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 Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:25 pm
  Daren looked over and spotted Pierce "Oh... yeah, I remember you. Looks like you found my sister." He sighed. "And, of course, where ever Robyn is, there has to be an explosion." Pierce wondered how this guy could act so nonchalant so soon after all hell broke loose. Then, "Hospital? Jake doesn't belong in a hospital. He needs to get back to the base." Pierce was hurt by the sharp tone she used, a Hospital sounded like a great idea at the moment. He was struck again by how little he knew of where he was. He shrugged it off and moved forward to help the girl with the unconscious Officer. "So where is this Base?" The guy wasn't too heavy but it was hard considering he was taller than Pierce.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:27 pm
Juliette Marshall  Juliette was studying in her apartment a block from the explosion when she heard a bang and then shouts and screams from outside on the street. Swearing under her breath she jumped up and ran to the window, outside a crowd was gathering a block away while others were running in the opposite direction. The only thing that could create such commotion was an EGG or EGGs. She pulled on a pair of boots that went over her knee high socks she tended to wear with a skirt and a sweater- looking the part of a typical math geek as her friends would joke. It wasn't that she didn't have hipper clothing she just didn't like standing out.
As she pulled on her boots she muttered curses as she caught a glance of her reflection in the mirror before she left out the door- she still sported bandages from her last EGG encounter, at least she didn't sport any broken bones from that encounter. Running up the stairs she got on the roof and quickly made her way down the block hopping from one roof top to another.
Reaching the scene- at the Sutherland robotics and technology shop she ran down the fire escape and reached the scene where there was a blonde guy, pink haired girl, a brunette man on the ground not looking the best, an auburn hair youth, a blonde haired girl, and a slightly suspicious looking individual. "What happened to the Egg?" She demanded evaluating the pieces of metal lying around them, her light blue eyes narrowed.
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:38 pm
 Skye sprung backwards and crouched as soon as Robyn yelled at them to hit the decks. She wrapped her body around her instrument and her arms around her head for protection. She heard the girl call out Jake's name (apparently they really didn't hate each other, she thought, then wondered if she should have meddled in their argument) and saw a flash of pink pass by besides her. That was when she stood up again to see a blonde guy (Robyn's brother as Skye was informed later) walk in trough the door. Another guy walked in. His hair was an interesting shade of white (probably bleached, he was way too young to be going gray). He started asking them what was going on. Skye was wondering that herself. She had heard a little about the eggs through rumors and such but they weren't really publicized much for fear of freaking out the masses. And now she had witnessed one in real life. And apparently these guys belonged to some part of the government. A faint smile began to spread across Skye's lips. Today was about to get really interesting. Robyn said something about going to a base. Pierce and Robyn were struggling to keep Jake upright (cause of his height). If she was going to join them, she might as well make herself useful. "May I?" She asked them as she handed her instrument over to Daren. Then she effortlessly put him on her back. "I can carry him if you guys don't mind." She told Robyn and Pierce. Another girl joined them, just as they were about to leave. Her hair was an interesting shade of blue. She looked familiar. Skye wondered if she knew her.
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:38 pm
Skye came out at that moment and relieved Pierce of the large man. "Cheers..." he thanked her unenthusiastically. He wondered if today could get any stranger. Just then, it did. He watched a girl with brilliant blue hair barrel down the fire escape and rush her way through the growing crowd. She wore and a sweater and when she spoke, she spoke with a uncharacteristic amount of authority, "What happened to the Egg?" Pierce looked around to see if anyone else more qualified would speak up, when no one did, Pierce spoke "Uh, well it exploded, but I think that was fairly obvious..."
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:36 pm
Juliette Marshall If looks could kill, Juliette would have been convicted of murder a long time ago- she had a scathing look that could scare anyone but the most brave and fool-worthy one percent of the population. Juliette's blue eyes glared through her bangs (that were the same color as her light blue eyes) with a murderous look towards Pierce. "That much is obvious," she replied, her voice venomous. "However, Eggs don't just explode on their own. They are cold blooded murderous monsters that will kill until you obliterate them piece by piece. Few people can take on an Egg and live to tell the tale- regardless of whether they win or lose against one."
