First Strike(Saber, Prythian)

[Mani4c]

It had been almost a month since a massive viral outbreak had rocked the North American Cyber City, and set loose and army of berserk machines across the unites states. The NY-NPD's Main Precinct was busy as usual, and It's server was no different, things had seemingly settled into their normal rhythm once again.

But unbeknownst to the law officers inside of the server, three powerful viruses were gathered on a nearby rooftop, organizing the opening shots of an all-out invasion. Abraxas, the leader of the group, had several communications windows open, coordinating with his other generals. Each one assigned to lead a strike force in a synchronized attack against the north american NPD. 

He looked at a black armored avatar with a frog like mouth, "Blight, you take care of the southwest, and please, don't completely destroy the server, it's connections could be useful when we turn this city into a hive." He turned to the next screen showing a young woman with long blonde hair. "Thorn, you take the northwest, any scientific research you find that could be useful, copy it." The turned next to another woman this time with raven hair and two horns. "Hecate, wipe out any resistance in the midwest, but, leave the corpses, we're running out of room for your ghouls." The woman nodded. "Yes, lord Abraxas." Abraxas turned to the next general, a man with white hair and an eyepatch, "Ripper, the southeast sector is yours, have fun!" He turned to the final screen, it's occupant looking like a deep sea diver or some kind of machine. "Genome, take as many samples as you can, we'll need to upgrade the troops." "As if I needed an excuse, my lord."

Abraxas nodded at the assembled screens and cut the connections, he then looked at the most important person accompanying him, the man responsible for the viral attack a month before, Zeus. "Zeus, this portion of the server is linked to a physical world precinct with a rather sizable lockup attached to it. I want you to disable the security and riot suppression measures, oh, and make it so the convicts can gain access to some firearms as well. If you'd be so kind." Abraxas' tone was casual, as if he was ordering a meal at a restaurant instead of essentially siccing violent criminals on law officers.

[Saber]

Thorn placed one of her clawed hands over her chest, where a heart would be, and bowed her head, an amorous smile on her face as she looked at Abraxas through her communication window "As you command, my master, I will not disappoint you." Ripper cackled when Abraxas gave him all of the southeast sector "All of that for me! You really wanna keep me on your payroll, dontcha boss! Don't wait up, we're gonna be having too much fun!"

Zeus chuckled as Abraxas gave him instructions to tamper with the physical world, his aura turning a blend of indigo with dark green wisps floating among the aura "I see that you took my advice from the previous attack's outcome. The humans were too organized, despite my zombification of the remote control servers for the robots...This may make our assault much easier." He stepped on the edge of the rooftop, mere inches from plummeting to ground level, before turning to look Abraxas in the eye "Shall I tell your daughter you wish to have a word with her?"

[Prythian]

Blight chuckled, a deep, throaty sound."No need for concern... I'm sure I can restrain myself and just destroy most of it... but I can't say the same for any avatars that get in my way..." With that, Blight turned away, only moments before Abraxas cut the connection. "We've been asked to hold back..." One snake raised up and hissed towards the assembled group of viruses. They were almost all horrendously rotted, frail humanoids, covered in green growths, slowly pulsing. "...but I'll understand if you can't get that through your heads... destroy everyone you see that is not ours! Bathe the area in acid!" He spun around, giant mouth gaping open in a grin, acid oozing down his skin into it. "IT CAN ALL MELT!"

[Mani4c]

The final general, Massacre, was a being that seemed to be made of a red semi-liquid mass that moved as if it was alive. The Deranged general laughed. "Gyahaha,, and here I thought that you wanted to take the sting out of him getting his ass kicked! What better way to salve your wounds than to have your enemy's operator get raped and murdered by a bunch of hairy, sweaty, prison apes? I looooved the intel photo's of the Captain especially, she had a nice set of ti-" Abraxas silenced Massacre by grabbing his skull, "Not...another...word." Massacre nodded and Abraxas let him go. "Now then, Hecate should be letting the troops in any-" Just as Abraxas spoke, A massive portal as wide as a football field's endzone opened, and a battallion of Drones and Brawlers stormed through. "Nice timing, Let's go gentleman, and Massacre." Abraxas activated his predator aura and leaped down to the ground, leading his forced towards the precinct.

