running till he's sure they have lost the bots, although once they hit the treeline it's clear that Samuel is starting to suffer from fatigue from carrying around this much weight... but being as stubborn as he is, he keeps moving.

Michael nods and looks in the direction of Middletown and mutters, "I wonder who the party is for," as Michael hears the racket despite the distance from Middletown, but Michael has the distinct feeling something strange is going on since he knows no one from Channelwood would be near Middletown already, and who else would be going to Middletown that would cause such a racket.

Michael then turns back to Katy and says, "I understand, where do you want us to meet up, on the ground or at the elevator on the second level? I assume you'll fill Valin in on what needs to be done when you get him."

Michael is ready to go and get the needed tools, but he'd like to know where Emerald, Joe, Valin, and himself will meet up before leaving Channelwood.

Blipvert rather suddenly turns off his sound and lights display and holds his hand up. The SWATbots halt and stand at attention. Blipvert does a quick scan of the area. "Return to Middletown. Report to Ra." is all he says in that ever-creepy voice of his.

When he gets back to Middletown, he assesses the damage done and sends the data to Ra. That done, he waits for his next command.

Back at the Middletown Headquarters, Ra examines the data and says, "Well done. I believe this attacker is clever and wants to infiltrate using SWATbot armor. Well... I have a way of dealing with that."

Ra quickly gives the command to all SWATbots that whenever entering or leaving any area of Middletown, including the fringe points, that they must send in their serial number. "If we discover this person, do not attack. I want to learn more about them."

Katy glances over her shoulder. "Ground level at the elevator. That way, Valin can make his way down without straining the elevator's weight limit. You can fill him in once he meets with you."

Michael nods and says, "Okay see everyone there."

Michael then exits the planning room and quickly takes to the branches before he starts heading off down towards the workshop to get the tools Emerald and Valin will need before he heads down to the ground level near the elevator.

Michael does feel somewhat sorry for Valin, since the larger primate isn't able to move through the trees as easily due to his greater bulk, but Michael knows Valin is still a skilled climber. Michael has a hard time imagining what it would be like being unable to move through the trees as easily as he does, but he knows that people who can't still manage just fine.

Valin currently isn't far from the elevator on the second level as he's watching  two small unevolved birds build nest in a nearby tree. Valin often seems quite content to watch wildlife, and he enjoys being able to do so from the vantage point from the second and third levels of Channelwood since it is so much safer than doing so from the ground.

Katy heads straight for Valin and as soon as she gets up to him, she is looking WAY up at him. "Hey Valin. I know you won't like this, so I'm sorry. But you have a mission to go on. The good news is, it's simple and will probabley be low-risk. Michael can explain. Meet him at the base of the elevator on the ground level. Also, sorry to say, I won't be joining you."

Valin looks away form the birds and dowards towards Katy once she starts talking. Valin listens carefully and realizes a few things that must be true about the mission. First that heavy lifting will be involved or else his strength wouldn't be needed. Second since Katy said low-risk, it's probably not going that deep into Middletown so no airshafts are going to be involved as he wouldn't fit through them. Third, odds are they'll have to enter the city using the stinky sewers... Valin hates those sewers even though they are large enough for him to use, saying they stink is an understatement. Valin is well aware that something is already going on in Middletown as like everyone else in Channelwood he heard the racket that Blipvert no doubt caused...and Valin wonders if this mission is to investigate what is going on in Middletown.

"I understand. I trust whatever it is that you be doing here is equally as important as the mission," as Valin nods before heading towards the Elevator to get to the ground, as has everything he'll need for the mission already on him, or be told what he needs when he meets up with Michael. Instead of using the Elevator, Valin uses the tree trunk next to it as he's able to climb down the trunk with ease. Valin knows the elevator can handle his weight, he still prefers not to stress it as that reduces the amount of maintenance it needs.

  Joe of course also needs to leave the room in order to grab some stuff before they go and deface property for justice.  But he also takes a moment to put the map away where he found the thing.

  "I'll see you in the obvious spot then I guess." This said to the only other to not leave the room yet as he made them the only one to not leave the room yet.  He was sure Emerald could handle the pressure though.

