Seek & Destroy Chatlog

Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: SEEK & DESTROY
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: The Progeny arrived at a care unit of Mercy Hospital on the third floor. The fact that they weren't heading to Intensive Care seemed to bode well. The teens used the elevator, and after checking with>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the nurse's station, were led to Erin's new room. Those who had visited prior would recall Erin as comatose, despite Cait Sith's healing and the hosptial's dedicated staff. When they entered her room>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: in the "Step Down" unit, they found Faith's partner, Sidney Mason, sitting close to her bed and monitoring equipment, with Erin's left hand in two of his own. Olevia Alvarez was also with them, in a >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: chair next to Sidney's. While the Progeny had made their rounds and their wishes known, these two had been a near-constant presence at Erin's side. Sid wore a sling for his arm, but had forgone it to>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: hold Erin's hand. The team found their de factor leader, their friend, Erin Reyes, was still unresponsive. Sid looked up as each of them filtered in, and looked a little relieved to see them. But he >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: didn't say anything at first. He remained seated. The worry and concern were still there. He had alluded to another reason for the visit over the comms earlier - a reason besides morale support.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((INTROS))

Lash@Pallas001: "Oh, God, Ollie," Olevia Alvarez, LASH, says groggily, sitting up. Its VERY noticable that she hasnt gotten much sleep. A bag of clothes sits by the chair's side. She goes to hug him as she blinks, >
Lash@Pallas001: > seeing Ace's weaponry in a hospital room. "Wow, how the HECK did you get that all in past the nurses? They got oxygen tanks everywhere, ya know!"
Black Ice@Feronius: Oliver made his way through the hall with his headphones on, only lowering them to idly hang around his neck as he passed the treshold of Erin's room. He hadn't visited much, but he seemed to know --
Black Ice@Feronius: -- his way around the hospital well. He returned Olevia's embrace, meanwhile passing Sid a light nod.
Ace@Palanius: Totally hadn't forgoten about todays visit and showed up last minute fully decked out, it was all planned out. After stripping of enough pieces for the staff to finally let him inside Ace hurries to -
Ace@Palanius: catch up with team at the elevator. "It's not the strangest things they got walking through here in this town, but I guess they drew the line at the jetpack" Ace respondes before giving Cid a -
Ace@Palanius: greeting nod before settling his eyes on the unconcious Erin with a troubled look on his face
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "Hey, Sid," Hank says softly when he entered the room. "Erin." He was dressed in thrown together clothes, a scuffed up "Dr. Ka" shirt and jeans that had spots of dirt on it. Headphones were draped >
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: > around his neck. To say that he was well-rested would be an outright lie. "I'm here." Hank leaned against a wall and folded his arms across his chest.
Black Ice@Feronius: Freeing one gloved hand from the hug, Oliver tosses a gun-themed magazine he brought (obviously) for Sid onto a nearby nightstand.
Lash@Pallas001: "She's still not up. I mean... obviously. And I just keep compulsively BUYING THINGS ONLINE to calm me down. Ugh. Ollie, thank GOD I can remember your credir card number by heart. Its like Xanax for m
Lash@Pallas001: e."
Cait Sith@gijoespouse2: Cait had done what he could. THe bruising on her face was faded, nearly gone. Her right arm sported a cuff and collar sling to keep weight off her injured shoulder. Whatever other damage she had was-c
Cait Sith@gijoespouse2: hidden under the white and blue patterned hospital gown and the unoffensive nuetral shaded blanket. An IV line ran to a bag of clear colored fluided, and there were a number of wires running from-c-
Cait Sith@gijoespouse2: small discs at varying points of her head, toward one of the machines. Displays showed wavy lines on one screen, and another displayed her vital signs. For all intents and purposes, she looked as-c-
Cait Sith@gijoespouse2: though she was sleeping.
Black Ice@Feronius: Oliver's eyes widened, though it didn't seem like the right time to bring this up. Still, he couldn't help but to softly blurt out a surprised, "You... know my-- ... " He stopped himself.
Lash@Pallas001: When Olevia pulls back from Oliver, tears are welling up in her eyes. "We CAN'T let them get away with this, Ollie. This is ERIN we are talking about."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "Thanks man." Sid said, after peeking away from Erin to spy Ollie's little gift. He gave his partner another long look, and glanced at Olieva, before withdrawing, reluctantly from her side. He winced>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: as he slipped his arm back into his own shoulder sling. "Thanks for making it guys...Cait's off seeing to De'thuum..." He took another look at Erin before standing from his chair and facing his friend
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((friends*))
Ace@Palanius: "Well, that's good. How're you holding up yourself?"
Black Ice@Feronius: Oliver remained deadly silent and completely still. It wasn't clear whether he was bracing himself for the worst possible news or perhaps it was because of seeing Erin like this; his expression was --
Black Ice@Feronius: rather neutral and hard to read as usual.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: grimaced as he limped over to them. "I'll live." He wasn't lying, but that was far from how he felt. His partner, his wife-to-be, was comatose behind him. He dug in his pocket for his cell phone, and>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: swiped at it with a single thumb. "I guess I'm hoping a little more company will..." He glanced back at Erin on the hospital bed, interrupting himself.
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia's tears went from welling up to finally going down her cheeks. "Ollie, tell me we are DOING SOMETHING about this. PLEASE."
Lash@Pallas001: "Because my BEST FRIEND is just LAYING HERE and God knows whats gonna happen. She might not wake up. She can't wear a midriff shirt anymore. THEY TRIED TO KILL HER."
