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EPIC M&M: Issue 7 (IC)
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Velmont
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"Jennifer? Who is that girl?" ask Jay. He looks at the M-Tac soldier for a moment. "Nice camo suit. I think my father has been working on something like that without much success... Tara, I suggest you to strip him of all his gadget, just to be sure he won't have the chance to use any of them against us."
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Calinon
First Post
EPIC Headquarters
Mega-city of New York
October 27, 2120
DORMS
Johan
You zip into the open cables left by Jennifer and Mr. Bunny's hasty entrance into cyberspace. ARIS appears to be a fair bit scrambled at the moment, making travelling a bit slow, but it also appears that rapid reprogramming is taking place, courtesy of Sanchez. Despite the jumbled path, it isn't all that hard to find where Jennifer and Mr. Bunny went off to.
You emerge into your room through an electrical outlet, one that quickly melts into an unuseable state. Jennifer is jamming a lot of things into a big dufflebag. Clothes, most of which don't belong to her; knicknacks and jewelry of the same ilk. An EPIC headset, one of your gloves from your armor, a collar from Pooky and one of Titan's capes all can be seen stuffed within. Mr. Bunny sits patiently by, blowing one floppy ear out of his eye repeatedly.
When you appear, she instantly sets into you. "Ghosts are here! We gotta go before they get me! They're bad; always watching, but you can't see them back! You promised we could go, so lets go! I'll be safe with Mister Split!"
"Wraa!" Mr. Bunny says in agreement.
TARMAC
As she speaks, you see Trailblazer, Anna and seven Johan's jogging across the field towards Headquarters, a tied up man carried by six of the duplicates.
"I am most impressed with the actions Thunder has briefly informed me of," she says, ignoring the jogging figures. As she says this, your headsets blare into life, sharply whining in both of your ears. Michael is far more badly affected, but thankfully it is very short lived. Jun Po, who you notice is wearing one of the comms, doesn't even flinch.
"Sorry, kiddies and old coots alike," Sanchez comes across the comms. "But I did purch ARIS of the little scrambler dumped into her by those M-Tac bozo's."
"Good work, Sanchez," Thunder comes across the comms. "Demon says there were just five, so it looks like we have all of them. Good work, people."
That excitement done with, Jun Po continues her discussion. "Now Michael, I do wish you to cease referring to Vincent in derogatory terms. You are hardly one to make judgements against someone based on appearence, given your often used unpleasant form. And I do think, given the violence of your last meeting, that an apology to Vincent would be a very encouraging thing to see." She considers something for a moment, then adds. "Perhaps, when you do, you should take Raisa with you. Or your brother, as long as he does not force the situation to deteriorate. Actually, take both. I have a feeling Vincent is not going to be all that receptive."
"Now, while I know this long ago turned into a lecture, all three of you need to realize that this is not simply another school for any of you. You must set an example for the other students and for the public at large. It is vital, if you wish to stay a part of this organization, which I love dearly, that you learn to act in a manner befitting of a member of EPIC. This would exclude such things as bullying," she says to Michael, "open and vocal arguments with your leaders," she says to X12, "and openly promiscuous dress and activities," she says to Monica.
"I have high opinions of all of you, even if I, at times, assume a scolding tone. You have all worked very hard to earn a spot on EPIC. And I know you will work equally hard to keep those positions," she says, seeming rather cheerful. "Lecture over," she announces. "Feel free to go and find out what is going on. I have a great deal of dusting to do in my quarters unless anyone has anything constructive to add."
Monica surprises you both by saying, "I'll go change." She quickly changes into hybrid form, then fully into tiger form and, after rubbing against X12, lunges off towards the dorm.
Jun Po starts to walk towards the dorms and Michael hears her say, "Of course, Kyle. ARIS, where is Johan? And the non-duplicating one? Thank you." She changes direction towards the boys dorm.
