Venture into Neo-Izheugate

Lyra felt relieved that he didn't fire at her. Immediately she set to work and began gather the survivors as she took a robots and security personnel down, one after another. Useing her claw with uncanny skill Tearing through robots and throwing anything else to the wind with what strength she had.

She immediately motioned for the survivors to follow her to the main door. 

"I got to get them out of here. Hopefully we can make it."

The guards would open fire upon the shape shifting creature as sh dispatches them. The Cyborg will fire a psionic blast from its forehead shattering the containment tube for the body parts as they spill on the prisoners with some freaking out seeing dismembered body parts on them and around the area. Lyra will see the main door is being slowly cut through with the pangolin and a combat team on the other side ready to pounce as soon as the doors are cut off.

The cyborg would be knocked into the computer with slashes to its body from the shape shifter as it gets back up firing psionic blasts to attempt to take out the creature.

'The lab is compromise. Get whatever you can out of here' Kano will shout as the lab is taking considerable damage due to the intervention of the shapeshifter and the merc's explosives. Kano will pull out a data disk before the cyborg lands on the computer console as he takes out a machine pistol opening fire on Shrike as he slams his elbow into a button revealing a large pipe was secretly an escape elevator as he walks in with a dingo and Jerboa scientist carting off a small Corgi mobian in a tube as the elevator heads down.

A few security guards on Shrike's side will take cover as a human guard will pop a frag out in blind fire hoping that it will land near the intruder mainly to by time for the welding team to get through, so they can have reinforcements.

-So it seemed he no longer had too worry about trying too save the rest, course now he had bigger problems, enemy forces were converging from all over. 

He had done as much damage he he could, unknowing if it was enough too halt operations, Shrike would not turn his attention too the oncoming forces, with him basically backed against the wall, the only way out now...was through. 

The armored figure spotted some one, yanking a disc like device from a fallen machine. The armored figure turns his rifle upon the being, unfortunately the being was far quicker to other trigger, his armor was pelted with bullets as sparks shot out all over knocking Shrike onto the ground. 

They were escaping but there was nothing he could do too prevent that now, taking check, it seemed non of the bullets penetrated his armor, lucky him, but at a cost of allowing personal too escape.

Forcing himself back onto his feet, reinforcements were here, he sets himself up weapon at the ready too engage the hostiles, hoping all the way that the strange alien was able to rescue as many as possible.

That is when Shrike heard a spine chilling sound that he knew all too well, slowly looking down too his left..there it was a frag grenade a meter away from him. 

Time felt like it slowed down as the device exploded hurling Shrike against wall with a thud, his hearing was shot, visibility became blurry, unable too make heads or tails what was going on. He looked left too right completely disorientated by the blast.-

Lyra felt the shrapnel slash across her hard exoskeleton. Some even slightly piercing the scales between her plates. She remained mostly unharmed however as she was thrown back.

She got up, Slightly disoriented, and tried to quickly identify her targets. She dove into the fray, slashing with her claws and downing enemies. Using her tongue to subdue and paralyze living targets.

The elevator goes down as the door close in time and as the doors are open up from the welding they are greeting with a VERY angry shape shifting monster lady as Dax quickly forms a wall with his drones to stop the claws

'You seem to be out of place.. You would make a great subject to dissect.' with that short speech the wrist guards will form into combat electro gloves for the pangolin to use in an attempt to whap the shapeshifter aiming for the chest or the face.

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The prisoners would put on the masks to prevent being knocked out and breathing dangerous chemicals as two will gravely knock down two of the guards. The others will look for the switch

'Umm armored guy dude. The switch is hidden in that picture frame. We could- ' Before the husky mobian can finished the guards on the bottom will open fire as the husky dives trying to avoid the fire. The Cyborg in question will turn to Shrike as it's ready to fire another charge while stomping over to shrike. The right arm raising high and lunging to attempt to grab the armored intruder.

-Shrike shook his head a little as it all began too come back, his senses kicking into normal function. He pushed himself back onto one knee. 

He lifted his head as a voice spoke out too him, there in front of the armored figure a mobian, maybe a escapee, probably, he seem too communicate that a switch was hidden behind the near by picture frame..a possible way out of this hell hole..sure seemed like it. 

The armored figure nodded just as the enemy forces opened fire forcing them both back into cover. Shrike had spotted the picture, how he was going to get too it with out been seen or shot at was up too him.

Making maters worse the cyborg had no fixed on his position, the lumbering machine was now heading his way intention too destroy. 

Thinking quickly Shrike dropped onto his back took aim and discharged one of his few remaining under barrel grenade shells, directly towards the chest of the monstrous machine. 

