The Duality Wars: The Alien Wars 6

Session 58

<DeathStar> PAX City, Prime Earth, 10-635
<DeathStar> For the past sixth months, minor earthquakes and major storms have become a problem for the area. Yuki, age 18, has just recently become leader of the defunct Reality Strikers. The PAX, center of the Suisen Empire, remains as it had in the middle of the city.
<DeathStar> A parade goes on in celebration of 20 years of lasting peace. Yuki monitors things alone in the station as Taiga waits for Ouka amidst the festivities. Lenneth, Si, and Cheryl are also there, among others, such as Kitty. Meanwhile, Cookie goes to see Yuki, and they talk about the Strikers.
<DeathStar> As Shion arrives, flowing through the crowd, a pink-haired kitsune girl gets lost in the same. Everyone talks, starting to speculate whose child this girl might be. Taiga rescues her, and she introduces herself as Kaori. Asked where she comes from, she gives a very simple answer.
<DeathStar> The parade begins to move on, and Taiga suggests they go to Pio's to party. Most seem to agree, aside from the confused Kaori. As they start to get ready to go, origami foxes and little person-like things briefly terrorize the group, followed by Kiichigo greeting them. As they proceed, Taiga drags Kaori along.
<DeathStar> It begins to rain, and they rush along, Ouka sharing her umbrella with Kaori while some of the others express rustration. No real answers are given as to whose family the pink-haired fox might be from, if any. Inside, a holovid shows news programs about the unprecedented weather, with warnings to stay indoors.
<DeathStar> JM brings food and drinks to the group, and Kiichigo assaults Yuki with her shikigami. Taiga works on a game, while Yuki looks suspicious of Kii. Suddenly, Yuriye bursts in, grabbing Kaori with Keiji at her other arm, before Kaori can even finish properly asking if it's okay for her to be there. Yuriye raises quite a fuss, yelling for sake.
<DeathStar> As Taiga works on building two planets in her game and Yuriye orders the sake, the holovid shows a building sinking into the ground, which gets the attention of Miyuki, Yuki, and Kaori. Just as suddenly, the video ends, and Taiga heads out to tell Lenneth to raise the PAX's shields. Ouka follows, more than a little concerned.
<DeathStar> They meet with Lenneth, reporting what happened, and the shields are extended to protect the city from the rain. Ao runs scans, noting that the lower half of the sunken building is gone. There is no lower half. Taiga remarks that the kids will have to do something, and that after all, Yuki runs the Strikers now. They decide to head back to the others, first and foremost.
<DeathStar> 5
<DeathStar> 4
<DeathStar> 3
<DeathStar> 2
<DeathStar> 1
<DeathStar> -0-
<DeathStar> 10-635
<DeathStar> 6* The storm outside finally begins to abide, after 3 days. The teleporters to homes and buildings, that had been cut off, finally begin to come back online
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki steps out of the PAX onto the streets, and eyes the city. Buildings are sunk into the ground, oddly, and one building has another a bit inside it. The ground is muddy and squishy
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl and Taiga follow after, staring at it. Thankfully only a small bit of the city, a few blocks, look affected and the sun is coming out
<Seraphna> * Cookie walks with her, looking around quietly. Tabetha tailing her today as well, wearing her uniform and an overcoat.
<Sara> * Kaori peeks out and frowns. "Did it rain melty acid this whole time?"
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki pulls out Airym - via teleporter
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Lets see...if it's time for the Strikers to shine!
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Yuki, baby, you know even though I let you use the station there can't be a reality situation. You are just going to give Airym false hopes when she should be having fun in retirement
<DeathStar> <Taiga> I gave her that device to let her be other people to see what it was like
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Ignore her and do scans!
<Seraphna> Cookie> "Scan powers activate!"
<Seraphna> * Tabetha looks between them all, rubbing her head, she grins a little.
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl walks along and steps into a sink hole, her leg sinking fast
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Sonofabi-
<Seraphna> * Tabetha lifts her out with TK.
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl strains a bit then pops out, the sinkhole strong, as if the ground is just weak there
<Sara> <Kaori> Oh dear. Hidden quicksand traps.
