NationStates Jolt Archive

Professor Washu was responsable for the greatest things to ever come to the Resi Corporation, and there was no question that she did more good for it than Jai Resi, the CEO, ever did. In her office in Beta Lab, she laughed a little at that thought. Flawed as he was, she couldn't help but like Jai. He was a real character, she'd give him that, and a good person to have around if she needed entertainment.
Glancing at the control panels in front of her, she surveied the various data each displayed. Everything seemed to be going according to plan, and within no time at all the project would be complete. It was dangerious, this line of work. One slip-up and the universe as anyone knows it could be fragmented entirely. Such was the consequence of working with dimensional energy fluctuations, but the result would be well worth the effort. Yawning a bit, she pressed a button on the control panel to activate the intercom.
"Hey, Liss," she said, addressing the second-in-command on this project, "I'm going to turn in for the night. You think you can take over for me?"
"No problem," Liss said back, through light static, " I can handle things till morning."
This was good, Washu knew it too, but somehow she couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive at the idea of leaving her post. Nevertheless, she shrugged it off and moved on. She knew she'd be no good to the project sleepy.
Walking out of the research facility, she boarded a tram that took her back to her home in the Elite Arcology, where she checked into her suite and fell down, fast asleep.

Hours pass, the sun rises.
*brrrrrrrrring*
"Hmm..." Washu mumbled, still tucked into her bed.
*brrrrrrrrrring!*
"Argh..." she groaned, waking up a bit, "I told ya I didn't want any..."
*brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!!!*
She shot out of bed, and grabed the phone.
"WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL DO YOU WANT?!" she yelled at it, "THIS BETTER BE GODDAMN IMPORTANT!"
"Washu, hold your tounge."
It was Dae Narasagi, President of Resi Corp. She was essentially Washu's only official superior who held any real power over her.
"Now, turn on the TV," Dae continued, "It doesn't matter what channel."
"Shit..." Washu groaned. She knew this was bad news. The last time she got a call like this Iesus Christi was invading.
Slowly getting up, she flipped on the TV. The first sight that greated her was of a giant crater.
"Oh holy hell, this can't be good..." she muttered.

CNN Headline News
A Resi Media Company
"Last night at approximately 2:00 AM something somehow caused this crater at Beta Lab, the Resi Corporation's most secret of R&D facilities. With no word from the Resi office, we have no choice to believe that this is either the result of an experiment gone haywire or a foreign attack. Security cameras in the area reveal strange multi-colored lights coming from the building before the crater was formed, but still..."

"That's all you'll learn from that," a voice from behind Washu said.
Washu jumped, turning around to see none other than Dae herself standing behind her.
"You could've at least warned me," Washu scoffed, "I would've changed out of my nightie."
"Relax, it's nothing I haven't seen before."
Washu blushed.
"But seriously," Dae said, "Why aren't you more shocked? Did you have a hand in this?"
"Not at all," Washu said, instantly, "I simply left the plant about an hour before that happened to go home to sleep. I had a feeling that something was going to happen, but I didn't know exactly what."
Washu turned around, now facing the TV. With a simple press of a button, the thing shut off.
"Goddess damn it... Liss fucked it up again. I should've never trusted her."
"Reguardless, what happened there was a bit of a success." Dae replied.
Now this is what startled Washu.
"What do you mean?" she asked, in awe, "What came out of that crater?"
"This," Dae said simply, taking what mostly appeared to be a red orb, but also appeared to be somewhat of a triange and a square at the same time, out of her pocket, "You were planning to make these, were you not?"
"Yes..." Washu said, watching it in amazment, "Chaotic spheres..."
"Well, because of your little mishap they've been scattered around the globe. Using the video footage, we think there's 7. A yellow one, a green one, a blue one, a black one, an orange one, a purple one, and of course this red one. In the meantime, do you mind telling me exactly what this thing is capible of?"
"You know how our Plasma Power Plants, while very efficent, still produce waste of the eco-friendly variety? We were working to make an unlimited energy source that provides literally no waste. Naturally, because nothing in this world can do that, we were working on harnessing the energy of dimensional fluctuations and placing it in these spheres. We must be careful, if these things fall in to the wrong hands they could power a whole new breed of WMDs. If all seven unite, even I have no idea what they're capible of doing."
"Very well," Dae said, placing the orb in Washu's hand, "Study this. I will alert the world that our property has become scattered and will attempt to gather them."
She walked off, and Washu could only stare at the orb in her hand, wondering if any of this was worth it.

TAG

A small town, somewhere in the desert...
A small child, of about seven years, or 'almost eight' as he himself would say, looked at the funny rock he had found. It was green and seemed to change shape all the time. It was actually pretty cool looking, he thought, maybe he could sell it to a tourist for a couple of credits...
He put the object in his backpack and trotted off toward home.

OOC:
So...
Does the cratering of your lab show up outside of Resicorp? Or is it a private event?

OOC:
So...
Does the cratering of your lab show up outside of Resicorp? Or is it a private event?((OOC: Should've probably mentioned something about that. Everything broadcast on CNN is shown to the world, while everything broadcast on RNN is Resi-only.))

OOC:
Cool, well...Ill be along tomorrow, its 9'oclock here and I have a test...
*crossess his fingers and hopes DGNT doesnt explode while hes gone*

Well, at mimimun I gotta .:Tag:. this.

((OOC: Bump for responses, we need people to find the other five orbs.))

Maa'golaas, Deputy Administrator of Intergalactic Relations woke with a start when a black stone flew through his window "What the hell?" He stepped towards it, giving it a gentle prod. He marvelled as it seemed to change shape but stayed the same. Emperor Saa'molaas would be most interested in this.

The hive was farming again, growing subjects in huge vats. Suddenly a streek of purple light blaring overhead. The hive looked up and ponderd this as one. Then 3 cuttle fish transport vessels took off accompanied by 5 royal guard they headed towards were the thing had landed. Circaling above the strange glow in its own small crater they began to land. Unsure of the orb they sent out a hive hybrid member. The human walked towards the crater and picked up the orb. the hive monitored his synapse carefully looking for any sign of mutation or change.
Nothing.
He walked back to the ship handing the orb to the groups avatar. The 8ft tall warrior looked down at the orb telling the hive everything he could about it. All knew what had been found, they were simply unsure of what it was or did. Registering the cnn broadcaste they realised that this must have somthing to do with the Resi corp.
The hive took the orb back and stored it deep within their vaults thousands of miles below the planets surface in a solid diamond rift they had found in the earths mantle.
They released hive ordinators over their boarders into surrounding area's monitoring satelight movements trying to determin where the orbs had landed. The ordinators were simply humans who had become as one with the hive, they looked no different to any other tourist.

BUMP

Geoff "Triam" Sumner was minding his own business, at least a smuch as an intelligence operative can ever mind his own business, when an orange sphere came streaking out of the sky and hit him on the shoulder. He caught it reflexively and was suprised to find that it was warm.

Upon examining the sphere he also discovered that it was of highly unusual composition, like nothing he had ever seen before. It also seemed to almost flow in his hands, although it wasn't moving as far as he could tell.

I need to take this back to Control. Lords above only know what it might be. Geoff began the long walk back to his car to return to base.

DGNT Bridge and Dam Authority
"-So I says to the guy, 'Dude, you kissed a guy!" and he said, "But the lighting was bad!""
Breif, somewhat forced laughter.
"Anyway, let us come to order. We've had little on the radar since the whole Kyrr Resurgance thing, but something's popped up. It appears that a formerly secret laboratory of some sort in Resicorp has exploded. Nobody seems to know what they were working on, but the Fleet says there was quite a bit of energy released, just before and during the blast, more than would account for an explosion that size. It also indicates that objects left the buildings former location, at high speed on a number of trajectories. Ballistics is working on where they landed, but for now none appear to have hit DGNT with any noticable effect, though national health facilities have been alerted to prepare. But, we must ask ourselfs...is this a mere accident, or an attack? Well, we're going to find out. Thats our job. INS deals rather sharply with those who fail."
The rest of the men knew. They didnt kill you, unless you couldnt deal with hanging from a tall building by your thumbs with your knees nailed to your ears.
They went to work.

((OOC: Alright, I need two more people to find a jewel before this RP can continue, so BUMP.

And for the record, only the Blue and Yellow orbs remain to be found))

(I'll take blue)

A short sharp rap on the door of Ms. Eunice Elysian, Chairman of Mikosolf, dragging her from sleep. Calling out, "Do you know who I am and what TIME it is!"

"Yes, and I'm sorry Chairman," a soft male voice spoke back, "But Judicature Mikial has requested an immediant audiance with you."

Its always urgent with Mikial she thought with a slight sigh.

"Oh," the voice called back, "He also said to turn to CNN."

Mumbing she groped for the remote, flicking on the TV she watches in start silence as the scene plays across the screen. Cursing slightly she hurridly get dressed and rushes down the hall to her private meeting room.

"Ok Mikial, what is it now? Some terrorists attacking corperations?" She cries in question.

