#Adrasteia – February 27, 2015

Ilyna looks at the table, blushing quite a bit. She regains her composure after a few seconds, though. "We should bring Leah with us, though," she says. "She's probably bored right now."

Victoria sat in the shuttle doing cool things

Ilyna shakes her head. "We can't," she says. "She's part of the team, too."

Devin smiles and gives a shrug, "Can't blame me for trying." he says, "It's pretty obvious she ain't too fond of me." He gives a chuckle, as if that fact pleases him, "The other one seems pretty chill, though. I mean, she seems a bit trashy, but it's like sexy-trashy, right?"

Ilyna chuckles. "That's... not for me to judge," she says. "She's got her heart in the right place, though." She picks up her drink and takes a sip. "I'm sure Leah will do all she can to keep us safe if something happens."

Devin gives a nod and glances over at Ilyna with a smile, "Well, shit... Let's go get some party favors!"

Ilyna sighs. "Are you sure you really need it?" she says. "Enough to go outside to get it, I mean."

Devin nods once more. "Uhhh, yeah! I'm plannin' on gettin' fuuuuucked up tonight." he says as he slides out of the booth.

Ilyna looks at the asari briefly with an understanding expression, looking slightly hopeless where she is. However, she regains her composure as she steps out of the booth and picks up her drink. "No, thank you," she says before downing her drink and leaving the empty glass on the table.

Devin slugs the rest of his drink as well and a small amount drips down his chin. He winces at the burn, and shakes his head back and forth in an exaggerated motion. "Let's do this!" he says as he storms out of the room and back down the hall towards the main room.

Victoria decided to check on her team-mates ''How is it going guys? For me, I am all armored up in case some shit happens.''

Ilyna walks after him with a frown. "Wait for me," she says before enabling her comms. "Follow our friend when you see him," she says in a lowered voice. "If the elcor follows... do whatever you must."

Devin exits the hall and stops just inside the main room. He instantly begins bobbing his head once again and reaches out far to each side to stretch his arms.

Leah hops off her barstool and quickly makes her way over to Devin with a scowl on her face, but doesn't say anything. She flanks him on one side and folds her arms across her chest.

Victoria chuckles to herself ''Yeah anything except letting the elcor grope you.''

ArrogantElcor slowly turns, following Leah with his gaze. "Suavely. I'm staying nearby. Perhaps you could give me your contact information and we could meet for some late night fun."

Ilyna exits last, looking around the place.

Leah takes a couple deep breaths and looks over at the elcor. "Annoyed: Stay the fuck away from me, you perv!"

ArrogantElcor lowers his gaze and turns back towards the bar. "Lonely: I just want to cuddle." he says to himself.

Ilyna looks towards Leah with an apologic look on her face. "I'm so sorry you had to put up with that," she says.

Leah gives a sigh. "Not your fault, Ilyna. What's the plan? We getting out of here?"

Devin stays close to the wall on his right side and starts back towards the entrance with a big grin on his face. "I love this song!" he says, shouting to be heard over all the noise."

Leah sighs and follows behind Ilyna, muttering under her breath.

Devin casually steps out of the door and the crowd immediately goes wild once again, numerous voices pipe up, confessing their love for him. Devin gives a wave and flashes his best vid-star toothy smile before turning towards the human and turian with an expectant look on his face.

Ilyna steps outside, but doesn't even face the crowds for more than a second before focusing on Devin.

Raymond pats his turian pal on the chest plate and gives a loud laugh, "Oh shit, it is him!"

Leah follows behind, shaking her head as she looks towards the ground. She gives a roll of her eyes once the crowd erupts.

Raymond gives a nod away from the club. "Follow me." he instructs as he turns and makes his way along the front of the club towards the side opposite of the parking lot with his turian friend in tow. Once Raymond reaches the corner, he turns into the alley.

Devin gives a glance back to Ilyna with that million-credit smile, and gives her a thumbs up before following behind Raymond.

Ilyna tilts her head. "Are you sure you want to deal with those people?" she asks in a mutter before following him.

Leah just silently follows behind with a scowl still firmly carved into her face.

Ilyna sends her location to Victoria without giving a verbal response.