<Seraphna> Tabetha> "Careful."
<Nyaomi> <Kiichigo> Hee hee... so black, so big... and not talking about Delano or Paladin~
<Jackieness> <Airym> *scans the area*
<Nyaomi> <Ouka> What's going on..
<DeathStar> 6* Airym gets a positive on something being up - not a pure reality thing, but there is a signature that is like it on this plane
<Sara> * Kaori looks around at the others with a frown
<DeathStar> 6* Not a multiverse reality pulse, but as if it's here
<Jackieness> <Airym> "I am detecting anomalies."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> ... wait, seriously?
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki fist pumps
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Alright, taking charge
<Sara> <Kaori> What does that mean?
<Seraphna> Cookie> "Strikers win! Right?"
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Hey now kiddo... <Yuki> Ut. Airym, who is the leader of the Strikers now?
<Seraphna> Tabetha> "It means something is seriously wrong."
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki spreads her arms to keep the older folks back
<Jackieness> <Airym> "That is irrelevant. The anomaly must be investigated."
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Bad, Airym.
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Now I might let you tag along
<Nyaomi> <Ringo> Yu, I'm scared.
<DeathStar> *not
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga deadpans. "I knew I made a mistake giving her the Strikers."
<Jackieness> <Airym> "My presence would be required to locate the anomaly."
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki pets Ringo
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Ut. I could do it. I haven't been slacking for years growing up.
<Seraphna> Cookie> "We've worked hard."
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki taps her wristband, forming a full device and eyepad, and then moves on
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Come on, Strikers or those who want to
<Seraphna> * Cookie nods. Following Yuki.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> I'm still going to keep an eye on her
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga follows
<Sara> * Kaori follows along, not having anything else to do
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl rubs her head, but follows, b eing president
<Seraphna> * Tabetha looks over at Taiga and Cheryl. "I suppose we must." *she follows* "My little Cookie has grown rambunctious."
<Jackieness> <Airym> *tries to trace the anomaly to its center*
<DeathStar> 6* There is no center to be found.
<Jackieness> <Airym> "The anomaly is not focused in a central physical dimension."
<DeathStar> 6* As Yuki walks along, eyeing the readings, she frowns, avoidng weak spots with her scanner. "This is so weird, it's like it is on our plane by not." 6* She reaches out her hand in the air. "It's fading rapidly too."
<DeathStar> <Yuki> But it seemed like it was right here, where we live. But we know we're the only thing here.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Apparantly not, judging by one or two buildings with a building in them
<Sara> * Kaori peers around
<Seraphna> Tabetha> "Evidence would suggest we are not, certainly."
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga kneels, eyeing the sinking buildings, then pauses, spotting people half stuck in the ground, wearing uniforms
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Down there
<DeathStar> 6* Many of the people look dead, due to the solid ground, and there's hundreds of people. While others look lucky where they are laying, or are in soft ground or inside buildings lobbies
<Sara> * Kaori gasps
<Jackieness> <Airym> "Hypothesis. I cannot determine the center of the anomaly because the planet itself is the anomaly."
<Nyaomi> * Rin tackles Yu
<Seraphna> * Tabetha frowns, trying to see if she can lift out survivors safely.
<Seraphna> Tabetha> "I will inform Peter that we need rescue teams here." *since he's likely already out in the city getting recovery and teams going*
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki acts asnd falls in the pit with them
<Seraphna> * Cookie shifts as Yuki is about to fall and grabs at her.
<Nyaomi> <Rin> Goooot'cha haha!
<DeathStar> 6* The people are lifted - except those who are partially stuck, those get broken boneas. Snap
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl moves down to free people and calls in backup. Taiga leaps down to help get people unburied
<Seraphna> * Tabetha lifts those she can to safety as Peter starts bring over rescue workers and relief.
<DeathStar> <Yuki> R-Rin!
<Sara> * Kaori looks quite worried
<Jackieness> <Airym> "Theoretically, point-to-point teleporters could be used to free the trapped individuals."
