Land Ahoy

"What do you mean HQ is gone!?!?!?!?!?" Blue shouts into his radio with growing despair on his face. "Gather what survivors you can and initiate emergency plan 39, We need to get them off the island now!" Blue orders into his commanders headset from inside the mobile command vehicle parked at the docks. Blue's own personal guards are acting as operators directing what troops remain and coordinating actions for Blue while the chaos only grows. After leaving Louis and V to talk Blue went down to the docks to check on the ships repair status. When the order from V went out that the guests were traitors along with Louis Blue was in shock at the thought of those nice people and Louis being traitors. The men at the docks being Blue's personal soldiers were hesitant to apply the order and Blue himself was still reeling at the statement. It wasn't until the explosions on the hill where HQ was that Blue snapped out of his daze and took action. With the situation at HQ a mess and conflicting radio messages rolling out Blue had ordered the mobile HQ unit to be brought down to the dock yard from the garage in the town so he could set up a proper command setting. Next he ordered his personal men to suspend V's order till further notice and to evacuate to the town and start lock down procedures to ensure the civilians safety. This meant all of Blue's personal and loyal soldiers except for the dozen or so at the mobile HQ were all busy herding civilians to the shelters or to the docks for evacuation meaning he had no reliable way to gauge what was happening at HQ.

All this time Blue was silently praying V was ok as he had not heard much but occasional orders and V seemed to busy to respond leaving Blue in the dark to his status as well. Things were going well till the last resort alarm went off. 35 minutes till destruction. V had insisted these bombs be set inside the town in case the town was facing a last resort scenario. These bombs were designed to be remote activated and could only be disabled by a master code put in at the real HQ. They were spaced and set at enough distance that they would destroy everything inside the walls including HQ in a fiery blast to purge the undead from the walls interior border if they did manage to break the out defenses. Each bomb would create a great ball of fire in a 250 meter radius. The fire from each bomb would feed into each other creating a city wide fire storm that covered every square inch of the city in one massive fire ball that would burn at over 300 degree's Celsius. The shelters themselves were self contained and buried over 100 meters below ground with enough air and provisions to survive 7 days of total isolation at capacity which was 200 people per shelter. Theoretically thee should be enough shelters but Blue knew that with the massive population boost the city had been experiencing that it wouldn't be enough. Now was the time to act.

Suddenly grabbing the commands head set which would broadcast over all other transmissions Blue shouted, "All of my personal men and all troops who are not currently engaged in other orders are to begin code red evacuation to the docks NOW! All civilian personnel who can't make it to a shelter or their shelter is filled to capacity are to immediately flee to the dock yard. In the name of Team fire all non military ships are now seized for the use of team fire and anyone not in compliance will be shot on site. Children and elderly and women take priority and are to be boarded first. Anyone not in the dockyard in 20 minutes gets left behind. All troops are to escort as many civilians as possible to the docks NOW!" Almost as soon as his transmission ends civilians start pouring into the dockyard being herded onto boats bound for open sea where they will be sent to other surviving cities now that their home is to be destroyed. According to the plan all shelter stuck civilians will stay in their bunkers for 5 days allowing the ships to make the round journey to the nearest city and back which will then come back to retrieve them. and hopefully at that point team fire will have cleansed the area and rebuilding can begin.

As his men handle the incoming civilians Blue tries to reach V on his personal radio signal to no avail. But with civilians that need rescuing Blue decides to hope V made it out and carry on with his mission trusting his life long friend will make it out somehow and making a silent resolution to interrogate the new arrivals when he finds them to determine what exactly went down at HQ.

She chuckles a little crossing her arms "I'm good Jace, a few cuts a bruises. Have you seen Planet?" she asks, seeing if he's seen him and if he just wanted to go on ahead or not

"Aye, treasure!" The Captain says, backing up and reflectively stroking his beard. "See here?" He says, displaying the key to the room "TR-01. Treasure Room one. That means this must be where V keeps his treasure! Jewels, gold, rare Pokemon, priceless works of art, almost certainly porn of that pre-Z-Day Miku computer-thing. I wouldn't be surprised to find he has a sex-bot replica of her. Anyway, the booty will probably be kept in a large box somewhere around here..." He quickly surveys the surrounding room "I doubt any of this torture shit is his treasure since he can just make more..." His gaze returns to Kaede "Maybe a new friend is the treasure? Friendship being its own treasure is a bit cliche, but what do you say? Do ye want to join me fearsome Pirate crew? To be free and go on awesome adventures around the world finding treasure that isn't a hackney cliche?"

