Machine Fur Project IC

[Lavender_Stripes]

Thirteen braced her thin legs, meeting the falling goat with her own body. She rolled backwards with the force he applied to her, but managed to cushion his fall and prevent him any serious injury. The cat groaned, standing on her own. Her head was spinning, the stress mounting making her medication less and less effective by the minute.


Wait a minute. Trees?


The girl looked behind her, seeing many clustered trees, and smiled. Trees! She could hop along from one to another, scouting ahead if needed. This was it. At last, she would be in her element. "Everyone, c'mon! I'll scout ahead if I'm needed, but we need to get everyone going the same direction, and fast!"

[Fitzwilliam Jinglesworth]

Four rolled off from on top of Thirteen, getting to his hooves. He groaned again. This was seriously starting to get old. Seeing Thirteen trying to compose herself, he thought to ask her if she was all right, but the next words out of her mouth were enough to convince him that it was nothing he needed to worry about.

"All right," he said, a grave look on his face. "I'll stay behind, then." He didn't want to admit it, but a part of him started entertaining the notions that they could survive without the Foundation after all...

[shkkf]

As Five refused to give an answer to Three, the cat decided it was best to act quickly and grabbed the other male tightly in his grip, before taking off. His foot was hurting like hell still, but in the air he did not feel anything from it. Thus he made his way over the wall and let Five down to the ground, smirking severely at this as he flew off even faster than before. He had an appointment to make at the east wall of the compound where Two no doubt was in serious trouble. Heck, perhaps he would be able t suprise the guards and drain some much needed energy from them. As the whole flying business, even if new, was very tiresome on the male as well.

[Suzumibachii]

Still breathing rather heavily One shook it off and clenched her firsts a few times before nodding at Thirteen, and the others that were on the other side of the wall. "Lets get moving. By my count power is coming back in less than 20 seconds. A search will be mounted within 10 minutes maximum." Starting to run towards the trees, One could finally breath properly while running or exerting herself physically. Although unnoticed by the others she enjoyed the rush of oxygen though her body. The cold barely affected the reptile as her tail followed her movements. Her long hair flowing behind her in the wind, aswell as the trench coat she had grabbed from her backpack. "If need be I can send a signal to Three and Two if they cant find us but we need to get out of the open."

[Lavender_Stripes]

Thirteen nodded, moving to tug Four behind her as she started up a tree and kept pace with One. She felt herself smile down at her partner. Just like old times. She felt happy, free. Like she could go anywhere she wanted any time she wanted, and nobody could do anything about it. She traveled from branch to branch, keeping up to the trees. "We need to get as far as possible, then it might do us good to set up camp when we're exhausted or we find a safe place."


Soon enough, she felt her lungs begin to burn. The cold, harsh air invaded her chest, and she felt her limbs grow heavy. Still, she pressed on. She was trained better than this.

[Fitzwilliam Jinglesworth]

Four followed closely behind Thirteen, using his adept climbing skills to clamber up the trees. He was quite a bit heavier than the average goat thanks to his mechanical appendages, but he was still a goat. He looked ahead, scanning the area his companion was looking towards.


"Get as far as possible? If the building's blown up and everyone's dead, I don't think-hey, wait up!"

[AJ Fawxe]

Alex looked up from his reverie and realised that the others were making their way into the woods and he quickly scrambled to his feet. "HEY! Hold on!" Looking back Alex thought about the others still stuck in there and cringed a bit. Alex was torn in half about what to do; the hybrid didn't want to leave them behind but he knew that he lacked the physical skill to do anything about it. Biting his lip hard he stared at the wall and thought about the apocalyptic nightmare being created in there and then gasped as he realised that one of his canines had punctured his lip. Sucking on it softly his ears went back and he whimpered a bit as he picked up the deep pot of stew still held in the pillowcase. "I'm sorry.. I.. I hope you all make it out.." Alex turned and ran.


Only a truly evil person would abandon those who worked to guarantee him freedom.

Whining softly he shook his head. "No, I'll just get in the way. I have no way to get back to them anyways.. just, stop.." The hybrid focused on his running and the difference in this fresher more natural air as he ran pushing out regret with each huffing breath.

[Lavender_Stripes]

Thirteen sped along, looking at the growing company and smiling back at Four. Just then, she felt the flood of her partners' thoughts enter her mind, though she didn't really care. Most were less than enthusiastic about this entire endeavor. The cat felt her paws begin to ache, though she pressed on.

[Fitzwilliam Jinglesworth]

Four merely sighed and continued following after Thirteen. It was clear to him that he wasn't going to be getting anyone to listen to him tonight, so he might as well not try to be the voice of reason.

[Isoke]

 Already Two could hear shouts coming from the buildings nearby as the manual alarm was enough to summon backup.  It was some measure of relief knowing that without power, they would not be able to open the main gate and give chase to the others.  Of course, that meant he was likely one of the few left for them to focus their attentions upon and given the calls coming from around him, they were working on boxing him in.  All he could do was keep running towards his objective and avoid getting nabbed along the way.
 
A hissing sound flashed by his ear and the flash of motion in his peripheries made him realize just how close he had come to getting hit with a dart in the back of his neck.  Daring a glance back the vulpine was able to see five guards were in hot pursuit of him now, one of which raised his weapon and took a shot.  Without the chance to properly square himself, the shot went wide, but Two couldn’t help but flinch away from it all the same.
 
