[IC] Animal Army

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

Isa grunted, as Roxy's foot connected with his shin, that was unpleasant. Still, he could tolerate the nuisance relatively easily. Maintaing his grip, he takes a few deep breaths and shoves the pain to the back of his mind. Smiling bitterly at Roxy he offer's a stinging retort, at least it was meant to sting. Meanwhile, Luci and his actions completely failed to register for Isa, who was a tad bit preoccupied.

"I got news for you girly, Life isn't fair. Not my fault Vlad decided to make you the whipping girl, that said, it's not my problem. You've survived this long, you'll survive this too. Get this through your head now: I hate Vlad. I'm not letting anyone here, not even you, whipping girl, to get in my way. If that pussy decides you're the only cat worth skinning, I won't miss the beatings, and I'll be happy to use my own hale form to maul him repeatedly. If that gets you killed, well that's just too bad, but I'll live with it."

I carefully shift my feet, so that I'm standing on Roxy's toes, preventing a second kick. In doing so I notice an odd sensation... and finally realize that I'm still unclothed. Muttering a string of curses in my native tongue, I can't help but notice other things... Like how good it feels to be pressed up against you, and for a moment, I almost slip up and lose my focus. But then just as suddenly a door or gate slams shut, and the feelings are left outside in the cold, while I am left alone with only a bitter and calculating soul to guide me. I look Roxy right in the eyes, showing just how deep my resolve went, It was one of the few things I still had intact. It goes, or rather is, much of my current mental core. If it is broken, then so am I, and I'm not some damned sheep just waiting patiently to be slaughtered. Not by her, not by Vlad, nor by Sean or any of the others, and lastly, not even by myself.

@KatherinWinter

[KatherinWinter]

@Tracyarmav

"Your lack of concern for anyone beside yourself is touching. I guess i should be surprised that your justlike every other asshole I've. Why i thought you woukd be differentbis beyond me."e Roxy snapped.

Sean signaled the guards. "Take him out of him here. Since they don't care what happens to each other then I guess we are done with trying to work as a group. I'll take the panther back to Vlad. Tomorrow we will try solo missions. If they cant work together maybe one or more of them can prove themselves as individuals. I don't have Vlad's vision. Group mission might be impossible with a bunch of criminals. We will start with individuals."

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

Isa jumped back lightly, and turned on his heel, striding out of the room, roughly brushing shoulders with Sean. He moved to his quarters where he dressed again in the joyously colorful attire made available to them. Then he went to see Vlad again. Plopping down in a chair in the corner of the room, he spoke out of simple curiosity, though why it struck him now was anyone's guess.

"Why did you choose a whipping girl? The principal itself is rather antique, and it is an interesting choice or this project. But perhaps it would have better if you hadn't been recruiting from criminals, who already justify the pain they cause others as necessary or have done away with compassion completely."

@KatherinWinter

[KatherinWinter]

@BlackPanther@Alina13@Tracyarmav
"No other reason that she has been here the longest. And to see if any of you were capable of caring for anyone other then yourselves. Roxy is your best chance at success. Whether that success is escaping or going on missions. But you all dismiss and ignore her. Since you cant work together we will see what you can do as individuals. Vlad answered.
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The next morning the teens were lead to the dinning room for breakfast once again.

[Alina13]

@KatherinWinter@Tracyarmav
In the breakfast room, Savannah didn't eat, as usual. She was still kind of upset about what had happened yesterday. Maybe Roxy was right but maybe she wasn't. She had always thought that she worked well with people when it was needed, but apparently Roxy didn't think so. The way she had criticized them yesterday was a little too harsh for her taste and she hadn't felt it was needed at all.
She hoped there were more missions involved soon but that they were individual or that they got to pick the people they worked with; but she doubted Vlad and Sean would be that nice. . .

[BlackPanther]

Lucifer walks into the room. His shirt is now a plain grey one, his jeans and shoes the same. Silently he heads over to a seat and sits down grabbing some milk and drinking just that. He doesn't know what to think...he'd have to try to work with this group, but they seem determined to try to either start a revoult or kill Vlad....or both. He wouldn't mind escaping, but he wants to learn more about his new form before leaving.

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

Isa helped himself to a hearty breakfast as usual, glancing around to see who was still here. Blue and Roxy were still absent, he noted as he took a seat next to Savannah. He dug in while seeing that she wasn't eating anything, he raised an eye brow in question, but didn't take time to vocalize it. He wondered she wasn't eating, and thought that it was either the trouble of yesterday getting to her, or she was just anorexic. Isa shrugged a shoulder, it wasn't really any of his business anyway.

