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Jeremy didn't 't see Ashley coming down from above and was surprised beyond belief. "What the heck!!!" He yelled not being able to see anything and tries his best to move out of the way in order to see. Getting the parachutes off his head allowed Jeremy to see Ashley's face.

"Are you two ok?" Jeremy turned to see Antoine near him walking him "I didn't see everything but I did hear her falling on you." Jeremy checked himself to see if there was anything missing and got up. "I seem to be okay. Don't know about her however." 
"Are you okay Ashley?" Antoine asked her.

Walking into the training grounds with a bag Antoine takes a look around the area checking to see if there are anyone around and picking a spot to practice his sword stabs. Finding a spot for him Antone moves towards a dummy that seen better days. " Hello there." He said toward Ashley while heading toward his target.  Getting his saber out from it's holster he does a few stabbing motions to the dummy, hoping to improve his skills with the saber that he had since he was a child. Antione knew he had to get better in combat in order to be useful to the group if he ever planned on seeing his father once more. That was one of the main drives and reason he became a freedom fighter.

Well, we have to keep in mind the fact that if everyone gets powers then characters like Sonic becomes less special and unique. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't mind one bit allowing everyone to create characters with powers considering I would be one of them but I think the real question isn't should we allow powers back into the RP. I think the real question should be this: Would allowing powers back into the RP affect the RP forum negatively?  Will  this make characters like Sonic less special and if so then how? And how much will this change the setting of SatAM from original? 
Remember back in SatAM, none of the characters with exception of Sonic had powers. Because of this, they  would be at a disadvantage against Robotnik because they had to use their wits. They had no powers whatsoever. If they did then the battle would be even no doubt. Now if powers were allowed then it would make the war evenly matched but then the characters on Legion side will get powers too. Now I know not every character created here will get powers if  powers will be allowed but it seem like the one without it will be at a disadvantage, granted the characters with power won't go all ham on them because of the rper and the rules set but still.
That being said, I'm for allowing limited powers but it needs to be said that there need to be more rules on that if that the case. Let's say each rper can create two characters with powers but then in each mission here only one character that has powers may go on that mission while the other be characters with none. That way the characters like Sonic can still feel special because they're only ones with the ability to be a game-changer of sorts.
Then again, to be honest, this idea just came out of the top of my head so I didn't think much about it. You could say I'm just coming up with a random idea and throwing it out there but I hope this helps others on thinking about this the topic of allowing powers once more.
 
 

"If I didn't know any better I'd say the two of you are not the only ones here, Princess," Lien-Da sneered with a confident grin. "Now if you make this easy, I won't have to hurt the two of you before you are roboticized. So tell me your plan. Where are your other friends?" The red Echidna paced before them, her guards holding their stun weapons at the ready.
Sally, bearing a nasty glare directed at Lien-Da, shook her head and gritted her teeth. "We're just having fun exploring," was her reply, being as vague as possible.
With a flick of her hand the beaver named Bill walked behind Ashley and held her arms behind her back with force. Lien-Da, casually and cooly, walked right up to the flying squirrel before sending a powerful bunch straight to her stomach. "You're not taking this seriously at all, Sally," she cackled, shaking her hand as if the blow had hurt it too.

"I'm not sure whats up but something is off with princess Sally" Tweak tells the other Freedom  Fighters. " I can't get a hold of her and Nicole is being held by some random dude. I really hoping I'm over reacting but I've lost to many friends to not acting" 

Looking at the area in front of him Antoine thought about his next plan of action until he realized Bunnie already started moving across a bridge. Antoine thought about stopping Bunnie and coming talking about where to go next but seeing how he didn't know which bridge went to what so he decided to follow her hoping they could find something. Soon his com started to beep making him take notices as did his own ears in the form of twitching. He sees Bunnie grabbing her own com and talking to it and to Tweak making Antoine wonder if something going on. Antoine pulls out his com and speaks to it. "Tweak..is there somzing ze matter?" He whispered not wanting to risk anyone hearing him.
A hint of worry is inside Antoine as he hears Bunnie ask a question causing him to put aside his worry and look down himself. " Maybe provisions  " He answered, " Or it could be ze part for ze swatbots.." He guessed. He was interested in what was in those crates himself but just like Bunnie was out of range to get a full look at them.
Antoine then looked at the rabbit in confusion once she asked him about his shirt. "My shirt...you ask?" He said thinking about how to answer the question "I guess my shirt is de durable but to ze moi the truth I haven't really tested it." He had to admit. He just thought it was pointless to do so.

