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Chie continued to writhe and struggle beneath the iron grip of her two would-be captors. The girl didn't have any time to think; merely kicking and screaming on instinct while her body felt electrified from the adrenaline pumping through her. "Let GO I said-!" she yelled in vain defiance.

[color=00a99d]"I've got our back! Is Chie still in trouble?"[/color]

"Selma!?" Chie blurted out in a panic at hearing her name being called. Then, a gunshot rang through her ear. A flash of light scraped by her face, and unbeknownst to her, it had hit one of her assaulters. "Eee-!" she gasped, her eyes widened from the sudden shock. For a moment Chie had stopped struggling, but then noticed the grip on her had weakened. With as much force as she could muster behind her pulling, somehow, Chie had managed to break free. She staggered back, fearfully looking back at whatever, or rather whoever, had attacked everyone and grabbed her.

They were tall and dressed head-to-toe in black, save for the ominous white mask. Or, at least, one of the two wore a mask. The other was clutching their face, shattered pieces of white at their feet. Though the shadows obscured their features, Chie could still tell that something was dripping onto the floor from between their fingers. [i]Blood[/i].

"A-Ah... aaah..." Chie whimpered, slowly pacing backwards. She didn't know what to do, or where to go. She couldn't take her eyes off her attackers in case they tried to grab her again and she also had nowhere to run. The exit was past them, Chie knew as much, so running for it wasn't an option. There was nothing to gain by running back, either. She and everyone else in this tunnel were [i]stuck[/i].

It was lucky, then, that Crystal dived in front of Chie and started scrapping with one of her assailants. [color=00aeef]"Get to the others,"[/color] she'd growled back at her. Chie briefly glanced at Selma, Rivka and Wei, then back at Crystal.

"O-okay!" she replied and ran back towards the other three. Of course she was worried about Crystal, too, but with everything going so fast she hadn't the time to dwell on these things. Chie narrowly avoided Selma throwing another one of the masked men, letting out another small shriek, before crouching down next to captain Wei. The woman's gun lay only a short distance beside her and without thinking, Chie grabbed onto it with her right hand and then reached out to Wei with her other arm. "Please let me help you up!" Chie asked of her, trying to throw Wei's arm over her shoulder.