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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Role Playing => Topic started by: Galladerotom on December 13, 2008, 11:59:11 PM
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(Okay here is the story)
Brighton Accademy for the gifted
Headmistress Jane Bridge log
"Several students today and throughout have come to me to disscus what aparently appears to be the same issue: they have found people with two minds inside on head. When I asked each on of them if it was the same as the multiple personality dissorder minds we have been investigating some replied that they one mind was oppresing the other and other's replied that it was someone they had met before and had not sensed anything like this. I am concerned that this maybe a sign of ominus things to come."
Log 2
"On the reports of strange mental states I have begun probing people in the surronding area. My idea of a mental pathogen has now been erased since most of these people I have sensed I dected around one social gathering in a society called The Sharing."
Log 3
"Miranda Hale came to see me today. My once star pupil and now fellow staff member was eccstatic. Sensing that their was something wrong with her gardener she probed his mind and found out what has been happening. The problem is Yeerks an alien species that control hosts by crawling into their ear canal and linking into their brains. She has presented me with more information than I can possibly right down. I am planning to present this news to my pupils during an assembly tomorrow."
As you may have deduced The Brighton Accadamy for the gifted is a school for psychics disguised as very prodigious private school for psychics. This story takes place in the city of brighton a coastal city in southern england that is a hotspot for tourists riden with pebbly beaches (no sand). If you want to know more look it up.
present your profile with name, age (13 - 18), and bio.
I will be playing the role of the overseer of this game I will not play any character (with the possible exception of the Headmistress). Any major plot changes need to be confermed by me.
Rules
1. Psychic powers only. No being able to shoot lasers from your eyes etc. (Precognition counts as psychic power)
2. No morphing
3.All british swearing MUST be bleeped out this is an international forum (I think)
4. If you want to play telepathic twins you can play them both of split the point of view with a friend. Their can only be ONE pair though. First post first serve.
5. Indicate who you are every time (this is to make the story less confusing to readers and players alike)
Their are six slots open (twins count as one) (more maybe added if the game requires)
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I'll join.
Name: Chad
Age: 16 (driving age in US, just for convenience.)
Bio: Chad has telekinetic powers. His limits currently include an area fifty feet in diameter, but they are much stronger right next to him. When he is close to something, he can punch a hole through metal and lift 500 lbs easily. Farthest away would be more like punching a hole through wood and lifting 50 lbs. extended periods of time using his powers gives him a headache. How much time depends on the weight and density of an object, and the number of things he's doing.
He is originally from USA, but his parents moved to Britian when they found out about his abilities. They enrolled him in this school, and his level of control has grown steadily.
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(is just like read minds and move things or does cryokinesis and pryokinesis work here to? And if pryokinesis is aloud i call it)
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(i have dibs on telekinetic powers, unless cryo and pryokenesis is different.)
Edit: (I looked them up, and they're the ability to control certain elements. I guess that would be different that telekinesis.)
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(pyrokinesis >:D is technically telekinesis but since it is a type of telekinesis no one has dibs)
(also the majority of students are telepaths)
(also I would strongly advise all look up Brighton england because it is the setting after all)
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(Ok to all of that.)
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(the begging will start with students being dismissed to the assembly at which they will be informed of the Yeerk threat.)
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this isn't an animorphs role play, it should have gone into the general role playing thread
tsk tsk guys, tsk tsk
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(It deals with the Yeerks. That's close enough. If any Mods disagree, then so be it.)
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(does power of persuasion count? it only works against people who don't have psychic powers)
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(Why not? It would have to have limits, though. Beyond not working on psychics.)
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heh, i didn't read the part about the yeerks, i guess it'll be fine then
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Name: Sierra Evelyn
Age: 15
Power: Power of Persuasion
Limits: Cannot affect other psychics. Also needs to be in physical contact with the person. Basic telepathy.
Bio: Her father died when she was very young. She does not remember him at all. Her mother needs to provide for Sierra's two younger siblings, so she isn't around much. Sierra, though she is still young, is quite hardened to the world. She is seen as self-serving, and sometimes a b****. Her catchphrase tends to be "What's in it for me?"
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(Sierra is accepted as is)
(Chad is excepted as is)
(four slots left)
(anybody for telepathic twins?)
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(sorry for double post but I have to ask is Sierra a basic telepath as well?)
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(if you don't think that's too much, sure)
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(here is my little villan side sequence)
Under-Visser 90 walked down the isle he was sweating he was called to report to the Sub-Visser in person. The end of corridor, he went in the door. This was to much the Sub-Visser had nearly killed him eleven times in this past month alone.
"Report" said the Sub-Visser in galard but with a complete coldness to his voice. The voice was that of Sub-Visser two his unique Daragorian host body with all six of it's humaniod limbs resting on the arms of his semicircular throne. Sub-Visser two was a technocrat he had a collection of advanced an unique weapons for the complete sake of personal use as the Under Visser wondered what could he would be tortured with next. "Sub-Visser we have obtained ten hosts this week on of whom is... " the Under Visser was cut off "Say that number again under-visser 90." "Ten, sir but one is the wife of the Secrectary of defence...". " We need more human host bodies. MORE BODIES!" "Yes sir I..." but then the Sub-Visser leaped down from his chair and grabed Under-Visser 90 by the neck. What he felt could only be described as a combonation of white hot pain, extreme heat, and unnatural hyperactiveness. "This Glove is a protype. I was eger to test it funny the way things turn out". The under visser was to busy panicking to listen but the Sub-Visser continued anyway:"This is energizing the electrolytes in your system to very high levels you are now experiencing the effects of setting five. Let us see what happens at Seven." The Under-Visser scremed with pain. Were his eyes fogging over. Then it was gone. All of the pain "One! Hundred! host! bodies! by end of next week!" "Yessir" the under visser siad quickly glad to have an excuse to leave the room. He would have been reduced to tears had they not been evaporated.
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Name: Acre Lorraine
Age: 17
Power: Aerokineticist The ability to alter air.
Limit: At the moment he can only mold air into shapes and keep it solid for a short while.
Sent to the school to learn to control his abilities, he has discovered that he'd rather spend time enjoying himself. He considers himself the only mime that isn't creepy. The idea of miming came from how he had to mold the air into the shape he wanted, like pantomiming. As of his training right now, he must still mime out the action, but the air forms easily without a guiding hand to mold it.
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(I am sorry but I have to say no to this one :'( time manipulation is not psychic. However if you change your ability to something more psychic say, casting mental projections that make him invisible and make things go seem to go faster or slower to people then we are good or you can just choose one. Then you can join)
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(sorry for double post but I momentarily forgot. Yes, Sieera as a basic telepath is approved)
(The origional idea behind this was that psychics would be able to detect Yeerks)
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Ok, changed the power to Aerokineticism
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:o (I am going to assume that means the abiltiy to move air with your mind)
(Acre is accepted with Aerokineticism)
(All who want can equip characters with basic telepathy,mild mind reading and empathic feeling.)
(three slots left)
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(At this point you may start on your stories ;D if we do not have all slots filled by the end of the week then we shall proceed)
(three slots left. Anybody want to join?)
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Chad had heard the rumors, but wasn't sure if he believed the hype about aliens taking over Human bodies. On the other hand, there were people who didn't believe in psychic powers. Like the ability to open a locker door and retrieve a school book with his mind alone, which he was doing before he went to class. There were classes for psychic training, but also regular educational classes. Even psychics needed to learn math, language, history, and science. Especially since Brighton High was posing as your average prestigious school. Most people didn't know the gifted students were gifted with psychic powers.
He couldn't wait until assembly, when the teachers would unviel the truth. After that, he would know what was what, hopefully. He wondered what would happen if the planet was invaded. Normally, no one ever picked a fight with him, since he could slam a guy into a wall with a flick of his wrist. Hand movement wasn't neseccary, but it helped him visualize. However, no one had ever tried to kill him before. He wasn't sure how he would react to that.
He saw a couple of students in the hallway. One of their name's was Acre. They could control fire and air, but he could as well. He viewed himself as better than them, since he had a wider range of telekineses, but he wondered if he sometimes came off as arrogant to them.
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(good keep posting every one ;D)
(Also I know it is nagging but if you have the time look up brighton)
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Sierra stormed down the halls. What did she care if some alien came to the Earth? It wasn't her problem. Nobody she knew had been infected, or whatever. Besides, it wasn't like anyone could force one of those...things into her mind in any case. Once she came into contact with it, she could just tell it to leave, and voila! Out goes the yeerk.
As introspective as she currently was, she didn't notice where she was walking. It usually didn't matter, as people usually stayed out of her way. She didn't exactly play well with others. Besides, people didn't usually want to risk her ordering them around. In any case, she slammed right into some random guy walking in the opposite direction.
"Hey, watch it!" She snarled.
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I like the sound of this RP, since it concerns psychic powers (which I'm a big fan of) and it's set in my home country, but due to how busy I am with other things I won't really be able to join. I do look forward to seeing how this goes though, good luck!
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Chad was looking over his textbook for class, when a girl named sierra bumped into him. He used his powers to keep himself from stumbling too far. Some people were intimidated by her abilities, so he just apologized and walked around. He felt he didn't have time to get into a fight with someone who had partial mind control.
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Acre focused on what he was doing. If he could just get onto the roof, he could get a perfect view of the landscape, of course, access to the roof was always denied, and the doors were locked. Unlike some people here he couldn't fly so he'd hit upon the idea of using his power to work steps into existence. He took a few tentative steps and smiled as he stood six feet up. "Nothing's gonna stop me now." He muttered as he continued climbing. When he was eye level to the roof he smiled. "No classes for me today. It's gonna be an easy day of bird watching." He pulled himself up onto the roof and walked into the middle of it. He set up the lawn chair he had carried on his back and pulled out his bird book. "This is going to be a good day, I can feel it." He laughed.
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Sierra slipped out of the school. She had a headache, and a bunch of shouting students was not helping in the slightest. She leaned against the outer walls of the school and closed her eyes in a futile attempt to relax. She massaged her temples and breathed slowly. Her headache receded, and she felt able to return to the school. She turned toward the door, and reentered the school. Or tried to at least. She had forgotten that the door locks automatically to the outside. "You have got to be kidding me!" She whispered under her breath. She banged on the door, hoping whoever answered wouldn't narc.
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(Headmistress)
"How did they handle the news headmistress?" Professor Alexander asked.
The Headmistress replied. "Well, just imagine you handling the news that howlers were coming to earth." Professor Alexander was slightly unnerved "I suppose you want me to contact my people? I was exiled remeber. I don't think they will take kindly to me after only five hundred years." "We'll see. You said yourself that a larger minority of your people were in favor of you returning to the collective than the minority that opposed your exile during your plead for amnesty in 1945." The Headmistress enjoyed conversations with the android professor more than other people. As a telepath of her potent state conversation with others had become remarkably predictible and when it came to argument their was no mistake that she saw the Android as a challenge.
"I'll try to make contact but it will be much harder without the Cheenet" Professor Alexander said and he strode out of the room both glad and angry at his self modified restrictions.
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((Name: Gabriel Turner
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Appearence: She has bright red hair (dyed, of course. Her natural colour is brown) that goes down to her collarbone. Her eyes are grey-blue. She dresses very simply, and doesn't like to call attention to herself.
Power: She's very mildly psychic on her own, not able to read much more than projected and surface thoughts. However, she's spent her time at the academy studying the effects of gemstones and crystals on psychic powers, and, with concentration, can use them to enhance her own abilities.
Limitations: The gemstones can only increase her powers by a little bit, unless she's had a lot of practice with them. As of the time of the RP, she's mostly dealt with stones enhancing the basic telepath abilities, as well as stones dealing with empathy and emotion. However, she would have worked with other students to develope her reasearch on all types of gemstones.
History: Gabriel's real name is Anna Molly Turner. She's always found that ironic, since she's always found herself to be a bit of an "anomaly". She took on the name Gabriel when her best friend, Michael Gabriel Grifiths, was killed in a motorcycle accident.))
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(are the telepathic twins still open?)
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((As far as I know. If my char gets approved, there'll be two spots left, and I don't think anyone else claimed twins.))
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(Gabriel turner is accepted. I can see you are a fan of Reiki ;) )
(Yes, there are two slots left.)
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((I actually have no idea who or what Reiki is. ^^; I got the gemstone idea from Dungeons and Dragons.))
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(Reiki is the belief that all objects eminate a sort of emotional energy and often involves crystals)
(the headmistress)
The headmistress was thinking while she spooned nearly twice as much sugar as she normaly would into her tea. She was thinking that the school may have to go to war itself. It had never happened before but it had come close she remebered back to the days when she was a student...
1976
Government officals searched everywhere, halls were in dissary, students being questioned, and the shouts of hippe congregations outside furthered the Choas. "You have no right to come in here without a warrent!" headmaster Leory snapped. The man flashed his ID "I am afraid that we do sir". "What would would MI5 want with a boarding school." "I cannot disclose that sir". Then The headmistress in her youth seventeen retorted "I suppose you think the beetles are communists too." "Well the beetles I am afraid weren't mentioned by Stalin in his conferences in Moscow." Leory was astonished "Why would Stalin even have mentioned our school he is off his rocker." The Headmistress knew why Stalin had an profound intrest in telepathy she had reasearch him for an assignment. Leory continued "and why has the government waited to preform a search for so many years he died ages ago". "Sir I suggest you coperate whether you no it or not we're in a war and everyone should do their part"...
Turned out that the offical hadn't waited for a warrent from higher up and was abruptly sacked the next time he bought the school to question. However it unnerved the headmistress that the "gifted" students of her school were nearly drafted by the government into combat.
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((Name: Ryan Tennent
Age: 16
Appearance: Ryan is a tall and lanky youth. He has stormy gray eyes and short cropped hazel hair. He wears nonrestrictive clothes and in accordance to the weather and personal comfort. Mostly slacks and a buttoned up shirt and tie.
Powers: Ryan is the older of the twin. His specific abilities are a form telekinesis. As long as there is earth, soil, minerals and to an extent metal he can bend it, break it and move it around.
Limits: He is limited to the earth elements. He can move other objects but never to the extent he could earth. It also takes a good deal of concentration and energy to move huge objects, such as a ton of soil or rock.
History: Ryan loves his brother. They are twins and no one understood them. It was when he was little during an earthquake that he realized his power and that no matter what, that was his unique difference from his brother. He was trapped in a hole in the earth. It created a slight rift. Their parents sent them to be trained.
Name: Hector Tennent
Age: 16
Appearance: He looks exactly like his twin.
Powers: Hector is the younger and is a cryokinesis. He can slow down the molecules in matter to a point where it is frozen.
Limits: It takes a great amount of energy depending on what he wants to freeze. He cannot accelerate the molecules so whatever he wants to freeze will stay frozen.
History: Hector loves his brother. They are twins and no one understands them. At the same earthquake, while being separated from his brother the first time he realized that he was different from his brother. He was trapped in a freezer. When it was over, the parents sent them to school having noticed their abilities.
Powers for twins: When they are working together, their power is boosted. As empaths they are only empathic to each other, reading each other's minds and focusing their energies inward. Combined, they can lift objects and but individually they are not that focused. Hand contact is important, it greatly increases their 'syncage'.
Does this work? Also what do you mean about posting them?))
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Gabriel sat at her lab and sighed, thinking of the announcement earlier that day.
A lot of the students hadn't taken the Yeerk threat very seriously, since psychics allowed one to notice the Yeerks' thoughts along with the humans. They figured that they wouldn't be able to get caught.
Gabriel, on the other hand, was a bit more concerned. Her own telepathic abilities weren't strong enough on their own to notice the difference. Unless a controller actually came up to her and thought "Hey, there's a Yeerk in this brain", there would be no way for her to know.
Granted, she'd found a few gems that enhanced her natural telepathy, and ever since the announcement she's kept them in her pockets. Just in case. And, due to her love of cargo pants, she tended to have a lot of pockets, unless she had to dress formally.
"I wonder if my research could help the school any..." She muttered to herself. She hadn't really found out anything new about gemstones during her time here. It had taken her a long time to organize the information that was already available. It was only recently that she'd started running her own experiments.
She'd never expected to make any big discoveries. The topic just interested her, plain and simple. But with the Yeerk threat... Wouldn't it be great if she could find a gemstone that helped the school fight the Yeerks?
"Where do I start, though?" She thought out loud.
((EDIT: Even though Gabriel thinks of the lab as her own, I imagine that it's probably a shared lab that all students are allowed to use. She just thinks of it as her own, since she's almost always there when not in one of her regular classes.))
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Name: Cody Herons
Age: 16
Power: Uses his mind to manipulate Gravity, due to this, can knock bullets and beams away from him by creating massive gravity wells around him, can launch himself off the ground with this ability, and can launch 'balls' of gravity which due to massive weight, simply crush anything.
Appearance: rather short, about 5 foot six inches, has ice blue eyes and hair as black as space. Carries a forty caliber automatic pistol and a Glock (Sub-machine gun) around at nearly all times since discovering the yeerk invasion.
Limitations: Cannot do this underwater, the massive weight would pull him down immediately and drown him. He cannot fly, and is not bullet-proof.has an effective range of fifty feet, and a real but not effective range of one hundred feet.
History: Parents were both controllers when he was 12. But during an accident, they were lost in the wilderness, starving their yeerks. THe managed to find a road and hitch-hike back home where they told Cody everything. America was not safe anymore, so they sold everything and moved to Britain where e they discovered this school and signed up Cody for it. Cody, had found his abilities right before the move. He quickly developed them, he believes himself to be ready. However, he is about to taste true combat.
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Chad had sat through the assembly mostly silent. He didn't know what to believe. He trusted the headmistress and all, but he wasn't quite sure. He was confident in his abilities, but he wanted to know more about the Yeerk's technology before going on a holy crusade of justice or something. The thought of becoming a superhero made him chuckle. He began running over super named as he left for the training room. He felt like testing the extents of his powers.
He rummaged through his backpack and found some pain pills. He had been secretive about taking them when he was training hard, so the teachers wouldn't take them from him. Sometimes he needed them when he was working hard with his powers.
(I'm thinking of making him kind of a pain pill addict, since he had headaches when he reaches a certain point.)
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Acre heard pounding near one of the walls. "What the hell is that?" He got off his chair and wandered towards the sound. He looked over the edge of the roof and saw a girl banging on the door. He looked a little harder and recognized her from one of the classes he usually skipped. "Hey Sierra, what are you trying to go inside for. It's a beautiful day outside and the birds are absolutely stunning."
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Sierra started at the voice. She squinted in an attempt to see who was on the roof. "Oh, hey Acre. Basically if I skip my next class one more time, I'll get a brief suspension. My mum would KILL me. And I got locked out, which is not helping things." Her head tilted when she realized something. "Erm, Acre? How did you get on the roof? It's a bit closed off, isn't it?"
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(Nohensen your character's name is CHAD ::) edit that.)
(the twins and CODY are accepted.)
(Their is one promblem though. Cody can't have a guns, Britan has a very strict
firearms pollicy and the only firearms that I know are legal at all are shotguns for hunting and I think they can only be kept in certain areas. As well guns would make him too powerful.)
(um, To be honest I also think Gabreil could have noticed it alot more easily. She seems to be a very weak telepath to me.)
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((Hmm, I wanted her to be mostly the researchy type than anything else. As I mentioned in her profile, she can mostly just hear thoughts that are projected at her.))
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(Okay. speeking of which...)
"Gabriel." she turned her head and saw the headmistress a distance away. "It is only a mental projection I would like to see you in my office."
The Headmistress went back to her computer then she was done she had created her special list and it was time to call the students on it...
She picked up a sphere with many lenses and pressed the button now the office assumed the form of a world long dead.
(see book 10 "the andriod"- chapter 16 for a description of the pemalite homeworld)
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This sort of projection wasn't uncommon, so Gabriel wasn't even surprised to get the message from the headmistress. She put her research away and stretched. She had a free period, so she'd been cooped up in the lab the whole time.
She picked up her backpack and slipped out of the lab, shutting the lights off. She considered trying to do it with her mind, but didn't feel like being disapointed. She'd learned a long time ago that even with the right gemstones, she wasn't telekenetic.
The headmistress's office wasn't far, so she made her way over and knocked on the door.
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Ryan and Hector walked through the halls. Or was it Hector and Ryan? No one could really tell. Not unless they scanned their mind and tried to pick out the individual thoughts. Or see them use their power.
Ryan floated the rock cage, the human inside trying to scream but couldn't as his vocal cords were frozen. Hector tilted his head, hand closely linked with Ryan's. It took a lot of focus to read the yeerk's mind. There were a lot of jumbled thoughts and memories from other hosts.
Once it was over, it was quite easy to tell the controller he was free. The controller, happy, fell off the floating rock and plummeted for a few stories before dying. Ryan floated the rock back into the earth.
"Let's go." He said quietly. "Hrm." Hector muttered, as they walked away hand in hand.
They had to go to class, their free class period was nearly ending.
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Cody was practicing his abilities outside the school during free time. Staring at a boulder, he lifted it up spun it around. Then, he used massive weight to crush it to chunks. He smiled, and turned to another object to try it out.
((Some one interfere now if you want))
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"You're really bad at crushing boulders." Said one twin.
"Yep." Said the other.
The twins were side by side. "Have you heard of what's going on?" They chorused.
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Acre smiled and started to climb down an invisible ladder. "You just need to know how to look at things." He smiled after he stepped safely on the ground. "Well if you insist on wasting a beautiful day inside, I won't stop you, I doubt I could anyway." He focused on the door. "Now back..." He muttered as the small pillar of air he had formed inside pushed the door open. He grabbed the handle. "Enjoy your class, let me know if something interesting happens." He laughed to himself.
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"Thanks." She grinned. "And you mean something interesting besides the invasion, right? There's probably going to be an assembly at some point, so I would suggest you be ready for that. Thanks again." Sierra began to walk into the school and towards her mathematics class. She understood it all, so it made no sense why she had to go every day.
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(Uh ::) the assembly already happened or did she miss it)
(Sorry I would have come on sooner had the site not been skrewed up)
Gabriel came into the office she was not used to this either was it another Psychic illusion.
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(She was outside during the assembly. Skipping again)
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"Invasion..." He muttered to himself. "Wait, what invasion?" He called out as the door closed. "Oh damn. What the hell invasion is she talking about?" He started climbing up a ladder he formed from air. "Great, I better not get caught this time." He complained, pulling himself up.
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Chad got through with his training, and swallowed some pills.
(Is the schoolday over now? Not sure if I should say he leaves campus, or goes back to class.)
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(Depends, normaly since it is a private school he might have a dormitory on campus but not like a colledge dorm.)
(The British school "lunch period" is typicaly an hour long and often called break. thought you ought to know.)
The Headmistress did a psychic sweep of the campus most of them were gathered in one place she decided to call them it was time
(At this point the rest of the characters receive psychic images from the headmistress) "Sit down Gabriel. I take it you have been working harder on your Psyco-gemological projects now that you have heard the news." like most psychics the head mistress saw the question of "How are you doing?" to be a trival firstly because the person would usally say fine and don't remark on their actual mood and secondly her empathic sense automaticly detected feelings and moods (one of the reasons she origonally studyed to be a psycologist).
(note: they cannot respond or talk to her because it is a one way message. "___ (character's name/s) I would like to see you in my office" are the exact words )
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Ryan and Hector looked at each other before leaving. They went off to an area where they can relax before listening and watching the psychic image.
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"Perfect timing, I suppose." Chad said, and hid the pills as he went to the office. He started thinking of questions to ask the Headmistress, since he wasn't sure what to do. Yes he was powerful and all, but he was still learning. He needed more information. Of course, he'd need to be polite about it.
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Sierra stepped into the building just as the Headmistress's message came. She sighed and rolled her eyes. She changed directions, heading toward her office.
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Gabriel was taken aback by the scenery, but sat down when she was asked to.
"Um, yes, actually. I was going over my research earlier, trying to find something, anything, that could help out... I'll be sure to report any new findings to you, should I come across anything."
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"No, no, no." Acre muttered as he received the vision near the top. "I just can't get a break. Seriously what did I do to get noticed." He muttered as he rappelled down the side of the school. "I know I've missed classes and all, but really, they weren't exactly important. I showed up for the tests." He began muttering as he walked through the school, towards the office, using his power to push doors open for him. "There was the whole tree incident, but it's not like anyone else got hurt. I was the only one there, and my ankles back to normal." He continued his mutterings all the way to the office.
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Headmistress
"You are very dedicated and that is a trait that will be needed for this war. Yes, I said war because I believe that it will come to that. We'll discuss this when the others get here. I read your most recent report on the magnification of psychic abilties through crystals. You have made a remarkable disscovery I quote 'The magnification of ablities depends on potency of the crystal and the data gives us readings that the magnification of psychic powers is almost directly proportional to the concentration of light rays.' In other words telepathic waves are very similar to light rays and exist on the electromagnetic spectrum. You may have helped the school more than you exspect already."
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Sierra reached the Headmistress's office, knocked once, and walked in without having been called in. Before the Headmistress could say a word, Sierra began. "I had better receive an excuse note for this."
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"You will Sierra, please sit down." the Headmistress "No, you are not in trouble. Sit on one of the... mushrooms. Let us wait for the others. I know you want to get home because of your sister but just be patient you can call your house now if you want." the Headmistress stoped talking Sierra was astonished by this manner of speech the Headmistress could have known without telepathy.
The reason why the headmistress came to the accadamy in the first place was to controll her abilities...
She was nine and in a scarlet red dress playing with dolls in her family house living room. It was not actually a house though it was a mansion. Her dad came in and this is when her powers surged. "Hey, darling" her father crooned to her but she was angry she saw into her father's mind and started wailing. "YOU HAVEN'T BEEN IN A MEETING! YOU LYING SCOUNDREL YOUR WITH SOMEBODY ELSE BEHIND MUMMY'S BACK!" Her father was furious "YOU! Don't! Talk! To! Me! Like! That! You..." and then he stopped then it happened her father broke down his mind was being torn appart all the secrets the shaddy buisness deals, the counterfeit buisness and even murders were thrown back into his mind with emotions tenfold. He ran outside took his hunting rifle and shot himself in the head. Death by guilt...
From that day forward she was never the same and she came to believe that people have the chance to either destroy or build themselves and that everyone no matter how innocent has a dark spot.
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Acre pulled the door open by hand and walked into the office. He glanced around at everyone else, with a quick accusing glance at Sierra. "What did I do headmistress?"
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Chad opened the door, and quietly took a seat on a mushroom. He sat behind the others, to better see their reactions. He was being cautious, even though he trusted the Headmistress. At least, he thought he could trust her. He had never tried to peer into her mind, and even if he did her powers would likely brush his aside as a hand brushes away a fly. The more he thought about things, the more paranoid he began to feel. He began making sure that if something happened, he could get out.
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"We still have to wait for the others. I want you to know something this is a meeting actually more of a breifing on events yet to come but also an introduction, at a small dose, to the sentient specimens of the universe. I believe Ryan and hector will be here soon." ( ;) )
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Cody looked at the twins behind him. "No, what is going on?" He inquired.
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Sierra caught Acre's accusing glance, and glared right back at him. She mouthed "I didn't say anything." Out loud, she said "Don't have all day. So hurry up and spill, or I'm out."
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"Now that we are all here. I would like to explain our surroundings this is a hologram a memory of professor alexander our math teacher." she pressed another button the animals appeared but mostly what appeared to be dogs standing upright "This is the homeworld of the Pemalites a society so prosperous peaceful, and happy. They even created mechanical partners," she said and a metal creature closley resembling the Pemalites "they were called the Chee". "Until." professors alexander's voice cam outside of the android "the Howlers attacked."
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Sierra rolled her eyes. "You have got to be kidding me. This is like a bad sci-fi movie."
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"Howlers? Not Yeerks? I thought this was going to be about Yeerks. Now we have to worry about Howlers?" Chad asked.
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Gabriel was listening intently, but didn't comment out loud. In fact, she was tempted to shush the other students, but held herself back. The last thing she needed was to be accused of being a teacher's pet.
Still, there was a difference between being a teacher's pet and having respect, which was clearly something these students lacked.
Instead of dwelling on that, though, she turned her attention back to the hologram around them. The Pemalites looked like such a wonderful society.
The professor Alexander's voice resounded, and she remembered the headmistress saying that these were his memories. Did that mean that professor Alexander was one of these Pemalites? Or maybe one of the Chee robots?
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"Something about slugs. And aliens." The twins said in a conspiratorial voice to Chad.
Voice goes in one ear, goes into the next ear and gets lost and then leaves through the other ear.
"It's wicked."
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then a barage of beams came from above and hit the planets surface and turned it into an almost desolate planet. Professor Alexander spoke "We don't kow why the howlers attacked all we know is that they also unleashed bio-weapons that wiped out the pemalites. We were able to escape to earth with only three pemalites barley alive so we preserved them in the only way possible. We fused pemalite DNA into wolves to create... dogs." The headmistress continued: " The Howlers and the Yeerks are in no way related. In fact the arrival of the Chee on earth took place more than four-thousand years ago. The reason I showed you this is because I wanted to show what would happen if we don't fight. Under the best circumstances humanity would be annailated but the yeerks don't want to kill us they want to enslave us. I have assembled you here for a single reason: all of you have highly powerful and potent abilities even you Gabriel with your crystals and inteligence. The students of this school will become an army and I want you all to be the first battalion...
Any questions?"
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Gabriel let out a horrified gasp as the scene changed to one of violence. She brought a hand to her mouth, and had to take a couple of deep breaths to keep herself from crying. Luckily, she was soon distracted by the headmistress telling them that they would be the first battalion against the Yeerks.
Battalion would mean fighting, most likely. She definitely wasn't a fighter. Sure, she was clever, as the headmistress had pointed out. She knew her own weaknesses, and how to bypass them, at least a little. With time, she could help the rest of the team, too.
I'll have to work extra hard, she thought to herself, Since my powers are weaker, I need to make sure that I can help the team in other ways.
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Sierra shot out of her seat. "You're kidding me. Why should I fight for the human race? Why should I fight for this school? The only reason I'm here is so you can use me. I hate being used. What makes you think I would even WANT to fight to save this crappy planet? What gives you the right to force me into battle? I've got my own problems as is. So unless you produce some way to compensate me, I won't do it." Sierra noticed a few looks being shot her way. "Well excuse me! Most soldiers get paid right? And that's what you're doing to us. Underage soldiers. So. If you have nothing to offer, I'm out."
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Cody replied. "Oh yeah, I know 'bout dem yeerks. Damn them, my folks sent me to this school for that reason. Are we going to use these abilities to kick sug ass at all?"
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"Sierra I can't force you to fight." the headmistress sighed "I just want you to take into account one thing. You and your family are apart of the human race too as much as you may hate other people if you want I will whether you refuse to fight or not can keep your family safe. Same goes with all of your families especially yours Cody." she continued to speak to Cody and also included Gabriel in private thought speak "<Your information on the yeerks will be vital against them what do you know Cody. Also your reasearch skills Gabriel. I would like you both to stay after I have something for each of you.>
( ;D Happy Christmas ;D )
(since the setting is english)
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(ain't it to be Merry?)
"Fighting?" Hector shrugged. "I don't care." He nudged his twin. "Me neither." Muttered the twin.
They saw the fighting and they shared the same thought. "Ew." Said both twins. They linked arms. "If they try to kill us, we'll kill them." They already killed a controller.
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( Happy Christmas is the british way of saying it)
(No posts on Christmas Day)
(Boxing day (What the British call the day after Christmas) No posts until 11:30 eastern standard time)
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Acre watched in silence, before he stood to talk. "Well, maybe it was good the howlers attacked, no offense or anything." He said quickly. "But we got dogs out of it, and I like dogs, can't imagine life without 'em. In all seriousness though, You want to create an army of...well, of us. And if I had heard of this prior to coming here, I'd say it was a bad sci-fi plot. You've chosen the most atypical group that has been seen on the silver screen a million times." He began motioning to each as he spoke. We got possibly apathetic twins, we got our little scientist, we've got a gung-ho let's fight kind of guy, plus mister bundle of nerves, just relax," He said to Chad, "and finally we come to my personal favorite, the anti whatever the hell it is girl with a grudge against the world. Oh and we can't forget me, the guy who skips on his responsabilities and shirks duty. What a cliche we are. And you expect us to fight? Look, I love earth as much as the next guy, unless it's Sierra, no offense, but really. How are we supposed to defend ourselves against aliens and everyone else. I can't speak for any of you, but I'm pretty sure an alien could do some damage in a fight." He sat down and, not for the first or last time, wished he was on the roof, watching birds.
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"I need to call my parents. If this is real, they need to know." Chad said. He wanted to warn them, but he also wanted to just talk to someone he trusted completely. Assuming they hadn't already been taken. If they had, he wondered if he could pull a Yeerk out of a host brain without killing the host. That went back to his lack of information.
"Acre is right that this is a motley crew we have here."
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Sierra hid a grin at Acre's description of her. "It isn't that I hate the human race, it's just...Well some people just aren't worth fighting for. Granted, some are. But...I don't know. What would we have to do?"
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"Chad before you finish dialing stop. You're parents especially would know that the yeerks can tap phone lines one thing is definatly for sure though all of you are going to need protection, armor. Mister Alexander I will assing you to this task. As for the rest of you be careful I will give you all 24 hours to decide we will meet back here same time 3:30 tomorrow. You are dissmissed except for Gabreil and Cody."
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(Do you mean Cody or Chad?)
Chad put the phone back and sat down again. He didn't say anymore, and hoped that the Headmistress would give more answers.
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Acre stood and walked out into the hallway. "Twenty four hours to decide whether I want to live or die." He sighed dramatically. "I suppose I could fight a howler thing. If it charged me I could make a pointy stick." He started snickering. "Yes, I will fight with my pointy sticks of justice. To war then, and to hell we all shall go. Though, to quote the great Churchill, I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." Acre snickered again. "That's what happens when I buy the wrong book." He turned around to see if Sierra was nearby.
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"We're up for some death and killing." Ryan grinned, waving a finger. "After all, isn't it us before them?"
"Bros before ho's?" Hector chortled.
Then Acre's comment clicked. "We're not apathetic!" They shouted in unison at the Acree. "Besides it's better us than Sierra the Bi-otch!"
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Sierra tapped the twins on their shoulders. They simply hadn't noticed her. "Now, now. I may be a 'bi-otch' but at least I'm not reliant on a man. Hmmmm, does that sound familiar? Iiiiincest!" She said in a sing-song voice, accompanied with a grin.
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"This would be a really bad time to get into a fight, people. So cool it." Chad said in his most serious voice. He usually didn't care to boss people around, but he wasn't in a good mood right then. He didn't feel like watching the three most mental students around get into a fight.
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Sierra rolled her eyes. "Oh, come on. Why so serious? Jeez, if you can't laugh a little at other people, things get quite boring. Besides, they knew it was just a joke. Right?"
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(Meanwhile in the headmistress's office)
"Chad take these." the headmistress tossed cody a bag of what appeared to be a crushed green powder. "stir some in water and it makes and excelent tea even iced it is very good for headaches and pain" she said stressing the sylables of the last six words.
