Generation Legacy Issue #15

[Aenion]

Karen

Bishop replies, “Thank you, I appreciate it. I feel like there was still so much to say to her, and now, I wonder if I said enough. But I know that she is in a better place, and her legacy will live on. She never faltered in trying to do good.”

Karen nods, "I know what you mean, Kelly was like a little sister to me... She knew you loved her and she loved you back for it," she squeezes Bishop's arm, "She always tried no matter the consequences, the world will be a darker place without her. But we'll always a bit of her light inside us..."

 

[Tokiwong]

"She's right. If what Bishop did wasn't worth executing him for then, there's no reason he should be getting an execution now. So we can look tough against the Pantheon? That's not worth it. We can get someone that's still with them. Someone that's actually done something lately. Pick somebody and send us after them."

Mrs. Obana looks taken aback, “Well I did not know that you would feel so strongly about sparing his life. The fact of the matter of is he still a terrorist despite his most recent actions. It was felt a strong public message against a public member of Pantheon would test well with most markets and show that we have a strong stance against elite terrorism.”

She pauses and puts a hand to her ear, as if listening. She then gives the teens a professional smile, “Well perhaps we were hasty in moving to execute him then, it may be more prudent to simply keep him under our thumb so to speak. As far as targets we find that the public isn’t too keen on the idea of young people used as violent enforcers. The young people love it, especially the males ages 13 to 25, but overall it sends a poor message to the world populace. We will be shifting the majority of your operations to a more peacekeeping and public service role. The Justice Elite will be our premier anti-elite unit.”

Cassie

“Our abilities for whatever reason are inimical to each other, reducing the potency and raw power of abilities greatly. I don’t have a good reason for why this is occurring. It requires further study and experimentation… a luxury I don’t have at the moment. Time is our enemy,” Cardinal replies.

“That is the best answer I can give you as to why.”

Karen

Bishop thinks on her words, “Her light will continue to glow in all of us.”

Jun Min smiles genuinely, “That was a sweet thing to say about Kelly, Karen.”

Ryan & Clover

“Mountains… in the mountains…” Sariyah looks at a map, “Iran… in the mountains.” She points to a spot on the map, a mountain range separating Iraq from Iran. “I can see him, he is alive.”

She comes back from the vision, “I saw him, and he is alive. He is in some kind of tube with a liquid, there were others but they were hazy I can’t give you any details about that. Do you think you can save him, that sounds dangerous, they will try to kill you won’t they?”

Tina grins, “We can only hope they will, or they wouldn’t be much of terrorist now would they?” She then turns to Clover, “Sure you go ahead and get the UNJE to okay this little operation.”

 

[Shalimar]

"Expecting them not to try to resist a rescue operation would be a bit niave, fatally so I think." Clover says answering Sariyah. "I doubt they think of themselves as terrorists so much as freedom fighters, though most freedom fighters aren't really fighting to enslave their opponets...either way dead is dead."

Looking at Tina for a moment after her...suggestion, Clover just shrugged, the other girl obviously expected that she wouldn't have the guts to do it, or didn't have the skill to convince the UNJE to ok the mission. Self-doubt wasn't part of Clover's make up, but she wasn't particularly foolish either. Her thoughts had run to having all of Legacy pull the mission instead of the 3 or 4 people Ryan and Tina were thinking. If the UN said yes then Legacy could be the ones sent and they could maybe expect some back up so they'd probably pull it pff. If the UN said no and sent in another team that would be fine too since the goal was getting back the kidnapped Legacy members. The thing the red head worried about was that the UNwould say no and then not do anything feeling it was too risky, but she doubted that would happen. Even if the UN wanted to leave James, she knew that Ryan and Tina probably would ignore the directive so nothing was really lost by asking.

"The request should probably come from a member of Legacy since you guys have a direct link to the people who'd approve your missions, that might actually help in getting it approved, though I'll ask them if you feel that would make them more likely to agree." Clover said sounding neutral on the idea of her being the one to ask.

 

[Agamon]

Anika would roll her eyes, but she's too flustered to even do that. "What? I didn't sign on to smile for cameras. We've already proved ourselves time and again. Have you seen what's going on out there? PR is the last thing we need to worry about right now! You suits need to get you heads out of your asses!" she spits angrily.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie

“Our abilities for whatever reason are inimical to each other, reducing the potency and raw power of abilities greatly. I don’t have a good reason for why this is occurring. It requires further study and experimentation… a luxury I don’t have at the moment. Time is our enemy,” Cardinal replies.

