Syraei and Kesai - RPLOG
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Date
25/3/2013
Log
Antiman grimly looks at hir sister-mate, "Kesai was snatched from our doorstep by what we believe to be agents of RSX. I think information about the Nanites that were being injected into Kesai was leaked and that RSX wants samples to possibly weaponize." Sie flattens hir ears, "You know what the conquences could be if anyone comes up with some kind of mind control weapon."
Dio was about to walk out the door, but stopped once Meni came in. The lion simply nods his head while Anti explains the situation. "That about sums everything up. We're going to go down there and check things out. It'd be best if we found her soon before they start doing crazy stuff to our little vixen."
Tau asks of anti "What's this about mind control by the way? I'm missing something here." Sie takes a moment to make sure hir weapon is ready, clean, armed, so on and so forth.
Meniatz narrows hir eyes as sie de-activates the safety on hir electrified chainsword. "Could you excuse me for a moment? I'll be right back." Sie pads into hir room and comes back with a small brown pouch on hir belt. "Okay. I'm ready." Sie hears Tau's question as sie re-enters the room. "We have reason to believe that a division of RSX injected Kesai with experimental nanites to control her. I also have reason to believe that that division will be divided even further within the next few hours or so." Sie gives Tau a scratch behind the ears and hands him two treats. "You look hungry. Make sure to keep your strength up, love." Sie stretches hir wings and walks half-way out the door. "So, are we ready to go, my beloved brother and sister-mates?"
Antiman looks at Tau with hir head cocked in such a way that seems to communicate confusion. Sie had thought that sie had mentioned this in the kitchen. Perhaps sie told Dio about this before Tau had come back into the kitchen. Sie looks at Meni in surprise, "RSX came up with it, love? I found the hypo in Kesai at Zypher after sie escapes from some 'wite coats'. Is there a security problem at Zypher?"
Dio longingly looks at the treat, as the lion has been quite hungry himself lately. However, he tries to hide it the best he can. After all, there are more important things at the moment. "From what I've gathered, Zeph experimented and RSX wants. I'm sure we'll figure something out with some investigation."
Tau grins as sie took the treats. Sie'd just had some food given by Anti, but sie wasn't about to say no. Certainly not. Sie chomped on one and notices dio staring. Sie really REALLY doesn't want to do this, but sie holds the remaining one out to him and says "Here."
Meniatz nods. "Most likely, love. Either this was the result of corporate espionage or collusion between the two factions." Sie growls a softly as sie continues. "Regardless, I've developed several new strains of nanites based off of the samples in Kesai's hypo. I can't wait to test them." Sie says with a wicked grin. Seeing Tau give Dio one of hir treats, Meni's expression softens a bit as sie gives the wolf a hug. "You're so generous, love! It's one of your best qualities~" Sie nibbles at Tau's ear before giving hir a kiss. "If you're hungry, Dio, you don't need to hide it." Sie says with a smile as sie pulls out two more treats. "I've got plenty to go around." Sie tosses one to Dio and gives the other to Tau.
Antiman thought that sie could see Dio look hungerly at the treat in Meni's hand but chuckle purs at the thought. The ration that sie gave Dio was enough calories to feed someone for an entire day, "Last night must have taken alot out of you, love. That ration pack is enough to feed someone for an entire day. You were badly hurt though so the nanites might need the energy as well to make deeper repairs." Sie was happy that Tau was able to think beyond his own stomach when it came to treats. Sie give Meni a searching look, "As long as it's a benifit to all love I'll support you in your research." Sie does a quick check on hir pouches including the one with...energetic compounds and devices to make sure that sie has everything that sie thinks that sie might need, "I'm ready to go. Everyone make sure you have everything that you might need because we're not going to have it over there."
