Author's Note; Fro Ninja; Hey guys what's going on?! Sorry that this release took so long. Life takes it toll on all of us it seems, and it sure as hell took his toll on me.
Jester; Well the important thing to remember is that we're now Fro. Don't forget feed the two headed beast in the dungeon again.
Fro Ninja; Seriously? Where do you get these things from?
Jester; Internet...
Fro Ninja;...okay, let's just get to the comments shall we?
The Book; Thank you for checking in as usual my friend. Yes, Nicosia has that empathetic ability for people that have experienced the kind of past that he has, which is a result of his time for being in The Forsaken, not just his experiences. But that's how the majority of religious cults recruit their members no?Just to be clear, Kote isn't the only one who would have to make a choice like this to decide their future, as the choice will be extended to almost every Cryptic type in the world, since this is the Forsaken's goal. And to answer your question, there most likely won't be that much controversey going on with Kote's kidnapping, since this kind of activity has been going on for quite a while now. If you remember, Terry had mentioned that during his last conversation with the fake Huey. But of course, I can certainly understand your concern with Kote though, as he is the only one missing the action, so he cannot offer any input on the situation. But of course, that's why we read on.
NeonPartyDude;Yeah, I thought Nicosia's character depth could use a little more depth to when Jester originally introduced, so of course there will be more to come with his character. Nicosia offers insight on one aspect of the Pure-types habits, but keep in mind he is only one result of that kind of treatment. There are more like him in the universe, but they will come a little later on. As for Kote coming back in action, well...he won't be coming back for a while unfortunately. The mental damage that was done to Kote by the Pure-types was so critical, his body needs a significant amount of time to assess and repair the damage. Fortunately, Huey had placed a seal of sorts in his mind to halt off the spreading damage until he can fully heal, which his body is doing at a very slow pace. Most likely the result of his wolf blood, human blood, and cryptic type DNA cancelling each other out. But rest assured he will be back in the future. Lastly for Huey,that was a power that he had used during the last arc, but it wasn't as powerful as it is know. But, there will be more to come with his abilities.
Fro Ninja; Well that's it for the comments. So I guess there's no hope for Huey x Zeo, as barely anybody was talking about it. Damn you people and your anti-love semantics! (Hahaha, just kidding :P)
Jester;Man nobody's trying to love these hoes. Are you crazy Fro?!
Fro Ninja; Not crazy just sensitive.
Jester; Well get yo sensitive ass in gear. We got shit to write!
Fro Ninja; One more thing!(said in Uncle's voice) A prequel is going to be coming out soon that's based on this series, titled Good Boys, which feature Fisk and Harmon in their high school days. It's going to be a a buddy cop fling of sorts, and it will be a solo project from yours truly. But don't worry, me and Jester will still come together to give you guys the TAP content you so gladly deserve as beautiful people.
Jester; Damn, can't wait for that one.
Fro Ninja; Neither can I, alright. Without further ado, let's get it started!
Third person's View
Huey back flipped several times as Nicosia lashes out at him with a spiked tendril that was once his arm. Seeing the attack coming, he launches from his series of flips past a hallway chair to grab and throw a fire extinguisher at the shapeshifter. Batting the metal canister away, Nicosia pushes a wheelchair into Huey's path, causing him to stumble from the wheelchair and throwing off his footing. Huey then quickly ducks behind the floors nurse station desk.
"I'm impressed to see your skills little cat. It's been a while since I've seen some real action since coming to this shit hole of a town, and I am enjoying myself so far. But I would enjoy carving the skin of your dead face even more!"
"Before or after I kick in your teeth? Cause it might be an improvement to hat face of yours. I could place a couple of rose dresses on you, give you a couple of flare skirts, some pearl necklaces. Make you really get in touch with your feminine side there." Huey grinned with confidence.
"Trash talking huh? Such disgusting language doesn't do good for the soul you know." He chided.
"This coming from the cross dressing prom queen? I'm hesitant to take your advice there!" The young low born let out a small growl, which had amused Huey. "Mad at me huh? Whatcha gonna do about it?!"
Jetting out both his legs, Nicosia morphs them into a large drill and spirals headlong into his opponents position. In the heat of the moment, Huey dodges the attack flawlessly, and quickly turns to change his direction, bashing into him with an abrupt force from his shoulder by focusing all of his muscles and power into one single point. He lets loos with the attack, launching him into a door behind the nurse station.
Nicosia clumsily recovers by removing the debris off of his body. Holding his head together, he barely sees Huey standing to one side unharmed with his hands in his pocket, slowly approaching him.
"Not too fast on the uptake are you?" Thrusting his hand forward, Huey takes him by his legs and hurls his opponent off his feet slamming him through a wall, and onto a hospital gurney. Upon recovering on his landing, he grabs the gurney and hurls it at Huey. Focusing energy into his right hand Huey channels his powers into the edge of his hand, releasing a burst of flames with dense and thin characteristics, almost resembling a blade of sorts, then in one swing, cuts the gurney in two. The two pieces of the moving bed clatter and spark behind him as the embers from his hand extinguish after a few seconds. "So, how much longer are we gonna be playing this game? Not that I don't enjoy it, but I really have some higher priorities at the moment."
His opponent stood there with his mouth slightly open in bewilderment.
"So you can wield flames as well? As to be expected of you I suppose."
Huey glares back at him in confusion
"What? What are you talking about?"
Nicosia chuckles.
"That my child...is none of your business!"
All of sudden, several tendrils erupt from the marble hospital floor, making Huey purely on instinct Each tendril sporting a mouth with teeth lining them much like a lamprey's mouth. Huey flicks his wrist releasing his katana hidden within a small aluminum compartment in his watch
"H-how did you?!"
"Experimental pocket dimensional technology in my watch. I'd go over the details, but long story short, I had a lot of free time to myself in the hospital!"
The blade catches the teeth, but the force of the impacts send Huey back a couple of feet. He attempts to recover by sliding on his heels before coming to a complete stop. Huey sees Nicosia running down the hall. "Hey, get back here you sociopathic trap!"
Following hot after his target up the staircase, Huey stops in a moments pause as several marbles bounce in front of him. He ducks and covers his head as a sudden explosion goes off. Huey thumbs his ears of white noise as debris falls around him.
