Generation Legacy Issue #7 "Innocence Lost" - Part 1

[Tokiwong]

Karen's crystalline body relaxes, showing no signs of exertion and she smiles, "I thought there was more to fighting than just being very strong," she shrugs, "I guess it's a good start."

"What other things I can do? I can jump very far now and I can become razor-sharp, if I want too, but I try not to do that to much 'cause it ruins my clothes, I already need new gymclothes after yesterday."

“Well of course, fighting is about more then strength, I mean you have so many variables to take into account, its funny. I mean on the one hand you can’t think too much, you have to just act and react, at the same time you have to think about your guide the fight, if your losing how to even the score, or if your winning how to end the fight quickly, and hopefully without a loss of life,” Kal finishes looking over Karen’s frame.

“I mean you know if return home, and you don’t want to do the Legacy thing, Young Justice could use you. Your tough, practical, and you have a good heart. Besides it would suck to go back alone, it just wouldn’t be the same without you around,” Kal replies with a shrug.

The Aerodyne

Yoshi sits up, and rattles off a number for Sarah, “There, be careful though you might make Anika jealous and her gods may just decide to smite your ass. Or something,” he lies back down and closes his eyes.

Star speaks to Mark, “So what is your plan for when we land?”

Cassie

Pandora does indeed look very much like Cassie as was stated before. Pandora replies to Cassie’s questions, “We cannot disclose any particulars on those cases, but I would suggest you look over our list of success stories. Most of our efforts have been to remove genetic disorders and improve the quality of life for various individuals. Our cusses rate is 97.6%, and we believe that in time our numbers will reach 100% by the end of 2016.”

Pandora pauses as the images on screen shift to show conceptual images of Pandora, “I am a composite neural network, developed by VSC. Dr. Whitman conceived my actual design, he is at the head of the staff currently working in Mudaba Adin, and his work has been revolutionary in providing much of the groundwork for the treatments that Magog Industries provides. He is a baseline scientist, but is one of the foremost specialists in his field. Do you require more information?”

 

[Agamon]

"Skita, Sami, why would you keep something like that from me?" Anika thinks, feeling somehow worried, angry, relieved and happy at the same time from reading the message. She decides to reply, but not wanting to try and type out a text message on her phone, she turns the video on to record a message to send back to him.

*translated from Swedish

"Hi, Sami, got your message.*" she says, smiling into the phone. "I should be really pissed that you didn't tell me about this sooner, but I'm happy to hear you're okay. You have to keep me up to date on what's going on around there. I miss you, too. I've been pretty busy since I got here. This Legacy thing is pretty cool. We're on a mission right now, heading to Bangkok to find some bad guys. Yeah, not so glamorous. Hopefully I come away from this job with more teeth than Dad has," she says with a chuckle.

She turns the phone towards Ryan. "That's Ryan. Yeah, he's purple, but he's pretty cool and not a bad dancer. You can tell by the confused look on his face that he has no idea what I'm saying. That can be a useful skill," she says with a giggle, winking at Ryan.

Turning the phone to Star, she says, "And that's Star. You won't believe it, but she's an android. Pretty neat, hey? I don't even think of her like that anymore though. She's human as far as I'm concerned, and my best friend over here. Unlike Ryan, I'm pretty sure she understands Swedish. It's my friend, Sami, from Sweden, Star. Say hi!

"That's our leader, Mark," she continues turning towards Mark. "I wasn't sure if he had what it took to be leader of Legacy at first. But, I have to admit, I'm much more impressed now. He's a good guy, and is an obsessive swimmer. Yeah, I don't understand that either.

"Those two are James and Kiyana," she says, pointing the phone at the two. "Cute couple, hey? I swear they're joined at the hip, though.

Pausing a moment, she rolls her eyes and points it at Yoshi. "And that's Yoshi. Speaking of loosing teeth, he'll be lucky to not need dentures before we land the areodyne. And that's all you need to know about him," she says curtly.

She turns the phone so it faces her once more. "I sure would like to go back for a visit. I'm not sure when I'll be able to get away though, hopefully soon, but things are kinda...hectic, right now. But that doesn't mean you can't come see me. I'd love to see you again, I can show you around the facility. I owe you that at least, you know I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for you. And I'll pay your way, of course. Just let me know when you want to come down and I'll arrange it. And, of course, if you or your family needs any help, don't you dare hesitate to ask. I've got most of my money earmaked for helping others, and there's no one else I'd rather help.

"Oh, and if you do come down," she adds, switching to English, "you'd better practice your English. No one around here is that fluent in Swedish. Hope to hear back from you soon. See ya!"

She ends the message and sends it, putting her phone away. She looks at Ryan. "Just a message to a friend, hope you didn't mind," she says with a smile.

 

[Samnell]

The Aerodyne
Star speaks to Mark, “So what is your plan for when we land?”

Mark shrugged, "Well I was thinking the UN would have people to meet us and we ask them if they know where Strength likes to hang out. Then we stake the place out and wait for him to show. If he doesn't cooperate, we can take him down later in a pretty open place. Maybe a parking lot or someplace."

"That's our leader, Mark," she continues turning towards Mark.

Mark waves at the phone.

 

[Tokiwong]

The Aerodyne

Star smiles at the cellphone, "Hello Sami!" she replies in perfect Swedish, and waves.

Mark shrugged, "Well I was thinking the UN would have people to meet us and we ask them if they know where Strength likes to hang out. Then we stake the place out and wait for him to show. If he doesn't cooperate, we can take him down later in a pretty open place. Maybe a parking lot or someplace."

