Generation Legacy Issue #15

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie

“Good. It is about time you grew a backbone. We have to sacrifice Ryan on the altar of survival, but he should live… if your friends are as good as they think they are. But we will need to call in some assistance. There is one individual that may have the resources we need to deal with her permanently. The Red Witch. She is interested in you, in us… we could use that,” Chance replies.

Like he'd trust either of us enough to let us put him in that sort of situation. He thinks I'm a useless whiner and you're psychotic. No, we'll have to force him into the situation. And as for the Red Which, I agree she's the lesser of two evils, but there is the matter of contacting her and coordinating with her. Not to mention we.. well I have.. foiled her goals in the past. Cassie pauses as she shifts a massive pile of rock to check under and behind it. We have to do something though. This dissent will not help us prepare for our true battle with Overlord.

 

[Tokiwong]

Like he'd trust either of us enough to let us put him in that sort of situation. He thinks I'm a useless whiner and you're psychotic. No, we'll have to force him into the situation. And as for the Red Which, I agree she's the lesser of two evils, but there is the matter of contacting her and coordinating with her. Not to mention we.. well I have.. foiled her goals in the past. Cassie pauses as she shifts a massive pile of rock to check under and behind it. We have to do something though. This dissent will not help us prepare for our true battle with Overlord.

“Exactly his lack of trust is what we need to use. He won’t let you settle the score on your own, but what if you know where I am, tell the team that you want to take me down. They will either help you, or tell you to stay out of the business. More importantly not only will I be there, but so will James. If Cardinal just happens to show up… all the better,” Chance replies.

“As far as the Red Witch is concerned, she will be the trickier of the two to manipulate; but we just need to find what she desires and use it as a bargaining chip. But we have the loose outlines for a plan of action, don’t you think?” Chance asks.

Ryan

Kensai replies, “Oh you hadn’t been informed. The Evac Site is the Institute, although the surface structure sustained heavy damage the bulk of the Command Center and Research facility underground is intact, Paragon has the UNJE setting up temporary shelters for the survivors of which we have not found many.”

He shakes his head no to Ryan’s other questions, “Brain damage? No, but we have found that the majority of survivors are displaying elite abilities. I reported the oddity to Paragon, not all of the survivors a surprising number. If this is tied to the blast then we have some bigger problems to deal with.”

“Is she an elite?” he motions with his eyes to Sariyah.

Mark & Legacy

Mark shows up with the rest of the legacy team, he didn’t exactly know where to go, but considering he can cover so much so ground so quickly he found his friends just the same.

Sami replies to Anika, “At least they survived.”

As they enter the facility they see people looking up at them with grateful eyes. They are assaulted with tons of questions, “What happened? Why can’t I contact anyone? Are we at war? Why? Is there more help on the way?”

The voices are varied but the confusion is the same. Everyone wants answers, everyone wants to get to safety, and everyone is suffering from the realization that hundreds of thousand people are gone.

Gilden

Jun Min replies, “I don’t want to even think about what happened in those other cities. Millions of people dead in an instant. This is insanity. The world is going to hell… we have to find a way to make all this right.”

 

[Samnell]

As they enter the facility they see people looking up at them with grateful eyes. They are assaulted with tons of questions, “What happened? Why can’t I contact anyone? Are we at war? Why? Is there more help on the way?”

Mark stepped forward. "Everyone relax. We're going to take care of you and get everyone to safety. Questions can wait until then," Mark told them with a confidence he didn't feel. "You're all going to be ok."

 

[Tokiwong]

Mark stepped forward. "Everyone relax. We're going to take care of you and get everyone to safety. Questions can wait until then," Mark told them with a confidence he didn't feel. "You're all going to be ok."

“Hey you are with Legacy, why didn’t you stop this! Isn’t that your job? What the hell is the UNJE paying you for? To look pretty? I lost my family, my wife, and my kids! And you are telling me to keep calm, how do I not know the rest of the world didn’t blow up too! Why the hell did you let this happen?” a man shouts raising his fists at the elite.

 

[Aenion]

“Hey you are with Legacy, why didn’t you stop this! Isn’t that your job? What the hell is the UNJE paying you for? To look pretty? I lost my family, my wife, and my kids! And you are telling me to keep calm, how do I not know the rest of the world didn’t blow up too! Why the hell did you let this happen?” a man shouts raising his fists at the elite.

