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[Fiona is a little out of breath, like she just hustled very quickly away from somewhere. Which she did, but that's neither here nor there. The background behind her is some innocuous wood panelling; she's in a house.]

Okay. So. Crunch time. Things are getting nuts out there, if you didn't notice. We are gonna wind up super screwed if we don't hop to figuring out what the hell to do.

[She holds up a vial. It has some alien writing on it, as well as a familiar symbol on the label.]

We found this inside the hospital. A shit-ton of them, actually. So who wants to find out what Zymandis asshole is responsible for this mess and beat an antidote out of them?



[ ooc. PS, maya, hanzo, and mccree might show up in your threads. feel free to threadjack as well! ]

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[12inches]

[ jfc He nearly leaps out of his seat when she shrieks, and he reflexively flaps both hands at her in a keep-it-down gesture. But thankfully he doesn't seem too frazzled to catch on to what she's calling out over her shoulder; he's sure as hell had to cover up many a stupid outburst before. ]

Man, I donno if I can trust a Cobras fan as my doctor, but desperate times, desperate measures, I guess... [ Then lowering his voice again into a (perhaps not helpful) hiss, ] They're not snake arms, they're cybernetic. Y'know. Terminator. Up to here—

[ He draws a line with his finger on one at about armpit level. Whole arm. Both of them. Tragic accident. His brow is furrowed, half sorry, half praying she's seen enough weird shit in ALASTAIR to not play 20 Questions with him on the subject right now. ]

They don't really bleed real blood, but, [ patting himself on the chest, ] I've got plenty of blood in the rest of me.

[strictdiscipline]

Just because you should be doesn't mean you have to be.

[There's a certain charm to his innocence she doesn't want to see leave.]

You've been holding up remarkably well, despite all of it.

[assent]

[ Sorry... again Sigma... Though at least she's calmed down now. She takes a deep breath. ]

After what abilities I have seen, I would not have been surprised if they could transform. [ Or apparently she would have been... but this is less exciting. Robotics vs super cool demons... Not her thing to be fascinated by. The bigger problem is where else she can take the blood from that's easily accessible and not dangerous.


It sadly might be cringe worthy. ]

Many places can cause trauma to blood vessels... You do not have any long term illnesses, I hope?

[ Why is this happening to her... ]

[predomination]

And that's precisely why I've pointed this out. Zymandis is clever and they've been bested by us before. Our only hope is to assume they'll be prepared for us and make certain we're prepared for them.

It's going to be quite the showdown.

[predomination]

I hope it doesn't come down to us fighting our own to keep the peace, but I can't help wondering if that may be part of Zymandis's plan here. It's difficult to say right now.

Let's hope you can find more pieces of the puzzle then.

[predomination]

That's what myself, Sonia-san, Sieglinde-san, and Peter-san are working on- a cure for the virus and a vaccination to prevent it from spreading. The rest of this we have to rely on everyone else keeping their heads on straight to not lose sight of why we're here.

[predomination]

If our team would just allow Loki-san and his sword to interrogate the man, it wouldn't even be an issue. We would have our answers and they could have their pound of flesh. [Urahara is extremely patient, but the general attitude, while he understands it, is so impractical.] Killing a Zymandis agent isn't wrong, per say, but killing our only potential lead is. We still don't know if he's the only agent here.

[apoptotic]

When there's a what?

[ he does not get that reference. ]

[moneyballer]

You know a prosecutor who'd straight up gut someone, all out in the open?

[asher

asher have u seen the title of ur canon]

Damn. That is scary.

[predomination]

But consider the way our team gets when it comes to moral dilemmas. Even in Perdition's Rest, we were at each others' throats trying to find a decent course of action. Any group set to watching us would realize it in an instant.

Putting us in a situation where we might have to choose to let the infected live or eliminate them outright could easily drive us to turning on each other- and that's not counting how many have been or could be infected.

[moneyballer]

[He scoffs at that, grin crooked.]

