Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

[Serris]

Dr. Bailey briefly fumbled with the handgun. He had not been training with firearms like the others but he remembered a few things. He shot an oncoming Dragonstorm soldier in the chest, dropping him. Another shot killed him.

Werner swapped out the magazine on his pistol and continued shooting.

Zachary quickly cleared a jam on his rifle and shot another soldier.

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Cpl. Stern led the group towards Lab 101.

"So are Aisha and Dr. Landon going to be following us or no?" Alfred asked.

[Nick22]

Yeah  I'm following you guys" Aisha said. " Lead the way.. the sooner we put the lab out of commission, the better.. Dragonstorm likely has other bases, but we'll address them once we deal with this one' Dr Landon replied, following close to Alfred.

[Serris]

"Gunshots," Alfred said as they approached Lab 101.

"I'll go first," Gustave said.

He then entered through a side entrance and ran straight into Dr. Zanasiu. Not recognizing him as an ally, he raised his 4-gauge shotgun. "Drop your weapon," he said.

"Gustave! That's our ally!" Alfred shouted, entering a few moments after Gustave.

Dr. Zanasiu looked at Gustave. "And you are?"

"Gustave Chiumbo," Gustave replied, taking Dr. Zanasiu's hand and nearly crushing it in an enthusiastic handshake.

"Dr. James Zanasiu."

"Hold off intros for now!" Alfred replied, shooting a Dragonstorm trooper who had arrived to investigate the noise.

"So James, what is our next order of business?" Gustave asked.

"Al, you help Cpl. Stern, Aimee and my team to destroy this lab. Gustave, take Dr. Landon, Aisha to the control room to help Dr. Bailey and his team hack the remote vehicles," Dr. Zanasiu replied. "Get moving!"

Cpl. Stern and Alfred followed Dr. Zanasiu as he headed down the strangely pristine hallways.

Gustave led the others down another hallway - one that had gunshots echoing from it.

[Nick22]

good we get to go where there's live fire..
Aisha grumbled
 What good to taking down a bunch of crazies if you don't get your hands dirty' Landon replied " Besides, what would you rather be doing?
 _ Lets me count them.. wait that would take far too long as the number of things I'd rather being doing goes into the hundreds" Aisha cracked.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

As Tank was following Dr Zanasiu, he often stopped to briefly place a C4 charge on supporting structures out of sight...

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Ivory Squad soon followed the sound of the gunshots to the source, and flanked the Dragonstorm soldiers attacking the computer room...

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Aiko reloaded his weapon and then continued to bring down two more enemy soldiers.  "We need to shut that door!" he shouted.

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Crimson Squad continued to hold its own guarding the entrance, but the enemy vehicles and soldiers on the grounds were slowly starting to close in on them.  And they have yet to encounter the reinforcements coming to the base...

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The copter hobbled by the creature working to tear it to pieces.  The pilot and co-pilot were only fortunate at this time not to be stabbed from underneath.

"The chopper won't last much longer!" shouted the pilot.

"Then put it in the street!" the co-pilot responded.  "We'll take our chances there!"

Fighting for control of the machine, the pilot had the copter descend from the sky towards the wrecked streets below to crash with tremendous force...

[MrDrake]

Aimee gave off a nod back and followed the others "Quick question, how are we suppoise to destroy this place without any explosives?" she decided to ask the others as she walked on with them.

***

Drake continued to look to Hailey some more, to which he then held out a hand towards her as well "If you re-join Dragonstorm, I can assure you that you will be given anything that your heart desires...." he spoke with a small grin across his face as well.

Hailey looked to Drake for a moment more, looking to his hand next before shaking her head very lightly to snap out of her little gaze she had and without much more thinking, she seemed to then grab onto Drake's hand.

Drake in turn, gave off a light sounding chuckle, smirking lightly still as he then started to lead her away to where he had a vehicle of his own waiting, a motorcycle he had decided to keep out of sight.

***

Subject 19 continued to stab at the helicopter, not even realizing what was happening, to which she looked out, finding out that the ground was getting dangerously close to the helicopter.

She jumped away from the helicopter to the best of her ability as it continued to descend before crashing onto the ground, to which she got part of the blast as well, being thrown some distance away, through a nearby cafe window.

She gave off a light growl as she lay there for a few moments, feeling somewhat weaker than before now, yet, she just seemed to ignore that fact as she got back to her feet again and growled once again, but a bit more loudly instead as she stepped back out of the cafe and started to approach the downed helicopter.

[Serris]

Gustave was the first to arrive at the scene. He shot one of the soldiers, the massive slug actually striking another soldier behind him.

