[hr][h1][i][color=dodgerblue]Lihua Vuhong.[/color][/i][/h1][sub][@Spoopy Scary][/sub][hr]


Lihua was running down the halls of the NEST HQ at a jogging pace (She didn't want to run straight into some Fiends), gun in hand. Everything was falling apart! The question of how did the Fiends get into the building never popped up - more of [i]how[/i] she'll get them out. First, she'll definitely need to hit up the armory. She looked at the glock that was in her hand. She's going to need something bigger than this pea-shooter (She had something in mind) if she's going to take on the lieutenants. So far, Khan's mist wasn't anywhere in the building - and it didn't take a genius to realize that it's her escape plan, or her plan B. Let as many Fiends die as possible, then resurrect them as zombies to act as a diversion for an escape. Lihua would have done so herself... except, she would have used stealth, and saved the trouble of the entire building being on high alert this early in the operation.

"Mr. Moreau, stick close to me."

Regardless, Lihua would haul ass down to the armory - last she remembered, it was on the ground floor... where every Fiend psychopath out there would be having a blast. At least every NEST Agent in the city should be returning here fast as possible. So, that could improve the situation down there.

Lihua saw the door to the stairs (Because taking the elevator would be downright idiotic), and, of course, before she could even get to the door, it burst open, and a group of Fiends came charging through it. Most were armed with... garden utensils. Except one had an AK-47 - who quickly aimed it at Lihua. Acting quickly, Lihua took a step back, and put her arms up, chin level. Violently pulling chunks of concrete out of the walls, and created a spinning shield. Once the Fiend started shooting, it chipped away at the shield, and some of the rounds pierced right through it. Fortunately, he couldn't shoot worth shit. The second he ran out of ammo (Signaled by the barrage of bullets halting), Lihua thrust her hands forward, then each piece of concrete that formed the shield shot forward at high speeds. Needless to say, most of the Fiends were killed due to the blunt force trauma.

Not wasting another second, Lihua quickly moved forward into the staircase, and saw that it was mostly concrete. She stepped down the stairs, her glock held tightly with both hands. A door opened a floor or two down, and a female Fiend wielding a meat cleaver ran up the stairs. Lihua stopped, and aimed her glock down a few floors at the Fiend, quickly lined up the shot, and pulled the trigger. The bang of the gun echoed throughout the entire staircase - inaudible in the middle of all this chaos - and deafened Lihua. The bullet went right through her chest, and she dropped dead.

"[i]Dog.[/i]" Lihua muttered a final curse to the late Fiend.

It was only a few more descents (Without running into anymore Fiends, thankfully) before they made it to the ground floor. Though, she stopped at the door - all she heard was pure anarchy. She didn't want to charge in, and get blasted by a million of these maniacs, so she gently pushed the door open with her shoulder - gun in hand - and saw that there wasn't any attention on the door. She simply pushed the door open the rest of the way, and stepped out. It took Lihua a moment to realize where she is (Taking elevators every time you come in the building tends to throw you off).

It should be down this hall to the right... Right when Lihua took her first step, an explosion rocked the building, and it made Lihua stumble - nearly trip - while she spat out a few curse words in Chinese. She quickly regained her balance. "[i].... What the holy hell are they up to up there?![/i]" She hissed through her teeth, looking up. 

Good grief, it was time for Lihua to get a move on before the Fiends knock the damn building over! Lihua quickly proceeded down the hallway, a straight shot to the armory. There was a Fiend in the way, who rushed Lihua with a pipe in hand - but he was quickly put down once she shot in the chest. She simply stepped over his dead body and kept moving forward. She was approaching the armory, and saw that a large group of Fiends was trying to get in. Gah! They wouldn't be able to get in even if they tried. That place is tough enough to take a bomb like it was a simple firecracker! She stepped into a side hallway, and put her back to the wall - peeking into the room. She had an idea... She'd have to be quick, however. 

Lihua dropped her arms to her sides, but quickly raised them up into the air. Concrete spikes ruptured out of the ground, and turned a chunk of the group into living pin cushions - then retracted the shards. They were impaled through various parts of their body (One even got a spear through the skull). Blood was dripping out of their new fresh wounds . She put both hands on her gun, and aimed down the sights, and started opening fire. Taking slow, but precise shots, to deal with the recoil. Whoever wasn't killed by the spikes, found themselves killed by the bullets. There were three still standing, and Lihua's gun went dry. They were quick to turn around, and point whatever weapons they had (Pistols, assault rifles, and a bag of garden shears) at Lihua and open fire - who quickly dipped behind the wall - and the Fiends quickly pushed in. First thing Lihua did was eject the empty clip, then reload another (she has two more left, so she better make them count). She raised her hand in the air, and summoned three concrete shards from the foundation of the building, and levitated them to shoulder height, aimed at the hallway.

