Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #2600 on:** July 26, 2010, 03:13:13 AM

The sound underneath him distracted Azrael long enough for him to notice Subject 19 come up onto the roof until she was already up here. He had almost drawn his sword in reaction, but upon knowing who it was he simply removed his hand from the handle. "So you call yourself 'death' now? I don't think so... You're nothing more than a bit of bacteria someone grew in a test tube. And you'll have to wait a while longer before you're worth fighting me..."

At that moment, the soldier from the adjacent building launched a volley of high-explosive rounds at Subject 19. Also, the helicopter Azrael had flown on took to the sky just above the roof, with the co-pilot armed with another rifle full of HE rounds...

Azrael grabbed a smoke bomb from under his jacket and hurled it at the monster...

MrDrake · **Reply #2601 on:** July 26, 2010, 03:26:34 AM

"What's the matter? Afraid to fight me? Afraid that you know that in the end....I would be more than a match for the like of you?" Subject 19 chuckled some as well , only to turn in time to be struck by the volley of explosives.

That had indeed, given Azrael enough time to lob the smoke grenade at her, which exploded in her face, causing her vision to become rather distorted as she snarled and growled rather loudly and took to the sky in order to get out of the smoke.

Her next target, at the moment, was the helicopter that was flying overhead, to which she grabbed onto the side of it and started to rip the door of the helicopter off its hinges and tossing it in the direction of Azrael's other bodyguard.

***

Jayden was seperated by the others at the moment as he heard light growling before seeing three of the Hellhounds step into sight "What the hell?" was all he could ask as one growled, molten lava dripping out from the mouth of the creature and onto the ground "Okay...that can't be good...."

And that's when the three Hellhounds charged at him, causing Jayden to open fire on them, killing one after unloding a whole clip onto it before reaching for hios pocket in order to reload....only to find he had run out of ammo "Oh, you have got to be joking me..." he spoke as he placed his gun away and turned to bolt off "Running out of ammo in the middle of a fight, not a good thing to happen"

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Hailey on the other hand, had strayed away from everyone else as she sat down at the edge of the of the lab ground, leaning up against a tree as she sighed some as well "I guess....he's right, but I just don't know anymore....Dragonstorm....was nice and all....but then again so is Aimee's team" she spoke with a groan as she rubbed her forehead a little bit, resting her arms on her knees as she just continued to sit there.

She did however, give off a bit of a scoff too "Besides, it's not like any of them really understand me...especially not Kiara...." she then uttered something underneath her breath as well "Bitch...."

Serris · **Reply #2602 on:** July 26, 2010, 01:34:31 PM

Gustave sighed. "All right, you win," he said.

"Gustave! I still hear voices!" the mysterious speaker shouted.

"I'm busy tying them up!"

"Well, I'm coming out!"

The speaker then revealed himself to be a thin Hyena armed with a small revolver. He narrowed his eyes and noticed that no one was tied up and Gustave's back was turned to him and he appeared to be conversing with the "captives". "Gustave! You traitor!" he snarled.

Before anyone could react, the Hyena fired several shots at him. The bullets shredded Gustave's vest but literally bounced off the scutes on his back.

The Hyena paused to reload and that was when Alfred and Cpl. Stern shot him multiple times.

"Are you okay, Gustave?" Cpl. Stern asked.

Gustave shrugged. "I've been through worse," he replied.

Alfred looked out the window and saw Jayden being chased by the Hellhounds. "Guys, we'd better save Jayden," he said.

Gustave picked up his 4-gauge shotgun and exited the office. He waited for the hellhounds to get within range and unloaded both barrels into the nearest Hellhound. He opened the shotgun, automatically ejecting the two spent shells and slid in two new ones.

Alfred and Cpl. Stern stood by and waited for an opportunity to shoot.

Nick22 · **Reply #2603 on:** July 26, 2010, 01:45:19 PM

Aisha And Dr Landon stepped up and Opened fire on the hellhound, their combined fire stopping the beasts cold. First one, then the other dropped, dead. " Aisha took a deep breath " she was now out of bullets then turned to Jayden " you alright?"

