Investigate Anaconda: Secure Cache (Vee/Reida)

The Punk didn't even look back, simply booking it for the safety of the darkness, CURSING under his breath that he wasn't even able to get that damn woman to back down! All the same, he sped on, fully expecting the woman to be hot on his heels as he raced for the nearest exit that he was still aware of, hoping that he could get out of here and NEVER see those damn quincy again!


The sudden CRUNCH wasn't enough to pry the man attacking Vee's attention from his prey, but it WAS enough to snare the attention of the woman that had been idly surveying the downed forklift driver and the whole scuffle between quincy off to the side. Those sharp, intelligent eyes darted to the side, briefly taking a moment to scan the area curiously. It was Reida's sheer cautiousness that kept the woman from outright spotting her right away, and when that first shot rang out, the woman's eyes widened! The bullet slamming into her chest before suddenly reishi collected in her hand, JUST in time for the second shot to PANG off the surface before that third bullet flew wide as the impact of the second bullet sent out a thick compressed shockwave! Traveling directly along the path that the bullet had traveled, Reida would find a sudden ripple of air showing between her and the woman's shield, before that shockwave would plow straight through the spot she had been when she fired, ripping a hole through the cover she'd found and making a loud shredding noise as it then traveled further into the warehouse itself.

All the same, the woman staggered back, her whole body riddled with faint lines as her blut vene strained against that first shot that had been sent her way. GASPING just a little and putting on a rueful smirk as she crouched, eyes trained on the spot where her shield had retaliated. "Well well well, seems we have more company Raix!" The woman called out, crouching down and promptly pressing her fingers to the dirt, drawing a small sigil with her nail before focusing as thin lines of reishi spread out along the ground, dragging it out from the air as slowly, a matrix slowly began to form beneath her, seeming to prepare some sort of spell.


Raix, as the other woman had called him, twitched as he managed to slam the smaller quincy into the ground, eyes darting away from her to lock onto his partner before his face screwed up into a snarl of distaste.
"Shlosael

That dull murmur was a trigger to a sudden rushing burst of reishi around the man as bright reishi wings burst from his back, a halo maid from chain links forming over his head with elongated holes lining the edges of the wings. The release of a Volstanding. Almost immediately after it's release, a wall of chains would suddenly erupt along the ground, cutting straight across the battlefield and closing off the entire other half of the warehouse, as well as his partner and the man downed in the Forklift, as well as one of the Soldat. Thus keeping Himself, Vee, Reida, and the remaining soldat on their own side of the wall of chains that rose up dozens of meters into the sky.

When that soldat fired at him, he yanked on the chain that was connected to the ring of metal around Vee's neck, yanking her from her spot on the ground and promptly placing her in the path of the arrow as his eyes searched for the shooter. "Get out here." He growled out, clearly aiming to draw Reida out.

Those additional pops, as well as the newfound awareness of where they were coming from, gave the quincy woman all the needed to know about where she had to focus. Those short bursts PANGING against the woman's shield as she managed to change her position, however her blut DID sustain several more hits once she started to channel that strange glyph into the ground, her Blut continuing to strain against those sparse rounds that managed to hit her before that wall of chains cut her off from the shooter. Annoying!

All the same, that network would continue to spread out along the ground, spidering outward and rapidly slithering across the field, even weaving through under the ground to slip past the wall of chains to fully encompass the entire field. There was a dull crackle in the air as a slight feel of ....invasion would course throughout the entire area. A dull tingling that would ripple along both Reida and Vee's bodies as well as the quincy fighting alongside them. A few beads of sweat forming when that sudden upspike of condensed spiritual energy suddenly showed up in the form of Reida's attack!

"RAIX! We're getting out of here NOW! HQ, this is Major Ezya Morde requesting immediate extraction of Second Squad!" She promptly hissed, though her expression would jar slightly when she started to feel that Field she'd created start to peel away, ripped apart from the ground and shredded thanks to Reida's Letz Stil. In the very same moment that a dark quincy cross would form above her head, shadow gushing forth to swallow her body. She gave one last hiss of alarm before her spiritual pressure vanished and she glared at the fight going on as her body was slowly swallowed by her shadow.



