She looked as the events unfolded.

She hesitated. Grant had proven to be an anomaly.

It was no longer about Completed or Failed for her. Grant needed to die.

But with the forces wiped out, Riley being pushed back, and Elma...

Elma! Ashley immediately made her way back to where she found Elma, and found her gone.

Please tell me it's not the Failed that got to her... No time left to think, with the Failed having controlled the tide of the battle, she made off alone.

"Dante... Please kill that guy." She whispered to herself.

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Elma! Ashley immediately made her way back to where she found Elma, and decided to carry her off on her back to the nearby park.

((OOC: Xate, Aquila's char already got Elma out of there, a few posts back, might wanna edit that.))

Eric laughed as the attackers started to run off. "Wait where ya going? We ain't finished yet, why are you leaving so soon?" We let out another loud laugh as he looked up, seeing Richard carrying some girl away into the junkyard. He let out a disappointed sigh as he followed behind him. "What does this sicko think he's doing?" He waved back at Eve as he walked "Ay, thanks for being ready to save my ass. Appreciate it." He took off into a run after saying this.

Dante arrived at the park, finding a blood crazed Grant tearing apart everything around him, and the rest watching him like he was some sort of an amusement show. Eric definitely seemed amuzed, in contrast Eve was "battle ready", even thought she was pretty much sitting on the sidelines. Grant's opponent was on the back foot, resulting into him slowly attempting a retreat. That was the best possible opening that he could have hoped.

He whipped the smoke grenades he salvaged earlier from his vest. After quickly processing trajectory and amount of power, he lobbed 5 smoke grenades in the middle of the battlefield. In the matter of seconds, you could barely see your hand in front of your face. A thick coat of grey smoke covered almost the entirety of the park. Dante's bionic eyes swapped sensors, moving to infrareds. He slowly pulled up his rifle. The barrel of the gun began raising upwards, pointed towards the center of the battlefield. His right eye slid behind the scope, amplifying the range of his sight, although he didn't really need it. His breath slowed down, cigarette still slowly burning in his mouth. The crosshair was aimed towards the calamity of all this chaos: Grant. without hesitation he pulled the trigger, firing a couple of precise bullets towards his head. But as they were coming closer, Dante's sensors noticed that the bullets whizzed to the side, deflected by some sort of force.

Conventional methods don't work...I'll think of something else down the road.

He lowered his rifle, and with the cover of the smoke, he began heading back towards his own apartment.

Grant was surprised. The completed, the beings who were supposed to be able to defeat all of them, were running from just him. This only confirmed how powerful he really was. But suddenly smoke filled the battlefield. Outraged at the sudden loss of sight he hurled all of his flying shrapnel in the last direction he saw the dominate dogs running in.

Riley erupted from the front entrance to the park, breathing hard.
He shot down the sidewalk as the huge pieces of shrapnel made by Grant appear from the entrance, fly across the street, and slam into a building.

His right eye flashed red in anger. "I'm gonna kill that guy sometime..." He growled to himself.
His eyes widened, and he looked back towards the park. "Elma!" He yelled.

He scanned the surroundings, spotting a man clad in soldier armor carrying Elma towards what he assumed was a junkyard, with who he identified as Eric not far behind giving chase. He quickly made after them, climbing onto a nearby roof and laying his rifle down low, himself laying along the roof, his finger tightening around the trigger as he watched the soldier...
"What do you think you're doing??" He snarled...

The Completed ordered retreat apparently. Man with a sniper rifle, was making his way out, through flying objects that Grant was throwing at him, and the approaching woman suddenly ran off. That doesn't mean the fight was over though, it didn't look like Force was going to spare them...or...anyone else around him, really... But at this point, there was nothing she could do about it...

"What does this sicko think he's doing?"

"Hm?...Oh no..." Evelyn looked behind her, seeing two Richards approaching, and the third one in the distance... He was carrying THAT girl, which from what Dante told her, was the most dangerous one, out of the "Completed" group.

What was he going to do to her...Did he even know, who was he carrying? She was about to yell to him, but then suddenly thick smoke covered everything, filling her lungs, taken by surprise, she started coughing instead.

After couple of seconds, when she was able to breath again, she couldn't see anyone, or anything around her. She yelled in the direction where she thought, Richard should be, trying to outshout the noise Grant was making.

"Rich, wait! What are you doing?! She's dangerous!"

"What now?" Rook looked at Eric, "Sicko? You fucking idiot, he's evacing a..." Eric ran off, not listening to Rook's explanation. "I'm going to shoot that bastard." Rook announced to no one in particular and raised his rifle to shoot but suddenly smoke rolled around and filled his vision. Lamia quickly swat the gun down as his other hand covered his mouth and nose. The two coughed and swatted the smoke away along with Eve until the area cleared.

Now now Rook, Lamia mentally chided, We've already seen how stupid Eric is. Don't let it bother you. He chuckled then listened to Eve. "What now?" He yelled for her to hear him. "Dangerous? Eve what're you talking about? She was in a dangerous situation yea. But she's just a sleeping girl." Lamia shrugged. "Unless you want me to believe a Dominate agent was sleeping on the job."

