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Blaze followed Kale the entire way, breathing a little faster than he was. But her expression was calm. She nodded to Kale as she pulled a knife out of her boot. She waited for Kale's signal to go.

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When the alarm went off, it was only a matter of moments before Yue was running down the hall, trying to figure out what was going on.

Kale nodded and then took off, sprinting to the right. He jumped as a bullet hit the ground where his feet had been a moment before. He cussed silently and ran on, quickly hiding behind the next building before inching his way closer again.

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Wolfe was in the main conference room. He didn't bother looking up from his map as Yue entered. Frei turned to look at her. "Kale has run into trouble." she explained calmly in complete contrast to the chaos around her.

Blaze sprinted off in the shadows, trying to get into a good position to corner their assailant.

--

Since Frei had the most level head, Yue walked over to her to get more details.

The assailant's focus seemed to remain on Kale, continuing to take shots at him as Kale tried to approach. But when Blaze started getting too close, he took off. Kale continued along the side, keeping him from slipping away as they continued to track him.

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Frei pointed to a small neon green dot on the digital map. "He's here." he explained, "Normally he'd do his best to slip away but he seems to be taking up an attack. He has Blaze with him so they must feel they can deal with whatever the situation is." She paused, "We're sending backup but I don't think it'll get there in time to help." she shrugged.

Blaze continued putting pressure on the assailant, trying to force him into making a rash decision. She was actually very good at this.

--

Yue looked at the map for a moment before nodding a little. "They can catch him," she said confidently.

Kale matched Blaze until the man got a bit too close to his side. Kale shot, a bullet just grazing the man's inner thigh as the man managed to dodge. Kale shot again as dodging had put him off balance.

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Frei started to nod and then suddenly grew rather pale. "Rui..." she whispered and somehow over the chaos, Wolfe heard her. He was at her side in a moment, looking down at the map she was staring at. Then he began to cuss and quickly began shouting orders into a headpiece.

"They're headed right for a trap." Frei stated quietly to Yue pointing to a cluster of lights appearing on the map. "That must have been the goal all along."

Blaze ran ahead, staying clear of Kale's shots, trying to cut the assailant off.

--

Yue said nothing. All they could do now was put their faith in Blaze and Kale's abilities.

Finally Blaze managed to cut him off, he turned on Kale but was just rounding the corner and managed to skim his shoulder with a bullet. Kale returned fire and the man fell with a bullet in his kneecap.

--

"They've stopped moving." Frei whispered.

Blaze immediately moved to disarm the man.

The man fought against Blaze but his injured knee was too much and he fell. Meanwhile, Kale jogged up to them and looked the man over. The sleeve had been pulled up on his left arm during the short fight with Blaze and now revealed a very familiar dragon tattoo. Once Kale had glanced him over he pulled a bottle out of his pocket and sprayed foam onto his cut on his arm to stop the bleeding.

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"Get out of there..." Frei whispered to the map as the other lights approached Kale. "How soon til backup arrives?" she asked Wolfe. "They'll be there in two minutes."

"Not good enough." Frei retorted, expressing a surprising tone of command, "I should have gone myself."

Wolfe gave her a rather sharp look and Frei held it for a moment before caving and looking back at the map.

Blaze cussed a little as she saw the dragon tattoo. She grabbed the man by the collar and raised his head up to get a good look at his face. After a moment she ripped some hair off his head and then dropped him. "This isn't right," she whispered as she shoved the hair in her pocket. "We should leave."

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Yue waited patiently.

Kale nodded, "Should we take him with us?" he asked, staring at the man. Suddenly there was a rain of gunfire from ahead of them and Kale cursed, diving and rolling to the right. Within moments the man Blaze had disarmed was dead.

--

Frei's face showed no sign of distress but she slowly tapped her fingers against the glass.

Blaze dove out of the way to avoid the gunfire before beginning to flee.

Kale was right behind her, following in her trail and either on purpose or inadvertently, covering her back. They ran for quite a ways before they heard a Juttle over top of them, Blaze would recognize it as one of Wolfe's. The number of gunshots aimed at them slowed and finally stopped all together as the Juttle fired back at the gunmen.

Blaze did recognize the Juttle and quickly moved to get into a good position for the Juttle to defend and pick them up.

Kale was slower as he followed Blaze to the better position. He looked her over for a moment, tired eyes looking to see if she'd been hit.