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“These took a while to make,” said Cybele, about the fairly impressive pile of explosives, oil-soaked cloth, fire starters, and sledgehammers that she led the Destruction team towards, in an alley a few blocks away from the bank.

She did not say anything more on the subject.

The Destruction team was the last to approach the building, but only by a few minutes. It didn’t take long, with people actually in the building, to see just how involved the Negaverse was in all of this. It was time.

There was a certain amount of complexity to the goals of the other teams. This team had one job. Of course it was a job that they had to do well, a job with a certain margin for error. They didn’t want any of their own to get hurt, but they also didn’t want the bank to be left in a state where there was any possibility to rebuild, or to save what the Negaverse was doing here.

Communication was going to be very important, and all teams had been asked to have at least one person leave their senshi phone on speaker, to make communications between the groups easy.

After equipping themselves, Hestia, Bilskirnir, Anser, Rainier, Drombeg, Antares, Onnie, Shedir, Siegfried, Albireo, Daedalus, Enceladus, Tanais, Myrrha, Hati, Hyperborea, Undine, and Kitty made their way to the side door that the Investigation team had used a few minutes earlier.

The front of the bank might have had false columns and a sign with gold-plated letters, but this entrance was in a dusty alleyway not much different from any of the others in Destiny City.
Here, they had a choice.

They could head inside towards the Safe and the main area of the bank, or they could stay outside, where an impressive selection of ATMs as well as important external structures were waiting.

Super Hestia
Action: gonna beat up some ATMS

The tall figure of Tanais, with her distinct of aura of Could Absolutely Wreck You almost completely distracted Hestia from the bounty of other destructive items before her. Watching the knight stride inside, the maid senshi gave her cheeks a series of tiny slaps, patted her chest to get her heart beat proper again, and decided it'd be best to stay outside. This wasn't the time or place to fangirl over some new, if impressive, figure on her periphery.

Tucking some explosives into her apron, she easily hefted a sledge hammer and beamed at the rest of the group like it was Christmas and she'd just unwrapped a Red Ryder BB Gun. "Well, I suppose it's time to be a proper terrorist for once," she commented in a solemn voice that did not at all match the gleeful glint in her eyes. Hestia gave a little hum as she sauntered toward the ATMs. Hadn't the Negaverse always wanted this?

Well...enjoy!

Transcended Eternal Sailor Anser, Senshi of Geese
Action: To the safe!

Anser was almost giddy.

She knew Cybele had to know about this. It was why she told her after she had percolated--damn she really was a barista--the news to her family and a couple of other close people to at least be wary of that place. Augusta was sus. She hadn't necessarily expected something this extensive to be planned, and she was already living for it. Her whole life, she had been hearing about or part of nonsense that the Negaverse planned and felt like she had to just watch it or suffer the effects of it until it was too late or the damage had already been done.

This? This was more like it. This was getting in the way before they found some capitalist way to ruin more lives.

"These ******** have been terrorizing this planet for decades," responded Anser to the talk of terrorism, ignoring the fact that she hadn't quite been alive for two decades. But from the way others talked? Well, easy to assume-- "Time to start a riot, I think."

Anser picked up an explosive, looking at it with admiration.

"You did a good job, Cyb."

Now they needed to make good on that good job by making a mess of this ******** place.

"I'm heading to the safes with that buff Martian lady." Honestly, she had the physique Anser aspired to--

Hyperborea, Transcended Knight of the Cosmos
Action: Going to the ATMs

The young knight of the Cosmos gazed at the suspect bank. "So this was a front for the Negaverse, glad I didn't have any accounts here." She muttered to herself. She was more than happy to smash any Negaverse operation to pieces. She grabbed one of the sledgehammers, she considered grabbing an explosive but decided not to since it seemed needlessly dangerous, she was pretty sure she could smash most things with her enhanced strength and the hammer.

Although doubted she needed a boost she figured it wouldn't hurt to have a bit more power in her smashes, so she pulled from subspace what appeared to be an old beer stein, it was in reality a magical antique she had found on her wonder. She drank the cider like liquid and felt her toned muscles increase further. She felt stronger from the stein's magic, she was prepared to wreck some havoc now.

She headed over towards the ATMs where she saw two super senshi had already gone.

Bilskirnir, Page of Jupiter
Choice: Safe

Normally, Bilskirnir would have answered Enceladus’s questions with endless rambling. He almost did, but he bit his tongue and stared with great concern at the explosives Enceladus had so carelessly slung over his shoulder.

Bilskirnir didn’t really want to destroy anything. He knew the Negaverse was bad and dangerous and that they shouldn’t be allowed to continue doing whatever they were doing at this bank, but he also refused to believe that destroying it was the answer. From what he’d been told, the Negaverse was everywhere. Even if there ended up being nothing left of this building, couldn’t they just infiltrate another? Or build a new one? Starting from the ground up might even benefit them more next time.

