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The sound of sirens died away slowly the clocks hands jerked past 20:00 hrs, Dr Yankovich had already left the interrogation cell to make his desperate report to the Moscow symposium. The agents stood is silence for a moment as clean up teams arrived and began collecting samples and scanning the charred remains of the restraints.
Eventually the moment passed and the amalgam headed back to the DCAP offices to report to project supervisor Conrad Ivanov. The amalgam explained the events of the past few hours, the investigation of the bar massacre and the discovery of a large stockpile of the heamavore drug, the corruption with in the police force and the capture of a witness to the events at the bar. Dimtry Egorov was in a state of shock but had been wired into mind interrogation devices at Dr Yankovichs behest. Agents Hurst, Krenyenko and Volyova had led the interrogation hacking into the subconscious of the sedated man and witnessing the events as he saw them, the arrival of unknown militants the arguments and drug references and talk of a blood bank (further backed up by documents found in the bars safe) before violence and vampiric murder broke out...a blood bath. At this point in the interrogation the witness Dimtry Egorov began to show signs of strain and began to glow, before exploding in an inferno of flame.



There were no overt signs of RD activity up until that point suggesting either that Egorov was extracted by someone or he hid his power very well or the experience changed something in him forcing a reality shift. The amalgam requests permission to follow the blood bank lead and set up a surveillance operation, to find out if this is really where the drug is being manufactured. Conrad agrees and signs the relevant paper work releasing a Hit-Mark and relevant surveillance equipment. He also remarks that Dr Yankovich has been reprimanded by the symposium for allowing a breach in security due to his neglect and will not be available for the next few days. Agent Hurst accesses the UMC archives and pulls up available information on the blood bank including building plans and opening times, meanwhile Dr Volyova sets up a meeting with detective Rushnikev for the next day to attempt to bring him further under the unions influence and agent Zucov preps the Hitmark for the field before meeting agent Krenyenco in the canteen for some needed coffee. Agent Oleg and the driver clone Mikheil bring the unmarked surveillance van around front and load up.



The blood bank is on the border of a commercial and industrial district and is separated from the main road by high fences watched by cameras high up on poles. The main entrance is guarded and there is much activity at the loading bays where an ambulance in being loaded with blood. Scans reveal a large amount of the heamavore drug in the area but no exact location and that there are 10 people on site non of them reality deviants although their blood is tainted. Zucov send in the hunter seeker navigating it through the ventilation systems whilst agent Hurst links the vans surveillance systems into the CCTV camera inside and outside the facility. As the agents observe the blood bank the sound of a large vehicle approaching at high speed gains their attention, a large van comes flying around the corner and accelerates straight through the main gates of the blood bank and through the glass fronted reception. Immediately seven black clad and balaclavad figures leap from the van and begin sweeping through the facility kill all they encounter and trashing the place. Eventually three figures break off from the main group and begin loading blood and equipment onto the van whilst the others continue to search the building.




Zucov take the initiative and exits the surveillance unit remotely positioning the hunter-seeker loaded with a quick freeze cryogenic solution, behind one of the figures loading the van, as soon as he is alone Zucov strikes the solution instantly freezes the heamavores blood rendering him statue like, agent Zucov quickly grabs the man and drags him away from the van around the other side of the building. meanwhile back in the surveillance van there is a noticeable increase in the building ambient temperature, an the ground near the fence on the other side of the blood bank is opening up to reveal a hidden ramp down beneath the building and providing and exit for a black car. As the agents prepare to follow the escaping vehicle the building explodes shrapnel and rubble fill the air Zucov avoids harm despite being close to the explosion. As the flaming ruin settles the black car has disappeared into the city beyond the range of the cameras. Zucov brings his prisoner into the van and orders Mikheil back to HQ even as agents Krenyenko and Volyova disembark to investigate the ruins and Hurst calls in the clean up crew. They use lasers to blast into the secret escape tunnel only to find that the blood bank has collapsed down into the basement blocking the tunnel and destroy whatever facility was hidden beneath the blood bank.

As they exit the flashes of lights and sound of sirens flood onto the main road. Thinking it best to hide themselves from the approaching emergency services Krenyenko activates his wrist device to cloak them but something was wrong the calibration was out and a flash of light engulfed Krenyenkos left arm, leaving a glowing holographic phase shifted arm in its place. Krenyenko seems not to notice but Volyova sees the danger and tries to cover the glowing arm even as the first police officer on the scene approaches them. The officer is stunned and confused as are the two agents which leads to a broken and hesitant questioning before the office radios in for a hazardous substances unit. Krenyenko and Volyova enact every procedure they can think of to contain the situation as news crews fly over head in helicopters. As the others arrive back at the UMC they are ordered to leave the prisoner and get back to the blood bank and recover the situation. By the time they arrive the clean up crew has taken control and covered agent Krenyenko with a instant erecting dome tent. The amalgam returns to the UMC to meet with a very unhappy Conrad. Who is having a very serious conversation with his superiors as the amalgam assembles in his office. The agents are ordered to prepare a report for first thing in the morning and to get some sleep, and Pietr Kenyenko is to be held in quarenten until the report for the symposium in the morning.

