Futuristic Reality

[TwistedDreams]

Jax let out a huge gasp, his eyes shot wide open. He was alive! or was he dead? He wasnt to sure. Everything was white, just white, bright and shining white. He covered his eyes to shield them from this extremely bright.. white. He didnt really know what was going on. The last thing he remembered was the Coffee Hub, He recounted what had happened. He had been at the Coffee Hub and had tipped a waitress 200 dollars which caught the attention of a local thief/con woman. He was having trouble remembering the rest.. he knew that he liked the waitress alot, he didnt know why he liked her so much but he did and then.. then.. she was shot and killed. He remembered lying flat on the ground as a black boot appeared in front of him, he remembered seeing the motionless waitress, Audrey lying in a pool of blood. There was a flash and then the code. It reminded him alot of the movie "The Matrix".


The bright light started to clear as his eyes were adjusting to the light. He realised he was lying down, looking straight up at the light, although there was glass less then a foot away from him. He moved his head to look down at his feet and noticed that the glass curved all the way down so it was over his feet and above his head. He became aware that there were various monitors and chords attached to his body. His heartbeat began to quicken. Was he in a hospital? For some reason he had the feeling that he wasnt dead.


He started quickly pulling the monitors and cords off his body and then he raised his hands to the glass and pushed, it budged easily and then suddenly made a low hissing noise like air being released from a tire. He sat up and look to his right. There was a number of white oval shaped pods in the closest one to him he could see an unconscious woman, the same woman who had approached him after he had tipped Audrey. She must of survived the attack aswell. He found it hard to believe that he survived, he had been shot at point blank range in the head.


Suddenly his head felt like it was going to split open, this pain only lasted for around 20 seconds and then it stopped suddenly. Everything became clear to him now. He was no longer in the same world he had known his entire life. He heard a noise to his left and turned to see what it was. It was Audrey, she was alive and sitting up, with longer hair then he remembered. "Audrey?" He called to her.

 

[Rise of Albion]

Audrey flinched as someone called her name and, lowering her hand from pressing against her forehead, she turned to see the cute customer she had met just before she died. He was clothed in the white bodysuit too, his blonde hair a perfect, tussled mess and he was completely unscathed as well. There was something different about him though. Every feature on his body was appeared intricately detailed, and it was almost as though she could feel the sense of wonderment and confusion that was radiating from him. It stepped past simply empathizing with him, but was more of an unconscious connection. Her eyes widened as she realized she could sense the same of every single person in the room. She emitted a slight groan and closed her eyes, her five senses overwhelmed by complete clarity. This world they were now existing in made her normal Earth appear like a badly constructed game, and she was constantly covered by a gag, blindfold and earmuffs. What on earth was happening?


She swallowed before she tried to gather her wits about her and gazed once again toward the young man, feeling tears spring to her eyes. "Are you real? I... I didn't see you die, but I did. Two bullets killed me. I know they did! I felt it..." Audrey whispered. "I don't think we're in hospital or anything. The world feels so strange. I feel like I can sense your emotions! It's so strange and unnatural and completely crazy, but you understand, don't you? I... I..." Suddenly, she was overwhelmed by everything that was happening. It was a humongous change to what she was normally so used to. She was born in it. She had been raised in such a world. It was all that she had ever known! If there was one thing that she absolutely could not deal with, it was change. And this was the biggest of them all.


Audrey placed her hands on the sides of the pod and lifted herself out of it until she was standing firmly on the white ground, thin white slips covering her feet. She drew in and out deep breaths, forcing herself to calm down. Everything was there. Everything was working. So where the hell was she!? Where were they? Where was Aaren? Fear gripped her heart at the thought that if she was in some unknown, impossible place, then where was her baby sister? Had she been taken with them as well? Oh god, she just didn't know!


But she wasn't currently alone. There was the man, that generous man, who she didn't even know the name of, and every single person in the room, awake yet or not, she knew that if she ever had the chance to talk to them again, all of their lives would be entwined forever. Audrey stumbled over to Jax's pod, and needing any kind of comfort she could get, she launched her arms around him in a tight hug. "I don't know what's going on." She sobbed. Everything was so clean, bright, white and futuristic. It wasn't right. None of it was right.

