Post by sheridan on Jul 9, 2008 2:20:24 GMT -5
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Scene One: July 8th-July 9th, 2008
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(23:26:06 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "GET HIM! GET HIM! GO GO GO!" -E SEC security officers roared to subordinates. High above the main area of ECHO BASE, a bank of windows exploded outward in a glittering cloud of dust as John Sheridan burst through them. Black clad helmet officers screeched to a halt, looking out over the "sky" of Echo Base. Sheridan plummeted in free fall... one... two... six heartbeats, before he crashed into the side of a E-Base mass transit air car, crying out. Sheridan scrambled to hang on, pulling himself onto the roof after a terrifying moment dangling high above the "water" of Echo Base... inside the car, civies screamed. Sheridan paid them no mind. He was too busy trying to survive.-
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: Not everyone in the mass transit car was screaming their heads off. In the corner, mostly away from everyone else, a young woman sat. She was calm even as the vehicle lurched with the sudden addition of weight to the top. It was nothing the machinical device couldn't handle but it was still a bit of a shock to it's systems. She would frown just a little at the sounds of the screams, not quite liking that at all. Peering around for a few moments before finding what she needed. The 'escape hatch' was more for accidents then this but she felt it was appropriate. She made the connection rather quickly, or at least more quickly then you'd think for someone of her deamenor. Your arrival caused the screamings, so, if you were removed, then that would stop the screaming. Slipping from her seat, she would move to hit the emergency stop before prying open the hatch. This would set off alarms inside the car just as the nose and up of a dark haired head became visible to Sheridan.
23:35:46 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -Echo Base Security Craft careened around a corner, lights flashing and sirens screaming. Sheridan stood now on top of the roof of the car, squinting against the wind. The E-Base Transit Craft swerved. And Sheridan wobbled, struggling for his footing for a moment. He felt for his pistol, drawing it and trying to brace against the wind. He didn't aim at the offices, but instead at their stabilizer fins. He squeezed off a couple shots, looking down as a girl's head came into view.-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "Please stop that." She didn't like the noise. Both from the alarms and the people. She'd prop herself up a little further, her hair whipping about in the wind. "Can you come in here so they stop screaming?" Not in the least bit concerned for your safety. Those blue eyes peered up at you, the same shade as any biotic affect but she would look too young to be any official biotic. Most accidents for those had happened fourty and thirty years ago, she looked in her twenties, if that. She looked over at what you were firing at and just kind of quirked a brow.
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‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
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Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "Uh, Ma'am..." -Sheridan started, bobbing his head as the craft rocked, occasionally inching out of the way of the E-Sec stun bolts flying at him- "...I. suggest. you return. to. the cabin..." -the ESec Transit car suddenly stopped jerking so much. From inside, the V.I. interface calmly announced- "Security override enabled. Landing momentarily. Please remain calm." -Sheridan looked down at the open hatch and breathed.- "Oh no."
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "Ma'am...?" She blinked at you, peering from where she was propped. She was no super-human strengthed woman, but she was still capable of holding her own weight up with both her arms propped on either side of the hatch. Which meant most of her body was dangling inside the cabin below. Which also wasn't helping the screaming inside. "And I suggest you come into the cabin as well." She tilted her head at that before pushing herself up a little further. "Oooh, this is more fun then being inside the cabin." She didn't seem the least bit bothered by the rocking of the transit as it moved to land. In fact, she even climbed out onto the rooftop to stand nearby. Her outfit was unusual, a two peice uniform like a suit but completely grey and lacking any kind of markings. Nothing to make it stand out other then that bland shade of grey.
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John Sheridan
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Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -John looked over in surprise, wobbling violently as the EBTransit craft dipped to one side, avoiding a careening, honking civilian transport. The EBT was rapidly descending, which would normally be a good thing in an emergency... but the rest of the civilian vehicles were getting in the way... muscled aside by E-Sec or just gawking and causing wrecks of their own. John dove, brining you down flat onto the craft unless you stopped him, saving you both from having your head's taken off.- "ARE YOU CRAZY?!" -he looked at you seriously infuriated, totally forgetting HE was the one running from E-Sec troopers on the back of a fleeing aircraft-
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: She sounded breathless, like she was loving every second of being up in the wind. Like some kind of danger junky, or just someone completely unaware of the fatality of falling off. "Oh wow..." She wasn't looking in your direction. Each time a car whizzed by and headed upwards, her gaze would follow. Grinning like a loon as she swayed back and forth with the shaking of the car. Turning just as you dove at her, she gave a look of surprise before being tackled to the top of the car. "No... are you?" She'd stare at you, asking the question. She was a little confused by your reaction, and perhaps it was that confusion that prevented her from reacting with anything other then a question.