Raymond turns to the group and places a hand on Devin's shoulder. "Alright, I got the stuff in my shuttle." he says, retracting his hand and rubbing his hands together in anticipation, "Let's do some business." He gives a glance over at Ilyna and Leah and tilts his head to the side, "Your hos are gonna have to wait outside, though."

Devin gives a glance over his shoulder at Ilyna and Leah, barely containing his snicker, "Okay.... hos." he says, with a large amount of joy, "I'll be back. Just-... You know. Do ho things."

Ilyna folds her arms. "Not going to happen," she says with a glare. "You bring it outside, he pays, and we leave."

Leah 's mouth slowly goes agape at Devin's comment. She breathes in deeply through her nose, and out through her mouth, but desperately tries to maintain her composure.

Devin sighs and rolls his eyes at Ilyna.

Raymond wrinkles his nose. "Oh? You callin' the shots?" he asks and looks over at Devin, repeating the question, "She callin' the shots? Look, I ain't about to just wave all my product around out here. That's a good way to get clipped. You want it, you come and get it."

SecondArmoredHuman continues to pace around 15 feet behind the group. Just the same movements. Back and forth. Back and forth. He just stares at the ground as he does so.

Ilyna steps towards Devin. "Then agree on how much, go get it, and he pays you," she says. "How hard can that be?"

ArmoredTurian steps in front of Ilyna. "We're respectable businessmen." he insists. "We've been around this zone for years. Ask anyone in Adrasteia. Zone Twelve Jesters. Nothing is gonna happen. If you're so worried, you go with him."

Leah sighs and leans in close to Ilyna. She lowers her voice to a whisper, but doesn't really give two shits if she's heard. "I don't like this, Ilyna. I say we call it and get Devin out of here."

Devin glances back at Ilyna with a worried look on his face, as if the asari may fuck things up for him. The turian is between him and Ilyna, so he has to sort of peer around his large bulky armor.

Ilyna frowns. "Respectable businessmen wouldn't be eager to get someone into their shuttle no matter what," she says. "He's a star, he deserves an exception. You settle the agreement here, get the product he orders, and we'll call it a deal."

ArmoredTurian 's mandibles flare and his thick browplate shifts to form a look that, even across species, would tell of frustration. "We tried to play nice. Raymond-..." he glances back at the armored human, "Get our 'star' into the shuttle and call our contact. Tell 'em we've got two more to sell. And they're pretty ones."

Devin 's eyes grow wide and he turns to move towards Ilyna and Leah, "What!? What's going-..." he begins.

Ilyna gets up a biotic barrier dome as soon as one with her training would do, it holding up rather well despite the lack of a biotic amp. "Yes, we need help," she says over the comms. "Fast!"

Raymond slams a gauntleted fist into Devin's jaw before he can even finish his sentence, flooring the young celebrity. "Keep your mouth shut!" he orders and quickly moves to lift Devin and hoist him over his shoulder.

Victoria started up the shuttle as fast as possible and turning her shields on. As soon as the shuttle started she flew to the position closest to what Ilyna sent.

SecondArmoredHuman begins hopping on the balls of his feet in the distance. He slowly rolls his shoulders and tilts his head from one side to the other, having a nice stretch. He lifts his right leg, then sets it down. Lifts his left leg, then sets it down, giving his hamstrings a stretch.

Leah stays within Ilyna's dome and looks around frantically. "That's an S.O.S., Vicky! Some creeps are trying to snatch Devin."

ArmoredTurian grunts loudly and fires a pair of rounds into the barrier. "Stop this now!" he demands, "Surrender and you might actually survive the night!"

Victoria had only just got the shuttle started and taking off the ground ''Starting the shuttle up takes time.''

Raymond begins booking it back towards the shuttle with Devin over his shoulder. Devin looks completely out of it, the suckerpunch having caught him completely off-guard.

SecondArmoredHuman slowly and casually begins strutting down the alley towards the group as if he has all the time in the world. As he gets close enough for the neon to shine some light on him, it would reveal a man of average height in a similarly colored set of armor to Raymond, off-white and revealing his bare arms. -

SecondArmoredHuman has a recon hood with a large, goofy clown face haphazardly painted across it. The paint is running and smudged in numerous places. Large streamers of every color under the sun jut out from the top of the hood like some sort of rainbow-colored ponytail that swings behind him as he walks. The eyes of his hood light up an ice cold blue.

