Neon and Stone [Iota]

[Zarkan]

Sylbia glowered at the HK as he handed her his pistol, but frankly she didn't care what weather he liked it or not so long as he did it. Before she spoke she tucked his pistol into the strapping at her waist "We can finish our discussion later, get to the security room." She spun on her heel and marched towards the stair well to the science lab her feet making the distinctive droid like clink as they struck the tiled floors. Several minutes later she arrived at the science wing staring at the contraption before her smiling. "A manual lock how cute, shame to break it." she said quitely before slicing though the lock with a small plasma cutter. As she slowly opened the door she saw the doctor staring intently at a large screen projecting the image of some kind of dog-like creature. She quitely crept closer to his back aiming her pistol at his mid back if he noticed her. As she reached him she pressed her pistol against the back of his head expecting the normal response, but go nothing. "Hey!" Still nothing it was all peculiar until she got a good look at him and the gaping maw of his chest. She suppressed the urge to vomit or scream maybe even both as she pulled back jerkily scanning the office. Sylbia stared at the corpse for several moments before calling HK over the comm unit. "Somethings wrong here Hk, the doctor is dead. You get the data from the core and then we're getting the frack out of here I have a bad feeling I'm coming up to you now."

[Iota]

HK-32 aproached the door to the security room, before entering he switched his vision to thermal vision to see how many men were on the other side of the door. There were only three, HK some what amused by only three opponents, he opened up the compartment in his right leg to reveal a pistol he had not handed Sylbia, for she only asked for the one. He decided to keep her ignorant to the full extent of what he actually carried.

Coincidently, the security gaurds where about the same distance apart from one another standing in a horizontal line facing away from the door. HK set his pistol to stun as he sighed before kicking the door down. Without hesitation hk stepped forward, insteadof holding the pistol upwards he twisted the gun to the side. He fired, the first security gaurd down, the recoil of the gun moved the barrell to practically face the second security gaurd, he shot again, the recoil send the gun to face the third and final opponent, he fired. All three security gaurds shot in a matter of seconds, HK chuckled slightly before holstering the gun back in its compartment, he clicked on his comm unit "Statement: the security gaurds are sleeping.. heading to extract data from the core.." He shut his comm unit off before linking himself up to the core and began to extract the information required.

[Zarkan]

Sylbia started up the stairs as Hk spoke over the comm unit carefully scanning the surrounding area as she made her way up. The had crested the stairs when see heard it, the sound was like a growl mixed with a wail. When she jerked to the direction the sound had come from she could just see it's twelve glowing eyes glaring at her though the shadows at the end of the left most cross hallway. To her later embarrassment she never even considered shooting the beast as she broke of in a sprint for the security room basically screaming at the top of her lungs in terror as she slammed into the closed door wrenching on it trying to open it.

[Iota]

HK's audio recievers picked up on the howling and screaming going on outside "Humoured retort: You could always knock", He disconnected his feed to the main core after retriving the data required before walking to the door and letting Sylbia who almost fell flat on her face in despression to get in.

"Query: did the tranq gun not work?" he tilted his head before noticing the small armoury kept by the security forces, he gripped the handle before ripping the door off. HK looked through the different kinds of armour and guns before taking out a riot helmet andtorso gaurd, he tossed them to sylbia's feet "Statement: it will take most of the impact away if the creature attacks" He continued to look through the armoury before stopping two Striker pistols, slightly odd that a security force would have these highly lethal projectile firing hand guns, he took them out and slid them across the floor to Sylbia before turning back to the armoury and taking out two carbines.

HK turned to sylbia and nodded "Suggestion: i suggest you use me as cover and run when you get the chance.. if this is some kind of bio engineered war beast, then i doubt these guns will kill it..but it will slow it down..."

[Zarkan]

Sylbia glared at HK as she picked herself off the floor for mocking her and reminding her of her stupidity both before he threw her the armor and guns. She quickly donned the riot gear and stared at the pistols as she absently nodded to Hk as she stared at the metallic blocks before her. The sound of stone cracking brought he back to her senses as she picked up the two pistols holding them like poisonous snakes and slowly worked her way behind HK cowering there. "O...o...Ok" she laid one pistol on a desk besides her and delicately pointed the other towards the door as the crack, cracking of it's paws drawled near them finally crashing into the room though the door. It clearly towered over both as it's toothed multi-jawed mount gaped open sending a horrendous stench from it's mouth. At the sight of it sylbia squeaked and sunk down lower dropping the pistol from her now limp fingers.

