Delivery
Cole appears in his workshop that has a couple new various liquid processing devices as he puts on a gas mask and opens the vial and puts a small amount on a microscope slide and looks at it through the microscope
The liquid itself is red and he can see hundreds of cells. It's nearly identical to a cluster of blood cells with a few white blood cells tossed in. Half of the red blood cells however have a vaguely triangular shape.
Cole grabs the vial and pours half of it in a different vial and puts it in a centrifuge
The blood is seperated into various layers. It all seems normal for blood except for an extra layer that is a hint lighter in color than the layer of blood cells
Cole grabs the vial and separates the lighter layer into a different vial as he grabs a microscope slide and puts some of it on there and looks at it
The cells are now only slightly triangular.
Cole raises an eyebrow and grabs a small amount of vinegar and adds it to the slide
The cells seem unaffected.
Cole sighs quietly and looks closer at the cells to see if there's anything notable
Nothing notable
Cole takes the slide out and sets it aside as he grabs the vial that only has the layer of darker blood cells and puts it on the slide and looks at it
It looks like average blood
Cole sighs heavily and takes the slide out and sets it down as he thinks then decides to poke it with a small piece of plastic
The cells stick to it but don't seem to do anything to it
Cole mentally notes that as he sets it down and touches a piece of glass and pokes it
The cells cling to the glass as the glass darkens and becomes warm
Cole puts the glass in a plastic bag and sets it aside then he pokes it with a piece of carbon
The cells stick to it aswell but it doesn't seem to do anything. The dark glass in the plastic bag turns darker untill its no longer translusent
Cole sets the piece of carbon down and takes the glass out of the bag and attempts to break the glass by tapping it against the table
The glass is slightly warm still and scratches the table slightly
Cole mentally notes that and puts it back in the plastic bag, then grabs a small piece of aluminum and touches it to the cells
The aluminum starts to crumble on its own as there's a bit of smoke and a small spark
Cole drops the aluminum onto the tile floor and kicks it away from him, then mentally notes that as he touches a small piece of steel to the cells
It continues to spark and smoke as it crumbles up into a tight crumb sized ball. The sparks and smoke slow to a stop. It's color seems off
The steel seems unaffected
Cole sets the steel down and goes to walk up to the aluminum but he's interrupted by a PA speaking going off, "Gas in the main lobby, gas in the main lobby, chem team has arrived do not move from your positions" Cole groans with an annoyed tone as he starts heading towards the door
The demons will await his return
Cole scans his badge on the door as an elevator starts quickly moving down, Cole snaps as gas mask appears in his hand as he equips the gas mask then heads into the elevator when it arrives
Someone walks up to the parking lot on foot. They wear a black biker jacket and helmet along with black gloves
The receptionist raises their eyebrow at them, "Can i help you?"
On walking into the building he draws a pistol from his side
The receptionist ducks under their desk as an audible click is heard
The man continues to walk, heading for a door and attempting to open it
The door is locked, he can hear a muffled siren sounding above him
He steps back and opens fire at the door knob
It ricochets against the door knob and impacts a wall behind him
He turns his attention to the receptionist's desk as he walks up to it
The receptionist is hiding under their desk while shaking. there's a red dot under the desk near the receptionist's head
He points the gun to the receptionist but doesn't say anything. He seems to be taking his time.
They cower and seem to start quietly crying
After a long pause he shoots her shoulder
They start sobbing loudly as they hold their shoulder, he can hear several doors being opened behind him
He turns his head to the sounds doesn't seem all that alarmed.
He turns to see 5 guys in lightly armored exoskeletons holding a C02-powered laser rifle which looks like it was designed to be attached to the front of an armored vehicle with gold accents with grey steel, the red almost opaque crystal inside the see-through chamber glowing softly.
The man raises the gun to the face of the guard
He hears gas pistons moving as his pelted with several red lasers that are invisible to the naked eye and extremely hot, most of them hit him in the chest
He fires without aiming as he steps back. There's a muffled pained sound as he backs up.
