A new alliance (Energy)

Subject: A new alliance (Energy) Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:43 pm

Silence. Like an empty graveyard, silence hung throughout the lab. It's strange just how quickly things can change. Men and women were working minutes before, the quiet bustle of productivity filling the air like the buzzing about a hive. Silence. Shrouding the entire bloody scene in gloom. Screams and gunshots filled the air but moments before, as people were torn apart by precise shots. Silence. The last casing falls, clattering to the ground with a ring that echoed throughout the gore like a funeral bell. The casing rang twice more before rolling to a stop.

Two were left alive: One a coward, shaking in the corner clutching a bloody crater in his shoulder, and the other a monster, stalking across the corpse splattered room toward him. Some would think it random chance that the man currently wetting himself on the ground was the only survivor. But there was no chance involved. In the precious seconds it had taken him to slaughter everyone else, the madman gained all he needed to choose his victim. The badge he wore and the way he walked among his colleges marked him as someone with authority, and the ring on his finger marked him as someone with something to lose. The man on the ground refused to say anything as he bit his lip and resigned to his inevitable demise. But he didn't need to say anything at all. He was a scientist, not a soldier. His eyes betrayed what his mouth would not.

As the blood spattered madman squatted down until they were both eye level, instinct took over. A fleeting glance at his desk was all it took. Without a sound, the gunman rose and strode over, finding what he was looking for on the third drawer he opened - a hidden panel was wrenched open to reveal a single file. The madman opened it at random and skimmed it's contents, his eyes widening. He snapped the file closed, and once more the silence shattered as a single gunshot pierced the air. Once more a single bullet casing rang it's funeral knell.

Zack narrowed his eyes as he looked down the sights of his Famas. He'd been waiting here since before midnight, and now the sun was at it's zenith. But he had to make sure. He glanced down at the open file beside him, looking over the picture of the girl he'd laid out. He'd tailed her a few times already, never interacting - only watching, waiting, learning.

He'd spent weeks planning today, planting information in their intelligence network, trailing this girl and learning her habits, and setting up a kill zone should things go wrong. Now all he had to do was wait. If everything went according to plan, he'd have a much higher level operative to interrogate, not just some Pawn. This girl was obviously important to them, and they would send someone just as important to retrieve her.

Zack's eyes narrowed as he spotted someone walking down the street. Good. She was coming home. His grin widened as he watched her glance around - making sure no one was following her. Unfortunately those hunting her this time were better than that. However they wouldn't strike. Not yet anyway. So for now, the madman bode his time, waiting, watching.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:30 pm

Jenny parked her motorcycle in the parking area out side of the apartments and stretched, it had been a long day. She took off her blue lense sunglasses and fixed her captains hat before putting her kick stand down and getting up. She had just came back from some hero work in the city and placing an order in to a store for them to make her a new costume since her's was getting patchy from well patching it up all the time that and it had some burn holes in it from last weeks fire user who didnt realized it was Jenny before shooting fire at her when she was running out of a store in jump with 5 bottles of soda.

Jenny got up and started toward her apartment looking through her pockets for her apartment key. Soon enough she was hopping up the stairs reaching into her boot to check it for her apartments key and tripped and fell sliding down the stairs. "ow..." the key falling out from her other boot and she grumbled about it being the last boot you check as she got up and grabbed the key. She then walked up the stairs and down the hall and unlocked her apartment's door ready to enter it.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Thu Sep 10, 2015 12:34 pm

As Jenny entered her apartment, the door was unexpectedly wrenched from her hand as it slammed itself shut. A thick haze filled the air as a harsh, mechanical voice rang out from the darkness of her unlit apartment .

