[img=http://i.imgur.com/DcHpEUj.png] [Hider=(1) Exodus]Her smile didn’t falter, but her eyes drifted to the side in thought before almost immediately snapping back to him. She aimed the mini-Uzis further, honing in at him as if to threaten or shoot, but her slasher smile soon softened into a remnant of what it once was. Her eyes looked through him, still considering his proposal before trailing back to his large handgun. She huffed indignantly before lowering her weapons, though the submachine gun in her right hand still kept him in its sights at her hip. “[b]Next time, huh?[/b]” She had a relaxed and unfocused posture; her weapon aiming more for a spray-and-pray type of covering fire instead of an accurate targeting, should the man do something aggressive.“[b]Alright then. You point me the way out, I won’t shoot you. You didn’t see me running in the alleys, and I didn’t shoot you when you popped outta nowhere.[/b]” Well at least he lives a little bit longer. Now to follow up on his end of the deal. Granted, she really should put her gun down too, but Yoshimistu didn't want to test his luck and tell her that. He simply kept his own gun on hand and made sure not to show his entire back towards the woman. [b]"Right then, just follow me."[/b] Yoshimitsu stayed close to the walls, ready to bounce off of it incase the girl decided that she had no more use for him. While there were a few cop cars zooming by, nothing about them told him they were looking for her or anyone in particular. It was strange how nonchalant they were today, making Yoshimistu highly suspicious of Lucilia. She's always up to something, and he had his own problems to deal with. Like this girl following him. Normally Yoshimistu would make some polite conversation, but aside from telling her were to go and things like that, he was rather quiet. Their business would come to an end when Yoshimistu took her to a fairly mundane looking coffee house called "Daily Grind", a low quality shop that sold your usual Starbucks stuff with the logos torn off. It also doubled as a tax-evasion shelter, with some paths that would allow escapees to run into the New Tokyo underground. It was a cramp and smelly place, but also one of his favorites. At least as his normal self; no one down there dons a disguise out of necessity, and it turns out there are a lot of freaks like him down there. He even found some of the other escaped numbers. [b]"Alright, here we are. Just go in and order a Cherry Cooler with Strawberry Cream and they'll show you a way out of the city. Or through it if you still have business here."[/b] This was a tense moment for him. This was the moment that decided if he lives another 24 or get's reduced to a stain on the sidewalk. "[b]I hate sweets, you know?[/b]" She flatly responded, staring up a the small cafe with a frown on her face. She wondered if he was seriously trying to smuggle her through the New Tokyo underground. It was true that she wanted to get out of the alleys and away from the searching officers but as he led her she noticed a lack of activity with the officers that did pass, a lack of tension that was present in pursuits. It got her thinking that she ran all this way for nothing and was being overly cautious, and that got her on edge. And now, this man was trying to put her in the darkest part of the city. She spit to the side as if to get a bad taste out of her mouth. "[b]What's your name?[/b]" [b]"Yoshimistu."[/b] "[b]Thanks for leading me out. I'll remember it.[/b]" As she stared at the quaint shop absently, her right arm immediately raised, the Uzi lined up with him, and she squeezed the trigger.[/hider] [hider=(2) Betrayal] [i]"Aw shit."[/i] The moment the gun was raised Yoshi wasn't about to let this song and dance happen again. Unlike back at the alley, Yoshimistu was ready for this and had much more space to move. He dashed right passed her, only getting a few holes in his coat. With a show of athleticism he jumped off one of the cafe's tables and onto their sign. He was certain that the staff would be able to take care of the crazy harlot now, so he decided to cut his loses and ditch his outfit. The mask popped off, and out of the full-body suit was the doppleganger's true form; an amorphous black blob. He used his illusion powers to cloak out of there, though what he really did was just sneak towards the back door in the event that the girl runs out there. He was going to get his revenge, one way or another. Meanwhile in the cafe, most of the staff ran for cover, save their one "enforcer" who was really a mutant human. Not much special about him aside from being pumped with so much drugs that he could tear off the hubcap of a semi, and being smart wasn't really something they put much points into. But he was big, fast, and strong, and the moment the girl started firing he ran strait towards her to tackle her to the ground. Yeah, not the smartest idea. Her Cheshire smile stretched across her face, reveling in the noises and sounds of action. The heavy thumping of the enforcer was quickly accompanied by the sound of her second automatic weapon unloading towards him, only half aiming so that she can continue listening. She quickly realized that his charge was not slowing in the metal hail. Clicking her tongue, yet still grinning wildly, she evaded with a quick somersault to the beast's side as it charged passed her. "[b]My name is Guanyin! Yoshimitsu~![/b]" She unloaded the rest of her left Uzi as well as the right into the hulking man as she ran backwards. When they both started clicking and her back hit a wall, she chuckled and temporarily set her left one aside. "[b]Hey, Yoshimitsu, let's play a game.