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Post by InsanityIsCool on Dec 26, 2012 4:35:11 GMT -5
As she was running up the steps she heard Reaper talk about cooperating, and saw her letting Joshua go. She suddenly thought of her dead mother and how Umbrella sent a USS hit squad after she reported their survival to the Umbrella Pacific Branch. Cold fury emerged from her. She aimed her M6 at Reaper. "And what about after the labs beneath us are destroyed? Umbrella always screws over those who help them, whether they be friend, foe or employee. Why don't you ask your boss what happened to the survivors of the facility in Western Australia back in '89'."
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Post by Reaper on Dec 26, 2012 11:10:32 GMT -5
She finally let Joshua go returning his weapon to him only to have another one shoved in her face. Though for her this one stayed at a distance which was smart on her part. She waved the thought off as she spoke knowing well enough what took place in the past. She knew Umbrella like the back of her hand, and knew their cold hearted actions to only further themselves. Even she was a liability if it come down to it. Everyone was a liability to Umbrella if it came down to saving them. Umbrella was her home, and all she knew was Umbrella.
She looked at the other BSAA her eyes gold as always. "Everyone was killed for the sake of Umbrella. To Umbrella everyone is a liability, and it is in the contract you sign. They will go to any lengths to save themselves. Even my life means nothing to them if they have to save themselves," she pointed out. Turing to look out at the next monument, but the garden was out of sight. "All I know is Umbrella. I was raised by Umbrella do you not think that I would know everything about them, and still be willing to do as I am ordered."
Artimes turned to look at the two. "Regardless of my orders after this mission. You would still have a fleeting chance at survival if you keep your distance. Being to close renders your weapon useless regardless of how good you are with it." She hinted to Joshua. "As for you go ahead and fire, but if my boss has indicated that I need outside help then this creature may be far worse than I have dealt with before. Not to mention we are on a time limit with those creatures before. I am Artimes Matheson also known as Reaper, and Neo-Umbrella's tops soldier. The choice is yours to help me before those creatures are lose or to deal with those creatures when they are lose. Either way it would pose a threat to both of our organizations."
((An do not worry about the lengths of your post. If you check out my post in the Sawmills you see that I'm sorta use to posting like this. Not to mention with time and experience you may be adding more. An besides . . . hangover . . . I hope the alcohol was good.))
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Post by fare777 on Dec 26, 2012 12:24:53 GMT -5
*Joshua shook his head, returning his weapon, still having it out incase of an emergency, a gaze directed toward Artimes, giving a sigh, unable to understand her reasons for sticking with them*
"Guess it would be right for members of Umbrella to be a tad bit unpredictable... Though I can't understand your logic... You stick with them even knowing they think of you as nothing but a tool... Don't you have friends? And even so, you continue to show this cold demeaner... Would it kill to smile?"
*Continuing to move around, trying to think of a logical explanation for it, continuing to stare cautiously at her but stops, giving a final sigh, shruging*
"Guess we'll go tidy up these B.O.W's, while we're on that, Atleast explain things to me, what does your organisation benefit from destroying these B.O.W's, Aren't they yours??"
(Also, yeah, the alcohol was good, just I don't like adding filler to text, I like getting straight to the point, I like reading, but I just like putting my point instantly without some added useless text XD)
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Post by InsanityIsCool on Dec 26, 2012 14:25:33 GMT -5
As Joanna listened to Reaper's explanation her fury abated, replaced by pity, then annoyance. "Well arent you cocky," she said to Reaper, "Did you think we're out here for you? You were simply an optional objective, to be done if we were bothered. The kid is over enthuesiastic but I coudnt be bothered. it wouldnt be challenging enough to be fun." "And lets set the record straight early, Im not BSAA, I simply have a contract with them."
She lowered her gun just as Joshua started talking. His last question caused her to look at him with bewilderment, and not a little bemusement. "Are you really that thick? Its obvious those BOW's either havent had their control mechanism added or they couldnt be controlled." she looked back at Reaper, her face once again serious. "That was probably why they were put in stasis, either to keep them asleep until they could be controlled, or far more likely so they wouldnt kill anyone until they were sold."
