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Smoke, wheels, guns [Warning: Violence]

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Anadwen

(((Taggs to Gaunt! Also, played in a modern setting, therefore non-canon.)))

A gust of swirling dust arose after the door closed. The man in the corner paled as the tall figure, dressed in a casual shirt, entered, and closed the door behind. Chest, thin, but wiry with muscles, only partly visible through the half buttoned shirt, scruffy black hair that seemed somehow unnatural... A sharp face with a devilish grin on his thin lips.

"I don't have anything. I have nothing. Nothing. Leave me..." the figure muttered, quivering in horror. The pale man shook his head. "I never asked for a single thing. And on your place I'd shut your mouth..." he whispered sharply. His hand reached somewhere to his belt, a piece of metal glinted in the black leather glove, and was reflected in his cold eyes. The lightbulb, hanging on a cord from the ceiling, bickered.

Smoke arose from a cigarette, and the knife in the hand of the man in white flashed once again, as he put it to his other hand, and pulled the cigarette out of his thin lips. "Now stand up and play pretty. Screaming won't help you... There's just me, you know?" he teased him, stepping closer.

The man climbed to his feet, back pressed to the wall, and vigorously shook his head. "I don't have anything! Tell them I don't have it, please!" he begged him. Aldanith raised a brow with amusement, and grabbed him by the collar of his T-shirt. "Oh, I was sent by a different 'them', then. They didn't want money, or things. They wanted one thing-"

A flash of knife that sunk right into the man's neck. Crimson blood streaming out in a thin stream.

"-and that was your death."

The corpse collapsed onto the floor, motionless, quickly creating a pool of blood on the floor. Aldanith cleaned the knife in his shirt, and immediately took both it, the jacket, and wig, which he wore till now, off, throwing it onto the floor. The long wisps of his own white hair, streaked with dark grey, fell onto his shoulders, and he quickly pulled a rugged black T-shirt over his head.

Flame of a lighter appeared in his hand, together with a can of spray, and set the pile of clothes and blood on fire. It burned brightly, singing the tips of his hair, but he paid no attention to the searing heat. After a while, there was nothing but a pile of ash.

He cackled, putting his thick leather jacket back on. The studs on its collar and sides glinted alongside the numerous buckles when he bent over to tuck the ripped jeans into a pair of somewhat dirty boots, and pulled a pair of mirror sunglasses out of the pocket of the jacket. His hand pressed the burned out remain of a cigarette into the pile of ashes, and he threw the door open, walking out into bright sunlight of a dry land, almost a dessert, towards a lone motorbike in the middle of an abandoned parking lot.

The engine roared as he started it, beginning to vibrate under his tall figure, perched on the leather seat, and he rode out with his hair, waving in the wind. His sharp teeth was revealed in the same devilish grin, somewhat grotesque on his pale skin, sharply contrasting with his entirely black outfit.

He was the highway, he was the dust, and he was the wheel that stirs it. He was the bullet and he was the gun that fires it. He was the fire and he was the smoke.

He was unstoppable...

He was Death. And you can't catch the Reaper.

Brisinger987

Alpha had traced the target with an unmatched accuracy, using deductive skills most humans couldn't comprehend, his CPU working overtime to find Aldanith. Then when he had found him, he set out in a military stealth helicopter, watching the situation unfold through the thermal imaging camera.

"You are a slippery bastard. Oh well. No matter. Today is your last day alive, mercenary." The co-pilot took control, and kept them level with Aldanith. Alpha took a sniper from the back of the helicopter, before opening the door, and activating his grip magnets, sticking to the helicopter, and the Barrett sniper rifle. Then he began running his advanced targeting algorithms, examining the traffic in front of Aldanith.

But he didn't shoot, or even halt the traffic, he simply followed, as had been instructed.

But the whole time, a crosshair lay over Aldanith.

Anadwen

An uncomfortable feeling that he was being watched... It had followed him for a few days already. He frowned behind the mirrors of his shades, and turned the motorbike aside a little. He sped up, and started weaving in and out between the cars on the highway, well over the speed limit - almost a hundred and fifty miles an hour. On a motorbike...

Yes, he was crazy. But if he wouldn't be, he wouldn't be practically untraceable, existing illegally for a few decades without the knowledge of any government. Still... If someone would have found out...

...The poor bastard would be in serious trouble.

He changed his position on the highway incredibly fast, and yet avoided everything in his way masterfully. Just get out of this place... Once he rides off into the desert, within the endless plains of barren rock, he'll be safe.

