The Cold Secrets RPG [Chapter 5]

[Dave]

Fisher maintained his composure. Inside, he was growing more and more angry. As far as he was concerned, Slade was working for him. That he should go behind his back was outrageous.
Because of the way Fisher thought, he had believed that in forming a partnerhip, Slade would have to report to him. But this was just a personal foible.
Fisher looked at Slade amiably enough. "Yes, that was when I saw Dan- Arrow, if you please. And had he not distracted me, I would likely have the boy under my command now. As it stands ... I've been shot, and he got away."
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Art had heard the words Dimensional Containment Factor and grew cold. He'd had a brush with them before: in one of his first assignments as a bounty hunter, he'd been hired to capture a zombie-like creature that had escaped their offices. They'd paid him a handsome sum for bringing it back, but they had severely given him the creeps. Particularly the man he'd interacted with. Macker, his name had been.
"I think I know where to go," he said matter of factly.

[Havoc]

Charger waited tensely as he heard the guard coming for the door. He couldn't exactly hear if there was one or two of them. But he would have to take his chances.
A few seconds later, the guard stepped into the room, not seeing Elfair who was hiding crouching behind the desk.
'What the...' the guard mumbled as he saw the water bottle. As he walked up to it to examine, Charger saw his moment and leaped out of the airvent. He had to suppres the urge to do it with a loud roar, as it would alert the other guard in the wrong way. As Charger landed in the guys back, he jammed the guy against a wall and he was out cold in no time.
'That went... smooth...' he said, looking at Elfair. 'Grab his gun as well.'
He went for the door and shut it to a small crack. He used it to overlook the lobby. The other guard didn't seem to have noticed what had happened, and was still chatting away. For a moment Charger even concidered just walking out, and the idiot probably still wouldn't notice. But, as fun as that sounded, he didn't want to take any chances. But how were they going to get out of here...
He looked at the guard that was out cold, then looked at Elfair.
'We're close...' he said. 'Put on that guy's uniform, it will draw less attention to you when you head for the door. I'l come after you when you reach the door, alright?'

---

'DCO?' Kaira wondered, then looked up to Art when he said he knew where to go. 'Well where?! Where is he, lets go!'

[Gretin]

Olivia decided to use this time while they were likely not paying attention to her to communicate with Slade. It would be tricky, doing it in such a way as to not show any outward signs, but she was sure she could manage. She concentrated, making sure that she made no movements visible to the others...

<•-•-•-•-•>

If it had been one of Slade's own workers complaining about being distracted by someone and shot, he would have burst out with something along the lines of You allowed yourself to be distracted and shot at? But as it was, he simply said, "I'm surprised someone of your status was able to be stopped by a mere gun, but that's beside the point. I have stated how things were from my point of view and I have nothing more to add."
He paused for a moment, then held up a hand, "Hold on, I have a feeling you may be interested in this."
He turned slightly and a shadowy form of Olivia appeared on the other side of his desk.
"Slade," she spoke hurriedly, and her voice sounded almost like she was underwater, "I apologize for the poor quality, but as I'm still with the group so I can't concentrate fully." She looked curiously at Fisher for a moment, but didn't comment, "I'll get to the point - Dave has returned with the eagle and the cats, and the group have decided to try to rescue their friend 'Charger' from the Dimensional Containment Factor. I have heard no mention whatsoever of Arrow, nor any word from him, so I assume he failed. What would you have me do?"

Slade didn't answer straight away, but looked quizzically at Fisher to wait for his response.

[Splat]

"Wow, it's been a long time since I've heard so many things that could go wrong. What if the guy stops me, if I come out of the office won't he be surprised that I'm not his partner?" She looked at Charger's face and sighed. "And no, I don't have a better idea. But I'd be appreciative if you'd stand against a wall or something while I changed my clothes. I guess your little punching bag taught me to be picky about these things."

She changed quickly into the guards clothes, hating being confined again, then nodded at Charger. "Let me guess, I get the door open and you come blasting through?" Somewhere in her head she made a comparison with that and it took a few seconds for her to remember what it was. Then she thought of getting out of a car in the rain where the person in the coat would run to the door and open it while the others would sit in the dry and wait till they could run in.
And i'm the one with the coat, she thought bitterly.

