Endgame Earth

[FurryJunky]

Katelyn kept quite as she watched Himawari walk though the front gates. Slowly standing up from her crouched position she would glance behind her at the way they came, seeing it still clear of any humans, consumers, or furs alike. Blinking once she turned her head back around hopping over the barrier. Placing her left shoulder to the wall to peer inside the compound seeing that the gass was already distributed to each building. Watching the wuffs of smoke seep through windows and under doors she rounded the corner to walk into the area. All was calm and going to plan. Nodding to herself she glanced to her left seeing the human walk into a nearby building. Shuffling some as she stood there an eary silence washed over the place, nothing moved or made a noise. Walking backwards some she placed her back to the door Hamawari went though, keeping to her job of risk prevention by keeping her six clear just incase.

[NovaAurora]

    Nova was about to go over and examine the garage when he heard Cifero and Himawari on the radio. Quickly he responded, "Thanks Jared, glad you caught that. Almost had a problem there... And Himawari, I'm on my way." He jogged back over to the building where Himawari had gone into and entered it. He heard motion downstairs and figured that she must have gone down there. When he got there, he was stunned by what he saw. "Oh my god..." He stopped in his tracks, staring at the two caged furs. Instantly, his surprise was replaced by utter rage. "Stand back Himawari!" he said and strode forward, unsheathing his gunblade. With two quick shots, he blasted the locks of each cage to pieces and flung their doors open. "I can't believe this," he gasped, looking back and forth between the two unconscious bodies on the floor. "The humans did this to them... they've been keeping two of my brothers prisoner in here like rats for how long I wonder?! Himawari, we've got to get them out of here, you take the fox and I'll get the other one." He felt like he was on fire, and then as he went to pick up the unconscious fur he noticed the human prison guard slumped over in his chair by the wall. He snarled with rage and walked over to that limp body instead, gunblade pointed at his head. "You..." his voice shook, "I swore that I wouldn't ever hurt a human. But why should I keep that vow after what you've done to them! You don't deserve to ever see daylight again, just as you evidently never planned for these two to see it again either..." His grip was tight around the hilt as he pressed the blade to the human's flesh, wanting nothing more than to slit this disgusting human's throat.

[MrRazot]

Warren wasn't too sure what was going on. He was trying to lure the guard towards him which had worked though just as the guard was about to unlock the gate, everything went black.


It took a few minutes to come to, but by then he was being broken out by an anthro and a human? Warren tried to move, but it was mostly unnoticeable movement. Sure he wanted freedom, but he also wanted the stuff that was taken from him by the guard.


Warren took a short breather and did his best to move his limbs. He ended up crawling towards the guard very slowly, but he got there. The hard part was trying to remove his grandfather's jacket from the guard. It was rather amazing that the people who'd come to break him out hadn't noticed or were just watching with interest. All the same, Warren got the jacket and his saber then slumped down to the cold floor where he backed out again.

[Byracka]

Jave couldn’t believe it, never before had the cardboard bed felt so comfortable, so delightful and pleasantly soft towards his roughed up skin. It was like resting on a hundred woolen mattresses, all stacked on each other while cupids sang glorious songs of slumber. He didn’t even mind the crashing sound of clinkering glass and metal that a minute ago had echoed past the cells.


The strange fact that the room was spinning, was made even stranger considering that his eyes were closed. “That is strange” said one of the many voices suddenly emerging inside his head. “Shush, we are waking him” said another, though the efforts were to no avail since Jave was awakened by the internal hushing.


He awoke to an endless field of fiery flowers. It was a beautiful, however it was also boring. Jave scorched the field with flames summoned from his palms. Whatever reality this was, he hoped to never again wake up.

[Ventus Fall]

Himawari was shocked to see Nova so angry and full of rage. But as soon as he pointed his weapon towards the unconscious guard, Himawari felt anger building inside of her too.
In the back of her mind a small voice was telling her she could see this coming. That these creatures weren't to be trusted.
She lunged towards Nova, knocking him down. Himawari knew he was very most likely stronger than her, but she didn't care. She just wanted to make a statement towards Nova.
"You traitor!" She yelled. "Don't you dare hurt a human unless necessary, remember?! You, of all... people!"
She turned her head away and stood up.
"Killing him now would make you as bad as them. Yes, that sounds cliche, but it's true. I cannot stop you, but I sure hope you have enough sense not to murder him in his sleep."

[NovaAurora]

    Nova was startled by Himawari's reaction, but after lying on the ground for a moment he wasn't really surprised. Deep down he knew he probably wouldn't have it in him to murder the defenseless human in cold blood, even though the rage he felt was very real. Regaining his composure, he stood up, dusted himself off, and calmly re-sheathed his weapon. "Look, I'm sorry Himawari. You have every right to be upset at me. But after so long of maintaining neutral relationships with the humans, and them promising the same, to see that they've been lying to us the whole time is... rather disheartening." He sighed and walked over to one of the unconscious furs. "Just think if you had found two humans caged up in our HQ, after we let you in, what you would have done..." He bent down and picked up the body of the larger, yellowish orange fur, slinging him over his shoulder. "Oof. I promise it won't happen again. But for now, we should get these two out of here. Think you can manage the fox?"

[Ventus Fall]

She sighed and nodded. "I can understand, and might just do the same, or run away. The thing is though, I know I wouldn't have thought of this in that kind of situation, but it could be very possible those humans would have done smething terrible and that's why you would've locked them up."
Himawari frowned. "Now that I think about it... I know these humans would probably lock up every anthropomorph they'd see, but... I would keep an eye out on these if I were you, Nova. Just maybe they did something to actually upset these people."
She headed towards the fox when she noticed he had crouched all the way to the guard. She saw he was trying to reach for something before he completly blacked-out.
"What do you think he was trying to do, Nova? It must be important to him, using up all his energy he could muster to fight aganist the sleeping gas and crawl all the way here."