"As for you Gabriel I want you to start a factory for crystals you can invite any amount of students who can work with the crystals and you will all be excused from class and assignments you may start whenever you wish. Lab three is free I think I set it up to your needs."
"You are both dismissed." as soon as they were out the door professor alexander appeared hold a tube of perscription pain pills which in the next second were crushed into tiny bits and and sprinkled into the trash can. "You know I havent made armor since I made Henry the eighth's suit. I spent just an hour trying to get that cup right even for a big guy he must have had the largest boll..." Professor alexander was cut off by the headmistress. "All the more reason to get started then."
(I know what King Henry VII's armor looks like it is on display in the tour of London and what professor alexander says about the armor is absoultly true.)
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(I'm going to assume you mean Chad, and not Cody.)
Chad followed all of the instructions, and the chaffer took him to the estate. He had used a little of the green powder in some sweet, iced tea. It worked much better than the pills. He wasn't sure what the Headmistress wanted him to do at the estate, but hopefully it would help him get ready for what she wanted him to do.
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Acre smiled as he waited. "Yes," he muttered, "and the stake of the world is in our hands. Funeral parlor is gonna be seeing some influx. Hey, Sierra," He called. "I want to talk to you."
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Sierra sighed and stop walking. "Listen, Acre. I really have to get home. So please, make it quick."
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Acre smiled and tapped the side of his head. "Well far be it from me to keep you waiting, hurry on home. My thoughts can wait. I was simply going to ask if you enjoy birdwatching. Carry on with your business then and I shall see you on the morrow." With a bow he walked away, chuckling to himself. In a few more years I'll have it down. He thought to himself.
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Sierra watched Acre walk away, a look of confusion spreading on her face. She grinned at Acre's antics, but then remembered her sister, and started jogging home.
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The twins gave Sierra a raspberry before dispersing. Over all this yeerk thing was rather interesting but not really a big thing. It's not as if anything will change. Sure battles will be not so fun but depending on who won, things won't change. Nothing major.
When they returned to their apartment, Ryan checked his emails while Hector checked the voice messages. They knew not to contact their parents. Too dangerous.
"We should piss off Sierra." Hector advised, head tilted. "Make a mountain out of a mole hill." Ryan dreamed.
The twins grinned and started off to Sierra's house. When one brother can manipulate the earth, he can do a lot of property damage.
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Gabriel nodded at the instructions, thankful that they were a lot simpler than the ones Chad received. She headed for Lab 3, where there was indeed a setup already.
"Alright," She said out loud. Talking to herself tended to help her concentrate. Besides, she was alone in the lab, "So I'll prioritize crystals that increase telepathy first. They'll probably be the most useful. After that, telekinesis, for offense."
As she spoke, she wrote down everything on a white dry-erase board.
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Sierra returned home, immediately calling her sister's name. "Hey, Cara. How do you feel?"
(btw, I'm going to speak for her as well. That's ok, right?)
"I'm alright. Well, for now." Cara's voice was hardly above a whisper.
"Don't talk like that. The doctors don't know anything." Sierra said, with a weak smile, not really believing her own words.
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((I don't think I've mentioned this, but I plan for Cody to have basic telepathic abilities. His aren't very strong because he doesn't like to use them for moral reasons. He can tell what someone is thinking while they're thinking it, but nothing deeper. He can also distinguish between a Host's thoughts and a Yeerk's thoughts, if they're thinking separate things.
I've also been thinking of giving him an acute ability to sense movement within his fifty foot area of effect.))
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"You know, I've always wanted to fly." Acre said to himself as he stepped outside and looked at the two birds flitting around the sky. "Well I guess you take what you can get." He began walking in a large circle, and after a few rotations, he began to rise up a few centimeters every step. "Black rose and radio fire" he began singing to himself as he rose. His revolutions grew tighter and he went faster until he stopped walking in a circle and started walking up invisible steps, climbing to the sky at a fast pace. "This does not need to be this hard." He muttered, breathing heavily. "He looked up at the birds who were starting to circle around him. "Don't worry my feathered friends, I come to join you, not hurt you."
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Cody got up and left, wondering what to do. He had just arrived at the school, so he was rather confused on what do do. He decided to go to the head mistresses office, o see what he should do. Walking over to her, he asked her. "Excuse me madame, but I just got here and I'm rather confused on what to do. What should I do?
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(Sorry I get mixed up beetween Cody and Chad so from now on all will list their character's name at top of post in bold to avoid confusion. That is what I ment by listing your character's name in the rules but I haven't enforced it.)
Professor Alexander
The hyperfurnace burned as bright as ever rearranging the particles in the heap of scrap metal and producing a dracon resistant material much like the professor's own structure and yet lightweight. As the molten began to cool the professor pounded the material with all of his mightand skill and produced a perfect chest plate. Now for the rest. He kept working for four hours under heat and stress under which any human would surley die untill he had the armor for all of the suits. Now to work on the finer points and atachments of the designs made from loot stolen from the yeerks but nothing that would be missed.
(Was Cody at the meeting)
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They arrived. One knocked on the front door while the other ringed the doorbell. The two boys checked their hair, making sure they looked exactly the same before waiting for a response.
The earth beneath the ground shifted a bit, as they waited and the ambient temperature grew colder.
Ryan and Hector exercised their abilities a bit while they waited.
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Sierra
Sierra sighed when somebody knocked at the front door and rang the bell. Overkill much? "I'll be right back Cara." She turned and her fake smile fell off her face. She walked slowly toward the door and yanked it open. "What." The way she said it, it sounded more like a statement than a question.
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Ryan and Hector
"Sierra wanna go hang out with us?" They chorused. "We want to play with you."
They were one to play tricks and sometimes good company at times. Others times not so.
Ryan stood on his tiptoes. "Whose the other one?" He didn't recall Sierra having a sibling. "She could be a significant other." Hector offered, their limited ability to read minds very limited.
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Sierra
Sierra looked back. Cara had gotten up. Sierra rolled her eyes. "Cara, you really should stay in bed." To the twins she said "She's my sister. She's...not well." It was Cara's turn to roll her eyes. "By not well, she means I have cancer. And besides, Sierra. I'm dying anyways. Might as well have some fun while I've got time." The pleading look Cara gave her broke Sierra. "Ryan, Hector. Is it ok if my sister hangs out with you? I really can't and," She lowered her voice so Cara couldn't hear her "it would mean a lot to her." For once, Sierra's eyes were pleading. The look was there briefly, but quickly gone.
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Ryan and Hector
"Well..." The twins looked at each other before nodding. Ryan leaned in. "You owe us."
Hector waved at Cara. He leaned in as well. "Does she know?" The ambient temperature dropped a bit more where the trio were standing.
(where should they take her? )
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. She hated owing people. But it was her sister. Sierra felt the temperature drop, and shivered, wrapping her arms around herself. "She knows." Sierra gave no further explanation. As she and her sister passed one another she whispered under her breath "Be careful. They're tricksters" Cara grinned "I can handle them."
(Doesn't really matter. Movie, park, theatre, whatever. The sister doesn't get out much, so she won't care)
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan and Hector smiled pleasantly at Cara. "You're far more pleasant to the eyes than your dear sister."
Ryan coughed. "So, where do you wanna go? Want to play in the snow?" He thought about snowboarding. "Or we can do something mundane like....kill moles or something." Crush them in their little holes.
Hector elbowed Ryan. "Ignore the idiot. What do you want to do?"
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(Huh. I guess I have to be Cara as well.)
Cara (Sierra's sister)
Cara laughed at the antics of the two. Though she was a bit nervous about Hector's...or was it Ryan's? comment about killing moles. "Well...I don't know." The two weren't looking at her, so she surreptitiously gathered a fistful of snow. "I suppose we could have a snowball fight." With that, she hit one of the twins in the head with the snow.
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Ryan and Hector
The snowball caught Hector in the face, tipping him over on his back on the ground. Ryan giggled inappropriately before making a motion with his hand, the earth shook and the snow on the roof cracked and fell on Cara. She got covered.
Hector sat up, brushing the snow off. "Aw, that was mean." He pouted and let the snow freeze, esaling her in the snow. It wasn't that dangerous.
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Acre
Acre stopped walking and looked down. He was a few hundred feet up, and he was starting to take notice. "Should have worn a coat." He muttered as he began to shiver. He sat down, hardening air into a stool, and used it to carry him through the air at a walking pace. "Bet the birds never get cold." He said and looked to see where they had gone. "Strange, he said when he discovered they had disappeared. "I suppose today's agenda is people watching." He began looking at at the people walking around through his binoculars. Just trying to pass the time.
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Cara
Cara slipped on the ice, laughing. "So, let me guess." She points to Hector "Ice," she moved her finger to Ryan "and Earth. Am I right?"
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Ryan and Hector
The twins nodded, slightly put out by how fast she found out. "It's kinda weird that we're twins but we got different MO."
Ryan grabbed Cara, pulling her up. "You're pretty smart to notice." He was sure that his wrist movement was minuscule. And he was sure he didn't make the earth rumble. Hector grumbled, still brushing the snow off his clothes. He wrapped his arm around Ryan's shoulder, leaning on him. "So can you do anything interesting?"
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Cara
Cara sighed. "Well...it's complicated. I mean, it isn't anything like you guys or my sister or whatever, but...I can sort of see auras. Just out of the corner of my eye, and it doesn't really do anything. For example, Hector, yours is tinged silvery-blue. Icy. And Ryan, yours is tinged brown and green. Earthy. Not that useful, but I can tell when someone is experiencing an extreme emotion. Kind of cool, I guess."
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Ryan and Hector
The twins looked at each other before frowning.
"Cara, sister of Sierra, have you ever seen double auras?" Yeerk would have one, then the host would have one.
If their theory on what she sees is correct.
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Cara
Cara grinned. In a lowered voice she said "You're thinking of the yeerks. That isn't quite what it's like. I can only see human auras, so they don't show up. As opposed to being a double aura, there isn't one at all. I assume that the auras originate in the brain, and since the yeerks don't have a visible one to me, and the human brain is overpowered.... But I can't be sure. I don't always see auras. They kind of flicker. I wouldn't be able to help with the battle anyways, though."
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(um, just to say. I don't think it snows much in england especially not brighton because they don't even have a system for canceling school when it snows but I guess if it is cold enough so it basically snows about once every ten years.)
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(Well, we could just say Hector (he's the ice one, I think) made it snow if it comes to that)
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(Snow is still good I was just saying it dosen't happen often)
(And where the heck is master chef)
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Ryan and Hector
The twins looked at each other, mulling over Cera's thoughts on her ability before shrugging. As much as the brain is considered, there are host thoughts, hidden behind the yeerk's over dominating will. Maybe it is just suppressed.
"You don't need to learn how to fight." Ryan smirked, Hector sneered. "You just gotta know when to duck, most people don't duck."
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Cara
Cara smiled, sadly. "That isn't what I meant. I'm not going to be able to help because I'm dying. I'm not going to be alive long enough to help."
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Ryan and Hector
"Cancer?" Hector asked wondering what was killing her. "The Plague?" Ryan rattled off after.
The twins never knew what it was like to die from the inside out. It never really occurred to them. The twins have a rather resilient immune system.
"Syphilis?" Both boys leaned in close with wide eyes.
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Acre
Acre was getting tired of people watching. Every one did the same thing, the same way and it was just boring. "I gotta find me some birds, hello, what's this." He paused in the air and adjusted his binoculars. The twins were tossing snow at some kid. "Oh man, I want to have a snowball fight "this will be more fun then visiting 221 Baker Street. It's been years. He flew lower as he approached and saw that they had stopped and begun talking. Oh come now, we can't have this." He said as he created a thin membrane around a sphere of air that was the same consistency as raw egg. "Evaporates in a few seconds so no harm no foul. And I'll get some entertainment from it." He muttered, aiming carefully. "Not gonna screw this one up like I did at Roedean." Then he dropped it on a twin.
(He doesn't know which one is which so it doesn't matter who it hits.)
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Cara
Cara laughed. "Syphilis? You think I have syphilis? No it's cancer. And-" In the middle of her statement, a blob of some sort fell on one of the twins. From above. "What the..." She looked up, and saw someone floating in the air. "Hey!" She called. "Nice shot!"
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Ryan and Hector
Something wet splashed on Ryan making him look up. There in the air, was a figure he knew. "Acre..." He sent a snow ball right back at him, throwing it at Acre.
Hector coated the mud ball so it was a snow ball with mud in it. Let him think it be harmless. Then splat! Mud! Also, since it was earth, if Acre were to dodge, it'd fly back and hit Acre no matter what!
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Cara
Cara laughed. She was glad her sister let her go and have one last day of fun. When thoughts of Sierra entered her head, her smile disappeared. She felt bad about all Sierra had to do for her. If it wasn't for her, she would probably already be dead.
Sierra
Sierra was glad she had let her sister go. She needed to have this last day of fun. She put on a coat and walked outside. She hated herself for it, but it was necessary. They needed the money. She looked around the street, and saw a rich middle-aged man. She walked over to him. "Excuse me, sir?" She lightly touched his shoulder. "Give me twenty quid." His eyes glazed over, and he drew out his wallet. "Here you go, miss." "Thanks." She moved on, and repeated the process until she had enough money for groceries. After buying the bare minimum, she moved on to her regular job.
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( ::) you people constantly forget the setting)
(In england the currency is "pounds" or in slang "Quid" (like we have bucks instead of dollars) as in "Give me twenty quid.")
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(Crap. Thanks. I'll go change that. Completely slipped my mind.)
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Acre
Acre mimed a large wall into existence in front of him and smiled as the snow and mudball splattered against it, rendering it visible. Then he began dropping down towards the ground quickly. "Rock may beat scissors but air beats all." He smiled. You'll have to catch me unaware next time." He turned to Cara. "Why hello there, I don't believe I've made your acquaintance. You a friend of..." He looked at the twins. "whichever ones which, I don't know." He pointed randomly. "Ryan and Hector."
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(I have nothing to post until the Headmistress shows up. Cody is still in her estate with the chaffur)
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Cara
Cara smiled. She pointed without a doubt to each twin. "That one's Ryan, and that one's Hector. Pleased to meet you. I'm Cara. You may know my sister. Her name's Sierra."
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The Headmistress
The headmistress appeared "Cody I would like to see your parents an interview on the yeerks because we don't know much other than the fact that their are yeerk pools and that they need kandora rays."
"Oh and just so you know george is going to be driving you to the school tomorrow I still wish for you to come to school."
Cody went to find his parents.
Her cell phone rang. "Hello, oh hi Janice." Janice was her fellow alumna who came to the school five years after the headmistress was admited herself Janice was like a little sister to the headmistress who helped Janice consentrate her powers of precognition and improved her aura reading. Janice was a a co-editor of "The Telegraph" since her ability sometimes helped her predict the locations and place where sensational events were to take place. tomorow's news today.
Janice continued speaking "So a young photographer just came into my office saying he had the pictures of a lifetime a boy flying across brighton." the headmistress was annoyed. "Are you suggesting it was one my students their is no one with telekinesis powerful enough to... unless. I will have a talk with him. You got rid of him didn't you?"
Janice said calmly "Don't worry the photo looks like a tweeked version of a seagul that will probably end up in "The Sun". I swear the stuff in there these days if the U.S.A exploded they'd probably be reporting on Beckam's latest girlfriend who ever he is with now. Well I'll let you go now au reviour."
(this RPG starts beetween animorphs 9-10)
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Acre
"You're related to her? I would have never guessed. You seem...I don't know, actually happy, and she seems...I don't know. Angry is a good word for it." He looked around. "She's not here is she? Don't tell her I said that."
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Ryan and Hector
"You're whipped." Ryan and Hector said, shooting Cara a look for revealing who they were. "Sierra's not even your girlfriend and yet...." They made a dismissive movement with their hand.
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Acre
"Is that what you think? She's fine and all, but do you really want to be a the bad side of a girl with mind control. You two enjoy that little experience, I'll happily avoid it thank you."
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Ryan and Hector
"She may try." Ryan said dismissively. Hector patted Ryan on the head. "Combined our brain power can withstand hers!"
"Besides, don't she sound like a yeerk? All she needs is slime." Ice grew beneath Hector's feet. He scowled. "She just needs a bit more time."
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"Well I don't come in a two pack so I have to watch out. Besides, I like to try to be a gentleman. Follow the code and all that. That way, I can be remembered as someone a cut above the rest. I think all of the female order should be appreciated for being the lovely creatures that they are, were, or may be. Call me a sap, I don't care."
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Ryan and Hector
"And yet dearest brother..." Hector mused to Ryan. "He said nothing about her being like a yeerk, messing with minds and all that." Ryan finished.
They both leered at Acre. "Elitist. Cut above the rest. Cream of Crop. Arrogant."
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Chad
Chad went to his parent's house.
"The Headmistress wants to have an interview with her about something important." He said, not mentioning Yeerks directly.
"What is it about?" Derrel, his father asked.
"My future, and other things."
"Sure, we'd love to." Debra said.
They all got in the vehicle to be driven to the estate. As chad sat there, he tried to read their minds. If there were any thoughts of Yeerks, aliens, or the mental sufferings of a host, he hoped he would sense it.
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Yes, thank you, always, and finally, bu**** off. You could show some manners yourself if you wanted to. Always nice to show respect to people. They generally remember you then." He smiled to himself. "It's always in your favor to be kind a bit when speaking to a woman. So don't be raggin me about it."
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Ryan and Hector
The twins stared at each other. "You like Sierra don't you?" Accused the twins simultaneously. "You have a crush on her." They sneered. "You don't tell her off about manners and such. Also what if she mind persuades to do something stupid? She'll be just like a yeerk. Are you going to fight her too?"
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"I may be above hurting a lass, but I am not above fighting you, no matter the odds against me." Acre stepped back into a fighting stance he'd learnedin a brief stint in karate. "It ain't proper to insult a girl in front of her sister either."
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Ryan and Hector
Hector grinned. "Oh. Yeah. Sorry bout that." He said to Cera. Ryan made the Earth soft, like quicksand and then with his two fist, he jerked down. The Earth latched on Acre's ankles and dragged him down, deep enough so only his head will show.
Also, just in case Ryan's attack didn't work, Hector froze Acre's clothes for good measure. If the Earth don't get him, then pure embarrassment once his clothes shatter will.
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"Well if we're foregoing a gentlemen's battle of the fists, I guess you've chosen you're weapons for the duel." Acre grinned and formed a near solid bubble of air around his head in case he went down further, then turned the air around the twins head solid so that they wouldn't be able to breathe.
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Ryan and Hector
As they started to black out, Ryan and Hector did their last attack. First, Ryan sent Acree fifty feet under the Earth, encased in solid rock. Hector froze the air bubbles and shattered them, giving him and his twin air to breathe.
The two spent some time wheezing.
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Acre looked around, no light at all, nothing but rock. He did a few calculations and figured he would have fresh air for another 50 minutes before he'd need to start recycling. Of course he didn't plan to be down here for nearly that long. He began letting the air desolidify and it began to expand. Keeping the air directly around his head thick, the air pressure underground began to crack the rock at the weak points created as he had been drawn down. The rock began to split apart and he managed to wriggle around a tiny bit. He checked the pace and realized he had been wrong. It would take a bit of time to get back to the surface. Closer to an hour at best. I need to hit a basement or an air pocket. He thought as he began pulling himself towards the surface at a snails pace.
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Ryan and Hector
"Think he's going to die?" After they gained enough air they stared at the ground. Ryan shrugged. "If he's smart, he'll know when to burrow up." He scratched his head. "Hopefully the air pressure there won't kill him."
Hector shrugged. "Ponce." He tapped the earth. "Let him die."
"Well....." Ryan shrugged before moving his hand up. A column of rock moved, giving Acre a tunnel as wide as his arm. "Hey, you alive down there?" Ryan shouted, he could feel wiggling so either Acre is alive or he dying.
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"No, not alive per se." Acre replied. This was what he needed. He drew in as much air as he could and, using the same method of expansion, he cracked a hole gig enough he could fit through, and used his original air to blast himself the fifty feet in less then two seconds. After which he unfortunately was unable to slow down and continued another 80 feet before getting his wits together and lowering himself down slowly. "Are you daft or just balmy. Not like I was trying to kill ya. Knock some sense into your heads yeah, but not kill ya. Absolutey cowing overkill. Honestly." He turned to Cara. "I apologize for my behavior and my language and all that. Please excuse me, it was nice getting your acquaintance." He said before storming off down the street in a huff.
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Ryan and Hector
"Overkill?" Hector asked, head tilted before shrugging to look at Ryan. "He's just weak. In a manly duel, he would have died." Ryan concurred. "I think his pride got squished."
"I think I knocked some sense in him." Ryan snorted. "It's war you moron!" He shouted at Acre's back.
Totally dismissive of him, Ryan and Hector turned to Cara. "Sorry about that. We ruined your day." They were actually sad that they messed it all up. Ryan made sure that the gaping hole in the earth was sealed up.
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Cara
Cara sighed, waving to Acre's back. "That's ok. Worse things have happened. Although, he did seem perfectly nice. And, if I may say so, the odds were against him. Even though you two may seem like one person, you aren't. The odds were still 2:1." She suddenly grinned. "And so what if he has a crush on my sister like you assume? She hasn't had a boyfriend in a while. All she does is take care of me." She shook her head. "Well, I suppose we can still salvage the rest of the day. What do you want to do now?"
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Ryan and Hector
"Want to get out? Movie? Market?" Ryan searched through his pockets for some money. "I think we have enough."
Hector nodded. "Come on. Let's go." He held out his hand.
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Cara
Cara smiled. "You read my mind. I would love to get out." She stood up and took Hector's hand. "Onward, comrades!"
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Ryan and Hector
They went to the movies, bought popcorn and soda. Then off to the market to buy some odds and ends. Ryan and Hector dragged Cara around the whole area. When it was over, both twins kissed her on the cheek, one for each side.
"We had a lovely time." Chorused the twins, grinning happily. "We should do this again."
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Cara & Sierra
Cara grinned, "I had a good time too. Oh, here's my number." She pulled a pen and a piece of paper out of her pocket and scrawled out her number, giving it to the twins. "Call me if you guys want to hang out again." She handed them the scrap, and walked into the house. "Sierra! I'm back" "Hey! Did you have fun?" Cara smiled. "Yeah. Those two are really fun. Though...they did have a little fight with Acre." She turned, and saw Sierra, head in her hands, sitting at the table. "I'm sorry, Cara. I...I did it again." Cara noticed Sierra's aura darken with shame. Cara sighed. "You stole, didn't you." Sierra nodded miserably. "I'm sorry. We needed the money. My job and Mum's job isn't enough. There's a new treatment." Sierra sighed, resigned. "I'm sorry, but this is how it has to be. I'm going out. I'll be back later. Try and get some sleep." Sierra walked out of the house, and into the night.
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan pocketed the number and the twins went home happy. They wacked Acre a new one, got a number and made someone happy. All was well.
Also, Sierra owed them. Heheheh!
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Sierra
Sierra walked toward a nearby park. She glanced quickly around, to be sure nobody would see her, and began to quickly and surreptitiously climb her favourite tree. It was perfect. She could see out, but nobody could see her. The perfect place to think and get away from her problems.
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The Headmistress
waiting was easy for the headmistress with professor alexander's recent update she was sure that sierra's persuasion would be vital if... she made a quick call.
Dr.McDougal was leaving the hospital his cell phone rang. "Hello, oh it is you. You want what? you know that is down right expensive." McDougal was another graduate of Brighton Accadamy his abilities were unique an advanced healing ability that boosted the immune system was very helpful it also boosted several other functions such as strength and bone healing this coupled with his inteligence made him one of the best docters in the whole United Kingdom. "That treatment is a closly guarded miracle of star medicine and not even the court case for refusal to provide it under the free healthcare system. Yes I am sure I have sensed it ,interupted brainfrequences unwillingly ultered. What are you saying? This line had better be bl***y well untapable. On one condition you pay for my ticket to the states and never bug me again. Deal." the scotish docter ansewered each question tossed his way by the head mistress. He hung up, "I wonder if I still have some of that scotch left." he thought to himself.
(bug** is actually technically a swear word in england I am afraid I shall have to smite thee if you don't correct it soon)
(The U.K. has a free healthcare system so I had to justify that.)
(Acre should not use "lass" unless he is scotish other wise it is just plain weird)
(HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE)
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Acre
(He's half Scottish, half Irish. He was sent to Brighton from Scotland to learn to control his powers.)
He was sulking, he knew it. He had lost a fight and he had started it. It wasn't ever about the girl. If it was he would have fought back sooner. He deserved to lose. He wandered around the roads for awhile before stopping by the Fortune of War pub for a drink and a light dinner. He then went back to his room quite a bit mellower. He hopped on his computer and began to write about his day, then created a special hidden page. to chronicle the war. He knew he'd need a to do list, as well as documentation if he lived to tell the story.
Day 1: the start happened today, got in a fight, wrong enemies. Try harder next time. Collect strategy books. Began planning. Write obituary, plan funeral for each person. Work on Last Rites tomorrow. Updates to come.
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Chad ans his parents walked through the Headmistress' house, and stood outside her door.
"You've been vague about what this meeting is about, Chad." His father asked.
"Well, the Headmistress will fill in the details, I'm sure. I'm just the delivery boy." He said.
Their combined weight was under 500 lbs. If they turned out to be controlers, then he could easily restrain them.
(I'm turning Chad into the kind of person that thinks seriously, and worries a lot.)
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Sierra
Sierra jolted awake. Her body was stiff from lying in a tree for so long. She checked her watch. 3 hours! Frantically, Sierra half climbed, half jumped down the tree, and began to steadily jog back to her house.
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"Ah, you are here my chaffur is out to pick up Cody. I have bought you here for a simple reason to tell you about yeerks..." she explained what she knew in great detail. "Any questions?"
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"Yeerks. Ah." Derrel said. He leaned towards Debra and whispered to her. "Are we supposed to know what Yeerks are?"
"I don't know. Chad never mentioned anything about Yeerks."
"Maybe it's a special psychic term?"
"Just ask her."
"Ms. Headmistress, what is a Yeerk?" He said out loud.
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Ryan and Hector
Slept like babies. Ah, this was awesome. Now, what to torture Sierra with? Make her lick their shoe? No..no...
"Let's get her to kiss someone." Ryan pointed to a picture from a group photo. "How about that girl?" Hector shook his head. "No."
They looked at each other. "Why not a controller?" The twins burst into laughter. "Hehehe....oh, that is a brilliant idea."
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The Headmistress
"You haven't been listening a yeerk is a slug like being of extraterrestrial origions they controll a host's through it's Brain they already have several other specices under their heel. Both of you work for star enterprises, I am afraid that the yeerks have taken the company and its leader. You see the yeerks are slowly taking over the company employee by employee and it will not be too long before they take you and if they have you they have what you know about our school and if the yeerks were to know about the school they would do anything to destroy it and take the students as hosts. As telepathic adepts we would be catastrophic to their organization as enemies but as their slaves our abilities would only strengthen their empire that is why I ask you to quit your jobs I will personally help you find an organization that would welcome your technical expertise."
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"I suppose that won't be too big of a hassle." Derrel said. "We already quit our original jobs in America before moving here."
"As long as we get new careers to keep paying the bills with, I'm fine with quitting." Debra said. "I'm more worried about the idea of Chad fighting these Yeerks. We sent him here to help control his abilities, but weren't intending him to fight wars."
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The Headmisstress
"We are here today because young men and women alike fought for our freedom against the Nazis and the Soviets alike and the yeerk's have declared war on earth and Chad's abilities I am afraid means that he and others of his prowess will have to fight against the yeerks." the headmistress was concerned with what she was saying especially at the word "Soviets". Was she draging the students into a war they didn't have to fight? No the cold war wasn't a direct threat. This concerned the planet and human kind. When they needed to fight second world war psychics were the most successful of british spies. She remebered the day after her father's funeral...
It was a bright and sunny day but the sun was hardly suited to the occasion and her mother was visting relatives leaving the middle aged nanny Bella took care of her. "Bella." the nanny turned around understanding in her eyes "I think I killed dady I saw everything in his head I think I may have made him go mad." The nanny was shocked but only mildly "It wasn't your fault your abilities were out of controll." the headmistress at her age was perplexed "Abilities?" the nanny explanied "Some people have the ability to know what others are thinking sometimes these abilities emerge very quickly and people don't know how to handle it." "You mean I have these abilities." "Yes some people can read others minds and some like me can even move things with our minds." the dollhouse floated in midair slowly went over to the other side of the room and back. "I can also see what is in people's heads like you once I even caught a german spy during the war I was actually a nurse. So once you have controll over them your abilities can help people."...
from that day forward Bella the nanny helped her controll and use her abilities until the day came where the headmistress came to the school that she would later lead.
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"Chad isn't old enough to go to war. He's only sixteen." Debra said, though she knew she was just grasping at straws. "He has to wait almost two years, until he's eighteen."
"Yeah, sure thing Mom. But how will we get the Yeerk general to postpone the invasion for a year an a half?"
"That's too long a wait. besides, Chad is pretty mature for his age." Derrel said.
"What about his studies? His future?"
"What? All Chad has to go is find the general, then make his head explode or something."
"Eew." Chad said.
"He gets headaches, Derrel. He could die just from using his powers, not to mention other beings trying to kill him."
"Then he'd best work on teamwork skills, I guess."
"Ugh!" Debra said, and walked to another side of the room in frustation.
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Sierra
Sierra quietly slipped into the house, hoping not to wake her mother or sisters. It turned out not to matter. Her youngest sister, Laurie, was impossible to wake once she had fallen asleep. Her mother was asleep on the couch next to an empty bottle of wine. Sierra quickly cleaned up, and pulled a blanket over her mother. And finally, Cara was still awake. She came flying out of her room when she heard Sierra. "Sierra...I just..." She was unable to finish her sentence, as she had begun to throw up blood. "No. Oh, no." Sierra ran to the phone and dialed for an ambulance. She then went back to her sister, holding and rocking her. "Shhh. Shhh. It's going to be alright." Sierra had to hide the tear that fell down her cheek.
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Ryan and Hector
While in the middle of celebrating their victory, the twins both turned their heads at the same time with a loud crack.
"Hey...did you feel that?" Ryan rubbed his neck. They went over to the piece of paper with the numbers scrawled on it. "You know...." Hector murmured, feeling something odd.
"Something is wrong." Ryan murmured, staring at the paper intently. They heard the loud sounds of an ambulance.
Hector was already climbing out of the window. "Come on, let's follow it." Ryan followed and the twins chased after the ambulance.
It lead them to Sierra's house.
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Sierra
The paramedics shot into her house with a stretcher. They piled Cara onto it, asking where her mother was. "She's asleep. Impossible to wake. Please, can we go? I'll leave a note." The paramedics finally gave in, and Sierra climbed into the back of the ambulance, holding Cara's hand the whole time. Just as she stepped in, though, she noticed Ryan and Hector.
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Ryan and Hector
The two boys looked sad, they had seen Cara being put into the ambulance. Admittedly it was fun playing and they just never realized how close Cara was on death's door.
Ryan waved, indicating with a few hand motions that they were going to follow. Even though they disliked Sierra a bit, they weren't vindictive.
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Sierra
Sierra paced in the waiting room, her nails digging into her palms. She wiped the line of blood resulting from her nails on her jeans, not caring about the possible stain. It was taking nearly all of her willpower to keep from bursting out in tears. Every time a doctor came into the room, she jumped, hoping it was Cara's with good news. Alas, each time it was not. She was unsure whether this was a good omen, or one laced with foreboding.
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Ryan and Hector
The twins followed the ambulance.
It was a weird feeling, being worried about someone else other than themselves. Sierra's emotions were nearly tangible. She was broadcasting quite loudly. Even the twins, horrible as they were at empathy, could feel it.
They went into the waiting room, going up to pacing Sierra. "Hey...." Ryan began lamely. "Want a muffin?" Hector finished, feeling very stupid.
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Sierra
Sierra jumped at the sound of a voice behind her. "What?" It took her a second to realize what Hector and Ryan had said. "Well..." She looked at the ICU room longingly. "Really quickly. I have to be here when she wakes. Mum certainly won't be."
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Ryan and Hector
They nodded. "Come on, the cafeteria is a floor down." They led her to the elevator down to the commissary.
There was a large selection of muffins. "We'll pay." Ryan handed out some money to the cashier.
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Sierra
Sierra picked up a lemon poppy seed muffin, and sat at a table. "Thanks guys. On behalf of Cara, thank you." Sierra pulled at the muffin, eating it only to be polite. She barely kept it down. Suddenly, she was overwhelmed. By everything. Her sister, the twins. A tear slid down her cheek. Quickly, she wiped it away, hoping against hope Ryan and Hector had not seen.
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan noticed and by extension as did Hector. They felt awkward, nearly really interacting with the other students at the school much less Sierra.
The twins patted Sierra's shoulder hesitantly. "There...there...eve rything will work out." Ryan offered, the words barely getting passed his throat. This comforting notion was so hard to do correctly.
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Sierra
Sierra laughed. "It's ok, guys. I'm fine. Really." She stood and started back to the ICU. "Do...do you guys want to wait up for a while? You can tell me what my repayment is." She grinned. "Hopefully it's something good."
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Ryan and Hector
"Sure. We're not doing anything at the moment." The twins followed her.
They telepathically argued a bit on her repayment will be. After a bit of mental yelling, they finally picked it. They were back at the ICU waiting area.
Ryan went up to Sierra, near her ear and whispered. "A kiss." He said impishly. Hector went on her others side and agreed. "Yeah. A kiss for each of us."
Hah, that that Acre!
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Sierra
Sierra's jaw dropped. "You want...You want me to kiss you." She sighed. "Cheek, forehead, or lips?" She asked, dreading the answer.
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Ryan and Hector
They were stupefied. No way. She actually agreed.
"I don't know brother....my virgin lips..." Hector mused, staring at Sierra and grinning like a loon. Ryan giggled and smirked. "There are other places....." He trailed off. The twin's dirty minds went racing.
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Sierra
Sierra lifted an eyebrow. "When I said 'Cheek, forehead, or lips' those were your only options. I'm not..." She could imagine what they were thinking by the expressions on their faces. "Ick. I don't even want to know what you two are thinking right now." She shuddered. "Please. Make your choice."
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Ryan and Hector
"Lips!" Chorused the twins after they waded out of the dirty garbage that was running a muck in their heads.
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Sierra
Sierra cringed. "I had a feeling that was going to be the answer." She sighed. "Why did my premonition have to come true? Oh well. So...um...Now? Or do you want to have me kiss you in front of the Queen?" Oh, no. Sierra thought. I should not have given them the idea of an audience.
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Ryan and Hector
"Why...Sierra..." They both raised eyebrow. "What a brilliant idea."
It took but a second. "Kiss us at school. In class...." In front of Acre they both thought but kept a tight lid on that thought.
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(This is interesting, and I wish I could take part, but Chad is elsewhere.)
