The Alien Wars 6: Da Capo
Session 500
Session 500: The Galactic Conflict Chapter 1
Location: Aquarius
The Aquarius has been assigned to patrol the Erusian border as things begin to crazier with the Dark One invasion much to Yuki's aggrevation being out here instead of helping out where the action is located, due to the power of their ship. While they wait out the boring assignment, Mireille talks about renaming herself to be cooler like Mir and they go over the possible names and Yuki tells the other two not to humor her as Erica joins them, who tells Mire that nicknames are given not picked. However, Cookie has been renamed to Cooks when alarms go off as the Tsivrixsh forces, at least one of their many armada forces, begin to bust through the weakened Erusian forces and cross the border. Equipped with stronger weapons, the ships begin to cross into the Suisen territory when they are joined by Dark Ones who begin to target the Aquarius together; Yuki surmises they picked this part of the border to cross to try to take out the Aquarius.
Mire brings up the shields as the two forces move to intercept them and she sinks into the Spirit Chamber while Cookie takes control of the ship. Using her advance future sight she avoids the enemy fire and gets them further away to safety until the Dark Ones' scream takes her out since she is a psionic. As tendrils and Tsivrixsh shots begin to hit the Aquarius, Yuki moves to the controls to take over for Cookie; Airym and Mire work together to jump into hyperspace and escape the situation while Yuki slaps Cookie awake. However due to it being an emergency jump they are only traveling to the nearby system with asteroids to hide in, but Airym will use the time to prepare a message to send off to the PAX immeditately upon exiting hyperspace to warn them about the situation.
Date: Winter 19,966 1.17 Croza Era
Location: City by the Sea
While between one of the lulls and Simon off seeing sights with Chronos and Gale even being back from whatever place she was taken, the group discusses decides to head have to Mal'oy's manor to talk to her and see if she is corrupted yet. As they arrive they find her talking to Sophia and while Gale looks a little off, she seems to still be in her right mind as she touches Sophia and pacts with her as well as creating. Alita deduces she is creating an artifact much like the one Xucarr's Wind Gauntlet that the hero descandants supposedly hold onto in the future, but Gale presents it to Sophia; Neekito begins to wonder if Xucarr is not the true descendant of the Wind Hero and is using his beastman power to try to fake it. They wonder if Sophia turns out to be the first hero, since she is the one holding her weapon, and looks a bit like Ellie, does that mean Ellie is of the heroic line.
The group moves to speak with the two and Gale perks up upon seeing Ellie, though she seems to darken a little at mention of the Croza and her time away, being vague about it. Celes pressures Ellie into talking Gale into taking them to the Spirit Realm who opens up to her a bit more about her condition - being fuzzy headed and not as cheerful, but finding herself stronger. Sophia keeps an eye out as she notices Mal'oy watching them all from the manor while Gale agrees to help them into the Realm, noting she'll have to be careful since only Shade, Aska, or Void can give permission. As the two move off to meet Mal'oy, they discuss the future and how they hope to do more for Gale and Celes points out that they might can do somethings, since Gale and Gaia were not as corrupted as the other Spirits, so perhaps that might be due to their influence now. Gwen also points out he finds it hard to imagine Sophia becoming a leader of sorts due to her being timid, but Celes note she has the maps of the impact the heroes make after the fall and will make notes.
Date: 10-642.2.23
Location: Geyze
Selena along with Asarar's team are prepared for all out-war with the Legion forces and the Amazon forces that are under the strange storm wind's control while Selena has another task force watching the Dark Lands since Shinobu is also under it's control. While the team is pretty positive that a God is the cause of this, since they do not have Lorelei here to help deal with it, they need to figure out how to deal with this crisis alone and it seems Rain never returned as well. While Sylph sulks in the corner due to her powers no longer working quite as well, the team brainstorms on how to approach the problem at hand. Jaime decides to go get some help from the PAX and Sparkling and Sabrina will work on healing them; Jaime's forces will work on the Legion while Selena attacks the Amazons, then they will turn and use all their forces on the Dark Lands.
Location: PAX
The Empress and the others in the councill room listen to Airym's message, but find it garbled; Erevis does note that it seems to be talking about the Tsivrixsh and Syiean notes they are trying to clean up the message and Lenneth points out due to their patrol route that it could only mean bad things. Jaime arrives requesting help for Geyze and while the Empress notes that a day has passed already, with their ships already on the way it shouldn't take more than half a day to find the Aquarius hopefully, before Lenneth tells Jaime she can pick up anyone that is willing to join her. The Empress also announces she will begin to train Jikuu like she does Syiean and Erevis to prepare her for the war to come while Chad moves to help with the search for Aquarius; Noire meanwhile vows she will get the Dark One leadership, no matter what happens. Taiga sees Si off as she plans to go with Jaime, working on her reality project to find another PAX while the Empress has Jikuu tell her everything about her abilities so she can make a training regime for her.
Date: 10-655ish
Fate walks with a fox-eared girl with the Serpent in the background as she leads the girl around in her teen form. She notes that the reason the girl is aware of something is due to Fate protecting her so far and the girl makes note of wanting to go back as well and missing her. Fate notes if she lowered her protection she would forget her and this would become her normal time period. Arriving on the ruined bridge of the PAX, Fate notes that a battle was fought here long ago, noting she probably recalls it being whole; she then asks what she will give up to go back.
Session 500: The Galactic Conflict Chapter 2
Location: Aquarius
The Aquarius exits hyperspace and upon arriving in an asteroid field of a destroyed planet, Airym immediately alerts them to sending the warning transmission as they find a place to hide among the asteroids. The Tsivrixsh and Dark Ones arrive moments later and begin to track them into the asteroid field, allowing the team to move them into their paths to help them escape. They manage to avoid crashing into a chain reaction of asteroids as they head for a larger one to hide inside, managing to slip inside while Mire goes into the spirit chamber to power up the ship. The Dark Ones and the Tsivrixsh begin to do a pincer attack on their location, piercing their side with a tendril, while Pepper uses spirit attacks to blow the Dark One up in return; tapping into the Progenitor tech on the ship to give the spirit tech a hint of hyperspace, they go on the offensive and blows up a massive asteroid to deal with all the ships in the area. They manage to wipe out the fleet with this manuever but due to the rainstorm of asteroids caused by destroying it they are also swept away even as they manage to dodge a lot of it, taking hits along the way.