"Energy Warrior. We've been looking for you." The voice seemed to have an ethereal quality to it, the words twisting and writhing in the air like smoke. "For so long, we've been looking for you. You got careless, Jennifer Necowl. And now it's time to come home." The voice seemed to come from everywhere at once as the very air seemed to enclose around her in a suffocating grasp. The room around her seemed to breathe as if possessed by some malevolent force. A thump echoed throughout the air, followed by another, and then another. Each thump seemed ponderous and long, and they all had a curious muffled quality to them, as if coming from a long way away.

An armored giant filled the doorway before her, his frame blotting out the room behind him. The very air seemed to shimmer around him as he regarded her with the emotionless, hollow lenses of a military grade gas mask. He didn't appear armed, but ribbed pipes ran from his mask to something behind his shoulders and he looked almost seven feet tall.

"You will return to us, Jennifer. You are ours." He seemed to fade in and out, along with the rest of the apartment, and the walls seemed to squeeze and throb, as if they were trying to close in on her.

Zack's grin widened as he watched Jenny walk up to the building. Good - she was here. He watched her until she disappeared from view. He rose from his perch at the window and turned, placing his rifle on his back and grabbing a gas mask from the table next to him, hooking it to an air supply already fitted snuggle to the small of his back. He stepped over the limp form of a man as he left the room , careful to avoid stepping in the slowly cooling puddle of blood.

He left the back room and pressed his ear to the wall, listening for any sound. He checked over his equipment once again as he waited, carefully inspecting each and every connection to make sure he's run the wires properly. He knew he had, of course, but it always paid to check again. His gaze snapped up to the wall before him as he heard the door slam. It was showtime . he listened to the mechanical voice, trying his best to judge where the agent was standing.

He'd already thoroughly explored both apartments the previous week, before he'd led one of L.A.W.'s active agents to Jenny so he could report that he'd found Energy Warrior and a collector could be called in. Both apartments were built exactly the same, merely being mirror images of each other. As such, he could gauge roughly where the occupants were standing in relation to everything around them using sound . it wasn't perfect, but it would have to do.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Fri Sep 11, 2015 3:00 am

Jenny narrowed her eyes they and her hands starting to glow light blue lighting up the room a bit with a soft blue glow her ears lowering a bit as she did so. Jenny scanned the room as the voice talked ready to fight as he talked but sadly she couldnt use the voice to locate the intruder do to the voice coming from all areas of the house. "I have no home..."

She said with glaring eyes. She felt the air get harder to breath. She growled and her body started to get a layer of energy around it. She glared up at him being dwarfed by him easily but showed absolutely no fear. "No.... but you can go #%!$ yourself." she said as she shouted and pushed out the energy field to make a force field around her and to try and push the attacker away.

If the attack worked:

She panted and gasped glaring at the mechanical man "You aren't getting my heart tin man" Her eyes glowed even brighter as she formed two good sized bastard swords in her hands. She then shot off a full powered eye blast at the lenses of the gas mask trying to use her energy to break them and pierce through his eyes as she ran at him.

She then would attempted to jump up as she turned off her eye blasts and spin on her side as she then tried to slash down at him with her swords. One could almost see the blood lust in her expression especially with her baring her sharp teeth so much. No one was going to kill her, no one was going to break into her apartment and attack her, nor was she going to be taken down so easily.

If the attack failed:

Jenny gasped squinting her eyes slightly as she gasped for air her vision going off and dark. She could feel her heart beat in her now pounding and throbbing veins that showed up in her body. Her lungs were struggling horribly to try and gain any bit of air as her body started to tingle. 'No I can't die I can't I won't ally myself to! I haven't reached my end goal yet!' She thought as she growled and her cheek started to crack leaking glowing blue blood. 'I. WON'T. DIE. YET!'

She then bared her teeth almost like she was getting a second wind as adrenaline ran through her. She reached up and grabbed hold of one of the metal pipes near the mask in attempts to hold his head still as she shot out a full powered eye blast at his masks eye holds as she made a dagger with her energy with her free hand and tried to stab him in the jugular but also on an angle so that she could try to hit his tongue to impale it that is if the dagger made ti trough.

