Up from the Bottom, Wipe Those Tears and Pass the Ammo Options

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:50:41
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Hidden

Rocky looks down at the struggling girl as she tries to push off his chest. He slowly tightens his grip on her and brings her close enough to his face so that she can feel his breath on her face as he speaks in a low growl, making sure the volume is loud enough to be heard.

"STOP STRUGGLING AND MESSING UP MY SUIT OR I'LL SNAP YOUR NECK!!" Once she stops Rocky loosens his grip so he will no loger be hurting her and continues to speak in a little more normal voice, "Look you slitch, I don't want to kill you but I can and will if I have to, but right now I just want to talk!"

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:50:43
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

The girl yelps in pain as Rocky increases his grip. She fells herself being pulled in closer and the hot swampy breath of her captor, "STOP STRUGGLING AND MESSING UP MY SUIT OR I'LL SNAP YOUR NECK!!"
The combined threats of pain, stench and death makes Caittie's brain just shut down for a second and her legs just fall limp off the troll's suit. Just afterwards her brain kicks back on in overdrive, as she has had enough. 'I've been exposed, shot at without a single word, and now being held by a giant who says he will kill me... Damnit, frag this.', she thought as her face showed more anger with each step.
"Look you slitch, I don't want to kill you but I can and will if I have to, but right now I just want to talk!", Caittie heard the man say in a less threatening tone, but she was too far gone to care.

"Fragging hell you want to talk! You... you, ASS!", she screamed, as she just couldnt verbalize her thoughts at that second due to a mixture of fear, anger and disbelief that what he was saying was true.
Her small form shivers with a combination of fear and the loss of body heat due to the flowing water out of the fire suppression system. With a mere thought and act of will, she commands the system's central control node to turn off the fire system, silencing the blaring alarms and sprinkler system.
In the near silence that follows, the sound of water dripping off her long soaked hair and dangling legs can be heard along with her shivering breath. In the distance, a small child cries due to some reason Caittie is yet unaware.

[Abbandon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:50:50
Cerberus - street samurai
PAN: Hidden

Cerberus looks up at the sprinklers as the water ceases to flow and then over to Rocky after hearing him threaten the girl to stop struggling. heh not like she has much choice, after seeing what that dude can do in the barbershop i think I would have trouble wrestling my way out of his grip.

Looks like they both had problems to deal with before they could leave. Removing his hand from the handle of the IWK where the trigger was Cerberus slowly raised his hand in the universal "stop/wait" position. With his other hand which was located at the middle handle which you mainly use for balance and control of the gun he very slowly unhooked it from the gyroharness and layed it on the ground.

Next he knelt down and pulled the shoulder strap of his hockey bag over his head and set it on he ground in front of him. Slowly digging through the sidepockets cursing inwardly at not remembering where he put stuff he finally found the item he was searching for. Slowly he pulled the white box out of one of the side pockets that had a big red cross on it, a medkit and he turned it so the asian lady could see the symbol...

[adamu]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:00

Despite her terrible injuries, the woman's eyes were aflame with emotion - skepticism and fear for her child, but mixed with a desire to live. She spoke to her child, who argued, but then she commanded him more sharply, eyes never leaving Cerberus, and finally the child fled down the stairs. Once he was gone, the woman lowered her gun.

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:00
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

Shivering with seething anger, fear and from lost body heat, Caittie just hung there between the giant's two hands holding firm grip on her upper arms. She heard movement from somewhere behind her but had no idea what it was about. All she did know what there were at least two hulking trolls somewhere around here, with one of them probably holding her up at the moment.

"You fraggin shot at me and then want to talk!? Wait... You were trying to shoot me! WHY?!", the small elven girl yelled at the person holding her. Her form shaking more than before, but for an entirely different reason.
'Why is this happening? Haven't I suffered enough as it is? What do you have against me?', she thought. Her breathing became ragged and if it weren't for the present water dripping down her body and the sheet wrapped around her eyes, you would see an emotional collapse in progress.

"Why?", she whispered through a quivering voice that pleaded for an answer.