Without a word he causally tosses her a glowing blue orb...

OOC: Methinks I will take yellow as blue is already taken.

IC:
Somewhere deep in the forests of Coreworlds, where regular animals, cabbits and Pokemon alike live in relative (and very relative) harmony, a small hiking team of Explorer Scouts have set up camp and is in the process of gathering firewood for the cookout they are planning for later tonight.
A boy and a girl, both around 14 years old, were away from the campsite when...something fell from the sky.
"Jack? Look over there!" Erica said.
"What?"
"C'mon!" Erica grabbed Jack and the two ran towards the area where something glowed slightly. It was an orb, glowing yellow.
"What is it?" Jack said, and reached for it. "Hey, it's warm!"
"Lemme feel it. You're right! What are we gonna do about it?"
"I say we keep it a secret until we figure out what to do."
"Okay." Erica put it in her bag, and the two continued gathering firewood.

Jack and Erica are twins, and both have sandy brown hair, blue eyes and wear similar clothing. Like many twin sets, whatever happens to one twin often happens to the other...

OOC: The twins are to be together as much as possible.

Contuation of first post

"What is this?" Eunice inquired towards Mikial.

Chuckling slighty he asks, "You did watch CNN like I asked did you not?" She nodded, "Then you should know allready," he said with a hint of a smile.

Her eyes widened and she asks, "This is one of the multi-colored lights from that explosion?"

Giving a slow blink and a nod he smiles, "Exactly. Though what it is has yet to be determined. But thats not importent."

"Not importent! This thing came from the catacylsmic explosion of a top secrete lab, how can that not be importent." She cries.

"Oh in that sense it is importent. But so far not a single technician or scientist could even hint at its use, so untill that time its.." he ponders his choice of words, "a paper weight, though it would be poor at that as well being round and all."

Sighing Eunice finally sits down at the table and places the orb ontop of a cup so it would not roll. "So beyond comming from a Resi Corp secrete Tech facility what do we know."

"Nothing." Mikial responds.

Now becomming slightly angered at his noncommental attitude she so often enjoyed she coldly says back, "Then why did you have to wake me a 4:15 AM if its just to tell me that a blue orb from the Resi Corp landed here and we can do nothing with it."

"Because of that very reason Chairman," he says finally loosing any humeric manner. "If anything can be said about the Resi Corp is their interesting path of research, most notable on their marked reactors."

"Wait... you think this has something to do with the chaos theory?" she ponders recalling.

"And the secrete to clean cheap power with it." He states back.

"Then I think you know what to do with this, send it back to the lab, I want full analysis on it NOW." She nearly shouts.

"I was to do that, but I thought it best to imform you." He chuckles back.

Slumping back in here chair she sighs, "Of course, then by all means send it back to them."

Mikial exits the room from the far door after having grabbed the orb, closing it softly to the sounds of the Chairman's snores.

Staring into the ever shifting light and shape Mikial wonders if the tech boys really need it right away...

((OOC: Alright, now that the orbs have been claimed, the RP is closed))
IC:
CNN Headline News
A Resi Media Company
*the word live appears at the bottom of the screen, and the focus on the camera adjusts. After about five seconds of the camera focusing, Dae Narasagi comes into view, standing at the podium in Market Square*
"Ahem ahem," Dae cleared her throat, then began, "People of the world, many of you have seen footage of one of our exploded labs on this very news channel, and I have come to you today to clarify that point. We originally suspected terrorism, as did many of you, but later we found that it was the result of a strange experiment gone awry. This experiment, though it blew up the lab, was partially successful, as it produced seven stones of varing colors. We wish to study these objects to learn what caused the explosion, and are willing to offer a reward for their safe return. If you have any information, e-mail us at stonesearch@resicorp.com or send a letter addressed to our main office. Thank you for your time."

"Sir, Resicorp has just released more information on the incident at their labs. It appears to be an exeperiment gone wrong. The actual purpose is unclear, but it produced seven stones of...varying colours." The aide looked down, "And...err...," he paused, choosing his words, "Your dog is..err...attacking my shoe. Sir."
The chair, now facing what appeared to be a large window, but was in fact a very good holographic display, said, "Dont bother, he doesnt have any teeth left." Then went back to Contemplative Silence.
This was true. The dog (His name is Wuffles), appears to be about sixteen. Which is 112 years old in human years. A number of medical advances have kept him going quite well. In DGNT, no expense is spared on the leaders pet.
"Quite. In any case, sir, it appears one of the objects landed in Dontgonearthere itself, sir. The Ballistics section is currently working on a more accurate path, but it seems to have gone down somewhere in the North Province, around Psuedopolis. Forces are currently out looking, but if it got caught in a storm its pretty much gone forever." There was a pause as Wuffles managed to untie the aides shoe. At this point the dog decided that he was not going to be fed, petted or otherwise paid attention to, and as such wandered back to his basket, where he resumed sleeping with his feet in the air.
"This is most disturbing. Your telling me that with all our advanced technology, we can pick up a mite on Mars, but we cannot find a source of unlimited energy the size of a baseball on the planet because of some sand? Well, Im sure something will turn up. Dont let me detain you."

The hive drones crossed over into the countries of Dontgonearthere, The Resi Corporation, A Few Rich People, CoreWorlds, Guanyu and Underwater Asylum. Each of the drones were simple humans sent out to investigate the locations that the orbs had been droped into, they were haive memeber so had all the usual bioengenering but could not be identified as anything other than humans. They had no weapons and only has the cloths that they wore - these were hawain shirts and shorts so that they looked like tourists.
The hive had already begun experimenting upon the orb they had discoverd and has lost several members of the hive in miniature explosions as they found out what could be done to the orb.
The hive decided to release its own press release.

A traditional hive avatar to the human race stepped up infront of the screen as the camera came on. She was a 6'2" blond green eyed figure of perfection. All that could be seen of her on the camera were her shoulders but they were uncoverd - it could be assumed she was wearing nothing.
"We are the hive, we are perfection. The hive regrets to inform The Resi Corporation that the purple object that arrived in our territory was destroyed / lost. It fell into a excavation well we had created many years ago that exposed the earths mantel, as such it has been lost to the earths core. We would like to discuss with The Resi Corporation what exactly the orb was and why they wished for its return. The hive wonders what could be so important regarding a coloured sphere. We are the hive, we are perfection."

A traditional hive avatar to the human race stepped up infront of the screen as the camera came on. She was a 6'2" blond green eyed figure of perfection. All that could be seen of her on the camera were her shoulders but they were uncoverd - it could be assumed she was wearing nothing.
"We are the hive, we are perfection. The hive regrets to inform The Resi Corporation that the purple object that arrived in our territory was destroyed / lost. It fell into a excavation well we had created many years ago that exposed the earths mantel, as such it has been lost to the earths core. We would like to discuss with The Resi Corporation what exactly the orb was and why they wished for its return. The hive wonders what could be so important regarding a coloured sphere. We are the hive, we are perfection."Dae and Washu watched the broadcast with interest, paying attention to every word.
"Well, it looks like at least one of the spheres fell into the wrong hands," Dae said, trying to hide her disgust for the hive, "but the question is, are they telling the truth?"
Washu paused, and thought for a second.
"Most likely not," was her reply, "Granted we don't know a whole lot about what we're doing here, as dementionality is an entirely new branch of chaotics, but if something with that much dimentional energy was destroyed we'd definately be able to tell. It probably wouldn't blow up the universe, but it would cause something bizarre, like all the light in the universe 'rippling' or some such. Just a temporary reality distortion, then all would be normal."
"So now the question becomes, what should I do now that I know they're lying? I can't accuse them, as the last thing we want is a war with someone who can theoretically utilize the energy inside one of these things. However, we can possibly send in a robot to retrieve it under the pretext of wanting to search the core for it... yes, that could work."

To the center of the Hive Fleet Imodius:
As this object is very precious to us, we wish to send a robot to your nation to retrieve it. Made mostly of Carbon-60, it can withstand the intense heat of the Earth's mantle for up to 24 hours before breaking down. We originally made this robot as a defense unit, so this isn't too much of a stretch from its original role. We must act quickly, however, to ensure that this object isn't lost in the currents of the lava.

[signed]
Dae Narasagi

Transmission to Resicorp:
We beleive that one of the objects may have impacted in DGNT. Its current whereabouts are not known, but we are setting up a deepscan. Unfourtunatly it is currently our windy season, and a number of sandstorms with a high metal content are interfering with our normal scanners.
Do these objects give off any sort of radiation that could be detected by a scanner from orbit?

OOC Factoid:
DGNT is mostly desert, its environment was pretty much destroyed by the constant warfare before the 47 Era. Aside from the sand a number of war machines, weapons, and general detritus was simply left in the desert, resulting in a very wierd environment sensor wise. A radar in DGNT usualy picks up a solid sheet, and of course, during sandstorms it is likely to overload and explode.