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Sierra
Sierra was proud of herself. It had taken nearly all her self control to keep from hitting the twins. But she had done it! Her teeth clenched. She breathed in slowly, then back out. She closed her eyes. "Fine. Let me know when...when it's time, I suppose." She felt, once again, the incredible urge to punch the two. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on perspective) a doctor walked up. "Excuse me. Is your name Sierra?" Sierra nodded, fearing the worst. "Your sister is awake and asking for you." Sierra breathed a sigh of relief, and shot toward her sister's room. She sat with Cara while she was awake, soothing her. Then she stood, and called her mum.
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Ryan and Hector
The twins grinned cheekily to each other. Once they got their victory party over in their head they sneaked in after Sierra. Their original objective was to see if Cara was alive. Which she was. That was a relief.
The twins peaked in from the door.
(gtg, brb)
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Sierra
"Please, Mum. You have got to come to the hospital...Because they need a guardian's signature...I know I am, but not legally...Mum! Get your b***** a*** off the couch and come to the hospital! Thank you." Sierra snapped the phone shut. "Hey, Cara. Mum's coming to take us home again." Cara nodded, still half asleep from morphine. Sierra sighed, hoping the cure would come soon.
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Ryan and Hector
The twins waited outside, figuring that they probably were not allowed in the room. Or Sierra might deck them for coming in.
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Sierra
Sierra rubbed her temples, awaiting her mum's arrival. And when she arrived, Sierra knew. In fact, the entire hospital probably knew. In addition to several surrounding cities. "Sierra! Sierra, darling!" Sierra shot out of her chair, and ran towards her mother. She passed the twins without a second glance. "Mum! You're in an effing hospital! Shut up!" Sierra's mother quieted. "Are you drunk?" Sierra murmured, guiding her to Cara's room. Her mother just smiled, which was all the answer she needed. With a sigh, Sierra guided her mother through all the necessary steps to release Cara from the hospital. Before Sierra left with her mum and sister, she went to the twins. "Thanks. And I'll see you at school."
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Ryan and Hector
The twins puckered up before nodding. "See you at school." They chirped and then they too left.
As they walked home Ryan remarked, in almost a dream like voice. "I wonder if she's a screamer."
Hector grinned. "Who knows."
New mission, try to find out if Sierra is a screamer. Aside from their war duties of course.
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Sierra
Sierra helped her sister and her mother into bed. She made a note to call Cara's school and let them know of her absence. Then she set to clean the house. She cleaned until she looked at the clock and noticed the '2:30' shining out at her. Crap. School tomorrow. She climbed into bed, and fell asleep, completely exhausted.
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(so what now? do we progress to school? or do we wait for the parent headmistress talk?)
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(huh. not sure. we should probably wait, but that is a bit boring.)
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(true. want to continue on PM?...or discuss a subplot within the RP?)
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(subplots are fun. so, obviously, there's the issues with Sierra's sister and her mother. what else do you want to do?)
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(maybe, in order to not spam the hell out of this RP thread.....want to make another thread to discuss subplots? Or do it in PM?....this way it can surprise everyone else!)
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(ooh PM is good)
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(I am back from my trip to the hork-bajir homeworld ;) .)
(Great writing but please partially bleep out british swearing because this forum is international)
(At this point cody's parents are in hiding protected by the headmistress it is now lunch break and all of the students have been called)
(Master cheif where the heck are you?)
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(So what do you want me to do with Chad and his parents?)
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Acre
Acre sat on the roof thinking. It was about time to meet with the headmistress for the final decision. He pulled together a few of his papers. He looked up. Several carrion crows were flying and he jumped. "Lousy flesh-eaters." He muttered. "A bad omen if I ever saw one." He stood up and looked over the edge of the school. "I guess it's time to make a choice." He scoffed. "Some choice." He looed over his notes again. "Even if we win we've lost this war." He took a few step before leaping off the roof. He softened the blow, but he still landed hard. He stood and cracked his neck. "Let's get it over with." He walked through the doors of the school and stopped outside the office. I've better wait for everyone else. He thought and leaned against the wall.
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Chad
"Hey Acre." Chad said as he reached the office. "I'm feeling kind of nervous about this, even though I'm probably the most powerful member of the group. Maybe with some good planning we can end this quickly. Hit key points, and kill key enemies. Throw them into chaos and drop morale."
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Sierra
Sierra came up behind the two. "You're the most powerful? Now, now don't get a big head. All the more room for a yeerk." She grinned.
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"Hey Sierra. Pretty good comeback. But look what we've got? Three telekinetic specialists, someone who can effect anything withing his zone of control, a girl who can manipulate people that she can touch, and a girl who works with crystals. Actually, who's going to be the leader of our group? Or will the Headmistress go with us on missions?"
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"You look like you need sleep Sierra. And Chad, I don't care, you should feel nervous. In all truth, we'll probably be dead by the time this war is over. And that's if we're lucky. The odds are against us. I'd say more, but I need to talk to the headmistress to see if I'm right." Acre stared at the door. There was no turning back once inside.
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Ryan and Hector
"Actually!" The twins popped out, going to the group. "We're more powerful. In the game of war, infantry get killed. No offense Sierra."
Ryan waggled a finger at the others. "If they send ground troops, we'll just bury them. If they send aerial support, Acre here will use his thingy."
They were completely dismissive of Chad. "Besides we have to do it in a manner in which this school will not be exposed." Hector added. "We're not innumerable. The best thing to do is to strike at distance. We can't take the fight to them. We don't want to die."
The twins nodded, tapping their heads. "That's why we're going to use our noggin. Thinking. Right Acre?" They leered at Acre, gently reminding him of who won yesterday.
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Chad
(Kissing scene time?)
Chad considered countering their argument, but felt that would only lead to a fight. He really didn't feel like fighting inside the school, so he let it go.
"So we're all here except Gabriel?"
(I hope she starts posting again. She has an interesting power.)
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(me too...and i don't think sierra is online yet. i think we're missing cody)
"Gravity balls isn't here yet." Ryan indicated. Hector nodded.
They will wait...and if that wouldn't work it was time to pucker up and kiss!
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"Well oh great wise ones, do you plan to go in and kill everything there? If we're seen, they know who we are, if the effects of our powers are seen, they'll figure out where we come from and start targeting students and their families. Good luck keeping a schools worth of students and faculty cooped up in this place. It's not hard. This place has been rumoured to be superpower central for decades. People know of it if they don't believe it. If the yeerks get proof that it's true, there goes the school."
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Chad
(Gravity balls hasn't posted in forever, has he? He may have left the RP, though I could be wrong.)
"The Headmistress is the one who wants us to fight, and she runs this place. I'm sure she knows the risk." Chad said. "We don't want a prolonged war at any rate. That's why we need to hit them hard and fast. Keep the momentum up until they break. Chase them off the planet. On the other hand, I'm not sure how we'll get them out of orbit."
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Constant momentum, sure, right here in one place. Who's to say they haven't started their attack on other parts of the world. Who says they haven't got reinforcements sitting up in space right now waiting for this kind of uprising. We don't know how much they know." Acre turned and hit his head on the wall. "I'm getting ahead of myself. The headmistress can answer some of these questions."
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Ryan and Hector
"Acre baby..." Ryan said in a mocking tone. "Don't bang your head, that's the only thing that has worth."
Hector smirked. "And as an answer to your questions....haven't you heard of cameras? Tactical drones? Unlike Chad, a few of us can manipulate things that are not in our zone. Think of it Acre, you can make air dense. If they're speeding at something in the atmosphere you can make a huge air wall and SMASH!" Hector slammed his fist into his palm. "One problem solved."
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(If any of you know these people please contact them)
(Chad's ****yness is totally his flaw hehe ^-^ )
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Sierra
Sierra watched the banter between the other students. Acre was right. She was tired. She hadn't gotten more than three hours of sleep that night. And Ryan and Hector were right. She couldn't do anything unless she was right up next to the enemy. Speaking of Ryan and Hector...she hoped against hope it wasn't time. She crossed her fingers behind her back.
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Cody walked in with is dad.
"I couldn't find my mom, but here my dad." Cody walked outside to wait.
Cody father said. "Hello, my names Ron, you must be the head mistress. Cody said you wished to see me?"
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The Headmistress
(the previous night)
"Cody says he knows about the Yeerks and seems familiar with the concept and from his mind I could tell that you and your wife are fromer Yeerk hosts. I have bad news the Yeerks have branched into England. Therefore it would no longer be safe for you or your wife to be out in public anymore so I will have to ask you both to come here and stay untill the end of the war. Yes a war. I know it is late so you can spend the night here your wife as well. I wand to ask you a few questions tommarrow evening though so I guess you could think on it oh and uh another student has refugee parents here as well so don't be alarmed. Your clothes and such will be collected." she added as an after thought as she sensed his thought "Your bedroom is at the end of the second corridor to your left as you go up the main stairway."
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Codys father thanked her and left. Cody walked up to her and said again. "Excuse me, is there anything I should do?"
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Ryan and Hector
The twins leaned against each other, quite bored. Hector nudged Ryan who nudged Hector. With a grin and the rubbing of palms, Hector went to Sierra.
"Time to pay up." He said, leaning close to Sierra.
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(I'm trying to not make him ****y, though I also tried to make him very powerful within certain limits.)
Chad heard Ryan and Hector say something about payment to Sierra. He looked at Acre in the hopes that he knew what they meant. He wondered what he missed."
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(flaws are good, it makes you human)
Ryan and Hector
Hector waited for Sierra, waited for her to pucker up her lips.
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(So you won't think he's too cliche if I go ahead and make him ****y anyway?)
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(he is not too cliche)
the previous night
the headmistress thought for a quick moment and then said "Cody do you know where you mother might be?"
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(Ok, I'll make him ****y. And Cody's mother has been captured and taken to the pool. Maybe.)
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(if you make her into a host with an uncaring and ambitious yeerk, the school is doomed to a point....oh hey galladerotom....cou ld I help with the yeerk invasion? I detect we needs some vicious and unscrupulous tactics to take over a school of psychics.)
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(um :( , that is why I created sub-visser two and I as I mentioned he is a technocrat. I was planning for his gadgets to be an technological equivalent to visser three's morphs.)
(P.S. it cannot be discovered the school is really a psychic institute it is too early in the game.)
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(so he shifts form? through technology?...)
(EDIT: No.....if he has technology....he can just blast the school....introduce a nano virus...all sorts of things.)
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(Oh, right. Maybe she was just somewhere else, then. I was just making a guess. As for Chad, I'll have his ****yness come out more after he wins some battles. Instead of acting like he was ****y all along.)
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Sub-Visser Two
He walked down the dark hallway to his office. Despite his size of a mere four feet in hight his ruputation caused all he passed to pause and even salute but not out of respect but fear. The energized opaque bubble of mass disappeared as he walked into his office. He got into a bowing pose for his report to his supperior. Then the hologram of his superior flickered into exsistance. "Visser Three. All is well I hope." Sub-Visser Two greatly admired Visser Three. The subvisser viewed him as the most brilliant and ruthless general in the entire empire and was confident once the completion of the invasion that Visser Three would become a Chancelor and eventually emperor.
However today no amount of groveling would please the the Visser no matter how sincere and respectfull. Visser three was not in a good mood and he was a bright shade of violet-red "If it weren't for those peskey andalite banidts and that vile animal known as a "skunk" I would not be tempted to kill you for asking that." the Subvisser appolgised "Visser I have come to report on a slightly disturbing finding we have just collected a host body that was an employee of our frount and it seems her DNA is already in the host registry and we are sure she is not infested but we shall reinfest her immediantly Visser." Visser Three was not amused. "KILL HER! and do it out in the open Yeerk pool. The hopes of the hosts must be crushed and drowned in fear. THAT IS AN ORDER." "Yes visser I shall procced to do so as soon as possible." The Subvisser nealed down even further. "Yes. Visser. also there..." The communication was terminated obviously by the Visser. Sub-Visser Two was dissapointed that he could not mention his new invention, a helmet that would make the Leerans telepathy usless against them...
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Cody frowned. "No actually, I don't know. I haven't seen her for the whole day. She was just running an errand, she was supposed to be back an hour ago, but I assumed she was just grabbing something else. Why?"
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The Headmistress
"Hang on Cody I am sorry I have to do this." she pressed his hand against his forehead. She was completly in his mind all thoughts were ignored except one. Then she found it and saw a few seconds "I don't know who you are?" a woman "You can't hide from us we know..."
Then the headmistress came back to the real world so did cody. "I am sorry I had to do that Cody. It is called a locator sweep. You see a mental bond however light can exsist beetween a telepath and others. A locator sweep takes these bonds and multiplies their power in order to reach other brains. You needed to be caught unaware so it would be easier to perform the sweep. I know it was a bit cruel and I am sorry." their was a pause for a moment everything seemed frozen. "However it was more useful than I expected I got a clear picture for a few seconds and appling the fact that you are a telepath indicates that the yeerk pool is only fifteen miles from here. Looks like this is going to be trickier than I thought."
(the morning)
The head mistress wasted no time in getting information from Cody's father whether by mental pick up or not. She hurried and decided to gather all the students at lunch.
(at this time cody arrives at the meeting place)
(Where is the person who play's gabriel?)
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. Then she grinned defiantly. She walked directly up to one of the twins, and wrapped her hand around his head. She pulled his face to hers, and full on kissed his lips. She turned to the other twin, and did the same. She smiled. "Now we're even." She whispered, under her breath.
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That took Chad by surprise. He looked at Acre with a "Can you believe what just happened?" look. "Okay, I'm interested. What's the story?"
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Acre
"Well I guess I didn't do much yesterday after all. I may not be the ones to teach you manners, but I really hope I'm there when they do." He turned to Chad. "Do you plan on killing people. It's obvious the twins don't mind about collateral damage but I see it every day. I don't means yeerks in this case but the humans infested. When someone dies or is badly hurt, they leave family behind. Parents, friends, brothers, sisters." He shot a look at Sierra.
"Even if they're infested, we have to take responsibility for those who we hurt. This may be a war, but these people are innocent. Have you thought about that, while you're playing your games of who's strongest, or who gets to be the leader? Every morning bright and early, it's a beautiful new day, except for those who are stuck in hospitals or morgues." Acre had begun pacing and biting his knuckles. "Who am I to decide who lives or dies in this world. If it was a true war, side against side, I could kill. I could wreck them, I could destroy them." He spat blood from his chewed up knuckle. "But this, this is a fight over hostages. They hide behind people on the street. Hostages." The air had begun to get thick around him and began to shimmer. Then he stopped pacing and looked at his hand. The atmosphere returned to normal. "When did this happen?" Doesn't matter. I'd like to see you all think. The time for games ended yesterday." He stepped up to the headmistresses door and walked in.
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Chad walked in after him. "That's why we need to end it quickly. The few that may die would probably rather die than be enslaved. Those that are voluntary can't be considered hostages." He found a seat and sat down.
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Ryan and Hector
The twins enjoyed the kiss, grinned at each other and followed after the two other boys.
"Nice speech Acre...guess that took all that brain power of yours to be so darn heroic." Ryan said snidely. "Oh my..we just killed a kid...oh..my angst angst!! EMO POWER!" He snickered.
"And nice thought about the voluntary, guess we can't tell unless we pry into their mind and go peekaboo with their private thoughts." Hector smirked. "Big Brother has nothing on us."
The twins sat. "This is war Acre, even if there are civilians an the like. Deal with it." They said condescendingly.
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Acre
"Voluntary, ha. Headmistress, I hope you were listening because I'd rather not go back into this. Although I would like some answers on how we won't get caught as well as how you'll protect everyone entwined in this little school." He smiled at a thought that entered his head. "If only life was so simple." He muttered.
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Ryan and Hector
The best course would be to disperse. A large group would tell the yeerks something is happening but small and insignificant groups won't.
A plan popped into existence.
"We have an idea!" Chirped the twins, raising their right hands in unison.
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Sierra
Sierra privately thanked whatever supreme being there may have been that not much conversation had followed the kiss. Though she did sense the twins enjoyed it a bit much for her comfort. She stood in the Headmistress's office. When the twins raised their hands, it was all she could do to keep from bursting out laughing at them. Planning for war, and still raising their hands like young schoolboys.
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Acre
"Well let's hear it. Can't make my headache worse than it is already." Acre sat down and waited.
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Ryan and Hector
"If we are to protect the school and the younger classmates, we should institute a way to divide the school up. Like a spy agency, we will be split up in small cells. That way we won't bring attention to us as a large group." Ryan said to the others.
"Then we can also narrow down on those who are important, interrogate them and gain more information. We don't have to have straight out battles. And even if we did, all it would take was one of them to realize who we are. Then we're doomed." Hector continued. "We need to keep an inventory of who the parents are, the students and to monitor all activity."
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Sierra
"That's actually a decent idea." She gave a malicious grin. "I can help with interrogation. It could be my specialty."
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The Headmistress
"Yes that is all very well but we have an emergency situation. Cody's mother has been taken and she knows about the school if the yeerks gain that info we are all going to become targets. I am afriad that for your mission will be in a few hours and that is critical." a holographic screen appeared. "I have interviewed Cody's father a former controller and found out that yeerks have a feeding place called a yeerk pool this is the main center of the yeerk organization. The pool is a area where yeerk slugs bathe and absorb kandora rays which they need to survive. As we know the Yeerks have something called a kandora particle generator which provides the pool with rays. We will split you into to two groups of three one to destroy the generator which is at the top of this hospital another to rescue Cody's mother. professor alexander time to show the students what you have cooked up."
(WHERE IS GABRIEL?)
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(dunno. she isn't online on MSN)
Ryan and Hector
"That sounds really risky Headmistress. Even if we succeed, if the yeerks were smart they would have video footage of us." Ryan voiced his objections.
"Who is going to plan the battle strategy?" Hector hoped that whoever is doing it, isn't going to just say 'bust in and break stuff'. And besides, if the plan isn't sound, they were definitely not going to jion.
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Then professor Alexander came in holding all suits of fine armor. "I thought of stealth each of your suits of armor is a metal material that is laser resistant and the parts are bonded electronically. The armor is also light weight and each suit in total weighs ten pounds." he said displaying the armor that bore a shade of dark midnight blue and a white plastic looking substance at the joints. "Also each suit of armor has attributes to benefit it's wearer. Your suit Gabriel has holder's for crystals at points located both in the helmet and at certain nerve points and slightly more connected with electric pads. Ryan and hector your suits have a digital network that allows a simulation of a close distance that amplify your abilities. Sierra's suit I am particularly proud of though at the end of the glove are green emitter's which connect to the Brain through circuitry these allow the projection of your persuasive abilities up to 15 feet. Chad your suit also has crystal holders but less than Gabriel's and is slightly heavier than the others. Cody I have equipped your suit with magnet boots which are voice activated and is also lighter."
"Thank you professor" said the Headmistress
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"Whichever one of the twins has earth powers would be best going into the pool complex. I could go to the hospital, since we'll be fighting in rooms and hallways. It would be hard for the enemy to fight me outside my area with all those walls around us." Chad said as he examined his suit.
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Sierra
"I could work the hospital. One, I know the layout. Two, I'll be able to control the enemy and keep them from injuring anyone without being obvious."
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Ryan and Hector
Tacky, thought both twins examining the suits.
"Since it's a pool complex and it's underground we can both go." Ryan poked at the suit before looking at the others. "Guys...gals..if we are to engage the enemy either you kill them or erase their memory. All it takes is one host to live or one yeerk and our secret is blown."
Hector looked pointedly at the electronics in the room. "Headmistress do we have anyone working on electromagnetic fields? We can send an EM pulse through the hospital. Anything electronic will die. The back up generators will keep those on life support online but the security cameras will go down. This way there will no evidence anyone was there."
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Acre
"Wow...just wow. Guess I'll just stick with a black mask over my eyes. That's how the Americans do it and if it's good enough for them, I guess it's fine for me too. No reason for a suit for me in either case. I can't deal with the extra weight if I'm going to fly anyone up to the hospital." Acre wasn't happy. In all truth he preferred going without the suit, he already had a plan that would make the ducking and sneaking in the hospital walkways needless, and would keep the dangers for the sick, as well as anyone else, low. What annoyed him was being left out of the running, plus the thought that he might not be able to pull it off. "It doesn't matter." He said shaking his head. "I don't know about this pool thing but good luck. As for the hospital, well," Acre grinned. "I can do it with some help from Chad. As much as the twins lack tact, I'm sure they would do better destroying a pool house than a hospital with sick and unhealthy people in it. Cody might be useful but I don't want to take too many." He turned toward Gabriel. "You know a lot about crystals right? Maybe you could supply us with some. But if you're telepathic like I've heard, it'd be best if you went to the pool. That way you could listen to see if someone notices you and tries to hide it. The silent alarm trick and all that." He looked at his knuckles which had stopped bleeding. "Sierra, you can go with the twins. Your powers can be used to force Cody's mom to come." Acre sighed unhappily. "The obituaries are going to have more entries tomorrow, I just know it." He stood and slipped his hands into his pockets, rummaging around for some reciept paper. "Anything you'd like to add Headmistress. After all you're the one who brought us together so you get to be in charge. What's you're plan, I apologize for speaking before we could here it."
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Ryan and Hector
It wasn't as if they liked gunning after Acre, it was just he was just such a nice sweet target.
"We're going to bring the roof down on the pool, killing all and any inside. Aside from Cody's mom of course." Hector added at the end with a nod at Cody. "True that might cave in any building above the pool but still, that will severely screw up with any plan the yeerks have."
"Or an ice age." Ryan grinned. "Frozen yeerk on a stick." They were callous and they do have tact. Acre just wasn't privileged enough to receive any.
Then a thought occurred.
Ryan stared at Acre intently. "If you were given the chance to see how many people are in the building, can you snuff out their air? That way they will all collapse and then we don't have to fight. Or just deprive of the hospital of air. Or get nerve gas and you just use your wind abilities and float it though or flood the place with chloroform." He took a deep breath. "If it were us, we would keep some fighters up near our golden goose. To cut it short, Acre you bust the highest window, swoop in, and take all the oxygen out. Everyone else, unconscious. End of story."
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Acre
Acre stopped and pulled his hands out of his pockets. "You know what. I can't stand it. Well if you two apes want to kill than go ahead. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. And that applies doubly so with anything else. Always malcontent, never being happy with the status quo. If I don't want to kill than it's my business. You want to goad me? Want to see how long a person can live without oxygen, not long. It gets noticeably shorter when their lungs go pop. Did you know your blood cells carry oxygen too. Let's say all of a sudden instead of nice happy air molecules, every blood cell in your body turns into a speeding dagger, ready to cut through veins and all that with every pump of your tiny worthless black heart. We all pay for our sins in one way or another." The air had begun growing thick again. "Acre stopped talking, looked around, and smiled. The air went back to normal. "Well I'm done here, done all I can. I'm going up to my little office and if you need me, you can find me with my birds." He walked calmly out of the room and shut the door. Once in the hall he took off towards the outside. Bursting through the doors he lept up and created a powerful burst of wind that carried him to the roof. His chair was still there but he had taken his book home. He sat back and stared at the sky. "Someday I'll join you." He muttered as the birds flew around. "Though whether it will be as a man or spirit I can't be sure."
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Ryan and Hector
"I didn't say kill them just knock them unconscious." Muttered Hector, rolling his eyes. "Wonder what made him so morally stuck up."
The twins lived and only enjoyed their tiny small circle they call 'their world'. And they have lived this way for years, all others were treated the way strangers were. Those who don't live by the sword could still die by it. Besides, the status quo? Just because it's what everyone accepted doesn't mean its right.
Ryan handed the suits back to the professor. "Thanks but no thanks. We want to look as inconspicuous as possible."
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"So we'll split into groups where sierra, Are, and I go to the hospital. The twins, Cody, and Gabriel go tot he pool. If you're going to bring the complex down, at least try to save any free hosts that will likely be kept in cages. We want to get rid of the Yeerks, but we don't want to take all of Britain down with us." Chad said. He had the suit on and was heading out the door.
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((Sorry I haven't been active lately. My internet connection is on the frits, and this RP has been moving really quickly... It's hard to keep up. I'll try and catch up as soon as I can.))
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Cody spoke up.
"I should go to the pool, I can manipulate gravity, which means deflecting dracon beams and bullets. I also now a fair amount about the yeerks. Their dracon at max power can punch through ten feet of solid titanium so the suits will probably be good for lower power blasts only."
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The headmistress
Very well. Though I have a request for those going up to the hospital in addition to destroying the kandora I need somone to collect a sample from somone. You need codes to get in as well, he will help you. His name is doctor McDougal he is about my age and a school graduate healer he will give you the vile and the codes.
Oh, and I would suggest attacking after two since most people will be at work and not lunch.
(Gabreil had a nice quiet evening at home after working in the lab for a few hours came to school and came in late to the headmistresses office.)
(Done caught up.)
(P.S. I understand about the internet thing that was a problem for me too not that long ago.)
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(really though, we got...so many contacts....it's kinda different..and new...)
Ryan and Hector
"You want them to attack during work?" Ryan raised an eyebrow. "Nice." He said sarcastically. Wouldn't it be better to attack at lunch than at work? Less casualties and such.
Hector closed his eyes and smiled. "And all these contacts....we might be spreading our tendrils to thin. The bigger the group the higher chance of capture."
"Besides why do we need a sample and of what?" They weren't trying to challenge the headmistress but still.
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(We have many contacts because this is the only school for telepaths in the UK)
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Cody asked the Head mistress. "Excuse me ma'am, when do we plan to attack?"
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Acre
Acre sat in his chair brooding. A few birds had landed nearby and he pulled a pouch of seeds from his pocket. "Well my friends, how do you kill?" He scattered the seeds in front of him and waited for the birds to come and feast. He sat and thought about his life thus far, about his luck, and most importantly, about his future. "You don't kill for food, seeds are all you need." He said to the hungry birds. "And only humans kill for sport. Suddenly, all the birds took off in a quick motion. "Where are you going friends?" Acre called as he stood, reaching for his binoculars. Looking high in the sky, he saw a dark threatening shape. "I know thee, sir falcon." He muttered under his breath. He reached for his book before realizing he had forgotten it. "I will record thee with my eyes and name you at another time."
He watched as, quick as lightning, the falcon shot down on the flock. Bursting through them with a small bird in it's talons. It spread it's wings and began fling away to enjoy it's meal when the flock began its revenge. "I've never seen a mobbing." Acre said as he adjusted his binoculars for a better view. The falcon was fighting a losing battle, there were too many of the little birds and it stubbornly clung to it's prey. Without it's talons, it could only beat at the other birds with its wings. Then the falcon fell. It spiraled downward with a screech, its final words before the passage into the next world. The small birds beat at it till a few dozen meters above the ground, then retreated as it hit the ground hard.
Acre jumped from the building, barely remembering to catch himself before he hit the ground, then sprinted over to the fallen falcon. It was dead, but it stubbornly clung to it's final catch, it's last victory. Examining it, he could see that it was starving, this smaller bird was it's final chance at survival. He looked up toward the smaller birds. They were landing back at the roof. "You can kill, you protect your own, and a kill was the single chance at a rescue." He smiled and knelt by the fallen falcon. "With your grace, my liege, I beg pardon for my actions." He plucked several large feathers from the bird, then, scooping out a hole with a mimed shovel, buried the bird with it's kill still in talons. "Rest in peace my lord." Acre smoothed out the ground to hide evidence of the burial site and slipped the feathers into the breast pocket of his coat. He looked into the sky and thought of his uncle.
Ten years back...
Seven year old Acre and his Uncle were out by a rocky cliff near the raging waters. It was long past midnight, and his Uncle was carrying a large bundle over one shoulder and was dragging Acre along with the free hand.
"You failed me boy. I told you to blow the deck win I was going to lose. You cost me near thirty pounds. You daft little bastard. No wonder your father ran off. In either case, I got me money back." His Uncle dropped the sack and unrolled a dead body. The cloth was stained with blood from the head wound. Acre pulled away, though the wet rain did it's best to conceal the tears, his crying could still be heard. "Ah shut your useless hole." His Uncle smacked him across the face, knocking him to the ground. "Me sister was useless in life and she leaves me something doubly so in death. Don't know why I lug ya 'round. Should toss ya on the street." He picked up the body and threw it onto the rocks below. "The rocks give reason 'nuff and the tide should wash off the ev'dence. Get up you worthless trash." He kicked the fallen boy. "T'ain't nothin you won't see again." Acre climbed to his feet and scowled at his Uncle. "Take that look off your face afore I wipe it off myself. You'll see killin, and you'll be a killer too. Won't amount to nothin else, just like me sis, you're her son a'right."
"I won't be worthless like you." Acre said then cringed as his Uncle turned back to him.
"Well, bout time ye spoke up tonight. But you're wrong again. In every soul there's a deep dark pit where nothing good exists. You fall in that pit and you're gone forever. Your mother fell in, and she died, which saved the world a lot o' trouble. Saved it more if you'd died with her. But the rosy sun shines on happy acres." He laughed at his little joke. "You're far enough over the pit, and every soul is dark enough to kill. Soon you'll fall into it, and I'll be it who pushed ya." His Uncle turned laughing, walking back toward the path. Acre stared at him, bringing his hand to his mouth. The air grew thick, the grass flattened and began to become crushed in the massive force. Rain hit the force and bounced off, or became caught in floating puddles, unable to travel closer to the ground. Then it all stopped. The pressure was gone and rain fell again. Acre looked at his knuckles, he had nearly chewed to the bone. Then he followed the path his Uncle had taken, back towards the road.
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Chad
Chad came out and saw Acre bury a hawk that had been mobbed to death.
"It's a lot to take in, isn't it? On one hand, it kind of excites me. On the other hand, I really don't want to be forced into a war. The truth is that we didn't start this, but someone has to finish it. People will die, and most of us will try to minimize it. We can't do nothing, though."
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Acre
Acre smiled at him, but it didn't reach his eyes. His eyes seemed dead. "Your so right. People are going to die. It's going to be a lot of fun, won't it. Hold this feather for me." He handed one of the feathers to Chad and walked off whistling.
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Chad put the feather in one of the slots for crystals. "Those that survive war are often hailed as heroes, or shunned as monsters. I wonder which we will become." He said aloud to no one in particular.
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Acre
He stopped whistling and turned around to Chad. "Chad, by the way. How do you feel about heights. If we're going to take care of the hospital we're going to have to fly up there. Unless you enjoy walking that is. I figure it's safer to go upstairs outside the building than in. Of course I doubt I can carry much more than myself without chance of failure. That's why I need your gravity abilities. The lighter we are, the faster I can carry us. I guess you could make us both near weightless, but I need you to save up what you can for the kandrona. If we do this right, we'll make it go pop." Acre turned around and began walking away, then stopped. "I do have a question though. Let's say we were all together on one mission. If you had to choose between the mission objective and saving any one of us. Say you can grab the target, or let a pillar fall and kill one of us. Would you save them and fail, or do what you had to do. To spice it up, I want the answer to the same question, but instead of one of us, an innocent would die, doesn't matter who." Acre smiled his cheerless grin. "I want both answers."
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Chad
"I can lift my weight pretty easily, though if we combine abilities it would be faster. I don't do a whole lot of levitating, but I'm not opposed to it." He said as he followed Acre.
"As for the question, I'll always try to minimize casualties. Though we also need to complete missions as quickly as possible. I suppose it depends on the situation. I'd likely try to do both and wind up giving myself an anurism. I think the twins have the 'mission before innocents' thing without my help."
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Acre
Yes, but I gave you two options. There is no third in this scenario, your third lets the mission fail, let's the person die, and turns you into a vegetable. Not a good choice. What are your answers?"
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"Depends on the situation." He said. Was acre trying to make his day as stressful as possible? "Depending on how important the mission was, I might choose it over an innocent life. I would most likely choose the life of someone I liked and knew over someone I didn't."
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Acre
"Always nice to add variables to your answers. Then you can never be wrong." Acre's smile never faltered. "Keep the feather, you'll be needing it soon enough. Contact me when you're ready to go, I like darkness but thick clouds are nice too. I haven't got a phone so please, don't call me, I'll call you." Acre walked away, towards the roof, and began walking up his mimed stairs to the roof of the building, whistling all the way. "Oh and Chadwick, tell the twins that thick skulls are crushed as easy as the thin from the shadows. a single chopstick is near worthless compared to two." He began laughing then. But there was no joy in it, just cold, spiritless laugh of despair. He sat in his chair, not knowing if Chad was still out there listening. "And write your will, add in what you want said at your funeral. Mines done, so if you need help..." He let the words hang there as he looked at the birds eating the last of the seeds. "The pit is right below me. All I need is a push." He said under his breath.
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"Poor Acre. You're letting war destroy you before you even start getting involed." Chad said. "What must your past be like?"
He left Acre to his brooding, and walked back to towards the office. They needed to get this rescue mission started, otherwise there wouldn't be anyone to rescue anymore.
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(Okay her is my ultamatium: three more posts and then the mission begins)
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(Post about what?)
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(Acre wants to go at night, but he's ready to leave. I'm waiting for the others aka someone else, to start the mission. Is this 2?)
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Ryan and Hector
"We should start now." Hector nodded his head. "Or sometime today. The sooner the better."
Ryan knew Hector felt restless, worried about what's going to happen and the war. He sent a pulse of warm and comforting feelings through their bond. Everything will work out.
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Sierra
Sierra stood. "I'm game. We ought to go while the plan is still fresh." She had been getting restless. She wanted them to strike as soon as possible, and to strike hard. If these yeerks could infiltrate the hospital, they could get to her sister. And that could not happen.
(Question: is Sierra going to the hospital, or on the rescue mission? Because I've read that she's doing both. I just want to clarify.)
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(Acre's plan is against it, but other peoples plans are for it. In the end, I suppose it's who she decides has the best plan.)
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(Oh. Great. Now I have to make a decision. All right. I'll figure that out and be back.)
(Edit: I've figured it out. Sierra is going to go to the pool to find Cody's mother.)
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Cody put on his suit. It was clear the HM was busy. He left and asked Acre. "So, when do we plan to attack?"
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Acre
"Hmm, I might be able to make use of you, but I figured you'd go with the troublesome twos. I'm prepared to head out at any time, but we need the other one, Cody along." Acre glanced at the skies. I'd prefer to go under the cover of darkness, but the cloud cover will be fine. Fetch the other and we can leave." Acre reached into his coat and pulled out a feather. "Keep this with you. There'll be problems enough in the future. I'm not sure if he has a phone, but if we're to leave, time is of the essence."
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Ryan and Hector
The twins spoke to the Headmistress for a few minutes before they too left. They arrived just in time to see Acre hand the feather to Cody. They stared at the feather. They couldn't resist the parting shot.
"It must be love." Ryan mused. "Or a parting gift of despair."
Hector grinned at Acre. "There is a reason they clean the bird feathers, birds do carry all sorts of germs. Wouldn't want you to die cause of the plague or better yet your dear mate Cody."
The twins made the suggestive hand gesture towards both Cody and Acre, well mostly at Acre.
