Generation Legacy Issue #15

[Agamon]

Anika listens as the other fill her in, a more determined expression filling in the blank one. "You heard them, people, let's do what we can to help out here." She squeezes Sami's hand and tries to smile for him before beginning to do what she can to help at the institute and the rest of the city.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Bishop adds, “She wants fear and control, she wants to force the decision of what side elites are on. She wants a war.”

"And with this scope of things.. there is nothing we can do to defuse it." Cassie replies looking sadly at the wreckage. "I should have agreed to go with her."

 

[Samnell]

The portal opens, and the students step back through to their lovely institute. Or at least it was, but now it is just a ruin, there is smoke in the distance, where the skyline of Mudaba Adin was… now just smoke, fire, and despair. The main forms are torn down, destroyed… although the Yoshi statue still stands, covered in dust, and debris.

"," Mark breathed at the spectacle. This is a parallel dimension or something, like where Gilden came from. Anika screwed up the spell and-

"Cardinal happened. Welcome to Hell," Ryan says sourly, giving an ironic wave. "There might still be enemies around, not to mention the threat of radiation, so I'd put up your force fields if you got them."

That's our Ryan. Mark stared at the wreckage of home, eyes wandering past Yoshi's statue to the faculty quarters where he lived. It's gone. All of it. Even the pool. He felt something trying to climb up his throat.

Jun Min pauses putting her hand over her mouth. The pause is lengthy, “Oh my god… Cairo… Berlin… were also attacked. This was worldwide; I am trying to make sense of it all. What in the hell is she thinking?”

"That's, uh, that's not our problem right now," Mark croaked unconvincingly. "We're here and-"

Anika listens as the other fill her in, a more determined expression filling in the blank one. "You heard them, people, let's do what we can to help out here." She squeezes Sami's hand and tries to smile for him before beginning to do what she can to help at the institute and the rest of the city.

"Y-yeah, we have a job to do. In pairs in case some of the Cardinal's friends are looking for us or someone still alive here freaks out and doesn't recognize us."

 

[Tokiwong]

"And with this scope of things.. there is nothing we can do to defuse it." Cassie replies looking sadly at the wreckage. "I should have agreed to go with her."

Jun Min slaps Cassie, "We don't have time for this, Cardinal murdered Kelly right before my eyes and you want to go with that monster? This is what she wanted, this is what she chose. Time to wake up Cassie. I am sorry, but nothing good could have come from that choice."

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Jun Min slaps Cassie, "We don't have time for this, Cardinal murdered Kelly right before my eyes and you want to go with that monster? This is what she wanted, this is what she chose. Time to wake up Cassie. I am sorry, but nothing good could have come from that choice."

Cassie's demeanor changes, fury clear in her eyes even as all emotion vanishes from her face. "I see. Then I know what must be done." She looks straight at Jun Min. "And I need to KNOW more than ever, because aside from Ryan, only an ETERNAL can kill her."

 

[Mimic]

Gilden slips his arm around Gadget's waist in an effort to support her as well as himself in the face of this reality, he didn't know what to say or to do right at this moment, It was almost to much to come to grips with.

"By the gods, why would she do this. How is this going to accomplish her goals?"

Jun Min slaps Cassie, "We don't have time for this, Cardinal murdered Kelly right before my eyes and you want to go with that monster? This is what she wanted, this is what she chose.

"Kelly is dead?" Gilden stammers, not ever reacting to Jun Min slapping Cassie. "How? Why?"

"You heard them, people, let's do what we can to help out here." She squeezes Sami's hand and tries to smile for him before beginning to do what she can to help at the institute and the rest of the city.

"I can search out the survivors quickly, follow my instructions and we may be able to save some of them." Gilden replies more steadily, he quickly clears a space around him as he sits cross legged. "If you can connect to my mind Jun Min we can pass on the information we find to whom ever is closest." The rest is a blur as he casts out using his esp to find anyone trapped but still alive.

 

[Hammerhead]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that anyone who hits hard enough can kill Cardinal, but I can't do jack . Kelly was at least able to hurt her, slightly, before Cardinal killed her." Where does Cassie come up with this stuff? Looks like Legolas is as cold as ice...good news, for once.

"Tell Paragon I'm heading into the city," Ryan instructs Jun Min as he turns and flies full speed towards the wreckage. How did she get so many bombs...then again, she was a brilliant scientist. I'm sure she could have figured something out. But fantasizing revenge against Cardinal isn't likely to reduce the damage, and it may even leave us weak against Overseer.

 

[Tokiwong]

Actually, I'm pretty sure that anyone who hits hard enough can kill Cardinal, but I can't do jack . Kelly was at least able to hurt her, slightly, before Cardinal killed her." Where does Cassie come up with this stuff? Looks like Legolas is as cold as ice...good news, for once.

"Tell Paragon I'm heading into the city," Ryan instructs Jun Min as he turns and flies full speed towards the wreckage. How did she get so many bombs...then again, she was a brilliant scientist. I'm sure she could have figured something out. But fantasizing revenge against Cardinal isn't likely to reduce the damage, and it may even leave us weak against Overseer.

Ryan heads to the city, the devastation is immediate and total. He can see shadow burns in the ground, corpses, and wreckage. It is eerily quiet at times, and other times fires still burn. A rescue aerodyne zooms towards the core of the city; following the craft he finds Paragon already leading rescue operations.

Paragon greets Ryan, “Jun Min told me you were on the way, perfect timing. We have an idea how Cardinal pulled this off, she used a human bomb, a suicide bomber on a level we have not seen. I am not sure on the specifics but we got a specialist in the field of past events. We are still trying to confirm the details but the source is reliable.”

Oracle lands, “I am sure of what I saw.”

Kensai leaps out of the aerodyne barking orders as he approaches the gathered elites, “Communications are still down, we can’t get anything, and the wounded are still pouring in. No word on Cardinal’s location.”

Oracle shakes her head, “Nothing, no psychic impressions.” She then looks curiously at Ryan, “You look older then I expected.”

Back at the Institute

Jun Min nods to Ryan’s retreating form and then turns to Gilden, “Alright lets do this.”

Tina watches Ryan leave and shakes her head, “We need to get downtown, right now.”

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie nods firmly not speaking, though her look at Jun Min clearly says it all 'We're not done with this'. She looks for the nearest staging area for people heading off.

 

[Agamon]

Anika was stunned motionless again by the news about Kelly. She took a couple steadying breaths to calm herelf and cleared her mind to concentrate on helping the living. "Okay, downtown, right." She forms her forcefield and activates her flight before one more prayer opens another glowing blue portal to downtown Maduba Adin and waits for the others to go through.

She looks back at Sami, a lost look in her eyes. "I...I don't know where to take you to keep you safe...I don't think there is such a place right now." She had already considered sending him to her pocket dimension, but if she were to die, he would be trapped there. "But I think this is now probably the least safe place to be. Come with us, okay? You, too, Robbie."