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Post by Ariel on Jun 23, 2023 9:47:39 GMT -8
Nebula stared straight into the tunnel, audibly picking up on Sophie's feet landing on the concrete floor behind her. If it hadn't been for the light from Sophie's device to ignite their surroundings, the darkness would have continued to swallow them whole. The smell in the air was musty, like a mildewing jar that no one had opened in days, but surprisingly the tunnel did not appear to be overgrown with anything disgustingly questionable. Which made Nebula wonder if the vacancy of this tunnel had happened a lot more recent than what one might think. "We should be on our guard - who knows what's down here," Nebula uttered with caution to Sophie as they proceeded carefully through the tunnel.
Suddenly, the toe of Nebula's foot kicked something that was laying on the ground. She halted immediately, taking a startled step back in case there was any danger. Sophie's light was bright enough to make out that it was an object - a backpack, "Looks like whoever the Inhuman is, has been possibly hiding out down here," Nebula observed on a hunch, not even sure that the backpack belonged to the Inhuman or another potential squatter in the area. She crouched down towards the backpack, and scooped it up into her hands as she analyzed the very ordinary bag before zipping it open. More of the same noodle packets like the one they found above ground, a dead flashlight and clothes - girl's clothes. Nebula sat the backpack upright on the ground as she lifted one of the shirts up to the light to examine it as there was something printed on it, in hopes that it could be a clue. Nebula cocked her head in confusion at the print of what appeared to be a cartoon of a sad egg yolk, "What an odd looking creature." Nebula said in bewilderment as she tried to figure out what exactly she was looking at.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Jun 28, 2023 16:26:50 GMT -8
"We should be on our guard - who knows what's down here. ... Looks like whoever the Inhuman is, has been possibly hiding out down here."
Sophie remained decidedly on her guard same as she had been from the moment they'd found that hatch cover. But she continued to hold her phone steady as Nebula rifled through a backpack she'd found, shining the light on the objects. Some random food and clothing, more evidence that someone had been or was now there.
"What an odd looking creature."
“I think it’s called a Gundetama,” Sophie offered, labeling the sad-looking egg yolk. “Popular with the kids these days. I prefer Hello Kitty myself.” She took a few hesitant steps forward and let the light beam wander across the floor, walls, and ceiling in search of anything distinct. “There must be a junction box around here somewhere,” she presumed. Granted, it was probably too much to hope for a working electrical system in this abandoned place.
A set of metal pipes along the ceiling finally terminated at a dull gray box on the wall. Sophie opened the cover of the breaker box, said a small prayer to avoid electrocution, and flipped the largest lever upward. To her relief, the overhead lights blinked into life. The fluorescent glare revealed them to be standing in a sterile white hallway lined with doors. Doors that bore a label written in Japanese and a small rectangle of clear glass. A peek through the glass showed a sparsely decorated room with a bed and a desk.
“I’ve seen places like this before,” Sophie advised, her apprehension rising. As if it wasn't high enough already being in an underground bunker with someone that could flood the place whenever they chose. "Not a place you'd want to spend a lot of time. Unless you already knew the safest way in and out of it."
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Post by Ariel on Jun 29, 2023 21:41:16 GMT -8
“I’ve seen places like this before,” "Not a place you'd want to spend a lot of time. Unless you already knew the safest way in and out of it."
Nebula nodded, as her gaze panned from whence they came to the deep pit of despair that they were about to embark upon. Her boss' commentary added an eerie sense to the whole scene. They could practically hear the condensation dripping between them and the walls amongst the silence. Not to mention the unearthly smell of mold and god knows what else lay between the cracks of this place. But they were on a mission. And Nebula had to see a way through, especially if it meant recuperating a life that was worth saving, past their flaws and powers. She was set on that, so firmly. It had meant so much to her after waking up to what her father had done to her, that she would save every one and last life in this universe that was special, and yet had undergone such unfathomable and harsh conditions to conform to what the being truly meant they were born for, "Well, we've got a consensus on what's the way out," Nebula confirmed, as she allowed the material of the bag and contents to slip between her fingertips. She stood upright, looking into the abyss in front of them, "Let's find out what more this place has in store." She passionately spoke, taking steps into the darkness in front of them. There was no way to tell what lay ahead for them. All she knew is that hopefully, just maybe, they would get some answers from this place.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Jun 30, 2023 17:22:40 GMT -8
"Well, we've got a consensus on what's the way out. Let's find out what more this place has in store."