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Acre
Acre smiled kindly at them "Oh don't worry my friends. I've got one for each of you too." He pulled them out of his shirt pocket. "While I doubt you do or even would understand the reasoning behind it, I expect you shall make use of them soon enough." Acre sent the feathers fluttering into the twins pockets. "Enjoy your mission, and stay safe. If something happened before your will was complete or your funeral planned, I might be busy." He laughed and leaned against the wall.
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Ryan and Hector
"Quite morbid our dear little air fart ain't he?" Hector mused, studying the feathers. "Thinking he's going to die."
Ryan tucked the feathers into his back pocket. "I would say better him than us but that would be in bad taste."
Truth be told they wouldn't want Acre to die, they were having too much fun with him.
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Sierra
Sierra rolled her eyes at the twins. Sometimes they were amusing, other times she just wanted to smack them around a bit. This was one of those times. She resisted the urge, however, and slid into her suit. She immediately felt the connection with her brain, and knew it would work. She smiled slightly, felling her power build in her temples. "Everybody ready?" She couldn't help but sound excited.
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Cody grinned at the twins. "Well, if you have nothing to do, here is my good bye present." Without warning, he used gravity to flip them upside down, and used it also to crush them down, so they couldn't get up fast. He turned to Acre. "There, that'll keep them occupied."
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Chad had walked back to the office after wondering why no one was coming outside, to find Cody messing with the twins.
"Is this the part where we practice pre battle on the most annoying members of the team?"
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Cody looked at Chad. "Yes, that is what I am doing."
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Acre
"Now kids, please behave." Acre muttered. "Infighting will cause an unfortunate need much earlier than I'm prepared for." He sent the feather fluttering to Sierra. "You'll need one too."
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Sierra
Sierra reached out, catching the feather. She wasn't sure what it was for, but for some reason she felt better with it. Safer, even. She pushed the thought away. Feeling safe means you make mistakes.
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(Okay, seriously the mission begins next post)
(One after this one)
The grey hair on Sub-visser's neck bristled. The andalite stood in front of him tail poised. The Sub-Visser's armor sprung wrist blades on all six of his limbs he was ready. The andalite struck but the Sub-Visser was quick, he blocked with one arm and sliced the tail with another and with one quick uppercut to the neck the andalite fell. Another came, younger, but much more swift. The Sub-Visser rapidly blocked each hit: One, two, three, four. Then the seventh blade appeared on the head and he stabed it into the andalite torso and finished with a quick slash slicing the other two hearts. Another came down in a flash, dead before he could blink, so was the next. Then came the final opponent. The blocking exercise. Each slash faster and more unpredictable then the last. The Sub-Visser's reflexes were being put to the ultimate test, until neck strike the Sub-Visser was down.
The Andalite vanished. "If that had been real." he thought to himself. "Computer number of blocks succesful." the computer replied in an almost fearful voice " One-hundred and twenty-seven blocks a new record Sub-Visser." The Sub-Visser was infuriated " A new record by TWO STRIKES!" the Sub-Visser contiued his self scolding. "LUCK! VARIBLES! WITH THOSE IT DOSEN'T MATTER DOES IT?" the computer's voice became rushed and fearful "You are right as always Sub-Visser." The Sub-Visser's host mind spoke. "<You lack flow. You lack instinct. You use nothing but your body and your tools. That is why you fail. Despite your intelect you use none of your cunning and replace it with brute strength.>" "<Silence I am not one of your students I am your master.>" "<You think so Sub-Visser but how can you be when you can't even master yourself>"
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Ryan and Hector
It took their collective will power not to send Cody into the Earth's core and let him burn to death. Or to freeze him and let him break apart piece by piece. A dark cloud had gathered in their mind, acid rain falling on their mind scape.
They needed Cody. Sadly. But they will make him pay. And Acre too. Not to mention Chad.
The Earth beneath them softened so even though they were pressed against it, it didn't hurt. Hector amused himself by making ice shards beneath Cody's feet. If Ryan were to just drop Cody into it.......but Ryan wouldn't so he just amused himself.
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Acre
(mission begun)
Acre turned to Chad and Cody. "Let's go." He walked outside and stepped up onto an invisible step. He pulled on his black sweatshirt and tied a bandanna over his mouth and nose. "This is a platform of air. I can only lift so much so I need you two to do what you can to make us all lighter. It'll be cold up where we're going so I hope those suits will keep you warm. He waited for the two of them to step up and started lifting. "Oh jeez you guys make this hard." They began to rise up into the sky. "This will get us to the top floor no problem." He felt the load become quite noticeably lighter as the Cody and Chad helped out a bit more. "Thanks." He muttered. "Now hold on, there should be rungs for you to hold onto." He turned the air solid and waited for the two to find the invisible handholds. "Time to go." He accelerated, and within moments they were nearly a thousand feet(300 meters) up. "Don't fall. We'll go above the cloudcover, then drop down to the top level. Break the walls and get ourselves a bit of kandrona. What do you think?"
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Ryan and Hector
With Cody gone, the twins were able to move. They got up, stretching out the cricks in their neck. They looked at Sierra.
"Ready to go?" They were in a foul mood. Killing a few controllers won't be enough. Cody was going to die.
Ryan had a dark look on his face while Hector scowled.
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Chad had never been this high up before, and Acre was right about the cold. He did his part to keep them levitated, and also made sure to move some clouds to cover any holes. They made it to the hospital, and landed on the roof. He found a door, and used his power to turn the lock on the other side. They were officially in.
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Sierra
Sierra grinned. "Let's go." She turned to leave. "Oh, and guys. Relax a bit. Cody was just messing around. You seriously need to learn about grudges. Sure, they're fine sometimes, but with something like this. This is just too important to let your bruised ego get in the way. So get over yourselves, and let's get this done. All right?"
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Cody was rather weirded out. He could reverse his own gravity and float, but he had never moved so fast! He used anti-gravity to help them stay afloat. He laughed, let the mission beging!
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"Now you two, I really need you to keep on your toes. I don't want anybody getting turned into a bloody wall smear because they walked in at a bad time. We're going for unconscious." Acre turned to the door. "Crap, anybody got a light?"
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan and Hector stared at Sierra blankly. Was she kidding? No she wasn't.
It didn't have anything to do with ego. More like what had happened and what didn't happen. Sure they were the jerks, the annoying ones but what didn't happen during the situation had them all pissed off.
Hypocrites....self tortured souls bah they needed to get over it.
Just like they were going to.
"Fine." Ryan snorted, relaxing. Hector followed with a smile at Sierra.
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Sierra
"Thank you. Now...I wasn't really paying attention, so how do we get over to save Cody's mum? Because I have no idea how to get to this pool. So...suggestions? And, no. We can't just use..." She looked back and forth at the two, still unsure of which had the earth power. "Uh, the earth power to blow a hole somewhere. We need to actually be discreet."
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Chad
"No light." He said quietly. "We'll sneak down the stairs using the rail. Do you suppose the Kondrona machine would be on the top floor, or in the basement? It should be pretty big if this underground pool is large. Hopefully it isn't some water heater size machine stuck in some random closet." He found the rail, and used it to gide him down the stairs.
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Ryan and Hector
"Well..." Ryan nudged Hector before speaking again. "Earth powers are not that colorfully vivid. And not that limited to blowing holes in the wall." He had taken several geography classes to learn how to properly manipulate tectonic plates.
"Basically the idea is to separate." Hector pointed at Ryan with a thumb. "Ryan will go make himself a hole or a pit deep enough to be able to find the underground pool and have full control on what is happening inside it."
"I'll be your extra eyes. With my abilities, I should be able to get a good read on who is there and where they are holding the target." Ryan demonstrated by having a rock lift up a few feet. "I can also make things happen to help make sure neither of you guys get captured."
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Sierra
"Or I could just tell them to forget they saw us. Less attention. But yeah. That sounds good. Shall we?"
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Ryan and Hector
"Sure." The twins started off to an already determined spot. "For the forgetting thing, you'll have to erase both the yeerk and the host's mind. Remember? Even if the yeerk is in control, there is still the host."
They arrived near a shed, approximately a few feet away from the underground pool. "Ladies first." The door to the shed creaked open.
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Sierra
She smiled sardonically. "I may be female, but I can assure you I am no lady." She went first anyways. She snaked around the edges, looking for any movement.
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan smiled. "It's only a shed." He patted the dirt. "You would think they would put security here since technically it's a few feet away from the yeerk pool complex." The ground opened up. "But the pool is still a few feet down."
He jumped down into the tunnel. Hector followed after closing the shed door and locking it. He waited for Sierra before jumping in after her.
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Sierra
Sierra wasn't entirely sure of what to expect when she jumped into the tunnel. She figured it wouldn't be too bad of a fall, since Ryan said it was only a few feet down. She hadn't counted on falling onto Ryan, though.
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Ryan and Hector
As it turns out the fall was longer than he had anticipated. He barely landed on two feet when someone crashed into him. Ryan fell sprawled onto the dirt, coughing.
Hector followed but managed to avoid both of them. "Grope her Ryan!" He cheered happily.
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Sierra
Sierra quickly rolled off of Ryan. She didn't doubt that Ryan would do what Hector had suggested. She glared at Hector. "Oh, hush. Now, where is this thing?"
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan didn't mind Sierra on him. Not at all. The twins shared a perverted leer before getting back to business.
Ryan got up and started to make a tunnel, leading them to a rock patch. "The pool is in a natural rock cave. So they have solid rock to protect them from any intrusions." He indicated to the patch. "Getting through known entrances are to risky, so..." He ran a finger down the rock, making a small crack. "When no one is looking....go in."
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Sierra
Sierra nodded. She leaned forward, her eye toward the gap. Her eyes widened. There were people everywhere. Some of them crying, screaming. They were in cages. But...not all. Some looked...comfortabl e, even. She pushed away her disgust. She needed to focus. She looked. Nobody looked her way. "Wish me luck." She murmured. And she slipped into the site of the yeerk pool.
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Acre
He sighed. "Headmistress said the top of the hospital, it's not on the roof, so it must be close to it. If it was in the basement, then I would have stayed home. I don't do underground well." He stepped into the darkness and held the rail. "What I wouldn't give for night-vision goggles."
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Sierra
Sierra walked confidently, as though she belonged. She was subtly looking through the hordes of people and...things for Cody's mother. Then she spotted her. Sierra could tell she still had the yeerk in her brain. Sierra pushed through. "Special orders. Come with me." She said to Cody's mother. The two began to walk away. So close...then someone grabbed her arm. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Special orders." She let her power build. "Let go of me and back off." He did as requested. "Now forget you ever saw me." He turned, completely clueless. Sierra breathed a sigh of relief.
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"Oh yeah, I forgot what she said. It's a lot to take in, you know."
They reached another door, and Chad listened for footsteps. He didn't hear anything, so he peeked out and found the hall empty.
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"Well then take notes. key details are real important. And I don't really care if the twins die from it, but personally, the more people around me, the less chance they'll shoot at me. Besides, this stuff is good to know." Acre walked into the hallway slowly. "I'll take the lead. If I'm taken out, no problem. You can handle yourselves and carry the kandrona. If you guys go out, I can't do a thing with it." He stepped through an open doorway and found another empty room. "Waste of space, not a person around." He stopped. "Something is not right about this place."
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Sierra
Sierra pulled Cody's mother through the crack in the wall. She faced the twins. "Let's go. Before the yeerks realize the kandrona is gone."
That's when Cody's mother started freaking out.
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Ryan and Hector
Distraction time. Hector felt the sources of water, sludge mostly and froze them. All those yeerks, either dead or in cryogenics, dead most made the yeerks panic. The screams of Cody's mom was mixed into the yells of panic. A few humans who were free cheered. Ryan quickly sealed the crack in the wall and made sure that a few hundred feet of rock was between them and the pool.
Scream all she want, nothing was going to come to her rescue.
Apparently Hector didn't like all the screaming and knowing he couldn't freeze her mouth, he scooped some dirt and shoved it into Cody's mom's mouth. Ah, that was satisfying.
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Sierra
"Quiet." She ordered Cody's mother, and the yeerk inside her. "Come on, guys. We have to get out. Now. Um...Ryan. Can you use the earth to lift us back above ground? Let's get back to the school. We can question her there."
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Sub-visser two
He was frustrated, his minions could not carry out the simplist order find her a host then get her down here. They needed to question her before they killed her to make sure that their was nothing out of the ordinary or contacts who belives her stories.
"Chrahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
he looked behind him a creature with four legs and a metalic silver body made of combination of nickel and iron as well as trace amounts of magnesium. It's head held defensive metal horn that seemd almost flat when facing it from the front but curled behind its head and had bronse tusks on the side of its mouth that pointed out like whiskers. The animal was a riding mount that lived in the astroid belt of the star Mintaka, located on the earth constalation of Orion's Belt. Unlike most belts this one was made of the fragment's of a life baring planet that kept it's atomosphere allowing life to survive and adapt easily. Since the life was and still is adapted for a very heavy gravity of the origional planet they were tremendously strong. This creature was often very but when threatened they could become immesurably deadly thus became known as "immortal warriors" in hork-bajir which translated to trakam-handa.
A hork-bajir rushed in "Sub-Visser the Yeerk pool is frozen and some armored humans have taken the prisoner."
"There my pet." the Sub-Visser cooed "Let's go seek out the trouble." and he mounted the beast with his proto-type helmet on his head he mounted the creature and set out to find the cause of the problem. This was time for real combat. He clicked something on his arm and suddenly the horse sized trakam-handa didn't seem so docile anymore.
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Acre
"This hallway is shorter than it should be. There's a hidden room at the end of it. One of you, feel free to open it. But carefully, I don't know who might be on the other side." Acre took in a deep breath. This was easy. He hated easy.
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. All of this was a bit easy. The only glitch they had was quickly fixed. She shook her head. Didn't want to jinx it. She suddenly stopped. "Did you guys...did you hear that? It sounds like..." She paused, listening. "It sounds like a horse..."
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Chad brought his hand to the wall, and cut a line along it while dragging a finger to help him focus. He cut a Human sized piece out, then pulled the whole thing back. There was another section of hallway, and a door. But this door look more like one of those space ship doors in science fiction shows. "I believe we've found something suspicios, gentlemen."
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The trakem-handa leaped out of the ground leaving a hole twice its size in the earth. "Humans I have no doubt. A pleasure to meet such children with such daring and ablity you even have armor made of Yournin, but I am afraid even that won't save you now so I will give you a choice surrender or you shall be mutilated." the Sub-Visser was briming with excitement. Finally a real live opponent to destroy.
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Sierra
Sierra tensed. She knew this would test her powers to the fullest. She could tell when someone's mind was strong. "Stop." She said, forcing her power to flow through her. Her nose began to bleed. She glanced at Ryan and Hector. "Any time you would like to help would be great."
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Acre
"The hell? It looks empty." He looked around and noticed a single door to the side. "You guys can check that door. I have an idea. Let's test how religious these yeerks are." He began focusing on the air around one of the walls. He sharpened it to a thick point and began scraping a collection of characters into the wall. It took less than a minute for him to write across the entire wall, 'Nos deus abominor vos inter nostrum famulatus' "It ain't fire but I think it looks good."
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The Sub-Visser
"No. I don't think I will." he said. Though completly vexed he hid his confusion.
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(Acre, isn't latin another way of saying humans are your enemy?
Also, the twins arn't wearing armor)
Ryan and Hector
They were in the tunnel, up to the surface and suddenly something popped up. It was something horse like and yet it wasn't. But it was made of metal. Something he could manipulate and something that can be frozen. Metal breaks easily.
It seems to be an animal underneath the metal.
Ryan focused and the metal bent to his will, making sharp spikes to drive into the animal injuring it but not killing it. He levitated it into the air, flipping it upside down so its rider would be disoriented. At his signal, Hector will freeze both rider and steed.
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Sierra
Sierra cursed under her breath. Apparently, the suit wasn't a strong enough focus to do what she wanted. She needed to have physical contact. That, however, would be difficult to achieve. Without dying. She really did not want to die that day. She turned to the twins, knowing what they were planning. "Don't kill him" She whispered. "He could prove...useful."
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Ryan and Hector
"No way." Hector scoffed. "We're going to kill him right and proper."
This would be a very civil and honorable way. Better than torture, brain mind wiping, sucking out the knowledge from his head without consent. Ice started grow from the hooves and travel down.
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Sierra
"Listen. We need all the information we can get. We're fighting a losing battle. He might be able to help. So please. We need to keep him alive." Of all the times for the twins to get self-righteous. Did they not understand how useful this yeerk could be?
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(Nope, there are to base languages in the world, for the western, it's latin. For the eastern, I'm not sure. Besides, you need to read what it says.)
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Sub-Visser Two
He was near death, to be frozen. He searched franticly through his host's brain. The host replied "<It is your own fault. You only focus on power they are much more they have abilities powers but they are not immortal but cannot be defeated by brute force>" but the Sub-Visser had one last trick up his sleave he pushed the master buton on his remote.
The beast broke free of its binds of pain and its instinct kicked in. The Sub-Visser quickly jumped down the hole in retreat.
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Sierra
Sierra dived out of the way of the stampeding beast. "I have got to be crazy." She snarled under her breath. If it weren't for the stupid twins she would have gotten out. But noooo. They just had to be there. "No way is this going to work." She lunged at the beast's back, and latched on. "STOP!" She screamed at the top of her lung, power coursing through her veins.
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(does your power work on animals?)
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(She's about to find out)
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(cause if it does, then wouldn't that imply animal's brains work the same as humans?)
Ryan and Hector
"Idiot." Snapped Hector, using his power to freeze the animal's inards from the inside out, as the animal flailed about it snapped it's own limbs as the extreme cold made them brittle.
Ryan tried to capture the other human, sealing up the tunnels, boxing the yeerk in. He had control of the earth, there was no possible way he was going to lose his prey.
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(whether or not it works, it's up to Galladerotom, but since you froze it...)
Sierra
Sierra screamed. The animal had stopped, but she hadn't. She went flying off the back of it, and straight toward the rock wall. Stupid Newton she thought, just before she blacked out.
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(Sorry, with school starting back up, I'm really not able to keep up with this. You can continue to use Gabriel as an NPC if you'd like, but I'm going to have to drop out of the RP. :( )
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((Aww. You will be missed.))
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The beast collapsed it was no more.
Meanwhile...
Gabreil found herself in the lab she was not a fighter anyway. She had concluded that this would be best. She had selected several of her fellow students to help create crystals they would be needed.
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(you shall be missed!)
Ryan and Hector
Ryan was far too busy trying to catch the yeerk to even soften the rock. Hector heard and saw Sierra fly into the wall and ran over to help her.
"Sierra." He poked at her cautiously. It would do no good for her to die. The beast was dead but Sierra looked very unconscious. She might have brain damage and he wouldn't know.
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Sierra
Sierra felt herself moving. Then she felt a horrid, throbbing, stabbing pain in her head. She groaned. "Where...oh, God. My...head." She started to loose consciousness again, but pulled her way out of it when she remembered where she was. She shot up into a sitting position. NOT a good idea. The blood rushed to her head, and she grabbed the closest thing to her. Which happened to be Hector. "Where's the yeerk?" She whispered.
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(did the yeerk escape?)
Ryan and Hector
Hector shook his head, having frozen something so Sierra could put something cold on her head. "He's still looking."
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(Hmm. I don't know. How powerful is it?)
Sierra
"Thanks." She pressed the frozen...whatever to her head. "Mmkay." Sierra suddenly realized something. "Where's Cody's mum?" She looked frantically around.
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The yeerk ran through the woods the subvisser had left her time to escape all she needed was...
WHAP!
She fell to the ground dizzy hit with the flat end of a sword. Then something lifted her up something.
"Who do you work for? Where are the... So another yeerk. Alright yeerk here's the plan you tell me what you are doing here and I'll let you stay in that brian." the yeerk replied "I was searching for my dog he..." the stranger was angry. "You lie." Then the yeerk was pulled from the brain striped from the electrodes unwillingly and then found itself a float then smashed against a tree.
The stranger looked at his digital clock four days ten hours and seven minites to Lunae Peregium.
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan stood, frowning. "The yeerk got away." He looked around, listening to the earth. "Cody's mom is in the woods, on the ground and near another person. There was an altercation."
Even Hector, Ryan's twin was a bit awed in his older brother's power. "Can you stand Sierra?" Hector asked.
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Sierra
"I'm fine." She stood shakily, and took a step. "Yeah. I'm fine. Now lets get this SOB." She started walking. "Um...Ryan? Take us up?"
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Ryan and Hector
The earth beneath Sierra and Hector rose up until they were floating in the air. Ryan's eyes were closed as he focused, a bit more strain after using a bit more of his ability than usual. Hector wrapped his hand into Ryan's, boosting the power.
They floated for a few yards until they were deep in the woods.
Hector spotted Cody's mom's foot. "Hey, there she is."
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Cody took off, looking for the kandrona. He looked around a corner. There was two human guards. Trying to look casual, he tried walking right past them. One of them looked at him.
"You're not allowed up here kid." Cody grinned. "Hi, could you help me find a kandrona?" The guard looked at him, his eyes wide with surprise. Then, he drew a weird looking gun. "Andalite! He hissed. Cody grinned again. "Nope, human!" He increased gravity around he two, causing them to fall down very rapidly, knocking them both out. He walked back over and found Chad. "Hey chad, are ye coming or not?"
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(isn't telling the yeerks that there enemies are humans jeopardizing the school?)
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((Oh, you mean the soon-to-be-dead yeerks?))
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Chad picked up the guns that the two enemies had. Then he followed Cody down the passageway.
(We really should be more secretive. Even a bunch of thirteen year olds knew better.)
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Cody continued on down, turning o Chad, he asked. "So, whats your plan?"
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"Once we find this thing, I should be able to rip it apart. Even if it has a thick covering to protect it from outside forces, I can still tear the insides apart without breaking the outer casing. Before we leave, though, we need to talk to a guy and get something for the Headmistress. That part I did remember."
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Acre stepped inside and looked at the two bodies. "Well I see you had fun." He muttered and pulled their wallets. He flipped through them and took out all forms of ID, leaving the cash and cards. "You find it yet?"
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At that moment Doctor Mcdougal was outside of lab 208 he punched in the code 9-4-7-. Hang on, he remebered the ski mask took off his badge and continued typing the code -1-8-8-8-6-9-2-3-9. He was in he took out the rubber magnum. "Frezze!" he said in a carefully choosen realistic American New Yorker accent. The two doctors held their hands up. "Alright you docs." he said "I want each every one of those viles over there in this sack and if you miss any I'll put a bullet in your f***ing head." The doctors obeyed. "and don't break any of those viles." The doctors were quick to obey they weren't controllers otherwise they would have known that a dracon beam was under the desk. "Alright good night f***ers." and his boosted strength he knocked each of them to the ground. He went out closed the door and quickly took off his ski mask. He was amazed at his own criminal genius by the time the guard got off duty the powerful electromagnet hidden in his swaped can of spam which was now without a doubt in the trash by now. Would be turned off and the film corruption would be blamed on the aged bone density scanner lying around outside the guard station though such an occurece was almost impossible.
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Turning to Acre. "No, not yet, but it can't be to far off. But beware, those Hork-ba-whatchamacallits are guarding definetly. My folks say their perty tough cookies, but nothing we can't handle."
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Sierra
Sierra looked down at Cody's mum. "Um...guys? She is definitely not moving. Which is not a good sign." Sierra bent down. "There's a pulse. Shallow, but it's there." Sierra bent her head down. "And...she's breathing. All right. She's probably was hit unconscious and could go into shock. So let's get her back to the school."
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Acre
"Well then what are you waiting for? Show some initiative, take them out, deal with this." He looked around nervously. I don't want to be here when they figure out something's wrong."
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"Keep your pants on. We're in the middle of a covert mission." Chad said as they came to another door. Sounds could be heard, and they didn't sound Human. "This could be it." He said. There was a keypad on the door, and he could tell whish ones had been pressed the most often. "Five digits, between zero and nine. No telling which order they're supposed to be pressed in."
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Then a voice came from behind "It is two six one nine four I have been watching camra's all day." Doctor McDougal was weary. "I was told to give you this." he thrust the tube carfully contained into Cody's hand. "Just put it in one of those things it's shatterproof." he said indicating the crystal slots on Cody's armor. "Oh and do what you like the camra's are completly disabled." he said Cheekly.
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"Thanks sir. That was convenient." He punched in the numbers, and the doors opened. Inside was a circular room, with a strange machine humming in the back. Sitting at a table were four creatures he assumed were Hork-Bajir. "Let's get started." He said, and held his Yeerk weapons ready.
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(isn't it great how ****y gets people killed?)
Ryan and Hector
Between the two of them, the twins hoisted the uncouncious woman up. "Wouldn't the yeerks get suspcious when they realize she's not here?"
Hector pointed to the hole in the ground. "Also the yeerk got away. He knows our faces and knows we're not normal."
As far as he was concerned the mission was a failure. They could only hope the others were not as foolish, messing around. Even though they were psychic it didn't matter. This was an alien army. They couldn't take that on.
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Cody thanked him and inserted it into his suit. Walking into the room, he waved to the aliens. Immediately two fired dracon beams at him. The beams got within two feet and then curved, and made a 180 turn, vaporizing the owners. He decided to be fair.
"Okay Chad, you can have the other two."
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Chad set his beams at a lower settings, so when he fired the enemies were just stunned. Sill trying to go with Acre's "leave them alive" plan. He went up to the machine, and found it did have a thick outer plating. Not that it mattered, as he ripped apart the insides, starting with the more loose instruments within. The humming stopped, and smoke seeped out where it could. Mission accompliched. Let's get out of here."
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Cody agreed on their way, out, he stopped by the two human controllers, who were just waking up. The yeerk looked up at him. "Human, impossible." Cody whispered, "No, very possible, very possible, very real." He then used inner gravity manipulation to crush the internal organs. As blood seeped out of the controllers mouths, he laughed. "Rest in peace slime rest in piece." He turned to Chad. "Come on, let's get out of here and find acre."
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"You're as bad as the twins. Where did Acre go, anyway? He missed the fun."
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"Well, we can't have them know humans did it, and they stole my parents from me for a long time. No mercy for them. Acre? No idea."
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"If you didn't blab about it, the guy wouldn't know you were actually Human. Those two Humans you just killed didn't have anything to do with your parent's abduction. Man, now I sound like Acre. We can't leave without the guy, so here's hoping no one grabbed him."
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Cody argued back. "And what, they definetly thought we weren't humans, we were hork-bajir with masks on. What would they think, they saw humans come in, and use super powers to defeat them, I did what was needed."
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"Yeah, the Andalites probably don't have psychic powers. I'm not sure how acre wants us to do this. Maybe we should be wearing masks. Or helmets. I don't know. This is why we need to get this war over as soon as possible, since we can't save everyone. Hit hard and fast. Hopefully smashing the Kondrona's insides is a hard enough blow to effect them for now. Let's just keep the momentum going."
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Sierra
Sierra cursed under her breath. Stupid yeerk. "Oh, well. At least we have Cody's mum. We'll get her on back to the school. We're in WAY over our heads." Sierra swore again, and kicked a rock. "Let's get out of here before the yeerks come back."
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Acre leaned against the wall, staring at his work on the wall. "You guys done? Did you destroy the kandrona?" He sighed and looked out one of the windows. "You all ready to go?"
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"Yeah. I hope the others had it as easy as we did." Chad said as he stepped out of the window.
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Acre
"You aren't going to jump are you. I don't care at this point but that feather won't help you much if that's your game." He turned and started out the doors and up to the roof. "Follow me if you want to live." He said in a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. He chuckled to himself. "We are all screwed."
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"Yeah, because you're the only one who can levitate." chad said as he jumped, and used his powers to let himself down. He was glad he was able to do this mission without stressing his powers too much. After making sure no one saw him, he calmly strolled away. Back to the school. "Maybe I should find a taxi."
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Acre
Well Cody, how about you? My suggestion is to fly away, same as we came in. That way we don't scare passerbys on the way down. I happen to prefer cloud cover."
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(Plot suggestion: isn't it kind of obvious that three guys walking out of the hospital in dark blue armor are going to be noticed.)
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(I forgot he was wearing armor. Yeah, that would stand out. We're all untrained and stupid. Not cut out for a secret resistance.)
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Ryan and Hector
Had the twins had the ability to break the fourth wall, they would be so pleased that they actually tried to carry out a secret mission without standing out so much. But it wouldn't have helped. One of the yeerks saw them.
They helped dragged Cody's mom back to school, via back alleys. It would do no good to drag a body around in full view.
Hector frowned at Sierra, as he and Ryan dragged the body back. "Next time, don't get in the way. I'm just going to kill them. No interrogating, no nothing. The mission was jeopardized. If I killed the yeerk straight out, then we wouldn't have to worry."
Ryan kept quiet, he too had a part of the guilt and blame. Had he been quicker, their cover may not have been blown.
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Sierra
She turned on Hector. "Don't get in the way? Don't get in the way?" She shoved him against the wall. "What am I, just some piece you carry around with you? Well, excuse me for trying to find a way to get information. From now on, you can count me out." She turned to walk away. But she had forgotten something. She walked back to Hector, and punched him in the face. THEN she walked away.
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Ryan and Hector
Hector fell back on his face before making the ground frozen, making it very slippery to walk upon.
"There is a time and a place for interrogations, at the moment when he was trying to kill us you're supposed to kill him first!" Snapped Hector, fuming as the temperature dropped steadily. "You're in battle, no on is going to pause just for you!"
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Sierra
Sierra slipped on the ice. "I tried, ok! I tried to make him do what I wanted. It didn't bloody work! I can't...Oh, whatever. Tell the others to call me if I'm needed. You can go **** yourself." Sierra used the wall to keep from falling as she walked out. She stormed out of the school, heading toward her house. She walked up to a random person on the street. "Fight me." She ordered, throwing a punch.
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Chad had gotten out of the cab after convincing someone to let him in while wearing a weird suit. He had actually forgotten the suit stuck out, which was stupid of him. On his way back, he noticed someone fighting Sierra. He used his powers to knock the guy out, and levitate Sierra up.
"What is going on? I take it the mission went badly? Did you at least get Cody's mom out?" He asked has he hovered her helplessly in the air.
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Sierra
"Put. Me. Down. If you have any questions, ask Hector or Ryan. I'm sure they're be happy to tell you I 'botched' the mission. And yes. Cody's mum is out. Unconscious, but out. So, if you don't mind, let me go." Sierra was just about ready to hit Chad.
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Ryan and Hector
Ryan groaned and heaved the unconscious body on Hector. "You idiot." He went after Sierra.
He knew it was tense, knew it was war but also knew to cherish the few friends you have. The only friend you have.
He arrived just in time to see her start a fight with a random person. "Sierra!" He shouted. But as he went towards her, Chad appeared. And he was being a jerk. Why else would a jerk dangle a fellow fighter helplessly in the air?
Their mission must've gone badly.
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"Ok. Just promise you'll calm down." Chad said as he let Sierra down. "Our mission went without a hitch. I decided to take the fast way back, though it might have been best to fly back with Acre and Cody. Hey Ryan. Let me guess? You went all destroyer on the Yeerks and rubbed Sierra the wrong way? You may need to work on teamwork skills."
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Sierra
Sierra glared at all the people around her. "Why can't you all just leave me alone? Is it that much to ask for?"
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Ryan and Hector
"It wasn't that." He snorted, feeling tempted to send Chad all the way down to the center of the Earth. "Did any of the yeerks see you?"
Ryan wished he could be of assistance to Sierra but Chad here was making him angry.
Meanwhile Hector put Cody's mom into a freezer, a broken one that is and raced over to Ryan. He could feel Ryan's anger.
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"If you're going to get all freaky before the day is out, you can join the Acre club. He's already going all dark and brooding. Me? I'm getting a little excited. I destroyed a Kandrona machine. The first step is complete. I will send a message to all Yeerks that they aren't welcome on my planet!" He said as he started walking away. He should report to the headmistress and tell he of his success. "Those that saw us were killed by Cody. He seems to have taken a stance similar to yours, Ryan."
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Sierra
Sierra turned and walked away from the guys while they were paying more attention to their conversation. She walked into her house, and slowly climbed the stairs to her room. She lay down on her bed, and picked up a book. She felt she was in way over her head. With everything. The yeerks, her sister, the other students. She felt like she shouldn't have to deal with all this. She wasn't even an adult. She sighed, and turned over.
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Ryan and Hector
"Kids grow up then." Ryan muttered as Hector came into view. "Oh look, it's gravity balls." The younger twin grinned, pointing at Chad.
Ryan shook his head and started to walk back to where Hector stashed the Cody's mom. They had to hurry. Their report to the headmistress was not as bright and cheery and exciting as Chad's.
They went back to the freezer, took the body and raced back to campus.
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Acre
He dropped Cody off at the school and started walking. It was too late to do anything of importance so he stopped by his house. Flipping on his computer, he switched to the hidden page and updated the journal. 'Casualties 2+ We're making a difference. That's two families we've ruined.' He looked at the IDs he had taken and wrote down their basic information. 'When this is over I'll make restitution. Handed out feathers. Doubt they understand what they have in store for them because of it though. I suppose we're all dying inside. I'll make a toast. Here's to those who've died already. Their work is done.' He saved the images to his computer, shredded the IDs, and headed outside with his notebook. He told himself that he just wanted to see some nocturnal birds, or get some fresh air. But as he walked, he slowly made his way toward the addresses of the two dead men.
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Cody replied. "I'm fine, killed some yeerks, come one Let's go. Where were you anyway?"
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The Headmistress
The next day...
"Dr.McDougal, yes I'll pay for the ticket. Yes I know you haven't done a memory wipe since." Dr.McDougal responded. "Ten years ago, bl*** driver. Good thing I had the foresight to follow them." "And the mock robbery?" the headmistress asked. "Went off without a hitch. You know I was about to sign on to a hospital in California but I carefully reasearched the place. I think this might be the Yeerk central hub on earth." the headmistress was perplexed. "Why do you say that?" "Well for one thing the Sharing headquarters is there and two there have been a number of incidents in volving the same party of animals: A tiger, a gorilla, a grizzly bear, and a wolf. Plus, that is where clide's girlfrined was killed by an inexplicable burn wound." the headmistress was reminded of something. "Yes, actually I was thinking of trying to find him a new psychic dueling instructor. Mr.Simms is retiring about time too. He was here since my day." "Well, cheerio then. I hate to cut you off but I am out of meat pies." the headmistress sighed. Doctor Mcdougal was known for his love of whiskey and meat pies and he still manged to stay fit. Then she called the student's to her office
(Okay, fast forward to debriefing everyone to the headmistresses office.)
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Acre
He walked in and sat down unhappily. "Sending us up again so soon. Obviously someone screwed up on somebody's side." He flipped through his notebook. "Who gets to die now? I hope it's not one of us but the odds are in our favor."
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Chad came in and sat down. "The Kandrona was successfully destroyed. Two Human controllers and two Hork-Bajir controllers died. It wasn't a really smooth covert mission, but I think I did well enough for my first time. I also hear Cody's mother was rescued."