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia looks to Erin's form and just starts bawling.
Black Ice@Feronius: Oli pulled Liv a little closer, hoping it would reassure her. But he clearly had no idea what to tell her. "We do whatever we can."
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "I don't know how much else can happen, Olevia." Hank's voice was a little louder, but not much. "Sid, we better not be holding vigil, otherwise I'm gonna..."
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: sighed. "I told her she couldn't leave."
Black Ice@Feronius: Oliver opened his mouth, as if for a moment he considered listing the potential complications of being in a coma, but then clearly thought better of it.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: narrowed his eyes at Hank then. "She's -alive-, Stripes. Just..." He shook his head and sighed. "Recovering." He frowned at Olevia, and looked at the floor for a few moments.
Black Ice@Feronius: "Why did you ask for us. It's not typically encouraged to have this many visitors at once." Oliver looked towards Sid, his words were more statements than questions.
Black Ice@Feronius: Or conclusions, rather.
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia is now trying not to ugly cry, her face in Oliver's chest. She tries to breathe threw it with limited success.
Lash@Pallas001: *through
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "No, but the nurse says talking is supposed to help." He thumbed at his phone a few more times. "Initiative Black was helping to guard the hospital. But they pulled back...and there's this."
Black Ice@Feronius: "Talking, music. Touch, too."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Sid tilted his phone so the group could see: It was a picture of Erin's hospital bed days prior, with a -spider web- above it. And not just any spider web. Something had been -written- with the web. >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "Killshot AWOL" and "Rogue MiW"
Black Ice@Feronius: "Don't get me wrong, it's awfully impressive that arachnids can spell to begin with... but couldn't they have written in full sentences?"
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "What the hell? Is that a joke?"
Ace@Palanius: "Killshot AWOL? Is that the guy who did this?"
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Hank nodded. "It was him at the warehouse, yeah. I remember that, at least."
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia was unfazed by this news, already being here by Sid's side for some time. She rubbed her eyes. "I'm tired. I'm cranky. I'm PISSED OFF. I need some coffee..."
Lash@Pallas001: She looked briefly at the phone, kissed Oliver on the cheek and walked out for a minute.
Black Ice@Feronius: "I think you might need rest more than anything, coffee might not be- ... and she's gone." Oliver sighed softly.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Glanced at Olevia as she left, before regarding the group again. "Yeah, Killshot..." He said the name with a hint of venom, though it was he could muster through the fatigue. "That was above Erin's >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: bed a few days ago. He's been the Doc's right hand man for a while now."
Ace@Palanius: "Hmmm..." Ace ponders "Rogue MiW, Men in White, AWOL..." he thinks out loud "You think he might've acted out of bounds with the attack and now had to walk away?"
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "Killshot doesn't walk away." Sid shook his head. "But yeah, I gotta feeling in my guts that the Doc didn't send him after us."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "It was too personal..." He glanced again at Erin.

Ace@Palanius: "So you think this was a sepcifik hit against you two, or maybe just Erin?"
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "I think he wants us all dead. We've all had a hand in staining his rep for the last couple years." Sid said, stuffing the phone back in his pocket. "He made me watch though..." Sid swallowed as he >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: relived the events of only a few days ago. Wounds without physical markers made themselves known in the young man's stare. "I don't think he's done."
Ace@Palanius: "You're right, that sounds personal. Maybe that's what the message is about the Men in White telling us he's gone Rogue, abandone their ranks to hunt us down and they're trying to wash their hands -
Ace@Palanius: "of any dirt so we don't come kicking down their door?"
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Hank growled. "Great. Just we need right now..."
Black Ice@Feronius: "I don't think it is." Oliver said, "If it was, they would have just written Killshot gone rogue."
Black Ice@Feronius: "It specifically says rogue Men in White. As if they're two distinctly different messages."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: curls an eyebrow. "That's not the way I saw it." Sid shook his head and sighed. "Right now I'm just glad you guys are here. I can't think about anything outside these walls right now." He turned and >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: came back to Erin's side, looking down at her from the side of her bed. "The city pulled IB's guys out. Didn't like 'em hanging around. So besides police detail, you guys are all we got until Erin >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: wakes up..."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((One more post then pause!))
Ace@Palanius: "I've been flying by above the hospital atleas tonce every hour these past couples of day, if you ever need anything from the outside or just some time to rest you can call me at anytime"
Black Ice@Feronius: Oliver simply nodded along with Ace's words.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "I'm here for coffee or cafeteria runs, plus I got my muscles, so I can be here if you need that, I guess."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: An ambulance siren begins to wail in the distance. Unsurprising, given their current location. It grows louder as the ambulance nears the hospital. "Thanks...truth be told, guys, I've been going >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: nuts. The docs and nurses say she's getting better." He wiggled in his sling, and reached out with his free hand for his partner's again. "I just want her to wake up..." The siren grows louder still.>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: The engine of the ambulance can be heard - it's going full bore. Sid's head tilts almost imperceptibly as he hears it, but none of the team have time to react beyond that. The floor and walls of the >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: hospital hum sharply with an impact, as a roaring CRASH can be heard three floors down. Kid Ballistic glares at the floor, as if he can see the accident. "The fuck was -" Sid stepped away from Erin's>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: side and passed each of his friends a concerned look. Then there were gunshots, echoing outside. Gunshots and the screams of people. ((Reactions!))