[NovaAurora]

    Nova frowned and looked at where the fox fur had been reaching. There was a jacket and what looked to be some kind of blade just within his grasp. "Hmm," Nova said, "that jacket is not something like I've ever seen humans wearing around here, and it doesn't look fitted for one either. And I know none of them like using sabers or swords. I'd hazard the guess that perhaps they belong to him." He gestured at the unconscious fur. "I'll take them with us, and if they belong to him, great, if not, then that's just too bad for whoever they do belong to." He walked over and carefully picked them up in his free hand, still carrying the other unconscious body with his other arm. "Now," he looked at Himawari, "if you can carry the fox, let's get out of here and get the vehicles we came here for." He turned and started back up the stairs.

[Takamei Edevane]

Ip walked over to where Himawari was waiting for the gas canisters to diffuse before entering the compound. Ip followed where Himawari went but keeping a fair distance. He looked around outside at all the buildings, whilst Himawari entered a building. Nova appeared and went inside. Ip decided to explore one of the buildings. Keeping to the shadows still, he entered a dark room...

[Cifero Windtail]

Jared facepalmed, then whispered frantically into the microphone, swooping into the base with his tomahawk in hand.
"You IDIOTS! The Consumers have possessed them!!!! Get out of there!"

[FurryJunky]

Standing next to the doorway in witch Nova and Himawari went through she held her rifle in a semi-tight grip. She trusted the human well enough to be sure her gass worked, but one could never to too sure. Breathing slowly she had her rifle slumped down to the left in a casual guarding position. It has been some time now sense she heard from both of them, the two gun shots only adding to her fear. But soon enough they where replaced with shock. Going wide eyed as Nova left first with a fur on his shoulder she stared in disbelief. Unknown to her her trigger finger tightened slightly as she let our a silent growl. The humans have betrayed them all along, all that talk over the radio she overheard of how they would co-exist for nothing.

There was too much going through her head at this point and she needed to know what happened. Swallowing lightly she began walking behind Himawari who held yet another fur. Raising her voice slightly she said, "Who are these two, where did you find them?..."

 

[Luke White-Heart]

Luke wandered through the facility, occasionally passing another fur. The battle was effectivly over, but adrenaline still coursed through his veins. He kept himself in check, however. It wouldn't do to lose control now. He looked through room after room, purely out of boredom. After about 10 minutes, he found himself in a file room; file cabinets covered the off-white walls. Out of curiousity, Luke walked over to one and pulled out a file at random. He nearly dropped the file in shock. The name on the file...was Daniel. He tore it open and looked at the contents. Locations, log updates, photos, all were contained in the file. Photos of Daniel with Luke were frequent, but a lot were of locations, as if the humans had been keeping tabs on Daniel.
Luke searched frantically through the file, looking at dates. He found the most recent and saw it was a note...burned and illegible.
"DAMN!!!" roared Luke. Furiously, he threw the file into his pack and made his way back to Nova.

[NovaAurora]

    Nova heard Katelyn's question and without even turning around for a second shouted, "They were prisoners! Caged like pets down in the basement by the humans. I don't know who they are, or why the humans threw them down there, and frankly I don't give a shit. They couldn't have deserved that." He continued stalking towards the garage with the fur over his shoulder and gripping the jacket and saber tightly in his other hand. He felt like he could spit acid and cried out, "All this time we've done our best to coexist with them! We've never asked them for anything, we've stayed out of their way! And they promised they wouldn't do anything to us, they swore all they wanted was peace! They're all the same, all these humans are the goddamn same!" He stopped abruptly and realized what he had just said. Quickly he turned to Himawari and sputtered, "I... I didn't mean you... Dammit, I know you wouldn't do what they did. That wasn't meant to apply to you, I mean-" his desperate rambling was cut short by a very angry looking figure, who Nova recognized as Luke, coming towards him. "Hey Luke," Nova said somewhat warily, "what is it?"

[FurryJunky]

Katelyn kept rather silent though Novas raged response, feeling much how he did. She on the other hand was more adept at hiding her anger and facial expressions, but what was more noticeable was how she gripped her rifle around the handle and up the stock that much tighter. It was not a pleasant thing to learn but they must of had some kind of reason... anything at all... Sighing lightly Nova was abruptly cut off by a very angry looking fur. Rather then cut back in the conversation she only went on ahead towards garage. Standing at the sheet metal door she swung her rifle back about her shoulder to rest on her back thanks to the strap that now crossed her chest.

Reaching for the grip at the bottom she heaved the door up revealing the trucks and gass canisters inside. But that was not all, there was many tools laied about on benches in the back, car batters aplenty, engine parts, tires of many kinds, about sever different functioning cars and trucks, and in the middle of it all, a supped up armored jeep. The wheels where for sure off road tires, the entire thing had a layer of sheet metal, the glass was barred with steel rods, and the back was open with a railing along the entire side for crouched shooting. Left breathless she knew this was all they could ever have hoped for for long distance travel, and it almost seemed the humans where planning the same...

 

[Ventus Fall]

Himawari carried the fox, though small and not very strong, she had learned a few techniques to carry things around on her back without straining herself too much.
She followed Nova and didn't respong to his rage. She knew he wasn't out to get her, but still... if enough other anthropomophs could hear Nova rage about humans he just might unwillingly set them up against her. He is influential enough to do so.
This was what she was thinking while Nova was raging on, but she did not say a word. She already made her point and soon it was clear that he regretted saying 'all humans are the same'. Himawari was slightly more at ease.