Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

(New Peenemunde Harbor)

Soon, the DS-2 plane reached the airstrip and comes in for a landing...

The Dragonstorm experiments and their scientists have already been transported into the complex of buildings...

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(Crimson Base)

Ice gave off a howl, and the bare humidity of the air condensed, creating a mist around him.  The arc of lightning would be diverted harmlessly to the side of the Wolf.  Ice gave off another howl, and the droplets solidified into tiny darts of ice, and shot at Cale at high speed...

As Vic set Aydin down near the closest Chinook, then turned when Sgt Masters shouted to him.  "We don't have anything that'll hold them without the chance of them escaping!" he shouted back.  "If they die, then so be it!"

When the images in her head had gone, Snow looked right back at Hawkeye, her flaming fist grew into a white-hot glow, and she aimed for the experiment's metal components...

[Serris]

Cale unleashed a large lightning bolt, the heat melting most of the ice darts but some managed to make its way through.

He flinched as the darts pierced his scaly skin. He then charged Ice, his fists covered in lightning. He reared back with his right hand, intending to slam an electrified fist into Ice's face.

Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters were slithering as fast as possible towards the two experiments.

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"Snow, what did you see?" Sharon asked, running up to her.

Cobalt Leader went up to Hawkeye. "You traitorous f---er! We trusted you when we freed you from the Sublevels!" he spat. "If we had known you'd turn on us, we'd have left you frozen!"

He then kicked Hawkeye in the side with his combat boots. The impact did absolutely nothing but it made Cobalt Leader feel better.

Gustave wanted to express his distaste for the traitorous Hawkeye by trying to gouge out one of his eyes with a clawed finger. Dr. Zanasiu, Cobalt Leader and the Mongoose Cobalt soldier dissuaded him from him doing that, so he settled for spitting on the subdued Hawkeye.

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Shelton looked out the window at the rapidly approaching ground. "Thank god," he mumbled to himself. He clicked his seatbelt in anticipation of the bumpy landing, and only then realized that the distraction had made him lose track of where they had gone.

"Can I find out where we are now--?"

"Have you tried looking outside?" snapped the guard, who was nursing a twisted ankle from the incident with the terrorists. "We're in New Peenemunde Harbor, says it right there on that sign!"

"Finally, thank you," sighed Shelton. "And you're welcome for obtaining the information that stopped us from getting shot out of the sky!" he decided to add.

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Sharon's eyes widened. "Saline! That makes sense!"

She turned to Hans. "How did you contact Stern though? You were with us the entire time, and I didn't see a radio."

Hans tapped his temple. "Shelton got us these chips, they let you communicate with thoughts. Pretty useful."

Sharon raised her eyebrows. "I want one!"

"Perhaps we can give you one from the suspects we've just apprehended,' said Zachary.

[Nick22]

Aisha and Dr Landon hurried after Alfred, and headed towards the infirmary.. " Let's hope the others can handle things out here' Dr Landon said to Alfred.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

(Crimson Base)

Snow stopped when Sharon asked her.  "They've been spies for Dragonstorm the whole time," she replied.  "They were placed in the sub-levels to catch any word of suspicion about the hidden Dragonstorm facilities.  When the terrorists attacked, they played along by working with us until they were sure we knew too much about Dragonstorm.  Hawkeye tried to get close to Dr Joe, while Neku was..."  She was trying not to lose her temper.  The fireball in her hand was hot enough to melt straight through Hawkeye's metal...

Ice gave off a deep breath to refreeze the melted ice, this time mixing it into the oils in tarmac and making the ground beneath Cale slippery...

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The rifles in the hangar have been loaded, and jeeps were quickly being driven to the tarmac.  Dr Joe kept one on hand as she watched from afar...

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(O'Niell & Montgomery's Plane)

Meanwhile, the plane's phone began to ring.  A guard answered it, and took it to the scientists.  "It's the head of security of New Peenemunde Harbor," he said...

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(New Peenemunde Harbor)

The pilot and co-pilot ignored the banter in the back as they landed.  After a brief stop, they taxied off the runway to a hangar, where a similar plane had already been parked inside.

(OOC:  The OTHER plane belonged to the Dragonstorm experiments.)

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

"Let me see it,' said Montgomery. He took the phone. "Hello?"

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Shelton was the first out of the plane, not even bothering to talk to the pilot. "Finally, internet! I can get that damn assignment done for Trinity!"

He was almost inside when a man yelled, "Simpson!"

Shelton stopped and warily looked around.

A small Mallard with mousy brown feathers introduced himself. "I'm Bernard Smithson, assistant to the late Dr. Bruce Tinner. O'Neil wanted you to wait with me to debrief us on a new assignment."

Shelton grumbled under his breath.

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Sharon tried to move Zachary. "Come on, let's get you to the infirmary."

He shook his head. "I'm okay. I don't need medical attention." Then he unwittingly winced.