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Ryan and Hector
"Don't be such a mop." Hector entered with Ryan. "We got the target but also encountered something strange."
"A beast in metal, an alien no doubt and its rider." Ryan sat pensively. "The rider may have escaped but we did kill most of the yeerks in the pool. There will be less controllers around."
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Cody walked up to the twins. "Hi twins, so, how did your go? Did you get my mom?"
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The Headmistress
she responded to Cody. "Your mum is fine she is currently in a state of shock but she will soon be up and about. I checked her myself I tryed to view what happened but all I got was her as the yeerk runing through the forest and then getting hit by something in the head and later a painful ripping sensation. I think that someone tryed to wipe her memory not completly just the experience. It wasn't doctor McDougal because one, he has an alibi and two, Doctor McDougal's main expertise in mind wiping is to wipe a patient of intense pain especially awakening from a surrgerical opperation before they should." she added on a light note. "Sierra should be here soon."
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Sierra
Sierra stormed into the headmistress's office. "This better be ****ing quick. I've had enough. So tell me how I can finish this particular scheme, and then never contact me on this subject matter again. I've got better things to worry about."
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Chad
"Better things than ensureing you and everyone you know aren't either killed or enslaved? Do tell, because you're not the only one in this boat, figuratively speaking."
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Sierra
"Yes. Ensuring that everyone I care about is alive. I really don't think I could care less for the majority of the people on this planet. One of the few people I do care about is dying. And I don't care how selfish you may think I am, I'm going to save her before I even think about the rest of the world." Sierra inwardly sighed. One girl can only do so much. She felt like her head was about to explode from the pressure.
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Chad
"I'll admit that I'm doing this more for myself and my parents than some guy walking down the street. However, we can't wait until the Yeerks take everyone other than people we care about before we take the fight to them."
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Sierra
Sierra glared at Chad. "The yeerks are not the threat I was talking about. I said I would finish this particular bit of this war, but I just can't, ok? This just...I just can't."
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Ryan and Hector
"Who says its our fight?" Ryan shrugged. "We're not exactly human, we're different."
Hector yawned. "Besides if Sierra doesn't want to fight she doesn't have to. It's not like we're responsible or that we have to be part of the war."
Ryan yawned as well. "If you want to take the fight to them, then have fun and we'll give you a nice funeral. They're an alien race with advance technology, how are you, one pyshic human going to do anything against that? You need an army."
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Acre
"Sierra..." Acre began. "I get it, most of us get it. Unfortunately, we have a loaded shotgun pointed at each of our faces. We are definitely in a bit of a spot. You're feeling the pressure, it makes sense. I'd love to take it off your shoulders but I can't. I know you can't just forget and turn your back to everything. That doesn't work for everyone. You have morals, you know what needs to be done. If you walk away. We will keep on going. But who is going to walk away next? I don't give a damn about who the strongest person here might be. But you have one hell of a lot of willpower. Right now you are at a breaking point. You need sleep, you need a confirmation that we've done good. Well to be frank, it's not going to happen this fast." He glanced at the headmistress. "Three days, Sierra. And only barely. You can't have reached your breaking point yet." He glanced up at the ceiling. "You're looking into the pit. If you give up now, you just took the last step in. Stay with us for awhile longer. I swear on my honor, that I will accept the blame for anything bad that happens to you. If you feel ready to lose it, take it out on me. You can't be bottled up for any longer."
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"I'm not supposed to be alone. But Acre is all brooding and cryptic, Sierra is about to blow up, and you two don't know how to get along with anybody. What am I supposed to do? We have to keep the momentum up." Chad said. Then he walked out. He didn't want to argue, or listen to the others fight. He was worried that the Yeerks would strike back if they were given enough time, so he took off. He reached into his pocket and took out a vial containing the tea the Headmistress gave him. "It's time to get another workout." He said to himself as he headed towards the pool. "Freeing all the involuntary hosts within and disrupting their local base should further hinder them."
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The Headmistress
"Chad show me the vile." he handed it to her. "Sierra, do you know what this is?"
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Chad had taken off his armor and put it all in a bag from his house so he looked less conspicuous. He spent the next hour trying to find an entrance, because he forgot to ask. Soon enough, though, he followed someone who was thinking about the pool until he was lead to the entrance. He began to make a plan as he descended the steps.
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Sierra
Sierra reached for the vial. Holding it up to the light, she examined it. "Oh. Oh, my God. Is that....It can't be. No way. I thought...I thought this was illegal?"
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Cody looked at the vial strangely. "What's that??"
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Acre
A complication. It's either something that we're going to use, or judging from Sierra's reaction. A bribe to keep her on. I'm leaning toward the bribe answer myself." He let a filter form in his throat just in case it might be toxic.
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Sierra
Sierra turned to the headmistress. "Is this...is this for Cara?"
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Chad
He put on his armor, and made his way close to where the cages were. Once close by, he whipped up a dust cloud, and began making his way over. Guards armed with beam guns came rushing in, but their weapons were yanked, and they were shot down. The setting was low, like the last time, but they should be out for a good bit. The dust was kept away from him and the other people. He broke the locks off the Human cages, and told them to run for the nearest exit. They didn't hesitate.
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The Headmistress
"Yes Sierra, it is Star Enterprise's cancer treatment. It is a specimen of two modified bacteria, one that produces a chemical that stops cancer cells from reproducing and another that produces a toxin that has no effect on regular cells but causes cancer cells to disintegrate. It painlessly wipes out cancer in one to three weeks. It was designed by Star Enterprises to be a cure for the superich elderly, the approximate cost is 2.2 million pounds. I have arranged for my friend Doctor McDougal to inject it and mark it as another chemotherapy attempt. As he will be leaving for America in one month, he will help with the recovery."
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Sierra
Sierra was, quite literally, speechless. She nodded, attempting to regain her composure. "Thank you. So much. I..." She gave a small laugh. "You're good at bribery."
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Acre
Acre stood and looked around. He nodded to himself and walked out the door, out of the school, and headed toward town.
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Sierra
Sierra thanked the headmistress again, then went to tell Cara. She didn't even try to keep from running to her house, so, of course, she bowled right into Acre. "Sorry. Sorry." She barely spent any time before she went back to running.
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Acre
"The end." He muttered as he stood back up. "That wasn't a meeting for the bribe. There's a job to be done." He looked around and couldn't see anybody around. He ducked into a small park and sat on one of the benches. "We're about to take our first casualty." He sighed and looked up at the sky.
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Hork-Bajir were flying everywhere but this wasn't Chad's doing. The Hork-bajir were unable to defeat this one he was too powerful. He was wearing a silver exo suit with bullet proof pading and a jet pack. "Reinforcments!" one of the hork bajir was yelling into a comunication device. Then a sword hit him in the chest and came back into its owners hand. He looked across the complex with his helmet lenses. "Looks like someone else had the same idea." he thought.
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Sierra & Cara
"Cara! Cara!" She called as she ran into her house. She ran up the stairs to Cara's room. "You're going to get better." Sierra smiled at her sister. Cara looked at her older sister. "What do you mean? I don't really have that much of a chance..." Sierra laughed. "Four words. Star Enterprise's cancer treatment. You're getting it!!" Cara's eyes widened. "How...we don't have the money." Sierra smiled. "It's my payment for the stuff at school." Cara smiled, and hugged her sister. "Thank you." She whispered.
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Cody looked weirded out. But instead of asking a dumb question, he asked the twins. "So, how was your mission?"
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When the safety of the Humans was assured, Chad also released other caged creatures. He figured why not, since therehad to be a reason they were caged. Still using the dust cloud as cover, he made his way to the actual pool. The Yeerks had learned by now that no one entered the cloud without taking a hit, no matter how many weapons they brought. By now Chad must have had twenty or so space pistols hovering around himself. When he got to the water, he proceded to vaporize it.
Sometimes he heard another commotion, and wondered what it was. He risked opening a small space in the cloud, to see someone else fighting. It wasn't a member of his "team", though. Those taken back and forth on piers were dealt with, depending on whether or not they had been infested. Controllers had begun shooting into the cloud, but could get in. They were even starting to come through with gas masks on, but Chad merely trained a few weapons on them, and down they went.
"I'm invincible. As long as this tea holds out, I can't be stopped."
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Acre
Acre listened to the birds chirping as they gathered around. He looked at them, and named each one. "Do you think I've fallen into the hole?" He asked them. "I don't think so, but it's all so dark. Would I know if I had fallen, does a psycho know he's crazy." The birds continued about their business. "I feel lost. You know, like I'm not where I should be. Not who I should be." He sighed. "I'm in the wrong era, in the wrong body, I'm playing the wrong persona if you will." He looked at each of the birds. "Do you understand, I hate all this. I'm dying, little by little. Is it wrong to wish to drag everyone else under? Of course it is." He began to chew on his knuckle. "Do you get it? I feel it, nearly all of it. bit by bit, it's overwhelming. Soon I doubt I'll even be me anymore. I'll just be the mirror." The few birds looking at him tilted their heads, hoping for food. Then they fluttered away. "Don't go." He called to them, but soon he realized what had spooked them. The ground was rumbling. "The twin." He snarled. "I'll...no wait." He felt around. "Not one person, many. And there was trouble underground. "Oh bug***." He muttered as it shook again. Then someone ran out of the trees. It was a young woman with auborn hair. She was wearing the Roedane school uniform, so she wasn't 6th form, but she was close to his age. She looked rather shaken up. Acre stood and walked over. "Scuse me, miss?" She jumped and slipped back into a martial arts stance.
"Who are you?" She said, wary of every move he made.
"My name's Acre, I don't want to hurt you or anything. You just looked a bit shaken up and I wanted to help." She paused for a moment.
"You want money or something?" She asked, still ready to fight.
"No way, it's an honor to help. I suppose you could call it my creed. I do my best to help people in need and stuff. I don't like violence, so please, lower your guard." She did, but carefully, sill watching him closely.
"Where you from, I haven't seen you around?" She asked him slowly.
"Well, I'm on a bit of an unofficial holiday from Chichester. Been spending time here for kicks. Not many. In either case, I've introduced myself, might I have the pleasure of your name?"
"It's Rory, Rory Elizabeth."
"That's a cute name."
"I am not above punching your lights out." She muttered. Acre stepped back.
"Well, then I won't say anything about it. What's the trouble, I'd like to help if I can. Does it have to do with the underground tremors."
"Andalite." She said.
"Sorry, don't speak german, or whatever. I'm a spanish french english person myself."
"Oh, it means no, but it isn't german." She said. "It's a code we have around my school."
"I see." Acre replied. "Well, if you want, I can take you to the store if you need something, or maybe out for some food."
"And then back to your place?" She raised her eyebrow questioningly.
"I admit nothing." He said and they both laughed. They began to walk to the central area of town, talking all the way. Acre hated himself. She was a yeerk, it was obvious, but he couldn't do anything to harm her, or put her in it's way. But he would have to free her. One thing he knew for sure, this was one secret he couldn't let out. If anyone tried to interfere, he'd live up to his code. Blood would be on his hands once again.
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Chad
Suddenly, the area he was in was blasted by a huge beam! He was knocked off his feet, and if it wasn't for his armor that near miss would have still fried him. Through the hole in the dust cloud he saw a spaceship. It looked like a ****roach, and was the size of a bus, but more importantly those were big guns it had!
"Ok. I'm not invincible. I'm in trouble."
The blast itsself had churned up a lot of dust, and he had dropped all his weapons. It fired again, but he catapulted himself into the air and gathered more dust. "If that thing has heat sensors, I'm in big trouble."
Using the cloud as cover, he swiftly made his way to the ****pit of the ship. Inside was a giant mutant centipede at the controls. It screeched angrily at him before he destroyed it. He was a bit surprised at how easy it was. He then wrecked the controls, which caused the ship to crash. His head was starting to hurt, so he downed another vial. He considered leaving, but he wanted to talk to that other guy. Maybe he realised the importance of hitting the enemy hard and fast, and to press forward to victory. So he began trying to find him.
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Then the stranger appeared. "Get out!" he said to Chad. "Get back to the School." the stranger was young but definatly older than twenty but if there was one thing he knew it was how to use a gun he summoned a dracon beam and moved the cages in frount of him: a barrier. He switched his lense to infared. Ready. Aim. Fire.
The pilot suffered from a headshot. The crew was distracted now to provide more confusion he sent the blockade of cages right at them. The bug fighter was spining wildly now one strong push and. Wham the fighter smashed into the ground. He looked behind him Chad was standing at the bottom of the stairs. "Why you still here kid!? Lets go!" and the stranger ran towards the exit.
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Ryan and Hector
Seeing everyone depart, the bribe....it made them feel sick in a way. "It was fine. A yeerk saw us but...." Ryan closed his eyes and then opened them.
"Chad is going to do something stupid." Hector remarked after a thought. "Everything is going to hell and soon enough, someone will be smart enough to just...nuke the cities...stop this secret invasion and take it by force."
Ryan nodded. "What do you think Cody?"
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Chad followed him, making sure they weren't followed. They came up in the woods, and he covered up the hole with stones and trees. Now that he had time to think, he wasn't sure how to introduce himself. What should he say, and what should he keep to himself?
"Nice work. You're pretty cool. You think we did lasting damage to that pool?"
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"Well, that would suck. I hope they stick to the secret invasion, and stay away from going Doom style. My mission was good, killed four yeerks, that was fun. Oh, the thing before the mission by the way was a joke. So, please cease any plans to vaporize me in the core or anything like that."
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(note to gumby: I want to be time-line specific here so as far as this is concerned it is 1997 as the Xbox dosen't even exist yet.)
"As far as I know. This will leave time for training now that they know what we're capable of they'll come up with at least somekind of defence." he started walking away and then said. "Appear casual and don't use obvious powers when leaving the scene."
Then he went off.
Later he appeared as a "Man carrying a suit case" a typical disguise for a spy. Uniteresting, and Unsuspecting. First thing he learned during his training with MI6 after he'd been transfered from the SAS.
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Ryan and Hector
"There are other ways to die." Hector said calmly.
Ryan sighed. "We've been lucky. The only way to curb arrogance is to get hurt. I don't want Chad to get hurt but still."
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Sierra
After having spent a bit of time with Cara, she drudged back to the school. She saw Ryan, Hector, and Cody talking. "So, what did I miss?" She asked, though she probably didn't want to know the answer.
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Ryan and Hector
"We might have a full scale war the way things are going." Muttered Ryan. "A war we're not prepared for."
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Sierra
Sierra shook her head. "Who is ever prepared for war? Nobody is." Sierra sighed.
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Cody grinned. "Well, I can project an gravity well capable of receiving a nuke impact around the school. As for not being ready, I don't even think the yeerks were ready for this war." Turning to the twins, he said darkly. "And don't even think about any funny/deadly stuff."
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Ryan and Hector
"Don't be too full of yourself gravity balls." Hector said dryly. "They don't have nukes, maybe laser beams capable of carving holes into the earth. IMO, a nuke would rain radioactive ash on us and others."
Ryan sighed. "If they invade, I can make sure any ground troops they have will die as I said before. And Hector here can...create a new ice age." He looked at Sierra. "It was mean of the Headmistress to force you to help."
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Sierra
Sierra turned to the twins. "She did what was necessary. This is war. And as much as I may not like it, and as much as I may hate to help, she knew my weakness. And she used it against me. This is war. Hopefully we'll be able to do the same to the yeerks"
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Ryan and Hector
"It was wrong." Muttered Ryan. "You're allies."
Hector nodded. "With friends like that, who needs enemies?"
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responding to the twins last comment, Cody said icily. "Yes, who does." He then said. "I don't believe the yeerks would attack, though they are technologically superior to us, We have over 6 billion people, now that's alot of power. They just don't have the numbers to attack us now, or they probably already would have."
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Sierra
Sierra gave a sad smile. "Yes they are. They are attacking us right now. You don't get it. They may not be rolling in tanks, but they are attacking. Just in their creepy infesting way."
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"Yes they are, but in that way, we can beat them. We just did."
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Sierra
"Sure, we won one battle. But we have no idea how many they have won. For all we know, they could be winning all sorts of battles in other areas in Britain, or other countries. We just don't know."
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"Well, it is our duty to slow them the best we can. Or even, stop them. And we are not alone, my parents said in America there is a group of Andalite bandits, guerrillas fighting them as well."
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Sierra
Sierra restrained herself from scoffing when Cody said it was their 'duty.' Barely. Instead, she sighed. "We'll see."
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(note: Happy burns night)
(Burns night is a scotish holiday celebrating the poet Robert Burns.)
(Burns was the author of Auld Lyng syme.)
(P.S. I know I spelled it wrong)
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(Lol. Happy Burns Night! Let's incorporate it into the RP!)
Sierra
Sierra sighed. "We've done enough. Besides, it's Burns Night! Whose up for a drink? I know a place." Sierra grinned. "I can get us free drinks."
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Happy Nurns Night. Still waiting for Gallad to post for mystery man so Chad can do something.
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Cody brightened up. "Free drinks? I'm game. Twins?"
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(Um, at this point Chad is escaping)
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(At this point he's following mystery guy. I figured he'd hang with him for a bit, unless the guy totally brushes him off or something. I will repeat the post:)
Chad followed him, making sure they weren't followed. They came up in the woods, and he covered up the hole with stones and trees. Now that he had time to think, he wasn't sure how to introduce himself. What should he say, and what should he keep to himself?
"Nice work. You're pretty cool. You think we did lasting damage to that pool?"
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(um, I said that the mystery guy appeared later as a misc. guy with a suit case in disguise later.)
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(I missed that somewhere.)
Chad didn't feel like going back to the school, so he went home. He spent time with his parents, and made more tea. Then he began to plan for the next mission. Help would be good, but the others just wouldn't be a good group to count on. After resting, he went to spy on Star Interprises to see if he could find out anything. He left his suit, as it made him conspicuous.
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(Okay another school day, friday starting... Now)
(This is when I shall reveal the identity of the stranger)
The students in the dueling class were often people with at least enough interest in history and physical education to allow them to take it as well as having justifable psychokinetic abilties who comprised a 15% minority of the school. The students from the first class came in ready to study techniques but then saw the note on the board. "Report to the auxillary gymnasium" the note said. When the students got there however they did not see their old teacher but one far younger and more acute. "You will not need your books or notes today." he said.
The students sat down cross leged in a semicircle around their new teacher. "Now," said the new teacher "I am Clide Worthington. I will not be like your last teacher as in the fact that we will not be using paper or pencils in this class we will be using more powerful instraments such as quaterstafs, katanas, shrikens, broadswords, shields, dirks and laser guns." The students murmered some vocaly some telepathically. laser guns? of course ninja weapons weren't used before in fact the class mostly centered on a psychic underground version of fensing used in the 16th and 17th century. But laser guns was this a joke? "Yes laser guns." he continued, "we are about to face an extraterrestrial army so naturally we should be equiped to fight what they possess." then he quickly summoned a dracon beam and fired.
"Now does anyone here know ninjutsu." one student raised his hand, Daron. He was of half arabic desent and had been in america prior to his ability much like thirty percent of the school. He was eger, ready he get to use ninjutsu to show off his ablities. He jumped up. "Right choose your weapon." Daron quickly sumoned the shirikens. The students made room and went to the sides. Clide readied his Dracon beam. "Go."
Daron quickly flung the dracon beam away then let the shirikens fly. However, Clide bent sideways and pulled out another dracon beam and shot (in a very matrix like manner). Daron went to the ground stunned. "End." Clide annonced. Daron got up grogily. "First mistake you disarm me and then disarmed yourself you could have just sent one shiriken. Second I have pockets and although the weapon is a bit large I still had one on me. Third, though this depends on your opponent's knowledge, it was easily predictable that you would throw them stright at me they are THROWING STARS afterall." though Daron was infuriated later in the class he began to see that the professor had a point.
The rest of the class consisted of the class pairing up and learning how to use the new weapons which ranged from broadswords to whips. When the first class left they knew on thing for sure. There was definatly a change in reigime.
(I would think maybe some of the characters would be in dueling class just a hint ;) )
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(Acre isn't showing up. I need to post this for the previous day and move on for what's next.
Acre
Acre escorted her back to his apartment. She was leading him on, and he knew it. Another person wanted him solely for what he could do for them. What a great feeling it was to be wanted. That was all a lie. Everyone had their angle for him, they all wanted him to do something for them. The Headmistress wanted him to use his abilities to fight, his uncle wanted him to help him cheat, The twins wanted him around so they could feel good about themselves. Even Sierra and her sister wanted something. But he could live with most of this. He was glad to be the whipping boy. It helped with the pain. For them and for him. seven or eight years at the school and he had learned a lot. Far more than anyone gave him credit for. Far more than he felt necessary. But he still couldn't control his biggest weakness. It didn't matter. The yeerk was playing him for a stupid teenage boy, probably to infest him or something. He was letting her string him along like a fish on a line.
"So Galahad," she had begun to call him that after he had talked about his code of honor, leaving out the more important parts, "I really hope your apartment is cozy. It's been rather cold lately." She sidled up close to him, resting her head on his shoulder.
"Yeah it has, but don't worry. Once the heats up, it'll be hot enough to roast marshmallows." she smiled and he laughed. It was all so right, so normal, he wanted to die. He was going to do a horrible thing, and it might just push him overboard.
She was playing with his binoculars when he saw them. The others in the group wandering a few streets down, going a separate way. He cursed silently and threw up a special wall of air. It bent the light, causing them to be near invisible, just vapor rising from the underground sewer systems. Of course anyone inside could see out just fine. He immediately turned down the next street and walked a few blocks in the other direction before he let it wear off.
"These glasses things are absolutely amazing. And you always watch the birds?" She asked.
"No, I watch people too, but birds aren't as boring."
"I see." She said, thinking it over. "But really, people are so different, how can it be boring?"
"People are all the same, so is most anything else. It's all about what you can get from somebody else. Helping yourself before others is the new creed. I just hate feeling used all the time. The only person who didn't want me for their own personal benefit was my dad, and that's just because he left a few months after I was born."
"My parents died a few years back, a car crash. I know how you feel. But I joined a great group for us older kids and it turned my life around." With a slug in your head, he thought. Pity filled him, along with anger and something he couldn't quite place. He shrugged it off.
"Not interested now, but maybe you can tell me more inside." They finally arrived and he let her into his apartment. She sat down on his small couch while he turned on the heat. She took off a few layers and got comfortable, and he cleaned up the trash lying around.
"Some bachelor pad, you live here alone?" She asked innocently.
"No, I'm never alone. I'm very sorry for what is about to happen." She stood up and he turned toward her. She bolted for the door, but he caught her in a cocoon of air, trapping her. He lifted her up and pinned her to the wall. She took a breath to scream, but the air around her mouth turned to liquid sludge. "I am so sorry about this. I wish it didn't have to be like...it is. But I follow the commands of my master." She stopped struggling and slowed down. Acre's voice changed into a deeper and darker sounding one.
"Nos deus abominor vos inter nostrum famulatus." He said. "In case your host is one of the many fools, it means that we gods do not want your filthy kind desecrating our servants. Even without our gifts they are useful, as well as required. You may wonder why I'm telling you this, it's because you will die soon enough. By this boys hand, or by my will, or maybe just from starvation. I assume you haven't fed in two days, without it, you shall die, and I shall enjoy watching your suffering. Whether the host continues with you is irrelevant. I plan to send a message, as do my brethren as we remove your scum from our slaves." He laughed loudly.
"You can't let her die." Regular Acre said. Whap, the sound of something hard striking flesh dully echoed in the room. Acre was knocked backwards and it was clear that he had been hit hard in the eye. It was darkening and beginning to swell in seconds.
"Do not contradict me ward. Or you shall suffer more punishment than this." The air around her mouth softened to let her speak.
"You're one of this planets false gods aren't you? That explains so much, but why act here, why not bring us out?" She smiled smugly. Acre smiled and an invisible hand struck her across the face. She coughed and looked stunned. Then she spat at Him, spit and blood was blocked by a wall of air.
"The world is working to our ends whether it knows it or not, their rebellion furthers our cause, should they decide to rebel directly at us, well. We'll lose many useful creatures. He laughed and the gag of air returned.
"I'm so sorry." Acre murmured. Then he stood rock still for nearly 2 hours, not even breathing. Then he collapsed. Staggering to his feet, he walked over to Rory, "I'm so sorry. I think he's insane. I don't know what he's talking about half the time but I can't bear to see any woman suffering. I'm not as strong without him but I can maybe free you. He'll kill you if you don't run. I know it. He closed his eyes and focused on the invisible bars holding her to the wall. Then he looked surprised.
"What did I say?" The voice said angrily.
"I'm sorry, I was just going to help her get more comfortable. I wouldn't set her free." Acre was lifted up by the neck and launched face first into the wall. It hurt worse than he had meant it too, but it was a good pain, something he deserved. He had broken his nose at the very least. Then he had an epiphany.
"I will show you what defiance means." The voice said. Long cuts striped his arms and blood began to ooze out. "And your fate will be worse alien." He said to Rory. Then Acre collapsed onto the floor and lay there supposedly unconscious for nearly 4 more hours. He kept his blood from spilling to much, he didn't plan on death. But his nose would need medical attention at the very least when this charade was over. He had to plan for what he would do tomorrow, and He couldn't allow himself to sleep. He could lose control of the air holding her.
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Cody left the weapons class, that was something new. He murmured softly.
"They didn't have that at my old school."
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Chad wasn't really sure what to look for at SI. There might be a Yeerk Pool entrance, but he didn't see much point in going down there now. He snuck around and managed to get into a computer that was already on. Not that he was a computer whiz or anything, but he may find other information. He also looked around for suspicious disks or other things. The worker came from his break, but was discreetly knocked out before he saw anything.
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The Headmistress
The telephone rang it was a foregin call. "Ms.Bridge?" said the indian accent. "Yes, this is the head mystic I take it." The head mystic was the leader of another psychic school located in india however they were slightly more spiritual and revoulved around the trianing of the students to fight when the Dark Ones came. For this they had a satelite to detect any strange frequencies. Mostly this satelite was used by both schools to detect any psychic out bursts but that was not the case here. "You realise that thier has been another powerburst in england but this time it is far more powerful than before." the mystic continued. "You think it was one of the Dark Ones." "Yes" "You know the last time this happened it was a bomb." "We reasearched the location and it appears that the signal came from in apartment in brighton rented out to a student known as Acre." The headmistress grew worried she had only half belived it before, but acre had full controll of his powers but he did have a rough childhood was it Multiple Personality Disorder or was it really a Dark One.
(You decide acre.)
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(Still trying to figure out what I want Chad to find. Maybe he'll find out that there's another Yeerk pool, and he's really way over his head if he tries to fight alone.)
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Sierra
Sierra pulled away from the headmistress's door. Sure, it was wrong to eavesdrop, but who doesn't? She frowned as she walked away. Because only one half of a conversation was decipherable, Sierra determined either the headmistress was on the phone, or she was crazy. But what was this about a head mystic? And who were the Dark Ones?
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The headmistress suddenly detected something. "<Sierra get in here.>" she said in version of her thought speak. Her "voice" was quick and sharp. She was not in a good mood.
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Sierra
Sierra tensed. She had heard the headmistress. Swearing under her breath, she trudged into the headmistress's office. "Yeah?"
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Acre
He had left her with a semi permanent flow of oxygen, to make sure she would stay unconscious but alive. He had set it up so that if the yeerk escaped, it would fall into a bucket of ice water, some creatures go into hibernation in extreme cold so it would slow the need for kandrona in the slug. If he was lucky, he'd have a live specimen, if he wasn't, well. He'd have a dead slug. He shot off through the sky at his full speed toward Taunton in Wessex. He covered the near 240 kilometers in under three hours, completed his task, and returned before sun up. By the time he crawled into his apartment, he was exhausted. The power he had used to cloak himself as well as travel at such speeds had drained him. He forced himself on though, he couldn't go to sleep just yet. He checked on Rory and evaporated the gag that was keeping her under. While he waited for her to wake up, he checked the bucket. inside there was a large slug. He couldn't tell if it was dead or not, so he added more ice and put it in his small freezer. He sat down and waited. She awoke after about ten minutes.
"Welcome to the land of the living, and possibly the free." He said as she opened her eyes.
"I-I can move."
"Yes, yes you can, please don't panic, the slug is in my icebox."
"So you won't kill it?"
"I was right then, the cold puts them in hibernation." He muttered. "I hope I didn't cause you too much distress or pain. It wasn't my goal, or my choice."
"I noticed, you should get that nose looked at. But won't he get mad when he comes back?" She looked around, scared that the thought might bring him back.
"He's gone for now. He's not a big fan of the day time. In either case, he has the slug, and I'll be the one to take the flak for it. He won't kill me. Only one in several billion can allow him to have direct access without destroying their bodies. They come along when problems need solving. I'm just the next in line."
"But, there aren't even that many people around. When does he do it?" He lasts through time, he's almost a god. You have to remember that. Though he had a start I think. I'm pretty sure that he was Myrddin, or Merlin. From King Arthur and all that."
"But that's just a legend." She said.
"Apparently not. So I guess I'm his new protege, I'm the next Merlin, or the next Arthur. I dunno. He's used a bunch of other people, most weren't as noble as me. Rasputin for one, though it seems a little soon for a new one. In either case, each person he becomes changes him. Right now he's a real pain, but my code is hopefully bringing him back. Hopefully to as nice as he is in the legends of Arthur."
"So you're taking up a code to change him?"
"No, this was always my code. I tried not to lie to you, but you were-"
"I was one of them. I understand. But you've saved me, and I owe you more than I can pay."
"I don't do this for pay, another part of my code. In either case, I don't know what to do now. I need rest, but I can't have you here. I also can't have you seen outside. I need to have you stay with somebody." He picked up a piece of paper and wrote down a few directions. "These are directions to a friend of mine. No, she's at school or the hospital, that won't work." He tossed the paper aside and wrote out new directions. "I lied to you about the school. Forgive me, but it might be the safest place. They'll know you're there but ask for Jane Bridge the headmistress. Tell her I sent you and show her this. I figure she knows it by now." He pulled out a feather. "I'm going to make you invisible but it won't last more than 15 minutes. If you run fast, you can make it, take the slug too. It'll help." He slumped over on the couch.
"What about you?" Rory asked hesitantly.
"If this doesn't kill me, I'm going to pass out for a few hours, maybe days if I d overestimate myself. It's happened before, so please forget about me. Tell everyone that if I'm not back in a week, I'm dead. They can look for my body. But I'll be ok."
"You saved me, I can't leave you here to die."
"You won't, he'll deal with me. You have to promise to wait a week. Promise it."
"Fine, but let me help you."
"I don't see how you can." Acre muttered, he slowly laid down.
"I know some basic medicine. I wanted to be a nurse before it all went bad." She helped him elevate his head. "If you aren't careful, the nose will kill you. Forget about Merlin."
"I never said his name was-" He yelped in pain as she straightened his nose back into place. "****, what the hell. That was blo*** awful. Why'd you go and do that?"
"To fix your nose. You don't want a bent nose forever. Now do what you're going to do, and I'll be off." Acre cursed and used the last bit of power he had to make her for the most part, invisible. Then he passed out.
Rory
She shut the door and took off at a dead run. After the training she had done she was faster than most. Following the instructions and avoiding people who might recognize her, she was able to make it to the campus in 12 minutes. Which was good. Because Acre's power had gone out at nine. She ran through the gates. The school day had started so the grounds were mostly empty. She decided to try the front door. She hadn't heard of this school before, but she didn't get out too much. Entering through the front doors, she realized she had no idea who to ask for help, or where to find the Headmistress of the school. So she began to follow class numbers. Hopefully, she'd see the plaque or a map soon enough.
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The Headmistress
"Sierra, you have already overheard much so I guess I should tell you... During the first and second century a network of psychics was forming of course that is basic history. This network spaned throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. There is almost at least one school for each continent. Anyway teachings back then were done from master to apprentice, not by a higher education, much like the jedi in star wars in fact that was one of the results of a info leak in 1970.
Some of the students in the roman empire, a group of eight rouges decided that they would destroy the gods and rule themselves or at least join their ranks to help restore an order to the world. Later they scaled Mt. Olympus. They did not find anything accept what you would see, snow and ice they came to decide that the gods deserted Mt.Olympus years ago and that they needed to take there place and restore order so they sought the path to immortality.
This lead them down a dark road they soon became arrogant and stubborn. After many years of experimenting and theory during which many were killed and were exiled from the psychic community they found a way to immbune themselves as inteligences without bodies like ghosts they called this theometamorphisis literaly translated means god transformation. Then one decided to test the power of this theometamorphisis he killed himself and transfered his mind into that of his master.
The others congradualted him and tried it themselves and it worked in there new bodies. However the master was horrified by this and when his student was caught offguard he unleashed a powerful blast of mental energy killing, himself and two of the rouges. The others were impacted and thus they were weakened and sought the earth for bodies especially those of psychics.
I had never believed this tale myself but it appears that it is true"
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Sierra
Sierra's eyes widened. "So basically, these are psychics-gone-bad combined with ghosts things?" Sierra cursed. "That's not good." Sierra shook her head, knowing she had to ask the question she dreaded the answer of. "Are there any in our school?"
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Rory
She had found a a map of the classrooms. She wandered around for a few minutes before she found it. She checked her appearance. She was still wearing her uniform from yesterday, which she didn't appreciate, but she was free, which she did like. She looked at the pail with the yeerk. She took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
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Chad
Chad didn't find a whole lot from the computer. There didn't seem to be anything conspicuous around the office. He evfentually realized that his detective skilled sucked. He began making his way out when something hit him hard in the head. He blacked out, and when he regained semiconsciousness he found himself being carried down a flight of stairs.
(I opted for him being captured. He's being taken to the basement of the SE building.)
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"Oh my god." the headmistress said and she quickly ran to the door and opened it. "Acre has been forced hasn't he and you're being followed." the headmistress had to take action. She called all of the members "<Urgent situation. Acre has been possessed by a Dark One not a yeerk and... Chad? Twins I need you to rescue chad I'll send you his location.>"
Meanwhile...
Clide was sparing with a most determined student. "Darron your technique is improving. You have the art of battle clairvoiance down on a basic level." Darron was disappointed but Clide ansewered before he could say anything. "That is good for somone of your age I wasn't even on that level when I was seventeen you are two years younger and quite adept." then they both heard the message. Clide responded "<Listen the twins need help...>" "<I need you to fight the dark one>" the headmistress interupted. "<I wasn't thinking of me you need somone else look through my eyes,>" he paused for a moment "<he can help the twins with their mission.>
<Alright I will update this to the twins. You two I am now sending you an image of an accomplice.>
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Chad
Chad didn't regain full consciousness until he was slapped in the face. Then he was awake. He was chained to the back wall, with two mounted beam weapons on the wall on either side of him. The walls, ceiling, and floor themselves were made of some metal that might be seen in scifi movies.
"Tell us who you are, and how many of them you are. And what powers do you group have."
