Leen meandered around the designated 'break room' of the warehouse...foundry...research lab, focusing on nothing specific. Mortis had rolled in with Hetfield early in the morning and insisted on starting Living Colour as early as possible. Which also meant that he had nothing to do until Mortis was done, he wasn't upset about having no work but he did wish that someone of his caliber had something to do. "Hey big man, can you stop the pacing?"

Leen looked over at Hetfield who had taken up residence at one of two coffee tables that the room had. "Why exactly should I listen?"

"Because it's annoyingly loud," Leen peered over his shoulder with a scowl at the approaching voice,"I mean I can literally hear your footsteps down the hall."

Hetfield chuckled and immediately took a stab with his tongue, "What brings the amazing Mr. Free down to our humble abode."

Free chuckled as he walked over to the simple coffee pot sitting on the counter," Just needed a drink, got barely any sleep last night since I had to help with some set up."

Leen ground his teeth as Hetfield chuckled before speaking up," So how goes the operation or whatever it's technical name is?"

Free shrugged as he took a swig of the coffee," Not a clue, I've been more focused on figuring out where the hell Rod is."

Leen glared at him," Don't tell me you lost him."

" I mean I haven't seen or heard from him since we abandoned the warehouse," Free responded nonchalantly, sipping his coffee.

"Yeah, what the hell happened with that?" Hetfield asked from where he had propped his feet up on the table.

"You all probably ruined the plan, " Leen commented from behind his crossed arms.

Hetfield put his hands up in mock surrender," Hey don't look at me I was getting the truck ready."

Free shrugged again," I left Rod to his own, honestly that was the only way we worked together well."

" I could have gotten him to work with me," Leen commented.

"We all know that the only two people that Rod gets along with are Mortis and his ever so weak willed younger brother," Free mentioned before he took another sip of the coffee.

Leen glowered at the insinuation that he was incapable of something, and also the fact that Free was trusted to lead the others more than him ate at him. Hetfield interrupted his musings as he asked," So how exactly is the kid doing, you said he was pretty fucked up."

Leen remembered the rather broken state his on-and-off again partner had arrived in. It was a rather pathetic state, even more so since the injuries seemed to be caused by his own stand. It did provide a major issue as to what the opponents stand's full capabilities are, since they knew it was the other Alcatraz survivor. Just thinking about how he had somehow failed drove him crazy, even more so when he remembered how the other one managed to hurt him. He snapped out his memories when Hetfield called out his name," Hey Leen, what do you think happened to Zeiger...aside from getting arrested I mean?

"...Who?"

"Young guy, our main driver, good taste in music, called his stand 『DRAGULA』" Hetfield supplied as he tried to get Leen's opinion.

"I don't know who that is."

Now Free looked incredulous," He drove you off of Alcatraz, I mean come on I met him twice and I know him."

Leen looked down on Free, not that it was hard with the height difference," I don't find it worthwhile to remember the names of people below me."

Free went to continue talking but a sudden loud blaring filled the room, the blaring that only sounded when something triggered the hyper sensitive security system. It was a weekly occurrence at this point. Leen casually walked over to the wall mounted intercom and pressed the button that opened the channel, 'I wonder if another homeless guy set it off again'

"Security Report," He barked over the channel.

The channel crackled into static before rushed words began to spill out," I have two people-three- three people making their-GAHK."

The line went dead and Leen stood there in udder bafflement at the situation. Hetfield spoke up putting the confusion he had into words, "How in the hell did they find this place, I mean it's registered under a freaking government medical development lab."

Free downed the coffee before rolling his sleeves up and cracking his neck," An address must have been left at...one of the bases that those guys have raided."

Leen felt a vein bulge on the back of his neck at Free's thinly veiled accusation. Leen hadn't made himself aware of what paperwork was left over in Alcatraz before setting about demolition, unlike how Free made sure all the paperwork about locations was destroyed as soon as possible. So now it must be his fault that this miserable little group managed to make it to one of their best hidden bases, it also meant that it was his fault that whatever his name was had gotten arrested. Leen tightened his hands into fists at the continued insults to his superiority and Hetfield pushed it even farther," So how are we going to play this?"

