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Post by Tokrochiru on Mar 19, 2013 23:06:08 GMT -5
"...Species: Elven. General Description: Subject possessed long blue hair and an athletic physique. Physical appearance matched that of a young adult. Background check revealed that the subject attended several schools in Malen and Grand Divide. Subject claimed to be studying journalism. Current evidence seems to indicate falsification of official documentation was performed in order to deceive this unit....We were played for fools. I have access to top quality resources for determining the legitimacy of information received by contacts. Whoever the elf was, she either possessed prodigal forgery skills, or had access to someone who did."
That was the truth. The whole truth. Before, during and after speaking Phi wondered if revealing all this to the figurehead of Edge City was a wise decision. He couldn't say. He could only hope that the aves wouldn't go too far in their search for this false informant. If they did, then Phi was certain that this wouldn't be the only hostile encounter he would have with these aves.
Of course, this all depended on if Ileris believed him or not. She'd better have. It was the truth. She would be a foolish leader indeed not to accept the truth for what it was.
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Post by Greed on Mar 20, 2013 20:22:53 GMT -5
-Irides-
On base information alone, this would have been a hard thing to swallow. But Irides was better than that. She knew better than that.
Without a word, the barriers of light disappeared from every possible exit.
And without a word, Irides Luminae walked down the hallway opposite to Phi... likely, straight for the intruder.
-Sarah-
"Ugh..." Sarah landed carefully on the pile of rubble, circuitry, and bodies, and groaned; what the hell was this other guy?
"Guys, you getting this...?"
"Mmm. What do you think, Sarah?" The android analyzed the cuts in the floor, and could only come to one conclusion.
"There's no melting or burning, so it has to be a particle blade. Aside from that, the drones caught this one on camera, too." Sarah accessed the video feed from the drones, as a different set engaged the intruder elsewhere in the impossibly huge complex.
"... yeah, something is fishy here. The guy upstairs was way more dated than this." With that, Sarah began to take off towards the disturbance, eager to put this guy in his place.
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Post by Advix on Mar 21, 2013 13:57:47 GMT -5
The figure was being more methodical about his carnage now as the drones continued to be a nuisance. He stopped, and allowed their shots to splash off his armor. It seemed he could not use the blade in this state. Instead, he began to dart around the room, chasing the drones. He tracked them like a machine, and every time he touched one, it melted into a liquid state before hardening again in puddles on the floor. There was no heat involved. The number of drones was rapidly decreasing, before there were few enough for him to reason dicing the quadrant apart at his leisure. The specialized units were often cut apart before they reached their destination as the absurd length of the particle blade pierced through rooms and floors with every swing.
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Post by Tokrochiru on Mar 21, 2013 19:51:02 GMT -5
The ave was reasonable, at least. That was more than he could say for the majority of Devoid's leaders.
With his escape now seemingly ensured, Phi made his way through the exit. The hallway he entered was a straightaway to what could be called an airlock of sorts. A long tube kept sealed by several doors and force fields that avian soldiers would slide through during emergencies. Phi made use of the emergency exit just as any ave would. At the end of the tube, he was tossed out into the skies of Edge City. Medex let out a high pitched warble of fright as the two fell through the air. Mede, it seemed, had thought they were going to crash to the ground. Phi, on the other hand, had enough faith to believe that would not come to pass.
Lo and behold, Phi felt his body hit something hard. To any onlookers, it would have appeared as if he was standing on air. However, as the area below the robot's feat began to warp, it became clear what he was standing on. The uncloaked aircraft remained stationary in the air as Phi walked from the wing to the cockpit and entered.
"Would you STOP DOING THAT!?" the aircraft shouted at Phi. "What if someday I'm not there to catch you when you decide it's a good idea to jump off a skyscraper, huh!? What then!?"
"That scenario will never occur," Phi said back to 26. If he could smile, he would have.
"...*sigh* I really hate you sometimes."
26 closed its cockpit and Medex removed itself from Phi's back, seating itself on his lap. Its legs were sprawled out in relief. 26 didn't waste any time in taking off, and within half a minute, the three of them were above the clouds once again, ready to head to their next destination.
As Phi leaned back into his seat, a thought occurred to him.
"...Apology: You were right, 26," he spoke to the aircraft. "You were wise to doubt. The informant falsified information. The android within had submitted herself to the aves of her own free will."
