Saga 1 Episode 33: Into Darkness

## **Participants**

**Red DawnArtemisRockslideRunning ManFlowerbombRubySpite FireRed Eye**
I

\*As the story last left off, Artemis had been moved to an entirely new location in the facility, which while it was only just behind the room they were previously in was heavily cloaked and armored down. The room itself had special technology to block outgoing mandarin signatures and psionic wave lengths to prevent immediate detection. The team however consistening of Rockslide, Ayame, Ruby, Running Man, and Trickshot would’ve been in the middle of a room with 1,000 Shining Knights Conglomerate defensive soldiers! Each of them armed with various weapon, attacking the tired and worn out heroes! And the man on the way, Jacob Turner, would’ve been dirving on a motorcycle towards the base heading full speed to go join the fight to save his friends as he ponders weather the words and actions of the mysterious assassin known as “Red Eye” were true or not. The story continues.\*

Rockslide would’ve dove into the action head first…literally! Rockslide headbutted the closest soldier on his front before swatting his arms left and right, too and fro, attacking and clobbering as many men as he could! Ruby would’ve been tilting his head at different angles mixing in his profound melee skills with his optic blast ricocheting all over the area and hitting man after man after MAN!  Trickshot would’ve been rolling and dodging around on the ridiculous amount of gunfire going on and shooting arrow after arrow! Deciding to try and knock out as many as he could, he’d fire an arrow into the air and as he did, the arrow would’ve exploded into a bunch of tiny metallic marbles that rained down and attacked the surrounding men! Running Man would’ve zoomed through the crowd, slamming his kinetically charged fist into the faces of anyone he ran past! They’d have to survive this final ordeal in order to find Artemis and get the hell out of here!

Jacob on the other hand would’ve been almost at the facilty , he could see it on the horizon line. His mind still at it’s breaking point but he was somewhat calming down if not just starting to somewhat regain his sense of morality. At least he would’ve if it weren’t for the far off of sound of what sounded like something similar to helicopter blades and jet engines. Jacob’s first instinct was to look up and as he did he’d have his suspicion confirmed! There was a giant plane like vehicle with two giant propellers encased in metal like a plane helicopter mix hovering over him! Right behind it and going across it in an opposite direction a helicopter would’ve been flying parallel by it! Jacob continued onward, pushing the throttle even harder to accelerate his speed to about 120 mph! the jet-copter fusion charged at him still being fairly low to the ground and began to start shooting off it’s dual Vulcan guns! The rapid machine gun fire would’ve been coming in a stream line right towards Jacob! Jacob thought quick as he pulled his shield from his back and using his new found strength he’d hurl the shield vertically towards one of the jet-copter’s propellers! The shield stopped the movement of it and started to throw it off balance!

The break effect still going strong as he narrowed his eyes, keeping his speed but then suddenly hitting the break and the emergency break, and when he did this, the bike popped up slightly and propelled Jacob’s body forward! Jacob’s body went soaring into the air, as he cut a momentum based jump! Sticking his hands out he’d flip off of the cockpit glass and roll over to where the propeller was and withdraw his shield from it! The jet-plane hybrid began to soar out of control for a second, as it flipped over to its side! As it did, Jacob would’ve almost went soaring off of it but he’d stabbed his shield into the metal catching himself on it! He hung there for a moment grunting before swinging his feet up and kicking off of the base of the wing to flip himself on top of the vehicle, only to toss his shield into both of the tail wings of the jet-copter , knocking them clean off and bursting them into flames! Jacob turned his head also to see the helicopter trying to come his way as well! He’d stand up and whirl his shield horizontally towards the cockpit of the plane! The shield bashed inside of it, and hit the control console, causing it to shock and short circuit out! Both pilots  of these vehicles ejected themselves out of their vehicles while Jacob himself open armed leaped off of the plane and flipped forward only to land on the ground, with his right hand on the ground, ,and his right knee bent as his left one was posed the same to soften his landing. Jacob stood up to see the jet-copter spiraling and smoking away into the forest. He’d sigh, thinking everything was alright until he turned around and saw the helicopter about to crash on top of him! Jacob held his shield up in front of him and as if slow motion had occurred, the blades of the helicopter one by one slide off of Jacob’s shield , bending on impact and bending in on themselves. The rest of the copter came right after it and Jacob held his shield above his head letting the heavy vehicle side right over his head and onto the hard cement ground, sending it skidding allllllll the way bursting through the front entrance of the facility!

Jacob panted a bit. He’d been exerting himself for about a solid hour, which is about a bit past his physical limit before he got tired. Still to get tired after an entire hour of physical activity is amazing in itself, but Jacob couldn’t stop. He couldn’t quit, not yet, as he jogged into the now gaping hole of an entrance, pushing as much of his max speed as he could seeing the wreckage done by his fellow team mates and it brought a bit of a smile to his face he’d have to admit. As he continued down the halls, the shield strapped on his back he’d hear the fighting going on in the distance. He could smell the sweat pouring from people and hear the bones being cracked in the background. “I knew they couldn’t be to far to find.” Jacob would’ve went through the door and as soon as he came in he’d have tossed his shield in a straight line into the crowd! “BOOM ,BOP, BAMP, WHAM, POP!” The shield bounced off of five heads, k.o’ing them instantly before coming back to Jacob, as he began to base his shield left and right knocking and rocking soldiers left and right, spinning his body and slamming his right foot in a side kick into the gut of a man and knocking him into 4 other people. “Everyone holding up alright?!?!”

\*Regardless of who answered, it was not up to the team entirely to defeat this mass of men! Fight to your heart’s content!\*

Darkness. That was all there really was to experience though for how long there was no way to tell...minutes? Hours? Maybe even days...but in this eternal darkness it was not cold nor hot...it just was. Was one simply experiencing death? Who could tell but like a switch being lifted the darkness snaps to a bright white light! This light also held no warm or cold though now...one could hear themselves breathing.

Jacobs mind finally finished downloading in to Artemis' subconscience and his 'body' so to speak was created in his minds image. What he had always seen in only a mirrror or pictures.

What was this place?? At first...nothing. A vast plain of nothing. And just like the switch that flicked the darkness away the white turned to mountains within a blink of an eye. What the mind remembered of temperature it recreated in this plain...humid and wet from the rain fall in the jungles of Colombia deep in the mountains.

Soon enough sound would be the next thing the mind recreates with gun shots off in the distance...all the rest of the senses followed suit and itd feel real. Including the tackle the blonde would experience from a much younger blue haired super soldier!!

Their bodies collide roughly with an attempt at bringing him down in time to dodge the grenade exploding close by!! "Pendejo que ases!? Te quiere matar!? Pinche gringo!!" Artemis didnt look to be older than 14 with an automatic strapped to her frame. She wore a dirty uniform of camo with a grey tanktop and the jacket open and ripped with short cargo pants and steel toe boors. She looked nothing like the artemis Jacob knew...this one was petite with short locks instead of long though her eyes held a fierce killing intent. One thing didnt change....her cheshire grin that soon follows after scolding him in spanish.

Pulling the muuuch taller man back up she eyes him a bit before taking his hand and running into the trees to hide from the army!! Assuming he didnt speak spanish artemis spoke in english a language her father taught her early on. "Gringo! You came to the wrong place to be a tourist!" She opened fire from their position while still looking at the handsome blonde as the sound of men being filled with hot lead would be heard in the distance.....

This memory was when Artemis was only 14 and fighting with the rebels and working with the cali drug cartel as an armsmen to transport the coke where it needed to be safely without any problems. Their fight was with the corrupted Colombian army whom wanted to wipe out the rebels and take control of the cocaine trade.

More grenades exploded close by a little too close for comfort as dirt and green fuana flew all around them!! They were in a war zone....one of the many the sniper had experienced....

Jacob would’ve been having a bit of an.....out of body experience going on. His body would’ve been floating down…a stream of sorts. The stream was filled with distorted images. Images that blended together to form random assorted and almost psychedelic colors themselves. His eyes fluttered open and closed as he fought so hard to look around him but it was nearly impossible for any human on their own to comperehend the fabric of the time stream. It is a very fragile thing, more fragile than a glass blade. It can shatter the instant something in it’s way interfears with it’s path and it effects more than the person who enacted the force against it. Jacob finally descended where he was supposed to. It was…cold. At least it felt cold…more so wet than anything. Jacob sat himself up as quickly as his body would’ve allowed him to, looking around and seeing the environemt around him. There were mountains the distance of the tree line but around him were thick and wet jungle mesh. Trees, bushes, and dirt. Nothing but these repeating items in his immediate view. Jacob took in a few breathes…he’d never time traveled a day in his life so this entire process at the moment was incredibly new to him.

“I, who, what?” He used his hand to pull himself up and look around. “I’m actually…in the past. In Artemis’s past….oh god I should.” Jacob put his mask on quickly, tucking his shield onto the magent located on his back. He’d breathe deep trying to formulate some form of plan in his hand but he got the scent of gunfire residue in the air, and a few feet away he could hear foot steps, multiple sets. He began to get on alert! He was a bit late on the draw when he was tackled out of nowhere by a familiar blue haired heroine…only a much smaller version of her. "Pendejo que ases!? Te quiere matar!? Pinche gringo!!" Jacob blinked a few times. For all of his special talents and studies at Heroes inc, he skipped alternative languages completely and was a tad lost. “Erm…I no speak this?” he tried to make it noted he didn’t speak the language by shaking his head. The girl must’ve gotten the message since she changed her tone as well. "Gringo! You came to the wrong place to be a tourist!"

