The Shadow Runners (thriller/horror) PG-13

[Trinity_Zane]

Ripley backed up against the wall as Jacob pushed her back "It is the beast 01, we created them. The whole reason you're a Runner is because of them-the Slayers."

Trinity sat his gun on the table "You're right 01 there's no reason for unnecessary risks." The red fox looked over at the circuit "So you're saying this energy formed a body, a being? Why does it want to hurt us?"

"Is it so hard to believe every living thing gives off its own inner energy? It's drawn to you just like electricity magnetizes. It needs it." Taero grabbed Jacobs shoulders and pushed him off Ripley.

"But if it were a form of electricity wouldn't we be able to see it?"

She couched holding her throat where Jacob had his hand "You can't see electricity only the spark, this occurs when the oxygen particles in the air burn."

"But it's a living conscious. And we've seen them! I've seen them they're reptilian creatures!"

"When the mind is under an immense amount of stress you can project what something looks like. You're greatest fear. In all of your cases they were believed to be aliens so you assumed that's what they look like." Trinity held his head.

"It threw something at us. Didn't you see that?"

She moved to the window "Slayers can send an electrical charge as if it were a bomb."

[Farewell]

"Fantastic" she chuckled coldly, the Serynx grabbed the bridge of her snout beginning to snarl. "Watching my parents get mauled as a child, getting chased and thrown around, losing my sanity... Because of your testing?" she hissed coldly, Pointing at Ripley her claws retracted.
"A good amount of people died, no one is safe now, you DO understand that!... You think your crying it's going to **censor** work. Perhaps make us feel bad for you 'scientists'. Your crying?!" She chuckled. "Of course pity, pity, pity." She shook her head. "There must be a special place in hell for you" she growled lowly crossing her arms. "An i'd love to escort you there..." She finished.

[Trinity_Zane]

She turned to 01 "If we created them with electricity then we could destroy them with it."

There was a reflection of laboratory light as it shined off Ripley's glasses "I can assure you I'm not at fault. That explosion was a malfunction caused by the schematics our engineers designed."

Trinity glanced over at 11 saddened by her loses but returned to the scientist "What are you suggesting we do?"

"There's an old abandoned Power Plant in Port Station. It's where our equipment is, if we could some how lure it there we could conduct a charge powerful enough to kill it." She laid out a map of Port Station.

"You're forgetting something...it's pretty much invisible. How would we know where it is?" 17 was coming to the table also.

"Any ideas?"

[Draak_Tand]

Tand gets up, "we see it by making it see us, I volunteer as bait." He said wanting vengeance for 99. He cleans his weapon "When do we begin?"

[Trinity_Zane]

"You're gonna need a good team effort this cannot be done alone." Ripley spoke to Taero "You need to go with them, you'll need all the help you can get."

"Wait! Before we do anything. How do we know this...thing won't know what we're planning? We don't even know what kind of intelligence we're facing here."

"That I can't help you with, you'll have to just trust your instincts." She walked over to a chest or rather heavily armored box and opened it.

"This is our sonic pulse emitter. Every 15 seconds it emits a sonic wave link which will pick up any electromagnetic energy within one mile. You'll be able to tell where it's at." The Labrador came up to Trinity their eyes locking for a moment.

"There are suits also we have that won't save your life but they're durable and lightweight. Beyond that there's nothing I can do."

"We will need a better plan than that 01 if we're going to catch this thing." Trinity came up to Draak.

[Jacob Hail]

Jacob growls and walks away from the scientist, going over to Tand and ripping his M-14 off his shoulder. "**censor** give me that. And making it see you is the stupidest idea ive ever heard, that thing will tear you apart the moment it catches you. No, if these things are truly electric, then we need a conductor."

[PO5ID3N25]

"Listen up I've killed more of these than you've probably seen" I calmly reload my pistol "they are the worlds greatest predator, rely on your senses instincts of you randomly feel like diving forward do it" turning to them showing the scar on my chest "instinct, I had a gut feeling to jump backwards so it's only grazed me, there armor is almost impenetrable a fifty cal at close range may do it but I've never tried your only chance is there mouth no armor but typically if your that close your already dead  since they are electrical in nature your best warning is when your hairs start to static" starting forward "oh by the way they don't track multiple targets it will pick someone to kill make sure you stay close together"

[Trinity_Zane]

"Unfortunatey we don't have access to that kind of technology yet. Right now there isn't a conductor out there strong enough to hold this energy. Believe me, we've tried me and 99." Trinity put the pistol back in his holster he leaned up against the wall and lit a cigarette with the match he stroked on his boot.