ArmoredTurian is hurled backwards effortlessly by Ilyna's throw. He hits the ground and loses his grip on the Predator, causing it to skitter across the ground, sliding further into the alley. "Fucking asari!" he cusses as he grabs the back of his head and attempts to climb to his feet with some difficulty.

Leah takes two large steps down the alley as she musters up as much biotic energy as she can without her amp, and sends a throw down the alley.

Victoria had manage to get the shuttle in the air and very close to the landing position.

Ilyna sends another throw at the turian before running towards the man carrying Tanner. During her run, she charges up biotics for a personal-range barrier that act more like weakly-charged kinetic barriers.

Raymond is caught by Leah's throw. His body slings forward, launching him face first into the ground. Devin is limply strewn to the ground, but it doesn't appear any serious damage has come to him. He quickly crawls backwards away from Raymond and curls against the wall.

ArmoredTurian gets to his knees when he's caught with a second throw by Ilyna, this one tosses him into the wall of the building next door to Illumination. Hard. A loud crunch sounds as he reaches up to cover his head. His body slowly slides down the wall as he bellows out in pain. "Fucking.... Asari.... BITCH!"

Gigglez continues his slow pace towards the group. He reaches back with both hands and unsheathes two identical daggers from his hips. He slowly begins clanking them together as he approaches. A low gurgling sound can be heard coming from him. It gains in speed and consistency until it can be recognized as some sort of... laugh.

Leah is very clearly affected by using her biotics sans amp, and stays her ground. "I can't keep this up, Ilyna!" she calls out.

Ilyna sends a throw towards the weird armed merc, still running towards Raymond. "Got it," she says. "Get the gun!"

Victoria reaches and landing point near the alley, she turns the front lights of the shuttle on and lands and opening one of the doors. ''That biotic energy helped.'' She said to herself.

Gigglez shrugs off Ilyna's throw and the laughter gets louder. He expels a burst of energy and hurls himself through the air towards Ilyna, slicing downward at her with one of his daggers.

Leah hurries down the alley to where she last saw the dropped Predator, searching fruitlessly to locate it until Victoria hits the headlights. She gets it in her sights and rushes towards it, sliding onto her knees in an attempt at scooping it up.

ArmoredTurian begins to climb to his feet unsteadily, a single hand still on his head. He shakes off the cobwebs and begins marching towards Leah, a determined grimace on his face.

Devin isn't crying. Totally not crying.

Ilyna did not expect that, but her barrier weakens the impact pretty well. She loses balance and falls down on all fours in the direction she was running, evading the dagger for now.

Raymond is now rising back to his feet, as well. A large scrape from the ground runs the full length of his face, and blood is trickling from his nose. He touches the blood and looks down at it, his chest heaving in and out. He rushes towards Leah as well, intending to kick her in the face as she's scooping up the pistol.

Gigglez walks towards Ilyna and tosses one of his daggers into the air, catching it as it comes back down. He plants a heavy step into the ground and attempts to kick Ilyna right in the ribcage.

Victoria leaves the shuttle on and exits the shuttle with a knife and predator on her hip and avenger in her hands. ''Oh dear, oh dear, please run away. Hide yourself, from my coming fate. The red lady comes for me.'' She started to sing, it would be surprising that her singing was rather good. ''Fear the Red Siren, as she has no fear.'' She look out at the men trying to assault her friends---

Ilyna take the time he uses to be showy about it to roll to the opposite side and send a biotic throw his way. She is panting heavily.

Gigglez is caught off-guard by the throw and it sends him back towards the wall. He four of the fingers on his right hand, expelling a small blast of biotic energy against the wall to counteract the throw, which sends him right back in Ilyna's direction. He does a cartwheel and coils his leg, kicking outward to propel himself into a cobra punch aimed at Ilyna's jaw.

ArmoredTurian turns towards Victoria as she begins... Singing? "The fuck are you?" he calls out as he changes course from Leah to Victoria.

Ilyna scrambles to her feet towards Devin, but the mercenary's punch sends her back to the ground. She is barely moving, seeming to be slightly concious at least.

Leah scoops up the Predator just as Raymond makes contact with his kick. Choosing to guard herself from the full brunt of the kick, she instantly releases the Predator and brings her arms up to block, but the force still pushes her onto her back.