Using the explosion and confusing too scoot too safety working his way towards the picture. His last ditched effort too escape this made hell.-

Lyra dodged the Dax's seing as she lept back. Her wings spreading and flapping with a regal grace as she stared him down. Her pupiless eye's locked with his.

"I will not be a subject of you're horrid experiments Mobian. Nor will anyone else."

She began to trade blows with the pangolin. Slashing and avoiding hits as much she could. But in her weakened state she could only do so much.
As she fought she tried to rip through his armor and other cybernetics, hoping to find an opening.

"This place will fall. And when I have returned to my ship I will make sure this is the first city to burn by my hand."

With a several well placed slashs she attempted to throw him off balance and lunge, Tongue out, and make contact with his skin.

( i thank you for the wait. had alot of IRL stuff to deal with the past few days)

The close range blast knocks the cyborg back removing the armor layer shell exposing to the group the grim reality of the merging of flesh and metal under the cyborg. It would knock backwards and collide with the boxes scattered about. When Shrike opens the picture frame there will be a button that once pressed would have the elevator come back up, but it would take some time before it gets here. The prisoners would start moving hiding behind whatever cover they can get as the guards open fire on them hoping to prevent there escape.

The cyborg will slowly get back up as a part of its face pops open revealing part of a human face under the metal. Even though the machine is set to kill the face would show whoever that used to be been in extreme pain of the extreme cybernetic modifications to it wishing for death, but the programming forces it to continue its murderous rage as it is ready to fire another psionic blast from its head.

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Before the tounge would impact the pangolin as his flesh was exposed the Monkey will jump in the way taking the blow as he would be knocked into the wall. The poison affecting him as he is passing out.

Dax would continue the fight, but due to the battle not only the aunlets are destroyed, but 6 of his 9 drones are no longer responding to him. Damaged beyond repair he knows when he is beaten. He would slam his hand into the panel to turn on the defensive lasers to prevent Lyra from moving further.

He would be taking deep breaths as lyra would see a cut on his left arm revealing she managed to shrike a blow, but this pangolin stands he would feel the toxin going to stop him, but it's like his sheer force of will power is keeping him up long enough to tell Lyra this.

'Go ahead and destroy this place, but remember. You can't get them all out....'

During the speech two EggKreigsmarines would arrive a komodo dragon and a Lynx would grab the scientist before he passes out. ' You... will.fa' before he can finish the Pangolin will go out cold as the Lynx will take out a laser pistol and fire at the panel hoping to buy them long enough to leave with the knocked out scientist.

Lyra fell to her knees. Her body occasionally twitching a bit as small sparks zapped of her body. She was bruised, tired, hungry, hurt, and had barely enough strength to stay awake. She got up, her mind swirling as she felt the collective worry as the other Yrvx were concerned with her safety. She quickly relayed commands to them and with a nod she let out a sigh as she summoned the strength to get to Shrikes position.

"Human! We must get out of here!"

She called out as she limped towards him,

"If we can get outside I can have us all picked up to safety!"

She motioned the other prisoners to follow her to be ready to get on the elevator. Ready to make their escape.

-Shrike stumbled towards the picture, he hit the button hard with the back of his fist, hearing the sound of mechanics going on. Just as it had done a shadow began to loom from behind of him. 

Slowly the figured turned around and there the cyborg had returned, seemed like his shell had not put it down for good. Tho Shrike could see now exactly the extent of what they were doing. the complex systems exposed as was its face.

The machine being willed by the program and not the pilot, only suffering from pain of being bound to machine. Shrike knee what he had to do to put a end to its suffering, knowing full well it was not he who was controlling the machine, he takes aim at the head and blasts away hoping to give a quick and painless death to the being trapped in the machine.

Shrikes strength and endurance were totally depleted at this point. Finding himself kneeling down just to catch his breath was not a good sign.

Enemies all around him, despite his well equipped nature bullets were not going to last forever. That is when a image came before him, but it was no image. To his shock it was Lyra, she had come back from him. Shrike didn't expect her to he thought she had evacuated the survivors and fled.

I guess some one was smiling down on him this day. Rising back into his feet with renewed hope of escape.- 

"Good to see you still alive! We gonna have too fight our way to the elevator to make it out...Only problem is multiple hostiles are between us and there...We will have to lead the way."

-Shrike took point along side Lyra, having the prisoners behind him as now they headed for the elevator.- 

"This ain't gonna be easy..it never really is...once we reach the surface you all gotta get the hell out of here understand!?" 

( sorry for the late reply. This month been a study month)

Everyone would nod as they run to the elevator, As soon as the group that was here was piled in the elevator will take them down. It would take them twelve minutes until they reach the basement floor which when the door opens the elevator took them to a hover train station. A few platforms are empty, but one has a hover train with a light defense of egg pawns guarding the area in stand by mode.

