“So far we have encountered a few DMA soldiers but that may change. Each room that we came across I threw a smoke grenade in and choked them out, so our exit could be a little easier. Along the way we saw john talking to woman. For some reason I recognized her but couldn’t see her face so I couldn’t be sure. As long as john was distracting her though she shouldn’t be too much of a problem.”

Car-tali heard Cia and decided to respond. “The more fuss they put up the less opposition we come across when we get there. Either way we are running out of time before the rest of the building is on us".

Cole looked back just in time to see Cia obliterate some heads with her bowling balls. His eyes widened slightly before he whispered to her and Car-tali. "We got one more floor before we're there. Once we find Jessica we night not want to take the stairs, we'll have no idea what state she's in and if we have to carry her the elevator would be our best bet despite the risk", Cole didn't wait for a response, if there were objections they could say them once they had Jess. As for the commotion that was started Cole radioed John to give him the signal. "John we found Jessica, proceed with the prisoner release!", Cole hoped by then that John had gotten away from the woman or else there was going to be a problem. Cole then switched the frequency to Ace and Finn, "Extraction team, how's it going down there?". Cole held onto the radio as he climbed the stairs waiting for a reply. Finally arriving at the top floor Cole saw her. Jessica sat tied up in a chair, signs of torture were all over her. What's more there was someone else there. An agent of course but this one was...watching a movie? Cole walked over as quietly as possible before he was right behind her. Before he could put a hand on the woman she spoke, "Pariah I know I'm new to this but did you have to be so rough with her?". The woman turned around but to her surprise and horror it wasn't Pariah but Coke with his black veined hand mere inches away from her. Noore stumbled out of her chair and crawled backwards away from Cole all the while saying, "Wait Wait wait don't kill me I know why your here! Just take her I didn't see anything just don't kill me!"

Cole approached Noore with his arms still blackened by his powers. Noore saw this and figured his touch could kill so she kept crawling back till she bumped into a pillar. "Wait Wait wait! I can help you! You need DMA file access? Prisoner locations? I can get it for you!", Noore was on the verge of tears. She didn't want to die, but she knew betraying the DMA meant her death. Either way she was screwed so she decided to just do what would keep her alive for the moment. "Pariah please get here!", she thought to herself as she eyed down Cole and the others.

"Cia, Tali, what do you think?", Cole didn't trust Noore at all. She was way to quick to betray her organization and shed likely go crawling back the first chance she got. However, if she had info on Mallory or Callahan she could prove usefull.

Cia looked down at the woman with a look of disgust on her face. But she knew that any information on those two would be helpful in the long run. "Tell us what you know about Callahan and Mallory woman, before I bash your brains in." Cia added her face seemed to warp into a far more sadistic look behind the mask. Though you could tell in Cia's voice that she was getting more and more sadistic.

Another DMA guard came in behind her them. Cia turned smash the bowling ball into the man's legs making him fall to the ground, his legs now mangled. "Of course, if you don't give the information swiftly, your legs will be next." Cia said as the bowling balls flew back, the DMA guard pleded but the rammed into his arms crushing those as well. "Or maybe your arms could be next?" Cia asked, some laughter could be heard in her voice. Cia was terrifying when in the heat of battle. Cia flew a final bowling ball at the man's arms.

@ArkmageddonCat@Cuccoruler@smarty0114@Airalin@Liocalset@Inertia

Ace heard Cole's voice come through on the radio. Ace hesitated before finally responding."We're fine. We got a few bogeys on our tail but nothing we can't handle." Ace lied, but she lied well. For now, Ace was glad Cole couldn't see her in her current condition because if he did; he'd probably make Ace retreat. Thankfully the wound wasn't near fatal and it had already stopped bleeding due to Ace cauterizing the wound with her lighter.

Ace lowered her voice so Finn couldn't hear her before she continued, "Have you secured the target? I'm worried about Finn... He's gotten really aggressive... I get that he's worried about Jessica but he acting a bit over the top..."

Suddenly John ran into Pariah, and his running came to an almost immediate halt. Oh shit! Shit shit shit! Gotta think of something smart...like...I was on my way to see her! That's the best I've got, I hope it works! John thought to himself before opening his mouth. "Oh! Pariah? I wasn't expecting to see you down here, I was heading up to the interrogation room...I thought you'd be there. And...wait, Noore didn't tell you? I told her I had been chasing down a rather swift Gifted." He explained, glancing down the hall. "But, I just wanted to let you know I was here...now that you're not gonna kill me for not calling in, I think I'm gonna go get some R&R, if you don't mind. John added and started to walk away just before a voice came through on his radio, causing him to freeze. "John we found Jessica, proceed with the prisoner release!"