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl nods and calls the PAX, which works on it. One person looks like a sexy blonde man with a beard, but his face is down
<kalonZombie> 6*Hale, likely a general by now, also orders workers and relief, actually calling in Wraith Squad to help
<DeathStar> 6* Hours go by before the 800 + people are freed, around 1/4th dead.
<DeathStar> 6* Judging by scans, no records of them are known
<Nyaomi> <Rin> Hey sis!
<DeathStar> 6* Though a few are dragoon
<DeathStar> <Yuki> *looks dirty as she eyes the area* If I had to guess, this might be the epi-center, or at least where the main focus was
<Seraphna> * Jennifer frowns over the scans, especially since unaccounted for Dragoons are of interest. Apparently volunteering as a medic for the rescue effort.
<Seraphna> Cookie> "Who are all these people though?"
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki studies the buildings, which seem black, and have Earth Empire logos on them weirdly, though at the same time, there is strange plants, mushrooms that glow as well
<Sara> <Kaori> What's that emblem? It looks kind of evil...
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Airym, get samples of the emblem and that weird plant
<Seraphna> * Angelos, who looks so much like Cran, only more awesome and not evil, peers around, wiping dirt off his face from helping with his hyperspace when it was needed.
<DeathStar> -TIME JUMP-
<DeathStar> 6* Days pass and they are still trying to identify the people. Cheryl, Taiga, Yuki surprisingly, and Erevis call a meeting for those who want to be part of it, in one of the PAX's largest conferences
<kalonZombie> 6*Gor and Hale arrive, Ethan too busy trying to heal people to attend
<Chainy> 6*Miyuki enters, holding a few of her youngest that need to be with their mother, Kitty huffs as she settles down
<Seraphna> * Cookie is of course there, Peter, Michelle, Jennifer, Si'Chii, Angelos, and Tabetha also present as interested parties.
<DeathStar> <Yuki> So we find a few things! *she leaps forward, taking charge, but is surprisingly serious*
<Nyaomi> * Megumi, Chii, Freyja, Kasha, Inari, Dawn represents, Mem, Jem if Lenneth, ...
<Sara> * Kaori is oddly enough present. She seems glued to Yuki and the others since they met
<DeathStar> <Yuki> The emblem has no matches in any terminal on any planet. The materials signatures are also just a bit different. The signature in them is off by a variance of 1.234 to our reality
<DeathStar> <Yuki> The mushroom, seems to be from another location of the emblem, but the variance is basically the same
<Seraphna> Jennifer> "I thought everything was closed off for good?"
<DeathStar> <Yuki> If it was another reality, it would be more than another signature. The variance is just off by a slight number
<DeathStar> <Yuki> It would be something staggering
<DeathStar> <Yuki> If our number is 1. This is 1.234
<Sara> <Kaori> So it's like a reality in which the only difference is your hair color?
<DeathStar> <Yuki> The dragoons are like us, but seemed evolved a little different. like they came from us, but grew differently, or evolved differently
<Seraphna> Angelos> "Soooo... dimensions instead of realities? Time travel?"
<Jackieness> <Airym> "It may be an indication that this reality is being overwritten."
<kalonZombie> <Hale> Possibly both?
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Hm, maybe? I don't know! I need more time or to talk to these people. *she props her head up* I am still reviewing your footage of the end of the multiverse.
<DeathStar> <yuki> Of how everything got dumped into a blackhole in our reality
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Next, all the people have the same variance compared to us.
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga looks a bit disturbed but so far doesn't talk
<DeathStar> <CHIP> I have news
<DeathStar> <CHIP> One of the subjects has the same variance as we do. The name tag reads Samson.
<kalonZombie> <Gor> Huh.
<DeathStar> 6* CHIP brings up the subject's unconscious face. He has blonde hair, looks to be in his 30's, and has a ridiculous fake beard
<Sara> * Kaori blinks at that.
<Chainy> <Miyuki> what is THAT on his face
<DeathStar> 6* Likely stuck on before subcuming. Cheryl leans forward, squinting. Taiga pauses too, then seems to be doing something with her hands as if changing the beard color
<Seraphna> Angelos> "Hey Chip, does that mean he's from here?"
