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Post by Demeter Chiato on Dec 24, 2010 21:15:53 GMT
Demeter glared at the article she was reading online.
"I can't believe people would do something like this!" She told Toby.
Apparently, there was a nearby research facility that was testing some kind of new drug or something, but the part Demeter found horrifying was that they were testing it on animals.
"It's not like they volunteered or anything...."
Toby nodded in agreement. Demeter went to her closet and pulled out a gift box, opening it. It had her Squirrel Girl costume, which she hadn't worn since she moved in with her mom.
"You know what we have to do, Toby." Demeter quickly changed into the outfit and opened her window.
"Ready to go set the captives free?" She asked, and Toby nodded, chattering confidently. Demeter leapt down from the second floor window, landing gracefully in the alley below. She looked around again, then headed for the research lab.
A high chain-link fence surrounded it, with barbed wire at the top. Squirrel Girl frowned. She looked around for a gate, but wasn't on the correct side of the building for a fence. But no matter, she climbed up the fence, pulling wire cutters out of her little utility belt, snipping away at the barbed wire, not noticing the security cameras placed about near the fence.
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Post by Reiko Tanaka on Dec 26, 2010 0:23:19 GMT
"Why is she dressed as a squirrel?" Was the first thing Reiko thought when she saw the girl cutting through the fence.
Then again since she was wearing a skintight leather suit and some rather tight belts she couldn't really comment. Reiko was standing behind a pair of security guards who were watching her over a security camera. It had been awkward because although the yakuza were the ones funding the tests (experimenting on X-juice) the guards they'd hired actually worked here and didn't speak Japanese. Reiko didn't speak English and the only one who spoke both was lying on a settee in another room napping.
Reiko decided to communicate as best she could.
"... what is ... thing?" She asked, trying her best to grapple with the foreign language.
The guard explained to her as best he could but Reiko simply looked at him unable to pick up any words other than "superpowered freak". He tried repeating it slower but to no avail. Reiko and the guard looked at each other for a second before the bald heavy set man got up and tried to wake up the interpreter.
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Post by Demeter Chiato on Dec 28, 2010 17:12:15 GMT
After cutting through, Squirrel Girl looked around cautiously, Toby sitting on her shoulder.
"We have to do this as quickly as possible." She said quietly. Toby nodded and they headed carefully toward the building. She didn't know where to go it, but she peeked in the windows, most of which were dark, and thus, she could see nothing.
She came to an emergency exit door, but of course, those doors can only be opened from the inside. She sighed, but then Toby chattered, pointing to the vent above the door.
"Great job, Toby!" Squirrel Girl praised him, patting his head. He crawled into the little vent, and Squirrel Girl waited for him to open it from the other side. Of course, he was going to chew of the wire that connected it to the alarm system first.
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Post by Reiko Tanaka on Dec 29, 2010 2:16:36 GMT
The alarm circuit was broken and a warning light flashed on. The remaining guard tapped it a few times and then looked worried. He craned his neck around to face Reiko.
"The alarm ju-" He stopped "Do you speak English?"
Reiko shook her head.
The guard called for the other two but nothing happened so he just pointed at the alarm and shook his head saying "No," he then pointed at Reiko and said "You," and then tapped the camera facing the emergency exit where a squirrel was crawling out of an air vent.
The two people looked at each other for a second, maybe they were just dreaming?
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Post by Demeter Chiato on Dec 29, 2010 3:59:38 GMT
"Great job, Toby!" Squirrel Girl patted his head, giving him a walnut, after he managed to get the door open a bit. Squirrel Girl slipped inside, Toby on her shoulder, munching on his nut. She looked around, for any indication of where the animal test subjects might be being held captive. She frowned, seeing that the halls were unmarked, at least, not in a way she understood. There were numbers and arrows on the walls, but she didn't know what number to go to.
"Looks like we'll just have to look everywhere...." Squirrel Girl said, and they headed off down one of the halls.
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Post by Reiko Tanaka on Dec 29, 2010 23:47:04 GMT
Reiko took note of where they were on the screen and then looked down at the guard. The guard looked back at her and asked her to do something. Reiko complied running out the doorway and switching into energy ball form. She flew down the corridor shining an orange glow onto the walls. Her plan was to find the intruder, and then shift into human form in front of her, if the explosion caused from that didn't kill her then she could just pummel her with her own bare hands.
She was close to where the intruder was, Reiko caught sight of her as she rounded the corner and then morphed back into her bipedal, human guise, a huge explosion erupting from her body.
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Post by Demeter Chiato on Dec 30, 2010 15:35:19 GMT
Squirrel Girl and Toby were thrown against the wall as a glowing orange orb exploded in front of them.
"Toby!" Squirrel Girl called out, and a faint chattering replied. "Toby!" Squirrel Girl scrambled, looking for him. She could tell by his faint, strained voice, that he was hurt from the explosion.
Squirrel Girl stopped looking when she saw a person, right where the explosion had occured. She slowly looked up at the Japanese girl standing over her. She didn't seem to be a scientist. But where had she come from?
