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Post by Echo on May 4, 2013 23:58:42 GMT
Lexi peered through the bush in wonder. Valerie had managed to follow the trail through the chaos, and now they were in a park somewhere in the city. It had been Emilie who pointed them to the bushes. She'd said she could feel something 'not quite right' amongst them. Now, as Lexi looked, she could make out four distinct beings, but she couldn't have named any of them if she'd memorised an encyclopedia. "Two, Five, Seven and Twelve." Valerie said quietly, coming up beside her. "What are they?" Lexi whispered, intrigued and a little in awe of the beasts. "Would you like a full genetic run-through of each one?" "No, I'm sure I can manage with the basics..." "Two is mostly horse, with some lion thrown in, a little bat, some elephant and a cockerel." Valerie said. Lexi stared at her, then back at the creature, and shook her head a little in disbelief. "Five is largely gorilla, with some tiger, a tiny bit of eel, some crab and an owl. Seven is apparently mostly zebra, though it doesn't look it." Lexi shook her head in agreement "It has a lot of rat, a little turtle and some kind of sea cucumber." Lexi opened her mouth as if to say something, but decided against it, looking confusedly at Experiment Seven instead. "Finally, Twelve is a mixture of tortoise, angel fish, heron and octopus in roughly equal parts." "Why do it?" Lexi wondered aloud. "I mean, what's the point? I'd understand if they were combining species to give the hybrid certain qualities, but this? This is just madness..." Emilie looked at her, and thoroughly agreed. "How do you propose we catch them?" Emilie asked, looking at the other two over her shoulder. She was on guard duty, in case anyone thought it was strange that a couple of women were crouched in the bushes. "We're Questers, not imbeciles" Lexi said, pulling a length of rope from her bag. "If they fight, we fight back, but no lethal force. HQ wants them alive if we can." "Of course, the easiest thing to do would be to send them back through the portal completely compliant" Emilie mused. Lexi narrowed her eyes at the girl. "You can do that?" "They're only animal. None of them are sentient. It's not that hard to control a mind that runs on instinct." Emilie explained "It's a lot harder when they can think for themselves." "Can you send them from here to there remotely?" Valerie asked, intrigued. "My power over them will get weaker the further apart we are." Emilie sighed, biting her lip a little. "I'm not sure I could hold them all the way from here." "Then go with them" Lexi said, and Emilie nodded. She'd clearly been expecting this suggestion. "The real question" she began "is 'will I be able to hold four at the same time?'..."
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Post by Echo on May 5, 2013 10:42:28 GMT
Emilie walked quickly, the four creatures trotting alongside. She wasn't as all-powerful as HQ would like to believe, and if she didn't get the Experiments through the portal to them soon, she would lose them all.
Lexi and Valerie stood in the clearing the Experiments had occupied and looked around. "Hope the kid's alright" Lexi said "If she loses control of those things..." "She won't" Valerie reassured her. Lexi nodded, however unsure. Valerie scanned the area, putting her eyes through their paces by changing how she saw everything. Deep in one of the bushes, something rattled, and Valerie's heat vision picked up something disturbingly snake-like slithering away. Her scanner instantly picked up on several different sets of DNA, and identified it as Experiment Nine. "I hate to break it to you," she began "but we're not alone." Lexi whirled around. "What do you see?" "Experiment Nine. Something that vaguely resembles a three-headed cobra with a rattlesnake's tail, bat wings and an eagle's talons..." No sooner had she said it, three loud hisses danced down to their ears from the trees. "Oh Hell..."
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Post by Echo on May 6, 2013 1:03:48 GMT
Valerie got out her blaster and laser sword, though didn't turn on the blade. Lexi was reduced to using her bow as a blunt instrument. It was either that or slice her hands open so she could use the handles of her knives, which didn't seem like a great idea. She shot a look at Valerie's blaster. "That thing better be on stun" "Of course" "So shoot it!" Valerie scanned the trees above them and caught sight of Experiment Nine. She fired a pulse towards it, but Nine swung down to the ground and dodged it. She fired again, but the Experiment was faster than anyone would have assumed, and dodged the pulse again, slithering with such speed that it almost appeared to be gliding across the grass. Lexi swung her bow down at it, but hit the ground. The tail rattled like a hiss as the creature shot towards her, and she was forced to dive out of the way, rolling once and getting straight back onto her feet. "Shoot it!" She called to Valerie, but the soldier was distracted. "Sergeant!" Another Experiment shot out of the bushes Valerie was staring at. "Three!" She called to Lexi, jumping out of the way of the charging beast. "Bull, cheetah and ant in equal parts!" The mandibles where the creature's mouth would have been confirmed the ant part, and the speed was definitely cheetah. Lexi was forced out of the thing's way by its great horns before she could even try to fight it. She was thrown across the grass, as if Three was trying to protect Nine. She rolled her shoulders as she got up again.
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Post by Echo on May 7, 2013 0:02:54 GMT
Emilie walked the creatures through the portal and handed them over to the technicians. "They're docile for now" she said "but I'm not sure how long they'll stay that way. I've put the thought into their minds that we're helping them, which should hold, but if something spooks them I can't guarantee that it will." The technicians nodded and took Experiments Two, Five, Seven and Twelve away. Emilie walked back through the portal and hurried to get back to the others.
