The Threat That Must Be Eliminated

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

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OOC: Kinda braindead atm...sorry

Unlike Shizuka, Zack had immediately moved into action.It happened so quickly nobody, save for Hebika, would detect it. From both women's perspectives, the assassin had suddenly appeared behind the younger female, rather close to her actually. Shizuka wouldn't see it, but there was an object pressed into her back. To be specific, directly into her spinal column. The handgun in his hand was loaded, and the safety was off. "Who are you?" Zack asked, pushing her further into the room and shutting the door. He aimed the gun higher, this time specificlly pointing it at the young girls head. The others in the room would, most likely, take offense to Zacks behavior, and honestly he couldn't blame them.

How many of them had ever killed a child? How many of them had seen what a child soldier could do to a grown man? The idea that a child could be dangerous did not often register with people, but it was something that Zack knew well. He didn't care. "That door was locked. So answer my questions and nothing happens." Zack explained, a cold expression being used in his voice. But what he said was true. That door was locked. There was no way she could have accidently came in. After all, the locks were electronic. You needed a specific keycard to enter the room, or the master key.

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Well it seemed that the two different members of the seven guns group in Xcution took the arrival of the young girl in two very different ways. At first it seemed that Shizuka was simply looking out for the good like a normal natural girl her age would do. After she was done being pleasant though and one would expect the girl to leave after saying a few words of thanks suddenly Zack was behind the girl with a hand gun pressed to her back. Zack had moved swiftly and stealth fully catching the girl off guard.

Now as he forced her to move further into the room where he and the rest of Xcution's task force would be able to surround her. He asked who she was and how she had gotten into the room. This wasn't how things were suppose to go they were acting faster than Pheonix had planned and it seemed that drastic measures would have to be made. Suddenly everything changed. Asmoskon was watching although in truth he wasn't surprised like Shizuka more than likely was. He understood Zack and what he was doing so he was far more relaxed with the situation.

However, that was a problem as his left eye suddenly caught the sight of a glow to the girl's eyes. "Shizuka MOVE!" he screamed as he moved forwards towards the girl and away from the window. A moment afterwards though a high amount of electricity would be expelled from the body of the girl and pass into the gun sending the charge into Zack. The master assassin would only have so many options at his disposal, but if he couldn't get back away fast enough he'd find his hand scorched and his handgun partially melted. Shizuka had to move just the same as that glow that Asmoskon had seen was the sign of danger.

A concentrated beam of reiatsu was fired from the eyes of the girl directly towards Shizuka. If the agent of beauty didn't evade she would find herself in a dangerous position as the beams pierced through her stomach. Asmoskon was trying his best to close the distance when suddenly the glass broke and his blood soaked the floor. An arrow of blue in his chest as he started to fall forward to the floor from the lethal strike that had been made against him. It seemed the assassins were the real targets.

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

Zack's movement made Shizuka raise an eyebrow at him before anything else, but she knew he was always suspicious. Still, this time his gut was right because the girl turned out to be a bit more of a threat than the Fullbringer realized. Mentally kicking herself, she heeded Asmoskon's words and got herself on the floor with a slight yip in her voice, avoiding any contact with the kid's laser eyes. There wasn't much she could do to help Zack, but she knew he could take care of himself. Shizuka reached up and grabbed the girl's ankle, pulling outwards to trip her and land her back on the hard ground. Shizuka stood up immediately and quickly applied pressure to her throat with her heel. If she tried anything, Shizuka would act accordingly.

For now, though, the girl's left ankle was in Shizuka's hand and she was stuck in this position, limiting her movement. Yeah, okay, sure, she could always expel more electricity. Whatever, Shizuka would move away from that using a step technique or something if the situation called for it. But with this, her head was aimed away from everyone since her heel was stomping down on the girl's neck and she had no where to go without getting her head removed from her body. Shizuka was a little mad at herself, but more mad at this thing. She grimaced.

"Okay, so we have a spy. How did Phoenix know we were here, exactly?"

It seemed like no one had time to answer her when something shot through the window at Asmoskon. He somehow let it impale him and his poor injured body fell to the floor. Shizuka's eyes widened and the pressure she applied to the girl's neck intensified. Whether she was real or not, damaging any form of circuitry caused malfunction in the system. Basically, she'd either die or break apart. Asmoskon couldn't possibly have perished from that attack, but it looked like he was down for the count. Shizuka's eyes met with Zack's as shock crossed her face.

"Zack, what's going on!? We need to get out of here and regroup. How did they find us?"

The three left were going to have to move the fallen Quincy's body and get out as fast as possible, but Shizuka had no idea where to go. It's not like she was particularly familiar with the area, and she'll admit to being a little distracted by everything that was going on around them. The only idea she had about leaving was going out the front door but she knew that would end in an ambush. She just had no idea what was going on at this point and she found it hard to rationalize herself. She mentally cursed her actions from before, but there was nothing she could do about it now.

