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Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

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This time it was Shelton, who had just stepped into the shower, to receive a shock. Another loud crash emanated from the shower.


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Dr. Zanasiu had managed to take a shower without falling down.

He was fully dressed and preparing to head down for breakfast when Shelton's message got to him.

<Well, Professor X, it looks like your digital telepathy works! But the damned headache!> Dr. Zanasiu said mentally. He was not aware that his thought had been broadcast to everyone with a chip.

Neville had already went downstairs to eat breakfast.

He then turned to Zachary. "Got any Tylenol?" he asked.

Zachary tossed him a bottle that he bought from the nearby pharmacy. "Figured you all would need some," he said.

Dr. Zanasiu grabbed a bottle of water and took two pills and placed the bottle into his pocket.

The two then headed downstairs to eat breakfast.
 
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"I need to use the bathroom first," Alfred said. He then entered the bathroom and closed the door.

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Dr. Kerzach was at an impromptu funeral service for DS-1. O'Neill, Dr. Zenarchis, Montgomery and other Dragonstorm personnel were gathered around a symbolic pyre, nothing more than a stack of logs and sticks. The group was inside the "graveyard" of Lab 101's base camp.

The gravestones of Dr. Tinner and the three fallen Dragonstorm commanders were visible. A larger gravestone, carved from a large granite slab stolen from a demolition site was also visible. The large gravestone was dedicated to all the rank-and-file of Dragonstorm who had died.

"It is with heavy hearts and sad minds that we say farewell to the brave men of DS-1. They accepted the risks of their last mission. Their exploits will live on in the annals of Dragonstorm history and in our memories," O'Neill said.

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Stern had heard a loud sound. It sounded like a "thud." It was coming from Shakila's room. Either that, or it was the throbbing of his own head. The chip's implantation was still causing him pain, but it was beginning to subside. "Shakila? Aimee? What happened? Are you alright?"

Then, Stern heard the words of Zanasiu in his head, which caused the Corporal to cringe. It was like someone had put a loudspeaker in his ear, even if there was no sound! It would take him a little while to get used to that kind of communication.


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<Will everyone just shut it....I have a headache enough as it is> Shakila's thought got implemented without her even realizing it, and the voices within her head were not helping the situation one bit.

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Meanwhile, within the Trinity Facility, Kain and Trinity were talking to each other "I understand that Subject 19 got rather upset that she could not kill anyone....interesting"

Trinity gave a nod back "Yeah, she does tend to get rather annoyed when she can't accomplish something great....by the looks of things, she decided to kill quiet a few people at the hospital instead, must've been taking her anger out on others instead"

Kain just chuckled slightly as he looked over to Subject 19, whom was just quiet for the time being before approaching her "My dear, you will get your chance to kill them.....all in due time"

"Due time? Is that all you can offer me? Due time? No, I want to be able to kill them....now!" Subject 19 more or less yelled back at the reptile.

"Calm yourself, be patient, we have other preperations that must be done first" Kain spoke up again as he looked to Trinity "Bring them in"

"You sure they're ready for a field test?" Trinity asked back.

"Of course I am" Kain spoke back with a small nod to Trinity.

"Very well then" Trinity replied as she walked off into the facility to go and fetch who Kain was after.


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<Goddamn this! I've never had such a headache since... wait! Can anyone else hear my thoughts?> Stern was unused to this sort of communication. It was not exactly what he had been trained for, although he would surely adapt. <Can anyone else "hear" me? Is there any way to keep some of my thoughts private, others public?>


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<Yes...> groaned Shelton, clutching his shin, <and none of you are doing it right now. I'm going to teach you how to control your thoughts after breakfast. For now just try to keep your thoughts vague, and don't think of specific words or sentences.>

<How are we supposed to do that?> asked Hans.

<I don't know, just try. Don't worry guys, it gets easier with practice. I was the same.>


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<Can we also communicate in images? I can think of pictures and places too, you know> Stern told the others. <Also, can we choose who to send our thoughts to, or is everyone who has these chips part of the same "thought network"?> Luckily for him, Stern was a highly disciplined man.


