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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1919305" data-attributes="member: 13737">Brazilia Medical FacilityOctober 14, 2120JohanYou continue to watch minor events unfold.  The nurse comes over and informs Anna that it's time for her next injection and proceeds to pull a curtain around the medical table, ushering Johan to the other side of the curtain.  Your view remains uninhibited however.  The nurse helps Anna lay on her stomach and opens the back of her gown.  Her head provides a remarkably fortunate cover as the doctor comes in. "Alright, this will hurt quite a bit again," he says in warning and then proceeds to jab a long and painful looking needle into her spine in three locations.  You do notice that her 'ports' that her armor plugged into have been removed.  The nurse closes up the gown again, and Anna has barely made a peep, but that changes in a few moments when whatever the nanobots are doing start causing her intense pain.  She screams out, drawing the attention of the four Johans near the door, plus the one inside.  He rushes back inside the curtain, ignoring the nurse and doctor's protests. "Anna!  Are you ok?" NeutronMs. Vaile laughs and smiles at you.  "My, you are tired," she says.  "Never mind for now, though I'm sure Vida will try to explain it to you later," she adds as if it is some joke.  But before you know it, you find a room assigned to you and are already dozing off.  The lights go out, and so do yours and you find yourself dreaming of cat-girls, business executives and wierd scaled women. Eventually, however, your dreams turn to home, your mother and father.  And the town well.  And a blackness lurking there... Vince"You've barely been away," your father says.  "And it's the middle of semester for you.  Granted it's been a busy time for you, what with your galavanting about the globe, but I hightly doubt your mother would approve... or be able to handle your changes so well.  And home is likely camped out by reporters thanks to this takeover by SAP." "What takeover is that?" comes a familiar voice questioningly.  Ms. Vaile casually leans against the doorjam.  "How is your head feeling, Vincent?" she asks.  "I must say I think the lack of bells is a definite improvement.  That young Randall certainly is a troublemaker." Your father looks rather angry at her sudden appearance, but stays silent, probably not trusting himself to not say something inappropriate. October 26, 2120Dover, EnglandDover Medical Facility Jay"I was proud of you before," your father says plainly.  "I had hoped Kevin could learn to be more like you from his time with EPIC," he says with a sigh.  "I will transfer some maintenance information to datapads for Sanchez.  Maybe you should ingratiate yourself to the EPIC members here and see if there is anything you can do to help their situation," he suggests. As you exit the plane, you can see through the glass front of the hospital that Kodiak is giant sized and in bear form.  You see him swing at something and a moment later Titan crashes through the glassteel wall and skids to a halt on the steps before taking flight and flying back in towards Kodiak. X12"Or I could just take over," says Empath, her voice a dark whisper.  Black eyes focus on Titan briefly, who screams, releasing her and clutching his temples.  Kodiak release you and lunges forward, but past that, you really don't see much from the hospital. You reel from the mental blast, but manage again to pick yourself up.  Your thoughts are scattered, but you manage to dive behind cover, out of sight of the telepath and the directive he is now controlling.   Directive 11, at first your partner, now has become your enemy in the excersise. "Most telepaths will experience backlash if the mind they are tied to suffers damage," your father says through the soundsystem calmly.  Directive 11 jumps over the barricade you are behind, landing with his back to you, having been directed to the wrong section.  You leap up behind him and deliver a dangerous chokehold, cutting off the air supply and bloodflow to the brain.  In a matter of seconds, he goes limp, his eyes going dull.  Across the room, the telepath is too slow in disconnecting from his mind and follows suit. You start to release your hold, but your father says over the intercom, "If you release him, the telepath may recover and continue his assault.  Surely you could just revive him later.  If your power works of course," he says with a dark chuckle.  "The telepath has been hired to kill the both of you.  You will receive no further aid from me." The comm goes dead, leaving you with a choice. But you can't remember what you chose, as your mind snaps back to current.  Titan delivers double fisted clubbing blow to the top of the now massive Kodiak's bear-head.  Kodiak backhands Titan in response, sending the spanish hero flying through the wall of the hospital to skid to a halt on the steps.  Empath focuses on Titan, and he streaks back in towards the battle even as she lets a blast of mental energy loose at Kodiak, who staggers back from the blow. Raisa, Dara and Michael come running towards the battle.  Somehow, you've managed to avoid getting trampled.  You see Jeremy York rushing up the steps towards the main doors.  You can't help but recall on your recent history when Titan was nearly killed when shot by a ray of liquid silver.  While EPIC itself avoids the use of silver, and it is not commonplace, several simple hospital implements are made from silver in this day and age, or at least an alloy with silver in it; scalpels, clamps and some laser focussing equipment.  And emergency is right over there!</blockquote>

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