While Bliss spoke, the four soldiers quickly fired on him once the commander ducked to the ground. The two at the top of the stairs moved to take cover behind the small wall of the stair railings, while the two on the ground floor with him moved to the hallways of both elevators, which were lockdown and shut off as the building went into lockdown.
"SCATTERED IN THE BUILDING!" The commander shouted into his coms over the gunfire. "I REPEAT, SCATTERED IN THE BUILDING--"
The first shot missed Mr Bliss, as hastily as it was fired, although the second pinged off his temple as the guard wrestled with his gun. The rest, slightly slower, were all soon shooting at him, the noise of the full auto's deafening in such a confined space. But, for all that, Mr Bliss stood there, arms loosely crossed, as the gunfire rained across his skin. Soon - after only a few seconds - the sounds of the hammers hitting nothing rang across the room as the guard's magazines emptied themselves. Taking the opportunity offered by the silence, Mr Bliss walked over to where the desk had been, picking up one of the chairs that had fallen over in the wake of his mistake.
Dragging it across the lobby, the gunfire resuming in more controlled bursts as he did, he pushed it to the centre and sat down on it, hands folded in his lap. Scattered, hmm. Whoever they were, they clearly weren't prepared for him - the gunfire was proof of that alone - so his displacement was likely the result of someone using him as a weapon.
He disliked this.
As the bursts - each one now a few seconds apart, and aimed at various parts of his head - tapered off, Mr Bliss cleared his throat. "By now, I'm sure you've realised that you're having no effect." He drawled, a plodding method of speaking, draped in his boredom at the latest attempt on his life. "So, if you'd all calm down, stop shooting at me, and perhaps you can give me directions back to Eire."
He brushed at his lapel, collecting one of the bullets that had gathered in a fold, and shaped it into a sphere. Flicking it, he sent it spinning out towards one of the elevators, where it made a noticeable dent.
"Or you can continue this unpleasantness, and I will have the unenviable task of working out what the appropriate flowers for the funeral of someone you killed are."
He folded his hands in his lap again, pressing his thumbs together until they clicked with an audible crack.
"Your choice."
"........ Ahhhhhh, shit." One soldier said, pretty much giving up. The two up the stairs ran off down the splitting hallways, with the commander running up to follow them. The other two below tried their luck with attacking him in CQC. One tried smashing his head open with the butt of his rifle, the other pulled out a knife from his boot and waited to see what his friend did, and whether it worked or not. Whatever happened, Bliss' situation got more strange, as the lights would go completely dark, and emergency red lights turned on. The placed went into lockdown, as over the speakers blaring sirens went off. "Containments breached. Quarantine lockdown in effect. Containments breached. Quarantine lockdown in effect. Containmeeeeeeeeeeee..." The sirens died down along with the voice, until, bizarrely, music started playing.
Velvet wasn't sure what just happened. She and her team, her friends, were just about to confront Artorious and Immnomiat for the last time. She could finally get revenge on the man that ruined her life. They were making their way up those god-forsaken stairs, when suddenly, there was this bright green flash of light!
"Everyone, get baaaccccccckkkk-"
Oh, for fuck's sake. Of course they triggered some sort of trap that made them fall off the stairs. Blinded by the light, she threw her hands up to try and protect herself from whatever greeted her at the bottom of the stairs. Whatever this trap was, it was disorienting as hell. It wasn't like going through an earthpulse point, this was just uncomfortable. Eventually, she landed in...wherever she was at. Her anxiety was beginning to spike, but at least the blindness was going away. Slowly, she opened her eyes...and wished she hadn't.
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What the hell was that thing she was looking at?! Instinctively, she released her Consuming Claw, wanting to just devour the thing and be done with it, but before she had any chance to move, attack, see if her team had made it with her, anything-
"Intruders in genetics! Stand down and put your hands behind your head!"
...son of a bitch.
Max O'Reily
It was supposed to be a simple mission. Get in, and get out without anyone knowing that someone had stolen intel from them. But things just had to get weird. As one minute Max was crawling along the rooftop about to open a window to get into a facility in Europe, the next he's blinded by a green light and dropped somewhere else. Vision barely recovering in time for him to see his new surroundings, he was no longer in Europe on a rainy night. Instead he was surrounded by lab equipment and strange large tubes filled with blue liquid and something else in there.
