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Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

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Aimee looked to the group again before turning around and just storming out of the house, having not wanting to stay in it still as she looked to the DVD.

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Shakila was still up at 0100 in the morning, well, it seemed like it anyway....she had actually fallen asleep at her laptop, curling up into a ball more or less where she was.

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Jayden on the other hand, had soon arrived at the closest Weyland-Yutani factory, walking towards the reception, showing his badge.  He wore a suit most of the time with what he was doing "Special Agent Jayden, I need to ask you a few things about your company"

"One moment Mr. Jayden" the receptionist picked up the phone to contact her boss, muttering some into the phone before hanging up and looking back to Jayden "Sorry, I'm not at liberty to discuss anything with the police"

"You do not understand, we found a gun at a crime scene which we found the serial number to connected to your company and I need to know who is in your company, anyone who has ever handled a gun as well as everyone else" Jayden replied back to her.


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Dr. Zanasiu, Alfred, Zachary, Cobalt Leader, the two Cobalt soldiers and Dr. Bailey all left the abandoned house and headed back to where they parked their car.

"So what's our next step?" Alfred asked as the group walked through the alleyway.

"Aside from going back to the hotel, washing up and getting some sleep," Dr. Bailey replied. "We should probably check out Weyland-Yutani's website and see where their headquarters and factories are located. Then we pay the nearest factory or even their HQ - if it is close enough - a visit. Then we can head to Lab 101."

"One problem, how are we going to get into Weyland-Yutani's headquarters/factories, without breaking in?" Alfred replied.

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The receptionist could tell that Jayden wasn't going to lighten up up one bit as she sighed "Alright, over here Mr. Jayden" she spoke, motioning for him to walk over as she bought up something on her computer.

Jayden looked at the computer screen "So, this the records of the guns that were bought from here?"

"Yes, that is correct Mr. Jayden" the receptionist answered back as she got out of her seat to let Jayden sit down.

Jayden sat down in the chair as he begun to look through the records as he stopped upon one name in particular, one that had only bought two guns rather than a whole bulk as he looked to the name "Selina Kyle?" he checked it against his record of the gun he had gotten the serial number from before turning to the receptionist "Who is this Selina person?"

"Seliena? She works here" the receptionist answered back.

"Do you have a contact number or an address for her?" Jayden asked next, only to see the receptionist shake her head back.

Jayden thought for a second as he opened up his cellphone "Can you give me a moment?"

The receptionist sighed "Fine, I'm going on my break then" she replied back as she walked off, leaving Jayden be.

Jayden dialed Alfred's phone once again "Jayden here, I'm at one of Weyland-Yutani's factories and found out something, the guns are usually bought in bulk, however, get this, two guns were bought seperatly underneath the name Selina Kyle, problem is, there's no address or cantact number for her, but I have a feeling that she's the same Trinity woman you guys after" he told him "However, there's nothing that connects Trinity to this Selina Kyle woman"


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we do need to reflect on this information.. on the one hand we're getting closer to dragonstorm.. and we know trinity is in league with them..' Aisha said as they made their way back to the hotel.. "tomorow we're going to check out weyland-Yutani.."
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The group returned to their van and Alfred opened the door and got into the driver's seat. Just as he did so, his phone rang. He picked it up.

Dr. Zanasiu got into the front passenger seat; Cobalt Leader, the two Cobalt soldiers, Dr. Bailey and Zachary got into the back.

"Hello? Ah, yes. thanks for the info. Where is this particular factory located? Thank you for your help. Bye," Alfred said into the phone before hanging up. He then turned to Aimee. "Aimee, I think we may have a link between Trinity and Weyland-Yutani. Does the name 'Seliena Kyle' mean anything?" he asked.

Dr. Bailey turned to Aisha. "But we don't know where we could find their factories," he said.

"And we don't want a repeat of the logging camp incident either," Alfred replied.

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Aimee just shook her head back "No, it doesn't ring any bells" she grumbled a little "Why do you ask anyway?"

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Jayden continued to look at what data was available to him, even going into other areas of the receptionist's computer as well to find out other information he could about Selina Kyle, but so far, nothing was found as he rubbed his forehead a little bit as well, rechecking the gun against what data was available on there, yet, just shook his head "It is of no use unless we know where to find this Selina person...." he muttered to himself.


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Selina Kyle.. no.. that is the name of a character in a movie.. the name of it escapes me' landon said..so whoever this kyle person is shes using an alias.." dr landon said..
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Good points , the both of you.. still we must persist.." Aisha replied 'we have some scores to settle with them Aimee perhaps most of all.."
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"I got a call from someone who suspects that Trinity, Gabriel and Selina Kyle are the same person. He said that he was at one of Weyland-Yutani's factories," Alfred replied, closing the door and starting the engine and pulling out of the parking space.

