Satan Claws (Weybrook Roleplay Volume 1)

This roleplay has been completed. The sequel will be here.

Overview

The extremely large megalopolis of Weybrook, featuring tons of architects, several parks, and many extraordinarily large skyscrapers, all seems peaceful for the winter holidays. Even the crime rate seemed to drop down a bit around this time... seemed to... later on, there is a villain who decides to cause chaos, murder, and fear around the city, donning a red and black suit and calling himself Satan Claws. Will you help stop this criminal? You you aid him? Will you set out for something you want yourself? The choice is yours.

Rules

1. Standard roleplaying ettiquete applies. No godmodding, powerplaying, autohitting, killing characters without permission, etc.
2. This roleplay is mainly for the lower level characters. I'm asking for characters with no powers or powers not to an insane degree. This is to allow more people to join in and have their character more useful in conflicts (I noticed this flaw in the Ether Forest roleplay).
3. Keep it PG-13. Cursing is allowed to a degree. The F-word is more of a rated R word, so use it sparingly or not at all.
4. 3. Please, put some effort into your posts. Novel format if possible.
   • (Example: "Oh, hello Sonic! How's your day?" Tails asked. "Not bad..." Sonic replied.)
5. On this roleplay, DeathstroketheHedgehog has the final say in any argument.
6. Please keep arguments out of the roleplay, unless it's in context (such as two characters arguing). If you are to argue, do it in the comment section, and be civil about it. No one likes backing off against a person insulting them, which is why arguments persist.
7. Only join if you're online often. No point in joining if you'll be here once a month.
8. Have fun!

Roleplay Members

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• DeathstroketheHedgehog (Owner)
• Josh the Hedgehog (Moderator Spot)
• Saren the Dark Lynx (Moderator Spot)
• CullenStantonRutherford (Participant)
• Steryotype (Participant)

3 Strike System

This is a roleplay discipline system that I have created. You have three chances to roleplay under the rules. Depending on how severe the case is, one may even be given two or three strikes per flaw. Hopefully, you name will not be on this list for strikes. If you are a moderator, you have a "freebie". After any rule breaking, your moderator spot will be removed, and you will be demoted to a participant.

Characters

Heroes

Those who want to defend Weybrook and their citizens.

• Szorra the Cat (AKA The Black Cat, Popularly known vigilante of the city)

Good Neutral

Those who initially came for a different reason, but later on may decide to help.

• Lavo - Just here to enjoy the holidays.
• Eve O'la Laha - On Vacation so she can spend time.
• Jailrush The Hedgehog - Found this island via. boat, and decided it looked like a good town.

Neutral

Those who came to Weybrook for a different reason, and plans to stick with it. (Unless this gets in the way of plot, it is okay for more op characters to be in this category)

• Moros - He only came to the city because he is really fuckin bored and sitting around in an empty void is not condusive for solving boredom.

Evil Neutral

Those who came to Weybrook for a different reason, and doesn't care if their goal causes destruction.

• Xavek - He has come under the guise of the CEO of Plastech Industries to negotiate the land rights and other permits needed for him to expand his business operations into the city; among other things yet to be revealed.

Villains

Those who will assist in causing chaos and destruction in Weybrook.

• Satan Claws (the main antagonist, goal is unknown, but it involves city chaos)

Chapter 1: His Message

Imagine it. Weybrook. A megalopolis, containing several cities and towns all on a small group of islands, accompanying the space of 2,500 square miles. It holds the third largest skyscraper on Mobius, being nearly half a mile tall. It has the grandest of lakes, having one so clear you can see the bottom even though it is 30 feet deep. It holds the fifth largest bridge, and many argue that it is the most elegant looking. It is a place of the future, being run by fusion reactors, encouraging Eco-friendly alternatives to the point where 93% of the cars are electric powered.

Now imagine it as white as the fresh snow all over its grounds, and cheerful for all that matter. Imagine buildings with holiday lights and ads all over them, imagine the suburb areas with their custom designed holiday lights and their massive Christmas trees.

Speaking of Christmas trees, imagine the largest city in the megalopolis, Arden. Imagine the Christmas tree at town square. It stands nearly 75 feet tall, with it's massive platinum colored star on top, and holiday lights blinking on and off, surrounded by dozens of presents. The tree is filled with candy canes as well...

Now imagine on top of the Christmas tree, there was a rope. A rope of the Christmas colors, red, white, green... at the end of the rope, it was in the shape of a noose... with a bloodily murdered hanged corpse in it.

Lavo (closed)

Lavo had her wings very tiny as she was just window shopping, having a extremely fuzzy, white over-sized jacket with a scarf and some black-colored jeans while walking. She was searching for something, well a gift, for some people. Two that she could mail to her parents at home and one she thought she could show to a close friend of hers. Of course, this window shopping had taken her to where the Christmas Tree was, her grayish-blue eyes glance to spot the crime scene, just staring as she paused. "... Just great..." She mutters.

A crowd began gathering around the area to see what had happened. In the process, they began crowding Lavo.

Oooh Lavo was touchy about being crowded, she can't handle being in a crowded place. She try to slip out now, just to get away. To be free!

At one point, someone saw the dead body on the tree, and she screamed, loudly. The scream at first caused worry, and then panic as people began thinking the murderer was still out there. Everyone began yelling and fleeing from Town Square, some people being trampled, and some of those people killed under the feet of civilians.

Lavo's wings were quick to enlarge just to cover her body as she was hit by some of the Civilians, she looks around to see if there were any children now, since everyone was panicking.

There was a young girl yelling for her mom, looking around for her in the dense stampede.

Lavo gasped and dashes over, pulling the young girl close to protect her from the Dense Stampede. "Shh, let's fine your mother." She softly spoke, looking around to get the girl carefully out of the stampede and then find to find the young girl's mother.

"Thank you," The tiny child said.

Lavo nods, picking up the child carefully into her arms. "Come on, just tell me when you see her." Lavo carefully move though, looking for the girl's mother.

The crowd was dense, and for a moment the child said nothing. Then she pointed in the distance.

"There! She's over there!" As she pointed to a person faceplanted in the snow.

Lavo nods, holding the child close as she makes her way quickly to the person, shifting the person so she wasn't faceplanted while also shielding both of them from the people. "Miss? Miss?"

The lady barely opened her eyes, and looked at the fuzzy view of her daughter and someone else before her eyes close once more. The child moved over to her side.

"Mommy," the girl said as she tried to shake her. "Mommy, please wake up."

Lavo pulls the Lady close to her, carrying her while having the girl on her mother. "Keep speaking to your mother, I'll hurry to a nearby hospital. Just try to keep her awake to the best you can." With this, Lavo quicken her pace to find a Hospital, keeping the lady and woman's daughter closed to her as to not lose either of them. "Flying might be a better idea... But I don't want to freak them out..." She Mentally thought to herself.

The girl began weeping, clinging to her mother. Sirens were heard in the distance as several cop cars made their way to the scene. A news team reported in as well.

Lavo grunts under her breath, her wings flap as she lift herself into a hover to make her travel faster. She was determined to get this girl's mother to a Hospital, and fast.

The mother began coughing, blood seeping out of her mouth... she began convulsing.

Lavo hold the child carefully while keeping her mother from choking on the blood and hurting herself. She didn't have any healing powers, and she didn't know how she could help without making her trip to the hospital faster.

"Miss... please... put me down." The lady said heavily. The child stopped weeping at the sound of her mother's voice.

Lavo landed. "...If you're sure Ma'am..." She gently set the Lady down, yet holding the lady's daughter carefully.

"My... daughter," the lady continued. "She lives in 231 Elm Street... on Paradise Island..." she weakly said. "Take her to her father."

Her eyes widen a little, holding the child in her arms. However, Lavo lower her head a bit. "...Very Well, I'll take your daughter to her Father..."

"Thank you..." she said before closing her eyes, a small smile perched on her lips.

"231 Elm Street..." Lavo stated quietly to herself. "Paradise Island..." She stood up, holding the girl carefully girl before frowning down at the woman... She shakes her head before running ahead. "Paradise Island..." She looks around for directions to Paradise Island.

"Wait, you left mommy!' The child yelled, struggling in Lavo's grip.

Lavo hugs the Child, her grip a bit hard to get out. "I'm sorry..." She said softly, tears slightly appearing. She hated that she had to leave the girl's mother, but Lavo doubt she could do anything for the woman.

While running, she would look up and see all building advertisement screens start flickering and glitching. In fact, everyone would begin seeing it.

Lavo glares a bit, holding the child close as she paused once she sees the Advertisement screens flickering and Glitching. "......"

A picture of an anonymous person came up. With the light source behind him, his face could not be initially identified. He spoke in a distorted voice.

"People of Weybrook," the individual stated, "I'm glad you're enjoying the holidays. I am also glad of the holidays myself. It's the perfect time to paint the city in my image. And I don't want anyone to miss it..."

"Great, Crazy people..." Lavo mutters, holding the girl carefully before She starts moving once more. "I'm sure I'll find directions to where I need to go..."

Lavo may end up running into a citizen staring at the screen. He could possibly know the directions.

She goes up to the Citizen. "Excuse me Sir."

The dog jumped in surprise, then glanced at the TV again before acknowledging her. The anonymous character continued his speech.

"Y-yes, ma'am?" The friendly dog asked.

"Do you know which way to Paradise Island?" Lavo asked with a concern tone in her voice.

"Uh... yes. It's straight that way until the end of the road, then right... but that's further inland, don't you want to escape?"

Lavo holds the child. "I'll be fine." She stated bluntly, "And thank you sir." With that, Lavo follows the directions given to her.

Lavo will be on the way there as cars came from the same direction trying to get to the airport.

Eve O'la Laha (closed)

Eve came out of the airport in Weybrook, humming happily the Christmas tunes as she walks with her stuff. "Vacation!" She giggles happily, glancing around as she wore a nice warm jacket to go with her skirt and leggings and her snow boots. She was ready for the holidays and now she was going to book for the best possibly place to stay as she hums happily.

In the distance, Eve could see the festive lights everywhere, and many people singing Christmas carols and welcoming visitors. The airport was separated from the main island, but there was a bridge to get over to it.

Eve gasps happily, she smiles happily as she walks towards the bridge, she then thinks about it as she looks around.

From the island she was on, she could see the massive airport. Surrounding the airport were several hotels and restaurants, with taxi drivers seemingly everywhere. A few tour buses were collecting some passengers as well. On one side of this island, there was a beautiful park, made there especially for the tourists.

"Oh My! I want to go into the Largest City though." Eve smiles happily. "But there is so much to go to though!"

A white fox had drove up in a taxi, parking beside airport. Seeing Eve there, he waved. "Do you need a ride somewhere?" he asked.

Eve smiles, looking to the white fox. "Can I get a stop to the Largest City?" She smiles brightly as her eyes sparkles.

"A stop to Arden, huh," he thought out loud. "Sure, come on in."

Eve chimes happily. "Yay!" She goes into the back of the Taxi, having her money ready after she belts into the seat. "Arden it is!"

The taxi drove down the Pearl Bridge, called that because of its heavenly white color The mineral is so reflective, street lights are really not necessary to be on the sides. The ocean below was filled with cruise ships.

"So... what brings you here?" The taxi driver innocently asked.

"On Vacation for the Holidays!" Eve cheerful said. "I've been on so many Tours, I need a Break." She giggles greatly.

They've reached the end of the bridge as the taxi driver changed the radio to something more Christmas related. Jingle Bell Rock played.

"Well, we're glad that you've come here for the holidays," he said. "I hope you enjoy your stay here. I bet once you see the wonders of this city, you won't ever leave."

"That's what was said about my home honestly. But I'm a traveling kind of person, and I have some tours after my vacation is over. Quite a busy Lady; But, when I get to vacation again, I'll visit here more often." Eve cheerful said.

We'll see about that... the Fox thought as he pulled into Arden's town square. "Oh my..." he exclaimed seeing the panicked crowed running the streets ahead.

Eve gasped at the sight, before getting her items. "Thank you sir." She gave him a lot of money with a tip before stepping out, she frowns at the sight of this. "This isn't good..."

The taxi driver rolled down the window. "You know, I could drop you off to a safer place... free of charge, of course," he said.

Eve has a small smile, she looks at the Taxi Driver before shaking her head no. "Thank you for the offer sir, but I believe some of these people may need help. It's only kind to try and help some of these people to a safer place."

"Trust me, I know. That Black Cat should be here to take care of the problem... you have a nice day," the driver said before speeding off.

"Black Cat, Huh?" Eve nods, but she smiles as she pulls out her first aid kit from her bags and goes to the crowd to find those not stuck in the panic group.

A few people were unconscious on the street... some weakly crawling out of the way and some deceased. A few cop cars have finally pulled into the scene.

Eve helped the unconscious carefully, getting them to a safer spot while helping those weakly crawling along the way.

Eve would've seen a small shadow quickly zoom over her at this point, going to the direction of the murdered body.

Eve blinks, glancing in that direction, but still helping some of the people out. "What was that..." She questions quietly.

With most of the casualties cleared out of the way, one could see the diverted attention of the cops at the crime scene. From a distance, one can only see a black silhouette, possibly the one that caused the shadow.

Eve looks around a bit before carefully making her way to get a better looking at the Black Silhouette.

A closer inspection shows a person with a cat tail, looking up at the crime using some type of device. One may assume it's some kind of camera. The unknown individual's ears twitched in the direction of Eve, but the person seemed to pay no mind.

Eve smiles a little, walking over a bit as she was interested.

Eve O'la Laha and Szorra (closed)

Szorra scanned the body, finding mutilated body parts and the heart missing. At first, she heard a footstep, so her ear twitched. As she looked in the reflection of her body scanning device, she saw Eve. Szorra ignored her at first, thinking of Eve as a citizen shocked to see her in person. Then she noticed Eve walking towards her.

"You do know you're not supposed to be in a crime scene, citizen." She said.

Eve looks to her. "That doesn't mean I don't want to help. After all the Panic here cause a lot of injured people and even killed." She smiles a little.

Sounds just like me as a child, Szorra thought in her head. She must be a visitor to Weybrook if she isn't surprised to see me. "As much as I'd love the offer of assistance, what can you do?" She said, still not bothering to turn around, focused on the task at hand.

Eve thinks about it. "Well, Beside being able to help people out of the way, and my basic knowledge of First Aid, I guess I can't be much of help. Not many skills for a Singer." She mumbles that last one.

Eve thinks about it. "Well, Beside being able to help people out of the way, and my basic knowledge of First Aid, I guess I can't be much of help. Not many skills for a Singer." She mumbles that last one.

Szorra smiled a little from this. She closed her scanner as she was done with the forensics. "If you really want to help, I need you to..." she stopped herself as she heard the ending of the psychopath's speech.

"If you really don't want to enjoy my gifts of the holidays, you have one hour to exit Weybrook. Uh oh, not enough time for the millions of people on this island? Well... first come first serve." Then the screen went blank.

"That isn't good," Szorra thought out loud, "that's going to cause chaos at the airport." She looked at Eve. "I'm not sure how to help you, or anyone else in time. Do you have any idea?"

"Well, we don't want panic and we sure don't want anymore people killed. Only way I can think of is try to calm the people down, or find out who this murderer is before they can kill anymore people. Both are equally hard to nearly impossible." Eve frowns a bit.

Szorra thought on this. Then she gave her a patch holding ten needles. "These needles help ease pain and gets healing done faster. Save anyone that you can, and escape. I'll go hunt down the murderer, that is my job. I'm not going to give a civilian a dangerous job, my goal is to protect the citizens."

Eve took the Patch. "Well, Alright, but I'll make sure those people can Escape too." She smiles. "And you be careful, okay!" With that, Eve wave before getting her things and going for the airport.

Trust me, you're the one that needs to be careful, she thinks as she grapples up a building, done with her forensics.

Moros (closed)

The night was quiet in the downtown area of Weybrook, until the silence was broken by the sounds of the fabric of reality being torn open to form a portal; the noise originating from one of the back alley streets as a black fox wearing a yellow T-shirt and blue jeans with grey tipped fur on his ears and tail walked out.

Said fox had a bored look on his face as he stepped out of the portal, taking a few moments to stretch before closing it.

A drunk Weybrookian looked over at the fox for a moment, then he dumped out the rest of his alcohol before falling asleep on the ground.

Moros looked at the drunk; before a 'diabolical' scheme came to mind... So, with a sharpie in hand... He literally started doodling crass images and foul words on the passed out drunk's face.

The man shifted a little in his sleep, but was basically knocked out cold an unaware of the doodles.

Satisfied, Moros left the alley; heading towards a nearby shopping district for funsies.

There was a television shown to the outside of the shopping mall, on the news channel currently showing the weather for the night.

Moros yawned. "Booooring..." He grumbled; walking inside the mall.

The first thing Moros would see is the size of the mall. It looked twice as grand as it did from the outside. A security guard would appear in front of Moros.

"Excuse me sir, I will need to check you for any weapons before I may let you enter," he told Moros.

Moros blinked, considering he resembled a child in both mannerisms and appearance to a moderate degree it might be a bit hard for the security guard to frisk him without making it look incriminating.

(I'm assuming he looks like a teen)

"I'm sorry if I may be surprising you. It's just a policy that has to be done in this mall," the guard said. He kept a pleasant smile on his face.

(You'd be correct on that lel.)

"Fiiine." Moros pouted, letting the guard frisk him for weapons; of course he didn't really have anything on him, much less anything that could be considered a weapon.

After being checked, the security guard shifted over to the side, a quiet way of say "You may pass now."

Moros walked inside the mall, well.. More like he ran inside; being really bored and whatnot he was excited to do something..

A part of the mall that sold TVs had a large flatscreen TV on it. Moros would be able to see a crowd looking at the screen, all with worried and shocked looks.

Moros passed it by, more interested in the bakeries than anything else.

The nearest bakery had just gave something to their last customer. The owner was approaching the door, about to lock it the moment he got to the door.

Moros blinked. "Huh, no cinnabuns..?"

The baker looked up at Moros. After a moment, he smiled. "Well, its the holidays," he said, "I guess I have time for one more customer before flying to my family for Christmas." He welcomed Moros into the bakery.

Moros smiled. "I'll have one Cinnabun please~"

"Of course," the baker said, and a minute later he came with the meal." When he was giving the bag to Moros, however, his hand shook, as he looked up at the small TV he had in his bakery for entertainment. On the news, was the death of someone, and the threat of another.

"Ehhh..? What's with the news..? People seem to fretting over someone dying..?" 

Once Moros listens to the news more, he will hear that a psychopath has threatened Weybrook, and has ordered everyone to leave within the next hour. 

Moros being Moros just laughed, like hell he was going to take orders from a lowly mortal.

The baker, scared out of his mind, bolted for the door, as well as many other people in the mall. This left Moros alone in the bakery.

Moros blinked. "Pity.." He said as he stood up to leave, generating two ethereal blades..

Xavek (closed)

In the holographic disguise of an elderly human business man with a grizzled expression on his face; Xavek had left the airport as well, having taken first class he exited the plane with little interest in sightseeing, he had land rights to 'negotiate' and a company to expand.

The biggest company Xavek would know if he had studied for it was the Topaz Towers, a business that covers two city blocks on its own, and owns several more businesses in the megalopolis.

Xavek did indeed study; if they were in the weapons industry like his company was then he would've taken note accordingly.

The the old company was well known for it's technology inventions, especially being the first company to make the fusion reactor many decades ago.

Xavek couldn't help but scoff at that so called 'accomplishment'. He has been playing god; creating new life forms through extensive genetic tampering.

Current works would show that the company has been working with tachyons, planning on creating transportation, weapons, and other technology that can achieve speeds faster than light.

"Competition... Best I bring in more advanced projects to compete..."

The Topaz Towers were in Cambridge, a few miles away on the main island. If Xavek had no other form of transportation, he could get there by boat of bridge.

He decided to take the bridge; it would be nice to stretch his legs after all.

The bridge he took was Pearl Bridge, which got its name because of its heavenly white color The mineral is so reflective, street lights are really not necessary to be on the sides. The ocean below was filled with cruise ships. The bridge itself was half a mile long.

".... Tch, how plausé.." Xavek muttered, looking at the scenery with the usual disinterest before continuing his travels on the bridge.

The moment he got over the bridge, he could see that the path to Cambridge would be a very traffic heavy place. On his side of the road, there were cars, empty taxis, trucks, and even tour buses stuck at a red light seemingly forever. Cambridge was straight ahead.

"......"

Xavek let out a string of curses, he would have to deal with traffic like... Any other fleshbag..

Eventually, Xavek would realize that most of the cars that were causing traffic problems were heading towards the airport.

"...... Fuck it.." Xavek sighed, he was going to look for an alleyway or somewhere hidden nearby so he could digitize himself and get to his destination faster.

There was an alleyway not too far ahead that Xavek could travel to. It was pretty wide for an alleyway, but nonetheless.

Xavek smirked, sprinting towards the alleyway; when he got into the alleyway and depending on whether anyone else was in the alleyway, he would digitize himself and head towards Cambridge by surfing the World Wide Web.. Literally.

(really? had no idea he could do that. I don't know how to continue this part of the roleplay until you stop surfing)

(it's following the same principle of how he rezzed in structures for the ether forest rp; only applied to himself since he's more machine than flesh.)

Chapter 2: Ticking Time

Lavo (closed)

Lavo keeps running towards Paradise Island, passing the cars on her way there.

Eventually, the road became empty as all the cars have fled the area. The bridge to Paradise Island was ahead, but the bridge was 2 miles long. The child fell into a light sleep on Lavo.

Lavo narrowed her eyes, running as fast as she could before opening her wings and using them to 'hover', to make her travel across the bridge a bit faster than running speed.

The neighborhood could be seen with the lights off, seemingly empty.

Lavo breathes heavily. "231 Elm Street..." She looks around for Elm Street first.

She would find Elm Street as the closest street, with the first houses to her left being 230, 231, 232...

Lavo gone to 231 on Elm Street, she goes up to the door, knocking on it. "..."

No answer, but the knock does wake up the child.

Lavo knocks louder. "Come on..." She held the child close.

Still no answer. One could assume that the father had possibly left. The child glanced at the surrounding, and attempted to get down since she was home.

"I don't know if he's here..." Lavo said quietly as she looks at the child.

"My daddy works at the airplane house," the child said. "He said he would get me a present from there."

"... I see, The Airport, Can I take you there to see him? you'll be a lot safer by his side than being here..." Lavo kneels down to the child, asking this time as she understands that the child might still be sad about her mother.

The child sniffed, then nodded her head. Then the scent of smoke caught her attention.

Lavo sniffs, looking around as she picks up the child. "?"

A house near the end of the block had black smoke coming out of the windows. For a very brief moment in another window, a silhouette was seem darting across.

Lavo was confuse. "Someone still in a house?" She holds the child close, confuse.

"What should we do?" The child asked.

"... I need to get you to your father at least..." Lavo stated, she just felt uneasy now.

Suddenly, another house burst into flames, the same silhouette seen through a window again. This time, it stopped, as if it had noticed Lavo.

Lavo's eyes narrowed, holding the child close as she glance towards to the way to the Airport, this was a way of her going to move now.

Eventually, the creature came out the window. It was a bird of some sort, and he had flames coming out of one hand, and a bag of a few expensive items in another.

Lavo glances over. "..." She felt tense.

"Who is that?" The child said, looking into the eyes of the pyrokinetic.

With a sinister smile, the bird threw the a flaming fireball at Lavo and the child.

Lavo narrowed her eyes, her wings enlarge and shield her and the child from the Fireball. Of course, Her liquid dripping wings slightly burnt in appearance as she growls. "Someone who wants to hurt us."

The bird was annoyed that the fireball seemed to do no damage. "Do you really think you can stop the Phoenix that easily?" He said before dropping the bag, using two hands this time for charging some fireballs.

"Hmph, If it means protecting this innocent child, I don't see a problem with it." Lavo holds the child really close, her eyes narrowed. "Beside, I must be lucky you can't see them." She unfold one of her wings before having it swings in his direction; being one wing met less aim as Redish-purple liquid appeared from thin air; so it seems, heading towards the Bird.

At the sight of this, the Bird changed his tactic, using his hands as flamethrowers, focused on the liquid, intending on incinerating it.

Lavo reached down with one hand, pulling out a Crossbow. The Liquid did become vapor, but it sure didn't smell well.

Phoenix's sense of smell has been long lost due to breathing in smoke all the time (the one Mobian immune to respiratory cancers), so the smell wouldn't harm him. He looked at the crossbow, seeing if it is flammable or not.

Lavo's crossbow was wood, but the thing he need to keep in mind of these 'invincible' wings she had, and she had the crossbow loaded with a Silver tip bolt.

However, Phoenix being the one track mind he is, resorted to using the flamethrower technique on Lavo.

Lavo still have one wing over herself at the child took the hit of the flamethrower, Lavo's nose was starting to bleed. "..."

Phoenix's stubbornness... and partial stupidity, made him continuing firing for a few more seconds, stopping to see if he had finally burnt Lavo to a crisp.

Lavo's wing flaps out very quickly while flames were slowly faded and she fires the bolt right at the phoenix as she made her whole body to jump backwards.

The expected eventual arrow was dodged in time, by Phoenix literally turning into flame. He then formed himself into a fireball as he charged at Lavo.

Lavo's wings wrapped around herself and the child safely, ready for the Phoenix attack.

Phoenix taunted her as he transformed into normal once hitting the 'force field'. "Stop hiding and fight me!" he bellowed, swinging a punch at one of the wings.

A punch hit one of the wings, yet by touch it was a solid liquid that had the texture of watery blood... Very strange. Lavo growls a bit, dropping her crossbow and pulling out a Dirk.

(a punch hit one of the hits... I think you need to get the rest of your beauty sleep.) Phoenix was intrigued by the substance he had punched, unaware of feeling this, and leaving him vulnerable.

(It's 5 PM though, too early. )

(o3o)

Lavo open his wings as she swings her dirk at the phoenix.

This took Phoenix off guard, and he was wide open for the strike. When it connected, it was met with a scream.

Eve O'la Laha (closed)

She gotten to the Airport, sighing. "Whew, That was a run." She smiles a tiny bit, looking around.

She would see chaos as people desperately attempted to get into a plane. The police force was struggling to get order, and multiple fights broke out.

Eve was seeing this, she inhales before yelling loudly- Thanks to her singing. "Everyone Calm Down! Order of Children and Women first, The father may stay with their family if they wish! We are not Here to murder each other, if we follow basic rules we can get out of here faster!!" She clears her throat a bit as she looks at everyone in the airport.

The people close to her had her attention, but the chaos was too loud for most to hear. Eventually, police had began using fire extinguishers to back people away with sheer cold.

Eve sighs, frowning in thought as she glance around.

The people on Eve's side began moving through the door quickly and safely. One of the nearby police took a note of this, and attempted to wave her over to where he was.

Eve notice the Police, so she walks over to him. "Mm?"

He wrote something on a sheet of paper.

"Do you mind helping out the rest of the crowd here? My voice is sore." He said as he gave Eve a megaphone.

Eve nods, smiling before taking the Megaphone. She inhale before yelling into the MegaPhone. "Everyone Calm Down! Order of Children and Women first, The father may stay with their family if they wish! If we follow basic rules we can get out much faster!"

This did not completely calm down the crowd, but nearly a quarter of the crowd has heard Eve and began following her orders. Several planes could be seen taking off, but there was one problem.

There weren't enough planes made for an evacuation of several cities.

Eve noticed this problem, thinking to herself how could be fix yet she was unsure... She looks to the Police Officer as she had the Megaphone turn off. "Sir, We don't have enough planes to make Evacuation of Several Cities..."

"We know that," another officer said, "the real problem is how the leftover people will react. We've lost control of several cities in less than an hour."

Eve frowns, thinking, but then she pulls out her phone, checking to see if she had a connection first. "Maybe my Father has some spares..." She mumbles to herself.

One thing about Weybrook: their connections were the best of the best.

Eve smiles, pulling up her contacts and calling her father. Eve hums happily.

As her phone connection, the crowd slowly began moving more fluently into the airport, less fights breaking out.

Eve smiles at the sight of the crowd, waiting for her father to pick up- if at all.

Unaware to most people at this moment, 10 minutes remained on the one hour threat.

Eve sighs quietly, holding her phone away as her father didn't answer. "He must be busy..."

Just as traffic was finally getting peaceful, the unknown enemy had once again appeared on screen. "Ladies and Gentlemen.,.. it's pretty obvious you cannot fill an airplane within eight minutes. I'd suggest leaving the airport now, or... hehe... let's just say you'll end up everywhere."

Cue the chaos.

Eve sighs, holding up the megaphone as she turns it on. "Cueing to Leave, Move quickly yet don't get into fights! It'll take a lot longer if you get into fights." She looks to the Police Officers.

The police seemed to have been able to clam down the public for a while, until one cop dropped dead, a quarter size hole was through the side. The next bullet grazed another cop. The assailant then moved her sniper in the position of Eve.

Eve had a sweatdrops, moving over to the Police before looking around.

The chaos that ruptured covered up the assassin's chance to take out Eve. She shifted her sights to other cops and people trying to help with the evacuation, but later on decided against it, since those two deaths alone caused enough panic. The killer walked away with a smirk on her face.

Eve looks around, before pulling up the megaphone and just keep telling people to move quickly out.

The megaphone attempt failed. No one was listening to orders from the few cops that were brave enough to keep talking instead of hiding., much less the orders from Eve.

Eve understood why they were panicky, she inhaled as she felt this was the only way; She was doubtful it would calm anyway, or be much help. Turning on the Megaphone and holding it up high, she started to sing into it, singing a calming melody as best as she could.

The singing definitely through of everyone's panic. Not in a calming way, but more in confusion. As if they all thought, who is singing at a time like this? Nevertheless, everyone began evacuating quickly, but much more calmly.

Eve keeps singing, opening her eyes slightly.

There, she would see a laser coming from a tree, pointed straight at her chest.

Eve however didn't stand still, she then started moving so it was harder for the laser to focus.

A gunshot hole appeared right where Eve once stood.

Eve keeps singing as she was dancing at this point.

Irritated, the figure stood up, now visible. The individual bent down, dropping the sniper, and picking up......

an RPG-7.

Eve however smiles as she did a spin and throws the megaphone towards the visible individual.

(dashes? You mean throw?)

(Signs of me still waking up )

(oh... it's night for me, soo...)

the assailant instantly dropped the rocket launcher to casually grab the megaphone, crushing it with only her hand. As she got ready to bend down and pick up the RPG again, she stopped, then put two fingers to her ear. After a while, there was a nod, and the anonymous person fled the scene. Some static appeared on the televisions again, possibly another message.

Eve smiles as she sings, looking around.

The TV showed the true villain himself. "Attention everyone... time is up. The remainder of the people on this island will now enjoy the happy holidays with me... and no one is going to leave this holiday party," he said as he pulled out a button he was going to press.

Eve narrowed her eyes, making sure everyone has left the airport before thinking of leaving herself.

At the push of the button, the airport blew up, shrapnel and debris flying in the air, and the close proximity of it possibly launching Eve and a few other cops several meters away.

