The Doctor waits for the others to get up and move before she does herself. Really, all this violence is not her 'thing' at all. Reminds her too much of a time in her long life she'd rather not think too much about.
The glass wall closes just inches from her heels and back, causing the blonde woman to stop in her tracks a moment before ducking and crawling along the floor toward some semblance of shelter from the rain of bullets. A row of chairs seems inadequate, but with a raise of her sonic it is just enough. The device sends out the same override signal that makes half the robots turn on the other half for a few brief moments before the virtual intelligence corrects the command. It's all The Doctor can do in the situation; keep sending out the override command to thin the numbers of their robotic enemies.
"Badass to the bone!" Thea says to Murphy taking a saying yelled often by a former Resistance target while she fought alongside him en route to his command post.
During her brief siege of the hallway, Red Hood would take advantage of her stream of bullets to detonate some explosives to clear out the more resilient robots in their way.
"Hallway is clear." Thea announces to the others. "And good thinking, Red Hood." She commends the apparently inventive man. She performs an ammo count on the run down the hallway. Two boxes left with no reloads available. Once this weapon was spent it would have to be abandoned and replaced. Luckily a scan of the downed robots yields adequate replacement and ammo. She stops quickly to sling a rifle over one shoulder.
When the alarms sound; the glass wall comes up behind them; the walls open up and more enemies march in; and that music plays, Thea identifies the two largest as the most vital targets and sprays them with automatic fire. One is eaten -for lack of a better word- by the pink organism allowing her to focus fire on the other from the top and down.
This focus opens her up to more enemy fire. Bullets puncture her flesh in several points before she ducks behind a chair, uttering some pained groans appropriate for the flesh wounds on her shoulders, right cheek. She and others may have been worse off if not for the efforts of the pink one and The Doctor.
"Securing post!" Thea yells as she uses her remaining heavy ammo to shoot out any robots that come into the area they have been made to occupy for cover.
The droids in their way didn't stand a chance. They were taken out in a matter of a minutes, and what remained killed each other by The Doctor's tampering. Kirby transformed back into his regular form, and again signaled the group to continue on, waiting for the Doctor to take the lead. With the way clear, the group would find no resistance left, with the alarms going off from Thirteen's meddling in their systems, and whatever was causing the emergency lighting to come on, all they had to do was follow the trail of the emergency signature from The Doctor's device, which led to them a rather big and important looking door.
"I was hoping it'd be one of these." The Doctor taps the door.
"That way, we lock this behind us, it's a big shield while we finagle another way out." She peers through the small window quickly. All she can see are some white coated people at work who are apparently unaware or unconcerned with the battle that has been raging all around this building.
"Alright, looks to be a room full of intellectuals. But all the same." Thirteen stands aside from the door holding her sonic up.
"Just to be on the safe side. Now do not shoot first and ask questions later. We want answers here. Understood?" She says to everyone holding a gun in particular with the look of a school teacher telling her students not to stray on a class field trip.
"Yes, ma'am." Murphy said back in a polite manner, since he didn't wanna piss her off. She had that look of disapproval that sent shivers down your back. He and his brother stood up straight, and held their weapons up near their heads, but when she stared at them specifically, they both looked to each other, then slowly put them down next to their holsters.
"Affirmative." Thea complies. She brings down the assault rifle taken from a fallen droid. Her nicks and cuts have stopped bleeding by now.
"Right then." The sonic screwdriver whirrs. The controls are overridden and released, making the doors slide open. One of the scientists who was passing stood in the middle of the doorway in absolute shock, as there was a group of scattered standing right beside him. The lab was massive in size, holding around 15-20 scientists and engineers that looked tired and overworked. They had bangs under their lids and bloodshot eyeballs, yet they all came alive and frozen in fear once the group approached them all.
The scientist in front of them stumbled backwards, almost falling onto his behind. A soldier from behind them tried to sneak up, but both MacManus brothers heard his footsteps and turned around with one pistol each drawn to his face. "Drop it!" Connor shouted, to which the guard did. The other guards tried aiming at them, but Kirby, being the weird puffball he was, managed to quickly slash at their weapons with his sword/cutting their rifles in half cleanly. Anyone else didn't even bother, just throwing their hands up.
"P-P-Please don't hurt us, I-I-I-I have a wife and child at home!" One of the other scientists pleaded, backing up into the console.