Black Ice@Feronius: "Nothin' good." Oliver replies shortly after. The gunshots immediately demand his undivided attention and his eyes widen.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "Sid, stay here and keep the door closed. Where's Olevia?"
Ace@Palanius: Reacts almost instantly, he seems to be quite jumpy today. He exits the room and tries to find any nearby window that could give a view of what's going on.
Black Ice@Feronius: A layer of frost and ice quickly expands across Oliver's face and whatever other skin is exposed. The gloves come off.
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia dropped the coffee she was drinking as the reverberation of a vehicle slamming into the building was both heard and felt. "Ollie...?" >
Black Ice@Feronius: "Liv is bulletproof. The rest of the people here quite likely aren't.. "
Lash@Pallas001: she asked out loud, knowing that her words wouldn't be heard as the floor suddenly became alive with activity. She heard the gunshots... something was amiss.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "Shit..." Sid exhales through flared nostrils as he went to Erin's side again, and knelt at the bed. "I think we can guess who this is..." He removed a Walther PPK-E from beneath the bed. His only >
Black Ice@Feronius: "Sid, are you armed?", Oliver inquires. But then noticed how redundant his question was. " ...of course you are."
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Hank slipped his shirt off and chucked it in the direction of one of the chairs. "Let's go." He growled as he began to grow several feet higher in height.
Black Ice@Feronius: "Someone should stay here with Erin." Oliver's gaze met with Sid for a moment.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: weapon. "Guys, I can't leave her side. But you gotta get down there. Ollie's right - there's too many people here. "
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Sid takes a long look at Erin. "They're the priority here...it's what she would want..."
Black Ice@Feronius: "Then it's settled." Oliver tapped something near his ear, seemingly making sure his comm was on, before rushing out the room towards the nearest staircase heading down. He seemed to know the way.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: More gunshots punctuate the air, albeit muffled. Ace finds an open window in the adjacent room, and can see smoke and debris fannign out from the entrance to the hospital on the street. He can see >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the cherry flash of its warning lights. A few people flee the scene, clearly civilians scared out of there wits.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((their*))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((When you guys are ready, we'll transition to the main floor, since y'all can move pretty quick!))
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia starts to run, seeing the stairwell. She takes off her shoes and races down to the first flooor.
Black Ice@Feronius: <COMMS> "Liv? Are you alright? We're heading towards the gunfire. Meet us there."
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "Like I said. Keep the door closed, don't open it for anyone unless it's us." Hank's voice had a surprisingly stern tone to it. Without another word, he ran after Ollie.
Lash@Pallas001: "Ollie? Ollie... is Erin safe? Are YOU safe? I'm going downstairs to the first floor...."
Black Ice@Feronius: Oliver dryly called back, "Most of the doors here, unfortunately, open automatically... " He spoke to Tiger, behind him, not over the comms this time.
Black Ice@Feronius: "Don't worry about me. On my way."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "Olevia, I'll watch out for Erin, and keep you guys posted. I'll put out the call to MCPD."
Black Ice@Feronius: After practically leaping and vaulting down the stairs in the stairwell, Oliver would arrive on the main floor not too long after.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Ace you can get a word/action in before we transition!))
Ace@Palanius: Jumps out the window kicking his flightsuit into gear, hovering down to ground level carefully trying to get an overhead view of the attack
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((GM Post, then I'll give ya'll turn order!))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Ace's quick thinking offers him a view of the incident from above - and its grisly. An ambulance had careened right into the main vestibule of Mercy Hosptial, crushing its way inside, and leaving a >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: trail of broken glass and torn steel. The backdoor was open, but whoever had exited, was already inside. That was a view the rest of the Progeny were treated to...
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: The main floor of Mercy Hosptial was gripped in a haze of dust and disintegrated dry wall, from the collission. The ambulance had penetrated a few meters in, but couldn't make it all the way into the>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: building. But it was far enough for the attackers to make their insertion. They exited the derelict ambulance via a modified latch at the side of the vehicle, and were progressing down the main >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: hallway in a "V" formation when the Progeny made it downstairs. There were four: three men, and one woman. The two men at the rear were dressed in black fatigues and ballistic vests, and wore red >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: knee pads, holsters, ammo pouches, and hoods over their black masks. They took pop shots at any civilians still standing with submachine guns. The woman was dressed in a nurse's outfit - but carried >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: a sawed-off shotgun in her hands, and wore a black facemask. The man in front stood a few inches taller then them all, and was dressed in the same colors - but carried a high-tech looking rifle, and >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: and wore a -plague doctor's- mask...not unlike the Men In White's most elite enforcers did. The stairs from the second floor led right into a hallway that cut the main floor into four sections, like >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: a medical cross would. These Men in -Red- approached from the southern hallway, with the blinking lights of the ambulance behind them. The Progeny's positon was at the end of the northern hallway, >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: with stairs back to the second level behind them. The plague doctor saw them through the haze of their attack, and lifted his weapon. He didn't wait to alert his team before firing a blistering red >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: laser right for the biggest, most threatening looking target - Terrific Tiger! ((Turns! Tiger, Ice, Lash, Ace, GM! GO!))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((As always, don't hesitate to PM me with questions!))

Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Had Tiger been more prepared, or had his new equipment with him, he'd have rushed straight forward. This time, though..."Shit!" Hank ducked out of the doorway as best he could, trying to avoid >
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: > the laser. "Okay, charging...no bueno. Ace, buddy? You got any ideas?"
