[img]https://i.imgur.com/4uuThLm.jpg[/img]


[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/909715047918497815/1037211200871731300/Umbri_banner6.png[/img]


[color=DC091C][b]“HOOKER! There’s a-... in front of- I mean BEHIND YOU!”[/b][/color] Temujin yelled. A primal feeling crept up his spine, a feeling that came through his snarl as a very human gasp.

Umbri whipped around, coming face to face with a pair of yellow fangs. A festering, gelatinous substance sopped off the Rat before sloshing back to morph into its body. Its bulging eyes were glazed by cataracts and unnatural, glowing green drool hung from its snout. Its noise quivered and sniffed. Its mouth drew back into a snarl.

[b]"Rat... smell... you!"[/b]

[color=CD09DC][b]“Get down, Sugar!”[/b][/color]

[hider][url=https://youtu.be/fQ_WvoXjlFU]Rat fight[/url][/hider]

Umbri ducked. Rat's head exploded in a shower of green goo and rotting jelly. Smoke danced from the hot-pink tip of a gun barrel. Smoke that flitted past yellow eyes bulging against stretched white skin. More Rats sprouted around them; thin shadows with long-limbs outstretched. Two skittered across the ceiling, slime lolling from their snouts. Stabby raised their shotgun and fired. [b]“Say CHEESE!”[/b] They screeched, amidst two thunderous flashes and falling chunks of flesh and goo. The Rats hastened their steps. They charged in from all angles.

Shanks bobbed and weaved, left to right, right to left, up and down. Razor-sharp swipes and bites missed him by inches. His bare fist launched into a Rat’s face. Teeth scattered from its cracked jaw. He spun, his coat tails whipped and reeled back the surrounding Rats. Shanks pursued with both fists flying. His jab flattened one against the wall. His haymaker slammed another with such force to bounce it from floor to ceiling. 

Two Rats pounced at Shanks - and missed. The boxer shifted to counter, but stumbled. [b]“?!”[/b] One’s claws pinned his coat to the floor. Another leapt to tackle.

Shivs’s laser saw stopped the Rat in mid-air. Glowing, cobalt-blue teeth cut into the creature at a hundred bites per second. Its body dropped in two different directions. Shivs widened her stance, spun the weapon over her head, then swung it into another Rat. Its guts blended into the wall. 

A Rat whirled in a flurry behind Stake. He vaulted away, head over tail, until he was upside down, mid-air, with two guns pointed back at it. The barrels flashed pink. Two holes burned between the Rat’s eyes as it collapsed. A horde of Rats charged Stake when he landed. He whipped to face them, spun his revolvers around his index fingers, and glared.

A drum of synthetic hiss. Three flashes of pink. Stake rolled through the air, rows of Rats dying before him. He landed, rose, then twirled, his arms outstretched, his guns blasting faster than the Rats could see. Goo and gunk spilled from the tops of their heads, and they fell - all at the same time. One Rat rose from the heap, limping, frothing, clawing at his side. Stake folded his elbow - [i]Clank![/i] - and parried with his gun’s blade. The creature recoiled, Stake turned, and gutted it.

Umbri and her backpack were in big, bad trouble. She swung manically towards every squeak and scamper in the dark, almost toppling over every time. [color=DC091C][b]“Okay, now two o’clock- No, that’s four! TWO- Do you even understand- DUCK!”[/b][/color] [color=#A4303F][b]"Look chromehead, I have no idea what you’re saying so if you’re going to shout in my ear make SENSE -”[/b][/color] Her ire came to a violent halt as a Rat lunged her and she spun, jamming the haft of the axe into its mouth. Her feet slid across the ground as it charged and slammed her back (and Temujin’s front) into the cargo. Its talons slashed her down the face and Umbri screamed, not in pain.

[color=DC091C][b]“Ah! Okay, okay-”[/b][/color] Temujin exhaled. [color=DC091C][b]“Hit it in the nose, these mammals’ olfactory senses are sensitive-”[/b][/color]

Umbri’s leg swung up between Rat’s knees. It shrieked and recoiled, and she followed up with a headbutt to the snout. She unstuck her bangs from her bloody forehead and huffed. [color=#A4303F][b]“What, did you Google that?”[/b][/color]

[color=DC091C][b]“...No, I hang out with a bunch of nerds.”[/b][/color]

Two pumps of a shotgun finished it off. Stabby skipped through the chaos, on the verge of hysterics. [b]“Man, it’s been forever since a job went so bad! Not since I was a blonde, hey, Shivs? We should fuck up more.”[/b] They shot a Rat in the face and whooped as they jumped up to splash in the rat jelly.

Their boots crunched down. Goo flung up, thick, merging, reforming. Umbri didn’t finish the inhale to gather a scream. Jelly latched onto their clothes like sinew on a bone buried in flesh, and two twisted arms spread around them, and a gaping mouth over their head.

[b]CRUNCH.[/b]

[b]“Huh?”[/b] Stabby said, blood dripping down from the teeth buried into their skull. The moment seemed frozen in everyone’s shock and horror. Suddenly a pack was upon them, teeth and claws tearing them to the ground.

[b]“THEY REGENERATE!”[/b] Shivs shrieked.

[color=CD09DC][b]“...That’s new,”[/b][/color] Stake replied as Shivs and Shanks barreled past him in retreat. [color=DC091C][b]“What? The Rats?! What the hell is going on?”[/b][/color] Temujin barked. His sensors were beeping like crazy. [color=CD09DC][b]"New plan!"[/b][/color] Stake spoke up, casually blasting a lunging Rat. His revolver's cylinder rotated into place. [color=CD09DC][b]"Let's leg it before we catch the plague."[/b][/color]