Meanwhile, Forge was tinkering away in his workshop, covered in grease and sweat while he put the finishing touches on a large rotary gun pod as extremely loud music was blaring over the speakers (link). His VI confidante JARVIS, cut off the song just as it entered it's final chorus, causing Forge to look up. "What's up J?" "Apologies for disturbing your work sir, but I'm detecting a massive surge in viral activity all over the city, including this server." Forge sat up straight upon hearing this news. "What!?" JARVIS brought up a readout of the Viral surges, all of them were situated around major NPD server access points, which were linked together in a massive network, if one went down the rest could continue to function, but to have a viral surge attack each major NPD server node was not a conicidence. "This is too coordinated to be a simple outbreak...JARVIS, trigger the alarms, code red! and send this data to Baretta and Shepard!" Forge sprinted out the door to his workshop and into Bit and the Doctors' Lab. Klaxons and lights blaring as JARVIS hacked the emergency alert system. 

[Saber]

Bit was surrounded by monitors, all of which were security feeds for different parts of the server, internal and external. She was working overtime trying to boost the firewalls of the servers to prevent the viruses from gaining access. "Doctor, I need a team enforcing the southeast wing's security scanners and defense systems! we have a mass server breach reported by the Statin Island avatars, and they're being overrun!" Forge took it upon himself to finally run into the room "Well, look who decided to join the party! Pull up a chair, Forge, we're being attacked from all sides by a virus army!"

Zeus rolled his eyes when Massacre opened his foul mouth, being as vulgar and sadistic in his thoughts as usual. Thankfully, Abraxas silenced him quickly. Not even bothering to don his armor, Zeus stepped off of the ledge after Abraxas, free falling and crashing feet first into the pavement, where many avatars were running for their lives. Zeus was strolling through the swarm of viruses calmly, letting them attack the server while he searched for the perfect place to sneak in undetected "The server is well fortified, I don't see many cosmetic openings...But I'm sure there's something hidden that I can use to sneak in...But first." His aura turning blood red. he grabbed a scrawnier looking virus, stabbing it with the viral needles in his hand. Before his aura turned greenish silver. The thrashing virus soon became docile, and upon being released, was following Zeus like an obedient dog <Go. Hide nearby and stay out of sight. You are my priority 1 respawn for this location, and I need you alive.> The virus turned and weaved through the stampeding hoard, vanishing from sight. "Why not let Massacre join his hoards, he's far more valuable at the head of his advance troops. And while he's knocking, we'll simply let ourselves in."

[Prythian]

There was a series of gross splatting sounds, and Blight's mouth gaped open wider as a hole slowly opened up in the wall in front of him as he broke into the server. "Go." A series of moth-like viruses flew into the hole, purple gas spreading from their bodies and filling the hallways the pustules had exploded their way into. Blight reached out with his snakes, grabbing two Acid Troopers and pulling them to his side. "Take the Pustules and M0ths and spread out. Delete everyone you see." With that he let them drop to the ground as they rushed into the way. Blight gave an evil chuckle. "I think I'll wait until there's more fun to be had..."

<Domain! The server is under attack!> Mirror sent, looking around for someone to imitate. Unfortunately for her, at the moment, there were no avatars around she had seen their DPs before, none of the big heavy-hitters. <Got it. I'll see what I can do.> Mirror pressed her lips together. <Saber, I know you're aware of the situation. I don't have the authority to let Amplify and Justicar out, but we're going to need them.>

Domain, helmet on, stood in front of one of the entrance hallways, seeing a bunch of viruses head down it. Carefully and calmly, he extended his spikes, firing them outwards. One landed about halfway down the hallway, pulsing code into the ground... and the hallway split, a gap now visible in the ground thanks to his Cracked Chasm. Another one landed just outside of the gap and the area quickly converted into metal, a wall rising up out of the ground to block the hallway off as his spikes flew back to him. "Try and get through that."

