[hr][h1][i][color=Lawngreen]Sonya Mayfield[/color], [b]Henry Olin[/b], [color=Gray]Quentin Taylor[/color], [color=MediumAquamarine]Jan Sawyer[/color], & Task Force RAVEN, vs. The Changeling Unit, & the Hands of Science.[/i][/h1][sub][i]Written in collaboration with [b][@tsukune][/b], [b][@Zombiedude101][/b], [b][@Mr Allen J][/b], & [b][@BantlingBee][/b][/i][/sub][hr]


It wasn't long before reinforcements came into the scene, NEST APCs rolled in and dropped off squads of heavily armed agents. "Go, go, go!" They shouted as they charged in, guns blazing. Helicopters, and other snipers were taking position. They managed to cut a clear path through the REAPERS, and give the RAVENS a clear exit.

However, Max had no intention of making them retreat.

However, the same could be said about their opponents. REAPERS were being teleported in by the handful. A line of REAPERS were teleported in, and they set their sights on a NEST helicopter. They pulled out their RPGs, and started barraging it. The copper immediately began evasive maneuvers, moving left and right out of the way - but, a rocket hit it's mark right on the side of the helicopter, and the helicopter burst into flames.

"We're going down!" The pilot shouted.


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"Shit!" Maximilian said as he looked up at the fallen helicopter. He had no choice, Echo dropped the butcher's knife and quickly flew under the helicopter and grabbed it. He was trying to get it under control. Echo struggled a bit with holding the helicopter up, but Adam stopped to send his own Echo to help stabilize the craft. They managed to gently put the Helicopter on the ground - Adam's Echo faded away - and Max's Echo punched the door open, and pulled the pilots out of the craft.

"Thank you." The man said, armed with a small pistol.

"Get to safety." Maximilian said over the comms. He quickly slammed his back against a NEST truck. He caught sight of the REAPERS on the roof with RPGs, and immediately ordered Sonya, "Merryday! Take out those rocket launchers!"

"On it!" It was hard as hell to get a shot in all this rain, but Sonya will do her best.

"Hey, Max," Leon nonchalantly said over the comms. He had something to tell. "I see the REAPER and Changeling bigwigs on a roof not too far from here."

Hm. Looks like all of them are here. This was their all out plan, and they're making sure that they do some heavy hits against NEST. However, Maximilian had a plan of his own. He spoke over the comms, "RAVENs, focus on the REAPER rank-and-file." If they whittle them down, then this will be a long-term victory. The less armies they have, the less damage they can do.

One of the RPG wielding REAPERS got shot in the chest by Sonya. They quickly scrambled before another took a shot.

Another slug smashed through the of a serum-dosed REAPER's crystalline armor's defense, sending them crumpling against a nearby dumpster. Noticing he was down to just one left, Quentin started loading more slugs into his 870.

That just left the Butcher. The metal man lifted a sword up into the air, and sliced the car Henry threw at it in half. It began lumbering over towards its other sword. The steam that surrounded it nearly reached obscuring levels. It shot fire at lines of NEST Agents as it moved in towards the RAVENs.

"We might want to take out the Full-Metal asshole right there." Leon said, his back up against cover. "I'd say we'd foam him, but I'm allergic to fire."

"You're right." Maximilian said. "Agents, pull out your containment foam, form two groups, and circle around him. We'll foam him from all sides using a solid pincer movement."

"Got it." Helena said, as many of the RAVENS pulled out their containment foam.

Now, that meant that Maximilian had to be the bait. He stood in the center of the street, and floated upwards, presenting himself to the metal man. He deployed Echo as a shield when the Butcher fired a jetstream of fire at him. Maximilian could just feel the searing heat - even using Echo as a shield. Though, the plan was working amazingly. The Butcher was getting closer.

"Now!" Maximilian shouted, pulling out his own foamer. Firing a stream of his special white love foam at the Butcher.

The rest of the Agents followed, and the Butcher was instantly coated in foam. Even though it was giving off incredible heat, it wouldn't do much against the foam.

The battle against REAPER continued.


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Luis grunted, as he flicked wet hair out of his face. They took out the Butcher. No good. "Looks like we're going have to stop watching, and start fighting, yes?" Luis asked, putting his hands on his hips.

Ignatius created a red orb around the group, and a portal underneath Luis opened and he fell right into it. Ignatius jumped high up into the air, a red aura surrounding him, and landed right in the middle of the street with the RAVENS. That orb shielded him from the storm of bullets. Every shot that hit the shield nearly ricochet right off of it.