Thinking about her home put her in a bad mood and she pushed the thoughts aside and stepped out of the office as quiently as she could manage. The guy in the lobby hadn't noticed her and she moved down the corridor a little way and then turned and walked up, trying to look like she'd come from down the corridor and hoping she looked more masculine now than she'd looked drunk before and fifty other things all at once.
Before she was really aware of it she was at the door at the opposite end of the room to the guard. She tried to door.
it was locked. She cursed mentally as one of the people in the room turned to her, "Don't you have a card-key?"
She stuffed her hands inside her pockets to hide her claws in case the guy speaking to her happened to look and acted as if she was digging through them. She didn't turn around, her teeth would give her away instantly. Then she mumbled a "Yeah, just checking," trying to make her voice deep and more masculine as she rummaged through her pockets. She felt more eyes watching her and the guard had stopped talking.
Any second now tiger boy.

[Havoc]

Charger turned to look the other way as she changed clothes, respecting and understanding her wishes.
'Yea he sure is a bastard...' he mumbled.
When Elfair stepped out of the office, Charger kept an eye on the situation from inside the office. He could just oversee the lobby, and the glass exit door Elfair was heading too. He tried to see trough the glass. Outside was a small parking lot, and what seemed to be a rather deserted mountain road. He suddenly realized he had no idea where they were, or what to do when they got out. But everything beats staying here, that was for sure. They would just have to improvise.
Except for the other guard in the lobby there wasn't any security personel whatsoever. It made him question why, surely with an escape he expected more security at the exit. As he looked over some of the hallways leading into the lobby, he suddenly understood why there was barely any security here. Each hall had a security gate that had been closed during the alarm, probably under the assumption that it would contain them to the lower levels. Why do big buildings like this always fail to count in the airvents?
From his spot in the office he noticed that Elfair had run into a bit of trouble, looked like he had to start improvising a little bit ahead of scedual. He picked up on the words key-card, then looked for other ways of getting trough that door. The glass looked to be armored, there was no way he would get trough that with a shoulder bust. They would need another key-card... and if the guard they knocked out didn't have one, then maybe the other guy had.
He kept observing for a moment longer, then the other guard noticed Elfair and started to approuch her. Charger took his chance there and rushed out the office.
Before the guard could even comprehend what was going on, Charger was on his back and send him flying into a nearby pillar. As so many before him, this guy was out cold soon enough and Charger quickely searched pockets untill he found the keycard they were looking for.
'THERE!' he heard behind him. 'Stop them! Get this gate up damnit!'
Hey, it was Jack. And he was trapped behind the gates.
'Bye Jack!' Charger yelled at him from accross the lobby and ran for the door, quickely sweeping the card trough the reader. The door snapped open and he dragged Elfair along with him. He looked behind him once more just to see how the gate was starting to open up again.
'Go go go!' he yelled.

[Dave]

"I'm surprised someone of your status was able to be stopped by a mere gun, but that's beside the point. I have stated how things were from my point of view and I have nothing more to add."
Fisher was outraged. He was about to argue that Slade didn't understand the situation. Fisher knew that the boy had a wider and more involved influence in person than one would think, and clearly more than Slade was giving the boy credit for. The boy was probably all the more powerful since he had no knowledge of his skill to muddle up the use of his power.
But before Fisher could verbalize all this ... Slade paused for a moment, then held up a hand, "Hold on, I have a feeling you may be interested in this."
He turned slightly and a shadowy form of Olivia appeared on the other side of his desk.
"Slade ... (etc. etc. etc.) ... What would you have me do?"
Fisher noted that Slade had turned to him for a response. He contemplated briefly, and began to speak hesitatinly. "Under no circumstances is the boy - David - to be harmed. If you can find a way to bring him here, it would be ideal. But as things stand, he is too well protected."
An answer came to Fisher then, all at once. Maybe not the answer, but an answer all the same.
"We need to remove his friends. The tiger people and those cats and that eagle and that scruffy guy. I don't care how it's done, but our targets should be his party. Without them to come to his rescue, the boy will be vulnerable."
---
Art gave Kaira a nervous look. "We'll have to take a trip back to The Community."
Streak looked confused. "Which community?"
Blaze: "Belive it or not, that's the name of the town Charger had been living near when I met him. But there's not much left of it."
Art was shaking his head. "I didn't mean to The Community itself ... What I mean to say is the DCO offices are near The Community. We'll have to get on the road soon. I doubt I can will myself to fly that plane again."
Blaze: "Thank God for small favors."

