Ünnahnburg's Dusk

[DrNightKOT]

If Alex's face hadn't been hidden by the gazmask, everyone would be able to see that it had an expression that showed genuine "WTF?" and absolute "LOL" mixed into one horrible expression. Thankfully, no one can see his face through his mask and even if they could, the expression was there for a brief second. However, Alex was still puzzled about the man's mental health condition.

"Eeeerm... Police?" Alex questioned trying not to sound too intimidiating. This one could be escapist thinking that everything is fine. "You seriously think that everything like that is still working?"

Then, some running and screams appeared nearby and the sounds of falling stuff, as if someone was fighting. "Come on, why this can't be a calm day..." Alex nervously mumured, hoping that whoever was fighting back there would get away. Alex wasn't in condition to fight anyone at all (well, except he can easily shoot those two, but this is barely any fight).

The next events were even more insane. Alex heared a gunshot and a femine voice speaking to someone loudly. And then, as everything suddenly went silent and Alex started to believe that he could avoid unneeded contacts, loud explosion errupted. The nearby section of the supermarket suffered the major damage, a giant opening was in the wall, letting the cold wind to blow inside. "Come on." he stated again, as he walked towards the room to investigate the explosion. As he cautonously peeked out from time to time, he noticed a figure moving into the building after a few minutes (he still was aware of the people behind him, they could try to pull a trick on him).

Few moments later the figure became better visible. It was a someone that gave a giant contrast to the people he met before - a beaten up, heavily armored and poorly armed man that Alex estimated to look much more intimidiating than he actually was. Alex couldn't even hide a smile as the man lightened up his crude device that looked a lot like sword and was used as a tool to cut metal - and due to it's construction probably dabbled at both...

MEANWHILE, AT EDWARD'S PLACE (WELL, NEARBY)

A man slowly walked through the abandoned building. He struggled to remember the past day, or the days before the past day. His memory was empty. His mind helped him to recall some words from his language and the fact that something horrible happened to him. The man wasn't sure what. His mind was fading away, but it was fading away as if it was purposedly killed, slayed, paralyzed. Suddenly, an image appeared in the man's head. A voice started talking to him, on the unfamilar language, but the man understood it. Fear suddenly struck the man. He started running. He didn't know where would he go, he didn't know how would it help. The man instinctively ran and he found himself in a small room that was well lit...

...He was met by a mirror. And horror struck him again as instead of a human creature he saw terribly mutaded humanoid monster, with mangled limbs, deformed face, ugly eyes, exposed flesh instead of one of his arm... For no reason he became full of hate to every other human creature. And the voice was happy with it. The man looked around, searching for a tool for his vegneance, not knowing his fate...

...Few moments later he stood near the door of a room. He didn't know the purpose of it. The voice said that it didn't matter anyway. The man grinned with the remnants of his face and swinged his axe at the door...

The man inside the room was no one else than Edward, a rare loyal agent that was very unfortunate to recieve a wound in the city. How would he handle the situation?

[Hekazu]

Edward had just taken a bite out of his milk chocolate bar, when he heard a silent gunshot. He instinctively spiralled around his healthy leg, grabbing the LMG and dropping to the floor. He turned off the safety, and held himself absolutely still, if the small movement breathing caused would not count. He had almost packed his backpack too. The small break to take a bite of the chocolate bar could have been a fatal mistake if the shot had been fired closer... well, that might be a little exaggeration. Checking his gas mask was tightly on his face, he continued to stay on the floor. "After gunshots, stay down for minimum of 5 minutes." That had been his guideline, and would serve him today as well. And not much longer, he heard an explosion ringing inside the building. "'Twas close..." Edward gasped, and waited more. Not too much later, an axe hit the door. Intruder.