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Part of what made Zack so damn good was his incredible reaction speed and animal like senses. So, the very instant Asmokon said those words, Zacks body was already in motion. A step backwards, his gun pulled away from the girl, his ridiculous speed letting him move back just in time as the child became a living lightning bolt. His gray eyes widened a bit, making a note that he would need to thank Asmokon for such a quick timed warning. He had grown from when they had first met. Back when Asmokon had been some nobody Quincy with big dreams. It was relieving to see someone Jensen recruited turning out so well.

Back to the topic at hand, however, it seemed that discharging, no doubt, high voltages of electricity was not all that this intruder had up her sleeve. While Zack could only see the back of her head, he witnessed two beams of highly concentrated energy, most likely being reiatsu, being released from, Zack assumed, her eyes. Was this a Fullbring? A Mod Souls multileveled abilities? He wasn't sure. Too many questions. The beams were aimed right at Sanamizu, but the girl dropped to her stomach to avoid the rays, which passed harmlessly over her and blasted right through the glass doors of the apartment patio.

Using her own skills, Sanamizu brought the intruder down, pinning her beneath a heel to the throat. A good move. If need be, even an averagely strengthed human could shatter the important bones within a throat using their legs. Sanamizu had the physical capabilities of a trained athlete, even more so considering her Xcution training. He was sure she could bring down a professional football team single handedly if need be. She began to speak, but Zacks attention was drawn elsewhere when he heard the shattering of glass. An energy bolt, shaped strikingly like that of an arrow, pierced itself through Asmokons body, taking the Quincy down.

Shit!

Zack quickly ducked down behind the kitchens wall, as it was right beside the entrance to the room. Sanamizu called to him for answers, and he had some for her. "Restrain the intruder and get her, and yourself, out. Get into the staircase. It's a sealed room, no windows." Zack ordered, quickly jumping over the counter and landing beside Asmokon. He looked out the window, scanning for a sniper of any kind. Furniture covered Asmokons fallen body and the Assassin, so at least there was some cover.

Looking over the wound, he wondered if he had the devils luck. Had the wound been a few inches to the right it would have pierced his spine. Zack couldn't be sure major organs hadn't been hit, as he hadn't noticed the arrows trajectory when it entered into the Quincy. Pressing his index and middle fingers against Asmokon's carotid artery, he felt a slight pulse. Meant the Quincy was still alive, for now. Checking over the furniture to the outside, Zack quickly grabbed his gear off of the table beside him, before kicking the table over to provide more cover. Assembling himself, Zack lifted Asmokon up and over his shoulder, before speeding the hell out of that room. He made sure to not go full speed, and working under the assumption that Shizuka had already checked the hall and made it to the stairs, Zack followed with his plan.

Slamming that door open with the combined body weight of both himself and Asmokon, he gently laid the Quincy down against the wall before ducking and peeking out of small glass window the door had. The hell was happening? How did Pheonix know where they were? A leak? But more importantly, Asmokon needed treatement. Zack doubted Shizuka had medical expertise, and all of Zacks went into knowing how to shut down a body, not heal one. "We need to get Masuroa out of here first. I can have an ambulance here in three minutes." Zack said to Shizuka, both as a form of comforting her and as a matter of fact.

But, there was something he noticed that had to be said. "Doesn't look like the arrow pierced his heart, but a lung is absolutely punctured." It meant his lung was collapsed, and breathing would be very difficult for the Quincy. Zack paused, taking a breath as he finally said it, "That was a Quincies arrow." He quickly got to his feet, and stormed over to their little prisoner. Zack quietly walked over, and pulled his guns trigger, causing her knee to suddenly explode. "Standard blue light, just like all Quincy bows. Fired from a long distance with perfect accuracy. Seems Masurao was right...Pheonix has spiritual associates. Now, you will be answering my questions." Zack said to the girl, making sure to keep that gun pointed right at her.

He didn't add anymore to his threat. The very look in his eyes showed how serious he was. How terrible he could be when left alone with her. Zack had, unfortunatly, acquired the reputation for his torture methods. He didn't approve of the new reputation, as he only did such things against Saika preferably. But Zack knew how the body worked, and how best to inflict pain upon it. And he could do that here, or in a cellar.

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Everything moved throughout motion so swiftly over the next few moments of time. The operational leader of the objective seemed to have been lethally struck down by a long ranged arrow. Just prior to that the other two operatives dealt with the strange intruder. Zack was able to manage distance enough between himself and the girl that the discharge of electricity from her body didn't ruin his pistol or injury him in anyway. Shizuka also seemed to avoid injury as she was just able to get out of the way of the highly compressed lasers.

