Naming Names (Ghost)

The sun peaked through the blinds on the temporary office Bliss rented out. Most likely they would only stay for a few weeks, but Bliss went ahead and took care of preparations for a three month lease. The floor plan did agree with her a lot. Possibly enough to keep a more permanent fixture out here. The wonderful layout of the office found itself constrained with a column of three supercomputers resting in the center of the building to allow more air flow to keep it from overheating. The rest of the offices held private computers hooked up to the mainframe. Each office along the outer wall of the office had a nice framed window to take in the air of the mountain view the building sat upon. Several other office units adjoined the complex Bliss rented, but only a center hallway connected them and all the offices contained their own main door.

Bliss poured through the encryption within one of the files Ashley stole from Australia. It looked- interesting. Morbid in nature, but Bliss at least narrowed down the number of Ghosts to one. Just one Ghost. A man experimented on and turned into something else. Something still human, still possessing of drive and ambition, containing emotion and intellect, but not without its withdrawals. In the future, Bliss would need to find a way to work with or around Ghost, but for now, she just needed to know her enemy.

Around the perimeter of the office patrolled Tsukimi. She wore a pair of white shorts with a button up blouse. Her hair fell back around her sunglasses resting upon the crown of her head. After a call from Ashley, Tsukimi made the trip out to Hawaii, for no reason other than mainly to get out of Japan for a little while. Her patrol contained much more scenery gazing and picture taking, but she did do a fine job of chasing off noisy children in a sufficient manner.

Within the back two offices, Ashley set up her nest. While Bliss managed to break encryption, Ashley continued to work on the day to day functions of the company. Two fax machines stayed hot and out of ink. Ashley decided to take it a little more easy at work, wearing a floral halter top dress with a pair of white flip flops. It almost caused her to trip over wires a few times, but the comfort made up for the near death incursions almost visited upon her.

Bliss came out of her office to inspect one of her mainframes. She pieced them together using the motherboard from console video games- robbing the local children of a Merry Christmas, but Bliss decided stealing Christmas would be worth it this time. Bliss wore a pair of jean shorts with a blue polo shirt to cut down on how much of the heat those computers pumped into her. A few wires overheated. Nothing big, but Bliss would need to get that junction back to work if she wanted to finish before the day was done.

Her toolbox laid off in an office room to the side, cluttered with tools and spare parts. Bliss just hoped Ashley never checked on the mess and disorganization Bliss allowed to exist.

In of of the offices there was an open window. And in this window a hand slowly appearing in the window and grabbing hold of the ledge. Ghost slowly pulled himself up and into the empty office. He was in a fully repaired suit which took some time, but well worth it.

Getting out of Australia was hard, but not impossible but following Bliss was. He hoped that she didn't get to his personal file, if she had that then he couldn't go out in public anymore. Plus the tables would turn.

Ghost after climbing in would phase through the door quickly, look around, and then put his head back to check the area out. If it was clear he would quickly phase through the door and check the offices out, trying to remain stealthy and avoid anyone. In case one of Bliss's "friends" were near by.

There was no mess Bliss could not put off until later, but at least she found the USB she was looking for. She shut the door behind her and stuck her head out the door. "Tsukimi, don't worry about wandering around; we're going to order something." She caught Tsukimi's attention from her patrol, but did not stay to take any suggestions from Tsukimi on what exactly they would order in. Ashley would take care of the rest of this. Bliss simply opened the door to her mainframe and felt the uneasy heat hit her in the face. Everything seemed hot enough for it to be working, but at the rate it kept up more than a few units would burn up.

"What are you ordering?" Tsukimi made her way in the office, not seeing anyone in her direct path, but hearing Bliss' movement off to the side. "I want pizza."

"We had it for lunch." Bliss walked back to the tool room and grabbed a roll of duct tape and gave it to Tsukimi.

"You can get different kinds of pizza. Do they make sushi pizza?" Tsukimi followed Bliss as they both walked towards the mainframe. "Replace the cheese with rice and then put tuna and salmon on top..."

The two disappeared into the brain of the complex as Ashley made her way out of her office. "I ordered sandwiches; they should be hear in twenty minutes, okay?" No response came from the room or from outside. "Okay Bliss? Tsukimi?"

