Pacific Ocean

[Reaper]

Rio layed on the bed her head spinning from when they finally decided to knock her out. They had probably figgured that it would be easer to drag her to the room rather than fighting her. The room was spinning slightly, but she was able to make out Malcom in the corner of the room, and he wasn't along. Four soldiers lined the room with two guarding him. There were two men in white coats walking around the room. Rio struggled for a moment against her restraints before giving up.

"Ah good to see you awake," one of the men with the white lab coats spoke. "Your friend decided that he wanted to sit in on this little operation."

"Operation?" Rio asked with a slight quiver in her voice. She knew what it was but not where it was going.

"Yeah. See we don't bother with torturing people. Sincell has come up with another way of getting information from people. An all we have to do is remove that pretty little brain of yours." He turned to the other man in the room. "Alright start hooking her up."

The other man nodded as he started setting up the tables, and then headed over to hooking her up on the monitor. He finished off with giving her two shots in the base of her neck. Finally with the use of the other two guards in the room he flipped her over on the bed and re-strapped her back to the bed.

"Alright dear. Your going to be awake during this whole prodecdure. Well until I cut that last nerve. Either way. The two shots were to paralize you so I wouldn't have any trouble. Shot if it starts to wear off," he laughed.

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Elijha nodded and made her way out of the room she made a quick stop to get a lay out of the basment and then started to make her way down. She stopped and dashed into a room as several soldiers made their way past them. Once they were gone she moved out of the room and down the stairs toward the basement. Once she made her way down she carefully searched for the room. She didn't want anyone to know that she had even been down here mostly for the fact that she didn't want them to suspect or even search for the bomb. Finding her destination she pushed the button and placed it exactly where she was told.

Satisfied that no one was watching she made her way back up the stairs in order to help Daniel and the others. Though half way up the stairs she found an issue. "Dad," she growled slightly.

"Wow, you seem to find a way to be a thorn in my side constantly," he growled slightly. "Here let me put a stop to that."

He dashed toward her faster than she was expecting. Fast enough that she wasn't even prepared for it. She was knocked down the stairs hitting the ground hard. An before she could get back up he was already ontop of her. He wrapped his hand around her face, lifted her head up and slammed it into the concreat knocking her unconcious. At that moment he picked her up and carried her to the over look room that looked down upon the operating room with Rio and Malcom.

[Scorpio]

Malcom slipped forward whilst everyone was occupied with the officer entering up top with Elijah and gripped the doctor by the wrist as he raised his scalpel, the guards started to raise their guns before he spoke.

"You get your medical degree from a sewing circle? You need to keep this finger here or the blade will slip when you're working." He adjusted the mans hand accordingly whilst holding his wrist.

"Uh, thanks. That does seem better, but if you think helping us will wipe the slate for you then..ghk"

He struck the doctor in the front of the arm, forcing his hand upwards to make himself jam the tool in his throat, he staggered about whilst trying to stop the bleeding. Whilst the guards tried to get around him Malcom hit a few buttons on his PDA and threw it into a stack of gas tanks, it started beeping rapidly.

"It's a bomb!" One of the doctors shouted, misinterpreting the beeps. "Get it out of there before the whole place goes up!"

The scientists and guards started tripping over each other, either trying to get out of the room, find the 'bomb' or stop Malcom, who had grabbed as many useable blades as he could from the surgical tools and started fighting back. Thankfully the Sincell troops weren't able to shoot back around all the equipment, which Mal didn't give a hoot about personally as he kicked the wheeled monitor station into fake Riko, pinning him against the wall.

"Hold there for a few buddy, I'll have some questions when I'm done here." He cut Rio loose with two quick slashes and got back to hacking at the guards until she could move.

[Mikey]

Daniel, not knowing anything of what had happened to Elijha, continued on his journey from the security room to the operating room. He hadn’t gone far when he heard the commotion up ahead. Panicked sounds from the direction of the operating room. He could only hope that Malcolm had stirred up a real s*** storm for them to deal with.

He found out that that was exactly the case, seeing men run from down the hall toward him without recognizing that he didn’t belong. At least he assumed that. It didn’t much matter after he raised his rifle and spent half a magazine filling them with armor piercing lead. He ventured foreword down the hall, only to find the operating room. A total state of disarray, Riko pinned against the wall with a machine, Rio free, Malcolm taking out guards who were afraid to fire back for fear of repercussions for ruining machinery. It was an interesting site.

