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[captaine_sykes]

Where most others in camp who had inhaled the drugs pumped through the ventialtion system last night were having a less extreme reaction to the chemical compound Ethan was struggling. You see the thing is he's a man who is excellent at keeping his emotions in check and putting on that cool, calm facade to everyone else and then going to the gym and

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Something wasn't right the last few hours. Haylie couldn't help but feel on edge all the time, and nothing she did - running, swimming, cooking, practicing sutures on fruit - seemed to remedy it. She had been trying to calm herself down with a long walk around the base, but the second she heard fists pummeling a tree, she spun around.

"What the hell?!" She shouted, hands out defensively. Unaware that she was under the influence of a chemical that increased her already high levels of caution and suspicion, she couldn't help the wave of energy that burst from her hands toward Sykes with enough force not to shread him apart, but to knock over a couple of trees in the process.

...And if she wasn't on this drug right now, she'd apologize. Profusely.

[captaine_sykes]

The burst of energy dissipates across his skin and makes Ethan rock back on his heels, thankful that his mutation is in place keeping his body from suffering the effects. He turns to glare at Collins, not bothering to apologise for his behaviour or how he may well have startled one of the newer team mates.

Any other time and he might have apologised too, made small talk and an effort to come across as the military man he is but now? He just growls out his response. "What the hell Captain. You'll do well to remember to respect your superiors."

He glances around at the felled trees and raises an eyebrow. Oh he's impressed though a part of him is registering this as possibly a threat. A fight. Which he might just need to respond to.

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Sykes' tone causes Haylie to shift into a defensive stance while her brows furrow and she snaps back. "Respect isn't given. It's earned, Sir."

Fingers curling in slightly, causing the material of her gloves to creak, Haylie took a deep breath. Her pulse spiked, her chest tightened, and her body was on fire. If threatened, she wouldn't hesitate to remove the gloves and start blowing shit up.

[captaine_sykes]

"Actually in this camp you'll damn well respect me whether you like it or not! I am your Captain. Your superior. You answer to me in this camp and you'll do well to remeber that!" Ethan yelled, if Collins so much as dared to blow anything up Ethan would have her on lock down for the next fifty years the way he was feeling today. Her powers couldn't hurt him, skin and body to resiliant and any damage she caused to the camp would be coming out of her ass not his.

"Back. Down. Now Collins." And he meant it. Back down or he'd take her down, one way or another.

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Haylie had issues being ordered around like a child, and while she contemplated whether or not he was a threat, her fingers twitched. Angry and emotional weren't exactly at the top of the list of 'words to describe Haylie' because of the mental blocks she'd created over the years in order to reign in her destructive powers, but the pheromones pumping through her system were beginning to change her.

"Is that a threat?" Her eyes visibly darkened as her tone dripped with malice. The adrenaline rush was chipping away at the walls around her emotions and Sykes' attitude was only making things worse.

God help them all if she couldn't calm down.

[captaine_sykes]

Clearly Collins wasn't getting it. It didn't matter to the Captain whether she was going to attack or not, he'd just put her back in line like the rest of those pathetic idiots that were part of the team. Hell half of them didn't have a clue what to do when confronted with the camp and military rules so it was no surprise to him that Collins just wasn't conforming

{insert mun banging head here}

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"When I joined this team? That's the problem with you military idiots, you don't get that a lot of us had no choice." Haylie knew how to obey the chain of command - her mother made damn sure she did, because God forbid she embarrass her mother in front of the Chief of Police or the Mayor. However, in this state, there was no conforming.

She was growing more and more infuriated by the minute, and Sykes having brought up her recruitment just irked her more after her conversation with Roy. She was all but blackmailed into this hellhole. How she didn't realize it before was beyond her. And at this point she couldn't be bothered to give a shit.

"No, Sir, I don't get it. Maybe if I wasn't manipulated into comin' to this place, I'd feel differently!" That... was the straw. Her powers had been close to bubbling over since her arrival and the rage boiling inside of her meant that her control was all but gone. And that's when the gloves came off

{Pets from afar and then wonders if her military boy is maybe a little foolish too}

[captaine_sykes]

"You think I don't know? Oh Collins how stupidly presumptious of you. It's not my problem that you were brought here, I'm just here to make sure you keep in line." Ethan does know that many of the team were forced here, though he'll admit that the files happened to leave those key facts out at first. It was only after his demands and persistance that he got all the facts. But he can't be shown to be overly sympathetic to them or else he could jepordise his position as Captain and within the military.

The blast of energy surprises him but Ethan is smart enough and running on pure adrenaline and chemicals to have his full mutation in place. He keeps his footing, though his clothing takes a battering at the wave of energy. Struggling towards Collins there is only one thing he can do and that is to put her down so that she doesn't cause more trouble or damage.

Any other time this situation would never have gotten so far but Ethan isn't even considering that right now.

{gonna hide in the corner now, kthxbai}

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As if it's not enough that she's releasing the pent-up energy inside of her body, the pheromone was activating her "fight or flight" response so much that she was going to push the limits of her body and control to defend herself against the supposed threat she believed Sykes to be. Her head snaps up when she senses him pushing through the blast and for a brief moment, her eyes meet his. There's a brilliant red color flaring around the blue of her irises, almost like actual fire in her eyes.

"Get out of my way!" The sound seems to echo through her rage - completely unbridled - as she lifts her left hand. With a simple flick of the wrist, a second wave of energy flares out toward Sykes and stops just short of his feet before unleashing a large explosion. The force of the explosion is enough to even fling Haylie several feet and send her crashing into the side of a building.

With her power exhausted and her body temperature dropping off severely, she falls to the ground and doesn't get up.

[captaine_sykes]

For the briefest of moments Ethan is mesmerised by that gaze, how inhuman Collins looks with that fiery red tint to her eyes before he finds himself hurtling backwards through the air and landing, somewhat ungracefully on the ground.

It takes him a few moments to get his bearings, he doesn't hurt (thank god for mutations) but he knows that the amount of energy he has exerted to keep his durability in place means he will be exhausted the moment he gets his mutation back under control. Stumbling at first he finally finds his footing and heads over to Collins, scooping her up off of the ground and heading towards Med-Bay. He'll deal with the fall out later but right now he needs to get her seen to medically and then find a fed to collapse into for a few hours.

Today is truly not his day.