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Transplanting Flowers [closed]

Who: Flowers Over Bones, the Sailor Senshi, and possible appearances from other rescuers
What: Flowers Over Bones leave Virgo and get help escaping from the Sailor Senshi
When: April 13
Where: Virgo HQ, then on the streets and back alleys of Vista City
Warnings: Violence, mental manipulation

Sans was determined to run and bring someone with him. Luce didn't waste a moment starting to pack when he told her. She was going to get her family out of Virgo now.

The rescuers were informed and the Sailor Senshi that had been waiting so eagerly for this day prepared to meet with Rei and her bandmates as soon as Sans teleported them to the agreed location. From there they would split into groups and take different paths to the warehouse where Silver would be waiting to begin surgery to remove their brain chips. Blanche would notice something wasn't right, no doubt. An entire band doesn't simply walk out the door, even with the teleporting head start. Someone from Virgo will try to stop them and hopefully they won't succeed.

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[ Doctor keeps turning in circles and shooting worried looks all around. He's distracted by something, perhaps the teleportation dizziness is still wearing off? ]

All right... Let's go.

[ He agrees like he's saying it in passing. He can feel something gnawing at the edges of his mind. Did he forget something important at the penthouse? It's too late for that- they need to move. His veins are pumping full of dread and hesitation though. ]

I could use a hand. [ He lifts an arm, hoping they don't mind. The stiff fear starting to fill him isn't helping his legs work, so he best get a tug forward. ]

[Rei immediately whirls, practically dragging Venus with her as she turns to her adoptive alien father. Unlinking her arm from the other girl, she grabs his hand and slips under his shoulder in a supportive position, taking all of his weight easily.]

I’ll carry you if I have to. Let’s go.

[She focuses on Venus, eyes practically blazing with their original fire. A lot of things had gone wrong in the last few months, but today was not a day she was going to allow any slipups. They’d get out if she had to tear through a building to make it happen. Or she’d die trying.]

Venus, lead the way. If we have a car and Uranus isn’t nearby, I’ll drive. Just point.

[She’s levelheaded even now, despite the panic flooding through her. Blanche could very easily appear behind them, she knows it…which means they have to hurry.]

This way. I don't run like the wind, but I'll slow them down if I have to.

...though I'm hoping we don't! We all gave up too much to fail now.

[She's taking the Doctor's other side and pushing the group along, ever alert. The second anything feels off, she's going full blast.]

[ Between the two superstrong ladies at his sides his feet starting to drag barely make a difference. He reminds himself to move his feet and keep an eye on the path ahead but there's a terrible banging in both his chest and stomach that make his limbs tremble. He's more scared, more shaken, then he ever imagined running away would make him.

I'm coming for you. If you don't surrender yourself now I will kill every last one of you. You know what I'm capable of.

Blanche? Is that really him talking? He throws a glance over his shoulder, half expecting the man to have teleported there. ]

S-Stop! He's coming to kill us! We have to go back!

[ The fear in his voice sounds unnatural. Doctor has never spoken in this tone even when he was scared before. He throws down his heels, trying to halt. ]

[Rei sets her jaw and gives the Doctor a very, very serious look. She’s feeling that fear coming off him in waves, and she won’t stand for it. He knows better. They’d talked about this…]

He won’t kill us. Not if we hurry. We’re going to a place he cannot follow. Going back will only make him punish you for disobedience, and you know it. He’ll pull you down in the basement like he did mother and reprogram you like a doll. I’m not going to allow you to go back, even if you resist.

[When he sets his heels, she gives Venus a look and drops her bag.]

Get that for me, would you?

[And with a sharp twist of her wrist, a pivot of her leg, and a shove she sends Doctor off balance with an aikido maneuver, only to scoop him up in a princess-carry, completely unbothered by his weight.]

I’ve got him.

[Venus catches the bag with her usual sharp reflexes. She knows that look from Rei. It means business, and a world of hurt for whoever happens to be in her way.