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<Yeah, yeah, yeah, public this, public that....> Shakila groaned, still not used to all the voices she could hear within her mind as she just more or less collapsed back onto the couch, her face burried into the couch pillows.

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Trinity returned back to Kain, followed by four others, a Vulpine, a Raccoon, a Rhino as well as an African-American man.

Kain looked at the four of them, but in particular, the Rhino "Looks like it had gone well after all" he spoke as the Rhino just stood there, silent.  The Rhino in question was mostly mechanical, having been rebuilt again.

"Very good Trinity, I am rather impressed with how they have turned out" Kain told Trinity as he looked to the Vulpine "I take it that she's the leader?"

Trinity nodded back in reply "Yes, Kain, meet Terror Squad leader, Hailey" she then motioned to the Racoon "The sniper of the group, Icarus" she then motioned to the Rhino next "Heavy weapons specialist....name....he's got none now, just call him Rhino" she then looked to the African-American man "And this here is Marcus, communications and hacking expert for the group, but still trained in using firearms"

Kain looked at the group once again, looking to Hailey in particular "Why her?"

Subject 19 was in the corner as she gave off a small snort as she had her arms folded, looking rather unimpressed herself with the group that Trinity had gotten together.

Trinity looked to Subject 19 for a moment before looking back to Kain to answer his question "That, I'm afraid, I would rather keep a secret for now, I'll tell you why later on....I don't want to ruin the suprise after all"


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<You can't send pictures and images, only thoughts, and the chips have a range. For example, nobody in Lab 101 can hear us right now, not even close,> replied Shelton. He had given up on a relaxing shower and without even using shampoo was already drying off and slipping his clothes back on. <Just go to breakfast and wait for the headache to subside. I'll answer all your questions when we're all back together.>

He stepped out of the shower. "Well, that was interesting. Ready for breakfast?"


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The nitro-glycerin canister landed behind the Omega Squad and exploded with tremendous force...

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Aiko quickly fiddled away with his laptop when he gets a response.  "I think I got something!"

"Can you get the door to the reactor?" Vic asked.

"Not sure.  But I think I can open a way to the bridge.  The captain of this ship should have the security clearance we need."

"Then we'll pay our host a visit.  Snow, Ice, Erin, come with me..."

The soldiers left again, this time with Tank watching the door...

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As the group neared, Mallard and Eron looked at each other for a plan, as they soon concocted one, but a crazy one.

With a deep exhale, they threw open the hatch door for the one across the hall, and Mallard takes place in the other room.  The assassins caught sight of the heroes and started to open fire.  The duo aimed and fire bursts of ammunition, quickly dropping a few hitmen, and forced the rest to take cover in the nearest rooms to shoot back...


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"Can I just....die or something?" Shakila groaned with a muffled voice, already not liking the voices in her head at the moment before she looked up over at Shelton, sitting up in the process "Sorry, still getting used to the voices in my head....wow, now there's something I never had expected to actualy say....."


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Shelton smiled. "It gets to be more manageable once people learn there are boundaries, what we call 'thought etiquette.'" He opened the door. "I'm going to go to breakfast; if you feel up to it you can come. I didn't get dinner, so I'm pretty hungry."


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Shakila groaned once more as she got up, walking over to Shelton "Yeah, I'm still up for it, these voices....eh, they can be ignored or something" she spoke with a little shrug, giving him a smile back "And yeah, I could do with some food too, hope this place actually has something good to eat"

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Aimee had already gotten up and gotten changed, down where Jayden and the others were, sitting down at one of the tables, looking a little bored as well, tapping the table a little bit as she yawned a little bit, yet, was smiling rather contently to herself as well from having an actual goodnight's sleep last night.


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Shelton led the way down to the breakfast room. After brewing some coffee and grabbing a newspaper, he walked over to the others and took a seat, taking a sip from his mug.


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Shakila sat down at a table next to Shelton, having grabbed a small bite to eat from one the vending machines nearby, a fairly large cookie as she took a bite out of it, keeping her mind....sort of clear as well <Now this is a nice cookie....>

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Subject 19 snorted again "They look like a bunch of morons if you ask me"

Trinity looked over to Subject 19 with a sigh herself "Trust me Subject 19, they can handle the job rather well, and they have a mission already, to kill Aimee and her friends"

"Kill them? No! That is my job, these morons will not take that oppertunity away from me!" Subject 19 more or less yelled back, already sounding annoyed.

