Right so... Let's continue this story...

Upon making this realization we realized we might still have time. We might be able to catch Legion off guard.

We started to search the building and eventually found a room from which inside a voice was coming. The voice sounded familiar, but at the time I didn't have much time to think about it as Tiff!Facet approached the door a click was heard and we all backed up shortly before a barrage of bullets tore through the door. The fight started for real, immediately after that. Legion was an army unto himself. His strange ability to copy his gun multiple times meant it was like trying to fight a firing squad. The difficult part was getting to him. Cerise tried to use her last flashbang, but that, did nothing to stop him. He didn't need to aim to simply keep firing wildly at a door. It was The Facet that managed to actually get into the room, once again using his ability to teleport. He's the only one who can teleport with any sort of accuracy... the rest of us are still random due to having to use Coda's realm.

Facet jumped in and slashed at Legion who stepped back from the attack and turned all his guns on Facet at which point the rest of us rushed in. Legion was better at fighting off multiple enemies than most solo fighters would be, but he was still alone and while he could focus on multiple people with his attacks he could only defend himself against one attacker at a time which meant we were capable of keeping him on defense forcing him to dodge our attacks so he didn't get time to shoot. The entire time however, I felt like something was wrong.

Eventually we managed to back him into a corner and disarm him. Of course most of us just wanted to kill him, but Cerise reminded us she needed him alive and we did owe her. We helped her contain him and she pathed out with him. I still felt like something was wrong and as the others started to walk out I noticed it. There was someone in the room. During the entire fight this person was watching. I glanced over at where the person was and froze. I saw my life flash before my eyes as Nathan grinned at me from the corner of the room, a shotgun held casually on his shoulder.

"Hello, Sergei. Did you think dying would stop me from getting my revenge?"

I staggered back as the familiar voice filled my head. I knew what this was. I wasn't fooled, but knowing that The Nathan in front of me wasn't Nathan normally, but The Archangel didn't make the situation better. If anything the idea of Archangel!Nathan was infinitely more terrifying. I didn't even wait. I vanished and when I got back to the others I announced immediately that we were leaving. It didn't matter if there was more to do we were leaving. Anything that wasn't packed was being left.

The others were confused, but I was too freaked out to give a proper answer until much later. Anyway after that we fled and moved elsewhere and we're setting up here. I'm gonna be laying low for the next little while.

Busy busy busy...

Tiff is taking things fairly well...

You know all things considered...

Also according to facet sine of course she isn't communicating with us directly and we're actually just taking Facet's word on what's happening with her.

Anyway before I get to what is happening now... Let me tell you about that second confrontation.

This is what I've been waiting to talk about...

Cerise showed up and told us she needed our help. She had located Legion and was assaulting the place with her Proxies, but they're having difficulty and she was hoping we could help out. Obviously not directly. She wanted us to simply do something to distract them so, her Proxies could use the distraction to win and get Legion. We agreed since getting rid of Legion would be of great benefit to us.

Cerise brought us to a location. We were behind a building and we could hear fighting taking place a short distance away and then Cerise told us to do what we can and then vanished to go help them out.

We took some time to think about it and came to the idea... The idea was let us show ourselves to The Timberwolves and attract their attention.  No smart plan, just show ourselves and let them try to kill us.

So, that's what we did. We approached the battle took some time to see exactly what was happening. Basically The Proxies were surrounding the base of a building while The Timberwolves held them off from the various entrances and I assume there were more inside watching for Proxies trying to teleport inside.

We waited for the right time and then we picked a building. Sandy and Facet would wait there while I acted as a the distraction as the most immediately recognizable figure.

So, Sandy and Facet went and waited and then I did a "accidental" walk by. Stopping and seeming surprised to see the battle and then after I made sure some of the people noticed me I ran for the building. My hope of course being that they'd think this was their chance.

I reached the building and... Surprisingly things worked out both better and worse than we expected.

I went into the building and found Facet and Sandy facing down a bunch of Timberwolves. Apparently they had chosen the same building to hide in as we chose to have our ambush.

Facet was hiding behind a doorframe and Sandy was beside him. I rushed over and asked what was going on.

They ran into the building and there were a bunch of Timberwolves already here. We didn't know why at the time. I asked Facet if he could do something about it. He said that he can't go in there cause it would be dangerous to Tiff's body. There were too many for him to take out quickly before they could turn on him like he did with The Scarecrow's men.