 

[RainbowWave]

Jackson's breathing was shallow, and quick, his skin was pale compared to his skin tone on earth, and his hair was much thicker and longer too, siting in a thick scruffy mess. Jackson's eyes slowly opened, only to retreat once they met the bright light above him. '...I must be lieing on my back..." Lifting his hands 3 inches up, they slammed into the glass, forcing Jackson to open his eyes as his palms sat flat against the clear glass. Pressing on the glass, Jackson pushed forward, causing the pod to alert a low hissing sound, as a tire would if air was being let out. As his prison released him, Jackson smiled, his eye sight still adapting to the bright room. 'Where am I?, more importantly, What is this place?'


Jackson's head moved around the room, the room was a pure white, holding one large light in the canter of the ceiling, and White Pods below it. Two pods next to Jackson, he could see two people, A man and a women siting next to one another, the women giving the man a hug. Looking to his chest, Jackson realised he in fact, was not naked, but wearing the same suit like the strangers. The skin-tight white body suit clinged to his body, and his senses finally shot up. The small of cleaning supplies filled his nose, and the beating of hearts filled his ears, covering his ears Jackson stumbled, falling butt first back onto his Pod. 'All i can smell is a strong sent of bleach, and multiple pounding sounds. What's going on?'


Standing once more, Jackson uncovered one ear, and shouted to the strangers.


"Hey! You two!" Jackson pointed with his free hand, showing the Man and Women sitting on the pod who he was talking to.


"You two where at the Coffee Hub, What happen? Do you know?" Jackson began his walk towards the two, his pace stopping as the pounding sound grew stronger in Jackson's ears.

 

[TwistedDreams]

Audrey turned to him and something about her looked different, besides her much longer hair. She looked so much more detailed, Beautiful and fair not that she wasn't before. She was wearing a white body suit like himself. Jax marvelled at her until he caught some of what she was saying "Sense your emotions". This made him a little uncomfortable and embarrassed. Jax felt a little scared this world that he was in now was so powerful and beyond him he actually sort of wished that he could go back to the life he had lived for 21 years.


Jax started to think, where were they? He looked around and the enitre room was bright and white. He spotted a door at the far end of the room. It looked like a more realistic version of a door out of Star trek, Star Wars or some other futuristic movie he had seen. The door was the same colour as everything else in the room except for a long see through space of what he assumed was glass but he wasnt to sure. All he could see through the glass like substance was another white wall due to the angle he was looking at it from.


Suddenly two arms were thrown around him. Audrey had left her pod like container and was now embracing him in a hug. He tried to hide his emotions due to Audrey's said ability to be able to feel them, but he doubted he had even hid them a little bit, he liked Audrey alot and the hug didnt help. "uh.. i-" he started to say.


"Hey! You two!" a Male voice called, Jax looked over Audrey's shoulder in the direction of the voice. It was a man he had never seen before, but for some reason he assumed he was killed in the Coffee Hub too. Just as Jax had thought, the man asked about the Coffee Hub. "Uh, i dont really know.." He replied to the man while trying to comfort Audrey by stroking her hair.

 

[Rise of Albion]

The appearance of the second white-suit brought some of Audrey's control back, and raised a tear strewn face from the man's shoulder to face the other customer she remembered from the cafe, having glanced over once when he had entered. He must have died too. All of them in that room, every single one of them of whom were currently waking up from some kind of forced unconsciousness had been at the Coffee Hub, and had most likely died there. Something had happened in that room when the shots first rung out, piercing walls, tables and humans.


The occurrence of the matrix code, the rips that were torn through the very fabric of reality, all of their deaths, and then waking up in a place of which she was quite certain was not the after life. They weren't dead. But they had died. They were still alive. But they shouldn't be. She had so many questions and no answers. In a stroke of stupid brilliance, she realized that the only way to settle her whirling mind and figure out what happened to them, was to investigate. Wiping her tears away, she drew in a deep breath and focused on her confidence and will.


"We need to get out of this room." Audrey began, walking over to the final pod in which a person was sleeping and opening up the glass case. "Just before I woke up, I remember hearing this electronic voice welcoming me to something called Atrivia and checking my vital signs. It also told me that it was requesting assistance to uh... sector 9, area B, room 34. I have a feeling that that is exactly where we are. If we don't get out of here soon, we might be overwhelmed by some kind of guard or something. I don't believe we should afford to let that happen. We need to get out of here, and find some answers about what's happened to us all."