Unless it would be a helicopter, off course. And that was well possible. If it was one, he'd have to get rid of his follower with his bare hands.

Brisinger987

Alpha saw the vehicle speeding up, and he felt himself get irritated with this person. Not only were they travelling out of the city, but they were travelling at a "relatively unsafe speed."

"Mission command, permission to terminate target while mobile?" His voice rang through to mission control, who took a few seconds to reply.

"Change of mission parameters Alpha, Pentagon wants him alive. Capture the target, do not kill." The black, silent engine helicopter continued following the bike, and Alpha sighed. He returned to the internal of the helicopter, and when they reached the desert, saw the biker return to a straight line. He changed sniper, loading a tracking dart into the gun, then taking aim at a point on the bike that was deep in the internals, then firing the silenced sniper, before the helicopter veered off course, to a nearby airfield.

Anadwen

The motorbike turned left right before the sniper fired at it, into the dessert, but something clinked in the engine. He frowned, finding out that he suddenly lost control of it...

He cursed under his breath and pressed onto the brakes. Still nothing? This wasn't good... Someone must have messed with the bike. He was absolutely sure that he was followed now.

The only thing he could do now was jump. He pulled his feet up, still keeping up on the seat, and threw one leg over. All of a sudden, he launched himself off the seat, and threw himself onto the ground at full speed. An impact like that could kill a human - how fortunate he wasn't one.

He pulled his arms to his face, covering his head. His body made a few turns in the air, before crashing into the rocks. They couldn't get through the hard leather of his jacket, although the steel studs were pressed into his skin from underneath, but the speed at which he hit the ground made him spin for a few meters even after that, ripping his jeans and grazing his skin.

In a cloud of dust, he finally stopped moving. Bloodied and scraped, he stood back up, reaching after a now revealed sheath, strapped to his thigh. A large revolver, till then hidden under the loos jeans, appeared in his hands, which arose to the sky, aiming somewhere into the distance. He didn't know where was that thing that followed him... But even firing blindly, he'd have a chance of success.

Brisinger987

Alpha had a thing for dramatic entrances. As they had gone back to the air field, an f-22 had done a flyby, and Alpha had jumped onto it, hitching a ride. Then he had flown over Aldanith, and made a show of dropping down to him, armed with sword and assault rifle, pointing it at the dark elf.

"Aldanith. Drow. Mercenary. Surrender now, and this won't hurt." Alpha pointed the XM8 assault rifle at the man with the revolver, wary of the high calibre bullets contained in the chamber and wheel.

"Don't surrender, and the pentagon get a mercenary with no legs."

Anadwen

"The pentagon can kiss my ass." Aldanith growled, his finger ready on the trigger. Beneath the leather glove wasn't flesh and bone - just metal and wires, hundreds upon hundreds of circuits.

"I refuse. The government can lick me from my heels to my face, they're just a band of brainwashed fat f***ers." Flicking a string of hair out of his face, he glowered at the robot, standing against him. "And you're just a pile of scrap metal."

Without any further warning, a huge bullet of a high caliber was fired out of the revolver, leaving a trail of smoke behind, aimed straight at Alpha's visor.

Brisinger987

Alpha had been ready for the first shot, and his hydraulics made him jump to the side, narrowly avoiding the shot. Then he aimed for Aldanith's chest.

He didn't care what mission control wanted. They couldn't shut him down, he was too intelligent. He would bring down a war criminal and a terrorist today, and be remembered a hero for it.

He pulled the trigger, and the weapon fired a stream of bullets at high velocity, the accuracy surprising, even for an assault rifle.

Anadwen

Aldanith was also ready. He threw himself down and aside at a surprising speed, far exceeding human limits, so fast it was almost blinding. He was just a flash of black and white.

A rain of bullets was brought at Alpha, Aldanith only narrowly avoiding the bullets that made a series of thin lines in his jacket as they passed by. He emptied it, used all the bullets that were there, immediately reaching to his belt to reload the gun, and fire at the slightest sign of movement.

Brisinger987

Alpha was about to charge with his sword, but a bullet landed a lucky hit, and took off his left arm, and sending the robot to the ground.

He simply laid there, his systems analysing the damage. He thought for a second about what had just happened. Then he realised it had never happened before. He had never been shot before. This Aldanith guy had brought about a new feeling in Alpha's personality. Rage.