He mulled over Vlad's words as he ate, he'd been thinking on them throughout the night. True, he had little compassion to spare for anyone here, but maybe that was a fault that needed to be fixed. It didn't seem to be helping him any, that was for sure. But wouldn't these people all just abandon him once they were done here, leaving him to search alone? Everyone else always had, why should these be any different? Well, for one their DNA was different now, but would that really affect their sympathies? Not now they wouldn't, you'd made it all pretty painfully clear yesterday that you didn't care about anyone but yourself, so no one is going to cut you any slack. Isa looked down with some surprise at his empty plate, and rose to put the tray and dirty dishes away, before returning to his seat and awaiting further instructions.

@KatherinWinter@Alina13

[Alina13]

@Tracyarmav@KatherinWinter
Savannah was getting rather bored sitting in the cafeteria awaiting instructions. She wanted to talk to Isa but she was still incredibly embarrassed about her unfortunate clothing incident of yesterday. . . She wondered if he would ever be able to un-see that and if he would ever look at her the same way again. She wondered what their next mission would be and her anxiety kicked in. She decided she needed to pet something so she morphed only her tail into tiger form and stroked it as she looked around her an observed the other's actions.

[KatherinWinter]

@Alina13@Tracyarmav@Alina13
"You all failed yesterday. You didn't follow the directions I ave you. Tat will ake things from now on." Sean told them. "Vlad has decided that since you cant work as a group we will see what you can do as individuals. Today we will challenge your problem solving skills. If you succeed you will be rewarded. If you fail you will be punished. Today's test will challenge your skills. We want to see what you can do on your own."

[Alina13]

@KatherinWinter@Tracyarmav@BlackPanther
Savannah wondered what the whole "punished or rewarded" concept would be. It kind of made her scared but also made her excited. She would do much better on her own, surely. She was able to work well with others when required, but she worked way better by herself. She was semi-advanced in her morphing abilities and fairly confident so she didn't see what could go wrong. All she had to do was try her best and give it 110%. But to some people, that wasn't enough. She rolled her eyes thinking of Roxy with her rather harsh criticism and overly complicated expectations. Maybe they would be able to redeem themselves through the individual missions. Were alliances allowed? She decided to ask.
"I understand that these are individual missions but are alliances allowed if we want to?" She asked curiously.

[KatherinWinter]

@Alina13
"No you are no longer allowed to work together. You have proven incapable of doing so. You only get one chance around here. There are plenty of others willing to that your place." Sean answered. "You will only see each other at meals. If you can't survive on your own you will be sent back to the labs." He thought they were all selfish. None of them were concerned about the missing girls. They only cared about themselves. Which he had accepted.

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

Isa waited for Sean to announce today's challenges for each of them, wondering what it was Vlad hadn't learned about them already. Sure the team hadn't been obedient, but we had worked together quite well in our mayhem. The guards were still nervous around Isa and Luci in particular. Isa wasn't sure where Blue had gone... And he wondered why she had vanished but the last few times he'd tried to find out his questions had all been ignored, so that was likely to be a new challenge at some point. Vlad and Sean seemed unreasonably obsessed with torturing Roxy, which made Isa glad, for the first time, that his sisters weren't with him. He glanced at Savannah wondering how long she would last before she too vanished.

What was left of his conscience nagged at him, telling him he should care, these girls were someone else's sisters and daughters, they should be cared for too. But they hadn't been through what he and his sisters had, they weren't his family, let their own families care for them, his twisted reason argued back. His internal conflict was interrupted by Savannah's question, and the answer made the whole argument mute, at least for the time being, and so he put it aside, and focused again on what was being expected of him.

@KatherinWinter

[Alina13]

@Tracyarmav
Well then. . . This was more extreme than Savannah thought it would be. It seemed that every authority figure in this facility was extremely upset with all of them. They really hadn't done that bad and the fact that everyone was making this so much worse than it had to be was VERY annoying to her. But if they wanted individuals, they would get individuals. She wondered where that girl named Blue had gone and if she would ever come back. Those words were ever too familiar with Savannah.
Her mother had never given a shit about her and had dropped her off with some random family she thought she could trust and needless to say, that did not result In good things for Savannah. From then on, she had never seen her mother again and had lived with her Grandparents her entire life until she was brought here. She had always wondered why she had been blessed with a cat gene but she was not going to question it. She had always loved her cat self. it was very comforting to know that she could morph whenever she wanted to and not be a human for a while.
Just give us our missions already and stop telling us how much we suck!"

[BlackPanther]

A look crosses through Lucifer's eyes at the mention of labs, causing him to ball his fists again before looking down. He felt bad, Roxy getting punished for their mistake was unfair. However, there is most likely nothing he can do about it...he is used to that. He hoped their punishments were nothing like the other scientist's...then again he wasn't planning on failing. Maybe if he does well enough and gains their trust he can move along further. Usually trust gains perks...and perks would be nice. Then again....that might prove difficult considering his personality.
He gives simply a nod to sean acknowledging that he had spoken. Then he decides to ask...because why not. "Where is Roxy?" he probably won't get an answer but asking a question does no harm. right?