  An as quick as normal two legged transportation trip resulted in the grabbing of the usual fun items that kept one alive in killer robot country, the grapple gun also being retrieved from the ceiling and the technical term of 'minor fiddleing around with' was put in action as he made his way to the previously mentioned spot.

  The sounds of chaos has already started and they didn't have anything to do with it yet.  He knew while that would change, he really wished it wasn't so likely to be because of unpleasant disaster.

Emerald nods to Joe and helps him put away the map by un-tacking one end while he untacks the other. Then heads off with him to the elevator that leads to the second floor. A quick stop at her hut for supplies and she heads off to meet the others on the ground level. Once there, her ears perk. "The noise stopped..." she notes. "Maybe we'll get there in time to find out what's going on, but either way, it sounds like someone sufficiently distracted Middletown's forces for us."

  By now Mittens is very jealous of the spaceman's toys, but focuses more on escaping alive.  She glances over her shoulder with a sad look at what used to be her shield and wonders if she'll ever get it back.  ;.;  She imagines the Swats recovering it and following the footprints...  all the way back to the merman's home!  0.0!

  "OK time to slow down!" she insists to the others, "They've stopped following, but we need to cover our tracks or they'll find us for sure!"

During the trek into the woods, Samuel's thoughts drift to the prank he and Markus pulled back on Tanelorn when they were children... At the local electronic's store on the space station, the owner had 'hired' his teenage son as a salesperson, but in truth, the son couldn't tell a toaster from a plasma coil and the owner knew it. Furthermore since the son had a nasty habbit of picking on the younger children at the space station, Samuel and Markus had figured out the best way to get back at him... since they knew that the parents of one of their friends was going to be buying an entertainment center the next day... so that night they snuck into the store and messed with the settings and wiring of the entertainment system they knew would be shown to their friend's parents by the owner's son. The next day when he tried to show them the 'best entertainment system' on the station, they heard nothing but load and annoying static and fifteen different songs trying to be played at once, along with a rather bright lightshow, and the teenager being the electronically challenged nitwit that he was didn't know how to fix the problem... And he was completely humiliated when his father had to come and deal with the situation. Samuel grins as he remembers the aftermath of that prank with the son being reassigned from working on the salesfloor to restocking inventory in the back of the shop.

Samuel stops shortly after Mitten speaks Samuel thoughts shift back to the present, as the sensors in his diagnostic bracer inform him what was said since he wasn't paying attention and with his earplugs in he couldn't hear anything anyways. Samuel looks to the skunk and jokingly says, "Did you hear something? I thought I heard something but I couldn't make it out....Oh wait," as Samuel removes the earplugs from his ears and puts them back into his tool belt as he adds, "That's better," with a somewhat silly grin on his face before Samuel turns to Mittens and says, "Actually I heard you, but don't worry about the robots tracking where we came from to that city, since we always take care to prevent people from bieng able to track us. Which is why from this point onwards we are going to conceal our tracks as we move. Although it's not all that big of a deal since a SWATBot couldn't even track a Nekkarian slugbeast, and they leave a pretty large slime trail that even a two year old could follow. However we probably should catch our breath first as these disabled SWATBot aren't exactly light." as Samuel works with the two Aquarius Freedom Fighters to set the two SWATBot 'Corpses' on the ground so everyone can rest and figure out what to do next.

Samuel then looks at the two SWATBot 'corpses' and mutters, "They won't fit in the waterproof satchels I brought with me... I'll need to fetch some larger bags from the hangar to carry them into the hangar safely."

Samuel then looks to the seabear and skunk and asks, "So what should we do with fur-for-brains?" as Samuel points to Mittens, as he looks at the skunk as he continues, "She knows to much to just let her go, and I know you two won't approve of silencing her, so what are your suggestions." It almost seems as if Samuel is purposely trying to annoy the skunk.

By the time Joe and Emerald arrive on the ground via the elevator Michael has already finished explaining the details of the raid to Valin.

When the noise coming from Middletown stops Michael mutters, "I wonder if we'll ever find out what that was all about.. But no matter, hopefully it doesn't have anything to do with our mission, so is everyone ready to go? It would be a bit of a problem if someone had to use the bathroom during a delicate part of the mission, so it's better to deal with that stuff before we leave Channelwood," Michael looks around to see if anyone says they are ready, for if they are then the group can start heading to Middletown.

