Mutation

[SiN|Tech Alpha Ldr]

**OOC: thanks so much for grabbing my own character lead.**

Aoelus had rounded the corner to the entrance of the detention center and found himself looking at a mutant taking up almost all of the hallway. What looked like a big lump started towards him. Aoelus pumped blast after blast from his gun into the gut, chest, and head of the mutant. Then his gun clicked. A sign of its laser energy depleted. Angrily he tossed it to the side and ran at the lump of meat that had gotten halfway to him. It reached out to grab him, but it was slow, obviously a failure. He leaped onto his arm, which had the thickness of a normal human's mid-body. He jumped and rolled onto its back, and pulled out a wicked looking knife. He stabbed it through the back of the head. The failsafe of all the mutants made at Peublo was located there. The Spyder implanted near the back of the head. Right where he had stabbed the point of the dagger. He leaped off its back and through the detention doors, slapping the door controls as he passed it. Right as the doors closed the spyder inside the mutant's head blew up. The doors were open just enough for some of the blood and plasma to shoot through. Half a second later the door closed.

Standing up, Aoelus peeled some of the skin off his shirt. Leaving a dark orange blood stain. He looked around the room. Some of the mutants were still in their restraints, ones the others had apparently decided not to release when they were out. He looked at the numbers displayed over the restraints, looking for his cargo's number. Finally he found it. Looked down and his mood got even worse. In place of Yvon there was a blood puddle on the floor. Directly beneath were he was supposed to be.

"Sh*t!" he growled.

"hel..hello..." came a voice masked in fear from behind him.

Without turning Aoelus looked back. And saw a head poking out from behind an overturned cot. He started to walk over and the head popped back down. He was about to look behind the cot when the man stood up and swung a pipe at him. There was no time for him to get out of the way before it struck him, but he turned his head and body, taking the blow at an angle, instead of straight into his head. The impact set his ears ringing, but didn't seem to hurt him much. He put his hand to his scalp and came away with some blood. But not enough to say his scull was cracked. Likely just a cut and a nasty bump.

the pipe came flying again, but this time he was ready for it. As it came towards him he grabbed the end coming towards him and pulled. It pulled Yvon Lien over the cot and Aoelus spun around him and pulled the pipe to his throat. He pulled hard on it.

"Relax." He bit out.

Yvon kept struggling for a few more moments, until finally he relaxed his grip and stopped struggling. Aoelus released the pressure on his throat.

"Let me go!" Yvon yelled. His voice cracking.

"Stop yelling!" he growled. "You want to run, go ahead. They will kill you. You haven't been injected with chemicals yet, they will think your just another human working here. The only way you will get out of this alive is if you come with me."

Yvon started struggling again. And Aoelus pulled the pipe again. Reluctantly Yvon slumped, letting go of the pipe. Aoelus tossed the pipe across the room. It bounced off the floor with a clang.

"Now get going." He said, shoving Yvon towards the doorway. Yvon glared back at him. Then stopped short when one of his feet slipped. Looking down at the heap of blood and muscle that had once been another mutant. His eyes wide.

"Thats what will happen to you, if you don't get moving." He said, his voice neutral. they started walking again, Aoelus bent down to pick his dagger off the floor. Wiped it clean on the sleeve of his shirt. And replaced it back in its concealed holster.

Ten minutes later they were back at the entrance to the labs. Aoelus stopped and picked up the guard's guns and clipped them onto his belt. Not quite as effective as his own, but it was better than nothing. They started on their way to the hanger.

He had rounded the corner to the secondary hanger bays and ran right into a group of 4 Rogues. Any other person, at least one with any sense, would have ducked back behind the wall he came through. Instead he brought his foot up and leaned against the wall. The Rogues were starting to bear their pistols towards him as he pushed off the wall with his hands and foot, jumping to the other side of the hallway. He ducked behind the wall. Looked around the corner quickly to see how many of them there were and pulled his head back just in time to save it from getting a few holes in it as a barrage of laser fire came flying back at him.

"Catch!" he shouted to Yvon. Tossing one of the pistols across the hall. He looked back down the hall again. The move had had the effect he wanted. The 4 Rogues had started to track their blasters towards the other side of the hall, where he had tossed the blaster. From the armor he saw on the Rogues there wasn't much chance of getting an accurate enough shot to penetrate while he was ducked behind a wall. He stood and ran towards them pulling his dagger out of his belt. He had cut the throat of the closest man before the others had registered his presence. He cut down the other one with a blow to the chest before the others could bring their weapons around to bear on him. He tossed the dagger towards the third as he started to fire his blaster. Its fire tracking towards him. The dagger caught the man in the gut, and he folded over in pain.

His hand was reaching back to his belt for the remaining gun when he felt something cold and hard press against the side of his head.

"Hold it." Came a hard voice. He glanced to his side to see the last Rogue holding a rather large blaster at him.

"Raise your hands slowly." He said.

Aoelus started to raise his hands, and the Rogue pulled his gun a bit farther from his head, to stop Aoelus' hand from bouncing into it. He saw the man's eyes glance down the hallway where Yvon was hiding. And at that moment he struck. He kicked his foot out to the side and caught the man's knee. The man took a step back and fired his gun off. Burning some of the hair off his head and heating his skin. He pulled his arm up and grabbed the pistol, twisting their arms he put the gun to the other's armpit, one of the few places the armor didn't protect. He triggered off 3 shots the last burning its way through the shoulder to hit the ceiling. He let go and the man slumped to the ground.

Aoelus stood up straight and looked down the hall towards Yvon. His head turned to see Yvon pointing a blaster in his direction.

Right as he was about to lunge for the pistol he left on the ground when Yvon fired.

He watched as the bolt came flying towards him.

To be continued


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