Finally drew the boi.

Lukas met Jesse outside of the room after he got changed and they both headed off, passing the other rooms with patients still reacting to the fear and trauma after their own life support attacked them with a sort of dread that couldn't be explained. It felt like fear, or worry, but neither Jesse nor Lukas could really place what they felt.

They left the infirmiry wing together, going back to the elevator. As Lukas pressed the down arrow, instead of it lighting up green as usual, it lit up a bright purple and began flashing on and off. The numbers above the elevator flickered between random floors, before glitching out and being replaced with a blurry icon that neither of the agents could place. This sure disturbed them both even more, and the just decided to take the stairs and keep the questions stowed away.

Opening the doors to the control room, they were both instantly met with yelling and panic. Sirens were blaring in a bright violet color and the main monitor was fitzing out. Met before Jesse and Lukas was the face of a monster from myth. The Witherstorm logo.

Olivia quickly ran over to both of them, pushing through technicians trying to figure out what was going on.

"Jesse! Lukas!" Olivia grabbed them both by the arm, pulling them through the crowd and back over to her computer, "Lukas, it's really great to see you're doing this much better, but we've got well-- a serious problem."

"I can see, what's going on? Does anyone know?" Lukas replied without missing a beat.

"No idea.. All we know is our computers are locked down and we've got the face of a long forgotten organization laughing at us."

"It was from what, 1937? I thought they were taken down a long time ago.." Jesse muttered.

"They were! That's what's sent everybody into a panic frenzy! We all know what the Witherstorm did, even if it did it that long ago, and now they may be back," Olivia was typing like mad into the computer, trying to fight back against the virus, but the Witherstorm logo kept glitching back onto the screen every time.

"Jesse? Do you think this could have anything to do with the 'big issue' you were mentioning earlier?" Lukas asked lightly, receiving a terrified look from Jesse in return.

"Oh God. That 'big issue' was an atom bomb! If the Witherstorm is back, what if they were Romeo's buyers? Oh no.. We should have taken down Romeo while we had the chance..."

"Okay, don't worry Jess-- we're gonna fix this, but right now, let's focus on fixing the virus attacking our building--" Lukas tried to have some sort of comfort in his worried voice.

"Right right.. Current problems--"

While Olivia was still typing furiously, Radar ran over.

"Ivor sent me! I'm going to try and fix the computer from the inside. Maybe there's a corrupted chip I can get out and shut it down for a bit!" he had to slightly yell over the commotion in the room.

"Alright, try everything!" Olivia moved her chair back, and Radar slid under the desk, pulling off a panel and getting to work. He pushed through wires, finding a lot more sparking and torched chips than he'd expected. He grabbed onto one, tugging at it, before a large shock was delivered through his arm and throughout the rest of him in seconds.

At Radar's scream, Lukas cried out and crippled to the ground just the same, as well as a few other people in the room who were working in panels or with wires.

"Lukas-!"

"Radar-?!"

Jesse caught Lukas before he fell entirely to the ground, holding him tight and feeling him trembling once again in his arms. Meanwhile Olivia quickly pulled the twitching and shaking Radar out from under the desk and tried to calm him.

"What the hell-?!" Olivia turned to Jesse for some sort of answer.

"Lukas got shocked like this in the infirmiry too, when he was hooked up-- don't touch the wires!! Tell everyone else! It's even more dangerous working in the exposed circuits!"

Lukas was tensed up once again, caught off guard by the new shock and struggling to keep his breathing under control.

"God-- the stress- right-- let's get you out of here- Olivia! I'm coming back to get Radar in a second! Grab whatever seperate computers you can find and pack up! We need to get out of here! Meet me by the van! We'll try and figure out how to stop this thing there, away from it!" Jesse called to Olivia, who nodded and ran off to warn the others of the hazards of the wires and to pack up her things.

Jesse picked up Lukas and ran out of the room, heading right for the exit. He ran into Axel, quite literally, on the way.

"Oh, jeez. Axel! Thank goodness. There's chaos in Control. We need to evacuate now- take Lukas, get him to our van, I need to go get Radar, and we need to dip as soon as fucking possible!"

Axel didn't question a word. He was the best bodyguard an agent could ask for, and instantly nodded and took Lukas up carefully.

"I'll meet you there. Hurry! I've been hearing gunshots, and was coming to check on you."

"Gunshots? From where?"

"Down the hall. They're getting closer! Just hurry! And make sure Olivia is with you. Ivor is boarded up in the conference room with a few other guys, he should be safe."

"Alright, go!"

Jesse turned and ran back to control, bursting back through the doors and going right to Radar as Axel took off towards the exit. Radar was taken by complete surprise by the electricity and had gone mostly numb from the shock. Jesse picked him up with ease, motioned quickly to Olivia who was running out of her cubical with a briefcase and a laptop, and ran back out the doors. Olivia was following closely behind.

Jesse did eventually hear the gunshots, and they were much much closer, just as Axel had said. There were cries and yells coming from down the halls, and just as Jesse was a few feet from the exit, a massive explosion sent him and Olivia flying to the side. Jesse tried to hold onto Radar and protect him from the fall, and he rolled to a stop, landing beside the lobby desk. Olivia landed further away, back by another door. Shards of broken glass were thrown everywhere, and the body of a soldier, scorched from the explosion, landed dead center in the room.

Everyone's senses were sent into a blur. Jesse could barely get up, and through his foggy vision he could make out two figures that looked almost identical. Dressed in the same outfit, same colors, each with two bright and almost blinding purple eyes. They looked over the group before moving on, heading into control, where more gunshots were heard, and another explosion went off.

Axel came running back into the building, grabbing all three of the downed agents and managing to get back out without attracting the enemies attention.

Eventually, Jesse came back to his senses. He was sitting in the front seat of the van, beside Lukas, who'd also come back around. Olivia was in the back of the van, tending to Radar, who had gone unconscious from the blast and was still reacting to the shock. Axel was in the driver's seat, and they'd already gotten far enough away from the building that the commotion was no longer being heard. They were nearly out of the massive city, to be exact.

Jesse groaned and rubbed his head, flinching lightly at the feeling of what felt like hundreds of paper cuts around his entire body.

"Jesse-?" the familiar voice of Lukas was the first he heard, and he felt a hand on his cheek.

"Hnng... Ouch.." Jesse mumbled out a few inaudible words before just leaning into Lukas and shutting his eyes.

"We.. Should find a place to rest. Let's find Petra.. Maybe she can help Radar as well.." Lukas said to Axel, who nodded and took a turn down another street.

"I'll try and contact her. She must've heard what's happened at HQ already, knowing her..." Olivia said from the back.

"Oh yeah.. I think everyone knows what happened at HQ after those bombs."

"Bombs..?" Jesse muttered mostly to himself.

"Bombs... As we were leaving all the windows on the second floor were taken out bad by a huge explosion.. The top half of the building is still in flames, probably.. We can't go back, not now.." Lukas replied lightly, putting an arm around Jesse to keep him close and comfortable.

"I hope Ivor's alright.."

"I don't doubt he's alright.. He used to be an agent like us, he can handle a lot.."

Olivia spoke up from the back again, the clicking from her laptop keys stopping.

"Hey, guys! Petra actually replied. She's already waiting for us outside of town. Hopefully she has a trauma kit, or a medpack, or something- Radar's not doing so hot and he needs any help he can get.."

~~Tech Time continues~~