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Post by Esiphas on Apr 17, 2013 0:25:50 GMT
The moment the turret was gone, Mateus rushed over to ghost. Worried as he was about the mental stability of Tyamius, he had to see to host first. Kneeling down, he stretche Shia body and mind out to ghost. "Speaks to me... Ghost. Are you okay?" He checked over his body for the wound.
As Mateus was treating the corpse, a pair of guards came round the corner. These were different though. They worse heavy armour plating, giving them an almost Dreadnought like shape. The armour had a distinctive glow to it, that's as coming from inside the plating. These things had no shadows, and each carried a heavy bolt action riflei their hands. "Keep them off me?0!" Mateus yelled, trying to help ghost a little.
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Post by Tyamius, Shadow Lord on Apr 17, 2013 0:53:24 GMT
"I ONLY HAVE MY OWN SHADOW TO WORK WITH HERE!" Ty roared, bits of his long forgotten past kicking in. His eyes dropped as he zigged and zagged the shadows around his arm lunging out to absorb the bullets. He heard on of the guards yell something about hitting the high beams but he wasn't in control anymore, the shadows were making him dance as if he were just a puppet.
He smiled as he neared the first guard spiking his leg with the newly formed spear of shadows. But before he could recover a bullet found his shoulder and he tumbled backwards, hitting a wall. He struggled to hold himself steady, but he was panicking now as the shadows receded from his hands and he was lit up from every angle but bright lights. The voices were gone, his main power was gone and he was in the open.
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Post by Edzilla on Apr 17, 2013 7:36:37 GMT
Ghost coughed a blood stained cough, emitting a low noise of pain. His head lay sideways on the ground and through blurred vision, he could see the approaching forces, the thunderous death of that Gatling gun, the bright figures, the clank of the bolt actions. It was all so noisy,he jut wanted peace, and through it all, he started to feel the quiet, spreading through his body, promising to take it all away if he just let go.
What was he really fighting for, there was no life after this, no heaven. There was nothing for him on the outside either. All this time just seemed so.. wasted when he could so easily escape, let go...
The two words bounced around his head and he began to agree, as if it was the most sensible piece of advice he'd ever heard.
He was jerked back by Mateus's voice and the growing chill of his own blood. He emitted another low noise of pain. All the question before were forgotten without an answer.
He found his vision shifting to 62 in his deteriorating state, and despite the inappropriateness of the thought, he wondered what it was like to have that outlook on the future, that it was possible....
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Post by mantisstalker on Apr 17, 2013 8:50:02 GMT
The swarm of bullets that where aimed at Ty stopped a few inches short of his face as the air shimmered and they where sent pinging into a nearby wall. Not too far away one of the Pale Twins gave a groan of effort and its sibling stepped forward to block another wave of bullets. Confused they stopped firing and in that pause the Stalker leap forward and with each talon slashed impaled once of the men thought the chest before spinning away. With a cry of alarm the other tried to open fire on the Stalker only for the bullets to sink into his now dead comrades back but as he turned the beam of his flood light moved to now gaze at the Stalker leaving Ty to sit against the wall.
Aware of what was going on through his children's senses 62 ran over to Ghost and shook him slightly in an attempt to keep him awake. When the wall walker didn't stand up he made an expression that might have been to bear his teeth in frustration and anger but only achieved getting the skin covering his mouth to tear as the slit widened. Starting to get desperate he reached over to Ghost's back and with slightly shaking hands absorbed the nutrients from the top layer of flesh making it become dry and husk like but most importantly stopped the bleeding.
When this was done 62 took a step back and looked over his comrades prone form. There was only one thing he could do to keep him alive if he didn't manage to recover, though 62 hesitated. It would doom the child to a life with no purpose just to die. So instead he decided to wait. If Ghost got any work he would so what was needed whether he wanted to or not.