Date: Winter 19,966 1.25 Croza Era
Location: City by the Sea
The group as the manor when Chronos returned Simon after finishing their side mission and Neekito has finished her cooking book while Ceilidh seems to be struggling with an encounter with one of Lana's belongings. At the same time, outside the window one of the angelic beings is walking down the street toward their store with Sophia looking uneasy and Mal'oy; as they head to the store, BIX is indeed manning the store and when Talia tries to get to him Sophia innocently stops her so she doesn't get caught up in everything. Iva, the new spirit like being, is given BIX to deal with after he is disabled and Mal'oy and the Croza finish with the store. The group moves to retrieve BIX and confront Iva and Mal'oy in the process while he is being taken back toward the palace; Simon finally lets into Mal'oy for his attitude this entire time even if it is in front of the Croza. The Croza releases BIX after making him glow, then touching Alita and taking a sample of her blood, lets them go much to Mal'oy's chargin.
Sophia and Gale catch up with the group afterward; the girl having gotten help from the Wind Spirit a bit too late. While Talia tries to make friends with Iva, she reveals that he got information on the team from someone on Kumen which leads to the group to be suspicious of Lana though Gwen defends her honor. Gale takes everyone to the entrance to the Spirit Realm and activates the portal, leading them to an even more prestine state of the realm with no fog or anything. However they manage to run into Shade of all people, who questions why people from the future want to enter the Spirit Realm and interrogates them rather harshly before finally relenting as she hears how they want to protect this place and how some of them's connections run deep with her. She admits that she has a meeting with a few of the Croza coming up and that they can stay and listen if they want while they stay here.
Date: 10-642.2.23
Location: Geyze
Jaime's group has launched their attack on the Legion while Selena prepares to lead her forces against the Amazons. Selena notes their plan is to bring the Amazons down with non-lethal attacks and try to reach Qui to talk sense into her. The Peacekeepers, Asarar's team, and Selena's Hapian forces all prepare to face the Amazons and Selena leads them into battle with Chelsea flying cover in the Mew Mew. A fierce battle breaks out between the two forces as they work their way through Amazons that many of them know as they try to reach Qui's tent. When they finally manage to do so, they are forced into combat with the Amazon queen. When they do finally knock her out, Logan suddenly begins to attack the team as if something has taken over him, then Kira begins to have the process happen to her. Sparkling uses her magic to take down Logan and uses her shield powers to stop it from happening to Kira. Selena informs them that Jaime has taken the Legion capital but Mykel and Ceilia weren't there when they did so, leading Nicolette to wonder if it was a sacrifice play. After a moment or two later, Selena informs them that the Maka was correct - they were in the Dark Lands and launched a counter attack into the Hapian Capital. As Qui begins to recover, Kira begins to get onto an idea of finding where the disturbance of the wind is located, asking Sylph to help her do so as they prepare to hurry back and stop the invasion.
Location: PAX
Erevis eyes the reports of the Aquarius going missing and the attack on Geyze, leading to the group to note that this is bad timing overall. They decide to ask Kumen's Ymir for some help and when Xanatos asks if he should send help down for Geyze, they get reports of one of the Suisen planets being attacked - Gitari. As they learn it is being seeded, Xanatos notes that they can't afford to let that world fall due to the Gitari's high reproduction rate. They prepare to send a team to Gitari to save the planet and it's population and if that fails, stop the seeding whatever it takes.
Session 500: The Galactic Conflict Chapter 3
Location: Deep Space
Cookie floats to an asteroid as debris of the Aquarius floats all around her along with pieces of the Dark One ships and Tsivrixsh ships; Cookie manages to somehow go into her Gear form without her pilot as a tendril of a Dark One ship twitches after her when Yuki appears and attacks it, floating in space still alive. Cookie places Yuki inside her cockpick and Cookie repels the rest of the Dark One ship with attacks as they follow Yuki's bond link with Erica to the Aquarius, finding the ship having sustained major damage; holes in it in various places along the hull, sparking due to damage, only due to how well it was built, it wasn't completely destroyed, but the bridge looks like it is has been massively damaged as well as the back half with the engines. They find some lifesigns in the secondary bridge and they decide to head in through the hangers, but Cookie notes she is unsure if the Aquarius can be repaired from this much damage, but Yuki remains non-commital as only Tora could answer that one. As they head for the other bridge, Yuki seeks out Erica and Yurica while Cookie heads for Pepper.
Date: 10-642.2.23
Location: PAX
The PAX has joined the Iron Paw, whose population has moved onto the PAX, and armed the Iron Paw for the Gitari mission. While Erevis feels dubious about sending the Iron Paw into battle, everyone feels it is necessary to save the bunnies who believe that the Dark Ones want to create a Dark Bunny that will overbreed the galaxy. Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu are joined by Andrea and Noire who are ready to join the Gitari Mission as well as Cheryl, Angela, Erevis, Kyouki, Hotaru, and Michiru while Erevis has Jikuu remain behind with the Empress on the PAX. The Iron Paw, piloted by Imugem and Ulieah, take the crew toward Gitari, while Erevis and Ama spend their time together and comment on Tsukiyomi who has been acting strangely since being retrieved on the moon and almost being sacrificed. They discuss various things, almost as if life were normal, including Taiga believing she is almost on the verge of finding a realiy with a free PAX, as well as life in general.