Everything after that seemed to go by in a few breaths of air. Zack took control of the situation making sure that if the sniper was out in the open he would have some kind of way of seeing him. He wouldn't be able to find anything though. As he kicked over the table there would be another arrow that suddenly pierced through the hard wood and past his face. Whoever was shooting at them was obvious capable of ending this right now, but seemed more entertained by toying with them.

Shizuka would have no choice, but to bring the girl with her into the stair well. Zack made sure to carry Asmoskon out of the room as fast as he could after Shizuka. It would only take them a few moments to actually reach it and then close the door behind them, but how long did they really have until Phoenix reached them. Zack looked over the wound that was actually bleeding rather horrifically now. Asmoskon was covered in blood and the floor around him was starting to be covered in it. There wouldn't be much time for him if the bleeding didn't stop.

Zack was trying to think of ways for this to actually work the best that it could for all of them. However, he had to get his information. So he stormed over to the girl that had been captured. In an instant he shot her knee which seemed to just explode causing blood and fragments of bone to be sent all over the area. The girl though for some unbelievable reason didn't even so much as flinch. She just starred at Zack. "That wasn't very nice." A few moments passed that were filled by Zack's statements. "Of course they do and obviously that was the arrow of a Quincy. It's to bad though that you will learn nothing else."

The body of the girl suddenly was glowing blue her stomach was the brightest section just as her eyes had been right before her last attack. Right as she spoke the air in the stair well was virtually on fire from the heat. There would be no fresh air and all three of Xcution's operatives would find that breathing was something far more difficult now. That was only a side effect though as lightning suddenly streamed from her body. She smiled at Zack knowing that any bullet he fired at her now would simply be magnetized away from her as she blew herself and all of them into oblivion.

That smile though directed at Zack the man that had just blown her leg off was cut off by what appeared to be a wall of red. Zack's last image of the girl would be that happy smile suddenly turning into nothing, but a true face of shock and fear. In that next moment the red wall that had risen between her and Zack extended over the girl enclosing around her into a dome. Then the entire building seemed to shake as the girl exploded from inside. "I'm not really all that comfortable in hospitals Mr. Jensen." spoke the Quincy leaning against the wall of the strait well. He was in a horrible state as he was having an unimaginable time trying to breathe.

He had only regained consciousness a few moments after the gun had been fired. Seeing what was going on with the girl had had acted as fast as he could to surround her with his blood and protect Shizuka and Zack from whatever she was planning. Now though he actually couldn't keep the dome stable and it collapsed revealing that the body of the girl was no longer there. All that was inside was smoke and bright orange molten metal. Asmoskon inhaling as best he could concentrated. Both Zack and Shizuka would then watch as the blood that covered the section of the stair well they were on started to move towards him and then back into his body.

"I have to stop the bleeding from actually happening if I'm going to be able to continue. I only have one way of doing something like this, but it'll take to long. So I want the both of you to go on ahead without me for now. At this point unless I can get my lung under control I'm just dead weight. Zack you lead for right now. Stay hidden or else the Quincy will take both of you out. There doing something to them. That wasn't an ordinary Fullbringer and the arrow that just did this to me belonged to my compromised Quincy. Remain wary and stay alive I'll catch up as soon as I can."

Remaining Reiatsu: 1300/500
Kurimuzon Baria: {-800}

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

"Restrain the intruder and get her, and yourself, out. Get into the staircase. It's a sealed room, no windows."

Shizuka nodded and quickly got the girl up, holding her face outward with her hand while the Fullbringer situated her hostage within her defensive embrace. With the way Shizuka was holding her, she could choke the girl out if she needed to. This way, it'd be easier to drag her around if they had to interrogate her, and it'd be easier to threaten her life if she chose not to cooperate. As they were, the room was in shambles and it wasn't exactly a pleasing sight. Furniture was everywhere, but at least it provided cover for her teammates.

When the moment permitted her to do so, the blonde quickly stole the girl away into the hall and checked for any intruders. Though she lacked any energy sensory, she had excellent senses and used them to feel or hear out any abnormalities. The coast seemed clear enough, so she let herself out of the hall and started making her way down the stairs. In no time, Zack brought Asmoskon's body out and met up with her. She didn't finish going downstairs before he caught up, so she turned and checked on him. If he was carrying this Quincy's body, that meant Asmoskon was okay. Beaten up, but okay.

"We need to get Masurao out of here first. I can have an ambulance here in three minutes."

"Okay, that's fair, but I think I should tell you th--"

Shizuka had spoken relatively softly, so she wasn't too surprised when Zack cut her off to explain to her what had just happened. She paused in telling him what she needed to say, but that didn't make it any less important. Before she knew it, the fellow assassin pulled his gun out and readied it just before shooting it at the girl's knee. It blew up in a seriously grotesque way, earning a comment from the girl in response. Shizuka was too disgusted to hold on to her hostage anymore, so she had let go in surprise as soon as she heard the gun shot.

