Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

[Serris]

A loud explosion rattled the base camp as the rockets fired from the helicopters killed some Dragonstorm troopers.

"We've got incoming helicopters!" Dr. Branston shouted.

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Outside, the 25 mm autocannon on the roof of Lab 101 was retaliating to the best of its ability.

Rockets fired from more Dragonstorm troopers streaked into the night sky.

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Dr. Zanasiu's heart leapt into this throat. "By 'new weapon', do you mean an experiment or a biological or chemical weapon?" he asked.

"I'd rather fight an experiment than deal with a bioweapon," Zachary replied.

"Actually, you may not want to enter now because of the explosions going around there," Alfred said.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

"She's been created well," Azrael said as he saw the fight end.  He pulls out his laser designator and marks Subject 19.  "But she can't expect to fight forever..."

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"My God..." said the A-10 wing leader.  "Target's been painted again.  All pilots, remain in formation.  Arming laser-guided bomb."

The squad made one more turn before starting a low run...

"Bomb released!"  The bomb begins its descent towards the target, using fins to adjust its trajectory to keep on track.  Unless the mystery person with the laser guide is dead, it can't miss...

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The copters moved low to dodge the majority of missiles, except for one Super Cobra having its rotors taken off by one and crashes to the ground, but the crew amazingly were uninjured...

One other Cobra sets its anti-tank missile and fires for the automatic chain gun...

The rest began a low sweep with all their machine guns blazing...

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"Ivory Leader to Cobalt Leader.  Anti-air forces have engaged our escort.  Requesting location to land."

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With what's left of the carnage being taken care of by the firefighters, the remaining National Guard soldiers carted away the box truck to a safe location from the public eye before opening it.  Their guns are drawn.  With everything that happened, they're leaving nothing to chance...

[MrDrake]

Subject 19 turned her head and noticed some fighter jets flying rather low as she kept her eye on them still as she watched them drop a bomb, the bomb aiming right for her, to which she simply gave off a growl and started to bolt for it, heading towards the nearest building she could.

However, she could not outrun the bomb completely as it struck the ground and caused an explosion, one that was big enough to shake the building she was in as well as throwing her across the building by the shockwave created by said bomb as she crashed through multiple walls.

Subject 19 fell to her hands and knees, badly injured, but still alive none the less as her wounds slowly started to heal back up, but there was a slight problem, her regenerating powers seemed to have weakened as it took longer for her wounds to heal up.

She scrunched her fists up as she stumbled to her feet, reaching into her pocket and pulling out the syringe "They....want to play it rough like this....fine....I'll show them rough...." she snarled to herself as she slowly started to walk off, one of her legs still feeling injured as she stepped back outside.

Her healing factor seemed to had stopped healing her completely as it had died off inside her as she was still bleeding a bit "Time to show them what this can really do...." she spoke to herself as seconds later, she stabbed herself in the neck with the syringe and emptied the remainder of the liquid into her own system, which was still over half of the syringe available before dropping the empty syringe onto the ground.

***

"Sounds like planes and the likes being shot down out of the sky" Aimee begun and thought for a moment "They should be taken offline if what they're shooting at it suppose to be friends of ours, as in....backup" and that's when Aimee started to walk forward, and what was more, in the direction of the explosions.

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Shelton decided to get the hell out of Dodge and ducked out of the office.

<Kerzach? Where are you?> he asked, viewing the pandemonium around him.

[Serris]

<I'm by the backup generator!>  Dr. Kerzach said.  Machine gun fire narrowly missed him.

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The lab burst into flames as the anti tank missile struck the autocannon turret.

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"Move in!" Dr. Zanasiu shouted. He and his group followed Aimee into the base.

The group spotted a scene of utter chaos with fires burning and people fighting, screaming and shooting.

Dr. Zanasiu shot a Dragonstorm trooper trying to take down a helicopter.

Zachary, Neville and Hans were engaged in a shootout with some of Dragonstorm's troops.

Meanwhile, Alfred took the opportunity to destroy the communications dish. The sledgehammer easily pulverized the dish - and an unlucky Dragonstorm trooper who underestimated Alfred's speed and wound up with his head splattered across the ground.

[MrDrake]

"Huh, seems like the plan Shelton had in mind might need to be changed around a little bit...." Aimee spoke as she punched someone rather hard in the face before turning and punching someone else in the gut before grabbing two Dragonstorm troops heads and slamming them against one another.

