Generation Legacy Issue #9 "Innocence Lost" - Part 3

"It isn't easy, shouldn't be easy, but just cause something is hard to do doesn't mean you shouldn't do it if its the only way to be certain. I've only killed one person, and that was more then I wanted to do, and I'm not sure he even counts. He had done bad things to me, to lots of people I guess, but to me too, and he was gonna erase my whole me-ness. I was able to kill his mental self, and since his body was gone that was the end, but I didn't want to kill him, but I didn't have a choice. It doesn't get to be just black and white. I have a box of crayons with a grey crayon too. It also means there are all kinds of other colors though besides grey and black. Blue is a nice color, and red and pink and yellow, if all you see is black and white like Nightchild, how can you ever be really happy?" Kelly asks somewhat whimsically.

The girl looks curiously at Kal, "Uhh, since your from here and now your home, is it really being stuck here? I think we are the ones that qualify for that, at least for know." she says with a sigh. Then the popstar looks to Thor and asks him the question she been wanting to ask since he had so easily brushed aside her attempts to change the weather. "Thor, your really strong, I guess being a god helps, but, can you help me become strong? Like you, not a god, but stronger then I am."
 

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Shalimar said:
"It isn't easy, shouldn't be easy, but just cause something is hard to do doesn't mean you shouldn't do it if its the only way to be certain. I've only killed one person, and that was more then I wanted to do, and I'm not sure he even counts. He had done bad things to me, to lots of people I guess, but to me too, and he was gonna erase my whole me-ness. I was able to kill his mental self, and since his body was gone that was the end, but I didn't want to kill him, but I didn't have a choice. It doesn't get to be just black and white. I have a box of crayons with a grey crayon too. It also means there are all kinds of other colors though besides grey and black. Blue is a nice color, and red and pink and yellow, if all you see is black and white like Nightchild, how can you ever be really happy?" Kelly asks somewhat whimsically.

Danger Girl sighs rubbing her helmet, "Can you shut up, when you talk my brain hurts from the stupidity."

Shalimar said:
The girl looks curiously at Kal, "Uhh, since your from here and now your home, is it really being stuck here? I think we are the ones that qualify for that, at least for know." she says with a sigh. Then the popstar looks to Thor and asks him the question she been wanting to ask since he had so easily brushed aside her attempts to change the weather. "Thor, your really strong, I guess being a god helps, but, can you help me become strong? Like you, not a god, but stronger then I am."

Thor just smiles, "I am not a teacher, Kelly," he says as if that is enough.
 

Danger Girl sighs rubbing her helmet, "Can you shut up, when you talk my brain hurts from the stupidity."
"I can fix that for you." Kelly offers, lightning arcing all along her body, then she sighs and the electricity winks out. "Would you mind stopping that, its not really very nice. You don't hear me making fun of you do you?" she asks.

Thor just smiles, "I am not a teacher, Kelly," he says as if that is enough.
Kelly justs sighs and nods, not particularly happy. She was the weakest person on the team, she'd been almos killed 3 times, no, 4 times since coming to the school, none of the others were that weak.
 

Karen moves to stand next to Kal, her spiky hair falling to her back, and puts her arm around him, she's quiet throughout the discussion of Ryan killing Chimera, too shocked, too angry to trust her own words but when Anika decides to attack Kal she glares at her,"Why would you say something like that Anika. Why would he tell you he was the son of Thor? I think most of us would have laughed at him. What's a little white lie compared to killing someone? You are talking about justifying killing someone when Ryan could have just knocked him out and then accuse Kal of not being completely honest to you?" her hair seems to bristle for a moment and a cut the length of her arm appeared on the back of Kal's shirt, "No one deserves to die, not ever. No matter what they've done or plan on doing."

She seems to take a deep breath out of habit, "I agree with..." she points at Gadget, "Let's get of this street and discuss this in private and if anyone has some spare clothes I-I would very much appreciate it," she says pointing out her shredded sweater and jeans.
 