[Gretin]

Olivia looked puzzled at Fisher's answer, but Slade turned back towards her and explained, "We've had a change of plans. David was given a chance, but he chose not to take it and now it turns out he has attacked our ally Fisher. Ever heard the phrase, 'My friend's enemy is my enemy?' We are operating on the same principle now. However, as he stated, David is not to be harmed."

Olivia nodded, then answered, "I could probably take out most of those with h-"
"No," Slade cut her off, "Don't put yourself against unknown odds. We have little idea of how powerful any of his friends are. Which brings me to what I want you to do now; I want you to stay with them if possible, but even if you are unable to do that I want you to analyse them - make an accurate estimate of how powerful each is, what their strengths and weaknesses are... Is that clear?"
Olivia nodded again, "Understood."
Her shadowy form wavered and disappeared.

Slade considered for a moment, then spoke to Fisher, "I will send for Arrow to come here for the time being... It will be useful to have him at hand for when Olivia is ready. Unless you have any better ideas?"

OOC: Come on, T-nex, Daniel's waiting for you!

[Splat]

Pseok looked confused. "You mean that little village in the middle of nowhere where I found you guys? That's miles away, Wouldn't they have some place closer if they were going to grab people here?"

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Elfair was not best pleased about being dragged along by this guy but this didn't seem the best oment to pull herself away.
She took in enough to guess it was early afternoon. To the right were some tall mountains and ahead and to their left was vast forest, which they were running for.

She pulled away suddenly and quickly and ran towards the nearest crags of the mountains. She didn't care whether the tiger-man followed her or not, but she was confident that she could hide herself quickly once away from the grass and in the shadows.

[Havoc]

They made it just to edge of the road before Elfair decided to run off, leaving Charger on his own and confused.
'Hey! Get back here!' he yelled and was about to run after her when he heard a gunshot. It was Jack, chasing him from the entrance door, giving him a warning shot.
'Hold it right there, Charger,' he yelled from across the lot and quickely came running his way.
Needless to say, Charger didn't have to think twice about getting the hell out of there, and quickely made a dash for the forrest behind him.
Damnit, stuborn girl. He just hoped she would be alright.
'Get him!' he heard behind him. 'Forget about the girl! Get him!'
A small troop of security personel charged after Charger as he ran for the woods. But Charger, knowing he probably wasn't going to get that far without getting shot, ducked behind a parked car on the edge of the road to avoid gunfire. He looked around, into the woods, down the road, down the hill. Nothing offered a good escape. Or did it? No... yes...
The presure of the situation started to get to him, and shut down any logical thinking.
'Great, what a time for logics to bail out on me...'
He heard one of the guards approuching the car, and with the exact right timing Charger stood up from behind the car, punching the guy right in the face before dashing for the woods once more.
This couldn't end well. It was asking for trouble, at best. And indeed, trouble quickely headed his way. For the second time in a day, he got stunned. Not by a dart this time though, but by a downright stun-gun.
Two metal pins were shot into his back, and a huge power surge shot trough his body, making his entire body numb from top to bodem. He quickely collapsed to the ground where he stayed, half knocked out.
It wasn't long before Jack came standing over him.
'Always making trouble, arn't you?' he commented.
'Goda hell...' Charger mumbled the best he could.
A sadistic grin appeared on Jack's face.
'I'l end up there sooner or later,' he grinned. 'But you... You're already there.'
After he said that, he introduced Charger to the downside of his shoe, sending him out cold.
'Get him back inside,' he ordered the security. 'Take him down to basement five, then put him in a holding cell.'
One of the guards looked up to him.
'Sir?' he pondered. 'Basement five? Are you sure?'
Jack nodded.
'I underestimated him 3 times now, I'm not going to let that happen again.'
He turned around and went back to the facility.
'Oh, and when you're done with that. See if you can still find that girl somewhere!'
The guards looked at each other as they proceeded to drag Charger back to the facility.
'Yea he wish...' one of them whispered.