Sophie nodded in silent agreement. She kept walking along the hallway, trying doors as she went but finding all of them locked. Where were all the occupants of these rooms? Had they left voluntarily or been evacuated? And if the latter, what caused the sudden departure?
The hallway finally came to a T-intersection with another hallway. The choice of turning right or left seemed to offer the same row of doors on either side, so Sophie decided to go to the right. This offered a shorter passage that led to a set of metallic swinging doors. Doors that were not locked and thus gave way to a push from her hand.
She glanced back to check that Nebula was still there. Inside the room were artifacts of what might have been a lab at one time, but was now scattered with overturned chairs and tables and broken glass. "Looks like some sort of testing lab," Sophie said. "I recognize some of this equipment." Blood vials, centrifuge, X-ray film viewing screens. Stepping carefully as glass crunched underfoot, she crossed to one of the desks along the wall, flipped through a discarded journal and tried to open one of the drawers. Well, at least that one she could open without her superpowered partner. She removed the lockpick set from her bag and tried to manipulate the tumblers in the lock.
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Post by Ariel on Jul 5, 2023 18:22:47 GMT -8
Nebula followed Sophie through the doors as they entered a peculiar looking room. One that had been noticeably vacant for quite some time, as the screens, chairs, tables and equipment that filled the room were either overturned, covered by a cloth or had collected some dust.
"Looks like some sort of testing lab," "I recognize some of this equipment."
Interesting, Nebula thought to herself. She hadn't really seen any sort of place like this herself before, not on Earth at least. She followed Sophie over to a desk as the debris on the floor made audible sounds under their feet in the eerily quiet room. As Sophie thumbed through the book that she had found, Nebula threw an anxious glance over her shoulder into the darkness as she kept her guard up. "Find anything useful?" Nebula asked as her head slowly turned back towards Sophie who had been intently looking upon the book's pages.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Jul 7, 2023 18:57:57 GMT -8
"Find anything useful?"
“If there was anything useful here, it would be long gone by now,” Sophie sighed. She finished flipping through the notebook and tossed it aside. "Chemical formulas and equations -- it might as well be written in Japanese." She turned her attention to the few file folders left behind in the locked drawer. Patient files, maybe? Lab reports on the residents of those sad little rooms?
Sophie looked for anything that might tell her what had happened here. Her eyes finally latched onto a name at the bottom of a page, printed beneath a scrawled signature. "Wolfgang von Strucker," she read aloud, the breath catching in her throat. "He authorized these tests. This ... this was HYDRA." The blood in her veins ran cold as she looked around the place with a freshly terrified gaze even though the threat was no longer there.
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Post by Ariel on Jul 14, 2023 20:24:17 GMT -8
"Wolfgang von Strucker," she read aloud, the breath catching in her throat. "He authorized these tests. This ... this was HYDRA."
There was a change in the air. Nebula could sense it. She could feel Sophie's demeanor change entirely as the words were uttered from the page. Nebula crooned her neck slightly to get a better look at the page. And yet she did not entirely understand the urgency in which her boss felt. A prickling, anxious feeling rose through her body, knowing that something wasn't right, "What is it?" Nebula asked Sophie with urgency, "What is Hydra, and why is it bad?" She asked, open to the answer that Sophie was willing to give her. She still was not familiar with terms of Earth, and yet like a child trying to learn how to ride a tricycle, she was still learning.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Jul 16, 2023 11:00:12 GMT -8
"What is it? What is Hydra, and why is it bad?"
