Mysteries (Private, Chiggy)

[Adin]

Julian bowed and gave a smirk. "It's good to see you, too, Abe. But not for too long ... i hope.", he said and then made a series of motions, all incredibly fast. The result was that he had a short and modern looking sword in his paw and a granade was flying in Abes direction. It detonated in a deafening explosivion a second later, but Julian did not expect this to kill Abe. So he jumped into the flames to meet him with a fierce growl.

Paul almost ran into his sister as he was looking for her. "Astrid !", he said a little out of breath. The young leopard was clad in a black battle dress which included a mask, but that was pulled down at them moment. "Have you got all i asked you for ? It's about time to go home.", he continued with a smirk and held out his arms. Now several more weapons were visible on him, mostly knifes and dagger, all black that were all very well positioned on his uniform. When he was done speaking he showed his fangs in a grin. "Let's go, Astrid. I'm hungry.", he said and started walking down the corridor with her.

Nobody had stopped him when he took the weapons and the black battle dress. Maybe they wanted him to get familiar with the equipment. And it wasn't like any of what he took was high tech equipment. Paul wasn't sure that he would need any high tech stuff actually. The keen blades he had now were just what he had been looking for all the time, he would steal some firearms from the base later. Their power would be needed for a successful retreat later on.

[Chiggy Piyo]

Only slightly closing his eyes from the explosion, Abe smirked at the other Cat. "Aww, ya mean we don't have time for tea?"

Eye to eye he faced his furry foe. He watched his intentions as clear as a sharp cat would, and quickly he pressed a button on his belt buckle. "Well Julie boy, I hope you can get what you need done in about-" he looked at his watch, purposely wanting to piss him off. "Four and a half minutes. I do hope tho that your old age hasn't given you altimeters and you've forgotten how good I am."
Abe then loosened his tie, removing it as well as un-tucking his button up collared shirt. "Now then, till then... let's dance."

Abe may not have been an engineered warrior. He may have just been a head honcho in this joint. But you didn't work to fight against a whole society determined to take over the world without learning to defend yourself first.

Astrid smiled, putting an arm around her brother. "Paul... don't you think that once..." she whispered, careful no one could hear. "Once we get kidnapped..." she then raised her voice a tad more. "That they'll dis arm you? how do you plan on keepin all those weapons on you?" She then ruffled the top of his head.

Suddenly, a loud alarm went off in the institute, while bright, flashing red lights began to flash on and off, on and off. Astrid looked around, a tad bit panicked... "What's going on-"

She was cut off by Mordicai, as well as a few other soldiers, running up to them. "Astrid, go to my office, Paul we need you with us."
Astrid complained. "Why?"
"Abe's in trouble. It's one of Seth's men."

[Adin]

Julian remained still for a moment, then he dropped his dark coat with one fluent motion. Now that it was removed a black armor was visible on the cat. It covered his arms and his legs. His fingers ended in sharp metal claws designed for killing. "This time you won't escape Abe ... i'm not one of those you kill on a daily basis ...", he said and breathed deeply. Then he swung his right arm at Abe, with such speed and terrible power that it was impossible to block, obviously Seth had meanwhile constructed a powered armor, too. The sheer power of this specific type of armor was terrible to behold, but it got even worse. The cruel claws began shimmering and then the dry, crackling noise of electricity could be heard. So now the claw was electrified. "I will enjoy ripping your heart out with this, Abe. I fear that four minutes are not enough for you.", he said and pounced at him with all his strenght.

Paul looked around for a moment suprised, but then looked at his sister. "Now what ?", he send to her. He closed his eyes for a moment and thought about it, then he opened his deep green eyes again and smiled. "Try to knock me out mentally ... they will take me to the hospital and i could escape from there, then steal the stuff ... you could go ahead and wait for me. This is the perfect moment ... althought it feels bad to leave them behind.", he send again and directly felt the familiar headace rising up in him again. For a moment he wondered if he would ever get better at this, or if this really was the ultimate for him ... mentally.

[Chiggy Piyo]

Astrid looked at her brother a moment. 'He really doesn't want to help?' she thought. Although she didn't entirly disagree. To be perfectly honest she didn't WANT him too. She wanted him to be safe, they were already going to be in danger on their mission the following day. Holding his hand she spoke to him.

"This is gonna hurt."

She then furrowed her eyes, concentrating until she was able to send very sensitive, very sharp telekinetic vibes to her brother's brain, gently, not life threateningly, causing it to momentarily seizure, causing him to pass out. She faked panic as he hit the floor. "Paul! Paul what's wrong?"