Dio chuckles a little when Tau offers him hir treat. He holds out and shakes his paw in response. "I really appreciate the offer, but I'm fine. The ration just hasn't digested yet, so my body still thinks I'm quite hungry." However, he certainly doesn't refuse the treat tossed to him as the lion chomps it down in one go. "Thank you very much, ma'am. It was delicious as always. Anyways..." Dio claps his paws together once. "We should be off before we lose too much time. I'm ready to go when you guys are."
Tau grinned again and took the treat. Aw yeah, it really did pay off sometimes to be nice to people. Sie smirks to Dio's reaction. "Oh, so you won't take a treat from me, but you'll take one from Meniatz, I see how it is." Sie says jokingly before eating the treat sie got. "Right then. I got a pack full of ammo and my trigger finger's itchy. Let's move."
Meniatz picks up Dio and stretches hir wings as sie pads out the door. "Okay, love. It should be quicker if we fly. Just hold on tight while I carry you. Anti can carry Tau, since you're a bit too big to fly with hir." Sie gives Dio a kiss as sie takes off.
Antiman gets down on all fours and crouches down for Tau to climb on, "Don't worry, love. I've carried bigger."
"Whoa!" Dio certainly looked surprised as he was scooped up. "Can't say I've been carried before, but I'm sure it'll be more fun than the helicopter." Dio returns the kiss as they fly off.
Tau climbs up on Antiman and wraps hir arms and legs around hir. "Okay. Ready."
It was a rather long flight from Fairhaven California to Woodfield City Washington; cold, windy, and a little wet but rather uneventful. Strangely, no other creatures had even come within sight on their flight to the RSX headquarters. Until one looked down towards the ground along their flight path where lay broken bodies of flying creatures and, if one's eyes were sharp enough, a glimmering trail of spent chaingun cartridges.
As they neared the city, there glimmered not only the RSX building, but a flame and smoke spewing wreckage of one of the helicopters they'd been following. It had made a hard landing in the city streets in a mass of twisted metal just short of the RSX building.
Meniatz looks around the area, horrified and disgusted by the shattered remains of the various winged creatures. They had once been human. Some of them probably still had their wits about them--certainly moreso than the animals who did this. "This place reeks of death. Be careful, loves."
Dio looks and admires all the wreckage, doing an impressed whistle as he does. "Wow, that's certainly something." Dio uses a paw to point down at all the wreckage not far away from the RSX building. "Perhaps we should begin our investigation there? Could be some more clues in that wreckage."
Tau shouts to the others "Jeez, what the hell happened? I hope kesai wasn't in that one!" After dio speaks, sie adds "That makes sense. There should be at least *something*." How many of the flying creatures were there? Did they all rush the copters, or what? And why?
Antiman found the flight to Wood field to be erily silent. Given hir catbird eyesight sie could see the broken bodies of fliers whos only crime was being in the choppers flight path. Sie was horrified and pissed at the sight, "How meny that could have been brought back from being lost have they killed? How meny brothers, sisters and spouses?" Sie nods at hir siste mate. Sie took grim satafaction at seeing on of the helecopters in flame but hoped that it wasn't the one that Kesai was in, "Good idea Dio. We need to know if that was the one that Kesai was in. We need to assume that they rescued survivors, but if not we need to be careful. I hope no one has a problem with rigourious questioning?"
Meniatz sniffs the air, hoping to get Kesai's scent as sie tosses a large chunk of scrap metal out of the way. "Kesai!? Are you in there?" Sie then turns to Tau. "Could you be a good guard wolf and make sure we don't get taken by surprise while Anti, Dio, and I clear out some of this wreckage?"
Whomever had reached the wreckage first hadn't even bothered to strip the vehicle, but that was a moot point since the vehicle was burning rather vigorously. However, the rope that had carried the soldiers and Kesai under the aircraft lay almost neatly laid out east to west on the street. By the position of the aircraft, it was apparent that the pilots and crew had given their lives to ensure the safe landing of the troops and vixen that were attached to the craft. Other than two sets of boot prints leading up to and away from the aircraft, all other foot prints lead north towards the RSX building... except for one drag trail that lead into a building not immediately in danger of burning or collapsing.