[Abbandon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:18
Cerberus - street samurai
PAN: Hidden

Cerberus breathes a sigh of relief as he saw the woman lower her gun. He was sad about what had happened but considering what he had been sent here to do it had to be done. Cerberus walked over to the woman quickly but not so fast as to alarm her, atleast not any further. Popping open the medkit Cerberus began applying round sticky pads all over the woman's body and used a little hand held scanner to run over the woman's stomach which was the only obvious sign of trauma.

Recalling his days of training at Docwagon he was now frantically trying to remember everything he had been taught. Ok i hooked her up and scanned her now what? ...Oh yeah hit the button and follow the instructions.. Cerberus looked down at the medkit and stabbed one of the buttons with a big meaty finger. It made the machine start babbling about her injuries and how best to treat them. Apparently things had been worse then what he had originally guessed. Severed large intestine, lacerated kidney, perferated spleen.

As Cerberus grabbed clamps and gause and syringes he couldnt help but think of Dani and Nick and how easy they had made all this look. They would have had this woman patched up in no time but Cerberus was just focus'ed on not making anything worse. Grabbing a syringe he stabbed it into a healthy part of the woman's stomach which was to kill most of the pain. Next he removed a small botle of alcohol and used it to rinse his hands, now he was ready. Rummaging around in the womans stomach with both of his hands he frantically tried to find the hidden end of the intestine that used to be connected to the end laying outside of her body oozing what looked like crap onto the floor. Finding it he took the clamp out of the medkit and clamped it off. After that the machine told him to try and feel for the spleen. Sticking both of his hands back into the woman's guts he looked at her face and although he was pretty sure she wasnt in pain from his searching her face was showing alot of discomfort.

Cerberus finally found the spleen, taking what looked like a big bandaid from the medkit and stripping off the backing he followed the machines instructions and placed it over the hole in the spleen. Next up was kidney but the machine said it was best to leave that to the professionals and to inject her with something to help stop the bleeding. There she is stabilized

Cerberus sat there on his knees looking at his bloody hands and the woman he had shot and then things that had been happening around him suddenly started coming back to him almost like they were just now reaching his brain.

elf girl, ""You fraggin shot at me and then want to talk!? Wait... You were trying to shoot me! WHY?!".

Looking down at the woman he suddenly became very angry with the elf girl's outburst and began to get up so he could let her know exactly how angry she was making him but Rocky cut him off before he could say anything and the asian lady had also reached out and grabbed one of his hands which made him freeze. As Rocky began talking he sank back down to the ground and focused on what more he could do for the woman. He poked around on the medkit and tried to find the button to go about repairing some of these injuries and what to do with the intestines sticking out of her belly.

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:02
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Hidden

Rocky watches as Cerberus retrives his first aid kit and calms the situation with the injured woman.

Turning back to the girl that seems to be breaking down in his hands. "Its simple actually, just have a few questions for you to start with. First, are you a mage? Second why does Louie "Fish-Breath" Finnigan want you dead?" Rocky stops for a second, the continues, "Oh and are you the one that called the Star?"

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:05
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

Halfway through hearing the deep voice ask questions, Caittie just froze. She didn't breath, she didn't shake, she was just there hanging in mid air and felt like some someone had just kicked her in the gut multiple times. After a couple of seconds she started breathing again, but it was a slow steady breath, like nothing was wrong.
"Louie 'Fishbreath'? 'Nobody talks to Louie Fishbreath that way', Louie Fishbreath?", she asked back in a total calm and even voice, like she was asking what the weather was like. That changed in a mere instant though as she raged like a rabid badger stuffed down someones drawers.

"That son ofa bitch?! Do I know him?! THE FUCKING BASTARD KILLED MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!", she shreeked out with all her fury. Her breathing was rough and heavy she continued on, "If I was a mage, he would be freaking dead!"
At that, she took a deep breath, calmed down a bit and then gave a quick laugh, followed by a smirk, "Heh, and do you really think that turning off your comm will stop the Star from showing up, Mr. Apolo Withers?"

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:07
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Hidden

Trying not to laugh Rocky responds to the information the girl is providing, "Yes, I'm well aware that turning of my comm is not going to stop the Star! But it will stop you from Fraking with it any more."