The night brings nightmares for Krenyenko of facing the symposium and slowing fading from existence. The amalgam assembles in the boardroom with Conrad and Mr Umbridge the symposium on audio. Each agents makes a full report with criticisms and praise of the other agents, after a long pause a quite and calm woman's voice speaks on behalf of the symposium. The amalgam is to be commended for successfully breaking the case however the exposure and possible political fall out was unprecedented however it is the symposiums view that Conrad as project supervisor is responsible for the clean up and some of his personal benefits will be temporally suspended. As for the amalgam they are taken off active status for the next few days whilst they undergo special field training and assessment and to allow agent Krenyenko to fix his arm, when they do come back on active status Mr Umbridge will observe them in the field. The audio abrumptly cuts out and the agents as left to contemplate the ending of their first operation at the UMC in Moscow.

Next time on "THE MACHINES of MOSCOW" - Act II - "Mr Muscle loves the jobs you hate"

The distant hazy sun past its zenith and dipped towards the horizon, dark shadows lengthened in the fresh snow.

The DCAP agents completed their meeting with Project Supervisor Conrad Ivanov, having reported their findings at the police station and at Club Ragnorock. Agent Hurst suggested a late lunch. After a short attempt at getting a place in the union silver service restaurant the agents ate in the main canteen.

They then all separated to go make adjustments to equipment and gear, adaptations to their sidearms and the beging of the construction of a prototype droid. Dr Volyova decided to see if there were any available experimental prototypes ready for field testing. The drunken requisitions officer Boris Smirnov dug out a sub dermal microrocket launcher with a 4000 page manual. Then made Volyova sign a large stack of disclaimers and liability waivers, including confirmation she had read the manual. On her way back to the lab she encountered Assistant Director Dr Yankovich transporting a heavily guarded metal coffin to his lab.

"Ah, Volyova, I was just going to contact you. I am about to begin Stage 2 of the drug experimentation, if you and you amalgam would care to witness the experiments please join me in the lab as soon as possible."

The amalgam accepted Yankovichs offer and gathered in a partitioned lab one side filled with monitoring equipment and screens and the other through one way glass was a bare clinical chamber. In the centre of the chamber hung a body from chains, hands and feet sealed in metal boxes, and the face covered by a metallic mask. Various monitors attached them selves to the naked haemavore including several blood drips. Yankovich slowing gives the creature an increasing dosage of the blood drug. The creature becomes more and more violent and agitated eventually entering a frenzied state and beyond, all the while increasing in strength and speed. Eventually the creature breaks free of the chains in a blur of flesh and blood and collapses to the floor convulsing. Dr Yankovich gives the creature one last massive dosage and steps out of the room, all that remains is a streak of blood and ash across the glass.

Agent Hurst received a call from Internal Affairs Officer Ashenka and after bullying the secretary got and appointment to meet her. Taking Volyova with him they went straight to the police HQ. Finding Ashenka's office they began questioning her and using subtle psychology and brain wave monitoring to establish the truth. It seems she was clueless as to the real killer but was going to set up Detective Rushnikev in the hopes of furthering her career and covering up the events. As the querying continued the phone began to ring, almost simultaneously the all the agents received a message calling for and emergency code red671 briefing. Listening in on the phone conversation Hurst established that there had been another incident.

The briefing was quick at the UMC, another incident at Bar Mrika police are on their way, agents are to take control investigate the scene and recover any witnesses.



On the way agent Zukov and agent Hurst implement their chemical sniffer to detect the blood drug. The sniffer detects a large quantity as they approach the Bar. The streets around the bar are chaos, police, ambulances and even firetrucks are haphazardly pulled up amongst a crowd of nosy on lookers. Hurst spots Rushnikev desperately trying to organize the chaos, and after some manipulation claims first inspection of the crime scene whilst Rushnikev establishes a perimeter. The five agents enter the bar Pietr steps out again the extreme scene of blood and violence too much. Instead he assists controlling and "moving Along" the onlookers and unneeded emergency services. Inside the others control the chocking stench of death and blood and begin to investigate the scene.

Zukov establishes that several attackers Haemavores in the centre of the room began the attack and there was some return fire from behind the bar the where turned to ash. In a back room there was a stash of melee weapons and firearms as well as several smashed vials of the crystalline drug substance. Volyova and Hurst find a man still alive in a WC cubicle. Rocking back and forth in shock, they clam him and then begin extracting him back to the UMC. Zukov also finds a safe in the back room, which he blasts open with his implant plasma cannon. Recovering more of the drug as well as invoices showing transactions between the bar and a local blood bank.

The agents return to HQ with the collected evidence and live witness who is taken up to Dr Yankovich's interrogation suit. strapping the subject into a mind projection device Yankovich lets Pietr and Hurst take over the interrogation. They first establish his name Dimity Egorov, they then start querying his confused subconscious memory. He relives the attack as a fight break out between vampires in the bar and they begin to slaughter everyone. He does remember mention of a blood bank though. As he relives the memories his stress level increase and suddenly he is glowing with a internal light, a shock wave expands from him known some to the ground fire lashes around him and the glow intensifies and then with a pop he is gone and the room is dark. The blaring of alarms can be heard through out the complex and several armed cyborg guards burst through the door. Yankovich looking shocked and puzzled waves them away and then making his excuses leaves to report to the Moscow symposium.