The scent of Kesai, especially the strong scent of her heat, lead right up to the rope that had been attached to the helicopter and due north to the RSX building. No troops or aircraft were in sight.
Meniatz examines the boot prints and sniffs the air, finding Kesai's scent. Sie smiles and guides hir sibling-mates north towards the scent, taking great care not to catch the attention of any RSX agents in the area.
"Rigorous questioning is one of my specialties," Dio says with an awfully large grin. The lion's previous life of various criminal activities often called for acts of intimidation and the occasional bluff. Dio helps to sort through the wreckage until the footprints are found. He sniffs around in the air and also catches Kesai's scent. In a loud whisper, the lion murmurs, "You guys smell that too? Let's follow it." He waves to the others and follow behind Meni.
Tau follows after Meni, and makes sure to keep a close eye on their surrounding so nothing could sneak up on them. Sie couldn't smell what dio did, Sie wasn't very proficient in animal matters, despite the hold hir instincts had on hir. "I can't. I can't really...pick out smells too well."
Antiman looks around for survivors as they approach the downed helecopter. Sie hopes that there is one to question. Sie doubts it though given the proximity to RSX headquarters and how sevear the crash appeard to be, but it doesn't keep hir from hoping. And if the RSX agent shoud be uncoprerative that's one of the reasons sie has a few infection vials. Sie takes no pleasure in mutating some one against their will but it can be effective in getting someone to answer questions. As they get closer to the wreckage hir suspisions are confirmed no survivors present. Sie could read to trails and the scents just as well as hir sister-mate. Sie follows hir sister-mate with all due caution. Sie wishes not for the first time that sie had a firearm. Sie remembers that sie had quite a collection of them before P-day. For some reason the memory brings up resentment for some organization called TSA. Sie open beak grins at Dio's response, "Hir scent is unmistakable," Sie wispers back. *As is the scent of fear on it as well.* sie thinks. Flicks an ear at Tau, "We'll help teach you how latter love." Sie wispers, "It's a great advantage that we have over the humans but it needs to be trained."
Whomever had planted the mines... probably should have gone back to basic training. Three claymore mines that would have filled the street with a cloud of death and pain faced down the street. All three claymore mines were very poorly hidden and it was obvious the detonator lead into a building watching the street. There was an audible click to those with sharp ears followed by... nothing. Then, even those without sharp ears could hear a string of curses.
Meniatz pats Tau on the head and gives hir a hug. "That's okay, love." Sie whispers something to Tau and nuzzles hir before returning to Kesai's trail. Hearing a loud *click*, Meni perks up hir ears and looks at the mines near hir feet. Scanning the from the detonator to the building, and hearing the profanities from within, sie grins as sie draws skyfang and pads slowly to the entrance. Without charging hir chainsword, Meni severs the exposed detonation line in case the architect of this little death-trap isn't completely incompetent. "I think we found them!"
Dio continues to search and sniff around until he notices all the rather obviously placed traps. He chuckles slightly in amusement until he hears the very distinct clicking noise and explosion. "I think we did indeed," the lion says with a grin in agreement. He chases after Meni making sure not to trigger any of the traps.
Tau looks to Meniatz after the whisper. Hir expression is kind of unreadable, but sie nods. Sie jumps a little at the click and then looks to the source of the curses. After a chuckle, sie says "Oh jeez. You gotta be kidding. The boys with bomb disposal would have a riot." And then follows after Meni and Dio.
Antiman using hir skills as an IED specialist spots the claymore mines with ridiclous ease. In fact sie was sure that a hapless kindergartener coud have done a better job. Sie opened hir beak to warn Meni who was getting way too close to the directional mines when sie heard the click of the detonator and nothing happened. Sie was professionaly discusted at the poor job. Sie pulled hir bolo blade out, "Rember love we'll need them alive." Sie said this to remind hirself as much as hir sister-mate. Sie crouch runs to the building that the detonator line came from. *Another thing to add to their list of incompentance.* Sie thinks, *Wireless command detonation would have been a lot more secure in the event of a failuar.*
Leading inside the building were drag marks from earlier, craving a trail through the dust and detritus of an unmaintained city but streaks of dried blood added to the trail. The drag marks continued into the building along with the blood, streaked across the tiled floor of what had been some sort of clothing shop and behind the counters. Inside, the smell of blood was quite evident along with the labored breaths of a lone RSX agent.
