⇨ AGENTS HAVE ARRIVED [CLOSED PLOT]

[ringleaders]

Who: Tamaki, Childermass, Carly, Susan, Peridot, and Sherlock. And AGENTS.
Where: Inside The Matrix.
When: D28
What: The Agents have been watching your activities over the last week, and they’ve decided it’s time to act.
Warnings: Violence and most likely body horror.

THE ABDUCTION↴ The visitors have not be subtle in their intrusions, and for a time the Agents have held back, analysing the true effects of these new entities before deciding to make a move. But now, their patience has run out. The source of this infection must be found, and eliminated, or else the whole system could be dragged apart. These aren’t just the rebelling humans. These are something else. [OOC: Tamaki, Childermass, and Carly were selected from the danger raffle to be fully abducted by Agents. Susan, Peridot, and Sherlock will be attacked by Agents, but will escape when Resistance members intervene. Please make a top level below with your characters doing something in the Matrix that is relatively secluded from big crowds of people, as that is when the Agents would most likely strike. You can bring other characters along if you like for the initial confrontations, though only the selected characters will actually be captured by Agents. Any injuries sustained in these fights will equally damage character’s real physical forms, no matter how damage resistant they may normally be. Unless they are bending the Matrix to use their powers or to alter it with One powers, they will be as vulnerable as a normal human. Agents and Resistance members will be played by the mods in this log.]

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[npcarnival]

Before Peridot can pull it together, another figure has arrived. A woman in a white, hooded coat hurls herself up onto the roof more than she climbs onto it, moving towards the two of them quickly. She's holding a gun, but it's pointed back and towards the ground, the other hand raised in an attempt at pacification. She can see that one of them is hurt - and it's a kid, of all things.

"They get him? Ugh." She spits out that sound in disgust, surveying the area warily. "Don't have time to get into it, but we're the ones fighting against those guys that are trying to shoot you to death right now. So if you wanna live, take the help, ok?"

[starseedling]

He's still conscious, but he's confused beyond function, and after the initial blunt paint of the gunshot wound, the burning of torn skin and muscle is starting to come through. Did he get shot? He can barely believe it. He sees Peridot kneeling over him, but everything feels so weird and bad.

He was still wearing that stupid trenchcoat he's been wearing into the Matrix to look "mysterious", and so while that conceals a lot of the blood, it's visibly soaking through his shirt and down his front and back. One part of him is becoming desperately aware that he needs help, while the other takes easy comfort in the idea that Peridot has him. He barely reacts to the newcomer, still trying to get his bearings.

"I think it hit me," he says deliriously.

[periphrasing]

Oh- Oh that's not. That's not good. Peridot's no expert on organics but, THAT STUFF'S SUPPOSED TO STAY ON THE INSIDE OF YOUR BODY, she's pretty sure!!!

"Blood -- That's definitely blood, he's bleeding, HE'S BLEEDING -- Help me, I don't know how to deal with this!" she yelps at the strange woman in the hood, pleading, hysterical. She's probably squeezing Steven a bit, too, which is definitely the opposite of helping.

[npcarnival]

Okay, well, apparently these mysterious rule breakers are far from hyper-competent. The woman huffs out a breath, and then kneels down to carefully wrap her arms around Steven, passing Peridot her gun in exchange.

"Yo, we gotta go, man. I got a right for you down there - cover me, and I'll escort him all the way." She starts to lift Steven up, ignoring how the blood immediately stains the whiteness of her coat. "Move it!"

And then, just like that, she's running away with Steven - straight for the edge of the building, like she's intending on swan-diving right off of it.

[periphrasing]

There's a lot to process here, and a lot to react to. She doesn't want to hand Steven over to some stranger, but she's also too shocked to put up much of a fuss about doing so. The gun in her hand feels heavy and utterly foreign; it's not like she's unfamiliar with the concept of a gun, but the thought of having to exert the mental effort required to take aim and fire seems like a monumental stretch at the moment.

In the end, it's the command that finally snaps her out of it. Being told to run is all she needs in order to get herself to do so. She scrambles to her feet and hoofs it after the woman and Steven, never even looking back in the other direction.

[npcarnival]

Only a few moments after they finally start running, the Agent who didn't get his block knocked off ascends the side of the building in an absurdly effortless manner, stepping onto the rooftop as if he had simply taken an elevator up.

His gun is already drawn and ready. Pew pew.

[periphrasing]

Peridot just. Wails. When she sees him. Wails and stumbles, staggering around to face him and try and shoot back like was instructed to do, but she fumbles with the gun, fails to draw in time and then there's bullets flying in their direction --

She puts her arms up over her face and flinches, as if to shield herself, and then the bullets stop in midair, hanging for a split second before they clatter harmlessly to the ground.