Given the shock, it took a moment for Sophie to clock that there was someone else in the room. “Oh, yes, I suppose you weren’t around for that bit,” she remarked. “HYDRA was a secret society of scientists and psychopaths, a global network of military and political operatives. They created crises, started wars, bent world history to their will in an effort to remake society on their terms. My partner and I managed to chip away at it over the years, but it was a war we couldn’t win. And then Captain America and his friends finally brought it crashing to the ground, literally.
“This von Strucker, he was their Dr. Frankenstein," Sophie continued, tossing the folder onto the desk. "He was obsessed with recapturing the super soldier serum that created Captain America, or whatever way he could use to make some enhanced version of humans. Much like your father did to you. There were labs like this one all over the world. We came close to catching him once, in Vienna. It nearly broke both of us."
Sophie inhaled deeply and shut her eyes tightly, fighting back the painful memories of that night. None of it would help right now. "Von Strucker died in a Sokovian jail cell about three years ago," she explained. "But it appears the work didn’t die with him. It’s like Zemo always said, cut off one head and two more will take its place."
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Post by Ariel on Jul 21, 2023 18:36:20 GMT -8
Nebula listened intently as Sophie explained to her on the episode of Earth. The Von Strucker guy sure sounded like a piece of work, and Nebula wouldn't wish any of those kinds of inhumane acts upon anyone, especially with what she went through with her father. She was glad that the man was dead so that he couldn't harm any more innocent lives. Although Sophie already had Nebula's attention, yet her head jerked in surprise at the next thing that Sophie said.
"But it appears the work didn’t die with him. It’s like Zemo always said, cut off one head and two more will take its place."
Nebula stared directly at Sophie with alarming surprise as she uttered Zemo's name. Earth appeared to be smaller than Nebula thought. That, or Nebula unintentionally frequented circles tainted with the man with the intelligent mind. Or, perhaps Zemo was a bigger figure in the world than she had initially thought, "You know Zemo?" Nebula finally uttered, as it appeared the two of them were more tied together than she could imagine.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Jul 22, 2023 16:19:29 GMT -8
"You know Zemo?"
"Better than most," Sophie replied. She assumed Nebula, even though she was from another planet, would have heard about the Eastern European royal and his acts of terror. You didn't take on international heroes like Captain America and Iron Man without making headlines. She added, "Look, whatever you've heard about him, most of it isn't true. We were on the same side as the Avengers, against HYDRA, for years."
Sophie laid out some of the pages from the files on the desktop, preparing to take photos. Maybe she could take a closer look at them on her laptop back at the hotel. "When Zemo's family was killed in the fall of Sokovia, he believed he had nothing left," she continued explaining to Nebula. "Nothing except revenge, which he was very good at."
Sophie paused, concerned that this news might cast her in an unfavorable light. But it was the truth. "I admit I'm not impartial when it comes to Zemo," she confided. "I don't agree with his actions, but I understand them. He's the one who made me believe we could change the world, together. I miss him every day."
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Post by Ariel on Jul 22, 2023 20:49:58 GMT -8
"I admit I'm not impartial when it comes to Zemo," "I don't agree with his actions, but I understand them. He's the one who made me believe we could change the world, together. I miss him every day."
Nebula was in awe as Sophie went into explanation of Zemo. It had only been strictly business between Nebula and him, so she did not have the time of day to get to know his personal details. But it appeared the Sophie had been closely tied to him. Especially to the point of expressing that she missed him. "I know," Nebula confirmed Sophie's claims as she stared directly at her, "We were partnered in business at one point. In a way, he helped me leave an abusive relationship. Not directly, but dealing with him gave me the confirmation and confidence I needed to get away. He believed in me...and I got the job done. He was the first to believe in my abilities as an independent individual in a very long time." Nebula added with a head bobbing nod, hoping that Sophie would find some sort of condolence in her words, even though Nebula wasn't very good at being the consoling sort.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Jul 23, 2023 13:48:52 GMT -8
"I know. We were partnered in business at one point. In a way, he helped me leave an abusive relationship. Not directly, but dealing with him gave me the confirmation and confidence I needed to get away. He believed in me...and I got the job done. He was the first to believe in my abilities as an independent individual in a very long time."
