Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

Serris · **Reply #3300 on:** November 08, 2010, 02:19:27 AM

Montgomery swore. "Wait, I thought Oruboros was an interdiction squad designed to eliminate opposition to Dragonstorm? What the f--- happened!?" he demanded.

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Alfred came out of the room just as Zachary entered.

Alfred's hands were bandaged up. "Nothing too bad," he said. "Just a few stitches."

He then sat on a chair and picked up a newspaper.

Nick22 · **Reply #3301 on:** November 08, 2010, 10:44:13 AM

thats good, ' landon said from his seat. ' you just need to let them heal, which should take a couple days. after that, well you can go back to punching holes imn walls or holes in bad buys' he chuckled..

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #3302 on:** November 08, 2010, 10:19:17 PM

Meanwhile, Dr. Williams finally picked up a National Geographic magazine and found a place to sit. She had no idea when anything else would happen.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #3303 on:** November 08, 2010, 10:50:06 PM

(Montgomery's Plane)

"From what we received," Ezekiel replied on the phone, "some Anti-Dragonstorm individuals broke into the facility during your stay there, and Trinity was having one of her puppets fight them off above ground. An Oruboros fire team was present, and they turned on the Dragonstorm guards. They've succeeded in allowing the Anti-Dragonstorm rebels to break into the compound and then escaped, and they've weakened the base's defenses beyond the capability to ward off the satellite when it was shot out of the sky. This is what prompted your immediate evacuation and the inevitable destruction of the base. Ms Julia Race did not survive, and none of the data can be recovered..."

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(New Peenemunde Harbor)

An officer stepped off the bus and looked around. "Where's DS-2?" He demanded.

Serris · **Reply #3304 on:** November 08, 2010, 11:45:06 PM

"Someone must have hacked some of the implants we used on the Oruboros team. F---! We should've checked the security of those a bit better! No matter, I will attempt to locate them. So far, I have not decided what to do with them," Montgomery said. He then got out a laptop and turned it on.

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Dr. Wayne lpeered through the crack in the massive sliding doors and saw that the battle had died down. She tapped Dr. Williams on the shoulder.

"Dr. Williams, we're all clear, we can get out now," she said. She carefully opened the smaller personnel entrance next to the hangar's large sliding door and peeked outside.

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Dr. Zanasiu was standing around the tarmac with the subdued moles. One of the soldiers had handed him the large rifle.

Even though he had it aimed square at Hawkeye. He was not sure if he could pull the trigger. Shooting someone while they were shooting back was much easier to do that shooting someone while they were lying on the ground.

"If you're not going to shoot him! Give me the rifle!" Gustave demanded.

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Dr. Kerzach returned to the closet with his bag of dried cranberries. "Why not? Once we've got that assignment done we're free to talk to James. It's not like we k- F---! What am I saying!"

Dr. Kerzach looked at the medal dangling from his neck. The metal gleamed softly in the lighting of the closet. Another medal was pinned to the chest of his uniform - a labcoat with the Dragonstorm emblem on the left breast.

He suddenly felt very dizzy. After he took some deep breaths to calm himself he spoke. He roughly grabbed Shelton. "Shelton!" he hissed. "If you give Trinity that man's info you are sealing his family's fate!"

He then sighed and took a deep breath as he released Shelton. "Sorry... I shouldn't have lashed out like that. But we have to draw a limit to how far we take our roles. Or else it's going to be like that Stanford Prison Experiment again, only people will really die," he said. He tried to suppress the fact that he had almost agreed verbatim to Shelton's suggestion.

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A human guard looked at the officer on the bus. "They're finishing up some last minute preparations," she said.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3305 on:** November 09, 2010, 01:17:18 AM

Shelton had already narrowed down Gustave's family to the state, when Kerzach snatched him away from the computer. He looked furious, and only slightly calmed down when Kerzach told him the problem.

"We have to do this, if I want to maintain my persona!" he snapped. He gestured at the computer. "I don't know who Chiumbo is, but he's unimportant in the grand scheme of things! The important thing is to help take down Dragonstorm, and we can't do that if we're dead! And that's what I'll be if I don't give Trinity this information!"

(OOC: Not going to make this easy for you

Shelton has fallen much further than Kerzach has.)