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Post by t⊗theark on Apr 17, 2013 15:38:35 GMT
As Eliseai kissed his neck, Sunny tilted his neck back with a smile and slid his around her waist, his breathes starting to get heavier. He looked at her again, his smile fading a little.
"Heh, I need to control my emotions altogether," He furrowed his brow with a slight pout and averted his eyes like a child ashamed to cry, "and the truth is that this is me trying my hardest to keep them under wraps. Heck, if my feelings didn't have direct consequences that I tried to supress I'd probably a mental case." He then remembered who exactly he was talking to, realizing how firmly his foot was in his mouth. He pulled her close s she buried her head into his chest.
His acure hearing picked up an increase in radio activity, those walkie-talkies they carried around gave off an alloying frequency.
"We request backup asap. Over"
"Please, send us more men. Over"
"We are cannot contain them. Repeat, we cannot contain them"
"Sir, our bullets seem to pass right through them"
"They're so many, they've surrounded us!"
"We have unknown activi- UGH, THEY'RE AROUND US! THEY'RE IN SHADOWS! HELP! AH!"
Sunny jumped out and pressed hi head against the wall to hear more.
"Use me to hear this El, can you hear that? They're 9 guys max, how can they be taking on so much by themselves? I have no idea what they're talking about." Sunny paced a bit, thinking of what it could be but giving up on that on more how they could take advantage of it.
"Okay, so Dr Slybastard McBitchface looks pretty determined to use us further in her plans that I have no idea about. Whatever is big and scary is going to stretch resources pretty for more than a day. We should take the night's sleep and tomorrow, when they open that door to take us down to ye ol' laboratory we should rush them and make sure that the other's find out we're alive. I hope whatever has the facility staff so concerned about hasn't got those guys either."
As promised, the two 3 course meals did come. 3 knocks at the door welcomed in the same woman you served Sunny breakfast.
"Hello, Dr Arachnae said you requested this?" Sunny looked at her stunned. 2 lobster tails, 2 steaks with beer battered fries, 2 caesar salads, to creme brulees and a bottle of champagne with two wine glasses.
"Uh, I-I didn't think she would actually do it...." He said to the young woman
"The other staff call you Sunny, is that your name?"
"Of sorts." he sighed.
"Oh," said the woman noticing Eliseai in the room as well in the corner across the room from the door on the adjacent wall, "That would explain the two of everything. So you're sleeping in that one bed tonight?" Sunny just responded by blushing, this glow flashes a little yellow. Eliseai seemed mesmerized by the variety of food.
"I'll leave you two to it then," she she concluded after unloading the trolley onto the bench, " and for what's it's worth, I'm sorry." Those words seemed to echo as she left the room.
After stuffing themselves unceremoniously with Sunny's ridiculous request and unanimously agreeing that champagne tastes awful, making Sunny wonder why his mother went on about it so much, recovering from the numbness in his fingers, Sunny got up with a stretch and yawn,
"Well I could sleep easy after that" he said, than remembering as he saw the one bed. Not wanting to intrude and having no idea how Eliseai would take any further advances despite being linked into her brain, he asked,
"Well I could just take the floor, you sleep on the bed?"
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Post by Esiphas on Apr 17, 2013 23:06:26 GMT
Mateus Focussed hard on Ghost, ignoring the two super soldiers. Finding the wind, Mateus began to pad it up. "Someone get me the power core from tha dead walker damnit! I need to cauterise this. You'll have to rip its armour open by hand. It's should make good cover!" He ducked as another set quizzed overhead. "Where the hell are Sunny and Ellesai in this damned place? We need to find them soon. Come on Ghost... Stay with us."