Calming down a little Rocky continues with is questions, "So why did he kill your family and friends? And why is he so scared of you that he's gotta send two killer trolls to take care of you?"

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:11
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

"Why? Probably because Alex fried some meathead, like you, while trying to save Beth's life. But that doesn't matter now that their all dead!", she spits out as she grits her teeth. "All I did was jack their guns up before they shot us all, but before I could stop the skinny guy, he killed Beth!", she continued, with the memories burning in her mind. Her psyche was torn on whether to be sad for their loss or pissed off, and since she was already the latter, she continued on seething.

"Now why the hell are you bastards doing this?! Why work for a piece of shit that kills kids for trying to save their own lives?!", she demanded.

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:16
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Hidden

"Well thats a good question, and one that I have been asking my self for the last few hours." Confides Rocky. "So who is this Beth person and what did she do to piss off Louie?

Looking down at Cerberus, Rocky calls out to him, "You catch'in all this?" A bit louder than he planned but between the ringing in his ears and the complaints of his body it was the best he could do.

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:19
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

"The bastard came in and demanded that Beth pay for some sorta 'protection'. She told him that she was already paying someone else for this 'protection', but Louie dealt with the other guys, she would pay him, reluctantly...", Caittie replied, somewhat calming down after hearing her captor's confession.

"He then went nuts spouting, 'Nobody talks to Louie Fishbreath that way'. Thats when his meathead started beating up Beth...", she continued, hanging her head in defeat as she grit her teeth for having to live through the memories again.
She then took a quick breath and jerked her arms up as far as she could with the troll holding her shoulders. Before he could do anything, she grabbed at the makeshift blindfold and yanked hard on it. It flew forward off her head and into the troll's chest, where it made a light wet thud and then fell to the floor.

Opening her eyes to the dimly lit hallway, she looked her captor in the face, her green elven eyes taking in every detail.

[Abbandon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:18
Cerberus - street samurai
PAN: Hidden

Cerberus listens to the exchange between Rocky and the elf girl as he trys to heal some of the asian lady's injuries. "Yeah im listening, i just have my hands full at the moment.." Cerberus looks up right as the elf girl is pulling the blanket off her head and throwing it at Rocky's chest and panics, he had dropped his IWK to deal with the asian lady and it was out of reach now. If this chick was really a mage they would both be toast before they knew what had happened but nothing did happen. Combined with her earlier confession to being able to hack guns and comms Cerberus relaxed a bit.

Cerberus looked back down at the medkit moniter one last time. Not wanting to alarm the lady by shaking his head he just started disconnecting the sensor pads. The machine was telling him to do things he just didnt understand. He had atleast stabilized her condition but she needed help quickly if she was going to survive and with the cops on the way it was about 50/50. Cerberus finished packing up the medkit leaving behind the stuff she needed and could be easily replaced. Using his hands and head he made the what he hoped she understood as the sign for sleep and then he shook his head in a negative manner, he then reached up to his own eyes and spread them open. If she fell asleep now she would probably die.

He patted her on the hand with his big paw and then grabbed the medkit and carried it back to his hockey bag and put it in the same compartment he had pulled it from. Slipping it on over his head he reached down and grabbed his IWK, if he was right they were either gonna need it to shoot there way out of the building or shoot their way out of the building. He reattached it to the gyroharness and then walked over to Rocky and the girl.

A million things were racing through his head and all he could manage to do was listen to everything going on around him while he thought of a way to get out of this cluster @$%^.

[adamu]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:19

And as if he didn't have enough to worry about, Cerberus noticed an insistently flashing icon in the corner of his vision - incoming commcall from Angelo.

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:21
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Hidden

Rocky is caught off guard by the girls move to remove the make-shift blind fold, but since he's come to the conclusion she's not the mage that Louie thought she was he's not as concerned. Looking down at her he gives her a big toothy grin, "Nice trick, now you can see me. Now, I have even less reason to let you live if this goes bad."

Waiting a second for that to sink in Rocky looks down the hall to make sure no one from outside has made it up yet. "So what do you think we should do with you now? Before you answer that just thought I would let you know that Louie's got this place surrounded with more of his goons that are ready to shoot on sight."

