Jessica and Viper

[Rampage]

Nicolas watched as Ava trudged over to check on the Nemesis. As she indicated indecision at best, the beast rose quickly, firing a missile at Ava. The group actually worked as a team to protect Ava and Cameron created a psionic cage. Nicolas added his own psionic power as a boost to Cameron's; that cage would be more difficult to break than the creature would anticipate.

They departed, making their way towards the mansion. Nicolas smiled as Delilah enjoyed her stint as demolition driver for a moment, but when they emerged from the truck and made their way forward he readied for the next challenge.

He would not have to wait long as spider-like constructs made their appearance. Nicolas disappeared as they focused on the others...

...as one of the drones focused on Isis it began to convulse, shaking and looking around as a golden blade emerged from INSIDE it, cutting it in half. Nicolas landed by the shell and raised his hand. The guts of the machine vaporized, but the shell rose, and came back together as its new master wielded it against the remaining drones. Nicolas almost smiled as the new game began.

The Nicolas drone leaped with a new speed, tackling one of the other drones and stabbing it with one of its legs as Nicolas faded again from view, laughing...

 

[Persephone]

Before the Nemesis even had a chance to get up, Ava heard it grunt out. Quickly turning, she gasped seeing it spring to it's feet with a cannon aimed directly at her. She could have easily disappeared in the blink on an eye, or flew away to avoid the path of the cannon, however ISIS took the inititive and teleported Ava out of harms away and back to the group. Reappearing near Isis, she looked at the woman for a moment before nodding a thank you to her. Though it wasn'y necessary, it was still appriciated.

Cameron managed to keep the cannon at bay with the help of Nicolas, allowing the group to flee before the Nemesis decided to unleash anymore tricks against them. Finding an abandoned armored truck, everyone got in and Delilah drove. It looked like something out of a Resident Evil video game; zombie bodies being mowed over like they had giant targets painted on their backs.

Delilah: Grand theft auto motherfuckers!

Holding onto the seat as they sped around a turn, Ava looked at Delilah like she was nuts.

"Whoa...calm down there Danika Patrick!"

Entering through the gates to the main grounds of the massive building that supposedly had Alycia in it. Coming to a stop, Ava climbed out of the car and glanced over at Delilah.

"Screw saving the world, Nascar is your calling."

Quipping lilghtheartedly, soon the mood turned more serious as spider-like drones came into view. They immediately began attacking, one leaping high in the air toward Ava. Extending her hand out, a massive bolt of lightning crashed into the drone, sending it hurling to the ground about 20 feet away from her. The drone still twitched, attempting to get up and continue it's attack. Turning the ground beneath where it landed into quick sand, the more the fried drone began to struggle, the more it sunk into the ground immobilized.

"Jessica has some interesting tricks up her sleeve, that's for sure."

 

[Malice]

round 1

:: as they entered the industrial expanse, Malice actually had memories of this place.::

strange that I feel like I've BEEN here before.

:: she asks toward Isis when the technological spider drones came out and advancing. the others spring into action, as one fires carbonium tentacles that glow with energy.::

Telepathic attacks wont work against these things...Watch your back, Isis!

:: Malice says as she transforms into her nearly invulnerable diamond form and grabs hold of the charging tentacles and forces them down before.::

ENERGY based attacks are supposed to render a telepath unconscious quickly, but they must have forgotten I am NOT your average telepath...

:: glancing haughtily at Cameron who clearly paled in comparison to her ::

:: as she wrangles control of the tentacles with her now shift x class super strength, she snaps them and sends of wave of force BACK at the drone causing it to be snapped back and fly and crash through a nearby wall!::

Jessica, you should know better dear. There's a reason your FATHER was all at once intimidated AND intrigued by me.

 

[Isis]

Sheena Island

[ Isis remained stone faced for most of their mad dash to the police headquarters. She and Malice stuck close to one another as they piled into the armoured police truck and MorningStar drove like a bat out of hell. The mutant made short work of their travel time AND any stray zombies as they reached the outskirts of the city. ]

[ Through a wooded area and past a broken security border, they were now looking at a m assive industrial expanse. further in, they were confronted by immense mechanical obstacles in the form of spider like drones. Force beams were flying and a hit by one of them would NOT be good. these things moved FAST and hit HARD. The others went into action and as Malice repelled one that was attacking her....]