She thought for a moment. "Since were all sharing names, my name is Joanna Lupo, callsign Eryine or Fury, take your pick."
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Post by fare777 on Dec 26, 2012 19:07:51 GMT -5
*Hearing Joanna's insult he waves his hands lightly in the air with a sarcastic tone to his voice*
"Well excuuuse me, princess! Lets just get the work killing these things and have some tea before you ladies need another set of god-damn tampons. "
Moving his body to the side of the memorial, looking out for any of the lurking B.O.W'S, he surveyed the surroundings, ready to eliminate any hostilities that came toward them.
"Well are you two going to sit around fanny slappin' or are we actually going to do this?" His voice thick with his Southern Irish accent.
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Post by Reaper on Dec 26, 2012 21:43:03 GMT -5
"Fury seems to suite you," she said to Joanna as she walked past her. "We don't have to go directly into the hive. There are six more hidden areas around this area. If we turn on all six gas valves and set one charge the gas will do the job for us. The next one is at the Constitution Gardens and then The World War II Memoria." She motioned in the direction of the garden.
Moving toward the garden she stopped when she heard the chopper. She looked up wondering what they were doing since she didn't call for them to return, and she quickly had her answer. Smoke came from the tail rotter and the rotters themselves almost like they were damaged, but she couldn't tell from what. Then from the surrounding forest a tree . . . . not a stump or branch, but a full grown tree was thrown in the direction of the chopper. She watched as the chopper tried to avoid the flying tree, but failed miserably. The tree struck the chopper hard causing it to spin out of control exploding and sending debry everyone when it hit the ground.
A loud roar echoed through the woods in the direction of the tree. "Well I'm getting a disturbing feeling that this creature is a lot larger than the normal BOWs." She looked to the wreckage of the chopper knowing fully well there wouldn't be any survivors or a current communication back to the main base until a new link was set up, but she wasn't about ready to tell the others that.
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Post by InsanityIsCool on Dec 27, 2012 0:28:22 GMT -5
Joanna looked away from the flaming wreckage to Reaper, her right eyebrow raised. "Really," she said sarcastically, "what was your first clue?" she turned towards the gardens. "Come on, there's nothing we do for them now but finish the job.", she turned back to Reaper after a second, "Was that copter your link to your boss, or is he going to be running comentary through all this? I hate having to talk to prey." she waited for a few second then turned back, "Forget it, doesn't matter if you talk to Kyle Heller anyway. I'll meet him in person eventualy."
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Post by Reaper on Dec 28, 2012 19:29:49 GMT -5
Artimes grinned when Joanna had spoken about Kyle. There was no doubt that she knew of him almost everyone in the BSAA knew about him, and many never realized that they've actually met him before hand. She looked at Joanna as they moved toward the guardian. "To answer your question. Yes it was my communication . . . and as for Kyle as long as he's not yapping in my ear like most missions this should go by faster."
The trip to the garden was quick and silent. Stepping into the center of the garden she pulled out the map she had trying to find the location of the next. "An they are marked and controllable with even a fail safe. The problem with that is a few months ago we have found that the computer chips that allow Umbrella to control them has be compromised. Someone within the past couple of months had hacked into the systems trying to take control of the BOWs." Moving toward a memorial stand to the left of the center she ran her hand along it trying to find the smooth panel.
"Umbrella has this belief that if anyone should conquer the world it will be them. They will not stand by and let anyone to take over their own creations and use it against them." Finding the panel she brought the card out sliding it against the panel. The grinding sound indicated that a door had opened in the ground. She walked back toward the center of the garden hitting the ground as soon as a cement block went flying over her head. From her position on the ground she looked up at Joshua and Joanna and then in the direction the block had come from.
