The helicopter was almost to its target when Wraith swore.
"What?" Alyssa asked, her crew leader instincts coming straight to the fore as she sensed a potential problem.
"Seems our friends are not performing a usual run, scouts have reported another two ship crews have arrived on the scene, looks to be a meeting of some sort." Wraith announced as she checked the incoming data on her PDA, she was not very pleased by this current development.
"Do we call the attack off?" Elisa asked, unsure what this would mean to the mission but knowing that three crews would outnumber them greatly.
Wraith sighed. "We cant, I have elements dedicated to this attack besides they could be transferring the information now, we have to take out all of the banshee and as many members of the other crews as possible." She told them, laying down what they would have to do.
Katrina narrowed her eyes, disliking the evolving situation. "Can we call in reinforcement? Hold the attack off?" she asked giving Wraith a probing look.
Wraith meet her gaze unflinchingly showing exactly why Lilith had chosen her to be her right hand, she was cool under pressure and a good leader, Katrina could respect that. "I can call in some of the scouts to aid the attack but we've got to go in and go in now. Check your weapons. Landing zone is only a minute away now." Wraith ordered, she clicked half a dozen things rapidly on her PDA before shoving it in her pocket and getting up to open the helicopters doors.
The helicopter came to a perfectly silent hover above a large warehouse, Wraith dropped out of the helicopter and landed gracefully on the roof of the warehouse a good 10 feet below, followed shortly by Alyssa, Jack, Elisa, Katrina and Marcus who did the jump gracefully, some more than others as Jack had kneel to retrieve his machine gun that he dropped.
Wraiths long white hair blew in the down wind created by the helicopter as it flew off and she gestured towards the large skylights that overlooked the inside of the warehouse, the group moved towards the skylights keeping low in case the Rebel had guards on the roof, it was unlikely that they had the manpower but no one wanted to be the first to discover if they had snipers.
Peering through the skylight, Wraith was unhappy but unsurprised to notice that the other Rebel ship crews had already arrived and some sort of meeting appeared underway with the captains in the centre with other Rebels securing the perimeter. All apparently armed with fair amounts of weaponry, again unsurprising due to the hostility of the area towards Rebel crews and the number of enemies that they faces, Wraith felt age old annoyance at how they just wouldn't surrender and give the area to the Exiles, rise up again.
Wraith gestured for Jack and Elisa to take one of the stairwells down to the ground floor, Alyssa was gestured to take the other stairwell to the ground floor whilst Katrina and Marcus would crash through the skylight straight into the middle of the group, they co-ordinated their attacks to take place at the same time by synchronising their watches together. Wraith phased through the roof and moved herself in position to attack the Rebel crews; this was going to be one hell of a fight with them being outnumbered about five to one
Silence reigned only broken by the mindless nattering of the Rebel captains in the background, this was the calm before the storm and each member of the Exile attack group was tense with anticipation, Jack tightened his grip on his gun as he sneaked down the stairwell, peaking around the corner he noticed a Rebel crew member standing guard at the bottom of the stairs so he pulled back out of the rebels view. Although he was more than capable enough of sneaking up on the rebel and snapping his neck however that would instantly set the alarm off on the Rebel ships, the operators would quickly alert their crews that something was going on.
Alyssa also had a similar problem but instead of hiding around the corner of the stairs, she had moved above the rebel and was ready to drop down on him and slice him in half with her Katana before moving onto her next target. Alyssa was calm and quiet in her purpose, reaching out with her enhanced werewolf senses to listen to the heart beats of the Rebels inside the warehouse, building up a mental map in her head.
Katrina leaned against the skylight and checked her nails, vampires didn't really have proper nails but more like black claws in a similar shape, claws strong enough to leave gouges in solid metal. Vampires rarely used weapons themselves, preferring to use their own natural abilities although weapons such as the code knife sheathed on Katrina's hip overrode their like of natural weaponry with its sheer killing power.