"... Ignatius." Maximilian said to himself - invisible under all the shooting and violence.

They walked towards each other, dramatically. Maximilian calling out Echo, and Ignatius creating gigantic blades.


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On the other hand, Luis was teleported into an alleyway right outside the action. While he could heal from bullets quickly, a entire storm would shred him to bits before he even gets a chance to heal. Luis quickly poked his head from out of the corner, and looked. He saw a few dead REAPERS and NEST Agents.

"... Don't mind if I do." Luis looked down as he jammed his fingers into the dead REAPER - who died from a bullet to the heart. He drained the corpse of what precious blood he had, and a pleased grin formed on Luis' face. He felt powerful - but he needs more. The corpse was now grey and withered. Useless. He took a step to absorb [i]more[/i] blood. If he's going to take on RAVEN, he'll need as much blood as possible.

Henry, who was behind a car with his back turned to the alleyway, turned as he heard Luis get teleported in and speak. Only to see... that one fuck who attacked that sexy beast Trevor. Henry cracked his neck turned to face the new adversary.

"Hey, fucker. We have some unfinished business!"

Oh yes... It's the Lizardman. Luis brushed hair out of the way, showing Henry his grin. "No, no... Only unfinished business I have is [i]finishing[/i] off that kid." He pulled out one of his knives, and pointed it at Henry, turning his body sideways. "This right here? It's just business." He taunted.

Henry gave him a shit eating grin, and then aimed his grenade launcher into the alleyway.

"You might get the pussy, but you ain't got the skill!" Henry pretty much shouted, and then shot off three shells down the alleyway Luis was located in.

"... What-" Luis said, raising an eyebrow at the non-sequitur taunt. However, Henry didn't even give him a second before shooting some grenades his way. Hm. A good way to show Henry his enhanced abilities after drinking blood. He jumped up into the air - and despite his best attempts to dodge, he was still hit with the impact of the explosion. His ass was set ablaze. The supports on the building to his left and right were also heavily damaged and as a result, came down upon him as well. To add insult to injury, one of them was a sex shop.

Dust filled the alleyway - which gave Luis ample cover. Henry might have been able to see this coming - but moments later, Luis came leaping out of the dust holding a AC unit over his head with the intention of hitting Henry over the head with it.

"Houdini biiiiiitch!" Henry shouted from somewhere in the fog, in a totally different position than before but also completely and totally lost within the dust himself. Normally he'd use thermal vision, but the dust was clotting his the heat sensing pits under his eyes. In a situation like this he'd use his exo-suit's abilities to get some form of vision buuuuut he had a big ass knife lodged into his wrist mounted touchpad. That would be a [i]bitch[/i] to repair.

He never saw Luis coming. The man sailed at him through the air from behind him, and would've landed a [i]critical hit[/i] if Henry didn't trip on a piece of rubble and fall on his face. Luis sailed over him harmlessly, but the ground wasn't so kind. He would definitely have a bruise from that one in the morning.

Luis furrowed his eyebrows out of sheer irritation. He dropped the air conditioner in mid-air, and came to a skidding stop on the ground. He stood straight up, and looked up at Henry. He pulled some knives from behind his back slowly. "You know, Lizardman..." He laughed. "You would make an excellent Changeling." Using his superb speed, he tossed a knife at Henry's face. "... If only you saw the light."

"Dude I cant see shit!" Henry said, wobbling forward. The knife flew behind his head and clipped a few of the feathers on his neck. His hand flew up to feel the damage.

"You bitch! I just got those cut just the way I wanted!" Henry shouted, turning in the general direction of where the knife came. He fired off a single shot in Luis' general direction, fully aware that he would almost definitely miss.

... The grenade completely missed Luis. Landing twenty feet behind him and blowing up some car. Luis just nonchalantly looked over his shoulder, and shrugged. "Okay." He said. "I think I'm going to just kill you, okay?" He began an all-out charge towards Henry, unsheathing his claws to suck Henry's blood.

However, before the epic battle could continue, an uncontrollable shaking filled the area. Throwing everyone who wasn't braced to the ground. 

"What the hell?!" Helena said, grabbing onto a pole to brace herself whilst Quentin was thrown off his feet.

Right in the middle of the battlefield, several massive cracks formed in the ground, and asphalt and concrete shot upwards, before it fell downwards. Forming a dark hole in the ground that quickly expanded.

Jan sprinted away from the buckling earth. She was lucky enough to be farther away from the center of impact, but still had to make a mad dash to avoid falling to an unknown, but certainly lethal, fate. 

