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Creative Arts and Media => Roleplay => Fun RP => Topic started by: Rocket on January 05, 2017, 06:36:56 AM
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So it's been a while and I've hardly posted anything, so I thought I'd start a fun RP and see where it goes! If anything, I can say I tried.
The concept is fairly simple. The setting is a (not too distant) future wherein cybernetic augmentations, life-like androids (or "anthroids," meaning anthropomorphic androids), and robots are commonplace. Characters are living in an urban mega-city, with impossibly tall buildings, bright, colorful displays on nearly every wall, and public service robots always active.
This is mainly intended to "test the waters" to see if anyone would be interested in a serious RP on the topic in the future. If you enjoy it, be sure to let me know ^_^
Note: your character does not need to be enhanced or robotic in any way for you to participate.
Terms for reference:
Cybernetic Augmentation: Any sort of technology implanted in or on a living creature to allow it to surpass it's existing capabilities.
-e.g. limb actuators, augmented optics, additional robotic limbs, etc.
Anthroid: A synthetic being designed to look like an existing living creature, esp. an anthropomorphic character
Robot: A machine not necessarily built with the intention to resemble a living creature; usually specialized in function
Edit: Here's a basic character description, since I neglected to give one initially.
Name: Kairos "Kai" Grey
Species: Bioengineered gray fox subspecies
Abilities: generation and manipulation of electrical current; interface remotely with technology
Reference Image: Here (https://67.media.tumblr.com/143899a6b646d7ff3f4fc764515063f6/tumblr_og6no5uGRS1uj6nu1o1_1280.jpg)
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((Just an FYI, although it isn't mandatory, have a simple character info sheet for people to fill out helps get a personality feel of the joining character.)
Name: Razuel
Age: 9
Appearance: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19880754/ (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19880754/) much more beaten up than what's there, and he has a muzzle and leather mitts on.
Weapons: Sharp claws and sharp teeth.
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Raz had recently ran away from an abusive foster home and now laid beneath a soiled cardboard box, feeling sick and starving and dehydrated due to the fact of that he hasn't been able to get his muzzle or mitts off.
His tail laid slightly out from under the box over a white discarded ceiling tile.
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Name: Richard
Age: 20
Appearance: ragged long coat, clearly concealing something and dark trousers
Weapon: heavy yo-yo
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(felt like a redo sorry)
Richard notices the strange box and sees the tail hanging out, he squats down next to it, tapping It as if he was knocking a door
"Hellooo? Anybody home?"
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Raz was just too weak to move, but his body did tense up, and his tail twitched slightly when he tensed.
When the box was tapped, Raz let out a wheezing squeak and his heart started to race and his raspy breathing became faster.
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"Hellooo" he said softly
He slowly lifted the box as not to agitate whoever was inside
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Raz had multiple bruises and had a thick leather muzzle and mitts, secured by tight belts; his ribcage could be seen on his underbelly and his body was skinny overall, much more than what it should be.
Raz didn't bother to move... everything hurt... and he wouldn't be able to anyway.
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Richard looked over, fairly startled, but kept calm
"Hey there, come over here and I'll get that muzzle off of ya"
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Walking down the street, wearing a thick, double breasted coat with his paws stuffed into the pockets, Kai's ears perked as he overheard voices in an alley down the block. This wasn't typical, considering such a place was a great place to get mugged--or worse--especially at this time of night.
He looked up one of the walls and noticed a street surveillance camera; he squinted and focused his attention on it. In a few moments, he saw through the lens of the camera, making out two dark figures in the low-resolution feed. He took note of the time stamp in the lower corner.
Hmmm... Ought to be getting home.
But his legs didn't comply, and soon he was standing just before the mouth of the alleyway, peeking inside curiously.
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Raz could feel the kindness in Richard's voice and his offer. Raz very slowly got up, his skinny body in it's entirety shaking as he put weight on his body. He eventually did stand up, but the pain he felt all over made him groan; pain was in his eyes too.
He slowly staggered towards Richard, tripping and falling forward into him as he made it to Richard.
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Richard feels around the muzzle, trying to take it off. He eventually takes it off and casts it aside, Holding his paws out so that Raz could be carried
"It'll all be okay"
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Raz had fallen to the ground when he tripped , despite falling into Richard, he wasn't caught and fell to the ground, but when his muzzle was taken off he let out a sigh and went to feel it, but couldn't properly due to the mitts on his paws.
Raz managed to weakly stand up again, at least enough to roll into Richard's arms
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When Raz fell into my arms I pulled his mitts off, soon after, I lift him off the ground, and hold him close to my chest
"Christ, what kind of sadist does this" I mutter to myself
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Raz was cold to the touch as much as an anthdroid or other robot would be, but everything about him was natural.
Tears started to fall from Raz's eyes as he was able to properly feel now and it was such a beautiful feeling to him.
Raz turned to Richard and weakly hugged him as he was thankful; his tail loosely wrapped around Richard's arm.
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Rick smiled and hugged him back, lightly as not to hurt him. He holds Raz close to his chest and inside his coat to keep him warm, he holds Raz with one hand as he digs one hand in his pocket.
Out of his pocket he brings a cereal bar, he holds it in front of Raz in hope that he'd eat it
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Raz made a low pleased groan as he was put up against Richard's warm body.
As Richard brought the cereal bar closer to Raz's face he sniffed the air and brought his maw to it and started to nibble at it; when he opened his maw, a foul smell came out and his teeth had gone a deep yellow from very low maitenance from when he was at his previous home.
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Rick tried his best to ignore the smell, exhaling as much as he could.
He tucked him in his coat and walked over to a bench, where he put Raz down to eat his food and sat next to him
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Raz gave a slight shiver as he was sat down on the bench but he kept nibbling away at the bar until it was all gone. When done, Raz turned around to Richard and weakly tried to climb back onto him, but wasn't really getting anywhere.
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Richard helped Raz into his arms, sighing
"Can you speak, little guy?"
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Raz shook his head, but tried to speak anyway, his voice sounding very raspy, and his words were very similar to growls and other feral noises, "NNnnnRrrrroooo...hhrrrrruuurrrttt"
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Richard exhales and held Raz close to his chest, he started walking down an alleyway and turned right into a old, dusty restaraunt
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Kai continued to watch the exchange, perplexed. Surely, it was none of his business, but he couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy. What if that had been him? He was found under similar circumstances, anyway, before he was rebuilt.
Then again, this was a city wherein people got along by keeping to their own business. Extras were a liability.
As he thought, he continued walking towards home, using his augmented vision to scan for a civil protection (read "surveillance") drone. Thankfully, a law enforcement drone, minimally armed, was doing it's rounds, and he skulked behind it, grabbing it from the air and commandeering it to keep watch on the two individuals. It followed them at a preset distance, and was programmed to engage hostile entities if they came within a certain radius of them.
That oughta put a chip in my wall of bad karma...
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Raz buried his head under Richard's coat, not paying attention to what was passing them.
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Richard pulls a yo-yo out of his coat after noticing the drone, and was swinging it around, knowing that it was not classed as a weapon, and he would not be shot. He holds Raz close with one paw as he swung it faster and faster around in a circle
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Raz let out a pleased groan as he was held close, slightly tightening his tail around the arm that was holding him.
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(Heyyy! Mind if I join? Sorry about the long intro :/ )
Name: "Blue"
Species: Fox.
Abilities: Excellent runner. Self-Proclaimed "Parkour Pro."
Reference Image: None; A blue fox. White belly. Navy ears. White glove markings.
Cyber mods: Had to get both legs fully replaced with augmentations after an accident with a drunk driver.
(This sort of scene feels like a light, misty rain. Is that okay?)
Blue was tired. It was a long day at work. But more importantly, he was hungry. Sure, they offered lunch breaks, but Blue refused. He knew that the quicker he did his job, and the less time he wasted meant that he got paid more.
Blue was a runner. He took the term literally - and with his new augmented legs, he was faster than ever. This meant he delivered parcels, notes, and mail (or anything else small enough to stuff into a backpack) on foot (or paw) to eagerly awaiting recipients.
Blue knew the city like the back of his paw. He also knew the city was a piece of crap and full of no-good motha's. He should know; he delivered to them.
But among other things, knowing the city so well meant he knew just where to find the best meals around.
Before he knew it, he was already at the entrance to restaurant. He slipped inside and padded over to his usual booth.
He hadn't realized how tired he was until he slowed down.
Blue slinked into his seat and shrugged his backpack off his shoulders, inadvertently shrugging off his dampened jacket as well. That was alright with him. He sighed as he sunk deeper into the cushioned chair.
Blue thought he might just fall asleep in that chair when he suddenly got the urge to look out the window.
He perked his ears, mildly amused by the showdown happening right outside.
Blue talks lowly to himself. "Is that guy fending off a drone with a... yo-yo?"
He chuckles as he tries to figure out of that was ridiculous or awesome.
Blue's smile faded as he noticed the small figure under the Sand Cat's arm.
The hell is going on??
Blue shuffs his coat and backpack on again and calls out to the waitress, saying "Assume I'm not coming back if ten minutes go by!" Then, he hops up and darts out of the restaurant, hurrying over to the Cat.
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Richard latches the yo-yo onto the Drone and pulled it to the ground with elegance that could only be gained with years of practice, his attention was averted to the fox running towards him at a speed he'd never seen, he abandoned his yo-yo tangled in the drone and pulled another one out of his coat, swinging it around quickly. All while holding Raz close to his chest
"Ugh, tonight"
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Blue skids to a halt as the decommissioned drone falls to the ground. Taken aback by the cat's violent gestures, Blue instinctively raises both his palms and back up a little.
"Woah! Hey, easy! I'm not gonna hurt you. What's going on? Why did you take down that surveillance drone? You know more are gonna come now, right?"
His attention returns once more to the huddled figure in the Cat's arms.
"Is that your baby?"
With all the years he's dealt with people, Blue knew how to read a face fairly well. He searches the cat's face for signs of innocence.
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Richards face changed suddenly into a much calmer expression and seemed to stare straight through the fox
He wound up his yo-yo in a second and slipped it Into his jacket
"It's not mine" he says, pushing Raz into the fox's arms for a second "hold him for a sec"
He untangled the yo-yo from the drone "We should probably leave, I was just suspicious, drones don't usually come down here."
He finishes unwrapping the yo-yo and stands up straight, leaning back a little with slightly bent knees
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Raz felt the pressure on him as Richard moved around, and when he heard another voice, he looked back briefly to then bury himself back under Richard's coat.
Raz tried to reach back to Richard when he was handed off to Blue, to only squirm in Blue's hands when he was passed
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Blue stumbles back a little, surprised the Cat would give up the dragon so easily. But nonetheless, he takes him into his arms caringly and wraps him in his coat.
He noses the dragon softly, whispering, "It's okay, friend, I got you."
Blue looks back at the Cat with a confused scowl.
"Woah, slow down there. He's not yours? What did you just find him or something??"
Blue folds his ears back, feeling rather apologetic for being so quick to judge.
"Sorry..."
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"Yeah, I did" He smirks at him, reaching out for the child "some creep had a muzzle on him, left him outside"
He cracks his head to the side "anywhere good to eat near here?"
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Blue carefully returns the Dragon to the Cat, just noticing the Dragon's wounds.
"Maybe this city is already dead..."
"Um... yeah, sorry. Real good place right here, actually, but if you're running from the drones, chances are you'd probably want to avoid this area for awhile. I know another one - in a better part of the city, too. Not as much trouble. 'Benny Waffles'.' Real good menu, if you're into breakfast foods. It's not too far. Follow me?"
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Raz didn't feel too comfortable in Blue's embrace and when he was returned to Richard, he buried himself back under his coat, hugging him again.
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"Sure thing" He tightly grasps Raz with one paw and approaches the fox to close the distance
"Lead the way"
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Name: Rayleonarde "Ray" "Unit 33" Blackburn
Species: Raccoon
Abilities/Augments & Weapons: Increased speed, sub-dermal bullet-resistant plating. Neural link with nearby drones, robots, et cetera. Carries a 9mm handgun and shock-baton.
Appearance: Royal purple, save for two tear-drop shaped areas on his chest and lower abdomen. Wears a red and brown jumpsuit sporting a small arm patch of a private security firm working in the city.
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Ray was sitting in the restaurant, his curiousity piqued when an augmented fox sprinted away suddenly. His neural H.U.D. told him a nearby drone was in combat, and was shocked even more when the drone's assailant, armed with what appeared to be a yo-yo, was able to down the machine. He stood, his brow furrowed and left the restaurant, leaving a healthy tip along with his payment. The raccoon began to slowly follow the fox, his curiosity refusing to let him write the incident off. As he went, he kept a paw pressed against his collar, transmitting his observations both as data and vocally. The vocal transmission was unnecessary, but it helped him keep the facts straight.
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He stopped and scowled slightly as he lost the feed from the drone.
Uh oh...
He thought to himself. When he had hacked the drone, he had set it to transmit a repeating feed of the drone's archived surveillance footage so as to keep from arousing suspicion from it's operator. But now that it had been taken down, it's distress beacon was likely going off. Whoever was in that area was in for a whole mess of trouble. It was a federal offense to tamper with, let alone disable a surveillance drone. They would send more drones. Armed drones. The kind that will engage any individual seen as hostile. The kind that did not recognize the biometrics of the individuals in that restaurant as non-combatant.
Kai shrugged. Maybe it was a sign. Looking out for anybody else usually ends up in someone getting the boot--the law of the land here.
He sent out a ping, sensing multiple augmented individuals in the area.
It's not safe...
He sought a vantage point, spying a nearby fire escape ladder and climbing it quickly until he was on top of a (relatively) small 10-story building. He laid low, bouncing his IP signature across the city, making it difficult for him to be tracked.
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Richard followed blue, holding the child close to his chest. He had a paw in his coat, gripping something. He was fixated on his mechanical legs to see how they moved
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Blue didn't let on that he was extremely wary of the Cat with the shady getup and unorthodox fighting techniques, but he never let him out of his peripherals.
"You're making me nervous with all that digging you're doing there in your pockets. Name's 'Blue'," he said coolly as he rounded the corner and continued padding towards the restaurant. He could see the bright yellow sign now, lighting up the lot below with a dim haze. Only a block away....
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Following behind, Richard smirked, pulling something out of a deep pocket and slipping it into another one. "Hey Blue, my name's Richard, although I go by other names too, delivery boy" he said, the last part directed at Blue. He loosens his grip on Raz as he gets closer to safety
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Ray took a seat on the sidewalk near the restaurant. He kept an eye out for the augmented fox or the police, who were do to investigate the drone.
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Blue held back a scowl at being called 'delivery boy.' Not that Richard was wrong. He was a delivery boy. But the image it gave off was that of a happy, go-lucky mail dog, whistling to himself as he skipped from door to door. Still. He had to admire his powers of observation.
But Richard wasn't the only one with admirable observation skills. Blue's attention never fully wavered from Richard, who was still at his peripherals. The hair on his neck stood up as Richard continued to shift through his pockets for what he could only guess was a gun. This made him sweat a little, but he sensed that if Richard wanted him dead, he would have used it by now.
"Woah, woah, woah, woah...." Blue said in a low tone and skidded to an abrupt halt at the sidewalk and sniffed the air. "Something's not right."
There was a lone fur sitting on the sidewalk only a few yards ahead of them. There was an arm patch decorating his shoulder. He couldn't make it out, but it spelled bad news.
"Cops already?" Blue murmured.
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Richard pulled Blue around a corner and put a paw around his mouth, he whispered "Shh! That's Ray Blackburn! We don't know who he's working for, just... Let's eat somewhere else..."
Richard held the child closer as he bit his lip, he'd had multiple run-ins with him and his unit, and was, in essence, scared of him. He stepped aside so Blue could take the lead again
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Blue was taken by surprise as he was pulled and shoved into a wall. He listened carefully to Richard. At first, he was angered by the gesture, but given the circumstances, he understood.
"There's not gonna be a gorram place in this city left to eat at, at this rate!" He thought with annoyance.
Blue waved off Richard's paw and talked softly.
"Rooftop Diner. We can see for a few blocks, and, if you keep your head down, no one should-"
Blue stopped. It wasn't just Richard who was on the run now. It was him, too, for aiding a criminal. Dang.
"...should be able to find us very easily. It's a bit out-of-the-way, so we gotta hit the rooftops if we want to make it there in decent time."
Blue looked up and down the side of the building he was thrown against and takes a vertical pipe in his paws, testing its integrity. It was sound. And if Richard could climb, we'd be in business.
"Can you climb this?" He asked, turning to Richard. I can carry baby Draco there in my backpack. I won't let any more harm come to him, I promise you that."
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Richard looked up and down the pole, judging to see whether he'd be able to climb, it, he confidently looks back to Blue
"Yeah, I'd be pretty good to climb it if you held the kid"
He cracks his neck to the side and holds Raz out ready to go in the backpack
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Blue quickly unshouldered his backpack and threw the cloth cover back. He firmly gripped it in his paws, expecting the full weight of the baby dragon.
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Richard quickly popped him inside, smiling at him
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"He sure seems to like you, for some reason." Blue noted quietly.
He secured his pack the way he always did when he was Running, making extra-sure that everything was well-secured, then he carefully reshouldered the bag.
"Don't be long," he warned as he quickly began scampering up the pipe like it was nothing.
He looked down to see what kind of progress Richard was making.
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Richard was making slow progress, but progress nonetheless. He got near to the top until he started to slip slightly
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Blue thrust his paw out and snagged Richard's wrist.
"Come on, buddy... up ya go!"
Blue pulled back, trying to help the cat climb up and plant his feet on something solid again.
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Richard grabbed his wrist to make sure he didn't fall and used it to finish climbing the roof, he exhales.
"Thanks"
He wipes his forehead with a paw
"Where to now?" He says, looking around
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A few police cruisers rolled up, and Ray was quick to meet them.
"Good afternoon, officers! I'm glad you got here before the drones did. There was a malfunctioning drone I had to bring down, an apparent local hack."
The police, albeit skeptical, seemed to believe the raccoon and quickly departed.
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"No problem!"
Blue looked around and suddenly dropped to his knee as he heard a squad of familiar-sounding engines. He yanked Richard's jacket so he would do the same.
"Police," Blue murmured.
Before he knew it, there they were, pulled in to the Johnny Waffles' restaurant, just below them. They were talking to the guy who was on the sidewalk. Blue didn't even need to peer over the ledge to know that. The voices and the flashing lights were enough.
As the cruisers sped off, Blue glanced around, confused.
"They just left! And that Blackburn guy... just blatantly lied to them, and they took it! Who is he?? And how can he wave off the police like that?! You know what? Tell me on the way. Things are really not feeling right around here."
Blue rose once again and started a brisk jog over the rooftops, setting a mental path around Blackburn to the Rooftop Diner.
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Ray, after the police left, called his own vehicle, a large drone. The raccoon climbed into the seat beneath the drone's hull and buckled in. The drone responded to Ray's neural connection, rising into the air. After a few moments two spotting lights blinked on, and began to sweep the rooftops in search of the augmented fox, or possibly the drone-killer (as they owed Ray for dispersing the police, or at least so he believed).
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Richard remained silent for a few seconds, slowly moving towards Blue, still quite skeptical of Ray, as he knew he could track Blue. His suspicious were confirmed when he heard the unmistakable noise of Ray's drone
He sprints towards Blue
"Go! Go quick! I'll make sure he doesn't get to the kid" He quickly runs towards a vent on the roof and hides behind it as he signals Blue to go onwards
Richard then starts placing down small round objects, radar scramblers, making it impossible to track people with cybernetic enhancements if you were within its range
Richard wondered what Ray wanted, and he'd decided it wasn't quite pleasant, judging from his previous experiences
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Blue's jog turned into a full-on sprint on Richard's call. His paws tightly gripped the straps of his backpack when he wasn't using them to keep his balance.
Building after building, ladder after ladder, he began making his escape, covering an impressive distance in very little time.
He glanced back. He could still see Richard now, but barely. He couldn't quite see what was going on between him and Blackburn, but there was nothing he could do anyway. He hoped Richard was alright back there.
Blue searched ahead and kept on running. He closed a gap between two buildings and took it on at full speed, pushing off and making the landing without much worry. At this rate, he would be at the Rooftop Diner in just a couple short minutes.
"And I thought I was done Running for today!" He laughed between breaths.
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Richard hid, giving out a sigh of relief when he saw Blue running off into the distance
He pulled some other items out of his pockets and put them in easier to access pockets, ready for the worst
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Raz was fairly silent for most of this until a certain jerk of the bag he was in hit his wing and he started to cry, starting quiet but would slowly get louder the longer he was left unattended.
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Richard slips into the vent, making an escape from the approaching drone, he runs across the streets after falling through the bottom and finds himself in the lift to the diner, he pushes the button and heads up, expecting to see Blue waiting for him
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Blue was at the Rooftop Diner before he knew it. With no sign of pursuit, he stalled on the building just before the eatery, deciding to check on the Little One he was carrying in his pack. Carefully, he unshouldered the straps and slowly set the bag down and undid the buckles that were keeping it closed.
His ears perked as he began to hear the sobbing inside the pack.
He felt guilty for making him cry, but there wasn't much he could have done. He ran as smoothly as he could.
His ears folded back with the covering flap of his backpack. "I'm sorry, Guy," he whispered apologetically.
He reached in and lifted out the small dragon, taking it into his arms and stroking softly over its back.
Blue looked over the Dragon thoroughly, trying to pinpoint what he might have done to the injured creature to set him off like he did, but it was impossible to see what could have happened past all the wounds it already had.
Blue took the dragon and held him close to his chest.
"I'm so sorry, he repeated," nearly crying for him.
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A loud ding echoed across the diner as the elevator hit it, Richard strolls out and approaches a seat. He was surprised blue was late, or so he thought. He took a seat at a table at the back, out of the way
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Raz clutched onto Blue tightly as he was picked up; shoving his face into Blue as he cried, and as Blue's hand stroked over his back, he let out a pained cry as the hand brushed over what seemed to be a bump at the joint of Raz's right wing, and it would suggest that it had popped out of place as before the bag had jerked, his joints were tired and sore already, so this wasn't a surprise that it could've happened.
He pressed his face into Blue again when his pained wing was brushed slightly.
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Blue heeded the cry of pain the Dragon gave him when he brushed over the tender bump. He investigated further to find that the wing was popped out of place. A dozen thoughts went through his head as he tried to recall what to do in such a situation.
"Okay, Friend... this is going to hurt a bit. They might still be after us, so we can't be too loud, okay?"
He set the Dragon down and moved to the best position to fix the dislocated wing. He grabbed it slowly and prepared to yank it.
"Are you ready? We'll go on three, okay? One... two..."
Blue jerked its wing sharply in his best effort to realign the joints.
Did it work? He wondered.
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Richard sat impatiently at the table waiting for someone to take his order, and Blue with the dragon. He tapped his paw against the table. He mumbles to himself
"Can't get here faster than me, even with those robotic legs"
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When he was set down he was still crying softly, but as hands were set on his hurt wing, he slowly looked back with tears falling down his face, and as the wing was popped back in, he extended his head forward and let out a pained roar, be it petty, it was loud... unless his face was covered when he started to roar.
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Blue panicked when the Dragon started to roar, and he forced a paw over his maw as quickly as he could.
"I know, I know. It'll start getting better now. Try not to move it around too much, alright?"
Blue rose and slung his backpack haphazardly over his shoulder and knelt down to pick up the pained Lizard. He held him close and nuzzled him softly.
