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William & Sonia

OOC: This is taking place WHILE Alex is heading to the hospital.

One of the mercenaries was shot at point blank while the remaining three quickly dragged the bodies back in to the sewer system. William groaned, "Find those people now! We still can't afford to lose that man!"

The three mercenaries carried William back to the underground hole and he was quickly rejuvenated using some Pre-war technology. He awoke later to see Sonia staring into his eyes, "You're awake!" Sonia yelled. The doctor scolded her for scaring William and she shrugged him off. The scientist groaned and walked out of the medical wing back to the test chambers to see that the civilians they killed were being dissected and the ones alive were used for live fire testing.

One of the scientists ran up to William, "Sir, we have uh...50% power with our Gauss Rifle prototypes. The metal bullets are traveling correctly but the pulse that propels them aren't at complete power."

William nodded and Sonia came back, looking more like an intern, "Sweetie!" She yelled much to Williams embarrassment, "We found the man. He's holed up in a pretty large hospital inside New Manhattan."

William groaned, "Damn...we can't operate in New Manhattan without the civilians knowing of our project. Right now, that roadblock was probably the most conspicuous move we did...and I'd like to keep it that way."

Sonia fiddled with her pencil and clipboard then finally grinned proudly. "I know how!"

William smiled, "Enlighten us please."

"New Manhattan has LOTS of mafias. Just hire the best one and kidnap the guy."

"Nice..." William turned to one of the scientists, "Tell our scout to send a message to the New Manhattan Mafia. Here's the message..." William gave the scientist a carefully folded letter with a holotape labeled, "For the Don"

@ Holy, thought, marveled, contemplated, philosophized, those should hold you over. Still catching up to you guys' posts.

OOC: Here's a quick rundown...More mercs come down to the standoff and get the bodies for testing for Williams project. Alex kills one of the mercenaries and in the confusion, Alex gets back to the hospital and talks to Ann while Frank is coming to kill her once more. At the same time, William awakes with his wounds healed and a fuel for vengeance. He orders a message to be sent to the New Manhattan Mafia's Don...and THAT is the rundown...

OOC: Alex, you definitely did leave the scene without any type of exit. What about helping me or at least talking to me? Maybe allowing mee to thank you or something. I understand that the new idea of finally killing an being acted upon probably made you exited, but you gotta watch out for that. Just thought I should point that out.

The explosion knocked the hell out of Evander, but this time he didn't lose consciousness. Once he got up, dazed and numb, he looked around him for the scientist. He was now up blasting rounds into innocent bystanders. In all his years of Brotherhood service, he'd never seen a handheld weapon that compact and powerful. Certain parts of the victims bodies were literally separated from themselves. As Evander staggered to his feet however, the scientist fell to the ground, motionless. The girl in a labcoat ran to him and screamed, but the shellshock from the explosion had rendered his hearing useless. A shady gruff character stood at his side now, donning a hat and beard. Evander recognized him from the night before. He'd never gotten his name though.

"You boys need a hand?" He asked.

"No, I'm fine. I could use a name though." As Evander was saying this he was also watching Alex, as he came to his senses. The man had risen and was now cursing inaudibly. Then he ran suddenly in up the street. Evander, who was still partially dazed, jogged after him sloppily. He still wanted to know what the hell was going on.

"Alex wait!"

Dean was about to reply to Evander when him and his companion called Alex ran off towards the city. Dean had no idea what to do, he stood there confounded for a minute then gave chase. It was easy for him to catch up to Evander the man waa shellshocked pretty bad and wasn't going anywhere fast.

"Slow down there Youngster" He callled as he came up along side him "The names Dean, you might remember me from last night? and you got to realise you're doing more harm than good taking off after him in this condition. I know you were in the Brotherhood and all but you need to rest."

Dean wasn't going to let the only person he could possibly get answers from regarding this whole thing get away.

He continued "There's only a couple places he would head anyway his house or to Hospital to see that lady you 'rescued' last night." He grabbed his water flask and held it out for Evander "If you won't sit down at least take a drink it'll help."

William & Sonia

The scout was sent and William only needed to wait. Sonia came to the testing chambers where William was writing down notes on the new Pulse weapons that were scrounged up and repaired in a couple military outposts. She leaned over, "Come on...you promised me a romantic date!" William sighed, "Follow me, let's go to our private dining room."