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Subject 16 on the other hand, continued to move quietly throughout the camp, looking over in the distance as he could barely hear the sound of screams and firefights going on.

He looked around and saw two guards approaching, to which he ducked away behind a building as they walked past before he stepped out and stabbed one guard in the back.

However, the second guard turned around and fired his gun before Subject 16 had pushed the guard he had stabbed into the second guard before swinging his blade once, causing the second guard's throat to be sliced open.

But there was also a problem, the guard that had fired a shot had indeed, shot Subject 16 in the stomach, to which he put his blade away and placed a hand to his stomach.  For the time being, he was still alive, yet, he was starting to loose blood as it was whilst he continued to walk onwards, he needed to meet up with everyone else, even if he wasn't walking as fast as he was earlier on.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

One of the unmanned helos buzzed by Subject 16, getting a good glimpse of him on another helicopter's monitor before the Fire Scout continued firing at Dragonstorm troops.

The image is seen on a screen in one of the Blackhawks.

"Who was that?" the co-pilot said.  "He doesn't look like a Dragonstorm soldier."

"But he is hurt," Vic replied, and looked out the window.  The transports have reached the chaos of fire and steel between the copters and the troops below.  "He'll need help.  Can you land us near him?"

"Maybe, but I don't know if we have a designated landing site."

"Then we have no problem.  Do it."

"Yes sir."

The Blackhawk pulled away from the others.  Ivory Leader sees this and radios in.  "Get back in formation!  That's an order!"

Ignoring him, Vic turns to the rest of Crimson Squad.  "Alright crew!  Let's give some cover fire for this guy and the chopper that went down!  Then we'll put this operation down once and for all!"

The Cobra pilots have escaped the wreckage and are holding fire with FN P90 submachine guns, waiting for help to arrive...

Crimson Squad was the first team to touch down, and the group jumped out with guns blazing at the 'welcoming party'...

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Azrael watched from afar at the results of the explosion.  "What the hell's she doing...?  Prepare to fire on my command.  We'll let the planes wear her down..."

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"What the...?  The target's still moving!"  The A-10 wing leader turned his head for a better look.  "That creature ain't normal.  Let's move around again for another run!  All wings, arm laser-guided munitions!"

The Wing made another turn and this time all of them are going to fire...

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As the truck was opened, the soldiers expected to find what they were told could be a large bomb.  Instead, they find large canisters, computer equipment, and boxes of files.  Everything technological remained intact...

A car pulls up not far away, and a group of familiar faces stepped out and headed for the truck.  These were Dr Joe's bodyguards when she ventured unexpectedly to give Dr Zanasiu the communication pad...

[Serris]

Zachary had to clear a jam on his rifle before he could continue shooting.

"Are they thinning out?" Neville shouted, reloading his rifle.

"Looks like it!" Hans shouted back, catching a Dragonstorm trooper in the head. A stray bullet nicked his arm.

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"We've lost communications!" a technician said.

Dr. Branston swore. "This place is f----ed," he said.

He then grabbed his "evacuation suitcase", opened the door to his lab and bolted out. Only to run into Alfred. He was barehanded because he lost his sledgehammer killing a Dragonstorm experiment.

"Going somewhere?" Alfred asked. One of the technicians tried to draw a pistol but Alfred backhanded him, breaking his jaw instantly.

"Uh, yes," Dr. Branston replied, trying to push past Alfred.

Alfred reached behind him and drew out a knife with a nearly 7 inch long blade. "You may want to reconsider."

He then ordered Dr. Branston to drop his "evacuation suitcase" and marched him at knife point back to their van. Werner had accompanied him; he was hidden by Alfred's massive bulk.

Werner said nothing as he shot a Dragonstorm trooper.

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Shelton was mildly annoyed when he heard Kerzach was at the backup generator, meaning he was on the camp perimeter. That means Shelton was presumably the only resistance member in the heart of the camp.

<I'll ask James where we should go next!> Shelton told Kerzach.

He switched to James. <James! This is Shelton! What's the status on the primary generator, the phone line, and the back-up phone line?>

He looked. He was pretty close to the primary generator. If it wasn't shut down yet, he'd be the one to do it.

