We Are Our Avatars III (Ended!)
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"I think we can manage something like that, Rose. If you're sure you want to take that journey. We can make the trip whenever you want, but you might want to talk to Four and Asha, before then." Riou replies with a small smile. He then looks down to the grave. "Goodbye, Jowy. I'll remember you."
OoC: @Drak Go ahead. I'll try to reply before I go to work. Hopefully I wake up early enough to give me the time to do that...
And I really gotta go.
OoC: @Drak Go ahead. I'll try to reply before I go to work. Hopefully I wake up early enough to give me the time to do that...
And I really gotta go.
mia turned around and slowly walked away tears welling up in her eyes as she went through the doorway
@Salty: Alrighty.
"I'm sure." Rose replied with a smile. "Anyway, I'll get on that." She pat Riou on the back one more time and said, "I'll give you some more time. See you tomorrow. G'night." then she headed back into the ship.
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Four sighed and laid back down on her bed.
Well that sucked.
It's for the best.
She rolled over onto her side and cuddled the still-sleeping Winter to make herself feel better.
"I'm sure." Rose replied with a smile. "Anyway, I'll get on that." She pat Riou on the back one more time and said, "I'll give you some more time. See you tomorrow. G'night." then she headed back into the ship.
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Four sighed and laid back down on her bed.
Well that sucked.
It's for the best.
She rolled over onto her side and cuddled the still-sleeping Winter to make herself feel better.
@Silver: It's 'dpurple', apparently. And while I would have liked to have had time to resolve that, the way things ended have basically made it moot. Suffice it to say, if things had ended differently, Four's epilogue (When I get around to it) would have been quite a bit worse. I guess since it's moot now, if anyone still gives a damn about it they can ask for me to send them a PM.
Anyway, I've stayed up far too late already. Epilogue's much later today after I get some sleep, then I guess I'll figure out my next character.
G'night folks.
Anyway, I've stayed up far too late already. Epilogue's much later today after I get some sleep, then I guess I'll figure out my next character.
G'night folks.
Emory looked at the cigarette, almost as if he didn't understand what it was. He blinked, and took a drag. This was the one time he could relax...
Emory was broken out of his reverie by a thump and the sound of footsteps sprinting up the stairwell behind him. He turned his head lazily and waited for whomever was coming to burst through the door and begin stammering nervously. They were always stammering when they saw him, no matter how confident they were.
But tonight, that didn't happen. All that came through the door was a small pool of blood, shortly followed by a sword blade. Emory was thrown into a panic. He tossed the cigarette aside and turned his body to face the door.
The door swung open, revealing Caleb's body pinned against it by the sword, his chest and head slashed open.
A figure in blood-drenched grey armour stepped out onto the roof and stared Emory down.
Emory smirked, and his skin began to ripple and tear.
The armoured man raised his broadsword and begins swinging and slicing at the demon. The grey steel clashes against large claws, and cleaved through smoky tendrils.
The fight seemed to go on for an eternity, but in reality it barely lasted a minute. The broadsword quickly carved a hole in the unholy creature's chest.
Emory reverted to his human form, which managed to remain upright, despite the deep wounds covering his body. He stared at the armoured man.
[small]"Who..."[/small]
The figure walked towards Emory and removed his helmet, revealing a shock of red hair and a pair of sunglasses.
He raised a heavy boot and kicked Emory backwards. The lifeless body fell down, his feet skidding on the soaked windows as if they were trying to gain purchase.
Emory landed on a car with a loud thump, and the car alarm began to blare. The man on the rooftop removed his armour and placed it into a briefcase, alongside his broadsword and the sword which had slain Caleb.
He walked down the stairs, towards the lift and slowly descended to the ground. He quietly slipped out of the now devoid of life building while everyone was distracted by the corpse, and walked through the streets of London.
Charlie passed by a small bakery, obviously closed for the night, and continued his journey towards a residential area. He looked at the house, the police cordons still flapping in the wind. He ducked under the cordon and quietly entered the building.