If it did she knew that from looking up body piercings for ..... reasons ... that one could bleed out from getting a tongue piercing due to you piercing your tongue you would be cutting a major vein or at least possibly doing so she couldn't remember but she knew that piercing those major veins in your body could make some one die via bleeding out. And well Jenny was certainly was not afraid of killing this man to save her own life.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:12 pm

Her efforts to repel whatever unseen attacker she thought was strangling her failed, as no such attacker existed. She was alone in her apartment with the giant. If he had a face, he would be smiling. The effects of his homemade toxin never failed to amuse him. As Jenny screamed out her frustration and charged him, he made absolutely no move to stop her, knowing full well that thanks to the air even the strongest of metas had precious seconds with which to use their strength before it was sapped. Seconds that Jenny had wasted in her attempt to repel her imagined strangler. The eye blasts never reached his mask as they slammed into the air before him, dispersing along a shimmering field that enveloped him. Her first slammed into the metal plating on his neck - her aim true, but strangely devoid of the energy that should have been there. A choking , retching sound echoed from the mask as his hollow eyes bored into her, like vast, empty sockets. Though the lack of oxygen and heavy toxin in the air would make it very difficult to think by this point, it was possible for Jenny to realize that he was not in pain, but laughing at her attempt.

"We made you, Jennifer. Did you really think we didn't know what you're capable of? Did you really think they would send me in unprepared for you? Your rage is your downfall. Don't worry, we can fix that..." At this point, any human would have collapsed from the combined effects of the lack of oxygen and the noxious gas filling the air. Regardless as to whether or not Jenny would have done so, that possibility was prevented as the giant gripped the front of her shirt and lifted her into the air, holding her at eye level to him. His voice seemed to reverberate throughout her head as he spoke, and she could feel thick, noxious air seeping from the front of his mask. "Who said anything about killing you, Jennifer? No... We want you to live. You will realize your potential - We made you for a reason, after all..." It was at that moment that everything vanished in a white light and white noise filled the air as her senses were overloaded by a brilliant explosion.

Zack listened as Jenny tried attacking the collector. He shook his head, a muffled tsk, tsk barely audible from beneath his gas mask. Maybe the gas was clouding her mind, or maybe she was naturally agressive, but she HAD to know that wouldn't work. Or maybe she simply hadn't run into one of L.A.W.'s collectors yet. Reguardless, there was no time to delay. He hefted his rifle in one hand, squeezing the trigger on the detonator as he charged forward through the hole in the wall a split second after it was created, firing even before the rubble landed. The sound of the detonator clattering to the floor was lost in the roar of the explosion as shaped charges blew the wall into Jennings apartment and strategically placed flash bangs detonated a split second before, disorientating both occupants within. Precise shots hammered into the tank on the collector's back, and it let out a guttural roar as the impacts caused it to stagger back and drop Jenny, a visible haze spewing from the tank. A secondary explosion tore through the back wall of the apartment , opening the entire room to the outside air and allowing the gas to dissipate , though it would be almost a minute before the rush of fresh air would completely disperse the gas that had been building up all afternoon since the collector had arrived. Zack closed the distance before the giant could recover, and he stepped inside his guard, ducking under a clumsy backswing that could have taken a normal man's head off and driving his combat knife into a gap in the armor behind the collector's knee, drawing a harsh roar of pain. Wrenching the blade free, he flipped his rifle onto his back and called his pistol to his hand in a single fluid motion, pressing the barrel to the temple of the now kneeling giant and pulling the trigger: spraying one of the only remaining walls that hadn't been destroyed with a foul black ice or as the giant's temple exploded.

