~London, University of London licensed apartments, 1:23 PM~
Kato smiles, standing out on the balcony of the second floor apartment, tapping his cigarette off on the ledge before taking another draft of it and exhaling, flicking the entire thing off the balcony ledge as he smiles, looking over the other apartments in the area, hood up to protect from the chilly weather. He tucks his hands back into his hoodie's pockets, walking back inside as he hears a knock at the door. He sighs, before saying "That's strange, she shouldn't be back yet." He'd been bumming a stay from a girl he met, having played the 'bad boy' routine out to try and get a place to stay rather discreetly. He was actually surprised how well it had been working, and he actually had begun to think about settling down here, with her of course, it'd be only fair. The weather wasn't amazing, but it was a nice place, and he supposed he could get himself registered as a immigrant or something and maybe start over again, this time living his own life, not a lab rat's. He shakes his head, clearing his mind of these thoughts as he yells out "Elizabeth? Back so soon? I'll get the door for you." She normally took longer going to the grocery store, maybe she forgot something, her purse maybe? No, that was gone, what then? He rounds the corner, now in the hall with a bit of hesitation, not walking down it yet, some unknown instinct screaming at his senses, before the door blasted off the hinges.
A breaching charge, one of the new 'silent' ones, they sounded more like a loud thump rather than a boom, but they were just as good at creating dangerous splinters from door handles. He watched as the handle flew towards his face, slowly, gracefully even, not quite processing what he's seeing for a moment, moving to furrow his brows in confusion, before his eyes widen. He slides his shoulder back, slipping around the corner, not having to speed up too much for that, not that that made it any easier on him. It felt like he was stretching out too suddenly for a workout, but there was no time for that, the brass knuckles, where were they? He moves over to the coffee table, picking up the knuckles, a souvenir from some bar in Germany, having taken them after once breaking his knuckles on some guys' jaw, and finding them to have helped his fists cope with hitting in the style he had been taught. He was hoping that they'd be trying the non-lethal route first, but given the fact that they had blasted the door, he wasn't all that confident in the hope as his fists raised to just below his chin, slightly extended in front of him as he bounces on the balls of his feet.
He almost sighs in relief when he sees the first man round the corner, he wasn't wearing a mask, just a balaclava, and he was carrying a stun baton, even better. Not only would he be able to punch the face easily, but that stick was a hell of a lot easier to dodge than a bullet. He charged him, no fluidity in the movement, telegraphed to him at the speed he was moving. Glad for the fact that they had sent a easy opponent first, Kato doesn't speed himself up as he dodges the swings with ease, ducking and weaving, before taunting him, with a "You're hitting air guy!" Kato wasn't happy about having to do this, but he knew that the brass knuckles would hurt his opponent a lot less than a gun or something. He pounds the knuckles together, "Snel"(Swift) on one, "Slag"(Strike) on the other. He didn't have a clue what either word was, but he knew that they were well built. The assailant gives a yell of rage as he makes a wide swing at Kato's head, and Kato has a quick moment of thinking "Katta"(I've won), before he leans back to almost horizontal from the knees up, the man stumbling forwards into the swing he had made. Kato's left hand comes up, wrist slack for a moment before cocking up nearly before hitting the man, adding to the hit as it crashes into the man's left jaw, right under the chin. The man suddenly goes a little slack, slumping a little bit as Kato straightens up, his right hand coming down from above in a twisting punch downwards to the area right between the top and back of the man's head, causing him to go flying into the floor quickly with a smack. He doesn't rest however, kicking the baton up and out of the man's now limp hand, catching it in midair as he looks to the hallway, two coming out this time.
For a moment, he worries that these two might be mutants, before seeing a embossed "World Rebels". He thinks for a moment ~Who the hell are these guys?~ Before they charge at him, not happy to see their other member on the floor. Kato decides it might be time to get out, rolling over the couch and table the first is now slumped over as the other two charge at him. He gets out to the balcony, before having to duck under a swift and controlled swing from one of the men. These guys are wearing masks, this isn't going to be as easy with that helmet on their head. He swings into the man's gut, finding no give there, and having to speed his arm in order to get it out of the way of the return swing from his partner. He decides to go low with his next strike, ducking down suddenly to deliver a right haymaker to the man's groin, grabbing the baton from the ground and swinging it up into the other man's. He's glad to see some give, at least those strikes seem to have done something, the baton more than the hit. He's forced to duck under the return from just the punched man, as the other slumps to his knees. He keeps ducked down, shouldering the man through the glass door, before winding up with a swing, two handed with the baton, more like swinging a bat into the other man's mask. He doesn't speed this up, trying to save his strength for later, but it does have a effect at least. The baton cracks across the mask, knocking it off, with Kato following all the way through, throwing the baton away like a Baseball player that just hit a home-run, right off the ledge.
He turns back to the other man as the now maskless one starts to fall to the ground, not unconcious, but dazed. He notices that the glass has only served to piss him off, turning around to jump from the second story, hopefully onto the scaffolding below, a foot going up onto the ledge. He almost blinks as he notices a all too familiar sight, about twenty feet away now from his face. A bullet, .308, or something similar. It looks like it's about to go through his eye at this rate, and it's moving quite quickly, even for him. He rolls himself, hood billowing out as he tries to speed himself up in time, feeling a loud buzz and intense heat whiz past his ear. He also felt his neck pop in a unhealthy manner, he's going to need to find a chiropractor or something after this. As he feels his hood snag, the bullet passing right through it, he decides to roll with it, continuing to spin as he falls through the first level of scaffolding, before breaking his attempt at pretending to be hit as he sees a head pop over the ledge. He raises his right hand in the two fingered 'salute' he had learned in the time he was here, brass knuckles still sitting on those fingers before he crashes through the first panel of plywood. He tries to turn as he falls, having to speed himself up again as he catches the bar to swing out from the fall, rolling a little bit as he hits the ground. He stuffs his hands into his pockets, leaving the knuckles in there as he starts running, ducking instinctively as another bullet hits the ground near him, this one having been a natural miss. Were they testing him? Trying to kill him? Trying to corner him? He didn't have time to really tell, they were shooting at him with a silenced rifle, these guys had to be meaning to kill him for some reason, or something worse.
He didn't have time to think about that, deciding to run into the bakery's front door, rushing up the stairs in the back, right towards the window that overlooked the one-story building nextdoor. He jumps through the window, forearms coming up to cover his face, before rolling as he hits that roof, continuing his run. It's a shame to do that to the poor baker's place, he was really good at his job, he had even given a free loaf or two out to Kato. Whoops, too late to think about that now. He does his best to focus as he starts running across the roof, jumping over chimney's and the like as he tries to flee the sniper's sight. The next bullet was much more off, he must be getting away at this point, it pinged into one of the shingles nearby as he was running. Wasn't the UK supposed to be nice this time of year? He doesn't have time to really finish that thought either, before jumping this time in through a open window, connected to the roofs. He starts sliding down a series of stairs bumpily into a pub sliding across the floor and knocking over a table as he comes to a stop, before standing up, looking about the pub, for some reason not having started running right off again, judging the faces of those around him.