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #3306 on:** November 09, 2010, 01:40:25 AM

Oh, thanl goodness," Dr. Williams replied as she dropped the magazine and stood up.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #3307 on:** November 09, 2010, 01:44:30 AM

(Montgomery's Plane)

"Do not worry, Doctor," Ezekiel replied on the phone. "In due time, project DS-AI2 will be completed, making Oruboros obsolete...and expendible. The only use they are still are that some of them remained as spies among Dr Zanasiu and his friends, and by now they should've have arrived at the base-of-operations of the Anti-Dragonstorm commandos that destroyed the SS Surrounded Sea. If Ariol was more experienced and less hard-headed, he would've easily dispatched them then... Also, it is confirmed that Azrael too is dead. His last coordinates were in the center of Southport when the thermonuclear bomb we launched hit."

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(New Peenemunde Harbor)

"Well get their butts here," the officer snapped. "I've got orders from the top that they must check in and be cleared before they can be dispatched for another mission. They're restricted from further access until the head of security passes them."

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(Crimson Base)

Chase was behind the women. "Have you thought about asking somebody first?" he asked. "It's not nice to leave without telling someone."

"Chase?" Dr Joe came up behind him, setting down her rifle.

"These ladies want to go home, Ms Smithson."

"Then how come they're here?"

"They're from Southport."

"Oh my, I'm so sorry. We watched what happened to the city..."

Serris · **Reply #3308 on:** November 09, 2010, 02:52:04 AM

Dr. Wayne sighed as she fought back tears. "I have nothing left," she said sadly. "All I have are the clothes I'm wearing and my wallet."

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Dr. Kerzach swore. "Wait, I can tell James about it!" he said, munching on his cranberries.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3309 on:** November 09, 2010, 01:36:55 PM

"Why would James care?" Shelton shot back. "He's killed loads of people, some of them innocents! He's shot at police officers, loggers, security guards! Unlike you, he's realized that we can't win this without sacrificing a few pawns!"

Shelton stood up and looked Kerzach eye-to-eye. "What have you actually done for James' team since going undercover? I collected thought chips for them, I gave them detailed schematics of Lab 101, I got them all the information from Trinity Base, I shut down Dr. Tinner's virtual reality machine, which is the only reason they've gotten this far! What have you done for them?"

Nick22 · **Reply #3310 on:** November 09, 2010, 10:29:44 PM

then lets go then Aisha said getting up from her seat ans tossing the magazine away.. "
( What happen with Roux and the others?)

Serris · **Reply #3311 on:** November 10, 2010, 01:58:44 AM

(OOC - They were all subdued.)

Dr. Kerzach opened his beak to say something but nothing came out. True, he did steal Dragonstorm data from Rara-Terra Smelting but that was all he did.

"F---! You win, Shelton," Dr. Kerzach said with a sigh. "But just so you know, I'm going to be doing communications, I am NOT going to directly kill him or his family!"

Suddenly there was someone pounding on the door. "Gallo! Simpson! Get your asses to the airstrip for a security check!" the voice demanded.

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Alfred followed Aisha to the airstrip.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3312 on:** November 10, 2010, 06:05:39 AM

Shelton looked at the door. "We can talk about this later," he whispered under his breath. He grabbed his printed information from the printer tray, and followed Kerzach out of the room.

Achilles, the DS-2 soldier, was standing just outside the door. He had a calculating look on his face, and was eying Shelton curiously.

"What are you looking at?" Shelton snapped.

Achilles backed down respectfully. "To the airstrip, sirs, if you please."

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Aydin slowly staggered into the infirmary, having regained conscious a few moments ago. "Got anything for a headache?" he groaned. "I think I might have a concussion."

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #3313 on:** November 10, 2010, 09:42:52 PM

(Crimson Base)

Tank had led Aydin to the infirmary, more doctors were on standby to treat the injured, but where forbidden to exit to the tarmac under orders of the continued threat outside...

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Vic went back for his medical bag, now freed from the magnetic field, and took it to where Ice was resting, holding his bleeding shoulder...

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"We can help you the best we can," Dr Joe replied. "But if you want to leave anyway, we won't stop you. But we can't assure you at this time that another catastrophe won't happen again. The people behind all of this are still out there, creating more who-knows-what horrors that could make Southport seem minor. We are the ones fighting these people, trying to keep them from doing the same thing to other cities..."

Just then, Wally came up behind them. "Is something the matter, Professor?" he asked.

"Nothing's wrong. Have a Jeep with provisions at this hangar. These two ladies would like to leave."

"Professor?"

"Don't worry. They have been cleared and are not tied to this war in anyway, other than being survivors. If they still wish to leave, then they have permission to do so."

Wally gave a gentle nod. "Understood, Professor..."

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(Montgomery's Plane)

"There is one thing I would like to ask you, Doctor," Ezekiel said on the phone. "Captain Kirk Lutra of the SS Surrounded Sea is alive and in Coast Guard custody. Because the government is now conducting an active investigation into our little war, Lutra can't be released or rescued, and he's surely a liability to future plans. Shall I have him terminated?"