Blue stood and began padding over to the outdoor portion of the Diner and gently hopped over the dividing barricade between the two buildings. He saw Richard waiting for him at a table already, seeming impatient.
"Let's go see Richard now. You hungry?"
He brushed past the unoccupied, wetted tables outside and pushed through the door and made his way over to Richard.
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Richard looked over and sighed
"Thank god, I thought he caught ya, well, I see no reason why he'd want to chase you." He cracked his head to the left "Took ya long enough though, where were ya?"
He looks over to the dragon, happy to see him well
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"I missed you too," Blue said, rolling his eyes. "I had to play doctor. His wing was out of place. It's fixed now, but be careful."
He took a seat across from Richard and waved for the waitress with his free paw. With his other, he carefully pet the Little Dragon.
"Does he have a name? I've been meaning to ask you. He doesn't seem to be able to talk."
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Richard looked over at the child, smiling at him.
"Mm, he's not been talking at all, hasn't said anything"
He diverts his attention to Blue.
"Order us some food, eh? I'll pay"
He peeks at the menu "just get me a burger or whatever"
He digs in his pockets again, moving things around
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"Appreciate it, friend," he smiles and nods at Richard.
"Two burgers, Cokes, and fries, please," he relays to the waitress.
The waitress scribbles on her little notepad. "It'll be out shortly, gentlemen," she replies professionally as she saunters off.
Blue turns back to Richard. "I still can't shake the feeling I'm being watched, though," he informs him as he casually scans the restaurant.
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Richard pulls various items out of his pockets, including about 4 yo-yo's, 2 disk shaped objects and some other items, such as pens and a notebook, during all this he brings out a folded piece of paper, which floats next to Blue as Richard is distracted
"Where is it..."
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"I don't know, dude. My legs are augmented, not my eyes. It's just a feeling."
"Alrighty, here's your food," the waitress swaggered up to the table with the two dishes and cups. She set them down infront of Richard and Blue, seeming to completely ignore Richard's pocket contents.
"If y'all need anything else, just holler, and when y'all's ready to pay, Cindy can help ya up at the counter."
Blue nodded his thanks, and watched her walk away.
He jerked his head away suddenly as he noticed the paper. "Geez!"
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Richard kept digging until he hit something "A-ha!" He pulled out his wallet and placed it on the table, sighing. He started to collect the items he'd put on the table when he noticed his wanted poster sitting next to Blue, it was his picture on it, surely enough, but it was under the name 'Carousel', with an exceptionally high bounty, that was unable to be fully read as Richard snatched it away so fast and slipped it Into his jacket, alongside the things he'd put on the table
"I hope you don't blow my head off right about now, I know a lot of people who would"
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Ray heard the dragon's roar, albeit short, and headed towards it. Must be hell-bent to lose me, dropping jammers and whatnot. He had almost given up, but the roar kept him interested.
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"As much as I need the money, that's not likely going to happen. Life has more value than numbers." Blue told Richard. "They put-" Blue realized how excited his voice was starting to become and lowered it a few decibels. "They put a bounty on you? For what?? And why haven't you fled the city yet? That's what anyone with a working brain would do!"
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"I got put in a few years ago for... Y'know, I'd rather not talk about it"
He tapped the table, and pointed to Blue a second later "I didn't kill anyone though, never would. And why haven't I left yet? I've got some unfinished business"
He reached into his wallet, which was pretty full, and pulled out a few notes worth a few thousand
"You need money? Work for me, you'll make double of what you make now"
He waves the notes in front of Blue
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"Alright, your business is your business."
Blue dismissively pawed the money away from him.
"Look, you, can't just buy me like some kind of worker ant. Put those away, I don't take money I didn't earn. Now let's say I did work for you," Blue toyed with that idea as he took a large bite from his burger. "What would I be doing exactly that would get me double my earnings?"
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Richard smiles
"It's never bad to have a delivery boy working for ya"
He slips the money back into his wallet "but y'know, if you don't want a big buddy in this big city full of dirty rich kids with military grade weapons at their disposal, that's fine by me"
He tucks into his burger, diverting all of his attention towards it
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Blue strokes back the fur on his head.
"I get by. It may be a sick place to live, but I know where to find a big guy with a gun. For whatever reason it may be that I would need someone like that," he argued, toying with his fries. "I get around, you know. I've been offered jobs like this before. The only difference is, this time, my potential employer uses yo-yo's instead of shiny black AR's to get what he wants."
Blue looked at the ceiling for a moment, then turned to Richard. "Look, you want my help for something, you gotta get me a better place to life. That cracker box under the overpass just isn't cutting it for me. You do that, and I'm yours until you gotta disappear. What do you say?"
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Richard digs in his pocket, only for a little bit this time, he pulls out a key
"Here's the key to my second house, I don't stay there anymore. It's yours." He slides it across the table
"If you head down the street from here towards the casino and take the first left where all the fancy houses are. It's number 24"
Richard now looks completely occupied by his burger, taking small sips from his drink
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Blue raised his glass as if in cheers. "Thanks, Boss." He took a big swig of the fizzy beverage, downing nearly half of it once he returned it to the table.
"So! What's the next order of business? And what do we do with baby Draco? You know if we get caught, I'm telling them he's yours, right?"
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"Sure thing, he's mine, I'll take him back to my place later and I'll take care of him"
Richard digs in his pocket once again and pulls out one of the disk shaped objects
"Just so we're clear, do not touch these. These are my wheels of fortune, and when you get them started it's like swinging around two high powered blunt shock chainsaws with a piece of string, "
He puts them into his pocket "on top of that, they're very special to me"
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"I don't even know how to use them, so there's no need to explain further." Blue rubbed his eyes. "Ugh. Helluva day. You know what? Tomorrow, I want a gun. You're not a safe guy. If I'm gonna be working for you, I know there'll be trouble around each corner." Blue eyed him. "I want a gun," he repeated. "And I wanna pick it out."
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Raz smelt food and he slowly started to climb up to the table and onto it; walking towards the food and starting to nibble at both of the plates that were there.
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Blue chuckled at seeing the Dragon on the table. "Sorry about that! I meant to get you something, too. You can have the rest of my burger and my fries." He hadn't realized that the little guy was probably starving; who knew how long he had been without food! Realizing this, he started to feel bad about not remembering to order him anything. :(
Blue folded his ears back, but forced a smile as he watched the Dragon gobble up his food.
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Raz's very skinny belly soon filled up with food as he gobbled down all of the food that was in front of him in a matter of minutes; He ate so fast that piece of food after piece of food was gone.
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Blue picked the Dragon back up once it was finished eating, and he held him close to his chest once again. "Better?" ^_^
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Raz let out a large burp as he was picked up but as he was pressed up against Blue's chest, he started to snuggle into him, and shortly after, falling asleep from having a stuffed belly with a smile on his face as he dozed off.
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Blue smiled and held the Dragon close, keeping as still as he could as it slept.
Looking up to Richard, Blue whispered, "I don't know why... and I don't know where this is coming from, but... I think we should name him 'Raz'." ^_^
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Richard was completely occupied in thought when he snapped back to Blue
"A gun, how extravagant of you, we'll pick one out tomorrow"
Rick smiles at Raz, happy that he's eaten "Raz suits him"
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"Excellent," piped Blue satisfactorily. B)
"In the meantime, I think I'm gonna hit the hay at my new house."
Blue pulled a pen out of his pocket and began scribbling his number on a napkin, which he then passed to Richard.
"You want Raz back?"
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Richard fiddled with various objects at the table '
"I don't know, you want him, you take him, I'm happy to have him if you don't"
He stretched his arms out and stood up, and then promptly sat back down after stretching his legs
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"He's already fast asleep. I may as well take him for the night. That's my number. If you need anything Ran from one place to another, or for any reason at all, there's my number. How can I get a hold of you if something goes wrong?"
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Richard rips a page out of his notebook and hands it to him
"Well, here's my number" he smirks "call me" he says in a humouring tone
"And yeah, it'd be better if you took Raz, I live too far away"
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Blue threw Richard an unamused grimace. "When I need to," he retorted.
Blue stood and padded over to the elevator, his cybernetically enhanced legs whirring near-silently as he went. He bumped the 'V' button with his elbow and glanced over his shoulder.
"Not that you would know this is totally out-of-character for me to say, but we should totally go blow some $#!% up tomorrow."
With nothing else being said, he stepped into the elevator and rode it all the way down to the street. He stood patiently awaiting for the signalling 'ding,' when he would take off in a glass-smooth run to house 24, where he and Raz would spend what was left of the night.
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Richard was a little startled by that last remark, but passed it off as a joke. He stayed sat at the table quietly, just thinking until he was able to pay the bill
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Ray now sat atop his drone, hovering way above the streets. He was absorbing all of the raw data the city could offer. Every street camera, every drone, every device feeding the raccoon's mind. Ray was looking for the drone-killer, as he realized there might have been a bounty involved. As he pulled data, he sent an outgoing message.
-Somewhere in a jungle-
A soldier, a raccoon, wearing the same suit as Ray was tied to a chair, beaten and bleeding. A large, short-furred wolf stood in front of the raccoon, holding a baseball bat. "That sub-derm armor's puttin' in overtime, huh?" The wolf grinned widely. "So, you gonna tell us where your friends are, or no?"
The raccoon shook his head slightly. "N-No. I'm gonna watch you bleed! Ronnie!"
The wolf grunted, and raised the bat high over his head, but was halted in his swing as a horrifying, metallic roar filled the air. Guards were outside shouting, firing, and all-around panicking. After a few minutes, they stopped firing, opting instead for terrified whimpering. The wolf, obviously livid, stepped out of the interrogation room, shouting.
"What's the meaning of this? You guys find whatever scared you and...kill...it..." The realization hit him as he turned to the entrance of the camp, and there stood a metal behemoth. Huge crooked arms held gigantic cannons, broad shoulders carried miniguns, and the back of this machine stored several dozen hunter-killer drones. The machine's tail dragged slowly across the ground, it's bladed edges hissing and sparking against the rocks.
The raccoon, who had once been tied up, had gotten loose and made his way to the now-petrified wolf. He placed a paw gently on the wolf's shoulder, and spoke softly. "Tell your men to drop their guns, before my metal mate here decides to splatter you all across this clearing."
The command never left the wolf's mouth, his soldiers dropped their guns, dropped to their knees, and folded their paws behind their heads. As the wolf was about to do the same, the raccoon stopped him, smiling widely as the wolf had before. "Where are my manners. That's Ronnie," at this the raccoon pointed at the machine, who merely growled in response, "and I am Jayce Blackburn." Jayce patted the wolf's shoulder, and made his way to Ronnie. As the raccoon boarded, he simply said one word. "Fire."
The wolf and his soldiers were gone before they even knew what happened. As Jayce took his seat inside Ronnie, he noticed an email. After a few moments of reading, a huge smile crossed his face. "T-Twenty...five...thousand. Ronnie! To the city!"
((Sorry for the wall-post, I thought this up while at work. If there's an issue, please let me know.))
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Richard was sat at the restaurant, oblivious to the plot against him. He at this point had eaten about four burgers. He belches, thinking about the new addition to his little group he had going. He sipped on his cola, looking out of the window blankly
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(I personally think it's awesome, Ray ^_^ No complaints here!)
Blue, completely oblivious to any drones or bounty hunters in the skies above, ran long strides over the pale streets below. He whooshed through the heavy mists that shrouded the streets this time of night, stirring up the thick clouds beneath the neon signs and street lights. The constant wind rippling through his fur, the way he so effortlessly moved, it was to him as though he was flying - flying low to the ground. To Blue, there was nothing else in the world that could make him feel so grand. Running was all he knew. And he was okay with that.
Before long, Blue stood at the front gate of the towering home that had previously belonged to Richard. He started to wonder how he could afford such a luxury. Actual houses in this city were near impossible to afford. Although, he recalled, he threw around thousands like they were dollar bills. What kind of things did he do to get that kind of cash?? Blue stopped himself. Maybe it was best he didn't know. But then again, he was the one working for Richard now.
Blue jiggled the doorknob to see if it was unlocked. It wasn't, much to his relief. In a swift motion, he took the key from his pocket and pushed through the door.
"Lights," he said to the AI, assuming the house had one.
A small humming sound filled the walls and a female AI repeated back to him, "Lights" as the place slowly lit up.
He was rather impressed by the sprawling interior. It seemed to go on for days. He never usually got to go inside the places he delivered to. But despite the welcoming atmosphere, he knew better than to trust a stranger's home so readily. Though, he didn't smell anything that would signal that someone had been there recently, he wanted to be extra cautious.
He came to the first bedroom and went inside, locking to door. One large bed stood as the centerpiece. Perfect for Raz and himself. He lay baby Raz down in the bed and tucked him in comfortably. Than he did a brief sweep of the whole room and the closet, finding nothing to worry about, much to his satisfaction.
He climbed into bed and whispered, "Lights," and the house became dark once again.
Blue's head hit the pillow, and sleep hit Blue back, hard.
(Now, I'm sorry about the long post XD )
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(I like the long posts, it's a good read, also really looking forward to Ray coming over)
Richard grabbed his phone remembering something in the house, he texted Blue
'safe behind tree picture. code 2387, 1k inside, should keep you going for a while'
He sighed and went back it admiring the view from the diner
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Raz curled beneath the sheets and snuggled up against Blue, trying to warm up faster
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Ray landed the drone and dismounted. He then began to wander the streets, still drawing data from any device he could.
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Blue tossed and turned in his sleep. He'd been having trouble before. Nightmares plagued his thoughts. It was always the same. Twisting, grinding, squealing metal pierced his ears. He heard shouts, but he didn't know where they came from. Left? Right? Everyone was running. Megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes... ones and zeroes flashed by. Neon lights lit up behind him, but they weren't really there. Instead, when he turned around, two bright lights rushed up to meet him. Broken glass. The smell of alcohol filled his nostrils. A body lay on the ground. Blue couldn't feel his legs. He moved closer to the man, but when he did, the corpse launched at him and grabbed his throat.
Blue woke with a start, clutching at the bedsheets that he had become entangled with. He yanked them away from his throat, and he staggered out of bed, coughing enough to make his head pound. He tripped over the sheets and landed against the wall. He waited until he caught his breath again and slowly rose to his feet and made his way to the dresser, his paws planted firmly on either end of it. He looked up at his reflection. Gaps in the curtains let small spots of light hit his face. His icy blue eyes seemed to light themselves up, as usual, and the bags he'd lately been sporting beneath them had yet to fade.
Blue shook his head. He knew he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep again. So he did what he'd been doing every night for the past few months. He reached into his pocket and popped the top to a small container.
He tapped two small pills into the palm of his paw; one was orange - the other was blue.
The orange one basically felt like a power surge to the brain - an hour later, and he had a full night's sleep. It was sort of like caffeine, but better, cleaner, and without the side-effects.
The blue one was to keep his body from rejecting his cybernetic legs. The blue ones were just about gone, but this didn't matter, since he hadn't seen any signs of rejection since the beginning. He popped them both into his mouth and downed them without the ease of water.
"Thanks, Doc," he murmured.
He sighed and rubbed his eyes. He may as well see what Richard was up to. He picked up his phone. There was a massage about a hidden safe. He shrugged. He'd get to it soon. He drew a cable from the phone to one of his ears and pocketed the cell once he punched in Richard's number and it began to ring.
(trying to make Blue's story a bit more in-depth)
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Richard was tired, he'd spent all night at the diner, what else could a wanted criminal do without being noticed?
He notices his phone was vibrating and slowly picked it up
"Hellooo?"
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Raz had woken up once felt Blue tossing and turning and on one of the turns from blue, he had accidentally pulled on one of Raz's legs which scared him and from the rubbing of the blanket, one of the scabs on his body opened and it left a small splatter of blood trail behind him as he scuttled off of the bed and out of the room, thus finding a small hole in a lower cabinet as to hide as he had gotten scared from Blue's moving in his sleep.
A small puddle of blood was left where Raz was previously on the bed.
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Blue's ears perked at Richard's voice. "You're still up," he said, sounding surprised. "Don't know why that comes as a shock to me." He sighed and rubbed his eyes, still trying to clear his head. "This painting you messaged me about. Where is it?, exactly? There's paintings everywhere, and this house is massive." He to open the door but stopped when he saw what was wrong: It was ajar, and there was a small blood trail. He searched over his shoulder in a panic when he realized he'd almost forgotten Raz. He tore at the bed sheets, hoping desperately that he was still there, but all that remained was a red puddle reeking of blood. His search was to no avail. Raz had disappeared.
He couldn't let Richard know. He wouldn't like it one bit, he was sure. He stayed as silent as a frantically panting fox could as he unpocketed his phone once again. He clicked on the light and carefully stepped over the blood. The door squeaked behind his paw as he pushed it fully open and began to scan the hallway with the small pocket light.
"I'm in the front hallway," he reported, glaring wide-eyed down at the trickle of a trail.
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"Then it should be in the living room"
Richard replied
"Listen, I'll take you to the gun guy tomorrow, although I really don't like them."
He paused, taking a long slurp out of his drink
"And with Raz, make sure to overfeed him, bath him everyday, and I'll show you to a doctor that won't try and track down the parents"
He kept the phone close to his face
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Raz was hiding in a cabinet beneath a large flat screen TV, and his tail tip was slightly visible outside the cabinet's door.
The door to the cabinet kept trying to close automatically but kept stopping every time it hit Raz's tail. The cabinet door kept whirring back when it hit Raz's tail and the noise was soft but noticable.
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Blue listened absentmindedly to Richard as he followed the blood trail to wherever Raz had gone. He followed it for a few twists and turns, and when he looked up with his light he took notice of all the familiar electronics and furnitures that made up a living room.
"Living roommmmm," he murmured audible enough for Richard to hear.
He stepped around the couch to find that the trail led to a small cabinet door beneath the T.V. All he saw from the slightly cracked door was the tip of the tiny dragon's tail.
"Oh, thank God I found you! . . . safe!" He added, hoping nothing sounded too off about it.
He rushes over to the cabinet and slowly opens the door. He carefully picks him up in his arms and looks him over. One of his old wounds had opened back up. He felt a strong pang of guilt, knowing that it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been having those stupid nightmares.
He'd heard Richard say something about a doctor and a bath and food.
"Yeah, food bath. Doctor. Right. Hey, I found the safe," he fibbed. "I'm gonna go back to sleep for a bit now. Call you again if I need anything." He hung up and checked the time on his phone. 5:35 a.m.
"Lights," he called out to the AI as they came on.
"Sorry if I scared you. To be completely honest, I was scared, too. But it's alright now Maybe we'll be able to make better sleeping arrangements for tonight." He softly nuzzled Raz's neck. "You really seem to need to bathe, but we'd better just make do with a sponge right now. Don't want any more of those old wounds opening up. And then we'll see what Richard has in the cabinets to eat. How does that sound?"
Blue smiled at him as he meandered down the halls, searching for a bathroom.
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Raz was softly crying inside the cabinet bur once Blue came to pick him up he quickly went to hug him, pressing himself on the open wound on his underside onto Blue, but when he heard the word bath he had a flashback to being hosed down and the foster home called that a bath and they always shot the water against his scales, so once he came out if that flashback he started squirming to try and get out of Blue's grasp.
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Rick put down the phone, looking a little annoyed that he'd pushed him off, he decided he'd visit his delivery boy, and tell him how he should treat his boss
He left the diner, leaving a hundred and taking the elevator down, moving his wheels of fortune into his coat. He walked up towards the house he'd given to Blue
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Blue tries to keep his hold on Raz, but knows he can't hold him too hard or he will only cause more pain. He is reluctant, but releases Raz from his grasp before he hurts himself.
"Raz! Ugh, you silly dragon. What did I say??"
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Raz fell to the ground, to soon get back up and start running, seeming to be in distress. He ran to the door and tried to ram through it, stepping back and running at it head on, and backing up, then running at it again until he just started to scratch at the door, and when he went to run at the door again to get it open, he hit it hard, so much that a painting on the wall next to the door fell down and left him unconscious from self harm, but he soon woke up after to be glowing red and he charged at the door again and an explosion was created, one of which left no burn marks, but everything non-living around him was warped, and yet, still as strong as before.
Raz started to run again with no idea of where to go, that is until he spotted a window at the end of the hall and started to run...
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Richard found his way to the house, made uncomfortable by the loud thumping sounds. He stood near the front door thinking of some excellent things to say
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Raz had warped the doorway from the living room and was heading for another door, the front door, or what he thought was the front door, was actually a 2nd floor balcony door, and he slammed through that and he ran right into the guard rail bars and went and got his head stuck in the bars, and this was enough to make him stop running, but he still struggled to try and keep running through the bars, clearly making loud noises to escape.
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Halfway across the city was a Private Detective by the name of Felicity. Felicity was one of the first AI constructed and was one of the very few who gained true sentience, and she had commandeered a Synth and escaped the science lab that she came from and over the years with her enhanced intellect, she was able to make herself a police officer, but when one officer was getting close to figuring her out, she left and became a PD, one that is well known in the underground and trustfully known in normal society too.
She was just in her home which was converted into a workshop and hardware enhancer area, but that was in a back room, in the main area, which looked a lot like a school office, was a large mahogany desk with a few desk toys, an old kettle, and a small mini fridge.
Felicity sat behind her desk on a chair that was also a charge station fit to her specific synth body
(Felicity doesn't need the synth body as she can rapidly assemble nanobots to her body and form her figure like that, but with the synth body, she's not as weak to water as she is in her normal form.)
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Blue skidded and hobbled, like an old man, across the floor behind Raz as he darted throughout the house. Blue could keep up with him, sure, but he was much too afraid to try and pick him up in fear that he would injure the dragon further.
"Nononononono! Raz!" Blue fell back on his tail as an explosion went off around the corner, then went Raz, scampering off again. Blue jumped back to his paws and glanced around the corner where Raz exploded, just out of sheer curiosity as to what just happened. He quickly dismissed it and began trailing Raz once more. He felt a sense of full panic as the dragon burst through the balcony door, but shortly after, a small sense of relief as Raz got himself caught in the railing. Blue hurried over and began to try to help him out.
He began to lose hope quickly as Raz continued to struggle so violently.
"Raz!" Blue boomed as he towered over the dragon. He hated to sound so angry - especially towards a child, but if it worked, maybe Raz would remain calm long enough for him to help the scaly ball of panic. "Stop," he hissed firmly.
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Raz's face was one of complete fear when he heard Blue's voice boom and he kept trying to struggle free from the bars, that is until he felt Blue's presence close behind him, and he started shaking furiously from fear, even so that he had a cold sweat.
On the other side of the street, people were looking at Blue and Raz after hearing the previous yelling and explosion.
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Blue sighs in defeat. He can feel the city's eyes on him. He crouches low and swiftly yanks one of the rail's support rods from the railing of the balcony, tossing it to the side.
"There," he breathes. He leans back against the railing and slides down to the paneled flooring. He holds his head in his paws, then slams his head back. I can't do anything right, he growled to himself. I can't take care of a baby dragon. I can't keep away from jobs that will kill me. I can't sleep... And I can't drive without attracting all the bad luck around me like a magnet.
He payed no mind to Raz, not caring, at the moment, where he might wander off to next - it was inevitable anyway.
He perked his ears as he heard banging on the front door.
And now the cops are here to tell me to keep down the racket. Perfect. They'll probably find Raz all beaten to hell and assume I'm some kind of abusive kidnapper.
