[Mikelobmike]

Chris' flails eventually got some of the wires off of the wall, but it would be a good few seconds of struggling before finally getting himself free from the wires ensnaring his body. Taking a step away from the tangled mess, he collapsed down to his knees. He sat there panting for a few seconds before taking a deep breath in and standing back up. He heard the sounds of the perpetrator of his embarrassing predicament just around the corner...on the other side of the mass of wires. "Oh,  for the love of-" Chris groaned, stumbling back to the wall and beginning to tear out the devices holding the wires.

[Walter]

Janna snickered at her shot  hitting the target, and in the nick of time as well! She aimed her weapon towards the opponent once more and fired another shot while the other girl was moving towards the attacker. This time there was some distance between them, so the attack would not be as devastating, but her main concern was to at least keep their foe distracted. She wasn't sure how powerful they were, but they had definitely underestimated them.

[Swordslinger]

Tristan stopped as the staff person started to flip around like a rabbit Faunas on a sugar high around the cubicles. This was pointless, she was never going to catch her, she had to-

"...Then again, nobody ever is."

Turning, Tristan saw the man standing over Kei and saying something to her. She couldn't quite hear them, nor quite see them thanks to the wire wall, but she knew where they were, and that was enough. Shifting her position, Tristan morphed her weapon into it's grenade launcher form and fired a few rounds to the flank of the man over Kei. She hoped that at the very least, they would get him off of her for a moment or two.

[Xarias Fury]

Kyuubi was safe and sound behind a cubicle, waiting for the proper moment to activate the new devices she threw. Just a little bit longer and Sandwinder should be done and Ali would be finished with that little friend of his. Stupid bitch. Everything was going fine and she had to show up, hearing about "Ali's former girlfriend" caused her to slip up and miss whoever triggered the alarm. She's goimg to pay, Ali is way too soft on people sometimes.

As Kyuubi let her thoughts wander she failed to nptice the grenade, only seeimg Tristan launch it at the last second.

"SHIT!"

Jumping out of cover Lyuubi tried to stop the girl from firing butnot was too late. The grenade left the barrel amd flew towards Ali and Kei.

"Are you trying to kill your friend too? IDIOT!"

Hopping out of the cubicle, her devices landing a moment later while shooting out wires between her and Janna, she swung her staff towards Tristans head from behind. A moment later the grenade exploded.

[Mikelobmike]

Chris focused on the task at hand. He needed to get these damned wires out of the wall. His concentration only broke when he heard something whiz past his head. After taking a second to turn around and look at who was firing, he suddenly realized there was a live grenade relatively close to him and covered his head and neck with his arms. The explosion caused a bit of debris to hit his legs, but he was mostly unharmed otherwise.

After taking a half second to recover, Chris pulled the last of the wires out, rushing in toward Kei's captor. Between the electrocution, the security guard, and the explosion he was not exactly thinking straight. He went at the standing figure, attempting a shoulder tackle to the midsection.

[Walter]

Janna was half-aware of what was going on with Chris and Kei a little ways off, but right now, she was more concerned with finishing off the staff wielding opponent. Doing so would free up both her and Tristan, after all.

When the foe jumped out from behind the cubicle and the wires shot out, Janna was... At least somewhat prepared. She still had five rounds in her gun, and fired two of them towards the woman attacking Tristan. While one went through the wires slightly lowering the power of the blast, the other shot from the hand cannon was now given an opening. Much like last time, Janna fired as soon as the staff user tried to go for her attack. She appeared to be most vulnerable at that point.

[Swordslinger]

Though she couldn't see whether or not she hit her intended target, at least Tristan managed to piss of the girl that was attacking her slightly. It wasn't much, but in Tristan's book, it was a win.

Of course, that feeling of satisfaction went away when Tristan got bonked upside the head by a staff. "Ow!" Tristan yelped, rolling with the blow and rubbing the spot where she was struck. Swinging her weapon, which was still in it's gun form, at her attacker, Tristan hoped that she would bat her away for a second or two.

[Xarias Fury]

The explosion didn't cause too much damage down the hallway but it was certainly enough to knock Kei off the wall. Ali was taken by surprise and raised his hands to protect himself from the blast. As the dust cleared the monkey faunus suddenly got knocked to the ground by a rather odd looking masked boy but quickly regained his footing after a brusk backflip. Kei was still dazed by the blast and a quick scroll reading would showmher aura at a rather low 25%. She felt around for her yo-yo which luckily was knocked off Ali during the tackle then she felt a smile rising up her cheeks.

"Playing hero now, kid?" She asked, her tone as if she hadn't been beaten up a moment before, " Appreciate thr help, maybe I'll give you a candy bar when thisnis all over."

Chuckling at her own joke she brought the yo-yo to a steady spin and chucked in forwards towards Ali who easily deflected the attack to the side and rushed forwards with his curved blade.

"You say I'm geeting rust? I guess you're not used to someone not watching your back!" Kei taunted, her yo-yo zipping back to hit the monkeys head from behind. His attack paused but he soon raised one hand and suddenly the immediate area around the combatants lurched upsidedown.

"Watch the ceiling, kid!" Kei shouted, flipping mid-"fall" to touch her feet  flat in the ceiling.  Ali landed at roughly the same time and immediately  continued his assault. Dodging a yo-yo strike from Kei he copied Chris' earlier tactic and shoulder tackled Kei a few feet back while aiming his next slash towards Chris no matter what orientation he would currently be in.


