(( All right, this is only the second story I've ever posted on the board so be gentle with me you guys! This is basically a breakout story for my new main character. ))
The precise tramp of military trained men, their footfalls synchronized perfectly Officers too, they were wearing dress shoes, to light to be anything else. She twitched an ear. Two floors down, just passing cell block D; she smiled triumphantly, they were coming.
General Andrew Wessin had known Chiroptera when he was just a Lt. Colonel, back then she was Commander a commander, one of the fiercest tactics officers in the military, leader of the Task Force Delta, a spec. forces commando team who were only sent on the most delicate of missions where only perfection could be acceptable for the assignment. There wasnt an officer wearing a uniform that wouldnt have killed to be serving under her. Now here he was, acting on behalf of the National Security Agency, coming to transfer her out of one of the worlds more fearsome prisons. The circumstances that led to her honorable discharge had always been very hush-hush. There were rumors of everything from withdrawing from active service to run for President to disappearing in order to join the shadow government that supposedly ruled the entire world behind the scenes.
Then there were the other rumors, the ones no one who had looked up to General Chiroptera wanted to accept That she had been showing signs of a psychotic break down. That shed been refusing direct orders. That she was using government funds to finance herself for genetic experimentation and studies into the occult. No one wanted to accept these, and even the official investigation did not state the specific reasons for her dismissal, but the fact that she was discharged with honors made these less pleasant thoughts highly unlikely; but why then was he now coming to retrieve her from a state penitentiary for the super villains?
General Wessin shook his head as the Warden stopped before a locked and bolted steel door. There was a grate a food tray could be passed through, and a thin observation window to see into the cell, which was extremely dark due to the lack of windows.
The Warden looked to Wessin, This is it Chiropteras cell. She killed 7 other inmates and two guards on her first day here, Rainer took down four more guards who tried to come to assist in taking Tanya down, weve had both in solitary confinement ever sense
I see Wessin replied, frowning faintly, killing prisoners, killing guards? It didnt sound like the Chiroptera hed once known. He licked his lips, his throat suddenly dry; he cleared it with a cough and finally spoke towards the cell. General Chiroptera?
The response was odd to say the least, it sounded like something between the word yes and a hiss.
This is General Andrew Wessin, United States Marine Corp. Ive been sent by the NSA to take you to a more secure facility so that we can work on youre Condition He announced.
Condition ? Tanyas voice echoed within the cell, soft, amused and menacing; sending a chill down Wessins spine. And which condition would that be General; my so called psychotic break down? Or the condition you government imbeciles forced me into by denying me access to a geneticist to keep my blood in check?
Wessin frowned faintly. Youre to be taken to a facility in Virginia, along with Elizabeth Rainer, youll be evaluated and, hopefully, helped so that you can return to society.
Society? Ive been fighting to PROTECT Society from corrupt fools like the men you answer too! She snarled.
Wessin sighed, it was obvious she either didnt remember him or didnt care. General, Im ordering you to stand down so that you may be readied for transport. If you do not comply my men are authorized to use whatever force is necessary to bring you under control.
Tanya was silent for what seemed like ages. Very well General Wessin I will comply.
Wessin nodded to the Warden and his guards readied their weapons in case Tanya tried anything; he didnt expect she would though, regardless of what she had become, she was still a woman trained on military principle, she still held a code of honor. A third guard approached and typed in the code on the number pad lock on Tanyas cell. The first of 3 locks now snapped back. He put in the second code and the second bar snapped back, finally reaching out to put in the final code when, with a horrendous crash, the center of the door began to buckle.
JESUS CHRIST! The Warden yelped in alarm, staring at the massive dent that was now in Tanyas Cell door. Get the LongBow guards up here! NOW! He yelled into his walkie-talkie as another crash permeated the cell block and another dent appeared in Tanyas door.