Blue clawed at his head and began to cry against his will.
I can't even run from this. It's all I know how to do, and I can't even do that... because Richard will probably track me down and kill me, or whatever he does to people he doesn't like. He seems like the type.
He tugged at his ears. What the hell was he even doing? Was there anywhere he could fit in without failing in everything he did?.... Screw it all.....
These are the thoughts that went through his head as he began to pass out crying into his knees.
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Raz backed out of the bars and looked back at Blue and tried his best to stand up, and managed, so he stumbled towards Blue and sat in front of him, leaning forward and placing a paw on Blue while looking down at the floor.
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Blue gasped softly as he woke up to Raz's paw on his knee. He tilted his bead up to look at him with tearstained eyes. He sighed shakily.
"I'm sorry.... I'm not a good parent...." :'(
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Raz hesitantly stumbled and fell into Blue and nuzzled into him, trying to comfort him, despite this action actually hurting himself as he was nuzzling on a bruised area.
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Blue sniffled and hugged Raz, fighting the urge to do so tightly.
"Can you promise me that you'll try and go easy on me? I'll do my best to work with you, but it's gotta go both ways if it's going to work...."
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Raz groaned from the uncomfortable subtle pain that he was feeling but he did nod and did make a noise as confirmation.
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Blue smiles a little and pulls back from the embrace. He looks Raz over for any more open wounds. Everything looked healed back over for now. He would just have to be extra careful until he and Richard Got Raz to the doctor.
"How about you go on and check the kitchen for any goodies Rich might have left us? I'm going to go answer the door, if anyone is still there."
He rose to his padded robotic feet and began to slowly make his way for the front door, secretly hoping whoever had knocked earlier had gone away.
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Raz had made a squeaking noise when Blue walked away, but he tried to walk anyway; slowly making it to the kitchen to try and find something... Raz was so used to gruel and slush for meals from his former foster home that he had no clue what was food... he grabbed a steel wool scrubber and tried to eat it, and in turn managed to cut the inside of his maw slightly and as he found a small container of orange juice and got a mouthful he instantly regretted that as an intense stinging pain took him over.
His pained cry echoes through the house.
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Richard kept banging on the front door, giggling to himself
"We've had a noise complaint open up!"
Faint laughter could be heard behind the door
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Ray stood at the port, as a sleek ship sailed in. He knew that Jayce would be on that boat, with Ronnie with him no doubt. Ray had a vague notion where the bounty lay, and was simply waiting for Jayce and Ronnie.
Jayce stood atop the comms-array, feeling the wind in his face. He sighed, having not been in the city for about a year. Enough for people to forget about him, at least.
Ronnie was in a sleep mode, curled up in the cargo hold.
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Blue cracked the door cautiously and peered through the tiny slit.
He started breathing again when, instead of a cop, he saw Richard, who had the biggest s#!%-eating grin on his face he'd ever seen.
"Don't do that!" Blue laughed as he opened the door for him. "Man, I thought I was gonna be ripped a new one there for a second!"
Blue jumps and cringes at the sound of Raz making a mess in the kitchen.
He looks back at Richard. "It's been a long few hours," he shrugged admitted. "Welcome back to your old place! Don't mind the mess, we're just getting settled in."
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"Haha, I can see that"
He swings open the door and looks at Blue
"Don't hang up on me again... And now" he wraps his arms around blue for a second and walks past him
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Blue stands there frozen as Richard hugs him, unsure of what to do. He is about to hug back when Richard lets go and keeps going inside. He's not sure what to think about it, but it was definitely pleasant; hugs were always nice. And it seemed to him that he may have had Richard pegged wrong all along... maybe....
He glances around outside to see if anyone is still watching them. It looked clear now. Made sense: the loud noises stopped (kinda) so everyone else was starting to settle down in their beds again. He closes the door and follows Richard to where he presumed he was headed: the kitchen.
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Richard squats down next to Raz as he noticed he was crying
"Awww, are you okay?"
He reaches to the tap and pours some water into a cup, sliding it to Raz
"Drink it, then you'll feel better"
Richard turns to Blue and whispers "Do you want to order pizza?"
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"I don't even know why I didn't think of that," he said, looking off and scratching the back of his neck. He slipped his phone from his pocket and told it to "Call the 8th Street Pizza Shack and order one large Meaty Mess and one large Cheesy Goodness; deliver here," then he hung up. "I hope you're okay with either of those."
He leaned against the door frame, looking in on the two. "I tried to clean him up, but I think because of where he's from, he has a few trigger words. As soon as I said something about it, he ran off."
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"Ah, so we'll have to make up new ones, how about for 'bath' we use 'water clean' or something"
He looks back to Raz "you want some water clean?"
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Raz was nursing the cup of water as he drank from it.
He was loosely listening to Richard and Blue, but didn't hear bath, so when he hear 'water clean' he tilted his head as though he didn't know what they were.
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Blue cocked his head to the side and watched Raz's reaction."Maybe we should just do it?" He proposed. "I don't think he knows what we're asking."
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"Sure, lets do it, I'll go run the bath"
Richard walks towards the bathroom and runs some hot water
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((TRIGGERED!!))
Raz heard Richard clearly and he started to slink away with fear in his eyes, but then exhaust hit him and he fell and to his best efforts, he was unable to get back up, but he was making a lot of loud distressed noises.
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"That's the word! The word!" Blue called after Richard as Raz began his breakdown. He rushed over to the distressed reptile and tried to comfort him.
"Raz. Raz! Look at me! It's okay! Remember what we talked about? Take it easy, alright?"
He turned to call down the hallway to Richard.
"Come explain to him that he has nothing to worry about??"
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Raz's eyes went wide and he tried to get up again, but had no progress as Blue came to his side
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Ray, Jayce and Ronnie, after a brief badinage, set out to find Ray's office, from which they would stage the hunt for the bounty.
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"Oops"
The bath was running
"Raz! Come here, it's lovely!!"
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Raz still had fear on his face from before but when he heard Richard, he started to make an effort to get to him; managing to stand up barely and walk too, stumbling along the way.
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Richard held his arms out to Raz
"Come on! It's great!"
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Raz looked at the bath and then to Richard, still feeling very cautious about this, but he did climb into Richard's hands
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Richard placed him into the bath he made sure It was just the right temperature
"Feeling better?"
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Raz looked down at the water as he was placed down into it and when he was sat down in it he gave a shudder and didn't move at all as he didn't know what to do
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"It's alright!, just sit there"
Richard grabs a sponge from the floor and gets ready to scrub Raz with it
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Blue listened to Richard's echoes off the tiled bathroom walls down the hall.
"This job also pays for babysitting, too, I hope..." Blue said to himself, rolling his eyes. Sure, he liked the kid. He seemed very kind... but Blue wasn't anywhere close to being 'adopted father of the year.' He just wanted to see the kid better again... and in a proper home. No one deserved that more than him.
The doorbell rang. Pizza.
He went to pay for it, tipping handsomely with what little cash he had left in his pocket.
He thanked the delivery guy as he went on his way and put the pizzas down on the table in the dining room.
"Soups on!" He announced as he sauntered back to the living room to collect the aforementioned safe-money.
He tugged the magnetically attached portrait-oriented painting of a tree from the wall and turned the dial to the specified code and smiled at the final 'click' when the safe automatically swung open, revealing a neat bundle of cash at the center.
"Nice," he commented.
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Richard scrubbed Raz and left him to soak for a minute
"Is the pizza guy here? And more importantly, did you tip?"
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Raz lowered his head when the sponge was brought closer to him, and when he would be cleaned off, his scales, be it there were still scars, had an ebony shine to them.
The water had dead scales in it and was fairly dark from how much dirt and grime was on him.
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"Right, I think we should shower instead..."
Richard pulled the plug out of the bath after noticing how dirty it'd got and pulled forward the shower head
"It'll clean you really well! You'll feel great"
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Raz looked at the tube for the showerhead and he started to back away from it, trying to climb out of the bath, but the side was too high and slippery for him to climb out.
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"Come on! It's fine!"
Richard turned on the shower and sprayed it at his own face
"See? It's safe"
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Raz stopped for a moment and looked at the tube horrified, not paying attention to Richard.
His body was shaking from fear
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"What's wrong?" Richard turns off the shower and puts the shower head away
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"Richard, please," he said coolly. "I'm a Runner. I know better than anyone else how it feels not to get tipped. Yes. And generously."
He pocketed the cash from the safe and closed it back up to exactly the way it was. He strode into the kitchen and pulled a couple plates from the cabinet. He filled each of the three plates up with a slice from each of the two pizzas, and set them at the table. At one of the chairs, he piled up cushions so Raz could reach.
When all was done, we decided it might be a good idea to go and check on Richard and Raz in the bathroom to see how things were going. He hadn't heard much noise, so hopefully all was well. He leaned against the doorway, rapping his knuckles against it as he watched the comedic spectacle.
"Knock knock," he joked with a smile.
"Wow. Raz looks like a completely different dragon already!"
Blue noticed his terrified shivering, and his smile faded.
"Maybe a we should stick with just B-A-T-H-S for now," he said, spelling out the word.
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Richard looks up at Blue
"Mmm, you're right, I guess we can leave it till later"
He looks to Raz "pizza?"
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Raz was still breathing quickly and shivering, but when he heard Richard, he scrambled for him, latching onto his hands with his claws, unintentionally digging in a few of his claws into Richard
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Richard picked Raz out of the bath, trying to ignore the pain, he set him down on the floor and dried him with a towel
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Raz wrapped himself in the towel as the air outside of the water was cold
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Blue's ears fell as his mind wandered into a frightening thought.
"Richard? If you got a bounty on you, then is it wise to hang out at one of your old residences? Wouldn't that be the first place they look?" :|
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"Nah, this is an old place, and I mean OLD, old, back when I was just a lookout, nobody knows I lived here"
He takes a quick glance at Blue's legs
"But... Where did you get those legs put on?"
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"Aug Center North. Upper City. Doctor by the name of... gah, I can't remember his name. That... part of my life is still just a blur," he scratched at his arm uncomfortably and shuffled back a little.
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"Hmmm, was it one of those government ones?"
He asked picking up Raz and moving to the living room
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Raz brought his tail around and wrapped it around Richard and he nuzzled into him
((Gonna be afk playing a game for a while, so just drag me along for now))
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(Gotcha. It's been nice! Later, Raz!)
Blue looked up at Richard and followed.
It was. He bit his lip.
"Something tells me that's bad... isn't it?..."
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(Seeya Raz!)
"Yeah, they put trackers In them, but it's nothing I can't sniff out, they're pretty obvious"
Richard moves a table up
"Put up your left leg, it's always the left" he said, patting the table
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Blue lifts his left leg up onto the table with ease.
"I trust you know what you're doing. This is so going to void my warranty," he laughed.
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Richard goes silent as he pulls some pliers out of his coat
"Hmmm, here here... Here."
He pulls out a small round looking object "found it!"
He drops it and stomps it
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"Well that's a bit of a relief for me... and for you, too, I'm sure. The sudden loss of signal won't cause suspicion?"
('fraid I gotta go for awhile too. Later, Rick!)
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"So many people have prosthetics nowadays, they won't notice just one going missing"
He takes a bite out of one of the pizzas
(Bye!!)
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Raz's nose wandered up to the table and then to the box and he started for it, pressing it towards the end of the table to try and get into the box.
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Richard sighed, picking Raz up and putting him next to a plate of pizza
"That's yours, If you finish, you can have more"
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Raz let out a squeak as he was grabbed and sat down, but he was fine with the pizza on the plate and as he inhaled the smell, he licked his lips and started to eat the food very messily since he had no actual table manners
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Richard smiled as Raz ate, he sat back in his seat and cracked his neck to the side
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Blue threw his other leg up onto the table and kicked back as he finished off his slices.
"You know" he said with his cheeks full of pizza, "last night when I said we should blow some stuff up today, I was actually kidding. But I did get some goodies that I don't know what to do with. Some wiseguy thought it would be a good tip to throw in a few 'fireworks' when I gave him his package. Said he appreciated my speedy delivery. But I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with these things. It looked like a couple flashbangs, a roadflare or two, and I think an EMP. Any ideas?"
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Richard looked over at Blue
"No idea, when I end up with stuff like that I just end up stashing it away, or throwing it through a police station window"
Richard reaches out of the couch and brings out a tray full of grenades, ammo clips and compact rockets
"People, mainly bounty hunters carry all this crap but never use them, and it's a shame because they're quite difficult to get hold of nowadays, and it would be really cool to see them go off"
Richard looks like he's had a fantastic idea
"How about after picking out a gun or two for you we head out to the scrapyard a few miles into nowhere and blow some decommissioned drones to bits?"
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Blue perked up. This sounded like an excellent idea! "Perfect!" He piped "And as for the goodies I mentioned, I think I'll hold onto them for awhile. Never know, right? So, anyway, where can we pick up a gun? While I do know the city's layout like the back of my paw, that doesn't mean I know every single detail. I only know of a couple gun places, and they're heavily monitored by guys with even bigger guns."
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Raz had finished his pizza and was moving back to the box to get more pieces while the others were distracted.
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Rick smirked at Blue and Raz
"We're not coming to him, he's coming to us! He'll be here in a couple of hours, and he's bringing all his best stock. That is, including some non-lethal"
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Blue chuckled as he folded his paws behind his head.
"I think I'm starting to like you, Richard."
LTL - that is, 'Less-Than-Lethal' - weapons would be perfect. They would be enough to stop anything coming after them without actually killing anything. Blue had seen enough violence throughout the city, no matter where he went. He was sick of it, and not only sick of the thought of violence, but sick of the whole idea of taking someone's life for something so trivial, which is how it usually was. It just wasn't worth it. Never was, never will be.
"You have a lot of connections in either high or low places," he observed. "Perhaps both."
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Richard chuckled and leant back in his seat
"Maybe we should get you some pepper spray, seems like your sort of weapon"
He giggled more, pulling some pills out of his pocket and shaking them to see how many were left
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Blue did a sassy hip wiggle and flicked his wrist. "Ya think so?~" He laughed. "Really, though, pepper spay won't do much when your attacker has augmented eyes or sunglasses. I've thought about it, yes, but I never seriously considered it. Over the years, it's lost virtually all of its practicality."
He chuckled again. "Pepper spray," he repeated. "I will admit, though, I wouldn't have thought you were the type of fur who would fight with yo-yo's and frisbees," he eyed Richard, awaiting his reaction.
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Richard laughed
"Back where I was born, in this big, indoor slave farm you were allowed small toys like yo-yo's, so I practiced for years, used it to disarm a guard, about four of us escaped and started a gang"
He sighed
"I remember when we used to have none of those driverless taxi's, I used to wait outside the airport and offer a really good price to tourists, I'd get their luggage and drive away from them to where the gang members were"
He put on a half smile
"It's ironic, I'm the only one who didn't use a gun, and yet when they came for us, I was the only one who wasn't caught, despite being wanted the most"
He cracks his neck to the side
"And that's why I don't use a gun... I got carried away"
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Ray and Jayce sat in a small smoking room, talking over what brought Jayce to the city.
"I assume you're here for the bounty," Ray chuckled, "money's about the only thing that motivates you now."
Jayce cackled. "Of course, what else do we work for? But, that aside, where is the mark?"
At this, Ray hung his head. "I've been scanning all incoming and outgoing data in the city, I can't pinpoint him, but I've got at least four possibilities."
Jayce's face contorted into a wicked grin. "Then we find the four, and eliminate the false positives." He stood, and started for the door. Ray, though not thrilled by the idea, followed along.
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Blue raises his eyebrows, "Impressive and smart. I've gotta give you that much at least."
He knew not to pester Richard any further about his bounty, despite all the leads he'd hinted at, so he reverted subjects.
"This weapons guy... you known him long?"
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He chuckled
"He used to supply the members of my old gang, and I heard he's made quite some progress in the industry"
He swallowed two of the pills he pulled out
"Ahh, that's so much better,"
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Ray, now wearing a long-trench coat, a wide-brimmed hat and keeping his head down, made his way to the first target. He wasn't going to kill them himself, simply marking them for Jayce and Ronnie to engage. The first target was a business owner, selling firearms. Ray stepped in the store, and pretended to shop about.
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Blue nods and is about to say something, but a knock at the door stops him.
"That must be your guy. Want me to get it?"
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Raz pushed the box over onto the ground and he fell with it, letting out a squeak in fear as he fell; his body made a dense thudding noise as it hit the ground, and small sniffles could be heard from him as he was about to cry as he had landed awkwardly with the box lid stuck on his horns.
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"Get that, will ya?"
Richard helps Raz get free from the box
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(Okaaayyy... I hope you can work with this XD )
Blue hops up and goes over to the front door. The small screen of the PeepHole system showed the lower half of a shady-looking bloke adjusting the tie to his gray suit with gloved paws. Beside him was a hefty-looking metal case. That must be him. But either something was wrong with the PeepHole, or-...
Blue slowly opened the door to meet a big - no huge - no... enormous brown bear sporting an eyepatch that failed to cover the grotesque furless scars that adorned half of his face. He had to hunch over beneath the awning so he wouldn't bump his head. Blue stood slack-jawed at his size.
The bear just stood there and looked the small fox over for a moment. "You're not exactly who I was expecting..." he grumbled, "unless he went through a very drastic blue period. Perhaps I have the wrong address."
He seemed to be expecting Richard. And with that distasteful comment about the color of his fur that had Blue gritting his teeth, the bear turned and began to lumber away like a floating mountain.
he tried to find the words, but was still taken aback. He glanced back at Richard, hoping for a little backup.
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"Hey! Hey Hank!" Richard says holding Raz, beckoning him to come in and patting the couch as if asking him to take a seat
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Name - 'Glasgow'
Species - Human
Appearance - This (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b3/ab/f2/b3abf2d6ac363bedd7fefabf43ce7328.jpg)
Weapons - G36C Assault Rifle and a Beretta M9
Quick Summary - Sent by a secret organization to eliminate cybernetic targets. Is not a good person at all.
(Is this okay? If you want me to change anything, tell me and I will. But I thought having a villain would be interesting)
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Soft footsteps could be heard from afar, Glasgow knelt down and spoke into his radio, his voice was raspy and cold, but a thick Scottish accent accompanied it "Target 88-91A possibly located... How do I proceed... Over.." He sat silently, nothing but his raspy quiet breath could be heard. The radio spoke back to him and he nodded, "Roger that.... Will proceeded with objective."
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Hank stood up straight and slowly turned back at the sound of Richard's voice. A small grin made its way across his face. "Well if it isn't little Rich." He squeezed past the doorway, lobbing along his huge metal case like it was nothing, and brushed past Blue, nearly knocking him over.
"Long time no see!" His voice made it difficult to tell his emotions. It was just so low and heavy and slow... like... well, like him, really. "You never seemed like the father-type to me. You settle down finally? Make it good with some sexy dragon babe?"
(I feel like you should take him over, Rick, since he's part of your past, kinda.)
(Personally, MetalGearStowe, I'm kinda glad you came along. We could use a villain right about now! ^_^ )
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Hank sits next to Richard and unfurls a huge, rolled up bag from his suitcase with many guns spread across it
"Shut up Hank" Richard laughs "you know I've never been interested in..."
"I hear ya" Hank replied, putting his paw down the center of the roll of guns, indicating left and right "Lethal, Non-lethal"
(Hi Stowe!)
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Glasgow stops and surveys the area. He saw the door open from afar and could see Hank enter the room.
"Target has been 100% found.... Multiple suspects... Orders?" Glasgow calmly asked.
The man behind the radio responds, "Eliminate the target no matter what, His bounty is too high. We cannot risk losing him. If necessary kill them all. Over.."
Glasgow stood up and quietly made his way to the door, he would sit next to it and listen.
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Blue, unaware of anything happening outside the confines of the house, invites himself over to the table and scans carefully over the gun buffet before picking up a sleek black pistol from the LTL side. He ejects the clip and pulls back the slide, measuring it up carefully. He toys with it a little more, then puts it back and picks up another LTL pistol. This one had scratches over it and seemed to have a lot of use. He returned it to the pile and picked up a third one: a compact, color-detailed chrome weapon that looked like it came straight out of a science-fiction film. It took him a moment, but he realized what he was holding in his hands. He'd heard about them before when he was delivering to the SEWT Labs. (That is, Site for Experimental Weapon Technology.) He was sure he'd heard something about the finished product never needing bullets because it would be able to regenerate its own: a compressed form of solid electricity, fired from the barrel at extremely high speeds. Extremely dangerous, but Less-Than-Lethal. From what he understood, it handled like the .22's that were part of the weapons ban in 2103. The way he held it, the gun felt like it was made for his paw.
"How in the hell did you get a hold of one of these?!" He asked Hank.
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Hank laughed "I have lots of friends in very high places, if I want something, it's mine" he paused "it will be expensive, but I will discount it for Ricky-boy"
Richard smiles "just gonna go to the toilet" he said as he walked Into the next room, placing Raz on the couch
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Glasgow quietly speaks into his radio, "All of the suspects seemed to be armed... I heard talks of experimental weapons." The radio operator responds, "Proceed with the mission. is their a way into the back?" Glasgow quietly moves around the house, he notices a window and quietly unlocks into.
He hops into the building with a soft pat. He scans the room... Too dark to see anything. He turns night vision on and views the room... It's a bedroom, he slowly makes his way to the door and presses his ear to it, trying to listen.
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As Blue watched Richard leave, he couldn't shake the fact that there was something he seemed to be saying in his undertone.
For our sake, I hope the bathroom really is where he's going. If not... well... I sure a hell hope he knows what he's doing. Ticking this guy off is the last thing I'd want to do. No tricks, Richard, he hoped silently.
Blue sat awkwardly in a chair and toyed with the gun some more, trying not to make it awkward between him and Hank since they were the only ones there - aside from Raz, of course.
"So... when you say 'expensive,' how many zeroes are we talking here?" He asked, not looking up.
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Hank looked at the gun
"I will give you a trial period of one week, and at the end, if you are satisfied with your product, you will pay 100,000"
The bear scratches the back of his head, and rolls up the roll of guns
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Glasgow hearing no one behind the door walking or moving, opens the door slightly peaking his head out. He hears the bear and the Fox talking and on a couch sat a small child.
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"A 'trial period'?" Blue smiled. "That's very kind of you, Repo man."
Blue aimed the gun at the wall and looked down the sights. He finger slips, and he pulls the trigger by accident. A flash of blue lightning, and not much more than a 'blep,' and the wall bore a burn mark and a messy crack where the 'bullet' tore through.
He froze for a moment and looked over at Hank with his eyes. "Don't tell Richard," he murmured lowly as he folded his ears back.
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Glasgow jolted back and quickly shut the door. He whispered over the radio, "Confirmed the suspects are armed, they just fired." The operator responded, "Proceed with caution. If you can take the target out quietly."
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Hank laughed "I will not tell Rick, but yes, it does have power"
He looks around to the toilet
"What are you to Richard? You work for him? because I find he can be a little... Dangerous"
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"Well, I'm his-"
Blue perks his ears as he hears a door close.
"Runner," he finishes his sentence softly.
"Richard? Back already?"
He waited for a reply, but none came.
Maybe not... except... wasn't Richard down the other hallway?...
"Rich?" He called out again.
Nothing.
Something doesn't feel right.
He stood up and began walking towards the bathroom. He swipes out his phone and begins dialing Richard. He keeps his ears perked as it rings.
