Collab between Scarlett's Captain and Asuu's Ghost
Captain looks up to see Jennifer approaching the stage and she chuckles under her breath. She didn't expect to see that child here. She deflects multiple Raiders attacks, knocking out two of them with two blows to the temple and knocking down a couple more with slices to the back of the knees. She whips around and throws her throwing knife behind her, stabbing one of the Raiders directly through the heart. She leaps on him, drawing out the knife back out and throwing it at one of the other Raiders, getting that one right through the neck.
She yanks the knife out of the man's throat right as four gunshots go off. She whips around and sees Jason on the ground, bleeding profusely from a wound in his shoulder and a Raider dead behind him with a bullet through the heart. She turns in the direction of the bullet and does not see anyone, so obviously they were farther away, which means that they are good. She leaps down off the stage, walking through the panicking crowds, and walks over to Blades, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and yanking him up. "What bigger purpose do you have here?!" she yells at him. "No one walks in with a tanker of gas just to kill for fun. What's the bigger purpose here?!"
Blades laughs and says, "I ain't telling you shit, doll." Captain raises her hand and a field of energy forms close to his face. He flinches and looks up at her. "What are you doing?"
"All I have to do is close my fist, and you suffocate on your own air," Captain says. "Now, either you tell me your purpose and give me the code to shut it down, or you'll be drowning on your own breath. Your choice."
Ghost had been quite a dash away from the main stage, having hidden amongst the trees. After the minor skirmish that ended with the Raiders underneath his perch dying rather brutally, the young Hero began his sprint towards the carnival's main area, AK-47 held firmly in his hands, safety off and trigger-finger twitching sporadically in wait. Not too many Raiders were out this far, he noted, eyes narrowing from beneath his mask as yet another peculiar sound echoed from far away - a scream. Abruptly, it ended, and he closed his eyes solemnly at the one gunshot that had accompanied the scream...another civilian's death.
"God damn it!" He growled underneath his breath, his sprint increasing until his form was nearly a blur of beige, black, gray, and white. In a hail of leaves, he exploded from the underbrush, assault-rifle easily held up to his shoulder as he released a spray of accurate, burning lead into the slowly dispersing crowd.
A Raider fell to the ground, a bullet-hole bleeding profusely from his cranium, while another three were whipped through the air from the onslaught of bullets, dying as soon as they hit the ground. Ghost threw the AK-47 away, a silver deagle building from his gloved palms. Instinctively, he gripped it, bringing it down towards his waist as he dashed deeper into the crowd.
Civilians were funneling around, and although the Raiders had taken a significant hit, it was far from over. He had just pistol-whipped the brains out of another fumbling Raider when he came upon his destination...only...there was a woman threatening the target.
Ghost made for an intimidating image - tall, and scary, with the skull painted onto his facemask. His Deagle was held up in one hand, pointing at the woman's head, while a smaller Glock was pointing towards Jason's. "Move away from the dick." Despite the vulgar word, his voice, disembodied and raspy due to the mask's speakers, was deadly serious, spoken with a quiet intensity. He didn't need some civilian playing hero messing with the operation.
Captain freezes when she hears the voice behind her and rolls her eyes under her glasses. You've got to be freaking kidding me. she thinks to herself as she drops the force field away from Jason Blades's face. She could see the fear on Blades's face as he looked passed her at the man standing behind her. Who exactly is standing behind her that is that horrifying. She stands up slowly and turns around, raising her hands up slightly.
Her fingers itched for her knives, but Captain held her position as she says, "I don't think you understand who exactly I am." A muscle in her jaw jumps as she slowly moves her hands to push her sunglasses off her face so she can get a better look at this guy, even though she knows her eyes are flaming red at the moment. "I want the exact same thing you do, soldier." She narrows her blood red eyes at the guy and turns back toward Blades, who is trying to crawl away. She throws out her hand and pins him to the ground. "Stay put dammit!" she snaps at the Raider leader. He can no longer move so she turns back to the man in front of her. "No if you'll excuse me..." She kneels back down next to Blades and grabs his shirt once more, lifting her hand above his face again. Blades noticeable swallows.
Great...just great. Ghost watched as the woman pinned the man down to the ground with some sort of...power, completely ignoring his 'Move away'. No...not ignoring it, simply deciding not to do it. His mouth's normal frown turned into a scowl, invisible from underneath his mask. He watched the girl bend down and grab Blades by the collar, noting the man's swallow. This wouldn't do. People were dy-
An assault rifle slammed against Ghost's shoulder, causing the man to only take a brief step forward, not a sound escaping his mouth. However, in response, the gun bent backwards at the barrel, having obviously slammed against some sort of armor. Before the ambushing Raider could move, Ghost had turned around, a trench knife finding itself buried hilt-deep into the Raider's throat. Swiftly, Ghost gripped the metal blade, slashing it out through the jugular and turning around all at once. Blood dripped into the grass.
"Blades." He knew what he needed to do. Make it seem as if he was helping this woman. Blades was already scared shitless; two intimidating vigilantes getting answers? He would cough it all up. Ghost's booted right foot abruptly slammed forward, a loud, disgusting crunch sounding through the air as Blades' nose was completely turned to mush. The man could only let out a hoarse scream of pain, eyes going into shock as he fell backwards. Jason grabbed him by the hair before he could fall, crouching low over the man. His disemboided, gravelly voice was quiet, too quiet for Captain to hear.
"Tell us what you know...now. How to turn off the machine? What must we do? It will honestly be a shame if every single nail on your body was slowly pulled off, a certain...appendage following suit, right before you turn into a limbless fool." He tightened his grip. "Tell. Us. Now." A dark spot was evident on Blade's frontal...region, and underneath his mask, Ghost crinkled his nose.
Blades was pretty much ripped from her hands by the guy behind her and Captain was furious. She jumped to her feet, about to snap at him for taking her interrogation, but instead she paused, seeing how good of a job he was doing scaring Blades. In fact, she noticed that Blades wet his pants. Captain's nose wrinkled and she coughed to the side, covering up a gag. She glared at him as this guy murmured something to him and Blades looked over at her. She held up a hand and closed it into a fist and Blades spit some blood off to the side.
"Alright, alright!" he said, almost snarling at the man above him. "All you need to do is input the five digit code: five, four, seven, seven, nine." He dips his head in defeat and Captain leans back, raising an eyebrow.
"That was almost too easy," Captain murmured to the guy as she walked closer to him, glaring down at Blades, who was spitting out some more blood. "Do you think he's telling the truth?"
Ghost simply stared, focused, at Blades, watching as the man fell back after spitting out a massive glob of blood, his inner injuries finally getting back to him after the adrenaline and shock wore down. After a brief second, he growled audibly, clenching his fists with a 'pop'. "We have no other choice. Go see what you can do with the code. I'll keep you covered."
With that brief statement, Ghost gripped the air, a rifle appearing in his hands, lacking a scope. Bringing up the sights, he backflipped through the air, showing inhuman agility as he landed smoothly into a crouch, in front of the machine, and pressed the trigger of the gun at a blurred pace. Rapid sounds of high-caliber rounds tearing through the air. All across the carnival battle-field, heads suddenly began being blasted apart, the onslaught focused on the Raiders getting closer to the stage.