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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 15, 2007 20:49:50 GMT -5
(OOC: She has armor on, remember? She can keep track of a few sounds, but not all of them. Furthermore.... nails on a chalkboard doesn't bother everyone. I'm one of those people who isn't bugged. XD ) Kamui shrugged. "Fine with me," she said with a shrug. But she was suddenly interuppted when a whip of water from an unknown source whipped itself between them. She glanced in the direction it came from and saw Ira Voiture and quite a few military Hummvees. Kamui froze in shock. "H-honourable lady I-ira....?!" said Kamui sharply. There was another flurry of attacks from Ira, the midnight black Shooter woman, as a response. Kamui just barely managed to dodge them. There were a few attacks that managed to do some damage to her. SCRAP! She's breaking every Shooter philosophy and rule out there! And those Hummers..... what the hell's going on?"STOP! I would like a word with Miss Exan," said a voice. Kamui recognized it but she couldn't see the source of it. "Doctor Steele," Kamui snarrled. "My! You are a smart one, Miss Exan. Like te imrpovements I've made on Miss Voiture? She makes an effective Manchurian Canidate. She does quite well on the kill-on-comand catagory, don't you think?" said Dr. Steele. Dr. Steele was quite well hidden with an effective escape route to move about unseen. "WHY? WHY HER? YOU DIRTY ROTTEN LOSER!" Kamui snapped. "Temper! Temper! You're still as firey as the last time we met," said Dr. Steele. Kamui just snarrled. Dr. Steel gave her orders. "Kill the Shooter! But spair the German! I want him alive!" ordered Dr. Steele. It was then the Hummers brought up their weapons and opened fire. Kamui felt the seering pain of a bullet going inbetween the armor plates and strike her in the mirror. She knew that herself and Glimmer were no better than sitting ducks right now. She had to think of a plan and fast. She glanced around quickly. It was then she saw a well. She remembered what Nevada had told her on the way over to Bristol about all the wells here being linked by an underground cave system and how the water had been dried up for a while. Kamui only had one shot at this. She took her Blade-fan and shot off in two different directions and kicked up enough dust for a large and rather effective smoke screen. Kamui grabbed Glimmer. "Don't act like an idiot! Come on!" Kamui barked. Hell over highwater, she would drag him over to the well no matter what and push him in. It was their best escape option. Kamui leapt in shortly after and used the Blade-fan to collapse in the top of the well to block anyone from following them. There was a large cave system before them. Kamui flicked on her headlights and motioned for Glimmer to follow. "This way! It's our best shot of escaping! My diversion will only last a little while," said Kamui quickly. (OOC: Okay.... a few notes: Ira = has the ability to control water with a large staff. Cave = it'll take at least until morning to make it to the cave's exit point. I figured this would be a good time for Kamui-Glimmer teamwork *Le gasp!* and probably a nifty chance to play around with their characters a little. Oh! And just for the record...... since this is solid rock, neither Kamui or Glimmer could call for help on their radios or any means of contact with anyone. Also.... I've set up a Kamui-emo moment in all this too. Yup! This was my big plan that I was alluding to with Dr. Steele and Ira. ^^ )
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Post by fierano on Apr 16, 2007 0:07:55 GMT -5
Glimmer's glance turned quickly at the sight of whoever the hell it was who brought their private army with them.
"Steele." came a cold, growling reply through Glimmer's intercom. "This must have been a trap by Ms. Exan. Do what you can to get out and away from both of them." Glimmer nodded - whether at Kamui or the Managers was unknown...but he wouldn't be getting anywhere too fast with his rear tires shorted out unless he could get himself to go AWD like his DTM days.
Glimmer took a good look at Steele and her companion. Robot killers? Anybody can make or train those. But she looks...rather sassy. He smirked at the two of them even though he found it semi-perplexing that they weren't training their sights on him...at least not yet. Of course, he had little time to hope that the two Shooters would kill themselves off before he was dragged into a dark well.
Once inside the cave system though, Glimmer felt he had no choice but to follow Kamui for now...with his rear tires disabled and having only decal stickers for "headlamps," he'd literally be lost without her.
Of course...it wasn't as if a dark, lonely, unlit tunnel didn't get him thinking of something else...
((Baaaad flashback time!))