Transmission to Resicorp:
We beleive that one of the objects may have impacted in DGNT. Its current whereabouts are not known, but we are setting up a deepscan. Unfourtunatly it is currently our windy season, and a number of sandstorms with a high metal content are interfering with our normal scanners.
Do these objects give off any sort of radiation that could be detected by a scanner from orbit?To Dontgonearthere:
It appears that the objects vibrate at a rate so intense, that it can neither be seen or felt. However, it does produce an ultra-high-pitched noise that not even dogs can hear, but can be picked up by most listening machines.

The hive had finaly figured out how to use the orb as a weapon - mounted in the maw of a royal guard a beam of plasma could be fired through the orb resulting with internal refraction, the plasma exits the other side with enough inentsity to stop a stars fusion from occuring, it had been tested at low powerlevels and was a perfect diamond cutter leaving no flaws, HFI had found a new source of income - perfect diamonds from the earths core.
comms from HFI @ The Resi Corporation:
We are the hive we are perfection, we regret that mechanical machines are banned from HFI, as such we cannot allow you acess to our region, there is but one exception to this - our newest ally compuserve. The hive regrets that the orb has been lost from us. We would however request information regarding the orb while we theorise methods of searching the region with biocarb alloy scavangers.
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

Telegram to Resicorp:
Unfourtunatly any listining array would be wrecked, the current windspeed is 126.2 miles per hour. By reports the storm should clear within a few days, at which point scans will resume. You are welcome to send your own scanning/retrieval teams to Dontgonearthere, we do not suggest attempting this now, though.
Ballistics has finalized their tests, and the object appears to have landed near a town, are there any adverse health effects associated with exposure to the object? Should the town be evacuated?

When the hikers returned home, Jack and Erica caught the tail end of a news report of several strange orbs that seem to have scattered from the Resi Corporation.
"Erica, do you think our yellow orb thing is one of those stones that have been thrown from that lab?"
"Hmm..." She pursed her lips in thought. "Can't hurt to try."
They went to their high-powered 1024 kb IBM PC with a Pentium V processor and logged on to their video email.

[code:1:2665abca94]To: stonesearch@resicorp.com
From: thetwindragons@aol.com
Hi, ResiCorp! We are the Twin Dragons (aka Cavalry Twins), and while hiking yesterday, we found an odd yellow orb in the woods. We have reason to believe that it is one of your orbs. We think it is time to give back what is rightfully yours.
Erica: Can Jai Resi send me a poster with an autograph?
John: Sis! This isn't the time to ask something like that! Besides, he ain't all that cool.
Erica again: *screams BAKA! Yells something about how Jai is the coolest guy in the world for running a corporate empire and that he's hot and she's his number 1 fan and then punches John through the roof and into orbit* *giggles* Well, anyway, if it's really your orb, we'll give it back to you. The Twin Dragons, signing out![/code:1:2665abca94]

Still staring into the ever changing shape of the orb, seemingly lost in its luminesence, Mikial strides down the hall, his prominent clack of metal on stone is the only sound reverberating across the void.

Holding the blue sphere in his gloved hand he watches in facination, letting the light dance across his face and eyes, completely absorbed in the chaotic beauty...

Mikial...

"Who goes there?!" he cries out in surprize, his free hand going for his concealed side arm. Peering around with his slate grey eyes, probing for the source, finding none, he finally relaxes a bit and stretches thinking, Bah, the silence around here must be getting to me. And silent it was, not the sound of a intern clicking upon a keyboard nor the gurgle of a coffee marker filled the marble halls.

Looking around, he spots a map, Great, went two sections to far, now I have to head back to the shipping depository. Turning around the newly rising sun catches his eye, By the Board, it must be later than I thought. Despite that thought poping into his mind he still takes a brief moment to enjoy the small pleasure of the suns warm rays ebbing across the metropolis and into the windows, creating a city of fire as the light bounces back and forth off the highrises.

With a small smile and spring in his step he sets off back the way he came, now instead of looking at the orb a slight bought of playfullness passes his mind and he begins to juggle it. ((OOC: Wow, even I find this off color, a supreme general and he is treating this orb as a ball :roll: ))

Minutes pass, but not before long his usually nimble reflexes fail him and the orb slips though his grip, landing upon the ground with a sickening crack.

Cursing under his breath he mutters, "Just my luck, this thing can survive crashing into a concrete facility but not me dropping it, just great."

Bending down to grab it he finds its completely intact, merely the marble tile beneath it has been shattered beyond recognition. The hell? he thinks. Reaching for it anyway, just as his fingers brush its smooth surface...

FLASH

"Belgium!!" he cries out in pain and fear.

Mikial...

A green skinned, two headed creature wearing a lab coat watched the energy charts of the orb. It spiked. And spiked again. "Doctor Akagi! It's spiking again! It's getting stronger!" A white woman with blonde hair and blue eyes dashed over, hitting the P.A. as she went "Ibuki to the research center! Sector-001A!" She looked at the charts and hit a button "Evacuate the area! Lock down the blast doors! This thing is going to release an energy burst!" and yelled into the P.A. "Maya! Get away! Evacuate the floor!" and ran as blast shutters slid down the viewing port and the others fled, her lab coat billowing out behind her.
7 minutes later:
A great thwoom could be heard as the orb released the energy, nearly vaporizing it's containment chamber. Total Casualities: 2 researchers, 1 scuzzer.

comms from HFI @ The Resi Corporation:
We are the hive we are perfection, we regret that mechanical machines are banned from HFI, as such we cannot allow you acess to our region, there is but one exception to this - our newest ally compuserve. The hive regrets that the orb has been lost from us. We would however request information regarding the orb while we theorise methods of searching the region with biocarb alloy scavangers.
We are the hive, we welcome you to us.TO: the Center of the Hive Fleet Imodius
FROM: CEO Jai Resi, ResiCorp
SUBJECT: Orb
We've had bad experiences sending carbon-based life to hive-states in the past, as the denizens of said states seem to enjoy assimilating what we send and using their knowledge against us. This is not to say that you would do this, it's just to say that we are overly cautious when it comes to information leaks and having employees stolen. Besides, Carbon-based life would be of no use in this search, because humans and like creatures seem to have a problem with melting at high temperatures. Please reconsider your robot policy just this once, we promise no harm will come of it.
[signed]~Jai
Telegram to Resicorp:
Unfourtunatly any listining array would be wrecked, the current windspeed is 126.2 miles per hour. By reports the storm should clear within a few days, at which point scans will resume. You are welcome to send your own scanning/retrieval teams to Dontgonearthere, we do not suggest attempting this now, though.
Ballistics has finalized their tests, and the object appears to have landed near a town, are there any adverse health effects associated with exposure to the object? Should the town be evacuated?TO: the potentate of Dontgonearthere
FROM: Prof. H.J. Washu, ResiCorp
SUBJECT: Orb
As far as we can tell, the orb poses no health risks. It does, however, distort reality from time to time. This means that, in the immeadiate area around the orb, the sky could turn orange or everyone could get their spieces/gender changed or some other bizarre phenomina, all of which are only temporary. We theorize that the nature of these phenomina are directly related to the color and therefore the content of the orb. This will probably warrent some explaination to the townsfolk, but nothing too drastic. You might want to remove the borderline insane people from the town, though.
[signed]~Washu
Hi, ResiCorp! We are the Twin Dragons (aka Cavalry Twins), and while hiking yesterday, we found an odd yellow orb in the woods. We have reason to believe that it is one of your orbs. We think it is time to give back what is rightfully yours.
Erica: Can Jai Resi send me a poster with an autograph?
John: Sis! This isn't the time to ask something like that! Besides, he ain't all that cool.
Erica again: *screams BAKA! Yells something about how Jai is the coolest guy in the world for running a corporate empire and that he's hot and she's his number 1 fan and then punches John through the roof and into orbit* *giggles* Well, anyway, if it's really your orb, we'll give it back to you. The Twin Dragons, signing out!TO: Erica Cavalry
FROM: CEO Jai Resi, ResiCorp
SUBJECT: My #1 Fan... oh, and that orb thing
ATTACHMENT: jaisiggy.jpg (http://www.angelfire.com/ns2/corporateislands/jaisiggy.jpg)
It's always nice to meet such a dedicated fan, especially one so generous as to give back what was mine, foresaking the potential million-dollar reward. But hey, I'm not that mean, I have to give you something. Well, besides the poster enclosed with this. Consider that a freebe.
I know! I'll send you the million anyway, and throw in a free travel package deal to the Resi Corporation and Bandonia. How's that sound? :wink:
[signed]~Jai Resi
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TO: John and Erica Cavalry
FROM: President Dae Narasagi
SUBJECT: Covering up for Jai
Seeing as Mr. Resi almost completely forgot to mention the orb, the duty falls to me to patch up what he left out. All that there is to say is that we will be dropping by your house at around noon tomorrow to pick up the sphere and drop off a thing or two, whatever Jai wanted to give you. For all I know, he may even go along for the trip. He and Eris are so damn unpredictable...
Right, where was I? Ah, the orb. Yes, like I said, we'll be there at around noon. Don't ask how we know where you live, you most likely do not want to know.
[signed]~Dae <paw print>

((OOC: Basically, the orbs all have some major distorting effect on reality, which Washu assumes is temporary. However, the effects differ depending on the color of the orb, so you could also say that their perminence depends on the color of the orb, too.))

