Prolouge II

"As you wish." Delta bows as the entire block dies right as the henges of the door release, Zero presses the apish feet against the wall and floor. With great speed and force, Zero was across the room in the blink of an eye, onto the chest of the first of five men crushing him against the wall. The first two on the inner side of the door frame had the quickest reaction enhancements and programs had trained their gun on their fallen comrade and his assailant fairly quickly.

Zero tensed and the tails sprung to life one quickly took on a mourning star shape and crushed in the helmet of one of the officers, leaving a sullen hole oozing a thick blue liquid. The other became as thin as a strand of hair with a scythe shape that slid cleanly across the visor of the second officer, aqua beads spilled from the visor as the man slumped to the floor clutching his helmet while screaming in agony.

Zero pulled the two guns up aiming at the two remaining officers pulling the trigger, the left-hand pistol hits its mark leaving a clean hole through the officer's chest he stumbles back against the wall and slides to the floor to reveal a thick blue slime behind him. The remaining officer is clutching his shoulder at a bleeding nub, the shot blew off a partial part of his arm and side where blood gushed down to the floor.

Zero flips from the chest and lands nimbly before taking off down the corridor and leaving the carnage to stew. Kicking open the door at the end of the hall to enter a flight of stairs revealing a chorus of flashlights fluttering up like fireflies.

"Ten maybe twenty." Zero said out loud as Delta peeked out of the room and made his way over to Zero.

"Would you prefer the elevator?" Delta stops at the sliding doors with a grin.

"If you're not quick he'll get away." Chuckling to himself mockingly.

"Too easy" Zero says leaping over the railing of the stairs.

"Red!" Delta blinked out of position and reappeared at the railing reaching out.

*Bzzt*

A radio buzzes to life amongst the darkest and heaviest silence of the descent. "Package made it to floor 25, heading down the west staircase to extraction."

The sound came from two floors below. Being on the thirtieth gave the target a five-floor lead. Focusing on the echolocation, Zero primed the tails so they were tiny and shaped like arrowheads. Shooting them out just in time to pierce two officers on opposite sides of the staircase through the railing in the knees.

The arrow-like tails opened flat to secure themselves to the legs, snapping one in on itself while pulling tight against the weight and speed of Zero.

"Flashbang and EMP ammunition." The tails pulled tautly and slowed Zero's descent, flashlights flicked to the center of the dark chasm revealing a demonic-looking bunny dangling upside down from ruby strands while aiming at one officer. Pulling the trigger caused an electromagnetic wave to pulse from the center of the officer's chest, flashlights blew out like candles, and certain poorly protected prosthetics and augmentations went haywire.

The second shot fried any wearable or built-in night vision with a bright flash of light filling the entire staircase. The tails yank Zero back upward as the guns change back to normal ammunition, at the peak of the rise Zero releases the legs and rotates shooting both officers in the head as the descent begins again.

"Two, four, six, eight..." Swirling and falling Zero hit every mark counting each kill or incapacitation as they came.

Approaching the twenty-fifth-floor Zero kills the remaining officers with swift shots leaving one alive on the twenty-fourth flight of stairs, piercing him with the tails and pulling them tight to fling against the railing into the hallway door of the twenty-fifth floor, breaking it off its henge and surfing it into the hall before flinging the officer over the railing to fall several feet.

"Only fifteen... If you don't count you five." The hall Zero swung into contained five officers.

One officer with a long plasma sword stepped forward activating it with a menacing blue glow and hum. The one behind him carried two short plasma blades with a red hue and hum, the last three were bulky with pulsating gauntlets.

"Well?" Zero said mocking the officers.

Like a bull the long sword lunges forward with a thrust and is quickly sidestepped, a quick knee to the wrist loosens the grip on the sword enough for Zero to grab, turn and plant it firmly in the officer's back. Leaving the blade where it lies Zero steps to the duel wielder who swipes quickly in a cross-like attack, hitting the air.

Zero was crouched on all fours dodging the attack with blinding speed and launching a tail through the center of the officer's visor. The officer's arms go limp and he crumples to the grown in a heap. The third officer spring at full speed over Zero throwing a crushing blow with the gravity gauntlet.

The floor gives and dents under the smash as Zero catches the gauntlet in the palm of the apish foot, given by the cloak, flipping the officer onto his back with one foot and crushing his head into the floor with the other embedding his head in the metal. Zero braces as the fourth officer rams into them trying to push them back, the fingers of the feet grind into the floor in resistance slowing the efforts to a stop.

A swing of a fist and the sound of ribs shattering under a crushing blow rings out bringing the officer to his knees. The officer reaches out to grab at Zero, easily swatting his hand away, Zero smacks the side of the officer's helmet with force sending his head barreling through the opposite wall as his body slumps at their feet.

The last officer blocked the door to the west staircase, Zero started for the officer full sprint hitting all fours at peak speed, letting out a roar the officer braced for impact as Zero rams him into the door breaking it off its henge and toppling them over the railing. Straddling the officer Zero throws devastating smashes to his helmet as they free fall from the twenty-fifth floor.

Lang finally hit the last two flights before hearing gunfire and screams from above, he rounded the last flight when he heard the bang of metal against metal. He burst through the door of the bottom floor into a parking garage, tears streaming down his face as he throws his naked body past cars.

Up ahead a convoy waited with an armored vehicle for his escape. An explosive crash echoed from behind him in the stairway through the parking garage, Lang stopped and turn to see the door slowly open to show a hellish bunny standing in the door frame.

Lang turned to run, but the bunny he just saw moments ago was now next to him, a quick swing and he was now flying through a wall and landing on the ground in a procession of rain and rubble. Bullets flew past Zero alerting them to the officers waiting by the car.

"Peacekeeper." Zero put the butts of the pistol together as two orbs of light formed at the tips and arches of electricity leaped between them.

Firing the two orbs launched at the convoy they hit, causing an explosion, destroying the armored vehicle and killing the remaining officers. Zero walked over to the gaping hole in the wall and stepped through it, approaching the slithering Lang's new broken body. Lang rolls over to his back and rests on his elbows.