Mordicai saw this and growled. "He chooses now to pass out?"
Astrid looked at Cai with a slight scowl, then he shrugged it off. He looked at two of the soldiers. "You two, get him to the infirmary. Keep high security around him, do you understand?"
"Yes sir." they said in unison, saluting. They then took Paul, carefully to a safe room. Mordicai then looked at Astrid. "You, go to my office."
"Mordicai, I want to help."
He stared at her, confused. "What are you talking about? Astrid, no offense but we needed your brother, not you."

As they spoke, other amounts of soldiers were heading the direction where the signal was sent.

"I just..." she stared at him a moment, and then he smiled, placing a hand on her shoulder. "I'll be fine. Abe will be fine."
Astrid attempted to the read wolf's mind, but could only hear one thing.

"As long as I know you're safe, I can survive anything."

"Alright." she said, heading towards his office.
Mordicai nodded, heading out with his men.

Abe got knocked back severely, but remained on his limber feet. He could feel a pulsating in his head that cause a slight dizziness. Abe smirked once more. "I'm sorry, did you punch me or did your mother?"

Just hold him off, that was Abe's only plan of survival. He may not have been the world's best fighter, but he was trained for days like this. To be exceptional in the art of staying alive until help arrived.
Mordicai called it the 'pussy's profession'. Abe called it 'strategy'.

Being lunged at Abe quickly leaned backwards and used his strong legs to push himself down, and under the smoking car. He then crawled out on the other side, quickly flipping Julian the bird.

[Adin]

Paul awoke in one of the typical loveless rooms of the base. Astrids mental blow still made him dizzy, but he felt that is was passing now. He got up and walked over to the door, which was not locked but there were two soldiers on the other side. "Paul ! Thank heavens you're on your feet again. Abe needs you help he ...", the soldiers streat of talking was ended abruptly when the edge of Pauls paw hit his temple. Without being able to say another word the soldier blacked out and fell to the floor. Before the other could react, Paul repeated the procedure on him. Once done he nodded. "I'm sorry guys. I think i did not hurt you.", he said and frowned a little, but a moment later he was already on his way through the base.

Eventually he arrived at the armoury and raided it, just as he had planned. "Astrid, i'm on my way out of the base. Meet you at the burger king in kings road in about three hours. I will hide all this stuff so Seths man won't be able to take it from me. Once we escape we can pick it up again ... it should make getting away easier. Take care, sis.", he send to Astrid before he made his way out of the base. It was suprisingly easy, since everybody was expecting an attack to the main gate, whilst he left on the other side. He had to knock out three more guards.

As fast as he could he made his way to the city, but it took him a while even though he was running like the wind. In the city he was able to travel faster by jumping from building to building again. As he arrived near Seths secret base on the other side of the city, he found it as busy as a beehive. He decided to hide the stuff in an abandoned warehouse not too far from the base, then he hurried back to the meeting point, already looking forward to a triple whopper.

-

"It was nice of you to call your friends like you always do, Abe.", Julian said and jumped onto the roof of the burning car. There he stood like an angel of revenge. "'cause that allows me to test one of our newest gadgets.", he chuckled and jumped down from the car to swing his sword at Abe, but missed. "Don't  bother to try and tell them it's a trap, though. You're jammed.", he added, "For now, it's just you and me ... and a few less intelligent friends of mine all over the place."

What Julian was referring to was a swarm of spider mines that had been dropped earlier by a plane. They were scattered all over the street and it's surrounding. Julian had activated them when Abe had passed and now the area was full of these little devils that would run towards their unsuspecting prey and when they had reached it would jump up to explode at the level of the victims chest. For years Seth had unsuccessfully tried to make them work, but now they were almost perfect only a mere 5% of them malfunctioned in the tests. Julian made use of them now to get his kill count up

[Chiggy Piyo]

Astrid heard Paul's comments and nodded as if he were in the room with her. "Be careful, I hear it's gettin nasty outside."

