Notes Taken by Samantha and Alastair Beadle.
After their discussions, Akula, Mother Bear and General Winter leave the restaurant and meet up with Napalm and Mirov in an alley. A plan of attack is worked out. Akula, Mother Bear and General Winter go in via the fire exit at the back of the club and Napalm and Mirov go to the front. At an agreed time both groups attack the club. The objective is to take Mr Kurevka prisoner.
The agreed time arrives. Napalm flies over and burns a large hole in the club's armoured door (down a flight of steps from the street). Mirov bounces down the stairs and enters the club as a foot-tall alarm clock, which grows to six feet tall once inside, blocking the door. "Your time is up!" he announces. He is followed quickly by Napalm who disables anyone who wants a fight after a little gunfire; many criminal types suffer varying degrees of burns. Mirov then 'melts' and becomes the floor, capturing everyone inside the main part of the club inside himself. Very soon a large pile of guns, captured thugs and dead bodies is assembled.
At the back, Akula sloshes under the door and opens it for the others. Someone looks out of one of the back rooms and is paralysed by Akula. Then General Winter, Mother Bear and Akula storm the room where Mr Kurevka was. The thugs inside try to pull guns but are not fast enough. Vilma pulls a high-tech blaster pistol with one hand and shoots her interpreter; with the other she lobs a grenade at the three heroes. Mother Bear bats the grenade aside and down the corridor, then leaps at one of the thugs, bearing him down. Akula heads for Vilma. Then, with a blast of wintry cold, General Winter fills the entire room with a solid mass of ice, trapping friends and foes alike, leaving only himself free (but the other heroes get air-holes, which Akula uses to escape, though a small amount of his mass freezes to the sides as he goes).
Napalm then zips through into the rear of the club. A pile of drugs in a back room is burnt and a case of money which was about to be exchanged for them found by Napalm. The drug dealers do not object to Napalms actions. Sensible people. She takes a small amount of the cash and gives the case to Mirov to look after.
Police sirens are heard approaching the club.
The main boss and Vilma are separated from the ice cube and Napalm and Mirov fly off with them to meet up with the others in Gorky Park. Akula uses his paralysis beam on them both before they go. After some persuasion General Winter also frees the others so they do not freeze to death.
Once assembled at the park it is decided to go outside the city to interrogate Mr Kurevka. The heroes fly to the forest to the south west of the city, where there are only the lights of a few scattered dacha's, and find a clearing well away from any of them.
Mirov forms a large hut in the forest where the man is to be worked on. Before this is done, Vilma is tied up by Mirov. She appears still fully conscious.
Mr Kurevka is searched. From the cards and documents in his wallet his full name is apparently Hedeon Donatovitch Kurevka. Napalm takes the man's (hi-tech western) mobile telephone and destroys his credit cards. General Winter takes all the cash in his wallet and keeps his address book. It contains the numbers of a worrying quantity of important people - the mayor of Moscow, various lawyers and businessmen, and the like. All the numbers in his phone are recorded to check out later.
Vilma is then checked out - strip searched and body searched. She is tall and muscular with an athletic body-builders form. She has a lot of very high tech weapons - blasters, knives, garrottes grenades and the like all over her body; a blaster and a knife are even concealed internally (found by Mirov). A large pile is quickly amassed, the contents of which are shared out to everyone. While searching her mouth it is discovered that she has no tongue. She also has scarring on her neck, where her vocal cords appear to have been. That, and the way (judging by the interpreter back at the club) she does not speak Russian stops the heroes even trying to question her. She is also wearing a radio ear piece with an external microphone, which is removed. She does not react to the search and rough treatment.
Lots of psychological torture, mostly performed on Mr Kurevka by Mirov and Napalm then follows. After a bit of heat and cold treatment on one leg, Mirov anaesthetises one arm and turns his head away so he cannot see, then he and Napalm yank and tug while Mirov produces fake blood, fingers and bits of flesh along with lots of helpful comments. After a while of this Mr Kurevka cracks (not too surprisingly), and he tells us where the supervillains are based - on the top few floors of a tower block near the Savelskaya metro (the one closest to the Botanical Gardens).