Chiroptera stand down! DO YOU HEAR ME!? STAND DOWN SOLDIER! Wessin ordered in his most authoritative voice, permeated and destroyed by the fear underlying it. How strong did you need to be to put dents that big in a door made of 8 inch thick reinforced metal plating?
Foot steps, running up the corridor, two lighter and several heavy sets. Wessin turned to look for the Freedom Corp guards but then; Tch-CHUNK. The entire cell block was plunged into darkness, someone had just caught the power. Wessin now pulled his 45. from the holster at his hip as suddenly all across the prison alarms began to wail of coming danger and then a massive explosive blast that shook the very foundation of the building. Muffled in the darkened hall he heard an intercom announcing the cause through out the facility.
Arachnos troops have entered the prison! Arachnos Troops have entered the prison! All guards to your stations! The building trembled with another heavy explosion from somewhere a few floors down before the intercom suddenly fell silent.
Now Wessin noted another sound permeating the darkness that had settled over the corridor Beeping It sounded like someone putting the code into a cell number pad nearby. He whirled just in time to hear the third locking mechanism of a door snap back and what looked to be a pair of what looked to be green eyes No Goggles, glinting in the dim light shining through the windows lining the dark corridor. He briefly had time to note what he though almost sounded like a cats purring before
OPEN FIRE! A voice ordered. The hall was suddenly a blaze with the light of automatic weapons fire as Wessins three guards were torn to ribbons by the coordinated fire of several urban assault armored soldiers, marked with black and gold. Standing behind them were three women. Two he didnt recognize, one clad in a black and red garb and the other in a black leather body glove but the third...
Wearing the same black and grey urban commando attire she was in when captured by the Freedom Phalanx, Elizabeth Rainer stood commanding a group of FANG Gunners who had just decimated Wessins guards. The General had barely had time to yank the Warden out of the line of fire and then; finally, the fear that had been lying at his very core since this catastrophe began happened.
With the crash of rending metal and snapping bolt locks, Tanya Chiropteras cell door collapsed to the floor. To his relief, it was at this point that power was suddenly restored. One of the women hed not recognized shouted Heroes! before one of the FANG soldiers gave a cry and was slammed into the wall by an energy blast shot by a red and white clad LongBow guard charging down the hall flanked by 6 others, his hands glowing with plasma energy. Wessin turned his gaze to the Warden who looked shaken but other wise unharmed, then looked toward Tanyas cell.
Mother of god He gasped, staring at the creature looming in the doorway of the cell.
Tanya Chiroptera was once considered to pretty for the military, when she was young she was gorgeous, and even after years of heavy combat and violence, her war weary face still had maintained a level of grim but stunning beauty; but a beautiful face couldnt distract from the effects of unchecked gene alteration that had taken place in her blood while she was stuck in solitary confinement.
Her heavy leather combat boots had been destroyed by taloned bat like feet covered in a coat of dark brown fur. Her jacket sleeves ripped and tattered as her muscles had built up and torn at the fabric, her fingers now shifted to claws long enough to be used to rip human flesh to ribbons. Two long fangs jutted out from behind her upper lip and pressed against her bottom one, her ears had turned longer and pointed, jutting out slightly and her red hued eyes burned with a terrifying fury. Her tanned Native American skin had paled locked away in that windowless cell and her features had distorted into a gruesome animal visage. She now truly resembled some grotesque occult monster; even the LongBow guards and her own soldiers were staring in shocked surprise at the sight of her.
Tanya however only had eyes for the Warden lying at her feet with Wessin. You see now, dont you Warden, why I told you I needed genetic treatment Why I told you if I didnt get it youd have to deal with something far worse than a military tactician ? You see With the proper treatments, my human mind can remain in firm control; but without those treatments, I tend to become a bit feral. She said that final word with such a tone of menace and power that it almost sent a shiver down General Wessins spine.
Suddenly Tanya swept her long arms out and snatched the Warden up, holding him a good foot and the half off the ground, snarling and fixing her one good eye on his fear filled blues.
