The Asset is not in a cage. The Asset is waiting out in the woods to start culling the weak ones, once the signal is given, because those are its orders. It paces through the dark of the trees, watching the shapeshifters-- two human, three wolf, and one panther, that's a smell the Asset hasn't smelled in a long time-- spill out onto the lawn. The prosthetic limb doesn't touch the ground, held close to the Asset's chest, so it makes no betraying noise, and it just hobbles surprisingly smoothly on three legs.
One scent is familiar. One of those wolves-- the Asset knows that smell. Its nose twitches, its tongue falls out, panting to try and swallow the scent whole. Trying to tickle its brain, find where that scent came from, why it is familiar. The handlers can't watch it here, and it can wait, take the time it needs to watch and smell and thinking.
It has three days to kill as many as he can. There are only seven. The panther will be the trickiest. And... maybe that one that it remembers.
The panther-shifter, crowded close to one of the wolves as they surge out, swats and hisses, like an actual housecat writ large. One of the humans says, "Hey, stop. We're more likely to get out of this is we work together."
Pitiful, stupid human-shifter. No one is getting out of this. Even if they survive.
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Date: 2020-10-12 03:38 am (UTC)One scent is familiar. One of those wolves-- the Asset knows that smell. Its nose twitches, its tongue falls out, panting to try and swallow the scent whole. Trying to tickle its brain, find where that scent came from, why it is familiar. The handlers can't watch it here, and it can wait, take the time it needs to watch and smell and thinking.
It has three days to kill as many as he can. There are only seven. The panther will be the trickiest. And... maybe that one that it remembers.
The panther-shifter, crowded close to one of the wolves as they surge out, swats and hisses, like an actual housecat writ large. One of the humans says, "Hey, stop. We're more likely to get out of this is we work together."
Pitiful, stupid human-shifter. No one is getting out of this. Even if they survive.