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Luka followed Luca and Cloche out of the room as they went to go teach her a Hymos. "I am not entirely sure what sort of Hymos I want to learn. I already know some basic magic and I can do 'transformations' so long as there is a computer and a drawing of me in that form that exists for me to plug into and download. Since I'm looking for a friend of mine, what would you recommend?" Honestly, she really didn't care what they taught her. So long as it could help her track where Toph was. Although, for some reason, she also had the instinctive feeling that Gakupo was somewhere he shouldn't be. This also made the Vocaloid a bit on edge and restless as she followed the fellow singers.

Oomizu's elven ears twitched and she turned to see Maverick running towards her. "Mav? What are you doing here?!" He may not have realized it, but by calling out for her and grabbing her attention, he had more or less caused her to completely drop her defenses since now she was too busy calculating how things would work out with Maverick being here and if/how she would keep him safe from the psychic attacks to worry about her own well-being.

((Sorry that it isn't much, but it's a start in the right direction!))

"You can't win Oomizu!" Collette exclaimed as she landed on the ground, her sword becoming infused with psychic energy once more before she used a free hand to stretch out towards the girl's direction with a determined smirk. "You have been fated to fall since the beginning!" With that, her hand glowed blue but instead of an attack shooting outwards from it, a psychic blast erupted from the ground, sending the blond into the air and holding her in a never-ending cycle of energy, waves and waves penetrating her body and literally sucking the energy out of her as it passed through her. This was a more advanced move that Hitomi had taught her specifically for this purpose. She knew that Oomizu had incredible power and it had been growing since she was a teenager, but this specialized attack was designed to keep her suspended in the air while forcefully ripping her energy from her, so no more special abilities could be used. If the FOQ ever got hold of such technology, then the tide of the war would surely swing in their favor.

Collette also saw Maverick running towards the two and quickly placed a barrier around them with her free hand, immediately having it expand so it could impact him as he ran and send him backwards, so he would interfere with her progress.

A curt breath was taken into the dhampir's lips as he was approached by a mechanical abomination, no less than his target's invention as he pursued him. "Be silent." He stated simply as he withdrew his specialized blade from its holster and pointed it at the robot. Using his special ability once more to turn into a smoke like substance, he lunged forward as his body began to dissapate before striking the robot in the joint that separated its head from the rest of its body before striking upwards, severing it immediately before returning his sword to his holster just as he became a full cloud of smoke once more, preceeding deeper into the confines of Jack's laboratory.

Faya had found herself inside a hospital like room, hooked up to all sorts of devices that studied her brain waves and her heart beat and other things of that nature. It was just another procedure she had to endure to make sure that her body was still in peak condition and that her soul power wasn't gaining any influence on her mind as of yet. As a pair of footsteps neared her, she looked up to find Hitomi standing over her with a calm smile etching itself across her lips. "Good work Faya." She mused as she placed a hand over the oni's head and stroked her off-colored hair gently. "You have deemed yourself most useful indeed."

Victoria's fingers curled around the electronic device before she gripped onto it tightly. "Good, see how much smoother things could be if you just cooperated nicely?" She asked of him, almost chuckling under her breath before she cocked her gun with the hand she was holding it before she rested the butt of it against her abdomen, pointing it towards the vocaloid. "Now come," She began as a masked personnel shuffled back with a clear container before opening it. Upon seeing this, the dark haired woman placed the headphones inside before it was sealed shut and carted away to a storing facility not too far from their current position. "Now this way," She ordered as she turned on her heel and began to walk down the hall to an elevator, making sure Gakupo followed after her. Well, he was surrounded by a few other guards at the moment, so she knew escape wouldn't be an option. And if he wanted to stay alive, then he would know such an option wouldn't be available to him.