...Watch your back, Isis!

[ from the corner of her eye, she sees a drone coming for her and FIRING upon her. she STIFFENS UP and at the moment of impact she transforms into an explosive sound cloud form. Rampage assaults the drone and tears it apart as Isis now surges across the battle ground and attacks the last drone, swirling around it and slowing it with her highspeed winds before forcing her way inside every opening of the drone's form and tearing it apart from the inside with the crystaline sharp sand particles, slicing its insides , melting wires together and causing immense internal pressure to build up in the drone as it stops for a moment, then makes wild alert noises before shaking and vibrating violently and finally EXPLODING. ]

[ Isis flows from the wreckage and returns to her normal form. looking to her nephew with a nod of thanks and approval.]

The "Technology" in Mystech is everything that you once said, Diana. It's too bad that we must now be on the RECEIVING end of it.

 

[Malice]

NERVOUS, The CITADLE and THE TERROR DOME were all off shoots of THIS

:: gesturing to the immense industrial labryinth before them::

We're going to have to go hard through this because everything...EVERYTHING From the time of the Virus' creation, and from all the clashes between Mystech, Valiant and the Six...information about the x-gene, mutations and most power ladders that are in existence on earth are in the computer systems here, that includes MAGICK, Isis.. the Sentinels were created here and mass produced in top form by Stavros. If any of you thinks this is going to be a walk in the park...think again. Those DRONES were tea cups compared to what lays with in.

:: looking at Delilah and Cameron.::

I DO hope that some of you are in good enough SHAPE to survive this little gauntlet.

:: she said in a taunting tone as the two teams regrouped after finishing off the drones.::

Let's get moving. and by all means....LEAD THE WAY.

:: Malice mockingly gestures to Delilah, hoping the mutant would get split in half by a projectile or some other object within the labyrinth :fdevil: ::

 

[Seer]

into the jaws

<< Malice was content to let the SIX lead because as they often felt the need to involve themselves in everything, that meant they were content exposing themselves to mortal danger. While Malice herself was a predator she was STILL perfectly fine with letting the "hand maidens" do the work BENEATH the QUEEN.>>

<< But on a deeper level, the white queen was trying to balance her own feelings of uncertainty which were growing with the impossible sense of personal MEMORY of this place. As a telepath she could easily have total recall, but how was it that there was something she couldnt account for?>>

<< Her's werent the only questions requiring answers. The two teams moved forward with caution and guard up as Black Widow determined that most of the systems that SHES could "touch" inside the fortress were fully operational and that there was an underground tunnel network including an express train that would take them to the Arklay Mansion replica that rested atop a high hill off in the horizon. It would get them there in no time flat and put them right in the Mansion's underground lab, which they all assumed was where Viper might be IF they didnt find her in this place.>>

<< the fortress itself was a gigantic technological GEM and Malice wanted Viper out of the way for a variety of reasons...INCLUDING the fact that She and the Hellfire Club could then take over this. Per the Sisterhood's agreement with the Six...THEY couldnt stand in the way of Malice and Isis taking control of this facility either. It was a deal with the devil and they knew it, but what other choice did they have?>>

<< closer and closer they got to the structure, noticing the immense energy conductors and other constructs in the industrial park around them. there were also dead bodies. most were burned beyond recognition...and NOT reanimating. a small favor at best.>>

<< following the easiest path they could find, they reached a massive cooling pool that was steaming. the water began to bubble and boil a bit as bodies...naked and albino in appearence began to rise up! more than a dozen. they all seemed to be rather thin and emaciated, so they werent "workers" they were in fact TEST subjects who had been subjected to WILPHARMA experiments! >>

<< more casualties of the evil ghost that was Mystech. the reanimated corpses LEAPED out of the water, with their lanky, sinewy albino bodies and attacked! their arms STRETCHED to impossible lengths and their jaws opened WIDE as they "yawned" and snapped shut with a horrific sound. they came down upon the group like a shower of zombies with a hunger that was even worse th an some of them had known when they were alive and living in theier native lands.>>

 

[MorningStar]

I DO hope that some of you are in good enough SHAPE to survive this little gauntlet.

“I'M not the one with osteoporosis,” she said with a sweet smile at Malice.

