Hawaii:Sessions:19901208:The Attack

At about 11 PM the attack began. The team's positions were as follows:

• Tanisha -- Just entered house clearing from the west. In front of barracks.
• Two-Leaf -- Inside house just outside Black Hole.
• Tormac -- Inside house just outside Black Hole.
• Kristi -- On top of stable.
• Whitetop -- Between barracks and stable in back of manor house.
• Cartwright -- On roof of house southeast side facing east toward stable.
• Dr. Ill -- Northwest corner of house on its outside.

Bartan had deployed his forty unwounded men about the grounds, twenty to the east and the rest spaced about the perimeter. Alon set up at the southeast corner of the house facing south.

A band of thirty wolves entered the clearing from the northwest behind the barracks heading to the southeast. As the guards got in their way they were attacked. From the east two explosions were heard as the attackers tripped the explosive booby-traps the team had set up (five attackers killed). Kristi shot and killed a mage who was forming a fireball. Whitetop killed several wolves and turned Fred loose on them. A volley of arrows came toward the defending royal guards, downing three, while return fire from those at the barn hit nothing. Kristi's fire, however, had made them get their heads down. Tanisha downed four and forced eight others to dive for cover as they attacked the front of the house. Both Kristi and Cartwright took shots at a guard as he stood in front of a tree. Their shots hit but seemed to have no effect. Whitetop and Fred continued to kill wolves until all of a sudden they stopped, looked bewildered, and regrouped. Whitetop then killed the leader, and the wolves remaining alive fled. Whitetop then moved toward the stable. Tanisha shot off the hand of a mage when it became visible from behind a tree. Two people started to try to flank Tanisha. Both sides had taken cover and were looking for shots.

Then the man (Braden) appeared behind Kristi. He took a flat-of-blade swing at her but missed. Kristi then shot him with the dazer, but it had no apparent effect. Cartwright then shot Braden in his hand and messed up his next blow. When Braden looked at him Cartwright made a face at him, so Braden ported over beside him and punched him in the mouth, splitting Cartwright's lip. At that moment Dr. Ill, who had worked himself to this part of the roof, jumped on Braden's back. Cartwright shot Braden again. When Cartwright then knocked away his sword, Braden said 'I don't want to kill you' and then put a low-intensity blaster shot into Cartwright's stomach. It barely penetrated his vest. Dr. Ill took a headband and helmet off of Braden's head before he placed one of his sacks on Braden's head and secured it. In the struggle, and because Dr. Ill overbalanced him, Braden then fell off the roof. Dr. Ill was able to jump free and cling to the house's upper wall. The fall didn't seem to hurt Braden, so Cartwright fired at and hit him in the head with a flare. This set the bag on fire and allowed Braden to pull it off.

While the struggle with Braden was going on, nine invaders charged the stable. Kristi took down four with a blast, and Whitetop, who had just reached the stable corner, picked off two more. The other three then panicked and tried to flee, but were cut down by the King's guard. The one Tanisha had wounded went berserk and charged the front of the house. Tanisha and three guards cut him down. Fred, at Whitetop's command, came over the house. The remaining attackers on that side decided to begin retreat and did so in an orderly fashion, so Fred went after the ones flanking Tanisha. A thrown fireball missed Tanisha. As she turned to locate the source of it, one of the two fled and the other stood and started to form a fireball to use on Fred; he forgot about Tanisha in his concentration and died for it as she pumped an M-16 round into him. It was about this time that Braden removed the bag and put out his clothes which were on fire. He looked off toward the stable and beyond and saw the attackers in retreat. He looked up at Cartwright and said, "Good, now my obligation is over. Do you want to talk now?" At that time everyone else arrived at the site. Tanisha realized that this was the Traveler. Dr. Ill and Two-Leaf ministered to the wounded. Tanisha went and fetched the King. When he arrived he sent a guard off to Carcross to get the process of rounding up the mercs there started.

Through talks with Braden they discovered that he had been there two years and was from 1946. He had recognized Cartwright's weapon. When he found out that Cartwright had been a fighter pilot in WWII, he asked him if he had met JETBOY. After they finished the cleanup, Enigma ported them out while telling them that the traveler would have to travel alone for a while.

They were back in Hawaii at noon December 10, which was a Monday.

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