After many floors followed by a few twists and turned through hallways, Victoria finally stopped before a door that required an access code and some other safety regulations in order to open it. After punching the numbers needed in correct order, she then placed her hand on a scanner followed by a voice activated lock that needed her name. "Victoria, agent 003, requesting access." And after a moment, access was granted and the door slid open. The room that was revealed was a prisoner holding cell. It was bare except for a few pods dispersed throughout the room. Any technology was embedded into the walls and the only way to access these devices were through codes and access, like Victoria had. In a particular tube, suspended by her constrained wrists, was Azmaria. She was still unconscious and was being injected with a liquid of unknown origins, although the side affects of this could be seen through many markings that had begun to spread across her neck, legs, and hands. "Inside." She stated as she prepared Gakupo for a similar tube, the guards actually nudging the man with their guns, so he could be processed as well.

"That sounds lovely, dear." Tomoe replied softly as she took Kaoru into her arms and nuzzled the child's face with her nose. Upon hearing a soft cooing sound, the hanyou chuckled gently before resting her daughter in the curve of her elbow, making sure to support her delicate frame in her arms. "I'm glad that things have been able to settle down somewhat, all of this back-to-back danger has been weighing on my nerves lately." She told him as she passed him to glance at her reflection in the mirror, tucking a strand of her silver hair away from her face before she turned back to her loving mate. "Now come dear, let us get dressed and prepare ourselves for the day ahead." She told him with a smile before she journeyed outward towards their room, so she could change.

Gumi woke up eventually and with a large yawn. Raising herself into a seated position as her arms stretched outward, the vocaloid glanced at the clock to see what time it was. And seeing that it was still pretty early in the day made her groan immediately. "This is lame!" She exclaimed as she fell back onto her pillow, arms still stretched to either side of her as she stared at the ceiling. She just wanted to go back to sleep so bad but she was one of those people that as soon as they woke up, there was no chance of returning to sleep. "Ugh, might as well get up and get soem breakfast. Maybe big brother will be able to go shopping with me today or something~" That immediately brought a smile to the young girl's face as she hopped out of bed, dressed herself in her usual orange outfit, before skipping away to the dining hall to get something to eat. Carrots mainly, but something else too.

"Oh?" Yuzuki mused to herself as she raised an arched brow in the direction of the girl who had decided to squat in the house she had shared with Raguna for some time now. "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you Luna. I was just finishing up breakfast for the morning and I'm sure I made plenty enough that even you would be able to enjoy yourself while you get your fill." She ended the sentence with a charming giggle as she motioned to the dining table that had some food already prepared on plates, waiting to be tasted. "I can also make you something specific if you'd like, just ask and it will be done." She glanced to Raguna with a smile before she turned her back to them and began the dishes, so they could enjoy the breakfast she prepared.

(I hope I didn't "god mod" anyone's characters or anything, it's been awhile since I've posted in this and I'm a little rusty. Plus, I just wanted to get this thing movin' again. sweatdrop )

Nerwin groaned and replied "No my Croix medicine I'm not going to share, you got to go get your own Luca." She Replied before Luca and Cloche left the room with Luka. Once the door was closed she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and looked down at Croix, "Do we really have to get up? you are so warm and comfortable." Nerwin than put her hand over her mouth as she yawned. "I do have to say though, last night was amazing." Nerwin said with a wink as she drew a circle on Croix's chest with her finger.

"Good Morning Raguna, yes I sleep great thank you for asking" Luna said. She than towards Yuzuki, smiled and said "It's nice to meet you to Yuzuki, Thank you everything looks lovely" She than sat down at the table and noticed that Yuzuki was not eating with them concerned she asked "I don't mean to be nosy Yuzuki but are you not going to eat with us?"

Oomizu looked from the corner of her eyes towards her opponent before she finally turned and faced Collette once more. She put up a barrier from the front, thinking that was where she would be struck from when she saw the hand stretched in her direction. Suddenly, she felt the ground shake and looked down, her eyes going wide as she paled. "No..." she tried to activate the jet boots on her feet, but she ran out of time. She felt herself get knocked into the air, but yet she never landed. Instead, she felt herself being suspended as the energy was forcibly ripped from her body. Oomizu screamed out in pain for a moment, but she soon found that even after a while she lacked the energy even to do that much. She looked to the side and could see Maverick pounding his fist on the ground and screaming, but she couldn't hear what he was saying. She just felt so tired....