"Gotta say, not bad for my first night as night security. It'd be a lot worse if he had killer robots hunting me too...although that would bump up the awesome rating on this fight. Arghhh!" Huey then holds his side in pain. He lifts his shirt to up find slight amounts of blood leaking from his bandage."Ahhh...whew...can't push myself too hard I see..." Despite his good condition, Huey had yet to fully heal from his injuries. Curiously enough, he didn't require long to recover from them, only taking a few weeks at best, whearas a normal person would still be in the ICU. He then took some deep breaths, and focused his energy into stablizing his condition."Right, time to get back into this thing, huh?"
His ears perk up upon hearing and feeling his phone go off in his pocket. His expression turns dark upon seeing the caller idea, and swallows nervously. Doing his best to remain calm, he answers the phone.
"Helllloooo..." He says softly.
"Where are you?" Ellen voice speaks calmly on the other line, though Huey senses the agression in her tone He then quickly hops to his feet and gives chase through the ruined stairwell.
"Ohh, ummm...me and Zeo decided to get some...ummm...burgers! Yeah! We're at this burger joint I read about online!"
"Burgers?"
"...Yeah! You know how much I love burgers!"
"At 11:30 at night?"
"...The drive thru is open..."
"Really? So the reported explosion in the northern district Hospital where Kote is, for a lack of a better term, has nothing do with your 'burger visit'?"
Huey begins to sweat behind his neck as he lets out a small chuckle
"Haha...can't hide anything from you huh?"
"What are you doing over there?"
"Okay. There's a guy here. A really cute guy, whose been keeping tabs on Kote while staying undercover in the town. I think he's with the Forsaken."
"What?! Are you certain?!" Ellen's voice tensed up.
"Weird powers, murderous intent, with some obvious psychological issues? Yep, I'm very certain."
"Has he gotten to him yet?"
"No. I'm making sure of that personally."
The phone remained silent for a moment as Ellen was pondering everything thus far. Huey can turned around the corner after making up another staircase, barely feeling any shortness of breath.
"Very well. I will try to have Furball and Tessera are heading to you. They're off base, but they will come quickly to your position as the urgency calls for it. In the mean time, do try to make sure the others patients are all unharmed. The vibrations from the explosion might have shaken the structure of the building from inside."
"Don't worry. Zeo's handling that for me so no worries on the patients or her safety. Besides, I've memorized the layout of the place. For the most part, the only patients that are here presently are in the recovery wing on the second, third, and fifth floor on the far east side of the didn't even feel anything since its built on an entirely diffrent structure thant the west only that, there are no nurses here, not even any custodians. This place is completely empty. Whoever this creep is, he must have done something to get everyone at for something like this to happen. I don't know how many explosives he has planted in the building, but I'm not gonna bother pissing him to find out about it later."
"Well, at least it's good to know you're on top of such details. You always did plan out your steps are you currently?"
"I just made it to seventh floor. Why?"
"If the enemy was indeed keeping tabs on young Valentine as you say, with their cover blown they'll most likely be escape with him."
"Is this guy from the same group that those two girls belonged to?"
"No. The Forsaken do not believe in sending in other groups to make up for another groups failures. They expect results from each of their groups, success or failure.
"So they don't allow do overs. Realistic."
"Yes, so it's highly unlikely that this one is a charge for the ones we have in incarceration. This one must have his own agenda. Either that, or he must be acting on direct orders from the higher authorities, seperate from the main group overall."
"So there are independent agents as well. Looks like these guys are a lot more extensive then I thought. Signing on spies to perform ops" Huey pondered.
"Were you expecting any different? Every organization has an espionage unit of some kind. The Forsaken are no different."
"They sure have a funny way of showing that difference. By destroying an entire town."
"I can tell you from experience that not all Pure-types are debaucherous sociopaths."
"Experience? It almost sounds like you know one." Huey asked.
"A story for another time young one."
"Aww man. Anyway, I'm currently chasing him through a burning hospital as you probably would have guessed by now. I'll make sure that he's not going anywhere near Kote."
"I understand your feelings young one of wanting to protect your friend, but do not act irrationally. Do not attempt any heroics, and most of all, do not underestimate your opponent!"
"Hey, c'mon Ellen, it's me remember? I'll call you back as soon as I catch up to him. Oh yeah, and tell Furball and Tessera...don't bother rushing. This one is mine."
As he hangs up the he begins to make his way up the destroyed series of stairs, and then climbs along pieces of the wall by shimmying down its edges. Soon, he made it to the eight floor. Upon getting to the patients wing of floor, Huey sprints to Kote's room in a slight cold sweat. As he got closer, he suddenly finds himself getting blown back as another explosions rings out between two doors behind him, and rolling over into another recovery room.
He stands up on his feet, shaking his head and wiping the dust off of his clothes.
"Dammit! Trying to kill time huh?! It's gonna take more than that!" Huey then jogs into the room of his friend to see the target in question with Kote slung over his left shoulder, just seconds from jumping out of the window."Going somewhere?!"Nicosia elongates his arm and moves to swing away through the window. Huey forms a small ember ball in his hand and throws them at the shapeshifter. He reacts by blocking them with a larger and hardened version of his right arm. "Made you look!" Huey then charges forward, using the flames as a distraction, throwing a few hard punches right his face, knocking him down on the ground, causing him to drop Kote on the floor. While getting up, he then felt the afflicted spot on his face, only to notice a few drops of blood leaking from his mouth.
"My face...My face. You damaged...MY FACE!" The young lowborn spiked with anger as his touched his damaged face.
Teeming with rage Nicosia morphs his face until his teeth resembles that of a canine and bites down onto Huey's fist as he tries to throw another punch.
"ARGHH! You got a biting fetish too?!" Extending his neck Nicosia raises Huey off his feet and throws him into the room's adjacent wall. He takes a quick look at his hand, with it showing several puncture among the skin, and a considerable amount of blood leaking from it. Seeing him on the ground, the lowborn see's this as his chance to escape, and grabs Kote to begin making his exit.
Huey shakes his head to sprinted to tackle Nicosia from behind sending all three of them out the window, and falling from the eighth floor. As they were falling, Huey attempted to reach for Kote, only to be denied by the shape shifter as he grabs him by the wrist pulling him back.