AS the boy walked in the door of his house, he noticed his backpack was unsusualy hot, he reached in, and screamed.
The little ball was hot enough that he had five blisters on his fingers, it was vibrating now.
"Mommy?..."
A blinding blast consumes the house, releasing the orbs energy in a quite spectacular fashion, destroying not only the house, but creating a temporary vacume which closes with a sickening, "BOOM!!!".
Once the smoke, dust and debris of the neighbors clear all that can be seen where the house stood is a large glass ball, about six feet by six feet, flashing periodicle green pulses.
---
Suddenly, every sensor pointed at Northern DGNT reads a clear spot, inside the clear spot the energy readings are huge, almost off the scale designed to look at stars, over most of DGNT automatic warning systems assume that the blast is a nuclear weapon of a very, very high yield, and begin evacuating citizens from the larger towns which dont have shields.
Inside a control room in G'oaway a number of red lights are flashing and a siren is blaring.
"SHUT THAT DAMN THING OFF AND TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!" Demand three officers.
A few of the less experienced soldiers look around for some sort of off switch, while another pulls out his pistol and shoots out the lights, then wraps several jackets from the coatrack around the siren.
"Sorry about that sirs, it seems that a low-area, high-energy blast occured near Psuedopolis, the warning system thought it was a nuke, and began evacuating towns." He waved at a nearby screen, "Were working on getting a team to the area and reversing the evac orders."

A shriek of fangirl proportions managed to break anything that is glass for six miles around, once the poster was downloaded. Plus the Cavalry parents, Kenny and Lisa wondered how the heck the twins got a million credits in their account, plus flight tickets to the Resi Corp and a travel package deal.
"Boy, that was loud." Kenny said, rubbing his ears.
"Hehe. I think Erica has a crush on someone." Lisa said, giggling. "I remember when I had a crush. Screamed like that, too, occasionally."
While contractors fixed the roof where John crashed through, the boy got out of a taxi, bandages all over and went back to the house.
"Now i know not to mess with a girl who's crush is a guy like Jai." He muttered.
The yellow orb started pulsating, and the twins saw the glow, which fought the sun in glowyness.
"What the..." Erica started, then the orb started a hurricane, pulled the twins in, turned the parents into talking cats, pulled in other neighboring kids who happened to be playing outside, and then started turning random people into random animals; regular, Pokemon and cabbits.
The twins and other kids found themselves in a strange...world. The world of the Orb.

Ripping off the glove of his right hand he examines it for any wounds, nothing, he thinks with a small sigh of relief. But if it didn't hurt me what caused that flash and the pain, he mused. Still needing to pick up the orb his hand moves slowly and cautiously, edging ever near it, before finally grabbing it in one swift move.

To his surprize nothing happened, no shock, no pain, no flash. Slowly standing up out of his kneel he looks back towards the hall.

"By the Divine," he gasps. Staring down the hall, a blue-esk haze has settled, tinting the normally white world a light blue. But that was only part of it.

The immaculate hall way has been destroyed, the once glorious windows lining the outwall are gone, only the broken shards still stuck in the sills remain. Beyond that, dust and debrie now coat the marble and gold floors, ebbing in a sense of destitution. Even the tiles themselves, just like the one the orb fell upon, have been shattered to dust. The oaken doors that lined the hall have been blown apart, ripped from hinges, or just plain gone.

It stark horror he turns to face the once wonderful vista of Mikosolf City.

"By the Corperation, what has happened!" He exclaims.

The city, once called "City of Fire" for the way light bounced and played off the exposed steel and stone had been reduced to the same. Its buildings now gave off their own sickly orange light, in stark contrast to their charded sides. A stale smell of death lingers in the cool misty air.

Mikail...

The voice did not startle him this time, it seemed oddly right at home in this world of chaos.

Mikial Zakrufs...

This gave him pause, it used my full name this time, he whispered to himself.

Mikial, come to me

With grim determination he slids the orb, no longer glowing nor changing, into his pocket and begins to march down the forsaken hall, his boots clicking and crunching over the debrie and stone.

Reaching the double doors of where he first started from, the Chairman's private meeting chambers, he finds them intact, their redwood surface still polished to their normal perfection. With a deep breath he pushes them open, entering into the chamber to see...

Flash

...a still slumbering Chairman.

Shocked and dumbfounded he turns back to the still closing doors. What?! Its back to normal! No burning city, no shattered glass or ruined hall? Just normal...

Pulling out the orb he looks at it, now glowing once again, its blue reflecting the mist he had just seem.

A shriek of fangirl proportions managed to break anything that is glass for six miles around, once the poster was downloaded. Plus the Cavalry parents, Kenny and Lisa wondered how the heck the twins got a million credits in their account, plus flight tickets to the Resi Corp and a travel package deal.
"Boy, that was loud." Kenny said, rubbing his ears.
"Hehe. I think Erica has a crush on someone." Lisa said, giggling. "I remember when I had a crush. Screamed like that, too, occasionally."
While contractors fixed the roof where John crashed through, the boy got out of a taxi, bandages all over and went back to the house.
"Now i know not to mess with a girl who's crush is a guy like Jai." He muttered.
The yellow orb started pulsating, and the twins saw the glow, which fought the sun in glowyness.
"What the..." Erica started, then the orb started a hurricane, pulled the twins in, turned the parents into talking cats, pulled in other neighboring kids who happened to be playing outside, and then started turning random people into random animals; regular, Pokemon and cabbits.
The twins and other kids found themselves in a strange...world. The world of the Orb.The children fell for what seemed to be thousands of feet through a void of shifting colors, shapes, and textures. Things shot out at them, passed through them, and spun around them like figments from a dream. They were all falling, falling, falling to what appeared to be a certain doom.

Then, the ground came out of nowhere.

The children each made a distinct "THUMP" as they landed on what seemed to be cold, hard Earth, not dissimilar to what was found in their dimension. Several of them bounched from the impact for a distance, but when the group had stopped moving they were surprised to find that they had only sustained knicks and scratches. In front of them lay a robot with cat ears and a tail, examining its hand. It looked idly at the children, then looked back at itself.
"SO I'M A ROBOT NOW..." it muttered, articulating its fingers, "FIGURES. I SPEND MY WHOLE LIFE STUDYING SCIENCE, AND NOW I'VE BECOME IT. IT'S A DAMN SHAME WASHU ISN'T HERE, I'M SURE SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD'VE HAPPENED TO HER..."
The robot paused for a while, then set its hand down and froze, staring down.
"DAMN THIS INFERNAL BEEPING INSIDE MY HEAD! I KNOW THERE ARE CHILDREN THERE, MY DAMN CPU DOESN'T HAVE TO KEEP TELLING ME THAT. STUPID THING, I GUESS THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH IT IS TO FORMULATE A WAY TO DEAL WITH THE CHILDREN."
Looking up at the kids, the robot got to its feet and waved its hand, greeting the children.
"HI, MY NAME'S LISS. AND THIS IS MY LAB."
The robot motioned behind it, where sitting atop the floating island of land it and the children were currently standing on was a large steel and concrete structure.

Deep in the core of the planet the hive had stoped using the orb for diamond harvesting and were examining it for futher use. Clearing the area 50 geneharvesters took position around the orb and as one hit it. . .
BOOOOOOOOOM
The chamber filled with light and energy then nothing, the geneharvesters had gone, the hive knew they were still alive - it did not feel their death, instead they were lost from synapse range and would now be uncontrolable preditors untill synapse could be reconfirmed.
The hive ponderd this for exactly 2 seconds, shruged, and carried on with various experiments.

Comms from Hive @ The Resi Corporation:
Very well we agree to make an exception providing that no more than 4 robots are dispatched and that we are permited to VET them to ensure there is nothing untowards about them. They will then be quaranteened from your people to ensure no spyware is planted into them after the vetting procedure. We will then allow the machines to scan freely in the crash area. We are the hive, we welcome you to us.

"This is a weird place." John said. "Hello Liss. Looks like we're stuck here until we find a way out."
"Yeah. I wonder what happened to our parents?"
"And everyone else." A younger kid, Danny said.

Meanwhile, in the Real World, two cats roamed the house, looking for their kids. Human kids.
"John! Erica!" They shouted, with a cat's accent.
"Although it's cool being a cat and all, I'm so worried about them." Kenny said.
"Me too. *sobs* Where did they go?" Lisa sobbed, as Kenny nuzzled her.
"Don't worry my dear, we'll find them...hey isn't that a mouse?" The cat's instincts took over as Kenny charged after the mouse. Lisa sighed, and pounced on Kenny.
"Hey! What did you do that for?!"
"Could be someone we know. Wouldn't do well if we find you ate a neighbor."
"Oh."

