War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout - Strike Team
In the Tower: Second level, Tunnel 3

(OOC: Credit for the kitten's name goes to Silver the Wanderer. ))

"Lia, it's me." Mountie spoke quickly, right before Lia could swing at her. Being invisible, Mountie wasn't sure whether the sword would hit her, or whether it would just miss and whack at thin air. It definitely wasn't something she wanted to consider.

Mountie knelt to pick up the kitten. "What on earth are YOU doing here? I thought I gave you to Silvie." The kitten responded with a soft growl, and Mountie laughed. "You're such a little growl tiger." Her eyes widened. "That's it! Your name! Growltiger." She nuzzled the kitten with a laugh. "I'll call you Growlie for short." After a few moments, she returned to the present, and turned to Lia. "So what's going on?"

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
In the Tower

After Lucy's medicine had been administered she fell into a quick, deep slumber. When she woke up ten minutes later she was totally refreshed and feeling like herself again. She ran through the Tower to her P.M.S. (Personal Minion Suite) and quickly changed out of her dirty clothes, discarded the arrows that were stuck in her torn cloak (and said cloak) and the somewhat bent bow (somehow it had gotten reaaaaaly messed up on her crawl to the Tower. She changed into a dark green, shimmery dress and cloak, with matching faux snakeskin boots(minions are known for the immense manufacture of faux snakeskin). When she was finished, she braided her hair down her back (with added extensions, of course) and the end result was terrifyingly like the LotGK. Grinning in the mirror, the refreshed Lu settled down on her settee and began to plan.

First, she needed to find out where Dot was. Lu send a signal and, when Dot did not answer in 15 seconds, left a brief message. "This is Lu, where are you? Over."

Next she had to locate Izzy, using the same technique but with a much longer message.

"Izzy, girl, where are you?? You've been gone for days. The last time I saw you was...lovers lookout. I really, really miss you and we need to work together to defeat the elves..." she trailed off, a sob catching in her throat.

Hey, even minions cry sometimes.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

"Sure thing," Button said. "Off you go." Button hit her bottoms, counted down, and then sat back to enjoy a tuna fish sandwich.

~~

"Ewww...." Lady A held her nose and Waved her hand in front of her face. Then she remembered her manners.

"Sorry to do this to you, Booky," she said, one phaser on Booky and another on Pilot. "But you were a little slow on the uptake. You either give up, and sign a peace treaty that I presume you will break as soon as possible, or I start pushing buttons."

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
In her Personal Minion Suite

Lu suddenly got a buzz on her beeper. Shaking it she wondered why it didn't live up to it's name and actually 'beep'. Shrugging, she made a mental note to replace the two double As at a more convenient time. Booky's danger signal appeared on her screen.

"Booky? Booky, are you okay?"

Not getting an immediate answer, Lu grabbed up two long, curved, snakeskin-hilted knives and dashed towards Booky's lair, where the beeper's built in tracker assured her he was.

"Hold it, Lady Arwen!" she demanded, wielding the knives and giving them a twirl. "You don't push any buttons on Booky, or else..." Her unfinished threat lay in the air. Lu glared at Lady Arwen, but did not say another word.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lovers Lookout
Somewhere in the Labyrinth of DOOM

With a glimmer of light, Lady G reappeared in one of the dark tunnels. Wielding her new weaponry, she turned to decide which way to head, and then turned once more to head upward.

She reviewed her memory of the voice that had exclaimed, "Who's there?"

Was something familiar about it? She frowned. At first she had thought it was one of the GHD Overlord's minions, but now the thought occurred to her that it might have sounded more familiar than that. Maybe it had been one of Lady A's minions.

But whoever it was, she didn't see them as she walked through. It was as if they had vanished. But how could they have done that so quickly? They had sounded quite close. Odd.

So she continued moving through the tunnels on the journey into higher levels of the Tower.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

Kat, completely stunned by the recent turn of events, watched Lady G sprint away. She turned back to her camp and tidied up a bit, re-organizing the weaponry and checking the cloaking devices. Wondering the whole time " i wonder who that strange creature was.....and why did it think i was going to Booky?"

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

In a sudden burst of speed, Lu had jumped behind Lady A and had put one of the curved knifes to her throat. "I'm sending you into the deepest, darkest level of the Tower, where you can re-think your ways and join our side!" Lu panted, trying to recover her breath. She kept the knife positioned firmly against Lady's A's neck. It was freshly sharpened, and if Lady A moved an inch it would cut her. Lu told her so, and waited.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
Room of Epic Wetness

Took shut her eyes, waiting for the Critter from the Abyss to make its move. But just as she began to wonder if it had left, she heard a hideous din coming from what she guessed was the door. A clamor of dog-like noises followed by the sound of shattering glass echoed throughout the room. Took heard an unintelligable (but obviously annoyed and/or angry) exclamation from the pool monster as a pack of mutant mutts flooded into the pool. One of the giant beasts landed almost on top of her. It started yipping and howling, dashing off after - the monster!