Jacob waved his hands infront of him.”No, no, no I’m here to s-“ Jacob changed it up. He had to remember that anything he said just might burn into Artemis’s subconscious. She may or may not gain memeories of someone she had no business of knowing at this point in her life. “I was…sent to help you! Do what ever it is you’re doing. Which I’d like to inquire why exactly there are people shooting at us… “ Jacob sat up on one knee watching a younger Artemis shoot her rifle at some oncoming men. They were using geruilla warfare like tattics to achieve their game plan but Jacob had studied this sratey way to many times to not know the most effective way to dispose of people like this. Jacob would’ve scooted beside Artemis for a moment before speaking. “I got his..and how old are you anyway?” Jacob needed to know…just how far back in her memories he actually was. This would determine how close to the present he was and that in itself would let him know how much he’d actually need to prepare for.

Jacob with further tutelage under Densuke Ryoji, has obtained a varying array of military combative strategies. Jacob initial against the use of fire arms overcame this fear quickly when realizing some threats are often put down easier when shot with a bullet. Jacob gained an understanding of war and war based tactics and tying them in with his already high mastery of combat knowledge, it makes his job easier when he's able to plan quickly and address issues and scenarios before they even come to fruition.

Weather she answered or not he’d assume she’d understood military talk and speak to her as such. “We’re gonna gain some ground here. I’m gonna toss a flash bang up, you shoot it and I’ll see how many I can get in one go. Sound good?” Jacob would’ve reached for his shield with his right hand and grabbed a flashbang off of his belt. “Now.” He spoke quietly so only she could hear him as he’d toss the flash into the air! If she complied to shoot it  a bright light would’ve emitted from it! It would’ve blinded everyone including her if she didn’t have a method of sight! Jacob on the other hand with his special contacts would’ve had perfect clarity in this bright area! Rearing his arm back he’d toss the shield forward, swinging his arm from right to left and tossing the shield! Weather she could see it or not, she would most definitely hear the effects! The men holding their arms up in confusion would’ve given away their positions and Jacob would act, tossing the shield and with a “BAMP, BAMP, BAMP, BOP, POW!” five men leveled on the ground, falling out and revealing themselves from their hiding places! Jacob would’ve stuck his hand up to catch the shield , before ducking back down by Artemis’ position. Tucking the shield on his back, and pulling his pistol from its holster, he’d hold the grip with his right hand, and  use his left hand to assist in holding it, glancing over at Artemis for only a moment to ask.

“Give me a run down on the scenario at this point in time….erm. That you’re doing. What are you doing I mean.” He’d ask waiting to see if there were others and how she progressed through this event in her life.

The blonde tried to explain himself that he wasn't some tourist but in fact here to help the blue haired soldier. At this the teenager merely raises a brow and eyes him. He was wearing american colors, she wasn't stupid and with that shield on his back that had the star and red stripes well...what was this fool getting at? "Help me hmmmm?? You're lucky you are handsome other wise I'd put a bullet between your pretty blue eyes." That grin returned and one couldnt tell if she was joking or being serious.

He asked why they were being shot and she answered while opening more fire out in the trees ahead of them. "We are rebels, I donno who sent you but you are fighting the Colombian army. They are trying to take back the mountain territory but we are holding our ground...this part belongs to us. We have a lot of cocaine farms spread out and we are keeping army away from them." With a non chalant shrug, she takes a fresh magazine and reloads before cocking the large gun. "Army not so happy with mass production of so much cocaine. Big drug problem in this country buuuuuttt it puts bread on the table you know?" There was an ever so slight accent from Artemis her hispanic roots showing pretty clear in it.

After giving a brief explanation he asks how old she is and that he can help handle the situation. With a strange look she wonders why he wants to know but answers it anyway while watching him act. "14....you want my phone number too?" She openly flirts even at such a young age with a snicker. “We’re gonna gain some ground here. I’m gonna toss a flash bang up, you shoot it and I’ll see how many I can get in one go. Sound good?”

Artemis couldn't help the grin at his take charge attitude and merely gives him a confident nod. "Sure go crazy." The moment Jacob tosses the grenade up in to the air on instinct the soldier raises the firearm and shoots multiple bullets though the first one hits it on the mark. The blue haired soldier merely looks away as the blinding white light flashes and to normal soldiers it'd have blinded her but the serum now permanently fused with her DNA pumps to aid her eye sight and return it to normal, readjusting her pupils to fix the trauma experienced and within seconds she could see normally again.

And just in time to see Jacob toss his shield out into the trees with the obvious sound of men being assaulted and about 5 of them come crashing out of the trees. Blinking in surprise she looks to the fallen soldiers and then to him. "Guapo y macho...me gusta." She complimented while watching him kneel back next to her as she gives him a curious look. "Who sent you?" Another grenade explodes close to them telling Artemis the small details didnt matter. "Everything behind us is what we have left. The army is closing in and we need to turn this around. Soooo...." She shows him the bag that had been strapped to her, exposing the highly explosive and hilarious amounts of incendiary bombs and wired up C-4 blocks. "Suicide mission! Its very exciting yes?" Here was this 14 year old girl...holding a bag of explosives and ordered to go in by herself to practically blow herself up for the sake of some cocaine farms and a rebelion of who knows what.

"We know where they are held up, where the camp is...my job is to get there and give them this parting gift." Standing up she points out ahead of them. "There is a route I was going to take before I saw you. Leads right to their camp but it is a bit far and there are other things in this jungle besides guns to be afraid of. Should be fun." Artemis suddenly lifts her hand up while smiling at him, catching a round grenade only to toss it back where it came from and it explodes moments later. "You are American right? What is it like over there?" If he'd answer or not she'd urge him to run with her out of the line of fire and deep in to the jungle through trail that didn't exist on the maps and for good reason....

II
--

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwSgFsKeoE&index=1&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkn11HNUY1EzqTunNxRjzfV ) "Guapo y macho...me gusta." Jacob furrowed his brow only for a second because…he honestly did not understand a word she said. It could’ve been some racial slur towards Americans for all he knew. He’d make it a note to try and understand what she says from now on so it makes things a little bit easier on him and her. He had to remember though…this was a younger Artemis. To add to that fact, this was a younger Artemis who was…14 and clearly had eyes on him. Jacob shivered a bit at the thought of even HUMORING thoughts about her at this age. When she ask who sent him, he cleared his throat and replied. “That’s…classified. High security matters require I don’t reveal my mission here is anything else besides aiding you. Sorry Ar-gah. “ Jacob would’ve fake coughed a little bit. “Shit can’t do that here!” he thought.

When she had a grin on her face and reached into some kind of bag and pulled out some explosives jacob’s brow furrowed even further. "Suicide mission! Its very exciting yes?" “Yes? N-no! No, what why?!?!” "We know where they are held up, where the camp is...my job is to get there and give them this parting gift…There is a route I was going to take before I saw you. Leads right to their camp but it is a bit far and there are other things in this jungle besides guns to be afraid of. Should be fun." Jacob would’ve rubbed his temples, with his gloved hands, closing his eyes and relieving stress. “I’m an American hero…helping in a drug war. With a 14 year old version of my first kiss. None of this makes sense what so ever.” Jacob watched her take off and he’d take off behind her, raising his shield above his and her own head. Though he knows that she made it through these events scuessfully on her own anyway, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of protection over her, even if he shouldn’t. When she asked how it was over there in America Jacob would’ve paused for a moment. Thinking about her age in the present, doing some math in his head to get the year approximately right. “Erm…it’s okay. Food’s good for you, jobs are easy to come by. If you ever go there, make sure you vote for President Torres. He was a good man. Got president ellies impeached on a drug charge. Don’t tell anyone I told you that though.”

Jacob would’ve  kept up with her the entire time looking around to see weather or not time would shift again! As if there was going to be this random jump out of nearly nowhere…he was cautious but curious. This would probably be the only chance he’d ever get to really know Artemis outside of her physically. He was in her mind, her very past.

Artemis reaches back to take hold of his hand and looks over her shoulder. "I'm not entirely sure I believe you...but I trust my instinct and it's telling me you're okay. Whatever brought you here...I'm glad." Looking back ahead the images of the jungle begin to mesh and fade and soon enough her hand did too! Jacob would once more find himself in that white space of nothinginess....

This time it didn't last long as his surroundings turned into...Kasiahanna! Though what year was still unknown as the blonde would find himself on a roof top at night time. The building he was standing a top of was about 7 stories high and facing all the other business establishments in downtown with the city lights beaming on the people walking below minding their own business. The same one a blue haired sniper had perched herself up on as she went to work on her next intended target. She seemed older now but not by much, still having her trademark petite look and short hair. There was a duffle bag beside her full of weapons but the main one is currently being equipped on the edge of said roof. A FR F2 french military sniper rifle. Artemis was laid about on her stomach with the gun on its perch and the scope placed on while the sniper looked on through with intense focus. A finger curled slowly along the trigger as she inhaled through her nose...only to pull her finger away as narrowed eyes trail away from the scope to gaze over her shoulder and right to where Jacob would be!