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‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
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Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -John looked at her with disbelief, but it was overcome as one of the E-Sec vehicles was coming in fast and low over the water, right next to the EBTransit craft as it leveled off... John gritted his teeth and flung his left arm out as he tried to get up with his right. The left up swung wildly, ripples of biotic force slamming into the craft and sending it flipping side over side away from the transport. John looked ahead of the craft and cursed- "d**n!" -he'd let the girl distract him... now he was going to be caught on foot, on one of the open air expanses of Echo Base. He didn't wait for the transport to stop as he lunged onto the approaching shore, covering a six or seven foot gap with ease. He looked back over his shoulder at stunt girl...-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: She was on her back so she just kind of watched with an upside down sort of view as he fired off the biotic force. A rather curious blink before she noticed that you were getting up. Following suit, she would pause there and watch as took off and lept from the car. "That looks like fun..." Of course, in the rushing air, you might have missed what was said as she followed you. Her jump was a bit more graceful then yours, almot like that of a ballet dancer in mid air and you might have seen the barest hint of a flicker of blue. As if she had used some biotic force to assist the jump to ensure she didn't end up missing. "Do you do this often?" Not exactly what you expected to encounter when you're on the run. "Is this like tag?"
(23:34:09 )
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John Sheridan
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Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -John just looked at her in bewilderment and disbelief before turning and running as fast as he could away from her and the oily black tide of E-Sec officers spilling over the bridge after them... civilians shied away from E-Sec, and those who didn't get out of John's way got pushed. He screeched to a halt as E-Sec appeared at the top of the stairs he was headed for... after a moment of backpedalling he turned and ran for the edge of the water, leaping onto a hanging planter that traced the curve of the wall over the water, spanning away from the level they were on, currently...-
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Ashe
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Imaginechat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "Why are you running?" Since she followed behind you, she didn't have much shoving to do. You were making your own path. She almost tumbled into you when you stopped before she glanced over in the original direction you had gone. She sounded almost giddy as she clapped her hands and followed once more. "This is tag! And those ones are it? Right?" Once more she made the leap easily, but she would pause for a moment. If you glanced back, you'd see the biotic power of Lift being put to work. One of the E-Sec officers was now airborn, bouncing around against his companions and causing mass chaos out in the street. Right now, they were confused; but with your experience with security details, you knew it wasn't long before they'd get their brains in gear and retalliate.
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -John skidded to a halt and jumped for the ledge of the level above him. Part of the structure here had dipped down, open air with a low railing... grunting, he hauled himself upwards and over the railing. He was breathing heaving, hoping the mystery girl would do whatever she could to disrupt the E-Sec troopers. But she was right, he COULD hear the siren of another E-Sec craft...this one was large and wasp shaped... he looked up to the arching covered walk way a good hundred feet above him. He looked down at the wide eyed crazy girl and JUMPED... slamming his hands together, he aimed a massive biotic powered wave downwards and flung himself towards the overhead walk way, flying through the "narrow" span between railing and ceiling. He slammed into the heavy ribbed metal ceiling and gasped, choking on his own breath, before collapsing like a sack of rocks onto the floor...-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: She'd give a rather delighted giggle before speaking. "How's that?" When she got no response, she'd turn around to find that you were gone. A rather confused stare as she glanced around to figure out where you had gone. She didn't quite get the whole idea about where he had gone, instead, peering around at the E-Sec officers closing in. The sound of the rifles firing off would easily carry in the empty space, the sound of them contacting with a barrier might have been even less so. "Hey?!" Both her hands were out as she ducked down beneath the cover of the small ledge. At the same time, the E-Sec officer she had been tossing about like a ragdoll ended up getting dropped among his companions. Luckily for her, this made most of them a bad shot so only a few blasts landed.