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Post by Yuno on Apr 18, 2013 0:31:50 GMT
Eliseai flopped onto the bed bouncing slightly if only to experience the joy of a real bed for the first time in her life. She heard Sunny talking, but she mostly was picking up on his emotions. He didn't want to push her, but he also didn't really want to sleep on the floor. She giggled as he finished his question which she could tell threw him off slightly. She stood up on the bed bouncing again slightly. Gracefully she vaulted off of it landing with smacking sound next to him. He mumbled the question over even though he could have known she wasn't listening to him. She moved behind him and he felt her hands pushing him forward onto the bed. Although he was aware she probably could have made him sit she didn't. She just pulled him towards it. "Stop being stupid. I've been in your brain remember. And you've been in mine. I love you. I'm not making you sleep on the floor. If you want to do that then I'll support the floor, but I'd really rather sleep with you in this bed."
With that said she stopped pushing him and climbed back onto the bed to bounce. As he stood there watching her she let out a sigh deciding he needed a more obvious prod than her words already. She jumped and peeled her tank top off as she went throwing it at his head in the middle of the second jump. It landed on his face rather perfectly aimed.
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Post by t⊗theark on Apr 18, 2013 1:40:27 GMT
Sunny stood there with his eyes wide open and his jaw slack. He knew Jaq for a long time, he only knew this girl for less than a week. Hpwever, he got the message. He had a needy feeling in the pit of his stomach and crawled onto the bed with a grin. He took off his shirt, which got comically stuck on the metallic disc jutting from his clavicle, a small ring of skin around it still red and raw. He had the same, red but not hot glow he had before and kissed Eliseai passionately while he knelt, leaning forward and wrapping his arms around her, his breaths getting heavier. He paused for a moment,
"When they'll take us out of this room to reboot our projects, then we'll make a run for it," He said with a grin, "and I'm sure we'll find the others." With that, feeling her frustration over him stopping, he continued...
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Post by Tyamius, Shadow Lord on Apr 18, 2013 2:23:35 GMT
Ty sat confused, only several minutes after being out of his prison and he had been shot at, saved a guys life, and injured. "Uh..." He muttered as he approached Mateus examining the cauterized wound. "It seems your quiet friend has already closed it up but can someone get this bullet out of me?" He said still holding his shoulder to cease the bleeding.
The shadows and voices were back once more licking out at Ghost trying to reach him but he simply stepped back and let Mateus work.
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Post by Yuno on Apr 18, 2013 3:35:03 GMT
“They're making progress. But two of the subjects are wounded”.
“Your men aren't able to take them in that cooridoor are they Commander.”
“Look Archanae, even with our tools designed to fight them, it is much harder to take creations live.”
“I disagree. We took two of them early yesterday. We've even had time to run tests on them.”
“How are they. Sam is exceptionally healthy. The improvements from the gemini project are substantial. And the girl?”
Archanae paused with a sigh pushing a document across the table to the commander. “Her memory centers aren't functioning correctly. It's like Alzheimers would be for me and you. But with us it would progress at a steady rate. Her's seems more to be an incredibly slow decay that stops. For example, all our intelligence would indicate she should loathe Mateus. But when questioned and the chemicals in her brain are watched she reacts like her 11 year old self would. Similiarly, she couldn't remember meeting me, even though I headed up the division on the changeling project and gemini project. I dealt with her everyday since she began existing.”
The commander cleared his throat. “Can you cure this in her. If so it might solidify our hold on the boy. After all, nothing would damage him more than watching her fade away slowly.”
Archanae shrugged. “I'm running tests on chemicals that could help repair the damage. But without knowing what caused it in the first place I'm in the dark.”
Eliseai turned over on her side wiggling slightly in Sunny's embrace. She breathed in looking around at the sunshine dripping through the windows. She brushed her hair out of her face and turned to look at Sunny. It was the most peaceful she'd ever seen him look. His skin had a light glow to it that she'd taken on at some point the night before. She reached out pressing the back of her hand to his face. She cracked her neck slightly her skin shifting slightly to form the semblance of clothes. She moved picking up their clothes as she went. She pulled their door open to look at the seven guards there. “I need some clothes. Make certain they're radiation resistant. And if they looked like the subjects armor uniforms that would be great”. With that she turned shutting the door and picking up several oranges returned to Sunny. The uniforms were returned and she shifted back to her normal clothesless form and sat chewing oranges quietly. As the sun began to rise higher she reached out with her finger tickling Sunny's face. “Wake up Sunshine. Busy day.”