The white door with the glass strip in the middle hissed open with the same sound as the hibernation pods, and Audrey froze as a man entered clad in a metallic body suit, visor down, gun stocked away and obviously unprepared. Audrey gasped and withdrew until back was flush against the wall. Her movements drew his attention and, even with his face covered, she could sense his surprise and even his slight fear. It was exactly how she had been able to feel Jax's emotions, just a little hindered through the distance.


"Get down!" Audrey shouted as the man quickly pulled out his gun and shot at the point where her head had been only moments before. She wasn't going to die this time. Not again. Because, she didn't think that a second time would allow her to wake up.

 

[TwistedDreams]

Audrey let go of him and insisted that they must escape the room. Jax was still extremely confused and had no idea what was going on. Suddenly there was a hiss, he looked over to the white door which was the only point of exit or entry in the room. A man had entered, he assumed he was security of some sort. He was wearing a Metallic boddy suit and a visor. Jax felt the man become frightened and surprised that they were up and awake. He suspected that they were still supposed to be asleep in the hibernation pods.


The man pulled out his gun and shot at Audrey's head, luckily Audrey managed to duck in time and the bullet made a hole in the wall behind her. Jax was not going to die.. again. It was a spur of the moment decision, Jax dived out of his Pod and onto the Metallic clad man. Knocking his visor off his head. They wrestled on the ground for the gun. The man elbowed Jax in the nose, Jax felt the pain but he could not let this man kill them all. Jax punched the mans bear face, he punched it a second, a third and a fourth time. With one hand on the gun, Jax managed to rip the gun out the guards hand.


Rather then killing the Man, Jax hit him as hard as he could on the head, with the butt of the gun, Knocking the guard out cold. Jax's nose was bleeding and he was short on breath. "Someone would.. of.. Heard that" Jax said to Audrey and the other man. "We have to get out of here now". Jax held the gun up, if he had to he would shoot his way out of here, all he knew was that he wasn't going to die again and he determinately wasnt going to let Audrey or the other man die.

 

[Rise of Albion]

The man was unconscious on the cold, white ground, a thin flow of blood pouring from a cut on his forehead caused by being struck by the butt of his gun. Audrey rose unsteadily to her feet and stared at the wall behind her, in which there was now a rather impressive hole. Where her head had been only moments before, was a gun shot wound that appeared as though the bullet had come from a wide barreled shot gun and then been able to explode a second time on impact. The weapon from which it had come, however, resembled a more futuristic, whiter version of a Glock pistol. She swallowed, glanced back at the security guard, and forced herself to try and not imagine what her second death might have actually been. A very gruesome one to be sure.


"Alright, let's get out of here. We don't want to be swarmed by some more of those weapons." Audrey agreed, hurrying around the bulk of the pods towards her two customers. Of which she still had to learn the names of. One of whom had just saved all of their lives. She hugged him quickly as she walked past, muttering a quick, "Thank you" before walking out of the room.


As she had previously expected, the hallway outside of their room was just as white and barren as the inside. An innumerable number of doors led off onto separate rooms on both the left and right sides. Yet no one else seemed to be exiting from them. It seemed as though they were the only ones awake and moving. As Audrey passed by one of the rooms, she peered in to see what was inside. Room 40 held six hibernation pods containing six baby boys. had she stayed to watch any longer, she would have witnessed the strange occurrence of one of them changing into a young toddler in a matter of seconds. The hall seemed to travel for years down either way and alone, with no possible understanding of what they had all become a part of, she turned back to face her companions. "Which way are we going to go?"


It would appear that the answer would become quickly evident to them when the sounds of running, metallic feet began to appear from the left side of the hallway. "Run!" Audrey cried, beginning to sprint in the opposite direction, hoping against hope, that some answers or solution to their current predicament would arise to help them.