Daniel let the rifle hang from the sling as he pulled out the .45 at his side, much less likely to over penetrate a target and hit a friendly, he immediately aimed and fired several rounds at a man who was about to use his rifle as a club on Malcolm’s unprotected back. He fired at another who came at him with the same intent, dropping the man in time to aim and send a round into the temple of one of the doctor’s assistants who tried to flee.

[Reaper]

Elijha stirred slightly from her position on the floor. She looked up to see her father standing at the window looking down on the operation room. Though the look on his face wasn't one of pleasure, but anger. She could only guess that Daniel and Malcom were causing a lot of problems. She shifted ignoring the screaming headache as she tried to push herself to up. Though her efforts were usless as her father kicked her from behind knocking her into the wall.

"Give up already. What you and your friends are trying to attempt is usless." He reached down grabbing her by the throat and lifting her off the ground. "You will soon see the trouble you will cause to your new friends." With that he threw her hard against the glass causing it to shatter. She fell the twenty feet to the ground hitting it hard as the glass rained down on them.

Riko took the moment of Malcom's destraction to shove the equipment away from him and slam it into Malcom. In turn getting himself one good punch sending the man to the ground and made a break for the exite Just barily missing being shot from Daniel as he ran out of the room.

"Hanging around with an abomination will cause nothing but trouble," Dr Wolfe called from above. "No matter where you go you'll find that you have no where to hide. Enjoy your freedome while it last," he laughed as he disappeared.

[Scorpio]

Malcom continued holding off the troops, eventually hearing Daniel burst in and join the melee, his expert aiming and lack of concern for the Sincell equipment allowing him to turn the odds in their favour.

"Good to see you man, remind me to buy you a cold one back at base when we finish up here."

He was cut off by Riko hurling the machinery back at him and the ensuing punch knocked his weapons loose from his hands, glaring he saw him escape from the theatre as two more soldiers rushed in past him. Malcom started running with the table, hopping on top once he'd build up speed ramming the first and leaping at the second driving his elbow into the mans throat.

"Yeah, champion of the world." He grabbed the knives from each soldier and jumped back into the fray with Daniel. "We should get the security tapes when we finish up. I want to put that online."

The fight was broke up by Elijah crashing to the floor in the middle of the group, everyone looked up at Dr Wolfe before he slipped out.

"Everyone else saw that right?"

[Mikey]

Daniel, in the huge mess that things had become, missed Riko making a break for it. He watched the man duck out of the room, aiming and firing a round that went wide by an inch or less. He would have gotten a hit if the slide hadn’t have locked back on the now empty handgun. He spun to his side to find one of the waning hostiles in the room, running at him to try and grab him now that he was perceived as less of a threat. Daniel responded to this assumption and slammed the grip into the mans ear.

The man recoiling and gripping the side of his head in pain, Daniel shot out his foot and buried his steel toed boot into the mans groin. Disabled for some time to come, Daniel fished a new magazine for the pistol out of the side holster, reloaded the weapon, and fired three .45 ACP rounds into the guards chest. The room was a mess of blood and dead bodies, and as he went to check on Rio, he heard the crash. Looking up for a split second, he saw Elijha and the glass falling. He tried to get to where he thought she would land, but was too late. Feeling the glass hit him and the wetness of blood flow, he ducked down and tried his best to cover his head at this late time. More cuts lined his back and hands, some on his neck and scalp. As soon as he heard the noise of glass falling stop, he stood and aimed with the 14-45.

Dr. Wolfe was gone by then, replaced by the two guards that Malcolm took care of in a hurry with some fancy moves. When all was quiet, Daniel did some more looking around. Nothing. Maybe they had actually killed everyone. Wow…

“Check her.” He said, pointing at Elijha while Daniel went over to Rio. He shook her a few times, not sure if she was awake or not. She didn’t seem to be hurt, Malcolm having stopped that just in time. He didn’t get an immediate response, but she was breathing and her pulse seemed normal. They didn’t have much time left. Bending down and sliding her off the table, he hauled her onto his shoulders in a fireman’s carry and looked over at Malcolm when he heard him talking about grabbing the security tapes.

“Nope, no time. Looks like you have to deal with everyone calling bulls*** on that story.” He said. He wouldn’t have believed it, not for a second, if he hadn’t seen it just a few seconds ago.

[Reaper]

With Malcom's held Elijha was able to stand up. She instantly put her hand up against the back of her head. There was no blood, but there was a major throbbing there from earlier. Though the rest of her body felt worse than it had in years. With her arm over Malcom's neck they made their way out of the room. "Father's changed. He's stronger than a human," she said as she looked up at Daniel. She limped slightly for a bit until she managed to gather herself enough to walk on her own. She patted Malcom on the shoulder. "Thank you." She looked around the hall as they made their way toward the exit.

