Thursday, October 22, 2009

Found.

"Mind.. why do you keep asking me to abandon you when things get bad?"
"I don't want you to suffer because of me.." -Raina and Mindstyker

Fleeing back to the safe house, Raina quickly collapses once they make it through the doorway. Her shoulder and right leg are a mess from Harris's bullets and Raina is in too much pain to shift. Mind helps calm and focus her mind enough for her to shift and heal the terrible wounds. However, the new revelations about the VoPC's real plan has left Raina disillusioned, depressed, and scared. Mind comforts her, helping her see that things are not as hopeless as they appear. He explains his plan to reconfigure vanguard psi-shields into amplifiers and bring down the VoPC headquarters. Encouraged, Raina shows him the ammunition that Morris gave her before questioning Mind on why he often demands that she escape and leave him when a battle goes wrong. She explains that she does not abandon friends and certainly not one she is linked with.

Mind explains that he does not want to see her suffer on his account. Raina cites her own resiliency and says that she cares for him too much to abandon him to their enemies. The two then realize that their feelings have grown beyond mere partnership and friendship and accept the change. They seek the solace of each others arms and, just for a few hours, forget about the rest of the world.

The next morning, Raina is wandering through King's Row, happy about her new-found love with Mindstryker. Mind contacts her as she runs, asking her location. She responds that she is running in King's Row, but is brought to a halt by a flash of movement. Too late, she realizes her predicament. John has launched a full out manhunt for her in a bid to use her to gain back Mindstryker. In her blissful running, she had gone straight into a trap and was surrounded, with no available escape.

Never one to go down without a fight, Raina races forward and attacks Grim, dealing out several blows while trying to stall for time. Outnumbered and overpowered, Raina simply focuses on trying to kill Grim for his betrayal. However, Mind arrives and attempts to attack John directly and the pain he suffers, combined with her own, is weakening them both. At the end, John demands that Raina look at him and Grim forces her head to turn in his direction. True to her defiant spirit, Raina turns and plunges her claws into Grim's side and is thrown to the floor. John then cracks Mind's back, knocking him out and possibly killing him. The pain causes Raina to shriek in response before going unconscious herself. John order's Raina killed and her body destroyed, but before the order can be carried out his son, Matthew Starkweather, appears and whisks her away.

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