Once again, as a reminder, do not make any editing or corrections to this, do not point to me of any mistakes. I will not make corrections. I`m leaving this mostly as is of what it was when Tojo and I rped this out. We both have different rp styles so expect there to be some inconsistencies in things such as apostrophes and tenses.
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"..Alright..-now-!"

Suddenly whispering in a more loud tone, he rushed through the open-field garden, in plain sight of anyone who could see them. Shadow was silently praying they'd get lucky, heading for the vending-machine shop. Maria would notice he was panting; it had been a long day.

Maria runs as fast as best as she can to keep in pace with Shadow.

About half way through, Wave shouts from her hovering gear board,"There they are!"

She pulls out her large wrench and her board goes sailing down to the two of them.

Shadow suddenly let go of Maria, and called out. "Run for the vending-shop."

It must have been up ahead if he said something so unspecific, he purposefully started to slow down and glanced back once, as if waiting for Wave to try a similar attack as she had done before.

Wave circles around Shadow and at the end of her circle she smacks Shadow on his shoulder with the back end of her board. She takes the quick moment to see Maria continuing for where Shadow directed her to go. Normally she wouldn`t care to much about the weaklings in the rival group but both of them need to be taken out and Maria would be just too easy to eliminate. Wave quickly changes plan and her board races after Maria.

Maria doesn`t turn around, knowing if she does she would slow herself down. Charged with confidence, Wave does a rather crazy move. She grabs the front end of her gear board with board hands and slips it out from under her own feet and takes a swing at Maria with the board. Luckily for her, Maria ducks and avoids being hit. The board just knocks over some random items that were placed down much earlier. Wave quickly returns the board under her feet before she falls on the ground. She curses over not making a hit on Maria.

When the board hit Shadow, he stumbled to the left a bit, suddenly taking a swipe with his pipe in her direction, then ran after her. When he saw her go after Maria, however, something kicked up inside of him.. His teeth grit, his eyes glared ahead, fist clenched so tightly around the pipe his knuckles turned white. Almost stopping to watch he suddenly cried out. "Get down!"

But, even seeing Maria duck and Wave fail her attack, did not calm Shadow down; it incensed him. He suddenly viciously leapt through the air, attempting to grab hold of Wave and bring her to the ground beneath him.

Her gear board is what he grabs a hold of. Not liking her gear being handled by anyone outside the Babylon Rogues, Wave gets mad,"Let go of my gear!"

She pulls out a phillips screwdriver from another pocket and throws it at Shadow to get him to release her board.

One arm supporting him, the other he suddenly swung for her legs, attempting to trip her off of the board..although this would likely send him falling to the ground as well. "..It's time you were grounded.."

Wave falls back on the back end of her board,"Ah!"

The board tilts upward at such a sharp angle it immediately cuts off it`s power and all three, Wave, Shadow and the board, fall on the ground. Angry at how he brought her down off her own gear board, Wave quickly picks up her wrench again and takes another swing at Shadow.

Shadow, was hit squarely on the fore-head; blood started to trickle down his forehead, yet with all the adrenaline, anger, and hatred pumping through his veins, he didn't seem to take notice. He suddenly swung his own weighted pipe at her wrench, trying to knock it out of her hand.

Unlike her last call which was just a yell, this time she screams as the wrench is knocked out of her hand since her hand was what was hit by the pipe. Her other hand quickly grabs her pained one.

Suddenly chucking the dented, dinged up pipe out of his hands, he lunged at her; if she just stood there, they'd likely collide, and he'd have no qualms with knocking her to the ground. "..You feel big attacking people weaker than you?"

Suddenly viciously swinging a flurry of punches from his clenched fists, the main targets were her face or stomach. "...Attacking her was your biggest mistake.."

He growled as he executed attack after attack.

Wave is rendered helpless against Shadow`s vengeful fury. She emits another scream just before she gets knocked down on the ground.

Shadow suddenly woke up from his blind rage; normally, he didn't attack others of the other persuasion in such a fashion. Going for Maria, he wrapped an arm around her. "..Are you okay?"

He asked, concerned for her well - being, as he rushed towards the vending machine-shop.

Maria puts her around around Shadow as she moves with him,"A little shaken but I`m all right."

Jet and a few others noted Waves scream, as well as the G.U.N. dog, who follows after Shadow and Maria.. It would just be a few minutes before Jet would arrive on the scene.

Wave is laying on her stomach on the ground with her gear board laying still just a little ways away. Her eyes are closed and she isn`t moving, but not dead. She has obvious signs of being beaten, like bruises that are quickly forming, bleeding in a place or two, her protective glasses are broken and her bandanna has flown off her head.

Jet landed shortly after, at first in shock and awe how she had been beaten by Shadow; the other avians surround her, then brandish a mixture of melee weaponry and the like. However, Jet lifts a talon and suddenly narrows his eyes, seething in rage. "...No, let me handle the little sack of shit.."

Flexing his muscles, feeling sure of himself, he started to follow the trail of blood left by Shadow.