”Let's get moving. and by all means....LEAD THE WAY.”

“Damn, right.”

Delilah moved ahead of Malice and began to pick a path through the debris. The stench of dead, charred bodies was strong, almost overpowering. So much death in this place, at the hands of the psychopath Jessica. Hell would have a special place for her.

They reached a cooling pool, with the bleached white bodies of former test subjects stewing in it. At first Delilah thought they were floating in the water, lifeless. She gasped as she saw them.

“This is sick.”

But then the bodies began to rise up and come at them, reaching for them, their limbs stretching to inhuman lengths, their jaws snapping. She threw up a laser wall in front of The Six, so that any reaching arms that came into contact with it would be vaporized. Turning her attention to the creature closest to them, Delilah shot a photon blast towards him, completely destroying its head.

 

[Black Widow]

Malice: A sound move, Black Widow. Hit it hard and fast.

[smirking] "Mm-hmm, just the way I like it."

Malice: You sure you won't consider joining my court as a 'white princess?'

[scoffing] "You wouldn't want me to be around ALL THE TIME, Diana. I'd drive you craz-- well, even crazier than you are on a regular basis. Just ask my friends."

She quipped, as her sister settled the squabbling by volunteering to check and see if the Nemesis was REALLY taken care of. Haleigh had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach about this, and shadowed her sister. The beast sprang up and fired a missile at them. Haleigh reached for her sister, but she was already gone, back at Isis' side. Cameron and Nicolas stopped the missile, and they all decided simultaneously that sticking around was a bad idea. There was an armored truck nearby. Delilah slid into the driver seat.

"SHOTGUN!"

Haleigh said playfully, hopping into the front seat next to Delilah, manifesting a shotgun as they sped off, blasting away the zombies that got close to the side of the vehicle but didn't get run over.

Delilah: Grand theft auto motherfuckers!

Ava: Whoa...calm down there Danika Patrick! Screw saving the world, Nascar is your calling.

"I wonder who would sponsor you. Besides all of OUR companies, I mean."

She kept her focus on the light conversation to keep her mind of the severity of what she was heading towards. Seeing these zombies everywhere wasn't helping. They were besieged suddenly by a formation of spider like drones. Haleigh's shotgun wasn't doing much damage, so she upgraded to a plasma cannon as a tentacle came crashing into her with surprising force. She tried to dodge it, but still got sideswiped and knocked to the ground. She was winded, but rolled to her knees and then blasted a hole in the thing with her cannon.

Diana: I DO hope that some of you are in good enough SHAPE to survive this little gauntlet.

Delilah: I'M not the one with osteoporosis.

Haleigh snickered. As Malice volunteered Delilah to take point, Haleigh rolled her eyes and moved into position behind Delilah to watch her back.

"Yes, why don't you let us young whippersnappers take care of business FOR you. Be careful not to do TOO muck work, Diana. We wouldn't want to wear you out prematurely."

She replied with a sardonic smirk, as they entered an industrial area that smelled like a cookout. Haleigh was about to ask where the grill was when she realized that the smell was coming from the charred remains of dead bodies, a revelation that instantly turned her mood more dour. She didn't respond directly to Delilah's comment about it being sick; she felt sick with herself for the immediate correlation she'd made to food, and yet still… the smell of this place wasn't offputting.

She didn't understand right away that Delilah was talking about the pool of not-so-dead bodies, she was distracted by doing a full system scan on their surroundings and getting the layout of the facility. Suddenly the area they were in lit up drastically; a result of Delilah's laser wall. Haleigh looked up to see it as Delilah blew the head off something that got too close. Clearly Delilah had the situation under control. Haleigh shared the information she'd discovered during the scan:

"As far as I can tell… all the systems of this place are fully operational. No damage has been done to this facility in the chaos of Jessica destroying the rest of the city. There's a train that will take us directly to the Mansion. We should head left at the end of this corridor."

 

[Rampage]

Nicolas acknowledged Isis thank and smiled at her sweetly before moving with the group to the next room. The banter was somewhat entertaining, but having been on the receiving end of both parties, he did not find it very funny anymore. he wanted to put down this threat and move on. They encountered new zombies but Delilah defended them in a laser cage. haleigh recommended swift group transportation to the restyled Arklay Mansion.

