NationStates Jolt Archive

OCC:This takes place three years in the future. Just to state Phalanix is still recovering form the sudden outbreak of the Black Phoenix Virus that managed to nearly kill almost ten million people.
IC:
"We should move now and remove the problem. Then we place ourselves in power," a man hidden in the shadows said to his counterparts in the dark meeting room. Only one of the six chairs was empty other than the speakers chair. "Yes. We remove Echo and start to mold this pathetic nation into something that will strike fear into anyone who hears about us," a second figure replied. A third figure this one holding a cigar took a long drag before exhaling and speaking "We'll have to create false charges for Echo, Knightly, and Phoenix. They would only get in our way if they are alive."
"True. We'll also have to deal with both Lancers. Eric would be a rather large thorn in our side as well as his sister. She commands the loyalty of our fighter pilots but I'm sure we can sway them from her," the final figure said as she spoke. "Fine we'll strike when Echo celebrates her birthday. They wouldn't expect anything that drastic to happen."

----------------------Only one week later-----------------------

Echo looked around the ball room and smiled. It had been so long since she had the chance to enjoy herself since the viral outbreak. Now finally the virus was contained and she could enjoy her twenty-seventh birthday with no national disasters. She turned to her older brother Phoenix and smiled at him as he walked towards her arms outstretched to hug her. "Happy birthday," he said as he wrapped his arms around her. "Hey play nice," she replied with a laugh as she returned the hug. "Well you're lucky. When I was president I delt with two civil wars. Worst you got was a viral outbreak. A brutal incident but not as horrible as dealing with nukes flying everywhere," he said trying to not to recall the horrors that he had witnessed so long ago, "Well lets just enjoy the fact that we're alive and here to celebrate you still being around." "Good enough. But have you seen any of the military council? I've only seen Alice but not the others," Echo asked as she waved to a group of new guests entering the ballroom.
Outside the building in several semi trailers council troops went over there last weapons checks as began securing there armor. "Is everyone ready?" a squad leader said from inside his trailer. "Yes sir!" came the full hearted reply of his troops. He sighed and tried to push his personnel feelings aside. "Ok people we are moving in to capture several traitors. Sadly they are: President Maxwell and General Maxwell. As well as Council Member Lancer and if we get lucky Commanders Knightly and Lancer. This is going to be a difficult mission but I'm sure you can handel it." With that all the trailers doors burst open as the fifteen man squads brust out and began running towards there assigned entrances.

OCC:Ok this is going to get very violent soon. As in the worst civil war ever in Phalanix.

Eyes cloaked by sadistic-looking mirrored sunglasses stalked each of the many people in the room from one of the corners. Elfira D'nan was following her premonitions again. She had inserted herself within the party without anyone in Cyberutopia knowing. She was rather proud of that. Then again, her commander probably knew already, and she was only deceiving herself. At least she was sure no one at the party had recognized her yet. After all, Joshua was the only one that would know her, and she hadn't picked him out of the swarming party yet. Maybe he was off hiding, too. Something very, very bad was going to happen, and the Elven psychic sure as hell wasn't going to let it happen to Joshua.

Joshua sat on one of the steps near the large hotel that was holding Echo's party. He was wearing a trench coat and was hard to tell apart from the other quests that were entering the building. As the soldiers stormed the building his eyes widened as he suddenly jumped down to avoid being seen by any of the soldiers. "Hey did you see that guy?" one of the troops said as he just noticed that Joshua had started to run. "I think thats Commander Knightly. Quick after him!" one of the squad leaders replied as he and three others jumped off the stiars after him. "Commander Knightly stop running or we will be forced to open fire!" one of the men called out as he knelt down and fired a short three round burst. The loud crack of the rifle spitting out it's lethal armament could be heard from the ball room. Phoenix suddenly ran towards the window to look down as suddenly the door was kicked in and a flash bang exploded in the room blinding everyone. At that point the troops moved in shoving everyone to the floor that hadn't gotten on the ground. Quickly fallowing they began identifying each guest looking for there targets.
In the alley below Joshua heard the flash bang go off. As he ran he pulled out his standard pistol and turned around for a split second firing a the group. His aim was good but the fact that they had automatic weapons had him beat. They returned fire placing a trio of slugs in his right arm. He winced and fired off a few rounds from his pistol before he dropped it and started running again.
Back in the ball room one of the squad leaders said into his Com "We have three of the five targets. One of the other ones has been seen firing on some of our men in a alley at the north east end of the building."

