Blood in the snow

[The ranger]

Yuri sighs as he was forced into his seat by the speed. "Just call me reddawn" he saidas he checked his things. A pound of c4 his makarove his eagle and a can of thermite, 4 grenades Gandhi's ak74-u he didn't like this but he rent want to be arrested and not get the money and what ever crimes these men said he iswanted for he wanted to find out.

[Edzilla]

His face was pure concentration ,"Chehung Hang, head of 14ks triad group in L.A., owns substantial morning glory farms, not the nicest guy to be dealing with but he will get me anything..." He looked away from the tablet screen, started to walk toward the stove, hands behind his head ,"he's dangerous, big big people will be looking for him, not only that but the Triads themselves wouldn't mind my ransom.... but currently they have a lead and it might lead right back to me...." He picked up a knife from a rack on the wall and stared into it, apparently mesmerised by his own reflection. "So we cut the lead.... then it all falls to the ground as the triads and the FBI fight it out, then we take our little copycat, make him vanish... or even better..." At that he stopped, in less than a minute he made his plan, now he was itching to execute it. "Stay the night, then we are leaving tomorrow, for Detroit, then LA." He walked over to his laptop and powered it down, "We'll take a couple of USP's, don't supposed you've fired a gun..." He smiled, assuming no.
"Find yourself a bed, my old parents room is the nicest... If you need me I'll be in my room, awake." He began to amble off, when he remembered her question. "For now, call me... Eddie," He walked off,leaving her in the kitchen and turning off lights as he went. His footsteps were audible on the stairs followed by the shutting of his door.

OOC- feel free to arrive in LA the next day you three.

[Esiphas]

Jack snapped awake, bolt upright as Usual, before Looking around. They were entering into LA, and Jack had never felt better. Sleep came easy after two days of restlessness. He cracked his neck, Then pulled a Small knife from his pocket, and began Trimming his morning beard down, Using the Wing mirrors. It was rough, but Jack was used to it. "Right... Lets get to the Warehouse... Red, Pass me the City guide back there would you?"

[mantisstalker]

(still the night before)

Zack surveyed the gate to the warehouse from his own little hiding spot in the bush's, looking at the huge building and the seven foot fence topped with barbwire that lined it. The gate was the only way for him to get in without going back and gathering supplies that wouldn't take just time but would also draw attention, so he waited for a window of opportunity to come by. He glance back towards the guards at the gate and again couldn't help but smile at how unprofessional they looked, barely managing to conceal their guns never mind not shoot their own foot off. But Zack didn't have too long to admire this as a large truck pulled into the gate, and started a heated discussion with one of the guards.

At this Zack saw his chance and ran forward using the truck as cover and climbed up and onto its roof via a small ladder it had on the back door. After a few more minutes of arguing the truck moved forwards and into the warehouse itself and after going into its dimly lit interior it stopped, as men started to arrive to unload it. Zack jumped down into the shadows and after buttoning up his coats collar and pulling his hats brim low over his eyes stepped out, grabbed a box and started to follow two men also carrying boxes. It didn't take them long to reach a large red shipping container and deposit their boxes on the ground before moving off leaving Zack alone.

As soon as Zack was sure they where gone he quickly put down the crate he was holding and moved inside of the shipping crate and started opening boxes. He found several crates of drugs including chloroform and PCP, both of which he pocketed a bottle of. Some crates held weapons and other even held several erotic items both of which he left alone. Finally he reached the last crate and opened the lid, and was a little taken aback by what he saw. It was filled with dozens and dozens of small silver music boxes each with a small label on them, describing what song they played. He wasn't sure if they where the killers or where placed here to try and do god knows what but he could think of a purpose for them. He pulled out a small bag and stuffed a couple of dozen into it before putting it back in his coat and moving to the crates door again, a rather ominousness smile under his coats collar. As he stepped out however his head was met with a steel pipe and after that blackness.

(The next day)

Zack awoke coat-less tied to a chair in what looked like the same warehouse he had been trying to scout. After several seconds of darkness a bright light snapped on close to his face, causing him to turn his head away blinking. After straining his eyes to look past the light his face suddenly lit up with a smile. "I'm guessing your in charge here?" he said as a figure clad in a suite stepped into his field of vision.

