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Annie sighed as she followed him, "Sorry, I thought you were expecting me. I'm sort of in a hurry..." Smiling she sat down in the blood draw chair and added, "I'm not too squeamish. Once you experience the lovely feel of acid burning through your skin-" she motioned towards the water droplet size scars on her hands from when she had almost no control over her power "-you sort of get over being squeamish. I still am not crazy about needles though, so just stab me and get it over with."

As she held out her arm she looked away and said with a smile, blushing slightly, "Acid queen? I kind of like that. So, what did Shane say about me?"

The young man dons his body substance isolation equipment: a cloth smock, mask with plastic visor, and gloves. He eyes show an evident smile behind the mask. He prattles on as he preps her arm. "Not a whole lot personally, he just mentioned that I might be interested in examining your blood. The name Acid Queen is from, perhaps, the greatest musical film ever made. Of course I am talking about The Who's "Tommy." Tina Turner plays the part of the Acid Queen, referring to the drug of course. It just seemed an apt name for you considering your power. Alright here we go: one, two, three, big stick."

He proceeds to draw four vials of blood from her medial AC. Each vial has a different color top. The blood is a deep red, but that is to be expected from a direct from a direct draw from a vein. He places a few of them into a spinner and turns toward her after taking off his mask. "Is there anything else you'd like me to do for you while you are here? Do you have any questions?"

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A plate is placed in front of Gidget. She makes a face at the big men who carried her into the cafeteria. She picks at the morsels and says to Trinity, "Well, if you'd really like to see how she is doing I could use my suit's omni-system to search every networked security camera and cell phone in the city to see if I can find her. It'll have to wait until after I'm done eating though. That much information being loaded into my brain at once takes a bit out of me."

An explosion, and Rod tears down yet another wall, the scent lost, the trail stale all of a sudden. The little p***k, Eros he had called himself, was nearly in his grasps..
But now?
Rod rolled his one open eye, the other mashed into a steel plate by the previous onslaught from Eros. Rubbing absentmindedly at his chest, Rod steps back out into the hallway, looking back at his destruction.
Over eight rooms had been totaled by the chase, and now..
Now?
"Where are you.." Rod wandered off into the main lobby, looking at the corpses of the new dead. Staring about a moment, and seeing that Eros had was hiding, or had taken his leave, or..
"Whatever.." Rod slammed his hand into the chest of the meta-human on the ground, tearing the heart from the chest with a fleshy pop!, sinewy and blood spewing about. Rod held the gleaming organ, remembering how Lev had eaten such, how Lev had only eaten a little bit at a time.
Rod ate the whole heart in one gulp...
And suddenly, his shattered eye re-animated, the dent in his chest buffed out..
And Rod held his hands to his face, screaming, armor plates suddenly jutting out from human-esque features, his legs suddenly scaled, his back as well, spine protruding into sectioned bumps. Rod screeched, tail-bone jutting and twisting into a slashing coil of cord and razor edge..
Rod stopped jerking on the ground, suddenly on all fours, a growl in a now deeper voice, a once smile on his completely warped features cracking across his visage.
Rod had evolved, and Eros had been watching the whole time in utter horror.
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Eros watched with one eye from around the corner, Goonies style, gaze widened, hand clamped over his mouth to prevent gasping. The metal beast had just grown larger, and now it had a tail! "What the hell have I gotten into.." Eros adjusted his helmet, a touch of his hand to his goggles. Then Eros suddenly recoiled.
Rod stood at the end of the hall, staring directly at him.
"Ruuuun Noooow litttle moousssse." His voice was a raspy hiss, the call of many men, many souls, trapped in this hollow demon. Rod leapt forward, and with that, tore down the hall at double the speed he once was, Eros scramlbing for another ball bearing..

