Session 1: The Spirit Hunt Part I
This continues from the events of: TAW Session: 556 - 558, 664 - 570, 576 - 577
Location: The Academy
The team has decided to use the Mew Mew to see if they can discover if the Spirits are truly alive based on what Tenebrae felt the other day. Bringing it into orbit, Tora uses spirit tech to try to detect them while Selena uses Celes' journals from the time period of 12,000 years ago to see if they can find something that might help. They go over the history of the spirits that they know so far - Asarar, Shade, and Void are the first siblings born, with their powers bring linked due to it, soon followed by Chronos who is non elemental with her time powes, and then soon followed by the others who all have elemental spirit powers tied into the world. After not having much luck, Jaime brings in Vyvy since she has been studying spirits and even teaching about them; at first she is against the idea of swapping cores around until she hears about the idea of Chronos maybe being behind transplanting them.
The team goes over ideas on how to transfer the cores to rescue Aska from the chamber as well as supply enough spirit energy to the spirits during the actions going ahead, especially with the summoni being depleted during the battle with Death. Jaime heads to the ruins of the Summoni Monestary after the fight with Death and finds Kalam gathering relics and tomes to protect until everything is rebuilt. She is brought aboard to help with the project. Up at Asarar's bar, she is monitoring the Elder Spirits as they work on their idol jobs when they get the call to help out at the Spirit Realm; they head out and ask to be alerted for any gigs. Afterward Asarar notes this gives them time to do some side work of their own.
Arriving in the Spirit Realm, it remains prestine with no fog and it is clear that it is recharging the spirits just being inside it. All the Summoni and Kalam are gathered around the chamber that contains the cores; they debated about the cores, as Aska and Shade had two theories according to Void who joins them. Aska believed the cores were the spirits life force come together to beat as one with Geyze tyying us to the very planet we protected, while Shade believed the cores were our elemental life force that over the years grew and grew until a spirit formed around it, meaning with the right conditions, the right measurements, the three came to life; of course Void's belief lays somewhere in the middle. Nicolette ponder if a spirit's self exists in one's core or in their body.
The spirits use their core to unlock the chamber with the cores where Aska is laying in the prestine water that protects the cores. They get Aska out while Nicolette and Ceilidh take a few cores out to study - the cores being smaller than the Elder Spirits', being more on of the size of Tenebrae's, as well as unattuned to any element or anything. While Aska wakes and is brought up to speed of how long it has been - being nearly a year, Frost discovers a dead spot on a tree that unnerves everyone. Nicolette scries the spot while Aska wants to see these cores that makes them think Chronos might have a hand in something, heading off to see them; Nicolette gets back the feeling of Death watching them, who should be locked up at Lana's lab facility.
They return to the Academy after warding the spot; Aska's group heads for Lumi's office to see the cores while leaning on Soren and Vyvy, taking Selena, Jaime, Threna, . Ceilidh, Nicolette, and Lana head to Lana's lab to check on Death. Aska meanwhile discovers the cores are much older than they should be, such as Gnome's being a year older than it should be. Down in the cell, Death doesn't acknowledge them while they check on the wards, but upon touching one the spirit immeditately begins to observe them. Meanwhile Aska confirms the broken and old cores are legit despite the age difference. The Monsterous Death Spirit turns into a shinigami like girl and informs them of her purpose to hunt the spirits down once the group locates them as she is learning from Nicolette; the team seems torn on destroying it while they can, even as it admits it has a copy out there. After talking some more, they are wondering if Death is being compelled to do it and by whom as she drifts off to sleep.
Returnig to the others, they are informed that they tried to find Shade with Aska's link to her, but the Mew Mew linked with Aska's connection kept taking them to a place where there was no Aska. While some wonder if she is hiding, Ceilidh ponders if she is out of of plane which Aska praises her for, stating she is knocked of the spiritial phase and is currently dying. They decide to use the Ancient's pyramid to travel to the spirit realm and try to find Shade when Death's copy begins to battle Frost in the background, trying to make it's way toward them. It begins a battle with Void joining in trying to slow her down while they get the pyramid ready. An all out battle ensues as they try to stop her and some almost dying as even Avenir has to use reverse time to protect people, but they manage to lift off into the air as Death soon retreats. Kalam notes that her frozen books might have information that could help them, tapping the brittle pages with care, as they move over the spirit realm to try to get ready to find Shade.
Session 2: The Spirit Hunt Part II
Location: Sasha's Pyramid
Sasha's Pyramid lands in the Spirit Realm where everyone begins to work on how to get it to travel to other phases of existence to reach the spirit's that Tenebrae feels when reaching out to Shade. Since the others are busy holding off Death, the team spit-balls some ideas before having Lana begin to retrofit the pyramid to be able to travel between planes of existence, but it will take a long time to be able to achieve that, meaning they will lose what time they gained by traveling here. Aska aids her in powering up the spirit-tech of the pyramid and they all hunker down to try to work as fast as possible.
Date: 10-643.12.19
The team loses a lot of time to the engineering process but eventually Lana has built something into the Croza designs that will allow them to jump between phases of reality/existence, but it has allowed Death to catch up to them. Kalam, who was busy studying the cores during this time, is interrupted before she can reveal what she learned as Neekito carries the spirit kids into the temple - all beat up. She even notes she was unable to copy it's power, a first for the mimic spirit. The female Shingami version of Death advances on the temple and begins to attack the shield that Alita puts up, but Neekito heads out to delay Death so they can escape.
Lana manages to reach the bridge and gets the controls working a few moments later and the temple jumps and warps, arriving at the Spirit Realm again, but it feels a little different - no sign of Death or Neekito and the air is heavier. Since they feel Shade nearby, Selena leads a team out to try to find her despite Avenir's warning that time feels dead. They soon discover when they arrive at the Academy that the people are moving much slower, almost like they are frozen, and that time must have moved forward a few years since Sasha's pyramid is back in it's place and the children a little older. Ellie seems depressed and upset in her frozen state due to something as they head from the Academy to the grotto, indicating something bad has happened to her at this point in the timeline. As they arrive in the grotto and feel Shade inside it, something fast moves about, indicating they are not alone, but discover black spirit energy floating about; Aska and Alita note it is Shade. Nicolette uses the empty core she has on her and the dark energy moves into it, allowing Shade to reform, but not before some super fast being attacks them in the grotto. They manage to repel it and escape before they spot the Shinigami Death Spirit being among the frozen ones in the Academy, indicating she has joined them at some point in the future; Tenebrae looks ready to kill it while it's frozen, but is talked down and they return to the pyramid. They note that Shade has a slightly different eye color than before, with hints of brownish mixed in.
Shade fills them in on what happened that Chronos used her time powers to move them around through time before they died; they aided her in helping with a few things through time to help follow something, but in the end something began to chase after Chronos for screwing with time so badly, so she hid the spirits. Nicolette surmises it must be the thing in the forest. Jaime and Terra help the group pinpoint Gnome to go after next while Death returns, weakened from her battle with Death as she drops the dead looking Neekito at her feet. The rip in time that Death has caused to chase after them, however, backfires as Ellie uses it to chase after Death and check on Neekito which allows Talia to surprise attack it, which keeps it from finishing off the Mimic Spirit. They retrieve Ellie and Neekito, healing the latter and putting Neekito in spirit-tech devices to heal her due to how badly she was hurt while Ellie stands over her, and they jump once again.
They arrive in the Spirit Realm once again, in the same hazy state, but there's one concerning thing - a scythe hole on the side of the pyramid indicaing something might have hitched a ride. They travel to the Ent village to find Gnome and discover Terra is much older now, probably putting this 6 years into the future. Leafy seems to be the leader of the Ents now and there seems to be trouble between the Ent tribes and signs of an epic spirit battle long ago due to the destruction. Kalam muses on wind causing it, but Jaime doubts Fae and Terra would fight and Ellie agreeing. Ellie and Fae note that they feel Sylph nearby as well as they locate Gnome and Jaime uses a core to reconstruct her, but the thing that attacked them in the forest seems to be lurking in the distance before it vanishes. Gnome having the same mixing issue as Shade with her eyes.
Selena warps Ellie and the others to the Naturalist Forest where Sylph once hung out, only to find it burnt to a crisp - the area unnaturally razed. Kalam tells Ellie about the last time jump where Ellie was depressed about something, believing it to be about a dead Neekito, so she believes things can change. Ellie uses a core on the green core and retrieves Sylph when the time creature attacks them. After being repelled Death shows up to double team them, forcing them to rush back to the pyramid and attempt to escape. While the time creature refuses to enter the spirit realm, Death continues her assault. While this is going on, it is clear Sylph and Gnome are a little different personality wise unlike Shade as they jump to get the next set of spirits and arrive on a planet of death and the pyramid begins to shut down, which includes Neekito's healing device.
Perhaps due to the far distance and jumping so far back in time, the team soon realizes they have jumped back into the Croza War era as Alita has to set up something to keep Neekito's healing chamber working as Cloud and Edna feel both Salamander and Brooke on the planet, but outside is a completely dead planet. The entire pyramid, no longer working spirit-tech wise, leaves the team stranded in the past on it. While Lana and Nicolette remain on the pryramid to try to fix it, Selena leads Alita and Ellie out with Cloud and Edna to try to find Salamander and Cloud when they come across a spirit that looks like the Shingami, but lacks the death aura. The spirit seems attuned to the death spirit, a proto-death spirit, and seems naively friendly, noting here is a Death Spirit lurking on the planet as well as the other two they are looking for right now. It agrees to lead them to the other two when the Croza arrive on the planet, no doubt looking for the spirit to turn it into Death. Selena heads back to the pyramid, leaving Alita and Ellie to go with the spirit to find the others, where she tells Lana and Nicolette about the situation - they come up with the plan to go to the Croza ship, steal the parts they need, and implant a code phrase into process of making Death to make it an ally, all the while avoiding Death and the time monster.
Timeline: 10-643.12.19 - 19,965 Croza Era
Session 3: The Spirit Hunt Part III
Location: A Dead World of the Past
The team has split up with Ellie and Alita searching for Salamander and Brooke while the Croza continue to search for Death on the planet. As they study a massive skeleton of a beast of long ago, Edna and Cloud scare the two as they announce their plan to join the group to help their parents. They are joined by the Pre-Death Spirit who points at a massive boneyard and announces their companion is somewhere among them. The Spirit announces many died here during the great disaster as it keeps it's eye on the Croza ship where the Croza are moving about in their Angelic suits. They dig at the area until they locate what looks to be red sprites floating around and Jaime gathers Salamander using her pact with her into a core. They are joined by the Croza as Salamander begins to finish forming and as they begin to get closer, their Spirit guide throws a rock that Jaime makes heavier. It draws their aggro as the team moves off to try to escape.
