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Moment of Awesome - Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: [Operation: Apalachin|Scoping out the Tombstone Motorcycle Club]] with Jubilation Lee and David North, Natasha considers their options. "This place is a little too legit for this to be a comfortable smash and decimate op as much as I wish we could." Natasha tapped at her earpiece then twisted a dial on the handheld machine to attempt to discern who was speaking. She gave it up for useless. Too much background noise and too much chatter going on at once. The human ear was a marvel for being able to siphon off individual conversations when they were actually occurring around you. "Shock and awe would only bring the cops down immediately on our heads and not the low key op we need this to be. Thoughts on other approaches? “Pros and Cons time,” Jubilee noted, watching from their vantage point across the road from the garage. They had visibility without being seen in return, which had taken several days of quiet observation and a little dealing with an Air BnB of all things to make happen. “Lethal or non lethal? If this Tombstone guy is as strong as all the stories say, we might be better concentrating on taking him out hard and fast and then just knocking out the rest. Pro there is less time for the neighbors to call the cops and make this a thing. Con means we gotta get close enough to do it. We could just snipe the lot of them and then mop up what’s left.” "Insufficient visibility for sniping any significant number of them unless we draw them out," North vetoed, his feet thrown up and crossed on the table with a tablet propped up against his lap. He frowned at the screenshot from their surveillance footage on the screen. "The mark does not habit any of the targetable areas for us to have any reliable window of time. Best if we precede infiltration with a sleeping agent to knock some of them out and minimize fuss, unless you have any brighter ideas?" “Dude, I always have bright ideas, most of them just mean structural damage to nearby buildings. So which one of us gets to play infiltrator?” Jubilee grinned at him and then turned back to the window she was watching from. Wouldn’t do to miss something through a moment of inattention. “I mean, given it’s a bunch of testosterone poisoned meatheads, sending you would make sense.” North 'hm-ed' an agreement, now swiping through the surveillance pictures of the garage. "We could buy you that motorcycle you have always wanted." "I, for once, am not the perfect person for this mission and am all for someone else playing pretend and making their way inside," Natasha said as she took a look at the infrared radar screen they had pointed at the garage. Some of it was distorted from the heat of the garage and the various modes of transportation inside but there was clearly a large gathering occurring right now. "I'd love to do this from a distance. It'd be best for all our asses but I'm not sure we have the option. They've got the familiarity of home ground, defenses, and manpower right now."