<Sara> <Kaori> Looks like a carpet...
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl and Taiga eye each other
<Jackieness> <Airym> "A fake beard. The style suggests a shop on the west coast of the North American continent."
<Seraphna> Si> "Fuuuuu... clever disguise!"
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Computer, where is all my children?
<kalonZombie> <Gor> I-
<Chainy> <Miyuki> pornstaches will never return to fashion
<Nyaomi> <Inari> Always classy, Miyuchan
<Seraphna> Angelos> "Note to self, do not grow that."
<DeathStar> <CHIP> Ben is in his office, Lorelei is doing an idol song, Aurica is off on a spiritual journey with her man, Taiga is with you, and Bigs is studying
<Seraphna> ANgelos> "And your adorable little brother is right here."
<Seraphna> * Angelos smiles and bats his eyelashes.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Huh? Oh yeah, sure
<Chainy> 6*Miyuki rolls her eyes at Angelos's antics
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl leans back, looking as confused as Taiga
<kalonZombie> 6*Gor eyes Angelos
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Anyway, anyone else got anything to add?
<kalonZombie> <Gor> You... wouldn't happen to know Dek'Serr would you?
<Seraphna> Angelos> "Good drinker."
<Jackieness> <Airym> "I am still analyzing all known data. No conclusions."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> It sounds like we need to get these people, especially Samson if that is his name, awake to answer questions.
<Nyaomi> * Megumi dozes on Erevis, in her genetically burned out state still.
<DeathStar> <Yuki> I have theories but not sure how much is right or wrong right now
<Seraphna> Jennifer> "Well if anyone can wake them it's my Cuddles."
<DeathStar> 6* Erevis peers at Megumi, wondering how a cat can sleep for 20 years
<DeathStar> <Erevis> I think Megumi needs another treatment, my sun
<Sara> * Kaori looks at Yuki quietly
<Chainy> 6*Ama spritzes Megumi with a spray bottle
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Well, shards of centerpoint got dumped into an unnatural blackhole. Lets call it a reality hole. But it was in our reality. the pieces had to go somewhere.
<DeathStar> <Yuki> But we know, after 20 years, they aren't here
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Maybe they are affected things on a 1.234 variance
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Pretty big leap
<Chainy> <Ama> while this Samson is out, perhaps we should gather their DNA? see whom he might be related to? It gives you children something to do while we wait for them to wake up
<DeathStar> <CHIP> Taking and scanning his DNA now
<Jackieness> <Airym> "Yes, it is possible that they are here but slightly out of phase. We just did not know what varance to scan for."
<Sara> <Kaori> It seems to make enough sense to me. *she says, though she has zero of the experience the others do, obviously*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> It's why I am the leader, Kaori
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki beams, adjusting her leader coat
<DeathStar> <Yuki> I will be taking applications now to join my unit
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Yuki...
<Seraphna> Angelos> "If it turns out to be me in a fake beard, I may have to cause a time divergence by not putting that thing on."
<Jackieness> <Airym> "I shall prepare a global scan for Centerpoint shards, correcting for a variance of 1.234."
<Chainy> 6*Kitty giggles
<Chainy> <Kitty> missing the old days of your youth Taiga?
<Seraphna> Angelos> "I can do homeguard work. I'm young and wasting away without action."
<DeathStar> <Taiga> N-No. <Yuki> No take backs, mother. But I will take Kitty on my team
<Seraphna> * Cookie sits back. "Of course I'm in."
<DeathStar> <Yuki> She'd make an excellent XO and teacher
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki flashes a priceless smile
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Hey!
<kalonZombie> <Gor> I guess I could come if Suzu won't try to kill me.
<Sara> <Kaori> Well, I don't have anything to do tomorrow. *she notes, even though she obviously didn't come with the Strikers to Aquarius whether she joined or not*
<Chainy> <Kitty> I will take your offer
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Wonderful, excellent!
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki beams
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga slumps, holding Ringo
<DeathStar> <Taiga> ... *Sob*
<DeathStar> <Taiga> I am old. Like mom
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> What the hell did you say?