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Richard picks up the phone "What? I'm in the toilet, I'll be back in a second"
He pauses "Are you missing me in there" he giggles
Hank loads a clip into his gun and puts it away
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Blue scoffs into the receiver. "Very funny. I'm just... I think I heard a door close," he whispers. "Am I being paranoid, or do you think-?"
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Glasgow un-holsters his pistol and pulls the slide back. He breaths heavily and stands up, aiming the pistol at the door. He knows he heard him. And he's prepared.
"Targets may be aware of my presence..." Glasgow whispers.
"Kill them." The operator responds.
Glasgow nods and replies, "Understood."
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"Ah, I don't know, I can't hear anything in here, give me a second" the phone hangs up as Hank sits back on the couch, toying with a pistol
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Blue hurried as quietly as he could back to the living room.
"I may be just another paranoid @$$#ole, but think there's someone in the house right now," he whispers to Hank.
He offs his backpack and carefully sets Raz down inside, this time leaving the top flipped open to give the little dragon a bit more room. He shoulders the bag and backs into the hallway that leads back to the bathroom. He peers down the other hallway as best as he can from such a distance. It looked so dark, but he stared nonetheless. He held the pistol firmly in his grasp. His tail twitched nervously.
Please be nothing, he wished hard. Please be nothing....
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The door quietly opened... Loud foot steps could be heard exiting the room, slowly the glow of two green eyes could be seen... Like night vision.... They vanished and like that it was silent.
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Hank kept toying with the gun, Richard was still in the toilet
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Blue backed even further into the shadows of the hallway. He breathed heavily, but silently. His heart was going crazy. He felt like he was being watched. He couldn't fathom why Hank wasn't budging from the comfort of the couch, but that didn't matter too much to him at the moment.
For an instant, Blue thought he saw a flash of light from the doorway down the hall. Were his eyes playing tricks on him? He wasn't sure he wanted to find out, but better safe than sorry. He pulled out his phone, tapped on the light, and pointed it down the hall.
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Hank had organized four pistols, all fully loaded onto the table
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The figure of a man could be seen standing staring. His uniform (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b3/ab/f2/b3abf2d6ac363bedd7fefabf43ce7328.jpg) was clean and had zero spots, like dust in the wind.. He vanished... Large red particles appeared were he last stood. And the sounds of footsteps grew closer..
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"$#!t, THEY'RE HERE!" Blue yelled as he dropped the light and nearly lost his balance from shock at the sight of the man. He pulled his gun up and fired a few rounds at the red dust where the man had been standing. Where did he go?? Is he cloaked?!
"Richard, where the hell are you?? How long does it take to $#!t?!"
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Richard took a step out of the toilet and stretched.
"Where did Blue go, Hank?" Richard asked
Hank pointed to the door to the hallway, which Richard promptly went through with a wheel of fortune in hand
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Glasgow could be heard laughing, it seemed to come from all directions.
"You're interfering with very important stuff. Why don't you move aside and let me speak to your friend?"
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"Who do you think you are?? You think you can just waltz in here without so much as knocking, you're dead wrong." His back to the wall, Blue swung the gun around to wherever the voice seemed to come from, ready to squeeze off a few more rounds whenever the mysterious man reappeared.
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The voice stopped.... It was quiet...
"Aye... I forgot about my manners...." Glasgow responded.
He went silent then he responded again.
"You're lucky, HQ is telling me to pull-out. I'll meet you again... Blue." Then it went silent again
(I gotta sleep. Night yall!)
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Richard put his paw on Blue's shoulder "This never happens, I swear"
(Night Stowe)
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(A'ight! Night, Stowe! Was fun ^_^ )
Even as the silence fell again, Blue was still on edge, suspicious of such a cold exit.
He called me by my name. My name! Just who the heck is this guy?? And what kind of tech was that?! Where do you get stuff like that?! And why was he after Richard?! Agh!
The gun nearly flew out of his paws at Richard's touch.
"Geez! Warn me!" He panted. "Did you see any of that?!" He lifted his paw to where the man was, then dropped it at his side. "Frackin' disappeared!"
(Also gonna go. Later!)
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Richard sighed "listen, we're fine, we just have to be ready for next time" he pocketed the wheel of fortune
(Seeya)
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Raz was still rubbing his head and he wasn't making eye contact with the bear as he was slightly scared of him.
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"'Fine'?! That guy was here to kill someone! Maybe you! Maybe me! I don't know! How can you say that's 'fine'?? I live here now, and I'm not even safe in my own home! You're acting like this is an everyday event!" He paused. "You know what, I need a moment." He waved his paw and turned to leave. He went to the room he'd slept in only a few hours before. He'd probably get a little time alone in there to comprehend what just happened.
Bloodstained tangled sheets and an open window were what greeted him. That must have been how he got in.
He went over to the window and leaned on the sill. It was still dark out, but it smelled of morning. Cold air gently washed over his face. He sighed heavily as he shook his head.
"I knew this job would be dangerous. Why in the world did I take it?" He asked, seemingly to no-one in particular. "I have a better place to live now, but at least in my old place there weren't super soldiers trying to hunt me down. What the hell am I doing, Raz?"
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Hank left while the two were in the hallway mysteriously, Richard sat on the couch, staring at the wall trying to remember why somebody would come after him
His bounty, oh yeah
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Raz had hid again when things started to get heated between the two, fearing that one of them might lash out and accidentally hurt him.
Raz was shaking underneath the couch in the living room.
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Blue scratched his ears and sighed. "I guess I'm alone on this, too, then."
I may as well get over it, he thought. I've been on my own for longer than I care to admit. I'll just have to keep moving forward like I always have.
"Window," Blue told the AI, and the glass panel slid closed.
He turned around and headed back to the living room. Without a glance at either Raz or Richard, he plopped onto the couch.
"What now, boss?"
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The couch bent slightly under Blue and Raz let out a squeak when he was squished beneath Blue
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Blue jumped up in surprise.
"Oh! I'm sorry, Raz. Didn't see you there. You can come on out. I think we're okay now."
Blue sat back down, but on a cushion that wasn't hiding a surprise dragon.
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Richard looked over at Blue
"Listen... I have a place we can go to, nobody will know, If you want we can go there for a couple of days"
He smirked "it's pretty peaceful, and we can stay for as long as you like"
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Glasgow was far from the house. He stood in the darkness, his raspy breath was the only thing giving away his position.
His coms went off, "All J-Squad members report to rendezvous point Alpha. OSL out."
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As Ray stood in the gun store, he stealthily marked the owner's head and waited patiently.
From the roof-top of Ray's office, Jayce had set up one of their more experimental weapon. After receiving the target lock, Jayce fired the weapon. It sounded something akin to thunder.
The gun store owner turned to face the window, looking for a storm, and was almost immediately struck with some sort of tiny drill. He died quietly, and no-one could ascertain where the shot came from. Ray, his job complete, calmly stepped out of the store. He whispered into the radio inlayed in his coat's collar. "Target down, three to go."
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Glasgow heard what sounded like thunder crack across the sky. He stood silently, until he heard the sound of a helicopter land. Multiple soldiers could be seen jumping in the heli. Glasgow followed along into the helicopter.
The grey and black helicopter floated up into the sky then shored away, on the side was a symbol... A black circle with a red eye. Under the symbol was the words "United Corporation"
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Felicity had decided to do some snooping around for something at all since business was slow and she had happened to come across a gun store and Ray standing in front of it, but she just kept her cloak over her head, but any energy sensing equipment would easily sense her and short out, and before that'd happen, the device would sense a synth body that's unregistered.
Felicity looked back in a second at Ray, slightly intrigued, but kept walking.
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Raz had crawled out from under the couch and he had climbed up onto the couch and had sat on it, curling up, but still shaking from what had happened earlier.
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Blue nodded at Richard, not even needing to give it much thought.
"I won't protest a safe place to sleep. We need to think about Raz, too. If we're going to hold onto him, we really need to keep him safe."
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"Great! Shall we leave now? I'll get a cab"
Richard gestures to his phone, predictably to call a cab
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Ray, as Felicity passed, got a ping on a synth, and winced as his implant shut down to keep it from shorting out. He reached out to Felicity, gently tapping her shoulder. "E-Excuse me?"
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She turned around to Ray, "Hm? Yes?"
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"I think one of my implants just shorted out, c-could you potentially help me get to a hospital?" Ray patted his pockets. "I-I'll pay you for your troubles."
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Felicity looked at Ray and then the money and nodded, "Sure! I would've helped anyway... even without the money...", she the put a hand on Ray's back and a very very soft sound of augments whirring in the synths body began to softy sound as she moved her body. Felicity put one of Ray's arms over her and weirdly enough her body wasn't cold like any other synthetic robots... it was warm and a slight beating could be felt in her, "Ready to go?"
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"Right now?" Blue asked Richard, surprised. "Weren't we going to take Raz to the doctor? And it's still so early-"
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Ray nodded. "Y-Yeah. Sorry for any inconvenience."
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Richard put his head down "Ugh"
"Whatever happened to the simple life where you could have fun and jobs weren't poking up all the time"
He set his leg up on a table and pulled up his trouser leg , revealing a fattened, diseased leg hooked up to a small, attatched IV drip
"This hurts, this hurts 24/7, you know what, let's go to hospital, get it replaced with a metal one, life is short. And we can get the kid fixed up, we can get him nice and healthy and..."
Richard hits his head against the wall in a fit of hassle, confusion and annoyance
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Ray nodded. "Y-Yeah. Sorry for any inconvenience."
Felicity started to walk, "Hello... I'm Felicity, Private Detective... And who are you?"
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"I'm Ray." The raccoon smiled weakly. "Just a no-named vagrant, tryin' to squeeze by."
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Felicity rounded the corner with Ray and brought him to the steps of the hospital, "Well, it was nice meeting you... but I can't follow in... they don't like me all that much in there...", Felicity then helped prop Ray against a bike rack before starting to turn around.
Suddenly out of an alleyway, a scruffy looking Labrador pulls a gun on Felicity and he muttered something before shooting. Once the shot rang off, turrets came online and opened fire on the shooter with disintegrating rounds, and only leaving a pile of ashes.
Felicity was hunched over, and on the ground were drips of a mercury/blood mixture, and as she noticed this, she looked back at Ray with a chunk of her face missing from the shot, and as she did, she fled into the alleyway, with bits of her synth body dropping off, leaving only a glowing core where she was sheltered and the skeleton of the synth.
She had found a cover in the alleyway a somewhat far distance from Ray, and was huddled up in a ball.
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Blue's eyes widened in surprise.
What happened to him? An old neglected wound??
"Richard, you okay, man? Come on, I'll call a cab. You can rest on the way there. I'll get Raz."
He picked up his phone and asked for a cab to swing by their current location.
"Shouldn't be long. I know it's not my place to say, but you need to relax."
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Rick sighed and tried to relax
"It's a disease, I've had it since birth, but it's come up recently"
He sat down, following his advice
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Ray blinked, as all that happened in front of him. "H-Hey! W-Wait...what just happened?" He shook his head. Did I just see here take a headshot and walk away? Ray shook his head, and staggered into the hospital. "I must be dreaming."
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"It looks... painful," Blue commented at Richard's leg.
He stood at the abrupt honking of a car horn outside.
"Come on. Let's get going. He probably wont wait long," he said as he picked up Raz and held him over his shoulder.
He held out his other paw for Richard to help him up, then walked out the front door to the taxi and hopped in the back.
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Raz let out a whine when he was put on Blue's shoulder as there seemed to be something possibly broken in his underside.
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Richard sighed as he followed, coming out of the front door and opening the door of the cab for Blue and Raz
"After you"
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Ray left the hospital fairly quickly, and found himself now inclined to find the woman that took a headshot. He followed the trail of mercury/blood, cautious about what he was going to face.
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Felicity was trying to repair the synth with her own nanobots, but she wasn't getting anywhere, and if she were to get out of the synth now, it'd be really bad for her as her body emits a lot of light.
Felicity strained a groan, "Nnnnnn... Ahh... dammit... it's not working!"
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Blue dips his head respectfully at Richard's kind gesture.
"Aug Center West, please," he told the driver. "And take South Riverton Avenue. It's quicker."
The driver nodded and began his route as soon as Richard was seated.
He sat Raz down in the seat beside him, noticing his signs of pain.
"Soon, Raz. Just a little longer. They do more than just augmentations. They'll fix you up good as new."
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Richard yawned and climbed into the cab, he leaned back stretching his neck and shuffled through his coat pockets, a bad habit of his
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Raz continued to groan from the pain.
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Richard looked over at Raz
"Hey there, you doing okay?"
He stopped digging through his pockets as he was distracted
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The cab hit an irregularity in the road and made it rise and fall quickly, causing Raz to softly slam onto the seat, and thus causing him to let out a cry and role to his side and put his forearms across his belly
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Richard, seeing this kicked the seat of the cab driver hard, with his good leg "Watch it!"
He focussed back on Raz
"Are you alright?" He said stroking him
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Raz shook his head and started to cry softly
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"Shh, we'll all be fine soon"
Richard lightly stroked Raz
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Raz continued to cry, but his cries were softer
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Richard smirked, which then turned to a dead expression
"Stop crying, something good is coming up"
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Raz did stop crying, but small whines were heard from him periodically.
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Ray heard someone in distress, and quickly made his way to Felicity. He stopped around the corner, and after a few moments of confusion, he finally called out. "Felicity? It's Ray. You alright?"
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Felicity perked up and when she did, the sound of clanking metal could be heard, "S-stay back!", when she spoke her voice box seemed to he damaged, so her pitch of voice kept fluctuating
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The cab pulls up to the front doors of the Aug Center. Blue pays the driver, giving him a laughable tip for his poor driving, then he pushes the cab door open. He goes around and opens Richards door out of respect.
He perks his ears and looks in the direction of sounds that seem like there's an ongoing squabble or something. Coming from the... alleyway? He shrugged it off. Typical for this city. Nothing he wasn't used to by now. Probably something illegal.
The grand Western Aug Center West stood about twelve stories of tall, wrapped in one solid, perfectly sheet of bulletproof glass, which hugged the building's elegant curves. A wide, elegant awning stretched out from the top of the first floor, covering a tiled walkway. Arching over the top of the awning was the hospital's ornate, post-modern logo. The building itself wasn't so tall compared to the others surrounding it, but with its overall impressiveness, it certainly stood out among the gray clusters of other buildings.
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Ray rounded the corner, slowly. "Look, I don't care what or who you are, I just want to help."
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Richard looked at the Aug Center, looking at it with a mix of confusion and excitement. He got out of the cab as Blue had opened the door
"Cheers"
He said, carrying Raz
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Raz had seemed to have gone limp in Rick's arms, he was still breathing, but very slightly.
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Felicity looked down and nodded, "F-fine... then come here...", and then all of a sudden the body itself said something, "BODY 314-Z6D HAS BEEN DAMAGED. EJECTING ANY AND ALL DATA NOW", Felicity simply said, "What?", before herself was ejected from the synth body, and her nanobots/natural body got shot at the opposite wall, splattering her on it before she slid down it and collected on the ground. Her physical form was really small, about the size of a lab puppy. She started looking around frantically as she felt rain moving it, "No no no nono! ".
If Ray was familiar with past criminals and synths, or if he typed that in, then he'd see a string of crimes and a bounty on that body.
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Ray blinked, he was very taken aback. "W-Wait. A synth with a physical AI?" He shook his head. "Curious notion. You still want my help?"
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Suddenly a downpour started and Felicity was holding her head and body close to the ground as it was slowly becoming smaller and she quickly nodded, "P-please! This hurts so much!!", sizzling noises could be heard coming from her as the rain went on her
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Ray quickly held his coat over Felicity. "Here you go."
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Felicity was shivering from the pain that she had experienced, "Th-thank you... p-please... I need some form of electricity.... it's how I'm able to keep my form... normally I can siphon off of multiple things, but I am too weak to... I think there's a generator in that aug hospital...", Felicity didn't like that idea since that place was formally an AI manufacturing facility, "I'll also need you to keep me hidden... some people in there may become hostile if they see me..."
The nanobots on Felicity's body were pulsing and trying to move Felicity towards Ray as they were reacting to the concrete becoming wet and with the like mind of Felicity, they wanted out of the water as quick as possible.
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Blue stepped through the automatic doors into the lobby and looked around. Looked even more impressive inside than it did outside.
Balconies from all the other floors could be seen from standing at the center of the room; they rippled up to the very top of the building. The whole place was lit up with softly-glowing white lights. Mirrors and highly-polished floors made the place seem even larger than it already was.
He walked up to one of the receptionists - a winged leopard. "I need to see a doctor"
"Oh, of course," she glanced down at his two augmented limbs. "They not functioning right? The rain will sometimes cause them feel a little strange, but it usually wears off after-"
"No, no," he interrupted. "I'm fine. My friends." He pointed to Richard who were just beginning to make his way inside with Raz.
"Oh, dear. What seems to be the trouble? Is it serious?"
"He needs a new leg. Kid need some serious work. Neighbor's dog got loose." Blue fiddles with his fingers at what may or may not have been true, for all he knew.
The receptionist gasps in horror at the sight of the badly wounded dragon. "I'll call the doctors right away. I'll page for you when I find an opening for your friend. I'll have Heather here take your child down to the ER while you fill out the paperwork. We'll have them get to work right away!"
Blue turned to Richard."That alright with you, Rich?"
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In the helicopter....
If the group could hear, the sounds of a helicopter soared over head. Inside was Glasgow.
"Glasgow, we're putting you back in. Your equipment as you can see has been... Upgraded.. Take them out and get that bounty." The radio operator.
Glasgow smiled under his mask, "Copy that..." His new uniform (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/e/ea/Resident-Evil-Revelations-Announcement_hunk_121219.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130203030738) was much more fit for combat.
He near an old abandoned factory, Glasgow jumped out and pulled what seemed to be a small tablet out from his pocket.
The screen showed a few dots in the distance could be seen on the map shown on the screen. One was blinking red... Glasgow moved out towards the red dot
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Richard nodded, holding Raz close. "Thanks" he handed Raz to the doctor "Be safe" he sat down
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Ray nodded, and began to head towards the Aug Center.
Meanwhile...
Jayce was wandering the streets, while Ronnie was situated inside the hover-carrier designed for him. Jayce had noticed Ray fall off, and come back onto, their shared data-stream and moved to investigate.
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Even though it was a hospital, Blue still couldn't keep from worrying about Raz as Heather hurriedly carried him off in her arms. He picked up the papers the receptionist handed off to him and passed them to Richard as he sat at his side.
A helicopter could be heard, somewhere nearby. Sounds of the chopper's blades echoed throughout the building. Blue, at the moment was too full of anxiety to even register the abnormal sounds climbing just barely louder than the normal sounds of the city.
He began to scratch at his arm. Despite how clean and organized everything appeared to be on the surface, Blue never did like hospitals - after the accident, especially. His throat tightened and his toes flexed without a thought. He was visibly uneasy. The longer he stayed, the worse it would become....
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Raz slowly woke up, but the internal bleeding and broken ribs were making it hard for him to stay awake better than he was, but as his vision focused, he started freaking out as he had left his new friends
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Standing outside of Blue's vision was a silhouette. It stood watching him. It was clear that no one else saw him. His raspy breath could be heard under his gas mask... And the warm of breath was felt on Blue's neck
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Richard poked Blue, noticing he looked unsettled
"You alright? You don't look great"
Richard could hear the raspy breathing, but was still focussed on Blue, he put the papers on his lap.
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Jayce stopped at the Aug Center, and stepped inside. He scanned the area, pausing for a few moments.
Ray stepped into the Aug Center with Felicity in tow, and was pleasantly surprised by his brother.
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Felicity noticed that they had stopped so with one of her claw tips, she gently pressed it against Ray to give him a small shock before speaking in a very weak voice, "Please... hurry...", which was quiet enough for Jayce to only hear it as ambient noise, but loud enough for Ray to heat it ad a strong whisper.
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Ray flinched, and glanced at Felicity before continuing. "No need for that," he whispered, "I'm helping you remember?" He continued for a few feet, before stopping. "Where to next?"
Jayce, spotting his brother, was about to speak when he noticed that Ray was helping someone, and left off. He instead turned his attention to Blue and Richard, immediately noticing that Richard matched one of the targets Ray had marked out.
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Raz was still struggling weakly in Heather ' grasp, and was making quite the ruckus, but he was too weak to successfully break free, and along all of this, Raz was desperately calling out for Richard and/or Blue for help, with tears falling down his face in fear.
Felicity wasn't doing too well either as her bright light she had emitted before was slowly fading to a humming glow, and with this, he head and body started to droop and if Ray were to hold her up, he body would be limp, but still solid.
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Blue tried to play off his intensifying discomfort of the hospital, but the place was beginning to get to him. He shivered and pawed at the back of his neck. It felt like someone was breathing down his neck, but that would be impossible, right? He'd never had it so bad before that he was hallucinating! He stood and started to head for the door.
"I'll just be outside if you need me. This place is messing with my head." He stepped through the doors and leaned back against the wall, tilting his head back and taking long deep breaths, trying to regain his composure.
Meanwhile, Heather pushed open the doors to Examination Room 2C and carefully set Raz on the table. "It's alright, sweetie, we'll get you all fixed up soon." She pulled up retractable cables from the sides and used them to hold his legs in place. By the time she'd done that, a wolf decked out with scrubs came in, snapping his second latex glove into place. He carried a clipboard and approached Raz cautiously. He knew how dragons could get sometimes, and he wanted to take extra steps of caution to make sure not to scare him any more than what he surely already was.
"Goodness," he said, jotting down scribbles onto the clipboard. "Heather, please tell Doctor Pristine to ready the necessary equipment for a class B patient."
"Right away, Doctor." And Heather stepped out to go find him.
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Raz hated this situation in all it's entirety as it had reminded him of his foster home and how they'd play 'doctor' with Raz and hit him with a multitude of items, so in short, Raz was panicking and he wanted to leave so bad. His eyes were wide with fear and always on the doctor, and constant whines and cries kept coming from Raz as he couldn't move.
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Doctor Pristine, a well-mannered Stork enters the room with Raz and the Wolf Doctor.
"Hello, Doctor," he said to the Wolf
"Good day, Doctor."
"The equipment is ready, Doctor."
"Excellent work, Doctor," said Wolf.
"Goodness, Doctor, why haven't you given this patient any anesthesia yet? He looks to be in a dreadful amount of pain!"
"Sorry, Doctor. Just finished with the paperwork."
"You are forgiven, Doctor," said Pristine as he approached Raz slowly. "Can you speak?" He asked Raz. "Can you understand me? Listen. We're here to help, okay? We want to heal you." Pristine uses his prehensile foot to sneak a packaged syringe from underneath the table while Raz is distracted, and he surreptitiously unwraps it. He holds out both wingtips for Raz to investigate, trying to show him that they mean no harm. He carefully slides the needle into Raz's side, skillfully avoiding any sensitive nerves from decades of practice. He would never even feel a thing. He sets the empty needle on the floor and continues his attempt to coax Raz into relaxing while the anesthesia takes effect.
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Richard sat bored in the waiting room, talking to his leg
"It's been a long run with you and me, we've done some crazy stuff together, but you're holding me back bro, I'm gonna have to cut you from the gang"
He pats his infected leg, ignoring the pain
"Sorry dude, it's for your own good"
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Doctor Pristine, a well-mannered Stork enters the room with Raz and the Wolf Doctor.