Shit...I think she just heard that...what do I say? What the fuck do I say?! John thought worriedly, until he finally calmed down enough and turned around to face Pariah. "Okay...to be honest, I convinced a group of Gifted to infiltrate this very blacksite with plans to betray them and capture them all, and I already got one of the idiots to play captive. I just didn't want you to take all the fame like you always do...but now that you know, I guess you gotta help." John explained, hoping his words would fix his situation. If not, then he'd soon be dead...

Car-tali was surprised that Cole would ask him that question. Before he could answer Cia started yelling at the womam and took out a guard behind them.
Car-tali could see that the woman was new. He saw the fear in her eyes and knew that was what people had when they saw gifted.
"I think we should bring her with us. Definitely new and she is probably an analyst which means she could find Mallory. Besides when we came in she was talking about someone called Pariah and that name seems vaugely familiar to me, most likely the interrogator. In any case I believe in second chances and a high body count won't do any favors."

Pariah stood there as she listened to John's excuse for his absence. A suspicious look on her face the entire time until he started to walk away. Originally Pariah was just going to scold him for not calling in but once she heard Cole over the radio a look of pure rage came over her much like when Jessica spat on her. "You have ten seconds to explain", she thought to herself as she eyed John with a look so cold the room cold freeze. His explanation didn't do much to calm her but Pariah did feel a bit...proud? Nevertheless that didn't stop her from berating her teammate, "Are you fucking serious?! What if they already sent sensitive information back to their kind? The MRF could ruin us with the information here!". Pariah took a deep breath and exhaled before speaking again, "Alright, I can fix this. Tell me where they are and I'll deal wth them. As for you, get your ass to security and tell them to lock this place down. I'll deal with you when this is over?".

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Cole looked around as he began to untie Jessica as he heard Car-tali's opinion. As much as. He hated the DMA he had a point, Noore could prove useful in the future. "Already got two DMA, why not a third? Fine let's take her, but your responsible for her till we get out of here", Cole finished untying Jessica and helped her up. "C'mon Jess, Finn's waiting for Ya". Cole looked to Car-tali and Cia, "Alright let's get in that elevator and get out of here". Turning on his radio Cole contacted Finn and Ace, hopefully things were quiet where they were and they had a ride waiting. "Finn, Ace, we have Jessica. Make sure the garage is clear when we get there".

Cia looked at Noore for a moment before turning in a bit of a huff. "I still think we should just interrogate her here. Whatever." Cia said making her arms cross to make them appear as real. "Anyways I hope John keeps his word." Cia added as she headed out with the others. Her bowling balls floating behind her. Whenever they came across a guard Cia launched a bowling ball to their head smashing it into a paste almost with the shear force. She could only hope that they would come by a kitchen or something soon, as her bowling balls were already started to show cracks on them, they would be falling apart soon from how much she had banged them into walls. Cia's arms were back in a neutral position as she ran, though they weren't moving as much as the others were.

Finn Lockhart
@Inertia@TheDarkTemplar@PhoebeCarlisle@Liocalset@Ace of flames01@ArkmageddonCat@Cuccoruler

Once Finn and Ace had dealt with the guards outside, he turned to Ace, panting. He saw her cauterize her wound and his face went dark. "You good?" he asked before he heard Cole on the radio. Ace told them that they were fine, although he could tell that she had definitely been better. He moved towards the garage before he could hear the rest of the conversation. The main entrance could only be opened from the inside, as it was too heavy to lift. However, on the side he found a door, locked. Luckily, all he needed was a keycard. One of those guards probably has one. How else do they get in? he thought. He started searching the dead bodies, quickly, anxious about being caught off his guard. He wasn't really in the mood to get shot. Finally he found one, in the vest of one of the guards. He pulled it out, but was distracted by Cole's voice on the radio. "Finn, Ace, we have Jessica. Make sure the garage is clear when we get there." Finn let out a sigh of relief. Don't get distracted. Come on Finn your better than that. He walked over to Ace and held up the keycard. "Let's get ourselves a sweet new ride."