Star then turns her attention to Mark, "That sounds suffecient, standard UNJE operatin procedures would follow that pattern. Most likely Mr. McCallister has already appraised them of our mission and what we will need to accomplish said mission. I would presume that we want Strength alive, in case he can divulge information about Honor, and the Water Margin in general?"

 

[Tokiwong]

Kelly’s Dream…

“You are really pathetic you know that, after everything I have done for you, and you’re still a pathetic little child,” the voice is familiar forceful, and very condescending. Footsteps echo along a hallway, and darkness seems to choke out the light, but the footsteps are there.

“Do you really think he loves you? No one can love you, your not a person, your not a woman, you’re a toy, a pretty toy, to be used, abused, and tossed aside. The best thing I could have ever done for you, was break your psyche, and make you my puppet and make you dance on my strings, dance for me puppet, dance,” the voice laughs.

Kelly can feel her body jerk, and move, as the footsteps get closer, then a large head looms forward from the darkness, a bald pale face, with dark eyes that seem to suck the very life of the room out. The eyes of Neuro, and his damning smile, “Look at you puppet, just look at how pathetic you are.”

“And you think he could love you, he is using you. What would he want with you, nothing. You would do well to turn on him first, kill him, and seize what is his for your own, that is the way of the world puppet. That is true power, take what you want from the weak, before they take it from you,” his hisses.

“Or do you mistaken me for a dream, I am very real, Kelly, very real indeed, locked away deep in these confines. But that surge of power from this traitor has set me free, it has. So get used to having me around more often, puppet,” the voice whispers in a sickening purr.

Kelly rouses, feeling as if something is licking her neck, but there is nothing, but Tommy’s soft breathing, and his warmth all around her.

 

[Shalimar]

Kelly whimpers in her sleep, she knew right away whose voice it was that was calling to her in the darkness, and it scared her to the core, she had felt his influence, but nothing like this. This was new, this was scary.

"No...no...he does love me, he does." she whimpers, tears streaming down her face in her sleep. Neuro's words really resonated with the girls inner fears, and despite her murmured words of arguement.

"No..he's wrong...he has to be... Tommy does care about me, lots of people care about me...I'm not a puppet, I'm not...I'm not just a toy...I'm not... its not true... We care about each other...he wouldn't do anything to hurt me...he'll protect me from you, he already called a woman to help me erase you." she murmurs audiably despite being still asleep.

She gasps herself into wakefullness as she feels something lick her neck. doing her best not to wake Tommy after he has done for her, she rubbed at the back of her neck and found it dry. It was just a dream, it had to be. Nut in the back of her head she couldn't shake the fact that Neuro was powerful enough to have been telling the truth, that he was really there, and if he was right about that...

She began to cry, and as warm as she was with Tommy, she started to shiver.

 

[Tokiwong]

She gasps herself into wakefullness as she feels something lick her neck. doing her best not to wake Tommy after he has done for her, she rubbed at the back of her neck and found it dry. It was just a dream, it had to be. But in the back of her head she couldn't shake the fact that Neuro was powerful enough to have been telling the truth, that he was really there, and if he was right about that...

She began to cry, and as warm as she was with Tommy, she started to shiver.

Tommy stirs, and kisses her cheek, "Hey I thought I heard you talking in your sleep, you alright? I am sorry about falling asleep, I guess I was pretty worn out after everything that happened," he squeezes her gently.

"You're warm, why are you shivering?" he says softly.

 

[Agamon]

Star then turns her attention to Mark, "That sounds suffecient, standard UNJE operatin procedures would follow that pattern. Most likely Mr. McCallister has already appraised them of our mission and what we will need to accomplish said mission. I would presume that we want Strength alive, in case he can divulge information about Honor, and the Water Margin in general?"

"Um, yeah," Anika says increduously. "Just 'cause his buddy tried to kill Mark doesn't mean we're going to try and kill him, info or no." She gets a bit of a grin, "Of course, that doesn't mean we can't make him wish he never met us..."

 

[Hammerhead]

Ryan rolls his eyes at Yoshi's sarcasm. Anika's gods were not capable of smiting anyone. Of course, Anika herself can do that herself. He then attempts to use the communicators build into the sunglasses to call Sarah, but gives up. He instead fishes out a more mundane celluar phone from his bag and punches in her number, waiting for her answer. Come on, come one, pick up the phone, he thinks anxiously.

While calling Sarah, Ryan only pays cursory attention to the planning session, figuring that Mark could handle the high-up planning stuff. The important thing, of course, is taking down Strength himself. I'll leave finding him to Mark.

Anika's phone call in Swedish, however, was more distracting. Is she talking about me? It's clearly one of her old friends from Sweden. Is it an old boyfriend? Am I even Anika's boyfriend? Everyone else seems to think so, but we just went out for a dance.

 

[Shalimar]

Kelly sits up and lookss at Tommy, tears still trickling down her beautiful face. "I...I was having a nightmare...it was pretty bad...Neuro was in it... he was telling me all thesee things... he said I wasn't a person, that I was just a toy, a toy to be used, and played with and then thown away...he...he said I was just a puppet, and he wiggled his fingers and it was like I was a puppet, it made dance and everything..." she sobs, looking at Tommy for reassurance.

"He also told me that nobody could care about a person like me, that everyone just wants something from me...that they don't really care... he said that everyone was gonna betray me, even you cause you don't really care... I...I don't believe it or anything, but it was all just soo real... he told me that he had been locked away in my head and that when you saved me...whatever that was you did, he said it let him out... I know it was just a dream, but it felt soo real, and well... as much stuff as he has already done in my head, how can I know he hasn't done this too?" she asks, still shivering in fear. She lies back down against Tommy holding him tightly, like he was a teddy bear that could make that scary monset in the closet go away, too bad it wouldn't work since this monster was already inside of her.