"You're not getting to him, not while I'm still alive!" He yells out
"That can be arranged whelp!"
The two struggle fiercely while in mid air, exchanging several blows all at incredible speeds. Nicosia creating two more arms to force Huey to let go of his friend. The young cat takes a hard right to the jaw and loses his grip, but only for a few seconds before desperately grabbing onto Nicosia's leg much to his dismay. He starts to stomp down onto Huey's with his heel morphed into a sharpened point and begins picking away at his shoulders. Despite the pain grueling pain he feels as his muscles becoming penetrated, Huey holds on with sheer willpower, and determination to save his friend. "You persistent fuck! Let go of me! Unless you want your brain to be next!"
"Speaking of brains, you sure don't have much of them, do you?!" Huey then grabs the next leg strike coming his way in the middle of its trajectory, and uses the momentum to climb up on the shapeshifter. His hands then erupted with swirling flames around his right hand and swung away at his target, striking across the face along with several body blows. Leaning forward, he then held Nicosia down by his hands as they both continued to fall.
"What the hell are you-?!"
"Let see you grit those teeth, because this is gonna hurt!" Huey then gave a huge knee to his opponents solar plexus, causing him a huge loss of air, and before long knew what hit him, he had been slammed head first onto the roof mini van, causing a huge dent on its roof, and for the car alarm to suddenly sound off. In that moment, Huey quickly ran across the walls of the building and jumped off to quickly grab Kote in mid air.
He then grabbed onto a nearby tree branch, using it to swing onto the ground a few feet away from the parking lot. Though his body was given new injuries, he hardly felt any pain from the excursion. Even carrying his brick of a friend over his shoulder was a trivial thing for him to handle. The previous training with Anthony had begun to show its effects on his body in speed, strength, and durability, though the majority of it came from his natural bodily state as Cryptic-type
He then looked at his friends sleeping face and shook his head while smiling.
"Haha! Damn buddy! You sure are missing a lot! I seriously didn't think I was gonna catch you there. Not bad for a guy with intentional blue balls eh?" Hearing the sound of various metal and machinery move, he looked over at the ruined mini van, with his enemy easily standing up from the wreckage. Nicosia jumped down from the cars' roof and began limping his way over to Huey with a twisted expression.
"Hehehe...Surprised?!"
Huey shrugged his shoulders and grinned brazenly
"At this point. No not really." He says as he sets Kote down by a nearby tree."This is the second time you ignoramus assholes have come after one of us like this, and both times you failed to do so. At this point I might as well start making a tally at this point, because this shits starting to get old!"
"Ignoramus?! We are the ignoramuses?! You know nothing of us little one! Who we are, and the services we intend to bring upon the world! You know nothing!"
"Wanna bet?! I already know everything that the Forsaken are planning. Kote isn't your only target despite what other people might think. I am as well, as well one of my other friend. We're just one part of the whole puzzle. I know what the army's purpose is for as well."
Nicosia was set aback a little.
"You knew? For how long?!"
"You ever watch the news? It's really informative. In the past week, there have been reports of unidentified kidnappings escalating all around Eastern Europe. And this happened just a few days after the cleanup of Happy Garland was announced. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that after your plans got squashed, you decided to accelerate the process of performing your abductions in your local area, especially those who probably just awakened to their powers, or are even berserkers. Kind of like my friend here, seeing as how he was one a few weeks ago. And speaking of which, you've been keeping an eye on him for a while now, haven't you?"
"I don't have to answer that!" He snapped in response, and then started to cover up his nervousness with a chuckle." Besides, I offer you a standing ovation for figuring out such a brief overlay of our vision for the future, the part that so many get wrong upon first glance."
"Vision nothing! What you're doing is wrong! You're kidnapping people against their will to join something they don't want to be a part of, based on powers they never asked for! "
"No one asks for this...Yet it is how we make the most of our gifts, no? Can you not claim the same? Are you not at least privy to the abilities that make you better than the average person? To use them? To expand them to their fullest potential? And then to exact reckoning on those that you put you down for your gifts?"
"What I do with my body and my powers is none of you business."
"Ah, you don't deny it do you?! You are just like me aren't you? Tossed and discarded by people that saw you as nothing but a means to an end. A tool for their own selfish utililizations. Your body was their own version of their playground for them to damage and desecrate. Such is the method for everyone that has gone through life in such a manner."
"Let me guess. You're gonna tell me that you're freeing people in captivity, or giving them a place to call their own just as long as they adhere to a certain figure or a monolith? If so, you already gave me confirmation that you guys are not only bat shit crazy, you're delusional."
"Be reasonable with yourself kitten. All we are doing is providing the key for those who have been incarcerated by those put in charge of society that rejects the development of ones talents, in other words being different. In fact..."The shapeshifter gave a twisted smirk."I smell the scent of enslavement from you as well. A soul that has been captured and used as property for his masters own pleasures and cravings. Ahhh yes, I feel it all around you. You have felt what it's like to be castrated by this world, having what matters most taken away from you because of your gifts. I see...As to be expected, you and I are the same. We both have no place where we truly belong. No one that we could call on as someone that will be there for us in our time of need, as they love to state."
"What makes you think you got me all figured out?"
"I've felt it of course. Your aura. That twisted and conflicted aura that surrounds their very fiber of your being. One that has the apects of law and chaos constantly conflicting inside of you like lightning going against the will of thunder. Your friend is of a similar nature, albeit his chaotic nature was more, instilled. Molded by his constant times of battle and wars that waged inside of him. You and I...we were born into it. It's always been there." Huey stayed silent for a moment. "Hmm, what's wrong kitten? Do you realize that there is truth to my words?" He then smiled.
"Listen to me pal. You can spout all of the cultist rhetoric that you want to until you're purple in the face. I am who I am. And I'm sure my comatose friend here, can say the same for himself. I'm nothing like you, and neither is he for that matter! We both have people we care about, and can count on them to accept us for who we are, despite what we are. Not that you would know anything about that."
"Grrr, and just how would a whelp like you know what he's thinking?!"
"Because, I've experienced his memories firsthand. I'm the only one in the world in the world who knows exactly how he feels about everything, and he's the same way."
Nicosia sucked his teeth.