If the blonde could comprehend things again or not, Artemis stood slowly up and turned to face this stranger with sharp eyes that seemed to glow a dim blue. "You picked a bad time to be up here guy." Though she looked angry, a slow cheshire grin soon appeared to expose pearly white teeth that also seem to glow though it left an unnerving feeling in someones spine were they to see such a face. "Mmm though I don't mind the eye candy there muscles..."

It wouldn't matter his answer because enhanced ears picked up the sound of a town car arriving below them across the street. Eyes calmly look over to see her target had arrived and with a sigh she gazed back to Jacob and a K-bar knife appeared from her hand! Seemingly out of nowehre she gets in to a knife stance while holding the grip tightly, the pointed ridges facing away from her forearm. "Ah well I got a job to do so if you don't mind..." She was a lot shorter than how she looked in the present and though granted she looked super hotter in the present, this Artemis didn't exactly have....assets weighing her down i.e full hips and breasts. She was dynamically faster as she shot off her right foot and went straight for the kill! Swiping her knife to and fro in vertical and horizontal angles with demonic like reflexes she'd attempt at landing a gash, each time one slash finished she'd release the knife momentarily only to allow herself to grab it a different way to attempt a contrasting form of cutting him!

Jacob would’ve been running beside the young Artemis when things began to…change and shift again. “Eh? It’s happening!” Jacob would’ve simply continued running forward! He didn’t know where to but he didn’t think to stop moving. That’s when he simply began to fall as if gravity had given out from his hold. He fell in the midst of shifting images until he could start to see…a bit more. Soon enough he landed effortlessly on a rooftop in a squat.  He stood up and looked around hearing the sounds of whirring cars and vehiciles. There was a bridge in the distance and a woman on the rooftop laying on her stomach. She had blue hair which was a dead give away of who it was…but what time period was he in this time? They were in Kasaihana sure but something…something was different. “What time period is this…” he looked left and right before Artemis had stood up facing him.

“You picked a bad time to be up here guy….Mmm though I don't mind the eye candy there muscles..." Jacob blinked a bit looking at her. “Nope she’s…she’s still a child. She has to be. Gee wiz she was a fast one.” Jacob thought as he shook his head before holding his hands up and waving them defensively. He wasn’t about to draw his shield on her because again even if he was certain to beat her that would completely ruin the flow of events that follow! “Wait wait wait hoooooooooold on. This is not as bad as you might think it is.” Jacob saw a long black limozine which he could only guess might have been her target based on the distance they were away from this. "Ah well I got a job to do so if you don't mind..." “Wait a minute…” Jacob used his contact lenses to zoom in on the limozine to see who was inside of it. It was…”Is that…Tetsu Ryoji? This was…YOU were the one who tried to assassinate him?!? You know he blamed Keyome for that right?!? What in the…no one ever knew?!?!” he didn’t have time to process anything else as she came at him with a K-Bar knife! “Whoa!” Jacob would’ve taken a back step twisting his body to the left to avoid the first vertical slash towards his body, and ducking the next horizontal one! As she would’ve come in with another vertical one he’d throw his right hand up to catch the hand with the knife in it before pointing at her with a stern tone of voice. “Listen here! Um! I’m not the bad guy! But you need to take that shot like RIGHT NOW and don’t…miss.” Jacob knew she was going to have to miss since it would destroy the time flow if she did, but either way a shot HAD to be taken at this point! Weather she did or he took the reigns. Tetsu would’ve been in the back of the limo, adjusting his watch. It was acting on the fritz that day and he handn’t a single clue why…

Whoever this guy was, he was good! She hadn't met anyone able to dodge her attacks at such high speeds before though he didn't seem intent on fighting her back but instead stopping her! Gloved hands grip her wrist and stop her mid attack and though Artemis could have gotten out of such a mild hold, his words got through to her and she paused long enough to listen with a confused expression. He wanted her to take the shot???

Realizing she did have a job to do she drops the knife in to her free hand and points it towards the blondes neck with a grin. "Don't miss huh? This seems pretty suspicious and I'll have to have a word with my employer...but the moneys already been transferred to my account so what the hell right?" She moves slowly away from him, not about to turn her back on the costume wearing....whatever he was but at some point she knew she'd have to.

Eyeing Jacob a little longer she clucked her tongue before holstering her knife in its hiding spot and kneeling back down, picking up the rifle to hold it up instead of laying on her stomach just in case Jacob had any funny ideas of attacking her.

The job tonight was to assassinate Tetsu Ryoji...she didn't know much about him since she'd only been in the country for a couple of months but it was at this time where she started her sniping career. At only 16 years old, Artemis was banished from Colombia for working with the rebels and instead of the death penalty she was merely banished from ever returning to her own country...perhaps the government decided to take pity on her she never really knew the real reason even to the present she still didn't know what changed the boards mind to not hang and shoot her. So here she was in America on the roof top of some place getting ready to kill a powerful man.

Curling her finger against the trigger, blue hues focus once more and narrow dangerously through the scope of the intended targets car, taking in count the trajectory, the material of the window and its thickness, wind speeds and the type of bullet she was using....she'd done this countless of times before and they didn't call her the phantom bullet for nothing but all boasting aside she was prepared to take this mans life and with a quick inhale of air she pulls the trigger...the bullet shoots out in to a never ending spiral in a straight line for its intended target, cutting through the very air to make itself known soon enough...

"Don't miss huh? This seems pretty suspicious and I'll have to have a word with my employer...but the moneys already been transferred to my account so what the hell right?" Jacob looked down at the knife she had to his throat. It was…strange. Her frame actually would’ve seemed to have slowed her down in the future but that wasn’t to much the case. She still seemed the same speed. “Maybe the years of trying to suppress this side of her have kind of…mellowed her out. If I wasn’t still cooling down from my episode I might’ve had a fight on my hands. One I’m not even sure I’d be ready for.” Jacob watched her grab the gun and take aim. “So this is the Blue Demon…the side of her Red Eye must’ve been talking about. She’s so...different. her mannerisms haven’t much changed but she seems a lot more…hm. I don’t know what to call it yet.” As the trigger was pulled Jacob closed his eyes, saying a silent prayer and hoping he hadn’t interfered to god awful much.

Tetsu still sitting in the back would’ve smiled in his growing of older age. A light stubble on his chin as he smiled. “Ahh there  we go. All better. “ As his watch would’ve begun to start back up so would it’s functions that it initially came with. That’s when a bullet pierced right through the front windshield and impacted Tetsu dead in his skull! Tetsu’s head whipped back as if he’d been caught with whiplash! The force of the sniper rifle bullet would be enough to kill anyman it hit and leave a bloody mess behind! The car began to swerve and in and out of control as the driver got down the bridge and pulled over the limo, turning around to check on Tetsu as did the other two KPD officers in the vehicle! However when they looked at him, Tetsu would’ve reached his hand up and taken hold of the bullet. It was…smooshed. Like someone had crushed it. Tetsu blinked  his eyes a few times lowering his head to look at it. Not even so much as a scratch on his forehead. “Hm. Glad I always come prepared.”

Tetsu was this era’s supercop for the longest time, not just because he had the skills and the intellect to do so but he was always ahead of the game in one way or another. For instance when traveling ANYWHERE in the open by car or by foot, or any means he always shieled himself with a thin layer of Kinetic energy. It was thinly wrapped around his skin like a second body armor.  He could manipulate it at will, and to be smiple when anything of solid mass came into contact with im regardless of speed, the moment it made contact with him his body would absorb it’s energy rendering whatever came his way powerless. As such the bullet’s properties were downright useless even with a head shot.

The time period they were in this time around was the period of the KPD/Kagemaru war. It was during this time where The Kagemaru clan was beginning to shift the balance of power in the city. No other clan could come close to the economical power they had control over. Everywhere you went in district one or two, you would see property they owned or companies with their brand or underneath their protection. However they were good at covering up their traps and their cruption. The KPD at the time was taking a beating, and also having their weapons supplied by the Soramaru. Tetsu single handedly changed this opting that he refused to let the police force be below someone elses jurisidiction. That journey of his however is a story for another day…

For now Jacob would’ve sighed in relief seeing that what was supposed to have happened, finally happened. This was the incident that really sparked the rest of the events so he could rest easy. Standing there strong with his hands on his hips he’d look around to see if the scene was going to switch before asking Artemis. “How do you…take someone’s life so easily?” he’d wait for the answer to this question or for the scene to switch wanting to confirm the things that made Artemis so…cold sometimes. How she hides that killer murderous instinct with a smile and a pick up line sometimes baffled Jacob…

For now Jacob would’ve sighed in relief seeing that what was supposed to have happened, finally happened. This was the incident that really sparked the rest of the events so he could rest easy. Standing there strong with his hands on his hips he’d look around to see if the scene was going to switch before asking Artemis. “How do you…take someone’s life so easily?” he’d wait for the answer to this question or for the scene to switch wanting to confirm the things that made Artemis so…cold sometimes. How she hides that killer murderous instinct with a smile and a pick up line sometimes baffled Jacob…

Releasing the breath she held, the shot was made and she murmured under her breath. "Head shot." The car swerved lightly before stopping roughly as people would come out of their cars to see what had happened to Tetsu Ryoji! Blue hues watched calmly though when the man steps out holding the bullet between his fingers the snipers brows raise in genuine surprise as she whistles. "Damn. I didn't miss but uh...didn't exactly get the job done either. Hope the people dont want a refund." She laughs softly before bringing the rifle to an upright position and watching Tetsu ryoji curiously.