The slightest distraction. Raix was a soldier, who understoof the importance of focus. HE could sense the little woman he'd pinned to the floor yanking herself up onto her feet, more than prepared to ignore them as he spotted the sudden surge of energy happening before his very eyes. Face screwing into a mask of determined concentration even as Vee launched themselves at her and that slim dagger of ice broke against his enhanced blut. However, when he heard that shout from his ally, he suddenly snapped his attention toward Vee, as if expecting something suddenly from her. A mistake in who she was referring to, he promptly grabbed the woman by the neck with a vicelike grip and was in the midst of throwing her into the ground with tremendous force when Reida was suddenly upon him.

At first that knife slammed into his bluut and was stopped, eyes darting toward Reida as those sudden sharp stabs cracked and sparked off his skin, and he promptly aimed to swing Vee into her body to plow both women into the ground, however he .... was unable to keep up. He was moving MUCH faster than Reida even before he'd used his Letz stil, but the sudden spike from Reida's own release was completely overwhelming. His eyes widening as he would aim to throw Vee into the ground more or less, while at the same time, he'd feel his Vollstandig begin peeling away from his body! And those rapid knife strikes suddenly began to sink in! Almost instantly he was alarmed, starting to BARELY mitigate those stabs, only managing to keep that knife from burying deep into the targeted spots, but none the less, blood sprayed and began toi ooze as cuts began peppering his entire body! Rapidly trying to retreat, backing up amidst the assault!

There was a sudden dark quincy cross above his head as shadow would shoot down and envelop his body, however, his spiritual pressure would not vanish, rather, that shadow......would begin peeling away. That attempted extraction simply broken down, and shredded to pieces by Reida's Letz Stil. And then he LUNGED, pushing himself into one of those stabs, and an instant later a manacle would form around the hand that held it, chains forming between himself and reida, but it wouldn't be absorbed by Reida's letz, unlike those other chains Reida would see that this one was made from the man's blood, his hand soon clasped over it to LOCK the blade into his body and grab Reida by the wrist.

She was still faster, but that manacle meant that unless she planned on giving up her arm, she was soon going to be in the grips of the ma. "GRRRRRRRAAAAAAAH!" A beastlike roar escaped the man's lungs as he swung, unleashing a sudden and vicious roundhouse kick aimed to send Reida flying back into the warehouse with enough force to simply seperate her from her arm regardless of her desire to keep it intact if it managed to hit, that sudden spike in speed and strength rapidly rising to match her own, possibly catching her off guard as the man bled from several knife wounds.

His veins pushing out, not in blut, but from sheer tension as his Vollstanding finally peeled away completely. But he didn't slow down, he got FASTER. Abandoning his quincy release and focusing on his own martial prowess instead. Though even at this distance, Reida might be able to hear the sound of muscle ripping as the man pushed himself to try and match her, perhaps just as pyrrhic as her own burst of strength.


Reinforcements en route to both squads, ETA Thirty Seconds. Those cubes would sound off, and both Vee and Reida would be able to sense the spiritual signatures of other Vandenreich rapidly approaching. It wouldnt' be long before the man before them was completely swarmed.

The man's eyes narrowed, darting as she watched the woman go so far as to chop her arm clean off rather than take that devastating roundhouse kick, even as she avoided the kick itself, the air shearing around his body let out a WHOOSH as compressed air blasted outwards in a shockwave, still clutching Reida's severed arm and letting out a gruff, husky pant as his eyes darted, managing to start following her as he seemed to continue rapidly growing in speed and strength, those veins along his skin starting to steam just a little as he ...Focused. He twitched, gritting his teeth before he CLAPPED his hand onto his own chest, and suddenly thin chain0link tattoos suddenly coursed all over his body, each one connected to one of his stab wounds before he clenched the fist, pulling those chains out of his skin and into reality, his face twisted in concentration.