"I'm sorry, what?" Sophie blurted, snapping to attention. Nebula may have been uttering a lot of words, but all Sophie heard was that this other woman had been in contact with her former partner. "You saw him? You...you spoke to him?" she asked urgently, unable to hold back a torrent of questions. "When? Where? How long ago was this?"
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Post by Ariel on Aug 6, 2023 11:09:44 GMT -8
"I'm sorry, what?" "You saw him? You...you spoke to him?" "When? Where? How long ago was this?"
Nebula stared silently at Sophie, allowing to get all of her questions out in the open. Nebula didn't mean to blindside her, she had no idea that her boss had been close to the Baron. Nebula waited for Sophie to finish before giving her as much information as she could give, "In Berlin, last year. He was being held in the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre...I would assume he would still be incarcerated but who knows what's happened between then and now." Nebula said, speaking the truth word for word. If she had any other information to spare, surely she would for Sophie. It seemed as if this man meant a great deal to her.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Aug 26, 2023 16:54:50 GMT -8
"In Berlin, last year. He was being held in the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre...I would assume he would still be incarcerated but who knows what's happened between then and now."
Sophie uttered a mirthless laugh and shook her head. "Bloody hell, he was in Berlin," she repeated. "All this time?" Not in Wakanda, and not impossible to get to. Sophie was eager to ask Nebula for every detail of her meeting with Zemo but before she could do so, the power in the facility suddenly shut down with a sickening groan. The darkness was soon replaced by what seemed to be emergency lighting, casting everything in a foreboding red glow.
"Guess someone doesn't want visitors," Sophie remarked, then removed a short black cylinder from her bag. With a practiced flick of her wrist, the asp baton extended to its full length. For Nebula's sake, she would try the sympathetic approach first with this Inhuman, but she would also be prepared if things went in a different direction. "But this conversation is definitely not over," she added.
They left the lab and retraced their path back down the hallway, alert for any movements or sounds. "Hello?" Sophie called out. "Look, we're not here to hurt you. We want to help."
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Post by Ariel on Sept 27, 2023 9:35:09 GMT -8
"Bloody hell, he was in Berlin," "All this time?"
Nebula was about to respond to Sophie's question whether it was rhetorical or not. Until suddenly they were plunged into complete darkness as the lights around them went out sharply without a flicker. Slightly alarmed, Nebula peered around as red lights blinked in the now dimly lit facility.
"Guess someone doesn't want visitors," "But this conversation is definitely not over,"
Nebula couldn't agree more, fearing they weren't alone after all down in this place. She fixated her gaze on Sophie as she was noticeably drawing a weapon for safety measures. Nebula herself wasn't singling out drawing her weapons herself, although she was the embodiment of one to begin with. She nodded at Sophie's final remark on the current conversation they had been having and followed her lead down the hallway. Alert and focused, Nebula was ready for anything.
"Hello?" "Look, we're not here to hurt you. We want to help."
Nebula's hearing narrowed in on the sounds around them as they moved farther down the hallway. Amidst the dripping of old pipes and the grainy layer of dust that separated under their feet as they walked cautiously, there was a light pattering of footsteps that were neither hers or Sophie's that could be heard coming from the other end of the hallway, "I hear footsteps. We're not alone," Nebula alerted Sophie. As they began to move quicker, so did the other set of footsteps of the mysterious person. The person began to move quicker, aware that their presence was now known, "They're trying to get away!" Nebula spoke, the alarming tone in her voice now anxious as they began to bolt down the hallway. This person was trying to make a break for it for some reason, and Nebula refused to come out of this place empty handed.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Oct 26, 2023 16:22:15 GMT -8
"I hear footsteps. We're not alone. ... They're trying to get away!"
Sophie heard the footsteps as well, slow then quickening, but wasn't willing to get into a foot chase. Nebula was much faster and more nimble than she, and likely whoever was down here knew the place well enough to lead them into a trap. A determined Nebula faded into the shadows ahead as Sophie was unable to keep up.