After what felt like a painful eternity when, in reality, it was probably only a minute or two at max, her body went limp as she blacked out, no longer having enough energy to keep herself conscious or aware of her surroundings.

Gakupo huffed and glared at the man taking away his precious headphones. Those headphones were special to him.... Not only was it something he could use to connect to the other Vocaloids, but "Master" had given him the headphones on the day he was "born". Seeing someone take them like this.... Oh, someone was going to regret this one way or another. He might not be the one to exact any form of revenge for what was happening to him, but someone would. He knew his fellow Vocaloids, as self-centered as they could be sometimes, would not allow for this sort of thing to go unpunished.

He watched as Victoria walked down the hall way before he felt a gun against his back as a guard urged him to move on. He gave the guard an irritable look, his usually cheerful demeanor gone. After waving the man off, he turned and followed Victoria as she walked. He made sure to take note of everything that he could. He wanted to memorize this place as best as he could. If somehow someone could tap into his memories while he was gone, maybe they would have an easier way of finding him in this foreign prison. However, he felt some hope drop as he saw the security measures in how to get into the area he was to be kept in. It wouldn't be impossible for someone to figure out a way to mimic Victoria's voice, but finger prints and retina scans were different.

As access was gained into the room, he looked around and his eyes went wide as he recognized someone. "Azmaria-chan!" He reached a hand out towards her before a guard was quick to block his way. The purple-haired samurai growled angrily at the man before he heard Victoria order him around once more. He looked to her and snorted before going over to the pod and positioning himself as ordered by her. "....You know, I may not be human... But at least I'm not a monster like you people. Just saying." with that, Gakupo shut his mouth and refused to speak any farther to anyone in the room and was only mildly cooperative with them to the point of at least they had no cause to shoot him.


Luka blinked as she listened to the two songstresses talk about something called Replekia. Connecting with people? Well, that was easy! The Vocaloids tended to wirelessly connect to one another all the time! That was just what she needed! Plus, it would make finding whatever or who ever it was she was looking for. she knew she was trying to find Toph, but.... Somethign else felt wrong now. She just couldn't place a finger on what it was... She bowed respectively to the two offering to help her, not even really caring about how compromising her current wardrobe might be. "Thank you very much. I would very much like to learn this new form of magic."

Scout watched Medic flailing around for something and tilted his head, not even putting two and two together that the doctor wasn't wearing his glasses and therefore was unable to see anything at the moment. "Where's what? Need help?" He'd be lying if he didn't say that the thought of being useful and making Medic feel bad for his lack of concern was not a big contributor to him, well, not acting like a total a** at the moment to leave Medic to look for the damn whatever-the-hell-he-was-looking-for himself.

When Heavy burst into the room, Scout jumped and yelled some, getting into a fighting position and holding his bat up ready to hurt someone. However, when he saw it was his ex-roommate or whatever they were, he calmed down and huffed before frowning and wrinkling his nose at the large Russian man playing with his new weapon. "Hey man! You scared the s**t utta me! I outta-- Woah- wait! You say new weapons? Aww, SWEET! Mann Co.'s jus' pilin' the s**t on us, ain't they? Dude! What'd I get?!" Scout ran over to where Heavy was and looked around him as he bounced excitedly like a kid at Christmas. Hopefully Mann Co. sent him something better than a fish to hit people with. As funny as it was initially, the humor began to wear off as his own locker began to smell like, well, rotting fish.... Plus, it really wasn't as practical as some of his past weapons.