---

Kaira stood glancing at Art for a while before answering.
'Back to The Community? We're miles and miles away from there. How are we even going to get there in time?!'

[Splat]

Elfair had been hiding behind a cump of rocks, watching as Charger leapt out from behind a car and punching that guy, and then running out, getting stunned and being dragged back towards the building. "Big idiot. Never heard of a little subtlety?"

It wasn't her problem, they'd got out and gone there seperate ways. If he couldn't get away it was his problem.

But then if he hadn't helped her she'd still be down there. She sighed and slipped towards the building entrance to get between the men, who were moving slowly with there load.

[Havoc]

Jack had walked into the building and down the hallways that led to the elevators. He was going to prepare some things for Charger's arrival in basement five, when another agent walked up to him.
'Jack,' he said a serious tone. 'Got something you might be interested in. There's been some activity near a town called Golden Valley. You picked up Charg there, didn't you?'
Jack hit the elevator button.
'Yea I did, what kind of activity are we talking about?'
The other guy held still for a moment.
'We might have found the gang he was with when he left The Community.'
Jack raised his shoulder in a simple way.
'So? Send some of the new guys after them. They are trained well enough to handle a wannabe bounty hunter, a tiger and two stray cats. I've got bigger stuff to take care off if you don't mind.'
'We have reason to believe Fisher is out in Golden Valley as well,' the agent then said.
Jack turned just as he wanted to walk into the elevator.
'Fisher? In Golden Valley? With Charger's group? Are you sure, that doesn't make sence at all.'
The agent made a gesture.
'I don't know about his motives, but I thought it might be worth mentioning. He's on the ten most wanted list afterall.'
Jack nodded in understanding.
'Hmhmm, okay here's the deal. Get the chopper ready for take off, I'm going to try and get some info from Charger before we go back there.'
'Got it,' the agent said, then turned around and went down the hall.
Jack stepped into the elevator and decended to the basement levels.

[Dave]

OOC: Fisher? Most Wanted? ... Yeah, okay. Sounds resonable.
---
Fisher was too angry with the boy, with Slade, and with himself to think of anything else. He flipped his hand at Slade and blurted "Whatever!" He then sank into his chair and resolved not to speak again to Slade for a while.
---
Blaze coughed. "Uh, this just occured to me ... why doesn't Streak just write Charger out of danger?"
Dave slowly shook his head. "No, guys. It won't work."
Art snorted. "Oh? We've seen what she can do, and you know better than anyone here what she's capable of. So why won't it work?"
Dave couldn't explain that it wouldn't be fair to everyone else working on the story ... but then realized that he didn't have to. Aside from that, there was something more practical.
"What if Charger is out there fighting someone, or in captivity, or whatever, and then bam, he's gone. Wouldn't that arouse more suspicion? Make people think he's got powers he doesn't have? Or conspiritors? It's really not smart. And," he continued, cutting off Blaze, who looked ready to say something, "we know that it's dangerous for Streak to mess with people's memory. Because if people get the feeling they knew something that they were forced to forget, it'll cause more problems."
Art huffed. "Sounds like a lot of bullshit."
Dave huffed back, mocking the hunter. "Sounds like I'm being ****ing sensible."
Streak: "That still doesn't answer the question of how we'll get there in time."
Dave lowered his head and furrowed his brow in thought. After a few moments, "I guess there's no reason we can't use Streak's power to create a direct, clear route from here to DCO. We could drive there as fast as possible without any traffic or twists or turns or anything. Any objections?"
(OOC: Before my characters respond to this query, I'm gonna let others decide if this sounds feasible)

[T-nex]

OOC: Sorry for my absence :'(

-IC-

Krisha listened to the whole conversation.

"Wait wait... I don't get it, afre ya like gonne build a road straight to The Community? Sounds crazy..." She said, and thought for a few seconds, "Crazy but fun..."

She walked over to Kix.

"Kix wake up! You can't just sleep now... We have to move on." Krisha said, and shook Kix a little, then we she didn't wake, Krisha became more violent in her shaking.

Kix slowly opened her eyes.

"What? I was dreaming a giant mouse wis right before me!" Kix said annoyedly.

"Yea well, you can save that for later. We gotta move on. ... And save Charger." Krisha said.

"What? Is Charger in danger!?" Kix asked worried.