She brushed her bangs out of her eyes revealing a pretty face marred with a large bandage on her cheek and a healing gash across her forehead. "I would guess the man on the blonde girl's back is the man responsible for destroying the Egg." She bowed slightly towards the unconscious man, noticing the girl looked vaguely familiar (probably a fellow university student, most likely undergrad she thought dismissively), "For that I owe him- or whoever responsible- a thank-you. It is nice to know that others in the city have the guts to take on an Egg."
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:22 pm
 Pierce clenched his teeth. Who was she to talk to him like that? Pierce calmed himself mentally, he already had enough problems without pissing off everyone he met. "Sorry, but I just got here today. I have never even heard of these EGG things until I had a little unexpected run-in earlier." Pierce kept his tone neutral. He pulled out a bottle of water and took a gulp to refresh himself. "Shouldn't we get this guy somewhere quick? It looks like he might have a concussion."
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:03 pm
That girl and Pierce bickered for a bit. Skye remembered where she knew her from. The girl had been in her computer science class a while back. She was older by a year or something like that. Her name was Julia, maybe. Skye had never been good with names. But it was really hard to forget that glare and that blue hair. She had never seen anyone glare so intensely before. Whatever. The most important thing right now was getting the guy on her back to some place, the hospital or some secret base didn't really matter. If he had a different injury besides a concussion, she could do something for him (She had often suffered broken or sprained appendages when fighting while younger). But there really wasn't much you could do for a concussion. "Hey," she tapped Robyn on the shoulder. "Could you lead the way?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:15 am
Jake stirred about, but subtly.
He had been awake for a couple minutes but pretended to be out while he was man-handled. His most recent mode of transportation smelled good and he had taken a few seconds to breathe deeply before slowly opening his eyes to see what was going on without blowing his cover.
The way she was dressed immediately told Jake who was holding him, besides...the others were just standing around and who was missing from his view?
As much as he liked being this close to a beautiful young woman such as Skye he wiggled and wormed out of her grip before finding his footing and stretching out his arms, as if reaching for the sky before wincing and coming down slowly.
"I'm fine. I swear." Jake said in a tired manner, but his body said otherwise.
A massive headache, his lower back hurt. That was pretty much it, but despite his words one could see his pains in the way he brought his arms back into resting position at his side. Slowly and carefully as if he had something valuable and fragile in his hands, before flinching at the sudden pain in his right elbow.
Glancing around without moving his neck, oh yeah...that kinda hurt too, he spotted his shotgun laying on the sidewalk near where the Egg had politely parked his a** after its explosion.
Jake calculated the distance as 5-yards and he took half-a-step before he stopped his leg in mid-air, a sharp pain shooting through his left knee.
What else was damaged that he didn't know about?
Jake judged the distance again.
He flexed his left arm and right leg and found them to be undamaged. Grabbing his right elbow with his left hand, and relaxing his left leg he dragged himself over towards his weapon.
If someone didn't know better they would have sworn seeing a Zombie dragging itself towards the sidewalk.
Once reaching his Shotgun, he stared at it and judged the distance from his hand to the ground, before shifting all his weight into his right leg, and slowly kneeling down. His left hand let go of his elbow and swiped the Shotgun off the ground, and used it as a cane to get himself upright again.
He turned around towards the group, and gave them an innocent grin.
"Okay...it looks bad, but it's not bad at all..."
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:49 pm
Suddenly the Officer stirred in Skyes' arms. He started to force himself out of her arms. What in the world was he thinking? Pierce and seen this plenty of times, sometimes runners would seriously injure themselves but because of the adrenaline and of course their pride they would act like nothing was wrong. "I'm fine. I swear." He managed to say. Yup, he was broken alright. Pierce watched with eyebrows raised as he made a show of casually picking up his gun.
This of course fell apart when his body wouldn't respond and he ended up crawling to his gun. Pierce chuckled as the guy turned, "Okay...it looks bad, but it's not bad at all..." Shaking his head, Pierce walked over to steady him "I know you think that, but I promise you aren't fooling anyone. Come on we gotta get you some medical attention."
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:46 pm
  Robyn didn't protest when Jake was taken off her hands. She was beginning to freak out a little anyways, what with him being all close to her and whatever... not that she cared or anything, she just liked her personal space. When Juliette appeared, she jumped a little. She didn't like it when things just... came out of nowhere. It was her own personal pet peeve. those Eggs were bad enough... no need to go sneaking around like that.
