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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 12, 2007 7:55:30 GMT
Tseng didnt look away from the window, he just waved his hand. "Get a block away and wait for me there, I'll meet up with you in 10 minutes. ONE second longer and you just take off, got it? I have to make sure these two stay hating each other, cause if they join together I need to know that... and if one takes the other down I'd like to know which one to look for when I peek over our shoulders..."
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Dimitri took the hit from her foot and let it shove him down underneath the EMR strike. He then brought his arm up, connecting with the outer edge of her leg and forcing the EMR to strike it.
"I just think you dont like the competition..." He said simply as he seized her by the EMR hand's wrist and chopped with his other hand, knocking it free. "And if you think that mentioning my former employment is going to hurt me in any way... your sorely mistaken."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 12, 2007 8:12:09 GMT
Jared nodded curtly and vanished through the hole. Get a block down the road and find a secure place to hide. Pretty simple orders to carry out.
Then they got complicated.
The baby woke up and began to cry.
Jared didn't pause to quiet her, knowing it would be no use. He just kept going, faster and faster. Somehow I doubt only one block will be enough. Sorry, Tseng...
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Sarai winced at the force of the stiff hand chop-- but it was more the jar that had forced her to drop the EMR than anything else. Like any other Turk, her pain threshold was exceptionally high. Impressive... this fellow outclasses most of the trespassers I've run into. But if he thinks he's good enough to take me out...
"Hurt? If I wanted to hurt you, I'd just use my hands," she replied sweetly, aiming a full-force judo kick at his side. "Looks like someone needs to learn the meaning of pain... and class is now in session."
Suddenly she heard the infant crying... My marks are getting away. D**n it all...
With her good arm, she aimed an earth-shattering punch at Dimitri's gunblade arm before twisting back down to grab her crossbow. She swung back to uprightness and moved the safety to bolt fire position, blasting at him two bolts per second... which made her just two bolts slower than Jared.
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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 12, 2007 8:25:05 GMT
Dimitri caught the kick that careened for his ribs, but the punch landed hard, knocking his arm wide and sending the gunblade jabbing into the brick wall. Dimitri shook the pain out of his arm and knew what was coming without even looking. He leapt straight up in the air over the bolts that sailed at him, bracing his feet on the walls on either side. He then pushed off with his right foot and slid down the left wall, snatching the gunblade out of the wall as he passed.
"What? "Class is now in session?" You'd think Turks would be a bit more creative than that..."
He tucked and rolled away from the inevitable volley of arrows that followed and came up into a crouch, returning fire with his gunblade, forcing her to halt fire herself. It was almost painfully obvious though that Dimitri wasnt trying to hit her with his shots.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 12, 2007 8:36:05 GMT
"Yes, and participation is half your grade, so pay attention," she shot back. She dropped and rolled under the shots flying at her, but despite her speed, she was still surprised to discover not one bullet had hit her when she rose again at the end of the roll to blast Dimitri again. "Aw, how sweet... and stupid. He's letting me win," she mocked, blowing a kiss with the unarmed hand.
Retreating, she snatched her EMR, not relenting in her attacks on Dimitri. "Sorry to cut this little affair short, but I really must be on my way, farmboy."
She abruptly sprinted off towards the fading sound of the baby's cries. "Good luck paying your rent, mercenary!"
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Jared, against his better judgement, had only gone two blocks before hiding. I should at least stay in earshot of Tseng's range. I need him to be able to find us later... Midgar is no place for two small children. My uncles know that too well.
He sensed a hostile presence coming and braced himself to defend his sister... to the death, if need be.
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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 13, 2007 7:04:08 GMT
Dimitri didnt waste a moment, he sprinted the opposite direction and swung around the corner, jumping over a trashcan and stowing his gunblade on his bike as he landed in the seat. Dimitri revved up the engine and squealed the tires loudly as he spun the bike 180 degrees to take off down the street adjacent to the alley. He'd get to the other end before any of them had a chance to leave it...