She persisted. "Come on! You're no good to us injured! I don't want you left behind the next time an away mission comes up!"

[Serris]

"They're really tough guys, I think they'll be fine," Alfred said.

He then entered the infirmary. A somewhat sleepy looking African man was at the front desk.

The man said nothing but handed Alfred a clipboard for his patient history.

Alfred grabbed a pen to sign in, not realizing that his battered hands were bleeding. "Aisha, can you please get me some tissues?" he asked as he filled in the sheet.

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Zachary finally agreed to head to the infirmary. His jaw hurt quite a lot and he was not sure if a tooth had been knocked out.

Sharon then turned to Snow. "So they were part of Dragonstorm all along... I recall Hawkeye claimed to be a test pilot who was critically injured during a test flight and was frozen in the sublevels. Can you verify that?

"Look, he's useless to us now. Why don't we just kill him?" Gustave spat. He took out his frustration by stomping on Hawkeye's chest, leaving a sizable indentation in his metal armor.

Cobalt Leader nodded. "I usually don't agree with summary executions but I think this time, I'll make an exception," he said. He grabbed his pistol only to realize that he had lost it when Johnny had used the magnetic field to subdue Hawkeye. He made a mental note to go and retrieve it later.

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Dr. Kerzach stepped off the plane as well.

"Ah, Dr. Gallo," Smithson said.

Dr. Kerzach looked at him. "Ah, yes Smithson, what do you want me to do?" he asked.

"Well, normally we'd have you working in the labs but since your promotion to to Simpson's DS recon group, you are to accompany him. You are to serve as his communications office."

Dr. Kerzach gulped. He hoped that this would not be something that would require him to do something that he would later regret.

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Cale smirked. "Thought that would stop me?" he cackled. Suddenly, he tossed a swarm of glass spikes at Ice. He stepped forward in an attempt to punch him but he slipped in a puddle of oil

At this time, Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters slithered up to him from behind, carefully avoiding the patch of ice and dumped the vials of saline on him.

Cale immediately started writhing in agony as his body was shorted out by the conductive solution. They had to wait until his body stopped discharging sparks before they could handcuff him.

Sgt. Masters and Spc. Crota rolled the unconscious Cale over and handcuffed him. As they did so, Cale's right hand twitched as if he was preparing to discharge some electricity. Out of sheer reflex, Sgt. Masters plunged both fangs into his wrist and emptied his venom glands.

Cale screamed again as the venom began to circulate through him.

(OOC - Again, Cale will survive this.)
(OOC - Starfall, all the moles are subdued so you can take your characters back now.)

[Nick22]

Aisha went off to grab a box of tissues while Landon examined Alfred's  bloody knuckles. ' Yeah you've cut them up pretty bad" He said after looking at them for a few minutes. ' some stitches will likely be required to tie everything back together..
- Aisha came back holding a box of tissues and few of them to press against his knuckles and mop up the blood.

[Serris]

"Can't be worse than the time I nearly lost my hand during a construction accident," Alfred replied as he let Aisha wipe up the blood.

Zachary entered the infirmary next. He grabbed another patient history sheet and filled it out as well.

[Nick22]

That is true, but best to get this sterilized and cleaned all the sane " Landon said.  Don't want them getting infected after all..

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Sharon grabbed a dark brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide and brought it over. "Let me help," she said. "And once he's sterilized, I need to ask you a question, Dr. Landon."

[Serris]

Alfred held out his hands to Sharon when the doctor, a lanky African Grey Parrot, came in. "Mr. Byford, I am ready to see you," she said.

Alfred nodded. "Sharon, that'll have to wait," he said as he followed the doctor into the room.

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

(Crimson Base)

After Vic checked Aydin once more, he waved Tank over to carry him to the infirmary.  Tank hauled Aydin over his shoulder and headed away from the fight, covered by some of the Ivory Squad...

Ice rolled to the side, but some of the glass shards still managed to rip through his sleeve and into his arm.  Some of the glass exited through the back, but others lodged in the bone...

"A lie..." Snow answered as she left off a breath to calm herself.  "Purely a creation of Dragonstorm, just like the rest..."

Erin, standing nearby looked to see a jeep full of soldiers coming from the hangar.  "The time of execution will come soon..." she said...

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(Montgomery's Plane)

"This is Ezekiel," came a robotic reply on the phone.  "I thought you needed to be informed on the recent events you might have not been aware of..."

[MrDrake]

(OOC: Sorry for the delay in posting, but....here's my reply as it is)

(Las Vegas)

Within the hotel room, Xanthus was seated on the chair, watching as Aimee started to pace back fourth in front of him.  She was obviously concerned about something.

"Something on your mind?" Xanthus finally asked to break the silence between the two of them.

"Oh, you bet your ass there's something on my mind, I am stuck, in Vegas, with someone who I would rather have dead, with no real way of getting back to my team.....oh, and I'm now sharing a hotel room with someone I would, as I've already stated, would rather have dead, but no, I'm keeping you alive so that my team can interogate you before they kill you" Aimee sneered back at Xanthus.