"Please calm down sir. We've all lost family and friends. My parents and brothers are in Chicago and I have no idea if they're safe or if they're even alive," the crystalline teen says empathically, "This was an unexpected and unwarranted attack, no one could have foreseen this. We've gotta stay calm and work together if we want to get through this."

 

[Tokiwong]

"Please calm down sir. We've all lost family and friends. My parents and brothers are in Chicago and I have no idea if they're safe or if they're even alive," the crystalline teen says empathically, "This was an unexpected and unwarranted attack, no one could have foreseen this. We've gotta stay calm and work together if we want to get through this."

“Stay CALM! How can I stay calm at a time like this? You tell me! How? We can’t contact our families, I don’t even know if my daughter is alive or dead! My wife! Do you even know what happened? Why did this happen, we want answers, you elites need to stop making problems and start fixing them! Isn’t that what the UNJE is paying you for?” the man shouts. Several of the survivors echo his sentiment.

“You got a doctor with you?” a woman says, “We have several injured, we have done what we can but none of us are trained beyond basic first aid.”

A monitor on the far wall starts to flicker on and off with a vague image.

 

[Hammerhead]

"Hmm...looks like Jun Min's guess was right. People aren't going to like that elites are the ones who survived the blasts. If I were you guys, I'd keep that a secret. And yeah," he says, glancing back at Sariyah, "She's a telepath. So I figured either elite or Jedi," he says with a shrug. "So I guess I'll take her back to the Institute."

"Hey, Sariyah, I'm supposed to take you to the evacuation site. So, umm, how long have you been an elite?"

 

[Tokiwong]

"Hey, Sariyah, I'm supposed to take you to the evacuation site. So, umm, how long have you been an elite?"

Kensai is already taking off again as Ryan turns to Sariyah.

Sariyah looks away nervously, “I didn’t even know I could do this till after everything happened. It was all so fast, the attack and then I was trapped in my vehicle,” she shakes her head.

“Then I could hear everyone else down there shouting, screaming… but I could hear and feel them, as if they were right next to me. I tried to cover my ears but I couldn’t shut them out. I kept shouting for them to stop,” she closes her eyes, tears streaking out.

She opens them, “I shouted so loud they finally stopped. But I could not feel them like before… my god… do you think… do you think they ended up that way because of me? Do you think I killed them?” Sariyah collapses in a wreck, “I killed them…”

 

[Hammerhead]

"Yeah, you killed them, and you're going to have to live with that for the rest of your life. Of course, it's not really your fault...I mean, you were scared and had no idea what the hell you were doing. But take yourself out of the equation: those people are still dead. I would have seen the collapsed entrance, assumed everyone was dead, and headed off somewhere else."

Okay, that argument is completely worthless. Although really, there are millions of people dead right now, the world's facing annihilation from some arrogant jackass, and some very hard choices are going to be in our future.

"Sariyah," Ryan says, kneeling down beside her, "You're a good person. You were just scared, and it's not your fault. There's nothing you can do about it now. But what we can do is help the people who are still alive. You found me. You can find the other survivors here. Okay?"

 

[Agamon]

“Stay CALM! How can I stay calm at a time like this? You tell me! How? We can’t contact our families, I don’t even know if my daughter is alive or dead! My wife! Do you even know what happened? Why did this happen, we want answers, you elites need to stop making problems and start fixing them! Isn’t that what the UNJE is paying you for?” the man shouts. Several of the survivors echo his sentiment.

"We are here to help, alright? If we had had even the slightest clue that this was going to happen, we would have done something about it before. We didn't, and now we're doing the best we can to help. As for what's going on..." Anika paused. She wasn't going to lie, the people deserved some answers, or at least as much as she knew, "...we think it was an elite terrorist attack. To what end, we don't know. I want answers just as much as you do, sir. We all lost people close to us today."

“You got a doctor with you?” a woman says, “We have several injured, we have done what we can but none of us are trained beyond basic first aid.”

"We're here to help evacuate those that aren't critically injured. Is anyone here too hurt to be moved? I can..."

A monitor on the far wall starts to flicker on and off with a vague image.

Anika pauses when she sees the screen flicker. She simply points at it for the others to see.