Some of the other guards turned around and spotted Gustave.

"Gustave! You traitor!" a Lioness guard shouted. Her shotgun clicked empty and slung it across her back and drew a pistol from a leg holster.

"Shove it!" Gustave snarled. He shot the enemy soldier in the chest, fatally injuring her. But she managed to shoot Gustave in the chest just before passing out from blood loss.

He winced as the pistol round embedded itself in his chest. Luckily, his crocodilian skin and dense muscles prevented it from reaching his vitals. He decided to ignore the bullet for now, after all his nickname of "Iron Crocodile" was not meaningless.

He shot another soldier and ducked behind the pillar to reload both barrels. He groaned as he realized that he only had four shots left - including the two already in his shotgun.

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Some of the Dragonstorm troops were killed by Ivory Squad's flanking maneuver but they quickly took up positions to retaliate.

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"Tank's the demolitions expert from Crimson Squad. He probably has the explosives. Failing, that we can simply burn the lab down or have Gustave and Alfred simply rip up everything of value," Dr. Zanasiu replied. "That man has simply unbelievable strength. I remember a month or so ago, he decided to provide some entertainment for a local fair at Culeston. Trust me, seeing him crush an oil drum like a soda can or tip over a car like a toy is something that you do not forget," he added.

He then passed by a door labeled "sleeping quarters". Alfred kicked open the door and swept it with his shotgun. Not surprisingly it was completely deserted and well lit. Several bunks were in total disarray with blankets tossed on the ground.

"So what's here?" Alfred asked.

"We may be able to find things that may be important to us," Dr. Zanasiu replied.

"Fair enough"

Alfred then noticed a small locker with a padlock leaning against one of the bunks. He grabbed hold of the padlock and literally tore the latch from the locker. He tossed the lock aside and opened the locker. Inside was a container of 4-gauge shotgun shells and some documents.

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"I've got about 2 minutes left!" Dr. Bailey yelled over the gunfire. He shot another soldier but missed. He eventually struck his target but he had spent five rounds.

[MrDrake]

"So, if we're suppose to destroy the lab and since Tank's not here and we have no explosives ourselves...." Aimee begun, taking another little look around "Then wont it make it that much more difficult to destroy the lab? Something we really don't need at the moment?" she decided to ask the group as she followed still.

However, as she stood there, waiting for Alfred to finish what he was doing, she heard footsteps slowly starting to approach their location.  Around the corner stepped two guards, both of the same species, Hyenas, whom in turn, looked over to the intruders.

"Oi! You lot! Stop right there!" one Hyena called out to them as he aimed his gun at them as did the other Hyena.

Aimee looked to the two of them and was about to do something when from behind the two Hyenas, Viper had appeared, grabbing onto one of the guards and vanishing along with him.

The other Hyena guard was too preoccupied to see a fist coming into his face from Aimee, to which she managed to knock him back some before grabbing his head and snapping his neck.

Viper, once again, reappeared as she eyed Aimee in particular, sneering to her some as well "Listen, Dragonstorm freak...." she begun, only top have Aimee interupt her.

"Dragonstorm? A freak?" Aimee asked back, about to add more to what she was going to say, only to have Viper speak some more.

"Yeah, you heard me correctly, you lot, all the same, all of you lot are freaks, but you in particular....." Viper begun as she looked to Aimee's arms as she snorted a little bit as well "You take the meaning 'freak' to a whole new level"

Aimee now just glared to her, her fists clenching as she did not like being called a freak because of her robotic arms, and this girl was seriously pushing her luck, calling her both a freak, and someone from Dragonstorm as well.

[Serris]

Alfred shoved the documents in his pocket and took the box of shotgun shells. He noticed Aimee staring down Viper. "I don't know who the hell you are but I advise you to leave Aimee alone!" he snarled at Viper.

Dr. Zanasiu shot the lock off another locker and found it full of pornographic magazines. "Great, porn," he grumbled. He then noticed a cable underneath the magazines. he gently tugged on the cable and noticed it belonged to a hard drive. He closed the locker and noticed the name on it: Dr. Bradley Gallo. "Guys, I found a hard drive!" he said.

"Keep it," Alfred replied. He then turned to Tank. "Well, Demo Man, you're free to blow up this room."

He then headed out the exit.

[Serris]

(OOC - I thought Aisha and Dr. Landon were heading to the control room?)