Once they made around the corner, Lihua quickly opened fire, and gunned down the three - the last man standing got three concrete shards in the shoulder, gut, and knee. Seeing that the Fiends were disposed of, Lihua casually strolled down the hallway - taking a moment to step on one of the concrete spears that impaled the Fiend, driving it in deeper (she could feel the squishing as more gore came pouring out) before stepping over him. Lihua walked up to the counter, and knocked on the window gently - [i]I sincerely hope they didn't kill the quartermaster[/i] - to try to get the attention of anyone inside.

A blonde-haired woman - Agent Ariella D. Sinclair - quickly rose up from underneath the desk on the other side, scared out of her mind, and looked up to see Lihua. "... You got rid of them? Jesus, I thought they'd get in!" She said.

Lihua took a moment to take a look back at the carnage she caused. "... In a way, yes." She said as she recentered her focus onto Ariella. Though, now wasn't the time for small-talk, they needed weapons before more get in. "Quickly, let us in before more come."

"Yeah, yeah," Ariella said, quickly leaning to the side, and pressing a button. The light above the armory door flashed green, and Lihua didn't waste a second in going through the doors - which locked ounce both of them got through.

The armory looked much like you'd expect an armory to. A metal room, with rows and rows of gun racks, containing top of the line weaponry. Lihua browsed through it, and grabbed a black bullet-proof vest - there was the NEST standard armor, but, they didn't issue it to a noncombatant like Lihua, and she was fine with a vest to begin with - before putting both arms through the arm-holes. It covered her body over her suit, and she put on the straps to keep it secured. It'll save her life in case she gets hit by a stray shot - it'll hurt like hell, through. Though, Lihua had no intention of going guns blazing. That was a fool's tactic.

After Lihua had the vest on, she browsed through the weapons until she found the weapon perfect for her: A Mossberg 500 Tactical. She pulled it off the rack, and slung the gun over her shoulder as she grabbed an ammo pouch, and filled it with twelve-gauge rounds, and attached it to her belt. Along with getting some more ammo clips for her Glock. 

With that, she was fully prepared for the siege. She wished that she had more warning, but it is what it is. Lihua took a step, and faced Baron.

"Make sure to grab whatever you need, Mr. Moreau," Lihua started off, clocking her shotgun. "I doubt NEST wouldn mind sparing a few guns in this time of need... Just return them."


[hr][h1][i][color=green]Michelle Brianna Gallus.[/color][/i][/h1][hr]


A massive puddle in the street splashed as Michelle's hummer - siren loudly blaring - tore through the streets at high speeds.

Michelle didn't know how it happened, or why, but Fiends have laid siege to the NEST Headquarters at the exact worst moment! She dropped whatever she was doing in the Estella Isle (Shopping for clothes in the soup store) and went straight for the Isabella Isle. Tearing through traffic as did many NEST Agents. It was a trip, but she made it to the Headquarters. The hummer came to a swerving stop (Hydroplaning a little) right in front of the gates. Michelle practically kicked the door open, and ran through the gates of the place with her AA-12 in hand. An explosion made Michelle run even faster, she made it through the front doors, into the lobby, and saw the Fiends laying siege to the place. All while NEST Agents laid down suppressing fire for retreating agents. All she heard was bullets, and all she smelt was blood and gun powder.

And tear gas. Tear gas was pouring into the nose. The strong scent of the riot gas assaulted Michelle's olfactory senses. She had to cover her nose. However, Fiends were still in the lobby, and she didn't notice a Fiend with a fire axe running toward her - using the momentum of his sprint to swing the axe at her body, and hit her, making her stumble. It pierced a few layers of upper flesh, but nothing more than a flesh wound. She balled her fist, and whipped her arm out and sent the Fiend flying into a wall. She heard his back break in impact.

The Fiends were still pouring into the room, armed with guns and melee weapons. Michelle had no choice but to point her AA-12 at them, and hold down the trigger. The barrage ripped them to shreds - assisted by the covering fire by her fellow NEST Agents. In a manner of seconds, they turned the tide on the battle in the lobby, and killed every assaulting Fiend. Now because of skill, or overwhelming firepower; simply because the Fiends were moving up the building, presumably behind the Lieutenants, and the tear gas allowed them to turn the tide. 

This isn't good... The Fiends are overrunning the building, and plenty of NEST Agents are dead. Fortunately, with the lobby clear, more Agents could get out... and more could get in. Michelle grabbed the communicator on her chest.

"What's going on in the upper floors?" Her voice echoed across the comms. 

"The Fiend lieutenants are attacking the Detention Center. They've punched through our first line of defense." A NEST Agent answered.

That made Michelle clench her fist. God damn it. The Fiends are going to tear this building to shreds - they're probably after Sulfur! She grabbed her communicator again. "Alright, I'm heading up there now."

Afterwards, Michelle pointed at the nearest NEST Agent, "You hold the fort! This is the only way Agents will be getting in and out."

"... Like me?" A familiar, deep, voice said through the doors. Michelle turned around, and spotted Agent Dragonfly - who she made acquaintances with last night.