Bunnie had already started across a bridge that stretched out to an adjacent building when her com started beeping, her long ears giving two or three twitches before she fully realized where it was coming from. Pulling the communicator out she pressed the button on it, "Tweak? Something wrong?" she asked, turning right around and back to the building, taking a turn down the catwalk that was mounted to the side of the building, making her way to the windows that lined the balcony bridge. Peering down into the room below she watched as several goons were packing crates only to storm out franticly into a connecting room, some crates still open, "What's that they're packing up down there?" she wondered, knowing they had to get down there while they could and nobody was around.
 
She soon turned her attention to Antoine, "Ya'll ain't gonna like it but I got an idea to get ya down there." she said, reaching to the window and slowly opening it up, "How strong is the back of ya'lls shirt?" she asked, planning to lower him down into the warehouse below.

"princess......looks like the swat bots have finished  there sweep" Tweak informed  sally. He was a little confused to see the video com open on Nicole. He paused for a second as he saw the face of a strange beaver dude instead of sally. Not knowing what's happening but fearing the worse Tweak activates panic mode. 
A low beep rings out to all the teams com links. Just low enough for the team to hear but not loud enough in be heard by others. Tweak hoped this warned the others that something is wrong. "please don't let this be a false  alarm. I hate  to get everyone worked up over nothing" 

The Princess and her partner Ashley made it through up onto the pipes and entered the vents with a little help from a metal-cutting laser from Nicole to open them up. Sally was never too comfortable in a confined space like vents but she was used to crawling in such places to hide or sneak around. She tried her best to silently crawl around, glancing into each room a vent cage was found. It wasn't long before she heard the echoes of a sinister voice she knew all too well. Following the sound, Sally was led to another vent opening where she peeked through to see Lien-Da and her cronies packing large crates. The Echidna herself held a strange green vial in her hand, flipping it through her fingers as she watched them work. Pulling Nicole toward her mouth, Sally made a whisper into the mic, "Guys, I found something. Lien-Da is here, and she is packaging something-"
Just then, a metal whine was heard in the vents, before they were ripped open and out fell Sally and Ashely in front of the lackies and Lien-Da.
"Nice to see you again, Princess," Lien-Da cackled as her lackies surrounded them while Sally was standing up. If Sally didn't know any better, Lien-Da seemed all too happy to see them.
"Did you really think it would be that easy to break into this operation of ours?"
Sally couldn't help but grin in defiance. "You know... For a second there... Yeah, I kinda did."
"Bill!" snapped Lien-Da, "Kill her comms!"
A nervous and squirrely beaver grunt nodded and frisked them both. "Y-yes, ma'am!"

A room somewhere in the building housed one of the most notorious members of Robotnik's Legion: Lien-Da herself. She gazed at the comrades before her, the meager ones with disgust, but nonethless briefed them on their task. "Now that the weapons are nearly complete, we only need to move them to the vehicle base for installation," she continued, her earlier introductions out of the way. In her hand she held up a green glowing vial, not larger than Robotnik's chubby finger, and waved her arm slowly across the room to show all of them. With this she knew the Freedom Fighters were history. They stood no chance against the new weapon, Lien-Da smiled at that.
 
The Princess slowly made her way across the room, carefully making sure there were no bot guards near them or coming toward them. Occasionaly she glanced behind her to check on Ashley, whom was following her just as careful thankfully. Despite being a rookie, Ashley showed great promise. Reaching the other side of the room, she needed to climb the large pipe going through the wall and stretching across the rest of that side until it went through again. She guess the pipe did what all of the other pipes in the city accomplished; Carried polluted smoke and air through the building and out of the side of top, further destroying the environment.
"Quick Ashley," she gestured as she got on one knee with her hands resting upright on it. "I'll give you a boost, then you can pull me up on top of the pipe." Luckily they were mostly in the shadows of the corner of the room, and once they climbed the pipe, they could easily walk on top of it right to the vent.
 
 

Gathering the information Tweak had sent, Sally replied with a quiet 'Nice job, Tweak' as she studied the map. She knew at this point traveling as a group wasn't going to happen without them getting caught, they were just too big a squad. "Okay team," she whispered in the radio channel so Bunnie could hear as she made her way down from the window, "from here we'll need to split up." Considering Bunnie and Sally were both the veterans of the team, she wanted to make sure each small group had one experienced Freedom Fighter. "Bunnie, go with Antoine," she said, before looking at Ashley and continuing. "Ashley, you're with me. Bunnie and Antoine, you two take the hallway through that door. Ashley and I will sneak through the vents and see if we can find something. If you two find anything, let us know. Stay away from any danger, and if something happens, get out of there immediately," she warned.

They needed to be quick if they wanted to avoid detection. Sally was the first to move up the rope, climbing with steady breaths and a lot of upper body strength. She was glad she did so much training and excercising back at home. She looked up as she climbed at Bunnie and the window. The rabbit didn't seem to be struggling, her robotic limbs doing all the heavy lifting. She made a quick glance around the area as she neared the window, even though Tweak answered and said there were no threats nearby, she couldn't help but make sure with her own eyes.
 