“That is the best answer I can give you as to why.”

Cassie nods thoughfully. "That is an interesting facet to your powers." She clearly has something on her mind. "Am I right to understand that you, Ryan and Overseer share some portion of the same powers?"

 

[Samnell]

She pauses and puts a hand to her ear, as if listening. She then gives the teens a professional smile, “Well perhaps we were hasty in moving to execute him then, it may be more prudent to simply keep him under our thumb so to speak. As far as targets we find that the public isn’t too keen on the idea of young people used as violent enforcers. The young people love it, especially the males ages 13 to 25, but overall it sends a poor message to the world populace. We will be shifting the majority of your operations to a more peacekeeping and public service role. The Justice Elite will be our premier anti-elite unit.”

"Peacekeeping? We've got regular soldiers for that. What the hell? We're doing good work. We don't need to be reassigned," Mark spat. "And if you bench us now it's only going to undermine confidence in us anyway. What's it say when we have a huge disaster and the UN wants to put its elites on baby kissing duty? There's more important work for us."

If I want to smile for cameras, I can just phone Reebok.

 

[Tokiwong]

Cassie nods thoughfully. "That is an interesting facet to your powers." She clearly has something on her mind. "Am I right to understand that you, Ryan and Overseer share some portion of the same powers?"

“Interesting is not the word I would choose, but that will suffice,” Cardinal replies. She listens to Cassie carefully before responding, “That is a complex question, and I don’t know what the truth of it would be. To be honest I never conceived that my own power was not my own, but I had to rethink that hypothesis when I encountered Ryan for the first time at Eden, although encounter is a loose term.”

She closes her eyes, “Our abilities are linked but the truth of the matter is probably more complex then what we can conceive of.”

Mark, Anika, and Gilden

“Well Anika that is not my problem for what you believed you signed up for, this is the reality of the situation. The UNJE is under intense scrutiny of our operations and assets. Your abilities make each of you very dangerous elites, but this Institute was not created to create an army of elites to do our bidding despite the evidence to the contrary. This facility was created to help young elites use their abilities in a safe and controlled manner. After reviewing reports, student curriculum, and disciplinary actions over the last year and a half alone there are glaring deviations from policy,” Mrs. Obana replies her smile fading becoming replaced by poised and seasoned face of business.

“In short after this current situation is dealt with, this facility will be rebuilt and the majority of the support staff will be administratively separated. It is obvious that there is too large an emphasis placed on using your abilities to cause violence more so then making you productive members of society at large. This is a failing that we at the UNJE recognize,” she finishes.

“We understand that not all of our decisions you will agree with but your public face must show one of solidarity, also as leaders,” directing her statement to Mark and Anika in particular, “I expect you to lead the way with this paradigm shift. We need one team all on the same page. I expect you can handle this?”

Ryan & Clover

“I was joking,” she shakes her head at Clover, “I guess there wasn’t room in daddy’s boot camp for humor.”

 

[Tokiwong]

"Peacekeeping? We've got regular soldiers for that. What the hell? We're doing good work. We don't need to be reassigned," Mark spat. "And if you bench us now it's only going to undermine confidence in us anyway. What's it say when we have a huge disaster and the UN wants to put its elites on baby kissing duty? There's more important work for us."

If I want to smile for cameras, I can just phone Reebok.

"Like killing people?" Mrs. Obana retorts.

 

[Agamon]

Anika calmed somewhat as Obana responded. In truth, it's what she'd wanted for sometime now. Legacy missions were too centered on violence, something she didn't like about the job. There were other ways to use their powers to make the world better without always having to beat up a bad guy in the process.

She nodded in response, though reluctantly. She still didn't like the idea of becoming a PR machine for the UN, but she'd follow orders, to at least see how it all would all turn out. "Alright. I understand that with what happened we need more than just people that bash heads. Just so long as we're still doing important work."

 

[Agamon]

"Like killing people?" Mrs. Obana retorts.

"Hey, that's not fair. We follow orders as best we can." She looks at Mark. "I'm sure there's something that we can do that falls somewere in between kissing babies and killing people."