Way to call my bluff, TK thought, trying to keep the anger out of her face. She bashed her gun against the side of Natalia's face. The woman slumped over, unconscious. Using her as a shield, she hurried forward, firing at two of the guards and taking them out. Six to go. Keeping her grip tight on Natalia, she swept another guard's legs out from underneath him. She fired, taking him out, before dropping Natalia. Only five more to go, but backup was surely on the way.
Carter took out a few guards, then turned to grab Natalia. Anger crossed her face. "You idiot! You've compromised the mission! I needed her conscious! I can't do the mission with her unconscious!"
"If you told me shit," TK screamed back, cracking the last man's skull against the wall, "then maybe I'd do it right! How the hell am I supposed to know? Do you want me to read your mind, Byte?" She hit the man against the wall a few more times, mostly out of anger, before letting him drop to the ground.
With no one around, Carter knew she could teach the new spy a lesson. "You're not a good spy. I don't care if you're a newbie or if you're the top of your class. You're reckless and rush right into things without thinking of the consequences. I needed Natalia conscious, and now thanks to you I have to redo this mission some other time. If I can even do that. If you step one toe out of line, I will personally have you thrown from the agency."
"Bitch, please." TK stormed over to the other girl, glaring at her with the full force of her murderous gaze. Her hands flexed around her gun. "You lie to me and tell me that Natalia is a hostage. I act accordingly. You call my bluff in front of the guards. I adjust accordingly. You chew me out in the middle of the mission, acting like the woman is dead! She should regain consciousness within a few moments. You're being a dramatic child throwing a tantrum and I'm honestly so over it. I'm going to ask to get a new partner as soon as I return." Her voice became a high, nasally imitation of Carter's. "I'll have you thrown from the agency! Bullshit. Your agency doesn't love you as much as you think it does."
"You have no idea how much power I have in this world," Carter said, remaining her composition. "I can break you down, piece by piece and then build you back up again, only to do it all over again. Don't give me that bullshit, because I know how to hurt you. This is why I work alone."
"You're delusional if you think you have power over me," TK laughed, "I can walk away whenever I want. Funny how you addressed the personal attack, instead of addressing the mission." Natalia stirred.
Carter noticed Natalia coming to and grabbed her. She stunned TK and then walked into the room, locking it with a gadget behind her. She was going to finish this mission, and TK was not going to interfere.
(i just wanna make clear that she can't break down the door due to the gadget)
TK crumpled to the ground, her body going numb. "What the fuck," she slurred, trying to speak. Not only had the bitch accused her of sabotaging the mission, she also stunned her? She could hear more guards approaching as an alarm began to blare. "Okay, so she left you," she mumbled, willing her body to move as she tried to fight back the panic. "And there are more guards coming. Damn it. Damn it!" She forced her arm to move so that she could at least grab her gun.
Carter stared at Natalia, waiting for her to fully come to. "Good, you're awake. And now you're going to help me."
"I don't need to help you."
"Natalia, I work for T.I.D.A.L. You have no choice but to help me."
Gunshots riddled the air. TK rolled onto her back, grabbing one of the bodies she'd taken down and using it as a shield. "Hurry up, Byte," she shouted, "or I'm leaving you!" It was a bluff, again. No matter how pissed she was, she wasn't going to leave a partner. She fired her gun at the first two guards, hitting one and incapacitating him, but hitting the other in the leg. He staggered, firing. The bullet grazed her shoulder. She fired again, taking him out. Her legs were starting to regain feeling, so she flipped to her feet, staggering a bit as pain shot through her body.
She leapt towards the next guard, cracking her gun against his head. Blood flowed down his temple as he crumpled. She jumped on to the next one, wrapping her thighs around his neck and choking him as she continued to fire at the other guards. She used her weight to pull him to the ground. Another wave of guards was heading her way. Even at her full strength, she would be hard pressed to fight them. She forced herself to her feet, clutching at her shoulder.
(if you can't tell already I am a HUGE fan of the way Marvel's Black Widow fights)
Carter heard TK yell that she would leave her, but she didn't care. She could tell that it was a bluff, but Carter would leave TK in a flash if it was for the good of the mission.
"I refuse to help you," Natalia spat.
"Well, good for me, I don't really need your help." She grabbed Natalia's hands behind her back, binding them with a gadget. She walked over to the giant computer screen in the room, making Natalia walk with her.
TK reloaded her gun, wiping blood from the corner of her mouth. Not only was her partner unconcerned with them both getting out, she was also indifferent to whether TK lived or died. Gasping from both shock and blood loss, TK leaned against the wall. Three waves of guards were down. More were coming.
"The firewall of this technology is smart," Carter explained, even though she knew Natalia was aware. "It knows when a person is unconscious, meaning I wouldn't be able to knock you out and then try to get in. That's why I needed you conscious."
TK threw herself against the door, screaming, "I'm almost out of ammo, Byte. I was told that the protocol was partners work together! We aren't supposed to let each other die!" Her voice scratched painfully in her throat.
"I won't help you," Natalia hissed.
"Like I said, you don't have much choice."
"Fuck you!" TK gasped, firing again and again and again.
"We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way. Make your choice."
"Fine. I'll take the easy way."
"Perfect." Carter opened up the voice recognition password. "Say the password."
"поцелуи в красной крови," Natalia spoke, and the system was flung open.
(yeah my character's a sitting duck rn so sorry if my replies are subpar)
TK crumpled against the door, surrounded by dozens of bodies. She'd be proud of herself for taking out that many highly trained individuals if she weren't so convinced she was going to die. She was kind of shaken. She'd always felt invincible. It was dizzying to feel anything different. She felt the edges of her vision growing dark.
After Natalia unlocked the system, she got to work on hacking the system. It didn't take long: the system was easy to get through once the password was inputted. Once she gathered all the necessary information, she took the gadget off the door and opened it.
"Look who it is," TK laughed lazily, her good hand drapped over her empty weapon. She was surrounded by bodies, more than she could count. "Ready to head out? Did you have a good mission? I hope you had a good mission."
"I had a successful mission. There's no such thing as a good or bad mission." She sighed, walking backwards a bit. She didn't want to step over the bodies. So, she did a run up and latched onto the door frame ahead, using the momentum of the jump to swing over the pile of bodies.
"I am curious though," TK said, her voice strained as she pulled herself to her feet slowly. She staggered through the bodies, feeling basically knee-deep in their blood. "Why did you try to kill me? Most people can't recover from stun guns in…oh I don't know, two minutes. It usually takes at least ten just to sit up. By then, the guards would have killed me."
"Because it wasn't a stun gun," Carter sighed, pulling it out to show her. "It's a paralysing agent. It only lasts a minute. Makes for a quick getaway. And it's all in the mind. After the minute, the agent is gone. If you want to get up, you can get up. If you still think you're stunned, that's how you're body will react. It's a wonder what you can do with a combination of technology, chemistry and psychology."
"Well that explains…" she motioned to her impressive mound of bodies. "Are you some kind of pathological liar, or are you a sociopath who just doesn't know how to talk to other people?" Not waiting for an answer, she shoved past her, knocking the paralysing agent onto the ground. As she walked she gritted her teeth and dug a bullet out of her shoulder, tossing it onto the ground.