The only known exit was behind her - the stairway to the forest above - so Sophie hid herself behind the wall at that first hallway intersection. If the stranger managed to lose Nebula and double back this way, she would be ready. Her grip tightened on the baton as she prepared to strike anyone who approached.
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Post by Ariel on Nov 10, 2023 20:01:32 GMT -8
Nebula lunged into the shadows, unafraid of what might meet her. She had encountered worse in her career of assassination, usually in desolation. She was under the impression that nothing on Earth could compare to the horrors that she had witnessed under Thanos' reign. What felt like a shoulder under her grasp, she grabbed it with all her might and her entire force lunged it into the blinking, dim lights like a spring that had been coiled. The groaning being was beneath her palm on the ground, wincing through his thick prescription of glasses on the floor. Nebula noted that he wore a white coat, similar to a doctor or someone of the medical profession. Still fastening her hand on his shoulder to keep him steady where he lay, Nebula leaned downward in a confrontational manner, "Who are you? What connection do you have to this abandoned place?" She questioned, awaiting his answer.
"I-I am..," The man groaned loudly in pain before continuing, "Dr. Aiko Fumihiro," The doctor made out between his gasps, "No trouble, just papers." The doctor spoke in broken english to the two that stood over him.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Nov 18, 2023 18:29:47 GMT -8
"Who are you? What connection do you have to this abandoned place?"
"I-I am...Dr. Aiko Fumihiro. No trouble, just papers."
As painful moments of silence went by with no sign of Nebula or the other intruder, Sophie finally moved out from her position of cover and proceeded carefully in the direction Nebula had disappeared. Hearing a commotion and voices, she finally came upon Nebula and a man in glasses and a lab coat pinned to the floor.
Her baton still at the ready, Sophie walked up to get a closer look, relieved that Nebula hadn't started the interrogation without her. "It's alright, doctor," she asserted. "My friend and I are just looking for answers. Like why you're still here when everyone else has buggered off." Whatever he may have to say, she couldn't let go of the fact that if this man worked here, then he was on HYDRA's payroll. And likely responsible for any number of atrocities.
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Post by Ariel on Dec 17, 2023 19:07:43 GMT -8
"It's alright, doctor," "My friend and I are just looking for answers. Like why you're still here when everyone else has buggered off."
Nebula heard Sophie try to reason with the frightened doctor, but Nebula wasn't fazed in the slightest. They were on a mission and Nebula wasn't afraid to be the bad cop. Her mind was set on his words and she sharply addressed him instead of allowing him to stand up onto his feet as some would, "Where are the papers?" Nebula figured whatever he had been down here to grab, they ought to be important. The doctor shakily reached into his lab coat and pulled out a red folder. Nebula lunged downward and got a good grip on the folder. They played tug of war for a moment, but then Nebula let a frustrated growl escape. The doctor grew startled and allowed the folder to slip through his hands and into Nebula's. As she stood upright, she let her guard down to examine the cover and the doctor scrambled to his feet and decided to make a run for it.
"Hey! We weren't done!" Nebula screamed but before they knew it, the doctor had disappeared into the darkness. Nebula sighed, disappointed in herself, but decided to let him go. Whatever answers they were looking for as to why he had been down here were all in this folder. She flipped the cover over and squinted through the dimly lit hallway to make out what was inside. It appeared to be some sort of patient profile. Except this was no ordinary patient. There was a photo of a young Japanese girl attached to the front page by a paperclip, with some further information about Inhuman abilities.
"I think we've found our Inhuman." Nebula announced as she passed the open folder to Sophie.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Dec 26, 2023 17:52:35 GMT -8
"Hey! We weren't done! … I think we've found our Inhuman."
“Why was he so eager to hold onto this file?” Sophie wondered aloud, taking the offered folder from her partner. Despite Nebula’s apparent anger at losing her prey, Sophie began walking back toward the entrance hallway, having no wish to be drawn further into this underground labyrinth. She tucked the baton under her arm and retrieved her phone, activating its light to read the file.