Free rolled his shoulders and tightened the bandage on his forearm," Best bet is to try and split them up in order to take them on. First, though, I'm going to get a call out to Mortis so he can hurry up the surgery."

Leen looked over at free with a glare before walking out of the room with heavy steps. He didn't need to be told the best plan, no matter what he would crush his opponents.

Joy took the stairs two at a time as she bolted down after the rest of the group, she had slowed down a bit to make some chains from the steel security doors. She rounded the bottom landing and finally caught up with the rest of the group who were now all paused around the directory for the building. They knew where Mortis probably was since the blueprints showed the medical lab on the bottom floor, and what Marshall and John had managed to understand from the medical and scientific jargon in the notes it was going to take a while. "What's up?" she asked.

"We have no idea," Seth answered as he breathed heavily.

John slapped the back of Seth's head as Marshall actually answered," We don't know which way is quicker."

John continued the thought," We don't know if storage or shaft is quicker."

Joy looked confused," What the hell is the shaft."

A sudden loud noise interrupted whatever Seth was trying to say next as the directory in front of them suddenly exploded into concrete dust momentarily blinding her. A sudden blow connected with her side sending her sprawling down the hallway with several more cracked ribs. She struggled back to her feet and saw Marshall standing next to her, his pistol drawn and aimed at the dust cloud. He went to a knee and helped her up before calling out, "Go ahead and get to Mortis!"

A series of footsteps disappeared as the dust cleared and Joy was able to see the heavily bandaged and rather deranged looking Priest standing there with 『TURBO LOVER』standing behind him mimicking the pose he was in. She blinked for a second before three shots rang out and there was a loud thud followed by a pained grunt as Marshall was no longer beside her and instead was down the hallway. She scrambled to her feet and summoned 『ALICE IN CHAINS』in just enough time to catch a sudden punch from the heavily bandaged Priest. The familiar clicking of a pistol hammer dropping down sounded but it was suddenly cut off by a heavy door dropping from the ceiling and cutting off Marshall and the rest of the hallway. Heavy breathing drew her attention as Priest raised his arms into an amateur boxing stance and a cruel look grew on his face," I owe you some payback bitch."

Joy felt a sudden spike in anger at the insult," You're going to eat those words."

Mortis tried to put the flashing red lights and incredibly aggravating alarm out of his mind as he continued the procedure, but one of the technicians helping monitor one of the machines caught his attention with a waving arm. Mortis sighed from underneath the surgical mask and carefully slammed the bloody drill back onto the cart with a rather loud bang, showing his annoyance. He stalked over to the now scared looking lab tech before speaking," Why exactly, in the middle of this rather complex procedure that has never been attempted, is my attention needed."

The lab tech looked sheepish, or terrified he couldn't really tell with the surgical gear, and Mortis was three seconds away from strangling this shit stain to death by the time he actually spoke up; "M-Mr. F-f-Free radioed in and said that th-ere wer-were intruders."

Mortis felt his eye twitch before letting out a deep exhale and stalking over to a wall mounted panel that had a single button in a glass case. He calmly opened the glass case before violently slammed his hand into the button causing metal doors to drop from the ceiling and seal the room. At this point in time he was incredibly thankful that this old lab still had the hazardous quarantine measures, albeit outdated and far too expensive ones but effective for the new purpose. 'Have to love old school government paranoia...though they did make a damn good drug.' Mortis smirked at the thought since he got a sort of pleasure from using their own drugs against them….though the fact there was so little of it left certainly made it difficult to do.

He turned around and saw some of the assistants looking nervously at the doors that now sealed them inside the shaft laboratory. He just sighed again and walked back to the currently open chest of his….patient. 'Now...I just need to finish the adherence of the appropriate material and then a dose of MK-908 and stage one should be done."

Mortis reached past the drill as he prepared to move onto the next stage of the surgery, and grabbed a pair of forceps before returning to the cavity with his full focus on his work. He believed that he could do this before anyone got down to this level, because at the least his subordinates could delay the intruders with their lives, though his mind did wander to whether or not Priest was enjoying his….modifications.