However they soon arrive at Gitari itself where the Dark Ones are dropping multiple seeds onto the planet and have a formation around the planet to protect it from being taken back. While Tsukiyomi and Ama prepare a plan, the rest of the team prepare to do battle with the Dark Ones as they head down to the planet to save as many Gitari as they can mange. As the Gitari on the planet begin to turn into Dark Rabbits, the team splits up into a group to stop the rabbits while the rest work on stopping the seeds and corruption, with Kyouki adding her own power as the Dark One Spirit to those who can reverse the corruption. The group spends their time saving Gitari, battling Dark Rabbits, and taking out seeds/slowing the corruption until Andrea, Kyouki, and Noire are attacked. Ama uses her powers to reveal the Dark One General twins with mystical powers and the group works on dealing with them as Gitari turns into a hellscape.
The group brings their power to bare on the twins and slowly they begin to bring them down as Ama lightens the area so they cannot hide and do sneak attacks as the God reveals their positions for the others. As Hotaru manages to take out the male twin of the bunch, the female twin continues to battle Noire who gone into a type of corrupted mode due to all the corruption in the area. While Ama and Tsukiyomi use their powers to begin to pull all the remaining Gitari out of the area as the teleporters have been corrupted and can no longer take anymore up to the Iron Paw, Hotaru notes they seem to have been after the teleporters; Cheryl notes that Chad put an encyrption so they should be fine for now. While Noire and Hotaru destroy the female twin as everyone is being pulled out, Tsukiyomi has to be pulled out by Angela since she ate up a good chunk of her power doing the mass teleport and Noire is enranged at not being able to consume the twins as they are pulled out; as Andrea forces her to go calm, the Iron Paw is filled to the brim with people and the group has been pushed hard, even Erevis using what hyperspace she has along with Kyouki to get out herself and anyone else out, causing her body to spasm. As they recover in the ship, they wonder what the twins meant by Gitari being a touchstone to the Suisen Empire as the planet is destroyed by the Iron Paw due to it gathering too much dark corruption.
Location: Geyze
Selena's forces arrive in the Hapian capital to find them acting strangely like at the Amazon capital; while Qui acts ashamed and Jaime assures her it wasn't her fault, Asarar points out they need to locate the wind here. The Dark Land forces seem to be already taking up positions to fortify themselves throughout the capital as they debate how to locate where the source of the wind would be at when both Sparkling and Nicolette suggest something colorful. Jaime has Selena lead them to a tailor in the city so she does so, even as water tracks them all the way to the store. As they deal with the clerk in the store, a water hand yanks Sparkling out of sight as Jaime asks Sylph if she can spread the material; admitting she doesn't know due to her power acting up lately, but notes she will try even as the watery hand tries to grab Nicolette next. Jaime manages to send a rock to disrupt the hand as Brooke rises with Sabrina and Sparkling acting strange on either side of her. A brief fight occcurs as the three do some damage to the team, but they manage to deliver hard enough shocks to bring them back to normal even as Selena slides Nicolette to safety behind herself.
Sylph flies off with the materials to spread it in the air while the team is attacked by Ceilia, Shinobu, and Mykel. As Nicolette manages to chain Ceilia in place, Kira takes down Rain who attacks Asarar and Selena and Nicolette agree someone is throwing away a lot of resources to keep them from finding their location. Jaime checks on Sylph who is being chased by the wind until she throws the dye into it, making it visible for all to see. After some attacks on it as it retreats, the normal citizens of the Hapians and Dark Lands begin to head for the store to overwhelm the group so Nicolette forms a wall to slow them down; Thena teleports the group out of the area toward where Jaime is at to help put some distance. They debate how to hurt the creature since it is made of wind until they hit on fire from Si, even calling in Salamander. Soon there appears to be no more of it left and the people no longer seem controlled; Si tries to ping for it but finds nothing, but Nicolette's scrying ability finds that it is still out there, evading the pinging somehow. As Nicolette narrows it down to on Sylph, she uses a water spell to engulf her and wash off a tiny bit on her wings, destroying it off of her; noting she feels like she can use her wind powers again, she floats up and twirls. As those who were taken over apologize, Jaime notes she is heading back to the PAX.
Date: Winter 19,966 1.25 Croza Era
Location: The Spirit Realm
Celes and the others wait in the realm, studying how prestine it is in this era and Alita wishing they could visit this more often in their time and Ceilidh noting it is a wonder they could come at all. However soon the meeting between Shade and the Croza begin as their strange mechanical, angelic like forms appear to talk to her. Shade seems to expression surprise at them showing up in that form, referring to the mechanical bodies and they begin to discuss something has come up on the other worlds and that they might need help from Aska, Shade, and Void in the upcoming days when it comes to the other Croza. However, soon it becomes obvious the Croza are aware of them as they begin to approach the group along with Shade, making the team wonder if they are in trouble.
Location: Unknown Suisen World
Sommelier goes over the data of the teleporters that have been corrupted along with the data from Gitari before it was destroyed; eyeing the encpytion along with the multiple seeded worlds with teleporters, he notes to the others they are finally able to reach the PAX, alerting to them that the invasion has begun.
Session 500: The Galactic Conflict Chapter 4
Location: Deep Space
The Aquarius drifts powerless in the asteroid field, completely wrecked after blowing up the asteroid to wipe out the fleet; with the bridge gone and everyone moves to the auxilary bridge, Yuki and Cookie join them inside it where Mire is no longer responding or moving. The systems seem unable to boot up and the engines seem to no longer be there after the asteroids went through the ship, leading the team to formulate a plan to get the ship out of the asteroid as they are running on back up power. However, their sensors pick up a damaged Dark One ship searching for them, having survived their massive asteroid attack like they did. Yuki and Cookie quickly move to engineering while Pepper checks on Mire, who seems catatonic due to the damage the ship has taken and being tied to it. Yuki finally comes up with the plan to put Mire into the spirit chamber over Cookie's protests after seeing part of one engine remaining before sending her to join Pepper.