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: ((Done))
Black Ice@Feronius: Having vaulted over the railing of the last set of stairs, Oliver came speeding out of the stairwell without hesitation. Upon spotting the incoming fire, he turned his momentum into a slide across -
Black Ice@Feronius: the smooth floor. Creating only the thinnest layer of ice to help increase the distance covered. But even then, it was not nearly enough to bridge the gap and get in melee range. --
Black Ice@Feronius: His arm was raised and aiming forward as he slid along in a sliding tackle, his cryokinetic efforts focused on erecting a small barricade of ice - for improvised cover. He came sliding to a halt
Black Ice@Feronius: behind the small frozen barrier.
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia reached the door the the first floor, and upon opening it saw the scene playing out. Her friends in front of her and even further ahead... the enemy. >
Black Ice@Feronius: "That's a shoddy parking job if I've ever seen one." Oliver quipped from behind his almost equally shoddy cover.
Lash@Pallas001: She dropped her shoes that were in her hand to the ground as she briskly walked to join them. A dozen feelings coursed through --- but none so strong as the rage she felt. >
Lash@Pallas001: "LONGWANG!" the young woman screamed in the halls, a greensish fire burning away her clothes and exposing the form of LASH as it dissipated. >
Lash@Pallas001: "MOVE. ASIDE," she said loudly but firmly to her allies. (end turn)
Ace@Palanius: Bursts through the same makeshift opening the four attackers created with their ambulance battering ram, letting lose a barrage of both his wristbolters into the back of the enemy group to put some -
Ace@Palanius: preasure on them and maybe draw some fire away from his team. "Some of these interior walls might be brittle enough for you to go through, mabe you could make yourself a flanking route?" Ace suggests-
Ace@Palanius: over the comms to Tiger
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Terrific Tiger's reflexes serve him well, but only just enough. The ruby laser burns a new black stripe into his hide as it grazes him. If it were only a few millimeters closer to the mark, it would >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: definitely have made third degree burns - or worse. By the time Black Ice had made it down the hallway, the plague doctor had taken aim again - and burned a hole right through Ice's - well - ice. >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Though it missed the cryokinetic by inches. This attacker was fast, and didn't mince words. He was already taking aim at the green fury named Lash, when Ace's attack caught them off guard. >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: The wristbolter rounds pelted one of the SMG-bearing men in the back and caused him to reel forward and fall onto his stomach. The other one whirled about and opened fire on Ace with an automatic >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: spray of lead. The nurse glared down at the man Ace had taken down. The hallway they fought in, aside from branching out into eastern and western wings, was lined with rooms and offices. The >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: screaming and whimpering of more than a few civilians could be heard. One man in nurse's scrubs poked his head out of an office opposite Oliver's cover. "Please, can you get us out here!?">
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: He shouted at the Brit. The nurse, with her sawed-off shotgun bolted for one of these offices in the southern hallway. The hospital hadn't been able to evacuate. There could be personnel and patients>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: in every room. The plague doctor's weapon levels with Lash as she barrels towards them. ((Turns: Lash, Ace, Ice, Tiger! GO!))
Black Ice@Feronius: "Fire at will, love." Oli lets Liv know over the comms, seemingly fully aware he might be in her path of destruction.
Lash@Pallas001: "BLARRRRGH!" Lash yells, her mouth expelling a literal flamethrower across the landscape centered at the villains and the man approaching her.
Ace@Palanius: Darts swiftly to one side, avoiding most of the bullets save a few rounds glancing his side. Small specks of blood starts growing at the impact areas but his under armor seems to protect him from -
Ace@Palanius: taking any lethal dammage. He grits his teeths through the assault, not letting up on his own barrage into their ranks
Black Ice@Feronius: "Stay low and get ready to run for the stairwell!", Oliver quickly calls out to the innocents caught in the crossfire. Before taking a deep breath and covering his orifices with his hand, as Lash's --
Black Ice@Feronius: waves of green flame roll right past and over him. Promptly dashing -through- the green inferno, he heads towards the offices hoping to intercept the nurse's path. Creating a cloud of steam as his --
Black Ice@Feronius: frozen form briefly crosses through the flames.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "Ice, Lash, incoming!" Hoping that Ice and Lash would be enough cover for him, Tiger got down on all fours and ran down the hallway, leaping up to one of the walls so he could (try to) ride it and >
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: > pounce, like that movie with Sigourney Weaver he'd seen once or twice.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: (Done)
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: The haze in the hospital's souther hall now glows green as Lash's fire belches out across the floor! The plague doctor rolled forward and at an angle to avoid the brunt of it, but left still with >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: green flames eating up his jacket and pants. He collided with the wall of the eastern hallway, and swiftly ditched his jacket and began to pat his pants down. The other men were not so lucky. The >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: two other Men in Red - the one firing at Ace, and the other recovering from Ace's volley on the floor - were blasted by Lash's fiery vomit and shrieked in agony as they clawed at their clothes, >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: dropping their weapons in the process. Ace's wrist bolters only added to the pain, and the men were now both on the floor, fidgeting and thrashing to escape the mystic fire. Black Ice would find the >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: room he had daringly dashed for full - five medical staff waited, crouched and wide eyed, terrified of what they could hear, but couldn't see. "Please...help us..." The nurse pleaded. Tiger's claws >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: bit well into the wall as he neared the central junction of the east, west, south, and north hallways, and closed the distance quickly! The heat from Lash's flames grew, and suddenly the hospital >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: erupted in a screaming alarm, and the fire extinguishers triggered above them all, raining down cool water. But over the screaming of the fire alarm, and the chaos of the hallway, the team could hear>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the heavy blast of a shotgun. It came from the room off the southern hallway where the Men in Red nurse had disappeared...