Then let us depart for the train. Lead the way Hales.

Nicolas followed, nearly oblivious to the poor beasts that Delilah held at bay. He was focused on two things: the fact that this complex essentially housed the means to threaten the globe and that Haleigh was having trouble with her control.

He sent a message to her as they moved forward.

Steady Haleigh.

Nicolas stayed silent, waiting for the right time...

 

[Prophet]

Malice: I DO hope that some of you are in good enough SHAPE to survive this little gauntlet.

Cameron rolled his eyes. Even at the most inappropriate times, Malice was such a bitch.

Delilah: I'm not the one with osteoporosis.

[snickering for a moment]

I can see it now. The new face of Boniva.

The group ventured onward, through the debris and god awful stench. The fact that people could do this to other humans without so much as a second thought really got under his skin. These people, this Jessica, deserved a fate much worse than they were about to get. As they reached the cooling pool, the horribly deformed bodies began to RISE up and attack! Their jaws snapping viciously like rabid dogs, their limbs looked horribly and painfully long, and they were coming right AT them.

Thankfully, Delilah erected a laser wall, that kept that at bay for the moment but they seemed to BLANKET the entire area and that kind of concentration, though he didn't doubt Delilah's was a lot for one person to bare. They were all in this together, and he didn't want anyone to expend any more energy than they needed to at this point. Though everyone seemed content to just let Delilah keep at bay a swarm of at least more than a dozen. Plus Cameron didn't want to leave anything alive that Jessica could use later. They already had the nemesis still alive and kicking. So as the front wave rammed into Delilah's laser shield, Cameron took a moment to focus as his eyes began to glow a faint electric green for a moment as the back half's brains (what little left they had left) were FRIED to a crisp as they fell to the ground, dead.

Haleigh:As far as I can tell… all the systems of this place are fully operational. No damage has been done to this facility in the chaos of Jessica destroying the rest of the city. There's a train that will take us directly to the Mansion. We should head left at the end of this corridor.

"Then let's get the hell out of here. This place makes the Citadle look like Disneyland. But let's not forget, we still have to find Sharon and Alycia."

 

[Seer]

in your face

<< With increased tenacity to mask her mental exhaustion, MorningStar takes the lead initiative against the reanimated test subjects rising out of the cooling pool. Prophet backs up her play and as Black Widow pinpoints the fastest route to the underground express train.>>

<< Prophet realized that Silver Swan and Alycia were now just ahead of them, already at the underground train station. If they didnt get down there in time, they'd MISS the only train that was running to the mansion and it would make their journey that much more laborious and time consuming.>>

<< following the coordinates Black Widow provides, the teams move through the corridor, its a narrow passage with only the whail of an alarm system in the air and a feminine computerized voice advising personnell to exit before system wide shut down and seal. as they make theire way to a door that requires an access code, Black Widow bypasses the code.>>

<< they are greated by a rude surprise as a slimey, squishing sound is heard and the sight of a humanoid shape creature is lurching and headed STRAIGHT toward them in an unrelenting pursuit. its actually a group of the T Virus LEECHES, the same creatures forever altered by James Marcus nearly 20 years ago. the leeches have gained some abilities due to their vastly upgraded intellect including the ability to coalesce into a "humanoid" form with legs, a torso and arms and a head. the thing is nearly 7 feet tall. its "body" drips with a slimey subtance that can cause PAINFULL burning and paralysis and the creature is HIGHLY durable, resistant to many conventional weapons. It's "menatlity" is NOT accessible to telepaths. >>

<< the creature FORCES the group to move back other wise it'd be right on top of them and as they move back, it advances BOLDLY without a care, ready to EXPLODE and shower them all with leeches falling down on them. Leeches with an appetite for HUMAN FLESH.>>

<< the creature was all that stood in the way of them and much needed progress at this point.>>

 

[Prophet]

[seemingly lost in thought for a moment]

"Sharon and Alycia are AHEAD of us. They are at the train station already. But we don't have much time--"

running ahead of the group while the others began to notice his urgency.

"If we don't get there soon, we'll miss the only train to the mansion, and we'll have to find another way."

The group moves through the corrider, following Haleigh's coordinates as Haleigh enters the access code, allowing them access to the main station. Wanting to push forward, the entire group is STOPPED by the appearance of a slug like creature of gargantuan proportions, dripping with some kind of unknown slime.