(23:56:36 )
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "Weapons Free!" -the E-Sec Captain yelled, and suddenly the air was filled with the whine of hot rifles and the budding hum of defense shields powering up. Sheridan looked over the side of the railing, blood trailing from a gash on his forehead. Breathing heavily, he pulled his pistol free and squeezed off a few shots... THAT got E-Sec's attention....-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: She was just an unarmed biotic, or at least, thats what they might have thought. You were the one they were chasing, the one they were hunting down who was supposedly some great mastermind. The Captain motioned most of his men to focus their attacks in your direction, but a couple kept their focus on the woman. They didn't fire again at her, isntead, they moved in her direction but kept those assault rifles pointed in her direction. Seemingly, they moved to arrest her but most of their attention was on you and where you were hiding. "This isn't fun anymore..." She huddled there, keeping the barrier up as the E-Sec Officers approached. The Captain would motion to two more of the men, and they'd move off to circle around; heading for the stairs that would lead them to the walkway.
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -John tracked where the E-Sec guys were going, storming the stairs that lead to a door way, which he knew HAD to lead somewhere to where he was, since Echo Base was basically a deserted version of the citadel's basic layout... but now behind him, the E-SEC rapid response craft was disgorging ANOTHER squad of security personnel... they leapt from an open hatch onto the open air platform that bisected the walkway... John spun around, warily watching the heavily armed FRESH E-Sec troopers... letting the other pair storm the stairs he'd been trying to guard...-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: One of the E-Sec pair that was moving towards Ashe would pause, nodding to his fellow who would move to leap onto area where she was crouched. His landing didn't last long however as he was suddenly launched bodily into the air. The firing from below would cease as their attention was suddenly turned towards the seemingly unarmed woman. The airborn officer would slam into his fellow but that was the least of the worries right now. It was only small, but it was growing strength. A single point of focused biotic power. Nothing anyone would notice unless they had seen such a thing before or experienced it first hand. Those two officers continued in their movement towards the doorway while the four below had their attention focused on Ashe.
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -John was shaking now, disshelved and bloody and cornered... he twitched, jerking back to see the pair of troopers tearing up behind him, and the four making their way towards him now... firing his pistol back at the pair by the doors, John barrelled right towards the troopers in front of him sending another burst of kinetic energy flying out in front of himself, knocking the troopers aside like bowling pins. He skidded to a hault as the hovering e-sec craft opened up with it's guns... he hadn't expected it to stay on station. The pair of guards were closing in. He could make a run for the opposite door, but more transport craft were already unloading troopers on the far end. John looked back and forth... trapped. He knew what he had to do, but... well, the typist can't OVERRUN all of the other persons next post...-
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: Aww, but wheres the fun in that. Anyway, as you're going gung ho up above, Ashe is letting loose with the equivalent of a biotic kick to the head to anyone nearby. That little pinpoint of energy started to grow in size until it was plainly visible. A single black spec floating in the air. Most of the E-Sec officers had never dealt with a full blown Adept and yet here she was, freaking out over what she thought was a game. The four officers and their captain are suddenly hoisted into the air along with just about everything else that wasn't bolted down. Perhaps this might have been missed as there were no windows in the floor of the walkway but the sudden panicked gibbering that came over the headsets of the E-Sec Troopers was definitely loud enough for you to hear. As well as the sudden creaking of the walkway as if something was tugging on it.
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -Sheridan took the moment to look over his shoulder as the troopers skidded to a halt, shouting and pointing. The gunship above him veered off, trying to see what the hell was going on. In the chaos, Sheridan threw himself over the side of the platform... plummeting in terrifying free fall, with no nearby air car for him to conveniently land on... the crash of his body into the water was a death sentence, over shadowed by the roar of terrified civilians and e-sec troopers. Sirens blared.-
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: Everything was getting pulled towards that one little point. Everything except Ashe. She had finally moved to stand but her gaze was completely fixed on that point. Everything else was ignored, even the men that were floating around helpless in the force of the singularity. Stepping towards the pinpoint, she held out her hand as if to touch it even as the awe inspiring power of it started to warp the nearby metal structures. The singularity was like a black hole, a gravity well that was drawing everything to it. Hell, she never even realized that there was someone plummeting to their death or the approach of yet another car. This one lacked the detail to mark it as E-Sec, but it wasn't a civilian vehicle either. No shots were fired, but the civilians only screamed louder.