The Scout

Matthew, the scout, ran as fast as he could to the New Manhattan casinos. A couple minutes later of asking to GP moles revealed that a hitman was sent to the hospital to kill one of the patients. The scout had a heart attack right then, Oh no...if he dies, the Commander will have my head!. He ran towards the New Manhattan hospital, where the man was supposed to be.

He hid his only weapon, a silenced 9mm pistol, under his small coat and waited outside the hospital, praying to God that he meets the hitman to find out who the Don is. Matthew played the tape...

This is William Snowe, Commander and Head Scientist of the Gauss Project. I have a proposition for you...we have in our supply, a stockpile of weaponry that's far more advanced than those pea shooters you use. All we ask in return is either the kidnap of a certain person or information on a piece of technology, the Plasma Lamp. If you want to contact me, just knock three times in the sewer systems in the Brooklyn Bridge. Make sure this tape doesn't fall into the wrong hands or we will kill you.

The scout sighed, "He'll have my head either way..."

Evander Jamison

Evander was losing sight of Alex, who was moving quickly for a blast survivor. After loping around for quite a while, Dean caught up with him and began talking. Evander however, was still discombobulated and still didn't listen or pay attention until he was handed a flask of water.

"If you won't sit down at least take a drink it'll help."

Evander wasn't quite that thirsty, but Dean had a point. He took the drink from the man and had himself to gulps, then gave it back.

"Thanks. I need to catch up with that man there though, so you don't have to follow if you don't want. I can handle my own." And with that he hobbled off to the New Manhattan Hospital. He got to the front desk, standing behind it was a graying receptionist with lines on her face from smiling so much. She looked at him and gave him that same smile, as if the world wasn't [censored] up. Next to her plastered smile was a poster that read:

ALL PATIENTS RECORDS ARE
SUBMITTED TO THE MAFIA.

As recognition dawned on him, his face clouded over with a dark understanding. The mafia would know of where Ann was. He turned hastily to the woman and asked her where the woman was.

"Room 150." She beamed.

"Thanks." He ran to the room, hoping he wasn't too late.

The Scout

As one certain person headed in, Matthew caught a conversation and found the room. He sighed, "I'm not paid enough..." and followed the man into Room 150. He creeped up the stairs, careful to stay inconspicuous with his silenced 9mm in his hand at all times.

William & Sonia

William had just finished a romantic dinner with Sonia when she checked her PDA to find that the scout had entered the hospital. She quickly notified William, "The Scout's in the hospital...are we going to give the order?"

He shook his head, "Now let's just listen to bad music or something..."

OOC: Wow, this is getting really interesting now.. pretty much everyone has a character meeting up in this one little hospital room!

BIC:

Frank Vercelotti

Frank strolled into the hospital in his usual manner and at once noticed a woman seated at the front desk. "Heya Martha" Frank mumbled, taking the patient records folder and opening it up to the letter 'S'. His finger trailed down the list of names looking for a Scallati. He read on, one name after the other. Scabbe, Scaccino, Scadwell, Scaffroni, Scaggarri, Ah, here it is.. Scallati he read, and checked the room number. Room 150. he smiled to himself, shutting the register and walking up the stairs to Anns room. While going up the stairs Frank heard shuffling behind him, but paid no attention to it. There were literally hundreds of Mafiosi in this hospital, no one would dare pull anything lest an army of goons descend upon them.

That's when the shuffling noise was drowned out by the clanging of heavy boots upon the staircase. Frank pulled out his pistol within the blink of an eye and was turned around to face another man wielding a weapon of his own. However, this wasn't the source of the clanging, as it continued, growing louder. With his fast thinking, Frank decided to sprint the rest of the way up the staircase to the corridor in which Room 150 was, and duck behind cart, facing the staircase and aiming his gun directly at the door to it.

Come on [censored], try something here. I dare you, I double dare you. Frank thought, as a gang of goons noticed him, and took similar positions along side him, aiming directly at the door.

OOC: I want to try and strike a deal, so let's not fight immediately. Evander is entitled to a revenge shot, however, should he choose to take one.

OOC: Alright, I think we can "strike" a deal.
Its not Scallati, its Scalatti.

Alexander Scalatti

Alex awoke to banging and rustling outside of the hospital room. What the hell? "Hold tight Ann, I will be right back." The rustling was getting louder and several footsteps were audible. Has the mafia found me?

Alex reached into his pocket and took out a 10MM pistol. "Whose there?" There was no answer. "One more time, who is there?" Again, no answer.