Serris · **Reply #3314 on:** November 11, 2010, 01:47:34 AM

"Kill him," Montgomery said as he hung up the phone.

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Capt. Lutra sat inside a temporary holding cell inside a Coast Guard base.

He was no longer wearing his tattered captain's uniform but a plain orange jumpsuit.

He glanced at the bedsheets and the cell bars. He knew that Dragonstorm would be coming to kill him now that he failed. He sighed. Taking his own life would be better than letting him become the practice target of their next experiment.

Glancing around to see that there was no one present, he grabbed the bedsheets and tied them into a crude rope.

He then tied the rope to the bars on the window and tied the other end around his neck as he stood on the toilet.

Two guards spotted him and rushed to stop him but it was too late, he dove from the toilet with such force that he broke his own neck.

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Dr. Wayne looked at Dr. Williams and then Professor Smithson. She sighed as she digested the info she was given. There was literally nothing she could go back to. Her home, her job - all of it nothing more than ash in the ruins of a coastal California city.

She gulped. "I...I...I'll...I'll join you in your fight," she said, voice quavering. She then turned to Dr. Williams. "Your choice?" she asked.

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The triage nurse saw Aydin. "Sorry, sir, we had received reports that you were knocked unconscious. We'll need to give you an MRI to see if you have sustained any serious injuries," he said.

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Dr. Kerzach was the first to get to the airstrip, which was filled with supply helicopters carrying ammunition, laboratory materials and other equipment.

Nick22 · **Reply #3315 on:** November 11, 2010, 03:01:06 PM

Dr Landon glanced at Sharon as they headed to the airstrip. " now what was it you wanted to ask me? He said a bit curious..

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3316 on:** November 12, 2010, 01:21:21 AM

"Yeah," said Sharon. "I heard that some of you have, as Hans called them, 'thought chips.' I was wondering if I could have one of the thought chips from the traitors we just apprehended. If you know how to remove them, could you insert one in me?"

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Shelton was behind Kerzach in line. "Jesus, it's going to take forever just getting to the check, with all this stuff," he groaned.

He took the opportunity to read the printout he'd just obtained. Chiumbo's family lived in Marsh Creek Springs, California, a small community in the middle of nowhere. A very easy kill.

He tried to think of something else, but he couldn't stop mulling over what Kerzach had said.

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Aydin nodded his assent. "Very well," he conceded. "Just please do not take too much time."

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #3317 on:** November 12, 2010, 02:38:01 AM

(New Peenemunde Harbor)

As the line went dead, Ezekiel, clad in dark clothes and a scarf wrapped tightly around his face to conceal his nose downwards, looked to his assistant. "Have the experiments arrived?"

"Yes sir," his assistant replied. "DS-2 has just arrived as well."

"As expected... I want to speak to the experiments, first."

"Yes sir..."

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As DS-2 was back on the airstrip, the officer called them over. "DS-2, listen up! This bus will take you to the security complex to have you scanned through and checked out before you can have any further access to our facility! So start loading up!"

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(Crimson Base)

As Vic reached into his medical bag to start treating Ice, he finds some syringes that made him cock an eyebrow. Since when were tranquilizers part of his equipment? He waves Aiko over. "Pass these to the others," he ordered. "Use them to put these traitors out cold."

"When do you use tranquilizers for..." Aiko started.

"Just do it!"

"Yes sir!" Aiko turned to hand the syringes to those closest to the subdued experiments...

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3318 on:** November 12, 2010, 02:17:03 PM

Sharon glanced at Roux, who was still unconscious and strapped to a table. "If at all possible, I'd like to have her thought chip," she asked Landon, barely masked hatred flashing across her face.

(OOC: It has already been mentioned that Roux has a thought chip.)

Serris · **Reply #3319 on:** November 12, 2010, 03:21:59 PM

Gustave picked up the syringe and looked for a place to inject it. He swore as he realized that nearly all of Hawkeye's body was covered in armor plate. He finally found a place on his neck where the relentless beating had loosened a small piece of armor. He thrust the syringe through the small hole and pushed the plunger down.

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Cale, Slash and Agito were too badly injured to be much of a threat. But Dr. Zanasiu, Cobalt Leader and Spc. Crota injected them to make sure they stayed down.

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Aedelwulf released Kagetora, who was now either unconscious or dead from the prolonged chokehold he had been placed in.

He picked up the unconscious ninja with one hand and headed to the infirmary.