Gustave took another pistol round to the chest. He had already been shot a few times with pistol rounds but it did not seem to stop him. He loaded the last two cartridges into his 4-gauge shotgun. "Aisha! Dr. Landon! I need some covering fire!" he shouted.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

Tank was separated from the group for a moment to place another charge when two guards suddenly turned a corner and spotted him.  All three raised their weapons and fired, taking cover in the process.  Tank's body was built rather large to hide behind pillars, but he was fortunate not to get hit.  He quickly remembered the guards hid behind another pillar with one of his explosives, and he calmly aimed and fired at the bomb.

The bomb ripped through the pillar, the shockwave and the shrapnel killing the guards quickly, and the loss of the pillar caused a section of the roof to cave.

Afterwards, he rejoined the team as they were filing through an office.  "Actually, it's DemoDillo," he responded with a smirk, and then went to work on setting up the place with charges...

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Even though the Dragonstorm soldiers were taking defensive positions, Ivory Squad intends to give them no quarter.  Two of the squadron members were armed with belt-fed machine guns, which they used to send a long-winded volley of gunfire down the hall...

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Aiko kept up his own resistance to keep the soldiers from coming in the control room, gunning down another.  "I think these guys are fighting another front!  They're firing elsewhere!"

"Vic to Aiko," Vic radioed in.  "What's going on?  The UGVs are coming down on us!"

"We just have a few more minutes, boss!  I'm also under some pressure down here myself!"

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Battered and bruised, the pilot and co-pilot pulled themselves out of the wreck, taking their guns and what's left of their ammo.  "We're not gonna last long, are we?" the co-pilot asked.

"No, but we'll make sure we take this monstrosity to hell with us!  Take the building over there!  We'll take the fight inside!"

Both men ran into a nearby office building, just as soon as Subject 19 was converging on the downed copter...

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Putting samples into a computer, Dr Joe examined the secrets behind the serum.  "It looks like sort of compound made for a breakdown of a specific piece of DNA...  I wonder if it's meant for Dragonstorm experiments..."

[Serris]

"Got it!" Dr. Bailey exclaimed. He then took control of the remotely controlled vehicles. He used his last rounds to kill another Dragonstorm soldier and placed the pistol in his pocket. "Aiko, I've got control!"

Some bullets shredded the office chair next to him.

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Gustave was at the opposite end of Ivory Squad. He, Aisha and Dr. Landon had trapped the Dragonstorm troops.

Gustave fired off another round, killing a Dragonstorm trooper.  His next round was reserved for a Dragonstorm trooper arriving with a belt-fed machine gun.

[Nick22]

(yes I deleted my last post)
 Dr landon and Aisha continued to fire as they moved around Gustave " Keep them occupied while we get into position" Aisha said, As they slowly moved down the hallway , crouching low and ducking bullets..

[MrDrake]

Viper glanced over to Alfred and snorted some more "Should've known your kind would have backup....well, I'm not letting you nor your bison friend there stopping me from doing what I need to do here.....whether or not you like it, I'm destroying your precious lab here, one way or another" she snarled some.

"Our lab?" Aimee asked, glaring to Viper some more still "You must have us confused with Dragonstorm troops....."

"Oh sure, like you're not Dragonstorm troops....and of course, once I turn my back, wham....you lot will take me away" Viper snarled some more still as she glared to the two of them still.

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Subject 19 continued to advance on the helicopter, yet, once she noticed that both the pilot and the co-pilot had gone, she growled some more to herself, to which she grabbed one of the helicopter blades and pulled at it, placing both of her feet against the side of the helicopter.

She started to pull and seconds later, managed to rip the blade off the helicopter before holding onto it some and glanced around for the pilot and the co-pilot...she had unfinished business with the two of them.

[Serris]

Alfred grinned. "Fine, destroy the lab. It'll save our 'DemoDillo' a lot of work," he replied. His left arm was cradling the box of shotgun shells and he was trying his best to keep his shotgun trained on Viper.

[MrDrake]

Viper glared to them some more before stepping forward, glancing at Aimee in particular, looking at her arms still.  Her eyes them moved over to Alfred next as she continued to walk forward, watching his shotgun still.

As Viper was preoccupied, Aimee spoke up to her "Listen, I don't know what's going through your mind, but I can assure you that we're not with Dragonstorm, besides, if we were....I'm sure by now you would be caught"

Viper stopped as Aimee spoke up.  She was right, Viper would've been caught by now, or...being chased down by now, yet, none of them were even trying to catch her at the moment "And how do I know you're telling the truth and not just trying to get me to lower my guard hmm?"

"You don't very well trust Dragonstorm do you?" Aimee decided to ask her next.

Viper glared to Aimee once again, snorting a little more as she crossed her arms, to which she leaned against the side of the hallway, just eying them as she just kept quiet with them.