Standing across the garden wasn't a normal looking human BOW or a liker. The thing looked like an over grown great ape, but stood at least five feet taller. Maybe not taller but he was almost like three or four of those deadly creatures put together. It's muscles bulged in every direction, and as it held another cement block with relative ease. Reaching down she pulled out her hand gun knowing well enough with the muscles on that creature her weapon wouldn't be able to pierce it's skin. "We need to turn that valve on in that room."
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Post by InsanityIsCool on Dec 29, 2012 2:35:17 GMT -5
She listenned and watched Reaper's reaction to her deliberate mentioning of kyle, and grinned in return. 'She's kinda cute when her face isn't like marble.' she thought as she followed her to the gardens.
when they got to the next location Joanna listened to Reaper explaining that within the last couple of months someone hacked the control chips in these BOWs trying to take control of them, compromising them. She was about to say something when she saw a concrete block flying towards them. "INCOMING!" she yelled, quickly rolling out of the blocks path. she quickly looked over her team-mates, no obvious injuries. She looked to where the block came from and saw the overgrown ape BOW that threw it. As she loaded her grenade launcher with one of her custom-made Bangalore Blade grenades, cold fury embraced her. She quickly looked at her grenade launcher, her custom grenade's barbed spike sticking one and a half inches in front of the launchers barrel. "You two get that valve, Ill deal with this overgrown gorilla."
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Post by Reaper on Jan 1, 2013 11:26:56 GMT -5
Artimes nodded in agreement as she climbed to her feet and made a dash for the opening. She took a look back at the over grown ape as it readied to throw another large brick at Joanna. It let out it's ape like war cry before bounding it's way toward her. It's body moving faster than something it's size should have. Pushing the thought aside knowing well enough her mission had to come first she made her way down the stairs not paying attention if Joshua followed behind her.
Looking around the room she quickly found the valve that she needed. With much needed effort the valve turned releasing the gas into the hive below, and just like the first time she broke the valve off so it couldn't be avoided. With another one down she quickly made her way back out of the room to asst the others in dealing with the creature.
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Post by InsanityIsCool on Jan 3, 2013 9:35:44 GMT -5
Joanna heard Reaper run to the opening,her eyes fixed on the BOW racing towards her. She aimed at its head and started shooting, watching as the bullets tore into flesh only to bounce off the incredibly dense skull. 'Well thats annoying' she thought as it continued bounding towards her. When it got close enough, she fired her custom grenade at the BOW's neck. She saw the spike spear through the flesh, stopping at the spine. She rolled away from the now silent gorilla's charge, quickly sprinting away from the opening, looking back just as the grenade went off. The BOWs neck erupted in a spray of flesh and blood, leaving a great big hole where the creatures vocal chords and osophagus once was also revealing the white of its spine. "Try roaring now ****head." she yelled, loading another custom grenade and loading her gun with steel core rounds. The BOW was stunned for a few seconds, before rage contorted its face and charged her again.
Joanna looked down the sights at the BOW's right leg. Squeezing the the trigger, a hail of AP round tore into the legs knee, causing the BOW to fall on its face, sliding towards joanna due to its momentum. it stopped just 5 meters away. It lifted its head and was about to lift itself up when Joanna turned its elbows into mush with gunfire. It lifted its head again and bared its teeth at Joanna in a silent roar.
Joanna aimed her grenade launcher at its left eye. "Rest in peace." she said calmly, her face grim as she fired. the grenade shot through the eye and embeded itself in its head. She started walking towards the passage and was a few meters away when the grenade detonated. She looked up just as Reaper came out of the passage. She grinned at her. "What kept you?"
((Hope I didn't make the fight end too quick, or make the bangalore blade grenades too powerful. just let me know if so and ill change it around a bit.))
