Generation Legacy Issue #12

[Hammerhead]

Ryan rolls his eyes. "No naked meetings? Awww," he whines. "But Charlotte, I think we're all in danger from this information, not just one of us. I mean, Arafina must have sent assassins and thugs after us more times than I can count." Which actually is more of a comment on my aptitude at math than anything else...

"But Charlotte, I have a question," he says with a smile. "What if we decide that everything about Overseer and such is too dangerous and too secret to tell you? Would you just walk away without doing anything about the spy? Would you handle it yourself?"

 

[KentArnold]

Mr. Kincaid looks up from working on the staff vehicles in the massive garage, “Oh hey Timothy, how can I help you?” He continues working, his hands dirty, along his faded jeans and white t-shirt.

But he seems very amiable.

He manages to calm down before he starts to talk, he'd lashed out when he shouldnt have. She deserved better than what he gave her. But ... the fact she trusted Paragon ... and believed the UN was the best thing for this planet since lingerie was created, that made her a person very hard to deal with. There were other reasons, older reasons, and he didnt like pondering such things.

He forced a smile, old habits coming to the forefront, "Hey, listen, I'm sure you've heard about the festival coming up, right? Well, I'm trying to gather students willing to do art diplays, and I figured that it'd be unfair to not allow the teachers to do artistic demonstrations as well. So ... I asked Jun Min and she reccomended I talk to you and see if you're interested."

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Anika eyebrows rise. "Really? You're confident of your info? Do you have proof? Don't get me wrong, if you know who it is, I'm all for stopping him or her. But anyone sneaky enough to fool all of us could just be setting someone else up so we'll lower our guard."

Charlotte pauses a moment, thinking carefully about how she should answer Anika before continuing, "I asked Shao-lin for advice, and he gave me a vision. Something went wrong apparently and Overseer stepped in and had a friendly little chat with me." the elite paused, shivering in memory of the vision, "It seems that he's not pleased with the Red Witch and with our interests coinciding, he revealed the spy to me."

"I guess Ryan has a point, I wouldn't want you guys to end up hurt on my account. At the same time, I couldn't act myself without knowing more information so I can be fully confident in what I'm doing. And I couldn't just let you guys take the information and handle it, because it wouldn't feel right letting the fate of a friend rest with someone else."

Charlotte pauses for breath and thought again before continuing, "It's a rather confusing situation and I'm a grown up gal, so won't you please just make my job a lot easier and tell me what's going on? I admit its rather immature to be offering to trade you information I have for more knowledge, but I think I've proven to you guys I want to help you and have yet to really understand the whole situation."

 

[Hammerhead]

Ryan glances at Anika, then shrugs, as if to say, "What the hell!"

"Alright then, let's share the information we have. Why don't you tell us what you know first, so I can avoid retelling the entire damn story that I've had to do like twenty times already today."

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Charlotte smiles, looking at Anika for a moment. Assuming she doesn't see a dissenting opinion, she continues, "I really don't know much, I've inferred a lot to get to where I am now. As I understand it, Overseer is some sort of quasi-deity or at least believes he's as much from some other existence, and is obsessed with creating order to the point of taking over the world and crushing everyone in his way. The Red Witch is some sort of underling of his who used to serve him but is annoying him somehow. Cassandra is a artificially-created girl who's from the future, somehow brought to the present for some strange reason. Several 'elites' such as Gilden on campus are from another dimension, one that you guys visited a few months ago yourselves mysteriously, again. The one dating Karen...Kal, I think, considers himself a god as well...The U.N. is involved in all of this and seem somewhat shady themselves-disappearances of friends and a hefty amount of military support. Pantheon is at least somewhat involved in everything, and Overseer seems like the big bad?" she elite begins, trailing off somewhat, "I think you guys can begin see how uncoherent all of this all is for me, I see lots of different chunks of pieces to a puzzle but I don't understand how they all fit together."

"Are you sure you wouldn't want to begin first, instead?" Charlotte asks.

 

[Agamon]

"It's okay, it's fairly confusing even when you do know what's going on. And frankly, even we don't really know everything," Anika replies with a nod. "And seeing as how he's so good at telling this tale (and because he's in the middle of it), I'll let Ryan fill in the gaps," she adds with a big smile Ryan's way.

 

[Hammerhead]

"Well, I guess I'll start with the villain of our little story. Overseer was an Eternal, a group of phenomenally powerful cosmic beings who are, by definition, annoying and totally useless. Being the greedy and heartless bastard that he is, Overseer wanted to be in charge, so he made war and got his ass kicked by the rest of them. They couldn't kill him, so the Eternals stripped him of his powers and gave them to someone else, a guy in Kal and Gilden's dimension. This guy later became their famous hero Captain Cosmo. Of course, as I said, the Eternals are useless, so Overseer began to recover some of his power and fought Cosmo to get back the rest; the Captain died protecting his world from Overseer."

