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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyMon Feb 02 2015, 19:22

"Just be careful of what you touch and consume" she said. "Politics here are very......unique. Compared to others that exist in this realm". Katherine looked up over the glass roof, which showed a violet blue sky while bright stars from other systems emerging. A wave of nostalgia fell over her are she recited a few words subconsciously "Strong, Awakening, still...waiting, watching. Ready."
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyWed Feb 04 2015, 06:26

"Alright Captain," He saluted as he walked off to make conversation with some other girls there, showing off a bit of multilingualism as the pick up lines he said in that language were as smooth as the ones in English. "... And that's when I said..." Raiden was saying until he felt a tug on his shirt.

He looked around and saw Rin standing behind him, almost eye to eye to him in her heels. "Katherine...Now..." she muttered with some sense of urgency.

"Oh man, what is it now?" He asked himself as he forcefully placed his glass on the counter, and quickly made his way to the main hall; lots of people, no Katherine.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyWed Feb 04 2015, 16:59

Katherine was gone, her presence seemed to have never even been there. Around the room where armored guard or robot all wearing identical armor, a bit out of place. Katherine walked though the hallways of a building, behind a man with platinum white hair, though seemed to be in his twenties. Her eyes darted around, as the same guard from the main hall where posted up here as well, on an unknown floor. "What is it Mikael? I don't have all day you know. she explained, dropping her goody goody voice, now it dripped with venom and impatience.

"You'll see" he said as he took of his white gloves and put his hand against a scanner. The door slid open as they entered a room similar to a library with it's dim lighting. He turned around and Katherine knew, but it was too late. In an instant a smirk flashed on the man's face "Sorry", a prickling sensation in her neck then darkness.

When Katherine woke up she was sitting in a metal chair, cables where hooked up to her, and overhead she saw, individuals looking down from the glass. She could feel blood being taken out of her body and then back in. It was hard for her to see under the white blazing lights.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyWed Feb 04 2015, 19:24

Raiden scrambled around the building, looking for some trace, some piece of DNA that he could scan to find his missing partner. His was working his eye overtime, and it paid off, and he found a heat imprint of her heels on the ground. "Nice, a decent trail to work with," he muttered as he blindly followed the foot prints, occasionally looking up to check his surroundings.

Soon enough, he was in a floor of the building that he's never been to before but that didn't stop him. Raiden turned a corner to follow the prints, but was met by gunpoint. The man with the gun was tall, had blond hair, and was wearing glasses, implying he was blind. Instinctively, he disarmed the man, but not before the mysterious man stabbed him in the neck with a syringe. Raiden's eyes became increasingly heavy, and he slumped to the ground, unconscious. "Alpha Rat is down." He confirmed through his earpiece.

As she stepped onto the floor, Rin felt a bad feeling as she rushed through the hallways, trying to find her caretaker. Turning the corner, she saw a flash of the blond man's hair at the other end of the corridor and when she caught up, there was no one there.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyWed Feb 04 2015, 19:51

Katherine could still feel the blood in her body move, it became monotonous as she could barely feel it anymore. Her eyes became heavy as she looked up to the people behind the glass, and did a cold glare. "Anyone please inform me of why I'm here" she asked.
Mikael walked up to the glass and had a mild expression. He didn't answer.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyThu Feb 05 2015, 20:51

Raiden's eyes slowly opened as he looked around, seeing a pure white room with a plethora of surgical equipment. He tried moving his arms, but they were bolted down to the table, screws through his hands and feet. "Well, that's an inconvinience," he said jokingly. When his assailant walked through the door, Raiden asked, "So, I'm assuming you're here to kill me?"

The blind man laughed loudly, "No, it's not time for that, it's time for this." He reached over and picked up a hammer off the table, and examined it. "Yes, this'll do nicely... Now hold still!" Raiden yelled loudly as the smashed the hammer into his right kneecap, shattering it. "I hear you're a runner! Let's see if you can you run after this!" He continued to beat Raiden's legs until they were bloody messes, all the bones broken or dislocated in some way. The blond man leaned in closely and whispered in Raiden's ear, "Now you're just like me,"

Rin scrambled and searched every room for anything that could help her find Raiden, and she was freaking out, almost showing the emotion of worry. "Where are you..... Hmmm...." she pondered, looking around. She noticed a locked door in the corner of the room and she kicked it down, and it revealed a long shaft going downwards. Grabbing the vertical wire with her right hand, she slid down the shaft, until she arrived at the pure white corridor.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyFri Feb 06 2015, 07:38

Katherine then felt a shock in her blood, making it burn, her screams echoed through the halls.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyFri Feb 06 2015, 18:00

Rin closed her eyes and listened intently for any sound that would lead her in Raiden's direction. The sound of crunching bone stood out to her and she quickly pursued it, only to find her worst nightmare. She found Raiden bolted down to a lab table, his legs crushed and his stomach slit open, probably for organ harvesting. The blood still flowed freely, his body warm, implying a fresh kill. Rin screamed and cried for Raiden for the first time in years, her tears hot and flowing down her face.

Rin stood up slowly, her eyes red and puffy and took off her jacket, laying it over Raiden's still face. "Vengeance will come," Rin promised him, although he was already dead. A scientist opened the door to the room Rin was in and was subsequently slammed against the wall, her katana against his neck. "Blond man, blind. Where?"

