Ties of Blood: Of Fire and Steel

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu flopped onto the table, guided by the doctor. It took a bit to not let his breath escape him as he flopped. Shinzuu opened his eye slightly to watch as the doctor turned his back to grab some straps. He slowly took out an ice needle that he made from some water he saw splash from inside a cell with a perverted looking guard outside it that snuck some food out of a tray he dumped into the cell. While the doctor was still going through straps, Korius quickly got up and ran the needle right through the doctor's vocals, grabbed his head and snapped it completely 360. Shinzuu breathed heavily as he slowly lowered the limp body. Finally, they got sloppy.

Shinzuu looked around the lab and found the sink that was clamped shut. Painfully, and nearly dehydrated, he unclamped the seals and pulled it off. Korius turned the water on low and drank heartily, making sure not to make any noise. He sighed in relief as he stood straight up, refreshed. Shinzuu then guided the water and created two crescent swords made of ice and then turned the water off. With a quick thrust, he ran the sword through the control panel and through the guard behind it. The door opened and Shinzuu walked out, carefully watching the surroundings. He quickly ran for the end of the camp, hiding as needed by the occasional guard. He cut open several locks on the way out. The cells that he cut belonged to Tanner, Ryan, Rana, and Coraline.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Coraline heard the sound of the lock to her cell being cut as she was staring at the puddle that was her week's worth of water. She had been contemplating whether she was going to be desperate enough to drink from the nasty puddle for a while when she heard the sound. Getting up from her bed, she walked over to the door slowly. She turned the knob and pushed. The door swung open. Peaking her head out, she looked down the hallway and spotted only the foot off a fleeing Fur before it disappeared around a corner. After seeing no sign of any guards, she followed suit and bolted out the door, running in the direction of the foot she had seen.

[x]

Five minutes before all this, Rana had been deep under her bed with her flower garden, glasses almost ready to fall off, the damp air of the cell that she wasn't used to yet making her bill feel funny. This was her garden. Hers and hers alone. Rana couldn't stand being away from plants, flora, the green seedlings of life for long. Even a day. So she had compensated for her loss and used her powers to make various plants ----grasses, flowers, vines and sprouts that could one day be trees ---- spring from the very concrete of her cell's floor. It was difficult, naturally, as plants have a hard time growing amoung rocks, even with tiny drips of water every so often, and especially find it hard when they're forced to grow in such conditions.....but Rana had done it. She had done it all right. Now it was a matter of taking care of them for as long as she could.

Holding a light blue tulip between her fingers gently, Rana pushed her glasses up on her nose.....again.....and leaned in close to it to whisper: "Grow, grow my little sproutling....but not too big now..." As she spoke these words, the tulip grew a good few centimeters taller. She told it to not get big for a good reason. If her garden extended a visible amount beyond the underside of her bed, then one of her captors might see it and destroy it...........that would devastate her.

Then something startled her. The sound of a little "chink." Rana, thinking the scientists had come for her a second time that day, immeadiatley righted her position and let out a startled, pained "QUUAAACCKK!" as her head bumped into the bed's metal lining. Flustered, she backed out from underneath there as fast as she could. Only to see that no-one was there. Not even the sound of anyone. Curious, she pulled herself to her feet, went over to the door, and pushed on it. To her utter amazement.....it opened. The duck almost wanted to cry out with suprised glee but knew better. She walked out into the hall and looked around for any guards. None. Nada. Not even a scientist. But there was something else. A strangely colored fur....no, not fur.....were those scales?....running hastily. Rana followed quietly, intrigued yet trying not be so careless that she might get herself hurt.

[Entaru]

Yamataru huffed as he laid down in his bed in the Turncoat Barracks.  Coraline, despite her thirst, had not done as she was told.  He would have happily 'persuaded' her to do it, but the higher ups frowned on such conduct....especially from a Turncoat.  Sure, the Bloodline soldiers could 'play' with the prisoners if they hid it well enough, but a Turncoat would get caught no matter what they tried.   He knew because he had and paid the consequences with his hide.

He stared up at the bottom of his bunkmate's bunk and fantasized about Coraline and some of the other attractive inmates, before the alarm sounded.  Yamataru bolted suddenly into an upright position, slamming his head into the bunk above.  After expelling a loud curse, Yamataru quickly grabbed his weaponry and went to try to figure out what was going on.

[Armalite_]

Ryan was about to answer Tanner's question but his eyes lit up when he saw that Shinzuu had cut the lock on his cell before running off. Ryan jumped to his feet and slid the bar door open. He ran over to the cell of Tanner's and looked inside at his inmate neighbour. The fox raised an eyebrow. "Strange, I wouldn't have taken you for a human...and a young one at that." He noticed that Shinzuu had cut the lock to his cell as well and he slid the door open. "C'mon, MacMillan! I'll tell you about your sister when we get out of here!" With that, Ryan took off down the cell block after Shinzuu, expecting Tanner to follow after him.

[Necrosis]

Tanner was surprised the fox was so quick to help after he found out that he’s a human. He quickly darted out of the cell and followed Ryan through the corridor, stopping only to grab a re-breather from a utility box and sticking it in his pocket, knowing that if they actually escaped, he’d need it…

[Gabag]

Juno bolted up as the alarm blared. Something happened... something went wrong.
He threw open the door to the lab and was horrified to see the doctor, already bled out and dead. He grabbed his AUG and bolted out of the lab, while shouting on his radio.
"Attention Internment Camp # 01, this is Sgt. Harkov reporting an escapee near the Labs.. I repeat an escapee near the labs.. terminate with lethal force.. I repeat lethal force!"