"GrhhhhhhhhhhAHHHHHH!" He roared out, his yell echoing in the mountains as Reida would see those chains peel straight out of his chest and then slam together into a throbbing ball of dark energy! If she was acute enough in the department of energy sensory, she would FEEL a very familiar sensation from that ball of chained up energy. It was HER reiatsu, ripped clean out of his body and bound by the chains. With a wet THUMP the ball of chained up reishi dropped to the ground as he huffed and puffed, those wounds slowly stopping their bleeding as he narrowed his eyes at the woman, holding up his free hand, within which he still held the severed limb that was still chained to him. The knife still in it's hand.

"Oh you mean this knife? Would you like me to return it safely buried in your chest as you tried to leave it in me? Or... perhaps you'd like your little friend to hold it for you instead?" He asked, keeping his eyes squarely on Reida as he gestured down to Vee. Wincing a little as he seemed to react to voices that Reida herself wasn't privy to. "Shit....Ezya what have you done...." He muttered under his breath, sweat beading along his skin as he narrowed his eyes at the woman. "I'm gonna be real honest with you, It' takes a lot to keep up with that little weeb cursed power you have goin on. Ain't had a fight this fun in ages. But I can't keep it up, and I'm willin to bet you probably can't either. So what say we call this a draw. I cooperate, and you tell me whatever it is that you shot up my partner with. Alternatively: I kill your partner, and as many others that get in the way of beating the answer out of you myself as necessary." He growled out, a hint of an accent shining through in his words. British? Maybe Australian? Whatever the case, the man made his intentions very clear. Whatever had happened to the woman that Reida had shot, it seemed there was still room for concern in the man. Enough that he was faltering from whatever objective he'd been tasked with accomplishing here.



Reinforcements will be arriving momentarily. Chimed both women's cubes.

The man spun the knife in his hand as he noticed the unhinged look on Reida's features , eyes briefly taking in the sight of the woman's arm slowly healing itself. His expression relaxes for just a moment, and as Reida continues to menacingly deliver her response to his offer, he takes a slow, steady breath before sighing softly, the bleeding having already stopped as patterns flowed across his body.

Off in the distance, Vandenreich were closing in. The sharp sound of Hirenkyaku as well as others moving in using vehicles was in clear evidence as reinforcements started to roll in as promised, closing in around the area. The soldat under Reida and Vee's command visibly relaxing slightly as the sight of reinforcements closed in.

There was a crinkling noise as the knife slowly glowed white hot, and red steam coiled around the man's body. His skin turning slightly red as his veins became more pronounced. "Door number Two it is." The comment was punctuated by Reida's knife being flung directly into the center of Vee's navel, thrown with an expert flick to pin the woman to the ground with the blade. Exactly as the man has promised. The next instant was a loud punctuating crack as a hirenkyaku closed the distance between him and Reida, his speed suddenly blistering. And while Reiada has been forced to turn off her Letz Stil, the man seemed intent on continuing to fight as if she still had it active. A sudden and brutal thrust that would have put that elevated form of hers to the test in terms of speed and brutality as his fist was thrust with the intention of plowing it straight through Reida's midriff with enough force to send her into the ground and crater it in the process.

At that very same time: the wall of chains the man had formed promptly twisted and curved back down, forming a dome around himself, Vee, Reida, and the Soldat that they had been sent here with. Promptly closing them off from the backup that had been en route to support them. Layer upon layer of chains slowly winding around and around to secure the dome for however long Raix could manage to keep his body intact as he continued to destroy it in favor of the strength to try and beat the answer out of Reida as promised. Vehicles and Soldat alike came skidding to a halt just outside the barrier. Promptly they got to work trying to break their way in, as others circled around to flood into the warehouse that Vee and Reida had managed to keep safe and undisturbed throughout the mission.

Now all that was left was for Reida and Vee to survive however long this brick house of a man was able to hold out.