Act I Part 5: Beauty & the Beast

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She slits a PMC's throat. Snake decided to help the rebels out, so Storm is doing the same. Usually, she wouldn't get involved, but seeing as how she already butchered those frogs, she made an exception for this as well.

She looks down and sees a rebel right below her and a PMC trying to sneak up on him. She flicks her wrist, brandishing her hidden blade, and jumps down, landing on the PMC's back, and stabbing her blade into the back of his neck. She wipes the blood from her blade and ducks back into the shadows.

The rebels win the battle and everyone cheers. Then they all move on to the next fight. A rebel bulldozer comes through but quickly gets stuck. Storm can hear messed up crying coming from the front of it but she can't see the source. The bulldozer is starting to get lifted up and the driver jumps out, screaming.

She cranes her neck around to try and get a glimpse of what's going on "IT'S THE BEAST!" one of the rebels shouts and they all start running in different directions. She dares to get closer and sees a giant, mechanical wolf pushing the bulldozer back.

~Flashback~

The four year old lays on the cold, hard ground of the woods, shivering as the wind bites at her skin. "I d-don't want t-to c-cry anymore. N-no more t-tears." she tells herself as she hugs her knees to her chest. "Shut up, it's your fault we're out here freezing to death in the first place!" she growls in a different voice. "I'm s-sorry! But I k-killed an innocent m-man. I hate m-myself!" she chatters in her normal voice "Good! Because I hate you too!" "L-leave m-me alone!" "Then quit crying! Grow the hell up and stop being such a little baby! We're going to kill many other people in this life so you're just going to learn to deal with it!" suddenly the sound of growling radiates from somewhere nearby. "W-what was t-that?" she asks herself, quietly "Shut up! I'm trying to listen!" she hisses, cupping a hand behind her ear. The growling gets louder and the sound of twigs snapping comes from somewhere nearby. She stands, grabs her knife, and takes a defensive position. She tries to steady her breathing but that becomes difficult when a huge, wild dog emerges from the foliage, foam and blood dripping from its jaws. Suddenly the woods become silent except for the sound of their breathing. Then all at once they dash towards each other, the dog snapping at her. The animal jumps on top of her and tries to bite her throat out, but she grips her knife firmly and jams it into the dog's shoulder, rolling out from underneath the beast. As the animal is distracted she pulls the knife out and stabs it into the side of the dog's neck, making it angrier. The animal charges her again, knocking her off her feet. Her knife flies out of her hand as the dog towers over her, so as the beast is about to bite down on her leg, she swings her feet up and kicks the dog in the snout. She crawls on her stomach to find her knife but the animal's jaw snaps closed on her boot. She screams and brings her fist down on the dog's head, freeing herself and scurrying away. The beast soon recovers and as Storm is pushing herself backwards using her hands, it leaps for her and she thrusts her knife forward, stabbing into and all the way through the beast's head. It falls to the ground, dead, but she's not taking any chances. So she stabs the beast in the heart.

~Flashback End~

She shakes her head and looks around the scene and sees a woman wearing octocamo with a headpiece adorned with tentacles laughing her head off while squeezing a rebel to death; someone wearing huge, metal wings, yelling "Rage", and crashing into the rebels; and a....woman? On the roof of a building, wearing a faceless mask and multiple arms that are holding knives and the strings of marionettes.

She looks back to the ground and sees one of the rebels running away, but before he even gets ten feet, he stops, turns, fires his gun at the other Rebels, and then drops dead. She stares in wonder as the Beasts clear out.

Suddenly a beeping sound starts ringing in her ears and the word 'CALL' starts flashing in front of her eyes. Then without knowing what happened, she sees a screen with the universal 'Drebin' symbol on it.

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