And seemed others were with him, one being up to their hips in said tube. But Max would be quickly diving into cover as he saw armed guards take cover opposite of them.
An order was barked out for them to come out with their hands up. A move to get the more gullible to leave cover and into the open where they'd no doubt be shot. More than likely, they didn't want to damage these tubes, as otherwise they'd smoke them out or force them to leave cover by lobbing a grenade or two at them. Reaching a hand up to press a button on the goggles around his eyes, activating them to see how many they were dealing with. His vision would be turned a dark gray as the device sent out a pulse before the results showed up clearly through the walls.
Twenty of them, far too many for an upfront approach.
No vents for him to get into to flank around, or at least any within cover that won't expose him or be too discrete for even the most blind to see him pulling a vent grate free.
Which left a far riskier option. Using the cloak to sneak to a far more advantageous position. Said risk was the fact that he'd only have a couple of seconds before the cloak had to recharge, and the fact he'd be shining brighter to any infrared camera or scope due to how hot it makes the suit. But better than trying to outgun soldiers with rifles while at best he had a pistol and crossbow that could knock someone out with the shock bolts.
So he'd prep himself to begin his trek by taking up a position near the corner of the thing holding the tube near him as he pressed the button to activate the cloak, his form vanishing to a barely noticeable glimmer, fast walking to a large cabinet that was about halfway between the tube he was originally positioned behind, and the line of soldiers that had formed against them.
Taking cover as the cloak battery ran out and thus needed a recharge period.
He was closer and now hopefully he could get behind them, pick off one of them to pick up a rifle that he could then use to take down a decent bit of the soldiers.
But what happened next would entirely depend on what the others near the pods did next.
@The Captain @Henryboy003
One of those flashing lights would fall into a pool of light blue liquid, which felt like swimming in actual glue. Thankfully, it was only dee enough that the liquid would reach their hips, but the scarier thing was what they came face to face with inside the goo.
Tex had a minor panic attack at the sudden shift of hers. Had... Winter just popped her away? No... She wasn't throwing up at the moment. Last thing she remembered was the Tiger... Oh god... was she dead? Did... Did the Nazi's capture her body and... No no. The thing in the corner was... once human. And she still felt alive.
"Intruders in genetics! Stand down and put your hands behind your head!"
Oh. It was the Russians. Great. Just fucking great. She had been transported into one of their sick experiments to create Talents... Or... at least she hear rumors about it.
"I'm an American Talent. We're on the same side. Stand the fuck down and get me out of this... goop. I think some Nazi Talent really wanted me gone and threw me blind." Tex called out, flicking the safety of her weapon off. These were Russians after all. You could only just trust the conscripts. Anyone higher up, not a chance.
"Shut it!" One of the soldiers shouted to Tex. They were by no means allies, as she would soon see. "Stand down, and you will be--" Before he could finish speaking, another bright flash of green light appeared overhead on one of the balconies. Something would then fall out of it. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" A voice shouted, as a very big fish looking thing in red armor fell onto two of the soldiers on the balcony; crushing them. It looked very staggered and confused, along with being blinded by the bright light, and once it got its vision back, it noticed there were several humans looking very confused. In which he looked confused back at them. Lotta confusion happening.
But, then Kilgren attacked while everyone was distracted. Five of the soldiers began to burn, shouting out in pain, while the rest fired at either the group below, or at the being in the red armor. Thankfully, he was wearing shields today, so their bullets bounced off as he stood back up. Like a rhino, he immediately charged at the first guy closest to him. He smashed his forehead right into the soldier's face, then threw the other guy off the balcony to the floor teen feet below. As the engineers ran off, twelve more guards began to fire at everyone. Seven were on the ground floor, taking cover behind the other pools of goo similar to what Tex fell into, the rest staying on the high balconies, covering behind metal panels along the railings.
The alien in red then threw another soldier down to the floor, into one of the pools of goo. Pulling out a shotgun, it fired some sort of impact shot at two of the soldiers on the balcony, exploding them into bloody chunks. "Any of you wanna tell me where I am?!" He shouted to he group below.