<Seraphna> Si> "Mmm, should we join, Gor?"
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl squishes Taiga up
<kalonZombie> <Gor> I mean... I wouldn't say no.
<DeathStar> <Taiga> H-Hey! Ow! s-Stop!
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga punches wildly
<Seraphna> Si> "Old guard, that's us."
<Chainy> 6*Miyuki giggles
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Ah, not going out with her age quietly. That's my mother
<DeathStar> *She wipes a fake tear*
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki then prances out
<Sara> * Kaori giggles
* Stretch has quit IRC
<DeathStar> -TIME JUMP-
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki looks over the crew as they begin to wake up
<DeathStar> 6* CHIP speaks quietly
<DeathStar> <CHIP> We have Samson's DNA on file
<Seraphna> * Cookie blinks. "We do?"
<DeathStar> 6* Samson begins to stir, sitting up with his fake beard of glory
<DeathStar> <CHIP> Correct. It is match, with some mutation to it, to Ben's
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki leans in close, pulling the fake beard off
<kalonZombie> <Gor> Wait... it is?
<DeathStar> <Yuki> I'll be. Justa bit older
<Seraphna> Jennifer> "It's always a Carmichael that spearheads a crisis like this." *she nods with pride, the attending*
<DeathStar> <Samson> *rubs face* Where am I? Where is the ship...
<DeathStar> 6* Cheryl crosses her arms, leaning back
<Sara> <Kaori> "Ben", huh... He looks like a "Samson" to me, though, so the name works.
<Seraphna> Jennifer> "You're on the PAX, in our medical wards. Can you tell me your name?"
<Nyaomi> <Rin> He's ... like big bro? Or IS he big bro?
<Nyaomi> <Rin> Technically I guess he's uncle
<DeathStar> <Samson> Agent Samson. That is all I can give. *He eyes Jennifer, a spark there for a moment before he looks away*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Ooo, mysterious*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Can you tell us how you got here?
<DeathStar> <Samson> I cannot remember exactly. An accident.
<DeathStar> <Samson> I remember being bounced around from place to place.
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Where are you from? <Samson> Geyze. Kumen.
* Kaelan has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
* Seraphna has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga, who is near by, stiffens and hurries out
<kalonZombie> <Gor> What? Where?
<DeathStar> 6* Samson repeats it
* Seraphna has joined #Duality
* ChanServ sets mode: +o Seraphna
<Seraphna> Cookie> "You said you were on a ship?"
<Sara> <Kaori> Gaze coming?
<Seraphna> * Jennifer watches him, taking her readings.
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga enters her room, disturbed, sitting quietly before her notes
<DeathStar> <Samson> Yes before other places
<DeathStar> <Samson> Geyze.
<DeathStar> <Samson> Kumen
* Kaelan has joined #Duality
* ChanServ sets mode: +o Kaelan
<Seraphna> Cookie> "Those aren't our worlds..." *she seems to be unfocused, but for most who know her that means she's listening to someone's surface thoughts as gently as she can*
<DeathStar> 6* Cookie gets just random noise and thoughts, Samson trained to block
<Sara> <Kaori> So, is Agent your first name?
<DeathStar> 6* Taiga lifts up her Dueling Worlds game and leans back, eyeing her game. "He has to be lying."
<DeathStar> 6* She laughs, throwing it away
<Seraphna> * Cookie taps her ear in Yuki's sight, her indication to Yuki that he's blocking.
<DeathStar> 6* Yuki nods
<DeathStar> <Taiga> Ben knows and if he is Ben he would know
<DeathStar> <Samson> My title
<Seraphna> Jennifer> "SO we should call you Samson and not Agent."
<DeathStar> <Samson> Either is fine
<Sara> <Kaori> Samson B. Agenton
<Sara> <Kaori> Well, in any case, welcome to the PAX, Mr. Agenton.
<Seraphna> Jennifer> "I see..." *she frowns just a little, looking at him carefully, and since she can never help herself about Ben, sisterly*
<DeathStar> 6* Samson prepares and answers Yuki's barrage of questions
<DeathStar> -END-