[Yuno]

Rei smiled nodding as she lifted up her tablet and tote bag walking after him, "Night Eddie." she opened one of the doors to find a king sized bed freshly made and beautifully decorated. She smiled at this walking inside and dropping her bag on the bed. She opened the bathroom bringing her tote with her. It was also nice and she made the decision to take a shower. The water was hot and the feel of cleaning away days worth of sweat and grime was sweet.

She scrubbed for several minutes before climbing out and coming to the realization she didn't have a towel. She grimaced chiding herself. She couldn't very well go ask for one now. She lifted her messy band shirt up drying herself with that instead. She pulled on the t-shirt and panties that she'd bought as a change of clothes at the department store and climbed into bed after setting her things to charge.

You would think in the company of a murderer you wouldn't sleep, but she was out very quickly curled up like a small kitten under the blankets. To be very honest, she hadn't slept so well in 2 years.

*The next morning*
She woke with a yawn rubbing her head and grimacing at her bruised wrist. After another shower she pulled on the pants she'd bought before and put on a bra under her shirt. She walked out coming her fingers through her somewhat wild but not unbeautiful hair. Her tote was over her shoulder as she walked into the kitchen finding it empty. She opened the fridge and after hunting around found some eggs which she cracked and scrambled taking a plate in her hands careful not to pressure her wrist and walking into Eddie's room.

"Hey I made breakfast...figured we should get going if we wanna make good time today..."

[Edzilla]

He was sitting in his chair, head rested on a desk, the light of his laptop illuminating his sleeping face. When she spoke he sat up straight looking surprised. "Of course, I'll be out in a few minutes, just let me shower." She closed the door and he stood up, walking off to the ensuite bathroom and gently closing the door behind him. The bathroom lit up, revealing state f the art cream walls and marble tiles with a walk in shower and a mirror as a large as a window. He took off his casual clothing, that he'd been wearing all through the night and stepped in, enjoying the hot water on his body and massaging shampoo through his relatively short hair.
When he's finished, he stepped back into the room with a towel round his waist. He pulled some jeans as a white t-shirt out of his chest of draws, pulled them on and walked down the stairs and quickly into the kitchen. "Morning,we've got a long journey to travel... Some Triads to meet, should be fun." He put a fork into the scrambled egg , no longer fussed about the possibility of poison.
"We need to be in Detroit by 2:00, we'll be in LA by 5:00, grab a bite to eat and find our man..." He reached into a hold all underneath his chair, pulled out a USP handgun and slid it across the kitchen table to her,"Ever fired a gun before? If not, it doesn't matter, it low recoil, maintanence and..." He pulled out a second one from the bag. "press this little button," it fell to pieces as he pressed it, till it barely resembled a the German weapon it'd been. "All of a sudden we can take it on a plane," he smiled, quickly reassembling the gun before dropping it back into the bag. He finished his egg and took it over to the sink and cleaned the plate before walking into the hallway and coming back in wearing a long leather coat. "We can leave when your ready,but we do have a flight to catch, bear that in mind."


The bright light had dazed his vision as the man wore a black shirt with the sleeves rolled up, along with black trousers and tie. He was clearly oriental but e spoke with a perfect American accent. "No ,I'm not, the boss is on the way, web he gets here he gets to make a very important decision for you, any idea what it is?" Zack understood and the man smiled evilly, "welcome to the house of the 14k's, if you don't already know us, you will once we are finished with you." He swung a fist at Zack, who tried to raise his hands to discover they were bound, the punch connecting with his cheek, sending spittle flying. "Now maybe you'd like to tell us what you were doing in our warehouse?" The look on his face showed another punch was coming if he answered wrong.

[Yuno]

She'd already finished eating and cleaning up the kitchen when he came down. He could see she'd pulled on her black combat boots and trench coat and was on the phone shouting in Japanese. "No mom I am absolutely fine, the boy wasn't that important. We only went out once. No I don't fear for my life." she let out an exasperated sigh, "Yes I am eating well....yes my job is fine." she turned looking at Eddie as he sat down giving him this shoot me please look. "No I don't have a boyfriend. Look mom I have to go, I have work to do...Yes I promise I will...Look when the (please do not swear) did you get off the I am no longer your child train." she breathed in angrily hanging up and sitting down. When he showed her the weapon and searched her face for a reaction he found just acceptance.