The human operative lay in a small, but growing pool of blood and her clothing was soaked in blood amidst her mangled lower legs. She was stripped of armor, weapons, and equipment save the detonator. It was apparent she was injured in the crash and was left behind as a suicidal rear guard for the rest of the troops.
Meniatz nods to Anti. "I know, love, but it doesn't need to be a good life." Sie cuts down the door sees the still-bleeding body of an unarmed human. "It would appear that your superiors believe you to be expendable. I'm going to level with you: We just came here to get our friend, Kesai back. If you cooperate and help us find her, we'll patch you up with our nanites." Sie picks up the human and begins to treat her wounds with a first-aid kit that meni had been keeping in hir bag. "Anti, could you help me stop the bleeding?" Meniatz was expecting to find a cadre of armed guards ready to throw their lives away in combat. Sie was saddened and disappointed to find this lone human, seemingly on the brink of death. The talakai actually felt sorry for the poor thing.
Dio walks into the building right behind Meni. He takes in all the surroundings of carnage around him. "Oh my, someone did quite a number in here." Eventually, he walks into the room with the human just clinging onto life. "Indeed, we'll help you out ma'am. At a cost of course. Information for your life. Sounds like a wonderful trade, no?" Dio also happens to notice the detonator within the human's hands and gets a little worried. "It'd be silly to give up your life for something like this. Or at least, I would hope so." He wonders just how valuable the research is.
Syraei laughs harshly, casting the assembled mutants a harsh glare as she clicked the detonator a few more times to no avail while hoping to squeeze even a little bit of charge from it. "Syraei Hunter. Corporal. Service number ne
Syraei laughs harshly, casting the assembled mutants a harsh glare as she clicked the detonator a few more times to no avail while hoping to squeeze even a little bit of charge from it. "Syraei Hunter. Corporal. Service number SNH594694199." She droned in a weakening voice repeatedly as she continued to try and click the ineffectual detonator.
Tau watches from the sidelines, reflecting how sad this was. Sie stepped over and puled the detonator from her hand. "Now stop that."
Antiman winces as hir sister-mate cuts down the door without checking for trip lines, "Careful, love the door could have been rigged. Just becose they were incopentant with one trap means that they were with others." Sie cauctiously makes hir way to the bleeding human and shakes hir head, "They really must have no thought much of you." Sie says as sie pulls out a couple of tourniquets and ties them up in the groin area to cut off the floo to the agents femorial arterie, "They didn't even bother with properly tieing a tourniquet on." Sie shakes hir head in pity, "They must have really hated you. I mean really the bad medical care and poorly positioned and faulty mines." Sie open beak grins the expression looking sinister as she tried to use the detonator again, "They must have been hoping a feral mutant found you first and made you their bitch."
Meniatz smiles and helps the human into an upright seated position. "Well, Syraei, I'm sure you're an excellent soldier, just like my mate, Tau." Sie gestures to the painted wolf who now holds the detonator. "But what your bosses are doing--kidnapping our friend and using her for their experiments against her will--It isn't right." Sie shakes hir head at Anti. "That's not something to even joke about, love. This woman has clearly been abandoned by people she trusted and is already in a bad way. Some members of RSX may do barbaric things to non-humans, but we don't have to behave as atrociously as they do." Sie then offers the human a drink of water from a clear plastic bottle. "Thirsty?"
