Rina

Unlikely Heroes

In the Midst of the Gunfire
Things seemed to be going according to plan, or at least the best as things could go with the sudden improvised plan both with the sudden influx of Gen Charlies as well as the TSP catching up to them. With Daniel using his power to enhance Garret and his own power, Cameron watched as Josiah made his way towards each of the TSP’s vehicles, obviously slowed down due to him reaching the upper limits of his powers even with the aid of Daniel's help earlier in the evening while he, Garret and Daniel worked on dealing with the TSP agents and giving Josiah cover.

With Garret keeping Aaron distracted and himself dealing with the TSP agents things were going smoothly and as Josiah reached the last vehicle and planted the last device he knew everything was set. “Have you heard anything?” Cameron asked Garret who was in charge of keeping a line of communication between them and Dr. Wilson open.

“Yeah, he’s found them and is working on bringing them in. Wait as long as you can but things seemed to be nearly ready.

“Okay.” Cameron said viewing the scene in front of him. Although there were a few TSP personals close to the two armored trucks close to the thicket, there didn’t seem to be anyone nearby, a safe exit route for the Charlies once they arrived. Although Josiah made his way to each vehicle to plant the devices, he did so to all but the two by the thicket so that nothing would appear as too suspicious to anyone carefully observing Josiah. However most of the TSP personals were too focused on dealing with him and the other two with him, no one seemed to pay too much attention to Josiah as he watched the man teleport to the edge of the thicket so that he could aid the Charlies to the truck.

Putting his hand in his pocket, Cameron grasped the device he had. It was only a matter of time before he could set things ablaze.

Within the Thicket

Glancing at the others she knew what the decision had to be. Although in the pit of her stomach she wasn’t comfortable going with the doctor, she knew they had no choice. Medical aid was needed and during that time she could find out what was happening to her and maybe even find a way to leave and make sure that they and the other group would leave her alone. She wasn’t looking forward to having any more trouble with her life and getting involved with whatever was going on between the two seemed to be a surefire way to be included in the trouble.

“Alright but just for one week.” Jenna said with a slight nod.

“I presume you have the power over ice or something similar?” Dr. Wilson said looking at the shivering woman. “It might take some time and work but I think we can help you find a way to control your ability so that you don’t have to suffer through the cold or at least find a way to make it less bearable if it is a drawback to your ability”

Slowly turning his gaze at each person as he watched for some sort of agreement if they were willing to give one, Dr. Wilson continued. “I cannot force you to come with me tonight with all that is happening hit if you accept my terms that I gave you please come with me with no delay. There will be vehicles waiting for us at the edge of the clearing. The others will be keeping the way clear for us as much as they can but do not delay or stop. They do not intend to hurt you at all but with how dark things are and the chaos that is happening there is no promise that a stray bullet won’t be heading towards you. Once we are all in, we’ll head out once Cameron distraction is set in place.” Turning towards the woman lying on the ground he looked towards the more abled people and especially towards the large bodied man before continuing. “She doesn’t deserve staying out here in the middle of nowhere. Would one you help carry her out?” Dr. Wilson said sure that the woman was dead after seeing how much she was shot up.

Turning around back towards the waiting vehicles Dr. Wilson guided the group keeping a pace that everyone could go at a hurried but comfortable pace for the injured. Once they made it to the vehicles he could start working on the most injured people and then fix up the rest once they made it the base but until then they had to suck it up as much as they can and reach safety. Dr. Wilson only hoped that they could make it to the vehicles before meeting up with Ben.

The Rising Tide

Nice! I look forward in seeing it!

Unlikely Heroes

We've reached six months! We're halfway to a year!

Oh and on the topic of news, I've been thinking about this for quite awhile and I have come to the decision. I'll be promoting BlessedWrath to Co-GM. We've already spoken to each other and he's accepted so give the same regards to him as you would for me.

Wilson, I can see improvement compared to the last sheet you gave me but there's still one thing that needs to be worked on. Let me send you a PM and let's see if we can get this figured out.

I have tomorrow off so I'll finish up my post either tonight or tomorrow.

Unlikely Heroes

No I don't think there's anyone ahead of you so go right ahead Wilson.

