Sage hardly realized she’d been talking so much. Up until now, she had been so quiet, but... but Ashe... she was an unprecedented medical discovery! The impact such a discovery could make on the many fields of genetic engineering were incredible. The azure haired girl could have drooled over the revolutionary prospects Ashe’s genetic code had on the understanding of genetics and genetic manipulation.
She realized, though, that during her tirade, she had made the pink haired girl remarkably uncomfortable. Sage winced at this: she was essentially calling her a freak. She frowned heavily - this same designation was given to her many times. Genetics... she mused. She shook her head. It’s not worth-
The entire room thundered under the dull, metallic blow of the unseen android. “I think Walter is alive and wants out now. Let’s hope this works right,” Ashe shouted, before another thunderous crash shook the room. Sage drew her pistol, awkwardly holding it in front of herself, close to her chest.
At that moment, the door was torn from its hinges and hurled into the room as though it were the thinnest sheet of plywood. At the same time, Ashe stumbled forward, then keeled over backwards. Sage, panicked, called out her name, in vain, reaching out only to just barely brush her wrist as Ashe went crashing to the floor as a bright blue flash dazzled Sage for but an instant, so quickly she wasn’t sure it had actually happened.
The blue haired girl suddenly froze as the pale, fearsome android’s hands reached out from the darkness of the entrance way, grasping onto the metal doorframe before hauling itself into the main room. Immediately, its gaze focused on Sage, who felt paralyzed under the machine’s scrutinous eye. An age could have passed and the girl would not have known it, trapped before the android’s dead, grey eyes.
“Data on file. Female hybrid. Saiyan, human, and race not on file,” it boomed, seeming to Sage as an arbiter of some higher power, passing judgement from on high. It looked over to Ashe next. “Data on file. Female hybrid. Anomalous genetic structure - unable to identify,” WALTER turned and headed into the room, appraising the others in the same manner.
Now that the danger had passed, Sage dropped to her knees, aside Ashe, checking her wrist and neck for a pulse. Satisfied, she moved on to her breathing. That, too, checked out. Finally, the addict lifted the girl’s head to check for any obvious trauma. Not even a cut. “Okay, you just fainted...” the girl looked over at the robot, which now stepped over the massive steel door it had so easily obliterated. “Can’t say I blame you,” Sage observed, completely misinterpreting the reason for Ashe’s sudden unconsciousness.
Toppling an office chair, she spun it around so the wheeled legs were pointed toward Ashe. With a slight grunt, she lifted one of the pink haired girl’s legs and slid the chair underneath it. She picked up the other leg next and did the same. “Now it’s up to you to wake up, Ashe,” Sage frowned, looking over at WALTER, who suddenly hurled a fist into one of the few barricades separating them from the goblins Ashe had spotted on the screen earlier. “Please hurry!”
Still sitting on her knees, she twisted around to stare over her shoulder in bewilderment as the android literally dug its fingers into the steel barricade, and hefted it up into the air, pulling it off its massive hinges, before tossing it aside just as easily as he’d done the other.
From the hole poured a swarm of goblins, rushing the android while Rose and Kazuya took defensive positions. WALTER, however, seemed totally unfazed as they buried him beneath their offensive, lashing out with primitive weapons fashioned from now-ruined laboratory equipment.
The room suddenly went white, and there was a loud boom. The crystal haired girl toppled over, stunned by the flashbang effect. Seconds felt like hours as she desperately tried to blink away the white that blanketed her vision. Soon, things faded in, obscured by great spots. Sage could hardly comprehend the sight before her, not even realizing as the absolute silence around her was mercifully replaced with a painful ringing in her ears, letting her know she wasn’t deaf.
Somehow, in the seconds of blindness, WALTER had dispatched... everything. All of the goblins lay dead, charred and burned beyond recognition. Mangled lumps of horrid smelling flesh littered through the chamber. On the backs of WALTER’s forearms had appeared what looked like laser cannons.
Sage’s off-the-wall suspicions were confirmed as another gibbering, screeching goblin charged through the doorway only to be incinerated by a blast from one of the cannons. The android tromped on ahead, through the obliterated barrier, in search of other creatures to destroy.
To the right, near Rose and Kazuya, an explosion rocked the building, collapsing the wall adjacent to them. From the rubble swarmed another horde of goblins, and with WALTER gone, they were forced to defend themselves. The assassin deftly slashed and sliced through them with practiced ease, while Rose brutally beat back any of the creatures who evaded Kazuya’s blade.
Realizing they could not push past the women, the fiendish creatures suddenly...
“What!?”
“Incredible!”
“N-No!”
Voices rang out altogether. The goblins had decided to simply climb the walls. While several leapt into the fray on the ground, occupying the two warriors, many more raced up the walls, leaping down from them to deliver an aerial assault.
“No good!” Kazuya shouted, more quickly willing to trade pride for common sense than her pink haired companion. “Fall back!! We have to get out of here right now! Get going!! Now!!”