"Yes... Appraently they took him to some place at The Community... Some agents or som ething. Dunno." Krisha asked.

"What? The Community? Now? Argh!" Kix said all worried, "Will someone explain to me what's going on?"


---

Akky looked at the Human. He had always hated humans.

"Hmm.. I just gotta see him. None of your bussiness. Now tell me, do you know where he usually hangs out?" Akky asked, not sounding too friendly.

[Splat]

ooc: Random character in this post.


"What? The Community? Now? Argh!" Kix said all worried, "Will someone explain to me what's going on?"

"Someone kidnapped Charger in Los Santos while we were trying to stop Fisher nicking Dave and Art thinks they're taking him to the little town where I ran in to you guys. Now Streak thinks she can make a hole from here to there."
Pseok ruffled his feathers. "I'm no less confused than you are."

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Evan Jarvis prefered to use his gun more than his muscles, but when Jack Macker said 'Lug this unconscious tiger-man inside' you didn't stop to warm up.
He was close enough to the glass doors to see 10 or 20 other people inside, waiting for their burden and felt relieved.
Unfortunately his relief was short-lived when a dark shadow droped in front of his group and the guy at the front screamed. Charger suddenly felt a little heavier and Evan Jarvis wished he was still working at McDonalds.

Elfair was determined not to bite any of the seven people carrying Charger towards the door, but while the first guy's arms were busy holding Charger up he couldn't defend himself and she tore open his chest with her claws and leapt at the next guy.
The next guy was no harder than the first, but at that moment a bullet passed over her head and she turned in time to see a large number of agents pouring out of the building. She pulled Macker's gun out of her pocket and started shooting madly, running out of bullets quickly. She threwthe gun down and pulled out the guard's, but by now she was surrounded.
She took in that her chances of saving Charger had just reached around rock bottom and, after shooting a couple more she turned and ran back to the mountains.

Evan Jarvis sighed with relief and they quickly carried Charger into the building before 10 men left again to persue the ware.


ooc: i'm really intrigued now... What do they want Charger for?

[Havoc]

'A road of sorts trough the air or something?' Kaira wondered. 'I don't know... Wouldn't that draw huge attention to us?'

---

As a team of agents scurried after Elfair, the guards quickely carried Charger inside.
Charger hardly noticed, he was still out cold as he was taken to the basement levels. And when he started to wake up, he was already down there. As he slowly got his vision back, he looked around a bit.
He wasn't laying down, like the last time he woke up in some place he didn't know. This time he was hanging, or standing, with his arms cuffed to the wall.
'Great...' he mumbled as he squeezed his eyes. The room was dark, there wasn't any fancy white wall anywhere, and no bright white lights on the ceiling. It looked more like a dungeon. Just a wall of brownish bricks, and a small yellowish lamp that was supposed to light the room. Infront of him was a table and a chair.
He felt kind of stupid. Getting so close to escaping just to be recaptured. Well, at least Elfair was save. Or so he hoped.
On further inspection of the room, he noticed that it didn't have an observation window, no cameras, nothing to keep an eye on him. Then again, they probably figured it wasn't needed. The cuffs Charger was held with were solid steel and the locks looked brandnew. Wouldn't surprise him if it was some sort of titanium. Nope, no breaking out this time. He could only hope that... no who was he kidding, he was a dead cat.
After a few more minutes, a dark figure entered the room trough the steel door and the other end of where Charger was.
'Welcome back,' the voice said. Jack, no doubt.
'Great, you again...' Charger reacted. 'Is it to much to ask to be a little original with the welcoming comite?'
Jack grinned and walked up to him, standing behind the table.
'Sorry, you'll have to do with me.'
'Well thanks, you just ruiened my day,' sarcasm was all over it and for a second they stared right at each other, seeing who would look away first.
After a minute of silence Charger got anoyed, and spoke up.
'Are you going to tell me what the hell you want from me? Or do you just enjoy pinning people to walls?'
Jack grinned again, then grabbed the chair and sat down.
'Well, we picked you up for research purposes actualy. But before we get to the cutting and slicing, I need you to tell me something.'
Charger laughed heartly.
'You expect your test subject to tell you stuff? I must have hit you harder then I thought.'
Jack rubbed his hand over the wound on his forhead.
'Funny...' he reacted. 'You'd do good to just co-operate. It's for your best interest.'
Charger pulled up an eyebrow. Yea right.
'You're going to cut me up, how the hell is it in my best interest?'
Jakc then made a hand gesture.
'Well, maybe not for your best interest. But if you do as I say, the least I can do is make sure that your girlfriend Kaira is merely shipped to a zoo.'
Charger's eyes grew. Anger built up inside him again, even more so as when he dragged Jack of Elfair.
'YOU LEAVE KAIRA ALONE YOU HEAR ME?!'
He tried to break trough the chains, which obviously didn't do much. But in anger he tried to anyway.
'You touch her, and I'l kill you!' he breezed in Jack's face.
Jack nodded.
'I won't touch her if you start talking...' he merely said in simple manner. 'But you better make up your mind soon... because I have a chopper waiting to take me to Golden Valley as we speak.'
Charger grunted, panting a bit as he recovered from his little anger outburst.
'Why the hell should I trust you...' he growled underneath his breath.
Jack then stood up, walking up to the door.
'Alright Charger. I'l tell her you said hi.'
Charger rose his head as he walked off. He had to decide... how could he trust a guy like this. On the other side, he could at least do as he said, then at least he tried to save Kaira the pain.
'No wait!' Charger yelled after him. 'What do you need to know!'
Jack turned with a grin.
'Thats more like it...'