"Foolishness!Complete foolishness! I was an idiot to believe you were the same as him! That fact the sensation is the same disgusts me to no limit!"
"Him?" Huey thought to himself. "Who the hell is he talking about?"
He quickly regained his composure.
"Wow, I'm impressed you've kept me talking for such a fair amount of time little kitten. I'm impressed. Most people don't survive within three seconds of meeting me, never mind talking."
"Well with how you look, no wonder people stay silent."
Nicosia growled and transformed his right hand into a large knife, and his other hand into a spiked hammer, and got into a stance. Huey reacted on instinct by going into his fighting stance while his fists erupted in flames.
"You insolent little bitch!You will take that back!"
"Why don't you make me?" He said brazenly. Suddenly, something had clicked in Huey's head as he turned around, looking frantically around the area."Wait, what is that? I just felt...three, four, five, six brain wave signatures coming this way? And they're coming fast! And it feels like there's more behind them! This isn't good!" He then quickly turned to a confused Nicosia who still had his guard up."I take it you've invited your little friends to this lovely little escapade huh?!"
"I've brought no such thing with me! I've been sent here for solo reconnasiance and nothing more! How dare you accuse me of needing something so trivial! But now that you mention it..." He then stopped to scan the area with his senses."...the air does feel slightly disturbed, and it is oddly silent."
Huey then became a little more tense as he sensed seven more wave signatures approaching their position.
"Well, looks like the night ain't over yet it seems..."
Ten minutes earlier
Every one of the people were in a panic at the sudden sounding of the city-wide alarm, due to both of the explosion at Mercy Hospital, and the abrupt alarm notice at the military base which The Company was occupying.
"W-What the hell is going on?! Why's the alarm sounding off?!" One random dog pedestrian shouted out.
"Oh my god! First Happy Garland, now us?! What's happening?!"
"Holy shit! I gotta get the fuck outta here!"
Droves of people began to flood the sidewalks and streets in wide eyed hysteria over what was happening. It was easy to say that while nothing detrimental had happened to the city yet, almost every state in the country as been on edge for possible future attacks, even going so far to declare them as full on terrorist attacks.
Police blockades were set up all around the various streets, with officers directing escape routes and emergency exits to safe bunkers.
"Everyone! Please stay calm!" An cat officer in a blue uniform struggled to keep order among the volume increasing crowd. "The police are attempting to find the origins of the sudden alarm! As of now, we don't know the cause, but we are expending every effort to disclose the truth!"
"Whaddya mean you don't know?! You're the fucking police! You're where out tax dollars go you idiots!" A burly dog barked out at the officer, pointing at him in accusation of negligence."If you can't even find out the reason people are losing their shit, than what good are you?! You can't even keep the people you're trying to protect under control! What's a few blockades gonna do?!"
"Hey! Hey that guy's right!"
"I moved to this city to get away from things like Happy Garland, and now it's happening again! I was expecting to be protected by those who swore to, and now those same people can't even find out the why an alarm is going off?! Are you fucking kidding me?!" Dozens of angry citizens began to barge around the officer, even attempting to grab at him.
"Please! Everyone! Just please remain calm-" A fist then came flying through the crowd, striking the officer, knocking out several of his teeth.
"Enough with telling us to calm down! We are not fucking calm!" Many of the citizens began to trample and stomp on the officer, as he laid helpless on the ground. Other people began to follow suit, offering up their own spur of rebellion, striking and climbing over the barracades that the authorities put up. The police met the opposition with nothing short of riot shields, as they barred against an entire moving force.
"Stay back!" One cop shouted as he struggled with one of the townsfolk.
"What the hell are you people even good for anyway?!"
Suddenly a several jeeps screamed down the road all in a V-like formation, zooming through almost every traffic signal and lights.
"Get out of the way!" The crowds of people than rolled out of the street as the cars zoomed down the street that the majority of riot was taking place. The jeeps maneuvered through the droves of pedestrians, effortlessly dodging and swerving every single one that came in their range, and blasting straight through the blockades. Once they cleared the riot area, they began to take the road leading to the hospital.
In the leading car, the large bear sat in the passengers seat with a modified twenty four-caliber bolt action rifle between his legs. A white bunny with glasses sits next to the Sergeant as the driver. He expertly drives through the crowds not managing to hit a single person while also leading the formation. The bear looks upon the rioters and grunted in frustration.
"Americans. Give them an invisible threat that take action, and soon their cowardice will show. Now they attempt to throw tantrums like spoiled children that have sand in their eyes just to make a point of their you believe this foolishness?"
"I believe that is a trait all of us have sir. It is simply within our nature to fear what we do not understand." The bunny spoke. "Rosseau once said that we are the source of our digressions and vices. And that all disease and curses that are present in the world, came as a result of the establishment of civilization."
The bear furrowed his brow.
"I never took you for a philosopher, Private Stillman."
"I'm not, sir. Our cause incites us to be knowledgeable in the behavior of the normal people. That is simply one of the aspects of my studies that I cam across. We are fragile as a race unfortunately. Though I am no stranger to cynicism however."
"Even of your own countrymen?"
"Unfortunately, this is no longer my country anymore. I abandoned everything when I signed on to this army. Or rather, when everything was taken away from me for the sake of protecting a blind government. But you should know that already sir, shouldn't you?"
"I did. I just wanted to see if you yourself knew it. It seems my doubts were not that profound. But I am looking forward to seeing that declaration in action, Private."
"Understood Sergeant Illyich."
"Now step on it! We've almost approached the city clearing!" Stillman slams the accelerator as they turn onto another street heading towards their destination just a little pass the city the hospital and several of its floors in flames the sergeant grits his teeth and tightly grips his fists.
"Damn those abominations! They give no qualms to the destruction or mayhem that they cause!"
The jeeps then stop a few blocks away from the hospital, to avoid detection. Stillman then takes out his tablet out of his knapsack and activates it. The screen lights up as sub menus pop up on an extensive GPS mapping system going for about five klicks in the general direction they were facing.
"Private, have our tactical schematics mapped out over this entire area." Quickly swiping through the menus and fingers going across the keypad at deafening speed, he highlights the location of several different outlets set up around the hospital that the Landsmen could be stationed at, awaiting orders should their targets possibly try to escape.