The sudden sound of Jacob talking makes her remember she was not alone and the blonde was still there just...standing around. Looking over her shoulder at him she just watched him in a relaxed stance even as he asks her...how could she take someones life so easily? This question hadn't been asked in a very long time and to this the blue haired started to snicker until it turned in to a full out laugh.

Standing up with a baretta now in her hand she approaches Jacob with out any fear and points the barrel right in his direction. "Right now. If I shot you...I wouldn't miss. You could do those fancy moves all you want but if I wanted to kill you I could." Her finger goes to the trigger but she doesn't pull it and continues talking. "What have you heard people say before? Other killers...they tell you its all they know. They have dark pasts so its kill or be killed....but me? Its warped into my DNA. Seared in my brain to be a murderer...there is something inside of me that tells me to take a life. It tells me my true purpose, my reason for being my very existence is to take the existence of others...and what a beautiful purpose I've been given." There was a crazed look in those glowing blue hues as that grin returned ten fold, a grin that reached her eyes she must have given all her victims before their untimely demise.

But soon enough the grin fades and that unsettling joking expression turns into a much colder and emptier gaze "I'm a weapon down to my very core...what good is a weapon if they do not do what they were created to do?" She lowers her hand and watches him for what seemed like too long... "I never shared that with anyone before. Huh...you're easy to talk to. Shame." Her hand raises up and the trigger is pulled!! The bullet spirals right for Jacob---and then fades as Artemis' image breaks into pieces as does the rest of the city, the white light returning again.

This time when he jumped through her memory he landed right on the outside balcony of some hideout...the balcony led inside to a rather well kept room as the doors were only slightly open so the blonde could take a peek in if he wished to...it was night time once again and Kasiahanna was still the location but more in to the future...if the blonde did look in the space he'd be able to see a 17 year old Artemis sitting up on a dresser and heavily making out with a man known as Darius Corvo who stood between her legs. The two were passionately embracing with heated words exchanged and clothes being stripped off. The blue haired girl laughed softly at something the brunette assassin said before her lips were once more occupied. Who ever this guy was, she seemed to be pretty into him as things were knocked off the dresser and the mans lips trailed down the petite body. "Mm Darius..."

This memory was short lived...if only because whoever this man was her relationship with him was so short lived and their image fades into the darkness and the light returns....

This time...it was cold. Very cold...with the smell of the sea. The sound of the waves lightly crashing it almost seemed peaceful...but the peace ended as the frightening echo of bullets going off disturb the silence!! The scene is set...Artemis standing in the middle while the brunette from before is standing at a short distance....and a man wearing a skull mask rising from debris holding the source of where the bullets had come from...a machine gun held tightly to his form. Artemis' trained eyes see the first bullet coming towards her…and long lashes flutter and close.

 She doesn’t fight it, she doesn’t even attempt at trying to move out of the way as she knew the probability. It was impossible and so she would accept her fate. After all had it not been what she told Darius all along? Their tomorrow was never promised to them, this moment here proved it to the two. She deserved this death, all of the lives she has taken she saw fit that her demise would be at the hands of a gun. The bullet pushes itself through her shoulder and of course as expected she doesn’t budge at the first shot nor the second or third…but the more bullets that land the more it became difficult to keep her footing.

She didn’t want to open her eyes, she didn’t want to see Darius in pain of any sort. She wanted to remember his words to her…even if they had argued, he cared so deeply more than anyone had ever and she would cherish that feeling for as long as she was still bound to this world. She’d been shot multiple times she could taste the heat and the metal on the tip of her tongue…but it would then be replaced by the taste of her blood as it pours out from her mouth and the wounds, her body moves on its on or rather it can no longer control itself, falling to her knees in a numbness of sorts before sprawling out to her side.

She was not a stranger to death, her life had not been promising in the beginning and she had made peace with her illness long ago before the serum when she was a mere child on her death bed. But she suppose one could not escape your demise in the end of it all…so if she were to go then fine, she owed it to herself to see him one last time. Somehow even with the pain radiating inside of the seared and torn tissue and muscle and organs she was able to force her eyes to open slowly but so little it almost felt like they were still closed.

 The jacket around her petite form was useless to her now against the cold she was currently experiencing and it wasn’t from the weather either…this was the cold one felt when death had a grip on you. It did not welcome you like an old friend, not people like her. Not a killer…and she could accept this truth.

"NOOOOO!!!" The brunette screams and shoots forward towards the fallen Artemis. He'd knelt beside her but only for a moment...his anger so built up he left her if only to kill Roberto Del Magra...a man who worked for the order...the first one to kill Artemis but not the last to...

## III

"Right now. If I shot you...I wouldn't miss. You could do those fancy moves all you want but if I wanted to kill you I could." That was an outright threat. Coming from a younger and less wiser Artemis she probably meant it to. Jacob wanted to be intimidated but he wasn’t even sure what would happen to him if he died here. Would he fade into time? Would he actually be dead in the real world? There were so many questions anyone would ask about this scenario! However as many questions as he may have had he was really only concerned with the fact that Artemis. This artemis at t his point in time…would shoot him. Shoot him dead. What she said next shot him as…cryptic. In every single sense of the word.

"What have you heard people say before? Other killers...they tell you its all they know. They have dark pasts so its kill or be killed....but me? Its warped into my DNA. Seared in my brain to be a murderer...there is something inside of me that tells me to take a life. It tells me my true purpose, my reason for being my very existence is to take the existence of others...and what a beautiful purpose I've been given."

Jacob saw the look in her eyes. As he did he couldn’t help but think back on what Red Eye said. About the lifeless look in her eye and how it was her most beautiful look. Not because it was her most beaituful look but because it was the look that was the real her so to speak. How killing was…imbued into her. “She’s been like this…lost in her own personal darkness for so long…she was practically living in it herself. No one was there to save her. How can someone live like this…more importantly how did she…break free of something like this…” As artemis continues he can only stand there and listen to her words even more. She’d lowered the gun but Jacob didn’t lower his guard. He couldn’t. He didn’t like this Artemis. Not one bit. If anything had he met this Artemis at any point in time they would’ve more than likely been enemies as opposed to being whatever they are now.

"I'm a weapon down to my very core...what good is a weapon if they do not do what they were created to do?...I never shared that with anyone before. Huh...you're easy to talk to. Shame."

Jacob saw her raise the gun and shoot the bullet! He could see it spiraling through the air as she took the shot. That same look still in her eyes. Jacob’s eyes on the bullet as he’d have started to lean to the side just  a bit, thinking that this was going to be what it came to until the bullet that would’ve grazed his cheek merely faded through his face as the scene became warped once again. “Thank god…” Jacob thought. As his body began to float again he’d roll with it this time. Watching the images distort and reform around him as he spoke aloud. “This is beginning to give me a headache...I just can’t…imagine someone living their life like that…”  Jacob would’ve landed on the ground again this time on a balcony. He looked around not sure where he was. It was still Kasaihana. The air here is cleaner than many other palces…”Uh…” he softly said. He didn’t know if someone was here or not, but his instinct told him to move forward. Hell that’s the only direction he could move right? Jacob walked inside of the doors, stepping quietly. His boots reduced noise anyhow as he stepped through an almost blackened room. The door was open and he heard soft noises. Stepping quietly he’d go up to the door and peak through it with one eye.

There she was in her blue haired glory. While Jacob couldn’t tell what time of year it was she must’ve been legal at this point as the brunette male was smacking lips with her pretty heavily. Jacob pulled away looking to the side a bit. He really…didn’t need to see that. In fact he probably could’ve gone his whole life without seeing that. He wanted to turn away but he knew he had to let things progress. All he’d heard was her moaning his name softly. Jacob could feel his…heart hitting the bottom of his stomach. Even if this wasn’t in her current present, not self respecting guy would want to look at someone he had feelings for being taken by another man. At any point in his or her time. He closed his eyes hoping he didn’t have to endure much longer but it did make some kind of sense now. “She found her light huh. So…that must’ve been the start of it all. The start of her change. “ Jacob could feel the atmosphere shifting meaning he didn’t have to watch that awful show again, though he might’ve wished he had. Only because what he came to next was simply…aweful…”

As time morphed again it was cold…really REALLY fucking cold. He was on a beach but he was facing the wrong way. He heard waves and looked to his left and his right only to turn around seeing Artemis and that same guy from before. “Why am i…?” Jacob then saw it. It’s as if the time stream slowed itself down to bring him to his very moment of her life…or rather the end of her life. Jacob saw the skull faced man rise from the derbies he was in. A machine gun on his hip pointed right at Artemis. Jacob’s eyes winded and out of sheer reflex his hand reached for her, as his feet began to move! “STOOOOOOP!!!!!!” he tried to move but it felt as if he was going nowhere…and fast. Like the time stream itself refused to let him intervene in this moment. The first bullet fired and impacted her. Jacob hated this…he hated t his because it was apart of her past. Even though he knew she was alive now to see this, repla yof her death. It was killing him. His feet stepped into the dirty sand, but again…it’s like he made no progress. As each bullet pierced her body, he held his chest with his with his other hand as if he could a piece of him self dying inside. As her body finally fell to the limp ground, on her side, Jacob would’ve stumbled in the sand and fell to his knees. He panicked…he was confused because he didn’t see this coming…he never knew she died. Even as he panicked trying to crawl towards her, not caring if the other man was there or not,  he tried. His teeth gritted, as he felt his eyes watering. Upset more so that he was…powerless. Completely powerless to do anything about this. All he could do was stand and watch her face her death…watch her body lie there and bleed out. His hand mere inches away from her short blue locks as the light in her eyes faded just as quick as it was there. He kept reaching…knowing the end result was the inevitable result.

