Outside the walls of the Castle Schwarz, all is calm. For the time being, its guard couldn't be more down...with the exceptions of its walls, its doors, the hyenas, and whatever protective spells any intruder risks the wrath of by breaking and entering.
Within the castle windows, blue and green lights flash. The castle witches are still mesmerized by their shared illusion...
On the grounds, Bowman still practices his archery. He sure doesn't seem to prioritize bedtime...
The pack is just outside the walls. It's time to deploy the scouts.
Yelena Belanova goes over. She creeps over to the sleeping hyenas, and stuns them with some of her Black Widow stun weapons...just as they're about to wake, and perceive her newfound scent.
Don't get excited; Yelena hasn't dressed to woo a man. It'd be pointless; she's been told there are no men on this mission.
Alas, she sees Bowman, practicing his archery, and slows. At this, she can't help but feel some sense of attraction...
She can't, though. If not for that man, her pack alpha wouldn't be dying. As much as she hated male leaders back in the Red Room, she remembers that Harry's a good leader; one that makes the men in the Red Room look like actual devils, if she dares say so. So, she does this for Harry...if not for herself.
Erica Drumm levitates downward, and sets herself down just behind Bowman. She tries to stay calm, and starts warping the rogue archer's subconscious... She also deludes him, to where he won't see her if he looks her way.
He mis-fires an arrow, while stooping. He tries to run to a battlement, but ends up falling over before he gets there.
Perfect; Erica simply puts a long-term hex on him, and goes about her role in the invasion. She also changes into a black-furred wolf; that spell took a lot out of her.
Tilda Johnson sneaks in, and takes Bowman's quiver and utility belt. She's not sure where he keeps his other effects. Even so, she's interested in brewing an antidote to the arrowhead, in case Cho's counter-curse doesn't work. So, she makes it a point to join the home-invading party, once they get started...
Sharon Carter finds a way in. With a silenced shotgun, she breaches the door. Alas, it re-conjures himself. She scoffs; fucking magic...
Jenny Argyra comes along, with her Spartan helmet, spear, and shield. She breaches the door with just one kick...leaving magical scars while doing so. She shrugs, scoffs, and zips inside.
Sharon only scoffs. "Showoff," she mutters, following her inside.
Sersi teleports into one of the dungeons, and prowls around, using her telepathy to cloak herself. She nearly suffocates, when she first arrives. This dungeon sure has got a lot of potions brewing. And they all seem to be brewing themselves...
Patsy Walker's on the roof, now. She prowls around, for a way in...
Here, Natalie Grey goes on a little trip through time. In the past, she sneaks around, and sabotages whatever she can about the Castle Schwarz to make invading it more convenient for the pack. Once she's done, she time-travels back to the future. To the rest of the pack females, it's as if she was only gone for five seconds.
When Sersi teleports in, she brings Medusa with her. The latter uses her long red hair as limbs, while helping Sersi burglarize the castle.
Knowing Bowman better, Kate Bishop imagines how she'd store her equipment...and then how she'd store her equipment if she were Bowman. Once she's figured that out, she helps Nightshade out, searching for the dark magic he used to mortally curse Harry.
Janet Van Dyne shrinks, and flies. She finds the vents in the towers, and flies into their ducts. She finds another vent inside, flies through it, and joins Medusa and Sersi inside.
Becoming intangible, Helen Cho phases through the wall, the ground, the castle walls, and the castle floors to join Sersi, Medusa, and Wasp inside. Once inside, she shapeshifts back into a Chinese chick.
Emily Guerrero stays outside, with the hyenas, in case they wake. Her Inhuman power will protect the pack, if they wake. This...would also be a good opportunity for Synapse to find out, for herself, the perks of being an alpha female hyena...if there are any...
Brunnhilde lands on the castle grounds, aback Aragorn, her flying horse. She dismounts, and runs around, looking for a way in.
Wearing a black mask over her lower face, Bruna Bekvilatov goes over the wall. Her metal arm gleams in the moonlight, as she follows Ares and 13 through their hole. Valkyrie later finds this, and follows him in.
With perfect balance, Bobbi Morse transcends the wall. She takes her bo staff apart, as she runs across the grounds. She follows Valkyrie through Ares's hole.
Generating excess absorbed energy, Anne Marie descends to the front facade, her strawberry blonde hair flowing all around her head. She lands, concentrates, finds the magical currents that surround this castle, and begins absorbing them.
For her, there sure is a lot of security here. She may risk generating too much light, if there's too much magic to absorb...
The scouts have been deployed. With luck, they'll be all who's needed...
Alas, luck is soon robbed of them, by an approaching convoy. Outside the wall, the remaining females surround the road to the gate, to address the oncoming threat...
It's the Masters of Evil. They're back. And they've got the Minister's cat.
Now, the recon division of the pack is up the Rhine without a paddle. Even so, the remaining pack alphas stay behind, and stealthily congregate around the convoy...prepared to go berserk, if their entrance into the castle poses a threat to their sisters, now trapped inside...with the exceptions of Sersi and Sister Voodoo, who can teleport out whenever they'd like.
On the front porch, Rogue still absorbs the castle's protective enchantments. With her senses heightened, she hears the approaching convoy. As much as she hates to do double duty, she must. She generates ultra-bright light, while absorbing the house's protective enchantments. With luck, the Masters won't exhaust her reserves, by taking too long to decide what to do next...
To her relief, they don't. Mistaking Rogue's brightness for a porch light, they circle the castle, and look for a back way in. With luck, they won't discover the one Ares breached.
Inside, Sersi stops, when she senses the Masters coming. She knows about the way Ares breached. For that, she uses her telepathy to dupe the Masters into thinking the breached way in isn't there.
It works. They all pass right by it, without heeding it, or even smelling it. Enchantress, the master of magic, doesn't even notice that there's a telepath in her head. Nor does Vengeance, who has a heightened sense of fear. It's flattering to think that an errand boy of the devil is so scary, he can't even sense the repressed fears of a werewolf invasion...
But now, Sersi must send a telepathic message to everyone inside. The Masters are back. If the job was hard before, it just got harder.
By now, the entire recon division is inside. Before any of them get a chance to contact Cho, they all find places to hide...mere moments before the Masters' presence becomes a threat to the welfare of this invasion.