[Mani4c]

Massacre ran to the head of the pack, right into a hail of rounds courtesy of a NPD firing line. "FIRE! FIRE!" Massacre cackled and simp ly took the hits, his body healing the damage as fast as he took it, he leaped up into the air and formed his forearms into cleavers. (Arm Cleavers: Damage Type - Slashing, Damage per strike - moderate, effects - None) "DIIIIIE! Massacre buried his blades into an officers neck, diagonally splitting his torso open until his was almost cut in two. "HOLY FUCK! SHOOT HIM!" Massacre lashed out at the other officer's snapping off limbs and tearing open their bellies with his blades. "I LOVE THIS SHIT! RIP THEM APART BOYS!" A swarm of drones barreled past Massacre, with four lumbering Brawlers trudging along with them.

One of the Brawlers saw Domain's barrier and charged it opening fire and blowing massive holes in it so it could get through, it leaped across the chasm, firing at Domain as it flew across the gap.

Forge ran up and grabbed Bit's shoulder, trying to get her out to leave the room. "We don't have time for that! my workshop's fortified, we need to get you guy's out of here!" The Doctor chuckled, "Relax mate, this is probably the most fortified area of the server, there's no way that anyone-" Just as the Doctor was about to praise Bit's (and his) security work, a massive explosion rocked the lab, sending tools and instruments flying and causing the area to be cloaked in darkness. "...oh shite."

[Saber]

Bit fought against Forge trying to urge him out of the chair, but shielded her eyes when the explosion rocked the lab, diving out of the chair and dropping to the ground to avoid flying debris. When the initial explosion cleared, and the room went dark, she pushed her glasses back to her face and quickly got to her feet, but hurried to the console where she monitored the pit, typing at hyper speed "Doctor, contact Katana and Amaterasu. We're evacuating. Now!"

Ripper was doing his own thing, leading stalkers and a few viruses that share his namesake through a violent rampage in the southeast portion of the server. Many of the statin island Avatars had been slaughtered and turned to dissolving data, leaving nothing in their wake "Man, this place was just too easy to break into. You'd think police would be all about security." Suddenly, a small crowd of stalkers found themselves slashed to ribbons, one after another by an invisible foe. "What the fuck?!" By the time Ripper had managed to activate his visor and check the spot where the stalkers got slaughtered, there was nothing there but derezzing viral code. On the opposite side, a Ripper virus had been impaled through its abdomen at a high velocity, something large seemingly drilling through it with a razor sharp tip before vanishing without a trace. Ripper was starting to get mad now. Someone was deleting his troops left and right, and he couldn't see a thing, baring his fangs over his exposed lower jaw "Real classy there, Batman. But when are ya gonna stop being such a pansy and fight me head on."

Zeus spotted a thin pint in the code of the server near the unattended wall, smiling smugly before leaping up and crossing the river of viruses by skipping off of their heads like stepping stones. Landing near the wall, he placed his hand on the server and started wearing down the wall so he could sneak through undetected. "This will do nicely."

[Prythian]

"Hmph!" Domain shot his fist outwards, activating his boosted strength as he did so even as he threw himself to the side away from the shots, hovering on his jets a few inches above the floor. Right before it hit, though, he opened it, the hand smashing into its face and grabbing it securely. With his hand covering the entire front of its head, he jerked the chain downwards, whipping the virus down into the pit and letting go. As his hand whipped back, he fired his spikes out again. One impacted just on the other side of the gap, injecting its code before flying back, and the other one hit at the base of the broken wall, injecting the same code to overwrite it... which of course resulted in the wall reappearing. The other spike seemed to have had no effect... yet.