"I managed to get the C4 in place. So once we're clear feel free to do your thing," she told Daniel as they made it toward the front of the building. "Wow, where is everyone?" she asked as she looked around. Exiting the bilding the sound of a helicoptor starting up echoced through the air. She looked around to see the chopper taking off from the top of the building. "Well he lives for another day," she growled slightly. "Damn."

Rio moaned slightly as she shifted on Daniel's shoulders. She opened her eyes and looked around lazely. "W- what happened," she whimpered slightly.

[Scorpio]

"Damn, well you have to tell your kids all about it. I need to buy a minstrel or something to chronicle this kind of thing in future, wonder if Art allows that in the budget."

He helped Elijah up and steadied her out of the room until she started moving on her own, staying close in case she needed extra help.

"Wait, forgot something."

Malcom rushed back into the operating room and dug out his PDA from the hands of a scientist who'd managed to grab it before being shot in the head, rushing back out to catch up with the group as they exited the hospital, only stopping again to grab his gear from where the Sincell troops had left it, his sword, C4, revolver, ammo and two of the G11s the troops were using.

"Check these out Dan. Last I checked these weren't mass produced. So I reckon we track down their source we could cut down their arms or seize some of their funding?" He mussed, more concerned with the free rare sub machine gun.

The group got outside, watching the helicopter with Wolfe, and possibly fake Riko escaping. Rio woke up groggy soon after.

"Morning kid, just got out of your check up and you can get all the ice cream you want."

[Mikey]

“That’s just crazy…” Daniel said, looking over the rifle. Supposedly, a few years ago, the project for a weapon that shot case-less rounds was deemed impossible, the project scrapped. And now, there were two seemingly working prototypes. He couldn’t imagine Sincell giving rifles to their men who didn’t work. Even if they were pricks in general, that was just messed up.

“Take em, maybe Art will want to see them.” He said. He could imagine, if they could find a way to replicate them, that Art would put them into service for the AFDS. If not, they could always sell the working designs for a metric ass-ton of money. “Lets get down to the parking garage, they’ll probably have a hummer or two for us to use.” He said.

[Reaper]

"That would be a good idea. I don't think you want to carry Rio all the way to the shore," Elijha said with a slight laugh.

"What areyou talkingabout," Rio slurred slightly. She looked around for a moment before realizing that Daniel had her on his shoulders. "Oh . . . what happened?"

"You wanted to try and test out a new body, but Malcom and Daniel didn't think it was for the best."

"What?"

"Lets walk and I'll explain," she said as the group started making their way to the parking garage. "Father has it in his mind to great the perfict being. Though to him at the moment the perfict being are those BOW's. But BOWs aren't loyal or obay anyone so he took it a step further. To put the brains of the men and women loyal to him into those creatures heads. It's actually a fifty fifty chance that it will work. He at first tried making him men and women stronger, but it never worked. As you see with me there are quite a bit of flaws. Sensativity to light, hypoglacimic, and various other problems. In truth I was the only one to out live the others. Still I am deamed a failure to him. Father has now become stronger, but I don't know about any weakness. An your brother," she said looking back to Rio. She sighed when she seen the tears at the mention of his name. "I don't think that is your brother. What gave to be a hundred precent sucess was tranfuring one brain to another human body. I think that fall because the functions are the same."

"Ri . . . Riko's dead," she coked on her tears.

"No I don't think so. Father likes to save the brains because he can still get information out of them. He needs that information if he's going to keep her person alive to infiltrat something. So your brother's brain might be out there somehwere. It's just a matter of finding out where." Elijha climbed into the back seat as Daniel sat Rio in the back. Once they were all in and secured Daniel took off toward the shore.

Once they were away from the hospital Daniel flipped the switch to his bomb. It was silent for a moment followed by a loud explosion. Looking back the hospital had turned into a large red inferno almost like a nuke had been dropped on it. "That's not good," Elijha said looking back to Daniel. "A building shouldn't have exploded like that." The ground began to shake violently as Daniel struggled to keep the hummer from swirving off the road. Looking back Elijha watched as building ontop of building began to explode and erupt into flames. Giant gysers of fire erupted from the man holes sending the covers flying into the sky and falling like rocks around them. Debre scatterd the sky providing to arsinal in attempts to stop them.