"State the code of the British government!" He yelled through his mask. It seemed to have no effect, as whoever it was kept on hacking the door down. "Your final chance! State the code!" Edward yelled, aiming his LMG at the spot where the torso of the intruder would probably be. After one more hit to the door, it broke down. "Step 1: Shoot first!" rang in Edward's mind as he opened fire towards the figure. The recoil of the gun was still more than what he was used to, but he managed to keep the bullets on target. Tearing through the already wounded man, Edward stopped firing as about 40 rounds had left the barrel, letting the man collapse down. "Now if that was not an overkill..." Edward muttered, and crawled a little towards the man, who had fallen torso first on the shreds of the door and the makeshift barricade. His head seemed to be still intact. Well, as intact as it had been before the bullet storm, as there were no bullet holes on it at the very least. "That guy won't move an inch in a good while." Edward spoke to himself, and slowly backed away. After having wasted over half of his remaining ammunition, he would need more soon. It was time to go. Setting the safety back on, he started packing the rest of his items, but with very high caution. Anything would draw his attention, even a snowflake drifting in from a broken window.

[Lucius Cypher]

After decimating an entire row of shelves and organizing their remains into tightly tired bundles, Donny finally took noticed of the other humans present. Given that they haven't fired upon him yet, he guessed that they were either in shock or tried not to provoke him. Either was fine. Once he was done stacking the metal shelving, Donny took a one by the cord her tired it with, and began to drag it away. When he walked out of the hole in the wall, he dropped a can. It was one of his homemade proximity mines, and it was armed five seconds after Donny got out of range. He dragged his pile of metal back to his home, leaving a trail behind for others to attempt to follow. Occasionally, he would drop another can, some of them ordinary cans, others proximity mines.

While everyone was distracted by the explosion, Noel used this time to escape. She ran up the stairs of the supermarket, getting to higher ground. The bag of food was weighing her down, but she wasn't about to risk losing it now. Her pursuers only noticed that she left long after she reached the forth floor, though to her dismay, Noel heard gunshots on this level. And from the sound of it, it did not come from some pistol or rifle, but an automatic rifle of some sort. If she had to guess, it might have come from a light machine gun. She was hesitant to go in the direction of the sound, but her other alternative was going back, towards the people chasing her. "Fuck!" Noel cursed and had no choice but to run towards the sound of the LMG. With any luck she would find an alternative path that won't lead to the madman with the machine gun, but for now she just hoped that he doesn't try to find her. The last thing she wanted now was someone else chasing her, who was much better armed then an unruly family.

[jumjummju]

The almost peaceful chat that Daniel was having with the apparently clueless guy and the guy in the gasmask was interrupted rudely by gunfire coming from elsewhere in the supermarket. Before Daniel, or anyone, really, was able to react, a hole opened up in the wall where a hole shouldn't be. Daniel shouted "WHAT THE FU-" out of reflex and surprise, before a flying piece of debris smacked him in the head. Luckily it was a small piece of debris, and all it got out of Daniel was a small "ow" that you'd give if you bumped into a wall while walking. Seeing that Mr. Gasmask over there was already walking towards the place where the explosion came from, he followed, since it sure beat standing around.

His ears still ringing painfully from the explosion, he looked into the room that Gasmask was looking into cautiously. In contrast to Gasmask's sneaky way of doing it, Danny just stood behind the doorway looking in, completely exposed because he was too busy wondering why an explosion happened to think about being stealthy. Inside the room was a man that looked like he had been set on fire and punted off a cliff. Then mauled by a bear. The sheer amount of wounds present on the man's body were staggering, and Daniel reiterated his "what the fu-" from before until he was interrupted by some machine gun fire from another floor above. This supermarket was apparently a hotspot for activity, it seemed.

The well-beat-up man put a bunch of random metals into his bag, and left back through the hole. Daniel was utterly confused, until seeing that the man left a suspicious can behind. Because Dan was so perceptive he was able to see the wiring on the can, and figured it was either an explosive or a MacGyver'd version of a radio. The former seemed more likely.

"Guys, stay back!" Dan whispered to his entourage of random people he previously met. "He seems to have left a bomb in there; it might still detonate."

[DrNightKOT]

"Should have made them less obvious" staded Alex as he noticed one of the cans having some kind of radio and wires on the side. Maybe this guy just wanted to show them not to go after him, not kill them. Either way, today is the weird day, and Alex didn't know what to expect from future. "Right, in my humble opinion we should damn leave this building because it's going to turn into one big mean battlefield in the half of an hour." Alex said and motioned towards the nearest exit, to the opposite direction of the minefield (if it's not just a decoration of course). This place isn't the place he would like to get answers in...