Sage trembled as the goblins swarmed into the room, armed with axes and clubs. One held scalpels in between its fingers, like some kind of twisted take on spiked knuckles. She tried to move, couldn’t.
The fearsome creatures drew closer as Rose and Kazuya fought them off as they retreated across the room, toward... her. She tried to move, couldn’t.
One leapt from the ceiling, then, landing on Rose’s back and pinning her to the floor. The assassin was occupied with too many to help, and the subdued girl fought hard beneath the creature, but was overwhelmed as more and more leapt on top of her.
Sage tried to move. Could- These people- she growled, projecting herself to the women and the goblins around her. -helped me! her growl became more feral as her hand fell back onto the plasma pistol. She lifted it up to the growing pile on top of the pink haired girl with the bizarre DNA. These people- she repeated, staring at the goblins. She rationalized what she was about to do. They weren’t human, weren’t people. She’d never killed a person before but goblins weren’t people. ...Right? Sage shook her head. -helped me!!
The girl opened fire, and a single, fiery green ball of energy raced across the room, colliding near the top of the pile of goblins. A cacophony of shrieks and screams rang out, and Sage watched as skin was vaporized, leaving only bone behind. From beneath the carnage burst Rose, freeing herself from the ones still alive.
“Help!!” Sage shrieked, motioning to Ashe. Kaz saw this, and with an immense hiss of contempt, detoured up to the workstation. The assassin hefted the girl over her shoulder, shooting a glare at Sage, before leading the way to the very back of their chamber. “We’re trapped!”
“Through the vent!” Rose declared, kicking in a large grate, revealing a ventilation shaft that plunged sharply downward. Kaz was the first through it, then Sage, then Rose. The group slid down the ventilation tube, until the purple haired one crashed through a grate and tumbled into what looked to be some kind of control room. Computer equipment was strewn everywhere.
Sage crashed onto the floor out of the vent, and Rose exited after her with a great deal more grace, and helped the blue haired girl to her feet. “Here,” Kazuya suddenly announced, dropping Ashe to the floor. “If you’re worried about her, you take her.”
Sage frowned, but said nothing, and instead withdrew a capsule, clicked it, and let it drop to the floor. From the smoke emerged her medical kit, from which she retrieved a vial of adrenaline. “Not... strictly recommended,” she observed, as she extracted the substance into a syringe. “But I don’t really have anything else for this, Ashe,” she sighed, plunging the needle of adrenalin into the girl’s neck. “Wake up,” she beseeched, pushing the plunger down.
“They're coming! I can hear them!!” Rose shouted.
She realized, though, that during her tirade, she had made the pink haired girl remarkably uncomfortable. Sage winced at this: she was essentially calling her a freak. She frowned heavily - this same designation was given to her many times. Genetics... she mused. She shook her head. It’s not worth-
The entire room thundered under the dull, metallic blow of the unseen android. “I think Walter is alive and wants out now. Let’s hope this works right,” Ashe shouted, before another thunderous crash shook the room. Sage drew her pistol, awkwardly holding it in front of herself, close to her chest.
At that moment, the door was torn from its hinges and hurled into the room as though it were the thinnest sheet of plywood. At the same time, Ashe stumbled forward, then keeled over backwards. Sage, panicked, called out her name, in vain, reaching out only to just barely brush her wrist as Ashe went crashing to the floor as a bright blue flash dazzled Sage for but an instant, so quickly she wasn’t sure it had actually happened.
The blue haired girl suddenly froze as the pale, fearsome android’s hands reached out from the darkness of the entrance way, grasping onto the metal doorframe before hauling itself into the main room. Immediately, its gaze focused on Sage, who felt paralyzed under the machine’s scrutinous eye. An age could have passed and the girl would not have known it, trapped before the android’s dead, grey eyes.
“Data on file. Female hybrid. Saiyan, human, and race not on file,” it boomed, seeming to Sage as an arbiter of some higher power, passing judgement from on high. It looked over to Ashe next. “Data on file. Female hybrid. Anomalous genetic structure - unable to identify,” WALTER turned and headed into the room, appraising the others in the same manner.
Now that the danger had passed, Sage dropped to her knees, aside Ashe, checking her wrist and neck for a pulse. Satisfied, she moved on to her breathing. That, too, checked out. Finally, the addict lifted the girl’s head to check for any obvious trauma. Not even a cut. “Okay, you just fainted...” the girl looked over at the robot, which now stepped over the massive steel door it had so easily obliterated. “Can’t say I blame you,” Sage observed, completely misinterpreting the reason for Ashe’s sudden unconsciousness.
Toppling an office chair, she spun it around so the wheeled legs were pointed toward Ashe. With a slight grunt, she lifted one of the pink haired girl’s legs and slid the chair underneath it. She picked up the other leg next and did the same. “Now it’s up to you to wake up, Ashe,” Sage frowned, looking over at WALTER, who suddenly hurled a fist into one of the few barricades separating them from the goblins Ashe had spotted on the screen earlier. “Please hurry!”
