He brought up a diagnostic map of the facility, half the map showed 'Caution; signal lost...' meaning that thise where the areas destroyed by the collapse of the dam.
"Everything is in there, do whatever you must as the passkey is still in the system, I must locate the command blister as soon as possible..." he pointed to two mutants in their group, leaving Blink and Jade to look for the generators whilst the other three mutants to search the third passageway.
((Blink is a group-controlled NPC, I didn't mean for another character to control but he fit into the group...))
Blink followed Jade through the winding tunnels, noticing the increasing number of scratches along the walls as well as the enhancing of the strange odour in the air. "Wow... this place could be a mausoleum!" she commented, pulling her shirt over her nose.
Eric knew the way to the Command chamber quite readily, the door still lay torn open from the last time he made his appearance here.
"Jade, Jade can you read me?" he called through the commlink he had handed everyone, "I've found the command quarters, what is your status?"
"We're closing in on the the main generators, eta's 4 minutes." Jade replied, continuing down the hall. As she did so, she ripped off the sleeves of her jacket and tossed one back to Blink, "Cover your nose and mouth with this...I have a feeling that smell will be getting worse."
((I understand that she is, but I dont know what we should be expecting to find...I'm coming up a bit of a mental blank here lol))
((That's why I sent blink with you 😛))
As they had put into the computer, the door to the generator room was unlocked though it took the two girl's combined strength to pry it open... Something large and heavy fell through the gap they had opened with a thud and the smell hit them undeniably...
Death...
"Oh my god... He's dead!" Blink whimpered, looking down at the lifeless form of a human soldier, he wore a strange type of equipment and his shoulder badge stated HYDRA... All over his body were claw marks and puncture wounds, all of which had the same three-claw pattern as seen ealier through the halls...
"What could do something like this..." Blink asked, only standing as far away as possible...
"I've heard of what Stryker did to his subjects...no doubt this is from some of his previous work." Jade kneeled down and examined the wounds, "Whatever it is, did some serious damage to this man before he died." She muttered, "And personally I don't wanna meet the creature that killed him, so lets get this generator going and get back to the command chamber."
She slipped through the crack in the heavy doors and looked around, it was well preserved. But something was wrong here...she could feel it.
There were a few more bodies laying about, somecovered by burnmarks, possibly from electrocution but mainly the same hideous marks, Blink felt ready to faint at the sight of the dead, but she held together... barely.
The generators were massive, there were four lesser and two major that were offline, both had controll panels on a platform about 25 feet off the ground along catwalks. "I'll take this one..." she said, pointing to her left, "...and you that one, If I'm right you don't want to be here anymore than I do so let's hurry this along..."
Meanwhile, Eric sat at the command bench and brought up the relevant information he was looking for; every last catalogued piece of Sentinel Tech had been plundered and the master mold chamber collapsed when the mold itself borke free, there wasn't much hope of building any of the mutant hunters, he planned to create a few and rewire them to serve his command. But at least they now had control of Alkaly Lake, Eric had been in search of a stable base of operations for a while now...
Setting - a cemetery, eight grave stones around a big tree
"I never thought Bel would go before one of us, she was the careful one..." Jason said, he looked around to see Noah and two other females
"so young, and it wasn't even on the battlefield" one woman said
Noah just stood there, staring at her grave stone, Bel was cremated, just like the other three already put to rest
"Whisper, rest in peace..." the other woman said, tears down her cheek, she placed some flowers at her grave
One by one they placed some thing at her grave, and they all started to leave, Jason back to the mansion, the other two women went their separate ways, and Noah on his way to Alkaly Lake.
Noah stopped and looked back, I never blamed you the words were whispers in the wind. Noah clenched his fist, and kept walking...
"Eric, I can't get the generator online... this terminal has been fried..." Blink began, though she was cut off as the turbine kicked into gear and started up, vibrating the whole facility slightly...
"Umm, that wasn't me... Jade?" she called, but the two generator were a distance apart, she wasn't sure if she could hear her...
Jason held the ceiling of the air craft, and looked out the drop window upon the terrain below him. The wind ripped at his shirt, and his hair was in complete dissarray. He heard alarms buzzing on the fighers sensors. He turned aroud to face Predator, "What the hells going on down there?!" He shouted over the roar of the wind.
Predator looked up from his controls, "I dont know! Something big!"
The fighter banked to the side, Jason's grip tightened. He sensed waves of energy, psychic and otherwise rippling through space.
"I've got distortions! Power surges!" Predator yelled back. "What the hell are your friends doing?"
"They're not my friends! Not yet..." Jason turned back to Predator. "The air force has us. Two planes on an intercept course. I can sense their pilots."
The black polished metal of the Warhawk they were in glazed over, and the figter warped in shape and dissapared from view, of any kind.
Both Blink and Jade where panting after their sprint, Jade seemed to be acting strangely, but she passed it off as her being unfit...
"Magneto... uh, sir... There's something in the gen..." Blink began, but Eric silenced her as a strange groan rolled through the facility, the lights flickered, threatening to shut off for a moment.
"What did you find?" he inquired.
"Bodies; lots of dead soldiers and the second primary generator started even though the panel was destroyed... I had done nothing!" Blink panted only slightly now, she seemed to be able to recover from physical drain quite rapidly.