Extrication

[Halbarad]

Tim takes a moment to gather himself - he was afraid he was about to have his head removed for a minute. Making sure that the thing isn't moving, he quickly heads over to check on Jim. Those cracking noises can't have been good.

[Carthrat]

Tom advances slowly, glancing at the things wounded body.

"Shit. SHIT," he says, trying to maintain a little calm. "Ok, ok, ok. First things first. Look, I'll keep an eye on this guy. Daniel, maybe you should.. uh, go check on Sterling."

[Brian]

"I think I cracked a rib," Jim grunts, sitting up slowly.  Sterling limps into the room, a bloody gash over one eye sealing itself as he peers in.

"Good, you're not dead," he says.  "I slammed into a Forge terrorist at the end of the hall.  We got to have a knife fight.  I don't think there's anymore alive -- this thing must have turned on them.  Everyone okay?"

"Maybe," Jim says, wincing as he probes his chest.  "Good thing we're going to meet up with Wallace."

Kyle cocks his head at the ogre, and then shakes his head.  The entire mass suddenly dissolves into flaming dust, which quickly vanishes into nothingness.  Even the creature's blood is gone.  "There's one more," he says, looking into the hallway.

[Carthrat]

"What, another one- geezus," mumbles Tom. "Where is it?"

[Halbarad]

"Of... those?" Tim asks, cocking his head towards where the ogre just disappeared. "Or just more Forge guys?"

[Brian]

"I'm going to say directly above us," Daniel says, running into the hallway, as the ceiling overhead begins to creak ominously.

[Halbarad]

"Crap!" Tim replies, making an undignified scramble towards the hallway himself.

[Carthrat]

"Oh boy," says Tom, beginning a litany of cursing. He bolts into the opposite side of the hallway from Daniel, bracing himself and holding up his gun.

[Brian]

Sterling hauls Jim to his feet, and out of the room.  Kyle's just ahead of him, though the creaking stops, and there's now a rythmic pounding from upstairs.  Kyle says nothing and merely breaks into a full-on run towards the staircase.  

Jim shakes his head, and grabs an IV stand to use as a cane.  "Go on without me," he says shakily.  "I'll find a dark supply closet -- Ryan's trying to find somewhere dark to teleport in to."

[Halbarad]

"Be careful," Tim replies, heading after Kyle. He halts at the foot of the stairs, bracing himself as the rhythmic pounding from above continues.

[Carthrat]

Tom bolts after Kyle- "Hold on, man!" he says, charging up the staircase fater him.

[Brian]

The stairs look clear, except for the body of a man in light tactical armor with no insignia on it.  Sterling doesn't take a chance, and stomps on his windpipe in passing.  Kyle's already at the top of the stairs and headed back towards the room above the team's entrance.

At the top of the staircase, the hallway looks like someone's smashed all the equipment in the corridor out of the way, and then bashed their way into the room Kyle's headed to.  There's flashes of purple light emanating from it in time with the thumping, and someone (it sounds like a little girl) screaming in panicked Spanish.

[Halbarad]

"Aw, hell!" Throwing caution to the wind, Tim charges up the stairs after the others, the girl's cries managing to break through even his own fear at this point.

[Carthrat]

Tom rushes into the room after Kyle, brandishing his knife in one hand, his gun in the other, and looking for something to hurt.

[Brian]

The scene in the room gives reason for pause.  There's a girl, probably nine or ten years old, dressed in a high-quality looking Sailor Moon outfit ... no, wait, that's not Moon, that's Pluto.  She's also holding a pretty solid looking (if smaller scaled) Time Key, and the gem on the end is projecting a field that's (for the moment) protecting her from the ogre who's beating on it.  He's about to drive the protective field through the floor at the current rate, though.

Kyle raises his gun and fires at the ogre, causing it to turn around.  The bullet entered the beasts back and got stuck somewhere inside....  However, as soon as the girl sees Kyle, there's a flash of ... something between them, and the shield's glowing intensity brightens.