**Rebooted**

[The Jolly Victini]

The boy looked back for only a moment before giving in to the pulling of Ella and running away from the school with her.

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Dex was shaking nervously at the man as he was still in possession of a gun, but he cleared his throat and spoke. "M-My name is D-Dex, sir! I-I'm one of the l-lead scientists at the castle!" he said shakily.

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SIlverlight knelt down and slowly stroked Timothy's hair in attempt to calm him down.

Swift looked around and found the source of the shooting. Down the road, he saw approaching figures. Fenekkusu wasted to time in transforming into his anthro form and sneaking down to the cultists. He grabbed one and pulled him into an alleyway, holding him to the wall and restraining his arms. "Tell me what you all are doing or I'll kill you and ask someone else." Fenekkusu said coldly.  

[Uncle Sciz]

"I don't know, Martini," Sciz said. "When someone just randomly falls apart you'll never know if it's intentional." He looked out the window. It seemed that they were in the quiet part of the city, one of the parts that weren't particularly dense with cultists. "Unfortunately, it looks like it was in this case."  

[Ryuzki Hygaea]

Spyke notices two kids running from the school and whistles to them. "Go with that guy, he will keep you safe." He said pointing to Phoenix. "Get them to safety and get back here on the double, i might need your help." He then enters the schools hunting down any cultists that might get in his way. "Wonder which cultist is in charge of this bunch, my money is on Jarkoven since well this is up his alley." He then has a viscous smirk on his face. "Looking forward to skinning him alive."

Roman and Jay arrived near the school and heard someone talking. Roman looks at Jay and motions for him to be quiet while they investigate. Roman creates a small dagger and turn into the alley to find a strange bird like creature pinning a hooded man to the wall. He was about ready to ask the bird whats going on when Jay runs up. "Ro wait, I know that guy. Thats Fenekkusu." He then looks at Fenekkusu and the cultists before looking at Roman. "Figures the Blood god cult is causing trouble. They tend to cause a lot of problems in the past." Roman points his dagger at the cultist. "So what are they doing now?"  

[Serenla the Cat]

"Oh, go sit on an overturned stool," she snapped. "When a body ******** falls apart and it's not because of me and my paycheck doesn't depend on it, I don't bother to check the vitals-" Rain stopped for a moment, looking through the front passenger window. Despite her now throbbing head wound, Rain lunged forward, aiming her gun out the window and picking of a man who was crouched behind a car, trying to hide from the cultists. She returned to her former crouch, and cast a dirty glance at Martini. "Besides, how do you know I'm a hitman? I don't exactly encourage people talking about me, and I don't give out my real name anyways," she said, almost accusing. She shook her head, intending to interrogate him later, focusing her attention now on the reviving girl.

"What the hell was that?" she asked Haven, wondering why the girl was talking to herself, though she hadn't quite caught what she said.

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Kat looked down the hall, seeing a familiar face. She had gotten help from Ryu before, and was relieved to see him here. The cultist, still on fire, lay face down on the knife that had landed in his chest. Mat had shown her the army outside in panicky, flailing gestures, and was now sitting up against the wall, mouthing words to himself as he was most likely trying to devise a plan.

"Took you long enough. Look, we're between a rock and a hard place right now. We can't turn the school into a battle ground without student casualties. We also can't exactly evacuate a couple thousand panicking teenagers. It's your call, really. What do we do?" she asked, with all of the authority and command in her voice of an army general despite only being a Junior in highschool.

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Serenla had no desire to stay in the school; she'd be dead if she did. She didn't want to die. She also didn't know if she could simply leave a class full of innocent people to be slaughtered. She looked back to the hallway, straining her neck to see down either end. She caught sight of what looked to be a very high ranking soldier, and felt some measure of relief, though she had no idea what they planned on doing. She looked back to the class, not comfortable with all of them staring at her as she contemplated leaving them in danger. It wasn't like she could take them with her, though. All of them together would be a sure-fire way to get them all killed. She couldn't stand not being able to choose, the instinct, that primal urge to run, to escape, was tugging at her mind while her students, most certainly doomed, tugged at her heart. Serenla felt like she might cry.  