Alex was getting inpatient. Lemme go check. Alex reloaded his pistol and with a deep breath, opened the door.

The Scout

Matthew saw what looked like a Mafia hitman raise his gun to his face while the one he was tailing was still charging up the stairs. He breathed deeply and walked through the staircase to where the hitman was. He raised his 9mm pistol, "I can kill you from this range! I'm only here to meet the Don of the New Manhattan Mafia!"

Hoping the hitman wouldn't notice, he whispered a message in the two way radio on his shoulder, "We have contact with the Don's lackey..."

William & Sonia

"We got the signal!" Sonia exclaimed while they were examining the plasma weapon collection.

"Good...send in the ambassadors and mercenaries."

OOC: Gargh! Too many guns!

Evander Jamison

Evander was at the door, along with about five other people, all armed. There was Alex, who just exited the room, along with Dean, that goon from last night, and some other random guy with a pistol. It was a real stand-off. The tension was so tangible Evander thought he could feel it. He took out his Chinese Rifle, just to be a notch above the rest. Then he shot the goon from last night in the chest and shoved Alex into the open doorway. Once it was closed he fired a bust of bullets through to door and locked it.

"Now we can talk."

"What the [censored]?" Alex yelled as Evander shot the mafia goon and shoved Alex into the hospital room. Suddenly, Alex heard a couple of gun shots. Bullets sailed through the door and hit Alex in his arm and shoulder. [censored], I'm shot! Alex clutched his arm and stood up. Ann was yelling loudly. "Your shot! Oh my goodness!"

"ANN! Shup up! Please!" Blood was dripping on the floor.

Ann noticed a bullet had hit the wall, about three inches from her head. I am so lucky Ann thought. Ann jumped from her bed and put Alex's arm over her shoulders. Alex was wounded really bad.

Alex took a seat and took some bandages from the room's closet. Outside, they argument was getting heated.

William & Sonia

"Silver One...come in Silver One"

The radio gave a hearty response, "Silver One here, what are your orders sir?"

William gave a look to the scientists who were anticipating an attack, who nodded, "Our scout is pinned outside of the New Manhattan hotel. The place is hot and we run a risk of exposing the GP to the surface dwellers, but we need the information. Keep the man inside hospital room 150 alive. Civilian casualties allowed."

The elite squad gave the three dings to say, "Yes" and headed out. As they arrived at the hospital, the scout was pinned down. He grumbled, "I swear...one more mishap like this..."

He attached a small frag grenade on the door and ran. The door seemed to be rock solid as the main door didn't even budge. He tried kicking it and to his success, a click was heard.

"Yes!" He exclaimed and burst in the door. He radioed HQ once more, "We don't need the tape any more...he's here."

William heard the broadcast and smiled, "Silver team is heading your way for backup. Don't die and keep the man pinned."

Frank Vercelotti

Frank gritted his teeth in anticipation. He heard the clammering grow louder, and louder, and raised his arm to wipe the sweat off his brow when he saw that Anns husband, poke his head out from one of the rooms. Franks expression changed from one of tension into one of surprise. This guy is here too? Frank thought. Better. Two birds with one stone. he thought, temporarily losing focus. That split second of distraction was enough however, as the clanging up the staircase stopped and a man burst through the staircase doors wielding an automatic rifle trained directly at him. Frank noticed the face; it was that of someone familiar. Isn't that the shopkeeper who I- Franks thoughts were cut short by a quick burst of the rifle straight into Franks chest.

Suddenly, Frank dropped to his knees, letting go of his pistol. Everything went red, and all sounds went dim. He clutched his chest, noticing that he was bleeding like a fountain. Franks eyes suddenly rolled back into his head after vaguely noticing the shopkeeper enter the room from whence Alex was observing the chain of events. He then heard the dull shattering of bullets leaving their guns. It was his fellow Mafiosi firing directly at the shopkeeper, in a hail of bullets, they fired all over the place. This was the last thing Frank noticed before shutting his eyes. He mumbled out "It..It's just business" before blacking out completely.

***

What? I see..I see the light. I can't die like this. Im the best! No, I was the best. Sure I did bad things in my life, but who hasn't? All I was trying to do was make a living for myself.

It's just business..

OOC: Holy Assassin, is Frank dead?

Alexander Scalatti

The entire floor erupted into gunfire. "Ann! Get down!" Alex turned over a bed and motioned Ann to hide behind it. Several shots sailed into the room but were wildly innacurate.

