Generation Legacy Issue #13 "Genocide" - Part 1

[Shalimar]

"Maybe we could offer to trade her Ryan." Kelly offers half in jest. "I would like my soul back...if we can...but If we can't we can't. I really don't want to lose any of you guys to get it back, it wouldn't be worth it to me." she adds the last part reluctantly, but hastens to add that she doesn't want them hurt. It was important to her...but it was weird, she wasn't really reacting normally, not that everyone even believed in a soul or would care that it was missing. The popstar sounded quite hollow.

"Can't we just take down Genocide, and then when the Red Witch gives me my soul back take her down too? I think they both should be stopped, leaving them go just makes things easier for Overseer. Maybe I can find out where she is with my powers like I saw mom and dad."

 

[Hammerhead]

Bishop answers, “Her family has always been a little odd, but then again I never was much involved in her personal affairs. Cardinal as a person, she is intelligent, highly intelligent, insane, and determined to achieve her goal by any means needed. She believes her path is the most correct one, and has a gift of foresight that is uncanny.”

Mrs. Mitchell adds softly, “That family is only a family in the loosest sense. The children have no father, not one that I have met… Cardinal is a brilliant geneticist, of course there isn’t much she couldn’t do on her own… those children were grown from her own cells… she was never much of a mother, but she was a powerful thinker and leader.”

Bishop furrows his brows, “Well how do you know that?”

“Because I helped create them… and the virus,” she says softly.

I knew she was a geneticist; she had to be, if she created Elites.

"What's her name? I mean, her real name, the one her parents gave her? And why did she decide to call herself Cardinal? I'm guessing she's not a fan of the baseball team," Ryan jokes half-heartedly, still intently interested in the conversation.

"What virus did she create?"

 

[Agamon]

"Can't we just take down Genocide, and then when the Red Witch gives me my soul back take her down too? I think they both should be stopped, leaving them go just makes things easier for Overseer. Maybe I can find out where she is with my powers like I saw mom and dad."

"Kelly, the deal is that we destroy Genocide, that's what she wants, or no deal. And if it makes her more powerful...she's already too powerful. Besides, if we get that staff of hers, I'm pretty sure we could get you back your soul ourselves."

Anika turns to Mark. "And if we only capture Genocide, that will make her angry. And then she'll likely do something we'll regret. We should go after her first, then Genocide...unfortunately, that only gives us a couple days to find her and find out how to unbind that thing from her. Not to mention the fact that our spy that doesn't know they're a spy could be relaying all this info as we speak..." She sighs, not sure how to go forward.

 

[Tokiwong]

"What's her name? I mean, her real name, the one her parents gave her? And why did she decide to call herself Cardinal? I'm guessing she's not a fan of the baseball team," Ryan jokes half-heartedly, still intently interested in the conversation.

Mrs. Mitchell replies, “Her real name, I doubt I even know her real name. I was her friend for a long time, we were close before… before a lot of things happened. I am not sure if I want to get into that right now with you, Ryan. This may be a simple matter for you, but this is, or was my life, and with everything that has happened in the last few days, I don’t have the energy for this.”

Bishop stays silent.

"What virus did she create?"

Bishop speaks, “As far as the virus…”

“The virus, it isn’t exactly a virus… but it is what makes the difference between a baseline human and an elite… it won’t kill you. But it will make you something more then human. Of course I had no idea that she would unleash it upon the world like she did. Unlike a designed biological weapon the effects are actually variable and uncontrollable. With the very real side effect of genetic incompatibility within the same species… well. I mean you can’t mate a dog with a cat, it can be the same between elites even ones that look totally human,” she answers.

Bishop nods, “And the governments knows this, hence they are trying to stop the spread of the virus, by the next century baseline humanity will be extinct.”

Mrs. Mitchell sighs, “That is one prediction.”

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie looks at the newly arrived Yoshi. "Fine tell me what you're thinking he's trying to hide"

 

[Tokiwong]

Cassie looks at the newly arrived Yoshi. "Fine tell me what you're thinking he's trying to hide"

“Cassie, it isn’t about hiding anything… it’s about lying to you… everything you know,” Yoshi offers his hand, “Trust me.”

The other Yoshi sitting by the fire speaks, “Cassandra, you go with him, you learn nothing. You stay here and listen and I will tell you why you are, and what it is that you must do for a better tomorrow. You choose; the path of least resistance or the truth.”

 

[KaintheSeeker]

"Why not just tell me when I asked?" Cassie asks reminding the one byu the fire she had already asked.

 

[Tokiwong]

"Why not just tell me when I asked?" Cassie asks reminding the one byu the fire she had already asked.

“I was going to when I was interrupted,” he says tending the fire, “Have you decided?”

 

[KaintheSeeker]

“I was going to when I was interrupted,” he says tending the fire, “Have you decided?”

"I think you have said enough." Cassie says calmly. "in addressing me, and in making excuses. Yoshi never called me by my full name." Cassie looks to the other Yoshi. "Show me what you got."

 

[Tokiwong]

"I think you have said enough." Cassie says calmly. "in addressing me, and in making excuses. Yoshi never called me by my full name." Cassie looks to the other Yoshi. "Show me what you got."

Yoshi smiles, “Cassie…”

“I see,” the fire dies as the other Yoshi throws the stick on the now dead fire. He continues speaking the voice taking on a feminine tone. Shadows enwrap the figure as it grows taller, a hood now covering the face, obfuscating the feature.

Yoshi takes Cassie’s hand, “Oh man this looks bad…”

“I created you,” she speaks, “I destroyed you, I recreated you… all my children for one purpose. Vengeance… I will not let some impudent child destroy everything I have worked for. Time is not infinite, and time is running out for creation. It is inevitable, Cassandra. I created you for greater things seeded your mind with what you needed to know, guided you and your friends towards a conflict that will bring about my vengeance. You are a tool, a tool of my vengeance. That is what you are, you are not a person, and you are a tool ready to be deployed for my vengeance… he may have forgotten, but he will remember and that will be his weakness. Then my other pawns will strike him down… that is the flow of time, that is where your journey will end,” the mysterious entity finishes.