(Only Rod is at the hospital. Lev is elsewhere, and Blitz is doing something else..)
Rod literally dodged the ball bearing, the screaming sphere tearing off down the hall, himself lunging forward, missing Eros by mere centimeters.
Eros dodged and fired down the hall, in the lobby instantaneously. Hovering slightly above the ground, Eros turned, hearing a slight shudder, his sub-human hearing catching the low riffs of fear upon the air.
"Who's there?" Eros called, only in time to look back, eyes widening..
Rod was upon him, a 7'2 metal monstrosity, swiping and tearing his clawed fists, his tail lashing about as he did. Eros ducked and weaved under blows, slinging a kick to Rod's jaw.
Eros gasped in pain, his speed altering a moment.
Rod instantly latched onto his leg, crushing it, then slamming Eros into the ground. Eros wheezed, Rod bringing his steel gaze only inches from him. A deep growl came from within Rod, but then he himself sniffed the air, looking up now towards the elevator, spying the woman..
A blur, and looking down, Rod would shriek.
Eros had disappeared.
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Eros held his palm in the upper part of his teeth, crying and rocking back and forth, looking at his mangled leg. It was no doubt broken, a clean break, his bone slightly ajar, not breaking the skin but close. Eros couldn't tell, but he truly didn't care. Pain like never before ran the length of his body, and he convulsed, laying back on the tile floor, dizzy from agony.
The momentary sway in the metal man's interest had given Eros time to burn rubber and sling himself down three different halls, now in the closed office doors of the room he was in now.
But now? Eros felt his head swim, and dragging himself under one of the hospital beds, felt unconsciousness take hold, ebbs of fire running the length of his left leg..
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Rod pounded a dent in the floor panels beneath him, his tail slinging around, slashing a rolling chair in half, cleaving it in two. Jerking around, his now cat-like eyes scanned about, coming full circle to another meta-human corpse..
More power.
"But first.." Rod's eyes shot to the elevator, himself rising to two legs, back cracking and popping as his plates shifted, himself now a pseudo knight in armor, or so it would seem. Lazily his tail swished and panned about behind him, slicing ribbons into the main lobby desk, carving deep lines in the tiles.
Slowly, Rod began toward the elevator, laughter, like silverware falling down wooden stairs, filling the air from his rusting lungs.

Lily screamed as she saw the creature, it was a 7 foot metal monster, and... he was coming right for her. She looked to her left, the front doors where too far for her to make it, then to her right, a series of objects she could dodge behind, and at least slow the beast down. Her options where running low, as was her time.

So, as quick as Lily could she dashed to her right, ducking behind the main lobby information desk. the glass had already been broken from earlier. She looked around the small office, her options where even lower here, there was a door exiting to god knows where, and a small amount of furniture. She gritted her teeth, stepping over the two dead corpses that littered the floor in this area and quickly made her way for the door. At least she could put a room in between herself and the monster. That would slow him down, hopefully long enough for her to hide.

So she grabbed the knob and quickly jerked it open, feeling her heart leap as the hall was empty. Good sign, she then looked up and down the hall, seeing that it only lead back into the main lobby. Hopefully she could make it to the doors. Fishing the small gun from her pocket, she gritted her teeth, knowing it wouldn't do much good unless she could hit a spot on the monster that wasn't covered with something that looked like metal. And then her Cell phone, seeing that she had one message... She didn't have time for messages right now, but it seemed important, and it was from a number she didn't reconize, so, as she quickly yet quietly made her way against the wall to the Lobby, she peeked out to see if he had followed her in the Office, or if he had went back on his hunt for whatever it was he was so desperately hunting.

Quickly she read the message. It simply said. Your mother fell, and she is in the hospital. It isn't looking to good, she is rather old.. great.. That's all she needed. Gritting her teeth together, she then held the gun up, taking the safety off and cambering a bullet. Rather to be safe, then to be sorry.

Mrs. Smith was still in the limo wondering if Shane would make it out okay. The sounds of distruction was almost continuous. She looks to her phone. Trinity had called her earlier from another number. She thought about calling but hearing her voice over the background would be difficult. She find the number and starts texting. She had not used the texting feature on the phone but now's a good time to start she thought as she started typing. She clicked the buttons as quickly as she could
"H E L P"
"D a n g e r"
she sent the text messages and hope that they could reach someone that could help.

Shortly after Teshoumaru's cell indicated that it had two text messages.

Shaking his head Alix smirked, he knew she wouldn’t blow his brains out, she didn’t have the guts. A long low sigh came from him as he leaned against the wall. “My dear, you simply don’t know me that wall. I’ve already claimed you, don’t you understand? Your a** belongs to me.” Crossing his arms loosely, he made sure that both of his hands were pointed towards the door, he could only smirk, being a shape shifter did have it’s benefit after all.

“You got that, you are mine, and I will not have you risking life and limb on some suicide mission. Ruining that perfect little body of yours, you’d be losing me a fortune my dear!” Hoping she could see he nodded back the way he came. “The bodies, the smell, do tell me what the hell did all this crap.” Glancing around he saw nothing but he knew that looks could be deceiving .