With his arms burning, Donta didn't stop at the bushes. He kept running. Out into the open only for a moment then he sprinted between the nearest TAM's legs, startling the pilot standing before it. With a quick knee to the chin, Donta sent the man sprawling on his back, then grabbed the cable lift to ascend into the cockpit with Kat still dangling from his neck. He quickly helped her into the back and took the pilot's seat, all while wondering just what the fuck he was doing. His mother told him to never take chances because if he got hurt, then people could learn of his heritage from medical scans, or from a blood sample.<br/><br/>Such a thing was now staring him in the face as the hatch closed and the HUD came up, asking for him to take the controls and verify he was Human. He hesitated for a moment and the computer insisted, this time asking in an audible tone.<br/><br/>"Please verify genetic information." Donta sighed and turned back to look at Kat. He didn't have a choice.<br/><br/>"Kat, keep this to yourself, please." he said, then grabbed the controls. The scan started and seemed to hesitate for a moment, then the controls came alive. The screen flashed with the result of the scan for a moment. The word 'HUMAN' appeared across the screen, but kept flashing as if it wasn't sure. Still, it gave him access to most systems.<br/><br/>Donta pulled on the controls and the TAM stood, activating the screen. A TAM beside him had already stood and was shooting at the ones surrounding the Police. Angela, Donta thought. He raised the rifle in the TAM's hands and ran forward, pushing the butt of the rifle through the head of the nearest TAM in front of him. It toppled backwards and landed on a tree, taking it out of the ground and made dirt rain over it. In a flash, he spun and sent one shot flying in the direction of another one, taking the head of that one off as well. He assumed Angela would get the final one, so he stood upright as the Police cheered, but there were still three friendly targets left on his radar.<br/><br/>A simple fiddle with his arm device and he had the communications hacked on the machine. He set up a secure channel to Angela's TAM and was monitoring the other three's chatter via speech to text on his screen. They were in disarray as to why two of their own were attacking them, and threats of a traitorous death were aimed at them.<br/><br/>"Angela, there's three more at the rear of the school."<br/><br/>--------------------------<br/><br/>"Jayce, wait!" Then laughter. "I cant believe we did that!" "No more stupid ferals to breath our air eh?"<br/>"Kids, drag these bodies outside for disposal." Cody said.<br/><br/>The school was starting to fall silent as the Ferals around them were finally falling quiet. Cody began to get impatient and began tapping his foot on the floor.<br/><br/>"The announcement has already been over for a few minutes. Where are their reinforcements?" he wondered out loud. His radio suddenly sprang to life.<br/><br/>"Cody, two of our units were taken and our front court units are down. Get your team out of there. Our reinforcements won't make it in time."<br/><br/>Cody, furious, keyed the mic, "You mean to tell me two of our TAMs were stolen?!" He released the mic and knew who it was. Angela and the kid by the door. The only two Humans able to pilot them in the small group that got away, "They're untrained kids! You can't take care of them?"<br/><br/>"No sir, One is hacking out coms. I think it may be a pro."<br/><br/>"Hardly." Cody said, his anger rising, "Fine. Everyone go to the backup extraction point!"<br/><br/>"You serious?" Jayce spat, letting the Feral he was dragging go, her legs falling to the floor.<br/><br/>"We did what we came here to do. Everyone knows that the Poachers are serious now. Now we will be taken seriously." he said. Jayce sighed and waved the rest through the emergency exits at the rear of the cafeteria. Once outside, the doubled up in the waiting TAMs and jets on the backs of them fired as they flew off.<br/><br/>----------------------------------<br/><br/>A good book had a tendency to take you away to another world and that combined with a loud mix of music almost made the world completely vanish. The only thing that made Kate come back to reality, was her growling stomach.<br/><br/>Finally looking up from her screen, she noticed the library was deserted. She didn't think this odd because it was the first day of school and the Library was the last place people wanted to be. Packing up her things in her bag she left the Library and headed to the Cafeteria to get something to eat.<br/><br/>Her trip there made her think something was wrong. There was no one in the halls either. There should be alot of people here and yet none were to be seen. Panic gripped her throat as she quickened her pace, as if the Cafeteria held all the answers, as it should be packed right now. Sliding on the linoleum she skidded to a stop at the doors and her eyes went wide at the bodies, and all the blood.<br/><br/>Ducking into a nearby trash can, she heaved into it, then forced herself to scan the room as she wiped her mouth with a sleeve. They were all dead? But why? How? What the hell happened?"<br/><br/>*Wheeze*<br/><br/>Someone was breathing? Someone was alive? Kate rushed forward, slipping on the blood, but she caught herself on a table, then glanced around frantically for the sound. She saw one female Feral in the middle of the room, barely alive and lying in a pool of her own blood that was smeared from another spot. She was dragged? Fighting nausea, Kate rushed forward and knelt over the Injured Feral, pulling out her phone and pressing a nearby pile of napkins into an oozing bullet hole. Speed dialing 911, she spoke frantically on the phone.<br/><br/>"I'm in the Academy Cafeteria! It's such a mess in here! Everyone's dead! There's one that's barely alive, but you need to send help!"<br/><br/>"Hold on. So the Poachers aren't there anymore?" The operator asked.<br/><br/>"The who?" Kate asked confused.<br/><br/>"We're sending in help they're outside."<br/><br/>The sound of heavy boots echoing in the halls came through the doors and the police burst in, along with paramedics who took the girl from Kate. Another officer pulled her aside as the rest did their best with cleanup.