Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

Noname · **Reply #380 on:** February 22, 2010, 06:23:31 PM

Stern looked around, but said nothing. The enemies gave him no pursuit as he left with Aimee. Behind them, the leader of the contract thugs had a smile on his face. The Corporal and the Vulpine had passed the test. Taking out his cell phone, the leader called his superiors and uttered just two words: "Mission accomplished."

Now came the fun part: trying to recruit them into Dragonstorm. That was another task for another day though. For now, Stern and Aimee rejoined the others.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #381 on:** February 22, 2010, 06:35:13 PM

"If that's what makes you feel more confortable go ahead,' hans said.

MrDrake · **Reply #382 on:** February 22, 2010, 06:37:35 PM

Aimee was just quiet at the moment as she pulled out her piece of paper and scribbled something else down onto it, this time, it included the words Dragonstorm on it, mainly from Stern had called them.

Her piece of paper was one way of getting stuff off her mind for the time being and into note form as well to try and unwravel the mysteries she had within her mind, especially on who she really was, the facility she had come from and now, on why the Dragonstorm were after her.

Serris · **Reply #383 on:** February 22, 2010, 06:48:44 PM

"Cpl. Stern! Aimee! Are you all right!" Alfred shouted, spotting the two heading towards him.

Neville had his pistol out and was watching the two contract thugs.

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Dr. Zanasiu and Zachary were sitting in the van and waiting for the rest of the group to return.

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Spc. Crota shrugged and remained on the couch. "In any case, Alfred, Cpl. Stern, Aisha, Dr. Landon, Sgt. Masters and myself had acted on a map that someone had dropped at a bar. We raided a logging camp owned by Nemus Forestry. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a legitimate logging camp. But we suspect that Dragonstorm knew that Nemus Forestry had set up an ambush for ecoterrorists and they dropped a map in an attempt to get us to raid that camp and get arrested or killed by the loggers," he said. Spc. Crota then scowled. "And we fell for it! However, the loggers have promised to cooperate with us and we also found a Vulpine named Aimee. I believe she accompanied Aisha's group to the mall," he said.

He then slithered off the couch and opened the fridge. "Hey, you mind if I take a drink?" he asked Hans.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #384 on:** February 22, 2010, 06:56:05 PM

"Go ahead I don't mind,' hans said.

Serris · **Reply #385 on:** February 22, 2010, 07:01:32 PM

Spc. Crota shrugged and grabbed a can of Sprite. He opened it and slithered back onto the couch. "So more to the point, have you two found anything important yet?" he asked. "In any case, I think James and his group would like to have a discussion with you two regarding the further planning of espionage activities." he added.

MrDrake · **Reply #386 on:** February 22, 2010, 07:07:01 PM

Aimee looked over to Alfred, but said nothing at the moment as she looked back to her piece of paper again, walking to the van before getting inside. She was rather quiet at the moment, scribbling a few other things onto the piece of paper in what room was available on it.

She glanced to Dr. Zanasiu and Zachary before looking back to the paper, putting it back into her pocket and sighing, just remaining seated where she was, not a word coming from her.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #387 on:** February 22, 2010, 08:05:08 PM

"We beleive dragontstorm is planning something big since we've intercepted many of messages between their members thanks to werners hacking abilities but we don't know where and we don't know when,' hans said handing over a pile of printed off emails.

Serris · **Reply #388 on:** February 23, 2010, 12:58:03 AM

Spc. Crota looked at them. The pieces of paper contained nothing but a combination of gibberish and English. "It's too badly scrambled. I can't totalyl read it but I can make out the words, 'Pelvanida', 'Crimson Base' and 'airstrike' on one of them," Spc. Crota said.

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"Cpl. Stern, are you all right?" Neville asked. He was still by black van and keeping an eye on the two thugs.

"Aimee's already in the van, let's go home," Alfred said, heading back to the van.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #389 on:** February 23, 2010, 02:28:38 AM

"Their code has been hard to crack it took us 72 hours after interecpting that first email to make out those three words we've made been able to make out a few more words other than that since we got those emails but about 98% of those emails are at the moment unreadable,' werner said.

Serris · **Reply #390 on:** February 23, 2010, 02:31:35 AM

"From what I recall," Spc. Crota said, "I believe that Crimson Base directed an airstrike at Pelvanida. As a result, Pelvanida is now nothing but rubble and craters in the Nevadan desert."