Moros (closed)

Moros happened to exit the mall, using a bit of force by blasting the doors open using void magic; he was not happy with the baker for not getting him his cinnabun.

He would find outside almost as quiet as inside the mall. This side of Weybrook became a ghost town the fastest.

Moros blinked... "People are so stupid.." He sighed; since people have fled. Most likely leaving much of their stuff Moros figured he might as well steal some things to add to his ever growing collection of stuff in the void.

The biggest hotel was right beside the mall. How convenient.

Moros blinked, on one hand; he could just make a large enough tear in the fabric of reality above the hotel and use it to swallow up the hotel. thus giving him an entire hotel but leaving him kinda fucked for a few hours in terms of drainage because of the limitations placed on him whenever he manifests in the material plane.

On the other hand he could just search through the hotel piece by piece... Shit would take a really long time but he wouldn't run the risk of his powers drying up for a few hours...

Moros, being rather impatient and childish when it comes to short term benefit versus long term benefit, chose the first option. Creating a rift large enough to swallow the hotel before bringing it down on said hotel; only closing it when the rift touched the ground floor.

This caught the attention of someone jumping over buildings, but their reliance on the shadows and their suit kept them well hidden in the dark.

Moros yawned. "Mm.. Wonder what else I can do.." He yawned; looking for a bakery. 

There was another bakery, a several blocks away. One could pick up the scent from the building.... mainly because it was on fire. 

Moros ended up walking towards the bakery, a grin on his face. "Cinnabuns~ Cinnabuns~"

The shadow began walking beside Moros at the top of the buildings.

Moros kept going, hoping to get some cinnabuns as his power recharged itself for later use.

While Moros crossed an alleyway, the shadow landed in it silently, and began approaching Moros from behind.

Moros suddenly stopped; as if waiting for something.... His powers had recharged partially, so he could create defensive barriers and conjure ethereal blade; small scale stuff basically.

The shadow had froze, then very quickly and stealthily moved out of sight.

"... You can come out now, I smell your panic.." Moros suddenly spoke.

Moros and Szorra (closed)

The vigilante remained out of sight, attempting to study her opponent.

Moros yawned. "Seriously... This is starting to bore me.." He grumbled, he seemed to be entirely laid back right now. 

Eerily calm, Szorra thought, as he thinks this is nothing more than a game... He must be an opponent that shouldn't be taken lightly. She began to quickly climb up a building wall. 

Moros only waited, the longer she waited to make the first move the more his power recharged; so he was fine with waiting.

However, Szorra was a waiting type of person, and unknown of this attribute (unless the recharging was obvious to see). She took note of Moros's appearance. Small, frail, not intimidating at all. With all the chaos going on, either he's crazy, or a meta. Being a meta is a more obvious choice, and him being able to steal a building is pretty much as obvious an answer as it can get.

Moros took a few deep breaths as a disturbing sense of emptiness spread throughout the vicinity, the source being Moros himself.

"Ahhh, this level of power should be sufficient..." Moros muttered, pointing a finger at the building Szorra was standing on and gathering up void magic into a ball. 

And I guess I'm about to be proven right... she thought as she studied the magic ball's properties. 

It felt like a paradoxical force, something that should not be yet there it is; and the magical output was staggering. Moreso when Moros fired a large beam of void magic from the condensed ball aimed at Szorra's building.

With extreme reaction speeds, she grappled to a window of another building, going over to it at 300 mph. At this window, she fired a grenade of some sort at the feet of Moros.

Moros casually kicked the grenade back before conjuring an ethereal blade. "Come on..!"

"I'd suggest you stand down while you can," Szorra replied.

"Now why would I do that...~" Moros asked. "I'm having too much fun~!!" 

"This isn't a game, child," she said to the assumed teen. The grenade eventually blew up, a red cloud of smoke beginning to take over the area. 

"Child..? Child..!?" Moros repeated; his voice gaining a darker, more ancient quality to the second time.. "I have seen the rise and fall of countless civilizations since the dawn of time Mortal; and yet you dare presume to lecture me on my fun? Learn your place..!"

As Moros said that, a rift began opening in the sky. "Such arrogance from a mortal.. I will remember it well when I sniff you out like a flickering flame amidst a sea of stars..!"

As Szorra looked up, she thought, I thought I placed Hallucinator in prison two weeks ago... She activated her camouflage suit, blinding her from all of the electromagnetic spectrum, and having her temperature match her environment, prepping her grapple gauntlets.

Moros used his magic to 'create' a safezone for him by erasing the red mist within a six meter radius of where he was standing, yet going no further, instead looking around for what path Szorra might take to reach him.

Szorra studied the attack, crouching over the top of an abandoned car near Moros. Okay... that was unexpected... I'll need to find some way to drag him out of there... maybe I should just wait for him to leave his 'hiding spot'.

​Moros soon got a tad impatient, erasing the remainder of the red fog. "Come on, all you've been doing is playing hide and go seek.. That is not fun at all damn it!"

Szorra picked out another grenade and tossed it. Due to it leaving her grasp, it would've seem as if it appeared from nothing. This was activated on impact with the ground, the sonic boom from the grenade reaching 150 decibels, the level where a normal Mobian would have their eardrums burst. Of course, Szorra doesn't mean to harm to much, so the explosive was thrown about ten feet away from Moros.

Moros saw the grenade a few seconds after it left her grasp, and following logical thought and trajectory, he fired a quick beam of void magic in the direction the grenade was tossed at him from. Seeing as he couldn't see her though; his aim was definitely off to the point where if it hit Szorra wouldn't be in any danger in terms of vital spots, though it would most definitely disable the cloaking feature if it hit.

Of course; his barrier doesn't deflect against sound so he felt the full force of that sonic grenade. "!?!" He clutched his ears, stumbling around with a bit of a snarl.

Szorra rolled out the way, small electrical spots appearing from her suit. The sparks would give her away, so she disabled the cloaking feature temporarily. Planning to take down Moros for questioning, she threw some non-lethal explosive ninja stars towards him.

The stars were held by Moros' barrier for a few seconds before dissipating, he glared at Szorra; now advancing on her with an ethereal blade in hand.

I need to scan what that thing is made of, she thought as she unleashed a smoke grenade in her spot, travelling to another part of a building. She took out a device to scan the barrier of Moros from a distance.

Whatever the barrier was made from, it just wouldn't register on her scanner; like it didn't even exist.

"Yes, run.. Fall; taste entro-....." Moros started sniffing the air.

This is definitely a tough meta. It's like he's a ghost... wait, what is he.... sniffing? She changed the scanner mode to olfactory sensing, and located the sense of smell, which was...

It smelled of cinnabuns; and Moros seemingly just up and walked towards the source of the smell. Completely disregarding Szorra. "Cinnabuns~ o3o"

This completely dropped Szorra's guard as she stared wide-gaped at Moros. C-... Cinnabuns? What the hell just happened? It was here that she was vulnerable, as if Moros even cared about that at the moment.

You're... walking into a burning bakery... for cinnabuns?

Moros entered the bakery for a few minutes, coming back out wih a cinnabun in his mouth. '-u-'

Szorra stared with complete disbelief. "I...uh.." after an awkward silence, she put up her gear, in an attempt to peacefully end the battle and see if she can work something out. Still, she stayed weary of his unpredictability.

Moros kept eating his cinnabun, almost completely ignoring Szorra.

"Uh.... hey..." she awkwardly said. She isn't exactly a social person. Szorra walked up behind Moros, attempting to tap his shoulder to get his attention. Some static appeared on the televisions again, possibly another message.

Moros blinked, tilting his head. '.3.?'

Szorra tiled her head again. Appearing on the screen was none other than the Island's Most Wanted.

"... Someone change the channel to something more fun damnit!" Moros complained.

The TV showed the true villain himself. "Attention everyone... time is up. The remainder of the people on this island will now enjoy the happy holidays with me... and no one is going to leave this holiday party," he said as he pulled out a button he was going to press.

"...Oh no..." Szorra thought out loud.

"Boo!! You suck!!" Moros jeered.

At the push of a button, the TV went out, and a loud explosion was heard in the distance.

Xavek (closed)

Xavek arrived on the island, de-rezzing in a stream of orange data that coalesced into his real appearance; that being an alien bio-droid with no hands.

A few cars were still piled back here, but none to a major level. That can't be passed.

Xavek's frustration grew exponentially, he had no clue why people were panicking and to be frank he really didn't care all that much.. However... This meant he might have easier time getting relevant data on the competitions latest experiments, like blueprints; formulaic theorems and even prototype designs if possible.

When Xavek approaches the building, he would see it locked down. With the technology that locked it down, it is impossible for the average Mobian to get by it.

Keywords being "average" and "Mobian"; Xavek is neither, thus he activated his plasma gauntlets Saber configuration; looking for a window to slice through.

The building was covered in a titanium and tungsten alloy on all windows and doors. The building itself was made out of grey bricks, however.

With the augmented strength granted to him by his extensive cybernetic augmentations, Xavek attempted to punch a large hole in the wall. Well, big enough for him to walk through.

The grey bricks crumpled, and it was revealed that the building skeleton was made of reinforced steel.

Xavek stabbed his plasma saber into the building skeleton, intending to slice a big enough hole for him to enter through quite like a lightsaber.

The steel gave way, and the final obstacle was just a normal wall that can easily be passed in order to get into the building.

For the wall, Xavek just punched it again in an attempt to break it; deactivating his plasma saber and discharging what heat had built up in a cloud of steam. He used the cloud of steam as cover to activate his stealth cloak.

The building was made to be able to see all in the electromagnetic spectrum except for gamma rays, and motion detectors flooded the area. Xavek was lucky enough to stumble onto a blind spot.

Xavek scanned the floor he was currently on; his H.U.D marking the locations of these motion detectors and the cameras that allowed the building to see in the electromagnetic spectrum as his optics cycled between vision settings, looking for tripwires and the like.

He would end up seeing infrared lasers, and the lasers moved along the pathway of the halls, all at different speeds and different times. Every now and then, a laser would without warning reverse in direction, giving off an unpredictable automated search of the building.

In the building he sees glowing yellow markings on the 2nd floor.

"How annoying.." Xavek muttered, moving lasers generally tend to have emitters somewhere that move, thus allowing them to move. Xavek tried to find these lasers and shoot them.

The emitters were left on, but not protected by anything. Seems like a rushed job due to evacuations.

Xavek smirked; firing bolts of plasma at these emitters.

The main lasers were taken care of, but the stationary lasers remained.

Seeing as he couldn't do anything about the stationary lasers; he settled for being extremely cautious when maneuvering around them.

Due to the main security being moving lasers, there wasn't much stationary lasers to get in Xavek's way.

Xavek grinned, having slipped past the stationary lasers; now he needed to find where they keep the central mainframe and access it.

That was on the first floor, in the management room.

He looked for any elevators he could use to get the the First Floor.

Elevators were down due to evacuation protocols. Obvious alternate path is obvious.

Obvious path means stairs.

Xavek sighed. "For a place that brags about being so technologically advanced they haven't even implemented Data Transition Systems..? Wow.." 

Something like this..

He muttered, then again he never really studied the effects of rapid digitization and rezzing of organic flesh before; seeing as he's more or less a machine, anyways; he took the stairs, albeit cautiously because he didn't want to be caught off guard by any traps.

The stairs were a stairwell, having an empty middle to quickly parkour up or jump down.

Xavek vault over the rails; jumping down the empty middle.

The stairs weren't necessarily protected other than a few cameras, all of which are able to see infrared, thermal, and ultraviolet.

His only option was to shoot the cameras as he descended before they got a chance to detect him, compensating for a substantial lack of accuracy in this situation by firing havily spread out streams of plasma at each camera while he free fell.

Eventually Xavek would reach the floor. No hard work at all.

Of course, his landing might've cracked the floor; but otherwise he was unharmed.

Behind the main desk, Xavek would find the main computer, in a private office.

Xavek smirked, walking towards the main computer with a look of excitement on his face.

Xavek then would realize the computer is locked with a password, facial recognition, eye scanner, fingerprint scanner, and a voice activation protocol...

"Heh.. Such petty encryptions.." Xavek muttered; entering the computer by digitizing himself and transmitting into the security systems.

(basically think of megaman nt warrior; only in this case Xavek is like a virus.)

Sensing the entry of Xavek, the computer activated its malware protection system (cuz why not a fantasy cyber fight?). Electrical beings began forming, with a variety of weaponry.

Xavek just fired bolts of plasma at the electrical beings.

a few of the antiviruses were dissipated, the rest dodging the strike or completely out of the way. Looking up in the cybernetic blue sky, hundreds of arrows fell from the sky.

Xavek grinned, advancing on the remaining antiviruses and tanking through the arrows.

Several antiviruses had formed a cannon, and fired deletion codings at Xavek.

Xavek rolled to the right before the cannon fired; now returning fire with digitized plasma.

Several more antiviruses were struck by this, and dissipated. Suddenly, from above, there was an antivirus, slightly larger than the rest, holding what seems to be a bo-staff.

Xavek just kept firing, now aiming at the larger antivirus with the bo-staff.

This one seemed better than the rest (better software program). It deflected the fire by rapidly spinning its staff before attempting to smash Xavek's head in.

Xavek sidestepped in order to force the program to overextend its reach before attempting to deliver a crushing blow to the side of its head.

In a swift motion, the antivirus moved its bo-staff to block the strike, backing away to a defensive position. Meanwhile, the a group of antiviruses with battleaxes charged at Xavek.

Xavek was getting irritated; his left gauntlet reconfiguring into a plasma mace as he fired a continuous beam of plasma at the battleaxe wielding anti-viruses that charged him.

During this strike, the main anti-virus was seemingly charging an energy blast from an end of the bo staff while Xavek was busy.

Xavek growled, after finishing with the group of axe wielding Anti-Viruses; he turned his attention to the larger one; his right gauntlet reconfiguring itself into a plasma saber as he walked towards the larger one menacingly.

The anti-virus showed no mercy as it valiantly charged towards Xavek with the staff.

Xavek fired his right gauntlet at the anti-virus' legs; moreso as a diversionary tactic to get the program to hop around in an attempt to avoid the shots while moving towards Xavek in a predictable manner.

The Anti flipped into the air, preparing to smash the end of its staff on the top of Xavek's head.

"Predictable.." He muttered, using the plasma mace to knock the end of the bo-staff off course while swinging his right gauntlet into the gut of the anti-virus as it descended; once his gauntlet was firmly planted into the anti-virus' gut Xavek slammed the anti-virus on its back while his right gauntlet reconfigured into a plasma saber, most likely pinning it to the ground as Xavek then attempted to bisect the annoying piece of hardware.

The Anti-virus struggled, then it stopped moving. Suddenly, the body began twitching, and it was began rapidly changing colors, as if something was about to happen.

(you realize that Xavek's plasma saber was already impaling the anti-virus? seeing as he reconfigured the same gauntlet he used to slam it on his back.)

(I misread it, my bad. I'll fix that up. However, if that's the case, then it counts as auto-hitting. Since the anti-virus is a tertiary character [unimportant], I'll let it slide this time.)

(I wouldn't say it's auto-hitting seeing as the action the tertiary character took beforehand led up to Xavek's action; hell if anything I borrowed the concept of one of the specific lightsaber styles. forgot the name but it involved the turning off of the lightsaber during a saberlock and turning it back on when passed the opposing duelist's guard; thus leading to a fatal blow if aimed properly.. I think.)

(Tbh, I stopped watching star wars after the first few original movies [don't kill me]. It's not that it was boring t me, I just... stopped... in short i have no fucking clue what you mean, but whatevs, i'm not mad)

Xavek removed his plasma saber from its gut, taking a few steps back to see what it was going to do.

The anti-virus began emitting a high pitch sound as its body began bloating excessively.

Xavek's eyes widend. "Ahhh fuck!!" He cursed, now trying to rezz himself back in the office to avoid getting caught up in a digital explosion

When he returned to the office, he will see that he finally bypassed the system. The computer was all his.

Jailrush (closed)

On the shores of Weybrook, there was a boat heading towards the shore. A hedgehog happened to be asleep in that boat, and when the boat hit shore, he felt a slight bump that waked him up.

".....What the heck? Where am I?" The hedgehog questioned in confusion.

He arrived in a massive megalopolis, all covering several islands. It was oddly quiet except for one island, where he could see some airplanes taking off.

"I wonder what's going on there..." The hedgehog said as he took off to paddle to the oddly strange island.

The closest island near him was Paradise island, an island that has a fire going on. While Jailrush paddles to the airport island, he may see another house on Paradise island burst into flames unnaturally fast.

"Oh boy, what's going on this time?" Jailrush then jumped out of the boat and got his pistol out in hand.

Another explosion would be heard from the distance, revealing itself to be the island he was about to go to initially. What may catch his attention even more is the sound of a male creature screaming in pain nearby.

(What timezone are you in? It's 11 pm for me rn, and it's rare for me to get on this late. I did state a timezone warning earlier.)

(I'm in the Pacific Time Zone. It's 9 PM for me.)

(cool. This should work out if you can start roleplaying later. Respond to the paragraph above now^^)

At this point Jail was a little worried. Until he was in city center, he could see all the chaos that is going on. "Oh boy..."

The surrounding would suddenly get darker, as lights are shot out.

"Oh god, what happened to the power?" Jail worriedly said as the lights shut off.

The click of a gun could be heard behind Jailrush. "Don't be hasty now... give me your money," the voice said.

Jail responded with, "Oh. A robber. so generic." Then he pointed his pistol at the figure. "You did know i was armed right?"

The figure smiled. "It's all about who hits there target first... and my best shots are a shot in the dark."

"Kay then." Jail said with a grin, then he walked to the back of the figure and gave him a kick in the back. (Jail, ya darn did it now.)

The dark creature seems to vanish from sight appearing in a dark side of the street, pointing his gun at Jailrush.

"Okay, then. Will $20 work?" Said Jail as he thought of this at the same time, 'This is going to be the best thing I've pulled off.'

"It's going to cost you a lot more than that." he smirked. "Everything. Including the gun."

Jail was feeling super mischievous, and with complete bravery, he handed the figure a Nerf gun, and $20. He spoke fast. "Ok, i'll be off. Seeya!" He dashed off to the end of the street. (NOW YOU DARN DID IT NOW JAIL)

"...this kid..." The shadowy being shot out a couple of lamp posts in the direction Jail was heading, then teleported right in front of him, with his foot in a position that would elbow his gut if Jail continued running forward a second longer.

"Um, Okay, i give up." Said Jailrush and handed the figure a spare pistol and wallet. Then when he turned and walked to the other side of the street, he murmured, "I just tricked this guy into thinking I gave up everything! I'm a friggin genius!"

... What the hell just happened? the thief pondered for a moment. What a friggin idiot. He shrugged his shoulders and checked the wallet for cash as he headed back in the shadows.

Jailrush was also thinking when he got to the other half of the street, "Great, i just handed this guy my spares. Now what am i going to do on this island?"

The current island was dark, but the next island was lit by a few fires. It was accessible via a bridge.

Jail walked the bridge, getting closer and closer to the fire.

Jailrush would then see a bird on fire, seeing him limp.

"Urm, should i walk here? Well, I'mma risk it for a chocolate biscuit." Jail then dashed closer to the fire. "FOR NARNIA!"

The sound of the yell caught the bird's attention, and he looked over to Jailrush.

Jail caught the motion of the bird in the corner of his eye and stopped to look. "What the heck....."

The bird attempted to stand upright, but nearly collapsed on his injured leg.

Jail made a face of confusion.

If Jailrush had gotten any closer, he would have seen a quickly made bandage around the leg of the phoenix, blood soaked in it.

Jail saw it despite how far it was. "Please don't tell me i'm not dreaming right now..."

With a grim look on his face, the Phoenix rose up, this time not falling. He attempted to look intimidating to Jailrush in an attempt to ward him off, since he wasn't at his prime.

"Ok, what do i know about phoenixes...." Jail pondered. "They can't be killed, so i can't shoot it down, I can't grab it because it's pure fire, the only solution is, RUN!" Jail dashed across the bridge, but once he almost got at the end, he tripped.

Seeing that he was more intimidating than he thought, the Phoenix hovered a small way up, following Jailrush, but at no amazing pace.

Jail looked at the phoenix, and said "Eh, I think I've done everything i wanted to in life."

The Phoenix, feeling confident in himself, floated over to Jailrush, his hand creating a small fireball. "Time to cook a rodent," he gloated.

Jail kipped up and ran across the final part of the bridge on the island.

This allowed him to escape the fireball at the last second as the fire scarred the mark on the ground. Do to Phoenix being in too much pain to move on, he boasted. "Haha, you better run. There's more where that came from!"

Jail then walked into the city, seeing more fire.

(In case you don't know due to your inactivity, when I close your category, I'm opening a new one in a later part of the story. Check Chapter 5)

(K then.)

Chapter 3: The Night Before Christmas

Lavo (closed)

She tears the dirk out of the person, leaping away from him as her wings wrap around her and the child once more.

At the same time he yelled, a distance explosion could be heard. Meanwhile, Phoenix covers this wound as he angrily looks at Lavo. "You think you're a hero? Like the Black Cat? I'll turn you into ashes!"

"... No, I'm no hero, but I won't kill innocent lives." Lavo glares, hugging the child close.

Phoenix shakily got up, attempting to concentrate in order to charge his fire.

Lavo keeps glaring, holding the child protectively as her wings shields her and the child.

The flame wasn't as bright as before, but Phoenix still had enough energy to launch a small fireball in Lavo's direction.

Lavo let her wings take another hit, she grunt a bit to herself as she glares at him.

Phoenix is not the brightest of people. He continues throwing fireballs despite the seemingly mute effect.

Lavo holds the child close to her face was shielded, her dirk getting ready as she then starts running towards the Phoenix.

Fearing another strike from the Dirk, Phoenix began quickly walking backwards, but stumbling on his feet and falling backwards. He fearfully launched a plethora of fireballs, most not even in Lavo's direction.

Lavo tenses, her wings shielding herself. Stopping in her tracks as she watches the plethora of fireballs.

Very few was actually a threat to her due to Phoenix being blinded by fear.

"... Fear is very strong." Lavo mutters. "You fear death, just like any normal person."

"SHUT UP!" He yelled. "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!"

Then the last amount of concentration flew out of Phoenix's mind. Knowing he cannot make a fireball, he instantly got up and began running. I'll kill her, he thought, I'll burn her AND these islands to the ground.

"...Hmph, running..." She mutters.

"Is... is he gone?" The child said, too scared to open here eyes or to stop clinging on to Lavo.

Lavo put her dirk away, kneeling down. "He's gone, child..."

"I'm scared. I want my daddy now," she said, nearly about to cry again.

"Shh, I'll get you to your father..." Lavo frowns a bit, carrying the child.

It was going to be a long walk to the airport.

Lavo took that chance, walking to the direction of the airport.

Halfway to the airport, it began raining. Since it was around the wintertime, the rain was especially chilly.

Lavo took the cold rain as she shields the child with her wings as she kept walking.

A few blocks away from the bridge to the airport, the child looks up to Lavo. "Can we buy something to eat, please?"

"Um... I'll see if anything is open." Lavo nods. "But, I can't promise we'll find something right away." She pets the child's head before looking around for a place she think will hold food.

This being a massive island, one could glance in any direction and immediately find at least three restaurants. However, most stores were empty due to the one hour evacuation attempt. While the stores weren't officially closed, many were abandoned and left open.

"... I'll pay for what we get..." She goes to the nearest food-related store/restaurant with the child.

The two nearest stores were right beside each other: one being a private cake business, and the other being a gas station.

"Mmm... Maybe the gas station has some snacks, an lest you want to go to the cake place?" She looks at the child.

"Umm... I want a pop-tart!" she said, with a smile on her face for once.

Lavo smiles a tiny bit, nodding. "Let's find you a pop-tart then." She picked to go into the cake place, since pop-tarts are baked goods, or so Lavo had believed.

Entering the bakery, the two would instantly be hit with the powerful smell of the freshly made food. This would mean that the baker had probably left to the airport right after setting down the fresh new dough.

"Huh.." Lavo looks over what foods were there. "They were going to make some more fresh baked goods till all of this happen..."

"POP-TARTS!" the young girl delightfully yelled as she ran to one side of the bakery.

Lavo follows quickly after the young girl. "Be careful..."

It was a little late to say this, as a portion of the bakery roof for some unknown reason suddenly collapsed, falling onto the child.

"Ah!" Lavo didn't pause for a moment, her wings spread open slightly as she dashes forward in hopes to shield the child from the falling roof before it was too late- if it was late however, that didn't stop her from being quick on her feet.

Lavo had prevented half of the ton of debris from falling under the child. The other half has fell on her. In a muffled voice, she could hear her crying.

Lavo grunts a bit, using what strength she had to move the debris before looking to the child to see if she was safe.

Lavo may be surprised. When the child was free, all she had was a small bruise on the top of her head... considering the fact that 1000 pounds of weight was on her head., not to mention the rest of her body. She then tried to get herself out into the safety of Lavo, easily pushing a fifty pound rubble out of the way.

Lavo wasn't completely surprised, but the part that did surprise her was the fact it was a child and not... Something else that could fit with the duration that she had. Lavo gone over to her, checking her over carefully before nodding at overall what she saw. "...Are you okay?" She asked.

"I'm scared," she said clinging to Lavo, the big bruise on her forehead very slowly healing.

Lavo hugs her. "Shh, I'm here... Just stay with me next time instead of wandering off..." She petted her head.

"Okay," the child said scared. She looked up where the ceiling collapsed, and saw some type of steamy liquid eating away the stony top.

Lavo hugs the child, looking up as well. "Someone must have done that on purpose..." She mutters.

Immediately after saying that, another portion of the building collapsed luckily on the other side of the room.

Lavo hold the child close. "..." Her wings shift to shield the child. "This building isn't safe... We'll need to find another place to get you poptarts..."

A lynx jumped into the room. He looked over at the two and smiled. "You know, you are the fourth and fifth people who came back here to raid a store's food," And you call yourself citizens," he said. Droplets of acid fell from the pond, quickly disintegrating the floor.

"To be fair, I was going to pay even though no one was here. This child is hungry. I'm not doing it for myself." Lavo looks to the Lynx.

"Hehe... well since you seem to be paying, how about you give the rest of it to me? I'm not asking twice."

"How greedy." Lavo narrowed her eyes. "How about no, you're not the first I've fought..." She looks to the child. "Cling close and don't watch, okay..." She whispers.

"Oh, I see you've already ran into one of us. Give up while you can, you don't understand, do you? The city's overrun, you can't stay up all night against all of us. Like I said, I wasn't asking twice." He threw a lob of acid in the direction of Lavo.

"Oh, I believe I can." Lavo said with a low and cold tone. One of her wings swings out to slap the lob of acid back to his direction, or another direction.

The acid was splattered over the enemy, but the skin of the lynx made the attempt mute. "I am the Acid Lynx. What was your plan, exactly, to return the attack to me? Rookie mistake," he said as he shot some more acid over Lavo, planning on dropping the roof over her.

"Well, Yes, but not in the matter you think." She dashes right to face to face with him, her dirk drawn out before suddenly a purplish-red aura appear on the dirk as she used her other hand, it was a weak aura of corruption, being something she rarely did.

Unsuspecting of the sudden closeup, the lynx morphed into acid and traveled on the other side of the building, making a hole in the ground in the process.

Lavo narrowed her eyes, holding the child close with one arm as she spread her wings open and started to 'fly', but moreso hover.

The lynx reformed, with two blobs of acid in his hand, ready to throw them.

Lavo shifted her motion, before flying at him with her dirk ready.

Acid Lynx wasted no time as he threw the blobs directly at Lavo.

Lavo slids back and forth out of the way of the blobs as she charges at the Acid Lynx with the dirk while holding the child close and out of the way.

Lynx instantly dived over to the other side of the room, this time forming his hands together, planning on shooting out acid like water out of a hose, when he is distracted by a chair moving in the corner of his eye.

Lavo spins quickly to the Lynx's direction and drives down on the Lynx as she had the dirk shift into position of stabbing into him with the weak corruption aura on the blade still.

Seeing this, but having less time to react, all that Acid Lynx could do was attempt to grab the arms of Lavo to prevent himself from being impaled with the Dirk.

He did grab the arm successfully, but since she was driving on him, her left wing goes to 'slap' him.

Caught off guard, the dirk fell an inch closer to him. The lynx wasn't sure what hit him, but he was more prepared now. He began using his strength try to push the dirk back so he wouldn't be impaled.

Lavo try to push the dirk back towards him with all the strength she has, glaring down at him. One of her wings shift to cover the child as best as she can.

Seeing that the pushing contest could go either way, Acid Lynx began focusing on Lavo's arm, beginning to create acid from his hand.

This made Lavo jump back before the acid could fully touch her skin, she glares. She was clearly holding back something as she thinks about this situation as she kept the child protected.

While Lavo wasn't charging at him, the lynx took the moment to looked back at the moved chair, and that's where he will spot a dark blue ear.

While the Lynx wasn't looking, Lavo quickly shealth her dirk and pulls out her crossbow once more as she had loaded her crossbow with a silver tip bolts before opening her wings and fires at him.

The lynx saw all of this and casually turned into acid as he threw himself at Lavo.

Lavo had fired the silver tip bolt, before her wings goes to shield her and the child at that point, it was a quick shot then cover.

The acid into a donut shape, dodging the arrow and landing on the wings of Lavo. Lynx didn't stop there, he used his titanium knuckles that was custom made with spikes to attempt to beat down Lavo.

Lavo's wings kept shielding over her as he beat on them with his titanium knuckles, her nose started bleeding as she winced a bit in pain. "...I hate to do this..." She mutters before using all of her strength in her wings to push him back, her wings being spread wide open to do so. Yet, now she was shielding the child with her own body. "..."

Lynx went flying back, but he landed safely on the wall before tumble rolling back on his feet. "How about I give you one more chance? Which one will you give up? Money, or life?"

"...Neither." Lavo inhale calmly before exhaling as her wings then both flap downward in a very quick motion as then the reddish-purple droplets fly off the tips of her wings at the Lynx, she had drop her crossbow once more and draw out her dirk once again.

"Enough games then," he replied as he morphed into an acidic liquid again to dodge the droplet assault, then he reformed his body right in front of Lavo, planning a hard ambush kick to the stomach.

Yet the droplet assault was only a way to get him to move as her hand suddenly snake out with the dirk in the thrusting position to hit him as he reformed right in front of her. Her grayish-blue, dull eyes slightly light up a purplish hue as this happen.

Caught off guard, reflexes took over, and the spot where the dirk hit was instantly filled with acid.

As the dirk hit, it was something off, since Lavo didn't yank her dirk back, but in fact shoves it further in as her hand uncontrolly becomes cover with an aura of corruption- it wasn't stable though as she glares at the Lynx with one of her wings able to protect where the child was.

Unlike the Phoenix, Acid Lynx was more tolerant to pain, and he glared at Lavo as he used one of his hands to pull the dirk out, as the other hand used the combination of the titanium knuckles and the super acid against the 'invisible force field'.