"We don't have TIME for this!"

They were working with a very small time frame and in a very tight space. Cameron thrust his hands forward.

BOOM!

The lound sound echoed through the halls as Cameron unleashed a TELEKINETIC BOMB BLAST, before encasing the group in a telekinetic shield. The blast RIPPED through the hallway with the speed of a freight train as well as the concussive force as it barrelled into the leech creature as surrounding support beams of the underground area were bent and almost all but torn APART at the force of the blast. The creature was sent flying backwards a GREAT distance, smashing into a wall, as it's humanoid form began to break. The blast was sure to have a significant effect on the leech form due to the fact that it was hit at such close range with an intense amount of force but he knew that this sucker needed to BURN.

"Ava? Delilah? TORCH this thing."

Everything that MysTech cooked up was usually resistant to energy projection but Ava and Delilah were able to manifest attacks at temperatures and speeds FAR above the capabilities of ANYTHING he had ever seen, and he knew one of them could finish the thing off.

"I don't care who does it but do it FAST! We CAN'T miss that train!"

 

[Persephone]

Cameron: "Ava? Delilah? TORCH this thing."

With a grimice of disgust on her face, the leeches were damn nasty looking and she definitely didn't need to be asked twice to fry the little bastards.

"With pleasure."

Extending her hand out at the leeches, a massive fury or electricity shot from her hand illuminating the general area in shades of blues and whites. The electricity surrounded the leeches, sizzling them violently until they exploded into a slimey mess.

"Well that was pleasent..."

Gesturing to the train.

"Common, we have to hurry."

 

[Seer]

underground

<< the leech creature continued its awkward, lurching but no less forward advance until Prophet, acting more like his big sister Harbinger, moved into action displaying a new level of competence and ability with his Telekinesis. >>

<< The leeches would not be so easily destroyed though, even as the highly DURABLE form they had coalesced into seemed to be pushed back it merely rippled and blunted most of the direct impact. but as the following shockwave came, the leech creature's "form" began to show strain and stress. several leeches were blown from the form but quickly began slithering toward the group once more.>>

<< Persephone's bolt of lightning does t he trick as it irridiates, blasts and INCINERATES the leeches in one powerfull shot, leaving only a thin layer of slime, and alot of gross smokey air in its wake.>>

<< the large group hurried along and had to make their way down a small flight of stairs in single file to find ANOTHER elevator. THIS one took them under ground and thankfully the ride was fast. down to the underground transtation they were, where the siren was still soundong off and a beam of light continuiously cascaded down the center of the train corridor. it was all that pierced the darkness of this sleek underground facility.>>

<< a few quick paces and they found the last operating train, with Silver Swan and Alycia just outside of the train fighting off CRIMSON HEADS, the evolved form of the zombie!>>

<< there were more than a DOZEN, but the two women were holding their own QUITE well. a testimony to Alycia's skill as a trained Amazon and Silver Swan's raw physical power.>>

 

[Artemis]

the train station

:: Alycia moves with the speed and discipline of an AMAZON, her face betrays her grim determination....and she relies on all her training and mental discipline to REDIRECT THE FEAR in her SOUL as she is confronted by these...::

FLASH<< ZOMBIES PULLING HER OUT, BITING DOWN ON TO HER AS SHE SCREAMSFLASH

:: MONSTERS...THESE MOUTH BLEEDING, JAW SNAPPING, SUPER FAST, SUPER STRONG, CRIMSON HEADS!::

WE CANT STOP NOW! WE'VE COME THIS FAR!