@KatherinWinter

[KatherinWinter]

@BlackPanther@Tracyarmav@Alina13
"She has been taking back to the labs. She isn't likely to come back up again. Vlad has decided that she isn't working out the way he hoped. He is going to try something else with her." Sean answered. "Now reach of you have things you are good at. I am going to give you a file. These will be simple missions. Recover an item. Destroy a base. Stuff like that. You will not leave the facility yet but I will take you to a simulator so that you can demonstrate how you would complete the mission."

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

"His loss, He's wasting her potential after expecting it mature over night. But that's his problem. Are you ever going to hand out the folders? It's not like we've got anything else to do so what's the hold up?"

Isa really hoped the man didn't have a thing for hearing his own pathetic voice. Ideally, he'd have labeled the folders with their names and had them waiting on the table to be read over breakfast so that they could all start as soon as they were done with breakfast instead of having to listen to him for hours on end about things they might eventually get to do if they didn't die of old age or boredom first. Still, he seemed to have better grasp of how to train them, or at least challenge them. Isa wondered if part of the reason for the team failures hadn't been that the challenges were to straightforward and simple, there weren't any complex puzzles or problems to work out. Sure finding Roxy had been annoying, but even that was merely a giant game of fetch. Pity Vlad or Sean hadn't thought to give them a more worthwhile or at the very least engaging task in team round. At least now Isa wouldn't have to risk getting thwarted by Luci again, and that was a big plus.

@KatherinWinter

[KatherinWinter]

@Alina13
"Savanna you will be give the task of rescuing a girl for a gang of thugs. I hope you do a better job rescuing her then you did your teammate." Sean handed her a folder. Inside the folder were the details. The 10 year old daughter of an official had been taken hostage by a gang of thugs in the city of Chicago. Her location wasn't know but they suspected she was being held somewhere in the warehouse district.

@BlackPanther
"Lucifer you have been given the take of retrieving some documents." Sean handed him a folder. Inside the folder were the details. He was to retrieve his file one of from the records room without being seen. He could not attack any of the guards. Nor could he damage anything to accomplish his goal. He had only one day to accomplish his mission.
@Tracyarmav
"Isa you have been given the task of killing someone." Sean explained as he handed him his folder. Inside the folder were the details. He was to kill a pimp who has been linked to human trafficking. He was believed to be in New York but the details were stetchy. He was to locate the man and kill him with in the next forty eight hours.

[BlackPanther]

@KatherinWinter
Lucifer takes the folder with a nod. He opens it and reads the details. He waited for further instruction figuring Sean would either take all three of them at once or take one at a time to the simulator. He has zero wishes to go back to the lab he came from, the lab that had given him his code name. A small shudder runs through him as he thinks about it. That lab had no real reward or punishment system....just...toying with those in there. He shakes his head slightly...he has to focus.

[Tracyarmav]

Isa : Anisim Misolav

"That's it? Suits me well enough."

Isa didn't even look up from the folder in his hands, as he read, he was pleased to note there were no restrictions on how the Pimp was to be killed, only that he should be dead within 48 hours, a relatively simple proposition, all things considered. Most people never really stopped to think just how simple ending a life could be. Well, for that matter, most never simply considered ending a life. Isa had spent hours considering how he might end the lives of those that had destroyed his family. This pimp might not have been one of those men, but then again, he could have been. And that gave Isa everything he needed to know about the man, and how Isa would be taking him out.

He rose and walked out of the room, reading through the file a second time, being sure to note important details, like that fact that it was a simulation being run in room 28. He arrived at the designated room and stood reading for a moment more before closing the file and tucking it into the office mail bin set in the wall by the door. Isa took a moment to gather his thoughts and then entered the room, closing the door behind him before turning to look at the world around him.

@KatherinWinter

[Alina13]

@KatherinWinter
Savannah opened the folder and took a look at the details of the file. This little girl had been kidnapped and she wasn't sure if she was ready for the responsibility of getting her back. Not to mention, with Roxy's aggressive, blaming nature, if she didn't do things EXACTLY the way SHE wanted her to, she would be punished. She wasn't sure how, but she did know that it wouldn't be pleasant. She could also get shipped out of the academy altogether like that "Blue" girl.
She glanced at Isa and wondered what his mission was and if it was any easier than hers. she didn't know why but she felt like she had been given the hardest mission out of everyone's. But from her past, she wouldn't be surprised if she had. She tried to get herself together and face her responsibility. As she waited for further instruction, she morphed her tail and began to stroke it again to calm herself.