"Already done sir, along with possible set ups with artillery, as well evacuation routes for the patients that our retrieval unit will pick up as our assault unit flanks the enemy, followed by a layered clean up from out defense unit as covering fire!"
"Very good! As expected of the academy's top graduate! All right men! It's time to mobilize!" Several of the armor clad soldiers then exit out of the jeeps, and all quickly assembled in formation around the hospital, right at the designated spots that Stillman had predicted. They all stood ready with their assault rifles at the ready, pressed to their chests. The sergeant then takes up a walkie talkie
"Listen up men! The Commander has chosen all of you here for this special assignment! To eliminate the berserker that has been placed here, as well as any other monsters that we might find here, which is a guarantee, as they are all attract one another! As secondary assignments follow, rescue and retrieve any possible patient that is found in the facility!But keep your primary mission in mind. If you see a Cryptic-type, shoot to kill gentlemen! Do not let a single one live! I repeat, do not let a single on live! Let your rage overflow you in your actions! The pain you feel for all they have taken away from you! Hold true to your identity! All soldiers of the true races of this world know who are we are!"
"We are the light in the darkness! We are the pilgrims of our fate! We are the true defenders of this world! We are the keepers of this land!" The soldiers all spoke unison. The Sergeant spoke along them over the radio.
"We are the Landsmen! The true army of the free world!"
Illyich nodded in acknowledgement.
"Very good! Now go brothers! Fulfill your duty!" All of the soldiers began to all drove into the hospital in flawless formation. The Sergeant and the Private both stood outside with their eyes glued to the tablet, which monitored the life signals of every single soldier in the operation, from monitoring heart beats, brain patterns, and many other vital areas. A few minutes in, the scouts had reported a sighting with the notification popping up on the screen two red dots, just a few kilometers where they were parked.
"Sir, it appears we have types in the parking garage to the back of the hospital." Stillman said while monitoring the situation.
"What of the patients?" The Sergeant asked.
"It appears most of them...have been evacuated. From the looks of it, just a few minutes before we arrived." Stillman stated the report in confusion.
"There should be no staff on duty at this particular hour... Is there any sign of an outsider." The sergeant immediately ruled out any possbility of it being on the two targets.
"None so far, but, according to my scanners, police have begun to quarantine this area just a few minutes after our arrival, so I doubt they will be able to escape on foot. Plus I'm scanning the hospital's computer's now, it seems only a handful of patients were even here to begin with."
"That makes sense, considering this is a fairly peaceful town, so it stands that there wouldn't be that many injuries or crimes taking place. If the person evacuating several patients on their own is really true, they must be of considerably strong..."
"It seems that is the case, or at least the most logical conclusion."
"We'll double back after phase 2 to secure the patients, and make sure that our rescuer is legit. What about the police? What is their ETA?"
"Considering that they have just set up a quarantine just moments before we arrived, plus the urgency of the city wide alarm followed by the ongoing riots, I would predict that puts us in about a 5- 10 minute time range."
"That will be plenty of time." The Sergeant crossed his arms in toughness, with his fists still tight in their grip. "And with any luck, more will come and we can show them that we no longer have nothing to fear from these beasts."
Meanwhile at the Company's temporary base of operations
Several alarms rang at high volumes throughout the hallways of the base, as the rest of the massess of soldiers began to converge to from the northeastern barracks. They had came in droves, equipped to the teeth in supplemented armor and weaponry, and had moved out in formation out of the door and down the hall. Soon, the intercom had blasted on with some static on the other end and began to echo throughout the base.
"Attention all hands! This Sergeant Bovell! The two prisoners have escaped and are making their way the courtyard on the lower west side of the base! We are taking heavy casualties! I repeat! Taking heavy casualties! All available squads intervene immediately! Hold them off as long as you can until the Blades return! We must not let those prisoners escape at any costs! Stop them!"
En route to the courtyard, where the exit had been located according to diagnostics of the base, the two Pure-types had made their way through the life support systems of the base, continuing to leave a heavy trail of corpses in their wake.
"It seems they are aware of our escape. We must make haste." Kaos said to a nodding Zana as they ran down the hallway. Pretty soon after cutting every corner from right to left, they came into contact with a battalion of troops, who all stood in formation to block them off.
"Hold it right there you fucking freaks!" One agent yelled out, having his sub-machine gun pointed at them. Zana cartwheeled a few times as a slew of agents fires at her flawlessly dodging all of the rounds, barely leaving traces of afterimages for the eyes to follow. But while distracted, Kaos quickly rushes all of the agents by delivering a flurry of strikes to three on her right and two on her left, and then proceeded to grab a female agent in front of her with her whole hand covering her face.
"Burn whelp." The screams of pure agony bellows from her lips as the snow leopard is engulfed in flames. She then throws the smoldering corpse towards another arriving group of agents as they open fire at the first sight of the sisters. They both hide behind separate pieces of cover. Kaos scans the area and then forces her way into a locked room a few feet from where she was finding an agent trying to hide behind cover. "Cowardly little shit! Come here!" Grabbing the thin male by his tail he tries to kick away Kaos's hand. She then gives a hard backhand that leaves him paralyzed in her grip.
Holding him by his collar, Kaos walks slowly back into the hallway.
"There she is! Get ready to-wait!" The agent focused his sights and held his arm out. Don't shoot! Don't shoot goddammit!"
All of the agents gasp with great shock as they their fellow agent held up by Kaos, floating in front of her and acting as her shield. "Jefferson! Dammit! Let him go!"
"Would anyone care to see their fellow whelp die right before their eyes? She said in a arrogant tone of voice, only to receive silence from all of them."No? Well then, drop your weapons fools!" As she made the demand, they all began to drop their weapons one by one. Seeing their prisoner holding a fellow agent, they hold their fire.
"We've done as you asked...Now please...let him go." One agent asked.
"But of course, I would do that..."Kaos then smirked. "If I had a single intention of doing that!"
Dropping down from above them, Zana appears, quickly piercing her hand into one of agent's backs, letting out screams of pure pain as the crack of his spine from within his body. Using her bloodied hand, she throws a fist of blood into another agents eyes, blinding them.
Grabbing the agent by her neck Zana forces her to be her shield. All of the others stand at attention, as the event happened faster than they could even react to it. Zana then kicked up one of the guns that the agents dropped on the floor, and pointed at them.