It made sense. It was one of the downsides of Facet being in Tiff's body. He can't just use her as a disposable body.  I wasn't sure what to do. None of us were and then Cerise showed up.

"I wasn't expecting much, but whatever you guys did, really worked... The Timberwolves almost immediately started faltering when you ran towards this building" she paused and looked around, "What the hell is happening here?" she asked and we informed her and she nodded, "Right... That makes sense," she said and then tells Facet to move and when he did she tossed a flashbang into the room the Timberwolves were in and told us to rush in as it went off.

The fight wasn't much of a fight after that. Facet and I easily took out the stunned Timberwolves and Cerise informed us that the Proxies had fairly quickly took the building after our stunt. We'd been a far greater distraction than we thought. However, when they took the place there was no sign of Legion.

We all came to the same conclusion. Legion wasn't in the building The Proxies were attacking, he was in this one.

Damn it I have to go again. resetting things up and dealing with new people is a full time job.

Okay so, Tiff is awake.

Well I say awake, but more like just conscious. Facet is basically just controlling the body, but allowing her to be aware of stuff or something? I don't pretend to know how Dying Man possession works at the best of times. Basically Facet is still controlling everything, but Tiff is awake and aware.

Anyway yeah so Facet needed me to help talk to her and I don't really know. I guess reassure her? Anyway that took some time. I imagine waking up and finding out you're not in control of your body is pretty shocking.

Anyway I said I'd tell you about the confrontation.

Well a group was going around looking for us and actually getting pretty close so we went to deal with them.

It was me, Sandy and Facet of course and what we found was Four Timberwolves and a Nest. Specifically The Scarecrow.

I was gungho about a rematch with that cheap copy, but The Facet convinced me that I should hold back while he came up with a plan. Considering the last time I rushed into a fight with him he kicked my ass I eventually decided the Facet was right.

We followed them for a bit. The Scarecrow had birds patrolling, but they couldn't see us, so we ignored them. Interestingly The Scarecrow's birds seemed to be mostly Robins and Sparrows and a couple of pigeons.

He and his Timberwolf friends went from building to building banging on doors. If someone answered they moved on, if no one answered they broke in searched and then moved on.

They reached a bookstore and broke in and The Facet decided on a plan. It was fairly simple actually.

Burn the entire building down.

That was it. Just toss incendiaries into the building and wait at the entrances for anyone who comes running out.

Worked for me. There was a lot of looting and stuff going on as people panicked in the darkness, so the building being set on fire might not even cause concern. So, we did...

It went surprisingly well at first. The place lit up quickly in response to our attack and at least one Timberwolf was stupid enough to run back out and immediately get gunned down by Sandy.

We continued to wait as the place burned down and no one else came out and that's when things started to go less well. See, we were all split up to make sure we were covering every exit we could find. Which also meant each of us was alone for the most part.

Sandy was covering the front exit and Tiff/Facet was at the back. I was covering a side area where a couple of windows could potentially be used for escape.

It's weird isn't it... You know things, but often times you just forget to think about them... You make a plan and forget to account for simple things that someone else could potentially easily think of.

Somehow... It's so easy to forget that Servants can teleport... I've made that mistake, my enemies have made that mistake and hell I've forgotten about my own teleportation abilities at times they'd be really useful... Like when my son and daughter tossed me in the back of a truck for instance.

Anyway the point is The Scarecrow and the remaining three Timberwolves appeared near me. It would appear they were not quite expecting me and I was not quite expecting them, so there was a moment where neither of us quite knew what to do, The Scarecrow unfortunately recovered first...

Well actually thinking back on it, I don't think he was shocked to see me... I think he had intentionally appeared there and had just not realized that The Timberwolves might be surprised and so his hesitation was the result of waiting for them to react.

Anyway he tossed one of his knives at me and I managed to instinctively dodge and then the Timberwolves were leveling guns on me.

It occurs to me there have been a lot of asides in this post... Well one more... See... Some of you might be thinking that it's strange The Facet came up with this plan, but I only mentioned me forgetting about teleportation when it was The Facet's plan that failed to account for it... That is because The Facet apparently had accounted for it and just hadn't mentioned it.