Take her out! the Lead LongBow guard ordered.
With a crack of gunfire the guard leader collapsed, his head now looking something like a smashed vase as Lieutenant Rainer lowered the rifle shed taken from the down FANG trooper with a faint smirk while the other LongBow guards stared in horror as a massive pool of blood began leaking out around their leader from the masse hole in his head, his brain matter splattered across the floor looking similar to damp mud knocked from a soldiers shoe.
The Heroes recovered quickly, but not quick enough. The two farthest from the others gave muffled yelps of pain as a pair of FANG Stalkers rose from the shadows behind them, impaling them upon their claws. This left only four guards, wide eyed and stunned by the loss of two more team mates.
Tanya chuckled softly now, at the expressions of the four heroes. You know Warden, at first I was planning to kill you; but I think it would be far more fun to have you survive and have to explain to the people of this city how your prison managed to be invaded by Arachnos and FANG all in the same day. She flashed him a smirk and then threw him roughly into what had been her cell, knocking the wind out of his lungs as he slumped to the ground.
Wessin had seen a lot of things; hed seen his own cousin torn to ribbons when a shrapnel grenade exploded at his feet. Hed seen Rikti bombardments decimate his forces during the war and had watched people reduced to ash of disintegration by the aliens high-tech weaponry; but what Tanya did next, would haunt his mind for as long as he could remember.
As her soldiers closed ranks around the four remaining hero corp. guards the four heroes turned back to back ready for a defiant last stand; a stand which they would not be given the chance to make. Tanyas legs buckled down like high powered springs before she suddenly leapt over the line of FANG troops. Her massive talon tipped feet came down on top of the only female guard crushing her body into a mass of human pulp and splintered bone upon the floor surrounded by the organs forced out of her body from the strength of the blow. The half-bat monstrosity lashed out with one clawed hand grabbing the LongBow groups second blaster up by his head and squeezing until it splattered like a ripe melon, causing his blood and brain matter to spill over her hand.
The sight of it made one of the other heroes retch, immediately catching her attention, as he emptied his stomach onto the floor a black tendril shot out of the shadows cast by the cell block lights and forced its way down his throat. The red and white clad heros body convulsed, horrifying ripping and tearing sounds emanating from him as the tendril tore at his organs from the inside.
With a roar the group of heros tanker threw himself at Tanya while she concentrated on the other hero. He knocked her to the ground falling upon her with a pummel of fists. The FANG troops raised their weapons, but Rainer lifted a fist for them to hold their fire. The Tanker gave an agonized yelp as he suddenly began trying to pull away from Tanya while she wrapped her arms around his torso, holding him against her body. Blood was pouring from his neck in rivers till finally she kicked him off and pulled herself up to stand in front of the hulking tanks blood stained body. Her now crimson tipped fangs she held the torn remains of his larynx.
Wessin noticed a look of shock on Rainers face. Obviously shed thought Tanya would be able to handle herself, but not in such a brutal manner. Chiroptera spat the torn piece of vital organ out of her mouth, sneering at the four heroes bodies as Wessin averted his gaze, the color drained from his face, feeling sick himself now at the sight of the monstrous creature who at one point had been his commanding officer in the military; her once pristine uniform splattered with fresh blood as she turned to her troops and officers then turned her gaze to the general, the same smile he recognized from every successful campaign she ever over-saw now on her blood smeared face. Sorry to chat and run General but I have a ride to catch; and you know how I hate to be late. She reached down and plucked Wessins forgotten pistol off the floor, hefting it in her hand and clucking with disapproval. Andrew . You know better. Standard issue is insufficient. She tucked the pistol into her belt, gave a little two fingered salute with her clawed hand and made an abrupt about face, moving down the hall and and signaling for her troops to fall in behind her. Leaving the shell shocked Wessin and the unconscious Warden lying dazed in the High Security Cell Block hallway.
