<div style="text-align: center"><b>Paradise City, USA - Alpha</b>​</div><a class="link link--internal" href="https://bluemoonroleplaying.com/community/threads/118819/#post-2937776">
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</a><br/><br/>Most of the assembled experts and industry leaders hit the floor when the shooting starts, more afraid of stray fire than the call to stay in their seats. Still out of sight backstage, Alpha hears but does not see Sei enter the room. Assuming it's hired security - the total yearly wages in this room must be in the nine figures at least - she readies herself to jump out and help. She reconsiders, however, when the flashbang goes off; while she doesn't see it, she's heard enough flashbangs to recognize the<i>bang</i>and assumes it's the tactically-equipped attackers that detonated it. Jumping right back out onto the stage would only cause confusion and put the attendees at greater risk. Instead, she moves further offstage, bursting into the hallway running alongside the hall.<br/><br/>Sei's countdown gives the quicker-witted of the attackers just enough time to regroup. Two withdraw, exiting through a side door and into the hallway before the flashbang goes off. Both they and Alpha are surprised to see each other, but Alpha is already sprinting down the hall towards them. Both reach for sidearms, but Alpha reaches the closer one first, planting a heel on his boot and shoving him backwards with an open palm to the chest. While he falls, his partner's sidearm clears its holster - a Taser. It's coming up to point at Alpha's center of mass when she turns, her foot coming up and hooking under the weapon, knocking it out of the attacker's hands. Another turn provides the momentum to put her other foot up under the attacker's helmet, delivering a knockout blow to his skull. The first attacker, on his back on the floor, already has his Taser pointed at her center of mass, so she jumps, flipping in mid-air. The taser fires, wired darts missing the skin of her flat stomach by millimeters before Alpha comes down, landing knee-first on his chin.<br/><br/>This puts Alpha directly in front of the doors, looking into the room. Blind, deaf, and dumbstruck, the remaining attackers put up a poor fight for Sei, but at least one had the presence of mind to play dirty. Having apparently hit the floor when the flashbang went off, he's recovered enough to grab a nearby researcher - a portly, white-haired man in thick glasses and a sweater vest - and lift him to his feet. With one arm locked securely around the researcher's neck, he lifts his submachine gun in the other and fires at the cyborg. Still recovering from the flashbang, he's not a great shot, but returning fire without hitting the hostage would be a tall order. Not so much for Alpha's position, behind him. Between the gunfire and the ringing in his ears, he has no chance of hearing Alpha before one foot kicks out his knee. He doesn't lose his grip on the researcher at first, but as he falls to his knees, it provides enough gap for Alpha to slip a leg in and lock his neck between her thighs.<br/><br/>He tries to shout something, but with his mouth pressed into Alpha's panties, it's too muffled to make out any words. One of her hands grip his right wrist, pointing the submachine gun upward as he desperately squeezes the trigger until the weapon clicks empty. He tries to thrash, but her thighs hold firm, compressing the blood vessels in his neck until, seconds later, he goes limp. Alpha holds the blood choke a few more seconds for safety's sake before releasing the hold, looking over at the researcher to see he is shaken, but unharmed. Taking another breath of the stimulants flowing through her mask, she looks up for more attackers -<br/><br/>- and suddenly twists painfully as a pair of Taser darts penetrate the skin of her back. Her spine arches, her body spasming as electricity courses through her body and sets her nervous system afire. Even after the shock ends, her body is numb, and she can only gasp in shock and pain before a gloved hand grabs ahold of her hair and forces her facefirst to the ground.