Things would get more stressful, as like with Bliss, the lights within the lab went out, only for the emergency red lights to come on. Except, the massive tanks below to slowly move off the walls and lower to the platforms on the ground floor and balconies. Opening, the humanoid beings inside fell out onto their hands and knees. Like the being in the pool with Tex, they looked monstrous.
Except these then sprinted off their platforms, and began attacking the soldiers; using their hands to tear apart their flesh and limbs. They screeched and screamed inhumanely, as a soldier shouted, "THEY'RE LOOSE!"
"GET THE HELL OUT!" Another shouted back, signaling everyone to retreat. But the bulkhead doors closed as they tried running, sealing them in. The being in the pool with Tex then suddenly stood up, screaming out as it tried biting Tex's neck like it wanted a chunk of flesh off her.
And to make everything bizarre, 'Take Me Out' was also playing as this anarchy happened.
"So if you're lonely,
You know I'm here waiting for you,
I'm just a cross hair,
I'm just a shot away from you,
And if you leave here,
You leave me broken, shattered, I lie,
I'm just a cross hair,
I'm just a shot, then we can die.
IIIII knooooooow IIIII won't be leaving here.... wiiiiiiith yooooouuuu~"
The Doctor falls in before Thea and Agam.
"Oi! I heard that! Language, boys!" She admonishes the MacManus Brothers. They go on as if they do not hear her, or care. She can't recall the last time she'd had to deal with such potty-mouths. At least the brothers are the only offensive ones.
When prompted about the security system, Thirteen nods.
"'Course I can! Not much my sonic can't do really." She goes for her sonic in her right pocket. But to her utmost surprise a purple energy erupts from that pocket.
"Ummm...this is not my sonic." The Doctor clarifies to the others in the second before said purple energy solidifies into a woman. A woman Thirteen has absolutely no idea about even after she's introduced herself, and used her nifty-looking gun to overload the alarm system before running off.
The others seem to only want to question this new arrival. Almost as if they were forgetting that she'd had every opportunity to attack them, to do any number of things to compromise their mission if she had been along for the ride in her pocket for some time. This Morgan Yu was just as lost as the rest of them, but was more into action than deliberation on the issue.
And it was that time the bullets started flying. Thirteen jumps away from the line of sight afforded from the doorway.
"Well then! Looks like we got another for our merry band!" Thirteen proclaims, whipping out her sonic screwdriver and doing just a little more than Morgan Yu had. The sonic hacks into the servers around them, goes for the security system, and attempts to change a couple things: targeting parameters from the scattered to the droids themselves; and locking out any further attempts to revert the parameters.
Down the hallway, several of the droids firing at them, turn their weapons on other droids and cut them down before they are also reduced to scrap metal.
Only the first is changed, the second is prevented by an unknown party, and that party corrects the change so the remaining droids resume targeting the scattered down the hall.
"Looks like the security systems' got a virtual intelligence running the show! Think I can, at most, make some of the drones shoot each other long enough for us to advance before the Virtural Intelligence can change the parameters back. Now, on three, one, tow, three!" Thirteen again activates her sonic, and there is briefly no enemy fire coming their way as the drones are firing on each other.
"Go!"
Thea drops into place right behind The Doctor, making an estimation that the others will be too distracted to note that she makes a more audible sound as her heavy frame falls. The others terminate the initial resistance before she can acquire a target, then fire off a round of her high-caliber machine gun. Her processing power is put to another stress test as many things happen, most abnormal of them all, a woman materializing out of a purple energy cloud. A file is opened immediately for this 'Morgan Yu' and video of her introduction recorded, then stored within it.
For the most part, Thea takes on the role of a silent soldier awaiting orders as the others argue. This Morgan Yu does not present any threatening behavior according to her database on human interaction. She assumes this one is some kind of human until presented with different data to state otherwise.
She takes cover away from the stream of gunfire that erupts from the doorway, holds her rifle with a steely, ready grip while next to the MacManus Brothers.
"The Doctor does not like your language. Myself, makes me feel better. Like I'm still in the trenches." She says aside to the brothers with a smirk. This is a ploy to garner some camaraderie with them that could with further building, prove advantageous to her. She hears the Doctor's instructions, and pretends to take a deep breath to calm her nerves as she sweats slightly to project the appearance of a normal stressed human.
