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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 28, 2007 21:06:42 GMT -5
Xiao was completely caught off guard by Glimmer's sudden reckless charge. For just a flicker of a moment, he mentally superimposed an image of Kamui with her blade-fan doing much the same thing.
"What the---?!" Xiao only manage to say before he was jabbed with the stun gun.
Two small items, a strange TV remote device called a 'WaterMask Tool' and the scrambler, went flying from his grip and skidded across the pavement.
"The scrambler! Noo!" Xiao yelped.
Now anyone with a radio can be heard again with the scrambler destroyed. Xiao was down right furious. He whipped out a gun.
"I'll make you wish you were dead RIGHT NOW!" Xiao snarrled.
He was about to shoot when a flurry of gold plated metal blades blocked him. The owner of those blades was Kamui herself. She only barely managed one eye open. Her vision was quite blurry with pain. Her breaths were short and strained and her teeth gritted.
"T-t-that's as f-far as y-y-y-you go, du-dude," Kamui managed to say.
In the background, another batch of hummers were being plowed through like bowling pins by a certain highly irratble and worried semi. Xiao's men were dwindling down.
"Y-y-you may have s-shot m-m-me..... b-but..... I-I won't go d-d-down without a f-fight. B-besides.... y-you're.... o-o-outnumbered and o-outmatched a-and outclassed. W-why don't you s-s-surender? Eh?" Kamui managed to say.
Xiao quickly weighed his options before giving the 'abort mission' signal to his men and tossing a small vial in to the ground creating a thick smoke screen for him and his crew to escape. Kamui coughed on the smoke. When it cleared, the only traces of Steele's henchemen were tire tracks in the dirt as well as visable signs of a fight. Things were still blurry for Kamui, but she could just manage to make out Kim's figure.
"A-alright.... I-I can tell y-y-you e-everything I kn-know on Doctor S-S-Selen Steele i-in-in exchange f-for my f-f-freed-dom. S-s-sound fair?" Kamui managed to say between gritted teeth.
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Post by fierano on Apr 28, 2007 21:42:07 GMT -5
"Glimmer...can you pick up? The signal should be repaired." The Managers, naturally, came in loud and clear. "Yes...sure. Go ahead." Another answer by Glimmer for both Kamui and the Managers. "Good. We've lost the signals for the people who attacked you, but the Shooter who lured you out might have some information on them..."
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"And don't you come back!" Barnes shouted - after he finished coughing while the smoke cleared. He looked around, and when his vision cleared, he spotted one blue and one black-and-yellow figure elsewhere in the field. He trudged on over to them, his presence easily dominating the conversation...
"Jens! Are you all right!? Did she hurt you?"
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"Hello? Any help here?" Kim was elsewhere in the field, still undercarriage-up. "Uh...help an officer in need?"
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 28, 2007 21:51:48 GMT -5
"I d-didn't hurt h-him. Y-yo! I'm the one w-who w-was shot.... t-twice...." Kamui managed to say.
She winced a bit.
"I-I think K-Kimmy-boy n-needs a l-little bit of h-help..." said kamui.
She wouldn't have been able to help Kim out right now..... especially when she would have trouble focusing her senses to find him in her pained blindness.
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Post by fierano on Apr 28, 2007 21:57:08 GMT -5
"Okay, but don't you two go anywhere or you'll get Rocked." Barnes replied, trying to sound tough. He went over to Kim, and started to try nudging him over. Of course, it was hard to do that with a sports car with a relatively low center of gravity.
"Ow! Hey, watch the roof! I just got that painted!" "You want to get back on your wheels or not?"
Meanwhile, Glimmer made fascial expressions like he was weighing his options...although he (i.e. his Managers) had already decided. If anything, he felt her relatively worse state of health compared to his own could serve as a lesson never to mess with him again.
"Go on...tell me about Ms. Steele. After which you can return to the track...unless you'll need assistance."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 28, 2007 22:04:07 GMT -5
"I-I think.... t-that I'll n-need a l-l-little help with this..... I-I can't c-concentrate on a-anything worth a d-damn u-until....it's d-dealt with..... I-it hurts.... l-l-like hell....." Kamui managed to say.
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Post by fierano on Apr 28, 2007 22:06:52 GMT -5
It was then that Glimmer remembered that he still had that first-aid kit on him. He withdrew it and started to work on the rest of the wounds. "Remember...don't try anything funny..." As cold as he tried to sound, one could tell by his voice that he was still pretty shaken up from what just happened.
===meanwhile!===
"Dammit! I told you, watch the roof!" "I'm not about to insult an officer, okay! I just want to help!"
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 28, 2007 22:15:14 GMT -5
El Bandito was watching the situation between Barns versus Kim. It would have been far more comedic if it weren't for the fight that happened earlier.
"Y--yeah..... I'm f-full of humor.... t-the q-q-queen of pure w-wit..... Uh.... I-I'll try..... j-just do something......" said Kamui.
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Post by fierano on Apr 29, 2007 2:50:58 GMT -5
Glimmer smirked very sarcastically as he started working on the damaged spoiler. Even though he was built as sturdy as Mercedes' can get, he was still fairly shaky. The bandages wouldn't look like they'd been applied professionally.