Joy winced as she felt the kick connect with the overlaid stands arms and threw her off balance. This had been the tone of things since Marshall had been cut off, and the endless defense was starting to great on her. Though she couldn't dwell on the thought as she was forced to duck again as Priest's leg impacted the wall where she had just been. In this instant she slammed her hand on the ground and let 『ALICE AND CHAINS』power flow through and convert some of the tile floor into chains. From that awkward position she snapped it forward catching Priest in the face and staggering him. She got her feet under her and quickly unfurled the steel chains she had wrapped around her wrists with 『ALICE IN CHAINS』overlaying , "Lets go."

Priest snarled and exploded forward the tile cracking from where he used 『TURBO LOVER』but he didn't get far before he jumped to avoid a steel chain the skipped across the ground and was caught by the other hand sending the chain across and hitting him out of the air. He managed to catch himself before hitting the ground and had 『TURBO LOVER』explode forward to parry the next three attempted attacks. Joy channeled her stands ability into the ground and sent a flurry of tile chains flying forward, though she had so little control over the chains they may have well been blindly thrown darts. Priest released a guttural yell and had his stand release a flurry of punches demolishing the ceramic chains, and almost immediately after the flurry parried the twin steel chains. Joy grimaced at the failure before the loosened bandages caught her eye; "What the hell…."

From underneath the bandages she saw a mess of scars and stitches covering the skin. Priest noticed her gaze and pulled the rest of the bandage off his arm. "Got a bit of an upgrade from the boss, now...now nothing holds me back."

Joy gave him an odd look, as she took in the 'enhancements' for a little bit longer. She guessed they did something to enhance his joints but that wouldn't rea-

Her head flew backwards as something collided with it ripping the skin and getting blood to roll down her forehead in a thick trickle. She snapped back to see another chunk of tile flying towards her, but a sudden change in position saved her rather pretty face. She snapped one of her chains in an attempt to nail him but 『TURBO LOVER』intercepted, and with a precise strike to the links split the chain. She caught him with the other chain directly in the ribs and heard a satisfying crack as he keeled over and quickly backed away from her last steel chains range. She switched her stance up in order to try and get some sight that wasn't colored red. "Okay then that's some bullshit," she spit out as Priest was doing this mocking boxing stance.

She took advantage of his mocking attitude and reached out with『ALICE IN CHAINS』and began to reach out like she did in the fight against Free. She felt the familiar pull that accompanied her power as she formed the rather 'unsolid' air surrounding her into chains She felt it form into the chain as her stand's hand overlapped with hers. Priest chuckled before saying," Well now that I'm warmed up-"

He shot forward with the normal characteristics of『TURBO LOVER』, but as he launched forward Joy threw her new invisible chain forward like a whip. It collided with his torso ripping the shirt, lacerating the skin, and bringing his charge to a standstill. He collided with the ground before rolling to the side in order to avoid her follow up downswing with her last remaining steel chain. 『TURBO LOVER』appeared and grabbed it's user in order to haul him back to his feet to avoid her second downswing with the invisible air chain. The moment he established any sort of footing he was gone before pain suddenly blossomed from her blind spot as he connected with a fast punch to her kidney. " Now that I'm in this close there's nothing your chains can do," He shouted out with a wicked smirk decorating his face as she turned to face him.

The smirk left his face as 『ALICE IN CHAINS』fist connected solidly with his stands face, sending him falling to the ground with a dazed look in his eyes. The follow up punch was narrowly deflected by the arm of 『TURBO LOVER』before it kicked the ground attempting to back out of melee range. Joy didn't let up quickly, exploding forward in order to capitalize on the difference in physical strength between the stands, and when she was close enough her stand lunged forward trying to grab on to Priest.

However, in a sudden movement『TURBO LOVER』shifted and intercepted both of her stands arms,pinning them to its sides and preventing her stand from moving. "『TURBO LOVER』may be weaker than yours but it doesn't have to be that much stronger just to tie your stand up."

Joy was able to understand part of his logic….but he was wrong if he thought that he was stronger than her. She quickly slid her feet and slammed one of her hands into the gash on his stomach. Blood squirted out and his hastily made guard dropped allowing her to follow it up with a nose breaking fist to his face.

