@Black Solace said:
Long Island
Continued from New York City Thread
Both the Bounty Hunter and the Silent Knight fell with grace onto pier 47, given the distance from the ground; the parachute only provided minor solace in their landing. “Fck, did you have to play superman…” she protested, trying to shake the extreme feelings of vertigo. “git the hell off me” She said, pushing him to the side; her agitation apparent. “Why are you so crabby…” he asked, sternly; keeping a low silhouette as to not be spotted.
“I’m on my period” Ashley replied, dusting herself off. “Get down” Ashley screamed, as hundreds of Ninja shuriken’s rain from the sky. “The Red Cardinals…” she whispered, taking note to the Cardinal insignia on the weapon.
“Yeah, but those guys…they aren’t Cardinals” Max said, staying low. “The Cardinals are after me, I’ll take them with me, and you get those guys” she said, pointing in the direction of the Umen. “Meet back here in ten minutes Ashley” his powerful voice laced with a hidden sense of concern.
“I will…” she responded, sincerely.
As Max snagged their attention, Ashley turned intangible and ran out the other way; shifting the Cardinals attention to her.
“These guys are like flies, stopping in the middle of a dark alley; the Jade Dragon removed the “Legendary Jade Blade” the snake-like sword soon animated, sending a powerful emerald glow down the dark alley.
Left and right, the Cardinals jumped in to fight; armed with basic katanas. Shifting her feet to a southpaw stance, Ashley dropped an invisible wall capsule and shielded her rear from a Cardinal attack; this allowed her to focus on the ones directly in her face.
The clang of Japanese and Chinese steel meeting in the alley alerted man nearby citizens; but with the martial law none dared to enter an alley alone.
Jamming her blade through the chest cavity of a ninja, she kicked the cadaver back into his friends. An onslaught of Cardinals rested behind her, trying to break through her invisible wall; an onslaught of Cardinals block a forward motion; she’d have to fight.
The strategic placement of the alley and that many Cardinals was by no chance a coincidence. The same woman that framed the Silent Knight; had orchestrated this attack; simultaneously trapping Ashley where she wanted her.. “Some people, love to show off their martial arts skills…” she monologued, the whole time she was speaking, the Cardinal admin began preparing her rifle for fire.
“I prefer to shoot the b!tch”
Pow
A low gunshot disperses the Cardinals; the round pierced the shoulder of Ashley taking her down to the ground. Falling to the ground, the young Bravehart writhed in pain; the fear in bleeding out kept her conscious; but it was too late there were to many Cardinals.
Finally apprehended, she was on a one way trip to Super Max.
Darting between crates and freighter boxes Maximus hides from the U-men. No way in hell he could take them on head first. Stealth had to be his alley like it was when he roamed the dark halls of The Pit as a young boy, cutting men's throats at the tender age of seven.
"Split and find him. Without that flying boat he's a fish in a barrel." Nodding four of the Umen split up while the leader walks slowly through the center of the miscellaneous steel trailers and wooden palettes "Here birdy birdy..."
Meanwhile
Max holds the blood inside of his body as they slowly begin to reset themselves. ever since he'd met the man only Known to the world as Animus and was forced to drink his blood, the Silent Knight grew more agile, joints smoothed like oil had been added to rust, wounds healing with an enigmatic hustle that escaped his own level of logic. Feeling the thunk of the bone cracking itself into place he sips air through his "Ssss...." Instantly hearing the sound of a modified AR15 clacking against body armor, a nameless Uman stepping forward towards the shadows, so close The Knight could hear the gulp of his throat.
Turning the corner he only finds drops of blood in the wake of the believed murderer. Kneeling down he checks the consistancy to judge how long it had sat. *tink,tink,tink* his helmet wrapped against by moisture he didn't need to look up to know, or even have the option either way, as the tip of a katar slides through his throat and back out, a soft gurgle as his life escapes.
taking to the top of the crates Max takes a logical hiding spot in the sill of a warehouse window and waits for the moment as the leader round the corner, "In a moment, your going to hear a gunshot. It won;t be us. That girl? She;s going down, taking your bid. Come out now...you might just be able to get a cell across from her, have a little window love..." The snide smirk on his face invisible yet obvious behind his full mask. Max's infinitely more so. Taking off his gauntlet he ties the length of his cape around the grip bar insidefor the Katar, jerking the knot tight as the blade he'd dubbed Lucy expels.
Swinging it once, twice, three times before yanking it back into the warehouse, and reeling forward with the momentum to snap it tip first into the guards liver, though he was aiming for his neck "AAAARGHHH MOTHERFCKER! Move in on me!" Max curses himself as he hears the shot ring out, in the night, the soldier a scumbag, but an apparently honest one.
Dropping down to the pier floor with expedited speed the Silent Knight cracks a knee, crashing on it and grinding the bone to muscle with a groan of pain. Three remaining guards come around the corner as he lay beside the water and the bleeding out leader. "Sir move we need a clean shot!" Maximus grabs the guard by the throat and pulls him in front of his body, dragging them both backwards with the blade to his throat, reftitting his gauntlet, "Tell your men to stand down"
He nods without question, waving a hand downward as the wall of guns follows, "I haven't killed in years, this was a choice I take responsibility for" He spoke less to the Lead skullion and more to the almighty, "But know that the gears were set in motion by you and yours...you have no idea what you let loose tonight."
Falling back with a splash into the ocean he drags them both downward.
"Where are they?!"
"Just fire!" Rapid gunfire barrages the blue depths, strips of bubbled water weaved around by the knightfall as he uses the guards body as a shield, sucking the air from the hole in his lungs.
2 minutes later
Finally stopping, the guards wait for a sign of life or death. Rising to the surface was First Uman Mctaggert, naked and bloody
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