Elfira remained lounging against the wall, arms sternly crossed as she watched the troops. She smirked as one shouted at her to get on the ground.

"Ah, but you don't want me on the ground..." She said softly, the words laced with powerful Chimearian suggestiveness.

"I guess you're right," he replied before a second soldier had the barrel of his rifle right at the back of Elfira's head and shouted forcefully "GET ON THE F*CKING GROUND OR I'LL BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF!!!" Anyone could tell that he was serious about his threat.
Outside troops were still hunting for Joshua. One of the soldiers fired again only to end up hitting a random homeless person splattering his blood across the alley. As the troops ran by his twitching body a single one stopped to place a bullet in the dead man's head to stop his twitching.

The Elf turned around to face the new soldier and rolled her eyes behind the sunglasses. Her brow furrowed slightly.

"Aw, you've gone and yelled at me. I just wanted to play. Guess I'll have to find a new plaything." She said, the smirk never faltering.

She snapped her fingers, and the igntion cloth she wore sprung to bright, glorious life. The little white flame grew in magnitude, before Elfira twirled it into a long cylinder that boiled the skin from the soldier's skull. The two long daggers slinked out of their thigh scabbards and impaled the first soldier through the throat, ending his life with a pathetic gurgle. She spun on her heel to face the remaining soldiers.

"Look at all the silly men I get to play with." She commented loudly in childish glee.

As soon as she had killed the first soldier almost twenty men opened fire on her. Seeing this chance Phoenix ran up to one of the troops and smashed his arm into the man's helmet cracking it and flooring him. Alice seeing this chance fallowed Phoenix's lead and began to pound the nearest soldier to her. Echo quickly ran for cover behind on of the over turned tables and sat on the floor in the fetal position praying the gun fire would stop. Minutes later it did but as she peaked her head out around the table she saw a slaughter. Phoenix had been hit almost ten times being lucky that they were in the arms with the exception of three in his left leg and one in his chest only a few millimeters from his right lung. He breathed heavily as he tried to ignore the burning feeling of his wounds. Alice had been much more lucky only taking one round in her side. The wound was bleeding fairly bad but she treated it like it was only a flesh wound. Echo on the other hand ran over to the first aid kit in the room that was handing on the wall. As she ran one of the few remaining soldiers who now was so terribly scared let lose a burst from his rifle at Echo. She stumbled as she felt his breath leave her body and a searing hot pain shooting through her side. As she fell to the floor Phoenix screamed in rage and ran to the lone soldier screaming in pure anger and aggony as he began ripping the man to peices until he tore out the man's spine clubbing his lifeless body with it for several seconds before stopping and looking at his sister's body. Alice ran over to Echo's wounded form and grabbed the first aid kit pulling out a small nano-bot injector and injecting the contens of the vial into her system in a atempt to save her life.

Elfira pulled her knives out of the back of a soldier, wiped them on her dress, and sheathed them again. She dusted some plaster dust from her shoulder.

"Well, that was fun." She said, smirking still. "If they wanted all of you, they probably wanted Joshua too. We should find him."

Phoenix was busy holding his sister's hand. "We have to get her out of here," he half said and half wimpered. "Joshua can hold his own. But right now we have a bigger problem to owrry about," Alice said as she started to fish through the firstaid kit for someway to help Echo and herself.
Outside Joshua kept running till he entered a crouded street. He started to shove past peopel as fast as he could while he tried to hide his bullet wounds.
The men behind him thundered out into the street. One of them fired a shot into the air that casued the people to scatter letting them run through trying to find Joshua.