At first, the only thing that (finally) registered to Jack was that there was a weight on his shoulder. Assuming it to be somebody's hand, like Oomizu or one of the robots, he went to brush it off, saying, "Not n- ouch!" The interruption was, of course, caused by him nicking himself on the blade. "What the-!? Oh... Oh! Oh, son of a b***h...!" First came the realization that it was not, in fact, a hand on his shoulder. Next was the realization that, oh hey, the sirens were going off, and this was probably a dangerous situation. Last was embarrassment over not having grown out of that crippling tunnel vision that comes when he gets excited over his work. He was... What? Sixty-, seventy-years-old now? How did he keep falling for this?

"Alright, fine, mister... whoever the hell you are, I'm just gonna assume that since you got this far in with the alarms going off and you're not dead, or... Are you even injured? What not a scratch? Damn do I have to work on those defenses..." Whoops, losing focus. "Anyway, I'm just gonna assume you're tough enough to knock me on my a**, so fine." Jack stood, raising his hands up a bit to show he surrendered. Obviously he wasn't going to be killed or that would have already happened, but it didn't hurt to play dumb. "So, what is this? The surface got a bounty on my head, or you gonna hold me ransom?"

A scream? So much for a peaceful morning. After a quick check to make sure he had all his equipment with him, Spy ran off in the direction of the sound. When he arrived, things looked even less promising. What the hell, how had he not heard any of that up until the scream? Unfortunately, it seemed his suspicions had been validated, and it was too late to do anything about them. Sometimes he really hated to be proven right. And just like that, Collette and Oomizu were both gone, leaving what had to be a broken hearted Maverick and Spy, who wasn't so sure he wanted to deal with a broken hearted Maverick. For the moment he hung back, ready to go back to the main tower at a moment's notice. The others did need to be informed...

"My..." the Medic began, in response to Scout's questioning. However, it was that moment that the Heavy burst in, startling a yelp out of the German and even causing him to fall out of bed, pulling the blanket down with him. Frustrated, he grabbed the nearest object and threw it at his Russian friend, realizing a fraction of a second too late that the nearest object happened to be his glasses. "Ach, verdamt-! Argh!" With that, he let his head fall against his arm, and just laid there for a second or two. "Heavy, or Scout, vould vun of you be so kind as to bring me my glasses?"

The chaotic events scared the bird to the air, which there really wasn't that much of in the Medic's bedroom. So Archimedes flew in circles, cooing in distress, before landing on the highest point in the room. Which happened to be the top of the opened door. This was certainly one heck of a way to start the day.

Gakupo said nothing to Victoria. However, he fought back a smirk when he found what he said had bothered her. Normally he wasn't a vicious or spiteful person.... But she took his katana and headphones. Was it mean to have brought up she had family issues? Maybe. However, maybe he'd get lucky and someone could use that..... Not in a "threaten the family" sort of way, though! Even he didn't stoop that low when getting even with people. He shifted his weight some and leaned against the back of the pod, trying to get comfortable. He took one last look to Azmaria, wondering if it was his fault she was captured. Hopefully someone would notice they were gone soon and come find them....

Scout got to his feet and walked over to the glasses that had been flung. so was that what Medic had been looking for? Huh. alright, so maybe some of the team did have a point in calling Scout not smart..... He knelt down and grabbed them before tossing them next to Medic... to which they then slid and stopped underneath the German's bed. ".....Uh, yeah, so.... They're near you now, Doc...."

Haku walked into the cafeteria, having just woken up from a night of heavy drinking.... as usual. However, she did not have a cranky Neru glued to her hip as she normally did. In fact, she was even wearing different clothes! ones with color no less instead of her usual depressing black, purple, and grey! However, the depressed look on her face was the same as always. She looked up and saw Gumi and paused before looking around. No Gakupo? Weren't those tow nearly as unseperable as herself and Neru? In all fairness, Neru was still in bed asleep, but still.... Haku walked over and gave a small, weak wave and an attempt at a smile as a greeting to Gumi. "Ohayou, Gumi-chan. Are you here by yourself?"