Squirrel Girl stayed on the floor, her mind trying to figure out what had happened. Was it some kind of grenade? Did this girl have some sort of power? Where was Toby? Could they get past this suspicious and mysterious girl to save the captive animals?
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Post by Reiko Tanaka on Dec 30, 2010 23:45:32 GMT
"Anata wa dare ga des ka!?" Reiko snapped, walking up to the girl and then aiming a kick into her stomach "Onamaewa!?"
Reiko stopped for a second and then sighed, she really needed to learn this language beyond the level of a schoolchild and the long list of swear words that she'd memorized. Reiko knelt down next to the intruder with a cold expression.
"Are ... iie ahhh," That wasn't the right word! What was it again? "What are you ... doing? done? do?" Reiko sighed, evidently with her limited ability to grasp a foreign language she would probably just have to kill the intruder and forget about questioning. She stood up and was about to transform into her ball form again when something caught her eye.
The little squirrel that had broken the wire. She walked over to him (or her) and picked it up by the tail. Why was a squirrel even here?
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Post by Demeter Chiato on Dec 31, 2010 17:06:10 GMT
"Leave Toby alone!" Squirrel Girl cried desperately, standing up quickly, glaring. She bit her lower lip. Obviously this girl had trouble speaking English, so she probably didn't understand her. Since Squirrel Girl had been homeschooled almost her entire life, she was only in first level Spanish this semester in school, so she had very little experience with other languages. And this girl was obviously Asian, so the little Spanish she had learned would not be of any help.
"If I tell you why I'm here, will you let Toby go?" Squirrel Girl spoke slowly and clearly, hoping that the Asian girl would understand her. Of course, telling her why she was there could jeopardize the entire mission. But she couldn't stand there and let Toby get hurt!
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Post by Reiko Tanaka on Jan 1, 2011 1:28:04 GMT
The "Squirrel Girl" said the next few sentence very slowly. Reiko rolled her eyes, that wouldn't help, Reiko couldn't understand English so talking slower wasn't going to help her.
"Watashi wa Igirisu wa hakima-" She said, pronouncing each word very slowly.
... Okay, so she was a hypocrite, Reiko realised that the girl probably couldn't speak Japanese and stopped talking to save them both the embarrassment of a communication failure. Reiko dropped the squirrel on the floor and then started to glow orange before turning into her ball form and hurtling towards the intruder.
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Post by Demeter Chiato on Jan 8, 2011 15:56:30 GMT
Squirrel Girl dove out of the way of the orange orb of energy, grabbing Toby. She sheilded him with her body.
"Something is definietly weird about this girl."
Toby nodded in agreement. Not sure if the orange ball could see her or not, Squirrel Girl tried running down the hall. She carried Toby carefully, noticing that his tail seemed broken.
"Don't worry, as soon as we get somewhere less dangerous, I'l bandage you up, little guy!"
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Post by Reiko Tanaka on Jan 10, 2011 20:20:26 GMT
Reiko missed them with her first strike and ricocheted off the wall, then again and again, it took her a bit of time to stop bouncing around and hurtle down the corridor after them. GoGo accelerated in front of them and bounced off a wall, then a ceiling panel, then the other wall and continued to ricochet around them for a bit before shifting into human form causing a large explosion and sending her hurtling across the corridor.
Reiko threw a hand to the side and grabbed a piece of piping to stop herself from sliding into the room where they kept the monkeys. She looked up to see how the girl and her squirrel were doing.
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Post by Demeter Chiato on Jan 18, 2011 23:45:24 GMT
The explosion sent Squirrel Girl into a wall. She held Toby tightly, determined not to let him get injured any further. But she had hit the wall pretty hard, and could feel her back bruising from the impact. She tried to stand up, but it was very difficult, since she was in so much pain.
"Toby, are you okay?" She asked. The little squirrel chattered nervously, and she patted his head.
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine." Squirrel Girl looked around for the Asian girl, but even doing that hurt. She took a deep breath and bore the pain as she rose to her feet.
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Post by Reiko Tanaka on Jan 20, 2011 23:17:20 GMT
Reiko smirked a little bit and then climbed to her feet. She dusted herself off and then noticed that the piece of pipe she'd been holding onto was slightly damaged. She chuckled and then tore it off, causing not only water to leak onto the floor in quick spats but for a loud "CLANG" to echo through the corridors.
Another "CLANG" vibrated through the floor as Reiko dropped it behind her and then a sort of scratching sound as she dragged it along with her until she was right in front of the girl. That was the point where GoGo raised the pipe and got ready to strike down at the girl. She aimed a kick at her stomach/the squirrel cradled in her arms and then swung the pipe at her head.
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Post by Demeter Chiato on Jan 26, 2011 2:48:31 GMT
Squirrel Girl gasped and rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the attacks aimed at her by the Asian girl.
She rose to her feet, wincing in pain, but started running down the hall, simply trying to get away from the girl. Of course, she couldn't run very fast, because she was injured, but any distance was good. She looked down at Toby, who chattered, concerned.
"Don't worry, we'll be okay, Toby." Squirrel Girl muttered, trying to convince herself of the same thing. She turned a corner and slowed down, having used up a lot of energy and needing a break.
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