The bullet dents the armor as he continues to be pelted with extremely hot lasers, majority hit his chest while a few hit him in the arm
He steps back more as a hole is being burned through his jacket. He tries to run to the restroom doors
The door is locked as one of them yells out, "PUT YOUR HANDS UP" he continues to be pelted by the lasers
His jacket begins to ignite in fire. He drops the gun and starts trying to block the lasors using his arms
This only causes the extremely hot lasers to hit his arms, "PUT YOUR HANDS UP"
He strugles to but puts his hands up, his side is now onfire
They gas piston noises stop as one of them runs up to him and disconnects the hose to the gun as C02 sprays out of the hose and puts the fire out
He barely manages to keep his arms up as he backs into the door (edited)
The guy that disconnected his hose grabs both of the guys arms and starts wrestling them behind his back
He struggles some but he seems very weak
He grabs some zip ties and ties his wrists together, then kicks the back of his knees in an attempt to get him to kneel
He drops to his knees and tugs at the zipties
One of the other guys starts tending to the receptionist's wounds as a few of them start discussing amongst themselves
There's a sudden ringing from the man's jacket as he tries to stand up
The guy still standing behind him pushes down on his shoulder as he attempts to open his jacket
The man is pushed back down to his knees. The jacket unzips and there's something in his inside pocket
They reach into his inside pocket and try to fish it out
He pulls out a small explosive
They stare at the explosive and then promptly throw it out of the window and scream, "DUCK"
Half way through the air the explosive sets off. Along with the explosion is a burst of red smoke that quickly fills the lobby. The man is thrown onto his side and slides some from the force.
The guy that threw it is thrown back as he slides backward, the receptionist is showered by wooden shrapnel as the desk is torn apart and the security guy is thrown into the wall, everyone else ducks in time to avoid any shrapnel
The room is left in a red haze. Anyone breathing the substance in would experience their limbs falling asleep with a pins and needles feeling. A feeling of bad luck grows. The man tries to stand up
The guy that slid starts to get to his feet as he plants his foot he freezes in place and looks back at everyone else, they all look back at him and around the same time scream, "GAS, CALL THE CHEM SQUAD"
the man kicks his leg back as a switch blade sticks out from the heel. He uses it to quickly cut the zipties
The security force seems to sway slightly as an audible smacking of lips is heard, tire screeching is heard from outside
The man rushes towards a door to get further into the building. He starts search through his pockets for something as quickly as he can
All of the doors are locked, the front doors burst open with a loud bang behind him
He gets out a plastic waterbottle with a gray substance as he unscrews the lid and pours it on the door.
It starts eating through the doors as he hears the clack of rifles being loaded behind him followed by a muffled yell, "PUT YOUR GOD DAMN HANDS UP OR LETHAL FORCE WILL BE USED"
The man is about to slam himself through the door but suddenly freezes in place as he tilts his head to the side. Theres a pause before he faces them and put his hands up.
He can see 5 guys wearing black hazmat suits standing in the door way with M4s pointed at him, "Turn around and walk toward us slowly, don't make any sudden moves"
He turns around slowly. He catiously begins walking backwards towards them. (Anyone affected, entire body feels like pins and needles, and brain fog for another 30 minutes. Then all effects fade)
The security guys have not moved an inch, the chem team continues to watch him walk backward as everyone hears one of the elevators ding and Cole steps out wearing a gas mask and looks around the entire room and stares at the motorcycle helmet guy
He glances in Cole's direction as he goes to quickly snap his fingers
Cole points at him as he makes a muffled yell, "I WANT HIM IN CUSTODY NOW, GET HIM OUT OF MY FUCKING BUILDING" the chem team quickly slings the rifles and all of them instantly start grabbing his arms
On snaping his fingers he disappears and reappears a few feet foward. He rushes towards Cole
The chem team quickly unsling their rifles, Cole braces for getting tackled as he yells out, "THIS IS WHY WE JUST FUCKING SHOOT PEOPLE SOMETIMES"
He drops to his knees to slide past Cole and into the elevator. He quickly tries to hit a random button
Cole leaps into the elevator since he's still standing next to it and goes to punch him in the chest, the elevator doors close as it starts heading down
Hes punched and slamed into the wall. He aims a hook at Cole's gas mask, trying to knock it off or break the seal
Cole ducks to avoid the hook as he grabs his helmet and tries to yank it off with force
His hands slip from the helmet as its covered in a thin layer of something incrediably slick. He takes off a shoe with the blade coming out of the heel and stabs at Cole's torso
Cole's chest is stabbed as he exhales sharply, then aims a strong punch at the visor of the helmet
The punch doesn't leave a dent but his head moves back from the force. He pulls the blade out as his other hand going for one of his jacket pockets
The elevator suddenly jerks as it starts going back up, Cole draws his combat knife from his jacket and aims a slash at his chest
For a split second cole sees there are various small water bottles with liquids. The man grabs one and holds it out to block the attack. The liquid inside splashes around the inside of the elevator but his hand is badly cut in the process. Theres a loud sizzling from the floor
Cole doesn't seem concerned as his eyes start glowing a bright pink as he aims a slash right where the water bottles are
The jacket is cut and several different liquids in assorted colors spill from the cut. The man swings his elbow at Cole's gas mas.