"GET THE HELL OUT!" Another shouted back, signaling everyone to retreat. But the bulkhead doors closed as they tried running, sealing them in. The being in the pool with Tex then suddenly stood up, screaming out as it tried biting Tex's neck like it wanted a chunk of flesh off her.
And then the lights went out, along with a very interesting song. For the moment the lights went out Kilgren's body froze. A sudden fear gripped her body and her face was that of terror. When the red lights came back on people would see her on her knees as if she collapsed. At least the music was helping. There was also the sudden arrival of alien creatures that had emerged from the various tanks. The creatures honestly reminded Kilgren of the undead the system had faced at the beginning stages of creating a civilization, but now wasn't the time to compare them to creatures they were not. The soldiers had also lessened their fire during the panic. Slowly, Kilgren stood back on her feet. She then noticed one of the creatures jumping out of the tank that the red head was in. If she tried to materialize a firearm she might miss and hit the girl, but she might also hit her with the flames in a slash. A firearm had a better chance of having less injuries, so she would go with that. The sword that Kilgren was holding quickly morphed into a revolver, which quickly took aim and fired a small ball of fire. It hit the monster in the shoulder, which might not bring it down but it would at least deter it.
Tex spurred into action as the creature moved. Disregarding the yelling from the Ruskies, she slammed the butt of her rifle into the jaw of the creature sweeping its arms out of the way. This left enough of an opening for the strange woman on the balcony's shot to land true. Tex on the other hand wasn't paying attention to that. The hand on the stock of her rifle dropped to her waist and quickly whipped a 1911 from its holster. To which she proceeded to plug three rounds into the creatures chest. A second later the three rounds in its chest detonated rather violently, leaving a gaping hole where its torso should be.
"Get me the hell out of this god damn pit!" She shouted as she holstered her pistol making a mental count of how many rounds she had in it.
"Ah... you... Help me up, and then I'll pull you out got it?" Tex slung her rifle by the sling on her back and moved over to a wall beckoning with a hand to Velvet.
It was amazing, how much fighting for your life on a constant basis let you get a handle on a situation quickly. Velvet quickly scanned the room, trying to get a grasp on the situation. From the looks of things, her friends didn't get teleported with her to this place (or if they did, they weren't anywhere close by). With that, and the ongoing clusterfuck, Velvet had to move and help these people deal with these soldiers and these abominations. With that, Velvet reached her human arm to pull up Tex.
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"Tell me what you need me to do. I'm not much use in prolonged battles, so I'd like to end things quickly. I've got a couple options for long range if you need that, but I need targets and room," the Therion stated heatedly.
The creature stumbled in its tank from the shot to the shoulder by Kilgren, and with the three rounds by Tex, it fell back into the blue goo good as dead. The whole lab they were in was filled with gunfire and shouting, along with the song still playing. The alien that landed on the platforms above had run off down to the other end, fighting off both soldiers and these creatures; trying to find the doorway out of here. And as Velvet spoke to Tex, one of those creatures tried wrapping itself around her from behind; sneaking up with distracted. Its legs and arms wrapped around her torso, while its mouth tried taking a bite into her neck.
The three were quickly joined by more, as the creatures jumped down from the balconies and approached from the other end of the labs. A few dozen at least, charging at them on like zombies.
"........ Ahhhhhh, shit." One soldier said, pretty much giving up. The two up the stairs ran off down the splitting hallways, with the commander running up to follow them. The other two below tried their luck with attacking him in CQC. One tried smashing his head open with the butt of his rifle, the other pulled out a knife from his boot and waited to see what his friend did, and whether it worked or not. Whatever happened, Bliss' situation got more strange, as the lights would go completely dark, and emergency red lights turned on. The placed went into lockdown, as over the speakers blaring sirens went off. "Containments breached. Quarantine lockdown in effect. Containments breached. Quarantine lockdown in effect. Containmeeeeeeeeeeee..." The sirens died down along with the voice, until, bizarrely, music started playing.
The plastic gunstock shatters on Mr Bliss' forehead, and he turns to look at the man.
"If the bullets wouldn't work, why would a gunstock?"
He reached out and grabbed the man's head by the chin and pushed, until the back of his skull was touching his shoulders. Letting the corpse fall to the floor, Mr Bliss reached out and grabbed the knife, snapping it in two.