“Maybe we should be a little less enthusiastic about all this?” Bilskirnir said, following after Enceladus as he and a few others made their way to the safe.

Bilskirnir didn’t like the glee he was sensing. He couldn’t judge Enceladus too harshly considering he was an alien and his culture might be vastly different, but plenty of Senshi and Knights were humans born on Earth, and for them to take pleasure in the opportunity to cause mass destruction was… unsettling.

He took one of the sledgehammers not because he meant to join them in said destruction, but because he thought some added protection might be beneficial if any of the Negaverse people decided to show up while they were there.

“Dude, how do we know they don’t have other ways to detect that we’re here?” he asked, whispering a bit too loudly to keep his voice between the two of them. “I’m just saying, if I was a shady underground organization steeped in evil magic, I’d make sure I relied on that evil magic just as much as any technology, if not more. Earth tech isn’t exactly built to combat evil magic.”

Most people didn’t even know magic was real.

Deep Space Sailor Daedalus
Choice: Safe

There was something almost comforting about this. Daedalus was still trying to find his way in this new world, to learn who his new allies were, and to...well, to understand the place he found himself in. But this? This made sense. No, he'd never specifically infiltrated a bank that had been overrun by Chaos before, but smashing some windows and lighting a place on fire to send a message to corrupt, grasping, greedy owners?

Yes, that he knew how to do.

"You're well prepared," he told Cybele. "I'm impressed. One might think you'd done this before."

He scooped up one of the explosive kits. The specifics were new, sort of, but....well, it seemed that an oil-soaked rag, a bottle, and a firestarter were gloriously universal.

Ah, yes. This was right.

He nodded to Anser and Tanais.

"If they intend to hide anything here, the safe is going to be the best bet. These types...always the same."

Page Undine of Neptune
Action: Bombing the ATMs.

Undine was starting to feel like maybe this was not quite the right place for him to be. He’d shown up to the call because it had seemed like a solid idea to meet more people involved in this war, figure out what the deal was with the world, and see how other people handled- everything: all this weirdness. At the moment it seemed like Violence Was The Answer. He’d taken a bat to his fair share of car windshields, so it definitely wasn’t beneath him, but…

This was a little larger scale than what he was accustomed to. Calder was more ‘petty’ than full-on ‘aggravated assault,’ so this was… a lot. Bordering on too much, even.

He was new at this, didn’t know what was going on, and was pretty much just… testing the waters for how much he wanted to be involved with these people, and at the moment, it felt like not very much. These were definitely the types of activities people could be sent to jail for. He’d never been to jail. He was too pretty. He would simply pass away. Or worse.

The merits of just leaving weren’t lost on him, and he’d never said he wasn’t a quitter, but Undine had to give it just a bit more of a chance than this. He still didn’t really know anyone. If nothing else, he could focus on that. That was his goal; the rest was just what was going on in the background, that he would try to look engaged in.

So he took up an oil-soaked cloth and the firestarter, and clung to the outside wall of the building, following the trail of a few others before him (mostly the Knight wearing the same symbols as him- that seemed like the best plan, right? Stick close to his own group?) as he made his way to the ATMs.

He could not have ever in his life imagined he would be attacking a bank for any reason.

Someone’s personal property? Sure. No problem. Any day of the week. But this? This made him uncomfortable…

Shanyume

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Myrrha, Super Senshi of Scents
- Staying outside to deal with ATMs and other external features.

Myrrha glanced at the pile of stockpiled items that had dwindled considerably in the past few minutes as those on the destruction team picked out their own choices before heading towards the inside of the building or to where the ATMs were nestled together on the outside. There had once been another time that the senshi of scents had made a choice to take the fight "inside" that saw massive repercussions. Even though this was just a single building and not some unknown dimensional rift Myrrha was opting to play it safe. Her gaze took in the others that remained outside before she grabbed one explosive to tuck away into her subspace pocket for later before grabbing a remaining sledgehammer.

There were videos on youtube of just how hard it was physically break into abandoned bank machines and Myrrha sighed. Somehow she believed that time was of the essence. Perhaps if there was a large enough hole made in one of the machines it could then be set on fire but would that take care of the whole machine or not?

Gripping her main weapon of choice did Myrrha give a few practice swings to get used to the heft before stepping closer to one of the machines. Here goes nothing ... she thought as she prepared to swing the hammer at the first ATM that she came across before instead taking a moment to study the machine's figuration and saw something that needed addressing right away. "If anyone's camera shy here ... smash the cameras. Just because the main cameras are down, doesn't mean that these ones got disabled too."

Myrrha's own hammer came up to gently tap against the camera that was housed in the ATM she was in front of before taking the hammer's mallet in both hands to strike down at the camera's lens. Hopefully no one would be watching the machines camera feeds.