(( All right, this is only the second story I've ever posted on the board so be gentle with me you guys!
This is basically a breakout story for my new main character. 
))
The precise tramp of military trained men, their footfalls synchronized perfectly Officers too, they were wearing dress shoes, to light to be anything else. She twitched an ear. Two floors down, just passing cell block D; she smiled triumphantly, they were coming.
General Andrew Wessin had known Chiroptera when he was just a Lt. Colonel, back then she was Commander a commander, one of the fiercest tactics officers in the military, leader of the Task Force Delta, a spec. forces commando team who were only sent on the most delicate of missions where only perfection could be acceptable for the assignment. There wasnt an officer wearing a uniform that wouldnt have killed to be serving under her. Now here he was, acting on behalf of the National Security Agency, coming to transfer her out of one of the worlds more fearsome prisons. The circumstances that led to her honorable discharge had always been very hush-hush. There were rumors of everything from withdrawing from active service to run for President to disappearing in order to join the shadow government that supposedly ruled the entire world behind the scenes.
Then there were the other rumors, the ones no one who had looked up to General Chiroptera wanted to accept That she had been showing signs of a psychotic break down. That shed been refusing direct orders. That she was using government funds to finance herself for genetic experimentation and studies into the occult. No one wanted to accept these, and even the official investigation did not state the specific reasons for her dismissal, but the fact that she was discharged with honors made these less pleasant thoughts highly unlikely; but why then was he now coming to retrieve her from a state penitentiary for the super villains?
General Wessin shook his head as the Warden stopped before a locked and bolted steel door. There was a grate a food tray could be passed through, and a thin observation window to see into the cell, which was extremely dark due to the lack of windows.
The Warden looked to Wessin, This is it Chiropteras cell. She killed 7 other inmates and two guards on her first day here, Rainer took down four more guards who tried to come to assist in taking Tanya down, weve had both in solitary confinement ever sense
I see Wessin replied, frowning faintly, killing prisoners, killing guards? It didnt sound like the Chiroptera hed once known. He licked his lips, his throat suddenly dry; he cleared it with a cough and finally spoke towards the cell. General Chiroptera?
The response was odd to say the least, it sounded like something between the word yes and a hiss.
This is General Andrew Wessin, United States Marine Corp. Ive been sent by the NSA to take you to a more secure facility so that we can work on youre Condition He announced.
Condition ? Tanyas voice echoed within the cell, soft, amused and menacing; sending a chill down Wessins spine. And which condition would that be General; my so called psychotic break down? Or the condition you government imbeciles forced me into by denying me access to a geneticist to keep my blood in check?
Wessin frowned faintly. Youre to be taken to a facility in Virginia, along with Elizabeth Rainer, youll be evaluated and, hopefully, helped so that you can return to society.
Society? Ive been fighting to PROTECT Society from corrupt fools like the men you answer too! She snarled.
Wessin sighed, it was obvious she either didnt remember him or didnt care. General, Im ordering you to stand down so that you may be readied for transport. If you do not comply my men are authorized to use whatever force is necessary to bring you under control.
Tanya was silent for what seemed like ages. Very well General Wessin I will comply.
Wessin nodded to the Warden and his guards readied their weapons in case Tanya tried anything; he didnt expect she would though, regardless of what she had become, she was still a woman trained on military principle, she still held a code of honor. A third guard approached and typed in the code on the number pad lock on Tanyas cell. The first of 3 locks now snapped back. He put in the second code and the second bar snapped back, finally reaching out to put in the final code when, with a horrendous crash, the center of the door began to buckle.
JESUS CHRIST! The Warden yelped in alarm, staring at the massive dent that was now in Tanyas Cell door. Get the LongBow guards up here! NOW! He yelled into his walkie-talkie as another crash permeated the cell block and another dent appeared in Tanyas door.