Still sitting on her knees, she twisted around to stare over her shoulder in bewilderment as the android literally dug its fingers into the steel barricade, and hefted it up into the air, pulling it off its massive hinges, before tossing it aside just as easily as he’d done the other.
From the hole poured a swarm of goblins, rushing the android while Rose and Kazuya took defensive positions. WALTER, however, seemed totally unfazed as they buried him beneath their offensive, lashing out with primitive weapons fashioned from now-ruined laboratory equipment.
The room suddenly went white, and there was a loud boom. The crystal haired girl toppled over, stunned by the flashbang effect. Seconds felt like hours as she desperately tried to blink away the white that blanketed her vision. Soon, things faded in, obscured by great spots. Sage could hardly comprehend the sight before her, not even realizing as the absolute silence around her was mercifully replaced with a painful ringing in her ears, letting her know she wasn’t deaf.
Somehow, in the seconds of blindness, WALTER had dispatched... everything. All of the goblins lay dead, charred and burned beyond recognition. Mangled lumps of horrid smelling flesh littered through the chamber. On the backs of WALTER’s forearms had appeared what looked like laser cannons.
Sage’s off-the-wall suspicions were confirmed as another gibbering, screeching goblin charged through the doorway only to be incinerated by a blast from one of the cannons. The android tromped on ahead, through the obliterated barrier, in search of other creatures to destroy.
To the right, near Rose and Kazuya, an explosion rocked the building, collapsing the wall adjacent to them. From the rubble swarmed another horde of goblins, and with WALTER gone, they were forced to defend themselves. The assassin deftly slashed and sliced through them with practiced ease, while Rose brutally beat back any of the creatures who evaded Kazuya’s blade.
Realizing they could not push past the women, the fiendish creatures suddenly...
“What!?”
“Incredible!”
“N-No!”
Voices rang out altogether. The goblins had decided to simply climb the walls. While several leapt into the fray on the ground, occupying the two warriors, many more raced up the walls, leaping down from them to deliver an aerial assault.
“No good!” Kazuya shouted, more quickly willing to trade pride for common sense than her pink haired companion. “Fall back!! We have to get out of here right now! Get going!! Now!!”
Sage trembled as the goblins swarmed into the room, armed with axes and clubs. One held scalpels in between its fingers, like some kind of twisted take on spiked knuckles. She tried to move, couldn’t.
The fearsome creatures drew closer as Rose and Kazuya fought them off as they retreated across the room, toward... her. She tried to move, couldn’t.
One leapt from the ceiling, then, landing on Rose’s back and pinning her to the floor. The assassin was occupied with too many to help, and the subdued girl fought hard beneath the creature, but was overwhelmed as more and more leapt on top of her.
Sage tried to move. Could- These people- she growled, projecting herself to the women and the goblins around her. -helped me! her growl became more feral as her hand fell back onto the plasma pistol. She lifted it up to the growing pile on top of the pink haired girl with the bizarre DNA. These people- she repeated, staring at the goblins. She rationalized what she was about to do. They weren’t human, weren’t people. She’d never killed a person before but goblins weren’t people. ...Right? Sage shook her head. -helped me!!
The girl opened fire, and a single, fiery green ball of energy raced across the room, colliding near the top of the pile of goblins. A cacophony of shrieks and screams rang out, and Sage watched as skin was vaporized, leaving only bone behind. From beneath the carnage burst Rose, freeing herself from the ones still alive.
“Help!!” Sage shrieked, motioning to Ashe. Kaz saw this, and with an immense hiss of contempt, detoured up to the workstation. The assassin hefted the girl over her shoulder, shooting a glare at Sage, before leading the way to the very back of their chamber. “We’re trapped!”
“Through the vent!” Rose declared, kicking in a large grate, revealing a ventilation shaft that plunged sharply downward. Kaz was the first through it, then Sage, then Rose. The group slid down the ventilation tube, until the purple haired one crashed through a grate and tumbled into what looked to be some kind of control room. Computer equipment was strewn everywhere.
Sage crashed onto the floor out of the vent, and Rose exited after her with a great deal more grace, and helped the blue haired girl to her feet. “Here,” Kazuya suddenly announced, dropping Ashe to the floor. “If you’re worried about her, you take her.”
Sage frowned, but said nothing, and instead withdrew a capsule, clicked it, and let it drop to the floor. From the smoke emerged her medical kit, from which she retrieved a vial of adrenaline. “Not... strictly recommended,” she observed, as she extracted the substance into a syringe. “But I don’t really have anything else for this, Ashe,” she sighed, plunging the needle of adrenalin into the girl’s neck. “Wake up,” she beseeched, pushing the plunger down.
“They're coming! I can hear them!!” Rose shouted.
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