Took laughed. She didn't stop laughing for several minutes. No one could possibly hear her between the splashings and bayings and general sounds of a water-based hunt, but she couldn't have cared less. A tiny remnant of sanity told her that she was a little hysterical after the near-death experience, but it took quite a while before that sanity could take the reins again. Finally, while the hounds were busy near the middle of the pool, Took climbed up the stairs, still giggling a little stupidly. Her dress was sopping wet, her hair was coming undone, and as she was reminded by the scattered shattered glass on the floor, she was barefoot. She gingerly picked her way through the doorway and found herself in a dim tunnel.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
Deepest, darkest dungeon

Lu led Lady A to the deepest, darkest dungeon and locked her inside. The enemy would surely have a lot of time to think in this pitch black cave. As Lu shut the iron-barred door and locked all seventeen ultra-strength padlocks, she quickly advised Lady A on what to do/not to do.

"Don't try to eat anything you find in there; it's either food left over from our last prisoner (who was in here about ten years ago) or poison mushrooms. We will bring you food at meal times." Leaving Lady A to wonder as to precisely what the 'food' would be, she went on.

"Don't lie down except for on your bed, or you may be eaten by Towerlins- a sort of gremlin that lives in the deepest, darkest parts of our Tower here." Lu gestured upwards about fifty feet or so to a stone pallet, accessible only by about 100 stairs. "They can't climb, so you'll be alright as long as you stay up there. If you're awake, they won't bother you." Lu racked her mind for any more tips. "Oh, and don't use anything that is fire and/or heat producing, unless you want this whole place to blow up- with you in it I might add." Lu suddenly wondered if it had been stupid to tell the prisoner of the Tower's weakness. She hurried on. "And don't try to escape- you won't be able to."

Lu posted ten guards at the end of the two tunnels that came together to form the prison chamber, where the two-hundred fifty-seven cells were and set up an invisible ray that would set off an alarm that would wake the whole Tower should anyone bump into it. Lastly, Lu set up a sound recording system- directly to speakers in Booky's chamber and her own personal minion suite- and left Lady A in darkness with a few parting words:

"This is the end for you, elfy!"

Quoting Revenge of the Sith was fun. Lu ran back upstairs to Darthy to seek out her next assignment.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
In the Tower, Second level, Tunnel 3

Lia looked to where Mounite's voice came from. All she could see was a little kitten suspended in midair. She assumed that that was Growlie and that Mountie was holding him(?).

"Long story short, Lu is no longer one of us and she kidnapped Lady G," said Lia quickly. She pulled her cloak closer around her. "Lu took her somewhere deep into the Tower. She said something about the Tunnel." It was then that Lia realized that they were standing in a Tunnel and that it very well could be the one that Lu had been speaking so evilly about. Thinking back to her days as a minion, Lia recalled the floor plan of the Tower. "We're very close to the Tunnel. Once you go down it, it leads to the dungeons. And from the dungeons... Well, nobody's ever made it out of the dungeons."

She looked expectantly at where she assumed Mountie was. "So, what should we do? There might be some of us in the dungeons. Should we try and rescue them?"

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout

As soon as Lu had gotten back to Booky's lair, she checked to make sure that the recorder-camera was working. "Good." she murmured, as an image of Lady A looking dismally about her very well-secured cell lit up the screen of the super-computer. As Booky appeared to be occupied for the moment, Lu thought up what to do next. She was trying not to snoop (really, she wasn't!) but a hard cover book caught her eye on one of Booky's disorganized tables.

"Hm..." She picked it up. The title read:

When I was Lady Arwen's Friend: By-

A loud crash interrupted Lu's reading.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lovers Lookout
In a dark tunnel

Lady G found herself at a "crossroads" in the tunnels. As she stood back and mentally debated which way to take, she heard loud barking and jumped back in time to avoid a pack of mutant mutts as they raced by.

She peered after them as they disappeared, heading into the tunnel on her left. Moments later, a loud CRASH of shattering glass made her jump out of her skin!

Lady G, arrow at the ready, immediately followed after the mutts to investigate.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lovers Lookout

Lu was sure that she had heard something in the room of epic wetness, so she scurried in that direction. In the tunnel she ran into Lady G. Just then, a bare-foot, sopping wet figure came out of the doorway. Lu didn't pause- she simply poked a knife toward each of the figures, and positioned herself between them.

"Who are you?" she demanded the wet lady. She shook her head in Lady G's direction. "I already know who you are. So, we meet again, Lady G?"

Lu tried to prod both of them towards the dungeon.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
Tunnel outside Room of Epic Wetness

Took didn't like being prodded, especially by enemy minions. She swung her quarterstaff and knocked Lu down. Then, not quite fully recovered from her giggle fit, she burst out laughing again. She noticed Lady G, but was laughing too hard to introduce herself properly - or even to introduce herself improperly, for that matter.

War of the Overdoms: Battle at Lover's Lookout
Tunnel outside Room of Epic Wetness with Lady G and Took

(OOC: Took, that is so funny where you knock me down and start laughing! )

Lu groaned and held her head. Her swords had flown across the room. She ran to gather them then stood stock-still until her head stopped swimming.

"Maybe we can strike a deal..." Lu suggested, cradling her head in her hands.

She awaited Took's answer.