Project Alpha: Aftermath

[Marcus Prasad]

There was certainly something else Marcus wouldn't have minded giving the exotic woman right then and there and it definatly was NOT little....
In fact the sensations he was feeling right about now was almost becomming strong enough to make him voice that thought process aloud.

He was feeling good!
Alittle TOO good and it didn't take long before he reached up and hastily pulled the womans hand off his shoulder, having dicerned the reason as to why he felt so good.
"Not to sound ungrateful"
He said with a discrete cough into his fist.
"But I think that's more than enough. Thank you."
He added with sincerety before turning to his fellow Crows.
He needed to be on his A game right now. No distractions.

"We have to assume that this is a high level contagion with the ability to alter our biology."
Yes Marcus, use your big words. They always listen when you use your big boy words.
"We need to corden the area immediatly and quarentine ourselves and anyone in the vicinity. God knows the kind of danger we may present to Long Beach, let alone the rest of California. I want you all to spread the word now! Noone leaves until we get this under control and analyzed."

Pulling the spoon from his mouth, his eyes hardened and lips formed a stern grimace.
"Anyone who argues can deal with Me. You tell them I'll kick their ass sitting down if I have to."

[Eurydice Sudeki]

Eury had been let go of Marcus shoulder long before. Being away from him surveying the area by sight she heard his words and looked back with a puzzled expression.

"What? My words?"

She thought that was odd. He made it sound like she did something. Did she? She shrugged and studied the area and the people again. Quarantining was a good idea. That would give her time to examine things. She felt a little giddy inside. Like a child with their favorite toy. But why was she unaffected by this unlike everyone else. She was hit by the quills but no goo on her face. It just faded away like it never was present. She looked at her hands, flipping them back and front.

~They are going to question the hell out of me and I won't have an answer... Doesn't help who I am and coming back suddenly after supposedly being dead for two years.. Just great..~

Mentally she sighed and folded her arms over her chest.

"Considering the way it seems to bond with everyone.. It reminds me of a symbiotic relationship... I wonder how far this bond goes..Conjunctive symbiosis or disjunctive symbiosis.... No must be conjunctive, definitely..How interesting.."

She spoke to no one really as she began to aimlessly roam a bit looking at the ground, especially where the being had exploded at. Her arms folded over her chest except her right, its elbow rested on the folded left as her hand held her chin. Her brain was operating on scientist mode at the current time. She wanted to explore like a curious cat.

[Koshiro WarHazzard]

Koshiro would nod and go back to trying to pull off his now fully formed mask.

[Yachiru]

Yeah right, like i have to listen to THAT old bird, me and Rai-Rai can go where ever the hell we want to!
Yachiru reached down into her pink kimono to reveal a piece of candy, she quickly unraveled it and shoved it in her mouth. Armed crossed she began chewing slowly.
This "mask" isn;t gonna slow me down, and i definitely don't have the sniffles or anything no i'm not sick! this isn't some kind of disease, that silly knuckle head!

"Hey Markie!(marcus) Hey i don't think the masks are supposed to be bad ju-ju! I think that big bad monster just had too much...well...bad stuff in him! So he just decided to spill the little bit of love juice he had left on us!" She yelled out to him.

Instinctively she licked the mask.

"It doesn't taste bad either!" She continued. Though at least hers didn't she couldn't really speak for the rest of them.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

"I'm fine."

Rai would respond to Eury. Then he noticed that nothing seemed to be wrong with her.

"But are you ok? Which I know under the circumstances doesn't make since but... No one seems to be harmed and Kaz even seems to be improved so..."

Then Rai heard Yachiru speak... and decided it was best he didn't hear her.

[Zack Asiv]

People trying to take off the mask watch it vanish into thin air in an explosion of black flower petals.

Everyone's mask should have hardened and turned into full detail in either full black or white detail.

Eury finds a chunk of the creature still in the spot it exploded. Branded on it is the following.

"P.A."

[Eurydice Sudeki]

Rai's voice came to her ears like a muffled sound. Her mind was far too occupied with never ending thoughts. She waved a hand back to Rai, some kind of gesture like 'yea' or something. Hazel greens narrowed as they caught sight of a piece of the creature that was left behind apparently.

~What do we have here?

Kneeling down to it she would pick it up tilting it side to side. Two letters stood out.

"P.A.? What does that mean?"

She whispered to herself. Still kneeling she continued staring at this piece, wondering if she could extract anything from it. This was certainly coming home with her. At this point she ignored everyone else's placement but not on purpose. She didn't share her findings yet as her eyes lifted from it and scanned one more time before falling back to the piece in her hand.

~P.A....P.A... The hell does that stand for? Maybe prototype or project? That sounds plausible. 'A' could more than likely be alpha. Thats the normal thing to call something when it came to scientist. What was this thing? Everyone got hit with its essence and some mask formed over there face.. So far the fire user has seemed to exhibit a change biologically because apparently he couldn't see prior to this... I wonder how others are going to be effected by this yet not myself... I need to explore this more..~

[Koshiro WarHazzard]

The petals fell into and through his fingers.

"Fascinating" He would say, completely ignoring everyone.

I wonder........He tried something, though if asked, he would be unable to explain his next action logically.