Priest realized the error in attempting to remove her stand from the equation as he attempted to backpedal; Joy herself was far, far, far better physically than he was. That idea was hammered home as he attempted to block another shot to the face only to be a quarter second too slow and instead eat it square to the jaw. Oddly though he wasn't feeling the normal amount of pain though he was having some issue breathing. Another glancing shot to his face and he desperately looked past Joy in an attempt to come up with anything.

Joy, with her one good eye wide open, pursued the advantage looking to put him down in the ground, but a sudden whooshing noise led to a sudden pain on her back. She felt her feet leave the ground before she landed roughly on her shoulder and slide across the torn tile floor.

Joy scrambled back to her feet and glanced across the ruined hallway at Priest who was in worse shape than she was, with what she was sure were freshly broken ribs, a few broken fingers, and a still bleeding gash across his stomach. Though at this point in the fight it could be more called a tear in his stomach at this point. The following tentative silence was full of harsh breaths and both of them trying to learn what parts of their body were going to be able to survive another clash. Joy was also trying to figure out what in the hell his 'enhancements' included; she figured there was additional muscular support, and pain numbing. 'Though,' she thought as she rolled her shoulders, 『ALICE IN CHAINS』mimicked the motion , ' but there's no way that that stomach wound isn't giving him an issue, it's crazy but it's got to be pain numbing...It's insane but he did say Mortis gave it to him.'

The silence came to an explosive end as 『TURBO LOVER』 punched the ground sending up a spray of ceramic tile up into the air, before sending them flying towards her as sharpened projectiles . She was ready for it this time and quickly created several chains out of the exposed concrete underneath what used to be a tile floor to block the worst of it. She suffered a few cuts along her arms and legs, but nothing like the still bleeding cut above her eye. She quickly responded by lashing out with one of the concrete chains, but that was quickly countered, but the fragments of shattered concrete still impacted Priest. He decided to barrel through and got several deep cuts all along his body as he rushed her trying to take advantage of her blind spot again.

Joy quickly maneuvered 『ALICE IN CHAINS』 to cover her blind spot, making Priest back off quickly in order to avoid another close encounter like the previous one. He settled for a handful of debris swiped off the ground and fired at close range like improvised buckshot, Joy couldn't avoid it entirely and the mock shotgun blast nailed her right hand. She flinched at the flashing pain of the debris tearing through her hand, and Priest took advantage of her flinch in order to sweep her legs and send her to the ground.

Joy hit the ground hard and quickly felt a soccer kick connect soldily with her side, sending pain flying through her body. With her one good eye she saw Priest's leg overlaid with his stands raised up before crashing down and managed to get 『ALICE IN CHAINS』to block it and the two follow up attempts at a stomp before she managed to shove the leg off. Priest stumbled back before getting his feet stable as Joy rolled over and struggled to be on her hands and knees. Priest smirked at the blood that came out of Joy's mouth before speaking," Well, well, the mighty hero falls."

Joy spit up some more blood," Fuck off."

"You know, it's really satisfying to finally be getting the chance to take you out," Priest started monologuing," I can no end of shit jobs from Mortis and Free since I first fucked up killing you...what two years ago now."

"I think you should stop talking and get on with it," Joy spit out with an infuriating smirk sprinkled with blood.

Priest felt what little self control he had leave the building as he saw that smirk. It was some sort of deeply held hatred for the person that he thought had ruined his rise through the ranks of Mortis organization. A twisted smile graced his face as he activated 『TURBO LOVER』and shot forward-

Only for a sickening pop and tearing noise to fill the suddenly quiet room, before the loud thud of Priest's body hitting the ruined tile floor. He went wide eyed as Joy began to laugh and pushed herself to her feet before she spoke," Well, well, the mighty villain falls."

Joy gazed down at his right leg, or more specifically his foot where the concrete chain she had formed sat coiled around it like an anchor. When she had gone to the ground she had realized that his foot was in range and on top of concrete. This plan was all she could come up with since she realized that he wasn't responding to most of the damage she was dealing. She had gone after his torso with body shots, but all it got was a slight reaction when punching that gash on his stomach. So she knew that she had to damage in an extreme way since nothing less would incapacitate him. She wasn't even sure that Priest realized how much damage he had taken in total, because now she could see a myriad of deep bruises and swelling across his arms and torso.