As Pepper and Cookie form their Gear and go out to do battle with the Dark One ship that has noticed them, Yuki orders Airym to follow her orders on Mire. As the Aquarius begins to power up, the two hold off the ship long enough for Yuki to enact her plan to get the Aquarius to leap into hyperspace and escape, their gear barely managing to get back into the Gear in time. They find Airym on the bridge alone and after being pissed about putting Mire back in the chamber in her state, they learn something worse - Yuki left herself in the exposed, damaged engines to hyperspace to keep it running. Not only being hit by hyperspace and radation, but using her mild amount of reality to keep the ship engines going by having Mire "work".
Location: Guardian Homeworld
Ariel eyes as million of Gitari rabbits are loaded off on her world from the Iron Paw as Imugem and Ulieah apologize to her. Tsukiyomi and Ama keep the rabbits in line while Erevis also bows to her and Hotaru even apologizes. As they head back onto the Iron Paw, Cheryl draws the dragoons to the side and notes she thinks she has a mission in mind for all the dragoons, indicating her plan to get in touch with Zephyr. As Cheryl plans a mission for them, Erevis notes her worry for Xanatos who was left back on the PAX.
Location: PAX - a bit before all this -
The Empress and Syiean monitor the situation on Gitari along with Chad, Jikuu, and Leyeah when they are attacked through their teleport systems; as Chad and the others look into it, despite putting up defense systems, it looks like that by seeding Gitari, they corrupted enough teleporters and Gitari being a major one, they manage to corrupt the system to work their way into the PAX. As Dark One ships begin to appear all around the PAX, the Empress has Xanatos put to work while Chad works on dealing with the hack and sending people to the teleporters on the PAX. The Empress allows Jikuu to leave to do her own thing while she works with Chad to secure the teleportation systems and everyone spreads out to secure the ship.
PAX: Main Population Areas
Katrina, Emeralda, Xanatos, Terra (the first), Ren, Aonee, Charlotte, and an Idlet, secure the area around Katrina's bar from Dark Ones invading the ship and attacking civilians. As they get the civlians evacuated, they are all thrown as the entire ship jerks from an attack on it from outside and Taiga comms to note she is around to offer her help if they need it. As the group is pinned to provide help for the civilians, the other locations continue to do their thing.
Location: Lower Decks
Taiga, Si, and Marcus continue to work on Taiga's reality project to find a second PAX during the battle, crossing off reality one at a time. They discuss the situation and if Marcus could make a difference out there or if it would be better for him to stick here with Tagia as she goes through the tedious process of checking off realities. He decides to keep waiting.
Location: Convention Hall
Athena, Sammael, and Reikana work on hooking up Athena's Idol Device as the ship is attacked; the shaking and explosions giving them trouble as they do so. Athena informs Reikana this is something she calls Song Magic and it's based on faith of the people, so the more of an audience Reikana has the more power she draws into the song magic. The group taps into the broadcast system and the stage lifts up into space as it glows with song energy that Reikana begins to gather with her song.
Location: Katrina's Bar Area
As the team fights back the hordes, the music from Reikana can be heard throughout the ship; Ren and Charlotte, carrying Akatsuki, run off to aid Reikana in her protection detail, leaving the rest to deal with the enemy. At that moment, Jaime and those on Geyze, manange to teleport and join Xanatos' group despite the telepeporters being down. As Selena and her people as well as Asarar's people aid in the fight, Xanatos decides to head for the bridge to assist there. As more Dark Ones keep pouring from the teleporters every few moments, using all their tricks like the mind screams to rock them, even hyperspace attacks seem to barely weed out the enem when suddenly Dark Makas appear and throw Zayne down on the ground. Sabrina and Sparkling take on the Dark Makas who managed to beat Zayne in a sneak attack, as Dias even joins the fight; it becomes a bit of a trying to cleanse them and trying to defeat them as the Dark Ones make things troublesome. As they begin to get the Dark Makas on the ropes, the two begin to prepare for a counter attack.
Location: Bridge
Taking place a bit ago, Reikana is now in space near the bridge now, the PAX's escorts are now down to three when a tendril manages to get through the shields and breach multiple decks where Taigais located when Xanatos arrives on the bridge. As Syiean mans the weapons to take out ships, they monitor the Dark Makas flying onto the ship. Reikana finishes charging her song and some Dark Ones go to stop her from doing whatever it is she plans to do, but Thena fires node attacks as Ren and Charlotte go outside in Gear form to provide back up for Reikana. Xanatos take control of piloting the PAX from Syiean and as he adjusts to flying the massive ship as Reikana's Song Magic launches and blows up 4 Dark One ships, damage 3 others, and even hits the Dark One Flag Ship so the shields lower somewhat. After witnessing that attack, Xanatos focuses his desire on taking that flagship out for good. He decides to have Reikana do another Song Magic attack, but they'll need 30 more minutes to charge up another one.
As the Dark One Ships begin to launch small ships to take out the PAX and it's escorts, Katrina and Terra go out in Gears to help weed out the enemies while the Dark One ships as well as their Flag Ship come in and begin to open fire on the PAX. Xanatos somehow manages to steer and avoid the attacks with the cumbersome PAX. As they manage to avoid the disaster, alarms go off from 1B, leading to confusion from Lenneth and the Empress until Lenneth runs off downstairs and the Empress realizes there is an attack against the children that live in 1B, leading Thena to rush down to aid her Aunt.
Location: Teleporter Location
As the Dark Makas touch hands, gathering a corrupted heart, the Empress informs everyone about the situation on 1B and requests back up. Logan shoots the heart and knocks the Makas back while Jaime teleports to 1B immediately, taking Sparkling and Luci with her. Marcus explodes through the floor with Tagia's computer with the coordinates to the reality with another PAX, all bloody from the tendril attack on the PAX earlier, landing on Dias who throws him at the Makas who were knocked back by Logan. They try to take out the computer but Aonee protects the computer with a barrier as Dias knocks the barrier and Marcus into them, doing damage. They manage to take out the one as the other Maka abandons her partner and the group wonders how to reach Taiga or if they should focus on the civilians here in this area.