Now the trick was, her getting out. Sure she had these new, nifty mind tricks she could pull, but she was no where near as quick and agile as Paul was, besides her own natural cat given skills. Open the door to the office, she only saw a few guards with weapons drawn, the halls still glowed red from the alarm system lights. She exited the room, trying not to seem suspicious. All guards were on high alert, so it didn't take long for her to be spotted. One guard quickly approached her. "Astrid, what are you doing out? You need to stay put."
Astrid hunted in her mind for a sly response, but could only come up with one thing. She smiled at the guard and pet his face gingerly with one hand, confusing him. She then sent only a slight shock wave through his brain, leaving him unconscious. She needed not to use the same force she did with Paul, as this guard was significantly weaker. She then called out to the other guards. "Guards! There's a man down!"
The other three men in the hall rushed over and Astrid held him up the best she could. "What happened?" A guard asked, Astrid shook her head. "I'm not sure. We spoke for a minute and then he collapsed. I'll take him to the infirmary."
"Are you sure, Astrid? He's heavy and-"
"That way I can go stay with my brother. Besides there will be guards there too right?"
Little did they know that Paul had taken care of that little problem.
"Besides" she continued. "The rest of your need to do your jobs and stay watch."
Reluctantly the men agreed, and allowed Astrid to leave with the man. She tried to hide the look of strain on her face. Good god how much did this man weigh!? It felt like hours before she made it to the infirmary, where she saw the two unconscious guards. She smiled half heartily. "I guess Paul did make it out safe."
It took a good 20 minutes to get all three men in the room, then assure a quick escape for herself. She left the room and began heading for a back exit when she halted. Just standing in the middle of the empty, red lit hall she thought...
It was the right thing to leave. She wanted to meet her brother in three hours but... what if Abe and Mordicai weren't safe?
Sure Cai pissed her off the other day but...
Turning back around she twisted her lips. "Hold on Paul, hopefully this won't take long at all."

-

Attempting to slip past the large cat, Abe accidentally nudged against the electrified on, send a good shock through out his nervous system. He cursed, turning his fall from surprised into a sumer salt. "Good greif, you could lite an entire city with the juice he's got in the piece of shit." He held his shoulder, cursing in his mind. "Mordicai if you don't get your ass here soon, I'm gonna haunt you for the rest of your life."

He searched his mind for ideas. Anything, come on it's obvious he was gonna tire out soon from just dodging... what to do, what to do...

Run.

Laughing at his own fear, he then darted away from the man, as quickly as he could. He was fast, but not amazing. Any time he felt the presence of the other near him, he would stop abruptly, and turn around the other way. Basically his strategy had turned into a humiliating game of cat and mouse. And he was the rodent.

-

Astrid had made it outside towards where Mordicai and the other's had left. She didn't see them, assuming they were well on their way to Abe, if not there already. Perhaps she should run away, that would be the most logical answer. They were no where to be seen, just leave and meet Paul. But she couldn't find it in her to. It was almost as if, knowing Paul wasn't there, gave her the courage to be stupid or attempt to play hero. She used her senses to try locate the others...

Abe was a good dash straight ahead... Mordicai and the others weren't far off. She began heading in their direction, the wind blowing through her black hair and stimulating her whiskers. Her adrenaline pumped almost with excitement, but also fear of stupidity. It would take her long...

-

Abe had received plenty of blows from Julian. His attempts at dodging him only worked from time to time until the foe would trap him in his own game, striking down a blow more often then not with his electrified arm. Abe felt himself getting dizzy as finally his left leg gave out on him and he dropped down on the ground with a slight cry. His clothes were battered and torn, covered in blood. He could feel his leg snap with that last maneuver. Struggling to turn onto his back he stared at Julian and smirked... still trying to use his twisted sense of humor to bide him more time.

Any minute now... any minute the others would be there...

Gasping for air, as well as trying to ignore the writhing pain in his leg, he spoke. "Well, guess we can't tango anymore."

Damn it Mordicai... where were you?

Just as he thought that, his hear twitched hearing the quick movement of feet. Several... good he brought a few men.

-

Astrid tried to hurry, unsure of exactly lay ahead. She hardly paid attention to anything around her. Her mistake...
Further down the road, one of the spider bombs located her as a target and quickly shot towards her. Everything then became slow motion. One of Astrid's senses exploded with warning and she turned to see something coming towards her. It wasn't clear, it almost seemed like a pebble, a small rock that had been kicked up by her running. But her guarded senses told her otherwise. With one swift moment, she held both arms crossed in front of her, as if to guard herself. She closed her eyes tight and just thought to herself... it has to stop, stop, just stop!

Right as she thought that, the little bomb suddenly halted, floating in mid air. Astrid opened her eyes,. confused. She stared at the tiny object... what the?
Then it occurred to her. She thought carefully with her mind, and the object when left... then right... holy shit.
She was controlling it.
She then remembered how Mordicai mentioned that with little time, soon she would learn to control objects and possibly people with just her mind. Perhaps her panic in the situation allowed her to grasp it.
At the same moment, a few other of the bombs had flown towards her and she attempted it again, succeeding. Soon, she had 4 of the bombs floating around her, as if following her like lost puppies. She smirked. "Maybe I really will be able to help. She then ran, expecting to grab up any more traps she might have to along the way.

-

As mordicai and the other's approached, Abe shouted. "Watch yourselves! He hid bombs!"
Just as he said that, one of the hidden spider bombs approached of the the guards, exploding into his chest and sent him flying backwards. He was dead upon impact.
Mordicai gripped his teeth and shoved his men in different areas. "Damn it Abe!" he shouted. "Stop gettin into trouble!"
Abe smirked half heartedly, still in pain. "What can I say? Everyone wants a piece of this!"