He doesn't know much about Vilma. Just that he got her through a contact named Baran Varinka.
The party return to Moscow to check out this information.
It is decided to hand Vilma over to the police, as she is now disarmed. She is dressed in Napalm's old singed clothes and handed over at a police station in the Yantsevo district of south-west Moscow as the group fly back in towards the centre. The police there are warned she is extremely dangerous and very quick. Not that this saves them.
Mirov goes to check out the building Mr Kurevka described, the Batkov Apartment Block, as a bat with acute vision. The others stay in the nearby Botanical Gardens with Mr Kurevka. The block is another anonymous communist-era block with tiling up the sides. There are a number of big cars outside the block, including the Mercedes registered to Mr Starukha whose details the party found out about earlier.
Mirov recons the outside of the block in bat form and finds that the top five floors of the building seem to be occupied by the Mafia; there is then an empty buffer zone of two floors, and the rest of the block seems to be normal family apartments. Then he goes in creeping about as a transparent membrane. There are a number of Afghan and other thugs and technicians in the building (some smoking, drinking and playing cards), plus some scantily dressed woman and a number of sealed rooms which even Mirov cannot slip into.
Mirov then feels he is being watched from somewhere he cannot detect, and decides to leave. As he starts to go he feels his internal organs (such as they are) being squeezed and transforms into a liquid form and leaves the block via a window. He continues to have the 'watched' feeling until he is a kilometre or so from the block, when it fades away.
He goes back to the Botanical Gardens and tells the others what happened. It is decided to attack immediately. Mr Kurevka is tied up and left in the park.
As Napalm, carrying Akula, gets to the block there are no cars left - there seems to have been a hasty evacuation. As the others approach one car is seen fleeing the area, going the other way along the same street as them. General Winter squashes the engine block with a block of ice. The car screeches to a stop, and the people inside flee down a nearby alley as the three carry on to the apartment block.
The Batkov block is reached, and Mother Bear reverts to human form, goes inside and phones the police. General Winter rises up on a pillar of ice until he gets to the empty floors and puts a to metre layer of ice across the building at that level. However, the mass of ice starts to make the building unstable so he has to remove a lot of the ice; melt-water flows down the stairs. Mother Bear (in bear form once again) and Mirov run up the stairs, Mirov in the lead, through the gap General Winter had conveniently left in his layer of ice.
Napalm carries Akula to the top of the building and they tackle the top floor. Napalm stops a technician deleting information from a computer. Akula stops a load of papers being shredded by another two technicians.
Mirov turns into the form of a Mafioski as he goes onto the Mafia floors; this causes some confusion, quickly resolved, when Mother Bear arrives. The rest of the easily-accessible parts of the building are checked and no one else is found.
The main hermetically sealed area is then broken into; General Winter seals the corridor behind them with ice to contain any possible contamination as Mirov and Akula flow in first. Inside the sealed area a highly advanced chemical lab is found, along with lots of drugs of many kinds. In another room an air locked translucent plastic bubble-room is found hooked up to its own air system. The heroes decide this was used by the armoured bio-hazard symbol woman.
Mother Bear goes in to check the place out. It is spartanly furnished, with a bed, a chair and a table. On a chest of clothes by the bed are found two photos. One is of four children (two girls in fully-covering Arab-style clothing, and two boys in, to Napalm, Afghan style clothing) and the other of five children (four those from the other photo, a bit older, plus a baby) with a man also in afghan-style clothes, and a woman in fully covering dress. In the background is a village and a valley. Napalm recognises the landscape in the background as an area in Afghanistan which was decimated in a massive offensive, including a lot of chemical weapon use, towards the end of the war there.
The party all meet up and discuss what has been found, and what to do.
As they do so, the technician who was trying to delete stuff on the computer speaks up and says that they must let him go as the city is going to be destroyed...