"Corporal Stern, if we get the location of Lab 101 from the DVD that Aimee found, should we go after Lab 101 or head to Weyland-Yutani's nearest factory?" Dr. Zanasiu asked

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"It all depends on what's on this DVD is all" Aimee spoke as she looked at it, all that was written on the disk was 'Subject #17' to which Aimee just growled even more "Let's just go back to the hotel already...."

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Jayden on the other hand, got a print out of the information as he stood up and proceeded to have a look around the factory next for any other clues on who Selina Kyle could actually be, and on where to find her.


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The van pulled out of Lincoln City. The highway out of Lincoln City was almost deserted, owing to the late time.

"Let's hope Spc. Crota, Sgt. Masters, Neville, Hans and Werner aren't mad at us for leaving them behind," Dr. Bailey said.

"They understand their responsibilities," Cobalt Leader said with a yawn.

"I'm more concerned that they call the police because we've been 'missing' for the past 7 hours," Dr. Zanasiu said.

Zachary was asleep in the back.

Alfred turned the radio on. Sabaton's 40:1 came blasting out of the radio.

"Turn that s--- off!" Zachary snapped.

Alfred turned it to the classical station. Gustav Holst's Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity was playing. "Ah, Jupiter of Holst's The Planets suite," he said.

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Jayden walked into the back of the factory, coming across the assembly line.  One worker went to stop Jayden, only to have Jayden show off his badge and be left alone to search for any information he could find.

He approached another worker to speak to him "I need to see your records of who has bought items from you lot from the past few weeks at the very least" Jayden told him, showing off his badge as well.

The worker hessitated for a moment before walking off towards the back office, handing a book over to Jayden "All the information you need is in there, print outs, reciepts, names, everything"

Jayden opened up the book and started to have a look through it, looking at each of the reciepts, so far, finding nothing of interest, until he came across one which had for two cybernetic fox arms "Ian Branston?" he decided to call Alfred once more "I have something you might like, your friend Aimee, I have found a reciept for two cybernetic fox arms.....but I would like to know something, does a Ian Branston ring any bells for you by any chance? Because that's who had bought the arms from these guys here"


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Further down the road, a group of five figures dressed completely in back crouched near the side of the road, blending perfectly with the dark.

A black non-reflective spike strip lay rolled up beside the road. One of the men crouched next to it.

The leader received a message. He left it open, so that the whole team could get it. <Amphinomos, this is Dolon.>

The leader replied, <Report.>

<Sure looks like the van Sinon described. Recommend detainment and 'interrogation.'>

<Roger.> The leader nodded to the crouched man. The crouched man pushed the spike strip, which unrolled to stretch across the length of the road.

The leader started giving orders. <Retreat further down the road, out of the range of the headlights. The van is going to skid anyway after hitting the strip, and we can hit it from both sides. Dolon, get here ASAP and provide backup if necessary. Achates, take cover and keep your head down, we won't need a hacker for this. The rest of us, safeties off, and open fire as soon as the van stops moving.>

(OOC: The method by which they're sending messages may be unclear now, but it will be explained once Shelton has some time to talk to the others.)


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Alfred picked up his phone. "Ian Branston?" he asked.

"Wait, the Pelvanida control room admin?" Dr. Zanasiu said.

"Yes, the name is familiar to- holy s---!" Alfred shouted, dropping the cell phone and wrestling with the steering wheel as the van skidded across the road after it ran over the spike strip. Alfred was ultimately unable to control the van and it ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.

"Is everyone all right?" Alfred asked, unbuckling the seat belt.

"A little shaken up but fine," Dr. Bailey said, opening the door.

Cobalt Leader, the Cobalt soldiers, Zachary and Dr. Bailey climbed out of the wrecked van.

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"Hello?" Jayden spoke as the line went dead before putting his phone away and grabbing the reciept, putting into his suit before closing the book to have another look around the factory.

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Aimee let off a groan as she too crawled out of the wrecked van, looking to the others "Yeah, I'm....fine as well...." she spoke, touching her forehead to notice a little bit of blood upon it, yet, ignored it as she stumbled to her feet a little bit too.


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Dr. Bailey looked around the road. It was dark but the crescent moon rose high in the sky.

"Damn it, we're stuck in the middle of nowhere," Zachary said.

"Al, call 911," Dr. Zanasiu said.

Alfred climbed back into the van and grabbed his cell phone.

He swore as he found out that the batteries died. "Batteries died," he said.