[T-nex]

Kix looked around frustrated.

"Charger, kidnapped?? Argh we gotta do something, quick!" she said.

Krisha shook her a bit while saying, "Be calm!! We'll find something out. Charger's a big boy, he can handle himself. It's probably not as bad at it sounds. He's probably on his way here as we speak."

Kix tried to calm down, and Krisha was slightly satisfied, though she knew she probably was wrong. But she knew an agitated Kix was no good.

"Ok, whatever! Screw the suspicion! Lets just get going before it's too late." Krisha said.

[Gretin]

Olivia rolled her eyes, "I'm with the cats on this - we're wasting time here, and I have a feeling time is something your friend Charger doesn't have a lot of. If..." she looked at Streak, "...you, Streak I presume, have a way of getting there faster, I humbly suggest you just do it."

Although she didn't show it, she was eager to see just what Streak was going to do. And she had her orders.

<•-•-•-•-•>

Akky looked at the Human. He had always hated humans.

"Hmm.. I just gotta see him. None of your bussiness. Now tell me, do you know where he usually hangs out?" Akky asked, not sounding too friendly.

Daniel snorted, "If he's your friend, find him yourself. I have better things to do."
With that, he burst into flames and shot up into the sky, becoming obscured by the clouds.

<•-•-•-•-•>

Slade made no reply to Fisher, but turned back to his papers. With no physical indication of doing so, he called on Daniel...

<•-•-•-•-•>

Daniel was hurtling along in fireball form above the clouds when he sensed Slade trying to communicate with him. What now? he thought, somewhat angrily. He turned sharply downward, landing on the mountains on the outskirts of Golden Valley and his flames went out. A shadowy form of Slade appeared in front of him.
"Arrow," he spoke, "all plans regarding the boy David have been changed. I understand he didn't take your offer when it was given to him, so he's missed his chance. Due to his actions, especially that of attacking our ally, he is no longer on good terms with us. He is to be captured unharmed and taken to either myself or Robert Fisher."

Daniel was surprised at all of this and was about to argue when Slade continued, "I have asked Olivia to do some analysis on the group accompanying the boy, as Fisher has suggested the best way to get at him is to take away his protection. What I want you to do now is come here, to the remains of Los Santos, so you will be available when Olivia is ready. Is that clear?"

Daniel scowled, "Perfectly. I will see you shortly."
Slade's shadowy form disappeared and Daniel stood motionless for a few minutes. This was... unjust! But he couldn't go against the will of Slade... He'd already tried it once before and was lucky to still be alive and powerful. But he felt that this sudden change just... wasn't right somehow...
He turned, and looked out over the city, putting his hand to his chin thoughtfully...

[Havoc]

OOC: Come on people, what with the sudden sillence?

[Splat]

ooc: i was gonna wait for Dave.