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Ace winced from the pain. Her life wasn't in danger but it still hurt like all hell, she knew that she shouldn't have been so careless and that this was her punishment for doing so. "Yeah I'm fine... An injury like this one certainly won't kill me but it sure as hell is painful..." She grunted. Ace follow Finn to the garage, holding on to her shoulder. Her face looked a bit pale and felt like it was burning up, she broke out into a sweat and was panting. Ace smiled weakly at Finn as he held up the key card. "Yeah but we need to be careful, there might be guards inside... We won't be able to go back to the bar for a while after this and we're going to need to have enough gas to get where we're going..."

John was unable to look at Pariah while she barked at him over allowing the Gifted to infiltrate the base, and he refrained from looking at her until she she finished telling him to go to the security room. For a moment he looked down at his feet, then clenched his hands. "I guess I'm just not really cut out for this...I can't compete with you when it comes to taking down Gifted. But then again I'm just a tool, aren't I? That's what they tell me...and I just wanted to hear that I was worth something, for once..." John spoke, trying to stall with as relevant a conversation as he could manage, secretly inching one of his hands closer to his shock batons.

"And only just recently did I feel like I was actually worth something..." He added, looking up at Pariah. He then took a slow breath, pulled out his communication device, and contacted the rest of the Gifted. "Hey Cole..." He started, his hand gripping the handle of one of his shock batons. I can't btray them...but I can't beat her in a fair fight... He thought, exhaling nervously. "What's your current situation? I think part of our plan might have been compromised..."

Pariah was suspicious of John from the start of his little speech. "Where is this coming from?", she thought to herself as she listened on to what John was saying. His last statement, about feeling like he was worth something, that's what confirmed her suspicions. What's more when John turned on his radio and mentioned a Cole, that's what sealed the deal. The name Cole was the one on the target file Mallory had given her before she arrived in the city. If this is the same Cole, and Pariah was pretty sure it was, then she'd have to be extra careful if John was with him now. Pariah moved her hand to her combat knife which was holstered on her hip, if anything looked suspicious Pariah would put John down. Maybe not kill him but definitely incapacitate him for later questioning and reindoctrination.

Cole had Jessica's arm slung over him as he started to help her to the elevator across the room. Normally it'd be a simple walk but with Jessica not being in the best state this already large room felt immense. That's when John came on his radio, "We found Jessica and are currently heading towards the garage by way of the elevator. What do you mean the plan has been compromised? What's going on?". Cole didn't wait for an answer he put the radio away and turned to look back at Cia and Car-tali, "We gotta double time it, grab her and let's go!", He ordered before turning back to get Jessica to the elevator.

On the other end of the radio Pariah smirked, she heard Cole mention they had Jessica and were taking the elevator. She looked to John with disappointment in her eyes before turning towards the direction of the elevator, "When this is over John, you'll be dealt with accordingly. Not by me, but by Mallory".

John looked back down at the floor, swallowing. She knows where they are...she'll get to them...I can't stall her any more...unless... He thought as his hand gripped the handle of the shock baton tighter. He slipped his radio back into his pocket, then quickly drew out both of his batons, closing the distance between himself and Pariah. Raising the shock batons he then struck her in the back, aiming to at least knock her off balance if not outright stun her.

In instant Pariah felt a surge of electricity flow through her body. Every muscle in her body began to tense up as she tried desperately to stop the shock. She managed to turn around to see John with his shock batons on her back. "Can't...take...much more!", she could barely function as she slowly lifted her arm towards John. It took an incredible amount of strength but she managed to grab John by the throat. It wouldn't do much good however as she barely managed to squeeze down before the electric shock got the better of her and she collapsed to the ground.

As soon as Pariah fell to the ground, John proceeded to jab her with his shock batons a few more times to make sure that she was really down for the count...after all, the last thing you want to do is underestimate a Warden. He then hurried off to the prison as originally planned, putting away one of his shock batons as he pulled the radio back out. "I just ran into Pariah...Cole you nearly got my ass killed, I swear to god..." He started, catching himself before he went off on a tangent. "I managed to trick and incapacitate her, but who knows for how long...."

"Alright, we're hauling ass to the garage, just get Seth and meet us there!", Cole replied before relaying the information he just received to the rest of his team.

