[@WeepingLiberty][@Master Crim]

[color=fff79a][b]"True."[/b][/color]  Alexis inclined her head in agreement as she thought.  [color=fff79a][b]"I still find it odd that we haven't had much intel on this substance at all though.  Even if it was just rumoured it'd be the kind of thing they'd warn us to report if we got even a whiff of its involvement."[/b][/color]  Slowly it began to dawn on her and she rubbed her eyes with her right index finger and thumb, one of her tells showing that she was either stressed or berating herself for not realising something earlier.  [color=fff79a][b]"Or... it could be that NAIL knows about this substance and were running tests on it all along.  They didn't want their agents to know in case it got out that we were holding such a dangerous drug.  Classic cover-up."[/b][/color]

She agreed with Nova that perhaps they were over-thinking it; two occurrences in one day didn't make an issue rife and now they were just trying to look for connections because of what may merely be a coincidence. [color=fff79a][b]"I didn't expect you to come out with something like that.  You clearly paid more attention in psychology than I did."[/b][/color]  She said with a wink before considering it properly.  [color=fff79a][b]"You could be right.  Still, it's hard not to look for connections in this kind of job.  I find coincidences are pretty rare although there doesn't seem to be any link between an outraged, lone villain getting revenge on the employer who fired him and a group of thugs possibly trafficking the substance, I admit."[/b]
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Alexis stood up and crossed to a cupboard set into the wall to the right of the TV and reached for a key in her pocket.  The cupboard had three locks on it, although they were all fairly inconspicuously set into its woodwork.  Once the locks were all open she pulled both doors open to reveal dozens of firearms carefully set out inside the cupboard on hooks with enough ammunition to keep a small army going in boxes at the base.  [color=fff79a][b]"As part of my signing on package NAIL gave me a fair bit of cash, as you can see, and also my choice of any weaponry I wanted.  They wanted to... how did they put it again?  Oh, 'encourage my versatility.'"[/b][/color]  She grinned, selecting an assault rifle, scoped of course, as well as two of her SIG-Sauer handguns as well as some spare ammo for her rifle still in the boot of the BMW.

She headed for the door, the weapons now snugly concealed either under her coat, in the case of the Sig-Sauers, and the assault rifle and ammo in another, rather chunky, briefcase.  [color=fff79a][b]"Fair enough.  Keep me up to date about the thugs, I have this feeling they're not just your average gang which means it'd be dangerous to go in without backup.  You're welcome.  Let yourself out when you're ready, the door will lock by itself.  Oh, I got your bike brought here seeing as we left it at the bar, save you some time."[/b][/color]  With a casual mock-salute she slipped out the door.  [color=fff79a][b]"Catch you later, Nova."[/b][/color]

The BMW was ready and waiting for her in front of the apartment block, the on road parking quite a blessing for someone in her line of work.  She put the briefcase in the footwell of the passenger side before pulling out into the traffic and speeding down the quiet roads with practiced ease.  After getting a more precise location from HQ, she headed straight for the battle site but stopped a few blocks away so that she could prepare.  With a brief moment of consideration she took the assault rifle from its case, leaving her favoured weapon in the boot; she doubted it would be as much help here against this monster.

Everyone had left the area, sensibly, which made the jog to the battle site proper easier.  A team were already fighting the monster but it seemed like damage control rather than elimination at the moment, the monster still advancing slowly towards the rest of the city.  She took up a position a little behind what was obviously a special ops team and opened fire in short bursts at the monster.  She aimed at different parts of its body to see what the effects were before focusing on its left leg.

[color=fff79a][b]"Do you guys have a plan yet?"[/b][/color]  She yelled over the sound of the gunfire to the nearest team member, eyeing the monster's two arms warily.  She disliked fighting non-humans or villains; they were always so unpredictable.