The Vents Aren't Friends... {CLOSED. DONE.}

[Phin <---> Zilla]

{NOTE FROM LEX & AL -androgyWIN- -----> Due to how many times people flaked on the thread, we're going to switch this to invite/request. If you want to join then remember to post AT LEAST once a week. The only people who will be given a grace period are generally Allie (family things come up but she WILL post and keep things moving in less than a month unless something HORRIBLE happens) and Lexiusmaximus (LOL I HAD TO. but anyway. Not cause I'm "TEH ALMIGHTY ADMIN" but cause I will post unless some serious problems come up preventing me from getting things done.). However, a grace period will be given to people who contact Lex or Al within a reasonable (BEFORE IT'S TIME TO GET A POST UP...or something. Not a HELLA LONG TIME LATER.... >| RAWR!!!) amount of time. When a grace period happens for you guys, we just have the others move on WITHOUT your character unless you give permission to godmod migrate along and basically post again in your new turn slot.}

Noise…. Isn’t it great when it’s you making loud and rough bangs against a steal made automated door, or how about when you’re making low pitch growling noises that sound like a screwed up version of you trying to imitate the boogie man? Noise….it’s soooo FRICKIN WONDERFUL…… But not when it’s coming from something else…. And by something else, this experimented woman was talking about the hell raisers outside of the three stalled bathroom she locked herself in. Out of all the places to hide she ended up in the bathroom. No freeze ray to protect her, no nothing. It was rather pathetic for her at the moment since cowering inside a restroom wasn’t Phin’s thing.

Leaning back against the steal walls across from the front door she had been staring at all this time, Phin felt for once that she might not last with this ‘problem’. This smart woman had tried to stabilize the situation by killing as many as she could thinking they were simply pest to be dealt with. But with fate being against her and all, these fleshy ghoulish creatures didn’t die so easily and Phin had lost a few guards in the process. Now she was of course here, trapped in the restroom and seated on the floor while who knows how many of those humanoid extra limb freaks were out there. Letting her left leg slide forward while the other stayed in the bent position, she needed to figure out how all of this started so she could fix it.

But of course the noise got more loud and violent as whatever was out there wanted to come in, which broke her concentration. “GRAAAAW!” And the all so lovely stupid hitting sounds against the door barrier. Letting her brow twitch while staring at the door once again, she took a huge breath in and exhaled saying “SHUT THE HELL UP, I FRICKIN KNOW YOUR OUT THEIR YOU DUMD PIECES OF SHIT!” For a moment it went quiet yet after supposing they got the message that she was immensely ticked off, it seemed they brought back their ‘let’s piss the woman off by banging on the door even more!’ music. Jerks…. Shaking her head before resting it against her propped up knee, Phin just tried to ignore it the best she could.

Ok so what she remembered was that once she got up things had become damaged before Phin was aware of it. All events before getting up again had started with her testing the di-ma-portal and finding some ‘bugs’ that needed to be fixed in the system. Fixing it of course took the whole day away from her as she was focused on the machinery and less on her sleep deprived body. After a while she blacked out which Phin made the assumption now as passing out from overworking, which left Zilla in control. Oooooh shit. With that guy being near her stuff disaster was bound to follow. He might have pressed a few buttons thinking he was helping her, which now led to fleshy monsters attacking the ship for the last 12 hours. Oh god, she wanted to slap herself for dozing off at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Hitting her head against her knee, she cursed like a mad mow fow before calming down once more. This of course didn’t take too long to do once her neglected cigarette slightly began burning the top of her fingers, reminding her that it needed her attention. Only half way gone, she took in a drag before exhaling while letting her mind process on what her next move was. So far teleporting back to earth wasn’t an option due to 1.) since the ship was near earth at this time, chances are it was crash on earth causing unspeakable things to occur and 2.) …..The Button refused to let her leave. That annoying piece of alien technology was being uncooperative once again, declining any order for her to escape. It’s like it wanted her to stay here and fix things or let her die countless times painfully. She leaned towards the first assumption though, seeing as negativity was affecting her reasoning of the situation which was strange. When she first arrived back to the ship after waking up in Zilla’s condo, everything was chaotic. The androids were ok at the time but once she put her plan to ‘clean up’ in action, things went downhill. Mr. O and Mr. D didn’t last in the fight and then she started to feel funny. During the cross fires Sir M and Ms. O were out of her line of sight, and then she had to flee, making her way here to the bathroom….alone.

Pondering harder, one thought had crossed her mind a few times but it was worthless of a chance for her to take. She’d rather have those hell raisers loose on the ship instead of blow the ship up with her in it and causing her super nova function to prematurely activate leading to the destruction of earth by her hands. There just had to be anoth- ……. Looking straight in the direction of The Button acting like a decoration on the clip of her jumpsuit, an idea dawned on her. A risky one, but an idea none the less. If she wasn’t able to teleport herself from harm’s way, how about she does the opposite and brings others strong enough to deal with the problem. Pressing the oval inverted frame of the metallic gold decoration, it activated, taking the shape of a small floating translucent hamcat. Wait what?! It changed again? (aka it does this often…) It didn’t speak outwardly but communicated telepathically. ”What is it that you need from me your scariness?”

…..Wow….just frickin wow. Even the voice was different too this time, sounding all optimistic which made Phin pause for a moment before answering the artificial creature. ”I need you to find help. Anyone. Just hurry and bring people that are capable of getting this situation under control….And also, relay a message to them from me, once they reach the ship.” Doing some sort of floating twirl out of sheer boredom of her words, once she finally finished it answered back in a overly enthusiastic voice. ”Okay! I will commence recording shortly in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1….” Seeing as this was her cue, she didn’t hesitate to say what was needed. Staring at the transparent hamcat she said ”I’m in a tight bind at the time being for anyone who’s listening to this. As you can see my ship is over-run by these undead creatures. And no, they don’t fall under your normal zombie category since they’re fast, tough, and exceptionally smart. The Button has brought you here to help get rid of the problem, since it sees you as most suitable for the job. Figure out how to rid the problem without destroying anymore of my ship and I’ll greatly reward you not only with money but by me being the sole witness of you saving the earth…… Oh no….that can’t be good….” Hearing what appeared to be noise coming from the ceiling air vent a frightening realization dawned on her, they could climb elsewhere. ”Shit, now they’re coming through the vents!.... Quick advice in dealing with these things cut off their li-“ By the time she could finish, one broke through the metal vent cover and started to rush her. Making Phin preoccupied as it tried to take a bite out of her. This thing of course was a bit different, because though it was legless, it had on nasty tail that was a cross between it’s own spine and a knife at the pointed tip. And of course it was on her trying to nom her frickin head off. Luckily she was keeping it at bay with her arms pushing the things grotesque mouth away. Looking towards The Button she ordered it to leave at once. And it did so by letting a small flash of light fill the room before disappearing. Now it was just her and legless pain over here….how the hell was she going to get out of this?

[ahriman]

Have you ever had a ridiculously bad day?

Because this was looking like one.

He'd been sucked up in a flash of light and had re-appeared with a weird squeaking rushing into his ears. Because of the strange meddling with his genetic structure, Jimmy was immune to telepathic messages and as a result the message couldn't be conveyed. But the button seemed to have taken the word 'capable' and run with it, picking one of the most dangerous individuals on the planet. Making it worse, one who was now dealing with two, simultaneous psychic attacks.

Landing with a loud clang on the metal floor of the ship, Jimmy clutched at his head and screamed at the floor as he was hit on two fronts, one kept flashing a red light and the other squeaking a woman's message. Telepathic immunity. Sure. He managed to get to his feet and focus long enough to change, his body shrinking sublty and paling with the change. His hair stood on end and his hands thinned developing into a cruel set of claws. It felt quiet but a strange sense of quiet, like something was considering how to proceed.

And from the look of things, he wasn't the only freak here. A woman was pinned down by a monstrosity with a bladed spine tail. It looked horrific, and his first thought was naturally that it was an Ahri. Though the question of why he'd been summoned here to deal with it still escaped him, he saw the right thing to do. In a blur, he leapt forward and sliced at the creature attempting to dice it into chunks. That normally killed things, the limbs, the torso, just generally maiming everything you could.