Lavo grunted in a bit of pain, though his titanium knuckles and super acid did get inside the wing, it didn't push all the way- With this Lavo spits blood at the Lynx's face before lifting up a foot and slamming it into his stomach to 'sparta' kick him away from her.

The armored plating around his stomach took in most of the blow, allowing him to keep his stance. Even more frustrated with the blood in his face, he began punching harder. "Just DIE already!" he bellowed.

Lavo groans, but then growls. "No..." Her eyes glares as her other wing was still open before she focuses on the Lynx, her wing swings it from his left [Her right] to knock him off balance while she kept her stance. But now she was bleeding more from her nose and slightly from her mouth...

The Lynx fell, but tumbled rolled back up. He examined the damage done to Lavo, then himself. As he assumed he had the upper hand and charged for another close quarters combat, a chair flew from behind Lavo, surprising and stunning the Acid Lynx.

Lavo was forced to fall to one knee, coughing up some blood as she had one eye closed in pain. Her wings slightly gone limp now as she slightly glance up to a surprised and stunned Acid Lynx and then spotted the chair- So, she was naturally confuse and surprised. "Uuh...?"

Lavo, Acid Lynx, and Michael (closed)

Michael charged from behind Lavo, with two glass bottle as he leaped over and attempted to strike the lynx, who grabbed Michael midair and tossed him to the other side of the room.

Lavo groans a bit, before grabbing her crossbow, pulling a bolt out, not silver tip as she focuses corruption energy to the very tip so that it was bruning purple almost, she then loads the crossbow before struggling to aim at the Lynx. "...uu..."

The lynx had got up, slower than before due to being stunned, but still had enough energy to flip over a table to shield him from the bolt. During this, Michael had quickly shrugged off the pain of being thrown, and he slid towards Lavo as he threw the glass bottles in the lynx's direction.

He pulled out a needle and injected it into the neck of Lavo. "Epinephrine," he said, "or in case you don't know, adrenaline. I'll take care of the child so you don't have to hold back. Quickly, we don't have time."

Lavo exhales as she had be injected, her wings spread open before looking at him. "... Very well..." She stands up, dropping her crossbow as it then zip back to her hip, she picked up her dirk as she felt the Adrenaline, she glares at the Acid Lynx. "Figure another dance of death?" Though bleeding from her nose and mouth, she didn't have very many injures- one of her wings did had burn marks, if anyone could even see them.

"I knew I saw your boyfriend lurking out here. Looks like the amount of people I'm sending to hell increased," he replied as he shook off the stun from the chair, ready for Lavo's first move. He eyed Michael attempting to leave the building with the little chipmunk, and he shot a blob of acid in their direction.

However Lavo got right in front of the blob of acid, her wing up to take the hit before her wing comely spread open once more. "It's between you and me, Not you and the stranger." Her eyes shine a bit as she balance out of her stance.

"This is no Olympic sport. There are no rules."

"Oh no no." Her Dirk position for thrusting. "There are rules, you just don't know them." She then dashes right at the Lynx as if to thrust.

Meanwhile, Michael took the child outside.

"Go hide in the car right there, my friend is inside there. I'll help your friend stop that bad lynx, okay?"

The scared child nodded her head before approaching the car, and Michael turned back to the store.

The lynx dodged the dash, moving his hand in such a way to aim for the pressure point on the back of Lavo's neck.

He was interrupted by Michael who he turned his attention to, and punched him with the knuckles, knocking him across the room. He later proceeded to creating an acid ball and through it to the ceiling to collapse it on Michael.

Since Lavo wasn't hit with the pressure point on the back of her neck, she slashes quickly at the Lynx before flipping over him with the help of her wings to bounce the acid ball elsewhere.

The Lynx was wide open, so the slice was effective, putting causing him a decent amount of pain. As a result, however, natural reflexes make him hold the part of his body which is in pain, causing the acid to splatter right beside Michael. While Michael wasn't directly hit, the splashed acid did end up falling for him. His cry was unholy.

Lavo heard the cry, she cursed before looking down at the Lynx. She was now flying as she grabs her crossbow with her other hand and fires a bolt before reloading it as quickly as she cross, her dirk now in her mouth.

The bolt hits, another grunt of pain and anger from the Acid Lynx, another loud shriek from Michael.

Lavo paused as she glances to Michael, as she was still in the air.

She would see Michael twitching away. Now he didn't have the energy to yell, and he simply began whimpering. The skin on one side of his face, on his limbs, and the lower midsection, all peeled away. The exposed flesh was quickly turning into a murky yellow from the interaction with the acid.

Meanwhile, the Lynx attempted to climb out of the store through the ceiling.

Lavo glance at the Lynx, but she growls before flying down to Michael. She had to think quick to get the acid off of Michael at this point, her wings shrink down as she slips a small bag out from under her jacket, hidden quite well, digging though it. "Supplies for acid, supplies for acid..." She mumbles.

Michael weakly looked up at Lavo as the acid continued to burn him. "Alkaline.. products... get something that counters acid."

Lavo in fact pulled a rather strong product that counters acid, not enough to harm the person as well, which was a bit odd. "I know." She mutters, before she quickly starts getting to work on countering the acid on him.

Michael lost consciousness for a moment, waking back up when Lavo was almost done applying the product.

She calmly finishes applying the product, having a first aid kit next to her for other possible reasons. "There..." She mutters, her ears flicked a bit.

While the burning was stop, the damage was already done. Michael had lost most of his limbs, lost one of his eyes and the skin around it, and the bones of his bottom ribs could easily be seen. Without professional aid, it wouldn't be long before Michael died.

Despite all this, he persevered. "Thank you..." he weakly stated.

"Don't completely thank me..." She mutters. "You will need Professional Aid... " She glances away, thinking deeply to herself. "...."

"A friend... called for help... they should arrive at any time now," he coughed, the lower muscles for coughing could be seen moving. "She's outside in a car. It's where you'll find the little girl as well."

Lavo looks at him, no... Normally when help does arrive, the one who needs it the most is already gone by then. "Depends if there isn't some fire being sent at them, or acid, or rockets." She bluntly stated. "And if they do arrive, who knows how long till they get to us." She wasn't one to pretend about the outcome, looking at him. "jeez..." She mutters to herself.

"Yeah... I'm a mess, aren't I?" he chuckled weakly. Seeming to still have a smile on his face even thought he is basically on the brink of death.

"A mess that is near death." Lavo grumbles, she wasn't smiling, nor really expressing any emotion. "Should have just taken the hit instead of shoving it..." She grumbles to herself, glancing to her hand; she was wondering if the corruption in her blood would mess him up big time or keep him alive longer... It wasn't some healing power anyway, normally for just the worse... She kept thinking this over.

A very serious and stern look came upon Michael's face, "Don't blame yourself for this. I'm the one... I'm the one who ran into this mess." He shifted his position, and a tiny droplet of acid from under his back got in contact within him, sizzling his back a bit. He attempted to ignore it, trying to sit his head up. Then he remembered moving is the last thing he wanted to do, so he moved back onto the ground.

"Is... is the car safe?" he asked.

"The Lynx ran through the roof, so I can only say maybe." Lavo stated honestly, looking at him.

"There's a TECH med station in the back seat of the car. Hook me up to it and I can stay alive for longer, possibly long enough for help. The thing is you'll have to move me carefully."

"... Very well..." She had the first aid and product carefully put away before going over to him to carefully pick him up in her arms. It was the only way she could think would work since her wings could mess him up if she try to carry him on her back.

Michael grunted in extreme pain, but before he passed out, he told Lavo to not stop moving.

Lavo finishes picking him up fully, carrying him carefully as she grow her wings to safe hovering size, hovering her way out of the store with him in her arms.

Eve O'la Laha (closed)

Eve coughs as she landed on her side, opening one eye as she carefully sits up.

If she dared look back at the explosion, she would probably be temporarily blinded by the brightness of it. If she looked away, she would see the horrific sight of a burnt arm right beside her.

Eve had looked away, frowning at the sight of the burnt arm. "..."

She would now see some officers shakily getting up, some, turning around covering their eyes to see the damage done...

...then the shrapnel began falling, one of them threatening the life of Eve if she didn't move out of the way.

Eve struggled getting up, getting out of the way as best as she could.

Another officer was there to pull her out of the way safely. He hid her behind a small house for some protection from the shrapnel.

Eve sighs, concern as she looks to the officer. "Tha-Thank you."

"No problem," the fox replied. He seemed a little young to be an officer. On a closer examination, it turns out he isn't a cop. He was...

"My name is Michael," he started off. "You?"

Eve looks to Michael, a bit shocked to see him. "Eve is my name."

"That's a nice name, you don't hear it often," he said as he stood up. He heard the sounds of shrapnel decrease, and decided to walk around the corner of the house to look at the aftermath. His shoulders sulked.

Eve frowns, following him as she felt sorrow inside.

"I was finally going to go to space," he ended up thinking out loud. "To the asteroid headquarters... to see what my dad's life was like... guess I won't get that chance anytime soon if I can't get off of this island." he turned towards Eve.

"I heard you helping the cops bring everyone out of the mayhem. I'd give you something as a congratulations, but I'm pretty sure everything is closed."

Eve looks to him, she smiles a bit. "That's fine, I always just wanted to help. Hopefully I can get touch with my father, and then we'll have another way of getting off this island." She digs for her phone."Hopefully the innocent people are okay..."

A crash was heard in the distance, and Michael looked over. "Well... I don't think you'll get in touch with your father on this island if the cell phone tower is down."

"That's what I feared..." Eve must have not been surprised, that didn't mean she was happy. "Though, if Father and mother did get a word of this somehow, There will be problems." She looks at Michael. "But, that will be a while..."

"Surprised the news didn't get international the hour before the incident. I wonder how Satan Claws had managed that..." he then looked at Eve, thinking she may be confused. "S-sorry. I have a bad habit of naming everything."

"Better to give something a name then to have it go unnamed." Eve nods. "Issue is, I think he has a way to stop it..."

"The only way we can do that is if we... " An idea flew into Michael's head. He pulled out his... some kind of phone, and pressed a button. "Give me a minute. I could possibly get us outside attention and get you in contact with your dad."

Eve smiles. "That would be great."

Eventually, a car pulled up. It seemed like an ordinary car, even below average. The shocking thing is the fact that beneath the shaded window was no driver, meaning that the button activated brought the car here all on its own.

Eve noticed, she smiles. "wow."

Michael smiled at Eve. "You haven't seen the interior yet," he said as he walked to the driver's side and entering. With a button press, the passenger door automatically open. "Sit down. We're not really going anywhere right now."

"Of course." Eve smiles as she goes to the Passenger Door and sits down in the car.

With a few presses of a button, the interior seemed to change to a chrome look. From the outside, this would still seem normal due to even the windows being high level technology. A few holographic keyboards became online. They weren't floating in midair, rather sticking on the dashboard, but still holographic nonetheless.

Michael laid back for a moment, playing with his seat position with Eve completely out of hit mind. Then he looked over to her.

"Well, if all has gone to plan, we should be able to get a connection in this car using its phone," he said, pressing a few buttons and bringing up what looks like a phone dial. "Don't worry, I won't look at your dad's number," he said as he covered his eyes with his hands. He playfully peeped out of his fingers for a moment.

Eve had lean over, pressing the numbers as she enters her father's phone number, that of a King. She smiles sweetly as she finishes. "There we go."

"Alright then... do you want this to be a private chat, or are you fine with it on speaker," he asked.

"Speaker should be fine." Eve smiles sweetly. "No point in hiding anything at this point." She giggles a tiny bit.

"Fine by me." He stretched in his seat after finally getting a comfortable position, closing his eyes, seemingly for a light snooze. The connection would work, surprisingly even better than Weybrook's connection, and Eve's father would eventually be online.

"Father?" Eve called out.

"Ooh! My Sweet little girl, you're alright!" A ruff male voice spoke, though with worry. "Where were you? I had lost connect when you try to contact me."

"It's a bit hard Father, I'm at Weybrook, the airport I had arrived in... Well, is gone now" Eve gave a nervous chuckle.

"Oh dear, that isn't good at all, do you want me to send over Helicopters? Airplanes?"

"Dad, I was hoping you can help get the rest of the people off of Weybrook, but I think Helicopters are the only object now... But, you will have to be careful." Eve stated in concern.

"I understand my daughter, meaning there will be troubles landing and taking off..." The male voice seem to mutter something about how troublesome this would be.

As this talk happened, Michael looked over at Eve. Hearing the voice was familiar to him, and as he looked back at Eve and put two and two together, he facepalmed himself in disbelief that he didn't notice this before.

"Do you think you can work it out? I'm sure they will be a lot safer back at the Kingdom of Laha" Eve smiles sweetly.

HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS?! he thought.

"I will try my sweet girl, Only because you ask for it and that innocent lives are in trouble. I shall also spread this news worldwide in case I am not able to get there." The Male seem to give some orders in the background.

Eve's smile was bright. "Thank you Father! Also let mother know I'm perfectly well!"

"Of course, she would be very relieved hearing you are alive and well." He responded.

I can't believe this is happening to me... Michael began to have nervous sweating in the palms of his hands and his forehead.

"Take care Father!" Eve smiles before hanging up. She looks at Michael. "Sorry you had to find out now of all things." She gives a nervous giggle.

"You're.... you're Eve? As in Eve O'la Laha?"

"Oh dear" Eve gives a cute giggle. "That happens to be me! Worldwide Singer and Number 1 Princess of the Laha Kingdom." She smiles sweetly.

"I..." Michael put his hands on top of his head for about five seconds, slowly inhaled, slowly exhaled.

"I... you... so, why are you in Weybrook?" Here I am, showing off in my above-state-of-the-art car, showing off to a Laha...

"It was meant to be a vacation." Eve looks away, smiling. "I wanted to take the holiday off for christmas, so I picked Weybrook since I've never been here, possibly get some items for my parents or something. But seems chaos happened instead." She gives a nervous smile after that.

"I'd ask for an autograph right now, but I have nothing to write with," he sheepishly said, blushing in the famous princess's presence. "I.. uh... I'll be honest, I've never been left speechless before..."

Eve giggles a bit. "Oh no worries." She smiles sweetly. "Take your time."

"I, uh.... okay." Michael took a moment to let this sink in.

On Christmas Eve, a series of unfortunate events led me to being in my car the Princess Laha.

Once the Dark Blue fox finally took this, he began talking, with nearly the complete confidence as before. "I thought I was just helping a nice person this whole time... now I realize I have to protect a nice princess... I.... well now... I don't really remember what I was going to do..."

Eve giggles a bit. "That is very sweet of you, how about you think over what you were going to say." She smiles.

Michael sat there trembling, but attempting to hide it.

"I'm... I'm going to try to get a connection with TECH militia. They should be here within the hour. In the meantime... I was actually planning on stopping by a snack bar before leaving on a plane, before this all went down. So, uh... wanna grab something to eat?"

Eve nods as she smiles. "Mhm, After all, I had just arrived to Weybrook when all this mess started, so I haven't really eaten anything honestly." Her smile turn to that of a nervous smile.

"Any idea what you want to eat? You are the guest here."

She giggles a tiny bit. "Mmmm, I'm hungry for maybe some sugar cookies or something sweet." She smiles.

"I know a bakery nearby, we could go there," he requested.

"That would be nice." Eve smiles.

"Well then... let's get going." Michael said, happy to get off the conversation on good terms. He started up the car, and shifted it into drive, traveling to the nearest dessert shop in the city.

Eve relaxes, softly humming as she looks around quietly.

After a moment of silence, Michael's extrovert attitude won over. "So, I would tell you happy holidays, but this has proven to be anything but," he said, making a turn that would near them to the dessert store.

Eve smiles. "I know, but I'm happy to help those I could."

"I'll be honest, from what I knew about you, I never made a picture in my head of you being a heroine, Eve."

Eve smiles sweetly. "Well, I don't want people to be hurt."

"Same here. I guess smart minds do think alike." He arrived to the closest dessert shop, then shifted the car in park.

Eve smiles, nodding. "Totally agree." She glances to the dessert shop.

There, she and Michael would see a little chipmunk girl, a wolf, and a lynx.

"Oh," Michael thought out loud, "guess these people had the same idea."

Eve blinks, but she stares longer at the three there. "...Mm..."

Suddenly, the wolf and the lynx began fighting, both showing unnatural abilities. The chipmunk seemed out of place in this situation.

"Is that kid in danger?" Michael asked with worry?

"From the looks of it, the wolf is protecting the child." Eve blinks. "But, one slip up or mistake and the child would be in danger." She frowns.

"... I'm gonna try to help," Michael said as he got out of the car.

"Be careful." Eve said, watching him.

Michael snuck up to the door of the bakery, palm on the handle. He looked back at Eve, and gave her a thumbs up, before turning around and stealthily opening the door to snoop in.

Eve was worried, watching all of this.

Eventually, after a while, Eve would see Michael exit the building with the child. He spoke to the little kid for a moment, then the girl came towards the car as Michael turned back in.

Eve gently open the door for the scared Child, she smiles sweetly. "Hello Little one, come on in, You'll be safe here with me." She spoke softly and sweetly.

There were tears streaming down her face as she ran to Eve, but she didn't start crying. She was a strong child, both mentally and physically.

"I'm scared," she said.

Eve gently took the child into her arms, petting her head. "It's understandable to be scared little one." She smiles sweetly. "It is a very scary time it seems, Tell me little one, what were you and your friend doing?" She questions.

"I..." she seemed to scared to talk. "We were... we were going to eat poptarts," she sniffled.

Eve frowns a little, petting her head as she gently holds the child. "Shh, It's okay... Once this is all over, we can all eat together, how does that sound?" She smiles sweetly at the child.

The girl ignored Eve, not out of being mean, but of worry as she looked out the window for Lavo, who had protected her all this way.

Eve was okay with the girl ignoring her, petting the girl's head as she looks out the window as well.

Moros and Szorra

"Ehhh? Explosions? That means fun times for all~!" Moros clapped.

I need to get to the explosion, but... what about this fox? Szorra thought. After a brief moment, she ran into the burning bakery.

Moros yawned, things were getting interesting for him so he followed Szorra.

She activated the air cleanser in her suit to not be affected by the smoke, and she quickly moved back and forth in the collapsing building, attempting to find more cinnabuns.

If there were more, they were probably all ruined. "Neh, arent we going to go see what the explosion is? Cause i'm boored."

Well, that makes keeping track of him easier, Szorra thought. Hopefully I can get a chance to talk to him about this later.

"Okay then, let's get moving," she said as she fired her grappling launcher at the threshold of the door, reeling her outside quickly.

Moros just opened two rifts, one where he was standing and the other on a rooftop, before entering the one he was standing near and reappearing on the rooftop; he then closed the two rifts.

Szorra was one second behind, noticing this with curiosity. What can this fox NOT do? "How much range does that have?" She asked.

"Ehhh, it's pretty basic; as for range.. It's short ranged so probably a yard at best." Moros sweatdropped, of course he wasn't going to tell her that he could only pull off a few of those consistently before running dry.

All the stuff you have done, and it's a yard of range? Something's fishy... focus Szorra! Prioritize.

"Okay then... hope you can keep up," she said as she grappled to the next building, launching herself high into the air.

Moros sighed. "I knew I should not've burnt through most of my mana.. Now I'm stuck being slow.. QwQ" He grumbled, instead of using magic he settled for basic parkouring across the rooftops, being rather flexible does help with that afterall.

Glancing back at one moment made Szorra realized how Moros was behind, unlike before. She slowed down her traveling pace until Moros caught up.

"You'd think I'd learn to conserve mana so this doesn't happen.." Moros grumbled as he caught up to Szorra.

Since the travel was now less strenuous, Szorra decided to start off a smile chat in order to know more about him.

"So..." she started off as she aimed her launcher at the next building, "Is it too much to ask what your name is?"

"My name is Moros. .3."

"Moros... that's a pretty unique name," she said just before the grapple reeled her to the next building.

Moros just took a leaping run, grabbing onto one of the balcony railings and using that to propel himself onto the rooftop of the next building. 

"Bloody hell I hate running.."

Being an introvert, it was pretty obvious Szorra really had no idea how to continue a conversation. She slowed down by walking up the side of the next building, her gravity padding helping her to do this.

Moros followed suit, it was more a lack of social skills that kept him from trying to continue the conversation as well.

Eventually, they would finally make it to the scene, where they would see the airport as if it had took a step in hell.

"Ohhhhhh~"

"Dammit," Szorra thought. With her perfect memory, she realized that she had sent Eve to the airport. With no words to Moros, she immediately dive bombed off the skyscraper.

Moros blinked, shrugging and deciding to follow Szorra to see what had her all worked up.

To land safely, she grappled a lamp post just before hitting the ground. With some acrobatics, she swung and landed safely on top of the lamp post, starting to scan the area for life. She glanced back to see if she moved too fast for Moros.

Surprisingly enough, he seemed to be doing better in keeping up.

Szorra returned to what she was doing. She looked over and saw people over other bodies, seeming to check if they are alive. Biological scanners show a lot less deaths than expected, and this slightly relieved Szorra, but she still wondered if she had led Eve to her death.

She turned towards Moros. "I'm gonna look for someone here... are.. are you coming?"

"Of course I am, you're the only source of entertainment I have here~!"

She leaped off the lamp post, and began a small jog to the scene. "What makes you think I'm entertaining?" she asked.

"A lot of reasons, most of which are seeeecreeets~" He said with a grin.

Under her mask, Szorra rolled her eyes, then stopped her approach when a car came into view. While it is normal for cars to still pass even during this, there were no readings of a person in the car. It was as if it came here on its own.

"Ehhh..?" Moros yawned, he couldn't really tell if there was anything off about the car.

Szorra then saw two figures entering the said car. One got in the driver's seat, proving that the car came on its own. It's likely that Moros would see this and put two and two together as well.

"Spooky magic shit confirmed." 

"You should be one to talk," Szorra replied as she glanced back him. "What was that back there?" 

"Nothing.." Moros said, he was of course referring to his branch of magic but Szorra might not know.

Annoyed by assuming Moros did not reveal it, Szorra return to her progress of sneaking up on the car, now grappling toward a lamp post above the car. She scanned it, showing two signs of creatures. By the looks of their tails, Szorra assumed she was looking at a fox and a hedgehog.

Moros shrugged, watching Szorra do her work.

With the car suddenly pulling off, Szorra was caught off guard, slipping and falling off the post.

Moros opened two rifts, one on the ground where Szorra would land and another about a few inches above the rooftop Moros was standing on, the intent was for Moros to catch Szorra.

Szorra ended up falling into Moro's arms. She looked at him for a moment, an unknown expression due to her face being shielded, but then she said, "I would've caught myself in time."

"This was faster though." Moros replied before setting Szorra down.

"Well... whatever." She instantly turned her head. "Did you see which way the car went?"

Moros nodded, pointing in the direction that the car dashed off in. "You get the make and model, or the license plate number?"

"Fake license, model looks like a normal car, but it fits the description of no other car," she thought out loud, "Whoever this is, he doesn't seem like a goody-two-shoes."

"Ahhh, meh."

Still... how did he catch me? Szorra thought in her head. She ignored the thought for later purposes, knowing she won't get the information anytime soon. "We need to catch up to them," she said to Moros, opening something on her gauntlet and pressing a button.

"Hmm; what's that button do..?"

"Wait for it..." in the distance, the sound of something loud and revving was approaching closer.

".... Are you the female batman?"

"Who is that?" She asked as her motorcycle came into view.

"....... Nevermind; forget I said anything."

"Umm...okay?" As she got on the motorcycle, she thought about it, then she scooted up a bit. "You wanna get on?"

Moros nodded, hopping on the seat and holding onto her midsection as is normal with motorcycle passengers when there isn't a sidecar.

She pressed a button, and a dark blue force field came up around them.

"It's to protect us from the G-force," she said as the motorcycle turned the corner and accelerated to 200 miles an hour.

"Hoooolyyy shiiiiit!!" Moros yelled when they accelerated to 200 MPH.

"This isn't even half its max speed," Szorra replied as they sped down the road. The motorcycle instantly decelerates at the next intersection, Szorra scanning the area for any clues of where the car has gone.

"Oh dear.." Moros muttered.

As she looked around the area, she sees the car located by a bakery, not to far from there. "That was fast," she said as she deactivated the G-force shield and turned off the motorcycle.

Moros took a few wobbly steps off the bike, before falling over

'@-@'

"... you alright?" Szorra said, lifting him up.

"Y-yeah.."

"Okay then..." Szorra's helmet scanner showed the vehicle holding only the hedgehog. The fox was in the building, with three other individuals inside.

That's odd, Szorra thought to herself, slowing returning to her introvert behavior.

Moros blinked. "What do you see..?"

"Oh, right, forgot you were here. It seems as if the hedgehog I've met before is in that car. The driver is inside, and it shows the group inside... fighting?"

"Huh..?"

"Odd... something I need to stop, however," Szorra said as she snuck up to the building, quickly scaling to the rooftop withing seconds and planning on dropping in below.

Moros blinked. "Weren't we supposed to see what's going on at the airport..?" Moros asked.

"As far as I scanned back there, no a lot of people were in the airport, the few being there being police officers. I'm pretty sure that..." she was distracted by a lynx coming up through the roof. As the lynx looked up and saw her, all he could say was, "For fuck's sake, give me a break!"

Moros reacted quickly, firing a thin beam of void magic aimed at the Lynx's legs.

The lynx instantly let go of the roof, falling into the bakery once more.

Moros walked towards the bakery. '.3.?'

Expecting another attack, though already injured from Lavo, the lynx sprayed a huge amount of acid in Moros's direction while he looked for an alternate escape route.

Moros blinked, activating the barrier in time to shield himself from most of the acid; however some managed to splash on his arms and shirt.

"......." Moros blinked, he wasn't really sure how to react to this situation; sides he figured that Szorra would probably appear and knock the lynx out.

And that's exactly what happened when Szorra dive bombed onto the lynx from the hole in the roof. She looked at Moros's arm. "You don't feel that?" she says.

"I do, and it hurts a lot, i'm just keeping real calm and looking around for water to wash it off.." Moros said, looking for a bottle of fresh water to pour on his arm.

"That won't work, you'll need a base liquid to counter an acid liquid," she said as she pulled out a spray of super alkaline from her utility belt, then gently held Moros's arm as she sprayed the area.

"Thanks.." Moros smiled, noting the corrosion of his arm.

Szorra studied the wound, deciding to put a gauze over it to heal.

His arm looked somewhat melted in some spots, likely to get an infection if left alone.

"I have a special blade on my motorcycle, for your arm to get treated," she said. "...you seem oddly at ease with this pain, and that's coming from me." She walked to the bakery door and carefully opened it, watching for acid spills, just as a precaution. She walked towards the motorcycle.

"Nothing is worse than the pain of being trapped alone in a cold empty place.. With only your thoughts for your company.."

She looked back, intrigued and curious. "... care to talk about it?"

"No!" He flipped out unexpectedly. ".... No.. I just got away from it.. I don't want to go back, or even think about it.."

"Trust me, I understand that fully," she says as she shudders at a memory. She walked over to Moros with the blade as stated, and the blade 'sealed the wound' using platelets that adjusted to Moros's blood stream. Now all Moros needed was time to heal, and his arm would be perfectly fine.

"I'll probably sound like a mom now, but don't scratch the scar."

Moros chuckled.

Szorra looked back at the unconscious body of the Acid Lynx. "Someone released the prisoners, he of all people shouldn't have been let out so soon." She said as she walked over to pick him up.

"Huh.. Who is he?"

"One of the many villains of this city," she said, tying him up to a street pole. "He used to have a gang of bank robbers, all of them using acid to threaten people. Ever since his crew was rounded up, he had to resort to petty theft, and that's when I had caught him three months ago."

Szorra injected a needle into Acid Lynx's neck, the solution being the same color red as the cloud smoke she had attempted to use on Moros earlier.

"Ahhhh.. Wait, what did you inject into him..?" Moros asked. 

"This solution scans the DNA throughout the body. It confirms what type of species you are by checking your chromosome pair amount, then temporarily deactivates any extra nitrogenous bases found in the DNA, prohibiting meta capabilities for a limited time." 

".... Sooo muuuuch scieeence..!" Moros whined, his eyes acting like swirls.

Szorra sighed. "If you have powers, it removes it for a while."

"Oh, that's easy to understand! o3o"

Man, I wish Smoke was still with me sometimes... She thought. The car she was tracking down was gone, but her priorities have changed either way. She planned on going to the prison island to see if the prisoners have truly escaped.

As she got back on her motorcycle, she looked back at Moros with question. "You've never been seen in this city... why have you came here?"

"I'm boooooored." Moros pouted.

"...oookay..." she said, confused. She took out a phone, left an anonymous tip to the cops about Acid Lynx, then destroyed the phone.

"You hopping on or what? I'll go... slower..."

Moros hopped on the bike. "Oh, sorry about that; I wasn't paying attention.. ^^;"

The cat started traveling towards the prison island, known as Lock Down Fortress.

Xavek (closed)

Xavek grinned, attempting to disable all security measures before downloading a map of the entire building.

It would take time due to the current city situation, but all security measures would eventually be taken down. The entire map of the building would be downloaded in quick time due to the building being very high tech with things such as this.

Xavek grinned; marking the labs as a key point of interest on the map he just downloaded.

The labs were shown in between the 30-50th floors, with the main labs in a factory of another island.

"Perfect.." Xavek chuckled, heading for the labs in the building he was currently in; seeing as he had disabled security that would hopefully mean net traffic isn't restricted, if so Xavek could just digitize himself to cut the time it takes to get to the labs in this building.

By doing this he would end up in the dark factory island of the megalopolis... and he would see that it is full of criminals, gathered for some type of meeting.

"Well now; I see that others may have had similar ideas as me.." Xavek mused, a slight grin on his face.

A screen became active in front of the large crowd. It showed a silhouette of a creature due to the lighting being behind the announcer.

"Gentlemen," he started off in a distorted voice. "The islands are open to you. You could rob as much as you want, or for 2 billion dollars... you can bring me the dead body of the Black Cat. She will be forced to be out all for all of Christmas Eve, so she should eventually get tired and you should be able to overcome her.

"As for myself... I will make sure you can accomplish this mission by having two people hang all of the leaders in Weybrook..."

Xavek only smirked, this made things easier; though he might have to defend his claim to the TECH Group's labs and assets.

"By the strike of Dawn, I expect this whole island under control. I want y--" the announcer looked at something off camera, then redirected his attention.

"It appears someone is eavesdropping on us. Eradicate him." then the TV winked out. This was followed by the group to take out a variety of weapons. While not strong on their own, there was nearly a thousand criminals in the area.

"Huh..? Why; I'm surprised you would turn away someone who is very interested in the prospect of looting the city during all the anarchy~" Xavek chuckled; putting on a small show for the sake of drama. "Really now, we do share common interests afterall~"

The leaders of the group came out. One small and lanky. seemed to have some kind of natural bone armor as clothing over her pale pink body with dark red veins visible. Her eyes were yellow and her irises were orange, and she had a long spiky tail.

The other one was about the same, but he was MUCH bigger and bulkier, towering over the crowd.

The little one started talking first. "And you are?"