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Tseng swore as he heard Hope crying and jumped up, moving back towards the exit and let loose with a volley from his machinegun, tearing up the wall facing the alley. Subtle time was over...
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 13, 2007 7:17:08 GMT
Sarai dove back into the alley as the machine gun fired at her. "S**t!"
She bent around the corner and squeezed off a few shots at the figure in the the window, two per second for three seconds before leaning back against the wall to take cover.
"Morning, Tseng!" Sarai called cheekily. "Miss me, mate? Been a while, hasn't it?"
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Jared left the baby in their hiding place, the drop box of an abandoned library. He climbed back out and readied his crossbow... Come and get it, pal, but don't touch my sister.
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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 13, 2007 7:24:11 GMT
Tseng stopped dead, halting fire a moment as he heard the voice. "I'll be damned..." He said quietly, then opened fire again, pulling a grenade out now as well. He ducked behind a wall and pulled the pin out with his teeth, then leaned out and chucked the grenade through the shattered window frame. "Too bad we didnt have more time to chat!" He shouted, sprinting out of the building as the explosion ripped the last of the alley-side wall off.
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Dimitri pulled over and hopped off the bike, moving around the corner silently, he heard gunshots and then an explosion back at the Shinra slum building, that meant Sarai was still held up... Probably by Tseng.
He stopped and looked down at the ground, muddy footprints leading out of the alley were there... Dimitri furrowed his brows thoughtfully. "Thats definitely a kid's size shoe..." He said as he went back to his bike to ride up one more block. He wasnt about to walk into the obvious hiding spot...
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 13, 2007 7:34:04 GMT
I'll just cSarai heard his taunt and launched herself forward, rolling across the alley as the grenade detonated. She managed to escape the main blast, but was hit by some pieces of shrapnel. She stood up, bruised and bleeding, but still more than capable of continuing the chase. "Oh, no you don't, bigshot," she muttered.
She shot off the chain of her cycle and climbed aboard, hanging the crossbow over her shoulder. Those marks are MINE... don't you dare upstage me again, you d**n showoff.
She turned over the ignition and roared off in the direction of Dimitri's sputtering engines...
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Jared felt the presence getting nearer, felt its confidence rise with the discovery of a clue. No time to waste. He snagged a garbage can and concentrated on it... it slowly tore itself in half and formed three holes near the bottom. He turned it over, slid his arms through two of the holes, and peering through the third, sprang upwards, reaching the top of a streetlight. He perched there as his mother had taught him to do in the woods, hunting for food...
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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 13, 2007 7:49:59 GMT
Tseng sprinted down the alley as fast as his feet could carry him, he heard motorcycle engines so he knew they would get there first... He just hoped Jared could hold his own till he got there...
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Dimitri saw him, he knew the kid knew he was there too, but not exactly where, so he would have to time this right... He loaded his gunblade again, making sure the first three chambers were loaded with explosive rounds and the second three were loaded with the special tranc. that doc whipped him up...
Dimitri then picked up a chain with weights on both ends of it and counted to three, then spun around the corner of his hiding place, firing off the three slugs. Each one struck the base of the streelight, violently shuddering it and fracturing most of the support. He then whipped the chain and weights as hard as he could at the bottom and it struck it hard, wrapping around and shattering the remaining concrete instantly, causing the streetlight to topple over. Dimitri watched from his position and took aim at the boy, waiting for him to react the way he had counted on...
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 13, 2007 8:02:33 GMT
The boy leapt from the toppling streetlight and bounced off the side of the library, launching himself upwards. He fired as fast as his finger could squeeze the trigger, trying to figure out what would happen when he started to descend again. He spotted a Dumpster not far beyond the bounty hunter and began tugging at it with his mind... the lid jerked...
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Sarai gunned the motor to top speed and sent it careering towards the sound of gunfire... First Tseng, now an interloper... my life is a living h**l...
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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 14, 2007 6:14:34 GMT
Dimitri wasted no time, he knew the kid would respond quickly... So he fired off all three rounds in a pattern that boxed Jared in, any direction he moved at least one dart would nail him. Just as he fired, the dumpster lid shuddered loudly behind him.