POST-APOCALYPSE IDEA

Haha I'm not sure if you're tired of me by now with me continually popping into your roleplays Penguin but here I am yet again. With my schedule freeing up I look forward in seeing what is in store for this roleplay

Unlikely Heroes

Oh whoops, Eyesonlyhacker isn't here anymore. Even though his posts and character sheet is still there, his name is off of the roster. Those are the people that are currently present in this roleplay.

No worries Dpickle. Hopefully things will be resolved and I look forward to your post once you are able to get it up. With quite a few people out for different reasons I'll get a post up either tomorrow or Wednesday to keep things moving but I won't push things too far forward but enough for everyone that already responded are able to do so again. Most of the events will happen between the TSP and the Reformers in my next post so that I can wrap things up in that aspect before moving our characters onwards with the Reformers.

I'm liking everyone's reaction so far! Here's the next one. You were given a $50 gift card to anywhere. Where would your character go and what would they buy?

Unlikely Heroes

Good idea! I'll add the next question in once we get a few more responses.

Jenna probably would say something along these lines if she did it in front of someone and laugh it off

"Oh god, I can't believe I just did that. I am such a ditz sometimes."

Alone she might look at the door a little startled before quickly going back to what she was doing before someone notices her standing in front of the door in hopes of avoiding something embarrassing.

The Rising Tide

Alright posted! I've left parts of the conversation open for you JLtW so that you can edit things without too much interference from my post concerning the twins.

The Rising Tide

To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FW: Concerning Richard Dalton

Did you make it to Japan safely? Long flights can be quite tiresome of a journey and undoubtedly more so with your little ones. Hopefully things will go smoothly for your family as well as your husband’s job throughout this trip.

Concerning your prior email as I’ve said before I was a close friend to Richard for as long as I can remember. We were practically brothers growing up. Things were a little rough between us the last few months we shared with each other due to a few conflicting viewpoints but overall Richard was pretty much the other half of me. It is unfortunate that he passed while the two of us were on bitter terms. Anyways keeping on subject, it was about a year after you left school. Ever since I’ve received your email I’ve been investigating what led to the events leading up to Richard passing away but it is going to take time. I will keep in touch with you and if at any time you have any leads or want to console in me, I am always open to do so. News like this so sudden can be quite painful and I would hate to leave you on such a somber tone after hearing so much about you from him.

As always a friendly ally,

D. Aldrich
Private Investigator

A somber sigh escaped Devan’s lips after sending the email. After the love-struck girl left her passions that came through college for a poet hater and moved to Finland, he never expected to hear from one of his favorite star pupils. Although he received a few emails or notices of his past life every once in a while, most ended after the death and the construction of the tombstone for Richard Dalton. However being overseas it was understandable that she wouldn’t have known about Richard, or at least the namesake of Richard, passing away. Even though the email he received from Neva was a surprise, he was even more astonished with himself when he replied to the woman’s email three days after receiving her first email. Originally he was going to delete the email she sent after receiving it but for some reason he couldn’t put himself to it. Here was the last shred of his former life that could link Devan to Richard but for some reason he couldn’t put himself up to it. Even though he changed his appearance completely from the time he was Richard to now and his ability to forgo his prior persona was not an issue to him so the idea of her having the ability to know who he used to be didn’t seem like an issue for him. However it was an unneeded risk. A loose thread in a web of lies that seemed not to have any ill effects but was something that had the potential to be something troublesome down the road, especially since Neva married the poet hater.

Sliding his phone back into his pocket as Chase returned from the diner’s restroom, Devan stepped out of the booth and the two headed towards the door. “Shall he head to Manhattan so we can see what all happened?” Chase asked as the two entered the other man’s car.

“No, it’s too early. Feel free to send Michael in if you’d like so that any surveillance that could possibly be in that area is focused on him. If things start to pick up in the news about it and if something catches my eye I’ll head over there in a bit as an investigator from D.P. Investigations but right now going there brings no interest to me.” Pulling out his phone after a short beep Devan paused to read a text he received. “Yes, now that is what I call interesting. I just received from a source that there are two highly skilled poets just spotted not too far away from here and the most spectacular thing is that the two of them are children. Children Chase!” Devan said with a little enthusiasm at the end of his statement. Although the teens that always seemed to be overeager to join the rebellion were always a handful and the idea of bringing children in as well would bring more complications, passing up the offer of recruiting the two children seemed to be far too good to pass by. Especially if they are as good as the two were described as.