Gigglez reaches up and places his index finger on his chin, jerking it to one side to crack his neck. He relaxes his shoulders a bit as he approaches Ilyna once again. Another bout of strange, gurgling laughter rises out of him as he crouches down beside the asari and rests his forearms on his knees, clanking the blades together once more.

ArmoredTurian notices Victoria's weapons as he gets closer, the lights from the shuttle having blinded him a bit initially, and quickens his pace into a sprint with the intentions of tackling the armed woman to the ground.

Victoria pulls her knife out as the turian runs closer to her ''You shall remember me, as your end you fuck.'' She ran towards the turian and letting him tackle her, when she was grabbed by him she would try to slam the blade into the back of his neck.

Ilyna charges up her biotics again and fires off another throw, although it's only half as strong as the last one.

ArmoredTurian manages to swat at Vicky's knife-arm as he slams her into the ground, sending it off course and causing it to clang without effect against the collar of his armor. He places a hand against the pirates shoulder in an attempt at holding her down as he reaches back with his other arm, preparing to slam a fist down on her head.

Raymond attempts to take advantage of Leah being knocked on her ass by sending a running kick at her.

Gigglez is completely caught off-guard once again, and is hurled to the ground. The sound of his daggers skittering across the ground echoes down the alley. He places his hands against the ground just behind his head and performs a kilt-up to get back to his feet. He begins to charge up his biotics once again.

Victoria starts slamming her knee into his ribs to stop his fist from falling. and with her free hand tries to grab her pistol and press it against his body and unload it.

Ilyna scrambles to her feet and gets over to Devin's position. She conjures up a barrier which is barely large enough to contain the two of them, and it looks very taxing. She is crouching while holding up the barrier, one knee on the ground.

ArmoredTurian is shifted as the knee connects, causing his punch to miss and smack forcefully into the ground, just beside Vicky's head. He lets out a loud, pained groan, which is silenced by the sound of Vicky's pistol. His shields absorb a handful of shots, allowing him time to reorient himself and get a hand on Vicky's wrist. --

Gigglez slowly approaches Ilyna and Devin, scooping up one of his daggers non-chalantly as he does. The other is nowhere to be seen. Once he's just outside of the barrier, he paces along side it and crouches down once more. He taps the tip of his blade against it a few times, and another round of gurgling laughter escapes him.

Leah puts her hand out, catching the inside of Raymond's leg and jumps to her knees, planting a solid strike against his midsection. She grimaces as her bare hand makes contact with his armor.

Ilyna keeps the barrier up still, focusing it in the area where the creepy mercenary is. "Over here!" she shouts.

Victoria tries to roll on top of the turian ''Remember my name!!! Victoria Steels, I am the Red Siren!!!'' She yelled. When on top she would start stabbing the turian until he was dead or near death.

Raymond is staggered back from the impact, but the hard armor shielded him from any real damage. He reaches back and takes a heavy, wide swing at Leah.

ArmoredTurian is rolled onto his back and mounted by the pirate. He reaches up to put a hand in front of his face to block the incoming knife attack, but it's mostly futile. Her first stab gets stuck in the turian's hand, but the second goes clean through, jutting into his face.

Devin slides closer to Ilyna, staring out at Gigglez in sheer terror.

Victoria starts slamming punches into face of the turian and continues her stabbing. ''DIE AND STAND DOWN!!!'' It seems that her time with Devin has clearly made her need for a release.

Gigglez overhands the dagger and slams it against the barrier, expelling a large biotic blast as he does. The laughing intensifies.

ArmoredTurian attempts to scream, but all that escapes him is a wet, sickening gurgle as his hand is pinned to his face by Vicky's blade. He's dead. Quite dead, in fact.

Ilyna gives the barrier all she has, and it flickers badly, but is still holding up. "Victoria!"

Leah manages to climb to her feet and lift in arm to catch Raymond's incoming swing, trapping his arm in her armpit. She cocks her head back and attempts to headbutt the man, as her unarmed blows obviously won't do much to his armor.

Victoria pulls the knife out of the turian and loads her pistol and aims it at Gigglez and fires at him. ''COME AND GET ME, YOU FUCKING CLOWN!!!'' She was slowly walking towards him.

Gigglez takes a few steps back. He crouches slightly and gives a little wave to Devin with his fingertips before expelling another blast of energy to launch himself into the air. He plunges downward at Ilyna with his blade.

