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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 2113865" data-attributes="member: 13737">EPIC HeadquartersMega-city of New YorkOctober 27, 2120MichelleYou get back to your room to find the door open.  There's a faint static discharge you can hear, but nobody is in the room.  On your bed is a pile of probably 3/4 of your jewelry and a lone pair of underwear.  After taking a few moments to tidy up a bit and get some shoes on, you head down the hall towards the exit.You pull open the door and run into Tara, literally.  The two of you bounce back a foot and freeze in mutual surprise.Vince...just kind of stands there drooling at the monitor?Sanjay"Mate," Rebound says with a defeated look in a hushed voice.  "Have you ever tried to tell Monica to not do something?  I mean, I've tried everything short of tying her in a sack and dropping her in the river to keep her out of here.  Me and Anna set up an elaborate lock system; she picks it.  Hell, we even set up a good alarm system to make sure I wake up; she shorted it out!  I had Loki hide the bloody door!" he says, then sighs.  "She came through the window."It aint easy for the fat kid to get a girl, so I thought it was great at first.  She's like super hot and doesn't care about this," he says, jiggling his belly.  "But it's like I gotta have her approval for dating and crap.  I've tried telling her off, but turns it around on me and makes me feel guilty.  Crikey, I like her and all, but I can't get her to leave me alone!  You gotta put out more or something, mate; keep her occupied in the mornings.  And now this," he moans, setting the food down.  "Man, what am I gonna do!""About what?" Monica says, finally coming into the room.  "You know, you really should have told me you were seeing Crystal," she scolds."If you're still here when I find my <censored> clothes, I am going to kick your <censored> <censored>, <censored>!" comes an angry and colorful scream from the bedroom.  Monica calmly sets a set of girls clothing on the table near the door."Nooo, that's not going to happen," Monica smirks.  "So, she's kind of cute.  Is this a serious thing?"Jackson just looks at you and gives you a resigned sigh.JohanYou pop out into cyberspace and zip on over to the workshops, picking a simple to replace and pretty unimportant outlet to exit from."Don't move, or the bunny gets it!" comes someone in a very recognizable voice.  Your voice in fact.  Rounding the wall you exited from, you see your alter-ego holding some sort of non-functioning ray gun on a large stuffed pink rabbit."Wraaaaa!" cries Mr. Bunny, quite distraut, obviously oblivious to the fact the gun won't have any effect on the stuffed rabbit."Do you think he knows that ray gun doesn't work?" you hear Jennifer say in an exagerated whisper.  Off to the side, you see Jennifer standing on a workbench looking at what Anna is working on, which appears to be a pair of metallic gauntlets."No," Anna replies with a shake of her head.  "And don't touch those!" she exclaims as Anna reaches for the gloves.  Too slow... with a flash of energy, Jennifer and one of the gloves vanishes, reappearing, you notice, on top of one of the battle robots recovered by EPIC for study.  Anna looks around, spotting you as she spots Jennifer.  She frowns slightly."Johan..." she says with frustration.Aboard the EPIC JetApproaching New YorkMichael"Shhhhh!" Dara says, pushing you off her and straightening her outfit, looking over her seat past Kodiak as X12 goes off.Kodiak sighs.  "I think I preferred being Mr. Happy Bear."JayYou can't help but pay attention to X12's ravings.X12The plane goes fairly quiet at X12's sudden outburst.  Thunder turns slowly back around and lets X12 finish his rant before, showing an immense deal of personal control, replying."First, yes.  I call being trained to kill or be killed 'special forces training.'  You may think what you went through is worse than that, but it is the same process the military uses.  The American military uses holograms and virtual simulations to train their special ops teams, and rest assured, the training is frighteningly realistic.  And the military uses punishment as part of their training.  It's harsh and brutal, but it serves its purpose."Second," he says intensely, taking another step forward to you, and forcing you to inch backwards towards your seat though you don't realize you are.  "You obviously can make your own choices.  You chose to join EPIC instead of the NAA military forces.  You chose to help your teammates fight people that you should have no interest in fighting.  You chose to heal the sick and injured, when you could have just left them to their suffering."Third," he says, taking another step, forcing you farther back.  "Your memories are fragmented, so you have no idea what Prophet's actual goal in creating so many clones was.  You have no idea if he has killed any of the others like you, or if they all escaped him.  Not yet."Fourth," he says with another step.  "EPIC are the only ones who can combat the power Anarchy has.  There is nobody else you'll find to help you.  The mercenary companies wouldn't take on Anarchy for all the money in the world.  The nation's hero teams can't even hold a candle to EPIC.  Even without the veterens of EPIC, not a single national hero squad can compete with the power you teenagers have.  There is no fame and fortune for taking down Prophet for anyone else; just a lot of dying.  And if you think of dragging anyone down with you, remember that Kevin didn't die fighting anyone nearly as powerful as Anarchy."Anarchy wasn't always the toughest bunch of terrorists out there.  There were a dozen villains and villain groups out there bent on world domination, or destruction or simply wanting to prophet at any expense.  And after Anarchy eventually falls to the wayside, and it will, another group will surface to take their place.  Killing one man, no matter how powerful, won't stop the evils of the world."And lastly," he says, stepping forward again as you fall back into your chair.  "If I decide to stop you from leaving the base; if I decide to lock you up; I can.  There isn't a damn thing you could do to stop me.  Remember that if you decide to test my limitations."Now buckle up, everybody," he says, addressing everyone.  "We'll be landing shortly.</blockquote>

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