Charlie slowly paced around, running his fingers across the dusty surfaces.
Next time... Maybe...
He climbed out of a window and walked down the street towards a flower shop. He closed his eyes and, in an instant, the flower shop changed into a small restaurant.
Charlie put his headphones on and walked into the restaurant. He sat in the shadows, watching a young woman working.
If only it had stayed like this.
He stood up and walked out of the restaurant, passing a teenage girl and a slightly older man. He gave them both a quick nod, and walked away.
Emory was broken out of his reverie by a thump and the sound of footsteps sprinting up the stairwell behind him. He turned his head lazily and waited for whomever was coming to burst through the door and begin stammering nervously. They were always stammering when they saw him, no matter how confident they were.
But tonight, that didn't happen. All that came through the door was a small pool of blood, shortly followed by a sword blade. Emory was thrown into a panic. He tossed the cigarette aside and turned his body to face the door.
The door swung open, revealing Caleb's body pinned against it by the sword, his chest and head slashed open.
A figure in blood-drenched grey armour stepped out onto the roof and stared Emory down.
Emory smirked, and his skin began to ripple and tear.
The fight seemed to go on for an eternity, but in reality it barely lasted a minute. The broadsword quickly carved a hole in the unholy creature's chest.
Emory reverted to his human form, which managed to remain upright, despite the deep wounds covering his body. He stared at the armoured man.
[small]"Who..."[/small]
The figure walked towards Emory and removed his helmet, revealing a shock of red hair and a pair of sunglasses.
He raised a heavy boot and kicked Emory backwards. The lifeless body fell down, his feet skidding on the soaked windows as if they were trying to gain purchase.
Emory landed on a car with a loud thump, and the car alarm began to blare. The man on the rooftop removed his armour and placed it into a briefcase, alongside his broadsword and the sword which had slain Caleb.
He walked down the stairs, towards the lift and slowly descended to the ground. He quietly slipped out of the now devoid of life building while everyone was distracted by the corpse, and walked through the streets of London.
Charlie passed by a small bakery, obviously closed for the night, and continued his journey towards a residential area. He looked at the house, the police cordons still flapping in the wind. He ducked under the cordon and quietly entered the building.
Charlie slowly paced around, running his fingers across the dusty surfaces.
Next time... Maybe...
He climbed out of a window and walked down the street towards a flower shop. He closed his eyes and, in an instant, the flower shop changed into a small restaurant.
Charlie put his headphones on and walked into the restaurant. He sat in the shadows, watching a young woman working.
If only it had stayed like this.
He stood up and walked out of the restaurant, passing a teenage girl and a slightly older man. He gave them both a quick nod, and walked away.
Freddie, Greg and the tracker stand around the empty casket.
"Ollie, what even happened out there?"
"Fucked if I know. He just ended up dead, and those crazies weren't to fond of me. So... I ran like hell."
R starts punching a wall.
[sub][small]"StupidfuckingWelshcuntStupidfuckingWelshcuntStupidfuckingWelshcuntStupidfuckingWelshcunt...[/small][/sub]
"I take offence at that."
Silence falls.
"I'm technically Swiss."
"Ollie, what even happened out there?"
"Fucked if I know. He just ended up dead, and those crazies weren't to fond of me. So... I ran like hell."
R starts punching a wall.
[sub][small]"StupidfuckingWelshcuntStupidfuckingWelshcuntStupidfuckingWelshcuntStupidfuckingWelshcunt...[/small][/sub]
"I take offence at that."
Silence falls.
"I'm technically Swiss."
OOC: Either today or tommorow is when its gonna start, so I'll miss the initial craziness due to work and 40k.
The soft sound of tires on dirt is heard as a truck drives to his location. He just stared at the ship, knowing full well who was there.
Miss Pauling just sat next to the truck as Heavy turned. Heavy had nothing else... He climbed back into the truck.