Ilyna gives up on the barrier once he starts to plunge, and gets to her feet to push Devin and herself to the side. The push happens about a second before he'd reach the ground if he keeps up his pace.

Gigglez narrowly misses Ilyna. The force of impact chips at the ground and completely breaks the tip of his blade. Victoria's pistol shots plink away at his shields, and he snaps his head towards Victoria. The eyes of his recon hood casts its lights on her like some sort of homing beacon and he whips the broken dagger straight at her.

Devin is tossed aside by the asari. He curls his legs up and covers his head. "Ilyna! Help!" he shouts.

Victoria rolls out of the way of the broken dagger and fires some more shots at him. Grinning evily at him and begging him to come closer with her knife hand.

Raymond's head snaps back and a short spurt of blood erupts from his nose as Leah's head makes contact. His knees get weak and he begins to wobble in place a bit.

Ilyna gets up to her feet, breathing heavily. She charges up her biotics, although very slowly, hoping that Victoria will take the attention of the mercenary still standing. She says nothing. At the sound of the voice, she stops charging her biotics.

Gigglez pirouettes to the side and does a handless cartwheel, avoiding a few of Victoria's shots, but many still hit their mark and whittle down his shields.

Leah cups her hands around the back of Raymond's neck, tying him up in a clinch, and yanks his head downward, slamming the point of her knee straight into his face. His body instantly goes limp and slumps to the ground. Exhausted, Leah rotates in place to face the voice. She raises her hands in front of her when she realizes she's faced with half-a-dozen assault rifles.

Victoria keeps her pistol aimmed on the clown but does not fire since of the voice from behind her. Throwing her knife down by her side and dropping to her knees.

Gigglez follows suit and puts his hands up in front of him, but takes a single step backwards.

Devin is still huddled into a ball beside Ilyna, sobbing.

LeadEnforcer is aiming down his sights at Victoria. "There ya go. Now kick 'em away." he instructs. His tone seems to have calmed somewhat.

Ilyna slowly sits down on the ground with her hands facing the enforcers at any time, only excepted when wrapping an arm over Devin's shoulder. "It's... over," she says. "We're safe."

Devin peers out through his arms. When he spots the enforcers, he sits up beside Ilyna, propping himself against her. He wipes at his face feverishly in an attempt at covering the fact that he's been crying. He glances over at Gigglez, but quickly returns his attention to Ilyna. "Wha-... What the fuck was that about!?"

EnforcerTwo lowers his weapon and moves over to the turian. He crouches down and performs a series of checks on the turian. "Dead." he says, glancing back at his superior.

Victoria throws her pistol to her side and puts her hands on the back of her head.

LeadEnforcer lowers his weapon, allowing it to hang by its sling, and steps up behind Victoria. He grabs her by the wrists and pulls them behind her back. He raises his right arm and the blue glow of his omni-tool comes to life. He passes his hand across Victoria's wrists, causing a pair of restraints to materialize around her wrists.

EnforcerTwo stands from the turian's body and moves over to Leah, performing the same proccess as the lead enforcer.

Ilyna gives him a slight squeeze. "I... was right," she says. "Even if... I would prefer being wrong." She looks up at the enforcers. "She's with me as hired security for Mr. Tanner," she says, pointing at Victoria, followed by Leah. "And she is, too."

Gigglez takes another step backwards as Ilyna speaks.

LeadEnforcer looks towards a turian in the same armor. "Load 'em up, Brutus." he instructs. He begins to move towards Ilyna. "That so?" he asks in the typical disinterested way that those with authority tend to do, "Why would they want to do that?"

Brutus moves up behind Victoria and grabs her by the arm. "This way." he says, leading her out of the alley and back to the front of the club.

EnforcerTwo crouches beside Raymond and raises his omni-tool to check his pulse. "This one's still breathing." he announces as he stands up.

Brutus seems to give a slight chuckle. "You just get in the shuttle." he says, urging her towards a large shuttle parked in front of the club.

Ilyna glances at him. "I wasn't going to just let that happen."

LeadEnforcer sighs loudly and looks over at Gigglez as he approaches Ilyna. "That what happened here, Gigglez?" he asks, "You and Raymond running your scams again?"

Gigglez shakes his head from side-to-side a bunch of times.