But no sooner had he finished than he felt the same feeling return a thousandfold. Something was trying to get into his mind, but it was failing and the feedback was somehow hurting him. He screamed and clutched at his temples, it seemed to focus on hurting his brain as Ahriman so that being the case. With a sudden flush of colour and his muscles swelling, he reverted to his human form and fell to the floor panting.

Great, so when he transformed that... whatever that was... was waiting to attack his brain with psychic energy. Nothing like a time limit and horrific creatures to brighten your day.

Glancing down, he realised he was shirtless and wearing his jeans. He'd just but his shirt in the washing machine, and he was thanking God he'd not yet gotten to his trousers.

"Ummm, pleasure to meet you. I'm Jimmy" he was seriously hoping that whole 'claws n killing' thing wasn't going to make her think he was scary. Mainly because he wasn't sure he could fight back like this...

[Bao Yu Chao]

{Side notesies! Phin isn't in the bathroom anymore :3 but I'll work with your posty so you dun have to rework it! I was gonna do something like this anyway or at least it was one of my choices <3 ! NOTE FOR EVERYONE ELSE <3 Phin is in the Control Room which is totally off limits cause...ya know...that's the finishing line :3 ! AND WHAT ELSE....OH! Peoples signed up for this can appear in places other than the bathroom...like if you're entering later on in the thread :3 you can join in at that point where they are all cool like!}

As if the days where she had difficult missions weren't long enough...this was one of them seeing how she had to not only try to find what kids were talking about when they were blabbering on about `RAINBOW KITTY! FIND RAINBOW KITTY!` but also some crazy werebadger thing was going on a rampage in a different city. The stupid Rainbow kitty thing didn't get solved at all and ripping off consumers was far from her style so she gave the children their piggy banks back and told em' to get more evidence first. As for the werebadger issue...WHY such a creature was interested in attacking a mushroom stand was beyond her AND with lots of people around too! Of course she beat the tar out of the thing she slammed in the category of `diseased freak`then decided to call it a day. Granted, it was still early and things were still going on in the city...but she was just far too worn out to be bothered by it. Thus she gave permission to her newest employee, Captain Mako, to go and...as she so eloquently put it `explore the city or whatever I'm going to sleep now bye`. There she was in the big, comfortable bed of her mansion hugging onto a strange looking bull doll which was apparently a curry mascot in Japan. See it mostly looked brown with a black and white `dairy cow` pattern shirt and as if it had a golden cuff around its left horn.

Both of the horns were the type that go a bit forward and bend to point at one another considering it was based on a bull despite its shirt choice and even had a big brownish black tuft of hair sticking out from the middle like a thick mohawk. In a strange way...even though it looked cute and innocent...this doll almost had an ominous air to it almost like its origins weren't so fluffy and cute. Before, this doll had a little mechanic speech box, but she ripped it out to make it have a hidden pouch. On top of sleeping with her boots and gloves with built in hard plastic knuckles more often than not since she had some MAJOR trust issues and completely governed paranoia, the cute plushy had a hand gun and two silver bladed box cutters plus a bit of ammunition within just in case anyone tried to sneak up on her. Being in the comfort of her manor meant one thing...she could wear her `cows go over the moon` pajamas without anyone pointing and laughing. Truth be told, the iron clad bitchy bosslady liked animals a lot...didn't mean she wouldn't beat the tar of an animal based creature but she had a fondness for cows and pigs the absolute most. Having a delightful dream where she was in a magical place called the Sundae Kingdom, JUST as she was about to take a bite of the chilly treat...she felt something pulling her body upward.

OH WHAT THE HELL! Waking up clutching tightly onto the doll as though her life depended on it...she...was being abducted by aliens? GREAT WHAT A WONDERFUL EVENING! Hopefully Captain Mako wouldn't do anything idiotic in her absence like snack on a bodyguard...last thing she needed was to come home to a bloody mansion! Vanishing out of sight and reappearing in a bloodied bathroom with `STUPID ASSHOLES! LIMBS! CUT OFF THOSE DUMB ASSES LIMBS!` etched in blood with a bloody claw on the ground. Ok...she was not cure what that was all about...but then a hologram message showed up of an all too familiar face. "...Phin?" Quirking a brow as she brushed her navy bangs into place now holding the doll at her side looking a bit confused.

Standing in a filthy bathroom, this was extremely disgusting upon many levels....normally she had a crude comment for these sort of situations...however the holographic message was getting her attention at this time. Ok...this was bad since even as a little girl she wasn't allowed to visit this business partner of her's...well this clearly wasn't a charity run and for some reason...deep down a small part of her was determined to save this ship and Phin....even if it was all alone. Normally she at least had meatshields...er....bodyguards to assist her a bit but nope...no one else was there. Not yet anyway...plus that thing DID NOT look like anything she had faced before. This was bad...just...BAD probably one of the worst cases she was actually forced to do! It's not like she could storm on out of here saying she refused to take up the job. "Phin...where are you?!"

Saying those words in a concerned yet serious tone under her breath while gritting her teeth. Something was driving her to find and protect that woman who wasn't afraid to show her some attitude. Business partner...maybe something more...she didn't know but whatever her heart of coal gradually forming into a diamond just DEMANDED that she saved the one who watched her go through so much craziness and change in this business focused life. Just as she was about to pull a gun out of her doll, which unbeknownst to her had its likeness based on a very powerful demon, something was crawling and scratching the vents above her. "....oh shit..." Whispering those words beneath her breath, she shoved the doll in her shirt so it was securely hanging its arms from the collar and looking like it was chillin' in a makeshift pouch. As she turned her head upward a thing that let out blood curdling screeches that sounded ALMOST too human to be alien yet...her eyes widened at the grotesque sight.

Bloodied claws that had human-like qualities but much sharper nails and the flesh upon its arms and all over its body had some signs of ripping apart exposing fresh flesh almost as though it wasn't meant to stretch in such ways. The head of this thing was unlike the zombies and bioweapons which rampaged around various cities for a while since the top portion looked like a dead human with hazed over eyes...possibly the most normal part about it too but passed the nose its mouth was ripped like an ear to ear smile with the jaws evolved into four fangs reminiscent of a spider due to its shape but crossed with a snake from its structure and how the mouth could more than likely eat something huge like a human head without so much as a problem. When it jumped out to charge at her she initially jumped backward and rammed her fist into its forehead LIKE A BOSS! Jerking her fist away while the rest of its body flipped backward on it's spine which mutated to make it almost look like a saw blade of bones that trailed down to a tail like a blade also made of bone, its shape pretty damn similar to the end of a scorpion tail. About to charge at it in a follow up so she could smash it like a pulp with her feet...FREAKY LITTLE BASTARD WAS QUICK! Flinging its own body around like a chef professionally flipping an egg back on its front and...possibly only limbs unless its tail was the result of legs merged and mutated via freaky evolution. Springing itself forward at the pig empire's heiress with impressive speed she couldn't meet due to CLEARLY inhuman speed tackling her to the ground wagging it's tail like a psychotically happy murderous k-9.

Crashing down onto the nasty floor, she grit her teeth as she held in a scream and cringed when her back made hard contact. SUNNUVA-THAT. HURT! For a change...as pissed off as she looked there was a great deal of fear held in her eyes as her body lightly shook thanks to her shaken nerves. Being on the filthy...disgusting....germ infested ground of a BLOODIED flesh mess bathroom was HORRIBLE! But before it could start mauling away at her pretty little face, she grudgingly...but tightly held its arms and pushed the whateverthef-4KIDS-ckitis AWAY enough so she didn't get a slow and painful death. Strong little bastard it was, that's for sure cause it was taking a great deal of her strength to keep it at a safe distance causing strain in her arms, "I'm too rich for this crap, tch!" Hissing out those words, it sounded like someone else was there too but hell if she was sure that was a good thing. Especially since the sound of another person could mean another thing trying to make her a snack!

Letting out a heavy sigh full of aggression...she wanted to do MORE than just hold this filthy little bastard back...LIKE RIP IT ASUNDER! Refusing to die there, she was going to save Phin and make that woman say thank you and hand over some cash for this! On the verge of flinging the freaky eyesore to existence, something blurred toward her and...WTF went her brain as now she was ONLY holding twitching limbs thanks to her kung-fu grip. Flinging it into the wall opposite of her with panicked breathing...all of her experience COULD NOT have prepared her for what the hell just happened! Quickly scrambling up to her feet, she twisted her hand around and turned looking a bit on the shocked yet...`SOMETHINGISGOINGTODIEATMYHANDS` at the same time. ......what the crap........a guy without a shirt on? Oh. HEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NO!