Chad answered only by a show of power. Unfortunately, everything was bolted down tightly except his captors. Once the walls started to vibrate a bit, the weapons fired. He screamed in pain as his entire body was singed.
"He is dangerous." One of the men in the back said. "We should wait until they come with Yeerk for infestation."
"You'll never get one of those things in my head. Your little invasion will end, even if I have to break that pool down."
"Hate to break it to you, but that pool you've been attacking isn't even our main base. We have other, larger pools. Your resistance is futile."
That startled Chad. He began thinking he was wrong to try to do it on his own. The others were right afterall.
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Cody went over to the head mistress.
"Chad's in trouble? Where?"
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Rory
The force of the door startled Rory. She didn't understand half of what the woman had said. "I umm... I have a message from Acre. "I'm supposed to show you this." She held up the feather. "And give you this yeerk." She held up the bucket. "I'm not sure what else I need to do. You seem on top of it." She stepped back out of the way and pulled out her cell phone. Then she realized that she didn't have Acre's number. She wanted to go back to the apartment but she had promised not to check on him for a week. She sat against the wall and wished she knew when she could see him again.
The phone rang on the headmistresses desk. She picked it up. "Hello?"
"Excuse me, are you Ms Bridge."
"Yes I am, who is this?"
"I'm Donald Wright, I'm with the police department. I wanted to ask you about a student of yours, an Acre Lorraine. We found his body in his apartment. There was a fire, but that wasn't what killed him. There was a bullet hole in his skull. We thought we might get in contact with you because we can't seem to find any family ties for the boy. Maybe you can help?"
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Sierra
Sierra's eyes widened. "Ok, so now Acre is dead. Fabulous. Does this mean that the Dark One is gone too, or just Acre? Gah!" Sierra shook her head trying to clear her mind. "Alright. Where do we start?"
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The Headmistress
"Resucing Chad, he is in danger. Captured I belive. I know this because I sensed it. I can sense any sort of danger or pain from people I am regularly in contact with and as far as I can tell Acre is dead. The only exception to this rule is a complete psycological change for example amnesia. Over distances there is some delay for example right after the phone call I felt a sharp pain in my head and I knew what it was even though it was duller than I thought it would be. Anyway you'd better accompany the twins armor at this point is essential. Thankfully right after the last mission I had mister Alexander fit invisibility devices on them.
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Chad
After refusing to answer questions, the interrogator began torturing him. He pressed a button on the remote that sent the lasers going. Through the pain, Chad had made another power surge that caused the interrogator to die violently. The rmeote was destroyed, and the cannons stopped. The two in the back screamed and ran out of the room. They'd be back, though. He wasn't sure how much more he could take before passing out again. Then he heard something over a speaker.
"Human. Surrender. You can not keep this up. We have force fields and armor plating to deflect whatever power you have."
"Your generator we destroyed had plating too! It didn't stop me!" He screamed. Silence followed. Then more searing pain from the weapons, and his screams became wails of agony.
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Sierra
Sierra grinned. "Invisibility? Cool. Alright. Can you contact the twins and get them here?"
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Cody was outraged.
"Acre dead, Chad captured? Yeerks, dark ones, who cares. I'm gonna save help save Chad. When do we leave?"
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Chad
Within the searing pain, Chad remembered what he had said about the generator. He reached out with his powers, and popped something inside the machines. They fizzled and stopped.
"Still you oppose us, Hu-"
The sentence was cut off as the speaker was destroyed. chad levitated a vial of tea up, and drank it. with the pain going away, he sat and thought. The metal shackles seemed to be welded into the wall. Not screws or clasp to undo. He wondered how it worked. The silence continued, as the controllers obviously tried to think of another way to deal with him. He began trying to think of other ways, besides crushing his hands and feet, that he could get free.
(The metal is like in book 5, where the bladeship doorway and cell wall just moved back and forth.)
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Sierra
"Cody. Chill. We need to figure out a plan. We can't just go bursting in like Chad did, because then we'll be in the same situation. We would be captured with no way out, and, in all likeliness, we would be tortured. In fact, I'm guessing Chad is being tortured right now."
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Chad
The silence had gon on for a while. He was starting to think they were just waiting for him to pass out again. He had tried to focus all of his power on the individual shackles, but it didn't work. No one knew where he was. No one was coming for him. Courage began giving way to fear, and the silence became almost as bad as the interrogation. They sent some scared guy down to check on him, armed with a handheld weapon. He left his eyes half closed, and his body limp until he got close. Chad then wrenched the weapon away, and held it in front of him. The guy practically wet himself.
"You're going to undo these shackles now. If you do, I'll fire this gun on stun instead of full blast."
Once he was free, he kept his word. The man lay stunned, away from the corpse that was still there. Then he began making his way up, trying to push down the fear and pain.
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Headmisstress
"Your armor's function will allow you to both make your armor invisable, and make you invisible entirley there isn't a moment to lose. Even if chad has escaped you will need to erase the Yeerk computer database to protect us." She tossed each of them a small circular object it looked just like a marble for stealth and had the ability to destroy data in any system its power was completely unrivaled when it came to databank destruction."
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Chad
He knew he needed to conserve his energy. He could just break down every wall in a straight line until he made it outside. He could hear people yelling.
"The Sub-Visser says to keep him alive!"
"How can we contain him? He destroys everything around him!"
"He has limits. Shoot to stun!"
"We should send Taxxons! They are more expendable!"
"But they won't keep him alive!"
Chad broke up the plaster on the walls to create a dust cloud. He covvered the hallways with the cloud, except for a small tunnel that he could see through. Controllers began firing normal guns blindly. Obviously they were trying to keep from setting the place on fire. He made some headway, but Horks began coming from nowhere. It was all draining him, but he pressed on.
Then the sprinklers came on. Those things on the ceiling that spray water to put out fires. The water messed up his smoke cloud. He barely made it into another room before being shot. The room had no window, and looked like it was used for storage. He blocked the door, and sat down to think.
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Sierra
Sierra grinned. "Alright. Time to kick some yeerk ***. Ready to go, Cody?"
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Cody grinned.
"Oh yeah!"
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Darron
He had no suit of armor but that wasn't a problem his ninja uniform was all he needed. He had to sneak down the corridors and somehow manage not to be seen. "<Good work.>" said Clive over a telepathic link. "<Now remember the security room is almost surrely going to be monitored. So if you can take them out at a distance.>" Darron was at the last corridor to the sides and two hork-bajir stood right their conversing. If he had been a bit taller or the hork-bajir more attentive he'd have been dead. He wanted to save his strength for the "Boss fight" as he had learned from Metal Gear Solid.
He opened the door a single human was standing at the controlls. "I was wondering when you would come. I have to get home this body. Uhg." the controller dropped to the ground by a knockout pulse, a techinque which consisted of sending a firm pulse to both the temples causing a near instant knockout.
Darron took out the computer drive "marble". The security system immedatly shut down. "<Phase two set the charges. Near the door and get out of there.>" Darron quickly set the charges. 10 minites or on remote wire. Now to get out.
The way out was easier. The charges were set all he needed ot do was wait for the cavalry.
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Chad
The pain came back, and hit him hard as the tea wore off. It should have lasted longer, but perhaps it just wasn't strong enough to hold back this much. Chad writhed and moaned on the floor, and his moans turned to screams. The controllers outside didn't seem to be sure what to do.
"Somebody help me." Chad said aloud before passing out.
The controllers made it inside and carried him to a room.
"We need to tend to the burn wounds. Get the gel." They took some gel that would sanitize the burns and regenerate cells to heal him. "We have to make sure he doesn't wake up."
"If he wakes up, we'll put him out again."
"If he wakes up, he'll kill us. This Human can literally kill you as soon as look at you."
"What about bio stasis?"
"Good idea. We'll use that once we're done putting this on his skin. They should be bringing the Yeerk soon that was chosen for this body."
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Sierra
Sierra walked into the building with Cody, grateful for the invisibility. She leaned toward him and whispered "How do you want to do this?" She kept her voice as quiet as she could. It wouldn't do to have the controllers hear a disconnected voice.
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(So does anyone want to have Chad be infested? It would be like book 6.)
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(It would make for an interesting development. I'm for it.)
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((Sure))
Cody said.
"Use invisiblity, and crush any yeerks in our way. I can project a gravity warp field around us, so we will be safe from bullets or lasers.'
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Sierra
Sierra nodded. "Sounds good. Onward!" Sierra slunk past the guards in the building, nearly laughing at the ease of it. "I could get used to this."
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As they moved forward, a guard walked right into them.
"Oof! What is that?" He looked at the invisible duo and tried puunching it. Cody gasped, the guard raised his gun, and cody crushed him to the size of an orange. He turned to Sierra.
"Come one, lets find the door."
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Chad
"Our monitors indicate that the skin cells have adequately regenerated for the body to function without being in constant pain."
"Good. We have brought one of the Sub Visser's most loyal subordinates. Release the bio stasis."
"Shall we inject stimulants into the bloodstream to wake the body up quickly?"
"No. Give the Yeerk time to get comfortable before the Human wakes up."
"How will we know he can control the abnormal abilities of the body?"
"We'll find out after they wake up together."
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Sierra
Sierra clamped a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing at Cody. "What, never been punched before?" She shook her head. "Hey, the yeerks won't make the door obvious." She leaned closer to the wall. "Look for abnormalities." She turned down a deserted hallway. "Here." She pointed to a bit of the wall with an indentation. "The colouring is off as well."
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Cody boiled. Turning to where Sierra indicated, he said.
"Well, let's see whats on the the other side?" He used massive gravity to crush the wall. It showed a dark stairway. Cody said.
"After you."
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Chad
"What was that? I think I heard something!"
"A rescue attempt perhaps?"
"wake him up!"
Chad mind began waking up, but he could not move his muscles. His body wasn't in pain anymore. At first he thought it might be sleep paralysis, where the mind wakes up before the body does. He was wrong.
<I have found nothing noticably abnormal in your brain that would allow you to perform telekinesis.>
<A Yeerk?>
<Yes. I am Odrett. Your new master.>
<No thanks I'm forcing you out.> Chad attempted to force the Yeerk out of his body, but he couldn't get his power to work.
<I control every part of your being. Including your powers.>
Odrett got up, and got his barings. The other controllers asked him to investigate the noise, so he went to the stairs and began going up.
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Sierra
Sierra smiled. "Thank you. And they say chivalry is dead." She rolled her eyes and walked through the door.
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Cody went after her. He projected a gravity well round her to last twenty minutes. THen, he crushed a taxxon. Its guts spilt all over the stairs. They continued down. A hork-bajir shot at him. He deflected it and threw a ball of gravity at him. It crushed hole through him. Continuing down the stars, he saw someone.
"Chad! We've come to get you out. But how did you escape?"
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Chad
"Escape? I'm still in the building." Odrett said. Chad tried his hardest to warn them that they were too late. That they should run. "Is it just you two? Are there others here?" He said as he continued up the stairs.
<Once I am sixteen feet away from Sierra, I will be as close as possible, but still out of her range. She won't know it's too late until I take Cody down. Just a little farther.>
<No!>
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Darron
He Hid himself in the cave rafters. This was not going good if Chad was now a controller he would have to find some other way of distraction. He had to keep consentrating or his Mental Stealth would wear off. As long as he consentrated, the minds around him even psychic minds would not be able to percieve him. He would wait then strike when he was needed. Wait.
Headmistress
"<Cody is a controller watch out you guys. He is not going to be easy.>" the thought speak ranged to Sierra and the twins.
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Sierra
Sierra received the headmistress's message. She didn't react at all. Instead, she did something Chad, and therefore the yeerk wouldn't expect. She squealed like a fangirl, and ran at Chad. "Chad! We missed you!" She was almost instantly in range. Lunging at Chad, she tackled him. "Don't do anything without my order." She said, forcing her power onto Chad and the yeerk.
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Chad
Odrett expected caution. He expected suspicion. He did not expect Sierra to lunge at him. Now she was on him, and had given her an order. He was confused and bewildered.
"Uh...ok. But...but...why?"
Chad was silent. Being a psychic, he was less effected by the power. He didn't want to ruin it, by talking, though. Let the Yeerk be confused. Just as long as he could get out of there.
<Does she suspect anything, or is she just being pushy?>
<If I knew how to do a mental shrug, I'd be doing it right now.>
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Cody eyed Sierra strangely.
"Um, we don't have time to attack each other. We've got get out off here before it to late."
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"Yeah, let's go before they come back." Odrett said. He couldn't seem to move up the stairs, though. <Annoying powers, Sierra has. If she can't be infested, she'll just have to be killed. I will make my move, somehow. Perhaps I'll even be able to use her to my advantage.>
He leaned a bit on Sierra's shoulders. "I just want to tell you how stupid I was back there. And how grateful I am that you came to save me. will you forgive me, Sierra?" He said with a crack in his voice.
<That's not even like me.>
<Oh, don't you remember crying for help before blacking out? Try not to act so tough to your master, when he can read your every thought.>
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Cody said.
"Chad, how did you get out of where ever they were holding you?" As he spoke he moved upstairs, motioning them to follow.
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Sierra
Sierra rolled her eyes. She knew for herself that Chad was infested. She noticed the jerky motions; the yeerk was having difficulty fighting Chad and her order. She helped Chad up. "Let's go. We can talk more when we get back." She was careful not to let Chad get more than a few feet away from her. She wasn't an idiot.
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Darron
He could barley keep himself from laughing. This was just too hillarious. This was almost as good as the time he pretened to be a shark (actually it was just a fin).
Thank goodness he had the brians to set the marble to destroy entire the computer system as well.
As soon as the door closed took off his ninja uniform and went out. He decided to put the retractable quarterstaff, something clive lent him, up his sleeve.
Hopfully the twins and Sierra would recognise him if he had to suddenly kick Chad's butt. "Though most likley" he thought, "I'll be blasted into freaking oblivion."
The Headmistress
Meanwhile the headmistress was attempting to confort Rory and attempted to make conversation. "So, what is on your mind?" the headmistress asked. Of course the headmistress knew perfectly well what was on her mind in fact she found it hard to ask questions without knowing the ansewer. When thoughts come before words conversation was tiring.
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Rory
"What did you do?" She said angrily. "What could have possibly possessed you to send children out to fight the yeerks. I know what they can do, I should. But you can't tell me you thought this was a good idea. These are kids. And That's not the only thing." She took a deep breath. "I assume you all have the little weird abilities like Acre did. So why couldn't anyone notice he had another mind living in his head. Nobody noticed Merlin or anybody else in his brain. Of all the things to happen, he gets shot right after helping me. Someone must have seen me. What the hell went wrong?" She slumped into a chair. "He was a good guy, he was even nice to the yeerk because he knew I was still in there. Now he's dead."
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"Acre's possessing mind was that of a former psychic who had been living more than 19 centuries in the heads of others he was an expert at hiding his presence. As for the children I send them to fight yeerks because they are the best suited. The armed forces of any country could not fight the yeerks to even half the level of what my students can do. They are mearly our first legion soon more will follow. By the way what is your last name."
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Rory
"My last names Elizabeth. I saw your sign, this schools been around a long time. I'm sure you've got plenty of people around, and by people I mean full grown adults."
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The Headmistress
"Yes there has been a long tradtion here of the supernatural. Yes extra-sensory perception, psychics."
Elizabeth? as a last name that was one of the last psychic families in england in fact if she remebered correctly it still trained its members through the anicent master - apprentice relationship. "Do you have any family near here?"
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Chad
Odrett told them everything that happened after Chad was hit. He went as far as when Chad escaped the interrogation room, but didn't mention passing out in the storage closet. "I ran out of the special tea, and was running out of steam. fortunately, most of these controllers are keeping their distance. When they come again, I may have to stay behind you guys. Wicked headache. I can't even keep still.
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Darron
He followed behind but keept his mental stealth on once or twice he ducked behind something to regain his focus and follow. Being in a ninja school had taught him more than a few things. His father was a diplomat and as such he thought he should at least know a few ways to defend himself in an unfriendly nation that is why his mother signed him up for the lessons in the first place.
Darron hated being a safeguard even though he told himself over and over that he needed to be there in case something screwed up.
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Rory
You didn't answer my point. You've got adults to fight this for you, do you care that your students are even now in danger. 7923 was no high ranking official, but it knew what was going on. You know about the plans to capture your students. I assume you realize that the visser your dealing with is a computer genius. He pulled information from the files. He knows who attacked the pool, both times. Have you explained to your students the essence of strategy. Maybe a few yeerk weaknesses. You've obviously revealed kandrona, but guess what. Thanks to some quick freezing, hundreds of thousands of yeerks were saved. They have the frozen yeerks stashed away in a hidden area. I assume you already know where this is. Your problem is, you are dealing with kids. I don't care how much you think you know about them, or how much you think you understand. You've let one of them die, and it wasn't in a battle. He was recovering. It may have been my fault. I was with him, but in the end, he was your little soldier. Regardless of Merlin or not. That in itself proves you didn't do much evaluation into your people. The visser is already designing specific ways to take all of you down. One for each. Though now he only needs one less." She was hurting inside, she accepted part of the blame, but she was sure it wasn't all her fault. Blaming the god was worthless, he hadn't picked up a gun to kill Acre. She stood up. "Look, you fight this war how you think it's right. What I think doesn't matter. I'm barely older than your bullet attractors. I studied to run a business, and part of it was reading people. I can't read you, which alone tells me all I need to know. You can't run a war like a business, and you have to have sacrifices. How many more do you plan on leaving to bleed out? Do you plan on telling them the dangers? I bet you have told them, but they are kids, indestructible. They don't know death." She took a deep breath. "This is life, it's real. Acre is dead, soon as the visser completes his work, you will take more. I'm not one of your subjects, nor am I your student. My parents are dead, and whether your psychic stuff is true or not, I'm alone right here, and right now. Your war concerns the world, but a person only has so much to lose."
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Sierra
Sierra turned around. This was the third or fourth time she had. The feeling that someone was watching her wouldn't leave. In an attempt to ignore the feeling, she shuddered and turned back. It didn't work. It felt as though spiders were attacking her neck, and she brushed behind her head to be sure. Nothing. She tensed and continued walking. If there was someone there, she would be ready.
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Chad
Odrett noticed Sierra was tense. <She has no real combat skills. All she has is an annoying ability to control the people around her. I wonder how she would like it if we found a way to harness that power.>
<Forget it, slug. The second you leave my head to go back to your pool, you will die. I will destroy you, and every Yeerk within my range.>
<Not if you are unconscious at the time. Using your powers would be worth the cost of sedative injections every three days. On another note, it seems we may be followed. I could easily send a pulse of telekinetic energy to see if it connects with something that isn't seen.>
He said this to Sierra, as otherwise it would be hard to override her foul order. "If you suspect anything, I can do it."
<And perhaps even use that window of opportunity to secure my freedom.>
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Sierra
Sierra slowly nodded. "A pulse. A small one, though. Not powerful enough to do more than knock out the person or thing that's following us. And don't let the pulse hit any of us." She motioned to Chad, and had him stand in front of her. She didn't want her back to him.
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Chad
<I can't quite figure out if she knows you're a controller, or if she's just being smart.> Odrett said, as he sent out a pulse down both sides of the hallway, then down adjoining hallways. It did connect with something! A stranger was revealed!
Also from somewhere came rushing footsteps. It seemed like a large crowd was converging on them. "I think enemy reinforcements are coming as well. This guy may have clued them in on our location!"
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Sierra
Sierra cursed. "We have the invisibility in our suits. We'll go invisible, and you press against the wall. Try to hide yourself as best you can. Send a pulse out to knock them unconscious when they're in sight. Don't give them time to contact anyone or to fire anything at us."
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Darron
He cursed, idiots didn't they know he was an ally. He must have let the stelath drop. What he needed was darkness he could never really track good in the light. He couldn't hit all five of them. He sent a message to the headmisstres. "<They think I am the enemy tell them who I am except chad of course.>"
The Headmisstress
She recieved the message and sent one to the twins and Sierra.
"I hadn't realised the enemy knew of our location I guess the studnets were more carless than I thought. I always think with logic. Yes I run it like a buisness sometimes but I don't treat people as property. If I could be more emotional like you then I wouldn't be able to accept things as they are. Acre is lost. We must accept that and there will be a time for mourning but not now if the information is correct we must prepare to evacuate. Oh and for your own and our saftey I would like you to come with us."
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Sierra
Sierra received the message. She was an idiot! Why hadn't she realized this? It was probably her fault their location was given away. "Change of plans." She said. "I don't like the odds. We need to get out. Now. Don't send the pulse, Chad. We need to get back to the school. We can't take any more risks. Hurry!"
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Chad
<Good. we're on the move. Chaos will allow me to separate from the female's agonizing presence!> Odrett said as they ran. Hork-Bajir flooded the hallways, armed with dracon beams. They shot, and Cody and Chad attacked back. Cody deflected the beams back at them, while Chad steamrolled them. But there were too many. at an intersection, a few came close, and began getting between them. That was his chance. He broke away, and got some distance down another hallway.
<Sierra!> Chad yelled, impotently.
<She can't hear you, and now we are out of range.> "Burn this place to the ground!" He said aloud. "I, Odrett 492 of the Kelroff Pool command you! Burn the fools, as they are too dangerous to be kept alive! My superior has other plans for the rest of them!"
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Sierra
Sierra felt something tugging at her mind. She whirled around. She had lost Chad! Again, she berated herself about her stupidity. She let out a string of swears that would put a sailor to shame. She pulled Cody away. "We need to find Chad. And get out. Now!" She pulled him away, searching for Chad. She told any yeerk that caught her to let her go and forget her. Where was Chad?
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Chad
"Firearms will not work on the male, as he can deflect lasers and bullets. Close combat won't work on the female because she can control minds." Odrett told some Hork-Bajir that he had gathered together for protection in a room down the hallway. "Have someone turn off the sprikler system so it doesn't put out the fire. They will be consumed by a force that cannot be ordered or easily contained. I must get to my Sub-visser to report to him. And find that other Human. He is not one of us."
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You shouldn't have chosen a mix of emotion and logic when you chose them. You should have done full profiles and chosen based on pure usefulness, ignoring the age factors and all that. You didn't. Or you could have gone with pure emotion. Choosing people with no families, people who had the least to lose so that when casualties were taken, less people would be hurt. Less future would be lost. You didn't. Emotion is a bad thing to go on when running a business, I assume it's more so when running a war. If you want me to go with you, well, you'll make me go with you, but I'm sure you would rather have me come willingly. I'd like to do some psych profiling. If I can tell you each persons weakness, you'll be stronger. Strengths come naturally from that. I'd also like to evaluate who you are going to send against the yeerks when this flawed group has fallen. But before all that, I'd like to return to Acres apartment. Since I know you probably have older, and more experienced people for examining psych files, losing me means nothing. You don't have to grant my wishes in either case, I just feel that since you enjoy using my generation so much, I might be a good choice for the evaluation. I admit I've had training, but it wasn't in your special magical stuff. I can take care of myself so I will go alone. You could send someone after me, but then you'd be risking another agent who could be compromised. That's not worth the keeping of a single person who is ineffective in your fight safe. Considering he idea that you have been compromised already, my capture will mean nothing. Though that's a low chance as I plan on dying before I am captured again." She stood up. She had done it with tests before, and she was doing it now. Reaching deep within herself she had turned off the emotions flooding her thoughts. Things were clear and concise. The end justified the means, the world was black and white. She saw that her endeavor was a foolish one, but it was a required risk. She stood up and walked out the door. "I'm going to the apartment." With that, she walked out the door.
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Sierra
Sierra darted around a Hork-Bajir and down a hallway. This one was empty, but she figured she might as well. She turned on the invisibility, and silently went down the hallway. She hoped Chad had the sense to continue projecting to her so she could find him easier.
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Darron
This was it he threw the shrikens hiting Chad in the thigh, both shoulders, and the left foot. Before Chad could react a metal pole came out of nowhere in a boomerang fashion and causing Chad to drop like a log. Quickly he knocked the single horkbajir down luckily none of the yeerks noticed. Except the taxxons who were all suddenly drawn to the allure of fresh meat. "Oh bug***. I am out of here." All but one of the taxxons went that one remained for few seconds than almost pulling itself back went to feed with the others. Darron noticed and somehow he sympathised but only for a second and sought to carry Chad off to the safe house. The body was hard to carry through the rafters until he could get it to the car he was going to live with this weight.
Subvisser Two
The Subvisser was in ready the disinigraters were ready. Torture beyond imagining the imagination. He observed them in his new armor. The Metals were artifical none were found here on earth and it was also light weight. A human came in gasping "Sub-Visser we are on their trail." the Subvisser beamed "I think I will change my plans and use the dissintegraters now." he grabbed one for each of his four upper limbs and found then placed the protector helmet on his head. "Time for some victory." "<with cowardice a victory is scarsly on at all.>" the Subvisser's host said wisely. "<Old fool you should hate me.>" the subvisser responded angrily "<I would have if I had not seen the side other of you. You only fool yourself subvisser.>"
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Chad
(Yeah, the psychic ninja strikes.)
Chad was unconscious. Unmoving. Odrett was not, but he couldn't do anything with an unconscious host. <I can't believe this. Taken down by this unknown Human. I have searched all of this slave's memories, and find nothing on him. Wake up you weak fool! I refuse to allow you to reahc your limit before I have won!>
The air he breathed had begun to get smoky as he was carried away. The building was beginning to burn.
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um what is this anyway ???
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Sierra
Sierra saw Chad get taken down, and dragged out. She couldn't tell who it was, but figured the yeerks wouldn't bring down their own man. Er...thing. Then an acrid smell reached her nose. Smoke. "Alright, Cody. Time to go. We need to cut our losses." She turned quickly, and followed the hallway, trying to catch up with Chad and mystery person.
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(Note to ice block it is an rpg: a story played out by character's parts which are writen. No I am sorry we are full at the moment)
(P.S. Ice block don't intrude on rpg's except to join, and don't join if you are going to be busy.)
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Subvisser two
He was waiting for them just outside the exit and he could smell their fear. "<This isn't about taking the planet is it.>" the subvisser's host communed. "<For once you are right this is personal. They have made me look like a fool and I shall see to their deaths.>"
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Chad
Odrett had done everything he could to wake Chad up. Finally, he began to stir. Through blurred vision, he looked around to see he wasn't being moved anymore. They were outside, and standing between the mystery Human and freedom was Sub Visser Two himself. Odrett smirked, but couldn't yet do much else.
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Darron
He quickly kicked Chad sensless. The Subvisser grined and wordlessly started firing. Darron jumped ducked doged then he quickly scooped up Chad and used him as a shield. The Subvisser stoped firing. "You have no alternative surrender now or I shall fire this through you and your friend." "He is a controller you won't kill him." suddenly a helicopter came overhead and lowered near the ground "You have no options surrender now." Darron was ahead of the others he needed to buy time but with what? Quickly he got out his shrikens and directed them towards the helicopter. Suddenly the propeler was jamed and the pilot lost controller. Needless to say what happened next.
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Chad
Chad was stunned, in more ways than one.
<Did that guy just kick me?>
<Yes, he did. I will make him suffer for that.>
<Some ally he his. I'm totally going to tell the teacher on him.>
<Before or after we kill him?>
<After.>
<Blast it all. The Sub Visser is right there. I'm looking poorly in front of him.>
<I'm just looking poorly period. I'm going to need a hospital stay after this is over.>
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Sierra
Sierra walked out of the building in time to see someone throw...something, she couldn't really tell, at a helicopter. And she saw Sub-Visser 2 with some weapon. Fantastic. She turned on the invisibility and quickly slipped around Chad and mystery kid, toward the Sub- Visser. She needed to keep behind him. Hopefully this new kid could keep him occupied.
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Darron
He quickly passed chad of to the twins now was their was going to be a reckoning.
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Sierra
Sierra crept behind the Sub Visser. She slowly neared him. She held her breath, not daring to make a noise. Quickly she struck; she leaped onto the Sub Visser's back. "Call off your men!" She shouted. The last time she had tried to command so powerful a yeerk, it had little effect. Hopefully the new suit would help. She hung around it's neck with her arm in an attempt to weaken his body, and indirectly his mind. "Stop your attack!"
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(Where has revan been lately, anyway?)
Odrett decided he needed to make his move more drastically. He didn't try to move until he knew he could move easily. He didn't give away the fact that he was coming around until he had fully come around. Suddenly the twins were propelled over a dozen yards away! He was about to attack the unknown assailant, but Sierra was on the Sub Visser.
"Insolent Human! I don't know if you knew your friend was already enslaved, but I don't care! You are mine now!" He threw himself towards her in rage, and wrenched her off him. Then he wrenched the crystals out of her armor that augmented her power, and took them for himself. "You have been far too annoying. You won't be getting close to me now." He said as he dangled her in mid air."
<I have to do something!> Chad said.
<SILENCE! You will serve me and destroy the others! Speaking of which...>
"Where is the one called Acre, Human? He is the only one not yet accounted for. Tell me now!"
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Sierra
Sierra laughed. "Are you kidding me? Are you seriously asking me where Acre is?" She shook with laughter. "Yeah, because I certainly want to tell you. You thick headed yeerk. You're a bit of an idiot, aren't you. You made yourself look like a fool." Sierra's tone was patronizing.
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Chad
"You dare patronise me? An idiot and a fool, am I? You are the one who doesn't seem to realise the position she is in!" He said, and used his power to break her ankles. He smiled as her face contorted in pain.
<Stop it! Leave them alone! I'll serve you if you let them go.>
<Ah, now the begging begins. That's the first step down the road of total dispair and obedience.>
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Sierra
Sierra grimaced in pain. "Do what you want with me! I don't care! Worse things have happened. Chad! Chad, I know you're in there! Listen to me! Don't give in. Don't ever give in. I can get over a broken bone or two. I'll survive. I always manage to. Even if I don't...there are worse things than death. You...you have to fight. I know you can, Chad." Sierra braced herself. She knew that the yeerk holding Chad would attack her again.
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Chad
<Such insolence. Let's see how well she composes herself when her knees are broken!>
<No!> Chad yelled.
Odrett aimed Chad's eyes at sierra's knees, but then stopped. Chad fought, for he knew he must do what he could. Odrett seemed to be frozen for an instant, then decided to just throw her away. Chad's body was exausted, and Odrett knew if he spent too much time maintaining conrtol, he wouldn't be able to fight properly. The twins ran to Sierra to pick her up. They looked concerned and angry.
<I thought they hated each other.> Chad said, remembering their fighting in the office and her anger after their pool mission.
<I don't care about that. Your friends will not kill you. That is my advantage.>
<Ha! Ryan and Hector would kill me in an instant. Cody might too. Acre is about the only one around who feels life should be preserved. I don't know where he is, but he will save the others. I just have to keep you in check!>
<Your mental strength wains as you speak. Now watch quietly as I destroy the one who tried to use me as a body shield.>
<You keep talking about silence. I'm not distracting you am I? You know, I saw Acre bury some bird once. He gave me a feather. Such a random act. He's weird, but I like him.>
<Shut up slave!>
<Bla bla bla...of all the things you can make me do, shut me up isn't one of them!>
Odrett faced the unknown warrior, and marched towards him. He began coughing, and when he looked at his hand, there were flecks of blood. <I don't have much time.>
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Sierra
Sierra hit the ground. Hard. She groaned. If only she could get to that ***hole controller. But she knew she couldn't walk on broken ankles. She looked down, and immediately wished she hadn't. Her feet were at angle that they never should be at. If only she could get close enough to Chad! "Chad! Chad...About Acre." She coughed. "Come...come here! The feather! You can..." She breathed heavily.
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Chad
<He gave everyone a feather.> Chad said.
Odrett looked up into the sky, not wanting to be attacked from above. Acre wasn't there. Black smoke was filling the air due to the fire, and he began hearing fire truck sirens.
"Acre! Where are you!? I know you must be here! You wouldn't want your precious friends to die! Reveal yourself!"
<Stay away Acre. Put out the fire. So many innocent workers there. Controllers or otherwise. You would want to put that fire out. Don't mind me. Ryan and Hector will finish this soon.>
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Sierra
Sierra laughed. "You don't get it, yeerk. We're smarter than you! You can't beat us. Our numbers may not be as many as yours, but at least we aren't stupid, slimy slugs."
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Chad
"Be silent, you adolescent slave child!" Odret screamed as he turned towards her. "Without your precious crystals you can't even use your powers without physical contact!"
He took a step towards her, and Hector and Ryan stodd between them. Most people might think he was hesitant because of them, but it was actually a fear that Chad would begin resisting again. It would be easier to fight the other person because Chad was angry with him. He wanted to protect Sierra, though.
"I will save my superior the effort, and kill you all myself." He took another step towards her, but staggered a little.
<You should take a break. Relax. Do a little birdwatching. Being this stressed out is unbecoming for a Yeerk of your status.>
Odrett began forming a wall of energy around him. He would send it out in a wave, crushing everyone under him other than Sub Visser 2. Chad resisted as much as he could.
"I will parade your dead bodies in front of Acre before he is killed. My host's anguish at his torment will be enjoyable after all the distraction my host has given me."
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Sierra
Sierra painfully dragged herself over. "I still say you're a fool. A pitiful fool without a friend in the world." She let out a laugh, laced with pain. She was almost in range.
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Chad
"I don't need friends. In the world of war, there are those who lead and those who follow. And don't think I'll let you come within range of me again." He extended the wall to more than fifteen feet. Once he was finished focusing his energy, the wall would hit them like cement. He was having difficulty gathering enough energy for a clean kill because of the state of Chad's body, and Chad's resistance. He began levitating off the ground in case Hector decided to attack with earth.
<Friendship breeds loyalty.>
"It's unprofessional to be friends with subordinates, and those of equal rank are rivals in ambition. We don't have time for friends. We're too busy working on personal goals." Odrett said to Chad and Sierra.
<I sense bitterness in your voice. I think that may be the kind of thing Acre would want me to notice. Instead of just blindly hating you.>
<Your opinion means nothing to me.>
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Cody saw the conflict between Chad and sierra. He decided to intervene.
"Hey scum-bag, pick on someone who can fight back." He created a gravity bubble around Chad, crushing him to the floor.
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Sierra
Sierra's mouth twisted into a half-grimace half-smile. "Thanks, Cody." She whispered. "Do you think you can get him in my range? We need to get out of here."
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He looked at Sierra.
"You go, I'll catch up with you. Get to the school."
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Sierra
Sierra looked at her feet. "I'll try. Oh, and don't kill Chad if you can help it." She began to crawl away. Thankfully, she saw someone quickly. This is going to be so embarrassing she thought to herself. She got within range of the man. "Excuse me." She said. She took a deep breath. "Carry me to Brighton Academy." The man nodded, lifted her up, and began walking. She had a new found hatred for the yeerk inside Chad.
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Darron
Stood in the shadows. He congradulated himself on his wits. He knew had set those charges for some reason. He looked at the timer 6-5-4-3-2-1. Kaboom!
He ran to cody. "Let's get the f*** out of here."
