Deep Vengeance..., ...is the Daughter of Deep Silence Options

[JxJxA]

"You who stand before me," Isabela declares pointedly as she brings her arc to bear upon the villainous lackey, "prodigal child who has forsaken His Way. Are you so certain of your employer's ability to defy His Will, or does the venom of doubt paralyze your corporeal convictions?" The eyes of her mask blaze with an otherworldly glow, defying the guard to think on anything else other than her question...

[Buddha72]

The security guard stumbles backward, his balance thrown off as the spirit forces the question to resonate throughout his entire being. He shakes his head in vain, attempting to clear his thoughts as he reaches out a hand to steady himself in the hall.

[Fenris]

The sneer, like the rest of the 'runners expressions, are hidden behind the mask of the form-fitting armor. The hand flicking out is almost a dismissive gesture, but the hiss of the pistol is no less lethal. He's already moving even as he fires, obviously unconcerned about the results. He gives Cypher an approving nod through the clear desktop surface as he steps up to the door, glancing around outside.

[Buddha72]

In the Office
A thin weak mewling scream comes from the doctor's lips as Ayo's arm rises to line up the shot.

"No, no, no, no...."

The shot's impact ripples through the body on the floor which jerks then drops back down with a meaty thud. The renewed smell of blood fills the air as a growing stain spread out beneath the remains of her head.

[JxJxA]

Zerone hears Isabela's voice issue the challenge, and whispers a small prayer of thanks. He fully expected her to enter the facility and rain fire from the sky. Instead, it appears as though she understands his reticence to take lives. For that, he is grateful to her and to Him.

He carefully moves down the hallway and peeks around the corner to see Isabela and the stupefied guard.

"Think on her words, and choose His Way. Do so, and you shall find this true: 'When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.'" Golden white light suddenly surrounds the guard, and gently pushes his mind towards the depths of slumber...

Proverbs 3, Verse 24.

I thought it to be appropriate given the situation.

[Buddha72]

The mana presses in and through his body - his muscles spam and his limbs flay useless as his body crumbles to the floor with a solid impact. The noise carries throughout the wing of rooms.

[JxJxA]

Zerone breathes a visible sigh of relief when he sees the effects of his stun spell. He worried that he had drawn too much power against the security officer. Fortunately, it looked to be just the right amount of pressure to release his grip on consciousness.

He sees Isabela look back and offer a quick salute with her arc. The elf grins and nods back.

Providence is on our side...

[Emilio]

Emilio glances around, then turns his attention back to his bonds. Encouraged by his recent success, he focuses on the straps. He pulls and heaves again, grunting as he does so.

[Buddha72]

Breeze
You hear a voice in the hall outside your room - it sounds angry and feminine but not any of the nurses or the doctor's voice. You hear a solid thump as what sounds like a body hits the flloor. Your nerves are raw and your head pounds - whatever they gave you seems to be cleaning you out. You lost track of how many times you threw up and the forced clarity is brutal as every sound and sensation jumps out at you. You had heard a voice over the intercom say something about a code black - whatever that means.

You've paced the room for hours and can't seem to find a way out other than the door which is locked and without your gear you have little chance of getting it open. Every time a nurse or that damn doctor has come in they had a guard with them who used a taser gun of some sort on you. The small electrical burns along your arms and chest are proof of their aim and professionalism.

Emilio
You hear a voice in the hall outside your room - it sounds angry and feminine but not any of the nurses or the doctor's voice. You hear a solid thump as what sounds like a body hits the floor. You flex once more and feel the restraints trying to do their job but more slack and you hear a small metal ping echo through the room. You then hear a voice over the intercom say something about a code black - whatever that means but maybe it's a chance for you to get out of this place and back on the streets.

[UmaroVI]

The guardian shen, seeing no immediate threats, turned to deal with the next obvious task - disrupting enemy communications. It wasn't sure exactly how that mortal was projecting her voice, but it did have a good idea how to stop her...

It walked towards the wall, vanishing in a flicker of shadows, and reappearing in the next office over behind the elf.

[Buddha72]

Shen
The spirit steps back into reality seeing a slim elven woman kneeling near a set of cabinet drawers - from her body language it seems she is trying to retrieve something from one of the drawers. No one else is present in the office.

Breeze
You look around the room again - this time with a much clearer state of mind - they obviously didn't mean to leave you alone this along while this not sedated. You quickly look around and open a few drawers, trying to find something to use to work on the maglock securing the door to this room. You quickly find a small collections of medical tools.

[Notsoevildm]

Part of his mind watches the action play out in the office as Zerone and his burning spirit move past him and deal with the guard around the corner. He mentally tags the positions of the known remaining opposition, flagging the man who ran across the corridor as 'male nurse' and the female elf as 'code black' on the tacnet.

He releases his SMG, letting the smart harness pull it tight against his chest, and mentally activates the gun's safety as he spins to face the gurgling tech. Between a sequence of brutal, efficient and deadly nerve strikes, he mutters orders under his breath.

"Zerone, secure ze target. Herr Fat Man, can you deal with ze 'male nurse'? I vill deal with 'code black' unless your spirit has already done so."

Frag, I'm ordering them about again.