Bao Yu Chao DID NOT need another Mako getting all up in her business! One was more than enough to keep at bay and deal with! Ok so her ally didn't piss her off ALL the time but some of his antics were a handful and he hadn't even been working for her very long at all! OH HER SCREWED UP LUCK, RIGHT?! Double edged sword, it was....anyway....her manners were needed when her hero of the day not only said it was a pleasure to meet her but also introduced himself as Jimmy. Striding over to him with confidence in her steps...she wasn't the woman from the holographic calling card, but she was in the same predicament...how ironic was that?!

Keeping her eyes focused on his face, she held out her hand and let out a pissed off little sigh, "I suppose I should thank you for saving me, Jimmy. My name is Bao Yu of the Chao family, paranormal investigator and detective in association with the police department. I'm not going to bother interviewing you to find out what in the hell it is that made you capable of HOW you saved me right now. The person who brought us here is someone I've known for as long as I can remember, we need to work as a team to save her. In case you're wondering, her name is Phin and this danger threatening her could, as you may or may not have figured out, threaten Earth if this ship's course isn't altered. That thing that attacked me looked more like a mutated human up close while it was trying to eat my face rather than just some alien. That's all I've put together so far..."

Saying those words as calmly and professional as possible, there was still a hint of edge within. All through her little speech, she was careful to listen intently to their surroundings making sure if something was going to try something `smart`, she'd stop and attack. Buuuut nothing happened during her mini speech which was spoken at a fast pace yet easy enough to understand what she said so that her words wouldn't slur in a string together. Whether or not more help was on the way...Bao Yu couldn't be certain...but she definitely looked a lot less professional than her tone let on in her button up shirt and elastic waist pants with cows, stars, and moons printed upon the black and blue fabric. The plushy chilling in her shirt blankly stared forward at the man opposite of her who was capable of something absolutely worth looking into when there was more time. Oh yes and if he grabbed her hand she'd shake it LIKE A BOSS and then let go.

[Captain Mako]

A chance to explore the city, to go where he want without lectures again. It was a refreshing thing to do once in a while. No one telling him not to search a garbage can when he smelled something interesting, no one telling him not to pick someone's pocket and put something interesting in their wallet. No one to tell him not to pull parts off an unattended vehicle and investigate them. He was free to do whatever crossed his mind with no hesitation... not that Bao put many limits to him anyways. She seemed to understand there was little point in giving Mako rules he wouldn't follow anyways.

His backpack was already getting full of the wonders of this world, a pipe off the side of a motorcycle, part of a ball with tiny mirrors glued to it, a little box that made colored lights come from a screen and sound effects when it was 'turned on' and that was just the start of the day's harvest. Mako realized he was getting thirsty and hungry... or was in hungry and thirsty... either way he was trying to figure out where he would be going to inflict his business upon as he walked down a side alley (alleys were so much more interesting sometimes then main roads) and he began to feel a tingling in his nose. He looked around to see it's source, it wasn't his new cloths. A long black jacket that came to mid-thigh on him, a pair of fancy pants which had little lines going down their gray fabric, and a gray shirt with a white tie. All this was normal but the tingling of 'electricity' was still rushing over him and as he felt it he began to feel himself lifted up he wasn't sure what happened next but when he opened his eyes he was somewhere very different.

The first thing that hit him was the wonderful 'stench' of blood. It was in mass quantities and seemed to be coming from multiple locations, that scent of copper and something.. else. He would recognize it anywhere. He gazed upon his surroundings and blood was everywhere, staining walls, ceiling, floor alike. Splatters were soaking chairs and tables of the room he was in. It was an odd room. Their were many tables and they were in lines and from the look of them the chairs used to be as well. As it was the chairs were all over the place, some broken, some upright, some in front of tables with plastic... he guessed the word was tray though the trays had odd bowls in them. Walking over to one that wasn't coated in human... yes it was human... yes human. It was human blood... he peered into it and found food in it. Looking at how the blood had congealed and the food was cold he did some calculations in his head based on temperature of the room and based on his experience the blood was a few hours old at least... but the oddest part was he kept getting a whiff of rotten flesh and odder still... was the lack of bodies. Not a single body lay in the room despite the massive amounts of blood and yet their were no blood trails indicating bodies dragged out in fact...

Walking around the room, the room with metal walls and whose walls practically pulsed with electricity to his senses he walled to the edge of a doorway and looked down. A set of foot steps was leaving the room. Footsteps of blood and they were remarkably inhuman as were a few others. Mako silently lamented not having done as Bao had asked and taken a gun with him. Instead he returned to one of the tables and picked up some silverwear, he picked up various forks and knives, skipping on the spoon as fairly useless. Outfitted and his pockets practically jingling he stepped through the open door and looked at the hallway. He frowned. The metal walls, the odd lighting... he remembered a moving picture show he had watched with Bao it was something called science fiction... it was about a ship in space... amongst the black of the night sky... and it had similar walls on the ship. Mako bent his knees and hopped a bit. The pull down felt... wrong... not quite the right pull. Not quite the right direction and something else was missing. Mako realized... he couldn't feel the compass points... he always felt the compass points... so it could only mean... maybe... maybe the moving picture was with him.. maybe he was in it. He shook his head, it was a little hard to navigate like this but he would have to manage. He sniffed the air and scented, blood, rotting flesh, wrongness... and coming through the vents from somewhere... strangers and.. Bao!

Mako narrowed his eyes whoever or whatever had taken him must have taken the Princess. He smiled grimly he knew now whoever or whatever was here had already bitten off more then they could chew messing with her. Even they hadn't... they were about to find out how much Mako could chew. His feet flung him forward at a steady beat sliding through puddles of blood or the oddly vacant hallways. He wasn't about to let anyone mess with his tiny doll-like employer.

"Who ever you are I'm gonna laugh at your funeral!"

[Phin <---> Zilla]

( Quick side note for Mako, you don't need to interact with the mini robot but just control/follow it to Bao Yu. Alsooooo, it's Lex's turn!)

“Ms. Phin, are you sure you want to be working at a time like this when as you like to put it ‘All hell is breaking loose’?” Not even taking the time to glance over and give her precious attention to the butler android, Phin mended a circuit together as she answered “It beats sitting around and complaining about my situation as a human shish kabob!…” By shish kabob, Phin meant that the scythe looking hand of a certain meat freak had been wedged through her tummy. The lovely story of how that happened had been during her escape from mutated scorpion human thing….Right as it’s tail was about to strike down at her face, Sir M had came to her rescue. A strong kick to it’s side had made the legless dumb f**k fly to the wall and in the process made it recoil for a few short moments, which gave Phin and her butler android enough time to escape. And in the process something tall, twice as sharp, and on two legs attacked her too. Jamming it’s bone blade arm into her stomach, Phin didn’t have enough time to regain her composure to push the limb out of her tummy as Sir M came from behind from her and shot at the creature. Leaving not only a spray of what appeared to be human blood on her jumper for an outfit but leave the only piece on her which was the stupid bone scythe jammed ridiculously like a that of an arrow through your head.

Cursing silently to herself while tinkering with what appeared to be miniature dance robot she had given to Zilla for Christmas last year, she decided wisely that sitting around to be rescued would only annoy her more and more, especially after she saw exactly who that idiot of a button had brought back to supposedly help. Looking away from the half open machine, she brought her changing optics gaze back to one of the screen monitors in the room her and Sir M had took haven in after they had escaped. Through a squared screen laid an image of a girl that was only in her teens. A girl she knew quite well that it scared Phin, but what seemed to scare her most was with that the brat was out there with not much ‘help’ AND a particular incident she helplessly watched from the safety of this room. Though Phin didn’t want to remember that moment, it seemed to surface by itself.