[Mani4c]

The Doctor nodded, "You got-" Another explosion rocked the lab, this time inside the room where the three avatars were, an NPD trooper was thrown through the wall, and bounced across the floor, coming to rest in the opposite corner of the lab. A brawler stepped through the hole, the barrel of it's assault cannon glowing a dull red, "Oh, Double Shite..." Forge looked around for something, anything to use as a weapon, but any kind of laser equipment or weapon add-on was smashed by the Brawler's entrance. 'Shit! I should have installed my armor earlier...' The brawler raised it's cannon, preparing to delete the three scientists, when a massive black object smashed through the ceiling in front of them. It was Claymore, astride a brawler who's head had been skewered by Claymore's Glaive. "I believe the phrase that would fit here is..."you shall not pass..." Forge looked at Bit, "Bit, we have to go, NOW." 

Shepard sprinted down the hall, carrying a Tactical Hard-Case on her back and flanked by a squad of NPD SWAT avatars. "Where the fuck are Viral and Mani4c!?" "Mani4c's in the northwest, he said that he's trying to get into contact with Baretta for some more heavy backup. Noxus just phoned in and said that he's heading towards the southwest section of the NPD network." Shepard nodded. "Who's got Central?" "Viral and Lilith, Justicar's heading towards the southeast, but someone's already there." "Who!?" The officer shook his head. "Unknown, the systems glitching out because of the damage." Shepard shook her head, "What a mess."

[Saber]

Katana landed on top of Claymore, sword drawn and smirking as she looked at the brawler "He's a big one, isn't he?"

Bit grabbed a cube of data that she had been searching for, and pocketed it in her lab coat, isolating it from her own code. Looking over at Forge, she nodded "Katanam Amaterasu. We're evacuating!" Katana pouted when Bit told her she had to leave "Awwww, but I wanted to fight the big viruuuuus..." "Now!" Letting out a huff of disappointment, she stood up and leapt behind Claymore, patting her larger brother's back. "Hit him a few times for me, boys." She ran to catch up with Forge, Bit and the doctor, who were heading for Forge's workshop.

Saber arrived at the precinct not too long after the alert went up that the server was under attack. His armor shifting to panzer form and firing a barrage of cannon rounds at the swarm of viruses from outside of the wall keeping most of them outside and deleting some of the weaker ones. "Jake! We have some serious trouble at the server, do we have any activity in the physical world?" <Nothing yet, Saber. Looks like it's only a cyber attack this time. I'll check in on the precinct, make sure everything's alright over there.>

Ripper was searching everywhere for signs of whoever was attacking him with stealth, and was getting fed up with it. Sheathing his sword, he summoned up a bunch of grenades and lobbed them around the room, the explosions kicking up a lot of dust.That's when he spotted the movement in the dust, and he rushed forward. Drawing his blade swiftly, it was parried by the blade of a red haired swordwoman clad in a black armor. Ripper grinned as he saw the woman who had been eliminating his troops, cackling sadistically "Oh! Now this is rich! Abraxas' commanders carved up and tossed away by a broad! I think I may actually laugh at him for that!" The woman rolled her eyes and knocked Ripper's blade away, swinging at him but easily deflected "My name is Valkyrie, and I will not allow you to destroy my home...You are under arrest for breaking and entering, and assault with a deadly weapon. Surrender, or be deleted."

Ripper cackled again, breaking the blade lock and leaping back, sheathing his sword and hovering his hand over the grip. "...Come and get me then, red...Let's play~~~" His sword was smoking within the sheath, Ripper smirking evilly as he waited for Valkyrie to make her move.

Zeus smirked as he felt his hand sink through the wall's surface, slowly pushing his body through the security opening until he was within the server itself. "There we are...Now to reach the prison cell controls.

[Prythian]

Domain grinned, feeling his other code beginning to take effect...