"Xavek. Now, I'm only here to seize certain.. Assets from the TECH Group or whatever they call themselves~" He introduced with a grin, stepping into a light to reveal himself.

"Hrmph. He don't look so tough," the big alien said, followed by a couple chuckles from behind him.

"And how does this help us out?" the female alien questioned.

"If i'm not mistaken this group happens to be one of the more technologically advanced groups on this miserable dustball correct..? Say; what do you think happens to a city's local economy when one of their biggest assets is suddenly plundered to the point of bankruptcy.. Better yet, what do you think might happen to the state of affairs for the global population should this happen..? Especially if this company has many lucrative trade deals across the globe..?"

Xavek asked, waiting for them to try and connect the dots. "Think long term, I know this may be hard for most of you fleshsacks but i'm sure whoever's in charge has the mental capacity to do so, otherwise they wouldnt be in charge~"

During the rant, the small alien slowly lifted up her finger, unnoticeable to most people. She thought about attempting to control the bloodflow of Xavek.

Xavek only smirked as the small alien would find that she couldn't control the bloodflow in Xavek; mainly because he's mostly machine and the parts that aren't seem to be fed oxygen through something else.

"You'll find that I'm far superior to you flesh bags..." He said with a grin, pointing his gauntlet at the small alien.

"Gore, would you mind escorting this smart ass out?" The little alien said to the larger one.

"I've been waiting for you to say that a long time ago," Gore bellowed as he ambled towards Xavek.

"Hmm.. I can tell I'm not wanted, toodles my dear insignificant sacks of flesh.. I have a company to loot." Xavek said, digitizing himself again in an attempt to get to the labs in the TECH Building he was in earlier.

"What the hell?" Gore said in confusion.

A scout began talking to the small one in her radio. "Blood, we have some sort of electrical signal coming from where he disappeared. It's nothing like I've seen before."

"It appears we have competition," Blood said out loud. She reported in to the scout. "I want an electronic team on him. He said he wants TECH assets, you'll find him there."

Xavek rezzed on the thirtieth floor of the building, assuming security wasn't back up again at least.

Security wasn't there, at least in the form of live individuals due to the evacuation. This being a factory, however, the security was far above that of the skyscrapers.

Xavek grinned. 'Mission Parameters set.. Acquire all data of relevant value; if task is proven to be impossible; destroy it completely'

With that, his combat protocols engaged and he activated his stealth cloak.

The first thing he would be met with if he scanned the area prior to entering, he would realize there was a major motion sensor field around the factory. Several different sources of it were found in all parts of the factory except for areas where automated factory work was at. If these sensors aren't disabled in some way, the only way Xavek has a chance of entering was through the smoking hot chimney (okay, I read "smoking hot" in a completely different way...)

Xavek was incredibly heat resistance, so he took the chimney entrance.

Xavek would find out as he snuck in that the chimney was hot because of the molten Ardoncal metal, a metal that must be heated at 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit in order to stay a liquid.

Xavek blinked; this was unexpected, nevertheless he pressed on since his body was made to handle plasma; with temperatures up to 40,000 degrees Fahrenheit. He'd receive a few minor burns as a result of climbing through the chimney but nothing life threatening.

He was in the middle of the Ardoncal part of the factory, large containers being moved back and forth through different chambers. It was a very, VERY large room. A small neighborhood block could fit inside.

"..... Damn." Xavek muttered, looking around.

The factory not only had molten metal dripping everywhere, since this is a danger zone, several "super acid" containers were here as well. Between this dangerous pathway, Xavek would see two doors, one on the right, and one on the left.

Xavek blinked, consulting the map he downloaded for more information.

The left door shown the exit from the building, the right going deeper into the rooms of the factory.

Xavek took the door on the right.

The first few feet were clear of danger, but here on out, motion sensors would be highly active, as well as camera and laser systems, but to a wider degree. The motion sensors also sensed the presence of each other, so one being destroyed or damaged would be picked up by another motion sensor, TECH was not an organization meant to have their trades stolen.

"......" Xavek smirked. "A challenge.." He chuckled, swapping the settings on his optics so he could see the lasers before running some recalibrations to his stealth field that would allow him to sneak past the cameras and the motion sensors by essentially deading him to the electromagnetic spectrum; the rest he would have to rely on being cautious in how he moved as well as careful usage of the reflective metal bits of his body.

The first stationary lasers were immediately in front of him, forming a shape of a cell door, basically. Beyond that, several moving lasers moved in spiral formation.

Xavek ended up firing small metal panels made with reflective materials at the first set of lasers to ensure easy passage.

The mobile lasers will have to be overcome with agility, as disrupting the emitters would disrupt the motion sensors as well.

Xavek sighed, he wasn't a ninja but he could move fast enough to bypass the mobile lasers since he already figured out the pattern they would move in.

Considering the moving lasers were the only form of defense left since Xavek's stealth field countered the rest, all Xavek had to do was be careful of where he went from here on out.

Xavek set about trying to bypass the lasers without tripping them; being extra cautious where he stepped since one wrong move would foil his plots.

By now, Xavek would be met with the first pairing of the motion sensor and the emitter. He knows that physically altering either will send a signal to all the other motion sensors that something has moved.

Xavek set about trying to maneuver himself around the motion sensor and emitter pairing without setting anything off.

The main security room wasn't far from here. It wasn't expected for someone to bypass these defenses.

Xavek smiled, entering the room and attempting to gain entry into the security room console in order to change the security protocols to register himself with the highest level clearance allowed.

He would suddenly see a cat there, some kind of ninja cat according to her gear. She had already hacked into the program and was listing herself the highest access.

Without turning her head, she said, "Looks like someone was too slow."

"........." Xavek blinked. "And you are..?"

"Don't worry about that," the cat said as she continued typing away. "Why are you here exactly, since you bypassed the defense. You're not exactly a guard here."

"Most likely the same reason as you; to plunder the assets of this company.." Xavek answered with a shrug.

"Eh... you're halfway correct." She said as she took out a device that began downloading the information without any physical connection.

"...." Xavek's optics glowed as he attempted to place a virtual datamine inside the device in order copy the data stored inside.

The object began vibrating and glowing red. "Uh, uh, uh, no peeking," she said as she crushed the object with her bare hand.

She was slightly irritated by the fact that she had to do that. "A little more than half of the data I need is now on my server. Steal your own data, " she stated as she got off the computer chair, planning on leaving the facility now.

"Unfortunately I can't have you leaving with my prize." Xavek said, pointing his gauntlet at her. "However; I am not an unreasonable business droid.. So I am willing to pay a large sum of money, in gold if need be, for all of the data in this building.."

The cat looked at the gauntlet, and smirked, not even fazed by it. "I left the computer open for you," she said as she once again attempted to leave the room.

Xavek frowned, turning back to the computer and checking the data stored on it for any virtual traps.

There were no virtual traps, but there was a physical one. The beeping sound gave Xavek two seconds to react.

Xavek fired a bolt of plasma at whatever caused the beeping sound. "!!?"

Bad choice. It go boom, the blast radius covering the small room.

Essentially Xavek took a bomb to the face, which tore apart what little organic flesh remained on his body to reveal part of a metallic skeletal structure.

"....." He let out a scream of rage as he slammed his gauntlets down on what's left of the computer; whatever composure he had long evaporating.

The already weakened table collapsed under the smash of the charred room. The only bright side to the situation was that the computer destruction turned off the security, but that was exactly how the sly cat planned to escape.

Xavek would not allow that at all, if he couldn't have the data; then he would destroy this damned factory with everyone in it.

Xavek stormed out of the room, all pretense of stealth gone as he chased after the cat.

In the large factory room, the cat made her presence known from atop a pipe. "You were fun to play with, almost as much fun as playing with The Black Cat. Too bad you aren't as smart as her." She said as she used her claws to climb out through a window.

Xavek wasted no time, firing a bolt of plasma at the cat as she spoke; now seeing that she was climbing out a window as she spoke, the blast would probably hit her back as there wasn't much room to go side to side unless she were to jump backwards.

One of the main reasons why the Black Cat considers Scarlet (the cat alias) the toughest foe is the fact that Scarlet has the ability to see two seconds in the future. Seeing the future attempt, Scarlet dropped off the wall to avoid the blast. The stealthy assassin took out her sniper rifle, then began playing a game of hide and seek against Xavek.

Chapter 4: Weybrook's Comeback

Lavo, Michael, and Eve Part 1

"They're back!" The child happily exclaimed, only for the joy to quickly disappear when she takes a second look at Michael.

Eve gasped in shock when she saw the condition that Micheal was in.

Lavo carries Michael to the back seat section of the car, landing carefully as she glances over. Eve seem to note what Lavo was trying to do. "Oh no..."

Michael regained consciousness, uncontrollably twitching. He glanced over at Eve, remembering how he said he would be careful, and felt guilty. He told Lavo how to set him up to the machine.

Lavo nods and set him up with the machine quietly.

Eve frowns, deeply concern for him.

Michael attempted a smile. "Don't worry, Eve... I'm... holding it together," he joked, trying to lighten the mood.

"Michael..." She frowns, which Lavo looks at Eve. She blinks a bit before looking to the girl. "Good... You're safe."

The girl notices dried blood on the nose and mouth of Lavo. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'll be fine, something I can easily wash away." She patted the girl's head.

Eve watched this, before looking to Michael.

Michael caught the eye of Eve, and smiled at her for reassurance "How long has it been since you've called your father again?" he asked Eve, "I want to know whether or not it is too late to get in contact with TECH support."

"Well... I can try to call him..." Eve frowns, looking to the phone.

Lavo blinks, lifting an eyebrow. "..." She did stay quiet though.

Michael coughs, but sounds better already. "The phone icon... slide it to the middle of the dashboard, then... the dial will come up."

Eve nods, doing just that to dial up her father's number.

Lavo kept silent, petting the girl on the head looking around quietly.

With a weak voice, Michael spoke up. "TC, voice command, Michael Kendall. Drive us to 425 Airport Boulevard." The car started itself up as it began moving.

Eve left a voice mail since her father didn't answer.

Lavo sighs quietly to herself, thinking.

Michael had ended up going back to unconsciousness.

Lavo kept the girl in her lap. "Maybe we can find your father..." She whispers.

Eve had a shocked look. "You got a helicopter safely down? How many guards does it have? Oh father, thank you, how many helicopters? 3 at the moment, only one landed...? Very well." She smiles.

"Where are we going?" the chipmunk asked out of curiosity.

"From the address... I think an Airport." Lavo looks at the chipmunk.

For a moment... silence....

then a moment later...

"...I'm still hungry," she said.

"...I know... I'm still hungry as well." Lavo sighs.

Eve had hung up the phone, she smiles. "There should be food and protection when we arrive, my father gotten one of his helicopters down safely."

"How long will it stay like that?" Lavo asked.

"Well, He is trying to land two other Helicopters, but they are having trouble, so hopefully it'll be a long while before trouble." Eve frowns.

Eventually the car passes the airport, where the massive fireball has dissipated. The airport still burned, but it only appeared a hot red instead of fires everywhere. This was thanks to the firefighters from the nearest stations. They would also see cop cars beginning to patrol to take back the roads.

"..." Lavo frowns.

Eve looks back at them. "We're here, Father's helicopter should be around there."

The car drove up a bit further, automatically parallel parking on the side of the road. 'We have arrived at our destination,' the computer voice stated.

Michael was conscious once more, but more woozy and in more pain. The tech machine helped his vitals, but without real help, he was going to die. "Are we there yet?" were his first words.

"We've arrived Michael." Eve said, worried about him though.

Lavo looks to him. "Just keep yourself relaxed." She looks at Eve. "I'll take a look for the Helicopter as well as the girl's father..."

Eve looks at Lavo, though she nods. "Ve-Very well..."

"I could kill for something to eat, but I shouldn't be eating anything right now," Michael said. "Still.. you guys didn't eat all of my protein bars, did you?"

Eve looks at Michael. "Um... The thing is, we don't even really know where they are anyway, so you still have all your protein Bars."

Lavo sighs. "I interestingly enough had some protein bars, mainly peanut butter though, I didn't notice till much later though..." She then opens the door though.

"I like peanut butter," the little chipmunk said."

Meanwhile, Michael was thinking out loud "Oh, I didn't tell you guys... I thought I did... I'm losing it..." Another cough up of blood came out, and he winced in pain. "Check the passenger dashboard compartment, Eve."

Eve nods. "Al-Alright." She goes to check the passenger Dashboard.

Lavo looks at him. "I said relax." She then pulls out one Peanut protein Bar. "Here, you can have it." she holds to to the girl. "Stay here, I'll see if I can get some serious help." She gets out of the car.

"Thank you," the child said before the door shut.

Eve and Michael

Michael settled down. "I am laidback, but I can't stay settled down in one plac-- aaaaand she's gone." After a quiet moment, Michael asked Eve, "Did you... talk to your dad yet?"

Eve smiles, nodding, "One out of three helicopters had safely landed with its own guards, as well as a medical team and extra backup."

"I don't think a medical team can help with this unless they give me bacterial protection." He said as he looked at his arm, or really, the strips of arm flash that didn't burn off the bone.

Eve frowns. "Do-Don't say that, I'm sure they can help..."

Mech looked over at Eve again, once more giving him that reassuring smile, but due to the fact that one of his eyes are practically melted and the rest of the muscle around it was a yellowish brown, that smile probably gave Eve a different vibe.

Eve frowns even more, worry clearly in her eyes as she looks to him.

Seeing this made Michael frown, something he is not accustomed to doing. He didn't know what to say to comfort her now, seeing as he has no idea how he will survive.

"You will get help, and you will make it though." Eve said, with as much confidences as she could give, though still very worry. "Just don't give up..."

"Trust me... I'm not giving up any time soon..." He looked back up at the ceiling, due to it being reflective enough to see a blurry version of him. When he saw his wounds, the pupil contraction was obvious, as he didn't think it was that bad.

Eve had a small smile from hearing that.

"Damn... I honestly hope I can just make it to Christmas."

"And you will, she will return with aid." Eve reach and holds his non wounded hand gently.

As Michael turned to look at Eve, he saw the chipmunk again. "I never did get to know your name, little one."

The child, who was busy eating, turned around, and backed up near Eve out of fear of Michael's condition. "It's.. Maria," she said shyly, looking away.

Eve pets the child's head. "It's okay little one..."

Xavek vs Scarlet

The funny thing is about future sight; is that even two seconds in it will show all the possibilities that could occur within those two seconds, it would be up to Scarlet to determine which actions Xavek is most likely to take within that timeframe; something which may not be easy considering Scarlet knows next to nothing about Xavek.

Xavek's optics cycled to thermal sight in an attempt to find where Scarlet was hiding so he could mark her on his H.U.D.

Scarlet's dark red suit would give her away in visible light due to the factory being light grey, but her suit is capable of hiding itself from most of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Unless her suit can match her body temperature with the factory's ambient temperature than the whole hiding from most of the electromagnetic spectrum function might be useless to her in this scenario.

"Come out little birdy..~" He whispered, a twisted grin on his face.

"Marco..." she said in the distance.

"Boring.." Xavek was still looking for her, secretly sending out a signal on an unknown frequency.

Due to thermal sights relying on the infrared light of the electromagnetic spectrum, her suit proved to be hidden from heat signatures.

Scarlet prepped her custom made sniper, making sure the barrel was clean when she had last used it at the airport before placing the suppressor back on. She checked her grenades that she thought would do the trick for this occasion, then grapple hooked into a higher area to perch in for a bird's eye view.

Audio filters picked up the sound of a grapple hook connecting with an object and Xavek turned in the direction of the sound; looking at any possible vantage points.

Scarlet shifted her position so she wouldn't be seen, but she did know by the way Xavek search the area that he had found her. She planned to be fast with this, so she took one last look at all her gear before getting ready to strike.

Xavek did see her, in fact he marked her on his H.U.D when he did so she wouldn't be able to hide from him so easily.

Scarlet then threw some type of grenade in Xavek's direction.

Xavek fired at the grenade.

The grenade burst in a bright light. It was a flash bang.

Xavek's Optics and audio receptors filtered out the excess noise and light, and since Scarlet didn't look away she might've been caught by the affect.

Scarlet's optics were temporarily impaired, so she switched them off before leaping off of the pipe. At the same time of the fall, she was aiming her custom rifle right at Xavek. However, if Xavek could zoom in and react to it in the short time of the fall, he would see that she's not aiming a bullet-shot, but a grenade-shot.

He could, and more; though he filtered out everything in the background as he took aim and fired a bolt of plasma at the barrel of the rifle's underbarrel grenade launcher; hopefully causing the grenade to explode while inside the launcher and hopefully destroying the rifle.

The barrel exploded, as well as the gun, but Scarlet managed to recover before she stuck her landing perfectly, then dashed at Xavek, moving from 0 to 200 miles an hour.

Xavek grinned, waiting four seconds in to feint a trip in an attempt to get her to jump to avoid tripping at that speed. If he succeeded in the feint; Xavek would then attempt to deliver a crushing blow to her ribs while Scarlet was still in the air.

Seeing this, Scarlet did jump over the foot, but only partially to avoid the trip. She planned on getting rid of the wide open leg, so her jump was a front flip as she unsheathed her two wakizashi swords.

Xavek smirked, moving his position a tad so when Scarlet completed the frontflip he could deliver a powerful clothesline in order to drop her and hopefully disorient her for a few seconds.

With the swords out, Scarlet attempted what she had planned, aiming the swords at the wide open leg of Xavek.

Xavek grinned as he suddenly swung his arm at her neck with all his cybernetically augmented might in order to clothesline her; allowing her to slash at his legs, though her swords might end up being stopped by the bones of his metallic skeletons.

The swords of Scarlet weren't any normal swords, they were made out of the material of Ardoncal, which cuts through steel better than a hot knife through butter. However, the clothesline attack did work. While her helmet absorbed most of the impact, Scarlet was in midair, so she had no control of recovering from her stance, and would fall on her back.

Ardoncal wouldn't exactly cut through Xavek's metallic bones because the metal is starship grade; seeing as his creators were an intergalactic species very capable of space travel and even ruled an empire for a time. However, this isnt to say it did nothing; infact the swords did cut through the fiberoptic mesh that acted as his muscles so Xavek would have a hard time moving that leg.

Xavek didn't waste any time either, with a snarl of rage he attempted to gore Scarlet's legs with the rivets on his gauntlets.

With a break-dance style, Scarlet dodged the attack before flipping back on her feet, launching a impact smoke grenade right under her in order to gain some distance.

Xavek smirked, letting the smoke cover him so he could activate his stealth cloak while his H.U.D tracked Scarlet's location for him.

Scarlet darted across the room at her max speed for a moment, then started thinking. What do I know.... he's a robot, he's intelligent to come in here and avoid the defenses to attempt to get the data, and he knew where I was when I grappled, despite it being impossible without an extra mechanic... god, I hope this plan works. As part A of her plan, Scarlet activated her optical deflector mode on her suit. This would instantly destroy weak optics on her, and confuse stronger optics by producing false images in reflected locations.

The smoke covered his optics so he was fine, and the H.U.D didn't need line of sight to track her.

Scarlet, not knowing about this, proceeded to part 2. She leaped onto a vantage point, and took out yet another type of grenade.

Xavek crept around slowly with his stealth cloak active so as to not disrupt the smoke and give away his plan; keeping tabs on her with the H.U.D.

She scanned the environment, looking for her foe, but finding no trace of him. As she looked to her left exist, she saw eleven criminals walking around the facility, all of them armed. Interesting change of events, she thought as she saw the criminals split up, searching for someone or something apparently.

Xavek's H.U.D alerted him to the criminals walking around the facility and he figured they were after him; now he was certainly not at full battle capacity thanks to the injuries sustained in his fight with Scarlet so he had to play this out carefully...

'Something tells me I'll need to call a truce with Scarlet in order to survive this..' He thought, attempting to contact her through any sort of comm equipment she may have on her while reconfiguring both his gauntlets into plasma swords.

Due to not expecting people to hacking into her communication equipment, this took Scarlet off guard.

'You can hear me, correct? Anyways; I'm simply proposing a truce.. A ceasefire if you will; for I have more pressing matters to attend to, you can even keep the data.' 

'So you brought that bastard faction here,' she replied. 

'You think I'm associated with these fools? Hell no, I just stumbled upon some meeting ground for them and mocked them before leaving; either way, we're both screwed if we continue trying to kill each other with them around.'

Silence. Then, 'They may be the enemy of my enemy, but I am not friends with you,' she said before cutting communications, moving onward to take out the gang.

Xavek understood that sentiment quite well, moving behind two of the gang members silently.

"So we're supposed to be hunting down some kind of robot apparently," one of them stated.

"Nah, we're looking for Midnight, the legendary Merc, and we're gonna throw EMPs at him," the other one sarcastically replied. "What the hell were you doing as we got these instructions?"

"Not paying attention, as always. You know we're all in this for the money, you too."

"Yeah, but you don't get fired on these jobs, you get killed. I actually want to live through this."

Xavek wasn't happy, they send these grunts after him? Well.. He would just have to educate those two aliens on the folly of their ways..

Xavek attempted to impale the two grunts he was standing behind with his plasma sabers.

"So how about after this we get--" he was interrupted by the impalement, both dropping their weapons in the large room, which would cause quite an echo, possibly getting attention of others.

Xavek growled, before tossing the bodies at two others as he decloaked.

They both dodged the incoming bodies.

"He's here!" One said before both of them charge in the direction. Suddenly, an explosion was heard above the two, followed by the spill of acid onto them. Scarlet had launched an impact grenade on one of the containers, causing it to tilt and spill the acid on them. While this got everyone's attention, no other people knew where Xavek was, allowing him to get the chance to hide once more if he'd like.

Xavek took the opportunity to activate his stealth cloak, changing positions again.

Scarlet had leapt over on the opposite side of the building, making her presence known as she accurately shot her uzis to shoot down four more enemies before they had the chance to pull out their guns. Since there were three enemies left, and she thought Xavek would last against them, She unleashed a smokescreen, grappling out of the window like she had initially planned.

Indeed, Xavek used the cover of the smokescreen in order to sneak up behind each of the thugs; attempting to kill two from behind while leaving the third alone for now.

The third was nervous.

'Guys do you have any clue as to where he is?'

'...'

'Anyone, report!'

'...'

The third was terrified.

He began changing channels in order to call for reinforcements.

Xavek smiled, secretly scrambling his signal so no one else would interrupt his little session as he uncloaked behind the thug and fired a bolt of plasma at his kneecap.

The thug screamed in pain at his clutching at the little that remained at his kneecap. As he looked up, he saw Xavek, and his eyes show pleading and fear, but all he could do was scream at the pain of his knee.

"Tell me.. Who sent you? What reason..? I want to know everything..!" Xavek hissed, placing a foot on the thug's chest and pressing down a bit, not enough to break anything but enough to give a hint at what he would do should he try to withhold any information from him.

"Okay, okay, I'll talk! Those aliens you ticked off, it was them! I don't know why, man, we were just hired for this shit! Please don't kill me!" He begged.

"Is that everything..?" Xavek asked, powering up his gauntlet and aiming at the thug's head.

"That's all I know, I swear!" the thug pleaded, not sounding like a tough guy anymore.

"Alrighty then~" Xavek said, firing the gauntlet at point blank range; he never intended to spare this clown, and seeing as he got the information he wanted he was free to dispose of the thug.

'By the sound of it, that's the last guy, right?' Scarlet said, apparently eavesdropping with her communications.

"Yes, and I assume you've left the building..?"

'Far enough for you not to find me easily. I'm already due at the next point of my objective.' Scarlet stated. 'and by the way... I found out that you had some kind of track on me, and it took me a minute to decipher it... I have to say, I'm impressed.'

"I'm impressed that you figured it out, but no matter; resuming the fight would be illogical as of now.. So I take my leave of this place."

'Another night, metal boy.' she said. There was fumbling in the background before Scarlet turned off communications.

Xavek nodded, digitizing himself in order to return to closest Plastech owned properties so he could undergo repairs.

Lavo

Letting out a relax sigh, it was best to find medical help for Michael. She looked for anyone who may be open.

There was a massive storm protection building nearby, which led underground to hide from hurricanes.This is where most citizens hid from the assault. Cops were all around the building, guns ready to fire on any threat.

"Well... That says a lot..." She walks to them, blinking quietly.

Lavo and the others were gone for so long, that the initial chaos in here had already calm down. The atmosphere was paranoid, yet peaceful at the same time. There was a room right beside the entrance for emergency care victims.

Lavo goes right to the entrance for emergency care victims. "It would be too risky to move him..." She mutters to herself.

A medical staff member had halted her. "You can't go any further if there is no emergency, ma'am. Safety protocols."

"There is an emergency. That's why I came here in the first place." Her eyes coldly glare at the Medical staff. "I can't remove him from the back of his car because he is hook up to a machine to keep him living as long as possibly till he gets aid. I walked myself down here to get him that aid, an lest you want him to die by acid burns." She wasn't joking nor fighting against the medical staff on getting in, but there was some clear cold emotions and a very knowing glare right now.

The sudden burst took from Lavo took the bee by surprise. In her head, the staff member just wrote in that Lavo was just a bipolar person trying to save her friend.

"Okay, we will get an emergency crew right away," she said as she took out a radio to call for emergency care.

Lavo relaxes, nodding. "Good... I don't know how much longer he has..." She mutters slightly, concern clearly by the tone.

Within seconds, a medical crew was already rushing out. "Where is the patient?" The bee nurse asked again.

"Follow me" Lavo quickly leaves, leading them to Michael's car.

The crew followed her with haste, no questions asked.

Lavo got to the backseat door after ensuring they were following her. She then opens it up. "Right in there."

Michael, Lavo, and Eve Part 2

The medical crew was initially shocked when they saw the machine he was hooked up to, the condition of his body, and the fact that Michael was conscious enough to say "Hey."

Eve smiles at the sigh as Lavo looks tyo the medical crew. "Well, may you hurry up in some way?" She grumbles.

"Uhm... we can try," they said as they very carefully removed Michael from the machine, safely picking up Michael out of the car after two minutes of confusion. Michael could barely twist his neck to look over, as even his neck was hit by the splatter of acid. As he craned his neck, he took note of what he may not see again for a while, if ever... Eve... Maria.. Lavo. His... shit, I forgot my protein bars! he thought.

Eve had gotten the protein bars out and gone to one of the medical staffs. "H-He hasn't eaten anything si-since we got here..." She voiced her concern, frowning as her ears flatten.

Lavo kneel down to the girl. "We can go to the shelter they have here and see if your father is there." She gives a tiny smile, contrasting her emotionless looking eyes, but luckily she seem calm and relax.

A smile appeared on Maria's lips, then she hugged Lavo, as a sign of her thank you.

A faint smile had appeared on Michael's lips at the sight of what Eve had done. Without the machine to keep him going, he was slowly losing consciousness again. Thank you, Eve, he thought, glad I had the chance to meet someone like you. Michael slowly closed his eyes as he faintly tried to wave what he thought was goodbye.

After Eve handed over the protein bars to the medical as they carried Michael away, she watches with worry, though she smiles a little.

Lavo return the hug Maria gave, petting her head gently, she then glance to Eve. "Shall we all go together?"

Eve nods at Lavo. "For the time being, yes..."

Lavo nods, holding Maria's hand as she walks next to Eve so the three could go to the shelter.

As the group and the medical staff went into the shelter, Michael forced his way back into consciousness. He looked at Eve and attempted to motion her to come closer, wanting to whisper something in her ear.

Eve noticed, making her way to Michael quickly as she lean in a bit so he didn't have to move much. "?"

He whispered quietly enough for no one to notice, hopefully. "Deep down, you know that their care is even worse than my temporary backseat care. I need you to contact someone for me. Can you do that?"

Eve nods quietly when he said that.

"I have a speed dial of someone. Put in the phone dial, 3-5-2, then tell that person to come here. If he doesn't listen at first, just say..." he holds in a cough, "just say that it's an emergency for your son."

Eve nods. "Very well" She softly speaks.

Lavo's ears twitched, but she just stays quiet, she wasn't trying to eavesdrop anyway.

Knowing that he now truly has a chance to survive, he told Eve goodbye before succumbing to unconsciousness once more. The medics took the next turn into the emergency room, nearby people shocked at what they see.

Eve wasted no time to wave bye at Lavo and Leave to to make the special call.

Lavo blinks, but she looks around before looking to Maria. "..."

Lavo & Maria

Maria had took Lavo's hand. She had no idea where she was, never having to go into the Shelter before.

"This is the Shelter that is where the people have been at... Lets see if your father is here." Lavo looks to Maria.

"Okay," Maria said, looking into the shelter once more.

Lavo nods, holding her hand as she and Maria walks around the shelter, allow Maria to look around.

There, Lavo would run into a little problem. Actually, a big problem. Actually, a two hundred thousand people problem. There seemed to be some kind of booth line for the new evacuated people.

Lavo sighs, rubbing her forehead as she started thinking, looking at Maria quietly.

Maria was busy taking in the scenery. It was a massive building, built out of steel walls, possibly having a diameter of one mile at the least. The lights there were the high quality bulbs, all together making the scenery look more futuristic, despite the fact that they're underground.

Lavo glance to Maria, seeing her like this made the wolf relax a bit more. Never did Lavo thought she would have protected a child during this whole time, but she was honestly glad deep down inside.

A police officer had walked up towards the two. "You seem lost, ma'am," he stated. "Need any help?"

Lavo looks at the Police Officer. "I am just helping this young lady in looking for her father, sir." She stated calmly.

"I see... do you know her father's name?" he asked Lavo, for some reason expecting her to know.

"To be honest, no, I don't. I was given the task at the last second to get her to her father..." Lavo sighs, rubbing her forehead.

"May daddy's name is Dominick Truman," Maria said happily, thinking she would finally find her dad.

"Well, I'm glad you know the name," the officer said. "That booth line is there to help people find other family members and such. If you just wait in the line, you should be able to find your father in no time, little one." He bent down and patted her head gently, before rising up to Lavo. "Anything else you need, ma'am?"

Lavo shakes her head no. "..."

"Well then, stay safe," he said, walking away.

Lavo stares, but her ears flicked, before looking to Maria quietly.

Maria looked at the line, wondering whether or not it was a long line or a short one. Then she turned around and met Lavo's gaze on what's next.

Lavo looks to the line. "Let's look at the line, shall we?" Lavo said to Maria.

"Yes, ma'am!" She said with happy delight as she walked up to the line, happy to be getting closer to saving her father.

Lavo nods, a small smile appear as she follows after Maria.

As Maria waits in line, she starts to become slightly impatient, her body language showing it.

Lavo put a hand on Maria. "Patient..." She softly said, looking around.

Eventually, they finally get to the front of the line. They were greeted by a person who seems too tired to care about the job anymore.

"Good evening, ma'am," he said in a melancholy tone. "I need you and your chi--" he realizes the Maria is a chipmunk. "I need you and your little friend to sign up here."

Lavo blinks, looking to Maria. "Think you can do it on your own Maria...?" She asked, kneeling down to Maria.

"Yep," she says as she happily get a pen from the metal cup, and begins writing her name 'Maria Truman', actually coming out pretty decently, for a little kid.