THE WAR ROOM
With the situation contained, the various senior members get the rest of you to gather in the War Room with your prisoners. Jay, Michelle, Tara and Thunder, accompanied by Pooky, arrive first with their two prisoners. Neutron, Loki, Empath and Cosmo leave Raisa and Dara to deal with Carl and bring their tied up agent next. They are quickly followed by Vince, Rebound and Kodiak and an exceedingly nervous M-Tac operative.
Vince instantly realizes there are only four present and is just about to say something when Trailblazer, Anna and Johan (the dumb one) come in with a fifth operative, carried in by six Johans, who promptly dump him unceremoniously on the floor.
A few moments later, your comms (for those of you wearing them) blare to life, whining sharply in your ears. The blast is short lived and followed by Sanchez coming across the comms.
"Sorry, kiddies and old coots alike," Sanchez comes across the comms. "But I did purch ARIS of the little scrambler dumped into her by those M-Tac bozo's."
"Good work, Sanchez," Thunder comes across the comms. "Demon says there were just five, so it looks like we have all of them. Good work, people," he says mostly to all of you standing and sitting in the room. With ARIS working, he sends Jun Po to corall the other Johan and Jennifer.
"Well, quite an exciting day, everyone. Now, for how to handle this particular situation. I'm open for suggestions," he says, and you notice the senior members smirk a bit and not say a dang thing. It looks like it's class time for the lot of you.
Mega-city of New York
October 27, 2120
DORMS
Johan
You zip into the open cables left by Jennifer and Mr. Bunny's hasty entrance into cyberspace. ARIS appears to be a fair bit scrambled at the moment, making travelling a bit slow, but it also appears that rapid reprogramming is taking place, courtesy of Sanchez. Despite the jumbled path, it isn't all that hard to find where Jennifer and Mr. Bunny went off to.
You emerge into your room through an electrical outlet, one that quickly melts into an unuseable state. Jennifer is jamming a lot of things into a big dufflebag. Clothes, most of which don't belong to her; knicknacks and jewelry of the same ilk. An EPIC headset, one of your gloves from your armor, a collar from Pooky and one of Titan's capes all can be seen stuffed within. Mr. Bunny sits patiently by, blowing one floppy ear out of his eye repeatedly.
When you appear, she instantly sets into you. "Ghosts are here! We gotta go before they get me! They're bad; always watching, but you can't see them back! You promised we could go, so lets go! I'll be safe with Mister Split!"
"Wraa!" Mr. Bunny says in agreement.
TARMAC
"So I have been told," Jun Po says.Michael said:
As she speaks, you see Trailblazer, Anna and seven Johan's jogging across the field towards Headquarters, a tied up man carried by six of the duplicates.
"I am most impressed with the actions Thunder has briefly informed me of," she says, ignoring the jogging figures. As she says this, your headsets blare into life, sharply whining in both of your ears. Michael is far more badly affected, but thankfully it is very short lived. Jun Po, who you notice is wearing one of the comms, doesn't even flinch.
"Sorry, kiddies and old coots alike," Sanchez comes across the comms. "But I did purch ARIS of the little scrambler dumped into her by those M-Tac bozo's."
"Good work, Sanchez," Thunder comes across the comms. "Demon says there were just five, so it looks like we have all of them. Good work, people."
That excitement done with, Jun Po continues her discussion. "Now Michael, I do wish you to cease referring to Vincent in derogatory terms. You are hardly one to make judgements against someone based on appearence, given your often used unpleasant form. And I do think, given the violence of your last meeting, that an apology to Vincent would be a very encouraging thing to see." She considers something for a moment, then adds. "Perhaps, when you do, you should take Raisa with you. Or your brother, as long as he does not force the situation to deteriorate. Actually, take both. I have a feeling Vincent is not going to be all that receptive."
"Now, while I know this long ago turned into a lecture, all three of you need to realize that this is not simply another school for any of you. You must set an example for the other students and for the public at large. It is vital, if you wish to stay a part of this organization, which I love dearly, that you learn to act in a manner befitting of a member of EPIC. This would exclude such things as bullying," she says to Michael, "open and vocal arguments with your leaders," she says to X12, "and openly promiscuous dress and activities," she says to Monica.