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Turns: Lash, Ace, Tiger, Ice, GM! GO!))
Lash@Pallas001: As the Plague Doctor was patting himself down, Lash flew towards at him at super speed, hoping to grab him. She doesn't even mutter a word. If she grabs him, her instinct is to press down on his arm,>
Lash@Pallas001: > snapping it in two.
Ace@Palanius: Flies in on the two downed Men in White, tracing one bolter each ready to open fire should they go for their guns. If he comes in close enough to get a clear shot he'd attempt to knock them out -
Ace@Palanius: clean with a shot to the head each.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: It seemed like his teammates had things take care off, so Tiger ran off towards in the direction of the shotgun, towards the room. He'd sniff before charging in, claws and teeth at the ready.
Black Ice@Feronius: Black Ice threw aside his headphones and discarded what remained of his scorched attire and smoldering letterman jacket. The green flames had consumed most of the fabric, but fortunately Oliver had --
Black Ice@Feronius: learned from past experiences; he had donned his costume underneath his clothes. Probably didn't have time to properly change before coming to the hospital. "GO!!" The Brit shouted to the hospital --
Black Ice@Feronius: personnel. His (bedside) manners left something to be desired. "Head for the stairwell north o' us, proceed to the nearest emergency exit!" He tapped his comm, "Sid, buddy. I need your expertise... "-
Black Ice@Feronius: "How many shots would the average sawed-off shotgun hold before needing to reload?", he asked while he sprinted back out into the hallway, 'iceskating' towards the southern offices by freezing the
Black Ice@Feronius: puddles that were forming from the fire surpression system.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: The plague doctor is swept up by the force of Lash's flight, and his arm snaps under her superior strength! The man in the mask only grunts, and struggles in vain against her grip. He lost his laser >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: rifle in the process, but bends his arm just enough to reach a tube at his belt. It CLICKS and a telescoping rod shoots out to prod Lash in her side as they fly down the hallway, and deliver a shock >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: that could probably bring down a rhino! He doesn't seem to mind that he would be shocked too... Meanwhile, the two Men in Red in the South hallway are knocked clean out and fall to the ground, >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: splashing into the puddles being created by the fire extinguisher. A little blood runs from the welts on their heads from Ace's weapon, though they are still breathing. Tiger is the first to reach >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the room where the shotgun went off. He finds the Nurse in Red holding a gun to the back of a woman's head, who sobs into the fire extinguisher's rain. A limp, motionaless pair of legs poke out from >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: behind a filing cabinet...with blood splatter on the wall opposite. The nurse is wide eyed too - albeit with a more diabolical edge than her hostage. She doesn't say a thing. Sid, however, speaks up >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: as Ollie races to meet Tiger for this dire turn of events. "Depends on the make man...but five to seven is your ballpark."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Turns: Lash, Tiger, Ace, Ice, GM!))
Black Ice@Feronius: "Well, shit. I mean, cheers bud." He replies while rushing over.
Lash@Pallas001: "YOU TELL YOUR FRIEND YOU DO NOT MESS WITH THE PRO-- ow!" Lash says, her tirade ending as she feels a slight jolt course their her. Her instinct, however, is to get rid of the bug. She whips her arm >
Lash@Pallas001: > back holding her prey, tossing him with the power of a 150 miles per hour crash. Good thing this is in a hospital -- he made need a doctor. Or several.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Calling on his feline instincts, Hank leapt low, his arms reaching out towards the Nurse in Red's legs in an attempt to try and knock her off her feet. There was no telling if it was going to *work* >
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: , but it'd be better than getting hurt in the stomach. There'd been enough of that lately. "RARRRGH!"
Ace@Palanius: Having neutralized his two foes, Ace exits the hospital and floats back up to the third floor from where he'd exited earlier to make check on Sids and Erins position, as the others seemed to be -
Ace@Palanius: occupied with their own things
Black Ice@Feronius: Black Ice swerves out of the way, skating and sliding down the hall, as a man comes soaring past that isn't Ace! Nor wearing any jetpack. "Note to self; don't piss off girlfriend." He slid to a halt -
Black Ice@Feronius: in front of the offices Tiger entered. "Keep us up-to-date of what's going on out there, Ace.", he speaks over the comms and he spots Ace flying back outside.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Lash's foe flies into the drywall of the eastern hallway at breakneck speed. Literally. He breaks through the wall in a crumpled mess, and doesn't move. Tiger's attack is swift, but the murderous >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Nurse in Red gets a shot off. It goes wide, spraying against Hank's side and into the doorway where Ollie had arrived, but not into the hostage! However Tiger's attack flung the hostage forward and >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: onto her face, as it dropped the nurse to the ground. She kept grip on her sawed-off, and tried to angle it to press against TIger's head. Ace was nearly back to where he had left - before he caught >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: sight of another ambulance pulling in, its lights blaring. it had the same modifed siding as the other one. This one didn't crash into the building, but was in the process of backing up towards>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the main entrance, where the initial attack had started. Lash would hear a heavy thudding coming her way, like the footfalls of some raging beast. If she turned away from her foe, she would spy>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: another team of Red killers - and one was coming right for her. He was twice her size, almost three times. He wore a black ballistic mask and heavy, metallic plating on his chest, shoulders, legs, >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: and fists. He bounded like a raging bull from the western hallway into the eastern, sliding deftly without missing a beat over Ollie's trail of ice. ((Turns: Tiger, Ice, Ace, Lash!))

Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "NO." With a deft movement and a balled fist, TIger tried to hit the woman's head with a paw. Shotgun be damned, this was all about making sure the woman would be taking a very long nap.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: (Done)
Black Ice@Feronius: Catching a glance of Tiger -seemingly- having things under control, before glancing over his shoulder to catch a glance of more trouble, Ice merely comments. "He's already had his shots." Before --
Black Ice@Feronius: turning back to skate down towards the western hallway from where more baddies appear to roll (or slide) in.
Ace@Palanius: "I hope you guys still have some steam in you cause we just got more people showing up at the main entrance" Ace says over the coms, lamenting not having his jetpack strapped to his back. No jetpack -
Ace@Palanius: no rockets. Instead he flies to flank the ambulance form the side, firing into it to make it so much harder for the people inside to disembarc into the hospital unless they wanted to be shot
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia sized up her next opponent. "No one is getting to Faith, if that's what you wanna do. Do you hear me? NO ONE," Lash exclaims, her voice filled with more determination that she has ever shown >
Lash@Pallas001: > before. The enemy was trying to jump at her - she was fine meeting him... and the others... more than halfway. Taking off at sonic speed, the first floor was filled with the loud, painful BANG of >
Lash@Pallas001: > a sonic boom erupting, setting off car alarms even outside the hospital. She was a superhuman bowling ball; these were her pins.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Tiger's furry fist knocks the crazy-eyed murder nurse out -cold-, just as a sonic boom erupts through the building. More screams from terrified civilians ring out of the many rooms. Lash's trajectory>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: rams her right into the massive, armored enemy charging her. He's heavy, almost impossibly so for his size - but Lash's strength wins through, and then some. The armored fiend is taken with her as >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: they fly past the junction and into the Western halllway, past Black Ice and towards the newcomers. A man in a red painted doctor's jacket drops an empty syringe, but before leveling his submachine >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: at Ollie, is forced to dive out of Lash's way. His compatriots, two more Men in Red like the ones Lash lit on fire earlier, are not so lucky. They are knocked aside by Lash's meteoric rush. The >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: armor of her main target crumples a bit under the force, but the man is very much cosncious. Still in flight, he tries to curl his arms around Lash's throat, pressing with strength to rival her own. >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Ice has three targets, stunned or dodging Lash, which he can attempt to take down. Meanwhile, Ace's attack peppers the ambulance's makeshift side door. But it opens anyway, and a brute of a man steps>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: right into his non-lethal fire, taking the hits with gust - for now. He aims a heavy, chain-fed machine gun in Ace's direction, and a deafening roar comes from the weapon as the brute opens fire.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Turns! Ace, Lash, Ice, Tiger!))

Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Turns! Ace, Lash, Ice, Tiger!))
Ace@Palanius: "Son of a..." Ace mutters before darting away, atleast he had plenty of space outside then inside. Still, at the rate of fire from such a gun a good number of bullets where statisticly bound to find -
Ace@Palanius: their target and although he did a good job returning the fire the continued dammaged forced him to seek cover arround the corner of the hospital licking his wounds for now.
Lash@Pallas001: Lash flies past everyone, the wind buffeting about in the lobby from end to end as she whizzes past. Her enemy, caught in her  grasp as she flew into him, pulled his arms forward and locked about her>
Lash@Pallas001: > throat. She wasn't prepared for it in the least --  and let out a large series of coughs as she tried to turn around in the hospital. She connected with the marble ground harshly several times, >
Lash@Pallas001: > leaving several human sized indentations before finally stopping all together, he body pinned under her. She attempted to beat him in the face with her fists if she could. "KKK... acch... OLLIE!"
Lash@Pallas001: * her body pinned under his
Black Ice@Feronius: Black Ice swerves to the side a little after Lash soars past at sonic speed. There is no shortage of moisture in the air, or water in general, which allowed Oliver to conjure frozen structures with --
Black Ice@Feronius: relative ease. He created a twisting path of ice, almost like a bobsleigh course, before him to enable him to build up momentum. But before he reaches his opponents, he hears Lash's call for help... -
Black Ice@Feronius: Rather than forming a ramp to launch himself towards the red-coated doctor, the twisting iceslide forms a sudden bend. Black Ice U-turns around and propels himself towards the giant of a man --
Black Ice@Feronius: assaulting his girl. Flying towards his head feet first.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Tiger grabbed the shotgun and, with a mighty grunt, tried to bend it, rending it as unusable as he could. "Stay here," he said to the hostage before running out of the room and towards the junction >
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: > of hallways. "Ollie, Lash, I'm coming!" he hollered over coms. His legs were going to kill him tomorrow - if tomorrow ever came.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Before the fiend in red plated armor could crush the breath from the fiery Lash, her punches cause him to lose some of his grip. Black Ice's bobsled attack connects with the fiend's skull, and causes>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the impossibly large man to careen backwards and impact the wall. His momentum, and sheer weight break through the drywall, and he staggers to one knee. Tiger would find his grip on the floor to be >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: difficult, as water rains down on Ollie's ice trails at the hallway junction and the western hallway. But regardless of his ability to stay upright, he comes face to face with the attacker in the red>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: lab coat, rising from just having dodged a freight train of a woman. He grins at the weretiger, and tosses two pellets into the hall junction, near Hank. "Take two, and call me in the morning." He >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: says, before trying to flee from Tiger and head into the north hallway - the one that leads to the stairwell for the 2nd story. The pellets snap and a noxious white gas begins to billow out of the >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: palm-sized devices, surrounding Hank! Ace is safe behind inches of concrete, but it's chipped away steadily as the heavy machine gun continues to roar at him. Heavy caliber bullets chew through the >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: corner bit by bit as the brute exits the ambulance and comes closer. He sports welts, some of which bleed, from Ace's own attack, but seems none the worse for wear. Two more men with submachine guns >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: exit behind him, wearing the same black and red attire. ((Turns! Tiger, Ace, Ice, Lash! ))

Black Ice@Feronius: ((Just for clarification; Are there two more behind Ace's brute? (So 3) at the side exit. And then another 2 with the Red-Coat (who just ran off) that Lash stunned before?)