"Something's very wrong about this situation," Cobalt Leader said, sweeping over the road with a flashlight he had in his pocket. The road showed no potholes or debris.

The Mongoose soldier sniffed the air. "I smell several people coming this way," he said.

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Aimee took a look around, but saw nothing herself, yet, when several people were mentioned coming their way, she spoke up "I doubt they'll be here to help us...." she muttered as she folded her arms.

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Jayden continued to search around still as he came across another room, about to enter, only to be stopped by a worker "Sorry, but no one is allowed to enter without a clean suit on"

"I've got my autority right here" Jayden added on showing his badge.

"Sorry, rules are rules, we are not allowed anyone in there without the proper gear on" the worker told him back.

Jayden could see that this was going nowhere and asked another question "Very well then, what is in there?" he asked him.

"Microchip processing area, we can not allow anyone access without the proper gear on, safety regulations, you understand don't you?" the worker replied back.

Jayden gave off a small nod back as he continued to check what he hadn't found within the factory, stopping to see a mysterious person speaking with the one in charge on the factory floor and decided to listen in on the conversation.

"Yes, we have a cop snooping around, believes we have a connection to something else" the worker told the woman.

The woman seemed to think for a second "Allow me to talk to this cop, perhaps I can find out he's actually after"

"No need" Jayden spoke with his arms folded, standing not far as the woman walked over to him.

The woman looked over him before speaking up "Can I help you with something here?"

"Perhaps, do you work here?" Jayden decided to ask back.

"No, not quiet, you could say, I'm more of a consumer than anything else" the woman told him back as she motioned for him to walk with her, heading back to the small back office.

"What's a consumer doing snooping around out back?" Jayden asked next.

The woman left off a small chuckle "I could ask the exact same thing about a cop....besides, I have authority...." she showed him a badge of her own, to which Jayden looked at it more closely before looking to the woman.

Jayden wasn't so sure if he could trust her as he pulled out his phone and was about to call someone for comfortation, only to have a gun pulled on him.  The woman motioned for him to hand over the phone, to which Jayden did so.

The woman looked at the phone and smirked, placing it into her pocket, still keeping a gun aimed at Jayden "Now, what you're going to do is hand over that reciept of yours and leave without a word"

Jayden sighed, doing so as he handed over the reciept to her before walking out.  The woman in question looked at the reciept and chuckled "Ian Branston, you should be more careful...."

She pulled out the phone and looked to it before taking something out of the back of it and replaced it with something else before dialing one of the numbers upon the phone, the number belonging to that of Aisha's cellphone number and spoke into it the moment it would be answered "It seems as though you are falling behind, your little cop friend....Jayden wasn't it? I'm afraid I had to send him away empty handed, a shame too, and you would've had a real good lead with the information on Ian Branston" she gave off a chuckle into the phone, the voice becoming clear, it was none other than Trinity.


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(OOC:  Deathwind won't die in this attack.  I have a better death for him much later on.)

Eron & Mallard took cover again as the grenades bounced off into the turnoff where the Dragonstorm group was paralyzed...

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"Chi Leader, Rho Leader, report," Ariol said.

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The rest of Crimson Team latched the door shut as the last ran through...


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"Ariol, this is Chi Leader, I am currently guarding Dr. Tsang and his two rebels. The rest of my squad went after the intruders and I have not heard of them since." Chi Leader said.

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Rho Leader activated his radio and tried to throw the grenades back at Eron & Mallard.

"Ariol, this is Rho-" the transmission was cut off as the grenades exploded before Rho Leader could throw them back.

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"Everyone, ready your weapons and stay in the ditch" Cobalt Leader whispered, drawing his pistol.

The two Cobalt soldiers drew their pistols. Dr. Bailey drew his pepper spray. Zachary grabbed a large chunk of concrete that was laying in the grassy ditch.

Alfred wrapped his hand around a large tree branch underneath the wrecked van.  

Dr. Zanasiu grabbed a fist sized rock that lay next to him.

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Corporal Stern looked over at Aimee. "Who was that on the phone?" The Vulpine female was too stunned to give an answer for the moment, despite Stern's repeated questioning. He wasn't sure what was going on.


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(OOC: I have no idea what you're talking about Noname, Aimee never got a phonecall...it was Aisha....Aimee doesn't even have a cellphone of any kind)

Aimee gave a nod to Cobalt Leader and got into the ditch as well, glancing around at what she could use as a weapon for the time being, the closest thing was, a rather sharp stick, to which she gave off a shrug as she looked at it "I guess it'll have to do...." she muttered to herself, staying with the others, keeping rather quiet.