[IC] Myriad Reality

[souleaterfan320]

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Understood.

*Turns and leaves, making my way back into the city*

@ZAVAZggg

*an hour later, Harlock and the chief await you at an evacuation ship, one of many accross the planet. Sirens scream accross the city infrastructure, signaling an impending attack. Several EDB Troops can be seen escorting civilians efficiently and safely to the evacuation center*

[souleaterfan320]

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We're going to win. Easy. The only question is by how much.

@Etcetera

Hopefully a wide margin.

*stands up*

Are you ready to go, miss?

[Etcetera]

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Hopefully a wide margin.

*stands up*

Are you ready to go, miss?

@souleaterfan320

*Stands up as well*
Yes, let's get moving.

[DELETED jdl3932]

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*an hour later, Harlock and the chief await you at an evacuation ship, one of many accross the planet. Sirens scream accross the city infrastructure, signaling an impending attack. Several EDB Troops can be seen escorting civilians efficiently and safely to the evacuation center*

@souleaterfan320

*Arrives with a single large duffle bag slung over my shoulder*

Is this the ship?

[Etcetera]

*Pauses momentarily to look outside*

[Melodious]

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*When you pull me in, everything I’m manipulating detonates, resulting in an overwhelming explosion that is redirected and pinpointed onto you—at the same time, my body tears itself into pieces before suddenly, in the midst of the raging explosions, it’s deleted from reality itself along with my abilities, weapons, and any ongoing effects any of them maintained, as if I had never existed in the first place*

@Legend

*Contains the explosion within my person as best I can before deciding to let the energy rain freely over the battlefield, as I myself detonate, bits of me scattering across the battlefield*

[Legend]

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*Contains the explosion within my person as best I can before deciding to let the energy rain freely over the battlefield, as I myself detonate, bits of me scattering across the battlefield*

@Melodious

*Any trace of my presence is completely eliminated from Existence*

[souleaterfan320]

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*Arrives with a single large duffle bag slung over my shoulder*

Is this the ship?

@ZAVAZggg

*The chief spots you amongst the crowd as you approach*

Yes! Come on in. Quickly!

*suddenly the sky is painted with a dark purple hue, and a single figure floats effortlessly above it*

Ezmeralda: To the citizens of this planet, I offer you protection in the form of salvation. I offer you everlasting, painless life within the Amaranthine. I am not your enemy, rather your liberator. No need to go hungry, no need to go without. Should you chose ot become one with the Amaranthine, you will be spared, and join the greatest family in existence. Should you fight against the wave of progress... you will be purged.

Harlock: no... we're too late.... we didnt even get a ship off the ground...

Chief: wait, that was what attacked you? This ominous woman?

Harlock: *shakily raises my hand* that thing killed my wife. Killed my crew. They left me alive as a lesson.... I don't know why.

Chief: .... god help us all.

[souleaterfan320]

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*Stands up as well*
Yes, let's get moving.

@Etcetera

*an urgent alert beeps on both of our contact devices*

*pulls out my phone, seeing the notification*

... there's an amaranthine attack happening right now in the Ursa sector.

[Etcetera]

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*an urgent alert beeps on both of our contact devices*

*pulls out my phone, seeing the notification*

... there's an amaranthine attack happening right now in the Ursa sector.

@souleaterfan320

And the military?

[souleaterfan320]

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And the military?

@Etcetera

They've taken action. Evacuation protocols were inotiqted aproxximately 30 minutes before the attack. These guys move quick, and hit hard. They don't destroy too much, but they replace everything with their own. Its like they're playing capture the flag, but the flags are the people of existence... God, I hate these guys...

[Etcetera]

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They've taken action. Evacuation protocols were inotiqted aproxximately 30 minutes before the attack. These guys move quick, and hit hard. They don't destroy too much, but they replace everything with their own. Its like they're playing capture the flag, but the flags are the people of existence... God, I hate these guys...

@souleaterfan320

Did the people have enough time to escape?

[souleaterfan320]

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Did the people have enough time to escape?

@Etcetera

....no.

[DELETED jdl3932]

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*The chief spots you amongst the crowd as you approach*

Yes! Come on in. Quickly!

*suddenly the sky is painted with a dark purple hue, and a single figure floats effortlessly above it*

Ezmeralda: To the citizens of this planet, I offer you protection in the form of salvation. I offer you everlasting, painless life within the Amaranthine. I am not your enemy, rather your liberator. No need to go hungry, no need to go without. Should you chose ot become one with the Amaranthine, you will be spared, and join the greatest family in existence. Should you fight against the wave of progress... you will be purged.

Harlock: no... we're too late.... we didnt even get a ship off the ground...

Chief: wait, that was what attacked you? This ominous woman?

Harlock: *shakily raises my hand* that thing killed my wife. Killed my crew. They left me alive as a lesson.... I don't know why.

Chief: .... god help us all.

@souleaterfan320

*Glances up at the woman as I approach*

Have you considered punching her?

[souleaterfan320]

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*Glances up at the woman as I approach*

Have you considered punching her?

@ZAVAZggg

Harlock: you saw what she did to my ship.

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Harlock: you saw what she did to my ship.

@souleaterfan320

*Shrugs*

That doesn't mean it isn't worth trying. Who knows? She may have grown so overreliant on whatever power it is she wields to the point where a brute force attack might just catch her off guard.

[souleaterfan320]

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*Shrugs*

That doesn't mean it isn't worth trying. Who knows? She may have grown so overreliant on whatever power it is she wields to the point where a brute force attack might just catch her off guard.

@ZAVAZggg

Harlock: I also punched her.

*pulls up my tattered sleeve, showing several scars*

She treated my arm like swiss cheese.

[DELETED jdl3932]

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Harlock: I also punched her.

*pulls up my tattered sleeve, showing several scars*

She treated my arm like swiss cheese.

@souleaterfan320

*Glances at it*

Hmm. I see...

*Steps away from the ship and out into the open before cupping my hand over the side of my mouth, my gaze directed at Ezmeralda*

Excuse me! Could I have a word with you for a moment?

[Etcetera]

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....no.

@souleaterfan320

Our constituents won’t be happy to hear that.

[Melodious]

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*Any trace of my presence is completely eliminated from Existence*

@Legend

*The scattered bits of me begin to flow back together gracefully at a central point*