"Hello, Doctor," he said to the Wolf
"Good day, Doctor."
"The equipment is ready, Doctor."
"Excellent work, Doctor," said Wolf.
"Goodness, Doctor, why haven't you given this patient any anesthesia yet? He looks to be in a dreadful amount of pain!"
"Sorry, Doctor. Just finished with the paperwork."
"You are forgiven, Doctor," said Pristine as he approached Raz slowly. "Can you speak?" He asked Raz. "Can you understand me? Listen. We're here to help, okay? We want to heal you." Pristine uses his prehensile foot to sneak a packaged syringe from underneath the table while Raz is distracted, and he surreptitiously unwraps it. He holds out both wingtips for Raz to investigate, trying to show him that they mean no harm. He carefully slides the needle into Raz's side, skillfully avoiding any sensitive nerves from decades of practice. He would never even feel a thing. He sets the empty needle on the floor and continues his attempt to coax Raz into relaxing while the anesthesia takes effect.
Raz watched the two, able to understand them both fully, but he was more scared and paranoid as opposed to hurting... but he was still... once the needle was set down, Raz looked at it and then back to the doctor before setting his head down with tired and heavy eyes.
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(( I hate when I notice roleplays late. ._. Can anyone sum up what's happening?))
[dropped out because I missed too much, woops.]
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((Everyone, or those most active, are at the Augment Center. Ray and Jayce are inside, Ray his helping Felicity while Jayce is hunting bounties. Rick, Blue and Raz are inside as well, I believe Raz and Rick are going to have some form of surgery. Stowe's character, his name escapes me, is inside too, hunting Blue I think. Sorry if this is sloppily written, I just got home from work. Yay third shift Walmart.))
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Once Raz was unconscious, Dr. Pristine and Wolf wheeled the entire table out of the examination room into room 5g, where they would quickly and efficiently carry out the necessary procedures so that Raz could move and walk around again like normal. The equipment hummed and whirred around the sleeping dragon, and bright lights shone over him to light the doctor's way. The equipment showed the doctors whatever was ailing the patient right there on the projected hologram.
Dr. Pristine stood over Raz, balanced on one foot while the other, sanitized-and-gloved foot picked up his favorite tool of trade. Wolf stood at his side, assisting where necessary, passing off tools and acting as a second set of eyes for Pristine.
Like all Class B procedures, he would have to hurry before the anesthesia wore off. Nothing he wasn't used to, but it never got any easier. Time passed by in a blur. Wounds were sealed with an artificial skin, ribs were secured back into place, joints were properly saddled where they needed to be, and any damaged organs were treated and began to work like new, and the color in any bruised tissue began to fade into Raz's normal skin tone.
It was incredible how far modern medicine had come. Before long, Dr. Pristine might be out of a job because of how easy it was, but he tried not to think about that. He was almost done with his patient. Just a few minor injuries to fix up real quick, and he'd be ready to go - just in time for the anesthesia to begin wearing off.
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The receptionist at the desk called out and waved at Richard.
"I found an opening, Sir! Though, I'm sorry to say, once you get there, you'll have something more to fill out, I'm sure," she said with a smile. She reached out expectantly for the clipboard of paperwork she'd handed to him previously.
She nodded at the gentlemen, Jayce and Ray, walking through the door.
"If you want to take a seat, I'll be with you in just one moment!" She spoke in a nearly sing-songy tone.
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Jayce shook his head. "I'm here for a friend."
Ray said nothing, but instead jostled Felicity. "Where do I need to place you?" He was tempted to utilize his implant's internal battery as a sort of power shunt for the synth, but he wasn't quite sure how.
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The Receptionist didn't seem to realize how bothersome she was being for Ray and Felicity."Oh. Well, do you know where they are? We have many rooms and many patients in recovery. If you need any help finding someone, I'll be able to help you!"
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As Blue sat against the wall, the presence of another person could be felt right next to him. It wasn't Glasgow though, someone entirely different. He wore a long brown duster and had a paper boy hat on.
"Howdy." He said in a thick southern accent, his teeth were yellow and his skin was almost gray as the dead.
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Blue's blood ran cold as he jumped away from the unexpected presence.
He had no words. He just stood there, studying the man's unsettling appearance, until finally, he found his tongue.
"What do you want?" He growled, trying not to sound so spooked.
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The man was leaning against the wall, his hands tucked into his jacket. A large smile was stretched across his face. His smile turned into a frown, "Oh did I scare you? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you." He paused for a second then asked, "You're Blue right?"
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Blue eyed the man. This guy, too. The second person I ran into that knew my name. What do they want??
"What of it?" He spoke through he teeth.
He slipped his right paw casually into his jacket pocket. He gripped his pistol, but kept it concealed.
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The man pushed himself of the wall and stretched, "Yikes, you already have a lot on your hands from what I've seen... But you got one more thing to worry about." He pointed at the sky, a helicopter went soaring by and into the distance. "Them."
He began to pace around, "You remember that... Man you spotted in that house?" He said while pulling out a notebook.
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Blue cursed himself for not having registered the sound of the chopper before. It must be him - the man that broke into Richard's old house. He must be nearby. The problem was, though... he'd never even see him coming.
"Barely... before he played magician and went invisible."
Blue began to relax a little, but never took his eyes off Mr. Duster. In his head, that's what he would call the man. Geez. Maybe Dracula would work better. The last time he saw anyone that pale, he was watching some old vampire move on a DVD player.
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The man laughed, his hillbilly voice made it all the more amusing, "Man, you're **censor**. He knows what you look like now and... That baby that's upstairs." He scuffed, "That man's name was Glasgow, a special operative for the Union Corporation, nasty fellers they are." He spit some gunk out , "That man is not human, well... He's more mutant than human."
He looked up at the sky and sighed, "He was biologically improved for his job, while the world is **censor** with Machines and the shorts, the Union Corporation is **censor** with genetics and mutations."
He chuckled, "And Glasgow is their perfect creation, his invisibility thing wasn't apart of his mutation's thankfully. But in time... You'll see what he's capable of."
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Richard wasn't at the hospital anymore, it appeared he'd gone to the toilet, and just vanished,
The form however, was sat where Richard was, it was blank, save for where he should have written his name, but instead of a name it grimly read 'found you'
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Raz slowly woke up, but he quickly tried to sit up, looking around frantically as he wasn't familiar with what was there and as he spotted Dr.Pristine, he got scared and started pushing himself back off of the table into a table of used tools, and as he fell into them, and got stuck into his hip, a dirty scalpel, and Raz let out a cry, and continued to push back when he spotted more people trying to help him, but he only viewed this as hostility.
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Both Dr. Pristine and Wolf were trying their best to corner the small dragon so they could sedate him once again and properly restrain him. Both of the doctors were surprised at how quickly he managed to rouse from the effects of the anesthesia.
"It's alright," they said. "Take it easy." They began to close in on him as a nurse through the doors into the room upon hearing the ruckus the little Dragon had made.
"Is everything okay in here? Oh dear! The patient woke up early?!"
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Upon reading the paperwork for the Cat character that had come in with the Fox and the Dragon not too long ago, Receptionist Leslie scratched her head questioningly. All of it was ready to go, but the name he gave made her feel somewhat paranoid. 'Found You'? It felt like she was in the middle of some sick game. Was she being stalked? What had she done wrong? She didn't know. Maybe the 'name' wasn't even meant for her. She didn't know what to think about it. She passed it off to Heather, who had finally come back from taking the child off to treatment. She didn't mention the name. And without any exchange of words, Heather got to work, doing what she always does with those forms, copying and storing them in the database, like she was supposed to.
Leslie went back to her computer and sat in her cushioned chair. She sipped some of her thermos-coffee and started to check her work emails. That would probably help her clear her head.
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Blue shook his head as Dracula explained the situation. He was in denial.
"No... 'biologically improved...'? What does-? 'Mutations'?? So, what, he's some kind of experimental cyber assassin?! What could they possibly want with us that they would send someone like... like... that freak of nature after us?! And what does Raz have to do with anything?! He's just a kid! And before we turn the page, who the hell are you?? How do you know so much??"
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The man shock his head, "My name is of no concern to you. And how I know about all of this?" He smiled, his yellow teeth showing and his breath smelt of death, "You'll find it in due time." He put his hands in his pocket and walked away, "We will meet again... Just make sure you watch that baby."
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Both Dr. Pristine and Wolf were trying their best to corner the small dragon so they could sedate him once again and properly restrain him. Both of the doctors were surprised at how quickly he managed to rouse from the effects of the anesthesia.
"It's alright," they said. "Take it easy." They began to close in on him as a nurse through the doors into the room upon hearing the ruckus the little Dragon had made.
"Is everything okay in here? Oh dear! The patient woke up early?!"
Raz looked at the two and was getting extremely scared and with the shake of his legs, he soiled himself and along with the fear on his eyes, he had a small hue of red on his face from embarrassment. Raz's stone began to emit a high pitched ringing voice that would slowly grow deeper and bass boosted.
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In Raz's office, the sounds of the vents creaking and rattling quietly filled the room...
As the man walked away from Blue he turned towards Blue and yelled out, "Matter of fact, I suggest you get up there now."
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Blue began to panic from 'Dracula's warning. Raz was in trouble. And that invisi-bastard was after him. He had to get there - and fast! He rushed through the Aug Center doors in a panic.
"Rich, we gotta-"
He wasn't there.
Damn!
And the receptionist seemed to have left, too, for whatever reason.
Blue could clearly hear a disturbing sound echoing throughout the building. The vents made it sound even worse, he was sure. Raz could be anywhere! Where would he look?!
Paperwork! He thought. They probably have it written down somewhere!
He ran over to the empty receptionist desk and filed through the papers, not having searched long before pulling out a copy of Raz's admission file.
"Patient Class - B. Room 2B - Examination. Room 5G - Any Immediate A/B-Rated Operations. He's gotta be in 5G by now!"
He turned about to locate the stairs, running right by the elevator; that would take too long. Paws barely brushing over the handrail, he flew up flight after flight of stairs, nearing the 5th floor.
"Hold on, Raz," he murmured. "I'm coming!"
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The nurse that had just entered, quickly left in fear of the Dragon. The other two began to back away with a look of fear and confusion flooding their faces.
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Just as they all had backed away far enough, a kinetic blast rang out and warped all non organic material that wasn't touching living tissue , he'll, even the light being shone was bent, but from where Raz was, the vents around him were too bent and collapsed for normal entry.
The area around him had warped in a spherical manner, with the ceiling, walls closest, and floor warping in a perfect spherical shape (they're dented with a sphere shape.)
Raz soon passed out due to how much energy that made him use, his body still shaking from the fear.
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Ray, who had at this point brought Felicity to an open electrical socket, heard the kinetic discharge and dropped to a crouch, drawing a small bullpup rifle from his coat.
Jayce drew his pistol, and scanned about. "An explosion?" He sighed internally the bounty's probably getting away. Jayce then started up towards where the discharge came from, making a bee-line to Raz's location, as he gave commands to Ronnie. "Deploy in sentry mode, and prepare for contact.
Ronnie's drone dropped the massive bot, the hooks disconnecting with a solid 'kachunk'. The bot fell to street level, and quickly began menacing onlookers away, preparing to detain any and all that left the building.
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Felicity went to the socket and as she put a claw tip inside it her body pulsed with energy and for a short moment, the lights in the facility flickered, but Felicity didn't grow in size, "Thank you.... but as long as we're in here, I think I'll stay this size... do you have a cranial access port for your augments? If you do, I can unlock some locked abilities in them."
Raz was still passed out, but the blast had shorted all electronic doors and accessed hatches to the room, however, no fire was started, and any hostile creatures Raz thought were hostile were affected by the blast and thrown, however, no major injuries would occur... unless something else would've caused them.
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Richard was now on the roof, surrounded in a huge circle of bizarre weapons and tools, in his paws he shuffled a deck of tarot cards which were very, very old.
He hummed as he pulled one at random, knowing that somebody was here, and he wanted he and his friends heads.
He pulled the card 'Justice', giving out a small smirk, and then pulling out a lighter then burning the card, casting it aside.
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The vents continued to creak and moan, what sounded like whispers echoed through them.
Whatever was crawling it's way around was large. As large as a human perhaps.
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Richard pulled another card at random and threw it into one of the air vents on the roof
The card was 'Judgement'
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Ray shrugged. "Possibly? I don't know what all they did when I first got my impant. Feel free to look if you need to. And while you're there, see if you can get the address for one of my workshops. I'll get you a new body in no-time."
Jayce found the room Raz was in, and quickly breached the door. "Chest to floor! Now!" His weapon, a modified variant of a police incapacitation gun, tracked the head of each individual in the room. Though, unlike it's security counter-part, instead of firing stun-balls the weapon fired hollow-point .45 caliber bullet.
Ronnie deployed a few of the drones encased in his cargo bay. The drones, armed with tasers and 9 millimeter rounds, made their way to the rooftop. Spotting Richard, a synthesized voice barked out. "Do not move."
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Raz was still passed our, but all indications of that blast shown that it was from him.
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Felicity snaked her way up to a small plate with a logo on it and in an instant, he body started disappearing into it, then within Ray's mind he'd hear her, "There we go.... now... let's see what I can do in here..."
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Richard picked up two of the items he surrounded himself in and set down the tarot cards, he stared back at the drone calmly, leaning back and bending his legs slightly, holding the objects in his hands.
One of the objects had the 'wheel of fortune' tarot card stuck to it.
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Ray blinked, as the sensation of having someone else in his head hit him. "Just, don't dig too far into memories," he sighed, and added quietly, "there's things I'd rather forget."
The drones, picking up on Richard's movements, fired their tasers at him.
Jayce crept forward slowly, stepping over the errant doctor. He knelt down to Raz, and grunted. "A dragling? Hmm...," Jayce's eyes drifted to the door, before he gently picked up Raz, "I wonder..." The raccoon then started back out the door, his pistol held close enough to either engage someone ahead of him, or threaten the dragling if necessary.
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Raz stirred in his sleep as he was picked up, and as he opened his eyes his face went white with fear and he started to struggle, given it was a very weak struggle, but he was making a lot of noise
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Felicity looked around the files for Ray's augments, "Which augments do you have.... some of these files are empty..."
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Jayce hissed at the dragling. "Pipe down before I make you!"
Ronnie, after receiving Jayce's data transmission, prepared to escape with an explosive passenger. He then waited for Jayce and Raz to exit, possibly from the front.
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Raz stopped and looked wide eyed at Jayce before shaking for a second, and if Jayce was paying attention, then he'd notice that some liquid had fallen onto him. Raz continued to stare at Jayce in fear.
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Jayce smiled wickedly. "There's a good lad." He pulled open the elevator doors, revealing a lack of an elevator. He jumped to the hanging cables, and started sliding down. "Ronnie, you've got me plus one comin' in. We're leaving through the basement. Prep for...oh? Your already set. Good bot."
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Raz wasn't liking this one little bit, and he started to struggle again, flapping his wings this time, and to his amazement, they actually worked now, but he could feel that they were still weak, but his legs weren't.... he just needed to get out of Jayce's grasp and run!
As he struggled, he continued to make noises to try and call for help, and although he could not speak, his noises were in distress
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Jayce grunted, becoming impatient with the small dragon. "I'll shoot you as soon as I hit the ground if you keep this up." He squeezed the dragon tighter. "Feel me small man?"
Ray shrugged. "Uh...as far as I know a data scrubber and signal re-writer." He putt his rifle away and took a seat, feeling a little drowsy.
Inside Ray's head, the electronic output of his memories were as follows;
"Security Reboot" "Fabricated Memories" "Recorded Live Feeds" "Inner Thoughts" "dont_open_this"
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Raz continued to try and break loose, seemingly unable to.
Felicity went around Ray's augments and unlocked the final stage of each of them, amplifying each one of his augments, then as those loaded, she went to the folder that clearly said not to open, but she stopped herself and started to exit Ray's mind
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Richard had defeated the drone while Ray was distracted
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The lights in the room flickered and they eventually shut off. Red particles came floating from the floor, and what seemed to be a man manifested from thin air. His uniform (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b3/ab/f2/b3abf2d6ac363bedd7fefabf43ce7328.jpg) was clean and the gas mask on his face glowed red. He stood still, only his raspy breath could be heard.
He pointed at Jayce and quietly spoke, "Give me the child." His voice was raspy and rather eerie sounding
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Raz looked at the man and Raz ended up soiling himself again, or so he thought... poor kid was actually running dry on liquids, but it seemed as though his soulstone had regained enough energy again and that low and deep bass sound started to ring.
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The man started twitching, he put his hand against his ear and started groaning. He tried shacking it off but the bass kept getting louder and louder.
He pulled a pistol from his holster and pulled the slide back, "I'll say it again... Come to me."
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The bass grew louder and louder, becoming loud enough to crack a few windows nearby
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(felt like joining, here's my character.)
Name: Saki Oshiro
Alias: hitman 6
Species: Ghost in a shell Red fox (she is a soul built into Android body)
Abilities: Power over Light
[/size]Description: (probably looks like this (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14298995/))
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Jayce smirked, as he reached the basement. "Adorable, some sort of audio attack from the drawling," at this he quickly slid his paw to Raz's neck, squeezing slightly, "and some masked punk threatening me. I tell you what son, put your gun away before I snap his neck."
Ronnie adjusted his aim, his weapons pointed at Jayce's vague location. Though his weapons would have to chew through a bit of concrete and whatever else got in the way.
Ray shuttered as Felicity exited. "So? How was it?"
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Felicity went back under Ray's jacket and hid there, "It's all good... you shouldn't have any need for meds to keep the augs from degrading or being rejected..."
Raz's stone started to get louder as it sensed Raz being in danger, and then in an instant, a weaker kinetic blast was let out as his stone didn't have a proper set time to recharge fully
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The man went flying backwards into the wall, he landed with a hard thud and slammed against the floor. He lied there for a few seconds... Then for a minute... He was out cold now.
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Richard jumped into the air vent, hoping by luck he'd land in the room where Raz was
By chance, he did, his good luck sporting him again
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Jayce lost grip on the little dragon, growling as he stumbled to the side. "You little shit!" He brought his pistol up, pointed directly at the dragon. Instead of firing an actual bullet, a high-class tranquilizer struck Raz. Jayce then shouted. "Ronnie! Get me a way out, quick like!"
The immense power in Ronnie's arms alone allowed him to burrow his way to Jayce in a matter of moments. The bot's open maw served a well enough cage, as Jayce casually threw Raz inside. "Little bastard buggered my optic implant," Jayce grumbled as he started to climb up to Ronnie's crew seat.
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Ray nodded,smiling at Felicity. "If you want, I could build you a new body."
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Richard, realising he hadn't been spotted by Jayce snuck up behind the robot, he snuck up and pounced on its shoulder, activating one of his spinning wheels, it glowed green as it span at an intensely fast speed, about four times the speed of a helicopter.
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Raz fell to the group and as headed a move to run, he was shot with a tranq and when he was, he let out a cry before passing out and sliding a short distance across the floor.
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A sudden burst of electricity arched across Ronnie's entire body almost as soon as Jayce got inside. The big bot then started backing out of the tunnel he made.
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(where is all this happening? :? )
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Felicity kept close to Ray, "I'd like that a lot.... thank you..."
Raz was still out cold, from both the dart, but also the exhaustion his soulstone caused from that last blast, but he's still alive.
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Richard was electrocuted by the bot, and fell off
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Glasgow slowly pulled himself from the floor. He shook his head then looked over at Felicity. He began slowly walking towards her, "Give. Me. That. Child."
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Ray blinked, drew his rifle in a flourish, and brandished it at Glasgow. "Hold it!"
Ronnie started down the street, unaware that Rick had attempted boarding.
Jayce looked over to the containment cell holding Raz, and grinned evilly. "Got you now, little bastard. Should I stuff you and mount you to my wall, or...should we harness that kinetic discharge you like to use? Decisions decisions."
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He looked at Ray. Something wasn't right, he just stared. He continued walking forward. "Target located... Enemy is guarding him however"
The radio spoke back to him, "Kill them all and get that child."
Glasgow silently nodded and pulled out a knife from his belt, "Give me that little one."
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Felicity looked at Glasgow and then up at Ray, "Ray? What child? What's going on?"
Raz slowly started to wake up, but his whole body was sore, and he started making a constant weak whining noise.
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(**censor**.. I screwed up. I thought Felicity was Jayce...)
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((That's fine... I suppose she has strong hearing and could've heard it.
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Richard span up his wheel and begin to slowly cut into the back of Ronnie's leg, letting out a high pitched whirr. Sparks flew across the room and into Ray.
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((This is all happening around an Augment Center, Moka.)
Ronnie bellowed, and another set of drones flew from his back and fired on Richard. Jayce shouted into the microphone in front of him, his voice blaring through the speakers outside. "If you don't back off now pally, I'll kill the kid!" There was the obvious click-clack of a gun being armed, and Jayce spoke again. "I mean it!"
((Ronnie's out in the street, Rick))
Ray shook his head. "I don't know what child." He then shouted at Glasgow. "Stop right there and drop the knife! I don't know what you're on about, but if you're missing a kid, I can try to help."
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(Oops)
Richard charged Ray in an attempt to make the drones shoot him instead, he ran up and jumped to tackle him, getting shot in the shoulder in the process
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Raz slowly turned his head over to Rick and the most pittiful wag of a tail was given by him as his tail lightly padded the floor with each wag
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Saki stood on rooftop of one of the stores with a high powered sniper rifle (https://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com) slung over her back. Her mission was simple, hunt down the target Glasgow and put a bullet in his head. The client that put this hit on him had a personal vendetta against him and has payed for G.E.A.R to make sure he doesn't survive his next job.
Sierra has been hunting Glasgow for some time now as he was a difficult target to track, but as she followed her internal radar which had picked up on this current engagement low and behold he was there. Now she just had to finish the job.
Sierra laid herself in position on the roof and got her sniper ready to fire, taking aim down the scope right at Glasgow's head.
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Rick tried to pin Ray down, trying to stop him from shooting
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Felicity was slightly crushed under Rick and she crawled out and lunged at Rick, attempting to bite Rick and give him a tazer-like shock
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"Agh! Get-get off me!"
He said as he was bitten. He tried to kick Felicity off with his good leg
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Felicity made contact and he body lit up and she let out a hefty jolt of electricity into Rick, but as she did, she was kicked off... however, it was already too late.
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Richard was electrocuted and rolled off of Ray, he was reaching out to Raz as he passed out
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Raz saw the whole things as well as he could and he saw Rick hit the ground, and thus his eyes went wide and he made a noise, crying out to Rick in a 'Nooooo' or a 'Heeelllpp!!' manner.
Felicity fell back onto Ray and she took refuge under Ray's clothing.
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Richard had the tarot card 'The Sun' sticking out of his pocket facing Raz, he was however, still passed out
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Ray, realizing Jayce was leaving, threw a flashbang in front of himself before sprinting to Ronnie. He jumped onto the bot, and held on. "Hold tight, Felicity!"
Ronnie crouched low, as two sets of wheels extended from his feet. The bot started off down the street, moving at about the same speed as a standard sports-car.
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Blue had entered the room next to the one that Raz had been in by mistake, but once everything started to hit the fan, he'd just stayed there, taking cover. He felt entirely helpless. He couldn't get involved in something so ludicrous! He wasn't some trained soldier like the rest of them! He was a Runner! A courier! A mailman, dammit! What use would he be?? All he knew how to do was run! It had helped with every other situation he'd encountered up until the previous day. Now, it seemed that running would just put him into even more danger. He knew better than to get involved in the clusterf*ck in the next room, as it would mean certain death for him.