Serris · **Reply #2604 on:** July 26, 2010, 02:22:40 PM

Gustave, Cpl. Stern and Alfred approached Jayden.

One of the Hellhounds was still twitching, so Alfred shot it in the head at point-blank range, finally killing it.

"Jayden are you all right?" Cpl. Stern asked.

Alfred then turned to Aisha and Dr. Landon. "I'd like you to meet my friend Gustave Chiumbo," he said pointing to Gustave.

Gustave stepped forward and offered his massive left hand to shake. "Pleasure to meet you both!" he boomed.

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Dr. Bailey and his group made their way to the control room, just to their luck it was completely empty.

"Aiko, can you help me with some hacking?" he asked. "Werner watch for guards."

Werner took up a position behind an overturned table.

Dr. Bailey then sat on on one of the chairs and activated the console. He grinned as he realized that the last person to use it forgot to log off. He then got to work trying to break into the "command program" that controlled the unmanned vehicles.

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Dr. Zanasiu's team was inside the rear gunnery bay. It had been mangled from an encounter with some Canadian tanks. He found nothing of interest

"So we got anything?" Zachary asked. He was examining the mangled buttons.

Dr. Zanasiu shook his head.

MrDrake · **Reply #2605 on:** July 26, 2010, 05:32:40 PM

"Yeah, well, could be better you know....running out of ammo in the middle of a fight, not something you want to happen" Jayden replied back as he checked his gun before putting away as he could not reload.

He looked to the group "Speaking of which, you have any ammo I could borrow?"

Aimee on the other hand, was looking at the dead Hellhounds, tilting her head to the side a little bit as the molten lava continued to drip out of their dead mouths and onto the ground "What exactly are those things suppose to be?" she decided to ask, as she wasn't exactly sure herself.

"My best guess, Hellhounds" Jayden replied back as he heard two more howls. They had only killed three of the five Hellhounds that were around Lab 101, to which he took a quick look around.

"It's like those things are stalking us" Aimee muttered some as she took a look around herself as another howl was heard as from behind her, the fourth Hellhound lunged at her, causing her to retaliate as she swung her fist around to punch the creature in the face before grabbing it by the mouth and seconds later, snapping its jaw as she killed it in a few seconds flat.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #2606 on:** July 26, 2010, 09:40:09 PM

Aiko unloaded his pack of computer equipment and began his part of hacking into the system. "Huh... Those unfriendly bots outside were activated by remote command, from where I don't know," he started, "but there must be a master control here that's keeping them going. If we find this master control and take it out, we'll take out the bots."

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Even though Dragonstorm's elite could not truly match the power of some experiments, they were no pushovers either. The guard rolled out of the way to avoid the helicopter door, which embedded itself into the roof. He quickly reloaded and fired again at the creature...

The helicopter rocked heavily from the creature ripping off one of the doors, almost losing control. The experienced pilot regained control and got back up to speed, his co-pilot again homing in on the beast...

Azrael tossed another few smoke cans across the roof, covering his moves to grab his rifle and go under inside the building. "I'll be back for you, freak..." he muttered. He wanted to investigate the noise first...

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After sending some walls of flames to distort the unmanned vehicles' targeting systems, Snow turned and stood next to Vic & Neville. "How is he?"

"He'll be fine," Vic answered, "but he can't move for a while. And he's in no condition to fight on right now."

"Why not get the chopper we came in on?"

"They're busy keeping the bad guys off our backs. Once the reinforcements come, then he'll get a bus out of here."

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"THERMONUCLEAR LAUNCH E.T.A. 8 MINUTES..."

MrDrake · **Reply #2607 on:** July 26, 2010, 11:08:59 PM

Subject 19 was shot at by the bodyguard, causing her to loose her grip on the side of the helicopter, falling off, yet, grabbing onto the bottom part of the helicopter and clinging onto it as she crawled underneath it and to the front of the helicopter instead.

She slammed a fist into the window once, then again, starting to crack it as she was trying to break through it as she punched it again, cracking it even more before punching it one last time, causing the whole glass to shatter as she gave off a growl towards the pilot, activating her claws and lunged in towards the pilot...

