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Post by Echo on May 30, 2013 21:19:33 GMT
((ooc: After a horrendously uninspired period of writers block, I think it's safe to say I am not going to manage this challenge. I will, however, continue it and do as much as I can before my time runs out, and I'll keep going for however long it ends up taking to complete it.))
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Echo
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Post by Echo on May 31, 2013 1:50:09 GMT
"So what about me?" Asked a female voice. The official span around to see a beautiful blonde woman, Jessica, stood behind him. He'd completely forgotten she was there. How could he have? She was wearing that glorious skin-tight armoured black suit she occasionally donned for particularly dangerous quests. She looked good. Kothar would kill him. Unless the break-up rumours were true. Kothar would still kill him. "Take this" he said, pressing a device into her hand. "It's a movable portal device. It only goes to one place though." "Here." She cut in. "Here." He nodded. "However, you are our go-between. You have the ability to switch between groups, and to come back here at will." Jessica nodded, but curiosity burned in her eyes. "Why me?" "We decided you would empathise with the creatures more than any of the others we've sent." The official admitted. "Emilie may be able to read and control their minds, but you understand what they've been through on a fundamental level." Jessica could see where this was heading. "You are to join Lexi's group and help them gather the remaining creatures. If any can talk, they're all the better to reason with. Once Katara's group has found Experiment Six, you're to swap to her group. Valerie has informed us that Experiment Six is sentient, and that Emilie gave it language. Therefore, you are the most capable person of getting through to it. Do you understand?" Jessica nodded. "It is sentient. It can reason. We need to bring it in alive." She nodded again. "Good girl." "Don't patronise me." The official looked a little taken aback, but let it go. He nodded at the attendant, who opened the portal to the world Lexi, Valerie and Emilie were on. Jessica took a deep breath. Here goes nothing. She stepped through.
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Post by Echo on May 31, 2013 2:18:33 GMT
"There is another being sent to join us" said Valerie, eyes glazed over. She pulled up Jessica's file and scanned through it quickly, instantly understanding why it was her being sent. "May I suggest, since there will be four of us, that we split up for the remainder of the quest?" Lexi nodded, it was a good suggestion. "What are her skills?" "Military." Valerie replied. "She is a fighter by nature, but very highly skilled. She has been well-trained." She paused. "Incidentally, she's the one Kothar was going after when you and I first met." "Huh..." Lexi said, an interested look on her face. "Let's see if she was worth it. Ok, Emilie, you're with me, Va-" "-Given her skills, I would suggest that she and Emilie work together." Valerie interjected. "To what end?" "Both Emilie and I have the ability to track these creatures. Both you and she are highly capable fighters. As you are the quest leader, it makes sense for you to have a direct link to headquarters. Therefore, you and I working together is logical." Lexi considered this for a moment. "Alright, you make a fair case." 'Emilie?' Valerie nodded to Lexi appreciatively. 'I hear you, Valerie.' 'Do not delve into this girl's past unless you have to. You will not like what you find.' 'Why would I have to?' 'Something may trigger a panic attack. You are the better choice to calm her. This is why it should be you with her, not me.' Emilie nodded. "Good. Ok, Em, go find the new girl. Valerie, lead on." Emilie darted away as Valerie scanned around them.
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Post by Echo on Feb 15, 2014 23:43:42 GMT
((ooc: Wow, so... I've suddenly remembered about this... I have now made it my mission to complete this quest, no matter how long it takes and how many pages it ends up being.))
"What are they?" Asked a silvery voice looking in through the window. It belonged to a girl who might have been in black and white if so much of her hadn't been shiny and reflective. "I have no idea..." Admitted the usually knowledgeable woman with aqua-blue hair. Each one looked at the other. "And we're simply here to guard them?" The silvery voice asked. The blue-haired woman nodded. "But they look so docile..." "Apparently they are partially responsible for the destruction of a scientific facility on one of the Earth parallels." "Really?" Silver-voice couldn't believe it. "Really." Confirmed blue-hair. They both turned back to look at the strange creatures in the safe-room beyond the window. Two of the creatures were out cold, apparently they'd been stunned. The other four did indeed seem entirely docile. It was hard to believe they'd been rampaging through a city earlier in the day. "I'm Ani, by the way" said the girl with the silvery voice, holding out her hand. Her reflection in the window scowled at her. "Chiyo" replied the woman with blue hair, shaking it.
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Post by Echo on Oct 3, 2014 2:08:25 GMT
Emilie found Jessica in no time, her portal had been much closer to them than the original. "Jessica? My name's Emilie, I'm your partner. The other two have gone on ahead. We figured, since there's a few of the creatures still to find it'd be better to split up." Jessica nodded her understanding. 'Don't be alarmed' said a voice in her head. It made her jump. 'I'm telepathic.' "Please don't do that." "Sorry" Emilie blushed "it's usually easier that way..." "Just don't delve into my mind unless you have to, ok." "I know, it's weird, sorry. I can't help hearing the top layer of your thoughts, but I won't purposely go any further in than I have to." Jessica squinted distrustfully at her, but nodded. In truth, there wasn't a lot she could do about it anyway. "Not true, you could put up mental walls, but you haven't been taught how to..." This was going to be a long day.