Marcus was much tenser than Katrina but then again he always was when the pair of them had to fight, Marcus worried far too much but, Katrina smiled, that was one of the things she loved about him, he was so cute when he worried. Marcus looked at his watch anxiously, watching the time to attack tick away.
Wraith was in position, she had phased through the roof, dropping down onto the support beams a few feet below the roof she moved along the beam until she came against the wall which the rebel captains were closest too and phased down through that, she remained phrased in the wall relying on her own time sense to tell her went to attack. They had yet to create a watch which worked when Ghosts phased, it was on the 'To do' list apparently and had been since 1920, quite honestly Wraith wasn't confident of them creating anything any time soon.
Time ticked as the digits on the watches went down, down, down and gone. In a scene of almost cosmic irony an alarm bleeped echoing through the silence, filling it completely before all hell broke loose.
Glass exploded everywhere as Katrina and Marcus came crashing down into the middle of the Rebels, the Rebels stopped and stared dumbfounded at the pair which had suddenly and quite literately dropped into their midst's. The pair stood up from their crouched position and stood up surveying the room full of at least 40 rebels, Marcus offered up a brief prayer that the rest of the group to come to their aid and not leave them stranded in the middle of this.
"What the..." This was as far as the captain of the 'Evalangion' got as a monomolecular diamond katana cleanly sliced him in half, the diamond katana being held by a exceedingly beautiful and deadly albino woman who smirked.
This shook the Rebels out of their dumbfound shock and they moved forward to attack the intruders, Marcus grabbed the Rebel coming up behind him and threw him across the room into a group of the Banshee's crew members who had been levelling their guns. The remaining Rebels opened fire with their guns at the three intruders, sending a hail of bullets towards the group of Exiles which Marcus and Katrina dodged whilst Wraith phrased and engaged in combat with the two remaining rebel captains, specifically focusing her attention on Livewire.
Hearing the sound of Gunfire in the main room, Alyssa moved into instant action leaping down from her place above the Rebel, the rebel who had been moving towards the door and sound of gunfire, turned round at the sound of something dropping behind him but did even have time to blink as a Katana flashed across his vision. The door exploded outwards with excessive amounts of force, flying across the room becoming an insanely large and lethal piece of shrapnel as Alyssa delivered a vicious kick to it, the door sliced a very unlucky rebel in half and slashed across the arm of another in its transit.
The injured Rebel didn't have much time to ponder her injury as she quickly became the target of Alyssa's Katana and was swiftly dispatched, her partner however was more prepared and blocked Alyssa's katana with his own short sword, the pair of them circled in a deadly game as each sought to find a weakness in the others defences. Sparks flew each time the blades clashed, the pair moving with insane speed and agility as they warped and twisted the fabric of reality around them, performing impossible twists and jumps in order to avoid the others blade, the rebel drew first blood slashing a vicious cut across Alyssa's arm but received a solid kick in the face for his troubles.
Jack fired a volley of lead into the Rebel standing at the bottom of the stairs causing him to jerk before he fell dead to the ground, Jack and Elisa practically flew down the stairs and burst into the room around the same time that Alyssa made her entrance, in fact Elisa had to duck to avoid being beheaded by the ragged piece of flying metal as it crashed into the wall behind them. The pair opened up with everything they had at the Rebels, they caught another rebel of guard clipping him in the side of the head but the others avoided the bullets and took cover, replying with their own firepower back at the new threat, Elisa and Jack scattered, both diving for the nearest cover.
Wraith phased to avoid yet another round of machine gun fire, this time not actually aimed at her though that rarely made any difference, the rebel captain slashed at her with a long pipe in an attempt to injure her, Wraith turned to face him and swung her Katana down to slice him in half. The Rebel brought up the pipe to deflect the blow but a look of horrified shock came across his face as the Katana sliced straight through the pipe and him, he fell to the floor in two pieces moments later but Wraith was already onto her next target, circling Livewire, the captain of the banshee, with deadly intent.