“Akua Kanji,” Sophie read. “She looks very young. Only fifteen." To Sophie's relief, the patient file was written in English, though still a confusing mix of technical terms. "Spent most of her childhood in mainland China at an Inhuman settlement called Afterlife. I’ve read about that place. It was raided by SHIELD years ago. The residents that weren’t captured were scattered to the winds, including Miss Kanji, it would seem.”
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Post by Ariel on Jan 13, 2024 15:52:09 GMT -8
“Akua Kanji,” “She looks very young. Only fifteen." "Spent most of her childhood in mainland China at an Inhuman settlement called Afterlife. I’ve read about that place. It was raided by SHIELD years ago. The residents that weren’t captured were scattered to the winds, including Miss Kanji, it would seem.”
"Years ago?" Nebula spoke in a questioning tone as she squinted through the flickering lights of the vacant underground establishment, continuing to focus her attention onto Sophie as thoughts began to bubble up in her mind. Poor girl, Nebula thought and also wondered what this girl had endured at the facility since she was a youngling. Couldn't be any worse than what Nebula herself had gone through, and yet she held nothing but the upmost sympathies as she knew what it was like to not live out a normal childhood - whatever that might have looked like for Kanji here on planet Earth, "For her to just be wreaking havoc now, whether on purpose or not, I doubt that she was alone these past years since the raid. Someone must have been looking after her. Whoever it was or is, you think they might have something to do with all of this? Someone who holds influence over her maybe?" Nebula pondered out loud while still looking in Sophie's direction, hoping the expert may be able to shed some light on her questions.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Jan 26, 2024 17:52:15 GMT -8
"Years ago? For her to just be wreaking havoc now, whether on purpose or not, I doubt that she was alone these past years since the raid. Someone must have been looking after her. Whoever it was or is, you think they might have something to do with all of this? Someone who holds influence over her maybe?"
“A young woman who can seemingly bend water to her will, would be a pretty effective weapon," Sophie observed, retracing her steps back to the abandoned lab. "Especially in HYDRA's hands. You could do a lot of damage, yet make it look like a natural disaster. But why here, why now? Alas, our only lead just ran off into the darkness.”
She pushed open one of the swinging doors into the lab and sat at one of the desks to take a more thorough look at the file's contents. "Intake papers, test results, case notes," Sophie remarked as she flipped pages. " 'Patient alternates between periods of major depression, anger and hostility, lacking impulse control. Recommend daily dose of neuro inhibitor'," she read aloud. "That dosage is enough to take down an elephant."
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Post by Ariel on Jan 30, 2024 19:05:26 GMT -8
“A young woman who can seemingly bend water to her will, would be a pretty effective weapon," "Especially in HYDRA's hands. You could do a lot of damage, yet make it look like a natural disaster. But why here, why now? Alas, our only lead just ran off into the darkness.”
Nebula followed Sophie into the lab, the doors swinging freely behind them as they passed through. Nebula's hands rested on the surface of the desk as she stood across from Sophie who had taken a swift seat. She watched as her boss flipped through the papers of the file. Nebula waited in a moment of silence as she observed Sophie's eyes darting through the words of the mound of reports.
"Intake papers, test results, case notes," " 'Patient alternates between periods of major depression, anger and hostility, lacking impulse control. Recommend daily dose of neuro inhibitor'," "That dosage is enough to take down an elephant."
So this girl was tested on, drugged even by these doctors to keep her under control, "Sounds like she was kept in a cage for a while. No wonder this girl has gone completely mad," Nebula did not know what these specialists intentions had been, but she sympathized with this poor Inhuman. Who knows what else this girl had to endure under the care of these doctors - just as Nebula had endured torture and pain herself under the care of her own father, "We have to find her. If someone is using her as a weapon, then this might only be the beginning," Nebula stated in a determined fashion, "The good news is that hasn't happened yet, which means she might be hiding somewhere around here. We found traces of her, she could still be close by couldn't she?" Nebula put the question out in the open for answering, imaging that this poor Inhuman was most likely scared more than anything if it was a simple case of losing control. But if it was the latter, then they couldn't even be close to fathoming what could come next.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Feb 18, 2024 19:14:32 GMT -8
"Sounds like she was kept in a cage for a while. No wonder this girl has gone completely mad. We have to find her. If someone is using her as a weapon, then this might only be the beginning. The good news is that hasn't happened yet, which means she might be hiding somewhere around here. We found traces of her, she could still be close by couldn't she?"
