Long Version
The hoods come off and the occupants find themselves in a large high tech container
hand slacked to each other and nullifying each of their respective skills. The monitor on the far end of the room flicks on and a Solai shaped shadowy figure appears and addresses the group.
“Welcome, you have been selected to participate in a test that will pit you against other champions chosen by individuals from around the world.”
The four occupants look at each other before settling their gaze on the screen once more.
“Your challenge is as thus…”
A dog is shown on the screen, in a playful mood
“It is simple; you just have to rescue this dog named Talat from this building - alive of course”.
The view then changes to a 6 storey building which looks shiny, new and high tech. On the top of the building is a dragon that is bellowing fire at any passing object that it sees.
To demonstrate its immense power, it manages to catch a passing pigeon which bursts into flames, and drops to the ground in a crispy but cooked manner.
“Each of you has limited equipment on you, although you are free to use whatever is available within the building”. The view switches to a beefy looking bike. “This is yours to use, a Law Master”. The screen then goes off, and as it does so, the doors open and the shackles that were fastened to the occupants crackle and drop off, freeing them.
Forge is the first to step outside and looks around; he is followed by Reed Richards. The final two step out almost simultaneously and survey the scene. Riddick winces a little and pulls down his goggles to shield him from the light.
Forge immediately walks up to the Law Master and touches the handle, within seconds he assesses the bike, turns around and informs the others of the situation. “Looks like we have a fully equipped bike”. He smiles as he continues the debrief, “This equipment has a fully functional AI system”. He looks to Reed Richards, “Something you would be familiar with” and several weapons including lasers, machine guns and what I believe to be Stun Gas grenades.
It also incorporates a turbo boost that might come in handy".
Xander walks over to the bike and sits on it, “What we need is a way to enter the building”.
Reed Richards looks at his glove which houses an intricate scanning system and comments, “It looks like we can’t walk through the front door, it seems that the place is crawling with personnel and in addition, there are some fancy high tech security systems preventing us from reaching our objective easily”. He nods to Forge, “However, what we can do is knock out the various security systems as we come up across them”.
Riddick in his usual deadpan voice adds, “Get me in there and I’ll do the rest”
Several hours later, using the combined efforts of Reed’s intelligence and Forge’s ability to make any device with the micro toolkit he carries in his cybernetic arm, they have beefed up the bike to project holograms of the crew. They have taken a machine gun and wired it so that Xander can wield it and fire it with ease.
So they wait and wait until the sky turns to night.
Reed Richards using his powers of stretchability makes himself into a ramp from the street level to the side of the building and tells Xander and Forge to get onto the Law Master. Firing it up, they ride to Reed and just as they are about to go vertical, they activate the turbo boost. This causes the bike plus occupants to rocket to the top of the building.
The dragon is obviously a little bit shocked to see intruders and begins to fire bellows of fire towards Forge and Xander. Forge jumps off and rolls to the ground and runs towards the corner of the roof. He clasps his hands together and starts to chant, the thinking being that since he has mystical powers and a dragon is a mystical creature, that he might be able to control it.
Xander meanwhile is continuing to stay on the bike and is riding around the dragon drawing its attention. He’s firing the guns causing the dragon to take damage on its torso and legs. Xander is getting singed a bit as he just about evades the flames.
Meanwhile at ground level, Reed Richards and Riddick are waiting for Forge to patch in so that they can hear him update them with the status of the security system.
After what seems like an eternity, Riddick gets impatient and yells to Reed
“Get me up there; I’m not waiting around like a god damn nursemaid”.
Reed then shapes himself into a sling and pulls back and launches Riddick towards a window, and as he releases, he holds onto Riddick, and they both launch towards the window smashing it causing them to crash onto the floor. The floor begins to crackle as the security system detects them…
Meanwhile, Forge is sweating as he has managed to temporarily control the dragon causing the beast to not be so efficent with its attacks. Xander seeing his chance, angles the Law Master towards the dragon, he tells the bike to launch itself at the mouth of the dragon. Just as the dragon opens its mouth, the bike fires the grenades into the dragon’s mouth, causing it to swallow it. Just as it goes down the throat, the dragon tries to fry the bike. The ignition causes the grenade to explode causing a chain reaction. The ensuring result is that the dragon explodes in a shower of guts, dragon scales and blood splattering both Forge and Xander.
Now that they’ve dispatched the dragon, Xander takes the gun from the bike and begins to walk down with Forge who is monitoring the buildings security. Although exhausted, he manages to switch off the security systems and kills the lights to reduce visibility.
Although the systems have been deactivated, this has attracted the attention of the ninjas.
So now, Forge, Xander, Reed Richards and Riddick are facing ninjas as they separate to each different floor to look for the dog.
Riddick being confident, comments, “Only 100 ninjas to face me…I’m ******** insulted…again…” He smiles as they rush him. He manages to break necks, arms, and ribcages as he dodges and weaves out of the way of the various ninja attacks. During one of his dodges, he steals a sword and goes to town. 20 minutes later after multiple waves of ninja’s there are a pile of bodies piling up all over the floor and Riddick is covered with blood. He moves to the next floor and starts all over again.
Xander, armed with his gun is facing the same problem although to start off with, he pops a grenade and throws it into the midst of the ninjas. They get disoriented as Xander shoots some of the ninjas. He then shoots the window causing it to shatter. He continues to shoot causing most of them to pile up and/or fall out the window. He turns around and notices more of them approaching. He looks up and spies a cable hanging near the window. He starts to run, grabs the cable and swings out into the mid air, as he turns around he fires at the window below him and swings into the next floor.
Reed Richards is busy himself; he’s getting bundled by the assailants but he’s forming into a hammer shape and sweeping them all over the place. He is getting peppered by stars but as he causes himself to stretch out, he catches them all and uses the tension to shoot the stars back at the ninjas causing them to get hit.
Forge is busy himself as he using his blaster that he got from his arm and is popping the ninjas with one hit headshots, although considering that the gun is an energy weapon, the heads are not being left behind neatly. Pressing a button on his hand, several holographic versions of Forge appear causing temporary confusion as he slips out of the floor.
They all make their way to the fourth floor, and before them they can see Talat in a cell. As Forge approaches the door, he sees that it has several locks on it with various degrees of difficulty. Xander at this point is spouting off nonsense catchphrases to the point where Riddick just turns around and smacks him in the face knocking him out.
As Reed Richards and Forge work on the locks which include genius level conundrums, holographic locks and cryptographic deadlocks, Riddick is fending off the remaining ninjas. Soon they finish unlocking the door and Reed scopes up Talat.
Xander, who has regained consciousness at this point, realises the situation and shoots the window out. They all run towards the window and Reed encases Xander, Talat and Forge within himself and jumps as he bounces out and hits the street bouncing to a gradual stop. Riddick in the mean time has finished dispatching the ninjas and leaps out of the window, as he jumps out, the Law Master comes zooming down the building as Riddick manages to time it so he grabs onto the handle and clambers on to ride to the street level. “All in a days work….time to go home” he comments.
Mission complete, they all nod to each other in agreement of a job well done.
Suddenly, several grenades plink close to them and explode causing all four of them to collapse. Talat runs over to a mysterious van and the door opens, Talat enters and then the van drives off. The four individuals are then collected and placed in the container that they found themselves at the start of the mission.