Location: 1B
Jikuu has found herself tied up, along with the children of 1B, when Lenneth tumbles down the stairs to help save them. Up in 1A, Xanatos deals with the Flag Ship targetting the PAX with a powerful beam of one of the PAX's, causing Xanatos to do the same; as that plays out Thena joins Lenneth causing a standoff downstairs. At that moment Fate appears downstairs and drops off John and a fox girl at the exact moment a Dark One targets Jikuu, leaping to kill her as the others target Lenneth and Thena; the fox girl jumps and blocks the attack on Jikuu with a tendril while Thena goes on the offensive herself. Xanatos is informed they need a few more minutes before Reikana can fire off another Song Magic blast when suddenly the Iron Paw returns and begins to unload on the smaller ships, allowing Xanatos to fire upon the Flag Ship. Downstairs, Drasek joins John in battling the Dark Ones and the others arrive to help beat the Dark Ones as the PAX/Flag Ship counter each other with their shots.
As the Iron Paw off loads their people onto the PAX, Erevis soon arrives on 1B with Kyouki, joining the battle in a rage at the Dark Ones daring to attack her family. As Reikana's song takes out more of the fleet and they rout the enemy in 1B, they join those on the bridge where it looks like they have the Dark Ones out numbered and this fight won when the Tsivrixsh Fleet arrives to back up the Dark Ones. A moment or two later though a Templar Fleet arrives as well and Cersei hails them, offering to go on the attack with them when Marcus arrives with the computer informing they found the second PAX, much to the Empress chargin. They decide to hold off on the PAX problem for now and Andrea prepares to launch an attack on the Dark Flag Ship and deal with her fellow Dark Ones while they have this brief lull from the Templars.
Fumoffu Session 29: 500 Minutes
Location: PAX
Taiga works in her lab alongside Marcus and Si to locate a reality that has a free PAX so that they can use it against the Dark Ones, even as their own is being attacked, causing the PAX to actually shake from the damage being inflicted to the ship. She finally finds a reality where a PAX is floating in the same quadrant where Erevis and her people first discovered it long ago, making it seem that it was never picked up; however at that moment the lab collapses from the Dark Ones' attacks right as Taiga locks in on the reality and buries them in the lab even as CHIP's voice is heard talking about multiple hull breaches. Despite being buried, the two work together to shift under the weight of the debris to get the computer device to Marcus where Taiga foxholes him away to another floor, using her golden eyes and reality powers to get out of the room, right as CHIP announces power detected, believing them to be enemy forces and sealing their abilities off. After Si asks what that was about, Taiga tells her that was a power dampening system to stop people from using their abilities during the war years, but Erevis turned it off during the peaceful era.
While Taiga seems to be suffering from a headwound that Si tends to, they walk down the hallways until they come across Myria who is trying to get a communication device to work. As the three discuss what to do next, they would feel the air growing thinner and Taiga notes she can feel the affects due to the power drain. They head to the club room since Taiga has tools there; once there Taiga searches her desk to grab a datapad to give Myria while Si gets Ren's snacks from when she was pregnant to feed Taiga due to her concussion. Right then a Dark One enters the club room, weakened from the protection system, allowing Si and Myria to defeat it with a chair throw and a kick; right as they are doing that, Kitty falls in from the ceiling onto Taiga's lap who begins to compliment her and flirt with her.
Kaori joins the group since the club is a safe place as they debate where to head next and they debate using Kitty's ceiling where Taiga talks about needing specific points and how Kitty's bad luck likely helped that feat before showing her mind is slowly becoming worse. Kitty wonders where Hess is at since she isn't with Kaori and Kaori seems to not know, acting sullen and withdrawn. Myria hacks the terminals to see outside in the hallway where Juan is leading Alouette and being chased by Dark Ones, leading to a comedic battle with them as they deal with them; afterward Alouette becoming starstruck with Kaori while informing them Anyata is floating out in space toward another part of the PAX. They manage to get in touch with CHIP who assesses their situation and gives them the run down: a giant tendril has been wedged into their area, he has little control of it, parts of it have been crushed in, they have 3 hours of air left, and there is only one exit point to the rest of the PAX.
They begin to float up after CHIP shuts the gravity off through the hole Kitty made and into the crawl spaces of the PAX, they work their way through the path CHIP made for them until they begin to get stalked by Dark Ones in the vents. After a scuffle with them, they reach the exit point where Dark Ones and a Dark Beast have Hess tied up in a gooy mess in front of the exit to the working part of the PAX. Taiga has passed out and with 2 hours of air left, they debate how to deal with the nest with the civilians and Hess. They work their way to the door for now and Myria works on opening it without alerting the Dark Ones, then after doing so moves through into the hallway; Myria keeps the door from being shut with a panel as Kitty gets the unconscious Taiga through who begins to recover. Meanwhile Alouette is caught by the Dark Beast and is being tied up along with the civilians; as Taiga begins to recover and sits up, the Dark Beast heads through the doorway, about to get stronger like the group when Myria TK pushes it back and Kitty opens a ripple to force it back into the room. Taiga opens a foxhole to pull Hess and the others back into the hallway to save the day as well; with everyone out of the place, CHIP seals the door to trap the Dark Ones in there. The group decides to split up with Taiga going to get some rest then head to the bridge to help with the PAX retrieval project, Myria going to make a report to CHIP, and Kaori hangs out with Alouette.