The walls and floor on the other side of the gap beyond the wall, crowded with viruses, suddenly began to smooth out, shining and slick. Any curved surfaces went flat and friction faded, leaving the army able to stand and move without slipping over, but... Domain was about to change that. "Hah!" He smashed into the metal wall between him and the army, breaking it around the edges... and then a quick punch from both of his hands at once sent it flying forwards down the hall, filling the air as it hurtled towards the enemies now on an almost frictionless surface.

[Mani4c]

Claymore let out a small huff of amusement at Katana's antics. "I'll get you one of their guns as a wall-hanger Katana." The sound of flesh being cut came from above, and a drone dropped from the hole in the ceiling sans it's head, with Amaterasu following after it. "Claymore, are you going to be okay?" Claymore nodded. "Go mother, Forge's lab should be safe." Amaterasu nodded and followed Forge and the others. Claymore looked back at the Brawler and pulled the glaive from it's comrade's head and got into a defensive stance. "Now then...let's dance."

Forge sprinted up to the entrance of his lab, quickly inputting a security code and opening it. "Get inside, quickly!" Bit and Katana quickly entered the lab, followed by Amaterasu and The Doctor. "JARVIS, activate the security lockdown! Toast anything without an NPD ID code!" "Would you prefer golden brown or burnt to a cinder, sir?" Forge rolled his eyes and ran into the room, sealing the door behind him. "Ha-ha, very funny." Forge walked up to his research terminal and entered his passcode, activating the rest of the lab, the lights flickered on, revealing the lab. It was messy and seemingly disorganized, but Forge quickly walked over to a pile of components and rapidly pulled out a set of parts, snapping them together into a forearm bracelet, which he placed on his wrist. "Alright, now that I've got my own set of toys...Bit, I've got something that could help us turn the tide, but I need two things...things that only you can provide."

The viruses on the floor altered by Domain tried to fire at the wall, blowing small holes in it with their blasters, but their weapons weren't powerful enough to destroy it. The wall smashed into them, sending them sliding into another wall and pinning them in place. A squad of SWAT avatars rounded the corner behind Domain, one of them wielding a powerful shoulder-mounted De-Rez Cannon. "Sir! We've been ordered to assist you in holding the area, what are your orders?"

Justicar sprinted down the halls of the NPD server's southeastern sector, slashing through any Drone's that got in his way, He'd learned that  if he didn't at least chop them in half from the forearm up they would keep fighting. "Shepard, tell your forces to aim for the head for a quick kill, these bastards don't drop from body shots, failing that, blow them to bits." Shepard replied back, her message laced with static. <Roger, I'll relay the data to all units.> Justicar rounded a corner just in time to see Valkyrie and Ripper begin to fight. "Well, this is interesting."

[Saber]

Bit crossed her arms and looked at Forge curiously, ignoring her falling glasses and looking over them at Forge "...Go on..."

Saber had been whittling the virus hoard down bit by bit with his rapid fire cannons, until Domain crushed them all against a nearby wall. Nodding to Domain, he started scanning the area for any more hostiles, but noticing some activity around the corner. He ran around just in time to see Zeus walking into the server through a wall, cursing that he wasn't faster at noticing him "Shepard, this is Saber! We have a problem...Zeus is inside of the server, location unknown. I repeat, we have an S-Rank sentient virus inside the server!"

Valkerie narrowed her eyes when Ripper taunted her, just standing there and waiting for her to make a move. Spreading her demon-like wings, she flew at him, sword poised to strike. She saw the explosion from Ripper's sheath, predicting that he was using some form of projectile. But what she didn't see coming was that Ripper's sword came flying out, and the maniacal swordsman grabbed the handle almost perfectly, slashing upward and knocking the sword out of Valkerie's hands as she swung at him. As the sword flew from her hands, Ripper spun around and slashed at Valkerie's back, causing her to shout in pain before falling face first on the floor. Ripper just cackled and pointed his sword at Valkerie, grinning like a predator taunting his prey "Come on! What happened Red? You were talking all that good shit just a second ago, but then I sliced up your wings!"

