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[OCC: oops, I thought the attacker was the guy with the hole in his chest. Thanks for the heads up and grace with my misunderstanding! I'll post later tonight...]

(The attacker IS the guy with the hole in his chest. But nobody said anything about him being a zombie or even dead. He's very much alive as you can see. )

[I was using "zombie" in the loosest sense. I mean, he appeared dead... er... and alive.]

Sidney winced when she pulled the trigger. After firing a couple shots, she withdrew her hand from her portal and closed it. Sidney aimed down the lane at the attacker. If he moved, she would fire again. If an ant were on the barrel of her gun, it would have sworn there was an earthquake. She kept scanning the scene looking for another target.

Kaia decided that she was through playing games and using tricks. This man was going down. Her plan was simple. She just needed to get the man's weapons away from him. She knew she might have some sort of advantage with her heightened strength and speed from her enhanced muscles. Not by much though, thankfully the others were here. She crept slowly around the rack of crates she had been standing behind, edging around the corner. She tried to use Sid's portal shooting and her illusion on the other side of the man as a distraction as she ran up behind him. She kicked at the gun in his hand, hoping it would fall to the floor, and followed up with another punch to his side.

If she could get the gun out of his hands, and hopefully far away from him, she would use her silence on him, and shoot him in the kneecaps and stomach. Possibly eviscerate him, if she had the time, and if he was uncooperative with answering questions. Of course at this point, it was just a plan. She needed to focus on getting all his weapons away from him.

Kaia makes a dash for the man hiding on the other side of the rack and thanks to Sidney's and Larkil's shooting the man is kept suppressed and in cover, completely oblivious to all the sneaking around going on. She comes up from behind the corner and goes in for a kick at the gun he is holding. The man's hand darts out of the way and he tries to go in for the kill aiming the handgun at her. She tries to punch the man or otherwise make him unable to fire the gun but it is all too late, the gun goes off, Kaia punches him and then another shot. The sudden burst of adrenaline begins to die off and all she is left with is the sound of bouncing gun casings and a sudden sharp pain near her stomach. Looking down she sees blood, all over her torso, her pants. She feels up around where it hurts and only then notices that the wound is actually minor, the bullet whizzed past and cut away a bit of fabric and a bit of her skin, enough to bleed a bit. When the relief came that she is alright she finally noticed where all the blood actually came from. The man is slumped up against the boxes with his brains blown off. Looking further down the racks she spots Green leaning out of cover with his handgun pointed at the man's head. He went around and arrived at the nick of time, flanking the man and saving Kaia.

Upon closer inspection of the body they would see that the hole in his chest was most certainly made by some large caliber firearm and the reason why he is still alive is because his heart is made out of gold, a few other organs too. However, that was not the case with his most important organ. (Although I don't think the brain is actually an organ but what the heck.)

Sidney quickly moved to the body where she knelt with both hands on her firearm. She quickly noticed the gold shining out of the man's wounds.

"Is he dead?" she asked as she rummaged through the dead man's pockets and packs looking for any items with her free hand.

Her fingers brushed gently over the bloody graze, unconsciously. It had been far too close for comfort. "I really need to stop doing that. Jumping in without thinking, that is. Thanks Green. I mean it." She eyed the bloody mess that stained her clothing before shrugging. Her illusion faded away as Kaia faced Green. "Although I do appreciate you saving my life and all, I had wanted to get some answers from him. Maybe he knew where Mervill or Acker are? What do we do now?"

"Anytime. When I hit someone they..." Smiles green, happy to help out but is quickly cut off by Larkil. "This place. We still haven't looked around everywhere. Spread out." Green raises an eyebrow but doesn't say anything to his partner for interrupting him and simply holsters his weapon before starting to look for the two missing Polecats again.

Sidney moves through the man's pockets and pulls out a small apparently walkie-talkie which as she raises it springs to life. First some noise followed by voices tuning in: "Hey? Hey! It's on! It's working boss. We got contact again. G! Are you there G? Hello? Boss there's no response." The voice moves away from the microphone on the other end and they hear some muffled sounds and make out only a few words such as: Signal, industrial, bracelet. With the last word everyone looks down and notices the man wearing a faint light blinking red from under his shirt. The voice from the walkie-talkie becomes clear again. "Okay you idiots! Listen up! You're all dead in five minutes! You will pay for this you motherfuckers! We're coming for you! Cut the fucking line!" And then static.

