Endgame Earth

[NovaAurora]

    Nova listened to the others present their opinions. He was about to say that indeed they should probably search elsewhere for some way to get the door open when Luke burst out angrily in front of him, then froze, then began apparently looking for something along the blood covered walls of the hallway. He went over to Luke in confusion, clearly missing whatever it was that he was searching for. "Luke," he said with a slight chuckle, "what are you doing?" While he was waiting for a response he turned to Katelyn and Warren and said, "You two go on and see if you can find a terminal or something somewhere else, I'm gonna stay here for a second."


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    Ip was running towards the convoy when out of the corner of his eye he saw a figure waving at him. He turned and noticed that it was Sarah flagging him down. "Good," he thought, "I need to tell her about everything, she doesn't know yet..." He changed course and jogged over to her. "Sarah!" he exclaimed as he drew closer, "I'm glad to see you, you need to come with me now. We're in danger and we don't have time for me to explain it right here, so come with me to the convoy and I'll tell you on the way!" He motioned for her to follow and almost began to run back the other way, before remembering that she had beckoned him over. With a faintly embarrassed smile he looked back at her and said, "Hehe, and you can tell me, what was it you waved me over for?"

[Byracka]

Sarah looked back and forth, dividing her attention between Ip and Himawari's now empty vehicle. When Ip finally came close enough she sighed and looked dead center into his eyes. "I've been looking for you!" She thought slightly of what she said. "No not only, you, I meant all of you, never mind." Again she breathed and glanced over her shoulder. "There's something wrong with Himawari, and I went to look for you and..." Sarah sighed with irritation "...and now she is gone."


Ip's word gnawed in the back of her head. We're in danger, from what? Thought we were supposed to be safe here.

[NovaAurora]

    "Wait a minute, Himawari is gone?" Ip felt extremely uneasy now, Himawari was out of her element here. "Well Nova's with several of them inside that building there," he gestured towards the hulking concrete cube, "There's a vault inside that should have weapons we can use to protect ourselves. If only we can figure out how to open it." He looked shiftily around and started fidgeting, Nova had sent him to get the others inside, he didn't have time to dilly dally here. "I know I'm probably confusing you, but come on, you need to come with me inside, the others will follow later." He turned and ran over to his car in the convoy then, and with renewed determination ushered all of the rather concerned looking non-fighting furs into the building. The whole time he was thinking of where Himawari could possibly have gone, what Nova and the others were up to, when they would all be overrun by super Consumers... If it weren't for the task at hand he probably would have been entirely overwhelmed. When he was sure that everyone was safe for the moment inside the lobby, he went up to Sarah again, slightly out of breath. "Alright," he said, "I suppose I should explain..." just then it hit him. Everyone was accounted for except... Jave. He looked at Sarah with a puzzled expression. "Say, you've been looking around for people, and Nova said it's my job to make sure they're all here, so... have you seen Jave around?"

[Byracka]

"Eh..." Sarah stuttered for a second and dragged her feet across the snow. "Jave, well he warned me about Himawari..." Sarah took a moment to think about her actions, if she went overboard. No, she acted accordingly to standard procedure, if a seemingly delusional captive runs towards you shouting, you lock that seemingly delusional captive away. "..But he was shouting and running all over the place so I had to lock him away to keep everything calm." Sarah stared at Ip's puzzled expression and sighed.


"He's in the trunk of my car, no broken bones, I promise."

[NovaAurora]

    "In the trunk of your car?!" Ip shouted and put his hands on his head. "Why did you think- you know what, fine, let's just get him out of there." He ran as fast as he could over to the car, skidding and nearly falling over backwards on the wintry ground as he tried to stop by the trunk. With a face contorted by a mix of embarrassment, confusion, and panic, he flung open the trunk door to peer down upon a very scrunched-looking ocelot inside. "Hey," he said quickly, "sorry for uh, what Sarah did to you, but you need to come with us inside, now!"

[FurryJunky]

    Nova listened to the others present their opinions. He was about to say that indeed they should probably search elsewhere for some way to get the door open when Luke burst out angrily in front of him, then froze, then began apparently looking for something along the blood covered walls of the hallway. He went over to Luke in confusion, clearly missing whatever it was that he was searching for. "Luke," he said with a slight chuckle, "what are you doing?" While he was waiting for a response he turned to Katelyn and Warren and said, "You two go on and see if you can find a terminal or something somewhere else, I'm gonna stay here for a second."

 
Katelyn raised up her hand pointing at the door replying, "Nova... If it does open from a terminal, then we need power, and it doesn't look like any of these computers ran in a long time... If there is a back up generator here, we can syfin some gass from the cars or grab a few gass cans I saw in the garage, it might not be enough, but it will get some power going for an hour or two while we search for working computers."

[Byracka]

Jave laid in fetal position and twirled his whiskers, gaping upon the large shadow that stood above him. He dragged his knees closer to his stomach before the shadow shrank and revealed a more timid wolf named Ip.

"I didn't do anything! She attacked me!"

Sarah shouted from a distance "You little brat!" and made her way over to the trunk, lightly pushing Ip out of her way and then dragged Jave down to the ground.