Trinity rubbed her head slightly "Look, I know you wont to kill them as well, but you had failed last time, you had the perfect oppertunity to do so, and you failed, no, I have something else for you to do"

Subject 19 snorted once again, not wanting to do anything else but to kill Aimee and the others for the time being, her mind already set on doing that.

That's when Hailey finally spoke up as she looked over to Subject 19 "Perhaps we could bring her along"

"No! I am not working with you lot....you will only slow me down" Subject 19 snapped back with a bit of a growl as well.


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Stern also headed down to the breakfast room, trying not to think too much, lest the others "hear" him.

<Damn this! I don't know how to control this stupid chip! Oh. That's right. You all can "hear" me, can't you. Well, you should all know this; I curse in my thoughts. I'll try to keep it from becoming too profane, but I make no guarantees.>

Luckily for the rest of them, Stern wouldn't say anything stronger than "damn" the whole time.


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Alfred was the next to enter the breakfast hall. He helped himself to several pancakes and a large glass of orange juice.

Dr. Zanasiu and Hans were eating breakfast at a table next to Cobalt Squad near the TV.

Hans was drinking some black coffee.

Cobalt Leader and Sgt. Masters waited for the rest of Cobalt Squad to arrive. Spc. Crota, PFC Reynolds and the two other soldiers stood in line for breakfast.

Sgt. Masters pulled a pack of cigarettes from a pocket in his uniform. "Smokes anyone?" he asked, offering some cigarettes to the rest of the group.

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Aimee looked over to Stern with a bit of a smile, still feeling rather content, motioning for him to join her at the very least.

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Shakila purred some as she continued to eat away at the cookie, piece by piece, enjoying her little meal at the moment, looking to Shelton "Sorry, just this cookie....haven't had one of these in quiet some time....and it's just so tasty"

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"Slow you down?" Hailey spoke back, arching an eyebrow slightly.

Subject 19 growled as she grabbed Hailey by the throat, lifting her off her feet "Watch your tounge...."

"19! That's enough!" Trinity ordered loudly.

Subject 19 hesitated before letting Hailey go rather roughly and she turned and stormed off elsewhere into the facility.

"Heh, so that's your Dragonstorm experiment? She seems a bit angry" Marcus spoke with a deep sounding voice.

"Don't worry about her, I've got her on a leash for the time being, she still knows her place, no matter what anger that's in her.....now as for you lot, Hailey, I want you to take your team into the city, your target...." Trinity gave off a light smirk "It's one of Weyland-Yutani's factories, they are designing a certain chip, that they are not releasing to the public"

"And, how do you know this?" Hailey asked back.

"Simple, they have it on their computer system at the very least, however, I need that chip for certain....objectives, ones which I will not disclose at this time" Trinity explained, but rather vaugly to Hailey and her group.

"Very well then, we'll go and get this chip of yours" Hailey replied back as she motioned for the others to follow her as she turned and walked off with Marcus, Icarus and Rhino following her.


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"Really? Is it white chocolate macadamia nut? I was always a fan of those." Shelton suddenly jumped when he noticed something in the film and movies section of the newspaper. He leaped up and ran over to James and those with him. "James, Werner, look!"

He spread the newspaper out, and pointed at a small article. "The movie about the first Pelvanida attack! With the terrorists! They've released the cast list, and I'm played by Neil Patrick Harris!"

(OOC: I recall Serris made a mention to a movie at the beginning of the second RP, so thought it might be fun to mention it again. :) )


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Shakila had only eaten half of the cookie by that point, already feeling a bit full from it as she decided to hand the cookie over to Shelton "Yeah, it is, but I don't really feel like the rest of it....feeling full from eating it already"

(OOC: Neil Patrick Harris? Now that's a good choice, no, seriously, it is, he's awesome XD and in case you did miss it, Marcus from the Terror Squad has the same stature as Michael Clarke Duncan)