[/b]" With the finesse of a trained professional, she quickly unbuckled a pouch on her thigh with her now free hand and pulled out a new magazine with a flourish. The beast was already hurdling towards her just as she finished reloading the second one. She was ready to evade once more for round two, her right foot pressing against the wall behind her to give her an extra boost.[/hider] [hider=(3) Juggernaut] Yoshimistu wisely chose to stay out of sight but continued to observe. The big hulk of a man was bleeding like crazy, blinded by his own blood, but it did nothing to slow him down. If anything, it made him more dangerous. Before he tried to play defensive, tried to take down this "Guanyin" quickly with as little damage to the store as he could. But now he was just chasing her down, and nothing was slowing him. The bullets hurt and would kill him, but who knows what would happen by the time it does. With Guanyin's back was towards the wall he had his arms out wide and tried to prevent her from dodging. She responded by kicking off the wall, than kneeing the giant in his already mutilated face, using it as a spring board to jump higher onto the wall and safely flip over the giant. He crashed through the wall losing no momentum, but it did leave him open to getting shot in the back. Guanyin fired one of her Uzi's into the giant's back, the other one waiting for him to turn around, which he did. After emptying that magazine she fired the other one into the giant's face. She holstered her empty Uzi and kept shooting until she ran out of bullets. When she did, she quickly picked up a broken metal chair leg on the ground. When the bullets stopped the monster of a man charged at her again, but this time Guanyin was going to really mess him up. When he came charging at her like he always did, she slipped right between his legs, stabbing the broken chair leg right into his kneecap. This caused him to roar in pain trying to pull it out, but he was interrupted when another chair leg was stabbed into his hand, and twisted. The beast flailed his arms in a vain attempt to hit Guanyin, but she was able to stay out of his reach as she loaded fresh bullets into her two Uzi's. The giant was now slowly bleeding out, his stamina reaching it's limit. He still tried to wave his arms around violently, but with a quick stomp to his head, the beast was still for a moment. An incomprehensible groan came from his utterly fucked up face, probably a taunt. Guanyin didn't really listen, she couldn't hear him over the sounds of her bullets shearing the flesh and bones off his neck. Yoshimistu watched the woman work, waiting for the right moment to try to catch her off guard. He hoped the giant would kill her, but now that wasn't going to happen Yoshimistu striked. He didn't have his weapons, but he didn't need them. He switched to his trusty sharpened claws and lunged at Guanyin as she was finishing off the giant. His talons sunk into her ribs, and he was about to pull them out for another go when she managed to free herself, firing the remaining ammo in her guns at him. A few bullets managed to get a solid hit on him, but he managed to dodge enough to survive. Still hurt though, so he quickly took cover behind the bar, cloaking so he could make another ambush. [b]"C'mon Yoshimistu, play with me! It's like hide and seek. Except I can tag you with bullets!"[/b] Guanyin loaded more bullets into her guns, looking for Yoshimistu. It was like she didn't even care about the six deep puncture wounds on her torso. Maybe she didn't. Yoshi on the other hand was trying to see if he could wait her out. He was certain that she must be dizzy and might bleed out. But after ten whole minutes, she just continued to keep around with no signs of fatigue. On the bright side, while she was looking for Yoshimistu, she didn't notice him eat the giant's corpse. That was a lot of mass he could use. He won't be able to take as many bullets as the giant did, but he could now take much more than he did before. With the giant's mass added to him, Yoshimistu decided it was time to end this. The final confrontation was to take place on the second floor. The entire building was cleared out by now, so Yoshimistu wasn't entirely worried about bystandards. What he was worried was when Guanyin started shooting bullets everywhere. At first he thought he was found, but than her erratic patterns made him think she was just hoping for a lucky hit. Or maybe she was going crazy. Or already was and now letting lose. Semantics aside, Yoshimistu had enough of these games. Time to go for the kill. Right when Guanyin was reloading a new magazine Yoshimistu struck from above. He was just going to try to stab her in the eye and hope that by puncturing her brain she'd be dead for the count. But of course it was never that easy. [/hider] [hider=(4) Dirge]Guanyin showed a surprising amount of strength when she tore Yoshimistu off her face and into a wall. He got to his metaphorical feet and was ready to start slashing when she threw her Uzi at him. He reacted by grabbing it and shooting, only to get a click when he notice there wasn't any bullets in it. Infact there was no magazine. [i]"Oh yeah, I attacked her w-"[/i] he didn't get to finish that thought when Guanyin picked him up again and tried to throw him into another wall. But hand-to-hand was more his forte than weapons. When she grabbed onto him again he had spikes of bones stab her hands, but also had his own set of hands clapsed over her own to make sure she didn't