As the massive body collapsed to the ground, Zack stood over it for a moment before putting his pistol away and wiping the information from his knife. He then rolled the giant onto it's chest with some effort and started probing around the back of it's neck with the tip of his blade, his mask completely obscuring his face in the gloom, making it appear that he wasn't paying any attention to Jenny just yet.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:36 pm

When her attack failed she noticed her strength failing and leaving her as she tried to breath as her dagger shattered. As she landed she stumbled her legs no longer having the strength to support her as things got darker while she started to fall to the ground. She heard him laugh as she started to fall she couldn't really think anymore but his words were rather confusing to her... what did he mean by that?

Before she hit the ground he gripped her shirt and lifted her up. She slowly tried to force herself to try and lift her limp head up when any normal person would be passed out by then her eyes squinting as she tried to gather any energy at all still determined to fight despite barely able to see or move at all. She knew her attacks would fail if she could even make any and yet she still was trying to fight till the end.

Jenny closed her eyes shut at the light and clenched her teeth weakly as she heard the noise what was happening...? This wasn't the end.. she had seen the end before it was dark... but this... was bright. Jenny fell hard against the ground as she hear flash bangs go off around her apartment but was unable to see a thing. Jenny laid on the ground as the air felt slightly better but still was hard to breath. After a few moments the ringing died down a bit and she could see lightly. She looked to see a hole in the wall as the air become ever so slightly better. that hole was probably leaking fresh air.

She then focused her remaining energy into her right arm and dragged herself very slowly over to the hole all while nearly passing out. once there she breathed a bit normally the air better over there and she let her strength in her arm deplete. She panted gasping a bit as she looked around the apartment without moving anything but her eyes... it was totally trashed. 'This is why.... I can't have.... nice things...' she thought as she noticed then Zack probing the guy.

She couldn't attack him even if she wanted to so she figured best thing to do now was stay silent watch and try and gain more energy by not struggling to move again.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:59 pm

Where is it, where is it? His mind raced, completely focused on his task at hand. It HAS to be here... He only had a few precious moments to find what he was looking for. He was already falling behind schedule . if he didn't find it soon, this whole operation would be a waste. He wouldn't get another shot - they may have made a mistake, but they weren't stupid. They would put two and two together. They would realize who was responsible for the "death" of their operative. He was a fraction of a second from cutting his losses and escaping before he saw it. His grin widened as he swiftly cut the wires running into the suit and pried the device from the armor, gingerly lifting it up and inspecting it before stowing it within his jacket.

It was small, no larger around than an egg, and barely thicker than the face of a watch. A single, small green light glowed on a panel that seemed to serve only that purpose. It had been placed so that the light had been invisible - the panel pressed and sealed to the creature that it was only visible once the unit had been detatched. He turned and rose in one fluid motion, discarding his spent air tank and unrolling a rope from around his waist, slamming the claw on one end into a pile of rubble near the hole he'd blown in the outside wall.

"You aren't looking so hot, girlie."\ His voice, though muffled under his mask, was still discernable as his pitched and borderline manic - as if he was on the verge of hysteric laughter. "Why don't we get some color back in those cheeks?" With a maniacal laugh, he stooped and picked her up by the back of her belt, his hand closing around the back of her waistband. She had but a moment to register what was happening before he lifted her with a small grunt, wrapping the rope around his leg and other wrist. He left backwards out of the hole, keeping a loose grip on the rope and letting friction slow their descent as the rope rubbed against his jeans, jacket and hand along the way down. However their descent was still rapid, and his knees bent to absorb the shock with an audible grunt as they landed, her face stopping inches from the ground and her knees coming just close enough to hit the grass, though not with enough force to break bone.