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Post by Echo on May 7, 2013 0:28:33 GMT
Lexi swiped her bow across her body, sending Experiment Nine flying into the bushes. Three charged at her, but she jumped, landing on its back. Tossing her bow to Valerie, she grabbed hold of the beast's horns and used them to steer. Valerie caught the bow in the air, span around and fired her blaster. Experiment Nine dropped to the ground, stunned, three feet from her and from six feet in the air.
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Post by Echo on May 7, 2013 15:56:47 GMT
Emilie ran as fast as she could, which was never as fast as she'd have liked. The closer she got to the others, the more she felt like something was wrong. She burst through the trees just in time to see a beast Lexi appeared to be riding charging headfirst into a tree, and Valerie shooting it with some kind of pulse gun. The beast collapsed to the ground, and Lexi slid off its back. "Am I late?" Emilie asked with a smile. "A little earlier might have been nice" Lexi grinned back "but I think we did alright." The trio looked around at the two Experiments laying stunned and motionless on the ground. "I can't take them if they don't move, you know" Emilie pointed out. Valerie nodded. Lexi picked up her rope, which she'd dropped in the fight, and uncoiled it. "That's alright, I think we'll do just fine."
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Post by Echo on May 7, 2013 16:21:55 GMT
Valerie came back into the clearing with a couple of large sacks. Emilie was waiting for her beside the two stunned creatures, now tied up. "What do you make of the Vampire?" She asked the girl. "Unorthodox, perhaps, but she has good intentions" Emilie replied. Valerie nodded. "Help me" As Valerie held each bag open, Emilie used her telekinesis to lift the creatures into them carefully.
By the side of the road, Lexi waited. Her Elven eyes scanned the road in both directions, looking for the perfect vehicle. A large truck was coming up. One driver. Male. Heading in the right direction. She put her arm out into the road, and waited for the driver to slow to a stop just in front of her. She breathed deep, and put on her best smile. The window rolled down and Lexi stepped towards it. "You alright there, miss?" the driver asked. "How would you like to make some quick cash?" Lexi asked confidently. "Throw in a kiss and I'm yours" the driver winked. Lexi sighed inwardly, and felt just a little repulsed, but kept the smile on her face.
Valerie and Emilie stood as they heard footsteps approaching. "Two people. Lexi, and one male." "Well I'll be damned..." Emilie said in a hushed tone that nonetheless expressed just a little admiration. Lexi led the driver into the clearing. 'Ew, really?' said Emilie's voice in her head, almost instantly. 'Keep it to yourself, kid' she thought back. "Emilie, Sergeant, meet Hank. He's kindly agreed to help us today." "Ladies" Hank said, smiling around at them. He spotted the sacks. "That them?" "That's them" Lexi smiled. Hank went over and picked up the larger of the two, finding it a bit of a challenge, but trying not to let it show. "Damn, what've you girls got in here?" He asked with a whistle. "No questions asked, Hank" Lexi reminded him. "Right you are, miss" he said, hoisting the sack containing Experiment Three onto his shoulder and reaching down to grab the other one.
Between them, they loaded the sacks onto the truck, and Hank got back into the drivers seat. Lexi came up to the window and showed him a wad of notes. "Now remember," she said, pulling her hand away before he could take it "push them through the light." "Yes ma'am" "Don't go through it yourself, mind." Hank nodded, and Lexi handed over the money. "What would happen if I did?" He asked, as she turned to go. "You don't want to know" she said, looking at him with a wry smile. "Fast as you can, Hank." Hank nodded, revved the engine, and drove off. Lexi returned to the others. "Emilie..." Emilie concentrated, eyes closed for a moment, then opened them again. "The second that portal closes, he won't remember a thing" she said with a smile.
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Post by Echo on May 7, 2013 19:28:07 GMT
The portal room was sealed off to other Questers for the moment, as two large sacks were pushed through from the other side. Two technicians looked at each other with raised eyebrows, and opened them. "Experiments Three and Nine" said one, checking them off a list "Sergeant Reyes's message came through a few minutes ago" The other nodded, unbound them and waved a pair of Golems over. The stone men picked up the creatures as if they weighed nothing, and took them away. The portal room was reopened.
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Post by Echo on May 7, 2013 22:34:26 GMT
"So where do we go now?" Emilie asked, turning on the spot to look at the trees around them. The group was back in the clearing, looking for tracks again. "Experiment Three came from that direction" Valerie said, pointing. "Any sign of others?" Lexi asked, looking in the direction Valerie was pointing in. Valerie shook her head. Lexi sighed deeply, thinking, frustrated. "We've caught six of them already" Emilie reminded them "We're half-way through" "So why do I feel it's going to get harder from now on...?" Lexi half-muttered.
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Post by Echo on May 8, 2013 17:52:16 GMT
"Good job, ladies" the official smiled "the lab is no more, the technicians are in custody and Dr Stein is in solitary confinement. Not bad for a day's work, I'd say" "Thank you, sir" DG said with a smile. Katara nodded. "How many of the creatures have we recovered?" she asked. "Six, so far" "Already?" DG was impressed. "Lexi's no dawdler" the official explained "and she's with one of the most logical people I know, who is no doubt being an exceptionally valuable asset." "Not to mention Em" DG said "Didn't she bring back the first lot?" "She did, yes" "Anything else we should be doing?" Katara asked. "Nothing for the moment, take some time off." The two Questers nodded and headed for the door. "Though, I ask that you stay on the base, in case we need you again on this one." Both nodded and walked out of the door.
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