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Shalimar said:
"It isn't easy, shouldn't be easy, but just cause something is hard to do doesn't mean you shouldn't do it if its the only way to be certain. I've only killed one person, and that was more then I wanted to do, and I'm not sure he even counts. He had done bad things to me, to lots of people I guess, but to me too, and he was gonna erase my whole me-ness. I was able to kill his mental self, and since his body was gone that was the end, but I didn't want to kill him, but I didn't have a choice. It doesn't get to be just black and white. I have a box of crayons with a grey crayon too. It also means there are all kinds of other colors though besides grey and black. Blue is a nice color, and red and pink and yellow, if all you see is black and white like Nightchild, how can you ever be really happy?" Kelly asks somewhat whimsically.

"Yes the world is not just black and white, but that doesn't mean people deserve to die for whatever reason." Karen shakes her head, "I-I don't understand how you speak so calmly of killing someone, you ... you are such a nice person. H-have you ever had ... had someones lifeblood on your hands? Have you ..." she tries to take another deep breath out of habit, "Have you ever seen a man's eyes beg for his life when you... when you knew you've killed him?" she asks, tears welling up in her eyes.
 

Aenion said:
"Yes the world is not just black and white, but that doesn't mean people deserve to die for whatever reason." Karen shakes her head, "I-I don't understand how you speak so calmly of killing someone, you ... you are such a nice person. H-have you ever had ... had someones lifeblood on your hands? Have you ..." she tries to take another deep breath out of habit, "Have you ever seen a man's eyes beg for his life when you... when you knew you've killed him?" she asks, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Karen, I'm not happy about killing Neuro, but at the time I had no choice. Phase had already killed his body and the only part of him that was still alive was the part of his consciousness he embedded in my mind over the course of the 6 months he was controlling my every action, my every thought, even my feelings. He made me do things for him," Kelly says shuddering, "but even then I didn't want him dead. After his body was killed, he started taking me over again, he started erasing my memories, everything that made me who I was, he was making me into a killer just like him. I would have been gone and a Terrorist would have been walking around in my body. I had to kill his mind, he knew it was comng, I didn't have a choice. It was totally kill him, or he'd totally kill me, there was no middle ground." Kelly says softly.

"Look, I'm sorry about it, but there is nothing I can do to change it, so I can either whine and complain about it or be glad that I was better, stronger, that I'm still alive." she says, before giving the crying girl a careful hug.
 

"Y- you didn't kill him. He ... he died when Phase killed him, his ... his mind was living on borrowed time inside of you," she sobs and tries to calm herself, "You ... you did what you had to do, you p-put his mind to rest. That's not killing. I'm really sorry that he ... that he tried to keep using you after he died, b-but it's not the same as ... as taking the life of someone who is still breathing and walking," she hugs the younger girl finally understanding what had happened to Kelly, feeling some comfort in the fact that in Karen's own eyes Kelly was still innocent.

ooc: I don't think Karen ever heard the full story of Neuro up until now
 

Danger Girl responds as Nightchild walks away, “Wow I didn’t know you guys were involved in a war. I guess maybe that would make killing your enemies easier… I just never thought anyone our age would be so resolved to do that… I mean not even Paragon does that kind of thing… well unless he really has to, and only when there is no other option. It just isn’t done… I mean I don’t know, I just get the feeling if we started what would separate us from them?”

Anika shakes her head. "No, I didn't mean..." She pauses, thinking, "What did I mean?"

Yoshi perks up at Anika’s words, “Dude, I am just as surprised as you are, maybe we are having a Kodak moment?” he breaks a cheesy smile, “but honestly if Ryan didn’t do it any one of us would have well outside of Anika or Kiyana I thought but I guess… we have to do what we have to do. I am not going to shed any tears either; you ask me, you should have offed that psycho in the first go around.”

"Yoshi, no, we don't 'off'..."

Kal looks confused, “Why are you calling me a liar? Would you have believed me if I said, hey by the way I am the Son of Thor, Magni? Your world is a little different from mine, I mean… I thought we were friends?”