[Dave]

"Now Streak thinks she can make a hole from here to there. I'm no less confused than you are."
"A road of sorts trough the air or something?" Kaira wondered. "I don't know... Wouldn't that draw huge attention to us?"
"I'm with the cats on this - we're wasting time here, and I have a feeling time is something your friend Charger doesn't have a lot of. If ... you, Streak I presume, have a way of getting there faster, I humbly suggest you just do it."
Streak: "Guys, I think Dave meant more of a road or street. Right?"
Dave nods ... then looks over at Olivia. "But ... are you coming? I don't think we've even met."

(OOC: LOL. I was doing a bit of backsearching and reading before I posted, and you guys totally posted while I was here ... or whatever ... hahaha. Bleh.)

[Splat]

Pseok was now listening and feeling rather impatient. "Well get on with it. If we're going somewhere we might as well go now! With all this talk i might get there faster flying!"

He might have added that bringing Olivia seemed like a bad idea, but then they'd all start talking again and it'd be next week before they made this tunnel or road or whatever.
Human's were so stupid sometimes!


ooc: Sorry for the abrupt (and very short) post, but lets get on with this, ok?

[T-nex]

OOC: lol yea... We're slowing down again XD... Brings memories back of the loooong flight to Los Santos.

-IC-
Kix and Krisha waited some more....

[Dave]

Streak sighed and pulled out her paper and a pen. She hurriedly wrote "There is a clear and safe road for us to drive on from here to DCO. The gas tank in our car is full, and we'll get there without incident."

And it was so.

Art went to the car first and started it up. Dave followed and climbed in back. Blaze took the front seat next to Art and Streak sat next to Dave.
Art motioned to the others. "Let's get a move on."
(~so everyone is in now ... let's not wait~)
Art started the drive back to The Community. It would probably take an hour ish, considering the straight road and the "no incidents" part Streak had added.

OOC: Since there's still things that might happen to Charger or Elfair in that hour, I'll leave it at that for now.

[Gretin]

OOC: Sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday, the darn internet connection crapped out. Anyway, since there'll have to be a bit of a wait for the stuff with Charger and Elfair to happen anyway, let's just pretend this next bit happened before they left, eh?

IC:

Dave nods ... then looks over at Olivia. "But ... are you coming? I don't think we've even met."

Olivia grinned, "No, we haven't. And whether I'm coming or not... Well, that depends on you and your friends. I am heading to the Community myself, but somehow I doubt you'll want me coming along with you, so I'll have to come by myself."

<•-•-•-•-•>

Daniel made up his mind. It was risky, and he didn't know if it would work or not, but he thought he might as well try it. He concentrated and pinpointed Dave's location. Dave... Can you hear me?
He wasn't quite sure whether Dave would be able to pick up on this, as he'd never tried communicating with anyone who didn't share the same skills as he did. But he could only try.

[Havoc]

Jack grabbed the chair and sat down, leaning on the desk and looking directly at Charger.
'First off all, why did you leave The Community?'
Charger threw him a sarcastic face.
'The place was a shithole... So I left.'
'So you left...' Jack mumbled. 'Didn't you just inherit a huge villa far away from it?'
'What are you? My very own stalker?' Charger asked anoyed.
'I'm a lot more then just your stalker, wise guy,' Jack said harsh. 'Now answer my question.'
Charger held still for a moment. He had no idea what was going on, but he had the feeling he was in way over his head into something he knew absolutely nothing about. After a moment of thinking, he answered.
'A friend had some... bussiness, in Los Santos.'
Jack got a notepad from his pocket, skipped a few pages and looked at the sheet.
'Drakko?'
Charger rolled his eyes.
'Yes... Drakko,' he sighed.
Jack got a thinking look on his face for a moment. Then adressed Charger again.
'Whats your bussiness with Fisher?' he then asked.
Charger got a surprised look on his face.
'Fisher?' he asked. 'I don't have any bussiness with that guy. If anything I owe him a punch or two.'
Jack stood up.
'Wait, so he's not with you?'
'If he was with me,' Charger said on a sarcastic tone. 'You wouldn't be standing here right now and I would be magicaly transported to somewhere save. So no, he's not with me.'
Jack 'hmm'd' a bit, then turned around and headed for the door.
'Hey!' Charger called after him, worried. 'Your not going to harm Kaira are you?!'
But the door slam shut in the middle of his sentence.
'F*ck...'