"Could be," Sophie affirmed her partner's question. "If she's not thinking clearly, she'd likely stick to familiar territory. Keep her stress levels low, avoid triggering her power, and not do anymore damage than she already has. If she is thinking clearly, well.... she could be on a train to Tokyo and then a plane or boat to anywhere in the world."
After a few moments of pondering this worst-case scenario, Sophie flipped the file shut and looked up at Nebula with a bright smile. "But let's think positively, shall we?" she advised, crossing over to a cabinet to see if any medications remained that might put their target to sleep or at least slow her down. She used her phone's flashlight to read the labels of whatever vials or bottles she found, tossing most aside.
There was a popping, groaning sound that shuddered throughout the walls and ceiling. Before she could ask Nebula if she heard it, the overhead sprinklers erupted into life, dousing the room with a torrent of cold water. "Pretty sure she's close by," Sophie yelled above the noise. "We should get out of here."
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Post by Ariel on Mar 6, 2024 23:23:39 GMT -8
"Pretty sure she's close by," "We should get out of here."
The cold sprinkle of water was mildly uncomfortable on Nebula's outer surface. Her bionic parts began to ache as the water began to trickle over them, igniting a sudden sense of anxiety within Nebula as she worried about her parts beginning to rust. She was swift to agree as she gave a nod in Sophie's direction, "If she's close, she'll be up top. Not much left down here. We should go." Nebula left no more room for discussion as she took the lead in navigating them back through the tunnel towards the climbing ladder in which they came.
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**moments later, atop of the hatch**
Nebula's feet planted once again on solid ground, her boss's immediately doing the same behind her as she immediately began to survey their surroundings. There was a strong breeze caused by gusts of wind that ruffled the leaves and trees surrounding them as she paused for a moment, trying to pick up anything in particular. Nebula picked up an energy that was unmatched to the natural sense of their surroundings as her eyes darted all around, "She's here. I can sense her," Nebula stated as her feet began to lead her south. She did not know how or why she was able to sense the Inhuman. She just knew of the one that was different, and she was close.
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Post by Kristi Lynne on Mar 30, 2024 17:43:22 GMT -8
"She's here. I can sense her."
"You have a built-in radar as well?" Sophie smartly remarked, more out of annoyance at being soaking wet and cold than actual amusement. Nevertheless, she followed and tried to keep up with Nebula's pace, unable to navigate the rough terrain as easily as the bionic woman. She had managed to tuck her phone into her pocket as soon as the sprinklers started, so it was thankfully still working.
Yet she couldn't get a signal among the forest. "We need to find a clearing, or higher ground, so I can call Damage Control," Sophie advised. "They may be able to find something down there before it gets flooded."
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Post by Ariel on Apr 13, 2024 19:38:21 GMT -8
"You have a built-in radar as well?"
Nebula did not answer back, but narrowed in on what she was feeling as she walked ahead Sophie a few steps. Her eyes darted around the trees, and her feet led them to a stream traveling downwards into the steep forest. She figured if they were going to find the Inhuman, perhaps hanging around bodies of water might be a good step. Yet, the feeling she felt was suddenly dulled into nothing, losing whatever sense she had to feeling the Inhuman anywhere close to them.
"We need to find a clearing, or higher ground, so I can call Damage Control," "They may be able to find something down there before it gets flooded."
Nebula nodded as her feet stood on the soft ledge of the stream, looking around for any higher ground that they could stand on, "There," Nebula pointed upwards at a rocky ledge that protruded out of the mountainside, perhaps a fifteen minute hike from where they stood, "Is that high enough? There doesn't appear to be any trees on it either. Perhaps that would be a good source of a signal for your device?" Nebula asked.
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