League Of Sidekicks 3: Future Perfect -- Closed and Over...

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Hivemind leaned back. "That was beautiful. But I don't have anymore questions. It sounds like... a kind organization of people... sounds like something Alicia would get involved in. I don't believe in spirits and all that... But sometimes... I swear the nano-bots talk to me..." He shot up and covered his mouth. "Shoot! I said that out loud didn't I? I'm sorry please don't think I'm crazy!" He held up a cigarette.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Spoiler: Meggles

Sorry... I had to go to a 2 hour lecture.

How are you kidding? You can't help her... you can't help anyone... Shut up. I... I could I really think I could help her... No, you can't. You're too fucked up to help her... you'll scare her away or worse. SHUT UP.

Magus snapped out of his reverie to notice that he had failed to answer Charmer's call for him in time. He tried to work up some kind of apology as he followed the call. By the time he got there, someone else was already there.

"Oh..." Magus said, "I'm sorry... I... Charmer... I'm sorry I didn't respond to your call earlier... I let you down... I'm sorry about that. Well..." Magus shut up; he had no idea what to say next.

 

[meggles]

Ana giggled at Abhaya. "Don't worry... I've never told anyone, but sometimes I can hear the plants and the wildlife whispering to me... I mean of course they have life energy too, but still." She was understanding towards Abhaya's claim, it seemed that the little robots worked hard to syncronise with him, so it'd be no surprise if it were true. "You know they have a strange life energy all of their own, I'm not surprised that they can comunicate with you." She smiled.

Suddenly Magus appeared, and looked almost ashamed.

"Oh..." Magus said, "I'm sorry... I... Charmer... I'm sorry I didn't respond to your call earlier... I let you down... I'm sorry about that. Well..."

Ana was shocked, she'd never expected that when she said Magus' name he would actually answer her.

"I-I didn't think you were telling the truth! I thought..." Ana trailed off, confused and feeling vulnerable. "How did you hear me?"

 

[TheDoctor455]

Magus didn't balk in the slightest to Charmer's assumptions about his honesty or possible lack thereof; after all, he had been pulling cons on people on the street to make his from town to town. He did however relax a bit when Charmer asked him how he had heard her. He smiled slightly inspite of himself.
"I'm afraid," he said, "A good magician never reveals his secrets." Magus moved in closer, and took a coin out of his cloak, once he was next to -but not too close to- Charmer, he flipped the coin in the air, caught it before it landed back in his hand, closed his hand around it, then handed it to Charmer. "I'm sorry. I didn't come earlier... I was distracted."

As he his hand over Charmer's open hands, he dropped what had been the coin onto her hands, when he lifted his hands, instead of a coin was a gentle green-white lily what seemed to glow with a soft colorless light.

 

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Hivemind yelped as he noticed Magus. He hadn't heard anyone in the room aside from them. "Who are you?" His voice quivered. He seemed sorry for something so he dropped the defensive attitude but Hivemind still prepped his arm for a transformation to the nano-sword though he wouldn't activate it just yet.

 

[meggles]

Ana's eyes widened with amazement as Magus placed a magical lilly into her hands. She gleamed up at him, thrilled with the flower.
"Thank you!" She still sounded like an excitable little child. "Abhaya look!" She thrust the flower towards him as well.

"You shouldn't be sorry by the way... I-I kind of wanted to see if you'd come...To be honest...I didn't expect you too... I'm sorry..." Ana looked annoyed at herself, but she still smiled whole heartedly at Magus. "Thank you for proving me wrong..."

 

[Dragon_of_red]

Ashe considered this for a few moments. He really had no idea what to say. "It does make sense that if he had the means to take us from the past... And he doesn't seem as stupid as to bring us all into the future with our stronger selves. Considering he was in no rush kill us." he said, trying to think of were they could go.

"Wait, don't we have like a security system or something? Like cameras and stuff? Why the hell don't we use them to see what happened." Ashe called out, "Can someone hack into the system and pull out the tapes?" he asked the few people who were still in the room.

 

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Hivemind smiled "What a pretty flower." He hid his arm behind his back as he powered down the activated combat nano-bots. "What a gorgeous flower." He leaned back against the wall.

 

[meggles]

Ana was enjoying sitting down with her new friends, she'd never really had them before, so it felt somehow comforting.

Just as she was settling down she heard Ashe say something about hacking into securities video and sound system.

"Can someone hack into the system and pull out the tapes?"

