Dusk City Concert Hall

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The HAWK stopped not too far away from the concert. The hangar doors on the side of the ship began to open up and VTOLs began to come to life inside of its giant belly. "Give them a warm welcome boys." Garenth was the first to be ready. He laid on a platform beneath the HAWK, an advanced AMR rifle in front of him. The scope on his rifle was an amazing piece of technology. He could see a very generic image through the walls of the concert hall. Catching the images of the people in the distance. Garenth locked sights on one of the two on the stage, figuring that would provide the largest amount of impact to the people inside. Arwin wanted them to panic, so he would provide. Garenth pulled the trigger on his rifle, and the echo of the gun would even overshout the concert below.

Erik was running down the halls as fast as he could. 'They brought the entire thing here! Are you serious! His orders were to evacuate the building as soon as possible. As he came around the corner and into the main concert hall, he was about to fire a shot into the air when he heard one from a distance. In the brief moment it took for him to realize the shot, he saw one of the two girls on stage stagger back and stand motionless for a moment. He could see the blood rapidly begin to form on her short as she then collapsed to the ground. 's**t. Its already began. Erik raised one of his guns and fired into the air. "EVERYONE! I NEED YOU TO -"

Zach stood up as soon as he heard the echo of the shot from behind him. He watched as one of the two girls fell to the ground and her sister kneeled down next to her. He could tell from her screaming and crying that her sister was probably already dead. 'Did that news presentation do nothing to them. Jesus. Eric's gunshot got his attention, but right now Zach could only think about protecting Nuo and Sakura. He was listening to him when he heard another echoing shot. Looking up at the stage, the other sister collapsed to the ground. 'Do they have a sniper or something? Where the hell is he?' Eric seemed to lose his own sense of organization as he even seemed to be panicked a bit. Was it just the gun shots that was causing this, or did Erik know something that they didn't. "Seth. We need to go. NOW!"

Arwin made a hand signal to his VTOL pilot and the pilots nearby, giving the order to take off. As the first VTOL lifted from its place in the hangar bay, all the rest of them quickly began to follow suit. "This is Arwin to the HAWK command bridge. Activate the internal dampeners. Disable everything inside of that concert hall. Afterwards . . . Level it. We'll clean up whats left." The VTOLs began to make their way to circle the building and put themselves in a position to engage after the HAWK lead the way. As they were beginning to put themselves into position, the large gun on the bottom of the HAWK begin to hum to life. Electricity arcing across it as it charged. "ITS SHOWTIME!"

 

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The missiles that were fired were intercepted immediately by the point defense equipment on the HAWK, and this only caused Arwin to laugh. "This is the end game boys! Let the cleanup party begin!" The echoing sound of the gun shattered the sky as the cannon fired down onto the concert hall. As soon as the shot impacted the building, the resulting explosion was more kinetic than anything. Dirt, debris, and smoke went in every direction away from the building as the building itself gave way to the impact.

As soon as the building started to collapse, Zach raised his hands above him, ice forming underneath some of the collapsing parts of the building. He could not hold it all, so he aimed to hold as much as he could that was above any of the civilians. The weight of the stone was tremendous, but this was nothing compared to some other things his ice has had to hold back. "The heck did they just do!? Did they really fire on the hall?" Honestly, Zach was beginning to be more surprised that he was questioning the whole deal. Now he knew though that these people had to die. Them letting Nuo and Seth go . . . That was probably just all a trick. He had to end these people if ever found the chance.

Arwin tilted his head slightly when he noticed most of the building wasn't even collapsing. It confused him beyond belief. The ship's main gun should've easily brought down a non-fortified building, so why was this one still standing . . . kinda. And that is when he noticed it. The layer of ice that glinted underneath the rubble. "Alright then brat. Activate the field. Bring it all down on top of them." The HAWK finally brought its anti-power field online and Arwin looked down towards the building, expecting it to give way immediately, but instead it still held firm on top of a layer of ice. "God damn you Bren. I'll be your little bracelets are the cause of this aren't they. That's fine. All units, move in!"

As soon as the field activated, the two twins changed back into their human form, stumbling a bit before falling to the ground. "Damnit. Yet again they make me useless." Erik pressed his finger against the headset, activating it as he looked up at the ice that was holding the building. 'How are they still . . . what's going on?' As soon as he noticed the headset was active, he shook his head and started to run towards the civilians. "Natalia. I'm useless again. I can't do anything with this field on. The sisters can't hold their weapon form."

 

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"All unit's engage! Wipe the floor -" Arwin's words were cut off when one of the Vtols seemed to lose control of one of its engines and crashed into the ground before it had a chance to stabilize. Arwin scanned the area to see if he could see anyone who may of been able to target the VTOL when he saw a woman on top of the concert hall. "Garenth. Take care of the pest on the top. If you can't deal with her, call in air support." As Arwin said this, most of the VTOLs made their way towards the ground, only the weaponized ones remaining airborne and prepared to take on targets as necessary.