Comms from Hive @ The Resi Corporation:
Very well we agree to make an exception providing that no more than 4 robots are dispatched and that we are permited to VET them to ensure there is nothing untowards about them. They will then be quaranteened from your people to ensure no spyware is planted into them after the vetting procedure. We will then allow the machines to scan freely in the crash area. We are the hive, we welcome you to us.TO: the Center of the Hive Fleet Imodius
FROM: CEO Jai Resi, ResiCorp
SUBJECT: VETing?
We are curious to what it means to VET our machines. Please, fill us in on this fact.
[signed]~Jai

Still standing in stark surprize the gears of him mind slowly turned. Is this to happen if Resi gets their unclean hands upon the orbs? I must stop it, I must collect the orbs to protect the world from what ever evil they wish to unlease.

Softly approaching the lightly sleeping Chairman, he gently nunges her awake, "Chairman, I must ask you to allow me to do something."

Still half asleep she murmers out, "Fine, do what you want with the orbs, just five more minutes..."

Smiling a half smile he begins to exit the room, Now I have the blessings of the Chairman, my mission must be correct.

Quickly navigating his way to the subterrain levels of the complex he finally feels at home. As the blast doors slid open he calmly stepped into the C.I. and barks out to those working there, "Report, what have we learned about the other orbs!"

"Well sir, they have landing in quite a spread, mostly places we know thought sir," one replies.

"Excellent, where is the closest location from here, we must recover the orbs." Mikial responds.

"Recover, but..." the man fell silent as Mikial's eyes bore into him, "yes, recover, I think Dontgonearthere would be the place to start."

"Excellent, assembe some men and we shall leave at once." Mikial smiles out.

"Sir, but doing something like that could cause an "incident", with the nations."

"And?" Mikial inquires.

"Might we sudgest using equipment not stamped with the company logo, like the "1st Division" maybe?"

"Ah, you mean those over zealos "super" soldiers. Excellent idea indeed, assemble me a squad of their finest to meet me at the Galaxy pad, we shall depart at once!"

"Sir, your going with them?"

"But of course, I cannot just sit here and watch our men prevent the greatest threat ever when I could be out there helping them." Mikial harshly barks back.

"Of course sir..."

At the launching pad...

Mikial walks out spotting the squad from "1st Division", fully geared and armed in custom "amy" army and an assortment of weapons. Looking at the often grotest additions to the mostly standard armor he thinks, No wonder why we have qualms about using these troops in battle. I mean beside their "burn the heathens" attidute towards those not of Miko.

With a small innersmile at that thought he walks between the 10 men and the transport and begins to speak:

"I am High Judicature Mikial," before he had a chance to uttern another word the squad before him in perfect sycronization kneeled and shouted back,

"Hail Lord Mikial, emmisary to the Divine, we offer our lives to the corperation, the Divine, and you. Long live Lord Mikial, long live Mikosolf!"

Definatly zealos, he thinks before continuing after a slight nod. "I thank you for that welcome. I come before you today to help me prevent the possible death of the corperation." Pulling out his orb, "The Resi Corperation has created several of these orbs, now what I fear is that they plan to gather them and use them to unlease some terror across the world. I cannot allow that to happen, we cannot allow that to happen! Therefore, I have picked you, the most blessed warriors of the Divine to help me recover these orbs before the Horror of Resi can! Only then can we feel safe from the looming threat of destruction.

Do not doubt my fears, I have seen what can be, the great city around us burnt and shattered, the Temple defaced and broken. These atrocities must not happen, and as long as I, as you, breath IT SHALL NOT!"

A massive cheer erupted from the men before him, not of jubilation, but of a chance to prove their worth to the Divine and to spill the blood of heathens.

I think we just might do it, he thought as the transported lifted off for DGNT.

((OOC: Resi; if you think I'm going to tangential to what you want (if you have something you want) please let me know. If not, I'll keep going in this direction.))

((OOC: PS; the views expresed by Mikial are not those of the Mikosolf Corperation. (that and he is insane!))

Meanwhile, in the Real World, two cats roamed the house, looking for their kids. Human kids.
"John! Erica!" They shouted, with a cat's accent.
"Although it's cool being a cat and all, I'm so worried about them." Kenny said.
"Me too. *sobs* Where did they go?" Lisa sobbed, as Kenny nuzzled her.
"Don't worry my dear, we'll find them...hey isn't that a mouse?" The cat's instincts took over as Kenny charged after the mouse. Lisa sighed, and pounced on Kenny.
"Hey! What did you do that for?!"
"Could be someone we know. Wouldn't do well if we find you ate a neighbor."
"Oh."A Resian chopper desended upon the town from out of the blue, its massive blades blowing trees and plants aside as it landed near the center of the town. Pokemon and small animals scurried out of the way as it landed, and Professor Washu herself jumped out accompanied by two robots. Looking around with a sense of unease, she wondered where all the people had gone to.
"DETECTING HOSTILES AT 1 O'CLOCK, 2 O'CLOCK, 3 O'CLOCK, 4 O'CLOCK, 5 O'CLOCK, 6...." one of the robots said until Washu interrupted it.
"Yes, yes I know," she said, "All the way around the clock. It's just all the Pokemon in the area. Ignore hostiles, for now anyway."
"AYE AYE, MA'AM." the robots said in a monotone unison characteristic of machines, but was made no less creepy by that fact.
"Right," Washu said, more to herself than anyone, "Now where's that house..."
((OOC: Now would be a good time to have something talk to her. :wink: ))
"This is a weird place." John said. "Hello Liss. Looks like we're stuck here until we find a way out."
"Yeah. I wonder what happened to our parents?"
"And everyone else." A younger kid, Danny said."INDEED, THIS IS A WEIRD PLACE. THIS WAS ONCE A LAB IN THE RESI CORPORATION, IF YOU WERE INTERESTED. HOWEVER, DUE TO AN EXPERIMENT GOING HORRIBLY WRONG, IT BROUGHT US TO THIS PLACE AND RUINED ALL OF OUR EQUIPMENT, SAVE THE ROBOTS. WHICH REMINDS ME, HOW DID YOU GET TO THIS PLACE?"
No sooner than Liss had finished this last sentence, two Immodian geneharvesters fell from the sky above them, crashing against the ground and scaring the living hell out of all who saw them.
"OH GREAT," Liss groaned, "MORE MONSTERS. YOU KIDS KNOW HOW TO FIGHT, OR WOULD NOW BE A GOOD TIME TO RUN?"

Comms from Hive @ The Resi Corporation:
We are the hive, VETing is a process of ensuring no spyware or destructvie capabilities exist in the machines - ie: you do not use them to preempt an invasion into our territories. Any thing entering Hive property is vetted and analysed before hand - you are no exception to this rule other than the fact that we are allowing you to move machines into our territories - an action banned 457 years 3months 1week 3days 4 hours and 37 minuetes ago. As such you should consider it an honner that we are even considering alowing you into our territories - you have 2hours to comply or the invitation will be revoked.
We are the hive, we are perfection.

The two geneharvesters came crashing down slamming into the ground and bouncing back up slightly, leaping up to their "feet" the two 6" monsters scoured the area paniked by loss of contact with the hive, in 30 seconds their preditorial recessive genes would gain total control. The strange light flickerd and shimmerd off their black carapace armour while their diamond alloy claws glistend in the light. Looking around them judging the situation they saw a small robot looking about in apparent panik, and several young humanoids. 30 seconds was up, catalysts within them triggerd an overcharged fight or flight responce. Having judged the situation, they were going to fight. One went for the robotic cat at blinding speeds the other charged the children picking up speed nearing 90mph as it went scything talons reared preparing to scythe right through them.

Back in the labs the hive had found somthing else much more interesting - by firing a beam of radiation into the orb they could get the beam to scatter radiating massive piles of biological waste providing instant sustinence for the hive, a new food source had been found. The hive needed the other orbs such was their potential.

In a small town in Coreworlds a tourist walked up to the newly arrived Resi Corporation troops.
"Hi there, whats going on here? I just arrived - could u help me?"

Another tourist had arrived in A Few Rich People's state and began to hack into the system to discover as much as possible about the orb that had landed here.

Meanwhile in Dontgonearthere a strange man now dressed as a Search and Rescue officer was moving towards a large glass ball

ooc> It is obvously easier to find out about strange situations in some countries than others. Ie a huge rush of ppl from a nuke explosion is harder to cover up than one person finding an orb :)

A Blackhawk helicopter lands at the neighborhood after Washu's does. I walked out, quite amused that a lot of people turned into animals.
"Hello, Washu." I said. "Weird how so many people turned into animals and Pokemon."
I saw the tourist, and felt something odd about him. Very odd, like he was not human or something.
A Ratatta was being chased by a cat, until the cat saw me. "Mr. President? Dr. Washu?"
I did a double take. "Huh?!"
"My name is Kenny Cavalry, and i'm a cat. Actually, a human that has been turned into a cat."
Another cat lands on Kenny before he could attack another rat. "I'm Lisa Calvary. Our twins are missing, and even with our new senses, we can't find them."
"Hmm...did anything odd happen just before all this happened."
"Yes, something glowed brightly in the twins' computer room."
"I see. Take us there."