"I have rights, I have rights!" Jave proclaimed as his face was being pushed down into the snow. After a minute he relaxed and felt Sarahs grip loosening and eventually he was allowed to sit up. He hissed away flakes of snow from his snout and looked sternly down. He breathed deeply. "I am calm now..."

Sarah extended a paw and helped him up from the cold soil and then turned towards Ip saying. "All settled, we'll follow you."

[NovaAurora]

    Nova listened to Katelyn and nodded. "That seems like a good a plan as any," he said. "If you can find all the gas or materials we need to do it then I'll be happy to help in any way I can." He was feeling slightly more confident now that they at least had a plausible course of action, and was able to express the more charismatic attitude he was used to showing off without feeling too tense. Still though, he knew the danger that they were all in, and that something had to be done fast if they were to survive. Part of him wondered why they hadn't been overrun already...


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    Ip watched the proceedings in a kind of helpless confusion, wondering if he should intervene to prevent Jave from getting hurt. It seemed like Sarah meant no true harm though, so he let the situation play out until everyone was settled enough to act like reasonable individuals. When they were ready he led them past the now lonely and empty cars and into the imposing building, where there were many others looking somewhat dazed but overall relieved to be in shelter. He knew that he should probably inform them to the danger they were apparently in, but he was never a very good public speaker. He also wondered if Nova wanted him to tell everyone and potentially cause panic when he wasn't physically around to subdue them. Instead of standing there awkwardly any longer he turned to Sarah and Jave and said, "I've gotta go speak to Nova quickly, I suppose you two are, er, in charge here or something until I get back." Without waiting for them to protest or even really acknowledge they had heard, he was out the door and bolting across the base to the concrete cube where Nova was.

[Byracka]

Sarah sipped in air through closed teeth. She smiled at Jave, to sign that there wouldn't be any more trouble. "I just really hope everything is okay, the others seems so worried." Sarah spoke out, mostly to herself. Jave lifted an ear in curiosity.

She turned around "Hey, I'm not going to apologize for beating you up, and locking you in.. and... burying you in the snow."

"And pointing your gun at me" Jave added.

"Shut up and help me check out that everyone here is still fine." Sarah hissed.

[Ventus Fall]

A green jacket with the initials HH and some holes in it danced across the wind, and flew towards the fort. It entered one of the buildings and rested on the floor.

Somewhere in the distance a small figure appeard from behind some snowy hills and ran towards the base, limping.
Upon a closer look, it was a female human. Her clothes were all scratched and she had some wounds, which were bleeding. her skin was turning a grey blue, probably due to cold. Her black hair was all messed up.


It was Himawari Hyde and she was running for her life. The moment she was in the large group of Consumers the voice had overtaken her again, for a moment. Then she started hesitating on her plan. The voice sensed that and not benig strong enough to keep her under controll, it decided to leave Himawari to her fate with the Consumers.
The Consumers felt something familair inside of Himawari, but as soon as it decided to take a step back, they didn't hesitate to attack, scratching at her face and entire body. Some wounds so deep, she wasn't sure if she would even make it to the base. But she had to try.
She was almost there, when something had caught her leg, making her trip. It grabbed on to her back, so she squirmed out of her jacket. This gave her some time to run farther while the thing was keeping itself busy with the jacket. Once it realised Himawari wasn't in it, it threw away the jacket, making it fly away on the wind towards the base.

She saw the vehicle she drove with and tried to reach it, but just collapsed a few feet from it when something was tugging at her ankles. She looked back and saw a huge and disgusting monster smiling at her, growling. She kicked it in the face and tried to crawl away, but it quickly recovered and grabbed her leg again.
She screamed, feeling the last bit of her energy leaving her body. She had gone on for too long in the freezing cold.

[FurryJunky]

Katelyn nodded once more and turned down the hallway planning on fetching the gass cans she saw early. Once in the main room she was a bit surprised to see so many furrys packed into a small room, it was crowded but oddly warm. Running a hand down her cheek she sighed softly and made her way outside just as she heard a blood curdling scream.

Her ears went erect instantly as she looked over to where the scream came from. It began to snow lightly now, small snow flakes drifting down towards the earth. Reaching over her back with her right hand she gripped her rifle and with her left, un-slung her rifle. Blinking a few times to get her eyes used to the whiteness. In three heart beats she raised her rifle up to her eye, peering through her high power scope and began to scan the surrounding forests.

Movement... Lots of movement, but there was something else.. Focusing on the shuffle she saw Himawari in the snow with one of the massive consumers on her heels. It was a blurred image, and there was brush in the way, but she had to take the shot. Lining up the cross hairs she flicked the safety off and fired. In a loud crack anyone would of been able to hear the projectile from her sniper rifle went forth, through a link in the fence, through the underbrush, and right through the skull of the consumer, obliterating anything from the shoulders up. Standing and shooting caused her to get the breath knocked out of her as she stumbled back, her arms felt a bit woozy from the jarring and the lack of preparation, but she hoped her shot was true, for Himawari's sake.