On 'Go' Thea whips around her cover, and unloads on the drones down the hall. Her gun belches forth a stream of heavy bullets that shreds metal and punches through walls.
The droids successfully began killing themselves thanks to The Doctor's meddling of their security protocols, and with attacks by Morgan Yu and Thea, the only few remaining didn't stand much of a chance against them. With Thea's comment, Murphy looked to her and said, "Fuckin' A sister." Before loading another clip into his pistol. "Let's go be badasses." Kirby delivered the final blow, managing to jump out from behind the wall towards them and slashing at them with a massive sword that came out of nowhere, cleaving through their metal bodies cleanly. As they fell to the floor in two, Kirby waved his little nub hands for them to follow; charging down the hallways. "Sorry, is he the leader now?" Murphy asked, before his brother said back, "Better to do something than nothin'." They then followed suit, following Kirby.
They wouldn't get far before they also ran into the same problems as the others. The power cutting down, emergency lighting, and the building now in lockdown. Their way back would be blocked off by a thick wall of glass that rose out of the floor; trapping them. The panels on the walls then folded outwards for more droids to march out. Nearly twenty began marching their way, with the only cover being some chairs and plants. Two of the droids stood taller than the rest, with their arms transforming into chainguns.
They began to fire, yet Kirby managed to jump off the walls fast enough to dodge their bullets. When he landed on the floor again, the pink fella opened his mouth, and within a second managed to create a vortex of wind around his lips like he was making a tornado; sucking one of the massive droids into his mouth. With a big 'gulp' a big star popped out of Kirby, who's face now resembled the mech he swallowed, and had his own chaingun hand. He began to fire at the other droids, as 'Take Me Out' began to play over the speakers.
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Arc
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The advance was going somewhat well amidst the chaos. The army the group had brought with them made quick work of the first wave of soldiers that were guarding the wall. The mechs that the soldiers had issued to help in the defense were also easily destroyed. It was all tedious and boring in Arc's opinion, all the blood and chaos was numb to him as he had seen it all before. There was no real strategy to this attack and he felt no real need to be excited in this city's destruction. Small orbs then floated up to the group atop the worm, cylinders filled with bullets aimed at them. Arc stopped the bullets that were aimed at him with his magnesis and reflected them back at the drones, taking down the three that had decided to aim at him.
"How much longer will this take if you don't mind me asking? Your soldiers certainly can't hold out for this long without some sort of formation." He said to Doom, looking back over his soldier to where he was not sitting on the sand worm.
Doom didn't answer. All he did was point with both index fingers at the charging group of soldiers coming their way. With that simple order, the worm began to move quickly towards them, leaving behind a massive crater, as it swallowed the tanks, mechs, and other soldiers with its mouth, or simply crushed them.
"Not long." He quipped, before jumping into the crater.
"Come! Our escape from this world nears." Doom ordered the group, with Malgus, Wesker and Radec jumping in with them. The worm's destruction gave them an easy path to follow, leading them into the main city itself. While civilans screamed out in horror as the Graboids infested the streets, and the worm knocked down buildings with such ease, Doom pointed to the building off in the distance.
"There." Doom told them all, pointing directly at the building at the end of the road.
"That's where we'll find our escape."
"What can we expect in the building?" Kahn asked, walking up slightly behind Doom.
"Minimal security. They'll be too busy with my pet to focus on us." Doom informed.
"Good." And like that, Doom's worth was useless. Kahn raised his hammer up to smash into Doom's head from behind, but Victor being the observant being, already knew this betrayal was coming from a mile away. Quickly turning, Doom blasted Kahn with green energy, sending him flying down the road. The other villains were quick to begin the attack on each other, with Malgus pulling out his lightsaber to attack Doom himself, while Baraka attacked Arc, trying to stab him with both of his blades from his arms.
The TranStar Director chuckles once at Thor's foundation remark. Then her face once more takes on a look of express concentration. With her one free hand, Morgan Yu spreads her fingers like a wizard about to conjure a fireball despite the obviously science-fiction trappings of her spacesuit uniform and retro-looking ray gun. No fire follows, though. 