Ana stood up slowly. "Umm, I can hack into almost any system... I hacked into the sound system before to find you..." She gestured towards Ashe. "I don't know about tapes, but I can get any information you'd like..."

 

[Dragon_of_red]

"Oh?" Ashe said as he heard Ana answer. "Thank you Charmer." he said, smiling to her. 'So we have been here for less than a day. So we assume that our future selves were here before then... But didn't the receptionist say that Oliver went up 5 hours ago?' he thought to himself. After thinking for a fe wmore seconds, he raised his head up.

"Charmer, could you please get the infirmary tapes, and the one sin Olivers room from the past 5 hours?" he asked Ana, hoping that she could do it, "And then put it up on a screen somewhere?"

 

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Hivemind looked curiously over Ashe and Ana's shoulder. "What are you two doing? Is this some new cyber game that's all the rage?" He looked at the screen apparently confused at what was going on. He placed his finger against the screen.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Magus smiled at Charmer, and placed a hand on her shoulder, "I know you can do this Charmer, he told her."

Umbra... how's the 'shopping' going?

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

Not done yet, though something stood out.

Musing at Alex's utterance, Umbra decided to note that for later. For now, Umbra figured she'd at least be able to contribute tactically, responding to Paragon's question. "Well, if he's moved people to this time, then it would only follow that he sent the missing people to another time entirely unless he was restricted somehow. So until evidence is shown that he can't, one can only assume the missing are displaced in time - if not dead, especially given his apparent regard for some as potential threats. The tapes might show something, but I have a feeling temporal displacement looks a lot like just teleporting."

 

[meggles]

Ana giggled at Abhaya and smiled confidently, especially at the encouragement she got from Magus... He was alot older then her, so it meant more for some reason...

"I can do it, but it'll take me a minute..." Ana sat herself in front of the security screen and placed one ear of her head phones on. Her microphone was set in front of her.
The large key pad infront of her should have been intimidating, but instead she felt at home.

Ana flexed her fingers and let her energy flow from her into the computer infront of her. She began madly typing on the keypad. Soon random security films began to appear on the screen.

Older versions of themselves were walking through halls...

"It seems as though someone has interfered with the tapes...the one's you want have been hidden..." Ana sounded frustrated, and that's exactly how she felt.

Finally after atleast twenty minutes there they were. The tape of Oliver's bedroom and of the building's infirmary. She quickly split screened the two images, making them large enough for everyone to see.

 

[TheDoctor455]

"Well done Charmer," Magus said encouragingly, "Who is that on the tapes?"

Umbra... I'm opening up my vision to you, you might want to see this.

 

[VuvuZelaMan]

Understood. Umbra closed her right eye; she wasn't using it anyway and it would prevent problems with overlapping vision fields... or so she hoped.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Hmm... what do you make of the footage Umbra? Do you recognize anyone? I'm afraid the footage isn't clear enough for me to see with my bad eye.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

Ashe cheered. "Thanks Charmer!" he called out to her as the images flashed upon the screen. The timing was perfect, a slightly greyer yet way more intimidating Oliver walked into the room, and collapsed on the bed, seeming to fall asleep almost instantly. The other one showed the infirmary. It had about 10 Beds, and only one contained anybody. The sheets were dotted with small red spots. The body's only movement was a small breathing pattern, the body had a small respirator on his face, the bag scrunching with each shallow breath.

The group watched the videos, for any disturbance. Nothing happened for a few minutes, until a horrible noise came from Oliver's room. It happened to be him snoring. Ashe was about to says something, but then he noticed something in the infirmary. A small red orb flew into the room and over where Jason was. It quickly grew and enveloped him in a flash of light, that blinded the camera for a few seconds. When it's sight returned, he was gone. Leaving behind no disturbance other than the bloodied sheet.

Straight after that, another orb appeared in Olivers room, this time a green one and a quick flash of light, the noise faded quickly, it didn't disappear in an instant, but faded quickly. Again, nothing was left in there, just some moved sheets where he slept when the camera vision returned.

Ashe didn't know what to say. "Um?" he said, just as he saw a small purple orb fly across the infirmary door in the screen. A short scream resounded and another flash of light, then, complete silence.

He cringed a bit, 'That must have been Ana' he thought to himself. He then coughed and the screens stopped playing, re-winded and freeze framed at the moment of the red orb started to flash. "So that's what did it apparently..." Ashe said to himself more than anyone.