>>5804938>>5804939>>5804941>>5804944You figure anyone down there is wearing a mask already, would be pointless if they weren't. You take off your uniform shirt making sure to pull your badge and clip it to your under shirt. You wrap the thick cotton around your arm and tighten it, revolver in your grip, you take off your hat and place that over your open hand. You know this isn't like the movies, vents have screws and all sorts of bits poking out. You climb in very slowly, brace both arms against either side and allow yourself to slowly slide.
The vent feels like it goes on forever, especially as it vents hot air from beneath you, sending your hair up. slowly light begins to shine through, red emergency lights. The sound of fighting is louder now, you hear clattering of metal, like guns hitting the floor and a voice.
"Alright, now you both come after me at once."
Crack. Thump.
"Okay okay, now you get up and attack me from behind while he attacks me from the front."
Clank. Thwack.
The voice is young sounding but muffled, he's wearing a mask as well. You brace your feet and manage to stop yourself from plummeting out of the open vent hatch on the roof of the room.
Below you there are about five men, four of them circle around a lone figure in the center of the room. He holds two metal rods in his hands, they look like small pipes with glowing blue tips. He weaves them through the air leaving small trails of light due to the speed. On his face is a mask, covering his eyes with some sort of sim white light, below the eye mask is a device covering his mouth and nose. It has small blue LEDS.
"All together now, with teamwork anything is possible." He calls out, you can hear the smile in his voice alone.
The still recovering anarkists scope him out. Their weapons on the floor by his feet, mainly small submachine guns, you see one gun with a blown apart barrel and scorch marks. One of the men tucks a hand under his arm.
Who is this guy?
You watch as all the men dive towards him at once, he slams the two small pipes together and you watch as they stick to one another forming a long staff with glowing ends. He ducks low and swings in a wide arc, the sound of metal connecting with knee is heard over the rattling AC unit. He laughs as they all hit the ground but you notice something he didn't. One of the men at his back hit the ground early, on his belly, he crawls for a gun and is about to get it in his reach. The man continues taunting the Anarkists, waving at them to rise back up.
"Third time is the charm guys, really."
>Drop from the vent and try to land on the one going for his gun.>Maintain your position in the vent, but fire a shot at the Anarkist from above.>Call out a warning to the man with the staff>Stay silent, you don't know who this guy is but you can't be sure he's on your side. >Write-In 