 

[Hell0NHighWater]

Quinn froze, watching people die in front of her. Blood soaked the tiles of the coffee shop staining her vision red. Her was on the floor, her leg burning but the pain didn't seem to register. Bullets dug into people's bodies spraying dead mans blood as they passed threw flesh before ending up somewhere. Her body felt heavy, the sound of screams echoed in her brain as she let her eyes fall shut. Another burning sensation erupted in her forehead and she knew, she just knew she was dead. This was how it was going to happen she guessed. A sudden confused feeling surged up in her green letters, numbers, symbols flooded threw black space. A computer code danced it's way across her vision. Words were typed but she hadn't had a good look at them. In her state of utter confusion she held her breath, trying to understand what was even happening.


Her chest pulled her upwards and she inhaled deeply, her eyes snapping open. A light blinded her, making her squint as she looked around. "What....?"


Pulling her body up, she was shocked to find her black hair fall past it's usual length. Her tattoos were faded and in dire need of a touch up..which was beyond weird because she distinctly remembered going to get them recolored last month. She looked at the white bodysuit and cords connected to her. Letting out a startled shriek, she ripped the cords from her skin. Quinn made an effort to stand, her legs wobbly like she hadn't stood up in years. She clutched the rail on the bed looking around the white sterol room.


"Okay...if this is heaven...I want a refund." She muttered to herself.

 

[TwistedDreams]

Jax followed right behind Audrey as shots were fired, Bits of wall flew off the wall nearly hitting him while he was running. He still had the white futuristic gun in one his hands. He raised it over his left shoulder and fired blindly behind him. He felt how powerful the gun was, it made his hand hurt a little bit. He continued sprinting as fast as he could passing Audrey as more shots were fired at them.


He heard Audrey cry out and turned to see she had tripped, He quickly came to a halt and grabbed her hand using all his strength to pull her up. He fired down the hall as more metallic suited men were coming out of numerous doors, he saw the blue sort of bullet that left his gun hit one of the metallic clad men, the man dropped to the ground instantly.


He held Audrey's hand tightly as they ran to make sure she didnt fall behind of course. They turned a corner only to see 5 metallic clad men running towards them, all holding what looked like futuristic versions of assault rifles, Jax looked around frantically and push both himself and Audrey through a random door, there was bright light? was it sunlight? Jax realised they were falling? but where?


((sorry i took so long i dont want the rp to die! but ive been sort of busy!))

 

[Rise of Albion]

Audrey wasn’t actually sure what it was that caused her trip. The floor was polished white, flawless and smooth with any doorways or light fixtures an indent into the wall. Whether it was her nerves, or some form of clumsiness at the worst time possible, she ended up sprawling onto the ground with a shout of alarm. Those futuristic bullets whizzed past her head and she wished she could have said that her life flashed before her eyes. In a moment of imminent danger, in the possible final moments of her death, she didn’t see anything at all. She merely winced and prayed that those soldiers would deliver her a quick and painless passing. The last thing that she was going to expect was that a hand would clasp around hers, and then proceed to pull her to her feet. She gasped in surprise to see that Jaz had actually returned to help her.


The soldiers continued to advance upon them and fire their weapons at will, leaving Audrey to assume that they would never have any possible chance of actually escaping. What were their odds? Two ordinary humans with no fighting experience or training against a countless number of suits with the greater advantage. Jaz had been able to knock out that one guard, but she had no doubts that they wouldn’t be able to manage this lot. She was once again taken by surprise however, when she was pulled through a door suddenly and the world revealed itself around them. Not only was the light suddenly extremely bright and piercing but the outside air was clearer, and as they fell through the air, she could not help but feel a stronger sickened feeling in her stomach. How had they managed to get outside so quickly? And…


The breath left her as they slammed into the ground and it was solely due to their ensuing momentum on the slanted hill that they managed to continue to survive at all. Audrey screamed as she began to roll down the grass, picking up speed so fast that the entire world vanished around her. She would have thrown her arms out to try and stop herself, except that she also knew there had to be a certain range to those weapons. Even though she had no idea about where she and Jax were headed, she knew they had to get away. It was currently their fastest mode of transport. She would have sighed in relief had she any breath to spare, when the shouts of alarm began to disappear behind them. It would have been quite comical had she not been in such a situation.