Finn Lockhart
@Inertia@TheDarkTemplar@PhoebeCarlisle@Liocalset@Ace of flames01@ArkmageddonCat@Cuccoruler

Finn looked over his shoulder at Ace, and gave her a reassuring smile. "Be careful in there," he said. Then he swiped the keycard, and slowly made his way into the garage. He smiled as he saw that in the middle was a large D.M.A. truck, turret and all. However he was forced to stay low to the ground when he noticed the two guards patrolling the garage. He bit his lip, nervous for how this would go. He couldn't be shooting fire around in the garage, in case he blew something up. Nope he'd need to take out the guards the old fashioned way. He crept through the garage, trying to control his breathing. He crept up behind the first man before grabbing him quickly and putting him into a sleeper hold. He fought against the guards struggles until his breathing evened out and he went limp. He motioned at Ace to stay where she was. That gunshot wouldn't do her any favors here. No use putting her at risk. We're almost there Finn. Let's do this he thought before rushing the guard. He tackled the man, landing a few punches to his chest before being thrown off. Finn scrambled back to his feet, only to be greeted by his opponent, who now had a gun pointed at him. It all happened slowly. He heard the gunshot ring through the garage and he instinctively jumped out of the way. The next thing he felt was an agonizing pain in his leg before he slammed against the floor. He grimaced. He'd have to take the risk here. God damn I better not light a gas can on fire he thought as he snapped his fingers, summoning a flame. He shot the flame at the guards head, sending him reeling. The man fell to the ground, unconscious or dead, Finn wasn't really all that interested in which.

Finn got up, hobbling over to Ace, smiling. "I guess now we've got matching bullet holes," he said, trying to take his mind off the pain. "You get the car filled up with gas, I'll open up the garage. Let's make sure this escape goes off without a hitch," he said. He quickly cauterized the bleeding hole in his leg, wincing at the pain, before hobbling over to the far wall where he saw a button. You can say a lot about the D.M.A. but at least they make things easy he thought, slamming his hand down on the button. He heard the sound of gears turning as the large garage door lifted up. They were halfway to an escape already.

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Slouched against a wall, Ace silently laughed at Finn's smart remark underneath her mask. She got back up on her feet and handed Finn a pistol she retrieved from a dead guard. "Here, take this. That way we won't have to worry about risking an explosion by using our gifts..." She then made her way to the stock of gas canisters and started fueling their getaway car when suddenly, Cole's voice relayed through the radio. Pariah would be on their tails any minute now. "Damnit!" She cursed under her breath. She sighed before finally replying, "10-4. We're loading up now and getting ready to high tail it out of here. Cole, we're heading for Jack's place after this, right?"

Cia continued to follow Cole and Car-tali. Cia could not help with carrying Jessica as she did in fact lack arms. And picking up a human was beyond her abilities. As they continued to run through the building she noticed they passed a kitchen. "I'll catch up to you guys the moment you get to the garage!" Cia said as she ran into the kitchen. She floated a drawer with knives in it behind her. Later she had multiple knives just flying behind her. She also had two cast iron frying pans that she had found. She did love her frying pans. She left the bowling balls behind as they were severly cracked at this point and falling apart. The frying pans would last much longer. She later started to catch up with the others again. She only hoped that they wouldn't end up running into this Pariah. She had seen the woman once before when Jessica was first taken. IF Cia needed to, she knew she could take on a warden, though she knew she would receive damage in the battle as well if she wasn't too careful.

John made his way to the prison and spotted at least three guards standing watch in a close enough vicinity to impede his release of the prisoners. John walked calmly into the room and called two of the guards over to him, requesting clearance to release the prisoner Seth for questioning. As they turned to head over to Seth's cell, John pulled out his dual shock batons and jabbed them both in the back. The third guard heard them fall to the ground, turning around to see John thrusting a shock baton into his gut. The guard deflected the attack, but couldn't block the attack coming from the other arm and was jabbed in the side. After the third guard had been incapacitated John moved to open the cells, making sure that no Gifted was left behind.

Certain that Seth had received his belongings, John attempted to rally the prisoners. "As of now, you're all free, and we're getting out of here now! Grab the weapons off of these guards, and make your escape while the security grid is still down!" He said, and though it may not have been a speech of great emotion or substance; several of the prisoners did not hesitate to charge out into the hallways. Several remained behind with John, but whether they were scared or smart was unknown to him. John glanced at the handful of remainders and contacted Cole. "Prisoners have been released, I'm grabbing Seth and making our way to the rendezvous."

At first Pariah felt nothing upon waking up, her vision was blurred slightly but beyond that she felt nothing. It was when she attempted to move that every muscle in her body felt as though they had been torn to shreds. She was sore to the point she had little motor control but somehow managed to learn herself against a wall. "I'm going to kill him", was the phrase she played back over and over in her head. Without even a moment to get her bearings, two escaped prisoners came running down the hall. Both were armed with guns looted from the bodies of DMA agents. The two noticed Pariah slumped against the wall after originally thinking she was already dead. "Is she DMA?", one asked his partner. The other shrugged his shoulders before replying, "I guess so, she doesn't look like the others from the cells, and I never saw her there".