[MrDrake]

It didn't take them long as a bunch of guards had moved in on the injured Subject 16's position, having him surrounded with guns aimed at him.  Subject 16 glanced at each of the guards before removing his hand from his wound and onto his cane and in one swift movement, he removed the blade from his cane and sliced open two of the guards throat as they started to open fire, with Subject 16 being shot at least two more times, weakening him rather greatly, yet, he still pulled through as he soon enough killed off the rest of the guards.

He struggled to place the blade back into his cane with his wounds he was now suffering from as he placed it onto the ground and leaned against it some, taking a step forward before falling down a little as he was now struggling to even walk.

***

Subject 19 on the other hand fell to her hands and knees as the vial took its effect on her, to which she let off a bit of a growl, two wings of some sort appeared from her back, spreading out some with a flap.

Her arms and legs stretch out a little more, making her a bit more taller, her tail becoming much longer and more sharper as well.  Her clothes became more torn as well, to the point of almost showing off her whole body, as one could put it.

Her claws in the process became permanant as her feet became just as sharp as her claws on her hands.

She let off a rather loud growl before she started to stand again, having become a bit more taller than the average human.  She looked to her claws as she flexed them as her tail swished from side to side, her wings flexing outwards and giving off a few flaps before retracting.

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Aimee continued to punch guard after guard, even stealing one of the guards guns and taking care of the guard with a simple blast from underneath his chin and into his brain before turning and firing two more shots, getting headshots on two approaching guards as she swun it around and struck another guard across the face using the same hand the gun was in for added damage.

She took a quick look around before looking to the AA gun "You guys take care of the guards.....that gun is mine...." Aimee told everyone else as she rushed forward, heading towards where the AA gun was "Too bad this isn't like the old cartoons.....otherwise, bending the barrels of the gun would be a piece of cake....." she spoke to herself with a small laugh.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

Two Jeeps armed with heavy machine guns pulled out of the hangar and started moving at Subject 16's position.  As they cocked back their weapons to fire, one of the gunners dropped over the gun when Erin began to fire from afar, soon joined by the others as they put themselves between Subject 16.  Armed passengers fired back, but not before Erin puts a hole in one of the drivers and the Jeep flips over, killing all hands.

Snow conjures a cone of flames across the field to the second charging Jeep, melting everything from flesh to glass to metal.  Barely anything remained...

Vic ran to Subject 16's side.  "Let's get behind some cover!"

Crimson Squad's copter remained on the ground long enough for the downed Cobra pilots to run on board...

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Ivory Squad soon landed north, engaging their own band of hostilies waiting them there...

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The Dragonstorm satellite tunes in to the war below.  "LAB 101 UNDER ATTACK.  REMOTE CONTROL COMBAT DEFENSES INITIATING..."

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Back in the hangar, multiple machines began to kick on and up to life...

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With Azrael's laser guiding them, the A-10s each release guided bombs to the target, pulling up to avoid taking their own damage...

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After leaving the test facility, Dr Joe's phone goes off.  "Hello?"

"Professor Smithson.  This is Diego.  We may have something from the convoy.  We're taking everything back to base for you and your cohorts to anylize."

"Thank you..."

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The last box truck is quickly being driven to Utah, escorted by a long cavalcade of military personnel...

[MrDrake]

As Subject 16 went with Vic to behind some cover, he glanced at him "Thanks for....this...." was all he could manage to say as walking was already painful enough.

Once behind some cover, he had to sit down and leaned up against the side of the cover, taking a few breaths of air as he was already loosing quiet a bit of a blood "Listen....whatever.....your name....is.....do me a favour.....I know I wont last throughout......this attack, so I need you to pass something over to....Hailey for me....."

He gasped a few more breaths of air as he sat up straight some more again in order to get his message across to Vic "Tell her....that....Old Mother Hubbard is....still alive....she'll know what it means...."

He was still alive, but he was rather badly injured as it was as he rested his cane onto the ground beside him, taking a few more breaths of air as he allowed for his injured spot to just bleed as it were.

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Subject 19 on the other hand, extended her wings when she saw the planes ready to drop more bombs before taking off into the sky as the bombs were dropped, doing her best to fly amongst them, only to be struck by at least two of them bombs, getting injured in the process and slowed her down enough to be struck by the blast of the dropped bombs.

Once she was struck, she let off a growl....but there was also a different problem that had arisen, she had lost her ability to regenerate, but to her, it didn't matter, she was stronger none the less, and that's all she seemed to care for, to her, it was still a win win situation.