Location: Sasha's Pyramid
Selena prepares to lead a team into the Croza pyramid to grab supplies they'll need for their own pyramid, leaving behind mostly the exhausted spirits they've been rescuing as well as the kids of those spirits. Recruiting Lana and Nicolette, Ceilidh wakes up in time to join them as they prepare to trek over there. As they catch Ceilidh up about how this particular ship will one day become trapped in the spirit realm and release the gas to poison the spirits as well as hold the deadly Death Spirit, they inform her there is no way to alter the events of time, but Nicolette does have a plan. The hope being they can disrupt Death's programming now so that it can stop her in the present day. As they board, the ship seems eerily silent as they follow Lana's map of the present's layout when it was damaged. Eventually they arrive at an mechanical eyeball that opens more and more the closer they approach the doorway they are guarding. After Selena dashes under and does damage on the other side and Nicolette uses her cape to get the others through, they begin to smell something burning ahead from the lab.
As they arrive, they find a slaughter house of Croza dead with scythe marks all over the place as if something had a field day with them. They begin to worry if this is a timeline deviation and if that is the case, then their plan to reprogram Death will matter not. They decide to continue on with the idea this is their timeline still, or worse case scenario they'll fly the ship themselves.
Location: Elsewhere
Ellie's team arrives near a dead ocean as Cloud notes there is no life in these waters. Salamander oddly protests that they need to go home, stating that Cloud is all they need, as she eyes the red ocean with some unnatural disgust. As Cloud touches the ocean, she recoils and vomits from it, telling them Brooke is somewhere deep inside but that the waters are revolting. Working together, they eventually manage to retrieve the sprites and combine them into a core to remake Brooke; even after it is done, Salamander remains hostile and wanting to leave for Edna's sake. Jaime gathers everyone and teleports back to the ship where she is hit upside the head by something.
Location: Other Croza Ship
As the team near the top floor they hear the Croza language indicating an experiment is being run and the sound of experiments being conducted by the machines of the ship. Lana predicts they are doing experiments on the Proto-Death Spirit already. As they step into the room, they come face to face with Death as the experiment is running, but instead of attacking them, she begins to move for the experiment itself. Nicolette grabs her by the arm, risking touching her, telling her to becareful how to approach this or she might undo herself when she learns that is it's plan. Nicolette uses logic on her and once again looks annoyed before vanishing into black mist. They reflect on what this experiment is - Lana stating this is where the Proto Death Spirit was turned into the Death Spirit, Selena noting that this must be the point in the war when the Geyze Spirits were turning the tide against the Croza that split off from their Croza, and send her to deal with them later.
They debate how to sabtoage the operation and still get the ship to it's destination. They decide to take the parts they need from this ship while launcing into space. Selena leads the charge to take the Croza by surprise in the other room where they are conducting the experiment and are in control of the bridge while Lana and Ceildh grab what they need. After taking down 5 of the Croza with some injuries, they wrap it up and the two shoppers manage to find what they need. Ceildh grabs as much information as she can manage on the transformation while Nicolette works on making a spirit scaffolding to prevent the programming to take root and make Death seek out the Spirits of Geyze, making the password: Fuschia Seventeen Daybreak Pretty Magical Momo-chan.
As they return with their loot, they find the ship has been lifted up a bit off the planet to drift off, confusing everyone since they have no power. They manage to get aboard and everyone appears to be unconscious with Neekito's chamber in the red. They wake everyone up to learn the time monster attacked once again. As they all check on everyone, Sylph notes she thinks the time monster wanted to unthether them and leave the ship to be destroyed. They manage to get Neekito stablized and plan to focus on repairs so they can escape.
Date: 10-643.12.20
Location: Over the Dead World
After time has passed, they manage to get the repairs done with Aska and Shade taking their places as Lana begins to set the coordinates. Suddenly though the coordinats set themselves and the pyramid jumps to them. They arrive at a dreary location with nothing in it except two dying worlds and a dying sun. The team follows a broken rock path before them that leads tp a crooked tree before them while stuff floats around. Sylph complains about the lack of wind while Lana warns them this could be Geyze as the pyramid places them outside it or near it. Chronos tells Nicolette that they are at the end of time, or to be more exact, "one of many points that could be the end of time". She tells them various things, like warning them that the serpent is inside the tree and that they can weaken it or attempt to pull it out before 655 when it will errupt and kill Yggdrasil and all of life with it. Suddenly the time monster attacks Chronos and tries to drag her away, so she hands over the ice sparkles to Lana before it happens. Jaime begins to battle it, making it hard to keep track of Chronos got away, but it becomes clear the creature is about to get Jaime when she is pulled into the pyramid as it jumps on it's own.
Location: Home?
The Pyramid lands in the spirit realm and as they begin to be relieved, Death stands there holding Gnome and Sylph in her hands, inflicting damage by slamming them. At that moment Nicolette casts her spell on Death which causes her to freeze as everyone gathers up together; when Neekito recovers, Death just retreats without a fight. However, it was noted that Death was not killing the grass around herself.
Date: 10-643.12.21
Location: Academy
After returning, there has been a noteable difference - the main spirits seem to be keeping to themselves, or at least with their children, with only Gnome and Sylph being the exception. Brooke seems to be leaning more towards her Undine personality once again with some differences that still show the old Brooke, and finally Shiva seems to not be complete yet, relying on sprites until a core is retrieved. Meantime, Selena thinks maybe the Death Spirit might have went toward Kalam's due to all the damage it had done to her but can't reach Kalam for now.
Afterward, as Kalam is treking back along the snow, she comes across a body in the snow that surprises her and she retrieves and heads back toward their monestary they are rebuildng.
Session 4: Something Is Not Quite the Same
Location: Geyze
After the Geyze version of Thena proposes to Lumi, she holds a meeting with the Peacekeepers and members of the Academy to discuss everything that has happened the past few months since the return of the Spirits. They go over how the Kingdoms are disappointed at how the Spirits are weaker and can no longer take over their original roles, forcing the younger generation to continue to resume the roles, as well as the fact they seem to be having memory issues and acting strange. Aska and Shade, the latter who appears to not be affected by any of the changes so far, note that perhaps the new cores could be the cause and that some of their essence has been lost as the spirits grow with their cores overtime, becoming part of them. Lumi also goes over how Death is still missing over the past 3 months and Kalam claims to not have seen her when asked, but does note it is suspicious that her organization has been quickly repairing itself and recovering relics they lost after the attack. The group wonders if Death is aiding her as penance, but since the have no proof they move onto the topic of Sylph no longer being into fruit but hard candy until they discuss the fact Aska and Shade will be moving to Kalam to be their Light and Dark Spirits. Aska though promises to remain connected to Geyze due to her connection with the Hapian Royal Family and not wanting Void to be the only Elder Spirit looking out for the younger spirit.
Asarar contacts the team needing their hope for something so everyone heads up to the bar where she informs them that they have two situations - one is where the Elder Spirits will need protection to their temples that are completed incase there is an incident and the other is the Aquarius that is overhead. It seems Jelly hacked during the C'en incident and left hidden code to shut things down. After some talking Asarar heads off to deal with it since she's the best person they got, though Jaime does agree to send Adeline to help out. After a bit though the lights go out in the bar and it seems Jelly has arrived to slap butts and raid their files, leading to them to try and take their files while Jaime takes the kids out of there. While Nicolette provides lights and Kira hunts him down, Thena and Talia eventually capture him, allowing Lumi and the rest to take the spirits to their temples.
This begins the group being aghast at how idol worshipping the Elder Spirits are on Kumen compared to Geyze, as at the temples people are lined up to see the idols. For the most part everything goes smoothly - Gale is at the Ymir HQ Tower and the other spirits are spread out across Kumen, but at their last stop with Gaia some of the population gets a little handsy with her forcing the team to interfere until her priestesses can step in. After they return to the bar, Aska and Shade set up at two of the floors for their temples until they are constructed while Jelly is beat by Bella and Cloé. It seems a rival group hired him to steal files on the group and Asarar plans to learn who. As the team returns to Luci's bar, the group hears a commotion as Sylph and Shiva fight, the latter who got a core later on after being taken back home which meant she lost even more memories than the others. Demanding to see Celsius, Jaime has Jennifer bring the two together while Sylph warns that Shiva is "dangerous". Shiva is taken away by Celsius for the time being while Lumi decides to look into what is causing the strangeness of the spirits.
While Jaime wonders if it is an Ice/Wind thing, due their elements, Lumi wants a bit more proof and takes them to the Amazons where they meet with Qui. After some greetings they go to see Brooke who now goes by Undine once more and is more like her original haughty personality. There they summon Salamander and the two spirits immediately go on the offensive before calling Salamander away and are kicked out of Undine's temple. Everyone agrees that something is wrong and that they need to see the Summoni - which means Kalam.
Session 5: Adventures in Summoni
Location: Geyze
While Sylph plays at trying to get the students to vote her as the new headmistress despite it not being a voteable position, the group discusses various solutions for the problem. As they prepare for the meeting Selena is holding, the idea of having Sylph becoming the Spirit Representative comes up before Gwen points out all the spirits are at each other's throats lately. Alita volunteers to work with Kalam to look into it, which brings Lumi to bring up that they have a meeting with Kalam later today about the Summoni and Death that the team wants to have addressed. They learn that Simon has been working with the other Peacekeeper squads lately and that has kept him busy, so they'll need to rely on Nicolette, Lana, Ceilidh, and Ellie for their spirit needs.
As they take the carriage to leave and leave behind Sylph and Sasha to battle it out, especially after she states spirits cannot run for the headmistress position anyway.
They arrive up at the location of the construction of the Summoni monestary, which even using the remains of the old one, is still being reconstructed. The team slogs their way through the snow up to the door and are greeted by Kito, still dressed in her Blood Magi outfit these days. She leads them inside to meet Kalam, stating she is there to help out since Kalam did the same for her long ago. It is clear when they meet the Summoni leader that she is under stress, books piled all over her office. The team offers their help with constrution and anything else while Jaime does a light scan, detecting she is under stress and hiding something. While gathering some books, she leads the team out of her office and goes over the spirits behavior lately. She points to the irregular nature being the cores - the cores put into the spirits are meant to grow with the spirits and the current ones are much too small. They even ponder if that is why they took a long time before making a new spirit.