"We should kill her, just in case", in less than a split second after saying that Pariah fired two bursts of smoke at the escaped prisoners. They choked on the smoke filling their lungs as the fell to their knees. Pariah got herself onto her feet, leaning on the wall for support, and once she was upright she fired two shots into each of the prisoners. The kick of the gun irritated all the muscles in her arm as it kicked from each shot. She winced before taking a moment to get herself together, a simple shock was not going to be the cause of her failure. "Gotta get to the garage...", she muttered as she began to jog towards the stairs. Her jog quickly turned into a full sprint as she regained her strength. This was going to end with either her dead or them.

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"From here we go straight to Jack's, we can't afford to compromise the bar", Cole radioed to Ace as he arrived at the elevator. The ride down was anything but calm. Both DMA and metahumans tried to enter and both had no intention of sharing the space. In the end none managed to get in, well none managed to get in and stay there as Cole would simply drain them till they were too weak to fight back. By the time they arrived on the garage level whatever ailments Cole might have been feeling was gone as the sheer number of people he drained had restored him to almost perfect health.

After the door to Eba's cell - and the cells of everyone around her - were opened, she did not hesitate to follow the people in charge of this jailbreak.

She ran past the downed guards without taking one of their weapons. There were fewer weapons than there were prisoners, after all, and the hallways were well lit; her responses would be sluggish even if she did have a weapon. Besides, she was less likely to be targeted by the enemy if she was unarmed.

She barely dared to believe her luck. Rescued the day she was captured? She couldn't help but wonder if this was some sort of test. If it was, it was a test she would be fine with failing. Death would be better than being forced into such a small, cramped space.

Therefore, the identity of her rescuers didn't matter. She followed them, attempted to blend into the crowd as best she could. Anything else was an invitation for disaster.

After reaching the elevator Pariah took it down to sub-level 1, the garage. The doors opened with a ding and a rusty hum and she stepped out to see the infiltrators at the other end of the garage attempting to escape in a DMA vehicle. Pariah raised her sidearm and fired only to have the shots miss terribly. Her muscles were still a bit sore and it affected her aim,on any other day it would have been single shot kills all around. Pariah stepped forward with her sidearm held tight in her hands and raised at the metahumans. "I'll only ask once. Hand over whatever intel you've stolen. I don't care about the prisoners you freed I'll deal with them later, her voice was weak but filled with anger as she spoke. She was in no condition to fight, which was why Pariah made sure to stay out of arm's reach. She'd use her gun until fighting was her only option.

Cia had turned as she saw a gunshot in the wall just as she caught up with the others. She noticed that Pariah had caught up to them, though she seemed to be hurting. "Why are you shooting at us?" Cia asked Pariah as she stopped in the hall way to let the others get ahead of her. The knives were floating behind her though they were inching towards Pariah, a Frying pan had gone flying right past Pariah's head as if Cia had missed the shot. Though it was on the floor now. Having less items to concentrate on floating was far easier on her as she could concentrate better on her enemy this way as well. She had her arms stretched out infront of her to give the illusion that she was using her arms to stabalize her abilities.

"I was trying to kill you, obviously. Thanks to your friend John that's a little harder. Only a little bit though", Pariah just managed to dodge the frying pan that flew by her head. "Telekinetic. Gotta be careful ity this one, probably will have to put her down too", she thought as she eyed Cia manipulating the objects with her hands. Pariah fired a few more shots at her while making smoke form from her hands. The intention was to take her down as she did o Jessica: distract her with the gunshots, obscure her vision with the smoke, then go in for the kill. As soon as she concluded firing half of her mag Pariah fired multiple smoke shots immediately after. Keeping the knives before her in mind she decided to step to the side and out of their flight path incase Cia decided to throw them forward once blinded.

Cia was able to just barely get out of the way of the gun shots, though the smoke shorts did hit her, but luckily it only hit her arms which at this point were shot off. Cia fell to the ground and screamed out as her arms were shot off. Of course she was faking it as she had no arms in the first place.

Pariah ran forward with her sidearm mag more than half empty, her smoke shots seemed to have shot the girl's arms clean off. "No way my shots were that strong...fake arms? Unorthodox but clever, I'll give you that", she thought as she raised her gun where she thought Cia was. The smoke obscured most of her target and the surrounding ground but she could make out a silhouette.