Ghost would carefully navigate until Ashley left the office, as soon as he would do that he would go to grab her from around the body and head, covering the mouth. If he achomplished his task then he would phase into a near by empty office with her while saying "Night.Night." silently.

If she went silently and with out a problem, he would then continue to where the main frame was and pulls out his guns. Preparing to shoot them down.

If he didn't do it silently. he would go to quickly rush out and hide, resting his phasing ability and for things to settle down, hopefully in the main frame area in a shadow.

Ashley made her way towards the mainframe room. It typically held most of the answers Bliss needed, and pulled the one person Ashley could get all of her answers from. She took the corner, but felt a cold presence keep her from calling out for Bliss. The hand over her mouth began to drain her just like Bliss and Abby described before. Holding off the attack would take something more from her, but Ashley thought of one last ditch effort. She threw her head back and examined Ghost's body. With her last fleeting element of strength, Ashley put all of her focus onto destroying the guns Ghost brought with him by crushing them. Consciousness began to fade from Ashley as she fell back into Ghost's arms without anymore struggle.

Tsukimi made her way out of the mainframe room and walked towards Ashley's office. "Ashley!" The door remained open, but no sign of Ashley. More rooms in the office than one, Tsukimi mused to herself. "Hey Ashley! What did you order?"

Bliss continued with duct taping the loose parts for the fans to create a better suction. The information from Ghost made its way towards Bliss' computer, hidden behind her encryption codes and security. "Suzy! Where are you?!" Bliss looked around the room after sending Tsukimi to try and ask Ashley a simple question about what she ordered. "I need someone to hold this thing up!" Bliss pushed the fan back in place but could only hold the tape in her hand. "Suzy?!"

Ghost would jump back as a bunch of metallic parts went everwhere, creating a sound like some one dropped a bunch of metal pins on cement. He wound then quickly leave the office, and thats when he heard her calling. He would quickly jump into a corner shadow, and hopefully appear behind Tsukimi unnoticed.

Though if he is noticed then he will quickly turn around and try to grab her. Hopefully trying to put her unconsious. If she begins to beat him back then he would try to run, with a mix of flips, bouncing off the walls a little, and actual running. towards the mainframe still unaware of Bliss.

If she doesn't notice him, then he will silently make his way to the mainframe. By then he will slowly open the door and look inside slowly and silently. If he isn't noticed then he will close it silently as possible and look for the computer area. If he is noticed then he will shut the door and continue to look for the monitor room while running as fast as possible.

At first thought, Tsukimi assumed Ashley merely dropped something in a clumsy state, but nothing about the situation unfolding before her could point to such a simple conclusion. She stepped forward and placed her hand on the door of the disturbance, slowly turning the knob. As the knob turned, a cold hand came over Tsukimi, freezing her in place.

"That's my sister!" A violent pull of telekinetic energy would shoot to grab Ghost from behind, pulling him away from Tsukimi and attempting to slam him into a wall. "You won't get away this time!" Not wanting to let Ghost escape her this time, Bliss tried to throw one more blast to keep Ghost from closing the distance on her. The more distance she threw between them, the better. "Get something to restrain him with."

It took Tsukimi a few seconds to move again. First the tension of the touch subsided, but even with it subsiding, Tsukimi still felt the shock of the event upon her. Once her feeling came back to her legs, Tsukimi shot towards the tools held in the side office. She could still hear the ruckus going off from behind her, but knew her skill set would not be as useful against someone with such powers; Tsukimi would need some way of developing a way to trap Ghost. She started by grabbing a roll of duct tape.

Ghost would go flying into the wall as he drops down with out a sound and barely managed to roll out of the second one. He would stand up smoothly after his roll and throw a couple knives at Bliss, but this was a distraction, as a knive hidden between the others would, if not stopped, would fly past Bliss and hopefully hit Tsukimi.

As that was happening he would rush towards Bliss, zig zagging, to avoid any blasts, if he reaches her. Then he will grab her with his sleep touch or if he misses, flip over her towards the mainframes and will throw his last 3 knives at them.

Dang it, eventually this Bliss will die, but for now if she is kept alive, then perhaps she will help me...I'm so cold, so angry....so empty would be his thoughts and they would repeat as he did his tasks.

