"I.." his mouth didn't feel right. "I.." he hurt all over. ACe closed his eyes and forced the words out of his mouth, "I'm fine." it was so foreign, like he hadn't spoken before this day. Tendrils of pain shot into his head when he opened his mouth to speak. Ace stumbled a bit, his feet still seeming like it wasn't there, and a wrenching sort of pain teared into his legs. "Peachy. Grea-great."
Ace’s eyes had a frightening numb glaze to them, his usually bright purple eyes dimmed. “Ace?”, she whispered, fear freezing her to the core.
Macha quickly put the suit on him, covering his shivering body with her huge, strong wings. “Dani, Zander. We’ve got Ace. Have you guys freed the rest?”, she breathed into her intercom.
"Macha. I don't feel good." Ace barely got the words out of his mouth, when a unit of R.A.C. officers rounded the corner, aiming their blasters at him.
" Yes as far as I can tell." Zander commed back." Where do you want us to meet you to evac?"
Peter was starting to try and silently assess what they had done, however when the officers arrived, his wings flung open in fright. "Oh!"
Dani looked at Zander. Screams. Listen to the screams! Go back! LISTEN!!! BREAK!! DIE!!!!!!!!! Dani shoved the hissing voice away. Ace needed them. And an R.A.C. base was no place to break down. She had to keep her head on.
A bullet grazed Ace's cheek. He couldn't feel it, but could feel the blood trickling down his face, falling into the grooves and curves of his facial features.
Peter's first reaction was to just hold onto Ace, the nearest person. Not necessarily cover him. Hold onto, like a child cowarding.
Kata heard gunshots ring out and jumped from Zander's back growing full size and rushing to where she heard them.
“Skylar.” A voice called. She was having a non-dream night, but she could vaguely hear something coming from the core of her head. “Sky.” The voice repeated, slightly edgy now. “Skylar May!” The voice said, almost bursting her eardrums. Sky jumped, still asleep, but didn’t answer. “Skylar. It’s me. Jean. I’m gonna open your brain now. It won’t hurt, promise.” “Mkay.” Sky sighed, turning over into her side. Sky felt a warm fuzzy sensation in her head, but thought nothing of it. All of a sudden, Jean in her R.A.C outfit popped into the blackness of her head. “Hey Sky. Don’t wake up yet. I’m gonna tell you something and you have to listen to me. They saved Ace. I helped him get out, though I almost died doing it and nobody knows. You must not let them know this. Not even Peter. Yes I know about Peter. Now. Jacob want some you here for some important job or something, he won’t tell me the details. I wanna see you again. If you feel the same way, come find me. I work in the main R.A.C office. If you say that you know me, somebody will direct you to where I would be normally. Please, Sky. I promise he won’t do anything to your friends. I just need to see you. Remember; this is all real, and I am still alive! I hope to see you soon, Sky.” The image of Jean disappeared, and Skylar jolted awake. She rubbed her head, there was a strange pounding from somewhere deep inside. Rubbing her eyes, she walked out into the kitchen.
Ace fell onto the floor as Peter hung onto him. He stayed there, immobile and the feeling of knives plunging into his skin and ripping into his stomach coming back.
Dani ran towards the sound f the shots, behind Kata. She ran up to the others. "GO!!! I'll cover you!"
Peter's wings haphazardly flailed, gathering Ace into his arms and sputtering. His thoughts became a tangled lump of string. And his heart thumped in his ears too loudly.
Macha ran, shooting wildly, covering Ace and Peter with her wings. Peter clutches a small boy to his chest. “Peter! Get out if here with Ace and the boy, fly as fast as you can back to TGR, I’ve got to help Dani get the others out.“
He opened his eyes, noticing his arm. The familiar shape of a dragon was not present. Zodiac. Ace pulled himself away from Macha, groaning and almost falling over. He needed to get Zodiac. Ace stumbled to his feet, launching himself at the assaulter, taking the gunshots and grabbing the gun, as his insides teared themselves apart. He ran, rounding the corner, I don't know where I'm going. Ace noticed a shape from the corner of his eyes. The girl/R.A.C. officer who'd drugged him at the sushi shop. He held up the gun as she smiled.
"It was such fun playing with you. It's amazing how much pain you took."
"WHERE'S ZODIAC!"
"Hush, hush, later. For now," she raised both her guns and the disappeared, reappearing behind Ace, "Let's focus on you." he promptly blacked out, but not before shooting her in the shoulder.
Kata arrived to see Ace round a corner, Peter cradle a young boy and Macha shooting at an R.A.C. squad up ahead. Kata roared and charged the squad, flinching whenever their bullets hit her. They were using anti-artillery rounds, the only bullets that could pierce her skin.
Ace was gone. No., she thought desperately as she hit an officer running after a little boy in the leg.
Peter scrambled up finally when he realized what was demanded of him, clutching the boy, his brother, and ran.
Ima go to bed :( notebook is being wonky )
(Ok this is really bad and I haven't been able to get notebook to work until now so sorry for the late response @hope)
"I-I don't know. I just woke up. Are you alright?" Blake was still pretty drowsy, hugging Frankie close and tucking her under his wing. "You hungry? I'm sure everyone will turn up soon." Blake's stomach growled and he smiled sheepishly, gesturing to the cabinet and refrigerator.
Indali (girl/R.A.C. officer that drugged Ace) casually strolled through the halls, ignoring the fight, as she lugged the tall boy over her shoulder. Oh Vishnu, why is this man so heavy? Indali mentally shrugged, she was trained to carry 2000 pounds for a mile while she was running anyway. Carrying this man, Ace, was well buried into the center of her comfort zone.
(Where are Blake and Frankie right now?)
(@Irish in Dani's kitchen over by some cabinets looking for food.)
Kata yowled as she ripped apart the squad she was attacking. The bullets were really starting to hurt. She hissed as the last one fell and stiffened as she caught Ace's scent. She started to follow it, but then realized there was another scent mixed in with his. She didn't recognize it, so she settled into a prowl, it smelled powerful.
Dani looked around. Why am I here again? Oh right. Ace is an idiot. Dani round-house kicked a guy so hard that he was knocked out. She let her wings out, then flew to Kata.