And sure enough...well, she's not sure she can soothe him, but she can try whispering reassurances as they hurry.]

I promise I'll do everything in my power to protect you. We didn't come this far to let you get hurt again.

[It's a quiet vow to both of them.]

[ Doctor doesn't seem to rightly hear what was just said or even notice Rei is carrying him. He begins groaning and wincing, grabbing at his face and forehead. ]

Something's not right. My head! ....Get out of my head!

[ Since she's carrying him Rei might feel or even see a flash in her mind of what he does. Quick fleeting images of machines and some sort of painful energy surge shocking one's body. Edward Blanche and his label's symbols, and commanding voices that grow louder with every word. Obey. Obey. Obey. Doctor's internal and external voices both attempt to push it away and the telepathic energy seeping from him retracts. ]

Virgo's programming. [ He speaks quickly, sounding much more like his regular self. ] I don't know why but it has a strong pull on me. Keep running Rei, no matter what I say or do! I might not be entirely myself for a while-

[ There's a large banging noise behind them just then. Doctor's eyes go wide. ] We've been noticed! [ Virgo's masked soldiers begin multiplying in flashes of light and charge after the small group. ]

[Rei snarls and slams a mental block up, seething anger bubbling up inside her. She doesn’t want to see that, not now. This is do or die. Blanche, forget you. She’s not going to tolerate being held any longer, and she won’t listen.

When the loud bangs come up behind them, Rei turns around with a look of deepest, darkest contempt for their assailants.]

We’ve been noticed? Well, notice this, Blanche.

[Her wrist twitches beneath the Doctor, a finger gesture associated with one of the spells she’s been learning…a sharp jerk upwards…and a wall of fire explodes out of the ground between the soldiers and them.]

That’ll keep them busy a moment longer. Let’s go!

Oh, I'm sure she did...

[There's the low whistle. Venus would take up the rear, but she's half-expecting another group to warp in front and truly trap them now. Her hand hovers at her chain belt, ready to use its power in a flash.

She fires a few beams of light back through the flames as she runs, though. Can never add too much firepower.]

[ The powerful explosions set off by the senshi consume several soldiers and knock back others. Bits of metal get flung in every direction, and a few soldiers that were on the outskirts of the blast continue their pursuit despite twisted limbs or missing heads. It's an android army, like the managers but made for violence.

Venus is right to expect more enemies. More soldiers start pouring down from the nearby roof in an attempt to cut off their path ahead. ]

[Rei adjusts herself, memories coming to her in spurts. She's had dreams about things like this, fighting...and she's not going to go down without a fight, even if Doctor's in her arms.]

Venus, ahead!

[Fire rolls off her fingertip again, small comets streaking up and exploding all around the men attempting to drop, hitting them in midair and interfering with their descent. Some will hit the ground hard, others...well...they're knocked back up. Perfect targets for Venus.]

[This is her territory. Her chain springs to life in her hands, hardening in the light. She charges with an almost feral snarl. They're not hurting these people, not ever.]

Venus Wink Chain Sword!

[The chain fuses with the light, becoming almost sword-like as it strikes at the soldiers. Left, right, shove to the side---gotta clear a path.]

[ Left and right robot soldiers lose legs or break in half as Venus's chain whips them and tosses them aside, leaving the way ahead clear again minus struggling robots that hadn't stopped functioning just yet. The roof is clear, with the last of those trying to cut them off from above incinerated.

Behind there's the sound of running. No doubt the next wave trying to catch up. ]

You amuse me.

[ Doctor says out of the blue and begins laughing deeper and slower than he ever does. ]

I admit I admire your determination and spunk but those are also qualities that can get an entire group of people killed. Such a waste. You were one of my most promising projects, surpassed only perhaps by Mr. Universe.

[ If Doctor doesn't sound like himself it's for good reason. Even his voice has changed to something unmistakably close to that of Edward Blanche. (Have fun carrying in your arms Mars.) ]

Go ahead and run. Amuse me for a while.