Reaching the window, she smiled at Bunnie and flipped over it and climbed down the rope to the ground on the other side. She noticed the red on Bunnie's palm and pulled out her first aid pack getting it ready to treat the rabbit when she came down.
 
Taking a careful glance around, the inside of the building was rather spacious, something she knew Robotnik favored with his designs. The entire room was lit up with artificial lights. Swatbots in squads patroled around, making the squirrel feel uneasy at best. However as long as they were quiet and careful, they shouldn't notice them. It helped to have a large metal crate to hide her from view as well, there wasn't much cover from there to the doorway her eyes found across the room. She didn't have a map of the place but she guessed that doorway led to a corridor that would make it difficult to sneak past guards. At least.. difficult for a squad of four.
 
The large room itself was filled with various vehicles, ships, the usual cargo Robotnik kept in his warehouses. If all that was there was the usual junk, it was more a relief than anything else. However there being so much activity there of late... Sally had a feeling it wasn't so simple.

Hearing Ashley speak to him caused Antoine to turn and look over to Ashley " True...True.." Antione agreed "It would be nice, but not at the cost of losing feeling in some of your limbs for zee rest of the life." He added, "I'm sure Bunnie would want nothing more than to get her limbs back." He finished looking over to Bunnie and then back to being the lookout, keeping eyes out for any swatbots near.
 While keeping a lookout for any swatbots until it's okay to climb up and meet with Bunnie and Sally again, Antoine overheard the Tweak's warning and responded  saying : "Thank you for zee...how you say head up?" Antione said to Tweak feeling a little embarrassed saying the last part of the words he just said. He didn't normally say words like those but has been trying to recently in hopes of being more relatable to the others here and at Knothole. Antoine thinks it working but still finds it a bit hard to say without feeling a bit embarrassed saying it. He turned back over to Ashley now that they can climb the rope to get into the window.
"You may climb up first if you wish camarade."

Sally nodded and used Antoine as a boost as she stood up high to reach Bunnie's feet with the rope. She still couldn't reach it by a few feet, so she wrangled it a bit and tossed it spot on as the rope latched right onto her feet. With a quick couple of soft yanks, Sally gave the signal for Bunnie to pull up the rope and secure it so they could climb up. "Standby, guys. We're almost in," she whispered. Clicking on Nicole's microphone output signal, Sally spoke in a slightly worried tone, "Tweak, we need eyes our location. Are they any swatbots around, over?" She hoped he was alright, it was unusual for him to miss one message. Hopefully he didn't miss a second.

Hearing Sally's next order for the team Antoine got himself in position to move along with Sall and the others to the factory. Seeing the bolt being thrown from the princess's hand, Antoine ran behind Sally as quickly and silently as possible in order to get the factory without any noise in quick time. Looking at the swatbots heading toward the noise that Sally cause made Antoine relieved to have her as the leader. Finally, Antoine made it across to the factory and sees Bunnie Swinging herself along the window ledges in amazement. "Thank mercy we have Bunnie." Antoine thought to himself as he sees her open up the window which made Antoine wishes he was up there with the rabbit. He just didn't like to see a woman get her hands dirty without any help. 
Now waiting to get into the window Antoine watches the robotic leg of the rabbit come near him and the others. Antoine looked over at the other members of the freedom fighters and said:" You two should go up first while I wat your backs." He suggested going below the robotic leg and getting on one knee." I shall help you get to zee leg ok?"

Sally opened Nicole and watched the feed of the swatbots. "Thanks, Tweak. Antoine is right, Bunnie, we shouldn't cause a ruckus." She looked around at the ground and picked up a piece of metal in her hand that she spotted. "Okay everyone, get ready to move. When I throw this to distract them, cross the street and rally with me on the side of the building under that window. We can use rope to get inside with Bunnie's leg extentions."
 
Giving the metal piece a small toss in her hand, she threw it facing away from them as hard as she could. The Swatbots immediately followed the sound. "Move!" she ordered quietly as she carefully but swiftly bolted from their hiding spot across the street and to the side of the building. It was a medium sized warehouse. It could also be a factory but the lack of smoke coming from it suggested something other than robots was being made here. The Princess looked up at the window high above, she wasn't sure if it was open or closed, but she hoped Bunnie could take the rope up there for them to climb inside.
 
So far the plan was going well. At this rate, they'll be in and out of there without incident. She knew better than to relax herself though even if things were looking good. Anything could happen, she kept herself as alert as possible.