"Do you think that numbers makes up everything in a fight? It just makes killing you all even easier." Zana then rips off the agents arm to bash another across the face, and then opens fire at his stomach, putting about five rounds in him.
Kaos smiles, as she uses nothing but her thumb to snap her hostages neck. As they look around, they see nothing but corpses in their wake. Zana then crushes the gun she was holding into a million pieces.
"I never saw the point of these." She said calmly.
Kaos then felt a sharp sense go through her head as she looked around her surroudings, and then smiles. "I can sense my Huey! He's not too far from here!"
"Where is he?" Zana said uninterested.
"It's hard to pinpoint a location exactly. There seems to be...strong interference resonating from this place that's preventing me from doing so. Yes. It is quite strong indeed."
"Interference?" Zana pondered. "Do you think it might be..."
"If it is, I'm certain at least you can handle her. I have no qualms to know she'll react exactly once she knows we've escaped."
"I'll deal with it."
"Glad to hear it! Wait...I sense another...is that...inconceivable!" Kaos stomped the ground around her in fit, creating minor tremors around the base.
"What is it?"
"It's him. That fucking Lowborn! Father sent the Lowborn!"
"Nicosia? He's here?" Zana's face had lit up with intrigue, which was a rarity.
Kaos gave a tiny sneer at Zana.
"Ah yes. You and he were quite close when you were both in the Ashgate Facility weren't you? The place where they take the rejects? I suppose experimented rejects do fall in line with unwanted spawns now don't they?"
"It's not that we were close. We just agreed to look out for each other."
"Is that all?"
"Yes. There's nothing deeper between us."
Kaos rolled her eyes.
"Really? Hmph, I suppose it is something esoteric between matter. I call it whatever you will sister. I have never had any qualms of getting involved with that piece of gutter trash, and I surely don't now. I honestly have no idea why Father keeps him around, though I suppose he is rather skilled in silent eliminations, but that's beside the point. Such ugly and disgusting powers that one has. The fact that you seem to fall in line with him seems to give off some kind of compliment to those who are just simply born into perfection. Like yours truly"She fluttered her eyes with flair of pomp.
"Whatever." Zana shrugged her shoulders.
"It seems he is with my Huey as of right now." She then grinded her teeth as her fists tightened."If he lays so much as a finger on him, I will tear the scalp from that putrid face of his, as I peel every inch of his skin off!"
"That's kind of excessive..." Kaos raised an eyebrow at her as she gestured to the agent with a whole in his back."Oh right...That was the spur of the moment." She said as she returned back to her usual monotone voice.
"Anyhow, we must continue to find an exit out of this place. Father certainly isn't expecting us to come back anytime soon, he would have sent a brigade after us already. but we must make it back to headquarters. Zana, I need you to track where the agents were coming from. Perhaps then, we can relay some idea of an exit."
Zana nodded silently. She then went over to one of the corpses of the dead agents and began to sniff his body, starting with his clothes all the way down the fur of his upper torso for a about ten seconds. She inhaled the entire scent and then began to examine the surrounding area. "Well? Anything?"
As soon as she said that, Zana had focused her attention to the eastern and pointed in that direction.
"There's something this way."
"Is it the exit?"
"I don't know. But this one has the same scent as fresh cut grass and gunpowder."
"...well, as bizarre as that sounds, it's a step forward at least. Let us be on our way."
The two then run down hallway, which was the opposite direction the agents had come in. The facility was beginning to look like a maze, with each corridor looking the same as the next. Numerous amounts of footsteps could be heard racing around their ears, which meant that more adversaries were coming in on their position. They come to a staircase that was extending to the lower and upper barrack areas.
"Which way sister?" Kaos asks.
Zana began to sniff profusely again trying to see the best course of direction.
"There they are!" An agent fired off his voice as him and his squad began to approach the staircase where the two were standing.
"Such persistent worms, the lot of you!"
Kaos then creates an orb of dark flames and throws it back down the hall, incinerating the squad of guards coming towards them with strange black embers roaring around the place. Her ears then line up as she then hears chatter coming from behind the stairwell door just a few feet away from the right. "More rats for me to exterminate I see." She then throws another fire orb towards the door, causing a fiery impact against obstacle, incinerating the agents hiding directly behind from the flames reaching around the corners
The explosion kicks the door out of its hinge, causing the hiding agents to run and try to find another way out. "Well that certainly takes care of that. Any luck yet sist-" Kaos then turns her attention back to Zana who starts to run up the stairs at a quick pace."I'll take that as a profound yes." She then follows suit after her up the stairs leading to the upper barracks.
After climbing a few more flights of stairs, they then come across an elevator.
"An elevator huh? This non-types certainly are extensive aren't they?"
Zana then looked across the hallway, spotting the entrance to the barracks. The doors were still closed, with barely any signs for individual exits.
"This must be their rooms."
"Is it now? Perhaps we'll find a map in there of sorts to navigate us to the exit." The two decided to step inside for a brief second, and to their surprise there wasn't a soul anywhere.
"There's no one here." Zana stated.
"I can certainly see that. There are supposed to be at least a handful of guards stationed in dormitories ready to engage a target. It's the most basic of tactics to a prison break. Where could they have gone I wonder?"
Zana began to inspect the doings of the barracks, scanning every detail of it. The beds were barely made, and clothes had been scattered all over the floor. Not only that, the T.V. had been left running despite the immediate lockdown of the base.
"Everything here has been recently used and left. They are not far."
"Indeed. Well, perhaps well encounter them eventually. Come, we shall take the elevator then. Hopefully it well bring us closer to the exit."
"And closer to her."
"Oh? Don't tell me you're afraid of that bunny are you sister?"
"No. I'm not."
"Is that so? Well, I won't judge your decision to back down from the fight you know."
Zana then gave a brazen glare that pierced right through Kaos, albeit a little.
"I said...I'm not afraid."
Silence was exchanged for a brief few seconds before Kaos shrugged her shoulders in defeat.
"Very well then, you don't have to get all serious you know. I know full well that you match against her. You wouldn't be Ashgate's Dark Panther if couldn't defeat a simple weed now wouldn't you? She will not cause you trouble, this I know for sure. But if it does indeed come to that, we will both kill her. Simple no?" Zana then calmed down and nodded. "Great! Now then let us be on our way."