The floor under them is getting weaker
Cole's gas mask seems pretty stuck on there as Cole stumbles into the elevator doors from the hit
The man tries to hit his mask again. The floor then caves in
Cole's mask is hit, only causing Cole to groan as he starts falling, he seems oddly calm as he holsters his knife and starts stabilizing himself
The man grabs onto Cole's leg as they fall
Cole's leg is grabbed as he quickly grabs his revolver from his jacket and flips on his back to aim at him
The man puts out one hand as if asking him to stop (edited)
Cole shakes his head as he cocks the hammer back on his revolver as he yells, "SHOULDN'T TRIED TO KILL ME" the bottom of the elevator shaft is approaching
The man's hand then goes to snap his fingers again (edited)
Cole aims at his palm as he starts putting pressure on the trigger, "If this kills me, you will be dead where you stand"
He snaps his fingers as they appear back in the lobby, a few feet above the ground where the man once stood. They both drop.
Cole groans as he hits the floor then they hear the elevator ding followed by the entire chem team rushing the motorcycle helmet guy
The man hits the ground and attempts to get up
The chem team start grabbing the guys arms and wrestling them behind his back
They zip ties his wrists again as Cole quickly scoots away from him and stands up with his revolver in his hand
The man is tring to fight but he's still fairly weak.
Cole looks at the chem team and says while muffled by his gas mask, "Get him out of here, NOW" the chem team pull him up by the zip ties and start trying to walk him out of the building
He is sat outside on his face then the chem team walks back inside and ask, "So? What's the plan here?" Cole sighs and replies, "Get everyone out of the building, distribute gas masks and close the place down until we can figure out a way to neutralize this shit"
The chem team nods as there's another click as they head back outside to grab spare equipment, Cole sighs and shakes his head as the sound of high heels slowly approaches
The man is still somewhat fighting though its more of shifting uncomfortably in hopes of the zipties magically falling off
The chem team walks back into the building with a duffle bag as Viper exits from the stairwell with a green and black respirator along with a green and black tuxedo to match with black dress pants and black stiletto's as she says with a confused and muffled voice, "What the fuck happened down here?! How many idiots did we lose?!"
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Cole sighs and looks over at Viper, "A couple" Cole walks over to the motorcycle guy and groans as he attempts to hook his fingers inside of the helmet and pull it off, "Now just who the fuck are you?"
The helmet comes off and he sees the face of human man staring back. He has brown short hair that was messed up by the helmet and hint of stubble on his chin. He watches them with brown eyes and a rather blank and tired stare. There's a wired earphone in one of his ears.
Cole drops the helmet and stares at him, "....You aren't a fucking rabbit?!"
He remains quiet and stares
Theres a faint chattering from the earpeice.
Cole snaps to staring at the earpiece as he tries to highten his hearing to better hear what's being said
From the earpeice he hears a distorted voice, "Take opertinuities, lethal threats passive. Persistence. Time remaining 1 hour 36 minutes 13 seconds."
Cole raises an eyebrow as he keeps his hearing hightened and starts tracing the earpiece wire to see where it goes (edited)
It goes down into his turtle neck style jacket. The man stays quiet and watches as the chatter in the earpeice continues, "Return on mark 30 minutes remaining. Continue objective. Current status take opportunities, lethal threats passive. Persistence. Time remaining 1 hour 34 minutes 58 seconds."
Cole opens up his jacket as best as he can to continue tracing the wire
The man continues to stare at him. On opening the jacket he finds the wire leads into a device in a shallow pocket on the upper half of the jacket
Cole reaches into the shallow pocket to fish out the device
Its a simple receiver. He hears over the chatter of the ear piece, "Objective terminated. Maintain wellbeing. Retain information. Return by 30 minute mark, self counted. Blackout." The chattering goes quiet.