Eric didn't flinch as the smoke exploded around them. Quickly taking out his staff and spinning it at great speed, the smoke going nowhere near his mouth or nose. He remembered one of the Richards raising a gun towards him but would deal with that later. Where the hell did all this come from? He placed the palm of his hand on the silver part of the staff, his hand glowing a bright blue and the staff glowing the same color in response. He slammed his staff on the ground, the smoke around him clearing within seconds. "Now where are the other to knobs?"

The burning sensation dissipated down to a rough headache. Alex could finally think straight again. Noticing the lack of vision in the area, "it" smirked beneath of the cover of the mask. Advancing forward, "it" changed the surrounding smoke transparent in a 25ft radius, concealing the view from the outside as still smoke-filled to avoid revealing "it's" position to anyone peeking about. Now a bit more confident to do as "it" pleased without being seen, Alex pulled out both sais and refreshed "it's" invisibility.

First noticing Eric, Alex made the words "Alex is back. Help find others. Stop Grant from chasing after." appear in simple font crimson colored lettering 4ft in front of his face. It would then disappear 15 seconds later, intangible letters fading into thin air just as they had faded into sight.

Satisfied that was good enough, Alex started to sprint towards the area it last saw Eve and Richard. As "it" ran, Alex began to frantically look around, keeping the transparent view around "itself" up as it moved onward.

Time for some hide and stab... maybe I can have some fun before this all ends after all. I like this new "me"... I'm really... spunky! Haha!

Alex started feeling a built up desire to inflict cruelty... Confusion hit "it" when "it" realized what it was thinking about doing was wrong. Slowing down for a moment, "it" shook "it's" head clear of the emotions.

Focus... focus... you can do this... just stay calm... gotta help my friends... ok...

Alex sped up to a sprint again, suit having lost it's grasp on "it's" mind for the time being.

Ashley was seemingly disoriented.

Grant was crazed at the park, with Richard placing Elma on the ground at the junkyard, with Eve, Eric and Riley hot on his tail. Dante was last seen in the smoke, with a trail leading to the apartment. Alex... His position was clear. Even with all the voices and noises of others, the off-key footsteps rang clearly admist the cacophony. Then she saw it, footprints magically appearing. It was heading toward the three at the junkyard. It emerged from the smoke, disturbing the cloudy dust.

You can't see me coming. With a rock she had planned to throw at Grant, she now found a new target for it: Alex. Or to be more precise...

Its. Chest. Out of its range of vision, and with a thrown weapon that wouldn't make a sound with her strength, it'd be nigh impossible to dodge. Even if invisible and in a field of smoke.

Even so, even with pinpointing the location by sound, the impact of the rock into the smoke would give the attack away to Alex, whose above average agility should be enough. She decided to hold onto it, holding out for a better opportunity or a better target.
OOC: Oi, Mode the Mod, how do ya planning to resolve the combat action? At this rare, this place will devolve into spam and unresolved combat as everyone freaking dodges every attacks by seemingly "notice" the attack despite lacking the reflex or skills for it.

OOC: But I do have acrobatic skills... lol. I see what you mean about unresolved combat actions, but those seemed pretty resolved to me. (Riley DOES have a dexterity + speed enhancement... ya know... just sayin.)

I have a few questions... You're aiming for the general area of the chest yes? (I'm guessing you are throwing the rock at where your character would guess the invisible torso is?) Also, if you can "notice" Alex through the smoke, "it" can see you as well yeah? How far away are you? I can't really tell just reading the post as it is. (Also just wondering what you meant by not being able to "see" you coming. Is your character able to see through the entirety of the smoke with her super senses?)

Y u throw rocks at me m8... that's not nice. :p

I'm cool with whatever works best. But I'd prefer it if you or Mode could clarify on that first if possible. ;)

OOC: There was a reason I didn't mention the location :p

Now what would you do?

Richard sighed, here he was carrying a civilian while the other two got to point guns at Eric... lucky them. He was aware that Eric was chasing after him but didn't really care for it. He walked out of the junkyard and finding a bus bench, gently placed Elma down on it. "Now that she's out of harm's way... does this thing have a radio?" He patted the suit and finding the intercom system, turned it on trying to contact... well somebody. "Check check, I found an incapacitated civilian inside the fire zone, requesting some evac. I repeat, I found an incapacitated civilian inside the fire zone, and am requesting some evac. Currently stationed out at a bus stop nearby. Be advised, being chased by one of the terrorist. Requesting assistance." Richard sighed as he placed it back down. Now to deal with Eric. He pulled out a flash bang and hid it in his left hand as he held his rifle in his other. If that idiot started talking to him, he was going to need to start shooting because this moron was being careless.

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OOC: There was a reason I didn't mention the location :p

Now what would you do?

OOC: Don't worry, I won't metagame, if that's what you're worried about. I was specifically wondering how Ashley would be automatically out of vision but also still notice Alex clearly enough to throw a rock at it precisely regardless of invisibility based on sound? She is still standing right there in the park ya know. But I'm still a bit confused about the smoke. I remember Alex had put up an image of that around "itself", but you said it cleared away?

Also the way you re-edited the post made it seem like there was no clear difference between "dodge" and "miss". Wouldn't that just be an auto-hit? (Being invisible doesn't help you dodge m8, it just makes it easier for shooter to miss.)