Right as she was having an unwinnable argument with that accursed button as Phin had first realized Bao Yu was on board and alone for the moment. As the button tuned her out by becoming into an annoying moving hammer, her face had paled when she brought her attention to the screen she had been pointing too all this time. Watching in pure horror, the girl that was only eighteen yet still a helpless child in her eyes was being attacked by the same thing that got Phin. All arguing had ceased as she kept her focus on the screen monitor and staring with a colored look of panic in her eyes that was a metallic orange. Even her blondish brows drew together in worry, which was rare even for her. Her heart had almost stopped beating for moment if some other figure through the screen monitor hadn’t showed up to rescue the little pork bun pain.

Trying to banish the reliving of that horrible moment, she brought her attention back to what she was working on. This robot that Phin was tweaking was for the sake of being a guide as much as help the people brought over by the button, mostly though it was made to aid Bao Yu. Replacing a few parts and messing with the controls, Phin had added a camera lens so she could see what was going on, a hologram feature needed for mapping and able for them to of course see her when she felt like making herself known on screen, and a small laser gun that didn’t do much damage in one shot but if hitting an enemy enough, the mini robot could make it hard for it’s enemy to keeping moving, down side was that the it needed to a ten second recharge after four shots. Finally closing it up after a few minutes, she activated the little machine. Again something she wasn’t expecting had to happen….. Watching in annoyance with one side of her lip quirked down that was holding her destroyed cigarette; the little robot was starting to do a dance she knew all too well. Having the robot make ‘unst, unst, unst’ noise while grinding its hips up in the air like that hard gay guy from Tokyo, Phin could only shake her head and let out a groan. “This is what I get for rushing on something like you…. A stupid impersonator to that leather loony asian man. Jeez, I’m frickin losing it!....”

Bringing her attention away from it’s weirdness for a sec, Phin pressed the button on the makeshift controller she had created and tested out the controls. Moving forward it also moved forward WHILE doing the pelvic thrust. Move back…..it did the same damn thing. Pressing the hologram function seemed to be the only way to stop the robot from doing that at all. ’Shit….this will have to do though.’ Ordering Sir M to open up the vent on the side of the wall for just a moment, she quickly slid the robot inside before something else decided to try and grab her. It was a HUGE tentacle arm and of course this time she had had it. Forcefully pulling out the bone from stomach with a mild feeling of pain coursing through her body, she ignored it and took the bone to stab the mother flippin thing before pushing it back and frantically ordering Sir M to seal the vent again.

Damn, it was another close call to death in the shape of giant arm tentacle and shivered from the experience of almost being in it’s clutches. Right now she was tempted to head to a bathroom to shower and have a good cry but after the previous incident of being confined in that shit hole….she decided not. Looking back to the cameras, she was starting to regret not getting the robot up and ready fast enough, because by the looks of it, a few uninvited creepy crawlies in the form of three legless, a scythe monkey, and what appeared to be a small baby looking things with tentacles on it back…Yuck! They all were of course heading over to Bao Yu and the stranger. ’Shit!’ Pray she made it in time to save that pain in her side before the kid became literally pork chops. Moving her focus to the third party member alone in the hallway near the mess hall, Phin decided the best option at the time being was to keep these people together since the bigger the group, the better the chances for their survival...or at least Bao Yu’s. Sitting on a the mangled chair, she began maneuvering the little robot towaeda the obscured looking guy’s location, which in a matter of a minute or so brought the little to him though hiding behind the edge on the other side of the hallway. Now didn’t this bring back memories of creepy shadows?

[Bao Yu Chao]

{JIMMY! FEEL FREE TO REJOIN THE GROUP! JUST DOING THIS TO KEEP THINGS GOING FORWAAAAAAAAAAARD! C: Neeot gonna let a plot just stand still and die again DX}

Before she could get formalities out of the way, she could hear things coming down the hallway and...even what sounded like an all too familiar voice echoing down from the hallway. It was very faint so she chocked it up to hearing things, plus the chances of both she AND her newest body guard being abducted was incredibly unlikely. "Take cover, I'm going to check this out." After saying those stern words, she grabbed onto the toilet lid and viciously pulled it off with her so not-so-human strength while gritting her teeth. This guy had something STRANGE about him, but she wasn't sure how much she could actually trust him. So with the toilet cover in her hands...and the doll chillin' in her shirt....she pushed open the door carefully but when she got out of the bathroom...the first thing she noticed was a trio charging RIGHT at her. "OHSONOFABANKER"

Snapping out those words in a panic, she quickly kicked the door to the bathroom shut so that they wouldn't be able to get in through that way. Who knows if she'd see that Jimmy guy ever again but hell she hoped he would survive just fine on his own at the very least. Rushing down the hall and gaining momentum as she narrowed her eyes with COMPLETE intent to kill while lifting up the toilet cover OF PAIN. The baby things were crawling along both sides of the hallways and were screeching....so...very...annoyingly like they were demon babies wanting food! "SHUT THE HELL UP YOU LITTLE SHITS!" Ah yes, her lovely words of choice were yelled out with sheer and complete rage. Did she care that these were more than likely once upon a time NORMAL human babies?

A little, but not enough to stop her war path of death and doom. Those quick little bastards were the first to get within proximity of her horrible wrath. They CONTINUED and PERSISTED with their stupid...spine chilling....and more importantly ANNOYING screeching! "THAT'S....IT! I'M MAKING YOU HAVE A DOSE OF SHUT THE HELL UP!" Shooting out their irritating hook like tentacles at her, she ducked down initially upon them stiffening up in her direction while doing a rock star slide on her knees sliding a bit forward before getting up and swinging the toilet cover like a paddle. Making the stupid, freaky, nasty baby thing get flung into its EQUALLY if not MORE ANNOYING friend on the opposite wall before twisting around to slam the toilet cover into them both like a freak accident baby corpse sandwich.

Now Ms. Chao was never one to scream in fear....but on occasion she WOULD scream like she was going into war and about to slaughter the masses. Which is EXACTLY what she did while REPEATEDLY smashing the baby things that tried to double team her. They....kept....shrieking....as if they had any comprehension of pain and it pissed her off MORE. "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!" Angrily blurting out those words as she made them into a bloody, chunky mess upon the wall as though someone flung aborted alien babies against the wall...blood was not only splattered upon her odd weapon of choice but her clothes and a bit of her face as well. GREAT now she looked like some psychotic murderer! Sighing out heavily....there was something else approaching from the SAME direction....another one...great....just...great.....! This one was charging and flailing like a derp brain complete imbecile!

Or...you know an angry monkey that wanted a banana REAL BADLY but wasn't getting it right away! SAME DAMN THING! The thing's face looked A LOT like the thing she had to deal with in the bathroom....this wasn't good! Rushing down the hallway toward it, she crouched down before pushing herself off the ground before jumping up in the air to slam the cover down upon the things head. Hearing a loud `CRRRRCK` of its skull, while she was flipping herself backward as it made such angry noises of `OW THAT HURT`. Confident, but only in the moment seeing how this crazy, dastardly bastard of a thing used one of its extra EXTRA LIMBS with a bone scythe protruding from its flesh at her. Good thing she had some DAMN USEFUL reflexes developed from all that dangerous paranormal creature hunting cause she defensively guarded herself with the toilet cover.

Breaking right before her eyes as she crashed down to the ground letting out a barely audible squeak and closing her eyes upon the EXTREMELY painful impact. Plus she hit the back of her head causing her to be a bit dazed. Noooot good...! With bits of broken porcelain on her hands and body, her vision was fuzzy and for the moment...couldn't seem to move. This was...pathetic...and now this thing was going in for the kill! As soon as she could move she DEFINITELY would but right now she just couldn't because of temporary paralysis...so much fail....she wouldn't outwardly admit it but this was one of those times that she would actually appreciate help A WHOLE LOT...guh...but luck clearly wasn't on her side and it wasn't like Captain Mako was going to MAGICALLY show up and save the day. What bullshit wishful thinking that was.

[ember]

Appearing suddenly in the middle of a strange place wasn't what bothered Emily, Nor were the funny smells all over the place and the insane sounds, a distant, muffled groaning. In fact, none of those things got to her yet - she was asleep. Sound asleep, actually. The bunk bed was oddly comfortable, and the teleportation hadn't even woken her yet. So, in her night clothes (ammounting to an oversized purple Invader Zim T-shirt (Fools! You dare to challenge the Irken Empire?!) with a few wubbie, familiar holes here and there, and pink sweatpants that were long enough to cover her feet, drawstring tied tight around her hips, she rested.