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Post by Echo on Oct 3, 2014 2:42:01 GMT
"Hey, what's going on?" Asked a female voice part-way down the corridor. Ani and Chiyo turned to see who was coming. It was a woman with pointy ears and flaming orange hair, dressed like she'd been living in a forest her entire life, and carrying some kind of large staff with a red orb in the top. "And you are?" Ani asked, albeit hesitantly. "Xani" replied the woman "I'm new here." "And I'm ancient. You'll get used to it." Chiyo said with a smile. "My name's Chiyo, this is Ani." "Pleasure." Ani smiled. "So what's going on? I heard all sorts of talk down by the portal room." "What were you doing down there?" "Got lost." Xani shrugged. "This place is huge. It's locked up tight you know, the portal room." "Another Earth variant where they try to play Gods." Chiyo sighed. "These guys are the result." She inclined her head towards the window and Xani saw, for the first time, the creatures beyond it. "What are they?" "No names, no classifications. They're completely new." "Wow..."
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Post by Echo on Oct 3, 2014 2:52:24 GMT
Emilie and Jessica searched in vain for over an hour, and time was definitely not on their side. It had gotten dark. Really dark. By any judgement it was the middle of the night. But the search had to continue. Stopping was not an option. "I thought you said you could track these things." Jessica sighed. "I can, but there's nothing to track. Wherever they are, they're well out of range." Just then, without warning, a woman with long blonde hair, a sword and a bow materialised in front of them. Everyone blinked. There was silence. "What the-" Jessica began, but the new girl cut her off. "-Did someone lose some kinda hippo-stingray thing? Only it's rampaging around a few miles west of here. I d'no, I think someone oughtta go deal with it before it kills someone. Not that anyone should be out at this hour, mind. Well, you don't look like you're going to kill me, so I'm Robyn, by the way. Bye!" And with that she disappeared again Emilie and Jessica looked at each other blankly for a moment before both turning and hurtling off to the west.
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Post by Echo on Oct 7, 2014 2:17:25 GMT
Katara sighed deeply. They were searching for one creature that could be anywhere in the world, assuming they were even on the right world. "They're sure it's around here somewhere?" She asked for what must have been the dozenth time. "Yes!" DG was exasperated, and with good reason. They'd been searching for Experiment Six for hours and none of them knew if they were even going in the right direction. Add the little Demon to the mix, with her continuous questioning -honestly, she was worse than some of the children- and the temperament of the entire group was getting steadily more volatile. Meghan understood the frustration. She was merely tagging along, for the most part. She had no usable power until they found the creature. If they found the creature. She was beginning to feel like dead weight walking. She may not be required at all. So she kept quiet, listened carefully and tried not to be a burden. "Well can't you, I don't know, ask the trees or something?" Katara was asking. "If there's anything in the way that they can't get through, the trees know nothing of the other side, Katara. I've explained this to you twice already. There's no point asking a tree surrounded by concrete if it knows where our creature is. It won't." "Well can't you move one so it will?" "To where, Kat? We're in a city! We're surrounded by brick and stone and concrete, where do you suggest I ask a tree to move to?" Katara shrugged and kept quiet.
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Post by Echo on Oct 7, 2014 2:44:30 GMT
Lexi and Valerie crept through the silent city trying to make as little noise as possible. Lexi was more effective, but she had a genetic advantage. It's what made her such an excellent assassin or spy - nobody ever heard her coming. She could run silently through dry leaves littering the ground. Even splashing through water seemed to be at least muffled. Despite this obvious advantage, Valerie was in the lead. She was tracking one of the creatures, a giraffe-like elephant-sized crocodile kind of thing, that she'd recognised as Experiment number Four. Regardless of the various animals that had gone into it Experiment Four was being as silent as they were, and it was getting frustrating. "This is ridiculous" Lexi hissed. Valerie held up a hand and signaled for silence. The entire city was asleep and they'd agreed it was better that way. If any normal humans saw the creature there would be panic, and that may scare the poor thing off, or make it violent. Besides which humans had a way of attacking things that they didn't understand, especially when they were jumpy, which panic tended to make them. It was unfortunate really. It was this, in part, that made Lexi dislike humanity the way she did. There were a small handful of humans she quite enjoyed, but she had a grim outlook on the human race as a whole. All the various parallels of them.
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Post by Echo on Oct 7, 2014 13:47:02 GMT
Jessica and Emilie crouched behind a car, peering over the bonnet and through the windows. That girl, Robyn, had been right. It was definitely some kind of hippo-stingray creature. "Valerie gave me a rundown of the ones we hadn't found." Emilie whispered. "This is Experiment Ten." Jessica peered out again, but ducked back behind the car as a fire hydrant came careering towards her. It skimmed the top of the bonnet and came to rest just where her head had been. "It's an angry sonovabitch." She commented. "Hippos have never been known for their mild and understanding tempers." Emilie sighed.
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