[center][h1]The Dark Aces[/h1][/center]

[h3][color=gray]Pennystakes[/color][/h3]

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In the early morning, children were playing inside the Pennystakes Orphanage, wholly unaware of the stealth operation slowly rolling in. Black SUVs quietly rolled up to the front and back of the establishment, effectively cutting off entrances and exits.

One worker within had a child on their knee, watching over the other kids in the room, when [i]it[/i] happened.

Tear gas canisters smashed through every window on the ground floor, spreading a noxious gas that immediately had workers and children coughing, tears streaming from their eyes and they wandered blindly. Men with kevlar under their suits and gas masks broke through the front and back doors, shooting bodyguards and tasing workers. The children were dragged out and cuffed with zipties, tossed onto the grass outside.

That was when Pops herself burst out of an office door into the front lobby. Blinded by the gas, she couldn't act faster than the men who trained a unique handgun at her, filled with a payload. It launched, fish hook digging deep through Poppy's clothes and skin. The little talisman now hanging from here appeared like a metal tag, now lit.

As Poppy tried to take a swing at one of the men, she would find her gyft curiously… neutralized. It was then an easy enough task to put her wrists in zipties and drag her outside.

Poppy was forced to kneel across from all her children huddled in a circle, guns aimed at their heads. One of the men spoke up.

[b]”You've got an ultimatum from the Midnight Man. Leave Pennystakes and Grey Heights, and you can take your kids and Personnel with you. Refuse… Well, you'd won't want to refuse.”[/b]

Poppy was quiet for a moment, staring at her kids, before she nodded. 

Soon, she and her workers were loaded up in transport vans, and the kids loaded in separate vehicles. They were taken outside of the district, towards the direction of Iron Gate.

The Dark Aces remaining in Pennystakes and Grey Heights quickly made their presence known and established their headquarters. They also contracted some workers to improve both districts. Make them worth something and require more thought to attack, if anyone were foolish enough for such.

[hr][code]Ezra takes over Pennystakes and Grey Heights. Pennystakes is upgraded to Comfortable. Grey Heights is upgraded to Rich.[/code][hr][code]Intermittent post, no points awarded[/code][hr]