They discuss how the younger spirits are currently fulfilling the role of their spirits, noting how Terra seems to adore the position while Fae is demure and quiet. While they are discussing them and Kalam is getting the keys for the relic room, Jaime asks Kalam about Death, causing her to stop. She asks the group to leave for now and Neekito seems to get her back up due to something, so they step out into the hallway. Neekito asks for some time to find Kito which leads them to find areas with no walls constructed and needing magic charms to keep snow out. They soon find Kito using her blood magics condensed into a wand while holding plans in her hand. Jaime notes she'll use the Titan's Glove to help repair while Selena ponders finding a way to accelerate a spirit's core to see if it'll work or harm a spirit.
Kito decides to lead them along to help, apologizing for Kalam since she is under a lot of stress after losing a lot of friends in the attack, as well as everything in the monestary that hasn't been recovered yet. Nicolette notes she feels something off about the place still. Kito apologizes, thinking Nicolette is feeling her magic, but when Jaime brings up Death again, she asks if they think it might be her they feel. Kito taps into her blood magic to search the are and unlocks the relic room for the group; Selena searches the tomes nearby and reads to them: "It is believed the spiritial elements are at odds naturally. Fire, wind, Earth, Water, etc, there is a belief that the spirits are naturally inclined to be against one another and that is why they set up in Kingdoms that war with one another. When the kingdoms are not at war, the spirits are likely to be more in harmony, when the Kingdoms are at odds, so too are the Spirits. What happens when all of Geyze is at war? Do the spirits destroy us?"
Kito uses her blood magic on herself to seek out Death's power and tells them that she is indeed in the monestary - someone attacked her and found it hard to kill her, or if she was even killable, then brought her into the monestary to use her power to locate the missing tomes and relics the monestary lost in the attack. After Kito fights back her trance of some thing trying to take her body, she leads them toward the location of Death. They are brought to a wall and as Jaime reshapes it and Ceilidh reaches out, they find the spirit sitting on a couch with books; the cell seems to be set up to draw on her power. Kito is repelled down the hallway by a field keeping Death inside. They decide to leave Death where she is at and Kito leads her to Kalam, who looks surprised at Kito being hurt by some ward as she gives Kito a tonic.
She is led to where Death is at and confesses to her secret - she did find Death out in the snow and went to strangle her in it. After that, she left her to die in the snow and returned; she then sets Death free with a magic version of Zephyr's dragoon bustah and tells Death to get out of her home. The team wondes who did it and why - since Death was being used to help restore the monestary but also was being locked up here so it could be made to look Kalam bad. Jaime wonders if Kalam has been getting enough sleep and could have done this in her sleep. Kalam once again asks them to leave and Kito shows them out where Jaime says she and Gnome will help speed up repairs. The team also finds Death waiting in their carriage, making Neekito keep Ellie close by her.
They decide to try to experiment on Salamander out of all the spirits and head there while giving Death the nickname Grim for now. Upon seeing them, she is immediately hostile, especially with "Grim" there. They call in Avenir and ask her to try to age up her core; Avenir complies but it causes Salamander to explode in heat, making all her priestesses to flee and the team to put up a shield as she seems as strong as ever, and as crazy as she goes after Death and Neekito. She eventually calms down to their pleas and acts non-chalant, even thanking them before flying off to check on her priestesses. Avenir also informs them she can only move time forward and going backward is not a thing for her. They decide to hold off on the others, even as Avenir points out the others will want to do it when the learn this has made Salamander stronger. For now though, the team takes a wait and watch approach.
Session 6: The War of Redefining Reality Part IV: Stirring the Pot
War of Redefining is part of a TAW/Strikers/Geyze crossover; due to Geyze havining a minor role in it, if you wish to see the other parts, head over to: War of Redefining to read more.Location: Kumen
Asarar is at her bar reading about Selena being arrested and learning about the connection between the two bars being locked down, even though Max is watching Luci's bar for them. At that moment a Kumen offical comes in and informs them through paperwork that Ylva is planning to use her Presidental power to do rennovations to the lower city for the homeless - which means tearing down the bar for it. Asarar blames Ymir, believing she is behind it, but Luci wants to talk to her first while Kira decides to sabotage the Macross Building Project, which oversees not only this but the Spirit-Tech Defense Towers that Ymir is building around the city. They split up, with Bonnie remainig behind at the bar since Chelsea hasn't given her an order, and Luci along with Asarar arrive at Ymir's office to discuss the situation. Ymir eyes the paperwork and informs them they been had then admits Ylva is better lately, but due to her injuries she has been taking it easy lately and given over the job of President to her as well as the Corporation title until she is better, which means she holds both jobs. At that moment Kira's explosions go off and Ymir is infuriated as she sends people to investigate and dismisses them.
As they arrive at the bar they find Bonnie is missing and it has been ransacked as well as a message from Max about duplicates. It seems someone lured them out to see if they had any technology to rob and pin the blame on them for attacking Ymir as they learn the spirit-tech has been stolen during the chaos of the explosions and they'll likely be blamed. Luci opts to confess what they did, so Asarar and Kira sneak out while she makes the call.
Location: Geyze
Lumi grows annoyed while they interrogate the alternate Sasha who informs them that the others are in Hapian Castle and seems annoyed at the idea that she harmed anyone, merely repaying debts. Threna, who is in a death mode due to what happened to the main Thena, marks Sasha with a cat mark, teleports everyone into Jaime's gnome garden that she made where they are trapped in some sort of three layer trap. After they manage to break through the floor to get out of the trap and scare the soldiers and bully their way past the soldiers who the fake Liana orders to deal with; after she is gone and they bully a guard to take them to the dungeons where the others are being held, suddenly Brandr Windrunner comes smashing through the ceiling and sends Talia and Threna flying through the sky and begins to backbreak Gwen when they inform him Liana has been replaced. As they sic him on the other Liana, the others find everyone safe and found in the dungeon.
As they arrive in the throne room which has a hole in it, there's no sign of anyone except a note from Brandr stating the duplicates fled onto a fled onto the Mew Mew being flown by another Charlotte. Selena decides to remain behind with some female guards she trusts to do some house cleaning in the castle and re-establish order before she rejoins them, having Celes take charge with everyone. As they arrive at the Academy, the students accept the real Sasha is back while Rain gets Sasha caught back up; the others investigate Cypher and Chelsea's house and find Cypher has been tied up and shot in the shoulder as well as Aimée and Mélodie being missing. The Mew Mew also is no where to be seen. Cypher seems to think Lana is the culprit, but admits that another red head could have done it - like Charlotte. As the Aquarius arrives, the group takes the time to get their ducks in order before they go off looking for the missing ship.
Location: Kumen
An enforcer named Zoë arrives to take Luci to Ymir due to her part in the attack on the Macross Building Yards. She states that they will help her find Bonnie and even have her help stop these pirates, but that her group will be held accountable for the damage that they did to the machines as well as allowing the pirates to steal. Asarar and Kira observe them walk off with Luci and stake out the bar, moving off to meet up with Logan to try to find out more about these pirates and why they're trying to gather all this tech and aim it at who.
Location: Earth
Ren escorts Charlotte to the teleporter to go to the PAX where she'll be safe now that her information is out there, planning to meet her on it later. Cheryl notes that the pirates seem to be working all the angles on all the planets but the PAX so far and Noire and Taiga agree they need to go on the offensive soon, with her planning to go to Asteroid C to gather the tools. She has Noire go get the other Sasha and interrogate her to see what all they can learn about why her reality would aid the 25 and see if there's something more to them. While this is going on, the mystery people who were investigating the Repliforce area reveal themselves to be Warren, Darien, Ariel, and Zephyr as they discuss the reality duplicaes. Darien and Ariel note they plan to go to Cheryl's manor and Zephyr to Stacey's and Warren will follow up on the Repliforce lead, verifying each person and see if they can block Taiga's scan. They also note that someone is using this time to kill V.I personnel from the latest incident under Hodges and McCabe, meaning they might be next, but that it is low on their list of concerns at the time as they head out.
Location: PAX
Charlotte is approached by Venerator who offers to clear her name if she works with him and after a lot of thought, decides to work with his secret organization if only to keep tabs though she doesn't trust the old man.
Continues in Reality Strikers Session 62: The War of Redefining Reality Part V: Il Piti Dolendo
Session 7: The War of Redefining Reality Part IX: Faith
Location: The Academy
The Academy is overflowing with students, so much so that they are having to turn them away now as they are past capacity. Rain and Shinobu show up to offer guest passes to the group as they watch the students, stating they are for Alita's birthday party that she and Mykel are throwing for her in secret, even with all the rumors floating around that Mykel has been doing secret meetings with the Suisen lately. When asked by the others about it, Shinobu outright confirms he is trying to have the Legion join the Suisen Empire and admits such an act cound break their Alliance apart, since they are only allies with the Alliance, not members of it. Sasha also rages about the fact Mykel is responsible for all the students coming from off world wanting to join the school, looking as if she is beyond her stretching point. The rant moves onto spirits and with the Summoni still building, the Academy has taken the burnt of the students' spirit fantasies. Kalam and Sasha decide to further bring their two schools close together, since one is being overrun and the other is in desperate need of people.
Location: The Legion of Mykel
Everyone begins to gather for the party, including the queens of the nations - the two Ent Queens, Selena, Shinobu and her sister Neophyx, followed by the team such as Sasha, Ceilidh, Jaime, Nicolette, Gwen, Lana, and Celes; even Death arrives, but due to her dress showing off her entire body, she is refused entrance. As the group enters they find that Alita is seated and accepting gifts from people; Celes and Alita discuss the fact that Mykel has indeed done one smart play by removing Alita from the equation so as not to anger anyone toward her by his actions. As the celebrations begin for Alita and her twin sister after everyone takes their seats, Mykel encourages everyone to enjoy the celebrations and the party before he makes his announcements.
The team then spends their time mingling with everyone, eating food and dancing, with Selena mentioning that Legion affairs are much more laid back at least compared to Hapian. They do spot, since the Legion is getting into Suisen tech, news of Thena being slandered with events going on with everything happening right now. Nicolette observes most of the leaders hanging around the edge of the dance floor and discussing things while some do take the chance to dance - Gwen and Lana, Leaf and Cassava, Qui and Talia, while Selena talks with Sasha about the matters going on with Mykel likely going to propose everyone join the Suisen with him and when they reject him, the Legion will be expelled. But she points who put the idea in his head since she doesn't believe he came up with it. Jaime points out that the Suisen has given the world protection due to Terra being here which Celes points out that he might want more than partial acceptence into the Suisen Empire and it's protection, but all the way.