A shrill laugh echoed across the parking lot as sirens, almost as shrill, seemed to respond to his cry in the distance. "Wasn't that fun, girlie? Do you think you can walk yet? I'm sure your wedgie must be a bad one, and I doubt you want everyone in front of us seeing your underwear any longer." With another bought of laughter that nearly had him doubled over, her would be rescuer dropped her facedown in the grass. His laughter stopped as suddenly as it started a he learned at her through his mask, his head tilted to one side as he regarded her with a blank visor. But seriously though, we should go. I only brought enough ammo to kill about HALF of what they'll be sending." An eager chuckle escaped his throat, as if he relished the thought of staying despite what he'd just said.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:51 am

Jenny watched him carefully as she tried to build her strength back up by not straining herself too much and focused on breathing and watching the mystery man. She watched him as he neared clearly distrusting him and clearly wishing she had the strength to flip him off. She wasn't too sure if he was the cause of all this but she wasn't rather pleased right now and felt the need to list off every curse word she knew but wanted to save her strength. It would probably be clear to Zack that she knew a lot about energy and that basically she was fucked if she strained herself rather than work on regaining her energy.

She blushed as he grabbed her by her belt and looked off with her eyes clearly disapproving of his actions but let him do so seeing regaining her energy as a better idea than pointing how much she disapproved of this or trying to stop him. Though she couldn't help but think a bit of his laughter... it sounded a lot like Nightingale's.... Hell it sounded a lot like the one she couldn't help but make a while back.... due to this she really didn't like where this was going. She gasped a bit as he jumped and closed her eyes and when she felt them stop she opened them slowly before making them go wide as she saw how close she was to the ground her hair lightly laying on the ground.

She blushed more as he mentioned the wedgie and grabbed her hat that fell off her head with her teeth and glared at him her eyes slightly lit up. She had enough energy to move but she still wanted to regain some- wait what? she looked up to see that her boxers were starting to be clearly seen by others and blushed harder grumbling out some curse words. Before she was dropped face down into the grass and flopped over. She sat up pushing her hair out of her face and put her hat back on. She glared at him as she undid her belt and top button to allow room to stuff her boxers back down where they belong and pulled her pants back where they also belonged before rebuttoning and redoing her belt.

She grumbled looking off crossing her arms. "God you laugh more than Nightingale but at least you don't have a constant grin on your face like her or that dumb mask of hers..." she muttered before looking back to her apartment. "I'm not leaving until I get my things..." She said turning and starting to fly up. the things were of course all sentimental but they also meant a lot to her and were not only irreplaceable but all could fit into her backpack. She din't have much energy but she was willing to use it in a trip up and to slow her fall on the way back down. She held a look on her face that said all that and more.

She could always buy new weapons, laptop, and stuffed animal but nothing could replace the memories they held, nor the pictures hidden in a secret compartment of her laptop. They were honestly the last few things she had in her life anymore that she cared about. Not after....

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Sun Oct 04, 2015 9:33 pm

Zack turned as Jenny flew back up to her apartment. Beneath his gas mask, he rose an eyebrow. From what he'd read on her, he knew she could fly, but he also knew that she usually needed to conserve her energy after a fight. He would have been impressed if she'd been able to stand on her own, but here she was: flying. Perhaps she was strong enough to help him after all... As she rummaged through her apartment, he dropped into a crouch and took cover behind a nearby car, his rifle at the ready. His brow furrowed as he wondered for a moment whether or not the apartment had cleared out enough or not yet. As the approach of sirens drew nearer, he chuckled to himself about the irony of her statement regarding his grin. He relished the look on her face when he took off the mask he was wearing, but that would have to wait until later. There was much fun to be had in the present...

He racked the slide on his rifle as a SWAT van pulled up, swerving to one side as it left black lines of burned rubber on the pavement and a kill team deployed in rapid fashion from the back. They looked exactly like they were supposed to - a police swat team. But no one had contacted the dispatcher. No one had sent the SWAT team, at least no one who officially existed. But Zack knew exactly who sent them. Who would send a SWAT team to an apartment to deal with an explosion? Why not send the fire department? And how did they get sent before the explosion had even occurred? Only just now the calls were flooding into the 911 operators office, where they were being acknowledged and then ignored. All of this, Zack knew exactly the reason for as he lined his target up in his sights.