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Post by Esiphas on Apr 18, 2013 6:04:15 GMT
Mateus looked back at ghost. "Huh. Go damned adrenaline rush." He stood up, letting gost down gently. "Lets have a look at you." He said, looking at the bullet hole. He nodded. "This could take a while. Why don't we get some rest here, its a fairly defensible corridor. Take a cople hours sleep." As they all settled down, Mateus began work on the wound, and at the same time started reaching out with is mind. Trying to locate Sunny and Ellesai.
The moment he found them, his mind shot back into his head. "Anyone know that feeling, like your a parent and you can hear you daughter and her boyfriend doing what they do? Yeah. I know ow that feels now." He said, not to anyone in paticular, and rather quietly, but loud enough that anyone awake could hear him.
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Post by Edzilla on Apr 18, 2013 7:36:09 GMT
Ghost's eyes steadily grew heavier, part him really did want to sleep....
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The sun was out, shining brutally down up the landscape. The road stretched onwards, round a corner, on one side a relatively low hill stretched upwards, the green and red scrub dominating most of the upper slopes. On the other, the snow began, as the altitude climbed it grew thicker upon the black alpine peaks. Ice slid slowly over the serac's, gently foaming from the summits down the tall slopes.
Further upwards was only the bright clear sky, casting a truly hot heat down onto the tarmac of the road.
He stared down the road, and for no reason at all, he knew it was the way, despite not knowing where he wanted to go. He began to follow it, rounding the rocky outcrop o the corner, a small settlement came into view below, surrounded by rolling green slopes and fresh forests, log structures flanking small country lanes.
He began to walk down the green slope, crossing several fences as he did. The town simply drew him downwards and he knew it was where he wanted to be.
Reaching the bottom, who found himself on a small paved road, yet there were no cars, no pedestrians. For the first time he noticed the total lack of noise, and as he did, it instantly came alive. General chatter, small motors, the trickling brook. It was becoming steadily more real, but still no one crossed this lane.
He continued down it, making a series of left and right turns based upon nothing. One again, the road began to snake uphill, although he felt no leg pain, only the need to keep going.
All of a sudden he stopped, he needed to go left. As he turned he noticed there was no road, but now a small log house, it's one floor with numerous small glass windows. The door was a jar, and from inside he could here a muffled song and voice.
He stepped in, noticing the "nice" nature of it all. Cream walls upon which hung watercolour landscapes, a brown tiled floor. Further on down the hall was the source of the noise, the sound gradually becoming clearer, mixed with a feminine voice which sang sweetly along with the tune. Upon closing the door, the signing stopped briefly and heard in a maternal tone ,"tu es à la maison!"
He entered the room, counters matched the rest of the decoration, a breeze coming through the wide open windows, blowing the pale pink curtain to and by them stood a medium sized woman, slender with brown hair reaching her shoulders. She wore tasteful clothes for the time of day as he she prepared some meal which would likely arrive in the next hour.
Ghost stood in wonder for a few seconds as she moved about the room, never turning to face him. Instinctively he muttered ,"ma mère..."
She put a foot to turn around, and before he could see her face, he was tosses back to reality.
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The pain was continuing, the bleeding stopped yet his back still damp, although the area around the wound had gone numb. He coughed, blood barely leaving the sides of his mouth.
He was lying on his back, staring upwards to the ceiling, his hearing returning to hear Matteus's last comment. He sat up with an ache, sitting flatly, before shakily as ever finding his feet.
"Get some sleep Matt... I feel like I've slept for years..." The telepath didn't seem to understand at first.
"I'll keep watch..."