OOC: In a SatAM episode there is a scene where when Tails and Sonic are in the ventilation system in Robotnik's headquarters and Tails tells Sonic he needs to use the bathroom...It was a rather amusing episode... and thankfully the entire SatAM series will be out on DVD in March.

Valin chuckles, "I believe we're fine and ready to go. We aren't little children Michael so I think we realize how inconvenient that would be and thus won't end up in that situation." Valin guesses that for a moment Michael and slipped into 'school teacher mode' and was acting like this was just a school field trip... a very dangerous school feild trip.

Michael looks up at Valin and says, "You were never little." as Michael knows that even when he first met Valin years ago, when the gorilla was a child, Valin was slightly taller than Michael is as an adult.

  When it comes to school teacher field trip comments, Joe could work the 'Don't stick your arm out the bus window' angle.  If you're gonna start climbing out of a moving vehicle then finish the job.

  "My antics are immature, not childish.  There is a supposed difference you know."  Joe as usual shows that when it comes to defending himself verbally, he really needs to get the concept straightened out.

  "You're a strange one, Mr. Spaceman," Mittens says to Samuel,  "One second you threaten the next you defend."  Mittens folds her arms and looks up at Samuel with pursed lips skewed to the left. :\   "Well enigmas aside, thanks for the warning about the hostile Swats...  What's a Nekkarian slugbeast?"  Mittens eye's sparkle eagerly at the prospect of a wonderful new monster she's never fought.  *.*
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Samuel turns to Mittens while grinning as he says, "This is a Nekkarian Slugbeast," as he activates the small holo-projector on the communications bracer on his right forearm and a holographic image of a large creature appears before Mittens, the creature looks like a giant slug that is six feet tall, eight feet long, and four feet wide. At least that is what the statistics say the size of an average Nekkarian Slugbeast is. In addition to being many times larger than the slugs on Mobius, this creature has what looks like an armored shell on it's back sort of like a snail, although it looks more like a turtle's shell. On the creature's head is a large mouth with rows of what look like razor sharp teeth. Below the status for the creature's size and weight, which is listed at being around 700 pounds, it notes that the Nekkarian Slugbeast leaves a wide slimy residue trail of a milky white substance that has a rather pleasent odor, which it uses to attract prey as the substance is as sticky as spider silk. It also mentions that Nekkarian Slugbeasts are aggressively territorial savenging omnivores that will also attack anything that gets stuck in their slime trails. However most of the time they feed on anything they come across. Combined with their limited intelligence, they are considered more annoying than dangerous due to their slow speed. However being slow isn't a problem when their prey is trapped in a slime trail.

Samuel looks at the creature for a moment before muttering, "I have known a few excentric people who have kept a Nekkarian Slugbeast as a pet, and they do make descent guard animals once trained. Although it is only possible to train them if they are bred in captivity, as an adult Slugbeast would try to eat its trainer. A baby one wouldn't dare try and eat something so many times larger than itself since when they are first born, they are around the size of   SWATBot's head," as Samuel makes sure to use an object of comparison that Mittens would be familiar with since if Samuel mentioned another creature, that would most likely result in having to explain what the other creature was.

OOC: Remember, the holo-projector Nichole has is capable of creating large holograms, I see no reason why Samuel's bracer can't either. However like Nichol's holograms, the ones from the bracer have that wavey outline and are slightly transparent. Hence there is no chance that such a hologram could have its holographic nature concealed.

Emerald smiles at Michael. "Let's go. The sooner we get this over with, the better." And with that, she follow Michael to Middletown.

The seabear leads the way back to Aquarius as he answers Samuel's earlier question. "She's coming to Aquarius where the Princess will decide what happens to her. Unless this young lady is an immediate threat, there is zero reason to make a judgement call like killing her." He's trying to remain calm, but the fact is, now Samuel has gotten on the Seabear's nerves twice as bad as he got on the skunk's nerves. Who simpley says, "Well let's hurry up. The sooner we're home, the better."

Michael nods once everyone else has indicated that they are ready, and then starts leading the group towards Middletown.