[Prythian]

Domain chuckled as he shot the ground again, regrowing the metal wall. "Officers at MY command? Unusual, given my position. Right; I just need a couple of you to stay here in case they find a way to break through with multiple people at once. The rest of you need to make sure we get no enemies coming at us from behind; if that happens, we need to leave immediately." He held up one fist, spike sticking out over the top of it. "That's all. Hold the line!"

Amplify flew up next to Justicar on Shattered Skies, annoyance written on her face, lit up by the four orbs she'd created. "Not the time to just stand and watch, Justicar!" With that, she thrust out two of her hands, orbs flying to both Justicar and Valkyrie. The ones she'd given to Valkyrie would boost her defense, while with Justicar, they would boost his speed. "Come on, move!"

[Mani4c]

Forge smirked and walked over to a large object covered by a tarp, "This is a small project I've been working on for Shepard, it's the only one I've made so far, but it should be more than enough." Forge pulled the tarp down, revealing a huge suit of power armor, easily towering at eight feet tall. "Allow me to introduce you to the Mark 5 Heavy Combat Power Armor. It's got over a foot of armor plate, energy barrier projectors, can lift over 5000 pounds, and is equipped with a heavy rotary cannon and a pulse laser that's normally found on a tank."

The Doctor's jaw dropped, "How in the bloody bowels of hell is that thing able to MOVE!? No, how does it even TURN ON!?" Forge slapped the back of the armor. "Microfusion power cell, you could run this precinct on this baby. Oh, and it's plenty shielded, so no worries." Forge looked back at Bit. "Now Bit, this baby is pretty much done, but what I need is this. Someone to calibrate the weapons, because this thing needs to be able to thread a needle, and I can't get that precise. The second...I need a pilot, and not any pilot, a pilot with the proper...temperament." The Doctor blanched. "Oh bloody hell." Amaterasu looked at The Doctor with a confused expression. "What, what's wrong?" "He want's Bit to pilot the murder machine."

Justicar was way ahead of Amp, the second Valkyrie crashed to the ground Justicar dashed forward and drew his own blade, smashing Ripper's aside and standing between Ripper and the downed woman. "Hands off the woman, if you want a proper fight, you have one now." Justicar placed one hand on his blade's sheath, aiming his sword right between Ripper's eyes.

Shepard cursed angrily, "FUCK! Saber, if you located that son of a bitch, END HIM!" Shepard rounded a corner and came upon massacre ripping an officer in half. Shepard didn't even bother cutting her audio link to Saber. "Oh you mother...open fire!" Shepard drew her rifle and dropped to one knee and opened up at Massacre, firing a ten round burst into the viruses chest. Massacre stumbled backwards, but the rounds did nothing, Massacre cackled, his shrill voice easily being picked up on Shepard's audio feed. "GYAHAHAHAHA! Nice try bitch, let's see what that pretty voice of yours sounds like screaming in pain!" Shepard backed up and continued to fire on Massacre, the rounds simply being absorbed by the viruses body as he advanced on Shepard and her men.

Meanwhile, Mani4c had made it to the northwest section of the server. there were bullet holes and scorch marks everywhere. "Jesus Christ, and I thought Zeus was the worst that it got..." Mani4c drew his rifle and raised it, slowly traveling through the section, it seemed like most of the defenders had been wiped out. "What the hell happened here? there should be more hostiles if the officer's are dead..."

[Saber]

Bit looked at the giant mech and started analyzing its code, circling around it and tapping on the occasional point of armor. This wasn't exactly much on a visual scale, but Bit was actively inspecting the code of this weapon program and tweaking inconsistencies and other flaws that Forge overlooked in his process designing it "You got in the ballpark at least...Your targeting system was missing some algorithm code, and the aim itself was off by a few degrees, comparing it to the optical systems...The response time also seems a bit sluggish, but practically, that's yet to be determined. Were you to actually design this as if you yourself were going to pilot it, I'm sure those flaws might have been noticed."

