The Adventure

INIT

Shield Maiden: 19 -- down to Mild-Mannered Alter Ego (3)
Fuchsia Blu: 18 -- down to Light & Color Manipulator (3) and Blinding Optimism (1)
OmniCorp Stooges: 17
Jet Black: 12

Working on the squirrel stuff while Shield Maiden decides if they want to stick with their already-posted move or not.

Not rolling for the robo-squirrels, since it's impossible for them to beat either roll from Squirrelganger and Small Fry.

The Doppel-chatterer and its "hearing aid" bound away from the impending conflict, back into the junkyard. Fuchsia will have told them where to look for the robo-squirrels, and may have shown them the video she took of the "adorable" critters in a spare moment during all this hubbub.

Squirrelganger crawls under the truck where the other squirrels were seen, and then pops up through a rusty hole in the floorboard...and sees the two of them instantly!

The squirrels are peering out of the smashed windshield at the scene near the junkyard entrance. Their metallic chatters are clearly concerned, though unless Doppelganger's powers are crazy enough to change their brain functions entirely, they won't be able to understand what they hear. It's probably tech-squirrel-speak anyway, not normal squirrel-speak.

The robo-squirrels have decided to high-tail it (pun!) out of there, so they adjust their packs, slip out of the truck, and hippy-hop through the junkyard. So cunning is Doppelganger's transformation that they're able to dodge out of the robo-squirrel's line of sight with ease.

The squirrels will head to the northwest corner of the junkyard, easily slip over the fence, and then enter the forest, hopping from tree to tree. Doppelganger and Small Fry can follow them easily, and won't be detected.

Round Two

Shield Maiden: 19 -- down to Mild-Mannered Alter Ego (3)
Fuchsia Blu: 18 -- down to Light & Color Manipulator (3) and Blinding Optimism (1)
OmniCorp Stooges: 17 -- down to Corporate Stooges (2)
Jet Black: 12

Shield Maiden's turn!

Now for the squirrel stuff....

The robo-squirrels hop through the forest without pause, only occasionally chattering to each other. After a bit, you see an opening up ahead. You've gone maybe a quarter of a mile.

The opening is a small abandoned lumber mill. The main structure is a tall wooden building with a sagging roof and windows cracked or boarded up. A faded sign attached to the side reads "Timbermaxx" in peeling paint. You also see a long one-story building (likely the main office) as well as several smaller buildings or sheds, likely used for storage.

Weeds and saplings poke through the concrete, the fence surrounding the property is barely standing, and a few pieces of rusted-out equipment dot the landscape. You see several "No Trespassing" signs, that of course have been ignored; graffiti covers all of the buildings. One reads "FUCK OMNICORP" in huge block letters.

The robo-squirrels scamper to what seems to be the former office building and slip through a hole in the wall, disappearing from sight. You can't see anyone around, but you think you hear a voice coming from inside the building as soon as the robo-squirrels enter. You're about fifty yards from the office, still concealed by the forest.

Small Fry giggles. "Looks like we’ve met our girl genius. How about we approach with two different angles? I’ll do my fly-on-the-wall thing, and you follow the… pack? Skulk? Flamboyance? Whatever the collective noun is for squirrels."

Small Fry shrinks and grows in flight, dilating and glowing so to the human eye, she appears to be a firefly blinking her light!

Her plan is to move to where she can see the missing child, preferably without being seen (or mistaken for an insignificant insect if seen).

Small Fry blink-flutters towards the ruined building, getting an angle so she can peek in through a broken window. Inside is Eliza Caldwell, just as she suspected!

The inside still looks junky and abandoned, but Eliza has clearly taken strides to renovate it into a secret base. Tools and gadgets lie everywhere, along with her robotic creations. You see numerous robo-animals besides the squirrels, either currently active, turned off, or sitting on workbenches waiting to be finished or repaired.

There are also various weapons (some sort of energy shotgun, maybe a plasma sword?) lying around, also in various stages of construction.

A small bed sits by a wall, as well as a mini-fridge and a stove. There are various other "secret lair" type things about.

Right now, Eliza is interrogating the two robo-squirrels who just returned....