Smiling, she said, "Yeah... Good to see you here."

"Yeah, let's move up." Henry said.

Michelle grabbed her shotgun with both hands, then began moving up the building along with Henry.



[hr][h1][i]Khan, Big Dong, & Burnmark.[/i][/h1][hr]



The line of NEST Agents was precise enough to utterly decimate an entire group of Fiends in a matter of minutes. Their shot up corpses lied dead on the ground. However, this was all apart of Khan's plan. She generated her mist, and filled the hallway with it. The mist found it's way inside the Fiends, and brought them back to their feet - along with causing hallucinations for the NESTies. With a command, the zombies pushed into the line, and basically shrugged off every round fired by the NEST Agents (Except to the head - it was just hard to line up a shot in the mist). However, they started using the containment form, which effectively locked them in place.

It served as a good enough distraction, Big Dong rushed the line, pushing aside any of Khan's minions. The first NEST Agent he saw, he turned into his hardened form, and punched her so hard in the face that he caved her skull in. She dropped dead, and Big Dong grabbed her leg, and swung around and knocked over another NEST Agent using her body. All while Khan was pushing in, shooting her M23 Grenade launcher, which tore through the Agents. Every round caused an explosion.

"Fall back!" A NEST Agent shouted, as the remainders turned tail and ran down the hallway - they grabbed any canisters of containment foam that was left. He pressed his earpiece and shouted, "The first line of defense has failed, they pushed through!"

They decided to try to slow the Fiends down, by turning around, and shooting the containment form at the walls, floor, and ceiling with reckless abandon. It quickly expanded, and left an opening so small that only a [i]housecat[/i] could get through. They turned around to the second line of defense.

"Fuck!" Khan shouted, as she dispelled the fog. Every reanimated corpse dropped.

"Fucking containment foam..." Big Dong punched the wall so hard that it made a hole (to fuck later). Then he got an idea. He started punching the foam wall, over, and over, and over, again.

"It's not going to fucking work, Dong...." Khan moaned.

"No, no..." Big Dong said in between punches. The containment foam was super adhesive when hard, but no one said anything about what they were [i]attached[/i] to. The walls and floors were cracking, and steadily getting displaced with every blow. The plan was to break the foam off what they were attached to.

More Fiends were showing up.


[hr][h1][i]Heartbreaker.[/i][/h1][hr]


The former form of Veronica's minion "Red" lied on his back, dissolving into sludge. Three holes in his chest, one in the head, and one through the eye - all caused by a powerful weapon. The concrete tunnels of the sewers had taken a bit of damage. On the other hand, Vero was on the ground - with her knee blown off with the same weapon - bleeding out due to her aforementioned wound.

A few steps started walking towards her, spinning her revolver as she put it back in her holster. Heartbreaker. Heartbreaker knelt down over Vero, and put a cigarette in her mouth. "Your bitch-ass monster made me waste time...." She groaned, rolling her eyes up into her head. "You should have just kept hiding, now look at ya'."

Vero's face contorted into fear.

"What? Can't talk?" Heartbreaker asked as she stood straight up, and pulled her revolver out, pointing it at Vero's chest. "Too bad. Gotta kill anyone who seen my face." She said, as she pulled the trigger, and shot Vero right through the heart. The sheer impact killed her instantly. Heartbreaker twirled her revolver, and put it back into it's holster.

Alright, time to get a move on before anymore freaks show up. Heartbreaker started running down the tunnel in an all-out sprint in order to make up for lost time. She pulled her phone out of her pocket, and looked at the map, and saw that she was getting close. She made a hard right, and turned down the tunnel that lead her right into the secret entrance. She stepped over a few bodies ([i]Dumbass Fiends trampled each other[/i]) and walked right up the tunnel into the place.

All Heartbreaker has to do is kill Khan, or make sure that someone [i]else[/i] kills Khan here. Doesn't matter how it's done, long as it's done. Her contact here has made it abundantly clear that Khan has to die in the building. Because killing an art, and Heartbreaker's a master.

She ran up the tunnel, hand on her revolver in case she needed to use it, and breached the base. Now, according to her contact, Khan would be going straight for the Detention Center... which is a few floors up. Heartbreaker would have to exercise the greatest deal of stealth. Despite the craziness, she can't be spotted by NEST. If she's captured... then a lot of fucking people are going to be mad.

First thing she did was run down a hallway towards the staircase, she saw some NESTies (A tall-ass Asian woman, and some schmuck with a leg brace) coming out of it, and quickly dove into a side office, and peaked out the door. She could have killed them, but she's aiming to leave as little bodies here as possible. Of course, she'd like to save every bullet! An explosion nearly knocked Heartbreaker through the door, she managed to keep her balance, and the two NEST Agents ran off - which prompted Heartbreaker to run out herself.

Heartbreaker ran up the stairs with the speed of Kenyans.