He was powerless. It would be mercy if he shifted forward in time, as he felt his heart about to pound right out of his chest.

The lifeless body of Artemis continues to lay there unmoving even as Darius kills Roberto and comes rushing back to her...With Darius hovering over the deceased sniper a white light from his chest begins to beam and go right in to her! Perhaps that was how she returned to the living the first time...but the second time was not so welcoming to her return....

The images once more fade this time at a much faster rate with the white light barely even appearing before the next scene is set...There were two different types of people fighting...killers from the Order and Assassins from the brother hood in an all out battle in the streets of Kasiahanna!! It was like a war zone with Artemis close by of course in Assassin robes. They were here to rescue Darius after he'd been kidnapped by the Order, losing their fight with Agent V, Red eye and some other heavy htiter....They were beginning to lose but Artemis continued on fighting hell bent on rescuing her boyfriend! For the first time she was welcomed in to a family of people who did what she'd always done...they were assassins but with a code and her team was like a family she never had....but the cold reality was people in their line of work never had happy endings....one by one each of her team members were shot and killed on the streets with Artemis remaining...watching all of her friends sprawled out on the pavement in a pool of their own blood.....

Artemis had begun to change for the better but unfortunately at a cost...altering the serum to not meddle with her emotions she'd gotten sloppy...weaker for the sake of being in love. And that is what cost her her life a second time...With a gun pointed to the back of her head all covered in wounds and exhausted, Artemis knelt down with a frown as the person holding her at gun point is none other than Red eye himself....

"Look at all your friends. Go and join them you second rate joke." Blue hues close slowly as she comes to accept her fate for a second time, the trigger being pulled and Artemis executed in such a way!! The images once more fade as if not allowing Jacob to see her body fall again, the images only gaining in speed this time though a little out of sorts....

This time was a labratory and a capsule of some sort keeping the body of Artemis in a blue liquid while wires hugged her limbs and a mask kept her breathing....she was alive again. When the Infinites brought her back just to use her as a weapon...The memories began to speed up and instead of letting him see minutes of a memory it'd only be for a few moments...the moments that mattered most to the sniper the ones that really impacted her timeline of life. It was like watching a movie being fast forwarded but in a way one could still comprehend....working for the Infinites and capturing Hiro Lionhart....only to free him and join Lion corp as a double agent bent on betraying the Titan....and the scene pauses long enough to show a syringe in the super soldiers hand while held up over Hiros sleeping body....a choice to kill or to change....

And she chose to change...throwing the syringe and telling the giant blonde man she could be for the better. The scene breaks again and continues with the movie...seeing Red eye again and taking his life how she did....for revenge on what he'd done to her...a vicious cycle that never ended it seemed. Jacob even got to see when she went up against Cronos and Hades and just how wonderful that battle went....

There was so many giant points in her life around this time and one particular one did stick out....The titan telling Artemis to move on from him...that they wouldn't work anymore. He could not forgive the way she took red eyes life and her disregard for human life all together....they were too different and Artemis was left alone once more...

Until...the setting sets its night time and Jacob would find himself hovering over a naked present Artemis who was currently taking his dick over and over again. Slender arms come to wrap around exposed shoulders as she moans his name. "Mmm...why'd you stop?" Her tone was deeper than her younger self of course as full hips and tits shift under the muscular body of the blonde, urging him to keep thrusting inside of her. "It's only been 3 rounds...you can go one more...can't you?" The snipers tone was sexual as all hell with blue hues gazed up at him with a carnal need but these eyes who had already seen so much...looked at him much differently than she'd looked at the world so far.

That untrusting grin had shifted in to a pleasured smile of content while those same hands that had choked the very life out of her enemies and pulled so many triggers were now carrassing him adoringly and sinking her nails into toned back muscles if only to worship perfection such as him and remember every single inch of him....how shes feeling and whats shes thinking at this moment looking into his eyes...Jacob could see it all and feel it too...that warm hope any time their eyes locked...its what he gave her.

And who would have thought...the perverted persistent sniper was experiencing all these kinds of emotion behind a mask of joking and being overly sexual while attacking Jacob their first night together....

IV
--

Jacob watched as the male known as Darius killed this skull faced fellow who wore an outfit similar to the person that messed up Jacob’s knee in the first place…he’d push this thought to the back of his head however in  the wake of the fact that…Artemis had died. She’d…she’d had everything she’d wanted if not for a moment only to have it taken away from her just that quick. That’s when he see’s Darius bringing her back into the world. Jacob would’ve licked his lips, running his forearm across his eyes not wanting to reveal any tears for any reason. He almost forgot for a second that maybe these people could or couldn’t see him. He didn’t much know and once the scene began to shift itself in many ways he wouldn’t have much time to care. He was now being thrust forward but this time a little faster than he had been before.  This time he’d be in the middle of the streets of Kasaihana once again! Getting himself up and off of the ground, he’d look around to see men and women in robes fighting amongst one another! The different color’s representing different factions perhaps?  Jacob could recognize the brotherhoods robes from the way their described in the history books. Their history never became advent or known until years down the line. The other people he didn’t recognize at all…he’d never seen them before. The only famliarites when Jacob turned his head to look again were artemis…and Red Eye. A much younger looking one in a bit of a different attire. Jacob had watched Artemis fight to her hearts content but he could tell she…she wasn’t the same. Why? He saw the gleam in her eyes. It was similar but not exact the eyes of the Artemis he knew today.

That’s…not right. She should be able to do this kind of thing in her sleep…could it be she became blinded by love and lost her killing intent? How could that…hinder someone.” Jacob watched as Red Eye was behind her about to pull the trigger. Jacob knew he… he couldn’t interfear but god damn it he refused to see Artemis die before his eyes again! Jacob gritted his teeth and stood up, aiming to grab his shield and hurl it but then the images around him faded to black and he was being transported again somewhat. This time everything around him remained distorted but there was no feeling of moving forward more so now just being a pair of eyes in the background. Perhaps the time stream could sense jacob’s need to interfear? To change events even knowing that they were no where near for the best of things?  Jacob began to see more moving images of Artemis and her eveolution to this point in time. Like a child drawn to the television he could only stop and stare…

He saw Artemis resurrected again. He then saw Hiro Lionheart and how they came to be. He saw many  points of her life where she actually could’ve had that chance at happiness. He saw how she killed Red Eye and this made Jacob cringe as he could see that darkness in her eyes as she took his life. He could see Hiro telling her there was no room for a killer like her and for her to begone elsewhere. Jacob began to have a bit of a somber look on his face at this point. He…he felt bad for her but he wasn’t sure if he should.  The circumstances of her life have indeed been terrible and no human being deserves to go through that kind of thing ,no matter who you are but…she had a choice. She’s always had a choice. Serum or not she’s shown she could keep it at bay enough to do what she wanted to do. So…why? Why doesn’t she? Is she confused? Lost between her wants and her needs? What is it? What’s keeping her grounded now? She’d already snapped and became a killer again at one point. She wouldn’t even talk to Jacob about it. “What is it Artemis…what’s keeping you from going back.” The images continued until Jacob himself saw a bright white light! This time when he reappeared he felt a ravaging sense of lust.

He blinked his eyes multiple times, opening them up to the feeling his hips slamming into something. He could feel his erection drenched in a thick gooey liquid and upon further obersation he could hear the sweet sound of a voice moaning his name, and feeling nails dig into his back. He looked left and right and saw the mansion, the room he slept in, and finally looking down he’d see Artemis. He had traveled to the point where him and Artemis…first had sex. “This is…a change for her? What did I do? The other men played important parts to her so…”  "Mmm...why'd you stop?" Jacob blinked a few times almost forgetting he could talk in this scenario. “I oh? Uhm I uh. I can’t erm. Ahhh heh heh.” He began to scratch the back of his head, fingers folding through his blonde hair as he felt her shifting beneath his body. He bit his lip…he’d missed the feeling of her tight womb milking his cock for the creamy prize in side and it made his face a bit flustered with a red tint. He looked into her eyes and that’s when he saw it. There was a glow there. Not a literaly one but a gleam in them. Her eyes they were a bright beaiutiful blue that matched the hue of her hair. They looked at him, saw right through him as if he were as open as a book. He could feel it…their connection. Like two people coming together to share one mind, one body and one soul. “I see it now.” Jacob said aloud as he looked down at her. He’d lean in and bump foreheads with her, not caring if this altered her memory of him or not. He realized deep down he was the reason for this change. He was becoming the new light of life in her eyes. If what he was feeling was true…then he knew why it was all worth it. He knew why he was doing this again and why she’d been so important to him to save. He wanted to save her. Not just physically but from the deep pits of darkness that plague the soul of a girl. A girl who more than anyone deserves a fair chance at a life, a life she wants to live, not one she’s forced into living.