She took flight again with another growl, claws at the ready as she attempted to catch up to a plane, but of course, the planes were just too fast for her as she growled once again as she jerked her head around and noticed one of Azrael's guards and straight away, started to fly towards him, ready to slice at him once she got close enough to him.

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Aimee got closer to the AA gun only to get struck in the face by a bull character, to which he picked her up and threw her at the AA gun itself.

The vixen struck the AA gun in some pain, but yet, stood back up again and shook it off as she had to quickly avoid being struck again.  This bull was rather quick, however, Aimee still managed to get a punch in, slamming a fist down onto the top of his head, giving off a cracking sound before grabbing him by the head and slammed his head into her knee.

The bull stumbled back a bit dazed as Aimee struck him once again, this time in the stomach, and then a second punch to the throat as the bull stumbled back some more still, to which Aimee used the gun to shoot the bull in both kneecaps, causing him to then fall down to his knees.

She grabbed him by the head and started to drag him towards the AA gun and second later, slammed his head into the gun, causing the bull to get knocked out, which for her, was good enough, but knowing his luck, he was going to bleed out and die anyway from the gun shot wounds he had recieved to his kneecaps.

[Serris]

Alfred marched Dr. Branston to the group.

There, PFC Reynolds and Werner guarded him.

He then returned to the battle site.

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Another jeep came out of the hangar and was attempting to engage Vic's squad. The jeep's heavy machine gun chattered as it chipped away at the boulder that Vic and Subject 16 were using for cover.

The driver failed to notice Alfred, who had approached the jeep from its blind side. He then placed his hooked his hands on the underside of the jeep and with a mighty heave, tipped the jeep over, crushing its occupants. He then ran away as some of the other soldiers shot at him, several bullets grazing him.

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<In the middle of a shootout now! But I heard that Al smashed the communications dish.> James snapped as he killed another Dragonstorm trooper. Two bullets struck the tree above him.

Zachary and Hans had stopped to reload.

[StarfallRaptor]

A pair of armed soldiers darted out near Snow and Vic, both raising their weapons and taking aim at the two before swift slashes cut both of them down.  Neku flicked his sword, stopped, then stared at Snow for a moment.  
"S-Snow?  Is that...Is it really you?"
He asked, incredulous, as he gawked at her.  

Kagetora, on the other hand, ran to Subject 16 and Vic's side.  
"Vic.  Been a while, hasn't it?"
He said calmly, looking at 16 calmly...

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

Vic had pulled out his medical kit and began to work quickly on Subject 16's wounds.  "I hear you," he first said to the injured man.  "But until you're dead, I'm going to keep you alive through this...  It's strange we all have to keep meeting like this, Kagetora."

Meanwhile, Snow spotted Neku and froze in shock, for Ice pushed her aside when tracers buzzed through where she once stood.

Vic turned and saw this.  "Snow!  Fire wall!"

With help getting up, Snow knew what he meant.  With a wave of her arms, she sent forth a jet of flames for her hands to the field.  A wall of fire soon spread across between the heroes and the majority of the Dragonstorm guards...

"We have to get him stabilized so we can get him to the chopper!" Vic shouted as he went back to repairing 16.  "Give us cover!"

The rest of Crimson Squad kept around the boulder, firing off at all threats around them...

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A Fire Scout swooped low at some stray targets, when a blast of energy shot out from the open hangar and lit it brighter than the sun.  From within the building came a line of unmanned helicopters of unusual designs, followed by a column of armored vehicles with a vicious assortment of weapons.

The AI driving them used cameras to spot Dr Branston under gunpoint, and three of the vehicles quickly turned to the side to engage...

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Ivory Squad split into two groups, one running straight for the lab and the other firing support...

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The guard sighted by Subject 19 backed away, but it was the second guard to fired the first retaliatory shots, bullets filled with a strange chemical compound spun across the sky towards her...

[MrDrake]

Subject 16 shook his head back at Vic "Do not worry....about me...I'm long overdue for a visit....by the grim reaper himself...." he told him as he grabbed Vic's shoulder in order to get back up again, grabbing his cane in the process "There is still a job....that needs to be done....here...."

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Subject 19 on the other hand, was indeed, shot, but she was still rushing towards the guard as she took on the bullets.  However, once she got close enough, she swung her claws at the guard before using the tail to impale the guard in the chest.