Blue cupped his paws over his ears and cringed with anxiety. He couldn't tell what was going on. But he did know that Richard was likely down, and Raz had been captured. So many unfamiliar voices had confused him.
He gritted his teeth and cursed himself for not being able to do anything to help them.
(sorry, guys! I ran out of internet for the month. I'm all caught up now, though. MAN some stuff is going down!!)
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Richard bled from his shoulder from where he had been shot, and if he wasn't woken or treated soon, he would lose too much blood
Unconscious movements reflected the pain he was in, he while asleep held his paw near the bullet wound.
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Felicity managed to gather enough strength to crawl out of Ray, and she started to go towards the unconscious Rick, concerned about him, "Ray? He's hurt! I'm going to help him!", Felicity moved towards the bullet wound, and she tried to move Rick's hand out of the way.
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From the room over, it sounded to Blue like things were dying down. Some small voice and a guy she called "Ray" were still in the room.
Blue found his legs and began quietly making his way over to the door before he stopped himself.
"Wait a minute," he said to himself. "'Ray'?? As in 'Ray Blackburn'?! The one Richard pointed out in the alley last night?! It can't be the same Ray, right?! And if it is, then... what do I do about it?..."
He drew his gun and stepped into the hall, glancing around at the marred walls. He didn't need someone to tell him a battle had taken place nearby. He cautiously cracked the door ajar, trying to see what was happening inside before entering. He hoped no one too dangerous was taking notice - especially Ray, if he was as bad as Richard said he was.
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(Since MetalGear hasn't responded to my post...i think i'm going to move on. What is going on?)
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(I'm honestly having a hard time keeping up, so, secretly, I'm a little glad I missed so much of it so I can keep in character :/ Maybe Rayleonarde, Rick, or Razuel will know? Or you could go back and check it out firsthand....)
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((Jayce has taken Raz, and is making his way to [SECRET LOCATION] with Ray in tow. Richard is wounded, Felicity is helping him. Blue has entered the area (I think). I don't think I missed anything.))
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(ok i will have to think of how i am going to approach this :/ )
Post Merge: February 05, 2017, 09:51:47 PM
Coming down the street rather casually was a vixen in military looking garb with long dark red hair and light purple eyes. She had heard the gun fire and as she had been tracking someone on her hit list thought it might be her target. However instead she finds Rick and Felicity, which causes her some disappointment.
"Well you two look like you have had quite the night." She says as she walks over pulling out some medical supplies she had on her person.
(Not much, just bandages and disinfectant.)
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Felicity made it over to the bullet wound and she was trying to dig into the wound to pull out the bullet, and she was so close to grabbing it, but the liquid know as blood was hindering her and causing her to recoil when her arm got covered in the stuff.
Felicity hadn't noticed the Vixen in army fatigues yet
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Blue pushed the door all the way open and held his gun up in the air showing he wasn't hostile towards anyone.
"It's okay, I'm a friendly," he explained. "Rick is my... employer. How bad is it... Felicity, right? I'm Blue. And you..."
He paused as the new vixen caught his eye.
"Attractive."
He quickly cupped his paws over his maw. He hadn't meant to say it out loud!
"Er-! Well-! I mean hello! Who are... you?"
He was getting flustered making a fool of himself. He could feel his ears and cheeks getting hot.
"You can belay killing me, I already have, I think."
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Felicity pushed herself back from Rick as her arm had been covered in blood, but it soon dried and flaked off, but while it did she was holding her arm as it shook, "Gah! There's a bullet in there... but I can't get it...", she then looked up at Blue, "Does he have a cranial access plate?"
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Ronnie skittered into the gated compound surrounding a massive tower outside the city limits. Blackburn Incorporated the sign read, it's obsidian backdrop accenting the gilded lettering. As Ronnie stopped, an elevator built into the lot allowed the bot to enter the main, and highly secret, research bunker beneath an otherwise legitimate business.
Blackburn Incorporated manufactured day-to-day products, home appliances, and offered private security. It's leader, a mysterious individual by the name of Giovanni Blackburn, kept himself occupied by heading his own research division. He also owned his own private 'zoo', which was in all actuality his service staff in the penthouse, normally made up of the more unique individuals of the city. Either hired, kidnapped, or systematically brainwashed, Giovanni kept these individuals living in the lap of luxury. But, one thing was missing from his 'collection'. A dragon. He'd not heard of one in years, and kept his employees on alert for a dragon or otherwise.
As the elevator descended, Jayce gently tapped the containment unit Raz was in. "Hoo boy. The old man's gonna be pretty pleased when he sees we got you, little man."
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Raz opened his eyes slowly but they opened wide to alertness as he saw that this wasn't Rick nor Blue, so he started to run around in the cage, trying to find a way out, and when he found no way out, he started to hurt himself to try and trigger that explosion, which worked very very slightly as the sound did sound slightly everyone he hurt himself.
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Jayce chuckled. "You'll kill yourself doin' that, pal. That whole cage is designed to stop explosives, so good luck with that. Besides, you're goin' to a better place. Giovanni'll take good care of you. Food, water, a place to sleep. Everything you could ever want."
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Despite being intimidated, he didn't until a few violent pops were heard as he had dislocated his right foreleg and his right wing, and when he did, Raz fell to the bottom of the cage, crying intensely.
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As Ronnie pulled into the lab's main floor, Giovanni made his way down from his office, smiling. "Ah! ER-212, you've returned. With RY-1103 in tow! Very good!"
Jayce climbed out of the cockpit, and waved. "Mr. Giovanni! I've got a gift for you! Ronnie, show Mr. Giovanni what we found!" Raz's containment cell started to rise from Ronnie's armor carapace.
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Raz had figured out how to put his arm back in that short time, and as he exclaimed in pain, he also saw Giovanni and he recoiled back, pushing himself to the back if the cage.
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Giovanni smiled, like a child on Christmas. He made his way to Raz, and spoke in excited yet hushed tones. "Hello there!" He looked up at Jayce, after studying Raz for a time. "Why's he all scared, RY? Is that implant shorting out again? See yourself to Imp-1, and get that fixed." Giovanni then turned his attention back to Raz. "You must've had a terrible time. Why don't you come with me to my estate? We'll get you bathed and fed. How's that sound, my dragon friend?"
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Raz started to shake his head. All he wanted to do is see Richard and Blue again, so what he did is that he went to the back of the cage and curled up, facing away from Giovanni and softly crying and saying to himself, "Rihard... Loo..."
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Blue scratched his head at Felicity's question. "No, I don't believe so. We were just about to get his leg augmented. Unless, secretly, he does. I don't know."
He began to relax a little and stuffed the gun into the side of his pants for quicker retrieval next time - just in case. After a moment or two in the room, Blue finally began to wrap his head around the situation.
"Where is Raz? The dragon? He was just in here. Where did he go? Does... does Ray have him?"
He sounded a lot calmer on the outside than he was actually feeling on the inside. His brain was swarming with thoughts and possibilities. So much had just happened, he was having a hard time comprehending everything. And with these new faces, things got even more confusing.
"And... I'm sorry if this comes across as rude, but... what... are you, exactly?...." He asked Felicity.
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Felicity had followed Ray, but half of her had stayed behind to keep an eye on the others, but as she was brought out of range to control that copy, the nanobots that made up her body dissipated and flew into the air after her main body, and just as she was shrinking to leave, she said to Blur and Moka, "I'm sorry..."
Meanwhile with Ray, Felicity reformed, but was weak, "Ray, why did we leave them?", mind you, she was still harbored inside Ray's head.
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Felicity pushed herself back from Rick as her arm had been covered in blood, but it soon dried and flaked off, but while it did she was holding her arm as it shook, "Gah! There's a bullet in there... but I can't get it...", she then looked up at Blue, "Does he have a cranial access plate?"
(Uh Raz, my character talked to you.)
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((Sorry... but I had already made a mistake with Ray... and besides, Felicity was already losing vision in that copy of her, along with hearing... regardless, I am sorry for having not spoken to you...))
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(It's fine, i will figure something out. Getting into the story is proving hard though.)
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Richard coughed and planted his paw into the ground
"Am I dead?" He said roughly, panting because of the wound
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(If it helps, Moka, my character is just as he seems, except I have two augmented legs. Brief run-down of what's happened with me so far: I got off work at my job as a Runner [mailman/delivery guy/etc] and ran into Richard, who had found a badly beaten baby Raz. We ran from Ray [who nearly spotted us] to a diner, where I found out Richard was a wanted fugitive. He hired me, and I agreed if given a place to stay. We went to Richard's old house and I got an experimental stun-gun from one of his old buddies. Then, Stowe came in and tried getting to Richard before he pulled out and vanished. Then we took Raz to the Aug center to patch him up. Richard wanted to get a new leg as well, but we were interrupted. Next thing I know, everything goes to hell, Raz disappears, and I'm standing over Richard's unconscious body.)
Blue watched in awe as the small creature drifted away like dust. What was she? His thoughts were interrupted by movement.
"Richard!" Blue knelt down to check out his wounded arm. "No, you're not dead. Not yet, anyway. Just a flesh wound, I think. Lucky for you, we're already at a hospital. Did you see what happened to Raz?? He was gone when I got here!"
Suddenly, sirens began echoing through the streets.
"Cops! Can't say I'm surprised. The staff must be scared out of their minds. Can you stand?"
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Richard huffed
"Of course I can stand!" He said, struggling to stand up, and almost falling over. His wound dripped fresh blood down his chest every moment
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Blue caught Richard as he nearly fell. "Must've got an artery. Look, I don't know anything about medicine, and we can't stay here..."
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"Well maybe i can help with that." A feminine, voice says from a nearby alleyway. A vixen wearing military style clothes and carrying rifle on her back began to approach Richard and Blue.
"You boys look like you've had a rough night." She says putting her hand to her chin.
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Ray shook his head and shrugged. "I don't know, I just had a feeling like we needed to leave." If Felicity were to look, an admin override program call Return would have been executed recently.
Giovanni took Raz's containment cell, and started towards his office.
Jayce was in a sort of surgical center, doctors were working to fix his augments.
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Blue jumps at this new voice, and his eyes lift up to meet the pleasing appearance of a particularly charming vixen.
"You could say that," he replied coolly. "Who are you, exactly?"
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"Names aren't important, especially when your friend is on deaths door." She says pointing to Richard. She pulls out a bandages and what looks like a jar of gel from her side pouch.
"Lay him down, this stuff's called Omni gel. It's pretty potent stuff...but it will hurt like hell."
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"True enough," Blue said as he helped Richard over to the table. He wiped off the debris from the skirmish, and helped him lie back.
"I don't mean to make you feel so helpless, boss, but you gotta live. I still haven't gotten a paycheck yet," he chuckled. It was probably inappropriate, sure, but Blue never knew when and when not to joke. It was just one of his many flaws as a person.
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(Blue is the only one who can see this. ONLY BLUE CAN SEE THIS)
Someone could be heard walking up behind Blue, the reflection of a duster could be seen. And the smell of rotting food accompanied it.
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Felicity looked around Ray's mind, seeing if there was anything wrong or missing, until she found a folder that seemed to be giving off a ping, "Ray? Have you ever been given a business implant by a boss or something?"
Meanwhile, Raz was staying still in the cage, crying, but whenever a finger or something came near him, he tried to bite it.
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Richard chuckled
"You sure I'm not dead, cause I think I see an angel" he said loud enough so she could hear it
He gave an awkward and fruity smile to her
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The vixen rolls her eyes and applies the gel and like she said it felt like she might as well have put a branding iron on your chest. However the wound is healing at quite a rapid pace as the artery closes and Richard's condition stabilizes somewhat.
"An angel would have a much more gentle solution my friend." She says.
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Rick struggled and banged his paws lightly on the table, shouting. To take his mind off the pain, he made a few noises because of the massive pain and relaxed a little once it had finished working.
"Could ya kiss it better?" He said, obviously in a lot of pain
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Ray shook his head. "Nope. The only implant I got was a data scrubber. Why?"
Jayce returned from his stay in the repair bay, and sighed. "Cool, everything's a lot less red now."
Giovanni placed the container on a large table, and sat in front of it. "You're afraid, right? Torn from wherever you came from?" He sighed heavily. "I know how that feels. But, I'm just trying to help you. All these people, the servants I mean, are living happily. Look at them! They're living in housing never to be seen in this city. I can get you anything you want, my little dragon friend."
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Felicity looked at the folder and attacked it, attempting to destroy the files, "Because I don't think your actions are your own!"
Raz felt the sincere in Giovanni's voice and looked towards him, tears falling down his face still, and his dislocated wing still hanging there.
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(waiting on blue because he has two post's he has to respond to, including metal gear's)
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Blue nearly gagged at the rush of rot that washed over his muzzle. It smelled familiar to him - like... is that Dracula? He quickly spun around.
"You again...! They took him! They have Raz!"
He didn't understand that he was the only one able to see the man/ghost/vampire/??!?
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The man smiled and spat some gunk from his throat out. "You're lucky it wasn't Glasgow that got him. He'd 100% be dead by now." He leaned against the closet wall near Blue. "As long as the Union Corporation doesn't have Raz in their possession, you still have a chance to get him back."
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Giovanni smiled. "Would you like somethin' to eat, little friend? Perhaps something to fix you up?"
As soon as Felicity touched the extra files, Ray went on the electronic equivalent of 'lockdown', and an alarm in the facility went off. "Alert, foreign software detected. RX-2210 is the host. Restrain." Several scientists, wearing full body clean-room suits, moved to Ray and held him down.
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Felicity felt the movements and she quickly made a decoy copy of the last one to send and receive files of orders as normally, but Ray would have full control, "Ray, I'm sorry!! I'm trying to fix it! Just act normally, okay?", she managed to make a decoy file with all of the original components, but all disguised as decoys and virtually undetectable from the original. Felicity had to hide herself, so she went into a section of Ray's mind where if they wiped his files, she would be safe.
Raz slowly nodded and made a step towards Giovanni as his belly grumbled, but he flinched as he heard the alarm go off, and this made him really scared now.
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Giovanni looked at the door a moment, and sighed. "One of the guys got a virus, it seems. I'm sorry, friend." He stood, and went to his kitchenette. Giovanni grabbed a bunch of foodstuffs and a medical paste, then moved back to Raz. He placed the stuff in front of Raz, and smiled. "Which do you want?"
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Raz looked at the stuff, but didn't know what to eat as the only things he has eaten was pizza, and disgusting gruel, so he had no idea what these things were.
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Blue rubbed the back of his head, as if to force out some sort of plan to get Raz back.
"It's great and all that Glasgow doesn't have him, but... That means Ray does... and God knows where he's taken him! I wouldn't know where to begin looking for him!"
He threw up his paws in a shrug of defeat. Really, truly, he wanted to save the little guy... but these soldiers - they were extremely dangerous... and almost ghostly with how they faded in and out of sight so quickly. Blue wouldn't be ale to find Raz on his own...
He gasped as an idea emerged.
Unless... this newcomer has some sort of idea... or I would have to visit an old friend - which I really don't want to have to do, he thought with a shudder.
A shout from the lobby made him stand at attention. It sounded like the cops were inside the building now. He wouldn't be surprised if they went all-out and dispatched the SWAT unit. Damn, he hoped they didn't dispatch SWAT.
"Tell me you guys heard that, too??"
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Giovanni smiled. "I've got an idea, why don't I let you out, hmm?" As he spoke, the old raccoon lifted the front panel of the containment cell and. "There you go, friend."
Ray was moved to one of the repair bays, and all sorts of cables were poked into him. After a few moments, the technician observing Ray sighed. "Nothing we can find, Mr. Giovanni. Just a few loose data-streams. His scrubber is upgraded, though, so he might be getting data from town." The scans, as it stood, seemed to have missed Felicity completely.
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The Vixen sighs
"Fricken cops...haven't even killed anyone yet." She said and picked up both Blue and Richard and slung them both over each of her shoulders with little issue.
"Unfortunately i need you two alive as you probably were the last two people to see my targets." She starts walking to a nearby window and Blue and Richard get the idea she is planning to jump.
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Raz looked at the door as it was pulled off and as it was, he started to get up and lump out of the cage, part of his body having bruises from his self harm earlier.
But he still had no idea what to do about the food, so when he saw an apple, thought it was a ball.
Felicity stayed quiet inside Ray, waiting for him to move out again.
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Richard gulped when he was picked up, his shoulder was still hurting and he wasn't expecting the vixen to be this strong.
He had trust that he wouldn't be dropped, he turned to smile at Blue.
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Giovanni smiled at Raz. "It's food, little friend. You eat it." The raccoon took a piece of cheese from a wedge in front of Raz, and popped it into his mouth. "See?"
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Raz looked at Giovanni and then back at the food, and whilst scanning the pile, he saw some honeydew, and it smelt sweet, so he went and chomped down on it, chewing the mouthful before his eyes went wide and he started eating the food set before him frantically as he was very much quite hungry still.
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"Woah, hell!" Blue yipped as he was flung over the vixen's shoulder.
What amazing strength!! Is she augged, too?? He wondered. It was difficult for him to tell. With as much as augmentations have improved recently, he wouldn't be surprised if they were completely invisible to the naked eye.
Blue grabbed a fistful of her clothes as she neared the edge. But it wasn't the heights that scared him; it was the fact that he was practically being dangled over the ledge.
"Hey, Rich," he said, turning to the dazed cat. "Last time I witnessed this much strength in a woman, my ex girlfriend threw me through a wall, because she thought I was cheating on her with her imaginary friend. She was a schizo. This doesn't bring back pleasant memories."
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"Quit your complaining, i know what i'm doing." As the police were just about to reach the area, Saki makes sure she has a tight grip on both Blue and Richard before jumping out the window. As all three people fell to what at first seemed like a crazy way to die, the vixen's shirt ripped off to reveal a pair of jets that had popped out of her back. The jets quickly roar to life and propel her through the air while maintaining her grip on the two.
"If you dare touch anything that you're not supposed to, i will drop you." She says as she was currently was showing her off her sports bra and it looked like it would be a pretty lethal drop if Blue or Richard get idea.
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Rick smirked and looked at Blue with childish eyes
"You can't drop me! I'm the infamous Carousel! I have a bounty of 25,000!"
His eyes widened and he looked as if he were going to burst into laughter. It made him laugh to brag, mainly because he didn't take anyone who bragged seriously, and was doing it ironically
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Blue laughed in disbelief. She wasn't augged at all! "You're an android!"
He ducked as an officer's bullet whizzed by his head, missing him by inches.
"Fine," Blue yelled over the roar of wind and jets. "If you won't tell us anything about you, will you at least tell us where we're going??"
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The vixen thinks. "Well i guess i could at least give you my alias since your friend is so keen on pointing out his own bounty...which you should be careful who you tell that to by the way. You can call me 6 and i'm taking you to my home, the G.E.A.R factory."
Blue and Richard have more then likely heard of G.E.A.R which was a major company in the city that had quite a bit a power.
Ghost Engineering and Assassination Robotics is what it stood for and it was known for producing one of the most expensive and lethal android bodies out there called Ghost Shells. Ghost Shells was the final step in augmentation which was transferring your mind into an android body and such a body was one of the most expensive surgeries on the market. They also created many different robots and android's specifically built for combat to serve as body guards, soldiers, enforcers or even, as the factory name implies, assassins.
There have been rumors however that the company is involved in several crime industries but no evidence has been provided to support this. Not only that but people who lived near the factory have slowly been disappearing over the years and people are beginning to wonder if some of the android working in the factory just might be them.
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"OOOOO, G.E.A.R! I've never been there but I've stolen a car out of their parking lot!"
He smirked and thought of something
"Do you give out free stuff? Y'know, stickers, pens, advanced combat gear" He asked cheekily as the wind blowing past him rolled up his sleeve and revealed a tattoo with a set of numbers on it, much like a slave would have had.
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"GEAR," Blue repeated. "Yeah, I know about them. I did a few Runs for them before. Really shady stuff. Do you happen to know, though... A man called 'Glasgow' ... is he from GEAR somehow? He seems like the kind of person that GEAR would know about. I've never seen anything like him, so I assume he must be special."
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"I think I best let my master explain about that individual, as we haven't had the best encounters with this Glasglow." 6 says as she eventually lands on the roof of the factory, dropping Richard on his butt and setting down blue.
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"Owwwwww, fuuahhhh'
Richard lands awkward and ends up putting the fall onto his bad leg, he sits down on his good leg
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"Your 'master'? So you're someone's dog?" Blue's face bore the look of disgust. "I guess it's pointless asking you what he wants?"
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6 trips blue as her arm pops open to reveal an SMG, pointed right at his face.
"Call me a dog again and you won't have much of a face left." She puts the gun back in her body and walks to a door. "Now come along."
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Ray, after a time, was allowed to stand up, but he wasn't allowed to leave.
Giovanni smiled at Raz, and gingerly reached out to pet the dragling.
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Felicity continued to stay still, "Ray, I can hear your thoughts now... talk to me like that... obey them for now... I'll tell you when to speak up and rebel... I want to know more about this child...."
Raz was slowly growing kinder to Giovanni, but when he brought his hand closer to him to pet, Raz flinched and stepped back, looking up at Giovanni, thinking that he was going to hurt him, and whenever Giovanni tried to touch him again, Raz would keep backing up.
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"Oof!" One moment, he was standing on the roof. The next, he was flat on his back looking down the barrel of a gun. His ears folded back and his muzzle wrinkled in a snarl, which quickly dissipated. "I seem to have struck a nerve...."
He slowly got to his augmented feet again. "Very well," he said with a cocky gleam in his eye. "Lead the way, Miss Six."
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Outside the room Giovanni and Raz were in, the sounds of cackling and whispers filled the air, something was coming and it wasn't good. And whatever It was. It was here for the child.
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Giovanni put a paw up apologetically. "Sorry. I'll let you finish your food."
As the cackling echoed around, the facility's security AI activated. Among its available turrets, purge-fields and robots, the system had aces in the hole; zero-point energy and temporal distortion arrays.
Ray's brow furrowed . I don't know what you're on about, everything I do is of my own volition.
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Felicity wanted to convince Ray, "Fine, then leave the room and when you want to turn down a hallway, don't, take another path that you haven't seen recently yet..."
Raz had gone to the food again.... however, he stopped when he heard the cackling and he started to get really scared as he wasn't sure go what this thing is.
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Ray shook his head. Security would plaster me across the wall.
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Felicity gave a sigh, "Then do you trust me with what I've said?"
Raz backed up into the cage, but not inside it. Raz started to get sad again when he looked back at the cage, "Loo... Rihard..."
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Ray shrugged. I-I...I dunno...It doesn't sound like something Giovanni'd do. He sighed, and called to one of the scientists. "Hey! Can I get out anytime soon?"
The scientist, not able to hear Ray but saw him talk, removed his clean suit hood. "What?" The scientist was another purple raccoon. In fact, all the workers were purple raccoon, and they shared similarities with Ray and Jayce.
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Felicity noticed this and gave a concerned smile, "Then why is it that this one seemed offended by the question? Furthermore, don't they look familiar?..."
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Rick looked nervously as the SMG was pointed at Blue, he probably could have done something, but sighed with annoyance after realising that he didn't have any weapons on him, they'd all been left at the hospital. He looked slightly upset, he'd left some important things behind.