"I think he's angry" sighed Sidney. Sidney pocketed the radio, it might make a useful component for one of her many project.

"What's the plan captain tight pants?" she asked green, "sounds like they got the whole gang there."

She kept both hands on the gun and kept her eyes open as she looked around the room. She wondered where in the building they could be hiding.

Kaia nodded at Larkil, with her eyebrow raised slightly. She roamed around the corners of the racks, making her pace quick. She was looking for anything that might lead them to where the 2 polecats might be. She did a quick sweep of her section, but paused as she heard the voices coming from the walkie talkie Sidney had found. She put her face in her palm, making her way back to the body that lay sprawled on the floor. It didn't take a genius to know that they knew he was dead and were on their way to finish them all off. What was so important about the guy anyway?

"Find anything?" She asked the others.

(Um, Train, they're not in the building. I thought that was clear.)

Larkil wastes no time and begins searching for the missing members. Green helps out by taking the left door of the three doors and Larkil responds by taking the right one. "Just a toilet." Says Green. Larkil opens his door and remains quiet simply staring at what is inside. Green rushes to him and looks inside as well.

The scene is horrendous. A blood trail on the floor is smudged with several footprints, all appear to be from the same person. In the corner of the small room is Acker, down sitting and leaned against the wall. Her head lifelessly hangs on her shoulder and most of her torso and everything inside is missing only to be found on the bloody floor before her. She was cut open or impaled, most certainly a wound from a cold weapon. Next to her lies Mervill. Turned face down and with half a dozen bullet holes in the back of his jacket. Next to his hand is a high-tech syringe of sorts, it is empty. Acker's uzi is next to her as well.

Rushing over to the door that Green and Larkil are standing in front of, Kaia's jaw dropped. It was a terrible scene. Her stomach turned and twisted violently, and she turned the corner around a rack, retching quietly as she held her hair back. Her mind raced with the possibilities. Why, who, how, when? They were polecats, just like her. Hell, it could have been her. It couldn't be, could it?

She wiped her mouth on the back of her hand before returning to the scene. She silently moved past Green and Larkil. Kaia wanted to know, for absolute certain. She felt the pulses of both. She also grabbed the syringe, examining it. When she spoke, her voice broke in uneven faults. "Do either of you know what was in this?" She didn't meet anyone's gaze.

(Ah! thanks shadow... my reading comp has fallen through the floor since midterms started... it will all be over on monday. I will post shortly.)

OCC: so after my two midterms, here I am! Alive, but barely so.

Sidney examined the seen with disgust. She didn't know how much more of all this gore she could handle. Sidney examined the syringes too. Maybe there was something in her computer's database on the type of syringe. If only she had databases synched to her wrist computer. Sidney examined the wounds on both polecats.

"I wonder why one is shot and not the other..." she mumbled. She quickly pocketed the uzi after checking it for booby traps. After all, she was scavenger, but a sensitive one at that. She would think of her fallen comrade every time she fired it or the weapon she would make out of it from the parts. She popped out the magazine a counted the bullets, perhaps they killed each other? She needed to be sure the bullets weren't the same ones that were in her comrade's body. Moreover, if that was the case, a powerful abilities user would be troublesome.

(Great to have you back!)

Kaia's fingers meet with Mervill's cold neck passing the feel of death to her. Moving across to the other body she feels the pulse of the more severely injured Acker. Again, a cold neck, no sign of life. Just as Kaia moves away the finger she feels a little bump. Quickly putting it back in place she spends the next few seconds in nerve wrecking anticipation. Nothing. Still nothing and then, a bump. It's Acker's pulse. Somehow, she is still alive. How that is possible Kaia doesn't know. Checking the syringe she can't identify it and shows it to the others. Sidney meanwhile finds out the uzi has no bullets left.

"You could, you know, not take their stuff." Says Green seeing Sidney grabbing the uzi.
"Kaia. Is it what I think it is?" Asks Larkil, putting away his plasma pistols back into his forearms.

(This topic has been suspended until Kaia's return.)

You can play somewhere else. If you are still here Train.