"Here you go," she said. It seems that Maria enjoys writing.

Lavo smiles a tiny bit, before standing up.

"We'll need your name as well, ma'am," the booth-man said.

Lavo looks at the Booth-man. "I'm not looking for anyone nor do I plan to stay." She bluntly stated. "I was helping this young Lady in finding her father..."

"It's a safety protocol, ma'am, in case someone needs to be in contact with you, or know the last place where you have been. This is a megalopolis, it's too easy to lose someone here, and nearly impossible to find them."

"If you mean family, no Family member of mine lives on Weybrook. I visited as a form of exploring... I shouldn't be hard to find anyway." She looks to Maria.

The booth-man was tired, as he had to deal with a situation like this with many visitors for the past two hours. Unknown to Lavo, probably, he was on the verge of losing it. "I know what you mean, ma'am, but there could be some unknown reason for a cop having to find you... or something..."

"Fine, if it makes your day less painful." She bluntly states. "But, I'll tell you, no one would want to look for me. It be the other way around." She writes down 'Lavo Price' where they wanted her to write.

Secretly relieved, the booth-man asks them one last question. "Now you said you needed help finding her father. May I get his name?"

"... Dominick Truman," Lavo luckily did remember the name Maria had said, looking to Maria.

"Okay, give me a minute," he said as he searched up the name. After a moment, he looked up. "It turns out that Dominick Truman is a passenger jet pilot, and he had already left the island before the airport blew up. I'm sorry."

Lavo sighs, rubbing her forehead as she starts thinking quickly, but she patted Maria's head with her other hand.

Maria's happiness slowly sunk until it hit rock bottom. She stared at the floor, unmoving.

The booth-man showed no remorse. "There is a line behind you. People are waiting. If you're done now, then please leave.

"Hmph..." Lavo carefully taken Maria's hand and moved. "And you wonder why people give you a hard time." She mutters quietly as she started thinking. "..."

Maria was completely silent while walking with Lavo. She glanced in the direction of Eve, seeing her walk with some people in white and an old man, but she was too sad to pay any mind to it.

Lavo nods quietly to herself, before looking to Maria. "You'll be with him soon, if I can figure out which plane he was on and where it is going, might be able to get help..."

Maria falters in her step for a moment, yawning.

Lavo carefully picks her up, holding her in her arms. "Rest up..." She looks around a bit.

The child attempted to stay awake, but eventually fell asleep. As Lavo examined her environment, she would see that the evacuation center had several large hallways for safety. There was a resting center to her left, a food center to her right, and a Miscellaneous center straight ahead. The current room was the Idle center, where people basically hung out.

Lavo held Maria carefully, walking to the Food center... She was hungry honestly.

The food center was packed, but a lot less than one would expect in a disaster, mainly because people have already came to eat hours ago.

Lavo looks around before seeing what food they did have.

They had packaged food, for emergency situations, but with the astounding technology of TECH, they were able to keep food fresh for a year at the least, allowing really fancy meals to be inside the bags.

Lavo looks over the packaged of Foods. She was thinking ramen honestly.

(I'm hoping you mean Ramen Noodles) Luckily, there were a bag of them in every bag, the microwave ovens needed being in the resting center rooms.

( Yes, I do. I just keep switching 'e' and 'a') Lavo just took one, not caring otherwise as she blinks.

Lavo may then see Eve approaching her.

Eve O'la Laha

Michael's car was left open, and the phone hologram was still activated.

Eve goes into the car to the phone dial, she put in 3-5-2 as Michael had said.

The it takes a while, but someone picks up the dial. "Why aren't you here yet, Michael?"

Eve quietly gulped to herself. "Sir, you are wanted over the Shelter at 425 Airport Boulevard."

The old man was silent for a moment. "Who is this? Where is Michael?"

"I am a Friend of Michael, it is an emergency for your son" There was clear worry still in Eve's voice.

Another moment of silence, then some dialogue was heard in the background. "What happened?" Michael's dad asked, a very negligible sound of worry in his voice.

Eve frowns a bit. "Acid got into contact with him, having burned away a lot of his flesh...."

"What?!" He yelled "I TOLD him NOT to go to the factory!" This was followed by a chain of unholy words. The old man did not direct this to Eve, but he was yelling so loudly that Eve had got this message.

"U-U-Um Si-Sir... The thing is... H-He didn't go to any Fa-Factory, There was a fight that happen that seem to involve someone who co-could control acid..." She did have a nervous sound to her voice.

After he calmed down, the man went back to his original demanding voice. "425 Airport Boulevard, is that right?"

"Correct Sir." Eve said clearly.

"...I'm on my way," then he closed the connection.

Eve sighs in relief, getting out of the car carefully.

Once again, static will appear over the TVs of the city. Possibly another message.

"O-Oh no..." Eve mutters quietly, highly worry.

Satan Claws, as Michael dubbed him, began speaking. "Over 75% of the population had escaped the city. I am thoroughly impressed. There are two hours before midnight, which would be Christmas. And I can't wait to give you all your Christmas gifts by then..." the TV flicked off.

Eve was worry, frowning a bit. "...Oh dear..." She whispers softly.

Eventually, in the distance, a humming could be heard from one of the TECH private planes.

Eve looks up at that point, a bit shocked to see it.

The plane's engines rotated to land like a helicopter. This wasn't so far from Eve.

Eve waits quietly, watching this.

The plane settles twenty feet away, nearby police looking over to see what was happening.

Being patient, Eve watch all of this before glancing to the shelter.

The first person out of the private plane was an old fox, black in fur color, but having the same eyes as Michael's. He looked around, and saw a car. The car. He began approaching it. As he did so, another group was behind him, with equipment that looks like an upgrade to the life supporter machine Michael was in.

Eve seem worried, noticing him walking this way... She wasn't sure how he would respond about Michael being inside the shelter...

He checked the car, noticing the TECH life support hastily removed, than looked around for whoever was calling him.

Eve waves at him. "He's in the shelter at the Emergency care." She frowns as her ears flatten a bit.

"Was it you?" He said in a demanding tone, marching up to Eve. Then he realized who Eve was, and he corrected himself. "Did you call me?" He asked in a soothing tone.

"At Michael's Request, Yes Sir." Eve nods to him.

"Where is.." at first assertive, then calm. "Where is Michael being held?"

"I'll Show you where he is, Sir. " Eve gives a small smile, though still worry as she heads towards the shelter.

He followed Eve, the TECH med crew not far behind.

Eve goes into the shelter, going to the emergency care victims area, stopping once arriving.

The medic was about to stop them, but Michael's dad just flashed a TECH badge at the bee, then continued on.

Eve watches Michael's dad quietly, deep down hoping Michael will be well.

The med crew had eventually found the room where Michael was held, and the old man had told them to wait outside of the room for a minute as he entered alone.

Eve sighs quietly, though she didn't walk right into the emergency Care section, being kind that it isn't where she is to be. "..."

After about two minutes, the med crew went in, and within a minute after that, Michael was pulled out of the emergency room. Back on a real life support machine, he was truly conscious enough to look around his surroundings, and he saw Eve as he began exiting the medical bay.

Eve smiles, happy to see Michael alive honestly.

Michael attempts a wink, but with his other eye gone, it pretty much doesn't help, so hey waved at her instead while giving her his classic reassuring smile.

Eve smiles warmly, waving in return.

Immediately after noticing this, Michael's father shifts over in a position where he would block the sight of Michael from Eve.

Eve nervously smile, but she looks away as she thinks quietly. Might be best she looks for her father, or at lest those of her Kingdom, since she knew Michael would be well on his own.

(I'd do a roleplay moment here, but I don't know what to say until you continue what Eve does after this... sorry.)

( Ah, that's fine XD )

Eve rubs the back of her head. "I notice I didn't really eat anything..." She gives a light chuckles to herself before looking around to head for the section of the shelter that had food involved.

The hallways, and the labels on them, were extraordinarily big, and in five different languages. It would be hard to miss the label of the food center.

Eve smiles as she walks towards to the Food Center.

As she walks in, she may or may not see Lavo (just wondering if their sections will be combined again).

(Might make it easier...?) Eve glance and spotted the female wolf, she smiles as she noticed Lavo having gotten a bag. "Oh!" She starts heading over to her.

Lavo, Eve, and Maria

Lavo lift an eyebrow as Eve stops in front of her. Lavo kept holding Maria in one arm. "Yes...?"

Eve smiles. "Maybe we can eat together?"

Lavo glances away, sighing. "Fine..." With that, she watched Eve get a bag of her own before the two headed for a place to eat together, Lavo making sure the place they did place to eat was not so busy.

The sound of Eve's voice aroused Maria, and she opened one eye to look at her, then her surroundings, planning on going back to sleep if nothing major is happening.

There were two places they could eat. They could find a seat in the crowded food center to eat, or at the cost of a five minute walk, they could get a comfortable room in the resting center.

Lavo was going to waste the five minute walk, she hated crowded places anyway. So she took Maria, her bag, and then pretty much followed by eve to walk their way to get a comfortable room in the resting center.

There were many open rooms, thanks to two reasons. One, people were looking for others in the idle center, and two, there were literally 100,000 rooms in this one facility. The closer to the surface the room was, the cheaper the cost, so if one did not have any money to spare, naturally they would go to the bottom floor.

Eve smiles happily. "Good thing I have money~!"

Lavo just huff at Eve's statement as they get a pretty good room, Lavo wasn't picky about the placement of the room, but Eve gotten one that suit very well for the three.

Surprisingly, these 'rooms' should be called small houses. The high quality rooms were basically larger than the average small house in size. There was a large living room, two bedrooms, bathrooms in each of them, and a kitchen and dining area, all focused on a topaz color, so this was probably made by the Topaz Towers company.

Eve smiles. "How interesting, isn't it Lavo?"

Lavo shrugs a bit, but she goes into one of the bedrooms to tuck in Maria before returning to the living room to go to the kitchen, which Eve follows. "So... Is he okay?"

"Michael? He'll be fine, he has his father." Eve smiles a bit as the two start making their meals together.

Eventually, it would be ten minutes before midnight. Because connections to the outside world were inhibited, most people didn't use the TV. This meant that few people, including Eve, would know about Satan Claw's warning.

"Something... Terrible will happen once it become Christmas..." Eve stated, looking to Lavo. The two sitting in the living room.

Lavo nods a bit, before standing up. "...That just make me interested..." She looks to Eve. "Stay here with Maria... I'm going outside."

Eve was shocked. "What-"

"I said stay here, Unlike those here, I have a way to defend myself, and I don't like being in one place..." Lavo then leaves the room, going to sneak her way out of the shelter at this point.

Eve sat there, shocked by all of this as she watched Lavo leave.

Lavo

One minute until Christmas, Lavo would see that everything appeared fine. No threats whatsoever had appeared.

Lavo glances around before looking to the sky, her wings shifted. "All too fine." It was one minute until Christmas after all. She does wait, scanning around.

As she scans the atmosphere around her, again, nothing will appear odd. With all the cops patrolling, there was no way any enemy could get in here in the first place.

Yet, that didn't mean Lavo was at ease. "Mmm... Well, a nice walk around wouldn't hurt." She mutters as she walks a bit, a slow stroll in order to collected her thoughts and figure out many things that she may have questions to.

Thirty seconds left, according to the large clock in the Idle center. Some people eventually decided to turn in for the night and get a room.

Lavo kept walking, she didn't mind the night nor how dark it was, she stares at the sky as she blinks. "Mmm... I wonder if I can make the medical freak out about how off my blood is." She shakes her head at the thought. "...I shouldn't do that." She mutters to herself some more.

(Assuming you are outside) Two cops had approached the doors of the Shelter, closing them. It could be inferred that they had heard the message due to being outside as well.

( she is outside.) Lavo glance over, she chuckles a bit to herself as she looks around a bit. She let her wings stretch out.

Three... Two... One...

Chapter 5: Christmas Massacre

Lavo

The two 'cops' turned their assault rifles to Lavo and fired

Lavo turns around as her wings shields her, the hits gently bouncing off. "I figure as much." She stated, her eyes narrowed a bit. "Of course, 'I figure as much' doesn't follow 'I knew it was you'... But, it was too peaceful, wouldn't you say?"

The corrupted cops, unknown of what was going on with the 'invisible force field', turn and ran.

Lavo walks towards the door, popping her knuckles a bit. "Let's see about what is going on inside~" She smirks slightly, her eyes lightly glow purple.

(I have no idea what you have planned, please continue .3.)

Lavo grabs the door, going to force it open since it was closed.

The door was locked, and since the shelter was made for hurricanes, the doors were a decent amount of tough, being made of steel.

"Very well... Let's see how corruptive my blood is..." she brings her wrist to her mouth, biting into it and causing a wound where her blood leak, she spits out a bit, shaking her hand as she runs her other hand fingers though the leaking blood and touching the metal. She wasn't 100% sure if anything will happen, since her blood was corruptive in a sense.

Since this was nothing but normal steel, it began melting, not out of heat, but out of dissolving.

"Hmph..." She put a lot of force against the steel door with her blood cover hand.

The door gives way partly, and that's when Lavo will realize how soundproof the door was, as the sound of gunfire came out as instantly as she pried the door open.

Lavo nods a bit, soundproof was something. She then reach and opens the door.

The door opens, and she would see cops shooting at civilians. However, it seems that not all the cops were bad cops, as some cops shot at other cops. Something odd was going on...

Lavo scan around, her eyes hue to purple slightly as she walks in, covering her wrist with the jacket sleeve. She then draws out her dirk as she was going to quickly go for the cops shooting at civilians first.

One of the cops turned and shot a bullet at Lavo, with quick precision at that.

Lavo only use one of her wings to let the bullet bounce casually on it as she had dashed in with a thrusting position for her dirk.

The 'cop', unprepared, only had time for a yell.

Lavo had thrust the dirk deep into his side before ripping her dirk out of him and slamming her elbow down on his shoulder.

The dog stayed crippled in pain, clutching himself and curling up to a ball. Another cop saw this and pointed the gun at Lavo. She hesitated to fire, however, glancing at the 'cop' then at Lavo, who didn't seem to try to kill him, apparently.

Lavo looks right at the other cop, her eyes having a strange hue to them. "If you want to live... Drop all weapons you have." She spoke coldly to her, Lavo's dirk drip of blood.

The cop dropped her gun and put her hands up, too scared to make a hasty move with her other equipment, though she kept a brave face. "So this was the plan... turn our own people against us? Send this message to that TV freak," she said before spitting at Lavo.

Lavo relaxes. "You think I'm working for him? I scared off those that shut and lock the doors on you guys." She looks down at the cop she stabbed. " I only stabbed him because he fired at all. Just point me at the ones harming the innocent and I'll do just the same thing I did to him." She looks back at the cop.

The cop ducks her head from stray bullets. "So what are you? A partner for that vigilante Black Cat?" She peeped her head over at the bullet fire to pinpoint a false cop, then took her aimed and fired a bullet.

"No... I don't know who you speak of." Her wings shield herself as she then walks pass the cop. "I am Lavo Price... I work for no one, and I work with no one." Her eyes glared a bit.

"Well, you better--" the cop was interrupted by a shot straight through her heart. She collapsed on the floor, looking straight up, knowing this will be her last moment.

Lavo glance over. "You should honestly pay more attention to yourself..." She mutters, however she moves over to the cop, looking at the wound a bit to see how bad it was. "..."

"It's a little late to tell me that now..." she mutters back. "There's a green cat. He's one of us, stick with him and save the others..." she said, beginning to choke on her own blood.

Lavo nods. "I can do that." She stands up and walks to find this green cat.

The green was ducking under cover, being shot at from three different false cops. He couldn't move, or he'd be shot.

Lavo seen this, she put her dirk away and pulls out her crossbow, she took aim at one of the false cops and fires the bolt as her wings open up slightly to allow the bolt though. "Hey, maybe you should focus on someone crazy enough to stand out in the open for a change."

The shot hits, and the cop goes down. The two other cops split directions and shoot at Lavo.

Lavo drops her crossbow, focusing her wings to balance out protecting some of the shots from each side, some bullets did grazed pass her wings, yet she only walks as she draws out her dirk. "..." She watched both of them, reading her dirk.

The two look at Lavo, then each other, as they realized that some kind of force field was protecting her. They began back up while firing, eventually retreating in the food center once figuring out there were the only corrupt cops left.

Lavo starts walking towards them, her dirk shine. Yet, Lavo lift her other hand to her dirk. "I wonder what my blood does to you..." Her eyes still a purple hue as she cut her hand to let it bleed slightly, to show the odd color of her own blood.

The downed 'cop' looked at Lavo in fear as he gripped his shoulder where he was hit. He began backing away, only to be knocked out by the butt of a gun. The cat cop looked over to her. "As if this town didn't have enough dark heroes... not that I'm complaining, ma'am."

Lavo put her dirk away and pulled out a bandage. "It was a scare honestly, Sure something is off about me, but I wouldn't use my blood to hurt people an lest have to... I was requested in aiding you." She looks to the cat cop.

"Do you know what's going on here? Our communications are down, we're all on our own and don't know which cop to trust if we don't know them."

"This is... I would assumed. 'The gift' from the unknown man behind it all." Lavo blinks, her ears twitched. "He has somewhat in getting in places he shouldn't..."

"Whoever he is, he can't be doing this just for fun unless he is dull in the head. Other than that scenario, there's something he has to be looking for..."

"Or maybe he just enjoys the chaos? He doesn't seem to care otherwise." Lavo blinks.

"One way or the other, we need to find all the real officers here," he stated. "We should check the civilians in the resting center first."

"If they're not the first to get shot up and killed, that would be a plan." Lavo nods.

"I have a feeling that was what he wanted." The cat said, jogging to the resting center.

Lavo follows after him.

In the far distance, they would see Eve jump out through the apartment door, looking around.

"Eve... Maria" Lavo runs over to Eve.

Eve and Maria

Maria was sound asleep, almost as if she wasn't even there.

Eve goes over and sits on the bed next to Maria, she smiles as she hums softly.

Everything seems peaceful where they were, but very very faintly, was the sound of popping.

Eve's ear twitched. "P-Popping?" This was very concerning to her.

The popping had only increased in amount, still being very faint in the distance.

Eve gotten up, going to the door of this room before finding something block it. "..."

Now that she is up to the door, she can hear faint screaming, and it sounded as if some of the screaming had gotten louder, meaning it's getting closer.

Eve starts pulling one of the items in the living room to protect the door at this point. She wouldn't be able to protect anyone, but at least she can protect Maria. "...Lavo is out there..." She mutters to herself, frowning.

The screams gotten louder, and Maria stirred in her sleep.

Eve finishes blocking the door and goes to Maria.

Maria seems slightly uncomfortable, and who wouldn't be, the sound screaming is not soothing.

Hugging Maria gently to her, Eve seem concern as she looks towards the door.

Feeling something warm and soft, Maria began becoming slightly more comfortable.

"I'm here..." Eve spoke softly, hugging Maria. "I blocked the door so we should be safe for now..." She sounded worried though.

Suddenly, there was a very loud banging on the door, followed by the sound of three people yelling, "HELP! PLEASE LET US IN!"

Eve's fur tenses, her eyebrow furrowed a bit. She didn't know what to do, they could be innocent people or they could be people trying to get in to harm her and Maria... She was honestly concern and unsure.

The banging and pleading continued, then it moved down to the next room over.

Eve keeps listening quietly, hugging Maria.

The shouting of words morphed into screams as gunfire of machine guns began being heard more clearly.

Eve frowns, slightly shivering as she held Maria.

Maria woke up to the gunfire, scared and holding on to Eve,

Eve protectively held Maria close. "..."

The hallway went quiet. Then there was the busting down of the door, since the door was made of wood.

Luckily I put a lot of things I could find in front of that door... Eve thought, though she carefully and quietly got up to close the door to Maria's room and block it off without letting go of Maria.

The door was repeatedly bashed. There wasn't a lot of hard furniture in the apartment, so it wouldn't be long before the intruders busted in.

"Is there another way out?" Maria asked Eve.

"I-I'm not sure..." Eve said with concern, now looking around.

In the bedroom they were in, there was no form of exit. Gunfire was heard, and after a brief moment, the door opened. One could assume the furniture was shot up to be easier to move.

Eve looks at Maria. "Hide under the bed..." She whispers to her. "Quickly."

Maria did as Eve said, looking at Eve to see what she would do.

Eve quietly walks, looking around quickly before looking at the door, she clears her throat... If she could loudly sing, sing so loud that glass would break... She'll give it a shot. "Cover your ears Maria..." She took in a deep breathe, readying herself as she close her eyes.

Maria did what she was told, covering her ears, unaware of what Eve was about to do.

In the next room, muffled voices began questioning whether anyone was here or not. One eventually walked to the bedroom door, able to open it due to the door having to be pulled open.

Eve then sings as loud as possibly, at the highest tone possible as glass did start breaking, her eyes closed. It was almost like a Banshee scream mix with an opera singer highest possible octave and length.

The cop fell to the ground, clutching his ears in pain. In the background was a thud, possibly the other cop falling back due to the scream as well. Eve may or may not noticed that this attacker was supposedly a cop.

Eve keeps up her singing/scream as she walks over to shift any weapon away from this cop.

The cop couldn't bare the scream, and he violently kicked in any direction near Eve in hopes of getting a good hit to the stomach.

Eve shift luckily out of the way, before putting a foot down on his chest and picking up his gun, shakingly holding it as she finally let go of the note as silences started to full the room once more. But, Eve shakingly held the near down cop's gun as she had one foot on his chest. "..."

Unfortunately, the other cop was still in the room, and he took his moment to point the trigger at Eve. However, he didn't shoot her immediately, for some reason.

After a very quick moment, he said. "Drop the gun, and get off of him. Slowly walk in the center of the room... Eve."

Eve was still tenses, but not having been shoot up she did lower the gun, still shaking in her hand as she gotten off of the cop she had a foot on, but she still seem to have a bit of trouble trusting at the moment as she didn't drop the gun, but she wasn't aiming at anyone now. "And how do I know either of you two are not working for the man on the TV..."

This answer was revealed as the other cop instantly grabbed his gun and pointed it at Eve. "Why didn't you shoot her yet?" he said.

"This is the famous Eve, you twit. Imagine the cost to free this hostage," the other exclaimed." Besides, all it takes is a pull of a trigger to end her, in case she wants to sing her little soprano song agai--" he notices Maria at the doorway, Maria had thought it was safe when she didn't hear Eve's singing anymore.

Eve glares at the guy who rip the gun from her hand, suddenly her knee tank up to slam him hard in between his legs before quickly, deeply inhaling. Maria would notice how Quick eve was trying to be at this point.

The other person who had his gun pointed at Eve turned his attention towards her before firing. Then the astounding had happened once again.

Maria, not wanting Eve to get shot yelled "No!", and an invisible force sent the standing 'cop' flying back to the wall.

Eve was amazed, going to Maria and picking her up. "Thank you, best we don't stay here..."

The cop was startled, but he scrambled for the gun almost immediately.

Eve jogs over, kicks his gun away before kicking him in the head. She then gone out of her room, looking around.

When she looks around, in the far distance, she will see a green cat and Lavo. On her left, two more cops. Good or bad is unknown, but they could be seen invading another apartment.

Eve seem relieved to see Lavo, unharmed, with someone she can trust too, seeing Lavo run up to her, she then points to her left.

Moros and Szorra (closed)

"Weee...!!"

Szorra had pressed another button on the motorcycle. The force field changed from blue to purple.

"Ehhh? What's with the change in color?"

"It's a time dilation field. The speedometer may say that we're only going sixty miles an hour, but since time is slowed around us, it appears that we are moving five times that, namely, three hundre--." Szorra stops talking as she intercepts a connection from the police in her helmet communications.

"Huh?" Moros blinked, noting how she stopped in the middle of her explanation.

"Moros... I'm sorry. Hold on," she says as she hits a U-turn and drives at 200 mph, travelling towards the Shelter.

"E-WHOOOOOAAAAAA!!!" Moros held on for dear life.

"There's been an emergency at a shelter housing the innocent civilians," she calmly said, since the air didn't rush by them in the force field, therefore she didn't have to yell. "I'm going to go save them before heading to the prison." Her driving wasn't really passenger safe, as she suddenly hits her brakes to hit hard turns.

Moros was still hanging on for dear life.

Compared to the outside world, they were travelling nearly 1.5 times the speed of sound, stopping immediately at the first Shelter, where some sort of liquid had melted the closed door. Szorra had immediately jumped out, not giving Moros the appropriate time to recover.

Moros wobbled off the bike, taking a few steps before hurling.

Szorra turned back at the sound of this. If the helmet didn't have ear armor, one would she the way that the ears jerk to show that Szorra does not like the look of vomit. The sudden straight standing of her tail pretty much done the ear's job. "I think I'm gonna throw up, and I'm wearing a helmet."

"S-sorry Q~Q"

Szorra turned around, and peered through the crevice, checking for anything. She couldn't see anything, so she pulled out her hack scanner, and she hacked nearby cameras in the building to make sure the coast was clear. At the sight of this, Szorra waved Moros over to see what the camera shown.

Moros nodded, walking over to Szorra to see what she wanted to show him.

The camera showed cops shooting at other cops, in the midst of dead civilians. Then there was a wolf who seemed invulnerable to bullets, and she attacked a few cops, though not attacking others.

"Something's going on. I've checked for corrupt cops in this city on several occasions, there is no way this much was in the force."

"Do you think it has something to do with that warning on the TV's?"

"It possibly was. I blame myself for this, I should've been closer."

"You couldn't have known, don't blame yourself.."

"I could've. You were right before, I should've investigated the airport, not go after a two people. I knew one day I would fail, but tonight can't be it." She began using brute strength to open the door.

"....."

She stopped pulling the door for a moment. "Sorry, still used to having Smoke to talk to..." she said with a guilty sound. She continued pulling the steel door until it began bending wide enough for both of them to squeeze in.

In an attempt to divert the subject, Szorra let out a small joke. "Ladies first," she said.

"Go right ahead~" He cracked a smile.

"Szorra vaulted over the rubble, entering the area. She activated the infrared vision on her camera, seeing most people in the resting center. She pointed to that hallway for Moros to know.

Moros nodded, of course he was just going to trail behind Szorra unless she actually needed his help; then he would help.

As she approached, she stopped. She went through the electromagnetic spectrum, having a feeling something was off. Seeing nothing, she inverted the infrared vision, where it picked up objects with lower heat than its surroundings. Sure enough, there was someone there, watching Szorra.

"Moros... we have company."

Moros blinked. "Where..?"

"Allow me to show you," Szorra said as she threw an EMP grenade at supposedly nothing on the ceiling. The moment it hit the ceiling, the EMP went off, damaging Hailstorm's equipment and rendering him visible. Hailstorm was also electrically clamping onto the ceiling, so he fell.

As he fell, he created to icicle shards and launched them at Szorra and Moros.

Moros projected a barrier around himself to block the icicle shards headed towards him.

Szorra dodged the icicles attacking her, grabbing two in midflip and tossing it at more icicles to counter it.

Hailstorm instantly creates a massive chill zone in the area, making the atmosphere around them -4° Fahrenheit.

"Whose your friend, kitty? I thought you worked alone."

Moros blinked, noting his cinnabun was frozen. "My Cinnabun... Q~Q"

The scene showed Moros sitting down with anime tears streaming down his eyes. "R.I.P Cinnabun."

As Szorra glanced back at Moros, she noticed he was weeping over... over some food? Really? Just who are you? I need to scan him at a later time, she thought as she turned back to her opponent. However, being distracted by the food made her realize that Hailstorm charging towards her, and the closer he got, the colder it got.

Moros' personality did a complete 180 and he calmly fired controlled beams of void magic at Hailstorm.

Since was charging and he was prepared for a strike, Hailstorm was able to dodge the beams of magic, back up now that he sees that Moros will cause him problems. "I see your friend will be a little nuisance," he thought as he formed a hail cloud above Moros.

Moros didn't seem to notice, now conjuring an ethereal blade in one hand.

Hailstorm was slightly confused, but went along with it. Szorra looked at the blade with worry. Please don't tell me you will kill someone over dessert...

Szorra took out another one of her power nullifying grenades, launching her gauntlet at a wall to glide over, therefore having Hailstorm to fight two sides at once.

Moros lunged at Hailstorm, intending to stab him in the leg with his ethereal blade.

At the same time, Szorra shot her gauntlet at the back of Hailstorm. Suddenly, Hailstorm seemingly became a large block of ice.

The ethereal blade, being made of void magic, would slip right through the icy defense on the grounds that void magic can bypass any defense; unless it's anti-magic, at the cost of not having much in the way of attack power.

(basically it chews through resistances and immunities like nothing but it only deals average damage across the board.)

Szorra had aimed a perfect kick at the head of where Hailstorm would be.

Unexpected surprise for both of them, it was a decoy, and Hailstorm was suddenly on the other side of the room, laughing at the failed attempt as he created a large icicle aimed at Szorra.

Szorra's leg was wedged in the ice by the sudden surprise of the decoy.

Moros growled, channeling magic into his barrier in order to reinforce it as he moved to jump in the way of the Large Icicle the moment it left Hailstorm's hands.

With the limited amount of movement, Szorra twisted in a way on the ice to dodge the icicle, then firmly placed her free leg on the ice in order to pull herself out of the ice cube.

Hailstorm changed targets once more, and Moros may feel a chill near his legs as Hailstorm stomped on the ground.

Moros looked down. '?'

There, Moros would see icicles just beginning to emerge where he was standing.

Moros blinked, oddly calm as he just started stabbing the icicles with his ethereal blade.

Then the icicles quickly rose, threatening to stab Moros.

Nowwww, Moros was starting to panic; trying to break the ice even faster so his leg and anything else isn't poked full of holes.

Seeing what was really about to happen, Szorra ran towards Moros and dive to grab him and pull him out of the way, just before the icicles quickly extended eight feet into the air.

"T-thanks.."

"He's not supposed to be able to do this. This is new..." Moros may feel Szorra's suit warm up, nearly hot to the touch.

He found it comforting for some reason, so he didnt complain.

"He's tough with his cryokinesis, but he is slow without it. Can you get closer to him?"

"Possibly." Moros nodded.

"I'll try to be a distacti--" Szorra noticed in that her helmet was giving off a warning of an approaching object, and she turned around to see a cop walking into the room, firing rounds at Hailstorm, who was casually freezing the bullets midair.

"Where the hell did he come from?" Szorra said almost out loud.

"I'unno."

As they turned around, they would just see a blast of laser go through the chest of Hailstorm. He couldn't yelled in pain, he simply collapsed.

Szorra was astonished, but not in a good way. "Oh... shit!" she yelled as she ran over to the Hailstorm, checking to see if the bear was still alive.

The cop was too suprised to move. 

"Damn..."

The bear began coughing, looking up to Szorra. He couldn't say anything due to his lungs being destroyed, and eventually passed away. Szorra took his cape and covered it over the body, standing over it, then glancing in the direction where the shot came from.

Moros wasn't exactly sad at the bear's passing; as he did try to kill him earlier.

