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Luciano gave nod at Pen and then he looked to everyone else, "Move out." he said as he walked with Michelle to the opposite side of the base.
Crucificcio motioned for Pen to lead the way. He followed her lead just in case they had any problems, he'd give her the cover fire she needed.

At one point in time, Waffle and Sabe had reached a long hallway, with no cameras going about. It still seemed suspicious, but it could have just been poor planning on the security team's part.

However, a guard just happened to head into the hall and spotted the two in there. He immediately ran after them, having left his rifle in the barracks instead of carrying it around. Sabe grabbed Waffle by the arm and headed into the nearest room, which happened to be a janitor's closet.

"Hopefully he's stupid enough to follow us into here" he muttered to Waffle.

"Mn..dunno about that, re-"

Waffle's sentence was cut off as the guard opened the door. She immediately choked him with her towel as Sabe dragged him in.

"See what I mean?" Sabe said as he began searching the unconscious guard for anything useful. He found a cloaking device, a key card, and a fully loaded tranquilizer gun which he wondered why the guard didn't bother to use. Meanwhile, Waffle was looking around the room.

"Haul me up there, will you?" she said, pointing to an air vent.
"You're going to head inside of the vent?"
"Might as well. If anyone was to see me, they'd sound all the alarms in the base. That guy we just took down was probably the dull crayon of the box, but the rest are likely smarter than to play chase."

"Alright then. Let's see if you can fit in there." Sabe said as he picked up Waffle and raised her up to the air vent. She quickly removed the screws that held it in place, which weren't tightened in all the way, removed the cover, and then crawled inside. She turned around and gave Sabe a thumbs-up.

"Looks like I can. I'll see you around." Waffle said, then she turned around again and headed deeper into the ventilation system

Sabe was now left to sneak around on his own. He checked the battery power on the cloaking device and shook his head.

Halfway out of power. Just lovely. At least the battery isn't completely dead.

He switched the power to 'on' as he headed out of the closet, and continued down the hall.

(Interesting.)


Waffle scooted along the air vent, trying to make as little noise as possible. At many points, she reached a dead end, and at this particular point, the only path was down. Next to a large, powered-on, full-speed industrial vent fan.

Looks like that could cut me up and spit me out on the other side. Geez.

She shifted her stuff to one arm as she attempted to move to the lower vent and not get cut to pieces.

Almost there...

She almost in the vent when she slipped. She barely got sliced when she dodged the fan blade and crawled into the lower section of the vent. Now that she was past the whirling fan, she looked back, catching her breath, then continued her crawl.

(wtf? Is that sarcasm pen? because I am not leaving the black ops, I have just felt recently that skotti has kind of taken the backseat as far as action goes so this is kind of a revisiting of his past, I was thinking he would be all emo and kind of slip into the emotional state he was in before he entered the black ops and luciano or you would snap him out of it and be all "you're our leader so act like it!" and it would be some triumphant return or something.)

"WHERE ARE THEY!?" The Darkness yelled as he held an officer up by his collar. "I...I don't know" stuttered the officer.
The Darkness threw him on the ground in an irrational fashion. "I bet you have friends.... no.... family, You have a family right?! well they are not going to know where you are either if you don't tell me where the Blackhearts are NOW!" he screamed.
"Please..." the officer begged
"No? then di- ie ie" Skotti showed through the Darkness that had taken his body over "R..run" he squeezed out as the officer ran for his life.
Once The Darkness regain control, the innocent man was gone and The Darkness forgot quickly and continued his search.

(No I'm quite serous. Describing the death of the solider as a point blank shot would be reminiscent of the blood splatter in the banner. I thought it was a nice tie in. I would still like the banner either way. Oh and I love the Kenshin motif biggrin the whole two personalities taking control thing.)

The two made it to the Armory to find that neither Waffle, Sabe or the boss had stayed put. "Well I'm not surprise but this got whole lot more difficult." Pen then noticed a something in the corner and hesitantly approached it.

It couldn't be. He wouldn't leave his jacket behind.

(I hope it ok I take the jacket right Waffle? I wanted to soup up the drama! But if it bothers anyone I will edit)

(@ Pen: Sounds like a good idea. I wouldn't figure out how Sabe would keep hold of the jacket anyways o_o [[and YES! DRAMA!]] )


Waffle had climbed numerous levels of vents; up, down, left, right, whichever direction the vent headed off to, Waffle had climbed it. She also looked through the vent covers to look at the numerous hallways and rooms. Sometimes for a second, it would seem as if she had already seen a room before. As she was still crawling, it became a re-occurring thing.

I can't be lost...Not here...really?

However...there was one vent pathway that she never crawled through yet. Unfortunately for her, the entrance to it was much higher than normal, and the fall below was not a bladed fan, but a furnace.

She reached the intersection with the high vent, and being sure not to be too close to the furnace pit, she decided to stay put and rest a bit.

Waffle looked at the high up vent, and decided to finally head inside of it. She balanced her weight as she grabbed onto the ledge of the vent. She felt her wrists becoming unusually warm.

Great. My bracelets are melting together already...

She set her crystal and her towel on the high ledge before she started to climb. Soon she realized that it would be almost impossible to climb it normally.

I'm still too short. Dammit.

She was already sweating from the heat; Her palms lessened their grip on the metal. It was all or nothing now.

Waffle backed up a bit, then tried to jump into the opening of the vent. She barely managed to pull herself up, but at least she made it up without falling. She did notice that her hairpin had fallen down into the furnace, but that was a minuscule matter.

Now on the highest ledge, she picked up her stuff and hurried down the vent, away from the heat.

((Sorry guys, I got so caught up in the summer event that I forgot to post here, too. lol- OH! And Pen, I do not mind at all! You did good!))

Crucificcio followed close behind Pen, his rifle ready with extra ammo, and he had his handy side arms prepared as well. The moment he heard a noise he gently stopped Pen, raised his index finger to his lips, he peeked around the corner and then a second later he pressed his back up against the wall. He looked over at Pen and he said, "Six guards with assault rifles heading this way. You get my twelve, as planned, I'll have your six. Whoever you don't take down, I will cover you." he said in almost a loud whisper.

Luciano and Michelle found themselves near the prison complex section. Luciano kept Michelle as close to him as possible, but not too close. He needed her to provide the sharpshooting while he went for the other forces that came their way. Suddenly he felt Michelle grab him by the back of his Grizzly Hoodie and then shove him into a room. Luciano went to scold her, but she covered his mouth and then Luciano heard the sound of soldiers walking by. Luciano gave her a small nod, symbolizing his gratefulness, and then to tell him 'you're welcome' she kissed him on the cheek. Then they went about their business to find Skotti and his team.

((I'll post more tomorrow- Alison won't be on all day tomorrow, so I have her verbal consent to move and/or play her character- Oh, and she says "HIIIIIII" to all of you.))