Session 500: The Galactic Conflict Chapter 5
Location: PAX
Siawase, the mysterious cat, remains behind to protect baby Jikuu while the others prepare for phase 2 of the battle as the strange Kitsune who saved the other Jikuu introduces herself as Victoire, who seems to be best friends with Jikuu. While Thena is strapped into the Idol Machine to produce more Song Magic due to Reikana being exhausted, the Empress notes they need Taiga to use the reality device that Marcus brought them, but she seems to have been lost in the tendril attack in her area of the ship. Andrea launches an attack in her ship, complete with Charlotte/Ren in gear form backing them up as Dias, Terra, and Marcus also fly in space attacking targets while the battle heats back up among the sides. While Marcus and Dias deal with special Dark enemies in space, Andrea and company avoid the enemies in space that gun for them as they work their way for the Flag Ship, even as Syiean points out they can't be doing much damage in those Gears. During the battle, it seems the Tsivrixsh are withholding a majority of their fighters in the battle even as it continues.
Chad voices his displeasure of seeking a second PAX, one the Empress shares, but notes it's moot without Taiga anyway until CHIP announces he has located her bleeding to death while guiding her group to an exit. (Fumoffu 29). As Andrea nears the Flag Ship of the Dark Ones, the Tsivrixsh launch their fighters finally and seem out to overwhelm her, foring Terra, Charlotte, Marcus, and Dias to defend her. Drasek is sent to 1B when one of the Dark Ones hid themselves to strike at the kids, leading to Siawase to do battle with it until he arrives; it turns out to be a shapeshifter with a chip to fool the system as Drasek destroys it. Xanatos uses the PAX and Ulieah using the Iron Paw work with the Templar Fleet to attack the Tsivrixsh and Dark Ones to inflict as much damage as they are upon them, blowing up ships with Xanatos' tactics even as those outside fight against the odds; he even manages to avoid a ramming by the enemy.
As the batteries begin to run low on the PAX due to how much hyperspace attacks they are giving out, Drasek and Jikuu head off to do what they can do to recharge them in the battle without doing something crazy like going into the core, joining Aonee who is helping them. Andrea has them engage the Dark One Flag Ship again so the shields will drop and they can enter it, placing the PAX in a pincer like position between them and the Tsivrixsh who they are engaging. At that moment the Aquarius arrives through hyperspace, barely in one piece as it drifts toward the PAX, taking ships due to it's unstable state. As the Iron Paw works on slowing the Aquarius down enough it can be brought in, Athena launches the Song Magic from Thena and damages a bit of the fleet and brings down the Dark One Flag Ship's shields, allowing Syiean to take advantage with shots even though it's too far away.
Andrea's people, Dias, Marcus, and Charlotte/Ren get inside the Flag Ship as the ships begin to jump away from the battle, though Terra and Katrina opt to return back to the PAX. The ship eats Dias as his Gear comes to a stop, leading to Noire to wonder if he triggered some defensive measure and Jaime to note this will be a hard battle with just them. As the ship the team was on is eaten next, they realize they have been made and hurry deeper into the ship. On the PAX still, they go over how massive the damage is on the ship after the battle is over and they get a report that Taiga and her club people managed to escape the damaged area of the ship. The Aquarius is also transferred to the PAX after being stopped; Airym, Pepper, and Cookie, as well as Yurica and Erica, are escorted from the ship while X frees Yuki who has suffered major hyperspace and radiation damage. Jennifer is called in to treat the damage and has her taken to medical and notes Mire seem starved for spirit energy - but is that all there is to it? And Chad Winters the entire time of the battle has had his hands on the reality device since it was turned over to him, tinkering with it despite being against it.
Date: 10-642.2.24
Location: Tsivrixsh Territory
Lorelei waits for her informant on the rainy world, most of them getting drenched except Celeste, and Rachael pondering if the other half of the team is even still alive at this point. Soon a human with a collar approaches them and gives them documents about a Tsivrixsh enjoying fighting and training on a world a few systems away and hosting tournaments. After finishing the exchange, the group heads for the space port is acosted by a large Tsivrixsh and after dealing with him by shaming him in front of the others watching the scene, they arrive at the ship where Vesper is waiting. They have booked a ride with an aging Tsivrixsh who's ship makes loud noises and head for the planet listed in the documents.
Location: Kellin's Ship
The group plans to head for a ship yard nearby to slow down the Tsivrixsh war machine, even with Ka'pla and the strange Tsivrixsh kid, Cassius, remaining on the ship. Ka'pla offers to help them with their mission, but it'll come with a price down the road; the group agrees to her deal and as they arrive at the shipyard she provides a code. The code turns out to be legit and the team is able to land in the center of the shipyards. They have Thomas work on delaying the shipyards by a few weeks to a month or so when Ka'pla notes she might know where Kyun is located for a second favor. After some haggling and keeping Ako out of it if it's something shitty, they depart as Thomas sabotages to do a little extra damage; Ka'pla then gives her theory of where he might be located - not a prison planet but somewhere remote and out of the way, as well as not himself, hinting she should know they might "change his personality". The group now begins their search on remote planets.
Date: Winter 19,966 1.17 Croza Era
Location: Spirit Realm
The Croza have surrounded the team, along with Shade, after spotting them and greets the group. They seem to realize the group is not from this time period and after some polite chatting, they move to leave when Celes asks if they should try to strike up an alliance with them. The Croza seem hesitant, noting that a war is occurring and do not want to bring in civilians from another time into it. They soon agree and reveal the mechanical angelic bodies are not their real bodies, but are controlling from a distance. As they arrive on Kumen, which has massive spirit-tech cities and looks leagues above Geyze tech wise, with the temples all around, they run into Lana here. Ceilidh runs to Lana about a voice she has been hearing since encountering her stuff while the others talk to the Croza, but soon another set of Croza encounter the room and all hell breaks loose. As the two sets of Croza are confronting each other, a Corrupted Frost appears and attacks the team - her power much stronger than a normal spirit's. Her attack scatters the group from the Croza and each other as the Ancient War has begun offically.
