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Esther winced as a bit of feeling returned to her body. A few minutes later, the stampede of elephants in her throbbing head finally began to form some deciferable(sp?) thoughts. She had decided that she must not be dead, since she could hear her heart pounding in her ears, and no longer in a moving vehicle because she was holding too perfectly still. But that was about it. After much effort, her eyes slid open half-way as she tried to focus on her nose. It was hard enough waking up, she didn't want to use up more energy than she had to just yet.

"Anyone there?" Richard tried into his radio, quietly again; he kept his tread as close to silent as he could and kept crouched, clearing sections of the warehouse. With just two it would be easy to be surprised and surrounding, and that was trouble. On the other hand, there might be friendlies here, and he wanted them to know who he was and where he was coming from. No radio response, though; it seemed unpromising. Still... maybe they didn't have a radio anymore. He'd have to see. "What do these people look like?" Richard asked St. Cyrill quietly as they kept moving. He winced as he spoke, realizing the echoes would probably carry.

Gray pointed to Esther, put a finger to his lips, then to himself, and pointed towards where the noise was coming from. He nodded and smiled, then moved silently through the crates.
He stopped about twenty feet away from where Richard was scoping the warehouse, off to his right. He peeked his head out to get a look.
A mouse scampered through some packing peanuts off to Richard's left.

The agent nodded a bit in satisfaction. "All right. But you won't be going alone, I hope you know." He passed her a few sheets of paper. "Another Agent will be accompanying you."

((Because Tiki is just that awesome.
Our group will be moving again soon, Jacob has a post to make...))

She raised an eyebrow in silent skepticism. A partner? She'd never required one before, why now? This certainly was... unexpected. "May I ask why? And who will this agent be?"

((OMG THAT WOULD BE TIGHT!!! HAHA!))

Xander continued to look around at the "sciency-wet dream" until he came across a small, box-like machine.
What's this? he wondered, moving to take a closer look at the box. There was a big, red button on the top of the box. Curious, and not thinking much of it, Xander moved to push the button.
He stopped just shy of doing so, thinking it a bad idea. He instead turned to rejoin the group. As he turned, the end of his bow nudge the stand of a beaker, sending it sliding into another causing it to spill the other's contents on the table, beneath a test tube's stand.

Apparently, the beaker's contents were acidic, for they began to eat through the table, creating a hole through which the test tube and it's stand fell through, causing the test tube to shatter on the ground.

s**t.

One of the agents heard the noise and went to investigate.
He spotted Xander and yelled something. More agents game, guns drawn.
Xander picked up the box-device and through it at the nearest agent. It hit him, pushing in the button. The device began to make a loud, unholy, obnoxious sound. Over and over and over again.

As the devil box began to fall, time, once again, seemed to slow down for Xander. Sounds seemed to be playing in slow-motion, along with movement. What the ******** was this?

Not caring to answer his own question, Xander readied his bow and loosed two arrows in about two seconds, real time.

Kurtis slipped out another door.

She pursed her lips. A... partner. Drawing her hands from the pockets of the coat, she rested an elbow on the table and cupped her chin, deep in thought. A female partner, out and about, probably on her own trail to the substance. Was this really so dangerous as to require a duo? Something in the back of her mind said 'yes', but quickly she hushed it. Idly, Ly drew off the sunglasses, they were beginning to annoy her. The frames had been on so long they left a light imprint on the bridge of her nose.