=== "There you go, that didn't hurt too much now, did it?" Kim winced at his scratched roof. "I'll get that Shooter if it's the last thing I do!" he growled, before also moving away, back toward the main road.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 29, 2007 7:41:05 GMT -5
"Y-you know..... I-I can still sorta s-see you outta m-my one good m-m-mirror..... I-I'm NOT c-completely blind.....! N-now's NOT the t-time for you t-to be all s-stupid again and m-mean and s-stuff. Want me t-to tell you what I k-know of w-w-what.....?" Kamui managed to say.
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Post by fierano on Apr 29, 2007 7:59:18 GMT -5
"I'm not trying to be mean...I just want us to help each other out of this." He didn't actually think that by "trying anything funny" Kamui literally meant "ha-ha funny." Still, he tried not to let himself get shaken up any further. "Ms. Steele. That lady who...converted your friend."
Barnes came back from helping Kim get away. "Jens...Ms. Exan...you guys need any help there?"
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 29, 2007 20:56:55 GMT -5
"I... I saw y-you grin," said Kamui, "P-please be g-gentle about it. Hurts like h-hell. I mean h-how would you f-feel if you took a b-bullet to the spoiler? N-not that great unless y-you're like one of those g-guys who like pain f-for er..... you know.... a-actually en-enjoy it? P-please tell me y-you're not.... that j-just.... just... ugghhh...."
Kamui went to one of her compartments and fumbled for a small container of painkillers. When she brought it out, she fumbled with the lid.
"S-steele...... not a woman to t-take lightly. She near the top of this o-organization called 'F.I.B.B.E.R' - Federal Intelligance Beaureau of Better Extreme R-realtions. T-these guys work way above the l-law.... even above t-the CIA...! I kn-know this much from when s-she attacked me more than a y-year ago," sadi Kamui.
It was then she heard Barnes.
"Uh.... y-you know..... co-could be better. N-nothing like having the sc-scrap kicked outta you b-by one of your w-worst enemies," said Kamui.
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Post by fierano on Apr 30, 2007 22:47:38 GMT -5
"Believe me...I've suffered pain worse than a bullet to the spoiler before..." Glimmer replied softly. "Much worse."
"FIBBER? Information we already know about her," the Managers replied disappointingly. "Finish helping out Ms. Exan, then get to our facility at once."
Barnes looked a bit puzzled by her sarcasm. Still, he felt some obligation to help. "You sure you don't need help getting back to the stadium? The trailer can hold two, you know..."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 1, 2007 7:23:04 GMT -5
Kamui was weighing her options and was going to reply when she saw the WaterMask tool on the ground. She went and picked it up and looked it over. She frowned at it.
"This.... this is extremely bad. I thought that the hummers were able to manipulate water because Ira was nearby but..... but it looks like this carries a piece of Ira's staff, the Baton D'eau. Normally, only Shooters would be able to use the splinters from her staff like this. But it looks like with this device, ANYONE could use it and manipulate water with it. It explains the hummers' ability to disguise themselves too. You see.... there's a water based technique called "The Water Mask" which allows someone to take on someone else's identity for a while. But with this and anyone in possesion of it..... anyone could use it and could sneak around undetected. This is extremely bad. Steele's engineering, no doubt," said Kamui.
She glanced up at everyone.
"That also means..... Steele may have upgraded herself again and enhanced her abilities further," said Kamui in a worried tone.
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Post by fierano on May 1, 2007 10:51:26 GMT -5
Glimmer had finished applying the bandages when Kamui moved over to pick up the strange water-tool that the aggressors had used only moments ago. Barnes stared it like a child finding something weird. Jens though, was very tempted to ask for it, though he stopped himself when he realized that it could inadvertently result in a revelation about his own Managers.
"Water mask? So FIBBER's dabbling in the dark arts as well." Glimmer nodded from the Managers' latest observation. "Natural stealth seems promising," they added, recalling their racer's near-invisibility under all that rock.
"What do you propose we do about that 'Water Mask?'" Glimmer asked, trying to keep it ambiguous.
((Can't El Bandito hear what the Managers are saying to Glimmer?))
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Post by Kamui.EXE on May 1, 2007 21:03:40 GMT -5
(OOC: El Bandito's observing right now. He sometimes stops to observe and saves that information for later "Tests/Challenges" for Glimmer. )
"Well.... I'm going to hang on to this for now. It contains a Shooter artifact and I don't think it would be a good thing to have something like that to go missing," said Kamui.
...... Already, in the German branch of our clan, there are still two outstanding artifacts still missing since World War Two when the Jewish branch of our clan was completely wiped out. It's assumed those last two pieces are in privet collections. But to have one more Shooter item go missing even if it is just a splinter is quite bad.... Kamui mentally reflected.
She glanced up at Barnes and noted his child-like curiosity. He reminded her of one really REALLY big kid.
"Hmm..... my energy's like below zero righgt now... I wonder....." Kamui muttered.
She waved around the device a little bit. Before long, little whips of water formed at the tip.
"Well! So it can be used no matter what my energy level is. And for some reason, I get the feeling the device enhanses the splinter's power," said Kamui.
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