"Oh fuck, oh fuck-" Quentin frantically scrabbled to his feet as a NEST cruiser sank into the abyss. By the skin of his teeth, he leaped over the hood of another car and just as the ground began to give away beneath his feet he was able to pull himself up once more.

NEST and REAPER Agents alike quickly scrambled to run away - but those that weren't quick enough fell into the hole. Buildings, cars, and whatever the hell else, fell into the dark hole to what had to be the sewers. By the time it stopped, the battle stopped as everyone looked on at the hole.

A large claw formed at the edge of the depression, and pulled a beast upwards. A humanoid creature that just looked [i]wrong[/i]. It was twelve feet tall, and had a massive arm that was twice the size of it's body, with bone-like claws... and a purple eye. Like the other strange beasts, it had grey skin, and a layer of slime around it's body. It's eye scanned the area for a moment. Before more like it came out of the hole. They were humanoid, and had grey skin and purple eyes just like the other beasts. They all formed at the hole.

NEST Agents and REAPERS pointed their weapons at them, taking steps back.

"... Look at all of you." A voice came from the empty abyss. Quickly rising up into the air from behind the beasts. It was hard to describe the humanoid abomination that floated out. It had the upper body of a human being - a thin woman. Barely human at that. It had the grey skin like the other beasts, and both hands ended with claws. Her lower body was enormous compared to the rest. It's lower body was a mess of massive tentacles. Tentacles came out of her back too. 

Immediately, everyone's eyes were set on this new comer.

"Look at everything you done here, the destruction..." She said as she surveyed the area. A tentacle reached down and scooped up some dust. "While all of you were waging your petty wars against each other, I was in the shadows... waiting." She said. "Waiting for the moment I'll be strong enough to get sweet, sweet, revenge against this city, and all the people who ruined everything. Killed the man I loved..." She spoke, somberly.

Maximilian halted his fight, just to view the newcomer. His fingers immediately went to his comm piece. "Leon...  I need you to look into her head. [i]Now.[/i]"

"Oh boy..." Leon said, he quickly looked into her head - but he couldn't get anything out. Wait... it felt like he was being sent somewhere [i]else[/i], instead of peering into her brain. "I can't get a read on her."

"Fuck that." Helena said, aiming her ACR at the beast. "We should open fire and kill the bitch before she tries anything." Her hands were shaking. It was PR-1 all over again.... 

"I say we nuke the city." Henry deadpanned, looking at the monster before him. He'd hunted some hentai horrors in his time but... this thing... this thing took the cake.

Quentin had no words for what he saw; he'd seen some nasty shit in his years but [i]nothing[/i] like this.

"But, today... today is the day [i]I[/i] put end an end to it all." The beast raised her hand up into the air - and all over the city, holes in the ground formed. Her army that was waiting underneath the city immediately launched their all-out assault. Purple-eyed beasts of all shapes and sizes began their rampage. Killing everyone in sight. "Because of the Hands of Science and NEST... I am a monster - No, a [i]Devil[/i]. A Devil meant to torture this city... [i]The Devil of Verthaven.[/i] 

"Maximilian!" Dana shouted over the comms. "It's anarchy! We're getting reports of monsters attacking the city! They're.. they're everywhere!" She said, loudly panting.

Meanwhile, Daphne was stunned in her seat back at the Control Center of NEST Headquarters. When she gathered intel on Cindy and Shizuka's fight against the monster with her power she was already aware that something like this could happen...but this was beyond her wildest imagination.

She wrenched off her headphone and clutched her head, her mouth hanging open in a silent scream before she fell out of the chair. Even after a forceful sever of the chloropathic link, the chaotic cries of the plants across Verthaven were still ringing in her mind. [i]Platina[/i], she thought of the twin boy she met at the bar earlier in the day. [i]Need to get to Shizuka...[/i]

Oh no. This is [i]not[/i] good. Maximilian immediately deployed his Echo. He had one shot, and one shot only. This woman was the source of the problems, and she needed to go. Now. Echo immediately flew towards the Devil at lightning fast speeds, cocking it's fist back to punch her square in the skull. However, she reacted quickly, and caught Echo in a web of tentacles. Trapping him.

"What the hell?!" Maximilian shouted, confused she was capable of reacting and trapping Echo so easily.

"Look at this..." The Devil said. "You didn't even let me finish before you try to kill me. Despicable." Before she could crush Echo with her strength, Echo faded away.