[Iota]

HK tilted his head as the creature crashed into the room, a second or two later he simply raised his carbines unloading the entire magazine into the creature. The creature gave out a loud roar, whilst injuring the creature the carbines seemed to only annoy the bio engineered creature.

"Suggestion: Hide!" He suggested to Sylbia before dropping the carbines, the creature ran towards HK picking him up and ramming him into the wall. A few sparks sprang from hk and he let out a slight groan "Statement: Down boy!" HK proceeded to hammer his fists into the creatures head before smacking one of its eyes. The creature wimpered for a few moments giving HK enough time to dismount from the wall, one of his legs damaged, he was left with a heavy limp.

HK dragged himself to the main data core before plunging his arm inside and grabbing a mulititude of wires and yanking them out. The creature lunged for HK once again to which HK simply turned and plunged the wires into the ear of the creature sending several thound volts through the monster electrocuting it to death, unfortunatley HK too suffered from the electrocution, fortunaltey his systems automatically shut down in an event of such a surge of electricity but would take several minutes for it to come back online, to Sylbia if she did not know it would seem that HK may of sacrificed himself for her.

[Zarkan]

As the humped black monstrous mass grabbed Hk from before her she grabbed the dropped pistol, pointed it at the creature, and pulled the trigger, but instead of the loud pop or hiss she heard a light click, again click. A Jam? she thought to herself turning her eyes from the creature as she checked the pistol. A loud crash before her brought her attention back to HK as a shower of sparks erupted from his chassis she dropped the pistol picking up the second setting on the table and aimed it at the creature and pulled the trigger. Click, she didn't believe it three more times she tried, click, click, click. In desperation when Hk hit the floor she tossed the Pistol squarely at the creatures round head just above it's gaping maw. It struck the creature in one of the eyes as HK eviscerated the lower portion of the main security terminal pulling the power couplings from within it and striking them against the spiked back living weapon.

With a surge strong enough to dim the lights both HK and the creature fell. Sylbia choked back a sob as she rushed over to the droid unit shaking him vigorously with out reply for several minutes before clumsily opening the droid's chest panel surely he could be fixed. She looked though hazy eyes at the rats nest of wires and couplings straps and almost unidentifiable odds and ends stuffed into the limited room of the droids inner chest. As she started to reach towards one of the larger couplings she heard a scrapping start next to her as she turned to look she found herself looking directly into the eye of the monster as it's claws dug furrows in the tile as it brought it's limbs under it. Hoping it was still dazed sylbia quietly stood grabbing the Hk's chassis and attempting to drag the unit quitely to the far door, but unfortunately before they could reach it the creature finally regained its feet towering high enough that it couldn't even stand straight in the room, it's head and back crushed against the ceiling as it growled at sylbia.

First taking one then two unsteady almost drunken steps towards her if advanced on her in a panic she began flicking her few around the room half dragging half cowering behind the Hk unit it was then that she saw it. Weather it was a garbage shoot laundry shoot or air shaft she didn't know or care, but it was there and right next to them. In a rush she pushed the limp droid down the shaft before he she felt a strange sensation almost like a limb going to sleep as the monster crushed the lower portion of her robotic leg rendering it useless, but for the creature to pull her up out of the shaft to it with. With a good deal of fumbling she managed to unhook the prosthetic and fell backwards down the shaft banging on and off the walls before blacking out before she hit the bottom like a sack of drunk jawas.

[Iota]

HK landed at the bottom of the rubbish shute with a thud, he remained there lifeless fora couple of minutes before his systems re-activated.

Booting primary buffer....

Succesful...

Booting Secondary buffer.....

Succesful....

Initialising memory core and subsidaries.....

Succesful...

Running diagnostics protocols....

Pending....

Pending....

An error has occured, Bi-pedal limbs damaged, seek maintanance...

Pending....

Pending....

Initialise matrices and activate main systems...

Pending...

Succesful...

HK's boot up system kicked in and he was back and conscious. He instantly scanned the immediate area and found the unconscious body of Sylbia who had also sustained damage to her limbs. HK managed to clamber to his feet, his left leg still attached but malfunction so he was left only being able to use his right leg, He leant down and grabbed Sylbia by the scruff of the back of her neck and started to drag her out of the shute.