[X_HeartofRoses_X]

Phoenix jumped as Spyke threw him under the bus. "W-Why me?!" He then looked at Ella and the boy with her. He sighed. "I suppose I need to take you two to the castle, then..." He turned, keeping an eye on the two."Please, follow me. I will escort you to the Royal Hedgecat castle."

Upon being spoken to, a red eye swiveled to Rain as Hollow's eyes opened, draining blood from them and leaving behind two crimson, soulless eyes. The one that stared at Rain looked broken, as if it were glass, because it had a "X" clearly marked through it in black. She laughed softly, bowing her head. Then, she quickly scanned the rest of the area. She was in a van, with multiple other people. Not a good place to start slaughtering. Coughing a few times, she sat on her knees and looked at Rain with a feigned smile. "Oh, I get... sick... when I see blood. Some weird medical condition. Sorry for worrying you!" Hollow said, trying to sound as sane as possible, though it was hard for her not to look different from her counterpart, since she was having no reaction to the fact she was still bleeding. She'd kill them all later. She just had to make sure she held Haven under long enough.  

[Fadedepic]

Martini laughed mockingly at Rain. Not much of his thought process ever went into talking with others, but he found himself to be able to do what he wanted in a conversation. "First off, you didn't check HIS pulse." He said, gesturing to the back of the SUV where the man sitting in a pile of his own blood was shrinking into the distance. "Secondly, I know you're a hitman because my brother does half of your contracts with you. Thirdly, if you assume a body is dead rather than making sure, you're going to get killed in the business of professional murder." He said, counting off on his fingers the points respectively. He wasn't entirely true if the third point was valid at all, but it was valid for zombie scenarios, and he knew that people survive getting shot. If people who survive getting shot are hostile, they could kill you... or at least this was Martini's thought process.

"Will both of you PLEASE shut the ******** up?!" Gareth snapped from the driver's seat. He grinded his teeth. No way in hell a partying drunk, hitman who needs constant help, and a girl who passes out regularly would follow any sort of direction from someone who actually knows what he's doing in battle. "Oh no, not me! I only know how to fight in this type of warfare, but noooOOO!! Everyone just argues willy-nilly and let my car get shot at. What ******** morons." He shouted in his head. "Rain, switch seats with Haven, put a gun out of the window, and shoot these cultists before-"
CRACK-KSHHSHH!!

The front passenger wheel had popped.
"You ******** RETARDS!!"  

[Uncle Sciz]

Sciz kicked his door open and hopped out of the car. The first thing he noticed was how damaged the front of the hood was, and his eyes travelled up the pole it crashed into until he saw a flag. He turned his head and, lo and behold, there was the school.

"Well, wasn't that convenient?"  

[X_HeartofRoses_X]

Hollow's eyes flashed, and, with a quick flick of her wrist, there was a knife embedded deeply into a cultist's skull, whom had tried to get into the van after shooting the tires. She laughed. "How pathedic." She climbed from the car, putting a shoe to the cultist's head and ripping out the knife, splattering blood onto her clothes in the process. Hollow smiled, and turned to the others. "Let's get going, then!~♪" She said, unfazed, unlike how she would've reacted to this a few minutes ago.  

[Serenla the Cat]

Rain threw a dirty look at Martini, but she didn't have to justify herself to him. She looked at Haven, and was immediately sure, as crazy as it seemed, that this was not the panicked little girl that had been huddled up in the corner when she had climbed into the van. However, Rain concealed her mistrust, intending to catch her by surprise if she tried anything. She groaned as the car came to a stop, hitting the school flag pole. At least they hadn't been going full speed. She hopped out, and saw the group of cultists.

"Great... well this is just ********," she groaned, pulling out a gun. She remembered her own high school, how many narrow hallways and classrooms. She could hopefully use her stealth to her advantage. She waited for the others impatiently.  