Livewire circled Wraith likewise, he had seen how lethal that blade of hers was and knew to avoid rather than deflect it, his mind raced over ways to get out of the rather unpleasant situation he had gotten himself into, if he tried to run she could cut him down before he could even blink but if he remained to fight his fate would be equally sealed.
Elisa punched at a nearby Rebel, he easily blocked the attack and replied with his own, a fellow crew member helped by ganging up on Elisa and she was hard pressed to repel their combined attacks on her, as she blocked kick and punch after another with no openings to attack herself. Marcus looked over from his place in the middle of a group of rebels, he was already sporting several bullet injuries from being in the centre of the fire fight, Marcus delivered a savage punch to the face of the female Rebel he was fighting which shattered her skull and kicked her machine gun up from the floor where it had fallen earlier, up into his hands. Marcus pivoted with the machine gun and sprayed the area with controlled bursts of fire, hitting one of the Rebels that was harassing Elisa and killing him as his body was filled with numerous bullet holes, Marcus grimaced in pain as he himself was hit by a volley of machine gun fire, some Rebel obviously finding the time to open fire at a target instead of fighting for his life.
Marcus collapsed forwards and rolled so he was facing the Rebel, returning fire with his stolen gun putting several bullets through the rebels chest and unlike Marcus, that rebel was extremely unlikely to survive. Marcus groaned in pain as he struggled back to his feet, weaving somewhat and moved to help the others, he didn't get very far as the wall next to him exploded sending him crashing to the ground again as he was nailed by flying bricks, rebels and Katrina.
"owww..." She muttered as she pulled herself out of the debris.
"WHAT THE FUCK!" Marcus managed to ground out through pain and several very chunks of wall on his chest.
Katrina blinked. "Barrels are explosive." She answered simply looking around.
Bullets pinged off the wall near their heads and Katrina ducked to avoid getting hit, she kissed Marcus. "Gotta go honey" she told him before leaping back into the fray and using her claws to cut a rebels hamstrings before going for his throats.
Wraith lunged at her opponent with her blade ready to slice him in half, not ready to die right now Livewire grabbed some hapless Rebel from the 'Triforce' and threw him at Wraith in order to buy him enough time to escape, the luckless rebel cursed and tried to defend against Wraith but every single one of his attacks were simply phased through by Wraith. Livewire dodged through the crowds of battling individuals and burst out the door, Wraith scowled as he escaped, quickly dispatching the Rebel used to distract her but was forced to engage a group of Rebels that were ganging up on Jack.
Jack was trying desperately to defend himself from the combined efforts of three Rebels who had decided to take him on instead of the much larger and nastier vampires, he had mostly managed to stay alive by avoiding the Rebels attacks but now he was beginning to tire and it was show, as a rebel prepared what was likely to be a killing blow she was promptly cut in half by Wraith and her katana.
The Rebels paused as Wraith entered the fight before leaping forward to fight her, in a flurry of kicks, punches and phasing the three fought with insane speed but there was no competition, Wraith with her phasing ability and vast experience dispatched the Rebels with nay a scratch. Wraith nodded at Jack before moving to chase after Livewire, he couldn't be allowed to escape, if anyone was likely to have the data it was likely to be him.
Alyssa had finally managed to gain an upper hand on her opponent, the rebel was obviously an expert swordfighter and had easily held her off but then Alyssa pulled a stunt that while not really recommended, did work well for Vampires or Werewolves. She deliberately drove herself on the rebels blade, covering the distance between the two of them and then used her katana to decapitate him whilst his blade was imbedded in her stomach, a similar stunt as to the one she had used against the silver samurai however this time the blade was not silver and the injury while extremely painful wasn't a life threatening injury as the previous one had been, she still had the scar from that encounter.
Alyssa knelt on the floor slowly pulling the sword from her stomach as she tried to stop her stomach convulsing, with a hiss of insane pain she pulled the sword out of her stomach and collapsed to the floor as she panted trying to control the pain, pulling herself back up to a sitting position she looked idly at the blade covered in her blood before using it as a walking cane to get herself back on her feet.