Kaos then turned around in her tracks to go for the exit. Zana started to follow after her until she heard a tiny crumpling sound beneath her feet. Inspecting it, she came across a tiny photo, of what seemed to be a child hyena being held by a larger male hyena. They were both smiling while standing by a clear blue lake with greenery all in the background. It was one of a child and their father. The ideal picture of what such a relationship would look like to other people. Zana found herself staring at the picture for a good minute, before she tore it to pieces. She closed her eyes while her fist tightened with an iron like grip, so much so that her fist began to leak a little blood from its intensity.
"My father...huh?" She then lets out a sigh and throws the pieces in a nearby trash can. "Which one, I wonder?" She then exits the barracks, after taking her heart off of her sleeves.
As they approach the elevator, they push the button to call for the elevator. They both stood there patiently waiting for it to about a minute, the elevator opens showing five agents armed to fight.
"W-what the?!" An agent shouted out.
"T-they're here! Sh-"
Both sisters rush them before they could even act. Kaos grabs two by the neck, while Zana pins the other three to one side with her hands and arm around their necks. Both pure-types easily over power the three agents throwing them around the elevator car like rag dolls.
The black cat moves makes one agent open fire on two others with his auto-handgun. The bullets bounce of the cars walls and hits Kaos, piercing her hip and going through another agent's lung. She huffs as she lifts another agent off his feet.
"Bitch watch it!" She yells out as he finishes him off with a brutal neck snap. Even though it was a gun wound, it took less than a second for the wound to completely heal, with barely any sign of disturbance in the skin. Meanwhile, her sister grips the last agent and rapidly bashes his face into the elevators button console. Kaos watched in awe at the whole thing as the process kept on going.
"Sometime today Zana."
Hearing the statement, she lets go, and the agents flattened face slides down against the console. The two then turn to the door as the last agent looks at them.
"Oh? Are you still alive then? Would you care to have that mistake rectified?"Kaos said as she ignited her hand with black agent holds her bleeding chest to then show a stick of C4 from her hand."*sighs* And just what do you plan on doing with that thing?" Kaos rolled her eyes.
"I'm...taking...YOU FUCKING MONSTERS WITH ME!" Spiting at the sisters the agent presses the detonator, engulfing the elevator car in a massive explosion. The shearing metal and twisted smell of burning bodies slide down back down the elevator shaft.
The sisters had already been leaned against the walls of the shaft, quickly making use of the emergency exit, and spiring up the wires, flawlessly avoiding the range of the explosion. Looking down Kaos smirks at the smoking metal that was once the elevator car.
"These worms sure do love their toys, don't they?"
"To sacrifice herself, knowing that she was going to die in the name of some kind of irreverent moral conduct. They are all the same. Always trying to be heroes. Cowards"
"Feeling a little envious are we?"Zana responded with silence, unsure how to answer the question with certainty."I'm afraid until I'm done with you, you will have to put up with that unbearable feeling just a little reminder, our father put me in charge of your life. You are nothing but his tool. A convenient spawn for him to utilize as he sees fit And I am free to do whatever I please with it."She still remained silent, causing Kaos to giggle loudly."Ah yes. Silence as a response. You make such an obedient pet my dear sister. I am the envy of the others it seems!"Zana stayed quiet throughout her sisters laughing fit, forcing herself to be nothing but content with her current position. Stuck between the bonds of servitude and the illusion of sisterhood.
Raising her hand, Kaos sends a jet of fire into the closest door up from their current position in the shaft. The flame then hits its mark, melting the door clean through.
"Ahh, that was great little speech I just did now, let us be on our way then."
Jumping through the door the two sister stroll to the stairs as the alarm continues to blare into their ears. They then get to a window and leap through to land in the front parking lot. They then hear rapid footsteps approaching behind them from two of the side entrances leading into the parking lot. Out came a few more squads of agents, all rushing toward the sisters. Neither of bother of them looking back however.
"Come on! Don't let them get away!"
She sighs and flicks several fireballs over her shoulder, each resulting in a blast as powerful as two frag grenades. Three agents get caught by the first two blasts, being disemboweled from the heat and expanding air pressure. While a few others are sent off their feet with third degree burns. Pretty soon, both of the squads were decimated in a matter of seconds.
"Well, that seems to be the rest of them. Or at least the amount that will be coming after us. It seems like they've finally received the message."
Zana then scanned the area, looking around for any disturbances.
"But, it's so quiet now. Something is wrong."
"Well that's all the more reason for us to leave with haste." The two then board the first car they come across, which is a blue convertible."This looks rather tasteful! And in mint condition too!" Kaos then lightly burns the lock mechanism on the door, unlocking the door for the two to get in the car. To no ones surprise, there was no key in the ignition."Of course." She scoffed, and then tore off the bottom of the steering wheel, revealing several wires connected to the engine, and then started to hot wire them.
"You know how to hot wire?" Zana asked.
" O-of course! It is a rather simple process after all! Here, allow me to demonstrate!" She then starts to fiddle with the various wires under the wheel, often shocking herself and connecting the wrong wires to each other."Let's see...the red...w-with...the blue...and then...cut...the yellow...tie the...green."
Zana sat there in an awkward silence.
"Do you need any help?" She asked.
"No! I can handle this! Just shut up...and...do something you usually do!"
"What do I normally do?"
"Should you honestly be asking me that question?! J-just be surly like you usually are!"
"I'm surly?...Is that a good thing?"
"How should I know?!"
After about a minute of errors and mishaps with the wires, Kaos finally managed to turn the car over."Yes! I did it! Yay me!" Wallowing in her success, she grasped the steering wheel and started to shift the gears of the cars."See?! I told you I could do it!"
"Maybe. But we're not out of this yet."
"Would you calm down sister? Everything about this escape has been nothing but flawless so far,nothing but smooth sailing as they is nothing to turn us down from this success!"
As soon as she said that, the windshield suddenly broke into pieces from a large impact from ontop of their position.
"What the?!" The cracked window caused Kaos steer off course into nearby obstacle, crashing the hood of the car, and causing a wreck. Within the next few seconds, something had pierced through the drivers window side. Kaos dodged it by a hair by pulling the seat all the way back, and then exiting out of the back seat. Zana quickly noticed that it was a large blade from a scythe.