“What is going on there? How were they spotted?” Chase asked apprehensively. He was always a cautious man, a man far too cautious in his opinion that sucked the excitement out of things far too often.

“From what I see it appears that there is some sort of crazed poet hater around waving a gun around and is causing quite a ruckus. It even brought the attention of Gilgamesh to the area.” Devan said with a spark of excitement in his eyes. An excitement he knew that he wouldn’t be able to pursue due to the potential dangers that could be involved. “Let’s send a few people over there so we can hear about the progression of whatever is happening there, especially about the children and Gilgamesh.”

“Okay, we'll do that. What about the woman?”

“She means nothing to me. She’s not even on the chessboard but just a speck of dust that happened to land near an important chess piece

~.~.~

Stopping in her place as the man’s voice cut in, Elysia turned towards him with livid eyes. With gritted teeth and white knuckles, she listened to the man ask her if she feared the children. It look all her force to not act out on her anger and even then it was quite obvious in her facial expression and how she held herself. She couldn’t believe that the man was insulting her by asking if she was afraid of the children but for the sake of not being marked down further on the test than she already lost a few points on, kept her mouth shut knowing that opening her mouth would be troublesome.

However that didn’t last long as her mouth shot open as the man said that the poets were not a threat. The first thing she wondered was if there was someone personally controlling the program to try and instil the idea that poets were not the enemy. The idea of someone tampering with the program for to get this result angered her. Once she was out of the program, she was certain that she would try and find out who caused this to happen but until then the best option seemed to be to follow that the program was wanting her to do and go along with the man. Slamming her mouth shut before she could regret anything that would come out, Elysia listened as the man spoke about his plans for catching the poets. Elysia didn’t pay much attention as the man swung the sword and the aftereffects that followed, thinking nothing more than that the technology on Earth was starting to catch up a little more to what Ryton had achieved. However effects that the man was able to do to his voice startled Elysia, quite certain that Earth’s technology wasn’t advanced enough for people to have vocal enhancements as the man displayed. A bit uncertain if her facts were correct, twitched her thumb over so that her ocular displayed changed over so that she could reach her planet’s database and see if her facts were correct about how advanced their technology was supposed to be.

However there was nothing to be seen.

Her thoughts quickly went back to the program as she wondered if she was disconnected from the database while in the simulator this time. However that had never happened to her and as she thought back to the time since she received her enhancement she couldn’t think of a single day nor moment she didn’t have access to the database. What would have caused her to suddenly lose access to the database? Maybe there was a battle brewing outside the simulation while she was in here stuck in the program unaware of the situation at hand. However that didn’t make sense to her. If something was happening, those in charge of the program would have ejected her from the simulation at the first sign of danger. This had to be something else.

Maybe her enhancement was malfunctioning. Although rare, it wasn’t something that was impossible and that this moment it seemed like the only plausible option on why she couldn’t reach the database. Her connection to the database wasn’t like cellphones on Earth that could lose reception and was too far away to have signal. There was nowhere on Ryton that she could go and lose her link with the database.

Giving a slight snort in response as the man noted that she was far away from home. Of course in the simulation she wasn’t from home, the program was to represent a place that was supposed to be Earth. Elysia clenched her fist tightly as the man came within punching distance towards her as she resisted the urge to hit him after his prior insult, even more so as he mentioned that the two shared a common goal. Did he think he could just get away with what he said to her and act as if it was nothing? Acting the way he did for nothing more than what appeared to be for publicity was nowhere near a goal of hers.

“Elysia.” The woman said sharply before walking towards the vehicle. “I assume you are wanting to talk somewhere a little more private.” The woman said stating the obvious rather than asking the man.

Unlikely Heroes

Haha, we'll see now it goes Arcanic.

No worries, welcome back BlessedWrath