Lock & Load
Maddie
Her home, 1055 AM
Much to her triumph, the man seemed to cooperate as he began to lower the camera. She had struck fear into him, after all. Not many people stood courageously when being held at gunpoint. Yet with a sudden flash of the camera itself, he fled! Giving chase as he ran out the door, Maddie watched as he moved to hide beneath a car. However, there soon came to be far more pressing matters. Another monstrous wolf came charging up her way, and the Alien barely managed to slam the door shut just in time.
And to make matters far worse, two more wolves burst in through the windows. They turned on her, the young woman in seemingly nothing but a towel. Certainly she was an odd one, with a scent that wasn't quite human. So they approached her with caution. Maddie, on the other hand slowly backed away. One hand on the part that held her towel together, and the other with the pistol still raised to bear.
She needed to be careful. Three bullets were left in the chamber. So she needed to be precise.
Impatient creatures as they were, the closest wolf finally lunged for her. First, the Alien reacted accordingly. The towel came rapidly undone and thrown into the first attacker's face. Blinding it briefly in the valuable time she needed to step aside from its lunge. With it however, came the second creature, and with her firearm aimed in the steady brilliance that adrenaline gave, the gunshot rang out and punched through the ferocious canine's mouth in a neat hole about the size of a dime.
And exited through the back of its head in a hole about the size of a grapefruit.
Turning then, the second shot rang out upon the blinded wolf. Punching through it's flank and lungs to exit out the other side. As the creature stumbled and collapsed while it rasped for air, the military-trained girl lunged for large, serrated knife sitting upon her carving board. Taking hold of it quickly, even while still very much in the nude, she plunged it into the side of the wolf's skull. The struggling creature, still covered in the towel, went rather limp as a large pool of crimson spread from it.
Turning to her shaking door then, the girl took aim at it. Waiting just a moment for it to finally break down. With her last round in the chamber, the massive wolf lunged forward only to have a final round coolly placed between it's eyes as the forty-five caliber round completely demolished it's skull akin to a sledgehammer. Once it dropped, the Alien did not remove the grip of her knife in the least as she then bound upstairs to her bedroom.
Slamming the door shut behind her and locking it, Maddie then looked out the window to the car the man had hid under. Wolves were sniffing beneath it. She needed to move quickly before they decided to move on. Turning to her weapons storage safe in her locker, her fingertips flew in precise purpose and withdrew her own personal home defense weapon after she had reloaded her pistol.
An M4A1 Carbine. Grabbing a thirty-round magazine and snapping it into place, the incognito Alien looked down the sight as she steadied her hand upon the grip and handle, whilst resting the butt of the rifle in the pocket of her shoulder. It was a double benefit. She could take care of the spy who had invaded her home, and take care of those monstrous creatures at the same time. It did not take long, as it was a rather large target. Standing back from the window, but keeping her sight in line on the car, the switch was moved from safe to semi-automatic.
With the pull of a trigger ten times. Ten rifle rounds punctured the hood of the car with the brilliant precision of a trained professional within the expanse of just a few seconds. Not one, but two of them found the fuel line. The first punctured the fuel tank, and the second caused the eruption she had been hoping for. With a window-rattling eruption, a fireball tore upward as her neighbor's car literally exploded upwards. Launching the car nearly two feet off it's wheels before crashing to the ground once more.
With fire and shrapnel flying everywhere, it would undoubtedly kill the man. And also kill or maim many of the wolves who had stood near it. Turning her weapon towards the cameraman's car however, it was one that was relatively easy to identify. The only strange car on the lot, after all. A quintet of bullets rang out from her improvised sniper's nest, two tires suddenly deflated rapidly, and the remaining bullets were spent first taking care of any limping wolves that survived the explosion.
Snapping her weapon about and tossing it onto her bed at first, the Alien first grabbed her uniform. Quickly donning the camouflage, boots, and cap, she settled her sidearm into her thigh holster as she strapped it on. Then slinging on a lightweight Kevlar Vest, a quartet of thirty-round magazines for her carbine fit into the sleeves on its sides, and in the thigh holster were three magazines for her pistol.
Lastly, with a deft snap, her carbon-steel combat knife snapped neatly into its sheath upon her back.
Judging from the smoke and sounds of chaos distant, war had descended upon Sanctuary.
Thankfully due to her training, Maddie was more than prepared for it. Slinging her Carbine about her back so that it rested upon the back of her hips, the Alien carefully made her way downstairs. With one hand holding her pistol at the ready, and the other supporting such with a grip upon her drawn knife, Maddie made her way downstairs, looking out her front door at the chaos in the streets, she looked on rather horrified as a monstrosity crashed into a window upstairs on a neighbor's house.
There were people downstairs! Should she help them? People were being carried off in the streets, so the Alien would need to play it smart and safe.
Moving to her side-door, transitioned into her garage. With a heavy steel garage door in front of her, she closed and locked the heavy door to her garage. It was here that she picked up her cellular phone. Realizing the foolishness of this action as it were so enveloped in madness outside, Maddie looked lastly to her garage door. Those people across the street were in danger, and lives were important, human lives anyway, right?
So, stepping out into the chaos of the world outside, continually held her pistol and knife at the ready. Quickly, quietly, she would distance herself from the burning car as it would gather unwanted attention. And lastly, she remained downwind, so that these horrific creatures wouldn't be able to catch her peculiar, and ever so inhuman scent. Moving like a mouse from cover to cover as she constantly checked for hostile traffic, she made her way in a wickedly quick dash across the street before taking cover again in some bushes.
Slowly then, she sneaked her way to Luca's side door after nimbly vaulting over a fence.
With her elbow's strike, the glass protecting the inside came undone, and her fingertips reached past the jagged hole to open the door from the inside. Sliding in, she swept into the room where Luca resided in like the soldier she was after she closed the door behind her. Looking to him first as it was clear, the Alien clearly spoke in her usual, simple human tongue.
"Where is it?"
Edited by Trouble, 28 February 2014 - 01:02 AM.