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Kyuubi felt a sudden barrage of bullets to her side and barely got her staff up in time to block the rifle swing. Her side ached in pain from the sudden sbots but she quickly shook it off and went back to the attack. Mindfulnodnthe bitch who kept shooting her now she used her staff to vault over Tristan to a safe spot behind rhe cubicles, keeping the former in sight while the latter out of clear firing range. The cubicles were arranged in a fashion perpendicular to the hallway with the entrance to the hallway being midway between the room. Between cubicles were spaces for people to walk, of course, and she used these to her advantage to get perpendicular of one and block Jannas line of sight.

Taunting Tristan with a finger gesture she switched her strobes back on and sebt consecutive rapid thrusts for the girl's body and face.

[Mikelobmike]

Chris was slower to stand back up than usual. He was still feeling the effects of the electrocution and explosion. "Yeah, the hero thing is kind of our jobs,
 isn't-" he said before suddenly getting thrown to the ceiling. A quick activation of his semblance and a last-second tuck of the head was the only thing that stopped him from being dropped directly on the back of the neck. Rolling forward and trying to orient himself, he got hit with a slash right between the shoulder blades. He arched his back, letting out a pained yell and falling to the ceiling.

It took him even longer to get up this time. He quickly turned and ran toward the monkey faunus, aiming to grab a leg and get a lock in.

[Walter]

Seeing her opponent on the retreat, Janna used her chance to pull out her scroll and hurriedly call for her locker. She won't have time to put her armor on, but if she can get her other sword and her shields, she'd be much better off. While the situation was quite serious, so far she didn't see their opponents as particularly threatening. Yet.

The locker came crashing in, and Janna threw the door open, her gear all there. She grabbed her vambraces and slapped them on her wrists before taking her shields and placing them on the latches, feeling the familiar weight on her wrists. She then took out Honor, flipping it into gun mode. Now she had two guns, the one in her left fully loaded.

And with that, the shield maiden charged to where she had last seen the staff wielder, her shields by he sides. She had lost sight of Tristan as she had taken her gear, and hoped she was alright.

[Swordslinger]

Tristan, in a (un)healthy dose of reality, was unable to hear what anyone was saying due to be attacked by a crazy spear wielder. Her weapon was still in it's ranged form, making it hard for Tristan to counter her assailant's swings. To make matters worse, Tristan's semblance would be of no help to her in this environment, that said, she was far from completely defenseless. since her opponent was using a quarterstaff, she lacked a proper way to hurt Tristan aside from simply bonking her upside the head. Aura or no, Quarterstaff were made for non-lethally disabling people, that was true even for this one. Still, Tristan wasn't able to get any clearance, so what was-

What was that about the ceiling? Well, whatever....actually, there was one thing Tristan could do. It would hurt like high hell...but it could work.

When she was stabbed at in her stomach, Tristan made to grab the staff, and in her other hand, the one holding the grenade launcher, she raised it at Kyuubi and pulled the trigger.

[Xarias Fury]

Taking a bear to the knee wasn't exactly what Ali expected from a supposedly huntsman in training to his followup swing missed as Chris tackled his leg. The boy was obviously an encumberance and while the monkey faunus grunted trying to shake him off he aimed a pommel smash on his head, hisnhand being stopped by a sudden yo-yo strike.

"Damn it, Kei! Get out of my way!" He roared, the girl suddenly falling back to normal gravity as he aimed another pommel strike at the boy, his fist hammering down hard.

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An explosion rocked the room as Tristan's point blank grenade shot smacked Kyuubi in the chest and exploded, knocking both fighters away from each other. The fox faunus screamed and slammed into a cubicle wall, destroying it in the process, and her aura finally brokr. As she lay dazed on a desk full of plastic wall and other debris she looked up only to see yellow reptillian eyes gaze at her from the corner.

"S...sidewind.." a finger shushed her before she could alert the rest of the people in the room, blending back into the darkness after shaking his head.

[Walter]

As Janna was hurrying to get the jump on the staff user, she was instead met by the sight of an explosion, two figures getting launched opposite directions. The shield maiden faced a dilemma for the shortest moment - whether to go after the attacker or check on Tristan. She only had to think for a fraction of a second.

"Are you alright!?" Janna called out, rushing to see if Tristan was, in fact, okay. She hoped that was the case not just because she was worried about the girl, but because she knew they had more to deal with, something she could tell just from the sounds coming from the door.

Just in case, Janna spun around, her shields ready to block incoming attacks. There was, after all, no guarantee the staff wielder was done for - or alone, for that matter.

[Mikelobmike]

Chris inwardly lamented his form as he failed to get in proper position to pull off the leg lock. After coming close to being shaken off, he could tell that he was going to get nothing done in this position. As the pommel strike knocked his head down, his arms released the leg. 'Good thing nobody is going to be here to see this.' Chris thought, letting his arms slip from around the assailant's leg.

Chris lurched forward, putting his entire body weight behind one attack. With everything he could muster, he cocked his fist back and swung with all his might. He let out a yell, activating his semblance so that he could get the perfect positioning. He put every fiber of his being behind one powerful punch...directly to the groin of the monkey faunus.

[Swordslinger]

Tristan herself landed against an office cubicle in a thunderous crash, not unlike her opponent. Her Aura flickered red, but by some miracle, it managed to stabilize for a moment.

Then flickered again before finally giving out. Tristan was out Aura, just like her opponent.

"....Ow." Tristan said quietly, spots filling up her vision. Lifting a gloved hand to her head, she tired to rise, she really did, but she found no strength in her limbs at the moment. "Okay yeah...that....hurt. A lot..."

Groaning, Tristan shifted around in her landing sight, trying to get a view of what was going on at the moment.