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: -Sheridan had gone completely limp, sinking towards the bottom of the Echo Base promenade's "lake"... his eyes opened to slits and he blearily pulled himself over to a grate that "drained" the lake constantly, refreshing the water and cleaning out impurities/debris/pee from rotten kids... his omni tool snapped on in the dim light, burning through the grate's lock. Sheridan shuddered, his vision going dim. He let out a sorrowful gasp of air as he let himself be sucked into the piping...-
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: Each step Ashe took towards the singularity point, the force of it seemed to grow. Her face had a slightly slack jawed look to it, like she wasn't quite all there. That new car would unload and one of the men moved forward. The sniper rifle in hand as he took careful aim and fired. Ashe jerked a little, slapping her hand against her throat as if she had been stung before she crumped to the ground. The singularity point collapsing in on itself, and the men dropping into heaps all around her. Luckily for John, this whole spectacle kept anyone from focusing much on where he had gone. As the area was quickly sectioned off, and the men in grey moved to discuss things with the captain as well as retrieve Ashe from her little section.
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John Sheridan
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[Somewhere unknown ]
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: -piping belched John out somewhere dark, made of rickity catwalks and glowrod lightning. All he could do was shiver for a long, long time.-
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Scene One: July 8th-July 9th, 2008
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(23:26:06 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "GET HIM! GET HIM! GO GO GO!" -E SEC security officers roared to subordinates. High above the main area of ECHO BASE, a bank of windows exploded outward in a glittering cloud of dust as John Sheridan burst through them. Black clad helmet officers screeched to a halt, looking out over the "sky" of Echo Base. Sheridan plummeted in free fall... one... two... six heartbeats, before he crashed into the side of a E-Base mass transit air car, crying out. Sheridan scrambled to hang on, pulling himself onto the roof after a terrifying moment dangling high above the "water" of Echo Base... inside the car, civies screamed. Sheridan paid them no mind. He was too busy trying to survive.-
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: Not everyone in the mass transit car was screaming their heads off. In the corner, mostly away from everyone else, a young woman sat. She was calm even as the vehicle lurched with the sudden addition of weight to the top. It was nothing the machinical device couldn't handle but it was still a bit of a shock to it's systems. She would frown just a little at the sounds of the screams, not quite liking that at all. Peering around for a few moments before finding what she needed. The 'escape hatch' was more for accidents then this but she felt it was appropriate. She made the connection rather quickly, or at least more quickly then you'd think for someone of her deamenor. Your arrival caused the screamings, so, if you were removed, then that would stop the screaming. Slipping from her seat, she would move to hit the emergency stop before prying open the hatch. This would set off alarms inside the car just as the nose and up of a dark haired head became visible to Sheridan.
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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Ashes to Ashes |:..: -Echo Base Security Craft careened around a corner, lights flashing and sirens screaming. Sheridan stood now on top of the roof of the car, squinting against the wind. The E-Base Transit Craft swerved. And Sheridan wobbled, struggling for his footing for a moment. He felt for his pistol, drawing it and trying to brace against the wind. He didn't aim at the offices, but instead at their stabilizer fins. He squeezed off a couple shots, looking down as a girl's head came into view.-
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "Please stop that." She didn't like the noise. Both from the alarms and the people. She'd prop herself up a little further, her hair whipping about in the wind. "Can you come in here so they stop screaming?" Not in the least bit concerned for your safety. Those blue eyes peered up at you, the same shade as any biotic affect but she would look too young to be any official biotic. Most accidents for those had happened fourty and thirty years ago, she looked in her twenties, if that. She looked over at what you were firing at and just kind of quirked a brow.
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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Ashes to Ashes |:..: "Uh, Ma'am..." -Sheridan started, bobbing his head as the craft rocked, occasionally inching out of the way of the E-Sec stun bolts flying at him- "...I. suggest. you return. to. the cabin..." -the ESec Transit car suddenly stopped jerking so much. From inside, the V.I. interface calmly announced- "Security override enabled. Landing momentarily. Please remain calm." -Sheridan looked down at the open hatch and breathed.- "Oh no."
