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Winston !!G59X3y197Lm (ID: bhyaj5/O) Archived

Keeper Quest 2 03/03/22(Thu)20:35:43 No.5184890

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Keeper Quest 2 Winston !!G59X3y197Lm (ID: bhyaj5/O) 03/03/22(Thu)20:35:43 No.5184890 Archived

"Alright... alright..." You stepped up. "None of us really know exactly what's going on, that's true... and you seem to be fairly confident in your knowledge of the situation too... why is that, anyway? Did the organization you represent predict what was going to happen? Why would you pick us five anyway?" You decided to ask him some questions, to try to buy a little bit of time in order to escape when an opening presented itself. The most important question of all however, was... "How exactly did you know what each of our powers were?" At this point there was no use denying that he was correct, so you had very little to lose from denying that your powers were as he stated... at least in part, anyway.

"I can't tell you how we gather our intelligence in cases regarding to Keepers such as yourselves, it's very much classified." The man took a draw on his cigarette before continuing. "As for your other questions, we've known that it was only a matter of time until the next wave occurred, upper management was getting jumpy, you're lucky we've already classed your little group as a low rank on the threat scale, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation right now, that's why you've been focused on. Reports are that my colleagues around the world have already hunted down and killed at least 300 or so of the new wave." Should... he really be revealing all this information to you? You supposed that there was nothing you could really use against him there... and you were totally surrounded...

You kept looking around as you tried to think of something to say to the man, but you were absolutely surrounded on all sides, and trying to escape through the warehouse would be akin to entering a killbox with no escape... unless... it might be possible for Haley to use her ability to get you out of this mess...

"No." Alexis took a step forwards. "Go fuck yourself, spook. You and all your little soldiers." You turned to look at the woman in awe as she glared at the man with hate filled eyes. "I fucking knew that there was some deep corruption bullshit going on, the government seemingly just being a tool of the corporations, that's all just the first level of this conspiracy.

"You're sure talking like you know a lot for somebody who was assigned to the upkeep and development of the cities waste disposal system." The man frowned as he pointed his gun at Alexis, who stopped in place. "I'd suggest you don't take a step closer, I'm not sure on just how effective your ability to manipulate probability is, but I'm quite sure that I'm a good enough shot that I won't miss from here."

"Is that a fact...?" Alexis smiled at the man. "Shoot me faggot, you won't." Unbelievably, the woman had actually decided to... taunt the man? The hell was she thinking? Her powers might've been effective, but... was she really sure she was making a good choice here? You supposed that there was no way out of the situation, but... this was ridiculous.

Winston !!G59X3y197Lm (ID: bhyaj5/O)
03/03/22(Thu)20:36:02 No.5184891

Winston !!G59X3y197Lm (ID: bhyaj5/O) 03/03/22(Thu)20:36:02 No.5184891

The man suddenly stopped pointing his gun at Alexis, before raising it once again and pointing it directly at Haley instead. "You really think I'm dumb enough to shoot you?" Your eyes opened wide as he smiled menacingly at the woman who was still wearing a business suit. "Nah, but in order to get you to comply..." Time itself seemed to slow down as the man pulled the trigger of his gun, and...

BANG!

"AH! FUCK! MY FUCKING HAND! WHAT THE FUCK!?" The revolver quite simply exploded, rendering his hand a bloody mess and sending him tumbling to the floor. "What the FUCK are you doing?! Shoot them!" The injured spook called out to the rest of the unit accompanying him, but now it was Alexis' time to smirk, as all at once...

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The gun of every single soldier surrounding you erupted into an explosion, every single one of their guns ended up failing in an instant. Exploding in the hands of the man using them and immediately sending them to the floor, wounded, unconscious, or dead. "Alright, now we need to go." Alexis said, an almost surreal calm to her voice as she began to run back towards the sewer opening.

"How the fuck did you do that?!" You yelled after the woman as you followed her, thankful for your shoes, you could follow at what was actually a kind of leisurely pace for yourself, Haley and Zack were also following, but... Nathaniel was nowhere to be seen. Had he teleported away at the first sound of an explosion? That was... probably for the best, he'd probably end up linking up with the rest of you later if he ended up visiting your base at some point in the future again.

"I'll tell you later, because right now, my abilities might just be the best trump card we've got against them so long as they don't figure out how they work!" Fair enough, you were also being secretive with what you were capable of doing in an attempt to hide your capabilities, and even then it didn't seem to have been good enough to keep that suit wearing asshole from figuring out just what you were capable of doing... though you were fortunate in that knowledge of your abilities still wasn't exactly enough for anybody to properly plan against you, considering just how many potential applications your ability actually had.

You kept running, avoiding going back into the original sewer entrance you used, you couldn't risk letting them triangulate your position by giving them too small a potential area to search, otherwise that would just mean they'd end up finding you sooner rather than later. You weren't stupid enough to believe that the agent who had been sent after you was the only one who was in pursuit, so even if the squad sent to capture you had been taken out, you were almost certain that there was another squad lurking around the corner waiting to get you.

Winston !!G59X3y197Lm (ID: bhyaj5/O)
03/03/22(Thu)20:37:03 No.5184894

Winston !!G59X3y197Lm (ID: bhyaj5/O) 03/03/22(Thu)20:37:03 No.5184894

But... was it even safe to return to the sewer base at all? You'd successfully evaded capture now, and they clearly believed you to be on a lower threat scale... but would that threat assessment remain now that you'd actually taken out one of their squads? The kid gloves may well come off now, and it was pretty obvious that the spook asshole they sent after you wasn't a Keeper, nor did he have any sort of specialist equipment on him that would lead you to believe that the agency that was pursuing you was hiding some serious shit. Nah, he had to be lower ranked... but where was his superior? No way did this agency send rookies alone on something like this, even if you were considered low on the threat scale... Damn it, you had no idea about the capabilities of these people!

>Ask about escaping the city instead of returning to the sewers.
>Keep your mouth shut.
>Write-in

Anonymous (ID: Sb9KECnx)
03/03/22(Thu)21:02:21 No.5184919

Anonymous (ID: Sb9KECnx) 03/03/22(Thu)21:02:21 No.5184919

>>5184894
>>Ask about escaping the city instead of returning to the sewers.

Anonymous (ID: nuj1+d1t)
03/03/22(Thu)21:20:11 No.5184941

Anonymous (ID: nuj1+d1t) 03/03/22(Thu)21:20:11 No.5184941

>>5184894
>>Ask about escaping the city instead of returning to the sewers.

Anonymous (ID: L9dteEr1)
03/04/22(Fri)01:10:54 No.5185170

Anonymous (ID: L9dteEr1) 03/04/22(Fri)01:10:54 No.5185170

>>5184894
>Ask about escaping the city instead of returning to the sewers.
If they knew that much, they definitely know about our hideout.

Anonymous (ID: RYPt+bfj)
03/04/22(Fri)01:13:47 No.5185174

Anonymous (ID: RYPt+bfj) 03/04/22(Fri)01:13:47 No.5185174

>>5184894
>Ask about escaping the city instead of returning to the sewers.

I find it a bit too convenient that Nathaniel not only was gone during the confrontation but that agent knew our powers when he was the only one we told

Anonymous (ID: pABj044X)
04/15/22(Fri)02:47:09 No.5230479

Anonymous (ID: pABj044X) 04/15/22(Fri)02:47:09 No.5230479

>>5184894
>Keep your mouth shut.