Day 5 Domino: Let it Snow: Preperations

[voidtreckermods]

Early Evening

Due to some of the passengers having strange dreams those on the Voidtrecker Express should be expecting something soon and so it is around dinner time on the evening of the fifth day of Domino that everyone's SCA glows with the colour of the void, a holographic message appears with their next mission.

Those going to the dressing car will find the drawers and wardrobes open. Inside are a variety of warm weather clothes, all in team colours. Thick padded winter jackets, waterproof trousers. Hats, gloves, scarves. Thick boots and also a variety of ice skates. There are waterproof covers for a variety of sizes of bags and even some coils of rope.

It seems they are not arriving until the next morning and so they have time to plan as best they can.

Morning: Day Six

No matter if they stayed up late preparing or went to bed early to get some rest before the mission they will wake up the next morning to the morning announcement. "Good morning passengers. Today is day six of the month of Domino. A moment later the voice speaks again. "Our next stop is world#58291. Drop order: Purple, Blue, Red, Orange. Conditions are adverse and so all passengers must be ready to alite swiftly."

There is time for some final preparation.

Comments

Preparations

[luckybucky]

It's Bucky's first mission, and the little information they have doesn't sit well with him. He's not thrilled by the idea of fighting someone with the power to control the weather, but he's not going to stay behind on the train and let other people get hurt if he could help prevent it.

So he's in the dressing car and, much to his surprise there are purple shirts and jackets missing a left arm. He pulls on a thick jacket and rolls his metal arm, testing out the range of motion. He pulls it back off, folding it up and putting it on the pile at his feet. So far he only has one outfit there -- some waterproof pants, thick socks, long underwear, a single-sleeved shirt and jacket. Clearly not enough gear for the mission ahead if he didn't want to wear the same thing for a week straight.

He looks up when Luke approaches, and forces a smile. "Really throwing us in the deep end with this one, huh?" he asks softly.

[faithfulson]

Luke offered him a warm smile, just settling for one change of clothes, used to being stuck in uniform for weeks at a time. He may have only been officially in Imperial service for a year, but it was a year.

"They did that with my first mission too," Luke admitted. "The last one wasn't like this, but I get the feeling that isn't typical."

He paused a moment, his gaze flicking down to Bucky's arm a moment. He didn't know a delicate way to approach this, considering how he reacted before, but being blunt was an unfortunate trait he picked up from his father.

"So, with that arm, you're stronger than a normal human?" he asked. "A brawler?"

[luckybucky]

Bucky nods when he gets an answer, and while he does freeze for a few seconds when Luke mentions the arm, he prefers the bluntness, nodding again. "Not just the arm," he replies. "I was experimented on, and it made me stronger, faster," deadlier. "The arm itself is extremely durable, stronger than the other one. I'm best with a gun, but I can go toe to toe with Steve," not that it meant anything to Luke, so he clarifies. "He and I are two of the best in our world at hand to hand combat. There's one, maybe two more people that can keep up with us without some kind of additional equipment. The mission didn't have a timeline on it, do you have a best guess about how long we have?"

[faithfulson]

Luke wasn't sure who Steve was -- hadn't met him yet, actually -- but Bucky's explanation still brings a light to his eyes. He senses a challenge, and it sounds fun.

"The best, hunh?" he asked, grinning. "I may need to ask you two for some pointers; I'm useless without a lightsaber or a blaster."

That wasn't entirely true; he at least survived long enough in a hole full of drunkards long enough to... get his lightsaber up, which turned out to be the worst thing he could have done, but that was beside the point.

He shrugged after a moment. "These things tend not to have a timetable. Get in, do the job and help where you can, get back to the train when we're called back," he said, before he paused, giving Bucky a serious look. "The best thing we can do is expect to be surprised by what we face, and adapt as quickly as possible."

Luke paused again, his expression turning a little sheepish. "I've had a... sense of what it will be like out there, but it's not the most reliable thing."

[luckybucky]

Bucky smiles lopsidedly at the request for help, nodding his head. "I don't have a lot of experience with training others, but I can give it a try. As long as you'll be forgiving while I learn how to pull punches," he was kind of really bad at that.

When Luke mentions a 'sense', he furrows his brow, looking up at him. "What, like you've been there before?" The concept of precognition isn't even remotely on his radar as being something possible outside the movies.

[faithfulson]

"I'm tougher than I look," Luke assured him, grinning. His mood changed quickly at Bucky's question though, shifting his feet as he looked away.

"No, I've had a vision of what we're up against," he clarified quietly. "It looked like the ice itself was coming alive."

[luckybucky]

Bucky's known enough people like that to take Luke's word for it. He's not sure if he should believe the vision, but he's seen and heard enough strange things on this train to at least think it's possible. "Of course it's ice," he sighs heavily. "I guess the good news is it breaks relatively easily, right?" he flexes his metal hand a couple of times. He doesn't like the ice, but maybe punching it will be cathartic.