Her glare at Zack probably wouldn't trigger anything, but this girl refused to help them even though she knew her life was in danger. Apparently, though, it didn't matter. She started glowing a weird blue color, forcing the Fullbringer to run back towards her partner as she attempted to escape the girl's attack. She knew distance was the best option, but if this girl was going to try to hurt them in such a small, cramped room, where did they have to go? Before they could even think, Shizuka noticed a wall of something red (was it red? She was colorblind, so it took a while for her good eye to process it) cover the hostage. What the hell was going on?

Thankfully, though, as the explosion was heard, the wall seemed to protect everyone. Shizuka breathed a deep sigh of relief as she looked over at Zack, realizing she was clutching his arm as tightly as she could due to fear. She hated herself for being so pathetic, so she quickly peeled herself away from him and put about a foot of distance between the two of them. She averted her gaze from his and turned herself slightly to avoid any awkward glances, hoping he'd just ignore it. Then, like a miracle, a familiar voice spoke from beneath the shadows. Asmoskon was okay!

Shizuka blinked as she watched the blood return to her now-conscious teammate. It was a little gross, but even she thought it was pretty cool the way he could do that. She wondered for a moment if she was able to do something like that with how she could control souls of some objects, but she pushed the idea out of her mind. No one wants to know someone who was basically a bloodbender, right? Anyway, she was thankful that Asmoskon was alright, after all. She was worried he'd been killed or on the route to death somehow, but relieved to find that he'd come back to them.

After learning that the arrow that had been shot belonged to Asmoskon's friend, though, everything changed. How was Shizuka supposed to go up against an organization that was abusing someone like that, especially if it meant they might have to take him down? That just wasn't fair. None of it seemed right, but it just had to be dealt with. Shizuka did raise an eyebrow, however, when Asmoskon gave leadership to Zack. He likely wouldn't notice, but her eye roll was also prevalent. She'll listen to him because she respected him, but she wouldn't forget this in the future.

"The thing is, Asmoskon, I've been trying to say for a while now that I can actually heal you. I'd have to release to do it, but if you'd let me, I can create a liquid that can help speed up the process. Since your wound is a little, uh, open for right now, I could pretty much dump the bucket on you and it'd seep into where it needed to be and hasten the process. It might heal your skin first, though. It works a little slower on organs and it won't bring back the dead, but I can do this for you. You just need to make me bleed, is all."

Shizuka smiled innocently at the two men, not realizing that her request may have sounded a bit more morbid than she had intended. She didn't know if he'd actually take her up on the offer, but it was worth a shot. Sure, she'd be using some Reiatsu early on, but she had enough to spare. It was worth it if it meant he'd be okay enough to continue the mission with everyone else instead of staying behind and risking himself anymore. If he didn't take the offer, though, she supposed it'd be best if the two Fullbringers just got going.

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OOC: Sorry it's short, been busy. But posting schedule should be more active now. At least till Overwatch comes out

Zack blinked, lowering his arm from his concealed face after the young girl had suddenly turned herself into a living explosive. Zack had prepared to utilize his Fullbring and escape the stairwell, unfortunately meaning he would be leaving Shizuka behind to defend herself, but it seems that despite being in a critical condition Asmoskon proved himself to more resourceful than the Assassin earlier thought he was. Utilizing some strange technique, Asmoskon used his own good to form a barrier between the explosion and the Assassin. Zack blinked, turning to look at the Quincy who voiced his displeasure over the idea of being sent to a hospital.

The threat, seemingly, dealt with, Jensen turned his attention to the other two agents. Now that the enemy had been neutralized, by her own actions, it was time to deal with the Quincies injuries. As Asmoskon spoke, stating how he wanted Jensen to lead for now and his worries about the enemy Quincy, Shizuka spoke up with something that, frankly, caught the Assassin off guard. He blinked, looking at her with a look of surprise. He didn't know that Shizukas Fullbring was capable of healing, only knowing that her abilities related to fluid production. "Go ahead then." Zack commented, stepping away from Asmoskon so Shizuka could get to work.

The Assassin leaned back against the wall, waiting for the young woman to get to work with her abilities. "That arrow belonged to your associate? If they've allied with the enemy then I'm sure you're aware that we'll have to treat them the same as any other obstacle. What abilities does their bow possess?" Zack asked, though it was more akin to an order for information. It was obvious that, despite Asmoskons feelings towards this unknown associate, Jensen was fully serious about eliminating them just like any other enemy.

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

Sorry, guys! I want to do a thread with everyone, but maybe not this one. I'm going to withdraw, but I'd love for us to try again with different stories and participants so we can actually complete it!