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: "Ma'am...?" She blinked at you, peering from where she was propped. She was no super-human strengthed woman, but she was still capable of holding her own weight up with both her arms propped on either side of the hatch. Which meant most of her body was dangling inside the cabin below. Which also wasn't helping the screaming inside. "And I suggest you come into the cabin as well." She tilted her head at that before pushing herself up a little further. "Oooh, this is more fun then being inside the cabin." She didn't seem the least bit bothered by the rocking of the transit as it moved to land. In fact, she even climbed out onto the rooftop to stand nearby. Her outfit was unusual, a two peice uniform like a suit but completely grey and lacking any kind of markings. Nothing to make it stand out other then that bland shade of grey.
(23:06:42 )
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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Ashes to Ashes |:..: -John looked over in surprise, wobbling violently as the EBTransit craft dipped to one side, avoiding a careening, honking civilian transport. The EBT was rapidly descending, which would normally be a good thing in an emergency... but the rest of the civilian vehicles were getting in the way... muscled aside by E-Sec or just gawking and causing wrecks of their own. John dove, brining you down flat onto the craft unless you stopped him, saving you both from having your head's taken off.- "ARE YOU CRAZY?!" -he looked at you seriously infuriated, totally forgetting HE was the one running from E-Sec troopers on the back of a fleeing aircraft-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: She sounded breathless, like she was loving every second of being up in the wind. Like some kind of danger junky, or just someone completely unaware of the fatality of falling off. "Oh wow..." She wasn't looking in your direction. Each time a car whizzed by and headed upwards, her gaze would follow. Grinning like a loon as she swayed back and forth with the shaking of the car. Turning just as you dove at her, she gave a look of surprise before being tackled to the top of the car. "No... are you?" She'd stare at you, asking the question. She was a little confused by your reaction, and perhaps it was that confusion that prevented her from reacting with anything other then a question.
(23:21:47 )
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John Sheridan
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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Ashes to Ashes |:..: -John looked at her with disbelief, but it was overcome as one of the E-Sec vehicles was coming in fast and low over the water, right next to the EBTransit craft as it leveled off... John gritted his teeth and flung his left arm out as he tried to get up with his right. The left up swung wildly, ripples of biotic force slamming into the craft and sending it flipping side over side away from the transport. John looked ahead of the craft and cursed- "d**n!" -he'd let the girl distract him... now he was going to be caught on foot, on one of the open air expanses of Echo Base. He didn't wait for the transport to stop as he lunged onto the approaching shore, covering a six or seven foot gap with ease. He looked back over his shoulder at stunt girl...-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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: She was on her back so she just kind of watched with an upside down sort of view as he fired off the biotic force. A rather curious blink before she noticed that you were getting up. Following suit, she would pause there and watch as took off and lept from the car. "That looks like fun..." Of course, in the rushing air, you might have missed what was said as she followed you. Her jump was a bit more graceful then yours, almot like that of a ballet dancer in mid air and you might have seen the barest hint of a flicker of blue. As if she had used some biotic force to assist the jump to ensure she didn't end up missing. "Do you do this often?" Not exactly what you expected to encounter when you're on the run. "Is this like tag?"
(23:34:09 )
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John Sheridan
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Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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Ashes to Ashes |:..: -John just looked at her in bewilderment and disbelief before turning and running as fast as he could away from her and the oily black tide of E-Sec officers spilling over the bridge after them... civilians shied away from E-Sec, and those who didn't get out of John's way got pushed. He screeched to a halt as E-Sec appeared at the top of the stairs he was headed for... after a moment of backpedalling he turned and ran for the edge of the water, leaping onto a hanging planter that traced the curve of the wall over the water, spanning away from the level they were on, currently...-
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Ashe
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[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
: "Why are you running?" Since she followed behind you, she didn't have much shoving to do. You were making your own path. She almost tumbled into you when you stopped before she glanced over in the original direction you had gone. She sounded almost giddy as she clapped her hands and followed once more. "This is tag! And those ones are it? Right?" Once more she made the leap easily, but she would pause for a moment. If you glanced back, you'd see the biotic power of Lift being put to work. One of the E-Sec officers was now airborn, bouncing around against his companions and causing mass chaos out in the street. Right now, they were confused; but with your experience with security details, you knew it wasn't long before they'd get their brains in gear and retalliate.
