The rooftop was cold at this time of morning. It was early, the sun was not even out. The military below were readying their assault still. Tanks, jeeps, and many, many soldiers ready to storm. Ragnar walked onto the roof, and felt the chill of the height instantly. "Cold?" Lillian asked, sitting on a block of concrete, smoking. "Have one of these." She offered him one. He waved it off.
"No. I'm here to do business." He said as calmly as he could. This was the woman who had killed his parents at least 60 years ago. She was obviously street samurai, and obviously had a lot of stuff done to her surgically to make her keep her youth. "Who are you, what are you?" She laughed, and pulled a Glock Bodygun from her boot, a simple hold-out pistol, and fired it into the head of a hostage.
"That is who I am." She muttered as the others screamed and wept, trying to reason with her in their own tongue. "Shut up." She said, "Or you're next."
"Why are you doing this?" He asked. "You... Annihilated my home, my section of Renraku arcology... Way back in 2030... Why'd you do that?" Lillian smirked, dropped the Glock to the rooftop, and drew a knife from her other boot, and tossed it into the neck of another hostage, and began to pout. He could see tears in her eyes.
"Ever since I was little, I could feel it. I could feel it, see it, sense it, but nobody else could. The worlds are colliding. All of us, fighting one another at once."
"Did you mean the 2012 apocalypse? That was a bunch of crap, you know that, right? We got a uh... Whole lot else instead." She snorted, and jumped up, grabbing him by his shirt and lifting him up as if he were nothing.
"I must fight you. I have to. It was what I... We were bred to do. I need to do this!!" She smiled, tears falling down her beautiful cheeks, and she began to laugh. "It is what I MUST simply do!!" She threw him across the roof. He smashed face-first into the rooftop, and blood oozed from his mouth. He wiped some of it away, and looked for his gun, but couldn't find it, so he took the axe off of his back. Lillian jumped to the next building over. In mid-air, she pulled out a detonator and switched the trigger. The entire midsection of the skyscraper was wracked by fire and smoke.
The building began to shake and tilt. It was going down. "Damn..." He thought. He ran over to the hostages, two of which were alive. "You two." He said, they looked up at him as he untied them. "We have a chance to live. Jump off. I had taken in a number of sights on my way up, there's..." Time, Ragnar, time. The building began to tilt more, and they began to slide. "Grab a damn cable!!" He shouted as they slid off into mid-air. A number of cables from window cleaning cages hung about, and Ragnar did not hesitate to snatch one in his grip. One of the Japanese hostages fell, the other managed to grab a hold of the rope. Thankfully, the other hostage landed safe, bellowing in pain, however. But the building was still coming down. "SWING!!" Ragnar shouted, and they began to swing. They then flung themselves into the next building just as they heard the crash and explosions of the other. This was when the military jumped into action, charging the place.