Meanwhile, in the weird world of the Orb, the kids were busily dodging the sharp claws of the geneharvesters, barely.
They all were bleeding from numerous cuts of near-misses.
"How are we going to beat these things?!" John cried. "They're too fast!"
"I know!" said his sister, currently trying to pick up a random piece of pipe to use as a staff. Then she yelled to the robotic cat. "What are we going to do?"

Three APCs skid around the corner of the town, scattering the small crowd, the doors drop open and local militia troops pour out, acompanied by a few men in high-end Combat Suits, painted black and grey.
A cordon is quickly established around the house and the remains of the neighbors houses. There are no bodies.

OOC:
If anybody inside the orbs wants to rescue the families on their way out, go ahead, otherwise just say they were vaporized or moved fourty three point two miles straight up and disintigrated on re-entry.

IC:
One such besuited man catches sight of the SAR officer and approaches him.
In flat, metalic monotone the suit asks "What are you doing here, and where is your unit? You will hold here until your identification is verified." It turns and moves back toward the sphere, which is glowing now, the air around it seems to waver and glitter, occasionaly a spark that looks like static electricity will jump off, grounding itself in some unfourtunate individual, who will yelp loudly and jump about a foot of the ground.
"You, and you! Go downtown to the GLACORP lab, find a high-end ground-penetrating sensor suite, I want a look inside that thing." Another of the (assuming) agents demands, and a few of the militiamen scurry off.

OOC: Whatever happened to that little kid? Did he get pulled in like my twins did or what? I could rescue him if you want.

((OOC: A tourist! Wow, thats a new industry for me :P ! DGNT, about how many men you got in there?))

The craft skimmed over the windswept desert, engines sturing up the recently calm sands beneath it. The pilot calls back over the internal com, "We have satilight confermation of DGNT troops in target area, please advise."

"Stay on course, set us down about 2 clics out of town and wait to see what happens." Mikail responds.

"Acknowledged."

OOC: Like I said, if anybody wants to rescue him and his family and their neighbors and the three dogs, two cats and the goldfish that were in the vicinity, go for it, otherwise they can be part of the big glass ball ;)
Three APCs, so about thirty men, plus six crew still in the APCs, this is a slightly backward region, so the men are a bit on the low-end of the new-weapon-giving programs, the INS agents however, have very modern suits.

IC:
The two militiamen return hauling an odd device, they quickly arrange it so that the 'pointy bit' is aimed at the sphere, then go about setting it up.
Oh dear... Said a voice that nobody heard.
Shortly the device was activated and about twenty feet of earth, air and people ceased to exist.
Ah, you are just in time. Said Death to the militiaman.
"Wha-?? Where? H-how?"
I have been told that it is best to say this bluntly, so I will. Your dead.
Some things are very easy to beleive when a seven foot tall skeleton with a scythe is saying them.
"I...died?"
Yes.
"Errr...was I in pain?"
Shouldnt think so, quite quick, nearly instant in fact.
"Really? Thats...good."
The man pauses...
"Err...what happens next?"
The good bit. Says Death.
The ghost of the man vanishes, Death glances around, then gets back on his horse and rides off.
He has lots of appointments.

"Bugger."
The officer grimaces and looks at the glass just three inches from his feet.

Comms from Hive @ The Resi Corporation:
We are the hive, VETing is a process of ensuring no spyware or destructvie capabilities exist in the machines - ie: you do not use them to preempt an invasion into our territories. Any thing entering Hive property is vetted and analysed before hand - you are no exception to this rule other than the fact that we are allowing you to move machines into our territories - an action banned 457 years 3months 1week 3days 4 hours and 37 minuetes ago. As such you should consider it an honner that we are even considering alowing you into our territories - you have 2hours to comply or the invitation will be revoked.
We are the hive, we are perfection.TO: the Center of the Hive Fleet Imodius
FROM: CEO Jai Resi, ResiCorp
SUBJECT: VETing?
We assumed that you'd check the machines for spyware, etc, but what does this process entail? Describe to us how exactly you will do this, and if there's any risk of damaging our property.
[signed]~Jai
The two geneharvesters came crashing down slamming into the ground and bouncing back up slightly, leaping up to their "feet" the two 6" monsters scoured the area paniked by loss of contact with the hive, in 30 seconds their preditorial recessive genes would gain total control. The strange light flickerd and shimmerd off their black carapace armour while their diamond alloy claws glistend in the light. Looking around them judging the situation they saw a small robot looking about in apparent panik, and several young humanoids. 30 seconds was up, catalysts within them triggerd an overcharged fight or flight responce. Having judged the situation, they were going to fight. One went for the robotic cat at blinding speeds the other charged the children picking up speed nearing 90mph as it went scything talons reared preparing to scythe right through them.Pieces adjusted inside of Liss, as she made a gentle whirring noise.
"BATTLE MODE INITIATED, ANALYZING TARGET." she said, her robot brain taking over.
She studied the geneharvesters, and obtained a map of their physiology.
"FUN SCIENCE FACT," Liss said so that the kids could hear, "ONE OF THE ONLY THINGS THAT CAN BREAK DIAMOND IS A LASER!"
With that and a leap, she flipped over the first geneharvester and fired a plasma-powered laser out of her hand, cutting off the threatening talons on the first, landing on its head, then kicking off and flying towards the second, firing both hand lasers. One removed the talons, the other gave it a unhealthy dose of energy to the face. Kicking off of it, she landed between the two beasts.
"DIDN'T KNOW I HAD THAT IN ME," she said to herself, "NOW BRING IT, YOU BUGS."
In a small town in Coreworlds a tourist walked up to the newly arrived Resi Corporation troops.
"Hi there, whats going on here? I just arrived - could u help me?""YOU JUST ARRIVED?" said a robot, grabbing the tourist by the arms and picking them of their feet, "WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE HERE?"
Washu, who normally would've stopped this, decided to allow it. She could read emotions, after all, but she was getting something strange from this tourist...
A Blackhawk helicopter lands at the neighborhood after Washu's does. I walked out, quite amused that a lot of people turned into animals.
"Hello, Washu." I said. "Weird how so many people turned into animals and Pokemon."
I saw the tourist, and felt something odd about him. Very odd, like he was not human or something.
A Ratatta was being chased by a cat, until the cat saw me. "Mr. President? Dr. Washu?"
I did a double take. "Huh?!"
"My name is Kenny Cavalry, and i'm a cat. Actually, a human that has been turned into a cat."
Another cat lands on Kenny before he could attack another rat. "I'm Lisa Calvary. Our twins are missing, and even with our new senses, we can't find them."
"Hmm...did anything odd happen just before all this happened."
"Yes, something glowed brightly in the twins' computer room."
"I see. Take us there." "Interesting..." said Washu, takiing a pen and paper seemingly out of nowhere and beginning to take notes, "take me to your house, I must see this..."
And so she and the remaining robots walked off, leaving the other robot holding the "tourist" behind.

A man with long brown hair fell down into the realm, still holding his pistol. Another man, this time with glasses and black hair fell in as well "AaaaaGGHHH! AOBA! What the hell is going on?"
The other man, with the long hair, fired a shot at a gene harvester when he hit the ground "I have no idea Makoto! This is what only Ritsuko or Maya could answer! Instead we're just trapped here with some kids, some monsters and a robot!" As for the scuzzer, well, it was out of power.

The human-turned cats ran into the house and we followed. When we went upstairs, everything looked like a twister went through the place. Then we saw the yellow orb. It was glowing bright yellow, and pulsating with energy. I could even sense the energy flow with the Force, it was that strong. I noticed a slight pulling from the orb, like it was beckoning me.
"Weird. Very weird." I said. "and fascinating. I have a really wild idea. I wonder if the twins were pulled into the Orb itself."

A little boy, his parents, some neighbors, three dogs, two cats and a goldfish soon found themselves in the battle area with the twins and the other kids. The kids were shouting encouragements.
"Get 'em, Liss!"
"Beat 'em up!"
"I wish I had something to help out!"
"Yeah!"

((OOC: Wow, definatly taking the road less traveled in this story))

Sitting in the back they waiting for more intel to come in about the forces in the nearby town. Suddenly the speaker cracked to life, "Ok, looks life three APCs, where the men are positioned is hard to pinpoint, but most seem to be around the explosion. And please note armor is in use on DGNT troops."

Mikial responds, "That is most excellent, I shall lead the men out from here, wait here for our return."

"Acknowledged," was the reply.

Turning to the men, "Ok, we are currently outnumbered approvimatly three to one" one of the soldiers smiled slightly, Mikial ignored it and continued, "Our best bet is to soften them first with a least two snipers," with that he pulls opens a side panel, revealing two magnum rifles, "I shall take one and who here has been trained to handle these?"

They all nodded and one stepped forward saying, "I would be honors to do this task with you."