[NovaAurora]

    After scanning the immediate area one last time, Nova went after Katelyn to help her with her objective. It was then that he heard the scream, followed soon after by a deafening gunshot that he recognized as Katelyn's rifle, and bolted outside in alarm to investigate. He saw Katelyn looking staggered there in the snow, and in front of her in the distance he just made out one of the hulking consumers getting its head blown off and crumpling to the ground. In front of it lay an indistinct figure, he couldn't tell exactly what it was, but it looked an awful lot like Himawari and the fact that it was right next to her car confirmed that assumption in his mind. Drawing his weapon, he swore savagely as he noticed all the commotion coming towards them. Just as Harold had said, they were under attack in massive numbers now and these were clearly no ordinary adversaries. "Nova!" He heard from behind him, and turned to see Ip looking his usual timid self times about a million sprinting towards them. "Nova, what's going on, they're attacking us aren't they?" he said in a quivering voice. "I had just come over to-" Nova cut him off angrily with a wave of his blade. "It doesn't matter what you were doing, because right now you're gonna shut up and listen to me!" He glanced quickly between Ip, Katelyn, and the bunker where Luke and Warren still were. With a furious shake of his head he screamed out, "Goddammit it doesn't matter! No time for plans! All of you get inside the main building with the others, prepare your weapons, do something!! I'll retrieve Himawari, don't worry about me, just run!" He took off then, sprinting as fast as he could towards Himawari's body.
   
    Through the blowing snow he saw the horde advancing on their position, a couple other particularly aggressive Consumers going straight for what the now decapitated one had started. Nova knew his gun was nowhere close to the caliber of Katelyn's but hoped it would be at least effective in holding them off while he rescued Himawari. As they closed in, he fired off several shots at each of them and watched as the force of the bullets impacting their flesh sent them staggering backwards. Feeling empowered, he lined up one more shot for each as he reached Himawari and attempted to drive a bullet between their eyes. To his dismay, though each shot was true and sent the monsters on their backs, it was clear by their blood curdling shrieks that they were nowhere close to dead. He didn't wait to watch them recover, instead he grabbed Himawari's freezing limp body with his left arm, wincing from the pain of the wound in his straining shoulder and jogged towards the main building. He could feel blood running down his arm and knew it was not his own; it was the only warmth emanating from the woman now. He hoped the others had made it inside and were faring better than his human friend, apparently barely alive and leading on a colossal mass of what surely were the most horrifying creatures ever to walk the Earth.

[FurryJunky]

Once Katelyn got her breath back she looked to her left watching as Nova ran from the armory beside her. Pointing wordlessly she wasn't sure if he trailed her finger or not, but he found Himawari well enough in the snow. Looking behind herself she saw IP walking up as well and stayed silent through the conversation, simply darting her eyes back and forth before more movement caught her eye. Watching Nova run off again she provided fire support, shooting off three more rounds, sending the loud crack to echo off of the surrounding woods, but this time she fired from a kneeling position and was able to take the knock back much better. Lowering her rifle she took a mental note of how much ammo she had left, and where on her belt she kept spare clips for use. Looking back at IP she said, "IP, I need to stay here and take out as many as possible before they get too close, Im sure it will scare them off until they think of a way to attack without losing so many, or before they gather there numbers, I need you to get the gass cans from inside the garage and take it to the armory-" Katelyn then went into detail as fast as possible, where they where, to look for a generator inside the armory, and to find what computers turned on and see if he could round up others to check each one that still worked to open the vault door. "Did you get all that IP, You need to hurry, I only have so many rounds."

[Takamei Edevane]

"Ok!"Ip yelled over the blast of gunfire. There was a rush of adrenaline, everything seemed to be falling apart. He sprinted through the corridors and rooms without looking back, focused on only finding the gas cans. Bursting through the garage door, he immediately started scanning the sides of the room. "Gas cans. Gas cans." Ip felt himself jump with adrenaline at the sight of a few gas cans in the corner. Quickly he grabbed one gas can in each hand and ran back down the corridor to the entrance "Hey! You coming with Katelyn?" he yelled before he sprinted into the armory. "Guys! I got gas for the generator, we have to do this quickly. They're coming for us." He came to a halt, almost dropping the cans as he put them down to open them up. "Ready?"

[FurryJunky]

Katelyn's ears perked up darting behind herself from the sound of IP's voice. Standing up she lowerd her rifle after finishing off a clif. Pulling back the bolt she locked it into place and flicked off the lock, sliding out the clip and sliding it in her belt. Next to it was another one, fresh and ready for use. Sliding it into position she locked the clip and slid the bolt, loading the shell. Nodding towards IP she followed him towards the entrance of the armor where she stood at the door, scanning the area of death. "We need to find the generator and fill it, hopefully it still work." Swallowing lightly she lowerd her rifle so the barrel pointed down to her left. Lifting her right hand she started pointing at people at random, the ones that looked to be fitter then the others. "You you and you, down that way, you you and you, down the other-" She said, gestering to crouds as furrs began moving about eh building, looking through rooms, closets, and basements for the backup generator. "God I hope we find it in time..." She said after the last search group went off. Turning to look back outside she looked around once more, keeping guard while the others searched.