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"This is not good. We still barely have Jens' GPS but no communication signals. How the hell did Steele come into the equation?" "We need to corner her there. But we cannot cause a media frenzy, especially with Mr. Carmichael en route." "Upload her data into FBI databases, get local police support in too." "I'll put in a call to Sergeant Kim ASAP. He's sputtering to get back in the spotlight." "Keep air support to a minimum but make sure we can get a perimeter. GPS the entire area."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 16, 2007 4:45:55 GMT -5
"How the hell did that little freak find us? I completely thought Doctor Steele went in to hiding after we kicked her crew's axils a year or two back. And..... she's got Ira....." said Kamui half muttering.
Maybe it was only a few minutes later of following the cave system when Kamui growled again.
"DAMN IT! Ira broke every rule there is to our clan while under Steele's control! That means.... that means.... she's going to die. Even if we spair her, she won't spair herself! DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT! And that'll be the end of Voiture House! Without a Head, there will be an extintion of the branch! Damn it! Damn Steele! That freak knew exactky what she was doing! Damn it!" Kamui snarled as she slammed her tires down a few times out of pure fustration and even now some of her own pain.
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Post by fierano on Apr 16, 2007 6:22:51 GMT -5
Glimmer would have consoled her, but he didn't. Not because he didn't care (even though he didn't,) not because he hated Kamui (which he did, still very much!), but more because he actually had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. The entire concept of car "houses" sounded like something from the samurai age of Japan. He could not help but think of how archaic the whole concept sounded...but eventually he realized he had to say something good in order for them to get out alive.
Or at least increase their chances while the Managers called in local law enforcement...
"Look...sometimes it is inevitable that we lose our own loved ones," Glimmer began in a variant of his monotone that was stern yet somewhat fatherly, "When your own life is threatened by someone, you have no choice but to defend it for all its worth."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 16, 2007 6:30:37 GMT -5
Kamui paused.
"We're not just talking about one person initially here.... we're talking thousands. You see, Ira IS the new Head and Heads of Houses aren't just randomly chosen. They are chosen by the stars and star charts by the House Elders. That process takes years and years to do. But if a Shooter breaks nearly all the laws and rules of our teachings and philosophies, they die either by the royal guards taking the Head's life or by the Head taking their OWN life. And without a Head to the House, that branch of the House gets disbanded and split up in to the other Houses where we have only time and evolution as their exicutioner. So even if Ira was brought back to who she origionally was without either of us ending her life, she'd end her own..... and there's no one to replace her either. The Voiture House would be no more. That's why I said Doctor Steele knew exactly what she was doing when she turned Ira in to one of her canidates," said Kamui.
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Post by fierano on Apr 16, 2007 7:03:30 GMT -5
Glimmer perfectly understood what she was getting at...though he would need more study on the history of Shooter culture if he could give a better answer. That did not cause his tone to get any tamer. "Look, it is NOT the end of the world when bad things happen to us. You already know my own little sob story. I moved on from that, but even though I still have a way to go, I could not have done it without help."
He then gestured around the darkness. "We're here in this tunnel. There are people who will hunt us down if we do not move on. The only way to go is forward. Out of here and this darkness. And neither of us can do it without each other's help."
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 16, 2007 8:16:26 GMT -5
Kamui sighed.
"I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
But just for the record.... I'm NOT talking about a
past event," said Kamui.
She paused yet again to pull out a first aid kit
and a few tires. She looked over the first aid kit
and tensed up a little bit before passing it off to
Glimmer.
"Here. Take care of yourself first," said Kamui
slightly monotone herself.
She removed most of her armor safe for the one
piece the bullet pinned to her mirror. Kamui tried
pulling it out, but it was much too painful for her
to do it on her own.
<<Ah! Da iatrophobiah, 'gain. She realleh 'atez
dockt'rz an' med stuff. But.... if she lea'v'z dat
bull't in, it'll onleh becom' infekt'd.>> El
Bandito remarked.
(OOC: And that's Glimmer's opportunity to be just a
bit spiteful if he wishes to do so. XD lol!)
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Post by fierano on Apr 16, 2007 10:32:54 GMT -5
Glimmer hrumphed as Kamui handed him the first aid kit and extra tires. Right now, his only real injuries were his own shredded tires...but they were in the back. He could coordinate the operation, but right now he needed two things: "I could use a little light, you know. And a little help reaching back there."
He eyed Kamui's wound and sighed. "I'll help you with that wound if you can help me with these tires..."