Mykel returns and announces that he will not be having the Legion join the Suisen Empire due to making Alita unhappy and it breaking the Alliance up, but he does believe that they need more of a connection with the Suisen Empire and will bring it up at their next meeting to see if he can push for all the Kingdoms to agree to it. Discussing it amongst themselves afterward, Sasha asks Shinobu who gave Mykel the idea in the first place and she informs them it was Ceilia, but when confronted by Shinobu she seemed confused. They go over a few topics from the smear on Thena and what it means and how it might be connected until they decide to wrap up things and leave the party.
Location: Summoni Monestary
Kito greets them out of the cold and explains how they will harbor the extra students based on Jaime's plan; Death for her part refuses to go inside as the two lock gazes. Kalam points out the next day is Vyvy's birthday and the spirits will gather for it, so they should do something with the students by then. Kalam goes over the fact that faith can matter a lot more sometimes than actual spirit power, as faith in spirits can charge them up. Selena wonders if she could be summoned by someone. For the time being they focus on getting the students ready with various spiritial powers for tomorrow.
Date: 10-644.5.25
Location: Vyvy's Grotto House at the Academy
The spirits are all present as Vyvy opens her gifts and at first all is well as the others discuss going full in on having the extra students taken to Kalam and seeing how they handle things, forming a connection between the two schools. However, soon Salamander and Undne/Brooke break out into a fight while Sylph watches, leaving water flying everywhere until Vyvy breaks it up. After it is over and things are calmed down, Selena brings Aska and Ymir to handle the extra students to make Sasha happen by moving them out; during this Death begins to ask Nicolette questions about birthdays. Selena also installs Macross Tech into things down here in addition to the Suisen and Spirit Tech. Nicolette suggests instead of celebrating her re-awakening day instead when cracks in reality begin to occur. Fate notes that should not be happening, not even if the Serpent should be capable of it unless it had destroyed Yggdrasil and promises to look into it.
Back in the Prime Universe, Darien and Ariel are working on something and note the need to show up at the manor with something in addition to the grandkids being overworked. And at the Strikers HQ, the gate is acting up so much Taiga and Ren use their small bit of reality power to jump start the gate, despite Taiga's warning that it could cause issues.
Continues in TAW Session 593: The War of Redefining Reality Part X: Reality Crumbles
Session 8: Redefining Everything
Location: The Academy
After the chaos of the events of War of Redefining, things have begun to return to normal on Geyze as Kalam has continued her investigations into the spirits with her larger Summoni base. While Gwen pushes for a summer party, everyone else seems content to rest and the younger spirits go over having to learn math problems due to school. While everyone teases Gwen wanting to see them in swimwear, the Aquarius makes loud noises as Tora makes repairs and upgrades on it. The hope being that she can bring out Mireille's powers to help power up the Aquarius even more. While they talk about powering up spirits, Death shows up enraged that she was enrolled for school due to looking like a teenager, with Shin believing that is an insult. She ends up getting talked into it by Nicolette and the others as the spirits drag her into the classes. Neekito then remembers Kalam wanted to meet with everyone so Sylph takes them to the monestary where they are greeted by multiple people.
While Sylph and Sparkling have a snowball battle, the others step inside and are led to Kalam's office; while Gwen mourns the loss of summer due to the winterish conditions where the Summoni are located, Kalam brings them up to speed on how the Summoni are doing. She goes over how the students are adjusting easily and they've located many missing tomes and relics still, believing that in a year or so they can help the spirits like they did in the past, noting she needs time to train the students in the art of being Summoni before she can put them to work. She then goes into the Death situation, noting that it looks like Magik was used to bind her in the cell and hide her away Kalam's eyes, as well as locate powerful relics and tomes that were lost. They go over who might have done it, as well as their reasoning for doing it - causing strife in making it look like Kalam was behind it or they wanted to get back at Death for all the destruction she caused without knowing the full backstory of Death being reprogrammed. They decide to let it go unless Lana discovers something.
They go to the cell area where they find it had been repurposed into a student room with two students studying spirit theory. Neekito, who has been acting odd the entire time, leaves to do something while Lana investigates the room and moves some furniture to reveal dried blood from a while back that looks almost completely gone. As they check it out with spells, it burns away in flames in a pattern, allowing Nicolette and Ceilidh to take pictures of it. As they head out they find Neekito in an argument with a hooded Summoni who they manage to later get to admit was Kito. She confirms that Kito was the one who likely did the blood spell to trap Death/Shin before learning she was free of any influencel; the spell tapping into their power for the benefit of the Summoni - locate items, restore things faster, and more. The group decides to shelf the topic for now since Kito seems to not be going after Shin anymore.
TAW Session 600: The 25th Reality Possibility
Location: Area Around Geyze - PAX
Death Star Summary (First Half of 600)
Seraphna Summary (Second Half of 600)
TAW Session 601: Redefining What is Normal
Location: PAX
While the PAX is landed on Geyze, Lenneh holds a meeting about the lack of nothing happening and wondering if Lana's seal is working properly while Jaime suggests it might also be due to the Kumen shield that was used. Adeline and Chad discuss what happened a few months ago in Session 600 with Nyarlathotep arriving in the 25th Reality to challenge them, both believing it was it poking them and seeing what they could before leaving to take out other realities and weaken the overall structure of the fabric of the universe. They discuss reaching out to other realities, with even Chad agreeing it might be needed, but Adeline points out that due to the fear of other worlds, the Striker projecct was shut down outside Taiga and Si. After some talkiing, it is decided they'll see what they can do about getting Taiga what she needs to diplomatically reach out to other realities without burning Taiga out. The next problem they discuss is how to get the PAX back up into space, since it is currently landed in Selena's lands and causing some contamination. Outside the usual Sylph antics flying through a window and crashing into Ellie, right now Selena has no problem giving them the time they need as they work together to calm the citizens of Hapian and trying to squash any schemes that might arise from the situtaion by working together.
Location: Kumen
Cypher makes her own drink at the bar now that Barry is gone, dressed like her sister Asarar, and chides them that they are down two people and wants to know how they are planning to find Bonnie. As the team gets a lot hot with each other over the issue, an exhausted Tora arrives at the bar. She informs them that Ymir is seeing to helping Asarar out and that she herself as finished the Aquarius' repairs, so she admits to being out of the loop. They decide on either trying to use Taiga's reality gate machines, which Tora thinks she might can fool and try to track down this Nyarl creature, or seek out Lana or Ceilidh for more information. They set out while Tora stays behind to monitor Asarar.
Location: Cheryl's Manor
The group finds Cheryl packing up the base below the mansion and learn that the military/government want the team disbanded for good. Kane and Lemon note that they were thinking about going into the private sector anyway and that this might be the best time now for it anyway. It would allow them not to have to be under Derrick's thumb anymore and while they would have to follow the law, they would be their own bosses. Zephyr notes she plans to go off on her own to keep hunting V.6 while Angela asks Cheryl if she even tried to fight this and she tells Angela that she indeed went to 3 other Generals, noting they helped out a lot in the end. While the others are distracted, her eyes seem to change colors from gray to her normal brown; something that has been happening a lot lately, changing to various colors; she slinks out of the base while Cheryl is talked into joining Kane and Lemon's brand new enterprise.
Location: Geyze
Selena patrols the Academy with Ellie and some of the others, watching CHIP throw trash out the airlock, while Cypher pulls Lana aside out of sight. They question her on how to bring back Bonnie from the thing that ate her while Selena compliments BIX on his new arms. Lana suggests they check out the portal in her basement that had replaced the Shining Trapezohedron; the entire team works their way down there to find nothing but said portal, which Lana informs them that tentacles and such emerges from it belatedly after they enter the room. As they investigate it, Cypher is indeed grabbed and pulled toward the portal until Logan cuts the tentacles off and Talia unleashes fire into it, causing everyone's heads to spin and seem disoriented. After escaping to the surface, Simon and Selena, discussing the PAX situation and the eyesore it is are distracted by them and the smell after Talia almost got eaten as well.
The other side of the door to the lab they hear voices calling out to them and Id registers one of them being Bonnie's. Logan decides to crack the door open slightly and it appears the figure is indeed Bonnie, though she sounds weird. They scan her and detect it is indeed Bonnie, but something else is with her; the scan even making Lana pass out. As she moves further back into the room out of sight, Chelsea follows her inside and finds her in the middle of it; opting to give her a hug, Bonnie hugs he back when tentacles bust out of her back to pull them both into the portal. Simon rewinds time before Chelsea is taken and after some fighting, Chelsea begs the creature to not take her and everything stops as Bonnie drops down. Simon and Lana seal the portal and find no sign of marks on Bonnie to indicate she is taken over. After checking themselves for marks, only Talia has one as they all exit the room.
Date: 10-644.9.15
Location: Earth
Andrea and Cassandra go over her plans for running for President and how to prepare for her campaign when Warren arrives before them. He warns them that once they go public with this, Cassandra will be painting a target on her back due to the fact someone wants Stacey to win, listing Dias, the military, Venerator, and Derrick backing her, as well as pointing out that Cheryl will be out of commission next year and that she will lack certain allies outside Peter who is joining Repliforce leaving Cran as the only player in town. After giving his warning, Warren leaves the two to their planning.
Date: 10-644.9.30
Location: Kumen
Cypher takes note that Ymir is moving the Macross HQ to the center of the city where the old CorSec building was located. As they wonder why she is doing it, Ymir walks in and answers that it's for the Net and power connections still located there. Ymir's people brings in Asarar who is hooked up to a machine giving her blood and helping repair her heart, noting that the only reason she survived was the dosages the team gave her and that fact her body switched to a cyborg like state to survive. Asarar settles in while Chelsea finds in her pocket the Shining Trapezohedron, unable to tell anyone, not even Bonnie on her lap.
TAW Session 602: Redefining What is Normal II
Location: Tokyo
Cassandra and Setsuna have begun to prepare for her campaign for Pressident next year, along with Warren and Thena who are there to supervise and help protect her, when Chad Winters arrives to see her. They prepare their plans to win against Stacey Cartwright, going over Chad's history and how Venerator has threatened to go after Chad. Warren notes that he'll likely try to do to Cassandra what he did to himself, noting that Derrick is likely his lackey after all. Shiva visits as well and tries to learn from Cassandra where EarthGov will land after she gets elected, especially it's policies. After some talks and feeling each other out, Shiva leaves Warren, Chad, and Cassandra prepare to handle how the election will play out with Venerator possibly backing Stacey.
Date: 10-644.10.10
Location: Mansion Base
Lemon and Kane have pulled out of the military so they can prepare the next phase of their lives, while Cheryl remains bitter that Repliforce has been chosen to become the main military force. Cheryl notes that after the military equipment has been ripped out from downstairs, that Kane and Lemon are free to set up camp there. Zephyr meanwhile remains bitter about the attack on her and Mem due to someone looking like Weapon XIII along with another shadowy figure. She accuses him and Cheryl wanting the Katrina process stopped, she's placing the blame on him. The group decides to try to get their hands on Zephyr's recording equipment to learn more after she storms off and with Mem MIA, there's a lot of heaviness in the air right now as Lemon prepares to get their business off the ground.