Mordicai stared at Julian and growled loudly. "Your done for, you prick!"

-

Astrid finally found the area where the other's were fighting. She hid behind a large rock and stared, still with several little bombs floating around her. She saw Abe was down, so was another man... and so much blood. She hunted with her eyes for the attacker and quickly spotted him. He seemed to be wearing some sort of armor and at the moment, he had his back to her. She growled.

"Alright..." she whispered, her voice shaky. "Let's see what else I can do."
Then with a great force, she thrust her arm in the direction of the man, and the bombs flew towards Julian.

[Adin]

Paul finally got his whopper, shake, fries and all. He sat down at one of the tables on the sidewalk and began eating happily. Meat had always made him happy, even if it was just in a burger like this. When he was finished he stayed as his table and looked around for Astrid. She was still not to be seen anywhere. "Sis, are you ok ?", he quickly send to her and leaned back in his chair, just closing his eyes for a moment. Slowly, but constandly he got more and more worried. The young leopard wondered if he should go back for her, but then again, if she was really in danger he was sure that she would just send him a call for help.

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Justin stooped over Abe. "No.", he said and shook his had, "No more Tango. I'm sorry Abe.", he continued and the funny thing was that he actually sounded serious. He lifted his steel claw up to land the final blow on poor Abe but just at that moment the others showed up and he brought himself to his full height, growling menacingly. "Mordicai ...", he began andd was interrupted by the explosion of the spiderrmine, "... you better save your ass.", he continued. Quickly, he pushed some buttons on the pad that was strapped to his arm and coordinated the attack of the spidermines, to make them more efficient.

Just a asecond later he suddently froze, feeling some unknown danger. Another second later his ears rang and he would surely have been killed, but to those who watches he completely disappeared when the first spidermine exploded. It was very unlikely, however, that the mine had disintegrated him completely. Nonetheless the only thing that could be found from him was the coat he had dropped earlier, and the spidermines that continued to hunt even after he disappeared.

Justin actually reappeared in Seths base and collappsed to the ground, crying out in pain and holding his ears. A vixen was sitting on a chair not far from him and ran to him calling out for help as she did so. "Justin !, she cried out, "Justin what happened. Please don't do this to me." Only a few moments later the doctors arrived and took care of him. They told her that Justin had suffered a trauma from the explosion, but would survive it ... all thanks to her. This helped a little. She rubbed her temples and sat down again, sobbing silently. Nex time she would pay more attention to what was going on.

OOC: Sorry, short and i took a while. o.o

[Chiggy Piyo]

(ooc- hehe it's ok, hope you've been having fun )

Hearing the explosion, plus feeling all of the side effects of standing without a 100 foot radius, took it's tole on most around. Astrid pushed herself against her rock, eyes closed tightly and hands over her head to protect herself from any flying debris. Once the smoke had calmed, Mordicai hurried to Abe's side, and forced him to stand, allowing Abe to put a arm around his neck for support. Abe moaned in pain, then smirked. "My night in shining armor."
"Are you ok?" Moridcai questioned, eying his partner up and down. Abe laughed, then winced from the pain.
"Should I say yes? That way you don't start panicking."
"If you said said I would punch you for waiting so long to call us."
"Then no, I'm pretty sure my ribs are broken... maybe my brain too."
Mordicai just shook his head, signaling for the other to come assist. Tho he commanded one man to tend to their other fallen. It was apparent since impact he was dead, but they'd need to transport him back to base for a proper burriel.

While helping Abe along Abe asked them. "What was that explosion?"
Mordicai shook his head. "I think all those little bombs he planted came back to haunt him."
"Karma's a bitch."
"Perhaps in this case."

--

Astrid let out a sigh of relief when she saw Julian had disappeared. Still, she didn't want to let her presence known. Carefully creeping from behind the rock, she watched the other's movements carefully, tryin sure not to be seen. Of course she wanted to tell Mordicai she was the one who helped and that she was leaving but... perhaps Paul was right in leaving without word.
Besides, it wasn't like they couldn't find them if they tried.

Still slowly creeping, she heard Paul in her head. She smirked. "I'm fine... let's just say I got a tad distracted. I'll be there in about 30 minutes."

Soon, Astrid was safe enough to allow herself to stand upright, and as quickly as she could, made her way to the Burger king. Coming closer to the entrance she noticed a smell... her. She smelt of smoke and debris and her mind pleaded desperately for a shower. That would have to wait, she entered and found where Paul was sitting and she sat directly across from him and let out a large sigh. "Sorry about that..." She smiled.