Pure, unrelenting rage.

Anadwen

A harsh, cruel laughter escaped Aldanith's throat. Seeing the robot crash was just another flawless victory for him...

He reached to his belt. A grenade, small, but definitely not a weak one. He pulled the safety pin out with his mouth, and as he begun backing up, tossed it at Alpha.

Blinding. The flames, fire blazing behind his back was blinding, and though he was running as fast as a racing horse away from them, they were persistent, heat searing at his back and singing his hair and clothes. Way too hot, even for him.

The sun in the desert shone brightly, and he would have to walk for many miles to get out of there. Without any food, any drink, bleeding, and somewhat burned. Not a nice idea.

He gazed at the sky through the cracked glass of his shades, and frowned. "F*** you, world..." he growled.

Brisinger987

Alpha had been waiting for the killing blow. The grenade was an easy disposable for the robot, as he caught it, and threw it back.

"Catch, asshole." The robot jumped to his feet, drawing his sword in preparation for a fight.

Anadwen

Something was still wrong... There were sounds back behind him. The thing should be in scrap iron by now! But it didn't seem to be.

He turned on his heel, pulling the revolver out of its sheath again, along with a somewhat smaller, but also a high caliber gun in his other hand. If this f***er wanted blood, then he shall have it.

Brisinger987

Alpha had done something sneaky, he had thrown the grenade at an off angle, so that the explosion would go off to Aldanith's right, while Alpha went to the left.

"Boo." Alpha cut the gun in half with the vibroblade, then went to punch Aldanith in the stomach.

Anadwen

Aldanith's hand dropped the remains of the gun, firing from the large revolver at the robot in the meantime, but as he threw himself to the right, the grenade exploded, throwing him in the exactly opposite side with a burned side and arm.

Even the leather jacket was completely burned, and his sizzling skin was suddenly bare, revealing the mechanical half of his hand. He climbed to his feet, clenching his teeth, and fired more bullets at Alpha. "You f***er are due for the landfill..."

Brisinger987

Alpha made a point of shedding the heavier pieces of his armour before Aldanith got up, and was suddenly nimble and light. And with his new speed, his computer processor managed to keep him deflecting bullets from the slow firing gun. But he counted the rounds, and on the last round of that wheel, he swung the sword at the bullet, slicing it in half.

"Maybe next time?"

Anadwen

"No. You're going down." Aldanith growled back. The revolver was out of ammo, and he was out of time...

In a matter of a sole moment, he threw himself up into the air, and in a spinning kick aimed the steel tips of his boots straight into Alpha's visor. At a speed and strength like this, he couldn't miss...

Brisinger987

The visor cracked, and Alpha was sent spinning into the desert sound, the vibro blade magnetised to his hand.

He took a second to recover, but got up, and he felt his hydraulics failing, his systems beginning to break. He wasn't good enough yet. So he did the next best thing.

He activated the sequence to self destruct, and set the countdown for four minutes, upon which his H-He fission-fusion battery would overload, and he would explode, vaporising the circuitry and components, while his memories and software downloaded to a new frame.

"Goodbye Aldanith. I'll see you again soon..."

Anadwen

"You'll see the bottom of a trashcan the next time we meet, f***er." Aldanith growled back, turning on his heel, and walking in the opposite direction with long, fast steps. Towards the highway... Even though not many people would take a bloodied, ripped and burned hitchhiker, someone definitely would. For a nice few bucks, sure.

He stood on the side of the road, waiting, shielding his face from the sun by his arm. The once white skin was covered by numerous burns, coated in his dark blood, but he didn't care. He just patiently waited for a drive to pick him up and take him...

A large truck stopped beside of the road. The truck-driver rolled his window down and looked upon the figure, standing in the shadow of his drive. "Where would that be? The hospital?" he cackled, pointing at his bloodied exterior. "You could just call 911, you know."

"To the nearest big city. And by big city, I mean a real city, not a f***ing village like every other around." Aldanith growled back. The trucker opened the other door, paling in the face a little, and let the dark elf enter. Without taking his shades off even in the darkness of the truck, Aldanith sat down, pulling a cigarette out of a smashed pack in his pocket, and lighting it. The cabin was filled by smoke soon after, but he didn't seem to really care about this, either.

The driver stomped onto the pedals, and the truck moved forth. Aldanith's cold eyes watched the road from behind the cracked glass all along, but he didn't say a word, just silently dropping ashes onto the seat and floor.