We Are Our Avatars VI (Closed for Good)

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Saltyk

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"That's right... I thought I could make a decent living off it and perhaps it would make me stand out as something other than a beastkin." Jasmine told Loki.
 

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OOC: Kay, I'm back.

Dal'Sheed got up from his resting area, and walked his way back into town, looking for where the group was.
 

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"Thanks...cutie..." Echo said with a slight blush.

"You looked pretty angry, meow." Tao said to Noel. She looks at Makoto, confused. "What do you mean Furry girl?"
 

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Noel sat down as she started tapping on her wrist communicator, looking through things. She had alittle chuckle between the lazy flicks of her finger.

Looking briefly at Tao she said. "I am not mad."
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Charlotte woke up for her shift at night watch. Well, it was more of wake up earlier than everybody else now. Charlotte had her pistol and sword out, just in case something outside had broke into the room. She patiently looked around, and occasionally glanced at her teammates, seeing that they were sleeping light or just keeping their eyes closed.

I have my confidence in them. We will prevail... she thought, examining her pistol. She looked Eric again, thinking back to that wonderful night back when they were only 20 years old.

It was her solo room, she requested well back when she had turned 18. A barely lit room with candles, making sure that they were away from anything extremely flammable. Eric had stepped into the room with her, smiling at each other as Eric had slowly started to...

As sexual as that scene was... We never did anything. Charlotte smirked as she remember how it went during that night. All they did was talk about how the UNC was, and what could have been. It was amazing really. Successful people... Alot of them were former Vanguards, but with the usual hostility that came with it, the UNC Command sealed their records, like what they did with Natalie Alassandra. She shifted in her spot, trying to get more comfortable. But it was only once. The two believed that they were in love, and they were. But... It was just awkward for their feelings after another night like that. They remained friends, and kept it like that. This ship... Its teeming with life but...

Much like any other Vanguard, they could sense the feelings shared by the other Vanguards or Wardens. But there was something in the Pandemonium that gave her chills. Something seemingly crawling in the back of her mind, a liquid ooze trail dripping down at every step. It chilled her and her squad-mates; but they would never admit it.

Hours had pasted when Otis and Lorella woke up followed by Eric.

"Morning you three." Charlotte smiled, extending her hand over to them. Eric grabbed her hand and slowly got up.

"Morning to you too..."

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The four of them frowned as they got up and exited the bank to see that the artificial sun. However, the city itself had seen better days. The hole where the UNC Chiron broke through was now sealed thanks to the emergency liquid glass protocols. The buildings scattered about were either ruined as if some bomb was set off in them or completely demolished. A few charred out corpses were littered about the streets. Some filled with bullet holes. Other's with bite marks.

Lorella's eyes gazed over. "Come'on. We gotta head to the bridge."

"Right." The four of them started walking towards the "head" of the ship, but in the corner of their eyes, they could see the mutated creatures peeking out of the buildings as if they were scared of the light.

"Looks like we are safe in the daytime... Somewhat." Eric said, switching his sword into a SMG. The growls of the humanoid creatures echoed around them as their shadows crept around and red glaring eyes stared back at them.

"They looked pissed." Otis claimed.

"They're feral animals now, of course they looked pissed. We're their hunt and they can't reach us." Charlotte replied.

"I don't like this one bit." Eric replied.

"How so?"

"They can still track us down, while we fumble in the dark. Fire at them." Lorella, Otis and Charlotte looked at Eric cockeyed.

"F-fire at them?" They questioned. Otis turned to Lorella who gave a visible frown. Eric sighed. "They are not humans anymore, just animals."

"They still look like humans."

"So do monkeys." Eric fired back, as Lorella shook her head slightly. "As much as I don't agree with this. We need space between us and them."

"There's nothing more we can do for them. Fire at them." The three hesitantly raised their automatic weapons into the buildings.

"...FIRE!" The four shot into builds, taking chucks out of the builds as the wails of the creatures roared back, partially paralyzing the group. Charlotte and Co. could hear a white noise once again rise up as their thinking clouded for a millisecond before they had control again. They started to walk away, tight in a circle, continuing their fire into the buildings. A few of the creatures emerged from the darkness as they were lit on fire and burned as they stumbled towards the four, only to be reduced to ashes.

The four remained quiet until Eric saw something off in the distance. "Hey... A R/N terminal building! Maybe we can find out what happened here! Vanguards, move it!"

The four started hurrying towards the building as they noticed a large bridge between the building and the platform they were on. The gap was too large for them to jump across even with their augmented abilities. With their armor already heavy as is, the materials around were not in the best condition to try and make a bridge.

"Looks we are taking the sewers then." Eric said with a sigh. The other three turned and faced him with a confused face.

"Really? The sewers?" Charlotte asked.

"There is an alternative to these situations Eric." Lorella said in her usual tone.

"And what exactly alternative do you see Lorella?" Eric rebuked. The three remained silent.

"Exactly. I'm right by group consensus. Let's go." Eric brushed off to find a sewer manhole. The other three disgruntled followed after him until they found a manhole. Lifting the manhole, Eric plunged in first followed by Otis, Lorella and Charlotte as they slammed into the concrete as their helmets luckily filtered out any air bacteria.