(23:45:51 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
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Ashes to Ashes |:..: -John skidded to a halt and jumped for the ledge of the level above him. Part of the structure here had dipped down, open air with a low railing... grunting, he hauled himself upwards and over the railing. He was breathing heaving, hoping the mystery girl would do whatever she could to disrupt the E-Sec troopers. But she was right, he COULD hear the siren of another E-Sec craft...this one was large and wasp shaped... he looked up to the arching covered walk way a good hundred feet above him. He looked down at the wide eyed crazy girl and JUMPED... slamming his hands together, he aimed a massive biotic powered wave downwards and flung himself towards the overhead walk way, flying through the "narrow" span between railing and ceiling. He slammed into the heavy ribbed metal ceiling and gasped, choking on his own breath, before collapsing like a sack of rocks onto the floor...-
(23:51:21 )
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Ashes to Ashes |:.. Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
Ashe
Dark Space RO
Imaginechat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
: She'd give a rather delighted giggle before speaking. "How's that?" When she got no response, she'd turn around to find that you were gone. A rather confused stare as she glanced around to figure out where you had gone. She didn't quite get the whole idea about where he had gone, instead, peering around at the E-Sec officers closing in. The sound of the rifles firing off would easily carry in the empty space, the sound of them contacting with a barrier might have been even less so. "Hey?!" Both her hands were out as she ducked down beneath the cover of the small ledge. At the same time, the E-Sec officer she had been tossing about like a ragdoll ended up getting dropped among his companions. Luckily for her, this made most of them a bad shot so only a few blasts landed.
(23:56:36 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ALL
: "Weapons Free!" -the E-Sec Captain yelled, and suddenly the air was filled with the whine of hot rifles and the budding hum of defense shields powering up. Sheridan looked over the side of the railing, blood trailing from a gash on his forehead. Breathing heavily, he pulled his pistol free and squeezed off a few shots... THAT got E-Sec's attention....-
(00:03:03 )
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Dust to Dust
Ashe
Dark Space RO
Imaginechat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
: She was just an unarmed biotic, or at least, thats what they might have thought. You were the one they were chasing, the one they were hunting down who was supposedly some great mastermind. The Captain motioned most of his men to focus their attacks in your direction, but a couple kept their focus on the woman. They didn't fire again at her, isntead, they moved in her direction but kept those assault rifles pointed in her direction. Seemingly, they moved to arrest her but most of their attention was on you and where you were hiding. "This isn't fun anymore..." She huddled there, keeping the barrier up as the E-Sec Officers approached. The Captain would motion to two more of the men, and they'd move off to circle around; heading for the stairs that would lead them to the walkway.
(00:18:07 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ALL
: -John tracked where the E-Sec guys were going, storming the stairs that lead to a door way, which he knew HAD to lead somewhere to where he was, since Echo Base was basically a deserted version of the citadel's basic layout... but now behind him, the E-SEC rapid response craft was disgorging ANOTHER squad of security personnel... they leapt from an open hatch onto the open air platform that bisected the walkway... John spun around, warily watching the heavily armed FRESH E-Sec troopers... letting the other pair storm the stairs he'd been trying to guard...-
(00:23:49 )
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Ashes to Ashes |:.. Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
Ashe
Dark Space RO
Imaginechat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
: One of the E-Sec pair that was moving towards Ashe would pause, nodding to his fellow who would move to leap onto area where she was crouched. His landing didn't last long however as he was suddenly launched bodily into the air. The firing from below would cease as their attention was suddenly turned towards the seemingly unarmed woman. The airborn officer would slam into his fellow but that was the least of the worries right now. It was only small, but it was growing strength. A single point of focused biotic power. Nothing anyone would notice unless they had seen such a thing before or experienced it first hand. Those two officers continued in their movement towards the doorway while the four below had their attention focused on Ashe.