I'll have to look in to this case later, the priority still stands, she thought as she turned around, seeing the cop again.

"Is there anyone still alive in there?" Szorra asked.

"Our forces have already cleared that hallway, hopefully. We haven't checked the food court much, yet."

"Okay then..." Szorra then remembered the frozen cinnabun. "Hey, Moros, want to check the food center? There could be more cinnabuns."

Moros nodded excitedly.

"Since the room is clear," the cop stated, "I need to get back to my part of the job," he said as he left the scene.

"Alright then, Moros. Let's get you something to eat."

Eve, Lavo, and Maria (closed)

The cop looked at the three, then he looked at the door Lavo point at.

"What's in there?" he asked Eve.

"Two people that might be cops, might not be, gone into that room." Eve stated.

Lavo petted Maria's head before noticing over Eve's shoulder. "Two cop-looking people are in your room as well..."

Eve buff her cheeks. "Yea, two very rude, so-called cops thinking it would be a bright idea to take me hostage."

Lavo had a sweatdrop. "That's a sign these two aren't cops, I only can assume the two that just broke into the other room aren't cops either." Lavo then looks at the cat before running right to the room Eve had pointed out.

Just then, the same cops had left the room, and they had turned to see the group staring at them.

Eve felt tenses as Lavo was pretty much already in front of the group, glaring down at the cops that left the room. "So, what do you individuals think you're doing?" Lavo asked.

The cops looked at each other, with confused faces. The green cat had his pistol ready, but unsure of whether or not to fire.

Lavo walks towards the cops. "Shall I ask again...?" She said a bit coldly.

"Freeze!" one of them said, putting their gun in the air. "Put your hands up and don't move!"

Lavo glance to the cop cat. "Should I listen? They didn't answer my question." She blinks dully.

Eve had a small sweatdrop. "Only you..." She whispers.

"I... don't know..." the cat replied.

Another two seconds of tense silence...

"Okay," the cat cop stated, "I think these cops are on our side."

"Very well" Lavo looks at the two cops. "We are no threat to you two, we are trying to find those that don't want to hurt civilians, so no corrupted cops."

Eve exhales a soft sigh.

"How can we tell who is corrupted and who isn't? If we sit there and wait like we did now, we could get shot. This is something the Black Cat needs to do."

"Hmph, you think I will be sitting around?" Lavo bluntly stated.

Eve gulped a bit. "The false cops shoot innocent people... They will aim their guns at anyone"

Lavo nodded. "I don't mind getting shot at." She looks to the cops.

The cops glance at her, then the cat cop, who nods to reassure them.

"Right, then we will clear the rest of this area of these cops," one of the new cops said.

Lavo nods, glancing to the cat cop. "Think you can protect those two." She points at Eve and Maria. "Last thing I want is for them to get kill after I got them this far."

"I'll get them to a safer place," he said as he began walking back down the hallway, glancing back to make sure they followed.

Eve carries Maria as she follows after him.

Lavo nodded quietly.

The other two cops looked at Lavo. "So, does that mean you're coming with us?"

Lavo nods. "That's right."

"Okay then, let's get moving."

Xavek (closed)

Something went wrong with his digitizer field and he had to leave the net early, reappearing by the airport.

Xavek would then discover the place is in ruins.

".... Damn it!!" He yelled, frustrated.

The yell will only make the silence seem greater, for the place was a ghost town.

"....." Xavek sighed, investigating the place.

The only thing Xavek would be able to find in the area is a small truck with an RPG-7 on the top of it.

Xavek walked towards the truck, activating his X-ray sights in order to check for anyone that may be inside the truck.

The only thing visible was the outside of the truck through X-ray vision, and through the windows, it was... blurry?

Xavek blinked, walking to the back of the truck and attempting to open the doors.

The door opens, and then déjà vu.

Beep, beep.

"........." Xavek was reeeeeaally not in the mood right now to deal with the nuisances that have foiled his schemes so far.

Beep beep BEEP BEEP. At those last two beeps, a red light began violently flashing, where Xavek could see: 0:04. Then, 0:03.

Xavek cursed, firing a blast of plasma inside the the truck in order to prematurely detonate whatever's causing the beeping noises.

The bomb exploded, as well as the rest of the truck due to the RPG-7 already being loaded with a missile.

Xavek tanked through the blast, though his already damaged components ended up taking even more damage in he explosion; barely any flesh was left on Xavek's body and what little remained had been badly charred, revealing bits of metallic Skeletal structure and muscle fiber weaving.

The truck was now matching the environment of ruin around it, and this brought the attention of fire fighters to come to the scene.

Xavek cursed, he really didn't want to deal with anyone at the moment so he attempted to use his cloaking field.. With mixed success...

The field was unstable; even moreso with movement, so Xavek had to time his movements carefully, what's worse is that the field would only last for about three minutes before it went kaput for good.

Luckily for Xavek, the fire fighters were more focused on stopping the fire rather than enjoying the scenery.

This made sneaking away much easier for the alien.

Other than the passing police car or the fire truck, everything seemed deserted. It may seem like everyone was deserted from the map.

"The hell.." He muttered.

With his amplified hearing, if it wasn't damaged, he may hear a conflict of some sort down two blocks.

Thankfully, it wasn't damaged too heavily so he did hear it.

It seemed to becoming from some sort of building, known as the Shelter, one of many Shelters for tropical storm purposes. If Xavek was curious enough, he would head there.

And despite his injuries,  he was curious so he decided to investigate.

When he got there, he would see the front door melted, it appears. By here, Xavek would hear the conflict loudly, as well as notice the temperature drop.

Xavek entered the room, uncloaking.

He would see a polar bear, fighting two other foes: one being the megalopolis vigilante, and the other being a fox that looks like he's a teen.

"....." Xavek silently raised a gauntlet and prepared to fire a bolt of plasma at the Polar Bear's ribcage.

'The vigilante seems to have access to sources of advanced technology; so it would be beneficial for me to pretend like I want to help so I can get repairs..'

the bear was occupied, not paying attention to Xavek.

Xavek fired a stream of plasma at the bear's chest.

It connected, and the bear dropped to the ground. However, it seemed that by the language used by the vigilante and how she ran over to him, it wasn't a good move.

Xavek didn't care, though he was about to leave since repairs weren't likely.

The Black Cat had walked over to the bear, and eventually covered him with his own cape, then she took a look in Xavek's direction.

Xavek had already started walking out. 'Great..'

Jailrush

Jail walked into the city, saying, "This isn't going to be weird is it?"

He ends up finding out that the city is seemingly deserted, with a few fires here and there.

"Great.....Just like the last island."

Eventually, the sound of a car came from a passing street. The headlights could be seen.

Jail shaded his eyes when he saw the headlights.

It was a cop car. It the sight of Jail, the car, immediately stopped, the driver and the front passenger door opening.

Jail simultaneously said "Aw jesus, i'm going to jail....." while he thought, "I'M GOIN TA JAIL!"

"Excuse me," one of the cops said. "What are you doing out here?" Both cops had their hands ready not to reach for tasers, but their pistols.

"Aw, nothing much, just sailed to this island, pretty neat." Jail tried his best to close his jacket while he was talking.

One of the cops had eyed this motion, due to being experienced with suspect actions.

The other cop continued. "You sailed to an island.. that was on lockdown due to a crisis?"

"It was on lockdown? I didn't even notice."

The policemen glanced at their surroundings of the deserted city before returning their attention to Jailrush. "Sir, would you like to come with us for safety?" one had asked.

"Sure." Jail stepped into the car.

As the cops got back in the car, the driver started talking. "You had reasons to sail here... why?"

"I dunno, I went to a dock, grabbed a boat, and started rowing. I landed on this island while i was asleep."

"Well, allow me to inform you that there is a madman out here, and his threat had shut down the city within the night."

"Ok then. I've taken care of everything back where i lived, I could've handled the situation if i could, but this sounds like some mad murderer crap."

"Which is why we highly recommend you geet to a safe h--" the cop was interrupted as someone had fell on the fron hood of the cop car. This person leaped out of the truck before seeming to magically lift up a rock, aiming it at a random person in the cop car. The chosen random person was Jailrush. 

"CHRIST!" Jail quickly broke out of the car as soon as the rock hit the truck.

The driver was instantly unconscious, the other cop weakly getting out of the car before drawing his pistol, attempting to fire at the rock being, only to be hit in the back of the head by a large brick.

The enemy then looked around for Jailrush.

Jail hid behind a deserted car on the side of the road.

"I counted three," the enemy thought. "Where is the other one?"

Jail still hid behind the car, but he panicked when he accidently dropped a bullet, making a ding as it hit the floor.

The assailant heard this, and silently crouched as she approached the car, getting ready to telekinetically lift up a trashcan.

Jail had an idea at this point. He picked up the bullet and loaded it into his pistol. Then, got under the car and pointed the pistol at the assailant.

The being peeked at the side of the car, confused to not see anyone behind it.

Jail then pulled the trigger hoping that the bullet does harm. But he discovered that he barely missed the assailant's body, and now he was worried.

Hearing this gunshot, she knew that Jailrush was under the car. She leaped on top of the car, then she used all of her strength to lift up the cop car two feet off the ground.

Jail rolled to the opposite side of the car, giving himself time to reload.

The enemy continued lifting the car, now five feet up. She let go of the car now to let it fall.

Luckily, Jail avoided the impact and climbed on top of the car and fired a round. Hoping that the bullet would hit this time.

The bullet pierces the shoulder, and the girl clutches her shoulder and winces in pain as she falls off the car.

Eve and Maria (closed)

Eve follows the cat cop. "Than-Thank you sire." She said, carrying Maria.

"Oh there's no reason to call me that," the cop replied. "If anything, I should call you by your appropriate name, Princess Laha... my children are fans." He slowly peered through a doorway to make sure it was safe, then kept moving to the end of the hallway.

Eve blushes a tiny bit, smiling sweetly as she follows after the cop. "Oh, I am so glad to hear."

As they continued, they will notice the area becoming cooler.

"I-It's cooler..." Eve stated as she follows him.

Maria seemed oddly fine. This isn't the same for the cat. "Yeah, I feel it too," he said, "it seems to keep getting colder. Do you feel a draft?"

Eve shivers a bit, hugging Maria slightly. "ye-Yea..."

The air continued getting colder, now starting to go from a nuisance to a threat. The cop stopped in his tracks. It was at this point as well the Maria had finally started feeling cold.

Eve shivers even more, hugging Maria close. "Th-This isn't good..." She stops.

"Something's off, the only reason it should be this cold in an area is if... oh no..."

"Wh-What?" Eve asked, concern.

"The prisons weren't properly evacuated during this, so the meta prisoners weren't properly locked up... Hailstorm could be here. Going out there is a deathtrap."

Eve was concern. "Bu-But we can't stay here either, is there another way out?" She asked, hugging Maria.

"I..." The cops slowly turned toward Eve with regret. "I... I don't know."

He slowly sunk down against the wall.

Eve notice the regert, she goes over to him, kneeling down and putting a hand on his shoulder. "It'll be okay, we will get though this." She smiles.

The cop pulled out his wallet, looking at a picture of him and his family. It was here that Eve would see that th children are probably not even ten years old.

Eve blinks, she sits next to the cop, while still holding Maria, she pulls the cop into a hug as she smiles. "It'll be alright... You'll get to see them again." She lets go, smiling as she looks right at the cop.

The cop took a deep breath, then sighed. "Stay here, it's my job to protect the citizens of Weybrook." He rose, cautiously approaching the hallway exit.

Eve's eyes shrink a bit, remembering about how Michael had did something like this. "No... It'll happen again, won't it?" She softly spoke, she knew she shouldn't fear so many things, but she was worry someone will get hurt once more the way Micheal was hurt.

"What do you mean 'it'll happen again'?" the cop said with wonder.

"Mi-Michael had me stay where it was safe... He then left to go help the female wolf you saw before he became badly injured by acid... " Eve sounded really worry once she said that.

The cop was silent for a while after hearing this. "Is he..."

"Well... Michael luckily lived, we got him here before all of this happen, and I ended up calling his father... I don't know if he and his father are still here, or if they left." Eve frowns. "But... If it wasn't for Lavo having gotten him quickly fix up before anymore damage was done I... I wouldn't know what would have happen... I don't... Want that to happen to anyone, no matter what it is..." She looks up to the cop with worry eyes. "But... I know it is your job."

The cop thought hard about this... eventually he looked to Eve. "When I earned this badge, it was a sign of defending the megalopolis. I worry everyday if I will be able to make it home or not... your friend Michael did it as bravery... but it is my duty to protect the people. Get somewhere safe, if I'm not back in ten minutes, stay there until help arrives." And with that, the cop began nervously walking towards the cold, shivering.

Eve felt a bit better, she smiles as she the nods. "Very well, Sir." She then carries Maria as she quietly looks for somewhere safe to hide.

The nearest door was about ten feet further back down the hallway.

Eve goes to the length of ten feet to that nearest door, holding Maria close.

She will find out that the door isn't locked, but it is kind of hard to push open.

Eve keeps pushing, confuse by why it was hard to open.

The door give way some, and Eve would see that she is slowly pushing furniture away.

"Furniture? Did someone try to protect themselves like I did?" Eve questioned.

"Do you want me to help you?" Maria said as she got down from Eve.

There was a small thump that could be heard in the background.

"Yes please, Maria." Eve asked sweetly.

Maria began pushing the door with Eve, and while the door began opening much easier, Maria was struggling to push the door.

Eve helps Maria push, till there was a crack for them to go through.

Maria squeezed through the doorway, then pushed the couch that was blocking the door out of the way so Eve could get in.

Eve smiles, getting in before petting Maria's head. "Thank you." She then closes the door before glancing around.

The room was dark, but the furniture was rushed here. Someone was hiding by the looks of the area.

"He-Hello?" Eve called out a bit, holding Maria close as she looks around.

"W-who's there?" The sound of a mature woman was heard.

"I'm Eve." She smiles a bit. "No one you need to be scared of."

She stayed silent. Maria walked up to Eve, taking her hand. She doesn't admit it to anyone, but she's afraid of the dark.

Eve holds Maria's hand. "It's okay Maria..." She whispers.

The sound of glass breaking was heard in the kitchen.

"Huh?" Eve's ears perked, she hug Maria close. "Hello? Are you still there?"

Silence. Either the glass fell by itself or the person remains hiding.

Eve hold Maria as close as possibly, trying to listen. "..."

The sound of very quiet footsteps could be heard, possibly a little whimpering as well. Then the sound of a small thing being moved. There was definitely someone in the kitchen.

"In the kitchen...?" Eve question, carefully walking toward that direction.

Maria saw a light switch, and ran to turn it on. As she did, the first thing Eve would see would be the woman holding a chef's knife.

Eve squeaked a bit, her hands raised a bit. "Re-Relax, relax."

Once looking at Eve and Maria, the woman not only relaxed, she dropped the knife. As if she was in shock of seeing them. Her lips quivered, as if she wanted to say something.

Eve smiles sweetly. "You'll be okay Miss."

"M-ma..." She stammered.

Suddenly when ralizing who it was, Maria ran to her. "Aunt Cassandra!" she yelled with glee as she hugged her. Cassandra looked down at Maria and hugged her, then she looked to Eve.

"Thank you," she said, as that was all that she could say.

Eve smiles happily. "I'm glad we could find someone that Maria could be with... But, you should honestly thank someone else... I only got to help her though this place." She goes over to Cassandra and Maria.

"Why wasn't see with her mother?" she asked.

Eve frowns. "From... What I've heard... Her mother died.... The one who help and protect Maria tried her best to save her mother but... I guess it was just too late..."

"What?! No, she isn't dead, I saw her in the infirmary when I got here!" she exclaimed.

Eve was shocked. "Really!?"

"Yes. Before all of this had happened, and I locked myself up. I heard from her that she had not remembered what had happened to her child, and that she didn't know where Maria was."

Eve was confuse. "It was Maria's mother who told Lavo to take her to her father though; Lavo being the one who shielded and protect Maria the most."

"...we have to find her mother then. We'll see if she can remember now, it's been a few hours."

Eve had a sweatdrop. "Well... The cop that made sure me and Maria got this far left... We can't just leave, ten minutes..." She frowns.

Cassandra nodded, then she sat there for a moment. Eventually, she thought of something that worried her.

"Princess Laha... have you... seen anything odd with Maria?"

"Well... She easily blasted someone away from me when they were going to hurt me, and she seem really resistance to the cold..." Eve blinks.

"I was worried about this," she thought. "Please, I beg of you that you do not let anyone know about this."

Eve seem a bit confuse. "I wasn't going to say anything about it honestly." She then smiles.

Cassandra sighed. "These islands have had a bad reputation with metas for years, and our family didn't want anyone to know she was born a meta. They think of them as evil."

Eve frowns. "I don't see Maria as Evil, but again I'm not one that lives on the island. Maria is such a sweet girl."

"I know. It's just the news. They point out the meta criminals so much, it makes everyone think metas are abusive of their power. The only metas they are okay with, apparently, are the Freedom Fighters.

Eve thinks about it for a bit. "Well... I don't think all people mean to be bad, no matter who or what they are." She smiles brightly.

Cassandra sighed. "At least you're not like the rest... so ten minutes then?"

Eve nods. "Mhm, ten mintues, if he doesn't return... That would be a problem..."

Lavo (closed)

Lavo walks next to the two cops, her ears twitched as her wings slightly rest to her side.

One of the cops did not support vigilantism, and carefully eyed Lavo every now and then as they went along. They had reached the stairwell of the hotel when the very first screams are heard, though very faint and very muffled.

Lavo's ears perked, they shifted before she starts running up the stairwell to hear better.

The sound of muffled screaming went even more faint... then there was a falling body about to hit the ground of the stairwell.

Lavo leaps out, her wings spread out as she goes to catch the falling body as quickly as possibly.

This would leave the cops mildly surprised, but not to any extremities. Thought the body was saved from hitting the ground, it has shown to be lifeless. However, the body was still warm, meaning that whatever death had happened to the corpse, it was recent.

Lavo looks up, before gently setting the corpse down, she then flap her wings before leaping up to get higher on the stair well with jumps instead of walking up them.

One of the cops stayed with the corpse. "I'll see what happened, you go ahead with her," he said. Sadly, the one going up with her was the one not a fan of vigilantes.

Lavo keeps moving quickly up the stairwell to see what other possibly paths there were and where the murder had taken place before the body had fallen.

As Lavo travels up, she will see a pillow on the ground.

Lavo nods, connecting how this must have killed the person, she stops next to the pillow. "The weapon that caused the death..." She mutters, looking around.

"Let me go first," the cop said, walking up to the first door, peeping through to make sure it's safe, then he grabbed the handle.

Meanwhile with the other cop, he had revived the girl once realizing all she needed was CPR. He had found a nail driven into her right arm with a note.

I have a Christmas present for you where... we'll call her 'she'... had initially fell.

-Satan Claws

Back upstairs, the cop who had opened the door was also stabbed by a nail... only the nail was six inches wide and completely impaled his midsection, killing the cop within seconds.

Lavo was cut off guard by this one, crouching as she goes to the cop. killed by a nail... She though, glancing to the door quietly.

She would see a creature in red and white plated armor, thick black boots and gloves, a helmet covered with a Christmas hat. Satan Claws.

"Funny... I was expecting the Black Cat to be here first... is she still dealing with Hailstorm? Or did my enhancement to him put her down..." this talk may confuse Lavo.

Lavo stood up, looking at him. "Satan Claws, eh? I don't know what you are talking about, or who, but eh." She shrugs, her wings shifting to move as a shield.

The being laughed. "You think those petty wings will stop me?" he said as his hands morphed into incredibly large and powerful knives. "I have to say, I love my name. It fits perfectly with my power."

"I guess it does." Lavo draws out her dirk. "And for once someone can see them, this will be a far more different challenge." Her eyes glared as she looks to the being. "So, shall we begin the dance of death?" Lavo question as she stood into a stance, dirk ready in one hand.

Satan Claws wasn't moved, but his voice said he was highly impatient. "I am not looking for no amateur hero, I am looking specifically for Szorra. How about I kill you and get this over with," he said as he marched towards her.

"Well, I guess I'll be in the way without knowing this Szorra person, and you know what, I don't care." The dirk shimmer a bit as her eyes glared a bit. "I am no Hero, but I am not murderer and villain. So yes, let's get this over with."

You basically gave her name away, good job... screw it, she's going to die anyways... Satan Claws continued marching up with confidence. A lot of confidence... in fact, he didn't even seem to get in any defensive position as he got closer to Lavo.

Lavo was in a defensive position- but she wasn't having her wings do the shielding at this point, she was using her dirk with one hand as she watches Satan Claws, she was ready for a fight.

Satan Claws was now upon her. Seeing that Lavo didn't attempt to move out of the way at this point, he aimed a quick punch to Lavo's gut.

Lavo shifts herself to adjust for the size of the knives, before leaping into the air with quick movement. She lightly gazed the dirk on her palm to cut slightly into her hand as she goes to land on the ground next to Satan claws.

With unnatural movement and speed, Claws was at the position where Lavo would land, lifting up his hard boot to kick Lavo out of the doorway.

Lavo put her bleeding hand out in front of her to make contact with the boot- but otherwise as it was a hard boot, she would feel the kick sending her out of the doorway. She cough a bit of blood, but she smirks a bit.

Claws looked at the boot, when he put his foot to the ground and heard dissolving. It was the floor dissolving, however. Claw's boot seemed to be fine. "You know, hero, I've been able to control almost every villain out here because I've exploited the weakness of them, and Acid Lynx wasn't an exception, especially due to his abilities." He began marching towards Lavo with just as much confidence as before.

Lavo spits out her blood, the odd, redish-purple color shine a bit. "This isn't acid, but I don't think I need to tell you that." She stood up, her eyes glaring.

This intrigued Claws, expecting the blood to do something, but instead he continued walking until he was right in front of Lavo, intending on punching her with his knife hand.

Lavo goes to leap into the air, one of her wings lash out to hit him so then she could leap over him.

Claws easily dodges this attempt, now attempting to slash at Lavo's wings. As stated in Xavek vs Scarlet, Ardoncal is an element that is sharp enough to easily cut steel. Satan Claw's knives cut Ardoncal just as easily.

Lavo's eyes widen as her wing was cut easily into, she felt sharp pain go though her whole body as she fallen quickly down onto the ground. She struggle to stand up as her wing leaks, the piece that was cut suddenly pool into some odd blood liquid-crystal texture.

"I warned you that I wanted the Black Cat here. That's the problem with heroes, they call their stubbornness bravery." His knives extended from his skin, being an inch longer than before.

"Time to die, wolfbat," he said as he attempted to stab Lavo through her chest.

Lavo shifts herself to may it stab her in the shoulder, gripping one of the knives with her hand as her eyes glow a purple hue. "I don't free death..." She growls.

"But you do fear helplessness," he replied as he lifted up his boot to stomp Lavo.

Lavo didn't like being helpless, but she then uses her other wing to try and struggle against his boot, her arm that was pin trying to reach for the crossbow.

Claws chuckled. "I've barely even tried against you, and you're already under me, both figuratively and literally. What makes you--"

"FREEZE! I WANT TO SEE YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR, NOW!" It was the cop reviving the lady downstairs.

Claws glanced at him, then looked to Lavo. "Friend of yours?"

"Make a Run for it you fool!" Lavo shouted as she whip up her crossbow with what room she had with the pinned arm and took a unaimed shot at Claws from her hip.

With his free arm, Claws grabbed the shot with no difficulty. He then threw it at the cop, who had ducked in time an began firing bullets at Claws, which showed that his armor was bulletproof.

"I grow tired of this," Satan Claws said as he picked up Lavo and attempted to toss her at the cop.

Lavo grunted, but with the one wing flap, she angle to not hit the cop, but hit something else, due to not being able to use the other one, which was starting to heal slowly. Very slowly at that. "Uugh..."

The cop moved to protect Lavo, taking her down the stairs as he uselessly fired at Satan Claws, who seemed to be talking to someone through communications for the moment. At the nearest stairwell door exit, the cop brought Lavo in, and they hid in the women's restroom, where he put Lavo down to rest as he helplessly guarded the door.

"Dammit, Black Cat, where are you?" He said, almost loud enough for Claws to find them, if he was looking for them. The cop glanced back at Lavo.

Lavo cough slightly, she bolts one of her bolts, sliding the blood onto the tip that leak from her mouth, she then loads her crossbow with her good arm before aiming, using her only really working arm at this point. "Should be a bit more quieter..." She mutters to the cop when he glanced back at her.

In a quieter tone, the cop replied, "you should rest a bit more as well... damn, I knew he was smart, but to be invincible as well? This was completely unexpected."

Lavo looks to the cop. "... I did somewhat expect it, but I didn't expect my abilities to also not affect..." She coughs, having set the crossbow down. "... I don't fear death like many others, but I hate not being able to protect innocent lives honestly..."

"I've never thought I would be in this situation, despite all that has happened this night..." seeing as no one was approaching, he ran over to Lavo. "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"uh... Stopping the bleeding of my wounds may help." She mutters a bit, but her eye shifts to the door a bit.

The cop attempts to stop the blood, but he becomes confused. You have your... "blood" seeping from nowhere behind you," he said.

"Oh... Right, maybe I should explain that one." Lavo glances. "... See, some of what I could do that didn't seem normal... Is because I have these wings no normal person can see... Not natural wings either... But, they are hard to cut into or really damage... What a bother..." She mutters.

The cop easily believed this due to the metas of the city. "Soo.. that means the prime suspect has been able to cut into your tough... wings? Does this mean he can see them?" He began feeling for a wound in Lavo's wings.

(PS, question about the wings for a character later on... can the wings be seen technologically, {example, if you can't see it in visible light, but you can see it in infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, etc} or is it magically seen?)

( Since the Wings are more of a physical existence and are just hidden in some magical-possible way, Technology can see the wings; Lavo's wings do give off a form of heat and a form of a physical outline. It's why I didn't say anything about claws seeing it- because there is a logical reason for the tech to be able to see it ^w^ )

(claws can magically see it, just pointing it out for OOC notes. thx for the info, though!)

"Yes..." Lavo nods, shifting herself a bit so he can see where the blood was, leaping rather close to her back, but it was noted how it was very slowly building itself as well. "There are some filters in tech that can most likely see them, I wouldn't be surprised. Heat pattern, outlines, so on." Lavo nods.

"It's... healing itself?" He asked her.

"My Wings... And my blood are a bit of the same thing, they aren't the same... My blood should be fine to touch compare to what I was trying to do... I can... Somewhat control them..." Her eyes glance away. "Corruption... is an odd power..."

At this point, the cop was now completely confused, and resorted to the task at hand of guarding the door. He peeked outside.

Lavo glance to the cop, shaking her head a bit when she notice the cop just being confused. She digs around in her small bag to see how much bandages she did have left. Yet her eyes started to droop due to how much pain she did feel and how much blood she did end up losing due to the fight. "..."

The cop saw no sight of danger, then turned around to resume caring for Lavo, when he notices her about to pass out. "Hold on, I need you to stay up," he said as he wrapped first aid gauze around her body wounds. not sure what to do with the invisible ones.

Lavo grunts a bit, but she try to stay up. "Just... Pretend it is a wing and try to wrap it up that way... You can see the wound..."

"Okay..." he said as he attempted to feel for the wing, covering the wounds and seeming shocked that it was "floating in midair".

Lavo glance a bit as her wing shifted. "It's physically there.. Just hidden..." She blinks.

"Well, one way or the other, it isn't safe here. We need to leave, now. There was another staircase that we could take, we should go while we get the chance."

Lavo lightly grunt, but she nods. "Of course... Best to keep moving then to stay in one place..." She mutters.

"Can you stand?" he asked, offering a hand.

Lavo smirks a tiny bit, taking his hand. "My legs aren't wounded... Just one wing and my shoulder... I should be able to stand, and maybe walk- running shouldn't be a problem either..."

"Okay then..." he said as he peeped through the door once more. "It seems that it's safe, let's get moving." he pulled out his pistol once more.

Lavo nods, following the cop.

The staircase was safe when they had arrived. The cop was about to go to the next floor, but wondered if he would run into Satan Claws. He wavered his options in his head.

Lavo exhales softly, before sniffing the air. She was a wolf after all so she may able to have a faint idea of Satan Claws' scent.

She would smell Claws, but he was still just as far away as before. Maybe even farther. He wasn't hunting them down.

"He's not hunting us down... I figure as much... He's after the black cat..." Lavo stated, looking to the cop.

"I don't understand... why attack the whole city if your after one person?" He moved up to the next floor, checking the door to see if its safe, and running into one of the police officers that he knows, caring for a wounded civilian.

Lavo follows the cop. "what better way to get someone to come out? To make mistakes so that even the people will look down on..." She glance to him. "He wants her dead..." She softly spoke that last line, before looking to what he came across.

"What happened to her, James," he asked.

James looked over. "Kyle, glad you're still alive. This one should be fine, he faked his death after getting shot in the shoulder... is that.. floating?" he said, pointing to the damaged wing's bandaging.

"... It's better than a flowing, floating blood fountain." Lavo's blunt honesty... Very blunt honesty.

"Long story, James. How many other floors have you checked?"

"The other guys checked most of the rest, they saved many others. We're finally starting to get a grip on who's good cop and bad cop. How about you?"

"...we were stopped by the prime suspect in the other stairwell."

"He's here?" then James glanced at Lavo. "Did he.. get to you?"

Lavo blinks. "More like I found him with his partner... His partner died in one hit..." She stated. "He's after one person... And one person only, while causing pure chaos as well. The Black Cat."

"Sounds like a diversion to lure the Black Cat in. It's all starting to come together... he knew that if the airports were down, the only safe haven would be in the Shelters, and by causing chaos there, he would lure the Black Cat in... but how did he convince the cops to go on his side..."

"He didn't," another cop stated from above. "You all need to come here, now."

Chapter 6: Satan Claws

Eve and Maria (closed)

Eight minutes pass. No word from the cop.

Eve seem worry, now pacing. "It's been eight minutes...."

"I'm sure he'll be back soon, he may just be delayed," Cassandra said, trying to give some hope.

Eve was frowning. "oooh.... I hope so, I deeply hope that is the case..." She looks to Cassandra, worried.

"...so how did you come across Maria?" Cassandra asked.

"At a store, me and Michael were going to get something to eat when Miss Lavo was fighting someone, while protecting Maria. Michael gotten Maria to me and then... Well, a lot of things happen..." Eve glance down.

Cassandra looked at Eve with a little bit of curiosity. "Who is this Michael fellow?"

"O-Oh!? Um." Eve blushes a tiny bit. "well, it seems he's a very important person... Quite a nice guy, always helping others." She smiles happily. "It's a bit... Hard to explain, hehe."

Cassandra is really good at reading people, and she smiled. "Sounds like you--"

The door to the room opened. It was the cop.

"The lobby is clear..." he said, looking at Cassandra since he didn't expect her here.

Eve smiles. "Good! " She sighs in relief. "Also, this is Cassandra, Aunt of Maria."