Devin looks over at Ilyna and mouths the words 'Thank you'.

Victoria follows Brutus to the shuttle ''Hey officer Brutus, can I get a pair of these cuffs? I will give you 200 credits for a set.

Brutus hands Victoria off to the enforcer at the shuttle. "Extranet, kid. It ain't hard to get your hands on a restraint program." He turns away and moves back to the alley, repeating the proccess with Leah.

Leah allows herself to be led to the shuttle without any issues. She glares at the large crowd casting their glances as she takes a seat beside Victoria. "Thanks, Vicky." she says, "You really saved our asses."

Victoria looks at Leah ''Nah, that is alright. Just get me this restraint program when we get back. I could have some fun with these.'' She looked at the enforcer ''You can tell I am a good girl officer.''

ShuttleEnforcer gives a loud sigh. "You're also a loud girl. Shut it."

Leah chuckles at Victoria, but the chuckle turns to a groan. "Fuck... Think I broke my finger."

Ilyna remains quiet, and by Devin's side.

LeadEnforcer reaches down, extending his hand towards Ilyna as an offer to help her up. "Mr. Cross has went easy on you guys, Gigglez. But someone died here tonight. You know he's not gonna like that."

ShuttleEnforcer gives an annoyed grunt. "If you flash your tits, I might be forced to vomit all over you, human. You haven't had your 'rights read to you'.... Because you have no rights. Welcome to Adrasteia."

Ilyna gets up with the enforcer's help. "Any way me and my people can go?" she asks, sounding weary. "We simply protected Mr. Tanner."

Gigglez takes another step back. At the mention of Cross, he breaks into a sprint. He gets about four steps down the alley and leaps at the wall. He manages to kick up the wall twice before releasing a blast of biotic energy and hurling himself up onto the roof of 'Illumination'.

EnforcerTwo raises his weapon, but doesn't manage to get a shot off on the escaping biotic. "Fuck! Boss, he's getting away!"

LeadEnforcer watches Gigglez make his escape with a smirk. "He's a moron. Go call it in, we'll have him by morning." he says. Once Ilyna is on her feet, he reaches down and helps Devin. "Sorry. No-can-do." he answers the asari, "We gotta take you in. We've had our fair share of run-ins with Raymond and his guys, though.-

Devin climbs to his feet with the enforcer's help and takes a deep breath.

EnforcerTwo gives his superior a nod, and exits the alley.

ShuttleEnforcer glares down at Victoria. "No." he says bluntly, "But I won't hit you in the face with the butt of my gun if you shut up."

Ilyna nods. "I understand," she says, "but can we at least not be separated while we're in? And... you don't need to use cuffs on me. I don't want trouble with you."

LeadEnforcer looks over Ilyna and Devin. "Absolutely. We'll make sure you all stay together." he assures her, "And it'll look better for everyone involved if we don't cuff him." he nods towards Devin, "Just get him onto the shuttle."

Ilyna looks towards the redrock shuttle. "Could one of you turn off our shuttle's lights and lock the door?" she says. "Our pilot is the human woman in armor, if you have questions about how."

LeadEnforcer gives the shuttle a glance. "We'll be bringing it with us. Soon as we're done proccessing you guys, you'll get it, and your gear, back."

Victoria stares at the batarian and smiles evilly ''Oh is that so? That would be a nice little reason to start to shut up.'' She then looks at Leah ''Don't you think Leah?''

Ilyna nods. "Thank you," she says. She remains where she's standing, waiting for further instruction. One of her hands is close to Devin's.

Leah winces, but allows a smile to cross her lips. "Think we've gotten ourselves into enough trouble tonight, don't you, Vicky? Maybe we shouldn't piss off the angry batarian."

LeadEnforcer puts a hand on Ilyna's upper back and urges her out of the alley. "Shuttle is parked out front. Just have a seat inside."

Devin grabs Ilyna's hand and grips it tightly. His palms are pretty clammy.

ShuttleEnforcer nods. "Listen to your friend. I can make your night a whole lot worse." he threatens, giving Vicky a large grin.

Ilyna starts walking out of the alley, trying to not look at any spectators as she looks for the shuttle.

Devin follows Ilyna, a step behind her, but continues to grip her hand.

Ilyna blushes as she hears all what they're saying. "I'm not going to live this one down," she mutters to herself.