A large scarred rebel advanced on the injured Alyssa drawing out a large wicked looking silver knife. "Werewolf" He hissed before charging towards her, Alyssa prepared herself as best she could regarding her injury which was still crippling her, the rebel was taken down by a powerful roundhouse kick from Katrina, the knife went flying up in the air whilst the rebel crashed down against the concrete hard.
The Knife flipped up through the air and then slowly back down towards the ground, Katrina snatched the blade from the air and flicked it quickly through her fingers before throwing it with sudden abrupt force through the Rebels heart as he struggled to get back up again, his eyes widened in shock and pain as he clasped the blade that went through his heart before collapsing dead. Katrina threw Alyssa a glance to check she was alright and Alyssa nodded, giving her a grateful expression before nodding to something behind Katrina, Katrina reached out with her senses and heard the rebel coming up behind her. She span sending a harsh kick into the guys stomach before giving an upper cut strong enough that it snapped the rebels neck as it was suddenly jerked backwards by the force.
Wraith burst out into the alleyway after Livewire, gaining rapidly as she simply phased through obstacles in her path whilst the rebel had to climb over the garbage cans and rubbish in the alleyway which slowed him down. Cats shrieked as the Rebel captain came crashing through trashcans in his attempt to escape from the Exiles, looking over his shoulder he noticed Wraith pursuing him and how rapidly she was gaining on him, he decided to give up on his escape and stand his ground against the Ghost pursuing him.
He rolled his shoulder in preparation, rarely had he encountered such a dangerous adversary and he was willing to bet that the Ghost was more lethal than an Agent; at least you could shoot them, something which did not appear possible with this Exile. He only had one chance of survival, to convince the Exile to ditch that sword of hers in favour of a fair fight, fortunately honour was one of the weaknesses these Exiles had.
Wraith slowed down as she noticed the change in the Rebels tactics and slowed to a gentle walk towards the Rebel, stopping about 10 feet from him, she twirled her blade idly in one free hand as she looked at the rebel.
The Rebel slowly removed a pistol from his coat and threw it to the ground whilst looking challengingly at Wraith. "How about we fight this man to man"
Wraith was silent for a long while and when she spoke it was with a calm deadly voice.
"You are someone who would kill your own men to save your own skin. You are not a man, you are vermin and deserve to be exterminated" Wraith answered looking calmly at the Rebel as he slowly realised her words before she leapt forwards, katana flashing and when she landed Livewire, the Rebel captain was now lying in four separate parts.
Wraith slowly walked over to the rebel's corpse, pulling part of the coat off and using it to clean her blade before she walked slowly back to the warehouse.
A 5 foot 8 inches Rebel with neon green hair and a bomber jacket grabbed the machine gun of the floor and span with the machine gun opening fire, catching Jack straight in the chest, Jack shuddered as the bullets hit him before he collapsed to the ground as his legs gave way beneath him.
"NO!" Elisa Screamed as she saw her friend go down.
The Rebel smiled sickly as he turned the gun on Elisa and squeezed the trigger.
The Rebels eyes suddenly widened and he along with three others suddenly collapsed down to the ground like puppets with their strings broken, the Rebels finger tightened on the trigger as he went down, the gun fired sending two bullets at Elisa, one which clipped her thigh and another that clipped her stomach causing her to go down with a shriek.
The remaining rebels seeing the entire crew of the Banshee die at once, decided to take their loses and fled out into the night away from the slaughter, hoping to reach an exit and escape alive. Katrina started to go after the remaining survivors but Alyssa grabbed her arm, both to stop her and to support herself.
"Enough have died today" Alyssa told Katrina "We've done what we came here to do, its time to go home and deal with our own casualties"
Katrina looked like she was going to protest violently but Alyssa nodded over to where Elisa was crying over the body of her dead friend, the group of injured and battle worn Exiles stood and let Elisa mourn.