Cassandra gave a wave, and the cat gave a slight nod. "Pleasure to meet you, ma'am." he then spoke to everyone. "The lobby is safe now, we need to evacuate this building ASAP."

Eve was concern. " Has anyone checked the infirmery?" She asked.

"Sadly, there were four deaths, but the infirmary didnt seem to be a major target."

"Maria's mother might still be in the infirmary then... I know we have to leave quickly though..." Eve looks to Cassandra and Maria.

"The infirmary was cleared out, you can check for her outside."

Eve relaxes, nodding. "Very well." She smiles. "Best we hurry up and go then, right?"

"Okay. We have to be out here as quickly as possible."

Eve nods, looking to Maria and Cassandra. "Shall we then?"

"Okay," Cassandra said as she looked to Maria, who was quiet during all of this, perhaps thinking about something.

Eve smiles as she goes to the cop.

The cop turns around, nervous as he walked down the hallway, glancing back at the three girls every now and then to make sure they're safe.

Eve smiles as she follows the cop with Cassandra and Maria.

As they entered the lobby, the scent of blood may have been the first thing they smell.

Eve cover her nose. "Oh Dear."

The cop let out a sigh. "Enemy or not, Hailstorm should not have died as he did," the policeman said, looking at the body of Hailstorm covered by his cape, which is now red in color from soaking up the blood. "Hopefully, that will be cleared up soon."

The exit would now be seen, seeming extremely safe relative to everything beforehand.

Eve frowns a bit, but looks to the Policeman. "I'm sure it will be cleared up..."

"Yeah," he muttered to himself. "Let's just get out of here before something else happens." Once getting to the door, he remembered. "The infirmary... I'll guard the entrance, you guys go on ahead."

"Very well... Be careful." Eve smiles as she goes to the door to open it.

The infirmary seemed untouched compared to the gunshot holes in the rest of the building. As stated, the first few bodies there were killed, but it seemed that they were killed by chokehold rather than gunshot, as if the murderers enjoyed this.

Eve frowns, looking around. "..."

Down the hallway was another room of emergency care, possibly where Maria's mom is.

Eve smiles. "Ah, this way." She goes towards the room, smiling at Cassandra and Maria.

When they enter the room, they will see that some people have died due to not being taken care of. There was a familiar chipmunk, however, bandaged heavily in the back of her head, who glanced over at them, and her eyes widened.

Eve smiles, waving.

She looked at Eve, at first surprised to see the princess, then when she saw Maria, things started coming together.

"You saved her," she weakly stated.

"I'm only one person out of two who kept your daughter safe, Another person truly saved her miss." Eve smiles sweetly.

Maria ran up to her mother, giving her a hug, in which the mother winced, but endured it to return the hug.

"Yes, I remember," she said to Eve. "Where is she now?"

"I'm not sure, but she is somewhere in this shelter..." Eve looks to her.

The mother tried to sit up, taking some effort. After being trampled, using one's back will cause pain. "After.. some shooting started... there was this girl in black and red... she stopped those fake cops from killing any more of us... I thought she was supposed to be Weybrook's deadly assassin.. Have you ran into her?"

"Girl in Black And red? Um..." Eve try to think of who it might be. "I... Don't think so."

She sat up some more. "Ever since last evening, the true colors of the city has been shown. I guess now is a better time then ever," the chipmunk said before gently pushing off Maria to get into a nearby wheelchair.

Eve was confuse. "what do you mean?" She asked.

"...Princess Laha... you may see something I do that's unnatural.."

"Mmm... I mean, Beside how oddly plan this whole thing is?" Eve asked.

"I don't understand how one Mobian can cause all of this, but still..." she began quickly moving her wheelchair to the exit of the infirmary. "Princess Laha, how do you feel about metas?"

Eve smiles at her. "I don't mind them at all, Though I know about how they are treated."

The old chipmunk smiled at that as she reached the exit. "I think I may have an idea on who this fellow is after all of my years of researching the vigilantes of this town... it was a hobby. If this madman is who I think he is, the Black Cat will not be able to defeat him once she finds out. She's going to need some help. I had told the wolf to take Maria to her father, but since she's here now, I need you to find a safe place to hide her. I'm going to try to save the Black Cat." 

Eve was worry. "Ar-Are you sure...?"

"110%," she said as she turned the corner and almost ran into the cat cop.

"Emily, you're alive!" He said with delight.

"Glad to see you are as well, Gordon," she replied.

Eve tilts her head, confuse by this, but she smile happily either way at this sight.

Gordon glances at the others. "Are you all okay?" he asked.

Eve nods, smiling. "Mhm"

Maria went to the side of her mother, actually reluctant to leave Eve. Emily continued talking. "Gordon, get these girls to a safe place," she demanded.

"What about you," Gordon asked.

"...I have something to do..."

Eve looks to Gordon. "There should be a female by the name of Lavo that most likely still in the shelter." She then looks at Emily before looking at Gordon and smiling. "but it is best if we get out of the shelter."

"I'll look out for her," he said, turning his attention to Emily. "What are you going to do?"

"You know what I'm going to do," she said, and then Gordon's face dropped.

"Emily, don't do this, please," he seemed to beg. "What about your daughter?"

"She had people to watch over her," she replied before moving away in her wheelchair.

Eve seem confuse, watching. "What is... She going to do?" She questions.

"....She's going to attempt to stop the most wanted suspect."

Eve seem very worry now. "Oh no..."

"I'd stop her, but I've known her since childhood. She's a stubborn one." Though he said this, he had a glum look on his face.

Eve frowned at him, seeing the glum look on his face.

"C'mon, let's get you to safety," he said as he walked out of the door.

Eve nods, following after him with Maria and Cassandra.

Once outside, a plane could be heard in the distance. Gordon, Cassandra, Maria looked up, searching for this plane.

Eve search as well, blinking.

It wasn't a large plane, but it was a passenger plane either way. Outside help had finally arrived.

Lavo and the WIPD (Weybrook Islands Police Department) (closed)

Lavo glance up to the officer above them, she nods. "Very well..." She didn't really have an idea about why some cops were fighting and hurting others that were either innocent or the other cops, so hopefully this was an answer.

As they ran up to the next floor, the cop had opened the door. There was a mass murder in the room, multiple dead bodies stripped down to their underwear.

".... Yea, okay, that makes more sense." She looks into the room. "A cover up..."

"How they got these cops is still up to confusion. The point still stands, we've gunned down or arrested more than half of them here, the rest are in the other halls," the cop walked over to one of those bodies. "The cause of death is unknown as of now, but their bodies seem unaffected on the outside."

"... Poison, something inside, poissble chances of brain melting on the inside.... Many other things." Lavo blinks, thinking a bit.

"That's what we suspect, but we currently aren't able to get our hands on any forensics."

Lavo walks over, kneeling down to one of the bodies, touching it as she first looks over the body.

The body was cold, meaning the death being much more than thirty minutes old.

Lavo nods. "mmm... They've been dead a while..." she then sniffs the air slightly, to see if something might have been off, but it would be extremely faint.

If Lavo had smelled it before, she will have a faint smell of ozone in the air.

"... Faint Ozone smell..." She glances around, standing up.

James looked at Lavo. "How the hell did ozone get all the way down here? That doesn't make sense."

"Ozone is dangerous when inhaled," noted Kyle, "but it doesn't add up if we aren't dealing with any respiratory problems right now."

"... That doesn't mean someone doesn't know how to move it and then remove it... To summon it to kill them, and then make it vanish so things can be taken off..." Lavo blinks.

"We've never had a meta be able to that... it can't be the prime suspect, because he could've easily done it to us... this is getting to be too much--"

A radio goes off. 'Attention all units, Hailstorm is in the lobby, The Black Cat is also there with an unidentified fox.'

"...Well, that isn't good." Lavo bluntly stated.

At first, a a group was getting prepped to go to the scene. Then suddenly, just before they were leaving, the radio chimed in again. 'Hailstorm is down, I repeat, Hailstorm is down, 187. We have no idea who made the shot, but it was advanced technology.

"What is this, another killing vigilante?" Kyle said out loud.

Lavo blinks. "... Mmm... No, I don't think Vigilante would be right..." She mutters, wondering if it is who she thinks it is.

"Either way, our shift of this place is over," Kyle stated. "I'm heading back to the lobby one way or the other. I'm guessing you're coming?"

Lavo nods. "I doubt I'll be able to do much..." She glance to her wounds.

"Alright then, Kyle left the open door, continuing on the stairway to return to the main hallway.

Lavo follows after Kyle, her ears flicked as she keeps her guard up.

As they reach stairs to the main hallway, Kyle notices an odd footprint trail on the floor. It seemed to only show the left footprint, causing the stairs to corrode in its wake.

"What is this?" He pondered.

Lavo had a small sweatdrop, might be something link to her or link to the Acid Lynx, she kneels down to touch what may be corroding the stairs.

She will notice that crystal-textured blood made this left footprint trail, corroding the stairs.

"... Oops..." Was all Lavo could say at this point, the blood not affecting her. "Yea... This is my bad... But Satan Claws gone this way." She knew only Satan claws would be the one with this.

"...Do we really want to go after him?" the cop said with slight worry.

"...He's going where Black Cat is going..." Lavo stands, looking to the cop. "The radio said the Lobby right?" She felt concern at that point. "That Black Cat is at the lobby?"

"We can't be sure she's there now, but yeah, she must've been there."

"Then we just have to believe she's there... As Satan Claws will be there." She then looks at Kyle. "I can... Somehow safely guide us down, this won't affect me... After all... It was my fault this part of the stairs is affected, as I was fighting him before hand..." Lavo blinks.

"Don't blame yourself for this, if anything, you've helped us. We can keep some sort of tab on this enemy now."

Lavo blinks a bit shocked, but she nods. "Understandable then, that is a logical way to look at it then..."

"We had better get going then," Kyle had told James. "The others should be able to take care of our fallen. We still have a priority."

Lavo nods. "Then let us go there."

"Right," they said as they headed to the stairwell, moving across the stairs carefully as not to touch the footprints.

Lavo carefully follow as well, looks around, sniffing.

The path of the steps point one way, but the smell points another.

Lavo's eyebrow twitched. "...?" She sniffs the air even more to figure out the smell as she follows.

The smell is familiar... the scent of Satan Claws. However, it doesn't add up with the footprints. The cops were too busy watching for Satan Claws via the footprints to realize what Lavo was doing.

"Are there... Two?" Lavo mutters, confuse by this.

Kyle turned around. "Two... who?"

"Satan Claws..." Lavo sniffs, her ears flicked. "It's odd, the foot prints are going the way we want, but there is a smell in the air going the other way... " She felt tense, knowing she couldn't go after Satan Claws in her state.

"So that's what we're calling him?" James replied. "Fits well with his christmas chaos. I'll send a team to go after the footprints."

Lavo looks to James. "Alright... But he isn't one you can easily take down, just so you know."

"We're not planning on fighting him. We know from experience that the Black Cat should deal with that matter. At best we're going to delay whatever he has planned."

Lavo nods quietly. "...Very well."

James stayed back temporarily, calling on forces Kyle continued going on ahead, having a very bad sense that something was about to happen as he opened the stairway door.

Lavo follows after Kyle, knowing on hand could react quicker than the other at the moment.

Entering the hallway, all seemed clear, but the lights were being shut down.

"I knew some shit was about to delay us," he said. "Stay in the light for as long as possible!"

Kyle ran down the hallway, attempting to stay in the flickering lights.

Lavo runs next to him, but she grab his wrist as to keep him from lagging behind just in case.

"We're possibly dealing with Black Light. He's nearly impossible to beat in the dark, so we need to get to a bright place now." Kyle took out his flashlight, aiming it erratically, as he didn't know where in the darkness Black Light would appear from.

Lavo nods. "Got it," her eyes glared a bit as she kept running with Kyle.

As she glared back, the flickering lights would give her a brief view of a creature in a black suit, then when the lights go off and back on, he's gone.

Lavo nods a bit. "I saw a glimpse alright."

"Damn, we're not gonna make it," he said as the lights started going out even faster. Suddenly, a bullet whizzed by, nearly grazing Lavo.

Lavo had suddenly pulled Kyle in a way to shield him as she felt the grazed, her good wing then goes to find a easy way to shield Kyle from possibly attacks, but she could only follow her other senses beside smell and eyes.

"What's wrong?" the shooter said. Then, sounding as if he was on the other side of the dark hallway, "Scared of the dark?" Suddenly, he appeared over the both of them in the darkness, attempting to smack his gun on Lavo's head.

Lavo grins though, her eyes light up a purple a bit as she moves her her face to where she looks up at the gun, before shifting herself to where it could hit her wounded shoulder already.

Missing the head, Black Light attempted to strike Lavo once more.

Lavo shifts even more, dodging as much as she could without endangering Kyle, her eyes glared as she watches with focus and attention.

Kyle, took the opportunity to  slide kick, surprising Black Light and hurting him hard in the ankle. He had teleported once more somewhere in the darkness, and Kyle drawed his pistol.

Lavo sniffs a bit, her ears flick as she glance around.

She would smell Black Light to the left, and here the reloading of a gun. Apparently, Black must be an amateur to only have one in the chamber.

Lavo whisper softly, enough for Kyle to hear. "To the left, he reloaded his gun... " She wasn't going to assume he was an amateur though, changing ammo could be a way too...

Kyle turned and shone his flashlight in that direction. Black, blinded by the light, began firing randomly in that direction.

Lavo use her wing to shield Kyle of the bullets before pulling her wing away for Kyle to shoot.

Kyle took aim and fired. It hit Black's shoulder blade, causing him to drop the gun as he yelled in pain. He fell back from losing his balance.

Lavo blinks, her ears flicked. She stares at Black. "...Is this normal?" She question Kyle.

"He's meta in the dark, but a mere Mobian in the light," Kyle stated as he approached Black with the flashlight aimed at him.

Lavo walks over, staring at him. "...Why would he want to be a criminal?" She questions, figuring that no one would really know.

"The average crappy reason. Using their powers to steal and things. However, he has never gone as far as to attempt kill someone, especially at a time like this..."

"... Because he might get killed by Satan Claws possibly..." Lavo blinks. "They fear Satan Claws... being used against them as they know they can't harm Satan Claws..." She thinks it over.

"He's the same guy who would fight Szorra in order to escape. How strong can this guy be in order to put fear into him? he said, looking at Lavo.

Lavo looks at Kyle. "Acid Lynx can't do anything to Satan Claws... You also saw my blood, the redish-purple liquid at the stairwell... It did nothing to him, no bolt nor bullet seem to affect him." Her eyes narrowed. "He is almost clean from any damage... if not completely..." Her eyes goes to the floor.

"... she'll be fine, the Black Cat has been though worse," he stated.

"..." Lavo close her eyes. "I really would like to believe that..." She glance to her wounded wing, though it was still slowly repairing itself.

Kyle notices her staring at her wing. "Is it getting better?"

"It is slowly repairing... It's completely new to me that it has been cleanly cut... But it isn't like it can't fix itself." Lavo blinks. "But, it is getting better."

"I hope it can get better-- shit!" Kyle said as he realized he had his flashlight pointing down instead of at Black Light, and he teleported away. Luckily, the light was still on the gun, so Black Light didn't take that.

Lavo sighs. "..." She looks around the area quickly.

By flashing his flash light in both directions, Black Light was shown to be nowhere that could be seen. "I'll warn the other cops about this," he said, "but we have to keep making progress." He began jogging down the hallway, moving his flashlight left and right.

Lavo follows right after him, her ears twitched as she just listens.

The light and Lavo's ears proved futile, meaning that the Black Light had escaped.

"He's not here." Lavo stated as she glance around, not looking for Black Light still time.

"Then we go to the priority plan... We find the prime suspect... and there is only one part of this facility which we haven't checked...  the food center."

Xavek (closed)

Xavek was now walking the mostly abandoned streets of Weybrook; frustrated at the moment.

Now would be the time where Xavek would see people outside, a large crowd in confusion and fear. There were cops out there protecting them, with several of them using their radios.

"Heh.. Pathetic meatbags.." He chuckled, watching their panic.

"Seriously, are you following me?" A familiar voice stated.

"..." Xavek looked around for the voice. "No, I'm not following anyone as far as I'm concerned."

He would see the same person from before, sitting on a branch of an oak tree. The same cat in the red suit, but with her helmet off, casually eating what appears to be a PB&J sandwich. She didn't bother putting on the helmet at all, just looking down from the tree.

"I had just came out of there, had to do my part of the job. Kill some cops, strip their uniform off, and turn it in." She said, taking another bite.

"I killed a polar bear with Cryokinesis.." He shrugged. "Helping fleshbags with their problems already leaves me with a sour taste.."

"...you have an extreme hate for life. Wanna tell me why?" Scarlet asked as she tossed the rest of her sandwich away in a trashcan on the other side of the block, not surprised that she made the shot.

"Aside from the obvious mechanical superiority to flesh?" Xavek replied with a hint of.. Sarcasm? It was hard to tell with his voice and facial expressions really.

Done with her food, Scarlet leapt off the tree with her helmet and a bottle of water, taking a swig. "I'll assume part of your hate is because of what I did to you."

"Oh please; I'm not that petty, sides; I shut off my pain receptors the moment I heard the beeping."

"I have a habit of keeping my tracks hidden, and getting rid of witnesses... I'm a girl that just gets her job done." She checks something on a device, then closes it and looks at the entrance of the building, seeing a cop apparently guarding the front. Odd...

"I think you'll find that killing me is far from easy."

"My equipment wasn't at its prime back there. Besides, I don't think I can kill a robot. Dismantle you at best."

"Even then." Xavek shrugged. "This mess is just irritating.."

Scarlet sighed, dusting off the front of her helmet before putting it back on. "I have work to do. If you still have any business offers... well I guess you can probably find me of all people." She began turning the safety off on her guns. 

Xavek shrugged. "I'll let you know if I do.. Repairs are going to be costly anyways."

Scarlet glanced at the robot, checking the spot where she had chopped at the legs. "If that was expensive damage, be glad my sword wasn't at its best.... another day, metalboy," she said as she dashed over to the Shelter, where Xavek had previously came from.

"... Wasn't referring to just the slicing of my legs." Xavek sighed, before continuing on his way.

'I can hear you,' said a small communication bug on her water bottle which she left.

Xavek shrugged, it was more than just his legs anyways; the internal components make up the bulk of his costs anyways.

"While you're here... check the inside of the water bottle."

Xavek shrugged, before calling up a drone to grab the water bottle and show him what's inside.

It revealed some kind of clear device, and if Xavek scans it, it will show that it's a data storage device.

Xavek blinked, he ran a thorough scan in order to see its contents.

It was actually a good chunk of the information that Xavek had wanted from the factory in the first place. Apparently, Scarlet had the deviced sense when it was being scanned, as before. 'Consider it your Christmas gift. The factory is mine, alright?'

"Keep the factory; I just wanted the data." Xavek said. "... Merry.. Christmas..?"

Ironically, her final statement before shutting off communications was "... I honestly hate Christmas."

"... Heh; so do I.. So do I." Xavek chuckled, finding her sentiment amusing.

After a few seconds, the communication bug sparked, and it was destroyed.

Xavek shrugged, now heading on his merry way.. His destination..? Well he doesn't really have one.

(does this mark the end of Xavek's part in this roleplay, or will he have another part in the next chapter?)

(I'unno really, I mean he got what he came for.)

(Hrmm... I guess in the sequel roleplay, he may come back, maybe needing something else here or something? Idk, I don't know Xavek that well to assume.)

Moros and Szorra (closed)

Moros looked at Szorra. '?'

Szorra glanced in his direction as she continued walking in the food center. "What?" she asked as she notice Moros returning the glance.

"I'unno.. You seem kinda shaken.. I think."

Keen eyes, she thought. Szorra was shaken, but not just because of the death of Hailstorm, but because of the fact that she has no true idea who she's dealing with. "I'm.. fine," she said, looking away from Moros as she opened a kitchen door. The aroma of noodles filled the room, but no sign of anyone at first glance.

"Place is empty.."

Going through her scanners showed it was empty. "I guess so... noodle kitchen, check. Next is the bakery."

Moros perked up at the word 'Bakery'.

Why am I not surprised, Szorra thought as she headed out of the door and into the next door bakery.

Moros followed her happily, his mind on cinnabuns once more.

The first thing Szorra did was scan the room for any sign of life, able to ignore the aroma of the bakery due to her helmet.

Moros wasn't so lucky; but he was extremely patient so there was an offset at least.

"Nothing here either," Szorra said. "I'm going to try something. During that time... I guess you can give yourself something to eat." She then proceeded to hacking the cameras of the building, giving her multiple views to easily find people.

Moros was already grabbing some cinnabuns to eat. '.3.'

"...Is that an addiction problem you have?" She asked as she looked back at her monitor.

"When you've been locked away in an empty expanse for countless centuries, even millenia; then you can call my love for the sweet taste of cinnabuns an addiction.. qwq"

....Are you a god? she thought in her head as she stared at him. Moros probably wouldn't see the confusion on her 

Basically like this. Yeah, I just did that.

face due to her mask. When Szorra returns her attention, she sees someone in a red and black suit moving down a hallway at speeds unnaturally fast.

Moros blinked. 'The fuck..?'

"Someone's moving fast, and they're coming here," Szorra stated. She very quickly and very stealthily ran to the door, then glanced over to see if there was anyone nearby. Seeing no one, she turned to Moros and gave him a nod that signaled follow me.

Moros nodded, sticking close to Szorra.

Her scanners showed nothing, and her amplifiers revealed no sound. She assumed it was safe, and grappled up on top of a large wall. She then shot the hook near Moros for him to grab.

Moros grabbed the hook, finding this puppet shit rather spooky. 'q-q'

"Relax... actually, I take that back. Hold tight," she said as she retracted the hook.

'Wha-EHHHHHHHHHHH!?!' He thought, holding on tight.

Using her hand, she gently stopped the motion of Moros so he wouldn't go flying over the wall. "You alright?" she said.

Moros gave a thumbs up. "Y-yeah."

She scanned the environment, getting no signs of anything. "Any ways you can help?" she asked, glancing back and forth in very slight nervousness.

"What do you need me to do..?" He asked.

"Can you block the entrance? I want to make sure no one has to get hurt in the process..."

"Sure.." Moros shrugged, opening two rifts; one located in the entrance and another located two blocks away.

"...What did you do?" she asked.

"I just created and linked together two rifts, one placed at the entrance and the other placed around two blocks away from this place." Moros answered.

"...huh," she said out loud before returning to the camera device in order to search for Satan Claws. She ended up finding him... or, he wanted her to find him, as he stood directly in front of one of the cameras, waving a hello before stabbing the camera, cutting the video connection.

"He's toying with us," she thought.

"Ehhh.. What's with the creepy santa fetishist..?"

"I have no idea. Hell, I don't even know his motives. You?"

"Not at all qwq"

Hrmm, Szorra thought, I guess we'll have to find him before he finds up. She swiftly crouch walked on the wall, checking her scanners for anything as she moved, and finding nothing.

Moros placed a hand on Szorra's shoulder, essentially creating a protective barrier that wasn't exactly visible around the two of them. 'oUo'

First sensing the hand, she tensed, almost raising her arm all the way to elbow him. "...Sorry," was all she could say.

Moros blinked, tilting his head as if he didn't know what she was apologizing for; then again he probably didn't.

Just then, a bullet had narrowly missed the both of them. When turning around to look at the bullet, it had cleanly passed the titanium wall up to three inches, then after a moment, it exploded.

'?' Moros blinked, just focusing on the barrier in order to keep it strong so they don't get caught up in things like that explosion.

Chapter 7: Secrets Revealed

Eve, Maria, and Cassandra

Eve smiles. "My father got the news out there!" She gasped happily.

After a moment, there wasn't just one plane in the sky. A dozen more of these small planes came into view. The planes could shift their engines so they coulld hover over areas to land and collect refugees. Currently, only one plane was able to find a close spot to land.

Eve smiles brightly, looking to Maria and Cassandra.

There was relief in the eyes of Cassandra, but Maria wasn't so happy. After finally finding her mother only for her to leave her, she didn't seemed to impressed by the planes.

Eve gently picks up Maria into her arms.

Maria reluctantly allowed Eve to pick her up. The first plane had opened the door, calling for refugees.

Eve looks to Maria. "... Do you want to wait a bit...?" Eve asked Maria as she waits quietly.

She looked up, nodding yes, then looking at something in another direction.

Eve also looks in that direction as she gently hold Maria. "Then we can wait..."

She was looking at a eagle approaching her, wearing TECH uniform. "Princess?" he said in a demanding tone.

Eve looks to the Eagle. "Mm?" she smiles sweetly. "Yes?"

"I have came to you as a request from one of our fellow TECH members. He wishes to talk to you," he said as he pulled out some type of phone. This phone seemed a decade ahead of its time.

Eve smiles, nodding as she takes the phone."Very well, I'll speak with him."

The phone autodialed, and connected. 'Eve, are you there?' The sound of the voice was very raspy, but it was Michael's voice.

"I'm Here" Eve responsed, smiling as she was happy to hear Michael.

'...nice hearing you again. There's something important about the whole city situation.'

Eve blinks. "Mm? What is it then?"

'Do you know who the Black Cat is?' he asked.

"Um... I think I met her in person, but I don't really know who she is." Eve answers.

"She's a vigilante of this city... and she's indirectly the reason all of this started."

"What to you mean?" Eve asked, confuse.

"...Look, a little over a year ago, the Black Cat was part of a duo, but one went missing. I've been tracking how Satan Claws has been attacking. He's killed some people, but he had many chances to kill a ton more, contradicting what his message said. The same goes with the cops. I'll elaborate later, I'm running out of time, but long story short... I think the Black Cat's partner is Satan Claws."

Eve blinks, but she nods. "Very well, I can understand that when you say it that way."

"That's not it. He was her partner. He knows everything she will throw at him she has no chance!"

"Oh dear..." Eve frowns. "But I can't really do anything, and I haven't seen Lavo come out at all."

"...Dammit, I was too late," he said with the sound of remorse.

Eve seem worry. "Ma-Maybe Lavo found Black Cat or something... Lavo seem to have a thing for heading to where the source of trouble is... Though, I doubt she even knows that..."

"No... it's okay," he attempted to say in a reassuring tone. "I'll find a way to get in contact with Lavo... I think..."

Eve nods. "Do try Michael." She smiles.

"...how's Maria?"

"Safe, she is here with me." Eve smiles as she looks to Maria.

Maria now seemed to be in another zone, gazing out at nothing, possibly thinking to herself.

"...Still haven't found her father?" he asked.

"He happen to be on one of the planes that left; or so I was told..." Eve sighs. "Her mother is alive, but gone off..."

"..Wait, I thought she was dead?"

"I thought so as well, but she seem to have been helped and surived." Eve smiles.

"...so she left her child?"

"With me and her Aunt..." Eve frowns.

"What kind of mother would do... nevermind," he said glumly. "Okay, unless you're waiting for something, I'd suggest getting out of there."

"Maria wants to wait for her mother... So, I'm going to wait with Maria." Eve smiles.

"Okay then. Stay safe, Eve. I can't imagine what I would do to find out that something bad happened to you or Maria."

Eve smiles. "No worries Michael, me and Maria will both stay safe."

"I hope you--" Michael's voice was cut off, followed by a painful grunt from Michael.

"Michael! Michael, you need to rest." Eve sounded worried now.

The sound was unclear, but it sound like Michael was angry, then a voice of someone else, followed by a scream from Michael before it cut off.

Eve gasped. "Michael!?" She frowns.

There was no response. The call was ended.

Eve frown as she looks at the phone. "..."

The fox who gave Eve the phone looked at Eve, taking the phone back. With a smirk on his face, he turned... then Eve probably or probably won't remember that he looked very similar to the white fox from the taxicab.

"..!? You..." Eve spoke up, looking at the Fox.

Without a shot behind his back, he walked back into the plane. Then he turned around. "How could you... you've left that poor fox to be kidnapped..." and then the plane door closed, flying away. Nearby police officers were trying uselessly to wave the plane down, thinking that the plane forgot some passengers.

Eve tenses, holding Maria as she watches the plane. "...No..."

"What happened?" Said Cassandra, running to Eve. "Why is that plane leaving?"

"Michael has been kidnapped, I don't think that plane is here to pick us up for safety..." Eve stares at the plane.

"Oh my god," she said, looking up at the plane. She could only look as that plane took off, accelerating rather quickly.

"We can't trust the Shelter safety, we can't trust the cops, we can't trust the evacuation... we're sitting ducks here!" Cassandra said, slowly panicking.

"...There is someone we can trust... My father." Her eyes glance before she pulls out her phone and calls her father. "Ramiro Laha..."

Suddenly, Maria took off. "Run!" she yelled. "there's a rocket coming!" However, there was no missile in sight.

However, Eve wasn't going to doubt Maria at this point. "MOVE!" She shouts as she follows after Maria.

Cassandra hesitated in confusion, but went ahead. This confusion also caught the attention of neary people, who began moving as well.

It was now that people could start to see the incoming missile.

Eve keeps moving as she follows Maria.

The missile hits the ground literally four seconds after being seen by everyone,meaning the extra time Maria gave everyone was enough to make them escape the blast radius.

Eve exhales a sigh as she goes to Maira, she smiles.

Maria looks in terror clinging on to Eve very tightly.

Cassandra looked over to Maria. "I've never known you could do that," she said. She then looked at Eve. "Have you known this?"

Eve hugs Maria. "...Maria saved me before, though I didn't know she could tell a thing like a Missile."

"Maria is special, but she doesn't know what is normal and what isn't yet. Every time we think we've known her, another power appears..." Cassandra looks at the aftermath of the missile. Thankfully, only two people were injured, and they were minor injuries.

During this, cops began telling people to stay near the entrance of the shelter.

Eve hugs Maria some more as she moves a bit closer to the shelter now, she nods to Cassandra.

Cassandra sees this motion, and follows Eve. Just then, two other planes came by, this time with the actual TECH symbol marked over them.

Eve looks over. "...Those airplanes should be safe, they have the TECH Symbol..." Eve then remember of Michael and that he was kidnapped.

"We should head there, right? Or are we still going to wait for Lavo?"

"I said I'll wait with Maria for her mother... So, you can wait here or leave." Eve smiles as she then looks at Maria.

Cassandra looked at Maria, then back to Eve. "I'll stay. In case things go bad, she'll need a way to get to her father." Cassandra then looked over at people hurrying to get inside the plane, obviously wavering her decision.

Eve smiles at Maria. "If that is what you want to do."

"Yes," she said, looking down at Maria. "It's what I need to do."

Maria looked at them both, now showing more fear in her eyes than before, though her face remained as blank as usual.

Eve pets Maria's head, smiling a bit.

The first two planes left, two more were coming in the distance. Time continued to tick.

Eve just waits quietly.

Michael

Michael was at the TECH infirmary, safe from harm. He was wired next to a computer that activated by  voice, to allow him to ask for assistance if necessary. Him being the son of one of TECH's leaders, however, Michael knew an access code to make the computer do more than that.

"102516" He said with an incredibly raspy voice, and this was followed by the computer opening to a wide ranged network.

