Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26104528-20150518191206/@comment-24617443-20150802124721

(Clever.)

Akiba nodded at Azul's suggestion and began to take their marks. Azul aimed at the tripwire while Akiba prepared a smoke grenade.

All of his bombs have a five-second delay before exploding. To make this plan work he needed the bomb to explode at the right time, just as Azul shoots the wire on the stairs.

He took out his bomb, and raised three fingers to Azul. He then pulled out the pin with his teeth and brought down one finger. Azul then understood what Akiba was signalling and readied his throwing arm.

Akiba then brought down one more finger, then brought down the last making a clenched fist.

Akiba threw the smoke bomb towards the drugged grunts and Azul threw a magazine towards the tripwire. Just as planned, the tripwire was activated causing a small explosion, followed by the room being engulfed in smoke.

As Akiba predicted the thugs hastily turned around and began firing away at the cloud hoping to hit whatever was inside it. While the 4 continued to fire away, Azul and Akiba crawled out of their previous hiding spot and towards the grunts. They stayed close to the wall as bullets passed by over their heads.

The grunts then stopped shooting as the smoke cloud began to dissipate, but before they could ever check Akiba lunged in with Kannagara on his shoulders. The grunt closest to him tried to kick him, but Akiba quickly jumped towards the wall on his right, then dashed towards the closest grunt. In one fluid motion he slashed at the grunt he dashed towards, identified by Akiba as Grunt #1, and cut off his right arm. Targeting Grunt #1's spinal cord, Akiba quickly jumped again from a crouched stance to make a downward horizontal slash at Grunt #1's neck, effectively killing him. Before the dead grunt's body fell however Akiba quickly repositioned himself so that he could kick the deadweight at his fellow grunts.

He then flashed a look at Azul to act, lest he be turned to swiss cheese because now Akiba was open and without anywhere to hide. His survival was now hinged at Azul's follow-up attack at the other three grunts.