[Hamagen]

Breeze sighs a bit in relief as he finds the medical tools and in a thick British accent says

"These will have to do"

He goes to the maglock and begins inspecting it attempting to improvise a way out with the items he found

"Damn sushi-eating bastards, hate being used as a bloody lab rat, happens too much"

He continues to mumble to himself under his breath slowly working on the machine that is keeping him in.

[Buddha72]

Eklipse
You strikes land easily on the technician who seems mindless with fear. You see no recognition of you as a threat or him even taking any sort of defensive action in response to your assault. You feel the impacts along his skin and see him stagger under the blows until his body gives up and his eyes roll up into the back of his body and he slumps against the wall sliding along till he hits the floor.

[BishopMcQ]

Rising up to his knees, so that he could use the table as a little bit of cover, Cypher looks at the departed doctor's commlink. It was interfaced with the table, which likely was connected to other devices. Time to find out how far the control went.

The hacker activates the Backup tool to copy the contents of the commlink and associated devices. He punches in the Access ID for a memory stick and crosses his fingers.

[Buddha72]

Cypher
You watch and wait as the command spools out its line of code and are greeted with an icon showing the transfer beginning and markings its progress through the operation. You access the AR windows associated with the commlink and see a file search being done with captured images from security cameras. In addition, you see a a schedule of procedures for the night - one appears to be organ tissue collection from a patient and the other a full work up of toxicology resistance on another patient. Another file is open that has a spreadsheet of accounts with their balances.

[UmaroVI]

Fat Man
Isn't there supposed to be another guard floating around here somewhere?

Hearing Eklipse taking command of the situation, Fat Man decided it made sense to follow his order to chase down the "Male Nurse" - the furry runner seemed to have a good sense of tactics. He wasn't in time to stop the nurse from shutting a door behind him, so Fat Man reopened it and stepped just inside the room, blocking the doorway so the nurse couldn't run anywhere else.

[Buddha72]

Hallway
From the far end of the hall just past the offices a door opens and a single security guard steps out with assault rifle up and ready. She calmly squeezes the trigger and a small object is lunched from an under barrel attachment - a mini grenade - that sails through the air and detonates with overwhelming blast of light and force. It swells outward engulfing Eklipse and Fat Man. The expanding sphere stops just short of Zerone.

Breeze & Emilio
You feel the displacement of air and hear the explosion of a grenade reverberate through the building you're in.

Office
You hear something fly through the air more than see it as a wave of force and light slams into Ayo and rattles the structure.

[BishopMcQ]

<//ALERT// Tactical Network //ALERT//>
<Explosive ordinance detected. Cover is advised.>

Cypher lets out a string of curses as flashes of action hover in the windows around him. He quickly thinks and words materialize in his commlink datastream.

<TacNet 4.0 [@Zerone] Get to the target fast. The grenades will fry the hardware.>

[UmaroVI]

Fat Man braces his ballistic shield against the grenade impact. He stumbles a bit from the shockwave, but doesn't fall.

"Oof!"

[Hamagen]

Breeze stops tinkering with the electronic locks for a moment after he hears the explosion and mutters a bit under his breath.

"Well this isn't just any o'l clinic I'm in now is it"

He takes a deep breath and goes back to work on opening the door.

[Notsoevildm]

As the tech drops, the light going out in his eyes, Eklipse's hands fall automatically back to his weapon. Then a ball of light and sound engulfs him and he is flying through the air.

He lands with an ungainly thud, the Tacnet screaming warnings he cannot hear over the ringing in his ears. As he struggles back to his feet, he blinks his eyes to focus on the new threat.

[JxJxA]

Zerone looks back when he hears Eklipse talk to him. He nods to his companion, and that is when he sees the door open. His eyes grow wide in surprise when he sees her brandishing the assault rifle. He throws his hands up to cover his face when she pulls the trigger and a blast of sound and fury rips through that part of the lab. However, he notices he is relatively unscathed as the explosion subsides.

Praise be to Him for miracles, great and small.

When he sees Cypher's message, he reflexively replies

<TacNet 4.0 [@Cypher] Ok>

[Buddha72]

Fat Man
You see the interior of what looks to be an exam room or medical station - the nurse you were seeking is standing on the far side of the room in front of a cabinet of drawers with an intent look on his face.

[Fenris]

Ayo blinked away the refracted images swirling around him, closing his eyes for a moment to ignore the lingering disorientation that followed in the wake of the explosion. He rolled around the edge of the door, striding through the residual smoke still dissipating from the non-lethal grenade blast, operating on sounds and his memory of the battlefield before the grenade exploded.

<//ALERT// Tactical Network //ALERT//>
<Non-friendly organic hazard.>
Calculating structural weaknesses....
Optimal fire locations for modified Ares Predator Model IV version 342.1.5 identified.

Targeting reticules sprang up around the woman's lean form, highlighting areas that the software decreed as 'soft spots' in her armor, locations that would allow the flechette rounds Ayo carried to be used to their best potential. Smartgun link overlays whirled and spun as he shifted the focus to the other pistol he held, body to the side as he stepped close enough to see color of her eyes as his eyes snapped open before he pulled the trigger. The computer almost took the fun out of the hunt.

Calculating potential threat...
<ALERT> Damage capacity of hazard's current weapon load-out notably exceed's durability estimates. Seek cover; Engage with Caution.</ALERT>

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