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Sierra
Sierra heard an explosion, and whipped her head around. She kept her eyes behind her, to see if Cody, Chad, and the other guy were okay. Her eyes searched the streets.
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Chad
Odrett was caught off guard by Cody's attack. He had almost forgotten everyone but himself and Sierra. <You accursed distracting human!>
<I do what I can.>
The explosion provided the momentary distraction Odrett needed to counterattack. He got out from the gravity well, and got back up. He began to speak, but first spat up some blood. "Let's see who has the greater force." He said as he used all the energy he had gathered to attack. He shot Cody towards the collasping building in the hopes that he'd be burned and crushed in the debris. He noticed his vision was blurring a bit. "Is it the smoke, or am I going blind?" He said aloud to no one in particular. He stood shakily on his feet, and looked towards the Sub Visser for support. He couldn't do this alone.
<The girl is getting away.>
<Yay Sierra.>
<Shut up.>
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Cody flew through the air. He used gravity to fling himself back at chad. Activating his invisibility, he formed ball of gravity, and and flung it at chads head to knock him out.
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Chad
The gravity ball barely missed. He then sent out a pulse to easily find Cody.
"Fool. Invisibility won't work." Then he ripped the crystals from Cody's armor, and added their power to his own. He opened all the compartments to stuff the crystals inside, and came across Acre's feather.
<Don't even think about messing with that feather!>
<Instead of placing a power enhancing crystal inside, you place a worthless bird feather in there? You are an idiot.>
Odrett formed a dome all the way around Cody to trap him. "Now you will see how it feels to be crushed to minute size."
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Cody reversed gravity around himself, pushing away the bubble. He then proceded to to use gravity to break chads legs.
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Chad
"Aaaagh!" Odrett screamed as he fell to the ground. Chad's legs wouldn't work anymore. His head was pounding. With all the stress and pain, Chad managed to temporarily break through.
"Ughn. Cody. Sorry. Shouldn't have...left group. Couldn't stop him. If I wake up again. Tell them...sorry." Chad passed out one more time. In defeat, Odrett left. He tried to crwal towards the Sub Visser to prevent capture.
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"Oh no you don't! You're coming with me." Codyu reached down and picked up the slug. grabbing a bucket of water, he tossed him in. He said to Chad.
"Sorry about the legs, I'll give you a lift back to the school."
((Back at school))
Back at the school, Cody landed with Chad.
"Hey, I'm back with Chad and his slug!"
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Sierra
Sierra was carried into the Headmistress's office. She saw Chad's broken legs, and couldn't help it. She laughed. "You have got to be joking. You too?" Sierra had the man set her down in a chair, then sent him away telling him to forget. "Alright. Now we need a doctor. Hey" She turned to the headmistress. "Do you know anyone who can speed up the whole healing bit? We need to be able to fight."
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(Galla has been absent, so SV2 didn't even get to do anything. I figure Chad should be comatose for a while.)
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(sounds good)
Sierra
Sierra glanced over at Chad. "He's unconscious. Nice. This is absolutely fan-freaking-tastic." Sierra sighed, unable to keep her annoyance out of her voice. "What the **** did you do, Cody? Seriously?"
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"I busted his legs. Why?"
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Sierra
Sierra laughed. "Nice job. Now we need to break yours, just to make it even."
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Cody backed off alarmed.
"No way!"
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Sierra
"I was kidding. Besides, you're still within my range." Sierra gave Cody a threatening look.
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The Headmistress
"You two, please. There isn't a moment to lose the school is being evacuated to the psychic enclaves in Wales. Luckily Dr.McDougal is still here in the mean time get chad to the nurse's office." she rushed out the door.
Darron
He had just made it back. Clive raised an eybrow. "You made it back in one piece. I knew you had talent." Darron was pissed. "You know you could have gone yourself." Clive was still calm. "I could have but hey I needed a trail run for our ninja." Both of them smiled.
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Rory
Rory waked into the office. "I've just returned from the murder site. And I seem to have discovered a thing or two. A few yeerks in the police department know me. Or at least they thought they did. I looked at his apartment and found this." She set a stuffed bird on the desk. "This was the only thing not burned. Stranger when it was set on a torched desk. In the end, I think it's a message. This bird is a species from America. It's called a merlin. Do you get the reference?"
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Chad
Chad woke up in the nurse's office. His legs were bandaged, as well as a few other places, and he had a morphine drip going into his arm.
"He left." He said dazily. The morphine had him drugged up pretty good.
"Who left?" The nurse said.
"The Yeerk. I don't feel him in my head anymore."
"Yes, he was taken by Cody, I believe."
"Where is Sierra?"
"She's in the bed over there, with broken ankles."
"Hey Sierra. We're roomies now." He smiled like someone who was drunk or high.
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Sierra
Sierra glanced over at Chad. "Yeah. Roomies. You okay, there? You took a few hard blows." She grinned. "Did I piss off that yeerk? Because that was bloody hilarious, all things considered."
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The Headmistress
"He is still alive but in what condition I do not know. It could be possible that Acre might have conquered the dark one or even a merge occured. In the mean time we shall let him be. Give him a chance to stablize."
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Chad
"I hope I'll be ok. I'm going to need a wheelchair, with these two busted legs. I don't know if it's the morphine talking, but I'm not overly mad at Cody. I would like to kick that one guy in the crotch for using me as a body shield, though. Odrett, the Yeerk, was really ticked at you. I don't think Yeerks like being pushed around."
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Sierra
Sierra laughed. "Well they had better get used to it. I'm a pushy person. As for that yeerk..." Sierra shook her head. "Well. It looks like we'll both be out of commission for a bit."
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Chad
"Everyone's not mad at me, are they? I kind of left, screwed up, and caused destruction and injuries. And what's with all the moving around? Are we going somewhere?" Chad said. He didn't really want to ask about acre. Something told him that it might be bad news.
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. "I, for one, am sort of pissed at you." She laughed. "But I'll get over it. Well, you had better hope I do. As for the moving around bit...I don't know. I'm as clueless as you, for once"
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Chad
"I'll do something for you later. When I'm fully conscious and functional. What does a woman like you enjoy that a guy like me can get?"
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Sierra
Sierra grinned. "Oh, I don't know. I'll figure something out. In the meantime, I think the nurse ought to bring down your morphine levels. You seem a bit.... Actually, you seem VERY high."
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Chad
"Heh heh heh. Yeah, maybe. where's that nurse call button?"
He fumbled around until he found something with buttons. He pressed one, and a nurse came shortly. She turned it down a bit, and fluffed his pillow. She also went to Sierra to see if she needed anything.
"The two of you will be moved soon, because of an evacuation."
"Evacuation?"
"Yes, the school is no longer safe. We'll have wheelchairs over soon for the both of you." She said before leaving to do other things.
"Perfect. What about our parents?" Chad asked, but she was gone.
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. "Well, this is just great. I hate not being able to do things for myself. And I'm sure your parents are okay, Chad."
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chad
Chad lifted the sheets with his powers so he could roll onto his side and face Sierra. Then he let the sheets fall. "Why stress about what you can or can't do on your own, when you can manipulate others? I'll bet every leader in the world wishes he could gain absolute loyalty just with his voice."
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. "I suppose so, yes. But I don't like to rely on other people. If I can do it myself, I will." She gave a small smile. "It's hard to un-learn complete self-reliance."
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Cody walked into the room.
"Hey guys, how you doing? Chad, no hard feeling s about the legs okay?"
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Chad
"Nah. No hard feelings. But I'm going to get that one guy for using me as a body shield. Just keep that Yeerk as far away from me as possible, and we'll be cool. That was not fun, man. So, sign my cast with something. You can pick whichever leg you want."
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Cody sighed with relief. He grabbed a marker, and signed his left leg cast.
CODY DID IT. He said.
"About your slug, captured it. It is going to be questioned soon."
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Sierra
Sierra grinned. "I suppose I'll be taking care of that."
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Chad
"Yeah, I'm sure you'd enjoy that. Be my guest. However, who's going to be the unlucy person to let Odrett in so he can be questioned?"
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Rory
"That would be me." Rory stepped in from around the corner. "Pardon me for eavesdropping. My name is Rory Elizabeth. Seeing as how I've been infested before, as well as not having any powers to be worried about. I'm the best choice."
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Chad
"Thanks. So what brings you to our special school, Rory? I'm Chad. That's Sierra and Cody, in case you haven't met. We have the twins Hector and Ryan somewhere. Gabriel might see you if someone pulls her out of the lab. We also have Acre and the Headmistress. Those are the main people. We seem to also have a kind of ninja, who will soon be transformed into an eunuch when I'm done with him." Chad said with a smile.
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"Acre got the yeerk out of my head. I owe him my freedom. Since he's dead, I suppose I have to help you all out."
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Chad
"What..." Chad said in disbelief. He looked questioningly at Sierra. "When did this happen? Was it the battle, or...no. It happened before, didn't it?"
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"He was recovering. Somebody came up while he was asleep and shot him in the head, than they torched his apartment. They didn't get Merlin though."
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Chad
"Ok, now I'm lost. Man, this sucks. I do something stupid, but after all that I'm alive. acre is resting in his apartment, and he gets killed by some random person. Or maybe the Yeerks did it. Who knows? Odrett didn't."
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"I don't think the yeerks did it. They had only just discovered his part in your little group."
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Chad
"Now who's going to stop the twins, and possibly Cody, from killing everyone that gets in their way. Someone has to keep telling them that not everyone around them needs to die just from being in range. Obviously I'm going to have to rejoin the group so the three of you don't destroy the planet along with the Yeerks."
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Rory
"This is why psych evaluations are so important. Look, I have a question for you. When you were with Acre, what stood out about him? Like weird things, strange, out of the ordinary for normal people. Not including this power thing."
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Chad
"He was brooding and cryptic. He gave us feathers of a bird, but I never asked why. He just said we might need them, or something. He was introverted, and he asked things like which I would choose between friends or randome innocents. That kind of stuff. I never really knew him well."
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Rory
"That doesn't seem to fit his personality, though in some ways I suppose it makes sense. He was keeping secrets from you, which ties in with his history. Anything else?"
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Chad
"No. Not that I can think of. He liked to watch birds. I think he liked birds more than people. That's about it, at least from me."
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The three of them had cornered a woman, pushing her up against the alley wall. She called for help, but one of the men slugged her across the jaw. "You should have just given us the money, Then we wouldn't be having this problem." The ringleader said as he pulled a knife. "Now We gonna have ourselves a little fun." Suddenly, there was a loud thump and a cracking sound. The three men turned toward the sound and saw a man in white pants and a white hooded sweatshirt, the hood was up, obscuring his face, and the sword at his hip glittered menacingly. "Who the **** are you?" The man seemed to look at each one of the men, then raised his hand. One of the men was flung into a wall with a sickening crunch before falling limp on the ground.
"I am Myrddin, I am Arturan." The second man had started to charge him. Then a nearby puddle of water seemed to pop and the droplets formed into long daggers. They shot through the second man, cutting holes through him before splashing out, back to their liquid form. "I am the Wizard, I am the Knight." He said as he began walking toward the remaining man. The leader pulled out a gun and pointed it at the man. He fired four shots, but they simply stopped three inches away, then fell clattering to the pavement.
"Stay away from me man." He grabbed the woman and put the gun to her head. The man stopped. "That got your attention. I'll kill her." The woman was crying, fearing for her life.
"I have returned, I am immortal."
"You may be you freak, but she isn't." He began to take slow steps backwards. The man drew his sword and charged forward. The leader tried to pull the trigger, but it was stuck, and wouldn't move. He let go of the woman and turned to run, but not fast enough to avoid losing his hand to the quick slice. He tried to flee but the man raised his hand and a a blast of fire enveloped the leader. Killing him instantly.
"I am the master, I am your servant." The man knelt before the woman, then disappeared in an instant.
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Chad
Eventually two orderlies came to get Chad and Sierra into wheelchairs to be moved with everyone else. They were brought outside where several trucks were parked, and once they were loaded everyone was on their way. All of the main people were in one large vehicle, including Odrett who would be interrogate while they were on the move. Darron was there two, and Chad glared at him menacingly. Rory was strapped firmly but comfotably in the back, and they placed Odrett in her ear.
Odrett
He felt he must have been captured after spending so much time in one container of water. When he was brought out, he was placed next to the ear of some Human. He went inside, and once he gained control he found himself tied to the rear of the vehicle. Chad and Sierra were there too. Sierra lokked angrily, and smugly at him while chad glared at the Human who had foiled his efforts. The Human he now controlled was a former controller who had recently gone missing. She had no special abilities. He remained silent, though he knew sierra would force him to speak in time.
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Sierra
Sierra smiled at the new controller. "Hello, there. I know you can talk. Identify yourself." It felt good to be able to command this yeerk that had caused so much trouble.
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Chad
"I am Odrett. Valued subordinate of Sub Visser Two, who will bring the survivors of your group to enslavement or death. I see through this former host slave's mind that your friend Acre is dead. It suits me fine. But you will not have me as your slave. Your will can be resisted, as any other."
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Sierra
Sierra's smile turned until it was full of contempt. In a mocking tone, she said "Valued? Will you be valued even now that you are defeated? Defeated by a group of kids. As I've said before, you're pathetic." She shook her head. "Back to business. Tell me, what is your objective under Sub Visser Two?"
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Chad
"The objective of all Yeerks in war. Do well, and gain a higher rank. With rank comes priviledge and power. I may have lost a host, and am somewhat disgraced, but I have valuable information on your group."
"Most of which he already knows." Chad said casually. "You're basically a suck up wo's been lucky enough so far not to fail at much."
Odrett tried not to let his uncomfortability show. He was trying to be optimistic of his fate.
"You Humans are an irritance. We could destroy this entire country, and would still have billions of host bodies to use. The more you resist, the more likely Visser Three is to order the decimation of everything familiar to you."
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Sierra
Sierra glanced at the yeerk. "Really. What makes you think we haven't realized this already? We understand the risks. But we do have our basic human instincts. Fight or flight. And considering we have nowhere to flee to, we have to stand and fight. So get off your high horse, yeerk. Because you really aren't better than us."
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Darron
The First pedestrian transport group was underway they were cast in one group there were about a dozen of them all they had to do was get to the dock. The Second group were camoflaged into the regular fair crowd at the harbor and were leaving. Someone tapped Darron on the shoulder "There are five men gradually surrounding us and in thirty seconds they will open fire." the younger girl whispered cryptically. Darron nodded he knew that if a seer said something like that you listened. He sent a signal to the others "<defensive square position.>" Fifteen seconds they could see the men more clearly now. Ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five. "<Now!>" the men went down like bowling pins they walked faster. Five minites later they were at the dock. After a quick roll call in side the boat in which no one was missing. They shot off. Luckily the skiper was also a seer so anything bad that happend would be avoidable.
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Chad
"You think you are equal or better than I am? I suppose we sort of are in the same boat. One day we were told by others that we must participate in a war we might not agree with. Unfortunately, outside the homeworld we Yeerks can not exist more than three days without Kondrona radiation. The Vissers control the lifeline, so they control the military. Those who resist in some way don't live long. Most that speak out are labeled sympathizers, and abandoned. I suppose you are better off, in that you could jump out and try to swim to shore. I, on the other hand, am strapped to the boat."
"If I can't control my fate, then I can at least control my subordinates. That is some consolation."
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Sierra
"Control is not as complete as you may think." Sierra said with a laugh. "I ought to know." She shook her head. "And yes, I think I'm equal to you. When you really think about it, I'm the same. I can't speak for my fellow humans, but I am. The only difference between you and I is I don't physically go into a person's brain. Besides that, we're the same."
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Chad
"All right. You obviously don't have the blind rage associated with the arrogant, guilt stricken, Andalites. But what will you do with me? I don't supposed I'll be escaping from this vehicle, since this Human Yori doesn't even have powers. I don't really know much about the invasion that you or your friends couldn't somewhat easily find out."
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Sierra
Sierra laughed. "No. I don't suppose we could let you go. You're a bit of a threat." Sierra sighed inwardly. The yeerk didn't seem so bad. If the thing hadn't broken her ankles and caused such a major load of crap, she may have been fighting harder for it's survival. Some things just aren't possible.
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Chad
"No, I don't suppose we wouldn't become friends between now and when we arrive at your new hideaway, and you drop me off at a controller's house. I don't expect sympathy either. If Sub Visser Two's forces ambushed this little convoy, and you died, I may well have been the one who pulled the dracon beam's trigger."
"I don't suppose you are allied with the group of Andalites in America. Visser Three doesn't even know their identities."
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Sierra
"Sympathy? From me? Oh, yeah. That's likely. And the American Andalites?" Sierra shook her head. "No. I don't know anything about that."
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Chad
Odrett didn't have much anything to say after that. He stared out of the window, as they passed by places. He had talked about figuratively swimming to shore. Shore for him was his homeworld, but he didn't even know if safe haven could be found there. If any Yeerks were listening in on what was happening, he'd likely be punished for being a host sympathiser.
Humans weren't like Taxxons or Hork-Bajir. They were more complex. They may even be the species to convince Yeerks not to believe hosts were lesser beings. That was easier to do with a sub-intelligent Hork, or a ravenous Taxxon. Rumors has been circulating of a Yeerk Peace Movement recently. He didn't know anything about that, though. Maybe he should have looked further into that instead of brown nosing Sub Vusser Two so much.
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Subvisser two
He knelt before the holografic projector. Visser three appeared he was now a bright shade of red "Visser three, we are constantly under attack we have no kandora and severe damage to our pool also..." "<I am aware of these developments Sub-visser and we will send troops to your area as soon as possible and a kandora beg once more an I'll have you eliminated.>" there was a moment of silence "Visser three I seek your advice he know this was not the work of andalites but humans with psychokinetic and telepathic abilities I have no doubt that they shall be suitable hosts." "You must use any means nessesary without drawing attention to our presence. It is a wonder you managed to conceal those attacks from the uninfested populace. Now go I have to once again bathe in this substance." the subvisser bowed lower "Thank you for your advice Visser Three."
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(Okay we are now going to fast foward a few months at in five posts so unless this scene is finished we will skip on ahead.)
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(FL seems to have disappeared, since for the past few days we've been steadily going at it. I don't really know what else to do with Odrett, except I have planned for him to die unless SV2 rescues him. Since SV2 is your guy, then his life lays in your hands. Otherwise, I'm fine with skipping ahead and assuming Odrett is given a quick death.)
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(Sorry. Real life attacked. And I'm going to be gone this weekend :'( For the plot, though, we could just say Sierra is helping Cara with her recovery.)
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(Well they are sort of evacuating so naturally some of the families have to get out to I was planing to hop forward in timeabout a few months where they are attacking the yeerks from little safehouses in northern Wales)
( If you don't know where wales is it is a region of the U.K. west of england look it up on a map.)
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(Unless anyone wants to use Odrett as a defector that helps the group. We could still fast forward, but say he was convinced to change sides, so when he is rescued he works for us. Much like Erek for the Animorphs.)
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((Rory is just going to be doing some research into the characters. Merlin will be continuing to patrol the streets and killing off a few criminals, protecting mostly women who are attacked. He starts using a blast of electricity later on too.))
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Cody laughed at the yeerks boasts.
"You? You are a slug, that's al you'll ever be. We, we outnumber, oh lets, see, about two hundred million to one. We don't have lasers, but we're getting closer every day. We have gunsa, we kill you. We have planes, we kill you. We have our lives, we kill you. You can't win yeerk."
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Chad
(Actually, I've changed my mind. I would like Odrett to be a defector if that's all right with everyone.)
"Hmm. Numbers or technology? Quality or quantity? Which is better? I'd say it's likely situational. Now I personally believe that the numbers we have exceeds the number of Humans that know about us, that are not already slaves of my superiors. Our technology is of high quality, though the abilities of your group are quite powerful."
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"Can bug fighter sheilds handle a rain of depleted uranium slugs from a warthog chaingun? No, I don't think so.
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Chad
"Are we really going to get into a contest of who can do what, smart mouth?"
"Cool it Cody. Ticking off the prisoner isn't going to do us any good." Chad said. "You kind of lost me at uranium slugs from a warthog chaingun, though."
"Bugfighters don't have the best shielding, so probably not. The Bladeship or Poolship would."
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"Sorry, I got carried away."
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SubVisser two
For once he was listening to his host during training. The Daragorian was once a master in the art of Kem-daka. Which allowed for the mind to overcome the body and controll its own aspects to sometimes unpredictable levels.
The andalite blocking program was running "<Excellent. Speed up your reflexes but keep calm.>" he did so but then his guard relinquished. "Computer number of strikes please..." the Subvisser said disapointed "One hundred and nintey five strikes blocked Subvisser a vast improvment even by your standards."
He sat down now throughly exahausted.
"<Why do you help me?>" asked the subvisser. "<Your life is mine and I want to live.>" the host replied. The subvisser knew however that the host was lying.
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(Do you want to have Odrett saved and defect at a later point, or just do the fast forward thing, Galla?)
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((I personally think it would be an interesting development to continue Odrett's character))
Sierra
Sierra sighed. She had not been able to get much information out of Odrett. Truly a shame. He had been amusing too. He seemed to have some level of intellect, unlike some members of the team. A pity he would have to die.
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(After he gets rescued, I'll have him find Chad and say he joined the peace movement and wants to defect. He'll stay on the Yeerk side, but feed info and whatnot to Chad. As for during the rescue, him and Sierra might have a brief moment where he could kill her, but then walks away. She asks why, and he says something like "I'm rocking the boat.")
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((Ooh, I like that. Sounds good.))
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Chad
"How much longer is this ride going to be?" Chad asked. "I feel uneasy."
As if on cue, something happened outside. They were under attack!
(Cue SV2 to the rescue! Or at least to the attack.)
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Sierra
Sierra shot up. "Odrett, if you know, tell us who is attacking?" Sierra had a feeling she knew who it was, but no harm in attempting confirmation.
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Chad
"I would hope it is the Sub Visser, or at least a squad of his best troops." Odrett said as he began to struggle against the binds. "Your escape will not go smoothly."
"Where's the door? We have to defend the trucks!" Chad said as he turned his chair towards the door. "Stop the vehicle!"
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Sierra
"Well, you aren't going anywhere if we aren't." Sierra quickly yanked the door open, just before it stopped and almost fell out of her wheelchair. She quickly wheeled over to each truck in an attempt to get the people inside to understand what was going on.
(EDIT: forgot Sierra was in a wheelchair. Whoops!)
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Chad
"I'm about to go evil Professor Xavier on their butts!" Chad said and he wheeled himself out. Two Hork-Bajir started rushing the vehicle, and he shot them both forty feet away.
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Sierra
A few choice swears were muttered under Sierra's breath. She despised not having full mobility. Thankfully, she came face to face with a Hork-Bajir, and never thought she would be happy about it. But she was. She leaned toward the Hork-Bajir and told him "Start attacking your own soldiers, yeerk." And the Hork-Bajir turned around, and did.
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Chad
Cody and the twins left the truck while some normal Humans stayed to guard Odrett. Suddenly, dracon blasts came from nowhere and stunned them. A hologram hid a Human Controller, and it was let down. He undid the restraints.
"Odrett, sir, I am to take you to the Sub Visser."
"Excellent. Give me your dracon beam, and some cloth."
"Yes sir."
Odrett left the truck with cloth stuffed in his ears, and a dracon beam in hand. Chaos was all around as the battle went on. Sierra began moving away, behind a truck, and he caught her there. He stood there, out of sight of everyone, with a dracon beam aimed at her from ten feet away. He couldn't hear anything but muffled sounds of battle. No words would reach Rory's ears.
"I told you that if I was freed, that it may be I who killed you Sierra." He said. There was no smug smile. No gloating in his voice. Just dead and unemotional words.
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Sierra
Sierra nodded. There was nothing she could do. She looked up at Odrett with a grin. "It was fun while it lasted." She said with a sigh. So this was how she would die.
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Chad
Odrett stared her down. But then he turned away. "I have made an alternate decision. I tire of being a lapdog for those who have forced me into this war. I want to find new answers. I want to rock the boat, as it were. I must make preparations. You will be seeing Rory again soon, but perhaps not me. That depends." He said, and walked away. He found the Controller who was ordered to take him back, and ordered him to allow the slave to go free.
"They will be much less likely to follow us if we let this one go."
"That is not the way we do things."
"The way you do things is listening to your superiors!"
"Y-yes sir! I'm sorry sir."
Odrett was taken, and could only hope that Rory was allowed to go. He would find out if there was trule a Yeerk Peace Movement. That was his new goal.
(Ok, now we can finish the battle or skip ahead. Depending on which Galla decides on.)
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Sierra
Sierra sat in shock. She was alive. A yeerk had let her live. It seemed she was right in her earlier comment on how yeerks and humans were not so very different. This Odrett, if he survived, could prove to be a powerful ally.
(I have to go, so it's up to you and/or Galla)
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(Ordet is our new ally)
(Luckily the rest of the school managed to escape to the welsh enclaves)
(Fast foward a few weeks to Chad's and Sierra's recovery at the enclaves)
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Chad
"So I hear Rory is going to be doing psych evaluations." He said to Sierra, as he had been hanging with her a lot since being freed. Thanks to the fast healing skills of a psychic doctor, they were both walking by now. "Personally I'm glad she was freed. I still don't understand what went on in that battle, though. Granted Odrett was pretty civilized when he was strapped down, but to turn on his master like that? Blows my mind."
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Cody went to Sierra.
"What the hell is going on? First I'm riding in the truck, then "Im running for sweet life, with dracon blasts flying around me? What happened? And where's Chad?"
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(The battle is over. Galla decided to just go ahead and fast forward instead of finishing the fight.)
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Sierra
Sierra grimaced. "Psych evaluations? Ugh. That does not sound like fun." Sierra sighed. "And the whole thing with Odrett...I don't know what to think. I thought for sure I was dead. At least there will be someone to have a conversation containing something that vaguely resembles intellect. Not that talking to you all the time isn't fun, Chad." Sierra said with a grin.
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Chad
"Well, I think I'll volunteer first. I'd like to just get it out of the way, and focus on other things." Chad said, as he walked to the evaluation room. "I don't really know what to expect, or what will happen if I somehow fail."
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. She was so not looking forward to being evaluated. The thought that someone could spend less than an hour with her and know a lot about her made her skin crawl. Just one more reason this war sucked.
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Rory
Rory smiled as the first one came in. She glanced at her notes so far. "Hello Chad, don't worry, there's no fail. It's too late to take you out of the fight even if you did. Now, take a seat and relax." Rory closed her eyes and counted to ten silently. When she opened her eyes, she was in pure analysis mode. "Tell me Chad, how many yeerks have you killed, estimate please. Followed by humans, hork bajir, taxons, and anything else that comes to mind."
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Chad
Chad sat down in a chair when he went in. "I killed a Taxxon and its Yeerk during a solo mission. I also probably boiled a few dozen Yeerks in the pool at the base. It's hard to be accurate with that, though. Most enemies I have faced I managed to stun instead of kill. Oh, and I also killed one Human Controller rather violently while being tortured."
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Rory
"I see." She watched for subtle changes in his posture, his gaze, and the patterns of his breathing "Do you feel remorse over any of these killings. Any regret, any discomfort." She jots down a few more notes onto the page. "Or do you feel joy, maybe relief?"
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Chad
Sometimes I think about that Human woman, and wonder what kind of person she was. If she symapthised with me and tried to fight against the Yeerk, or was a voluntary and apathetic.
Ever since Odrett spared Sierra for whatever reason he had, I wondered about the Yeerks I killed indiscriminately. Trapped in the war. Trapped in that pool.
I've been trying to distance myself from it. I wanted to end this war as quickly as possibly to minimize casualties, but there are still casualties. I try to distance myself to protect myself, but if I distance myself too much I may stop feeling altogether. I have regrets, but I can't just stop fighting.
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Rory
"Alright, is there anything else of importance?"
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Chad
"I don't think you were around for this, but when we started out we didn't exactly go together like peanut butter and jelly. There was a bit of bickering, and I kind of took off. I had two missions, and the second was unsuccessful. I thought I was stronger than I was, but now I see I need help. I also need to keep an eye on the twins and Cody to ensure they don't destroy the world in the process of defeating the Yeerks."
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Rory
"That's good to know. I'll speak to them as well. Is there anybody ready to go up after you. I'm done for now. Feel free to send the next one in."
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Chad
Chad left the room. "That wasn't too bad." He said mostly to himself. "You're up next." He said to the next waiting teammate.
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Sierra
Sierra grimaced. This was going to be such a pain. She walked into the room and sat across from Rory. "Let's get this started, shall we?"
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The Headmistress
She smiled Rory had quickly grasped the skills she had taught her. Rory was an empathic able to feel out people naturally. Empathics had the lowest rate of registration mostly because their abilities are mistaken for natural tendencies or "gifts" when harnessed however were very usefull. The main sign of an empathic was a certain mind presence that consisted of emotions rather than thoughts when tried to be read.
She decided to contact ordett. See what other developments were occuring with the so-called psychic hunters.
(Sorry I haven't been on much I have relatives staying over.)
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Rory
" Calm down, nothing bad is going to happen. Tell me Sierra, how many yeerks have you killed? Followed by humans, hork bajir taxxons and anything else that comes to mind. Specifics aren't necessary but please tell me whatever your comfortable with."
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Chad
Odrett had been investigating the rumors of a peace movement for some time. He struck gold when a Yeerk named Aftran had been captured, who was believed to be a member of the group. Unfortunately an Andalite took her before he could speak to her. He found a rescue attempt by an Andalite to be surprising. He began investigating the main pool site after that.
He had also been keeping an eye on other things. He was contacted by the Headmistress about the psychic hunters Sub Visser Two had been training. He sent her an anonymous message regarding them.
Sub Visser Two had been paying Visser Four for technology he developed on the Leeran Homeworld. There is a headset device Controllers can wear that picks up on psychic frequencies. Especially while psychic powers are being used. They have been changed to resemble headphones and such that Humans wear to listen to music and such. Ordinarily these would be inconspicuous to Humans who saw them. You and your allies should be careful about using powers around anyone wearing something on their head. Including hats.
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Sierra
"How many yeerks? I'm not entirely sure. Actually, I'm not sure how many I've killed period. I don't go about it directly. I mean, mostly I order one of the Hork-Bajirs or Taxxons to kill the yeerks on their side, so there's no telling how many they kill. So I'd say quite a few."
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The headmistress
Ordett's message was enlightening. the headmistress decided to update everyone latter.
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Odrett
Odrett had some free time after that, and relaxed at the lounge. His host was depressed as always.
<Try to lighten up a bit. You're beating yourself up too much, Alex.>
<Oh, I'm sorry if my mood inconveniences you, o tiny master. I just can't get over the thought that if I had been more firm about my girlfriend joining the Sharing, she would still be free.>
<You didn't know. That's kind of the point of the whole thing.>
<If I hadn't tried to save her, she would still be alive.>
<She committed suicide to prevent her reinfestation. That was her choice. Seriously, that was months ago. We cry, we mourn, then we accept. I left you to your brooding for a few weeks, but now I need you to get on my team and help me out.>
<Isn't letting you use my body without screaming profanities at you helpful enough?>
<Nope.>
<Forget it. You'll have my body, but you won't have my loyalty.>
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Rory
"Alright, that's good to know. Do you feel bad about any of it, or do you feel joy, maybe relief?"
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Sierra
Sierra shrugged. "I don't know. I mean, at the time I really didn't care. It was all impersonal. The yeerks were a threat that needed to be eliminated. But now...after I met Odrett and he saved my life. I just don't know anymore."
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Rory
"Alright then, anything else you'd like to tell me?" She mutters while writing in the notebook.
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Sierra
Sierra shrugged. "The only thing I want anymore is that my sister stays out of this war. If she gets in it, well. Things will not go as planned for the headmistress. But besides that...no."
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Rory
"That'll do then. Thank you for your cooperation. Feel free to go, send the next one in."
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Sierra
Sierra nodded and left. That had been relatively painless. She gestured toward the room. "Whoever is next, go on in."
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(Um, how about the twins)
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((Either the twins or Cody. Neither have been around, though, so I don't know.))
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( :o We need to revitalise the story)
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(You're in charge. Have the Headmistress send Chad and sierra on a mission or something, since they're done with psyche evaluations. Have them try to figure out SV2's exact plans for defeating each individual team member. They could find Odrett too.
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The Headmisstress
The chossen squadron came in (aka all of the characters). "Situation. A Yeerk battalion is located in Siberia. We have evidence from an student from the school in tibet. We don't know what they are doing but we think it might have something to do with mining. The Yeerks are drilling into the surface and they are puting alot of effort into it."
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Chad
"Ok. Are we hopping a plane there? What kind of weather does Tibet have?"
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The Headmistress
The student was at a Tibet school. You aren't going there. Try north a few thousand miles and colder by about 40 degrees Fahrenheit
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Sierra
"North of Tibet? 40 degrees colder?" Sierra shuddered. "I hate the cold." She sighed, filled with an overwhelming feeling of foreboding, and that she would be packing her entire closet in addition to several coats.
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Chad
"I guess I'll be packing some extra clothes. Gloves, hood, extra layers, and all that."
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Sierra
"Why? Not that it's bad enough that we're in a bloody war, but now this bloody war is going to be icy cold? Why are we doing this again?"
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Chad
"Because they're digging. Probably making another pool or something. We won't know until we get there!"
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The Headmistress
"This is going to be difficult. I have a helicopter ready to another enclave in mogolia a few psychics are there no more than thirty at the most. You will be taken from there by plane to Siberia. You will refuel in bulgaria. You'll be leaving at eight o'clock tomarrow morning and arrive at mongolia 2:00 in the morning local time." "Any questions?"
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Chad
"Is this mission going to be just recon, or do we attack when we get to the enemy?"
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The Headmistress
"Your first priority is to discover the operation. The second is to sabotage it."
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Sierra
"Great. I just love discovering and sabotaging operations in the freezing cold." Sierra let out a exasperated sigh. "Of all the places they could do this, it just had to be somewhere I will freeze to death in. Stupid yeerks."
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(Where are the guys who play the twins and cody?)
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(I'm not sure. They've been kind of MIA recently. You could try sending them a PM)
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((Sorry, I'm now allowed on te 'puter on the week. I'm back now))
Cody asked.
"Excuse me, when to we get to go?"
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Chad
"I don't know, but I'm not taking off again on my own anymore. No way."
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Sierra
Sierra let out a sharp laugh. "Well, at least you've learned your lesson."
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( Note for the sake of the Rpg if Hk revan does not show up in the next few posts the twins will be put in universal controll statis)
(P.S. AcreLorrane you can do a little sidestory if you want)
Edit: twins are now public characters
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Rory
Rory steps up toward the desk. "Excuse me headmistress. Does this mean I'll be traveling as well? If so, I will require all the information so as to plan a proper course of action, assuming that is, there isn't a set guideline planned for them already."
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Chad
"The more the merrier, I say. We are an equal opportunity guerilla force."
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The Headmistress
"In deed Rory, besides I was planning to send you to the enclave in Mongolia as an ambassador for basic planning coordination and such."