The aircraft was oddly silent. Phi would have expected it to have some sort of witty retort for him, or at least an "I told you so." It was more painful to not receive a reaction at all than to be chastised for his failure.
"...Don't beat yourself up about it, Phi," 26 eventually said. "You're right way more often than I am on average. You'd be stupid not to trust your own judgment over mine."
"I still should have taken your warning into consideration. It was not...optimal to ignore your advice completely."
"Didn't I just tell you not to beat yourself up about it? You're the boss here, so act like it."
"...Thank you, 26. I will perform as expected."
A wave of relief washed over Phi. It was good to know that 26, his friend, was faithful to him even after making such a grave mistake.
Medex made a few clicking noises as it slightly readjusted its position in Phi's lap. It was clear that it wanted a break. Unfortunately, they weren't even close to the end of it yet. This operation, while a failure in a sense, was also something much more. It was an alarm. A wake up call that there was something grand and terrible at work. Between the bombing of Grand Divide and this deception, it was clear to Phi that someone wanted to start a war with Devoid...but why?
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Post by Greed on Mar 31, 2013 1:14:10 GMT -5
-Irides-
It was a curious thing that as the intruder's particle blade passed through the metal surrounding it, it was halted quite suddenly. Barriers of light began to form at the entrances to each of the rooms, as the golden glow began to was over the walls, the ceiling, and everything in between.
As if to signify the coming threat, particles of energy that resembled feathers began to float up from the golden glow. And yet the threat wasn't quite there yet. Nothing to target, nothing to cut. And whatever the energy surrounding the intruder was, it was bound to overload his sensors.
But whatever it was, there was one important detail; it was something the intruder's sword couldn't cut.
-Sarah-
She had only heard tales of Irides' power, honestly. As Sarah ran through the halls, she thought back to the first time she had met the leader of upper Edge City, and shuddered.
"I would feel sorry for this guy if he hadn't made such a mess already." Really, Sarah wouldn't wish having to deal with Irides on anybody.
Anybody but this guy, that was.
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Post by Advix on Apr 7, 2013 17:15:14 GMT -5
Alarms went off in the figure's head as walls of light began to block all routes of escape. It signaled the approach of the four-winged president, an opponent he wasn't equipped to deal with. However, she left him one last means of escape, and so he dove through the floor, escaping deep underground.
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Post by Greed on Apr 11, 2013 16:50:44 GMT -5
-Irides-The light closed over the floor, too late to stop the escape of the cybernetic figure, as it went straight down, through the damn floor. A flash of light filled the room as Irides appeared, looking rather cross at the being's escape. Sarah entered the room shortly after her, looking around for the intruder, and yet finding no sign of him. "Where'd he...?" The surveillance system had caught him going this way... how where was he? "Out of the frying pan, and into the fire, if he's headed where I think he is." Irides scowled, bracing herself for the impending earful from a certain someone. --Deep beneath the solid ground that the ECS was built on, the ground suddenly ended, opening into a large cavern. As red eyes became visible in the darkness, it was clearly that the intruder was already not welcome here; either they had gotten word from the ECS, or they were already pissed off from possibly using the area as his own personal entrance. However, there was a new power resonating in the area, as the leader of the Edge City Depths' power pulsed through the area. As it stood, the cybernetic figure was falling into the darkness, filled with a sea of glowing red eyes, mana gathering as many of the vampires below him prepared their own kinds of magic.
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Post by Advix on Apr 15, 2013 17:53:21 GMT -5
The cybernetic figure had no plans on staying for long, as verniers on his legs and back kicked in to send him screaming through the hostile underground. Ports opened across his body to let loose a flurry of homing lasers before rising back up into surface layer of earth. He had a new target.
Rising out of a nearby residential district like a bullet from a barrel, the cybernetic figure began a different kind of assault. A woman screamed as she witnessed his sudden emergence only to be swiftly cut down. The people around her couldn't take to the sky quickly enough before they were mowed down by the cybernetic figure. He seemed to make a straight line for a local hospital, melting and slicing through people, vehicles, and buildings that stood in his way.
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Post by Greed on Apr 21, 2013 2:12:41 GMT -5
-Sarah-
It took only minutes to receive the coordinates of where the disturbance had moved to, and only minutes more for Sarah to take off towards the disturbance; Irides had her hands full dealing with the mess at the ECS, and now it fell to her to stop this lunatic.