After a few minutes, she then spoke again "So, you're not really with Dragonstorm?" she finally decided to ask them as she stayed where she was.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

Outside, the scene has changed.  All of the remaining UGVs suddenly stopped firing, as if sitting idle...

Vic watched this, and breathed a sigh of relief.  "Good job, Aiko," he radioed.

"The thanks go to Doc Bailey here," came a reply.  "We still have some unwanted company here still!"

"Ivory Squad should've been keeping them busy.  Ice, go down and help them out!"

Ice gave a grim nod and ran into the compound.

"OK, now how's everyone else?"

"I'm out for the big rifle, sir," Erin replied.  "But we got most of the guards picked off near here..."

"I'm OK..." Snow answered.  "I think I sense some Dragonstorm soldiers coming.  Our backup may not be here in time..."

Vic nodded.  "Aiko!  Can you get those UGVs working on our side?"

"I'll talk it over with the Doc, boss!"

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"Hey, Doc Bailey!  Can we get those bots fighting for us now?" Aiko reloaded again.

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Ice ran by towards were Gustave, Dr Landon, & Aisha were fighting off Dragonstorm.  He could barely see Ivory Squadron on the other end of the firefight.  He drew his sub-machine gun as he too began firing.  "Our friends in the control room needs these freaks off their backs!" he shouted over the gunfire...

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The duo ran deeper into the building, keeping a watch out for the monsters that were of Subject 19's doing...

[StarfallRaptor]

"They aren't...but we are..."
Came a familiar voice from inside a door across the hall that had just opened.  From the darkened room, a set of eerie, glowing eyes watched them, as the three figures inside stepped into the lit hallway.  

"Hehe...Well, well...if it isn't Aimee the whore..."
Said Cale, his formerly-slim body now sheathed in a strange, matte-black armor, covering everything but his face and his hands, as well as a set of several guns strapped to his back and moving eerily on their own...

"You...You were at...Pelendavia...You are...sided with the traitor..."
Said a hunched, barely-recognizable figure, holding a nodachi and chuckling madly as he looked up, eyes grinning with malice.  It was Murakami, the ninja and enemy of Kagetora, who some had encountered before at the Pelendavia labs, where he had been presumed killed...

"Hee!  And the girlies are certainly cuties, aren't they?"
Said a female wolf, whose outfit was...barely decent, to say the least.  Her entirety of clothing was a pair of nearly see-through thong panties that were far too tight, making her entire crotch pretty much visible, and that was all she wore.  The only covering she had for her ample breasts was a large tuft of fur at the bottom of her neck, and that barely covered anything.  She smirked seductively at Aimee, Viper, and all of the females in the group, fluffing her tail senusally...
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Outside the base, from behind the Dragonstorm reinforcements, a large, carrier-type aircraft dropped down from the cloud cover, the hanger on the rear opening as several deep blue glows shone from inside it's hanger bay...

[MrDrake]

"Dragonstorm? Crap..." Viper spoke and vanished straight away, wanting to just get out of there before Dragonstorm were going to catch her.

Aimee sighed slightly as Viper left again and shook her head before looking to the group that had arrived.  She looked to Cale first, giving him a slight glare, then looked over to Murkami, not knowing who he was and then over to the other female.

She clenched her fists some as she was ready to fight if she needed to do so.

***

Back outside, Viper reappeared, taking a deep breath of air "Whew....that was a close one...." she spoke, however, looked around a little and saw three figures step forward.

Viper looked to the three of them and saw what they were holding, three, what seemed to be sticks, followed by a suitcase as well, one suitcase for the three of them to share between them.

"Hunters?" Viper asked as she stepped back slightly.  She recognized them and knew what they could do to someone like herself....they were trained specifically to stop her and her powers.

One of the figures aimed his weapon at her and fired something in her direction, causing Viper to vanish and reappear again, only to again vanish and reppear from the second one that was shot at her before she was struck by the third one....as voltage started to surge through her body.

She fell to her knees and looked around as she attempted to concentrate some as well...but couldn't properly as the voltage continued to surge through her still.  However, she did manage to make another jump into a nearby building.  She took that chance to get the wires off her and jump again to another position "Hunters...." she grumbled to herself as she watched them as they were searching for her.

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Subject 19 continued to search for her targets, grabbing a nearby creature and growled at it, as if she was giving it orders before letting it go.

The creature roared as others moved to its position before the group of monsters turned and took off in order to search for the pilot and the co-pilot.

[Nick22]

We're doing what we can.." aisha shouted to Ice. " any help you can give us would be appreciated
_ For example, if you have any spare grenades" Dr Landon said...