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Kioko only needed one glance from crow to tell her that this was her opening. She accelerated her running speed and ran up to the creature, bringing down her arm, she applied as much force as she could to her swing to try and cut through the neck area with her 'wind blade.'

Akki tries to remember everything that happened before she woke up in this weird place. That's right, she was killed by a lost bullet and nobody never came to pick up her dead body. Her ghost saw that for sure but when she saw her body for the last time, she felt like she was disappearing and it seems years before she woke up here.

Akki tapped on the glass wanting to get out but the doctor just stood there, reading his clipboard. What am I? An experiment?, she thought as she also watches the other two fight.

"Wait, Ventus, stop." He said to the big man, whose shoulder he was perched upon like an odd parrot. "Do you hear that?"
The sound was muffled by Angelo's stealth, but was definantly there. Angelo turned off his power and jumped down from Ventus' shoulder. The sound was much more clear now, a low rhythmic humming. Creeping along the ground, he advanced, searching out the origins of the sound. He stopped at a cluster of rocks, hearing the humming more audibly there than anywhere else.
"Here, Ventus." He said, pointing. "Move these."

Kioko quickly withdrew her hands from the oozing neck of the monster to cover her ears from the blood-curling scream that it yelled. As much as she hated to kill un-necessarily, this one was different, it wanted nothing but to kill, no thoughts or anything.

"Are we done yet?" She whispered to Crow low enough so only he would hear after the scream died down.

Crow twisted his legs from the hold in a spinning roll that tossed the creature a few feet away. He landed from the spin in a crouching position before rising to his feet. He glared over towards the holding cells where the rest of the creatures waited. He turned to Kioko and shook his head. It wasn't likely, he had never left this arena after a single test, and he and Kioko were here for a reason, these tests would likely test their endurance. He then turned towards the window where the doctor would be, waiting for any sign of his intentions.

Doctor K heard a significant lot of commotion from the room to the side, a young girl emerged from the room, yet surprisingly the doctor did not turn to address the problem. Instead he allowed her to leave on her own, he didn't have time now, for as the experiments below defeated the abomination there was a disturbance in the terminals, they flickered and shorted for a small while. It seemed to the doctor that they might be expecting company. "Crow, Kioko, you have shown promise, and excellent performance of teamwork, and you have no idea how much you will need that. But as we now are quite possibly short of time there are a few changes to be made to our plans today. First of all, Kioko, please take this here." The doctor placed yet another of his small vials of liquid into a small, box-like compartment in the desk. It closed and delivered the item to the arena room below by chute, into a similar compartment in the wall. "Give it to Crow when it is needed." His hands shifted across the board to the devices they had operated minutes ago. He opened the gates holding the creatures almost fully before shutting them again, allowing three more of the experiments to escape. "I understand that the terms are less than accommodating, but I ask of you, please try to survive."

The first of the three was cautious yet aware, it stood watching carefully without making advance or retreat. Small gusts of wind seemed to blow its hair about in intervals and the ground quaked as it shifted around. It seemed to glare at Kioko with with longing and hatred.

The second crouched down on all fours, attempting to dig its claws into the ground beneath it. It was silent as it moved cautiously towards the two experiments. It opened its maw and let out a cat-like growl.

The last stood up straight and approached Crow at a walking pace. It bared its teeth as sharp razors and tightened its frame to appear bulkier. An aura of black flames sot out from around it and enveloped it as it approached.

Doctor K then removed a device from his coat, he unscrewed a flat, featureless panel on the board and pulled a few wires from the bunch with jacks that he used to connect the device. Then with a click of a button on the box its purpose became realized. Two crystals and panels on the sides of the arena rose from their surfaces. Luckily they were still intact, he had installed them himself over the recent years. The structures began to emit an aura, the same as that which had been of the crystal he had exposed the experiments to in his personal station outside the base.

On one side of the strange generator room there was a door, no doubt connecting to the rest of the lab. But, on the other side was a pit. It was down into this pit that all the wires lead.
"C'mon, Ventus." Angelo motioned to the big man as he spoke. Ventus gingerly picked Angelo up and placed him on his shoulder. Angelo closed his eyes and, a moment later, they had faded away, out of sight and sound, disturbing only the physical objects around them, and undetectable by any other method. With little thought to his own safety, Ventus jumped down the shaft and into the dark void below. The pit was long, and it took them almost a full minute to reach the bottom.
Angelo disengaged his stealth and jumped down once again. They stood before a rusted iron grate. It opened easily, and it's hinges appeared to have been freshly oiled. Walking out into the dimly lit hall slowly, Angelo was surprised to suddenly stand face-to-face with one of the lab's large, empty Guardians. It was a creature of magic, a large suit of mass produced armor enchanted for a specific purpose: to keep experiments in, and civilians out. It looked at him, and he could tell it did so with great scrutiny, even if it had no eyes. It also looked at Ventus with the same inquisitive gleam. Then, suddenly, it attacked.