“Stop!” Audrey shouted, and she struggled to stop her movements, finally coming to a stop. They had traveled to the bottom of the hill, and as Audrey raised a hand to her recently pounding head, she gasped in surprise. Laid out in the distance, was the most beautiful scenery and city that she had ever seen in her life. It wasn’t anything that could possibly be seen on Earth, and now she was completely convinced that they were in fact, somewhere altogether different.

 

[TwistedDreams]

Jax felt the cold and smooth texture of grass, he hit the ground quite hard and instantly picked up alot of speed rolling down what he assumed was a hill, a very steep hill. It was hard to make out anything since his vision was spinning, he saw alot of blue and caught glimpses of Audrey also tumbling down the hill slightly behind him. He finally came to hard and quite painful stop on flat ground. "Ugh" He groaned. He wasnt really hurt but he did have a few minor bruises. He pushed himself up to his feet, a little distance in front him was a beautiful futuristic city, 10 times the size of any Major city in his old life.


Jax quickly snapped out of his sort of trance and turned to see Audrey staring at the city aswell. He noticed they were still wearing these wierd white suits and he knew if they wanted to stay alive and away from.. from.. well from whoever was trying to kill them they would need to new clothes. "We need real clothes" Jax said to Audrey as he grabbed her hand and led her towards the city. He looked back at where they had just come out of, where were the other two people who had woken up with them? He wanted to save them but he knew they were lucky to escape there alive and there was no way they would survive a second time.


All around them there just seemed to be a huge cluster of houses and alot of high rises. It was beautiful but there was almost no greenery such as trees or plants. Jax had a feeling that there were probably alot more people in this world then there were in his old world.

 

[Rise of Albion]

((A quick note, Audrey doesn't know Jax's name yet))


"There's been a breach."


Tyson stopped in his tracks as the short message reached him through the comm unit hidden in his ear. His heart seemed to skip a beat before he remembered that it was paramount for him to remain inconspicious and to continue moving. At the moment he was dressed like them, he looked like them and he even spoke like them, but he was not one of them. If they discovered him... he could not possibly hope to imagine what would happen to him. The Atrivian government never took kindly to obstruction or resistance, and he had infiltrated the very heart of its system to tear down what it was the most proud of. Ethically, he was on the right side of the fighting. Socially, he was a dead man.


"What do you mean there's been a breach? I need a little more information than just that, Nathan. Is it ours or theirs?"


"Theirs. South side of the Maternity Hospital about fifteen minutes ago. Two persons in white bodysuits fell out of the wall and then rolled down the hill. Squads were behind them but they didn't follow outside. They should be in the city now. The system hasn't been able to identify them yet which is really strange. Either they're tourists or they're not citizens. It shouldn't be too much longer to find out which type. Unidentified danger level. Mace wants you to go after them. They could be important to the government so we want them."


"Wait, what do you mean they fell out of the wall?"


"A door just appeared and they tumbled out. No known records have ever stated that before. It must be a security measure that isn't placed on any of the blueprints. A quick way out in case of fire, you know the like. We've never seen it before so they must be coming from the direction of the pod rooms. Either way, they've been inside when we haven't. The only reason we noticed them was because Felli managed to pick up a distress signal. Genius that girl if everything proves out to work okay. Can you get to them?"


"I'm on it now. If things go well, stand by safe house three. If things go south... don't wait up on me."


"You got it. Initiating map details on your holo-tab for the last known sightings of the whitesuits."


---


The city was beautiful, stunning and utterly like nothing that she had ever seen before. There were hundreds of people strolling the streets dressed up in any manner of clothing, often sporting bright and neon colours and make-up choices that resembled the high fashion of the Capitol in the Hunger Games. She didn't realize it yet, but everyone she saw was only in the span of their twenties. No children ran rampart, no elderly slowed down pedestrian traffic and there weren't even any mildly looking sick people. At the moment, with her wonder, she could only notice the biggest points.


"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore." Audrey muttered, gazing around at the sights and splendour.

 

[TwistedDreams]

The city was clean and in away pure, it was nothing like the dirty streets of New York City, the only city that makes its own gravy. The choice of fashion of these people was strange to Jax, it reminded him heavily of the movie The Hunger Games as they all seemed to have strange hairdos of various colours on display and they wore bright clothes the would turn up at the shoulders and other strange sort of behavior for clothes to have. Jax realized that they probably stood out like a soar thumb, they needed to change into more 'Fashionable' clothes and fast.


