PDBA: Unfinished Business

[Merlin 2592]

OOC: Probably not the best way to enter but...

The sound of two silence rounds from a Falcon 2 were the last thing the guard behind Jill heard. She examined the target, One had hit him in his upper-most left shoulder, another dead center on his back. She holstered he twin pistols and walked over to the guard, and began feeling him over. Eventually she found his key card located in a hidden compartment of his uniform.

"Thaaank you Lady Luck"

All of a sudden, Jill heard gunfire, but it was not that of a rifle, but a magnum. It was either somebody of the elite guard, or she had unexpected visitors.

She walked hurried to the door, however it was encrypted to only approve the access of certain individuals, and requested a hair sample. She plucked a stand off the corpse of a guard. No luck.

Jill cursed under her breath, and as she turned around saw three figures, two were males one had the magnums of which had alerted her of them, another totted Dual Falcon 2's, identical to the ones holstered on her hips.

But her attention was mostly directed at a female, she looked possibly a year or more younger then herself, and was dressed identically to herself.

But the real mystery was the blade in her hand, is gave off an certain, aura and she could not quit put her finger on it.

"That blade" she though "I've seen it before, or atleast heard of it...damnit why cant I remember anything dad tells me!"

However she redirected her attention, and she showed no sign of hosility, but she remained wary, ready to unholster her pistols if needed.

[sinim]

OOC: Ummm...is my writing that bad? Am I that hard to follow? Nikki is not with us. Sorry if I caused any confusion.

[Draxas]

OOC: I got it covered, don't sweat it.

Twilight and Mike headed towards a T-intersection. They were moving away from the warehousing section of the facility, and into the more mazelike areas that housed most of the computers, labs, and offices. As they neared the T, Twilight silently held up a hand to signal caution, and Mike nodded his assent. Each pointed their guns in the opposite direction as they burst into the T, but Twilight saw nothing but open hallway in his direction. However, he heard Mike exclaim from behind him, and whirled around to face the oncoming threat...

"Dammit Nikki, I almost blew your head off there!" grumbled Mike exasperatedly. Twilight saw the girl crouched over the corpse of yet another guard, extracting a knife from the man's back.

"You're better than that, Mike," she responded, and her face shifted into a half-petulant, half-mocking pout, "Besides, there are so few guards left. The warehouse is basically clear, so I came down here to try to find some more fun. I didn't expect to see you for a while, though."

"Oh, and Mike?" Nikki grinned toothily, "That guy was number 53."

Mike sighed, and Twilight chuckled under his breath. He knew Mike had only gotten up to about 48 or so, probably because he wasn't able to claim about half the kills he came across.

"Come on, let's go," said Twilight, pointing down the hallway opposite the one Nikki was in, "It's not much farther to the main server room. By the way, I don't think you two are going to get your kill counts much higher; there are only about 200 people on staff here, and plenty of them are researchers."

"Aw man," complained Nikki as they walked, slashing the air with her wraithblade, "Well, at least that means I'll probably stay ahead of you, Mike."

The trio approached a security door. Twilight personally hated this one; the damn thing demanded a hair sample every time you wanted to get through, on top of the usual key card. He checked the reader, and was surprised to see that the sensor was past the key phase and asking for the sample. He glanced quickly around as the hair stood up on the back of his neck, but didn't see any sign of anyone else. Still, he culdn't shake the feeling that he was being watched.

"Be on guard, everyone," he said quietly, "It looks like there's someone else here. They didn't have the clearance to get through this door, but I'd be willing to bet they're still around."

Twilight cancelled the current scan cycle, and scanned his own access card to start a new one. As he plucked a hair from his head and fed it into the reader, he couldn't help but wonder just how many other organizations were looking to shut these people down as well.

The door access indicator shifted from red to green, and the security door slid silently open. Behind it was a much more sterlie looking environment, of white walls and lab access doors on both sides of the hall.

"We're headed into the real guts of this place, now," said Twilight quietly, "There probably won't be many guards here, but they're going to be better armed, a lot more capable, and on high alert. These aren't the minimum wage losers we took out outside; these people are professionals, the real deal. Stay alert."

[Merlin 2592]

sinimsdp said:

OOC: Ummm...is my writing that bad? Am I that hard to follow? Nikki is not with us. Sorry if I caused any confusion.

OOC: Leave it up to me to mess up the plot eh, sorry about that. I guess I need to pay more attention. :S

[Razor]

Nikara grinned like a demon, the small downy wing-like protrusions on her back twitching with anticipation. "...you bet..." She paused for a moment, blinking as she sniffed up into the air, then lowered her voice. "...keep going straight ahead...he's right, we're not alone here..." As the doors slid open, she shot to the side and out of sight while the two went through, ready for anything.

In but a flicker, she was maneuvering through the many fallen crates, continuing to sniff at the air. No, her sense of smell wasn't THAT super keen...but this had a different quality to it than the rest of the place, and when she saw their observer, she discovered why: it was a female. She bit her bottom lip and ground to a halt...the girl couldn't have been much older than she was...but seemed to have lost track of her...good.

