Chapter 1

Spotlights played across the compound as the guards patrolled the grounds of the BioCorp research foundation. BioCorp was the headmost developer of technological advances and almost ran a monopoly on weapons research and development. Their grounds were protected by advanced monitoring systems, automated defense grids, and the guards all packed the latest of BioCorp's weapons prototypes. Their research and development secrets were kept under strict lock and key to monopolize over the competition, the BioCorp company doing its best to keep out any form of industrial espionage with security measures to rival the CIA.

"Fuck. Dogs... You sure you got this Reisen?" Tewi brushed her matted black hair out of her eyes and looked out over the roof of the building at the collective security measures of BioCorp. As she mashed buttons furiously on a small hand-held device that ringed out with muffled beeps, she gave a hiss of satisfaction. "Yes! Motion detectors down, they'll have to engage the autodefenses manually. You think you can take them out before then?" She unhooked the device from the power box located on the wall they were hiding behind as not to be spotted. Her companion stood stoic, cold and determined as she looked out at the guards. She chambered a round each in her pair of Tactical Glock 35 Longslides, she cooly replied, "Just keep them in the dark. I'll take out the rest." She closed her eyes and pulled her headband over them.

Tewi noticed her long rabbit ears drooped along her platinum blond hair. The red guide lights made her hair look purple in the darkness of the night. Tewi gave a nod, "Good luck." Reisen gave no acknowledgment, save for a whispered, "I don't need luck..." She took off at a sprint and jumped off the building, the rope tied about her waist trailing behind her.

To say BioCorp was a large corporation was to define the ocean as wet. Millions of employees worked under their various branches, and the company employed some of the most brilliant minds in the country. However, the company held its secrets so close under the guise of preventing industrial espionage that workers rarely asked questions about the excess of security. No one but the top administrators had any clue as to the broad scope of BioCorp's operations, and even less knew about the secret projects conducted behind closed doors. Projects that weren't dare stored on anything but the most secure of connections. It came as little surprise to the higher administrators that the poor security forces of Lab 266 were nowhere near prepared for the rabbit-eared girl clad in a purple leather riding suit to come crashing through the window of the 26th floor.

The rabbit-eared girl tucked and rolled into a kneeling position. Reisen pushed the blindfold back up from her eyes, and performed a quick sweep of the room. The bunnygirl's cybernetics kicked in. In one fluid motion, she brought her twin handguns to bear and opened fire in a spray of bullets. Reisen's arms were a deadly blur of gunfire as she didn't bother to aim, trusting her cybernetic eyes to judge the position of her targets as she swung her arms in wide arcs. Not a single person escaped the volley as they were mowed down before they could take two steps. Each bullet was a shot in a disrupting organ. Spines were pierced, skulls were fractured, hearts were destroyed. Reisen looked around the corpse-strewn room. Satisfied that there were no more bodies to drop, she walked onward.

Up on the roof, Tewi was having trouble. "Crap ohcrap ohcrap! Shit! Shit! Shit! Fuckshit fuck!" She mashed away at the keys in vain as she tried rerouting the signal of the security cam that had just filmed Reisen's massacre. Her efforts were too late as the telltale sound of alarms and sirens coming to life, blaring their klaxon call to alert the BioCorp security personnel. She sighed in defeat, "Reisen, I hope you were right about not needing luck..."

Below, Reisen left the lab as she made her way down the hall. She slowly walked out into the lobby and started heading for the elevator. The door burst open, and snarls could be heard. A look of surprise crossed Reisen's eyes for a brief moment before her calm clarity returned. She watched as the attack dogs spotted her and charged, teeth bared. Reisen stood motionless as the dogs closed in on her. They leaped, and Reisen reacted with lightning speed. Utilizing the dense weight of her guns she swung in two wide arcs. Yelps of pain and then the slumping of canine bodies rang out as Reisen was rewarded with the sound of bones breaking, her weapons caving in the skulls of the attack dogs.

The sound of footsteps grew quickly as men burst from the stairwell and took up cover positions around the lobby. They brandished automatic rifles as their leader yelled "Freeze!" Reisen stood stock still, taking note of their positions.

Still on the roof, Tewi counted off the seconds "Three. Two. One." and with a press of the button she overloaded the power grid for the 26th floor. She watched on the surveillance cameras as the lights blew themselves out in a shower of sparks. "I hope you had enough time." Tewi whispered. Reisen listened to the pop of the lights and then the room was cast into pitch darkness.

She concentrated on listening to the subtle sounds of men moving about. Calculations were computed within fractions of a second before she locked the hammers of her Glocks back. Reisen steadily assumed one of her trained positions. She opened fire, taking out two of the guards, and then she twisted in that position into a low crouch, letting the spooked guards open fire wantonly. Her ears kept strict mental note of rounds expended and the sounds of friendly fire hits among the guards, who in their fear had opened up with their automatic rifles.

When she determined it was safe, she stood up, swinging into another firing position in the pitch black room and squeezed both triggers. Her mental calculations were rewarded as two more guards dropped, causing even more panic among her enemies. She cartwheeled backwards, avoiding the spray of guards who had opened fire on her position on seeing the muzzle flash of her handguns. She sprung back up into still another position and dropped two more guards. She continued her deathly dance of bullet spray as the guards dropped two by two. Her instincts fueled by her mental calculations taking stock of noise to determine her enemies positions in the darkness. She was a ghost, a reaper, death incarnate as she maintained her pattern of one bullet per guard.

Bodies dropped over in their death throws, slain by Reisen with pinpoint on the roof, Tewi waiting until the sound of gunfire died down over the security camera to route power back to the emergency lights. Tewi breathed a sigh of relief seeing Reisen as the only one still standing. Reisen had done it. Reisen walked toward the elevator, which dinged that it had arrived on the floor. Reisen was momentarily puzzled, she didn't remember calling the elevator.

Her confusion was quickly laid to rest as a red-haired girl in a green dressed stepped through and regarded her with a stern look. "Reisen."

"Meiling." Reisen quickly brought one of her guns and pointed it strait at Meiling, who smirked undaunted. Reisen squeezed the trigger.