Anika thinks a moment before responding, looking a little sheepish, "Um, yeah, I...guess you're right, I probably would have thought you were making fun of me...I'm sorry, Kal."

Thor chuckles, “These outsiders have interesting if familiar ways. Anika, you must tell me,” he says with a firm voice electricity arcing over his body spreading out from Mjolnir, his hammer, “how your magic works, are you truly some kind of priestess of your world?”

Anika turns and simply stares at the large man, his question hitting her like a sack of bricks. She looks down at her hands and the light blue aura surrounding her. She looks back up at him with a lost, almost frightened, look. "I...I don't know..." she manages to mumble.

Karen moves to stand next to Kal, her spiky hair falling to her back, and puts her arm around him, she's quiet throughout the discussion of Ryan killing Chimera, too shocked, too angry to trust her own words but when Anika decides to attack Kal she glares at her,"Why would you say something like that Anika. Why would he tell you he was the son of Thor? I think most of us would have laughed at him. What's a little white lie compared to killing someone? You are talking about justifying killing someone when Ryan could have just knocked him out and then accuse Kal of not being completely honest to you?" her hair seems to bristle for a moment and a cut the length of her arm appeared on the back of Kal's shirt, "No one deserves to die, not ever. No matter what they've done or plan on doing."

As Karen speaks, Anika thinks back to how revolted she was at Justice Elite's attacking Pantheon at the Matrix. She remembers how insistant she was that there be no casulties in Legacy's first mission in Bangkok. She hadn't even had time for proper sleep since that proclamation. So why was she trying to justify what happened here? Did she actually believe what she had just said?

"I..." She doesn't know how to respond.

"It isn't easy, shouldn't be easy, but just cause something is hard to do doesn't mean you shouldn't do it if its the only way to be certain. I've only killed one person, and that was more then I wanted to do, and I'm not sure he even counts. He had done bad things to me, to lots of people I guess, but to me too, and he was gonna erase my whole me-ness. I was able to kill his mental self, and since his body was gone that was the end, but I didn't want to kill him, but I didn't have a choice. It doesn't get to be just black and white. I have a box of crayons with a grey crayon too. It also means there are all kinds of other colors though besides grey and black. Blue is a nice color, and red and pink and yellow, if all you see is black and white like Nightchild, how can you ever be really happy?" Kelly asks somewhat whimsically.

"Yes the world is not just black and white, but that doesn't mean people deserve to die for whatever reason." Karen shakes her head, "I-I don't understand how you speak so calmly of killing someone, you ... you are such a nice person. H-have you ever had ... had someones lifeblood on your hands? Have you ..." she tries to take another deep breath out of habit, "Have you ever seen a man's eyes beg for his life when you... when you knew you've killed him?" she asks, tears welling up in her eyes.

Anika begins to tremble as visions of her own past flood her mind. She glances over as medical personel handle Chimera's remains and looks up at Ryan in shock and steps away from him, tears beginning to well in her eyes.
 

Kal shrugs, “Why don’t we relax, and get back to the-”

Snap! Crackle! Zap!*

Thor waves his hammer and the group of teens and himself are once again back in Teen Justice Tower, in the living room of all places. Thor then takes a seat to rest, as he looks a little drained from the day’s activities, “I almost didn’t make my little dinner date with Ares, I was too busy trying to keep Jormungand under control… there is nothing worse then trying to restrain a snake that circles the very world itself…” he sighs closing his eyes, Mjolnir resting across his lap.

Kal listens to Anika and Karen, “Hey I am sorry, I guess I didn’t want people to treat me differently if they knew I was a god, I just wanted to be like everyone else.”

Gadget flops onto a bean bag chair staring up at the ceiling, “I wonder where Nightchild is?”

“Right here,” Nightchild says, coming from the balcony, “there was a disturbance in China Town but White Dragon seems pretty capable of handling it,” He turns to Mark and company, “Legacy we have extra beds and stuff if you need to rest, at least until we figure how to get you home, where you belong.”

Aris watches Anika step away and stays close to Ryan, trying to comfort him.

Danger Girl removes her helmet, “Well I need to get out of this armor, Mark could you give me a hand?”