Sounds pretty freaky, huh?

[Could it be?

Another person who's actually normal...

Maybe.]

Jokes aside, amirite? Jesus.

I thought we were done with dealing with those extraterrestrial wangs.

[moneyballer]

Who-hoaaaaa, tight!

[She definitely looked a little weirder than he was used to, although Asher had just assumed that she was an alien or something. He's seen enough to get used to them by now.

The way his eyes light up when she does that little magic trick is boyish in nature, oddly age inappropriate.]

Damn, that's hella sick!

So that's what you meant by burnin', huh? Sweet.

[twinpeak]

[ There's a slight grimace on his end; there are too many of you who try to pronounce that...

But also, anyway— ]

Yep, Percy's our guy. Which I did, in fact, find out by snooping around the hospital. But hey, haven't we all?

[moneyballer]

Yeah, you're right.

[Asher leans against a wall that looks to be inside some kind of apartment.]

You're not gonna get hurt if you use it, though... Are ya?

[feytality]

Like... more than one? Like.. spider people?

Right, especially when there are super geniuses like me around. I'd figure out everyone's secret identity in five seconds!

[stay tuned for Maya thinking Jin is Spiderman]

[twinpeak]

... We don't have to consider killing anyone now, do we?

[ Maybe he asks this question a bit too easily for who he is, but when this particular topic keeps coming up time and time again... well. ]

There's still a chance we can find something to cure them. [ RIGHT?? ] And—even if we didn't... We'd attract too much attention doing that! This is normal Earth, man, pretty sure the FBI or something would come crashing down on us hard! Shouldn't this world decide on that?

[ Which... okay is hypocritical of him to mention, Dipper knows, but at least it'd take the decision off the team's hands for once. ]

[ex_adept136]

I think the best we can hope for is that Loki has the chance. It seems the general consensus is that the doctor should die...

[And while he has misgivings about that, he holds no illusions that he can do anything about it. They don't exactly have prison facilities to offer as an alternative.

So as much as he doesn't like it, he knows better than to argue]

So long as the only potential source of intel isn't destroyed before we find out more about the situation, at least there'll be a more concrete sense of what's going on here.

[aspearation]

[ She seems amused, at least; she laughs, loudly at that. Maybe a little too loudly. ]

You're okay, kid! You're okay. But listen, if you go snooping around again, I'm going with you!

[aspearation]

[ . . . ]

I didn't actually say willingly.

[ Even if it should be implied, since it's her. ]

If it were me though, and a bunch of people were threatening me with death by elf if I didn't talk, I'd tell them everything I had, too!

[fintastic]

Yeah... but I was willing to help someone I barely know do something incredibly stupid and dangerous, because otherwise they would have had to do it alone! I think you owe me at least one favor, and that is the benefit of the doubt.

[fintastic]

Oh... that's a good point. Maybe we need a safe place for everyone then. Both the healthy people and the sick people.

[ She's trying to imply the concept of a quarantine here. She's not sure she's doing a good job of it. ]

[pummelling]

[He's about to say that no, there aren't any spider-people, when he remembers that there is literally a woman named Widowmaker on the team. Whose thread he's just jacked. Oops.] Well, there's this woman. I meant superheroes.

[maya no]

Tell me how that goes.

[pummelling]

[HAH]

Tell me about it. Do you have smartphones yet? I don't have one, but wow, a quick search for "city hall floorplan" would take so much less time than scouring the library for an hour.

[pummelling]

It's crazy to think about. Especially when you think back to how many people were a part of ALASTAIR, since everyone was in Oska just a couple of months ago. Gods know how big Zymandis truly is if that's the case. Which I'm sure it is.

[Jin hums, an affirmative noise.]

People've been saying that they're not only targeting ALASTAIR... but specifically Audentes. Could it be because we're a newer branch, d'you think?

[pummelling]

[oh no, haise read about the sex confession.........]

Right! Right. Back to business.