Chiroptera stand down! DO YOU HEAR ME!? STAND DOWN SOLDIER! Wessin ordered in his most authoritative voice, permeated and destroyed by the fear underlying it. How strong did you need to be to put dents that big in a door made of 8 inch thick reinforced metal plating?
Foot steps, running up the corridor, two lighter and several heavy sets. Wessin turned to look for the Freedom Corp guards but then; Tch-CHUNK. The entire cell block was plunged into darkness, someone had just caught the power. Wessin now pulled his 45. from the holster at his hip as suddenly all across the prison alarms began to wail of coming danger and then a massive explosive blast that shook the very foundation of the building. Muffled in the darkened hall he heard an intercom announcing the cause through out the facility.
Arachnos troops have entered the prison! Arachnos Troops have entered the prison! All guards to your stations! The building trembled with another heavy explosion from somewhere a few floors down before the intercom suddenly fell silent.
Now Wessin noted another sound permeating the darkness that had settled over the corridor Beeping It sounded like someone putting the code into a cell number pad nearby. He whirled just in time to hear the third locking mechanism of a door snap back and what looked to be a pair of what looked to be green eyes No Goggles, glinting in the dim light shining through the windows lining the dark corridor. He briefly had time to note what he though almost sounded like a cats purring before
OPEN FIRE! A voice ordered. The hall was suddenly a blaze with the light of automatic weapons fire as Wessins three guards were torn to ribbons by the coordinated fire of several urban assault armored soldiers, marked with black and gold. Standing behind them were three women. Two he didnt recognize, one clad in a black and red garb and the other in a black leather body glove but the third...
Wearing the same black and grey urban commando attire she was in when captured by the Freedom Phalanx, Elizabeth Rainer stood commanding a group of FANG Gunners who had just decimated Wessins guards. The General had barely had time to yank the Warden out of the line of fire and then; finally, the fear that had been lying at his very core since this catastrophe began happened.
With the crash of rending metal and snapping bolt locks, Tanya Chiropteras cell door collapsed to the floor. To his relief, it was at this point that power was suddenly restored. One of the women hed not recognized shouted Heroes! before one of the FANG soldiers gave a cry and was slammed into the wall by an energy blast shot by a red and white clad LongBow guard charging down the hall flanked by 6 others, his hands glowing with plasma energy. Wessin turned his gaze to the Warden who looked shaken but other wise unharmed, then looked toward Tanyas cell.
Mother of god He gasped, staring at the creature looming in the doorway of the cell.
Tanya Chiroptera was once considered to pretty for the military, when she was young she was gorgeous, and even after years of heavy combat and violence, her war weary face still had maintained a level of grim but stunning beauty; but a beautiful face couldnt distract from the effects of unchecked gene alteration that had taken place in her blood while she was stuck in solitary confinement.
Her heavy leather combat boots had been destroyed by taloned bat like feet covered in a coat of dark brown fur. Her jacket sleeves ripped and tattered as her muscles had built up and torn at the fabric, her fingers now shifted to claws long enough to be used to rip human flesh to ribbons. Two long fangs jutted out from behind her upper lip and pressed against her bottom one, her ears had turned longer and pointed, jutting out slightly and her red hued eyes burned with a terrifying fury. Her tanned Native American skin had paled locked away in that windowless cell and her features had distorted into a gruesome animal visage. She now truly resembled some grotesque occult monster; even the LongBow guards and her own soldiers were staring in shocked surprise at the sight of her.
Tanya however only had eyes for the Warden lying at her feet with Wessin. You see now, dont you Warden, why I told you I needed genetic treatment Why I told you if I didnt get it youd have to deal with something far worse than a military tactician ? You see With the proper treatments, my human mind can remain in firm control; but without those treatments, I tend to become a bit feral. She said that final word with such a tone of menace and power that it almost sent a shiver down General Wessins spine.
Suddenly Tanya swept her long arms out and snatched the Warden up, holding him a good foot and the half off the ground, snarling and fixing her one good eye on his fear filled blues.
