Unlikely Alliance

[Minibit]

Alcina took another sip of her mostly-lukewarm coffee, and glanced at the dashboard clock.

21:04, March 3rd

She lifted her binoculars again, and triggered the night vision, panning quickly across the narrow lot. People were going to start showing up any minute. At least, that was what was anticipated.

She glanced at her wristwatch; it was frozen at 12:31, and a stopwatch was ticking upwards from an hour and twenty. That was how long she'd been in this timeline. Plenty of time left. It was usually recommended that a Time Agent spend no more than 5 hours in a non-native timeline if it could possibly be avoided.

Of course, barring something bizarre, this whole mission would be done long before then.

A faint sound made her bring the binoculars back up to her brown eyes. A van was pulling up, its windows were tinted and she couldn't see the driver, but the Vehicle ID number popping up on her binoculars' heads up display was known. The guests had arrived.

She watched as they unloaded gigantic crates from the back of the transport. They were locked, and the HUD wasn't getting any good reading off of them. No sooner were they all unloaded than the Force's undercover guy showed up in his civillian vehicle.

Alcina stifled a yawn. This STING was going so by-the-book that she wasn't sure she hadn't fallen asleep over one and dreamed the whole thing up.

In a minute he'd verify the merchandise, yell 'FREEZE, GALACTIC POLICE!' all of the snipers would focus their laser pointers, and his reinforcements would jump out of the shadows with ray guns and leather armour. The bad guys surrender, the good guys arrest them, and she'd fly in her cloaked cruiser, out of her hidden observation spot and back to the present to tell them that no, they didn't have any surprises up their sleeves.

She peered back at the scene. Something was wrong. They seemed reluctant to showcase the goods. The Force's man on the ground was getting anxious. A glint of steel from a nearby rooftop made Alcina's heart skip a beat; Sniper!

Her hand didn't even have time to close around the radio when a sharp 'crack' fired through the night, she whirled her vision back to the agent, and met instead a wall of yellow and green powder as an explosion rippled through the alley and toward her observation deck

she turned the ignition. No good; of all the times to stall-! She tried it again. It turned over. She tried to turn it around but the wave caught her broadside; the engines were overheating, she pushed it into hyperdrive and gritted her teeth against the screaming white light that flooded her windshield

For a sweet, merciful second, it felt like floating; it felt like normal travel, it felt like she'd gotten away

And then the universe dropped out from under her, she heard the screeching of metal and a sickening thud, and then the world was black.

 

[Ysolde]

Angelique watched from her hiding place. Her watched clicked up from four hours. If she had been a Time Agent she might be worried Time Agents were usually supposed to only spend five hours in a timeline, but she wasn't a time Agent. In fact, she glanced over at where a cute girl who was also watching the scene was the Time Agent was also watching this scene. She probably had some undercover guy working down there and they would be arresting her former partners in crime. She might have felt bad for the idiots, but the fact of the matter was they were idiots and besides the undercover guy was going to be disappointed because she'd already incapacitated said idiots and she wasn't waiting for them. No, she was waiting for someone from her old training ground. Someone who she felt really needed to die today.

She spotted him in the shadows slowly approaching the person Angelique had already determined must be the undercover guy who had been looking pretty anxious when the idiots Angie had incapacitated weren't coming out. She pulled out her rifle and aimed, waiting for the shot. Seconds ticked and her target's head was perfectly in view. She pulled the trigger and bang there was one less asshole left alive to torment young children.

She was about to move quickly from her hiding spot when a wall of yellow and green power exploded from the alleyway. Rippling from the source of her shot in what was seemingly a deadly wave. She started to move knowing there was no way she was going to outrun the blast. Her last thought before everything went black was, "What the fuck was that? Did I hit a temporal matrix when I shot him?"

 

[Minibit]

Alcina came to slumped over the dash of her shuttle. She opened her eyes, blinking. It was quiet; that was bad. If any part of this ship's engine was still alive, it should have been sending out beeps and sirens and various manners of visual notifications that things were broken. Instead, there was silence.

Pulling herself to a sitting position, Alcina moved carefully, testing each limb and joint for pain. Her wrist felt like it was probably sprained, and she had a nasty bruise across her clavicle from the seat belt, but it didn't feel like anything was broken.

She thanked her lucky stars and, hoping against hope, looked for her keys. They had fallen to the floor. She put them in the ignition, but the engine didn't even whisper, let alone turn over.

She put the keys in her pocket, and covered her eyes with one hand.

Now is not the time to panic.

Clearing her vision, Alcina peered through the wind-shield. She seemed to be in some sort of abandoned lot. She could see many large cartons stacked about, but no ships or people. The ship seemed to have come to a rest against a building, or at least something monolithic and gray.

Cautiously, she stepped outside.

 

[Ysolde]

Angelique woke in some pain. Her body was laying on something metal, or she rectified it was laying in a divot in something metal. She glanced around and revised her thoughts since she was actually on the roof of a vehicle. Her body had clearly slammed into it and thus made the dent. This all explained the pain in her side which she felt was probably broken ribs. She sat up and began trying to determine which vehicle she had landed on.

"Fuck!" She extolled mentally, since she didn't actually want someone to hear her, as she realized she was on the Time Agent's vehicle. That was certainly not in her intentions especially since being on said vehicle could potentially lead to her arrest for various crimes she had committed as a youth and the murders she had been committing as an adult against the people who had somewhat made her commit the crimes as a child. As she was determining what her next action might be the agent exited her vehicle and began to look around.

Angelique attempted to move away, but she hit the side of a large monolithic gray building. She touched it with a hand thinking that it certainly hadn't been in the alley before the explosion. Which meant a time hop and so her own vehicle was lost to her. Realizing that she slipped to the ground and attempted to enter the vehicle.

 

[Minibit]

Alcina exited her craft with caution, her hand on the holster at her side. She blinked to adjust her eyes to the bright daylight, and turned to examine her ship.

Upon seeing a person resting on top of it, her hand flipped the cover off of her pistol, but didn't draw it just yet. It was entirely possible, she reminded herself, that this was a civilian caught in the crash.

"Police!" she called, flipping the collar of her vest to show the badge behind her left breast pocket, "are you injured at all?"

 

[Ysolde]

Angelique chuckled and then found herself wracked with pain from her ribs. She nodded slowly though and said, "Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure my ribs are broken from landing on your roof." She stayed still on said roof and thought of how she might get out of this predicament. Part of her calculation involved determining how long it would take the agent to recognize her and the other part where the hell her sniper rifle had gone to.

Without that weapon and unsure just how itchy the lady's trigger finger was Angelique decided to attempt a little but of lying. "I was standing out on my balcony when there was this explosion of light. Suddenly I'm flying through the air and I landed here. Maybe you could holster the gun and help me off your roof? Please."