She stopped circling the mech suit, facing Forge and pushing her glasses up. "There, calibrations have been made...Now, I believe you said you needed a pilot with the proper temperament..."

Saber gritted his teeth when Shepard told him to end Zeus, running over to the wall that he walked through and trying to push through himself. Sadly, he was barred from following Zeus through the entrance that the virus had so casually created "Negative, Zeus used a nonexistant entrance to enter the server, I cannot pursue him..." He then heard Shepard cursing and firing at something he couldn't see. "Shepard, do you copy?" Then, he heard another, more malicious voice taunting Shepard, and more gunfire echoing through the comm-link "Dammit!"

Shifting his armor from Panzer to skystrike, he started flying through the hoards of viruses and into the gateway, his boosters propelling him forward at a much faster pace when he didn't have to make sharp turns down a hallway. He had to find Shepard's team and make sure they were safe.

Ripper grinned as Justicar challenged him, noticing Valkyrie slowly getting to her feet "...I didn't ask for your help..." Ripper started cackling madly, his interest piqued "Oh! You're a quick one aintcha? And such speed for a pure blood, you think you'll give me the fight I've longed for? Then prove it!" Ripper's body flashed briefly before a doppelganger formed beside him, holding a sword identical to Ripper's. Ripper touched blades with Justicar, sliding the edge up and down the length of Justicar's tauntingly "...When I'm done with you, I think I'll sate my hunger on the chica sitting on the sidelines, she looks tasty enough~ How's that sound, tough guy?"

Zeus was casually strolling through the hallways, his double bladed sword resting on his shoulder as he started searching for the security controls for the physical world *Hmm...This may take some time, with all of this chaos happening...*

[Prythian]

Amplify merely laughed as she landed off of Shattered Skies, six hands all disassembling it. "Sate your hunger, huh?" Two more orbs flew at Justicar to keep boosting his speed, while a third flew into Meteor Shower. The fourth and final orb she had created at that time flew into her hand. "Justicar, now!" She trusted that having fought with her several times before, he'd know exactly what she meant when she fired an Enlarged Kinetic Barrage, five gigantic orbs flying from the cannon in a rapid-fire burst to blanket the area where Ripper was. With Justicar's speed boosted, though, he should be able to get out of the area of effect in time...

[Mani4c]

Forge smirked and activated the bracelet on his wrist, armor and circuitry began to spread out from the bracelet, locking into place with a series of whirs and clicks, the last part of the armor to lock into place was it's face place, which swung down and locked in place with a metallic clang. "JARVIS, run a diagnostic." Inside of the helmet, a HUD display lit up in front of Forge's face, seen from the outside as the suit's eye's lighting up. "Suit synchronized sir, I'm uploading my OS to the suit's system's now...upload complete." Forge nodded. "Alright, everything's green. Now then, Bit, consider this my official apology for pissing you off when we met."

Forge snapped his fingers, and the Power Armor's back opened, revealing the controls. "JARVIS, can you connect to the suit and help Bit run it?" "Easily sir, I'm also establishing communications with other NPD branches, as well as a fellow by the name of Masamune, he says that he has people en route, but the lock down is slowing them down." Forge nodded, "Than we'll have to hold the fort...Doc, you keep us updated, JARVIS can only do so much." The Doctor nodded, "You got it." Forge looked back at Bit. "JARVIS can help you run the armor, he'll calibrate it's movement's so it reacts exactly when you do, that was part of the reason it was a bit sluggish, I didn't have a chance to run a mobility test on it aside from firing the motors to see if they had the proper range of motion-" JARVIS cut in over Forge's techno-babble. "Fear not Bit, I will have it calibrated to your specifications in under 5 seconds, I can also run auxiliary systems so you can focus on the enemy."