That is, until a gurgling sound, very near her head, agitated her from sleep. It was dark... and it stank to the high heavens. Oh boy oh boy did it stink! She rolled over in her sleep and touched something wet... cold... fle...shy... her eyes snapped open and she gasped, and another gurgle came, closer now. Hands fumbled at the wall, looked for a light switch - something! Dear god it stank in here! Oh dear god what was that sound!

Her fingers touched over a lightswitch, and... she immediately wished she hadn't pushed it. The walls... were smeared with blood and gore, there was a corpse, half-devoured, right beside her spot on the bed, and something... chewing upon it... heavy on the THING part. Her brain shut down - she just... stood there, watched it feast on what was probably once a human being - it was difficult to tell now that it had gotten well into its meal already.

A long moment passed, then the... the blade-limbed, dagger-mouthed THING raised its head and screamed at her, freezing her blood on the spot. IF she had anything to drink, she'd have lost water right then and there.

It shambled over the corpse - it was injured already, looking like it was missing... a good portion of... her mind couldn't fathom the details. She felt the change starting, her knuckles crackling and acheing - even if she didn't at all notice the discomfort with horror so clearly gripping her.

It pounced! Her heart skipped a beat and leapt into her throat, and she threw herself aside just in time to miss a vast majority of the thing's attack - only to get sliced on the back as she passed, sending white-hot pain through her, like icewater, like a blowtorch to her back muscles.

She tumbled, face first, into the corpse, spraying her with blood and... other fluids. She screamed, and just... let loose - blindly, wildly letting flame roar from her deepest heart, a shriek of rage and terror crossing her lips.

It didn't die right away - she got up, blood out of her eyes, and continually blasted it and blasted it and blasted it until it was sizzling and the room was well on fire.

Ember seethed and cried, shaking hard as the change, induced by flames, was pointedly ignored until she was in hybrid shape. Then, the sprinkler system went off. IT was cold - but a blessing - it washed the blood and filth from her scales - she ordinarily hated getting wet.... but in this circumstance, it was a blessing, and she raised her head, eyes shut tight, as she shook.

Where was she? What... what was that..? At least.. at least the fire had burned away any recognizable human remains... When she opened her eyes again and stepped out into the hall, they were bright orange. She was going to get answers, wings folding around her chest like a cloak, scales gleaming in the gloom with water. This... would make her powers problematic... but she'd just have to go oldschool - claws, NOT fangs, her tail, and of course...

Another of those creatures surged out into view - it was like the first, except this one WASNT already hurt. It... looked so close to being human... but it wasn't - it was a monster, that much was plain. Well... this wasn't one that was lucky enough to get close. She'd see to that. It screamed and rushed her. She screamed and rushed it back!

Instinct took over - Emily knew enough to just... let it bounce and flow to do its own thing. One scything limb scraped a scratch across her shoulder scales, not deep enough to draw blood... but he'd SCRATCHED the scales! Scored a bit of a ravine! It stung like a cracked callous, but her mind was aflame with draconic... RAGE. Claws sank into the thing's chest, gripped, and pulled. Flesh resisted for a few dreadful creaking seconds, before its ribcage popped open. HEr mouth opened... and the fire came.

Dragonfire isn't about heat. It isn't like normal fire. IT's less fire... so much as a physical force. The thing lingered a moment in the terrible heat before its torso was suddenly a wisp of ash, and a bit of the metal grating just behind it was a puddle of red-hot metal, which she pushed its remains into.

The human-dragon hybrid creature seethed and watched the glowing puddle of slag for a half moment before stepping in it, grinding the creature into the hot death a little further, crushing its skull into the slag, and continuing on, the water on her body beginning to steam.

It was right about there that... other sounds reached her ears, and something smacked into her brain like a sack of bricks. Those didn't sound like... these things. Another sound stole her attention, along with the flashing of an orange light. She glanced sideways at a panel.

Life... support...? She understood immediately - she wasn't in Kansas anymore. She was a gamer, she could read between the lines - one perk to being one, actually. Life support in this section was struggling - 75%, with oxygen scrubbers working. Even as she watched, it rose to 78%, and stayed there.

Crap.

She wasn't sure where she was... but life support beneath 30% was a bad idea. These things hated fire... and really, what doesn't... but just her going apeshit on that one creature and flaming another, THAT lowered the oxygen in the area 25%?

Crap!

A deep bellow sounded from the dark of the hallway behind her, and her blood tinkled with further ice sculptures. Terror gripped her - better a human voice than... than whatever that was! Her instincts put her feet onto autopilot, and she darted down the hall to the human sounds! Human sounds, that was the ticket! She passed through a pool of dark, rounded a corner, and...!

Craaap! Crap crap!

She saw Bao Yu (a girl she didn't know) about to be impaled by one of those... those... things! Her brain shut off again, and she went on autopilot, rushing down the hall... Gods she'd never get there in time... she'd never make it to save that girl!

[Captain Mako]

Mako swayed a bit as he walked, the scent of blood getting to him. Knocking at the edges of his psyche and screaming him to move, to ravage, to stand atop a high surface and scream his dominance from a stack of dead bodies as he held a member of the female species close to him as blood and bits of flesh dribbled down his chin. He tried not to pay attention to those urges, they tended not to impress on dates. Instead he kept his feet in front of each other as he moved and sang softly to keep his mind in the proper place... on pillage and women... well... a woman.

"It was a friday morn when we set sail
and not so far from the land,
when our captain, he spied a mermaid so fair,
with a comb and glass in her hand."

It was odd how one woman was on his mind so much. When she was near all he could think about was how she smelled, the faint smile she got as she dropped kicked someone in the face, the sneer as she talked about her family. When she was gone it was all he could do to keep from talking about her, that hair so unusual, the way her eyes shimmered as she pointed a gun at someone and threatened to give them new breathing holes.

"Oh, the ocean waves do roll,
And the stormy winds do blow.
We old sailors are skipping at the top,
While the landlubbers lie down below, below, below,
Oh, the landlubbers lie down below."

He wished she was there... and then changed his mind as he stepped in another pile of entrails. He wished she was there with that pair of shoes she kept trying to get him to wear. He had nothing against entrails, they were delicious but he wasn't a fan of stepping in them and feeling them squish between his toes. Grimacing he whipped his foot on a tattered remains of what seemed to be what they called a 'labcoat'. As he rubbed the cloth between his toes he began to hear a sound besides the occasional chittering sound from the air vents. Stopping his song he listened as... something small came around a corner going 'unst unst unst'. It was... tiny... man shaped... and wearing a tiny leather pants with the butt cut out and a leather vest... and it was doing a dance that might get someone arrested in public. Mako slowly blinked his eyes, his lust for blood and want of a certain small asian cutey forgotten as it thrust in his direction as it moved to him and then began to dance in place before him.

"... as Bao would say. 'by the lenders of the world?'"

The tiny... man... no no smell of flesh coming from it and looking close Mako could see little segments it was... a robit? Rabot?... what was that word?... Robot! It was a tiny... leather wearing... robot... that was thrusting at his feet and them moving away, then returning. Mako took a step forward inquisitively and found it moved away farther and then returned. It obviously wanted him to follow him. Shrugging and realizing as interesting as this place was he really had nothing better to do he set off at a run after the tiny... man... thing... His feet slapped the metal floor as he ran and followed it. It stopped in front of... He paused to read. It was a sign of a bathroom. Why was it leading... Mako stopped and sniffed the air. A perfume, the scent of expensive soap... the faint smell of pig... Was that...

"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!"

A roar, a scream of hatred... and the scent of blood as something shattered. At all happened as Mako charged down the hall and around the corner and looked upon what was there... Bao soaked in blood lying on the floor..., a monster standing above her, it's teeth grinding in it's head as it bared down on her. What happened next had nothing to do with reason or logic, nothing to do with the higher brain functions. All Mako had running through his brain was the picture of a blood coated Bao, a hurt Bao... and something that was responsible. His mouth opened as wide as it could, the lips pulled into a brutal tooth displaying snarl, his eyes bugging out slightly from his head as out from his mouth came a wave of sound. It was not a high pitched hissed, was not a roar normal to be heard in a jungle. It was something... otherworldly, sharks in nature do not communicate much, do not speak, do not ask each other for directions to the frenzy. What came from his mouth was entirely his own. A wave of low frequency sound the washed over the hallway with enough force to vibrate the the light fixtures, a primal almost unhearable expression of pure hate. As it washed over the room the creature within paused. Stopped to see what was in the hall with it... and then Mako moved.