After hours of driving, the truck stopped. He climbed out, to see a familiar gravel pit. He sighed as he slowly got out of the car. He waved at Medic as he got to his standard battle-station to defend this pit once more. He continued to do this, again and again, for yet another year.
Then, an odd thing happened. He found an odd book. Nothing much, just a book, labeled WAOA. He sat down, and got to reading...
After a month, that book on him at all times, he finished reading up. After finishing, Erica's words stung into his heart...
He slowly rose, and quit. He left his only job to return to Russia, to help his famialy. He became an axeman, did what he wanted... it was something new... something good...
The sisters returned to Desolace. For a good three weeks they spent studying the planet and the biology of the Dark Being. During that time, Gwen had always kept the memory shard that Winter had given her. It always seemed that?. memories were the one thing the girls could take from their time at the Strange Earth. Everything else anyone would give them would be gone.
Winona, while never able to seek revenge against Conall, was glad that she never would. Even long ago on the Strange Earth, when Conall hadn't shown his face for quite some time, Winona almost forgot about killing him. The bass guitar that had Conall had given Winona was destroyed thanks to the timeline's reconstruction. However, out of being a good Samaritan, decided to buy her own bass guitar. It was bright green, just like the one Conall gave her.
From time to time they had practiced the fusion technique over and over again several times on Desolace, but to no avail. Finally, at the 42nd attempt at fusing, during the last week before the Dark Being would show its face, Una emerged. Her wings occluded her face and body like a shell or cocoon. They opened up, revealing what could be said to be an angel. Una had silvery light blue hair that shown of blue giant stars and pure white irises in her eyes.
The Dark Being came ever closer to Earth. When it finally emerged through the atmosphere, the sisters stood on the open ground where they grew up and summoned all their energy once again. This energy spawned from the mass of the elements being forged in the Sun.
Una emerged, her wings and arms outstretched towards the Dark Being, beckoning it to come closer to her.
For the first time, the Dark Being didn't fire its tentacles at the masses. Its one huge blood-red eye just stared at Una, wondering what she could be. What has she? She was unlike anything it had ever encountered.
Una's voice reverberated throughout the city scape. Thanks to the sister's studies on Desolace, they were able to easily converse with the Dark Being.
<color=lightblue>"Let us talk inside? Do not swing those tentacles I have seen slay countless times."
Walking and floating through the cordoors and hallways constructed of the black masses of people and life that it had consumed. A spectrum of emotions crossed through Una's mind as many of those life forms she remembered when the sisters visited their respective planets. After hours of traveling inside the being, she found the core of the Dark Being, a tiny little centipede sized gelatinous ball of blackness, sitting in the middle of several tendons, veins, and arteries that attached to it. She looked at it, and then stared at it with her eyes that shown of the early universe.
<color=lightblue>"Why do you do this?"
An almost mechanically sounding voice came from the Dark Being. It translated thusly:
"This?. is my?. mission. I have to complete the mission. All biology must become one. And I am that unit that will do so. It is my program. And I must not deviate from that."
<color=lightblue>"But if all biology become one in the same, then? the universe will no longer have a voice, a consciousness that can know itself. Life is there to allow the universe to know itself. Take away the life, and you have a dead universe."
"Impossible. That life that which you speak of has become a part of me. If I am the only living thing, then my mission will be complete. Knowing the universe is not one of my objectives. It is to collect all biology and bring together as one."
<color=lightblue>"But, in a sense, all biology was already as one."
"Clarify."
<color=lightblue>"Letting them live as they were, they are as one because they all originated from the same material as the stars and the energy from their light. We are all the stars' children. The same carbon, the same iron, the same electrons, the same photons exist throughout everything. All live as diverse as it is, have the same universe to call home, as well as their origin. The universe gave birth to the stars, and the stars so forth gave birth to life. All biology was one from the very beginning? as diverse as it is in its complexity and differences from planet to planet? they all came from the same thing. They are all as one. And knowing biology takes time, not collecting. You are a part of that oneness as well. Don't you see that?" Una fell silent as the Dark Being sat there, unmoving and mute.