He walked over to the wreckage of the turret, finding a seat on top, mulling over what he'd just seen.
Ooc- can we make this nap quick so we can get on with it?
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Post by mantisstalker on Apr 18, 2013 8:53:53 GMT
62 let out a cry as Ghost spoke up and was going to thump him on the back but thought better of it just as Mateus located Sunny and Ellesai. He was about to say something else when the glimmer of what his child was thinking reached him. In what seemed like slow motion 62 turned to see the Twin that had been close to Sunny perk up and after a quick glance at its farther locked its gave on a nearby vent. In a single bound 62 launched himself forward making a grab for the little creature but it was too late, it managed to bolt towards the small opening and vanish inside before blocking its mind from its farther. 62 let out a howl as he tried to grab the Twin before it could get far down the vent but was unsuccessful. He pulled his arm out and lashed out at the wall before pressing his head again it, letting out a soft sound that sounded almost like muttering without words.
His other children gave their farther a sad look before turning away. The remaining Twin took a tentative step towards Ty before nervously beckoning towards him pointing at the wound on his shoulder. At the same time the two Pale Twins jumped onto the Stalkers back before it sidled away to check the corridors. 62 was alone now but he didn't seem to notice still angry and hurt that his child would do something like this to him over another. If Sunny let something let something happen to that child then he would have hell to pay...
(OOC- have fun with your new company.)
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Post by Esiphas on Apr 18, 2013 10:34:52 GMT
Mateus nodded, worried. "I'll... I'll try." Settling down, he curled up on the ground. Quickly,, sleep took him- he was so tired, all the time. He slept soundly for the first 10 minutes or so. Then, a look of pain flashed across his face. He started tossing and turning. Merely 20 minutes into his sleep he was thrashing around, muttering protests and apologies, the occasional scream or roar coming from his mouth. People could feel the sheer terror radiating off of him. With a final cry of "Im sorry, i'm so sorry!" He jolted awake, clawing at his chest before realising where he was.
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Post by t⊗theark on Apr 18, 2013 10:53:40 GMT
Her voice stirred him abit. Sunny opened one eye, the other pushed shut from laying on that side, the best night sleep that wasn't drug educed for months. He gave a smirk and croaked out a moan, his voice deeper than usual. He heaved himself out of bed, looking for the his clothes in the space they were on the floor to no avail. He looked over at Eliseai, munching on an orange.
"Okay, I'm up," He broke into a grin, the memories of last night still fresh in his mind, "let me take a cold shower to wake up a'ight?" He gave her a peck on the cheek as he walked past.
He stumbled into the shower, feeling great relief from the stingily cold water, most of which evaporated on contact. His powers put him under constant pain like a constant, body wide sunburn. He had long forgotten that the pain existed but the relief of coolness on his skin was always a small delight. Than he heard something approaching. He turned off the shower, drying within 30 seconds as the tapping seemed to come closer. He heard a distinct object heading towards him from in the ceiling, he put on a defensive glow as there was banging on the ceiling fan. As it loosened his glow intensified as the ceiling unit loosened and dropped from ceiling. Sunny's glow faded instantly when one of the smaller cerebates fell after it.
"EEEYUHG!" Sunny yelled while covering himself with a towel, grabbing Eliseai's attention, "What the hell are you doing here!?" The creature just ran over to him and hugged his lower leg
"Why didn't you get on the moving thingy?" it squeaked, "I missed you!" Sunny managed to wrap the towel around his waist.
"How did you find us?" The creature seemed to struggle to explain.
"I found out" is all it struggled out.
He laughed at the response and hoisted it on his shoulders.
"Your eyes work now!"
"Yeah bud, you've missed out on a bit". Sunny listened up into the ventilation system. It would be a squeeze but but for a lot of the system, which reverberated like hell and gave him a good look at the surrounding ventilation system.
"Hey El? I think I have a better escape plan. We also have somebody who knows where the others are."
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