" So.. umm mister.. What will happen to the others inside the building? " A young wolf would ask Shrike this question as the other prisoners will help Lyra around.

-Shrike heard the question but..sadly he was one guy, he couldn't take a army on to save every one...he did as much as he could with what he had...he at least hoped his actions would deemed the facility unusable, the destruction of so much equipment and data surely would be enough to put it out of commission even for a while. He turned his head to the wolf.- 

"I did what I could...I tried to save as many...but there is only so much one man can do...perhaps another time will come when they will be saved...or maybe save themselfs...hopefully the destruction I put on that base blunts future development long enough for some one else to try again...right now we gotta get you guys out of here."



-PING! The elevator doors open..now viewing multiple platforms, unfortunately the ones that were not guarded were also empty..the only platform that did have a train was lightly defended by defended none the less, looks like one last battle.- 

"Lyra!... I spotted a train for the escape the prisoners..only problem is it is defended by a few machines..we going to have to clear the way and board that thing..may be the only chance these guys are going to get...you up for one last fight ?" 

Lyra's breath was ragged and sparring. She could barely stand much less hold her Yrvxian form.

With a few head shakes she made it clear she couldn't fight anymore. Without a word she closed her eye's and concentrated. A moment later the could feel a strange tingling as a blue light surround the area around them.

In a flash, Lyra was surround by four other Yrvx. All in battle armor and carrying long spears that glowed with an unearthly energy. Two of them immediately began to tend to Lyra as the other two quickly jumped into combat against the personnel that were defending the platform.

The egg pawns will engage the mysterious creatures with their blasters as a fire fight ensues on the platform. One will run into the train to initiate the start up sequence which even if it's an advanced high speed hovertrain will take twenty-five minutes to complete.

The other eggpawns will take cover and fight against the battle armored foes while the vehicle is currently defenseless.

One of the robots would explode from a hit from the energy bolt while the others concentrate there fire while behind supply crates.

"Well it looks like its time for one last fight, All of you take cover..we will handle this!"

-Shrike jumps into the fray along side the new coming Yrvx, where ever they had come from they were a great sight to be hold and now tipped the battle in their favor. 

Shrike more or less did the same thing taking cover and returning fire upon the robots, unable to lay down accurate fire he tried to just shoot in their direction. 

Hurling what remained of his explosives left into to try and clear a path to the train, he had spotted a single pawn enter it and knew what their intentions were, clear the train from the platform and trapped them there, so the rest of the army currently station there could either overrun them or capture them. 

In the brief spots of ceased gun fire Shrike would move closer and closer.-

"HEY! YOU!" 

-Shrike tried to signal to a few of the Yrvx hoping they could understand him some how.- 

"One of those tin cans is attempting to start the train, some of you are going to need to stop him! I'll do my best to hold the Eggpawns from this position, I don't know how long you going to have but you can not allow that train to leave, if it does..we are screwed!" 

Lyra quickly gives out commands in her language as Shrike tried to speak to them. immediately the two quickly charged onto the train to capture it. as they entered they periodically began disabling any and all resistance with ease. A moment later Lyra got up with some of the same armor the others were wearing. hers was more regal and authoritative looking, having a gold appearance. she held her ground as she held out her own battle staff to support her as she commanded the other two forwards to help Shrike.

( thank you for the wait. family came over so I was not even near my computer)

The pawn on the train will be knocked down by two of Lyra's kind as it's trapped in the train unable to continue the start up process.

During that time the grenades will detonate near an egg pawn blowing it into scrap metal with the last remaining two continuing there barrages of lasers not regardless if they survive or not due to the AI of the pawns are set to read only.

The remaining egg SWATs will make it to the roof of the building running towards there patrol craft starting the start up sequence. There goals is to find and eliminate the intruder and the escaped inmates, however thanks to Lyra knocking out the Monkey and Dax they will not know they took the secret elevator down to the hover trains so it will take time for them to find the group.

-Shrike seemed to have gotten a break from being pinned down by the Egg pawns, they were not however out of it just yet, in the bit of down time he had the armored figure turned to face those who they had just rescued pointing too the training wanting them to board it straight away. 

"Finish off the remainders, every one else get on the train! Lyra we have to move and we have to do it now before they radio in for reinforcements, we won't be able to hold out forever. 

-Shrike said standing back up loading he's very last ammo clip into his weapon along with a final grenade sliding down into the under barrel launcher, it was true at least from his point, if reinforcements arrived there would be no way out.

Shrike wasted very little time to ensure all the survivors would board the train before he did, making sure no one was left behind, course now he faced a new problem, how the hell do you even start this train.

"Does any one here know how to operate one of these damn things? If not we got one hell of a problem on our hands."