Just as he exited an alley between buildings and came in direct sight of the east wall, lights in windows all around flicked back on in their usual fluorescent luminance.  It couldn’t have been a second later that the droning facility siren began to sound, signaling lockdown of the lower levels and prompting staffers from deeper within the facility to respond to an escape attempt in progress.
 
There were a few more popping noises from behind him and this time Two felt a sting in his right arm that quickly began to lose feeling.  Gritting his teeth, he reached over and pulled the dart from his tricep without losing stride.  Even without the missile providing a supply of the tranquilizing agent, numbness began to spread through his arm and shoulder like ice water flooding from where he got hit.  He had finally reached the east wall and glanced both ways before seeing Three in the distance and instantly began running in the opposite direction parallel with the wall.  He couldn’t stand and wait for him; Two knew that doing so would make him an easy target.  At the same time, running towards him would only make his presence known and begin firing at him as well.  Running away would keep the guards’ back to Three allowing him to fly over and pick him up on the run before they had a real chance to respond to the change in situation.
 
Continuing to run as fast as he could manage, Two raised the only arm that still had feeling in it and hoped it would be enough for Three.  Between the sharp turn and throwing off his center of gravity that was optimal for running, the guards had caught up enough to take aimed shots.  At least that was what the vulpine figured when he felt a number of stings in his back.  There had to be two, maybe three hits and he could already feel the toxin beginning to slow him down as they invaded his central nervous system.  In the matter of a few heartbeats he felt gravity double and redouble upon itself until it became all he could do to hold his arm up and himself standing.

[shkkf]

The cat had been flying over the facility, glad they had no power on anything on. As with power activated, tracking Three down would be much easier due to lights and various other, more nasty, experiments the base had in order to prevent Subjects from escaping. The wall itself was merely the last line of defense. However, with the power out and Three not having an active collar anymore, this meant the feline was given free roam to fly about however he pleased.
His wings were stretched far and he Three glided over the wind as he looked for Two. It wasn't easy, his vision was still the same as before and flying made things look a lot different than on the ground.
 
It was only after the lights, the sirens, the whole facility in fact, came back to life that Three saw where various guards had been running off too. "That must be Two!" He said to himself, seeing a lone creature running to one of the walls. The cat began to make his descend, hoping to get the other up in time. His foot was acting up still, but in midair that nuisance was nothing but a small itch for him. The real issue would be to sweep the other up before something bad happened. He had one shot, if he failed to grab Two, or not able to ascend quickly enough Three knew what would be the end result of his little rescque attempt.
 
His body began to lower, merely a few feet as the buildings to his left and right were far enough away that he could stay near the wall and quickly fly over to where Two was. He saw what the other had done, luring the guards to him so he was comming in from their blind spot. Wanting to make sure they couldn't get aim in time, Three whistled to the bunch of humans, making a lot of noise. And it worked, as the guards turned their heads to see Three flying in, who passed over their heads, hitting two with his feet before extending his arms and grabbing the male. Two was barely even conscious when he grabbed him, standing on his feet by pure willpower alone. However, Tio snarled as he felt a dart hit him near his pelvis. One of the guards had managed to still fire something.
 
"Aah shit..." He snarled as he began to feel his lower body going limp by the second. The man forced all his strength to his wings, clamping hard around Two as the two themselves barely made it over the wall, Three's pants was torn by the sharp edges as he let himself and Two fall down to the ground below as soon as he was over the last defense the facility had. His body hit the ground with a thud, as he panted from all the exercise, not feeling his legs anymore. The plus side was, his foot was also numb. And not long thereafter did the cat laugh. "Hahaha... Wooo! That was... amazing!" As he let his arms spread out and panted heavily.

[AJ Fawxe]

Alex heard something off in the distance and managed to get clear of any trees and use his tele-optics to see the events. Three flew up and over the wall but a dart napped him just as he cleared it and he was crashing down to earth with Two who had a few in his back. Biting his lip and turning back he shouted to Four and Thirteen. "THREE AND TWO CLEARED THE WALL BUT THEY GOT TRANQ DARTS IN THEM WE NEED TO HELP THEM!" Without waiting to see if Thirteen in her happy go lucky state would even have the presence of mind to turn back Alex started off towards them.


Here's your chance, Alex. Show them, and more importantly, yourself, that you're not just Nine the Demon Hybrid. You're good.


Getting to the two Alex cursed softly under his breath then quickly went to Three and plucked out the single dart and then the few darts out of Two. There was no way the fox was going to be walking out of this. "Three can you stand? Should I.. do that snake venom sucking thing that they did in that one movie?"

[Fitzwilliam Jinglesworth]

Four jumped, hearing an unexpected cry from Alex. He spun back around to Thirteen, calling for her.

"Thirteen! WAIT! We need to turn back!"

[Lavender_Stripes]

The cat skidded to a stop, turning on her heel and dashing back the way she came. She would vault over Four if she needed, but she knew this was dire. "Nine! Two! Three!" She skidded to a halt when she reached them, her sides huffing, but she payed it no mind. "C'mon...I c-could...maybe carry someone. Probably. I hope."

[Fitzwilliam Jinglesworth]

Four nodded to Thirteen, following her over to the other subjects.


"I can too...I'll try, anyway..."