Date: 10-644.10.15
Location: Geyze
Yuki says her goodbyes to everyone as the Aquarius prepares to launch, saying their goodbyes and Sabrina opting to remain behind. She gives Pepper a good luck charm while hoping to find leads on her parents. As they leave, the group decides to go see the Magi Tower since Sabrina feels a pull toward it so Simon and a few others decide to take her. Bix, the Nuclear Spirit, Simon, Lana, Talia, Gwen, Ceilidh, Selena, Sparkling, Ellie and Jaime arrive and find the area being rebuilt into a massive school using strange magical energies. Linnet is under seeing the castle village construction along with Delgi and in the center powering it all is a massive Spirit Relic. She informs them found was discovered by a Summoni when they were doing their own repairs where it was scattered in the snow. The group ponders whither it has Maka origins. The group decides to look into it more later while welcoming Sabrina to the Academy.
Date: 10-644.10.20
Location: Cheryl Manor
Cheryl dumps the recordings onto the table and asks if Kane can get it working due to the severe damage done to it from the explosion.
Date: 10-644.10.23
Location: PAX
Iko notes to everyone that the Cartel is out to get them, going over what the Cartel's latest schemes are today. They discuss how they been spending money to help their allies which brings their allies coming to them to see what the Suisen can do, irritating Iko since the Suisen Empire has just recovered and is focusing on it's Empire right now. At that moment New Jarivan is announced on the Holonet and they wonder if it's a zombie planet or something.
Date: 10-644.10.31
Location: Mega City
John goes out dressed as Lunar Man for Halloween along with Tabetha when they learn an attack on a military base has occurred. As they arrive they spot officers have pinned Zephyr and are dragging her off from a dragoon bustah sized hole in the wall where it looks like an escape might have happened. John announces Derrick and Venerator run the base as she is carted off.
Timeline: 10-644.11.15 - 12.31
TAW Session 603: Redefining What is Normal III
Location: Cheryl's Manor
The team scopes out the military base that is holding Zephyr and Mem as military prisoners; Zephyr due to trying to break her out and Mem awaiting her tribunal. The group discusses ways to retrieve them without painting a target on their back. They decide to not step in since Zephyr will likely get off lightly with a slap while Mem will have to go through the motions of the tribunal, with the team getting a lawyer for her since she went crazy with Katrina's death and barely being brought back. Angela suggests they hire X3 as her legal defense so she goes to call up Darien to locate her.
Date: 10-644.11.30
Location: Geyze
Gwen asks the others have they heard about Kumen's oddities lately, referring to sightings of monsters that make people go insane and that the city has been changing in strange ways. Talia asks about fish monsters, but Gwen just comments that only dead fish have been appearing lately. They decide to offer Asarar's team some aid and head to Luci's bar where they find Seniga, Bella, Fae, Terra, Cloé, Nell, and Seniga playing around. After some haggling on where the adults are and Bella trying to keep the informtaion secret for more money, they teleport up to Asarar's bar to find Riki has taken over as bartender now that Barry is gone. She notes that there has been some strangeness about Kumen that she has been looking into and agrees to take them there. Asarar leads them down to the "lake", the body of water that connects to several Quads down in the slums and that all of Kumen City uses; as they near the smell of dead and rotting fish can be smelt.
Floating all along the lake are dead fish as well as unidentified gunk; while Simon studies the lake with his runes and Lana with her weaves, the people of the slums seem to be fighting over the fish to eat. Suddenly the fish seem to leap out of the lake, despite being dead, to attack him. Asarar informs them that the people of this area have been eating on these fish for awhile now even as Ceilidh warns the team not to eat a single fish and even Lana warns of mutations from them. Ceildih instructs Asarar that she needs to make sure the populace needs to stop eating anymore and Simon and Lana begin plans to find people to begin tests on. Bonnie wonders if she is the cause due to it happening here of all places and Lana notes that the Shining Trapezehedron escaped from her, meaning that it could be on Kumen now. Lana explains more of who they are dealing with, explaining the many names they go by - Black Pharoah, Haunter in the Dark, Crawling Chaos, as to avoid using it's real name. She warns that it is a trap placed to mess with humanity even if it supposedly could show all a personal all of the universe's secrets. Chelsea, who was present during all this, sneaks away back to the bar, while Jaime seems unable to contact Fate for some reason. Asarar begins plans to mark a map where all the strangeness has been occurring while Lana and Simon focus on the lake problem.
Date: 10-644.12.7
Location: Mega City
John thanks Elayne for her work on getting Mem's trial records to be public As they discuss things, X3 arrives and seems to be such a disaster that Cheryl calls up Noire to see if she can get her wife, Madison, to join X3 on taking this case. At the very lease, X3 has gotten Zephyr out who joins up with everyone. It turns out that she has been kicked from the military as price for her being let go. While X3 looks flabbergausted at Mem's charges on killing all those V.I agents, John discusses with Elayne the new drug that is out that gives people highs and allows them to recall past lives, but for some reason a percentage of users who take it die. Cheryl admits to destroying the first machine but notes she did not call for the second machine to be destroyed with Katrina in it. The group prepares for what is to come.
Date: 10-644.12.15
Location: PAX
Lenneth seems to be in have accepted advertisements for New Jarivan, needing the cash flow, as the holiday spirit is going on at the PAX. While Iko remains sour due to it, Lenneth notes that it is a staion restort made from the remains of that one PAX that Xanatos gave them rights to in order to help win the Dark War. They also seem to be offering discounts to those who lost property on the previous Jarivan, which seems to intrigue Jaime since she had a home there as well. Erevis and Xanatos meanwhile just decide to decorate the entire PAX, seeming to be unconcerned with the entire affair and Lenneth notes dryly that it is because this is Erevis' favorite season.
Date: 10-644.12.22
Location: Cheryl's Manor
While John studies a black vial of substance, telling Hotaru and Tabetha this allows someone to regain memories or die, which is practically like the new drug out there. He looks at Katrina, who seems out of it these days as if there were nothing there. Tabetha seems multiple futures depending on who takes it, so John takes about half of it himself and begins to fall over jerking, but ends up stablizing. While all this is happening, X3 and Madison work on catching up on the type of case they are taking along with the tribunal, while Kane begins to work on new software for the company he and Lemon are preparing to start up. Cheryl noting they have 8 days left before they're offically out and on their own so the group begins to prepare for the transition into what Kane has in mind.
They think on names for the company while John seems a little different to the two women, even calling Hotaru "Hota", a nick name he doesn't normally use. He notes Katrina will be fine with the drug and gives it to her and it revives her in a strange state, acting almost like a different person. The two seem like they are having headaches afterward, but are otherwise okay. He pulls Hotaru and Tabetha affectionately against himself and uses the term #1 and #2 while leaving Katrina to adjust.
Date: 10-644.12.31
Location: Cheryl's Manor
A party is being held here, with many of the family members such as Ren and Taiga stopping by to be with family before joining the PAX party later. Cheryl says their toasts to starting a new career path for the new year. The team enjoys the countdown to the next year, with some hope that things are turning around.
TAW Session 604: Time Moves Forward Without You
Location: Cheryl's Mansion
Cheryl bitches about no longer being kept in the loop since they've been kicked out of the military, meaning they won't learn anything about the Mem Court Martial until it's over - at least what parts of it are made public thanks to Elayne. Zephyr bitches about them bringing X3 and Madison to defend her and not do a mass prison break out and Katrina jokes about Ghoul being one of the prisoners. The conversation moves to the Presidental Race between Cassandra and Stacey, with the team discussing who they trust more between the two and who that'll play out before moving toward their business and how to make money before their funds dry up.
Date: 10-645.2.14
Location: Kumen
Asarar's people escorts Selena's group to the lake that touches several of the quadrants in Kumen City where a makeshift research camp has been set up as a joint effort between Geyze and Kumen with Lana as head researcher. The rancid smell and mutated fish laying about can be seen everywhere, but the most shocking sight is the mutated people, looking like they are turning into fish people; their bodies having stuff growing out of them in places and their faces changing. They discuss what is going on with Lana, Simon, and Ceilidh and that the water is not safe to drink, believing that something has been brought up to Kumen to be causing this sort of transformation in their bodies. While Ymir handles the water situation, Asarar's group decides to look for what could be the cause of it, believing that the item Lana had on her is somewhere on Kumen now and near the lake.
Date: 10-645.3.23
Location: Tokyo
Cassandra's campaign has gotten off the ground and they go over Cassandra's talking points versus Stacey's. They discuss if they should play dirty but go against it and play to Cassandra's strengths verus Stacey's, who is going with her pro-military stance and leaning into Dias for support.
Date: 10-645.4.10
Location: PAX
While Erevis spies on Selena and Nicolette with her spyglass, Noire and Madison have a meeting in Terra's bar about Mem's case. While Jaime surprises the two with a surprise teleport, Madison informs Noire that Stacey approached her with some off the books information, informing her that it could end her Presidental run, but felt it important enough hand it over. The information seems to be on a military person in charge of handling internal affairs. Madison confesses she is tempted to take the information to help her client while Noire ponders what Stacey is up to. Selena tells Jaime that she feels there is something up in finding that Magi Relic, feeling it was too easy, and then the situation on Kumen right afterward. Especially with the relic coming from the Summoni.
Date: 10-645.6.6
Location: Mega City
Since their patents have been going through and the funds have stablized, the group has been doing well as Ariel and Darien arrive to offer a job when Katrina tackles Ariel in greeting, leading to some awkwardness. Erevis and Xanatos, who are there since Erevis is bored lately, are even surprised by Katrina's happiness at seeing Ariel. Angela suggests that she hang out with Blue and Cole due to her oddity lately before they get down to business as Darien tells them about intercepting a transmission from someone wanting to take out the competition due their doing well. Darien agrees to Kane and Lemon's prices and says he owes it to Cassandra to cover her rallies protections and Erevis joins in due to boredom while Darien himself looks to try to find out who sent the transmission.
Date: 10-645.7.1
Location: PAX
Madison goes to the Fumoffu Club Room after summoing the group and informs that that Derrick is backed by some mysterious military higher ups who are protecting him that the information strongly points toward people who once had connections to Venerator in the long past. Noting that Derrick's cases are full of shady actions and questionable shortcuts to get the sentences for guilty people and getting stricter sentences than what is necessary, and sometimes they might not have been guilty after all. And the night Warren was shot, both Derrick and Venerator were in the building. Ren leaves to talk to Cran for his connections and they plan to follow Derrick more closely.
