Generation Legacy Issue #14 "Genocide" - Part 2

[Tokiwong]

His line of thinking is broken as he pauses to watch one of the monitors that is showing Kelly's defeat as well as the recent interview with her condeming the UNJE, although something was off with the interview, Kelly was a lot of things but he had always thought that she believed in what the UNJE was doing just not the way they were doing it.

“An interesting turn of events don’t you think? I mean first Kelly runs off and tells the whole world about everything, not my doing by the way, then you get your bodies switched… and now I have some delightful news… and yes I did save all kinds of money on my car insurance. Now I just need a car,” Chaos grins sitting on Kal’s bed.

“Well I suppose it is good from a certain kind of twisted view,” the red haired boy smirks, “By the way excellent job on the spell I was most impressed. You have proven to be a most entertaining apprentice. But now we enter the end game, my young apprentice.”

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie/Ryan is in the gym, working off her frustrations and fury. Her borrowed body sheathed in Ryan's characteristic glow as he hammers on the megaheavy bag with all Ryan's phenomonal strength. Adding in what he can channel from Ryan's comic energies as he continues to land blow after blow on them.

 

[Aenion]

Karen left Mark's room to get a quick shower and change into something more functional than Cassie's nighty, out of habit she walked into Kal's room without knocking before it registered to her that her own clothes probably wouldn't fit Cassie, "Ow," she exclaims as she runs into Gilden getting dressed, Kal wouldn't have minded, if at least she'd have her own body anyway, but she could imagine Gilden feeling very uncomfortable, "I'm s-sorry, I-I ... euhm ... I'm just gonna p-put some things ready f-for Mark, please tell him he doesn't have to shower if he d-doesn't want too," it's clear she'd prefer him not taking a shower at all. She places her uniform and some personals on the bed and then quickly leaves for Cassie's room, the whole situation making her feel very uncomfortable and very confused. (This is of course before Chaos appears)

In Cassie's room she turns on the newscast as she gets into the shower, comforted a bit by the fact that at least Chaos put her in a girl's body, she wasn't entirely sure if she wouldn't have reacted a lot like Mark did if she'd been put in his body. She'd of course seen Cassie naked in the shower after training, but she felt a bit uncomfortable touching her body.

She turns off the shower when she hears Kelly give another interview, "Oh god Kelly... I can't believe your saying that, you don't really believe that do you? What are you doing?" she watches the monitor, not believing what she's hearing coming from her friend. She wasn't sure what to believe anymore, she hadn't expected her to go to the media to begin with, but something was off about this whole interview... "Kelly!" she gasps when she sees her being put on fire by Metatron and falling, only to be caught just in time by Statesman, "Please be alright Kelly. Why didn't you just stay here?"

She finishes her shower quickly, though a bit reluctantly, she'd almost forgotten how nice the hot water felt on her skin over the past year, and changes into Cassie's uniform before heading for the trainingroom.

 

[Samnell]

"Yay," Anika/Mark says flatly. She reluctantly gets up and makes her way to Mark/Karen. "I'm really hating your body, Mark," she tells him as she begins to knead her hands together. "What the hell did you put in this thing?"

With the others gone, Mark/Karen thought for a long moment before answering, "It's a really long list. There's probably stuff I don't remember either. Some pot. Lots of cocaine, speed, heroin, I did LSD about seven or eight times."

 

[Mimic]

Gilden/Kal quickly wraps a towel around his waist just as Karen/Cassie walks through the door.

"Ow," she exclaims as she runs into Gilden getting dressed, Kal wouldn't have minded, if at least she'd have her own body anyway, but she could imagine Gilden feeling very uncomfortable, "I'm s-sorry, I-I ... euhm ... I'm just gonna p-put some things ready f-for Mark, please tell him he doesn't have to shower if he d-doesn't want too," it's clear she'd prefer him not taking a shower at all.

He stands there listening to Karen talk, his cheeks red with embaressment. "Yes, I'll tell him... her," He pauses for a second taking a breath and centering himself. "I will let Mark know" He tells her with a weak smile.

“An interesting turn of events don’t you think? I mean first Kelly runs off and tells the whole world about everything, not my doing by the way, then you get your bodies switched… and now I have some delightful news… and yes I did save all kinds of money on my car insurance. Now I just need a car,” Chaos grins sitting on Kal’s bed.

“Well I suppose it is good from a certain kind of twisted view,” the red haired boy smirks, “By the way excellent job on the spell I was most impressed. You have proven to be a most entertaining apprentice. But now we enter the end game, my young apprentice.”

"First of all. This," he says gesturing to himself, "is not funny. Genocide is a dangerous enemy. How are we supposed to confront him without being at the top of our game? Some of us could get hurt or even killed." He says angerly now that the being most likely responible is in front of him. "Second, even though you didn't have anything to do with Kelly I am sure you are no doubt enjoying the chaos that it created."

He pauses as he listens to the rest of what Chaos has to say, his curiosity peaked even though he was still somewhat angry. "End game? What end game? I thought we had until the new year before the Overseer comes into this reality?"

 

[Agamon]

With the others gone, Mark/Karen thought for a long moment before answering, "It's a really long list. There's probably stuff I don't remember either. Some pot. Lots of cocaine, speed, heroin, I did LSD about seven or eight times."

Anika/Mark just stares at Mark/Karen, dumbfounded. "What?" she gasps, not realizing the scope of Mark's past. She starts to panic at the thought of getting hooked on drugs again, but quickly calms down, taking several deep breaths before speaking. "Okay...I've controlled my own problem, and up until recently, anyway, you've controlled yours. I can do this," she says confidently.

