Meg's head shot up, and she sent him {{ZEEEK!!  You owe me for that one.  Dinner out.}}  Her midnight sapphire eyes sparkled and shone as she gave him a 'glare', cheeks having blushed crimson.

Zeke grins impishly and then becomes as professional as he can be as he picks up one from the older tank and sets it just above Machinesmiths lip.  Keeping his comments to himself for just now.

  He shuddered, as it crawled into place, and said "Eeeuggh.  That's worse than your girlfriend handling my brains was.  And that felt pretty damn strange."

  She came walking in, movements so liquid that she seemed to float.  She spoke with a definite Japanese accent.  "I am looking for a 'MachineSmith'?"  Her dress floated around her like a cloud of pale white linen.

Malcomlm turned at th voice his hand raching inside his trenchcoat. The woman looked familiar, could it be? NO that was impossible she'd been banished from the material plane a long time ago. "That would be me, who's asking?"

  She smiled, and flung four shurikens at him.

MachineSmith pulled a strange looking disc out of his coat and slid it acorss the floor towards Air as he dived Behind a large filing cabinet. Shrugging off the coat Malcolm reveals  himself to be wearing a set of boyd armor and is covered in strange devices. He pulls out what looks like  a gun pulled out of a science fiction pulp and flicked a few switches on it.

  She hissed at him as the force field swirled up and surrounded him, and rose off the floor within the bubble, looking positively pissed.

Malcolm came out from behind the file cabinet  holding the strange pistol facing the ground. "That won't hold her for long, power suppply only lasts about 20 minutes."

  Meg asked "How far into orbit would you like it launched?"  She stretched, then winced as one of the muscles in her back cramped.

Machinesmith stepped forward. "Not even sure if that would stop it. I don't claim to be an expert, but Elementals don't normally just pop up out of thin air. And the fact that I've face dthis particular elemental before strikes me as odd. So tell me Air Dragon, who sent you, what are you doing here?"

  She hissed at him again, and said "You should have stayed in your jar, MachineSmith.  You were effectively dead then, and not a target  . .. "

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Icepick arrived at the location of the Legacy's new HQ.

"Wow...this is a really nice spread...I wonder if the city's gonna do anything for us."

He then waited for Ex and Fluid to arrive before entering.

Zeke gives a little shudder as he looks over the air dragon.  Heading over to inspect the situation to see if he could actually touch the disc still without hampering the forcefield.

"Power supply shouldn't be a problem if I can get close enough to it."

His emerald eyes take her in slowly, tilting his head to the side in curiosity.

"You guys certainly keep strange company.  So great, looks like more skeletons are coming out of the closet."

He mutters softly under his breath as he paces a bit.

"Should probably get a hold of all your files from that orginazation you used to be in.  Plenty of information there I'm sure."

"Yeah yeah, Like I haven't heard that before" The Machinesmith looked at Zeke. "Shouldn't be an issue just  be careful and about not shutting it off." Turning back to the Dragon The Inventor reached into the force field grabbed the dragon by the hair and slammed her face into the field before pulling his hand out again. "These are keyed ot my dna so they won't hold me...Now I'm asking nicely, who sent you?"

In reply to Icepick (msg #111):

Ex Landed next to Icepick. "Nice place...." As he stepped up to the Large steel door with a keypad next to it. "So uhhh do we like knock? OR is there a buzzer we can press? I'm pretty sure I could get the door open but they might not appreaciate that."

Icepick shrugged, and then looked at the keypad.

"I imagine we have to talk to someone to let us in....but I don't think it's gonna be as simple as 'speak friend and enter'..."

  The door opened before any of them could hit the keypads.  Meg said over the Comm units "Get in here so I can shut the door."

Icepick turned to Ex.

"Or...we can just do like Meg says and enter...." And he then entered into the HQ.

"Wow...this is REALLY nice..."

Ex follows after  Icepick still holding Fluid's hand. When they enter the chamber where the Air Dragon is being held Ex stops. "Who's that?" He asks as he moves forward.

Icepick looks at the figure that's being held.

"I gotta echo Ex's sentiments....who in the world is that?"

Once they were in, the door shut behind them.  Meg pointed at Machinesmith, and said "Machinesmith."  Pointed to the dragon "Trouble."

Icepick nodded, and then looked at the imprisoned girl.

"Ooooooooooookay...so does every visitor come looking for trouble...or is this a special kind of trouble?"

"She's an elemental. We clashed a few times during the war Her and her three sisters are elemental dragons back in the forties they were under control of a Japnese General when he died they returned to their respective elemental plans...She was about to tell me why she was back lest I give her another bloody nose."

Icepick nodded at Machinesmith's assessment, and then looked down at the icy energy emanating from his own hands.

He then turned to look at the woman, seeing what kind of answers she would provide.