Session 500: The Galactic Conflict Chapter 6
Location: PAX
Megumi, Taiga, Si, Jikuu, and Victoire go over the damaged sectors of the PAX and discuss how they'll have to use lesser materials to repair the ship due to the unique alloys the PAX was built from originally or leave sections of it damaged. Megumi also discusses that by the next battle she will have her black hole weapons online to help fend off the enemy while Taiga muses on using the second PAX to help repair the PAX. While they talk, Taiga checks in on Yuki who is in medical and unconscious still due to her injuries before announcing her plan to go to the reality with the PAX; Jikuu and her strange partner volunteer to join her along with Si while Megumi stays behind to get her Black Hole weapons online. Leyaeh indicates they might need a Progenitor to bring the PAX online in that reality and Taiga indicates Jikuu will fit that bill; as they walk on, they pass Tora, Airym, and Cookie, who are also in the area to pick up Mire from medical. While Taiga and Tora verbally spar with each other, the two groups discuss what the other is up to before Leyaeh hints she knows more about Victorie than she realizes, dropping hints. Tora picks up Mire as the two groups seperate and explains why the spirit isn't waking up - being connected to the Aquarius, after it was destroyed, she mentally shut down. Once they make a new ship and have her attach to it, she will wake up and be fine then, since she is a ship spirit; they decide to just let her sleep until the new ship is rebuilt from the remains of the Aquarius.
Date: Winter 19,966 1.26 Croza Era
Location: Kumen
The group has been scattered across Kumen after the attack by the evil Croza and Frost; with Frost patrolling the streets, the team hides and tries to evade her. They enter into one of the buildings for students for knowledge on spirit arts and other such things while Ceilidh talks about the box with Lana; the entire place seems rather amazing to the group as they go further up the floors to evade Frost. As they stop and catch Lana up on what has been occurring since she left, they soon turn toward how to defeat Frost long enough to get away from her. Soon however Frost appears outside the window and after a brief confrontation they are forced back to the lift; they decide to stop on the floor with some relics for students to test using and learning how to use in practice.
On the floor with various relics, they find 2 fire relics, a strange book with no words on it, a wind relic, an invisible relic for one person, a trident of water relic, a lightning relic, and a gem of wills. Celidh takes the book while Alita inspects the fire relics and the gem, Lana gives Gwen the trident, Talia takes the invisible relic, and Lana takes the wind the relic. After they finish, they prepare to deal with Frost.
Date: 10-642.2.24
Location: Deep Space
Cheryl flies in space in Gear form, Angela being her pilot, along a space shuttle carrying Zephyr who is the pilot; Michiru, Ariel, and Hotaru, follow along with him as Cheryl leads them to check out planets early on in the invasion incase any of them held anything of importance like a base, despite Ariel pointing out it might take awhile. After a bit they are hailed by a Suisen ship and it's piloted by John with Megumi in the background, having helped direct him to where the group is located. While Hotaru is overjoyed at John's return, John and Megumi join the shuttle and dock with each other, John moving to meet with Hotaru and carry her into the back. The larger group then continues onward as they are filled in on what happened with the Battle of PAX.
Location: Dark One Flag Ship
The Dark One Flag Ship team continues to hunt through the ship, having lost Marcus who was eaten by the ship, dealing with the defenses of the ship along the way; they soon reach a sarlac like pit where they have to battle a Dark Maka over it. With Zayne somewhere in the ship dealing with the other Dark Makas, this group does battle with the Maka remaining in the air over the pit so only long range can hit in, but eventually they manage to knock it down into the pit. As they continue onward, they encounter a Dark Reploid and have to deal with it until they manage to take it down, though Andrea does take damage in the fight with the two. Along they way, they take down hearts of the ship, destroying two of the three hearts that keep the oranic ship alive. They meet up with Zayne who has defeated some Makas and the group continues onward together further into the place, with Noire intent on finding Sommelier. Reaching the chamber of the third heart, they find the remaining leadership of the Dark Ones, minus Sommelier, who are protecting the heart, and get ready for battle.
Location: Deep Space
Hotaru sits on John's lap up front after having some fun in the back between the two as the group arrives at a planet when a massive Dark One ship exits hyperspace and begins to land, probably forced to do so due to the damage inflicted by Andrea and the rest of them inside. Cheryl leads the group down inside the ship to prepare for battle.
Session 500: The Galactic Conflict Finale
Location: Dark Flag Ship
Andrea's team faces off with the Dark Generals as they stand before the group and protect the final heart; both sides immediately launch into battle with each other, even as Andrea is suffering damage from the attack done to her by the Aura filled Dark One, slamming her into the wall from a distance. As Charlotte barely avoids being poisoned by the assassin and Noire takes a hit from the Noire, suddenly the walls that ate Dias before spit him back out to join the fight; while Ren uses her foxfire to try to give the group protection and Dias tries to use his killing intent power on the Dark Ones, only to have it canceled by the Aura one, they are then joined by Marcus from the ceiling covered in goopy junk from the ship. Now that the entire group is reunited once more, they begin to focus on the Generals and target the assassin as their main focus for now as even Jaime calls in Gnome to aid her in doing as much damage as they can do.
Location: Deep Space
Cheryl leads her Dragoon forces of Angela, Hotaru, Ariel, Zephyr, Michiru, and John up to the ship where they destroy a wall to get inside it. As John flies the space ship for the group, the walls repairing itself as they continue deeper inside, they have sentries begin to hunt after them as the ship seems to be in chaos and the group wonders if it is due to Dias and Marcus. John uses the ship's weapons along with Angela's betas to continue to blast their way deeper into the ship as they bypass hallways to reach the center of it.
Location: Back to the Battle
The team and the Dark Generals continue their major battle, the Aura Dark One doing hits that threaten to kill them in one hit; using their abilities to debuff the enemy and buffing themselves, they soon manage to take out the Assassin as Marcus uses his powers to attack it with his slamming powers and explodes it do the sheer strength of his his werewolf buff. At that moment Cheryl and her people arrive by exploding through the wall in their shuttle and join the team in their fight as Charlotte manages to use her power to stun the Fighter with her Darkness Scream. While Andrea looks surprised that both sides wishes to keep doing this, knowing how powerful the Aura is really, the fight indeed does continue. Zayne so far remains observing the fight since it is clear they do not need her, even as Mcihiru and Tabetha damages the addled Fighter, allowing Hotaru to use her scythe to destroy it while John works on something in the background.