Dio braces himself when the human kept pushing down on the detonator, but it would seem they aren't dead quite yet. After he realizes that fact, the lion lets out a little chuckle at her vein attempts to carry out a suicide bombing. He wondered how well this hospitality would go considering that the soldier was willing to die only a few moments ago. Now that the human doesn't carry a threat, Dio walks towards the bloodied human and crouches down next to her. He puts his muzzle quite close to her face and smiles. "Why aren't our friends the nice individuals. Why not tell us where our popular vixen is and we'll get you all fixed up?"
Tau gives a wave with one hand while supporting hir gun with the other. "Hey there. Name's Tau. You don't need to know my unit, rank, or number. I can at least say you're...admirable in carrying out your mission this far on the brink of death. That is, unless they forced you into this, in which case they're disgusting."
Antiman harshly chuckle purs, "Don't worry love I have no plans on raping her it just wouldn't be neighborly," Sie pulls out a neon collored vial from one of hir pouches, "That doesn't mean that I wouldn't mutate her." Sie looks at the vial, "I wonder which one this is." Sie shakes hir head, "I'm afraid I very much neglected to lable this one. It could be anything really. I wonder if you'll still be female after I use this." Sie holds it up threatonly above hir lips, "Of course it would regrow you your legs." Sie open beak smiles, "It's an interesting conundrum don't you think?"
The detonator was easily pulled from her pale hand and into Tau's. On it's terminals were connected wire that ran behind the injured human. Blood had fortunately shorted the terminals and prevented enough voltage from firing the detonators. Her pale, blood drained lips continued to repeat, "Syraei Hunter. Corporal. Service number SNH594694199."
As Meni lifted her upright, she revealed the blocks of explosives she'd been sitting upon. Syraei looked both suspiciously and thirstilly at the water bottle but suspicious outweighed her thirst and she turned away.
She turned to Tau, her glare dulled by the loss of blood, "Your name... rank... number." Part of her hoped the Uniform Code of Military Justice held some meaning to the painted wolf herm.
But now she turned a hardened gaze as she stared at Antiman and hir vial of nanites and distracted her enough not to answer with the mantra of her name and service number. "11-5 isn't s-safe." Her voice was robbed of it's strength as the adrenaline left her system and left her with the crushing fatigue of blood loss. "Kill me or mutate me but you won't get 11-5."
Meniatz brings Tau closer to Syraei. "Tau, please help me move Miss Hunter away from those explosives." Sie request as sie starts to pick up the injured human. "Oh, and Anti: please don't scare the poor girl." Sie turns to the RSX agent. "Now, then, Syraei, we aren't here to hurt you. I'm going to use my nanites to fix your body up a little bit--at least enough to get you into a more stable condition--but then I /really/ need to know where Kesai is. I'm sure you have enough of a conscience to realize that what you're doing to her is wrong. You call her '11-5,' like she's just a number--a test subject--but she's a person like you or me. And...she means alot to us. We've really had some great times with her." Meni begins transferring some of hir nanites into Syraei as sie continues, "We played with her, we talked with her, Anti even let her hold her newborn child." Sie says, pointing to the gryphon holding the vial. "And don't let her behavior fool you, Antimawn is actually a very nice person with a gentle demeanor. Sie's just really upset that people are tring to hurt Kesai and would do anything to help them." Meniatz has transferred enough nanites to slow the bleeding to a point where the soldier could breathe and speak far more easily. "I'm sure you'd do the same for your friends, right?" Sie says with a warm smile as sie pulls out a cookie and breaks it in half, offering one end to Syraei.
Intimidation usually doesn't work on those who are ready to just give up and die. That'd be Dio's usual approach to the problem, but the lion also favored a good bit of diplomacy if it could give him the things he needed. For now, he would let Meni, Anti, and Tau attempt to talk things out. "11-5, eh? Now that's an interesting nickname." Being right next to the human, Dio notices the explosives pretty quick. "Oh my. Those still aren't active, are they? The detonator might not have worked, but..." Dio didn't know too much about bomb defusal . In his law enforcement days, that was a job for the bomb squad. Even if sometimes they had to defuse something on the spot without them, there'd be someone on his team a bit more experience than he to do the job. "Indeed, let's get as far away from these as possible." While Meni did ask for Tau to help move the soldier, Dio decided to lend a hand. "Allow me to assist if you will."