***

Meanwhile, as Hailey continued to sit where she was, looking at her gun she was holding as she sighed a bit, leaning back against the tree. Everyone else was busy trying to destroy Lab 101 while she was just sitting there, trying to decide on what to actually do.

"You do realize that by sitting there, you're just wasting time....right?" a voice asked her.

Hailey took a look around and saw someone standing not too far from where she was, yet, Hailey just let off a small scoff "You don't know that"

"Maybe not" the figure replied back rather calmly, stepping forward to reveal that it was just a female Jackal "But I can tell when someone is wasting time, and you fit the bill perfectly"

"What do you want?" Hailey decided to ask the Jackal.

The female Jackal gave off a rather light smile to her as she looked over to where Lab 101 was "I don't really want to have to say, simply for the fact that if Dragonstorm catches me, they'll end up deactiving me....something I just don't want to have happen to myself"

"Wait, you're....an experiment?" Hailey asked, now being a bit weary for this mysterious female.

"Yeah, but I'm not like one of those....evil ones, I suppose you could say, unlike that Drake fella"

"Just, who are you anyway?"

"Experiment XZ-48910....or if you want to be more formal, Viper" the Jackal answered back with a quick crick of her neck.

Hailey paused for a moment as she too looked over to Lab 101 and sighed some more as well "Well....Viper, I just need some time to myself is all....I mean, what Drake had told me, it seemed so....convincing....I mean, when I was with Dragonstorm that time....it still seemed easy and all, but then all the killing.....especially having to kill innocent people wasn't really the best thing....and....ugh....I don't know"

Viper leaned against one of the trees "Look, I'm not really the one to go into other people's business all that much, but I have to say that if you join Dragonstorm once again, there might not be any turning back, especially if you end up dying in the process, and I doubt you would want anything like that to happen to yourself" she told Hailey as she looked out to Lab 101 still.

"What were you doing here though? I mean, it sounds like you escaped for starters, but then if you escaped, you shouldn't be here either" Hailey spoke up again.

"I know....I don't plan on hanging around for too much longer, just here for research is all, find out the status of the lab" Viper spoke as she moved off the tree "Which reminds me....I'll return momentarily" and in a blink of an eye, Viper was gone, it was as if she had teleported away....well, not so much teleported but more as she liked to call it....Jumping.

Serris · **Reply #2608 on:** July 27, 2010, 12:15:04 AM

Cpl. Stern exited the office again. "Zenarchis is gone," he said.

Gustave nodded. "Last I heard, he was heading to Idaho with his key officers, Keegan O'Neill and Lester Montgomery. He left a while ago," he said.

"So what are our next moves?" Alfred asked. He handed Jayden and Aisha some .45 caliber ammunition he had stolen from the office

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Dr. Bailey pulled out a flash drive that contained several hacking programs he either wrote or "borrowed" from Pelvanida. He plugged it in and ran a password cracker. "Well, Aiko, all I have to do is wait. Once I get into this program's control panel, I should be able to control the robotic vehicles," he said, leaning back in the chair.

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Dr. Wayne had managed to break down the door. The hallway was completely ravaged with gouges torn in the walls and even some mangled bodies about. She hefted her ax and continued down the hall.

MrDrake · **Reply #2609 on:** July 27, 2010, 12:52:58 AM

Viper reappeared outside of Dr. Branston's office, finding the door was wide open as she stepped inside, taking a look around, but found that Dr. Branston was gone, to which she grumbled to herself in much annoyance "Great, he's gone....."

She sighed as she once again, Jumped to another location of the lab, right outside of Dr. Zenarchis's office. However, as she arrived, she stumbled back the moment she saw Alfred and the others and quickly, jumped into another room, hoping that they didn't see her, as she didn't even trust if they were with Dragonstorm or not.

Jayden nodded to Alfred as he was handed some ammunition, to which he loaded his gun "Cheers" he spoke "But for our next move, you got me...." he thought somewhat as well, but looked over when he saw something in the corner of his eye move and turned around, aiming his gun in the direction of what he saw, but found nothing "You guys see that?"

Aimee shook her head "Nope, I didn't see anything myself" she spoke with a quick shrug.

