Ryu gave a frown, slipping his wings back on as he thinks about the events that just occurred. First crap happens with the God Phoenix, then he wakes up in this infirmary and he still isn't sure whose side these guys in this place were on. He's starting to consider that they weren't Galactor, simply because noone is in weird costumes or not. The fact that the gear they've taken from him was right here on the table, although they now know what he looks like so he'll have to be wary. He puts his helmet on and mentally took stock of his weapons on him still before crouching down to see if the guy was wearing a Galactor uniform. Having opened the man's jacket, he squints at the symbol on the man's left breast. Well, that confirmed his thoughts. Not Galactor, unless they suddenly decided to change the design from the uniform green to blue and actually dressed normally. Still, the dark red colour of the background was partially similar but the symbol was completely different.
His thoughts were disturbed when the door to the room hisses open again. Glancing to the door, He spots the guard entering the room and about to ask something, before gasping at the cloaked figure hanging over the body of the Doctor. Well, if they weren't aggressive before then they were defiantly aggressive now with this sort of miscommunication. As the man raises his gun, he hops up in the air towards him as the guard's mouth opens to shout something. He may not be capable of the levels of accuracy Joe possesses, but even he can draw his air gun and get the cable part to wrap around the guards gun arm. The man looked shocked at the cable launching towards him, levelling his gun at the Owl in flight in a desperate attempt to stop him, but he wasn't fast enough.
Ryu used his greater strength to yank the man into the air, disrupting the shout with a yelp of shock and ruining the man's aim. Pushing both feet into the man's stomach, he pushes down with his feet hard, pushing the man towards the ground with enough force to cause a brief dent in the ground. He landed above him, legs braced for impact to the side of the man's shoulders as he does a quick jab at a pressure point to make sure he was unconscious. Within moments of this, he sprang off of unconscious body and through the door before it fully closed, pausing briefly to consider how cool he looked if anyone was watching that wasn't going to try and stop him.
He quickly glanced to the sides grinning at the lack of security before making his way down the metallic corridor. As he reaches a corner, he presses himself against the wall as he peeks around the corner. He spots the staircase and what appears to be a window halfway up, which was perfect. He darts out and towards the stairs, bounding up the steps in one leap. He pauses by the window to consider where he could jump to before his mouth hangs open at the sight of clouds. How high was he!?
Thinking back, the medical room was a little too large to be a ships infirmary and the place looked more like a building than a ship. He snapped his gaze to the stairs nearby as heard sounds coming down them. Giving a quick, yet panicked look around, he manages to spot one, a hiding place underneath the stairs. He leaps up, twisting in the air before pushing his arms and legs against the sides of the beams under the stairs. He watches as a group of soldier's rushes under him, before turning around the corner and towards the medical ward. Once the area was clear, he drops down and jumps up the stairs, skipping the steps entirely.
He then flips in mid-air, presses his feet against the wall and rebounds off of it and onto the next level. He repeats this for the next floor, but the top of the steps was occupied by a technician, which made him twist slightly to lessen the force of impact as most of the force being carried by the Owl slams into him none to gently. The girl was dazed and a few well-placed jabs to her pressure points helped knock her out. Shaking his head, he took one look around before running up the next flight of stairs and towards the door there. As he was about to open it, a klaxon suddenly started blaring, making his ears ring. Letting out a quick curse out, which after working with Joe for the past couple of years (with under a year of active service as the science ninja team) was very well versed, even if he didn't know what some of them meant.
Well, with him being out in the open, he opens the door and darts inside, quickly darts into the new corridor as he hurries onwards in an attempt to locate the exit quickly. He passes another window, managing to make out the surface of some type of ship whilst at the same time he could see the exit to the side. Well, he was on the right level for the exit, before his heart skipped a beat upon spotting something on the deck. Mostly intact but heavily damaged, there laid the God Phoenix. Sure, there were guards and scientists gathered around it, but his ship, his girl was still around. He gulps suddenly, his mind suddenly coming to a terrifying thought about them ripping her apart to learn all her secrets. He refused to let her be treated like that!
Pressing his head closer to the window, he tried to see if how far the exit was, before spotting what looked like one that should be in, that direction! Darting through the corridor in the direction of the exit, he pauses by a door as he hears a low groaning and whining noise. Opening the door slightly and peeking in, he could see that the exit was being closed, which meant his means of escape was closing. It was time to get out. Darting inside and jumping up, he surprises the guards closest to him with his sudden appearance. As he passes one soldier, he puts one foot on his head and uses him as a stepping stone. Hopping onto the next one, he repeats the same process, making it near the door with his ninja speed before anyone can react but by then it was too late. The last line of soldiers was his route of escape. Instead of hopping off this soldier, he pushes off hard, sending her tumbling back and into the soldiers behind her, causing a chain reaction of falling soldiers. The delay would be useful on top of flinging him towards the gap of the exit. He shifts his body slightly so he could slide along the floor. Managing to slide through the gap on the bottom, he rolls once he's out to make sure nothing was left out, before watching it close.
Sitting up, he huffs from the speed burst he just did. He didn't sprint often, mainly because he stayed on the God Phoenix more often than not. That kind of sprinting was something Jun or Ken did since they were the speed specialists of the team, or even Joe or Jinpei, not him. Still, his ship was in danger and he didn't have time to relax or shift the work to the others, he was on his own. He takes a deep breath and focuses his breathing, stabilizing his breath as he looks up.
Now, he needed to get into the Phoenix...
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