Jax lead them into a side alley, it was unlike anything he had seen before, clean. In New York you would of never found a side alley that didnt graffiti all over the walls, a lot of dumped garbage and they usually smelled quite bad. This side alley was clean, no Graffiti and the walls were a glassy smooth texture. "We need new clothes" Jax said to Audrey as he caught her mumbling something to herself. Audrey was the only one, so far as he knew, that had escaped that.. well Jax didn't really know what they had escaped, he assumed it was some sort of lab. What happened to the other woman and the man who had woken up with them? Had they escaped? Jax didn't know, the last time he remembered seeing them was was when they ran down the hallway, then they must of taken a different path and hopefully escaped.


((Bit short, cant really make it to much longer))

 

[Rise of Albion]

Every single freaking part of the city was too clean, too beautiful, too perfect, and it was setting Audrey on edge. It was already evident to the pair that they were no longer on Earth. Hell, it was even possible that they had been trapped in another dimension, another reality. But there was no doubt in her mind, that this impractical city they were currently standing in was not heaven. Yes, they had both died. She could still feel the bullets ripping through her stomach and her chest, taste the blood bubbling up inside her mouth and dripping over her lips. She could hear the sounds of her sister's frantic steps has she escaped out the back door, and towards freedom, leaving behind the anguished cries of what had once been her fellow diners. It had all been so real and painful. She knew that had been real, but she also knew that this was real. After all, wasn't she currently standing right there with Jax?


Her limited imagination span was nowhere near as powerful or creative to dream up this level of wonderland. Not to mention, in her own experience with dreaming, they never worked like this. In the lands of her unconscious mind, objects and people never failed to be distorted, and time would skip forward or slow down without any sense of a warning. This was not it. But how could it be possible! Audrey groaned and closed her eyes, feeling the weight of a headache or a migraine coming on. Her white suit was beginning to cling to her body as the surrounding environment began to rise, an uncomfortable, sickly feeling against her skin. Her hair was also becoming a dead weight, not only because she wasn't used to such a weight. Her mouth tightened and her jaw clenched as she realized that she could sense the emotions of the other people on the street.


It was assaulting her mind, and quickly, Audrey realized that she was going to snap. An unusual occurrence for the young woman, for her crabby levels to be raised so quickly. Unfortunately, as neither of the pair knew, it was normal for such mood swings to happen to the recently exposed mind. By exposed, it referred to the phenomena of being introduced to the clarity and intelligence of this impossible world, which was so incredibly different, and mature to Earth. In relatable comparison, it was the capacity of being a human being to having the free will and control of a Sim.


"We need to get off the streets." Audrey whispered to her companion, not having the current compassion or empathy to check and see if Jax was suffering yet as well. "We're not normal in this world, and I think that soon, our clothing choice will turn from strange and outlandish to suspicious. I'm not dying again."


"Yes to both." A strange man interrupted, appearing to materialize right of the alleyway beside them. Audrey jumped in shock and a little fright, moving closer to Jax. "Yes we need to get you out of those clothes, and yes, we can't have you dying again. Hi, I'm Tyson. You should probably come with me if you want to live."


(I know, it's dismal. My response has been way too late in coming and I am an awful human being. But hopefully now, we can return to this rp and also Mutants. I am super duper eager to get back to the latter!)

 

[TwistedDreams]

((really? If your up for reviving this and mutants i will, but we should definitely post more))

 

[Rise of Albion]

(Yes, I am totally up for reviving them both. Especially Mutants. I really want to continue that one. And yes, I will post more often.)

 

[TwistedDreams]

((Finally! i have posted. I think if we want to continue this we should make an effort to post 1+ times a day?))


Jax felt something, it was strange but somehow he knew that Audrey was feeling it much more intensely than himself, probably due to how emotionally disconnected he had been in - well in whatever his past life was. Jax's senses felt almost as if they were heightened, the sound of the busy street just outside the spotless alleyway seemed to hover around him (not flood him like Audrey), almost as if it was poking at his mind.


"We need to get off the streets, we're not normal in this world, and I think that soon, our clothing choice will turn from strange and outlandish to suspicious. I'm not dying again." Audrey said. Jax snapped out of his small trance, he had almost forgotten that she was there.