"So, of course, Overseer's power goes to someone else. It seems like most of it ended up with our favorite leader of Pantheon, Cardinal. The rest of it ended up in yours truly. However, only my power is in a usable form to Overseer, for some stupid reason or another that I am currently unaware of. Cardinal somehow realized that Overseer would be coming for Earth, and she realized she needed an army. So she made one. And I'm looking at two of its soldiers."

"Cassie? Well, little Miss Passive-Aggressive believes she is some kind of genetic super soldier from the future, as crazy as that is to believe. She has amnesia, that's for sure. It seems to be recurring, since she's forgotten how many other times I've tried to help her," he snaps bitterly. "Anyway, she's recently mentioned another alternative to her past, but I didn't stick around for the expanded version. Cardinal believes that Cassie is at least as important to the coming battle with Overseer, and she seems like a woman who knows what she's doing." Still, I hope I don't end up like Cardinal.

"Overseer has a bunch of thugs and lackeys. We can pretty much link them to that little Congo dictatorship that got its ass kicked a year ago, and possibly VSC, since they were supplying the Congo guys. Also, the criminal organization Water Margin; you had the pleasure of dueling its two leaders. At least one of them should be dead, might I add. And I don't think Strength would want to come back for a possible rematch after his last defeat at my hands." Okay, maybe I'm showing off a little. "Anyway, this leads me to another one of Overseer's possible, or at least former, allies, the Red Witch. Karen said she killed her before, but she somehow screwed that up. And Overseer has another henchman, RW's former boss and crazy fiery lizard guy Genocide. Those two come from another dimension, and the Witch rules Hell and commands demons. I've been spared the pleasure of a personal introduction."

"Oh yeah, this will come as news to Anika as well. The date of Overseer's coming is January 1st, next year. Any questions about Professor Ryan's lecture entitled 'Why We're All Screwed,' " he asks with an ironic smile. "I didn't miss anything important, did I?"

 

[Agamon]

"January 1st?? That soon? Gods..." Anika pauses in thought a moment. "I wonder why it's that date? You'd think the Eternals would consider themselves above using our calander. 'Happy New Year! It's the End of the World!'"

"It's not that important, but you didn't really explain Gilden and Kal's dimension," she says. "It's a world like ours, but it's about 10 years in the past and not very technologicaly advanced. But time passes faster there than here. I try not to think too hard about that, it hurts too much. The elites there are more like super-heroes and villians from comic books. That's why Kal snd Gilden are so opposed to us doing in Overseer, they must have some PG comic code stamped somewhere on them." She smiles and shakes her head at the unnecessary joke.

"Gilden is an actual wizard that uses magic. He was actually an alien on that other world, the last of his race. He helped me make this place. Kal...is a god. His world's version of one of the gods I worship, actually, which is kinda weird. The gods walk among the mortals in that world, we got caught in the middle of a fight between Thor and Ares while we were there."

She shrugs. "There. You know what we know. Now about this spy...I know you are concerned for your friend, but how can they be a friend if they're being manipulative and insincere? Besides, we still need to take this with a grain of salt. Are you absoultely sure it was Overseer ywho spoke to you? I could conjure up a pretty convincing 'vision' with him as host, myself. Not to mention that he could be lying."

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

"Thanks for the summary Ryan. The friend in question is an innocent bystander, I'm sorry to have been vague about that but I have my reasons. And I imagine you could conjure up a vision that could be pretty convincing, Anika, but I don't think you could have created this particular one...the world was destroyed, all that was left were charred bodies in very descriptive detail and Overseer was explaining how all of that was perfected order." Charlotte said, her hands shivering as she described the vision.

"I think I have a bad track record for being duped if we count Arafina, but I believe that this vision was genuine, I am honestly scared by the future Overseer showed me. Also, Ryan mentioned that the Red Witch is possibly one of his former allies, while Overseer didn't directly use her name, he did use a feminine identifier for her and seeing at his lack of allies I think we can put two and two together and make four. In that case, Overseer would be interested in foiling her plans, right?"

"I don't want to make it sound like this is a hundred percent true, that's why I didn't do any of this by myself...and you're really not going to like who the spy is. In fact, I don't think you'll believe me, but at the same time I think its important to check this out before it could place you in any sort of danger."

Charlotte took a breath before speaking, looking dramatic but really just gathering the courage to say it infront of Anika, "Overseer said that the "spy" was something who is not what he seems...Sami." The elite wanted to say more but waited to see Anika's reaction first, she imagined it would be of disbelief, perhaps rage?

 

[Hammerhead]

Ryan's eyes widen for a brief moment, his mouth open in disbelief. "Wha...Sami is the spy," he expresses in shock. Anika is not going to like this. And she's somewhat unpredictable. Uh oh. Ryan then immdediately activates his force field and quickly interposes himself between Charlotte and Anika.

"So I guess this means that Arafina is hanging out here again. And who was this friend you were worried about?"