Black Ice@Feronius: ((As in, red-coat, gattling gun-guy, armor-plated guy + 4?)
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Almost correct. The 3 bearing down on Ace are at the -main entrance-, where the first ambulance charged its way in.))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((The two men with the Red Coat are down and out, for now. So all that's left -inside- is the armored fiend, and the red coat trying to escape to the stairs.))
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "Fucking hell-" Tiger gets down on his knees and starts dry heaving. "Hurgh. URGH. No fair, dude." Still, he has to do something, and the big cat tries to get up and lumber towards where he thinks >
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: > the Doc ran to. (DM's choice. Done.)
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Five active Men in Red total, as far as their senses can see. :P))
Ace@Palanius: Grits his teeths toghetter, trying his best to ignore his injuries. He's clearly outgunned in this situation, he has to find an alternative approach. He retreats further back before finding a window -
Ace@Palanius: that he breaks entering back onto the second floor of the hospital. He travels through the interior hopefully without the machinegun man noticing, bursting out from another window at the front now -
Ace@Palanius: behind the three men raining down bolts from above.
Black Ice@Feronius: Being the gentleman that he is, Oliver first offers Olevia a hand to help her up. While using his other, free hand to begin forming a large sphere of solid ice next to them. It sits before the newly--
Black Ice@Feronius: created hole through which the heavy plated man went. "You always get two turns in bowling."
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia quickly takes Oliver's hand, coughing as she stands up. "TOUCHDOWN!" Olevia says hoarsely, kicking the large ice sphere with all her might at her would be killer.
Black Ice@Feronius: " ...we'll work on that." Oliver softly mumbles.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Ace's aerial maneuver is risky - but it works. His bolts' barrage catch the trio in red by surprise, and cause the two SMG-bearing men to growl in agony and fall to the ground, paralyzed by pain. The>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: brute with his heavy duty noisemaker is pelted as well, even taking one to the top of the head! He falls to one knee, and ceases fire for a moment as his head spins. But this man is made of different>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: stuff, and screams in defiance as he hefts his machine gun to try and shoot Ace out of the sky. His rate of fire is incredibly, but strong as he is, fueled by some unknown source, his aim is >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: atrocious. Some of the bullets impact and shatter windows of the hospital above. Inside, the Fire & Ice couples' bowling team scores a spare - the sphere of ice rams the already reeling fiend into >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the inside wall of the room, into thick, concrete and steel behind it. Miraculously, he struggles against the ice ball, but does so weekly. For the moment, he appears trapped... >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Tiger's eyes, nose, and throat would scream in anguish as he made his way blearily through the gas. The man in the red lab coat is gaining on the stairwell, outpacing Hank!
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((We're at the home stretch guys! Turns: Tiger, Ace, Lash, Ice!))
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Hank's eyes were half-closed now, making it really hard to see straight, or anything else for that matter. "Hngh. Nff. Stupid...I'm gonna get you..." Hank fell to his knees and, gathering what was >
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: > of his strength, charged towards where he thought the man in Red was, with the intent of bringing this creep down. "MINE!"

Ace@Palanius: As the big guys aim seems to be temporarily thrown of by the hit to the head, Ace attempts another daring manouver. He ascends upwards almost the full length of the hospitel before divebombing back -
Lash@Pallas001: "Ollie, I'll make sure this guy isn't going NOWHERE," Olevia says, cracking her knuckles. "Where's Tiger??"
Lash@Pallas001: (whoops sorry)
Ace@Palanius: down towards the gunner in corkscrew pattern making himself as hard of a target as possible before at the last second spinning arround a full 360 midair channeling all his built up inertia into a -
Ace@Palanius: roundhouse kick of his armored boot aimed right at the big guys head
Lash@Pallas001: Olevia looks around. "Check on him and just... make sure Erin's safe. PLEASE." Slowly she walked up to her former assailant, fist balled up...