He reached up to where the mask had been, as if trying to feel it's presence still lurking on his face, he tried pulling the air in front of his face where the mask had been, as if the mask was now his face, and he was trying to pull off a different mask to uncover it.

All the voices of the people around, seemed to be off in the distance, or really far away. The curiosity of it all consumed him. What was this mask, why did he feel more powerful with it on, where did it go, where did it come from?

[David B.]

The mask was torn off his face as he wanted, allowing him to gasp in air. Everyone seemed so calm as their face was swallowed by the blood of a weird ass creature. Perhaps David was a little more uneasy in that he was freaked the fuck out. He took several deep breaths, touching his cheek to make sure it was clear. He turned to Kaz, then to the others, trying assess what had happened.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

With Eury kinda answering Rai would shrug and reach up to feel his new... Eye patch mask thing. Interesting. Hmmm... this thing brought back Kazuya's sight, he wondered what other properties it had, it didn't feel like he had his eye back.

"Well then..."

Then he caught sight of Eury checking out something at the impact point.

"Hey, did ya find something?"

[Delilah A. Black]

((OOC; Apologies for the delay, please bear with me as I catch up. If I miss anything important, let me know.))

The detonation of the creature allowed the mechanic to relax somewhat, even as she slipped down from her perch and saw Marcus coming out of the debris, torn and haggard some distance off. She started toward the group slowly, lifting a hand to her ear as Lucien called her to place an order for medical evac. for Marcus. As everyone crowded around him, Delilah hung back, tapping into her blu-tooth.

"First Black to Communications, do you re--"

A searing pain spiked into her cheek and the mechanic let out a sharp cry. Her hands clutched at her face, fingers digging into hardening flesh as an alien substance invaded her pores and spread down through the derm layers of the skin, through the muscle, to the bone, spreading a searing fire through her flesh as it bit into her marrow and spread along her face.

It was too much. Too soon. She struggled with not only the substance, whatever it was, but with the Lovecraftian concept of some thing seeping into her skin into her bones.

She could only assume the things purpose was nefarious. She could only assume this was it, the end of her conscious mind as she knew it.

She didn't even have time to scream.

. . .

...She couldn't remember fainting. Suddenly, she was staring up at the overcast sky with a hitch in her throat, a nice dent in her shoulder and the vaguest sensation of something sitting on her face.

The memory came flooding back with vigor.

With a cry of alarm, the raven haired woman sat bolt upright and instinctively tore her hand across her face.

In the wake of her hand...was a scatter of black flower petals.

She stared at her empty hand for a long while, lost in the memory. Wondering what on earth had just occurred...or, if it was all a dream, like the scattered black petals.

[Koshiro WarHazzard]

When Koshiro saw Del he would run over to her at top speed.

"Ma'am, are you okay?" As she was sitting up, he would kneel down and put one hand on her back. As he checked her eyes for correct pupil dilation.

"Ok, you seem alright.... That was a hell of a fall, Ma'am. What happened?" He was genuinely worried about his commanding officer...After all, he did consider Del his friend.

"Oh and don't freak out about the substance. A calm mind seems to slow it down." He said with a purely logical tone of voice.

[Marcus Prasad]

Marcus shot a white hot glare in the little pink haired girls direction. NOBODY called him Markie. His Parents never called him Markie. The only person who ever did was his first ex girlfriend Kelsie and even then it bothered him to no end.
What was worse than that was the utter nonsence she was spewing now.

"Somebody mind finding this kids mum or whatever? Get her out of here."
He growled to anyone who listened before testing his ability to at least get to his knees. Which he failed utterly. His back was still damaged and he didn't want to risk wrecking it further.
Somehow while trying to pry the strange hardened casing over his forehead it had finaly given way and burst into what looked like black flower pedals.

With a sigh of relief he raked his hand from his forehead to the back through his long shaggy hair, but as he brought it forward again he suddenly found the forehead protector was back.....

"The fuck?"

For awhile he would just play with this new development, losing himself in dismissing and calling forth this strange headband armor thing he was now in possesion of as he tried to subconciously straighten his thought process out.

Realizing he was putting WAY too much pressure on his spine sitting up, the man slipped his jacket off and slowly laid down, bundling the jacket under his head as a pillow.

[Yachiru]

Yachiru glanced over at David and noticed what he had done to remove his mask, she callouslly jumped back onto Rai's right shoulder and motioned her hand in front of her mask like she was pulling it off, naturally it faded into black pedals, but the point was clear, this wasn't a curse, it was a gift, a bonus in power. She felt how the mask made her feel, stronger, faster, but the mask also felt heavy, physically but even more so mentally. If she was to use this mask it would have to be used for a short time, lest her mental state degrade completely.

If Yachiru was to wield this great power, she would not let it consume her, this she swore to herself right there. All the long while appearing to be in deep thought holding a black pedal in her hand, staring at it.

[Lucien DeChain]

Lucien watched as some of them removed their masks in a puff of black petals. Mirroring them, he tried to pull the mask off his face-- And it worked. The mask was gone. That feeling, that massively introspective feeling, had subsided, but he knew that he could bring back that mask anytime. He wasn't sure if it was the masks' power that did that to him, or if he was having a panic attack. Probably the latter. Actually, most likely the latter.