The Reality Strikers Session 66: The Strikers Disband
Location: Asteroid C
Over the past month, the Strikers have been doing reality checks looking for Nyarl but everything seems to be normal and nothing stands out, even with the Tareh device to keep the portal open and time flowing normal between the two realities. As everyone meets, they speak about what they should do next and Taiga, Ren and Yuki's dimished Reality power since the events of 600. Adeline seems to be sporting shoulder length hair as well due to the events of it. Taiga picks up something with an Oddverse and the group sets out for Oddverse 17 where they find Sasha's pyramid is a massive pyramid that rises up high into the sky, ala the PAX. Taiga has Jaime sense out the spirits where she learns all the spirits located about the academy is paired up with a student. Some have the same one, another have different ones, and as they walk around the academy, they eye each other side ways. They learn it's a reality where one student is given to a student where they train them in a dungeon and then battle in a tournament against each other for rankings in the class.
They run into Selena who looks 13 in this reality and learn she is the only Aska summoner, leaving her to be left alone by the others, thus annoying Noire. The Jaime, Jikuu, and Adeline opts to help Selena out against Noire's wishes who thinks they should leave the reality. However, as they return to the Asteroid C, leaving Jaime and Adeline behind to help out with Selena. Taiga begins to delete the plan to explore more Oddverses since Noire was so against it, essentially leading to the idea of just closing the Strikers down since she believes they need to just Observe and Learn which Taiga points out she can use her drones to do if there's no need for interfernce. As everyone splits up and goes their own way, Si not hiding her feelings until Taiga snaps at her and Ren, Charlotte, and Noire leaving back to Tokyo.
Back at Oddverse 17, Jikuu, Jaime, and Adeline have entered the tournament and all this leads to more confident for Selena as she learns something watching the others and battling with and against them, thanking them. Afterwards, Ren is at the bar with Akatsuki working on the Fumoffu club once more and Madison, hearing that Noire has free time invites her back to her old job with her. It would appear that the Strikers are indeed disbanded for good, with Taiga and Si running it themselves alone.
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.
The Reality Strikers Session 67: Fumoffu Once More?
Location: PAX
Noire arrives at their old club room where she finds Ren has decorated with spooky stuff, tomes, and Akatsuki dressed like a mini Noire that impresses even Andrea. After seeing no one is else is arriving, Ren takes one of the tomes provided by Andrea, she goes on about the various lore aspects and some low level chants, but what caught her eye was haunted areas; noting that Andrea said these tomes existed here, they might exist in other realities. The team arrives all dressed up in various outfits to meet up with Taiga where Andrea does something to knock her out so they can use the gate, mumbling about side effects and positive it would not make her neurotic later down the road. They arrive in the reality where Halloween is going on and head toward a Dark Shrine in the mountains. The come across dark eggs all over the shrine grounds where a siren attacks them and they gather some of the eggs and retreat it back toward Asteroid C. Andrea identifies some of them as dark dragon eggs and dark dog familiar eggs. Andrea keeps one for herself to do as she wishes with to experiment on and gives Charlotte one since Noire already had one.
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.
The Reality Strikers Session 68: Rise of Jarivan and Turkey
Location: PAX
Ren is eyeing the Dark Eggs they got last time, wondering what they taste like, as Jaime notes Sudako came out of one of those long ago leading to Ren to note that Noire and Charlotte can have their own Dark Familiar - if Ren doesn't eat them. While Adeline reads up on the eggs, the group debates what to do for the holiday season and they decide to do a hot spring episode/party and go to New Jarivan. Once there and getting past the Jarivan nonsense, they set up at the hotsprings and relax; there they meet up with Asarar's group. Asarar regals them with some stories about ghost stories on Kumen while they're there and while they're leaving Jaime is alerted that she has a chance to buy property on New Jarivan since she owned property on the original Jarivan - however the price is quite steep. As they study the place, it being a space station like location and the tech seeming to be familiar to Adeline who muses that it seems familiar to her having been working on PAX technology for years now, the group decides to leave for the time being.
