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"What the hell is going on guys? I show up and you all are getting the s**t beat out of you. What do you guys need me to do?" Her own headset had finally found the channel that they were using, and while she kept shooting the vampires from her position, she awaited an answer. 'What the hell are they doing,' she thought to herself, reloading the sniper and waiting for further instructions.

"First ship in the docks...on top of the crane," she answers, looking around for any sign of movement around her position. Hopefully, she was out of range of whatever it was that was attacking them. Oh well...if not, she had lived one hell of a life. "Who are you anyways?," she asked the man who was talking to her, continuing to scan the darkness.

Tokeru shouted into the communicator. "DESENGAGE, NOW." He had noticed more motion on the ship, they were bringing out the gun. "Why the hell did I not bring more people. or get prepared for this. Goddamnit. We're gonna need to retreat. And now i'm not gonna be able to get my chance with the scientist offguard. Unless,nah, noone is gonna volunteer for a suicide mission with a 1% chance of survival." He ran out of the immediate area, retreating to almsot 1km away from the ship. He shouted into the communicator again. "Everyone, meet me at the dock where the glacier ship used to be."

He ran to that pier and waited for the rest of them.

Purgatory run out of bullets, puts his guns away, turns off his head stet, puts on his i-pod and listens to right now by korn on repeat, then pulls out his dimond sword"Its party time"he screams...Purgatory runs into the infestation of vampires ready to give his comrads the time they needed to escape....

Tokeru was about to respond to Kerri, then he heard the yell of Purgatory. "GODDAMN IT PURGATORY. DISENGAGE" Without waiting to see if he was listening, Tokeru sprang into the air.

While flying towards the ship, he privately told Kerrigan. "Drag him outta there, and then retreat. I am not letting anyone die on by my command. I don't care if you need to knock him out, get him outta there." He then took the communicator out of his ear, he needed to hear everything perfectly, without even the tiny interference the earpiece gave off.

He flew towards the ship at a breakneck speed, his senses attuned to what he was hearing. He was flying blind, only going by hearing. He waited for awhile, only hearing the whine of the wind. Then, the telltale sign of the weapon firing. A low thrumming sound. He quickly dropped downwards, folding in his wings and plummeting towards the water. The wave of force missed him.... almost. Just before he was clear of the shot, it slammed into his leg, spinning him around. He flailed wildly, trying to regain control of his flight path, and made it, just intime to hear the thrumming again.... a second too late. It slammed into him, crushing his body with the force of a firetruck slamming into a brick wall, and momentarily rendering him paralyzed. The entire thing lasted only a few seconds, but those few seconds were more than enough for the weapon to recharge, and fire again.

There was nothing to be done for Tokeru. He barely had time to put on his earpiece and say. "No rescue attempts, Kaji is leader." Then he got hit.

While the previous force knocked the breath out of him, this one blasted it. His wings were bent backwards, and it countered the force at which he was flying, and reversed it. Tokeru was barely aware of a snapping sound, of his wings breaking. His ribs cracked, and one lung collapsed. Most of the grenades he had on him were impervious unless activated, but for 1. Thankfully, the grenade was also knocked off him, and detonated away from his body, but to all eyes, it got him too.

As he flew towards the water, mind in a barely conscious state, he was painfully aware that his odds of surviving this were rather small. And so he did the only thing he could think of to increase those odds, he threw all the energy he had left in him, and landed in a muffled thump on a concrete pier. Concrete cracking from the force at which he landed, Tokeru smiled, and closed his eyes.


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((NOT TOKERU))

As the Scientist watch Tokeru plummet from the sky, he ordered his vampires to fall back towards the ship, and make no attempts to attack the hunters outside. They all complied and were gone withing seconds.

Usually Lydia was very good at following orders.

It had been drummed into her that not following orders was detrimenal to any mission and often resulted in failure and/or death. Because of that, it was anethma to her to NOT follow any order that was given to her by someone in a position of authority. Because of this mission, Tokeru was in a position of authority over her, so she would listen to his orders.

But not now.

Knowing that was she was going to do was extremely reckless, the psychic put Mischief down and ran down the docks towards where Tokeru had fallen. Being in this new world had wrought so many changes in the 22-year-old huntress, and one of them was that she would NEVER leave another hunter behind. She was a Guardian, she would not let Tokeru lie there, dead or otherwise, not so long as she could do something about it!

Lydia formed a psychic shield around herself to protect herself from attacks, all the while hoping that it would be enough. Reaching Tokeru's limp form, she cradled him in a litter made of her power and brought him inside the protection of her shield. She turned and ran back towards everyone, Tokeru floating in front of her as he had fallen.