:: she shouts to Sharon who is near by::

:: nothing like a DIRECT TEST of all she was...of all she had become and even with Sharon by her side, that was NO GUARANTEE of anything! that was secretly one of the reasons why she hated the Six now. The ONE TIME she allowed herself to reflexively rely on them...they FAILED her. It didnt matter that they managed to narrowly revive and restore her...they could not remove the pain, the horrific memory even the involuntary physical reactions associated with that trauma. and now here she was again...facing DEATH.::

:: cartwheeling away from the approach of two zombies, Alycia springs upright with her large fighting staff, swinging it with perfect dexterity so that it becomes a moving extenstion of her body. once around clockwise to beat back a group of zombies enclosing her, she drops down to the floor and swings it around counter clock wise a second time slamming into their kneecaps and shattering them, causing the creatures to lose ALL their mobility and crumble to the floor before rolling over to the side and swinging her arm out, slamming the staff down to her left, it then transforms into a blade and SLICES OFF the heads of all four zombies at the same time.>>

:: that was FOUR down! Alycia didnt even think about it once she was in FIGHT mode, but she was really handling herself well despite the understandable FEAR in her heart. but what she didnt realize was that the amazons had taught her that her FEAR could motivate her...be used as a WEAPON!::

:: she scarcely had time to breathe as more crimson heads were coming, one in particular LEAPED into the air and was now bearing down upon her.::

 

[MorningStar]

Prophet ran the leech-creature through its paces, then Persephone finished it off.

"Nice shootin', Tex."

With urgency Delilah picked up the pace at the front of the line. They had to make their way single file down a staircase (major bad feeling) and get into another elevator (super mega bad feeling). Somehow, they managed to not be attacked by anything extra gross in either place.

The sirens going off were annoying, even for her. She was about to suggest that Haleigh find a way to make it go away when she spotted Alycia and Sharon ahead of them at the train.

"Oh thank god."

It took a second for her brain to process what was happening - the Crimson Heads and Sharon and Alycia fighting for their lives. And then she was running.

The wailing sirens fueled her. She threw her arms out into the air, then brought them together as if gathering the energy in the air. She clasped her hands in front of her in a "gun" pose, and begun firing photon blasts at the crimson heads.

[yelling to Alycia]

"Get behind me!"

 

[Rampage]

As the leeches were dealt with easily by Prophet and Ava, Nicolas moved with the group through the underground complex towards the train. A they arrived at the depot they saw Alycia and Sharon fighting zombies and Crimson Heads, doing rather well, but Nicolas would not lose Alycia again this way.

He stepped well forward, swinging his axe in a wide arc. So he did so, he teleported, each arrival heralded by that long swing taking off a head cleanly. In seconds he had dispatched all of those near Alycia that Delilah had not already done in and then he stopped concentrating on the ones that focused on Sharon.

Those zombies suddenly stopped...stiffening and struggling in his telekinetic grip. Nicolas pulled them all together into one mass of writhing, struggling bodies, then pulled them behind the train to the third rail with electrifying results. The stench of cooked zombie began to fill the area as he gestured to the door on the train he just forced open.

Let's go ladies and gentleman.

 

[Prophet]

Ava's blast was successful and soon they arrived at the train station to the sound of VERY loud and wailing sirens and the sight of Sharon and Alycia holding their own against a HORDE of Crimson Heads. He was greatly relieved to see both of them. Delilah charged forward in full attack mode as Cameron surveyed the area for a moment, a little shocked at what he was seeing.

Alycia was ferocious in her resolve to get rid of these zombies, which to Cameron, showed how strong she had become. If there was anyone who had the right to be VERY afraid of zombies, it was Alycia. He watched as she took out FOUR, but more were on there way as one jumped in the air ready to obliterate the amazon. He took action, squinting his eyes as the Crimson Head was completely halted in mid air before being hurled in the line of fire of Delilah's photon blasts, as Nicolas and Delilah laid waste the ones now surrounding Alycia.

Rampage conducted a full on assault on the remaining Crimson Heads as he began to herald the group to the train.

Nicolas: Let's go ladies and gentleman.

"Yeah, on to the next big thing that wants to kill us."

 

[Silver Swan]

underground train station

[ It had been a non stop gauntlet since THEY had gotten there. Silver Swan and her sister amazon Alycia bulled their way through and Sharon opted to use skill over brute force as she helped Alycia evade the more unnecessary fights but once they reached the industrial lair and the underground train station, they were forced to fight. Backed into a "corner" so to speak by the super agressive crimson heads!]

[ as dangerous as they were, Silver Swan was MORE dangerous and NOW, FINALLY she could give way to her desire to BATTLE and she cut loose, fighting like a DEMON as she beat the hell out of any crimson head within reach, LETTING them come to her and then destroying them utterly.]

