[Xarias Fury]

The man studied the three kids and shook as he slowly lowered his weapon, eyes darting around the area as he inched out of the cubicle. He stared at his friends, unconscious, on the ground and on the ceiling as if some nightmarish creature came for them. Maybe he was spending too much time watching horror movies. Not moving from his spot he did a quick scroll check on the students but his scroll buzzed with static a moment after he entered their names, same with most entries, once again arousing suspicion.

"I-I need to see some ID!" he said, once again raising his weapon, "Someone's hacked into the mainframe and for all I know it could be one of y-you! Or one of your friends!"

Desperately trying his scroll again he received nothing but a black screen the next second, shutting down his hopes of calling for more reinforcements.


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Kei grimaced upon seeing her former friend and drew her own blade next to her yo-yo, one hand above the other as she slowly backed away. She wasn't too fond of fighting up front and her opponents seemed to outnumber her too. Three of them, unknown weapons and fighting styles for two, and someone she could now barely remember working with them. They were undoubtedly white fang, despite their blackened masks but she did recall a cell of them doing covert work. Apparently Ali worked his way up and was in charge of this group.

"You haven't answered my question Ali. Now that I know you're here everyone would know it's the White Fang that was behind this attack." Kei said, trying to buy time by running her mouth. She knew her threats were empty, they could try getting rid of her permanently or blackmail her using her past deeds. They probably had some info on her and her little escapades and that would ruin her new life here in Vale.

"Sidewinder, leave her to me. Make sure Blue's device reaches the servers. Kyuubi should watch for anything Blue can't catch on camera." Ali said, ditching the cap while donning his mask once again. Drawing his scimitar he charged at Kei and suddenly lurched upwards, falling towards the ceiling as he swung his blade catching Kei by surprise. He attacked at her from above, his feet locked onto the ceiling as he slashed repeatedly within the disorienting position while Kei struggled to fight back his longer reach. With the opponent so close by she couldn't swing her yo-yo so she was forced to fight back with the blade, the twin of that that was attacking her.

After exchanging a few slashes, Ali lurched repeatedly from the wall to the floor, to the ceiling again, his 'falling' speed and direction making him a difficult target. Every now and then he'd turn the fall towards her and she'd be lurched in a direction unexpectedly, giving him a free hit or two as she fell towards the wall or the ceiling and back to the floor, her blade barely able to deflect and parry his own attacks.

Kei took a few hits while being forced on the defensive, trying to find a way to get away while the relentless assault continued. Clearly Ali had the advantage, he was used to fighting this way and his semblance seemed to have improved much more than when she last saw him. He was breaking a sweat while repeatedly using it but she was definitely worse for wear.

[Mikelobmike]

Chris was already fed up with this nonsense. He quickly put his hand in his pocket, fetching out a wallet. He pulled out his ID and held it out in front of the guard. "Here, this is my travelling ID. Yes, I am legally known as El Pantera. It's because of rights issues I've had. Really don't feel like going into it right now. Okay? Okay. I'm gonna go start fixing this shit." he said, shoving his wallet into his pocket and grabbing his weapon from the ground.

[Swordslinger]

Tristan rubbed her head with her free hand, rubbing her scarlet locks back and trying to ease the growing headache, "Well, I'm Tristan, and if you're going to keep pointing your gun at us, at least try to make sure the safety is off first."

[Xarias Fury]

The guard panicked and checked the side of his gun, yup, safety was on. He then noticed another thing, he had no magazine in. Great, now he'd just have to weep and grovel.

"Don't hurt me!" he shouted, cowering as he dropped his gun. The small handgun clanged on the floor and revealed the lack of ammunition. Bet those kids were feeling stupid for not checking now.

In the corner of the room a figure silently inched away from the hallway after placing a few gadgets on the wall, ceiling, and floor. Noting the convenient distraction the figure then moved back into the shadows, catching the eye of a groggily waking guard.

"W-what's going on? Why's it so dark?"

[Walter]

(Apologies for not posting. Computer problems.)

The shield maiden was also about to show her ID, when the man dropped down sobbing. Great. Janna sighed, walking over to him and crouching down.

"Alright, you need to get a hold of yourself. Contact the authorities, try and wake up the rest of your buddies here and get out. You'll only be a hindrance like this. We don't know who's doing this, and we don't know how far they'll go to achieve what they want, so just... Go."

Janna then stands back up and turns to the others. "What now?" She asked, glancing towards the awaking guard.

[Mikelobmike]

Chris slung his weapon around his neck, looking back at the cowering guard next to him. "Now, we go find Kei. Something's up here." he said, moving toward a jog as he went down the hallway. If it were pointed out to him, the lack of magazine in the gun would have probably annoyed him, but he was too preoccupied in leaving to be able to really care about it. Right now, he was being kept in the dark about something, and that annoyed him to no end.

[Swordslinger]

"Well, I'm willing to bet that she's probably already found whoever caused this." Tristan shrugged, hefting her blade over her shoulder, "And, just a guess, she's probably caused some kind of propriety damage. So we should try to listen for any sounds of her..." She rocked her head to the side, "Or explosions. She seems like the kind of person who would..." She tilted her head, ears perking. Glancing down the hallway where Chris was starting to jog, Tristan blinked, "Hey, you guys hear that? It sounds kinda like...swords?"