-If they were sitting ducks they would now be easy targets for pursuing forces.-

Lyra continued forwards giving commands to the other yrvx and had one of them began tending to the wounded. The others took defensive positions on the train. She herself met up with Shrike.

""Haftftu", Hello." She greeted him as she she approached, "I don't not know how to start this train. Do you have any way to jumpstart it in any way?"

She already had another one of the Yrvx attempting to hack the controls with little luck.

The train was built differently from the others. Mainly with mostly buttons and switches instead of levers. The train also had a data port that a robot or a cyborg with a data probe device can plug in to start the train as well.

The cargo inside if the yrvx decide to search would be one cargo car with cyropods stored filled with humans and mobians. However, they are locked and if the devices were tampered with the wrong way would kill the occupants inside. The second one would be filled with busted up robots with records stating to be decommissioned and melted down to make new robots. The third and fourth cars are transport allowing each car to hold up to 30 passengers each while the last car looks like an officer's club car for officers to spend there time in which also comes with a fully functional kitchen with enough food to last them for at least a week.

Back at the lab rooftop 3 EggSWAT vehicles have started up and proceed to take off in search for the intruders and escape prisoners. The team was given the order to kill due to they do not want any witnesses.

-Shrike shook his head, while he knew how to handle some devices, mostly explosives vehicles were not his strong suit, he could only hope the other member was capable of hacking the system, getting the train to move before more robots arrived on the scene.- 

"Keep trying to hack the train, if you do get it operational, floor it as fast as you can... I'm on my way back to check on the rest..see what else this train is hauling."

-Shrike headed back down from the start of the training passing by those who they managed to pull from the facility, he makes his way to the first of the compartments hook to the train.

My cryopods, how many civilians did these guys capture, now it became more imperative then ever they get the train mobile. Shrike didn't venture further then then and instead returned back to where the others were held up.

"Lyra we got more personal stuck in those Cryopods in the first compartment, I dare not tamper with them, no idea what might happen.... we have to leave now, saving these beings and denying a train stocked with what ever it has is a extra bonus.

Do what you can to get this thing going...time is running short." 

Lyra gave more commands as the other Yrvx took defensive positions on the train. Their wea pop ons at the ready as they prepared to defend their queen and others.

Finally after much tinkering the other Yrvx got the train to start moving. Unfortunately it was gaining enough speed to make a fast departure. Pretty much anything could cath up to them at this point unless the picked up more speed soon.

"We must get out and farther away from the city somehow. If we get far enough I can have more of my kind help us. There is to much interferenc here to safely have more called down."

The train will start up as the vehicle goes 10 inches off the ground and proceeded to move The speed will be slow at first so the train can start getting some speed. The monitors of the train will not only show energy reserves on the train, but also a full map of the switches for the hover train's tracks allowing the group to switch the tracks during the ride.

The train's computer will show also that for defenses the train will have a single Gatling Laser that is stored on the top of the living quarters which can be used both unmanned and manned, but must be deployed first to be used. Along with that there would be both human and mobian Mag Boots in the living quarters which by putting them on can be used to move on the train car's roofs without falling off.

During this time they will leave the station but as soon as they get into town they would be greeted by two eggSWAT patrol vehicles. The vehicle instead of firing would proceed to move to the back in order to try to drop a small squad onto the train.

-Was it the final home stretch, probably, they seemed to of beaten the impossible and gotten out of the city, unfortunately not every one could of been saved, some were lost during the fighting, others fell victim to becoming cyborgs before they even arrived. 

For the first time since the mission began Shrike was able to now relax, slumping down against the side of the main train hull, putting his rifle down beside him and trying his best to just to tense himself.

After which Shrike seemed to go rather silent, perhaps it was all of the shock and awe that overwhelmed him, you would think after the training and action one would get use to it, the truth was it never did get any better.

Shrike glanced over at all who they had rescued, a slight relief of happy washed over him, they would live to see another day among the world, escaping a fate far worse then death, becoming one of those cyborgs seemed to be a endless life of pain and suffering. 

The peace was short lived, hostile reinforcements soon arrived, two patrol vehicles with a unknown number of extra Eggswat robots. 

Instead of attacking the vehicles moved behind the train, Shrike knew exactly what they were attempting, a hijack of a hijacked train.-

"Lyra! We got company! More of those blasted robots are here and I believe they going to try to board the train and re take it. We have to destroy them. 

"I'll hold the train from the inside, send as many of your warriors as possible to prevent them from getting aboard, if any thing does I'll handle it!" 

Lura quickly gave commands as the her warriors made thir way to the back of the train, weapons ready. Hey yellow eyes hld no mercy for those who were attacking them as did her warriors. 

It hadn't been more thn a minute before the sound of exchanging blaster fire was heard as the aliens engaged the bots. So far they were holding their own pretty well as they continued to fight.