"W- what's happening?" Rio cried as she clung to her seat.

"This island is going up with the hospital. They must have had it rigged to destroy everything. That or there was something else down there very flamable."

[Scorpio]

Once the group got into the hummer Malcom started taking parts out of one of the G11 clips to see what modifications were made since caseless ammo, as Daniel pointed out, was difficult if not impossible. He looked over one of the rounds, finding that it was built to splinter when moving at high speeds. A screw on tube at the back of the gun gave more helpful details.

"Hey, check this out, this thing uses compressed air to propel the rounds, then they break into flechettes mid air, must be good for live captures and keeping organ damage low."

He put the weapon back together to listen to Elijah talk about the brain transplants, explained a lot about Rikos behaviour, hard to tell where they got their hooks into him though.

"So we track down anti-Riko, beat him into a vegetative state then get a brain transplant done later, then put the body jacking greymatter into a blender and put that on youtube. I think that's a solid next move."

As the hospital went up, everyone started talking over what was causing the massive explosions.

"Damn, makes sense, this was an umbrella island. Of COURSE it was rigged with explosives. Those people had issues, how long until we're back to the boat?"

[Mikey]

“What is it with you and Youtube, man? Honestly?” Daniel quipped to Malcolm as he drove out of the parking garage. He held up the detonator when he got several blocks away from the building. He quietly wondered if the man who had helped them was out, but Daniel figured a guy like him would cut and run when he was done doing whatever it was he wanted to do. He hit the button, and felt the rocking of the vehicle as the force caught up to them. He smirked at his handy work, until he realized it wasn’t the cloud of force that caught them. It was a rumbling in the ground.

“Thank you, captain obvious…” He muttered, hearing Elijha point out that the building shouldn’t have blown up like that. He jammed his foot foreword, hitting the gas and accelerating so quickly he was thrown back in his seat.

“Everyone might want to put on a seatbelt.” He said, not slowing down but trying to coax more speed out of the vehicle. He topped out at just over a hundred miles per hour, pretty damn good for a vehicle of this size with that much armor on it. Just as he heard the clicking of safety belts, he jerked the wheel to the side and took a left hand turn at full speed. The hummer slid, almost colliding with a line of parked cars before Daniel straightened it out and missed them by a few inches.

A few more of these turns, as well as a demolished bike that was parked at a corner, later and the team saw the docks in the distance. Another minute, maybe two, and they’d be long gone.

[Reaper]

Elijha cursed as she slammed up against the door even with the seatbelt. As soon as Daniel slammed on the breaks she was unbuckling and pulling Rio out of the vehicle. "We need a small boat that is quick," she said looking back at the docks. "Hopefully one that wont sink," she said looking at how old the boats were. "An maybe one that actually can run," she said as she guided Rio down the docks. "Sit here." She jumped on one of the boats as the others took their own. Searching to find that actually run.

Malcom's call brought the group back to a fairly decent boat. She walked back to Rio and pulled her over to the boat. It was then that the ground beneath the hummer exploded sending the vehicle crashing into the water. "It's raining cars," she groaned. "Get this thing going please."

[Scorpio]

"Don't knock it man." Malcom replied to Daniel. "Youtube is the trophy room of the modern soldier. Stops us from collecting fingers or ears like savages."

As the group got to the boat he and Daniel grabbed all the gear they could from the humvee, throwing it onboard rather than leave anything necessary behind, or anything they really really wanted to keep, spoils of war and all. Malcom ran to the helm and started the boat up, pulling out of the dock whilst working the radio with the other hand.

"This is Malcom to all other AFDS forces, sound off if you made it. Not saying you have to go home but you do have to get the hell off that island."

Several radar signals blinked whilst the radio chattered, the other teams signalled in that they were already evacuating or had made it to boats.

"Well, looks like a partial success."

[Mikey]

“In the sense that we didn’t get blown up, we got out of there, and we sure fu*ked their sh*t up.” Daniel said, resting on the deck of the boat as he looked at the fire and smoke reach toward the sky on the island.

“Damn… One C4 charge to level an entire island. That’s gonna bring my average up.” He said with a smirk, in fairly good spirits. They got out, mission successful. They knew that Riko wasn’t a dick, it was the one inside his body. They had a chance to get the real Riko back. Right now, he was looking foreword to seeing the train again. That little box he called home, an even smaller box he called his own. Go home, report what there was to report, sleep for a day or two, eat three meals in one sitting, and call it all good.

“How long till we get to some kind of shore?” He asked Malcolm.