Mission 1.3: Black Party Clean Up

Things seemed to be going good with the group, until he heard a loud sound that sounded like a gunshot. It seemed to stop the fighting and the group could calm down a little, it seemed that Wolf knew who this was and eased up.

"Whew, you're on our side! Hey, if you want to gtfo of here, I'm all for it!"

Wolf narrows his eyes upon seeing Samantha, turning to look at Matsuki after a moment of starting at their employer's frazzled appearance. "I'm not sure I want to know how miss O'Reilly happened to be here, but I'll wait for an explanation later." He shakes his head and leans down so he can haul unconscious Grant up, wrapping the man's arm across his shoulders. "Bong guy, help me carry him. Matsuki," Nikolai nods at her in quick introduction, "can watch our back. Let's leave before more cultists show up." He pauses, then adds: "And someone, please grab his torch before it melts the floor."

Matsuki sees Petrov and all the horrors she's encountered so far pass before her eyes like a horror movie.
The smiling faces, Tariq's twisted body, the tunnels with the 'zombies', the vision at Petrov's 'mass'
Time to end this she mutters

She raises her trusted rifle, aims for Petrov's head and pulls the trigger

Wolf quietly sighs, already predicing the amount of trouble in their near future - mostly from the administration, as he's not too concerned about the cultists. Maybe O'Reilly would at least put in a good word so they don't all get arrested.

"Bring it on, bootlegger!" He snarls back at Sabe Ruth, dropping Grant off onto Hui and then whispering to the others: "Try to get to the maintenance tunnels and find the closest guard patrol - and first aid to resuscitate our friend here. I'll try to distract them, but hurry anyway."

With this wise advice imparted, Nikolai looks back at the cultists, grins and then dashes towards them, claws glinting as he swings at Ruth.

Come on Samantha... We're gonna bring you out of here. Matsuki motivates Samatha and pulls her along trying to find a way back to the station's populated areas

Wolf laughs in response, an amused grin stretching on his lips. "You know you didn't have to antagonize me to fight me, right?" He swings at the man with his claws, metal clashing with a scattering of sparks. "If you would have just asked, I would've been happy to fight every day! Besides, it's hardly your victory if you are having hallucination-inducing aliens on your side, is it?"

As Sabe retaliates, Nikolai dodges and jumps away, just in time to catch movement in his peripheral vision. "Here, see!" He points his claws accusingly at Petrov's twitching body. "Are you sure you don't want to ditch the aliens and have some fun crushing the upcoming undead apocalypse instead?"

Wolf is observing Sabe Ruth and Petrov from his position at the tunnel entrance, genuinely intrigued by the interaction - but the interruption by their bald colleague forces him to pay more attention to dodging than whatever is happening with the cultist leader. He scoffs at the bald man and swings at him lightly, mostly focused on keeping him from following after Matsuki, Samantha and Hui. "You all really should reconsider your priorities," Nikolai says - without much hope for positive response - to the man. "Look, just back off before security gets here. No one's gonna care about arresting you if you lay low for a week."

Wolf grunts, rubbing at his brow with the back of his gauntlet as his vision swims slightly from the force of the blow. The hand comes back with a bloody smudge, and he scoffs at it contemplatively. There is a rush of adrenaline accompanying the sensation of pain, prompting him to continue fighting, and he's still standing and in combat condition. But his companions seem to have made it out okay, so mission is essentially accomplished - and dying to some moldy aliens is not the way Wolf would prefer to go. Speaking of...

He leans slightly to look around the knife-wielding man at Ruth and Petrov, grimaces at the new state of the cultist leader, and calls to the other electrician: "Sabe, are you seriously alright with becoming a mindless body possessed by an alien parasite?! I made some bad life choices myself, but this is beyond ridiculous! Also, rain check on that fight." He waves at the man, ducks under the knife of the other cultist, and dashes into the maintenance tunnels.

Matsuki points at the cabinet with the med kit.
There's some emergency medicine in there. Quick! Stabilize your friend! I'm gonna call back up.
She props Samantha up against the wall and the proceeds to the emergency phone. She takes it and starts to speak
This is Matsuki Magumi. We are in the construction area. A gang of about five thugs is trying to kill us. Officer Samantha is with us and injured. We request immediate and urgent backup

Nikolai lingers by the tunnel for a few more moments to ensure that none of the cultists followed them, then rejoins the others. He finds the closest free horizontal space - which happens to be a table, - and sits there, examining his gauntlets and half-listening to Samantha communicating with the security guards. He only lifts his head when she addresses the group, nodding in acknowledgement. "This is all very nice and I'm not going to turn down extra credits, but," Wolf gestures towards the tunnel, "I believe your priority should be not personal security, but stopping the cult as quick as possible. After you all retreated, Petrov - the cult leader my colleague shot, - regenerated and reanimated." He grimaces. "If you can call it that. All black mold, but conscious and seemingly sane, much more so than the ones we have reported after the expedition. They're not going to stop spreading this... thing."

He pauses thoughtfully, moving the gauntlets so the claws scrape against each other - a sound calming to him, but likely not so much to others; not that Wolf particularly cares. "I would advice you to actually let people know about what's happening. Too many times organizations fall because they refuse to declare an emergency on time, and we don't know how quickly this mold can spread. At the very least officially ban the club and make it known that it is dangerous to associate with it, nightmares or not."

Wolf doesn't wait for acknowledgement of his offer and leaves Samantha to think it over, sliding off the table to head to where Matsuki, Grant, Hui and Nicky are. He inclines his head towards the last three. "I do apologize for the slight deception about my position as a security officer, but I'm sure you see why I wanted to recruit help against these opponents." Nikolai doesn't sound too sorry, instead he sounds almost amused as he winks at the trio. "Didn't lie about the reward though, so hopefully it makes us even. Thanks for the help either way, gentlemen."

Satisfied with his communications for today, Wolf then says his goodbyes to everyone - offering to reconvene later with whoever is willing to continue working together, - and heads for the station's workshops, intending to repair his equipment and then probably sleep for a day. Maybe even find Connor, if the man isn't to put off by the fact that his workplace is now going to be swarming with security for a while thanks to Wolf and his companions. A can of soda would be nice too...