[Xarias Fury]

A few seconds after Chris stepped into the hallway several wall mounted traps sprung into action and launched multiple minute wires surging with electricity towards him. Some wires missed and launched late but formed a web of electric wires behind the boy while several more activated quite a ways away. Cackling and sizzling could be heard as a figure in  the dark  sped towards the curious Tristan and a masked fox eared faunus lunged towards her with an electrified baton. Lights started flickering in response to the sudden surge of electricity from the wall traps and caused a strobe-like eye sore to anyone without proper eye protection.

[Walter]

Janna nodded and was about to follow after Chris, looking to Tristen to see some sort of confirmation from her. As the sound of swords was pointed out, she glanced over, wishing to warn Chris not to hurry out without them, but was a bit too late.

She was going to yell to the two to watch out, when she saw someone lunge at the other girl. No way, Jose! Janna quickly took a steady stance, summoning a shield in front of the baton! While the attack would now strike the shield maiden instead, the force and pain would be halved. She just bloody well hoped Tristan would react in time and deal with this bastard as she clenched her teeth for the blow.

[Swordslinger]

By sheer benefit of having her sword already out, Tristan swung on reflex towards the speeding figure. The downside with having a greatsword for a weapon laid in the fact that most of it's cutting power came from weight and force rather then just sharpness of the blade. However, since her eyes were currently hindered by the lights, she couldn't really make an accurate attack and thus, swung blindly at whatever was approaching her, stepping back hastily as she did.

[Mikelobmike]

Chris quickly found himself surrounded by wires. His attempt to dodge them left him quite tangled in the wires that did hit him. From there, he turned into a ball of profanity and flailing as he desperately tried to get the wires off of him, causing him to get caught in even more wires as he managed to get some of the first ones off. Being electrocuted and running out of options, he grabbed his weapon and started firing in the general direction of the  wall, hoping that it would cause him to stop being zapped.

[Xarias Fury]

The assailant quickly found its baton blocked by a shield of some sort and immediately pulled back its attack, expecting some retaliation of sorts and sure enough a wild swing of Tristan's greatsword flailed through the air missing by a mile. Chuckling behind her mask, Kyuubi wondered if the wires made short work of the boy yet, though the electricity wouldn't really put down someone with full aura, the devices didn't hold enough dust to last that long. Despite that the wires should still be able to restrain a weakened fighter and allow her to dispatch these two greenhorns without a second thought. Sidewinder was busy with the servers and Blue was being a little nerd behind his tablet again, not that she couldn't handle a few idiots with sharp sticks.

Slamming two batons together Kyuubi begun her assault anew with an electrified quarterstaff rather than her dual batons and pressed the attack against Tristan once more. Using the extended range to her advantage she attempted a vault by planting the staff down on the ground and flipped over Tristan's head, behind the shield projection, and aimed a long strike behind her head.

Surely enough, as Kyuubi predicted, Chris' electrotherapy session ended but not after a significant amount of electricity coursed through him and his aura. The wires still held though and it looked like it would take some time to untangle the mess he made with his struggle.

[Walter]

Janna took the attack in stride, keeping the shield up and raising Justice in its gun form. With the range here being so short, the blast should do plenty of damage if it connects. The shield maiden did, however, wish she had her shields. She might have to call them in after the fight.

When the assailant went for another attack and vaulted the shield and Tristan, Janna was ready. Mostly. While she couldn't necessarily fire before the attacker struck Tristan, she hoped she'd manage to somehow avoid the attack. Her main concern right now was blasting the shit out of this bastard, though she only fired once for now. The sound of the gun going off echoed through the room, a powerful blast from the hand cannon sending a chunk of lead towards the attacker.

[Swordslinger]

The only warning Tristan had was the sensation that her hair was being brush aside by some kind of pole. It was too late did she realize that she had missed on her swing, and now her attacker had a clear shot to the back of her head, the common weakness shared by all lifeforms. Thankfully, the slight sensation was all Tristan felt, as the air behind her became warm. Turning quickly, Tristan saw her attacker be blown away by the slugs fired by Janna.

Giving her a quick nod of thanks, Tristan raised her sword and charged at the staff user. This time, she was ready, and she also made sure to stay out of Janna's line of fire, since she was the only one with a ranged weapon at the moment.

(Btw, Xar gave me permission to write that)

[Xarias Fury]

Kyuubi growled audibly as she flipped in midair to regain her footing and decided to aim for the ranged user instead. Dashing towards the cubicles she flipped over the partition between two of them to avoid gunfire whilst preparing several devices in one hand as she made her approach. Using the cover of the wall she lobbed a few of the devices and several wires shot out with electrifying currents, similar to Chris' situation, but these weren't well mounted so they'd be easier to get rid of. Instead of rushing head-on the fox faunus tuned in to her mic and started informing Blue of the situation.

Not too far away, just a wire wall and a short runs distance away, Kei laid battered against the wall with her limbs pinned by ice. Her head slumped down as she panted, catching her breath as she had lost both weapons and the capability to fight back. Watching her miserable figure Ali grimaced and wondered what to do with her. Technically it wouldn't be outside protocol to let one or two witnesses go and killing never did fit well with him. Especially not people he'd known for so long.

"Seems like your little group wasn't expecting an sudden attack like this, then again nobody ever is." He said, eyeing her down. "So Kei, tell me, won't you reconsider and rejoin the Fang? We could use skills like yours and hey, we could be a team again. I wouldn't even need half the muscle if we're never seen."