She tilted her head. "I come bearing a grave warning for the world... If anyone leaves Verthaven, then I'll tell you that what is going on here..." She paused for a moment so people could hear the distant screams. "... I'll spread it to the [i]whole world![/i] No one will be safe! And that is a promise."

"... What's this lunatic going on about?" Helena asked, her ACR was fixed on the Devil 

"I don't know, but we gonna need a plan..." Leon said. 

"I suggest a full retreat!" Henry just about shouted over the comms. They had been caught with their pants between their legs and shit in their underwear, both figuratively and literally. 

"... There's no where for you to run." The Devil said, as she closed her fist, and the beasts that were waiting at the edges of the depression quickly rushed forward. Slaughtering everything in their path. All while more beasts began pouring out of the holes in the ground. Like a never ending fountain. "I will get my revenge on NEST, the Hands of Science... everyone. Because you're [i]all[/i] guilty."

It wasn't long before the sounds of gunshots, screaming, and other sounds, filled the area as REAPERS and NEST agents were attacked indiscriminately.

Helena changed her focus to aiming at the groups of the Purple-Eyed beasts. Unloading clip after clip into them. She flashstepped backwards, before shooting at them again.

Savannah created blades of ice and shot them at the beasts. Nikki was using her insects to wear down on he beasts that were closest to her, and quickly killed them with overwhelming force. Leon and Maria were shooting at the beasts as they took steps back, killing them. No matter how many they killed, more took their place.

 Jan had rejoined them, waiting anxiously for the best opportunity to let out an ear-piercing scream. The rest of her powers were useless in this context, but maybe, just maybe, she could prove useful after all. The monsters seemed endless, and she was worried that fatigue was going to make her slip up. 
 
 Quentin saw one of the bastards closing in and  instinctively reached for his 870 before remembering he'd lost it when the tremors knocked him off his feet. Instead, he reverted to his glock and made a beeline for a nearby cruiser, ducking inside moments before the creature hit it and started clawing for a way in.
 
 Opening fire, nothing seemed to phase it until Maximilian quickly summoned his Echo, and started a barrage of fists that killed most of the beasts in a few hits, including the one attacking Quentin. "RAVENS, full retreat!" He started backpedalling as Echo provided cover. He turned his head to the side, and he saw that Ignatius was teleported out of there in a flash of red light. Luis and the other Changelings also disappeared into a portal. Leaving behind a giant group of REAPERS that had no choice but to run on foot.

At this point, [i]both[/i] sides forgot about the fight with each other as they were being killed left and right.

"I said it first!" Henry shouted back, trying his best to stay positive as he wrestled his way away from the beasts that had chosen him as their target. He skidded over to Maximilian to provide more cover to the man, so he could use his ability more effectively.

"Thanks Dragonfly." Maximilian said as Echo punched the beasts at light speed.

"I got a clean shot on her." Sonya said, from a rooftop not too far away. It's fucking chaos down here - but she can end this in a second. So much carnage... and for what? She lined up the shot with the Devil's head, and held her breath as she focused to the best of her ability.

"Wait, something ain't right here." Leon said. In between shooting the beasts that were just about damn near on top of them. "I get the feeling that she's not actually here." He suggested. "All-Father, read her mind for me?"

Adam was using his wind powers to cut through groups of the beasts, to provide cover for NEST agents. He focused on the Devil, and tried to pierce her mind - to no real effect. The same thing that happened to Leon, happened to him. It was like he was being sent somewhere else. "I can't get a read on her either."

Sonya didn't listen. All that was on her mind was ending this battle. Sonya took the shot, and through all the rain and chaos, the bullet hit the Devil clean in the face. Blowing her head clean  off. Sonya took in a sigh of relief as the floating abomination dissolved into a grey sludge as she hit the ground.

A group of her Purple-Eyed beasts began uncontrollably shaking, and then they dissolved into the sludge they were created from. A pool. However, they quickly pulled themselves together and formed... A brand new body for the Devil of Verthaven. Good as new. She ascended into the air, and looked at NEST.

"... Oh." Sonya said, her eyes went wide. "... That's no good."

"Oh? You thought that I'd leave myself open like this?" The Devil asked. "This is just a puppet I can control. Completely expendable, and [i]replaceable[/i] at the drop of a hat...." She explained to them. She raised her hand up into the air, and electricity surrounded it. She shot electricity into the crowds of NEST Agents and REAPERS. Frying whoever was unfortunate enough to be hit. All the water made the electricity extra conductive - however, NEST standard armor was nonconductive.

"... Now [i]die.[/i]"