Tsukimi hugged the wall, knowing she needed stealth. Bliss could throw up a fight, but Tsukimi lacked the powers of her half sister. Looking around the hall, Tsukimi began to try and devise some manner of trap she could create to incapacitate this Ghost, but the current melee kept her needs for stealth for necessary.

The first two blasts Bliss sent out missed, but succeeded in damaging the floral arrangement Ashley brought in to lighten up the mood of the office. That sentiment was long removed. "Where's Ashley!" Bliss would throw out a blast as Ghost came within her guard to try and touch her. She ducked down beneath his grip and watched as he floated over her with acrobatic movements. It took a quick spin to get herself turned around, but all her granted her came in the guise of three knives.

The knives grabbed Tsukimi's attention. Jumping out, Tsukimi would try and grab Ghost by the arms and hold his arms down from making the throwing motions. Getting this close to Ghost would be entirely unadvised, but she could not sit by and watch as Ghost threw knives at Bliss. Remembering her tape, Tsukimi would try to make some attempt at taping Ghost's hands together to keep him from getting too aggressive with her.

As Ghost threw two just in time, the very last knive was kept from being thrown by a hand which came up to block him. Sadly he isn't a very strong person, even in the suit as his hands were about to be bound, but not before he reached for her, trying to grab her on the neck. If that didn't work, then he would attempt to move her in front of Bliss. Just in case she decided to blast him...again. And would start to slowly move back, holding her by knive point."Stay.Back.Or.She.Gets.A.Knive.Just.Need.To.Destroy.Mainframe."

Stuff would drop from a place where his mouth should be while all this was happening. If he can't get her in front of him then he would attempt to shove past her while using the knive to get his hands free. The entire time though his thoughs were concluded by Anger...keep away...so cold.

Tsukimi succeeded in part of her plan. The tape wrapped around, but her adversary managed to get his hands around her neck, placing a knife next to her throat. Bliss stopped dead in her tracks. She could not manage any attacks while Tsukimi stood in the way, but Bliss did have one trick.

While Ghost cut his hands free, it took the knife safely away from Tsukimi's throat for a few seconds. A telekinetic pull would try to grab the knife from Ghost's hand and pull it to Bliss. "That mainframe was expensive. And you destroying it won't do any good." The amount of work Bliss put into her machines meant nothing if Ghost just busted them up, but it would only slow Bliss down in Hawaii; the actual documents rested within her safe storage, guarded by her own code. Bliss began to think about whether or not letting Ghost know about the secret of her servers would be a good idea.

"Pretty. cold." Tsukimi still felt the cold touch of Ghost against her, freezing up her muscles, but Tsukimi tried her best to escape his grasp and get out of his icy touch.

Ghost would hold on tightly as he lost his only way to the mainframe...and he would rather not succumb to anger. That wasn't fun last time.

Ghost would stand on tightly not letting her move as he focused the rest of his power on making sure she didn't escape, and moving backward. "Trade.Friend.For.Mainframe.If.Not.I.Will.Take.Her.With.Me.Decide.", he would say until hopefully, unless stopped his back reached the main frame. She did decide to do something or he lost his grip on his hostage. He would try to punch the main frame and break it. In his mind. It would be a chance of victory, so they might get the suit and sure it might hurt. But it would be worth it.

"Don't. Let." Tsukimi continued to struggle, but her muscles could not contract in the right way for her to be able to deal with the man holding her in such a dire predicament. The drain to her consciousness did not kick in, but each of her muscles continued to twitch without her knowledge of the action. Activating any muscle on her arm continued to be a horrible miscalculation of practice and execution. "Do it."

"This is going to hurt Suzy." Bliss edged closer towards Ghost, perhaps too close. She shot out a burst of energy in an attempt to hit both Tsukimi and Ghost, hoping to dislodge his grip over her sister. Once the attack went out, Bliss would try to leap forward to help Tsukimi scurry away from her compromising situation. "Where's Ashley?" Bliss would try and prepare herself for whatever Ghost would try to attack her with next, but she kept her attention diverted between Tsukimi and the mainframes.

Ghost would get blasted back. But using this chance, he would go and attempt to punch two main frames at the same time and put his head through the other. Sure it would put him out for a day...maybe two, but as long as they don't get that info then its all worth it.

If someone tries to stop them, then he would try and dodge and jump through their shadow going for the same action.

(its short, but I have no clue what else to write about. So sorry)