Jax nodded "Yeah, i have a feeling that if we die here.. we're not waking up".


Jax jumped at the sudden appearance of a man who seemed to have been listening in on their conversation. His instant reaction was to point the smooth white futuristic gun at the man who he could tell was a "local" to this world as he seemed to be wearing the same type of strange clothing that the people out on the street were. Jax grew instantly suspicious as the man asked the two of them to come with him. Was he trying to trick them? Perhaps he was working with the very people who had tried to kill them only moments ago?


Jax stood there for a few seconds before a strange feeling hit him, somehow he could tell that what the man was saying was genuine, that he really did want to help them.

 

[Rise of Albion]

Audrey almost doubled over as her senses and her emotions were assaulted by the genuine actions and thoughts emanating from the strange man in front of them. She could literally feel the control the man was maintaining within himself, the danger which he knew he possessed, the honest need for them to be okay, and the slight paranoia which was fueling the adrenaline coursing through him. It was like she was being given an intimate and personal insight into the man's very being. A glance into his soul, as though she could read his mind. It was beautiful and terrifying at the same time. The most important point was that she could quickly feel her nerves growing on edge, her focus and control shortening and also her mind beginning to unravel. It was all too much for her, and Tyson knew it.


He grabbed her elbow both to lead her and support her in case she accidentally collapsed or something, glanced over at Jax to motion for him to follow them and then guided them all towards the alley which he had just emerged from. Tyson didn't say much, but without even having to ask. he was certain that the pair would know that they could trust him. Even if they didn't know him personally, it was their sudden, revealed connection to the emotions of others which would convince them that he was not the person to fear. There were others out there who would most definitely cause them more harm than he could, and despite his rather despised position as a rebel, he only meant them the best intentions. Not to mention, he was also the first friendly face that wasn't trying to just immediately shoot them and at the moment, they didn't have many other options.


Audrey couldn't help but stare at Tyson as they walked, both admiring him and fearing him. He was unusual, different and a stranger. Yet he was also beautiful, honest and almost promised them a positive outcome to their lives. His... she didn't know what colour his hair was. Teal? Aqua? A blue-y emerald? None of those words seemed to quite fulfil the absolute vibrance of his hair, mimicking the very waves of the sea as it crested just before a crash. Blue and green had been crafted perfectly together and for a moment, she wasn't even sure if the colour was real. It shimmered in the sunlight, but didn't shine or glare. Nor did it look tacky, but rather as though it just suited him. She wasn't sure why she was so in awe of it either, such a simple, shallow thing as beauty. Yet it was as though she was looking at everything, at life, in a new light and the colours of Tyson were the ones to introduce her to it. Not to mention, his clothing style was wacky weird but it also suited him. She found herself wondering if she could ever look so lovely.


Maybe it was an effect of her new introduction into the world, or her mind was simply exhausted by everything that was happening but she soon found that her legs were turning into jelly. Every step she took was shaky, and the world began to swim, causing her stomach to respond with lurching waves. Audrey's eyes widened at the surge of sickness within her, and she had to turn away from Tyson in case what had once caused such an insane, unusual reaction within her would also make her throw up. Her head was light and full of air when she reached out a blind hand and latched onto Jax's arm, finding her support within him, feeling as though she needed him to comfort her. "Jax..." She said, feeling the rise of bile in her throat. "I don't feel so well. I think I'm going to be sick."


At her words, Tyson turned his attention to her but not in surprise. He had been expecting such a reaction, but hopefully not as soon as it did come. He let out a little curse, surveyed their surrounding area and spotted an inconspicuous looking hotel. They wouldn't be able to make it back to safety with the way that Audrey was now feeling. Unfortunately, they were going to have to rest. His hand rose to his ear to contact Nathan and Felicity, who were currently monitoring his every move. "Nathan. she's going down. We can't get much further. We'll rest at the hotel across the street until she begins to feel a little better, but until then, you have to keep the government off us." Tyson reported, shifting his hold on Audrey so he was better supporting her now. He was given a response from his team, which neither Audrey or Jax could hear before he nodded and looked back at them. "Follow me. We don't have much time."