As the guns leveled at me The Facet suddenly appeared behind the group of them and in one movement stabbed two of them in the throat and kicked the back of the knee of the last one causing him to drop to his knees and throwing off his shot, before The facet yanked his knife out of one of the falling Timberwolves and stabbed it into the skull of the last one. At which point The Scarecrow turned his attention to The Facet, turned back to me and vanished apparently deciding that was not the best place to be right then...

It's possible that was because since Facet was in Tiff's body what The Scarecrow just saw was the young girl he saw get shot, suddenly appearing only a day after being shot in the gut, looking almost dead and rapidly killing three of his men.

Honestly I'd be pretty freaked out too.

The Facet informed me he actually had expected them to be expecting us to be watching the entrances and teleport out and was watching me and Sandy expecting them to try and go for one of us.

I was not amused, but aside from The Scarecrow not being dead it was a success and The Scarecrow didn't reappear again so, Tiff's reappearance might have served to keep him out of the remainder of the conflict, so that was a benefit.

I'll tell you the rest of what happened later.

I should also note. Toby still wants to run away so you might be wondering how we got him to help out with the move. The answer was give Ryan a gun and orders to shoot Toby if he tries to run. Informing him of this in front of Toby and explaining that Ryan could probably complete the move with or without Toby's help kept Toby pretty obedient.

A lot has happened.

and I will inform you of all of it, but first who'd like to know where I've been?

1, 2... Did you raise your hand or are you just stretching? Okay so not too many people... Got it...

Regardless here's where I've been... In the dark.

Yeah as things heated up the Timberwolves or Nests eventually either realized we had a thoughtborn or just thought we'd suffer fighting without technology, so someone cut power to the entire area.

That's not a huge problem as I could just go somewhere where there is power, but with things heating up as they were I decided it wasn't worth it to leave The Children alone just to go off and update you guys. So, I stayed and helped out and as a result have been unable to update, but... Things have cooled down now so I can start telling you all about the interesting things that happened.

First things first... Tiff is... Alive... Sort of... We were already trying to decide what to do about her injury when the power went out... There wasn't much we could do without power and while a hospital could probably still handle a gunshot wound patient without power... I mean they have like backup generators and stuff... There were other reasons hospitals were out. For one... They knew we had a wounded member and would probably be watching hospitals... Actually given that The Facet could easily bring her to a powered hospital the lack of power was not much of a consideration for why no hospitals.The bigger reason was concern about Oathbreakers and also being incredibly unsure how a normal hospital would deal with an injured patient they could only partially see. Tiff's Child of nothing protection was still active and we have no idea how to switch it off...

Anyway given all the considerations of which there were many more... We made a decision... One that... Was arguably a bad decision... Maybe we should have chanced a hospital... I don't know, but we had one surefire way to keep her alive... Or at least active... The Facet possessed her. As such she can move and act even with her injury and The Facet says she's basically just sleeping in blissful unconsciousness for now and when her mind wakes up... Well we'll figure that out. She's basically a dead girl walking at this point, so I don't know...

As for the fighting... That continued... We got some back up. Cerise brought some reinforcements in the form of Proxies... They aren't quite allies as The Slender Man has the same Kill on sight order on us as basically all The Fears, but Cerise keeps it quiet that we're working together and The Proxies make a good distraction as long as we don't go near them. You might be wondering how I know this... Cerise told us... She popped in to our base at one point to inform us of these details. The fact she can just pop in on us like that is a bit worrying... I mean we're supposed to be super well hidden, but apparently the fact we brought her there once let her just sort of recall back there via the path... Which does potentially mean that she could be used to find this location later for less amicable reasons or even potentially lead The Slender Man himself to us... So... We were basically thinking that we'd need to move locations for a number of reasons at this point, but that is actually easier said then done.

We actually have quite a lot of stuff to move. So, we were kind of splitting our focus... While Facet/Tiff, Sandy and I were fighting, Ryan and Toby were bringing stuff to our new decided safe house. At the moment we are at said new safehouse.

But that's jumping ahead a bit. First we had some confrontations...

Before I tell you about them, let me explain why we were bothering to fight when we could have probably focused entirely on evacuation. The problem was that The Timberwolves and Nests were getting aggressive. They were searching for us and so, we'd engage them where we found them to disrupt their search and confuse them as to our whereabouts... Plus I just love killing of course.

One such fight became a bit more than it was intended.

Shit... and I'll have to tell you about it later... Facet needs me to actually do some work or something...