"It's only been 3 rounds...you can go one more...can't you?" Jacob lightly pushed his lips against hers, his blue hues meeting her own as his lips brushed against hers while curling into a smile. “Of course I can Arty. I’ll always go as far as you need me to. “ He’d push his lips back into hers  a little harder pushing a kiss upon her while running a hand down her face. His hips beginning to pick back up bucking inside of hers. His already on the verge cock pumping inside of her as it pulsated violently. His moans turned to graons and his pants pushed his breathe against her face and neck. His cock pushing it’s way into her dephs, as it pounded away at her tight womb rhythmically. He could feel the estacy building up inside of him. He was going to cum soon…like he’d apparently already done. A memory he was more than happy to reenact with her…knowing his luck this little romp down memory lane might just cut him off here. As long as he didn’t end up in some other point in time naked, he’d be okay. “I’m gonna cum again…” his hands motion up to hold her face in his hands as his hips continue bucking into hers, as after a few more bed rocking pumps, Jacob would’ve let his cock stew inside of her while letting off another load of cum inside of her. His mouth gaping wide open from the entoxicating feeling that was more than just sex. It was her. Her in general…she was bringing him to this threshold of happiness he’d never felt before. Jacob wasn’t…one to know what this was supposed to be since in reality he never even asked the girl out anyway. This was more than likely the closest thing to…love he’d ever felt. If that’s what it was or wasn’t, to him it would be.

The two continue to fuck inside of the large mansion until Jacob could no longer hold back another climax though Artemis followed suit right after him with a cry of his name....but just as all the other memories this too would have to fade away....

This time the images speed up faster than ever if only because of how close they were reaching the end of her memories up until now. It could make anyone watching want to throw up from all of the images zooming all about them. With the most recent memory while Artemis was still awake, the ride seems to stop and the blonde could see Red eye trapping the blue haired sniper in a metal box...Jacobs body was no longer visible probably because the memories were running out and his own mind was being taken out of her own.

Unfortunately he could see inside the metal box and watch the Merc putting his hands all over Artemis with those cold words of admitting his sick obssesion with ehr while the sniper couldn't move a finger from all the tranq being pumped in to her.

Red eye jumps up on the table like a hungry animal with Artemis as his helpless prey with pants unbuckling and her dress ripped from her form. It didn't take long before the scene of Red eye taking her on the table followed afterwards with the present Artemis being slammed into the wall and pounded away in to with such a harsh coldness though even so...she was begging for more...

And just as the moment is played out, it vanishes...into darkness again before Jacobs 'body' is suddenly lifted into oblivion and thrown, a force sending him flying into nothingness but it'd feel like ones very existence was being yanked out from the mind of the sniper and back in to the real world of the present.

Finally...blue hues snap open but they were not Jacobs...but Artemis. How long had she been asleep for? What did...what was happening? It all seemed hazy at first but pieces were being placed together as an empty stare trailed to her surroundings...the warehouse in Colombia. Where it all started...back on the marine base or what was left of it with the strong smell of smoke still lingering in the air.

"Am I...dreaming still?" Bringing her hands slowly up to her face she flexes her fingers and sees she would have control of her body. All of this felt like an illusion...a nightmare actually. It never ended...it never stopped. But part of her knew...part of her realized there was something wrong...oh so wrong.

Jacob would’ve rode out the euphoric feeling he’d gotten from the miniature sex scene as he was then left standing upright again. He looked around, not really sure what the hell to think or what was going on. He looked around until he’d heard moaning sounds again. God not another one of these. Who the hell could it have been now? Jacob turned his head and his worst fears were proven true. There he was, that dastardly menace Red Eye…mounting Artemis like a wild dog. Jacob didn’t want to see this…but he really didn’t want to hear her crying out for more. Begging for it. Practically asking for it. “…” Jacob said nothing. The sense of love he’d literally just experienced was gone out of his mind just that quick. His fist balled up in complete anger. Resentment, malice and spite were starting to form in the back of his mind…all he could see were Red Eye’s dead cold hues looking him in the eyes as he remembered what he said about her once more.

“Mmm you didn’t see it but I did. That loss of morality…that cold dead look in her eyes. They went from a bright blue, to a pale and nearly dead blue-ish grey…you could see the lack of empathy as she killed those men. Men of the division she works with mind you. “

Jacob couldn’t help but think of those men that died. They didn’t have to did they…no she chose to kill them. whatever was interfering with her urges, she’s show to be able to control at will right? Why change? Why recede back to that type of mentality. Jacob’s head hurt as his mind was spinning. His thoughts being warped, as he listened to Red Eye’s words about her and they were planting a seed…a seed of hate.

“She gave me that same look twice now. The first time when she took my life. The second time when I fucked her brains out…” Jacob gritted his teeth, before reaching behind his back faster than  the blink of an eye and tossing his shield at Red Eye….or Artemis. Which ever one the shield would’ve hit will never be known as Jacob would’ve been suddenly exulted form the time stream! His body being swept form it’s dimension like dust under a rug! He went soaring up until his eyes opened up in the real world again. Looking to his right he’d see the old woman still strapped up to the machine. Looking to his left he’d see Artemis…her eyes closed as she too was still hooked up. “…” Jacob stood himself up, rubbing the back of his neck, and opening the hidden door. The team were on the last twenty men but they were exhausted. It’d been hours of relentless combat and stress like that would tire anyone out.

::inside Artemis mind;;

"Am I...dreaming still?" “God no, though I wish the both of us were.” A spiteful female voice echoed through the mental plane Artemis found herself in.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czw-vDr9k-o&list=PLYNBny7IRlVm1xHhYq5qHlNSsKkocXSF2&index=29 ) a pink ball of light would’ve appeared about 10 feet away from her but the voice as loud as someone being right there infront of her! The pink ball would’ve begun to form into a regular person, a very shapely figure until finally it took form and coloration. The woman stood before her wearing next to nothing.  She wore a blue one piece Kevlar outfit similar to a bathing suit, with mid thigh high stockings, with pads under the feet to double as shoes, and matching bicep high gloves, that stopped at her palms. She had long purple hair, and matching purple eyes as she glared at Artemis, her red waist sash flowing.

“It didn’t have to be like this. You could’ve simply been lost in the echoes of the time stream for good. No pain, no suffering just a nice peaceful death of what brought you this far. To think you let that Red Eye inside you…gah when I get this body I’ll make sure to wash thoroughly. “ she waved the thought off with her hand and shrugged. “Regardless project Artemis. I need not explain my intentions. This is your mind, but this will soon be occupied by my subconscious not yours. “ She held her hands out, one on each side as a pink Psionic energy formed around her wrist before two glowing pink sai daggers popped into her hands. That’s when 6 other glowing pink sai’s would’ve circled around her back side, all moving counter clockwise behind the other. “This is the final step to retaining my use. Your life has been a sham since the day you were born. At least let ME be the one to make proper use of this body to DO something worth a shit in this world.” She would’ve floated in the air slightly, hovering about 4 feet off the ground as an errie pink glow arose from her

\*This was it! The final showdown! Artemis would’ve been in the scape of her mind fighting who revealed herself to be the mastermined behind this gradioes scheme to take over her body! However Artemis was not powerless! If she could gain mental ground and understand this was her mind she could imagine the weapons she’s most comfortable using including her outfit if she wanted to! She’d have to be careful however as her opponent could do the same…\*

Another being appears before her...a woman with long purple hair and pink glowing hands that formed weapons. No she was sleeping...she remembered now. Red eye had taken her in that metal box and she attacked him to escape but she didn't get very far...

“It didn’t have to be like this. You could’ve simply been lost in the echoes of the time stream for good." The woman spoke again and Artemis listened intently. Was she the old woman whom had been strapped up to the wires with Artemis? It had to be...same eyes just in a younger body that was radiating crazy amounts of energy. So this was the plan mm?

A slow grin curled the snipers mind as she snickered before out right laughing. "HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA AAHH!!" Her head tossed back as she just continued laughing as if being told the greatest joke of all time. Finally satisfied she takes in a deep breath while wiping at her eyes. "Oh lady...thats rich!" The grin only widens as a brow raises with dangerous blue hues glowing. "You don't want this body, bitch. This body has done things you can't even imagine...if you let your mind take over the serum will do you how it did me."

Watching more weapons appear on the womans form Artemis knew what needed to be done as her Aoi Oni suit hugs every curve of the sniper all but the helmet which she keeps off. Made of really stretchable rubber for flexibility. This rubber contains, a thick 10 pound layer of Kevlar around it’s outer perimeters. Since artemis is an enhanced human, she can carry around a load much heavier than a normal human, to the point where this amount of Kevlar wouldn’t slow her physical movements down very much at all. It’s designed to work with her enhancements, and only an additional layer of protection for her already toughened body. It’s impact resistant, but doesn’t overpower artemis’s already dense tissue.

It’s waterproof, fibered to withstand high and low temperatures, subpar of extreme, fully insulated and has noise reduction properties, to deafen her sound around her hands and feet, for complete and total stealth. The suit is filled with knives. Mainly around the forearms, calves, and waist for easy catch and release. These containers do not hinder her movement, nor rattle or shake when she is using them and are hugged tightly to her body.