"Once or twice....one of my boyfriends wasn't the best of characters...he thought it would impress me....guess he didn't realize what I did in my spare time." she gave him a wry smile watching him eat briefly. When he stood up to leave she waved him to move on. "I'm all ready." she moved after him out the door. Back through the snow he led her down a good path that was far easier to follow than the one she'd taken. The arrived at the air port within the hour after taking a ride from a gas station.

She followed him through the air port checks smiling brightly giving the impression to all on lookers of a happy couple.

[The ranger]

red handed the man the guide and took his ak74u out and cleaned it while he sat there. "nothing fits, the killer must have contacts in the state. that's the only way he could have things done or happen. the ambulance. the mugging was not just a random mugging..." -he checked his tablet again hie was hacking into the u.s mainframe and he found someone that was searching for there target as well. he pulled it up and traced her name and identity. a Asian gal named Rei, "hey hat man i think someone else is searching for the killer." -he handed the man his tablet and it had the girls record and where she worked. also the last 42 hours of searching and sites shes been on. not to mention her phone recodes.

[mantisstalker]

Zack took in rather ragged breaths as he recovered from the unexpected assault, but the entire time he had a faked disappointed look on his face. "Your boss inst here yet? Too bad. I was hoping to take him down." he said in a rather tired voice. He looked at the questioning expression his interrogator had on his face and with a sigh decided to expand what he meant. "You see I'm only the advance group for a police strike team. I was meant to come in and check out the place before they got here, and with what I found in that crate I doubt they will be very kind to you and your boss..."

For his explanation he was rewarded with another punch to the jaw, busting his lip and causing him to descend into another torrent of ragged breathing, before smiling. "Don't believe me? Then call my bluff. Fetch me my phone in the left front pocket of my coat and call the first number on it. Then we'll see who's in trouble here." A smile hitched onto Zack's face as he said the last few words, hoping to bluff his way out.

[Yuno]

ooc( Red, all of her phone records have been switched in the past day so anything you have wouldn't be useful, and there is no way the government would know she's searching for the killler....just doesn't make any sense. At most he would be able to find that she'd been dragged in to crack the code and failed.)

[Edzilla]

They reached the gate for there flight, a rather tired looking attendant, probably most of the way through his 18 hour shift. "Passports and boarding cards please," his voice had a hoarse texture, probably a smoker. He handed over his burgundy and her red, taking them back. The attendant was to tired to care what to teenagers were travelling to LA for. They walked across the air bridge into the plane and sat down. After ten or so minutes the plane took off and he turned to her,"I'm gonna get some rest,not a lot of sleep last night, enjoy business class." He put his seat back and then closed his eyes, asleep in a few moments. Within a minute of reaching altitude, a stewardess came to take her order of food.

After a 5 hour flight, they touched down in LA. Thankfully they were travelling domestic, otherwise immigration would have required a lot of talking. They left the airport and began on foot, after an hour of walking through a seemingly run down area, they reached a set of garages and he pulled a key out of the coat, inserted it in and watched as the garage door slid open automatically, the storage had a few crates but leant against the wall was a Suzuki Virus, glistening in silver. He walked in, grabbing two visor helmets ad throwing one to her. Putting his on, he wheeled the motorcycle out of the garage and jumped on. His voice was slightly muffled but she could still hear him ,"Lets go get something to eat, there's a good
Chinese downtown."

"(please do not swear), the police wouldn't even try, we pay them enough to not." He smirked as two men entered, one over six foot, the other quite a lot under. The taller held a large battery with jumper cables attached ,"now give me one good reason why we shouldn't hook you up to this and let the volts rip." the look in his eyes hoped he answered wrong, seriously hoped.

[Yuno]

She caught the helmet grimacing her wrist still very tender as she pulled it on. She swung a leg over the side of the bike climbing onto it and wrapping her arms around his middle. He could tell she'd never been on before because he could tell she was worried. Her voice was a little shaky as she spoke, "Ohkay I'm ready." The garage closed as he took off with with a roar. At first she kept her eyes closed and didn't watch, but when they got out on the high way she slowly peeked out around him and slowly a smile spread over her face. He could feel her grip loosen as she shouted over the roar of win, "This is amazing....it's like flying."

