Generation Legacy Issue #15

[Mimic]

Meditation and his dedication to studies help Gilden remove himself from most of the devistation that he observes but not even those can fully remove the revoltion and saddness from this situation.

"I do not understand why Cardinal would do this," he thinks quietly to Jun Min, "what does she expect to get from doing this?"

He views the building that may contain survivors and the scene shifts quickly to the inside, if there is anyone there, he will have to act fast to help them.

 

[Hammerhead]

"Yes, there just happens to be a survivor who spontaneously developed telepathic powers," Ryan comments to himself as he fills his body with cosmic power. "Ta-rap."

Umm, you're communicating mentally with me? Can you hear me? Where are you? I can help you. Ryan tries to follow the mental voice as best he can, relying on instinct if nothing else.

"God, I feel like such an idiot."

Ryan uses Boost +16.

 

[Aenion]

Downtown Mudaba Adin

Anika make her portal, Tina enters without a word. Robbie looks at Anika and then follows through with Sami following. The other side is a war zone, a building or what is left is burning. Burned in shadows of the dead, the remnants of corpses, this place is now a graveyard. Twisted hunks of metal and concrete litter the streets that were perhaps maybe even minutes ago alive with energy and people.

A little child’s doll sits at the feet of the elites missing a button, and burnt but somewhat whole.

Overhead an aerodyne cruises above zooming away from the downtown core. The city is quiet outside of that noise. The buildings that once loomed now stand in testament to a mad woman’s ambition. The worst part is that this city was not alone in its suffering.

A torn and broken electronic billboard flickers an image of Legacy, or part of an image.

This is a nightmare. It has to be a nightmare. I must have fallen asleep and I'm gonna wake up any minute now. I want to wake up now! This can't be real, Karen repeats these thoughts in her mind as she stumbles towards the doll, her body had become visible again, what was the use anyway, everything was gone, the restaurants Claire took her to, the skyline she and Kal used to fly over, the university she barely had a chance to go to, all the people, living breathing people... all gone. A tear splashes on the face of the doll in her hands.

No! I can't just give up. She can't have destroyed everything. There has to be some way to stop her, to stop this from getting worse. The doll falls apart in her hands, five pieces sliding between her fingers, the weight of the doll enough to cut it to pieces on her razorsharp fingers, her crystal hair rising in jagged spikes. She takes a deep, cleansing, unnecessary breath and her body visibly relaxes as she kneels beside Anika, "We can't give up Anika. Cardinal can't have destroyed everything. We have to do everything we can to find survivors, to stop her. You are Legacy remember? If you give up who will stop her? We have to keep trying or else everything is lost. I'm not just gonna let that madwoman open the way for Overseer," she hugs her friend, "We can't give up hope."

 

[Agamon]

"B-but, it just seems like everytime we do something good, something worse happens," Anika says, stifling her tears. "I can't take this anymore." She looks at the others and shakes her head. "Gods, what a great leader I am. Tina's right, Ryan's probably not sitting somewhere crying."

She stands with a sigh, wiping her face with the back of her hand. "Okay, let's keep looking. I hope the others are having more luck than we are."

 

[Tokiwong]

She stands with a sigh, wiping her face with the back of her hand. "Okay, let's keep looking. I hope the others are having more luck than we are."

Tina gives Anika her hand, “Ryan’s strength is his ability to find the worst in anything good, and his heart is just as weak as ours. He just never let’s anyone get close enough to see that chica. But I know he has to feel something from this. We, and by we I mean the team ain’t asking for you to be a heartless machine. We just need you to do the right thing for the team, even if that means putting up with my crazy ass from time to time.”

Tina pauses looking around, “We may not understand each other, but we got to work together. But don’t think this makes us friends.”

Sami shakes his head, “I don’t understand… I don’t understand… I DON’T UNDERSTAND!” He slams his fist into the ground with so much force the ground itself shakes, causing some of the rubble around the teens to collapse even more.

Tina catches herself, “Whoa…”

Gilden

Gilden cannot hear anything but he can see, and he scouts the building carefully until he pauses at what looks like a window. He sees something moving behind the fogged and dusty window. Movement of a person maybe? Could someone be alive inside?

Ryan

“I am trapped inside my vehicle in the underground parking garage… you can hear my thoughts? Wow… I didn’t think anyone was close enough to hear me… my abilities are so limited.” The mental voice has a feminine touch to it.

 

[Hammerhead]

“I am trapped inside my vehicle in the underground parking garage… you can hear my thoughts? Wow… I didn’t think anyone was close enough to hear me… my abilities are so limited.” The mental voice has a feminine touch to it.

Alright, I'm coming. Do your best not to die, Ryan tells the voice. He then rolls his eyes, looks upwards, and fires a blast of cosmic energy into the sky. Maybe someone would have seen that. Like the bad guys, if there are any around. Let's go see if I'm being paranoid, Ryan thinks to himself as he wracks his brain, trying to remember the layout and location of the parking garage on campus, and the amount of rubble and wreckage within before coming up with a solution to clear it and save the woman inside.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie moves further into the city, straining to hear any possible victims of this latest disaster. Her thoughts are focused on finding survivors, as she knows if she thinks of what she heard at the school that she'd retreat into recrimination and regret.

"Hello? Anyone hear me?" She calls out as she looks around for any clues to where someone might be trapped.

 

[Tokiwong]

Alright, I'm coming. Do your best not to die, Ryan tells the voice. He then rolls his eyes, looks upwards, and fires a blast of cosmic energy into the sky. Maybe someone would have seen that. Like the bad guys, if there are any around. Let's go see if I'm being paranoid, Ryan thinks to himself as he wracks his brain, trying to remember the layout and location of the parking garage on campus, and the amount of rubble and wreckage within before coming up with a solution to clear it and save the woman inside.

“THANK YOU SO MUCH!” the mental voice replies before a string of mental thoughts in French hit his mind like a flood. It finally ends, “I am sorry, I am just so happy… I thought I would die in here!”

From what Ryan remembers he is standing over the underground parking and the nearest entrance was not too far away by the administration buildings. Or at least what used to be the administration buildings.

Cassie

Only silence answers her.

And a loud sound of rubble from where her friends are, she although she heard someone shouting.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Cassie looks back, torn between looking further abroad and going back. She shakes her head, it wasn't like she was needed back there. Ryan and the others were more than capable of moving the big damaged sections of buildings. It was quite possible that thump had been Ryan moving a collapsed building. She was faster, more mobile and agile than most of the others. Perhaps she could look inisde some of the buildings for the wounded.

All good reasons not to return, but truthfully she knew the real reason. She didn't want to deal with the others,.

 

[Agamon]

Anika is surprised by Tina's words, but it works to help her get it together. She even smiles a bit when Tina tells her they aren't friends. "For the team, you're right." She steadies herself to continue the search when Sami creates his spectacle.

"Sami?!" Anika says in confsion and worry. She runs over to him. "Um..." He was obviously feeling he same way she was. She wanted to try comforting him, but obviously something else was going on. She wasn't sure what to say. "Are...you alright?"