Date: 10-645.8.5
Location: Kumen
The group searches for the item, having been all over Kumen City searching for it in the drained lake. They return to the bar to get cleaned up while Simon and Lana have slowly begun to reverse the process on the fish people and the mutation. While the two break down how to fix everything, Asarar explains the Net went crazy when she went near the lake in her search and Ceilidh using her tools does a search for eldirch horrors after Bonnie goes upstairs, finding a source up there. Believing it to be Bonnie, they chase her to Chelsea's room who hasn't been around lately and have to break in, battling the familiar. After defeating her with Ceilidh's paraylzing spell, they see Chelsea has become sickly and it looks like the familiar was protecting/hiding her; the group takes both to the camp.
Date: 10-645.9.1
Location: Mega City
Cassandra does her speech at a rally while Kane and Lemon's group, including Cheryl, Angela, John, Hotaru, Tabetha, as well as Warren, Noire, Ren, Adeline, Charlotte, Chad, Id, and Thena patrol the area looking for Darien and Ariel's threat. The two Ren's group had Madison attacked by a sniper while going to present the evidence on Derrick which they foil while at the same time Cassandra has a truck coming to crash into her rally that they have to stop. It is made to look like an alcoholic driver while the sniper tries to kill himself and is taken to have his mind read.
Date: 10-645.10.3
Location: Geyze
The group reveals that the Shining Trapezohedron was in a hidden compartment in Chelsea's apartment in the bar. Fate informs them that might be why she hadn't noticed Kumen lately and Bonnie hangs her head since Chelsea did it to fix her that she got saddled with her. It's agreed to keep it with them at the bar but sealed up better for the time being until it can be destroyed.
Date: 10-645.11.12
Location: Tokyo
Evette infroms them that the attack on Cassandra has made Stacey drop in the polls and her rise. As they discuss the situation and Madison's, they agree the best case right now is for Cassandra to win it all and to pick a VP soon.
Date: 10-645.12.6
Location: Mega City
Stacey vs. Cassandra in the polls as they make their final statements. However as the final tally comes down to it, Cassandra nudges it out in the end, much to Stacey's disappointment. She shakes it out with Cassandra and gives Dias a hug and shows him to a final gift she prepared for him - a Dias Cannon.
Date: 10-645.12.20
Location: Mega City
While walking toward his home after leaving the military base, Derrick comes across someone he recognizes before being shot in the chest and landing in the snow, the figure avoiding the cameras on the street.
TAW Session 605: Time Moves Forward Without You II
Location: Mega City
Warren and Darien search the Presidental Building for bugs as Cassandra moves into it; Cassandra makes plans to have Stacey Cartwright to be her nominee as Earth's ambassdor to the Galactic Council. Andrea brings up that by keeping her in the public eye she will be more difficult to beat next election, but they all agree it will be fine. As for Venerator, Cassandra notes to Warren that she will deal with him herself while Warren informs her that Derrick was in surgery for 20 hours, but is still hanging on so far in a coma. Many believe Venerator was behind the shooting since with Derrick out of the way, his role in EarthGov has expanded even more, so Cassandra sends Warren out to investigate it. Andrea brings up Repliforce and wants to know her feelings on it since Dias was allowing them to run as a secondary military force under Cran. After some discussion on him, some like Marcus supporting him due to how much Cran has been aiding them the past few years, they decide to look into it a bit more and Andrea herself scheduling a meeting.
Date: 10-646.2.20
Location: Geyze
Lumi prepares for a field trip to investigate matters while glancing at the PAX in the distance where nests have begun to be built on the sides of the ship. She leads them to meet with Kalam, having Sylph take them there; upon arriving, the Summoni Monestary has been fully restored to it's former glory and then some. The massive building is full of various summoni who greet them happily and take them to meet with Kalam. She goes into the fact it would be easier to do tests on the spirits if they would remain in the same room with each other, referring to the fact Shiva is on the premise and Sylph is already ready to retreat back to Ellie who is at the Academy. Simon convinces her to stay and asks Kalam if it's about different aura that is the cause; Kalam informs him that in Sylph's case, she believes that she thinks Sylph is being cagey due to the fact Shiva's element is a danger to her. When Shiva arrives, she seems to immediately go into a sort of anger state while Sylph goes into a defense state while Alita puts a wall betwen them.
They try to get Shiva to explain her hostility and she keeps referring to Sylph as an invader in her kingdom. Kalam explains that whenever she tries, the spirits simply cannot explain why they feel the way they do, except wanting the foreign spirit out of the spirit where they are worshipped. Simon checks into them and finds like many of the others before them that their cores are too small for the spirit's self, likely being a big part of the problem. Lana suggests going to the realm to study the cores at the source while Simon asks if the cores continue to grow - which the answer is yes. Shiva opts to stick with Jennifer since Jaime brings her there in the hopes that it will calm her. Kalam also notes that she believes with the core being too small to contain the full spirit's self now, they likely hold onto what is most important to them. She also adds that so far Aska, who didn't die and lose her core, remains fine and oddly Shade, who did, also remains fine; as does Sylph to a degree. Some theorize it might be because they turned over their duties to the younger generation, but it isn't a fool proof theory; but all the spirits do not seem to care if their children are around and do not perceive them as hostile.
Selena brings up that Linnet said Kalam sent the Magi Tower a special relic which Kalam denies doing. She relents that Kito does travel back and forth from here to the Magi School and that she might could have taken it, but she remains doubtful. The team heads over to the relic room to ask Kito questions. She admits to sending them a relic and it seems to have slipped her mind, finding a book about it and showing the book to everyone. It shows a relic supposedly made by the summoni for the magi that can increase magic greatly beyond it's normal means, but the book has a lot of damaged pages from the Shin attack. She admits she discovered it with her teams while searching for lost relics and tomes in the snow after the attack scattered everything. She copies the pages for the team to take back and directs them to Linnet if they feel they want to look into it.
Date: 10-646.3.13
Location: Mega City
The hospital with Derrick in it blows up, so the teams head out to investigate it. As they arrive on the scene, they'd spot Stacey among the citizens staring at the scene, having been drifting about after turning down Cassandra's job offer. Darien runs the overall operation, having had tapped Kane and his group to send them some extra cash, so when Kane locates video feed from the hospital that shows a man with a stomach wound that turns out to be a bomb inside as well as Thena getting Warren out of the building just in time, he sends it to him. Hotaru is yanked into a black van during all this and soon released back onto the street. Cheryl plans to shoot the van for fondling Hotaru, but it sounds more like they were Repliforce and asking her questions about Venerator; thankfully, Cassandra has Kane call her off, looking from her window at the scene.
Date: 10-646.4.15
Location: Repliforce
Everyone working the hospital case has been invited to Repliforce. Katrina studies Blue and Cole like they are super familiar to her while Cran welcomes everyone to the organization. Hotaru and Cran make their aplogizes for the black van incident while Cheryl stews over the fact that she is even there and using it as an excuse to be angry. They go over the man who had the bomb implanted - he was an ex-soldier that worked for Cran long ago it seems and Warren states that Derrick was willing to turn over evidence to have his jail time wiped down to zero when this happened, hence why Warren was there getting information. Cran goes into his belief that it is either Venerator or Stacey; noting that while Venerator has been above board lately, he points out that anytme one of the group slips up, he has been going after them. He's even gone as far as publically dismantling any sign of any agent of V.I, no matter the era.
Kane and Cran then go over the merits of it being Stacey, with Kane not believing that Stacey could have done something with so much damage. They decide to have some of their stealthier members track the two and see what they are up to while the rest of them discuss te cause of getting Reploids rights, especially in the hopes that it'll help make it so no uprisings occur like in certain realities with them.
Date: 10-646.6.20
Location: Mega City
While Cassandra is touring a base, it comes under attack as someone guns for Venerator of all people. As they arrive at his office, they locate a Zephyr sized hole that looks a lot like one of her attacks. But as Kane and the others investigat all signs point to a rail gun which is an expensive weapon to get ahold of outside the military. Also whoever aimed it as not very strong, as the blast barely hit the desk and mostly went through the floor. The investigator of the base believes a Dragoon was behind it and that Venerator was vaporized on the spot as their teams begin to take over. They track the shooter with Kane's drones to a rooftop all the way to a civilian rooftop outside the base and locate where the person had to mount it to even fire it and aim it. Marcus in the meantime gets Cassandra and Andrea out of there.
Date: 10-646.8.10
Location: Cheryl's Manor
They have located that some woman bought the railgun in the black market sector under the name Luci Lui and they found Zephyr in a V.I safe house in a fague state. The group decides to have some people look into Zephyr to see if she's been messed with lately, especially after Zephyr describes her last memory as telling Angela that she wouldn't brood anymore - months ago. Warren shows up and notes the samples he retrieved was definitely Venerator's, which means he was there that day and had to have been hit. The team splits up to get a description on Luci Lui and recover Zephyr's memories.
Date: 10-646.10.10
Location: PAX
Erevis has been examining Zephyr while Darien informs the others the railgun was locaetd tossed in the river. Kane notes that the tossing of the gun feels like an amateur after the lengths to take out Derrick and wonders if there are two crimes going on here. Erevis finshes with Zephyr and explains that she saw Venerator was going to use Zephyr to deal with Derrick. He knew someone was going to use Derrick to expose everything about him through legal means and Zephyr was his safety card against it. Sadly Zephyr did not know who this person was that Venerator was afraid of but it appears at the end that person must have ramped up from legal to non-legal with the rail gun. When asked by Kane if Zephyr had a hand in anything, Erevis admits she might helped with the bomb due to her skills, but she does not think she was ever used in anything else. Kane has Erevis gather all the evidence she can incase anything swings Zephyr's way.
Date: 10-646.12.31
Location: PAX
At this year's New Year's Eve party that Erevis holds, while Erevis and Cassandra discuss her first year in office, Cheryl and Kane go over how the evidence points to them being the one who took out Venerator after they captured Zephyr. They team slowly circles Stacey at the bar while she is drinking vodka and when she notices them all doesn't seem to put up any fight. When they come to bring her in for his murder, Stacey notes she wouldn't count on the bastard being dead with her shot, but if she managed it she'd be happy. She also warns them to take care of Charlotte from now on incase he isn't. When Kane asks why she did it, she reveals the man could control more than just Dragoons. She realized she was giving away files and other information she never would have just by his suggestions, so she began to play along with it to get closer to him. Kane chides her for not coming to them but she points out that after Derrick was killed, she knew he was making his moves again and that it would just play out like always. Allowing her self to be arrested by the team, she is led away.