"I have high opinions of all of you, even if I, at times, assume a scolding tone. You have all worked very hard to earn a spot on EPIC. And I know you will work equally hard to keep those positions," she says, seeming rather cheerful. "Lecture over," she announces. "Feel free to go and find out what is going on. I have a great deal of dusting to do in my quarters unless anyone has anything constructive to add."
Monica surprises you both by saying, "I'll go change." She quickly changes into hybrid form, then fully into tiger form and, after rubbing against X12, lunges off towards the dorm.
Jun Po starts to walk towards the dorms and Michael hears her say, "Of course, Kyle. ARIS, where is Johan? And the non-duplicating one? Thank you." She changes direction towards the boys dorm.
THE WAR ROOM
With the situation contained, the various senior members get the rest of you to gather in the War Room with your prisoners. Jay, Michelle, Tara and Thunder, accompanied by Pooky, arrive first with their two prisoners. Neutron, Loki, Empath and Cosmo leave Raisa and Dara to deal with Carl and bring their tied up agent next. They are quickly followed by Vince, Rebound and Kodiak and an exceedingly nervous M-Tac operative.
Vince instantly realizes there are only four present and is just about to say something when Trailblazer, Anna and Johan (the dumb one) come in with a fifth operative, carried in by six Johans, who promptly dump him unceremoniously on the floor.
A few moments later, your comms (for those of you wearing them) blare to life, whining sharply in your ears. The blast is short lived and followed by Sanchez coming across the comms.
"Sorry, kiddies and old coots alike," Sanchez comes across the comms. "But I did purch ARIS of the little scrambler dumped into her by those M-Tac bozo's."
"Good work, Sanchez," Thunder comes across the comms. "Demon says there were just five, so it looks like we have all of them. Good work, people," he says mostly to all of you standing and sitting in the room. With ARIS working, he sends Jun Po to corall the other Johan and Jennifer.
"Well, quite an exciting day, everyone. Now, for how to handle this particular situation. I'm open for suggestions," he says, and you notice the senior members smirk a bit and not say a dang thing. It looks like it's class time for the lot of you.
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Mordane76
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"Well, I'm not exactly sure how happy she's going to be when all this settles," X12 thinks to himself as he heads to his quarters. He slips in quietly, avoiding anyone else as much as he can, and locks his door behind him once he's in his quarters.
"ARIS - please prepare directions from the HQ to this address," he says, then rattles off the address for Jasman. "Also, please schedule me a meeting with Thunder to discuss a trip to meet with Jasman."
"ARIS - please prepare directions from the HQ to this address," he says, then rattles off the address for Jasman. "Also, please schedule me a meeting with Thunder to discuss a trip to meet with Jasman."
Dalamar
Adventurer
"Calm down, Jennifer," Johan says as he walks over and puts a hand reassuringly on her shoulder. "You saw that we managed to subdue her, they're just humans. And I am sure that all of them have been captured or driven away by now. Besides, wouldn't Mr. Split be very proud of you when you could tell him how you have become stronger and were able to face your oppressors without running away?"
Johan gives Jennifer a friendly smile. "You are more than safe here, Mr. Bunny and I will not let any harm come to you. So why don't we just head to the War Room like Thunder asked us before we should leave?"
Johan gives Jennifer a friendly smile. "You are more than safe here, Mr. Bunny and I will not let any harm come to you. So why don't we just head to the War Room like Thunder asked us before we should leave?"
Velmont
First Post
"First thing, it would be nice to know why they have come here. Why don't we listen to them." Jay looks at the M-Tac soldier brought by Kodiak "Let gives them a chance to explain themselves. If they do not cooperate, we will advise. How many laws did they break by doing what they did? What legal power do we have over them? I suppose they will be hard to touch throught the law."