For a good 10 minutes, silence happened. Just then:
"I concede. Beginning reverse protocol: 'Return'. However you must assist in returning the biologies into their condensed format. My original creators didn't leave me with the proper power to do so, even though I could theoretically do the reverse of what I did if I had enough power. However the power that is present within you is sufficient enough to restore them."
Una placed her hands onto the gelatinous dark ball and summoned all her energy. The Dark Being slowly reduced in size as glowing balls formed around the dark ball. Each was the size of a ping-pong ball. They floated around her like curious children in a school yard waiting to go home from their teacher's signal. Only these children were the children of the stars.
"Please return them. They were as one there. I will assist you as much as I can."
Una flashed a bright white and returned to the four sisters.
<color=brown>"Then let us go. Let us return to those planets, and return the life that was taken."
The sisters stored the glowing balls of light as well as the Dark Being in their pouch.
<color=blue>"Looks like we have one more round trip eh Sara?" EMily smiled.
<color=brown>"We never seem to catch a break can we?"
<color=darkgreen>"Ghehee? that's for sure." The sisters slowly walked towards the ship, out towards the planets with the Dark Being and onto another adventure?.
<color=purple>"The presence of death gives the promise of new life."
Winona, while never able to seek revenge against Conall, was glad that she never would. Even long ago on the Strange Earth, when Conall hadn't shown his face for quite some time, Winona almost forgot about killing him. The bass guitar that had Conall had given Winona was destroyed thanks to the timeline's reconstruction. However, out of being a good Samaritan, decided to buy her own bass guitar. It was bright green, just like the one Conall gave her.
From time to time they had practiced the fusion technique over and over again several times on Desolace, but to no avail. Finally, at the 42nd attempt at fusing, during the last week before the Dark Being would show its face, Una emerged. Her wings occluded her face and body like a shell or cocoon. They opened up, revealing what could be said to be an angel. Una had silvery light blue hair that shown of blue giant stars and pure white irises in her eyes.
The Dark Being came ever closer to Earth. When it finally emerged through the atmosphere, the sisters stood on the open ground where they grew up and summoned all their energy once again. This energy spawned from the mass of the elements being forged in the Sun.
Una emerged, her wings and arms outstretched towards the Dark Being, beckoning it to come closer to her.
For the first time, the Dark Being didn't fire its tentacles at the masses. Its one huge blood-red eye just stared at Una, wondering what she could be. What has she? She was unlike anything it had ever encountered.
Una's voice reverberated throughout the city scape. Thanks to the sister's studies on Desolace, they were able to easily converse with the Dark Being.
<color=lightblue>"Let us talk inside? Do not swing those tentacles I have seen slay countless times."
Walking and floating through the cordoors and hallways constructed of the black masses of people and life that it had consumed. A spectrum of emotions crossed through Una's mind as many of those life forms she remembered when the sisters visited their respective planets. After hours of traveling inside the being, she found the core of the Dark Being, a tiny little centipede sized gelatinous ball of blackness, sitting in the middle of several tendons, veins, and arteries that attached to it. She looked at it, and then stared at it with her eyes that shown of the early universe.
<color=lightblue>"Why do you do this?"
An almost mechanically sounding voice came from the Dark Being. It translated thusly:
"This?. is my?. mission. I have to complete the mission. All biology must become one. And I am that unit that will do so. It is my program. And I must not deviate from that."
<color=lightblue>"But if all biology become one in the same, then? the universe will no longer have a voice, a consciousness that can know itself. Life is there to allow the universe to know itself. Take away the life, and you have a dead universe."
"Impossible. That life that which you speak of has become a part of me. If I am the only living thing, then my mission will be complete. Knowing the universe is not one of my objectives. It is to collect all biology and bring together as one."
