Morning in America (IC)

[Electra]

Wander nodded. "I'll go first," she told the others, "Edge and Gecks, you should try and stay behind me until we know how hard these things can hit. I imagine Phalanx will fight from the air," she added, looking to Mike for confirmation, "but either of us are better able to take a hit. We haven't got any backup or any hospital or any fast way out, so be as safe as you can." She waited impatiently for the porthole to signal ready to open, face and body already set for a fight.

[angrydurf]

"Sounds like a plan." Phalanx said as he lined up behind Wander, "You getting over the wall yourself?" He asked Geckoman as the hatch began shifting open.

[Avenger Assembled]

The team landed on the other side of the wall together in the midst of something out of a fever dream of Albert Speer and James Cameron. Everywhere was the glare of robotic eyes from skull-faced Nazi robots, their fleshless bodies bearing the terrible brand of the swastika and a coldly polished steel purpose. The heat and stench of the forges inside the great nearby factory buildings was sharply painful on human skin and to human sensibilities, at least for those without superhuman constitutions, and the glare of the crucibles just inside was intolerably bright.

Between the hundred-odd robot guards in the main quad and their master, though, the teens all had other things to worry about. The evident master of the robots was a great hulking machine that towered above the others a good twenty feet in height, the swastika on its chest huge, its terrible mechanical eyes and arms like something from the worst kind of Nazi propaganda film. As it swiveled on them, Edge did the natural thing; he raised the blasters on his wrists and fired, plinking at the massive mechanical man as it seemed to spy them for the first time. "Take down the big one! Bring it down on the smaller ones!" he called to his friends, concentrating as he pulled his grapple gun and fired it to swing closer to the assembled robots. "We're too far away, I'd just be picking at them from here!"

"FOOLS!" shouted the great Nazi robot as its minions lined up behind it. "YOU HAFF TRESPASSED UPON THE EISENFUHRER AND ITS MINIONS! NONE SHALL ESCAPE TO SEE THE END OF THIS DAY!" It raised its massive arm and fired a massive beam from its wrist at Edge in a grim mockery of the teen hero's own strategy, the white-hot beam of energy coming perilously close to incinerating the teen! Only Edge's good luck saved him, the huge shot instead blasting away a hole in the wall behind them. He'd have been dead for sure if that had hit!

[angrydurf]

Mike hesitated to leave Edge and Geckoman undefended but he had one of the better chances of toppling the big robot. He shot up into the air with a brief glance to his friends before arcing around at supersonic speeds to slam his fist into the back of the giant robot with all his might. Despite the solid hit the construct stood steady and unfazed by the assault.

[Electra]

With Phalanx attracting the giant robot's attention, Wander set out to clear the field a little. Mark's idea was all well and good, unless they were picked to death by the smaller robots while trying to fight the bigger one. It seemed wise to even the odds a little, and she was at her best in dozen-on-one combat anyway. "Help Phalanx," she told Geckoman, then waded into the mass of smaller robots that surrounded them. It wasn't a pretty sight. Oil and gears flew and the screech of rending metal filled the air as Wander punched, kicked, and tore her way through the metal battle lines.

[Avenger Assembled]

In the space of a few moments, Wander tore her way through the robotic company like a force of nature. In seconds she was covered in black and grey motor oil, metal fragments in her hair and clothes, hands covered in broken robot parts, the lifesblood of machinery coating her chest and hands, the last screams of torn metal and shattered circuitry still echoing in the air as she pulled her fist from the face of one of the last robots standing. A few blaster shots ricocheted off her chest from the last standing robots, their pitifully small numbers doing no damage to her armored body. This particular company was out of the fight.

[Ecalsneerg]

"Giant robots! Giant Nazi robots! Now all they need is pirate hats and my life is complete!" Geckoman whipped his arms up and started firing a hail of electrical bursts at the big robot so Phalanx could try to get a better hit in. "C'mon, giant robot! Feel my burning non-Nazi awesome! FEEL THE SHOCKING... ELECTRICITY!"

[Avenger Assembled]

"Holy crap..." murmured Edge, in utter awe of how Wander had so utterly pulverized the vast majority of the robot army. He finished off the rest by concentrating, his eyes glowing faintly as the pitiful last few robots sparked and erupted in smoke and ash. Der Eisenfuhrer, though, was completely undamaged by Edge's wave of disasters, the massive Nazi robot towering undamaged over the battlefield.

"ALL SHALL FALL BEFORE ZE MIGHT OF ZE REICH!" it howled mechanically, focusing its attention on the teenager who had struck it last. It fired a massive beam of energy directly at Geckoman, the tremendous blast of death and agony missing Geckoman only when an increasingly frantic Edge concentrated and sent the blast luckily streaming past Geckoman to blast another spectacular hole in the wall behind them.

[angrydurf]

As the deadly barrage lances bast Geckoman Phalanx fixes a look of grim determination on his face. Summoning every ounce of his prodigious strength he strikes a mighty blow to the huge robot. Then pulling up the last of his reserves he redoubles his efforts to swing once more impacting the mechanized menace once more with a deafening clang. Recoiling back from the impact the flying teen streaks to the ground next to Edge and Geckoman in case one of those blasts look to strike home.

[Avenger Assembled]

The massive Nazi monstrosity bore up shockingly well under Phalanx's first punch, the impact of his fist on the steel rebounding with an enormous krong. The second time, though, he found a weak spot; punching straight through the swastika in the middle of the thing's great chest and sending showers of sparks flying everywhere. The great machine staggered but did not fall, shouting mechanical defiance yet as it raised its massive fists.