[ Her super strength made her a powerhouse that even Rampage would have trouble tangling with, her speed and reflexes, her OTHER powers as the Silver Swan made her MORE than a match for these monsters!]

WE CANT STOP NOW! WE'VE COME THIS FAR!

[ Sharon grabs hold of the head of a charing crimson head and twists its neck so hard, so FAST that it pops clean oFF]

We can't take off in the train with these things on our heels. We can beat them Alycia. We've come THIS far.

[ but as well as th ey WERE doing, there was only TWO of them against a LARGE group of creatures and they were hemmed in at this underground train station.]

[ several Crimson Heads piled on Silver Swan but in a display of brutal force, she BUSTS loose from them and is now holding two of them up in the air by theier necks, one in each armoured hand.]

You don't scare ME! I've got more power than you can HANDLE!

Alycia! WATCH OUT!

[ she yelled as a Crimson Head zombie came leaping through the air and charing straight at Alycia! But then The Six and Sisterhood arrived and offered a strong helping hand dispatching the rest of the creatures.]

[ Sharon SMASHES the crimson heads together at their heads, pulping their heads and dropping their jittering bodies to th e ground.]

Let's go ladies and gentleman.

[ Sharon looked at them all...they were here....great. Just what she needed, to be hampered by people she couldnt stand. and yet, they came all this way. They could have gone ANOTHER way perhaps b ut they came this way to help herself and Alycia. They wanted the same thing she did ...to HELP Alycia with Jessica. and to make sure she survived. With the Sisterhood there as well, the group was definately strong and ready to press ahead so the mutate kept her initial feelings to herself.]

Thanks for the helping hand...

[ she said to Rampage, Prophet and even MorningStar.]

[ she enters the train with them.]

Jessica...VIPER, as she referred to herself when she attacked us in the forest was chasing us for a w hile, but she seems to have backed off. I used my sonic scream against her and leveled several square miles including where she was last standing.

We found out this was the only way to get to the Arklay Mansion without dealing with any MORE obsctacles above ground. We wanted to save our strength for when we found Viper and KILLED HER!

[ Sharon sounded so bloodthirsty as she spoke of killing Viper but it was clear that she had valiantly assisted and protected Alycia this far on their mad dash. The two women shared a close bond, one that was born by their mutual association with the Six.]

 

[Black Widow]

Nicolas mentally reminded Haleigh to be steady and Haleigh nodded without looking at him. They move along with a purpose, and as they reach a security door, Haleigh deftly bypasses the code, almost as an afterthought. The door slides open to reveal a humanoid form made up of T-LEECHES. It's gross, even for Mystech. Cameron and Ava obliterate it nearly immediately, leaving only slime and a smoky haze in its place. They filed down a narrow flight of stairs and crowded into an elevator. Once inside, they were blessedly closed off from hearing the doom of the sirens, but instead were subjected to the most awful psuedo-relaxing elevator music. No one said a word. Haleigh hurried the elevator along at twice its usual speed.

They reached the underground floor and spilled out of the elevator, greeted once again to the sirens. A little ways off, Alycia and Sharon are fighting Crimson heads. Everyone runs to their aid. Haleigh feels a bit ambivalent about it. On one hand, they are alive and safe…. On the other…. Now everyone must put up with Sharon and Alycia's sniping negativity and sniveling ungratefulness.

The Crimson heads are effectively dealt with and Sharon surprises Haleigh by offering thanks for the assist, and she wasn't doing it in a backhanded compliment! Haleigh looks at Sharon in surprise/suspicion, as if she now expected that something was fundamentally WRONG with Sharon, but said nothing as Sharon briefed them on a run in with Jessica. Cameron and Nicolas both encourage the group to board the train but Haleigh halts that notion before it's too late.

"WAIT… I don't know about the rest of you, but I would rather not be hurtling through an underground tunnel trapped on a train when Zombies or devil dogs wake up and attack, or T-leeches or T-cockroaches or some other horrendous perversion of nature starts seeping out of the walls. So if you'll just exercise some temperance for a moment, I'm going to scan the train first. I'm sure you'll all agree that now that we have Sharon and Alycia safely with us, we no longer need to throw caution to the wind."

She warns, and then from her place on the train platform, begins an in depth x-ray scan of the train, looking for ANYTHING of biological nature that needs to be exterminated BEFORE they board the train.