Session 606: Dark Tribal Warfare
Location: The Aquarius
The Aquarius follows a comet in the Unknown Region of space for data when something interesting comes up. An Unknown material is part of the comet that seems to be the same alloy as the PAX hull and materials. They discuss among themselves how to get a best core sample of it with Airym sending Erica and Yuki out to do it. While they do it, Ben, Mireille, Id, and Cookie work on tracking the comet's path and find it goes toward Dark One territory during it's journey. After getting everything they need, they set off to see if they can locate a larger source of the material.
Date: 10-647.2.8
Location: Unknown Regions
Ben gives an update from the Templars on the Dark One Tribes over the past few years; it appears they have been fighting each other and taking over each other or wiping those who do not comply. It appears a new tribe has risen up that is gaining traction and where they need to go for the new alloy materials. They decide to reach out to their tribe while setting forth and have Erica set up diplomatic channels with them, talking harshly with them to keep them in line. She indeed gets them to agree to come along using their manhood and they reach the new tribe where they and their allies do battle with them.
A massive Dark One ship attacks and does battle with the Aquarius while the fleets are tied up and manages to put a boarding party on them before escaping after they blow some of it's tendrils off. After dealing with the boarders and seeing most of their allies being wiped out, but at least taking out the enemy, the group heads down to try to end the Tribe War. Once they are down there they find a Female Warrior and after some negotiations she agrees to bring her powerful tribe into the alliance with what remains of the other Tribe, uniting the Tribes together essentially. The Aquarius opts to remain as long as they can mining the alloy tha makes up the PAX's hull and sending it back to the Suisen Empire. However, with the Tribes being united under the Female Warrior, who's massive ship did that belong to?
Session 607: Just Chilling in the Unknown Regions
Location: Aquarius
The crew flies through space with many of them so bored, mainly Mireille, that they want to fly through the wormhole but Airym puts her foot down on such ideas. They discuss the Templars who seem to be in charge now that the Church seems to be gone from the organization, discussing their faith based ships the can control. The group soon comes across the Templars examining worlds that the Church once held in it's grip and discuss the situation with Cersei, who reaffirms that the once mighty group seems to have completely vanished. She directs them to some new worlds and the team soon finds them at a planet where natural hyperspace and energy like a dark one storms across the world. Ben notes he cannot tell if it's natural or man made to protect something on the surface. He admits he is not sure how they can get past it with such storms so they log it and continue onward.
They soon come across an alien race that Cersei warned them about as hagglers. They try to sell them stuff, noticing they are having engine problems when Ben notices indeed they are missing some parts suddenly. The group soon learns that a cloaked vessel took something when they were talking to Cersei. They bully the race into returning their stuff and begin to move on when they encounter a ship attacking another. They rescue the passanger on the smaller one and quarentine them; it appears to be a shapeshifter that turns into an alien that looks like Cookie as Ben makes plans to get in touch with Thomas over the situation.
Location: Geyze
The group is relaxing and discussing the PAX, with Bella defending Cloé from Mélodie until she decides to go bother Sparkling, until Zayne shows up with young Sunny to ask questions about why the Magi school will not teach her magic, but is directing her to be taught at the children's school. They convince her to follow the proper studies outlined by the schools here as they go over the types of magic that are present - maka, magic that you can learn through hard study and spirit magic. A strange pulse is felt by those who are attuned by magic and even knocks Sabrina out of the sky. Another pulse soon follows the first one with enough force to knock over everyone. Lana is able to trace the pulses to the Magi Tower so Jaime teleports them there, minus Zayne who decides to move Sunny somewhere safer.
They arrive at the academy, which is now built around the Magi Tower itself, and find it damaged and smoking as another pulse knocks them off their feet. The team assumes the artifact is broken and is causing this to happen. While some tend to the injured magi, the others would notice the tower itself is cracked where Linnet placed the artifact after being given it. After making their way into the relic room, they notice the relic is now a different color, shape, and design; as they study it for information, they notice it is gearing up to do another pulse, which seems to be sending a signal out and their only option is to destroy it. They manage to stop it and it brings the entire tower down around them into the tunnels below the Tower; Linnet joins them in the tunnels, bemoaning being the first headmistress to wreck the Magi Tower under her stewardship. She also informs them that before she blacked out, that she recalled seeing some red robed men in the Tower; some in the group wonder why Magi would want to harm other Magi unless they knew how to shield against the pulse.
Gwen insists on returning back since Lana injured herself in the fall, but upon the return they find Sunny alone without Zayne. The team discusses Zayne and the oddity of her leaving and Cypher informs Sunny she can stay with them if Zayne hasn't returned yet by that night.
Date: 10-647.3.6
Location: The Academy
The Maka have nightmares that night of something dark and undefined coming for them and they know if it reaches them it could be the end of magic if it reaches them. It appears to be hunting magical girls and attempting to destroy them. Sabrina and Nicolette seem so off that it worries others and Sunny looks to be worried for her mother. As they describe the dream, the group wonders if it is too late and something is responding to the pulse call. They leave Sunny with the other kids such as Cloe and Bella, then head to check out the Magi. When they arrive, Linnet informs them that Kito said the red robed men were likely Blood Magi. Jaime states she wonders if Kito located a Maka relic among the Summoni stuff when recovering items. They wonder about the connection between the Blood Magi and the Maka/Makai and Sabrina has to remind them that Zayne is an outlier among Makai, having convinced herself that killing bad guys is the "maka" thing to do due to her insanity and noting that a normal Makai is much worse.
The team questions Kito who informs them the reason she brought the relic here was that the tests done on it showed it was not compatible with the summoni, but the tower itself. When Celidih shows her a sketch of the changed relic, Kito seems surprised and admits if it changed states, then this is on her, but if it was replaced at any point with a different one... Pondering if they were twin relics perhaps. She decides she will try to relocate the relics when a commotion outside shows a mass of Maka have come to the planet looking for something, so much so that even Lenneth contacts them from the PAX.
Location: PAX
Jaime returns to the bridge of the PAX to find Adeline, Erevis, and Lenneth inform her that in addition to the Maka, another group of magical girls have arrived - the Makai. It seems with both factions on Geyze looking for something, the PAX is about to be caught in some sort of war when they run into each other.
TAW Session 608: The Magical Magic Wars Breaks Out
Location: PAX
Lenneth holds a meeting about Jaime's notes about what happened with the Magi and Maka a few days ago with the beacon sapping their mana energy and giving them nightmares, which has been spreading to all mana users. They discuss sending some people down there to keep an eye on the situation, including younger members of the crew members like Jikuu to see if they can get information if this becomes a problem with the Maka. She also sends a group to the Maka Homeworld for more information.
Location: Geyze
The maka are having to struggle to stay awake as the nightmares are affecting their sleep as the group wonders how to keep them awake while they deal with why the Blood Magi used a relic to activate the Magi Tower to give them nightmares. The team seems to have little to go on while going through the Peacekeeper reports while hunting for the Blood Mages and having more and more Maka showing up around Geyze until Neekito spots something she thinks is worth investigating among the reports.
Location: Near the Summoni Monestary
The group explores the snowy region to try to find out where Kito discovered the Magi Relic, but are not coming up with anything too odd outside the Maka up in the sky. Simon's scans pick up mana energy underground and the team finds a cave entrance with ice blocking it; the entrance appearing to be about foot or two wide at a slant. The group feels a mana build up from the entrance and barely get a shield up in time after Lana helps make the entrance bigger, with Makai exploding out and attacking the Maka in the air in a sneak attack. What follows is a Makai battle against the group, a wild ride of insane magical girls using all sorts of abilities to try to crush the group as the Maka try to stop them before it gets out of hand. Eventually the pulse of nightmares begins to hit the mana users and drops everyone, causing the Makai to flee while everyone is disoriented and those who can try to track it.
Erevis' people arrives to provide aid and as they track the signal from coming beneath the cave; Terra tries to use her earth powers but gets a convulsing jolt with images. Chelsea points out that the Makai seemed eager to escape that cave as the group as Neekito returns with Kito in the same red blood robes that Terra saw in a vision of the mages underground. She informs them that the Blood Mages are underground and she needs her to do a counter to the chimes. She agrees to work on a counter spell if it's the same relic that was set off at the Magi Tower, but the one drawn looks different even if they are similiar. The team works to gather information while getting in place.
Location: Maka Homeworld
Iko, Jikuu, Aonee, Victoire and Drasek arrive to see if they can learn information meeting with the Emperor Utagawa to try to learn more about the situation and are pointed to the archives of history which seem to be manga. The group prepare to stay for a time and work through the tomes and see what they can learn.
Location: Geyze
Kito works on her blood magic with Simon and Lana to work on the relic's location in the damaged tower to prepare a counter to the relic the others are using to stop the chimes. At the same time, underneath Geyze in the caverns Selena leads her group to try to find the Blood Magi where Nicolette notes they are doing a ritual with the relic. Everyone goes for them to stop the ritual and are surprised to see Zayne protecting the Magi, leading to a battle between the two groups. However, in the end, the Maka overpower Zayne and bring her down along with Erevis and Xanatos help. Zayne informs them that the relic was meant to try to drive away the darkness being summoned to Geyze that is a threat to all Maka and Mana users that was brought out and were attempting to use the relic to counter it, even if it meant working with the bad Blood Mages. However, not everyone trusts her words and the Maka just see a Makai as she is dragged off to be 'dealt' with, much to Nicolette and Sparkling's horror.
TAW Session 609: The Makai Wars
Location: Maka Homeworld
The Geyze group uses the Suisen resources to arrive at the Maka Homeworld while the rest remain behind to continue to maintain order; while there, the team searches through their history in the hope that they might learn more about the Makai. However, it turns out their 'history' is infact Manga, which leads to Sabrina spreading out manga all over the place for the team to sort through. While the team, such as Simon, comments that history has had drawings dating far back to the stone age to tell history and that this is just another form of it, others find it more difficul to get into the mind set. Selena notes that even some of the oldest manga shows the Makai being around and that when they accept the darkness into their hearts, the more powerful they become when it happens; the more the darkness they accept, the more power they gain and once they enter this state, there is no bringing them back from it. A very powerful Makai even make Daimons or control them, making people their thralls to some degree.