"Honey, somethings wrong..." Ann started to convulse.
"[censored]! Ann?" Ann was having a heart attack. Alex began CPR in the middle of the gunfight. It was a minor attack that Alex figured was caused by fear. Within a minute, Ann's heart was fully beating again.

Alex took off his suit and made a makeshift mat, he laid Ann on it and started to walk towards the door. Time to die. Alex tried to open the door but it was locked. Alex ran into the door and slid into cover. The firefight was still in progress. Just then, something caught Alex's eye.

Its that mafia goon. He's dead.. no wait, he's breathing, Alex had a split second decision. Alex ran toward the body, picked it up, and brought it back to the room, all under heavy fire. Alex relocked the door and laid the mafia goon down, and started doing CPR. "You may have tried to kill my wife, but, I know why you tried, and I forgive you for it."

Alex noticed several bullets wiz into the room. He hoped that noone would break open the door.

William & Sonia

William geared up once more and Sonia looked surprised, "Dear, what are you doing?"

"I'm a soldier Sonia. I belong in the front lines."

She jabbed him in the stomach, "And you're the commander of one of the largest organizations in Manhattan!"

He sighed and loaded a Gauss Rifle and his MP5. Outside of facility and in the main Atrium, he saw four soldiers, all geared up and ready to move out. He assumed it was Silver Team Two, "Alright, are you guys ready?"

They saluted him and the five headed for the hospital.

The scout radioed in once more, "Damn it! Where are you guys?! Our contact is incapacitated and our target is right there!"

William panicked and ran inside as fast as he could into the hospital to support the scout. He turned around, "About time Silver Team Two was deployed!"

"Where's team one?"

The Scout motioned across the blood soaked floors, "Everywhere," He pointed at a man doing CPR, "That's our target and the one on the floor was supposed to be the contact."

William sighed and loaded his Gauss Rifle for the third time in a matter of a day, "Kill the goons."

The team fired directly into the gunfire and eventually, most of the mafia goons lost their will...and arms to fire.

Dean Was beginning to Wish he hadn't followed Evander, when they rounded the stairs to the level where room 150 was everything had gone to [censored]. Not asking any questions Evander had opened fire on the Mafia goons then dsahed inside the room that Alex was in and locking the door behind him.

"What the [censored], [censored] city folk always turn on ya." Dean had to think quick bullets were already smacking into the door that Evander and Alex were holed up in, the Mafia would turn their attention to him soon. He looked down the corridor and took off at a sprint he burst into a room about 10 metres down and was met with an almighty scream.

"Sorry Ma'm I don't mean to disturb you but if you don't keep quiet, your going to die plain and simple" Dean said with as much calmness as he could muster. It was to no avail she just kept screaming.

maybe over the gunfire they won't hear her.

He peeked back out into the corridor and saw a face he had seen two times before, it was a face he wished he would never have to see again after this.

I'm to old for this [censored] Dean then noticed that the man with the gauss was heading for room 150. Gotta warn Evander he's the only one who will give me answers without shooting me, but how?

Dean thought for a minute and let out a very loud bellow "Evander y'all got company and it ain't the nurse" The yell startled the group of mercs.

Oh god I hope he heard me

OOC: I am in a locked room with Ann and Frank.

Alexander Scalatti

The world turned into a blur. Alex was performing CPR on the half dead mafia goon, and Ann was unconcious. Comon! Comon! "Honey..?" Ann said in a very weak voice. "Yes?"

"Whats going on?"
"Go back to sleep". Alex said quietly.

Ann was very weak so she fell back asleep. Alex then realised that every hospital room had an emergency ladder. There were already New Manhattan soldiers outside. Alex opened the window and yelled.

"Hey! I am going to lower a ladder! My wife is weak and I have a half dead guy!"
"Alright!"

Alex lowered the ladder and several soldiers started to climb it.

William&Sonia

"Damn it, he's getting away!" William yelled, "Blow open the door..."

ST2(Silver Team) quickly planted their C4 on the door and blew it open correctly. William saw his target and his unconscious girl waiting for soldiers to come up. "I was expecting more fun..." Sonia pouted. William turned to her, "Give them the command."

She smiled and triumphantly yelled to ST2, "Kill the soldiers!"

The elite squad shot at the New Manhattan soldiers, dropping all that came up on the ladder. William pondered through the gunfire for a moment, "We might as well reveal ourselves now that we're so close to the final project...not to mention our first conspicuous terrorist attack on a New Manhattan building."