Sweat streamed down the man's face and he stammered, "H-he's in the lab, down the hall, make a left, and it'll be on your right! Now let me go!" Rin looked at him through dead eyes, and she slit his throat, letting him bleed out. "I'll let you go to hell."
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyFri Feb 06 2015, 18:27

The blond man walked up to Mikael in the Lab. Katherine was now unconscious all the wires and tubes that where hooked up to her before where gone. Her eyelids where closed and blood had a dry trail on her cheeks indicating that she was now blind. Her DNA ability seemed to have changed now. Mikael smirked as he saw on one of the security cameras, Rin running down the halls. Please take care of our guest he said loudly. Though it wasn't to the blonde man instead to Katherine. Her figure stirred as she stood up from the chair, her some of the blood around her stirred as it began to crystallize. Mikael and the Blonde man looked at each other and nodded.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyFri Feb 06 2015, 22:30

Rin followed the dead scientist's instructions to the letter, turning the corner to the lab and saw Katherine standing before her. Rin slowly scanned her from head to toe, concluding that there was something off about her from instinctual feeling. Rin unsheathed her katana, ready to fight her former comrade. "I'll stop you." She said coldly.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySat Feb 07 2015, 06:58

Katherine didn't say a word as she seemed to have been in a trance a few moments before, she then appeared behind Ren swinging her live right at he neck. Just then an explosion occurred as the roof began to crumble. Katherine jumped out of the window onto a roof of an airship. Then she was gone.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySat Feb 07 2015, 08:43

Rin followed pursuit and jumped out the window, only for a shortcut to the ground. It was a fairly tall building and provided a survivable amount of freefall. After falling down to around the 10th or 15th floor, Rin stabbed the side of the building with her katana, slowing her down. She landed with a thud, but with no visible injuries. "You'll come back," Rin said quietly, reassuring herself.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySat Feb 07 2015, 18:11

Katherine then fell asleep in a chair, inside the airship. She was still stuck in a dream. Mikael was steering the ship and they came toward the city like ship when they have gotten out of the atmosphere of that planet. When they got closer you could easily see the label on the side of the ship. U.V.N. Orion.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySun Feb 08 2015, 08:30

After having a moment of silence for Raiden, Rin proceeded to the nearest spaceport for a ride to the large city like ship that she was on before. By means of persuasion, Rin managed to procure a small ship to get to the Orion and she set off.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySun Feb 08 2015, 12:35

The three then went into an elevator and intaerted a key card into a slot as they went to the highest door to meet the director of Orion.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySun Feb 08 2015, 16:20

Rin arrived at the Orion and landed in the docking bay, wary of everyone around her since they might be enemies. She sauntered off to an elevator and punched in the button for the highest floor, which was nowhere near the Director since she didn't have a key card.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySun Feb 08 2015, 17:01

"Mission was a success sir" Mikael reported.
Katherine didn't say anything, as now there is a possibility that she is mute now as well.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySun Feb 08 2015, 17:37

The upper levels of the Orion were where many of the higher ranking people resided and where many of the high tech facilities were. Rin went off to the Biotech Bay, where many of the scientists there specialized in genes and bodily upgrades. "I need to control my arm," She said flatly to the scientist in charge. "Can do," he replied.

After many hours, the men in white coats had come up with a device to keep her arm in control. "These are specialized pills for your arm," the scientist said. "Take one whenever you want to use your arm, but be warned, the voices aren't completely neutralized and you'll have some side effects after it wears off. You might want to wear your wraps when you're not using it too."

"Thank you," Rin said as she bowed, showing her respect for the man. The pills were in a small tube, and were round balls, identical to the chocolates she ate with Raiden on the ship to the Citade.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySun Feb 08 2015, 20:00

Mikael and Katherine then walked all the way down to the docking bay. Mikael wrapped some bandages around Katherine's eyelids for the fact that she had no eyes.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptySun Feb 08 2015, 20:10

Rin headed back down to the docking bay to leave the Orion, and to head back to the Citadel. Rin was reading a label on the pills when she bumped into someone. "Sorry," she said and looked up, only to see Katherine. Rin jumped back and drew her katana, ready to fight.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyMon Feb 09 2015, 16:49

Katherine just stood there not saying a word. She then walked away to the nearest elevator and pressed a button and swiped a card.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyMon Feb 09 2015, 19:37

Taking her silence as a gesture of peace, Rin quietly followed her into the elevator. She sheathed her sword, happy to not use it. In her back pocket, she felt the pills and she reminded herself that she might have to use them.
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyMon Feb 09 2015, 20:07

Katherine was typing something on a keyboard of a holo, as it popped up in front of Rin as a message. " Do you really know what the purpose of the Orion was for?"
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyMon Feb 09 2015, 20:17

"No..." Rin said dubiously, trying to find an ulterior motive to her questioning, but decided to trust her teammate. "Tell me, please."
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PostSubject: Re: Project Orion Main RP Topic   Project Orion Main RP Topic - Page 3 EmptyTue Feb 10 2015, 17:58

"No.....I'll have to show you" she said as the door opened revealing a large facility, though the most shocking thing where the contents of the large glass cylinders, humans. No not just any humans.....easily recognizable, a strong leg or a orange streak....clones
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