His long arms, not long because of some horrible fate bestowed on him by some other worldly force, but his nature arms from being a eight foot tall behemoth crossed the hall. His claws flashing in the light as he grabbed the top of the things humanoid head and gripped, the tips of his fingers piercing it's skull and the sound of cracking bone echoing as he pulled towards him and twisted, his strength pulling the creature with him as he spun it into a wall with a cracking thud. lights shattered under the impact as it hit and he released it almost with contempt. They sparked futilely lighting up the place in fits. It scythed at him with one of it's hands. The blades able to cut through metal, blades able to cut through even his head, the blade slashed at his head and... stopped. The sound of bone on bone screeching as the creature roared and pulled on the arm but what was there was not letting go.

The creatures bone blade was gripped in Mako's teeth and was moored as firmly as if it was caught in concrete. As the thing pulled back it's other arm Mako grabbed the shoulder of the arm connected to the blade and then pulled with his teeth. Slowly and cruelly he pulled and pulled as his eyes beamed with black hate. Tendons, muscle began to tear and pop audiably within the arm before his power. Maybe under ordinary circumstances it might have been able to hold it's own... but all Mako knew was rage.... a rage that would have cowed the sea.

The arm ripped free of the should as the creature screamed and swung it's other arm which as Mako let go of the broken arm with his mouth he ducked under the blade and gripping his new toy by the wrist he stabbed upwards into the creatures torso, the bone blade piercing it effortlessly, upwards and unwards and up into the ceiling itself. Black ooze pouring out the creatures chest as it was pinned by it's own arm to the hallway ceiling, it's head dangling at about Mako's normal height... or rather the height of his mouth. It looked up into his eyes and Mako could see a slowly forming smile on his face in it's eyes as he let go the blade and gripped the creature... and went to work. Teeth flashed, fingers wretched, blood splattered the wall and ceiling and in time the creature was still. Even the unearthly power keeping it in some twisted assemblage of life unable to keep it going. Mako stepped back from his work, black bile and blood pouring down his mouth and coating his chest, the same substance coating his arms up to his elbows. Slowly, ever so slowly he turned to look at Bao and the hatred on his face melted as he knelt before her. The hate vanishing as soon as it appeared. Ignoring a slight rattling from a vent down the hall he looked at her. His eyes reflecting only her.

"Little Mermaid? Are you okay? Please be okay..."

[Bao Yu Chao]

Everything felt like a blur...the last time a screw up this bad happened was when she got head strong toward her first paranormal opponent. Nearly got herself killed there too...but it wasn't THIS bad. Something swept across her face and lightly grazed her cheek...that's all she could tell. But...what was up with all the soft, inaudible whispers drifting around and about...? What was going on?! Being unable to move her body just yet, it seemed like while the new dragonness arrival was busy shredding it to fleshy ribbons YET another one of those creatures of the same type with bone scythes crashed in through the vents. It could tell this girl wasn't dead and it WANTED her to die for sure. Landing above her and on the verge of biting her face off...something made noise like an odd frequency sort of roar which caused it to stop and have a total DERP moment pause in its movement long enough to get set up for complete and utter imminent doom.

Softly...for some reason she head a song being sung by a woman who sounded as though she was trying to remain calm yet scared as the additional carnage commenced. Twinkle, twinkle, little star....how I wonder what you are.... Partially opening her eyes, everything looked fuzzy...nothing was clear...and the dim lights almost seemed a bit more dim... ...up above the world so high....like a diamond in the sky....when the blazing sun is gone... ...it sounded like a lightly echoed transmission...was anyone else hearing this?! ...when there....nothing...shines upon....The soft voice...it sounded almost like it was struggling a bit to keep from panicking or breaking down...trying to hold a strong composure in the midst of madness...oh for the love of her bank account...the figures hardly seemed human.

Was the winner going to rip her to shreds themselves? This...was horrible...she couldn't tell what was going on as she lay there in a mess of blood and porcelain! ...then you show your little light...twinkle, twinkle all the night.....then the traveler in the dark thanks you for your little spark Things seemed to gradually brighten up a bit...was...was this song orchestrating things for her in a messed up way?! Those soft whispers...what were they saying...? Why couldn't anyone else hear this?! There were DEFINITELY others here...and...and they weren't hearing this?!

He could not see which way to go...if you did not twinkle so.... Dim...things got slightly dim again and the whispers seemed to hush a bit and all she could her was the muffled sound of tissue, muscle, and bone being ripped asunder. All too familiar........when the blazing sun is gone....when the nothing shines upon.... Oh hey the soft singing was back....fun stuff...where was it even coming from? No one else could hear it and she never heard this song before...huh? Someone or something was at her side leaning over her?

...though I know not what you are......twinkle, twinkle...little star... Echoing...light echoing...it was becoming silent and the whispers...as soft as they were already sounded so much softer only to become something like white noise....how hard did she land?! Now a VERY familiar voice was calling her a little mermaid and asking if she was okay and to please be okay. What in the world actually gave so much care about her life to care that much? No...it was just her sanity slipping...wasn't it? It didn't sound like that Jimmy guy, the voice sounded that of Captain Mako's...but he wasn't here was he? None of her guards were...she was pretty sure she was alone. Fuzzy blobs started to take shape bit by bit. What the hell was on the ceiling...?!

It was starting to look like a body pinned up into the ceiling...reeeaaally similar to the thing that broke her makeshift weapon. Damn it...her instincts actually got her in this position...she was so used to attacking various creatures heads and that at least making them knock out or die! Limbs...limbs...she had to focus her attack efforts on their limbs when she could actually move! That note in blood on the wall from the bathroom TOLD HER their weakness...yet instinct made her body go the `BAM! HEAD SHOT!` route on reflex. Lightly feeling her bloodied body from all the carnage that happened just twitch...that and her eyes very slightly...slowly looked to the greyish form near her which was looking more and more like her body guard and right hand man Captain Mako....but something behind him seemed like that of a dragon...what the hell? Are these two her saviors for why she wasn't dead?! ....er....well...at the moment she looked kinda dead aside from her subtle movement from breathing.

At least it FINALLY felt like her body was snapping the hell out of its stupid I'M GONNA MAKE YOU WEAK AND PATHETIC DERP DERP state cause seriously doing a whole lot of nothing was pissing her off. This rich bitch wasn't the sort to chill on the job, she kept pushing forward and would keep trying until there was nothing left to try for. ....wait...what was with the freaky little robo-man thing...she'd seen it AND that stupid pelvic thrusting dance it was doing. Zilla's robot. As soon as she could speak or something...she was going to inform the two creatures helping her how to deal with these things so they wouldn't repeat her mistake.

{-WUZ REQUESTED TO POST A LITTLE EARLIER- Phin's gonna be next! Aaand in case you folks are wondering, yes, yes Bao Yu is hearing voices a bit...that song is totally mysteriously in her head...woooo! xD If she snaps more out of it I'll post again...varies on Phin's post :3! ....so um...yes...yes Bao Yu is laying there doing a whole lot of nothing aside from hearing stuff in her head and recovering}

[Phin <---> Zilla]

It hadn’t taken long to have the mysterious singing man catch on to following her so ridiculous I wanna shoot myself robot, and it also didn’t take her much time to figure out just who that man was. It must have been his voice because once she recognized that unique accent of his it hadn’t been hard to figure out that the barefoot man was Mako, the shark man Bao Yu had hired. Normally, she would have thought of leading the suspicious humanoid shark elsewhere to ‘study’ him but these weren’t the circumstances for such a scientific discovery waiting to be cracked. No, the center of Phin’s attention had been the teenage client of hers. Not only was Bao Yu left alone again for the frickin second time, but this time the situation turned more ugly that it made Phin turn paler than before.