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:25
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

"What are you going to do with me... Haven't you done enough?", she she quietly asked the troll still holding her off the ground as she lowered her eyes. Breathing a long slow sigh, Caittie lowered her head so she could see her own legs swaying a foot or so off the floor.

There was an almost instantanious struggle of will going on in a burning village. A lone woman stood in the torn night, the flowing crackling fires that consumed the houses around her illuminating her figure and making her hair look an even more deep red color. Her eyes squinted out of reflex , not due to any heat, but because of the near blinding flash that accompanied the success of her endever.
When before there was only her, now stood a familiar black wrapped woman. The newcomer put a hand to her masked face and sighed loudly. "Not you again, I have better things to do...", Shadow said with a disgusted air.
"Don't mess with me... Not this time. Just get this done. Now!", Caittie's avatar demanded of the sprite, as she sent over her mental commands.
The sprite blinked and looked the woman over before replying, "...Ok." She then dissapeared in a bust of light, leaving Caittie in the burning village.

"I didn't do anything to deserve this... Can't you just leave me alone?", Caittie continued in the real world after a short pause.

[Abbandon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:24Cerberus - street samurai
PAN: Hidden

"Speak of the devil. Angelo's calling my comm right now. I will keep him distracted while you two come to some kinda understanding". Cerberus walks a ways down the hallway so he is out of hearing range of Rocky and elf girl and then answers his comm. While he is walking away and before he answers the comm Cerberus uses a neat little feature of his cyberears to lock onto Rocky and elf girls conversation.

"Yo angelo I know what your thinking but the target is being very elusive, the target holed up in a coffin which has these metal doors. Maybe you have seen people go running from the building? I almost wasted the target but they must have hacker support because someone shut the door on me and then they triggered the fire alarm and cut the lights. Me and Rocky are trying to figure out a way inside. Oh yeah and we think thestar is on the way cuz it looks like the hacker sent out a call from one of our comms. What do you want us to do?? "

[adamu]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:24

<<Hell, I'm just glad you're in one piece - when the fire alarms went off, we thought you was crisped. Anyway, don't worry about the police - ain't no cops showing up here tonight, you can count on it. Just get bitch's head! And let us know if she gets past you so we can watch for her down here.>>

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:27
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Off

Watching Cerberus walk down the hall, Rocky lowers his voice a little, "Well here's the rub, Louie wants your head, just your head, if you get my drift. Now at this point I'm not real inclined to give it to him, but as I'm sure you can guess that's not going to put my friend and I in a good place with him. So any ideas that you can throw out that will help all of us outta here in once piece would be great."

Rocky hopes he hasn't just signed his own death warrent, but this just is not what he had signed up for.

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:31
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

Listening to Rocky talk about not wanting to do this had Caittie raising her eyes to look into his. She knew it was weird: him holding her up like this, threatening to kill her when she was struggling, and then just admit that he wanted ideas on how to get through this with her alive. She knew this, but when she looked into his eyes, she swore she saw something other than the face of a strung out troll, something that made her think he was telling the truth.
Tossing her head to swing her long wet hair out of her face, she twisted her head around to try and look at her surroundings, but with Rocky holding her, she couldnt get a good view of the scene. Turning back to the giant of a man holding her, she took a deep breath closing her eyes closed. It was then that she mentally powered down the security cameras in the building with a two hour 'no power up' option.

"Figure out a plan or be killed... Considering my options, I think I'll take choose the former.", she started to reply in a slightly irritated voice. "It's kinda hard to think with you holding me up like this, though. It's not the most comfortable position to be in.", she went on as she gave her legs a little sway to move her bodyweight.
As Rocky started twist his brow, she continued,"It's not like I can just run away or fight back... You said yourself the place is surrounded and they want me dead. Come on, this is starting to hurt and I'm well past getting tired of this."

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:35
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Off

Nodding his head, Rocky slowly lowers the young girl to the ground and lets her go. Holding out his hand he introduces him self, "As you have discovered my name is Apolo Withers but I go by Rocky, wish we could have met under better circumstances."

"We best figure out something soon, Louie will only wait so long before he goes to plan B, what ever that may be. But as you mentioned we are only hired help so plan B may not have our well being at the top of concerns." Rocky glances around to see if something grabs his attention, trying not to double over from a sudden cramp.