---

As Jack was on his way to the helipad he picked up another agent from an office.
'I'm heading off to Golden Valley, I want you to check up everything we have on Fisher. Something isn't right, I want to know where EXACTLY we first saw him again.'
'Yes sir,' the agent said.
'Mail it to my PDA when you got something,' Jack said, then walked out ahead of him to the elevator. But turned around just before he got in.
'Oh, one more thing,' he said with a smile. 'Call around to some of our contacts, see if any of them are interested in a talking white tigress.'

---

Kaira poked her head trough the back window, while she sat in the backside of the hummer.
'Art, what is this DCO thing?' she asked nervously. 'Is Charger in danger?'

[Dave]

Art shrugged. "Knowing Charger, I doubt he's in any actual trouble. The best I can say is that they're probably trying to figure out where he came from. But that might not be it, either. In any case, I doubt that they're going to kill him. He's probably just really uncomfortable."
Just then Dave said, "Who said that?"
Art: "I did, dipshit."
Dave: "No, no, after that. Someone said 'Dave can you hear me?' Didn't anyone else hear it?"
General disagreement. No one else had heard it.
Dave sighed. Maybe the all this craziness was finally getting to him. If he was starting to imagine voices, things definately couldn't be going well.
But after a few minutes, Dave reconsidered. He'd always been fascinated by telepathy, but had ultimately regarded it as foolish. Whenever he "thought" he had been reading minds, he knew deep down he had been creating responses himself.
But this ... this was almost like a voice in his ear instead of his head. So he thought about it ... Yeah, I guess I can. ... uh, May I help you?

[T-nex]

Krisha looked at Dave confused.

"I dodn't hear anything..." She responded and then turned to Art, "Hey, you know... Cussing is bad for ya."

"Aww leave the guy alone... Is there anby way we can speed this thing up? I'm getting impatient. What if Charger is in real danger?" she asked worriedly.

"Well.. Art, What are the DCO doing actually? What is their bussiness? They sounds like some really unpleasent guys."

[Splat]

Pseok, being rather too large to fit in the car, was flying along behind, and therefore missed an opportunity to make what he'd consider a witty comment about humans that everyone else would probably ignore.

Things were probably better this way.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

If Hiding was an Olimpic sport, Elfair may well have been chosen to represent her country (assuming her country could find her first).

However, Hiding wasn't an Olimpic sport. Elfair was still pretty good at it though.
She had quickly moved up into the mountains and by the time the DCO people arrived to look for her she was long gone leaving no trail. Among the rocks she'd found her own trail to follow and had soon brought down a young bear which would sate her hunger for a while. She'd also made up her mind that wherever she was it was a long way from home.

But as she was, dressed in black trousers and jacket over the white surgical gown, she was aware of how conspicuous she'd appear to just about anyone. In a clearing in the forest below the mountains she could see a small village that looked as if it had seen better days. Still, about half of it was standing.
She began making her way down the mountainside. She'd slip in to the damaged half and see what she could salvage for herself. The last thing she wanted was to have to bite someone.
She took one of the guns with her.

[Gretin]

But this ... this was almost like a voice in his ear instead of his head. So he thought about it ... Yeah, I guess I can. ... uh, May I help you?

Daniel smiled slightly. So it had worked afterall... He considered for a few moments, then responded,
I don't think so... But I may be able to help you. I informed you earlier that I had a message to you for negotiating a certain deal - a deal that would have you receiving benefit from myself and my master, Joseph Slade, in return for giving what you could. However, this has changed. I can't be completely sure why, but I suspect Fisher's intervention. In any case, Slade is now set against you, so you'd better be on your guard.

<•-•-•-•-•>

Olivia waited until the group were out of sight, then she formed a car for herself like she had earlier. She got in, started it up, and drove off after them...

[T-nex]

Kix Look at Dave. She thought he behaved a bit funny. She discreetly touched him, and tried to sense if anything was going on. She cought some outer activity. She removed her paw from him and sighed, as she didnt wanna interupt him or anything.

"Are we there yet?" Kix complained aloud.

"I don't know, but I might aswell take a nap in the meantime." Krisha said, and closed her eyes..