A quick squeeze, a bark, a slight twitch of the arm, and another bark. In an instant, two members of the kill team dropped, hitting the ground almost simultaneously with the casings that symbolized their end. The three remaining agents dove for cover on reflex, and Zack's third shot wasn't a kill. However he knew their tactics, and he could read what they would do like the most simple child's book. The two closest pieces of cover were cars similar to the one he was hiding behind.

There was also the SWAT van, which was bulletproof and far better cover, but it was behind them. They were advancing towards the apartment, and to go back to the safety of the van would force them to backpedal, and the momentary floundering would cost the precious moments needed for their attacker to bring down another. Zack was able to take a guess where they would go, and his third shot was a guess, aimed between an agent and cover. He managed to hit one in the hip as the agent dove for cover. Zack dropped face down and lined up another shot. While the surviving kill team members scanned for an enemy in the windows or sticking their head over the hood of a car, Zack was lying on the ground, lining up a new series of shots at unarmored ankles and knees.

Two more shots rang out: The first shattered a knee, the second punched through a throat as it's owner dropped to the ground. Three more rapid shots, and the kill team died without a word: The entire time, there hadn't been a single word or even sound from them. No cry of pain, no panic, no apparent emotion at all. Even when one of them had been shot through the hip, they hadn't made a sound or even acknowledged him. It was eerie, but Zack had not time to acknowledge it. He turned to see Jenny returning from her apartment and rose. "Let's get going, sparky! They'll send more soon!" He let out another laugh as he strode over to the SWAT van as the driver continued panicking inside.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Mon Oct 05, 2015 2:40 pm

Jenny landed inside and rushed over to her drawer and quickly pulled out her mouth mask and put in on. A good amount of the gas had filtered out but there was still a good amount left and the mouth mask would help filter her breathing out more to help it not relose her energy back. She quickly stuffed her belongings that still could fit in one backpack in her backpack including a stuffed animal she named Donna.

she put on her back pack and started to leave but then paused and looked to her staff having nearly forgotten it. She grabbed it and looked to it and gently gripped it. Would she be in this position she was in now if she would have stuck by...? She shook her head now was not the time to wonder that, she left the team for a reason. She rushed back over to the hole and took one last look at her apartment thinking back to her first night. It was the closest thing she had ever had to a civilian life and it.... was really nice...

But clearly.... the world didn't want her to have a civilian life... and her dream she had kept secret but always wanted was truly just something that could never happen....She wiped a tear away as she looked at the imaginary alder version of herself playing with kids and motioned to the imaginary spouse she had to come join them before they blew away like dust in the wind. 'Alright teary eye'd mcgee' she heard in her head as she looked at the younger version of herself standing in front of her. She knew she wasn't real though she still saw her.

'Time to get moving you and I both know this is no time to feel sorry for yourself, also stop losing your head on hallucinations we already have nightingale we don't need another crazy you running around.' She said waving Jenny off. Jenny then let herself fall out of the hole. Ash flipped mid air as she fell and used a little of her energy to slow herself down as she fell to avoid hurting herself.

Jenny looked to see dead swat team member- no... they couldn't be swat, they must be with the guy who just attacked her. She looked to Zack as he approached the van, they were probably taking it which would be a better idea they wouldn't get far on food. She knelled down as she moved her staff and put it in baton form stuffing it in her back pack as she grabbed a gun off of a dead swat member. She seemed to know very well how a gun worked as she quickly checked it to see if it was full before standing and walking over to the driver door though her checking it was purely muscle memory.

Zack would know from her records that there was a time in her life that she seemed to only use guns, in fact she could even seem to funnel red energy through empty guns to have the energy work as bullets. She was a great fighter when not having to kill but she knew based on her records, hundreds of ways to mass murder hundreds of people with minimal energy and fighting all by herself the most recent example was when she was shadow knight and she had mercilessly killed hundreds of people all the time and hadn't gotten truly hurt.