"Excellent," Mikial responded, "I want the rest of you to flank right towards the town, towards the APCs. If possible I want to either destory or disable them, shaped C-4 packs are located here," knocking on a smaller panel, "As I said we will try to confuse and damage them as much as possible, when they start becoming chaotic I want you to hit the APCs before doing a sweep across their flank, use yards and buildings. Make sure we are all using DU rounds and ok, then lets move out!"

The back door of the craft hissed as its hydralics slowly pressed the door into the earth. Heading out he motioned for his fellow sniper to join him, setting off in a nearly straight path towards the town. ((Can never pick a good range, but its to far for most soldiers to hit w/o another sniper rifle))

After reaching their desired distance from the town Mikial diggs a small embackment in the metallic sand, using it as both cover and a prop for the rifle. Down in the dirt he radios the other 9 men, "Are you in position?"

A whisper comes back across the line, "Yes sir, holding just out of sight of the APCs, we can here alot of yelling and activity."

"Acknowledged, we can see it too, wait for my signal to attack," Mikial responds.

"Confirmed."

With a half smile Mikial buries himself in the scope, slowly scanning the men milling about the crater, Hello, who is this, he thought as a man in noticably diffrent armor walks across his sight, Mikial slowly takes aim for the (presumably) weakest point, the neck. Waiting for the man to turn to where the bullet would not only sever a major artery, but possibly shatter the spine as well.

Come one... Mikial thinks to himself, willing the man to turn, Bingo!, as his finger depressed the trigger...

(OOC: Just making sure, you do know your in DGNT, correct?)

IC:
As the bullet sped forward the Agent began to turn, he was slow, even with super-enhanced reflexes, but it didnt matter in any case.
About two inches from the surface of the armour the bullet vanished in a flash of blue, and a brief impression of something that looks like very thin, very bright rubber bending impresses itself on the eyes of whoever happens to be looking.
"One bloody trouble after another. EVERYBODY DOWN!!!"
The Agent dives to one side, firing a spray of minirockets in the direction he thinks the shot came from.
Inside the APCs the gunners are alerted to the situation, and hop into the small turrets on top.
A few clicks and a buzz or so later the guns activate, and three .5 calibur HEF (High-Explosive-Force) medium lasers point themselves at the location of the sniper and unload.

(OOC: Just making sure, you do know your in DGNT, correct?)

IC:
As the bullet sped forward the Agent began to turn, he was slow, even with super-enhanced reflexes, but it didnt matter in any case.
About two inches from the surface of the armour the bullet vanished in a flash of blue, and a brief impression of something that looks like very thin, very bright rubber bending impresses itself on the eyes of whoever happens to be looking.
"One bloody trouble after another. EVERYBODY DOWN!!!"
The Agent dives to one side, firing a spray of minirockets in the direction he thinks the shot came from.
Inside the APCs the gunners are alerted to the situation, and hop into the small turrets on top.
A few clicks and a buzz or so later the guns activate, and three .5 calibur HEF (High-Explosive-Force) medium lasers point themselves at the location of the sniper and unload.

((OOC: Yes I know I'm in DGNT, however, if I didn't make it clear enough none of these soldiers have markings or identification of any kind linking them to AFRP. Mikial is being driven crazy, not stupid :P

Question:
About two inches from the surface of the armour the bullet vanished in a flash of blue, and a brief impression of something that looks like very thin, very bright rubber bending impresses itself on the eyes of whoever happens to be looking.

Did you do that or did the orb or the like do it?))

IC:

Seeing a man dodge a killing shot is something you don't see every day, but then again, this wasn't an average day for Mikial.

The hell? he thought as the man clearly pulled out of the way. But he didn't have that much time to ponder as a burst of rockets flew at him and he dropped below the small mound of dirt... and burst the soil a good 7 meters away.

Before he could even poke his head back up a dull thumping came from the other side of the sand (its metal-sand as I remember you saying), Great, pinned down... he could only hope the other men knew their buisness better than he.

The second sniper rapidly became away of Mikial's situation and turned his attention away from the scrambling men, a good 7 of which he had shot, and tried to find an angel for the turrets. Leaning slightly to the right he find the arm just barely sticking out from behind a house, he takes careful aim, and cleanly blows the man's elbow out.

The rest of the men has worked their way into the back of a house, the sound of the turrets were deafening at their current range. The leade signaled, Through house, take out turrets-APCs. They bashed in the door and entered into the empty home, working their way to the front. Crouching beneath the window sills, drapped somewhat by shades the watch as one of the gunners is obviously crippled.

Signaling, Aim for gunner. Peering from the shaded house the two other gunners have their sides towards them and a few short bursts end their spree as well.

Rushing out of the house they break for the APC's, clamor atop, finish off the one wounded, 'nade the hatch, and turn the guns towards the DGNT's soldier scrambling for cover.

As those three began laying supressing fire the other 6 work their way across the road in order to flank the remaining enemy troops. The thought traveling through out their minds, What a glorious victory for Mikosolf!

The hive took the sudden panick the fire fight caused to his advantage,
activating catalytic enzymes the human went insane charging at the glass sphere and punching right through it. Grabbing the spere it turned around just in time to see a bullet recochet around the dome and slam into its chest. Roaring in pain blue light swirled around the drone and it disapeared with the orb.

The drone collector hummed as the blue energys flickerd about. Teleportation was far from an exact science, but the hive didnt care it wanted a second orb. The drone teleported back into a hive control centre, well, at least it used to be the drone. All that remained was a pile of smoking gue. Resting in the gue was the orb inside which was a bullet - pushed into the orb by the teleport.
The orb flickerd, the hive realised what had happend.
"Shit"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The explosion left a 5mile crater vaporising everything within the radia.
losses:
1,478,483 hive memebers dead.
The hive ponderd this, shrugged and sent in a recovery team.

ooc> Basically it looks like a nuke went off, orb was unstable so boom :P

ic> The hive continued to experiment with the first orb firing 3 pulses of plasma into the orb - suddenly a large flash rippled through the cavern and a orange pulse surged upwards consuming a Heirodule.

Meanwhile in the alternate reality the first geneharvester died, falling to the floor its chest exploded and 2 synapse harvesters shot up and into the air selecting targets. One locked onto the man with the gun the second locked onto Danny, they both sped at their targets small glowing balls moving just under the sound barrier. Danny turned to run and the ball zipped around tracing his movements aiming for the back of his neck, the second spiraled upwards towards the falling armed man.
The second geneharvester sprayed a large wad of bio acid at the robot, the corrosive acid melting through the concrete floor reaching a depth of 2 feet in seconds, in a similar fashion to a flamethrower.
From far above there was a large roar the Heirodule materialised and fell landing ontop of the still alive geneharvester crushing it with its 4ton weight.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/acatalog/scythed-Heirodule-col.jpg

ooc> The small creature is a genespliced geneharvester - ie about the same size as the thing the harvester just crushed. The harester is capable of inteligent consious thought and can act apart from the hive, however if it is not reunited with the hive synaptic control then it may be driven insane. In a similar way to somone put into solitary confinement having been in comunication with over 900million consious beings at once. The scilence would be deafening.
18ft long
4 ton weight
Lasor refracting carapace alloy armour.
Autominated: does not need hive control
Scything talons: Capable of tearing a tank appart.
Speed: 50mph
No ranged weaponry
No synapse harvesters
Acidic blood - standard hive bio acid

OOC: can you please space out the BOOOOOOM?! it's annoying!

OOC: Punching through six feet of solid glass? O_O
Anyway, the blue light was the suits personal shield, it isnt really designed with bullets in mind, but it works.
Anyway...not to be rude or anything, but could you please clarify what just happened Hive Fleet?

Multi

OOC:

I shall sum up what happened: YOU STOLE MY BLOODY FREAKEN ORB!

In more percise terms he had his fake human run in, punch through the glass, grab the orb, teleport out, the orb goes BOOM and kill alot of his people.

YOU STOLE MY FREAKEN ORB!

Multi

OOC:
Actualy, its mine. Its in my country :P
I was just curious, his bugger fingy teleported into the middle of a futuretech firefight, what with the lasers and nanobullets and microrockets and assorted wossnames of the metallic/energy nature flying through the air at high speeds, grabbed the orb and got blown up, in his dimension...

OOC:

Well in all definations its Resi's orb :shock:

I must agree, how did this creature get past all the shooting and snipers and what not.

And please cut down on the number of 'O's used, BOOM is sufficiant to repersent an explosion of any size.
YOU STOLE MY BLOODY FREAKEN ORB! AND IF I HAVE TO MIKIAL WILL RAZE YOU TO THE GROUND TO HAVE THE TWO YOU POSESSE!

YOU STOLE MY BLOODY FREAKEN ORB! AND IF I HAVE TO MIKIAL WILL RAZE YOU TO THE GROUND TO HAVE THE TWO YOU POSESSE!
I beleive that its RESI's orb :)

OOC:

Politics from Aging Liberal Hippy;

"Its like everyone's orb, you gotta share it, don't be taking what belongs to everybody."

Thank you aging liberal hippy.

