Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

MrDrake · **Reply #1400 on:** April 21, 2010, 05:06:39 AM

"Look, me and my friends were just pulled into all of this" Shakila replied back to the competitors "We were only here to work and that was it, nothing on being hostages"

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Meanwhile, on the shooting range, Trinity continued to shoot at every single target she had some across, well, all the targets she was suppose to hit anyway, moving her pistols in all directions as she did so "Piece of cake...." she muttered to herself as she eyed the other competitors as well, chuckling some to herself as well.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1401 on:** April 21, 2010, 05:08:45 AM

"Are they acting?" asked the one who'd knocked out Shelton.

"I think they're acting," nodded the first. "Could be part of the test."

The third tried to grab Shakila by the arm. "Come on!" he said.

MrDrake · **Reply #1402 on:** April 21, 2010, 05:13:51 AM

Shakila glared at the competitor "And how do I know you wont hurt me at all?" she asked him, still being rather reluctant to go with him.

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Both Aimee and Hailey were just standing there, Hailey still holding onto Aimee's hand as well. Aimee glanced down at Hailey, then to the competitors once again, deciding for now, not to let go of Hailey, yet, not sure on what to say to any of the competitors.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1403 on:** April 21, 2010, 05:18:51 AM

"We're losing time! We need half a minute or under! If they won't move, let's make 'em!" shouted one.

"I agree. Time is points," nodded the other. "I'll take the cat,"

"Fox with gloves," chimed in the other.

The three approached their targets and tried to force them out of the room.

(OOC: Competitors are public domain. MrDrake or anyone else can control them. Also, Drake, what species is Hailey?)

MrDrake · **Reply #1404 on:** April 21, 2010, 05:24:29 AM

(OOC: Yeah, I knew that, just wasn't sure on how to play them out in this scene was all XD and Hailey's a fox as well)

Shakila gave off a groan "Fine, but if I get hurt....it's not going to be a pretty sight for your face" she told him as she walked off with one of the competitors.

The other competitor approached Aimee and Hailey, putting out a hand to them. Aimee looked over to Shakila whom had left with the competitor before she looked to the one holding out their hand to her. Hailey didn't make any movements to take the hand of the competitor as she didn't want to let go of Aimee for the time being.

Aimee nodded to him some and walked off with Hailey and the competitor, out of the building to safety.

Serris · **Reply #1405 on:** April 21, 2010, 01:16:22 PM

The guard looked at the ID card that Cpl. Stern had and matched him with the list of competitors. "By lucky chance, you're assigned to clear this house with competitors 1138 and 1337," he said. He then called for the two competitors over the intercom.

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Neville was almost through the course. He He crossed over one of the bridges, shot a target that moved parallel to him, shot a target overhead and heard his rifle click empty. He quickly reloaded just in time to see two targets recede behind a wall. He waited a few seconds for the targets to reappear and he almost shot them until he realized that they were penalty target.

He then exited the course, unloaded his weapons and handed over his spare ammunition to the officials who tallied the ammunition used and the targets shot.

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Alfred had been watching Neville and Trinity go through their courses. Their names were printed on the bottom of the split screen.

"Neville's doing pretty good," Alfred said.

"Yeah but this 'Raven' is giving him a run for his money. I mean she's doing accurate dual wielding; I never thought I would see that outside a movie," Dr. Zanasiu said.

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In the protection course, a Vulpine competitor was escorting his "VIP" through the zone. Both of them were dressed in the full body protective suits but the "VIP" wore a "business suit" over his. Both of them were taking cover inside the "ruins" of an office building. The competitor shot one of the "attackers" several with his rifle, red splotches appearing on the "attacker's" chest. The "attacker" dropped "dead". Suddenly, he and the VIP were pelted with shards of of concrete.

The competitor looked at the area that had been shot. There were no red markings on the are, just pieces missing from the concrete.

"Someone's using real bullets!" he said.

He and the "VIP" dashed past the bounds of the course, which would have immediately disqualified him, but that did not matter when someone was using live ammunition.

Nick22 · **Reply #1406 on:** April 21, 2010, 01:31:25 PM

Aisha rolled throiugh the course, showing off her skills in shotting, she finished the course only having used 6 bullets over the minimum needed. there were 16 targets, she had used 22 shots. Next she was sent to the "VIP course, which where she found Stern abd the other competitir waiting.

Serris · **Reply #1407 on:** April 21, 2010, 03:13:41 PM

(OOC - VIP course is done alone. I changed it so Stern is paired up with Cobalt Leader and Spc. Crota)

The competitor who had fled the VIP course alerted an official outside.