"It exploded," she answered simply when the girl asked what happened. Daren just watched in silence, shuffling along the sidewalk, not bothering to make sure that everyone was in gear. He hated waiting. It was boring. And besides, it was getting dark, and he wanted to get home.
"this way," he said, waving his hand as he began leading them down the avenue. When Jake suddenly came to his senses, Daren stopped in his tracks, turning for a moment to observe the commotions. Remaining relatively aloof, he mentally prepared himself for Robyn's ever-predictable spazz attack.
"IDIOT!!" the girl shrieked as he attempted to walk. She bounced over to him as he grabbed his gun, virtually snatching it out of his hand. "Stop being so goddamn noble, you jerk! You're hurt in enough places, so stop lying!" She grabbed him by the color and hissed, "Base. NAO."
Daren sighed as Robyn began dragging him along, and turned to head the motley crew in the direction of the MSP headquarters.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:46 pm
Juliette Marshall
Juliette's expression softened considerably-almost entirely when Pierce mentioned he just got to Mega today. "You're lucky," she whispered, her voice cracking ever so slightly. Then Jake stirred and tried a bit of bravado about his injuries. The kid- Pierce- was right Jake wasn't okay and needed medical attention. Hell, Juliette had been to the hospital so much in the past year thanks to her run-ins with Eggs, she could easily tell how much he was hurt. Internal injuries, such as a possible pulled tendon in the knee or maybe even something broken, she guessed.
Then the pink haired girl answered Juliette with a simple answer that it exploded. Juliette narrowed her eyes ever so slightly at the pink haired girl but said nothing. Instead she watched as Robyn lectured Jake, it reminded her of her friends' reactions when she first started going to school in bandages: it was sweet but perhaps irksome- she never liked their sympathy. Sighing she followed them and where they were headed- to some base. Maybe once she got there she could get some answers about the Eggs and the why of their existence. Of course it could just be that the government or whoever at this "base" knew no more than she was.
Speaking up as she followed, she said, "I'm Juliette Marshall by the way: I hope you don't mind if I follow. I have a few questions- which I understand now is probably not appropriate to ask."
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:30 pm
Jake began to stir and push himself out of her arms. Instead of trying to resist and stop him and whatnot as most people do, she let go immediately, dropping him (perhaps a bit too forcefully?) on the ground. She stared at him, wondering if he was really ok or if he's just being dumb. As usually, it was the second one. Anyway, no one had to carry him anymore. If he wanted to walk, she wasn't going to complain. The pink haired girl began leading them somewhere. Skye followed them. She didn't know if she was supposed to follow them or leave or something so she picked the option that seemed most amusing and continued walking besides them. Oh and apparently the other girl's name was Juliette not Julia. Skye made a mental note of that.
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:25 am
Akita Kiro "This is but the beginning..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kiro followed the group, glad that something interesting had happened. As he walked, he eventually pulled out a sour candy and ate it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Were in way over our heads." 
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:25 pm
Skye took her guitar back from Darren. "Thanks," she said with a smile and slung the instrument across her back. She looked over at the tall white-haired guy next to her. He was kind of cute, she thought, in a tall way. And besides, he looked kind of bada**, which always scored points in Skye's book. Being bored by the silence and the long walk she decided to start up a conversation with him. "Hey," she said, sticking her hand out towards his direction. "My name's Skye." That was pretty much all she had to say. She's never been one of many words.
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:51 pm
Jake had his gun snatched away, and though he didn't pay attention, the high-pitched shrieking gave him hints it was most likely Robyn. He raised his hands to shoulder level, with palms facing out as if surrendering and he gave Robyn an innocent grin. "Now now...no need to be so angry. I just saved your life, and this is the thanks I get. I'm fine really." He spoke a little louder than usual because of the damage done to his hearing, but his words fell on deaf ears anyway as Robyn kept going on and on about him, before he was grabbed by his collar and dragged around by the smaller girl.
The young man made it a point to relax and become dead weight in hopes of making Robyn's life even harder, but when she was mad, it was like her strength multiplied by hundreds.
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