:roll:
Precious, nasty hobbites, they trickseys us...

ooc> if you read up he was infact already there and was questioned by a robot, in the panik caused by the sudden firefight he ran for the glass dome. Because of genetic engenering he was capable of punching through it, however he was dressed in rescue gear so no one would have stopped him really. Sure he would have mushed up his fists but when you are being controlled by a hive consious pain has no meaning- he was infact one of the tourists i sent out. The fact that the huge evacuation of the area took place ment that he was able to figure out where the orb was and so he prob killed somone to get the rescue service suit.
I teleported him OUT of there but in the process a bullet was warped INTO the orb causing it to go critical and thus - boom (sorry about excessive o's :P) also he got turned into a pile of gue by the teleport process - the hive is considering using this as a form of weaponry - reassemble target incorectly lol :)

((OOC: this seems to have fallen a little dead in the water, if it is to remain as such no one post here after me, if not lets BUMP this baby up and restart.))

The harse sound of gun and missile fire filled Mikial's ears even behind the sloping dune. Suddenly the shots slowed and ended and a call of "all clear" rang across the comm.

Rising to his feat and dusting himself off Mikial heads down the ebbing sands towards the shattered town. Reaching there he finds that the the other nine men had begun their practice of "trophy" claiming.

Slightly revolted at the sight of the dismemberment of the dead Mikial steels himself for his task, finding the orb. Walking in ever broadening circles he finds an orb of glass, shattered at one point.

Could it have been there? he thought to himself.

Almost in answer, his own sphere began to humm ereirly, its tones almost seemed to be of a long forgotten song. Reaching into the pocket he retrieves the orb, its once slow and steady pulse of a glow had increased, its light flicked and danced around his face and the ground in growing intensity...

Flash! Crash...

Mikial landed, hard, the curved ground gave way in a flurry of earth. Tumbing and rolling he finally stops, not of his own occord, but by a new orb (yellow correct). Grabbing it he clamours to his feet, finding to his stark suprise to be in a strange new landscape.

Its a crater, a massive crater... is all he could process.

Mikial... the old voice sounded again, louder, clearer this time.

As if by instict Mikial weights both orbs in his hands, slowly bringing them together, ignorant of the creatures rushing down the crater to "greet" him.

FLASH

...and he was back in the meeting chamber once again covered in a blue haze, though now it hinted of more. In a flurry he pushes the doors asunder, The cities, it is still in ruins... Even so, the destruction seemed to be lessened, some building still dared to stand tall and proud.

Turning back to the chamber, a figure remained slumped over where the chairman had earlier slept. Aproaching quitely, cautiosly, Mikial ebbs towards the figure, softly crying out, "Chairman?"

The face snapped towards him, the once gracious head now...

Flash!

...back in the shattered town of DGNT, his fellow sniper lightly shaking his shoulder calling, "Lord, Lord, I feel we should leave before anyone else comes, we may be warriors, but warriors also know when it is best to leave."

Shaking his head slightly Mikial is dragged from his still swooning thoughts.

"Of course, lets head back to the ship, post haste and get out of this ghost town before we join its residancy."

shortly there-after

Once again strapped to the jump seat Mikial fumbles for his orb, so it wasn't a dream or an illusion, he thinks as his probing hand finds two orbs.

"I'm sorry Lord that we did not find your prize..." one man spoke.

"Oh, do not worry, I feel I have foudn exactly what I was looking for..."

A huge flash filled the chamber the purple orb was in and over 400 hive creatures where scatterd across the globe.
150 where in the capital of A Few Rich People, tuning on hapless civilains they began to tear into them spilling hteir life blood onto the cold floor. They each released 5 synapse harvesters that spiraled up each finding a target and slamming into them creating a small hive army in the city.
25 arrived surrounding the robot holding the hive drone held by the robot -- they turned on the machine diamond hard talons prepared to scyth through its arms to release the drone.
the remaining where teleported into Resi's territory, over 225, again into a heavy civilain populous - they also began tearing into hapless people killing recklessly.

In the alternate plane the heirodule turned to the onlookers roaring at them. The synapse harvesters spiraled towards their targets as danny ran and the man fell.

A sudden mechanical whirr filled the air around the drones as hundred upon hundreds of sentry guns sprung to life, waiting only nanoseconds before letting lose a hail of 50 caliber bullets, and Hellfire anti-tank missiles!

:twisted: (Gotta love me defense system)

Slowly the amount of DU rounds began to slow as less and less hostiles remained. Even those turned against Mikosolf were mowed down in the onslaught.

I went into the twins' room, and there it was: the pulsating yellow orb. "Wow. So this is what your Resi Corp created, Washu. I suppose there's nothing else to do but find a way to return the kids to the real world."
I had barely finished saying the words, when the Orb pulsated again, pulled a shocked me inside, and left Washu alone with the cats.
I soon found myself in the general vinicity where the kids were last seen.
Soon, I found the kids.
"Hey, aren't you President Masaki?" John Cavalry asked.
"Yeah, in the flesh--ACK!" Unfortunately for me, a girl that looked like a female version of John glomped me.
-_-; "That's my sister, Erica. She's crazy about the famously handsome. I'm John."
I chuckled nervously and used the Force to pull her off. "Ahh, that's ok. I'm already married anyway, but I'm sure there are other (un)lucky guys out there. So what's up so far?"
"Oh, just a battle that I don't think has quite finished." That's when I noticed the cuts and scrapes on all the kids, the animals and older people. "Hmm. I suppose you'll all need some attention after we get out."

OOC:
I don't suppose you will wanna attack the President (that's me), Hive, are you? Might be...interesting.

As the gunfire settled all that could be heard was the screams of the dying humans and the hiss of acid as it melted through the ground. The aicd began to bore down into the underground system where it melted through electrical cabeling and water pipes causing chaos within the city. (It will melt to about 5 miles down) Several synapse harester floated into a nearby cafe before slamming into 2 of the customers a waiter and the chef.

In the alternate reality the Heirodule slammed its talons through an old human tearing it in half. The huge creature then turned towards the small gather and roared. Before charging them cutting appart several pokemon and other animals on its way its pyscich scream terrifying the children nocking them into a numb state.

Out side the childrens house the teleported creatures raced in having tore appart the robot that held the drone - they rampaged through the house attacking any that got in their way.

ooc> sorry about killing robot outside but u didnt reply about it so i just killed it :P and btw are you going to send a recovery robot team into my territory or not - you have till i next post to respond or the invite will be revoked as it should already have been - i am just reminding you ;)

Psychic screaming?! I thought. I have to get that thing away from the kids!

I called upon the Force and launched psychic attacks at the giant bug(?), using telekinesis and lightning combined. At the very least, the creature should veer for me.
Several Pokemon fired their attacks at the buglike creature, especially fire and Shadowball attacks. I'm not sure if they have any effect yet, but I know they are fighting valiantly.

The pokemon spells hit the carapace of the gigantic Heirodule ricocheting off and slamming into other pokemon and animals creating a small riot behind as they argue - the heirodule is then slammed into by a large energy burst. Its carapace refracts much of the energy reducing it to the effect spilling hot water onto yourself would have. Unfortunatly this just irritates the creature more and it continues charging at the group talons raised preparing to scythe through the group.

ooc> Its doing about 60mph now.

OOC: Jedi+Force Speed is about the same speed. See Phantom Menace.

IC:
"Run and scatter!" I shouted to everyone as the really really fast bug came barreling after us.
I'd better stop the creature, now! I ignited my lightsaber and ran as fast as I could, sending a burst of Force energy into my muscles to aid me.
wait for it...NOW! I ran and jumped. I bounced off a wall, and was able to land on the creature as it barreled past, narrowly missing the twins. I then stabbed my blue blade into the creature where I think it's vital organs are, and then jumped off, sliding in the dirt. I turned around to see what damage I have wrought...

The great heirodule spun round facing his target as the cuaterised wound healed leaving a deep hole in the side of the creature that slowly repaireditself as the internal organ tissues replicated and repeared.

It sprayed a fine mist of bioacid at the human standing infront of him while releasing 3 synapse harvesters into the air that targetted the female child and 2 random pokemon.

ooc> pls post regarding danny and te bloke that teleported in regarding synapse harvesters or i will assume they have hit automatically.

The great heirodule spun round facing his target as the cuaterised wound healed leaving a deep hole in the side of the creature that slowly repaireditself as the internal organ tissues replicated and repeared.

It sprayed a fine mist of bioacid at the human standing infront of him while releasing 3 synapse harvesters into the air that targetted the female child and 2 random pokemon.

ooc> pls post regarding danny and te bloke that teleported in regarding synapse harvesters or i will assume they have hit automatically.

The great heirodule spun round facing his target as the cuaterised wound healed leaving a deep hole in the side of the creature that slowly repaireditself as the internal organ tissues replicated and repeared.

It sprayed a fine mist of bioacid at the human standing infront of him while releasing 3 synapse harvesters into the air that targetted the female child and 2 random pokemon.

ooc> pls post regarding danny and te bloke that teleported in regarding synapse harvesters or i will assume they have hit automatically.