He wasn't hard to spot, nor track, not with the trail of body parts and blood splatters behind him. Her violet gravite daggers glowed as she drew them, their energy charging as she closed in from above. With a flurry of motion, the flying android sent a barrage of thin, wave-like blasts at the cybernetic figure tearing up Edge City's overpasses.
Unfortunately for the intruder, the city was rapidly beginning to turn on him, as a long city wide alarm began to sound, and there were less and less people around to cut through, until the streets were barren. Much like Devoid, assaulting Edge City was a fool's errand, as no matter how strong the infiltrator was.... the city would eventually swallow them whole. Energy shields began to go up around many of the buildings; they were now safe from the cybernetic android's wrath. And high in the sky, behind Sarah, was an ominous light, spreading slowly from the ECS.
From below the overpass, a darkness began to creep up from the base of the city, ever so slowly.
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Post by Advix on Apr 24, 2013 0:24:01 GMT -5
The Cybernetic Figure turned its head as it felt a severe fluctuation in air pressure. It dodged the waves of gravity, and continued on its course, swiftly closing in on the hospital it had targeted. As fast as Sarah was, the cybernetic figure had too much of a head start, and it reached the hospital. The energy field surrounding the building was formidable. Even though a particle blade could cut through it, the hole would never maintain long enough for someone to pass through. Unfortunately, such fields could only protect what was on the surface. The Cybernetic Figure dove once again, and emerged inside the hospital. What security awaited him inside was no match for him, and everyone was at his nonexistent mercy.
And Sarah now found herself on the outside of the hospital's barrier. She was the only hope the people inside had, and if she was going to save them, she would have to break through the field itself or follow through the muddy tunnel left behind by the cybernetic figure.
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Post by Greed on Apr 25, 2013 0:24:24 GMT -5
-Sarah-
She passed straight through the barrier without a second thought; after all, she had a decently high level of security clearance within the city, which included the appropriate frequency to Edge City's shield networks. And now, power armored aves were swarming out from the ECS.
"This is our city..." Sarah muttered, opening the door to the hospital as soon as the cybernetic girl burst in through the floor ahead of her. Sarah's daggers already draw, a stream of concentrated gravity shot from them as she crossed the violet blades, straight at the genocidal android that dared cross the entirety of Edge City.
"And you're not welcome here." With Edge City elite ops closing in, along with the combined powers of Edge City's leaders building throughout the city, the cybernetic figure's options were running lower by the second.
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Post by Advix on Apr 25, 2013 3:11:33 GMT -5
The figure swiftly boosted out of the way of the stream of gravity, and snatched a helpless nurse before she could escape.
As he grabbed her by the neck Sarah could see as her skin grew visibly rigid and hard, almost as if she had been turned to stone. The Cybernetic Figure wasted no time in throwing his petrified hostage at Sarah before melting through a wall and into a patient's room. The yelp of a man could be heard before it was swiftly silenced, along with the death cry of someone in the adjacent room.
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Post by Greed on Apr 26, 2013 12:58:55 GMT -5
-Sarah-
She caught the nurse carefully after using her gravity daggers to slow her down, gulping as she stared at the petrified woman, before looking after the intruder. What the hell had he done...? The woman's eyes began to twitch, slowly, as Sarah carefully laid her against the wall. The ECS Spec ops began to get there, walking through the energy shield just as she had.
These aves were the top of the city's security. Power-armored aves in laon armor, each with a high powered assault rifle, and an energy shield on one of their arms. They were Edge City's SWAT team.
"Star Collider, glad to see you here. Where is-"
"Take that woman and get out of here. Carefully." Sarah indicated the frozen woman on the wall, and pointed at two fo the armored aves, "Captain, they're with me. Fine by you?" The captain carefully picked the nurse up, still a little shocked, but he did as Sarah said. After all... she outranked him at any moment she was active during.
"Alright! The rest of you, set up a perimeter while reinforcements are en route, and Star-" Sarah glanced back, waiting for the captain to speak.
"... Irides and Altair are pissed. Really pissed. I don't think this hospital will survive their wrath if this keeps up much longer."
"... right. Come on you two, we've got a trail to follow." Sarah and the two armored aves flew down the wide hall, as they drew closer and closer to the source of the screams. The ECS Spec ops grinned underneath their armor as they followed Sarah; they had a nasty surprise for the intruder, if the intel they had so far obtained was to be believed.
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