<strong>At the Complex</strong><br/><br/>"Is that so?" The Commander purred with a dangerous tone in his voice. The woman looked afraid, one of her guards met the commander's eye and nodded, followed by the other guard. Before she could speak, he pulled out a pistol and shot her. A smell of ozone and sizzling flesh filled the lab as she dropped the floor twitching. He motioned to the two guards who picked up the senseless woman and held her upright. "So, if I recall what your initial notes said.. we needed untainted samples right? Most likely what is all over the counter here is tainted. Assuming we can generate a large enough pool of the tainted sample could you fix it?" He asked as he took a large syringe out and used it to draw in a large dose from a puddle on the floor. He tapped the syringe and tilted her head back and injected her in the neck.<br/><br/>"Put her in a pod." He said coldly to the guards. "Slap a sleep inducer on her and tap a vein before she pops. You." He turned back to Darren. "You work on fixing this. Give them a list of shit you need and see if you can figure out how to find that girl. I want her working for us ASAP. Get the Malice upgrade back in production, or I'll use the stuff I just put in her." He pointed to the stunned woman as she was carried out.<br/><br/>With that he turned and walked out. Leaving Darren in a trashed lab. With the sole remaining Malice sample.<br/><br/><strong>Elswhere</strong><br/><div class="floatright">(https://www.bigtattooplanet.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/aspect4col3col/5/node_gallery_image/59817/DSC_0133_0.jpg)</div>She hit the floor, blinking as her adrenaline pumped thru her system. She was still awash in a flood of memories. Some of Alexi's and some of Syn's.. all flashing in her mind. She saw one spot she HAD to do go. She reached for the THUM in her mind.<br/><br/>A strip bar in Tex-Arcana. She appeared on stage for a split second as she tried to find another spot..<em>CLOSER</em>to where she wanted to go<br/><br/>A road side stop in East Texas. A naked woman stumbled out of the bathroom and vanished<br/><br/>Only to appear in a spot outside of Albuquerque, where once upon a time a vacation part used to be before vanishing and appearing in Barstow, Nevada.<br/><br/>Finally she dropped, exhausted into the cave that Alex and his brother had staged from. She came to awareness sometime later, holding her brother's hat in the remains her lair. She rolled over, hugging the base ball cap to her chest as she sniffled and the memories finally started to settle.<br/><br/>"Shiiitt... Darren. I left him behind." She moaned as she got up and scavenged some clothing and tried to recall what she could of the lab. She had only been there.. in the flesh for a split second. She focused on that moment. Trying to ..feel what she needed to get back. It wasn't there. She could see the scene, but not quite good enough to jump back. She focused on the details of the scene.<br/><br/>Two things stood out.<em>Brubaker chemical supplies, New Orleans.</em>Right there on the supplies sitting on counter as a guard went flying across the room. There was the second thing that stood out was the thsirt one guard had showing from where her throw had torn his uniform shirt open.<em>Baker Parish Volunteer Fire Department</em><br/><br/>"I'm coming to say you Darren.. " She said, glancing down at her outfit. "After I steal some real clothing.." She added with a blush, it was starting to sink in her tits were literally hanging out. She pulled on the hat and sighed as she looked around. "Miss you little brother..but I got to save a friend."<br/><br/><strong>A few hours later..</strong><br/><br/>She settled in, much more clothed courtesy of an Army/Navy store in New Orleans as she sat on the rooftop with a purloined set of binoculars and watched the fire department. She needed to find one of the few familiar faces. She had seen four people besides Darren. One was the Commander, and the others were members of the group holding her friend. One at least was a firefighter, part time. She figured sooner or later the goon would come by. Then she'd follow him, and free Darren, she thought to herself as she patted the bolt cutters she had in her bag along with a lot of other tools.<br/><br/>She closed her eyes and cast her senses outwards, moving her mental eye into the fire station to look around. She 'roamed' the station looking for her targets. Finally she found one of them, a picture on the wall. Delbert Collins III.<br/><br/>"Yeah.. he's so a Delbert." She said as she unfocused her mental vision and returned to her body. "So, now I just have to wait on Delbert.. or the other guy, the girl or Commander.. sooner or later they will come by for supplies.  "I got you Darren.. hold on buddy.. you got me out.. I'll get you out, I promise."