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Post by Reaper on Jan 14, 2013 18:10:54 GMT -5
Artimes looked up at Joanna as she stood outside the passage entrance. "The valve didn't want to open. They all seem to be rusted." She shrugged her shoulders and looked over to the dead creature. "Rest in peace?" she asked as she looked at her with a grin. "Come on I'm sure you could have come up with a far less corny line." She shook her head and pointed across the gardens. "The World War II memorial is next. An we best hurry before the undead make their way here." She lead them across the gardens toward the memorial the moans of the undead an indication that their luck of a quick walk through was going to be out of the question. She drew her guns ready for anything that could jump out at them. She stopped for a moment and looked around before realizing that Joanna was looking at her oddly. “I was just thinking how peaceful it was not having Kyle nagging in my head during an entire mission,” she said as she started to move again
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Post by InsanityIsCool on Jan 15, 2013 4:09:49 GMT -5
Joanna looked at Reaper,annoyed at her comment about what she said. "What i said wasnt a finisher line, but i guess anyone who was raised by UMBRELLA wouldnt understand." She had said 'rest in peace' because in her mind, by killing the BOW, she was ending its suffering. she felt the same way about every BOW and zombie she killed. In a way, she felt as if she was doing what her mother once did. she was the head scientist at the western australian facility back in 89, but instead of working of viruses, she worked on anti-viruses and vaccines. she reloaded her M6 and followed Reaper towards the WW2 memorial. As they got closer the undead moans got louder. when Reaper stopped she looked at her oddly. Her explaination caused a grin to form. "No kidding, when I was with my mercenary family they would constantly fret about my safety when the bullets started flying. Thankfully they stopped after I saved their asses during a botched job in Somalia." her grin widened as she remembered, "Afterward they said they would have bought me a beer if I wasnt 9 years old."
Just then a zombie came out the bush to her 1'o'clock and went for her. she lifted her hand and when it was close enough, palm-striked its nose, shoving the cartilage into the brain. she continued walking as it toppled backwards dead. "How long have you been an operative?" she asked as if nothing had happened.
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Post by Reaper on Jan 15, 2013 17:09:57 GMT -5
Artimes looked at Joanna as she easily dealt with the walker. She looked across the yard at the walkers that swarmed the dying fire of the helicopter wreckage. She sighed and shook her head before looking ahead at their destination. "8 years," she said answering Joanna's question about how long she had been doing this. "Though if you really want to know all my life. From the point I was old enough to read I was conditioned for this. My entire life has been manipulated by Umbrella." She walked up to the main entrance of the building putting her back against the wall. With her handgun out she peered inside to find that the area was clear. Opening the door she moved in with gun raised. "Umbrella is all I know," she pointed out as she looked back at Joanna. "But then again you would probably know that." She paused at the stairs that lead to the room. "The next valve is on the roof of this building."
Moving up the stairs she checked the side doors on the way up to make sure there wasn't anything in the adjacent area. "I've got a question now. What bring you to this area? I know it's not me. The last time I've dealt with BSAA I know their operatives were told not to deal with me unless they had a partner with them."
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Post by InsanityIsCool on Jan 15, 2013 20:59:54 GMT -5
Joanna looked at Reaper, her answer was troubling, but then again if all she had known was UMBRELLA then it was possible. When they went into the building she switched to her pistol and tactical tomahawk, her pistol had its suppressor attached. She thought for a second before answering, "My job was to verify a tip that you were being deployed here and if it was verifyed find out the reason, and gather any Intelligence on NEO-UMBRELLA I could. Your UMBRELLA's best operative, they wouldnt send you to kill a few undead." she shrugged,"And as I said earlier you were an optional objective, if the oppertunity presented itself you were to either be captured or killed." she checked several rooms, nothing. "you've been conditioned for this since you were a kid? I've been doing this since I was 6, not just being conditioned but actually being on the battlefield." She looked back at Reaper, "UMBRELLA helped shape what I am today, not by manipulation like you, but by murdering everyone I loved." Suddenly she aimed her pistol at Reaper, several metres seperating them. She saw Reaper stiffen, watching her. Joanna fired, but her bullet didnt hit Reaper. Instead it hit the licker Joanna had seen behind Reaper in the head, making it tumble to the ground. She walked past Reaper and put 2 more rounds in its head to be sure. "Despite that I do not hate you. My prey are the executives, the scientists and the head USS officers. They are the ones I hunt, and will never stop hunting"
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