Viper peered her head out once again to see that the group was no longer looking in her direction "Now how the hell am I suppose to get in there without them finding me?" she asked herself as she noticed the door to the office was wide open, knowing that if she were to Jump into the office, they would still spot her, well, that was until she had gotten an idea and vanished, Jumping into the office and in the process, slammed the door shut so that she could take some time to search the office.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #2610 on:** July 27, 2010, 01:45:24 AM

"Escort Leader to Crimson and Ivory Leaders," radioed the lead helicopter pilot. "We have incoming enemy forces moving in on your positions. They're attempting to seal you off. Operation Long Reach is underway. We'll keep you covered for as long as possible."

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After getting the message, Vic cursed. "Dragonstorm's trying to box us in so they can wipe us out," he said. "Our own backup won't be here for another 40 minutes..."

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"A good thought to gain control of those things," Aiko replied as he fiddled on his keyboard. "'Cause I think we'll need them to keep us alive 'til the cavalry comes..."

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Within bases in Northern California, Operation Long Reach has been given the green light to go. Two battalions of various-purpose Stryker armored vehicles and three companies of Marine Corp soldiers quickly mobilized and took to the road to the base...

Meanwhile, another base had just launched a squadron of RAH-66 Comanche helicopters to the sky...

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The pilot had struggled with his belt has the monster flung around the chopper, and as the beast crashed through the window, the pilot snapped himself free and jumped to the other seat, grabbing the stick there. The helicopter flips over, both the pilot and co-pilot to cling on, their safety harnesses keeping them from fall out...

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While the fight above continues, Azrael tracks the noise down several floors to a supposedly deserted hallway. But the noise was coming from something alive...

MrDrake · **Reply #2611 on:** July 27, 2010, 02:16:27 AM

As the helicopter flipped over, Subject 19 growled some more as she held on to the front of the helicopter still as to not fall into the blades, to which she instead, crawled inside the helicopter, her claws clinging to the roof of it as she looked to the pilot and co-pilot, swinging a claw in their direction, in particular, attempting to slice at their harness....wanting to cut them down...

***

Jayden looked over to the door as it slammed shut, before glancing to Aimee, giving her a slight nod, to which Aimee crept over to the door and slowly started to open it.

***

On the otherside of the door, Viper was having a look around the office, trying to find out any sort of information she could on, well, just about anything, but was having no luck at all.

She jerked her head around as the door opened up and before she knew it, a gun was aiming at her, the one from Jayden.

"Who are you?" Jayden ordered as he kept his gun aimed at Viper still.

Viper however, refused to answer as she put her hands up, stepping back some in the process as she just eyed Jayden first, then looked over to Aimee, looking at her robotic arms in particular "I know you....from the files from Trinity Facility....can't recall the name though....some subject I think....but also a real name...." she had to think for a second "Amanda? Alice? Ariel?" she knew that it at least begun with an A.

"Aimee" Aimee corrected her "But, how do you know about me? Do you work for Trinity?"

Viper scoffed somewhat afterwards "No....I don't work for her, was never part of Trinity Facility" she slowly put her hands back down as she was now up against the wall, still eyeing the two of them.

"Then, how do you know about me?" Aimee asked her.

"Sorry, but I can't answer that....I'm not about to get caught again by you lot....." Viper answered back as without a warning, she started to run forward.

Jayden fired his gun, but a tad too late as she just seemed to have vanished from in sight "Okay.....what the hell?" he asked, now trying to figure out what had just happened.

"Yeah, I'd say, what did she mean by....getting caught by us....again?" Aimee asked as well "Cause as far as I know, we haven't even met her before.....so how can we....catch her again?"

Serris · **Reply #2612 on:** July 28, 2010, 12:52:51 AM

A bullet whizzed by Dr. Bailey's head. Some Dragonstorm troopers had gotten into the lab and spotted the group inside the control room. "Zach! Werner! Can you hold them off?" he yelled

Zachary shot a Dragonstorm trooper. A bullet nicked his arm. "How long you need?" he asked.

Dr. Bailey looked at the running password cracker. "Give me about 10 minutes!" he replied.