[Electra]

With the small robots dispatched, Wander turned her attentions to the giant robot still attacking them. Phalanx had done considerable damage to the thing already, but it was obviously still game. Leaping into the air, she landed in a crouch on the thing's giant shoulders and gave the metal head a solid blow from behind. It rang like a bell, sending the monster wavering, but he wasn't out yet. His head was a lot more wobbly on his shoulders, though, so this time Wander wrapped her arms around the giant metal cranium, sticking her hands in its ears, and ripped the head clean off its neck. "Look out!" she called to her teammates below.

[Avenger Assembled]

"NEIN! DU SCHIE-" The giant Nazi robot sputtered and sparked, more oil spraying Wander, as suddenly the gigantic colossus tumbled to the ground, falling away from the assembled teen heroes and back onto the robotic foundry behind it. As Wander jumped away from the falling robot, there was a loud boom and concussion as the weight of the falling machine and its spraying fluids made the robotic forges explode in a satisfyingly spectacular eruption of flying bits of robotic Nazi engineering!

[Ecalsneerg]

Geckoman stood on a piece of broken robot, raised one arm stiffly to the sky and raised his other hand with one finger pointing straight out in imitation of a moustache. "Sieg heil!*" he shouted over the metal-strewn battlefield. "Bring on the robots! Eisenpoopenwoopen!"

*: "Hail victory!"

[Electra]

Erin dropped to the ground, still hanging onto the giant robot head so that it wouldn't fall on anyone. Tossing it aside as she landed, she rejoined the group. "It looks like the foundry is toast," she said with slight chagrin. "Let's hope that the thing we need is in the main control building instead. We'd better get a move on before they send someone to see what's going on." She began loping towards the intact building, moderating her speed so everyone could keep up.

[angrydurf]

Phalanx was breathing heavily but straightened up driving himself onwards despite the exertion it had taken to pierce the giant robots armor. He nodded and glanced towards the remains of the foundry, "Well that should halt production pretty well." He said asn he hurried to catch up with Wander and the others

[Avenger Assembled]

The teenagers found a few human guards in the main control tower, but the terrified Nazi and American collaboraters there were quick to surrender at the sight of the invincible young godlings who'd torn apart their most powerful machines without so much as a scratch. Figuring out exactly what it was they wanted was a bit more challenging, but with a little prompting one of the surviving guards pointed them to the secret bunker inside the island where the lost modulator they needed could supposedly be found. "Please, haff mercy! We did not know where they were doing with it!" said one of the guards, his accent very heavily accented.

[Ecalsneerg]

"Ignorance to what the specifics are doesn't really account for the fact you know they're evil Nazi tyrants with giant evil robots. That go boom when you hit them hard enough. Hehe." Chris paused for a second to let his thought processes to back to normal. "Any security measures in there? Because if there are, and you're not saying, I'm going to be miffed. Quite miffed."

[Electra]

Erin thought about that for a second. "What were they doing with it?" she demanded. She didn't think their contacts had specified exactly what the equipment was being used for, just that it was in the plant with all the giant robots. But when she thought about it, anything that let the Nazis travel to other dimensions didn't sound like a good idea at all.

[angrydurf]

Mikes eyes narrowed. Untill Erins question had pointed the way he had assumed that the Nazi's just had one of these modu-whasits as part of the factory. It never occured to him that it could be in use for similar purposes to what they needed it for but that was deffinately something he was going to make sure wasn't going to happen.

Leaving the others to question the guards he yanked on the bunker doors handle not hopefull it would be unlocked but not about to not at least try the easy way. When it didn't open he set his feet wide and pulled with all his might to tear down the reinforced door.

[Avenger Assembled]

The guard looked at the four teenage paragons, jumping visibly as Mike's ripping apart the reinforced door added a palpable counterpoint to his interrogation. "Only for, ah, peaceful contact, ja!" He brightened at that. "Ja, to make friends in other dimensions. It is really just for peaceful purposes only. We make friends in many dimensions. Some of our friends may even be inside there now," he said hopefully, "so you should be careful."

[Electra]

Erin leaned in and grabbed the guard by the arm, pulling him to his feet. "You say they're friendly? Great, you can introduce us. Unless there's something more about whatever's in there that we should know." She gave the guard a look that promised he would be very unhappy if there were hostile things waiting behind the door Mike was trying to open.

[Avenger Assembled]

The struggling guard came along with them as they headed down into the bunker together, cursing in German before a look from the terrifying Wander silenced him. Despite his veiled threats and attempted intimidation, the contents of the bunker turned out to be considerably less threatening than he'd described...at least at first glance. There was a single massive object there, a huge piece of bizarre engineering that swirled and shaped its way through the deep underground chasm in a naggingly familiar pattern none of the kids could quite put their finger on. It didn't look much like any science they were familiar with, that was for sure, and was covered in swastikas. At the center of the great and terrible machine was the glowing dimensional modulator they'd come to collect.

[angrydurf]

Mike stared at the machine uncertainly, "Uhmm so do we just yank it out?" He asked uncertainly and looked to Geckoman and Edge to see if they had any idea what this thing was. He made sure to stick close by in case there was something dangerous but it looked like the guards were just bluffing.

[Electra]

"Yanking is probably not a good idea," Erin said dubiously, still effortlessly holding the pinned guard. "Ch- Geckoman, you want to take a look at that thing and see if you can figure out how to get it out of there safely? Edge, you help him, and we'll keep an eye on the doors." She turned to face the way they'd come in, using the guard as a sort of shield, just in case. She figured he would shout a warning if anyone was coming, so long as he had incentive.

[Ecalsneerg]

"Hmmm... this looks weird, but Darian's base probably has weirder stuff in it. I'll take a look." So he spent a short while looking around the device, pushing and prodding at parts that looked semi-important and generally trying to get a feel for exactly how this thing was put together, extradimensional geometry be damned!