Shadow was bleeding on his forehead; he leaned against the fortune-teller machine. The G.U.N. dog was there near Maria and Shadow, just looking at the door every now and again. The machine, sensing the three to be un-friendlies, started to speak pessimistically. "Lemme tell you this.. I wouldn't bet on you. So, think you're getting out of here? It won't end well..it won't end well at all. Got a plot taken out yet? Just close your eyes, and hope its quick and painless. Believe me when I tell you this, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes.. Sweet-heart, perhaps you should ask someone else for advice.."

Maria removes the cloth band she wrapped around Shadow`s head earlier for the injury in the back of his head. She takes a hold of Shadow`s chin, gently of course, to hold his head at a downward tilt and uses the cloth to clean away the blood on his face from his new injury. Once that`s done, she holds the cloth against the wound, hoping to make it stop bleeding soon as she doesn`t want him loosing any more blood.

"..The portal..it's, just up ahead.."

Pointing at the door that led to the vending machines back-room, he looked towards it. "..This wound won't matter if we don't get out..Maria, come on.."

Trying to coax her to forget about treating his wound, after she held it for a little while.

Suddenly, the doors burst open. "How big do you feel, beating up on my girl, you little sack of shit.."

Maria finally had the pleasure of meeting Jet's company; he was a hawk looking bird, a green - silvery set of feathers, a predatory set of eyes, a scarf and goggles, and a golden beak. "That's it, kid..you're busto. I'm gonna bury you into the ground."

Suddenly rushing forwards, the dog lunged at him but he was kicked aside, much as he was earlier.. Shadow suddenly took a fighting stance. "..Maria, -run-!"

Maria wastes no time in following Shadow`s command. She quickly flees the scene and finds refuge behind a pillar. She has her hands on the side of the pillar and peeks around the side to keep and eye on Shadow.

The fight began very energetically; Shadow's main concern was buying Maria time. The two exchanged blows, and for a while, Shadow was putting up an effective fight; however, his wounds, coupled with his current form along with the loss of blood from earlier and numerous aches and pains started to slow him down.

Jet attacked mercilessly, suddenly grabbing hold of Shadow's shoulder and socking him repeatedly into the gut. "Now...The Babylon Rogues own you...Soon...we'll own your girl!"

Suddenly slamming Shadow's head against a pillar, Shadow collapsed, coughing up a bit of blood; it was clear Jet was over-powered in this form. "..Maria!"

Shadow suddenly called out, sprawled out on the floor. "..Run to the portal! Get out without me, I'll find you!"

Jet scoffed at this, crossing his arms and grinning. 'Sure, little girl..go ahead, run. But we'll find ya, and drag ya back here, kicking and screaming..'

Maria is in tears from seeing Shadow being overpowered by Jet. She shakes her head, refusing to leave Shadow behind,"I`m not leaving you here like this!"

'That's too bad you won't leave, girly hedgie.'

Cracking his knuckles, giving Shadow a solid kick to his stomach; Shadow contorted into a ball almost instinctively, having the air knocked out of him. 'Takes the fun outta us going to find you..'

Grinning in her direction.

Maria nearly screams,"Stop it! What do you want?!"

'I actually didn't give two shits what you all did, cause eventually I was gonna..let ya off easy with just a slap on the wrist.. but then you started comin' over and getting into the city.. you both embarrassed me in front of my pals. Can't come off as a weakling in my own damn city, now can I? ..Can't let ya go now.'

Lifting up Shadow by his shirt. Shadow was bleeding in various areas, a black eye, panting and breathing heavily.

She was willing to take a bullet for Shadow on the Arc 52 years ago, she`s willing to do it again. Maria quickly comes out from behind the pillar,"No, stop! Don`t hurt him anymore! I`ll do whatever you want if you let Shadow go!"

'Anything..? ..Anything.. Y'know, I like the sound of that..You could learn a lotta things from this girl here, y-'

He was cut off. The soldier Jacob Krebs, despite being a dog, finally used his head and struck at the right moment, taking advantage of his distraction. He used his mouth to grip the handle of his knife, and had managed to unsheathe it. With a sudden jerk of his head he delivered a well-sized gash at Jets thigh. 'Oh, that is it, you little mook!'

Suddenly lifting up the dog, he began kicking and punching at it; Shadow started to crawl towards Maria, starting to get up and limp towards her. If they were to make their escape..now was definitely the time.

Maria runs up to Shadow and slings his arm over her shoulders so he could lean on her for support. She helps Shadow walk (or a limpy run, whichever way it goes) to where ever it is needed for them to go.

They were leaving the soldier behind..then again, he was still part of G.U.N., Shadow felt no sympathy for him, and thus made no attempt to help him. He suddenly opened the door; sure enough, there was a portal there waiting for them, glowing green. Shadow lept with her through it, and all went black.

This time, Maria has both of her arms around Shadow, tightly, to make sure they don`t separate again like they did the last time they went through a portal.

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