Once Upon a Shrine...!

[Carthrat]

Ritsuko eyes the APC's apprehensively, but her eyes also strayed towards the entrance to the shrine.

It seemed clear to her that there was fighting within the shrine, probably involving her similarily displaced companions. However, she also surmized that they may not know of the armoured vehicles that had arrived. She, personally, had no real way of knowing if they were friend or foe.

Instead of simply rushing in to assit her allies, she decided to continue hiding where she was. If the APC's turned out to be enemies, it would be better if she ambushed them rather than they ambushed her friends.

If they turned out to be friendly, that would be another matter..

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Ryder n' May! Back to the action!

IC:

Motoko snapped up instantly, obeying Tsuruko's order, and dashed though the torii, making a beeline for the house. On following her sister, Tsuruko came to the courtyard, and in the small clearing in front of what looked like a storage shed, the strawberry blonde girl she'd seen heading into the house, was shaking her companion, who'd gone limp, and blood was oozing from her mouth in copious amounts.

"Hatchan, you really need to stop keeling over dead at moments like these. It's REALLY inconvienient!"

Facing the pair, and looking angry (And slightly charred) was a boy with almost ridiculously spiky hair dressed in ninja garb, wearing a tekka on one arm, and flames curling around his hand.

Beside him was a woman with teal colored hair, half held off her face by an orange headband, and strangely, she wore ball earrings to match, and a grim expression, dressed in a blue uniform of some kind, and holding a snubnosed little gun that didn't look like anything currently on the market.

Rounding out the little group was what looked to be a teenage girl, dressed in a seifuku, with long pink hair, and an innocent expression...the only offsetting part of her appearance were a pair of robotic antenna, that resembled nothing so much as cat ears when added to the entire look.

The puzzling part was, that to Tsuruko, the boy and the woman were looking at the pink-haired girl with as much wariness as they were giving the one shaking what appeared to be a corpse...

OOC: Ryder, you can desribe your own entry here, as I'm not writing this twice. Assume Rei follows you in. >_>

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder (and Rei), dashed into the courtyard, and of course Ryder stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Excel shaking Hyatt.

"Oh Kami, why did it have to be her?  Didn't my ears deal with enough pain listening to her on TV?  Why does it have to be live?" she muttered, of course, in English... since, y'know, she's still trying to keep from being discovered...

[Ginnezumusha]

OOC:  O__O;;;

IC:  "So yeah, park seems good."

Ginn looked for a park.

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: What? >_>;;

Kwok 'n Ginn!

IC:

There are assorted patches of land all over the immediate area. Three seem the most ideal. One is a fair distance away, and really stands out because one corner of the park is covered in random scraps of white, fluttering around.

Ther other patch of green between the buildings is dominated by a Shinto shrine, though there MIGHT be enough ground to land, but the fact that smoke seems to be curling up from it would be a slight deterrent.

There is also a third small park, well populated by trees, but has a large clear area that Spike is pretty sure he can land in. Best of all, it's quite close to the apparent activity, should they wish to investigate...

[Ginnezumusha]

"I say we check out the one with the scraps of paper.  What do you two think?"

[Kwokinator]

Kwok shrugged.

"You're the one flying the plane," he replied.

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Kwok'n Ginn!

IC:

Asuna nodded in agreement with Negi. "Fine by me..."

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Carthrat!

IC:
Ritsuko's spying took note of a few things. First off, the APC's weren't exactly full. The first, in fact, disgorged exactly two 'soldiers', both in their middle teens, by the looks of things.

One was a boy, dressed in a typical stiff-collared school uniform, and a girl following, dressed in a seifuku, and with a bright yellow ribbon serving as a hairband, both bolting for the steps, the girl carrying a bow, and with a small quiver strapped to her leg, while the boy carried a bokken.

The other APC didn't eject any passenges at all. Instead, two armed guards got out, and began flipping switches, causing the vehicle to seemingly fall apart, Transforming into something entirely different, and yet...it was impossible to tell what it was...

[Carthrat]

While the soldiers are busy with their machinery, and after the two kids have bolted inside, Carthrat takes the opportunity to quickly dash across to the temple and sneak in after them, carefully trying to stay out of sight and *silent*.

[Ginnezumusha]

"Ok!"

Ginn steers the plane towards the site mentioned and attempts to land it.

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Kwok'n Ginn!

IC:

Swordfish banked hard and dropped low, rapidly approaching the park and the still fluttering papers...


OOC: ^^;; Alright, Booting you all over to the other thread!

[Asrana]

No way she's one of us... Motoko thought as she angled towrds the strawberry blonde with the entirely too loud voice. She tried to curve her dash a bit, attacking from behind with her katana in a slash upwards along Excel's right side.

[Bean Bandit]

OOC: Carthrat!

IC:

Ritsuko did her best to follow the children from the military vehicles quickly and silently, but she found that moving through the brush silently in what was now a poorly tailored miniskirt was a losing propostion. The children were rapidly outpacing her, and her only option to catch up was to move into plain sight, or resign herself to a slower pace...

[Carthrat]

Ritsuko resigns herself to a slower pace, thinking that she should be able to catch up as soon as she's done with the underbrush, not to mention that she has both the surprise and range advantage, anyway.