((Wouldn't cars need someone else to help them with their tires?))
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Sgt. Kim was smiling as he made his way past the stadium with several unmarked cruisers in a convoy. He had been radioed the location of what he hoped would be the bounty of a lifetime, and he'd be damned if his net came up empty again. At the very least, Kim hoped that he could catch that shooter whose friends bailed her last time...
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"Glimmer's not moving much from his location..." "Verdammt. She must have him hostage. If he died his GPS would stop functioning." "His tires got shredded, maybe he's getting them repaired." "We'd better hope so...and where the hell is Kim!?"
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 16, 2007 10:53:09 GMT -5
(OOC: Probably.)
Kamui much didn't like proding around anyone with anything.
"Al-alright. Fine. But you didn't see anythin-thing," said Kamui.
Be brave.... be brave..... you can do this.....
With some hesitation, she got to work.
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Post by fierano on Apr 16, 2007 10:56:02 GMT -5
Glimmer sighed, sometimes winced as Kamui worked on his tires. Still, out of all courtesy, he was inclined to add..."I appreciate this. Thank you." He said it softly, but with a hint of worry...who knew if anybody else had already entered the cave system.
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 16, 2007 11:28:54 GMT -5
Kamui sighed.
"No problem. Flats usually are asking for trouble anyways," said Kamui.
She quickly finished up.
"Alright. It's done," said Kamui.
Now came the part kamui dreaded - bullet removal.
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Post by fierano on Apr 16, 2007 11:41:43 GMT -5
((Recap for Tracker, whom I've invited: So Kamui and Glimmer's fight started off as Glimmer expected...with Kamui pawning him while he continued to shoot his mouth off. Then Steele suddenly appeared with her posse and forced the two to escape into the cave system...))
Glimmer gave his tires a little spin and circled Kamui a bit just to make sure they weren't sabotaged. Finding them okay (at least until they got out of the cave), he picked up the first-aid kit without a word.
"Let's move to a different spot first. No doubt we're still sitting ducks if we stay here. I'll operate when we get there."
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Post by Tracker89 on Apr 16, 2007 11:59:15 GMT -5
Andy arrived in front of the warehouse, which seemed quiet and abandoned from the outside. The blue Audi's lower half was slightly dirtied up by the Managers' route, but it was nothing a quick wash couldn't fix.
He hesitated as he approached the building, thinking that this was the perfect place for Mafias and other powerful organisations to hide their car crushers and take care of "undesirables" with them, but he continued moving forward when he decided that he had rented too many action movie DVDs the day before.
He stuck his front half through the front entrance of the warehouse, looking to see if anyone was there.
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Post by fierano on Apr 16, 2007 12:04:04 GMT -5
((And right now...I have to sleep. X.=.x Someone can puppet Kim and the Managers, I'll take care of Glimmer in the morning. Nighty!))
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Post by Kamui.EXE on Apr 16, 2007 13:08:37 GMT -5
"D-did you have to say 'operate?'" Kamui half
grumbled as she moved on forward.
It'll be at least until morning when we get to
the end of the cave....
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<EARLIER....>
Dr. Steele's search for Kamui and Glimmer came up
cold. She growled and cursed under her breath. When
hope seemed lost, one of Steele's techies came up.
"We've found something," said the techie.
"Please. Do tell," said Dr. Steele.
"We've found a faint GPS signal comming from quite
some ways from here," said the Techie.
"What's the source? Who's is it?"
"Appears to be from our quarry. Encoded....
Managers' style."
"The O'Flarety Code?"
"Yes."
"Indeed their style. But we can handle that. Decode
it and follow it. We need to beat them there first.
Also.... be certain that we ourselves aren't
detected."
"Yes, Doctor."
"And remember, I want the German alive and the
Shooter dead."
The techie pauses for a moment before speaking, "it
seems the Police are alerted to the presence of our
quarry."
"Then I give the orders to move out and follow the
signal. Leave no trace or evidence of yourselves
anywhere. We should NOT appear as though we've been
here," Dr. Steele ordered.
The techie gave a curt nod.
"Understood."
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<CURRENTLY....>
Anyone comming to the sight of the Duel would find
no trace of anyone being there. No trace of Steele
and her crew. No trace of Kamui and no trace of
Glimmer even. It was as though all the previous
events that occured there never even exsisted...
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