"Notable Islands include Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Santa Prisca... Jamaica? I think...?" Luna turned towards Sam, the only other person who seems to have an idea, "Jamaica is part... right?"
The girl just sort of groans, " I wish I could tell you, but the Batman doesn't think I'm ready for field work yet. I was supposed to be getting a test in a couple of days to see... something, I dunno. And if I passed I was going to be shipped off to Jump and put under his brat's command in the Titans. Which was probably going to suck, because Miss Harley hates him or something, and if I'm there in Jump, I won't be around to make sure that she stops pushing herself too far during her physical therapy."
Luna sighed, nodding slightly. "I know that she used to be a villain. Hell, I know that prior to the Joker killing Catwoman and the death of the Swamp Thing that Ivy used to be a villain too. I..." She paused, looking down. "I'm not really sure I should be mentioning any of this to you... I mean, I know that the near destruction of Atlantis by the Blue was on the news all over the world... but..."
Mox perked up at the mention of "Commander". Not the commander, surely, but a commander at least. It was something, and would at least tell him a bit about the operation going on here. It seemed well defended, but only half way, being nigh-completely defenseless from air and water attacks. And it also seemed allied with....non-humans, which was worrying. Time to see who was really in charge.
Rene Petit
"Inside. You just gotta go through there," she indicated the stairs leading up to a smaller door, "And to your right. The stairs up are on the corner of the main hall; you'll want to head to the very top, and tell Lieutenent Vess that you're new arrivals here to see the commander."
"You'll need to ask Vess about that. She's the logistics person, so she'd know about this 'plasma' ammunition," the woman replied, shrugging.
Most of the defenses seemed to be rocket-launcher like weapons mounted on the walls, paired with the large minefield below. Near the ground, you could see machine guns sticking out of slits in the walls, as well as people patrolling on top of the walls.
Vile decided to take the initiative, and marched straight into the waiting room, artificial musculature hissing as he practically stomped into it, despite walking normally. He moved to right in front of the desk, sharply turned around and looked down directly at the small fox person before him.
Only to be interrupted by the Vile character. Mugman didn't like him, and he showed his contempt by frowning deeply by the fellow, putting his hands on his hip and leaning backwards as he glares up at the man with a name that's more blatantly evil than most of the Devil's minions.
The girl snorts, "Well that's not a sur-" She paused, glancing over at him. "Solid Snake? Like the guy from the video games who wanders around under a cardboard box?" She shakes her head. "But that's not a complete surprise. I don't understand how it all works, but Batman explained it once when another version of Superman got lost in my world or something. Wasn't allowed to know a lot about what was going on. I do know that extra-universal contact is actually something that naturally occurs. Something called the Bleed. It's like... people who can see between worlds. Apparently, my world has a really popular comic series that is written by a Bleed-person."
Xan lowered the collar of her coat slightly as the cloying smell of humanity lessened greatly, but she still looked annoyed at the prospect of more of those weird animal people. Deciding there was nothing else to do, she slipped silently into the room and let the others take initiative on talking to the commander.
Said fox was wearing a modest, plain khaki military uniform, loose enough to allow ease of movement while being covering enough to protect against the elements, like burning ash. On her shoulder was an upside-down pentagon patch with the top squished and the bottom elongated, with colored bars pinned inside it. Her fur was a brownish-orange, and her eyes were a greenish-grey color.
Rene Petit
Upon reaching the top of the stairs, Mox carefully scanned the new area, before catching sight of the...thing behind the desk and tensing up again.
The fox girl blinked. It was a long, slow blink, filled with a certain level of dislike and contempt for you and your rudeness. Not even the sight of the mug person could completely blunt that.
At Lilac's far more polite question, she raised a hand to push a button on the desk. "Commander Andonov? Eight new arrivals to meet you."
This makes Vess blink however. "You're carrying around shipboard artillery?" She asks, confusion evident.
Vile would have smirked if he had a mouth. He turned back to the fox girl when they'd passed on their way to the door. His right hand vanished, showing his Buster, which he pointed at the Lt and made an exaggerated recoil motion with his arm in time with the first word of his next sentence. "Pow. No more Speedster Fox. Heh."
There was a resounding clang of ceramic on metal as Mugman kicked the armored annihilator. Vile felt the force, before compensating for it, not missing a beat. A decent kick, actually, but I've walked through worse. He just chuckled in response. Ah, ye of little faith. In a way, it was nostalgic. You can't just threaten innocents this and unneeded collateral damage that, it reminded him a little of the days where he still cared about Hunter regulations. At least on paper. Well, they'd see his true power eventually, he wasn't in a hurry.
"We're not from around here." Vile said, turning back to see the old woman. "We all came from other worlds through portals, and joined up in an abandoned city a bit away. We found a soldier of yours called Kerry in a boat, and he suggested we come back here. Well, not like we have anywhere else to go, so we accepted. We came here because we were told that's what new arrivals do.
Mugman, needless to say, was deeply unhappy with Vile to say the least.