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Sierra
Sierra sighed. She knew she was complaining a lot, but it's not like she wanted to be shipped off to Nowheresville, Siberia! "Remind me why I'm doing this again?"
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The Headmistress
She smiled one of her rare smiles at sierra. "Because I prevented your sister from dieing and the survival of humanity depends on it"
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"Well, I'd say that wraps up the why part of it."
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Sierra
"Oh, right. That. Stupid humanity" Sierra said with a sigh.
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(close end scene now to the flight)
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As their flight flew through the crisp air, Cody moaned.
"Ugh, does anyone have a puke bag? I'm gonna spew."
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Sierra
Sierra grimaced at Cody. "Here." She tossed a bag at him, and quickly moved away. She sat in a window seat, staring out at the clouds the wings of the plane sliced neatly through.
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"Guy acts like he's never flown before." Chad said jokingly, as he remembered when they went up with Acre. Then he remembered Acre was dead, and his smile faded. He was a little eager to get down on the ground too, and find some action.
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Cody grabbed the bag, muttered a thanks, and had a techni-color yawn that lasted for ten ecods. He tied up the brimming bag, and said.
" Where do I put it?"
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"There should be a trash can somewhere. Or something. If nothing else, just stick in in a far corner."
(How big is the plane we're in.)
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Sierra
Sierra attempted to shut out the sounds Cody had made, to no avail. Several snide comments came to mind, but she chose to remain silent; she was content to sit in peace with her thoughts. Which steadily grew darker. She went from watching the clouds drifting by, to her sisters and mother back home. Cara was most likely supporting the 'family' however she could. Her mother was probably passed out drunk on the couch. She snapped her mind out of her self pity. She needed a clear head.
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Cody tossed the bag in a garbage can. It burst open with a sickening, splutch.
"Augh, I HATE air travel. Who ever said it was relaxing should be dragged out into a street and shot."
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Sierra
Sierra grinned. "I don't know. I find it to be quite pleasant. The view out the window, the smooth sound of the engine, the easy movement, the revolting sound of you puking your guts out. Yes. Quite pleasant."
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Chad looked outside, and noticed the clouds. Out of boredom, he molded some nearby into fish and sent them across Sierra's window. "Look, those clouds look like fish!" He then made a shark cloud chase after the fish. "Ooh, food chain."
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"You're Hilarious." Cody said. He used gravity to scatter the clouds.
"Oh look, extinction!"
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He then created a lion's head from cloud that somewhat resembled Mufasa. "Simba. You have forgotten yourself, and thus forgotten me."
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A gravity generated whole appeared in mufasas head.
"Hunters."
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Sierra
Sierra couldn't help but laugh at Cody's and Chad's antics. She smirked "Are you trying to impress me?"
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"what else? What else? I think we're running out of clouds. We must be landing soon."
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Sierra
Sierra's good mood fell. "Fantastic. Landing, most likely, in snow. I miss England already."
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Chad made some tufts of clouds fall like snow would. "I'm not really used to snow myself. When I lived in the states, I lived down south.
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Sierra
"No matter how much snow I'm in, I will never get used to it. The first snow, alright. That's okay. It looks gorgeous and such, but after that I'm done."
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Cody rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, I'm about to kill alien slugs in Siberia And the last thing I do is try to impress a girl? Please."
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Rory
"I suppose it's a good thing we're over a low population are. The clouds might be overlooked by people on the ground. Although it is the tendency of humans to avoid looking up." Rory shook her head for a moment and glanced around quickly. "Though it is pretty funny I have to admit."
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Chad smacked his forehead. "Oh man, I didn't even think of that. I was just bored. Hopefully we won't be attacked by bugfighters, or ambushed when we land. Sorry."
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"If we do, they'll go into the ground perty fast."
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"What kind of range do you have, anyway, Cody? Or do you have a distinct maximum range?"
(I believe a rivalry might develop between Chad and Cody. That would be fun.)
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(Sure, but what kind of rivalty?)
"Dunno, I think it's like, a hundred feet or somthing."
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(A friendly "My powers are better than yours" kind of rivalry. Nothing as strong as threatening to kill each other like the Twins would.)
"Cool. I can still do more stuff than you, though."
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The twins
Simultaniously the twins yelled "Hey we're trying to get some sleep!"
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"Then, sleep." Cody said. He flicked his wrist at them, distorting the body pressures, and knocking them out. He turned to Chad.
"I'm sure you can, watch this. He looked at Chad, and picked him up, and tossed him high in he air. He caught him safetly as he came back down.
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Sierra
Sierra rolled her eyes. She turned and shut her eyes, attempting to get a bit of sleep and ignore the masculinity trip that seemed to be going on.
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Rory
Rory just sat staring at her notebook as she wrote. Stopping a few seconds before jotting down notes. "Stop fooling around on the plane, we don't need any more turbulence than we already have."
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"Try not to hurt them. They could be useful. Like, as bait, or body shields." Chad said with a chuckle. He decided to relax and catch a short snooze as well.
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"Don't wory, I take good care of my pets."
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Sub-Visser two
"Dapsen. Humans they have to put weapons in bunkers like this so if one shoots they all have to go up together. Our men are in the bunkers correct." the underling shivered in the extreme cold his host body was from northern scotland but it was much colder here. "Y-Yes sub-V-V-Visser. How can you stand this cold when even we cannot?" the Sub-Visser hesistated then responed. "I am using my own concentration and will to bring up my host's body heat to counter any hypothermic symptoms. If I told you exactly how I am afraid I would have to kill you." The Sub-Visser's host spoke up "<Your voice lacks menace despite the fact that using my knowledge could be punished by your emperor>" "<I could not have conquered with pure technology I needed a different approach to level my playing field.>"
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"Oh my god!" Chad said after the polane landed, and he walked out. He had put on a heavy jacket to prepare for the cold, but everywhere else on his body quickly chilled. He ran back in to put on gloves, a tobagan, and an extra pair of sweat pants. "I changed my mind. Let them dig if they want to."
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Rory
Rory stepped off the plane and took a long look around. "I suppose this is it, I hope you can handle it. Nothings gone terribly wrong yet but we all need to be careful." Her voice revealing itself as a smoky tendril in the air. "We'll have to do something about this too. Hiding our breath will be important to sneaking around. Can any of you use your abilities for it? Other than the Hector of course."
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"I could likely learn to maneuver it so it doesn't go out so far. Or maybe we could wear something over our mouths." Chad said.
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(they were supposed to stop in mongolia which is desert remember)
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(I guess not. Sorry.)
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(No idea, completely forgot.)
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(Oh, whoops! I guess it slipped all our minds.)
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(Just edit the landing post)
(Welcome to mongolia)
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(Thanks :P)
Sierra
Sierra stepped out of the plane, attempting to absorb the warmth for later use. Sure, it wouldn't work, but where's the harm. She immediately scanned the area, looking for...well...anythi ng. War does strange things to a person.
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Rory
"I believe we should take advantage of this time as best we can. We're going to need all of you to work together. Your childish squabblings are going to just get in the way in an actual combat situation, especially a delicate one such as this next one." Rory says to Cody and Chad.
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Chad put on a serious face, and nodded to Cody. "Play time's over. Let's get started."
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Sierra
Sierra grinned. She could grow to like this Rory girl. She seemed to have some good ideas, and didn't take crap from the guys. "Alright. So, let's get started, shall we?"
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"Yes, lets." Cody said, then turning to Chad,
"But Chaddy, Its no fun going into combat all serios. You've got to do it all with a smile of your face!" He said, grinning comicaly.
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(Good work guys ;D )
(remeber anyone can be the twins. HK Raven droped out.)
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"Still not quite over being captured, tortured, and infested. But I promise to smile if we win."
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"If we win? When we win."
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Sierra
With a roll of her eyes, Sierra said "You sound like some cheap motivational poster. You know, the ones people want to rip down and use as confetti?"
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"Well, aren't you a pessimist.!"
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Rory
"Do you have an intact motivational poster. I do believe we call that realism, not pessimism."
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"I only understood half of what u said, but whatever. What do we do now?'
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"She lost me at poster. I guess we could scout the area first."
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Rory
"Do none of you remember why we're making a stop here? We're supposed to meet a small enclave of psychics who will transport us to our destination. If you feel the need to wander around that's fine, but I believe we should stay together for when they arrive. We do not know their motives, nor are we completely sure they have not been infiltrated."
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(I actually forgot.)
"Oh yeah. The psychics. Let's go say hi, then."
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Sierra
"I suppose. We need to first figure out the most effective way to meet them to be sure they are not infiltrated. I can order them to tell me, so I should probably be one of the first to meet them. What do you all think?"
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"I'm all game for it." Cody said lazily.
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The Head of the enclave was waiting in the underground cave. The hole enclave was underground and it's inhabitants were supplied with an oasis of water as well as a supply of goats and even an underground wheat field. It was built and expanded by psychics who constructed the facility with the powers they had.
The Head was alerted and sensed the five psychics outside. "<Welcome. There is a small hole to your right. You may enter. I am the head mystic. I am waiting at the south end of the enclave.>"
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Sierra
Sierra flinched when she heard the voice in her head. "I don't think I'll ever get used to that." She said with a grimace. "So...I guess we go in and hope for the best."
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Chad peered inside the entrance. He didn't see much in the darkness, but he went inside. There were some lights deeper inside to gide them down the tunnel.
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Rory
Rory walked inside, being careful to leave a sizeable space between her and the left wall. "I never did like underground caves." She mutters.
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"What's wrong with underground caves?" Hector asked.
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Sierra
"Well, Hector. You have a slight advantage considering you can make the rocks do what you want. Which means we probably should fear for our lives." Sierra said sarcastically. Well, the first part at least.
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( ;D good work everyone keep typing )
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Rory
"Tunnels make everything harder, maneuvering, fighting, and retreating."
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"Hopefully these are our true blue allies, and we won't have to worry. Otherwise we'll just have to cope. I see an opening up ahead." Chad said.
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"<Come in>." a voice said. They entered and found a old man in a cross-legged position. His eyes closed meditating. "<I am sorry I would have greeted you myself but my body is currently in hibernation. Most of us retain this state in order to let go of our bodies and live through our minds.>" the head mystic continued. "<Which one of you is the representative?>"
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Sierra
Sierra glanced over at Rory. "Definitely her. She's the only one mentally stable enough" She said with a grin, only semi-kidding.
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"<The Empathic, ah, yes you are here to find out if we will allow this enclave to be an eastern base of opperations correct?>"
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Rory
"That is one of our goals, yes, and as far as mental stability goes, I must inform you that your belief is far from the truth. Objectivity is far from stability, as my other part would undoubtably agree."
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Cody was rather confused still.
"Okay, who exactly are these, emapthetics?"
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"People who are really good at determining the feelings of others." Chad said.
"Like between me and Hector?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah, like that."
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"< I am sure that you will need to rest. If any of us are out hibernation please do not hesitate to ask for help.>"
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Rory
"Alright then. I suppose we might as well take advantage of our down time and get a bit of rest, but still keep an eye out, bad luck strikes the unwary. Avoid going off exploring alone."
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Chad talked to Cody a bit of a distance away from the others. "We just spent hours on a plane, get to a new place, and she wants us to rest more? I say we check the place out."
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Sierra
Sierra was absolutely not going to sit around and stare at hibernating people. There was no way she was going to waste any minute of warmth in a cave. She silently moved away from the main area, and headed toward the exit. It's not like she was planning on doing anything, she just wanted to be in the sun.
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Rory
"Or we can all ignore my advice and play explorers." She shrugged as she muttered to herself. She decided quickly to follow along with Sierra towards the outside. After running the basic in and outs of the situation, she was the one who was the biggest asset and liability to the group. "How are you doing?" Rory asked, switching from the analytical persona to her more human personality.
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Sierra
"Well, excluding the fact we're in a war I don't want to be involved in, we all have been uprooted, and are about to leave any good weather we may have had, I'm not bad." Sierra said, with a smirk. "And yourself?"
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Rory
"Excluding your conditions, I've got at least two personalities, my normal one and the weird emotionless one. There may be a third one in there but I can't read it so I'm not sure. Other than that, it seems we're both not bad."
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Sierra
"Well, not bad is better than expected. So, if you don't mind me asking, what revealing and shocking things did you find when you psychoanalyzed me?" Sierra said, half joking, half serious.
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"So, are we going to have a mission sometime soon or what?
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Rory
"Well I didn't analyze you. but it from what I read on the clipboard you seemed to be the scotch tape keeping the bricks from falling off a needle. So yeah, you seem important to the team and my other half is desperately incessant on keeping tabs on you." She laughed a little. "Wish I had a better grip on myself when Acre was alive. Maybe I could have helped him."
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The Headmistress
She meditated, focused with all her might. She was in the tower of the enclave. Since the fall of the roman empire the psychics had designed a communication system based on mind waves. A telepathic computer. Legends told that it was made from a massive mysterious star that came down to earth. However drawn from the legend several had hypothised that it wasn't a star but an alien freighter. This allowed communication for psychics around the world regardless of language. The rest was used to create...
"<Rory this is the headmistress. I want you to negotiate but not just for the base. Your priority is to bargain for a single piece of knowledge. The location of the Shiva system.>"
(fast forward: landing in Siberia)
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Sierra
Sierra glared out the window of the plane. Snow. Fantastic. "The next mission had better be somewhere warm." She said, arms crossed.
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( *bump* Are we going to try to continue this?)
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(Maybe not, Navi.)
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(Lol. I'm probably going back to my old avvie soon.
Too bad. I liked this RP)
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(Well I think it is safe to say that this Rpg is in a coma or near death)
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(Sad! Oh, well. It was fun)
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*British-Flash as Brad teleports in*
((such a same i enjoyed reading this thread...))
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*Pulls out thread paddles* "Live!"
Cody looked over to Sierra and said.
"You're right. Why can't the yeerks invade hawaii, places people live."
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"Yeah. Panama City, or Las Vegas, or Jamaica. "
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"Yes, people don't live in Siberia, not in their right mind. People live in the Caribbeans, or america, and florida."
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"If you don't stop talking about warm places, I will shove all of your faces into the snow. Or make you do it. Please, don't tempt me."
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Chad made Cody tripp and fall on his face, in a hopefully discreet way to make him think he tripped on his own. "Watch your step, man." He said, smiling innocently.
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Sierra glanced at Chad, a barely concealed grin on her face. "Yeah," she said to Cody "You ought to be more cautious."
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Cody smiled innocently, and just then, Chad's personal gravity got much heavier. He fell into the snow face first, and didn't get up for ten seconds.
"Careful Chad, I hear that the gravity around here is rather strange at times."
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"Yeah. Thanks pal." He said.
"Enough beating around the bush." Ryan said. "If we're going to have a snow fight, then let's have a snow fight!"
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( :wow: I can't believe this happened brilliant)
(To Brad the Brit if you want to join this Rpg you can take over the twins. After all you're more British than all of us combined.)
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((Haha, yeah pretty much))
Sierra surreptitiously made a snowball. "Well, Ryan. Since you love snow so much...." She said, throwing the snowball into Ryan's face.
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(What? You can't roleplay as a couple of sociopathic jerks? You could try one of our other NCPs like Odrett or Gabriel. Or I guess just make up your own if that really doesn't appeal to you.)
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(to be honest I think the "restoration" power is a bit farfetch'd. psychics can't manipulate time and the manipulation of space seems remarkably fine-tuned for his age. The healing wounds is applicable. Some psychics can see ahead in time to possible outcomes so if you do a time related power it would be on those lines)
(I think "the Brit" is a bit of a strange name for a kid in a school that is mainly british (with americans in the 30% range) (If you want you could make your character Scotish and have everyone call him "the scott")
(You see most people are recruted to the school through a geneology tracking. Most of the students are desended from British houses with strong psychic bloodlines who had a Master-apprentice basis (as had been for hundreds of years). Often psychics who produced children with non-psychics had those who were non-psychic. However in many cases the mental ability skiped a generation so when this was discovered blood lines were tracked. Others (like the twins, cody, and the Headmistress herself) were found through psychic "watchmen" origionaly an offical job but many former students took it on a part-time basis.)
(Everyone read this.)
(I know I am a really technical person)
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((ok i got rid of my posts im happy just to watch, ;D have fun guys))
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Ryan raised his hand, and the ball exploded into dust before reaching him. "None shall touch me!" He said as he made a few, and sent them at Sierra.
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(Time to get serious)
The Headmistress
"Come in professor alexander". "I take it that you want me here for a specific reason." "Yes, using Clive's security passwords and your hacking skills we have found out what the yeerks are digging for... its a Soviet missle."
Professor alexander was suprised. "Couldn't the yeerks just infest the two men who are couped up there?" "No it is set by computer the yeerks could hack the system and send it on its way." "Well they don't know where we are. Do they?" "No I think they have some thing else planned." "Let me guess you want me to go to siberia and reprogram it so that it won't fire and if worse comes to worse comes to worse defuse it using what I learned from my days in bomb disposal." "Yep that's the plan." the Headmistress said in an optimistic tone.
"You know I was the first person to defuse a type 17 bomb with a Zeus 40 addition if it weren't for me loundon would be in pieces right now." "I know that's why I'm sending you." Mr. alexander took a step towards the door. "Oh and by the way this missle isn't any ordinary missle... it's a hydrogen fusion weapon"
Mr. Alexander got to his helicopter. "All the more reason not to fail." He thought
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Sierra pulled the conveniently placed Chad to block the snowballs. "Thanks. Human shields are absolutely fantastic. So, down to business." Sierra bit her lip. "What are we doing again?"
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"Well, last I heard it was save the world from alien slugs with Russian physic advice."
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"Find a hole, and possibly destroy some digging equipment." Chad said as he brushed the snow off.
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"Exactly what I want to be doing." Sierra said, frowning slightly. "So where should we begin?"
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The Headmistress
She stood thinking. The headmystics wouldn't give her the location of the Shiva system she would have to find it another way. She went to her computer and browsed until. She pressed the PA system button "James Grant please report to the main office".
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James knocked the door to the Headmistress office before she had time to release the button for the PA system. He walked in a second later, and stood in front of her. He looked around 17, but short and stocky. His frame was built up from years of boxing training. Messy blond hair fell in all directions, covering his ears completely. The Union Jack t-shirt he wore beneath his jacket was half tucked into his jeans. The light blue eyes scanned the office, this was only the fourth time he had been in here.
He stuck his hands in his leather jacket, "You wanted to see me Madam?” He asked politley, his smile showing he knew the answer.
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The figure continued his ever vigilant watch. Nothing was changing except for Rory staying behind. She was unimportant at the moment. So he watched from miles away, waiting for his assistance to be required.
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(What the... Rory is a girl you put his instead of her)
The Headmistress
"Ah, yes James Grant take a seat there is somthing I would like to discus with you. Are you aware of a network known as the Shiva System."
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(I think the "he" that's watching from miles away isn't Rory. Why would she hang back so far as to be miles away.)
"So are we heading in a somewhat straight path? What are we using to make sure we don't walk in circles through these trees and snow drifts?" Chad asked.
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Jay flopped down in the chair. He thought for a while before answering.
"Unless you mean the sound system, probably not".
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"The sun." Sierra said. "We know the time, so we know direction."
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The Headmistress
"I need you to take a look into the future and I will give you an event. Me finding this system." she then established a mental link. It took a while but she focused enough until she said telepathically "<Look into my future and tell me what you see through this link you should be able to see something>"
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Jay nodded and closed his eyes. Since he was a child if he focused in on certain person, object or event he could see their future. But his visions weren’t perfect, because the final decisions regarding the future he sees have to have been made at the time he sees them. If the decision hasn’t been made it makes the future extremely hard to read. But things without decisions like the weather were easy for him to read.
He looked into the Headmistresses future “OK because you asked me here all the choices you make lead you to the Shiva System. Which by the way is really selfish, because it changes the entire earths future along with it. Including mine! I was only just starting to reform mine into something I liked!!”.
Jay stopped ranting and recomposed himself. “Sorry force of habit. Anyway, although that choice will lead you to the system, there are several paths you could take. Errr but only two that don’t lead to your death. So do you still want to know how to know where it is?”.
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The Headmistress
"The Shiva system is essential to the defeat of the yeerks I need to know where it is." she stopped for a moment. "It's location is only known by a few and the few who do learn its location must have a high probiblity of death in ten years it is systematic to prevent information from falling into the wrong hands."she paused again longer this time "So if I die it will not matter. I have already written out my last testiment and will so if you tell me where it is you will have provided everything for us. Not just me the entire school and the inhabitants of this world. So tell me what you know."
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“Well miss, as long as you aware of the ramifications…”. Jays eyes glazed over as he searched possible timelines for a location. He sat there staring into space for at least a minute before snapping back to reality. “The Shiva system is currently on a forested island just off the cost of India. Sorry that’s the best I can do, I’m a Clairvoyant not a Seeker”. He stretched and broadcasted the image of the island to the her mind. “You should be able to find out which island from that image. The bigger problem is the infiltration. As I said before there are only two possible choice-paths that don’t lead to your death.
“Option one. A small team infiltrates the island and hopefully getting passed the systems guards without detection. It’s a long shot but hell, maybe they’ll strike lucky.”. Jay declined to mention that he would have to be on the team if it was to have any chance of success. Travelling to India would seriously mess up his plans of staying out of this war. In fact this was one of the largest choice-paths he had ever come across in his own time stream. And he didn’t like the way it was looking….
“Or option two. Use three of four powerful psychics too attack the guards whilst another uses the distraction to steal the system. But this one has the added bonus of a death. But as I said, not yours”. Jay shuffled his feet uncertainly. If he told the Headmistress who would die he would pollute the choice she was about to make.
"And now if you don’t mind miss I’ll be off”. Jay got out of the chair and walked towards the door. Maybe if he walked fast enough he could change the future. But he knew either way he wouldn’t be walking out of this office that easily.
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The Headmistress
She let him go. "<For now>" she thought to herself "<Let him be>"
Subvisser two
"Sub-visser only not much longer to go." the Hork-bajir lackey said. The Subvisser asked calmly "In units of feet please." the Hork-bajir went pale "sixty subvisser" the Hork-bajir winced waiting for an outburst of rage as the Subvisser made a frustrated sigh. "I must order more equipment if we are to get anywhere human machines freeze far too quickly in this climate. Tell the rest of the workers that they will be rewarded with rest if they dig another ten feet by the end of the day but," he added menacingly "if I catch any dawdling they will be immediately killed."
"<The Karth and the Nithen. The Carrot and the stick as the human saying goes.>" the host body replied. "<Yes I suppose. You were right you can not rule by fear alone. Anyway why do you help me?"
"<Because I can do more for the people of the universe by doing so.>" "<How?>"
"<I am helping you right now. Also if it weren't for me a Horkbajir's head would be rolling on the ground.>"
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(Well my first impression was that we left Rory behind to ask the monkish types about the system while everyone else went ahead. So I played played my trump card facedown, besides, she's noncombat anyway.)
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(um okay at this point professor Alexander (the chee) is going to land in a helicopter right in frount of the group. You can use him if you like)
He touched down in the middle of nowhere right in front of the group. "Judging from the stunned looks on your faces. You expected you'd have to defuse that bomb alone."
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"Only slightly. Generally our fantastic headmistress leaves out small details. And you would be...?" Sierra said with a bit of sarcasm, though still wary.
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"Your math professor."
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Sierra quickly composed herself. "Oh. Right, of course." She then decided to give up the act. She let out a small laugh. "Sorry. I've only been in your class a couple of times."
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Chad tried to stifle a laugh. "Welcome to the mission."
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Professor Alexander
"Right, lets do this like Bruttis."
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Sierra raised an eyebrow. "Well, I'd rather not be compared to the man who killed Caesar at a most inconvenient time, but alright."
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"Et tu, Brute?" Chad said dramatically?
Odrett:
"It is far too cold here." He mumbled to himself. "If I go inside the tunnel, they'll put me to work. If I stay out here, my toes and fingers will freeze off. I need something interesting to do."
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( BUMP! Live RP LIVE!!!!)
Jay sat down heavy on the soft couch of the teacher’s lounge, helping himself to a few chocolates. He clicked on the freeview and switched to BBC 3. Lessons had just started and no teachers where predicted to come in here for at least 24 minutes. He took a bite and put his feet on the coffee table. His eyes glazed over as he checked a few choice-paths. The all sucked.
He sighed and watched a few minutes of Family Guy. In the next 10 minutes the Headmistress will have made her decision and either way he would be on his way to India. He crunched down on his cookie, being a clairvoyant sucks.
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Cody sighed in frustration. He was confused. He asked everyone.
"Someone tell me, just what the hell is going on?"
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Sierra echoed Cody's sigh. "Honestly, I'm not sure. Alright, first things first. We need to know where we're going, how do get there, and what to do once we're there. So, let's sit back for a moment and get a battle plan."
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"We could charge the pool. I could generate a warped gravity filed that would deflect bullets and dracon beams, and we could just kick ass after that. What do ya think?"
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"Well, my guess is it will be secured. It isn't going to be easy getting in. Perhaps if there are guards I could...convince them to let us in. That way, when we do charge in, it will be more of a surprise."
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"I'll jsut bash my way in as usual, just like the hulk." Cody flexed his notvery impressive muscles, and slameed the ground.
"Hulk, smaaaaash!" He created density on his hand withh gravity and punched a hole in rock, snow, and ice.
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Sierra rolled her eyes. "Yes. You're scary, intimidating, and manly. Oh the horror. If you're done with your little masculinity trip, can we please move on?"
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(Is this RP still going? I had forgotten about it.)
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((We're attempting to get it started up again, yes))
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(If I remember right, we were in the tundra looking for a Yeerk digging operation. Right?)
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((That was my impression, yes))
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"I think we've waited long enough. Let's get over there and see exactly what we're up against."
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Sierra nodded in agreement. "Alright. Let's get walking across this Godforsaken expanse of crap." She said, kicking a chunk of snow to emphasize her point. "I'm regretting this already. Oh, and if we see anyone along the way, we can see if we can glean any information from them."
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Chad started walking, using his abilities to cover everyone's tracks as he went. He also diverted wind to the side so they'd be just a little warmer in their coats.
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Sierra shuddered. She would never, ever get used to the cold. She made a point to kick most of the ice chunks that crossed her path. She wasn't sure why, but it made her feel a little better.
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Cody was pretty pissed off. He barely knew why he was here, well, to fight the yeerks, but lets get onto to it already! Here he was, trudging across some arctic landscape. He spoke aloud.
"I tell you, when this is over, I'm so gonna be a superhero. We all should be, all us survivors when the yeerks are defeated, we should become, the Super students."
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"I think I want to become so good at telekenesis, that I can mold matter itsself. Turn any matter into energy, and vice versa. That would be ultimate power. Then I'd be the new Superman."
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"Once this is over, I want it to go back to normal. I don't want to have to do this for the rest of my life. I'm sorry, but that just seems as though it would suck."
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"You should be entitled to that. Though at the very least I'd like to stay at the school to help me maintain control over my powers. In fact, I may take up a career in the school. If only it was in America, instead of Britain."
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Sierra scoffed jokingly. "Americans. What do they know? I'd like to work on my abilities as well. See if I can get people to do what I want by just thinking at them." She said, only half joking.
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"All I'm saying, after this war, I'm gonna get lots of money, hot chicks, cool cars, and stuff liek that."
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"We must know prettuy much, since we've become one of the greatest nations in just a few hundred years. Though I do admit we have problems."
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Sierra laughed at Cody. "You have such a one track mind. It's kind of pathetic, really. And Chad. Every country has some problems. Otherwise it would be completely devoid of human life." She sighed. "Humans are so corrupt."
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"Yeah. If we could all learn to get along with everyone, then it would be a much happier and peaceful world. Or Galaxy. The Yeerks would surely be better off if they hadn't bitten the hand that fed them. Humans would be better off if they shared more, so wars wouldn't be fought over land and resources. Even if the Yeerks took over the Galaxy, they would probably just fight over control of the Homeworld. He who controls the Kandrona, controls the species. If you ever figure out how to broadcast your thoughts across the globe, you can tell everyone to cut out all the extremist bullcrap, and learn to get along."
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Sierra laughed. "That would certainly be something." She picked up a chunk of ice and tossed it from one gloved hand to the other. "The problem is, people need drama. They thrive off of it. For example, have you ever noticed how some of the girls at the Brighton squeal like crazy when they see a friend after the summer break? It doesn't matter that it only has been a few months and they've seen each other in between. They live for the drama. Anything to make their lives more exciting." She smiled wryly. "Fortunately for us, we don't have to look for drama. It finds us."
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"That's all true. Speaking of excitement, I think I hear heavy machinery up ahead."
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Sierra's shoulders dropped. "Fantastic." She muttered. "Well, let's get moving, then. Hey, Cody, is there any way one of you could make our steps lighter by messing with the gravity or whatever? Keep them from knowing we're coming?"
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Cody groaned.
"That's work though. I didn't sign up for this!" But, he wrapped them in a distorted gravity sphere, which silenced their approach.
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Sub-Visser two
He viewed the operation quietly. Suddenly he became aware of a slight sensation as if the ground had begun to move slightly.
"<Your skill has improved much you are learning to be aware of your surroundings without effort.>"
He looked around He noticed a distrotion of movement something slight, but it caught his eye.
"You three," he pointed at his Hork-bajir guards,"Temrash, you warn the others to be on the lookout but make sure no one sounds the alarm. You two come with me. He put on his psychic helmet and equiped his dracon energy gloves." This time things would be different.
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Sierra scanned the landscape. The only good thing about something this barren and plain is that any movement is easy to see. Well, it was also a negative. It depended on who noticed the enemy first. The yeerks or the humans.
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"So I figure we should find out who the top guy around here is, and go after him first. Maybe also find out how to disable communications to keep them from calling reinforcement."
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Sierra nodded. "Makes sense. So we find anyone who is part of this operation and persuade them to tell us who is in charge." She said, with not a little malice.
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Professor Alexander
"If you wish I can scout ahead and figure out where the bomb is. I do have immense holografic capablities you know."
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((Question: do the students know much about the Chee? Like the nonviolent aspect?))
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(They know the non-violent part yes)
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((Mmkay. Thanks))
Sierra nodded. "That would be helpful. It's a shame you can't take down the people you see. Although...." She glanced at the professor. "If you see anybody who looks like they know what's going on, would you mind bringing them back to us?"
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(what's the backstory of this game so far? I see no one's morphing...)
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No one has morphing powers. We're all psychics, fighting Yeerks in Britain. It's dying a slow death.
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The professor turned his cloaking device on and leaped ahead. It didn't take him long to find the mining site. There were hork-bajir carrying up rubble from the tunnel below. This was his critical moment he needed to sneak in without being discovered.
Subvisser two
He and his two hork-bajir had reached the top of a cliff side they saw Sierria, Chad and the twins from above. The Subvisser was far enough back that both he and his hork-bajir were far out of range. Even though they all had on mental sheilding helmets the Subvisser was not going to leave anything to chance.
They got out their dracon snipers. The subvisser knew that his Hork-bajir only had one shot each then the band below would scatter.
"Lock on to the two male humans that look exactly alike, and make sure your gravity negators are on we cannot aford to miss" the subvisser knew that they were the most powerful, and the greatest threat.
Each horkbajir locked on to each of the twins. Below the twins were in a bit of an inappropraite mental conversation. The happy-go-lucky pair smiled at each other for one last time...
The dracon beams were on point. Both riped straight through the heart. Both fell simultaniously. In their last seconds of brain activity they quickly created a physical barrier of earth frozen earth and air sheilding.
"<This is it.>" thought hector
"<yep.>"
"<Well I never thought I'd see the day they'd be cry...>" he faded away
"Right behind you bro..." Ryan whispered. His last words were spoken both orally and mentally.
"Right behind you bro." was their life story. It began with it and now suddenly ended with it.
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Sierra inhaled sharply. Not quite a scream, but close. The twins were down. And to think, she had kissed them once. It seemed like a lifetime ago. "Cody. Alter the gravity. I don't know if it will work, but if it's strong enough, it may pull the beams away. Chad, could you build up an ice wall around us? Any protection would be good." Although her voice was steady, she knew her hands were shaking. The twins had been her friends. Some of her only friends. She clasped her hands behind her back to hide the movement.
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"Holy crap." Was all Chad could think to say. It happened so fast, and now the twins were gone. Yeah, they had been annoying, but he didn't want them to die like this. He immediately put up a wall of ice, as Sierra spoke. He expanded his power's range, but the enemy was obviously beyond it. He could tell where the shots had come from by looking at the twins.
He suddenly felt angry, and it surprised him. "Cody. Protect Sierra." He said, and used his powers to charge forward at high speed. If he was correct about the direction the shots came from, he'd be on them in seconds. He would crush them.
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Sierra opened her mouth to tell Chad to stop. Rationally, she knew it was stupid for him to go rushing in to try to fight an enemy he knew nothing about. He didn't know what weapons they had, what protection they had. She closed her mouth. Right now, irrationality won. She wanted those yeerks dead.
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(um, with their dieing breath the twins already bulit a protective wall. Read the post!)
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( I guess we both missed that. I wasn't sure if it was for everyone, or just them. Anyway, it's your post. My character's coming in fast for some whoop butt action.)
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(Oh, I totally missed that. Sorry!)
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Cody gasped as the twins collapsed, then built a complete gravity barrier around Sierra, a beam fired at it, and was reflected by the warped gravity. He fixed it into the ground, and fired another one in front of Chad, blocking him from fire.
"Get back here you idiot!"
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Chad saw figured in the distance, shrouded by falling snow. He heard Cody yell for him to get back, but he was undecided. He stopped to gather his thoughts. He crouched down behind a rock covered in snow, and watched. there were three of them, he knew. In the back of his mind, he knew he had done the kind of rash thing he had meant to stop doing. But people had been coldly killed, and it set him off.
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"You idiot! Get over here, or so help me, I'll knock you out and drag you here my self!" Cody powered a gravity blast.
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"Yeah, like that will improve our situation." Chad said. But he retreated anyway. "They have sniper rifles. What do we do?"
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"For one, we don't get killed, and stay behind this gravity barrier. It can deflect dracon beams."
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(read my last post)
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(Cody doesn't know that. Yet)
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(He must be pretty slow then. Due to the fact that it is a giant wall of dirt and ice!)
Professor Alexander
He had made it down to the missle bunker. He had managed to dig through all of the rubble he could. Quickly he hacked through the security system.
"Is everyone out of range."
"<Affirmitive, Professor Al just do what you have to.>"
"<What is the likelihood that this will be succesfull, Clive>"
"<Thirty percent sheilds are up and running on it. I'd say we have about a 10% chance of destroying about 25% for disabling it.>"
"<Have you managed to reach Acre.>"
"<No, he is the only full-proof way of disabling it. I have got my best man on it though.>"
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***Is this RPG still going on, or no? If so, can I get a summary, a character list, or an overview or something? I'd like to jump in...***
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Um... as the last post was in August of '09; I'd say no. Sorry.