[Zarkan]

Sylbia's eyes slowly came in to focus as she dumbly stared at to moving tunnels her body ached, but she couldn't remember why. Slowly if came back to her and she realized she was being dragged backwards down a long dark tunnel She could feel a cold hard hand grasping the back of her neck which hurt more from the pull of the tissue and she reached up with both hands to grasp the arm and pull herself up a little. The arm felt familiar and she took a risk whispering quietly into the tunnel. "Hk, is that you?"

[Iota]

As HK continued down the dark tunnel,a light scraping sound emerged as he walked, he was quite badly damaged and probably wouldn't survive another encounter with the bio engineered monstrousity unless he made the appropriate repairs to his system and limbs. He continued his slow walk down the corridors.

a few moments had passed and Sylbia was starting to regain consciousness, she grabbed onto HK's arm fearing it was something else, she spoke "HK, is that you?" she asked quietly, desperqatley hoping it was.

"Statement: Affirmative... we are both critically damage... it would be inadvisable to confort that technological terror any further for the time being...."

[Zarkan]

"Good, I'm glad your up. I thought to try to fix you, but the creature didn't give me enough time. We need to stay quite and move fast, help me up it'll be faster if I hop with you though I'm afraid your going to have to hold me up." she said pulling on the droid while trying to slid her remaining leg. "It saw us come down the shaft I don't think if can fit, but I'm not sure.

[Iota]

HK supported Sylbia as they both dragged thei damaged legs down the dark tunnels. "Statement: i doubt the creature was small enough to get into the shute... never the less, we should keep moving indeed." HK held onto Sylbia so she wouldn't fall over.

"Request: we need your utility droid to perform urgent maintanence...otherwise we will not survive" which was rather obvious but he thought inclined to mention it to Syblia, just incase she hadn't thought of it.

[Zarkan]

Sylbia nodded as she supported herself on HK hobbling on her remaining leg. "Agreed, I hope you know the way out of here." she said looking around dumbly around the tunnels before furrowing her brow as she thought. "We're not the only people after these doctors someone released that creature after they killed him we're going to have to be more careful."

[Iota]

"Notification: I also downloaded the schematics of the building.. just in case we had to find an alternate exit..it seems mathmatics is against us in this particular endeavor" They hobbled round the corner and rested for a moment so Sylbia could regain some energy.

"Observation: there is a service lift down the other end fo the corridor, it should take us to the service exit of the building.. if the schematics are correct." he nodded

[Zarkan]

Sylbia nodded as she leaned into Hk "Good, hopping on one leg is getting old come on." She prodded Hk on as they hobbled to the lift and slid in. "Don't worry I'm sure Ki will be more than capable of fixing any damages you have." she slid down the wall of the lift coming to sit on the floor as the lift began raising them. "Any idea where we go now?"

[Iota]

HK continued his walk with syblia, if he didn't get the maintainence required fairly soon, his circuits would short out. The damaged he sustained was next to crippling, his systems damaged, he was running on reserves and they would not last long.

"Statement: we are almost at the service elevator" HK lifted his arm slightly to the direction of the lift as the damage was become more evident.

[Zarkan]

Sylbia struggled up to her foot and leaned on HK. "We need to hurry your not looking so god HK. she pulled Hk towards the elevator and setting it to take them up. By the time they arrived at the ship sylbia was exhausted and even HK looked like he was on the verge of collapse once inside she called to Ki and collapsed on the bunk pulling off her other leg while she waited. She though she heard a plaintive wail from Ki before her eyes bubbled into stars as a unknown assailant struck her laying her out cold on the floor.

[Iota]

HK lay next to dysfunctional on the floor as he was dragged onto the ship, Ki ran around like an overworked engineer before wailing. Sylbia had been struck by an unknown person. HK's visual receptors were fluctuating rapidly, his visual would go from normal, to static to pitch black and would cycle in this processa few times a second, he could only see a rough outline of the being.

HK slowly grabbed a pistol by his side before aiming roughly towards the assailants torso as it was the most likely spot HK would hit under current circumstances, he pulled the trigger before dropping the pistol and deactivating, he was worse for wears and would not activate until Ki had performed the necessary maintainance on HK-32.

[Zarkan]

Sylbia's vision slowly cleared to the sight of a chattering ki mere inches from her face. Groaning she levered herself up and crawled over the the sprawled creature. "Ki, see to Hk quick she rolled the mercenary over and checked his life signs. She let her hand drop clearly he was dead and turned to ki pulling Hk's leg plating open. She managed to find a datapad on the body of the human merc before she dragged herself over to Hk and started reading the information on the datapad.