As they return to the PAX, they find no sign of Ren, who decided to stay behind, or the eggs. They use the tracker to find out she never came back from Asteroid C where she went after seperating from the group. As they arrive they find the gate open and no sign of Taiga. At that moment they are attacked by a Pilgrim hunting Kumiko, who they easily defeat and learn that it was from an Oddverse. They head inside and find Turkey Spaceships and hoardes of angry turkeys attacking which they have to defeat; it turns out Ren was there for some turkeys for the holidays. Charlotte's dog egg has hatched and joins Charlotte, being a good dark dog, while the two dragon eggs remain unhatched for now. After defeating the turkeys the team leave the Oddverse while Ren now has ton of turkeys to eat. Alien turkey.
Timeline: 10-644.11.15 - 12.31
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.
The Reality Strikers Session 69: The Sexy Space Adventures of the Strikers
Location: PAX
While Jet, Noire's Dark Dog, chases Jaime around, Yuki and Erica arrive where they discuss Taiga going NEET recently and sending drones, Si, and Tora to do her bidding. After some accidental Mireille eating by Jet, the group sets out to check on Taiga. Once they arrive at Asteroid C, they find Jubei manning the gate while Taiga is going to Oddverse 69 to check on the Aquarius there. The team follows her in where they discover a reality that seems to revel in it's degenerate nature. They have to navigate the people thinking they are their 69 counter parts without getting involved with the smoking and the sex until they pull Taiga out and once they are back, she mentions she's discovered something odd going on about the Mirror Universe and after asking Erica some questions, plans to prepare the Striker once it's geared up enough for such a trip, believing the place is no longer as dangerous as it used to be for some reason.
The Reality Strikers Session 70: The Castle
Location: PAX
Ren boredly waits in the club room while Taiga prepares for the Mirror Universe trip, however as everyone shows up Ren brings up stuff they can do, such as the hauntings in Kumen that Asarar mentioned. She shows images of a haunted massive castle that is supposedly in the center of the city where Tora's CorSec used to be before it was destroyed long ago. The team heads up there to check it out where Asarar admits she hasn't heard the castle legend, but the golden werwolf is a popular one. But it appears Ymir moving her Macross HQ to the center where CorSec's old location, they can see construction being done and opened tunnels going down beneath to where the old Net system tunnels before it exploded. As they get past all the crews and guards, they reach the undergrounds and indeed find a classic looking medieval castle and begin to explore it, with what appears to be classic horror stuff. At the end they are even chased by a Mummy who they attempt to avoid by going further through the castle until they notice it is bleeding and it turns out to be Tora. It seems to be her secret lab she designed long ago before building the CorSec building up top when everyone first came to Kumen and she needed a place to go into cyro sleep with Sen, designing the castle to try to keep people out. However, a vampire has indeed set up home at the castle during this time and the group has to get rid of it. Afterward, Tora notes she'll come back and get her stuff and move before Ymir finishes her construction.
The Reality Strikers Session 71: Mirror Mirror
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga, Erica, and Yuki prepare everyone with what they'll need to know before going into the Mirror Universe, including the run-ins with the Anti Spirits last time with the Aquarius and how they tried to go after Sylph and Mireille. After bringing everyone up to sleep on how the Net was corrupted at the time before getting shut down and restarted and how that Net was used to go into the Mirror Universe, Taiga plans to use the Reality Gate to return to the Mirror Universe since it has it's own address. As they go up into the ship, they find the children once again hiding up on it to go into the universe once more before they are sent away. As they arrive in the Mirror Universe, one thing interesting is that while there is no Yggdrasil, unlike other realities where there is an empty space, a shadowy image of a tree can be made out where Yggdrasil is located. As they near it, they scan the it and see a massive crystal like structure, oddly broken in places and cracked, but in the formation of a tree.