"It'll take over and morph you in to what it wants....you'll have no control. It took me years to be able to turn it off and on at will...but you. You messed it all up by interferring with the brain signals and the serum took the opportunity to take over with no intent of listening to me..." A carbon fiber titanium alloy katana slides out its sheath from behind the snipers back while her other hand posses a sub machine gun that fit snug in her hand fully loaded and cocked to fill a bitch up with. "So I killed people who didn't need to die. Personally I couldn't care less they meant nothing to me but that isn't the point...I didn't need to kill them. The serum decided that for me. You want this body so badly? I'll show you what it means to be the blue demon..."

Blue hues began to glow, enhancing her eyesight as the serum pumps through her veins and Artemis lowers her gaurd, the wall placed in her mind to keep the Serum from doing as it wished was now gone allowing it to reek havoc and fill her mind up entirely! The reason this Serum had never made it past animal trials was the aggression shown in rats...lack of empathy with psychotic tendencies and huge amounts of apathy. Still the mother of Artemis continued using it on her 3 year old to give her a chance at life...

And what a life she's had...With long locks of blue levitated past strong shoulders, the knuckles of the sniper cracked loudly as she curled her fingers into fists. "I've battled against some of the most powerful mercenaries in the world, Assassins, Corrupt Organizations and even GODS." Blue hues only grow brighter as the Serum now given free reign of Artemis would go to its true potential.

Scientists speculate one only uses 10 percent of their brain...but it is only a myth. A person can use 10 percent of their brain sure but they use it in different areas of the brain. Thinking, decision making, sleeping, moving the body...All different parts of the brain but not at the same time. Many omega gene users can tap in to 100% brain usage but she was not one with an omega gene. She was a simple human born with a terminal illness until the contents of a serum changed all of that and created an ehanced version of her.

Smarter than an average person and even a peak human she was powerful as far as human beings go but now with the serum doing its job, that 10 percent started morphing and on the outside world where her body was wired up one could see the action going on in her brain, the images of it lighting up in not one or two places...but her entire brain was glowing from rapid activity.

"You will fall at my feet too." Her tone was darker with a deep echo that could latch on to a person and seep in to their very soul. Without another word the super soldier vanishes in to multiple after images coming right for the purple haired woman! Appearing first in front of her the katana soon follows with animalistic swings, blade outward towards the ladys torso in constant vertical angles with such precision one could even hear the 'air' being sliced in half as if her speed could cut through the very molecules that existed in this plaine.

http://49.media.tumblr.com/00d7e0e2855cd239dfe4296b13a79f6c/tumblr\_ns5euqoJQM1uz35lto1\_500.gif

Taking in to account the womans weapons in her hands and even the height of which she was floating after the attempting multiple strikes, Artemis would utilized reinforced elbows to shoot out towards the womans forearm to interrupt any possible strikes of her own if none of the snipers strikes landed or were blocked. Her right elbow swinging out to knock in to the womans left arm to force it upward giving Artemis enough room to turn her body so her backs facing the older womans chest and this time Arts left elbow crashes backwards to assault the womans nose repeatedly.

Knowing the womans right arm was still free to do as she wished, Artemis would take the Katana weilding hand (The right one) and twirl her wrist so the blade shifts and the hilt of the sword slams itself in to the other armed hand of the woman to disarm her long enough to finish her moves.

If any of this hand landed or not Artemis spun her body back to face the enemy now bringing up the submachine gun still snug in her hand to open fire in the womans vecinity with such a close distance the bullets could rip through a persons form in and out like nothing with a mess of organs smoking and blood spraying every which way.

 V
--

"So I killed people who didn't need to die. Personally I couldn't care less they meant nothing to me but that isn't the point...I didn't need to kill them. The serum decided that for me. You want this body so badly? I'll show you what it means to be the blue demon... "I've battled against some of the most powerful mercenaries in the world, Assassins, Corrupt Organizations and even GODS….You will fall at my feet too."

The purple haired woman scoffed, and titled her head up as she floated there. Artemis would’ve then charged right at her! Her arms flailing left and right as she threw vertical strike after vertical strike! Aiming to slice her every which way she could possibly to do, like a wild animal or a rabid dog! As she began throwing these swings the purple haired woman merely folded her arms, and allowed the 6 floating sigh to go to work! Each slash Artemis threw out, would’ve been countered and blocked by one of the 6 sigh as the woman telepathically controlled them! “CLANG, CLANG, CLANG C-CLANG” was the noises made as the strength of Artemis met with the mental power of her adversary. “You attack like a rabid dog. It’s distasteful…so much of that potential wasted. Talking to me like I can’t handle this serum of yours.”

When Artemis went to elbow the woman’s arms, she would’ve had a missed hit as they were folded against her chest resting over her breast this time around, however when Artemis turned her body to try and elbow the woman, she would’ve left a very large opening

When she came in with the elbow, the woman would’ve intercepted, sending 2 of the psionic sai into the back of her arm! These sai were as strong as the woman’s psionic waves or “mind” wanted them to be. They could’ve been as flimsy as rubber or harder than adamantium if she wished them to. With this counter and artemis turned around completely, the sai would’ve sent her body to the ground, as they impaled her into the ground by her arm, forcing  her to be face first into the dirt! “You’ve battled this and you’ve fought that. Useless feats of an untamed creature. I know all about your serum and it’s effects on the brain. I have mastered the ways of the mind and can bend the serum to my will. You on the other hand have a child’s mentality, letting everyone and everything around you effect your outlook. Your still that same dead piece of fetus that slipped through the womb all those years ago, but I will bring you to glory…”

While talking the woman if Artemis was still pinned down or not would’ve let the Sai circle around her back so fast they formed a complete pink circle of light before they all shot at Artemis, triple the speed of a sniper bullet! Each of them hard enough to pierce her suit, flesh and bone! These other 4 sais, plus the two that left her hand (making it six) towards her body. 4 of them aimed for her thighs (2 in each thigh) and the other two would’ve attempted to pierce her opposite arm than previously. The original sai that would’ve pierced would’ve hit an artery on entry causing instant bleeding and if each of these other Sai’s hit they’d cause the same effect, all together causing Artemis to lose an entire pint of blood if they all connected. Regardless of weather they did or didn’t,  the woman would’ve smirked, landing on the ground with a pink circle forming beneath her feet and her arms still folded. “Surrender your mind to me. I am only toying with you child.”

[10:45:22 AM] Devastation: Artemis is interrupted by the two daggers slicing through her arm and throwing her body to the floor on the snipers stomach to pin her to the ground!! The woman insults her, showing Artemis she couldn't use the serum to its correct potential. "My mother made this serum with me in mind...this Serum was created BECAUSE of me! It belongs to NO ONE ELSE!" An array of daggers surround her but Artemis was two steps ahead using combat probability of the womans next offensive move...all she was were daggers and with her exposed like this the woman planned on impaling her repeatedly.

With that in mind, Artemis activated the springs in her suit simutanously to shoot out the daggers hidden inside, 6 of the reinforced titanium blades soaring out from their hiding places in time to meet with the womans daggers to stop them. These blades were more than just knives, enhancing them using her own mind to make them almost unbreakable with a speed of her hecate sniper rifle, one of the fastest (custom made) rifles Artemis owns as the blades impact on the womans and stop them halfway. During the interruption, Artemis took hold of the blades pinning her down and yanked them out, blood pooling around her arm which she used to her advantage as she got on her knees before sitting up and thrashing her arm backwards to splash the large amount of blood in the womans face.

If the distraction had work, the woman assumed her own attack would have killed Artemis thus leaving her open for the snipers own assault now. She was done with playing games, she needed to get out of here and retake her mind. The serum lowered her pain receptors, controlling the part of the brain that could feel pain and instead increased her adrenaline.

Still holding the daggers in her hand they're thrown in the womans direction, one aimed for her jugular and the other to her abdomen for quick access to the best areas to bleed out from. With the katana still in her other hand, Artemis focuses her mind and the weapon morphs into her PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate, the barrel appearing only just a mere few inches from the womans face and without the need for a scope, Artemis pulls the trigger on the .50 calliber bullet shooting faster than the speed of sound (1100 fps) at such close proximoty the sniping bullet would take the head of a person clean off and then some with the Sniper herself digging the heels of her feet into the ground just to keep from being blasted back at such a dangerous angle of the immense weapon!!

[11:19:07 AM] Captain America: When the woman expected her daggers to all pierce Artemis flesh one after another and put an end to her meaningless life the tides changed! Daggers began to shot up from her suit countering the sai that were originally coming at her direction almost instant! The woman narrowed her eyes in irritation. As she began to do this, since she was already on the ground at this point as stated in the last post, she would be on the verge of making more hand movements but that’s when the girl slung her blood into her eyes! The blood connected and the woman took a few steps back grunting in displeasure! “Gah! You unhygienic BITCH!” she used her forearm to wipe the blood away as much of it as she could, and raised her left hand defensively. “I am a master of the mind’s eye! Blinding me is a fool’s errand!” and she as very much so right. Being a psionic user, she can see with sight beyond sight figuratively speaking. One could completely defend her senses and she would still be able to fight on par with her opponent by using her mind waves like sonar to bounce off of the surrounding area and get a feel and location on everything in the environment around her. Thus as the two daggers left Artemis hand coming for her neck and gut, It would’ve been but a chore for her, to lean forward, and leap, turning her body horizontally only to spin between the space of the two blades that were aimed to impale her body and dodge them successfully! After this, she’d land on the ground with her right leg extended and her left leg bent, her stance low, as her arms were extended, as if she’d taken a Chinese kung fu stance. By this time the blood would be completely gone from her eyes and she’d see Artemis transforming her sword into a sniper rifle this time. “Simple transformation of objects in the mind.”