Lash@Pallas001: (end turn)
Black Ice@Feronius: Black Ice nods once. Seemingly properly ticked off, Black Ice uses his powers to conjure up pillars of ice as he walks back down the hallways. Frozen constructs partially encase or pin down the two --
Black Ice@Feronius: men they took down earlier, as well as the nurse in the office as Oliver passes by once more. "That ought to hold until the coppers get in. Tiger? Come in mate." He calls out over the comms.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Alright guys, prepare for the ending post to end all posts! Cuz things. :O Thank you all for coming out and kicking ass!))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Ace's target tried in vain to gun him down but couldn't hone on his corkscrew maneuver. The pilot's aerial roundhouse knocks him aside, and he falls, still trying to shoot Ace down. The chain fed>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: machine gun is deafening and its shots go wide, before wheeling around and biting a few rounds into Ace's rockets. But the man loses his grip as he hits the ground, and then goes limp as he loses >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: consciousness. Tiger's bleary-eyed shove forward narrowly collides with the escaping Red Coat, and causes him to twist around forcefully and lose balance. "GAH!" He says, as he hits the ground. Ollie>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: would hear this, and see the Man in Red and Hank in the north hallway. Lash's foe struggles weakly against the bowling ball, and begins to push it aside as Lash comes closer. The Man in Red near >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Tiger pushes himself up and with grit teeth grabs for a pistol on his belt. ((Alright, everyone gets one more post, since tomorrow's event runs tandem with this one! Ace and Tiger get a reaction post>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: Ice and Lash get one more action. Make 'em count!))
Black Ice@Feronius: ((As in, at the same time? Or direct follow-up?))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((No turn order necessary, since this is the last series of posts. Is that what you're asking?))
Black Ice@Feronius: (No, I mean, what does in tandem mean?)
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Tomorrow's event will be happening at the same time as this one. Three floors up. >:D))
Black Ice@Feronius: ((Ah, right. Faith and Sid getting some action... ))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((They finally got some privacy, so...))

Ace@Palanius: Although the attack succeeded in taking down his foe Ace imidietly regrets getting in close to the machinegun wielding lunatic as the bullets digs in deep into his legs at point blank range, causing -
Ace@Palanius: him to fall over crying out in pain as the adrenaline and shock wears of breaking down the mental barriers he'd put against his other injuries
Lash@Pallas001: "I think you are here to do bad things to my friends," Lash says calmly, her voice still raspy but oddly confident. "I want you to know who sent you to prison. My name is LASH. So next time you pick >
Lash@Pallas001: > on my friends? My FAMILY? Think again." Lash pushes the ice ball away, grabbing her enemy's leg... and then slammin him bacvk and forth on the ground, repeatedly.
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: Tiger lets out a mighty roar and leaps blindly towards the Man In Red, mouth opened wide. "RAARH"
Terrific Tiger@steamdragoness#6637: "NO!"
Black Ice@Feronius: Black Ice appears in the stairwell behind Tiger, lifting an arm in the man's direction. The man would be free to reach for his gun, but would soon find his hand encased in ice as he does.
Black Ice@Feronius: The man in the Red Coat, that is.
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Here goes! Nice work guys.))
Black Ice@Feronius: "HANK!"
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: The floor quakes with Lash's punishment, and the fiend is slowly beaten to a delerious pulp. Something makes this man more than just a man, besides the heavy duty armor. But Lash's foe eventually >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: goes limp, bleeding some from his mouth. Ace's foes remain in much the same state he is - in pain - though they are unable to resist. He bears witness to a veritble fleet of MCPD vehicles, including >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: SWAT trucks, as he stands - or crawls - victorious outside the warzone of a hospital. Inside, at the north hall, Tiger and Ice successfully prevent the final Man in Red from reaching the stair well, >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: their one-two causing him to be disarmed and knocked against the opposite wall painfully in a blink. Water still sprays from the fire extinguishers above, and several of the hospital's occupants peek>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: out as silence comes over the hospital. These men wear some of the same accessories as the Men in White, some even bear the tattoo of that syndicate: a combat knife with a snake coiled around it, a>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: macabre mockery of the Staff of Asclepius seen in all manner of medical contexts. But their colors are different, and even for them, this seems a brazen move. Though several civilians are dead, and >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: others injured, the Progeny have succeeded in routing what may have progressed to a full on massacre. But as the fever of battle begins to dwindle, the teens come to realize that Sidney has been >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: decidedly absent on the commlink... ((END EVENT: POSTING SETUP FOR TOMORROW. Don't worry, an IC follow up to all of this, including the Protectors, will be held tomorrow!))
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: While the Progeny fought bravely on the main floor, a hidden fourth team took an alternate route through the hospital. Arriving at the hospital's shipping dock, they killed all within, and took the>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: rear stairwell to the third floor. As gunfire and Lash's sonic boom shook the hospital, frightening the upstairs staff and patients. Footsteps echo, as the combat boots make contact with the tile. >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: "Oh, how the heroes keep, to their righteous causes." A familiar and emotionless Australian >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: voice says, as Killshot muses to himself. Down by his side, in between his glove covered fingers, a dark red ballistic mask. The top design pressed outward and resembled that of a skull, but quickly >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: smoothed down into the metallic material. His blood red bulletproof vest, was strapped over a similar colored shirt, as if he was prepared to get it all soaked. "With the second seal broken>
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: the second livin' creature spoke, 'Come.' And another, fiery red horse, rode out..." The man slowly brought up the ballistic mask, "...And ta him who sat on it, it was granted ta take peace from the >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: earth." He bent his head down, in order to move the mask to place over his head. Dark grey lenses blocked where the man's cold set of eyes would be. With the mask covering his head, he rolled his >
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: neck. The bones gave off a metallic like pop as they cracked. "And I plan on takin' that from this city." His left hand began to unholster his infamous SIG P226, "Block by block, it will all burn."
Kid Ballistic@calamitycain: ((Find out what happens by tuning into COJ tomorrow, 9 AM ST!))