The blade then slid around the car all the way to the passengers seat, cutting the roof of the car off in the process. Zana managed to stop the blade in its trajectory as it reached her neck by grabbing the blade a bloody hand, she gripped the steel with great strength as it cracked little by little. Suddenly, as her grip on it tightened, an electrical current discharged from the blade, shocking Zana all throughout her body. Despite the current going through her body, she had barely flinched at the pain her body was experiencing. Her grip had soon ended up breaking the steel clean through. In that moment, the car roof had flew off, and several knives flew at Zana. She had dodged them flawlessly as they hit the head part of the passengers seat.
Before it even happened, Zana backflipped out of the car before another impact had gone through where she was sitting at, completely wrecking the front side of the landed on the ground near on of the side entrances, where Kaos had been standing to better assess the situation.
Inspecting what was happening in the gleaming moonlight, all they could see was a familiar figure walking slowly towards them. The same one that was responsible for the destroying their getaway car.
"Brilliant. Nothing is ever easy isn't it?" Kaos grunted in frustration.
Zana then sniffed the air around her, and then glared at the approaching figure with a focused expression.
"It's her." She said calmly.
"Her?" Kaos pondered.
All that could be heard beside the creaking metal of the wrecked car, was the sound of a girl laughing, which was being carried out by echoes throughout the lot.
"Yes. Her. A.k.a The bitch that wrecked the shit out of your car, A.k.a, the bitch that you love to hate, A.k.a. the bitch that's about to fuck your shit up with pure finesse you pieces of dung beetle shit! And did I mention I wrecked the shit out of your car?!"
Both of the sisters then took full notice at the light furred bunny with pink eyes, recognizing her from voice alone.
"Ah yes. The ruffian that was with Huey. I do believe that she is here to prevent out escape, isn't that right Zana?" Zana nodded."So that is what's going on! That is such an amusing turn of a joke from our weed friend here."
Karina snickered in amusement
"Prevent you from escaping? No, no, no. I could give a shit less about that. You wouldn't escape me guys could make a break to the wilderness of Fiji and I would still catch your assess with nothing but a dollar store compass. I'm here to kill your brooding little edge queen of a sister over there! I'm promised myself I was gonna pay you assholes twice over for Anthony, and now it's payday, and the checks are going around!"She then pointed one of her knives at still, but tense Zana.
"Oh my god. Are you still hung up on that poor excuse of a Blade? Do you intend to use him as an excuse for every fit of rampage you conduct? Was he that precious to you?"
"I do believe, that's none of your fucking business. All you need to know that I'm here to kill the bitch that did it."
Kaos then giggled.
"Kill her? My sister? That is quite amusing to say the least. I don't think the jokes can get better than that."
"I don't know why you're giggling chuckles. I'm gonna be pummeling your ass too!"
She giggled even more.
"Hahaha! I stand corrected! They can get better, can't they? Who knew that weeds could make such adequete comedians?!"
"Oh this ain't no joke sister. This is as real as it gets."
"I'm not sure that you understand who I am exactly. I am an heiress to one of the Four Noble Houses, plus I am the second most powerful fighter in the Forsaken army, plus the leader of one it's most elite units. I am the epitome of perfection from every angle that you can clearly see. I'm afraid you'll to do more to convince me of that I'm afraid."
"OH! I'm about to do just that..." Zana went into a fighting stance, while Karina took a hold of her scythe with both hands, placing it in the air.
"Honestly! I've seen some rather amusing weeds in my time, but you are of another calibur. You will need more than some dull scythe to even lay a tarnish on my skirt!" Kaos held her sides as she giggled uncontrollably.
"Who said I was using my scythe on you?"
"What? What are you-?" Kaos suddenly stopped laughing as Karina held up the scythes handle portion, aiming it up at the sky.
"She's doing something." Zana stated
"I can see that!" Kaos furrowed her brow in irritation. "You. Just what are you planning?!"
"Two minutes. That should be enough..." Karina muttered to herself."Man, sis said she would kill me if I used this again..."
Holding the scythe high in the sky, she aimed the pointed tip of her weapon and pierced herself straight through her splattered all over where she was standing, and had splashed on the blade of her weapon.
"Blerrgghh!" She began to cough and spit out blood profusely within every second, as she screamed and curled in absolute pain. Even more so as she forcefully pulled it out of her internal organs, leaving a significant hole in its wake, with strands of blood and guts stretching from the inside."AHHHHHRRGGGGG!" She writhed in pain as Kaos and Zana stood there in shock at what just occured.
"W-what the hell is she thinking?!"
Zana's eyes then shot open.
"Something's happening!"
In that moment, a massive amount of red aura began to surround Karina, extending around every part of her body, swirling around like a heavy wind as it started float around through the air around her, drawing a heavy a presence from those around her as the sisters stood in awe, unable to move due to the fear.
Within seconds, her hole began to heal, and stitch itself back into prime condition.
"Impossible! How could she heal so fast?! She is nothing but a weed!" Kaos exclaimed.
Red cryptic marks began to form around Karina's body, extending from her legs, all throughout her lower area, torso, around her arms,until it reached the way up to her face, ranging from her cheeks to her foregead. The marking resembled square glyphs with mysterious characters beginning to form within the insides all being surrounded by a blade like line running through parts of the glyphs. As the markings reached under her eyes, her eyes went from the usual pink, to a blazing red, and her tannish fur had turned pitch black, and her hair began to extend into a more unkempt and wildlike state that draped all the way down to her waist. She had then grabbed her scythe, which had always took her two hands to carry because of its unusual weight, she was lifting with only one hand.
Both sisters stood in awe at what they were witnessing before Kaos had the most shocked expression, that was beginning to transition into pure fear.
"N-no! Impossible! Those symbols...She's a WARGOD?! NO! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
Karina took one step toward the sisters carrying her scythe on her shoulder, and within a flash of a milisecond, she was directly in front them, which was about 20 feet from her previous of them were caught immediately off guard at the speed, they couldn't even react.
The usual joker and sarcastic Karina faced the both of them, with an expression, devoid of all light, and left with fury and rage, coped with the flames of vengeance.
"So...ready to die yet?"
Chapter 23 END
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