"Let's not try that. I am Mr Bliss. You will tell me where I am, what is happening, and otherwise act to help me. Otherwise..." Mr Bliss turned to look at the man on the floor, his neck purpling as the blood slowly pooled inside it, the internal bleeding contained by the intact skin.
"Well, I will do that to you. Or worse. I hope I am understood?"
The soldier he killed first fell to his knees, then the rest of his body fell backwards towards the other guy, who now had a good view of his buddies neck. He looked between him and Bliss, having no clue on what to say to him. "Buddy," he said, raising his hands up. "I have no idea what to say to you. Let's just... take it easy, alright." He tried to sound calm, but Bliss would tell his voice was cracking. "I-I can take you to someone who'd know better! They could probably help you out, okay?"
- Kylo Ren, Master of the Knights of Ren -
So, not so long after Kylo Ren joins the
merry band of ne'er-do-wells, they all begin turning on each other the moment things get easy, with the hammer-wielding titan trying to cave in the steel schemer's head and then all who were aligned with their respective leaders fighting each other for their own reasons. Some likely to curry favour with the survivor of the bout, others to enact their own plans and a few simply to survive.
Snoke's Apprentice had but one thing in mind: Show them the Dark Side. He held no loyalty to any of these knaves and only the vaguest of familiarity with Darth Malgus, a man who he'd be willing to grit his teeth and work with over either of these egocentric fools. Drawing his Lightsaber with its distinctive dark crackle, he seized the moment against Shao Kahn, who was already stunned from Doctor Doom's blow, to cut him down.
- Shao Kahn, Konqueror of Realms, Ruler of Outworld -
While not admitting it aloud, Shao Kahn figured his betrayal was far too telegraphed, but it made no difference. Doctor Doom would die this day, for the runt in iron held no value to him anymore, not when they were so close to escape. To let him live was too much of a risk and to serve under him for longer than he needed to was too infuriating a thought to even entertain.
Though before the Kahn could begin to postulate, their new arrival, the dark warrior Kylo Ren, was rushing at him, crimson blade drawn and poised to cut him down. The nerve of the Knight of Ren sent Shao Kahn into a fury, as he would swing his Wrath Hammer to meet Kylo's Lightsaber in a clash. The clash was brief, with Kylo Ren dragging his saber across the handle of the hammer, scorching the Kahn's hand and then bring it up and around to slash at the stunned Kahn several times, wounding him and ending it with a Force Push.
Shao Kahn was sent several feet back, still standing and now pulsing with an emerald aura, flexing his arms outwards and roaring in rage at Kylo Ren, now dead set on killing this whelp.
- Thor Odinson, God of Thunder -
"Honestly, I trust that peculiar pink blob. He's my favourite." Thor chimed in regarding Murphy's question on Kirby's place in the group, before following suit with everyone else and taking off after Kirby for some time before being cut off by, who could've guessed? More robots! Kirby then reinforced Thor's favour in him by consuming one of the meaner looking bots and taking on its traits. Peculiar as it was, it wasn't the weirdest thing Thor had seen today...that would be the Thermal Phantom.
Though he had a feeling the other machines would be resistant to Lightning as well, he wasn't about to discount the option yet: His remaining eye aglow, Thor charged up a stronger blast of Lightning and unleashed it in the direction of the
other massive, chaingun-bearing Droid, from his free hand.
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With the kick, Baraka was pushed back several feet from Arc, hunched over as he landed on his feet again. Doom was quick to finish him of, sending a blast of green energy at him, which caused the Tarkatan to go flying through the wall to his left. "Anyone else?" Doom asked the group, wanting to see if anyone else would be foolish enough to attack him. Turns out, a few others were. From behind, Doom didn't see Malgus slashed him from his shoulder to across his hip. His metal body protected The Doctor from a killing blow, but there was a clear mark of darkness from where the lightsaber got him. Anymore, and Doom would be fatally wounded for sure. Malgus tried for another attack, while Arc would be attacked again, this time by Wesker.
The two men didn't trust this group from the second they laid eyes on them. The less people in their way, the better. Radec saw the chaos as an opportunity, as when he men started to aim their weapons, he signaled them to stand down, and follow his lead. The building with the teleporter was only a mile away, straight in front of them. They could use the head start. The Helghast ran off to around the corner where the road split off, planning to stick to the back allies.