slip away. Than he created a few more blades of bones out of ribs, and used them to stab Guanyin. But the crazy woman didn't even make a noise. She just smiled. Smiled and ran towards the other wall, smashing Yoshimistu into it. He got dizzy for a moment and had a hard time keeping himself together, which gave her the ample time to tear out one of his own blades from his body. That didn't hurt, but now she was armed. Yoshimistu was slashed across the face (Or, well, his body) and he reacted by slamming a bulk of his mass into Guanyin, sending her sprawling towards the otherwise. He slumped down onto the ground and brought out more blades to fight with while Guanyin just picked up the one she took from him. The girl was drenched in her own blood, he swore he could see her organs begin slipping out, but she just kept smiling. Her breath wasn't even ragged. The two faced off towards the each, neither one making a move. [b]"What the hell are you?!"[/b] "[b]I told you,[/b]" she paused to swallow the flood of blood within her mouth, "[b]I'm Guanyin. More importantly, what the hell are [i]you[/i]?[/b]" Yoshimistu didn't really want to try to hold a conversation with this girl. But what could she do now? She didn't have her Uzi's and she was going to bleed out anyways. If nothing else, he could get some decent Intel on who she is or what she works for. [b]"A science fair project, what do I look like? I'm just some blob creature... But that's not what I want to know. Guanyin, that name was mentioned this morning during the broadcast hijacking... I know you're not Guanyin. Guanyin isn't a person, it's an organization. [i]Who are the Guanyin[/i]?"[/b] "[b]An organization?[/b]" She half laughed, half choked on blood. "[b]Is your arm a part of the organization of your body? Is your brain just the leader of a group? No, you are you, just as we are Guanyin. I, I am Guanyin. He, Kostrat... He is Guanyin. He isn't "a part of" Guanyin. We [i]are[/i] Guanyin.[/b]" [b]"Quit screwing around with me! You know what I mean... Don't think that this won't get any worse. You may be all smiles, but what you're feeling right now is just a touch of the pain that's going to happen. You may be a insane nutcase, but I've dealt with stronger people than you. So let me make myself clear, and I want a real answer this time. What do the Guanyin want from this city? From... From this Omega?"[/b] Thinking about it, Yoshimistu almost fogot about that name. His name was washed under all the stuff that happened. And frankly Yoshimistu wasn't given enough brainpower to be a good interrogator, but he could still bluff. She stared at him, her signature smile still stretched widely across her cheeks. Her free hand moved slowly, but steadily as it unbuckled one pouch after the other. When she finished, she answered him, "[b]I've killed... too many that are stronger than me. I've eaten those stronger than me. I may not be normal like the people that work here, but the only time I truly feel... anything...[/b]" She closed her eyes momentarily as if savoring the thought, "[b]...Is when I am Guanyin. Omega. Omega tried stepping on my name. And I want him hurt so bad because of that. That's all there is to it~[/b]" She ended in a sing-songy tone, despite choking once more on her blood immediately after. Yoshimistu could hardly keep his own emotions in check now. This woman was more insane that he had thought; she wasn't even human! Or maybe... She was just a human who's been pushed too far. But no time for pity. Yoshimistu still needed to know more. He drew his blades out and approached her, too focused on getting her to make sense to take notice of her movements. [b]"Quit playing games with me Guanyin! You kidnapped the mayor of New Tokyo, hijacked the news station, and had one of your own strapped with bombs! And all this for some sort of slight against Omega? What exactly did he do to make you all do this!?"[/b] "[b]Ahh~! You called me by my name! You get it. I [i]am[/i] Guanyin.[/b]" She licked her lips as her fingers slid into a pouch on her waist. "[b]Yoshimitsu.[/b]" She gave a coy, gentle smile. "[b]Please survive.[/b]" She lurched forward, fingers digging into one of her pouches and quickly bringing up an object towards her face as she charged straight at him. [b]"I won't let you!"[/b] Yoshimitsu quickly intercepted her and thrust his large bone talons through her arm and into her chest, pinning her hand in place and lifting her off the ground. But he was seconds to late, and her hand was close enough. She quickly bit onto the metallic ring and pulled. Even with the nerves and muscles in her arm cleaved apart by his claws, how? How could she maintain her grip on- Yoshimitsu froze momentarily when he realized what it was in her hand. The strange grenade was missing it's pin, fully active and cooking in her iron grip. He quickly tried pulling his arm back, but the woman's final act of defiance was her swinging her free arm in a wide arc and digging the stolen bone deep into his body and pulling him in, forcing him closer to her cruel smile with what was not the strength of a woman with a foot already in the grave. "[b]Yoshimitsu, I'll r-remember you, alright?! I'll definitely come back, ah...![/b]" [b]"You crazy bitch!"[/b] "[b]You'd better b... be here, Yoshimitsu! Y-you'd better be h-[/b]" The flash of harsh light that enveloped their entangled bodies smoldered into a devastating fireball, erupting from the top of the cafe and flying into the sky, spewing forth what little remains of the roof existed and shattering the glass of all surrounding buildings.[/hider]