"We've got live rounds in VIP course #1," the official said.

"Suspend all competitions and have all staff working in the VIP and clearing zones check the ammunition," another official said.

Another official went on the microphone to address the crowd.

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Suddenly, the loudspeakers blared. "Attention please, due to some technical issues, the competition has been temporarily halted."

The competitors inside the hangar groaned

"Great, what happened this time?" Spc. Crota grumbled.

"Maybe one of the targets broke or something," Cobalt Leader said. Or someone got hurt. he thought.

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Dr. Bailey looked around him. He spotted Dr. Landon nearby.

"Hey, Dr. Landon, don't you think the prizes are a little exorbitant? I mean, 25,000 dollars and a weapon that could potentially worth tens of thousands of dollars for first place?" he said, eating some popcorn.

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<Shelton, what's with the technical difficulties?> Hans asked mentally. Werner was using the bathroom.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1408 on:** April 21, 2010, 03:31:45 PM

<I don't know,> groaned Shelton. <I'm learning if I'm about to be fired.>

He was in the contest coordinator's office, with the other field supervisor that had been involved with the clearing fiasco. the coordinator was eying both of them suspiciously.

"All right, one of you is responsible for that embarrassing incident, and I want to know. Who was it?" he hissed.

Shelton didn't bother answering. But the other supervisor, who had a bunch of painful red welts across his face, stood up and took a swing at the coordinator.

"I can't believe I'm even involved in all of this!" he spat. "I sign for a simple day job, do my job perfectly, your f**k-headed employees screw everything up, and I'm getting blamed for it!?!?"

He stomped towards the door. "I'm suing this entire organization for assault, battery, unsafe working conditions, everything I can possibly throw at you!" And with that he stomped out of the room.

The coordinator looked at Shelton. "Well, I guess he's the one getting fired. Suit up. You're signed on to take part in the next "VIP" contest."

Shelton nodded silently, returned to the changing room, put on one of the business suits, and trudged to the "VIP" contest, where he met Aisha.

"Nice, I'm with someone I recognized," he commented. He rubbed his forehead, which still hurt. "How have you done so far?" he asked.

Serris · **Reply #1409 on:** April 21, 2010, 03:44:27 PM

(OOC - I assume the clearing fiasco was the "briefing failure"?)

At the VIP contest area, the contest was on hold as the staff checked all the weapons and ammunition that the "hostiles" and competitors were using.

"What happened?" a Komodo Dragon competitor asked.

"From what I heard, someone accidentally chambered live rounds in their weapon. So they're now going through all the weapons and ammunition to find out who did that," the Fruit Bat who had overheard Trinity before said.

"This is going to take a while."

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Inside the clearing house where Aimee, Shakila, Haley and Shelton were "rescued", the crew was cleaning everything up. They were sweeping up the spent shell casings, resetting the props and wiping up the paint blotches left by the simulated ammunition.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1410 on:** April 21, 2010, 06:32:22 PM

(OOC: Yeah, not an overly big deal, but enough to get the folks upstairs curious about who screwed up.)

<Shakila, where are you guys?> Shelton sent. <Are you all okay?>

Noname · **Reply #1411 on:** April 21, 2010, 10:05:00 PM

<I'm in the house with what we all assumed was a mock hostage crisis. The line between reality and practice is getting very blurred, so I would suggest that we not take any chances until we know what's what and-> Stern would have said more, but he was cut short when one of the targets in the house fired a round at him, missing his head by less than an inch. There was a LIVE firearm in there!

MrDrake · **Reply #1412 on:** April 21, 2010, 10:36:42 PM

<Where's all outside at the moment, where are you?> Shakila asked Shelton back as she looked to Aimee and Hailey.

***

Jayden had walked out back, showing his badge to one of the supervisers "Special Agent Jayden of the FBI, I wish to take a look around, official FBI business"

The supervisor hessitated for a moment before giving Jayden a nod with a groan, having reluctantly agreed to allow him out back.

***

Meanwhile, back on the course, Trinity had just finished her rounds before hearing the announcement that the next part was to be suspended, to which she could only chuckle lightly at that, putting her pistols back into her coat without giving back any unused ammunition, deciding for the time being, to keep it without anyone's knowledge.

***

Marcus closed his laptop with a slight chuckle himself and slid it away out of view upon hearing all the commotion in the not too far distance, yelling was hear enough to be able to be heard from where he was as he stood up, placing a finger on his earpiece "Icarus, what's going on out there?"