Jay pause for a moment, scanning around the people he has. As his eyes come to Empath, he adds "And are we in our right to probe them if they don't cooperate?"
Jay pause for a moment, scanning around the people he has. As his eyes come to Empath, he adds "And are we in our right to probe them if they don't cooperate?"
"Its pretty obvious that they were here for Jennifer," Michelle states starting to pace, "but since you are new here you wouldn't know that." She adds giving Jay a small smile.
"It would seem that there are 3 obvious choices. One," she says still pacing, "give her back to Split... but that is wrong on so many levels I'm not even going to start. Two, give her back to M-Tac. Personal feelings aside, I don't think that would be the right choice either, she doesn't really know the difference between right and wrong so should she be punished for it?" She stops pacing as a dark look crosses her face. "Even if she did take my jewerly," she mutters quietly.
"Lastly," she says with a sigh, "is we keep her here... She is a mutant so EPIC has some responsiblity to try and straighten her out but we can't continue to let her run rampant. So I was thinking if we could neutralise her powers, like Split did to us with those bracelets on the mag-lev but make it so she couldn't take it off. It could even contain a tracking device, that way her powers are controlled and she is being watched all the time, which would make M-tac happy and EPIC could have a chance at rehabiliating her."
"It would seem that there are 3 obvious choices. One," she says still pacing, "give her back to Split... but that is wrong on so many levels I'm not even going to start. Two, give her back to M-Tac. Personal feelings aside, I don't think that would be the right choice either, she doesn't really know the difference between right and wrong so should she be punished for it?" She stops pacing as a dark look crosses her face. "Even if she did take my jewerly," she mutters quietly.
"Lastly," she says with a sigh, "is we keep her here... She is a mutant so EPIC has some responsiblity to try and straighten her out but we can't continue to let her run rampant. So I was thinking if we could neutralise her powers, like Split did to us with those bracelets on the mag-lev but make it so she couldn't take it off. It could even contain a tracking device, that way her powers are controlled and she is being watched all the time, which would make M-tac happy and EPIC could have a chance at rehabiliating her."
Gideon
First Post
Michael, 5/5, hunky-dory
Standing there by himself all of sudden, Michael just looks around slightly. "Um...I guess I'll go find Cos and Raisa then."
Heading over into the building proper he starts walking over to the mess hall "ARIS, Where are Cosmo and Raisa."
As Michael stalks into the mess hall he sees Carl, lying food splattered with a dumb look on his face, and the Odd-but-amazingly-attractive Couple that is Dara and Raisa. With a smile stamped on his face, Michael walks over to the group of them "Her Raisa, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind helping me later. I have to talk to Ug-Vince and I don't really want to get into a fight. Figured you could watch my back?"
Standing there by himself all of sudden, Michael just looks around slightly. "Um...I guess I'll go find Cos and Raisa then."
Heading over into the building proper he starts walking over to the mess hall "ARIS, Where are Cosmo and Raisa."
As Michael stalks into the mess hall he sees Carl, lying food splattered with a dumb look on his face, and the Odd-but-amazingly-attractive Couple that is Dara and Raisa. With a smile stamped on his face, Michael walks over to the group of them "Her Raisa, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind helping me later. I have to talk to Ug-Vince and I don't really want to get into a fight. Figured you could watch my back?"
Calinon
First Post
EPIC Headquarters
Mega-city of New York
October 27, 2120
Johan
"Nuh uhhhh!" Jennifer says. She points at ARIS and the screen shows the war room with the majority of EPIC there and five trussed up members of M-Tac. "We gotta get away. There's still a ghost out there. There are always two of them."
There's a knock at the door.
X12
"I'm sorry. Your access to my database has been termporaily suspended. Please use one of the public terminals in the library or common area," ARIS responds.
Michael
Raisa tosses Carl a towel but avoids offering a helping hand up.
"Oooo, I wonder if Vince is still mad," Dara says, eating yet another apple.