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Blue wiped his nose with his arm and sniffed. He murmured out loud to no one in particular. "Wherever we end up, it better be closer to Raz. We owe it to the kid to keep him safe. I sure as hell hope we're not wasting time..."
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Richard looked to Blue with a small spark of confidence in his eye
"The poor lil bugger, he didn't deserve any of this"
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(sorry, have been kind of busy so i am probably going to be slow)
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(Np, I'm happy to wait :) )
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Ray shrugged, and whispered. "Yeah...almost like we're clones or something." He then shouted at the scientist. "Can I leave this room!?"
The scientist nodded, and put his hood back up.
Another thing a keen eye would discern is that all of the staff were males. In fact, only one female was on the premises; Giovanni's wife Valentine. Ingrained in one of Ray's override files was the picture of Valentine, and the phrase "Tier 10 priority".
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Felicity sighed, "They're watching you now... be careful...", Felicity stated to search more in Ray's head, "Ray? Who're your bosses, and who's affiliated with them?
((What's going on with Giovanni and Raz?))
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Sierra lead the two of you down a set of stair and into a very prestigious looking waiting room that seemed to be where the head of the factory had his office. There was a secretary lizard girl who looked rather busy and doesn't even look up from her computer when the three approach
"Hitman 6, Master 1 has been..." Sierra cuts here off.
"Yes, yes i know 10. I brought him some potential good news for once." Sierra says and stands in front of the door, waiting for Richard and Blue.
"Whatever you do, don't be smart with 1. He is the most lethal person in this factory and probably will kill you if you piss him off."
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Rick peeks at the vixen, digging in his pockets suspiciously
"So, does he take well to handshakes? I mean my hands are a little bloody but that shouldn't matter, right?"
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Blue adjusts the pack that began to slide down his shoulders and padded up to 6 as he spoke. "'Lethal'? Well, then. So nice of you to invite us here. He's got no beef with us, though, right? I've never done anything to piss GEAR off." He crossed his arms.
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Richard shuffles nervously and lightly elbows Blue
"I may have"
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"I'm still here trying to figure out who you didn't piss off," Blue murmured quiet enough for only Richard to hear.
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Name: Gypsie Wilqlaw (Formerly named Sasha... but she has forgotten that name)
Species: Wyldecat with a power gauntlet embedded and stuck in her right hand(similar to hellboy's)
Abilities: Night Vision, time manipulation of acceleration and deceleration through that of an emitted negative field, 'McGuyver' syndrome/orc magic
Reference Image: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22577304/ (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22577304/)
Bio: Born to a wealthy family and orphaned and disowned by her remaining family, Gypsie took to the streets to live off of it... but this was so many years ago, approximately 140 years ago, but on her 16th birthday, she got into trouble and had been sent to a ghost division of GEAR, but this was in the very beginning of GEAR so when she escaped she did. When she was under inside the ghost division, they augmented her hand and used that small part of her for time manipulation, staining the hand with a pattern of violet jigsaws and then attaching a warwick style claw hand onto there, and to keep her under for so long, they used a distilled and more potent chemical to 'extend' Gypsie... but this made her start to forget things.... it made her confused... but she knew always that GEAR was bad... at least to her. On one night, the city went dark and everything in GEAR went to shit; Gypsie took advantage of this, so when they went to check on her, Gypsie slit the guard's throat and ran, using her nearly indestructible hand to break through solid 4 ft concrete walls. After escaping she went to a far forest, and has been there ever since...
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Richard looks at the Vixen
"Is there by any chance, some food lying about? I have gotten a bit hungry"
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Until now... Gypsie noticed that she was getting older, that she was losing her beauty that she had cherished for so long, then, in a terrible nightmare flashback, she remembered a chemical that they used to pump her with, and when they did, she felt weak, but rejuvenated at the same time.
That night, she started running to the old GEAR building in the ghetto part of the town, taking an express through the sewers to bypass entry gates.Currently at this time, Gypsie is searching through the old GEAR labs, not knowing that a new facility had been erected some time ago.
Gypsie searched and searched through the rubble until she found a seared washed photo of her mom and dad, along with her, playing under a large oak tree, this brought back memories, then as she saw a GEAR drone fly over, she became furious and lept at it, a near 15 ft into the air, and she threw it down.
When she brought the drone down, it took a photo of her, but only half transmitted; half of her face, and a close up of her claw hand with a worn 'G' on the tip of each; her eyes glowing with a furious golden glow.
The picture was sent to all electrical communicators capable of picture viewing with an outdated GEAR logo on it.
Gypsie is still at the old GEAR building, ripping the drone to literal shreds.
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((Sorry for being absent for so long, I have been out of my home state for a while. Posting frequency will normalize next week.))
((As for Raz and Giovanni, they're being stalked by Stowe's character, I believe.))
Ray shrugged, as he stepped out of his containment cell. "Well, there's Giovanni who runs this place. And then there's his wife, Valentine. She shows up every once in a while. Very friendly, and she really seems to care about us." Ray's voice then dropped to a whisper. "She doesn't seem pleased with Giovanni though. Almost despises him."
File upon file seemed perfectly fine. Though if one looked hard enough, the could see very heavy editing and a plethora of redacted information.
In her picture, Valentine did not wear a wedding band. Upon closer inspection, one could see scars where restraints had bitten into her wrists. Looking closer, one could deduce that Valentine had a lot of children.
Giovanni, as he tried to calm Raz, moved to answer a phone call.
"Head of Blackburn Security, Giovanni speaking."
~Ah! Mr. Giovanni, I was hoping to reach you. This is Greg Leslie, I'm with the city. I saw you showed an interest on the old GEAR building.~
"Yes, that's right. And I am willing to pay upfront."
~That's great to hear, sir. We'll charge you now, if that's alright.
"That's fine. I'll send one of my employees to collect my deed."
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((Sorry for the late reply))
Raz looked at Giovanni's hand, wincing as it made contact with him, but he felt gentleness as the hand brushed over his scales, and within moments, with tears staining a strain down his face, he fell asleep.
Felicity looked more around in Ray's head, she saw the redacted files, and once placing a paw on one of them, a virus prevention system shot Felicity out as a pile of goo, and when she reformed, her body was a naked and slender anthro version of herself, and when she saw this, Felicity gave a huff, and just before the scientists could dona thing about it, she shot electricity at them and knocked them out before getting up, but she faced problems, "Ray... I can't stand... please, help me up... I can keep myself shrouded from the cameras, but I'm not sure about you...", she looked at a sign on the wall and her face turned grim, "Please! We need to go now! File a sickness with Giovanni before we leave, but whatever you need to do, I need to get out of this place.
Meanwhile at the old GEAR building, Gypsie sat, perched on a broken metal shelf, looking at a picture of herself from so long ago... a picture that showed herself and the people she considered family... but her parents faces were scratched out for some reason.
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Ray nodded, and quickly scooped Felicity up. He then started towards the company garage. As they moved through the facility, the two passed several testing labs. In one lab, several younger purple raccoons were training with swords. These swords were not blunted, and several of the fights ended in death. Ray, however, passed them by without even a flinch.
In another room, a group of twenty raccoons were moving in perfect synchronization. They all had metal casings around their heads, exposing only the face and forehead. At the front of the group stood another purple raccoon, whose head was encased in some form of helmet. He conducted the group before him with no delay between his commands and the group's movements. On the rear wall of the massive lab was the phrase 'Legion Test'.
A Blackburn Corporation transport pulled up to the GEAR building, and five raccoons dismounted. They moved in a group, all carrying assault rifles except for the center man who carried an auto-targeting machine gun. The group quickly moved through the facility's main grounds, and closed quickly on the building's entrance.
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Felicity daw all of the training rooms in the facility, but she figured it'd be better if they got out of the building first before questioning Ray about it.
Gypsie perked up when she heard the approaching footsteps and she started to growl, but instead of being cornered, she would hide and ambush them if they split up.
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The five Blackburn soldiers moved into the building, their weapons ready for combat. The auto-gun carrier kept rotating slowly, keeping his team defended from unseen foes.
After reaching the main floor, the squad split up, searching for any trespassers.
Ray, after a time, finally reached a car and set Felicity in the passenger seat before climbing into the driver side. He started the car and headed off into the city, the radio playing a gentle and calm tune, the engine humming quietly.
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Gypsie followed the auto turret, figuring she'd have more trouble with that than anything else. Gypsie crawled into the ceiling of the room the auto turret was in and as she neared this soldier, she dropped down and started to scarce at him furiously with her metal claws and her normal ones.
Felicity sat back in the car seat and slowly looked over to Ray, "What were those labs we passed ?"
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Ray sighed, and seemed to stare into the distance. "Those were the latest batch of employees. They're the Legion. An interesting group, they're hard-coded to act in a hive-mind, in the presence of a controller. They won't keep their heads exposed like that, they'll get grafts and whatnot done. I was reading up on this, Giovanni's gonna start a few businesses, from what I can gather, and use these guys as his main force."
The auto-gun soldier let out a yelp, before he was viciously torn apart. Hearing this, the other squadmates started towards the main hall, their weapons prepped and loaded.
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Gypsie held the auto turret soldier on the ends of her metal claws before her eyes turned back to normal, and she dropped the body just as she heard the clamoring of the other soldiers and she retreated back into the ceiling.
Felicity looked mortified, "That's not right! W-we need to stop this!", Felicity then tried to get up and out of the car, her body really shaking from the ejection earlier, so when she did get out of the car, she immediately fell to the ground.
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Behind Blue... He could be heard, a strange pulsating red light emitted from the darkness and the silhouette of a figure could be seen moving forward. The sounds of an old radio accompanied it, "Death is only the beginning, life continues outside of this world... Our bodies are only vehicles, trapping us on this rock.[/size]" [/size]
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Ray quickly stepped out of the car, and helped Felicity to her feet. "We aren't going to do anything, Felicity. I'm getting you out of here. I'm sorry I brought you to this place, you're not supposed to be here anyway. Let's get back in the car, and leave before anyone gets an idea."
As the squad reached the auto-gun carrier's body, the youngest of the soldiers immediately began vomiting, and the squad-leader knelt. He brought his radio up, and began to report what happened.
"Command? We lost one....No I don't know to what! He's been ripped to shreds, there's not much of him left. We're still investigating, but send backup."
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Gypsie sat on the other side of a wall, holding her legs up to herself as she started to gather herself, but then she saw it, the serum she has been searching for. Gypsie had finally found the serum, but it was under a pile of rusted metal, so she quickly started to peel the metal rubble off, each piece shrieking as they were pulled off.
Felicity grumbled as she was helped up and told that they had to go, "Fine... let's go...", she clearly hated that they couldn't go back in to liberate the children, but she understood. She was in no proper condition to walk in the slightest.
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The soldiers looked at each other a moment, before two of them left to investigate the screeching metal. As they rounded the corner, they spotted Gypsie and opened fire.
Ray nodded, and started the car. In a few moments, they were out of the facility and back on the road. "You can't save them. They're not able to think on their own."
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Gypsie looked back at them in an instant and eyes became thin and she instantly lunged at them with a feral roar, stabbing one right through the gut while the other hand tried to get at the soldier's eyes. Rather, she would attempt to.
At the point of when Felicity and Ray were running, Raz had found a plush little lizard under a couch, but he soon for got about that when he had seen a shadow and light briefly flash by a door Raz was near. It seemed like Raz was slowly taking a liking to this since Giovanni gave him a good home and rather nice food... but he always felt that something was off, like a sort of evil was on Giovanni, so instinctively, Raz would flinch whenever Giovanni would extend a hand to him
Felicity groaned, "isn't there some sort of inhibitor that can be broken? Something that would stop the control over the kids?"
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Ray shook his head. "The implants they have are so intrusive that, even if they were removed, the host would die. "
The squad, or whoever was left, opened fire on Gypsie, absolutely terrified.
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Felicity came to a realization as Ray mentioned the implants, "That's what those redacted files were! They're apart of your implant!", she then pushed herself against the door, shifting away from Ray, "You have one of those implants, don't you!?"
Gypsie went to attack the last soldier again, but then she remembered the liquid. To get back to the liquid, Gypsie swiftly went under the soldier's legs to knock him over before going to the serum bottle and starting to drink it from the bottle.
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Ray shook his head. "No, if I did we wouldn't be having this conversation. Legion-types don't operate on their own. They have a weird sleep-state they go into when the controller leaves. Though, there is testing to bypass that. But, I digress. I'm not part of the Legion."
The soldier fired an under-barrel grenade round, putting it right on top of the bottle Gypsie was after.
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By the time the grenade had gotten to Gypsie she had already chugged at least half of the serum, but once the explosion went off, she dropped the bottle that had titanium bracing, and she got blown quickly onto her back. Gypsie opened her eyes for a moment after her had had violently hit the floor, seeing that the bottle laid on its side, lid open, but enough got already for it nor to spill, so in a fit of panic, she weakly tried to scramble to get it, not getting anywhere as she simply scratched the ground in the direction to the bottle.
Felicity looked at Ray again, "Then what are you?"
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Ray shrugged. "Cybernetically enhanced employee at Blackburn Corp."
The soldier made a break for the serum, hoping to use it as leverage. Unbeknownst to either of the two, a large troop-carrier drone had parked itself above the skylight on the main floor.
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Felicity looked down, feeling guilty, "Zorry I thought you were one of the Legion... you just look similar to them...", she then looked around to see they've really still in park, "I think we should head out now..."
Gypsie looked terrified at the soldier, "P-please, be careful with that! J-just give it back to me...".
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There was a loud crashing, and several dozen soldiers poured into the building. One of them immediately fired an electrified net onto Gypsie, in an attempt to keep her still.
Ray nodded, and started out of the facility. "You don't need to apologize, Felicity."
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Gypsie turned around at the noise of the soldiers pouring in. She went to dodge the net, but was too slow and it enveloped her and she fell to her knees screaming in pain, her metal claw hand clanging on the ground as she fell, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! STOP IT! IT HURTS!"
Felicity looked down, "I feel like I do... you did save me after all... twice..."
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Ray shrugged. "I'm not holding anything against you."
The soldier downed the electrical surge to the net, and the rest approached. "Claws on your head, now!"
The soldier holding the vial capped it, and placed it in a container on his chest-rig.
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Gypsie figured she had no choice so, with her body shaking from the electrical surge, she placed her claws on her head, hoping she'd get the serum back soon enough.
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Huge metal cuffs were clamped around Gypsie's wrists, and the soldiers cinched the net up. The electricity was cut, but all firearms were trained on Gypsie. The leader of the capture team called up. "Victor 1-1, this is Ground Team. We've got the target, prepare for transport." The net was brought up to the drone, and the rest of the team rappelled up along side it.
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As they started to move, Gypsie looked around for where the serum was, she needed it, "Where is it!? Where did you put that bottle!", she said to nobody in specific as she was grappled up to the carrier.
Felicity just kept quiet for a while as her and Ray sped off, "So... where are we going?"
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Ray shrugged. "Dunno, where do you want to go?"
The soldiers remained silent, and the drone started towards Blackburn Corporation.
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Felicity looked down, "I don't know... my home probably isn't safe... my mind is set on wanting to save those children..."
Gypsie screamed out again, "Where is that bloody serum!!"
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One of the soldiers spoke up. "What's in it?"
Ray sighed. "We can't save them, Felicity. They're little more than drones."
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Felicity then began to become agitated, "Yes we can! You still have clearance there! I saved you from the manipulation they inducted on you! I can do the same to them... they must have classes where they get hooked up machines, right?"
Gypsie became rather angry now, "It doesn't matter! I need it!!!
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The soldier shook his head. "No dice, lady."
Ray shook his head. "They aren't taught, Felicity. They are augmented to be mindless drones. It's impossible to save them."
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Gypsie growled, "Give it Now!!!"
Felicity, "Then what the hell are we supposed to do?... wait
.. that child! Ray, we need to go save that child!"
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Ray pulled into a parking lot, and turned to Felicity. "What child?"
The soldiers chuckled. "Listen to her," one soldier laughed, "she's real upset." Another soldier laughed. "What if we spill it out?"
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Felicity looked at Ray with confusion, "What do you mean? You told me about a... no... I read it on a file in your head... you were sent to retrieve a dragon child... but the file wasn't active for some reason..."
Gypsie was now crying, "Please! Don't spill it out! I need it!"
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Ray shrugged. "Guess they already got what Mr. Giovanni wanted."
The soldiers laughed. "We'll get you your stuff, miss. Once we study it and possibly replicate it."
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Felicity slammed her hand on the dash of the car, "How can you shrug something off like that! You know what those people are like! Who knows what they're planning on doing to that kid!"
Gypsie shook her head, "None of you can handle it like I can! It burns your insides in the first dose, and out of a million, I survived the tests! Please... Give it to me!!"
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"Whoever the kid is Giovanni has him now. If he hasn't been brainwashed or drugged, Giovanni's probably skinned him." Ray let out a long, drawn-out sigh. "I'm sorry."
Giovanni, after hanging up the phone, looked around for the dragling, wondering what to name him. "Little friend? Where'd you go? Hmm...wonder if he found that old stuffed toy Valentine got."
Jayce, after rearming and repairing, had left the facility; there were more bounties to collect after all.
Post Merge: March 03, 2017, 06:39:55 AM
The drone carrying Gypsie finally landed, and Gypsie was immediately moved into a specialized containment cell and hauled to the laboratory floor.
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Felicity let out a growl, "Well I'm not taking that as a sign to give up!", she then opened the car door and looked back at Ray, "Unless you want to see me again, I suggest you help me!", it could be seen in her face, one that was quite hurt from what Ray had said, that she wanted him on say he would help her.
In the time it had taken for Giovanni to finish his call, Raz had managed to open the door, that now laid slightly open after it swung close to shutting after Raz passed through. Raz was simply curious as to what had gone by. As he walked, his tiny little claws clacked on the floor.
After not getting what she had wanted, Gypsie curled up in her spot, until of course, she was thrown into a containment cell, and as the cell moved down and she saw white pristine walls and her face turned to utter fear, "Let me go! Please!"
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Ray sighed, and quickly jostled the car, forcing Felicity's door shut. He then pulled a U-Turn, and headed back towards the facility. "This is a bad idea..."
Giovanni noticed the open door, and started out. "Dragling?"
Over at the lab, the Legion testing area was cleared to allow Gypsie a place to inhabit.
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Razuel heard noises down a hallway, turning a corner as his tail disappeared behind a corner.
Felicity fell back onto the seat before re-positioning herself in the seat, she then looked at Ray with a smile on her face, "Thank you... We'll be fine... actually, take a right here and stop at the PI building halfway down the street... I'll need you to come inside with me too..."
Gyspie looked around her at the purple raccoons, their eyes glossy and seemingly empty, and as the transport slowed, she became rather scared, "Someone! Help!"
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Ray nodded and stopped at the designated building.
Giovanni spotted Raz's tail, and smiled. "Little friend, it's dangerous out here for you."
None of the nearby raccoons were paying Gypsie any attention, and were simply going around doing their work.
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Felicity got out of the car and seemingly passed through the door of the PI office, but the door would require Ray to open it, "Hold on, Ray, I need to stop the electricity to the door knob!", she did so and waited inside for Ray.
Raz stopped a little ways down the hallway he turned down and looked back, the little plushie he found earlier being held by his mouth by it's scruff. Raz sat down and waited for Giovanni, but eeped and jumped back as the metal door he was beside banged and snarling was heard on the other side.
Gypsie looked around for someone, the look of terror on her face, but that soon vanished when she felt hunger in her gut, "C-can I get some food?"
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Ray entered the office, extremely cautious.
Giovanni knelt, and scooped up Raz. "Sorry. They're supposed to be asleep now. Guess the sedatives haven't been delivered yet. But, more importantly, what should we call you hmm?"
One of the scientists pulled a switch, and a dry-food brick fell into the cage.
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Felicity saw Ray enter and as he did, she rounded a corner into a side room where whirring and sparks could be seen, "Come in! I wanna show you something!"
When Raz was picked up, he dropped the plushie and tried to grab at it, but alas, his limps don't stretch like rubber.
Saw the hatch open and the food brick fall, she then looked at a small black spec, knowing that it was a camera, "I've salt with this shit before! I'm not falling for the nanites again! Give me Real food!"
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Ray followed Felicity, still cautious.
Giovanni knelt, and picked up the plushie. He gave it back to Raz, and started to the lab floor.
The scientist sighed, and pulled a second lever. A cooked steak fell into the cell, and the passageway the food fell from closed.
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Felicity would lead Ray into a pristine white mechanical room, she then opened a wall, behind it being a strong high-grade exosuit, something better than what Giovanni or GEAR could produce. Felicity looked back at Ray, "This exosuit was supposed to be used on my next robot body, to help it from breaking, but I have the blueprints for it now... you can have this model... I forget who made this one though... hypenone... hyperdrive... Hyperion! That's who I got it from!"
Raz hugged and nuzzles the plushie, but as they rounded a corner, Raz noticing that they weren't heading back to the room, he looked up at Giovanni for am answer.
Gypsie saw the steak and grabbed it, "Cold..." she muttered to herself, and to be sure, she used her metal claws with great precision to diet the steak, making sure nothing bad was inside, and once done, she hastily ate it, keeping the block for later... purposes...
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Ray shook his head. "N-No thanks. If I bring it back to the facility, Giovanni would tear it apart and duplicate it."
Giovanni smiled. "We've got a new visitor, friend. We'll go be hospitable." As he walked, Giovanni ran names around his head. After about a minute, he spoke again. "You've been through so much, little dragling. I'll call you Razputin, after the immortal man himself." He smiled genuinely down at the dragling in his arms. "How's that sound, Raz?"
The scientists had the vial Gypsie was after, and after a few moments, poured a drop onto an microscope plate. They moved it to a huge electron microscope, and set the vial aside.
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Felicity pressed a button on the suit and placed it on Ray then pushed the button again to where the suit spread out to then appear invisible and copy his texture, "Don't worry. The suit can retract to a spec to then engulf your body. Giovanni won't know!"
Raz wasn't paying much attention to Giovanni, but when he heard his name 'Raz' well, half of it, he made a happy noise and went back to playing with the plushie.
Gypsie sat in her cell, waiting for something to happen. Under the microscope,the scientists would see a rapid dying and reproduction inside the cell, to where the cells would eat the deal ones to then replace them with another.
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Ray shook his head. "It's a bad idea, Felicity."
Giovanni stopped outside what appeared to be a small park encased in a glass chamber. "Would you like to spend some time in the park, Raz?"
The scientist gasped, and shouted out. "Y-You guys gotta look at this! The cells are replicating at an amazing rate!" Immediately, the remnants of the vial were placed in different segments of the lab, and worked upon.
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Felicity stepped back and crossed her arms, " Do you have a better idea?"
Raz looked around, unsure what to really do in here... everything seemed weird to him here, not only because of the lab, but also because of what the hell a park is!
Soon enough, the scientists would find that the cells were slowly dieing in Oxygen and if taken to a vacuum chamber, they'd die even quicker. The cells required a living host, as this substance is similar to a parasite... except for the occasional bodily rejection if injected that would cause the body to literally shrivel up and poof into dust.
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Ray furrowed his brow. "Not bringing technology to Giovanni is a good place to start."
Giovanni stepped into the park, and sat Raz down. "Isn't this nice?"
The scientists were baffled, so they began breaking the serum down, and picking the individual chemicals apart. After a few moments, one of the scientists stepped up to Gypsie's cell, and spoke. "If you tell us what's in this stuff, we'll give you an endless supply."