Nerwin pouted when Croix mentioned getting dressed. "Oh fine, make me get up and get exposed to the cold first huh?" Nerwin said. knowing she had to get up first since she was on top of Croix. With that Nerwin got up on her knees and stretched back. "Sorry to crush your dreams Croix but no im not really interested in a threesome or a foursome." As Croix mentioned he was thinking about it now she felt something poke her back and she smirked at him. "Oh really? you dont have to tell me that I have other ways of finding that out." She then purposely rubbed up against him "But you wanna get dressed now so I guess that is that" she said before getting off of him, the blanket fallowed her and ended up on the floor. She than leaned over and started to grab her clothing.

Luna nodded when Raguna mentioned that the food had awesome flavor. She agreed with him, and her tail even wiggled in agreement to. There was so much to chose from but she wasn't sure what to eat next and she know she had to limit how much so ate so that she could always be ready for anything. She than listened carefully to what Raguna said about Yuzuki, and she listened carefully to what she might say.

Medic continued cursing as the streak of color that he recognized as his glasses disappeared under the bed. Of course, all Heavy did was laugh and tease Scout. "I vill cut both of your heads off und stitch zhem to zhe ozzer's body!" he threatened. Just as he stopped to think how hilarious that might actually be, the ground shook. An earthquake? No, that was stupid, they were in a flying city. Heavy had to be right. "Vell don't just stand zhere! Get ready! Move!" he commanded, reaching his hand under the bed. In a stroke of luck, he found his glasses fairly quickly, and quickly disentangled himself from the blankets, working as fast as he could to get himself dressed. Because of course all this had to happen before he could have breakfast.

Spy watched the new aircraft overhead, not sure what they would have to deal with next. With Maverick's little monologue over, he decided to follow. After all, someone needed to watch his back, especially in the kind of mood he was in. However, the Frenchman knew he should announce himself, lest Maverick hear footsteps and decide to shoot before asking questions. "Maverick!" he called out, before running after him. "I have you covered!"

Jack just rolled his eyes at being told what he asked was "confidential." "Ouch, careful!" he snapped, as his wrists were grabbed. "I bruise ea- oh, that is cool! Can I keep this when we're done? I gotta make me some of these!" He brought the cuffs up close to his face, paying more attention to them then what his kidnapper was saying. "Actually, I don't really give a s**t about the greater good, or whatever," he replied, absent mindedly.

The albino genius was so entranced by trying to determine how the handcuffs worked by staring at them, he didn't even notice they had moved until the next command had been given. At first, he just looked around, taking in the new environment. "Personal teleporters, huh...? Man, why didn't I think of that? That'd make it so easy to move the group around, especially if any of 'em get separated." Then he realized the guy was trying to be threatening. "Oh, pfff. Promises, promises," he joked. He didn't actually have much with him, just his gun, something close enough to a cell phone, and wrist watch. Most everything else was kept in his coat, which he hadn't been wearing. It was easy enough to pull out the phone and the gun and hand them over, and Jack didn't even bother with making a show of holding a weapon.

What he did make a show of, however, was him fussing with trying to undo the wristwatch while wearing the cuffs. In actuality, he was activating a distress beacon. It was silent on the watch itself, but it was pretty basic, and would be foiled by any jamming signals. "Hey, can ya help with this? I can't get it with my hands like this... s**t, I think the latch is caught on my glove," he complained, once it was active. Jack could only hope the signal and his location would be able to get through.

Unfortunately for Collette, Hitomi wasn't anywhere near there at the moment. Instead, it was Hotstreak, going over some written requests from the Federation, trying to determine just how desperate they were getting. He had heard someone shout, and wondered just who in the hell would be looking for their mother up there, when the girl in question burst through the door. The redhead paused for a moment, just staring at the teen, recognizing way too many features for it to be pure coincidence. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me..." Didn't they just have an argument about him keeping secrets from her!? Looks like they were going to have another one...

((Also I'm pretty sure this is what Spy's arm looks like now. http://tf2chan.net/dumps/src/131416188391.jpg Seriously, it's so appropriate to how I've been playing him, it's hilarious.))