She even at one point used a mans body like a skate board to land safely on the ground while riding him down a kill him by grinding his face into the ground as they slid over rocks though it is believed he died upon his face hitting the ground first upon impact. It seemed little to no one knew this about her and she hid the info on this but She was yes a great hero... but an even better killer.

She walked over to the car door and smashed in the window and opened the door quickly and in a fluent movement unbuckled the driver yanking him to the ground and using the guns narrow barrel as a knife and stabbed it into his eye socket to destroy the brain thus killing him. She placed a foot on him and yanked the barrel free before climbing into the van. without emotion towards having just killed a man brutally. She got in buckling up and closing the door behind her looking over the van. It was much different from a motorcycle but she still understood how it worked. When Zack got in she started to drive off to not waste any time. "Where too...?"

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:36 pm

That was the primary cleanup team. There will be one more backup team nearby, but it will take them a moment to realize what happened. That gives us 90 seconds to get out of here. Which leaves me about 30 to find it... Zack was lost in thought as he approached the van. If he was at all surprised when Jenny killed the driver, he didn't show any trace of it. When she got in, he caught the door before she could close it. Without a word, he leaned past her leg and reached up under the steering column, pulling on the plastic tab he found. The hood popped up with a dull CRUNK and he closed the door before she could get much in edgewise, walking briskly to the front of the vehicle and lifting the hood all the way up.

After a moment of rummaging around, he slammed it shut, looking at a small piece of metal in his hand before hurling it toward her apartment. As he got into the passenger side, the entire van sank to one side, as if a tremendous weight had just been added to the passenger side, though he was the only thing that got on. If she commented on it, he ignored her. Jokes were good and fun, but if they didn't escape in the next few moments they were likely as good as dead. Or worse.

"Just drive." He reached inside his jacket as she peeled out of the parking lot, pulling out a paper map, despite the heavy reliance on GPS most people had. He studied it for a moment before unfolding it and then refolding it to show a different portion of the city. "Take the next left." He said suddenly, with very little warning. "Go right here - under that overpass." He said nothing other than brief directions, completely at odds with how he'd been moments before with his laughter and jokes.

"Take this tunnel. Hard right! There! Into that service tunnel." He directed her into an offshoot of a traffic tunnel designed for maintenance vehicles. "We're walking from here. Get out." Without waiting for her to even apply the brakes, he'd thrown open the door and jumped out, rolling as he hit the ground and coming to a stop on one knee before standing and padding over to a small metal door - despite his apparent bulk his boots made no sound on the concrete flooring. He posted up on one side of the door, his shoulder to the wall and one hand spread out as he pressed it against the metal of the door, his other hand holding a Glock at the ready. If Jenny happened to be paying close enough attention, she may have noticed that he never actually drew the Glock... He jerked his head, indicating that she should join him.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Fri Oct 09, 2015 4:21 am

Jenny waited on him and when he was in she started to drive as he told her to. She drove in an okayish manner clearly more used to motorcycle styled travel and driving than a set up of a car. She tried to not skid around the sharp turns as he told her where to go at the last moment every time to avoid leaving skid marks that could lead to them.

She was silent and just as serious as he was as they drove. She started to slow down the car as he jumped out and she blinked but ignored the sudden departure. She turned off the car and climbed out reputing her back pack on as she did so and used her free arm to grab the gun looking to Zack as he motioned to her to follow him. Jenny took note of how he was readying to enter the door figuring there could be danger on the other side.

She nodded to him as she quickly and quietly made her way over to join him pressing her back to the wall and holding the gun with both hands, it being a two handed fast gun... what she knew through muscle memory how to use guns not what they were called. She looked to Zack nodding to say she was ready when he was and looked to the door waiting on him to open it.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:10 am

Jenny's rescuer waited for her to catch up, the featureless visor of the SCBA mask he was wearing seeming to burn into her impatiently, however he said nothing, and once she got close enough to see his eyes, he didn't appear perturbed. Perhaps it had just been body language or even mere imagination. Hazel eyes seemed to shine with anticipation as his brow furrowed. His hand was pressed flat against the door, but it seemed to be more than that: It seemed almost like it was forcefully clamped into place, almost like it was being pulled against the door by a powerful force - yet there didn't seem to be anything happening.