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Felicity pressed a button on the wall, "It was just a halogram anyway... so, what should we do then?"
Raz looked around as he was sat down, seeing the park empty didn't make him want to really do anything.
Gypsie looked at the scientist, "I. Don't. Know... I was just injected with the stuff by an old GEAR Shadow team... I killed them all... so good luck on finding out how to make it!"
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The scientist shrugged. "Holding out on information hurts you more than us." He then went back to his work.
Ray shrugged. "It depends on where the kid is. If he's on the lab floor, it'd be as easy as walking in, snatching him, and running like hell. If he's with Giovanni, well...we won't be getting the kid."
Giovanni sat down on a nearby bench, and snapped. A few children's-park related things materialized, along with holographic kids.
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Raz was starting to like this less and less, so much that he ran back to the door they came in, managing to burst through the door by ramming it... but he seemed to ram a wall, losing where the door had gone.
Gypsie yelled back to them, "I don't know! It wasn't my choice to get my hand surgically fused with a metal claw!"
Felicity thought, "Do you know his schedule? Sleeping or even business?"
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The containment cell seemed to warp like a bubble, and Raz ended up on the outside. Giovanni stood, and moved to follow. "Raz?"
Ray nodded. "Kinda? Valentine's going to be in town today, so he should be busy."
The scientists ignored Gypsie, and continued working.
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Raz pushed through the bubble, confused for a moment before getting back on his feet and running back through the door and then trying to find a way put of these twisting hallways. Raz can't run as fast due to how small his legs are.
Felicity thought again, "How cooperative is she? Does she even like Giovanni?"
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((Just to let you guys know, I'm still here and would LOVE to continue, but Magic Moka seems to be busy or something. I'm mostly just waiting on her so I/we can continue.))
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Ray shook his head. "She's married to Giovanni, she won't betray him."
Giovanni moved to follow Raz, but his phone vibrated. He stopped and checked his texts, and sighed. "Be safe, little Razputin. There are a few things I must attend."
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Felicity groaned, "Is anybody close to him willing to help us?"
Raz kept wandering the halls, running through the legs of scientists, trying to catch him.
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Ray shook his head. "No. We're on our own. Everyone's got an obedience override."
A few scientists finally created a sort of body-barricade, and caught Raz. "What're you doin', running all over the lab floor, Razputin?"
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Felicity slammed her hand on a desk, "Dammit! ... wait... GEAR has giant robots, right? We can steal one and make a mock war between Giovanni and GEAR to shield our retrieval of the child!"
Raz let out a cry as he was picked up, squirming and trying to break free. If any of the scientists would notice, a low and dense sound started to resonate from Raz's soulstone as his stone was sensing immediate danger.
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Ray shrugged. "Not a bad plan, actually."
The scientists, afraid of Giovanni's wrath, immediately set Raz down. "Okay! Sorry!"
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Felicity smiled, "Great! Now... I'mma need back inside that head again... GEAR doesn't like me either... I turned all of their shipments of spare parts one day to bottled air... they never found out it was me... but I did have a good laugh... however, they also know it was me... I left a calling card on the crates, being one of my dead nanobots."
Raz huffed as he was set down before running again, his stone returning to it very very low hum it would normally produce
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Ray shrugged. "That's fine, lead on."
The scientists collectively sighed, and went back to work.
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Felicity clapped her hands together, " Perfect! Now, hold on!", she then lunged at Ray's head, aiming for his cranial plate.
Raz eventually came to a viewing room overlooking an arena.
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Ray blinked, as Felicity re-entered his head. "I don't think I'm ever gonna get used to this. So, to the old Gear building, then?"
Two raccoons entered the arena, dressed in archaic armor and wielding old weapons. They circled each other for a few moments, before charging. Blades sang, armor clanked, and blood was shed as the two tried to down their opponent.
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Felicity sat inside Ray's head, the rest of her body wiggling in until there was no trace of her outside him, "I suppose so... but I read about a recent building that was built... the security is shit, so we should be able to get in quickly... also, on the desk over there, a gauntlet should be sitting there... grab it and put it on.", the gauntlet had a shiny chrome finish, and it beaded the same patterns as Felicity's fur, "It's a modified power glove... thing used to be a game controller or something... one of the limited edition ones too! Anyhow, I've augmented it to control minor vehicles and make them drive forward or backward... it can only control 2 small machines or 1 large one at a time, so be wary of your choices."
Raz sat there mortified as he saw the blood spill, making him expel vomit onto the window, making the one way mirror become clear like a pane of glass.
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Ray picked up the gauntlet, and threw it on. "Huh, a machine controller?" He started out of the building, and climbed into the car. "So where's the building?"
One of the raccoons went down, and his opponent stepped up. Instead of killing him, he helped his opponent up, and they both limped to the medical room.
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Felicity put a way point up, "I believe it's in the warehouse district..."
Raz had laid down by the point, shuddering for having puked on the glass, even if the blood seen was very small.
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Ray nodded. "On the way."
A janitor spotted Raz's vomit, and sighed. He began cleaning it, whistling quietly.
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Felicity decided to look around inside Ray's head, "There's some corrupted files in here... want me to fix them?"
Raz shakily got up, staggering a walk as he went past the janitor, having lost the will to run and try and escape... he just wanted to avoid Giovanni, but he needed some food since he just puked out the food he had eaten earlier.
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The janitor smiled at Raz, and withdrew a candy bar from his pocket. "Here." He placed it on the floor, and walked away.
Ray shrugged. "Go for it."
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Felicity fooled around with Ray's files, and just as she found the last 0, she held it before the file, having no clue as to what was on them, before she placed the 0 in, hoping Ray was alright outside... and wondering if he had remembered anything.
Raz shakily looked at the bar, lunging at it before hungrily eating it, his movements sad and beaten
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The janitor knelt slowly, reaching out slower still.
Ray blinked, but didn't seem to react to the files' reactivation.
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As his side was touched, Raz flinched, his mind relapsing to when he was in his more beaten home.
Felicity looked through the file, not really finding anything of importance.
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Near the end of the file, a line of text read simply 'Project Caster', but was apparently tampered with at the source, as the next lines pertaining to the project were gone.
Ray pulled up to the waypoint and dismounted.
The janitor drew his paw back. "Sorry, didn't mean t'startle ya." He looked around for a moment before whispering to Raz. "You want outta here, little fella?"
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Felicity looked at the file, trying to repair the last bits, but without the source, she was SOL, "Ray? What's Project Caster?"
Raz sucks the last bit of the bar into his mouth, looking quickly up at the janitor, nodding his head quickly.
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The janitor smiled, looked around again, and produced a trash bag. "Hop in."
Ray nodded. "One of Giovanni's experimental branches. Don't know what it's about, but I think it's something like mobile medical bays."
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Raz looked up at the janitor and them to the bag before climbing inside and looking up at the janitor through the top of the bag.
Felicity hummed , "Hmm... I'm thinking it may be... did you notice that those purple raccoons looked to same? I'm thinking 'Caster' is relating to clones."
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The janitor then started towards the back of the building. After a few minutes, he climbed into a beat-up old jalopy, and started out. He let Raz out of the bag into the passenger seat. "Where're ya headed, little guy?"
Ray shrugged. "Coincidence, I guess." A file activated quickly when Felicity brought up the other employees.
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Raz wanted to speak, but still had no way of doing so, to which he just curled up on the seat, not knowing what to do.
Felicity hummed, "Well, whatever the case, let's get inside... wait... that car over there... th car is still on... I think Sombody else is inside... but nobody is usually around here!"
(Moka doesn't seem to be moving, so those with her, I am sorry of I have mistaken the building you're in, but if you wanna do shit, I'd say play along)
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Blue rolled his eyes. He'd been leaning up against the wall for what felt like over an hour. Was the guy that Six wanted them to see even in there? The more he had to wait, the more anxious he became. The more he assessed the situation, the less comfortable he was, waiting for this mysterious Mr. One to let them in - and for God-knows-what. Raz could be in mortal danger, and here he was, just casually waiting. He'd tarried long enough.
He waited for the perfect moment for when Six had her back turned, and he dashed down the hallway and hopped out the window. He grabbed ahold of a pipe to keep himself from plummeting to his death, and he rode it all the way down to the ground.
He couldn't help from feeling a pang of guilt from leaving Richard there alone. Hopefully, he would be alright. But, as it was, there was nothing Blue could do.
"Sorry, Rich. I'll catch you later," he murmured under his breath.
A small leap and a strong landing later, he landed on solid ground. He looked around, wondering where to begin looking for Raz. He sighed and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Now what....?"
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Ray leaned closer to the windshield and tilted his head. "That's the janitor." He quickly grabbed his phone and made a call.
The janitor, whose nametag read Krazz, picked up his phone. "Krazz here."
Ray blinked, and spoke. "Krazz? What're you doing outside?"
Krazz smiled, as he looked down at Raz. "Went out for some fresh air. I need y'help though."
Ray nodded. "Alright, I'll follow you."
He hung up, and returned his attention to Felicity. "It's Krazz, a good friend and janitor at the facility. He's up to something. Change of plans, we're following him."
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Felicity looked back at the facility, "B-but... giant killing robits! I better be gettin' a drone after this..."
Raz stumbled out behind Krazz, his eyes lighting up as he saw outside sky, getting overly excited as he tried to jump out of the janitor's cart as he wanted to run from being happy that he finally got out.
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Ray chuckled. "You will, don't worry."
Krasnodar pulled into the parking lot of an old, delapidated apartment bloc and waited for Ray. "Patience, little mite. We'll get 'cha in good paws yet.
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Felicity chuckled, but the chuckles soon fade as she noticed a new file, I side being an assortment of names, Felicity began listing them off, asking Ray if any of the meant anything.
Raz sat back down, watching the bride in the skies, to which he simply looked at them, his wings flapping periodically... but Raz was still too weak to fly. His wing needed to heal from earlier events.
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Ray shrugged. "A few of the names are Giovanni's friends, like Lambeur and Dafonz. The rest are employees that're lower security than I am." Ray stopped as they reached Krazz, who waved nonchalantly in return. Ray sighed, and dismounted the car.
Krazz smiled and gestured to Raz. "Little feller showed up barfin' all over everything. So I figured we'd best get 'im out."
Ray nodded. "Sure enough. Looks like the dragling those marks were carrying."
Krazz shook his head, his aged features creased in displeasure. "Tol' ya not t'be doin' that stuff, boy. Anyway, figured you'd have a better angle on what t'do."
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Raz stopped his jumping, trying to fly, when he noticed Ray approaching, unsure of what to do, Raz scuttled behind Krazz, trying to hide.
Felicity looked back at through Ray's eyes and she yelled inside his head, "That's the dragling? What's so special about him?"
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Ray shrugged. "Giovanni gets what he wants, I guess this little guy is important." The raccoon knelt, and offered a paw. "Don't worry little guy, I'm not gonna take you back there."
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Raz backed up, viewing Ray as one of the purple raccoons, scaring him a little bit as he tried to hide more behind Krazz
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(Me and blue's situation is dictated by what Moka does next , and they haven't posted in ages, sorry)
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Ray sighed. "Seems the seeds of distrust art already sown." He stood, and adjusted his suit. "Krazz, you should get back to the facility." The elderly raccoon nodded, starting towards his car.
Ray looked down at Raz. "What were the names of your friends? Blue and Rick, right?" He whipped his phone from his pocket. "Felicity, look up one of my recent marks, should be named Blue. Get me his number if you could, please."
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Raz looked back at Krazz as he walked away, unsure of what to do until he perked up from hearing Blue's and Rick's name, "Bluuu? Ric....hard?"
Felicity quickly looked through the marks after finding the folder, "Found it!... it's up and ready to call when you're ready.
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Ray nodded. "Yeah, gimme a sec." He dialed the number, and waited.
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"Maybe Ludwig could help me," Blue said, thinking of an old badger he knew. He didn't know him very well, but, still... it was all he had to go on-
Suddenly, his pocket buzzed rhythmically. Blue cocked his head. Richard? He wondered as he retrieved his cell.
"Anonymous," he read on the screen. He shrugged and tapped the green circle as he brought it up to his head. "Blue speaking, may I ask who is calling?..."
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Ray shook his head. "If I told you, you won't show. I've got your little dragon, safe and sound. Corner of Galveston and Carasol ST. Parking lot of the apartment building nearby." He then hung up, and looked down at Raz. "Blue answered, but I don't think Richard was with him little friend." Ray sighed, and sat. "I'm sorry my associates treated you as they did."
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Raz looked at Ray, walking a bit toward him, "Blu 'c'-ome? No Rihard?", Raz said as tears started to fill his eyes as he missed them both dearly, "Where Rihard!?"
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Ray shook his head. "No tears, dragling. He's alive I'm sure. I just don't have his number. Blue will know where he is, I'm positive of that."
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Blue blinked and stared at his phone after the abrupt "click."
"It's a trap," he said, almost certain. "But I've got nothing to lose. And I'll do everything in my power to keep that dragon from harm. He doesn't deserve it."
He pocketed the phone and brushed his paw over the gun that Hank had lent him just the other day.
He took a deep breath, then pushed off the ground, his speed climbing to that of a full run in an instant.
"Raz, here I come."
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Ray looked at Raz, curious about the stone lodged in the dragling's chest. "Felicity, you got any idea what that thing in his chest is?"
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Felicity looked at it, quickly causing a jolt in Ray's head as the data she was pulling from the readings were too much, "Uhh... not at all... but it has an unyielding power... seemingly it's alive... but it also isn't..."
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Ray winced as sparks flew from the cerebral port. "Good thing we got him outta there."
From Blackburn HQ, unmarked black vans rolled out in droves. They stopped at street corners apparently at random. A few moments later, large groups of purple raccoons disembarked. The were unarmed, and dressed in day-to-day attire. They then spread out, acting as if they lived in nearby areas. They entered apartments that were leased to them.
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Blue began nearing the intersection that the stranger had mentioned. He hadn't come across any real reasons to feel afraid - nothing out of the ordinary. Soon, a parked vehicle came into his field of view. Around it was two furs and... Raz!
Blue felt his heart leap when he realized the dragling was okay, but he resisted the urge to go running up to him. No, that wouldn't be the best idea, given the circumstances. He walked at a brisk pace, taking deliberate steps and keeping his head on a swivel for any funny business they might try to pull. As he got closer, he thought he recognized the purple raccoon... but it was too late now. He stopped a few dozen yards away.
"I believe you have my friend," Blue said, announcing his presence.
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Raz looked around, his eyes shining as he saw Blue, but was stricken with so much happiness that he didn't know what to do, and his happiness could be seen plainly on his face and his tail, with tears falling from his eyes.
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Ray lifted his paws. "I'm not up to anything. Returning stolen property is all."
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Richard watched upon the scene from a nearby roof, scanning the area around the van, with a rope ready to swing in. He hummed to himself as he loaded a shotgun and took off his coat, casting it aside
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((Sorry about the delay. My computer blew up. fix'd now :P ))
Blue rolled his eyes internally. Ray again!
"We really seem to run into each other a lot, I've noticed," he said warily. His eyes went to Raz, and he smiled a little. "Just returning him, no catch?... It's not often that someone just wanders around looking for good karma...."
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Ray sighed as he lowered his arms. "I had no previous intention to return the dragon, but a friend convinced me otherwise."
On the necks of each raccoon that left the vans, an almost imperceptible 'L6' was tattooed upon their flesh. They were jovial, making friends quickly and joining social circles even quicker. They ate and drank, joked and smiled, laughed and loved. They were, to the unaware, normal.
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Blue cocked his head to the side and studied Ray's face. He nodded. He believed him.
Blue padded cautiously around Ray over to Raz and knelt down before him.
"You okay there, Raz?" He thumbed gently over the dragon's cheek. "How about we get out of here. What do you say?"
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As blue came closer, Raz jumped into his arms, padding at his chest as he nuzzled under his chin while tears of happiness fell down his face, "BLuu!!!"
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Blue chuckles and wags his tail happily, nuzzling the dragling in return.
"I'm so glad you're safe!!"
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Richard looks down at what was happening and smiled, he left for a safe route down the building
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Blue pulls out his phone and sends Richard a message:
"Rich, I hope you got out okay. Sorry I kinda disappeared on you. But you should know I found Raz. He's okay. ^_^ "
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Richard pulls out his phone after receiving a message, he replies to Blue
"o thank god. cheers xx"
He put the phone away giggling to himself and continued to walk down the steps of the building
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Ray stood slowly, paws raised peacefully. "Alrighty...I'm glad I got you to reunited. Now, I'm gonna...head off...don't do anything crazy now...lost all m'bargaining chips and all." He added the last bit with a smile.
More 'L6' raccoons were being deployed to the police force. Offered as cheap, efficient, and willing to work without pay. Soon, within a few minutes, the police force was made up of almost half the 'L6' raccoons, though the police wouldn't know that. Within hours, half the deployed police force would be nothing more than 'L6' raccoons.
Giovanni sat in his office, paws folded in front of him. "Police commissioner, I assure you my 'L6' synthetic work force will be more than satisfactory. And with their pre-disposition for my S-113 'Grom' battlesuit, your city will be more than defended. Hell, most criminals wouldn't think of standing against a fleet of Groms, or the 'L6'. I thank you for your time." The holo-call closed, and the massive raccoon pounded his desk. "They stole m'dragling! Once the 'L6' own the police force, I want the rogue agents and those damn marks dead!"
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Raz reached out for Ray, running to him to grab onto his pant leg, tugging at it whenever he would try to walk away.
Gypsie sat in her cage, groaning as if she were sick, so when a guard came close to her cage, yelling at her with a question, and when she didn't reply, the guard came into her cage and Gypsie grabbed him by the head and posed him in front of her as she attempted to walk out of the cage, keeping one of her sharp claws pressed against the guard's neck, pressing it gently against his neck.
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"Whatever the reason," Blue said to Ray, "thank you."
"Raz, we should go. We need to get to someplace safe. Everyone seems to be after you, for whatever reason. I know someone that should be able to protect you, but we should get moving, alright?"
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As soon as Gypsie set foot outside her cell, two gigantic sentry guns trained on her immediately. The barrels began to spin up, preparing to fire. "Halt, or be destroyed," the robotic voice barked.
Ray pulled himself away from Raz, and continued moving.
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Gypsie growled and pressed her sharp claw against the guard's neck, hiding herself from view behind the guard. Gypsie spoke to the guard, "Make them turn off or I will kill you!", the guard panicked and spoke in the only language he could speak fluently, "Herunterfahren! Heilige Scheiße! Herunterfahren!"(Shut down! Holy Shit! Shut down!), the guard would be quivering as Gypsie pressed her claw against his neck, ready to dart, her hands already on an access card from the guard's pocket.
Raz fell onto the ground and tried to get up again but didn't manage, he then tried to call out for Ray, but his words fell short as tears welled in his eyes, despite having known Ray for a short time, Raz had grown fond of him, and it hurt him to see Ray leave now.
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The guns opened fire, their twenty millimeter projectiles spitting forth with a chorus of 'chunks chunks chunks'. The poor merc's body armor couldn't withstand the giant rounds, and he was reduced to a messy pile of meat and goo. The guns continued to track Gypsie, their firepower unmatched by anything in the building.
As the sentries opened fire, containment guards were deployed to the wing Gypsie was located. Armed with adjustable stun batons, gas-grenades and stingball rifles, their sole purpose was to stop Gypsie from getting free.
Scientists in the Blackburn labs had made great strides with Gypsie's serum, as rough duplicates were poured into glass vials.
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Gypsie dropped the body and lunged at the one of the turrets, jamming her claw inside it and cutting it down before trying to lunge at the other, guarding her face with her metal claw.
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As the guards rushed in, all connection to the building were sealed, and Giovanni's voice boomed over the intercom. "What do you want, Gypsie?"
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Gypsie tore the other turret from the ceiling and threw it to the ground, to then look at the speaker, "What does it **censor** look like!? I want to get out of here!", she then added on, "And the serum 2ont do anything for you! It makes your blood boil if you don't have the genes for it... but if you make it past 2 days without headaches and growing pains, you're safe... otherwise, Poof, there goes your head.", she chuckled and looked menacing towards the guards.
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Giovanni smiled. "So, how's about a deal? You let us get a single, complete copy of your DNA, and I'll personally give you a nearly infinite supply of your serum?"
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Gypsie growled and shook her head, "Tough shit! I'm not giving you a single bit of me!", she looked at the guards and growled deeply at them, her claw infront of her belly.
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Giovanni sighed. "Then I'll leave you in there until your accelerated aging cripples or kills you. I'm a patient man, Gypsie."
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Gypsie paid no mind to Giovanni's voice as she crouched down to the floor, tapping her claw on the floor, listening for a hollow area, but to the others, it would appear that she was simply trying to intimidate.
Her ear twitched, she had found what she was looking for, it sounded hollow, and from what she could tell, it was a vent, so with this knowledge, she crouched behind her metal claw hand and slowly pressed into the metal floor, the metal floor creaking with strain as it broke, "This isn't the first time I've been in a glorified prison... but burning from the inside out is the least of your concerns... just wait for the explosions...", still, this would seem like an intimidation attempt on the guards there.
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Suddenly, a strong electrical current pulsed through the vent Gypsie was attempting to escape through. The guards began to close around Gypsie, their stun rods arcing with electricity.
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Gypsie recoiled her hand and let out a loud scream as her body writhed and squirmed from the electricity surging through her, but the metal floor wouldn't help the case for the soldier's as the surge would affect them to, and Gypsie 2ould struggle to.make sure of this as she arched the electricity to spread across the ground she was on.
As she would struggle, she would start drooling as she started to lose conciousness, trying to stay adamant on not letting Giovanni take her DNA
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The guards' hard-rubber boot soles kept them from feeling the shocking sting, and closed even closer.
Giovanni sighed. "Tsk tsk tsk...this could've been avoided Gypsie. Just one strand of your DNA. Blood sample, hair sample..." As he spoke, a guard brought out a large syringe-type device and pulled some of Gypsie's saliva. "Even spit works. I wanted to keep you around, dear. You seemed kinda fun. But it's nice to know you're a real Debbie Downer."
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Gypsie's mouth began to froth, her back cracking and arching, her body becoming more and more muscular as she ripped her claw out of the ground and swung her sparking metal claw at one of the guards, the guard being hit standing still for a moment before be turned into Baloney slices.
Gypsie would attempt to pounce on another guard her pupils tiny and slotted, "MOVE!!", she said in a much deeper voice. She didn't want to kill, but Giovanni forced her hand; her massive metal claw hand.
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Giovanni shook his head and sighed. "You're more interesting than I thought, Gypsie. But, I'm afraid you just won't learn to play nice." Another set of turrets opened up from the ceiling, this time firing electrified nets at Gypsie.
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Gypsie growled at Giovanni and impaled the guard under her and 3 others around her, crying out as the Nets came on top of her, she managed to shred two of them with her metal hand, the smell of burning flesh in the room from how much electrical burning had effected her normal hand.
Gypsie did not managed to throw the final net off, it getting tangled in her claw and wrapping her arms to her body, crying out as the net electrified her body, "Th-th-the v-vial i-is brok-ken... y-yiu c-can't get it... y-yiu h-have a d-dud!", she screamed out before collapsing onto the ground, exhausted.
Outside the building, Raz swore that he heard screaming, looking worried back at the building as the janitor that helped him, reentered the facility.