[u]In the Midst of the Gunfire [/u]
“Of course they’d choose to leap out of the van with guns ablaze.” Aaron said as he gave an uneasy, disapproving shake of his head as he watched his former comrades pile out of the tipped van. Although he couldn’t see Dr. Wilson as of yet, he had a feeling that the older man wouldn’t be too far behind. With the van slamming to a stop, he allowed Sanders and the man sitting in the passenger seat exit the vehicle before him as he carefully observed the new Supers.

“Did you see them?” Ben said as he took a careful count of the group as they made their way towards the thicket not too far away from the van while the two groups kept themselves occupied with each other. Out of the center of the danger, Ben hoped that none of them were too seriously injured throughout the incident, knowing that it probably won’t help them in their case in gaining the Gen. Charlie’s trust. 

“Yeah, you’re probably our best bet on going after them. I’ll stay here and help Sanders out with these guys.” Aaron said exiting the vehicle. Taking a deep breath in preparation of what was to come, he felt an itch start to form seconds later that grew stronger in intensity and consumed his whole body. Although he described the itch to others in comparison to having the worst rash he ever had along with chicken pox while in the midst of being bit by a swarm of mosquitoes, he though the intensity of body consuming itch seemed to reach the point of actually being painful. However as he watched the composition of his skin change and scale like protrusions started to form, Aaron knew the discomfort was worth the outcome. As the painful itch started to subside, he could feel the itch concentrated around his hand start to grow until the pain started to focus on the tips of his finger and as the pain started to grow, he watched as his transformation continue as his nails started to grow. Although his nails only grew a few inches, it made up in it’s sharp edges and the thickness and strength. 

As Ben made it about halfway towards the thicket he saw Dr. Wilson scramble out of the van, his age obviously catching up to him especially after the fiasco he had been through. As the older man hobbled towards the tree line, a familiar voice broke his voice as he looked toward his prior comrade.

“It’s been awhile Aaron? How’s the girlfriend?” Josiah said in a taunting voice, emphasizing the mistake he already knew he made.

“Wife” Aaron said as he prepared for an oncoming attack coming from any direction.

“Oh yes, I never did get an invitation to your wedding. What a shame, especially after knowing each other for all these years.”

[u]Hidden Within the Thicket [/u]
“Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. What are we going to do? What’s going to happen…” 

Repeatedly mumbling to herself as she ran, Jenna kept her eyes focused on the ground and on the person running in front of her as she averted her eyes from the scene that was taking place as she knew that doing so would send her into a deeper panic than she already was. As the tree line approached her, she was surprised to see that she made it in one piece and without tripping and falling as she entered the thicket. Away from the heat of the battle, Jenna slowed down to a walk as she made her way a little deeper into the forest, glad to find that there were no blackberry bushes or other sharp bramble in the way as she made her way with the light from the moon. Although they were not far from the road, they were far enough away from the ruckus that was happening that she felt a little better. 

“What are we going to do?” Jenna said looking at the others knowing that they were probably too far away to run for help, although at this point she wasn’t sure what kind of help would be able to help her in this situation. “Which group can we even trust? I don’t even know.” Jenna said as she looked around at the others as she wondered what their thoughts were on the situation at hand. “If any of you could make us invisible or teleport us like that one man, that would be perfect right now.” 

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“At his age I shouldn’t be doing this.” Dr. Wilson said as he started to make his way towards the thicket just as he saw the Charlies head towards moments before. With the others involved with the TSP, Dr. Wilson knew that it was up to him to handle the new recruits and stop Ben before he tried to find them as well. Looking back towards Cameron, he gave a small nod of understanding towards the man which was reciprocated shortly afterwards. If things became too hectic, Dr. Wilson was glad to see that there was a backup plan already being set in place if the situation called for it and by the way things were going between his team and Sander’s men, it seemed unavoidable. He only hoped by the end of this that the Charlies would be with them so that they wouldn’t have to head back to the city and try to retrieve them yet again. Once was more than enough for him, especially since his roles wasn’t supposed to out in the field but rather back at the base. “:My back is going to be killing me tomorrow.”