"Ten minutes!?" Werner shouted in disbelief.

Dr. Bailey ducked as some more gunfire headed his way. "I'd love to help shoot but I don't have a gun!"

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Gustave reloaded his shotgun. He had shot at Viper but missed. A large hole had been blown in the side of the office. "Who is that woman?" he asked.

Alfred shrugged. "Who knows?" he asked.

"May I suggest we meet up with Dr. Zanasiu?" Cpl. Stern asked.

MrDrake · **Reply #2613 on:** July 28, 2010, 01:47:57 AM

"Yeah, seems like she's got some sort of....teleporting power or something like that" Aimee added in as she folded her arms as well, as if she was still trying to figure out who she was "Cause she seemed to know who I was from Trinity Facility....although, seems like she's missing some details....by the sounds of things, she seems to think that I was working with Trinity"

"Sounds like she has trust issues, but then the question is, who does she have the trust issues with" Jayden added in as he reloaded his gun before putting it away, looking over to Cpl. Stern "But be that as it may, I have to agree that we should go and find Dr. Zanasiu next and go from there, and we run into that teleporting girl again....perhaps try and get some answers from her...you know, find out what the hell is going on"

***

Viper once again, reappeared back out in the open, not far from where the generators were, as she moved away a little in order to stay out of sight as she heard a growl not far from where she was.

She peered her head back out once again and saw the creature, the fifth and final Hellhound, which had its sights set on Viper.

The young Jackal watched the Hellhound for a second as it let off a howl. She had no weapons to kill it with, nor had any clue on how to kill it anyway as she really had no clue on what her powers could really do as she vanished and reappeared behind the Hellhound.

The Hellhound spun around and went to bite at Viper, to which Viper vanished and reappeared yet again as she lunged forward the moment she reappeared, punching the creature in the face before doing it once again, disppaearing and reappearing followed by another punch.

She attempted it a third time, but it was as if the creature knew what she was going to do as it turned around and managed to bite her on the arm. Viper had turned and punched it a couple of times in the face, not really doing much damage to the Hellhound.

It gave off a bit of a growl to Viper as it continued to eye her still, the molten lava starting to drip out from its mouth, as if the creature was rabbid, which in turn, caused Viper to just let off a bit of a gulp.

StarfallRaptor · **Reply #2614 on:** July 28, 2010, 03:03:00 AM

Neku vaulted out of a nearby tree, his beam sword flaring to life in his hands as he dropped and slashed the hellhound neatly in half, the two sides of it's body dropping on either side of him. The cut was clean, and little blood was on the ground due to the heat of the blade.

"You alright, miss?"
He asked calmly, grinning at her a little...
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Meanwhile, at a nearby base belonging to the same organization that supported Neku, and the others, a young rat female darted into a control room.
"Sir! We have reports that...that the Dragonstorm project is planning a thermonuclear launch... Also, Neku's team is in danger at Lab 101. What do you want us to do?"
She panted, obviously nervous and exhausted. From the shadows of the control room, a male voice responded to her.
"Simple. Get the test pilots suited up and launch the new mobile weapons. It's as good a chance as any to field-test them..."
It said calmly...

MrDrake · **Reply #2615 on:** July 28, 2010, 03:11:17 AM

Viper glared towards Neku when he stopped the Hellhound "I had it under control" she spoke, still glaring at him with a bit of a snort as well. She just did not need another person to find her at the moment. Her trust in others was rather terrible, as she never did trust anyone as much....and Neku was one she wasn't about to trust either, even if he did just save her life.

She glanced around at her surroundings, seeming to ignore Neku for the time being, to which she folded her arms, looking back to him "But I guess I should say....thanks...." she spoke before seconds later, vanishing from sight, in order to continue with her little plan she had going through her mind right now.

***

Hailey soon enough, stood up from where she was and let off another bit of a sigh "I guess I should finish off helping out here first...." she muttered to herself as she started to make her way back towards the lab.