Charlotte was the first to notice a strange growth coming from the wall as she pointed at them. Otis just raised an eyebrow. "What exactly is this mess?"

"We are going to find the truth behind all of this." Eric grumbled.

"That is not the mission objective. We are just going to call for backup." Lorella said in response. Eric shook his head a hurried as they followed down the sewer as the growth seemed to disappear as they continued on.

"Char are your powers in working order?"

"What do you mean?"

"I believe we are seeing things." Otis shrugged. Charlotte closed her eyes as she saw... something. A memory of her being taken away from her parents many years ago. Slanting her eyebrows she thought. I.... never did keep that promise?

"I... think they are working properly." Charlotte said.

"'Think'? It's a yes or no answer." Eric looked back slightly.

"... Yes." As the four continued down the sewers, the pitter patter of splashes were echoing around, as shadows seemed to creep around adjacent holes.

"The infected aren't that smart. They shouldn't be in the sewers. Things things have failsafes."

"Char, are you sure that your powers aren't screwing with us?"

"... Ok, there is something strange with them, but..."

Eric, Lorella and Otis all frowned at her. "But what? Can't you control it?" Charlotte tightened to close her eyes as she gripped her hands into a fist as the echos started to come closer and more rapid.

"Your powers can kill us if you don't hurry your sweet time princess!"

"Shut up!" Charlotte opened her eyes as she threw her hands out as the echos slowly disappeared.

"There. Happy?" Charlotte grumpy said, hurrying towards the end of the sewer destination.

"You need better control." Eric chastised. Otis stepped up.

"You know the things with Conduits. Their powers are harder to control than anybody else."

"There is fact in that."

Eric rolled his eyes. "Still..."

The four eventually reached their destination as Charlotte reversed the Newton Gravitational constant to blow off the manhole cover and blast off to the surface. The other three did the same as the four took in the new location.

The place was less or more... normal besides large scratch marks on vehicles. Even some puncture marks on the ground and buildings as trees hung with no leafs despite the season being early fall in the Research Ship. Their bodies were twisted, broken and even some uprooted as well.

The scattering of police rifles and pistols laid as a testament as the remaining humans survived in the area not too long ago.

The group entered the Research/News building. Just like outside, piles of bodies in varying states of decay were around. Some had even lynched themselves, as their dangling bodies were still held up by silver chains. Some were even children. Children of all ages, either buried by their parents trying to protect them or hanging as well as a sick testament.

The group closed their eyes and continued in, finally removing their helmets to respect the dead. They carefully walked over the dead, not disturbing them.

"[sub]What the hell drove the people like this?[/sub]" Otis mumbled under his breathe. "[sub]A rage virus perhaps?[/sub]"

"An emotional amplifying virus? It wouldn't be the first of its kind." It was true. Emotional trigger viruses have been ultilized alot in history. The virus itself would disrupt the certain synapses around the brain, usually to suppressing different feelings.

"And here's our stop ladies and gentlemen. The information center." Eric said, bashing the door in, as it easily collapsed. Lorella just shook her head in horror.

The entire room was covered in some strange sickly skin toned mount of biomass. All over there tumors and pus filled globules. Lorella turned to side and threw up.

"This... This is reminding me of..."

"Lorella? You going to be alright?" Otis rushed over to her side as she threw up again. She remembered it all. Growing up as an orphan in a run-down part of the city, diseases like this always claimed lives. It was indiscriminate and everywhere. Only through a saving grace did Lorella escape this destiny. "We... We should head back..."

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The cries of the damned echoed outside as the former members of the Pandemonium were inching out of their holes.

"Get inside... NOW!" Eric yelled, taking out his assault rifle with a flashlight attachment. Charlotte aided the two inside. With flashlights attached to their weapons, they slowly walked towards the central terminal.

"Right... Lets get to the bottom of this." Charlotte said, as Otis frowned. "We are not to get to the bottom of this Char. Eric, here me out. We are digging ourselves into a much larger hole. We should have retreated back to the ship a long time ago."

"And what? Leave whatever survivor to rot? That's not what Vanguards are supposed to do."

"The situation is completely disadvantageous. We should have called the fleet."

Eric shook his head. "No... I want to know why the hell all this happened! Think! A massive ship like this? Its practically a mini-Earth. How the hell is this possible???"

The other three just stared at each other then sighed. "We don't know."

Eric gave a curt nod. "Good now then..." He started to milling to the files, scraping away the biomass covering the screens.

"Wait a sec... This was a planned experiment... By one Ethan Orwell." Charlotte's eyes flared up slightly. "How?" She asked abruptly.

"He was here and called for Marshall Law not so long ago. It was a controlled experiment with a Crusader Virus. This transhuman ascension talk, just like how they are. Unity humanity so they are never alone bullshit."

"And it ends up killing 99% of the population in most cases with them...." Otis gritted his teeth. The rest of them looked with disbelieve. "What... They would do something like.-"

"For the benefit of humanity, isn't it?" Eric mumbled as Charlotte sholved him on the shoulder.