The woman would’ve extended her right hand outwards towards Artemis aiming for the kill! Seeing Artemis posture shift, and with the counter and maneuvers made she’d be a good few feet away from her meaning her original aim for the head would’ve been changed slightly. When the bullet left Artemis’s chamber, the woman smirked. The bullet would’ve left the barrel but only about a foot out of it would it have begun to slow down! The woman using telekinesis to slow the bullets trajectory…only to then, flick her wrist and cause the bullet to preform a vertical U turn and aiming it straight between Artemis eyes! This was a tad difficult as the caliber of sniper she used had A LOT of velocity behind it, so it took some “umph” to successfully redirect that bullet, but seeing as how this was a counter that couldn’t be seen coming from a mile away, it’s success rate was incredibly high! If it did connect, Artemis body would instantly go limp, as the bullet would pass straight through the front to the back of her skull, and cause a massive 3 inch wide hole back there! The blood and brain matter would’ve scattered along the environment and Artemis body would’ve dropped deader than a doorknob.  If Artemis managed to dodge this bullet, the woman would’ve charged in at her! Replicating the speed of the sniper bullet after having psionically studied it, with a sai dagger in each of her hands, she’d attempt to twirl them in her fingers, before lunging her right dagger towards Artemis’ neck, and her left dagger towards Artemis’ right temple! The woman had a look of seriousness in her eyes as she was through toying with this girl and was ready to possess her body for her own already! Had these two attempts failed, she’d prepare for the worst as best as she could! “Hurry up and DIE!”

Devastation: The bullet slows down only to be controlled and turned in to a U turn right for Artemis! Trained glowing eyes shot off another Calibur bullet to meet with hers, both the tips crashing into the other to disrupt the momentum as they fall uselessly now to the ground all the while two sai came for the Sniper with the women gripping them in either hand but Artemis would not falter and allow herself to be killed by this bitch.

With the woman doing a frontal charge, the giant sniper rifle was still kept firmly in Artemis grasp and though firing another bullet would be pointless there was still a three foot barrel in the snipers hands not to mention the other two feet of the rest of the rifle and with an annoyed expression she merely swings the massive weapon upwards with such a deadly force at the right time.

Waiting for the woman to get within close distance of the barrel which she needed to get past to even strike for the sniper as the end of the rifle goes soaring upwards to meet with the womans chin to send her head snapping back with a 'KOW' sound echoing through the empty warehouse before releasing the rifle and forming two fists with intention of slamming her knuckles together but by the time she does there were two MASSIVE gauntless surrounding the super soldiers arms entirely and the robotic knuckles impact together!!

Artemis had morphed in to a milder version of her BBC suit though the gauntlets were anything but mild as the jet enginges turned on, cocking her elbow back and with a demonic aura to her she activates the immense power!  These gauntlets have special mechanical features, two specifically that allow Artemis the edge over extreme foes. One being a jet propulsion feature. On the rims of the arms, the side facing Artemis that is, are high powered mini jet propulsion engines, that will send her fist flying forward, with her attached to them, making for a strike propelled with air pressure.  They can exert a physical strike of greater power from producing a jet of matter or energy in the opposite direction of the attack, traditionally using one's fist, although this can be used for other extremities. This also branches into the pulse like effects of the hits themselves from these gauntlets. They can create strikes or attacks that create a pulse-like wave that can cause massive impacts, push enemies back and destroy foundations of structures, even leave enemies paralyzed!

And this very much was Artemis intention, with a loud battle cry and releasing the blow, her arm shoots forward with the help of the gauntlet blasting right for the woman at incredible speed, faster than even the mind of someone as advanced as her could process! The metalic knuckles aimed right for the womans body as the whirling engine sounds indeed like a jet going off she goes for the impact as the ground below them trembles and the arm goes plowing in to her stomach with the sound of a pulse echoing through her very being and then the fist going THROUGH her stomach and out the other end with the blast still going as it takes out the very end of the warehouse in an explosive blast wave, buckets of blood spraying out every which way as organs are demolished and shot from the womans form with a gaping hole that seemed endless.

If this had worked, Artemis would have stepped back to release her arm from what was left of the womans disfigured form and take a step back with narrowed hues and not a word spoken.....

Captain America: Artemis would’ve countered the woman’s coutner and her eyes wiended at the sight of it! “Theres..no way. That was a flawless calculation on my part! No matter!” she thought as when she went to charge Artemis head on at a very rapid pace and speed she’d find her chin struck with the barrel of the snipper rifle! The hit so fast she wasn’t even able to process it at this point! “Grik?!” she wanted to know what was going on! Why was she loosing all of a sudden? But deep down she knew…deep down she knew why she was losing. Artemis was winning this battle not only physically but mentally. Her will to control her own mind and become what she wanted to be, for the good or the bad, was overpowering the woman’s mental hold over her! The woman lowered her head enough only to see a giant pair of mechanical fist on Artemis hands now! She wanted to make a move but the barrel of that gun had so much force behind it caused severe bleeding in her brain which rendered a lot of her powers useless at this point…

That’s when the blow to the gut came! In the real world all anyone would’ve seen was the woman’s stomach suddenly bust open and fill the room her and Artemis were in with blood splattering on the wall infront of and behind her! In the mindscape she felt the giant fist pierce her flesh. Every single organ that had been in that area would’ve been completely bursted from her body and olbithereated on the spot. The woman’s eyes completely whitned. She had nothing else to say, not a single thought in her mind or a snippy remark. Her body began to fade, and Artemis would feel something similar to a relief as the prescence of this woman’s conscious in her own mind was being erased and wiped away for good. Her body turned grey, before fading into dust and blowing away, becoming nothing anymore…

With Jacob and the gang, they’d have all successfully defeated the men and women soldiers. All 1,000 of them on the ground unconscious or beaten into comas. Jacob stood there, with the shield on his back walking through the center of them. “Let’s get ready to move out.” Rockslide turned his head for a moment. “Arent you forgetting something? The big prize at the end of it all?” At this point Artemis would’ve been able to return to the world of the living and she’d be able to see the gang outside of the room still in her white dress. She’d be able to see Jacob at the door on the other side of the room and hear his words. “Let her catch up. She got what she came here for. We all move out and we go back to base.” Trickshot put a hand on Jacob’s shoulder. “You sure about this bud?” Ruby protested. “We came all the way here for her, just for you to suddenly become disinterested? What kind of game you runn-“ “If you don’t shut the hell up, I’m going to decapitate you with my shield. It only takes one throw Ruby. One throw and one more god damn word.” Jacob’s blue hues stared Ruby as if he was just WAITING for Ruby to make his day. Ruby bucked his chest but Flowerbomb who’d made her way in shook her head in protest. They both knew this wasn’t the time or place…

Jacob would’ve lead the team out to the plane. Not looking back to even see if Artemis had decided to follow with the crowd, though he would wait for her to board the plane as he sat in the cockpit chair. As Artemis would’ve been walking behind everyone and gotten on the plane, as it took off she’d be able to look down…and see Red Eye sitting on a motocycle with a pair of sunglasses and a black mask on covering his mouth. He sat there idoly, only to give Artemis a two finger salute before revving the motorcycle up and driving off, to parts unknown. The battle was over, but the War wasn’t. Not by a long shot.

VI
--

Devastation:  The image of the woman fades drastically until she was nothing more than dust in the wind. Artemis could feel herself gaining full control of her body once more and as her own image begins to fade she softly tells the serum...."Enough." The cold killint intent subsiding and a bright light taking over.

Moments later the sniper takes in real air in large gasps from awakening from the coma and snaps up in a sitting position with an alarmed expression. She made it out...she was in control now. Or as much as she could be...there were still traces of the serum trying to warp her mentality but as usual the sniper could contain.

Blue hues shift to watch the team finishing off with the bad guys and over heard jacobs tone. It wasnt a dream....Jacob had been in her memories that much was certain. He had seen everything that was Artemis...maybe everything that will ever be. Jacobs words hit her hard but a slow grin couldnt help but curl her lips as she let out a slight laugh....yeah. She couldnt blame him for suddenly acting cold....how stupid to think he could see who she really was and love her anyway.

She was a monster through and through...killing that old lady finally settled her inner battle. Reliving all those memories....reliving your deaths. Jacob would meet the same fate as Darius if she stuck around...people were always after her for something. She shouldnt hinder the blonde....he had a war to win. Seeing him turn his back and walk away reminded her of the other blonde Hiro....

"I cant forgive what youve done" it echoed in her mind and at first she wanted to jumo off the table and rush to jacob to tell him she could change....she could be more....but instead she allowed the serum to take over and dry the tears threatening to come out with a blank expression soon following....pushing herself off the table she follows behind the other hero's without a word....

Boarding the plane Ayame sits beside the blue haired sniper to tend to any wounds but she was already healing up nicely. Cold eyes sense being watched and lifted to catch red eye off in the distance....He gives a salute good bye and she nods her head back slowly. Monsters belong with other monsters....

Without any words to express Jacob and her dont even speak to one another and the sniper leans her head back to get some uninterrupted private sleep....