She crept up behind the strange girl, Mitsukai lowered and at her side...and was only noticed at the very last second as the blade swung down at the girl's head. "WA-" Her exclamation was interrupted by a sharp crack as the wraithblade, unable to cut, slammed into the side of her head and sent her tumbling down a pile of crates.

Nikara smirked down towards her unmoving form. "...pay attention next time, and you might actually learn something. -I- am the predator here..." She looked up and around. "It's best you learn that..." She then quickly darted back down the pile of crates and through the doors to join the other two, closing up the doors behind them.

Up high in the rafters, a figure shrouded in darkness peered at Nikara as her voice rang out in the warehouse. He was tall...his back arched back to an unhealthy extend. Only the gleam of a pair of blades extending from his wrists might give away his presence, but this was not to be. He spoke softly to himself as she left. "...oh...that's what you think...my little prey..."

[sinim]

OOC: I honestly have no clue where to go from here. Draxas...you need to take it from here or Razor, you need to go further with this...cause I'm not sure where you're going here.

[Draxas]

The trio entered the hall once Nikki had finished her business outside. Twilight had mentioned to Mike that she would be locked out if they let the door close, so they had held it open despite its efforts to close automatically. Her errand had been short, but Twilight knew that the more they delayed, the less chance he would be able to retrieve the files he needed. Then again, trying to blast through the elite guards in this section might not be the most prudent course of action...

"We need to get you two disguises," said Twilight, "While the whole facility is on alert by now, we'll still attract less attention if we blend in. Come on," he said, turning toward one of the side doors. He swiped his card across the reader, and pushed the door open, revealing a small airlock with lab coats and a rack of safety glasses lining one of the walls, and a bin for used coats by the other wall.

Twilight grabbed one of the coats and quickly threw it on, buttoning all but the top and bottom buttons so he wouldn't have too much movement restricted. He turned back to his companions as he perched a pair of safety glasses across his nose.

"You should each grab one set, too. Mike, I hope you're not too attached to that coat, because you're going to need to ditch it in order for this not to look too bizarre. And Nikki," he said, glancing at her bare feet, "We really should try to find you some shoes..."

She scowled at him as he continued, "Finding you some ID badges would really complete the look, but I don't see anyone else around that you could borrow them from. We'll just have to wing it for now, I guess."

[sinim]

Mike frowned. "I'll stash it here and try to pick it up on the way out."

In the mean time, nikki was fumbling with a pair of shoes. "I hate shoes."

"We're trying to be sneaking around. Just put on the shoes."

"If we're going to sneak around, you should take this." She said, handing mike one of her knives. "you might need it."

"I hope not. These things are barbaric."

The three of them had no sooner rounded their first corner than they ran into 2 very well armed guards. Time to test the disguises.

"where are you three going"

"this site is under attack. You need to let us through right now." Said twilight pushing past them.

Both guards turned to stop him for further questioning. But they never got the chance to ask. Twilight turned back around to see both guards on the ground and mike and nikki standing over them holding bloody knives fiddling with something on their lab coats.

"Well," mike said, "at least we have badges now."

"Good. If we can't sneak past the other guards, they won't be nearly as easy as those two."

[Merlin 2592]

OOC:How you knocked me out with me facing you is unknown to me but I suppose the change was needed.

IC:

Jill groaned, pushing a crate off her.

She was lucky that her arm and knee pads had absorbed most of that collision, or she could have broken multiple bones.

Annoyed, she got up and checked herself for more severe injuries.There was nothing, except for for a big ugly bruise bulging on her left shoulder which alternated colors.

"Well" she smiled, "At least I have my own mood ring now."

"Jill!" her fathers voice snapped!

Jill jumped, surprised by this sudden explosion of mixed emotions.

"What do you want."

"What the hell just happened?"

"I nearly got knocked out by some girl with this strange blade."

"Be a little more careful, alright?"

Jill nodded, and headed for the door. She flicked her wrist and wielded the concealed knife, throwing it at the guard who had her back turned. The knife met it's mark, hitting the girls leg who had turned around only to eat the floor.

"Give me whatever key cards you have."

The female promptly handed them over, one read Laboratory the other "Main Research"

"Thanks, get some sleep now"

"Wha?" She was cut off by a pistol whip to the head.

Jill began to swiftly make her way to the lab. She had to be careful, she would hurt innocent people.

OOC: Wow, I edited this thing about three times. D:

[sinim]

"That's 5 now Nikki." Mike whispered.

"Don't count anything unless it's kills"

"Why? Killing people is easy. Bluffing your way past them is hard. How much further is it, Twilight?"

"The door is right around this next corner. There will be more guards. Be ready."

Sure enough, as they rounded the corner two well armed guards were standing on either side of a really typical looking door with a very complicated looking electronic lock.

Both guards leveled their guns. "Halt. State your business."

Twilight never flinched. "We have a security breach. I need to get to the servers to add some more security measures."