There was a soft clik and he lifted his shoulder, the entire door raising by a barely perceptible amount as though it were anchored to his hand. Without the usual pressure on the hinges, the door swung in without a sound and Zack entered the dimly lit corridor beyond. He held the door open for Jenny, then closed it behind her, his hand grasping the heavy bolt and securing it in place with almost supernatural quiet. Interestingly, it didn't make much sense for the door to be closed without the bolt in place, but it wasn't reachable from the other side.

Zack dropped into a half crouch and began padding down the corridor, looking like a jungle cat stalking it's prey. But those who knew him would prefer to be stalked by an actual tiger or puma. The corridor led to a room filled with loud generators, angrily buzzing away. Strangely, the room was empty save for Zack and Jenny as they crept along.

Zack lead the way as if he knew exactly where he was going, turning apparently at random down various halls and through various break rooms, generator rooms, and workshops. The whole thing was eerily silent save for the steady rising and falling buzzing of generators as they neared or fell into the distance. If he knew why there were no workers, Zack kept quiet on the matter.

Finally, after an age of stalking through dimly lit corridors and grimy rooms, they reached a door - this one almost comically marked with a standard "EXIT" sign above. Zack positioned himself exactly as he had before - palm outstretched against the door, shoulder pressed against the frame so that he didn't block the door, pistol in his free hand. For the first time since they'd entered the tunnel, He looked back at Jenny to see if she would follow suit.

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Sat Oct 10, 2015 1:21 pm

Jenny eye'd his eyes blinking and looked in surprise as he some how swung the door open. She looked as he entered and held the door open for her. She quietly entered through the door as she looked around curiously. She glanced back to him to see him re bolt the door, she blinked in surprise but refocused figuring he had some ability that allowed him to unlock the door from the other side.

Jenny followed Zack's lead and slowly crept along behind him like a tige-..... like a pum- Like a bunny rabbit hinting for food.... yeah no that is far less intimidating. Anyways She followed behind him and eye'd the generators before them glancing to Zack after looking at them. Jenny looked around as they walked and gripped her gun more tightly as she followed the eerie silence and lack of workers getting to her a bit but she stayed focused at the task at hand.

As they neared the EXIT sign she looked at it and then the rest of the room before looking back to Zack once more. he wanted to know if she'd follow his lead this time. She nodded once to tell him she was game before going up to the wall like she did before, back pressed against it and ready for a fight if one was there on the other side. She looked to Zack to tell him that she was ready to go but stayed silent ~~Like the Knight.~~

Subject: Re: A new alliance (Energy) Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:30 am

After a moment's pause while Jenny got into position, Zack threw the door open, this time slamming it open with a loud CLANG. Immediately, the sound of boots could be heard behind them as if something had been hunting them and now knew exactly where it's prey was. Zack took cover on the opposite side of the door and waited a fraction of a second for Jenny to do the same, tearing off his mask as he did so. He tossed it inside with one hand and pulled out a detonator with the other. Jenny had a fraction of a second to register his ear to ear grin before he hit the trigger - right as a flashlight shined upon his cheek.

The gunshot was clearly audible in the split second before everything was lost in a roar, and a gout of flame shot out of the doorway behind Zack as he stepped out of its way; framing his maddened hazel eyes, wild brown hair, and Cheshire grin in a halo of burning brilliance. He put the detonator away. From the look of where the flashlight had fallen, the bullet should have hit him in the temple

"We can talk now, if you like. We've lost them so long as we move elsewhere. I have somewhere you can stay for the time being. Somewhere they've yet to find" His grin widened as he started walking. "We'll want to stick to the alleys. Stealing a car would only let them know we survived."

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