Generation Legacy Issue #15

[KaintheSeeker]

“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.

Cassie

I think you're right Chance, my time with Legacy is at an end. I can't fool myself anymore in thinking they trust me. I'm not sure your plan is that wise, but I'm willing to hear more. We have to break this chain of death that Cardinal seems set on and I doubt that Paragon and the UN are willing to see their course of action is just as destructive to humanity as a whole. What is your plan? All of it sister. Already she started looking for options and routes to get her where she needed to go. If she left, Ryan would follow, sure that she couldn't take Chance , or more likely she'd be too weak to stop her.

Not to mention, she mused as the looked around the ruins of this city and the school in the distance, home wasn't here anymore.

 

[Samnell]

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

Mark happily let Anika take over dealing with the survivors and turned his attention to the screens. What's his problem? We can't be everywhere.

 

[Tokiwong]

"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?"

Sariyah looks away, “I don’t understand what is that I can do to could help you? I murdered those people,” she whispers bitterly, “I didn’t mean to, I just wanted them to stop. Is this what being an elite is all about… hurting people?”

“How can you be so cold?” Sariyah asks.

Legacy

The man relaxes his temper, still angry but not so much violent. He follows Anika’s gaze along with the rest of the room as the image starts to come into focus. A woman’s face, or part of her face since she wears a hood but the purple glowing eyes emanating from the darkness in the hood give the elites a clue to her identity.

The woman starts speaking, but it does not seem like the audio stream is working but once the picture finally resumes some sense of clarity the audio blazes to life, “… this is the only the beginning of a campaign to usurp the current powers that be. Elite society will no longer be restrained by the chains of bondage placed upon it by baseline society.”

“Today countless baselines lives were erased in seconds. An act of cruelty perhaps if we elites were to consider baseline humanity our peers. But this is not the case, I feel no more sympathy for their demise then I would for the termination of an infestation of vermin. Elites will no longer be puppets and prizes to be paraded for the enjoyment of baselines. Evolution has come, humanity has reached the end of its dominance. Extinction or servitude are your only choices left.”

The stream is cut into by emergency broadcasts already in session as the news tries to relate the damage done worldwide by Pantheon’s attacks.

A survivor grumbles, “It’s all their fault, its all the elites fault!”

Cassie

“I am building the plan as we go dear sister. I don’t have any grand scheme besides what I have designed while discussing with you. Maybe we should try and track down the Red Witch… we can’t take Cardinal on by ourselves. That much is clear, and she could cause more damage then Overseer if she succeeds,” Chance replies.

 

[Hammerhead]

"Look around you, Sariyah. This is a ruined city. There are hundreds of thousands of people dead. But there might be a few dozen people who are still alive, and I'm focusing my efforts on them. I have to be cold, if I want to give those people a chance." Plus, I've shared a meal with people who've done far worse than you...although amazingly, the rest of my team just doesn't seem to realize it. Seriously, do they think Bishop got his status as international terrorist in punishment for writing bad checks?

"You were able to sense me telepathically. You can sense other people telepathically, people who might be trapped in some building or underground, people that otherwise wouldn't be found."

"Being an elite doesn't change who you are. You're not a murderer. You were just scared, and made a stupid mistake. You can't change that, but you can start making a difference now."

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie

“I am building the plan as we go dear sister. I don’t have any grand scheme besides what I have designed while discussing with you. Maybe we should try and track down the Red Witch… we can’t take Cardinal on by ourselves. That much is clear, and she could cause more damage then Overseer if she succeeds,” Chance replies.

Cassie nods to herself as she slips awy from the others. She moved quickly and silently. She was sure that no one would notice her missing. And she had no doubt that the Red Witch would find her quick enough. RIght now she had more important matters, evading detection and acquiring transport. Where do you suggest we meet to coordinate? Ryan will sure to follow, since one of us is vital for his continued existance. He might not be big on altruism, but his survival instinct will serve. She doubted things woudl be as easy as Chance said but she needed to find out what her role was in the comming conflict.

 

[Agamon]

Anika stares at the broadcast, anger slowly creeping over her features.

A survivor grumbles, “It’s all their fault, its all the elites fault!”

"What?" Anika replies in disgust. "Don't you dare lump us in with that sick, twisted bitch. She speaks for no one but herself and her braindead lackies. Now, who is too hurt to be moved?" she demands, perhaps a bit too loudly.

 

[Aenion]

Karen is taken aback by Cardinal's broadcast. She was having a hard time fathoming how someone could be capable of causing such destruction. Maybe Ryan was right, maybe some people just don't deserve to live.

A survivor grumbles, “It’s all their fault, its all the elites fault!”

Karen doesn't blame them for their reaction, "No, none of us wanted this to happen. None of us wanted anything to happen. We all had friends here, normal people we cared about. Some of us have family in cities that were attacked. Cardinal has declared war on the world and now she's trying to divide us."

 

[Mimic]

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.”

"I am not sure if we can make it right, Cardinal has placed us on a very dark path and I can not see any way other way then to walk it and face the trials ahead. I can not even imagine the repercussions of what she has done." Gilden thinks back as he desperately continues to search for more survivors.

 

[Tokiwong]

"I am not sure if we can make it right, Cardinal has placed us on a very dark path and I can not see any way other way then to walk it and face the trials ahead. I can not even imagine the repercussions of what she has done." Gilden thinks back as he desperately continues to search for more survivors.

“This is war Gilden, that is all there is to it. Today everything changes and tomorrow is not a certainty anymore. But we can focus on is trying to save as many people as we can. We can’t try to understand her, or those that follow her. I don’t ever want to understand what could make someone a monster. Many innocent lives have been lost, and that is what matters most. Our legacy will be in how we respond to these actions,” Jun Min replies.

Legacy

The man sighs, “You are right we need to focus on the wounded.”

Kensai lands outside the building, energy arcing across his body. He speaks to Mark, “Ryan is escorting a survivor to the evacuation point back at the Institute. Rescue crews are turning up a lot of corpses and a high percentage of elites, many of them new elites. Meaning their powers manifested recently, perhaps during or in the fallout of the blast. We can suspect that this may be the case at the other attacks.”

He turns to Anika, “Get the critically wounded first.”

Ryan

“Okay…” she says after a lengthy pause, “I am not sure how I am supposed to do this… but let me concentrate.”

She closes her eyes, “I don’t… wait… I can hear people. It is feint, but there are other people alive. Rescue crew… Legacy… they found people… wounded… I can feel them, see them all at once.” Sariyah collapses to her knees, “Disorienting, but there are survivors. Maybe if I had a map, I could find them, we could save them. We can keep them alive!”

She opens her eyes and looks up at Ryan, “We have to help them!”

Cassie

Chance replies, “Well where are you… still at the Institute? Are you in the city. I am not omnipotent, so perhaps if you need a lift or help I could put you in touch with Pantheon, Hidalgo should be nearby, his villa should have been outside the blast region.”

 

[Samnell]

Kensai lands outside the building, energy arcing across his body. He speaks to Mark, “Ryan is escorting a survivor to the evacuation point back at the Institute. Rescue crews are turning up a lot of corpses and a high percentage of elites, many of them new elites. Meaning their powers manifested recently, perhaps during or in the fallout of the blast. We can suspect that this may be the case at the other attacks.”

Mark nodded. Great. A bunch of new, confused elites on top of everything. "It looks like Sami's one of us too, now. I hope they're all keeping control of themselves."

Because the one Ryan found didn't. How many of those people were dead before she came around?