"Oh, you wont believe it, even if I told you" Icarus replied back into his own earpiece from the walkway up above the arena "For starters, there's some FBI guy now having a nosy around, and from what I also understand, some male Vulpine is getting all suspicious about....something, hard to say what it is, but I have a feeling that things are going to get rather interesting soon enough"

Serris · **Reply #1413 on:** April 22, 2010, 12:16:19 AM

One of the clean up crew in the clearing house found some bullet holes in the wall in the bedroom.

"Wait, I though the simunitions left paint blotches?" a worker asked.

"They do," another worker replied

Another worker dug some bullets out from the dresser.

"We better get this to the attention of the supervisors," the first worker said.

The group then exited the building and found their supervisor nearby.

"Is clearing house #3 ready to go?" she asked.

"No. Someone is using live ammunition," the worker who had found the bullets said. She handed the mangled bullets to the supervisor who radioed one of the administrators.

(OOC - Anyone can play the admins.)

Nick22 · **Reply #1414 on:** April 22, 2010, 12:44:40 AM

That is a lot, i agree, but hey they pay 50 grand for rock paper scissors. theres money for just about anything in this country,it seems..but again the old axiom is true 'if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.."
- Aisha turned and looked at Shelton pretty good, hit the targets in only 22 shots..some of those targets were pretty hard to hit, but i managed to get them.. apparently they are having a technical issue.. which is why we're waiting here.."

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1415 on:** April 22, 2010, 01:25:47 AM

<I'm at the VIP field outside, assigned to be Aisha's VIP.> Shelton sent back to Shakila. <Are you all okay? I still don't quite understand what the hell happened in that building, but things really spun out of control.>

MrDrake · **Reply #1416 on:** April 22, 2010, 01:35:28 AM

<Yeah, we're fine now> Shakila answered back to Shelton <Not sure how long they're going to keep us here for though, I guess it's for safety reasons or something like that>

***

One of the supervisors that was on the walkway above saw Icarus and approached the Raccoon "Sir, you are not allowed to be up here, this is a restricted area"

Icarus looked back at the supervisor and aimed a gun at him, a silenced pistol as without a word, he pulled the trigger, a clean headshot was taken and the supervisor fell down dead.

The Raccoon walked over to the body of the supervisor and looked at him before speaking into his earpiece to Trinity in particular "Sorry, I had to kill someone....didn't want my cover to be blown after all"

***

Trinity sighed slightly as she replied back to Icarus "Very well then, if it had to be done, it had to be done....any news on Hailey?"

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"No, I haven't spotted her at the moment, nor has she spoken up, I'll get Marcus to go and search for her" Icraus answered back as he continued to watch the games from his position.

***

Marcus got the message from Icarus "I'm on it" he spoke as he walked off in order to search for Hailey, walking over to where the hostages were at the moment, well, the rescued ones at the very least.

Serris · **Reply #1417 on:** April 23, 2010, 12:18:40 AM

The competitions were suspended as more live ammunition was found. Each of the competitors was forced to submit their weapon to be checked to ensure that they did not smuggle in live ammunition.

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"This is getting ridiculous," Spc. Crota said.

He, Neville and Cobalt Leader were in a line with the others to have their weapons checked.

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<Shelton, what's going on? All the competitions have been suspended. Is someone hurt?> Dr. Zanasiu sent mentally.

Alfred was clenching and unclenching his massive hands. "James, I'm going to ask around to see what the f---'s going on," he said, getting up from his seat and heading down the bleachers.

MrDrake · **Reply #1418 on:** April 23, 2010, 12:27:34 AM

As they were only checking weapons, Trinity smirked to herself as she handed over her pistols "Now don't loose them" she told the officials, her voice did indeed, sound rather familiar to those who would've ran into her before, but perhaps not quiet placing where they had heard the voice from either.

They checked her pistols out and found no live ammunition in them as they handed her pistols back to her.

Trinity recieved her pistols and placed them back into her coat, as she was smart enough to unload her guns before actually handing them over, keeping the rest of the live ammunition hidden away in her coat.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1419 on:** April 23, 2010, 12:54:11 AM

<They found live ammunition in some of the contests, so the whole competition's been put on hold,> Shelton reported to James, having finally gotten the whole story from another supervisor. <Management's pissed, and sponsors are threatening to pull, so it looks like if they don't get things started by the end of the next commercial break, the whole thing could be canceled for the year.> "Which in my opinion wouldn't be all that bad," he muttered to himself.