"Yeah, I wonder," Raisa says sarcastically. "Constant heckling and dismemberment; why would he still be mad? Honestly, Michael, I have some serious doubts at my ability to actually stop someone that can go supersonic."
"I could kneecap him," Carl says, getting up and towering over the rest of you. He kind of sounds serious.
"Bad Carl," Dara scolds.
"Hey, whatever," Carl says, heading for the door. "Just an offer."
WAR ROOM
"Well, Split came to get blood samples from the institute and Jennifer was the one that disabled ARIS completely. She can merge with computer and electronic systems, travel inside them losing her physical body, and animate or control machines. She can even take entities and objects from the virtual world and keep them sustained in ours. That's why Split was using her, and why M-Tac wants to lock her up.
"Let's just hope they don't find out Johan broker her out can do the same things now," he says with a shake of his head.
"I can't do none of that junk," Johan says.
"The smart Johan, numnuts," Cosmo says, kicking his feet up on the table.
"Oh. Hey!" protests numnuts... errrr Johan. Anna punches Cosmo in the arm. Cosmo just smirks.
"Cool it," Thunder says.
"Guess you shouldn'ta told that chick Johan broke Jennifer out of jail, huh Sanjay?" Loki says to Neutron with a laugh. "Uh, did I say Sanjay? I meant Vince...uh... Cos... uh... I'm pretty sure it was Dara actually. Yes, definitely Dara," Loki says with an embarassed grin.
"Way to go, Sport!" Cosmo laughs.
Mega-city of New York
October 27, 2120
Johan
"Nuh uhhhh!" Jennifer says. She points at ARIS and the screen shows the war room with the majority of EPIC there and five trussed up members of M-Tac. "We gotta get away. There's still a ghost out there. There are always two of them."
There's a knock at the door.
X12
"I'm sorry. Your access to my database has been termporaily suspended. Please use one of the public terminals in the library or common area," ARIS responds.
Michael
Raisa tosses Carl a towel but avoids offering a helping hand up.
"Oooo, I wonder if Vince is still mad," Dara says, eating yet another apple.
"Yeah, I wonder," Raisa says sarcastically. "Constant heckling and dismemberment; why would he still be mad? Honestly, Michael, I have some serious doubts at my ability to actually stop someone that can go supersonic."
"I could kneecap him," Carl says, getting up and towering over the rest of you. He kind of sounds serious.
"Bad Carl," Dara scolds.
"Hey, whatever," Carl says, heading for the door. "Just an offer."
WAR ROOM
Thunder gst a strange expression at that point. "Hmmm... tracking device," he mutters.Michelle said:
"I do not believe it will matter if they co-operate or not. They can't really tell us anything we don't already know, Jeremy," Empath syas.
"Kodiak, would you take our guests to a holding room. I think we're pretty much done with them," Thunder says. Kodiak and Trailblazer take several Johans and the five M-Tac agents out of the War Room, leaving their gear behind.
"Well, Split came to get blood samples from the institute and Jennifer was the one that disabled ARIS completely. She can merge with computer and electronic systems, travel inside them losing her physical body, and animate or control machines. She can even take entities and objects from the virtual world and keep them sustained in ours. That's why Split was using her, and why M-Tac wants to lock her up.
"Let's just hope they don't find out Johan broker her out can do the same things now," he says with a shake of his head.
"I can't do none of that junk," Johan says.
"The smart Johan, numnuts," Cosmo says, kicking his feet up on the table.
"Oh. Hey!" protests numnuts... errrr Johan. Anna punches Cosmo in the arm. Cosmo just smirks.
"Cool it," Thunder says.
"Guess you shouldn'ta told that chick Johan broke Jennifer out of jail, huh Sanjay?" Loki says to Neutron with a laugh. "Uh, did I say Sanjay? I meant Vince...uh... Cos... uh... I'm pretty sure it was Dara actually. Yes, definitely Dara," Loki says with an embarassed grin.
"Way to go, Sport!" Cosmo laughs.