Zach looked up at the rubble as makeup seemingly filled in the gaps and help restructure the ceiling. "Thank the gods. Wasn't exactly sure how long I would've been able to keep that up. Now then, I don't plan on letting any of these bastards near that exit. How about you Seth." Zach looked over at Seth and noticed the glow and he was about to mention something when he just shook his head and dismissed it. 'Don't know what he is doing, but honestly. I'm not complaining.' Zach started to walk towards the main entrance before turning back towards Nuo and Sakura. "You two stay here. Nuo, I know you still have one of these on. If someone is hurt, do your best to help them as you can. Otherwise, stay out of sight and out of mind okay. And Seth. How many more of these do we have?" Zach would ask while tapping the bracelet on his wrist.

Erik and the twins made their way towards the main evacuation exit, helping control the chaos as best they could and helping the people into the tunnels. He wanted to stay and fight, but without the sisters having their power, there was literally nothing he could do to help. He would just be a hindrance. Nothing more.

Garenth would look down the scope of his rifle to find the girl standing on top of the building. The supposed cause of the crashed VTOL. "So this is the true extent of a power user. One person can easily do that much. Hmm . . . No wonder most people fear them." Garenth lined up the sight of his scope with the girl's forehead, pulling back the lever action of the rifle before taking a brief moment to control his breathing. As he kept his sights on her, he slowly pulled the trigger until the loud echo of the rifle could be heard. The .50 caliber round traveling at rapid speeds towards its intended target.

 

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Garenth watched as a bolt of lightning arced across the sky. He assumed it was most likely the woman looking for him and probably trying to kill him. That was the beauty of where he was on the ship though. Almost impossible to reach from an outside source. A semi-bunker so to speak. Sure enough, the bolt crashed into the bottom side of the ship and it suffered no ill effects. "And she continues to show how horrifying her powers can be. Though where is she?" He had been watching her movements for a while. She had teleported when the first bullet struck into a secondary hiding spot, and then moved again before he even had a chance to fire. He lost sight of her for a second, but found his target through the lens again, the glowing color stuck out like a sore thumb on the rooftops. As he was lining up his shot, he saw another one of the VTOLs begin to strain against some sort of pressure before it aligned itself. 'Magnetics can be a powerful weapon indeed, unless you have technology to counter it.' "Arrow one and Arrow two. I'm sending a location to your computer. Follow my signal with a barrage of weapons fire. Let's see if we can't get her this time." He waited for them to respond the go ahead and then aimed at her again. This time, instead of pulling the trigger on his gun, he pressed a button on his jacket and the same echoing sound of his shot could be heard across the skies. Both VTOLs began firing towards the location where Susan was hiding, the heat of their rapid fire lases aiming to burn through her cover and either kill her in the process, or at least force her to relocate. Which was Garenth's hope. He was already waiting for her to move.

Zach looked at the three bracelets he was now holding. He figured he already knew where all three of these should go. He looked over to where the civilians were escaping from and tossed Erik and the twins a pair of bracelets. "Hey Erik. I bet these will help you out. Have the girls wear them. It'll help them fight." As soon as he finished saying that, he looked around again when he no longer could feel the presence of the last bracelet. He just watched as Natalia walked away with it and shrugged his shoulders. 'As good a choice as any other I could think of. She must've figured out what they could do already.' He then made his way to follow Natalia out to where she was defending. Her mercenary group sitting just outside the building awaiting the soldiers that were most likely unloading from the helicopters that were around the building. He just silently stood behind her and awaited the coming attack.

Erik grabbed the bracelets and looked at them for a moment. "What the hell are these supposed to do!?!?" He yelled to Zach, but by the time he yelled that, Zach was already gone. With a defeated sigh and a shrug of the shoulders, he handed the bracelets to the girls. Both of them placed them on and immediately they transformed back into their pistol form. "Oh . . ." Placing them into their respective holsters, Erik looked out to where the main battle was about to happen. 'Now do I stay here in case any come inside, or go out there to the front line.'

Arwin watched as one VTOL fought to keep itself afloat, and another VTOL was almost quite literally sliced in two. They were losing a decent amount of equipment this battle and he for one did not enjoy it. "This is Arwin to the HAWK. Tell that annoying woman that we will kill Bren if she doesn't let us inside Everden's room. I want the controls to these bracelets and I want them now." Arwin charged up his shotgun and watched as three VTOLs unloaded around him. He was looking forward to this. He had actually hoped that the sudden display of death and the lack of access to their powers would break the morale of these children, but it seemed he was very mistaken in that regard. "Get going grunts. I want to see more bodies by the time we're done here." The men began to moving towards the building following all standard engagement protocols. They were not about to run into an ambush if at all possible. The group approached the entrance to the building and stacked up, preparing to enter upon Arwin's command. Arwin however, had something else in mind. He pulled two frags out of his vest and pulled their pins. He let the spoons of the grenades fly and held them for a second before tossing them into the entryway so that they would bounce towards the power user inside of the entryway. As soon as the two grenades went into the room, the men opened the door and the two at the actual doorway fired into it, aiming to suppress the targets while the grenades were still in the air.