"We need to go talk to Grumpy and Grumpier. I'll talk to Cassie, you talk to Tim, okay? Meet you at the Black Room." Without waiting for a response, she zips out of the room and down the hall. She slows long enough to find out where Cassie/Ryan is form SARAH before speeding off towards the gym, hoping to get her mind off of other things.

Walking into the gym and proud of arriving in one peice, Anika/Mark spots her glowing target at the punching bag. "Hi. If I had my own body, I'd help you out by making that thing look like Ryan," she says, smiling weakly.

"Look, Cassie, you don't have to tell me how aggrivating Ryan is to you. I totally understand. But you really shouldn't let him get to you like this. It's not worth it to get bent out of shape over what he thinks and says. I learned that the hard way. Yoshi used to make me so mad, I thought I totally and completely hated him. Now that he's gone, I realize how petty that was.

"I guess my point is, yeah, you weren't picked to go on this mission, but now you have a chance to go and prove you were meant to go all along. We need you. And not because you have Ryan's oh-so-wonderful powers. I, and rest of Legacy, thought we needed you all along, the powers that be just happen to agree with us now. What do you say?"

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Walking into the gym and proud of arriving in one peice, Anika/Mark spots her glowing target at the punching bag. "Hi. If I had my own body, I'd help you out by making that thing look like Ryan," she says, smiling weakly.

"Look, Cassie, you don't have to tell me how aggrivating Ryan is to you. I totally understand. But you really shouldn't let him get to you like this. It's not worth it to get bent out of shape over what he thinks and says. I learned that the hard way. Yoshi used to make me so mad, I thought I totally and completely hated him. Now that he's gone, I realize how petty that was.

"I guess my point is, yeah, you weren't picked to go on this mission, but now you have a chance to go and prove you were meant to go all along. We need you. And not because you have Ryan's oh-so-wonderful powers. I, and rest of Legacy, thought we needed you all along, the powers that be just happen to agree with us now. What do you say?"

A blow that hits the bag so hard that the massive bag pops off it's magnetically sealed housing and rattles the windows with the pressure wave. He turns to look at his friend and it's clear the fury in his eyes is directed to one name.

"Fine, I do the job, because it needs doing." He picks up a towel and wipes it off. "SARAH, can you give me a precedence for filing charges against someone who psychically assulted me? I'm going to be preparing charges against someone after I'm done with this mission."

He looks back. "And when we're back in our proper bodies.. I'm done. Ryan wants me gone. He got it. I am not sticking around to let him do to my body what he did to my mind. He can go to hell, I'll dance on his body after Overseer tears his damn heart out. I don't see any difference between him and Overseer, save one. Overseer is a monster and doesn't hide it."

He stalks off, tossing the towel in the bin as he walks into the right locker room, after a pregnant pause at choosing the right one.

 

[Agamon]

Anika was not in a good mood. She put on the best 'rah-rah' speech she could, considering the circumstances. But now she was just mad again. She zips into locker room before the door finisheds closing, past Cassie/Ryan and turns, stopping right in her face.

"What the hell is your problem?" she yells. "Ryan is hardly a monster, he just thinks he's better than everyone else, so who cares? You think he only acts like that to you? Guess what, he treats pretty much everyone like the same smug way, and no one else has their panties all in a knot about it. You wanna be mad at him, fine, but now you're just talking stupid. We're talking about the fate of the universe, and you're quibbling over Ryan messing with your head. ing grow up, Cassandra!"

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Anika was not in a good mood. She put on the best 'rah-rah' speech she could, considering the circumstances. But now she was just mad again. She zips into locker room before the door finisheds closing, past Cassie/Ryan and turns, stopping right in her face.

"What the hell is your problem?" she yells. "Ryan is hardly a monster, he just thinks he's better than everyone else, so who cares? You think he only acts like that to you? Guess what, he treats pretty much everyone like the same smug way, and no one else has their panties all in a knot about it. You wanna be mad at him, fine, but now you're just talking stupid. We're talking about the fate of the universe, and you're quibbling over Ryan messing with your head. ing grow up, Cassandra!"

Cassie/Ryan stops and looks at her friend. "Anika, do you knwo what the first memory I have of life is?" He takes a long deep breath. "Five bangers cutting off my costume to RAPE me. I crippled three of them, but for that first moment of life.. I was HELPLESS. I never wanted to feel like that again. Ryan VIOLATED my mind,,, because he could. you at least did stuff like that with a measure of respect and consideration. Never on a whim." He closes his eyes and his hands shake, and the shiver moves over him. "I tried to understand him. I saw his pain.. and I honestly tried to help him .. he threw it all in my face. Tell me would you save him with the way he treats people?"

 

[Agamon]

Anika/Mark looked a bit sheepish. "Oh. Look, I didn't...okay, look, Ryan isn't the most sensitive guy and is definitely the least apathetic person I know. He probably doesn't realize how you would've taken that. That hardly excuses it, though. It's not fair to do that to anyone, just because..." She shakes her head and sighs.

"The point is this. Okay, Ryan's a jerk. If he evers pulls a stunt like that again, not only do I expect you to beat on him, but I'll help. But ever since you found out that you are somehow key to stopping Overseer, you've seen it as helping Ryan. I say you stop looking at it that way and look at it as helping everyone else. If Overseer wins, everybody loses, not just Ryan."

She stops and rubs a temple. "Sorry for exploding on you like that, I'm not feeling so hot."