She was no longer an actual Dragonstorm experiment, more of part Dragonstorm experiment and part biological weapon as she gave off a growl at the guard.

***

Meanwhile, Kiara and Hailey were still near the forrest as everyone else had practically taken off, save for Shakila at the very least.

The two girls didn't have much quiet time as one could say as what other guards were remaining, had found them, starting to form up.

Kiara looked to Hailey "Back to back, it's our best bet...." she told her and readied her gun, her back now practically up against Hailey's back and before Hailey knew it, Kiara was starting to fire at the guards.

Hailey nodded back and started to fire at her set of guards, keeping her back up against Kiara's as the two females were taking out guard by guard, bullets in turn were whizzing by them as well.

Shakila on the other hand, had moved for some cover, yet, another guard had seen this and started to make his way towards her, gun in hand.  Shakila looked out and saw the guard approaching and started to move away from where she had hid away and started to make her way towards Alfred's truck, from what she had heard Alfred telling Aimee about his tools.

She reached into the truck and grabbed a screwdriver and quickly turned around to see the guard and before she or the guard knew it, in retaliation, Shakila stabbed the guard in the throat with the screwdriver.

The guard stumbled back, grabbing his throat before pulling out the screwdriver, dropping it and attempted to aim his gun at Shakila, but from what blood he was already loosing, he could not aim properly as he dropped the gun, grabbing his throat again before dropping down onto his knees and then part way into the truck, blood dripping out onto the back of Alfred's truck in the process.

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Shelton decided to try and shut down the primary generator, since it didn't sound like anyone had reached that far. <I'm heading for the primary generator,> Shelton told Kerzach. <If you can, meet me there and you can fill me on what's happened since I was last here.>

[StarfallRaptor]

Another guard popped up from behind Shakila, and in instants, was cut in half with a large spike through his chest.  Slash and Agito stood there, smiling at her.
"Hey, beautiful."
Agito teased, as Slash grinned at her...
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Neku grinned at Snow, then flung a swarm of electrical "missiles" into the enemy troops as he retreated behind the wall.
"Hey, Snow.  How are you?"
He asked calmly...or attemping to be calm, at least...

Kagetora looked at Subject 16.  
"You aren't dying here, and not now.  I'll heal you quickly.  But Vic will want to look at the wounds after."
He said, charging his hands with spiritual energy...

[Serris]

Dr. Kerzach waited until no one was around and cut the main fuel line on the backup generator with his switchblade. He then headed over to the main generator. <Shelton, I've just cut the main fuel line on the back up generator and I'm heading to the main generator.>

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Two bullets struck near the group where they were holding Dr. Branston.

The two guards turned skywards  and shot at the unmanned helicopters.

"Hawkeye, you think you can take down those helicopters?" Werner asked.

Dr. Branston took advantage of the situation and bolted. When PFC Reynolds tried to grab him, he was rewarded with a punch to the jaw that knocked him out.

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Alfred was nearest Lab 101. He approached Ivory Squad. "Hey, just so you know, I'm with James and the group," he said.

As soon as he spoke, Neville, James and Zachary approached them. They had finally managed to literally shoot their way to Lab 101.

[MrDrake]

Subject 16 shook his head back at Kagetora and pretty much whacked his hands away with his cane as he stumbled to stand back up "Like I said......destroying this place comes first, you can worry about my....well being later on....." he groaned as he leaned against his cane and straight away, started to walk off in order to get the next part of the plan underway.

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Both Hailey and Kiara continued to take out more guards before they had finally stopped coming, to which Kiara just grinned back at Hailey, giving her a nod of some sort as she eyed the area around some more before hearing a loud roar.

Moments later, it came rushing out into the open, a chimera, or so it seemed, but this one was part metal "Oh, you have got....to be joking me" Kiara groaned as she noticed the chiomera.

"Looks like one of those Dragonstorm experiments, a rogue one perhaps?" Hailey asked with a shrug "Although, not sure on what it's suppose to be"

"A chimera, from Greek mythology.....can't believe they took the concept of a chimera and made it a reality" Kiara answered back as the chimera gave off another roar before spitting fire towards the two females.

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Shakila gave off a small laugh back to Agito and Slash, yet, it was cut short by the roar of the chimera "What....was....that?" was all she could ask as she poked her head out of the van and saw the chimera in the process., watching as it charged at Kiara and Hailey, to which they were firing back at the creature, but so far, were having no luck in damaging it.