MutantHigh Episode 4: Deadzone

[Shalimar]

"Listen up you reject from swamp-thing. You attacked us, your girlfriend there hurt my friend, and now you have the stupidty to say we attacked you? What's your IQ, like -2?" Eris asks as she stretches languidly like a great cat, rubbing her back against a tree as if she was scent marking it.

 

[KitanaVorr]

January.16.2004
Haven, Isla Verde
12:24

"the guy didn't throw around antimatter, he just created small amounts and controlled the energy from the following reaction."

"...founded the Killer Angels in 1995 but was captured again later then he attempted to break into the Pentagon and steal files about Atlanta. No one has any idea what could be so valuable about them. Reaver has been known for not taking civillian hostages or attacking civillian targets and so the state did not demand the death sentence. "

"the case of Sgt. McVenner who became the alpha Reaver and systematicly killed his pursuers".

Katie leaned back in her chair for her moment, her pink lips pursed as she considered the information before her. If he didn't normally kill civilians...then why did he wipe out that town? These 'alphas'...they were such a mystery to everyone, including themselves.

What a lonely life that must be where you could destroy everything...where you could be so god-like.

Katie wondered what that could do to a person's mind. Only someone with a strong sense of self, of willpower could survive becoming god-like with any sense of morality intact.

Reaver - meaning "To take away by violence or stealth, to bereave" and he had done all that, hadn't he?

Her soft voice echoed in the room as a line from poetry came to mind while Reaver's image stilled on the monitor.

"With blustring breath of Heaven, that none can bide,
And scorching flames of fierce Orions hound;
Soone as the port from far he has espide,
His chearfull whistle merily doth sound,
And Nereus crownes with cups; his mates him pledge around."

Closing her eyes, Katie continued to whisper softy...

"Dismounting lightly from his loftie steed,
He to him lept, in minde to reave his life,
And proudly said; "Lo! there the worthie meed
Of him that slew Sansfoy with bloody knife:
Henceforth his ghost, freed from repining strife,
In peace may passen over Lethe lake;
When mourning altars, purged with enimies life,
The black infernall Furies doen aslake:
Life from Sansfoy thou tookst, Sansloy shall from thee take."

Opening her brown eyes, she stared intently at the screen. "And who took your life, Reaver? I wonder." Her fingers tapped on the computer, her mind searching for what those Atlanta papers he wanted so badly could possibly be about.

 

[Aenion]

"What about my friends you attacked earlier? They were defenceless. We had been in this jungle for two years, trying to make sure it stays protected and you attack us without provocation," Domi says forcing herself to stay calm, she floats back down to the ground, "and you expect us to let you just beat us down?"

Seeing that Clair is still down, she quickly checks if he's alright and gently tries to wake him up, "Nice power you got Clair, can you also use it on yourself?"

 

[Radiant]

January.16.2004
some there in South-Columbia
early afternoon

Slicers eyes focus on Eris and he slowly retracts the blades that sprout from his torso.
“You should be carefully with your tongue child, insulting members of the Sunguard, is punished with death in the kings realm. You where travelling with her.”
He points to Domi.
“So we thought you are another group of explorers. Their kind is not welcome here in the Deadzone. I see now that you look more like you got lost here. If you release my sister I am willing to listen to your story. Since I can see you are all of the race, you may yet find that you just landed in paradise.”

Now that the hectic of the fight is over you can all see that every member of the group wears heavy gold jewelry and is often held in Aztec symbols. The unconscious man on the ground even wears clothes that are cut a bit in the style.

Eris hears frantic climbing in the trees above her and suddenly sees a pair of bright big eye starring down at her. It’s a small ape and after smelling in her direction it shrieks and runs of like it just saw a hunter. The sounds of the jungle slowly return as the animals that fled from the sounds of battle calm down and the area returns to normal.

 

[Tokiwong]

Joey keeps the girl ensnared, "Tell us more about this paradise," and then suddenly relaxes his grips removing the water from the girl, keeping his watershield up.

 

[Robbert Raets]

Some Paradise. Ewww. channels Jack to his teammates, as he drowns yet another insect with ectoplasm.

 

[Radiant]

www.deltatimes.com
site update on the histroy lessons

Today:
Without Superiors calming (read: oppresive) influence, all hell broke loose. It seems people felt like they had to catch up for all the time the they couldn’t wage wars. Even worse, without the government’s alphas some mutant groups have started campaigns of terror. I guess they thought then neutrals declare us our enemies they might as well fight back. Here are some news for you: that’s crap.
The low point, of course, came back in’89 when there was a total nuclear meltdown in the Russian city Chernobyl. That was bad enough, but it got worse.
It turned out that a supposedly covert Delta Prime team was seen battling Soviet mutants just before the disaster.
Before the mushroom cloud had settled over the city, the Kremlin had “determined” that Primers were at fault and they launched a reprisal at Atlanta. Within in the hour the capitol of the south was a smoking crater.
Of course we couldn’t tolerate that, so we blasted back, taking out Kiev before the madness finally came to a glow-in-the-dark kind of end.

That’s enough history for now

 

[Aenion]

"Not much of a paradise when someone can sentence you to death, is it?" Domi glares at Slicer, sounding angry, "Where are my friends now? If we were not welcome here, you could have just warned us, instead of attacking our camp and kidnapping everyone."

So it was you who did that 'I can see through someone elses eyes' thing, she thinks back to Jack, This place is great once you get used to it, it's filled with beautiful animals, flowers and with all kinds of useful insects, some of them might even hold a cure for cancer.

 

[Shalimar]

"So you have special clothes and because of it we are suppoused to do everything you say? You are missing something, like the fact that we just won the last fight, and that if it comes down to it, we can beat you 2 in nothing flat. So why don't you two get off of your high horse, we do not need you, we can make our way out of here, so back off on the, 'I will listen to your story'. You are not in a position to make demands. Besides this place isn't paradise, it doesn't even have mall, or anything like that, although it is nice enough." Eris says with a shrug.

She sniffs at the small ape before it runs away. "That wouldn't happen to be one of your 'people' would it?"

 

[Radiant]

January.16.2004
Haven, Isla Verde
12:24
Opening her brown eyes, she stared intently at the screen. "And who took your life, Reaver? I wonder." Her fingers tapped on the computer, her mind searching for what those Atlanta papers he wanted so badly could possibly be about.

There is no sure way to find out what the data Reaver wanted contains but there is a lot of specualtion about it. And as allways there have been leaks in the FBI so something got out. According to the rumours over one hundred mutants, a more than impressive number considring how rare they are, made their home in the ruins of Atlanta shortly after the bomb fell and stayed there for a while. These days they aren't there anymore, it's said they have spread around the country. Strange is that no one knows there they came from and why they decided to live there for a while. Also strange is that there is only one report about one of them using powers. He appearantly had abilities resembling the mystic vampire. There are lots of wittnesses for that power use but none for any other.
The government ordered a search of the ruins after the bomb fell and the reports from then have been locked away by the FBI. The area around Atlanta is of limits to civillians but that only makes sense considering the radiation levels.