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Tseng reached the end of the alley just in time to see Sarai go by and groaned, snatching one of his EMR's from his belt and flinging it with all his might. It slammed right into Sarai's back as she sped down the road.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 14, 2007 6:37:26 GMT
Sarai yelped as the EMR nailed her square in the back, and she lost control of her cycle. It toppled and ground to a halt about twenty feet away...
She gritted her teeth and pulled herself back to her feet, limping angrily back towards the one who had tossed the weapon. "Ohhh, nice, Tseng," she growled sarcastically, grinning at him the way a crocodile does right before snapping up a fish. "You always were a classic gentleman!"
She drew her crossbow, bracing herself on her good leg, and fired furiously at him. "'Cept you never did believe in 'ladies first'... but your spot in first place just might be in severe jeopardy. It all depends on whose story they believe, and what I mean by that is for me to know and you to agonize over."
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Jared's improvized armor blocked two of the trank darts, but the third nailed him in the foot. He couldn't help a small yelp that came from him as the needle pierced him... he kicked and flung it back out fast as he could, hoping to get rid of it before too much of the tranquiler got into his system, but already his foot was starting to feel numb.
The ground was coming up at him. He gave the Dumpster lid another desperate yank, and it flew off, nailing Dimitri right in the back of the head as Jared hit the ground running.
Got to draw him off... It was getting harder to move, but he did not intend to give up until his energy was totally gone.
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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 14, 2007 7:17:01 GMT
Dimitri grunted as he fell forward, just managing to catch himself with his hands before slamming face-first down. He shook the dizziness from his head and struggled to get back up, reloading the gunblade now with more of the tranqualizers.
"Come on kid, dont make it more difficult... I dont want to have to hurt you. In fact, I'm supposed to be keeping you in good health."
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Tseng reloaded quickly and popped out his other EMR rod. "Right, like THAT thought wil keep me awake nights... You could NEVER top me back then and you still cant top me now."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Jan 14, 2007 7:37:15 GMT
Sarai smirked as she blasted away, trying to empy her clip before he could finish reloading, aiming at his upper body (but not his head-- she didn't want him dead, at least not YET She wanted to make him squirm first). "It should keep you awake nights, Tseng... because who mysteriously disappeared just before Rufus was murdered? Who has been completely beyond contact ever since? Who happened to be on the scene just after the copter crashed? And who, may I finally ask, is the one currently in custody of the last known heirs to his massive --and massively powerful-- corporate empire?"
She jumped for cover behind a burned-out car to get away from his guns-- she knew he was a deadly accurate shot. She slammed another clip of bolts into the handle...
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The kid was having trouble moving in a straight line-- the injured leg kept trying to freeze up on him and it made him waver.
He kept trying to think of a way to outsmart this slimeball --running and fighting couldn't help, not NOW-- but he felt like his brain was freezing up, too... the amber materia glowed brighter and brighter, until the light could be seen through his shirt pocket...
Just keep moving... He smashed through a barred door, entering a musty building of unknown purpose... maybe it used to be a hospital, or even a restaurant. The place was totally bare from wall to wall. He felt like he was pulling his body and mind through thick sludge...
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Post by mistervillainman on Jan 14, 2007 7:44:34 GMT
Dimitri got to his feet and hurried after the kid, but stopped as he heard the sound of a baby crying. He moved over to the boxes and found the bundle with the baby inside.
"Well this should simplify things a bit..." He said, picking the kid up and following Jared inside. "Hey kid! You left your sister out here alone! Now listen to me. I've been hired to take you BOTH back with me and keep you both in good health! You can either come with me voluntarily or I dart you again and keep you sedated until your drooling most of your sentences by the end of the journey."
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Tseng simply pushed her words aside like he always did. She had been playing this game with him since they were kids. As he ducked behind cover himself, he realized he didnt have time for it this time though, because the SeeD washout was already after Jared and Hope... So he pulled out another grenade...
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