[Konsaki]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:51:42
Caittie - Technomancer - Hidden
PAN - Passive

Caittie instinctively reaches out with her hand, but stops halfway. 'What am I doing? He just admitted to trying to kill me, now he wants to shake hands?', she asked herself as she dropped her hand while frowning a little. "You can call me Caittie", she resonds as she turns a little to look around.
Taking a few slow steps towards her ruined coffin, she looks at the door and then at the frame. As she moves forward to examine the damaged frame, she reaches up, then in to grab her glasses and backpack. Putting on her glasses with one hand, she sets the backpack down on fallen door to keep it dry.

Turning away from the backpack, she slowly walks a few feet up and down the hallway, getting a good look at her surroundings. She feels her stomach lurch a bit as her eyes fell across the slain dwarf and saw a quick flash of Beth's demise. Caittie wanted to throw up, cry or both, but she took a deep breath and held on to her willpower to get over it.
Her vision drifted farther down the hallway until she saw the poor woman covered in blood and a few bandages. She looked like she was barely hanging on and Caittie had to move on or her emotions would take hold of her.
It was hard to look at the next person without feeling some anger well up in her. There stood another huge troll, with cyber just bursting out of him, talking on a comm. She saw the machinegun on the ground nearby him, and was pretty sure he was the one who shot at her.

"Who is that and who is Angelo?", she asked Rocky as she pointed down the hallway towards the conversing troll.

[Abbandon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:50
Cerberus - street samurai
PAN: Hidden

>> Yes sir, we are doing are best considering. Let me get back to work and we will be down in a jiffy. <<

Cerberus tapped the button on his comm to kill the call and then let his mic retract back into the comm unit. Cerberus let out a sigh of relief knowing the cops wouldnt be coming around, that could definately work in there favor. Turning around to walk back to Rocky and..what had he overheard the girl sasy her name was? Caittie? his sign of relief became a sigh of defeat as he saw the asian lady.

He walked back over to Rocky and whispered in his ear, "Angelo says the cops wont be coming by, are you making any progress with the girl?" He already knew the answer but he wanted to see if Rocky would lie to him, the dude just didnt do anything to make Cerberus trust him.

[JDragon]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:45
Rocky - physical adept
PAN: Off

When Cattie doesn't shake his hand Rocky just nods and looks down the hall where she is pointing. "That's Cerberus he's the other half of the hired help, Angelo, from what I've seen is Louie's right hand man.

Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:53

As Cerberus returns Rocky steps away from cattie and leans in to hear what Cerberus has to report. Nodding his head he responds as quietly as he can, "Well she's not a mage, or if she is she's not one that can fry us. Good news on the Star, but they still have my comm code and who knows what else." Looking over his should at the girl, "I'll have to talk to her about that later. She seems to understand that working with us is whats going to get her outta here alive. Assuming you're good with that? Cause personally I'm done with Louie's shit, and assuming we can get her to trust us, and we trust each other could help us out."

Rocky watches Cerberus' expression to see if he can see any sign of what he's thinking. Well I've said it, it's in the open now. So now I just wait and see how it all plays out.

[adamu]

Carl's Coffins
Tuesday 8/19/70 03:52:56

Cerberus felt a wave of relief pass over him when he could tell Rocky was playing it straight with him. That would've been the last straw.

"Yeah, I know what you mean about Louie. Hell, something Angelo just said on the comm got me to thinking...," the green-eyed troll said. "Anyway, up till a few months ago, I was risking my life to..." his eyes flicked to the woman, then to the dwarf, before he continued, "and now...I mean...shit, never mind. Listen, you're right, there's no way I'm offing a helpless little girl, no matter what Fishbreath says and no matter what it costs me. But brau, listen to me now. Something's not right here - what, you think these mobsters just pulled her name out of a hat and decided to go hunting? Those guys out there are freaking serious. To them, this chica is a real threat," Cerberus' glowing eyes fixed on the soaking-wet girl as he spoke, "I reckon she must be up to her eyeballs in something she ain't told us about." He bent to pick up his Ingram White Knight. "I say it all comes down to how straight she plays with us."