"No one gets it. We have orders." said the second guard.

Mike gave Nikki a stern look. Twilight didn't know why, but she seemed to understand...and fell limply to the floor. The first guard ran over to her. The second remained steady, keeping his gun on the three.

What happened next was incredibly fast. Since it was difficult for the second guard to split his attention so many ways, Mike had managed to slip his hand in his lab coat unnoticed. There was a loud bang as the second guard was hit right between the eyes with a magnum bullet coming from behind the lab coat. The first guard jerked his head around to see, but found that his head kept going as Nikki had sat up and broken his neck in a swift move.

Not even taking the time to admire their handy work, Twilight was already at the door, taking care of the lock before the guard with the bullet in his head even hit the floor.

[Draxas]

"All right, I'm in," said Twilight, as the electronic lock indicator blinked green, "Be ready for more."

Twilight kicked the door open and the three charged into the room. The hapless pair of guards assigned to the inside of the server room during lockdown never had a chance, as a pair of 9mm slugs pulped the first one's chest, and the other had the top half of his head blasted clean off by a half-inch round. All that was left was one extremely frightened computer tech...

"Abort the lockdown, now!" demanded Twilight, as he pressed the barrel of his pistol against the underside of the tech's chin.

"I, I can't!" stammered the tech, "It's already started the formatting cycle! It's locked out from all outside input!"

Twilight growled in response, and pushed the man aside, sending him spinning across the room as he rolled away on his office chair. He patched into the system using his uplink, and found that he was telling the truth. The drive was already 40% wiped, and it was steadily progressing; he was just going to have to hope that the files he needed were in the remaining 60%.

"I'm going to need to take some time here," Twilight said to Nikki and Mike as he worked the uplink furiously, trying to locate the right files, "Keep an eye out for more guards; we don't want any unexpected company. And if this guy tries anything stupid, feel free to shoot him."

[Razor]

((Sorry for the lack of a post. Work's kept me REALLY busy lately.))

[Razor]

Nikara grinned as she looked towards the door, her bright blue eyes lighting up. Mike spoke up, having seen this many, many times before. "Oh no...no...no no no...don't you dare say-"

"I have a plan!" She giggled at Michael's reaction as she pulled her old CMP and Mauler from their holsters. "I'll make sure they don't bug you. Mike stay here and keep the nerd safe. I'm gonna go give them something more dangerous to worry about..." She started to run towards the door, kicking those damnable shoes off on the way.

"Nikki, wait! Think this through!"

"That's your job. Action time is now! Wooo!" She shot off through the doorway, gone and out of sight before Mike could even get in another word.

The agent at the keyboard couldn't exactly get up to leave, so he simply sighed and shook his head. "...are all of her plans like this?"

"Unfortunately...yes. Now you see what I have to live with..."

"So are the two of you-"

"No!" Mike quickly interrupted Black and waved his hands in front of him. "...my mentor is her father's brother..."

"Sinim, I assume, since the other one is dead..."

"Right..."

*elsewhere*

Nikara blazed around this corner and the next, cackling like a demon as she unloaded rounds from her two weapons all over the place. She didn't seem to be making any effort to kill guards she passed, but rather would scatter shots around them, maybe causing a couple of flesh wounds. After all, she was just trying to stir up the hornet's nest...

The trail of spent shells and plasma burns would lead any pursuers right to her, which was exactly what she wanted. Anything to draw their attention from the other two. They couldn't really keep up, especially with the occasional shot or two she fired behind her. She let out a faint curse as her weapons clicked empty almost smultanously...so she added those to the fodder, chucking the clips behind her as she reloaded. She grinned in delight as one of the pursuing guards screamed "AGGH! MY EYE!"

She continued to lead the train of pursuit through the twisting corridors of this part of the facility, eventually leading them back to the initial warehouse...and it would be as she ran through here, over and around the crates and out of sight of the guards, that she would hear the gunshots and panicked screams of the guards behind her...that stopped before she could even get back in sight...

[sinim]

Mike glanced at the door as he heard the shots being fired, then back at Black to check his progress.

"She must be getting a lot of kills." Black said.

"She hasn't gotten any."

"How do you know?"

Mike smiled. "Well first off, I know guns. I can tell when there's a hit and when there's not. Plus, Nikki can hit things very will with throwing, but she's not that great of a marksman. It doesn't fit her rather barbaric tactics anyway."

During this conversation, the tech had started to sneak around Mike and out of the room. He stopped short as he found a pistol barrel shoved into his cheek. Michael had not even turned around.

"Did I tell you you could leave. Sit down." The tech walked over to the chair in the corner and sat down...shaking.

Then suddenly, a guard stuck his head in the door. "Hey...get out here, we've got trou..." He fell to the floor with a large chunk missing from his head. Mike quickly dragged the body out of the doorway so as not to draw attention. The tech in the corner just wimpered.

Alright Black. Time to hurry up.

[N3B]

OOC: hrmm... got a lot of reading to do.