[hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=gold][center]Heidi Williams[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1] [hr] [center][b][color=gold]Location:[/color][/b] Nocturne.[/center] [hr][hr] As Ayel went upstairs, Heidi turned and went downstairs, exiting the stairwell and taking her bearings. She was not in the backstage area of the club proper. She made her way silently to the stage itself and peeked through the closed curtains. Yes, the actual club area was brimming with armed guards, and they were focusing their attention on the front door so all had their backs to her. If she needed to distract them when the time came for her friends to need some assistance, there was a lot of sound equipment on the stage that Heidi could utilise, that would distract the guards while leaving Heidi unaffected. However, she would have to time that right in such a case otherwise she could put her teammates at a disadvantage too. Besides, she had to search for Uná. That was priority over helping out her more-than-capable classmates. Leaving the stage area, Heidi went back to searching the backstage corridors of the first floor. There were dressing rooms, and storage rooms, but none contained any sign of life. Every few seconds, Heidi would check all around her to make sure nobody was sneaking up on her. The ground floor was clear, and Heidi was about to return to the stairwell oblivious to the sounds of gunfire, when she noticed that the lights were flickering unnaturally. She couldn't hear the songs playing, or the sound of a bike in the distance, but one thing she did know that when the lights flicker, somebody sends somebody else to check the fusebox, just to make sure. Heidi's first thought was to hide. Then she reasoned that if she took out this one guard in isolation, that's one less guard her friends had to fight. On the other hand, it might raise the alarms if he was discovered. One the other, other hand, will things stay off-alert for that long with Ayel upstairs? She decided in the end to take him out. She hid in a changing room and watched as, sure enough, a guard was heading to the breaker room, clearly relaxed as he thought that he was further away from danger now he was out of reach of the door. Despite having no combat training, Heidi ran some simulations in her head of what certain actions would likely result in. A great many of them resulted in her getting shot or captured. She picked one of the options that didn't result in that outcome, and snuck out, tailing the guard. When she was close enough, she simultaneously kicked his leading leg from under him, and reached up to clasp his mouth with her hand. While he was struggling, threatening to escape the much weaker little girl, she put all of her body weight into her arm while he was still unstable balance-wise, and sent his head slamming into the wall with a sickening slapping sound. He was out cold. Possible concussion but unlikely given the official statistics. Nobody was alerted. All in all, a success. Now that she knew the ground floor was not where Uná was being kept, Heidi headed back to the stairwell.