Very soon it was over and he was parking in front a Chinese restaurant. She stowed her helmet on the bike as he did smiling at him. "You know how to live life." She smiled as she walked in and soon was seated once again across from Eddie. She smiled ordering some green tea with honey and then pulling out her tablet briefly. The waitress took Eddie's drink order and then disappeared to fill it.

Rei looked up smiling at Eddie, "So once we take care of your PR problems, what comes after that?"

[Esiphas]

Ooc- Cant really post untill Carnofex rectifies his post or Someone else in my.little group posts.

[Edzilla]

ooc- Ill handle it, he got no info on Rei, but he does have info on the gang who beat up the oil executive, thats another lead

He smiled, "Its kinda hazy, but all that has to happen is for the people to lose faith, the government can stay but there has to be big changes," his drink came in the form of water and he took a sip. "We test them, I have to know whether I'm dealing with the people I think I am." He muttered something to the waitress, who sped off quickly. "Im afraid the first lady may have brought out something nasty, I need to truly break the down destroy what they worship," He pulled out a dollar bill, "they love this more than anything, maybe I burn that, maybe the church... either way we need to be in the way of making demands..." He smiled, thinking of his wilder ideas, "at what point I had this idea of making the Yellowstone super volcano erupt, not very subtle... but anything requires proper social engineering, we need to build it up.. I certainly havent peaked at some oil giant, there has to be a lot more."
The waitress came back with several dishes, mostly rice, placing them on the table. She left with a bow as Eddie took his chopsticks and began to eat ,"We've got some of the triads men coming to meet us, apparently they've got our man, sadly for them, he might be the only one that lives..." He smirked as if he told a joke.

[Yuno]

The moment her drink was down she was sipping at it with vigor. When the rice and other food was put before them she lifted her chop sticks with the grace of a native user. She started eating and nodding at him as he spoke. She swallowed a wad of rice with some carrot and then grinned, "Well I mean...if you want to send a message to the people...why not topple their economy..." she pulled out her tablet and after a few swipes pushed something forward at him. His scanning it revealed a plan that he could see was somewhat outdated to collapse the economic credit and stock market.

She was chewing rice when he looked at her but she smiled all the same, "I never put it into practice because I was arrested 3 days after this idea came to me..." she selected some veggies off of a plate and began to chew on them. "I mean if you really wanted to break the people's faith in the government, you could show them just how many atrocities on American soil there are everyday because of them..." she reached over flicking another thing to show various statistics and files that it was fairly clear were top secret.

She grinned again picking up a stray bit of egg and tossing it in the air and catching it in her mouth with a smile. "You wanna be the one making demands...hmmmm....you could place explosives along the San Andreas falt...explode things right and you can put ash and earth quakes all over most of the U.S. and knock out a few volcanos along the way." she chewed until she heard him talk about the triads.

Her smile remained but he could see her shoulders tense. She was looking over his shoulder as several men dressed in dark suits moved in from behind the bar counter walking towards them. Her eyes fell back on Eddie as she smiled feigning a laugh as though he'd said something funny. She took her tablet off the table stowing it back in her tote bag.

She then returned to eating as the three men moved surrounding their table smiling, "Hello." one jerked a finger at Rei gruffly, "Who's the girl?" she smiled lightly continuing to eat as another glanced at her bruised wrist and then over to Eddie making some sort of assumption from this. The waitress moved over bringing drinks for the men who sat as she did. Rei continued eating as one reached over and poked her shoulder, "Answer the question girl...who are you." She looked up at the thug with all the disinterest of an indifferent feline. "Do you mean what is my name or my occupation or why am I with him." she pointed at Eddie with her chop sticks her tone somewhat snarky.

The man was interested by this and he leaned forward into her face as she continued eating, "Why don't you answer all of them before I lose my patience and decide to make some executive decisions for the boss." She grinned into his face reaching for some soy sauce which she put over the rice her gaze not leaving the man's. "I'm Rei. I am a friend of his in town to enjoy the sights with him. And I work as a data reader in New York...and you might have known that Toji Akarume if your people watched the air ports a little closer." she lifted rice into her mouth as the man glared moving forward as if to strike only to be halted by the man next to him. "Stop it Toji...I like her fierce style...and if he says she's okay...then she must be. Now to business...." he turned looking at Eddie.