Jimmy looks around curiously, “I feel so lost right now…”

Nightchild walks across the room, “I am going to check on my grandmother, if I am not home in an hour she may start get worried. Danger Girl keep me on call, Teen Justice good job out there today… Legacy thanks for the help.”

He walks back to the balcony.

Earth: Legacy

Ibiza in the evening

Bishop watches as his peers as eat the food, resting his eyes on first the elite heir, Hildalgo Valdez; an attractive man with swarthy skin and long silken hair. The elite is meticulous in his dress and he never wears the same Ivana Renoir original more then once. He is a modern prince among the new gods, and a public face lobbying for more equitable terms for those innocent Pantheon members who had been incarcerated nonetheless.

Next to Hidalgo sits one of the more notorious members of the movement, Razor. He is tall and lanky with skin that shines with a metallic sheen. His hair is like metallic strands cascading down his back, he did not need to eat, so he busies himself by reading the digital news medium in silence.

Across from Razor sits another familiar face, that of Synapse. One of the escapees in the Eden facility disaster she found her way to Bishop after she heard he had reformed the movement; with the loss of both Metatron and Cardinal much of the movement had crumbled. But she knew that if anyone could rebuild the movement it would be him.

Bishop finally clears his throat, “I am glad that you could all come, fellow brothers and sisters. We have important business-”

The door to the private dining hall slams open as a corpulent woman flops onto the floor. She rolls and tries to stand, her dark hair mussed, and her gown wrinkled from rough treatment. Standing in the doorway was the ominous figure of Phase, her lower arms replaced with cybernetic limbs.

“Bishop this wretch requests an audience with you,” Phase hisses pointing her pistols at the fat woman.

Bishop stands, “Stay your hand Templar, what does this woman want with me?”

The woman smoothes out her dress, “Oh just consider me a prodigal daughter,” the woman replies with a sneer, “by the way Phase, I like your new arms… who knew little McKain had the ability to disrupt your power?”

Phase narrows her eyes, “How-”

Bishop looks on curiosly, “Templar that is all, return to your post.”

Phase nods and turns away from the gathered elites and closes the door behind her. Bishop gestures for the woman to take a seat, “Please sit down, Neuro.”

Razor wrinkles his face in surprise, “Isn’t he dead?”

“We killed his physical body yes, but it seems somehow his conscious lived on, I was as surprised as you all, but this corpulent woman is Neuro,” Bishop replies.

Synapse smiles, “An improvement if you ask me.”

Neuro grins, “Oh flattery will get you anywhere my dear Synapse,” he gestures, “So Bishop, what is on the agenda?”

“If the elite agenda is to be furthered we need a place where we can truly be elites, and not just puppets for the baselines to parade about. What the UNETF did to me down in Eden, I will return a thousand fold. But we need to strengthen the movement, get the word out, Cardinal may have been a false prophet, but my vision will be reality,” Bishop speaks calmly.

“Interesting,” Neuro speaks her mouth filled with food, “at a glance I looked over a list of investors and companies that invested in the construction of Eden. The Mitchell Foundation topped the list…”

Synapse chokes, “The Mitchell Foundation? You must be crazy…”

“Actually I am not crazy,” Neuro chortles, “I am quite sure it would be an easy task. I mean do you think… why don’t I just show you-” the woman’s body collapses into the food with a sickening plop!

A servant standing by the door starts laughing. “I can go anywhere, and be anyone. We don’t have to destroy the Mitchell Foundation, they are just in need of a hostile takeover…”

Bishop nods, “Impressive…” he mouths.

Hidalgo nods, “I am impressed as well. The Mitchell Foundation would provide us with great funding, and ruining his name would be a great start to weakening our enemies. Brother Bishop, perhaps it is time that we outline our plan for Utopia?”

Bishop smiles, “That was next on the agenda…”
 

Cassie looks around, not quite tired from her exertions in the brawl. "I don't suppose that you have facilities that I could work out from? I find my powers tend to give a bit of energy after a massive healing."
 

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