[WritingWithLove]

Ella's spoiled femme fatale façade never faded as she dragged the boy to Pheonix. "Like, the castle?" she asked, out of breath, "You can get in? How? Nevermind! Just get us there!"
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Myelin's eyes widened. She couldn't believe what she'd heard- or, lip-read- Dex say. The castle?! she signed.
Her father was also astonished. "The castle?" he asked, "What are you doing out here? And with Myelin?"
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"There's no use in trying to help him," Scarlet said, "If he's started, there's no stopping him. Timothy's such a waste. I'm kinda hoping he dies from one of his panic attacks someday." She snickered, thinking about how much fun it would be to watch.
She quickly grew impatient once more. Eager to see the action, she opened the door and walked out into the main room to look out the window.
The words Scarlet had spoken stung Timothy's ears. He was used to recieving such comments, but never in front of people. He would have apologized for his sister's behavior, as he was accustomed to doing, but his shame further increased his breaths. He could feel himself getting dizzy. He would pass out soon if he couldn't calm down.  

[X_HeartofRoses_X]

Phoenix nodded, looking around. "Please follow me..." He said cautiously, looking around more as they walked toward the castle. "Who are you two? If you don't mind me asking." He was watching out for cultists. Hopefully he wouldn't have to use his powers.  

[Fadedepic]

Just as Phoenix asked Ella and the boy their names, a cultist fired at him. However, cultists were like Stormtroopers on the account that they couldn't aim for s**t. Both shots missed the trio entirely as the cultist hid behind a dumpster to reload, seeing as he tried to fire more at them, but his glock responded with a defiant click click click

Gareth groaned, Getting out of the SUV and running around to the trunk, opening it up and taking out a bolt-action Remington .308 hunting rifle and a couple of magazines for it. "Everyone grab a rifle. We're going in the school and looking around for Seth. Chances are that he's out and about, trying to get out of the place." Before he could begin another sentence, a bullet hit the tail light less than a foot away from him. He jumped to the side to try and avoid any additional fire. "Go go go!" He said, ushering Martini ahead, arming his younger brother with a Mossberg pump shotgun and an additional clip.

Seth heard the SUV crash into the flag pole. He took his eyes off of the hatch for a second to run to the opposite end of the theater and look over the edge. From there, he saw Gareth, Martini and the gang fighting their way into the school from the SUV he was so accustomed to see Martini tuning and working on. He smiled. He breathed to himself.
"Hey there, kiddo."
The unfamiliar yet completely known words sent a chill down Seth's spine. Jarkoven had silently made his way across the rooftop to less than ten yards away. Jarkoven approached, watching Seth turn around to look in horror upon his masked face. "You're one of Gareth's, aren't you?" Jarkoven asked in a deliberately soft-spoken voice, which made Seth's blood run cold, whom could only respond with a frightened nod.
Jarkoven smiled behind his mask. "Well, then... It would appear as though you could be of some use to me." And with that, Seth's whereabouts became unknown along with Jarkoven's until I feel they can be brought up again.

Gareth had seen Seth look at them, then turn around, then hesitantly step away from the side of the theater. He pointed him out. "Looks like he's up there... and not alone, either. Let's get moving!"  

[Uncle Sciz]

"So, how are we going to go about doing this?" Sciz arched his back, getting a few pops and cracks inbetween. "I guess I could go off alone, possibly head over to the gym and auditorium and clear those out."  

[Ryuzki Hygaea]

Spyke walks around the school searching for any cultists to mangle. "Huh i get the feeling those guys are avoiding me for some reason." He then fires a few fireballs in random places hoping to attract the attentions of the cultists. "Oi, cult guys its me Spyke of the Royal Guard here to kill your leader and all of you." He then sighs. "Either they will attack me in a group or they will run screaming outside." He then looks back and shakes his head. "I hope the kid gets those kids to safety with the way he is with his fear of his power, he is no good in a fight."