ST2 and Sonia nodded in agreement as William nonchalantly tossed a shredder grenade(like a plasma grenade but makes short range laser beams go everywhere instead of a ball of plasma) out the window and looked at the man, "You should come with us."

OOC: Frank is alive, but just barely. He will regain consciousness the next day, expiring his contract with the Don and forcing teh Don to hire a hit on Frank. This is where (hopefully) Frank will make a shaky alliance with the rest of the guys. He needs them to help him fight, and they need him and no one knows the streets of Manhattan better than Frank. He can get them to safety in a safe-house of his or something.. His personal safehouse which even the Mafia doesn't know about..

Edit: Someone call a doctor for Frank, he needs surgery.. He won't just wake up on his own..

Edit 2: I think it's safe to lock this thread up here and start a new one. In the OP of thread 2, give all the character sheets, and summarize the story up until now.

OOC: This is getting interesting.
To Holy: Sounds good, first I have to escape DarkZerkers mercenaries.
Alexander Scalatti

Several soldiers were now in the small room. "Alright, we can handle thi......"

BOOM

The door blew open. Several beams shot through the room dropping all the soldiers. Alex barely managed to duck behind the bed. "Alex, who are those?" Ann asked. "I have no clue, you are weak, please go back to sleep."

Ann fell asleep almost right at the word. The gunfight in the hospital was getting fierce. Suddenly, several scientist looking fellows came into the room.

"You should come with us."

What the hell? Alex thought. "I refuse to come with you mr. white lab coat. I have other things to tend to." Alex said as he pointed to Ann and Frank. "I have had to much going on in the last few days, so [censored] off."

William&Sonia

"You're surrounded by my best men, the soldiers are all shredded, and two people are injured. I can help you only if you just COME WITH US." William snapped. Sonia tapped him on his back, "William, they're coming up again."

The scientist/commander tossed a couple more shredder grenades and screams could be heard from the outside. William turned to Sonia, "Happy now?"

She nodded and William turned back to his target, "Of course if you don't come with us....we can just knock you out and drag you back there. But our soldiers aren't looking for more body work." He aimed his Gauss Rifle at the woman's head, "But there's always...another option. It would be a shame to kill such a beautiful woman like her..."

OOC: But wait, I was in the room with you guys too. Remember Alex? Also, we were on the first floor the whole time, hence 150. Its okay though. Just an afterthought, how is Ann going asleep so easily and quickly with so much gunfire? It could easily be because she's weak, but just food for thought.

Evander Jamison

The door was now riddled with bullet holes, but it still separtaed them from everyone else. Evander was loading his gun, while Alex was by Ann giving her chest quite a beating. It was [censored] chaos.

"Evander y'all got company and it ain't the nurse."

He's got to stop with the jokes. They were corny before, now its even worse, Evander thought. "I kinda know this already Dean, but this door is locked and I'm not too fond of opening it. Now hold on so I can find a way to get you in here. Evander backed up from the door away from the direction of the bullets. As soon as he turned around though, he was nearly tackled y Alex, who just ran through the door, the only thing separating the goons bullets from their bodies.

"[censored], Alex!" Evander yelled, crouching at the door frame so he could give Alex cover. He was able to collectively shoot and kill about four mercs in the time it took for Alex to drag a bodies to their temporary haven. Then he called out into the halls, "Dean I hope you got a gun. Get your ass in here while I still got ammo left!"

He fired out the rest of his clip then retreated from the constant assault of lead, taking note to actually breathe. Just then he heard a sharp metallic noise. He looked towards the only window in the room and saw that Alex was lowering the ladder. Either he was coming out or someone is about to come in. Before long there were soldiers in the room.

"Alright civilians remain at your current positions. Squad, mo--" A bomb went off on the first floor, knocking Evander as well as all the soldiers to their feet. From the doorway Evander even saw a few licks of fire. If he was just an ordinary civilian, this probably would have been too much for him, but Evander was trained for these situations, and he knew how to react when he saw scientists talking to Alex., spraying his last clip on the whole bunch. Meanwhile, the same hitman from the night before was unconscious and in the same room as them, while Ann was fast asleep...somehow.

"Alen I don't know what stupid [censored] up plan you have in terms of escape, but if you want to live, tell me what the [censored] we're planning on doing 'cause I'm outta ammo!"