With that they moved. Sally leading, carefully and swiftly while watching her corners as she moved past alleyways and buildings. An occasional Swatbot squad passing by as they hid behind rubble or metal debris and waited to move. The target location was an active but smaller factory not too deep in the city. Scouts had reported a lot of activity in recent weeks and Sally wanted to find out what was going on there. They werent equipped to take out anything there. The mission was recon only, in and out without mess. Once they find out what's going on, they can plan an attack and carry it out later.
Antoine and Sally were next to the location, hiding near an old dumbster. She only hoped the others were okay as well.

"As ready as I'll evair be" He replied to Ashley in a stern tone looking at her from below "Till we again, bonjour." He added drawing back out his sabre doing one last check to make sure it's in fine condition but deep inside he knew that he was. Antoine always made sure his sabre was in good condition as not only did he used it in battle it was also his father's saber and it was very important to him. But a part of worried about it, he knew there would be a chance something bad could happen to the sabre but he felt more at ease with it around him especially in moments like these. He shake his head forgetting about worrying over the saber and  went back to focusing on the mission.
"I am redy went you are mon princess." He said to Sally waiting to follow the next order.  

Tweak cracked his knuckles as he got this programs ready. His paws moving like lightening  across his many keyboards. Within moments he was ready to hack just about anything. 
Ready but not really needed, He sighs as he watches his fellow freedom  fighters gather up. "I wish I was brave like them." He says under his breath. "But all I'm good for is support."

The Princess smiled at her comrades for a brief moment then turned her expression into the serious look she was known for. This was no time to have fun or chit chat or goof off. They had a job to do and it was in the most dangerous place there was. "So far the coast is clear," Sally said, her radio kept on so Tweak and Bunnie were able to hear her quiet words. "We're going to move on ahead. Bunnie you should stay back and watch our flanks just in case, Ashley I want you to travel carefully up high and look out for any trouble or anything suspicious while keeping up with us. Antoine and I will move forward to the target. Tweak, standby and prepare to hack into the computer we find there when I attach NICOLE to give you the connection." In all situations, she knew just what to say and what to do to make sure the mission went safe and quick. Hopefully no trouble would find them...

"Thank you for letting zus know." Said Antoine who heard Tweak though the radio. " I am near zee rendezvous point very shortly." He added keeping his eyes looking around the area while replying to Tweak. Turning around a corner, the sight of princess Sally and Ashley come into Antoine's view making him smile with a sign of relief. He always tread carefully and took caution when he was in this part of mobius especially when he knows he coming here. Looking around the area one more time making sure that the swatbots are not in sight because Antoine knew it was one thing to deal with the swatbots but to deal with them around the leader of the freedom fighters was a whole another story.
 
Quicking running toward the rendezvous Antoine putting his saber away and now standing in front of the two ladies Antoine took a gentlemen bow. "Antoine D'Coolette at your serivee and ready for zat the mission.

Tweak sits in his chair watching the surveillance cameras on his computer. "The rendezvous point is clear so far"  he comments as he looks around on his other screens. " As far as i can tell you all have 10 minutes before the swat bots do their routine sweep the area."

Holding her communicator in her right hand the half robot rabbot was holding onto a near by window ledge on a small building, metal hand gripping tight to the ledge, she was actually a few yards from Antoine actually, getting a more aerial view, "This is Bunnie reporting in Sally-girl, know I'm a little late to ya'lls mission but I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail as soon as I figure how many bots we're dealing with." she said, having counted out about 5 so far.
Extending her limbs out she slowly repelled off the wall, reaching a leg to another short building for support till she could properly grab hold of a window ledge on the other structure, it didn't take long till she spotted Ant hiding in the alleyway, staying quiet so she didn't spook him from above.

Sally rolled her eyes and cursed under their breath. They didn't even use their codenames. She expected that from a low experience Freedom Fighter like Ashley but Antoine? She was going to have to have a word with them later. At least they were okay, that was the one thing that brought her some relief. Once her friends arrived, they would carry on with the plan.

Moving from one area onto the next in slow careful steps Antoine carefully took notice of his surroundings making sure he doesn't alert any swatbots near him.  Holding his saber tight just in case something bad happens he moves around heading towards the rendezvous point to meet up with the other fighters when he hears sounds of steps coming near him. He knew by experience that the steps were the sounds of swatbot coming near him. Thinking fast Antoine notice some an alleyway in between two buildings. Antoine quickly hid into the alleyway and waits for the sounds to end as the sound of steps become louder. The grip on his saber was tight as did his best to hide any signs of his presence. Antoine tried his best to act tough but was really scared inside fearing for the worse to happen but he made sure that if he was spotted he would fight. He finally sees the swat bots, three of them walking in a group near the alleyway not realizing that a freedom fighter was near them.
As they moved away from the area a sigh of relief could be heard from Antoine as a beeping sound could be heard. Knowing where it coming from he grabbed it and replied back. "Zis is Antoine, I am moving toward zee rendezvous right now." He replied in his french accent