<color=lightblue>"But, in a sense, all biology was already as one."
"Clarify."
<color=lightblue>"Letting them live as they were, they are as one because they all originated from the same material as the stars and the energy from their light. We are all the stars' children. The same carbon, the same iron, the same electrons, the same photons exist throughout everything. All live as diverse as it is, have the same universe to call home, as well as their origin. The universe gave birth to the stars, and the stars so forth gave birth to life. All biology was one from the very beginning? as diverse as it is in its complexity and differences from planet to planet? they all came from the same thing. They are all as one. And knowing biology takes time, not collecting. You are a part of that oneness as well. Don't you see that?" Una fell silent as the Dark Being sat there, unmoving and mute.
For a good 10 minutes, silence happened. Just then:
"I concede. Beginning reverse protocol: 'Return'. However you must assist in returning the biologies into their condensed format. My original creators didn't leave me with the proper power to do so, even though I could theoretically do the reverse of what I did if I had enough power. However the power that is present within you is sufficient enough to restore them."
Una placed her hands onto the gelatinous dark ball and summoned all her energy. The Dark Being slowly reduced in size as glowing balls formed around the dark ball. Each was the size of a ping-pong ball. They floated around her like curious children in a school yard waiting to go home from their teacher's signal. Only these children were the children of the stars.
"Please return them. They were as one there. I will assist you as much as I can."
Una flashed a bright white and returned to the four sisters.
<color=brown>"Then let us go. Let us return to those planets, and return the life that was taken."
The sisters stored the glowing balls of light as well as the Dark Being in their pouch.
<color=blue>"Looks like we have one more round trip eh Sara?" EMily smiled.
<color=brown>"We never seem to catch a break can we?"
<color=darkgreen>"Ghehee? that's for sure." The sisters slowly walked towards the ship, out towards the planets with the Dark Being and onto another adventure?.
<color=purple>"The presence of death gives the promise of new life."
As their timeline fixed up again, the 6 greatest IS pilots sighed contently, surrounded with their fellow other pilots. Some laughed, some cried and most stood in silence in the L3 Space Colony orbiting Earth. Despite the groups disappearance from their time, they all knew that wherever they are... They are happy. Festive activities rang out from the behind them, most IS pilots and STARIS pilots finally relaxing. After a year and a half of war with the Crusaders, it was finally over. The IS fleet was ready for deep space exploration, just like what Miss Tabane Shinonono had planned right from the beginning.
"How is lil' Hilde doing?" Charlotte asked, approaching Laura.
"She's doing just fine..." Laura smirked as the two shared a kiss with the sound of party streamers and festive music played softly in the background...
"How is lil' Hilde doing?" Charlotte asked, approaching Laura.
"She's doing just fine..." Laura smirked as the two shared a kiss with the sound of party streamers and festive music played softly in the background...
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The Guppy made one last circle around the landing area. Amy silently piloted the ship into its proper place as she meet up with Admiral Baran Doban, arms crossed and face emotionless.
"So where are the other two?" he asked sternly. Amy looked the Admiral directly in the eye as she saluted.
"Sir! Winter Madelynn Anderson, The Joy, has resigned from her position in the Alopex Unit and the Company to live on in peace with her dearest beloved! Austin Kazuhira Connors, The Hope, has resigned as well, leaving for another dimension with his love, sir!"
The two continued to look at each other in the eye, as Amy started to shallow hard. Eventually Doban broke the silents with hardy laughter. Amy looked confused.
"So they finally did it huh?" he exclaimed, a big smile on his face. "They found the reason to live for themselves! Good for them."
"Uuuh, sir? What are you talking about?" Doban gave Amy a smile again.
"Throughout history, those that are completely selfless lose their hope, as they are constantly sacrificing themselves and their happiness for others. This... What they did... Its what makes them happy, despite it being slightly selfish. Humans are mysterious creatures, young one. Though we are completely destructive, we all have the power to create. And that, is what makes us hope for the better."