Take her out! the Lead LongBow guard ordered.
With a crack of gunfire the guard leader collapsed, his head now looking something like a smashed vase as Lieutenant Rainer lowered the rifle shed taken from the down FANG trooper with a faint smirk while the other LongBow guards stared in horror as a massive pool of blood began leaking out around their leader from the masse hole in his head, his brain matter splattered across the floor looking similar to damp mud knocked from a soldiers shoe.
The Heroes recovered quickly, but not quick enough. The two farthest from the others gave muffled yelps of pain as a pair of FANG Stalkers rose from the shadows behind them, impaling them upon their claws. This left only four guards, wide eyed and stunned by the loss of two more team mates.
Tanya chuckled softly now, at the expressions of the four heroes. You know Warden, at first I was planning to kill you; but I think it would be far more fun to have you survive and have to explain to the people of this city how your prison managed to be invaded by Arachnos and FANG all in the same day. She flashed him a smirk and then threw him roughly into what had been her cell, knocking the wind out of his lungs as he slumped to the ground.
Wessin had seen a lot of things; hed seen his own cousin torn to ribbons when a shrapnel grenade exploded at his feet. Hed seen Rikti bombardments decimate his forces during the war and had watched people reduced to ash of disintegration by the aliens high-tech weaponry; but what Tanya did next, would haunt his mind for as long as he could remember.
As her soldiers closed ranks around the four remaining hero corp. guards the four heroes turned back to back ready for a defiant last stand; a stand which they would not be given the chance to make. Tanyas legs buckled down like high powered springs before she suddenly leapt over the line of FANG troops. Her massive talon tipped feet came down on top of the only female guard crushing her body into a mass of human pulp and splintered bone upon the floor surrounded by the organs forced out of her body from the strength of the blow. The half-bat monstrosity lashed out with one clawed hand grabbing the LongBow groups second blaster up by his head and squeezing until it splattered like a ripe melon, causing his blood and brain matter to spill over her hand.
The sight of it made one of the other heroes retch, immediately catching her attention, as he emptied his stomach onto the floor a black tendril shot out of the shadows cast by the cell block lights and forced its way down his throat. The red and white clad heros body convulsed, horrifying ripping and tearing sounds emanating from him as the tendril tore at his organs from the inside.
With a roar the group of heros tanker threw himself at Tanya while she concentrated on the other hero. He knocked her to the ground falling upon her with a pummel of fists. The FANG troops raised their weapons, but Rainer lifted a fist for them to hold their fire. The Tanker gave an agonized yelp as he suddenly began trying to pull away from Tanya while she wrapped her arms around his torso, holding him against her body. Blood was pouring from his neck in rivers till finally she kicked him off and pulled herself up to stand in front of the hulking tanks blood stained body. Her now crimson tipped fangs she held the torn remains of his larynx.
Wessin noticed a look of shock on Rainers face. Obviously shed thought Tanya would be able to handle herself, but not in such a brutal manner. Chiroptera spat the torn piece of vital organ out of her mouth, sneering at the four heroes bodies as Wessin averted his gaze, the color drained from his face, feeling sick himself now at the sight of the monstrous creature who at one point had been his commanding officer in the military; her once pristine uniform splattered with fresh blood as she turned to her troops and officers then turned her gaze to the general, the same smile he recognized from every successful campaign she ever over-saw now on her blood smeared face. Sorry to chat and run General but I have a ride to catch; and you know how I hate to be late. She reached down and plucked Wessins forgotten pistol off the floor, hefting it in her hand and clucking with disapproval. Andrew . You know better. Standard issue is insufficient. She tucked the pistol into her belt, gave a little two fingered salute with her clawed hand and made an abrupt about face, moving down the hall and and signaling for her troops to fall in behind her. Leaving the shell shocked Wessin and the unconscious Warden lying dazed in the High Security Cell Block hallway.