Tau sighs and rolls hir eyes. "Micheal Tau Washington. Corporal as well, number...183...Damn. It's been years since I needed to recite this, sorry." Sie looks away as sie thinks "183...4...0...ah! 8997! 183408997! Wow, I'm surprised I remembered." Sie clears hir throat and looks back to her. "That good enough for you, Ma'am?" Sie smirks before picking her up off the explosives and moving to get her outside of the building "Or do you wanna know the names and ranks of my unit members, too?" He nods to dio and says "Nah, I got it."
Antiman simply open beak smiled in a manner that could have been described as creapifying, "Why would you think I was trying to scare the poor girl." Sie said in an absolutly calm voice. "I was simply offering a choice." Sie looks at the vial and puts it away, "Don't worry dear. I'm sure I could find one that I labled if you tell us more. Sie gives more attention to the explosives, "Tau be a dear and disconeect the wire from the detonator. That should render everything safe." Sie wonders if sie could get a few blocks of C-4 after sie pulled the blasting caps out of them.
Syraei was too weak to resist the nanite transfusion with any effectiveness, though the returning strength began to show in both her voice and her form. "11-5 killed my squadmates and killed the crew. You're damn lucky she didn't kill any of you."
Hunter didn't resist as she was carried off the blocks of explosives by Dio and Tau and outside. "Am I a prisoner now?"
Antiman pot
Meniatz gives Syraei a small pat on the shoulder. "You aren't really a prisoner. We just need your help to find Kesai. She was actually really gentle around us. I'm surprised she would be violent, unless of course it was a result of the nanites your people injected her with." Meni picks up a few vials from hir bag and shows them to Syraei. "Miss Hunter, you're still hurt very badly, and I can't keep healing you the way that I was...not without harming myself, anyway. However, what we can do is give you one of these vials and let their nanites fix your body." Sie gives Syraei a small hug. "I know you probably place great value in your humanity, but we really want to help you, and this is the best option available to us right now." Sie shows her the labled vials. "Do you have...a preference? If you still really don't want to be transformed, we can see if we can find you more traditional medical care, but we wouldn't have much time, and we can't get you to a hospital until we've found our fennec fox friend. Please, just tell us where sie is." Meni implores Syraei.
"Prisoner? No no, all you have to do is get up and walk away." Quite an evil joke to make at the moment, but Dio had a good laugh about it despite the fact. Dio assists Tau in moving the soldier despite what shi said and helped to guide and prop her against a wall. "So our little vixen did all this business? Quite impressive I must say. How exactly did she do it? What kind of experiments were done on her that allowed her to kill armed guards? You seem quite dedicated to your unit. We're here to retrieve the vixen. If you don't give us information, more of your friends could die."
Tau makes the disconnect as Anti asked after dropping Syraei off. Sie couldn't help but smile at Dio's dark joke. Sie sat back and watched the proceedings.
Antiman pulls blasting caps out of three blocks of C-4 and carefuly sets the blasting caps aside. Sie had some of hir own in a seperate pouch naturaly. Sie puts the blocks in hir explosives pouch. *Their's still two helecopters left and I don't want to see them in the air after we leave.*, sie thinks. Sie walks out, "Kes doesn't have a violent bone in her body. She hides when things might get violent." Sie walks up next to the human and hir sister-mate hir bad mutant act dropped, "You must understand what your superiors are expermenting with is more dangerous and immoral than what the initial release of the nanites could have ever been." Sie opens hir armor to expose one of hir breasts "You could also suckle from my breasts. My milk has healing properties. It may not regenerate you're legs, but it will heal you up." *It also just might make you a gryphon and regenerate your legs, but who knows.*