During all this, Dias begins to focus on the Aura Dark One, attacking him as is his nature; John manages to kill the heart during all the commotion going on, causing the ship to spasm. As the ship begins to die, the Aura Dark One begins to step forward when Marcus unleashes his ultimate move and slams into him, being buffed by Tabetha, then hit by Charlotte. As John prepares the shuttle for escape as the enemy is blasted way, the team drags Marcus onto the ship. As the Aura Dark One returns as something monsterous, chasing after them, Dias and John fight over the controls until he transforms with Hotau into Gear form and flies out to deal with helping get the ship out of there; Angela and Cheryl do the same thing and help the ship escape the Dark One vessel. As they get out, the ship whithers without the hearts and the monster remains onboard roaring after them. As Angela sacrifices a Beta to blow it up to do more damage to the ship as it withers, Noire notes to her mother about praise when Andrea, due to how much damage she took in the fight and how hard she has been pushing herself, points out she is bleeding out before passing out, leading to Noire to panic needing aid from someone.
Location: PAX
Taiga gathers Jikuu, Victoire, Si, Leyeah, Thena, and Adeline and they flow through Taiga's device outside the PAX, appearing in another reality. Si warns them to prepare to fight monsters, much like the first time the crew did when they found the PAX. (see Erevis the Progenitor Season 6) As they land in the hanger they find EarthGov like vessels that appear to have been unusued for ages and Adeline warns them about the lack of air on the PAX; Adeline notes she believes it to be in sleep mode. Taiga uses Jikuu and Thena to gain access to the elevators to take them to 1A, the bridge, and once there they find a skeleton on it with long hair coming off of it. While Adeline works on restoring power to the ship, Leyeah and Jikuu examine the skeleton as Adeline gets the power back on. Leyeah manages to read the last thoughts of the skeleton about stopping the PAX from falling into the wrong hands, leading Taiga to finding some recordings. Since Victoire thinks it might be important to watch it now instead of later, Taiga has them hook up devices all over the ship for her to warp the this ship to their PAX; as they work Adeline looks into the logs for when they finish.
Date: Winter 19,966 1.26 Croza Era
Location: Kumen
The group gathers the relics to help defeat Frost, who is still lurking about the exit, and once they finish Celes leaps out the window; her green eyes begin to look reddish once again and her blonde hair begins to turn blackish as Celes taps into her speed powers, drawing Frost's aggro onto her. As everyone but Lana and Ceilidh take the window - those two decide against leaping out the window and take the lift, Celes runs around Frost to distract her while everyone escapes and Alita/Talia use fire attacks to strike Frost on their way down. As Celes begins to return to normal and Frost recovers, the ice spirit grabs Celes and Talia as Neekito returns with Liana and Ellie; Alita uses her fire to strike Frost and as Ceilidh works on her book, Frost is suddenly knocked away from the two before they are frozen to death. Simon arrives on the scene and works on Celes to reverse the ice and Ceilidh has a great wind form to send Frost flying away right as Gale arrives on the scene.
As everyone reunites, Chronos appears and informs them that even though the Croza's angelic bodies were destroyed, they are fine due to being located elsewhere controlling them. Chronos informs them she plans to send them far away to the Croza to learn from them and what is going on about the situation. Gale seems to realize the team is going away and goes to say goodbye to Ellie; she informs her the relic helps control wind directions and if really desired it can be used as a weapon, demonstrating on Id. Ellie warns her to becareful around the bad Croza and Gale promises to do so while looking into Mal'oy/Croza and his machinations. As Chronos rings her staff, the team finds themselves on a new planet with a similiar like city as Kumen's. Neekito seems to have trouble controlling her form and flickers due to the planet having less spirit energy. As they reach the spirit city after Neekito stablizes, they find tall aliens made of spirit energy, but not spirits that are humanoid, but not human shaped like spirits are generally, appearing like pure spirit energy. The beings talk in their minds and seem to be the Croza's true forms, speaking to the team with spirit energy; after a bit of discussion, they are led into the city to begin their journey with the Croza.
Date: 10-642.25
Location: Tsivrixsh Planet
Lorelei's team arrives at the indicated planet from their informant and they indeed find a planet with a large building in the center of the city that seems to be being used for gladiator combat. While Moira comments that this set-up feels familiar and Valen asks if anyone has a ping, the second they exit the ship they are met by a legion of Tsivrixsh and Amazo in a massive Tsivrixsh body. He greets Lorelei as the Angel still and promises to let them live if they join his tournament; while Rachael rages, they realize they are outnumbered and join whatever games he is planning without a fight.
Location: Another Tsivrixsh Planet
Kellin arrives at a farming planet of sorts that is barely guarded and clearly the equivalent of "country" Tsivrixsh, probably due to the Tsivrixsh who chose to go into farming not being that honorable to the Empire. They find the farm has high tech cameras - pointed inward to watch whoever it is farming and soon find Kyun himself being a clueless farmer with no idea who he is anymore, calling himself Bo'ksa now. They grab him against his will and drag him along, deciding to get a psion to help fix his brain.
Date: Winter 19,966 1.31 Croza Era
Location: Unknown Planet
The team has been set up in a inside in a massive building and given documents on the Croza Empire so they can learn everything they need about it as well as the Croza, realizing they will be there for sometime. Also Chronos spies on the team as they do their work, specifically Simon himself, apparently having been aware of the present the entire time despite playing dumb of it for the most part and looking forlorn about what is to come. While everyone prepares themselves knowledge wise, Chronos simply warns softly that "Time keeps marching on, my Summoni."