As they continue, there is only one world now where Kumen and Geyze once was located; it seems to have an anti-field around it that would mess with the Aquarius' engines. As they study the planet, it looks like the planet is a world with Geyze, Kumen, and the Spirit Planet's landmasses all fitting together perfectly. As they prepare the ship to continue to go to the tree while they go down to the surface, Anti-Spirit Life Forms rise up to go after it. After a brief teleport problem, they arrive on the surface where they see a hogepodge of cities from both worlds. After going to the library to try to learn more, they see history begins around 10-641 with no one seeming to notice that fact. Samson catches them in the library and has them follow him, which Erica trusts him on. He explains after Kaori took everyone, the universe died and came back to life as Anti-Spirit creatures, explaining that they began to take human form and not realizing they were monsters; their duty now is to guard the tree.
After musing on the nature of the creatures, the group heads back up to the ship wondering how they could get near the tree without riling the Anti-Spirits. As they prepare to go, they spot the serpent - or at least part of it's essence over here - in the tree. They muse on the nature of it being here and if that's the full thing and how it manages to destroy their reality. As they debate what to do, one of the engines flares and explodes, drawing the Antis and they have to flee away back to their reality, with the swarm coming in after them, attacking the ship. The group barely makes it back, but the Striker is damaged beyond use, floating and smoking, and Taiga injured.
Date: 10-645.1.18
Location: PAX
Taiga eyes some white in her hair as they go over a post-mission briefing, informing that the Mirror Universe vanished from the reality map, making it hard to go back and learn more about the Anti Spirits and the Serpent. Charlotte notes that they could probably use Yggdrasil to try to go back and locate them or use Kaori's Crystal Pathways. The group puts it on hold for now until they can locate it, but it's clear that re-locating the Mirror Universe might solve some major problems later.
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.
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.
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 9: Magi Unorder
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 10: Blood Magic
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 Lead-Ins
These are the three mini-series for the Heart of Darkness crossover between Reality Strikers and The Alien Wars 6: The Alternate Heart, The Classical Heart, and the Angelic Heart. These 5 part mini-series served as the wrap up for the reality arcs and the lead in's for the the Striker's end.
The Reality Strikers Session 72: The Heart of Darkness Foreward
Location: A Hotel Ship, Docked at Port
The Reality Strikers Session 73: The Heart of Darkness Preface
Location: North American State
Session 612: The Heart of Darkness Prelude
Location: PAX
The Reality Strikers Session 74: The Heart of Darkness Chapter I
Location: Asteroid C
The Classical Heart Session 5: The Heart of Darkness Chapter II
Location: Desert Region
The Angelic Heart Session 5: The Heart of Darkness Chapter III
Location: Near the Templar Ruins
Session 613: The Heart of Darkness Chapter IV
Location: Geyze
The Alternate Heart Session 5: The Heart of Darkness Chapter V
Location: A Space Station over Classic Earth
Session 614: The Heart of Darkness Chapter VI
Location: Near the Illium Fortress
The Reality Strikers Session 75: The Heart of Darkness Last Chapter
Location: PAX
Session 615: The Heart is Broken
Location: Geyze
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 11: Spirit Conflict
Location: Geyze
Session 616: Children of Dreams
Location: PAX
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 12: Generations of Spirits
Location: The Academy
Location: Earth
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 13: Mysteries of the Spirit
Location: The Academy
Location: Earth
Location: Geyze - Rewinding In Time A Bit
Location: PAX
Session 621: Record of Spirit War Part I
Location: Earth
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 14: Record of Spirit War Part II
Location: Geyze
Session 622: Record of Spirit War Part III
Location: PAX
Session 623: Record of Spirit War Part IV
Location: PAX
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 15: Record of Spirit War Part V
Location: The Academy
Session 624: Record of Spirit War Part VI
Location: Cartel Space
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 16: Record of Spirit War Part VII
Location:
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 17: Record of Spirit War Epilogue
Location: The Academy
Location: PAX
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 18: Duality of Planets
Location: Geyze
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 19: Kumen and Geyze
Location: Geyze
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 20: Fossilized Past
Location: Geyze
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 21: Dawn of a New Era
Location: Kumen