Xanatos questions how does a Maka grow more powerful then and Selena notes that they seem to grow stronger based on: love, hope, and belief in themselves. Discussing the girls' familiars next - Tsukaima, they note that they guide the girls and when they turn into a Makai they fall with them sometimes and in rare cases like Zayne, guide them into darkness. As Xanatos and Selena begin to put the books in order, Simon notes finding the first of the Matsukai might be more important than even loctating an original Makai. After they finish organizing the books, they discover the oldest history manga begins at volume 11, meaning volumes 1 - 10 are missing. They wonder if it is a Collector's Edition in someone's house somewhere so Sabrina decides to take them back to her home.
Once they are back at Sabrina's place, she answers that after a Maka loses their Magical Girl powers, they typically get normal jobs here on the planet, but admits many fall into despair at the thought of losing that power. After getting the address she takes them to a typical japanese house to get the collector's manga. After meeting the collector and him trying to get chibi Thena, accepts their offerings to let them inside. He appears to be a sort of otaku with all sorts of stuff inside as he leads them to books 5 - 10, informing them that the first five no longer exist.
Volume 5 shows two twins, one a Maka and the other a Makai, both having Maka and Makai on each of their sides. The two twins try stopping each other as the Makai twin's insanity keeps growing and her despair begins to influence other Maka and Makai. The man claims the first two were twins and then after them many more begin to appear aftward with their own soul seeds, which is what brings forth a Tsuki to help make the girl a Magical Girl. Selena points at the images of the Makai holding her Tsukaima and wonders if it was a Matsukai and it corrupted her. Their only proof being that it stuck around her after the one twin became a Makai.
Erevis reveals that the Maka on Geyze have grown fed up with the Alliance and plan to bring Zayne here to execute her for being a Makai. Nicolette and the others get in a foul mood at that information and the group plans to hurry back to Geyze before something happens.
Location: Geyze
The group arrives back at the Academy where a barrier has been risen up to keep the Makai out from doing any harm to the students; the Maka seem to be on high alert for attacks from the Daimons as they patrol the area around them and each of them seem tired from the nightmares. Lumi informs them that the Makai are not letting up with their attacks and that the Maka are becoming less and less friendly as they are not getting sleep. The two sides get into a big battle over Zayne and the fact she is a Makai like the ones outside; one side wanting her executed due to the fact she will never change and the other side wanting to let her live due to being friends with her. They begin to provid proof of Zayne's killing spree over the years when asked by Nicolette and the others, so they use their magic to show her misdeeds, which only stopped temporarily when Sunny was born. They eventually convince them to turn Zayne over to the team and leave; Sasha then demands Zayne be moved to the PAX if the Makai are being drawn to her.
Zayne attempts to say something about the situtaion but seems to be forcefully held back by her partner and moves off with some guilt. The team then begins to prepare for whatever is coming next.
TAW Session 610: Darkness in Magical Hearts
Location: PAX
Lenneth observes the Makai depleting the shields which had already been lowered to worrying levels the past few days while the psionics work on Zayne since her mind remains blocked by something. While Noire looks hungry over the Makai and Myria works in engineering, the rest debate a way to stop the Makai outside without consuming them. Myria arrives with a plan to cleanse the engines for flight and use it to power their shields against the Makai. The group decides if they cannot get Zayne's pet - the Tsukaima (Matsukai for Makai)- to appear, they need to take Zayne back to the Academy where the Maka can help deal with her.
Location: The Academy
The Maka look exhausted as the group from the PAX arrives, spotting the recent Makai attack on the Academy. Selena informs them that she thinks whatever it is will descend upon them sometime that night and Id points out if the Makai send in another wave, the group might not have enough energy/mana to repel whatever it is that's coming then. Ao's group arrives with the manga from the Maka Homeworld and Lana goes over them, taking note how the first few volumes are missing. She goes over what the manga goes tell them: the one Makai twin fell into a depression, that the power of her depression drew in and infected multiple Maka around her. Lana theorizes the original Makai was sealed away has become free. Sabrina goes over how Maka normally turn into Maka - hatred, despair, heartbreak, etc is like poison to a Maka, turning them into a Makai - noting that a normal Makai doesn't just turn others around them though.
Jaime ponders if that is why Zayne went weird and Lumi studies the Blood Magi's testimony, noting they were trying to do a ceremony to drive away the Eater. They wonder why Zayne has been so tightlight if that is the case and if one of the Maka can come over and allow them to examine their Tsukaima. Sabrina decides to go since Sparkling has fallen asleep and Lana ponders if Sunny might could help make it show itself, so Gwen goes to find Sunny Jr who has been placed into protection.
Location: PAX
Everyone arrives back where the shields are currently repelling the Makai better thanks to Myria and they have Cuddles study Sabrina's ferret like pet. They seem surprised it can talk and refuses to help them track it when asked, but answers their other questions. Sunny arrives to ask questions to Zayne about her pet and the two begin to talk about it in front of the group, including her not wanting such a companion like her's. Jikuu reads her mind while she is distracted by Sunny and finds Zayne's mind is dull outside her love for Sunny and her emotions are turned almost off, as if something has eaten it; and that she keeps track of her other. After it sabotages some of the equipment keeping track of it, Sunny admits she'd lose her powers without it as well as other side affects. She informs them that the massive thing dark feeling that has begun to arrive at Geyze will go after the other magical girls and drive them mad like the other Makai. Cuddles and Id use their scans on Sabrina's companion to transmit it to the Idol Ship to help counteract what is going on currently.
Location: Geyze
A large cast of characters have gathered outside when a Dark One Magical Girl, Gemane, shows up in front of Sparkling when she awakes - to pass out food instead of fight. Brandr arrives to help out and challenge Dias a little as well. At that moment though a Dark Cloud of Makai arrie on the scene and the battle begins with the Idol Ship singers aiding them with song. Leading all the nonsense is a Depressed Makai who seems to be stronger than the rest and handling even the likes of Sparkling, Dias, and Zayne. The battle continues as Makai are thrown at the group and the OG Makai seems unstoppable, when Zayne is hurt and Sunny rushes over to her; eventually the group manages to overpower the OG Makai and destroys her when her Matsukai goes for Sunny. Sunny struggles with it as everyone tries to help destroy it, but Sunny makes a wish to help Zayne, which leads to Sunny becoming a Maka herself. The remaining Makai flee and Xanatos gives the OG Makai a grave.
Date: 10-647.3.17
Location: PAX
Lenneth questions if they should try to kill Zayne after going over the data they have on the Magical Girls; with the PAX still on Geyze for the time being until they have everything in place to help them into orbit, they've decided to remain there until they can pull themselves into orbit, even leaving the Idol Ship nearby in the event it's needed. Some seem in favor, others seem to think they should drop it, or ask her. But it is clear to them, if Zayne does not want it removed and they force the issue, they might have to come to blows with her.
Location: Geyze
Zayne begins Sunny's magical instruction with her new Maka powers, using Ellie's classroom. At the same time, however, a meeting is called to inform during the chaos the Blood Magi leader has escaped. And it looks like Kito might have been injured trying to stop him and is missing. The hunt is now on to find the Blood Mages once more and whatever new plot they might have in store, even if they did help stop the OG Makai.
Location: The Academy
The group has been trying to find the Blood Mages and after some work, they believe that they might have a hand in some of the Maka that are still on the planet as well as Makai that are MIA. Neekito uses Sylph's power to warp to where the blood samples directs them - to the Ent Great Forest - where they enter a cave. A blood missile shoots off and Sparkling is forced to chase it down before it hits the Academy, destroying it just in time. before being sent back to the cave by Shin. They find Maka and Makai in cages as well as eye symbols staring at them. As they go deeper they find the Blood Mages uses more of them in a blood ritual, including the Explosive Makai that Sabrina seemed to have a hate boner for, which causes her to go into rage mode and attack the group, beginning to exhibt Makai properties. She notes the group reminds her of the group that had a hand in the death of her her parents, seeing the maka and makai slaughtered for their power; even the blood seems to control their bodies like puppets after they're taken down but in the end they're stopped.
Date: 10-647.3.20
Location: The Academy
Lumi notes they seem to have gotten all the Blood Mages that were bad and the Maka/Makai that remain have left, leading to the worry about Sabrina after her nearly going Makai due to rage and hatred. The hope is due to her having a lot of friends, she'll have a good support group. Kito also took a bit of damage so they'll keep her at the academy to recover and Gwen plans a vacation for everyone to help them relax and have some fun.
Session 611: The Kids and the Killer
Location: Kumen
The Academy children are planning a field trip on Kumen the next day, so the night before Asarar is hosting them at her bar. Seniga, Nell, Cloé, Terra, Bella, Fae, Saga, and Sephie. While they have their fun, the parents are going over a serial killer that has been on the loose; Shin soon sees the kids to bed since she is monitoring them, being the "older" teen of the school group.
Date: 10-647.4.1
Location: Kumen
Neekito and Kito take over as the group's guide as Asarar's team has left already. They lead the kids to the Macross Bio-Tech Corporation run by Caesune who shows them various ways the medical stuff is made when something makes the tour be cut short; they decide to return everyone back to the hotel/bar. As they are walking back that way, a car crashes near them as well an explosion. Neekito and Kito has Terra warp all the children back to the bar where it is empty outside Riki. Seniga soon thinks she sees someone outside lurking and Saga's future vision sees no future for Riki who has gone outside to deal with the trash. The younger spirits, Avenir, Cloud, Edna, and Soren, follow along with the others and see no sign of Riki outside
when the power goes out.
After some hijinks they locate Celidh tangled up and hang up on computer cords in the room, leading to the team to free her. The group then is led upstairs to find slash marks on Asarar and Kira's bedroom wall when there is a knock on the front door. Bella would see Cloe be taken by someone at knife point right as Ymir arrives through the front door to continue their lesson plan. The kids manage to retrieve Cloe and stomp the killer down as everyone converges and Asarar's team arrives on the scene. It turns out the man is from a rich family that keeps getting him off, but after Bella's threats due to him touching and harming Cloe, he begins to think twice about relying on them to get out of jail again. Saga meanwhile also scans his brain to locate Riki.
Date: 10-647.4.2
Location: Kumen
The next day Ymir arrives with the bounty money and turns it over to the kids - a total of 50,000 credits. The topic of resuming the tour comes up and the kids decide they want to check out Earth, leading the team to head to Mega City. They soon arrive at Cassandra's place where she begins to lecture them about the ways of Earth. Once they finish, they return back to the Academy to tourn in their reports to Ellie and Sylph.
Timeline: 10-647.3.10 - 10-647.4.3
The Heart of Darkness Mini-Series and Main Series
The Heroes of Geyze play a decent role in the main story and some important stuff does occur in the Geyze lore (mainly after the mini-series). If interested in the Geyze material, seek it out in the TAW Sessions beginning with 612 (Prelude) up to 615 (Epilogue).