[FFRP] The Black City...

[Harri-chan]

The figure reached for the gun that had fallen, and then slides her index finger through the trigger section of them both, letting them dangle against her palms without her fully gripping them as she held her hands up in plain sight, and then slowly rose back up to her feet.

"Well that's a chance you're going to have to take if you want to get out of here... ", she spoke, keeping the rest of the lights on her bodysuit off, as she knew the goggles especially could be a rather unsettling sight, like two big glowing green eyes. "Does this place still have power?", she asked the unseen voice.

[Zoey]

"Yes mom" replied Caine as he stroke his guns. "Do you have some flash flights or something atleast to navigate down there?"

[Knight Errant]

"Twelve hours, huh? Should be plenty of time." He glances at the barricade. "Got another way out? Or should I clear it."

[Brnin8r]

Nora nodded, "We'll need to go out the way we came." the sound of clanking metal sounded as if another squad found themselves stuck behind the scrap wall.

***

Damian nodded, "Yeah I've got flashlights." as he drove he banged the glove box, from which two wrist lights fell. "Those'll have to do."

***

The frightened man stuttered, "O--okay! We haven't had power in weeks!"

[Harri-chan]

The woman went silent for a moment, leaning her head back, and he'd hear a sigh come from her lips. "Then I'll have to get the information I wanted off the computers from you". The green glow of her goggles returned, and she moved her head around slightly, trying to locate the man in the spotlights as she walked into the room, placing her guns back at her hips and reached across to hold her shoulder again. "Start by telling me who you are... and what you're doing in here".

[Knight Errant]

"Fun..." He primes a couple of grenades. Tossing them in the pile to make a hole.

[Brnin8r]

Nora backed away, pulling Jack with her to the correct proximity. The grenade exploded shredding robot parts and burning circuits. The heat wave felt interesting as it passed over the two and now fragments touched them. The horde of soldiers held back by the nonexistent pile began to enter, firing their lasers.

***

The surviving man was a portly officer, probably an office worker. His bushy moustache looked like it was trying to detract off his bald head. His plump face was white as death as if he'd been holed in here for days. His button-up work shirt had been unbuttone and stained with cheeto dust and chip grease which would draw the woman's eyes to the broken vending machine. His pants were unbuttoned, though assumably because it was more comfortable and. well who else is going to see him in this state. He still had the gun pointed at the woman, "My name is...Marv...Marv Johnson...I'm a cop, well a retired cop...I was just visiting the station when the city went to hell.

[Harri-chan]

"You got a first aid kit in here, Marv?", she asked as she walked into the room, brushing back the red silken hood of her cloak, although she didn't lift the goggled headset up from over her eyes as she looked him over. "Put that thing down before you hurt yourself", she snorted, brushing her fingertips across the barrel of the gun to nudge it away from her before glancing at the vending machine for a moment and shook her head.

"How did it happen? I mean... I imagine people all over the city must have been calling up this place to report what was going on. How did it start?", she asked, bending her knees and squatting down to see if there was anything left to drink in the vending machine.

[Knight Errant]

Jack tosses a couple more grenades at the live robots, glad he had plenty of them.

[Zoey]

"Better than nothing" said Caine as he took both, holding on to Damians. "How long until we reach the closest entrance to the place?" he asked looking out the window.

[Brnin8r]

The invaders are destroyed!! Though unfortunately, the pile has returned, filled with new scrap metal. Nora sighs, "We must depart." she said flatly as she began to climb the pile of scrap.

***

Damian shrugged, "Don't know...we'll know when we drop into it. Max is always refilling entrances and blowing out new ones, I think it's how he expands the labs."

***

Marv hesitantly placed the gun down, "Yes, just in that cupboard next to the vending machine." he pointed to help her out. As she moved he began explaining, "Well we weren't really sure. Addenvale's always been a good place to live until those stormclouds showed up. Almost like they were created, they popped out of no where overnight. That was six months ago. We tried contacting the outside world, but every time we tried it didn't work. Soon the phone lines began dying, water stopped, and electricity was turned off. For almost two weeks we were all without water or light. After that people started disappearing. At first we'd thought people were leaving the city, but after a police unit was obliterated we figured out quickly that we weren't getting out easy. The troops and I here stayed barricaded in here for as long as possible. We'd been living here for months, taking in the stray survivor before they went back out to forage for more food or look for other survivors to survive with. I don't really know what's happened out there, I've been here this whole time. I thank the Lord God that he sent you...I was on my last rations." he looked to the pile of junk food wrappers.

((ALL RIGHT GUYS!!!! I'M MOVING OUT OF MY CURRENT HUMBLE ABODE AND MOVING INTO ANOTHER!!! POSTS WILL BE SHORT IF THEY SHOW UP AT ALL UNTIL AT LEAST NEXT WEEK!!! Sorry.))

[Harri-chan]

She frowned at the empty vending machine, and then rose to open the cupboard, nodding along to Marv's explanation of how things had all gone wrong. She pulls out the first aid kit, and begins cleaning out the wound where the bullet grazed her shoulder. "It started with storm clouds? Hmm... ". Next, she took out a bandage, and begins winding it around her wounded shoulder, "Sorry to disappoint you, Marv, but I'm not staying. I'm just here on business". Her lips, which were painted a glossy red, curled into a grin as she turned back around to face him, tossing aside the first aid kit.

"I've come a little un-prepared though". She begins to walk towards him, slowly moving her arms out to her sides, sweeping the red cloak with them, to reveal the guns that seemed to strapped to any place there'd been enough room. "I ran into... something at the bank. My pistols didn't do a whole lot of good against it. You cops surely have something that... packs a little bit more punch, right?".

[Zoey]

"Oh? Maybe we should just ambush the guy when he comes out to expand his labs. One shot to the head and its over" said Caine motioning with his hand

[Brnin8r]

((I CAN'T TELL YOU GUYS HOW MUCH MOVING SUCKS!!!!)

(I assume Jack climbs the pile)
The two would find no more soldiers blocking their path, "Max has probably assumed we're heading for North 31...it will be difficult breaching his defense." Nora warned as she hurriedly made her way back through the halls. A lone sentry, stood to catch the two off guard, sprung from around the corner. Before it even had time to fire its laser pistols, Nora's sword had slashed it into three pieces. Without missing a beat, she continued to the portal room.

***

Damian smirked, "You haven't seen Max, have you?" they eventually drove up to a four-way intersection that looked as if it had been completely blown out in a perfect square, systematically blocking an easy path to the other roads. The truck slowly stopped and Damian began to load his automatic pulse rifle.

***

Marv's shoulders slumped that she was on her way and shrugged, "As far as I know the other troopers had taken the guns, though I haven't been down into the basement...maybe there's some in the gun safe."

[Knight Errant]

Jack follows her through to the room! "I can handle it... we have the element of surprise on our side. He cant have gathered that many to stop us yet." He grins as Nora dismembers the robot.