The processing facility is in the middle of nowhere just outside a town named Sloan. They have the passes but they will need disguises. Alexi can make do with what he has except for the Visitor's eyes. He wont be able to replicate that. So they look for costume stores. They cant find a costume store that has costume contact lenses that would look like the Visitor's eyes. So finally they find a small business that offers custom designed costumes and prosthetics.
They find the business in a warehouse district of the city. It sits among other squat warehouse like buildings. It is run by two guys who take to the challenge as well as the offer of good money. Soon they have a set of contact lenses that are fairly close to the group's desires.
Why Buy What You Can Steal
But Kyoko decides she doesn't really want to pay what she told them. She pulls out her gun and toys with the two men for a bit until they leave.
They drive away but soon circle around to the same warehouse district and they see the two men they have just robbed talking to the police. Once of the men notices the group's vehicle and points excitedly. The police hop in their vehicle and take chase.
Victois, sitting in the back, pulls out his rifle. He asks the group if he has the go ahead. The group collectively shrugs. Victois fires.
The Police Pursuit Escalates
The bullet finds the vehicle windshield and it fractures into a multitude of pieces and the police car careens out of control, hitting a parked vehicle and flips. It is not long before they hear the noise of several more police sirens.
They speed down a back-alley, while Ryugi decides that he doesn't know these people and that they are all insane. He jumps out of the speeding vehicle. Training, strength and a massive amount of luck keeps him alive as he is also able to avoid the pursuing police car speeding down the back-alley.
Soon they are able to loose the police pursuit and using their radios they congregate back at a nearby Denny's. After pancakes they decide to leave the city. Driving outside of the city limits they find a lonely motel and book a few rooms.
The Creepy Voyeur Motel
It is not long before they notice that several of the rooms have spy holes and two way mirrors which lead to hidden narrow passageways. The passageways run between the rooms and allow the motel manager access to the room's two way mirrors.
But they decide they have bigger fish to fry. They load up their gear and set off for the sand processing facility. Heading off into the desert they find a gravel road which leads off the main highway leads to the facility. It is heavily guarded. Visitors are heavily armed. Watch towers are occupied by at least two Visitors with mounted heavy machine guns. Fences are topped with barbed wire. They head back to the highway to plan their next move.
It is then that a heavy sand-laden transport truck. It is driven by two Visitors. They flag down the vehicle. The two Visitors introduce themselves as Landon 688435 and Landon 688946. The are happy to assist the group.
They kill the Landons.
Infiltrating The Facility
They drive towards the facility.
Meanwhile Alessandra and Victois watch standing by their vehicle, pretending it has a flat tire. They are noticeable enough to the Visitors in the facility that a white van is dispatched from the facility with two Visitors. They approach Alessandra and Victois and introduce themselves as Landon 628764 and Trent 584321. They are happy to assist. They offer to drive Victois to the nearest automotive assistance garage while the other will wait with Alessandra.
Arriving at the gas station Victois gets a replacement tire and then uses the opportunity to kill the Visitor. Then finding the gas station attendant watching in horror, Victois kills him too. Then to cover his tracks, he sets the gas station on fire. Driving back to Alessandra, he sees the gas station exploded behind him in the rear view mirror.
Leave No Witnesses
Victois radios ahead to Alessandra and tells her what happened. She doesn't hesitate. She approaches the smiling Visitor and kills him with her daggers. Unfortunately, more Visitors have been dispatched to their location and a car chase ensues. Alessandra doing her best to fend off two Visitor vehicles as they careen down the highway. By the end, the Visitors are dead and the vehicles are totalled. The group's SUV barely able to drive.
Meanwhile, Alexi and Kyoko enter the facility, having passed inspection at the front gate. Inside they park the vehicle just outside of the large doors leading inside the facility. Alexi gets out to go inside, while Kyoko stays hidden inside the vehicle.
Alexi goes inside the facility. Inside he finds very little. No machinery, no processing. Just sand. Barrels, crates, burlap bags of sand. As Alexi moves about in the mostly empty warehouse he is spotted by two Visitor guards. They address him in their native language. A series of whirring clicks and gutteral sounds. Alexi looks at them expressionless. Then as they approach him, slowly raising their guns. Alexi fires. A gun battle ensues.
As Kyoko hears the sound of gunfire and sees several of the guards inside the facility's area mobilizing, she starts the trucks engine, wedges the accelerator down and puts the truck into gear. Jumping out of the moving truck she turns to watch it crash into the watchtower bringing it and 3 of the guards down in destruction. The fire fight continues as Alexi pursues the escaping Visitor out the back door.
Hearing the sound of distant gunfire, Victois and Alessandra drive towards the facility. It is now night and as they approach the facility, a hail of heavy calibre bullets rip through the vehicle. They abandon the vehicle as Victois says they are close enough. He lays down bracing his sniper rifle and begins trading shots with a Visitor sniper. Soon though they clear the outside of the building of any visible Visitors.
Finding The Real Facility
Searching around the warehouse, they enter the warehouse's office. Snooping around they find simple paperwork, mostly simple accounting of amounts of sand processed and transported. They are all blank forms with no figures filled in. Inside the desk they find a recessed panel with a button on it. They press it and the warehouse floor begins to pull apart, exposing a enormous and vast hidden complex below.
Kyoko pulls out her drone and sends it down. As it flies the group surrounds Kyoko watching the video display on her phone showing what the drone sees. The complex below goes down several hundred feet. level after level separated by gangplanks, metal walkways, staircases and large empty spaces showing huge military looking vehicles and possible weapons several floors down. Small groups of Visitors move about.
The drone, piloted by Kyoko, approaches a lone Visitor. He is skinny and awkward and carrying a mop, bucket and other cleaning supplies. He alien eyes visible, not having to be hidden behind wraparound sunglasses here. His eyes widen as he sees the drone and tries to bat it away with his mop handle.
Finally, giving up he runs screaming until Kyoko gives up the chase and pulls the drone back up to her.
She has this all recorded on her phone now. But what are they seeing.
Kyoko pulls out her drone and sends it down. As it flies the group surrounds Kyoko watching the video display on her phone showing what the drone sees. The complex below goes down several hundred feet. level after level separated by gangplanks, metal walkways, staircases and large empty spaces showing huge military looking vehicles and possible weapons several floors down. Small groups of Visitors move about.
The drone, piloted by Kyoko, approaches a lone Visitor. He is skinny and awkward and carrying a mop, bucket and other cleaning supplies. He alien eyes visible, not having to be hidden behind wraparound sunglasses here. His eyes widen as he sees the drone and tries to bat it away with his mop handle.
Finally, giving up he runs screaming until Kyoko gives up the chase and pulls the drone back up to her.
She has this all recorded on her phone now. But what are they seeing.
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