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu heard the alarms go off along with the announcement. No sooner did he hear it, did he see the front door being sealed off. With as much as he could muster, Shinzuu went full sprint towards the sealing door and threw his crescent swords at the fire hose. He quickly used the continuously gushing water as he got under the drop-door and  formed two giant walls of ice from under it. The ice walls cracked from the impact from the doors. Shinzuu continued to feed the water through to reinforce the wall, but the water was running low. "Hurry up! I'm running out of water!"

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

The sound of the alarms and the announcement had already pushed Coraline to run faster. When she saw that the Fur who had cut her lock was holding the door open, she pushed herself even faster and dove underneath the door with her wings flattened against her back. Once she was through, she turned and waited. She watched to see if he would end up needing her help to hold open the door, since she figured he had released others because she had heard footsteps following a little ways behind her.

[Entaru]

The barracks was incredibly close to the Labs, so Yamataru and his contingent made it to the scene first.  They made it just in time to see Shinzuu holding the doors open for Coraline, with other escapees right behind her.  "FIRE!"  The Turncoat soldiers opened fire at the escaping prisoners.  Yamataru spotted the ice walls holding up the doors and sneered.  "Oh, no you don't"  He fired a full clip from his weapon into one of the ice walls, causing fatal cracks to spiderweb throughout it.

[x]

Rana had made it outside the doors silently, right behind Coraline, without any trouble, but her shyness that ruled even in intense times such as this prevented her both from helping and from speaking aloud. When Yamataru ordered an open fire, one of the scattering bullets made it's mark into her shoulder. This insulted her highly, as if the Turncoats were saying the constantly hurting injuries on her back weren't enough. Gasping, trying to hold back tears as she held her bleeding shoulder, she ran behind what was left of the quickly crumbling ice wall to gather herself.

Rana tried to consider what it was that a hero from one of her novels would do if he was in the same situation. Was it hopeless, and just all men for themselves? Should she simply abandon these others and use her stealth gleaned from years of quiet life to slip away? Or....or was there something bigger going on here? Should she...could she......help? Could she help without screwing things up more than they already were?

One thing was clear: she needed to decide fast. Turncoats weren't exactly honorable, the ice wall was going to fall, and she would either end up dead or back in the lab if she didn't do something. Taking a deep breath, trying to ignore the throbbing pain from where the bullet nestled inside her, Rana scanned the area for any sign of plant life. A patch of dirt, a staining weed...anything......

[Armalite_]

He was close. Ryan was running full sprint down the corridor and towards the gateway to freedom. Before he knew it, bullets were whizzing past his head and hitting the ground around his feet. He noticed the ice was cracking and precious seconds were slipping away. As cracks shot up the walls of ice, Ryan dove through the doorway and landed on the ground beside Rana with a thud. He clenched the left cheek around the area of his lower back. "Ow!...My ***!" He lay on the floor as a cramp took over the left side of his anus. He then realized he was still in the doorway and that the possibility of a bullet landing itself between his eyes was rather likely. He saw that Tanner was still running into the doorway, their pursuers following close behind and shooting. A spark lit up beside Ryan's face and he snapped. "Fire indeed." Ryan stuck up his thumb and pointed his index finger, mocking the shape of a gun in his hand and aimed at one of the Turncoat's who shot at him. "...Bang." A small flame the size of a bullet fired from the tip of his finger and fired down the corridor at an alarming rate. The turncoat who was unfortunate enough to be hit with it went up in flames in a matter of seconds. He screamed and flailed his arms as the flames engulfed his entire body. Satisfied with the result, Ryan pointed with his other hand. His hands had become his sixshooter as he returned fire...litterally.

As expected, there was a sharp pain through Ryan's shoulder. "AHHH! [censored]! Son of a businessman!" He yelled in pain. He looked down at his left shoulder, blood was flowing out through his back and his front side. The cramp in his left cheek didn't seem all that important anymore. He clenched the wound with his right hand and crawled behind the side of the door opposite to Rana and propped himself up against it. He tore off his shirt and held it against the bullet hole in his shoulder. Blood continued to trickle down his chest and back.

[Necrosis]

Tanner was running right after his newfound friends, but then bullets flew past him. "Aaah, c***!" he exclaimed as he noticed the Turncoats right behind him, so he dove for the opening Ryan went to and stood up, his back against the wall. "Phew! That was close..." he sighed in relief, but then a ricocheted bullet went through his arm, just below his shoulder and he screamed.

[Gabag]

The alarms rang out throughout the entire facility, the place was on full alert. Troops ran too and fro to try and cut off possible escape routs. A transport chopper was taken to ferry two squads of troops around the back entrance incase any prisoners went that way. The guards outside the front of the facility were scrambling to and fro, trying their best to hastily set up a position to get the drop on the escapees.

There would be a lot of exploitable holes in this barricade of sorts. Not even, it was just surrounding wreckage from the nuclear war dragged into position to give the guards cover.

There probably were angles and areas that weren't covered, or at least not too well.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu watched as the others slid past, and used what was left of the water to freeze the floor under him. He put his hands against the dropping door and pushed himself to slide out, grabbing Rana, as the walls finally gave way and shattered as the seal slammed down on it. Still holding Rana and breathing heavily, Shinzuu stayed on the ground, already near exhaustion, and a headache larger than the complex they just escaped. He checked his body and found parts of ice sticking out of his fur, blood coming out of the wounds. They can't shoot worth (censored), but the collateral's pretty heavy.