As Pariah got closer to Cia she saw her opportunity. A Frying pan flew up behind her before hitting Pariah right into a wall. Cia stood up with a rather twisted look on her face. She raised up her mask so Pariah could see her. "Funny how your so easily tricked." Cia said as she gave a sinister smile to Pariah before it turned crazed.

Pariah lay on the ground, her head feeling as though it were on fire and the rest of her body gone numb from whatever that blow had done to her. She was beaten, that much was clear, now her life was in Cia's hands...metaphorically. "Quit your bragging and just do it", there was no begging, no insults, just bluntness as usual from the Warden.

Cia laughed as Pariah asked for Cia to end it. "As you wish!" She said and with a crazed laugh Cia started to attack Pariah over and over again with the frying pan bashing her brains and onto the walls. Cia certainly wasn't a stable person, as much as she claimed to be a pacifist it was an outright lie. After finishing Cia put her mask back down and turned to run after the others. A bit of blood on her face and some of it on the mask.

Unaware that Eva was following him, John made his way to the Garage with Seth in tow. Avoiding as many guards as possible while incapacitating the rest, John finally arrived to the garage. What he saw when the door opened left him in a bit of shock...Pariah's bloody body with a brutally beaten head...he never thought he'd ever see her die...then again, he had the perfect opportunity to do the same only minutes earlier. But she wasn't just killed, her skull was brutally smashed...whoever did this was powerful...and very possibly crazy. Suddenly the situation when Cia's demeanor suddenly changed back when Pariah first captured Jessica flashed through John's mind, but he denied it. No...no she wasn't that crazy when she smacked me...she could've killed me but she didn't... He thought, spotting the rest of his team across the garage and hurrying towards them.

There were several other bodies laying about the garage, but none as brutally killed as Pariah...and even though John could understand why, he still didn't think it was right. He just couldn't get the sight out of his head, he never thought she'd be one to die like that. He then looked behind him in the direction of her corpse, noticing that Eva was following behind him. "Oh...you were one of the prisoners...well if you're coming with us, then hurry up. We gotta go!" He said, motioning for the girl to come on as he turned to face the others. That's when he saw it...his heart began to race as he saw the bits of splattered blood on Cia's mask. It was all he needed to confirm his suspicions, whether it was truly Pariah's blood or not didn't matter. Jesus...Fucking...Christ! She could've done that to me!...Wait...she could still do that to me! John's mind raced as he tried to act calmly, pushing Seth into back of the armored DMA truck. "Let's get the fuck out of here..." He said, his voice quivering slightly.

Jack's Craft Shack, Outskirts of Manhattan
October 26, 2029
7:55pm

Cole sat by the upstairs window of Jack's place, his eyes watching the streets carefully for signs of DMA activity. Where he'd expect to see a squadron of DMA soldiers he only saw a group of thugs or a prostitute at the corner. He hated this place, the slums, it always felt as though you'd get stabbed or shot the minute you stepped outside. Most days Cole would stay inside and talked with the others to pass the time. But nowadays Cole stayed to himself, this place reminded him of home and it hurt to remember. The nights he'd spend sleeping on a couch he'd dream of Lauren or Haven and wake up in panic. Unsure of whether or not anyone was here Cole got a coat and headed outside, he needed to get some fresh air and get his mind off of the current situation.

It was easier said than done, as Cole walked the streets he could only think of the Blacksite attack and what would come after. The news had spoken about the blacksite being attacked and a group of metahuman terrorists freeing their fellow insurgents. In truth it was really just a group of people saving a friend. Of course the world didn't see it that way, they hated the metahumans and after it was revealed that a top DMA operative was killed during the attack the public was even more enraged. The news stations manipulated the story to make it seem as if it was a bombing of a humanitarian center or something. Now as a result the DMA has dispatched an entire battalion of Wardens to quell the insurgency in Manhattan. Eight-hundred highly trained gifted-hunters stalking a city under martial law. Reports began to pour in that the Wardens had eliminated 63% of the metahuman population in the city and once it was done there the movement would go on to other major cities.

Cole didn't regret attacking the blacksite, they saved Jessica and the gained another member to the group. What he did regret was letting Cia fight Pariah. If he knew she'd do what she did to the Warden he would have pulled her out. As much as he hated Wardens that kill was too messy, the public hated messy. If they knew she was killed they'd be angry but the way she was killed is what got them riled up. It was clear now that this group alone couldn't stand up to the DMA. They needed support, first they had to take back Manhattan, then they had to eliminate Mallory. Only then could they make an actual difference.