Xanthus just chuckled slightly at Aimee's little "rant" that she had in front of him, yet, said nothing back to her about it.

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(Trinity's Plane)

"How much longer till D.C?" Trinity asked one of the guards.

"Not long now ma'am, I would say, about fifteen minutes" one guard answered back.

***

(Drake's HQ)

"Soundwave, how long till the instalation data is complete?" Drake enquired to his A.I.

"Estimated instalation complete time is in five minutes" the A.I answered back in it's normal monotone-like voice.

(OOC: Also, not sure on what the hell is actually happening with Starfall's characters, as Neku is still with Hailey, and not sure on how to use that just yet....)

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Sharon pouted for a split second but quickly switched to polite acquiescence. The situation in here did deserve top priority.

"How can I help?" she asked.

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Shelton impatiently waited with Kerzach and Smithson. "How muh longer till the plane lands?" he said.

Smithson wasn't sure. "I heard there were delays due to an aerial disturbance or something. That might be it."

"We dealt with that 'disturbance' much longer than O'Neil's plane did, and we still made it here," pointed out Shelton. He stood up. "Gallo and I have something we need to do. Let us know when Dr. O'Neil's plane lands and we'll come back out."

Smithson tried to protest but Shelton got up and left.

"We have things to do!" he complained to Kerzach. "We can't sit around on a dock all day! We need to find an isolated room with internet."

[Nick22]

Once Alfred gets treated then you can ask me" Landon replied  As aisha tossed the bloody tissues away in a garbage bin.. " All we can do sat the moment is wait" Auisha said.. "Shouldn't take too long to stitch Al back up" She smiled.

[Serris]

(OOC - MrDrake, all of Starfall's characters were working with Dragonstorm the entire time and now they just attacked.)

<To talk to James and his crew or for our "mission"?> Dr. Kerzach asked mentally. "Also, I could use a snack," he said.

Two armed guards passing by them paid no heed.

Dr. Kerzach then looked out over the ocean. He wished he could be relaxing in the Florida Keys but he had a job to do; play along as Dr. Bradley Gallo.

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"There is nothing you can do, ma'am," the secretary replied.

Zachary poured himself some water from the cooler in the corner. He picked up a Newsweek magazine. To his horror, the nuclear bombing of Southport was literally all that the magazine was about.

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Gustave spat on the tarmac. "We've got three of them close to death anyways. I nailed one with the mechanic's cart, one of the Vipers just shot the other in the head and I think the other Viper just injected a load of venom into the third one," he said to Erin. "Of course, I could just simply break their necks to speed it along. As for the cyborg, just get me a sledgehammer or ammo for my four-gauge."

"Gustave, can we get some info out of them before we kill them?" the Mongoose Cobalt soldier asked.

"Fine."

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Dr. Bailey cautiously peered out of the helicopter.

"Shakila, I think it's safe now," he said, stepping out of the helo.

PFC. Reynolds followed him.

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Montgomery was examining some papers that were rescued from Lab 101 when the phone rang. "You called?" he said, picking up the phone.

Two guards with shotguns sat behind him. They were assigned to guard him with their lives. OF course, the fact that Montgomery had a pistol made their jobs somewhat easier.

[Nick22]

Aisha took a seat and starrted looking at a sports magazine " Playoffs announced for college football - 16 teams to compete- about freaking time, " She muttered to herself , there was also a breakdown of the latest pro sports games..

[Mirumoto_Kenjiro]

(Crimson Base)

The Jeep arrived with the stash of large rifles, and the soldiers were passing them to Ivory Squad and Crimson Squad that were still there.

"Are these with the DS-Countermeasures?" Fox asked when he double-checked his rifle.

"That's what Professor Smithson said," a soldier replied.

"Good..."

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(Montgomery's Plane)

"We have confirmed that the remaining operational bases on the western US have been destroyed, along with the DS-AI1 satellite," Ezekiel replied.  "The attack on the Potato Farm base may be contributed to your own commando experiments, Oruboros..."

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(New Peenemunde Harbor)

A bus soon arrived at the airstip to transport DS-2 into the harbor zone...

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

<We had a mission from James?> Shelton asked absentmindedly. <But I'm talking about something different.> Finding a room, he saw a janitor raccoon playing World of Warcraft on his computer.

"Get out," he flashed his DS-2 badge. "Official business."

The Raccoon hightailed it. Shelton pulled up the chair and sat down. "Trinity wants me to find some personal information on a Gustave Chiumbo. Hometown, where his family lives, stuff like that. If we can get that done quickly, we can work on what James wants."

(OOC: Shelton just mentioned finding someone's family and giving it to Trinity. This is obviously unethical, but he's too wrapped up in playing his role as a Dragonstorm scientist to notice. Kerzach might want to comment on this, unless he's become as bad as Shelton.)