(00:32:31 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ALL
: -John was shaking now, disshelved and bloody and cornered... he twitched, jerking back to see the pair of troopers tearing up behind him, and the four making their way towards him now... firing his pistol back at the pair by the doors, John barrelled right towards the troopers in front of him sending another burst of kinetic energy flying out in front of himself, knocking the troopers aside like bowling pins. He skidded to a hault as the hovering e-sec craft opened up with it's guns... he hadn't expected it to stay on station. The pair of guards were closing in. He could make a run for the opposite door, but more transport craft were already unloading troopers on the far end. John looked back and forth... trapped. He knew what he had to do, but... well, the typist can't OVERRUN all of the other persons next post...-
(00:39:13 )
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Dust to Dust
Ashe
Dark Space RO
Imaginechat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
: Aww, but wheres the fun in that. Anyway, as you're going gung ho up above, Ashe is letting loose with the equivalent of a biotic kick to the head to anyone nearby. That little pinpoint of energy started to grow in size until it was plainly visible. A single black spec floating in the air. Most of the E-Sec officers had never dealt with a full blown Adept and yet here she was, freaking out over what she thought was a game. The four officers and their captain are suddenly hoisted into the air along with just about everything else that wasn't bolted down. Perhaps this might have been missed as there were no windows in the floor of the walkway but the sudden panicked gibbering that came over the headsets of the E-Sec Troopers was definitely loud enough for you to hear. As well as the sudden creaking of the walkway as if something was tugging on it.
(00:49:23 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ALL
: -Sheridan took the moment to look over his shoulder as the troopers skidded to a halt, shouting and pointing. The gunship above him veered off, trying to see what the hell was going on. In the chaos, Sheridan threw himself over the side of the platform... plummeting in terrifying free fall, with no nearby air car for him to conveniently land on... the crash of his body into the water was a death sentence, over shadowed by the roar of terrified civilians and e-sec troopers. Sirens blared.-
(00:55:36 )
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Ashes to Ashes |:.. Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
Ashe
Dark Space RO
Imaginechat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
: Everything was getting pulled towards that one little point. Everything except Ashe. She had finally moved to stand but her gaze was completely fixed on that point. Everything else was ignored, even the men that were floating around helpless in the force of the singularity. Stepping towards the pinpoint, she held out her hand as if to touch it even as the awe inspiring power of it started to warp the nearby metal structures. The singularity was like a black hole, a gravity well that was drawing everything to it. Hell, she never even realized that there was someone plummeting to their death or the approach of yet another car. This one lacked the detail to mark it as E-Sec, but it wasn't a civilian vehicle either. No shots were fired, but the civilians only screamed louder.
(01:02:58 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ALL
: -Sheridan had gone completely limp, sinking towards the bottom of the Echo Base promenade's "lake"... his eyes opened to slits and he blearily pulled himself over to a grate that "drained" the lake constantly, refreshing the water and cleaning out impurities/debris/pee from rotten kids... his omni tool snapped on in the dim light, burning through the grate's lock. Sheridan shuddered, his vision going dim. He let out a sorrowful gasp of air as he let himself be sucked into the piping...-
(01:07:20 )
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Ashes to Ashes |:.. Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
Ashe
Dark Space RO
Imaginechat
[Within the main area of the Echo Base ]
says to ‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
: Each step Ashe took towards the singularity point, the force of it seemed to grow. Her face had a slightly slack jawed look to it, like she wasn't quite all there. That new car would unload and one of the men moved forward. The sniper rifle in hand as he took careful aim and fired. Ashe jerked a little, slapping her hand against her throat as if she had been stung before she crumped to the ground. The singularity point collapsing in on itself, and the men dropping into heaps all around her. Luckily for John, this whole spectacle kept anyone from focusing much on where he had gone. As the area was quickly sectioned off, and the men in grey moved to discuss things with the captain as well as retrieve Ashe from her little section.
(01:13:42 )
‡ Ghosts of You and Me ‡
John Sheridan
DARK SPACE MODERATOR
Dark Space @ Imagine Chat
[Somewhere unknown ]
says to ALL
: -piping belched John out somewhere dark, made of rickity catwalks and glowrod lightning. All he could do was shiver for a long, long time.-
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