Amy nodded and smiled. "I still have much to learn, don't I?"
Doban lead Amy inside Mother Base. "OOh, so much more."
"So where are the other two?" he asked sternly. Amy looked the Admiral directly in the eye as she saluted.
"Sir! Winter Madelynn Anderson, The Joy, has resigned from her position in the Alopex Unit and the Company to live on in peace with her dearest beloved! Austin Kazuhira Connors, The Hope, has resigned as well, leaving for another dimension with his love, sir!"
The two continued to look at each other in the eye, as Amy started to shallow hard. Eventually Doban broke the silents with hardy laughter. Amy looked confused.
"So they finally did it huh?" he exclaimed, a big smile on his face. "They found the reason to live for themselves! Good for them."
"Uuuh, sir? What are you talking about?" Doban gave Amy a smile again.
"Throughout history, those that are completely selfless lose their hope, as they are constantly sacrificing themselves and their happiness for others. This... What they did... Its what makes them happy, despite it being slightly selfish. Humans are mysterious creatures, young one. Though we are completely destructive, we all have the power to create. And that, is what makes us hope for the better."
Amy nodded and smiled. "I still have much to learn, don't I?"
Doban lead Amy inside Mother Base. "OOh, so much more."
OOC: @Slenn Didn't see that coming. Talking the Cthulu blob down was definetly not expected.
OOC: CBA to spoiler so...
Daniel's beginning
Throughout everything that had happened he had squirmed and hidden. Afraid of what was happening, afraid of the sheer scale. Believe it or not something did scare a dragon, their precious long life under threat instilled terror into many of the scaled beasts and Daniel was no differant.
Under the earth he had crawled deeper and deeper, as far as he was comfortable. His hoard dragged behind him. He wasn't ready now...he was too young, too frail, too many too's to do anything. But if there was one thing he had, it was time and plenty of it.
Under the earth, with no-way to guage time for the periods he dwelt in the dark, Daniel slept. Having set everything in motion he opened a large eye and glanced at the D.I.Y Megascope he had hastily created. He had no idea where the other end was and didn't care. When it opened he would emerge oncemore, his body may not age while asleep but he would certaintly be more mentally prepared.
As his eye closed he dwelt upon one fact: That he was a Dragon. Whether he had asked for it or not it was what he was and so the responsibility of the power of such a creature fell to him. To abuse it a crime...to ignore it...a travesty. For now he would sleep and wait. Wars and battles were no place for him...yet.
Daniel's beginning
Throughout everything that had happened he had squirmed and hidden. Afraid of what was happening, afraid of the sheer scale. Believe it or not something did scare a dragon, their precious long life under threat instilled terror into many of the scaled beasts and Daniel was no differant.
Under the earth he had crawled deeper and deeper, as far as he was comfortable. His hoard dragged behind him. He wasn't ready now...he was too young, too frail, too many too's to do anything. But if there was one thing he had, it was time and plenty of it.
Under the earth, with no-way to guage time for the periods he dwelt in the dark, Daniel slept. Having set everything in motion he opened a large eye and glanced at the D.I.Y Megascope he had hastily created. He had no idea where the other end was and didn't care. When it opened he would emerge oncemore, his body may not age while asleep but he would certaintly be more mentally prepared.
As his eye closed he dwelt upon one fact: That he was a Dragon. Whether he had asked for it or not it was what he was and so the responsibility of the power of such a creature fell to him. To abuse it a crime...to ignore it...a travesty. For now he would sleep and wait. Wars and battles were no place for him...yet.
@Ven. The Dark Being always seemed to me like V-Ger from the original Star Trek movie. Both of them seemed to me like a child, yet mechanical in nature, and had a huge galactic mission set to it by its creators.
Also I'm off in 9 minutes before I go to class.
Also I'm off in 9 minutes before I go to class.