"Benefit? What benefit? If we Vanguards are supposed to be defending this then.-!" The sounds of the moans and groans from the zombified crowds echos closer.

The four withdrew their weapons backing up further into the room. "Whatever you do, they are no longer human, just mindless monsters." Eric said, the squish of their boots on the biomass. They scanned the room. No other way out besides the window behind them. Three hulking brutes, smashed open into the chamber, as they began charging at the four.

Otis's eyes widened. "FUCK! Shoot the window!" They four turned and fired at the window as it shattered and they jumped out, activating their flashlights.

As the soon discovered, the building was partially on a cliff overhang that descended several stories down as Charlotte and Co manipulated their descend, grinding their armor against the glass frame of the building. Luckily, the building had a slight angle to it. As the four continued their grind down, several automatrons started firing at the building, breaking the glass as a powered automatron fired a rocket where the group was heading.

Shaking and shattering the side structure, Charlotte saw her friends getting sucked into the building from broken windows as bent metal rod shifty bashed Charlotte in the head, changing her descend angle from the building as she skipped over most of the broken windows.

Clutching her head from the blunt pain, Charlotte vainly attempted to close in on the building again as the automatrons started firing at Charlotte. Despite their usual suppressive fire tactics, with the number of them firing at one target, Charlotte's armor started taking hits as the shields sputtered and die, the bullets embedding or bouncing off the armor.

Seeing a loose beam of sorts hanging in the building, Charlotte changed her descend angle and grabbed the loose beam. Charlotte dug her hands into the beam, as it was easily ripped out of its socket, and from the force of her acceleration due and weight, a sickening popping noise came from both her shoulders as she continued to descend.

A mixture of metal beams, wood, and concrete stood between Charlotte and the ground. Her saving grace from just falling flat on the ground. Charlotte harshly bounced off piece by piece of the structures, biting down the pain as it would save her life, albeit for a few moments.

Laguna would see Charlotte fall to the ground to her knees as she coughed heavily a phlegm-y mucus from her mouth.

Rita would see Charlotte gripping her sides as she bit her lips. Kyosuke looked over and frowned. Aww shit...
 

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"Well... Works of art is something that I sometimes deal in. Perhaps, when this is all over, I might buy some of your work." Loki answered, giving Jasmine a small smile.
 

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Blair smiled and gave a small chuckle, she jumped off Echo and turned into her human form. "Aw, no need to be shy" She said to Echo, then sat down next to her and hugged her lightly.
 

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"ah hell. I really hope she gave you the slip because she wanted to harvest an army."
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what's that?! What's this?! This is all so cool!! Xyleena thought, crawling along at slow speed on the ceiling of the bar, looking about at all tge people there.
 

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Rita moved closer to Charlotte, "...Now you're kinda scaring me, what's wrong?" she said, sounding a little bit more concerned
 

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Laguna went over to Charlotte. "Oh no... come on, we gotta get you to a doctor."

"Again, remind me to grope you about 50 blazillion times, see how you like it." Makoto looked at Echo, and saw Blair in her human form. "...wait, did that cat..."
 

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Dal'Sheed heard the sound of someone collapsing in the distance. When he rushed to see who it was, he saw Charlotte fallen.
Oh dear, not again.
 

Saltyk

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"All right, then. We'll begin the tournament soon enough. We'll give a few more minutes for late entries, and then start up the games." Hall announced to those in the bar.

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"That would be nice. Hopefully, that day comes soon. What is your name, sir?" Jasmine asks Loki.
 

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Ness sighs for a moment, seeing as the majority of the group ignored her. She walks back into the bar and gets back into the line for the tournament, still a bit shaken that Xyleena had run off somewhere. She did pretty much act like a two-year old... I hope she hasn't gotten herself into trouble.
 

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@Hatch: ooohhhhh, Hatchy... Remember those memories I sent you? Its coming to fruition...

Noel looked at Blair and sighed again. World of buxom... world of buxom... oi....
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The Charlotte that looked at Rita said. "I'll... I'll live."

The Charlotte that Laguna and Dal'Sheed saw coughed again as she looked at Laguna for a moment. What he would see is a woman, her face bruised and crossed with scars on her body. Her leg was twisted the other way and her hair in a massive frizz. She couldn't speak as she coughed up more blood.

Kyosuke shook his head and took out a cigarette and lit it. Great...
 

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Blair nodded at Makoto. "Meow, that's right!" She said to Makoto with a smile. "The name's Blair, I'm a magical cat, of sorts. who are you?" She asked.

OoC: @Rosh, Shaud up! D:
don't remind me :(
 

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"Hmm...maybe you should try it. It might make you happy, meow." Tao said to Makoto with a grin. "You wanna try too, meow?" she asked Noel.

"No...shy..." Echo said to Blair as she didn't move at all after being hugged.
 

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"Jeez... look, I know you say you're allright, but I REALLY think we should at least get you checked out."

"I'm Makoto. A beastkin, squirrel to be exact." Makoto looked at Tao. "I'm not THAT pervy! I like... those... but I don't run around fondling strangers. Girlfriend, ok depending on the situation, but everyone else won't appreciate it."