Cole unplugs the ear piece and pockets the device as his hearing returns to normal, "I'll be taking this" Viper walks out of the building with a sigh, "One civ and one military death, one military injury otherwise the property damage totals up to at least 50 thousand from what i've seen" Cole nods, "Thanks, Viper"
Viper nods, "No problem, i'm assuming i'm free to leave" Cole nods as random people from the office are escorted out of the building by the chem team
The man remains quiet
Cole stares down at him, "So can you fucking talk now? Or are you mute? If you don't talk i'm gonna assume your mute and then just leave you for the security force to deal with or the police"
He states plainly but rather quietly as if he's exhausted, "I am not mute." He has a fairly soft voice
Cole kneels down next to him, "So you wanna tell me what the fuck that was about? If you tell me, i might not turn you into the local police"
The man states calmly, "Objectives."
Cole clears his throat, "And what are the objectives?" Viper walks back over and tosses him the empty syringe gun, "Need that refilled by the way, thanks" then she starts walking away again
The man responds, "Tasks to be forfilled or failed."
Cole rolls his eyes and pockets the syringe gun, "And what do you need to do to fulfill the tasks specifically?"
The man continues, "Collect."
Cole groans with annoyance, "And what do you need to collect?" Cole takes the syringe gun out of his pocket and starts fiddling with it
The man replies, "You or the stolen item."
Cole stares at him, "I'm sorry, collect me? Yeah no, i'm not property" Cole suddenly jabs him in the neck with the syringe gun and starts drawing out some of his blood
The man doesn't flinch at all. The blood collected from him is seemingly normal. He still keeps the blank unwavering stare. A slight feeling of bad luck grows.
Cole smirks slightly, "Bad luck huh? What next? Are you gonna start telling about a rabbit?" Cole finishes drawing the blood as he stands up
The man comments, "You mean Rowan."
Cole shrugs, "Not the same rabbit but i do have my eye on him"
The man states under his breath, "Unloyal."
Cole glares down at him, "So what? He doesn't even remember me, it would just be sad"
Suddenly the man's experession seems to shift. His blank expression quickly to mild surprise as he glances around at the situation
Cole raises an eyebrow at him, "Finally realize something?"
He gives a slight scoff, "The Hell happened here?"
Cole shakes his head and chuckles lightly, "You happened here"
He laughs slightly, seeming more chipper and speaking alot more loudly, "I did this? That's alot!"
Cole raises an eyebrow, "Do....do you remember walking here?"
He nods his head side to side, "More or less." He looks up at one of the employees that had helped take him down, "You have like really strong arms. How long do you work out every day?"
The employee doesn't respond as he starts setting up a barricade in front of the door, Cole sighs as he takes his gas mask off and drops it on the ground as he grumbles, "Is the gas deadly and how do you neutralize it?" Cole looks like he's getting tired
He somewhat shrugs, "Unless you're alergic to naps, not really. And probably just air it out. Usually works fine for me." He smiles at Cole.
Cole nods and looks over at the chemical team to check if they heard, they collectively nod and walk away as they start presumably talking on a radio Cole then looks back at him and sighs, "So can i get your name?"
The man nods happily, "I go by Mailman. Told I have the greatest delivery!"
Cole's face drops then quickly goes neutral as he nods, "Thank you, to be fair i'll tell you my name it's Cole"
Mailman's eyebrows raise, "Ah! Cole! That would make sense."
Cole raises an eyebrow, "What do you mean by that?"
Mailman shrugs, "Been alot of chaos lately and frankly I'm a bit too tired to explain. Like get this. My dog ended up going to the vet becuase we couldn't get a splinter out from his tail. It was insane."
Cole shakes his head and groans, "Right, well you may or may not have killed 2 people and destroyed at least 50 thousand dollars worth of property so...i'll probably end up having you put in a containment thing or whatever"
Mailman looks as if he was told something minor, "Aw well thats a shame huh?"
Cole looks disapprovingly at Mailman as he folds his arms
Mailman adds, "So hows the kids?"
Cole sighs, "Don't have any" he can hear a vehicle slowly approaching
Mailman tilts his head, "Really? None? That's interesting. You look like a family man."
Cole blinks slowly, "I look like a deranged animal half the time, so no it's not interesting"
Mailman shakes his head, "Oh no definately not. You look well put together."
An armored truck pulls up behind Cole, "No, no i do not at least not right now" the back doors swing open as a couple secuirty force guys step out and walk up to Mailman
Mailman looks up at them, "Oh hey, welcome to the party!"
The security force guys grab Mailman and put him in the back of the truck then it quickly speeds away
