Chapter 9: The God that Failed

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei eyed her thoughtfully, but refrained from questioning her about that. He just looked around as he walked.

Genetech certainly had...potential...to be useful to his organization, and he wasn't going to pass up an opportunity to learn as much as he could.

[Kizu Sensou & Hex]

She wondered why he didn't answer then shrugged it off. She keyed in the code and as she pressed the green key Hex pulled out his pad and wrote a note to Kizu. He was unsettled about the way things were going today. She took the paper nodded and smiled as she put it in her pocket. SHe turned to Alexei.

"Here fill out this name badge and put it on you garment and when the doors open we shall proceed into the room. You will be permitted to ask anyone questions however please refrain from touching or taking samples. Also no flash photography please. Thank you. And feel free to ask me anything as well."

She waited for the doors to open and hoped that Alexei would like what he encountered in the red leaf facility.

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei took the tag and signed it, writing his name: Alexei.

He pinned it on the side of his blazer and nodded.

"Of course. I appreciate this."

[Tuesday DeCastro]

Tuesday eats a small lunch, and considers going back to the Socialist Revolution HQ, but decides against it. She doesn't know if she's being followed or whats going on. Either way, she doesn't want the possibility of putting any more of her comrades in danger.

She pays for her food, and leaves the small cafe, heading back to the hotel she had checked into weeks ago. Running a hand through her hair, she realizes that there is still Smeet in it from the fight her and Malak had had right before he was captured. She crinkles her nose in disgust, making plans to take a shower as soon as she walks in the door of her room.

[Markus Dunstan]

Markus had tracked her for days, and even now waited beneath the bed in Tuesday's room. He slid a tonfa sword into his hand and waited, completely motionless.

He was no longer sure if he should capture or kill her, but he did know that she'd seen him, and even worse, the face of another member of the Invisible Hand. He knew the next step had been to track her down, and now his task was nearing completion.

He watched the door from beneath the bed, waiting.

[Tuesday DeCastro]

Within moments, Tuesday had arrived at her hotel. She walked through the lobby, and punched the button on the elevator. As usual, she had to trouble opening the door to the room.

Once inside, she casually tossed her purse onto the bed, and took a water out of the fridge, taking a swig. She looked around the room a bit, feeling a little paranoid. For some reason she felt like she wasn't the only person there...

[Markus Dunstan]

Markus slid over to the other side of the bed. He seemed impossibly flexible, as if his body knew little to know pain, and the strain of muscles ment nothing.

Silently he flipped over onto his stomach, though he stayed on the opposite of the bed, trying to remain on the opposite side of the bed as Tuesday. His other tonfa slid into his other hand. Both blades were ready.

He leaped up and lunged at Tuesday, his blades whirling in front of him so fast that in front of him seemed like nothing more then a torrent of spinning razor sharp metal.

[Tuesday DeCastro]

Tuesday shrieked. That was the man that chased her at Genetech! How the hell had he gotten here?! She didn't really have time to think on that subject, as he was lunging toward her. She threw herself out of his way, and threw her water at him in a feeble attempt to protect herself.

"What do you want with me?" She yelled at him.

[Markus Dunstan]

Markus stumbled as water is splashed in his face. he vigorously wipes the splatter off the lenses of his gas mask before pursuing her.

He pauses, unsure. Should he give her an opportunity to surrender?

[Kizu Sensou & Hex]

The elecator doors open and she leads them into the Lab for the development and study for red leaf.

"Here is the lab for our Red leaf production feel free to talk to whomever you wish Alexei. And you may observe anything you like just please do not take anything."

She looks at the potted birch trees and bends down to grab a few of the red leaves off of the ground. When she does so her eyes change hues and her skin changes color as well for a splint second. Almost as if it were a mirage. Something about the idea of possibly using the plant makes her inner dragon want out.

[Maeve Cullen]

"What'd I miss?" Maeve smacks Alexei in the back in a friendly fashion as she speaks, seeming to randomly appear. In truth she had just heard Alexei's voice while wandering the hallways and followed it. She looks around the room, she had never really been too interested in Genetech, so she'd never wandered around much.

[Peter "Levitas" Barak]

Peter couldn't help but think he'd been more than reasonable with his requests but some people where just difficult. All the man wanted to do was scream about his shattered knee cap which he'd gotten because he'd felt the need to be rude when Peter had so politely requested information about the assault on Allmart.

Peter hit the street, dropping the worn baseball bat into an alleyway, and tried to think. He'd run through his options and no one he'd asked had been able to give him names. He had faces from the video but apparently it hadn't been local people.

That was actually a bit of a lucky stroke, he now knew they likely were drifters from the waste and that meant they had to have been hired but finding out who hired them would mean knowing who they where.

He checked his watch. Maybe he'd call it a day for now, he'd been at this for eighteen hours, he was probably getting weaker. And besides that he'd need his chemical dose in a few more hours.

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei turns, his balisong immediately sliding into his palm and starts to open...then immediately slips it back up his sleeve when he sees it's Maeve.

"You've missed quite a bit, actually. Tuesday's friend, Malak, was kidnapped. Tuesday ran out and some freak with weird swords and a gas mask came out chasing her. I shot him, and he fell...then he got back up, cut me, and ran off."

He shakes his head, obviously troubled by his own words. He lifts his shirt briefly to show Maeve the gash going down his torso, from chest to stomach.

"This is Kizu, and her assistant Hex," Alexei says before looking to Kizu,"And Kizu, this is Maeve. She came with us from Cuba."

["Niel" Samuelson]

(to Linnea Korpela)

Scuttlebutt was that Keitoleinen, the God of Destruction that Niel and the Wrath were charged with harrassing, was fond of a certain artist. Having heard no word from the Wrath members he'd tried to contact, Niel took it upon himself to try and catch up with Ms. Korpela. Maybe she would have some idea how to take down Keitoleinen; Niel certainly had no other leads.

He found that she had an art gallery. He hurriedly stuffed himself into something presentable. Shiny black shoes, black pants, button-up white shirt tucked into the pants. That was always what presentable folks wore (everyone knew that, obviously).

Niel hadn't worked out the wrinkles before he found the art gallery. Stuffed to the gills with Manalist artwork.

Bit much, he thought as he made some knocking at the front door.

[Maeve Cullen]

Maeve snarled at his words. Malak was taken? Then Tuesday was probably in trouble too. And maybe even Hilja. She looks around with a bit of indecision. "Where'd everyone go?" She questions. How had they even known where to find them? Her parlor, probably. Some of them were so damn careless despite all her warnings.