[Rei looks down at the man in her arms and smiles nastily, leaning down closer. She's angry now, more than afraid, paranoia and panic shifting her towards rage rather than fear.

Her voice is cold fury, another fireball lashing out and joining with Venus's sword strikes]

I'm going to kill you, Edward Blanche. You took me from my home, you gave me a false family...tortured us, tampered with our heads, forced these good people to come and find me.

[A lance of flame stabs an approaching soldier through the heart in her fury.]

I'm going to make sure you burn from the inside out, Edward Blanche. I am not afraid of you.

[Sailor Venus is quiet as all of this occurs, blazing ahead with her attacks. She can't let up, she can't let the approaching soldiers think for a second that they have a chance to stop this. Another volley of light shoots behind them.

But she quietly wills strength to Rei and her friend. They have to make it.]

Your words won't mean a thing if you die here.

[ Doctor pops in her arms like he has the hiccups and his regular voice breaks through the programming persona. ]

Yeah yeah keep talking! You tell him Rei! I think- [ He goes cross eyed as he plays tug-o-war for his own thoughts and actions. ] -trying to distract us since we're almost free. Running out of soldiers?

[ The last wave of soldiers is coming on but this time they're far more cautious. Rather than run straight to their doom most of them hold back and resort to long range attacks. Guns are fired and in the far back the androids prepare to launch nets and release sleeping gas if they fail to shoot down their targets. ]

I'm not dying here. Your men are.

[The psychic's danger senses flare to life as the men get into a firing position. She holds out her hand, pointer and middle finger jabbing accusingly at them. She'd actually thought about this, knowing that guns would probably hurt the Sailors, and she wasn't about to let that happen. She'd thought about this enough that she'd practiced a trick after a lot of thought.

She could control heat, and she could control a lot of it. And what did guns need to fire? Heat. To ignite the round...it requires heat. It was going to take perfect timing to do this, but she had to try.]

I wouldn't pull those triggers, fuckers.

[Her real anger and the programmed persona both flare to life, and the men obviously ignore the words. Which plays right into Rei's hands. The guns force heat down the inside of the barrel to shoot the bullet, and Rei just...catches that heat and expands it forcefully. Which results in several different things. Most of the guns explode almost instantly, throwing out shrapnel behind them. Other guns warp in the heat, barrels drooping and belching flames as the intense blaze melts the bullet and the tube...and others simply burst into an inferno, not firing at all...]

Can you do something about the nets? I may be able to ignite the gas cannisters, but the nets I can't do.

Edited 2016-05-08 04:49 (UTC)

[Venus felt a chill run up her spine. She was powerful, yes, but not unstoppable---the bullets would easily kill her, let alone Rei and the Doctor. She'd been desperately running through her options in her mind when she heard Rei's voice.

Just like that, the guns were disposed of. Leaving her to the next phase.]

Absolutely.

[She doesn't hesitate---her hands form a heart shape, and light explodes out of them. She's hoping to knock them out before they fire the nets---if not, there's always blowing holes in them.]

[ The androids take aim but Venus' light leaves their visual sensors blinded. Three triggers are pulled blindly but the nets that are released in the air are shredded by her attack, useless.

They attempt to take advantage of any distraction the light and nets provide. Soldiers in the back of the unit toss a couple canisters of the sleeping gas out low across the ground. The canisters bounce a couple times and roll toward the escapees, billowing their contents. ]

[Well, this was what Rei had been prepared for. Small explosions ripple across the ground, a snapping, popping sound tearing up the asphalt in front of and underneath the cans. The concussive force bounces them back up and away from the group, and the heat burns away a lot of the chemicals in the air, as well as melting bits of the ground into a hard, glassy substance.

When the cans get back to the group, another explosion shreds them, throwing out shrapnel into the unit.]

Venus, can you jump higher? I can probably make it up on the roof of that small building, but I don't know what you can do. If not, we'll have to go through them.

[Venus swallows hard, shaking her head.]

I could before, but since the trip...

Just go! I'll use my chain and catch up.

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