Justicar felt the speed boost take effect, and saw Amp using her two remaining orbs, in an instant, he turned around and scooped Valkyrie up, tossing her over his shoulder and sprinting away to escape the blast. he felt a wave of heat and a powerful shockwave at his back, skidding to a halt and turning around, dropping Valkyrie onto her feet. "It's never that fucking easy..."

Shepard leaped to the side to avoid getting bisected by Massacre, feeling the very edge of his blade scrape her armor. "Damn it!" Shepard rolled to her feet and switched to her shotgun, blasting Massacre in the head. The shot blew Massacre's head apart like a rotten melon, sending the viral lunatic flying. "Take that fucker!" Massacre's body twitched for a moment, and began to shake, the ragged stump where his head used to be swelled up and burst, revealing a new head. "Gah! It's been a while since I got my head blown off, nice shot hot-tits!"

Massacre's body turned into a jelly-like mass, reforming so he was standing up. "But it'll take more than that to kill me." "Than how about THIS fuckface!?" Massacre turned around and saw the SWAT commander leveling a rocket launcher at him. "Get the FUCK out of our precinct!" The SWAT commander fired the rocket, striking Massacre dead center in the torso, blowing him to pieces. "Not so glib now are you?" The commander walked over to what was left of Massacre and shot two bullets into him. "Now...let Saber know that you're o-HURK!" The SWAT officer lurched and looked down.

A blade extended from Massacre's arm, impaling the commander. "I'll admit, that hurt...but now I'm fucking pissed." Massacre got to his feet, his pieces liquefying and drifting back to his body. Shepard backed away, firing on full auto at the viral madman as Massacre flung the commander across the room, causing him to slam against the wall and slump to the ground. "Now, die..." Massacre began to advance on Shepard, his arms turning into ragged saw blades.

[Saber]

The sudden change in Bit's emotionless demeanor was almost eerie as Forge said she had full control of the armor suit. Her emotionless glare was not paired with a sadistic grin. As she walked closer to the suit, she placed her hand on the leg of the suit, before sinking her fingers into it as if it was made of putty. "I must say, Forge, you certainly know how to turn a woman's mood around. Giving me this toy to play with...Now I can punish those viral delinquents for daring to trash my dominion...Just need to make a slight temporary adjustment to this first. Once finished, she leapt up and kept herself out of the suit long enough to insert the data cube she had before into a new compartment that wasn't originally there before inside of the suit. Afterwards, she positioned herself and waited for the suit to close up around her "JARVIS, isolate that data and do not access it until I give the command. I've added a temporary function to this armor program and it can only be used as an emergency."

Only for Massacre to be impaled from behind at high speed with a lance, keeping him pinned from speed alone. Before he crashed as well, Saber released the javelin and opened his wings to drag to a halt, Massacre moving at 120Mph before crashing into the wall in front of him, still impaled by the javelin. Saber was standing with the data blade from the lance drawn, having removed it before letting the Javelin go "...If you're pissed at getting blown up, then you're going to hate me..."

Ripper grinned and drew his knife, throwing it at a wall away from the incoming explosions, and opposite the direction that Justicar ran to. Valkyrie glared at Justicar when he picked her up, dusting her armor off and flexing her wing a bit to test it out. It was definitely damaged beyond repair in this current situation "...I didn't ask for your help..." Ripper's voice cackled in the room, perched atop his sword that was impaled on the wall, while holding a sai in his hand "Did I mention that I don't just use a sword?"

Rotor and Baretta were accompanying Mani4c while patrolling the Northwest sector of the server, Baretta's guns bth drawn and Rotor's drill hands protracted and whirring slowly. She looked down at the bodies and narrowed her eyes, something didn't feel right "...Something's off...They should have deleted by now, dead avatars and loadouts don't leave corpses..." "Better keep our eyes peeled folks, this might get rough."