At first, Phin had relaxed somewhat as she noticed her pork bun pain used her surroundings wisely as a weapon. Toilet set being the option of choice…. The rich brat’s battle cry was almost the same as Phin’s if she ever went against those little sorry excuses for mutant killer babies. Well, with a few more swearing words and all. And just when things were looking good, something by the description of tall, sharp, and messed up came into view. Great…it was another of those two legged ass holes that stabbed her and it didn’t look all too threatening until it sliced the only shield keeping it and Bao Yu apart. That was when pale to even greater pale set in on her face and she took action to start luring Mako in like a fish following bait. Goodness it didn’t take him long to figure out the young girl was in danger and bolted in the direction of the bathroom arrows that Phin had brought him to.

Now all this Genius of a Woman could do was sit back, watch, and follow him with her mini moving robot. Well…the moving had stopped once she made it to them and watched two unexpected things unfold before her very eyes. First, had been by her mistake of not keeping up on the screens around her, only to find a scaly beast was nearing Bao Yu and Mako. Moving her attention away from her important eye target, she watched in wide eye shock at such a creature on the premises. And what got her more startled was what Mako did.

Turning back to the screen where Bao Yu was temporally incapacitated and her fish man had come to the rescue. Phin now wondered if it was a good idea to keep this ‘person’ close to her special client, because being the smart person she was. Phin didn’t need the warning flags waving like crazy in her head to tell her this man was a serious problem. Keeping her eyes glued to the screen, all Phin could do was let her eyes bulge out even more and have her mouth agape with her broken cigarette slipping out of her mouth and to the ground as she not just saw the huge unhinged jaw of a shark but the manner of how he acted towards the enemy that his rage even made the screen static for a bit.

”What the hell?.....” Pausing even more she couldn’t really digest what was happening, then again how could stomach a shark man painting a bloody picture on her walls with two legged freak face over there. ”What the f-FUDGING-k?!......” Taking and deep breath she shut her opened mouth and closed her eyes before opening back up again to only shake her head in the process. ”Button……Just what in the frickin messed up universe made you choose a HUMANOID SHARK AND A DRAGON THING FOR FREAKIN SAKE?!”

For a moment there was a pause but then after a ten second count in her head, Phin heard the button finally speak up. ’Hehehe, well you did say anyone. So I thought the shark and fire breathing lizard would work for the moment. I mean do you see the other ‘guests’ helping to fix the problems, huh? HUH?! Saying those words in it’s now favorite annoying cheerful tone, Phin at this very moment want to strangle it like it was a person she very so much hated on the face of this earth. Strangle it until ceased in those lungs and for once would hear nothing but quietness of death…..Shit she had a way of thinking morbidly cruel sometimes. It was stupid things like these that made her think that staying at the asylum had been a better idea.

Bringing her attention back to the three on one screen now, she noticed something coming around the corner through when the other screens somewhat were plagued by a flickering of white noise. Leaning a bit closer to see what that oddly big shape was moving across the halls, when the one of the screens stopped flickering for just a second she stopped breathing for a moment. Phin wasn’t one to get overly freaked out about big scary monster freaks but when it came to whom it was targeting that meant something to her….then she freaked out like mother for a child about to get seriously hurt or maybe die. That ‘thing’ didn’t look like the others which were small, this monstrosity made those annoyances look like harmless nipping puppies. The large brute looked to almost be the shape of an oversized gorilla….and going on a rampage through the halls no less.

Finding this was the time to intervene as the brute was getting a few banged up hallways closer, she decided to make contact with the party that was concerned for Bao Yu’s somewhat black out. Moving the robot to face the trio she pressed a button on her remote control, a turquoise somewhat translucent holographic screen popped out from the robot where they were and one from Phin’s remote at her location. Seeing as they would know her presence soon enough from the light and sudden loud static, she didn’t bother with introductions since getting their butts to safety would be in order. Especially after ‘trying’ to spot it by activating a few metal doors that didn’t stand a chance against it’s stampede. Luckily they were close by the gravitational room which circular door was made with more enforcement that she hoped would stop the giant fricker from getting inside with them.

Staring at the three with a not so happy look on her face, she made this chat short and simple. I don’t have time to explain but you need to follow me because something big and dangerous is approaching, and it’s coming towards you three fast. So, I suggest following me now or getting your asses trampled by HUGE raging flesh monkey coming at you three soon!” Moving the dancing robot towards the other side of the hall, she didn’t take her sweet ass time just standing there waiting for an answer. If they followed the robot then they were smart if not….well she’d need to come up with another compromise. Looking back from the shake screens to the hologram, she was growing impatient just by the silence. ”Hurry up you, my robot is faster than you when acting on it’s own!”

[ember]

Ember just about collapsed with palpable relief - such was the relief that she only a moment or two later realized that the girl had been saved by a vicious-looking shark dude who could apparently disjoint his jaw and bite one of these things' head clean off. She blinked a little, leaning against the wall, breathing just a touch heavily, wings twitching as they dipped a bit.

"Good grief, what an alarm clock" she mused to herself, shutting her eyes a moment to gather herself up into a tight, hard little ball - for a tiny moment, she forgot she was here and almost fell asleep. Then she remembered! She was being chased!

Before the voice even got finished with the little speech, she gave a strangled little draconic "Screeeek!" and darted down the hall toward the two.

"Hicomeonbigcreaturechasemetimetorunawaynowreallyfast!" and grabbed at them both, making urgent little noises and tugging. "Wegottagooocomeoncmon!" she pleaded feverishly, feral terror in her eyes as she bodily drug them a few inches with panic-stricken strength.

[Captain Mako]

Mako's skin seemed to be standing on end he felt... something coming. The same way a lion gets the inkling of a feeling that a hunter had the great beast in his sights. Pure instinct screamed at him that the little face of light was right and he should get a move on. This was confirmed by the extreme panic of their new... friend? As she grabbed them both and pulled them by sheer adrenaline screaming strength. They were only pulled a few inches before Mako moved, his broad hand slapping Bao's hand out of her grip and he stood to his full height as he looked down on the puller, a bit of the previous rage bubbling beneath his calm surface. Then with surprising calm he talked.

"Ma'am panic time or not we don't need to drag out wounded across the floor. We are members of a thinking species after all. We have limbs, thoughts, and the ability to access a situation and come up with a solution."

Mako's solution was old fashioned, he didn't have a super science anti gravity lift, a med pack capable of bringing her up to speed immediately, or a army of tiny robots so instead... he scooped her up with surprising care and lifted her up to his chest, grabbing one of her arms she wrapped it around his neck knowing her fear of falling would keep her latched on so she would feel a bit more secure as he held her in his arms horizontally.. He arranged things with care and tried not to think about how warm she was, or how good her perfume smelled... and most of all how good her blood smelled. It wasn't easy being high on the food chain. With that he started to fall forward without bending his knees, it was a controlled fall because just as he reached a 45 degree angle his right leg shot out and pulled his body forward, then the other leg, this leaning run was designed to make gravity work for him... or at least look cool as he sped across the metal floor after the robot.

He tried to calm her down as he could smell her panic and unease. His voice was even and calm as he ran as fast as he could.

"I am sorry for taking liberties like this Little Princess."

This was almost totally the truth.

"But needs must 'when the devil drives' as your guards have told me. We need to get you someplace we can patch you up and THEN you can yell at me if you still feel like it. Now settle down. As for you."

Mako's gaze went to the woman running beside him. She smelled... hot... dangerous, like nothing he had come across but still that didn't matter they were thrown together and he needed her and apparently she needed him. Besides she had helped.

"Greetings ma'am sorry for the earlier behavior I am quite upset at the current turn of events. While it is interesting the current situation is unacceptable so while I don't know you I am willing to create at least a tempoary pact with you of mutual defense. You helped protect the most important thing in my life, so I will help defend you as long as you continue to do so. I think that is as fair of an offer as you are going to get here... oh and by the way. Just letting you know... if you betray this pact when I require your help I will rip out your throat with my teeth. Nothing business, just purely personal."

As if to emphasize his point a creature started to pull itself free of a vent up ahead, Rather then slow down to deal with it Mako chomped down on empty air as hard as he could and splinters of bone shot out his mouth embedding themselves in the creatures face, his foot lashed out and the creatures head was involved in a physics experiment involving gravity, momentum, it's head, and the deck plating. The plating won out and while this was not a fatal blow to the creature it did slow it down enough for the three to keep on moving on. Mako looked down at the woman in his arms.

"You know, if you wanted to do something exciting tonight you could have just asked."

He grinned a bit at his own humor. While his arms gently, so gently cradled the woman in his arms.