"Course that was when we thought we were dealing with an alien attracted to energy. We were only half right. The Slayer blew the conductor into pieces." The red fox flipped down his eye patch and cast a glance at 11.

"01 if you're going to be bait then someone else who's agile should go with if I'm running the sonic emitter. Someone smart like 11."

[Draak_Tand]

"Deal," Tand says gruffly, now how to get their attention he thought while scratching his chin. "Sooooo when do we start?" He asked excited finally gonna get my revenge.

[PO5ID3N25]

"You don't understand it is going to pick a target it's as likely to be anyone unless you shoot it then you'll just piss it the **censor** off" oh well I thought they wanna hunt we will hunt "all I can say is everyone be prepared for it" then I unbolt the door and step into the darkness

[Trinity_Zane]

"We need live bait but 17 may be right. If we can lure it to the power plant we could turn on the conductor it doesn't have to destroy it, just keep it in one spot." He went into the separate room and turned in the light.

There were two rows of suits, space grey colored which looked slightly snug. The fox closed the door and changed into it, it fit his figure nicely and accented his body. The helmet was odd tho, he could not tell which side was the front.
There were six holes in the mask/helmet glass windows two for his eyes two down by his cheek and yet another pair above his chin.

They grew smaller as the went down and the helmet's opposing side was similar. He guessed this was a tactical advantage, like the Slayer wouldn't attack him if it thought he was looking at him. The gloves also had false hands attached to the back of his hand.

As he came out the fox garnered some attention "Why do they like the darkness?"

"Radio waves are electricity. Ever noticed how much of a better signal you get when the weather is cloudy? It's because the signal is forced downward and becomes more powerful instead of skipping over the atmosphere. They like the shade because it's more comfortable to them." Ripley's eyes hit his shoulders slowly slide down the rest of his body.

"Looks like you found the right fit." He held up his arm and pinched the fabric around him, "It's quite tight actually."

Trinity turned to 17 "You coming?"

[Jacob Hail]

"Am I coming?" Jacob said, almost as if Trinity had offended him. "You see that guy over there?" He asked, pointing to Aaron. "Its my job to protect him, get him back to The Reach in one peice. And might of been able to do that, if any of you were even half competent! Tand and Mr Hunter over there want to just take a **censor** walk through the dark and grab its attention and **censor** wing it from there, in the middle of a pitch black cave, which is **censor** SUICIDAL! Thats like walking through a minefield blindfolded! And you want to drag us with them!" The fox scowled, leaning against the wall. "You are all morons, Im quite surprised any of you have managed to last this long because its quite clear logic is not any of yours strong suit. Im not going anywhere until we have a plan that dosent involve us becoming cannon fodder. Actually you know what? I have an idea. You guys can go out and grab the things attention, and while its tearing you apart, Ill sneak past and leave."

[Draak_Tand]

"17s right we would die if went at it head on, I got distracted for a sec there." Tand says trying to salvage his reputation, "We need a real plan."

[Trinity_Zane]

Trinity blank expression turned into a smirk "Boy one little dark cloud on your horizons and you go all to pieces don't ya. These are the best chances we've had to stop these things..."


He took off the helmet his long white scarf blowing in a subtle breeze of a ceiling fan, the long strands of blonde hair fell over his face "...and you're too coward to do it. What happened to Skyreach I thought they had 'tough personnel'?"


There was a glimmer of his pearl canines as they revealed an impish smile "If any of you has a better plan spit it out? We have an emitter to see the damn thing, bait to get him there and a trap."

[Draak_Tand]

Tand, realises he was questioning manliness everyone's manliness. "Lets he to it," he barked "I will have my manliness questioned!" He stare at every one,"but In order for this to work we need everyone" he addressed them. "So are we gonna sit on our asses, or actually fight?"