***

Kiara on the other hand, was back with Shakila and motioned for her to follow "Listen, while Hailey is moping around, we best get our part together....we need to find one of the offices....see if you can hack into the mainframe....you know, get some data and what have you"

Shakila gave a nod back "Yeah, sounds like a plan of some sort at the very least....I mean, everyone else is busy doing other stuff in order to criple the lab....and I might as well steal some data before the lab is completely destroyed"

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #2616 on:** July 28, 2010, 03:37:20 AM

Aiko, taking cover from the gun fire, tossed his handgun to Dr Bailey, while he himself pulled his sub-machine gun and shot back at the attackers. "We got some unwelcome guests in the control room! Can someone get here and flush them out please?!"

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"Please?! Did he just say please?!" Ivory Leader was stunned. He looked around and found a backway into the lab, left unguarded. "Inside! Now!"

Still under fire, Ivory Squad rushed inside...

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Finally patching Neville's wounds, Vic looked around to see that their group was not compromised. The Dragonstorm soldiers were either already inside or coming in another way...

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Even with many of the unmanned ground forces still running, one of Cobras ran completely out of ammo. The escort leader had them leave for help...

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Azrael scanned the halls for the noise, which had stopped. He cocked his heavy rifle and continued on...

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The copter flipped around again and again, all three on board would hang on for dear life. The pilot struggles to sit himself in the second seat, trying to keep out of slashing distance. "SHOOT THE BITCH!!" He shouted.

When the helicopter steadied itself for a few seconds, the co-pilot turned and fired at the monster in the cockpit...

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The USMC convoys raced down the road against the clock for the firefight...

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Opening the case, Dr Joe pulls out cartridges and starts removing the serum. "Let's what makes you so special..." she said to herself...

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"THERMONUCLEAR LAUNCH E.T.A. 7 MINUTES..."

MrDrake · **Reply #2617 on:** July 28, 2010, 03:57:18 AM

Subject 19 crawled forward a little more whilst in the helicopter in order to try and strike the pilot, only to start to get shot at by the co-pilot as she growled, being shot at some more before deciding to move out of the helicopter once again, yet, held onto the side of the helicopter.

She latched onto the bottom of the helicopter, placing her feet to the bottom of the helicopter as she slowly, doing her best, to rip off the landing part off the helicopter (what they use to land on). As she ripped it off in a few seconds flat, she used it to instead, start to stab through the bottom of the helicopter in order to try and stab either the pilot or the co-pilot...just taking random guesses at where they were in the helicopter at the moment.

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Viper once again, reappeared, still on the grounds of Lab 101, but this time, on one of the rooftops as she rubbed her forehead some as well "This plan is not going so well....all I need is some information on these, so-called other Dragonstorm labs, and yet, everytime I try something, wham....someone wants to kill me...." she grumbled, believing that pretty much everyone was trying to kill her, even if they weren't.

StarfallRaptor · **Reply #2618 on:** July 28, 2010, 04:08:49 AM

Agito and Slash nodded to Shakila.
"We'll escort you."
Agito said with a smile, and Slash nodded.
"Can't have you getting hurt, can we?"
He added gently...

MrDrake · **Reply #2619 on:** July 28, 2010, 04:16:40 AM

Kiara headed off ahead of the three of them, just to scope out the area some more as Shakila looked to both Agito and Slash "Yeah, I guess you're right" she spoke with a small little laugh as well as she looked over to Kiara whom had found an empty office, following her inside.

"No computers around....well....I'm completely lost, usually every office has a computer, I guess they wanted to keep the computers to a minimal" Kiara spoke up.

"Then, we should find the server room, find out what computer is hooked up to it and go from there....it's our best bet at the moment" Shakila added on with a bit of a shrug as well.

***

Drake looked over to Hailey, watching her walk off in the distance, to which he decided to make his move, stepping off as he approached the lone female, playing some more on his flute.

Upon hearing the music of the flute, Hailey stopped, turning around to see Drake "What do you want now?" she asked with a bit of a glare to him.

"Oh, not much, just curious on what your desicion is going to be" Drake replied back rather calmly as he removed the flute from his mouth.

Hailey however, continued to just glare at him still, not bothering to say a word back at him as she ignored her injured cheek that had been cut earlier on by Drake.