[arachnidsGrip]

So very busy, there were so many things to do and more importantly doomed timelines to help these people avoid! Right now it was important not to screw anything up and that paralyzed girl in the arms of her sharky Rufio of a hero was DEFINITELY going to prove a HUGE problem being queen screw up! In one of the more bothersome timelines, she went on and on about voices then flipped out about how everyone was trying to kill her. The whole lot being traitorous bastards even though none of them attacked. It wasn't going to help them be stronger as a team, it would just be an annoying obstacle that could get that weird pink and blue haired girl killed or all of them in a BIG DISASTROUS MESS. So to avoid yet another doomed timeline she was going to try something...hoping that this would do SOMETHING useful to them. Staring at the Trollian view port while sitting there at her computer, she focused her attention on the female who was already dead weight.

That was going to be easier than dealing with her by the time she could move and talk again! Moving her hands up to her head, she grit her teeth and ignored all the other party members...the shark, the dragon....both of them blurred from her mind's eye so she could only see the bloodied girl in pajamas with cows, stars, and moons printed upon their surface. Focus....focus....and...

time

to

SLEEP!!!!!!!!

That female's sapphire blue eyes actually closed causing her to be in a state of peaceful slumber after some red quadrant inspired dialog toward the dead weight hoping that would inspire something on a positive note in her dream state. There....now the voices that girl was babbling about in previous timelines would be subsided and she could buy these two creatures some time. From what she figured, the voices would take a swig of shut the hell up for a while thus buying her a little time to hold onto her sanity and be useful later. Grinning at the success upon her screen and the imagery of a twisted fairy tale where the princess was knocked out cold in her captors arms with a dragon accomplice...she'd give the dead weight a wake-up call later. For now...a small preservation of sanity was in order to benefit their crazy little adventure. Time to go and check on that blue robotic boy's freaky timeline that only seemed to have a forward button. Oh well! All the more reason to troll him while she waited for a prime moment to give her sleep victim a wake up call!

(IN CASE IT ISN'T PAINSTAKINGLY OBVIOUS...Vriska isn't physically there :B aaaand Bao Yu is moar dead weight than before! YAY SLEEPING PARALYZED AND RECOVERING BAO YU!!!!!!!!)

[Phin <---> Zilla]

Well that didn’t take them long to move their asses. It was a bit slow at first but now they were actually moving those two feet forward and FAST. She would have congratulated on a job well done for FINALLY animating those frickin’ legs of theirs left and right, but at the time being sarcasm wasn’t necessary especially when they have someone Phin considered very important. You could say the reason Bao Yu kept Phin so concerned for her wellbeing was because the rich bratty teenager was an asset Phin couldn’t have tampered with. Zilla would think otherwise yet of course this wasn’t about Zilla’s perception but about Phin’s dilemma.

Keeping the controller tilted forward with the ease of her index finger and thumb, she used her free hand and pressed a few quick keys on the dashboard that activated the doors in the hallway. Now all Phin had to do was wait for the right time to switch the section of doors into lockdown mode, which wouldn’t be hard since flesh gorilla was approaching fast with speed that could match a rhino during a stampede. Moving her free hand to the three keys that controlled each section of the hallway doors, Phin steadily kept her fingers lightly on the keys as she multi-tasked from maneuvering the robot and watching the screen as the giant mo-fo made itself closer and closer to the activated doors. Though they wouldn't stop it from chasing the three unfortunate people, at least it would slow it down somewhat.

Away from the barricaded control room Phin confined herself in with Sir M, a few corridors forward was the trio and what was fairly close by known as fleshy gorilla. The reason he was given the nickname was that it moved like a damn gorilla and it had more flesh hanging off then it had black fur like a normal gorilla. Now who in their right mind turned an animal such as that?! Well there’s the problem, it wasn’t actually an animal but people formed together like transformers to create one fucked up version of hairless King Kong. If you could have a chance to examine the beast without dying then perhaps you could catch a glimpse of the multiple rib cages sticking out.

With speed matching anything large, muscular, and with rage, the flesh ape hadn’t taken long to make it’s way towards the trio in simple long strides plus being on all four made about anything fast so that was a damn good advantage on the mo-fo’s part. Luckily thing they had Phin on their side or they wouldn’t be able to handle this situation properly. Just as it passed the imaginary mark she placed as a cue, her finger pressed down quickly on the lock mode on section 2. Watching as the doors closed down, the fleshy gorilla managed to evade the first door but didn’t have the same luck with the next two in that section. Though like Phin predicted, it just rammed through the two closed barriers like they were made out of wood, flying debris and all. It didn’t slow it down like she had hoped but it did so some damage to it’s agility.

Activating the next set of doors, she switched her focus for a second to the mini robot, and noticed there was a bit of trouble up ahead in the shape of moving freak faces coming at them. The first one she had managed to dodge seemed to not be that much of a problem for shark man to handle, but the next one that looked more aggressive didn’t strike Phin to appear easy. And with that realization, she placed the mini dancing bot into attack mode. Having the arm reconfigure into a small canon, she watched as the cross hairs locked on to the incoming enemy and PHEW went the top of two legged freak face’s head. And to top it all off, she did a bit of her own ramming in headless’s direction but towards the already open wall vent that had another friendly face that was just about to join the ‘get them’ party if Phin hadn’t made headless collide with it’s friendly leaving the two to deal with untangling form each other. Oh, now wasn’t that nice of her to bring the fucked up two together….not.

Shifting her gaze to the other monitors, she saw the monster made it through her second to the last defense and what looked to be a small army in the back it. ”Just f-FUGDE-ing great….It’s like a videogame but without the f-fabulous-ing pause button.” Not to mention the save menu……Wanting to curse a storm at the problem increasingly into more unneeded shit, Phin just shook her head in that irritated manner before pressing the last section of doors and turning to the screen with the trio and her controlled robotic self. Seeing through the camera of the mini robot, she noticed they were very close to the reinforced door she had been trying to get them to reach. Thank f-fanservice-ing fates they were a few seconds close by, now they all just needed to make it through the few freak faces coming towards them and some didn’t look like ones she had seen through the magical adventures of getting to the control room…These looked different, because they were just as small as six year olds but more fucked up than your average child from children of the corn. Avoiding a few with her quick maneuvering, she did a fast 180 degree turn to see how close the other three were to her. And to Phin’s displeasure, they weren’t that close by…..maybe a three feet or so and moving left and right to avoid the oncoming slashes of the average freak faces.

’I guess helping out MORE is part of the plan…..’ Moving forward towards the trio, she did a few what could be considered booty bumps to the Michael Jackson kids as she tried to keep them as far apart from the group she was trying to with this small robot. She would have shot another laser shot at one of the brats but it was at the time being in recharge mode. So go figure, she’d have to do all the work and she’s the one that needed more saving then them. ”Move the hell faster! I’ve bought you enough time with flesh ape and now these sorry excuses for demonic children. We need to get to that door!” Slamming the last demonic annoyance to the wall, she pointed the robots arm to the end of the hall where the circular door was part way open.

[ember]

Ember watched the Sharkman catch up to her, holding the girl - she'd run like the dickens before he finished his first piece - she wasn't going to stand around listening to some daft fishman chatterbox while she knew what it was that was chasing them - or at least had some blood-freezing suspicions that took shape in her mind. Big. Ugly. Hungry. Probably not alone, her keen ears told her. The fishman caught up quick enough though - and quickly apoligized to her for his previous outburst.

What the hell! This was certainly a wordy fish... she stared at him in fascinated horror as he gabbled on and on, then had the pair to threaten her? Now? Here? With THAT chasing her? It was fair warning - the girl in his arms was obviously precious to him, but she still took offense to it and mumbled

"All this and you're daft enough to think I'm scared of YOU?!" she pointed back in a sparking moment of stress-induced anger. "Hear that?" it bellowed, as if on cue. "That is NOT a teddybear, chief! Shut your snapper and just run faster!" she barked, smoke trailing from her nose as the dragon's own anger at this predicament, her irritation at being woken like THIS, and all kinds of pissed off at how much this place REEKED of death coming to the fore. She wasn't about to take some lipping from a goddamn... FISH! She wasn't really paying attention to the front of her, though... Boy, she had a tendancy to do that, didn't she?