She finally got the pain to leave her legs and began to walk over as Priest tried to push himself up. She almost felt bad for how badly mangled it was, with a completely shattered ankle sitting at a right angle from the rest of the leg, a torn...everything in the leg, and a destroyed knee that she could see was spilling some blood. She had finally made it over to Priest and glanced at the growing puddle, before moving over to the actual body. Priest looked up from the ground and with a pained grimace growled out," You stupid bitch, I'm going to come back an-"

Joy cut his threat short and slammed her foot down on his face breaking his nose and ramming his head into the jagged concrete floor. She picked her foot up off his head and went to turn around before hearing a whooshing noise, She quickly used 『ALICE IN CHAINS』ability and caused the concrete chains she had already made to block the attempted punch at her back. She wasn't successful in stopping it, but she managed to deflect it from her spine to her shoulder. She stumbled forward in pain before turning around with violence in her eyes, "So that's how it's going to be."

Priest looked up and went to open his mouth but a sudden downward punch from 『ALICE IN CHAINS』cut it off, and his next attempts to speak were also cut off by a flurry of punches as Joy stood off to the side. She flexed, or rather tried to move, the hand that had been riddled by Priests Improvised buckshot. She cut her stands onslaught when she was sure Priest was out before tearing a piece of her ruined t-shirt and wrapping her hand up. She looked over at the sealed metal door before commenting," So what the hell do I do now?"

Marshall turned away from the metal door that had suddenly cut him off from Joy and Priest, after a quick examination. All it really determined was that there was no way in hell he was shooting through the door, and it wasn't like he had some stand that could mess with tech in some way. All he could do was count on Joy and her mile long mean streak to take down Priest...though there was something odd about Priest. Normally when He would fight with Priest he would be forced to dodge high speed projectiles. It was mostly the fact that Priest's body couldn't handle the strain of 『TURBO LOVER』and he was always overly cautious of preserving his body, going as far to purposely weakening his stands ability. The fact he so quickly stepped into melee coupled with how much harder the hit felt compared to earlier fights made Marshall think that something is amiss. Especially since he heard about what Seth had gotten Priest to do to himself. Mortis wouldn't be one to miss what happened to his pawn, and he wouldn't be happy about it. It made him believe that Mortis had done something to either give Priest an edge, or a belief that he was fine when he went all out.

A sudden noise to Marshall's left had him pulling his pistol out and aiming with narrowed eyes. He figured that he would get into a fight, but the issue was that the plan was to fight as a group and this was not that scenario. He heard the noise grow louder before it suddenly transferred into a rhythmic series of noises resembling footsteps. Marshall exhaled and quickly reached down and patted down his left hip making sure his secondary side arm was there as the footsteps grew closer and closer.

'Here we go….'

STAND STATS- 『MR. EGO』

User: Harrison West Leen (goes by Leen)

Strength: A

Speed: B

Range: D

Durability: A* (B)

Precision: A* (D)

Potential: C

『MR. EGO』is a large Humanoid stand whose skin is primarily gold with thick silver bands covering it's knuckles, chest, and some of its arms. The stand possesses no mouth or nose but with its eyes still manages to look down on people. It's ability pertains very closely to its name as it's durability and precision are affected by Leens belief in his stands abilities. Meaning that as Leen believes his stand is the greatest to ever exist it's durability and precision rise to match. It's strength and speed are exempt from that ability as they are more of a reflection of Leens physical ability. The other part of 『MR. EGO』's ability is to degrade the confidence and self esteem of his opponents through dealing physical damage. ( 『HERE COMES REVENGE』was able to negate this by sharing the damage dealt but since Leen had such a belief in himself it canceled out the ability overall.)

User History: Leen was a mid level enforcer for a New York gang where he dreamed of grandeur and power far beyond his position. It changed when Mortis came to his gang looking for assistance with the current projects and offered money, the gang agreed and everybody willingly subjected themselves to the golden gun he possessed. Of his entire gang he was the only one to survive and manifest a stand. He originally planned to kill Mortis with it and crawl his way up the ranks of organized crime, but Mortis managed to convince him that more money and prestige could be found by helping him accomplish Living Colour and Powerslave.