Arcadia could hear a massive commotion from her little hideout. She'd heard it a while now, gunfire, shouting. Hell, she wasn't that far away; but the woman wasn't used to giving a crap about anyone other than herself, and her pokemon, Thor. The little Aron peered out of the burrow he'd dug for them both, eying the chopper in the sky. Thor scratched at the rock and kicked a little out of the entrance as a way of exclamation.

She noticed it as the Steel type did. First chopper she'd seen since before this outbreak. "Wow...I wonder what really is going on then..." she said delicately; her curiosity getting the better of her. Arcadia was as cold and steely as her pokemon. She had no remorse for anyone she didn't know, how could you when they were likely to die? The only reason she'd survived so far was because her Aron was expert at using dig; and could create a cosy cavern of rock to protect the both of them, or make a quick escape. Undead pokemon were one thing, people were the other worry.

The pink haired loner pulled herself free from the hole, watching as the helicopter was hit by a thunderbolt, then by fire, and spun into a collision. "And that, Thor is why we avoid people." She said curtly with a bit of a sigh. "can't help but think food might be there though, so lets head out." The Steel pokemon squeaked and bounced a little, sticking close to Arcadia's legs to avoid any shots from her rifle by accident, should she need to use it.

slowly, they made their way out in the direction of the helicopter, keeping an eye out for anyone they may cross.

V decided he needed something to help him relax before he got to the second base so he decided to re-read his torture journal which always gave him the warm fuzzies. Most of the troops in V's personal guard are survivors of his special torture program which explains their loyalty to such a mad man. The others are from mental hospitals. V starts his special training by selecting the individuals who are the best of the new recruits and abducting them away, erasing their identities from any database and then abducting any close friends, family, or anyone who would really notice they were gone as well for good measure. Usually V just burnt down the neighborhood or the houses had an "accident" such as a sewer vein rupture that led to the gasses igniting and exploding. Then the real fun began.

First a grunt who wanted out of team fire would be selected and given the chance to get out with millions if he did one last job. Most grunts were told the person in question was a criminal or murder to keep them from hesitating when the torture began. If they accepted they would begin torturing the new recruit slowly driving them insane. Then when on the brink of insanity V would intervene and in between torture sessions bring decent food, medicine, and gifts to the tortured souls becoming their friend, their protector, their savior. Only for the recruit to then watch as the grunt who had been torturing them to kill any family/friends they had right in front of their own eye's. Then more psychological tortures as well as the usual tortures would resume forcing the recruit to insanity. With V continuing to personally save them and be the only kind thing they know they would slowly as their minds melted see him as a god and then once they worshiped him and were practically insane V would then let them kill the grunt who had tortured them to seal their loyalty to him and make them the deadly weapons they were.

Of course during all this V would observe the torture from a hidden camera or a one way glass screen he even kept DVD's of his favorite's! ($10.99 per copy with more choices on the way!) It was during his reflection of these treasured memories that V was interrupted by a flock of undead pokemon attacking the chopper. The one grunt V had not thrown off the chopper was attempting to shoot them down with the mounted MG but was taking forever to get it operational..... V hates to wait. So moving to the grunts position he simply pushes him off the edge starting to man the gun himself. Annoyingly the man is clutching to the choppers floor with one hand begging and crying for his life, ugh so pesky! so V does the normal thing, which is step on the mans fingers till he lets go and falls the half mile to the earth. Now manning the MG V realizes a problem, it requires two arms to man and he now only has one. Cursing that damned captain all V can do is watch as the pokemon pour billowing waves of fire and arcs of thunder onto the chopper which promptly crashes into the earth in a firey explosion. The noise gathers hundreds of more undead who gather in case of any survivors.

"Too the west I think, that's where we came in. However, we need to skip going through that compound again. There's just not enough time" Jace replies to April. "I hope the others are okay, but at this point, we need to worry about ourselves more-"

Jace sees something out of the corner of his eye, what looks to be a pink blur behind some Boulders. He unslings his crossbow and turns around "I know you're there, whoever you are, come out of hiding with your hands up... Otherwise you'll have an arrow through your skull" Jace says.