He then finished off the rest of the Sprite. "In any case, mind if I stay here for a while?" he asked.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #391 on:** February 23, 2010, 02:35:01 AM

"No we don't mind you can take the bed if you want,' hans said.

Noname · **Reply #392 on:** February 23, 2010, 05:43:56 AM

"I'm fine, Neville. Don't you worry about it. It's not a bad bruise. Just a day's work in these times" Stern reassured his colleague as he climbed into the van. After seeing that Aimee was alright and that there was no immediate danger, the Corporal signaled his readiness for them to be off, as long as they weren't missing anyone.

Nick22 · **Reply #393 on:** February 23, 2010, 03:12:48 PM

Aisha and Drlandon sat in the back seat " lets head out, we've gort everyone" aisha said "nice shooting Corporal, you did a number on them.. Aimee are you sure you're alright?"

MrDrake · **Reply #394 on:** February 23, 2010, 05:09:26 PM

"Yes, I'm fine" Aimee almost snapped back before sighing "Sorry, I didn't mean to snap like that, I just have a lot on my mind is all" she touched her pocket for a second before looking at the others "Can we just go already?"

Serris · **Reply #395 on:** February 23, 2010, 05:56:55 PM

Dr. Zanasiu started the engine and headed out of the parking lot. The mall still had several cars and people milling about the parking lot in spite of the shooting.

"James, what about the bodies?" Zachary asked.

Dr. Zanasiu called 911 to report the bodies. As soon as he was done with the call, he hung up and continued driving back to the Redwood Inn.

"Aimee, Corporal, who were those men?" Neville asked.

"Probably just muggers or punks who wanted to pick a fight. I doubt Dragonstorm would be so bold as to try kidnapping or murder in a public place," Alfred said.

"I dunno. Something tells me that what happened was part of a larger conspiracy and those punks who attacked Aimee, you and Dr. Landon in the food court are in on it,"

Alfred shrugged. "Those punks were just a group of trouble-making a--holes who picked a fight with the wrong group," he replied.

"Most troublemakers go after targets who can't or are not willing to fight. Aimee appears to have strength that matches yours,"

Alfred shrugged. "Even though artificial limbs that match or exceed the capability of natural limbs have been on the market since 2002, there is still the mentality that artificial limb equals weakness. And that is why those punks went after her." He then looked at Neville. "And before you say anything about me being a deterrent, those punks may have thought that I didn't want to help Aimee," he added.

Neville grew silent and scratched his chin in thought.

MrDrake · **Reply #396 on:** February 23, 2010, 06:10:08 PM

At first, Aimee said nothing, remaining silent before she decided to speak up "Stern said they were Dragonstorm.....but I don't know why they were after me, they mentioned something about me owing them a debt....which is not true, I do not owe them anything.....unless...." she then thought of something, pulling out her piece of paper once more, adding something else to it.

She looked back to Alfred, yet, she did not finish off her sentence she was in the middle of saying as she put the piece of paper away once more, glancing over to Stern.

Nick22 · **Reply #397 on:** February 23, 2010, 06:12:12 PM

One cannot discount any possibility.." aisha replied " dragonstorm will stop at nothing to keep us ruiining their plans.. or do you forget all those children that they experimented on? These men are pyschpaths"

Noname · **Reply #398 on:** February 23, 2010, 06:14:28 PM

Corporal Stern looked over at the Vulpine girl. He approached this situation carefully. No debt Aimee could have could be justly collected by Dragonstorm, nor was she the kind to incur such a debt to begin with. Was this 'debt' the price for killing those thugs from earlier? Was there a prior price she had to pay before that?

"Aimee? Is there something you want to tell us? How did you come to the lab in which you lost your arms?" The Corporal thought that that might have something to do with it. No matter what she said next, he would still support her.

MrDrake · **Reply #399 on:** February 23, 2010, 06:19:49 PM

"I don't know how I got to the lab, I just....don't know, which is what I'm trying to now figure out" Aimee thought for a second "I have notes I've been scribbling down, trying to piece together a few things" she pulled out her piece of paper and shower it to Stern.

The majority of one side of the paper had any things on it, questions, a diagram, other bits here and there, words like Dragonstorm and Kain were visible on there, as well as the questions on who she really was, what happened before going to the lab and now, on how she got to the lab in the first place, if it was by force or her own will "I don't know, but I just have the strangest feeling that Kain has something to do with Dragonstorm as well, but I just don't know"