He coughed, then began looking at images that started the Satan Claws incident. He started putting information together. He found out that the hanged man on the Christmas tree was a wanted criminal. The One hour departure was actually an hour and four minutes: just enough time for the last airplane to leave.

Either this is luck, or Satan Claws actually wanted this... maybe he's not the badguy we think he is, Michael thought. He continued tracking evidence, putting pieces together. In the very end, however, the entire police incident doesn't add up to the story. 

Michael continued tracking data.

The cop killing was by ozone. Wonder how that information got out, he thought as he continued looking through. He began linking the information to the special chemical gas grenade of Scarlet, an assassin that has yet to be put behind bars by the Black Cat. According to WIPD secluded documents, Scarlet's grenade is capable of temporarily adding an extra oxygen molecule to oxygen gas molecules, which in turn temporarily made them become ozone for a moment, easily suffocating a room of victims for up to seventy seconds on average.

This wasn't even Claw's doing. Or did he hire her? Compared to the other information, that doesn't make sense. Let's see where I can go with this information if he didn't hire her, he thought as he continued scavenging through the information.

After tracking progress, he began searching from a different point of view: What would the Black Cat do? For the initial hanging, the Black Cat would be there to investigate the crime, possibly giving the enemy enough time to set the airport bombs. Once that was done, everyone was herded into the shelter, where the police would strike, and possibly lure the Black Cat there.

This information doesn't add up...why would Satan Claws do all of this just to get at a vigilante? I'm missing something. Michael continued looking at the information, then decided to revert to the pasat of the Black Cat, looking at enemies capable of doing this. So far, only two were capable, but one is dead, and the other was almost never able to be brought to justice by the Black Cat anyways.

Then Michael had the realization that having a hate for someone close to you would be a powerful hate, and research shows that the Black Cat was part of a vigilante duo, with someone called Smoke. Smoke has mysteriously disappeared over the past year. Michael began applying that information to what he knows.

Okay... Satan Claws has killed a man to send a message, but the victim was evil nonetheless. And now looking at their record, most of the cops killed at the airport and the Shelter weren't necessarily lawful cops. Satan Claws had people killed, but the amount of innocent deaths was far less than expected... He's not intending to kill innocents, he just wants bait for the Black Cat...and if he really is Smoke, then he knows how his partner thinks.

Instantly, Michael looked over for the nearest phone. He saw one, and activated a voice protocol to call a fellow TECH member.

"You're on your way to Weybrook, is that right... okay, when you get there, you will run into Princess Laha. I need you to allow me to speak to her... thank you."

Michael coughed, and waited for a response.

Eventually, he was called again by the same number."I have her in sights, Mr. Kendrall, I'm giving her the phone now."

"Okay," he weakly said. He glanced at the time. Ten minutes until surgical procedures begins. I have time.

Michael could hear the shuffling of the hone, knowing that Eve has to have picked it up by now.

"Eve, are you there?" The sound of his voice was very raspy now.

'I'm Here' Eve responsed.

Thank goodness, you're alive, Michael thought, relieved. "nice hearing you again." Stay on track, Michael. "There's something important about the whole city situation."

'Mm? What is it then?'

"Do you know who the Black Cat is?" he asked.

'Um... I think I met her in person, but I don't really know who she is.' Eve answers.

In person? I'm jealous.. "She's a vigilante of this city... and she's indirectly the reason all of this started."

'What to you mean?' Eve asked.

Michael took all of this in, making sure not to speak faster than his mind. "Look, a little over a year ago, the Black Cat was part of a duo, but one went missing. I've been tracking how Satan Claws has been attacking. He's killed some people, but he had many chances to kill a ton more, contradicting what his message said. The same goes with the cops. I'll elaborate later, I'm running out of time, but long story short... I think the Black Cat's partner is Satan Claws."

'Very well, I can understand that when you say it that way.'

"That's not it. He was her partner. He knows everything she will throw at him she has no chance!"

"Oh dear... but I can't really do anything, and I haven't seen Lavo come out at all."

"...Dammit, I was too late," he said, feeling guilty about not getting and giving the information in time. If he gets to the Black Cat and kills her, the whole city could be in danger.

Eve responded again. "Ma-Maybe Lavo found Black Cat or something... Lavo seem to have a thing for heading to where the source of trouble is... Though, I doubt she even knows that..."

"No... it's okay," he attempted to say in a reassuring tone. "I'll find a way to get in contact with Lavo... I think..." Maybe I could hack the cameras and get inside to find Lavo for myself.

'Do try Michael.' Eve said.

Good. Eve's alright, Satan Claws isn't at large at the moment, and even if he is, Lavo will be there to assist the Black Cat, so Claws will be dealing with new tactics... unless Lavo is already dead... no, don't think like that, she could be alive. If she can defeat that Lynx, then she can survive. Hopefully Eve and...

"How's Maria?" he said with slight worry.

'Safe, she is here with me.'

Still with Eve by now? "Still haven't found her father?" he asked.

'He happen to be on one of the planes that left; or so I was told...' Eve sighs. 'Her mother is alive, but gone off...'

Her mother is alive?! What have I missed when I left?!

"..Wait, I thought she was dead?" he asked.

'I thought so as well, but she seem to have been helped and survived.'

Her father has ditched his family on a plane, and his mother isn't there either? "So she left her child?"

;With me and her Aunt...' Eve says sadly.

"What kind of mother would do... nevermind," he said glumly, remembering his mother. "Okay, unless you're waiting for something, I'd suggest getting out of there."

'Maria wants to wait for her mother... So, I'm going to wait with Maria.'

"Okay then. Stay safe, Eve. I can't imagine what I would do to find out that something bad happened to you or Maria."

'No worries Michael, me and Maria will both stay safe.'

"I hope you--" Michael's stomach was pierced by a pin from a chameleon, who appeared out of nowhere.

'Michael! Michael, you need to rest.' Eve sounded worried now.

"Yes Michael, you need to rest. Allow us to take you in."

Michael grunted and withered in pain. "Who the hell are you?!"

"Don't worry about that Michael... soon you'll be one of us too," the chameleon said with a smile on his face.

"Go to hell," Michael said with a glare.

In anger, the enemy pierced Michael even more, and he started screaming.

Eve gasped. 'Michael!?'

The chameleon pulled out a gun and shot three bullets at the phone. "I see you talking to a love bird on the other side of the phone. Let's make this simple. I got a man there waiting to blow up the refugees, and who knows if she's one of them or not. Now tell me how to access the archives of TECH," he demanded. "You don't have long, and I'm not repeating myself."

Michael squirmed, but remained silent other than the few coughs of blood. Eventually after, a pressure point on his neck was hit to knock him out.

"I'll personally bring you with me, and force you to tell me in... other ways." The chameleon said with a smirk, using his enhanced clothing to camouflage as a nurse as he rushed Michael out of the room to who knows where.

Lavo and Kyle

Lavo nods as she then heads for the food center with Kyle.

When they reach the main lobby, the smell of blood hits them. The cop stops to look down at a polar bear with his heart missing.

Lavo stares quietly. "... Well then..."

Kyle crouches over as he examines him. "The wound is cauterized, this was a laser, probably. His skin is still vibrant, so his death wasn't too long ago... we may need to tread carefully as we go ahead."

Lavo nods, sniffing the air to see if she could pick anything up beside the smell of blood.

The smell of Claws led to the food center, though without any acid trail. The smell of Eve and Maria led outside.

Lavo blinks. "... Satan Claws smell like his at the food center... With no trail, while it seems some people gotten out of the shelter..."

"So there's seemingly two Satan Claws, and a few people were able to escape... I don't even care anymore, I'm ready for this nightshift to be over," he said as he cautiously proceeded down the food center hallway.

Lavo sighs quietly before following him, her ears perked up slightly.

As they reached the door, he carefully moved to the side, opening it just a crack and peeping, before opening it fully. There was a rift in the floor ahead of them. Who knows what would happen if they walked on it.

"What in the hell is that?"

Lavo's working wing shiver a bit, she stares quietly. "...I think... Maybe it would be best you go out." She looks to Kyle.

"Are... I..." eventually, Kyle conceded, knowing that he's no match for Satan Claws anyways. "Stay safe," he eventually said.

Lavo looks to Kyle, she nods. "I'll try..." She looks to the rift, walking to it as she glance to her still repairing wing. "..." She looks to the rift once more, she had to plan, and focus...

The rift just swirled in place, it was impossible to know where she would end up just by looking into it as it just showed swirling darkness.

"Well... Here goes nothing." Lavo muttered, before she goes to walk into the rift.

She ended up exiting out of another rift two blocks away from the location of the first rift.

Lavo glances around, her ears perked to listening as she blinks.

She actually end up where Satan Claws was, and she was behind him. She may notice him fire a bullet from some kind of customized sniper.

Lavo glares a bit, skimming Satan Claws' back, her hand lower as she uses what corruption energy she could use to form a dirk made of corruption. "..."

Satan Claws seemed content on shooting the Black Cat, or if he wasn't, he was just being oblivious to Lavo's presence. 

Lavo shift her stance for a sprint charge with her dirk moved to try and aim for a weak point, if any. She was really just guessing, before she charges at Satan Claws' back to strike the corruption made Dirk.

Suddenly, Claws swiftly turned around and maneuvered his rifle to block the dirk. The rifle is durable enough to take a few gunshots before being damaged.

Lavo's dirk press against the rifle before leap away from claws, going back into a stance that would aid her with quick movement, without the aid of her wings. "Still quick..."

"Still not stealthy," he said as he pointed to a puddle on the ground. One could assume that he saw the reflection of Lavo. "I honestly let you go before because I wasn't hunting you down, but if you really want to die so much..." he said as he cracked his neck beneath his dense armor.

Claws then took notice of Lavo's wings, letting out a small chuckle as he cracked his knuckles.

"I'll die in place of any other person." She didn't seem to mind that she wasn't sneaky as her wings then shrink, so they weren't hit-able targets. "Then I'll fight with just this weapon." She holds the corruption Dirk.

Claws looked at the tiny weapon and smirked. His "Claws" retracted. It seems that he didn't think of Lavo as a true threat to protract his claws. "You don't fear death, and you'll die for others... that brings back memories..."

"... Memories huh?... I've been searching for a place of acceptations..." Lavo mutters, glaring at Claws. "Innocent lives have been killed and harmed, and I can't stand to the side and pretend nothing is--"

"I've think we've had enough talking, don't you think?" He interjected, getting into a boxing position.

"...Hmph..." She readies her corrupt Dirk, staring at Claws. "..."

Claws didn't hesistate as he bolted towards Lavo.

Lavo goes to just shift her footing, to keep her balance as she goes to block his strike with her dirk.

Claws outstretched his hand, planning on grabbing the wrist of Lavo that was holding the dirk.

She shift her wrist for him to barely hit as she then moves around, but this did leave her a bit open.

Claws did not waste this opening, and attempted a hard kick.

Lavo tenses, getting kicked hard. "Ugh..."

"Don't quit now, I need a warmup!" Claws taunted.

Lavo stands up, getting back into fighting stance as she glares at Claws. "I'm not quitting..."

"Yes... die with honor," he taunted before throwing a punch in her direction.

Lavo jump to the right side, going for a strike with her dirk to his side.

Once again, the was an unnatural speed burst from Claws as he dodged the attack and prepared a knee attack.

Lavo leaps backwards a bit to dodge the knee attack, re-positioning her dirk to a protective hold.

To get some space, Claws quickly backed up. This would be the part where Lavo realizes that Claws isn't fast period, but supernaturally, as he casually backed up five feet within half a second, two after images being seen.

Lavo blinks, but she smirks. "Supernatural speed, even though you backed up five feet in half a second, two after images appeared." She chuckles a bit.

"So I got a bit careless, it doesn't matter. You're going to die anyways, it's just me and yo--"Satan Claws suddenly remembered something and he quickly turned around. 

"But it isn't just us two." Lavo shift her dirk in a thrusting position as she sees him quickly turned around.

And Claws did know of that, as that was what he was searching for. To evade Lavo, he tumble rolled out of the way before protracting his claws. "NO MORE GAMES WITH YOU!" he yelled.

"I'm not playing any games." Lavo glares, her corruptive blade shines a bit. "Hmph..."

Unnaturally, Claws darted to one side, then he leaped into the air, planning on slashing Lavo's skull wide open.

Lavo smirks a bit, leaping to her left and goes for a thrust at Claws from his side.

At the same time, Claws used one of his hands to attempt to counter the blow with his claws.

The attack block, given Lavo time to leap backwards and starts moving around him.

Satan Claws did the after image effect again, moving side by side so he appears as three people rather than one. Either one could be the real Claws. The left, right, or middle.

Lavo's working wing grown before slamming her wing down onto the ground to cause the corruption droplets to fly at all three; or it was an attempt since it was only one wing.

The droplets landed on the left one, Claws rolling again to attempt to get it off him.

Lavo made her wings shrink once more as she then calmly follows him. "...I do wonder why all of this happen, Claws... because honestly, too much of it doesn't seem to piece together..."

"There's no need for you to know. You're going to die anyways, and as far as I see it, you're lowering the time I have."

He began to grab his rifle. 

Lavo uses her somewhat now healed arm to whip out her crossbow, the dirk place in her mouth as she loads it and aims at him going for his rifle; There was a silver tip bolt in the crossbow as she then fires at Claws' hand.

Claws dodged the shot, and to his surprise, he also dodged another attack from another opponent. Their attack was some kind of dark void strike, similar to the magic from the portal earlier. He glanced in the direction of the strike, then activated his communications.

"Bring in the hidden reinforcements," he said before attempting to make a run for it.

Lavo narrowed her eyes, dropping her crossbow as she takes her corruption dirk out of her mouth as she looks around.

In the distance, she could see a group of people in black suits, all holding katanas.

Lavo turns to look at the enforcements that are moving. "Mmm..."

The first one was a second from cutting her head open as he leaped from the top of a catwalk.

Lavo moves out of the way as she then looks to the person, aimming her dirk before she goes to thrust it.

He dodges it, getting behind to slice her from behind. Thankfully, unlike Claw's blades, the katanas were the classic jewel steel blades.

Lavo turn to him as he dodged, her dirk shifts as she blocks the attack.

He uses the block to gain some distance, then was about to charge in again if a sudden shadow did not slam onto him.

Lavo seem shock, seeing him get slam into. "!?"

With the creature not moving as fast as before, one could have a clear look at the military grade armor and equipment. The suit was dark in color, the Helmet itself being an incredible black. The tail at the end of the creature was that of a cat's tail.

"Mmm... Nice choice of color, I do say." Lavo blinks before looking around, her dirk ready.

"And you are?" She replied, taking out some shurikens, looking at Lavo's blindspot.

Lavo's wings grow slightly, her wounded wing halfway repaired. "Just a random person fighting to protect innocent lives really. Lavo is the name." She smirks a tiny bit.

As Szorra went through multiple forms of vision in case there were invisible enemies, she noted the wings of Lavo, but decided to keep her mouth shut.

She looked up and appeared to wave someone over.

(I'm pretty much waiting on Saren to be active before I combine these parts)

Moros and Szorra

"We need to get out of his sight," Szorra said as she grabbed the ledge with one hand and Moros with another, planning on landing on the other side of the wall.

Moros blinked. "Y-yeah.."

He was light, so there was nothing from him that may prevent Szorra's successful landing on the other side of the wall.

"Can you get us closer to him, but not too close?" She asked.

"Give me a view of the surrounding area and I'll see what I can do.." Moros said.

Szorra grappled up to a catwalk above, holding Moros by his waist as she was pulled 20 feet in the air. Now they could see Claws.. fighting someone else.

Moros nodded, making another two interconnected portals, this time leading from their current location to a small rooftop above the two combatants.

Szorra grappled into the portal, pulling both of them to the nearby battle.

Once there, Szorra took out her HEX-D Pod to scan the armor of Satan Claws, looking for a weak spot.

Moros waited for the results from the HEX-D Pod, sure he could just bypass Satan claws' armor through the use of void magic but he was running low on mana again.

"This makes no sense. The armor has almost no points of contact to attack. Almost like Smoke, but he's..." Szorra put the pod down, actually looking at the fight. Realizing the attack style of Claws and putting this information together, along with the rest of circumstances that happened overnight.

"...Unless he's Satan Claws." Szorra finally stated out loud, awestruck that her supposedly dead partner was still alive.

"Eh..?"

Szorra needed time to take this in. "Moros, there's weak points right under his knees. That's the best chance."

Moros shrugged, gathering void magic in his pointer finger before pointing it at the back of Satan Claws' left kneecap and firing.

As Claws was in the middle of dodging an arrow from the wolf, it allowed him to dodge this attack as well. He looked up to Moros for a fraction of a second before determining what was going on.

He apparenlty activated his communications by what he said next. "Bring in the hidden reinforcements." Satan Claws then attempted to make a run for it.

Moros closed the rifts. "Bloody hell.."

As Claws turned a corner, Szorra fired her grappling gauntlet at his shoulder, but it seemed to slip off. To all sides out of nowhere,were a group of black suited people, their equipment looking as if they were ninjas or mercenaries.

Moros blinked, taking a few deep breaths to steady himself and gather up mana.

Szorra looked back, seeing Moro's stance and concluded that he is either calming himself down or charging his energy like another meta has done. Either way, she decided to protect the wolf that was being ambushed, and jumped down on one of the ninjas.

After a small talk to her, Szorra waved Moros over.

Moros blinked, moving over to Szorra. "Huh?"

The second wave was more clear to tell Moros to come down.

Moros did so. "....?" He tilted his head in confusion.

Moros, Lavo, and Szorra

Lavo looks to Szorra and Moros quietly. "..."

"The priority was to search for civilians in this last area before leavin," stated the Black Cat, "but seeing as the area is flooded with this mob, and my scanners pick up no other form of life, I say that there aren't any survivors left. We should leave while we can."

Moros nodded, glancing back at Lavo. '..?'

Lavo blinks, before she looks to Moros; she couldn't help feeling like Moros reminded her of someone... She might as reached her hand to Moros, but stops and looked away before anything was even going to happen. Silences was her only response.

Assuming everyone agreed, Szorra turned around and grabbed a throwing knife aimed for the back of her head. "Showtime, she said as she dropped the knife, heading for the enemy who threw the knife. Three mercenaries went after Moros, another one attempting to sneak up behind Lavo. 

Moros blinked, before an oddly blood thirsty sneer crossed his face as he conjured a few floating ephemereal blades before launching them at the mercenaries going after him.

Lavo's wings open wide, slamming into the one attempting to sneak up; she then turns to the one who try to sneak up on her. "..."

Two of the mercenaries were able to successfully dodge the ephemereal blades, one unluckily getting hit in the shoulder and pinned to a wall.

The one stunned by Lavo had dropped his sword, unaware of the wings.

Szorra took sight of this as she downed another enemy, and she threw two minor explosives at the mercenaries on the ground in order to knock them out. She turned around to find out that a bomb was being placed at the exit.

"Guys, we need to move now, or risk getting blown to bits!" She yelled as she dealt with more incoming mercenaries. Unaware of it, a sniper was aiming a bullet at the back of the Black Cat's head.

Moros nodded.

Lavo grind her teeth a bit, going to go grab Black cat and Moros, her wings spread out, though one of them was slightly more healed... She was going to try and fly this while grabbing the two.

Noticing the grab from behind, the Cat looked back and saw the sniper, and she used her HEX-D pod to blow up the gun in his hands. To assist Lavo into moving faster, she launched a grappling hook to the exit.

Luckily for Lavo; Moros was quite easy to pick up and move around. "...?"

Lavo leaps forward towards the exit as she try to fly with Black cat and Moros.

Many of the mercenaries began drawing out guns and sharp throwable items, such as shurikens, throwing knives, etc. The Black Cat was able to take out all of the mercenaries with guns, but more than a dozen more mercs were able to use their throwing items.

Lavo winced since she had already leap to make a flying attempt for the exit while holding Black Cat and Moros, so the throwing items that could hit, her back was mainly open

Moros' eyes gave off a slight glow. 'Erase..' He thought, as the mercs with throwing items might notice something odd happening to them.

(what is this something?)

(not really sure hiw to word it without it sounding like an auto hit, but essentially its him using a lot of void magic to erase the still standing mercs.)

(gotcha)

The mercenaries would begin being erase due to not being able to counteract this energy.

The Black Cat took note of this as the three neared the exit. "Put them unconscious at best, Moros, we'll let the law decide who lives and who dies." 

Lavo didn't stop moving, and she was still silent.

Moros sighed, cancelling the strange magic halfway through; essentially leaving them without their legs like one of those birth defects.

When they reach the exit, they find it walled in, as if it had collapsed. Since Szorra had enhanced senses and her company were foxes, they all would be able to hear the faint sound of beeping coming from multiple directions.

Lavo growls a bit, keeping the two held in her arms. "Damn it..."

"Not good..?" Moros asked.

The Black Cat looked around in different areas, scanning the environment. Eventually, she spoke. "Explosives. And a shit ton of them. The suspect walled in everyone here just to get to me."

"Huh... Got any ideas.. Uhhhh, lady with the blood wings?"

Lavo lets go of her and Moros, going walking over, she draws out her dirk, pressing it on her palm of her other hand. "... Mm..." As she cuts her hand, she goes to press her bleeding hand to the debris in front of them, just to see if it would be eaten away. "..."

It seems to work, but like the door from earlier, the material takes time to dissolve. In the meanwhile, the remaining mercenaries began surrounding the three.

".... I'll need time to do this." She pulls up the sleeve of her jacket as she starts trying to put her blood everywhere on the debris. She growls a bit.

"Right," The Black Cat replies, gurading the right side of Lavo, figuring out a quick way to take them out.

Moros took the left, and his way.. Well it was probably going to consist of odd magics or the spamming of disposable ephemeral constructs in the shape of a blade.

Then a shocking thing happened. All electrical equipment on the enemies began igniting and burning. hey all dropped their gear, desperately getting out of it and most of them rolling on the ground as they all screamed from the pain.

"What the hell..." was all the Black Cat could say.

"If it buys time, then I don't care..." Lavo growls a bit as she just press her bleeding hand against the debris somemore. "..."

Moros blinked. '.3.?'

During the confusion  with the mercenaries, the sound of beeping stopped as well. When the Black Cat used her different visions once again, she saw all of the bombs with one wire fried to the point where it split in two, preventing the detonation.

"The bombs are disabled..." she said as she turned around and her thermal vision. It showed an mature aged chipmunk in a wheelchair. She carefully rolled around the downed mercenaries before reaching the trio.

"So," the chipmunk said. "You're welcome."

Lavo paused, putting her hand down as she turn to look at the chipmunk. "You are..." Lavo blinks, a bit shocked at the sight of her honestly. "..."

"Considering one here is the vigilante, and the other is a male, I'm guessing you are Lavo?" she asked.

Lavo had her bleeding hand grip tightly, as if to slow it down. She nods. "Yes... I am Lavo Price... "

"I was told to find you... well, not exactly, but nonetheless. And lucky I did, this place was rigged to blow. You're friends with a princess then?"

"I guess... You can say me and Eve are friends... I consider it more like... Allies, then friends. But, yes." Lavo nods a bit.

"I can't help but find you familiar.. Have we met before..?" Moros asked Lavo.

"... No, I don't believe we have met before..." Lavo looked to Moros, blinking as one of her ears twitched, she then looks back at the Chipmunk.

The vigilante was eyeing the wall, scanning for a weak point while they were all talking. She then spoke up. "One way or the other, we need to focus on getting out. Lavo, we need to to create a hole here, then we all have to back away," she said, pointing to a spot on the wall.  

Lavo looks over. "... Very well..." She open her still bleeding palm, walking over and putting her hand on that very spot on the wall.

The chipmunk rolled back a bit, expecting something big to happen. The Black Cat was slightly closer, but still backed up a bit.

Lavo backs away once enough of her corruption blood was place on the spot pointed at, she grumbles about how she had no bandages left. "..."

Moros blinked, before reaching to grab Lavo's bleeding palm so he could 'reverse' the cut.

Meanwhile, the Black Cat pulled out three shurikens, all three colored a dark red. She threw them one by one in less than a second as they exploded in that area, and the debris crumbled and collapsed, leaving a wide enough hole in the wall to escape. She glanced behind her at the others before crawling up and out of the debris.

As Lavo's wound healed, she used her other hand to grip her head a bit. "...ugh..." She mutters a bit, feeling a bit from what she has done honestly... She hate to have to make another trip to the hospital.

Moros followed after Szorra, making sure to help Lavo if she needed it.

Lavo accepted the help Morros was giving, she needed it with how dizzy she was geting while walking. "... I'll have... To lay off the whole... blood thing... " She mutters under her breathe as she walks along side of Moros after Szorra.

Szorra finished clearing out the extra rubble, then proceeded to picking up the chipmunk, as her wheelchair wouldn't help her climb the debris. She would return for the wheelchair later.

The four ended up escaping the Shelter with no trouble. There, they would meet the remaining refugees, all waiting for the last plane to land.

Chapter 8: Epilogue

All Protagonists

The first thing Maria noticed as she looked back to the entrance was her mother.

"Mommy!" she yelled, running to her.

Eve smiles, walking over to them. "Lavo!" She waves, then watches Maria and her mother.

Lavo just weakly wave, a bit surprise that Eve was happy to see her. "...Hello..."

Moros looked at Eve, then Lavo in curiousity. '....?'

Szorra puts Maria's mother on the ground, walking back inside to get her wheelchair while taking a glance at Moros. She still never got to properly talk with him.

While the Black Cat walked back in, the handicapped chipmunk began talking. "I missed out on the fun, but I'e saved these three when I did get there," she said to Eve while hugging Maria.

Lavo tirely looks at Moros. "This is... Eve, The one that is believed to be my friend..." She slightly mutters.

Eve smiles at Maria's mother. "I am so glad for that!" She then smiles at Lavo. "I knew you wouldn't be dead!"

"..." Lavo only nods, unsure how to honestly feel about this.

Eventually, Maria let go of her mother, looking back at the plane. "Mommy, are we going to come back home again?" She asked.

Her mom's cheerful attitude faded. "I don't know, sweetie... I wish I knew..."

Eventually, Szorra returned with the wheelchair, planting it down and helping the chipmunk get back in the chaif.

"Thank you," she said before turning around to see her daughter awestruck at the fact that her mother is now crippled.

Szorra looked over at Moros, motioning him over from a distance.

As Moros left, Emily looked at Lavo and Eve. "Thank you. You've kept my daughter safe, throughout all of this."

Lavo bows her head. "Of course..."

Eve smiles brightly. "Maria is a sweet girl, miss."

"Thank you," Emily said to Eve before switching her attention to Lavo. "No need to bow, Lavo, if anyone should do the bowing here, it's me. I don't think I would continue on with life if I lived a day without my daughter."

The plane had finally landed, and passengers began getting on board.

"Well, I guess this means we're off," Cassandra said to everyone.

Lavo blinks, glancing to where Szorra and Moros had left to. "..."

Eve nods at them all. "Yea, we better leave before we get left behind, right?" She gives a sweet giggle.

"You're right. And besides," Emily said to Eve before rolling up to her. She whispered to Eve, "Maria has no idea that her father pilots this plane."

Eve gasped in surprise, she then smiles sweetly at Emily.

Maria was in her mother's lap, going weary once again. Considering the fact that is was past midnight and a lot has happened, it wasn't surprising. "I'm guessing you're going back to your kingdom as well, Princess?" Emily asked.

Eve shakes her head no. "No, no matter what my father's demands will be, I still want to explore many other places; just one bad experience won't stop me." She smiles sweetly.

Lavo quietly looks back to the plane, walking towards it at this point wit her wings shrinking to almost match her back at this point.

Emily smiled. "I hope you stay safe on your journey then. Goodbye, princess," she said, attempting a courtsey before rolling in her wheelchair towards the plane.

Cassandra followed behind Lavo, walking to the plane as well. "I never got to properly introduce myself, and I have to introdduce myself since you helped protect my niece. I'm Cassandra," she said, extending her hand.

Eve smiles as she courtsey in return. "Stay safe Emily, Maria!"

Lavo pause as she looks to Cassandra. "... It's Lavo... Lavo Price." She slightly reach her hand out and take Cassandra's hand into her own to shake.

"Glad to meet you... Thank you again, for what you have done. I hope we can meet again soon on better terms."

Lavo nods slightly. "We Might..." She blinks, looking to Eve. "Coming...?"

Eve goes over to Lavo, smiling as she nods. "Surprised you are asking!"

"... You really need bodyguards or something, for being a singer and all..." Lavo grumbles a bit at Eve as she looks to Cassandra. "Best we... Hurry..." She let go of Cassandra's hand before heading into the plane with Eve.

The group entered the plane, to continue on with their story...

Szorra and Moros

Moros blinked, walking over to Szorra. '?'

She started of the conversation as a compliment. "I have to say, thank you. You were very helpful for me throughout this night..."

'^w^' Moros beamed at the compliment.

"However, you still have to answer for the whole building scenario," she reminded Moros.

"Blehhh, No one was inside.." Moros chuckled. "I can just return it."

"..You can do that-- I shouldn't be surprised..." she thought out loud. "Well, it'd be grateful if you did, Moros."

"Fine Fine.. Just give me a few days." And with that, he created a rift and walked through it.

Szorra stared at the rift, awestruck. After seeing the last plane leave, and being virtually alone minus the new flood of police and other people still in the city, she knew that she would be up all night.... 

Satan Claws

He resided to an island. Nearly 100 miles away, and undiscovered to the rest of Mobius due to its cloaking field making it appear as water.

It was on this island where he placed down his helmet, and looked into a still pond, seeing his face, the burns, the bruises, the scars that will never fade as long as he lives. This only angered him even more. He knew that despite his preparation, he couldn't beat the Black Cat if she had any form of assistance. He knows her too well. He's the one that helped her train. He's the one that provided the capital for her technology.

Now he regrets it. In his mind, he still considered the fact that the Black Cat left him for dead. That she took over his business after his "death", and apparently didn't seem to look back. If the Omega Organization haen't found him, he would truly be dead. However, the "enemy" was the one who saved him. The enemy convinced him that they were on the right side of justice. And the enemy said that he could join them when the Black Cat is off the streets. They gave him the money to rise again. 

He was caught off guard. Of course she would have backup, she would need someone to replace me... I can't allow that to happen again... divide and conquer. He took out a chip in his helmet as he placed it into a laptop, reshowing what he had seen. His fight with Lavo. She shouldn't be that hard to take care of... some fox creature of unknown characteristics. I'll have the best hunt down information on him. 

As he swam into a secret lab basment in the pond of the island, he went through a couple of rooms before he looked over at the scientists. They were testing the new metal on a blue fox, seeing how it would respond. They say that they finally found out how to manipulate the body to do something by the use of one's brain. They basically had control of him, and if experiments work out, you can use him by your side. Satan Claws watched over this fox, seeing all of the acid burns and damage to his body. Now Claws didn't care as much anymore, because it seemed like the boy was going to die anyways. He had better priorities to take care of at the moment... one of them being plotting another scheme. This time he can't go all out, the city will be prepared. This time, he'll have to work from the shadows to take out the Black Cat and her assistants.