The group discuss Erevis, her coming back from the future, her ring, and the things she will not say, along with the origin of Legion. Erevis appears to have cut her hair and dyed it black in order to blend into the background. Erevis admits that she will lie if it's absolutely neccessary, but it's still obvious how much she hates to do so. It is revealed that Wind's name at one time to be Malervis while at the same time a strangely british progenitor introduces himself by picking a fight with Erevis, before stating his name: Drasek. And then a huge Dark One blows up the alleyway everyone is in.
The group narrowly dodges the Dark Matter Ball as it flies into the ally, Megumi decides to face the Dark Ones on her own as everyone else cuts and runs, including Drasek and Erevis. As Darien and Angela escape, Darien comes away with a shoulder pierced by a Dark Ones but claims it doesn't bother him. Megumi winds up explosively leaving the Dark Ones to go chasing after Erevis while the others make their way back to the apartment. There Zephyr colors Ariel's hair a bright pink color and Chad encourages her.
As the group reunites they find Erevis and Drasek didn't head there, Darien and Angela believing they've run off to mate. This angers both Megumi and Terra who decide to go out hunting for them. They eventually pick up noises of fighting on the roof and head upwards to find out what's going on. There they find Drasek and Erevis fighting Dark Ones back to back, but taking the roof door out to the roof triggers the building's alarm system. The others head up to see what's wrong and soon the whole team is beating back the Dark Ones. This time the group succeeds in scaring them off, their leader identifies himself as Asmoedueus and promises to find them again soon.
All is not over however as the group tries to head back downstairs only to find the Police looking for them. As most flee and get away, Darien slows down Angela and Ariel who all begin to get arrested when a blast levels a police car and distracted the cops long enough for Ariel to break free of her cuffs and Ariel, who hadn't been cuffed yet, to free Darien. A sniper seems to take the police down without killing them and Chad uses a flashbang to blind them, this lets everyone get away to argue another day.
Relocating to an abandoned hotel, the group takes up rooms and finally corners Erevis to ask her questions. They turn out to be very fruitless efforts, but Erevis is able to at least tell them what she can't tell them, and that's their futures to come. Ending up having to agree to trust her and follow her blind for now, the group settles into their new digs to rest and recover from their fight with Asmodeus and figure out their next steps.
Later that night, as Darien is about to head to bed, Angela corners him to talk things out and finding that Darien really doesn't remember the last few years while DS was in control, realizes that her former bond partner and friend is gone. She quietly says goodnight to Darien, and goodbye to DeathStar.
Session 3: Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places
It was Christmas Eve and all through the Hotel... everyone was stirring, probably even the mice. Zephyr dragged in a giant tree for the lobby, assisted by the menfolk after they were asked to. Zephyr began to decorate to please Aya, who was having a killer time, Angela adding her own touches we well. Drasek continues to learn about human customs with the child like wonder of a divrced 30 something Jason Stateham that spent his entire life under a rock, to Darien's amusement. Chad casually continues his drug habits as everyone else has a good time.
Some family bonding time happens as Aya leads the charge in decorating and Megumi spends her time hovering around Erevis trying to get her attention. When she cannot seem to get a proper connection to her mysterious, future bae, she decides to wander outside into the snow for a time. There she meets a Totally-Not-John-McCormick Santa (and possibly not the real one, like, definately) who gives her some good advice about pacing herself and taking things as they come. Ariel and Erevis have an awkward moment before Darien swoops in to distract her and Angela makes the crew hot cocoa.
After a little bit, Ariel finally brings herself to talk to Erevis and the two engage, Erevis seeming to melt on her cold hiding what's going on with Ariel around. Ariel advises she not shut out her friends in everything that's happening. As this warmth grows, Aya's gets a bit unruly and hyperactive and seems to want to go outside, which Chad forbids at least without a coat. She however later tricks Angela into looking away while watching her just long enough to sneak out, but is thankfully roped in by her aunt shortly thereafter, though Chad uses it as a reason to shun her further. Some early gifts are exchanged, Ariel giving hers out early, a picture for Erevis and trinkets for some of the others. Darien gives her something intimate and the two check out for the evenintgs. Just as things seem to settle down, Megumi gets revenge on Drasek for teasing her about Erevis by tripping him up and chase antics ensue until Erevis steps in to shut it down.
Stardate: 10-587.12.25
Christmas Morning is announced by Aya and Zephyr cheering like kids and tearing into presents. As everyone else exchanges presents, among them things like alcohol for Drasek (his preferred gift), stuffed bunnies for Zephyr and sarcastic books for Angela, Megumi is found to be absent. Erevis brings her her gifts in her room and they have a touching moment where it becomes apparent that Erevis is not unfeeling towards Megumi, but instead holding back rather intense feelings. Chad has a battle with the tree in the background while others bond. The day passes rather peacefully as Erevis begins to let herself get close to Megumi again, Darien seems to have an unerring passion for Ariel reignited, and Drasek establishes himself as the weird drunken uncle of the family.
Stardate: 10-587.12.26
The lobby is a disorganized mess, however, under the tree a pair of yellow, catlike eyes watches Chad has he goes about making the arrangements more uniform and organized.
Zephyr is out with Aya shopping, as they review the candy aisle a dart suddenly strikes Zephyr in the neck and she goes down. A man with a cane looks them over as men grab Aya, he instructs them to kill Zephyr and leave before the father realizes what has happened.
Meanwhile... Darien investigates the loss of his eggnog, the culprit is clearly one Megumi. Saiwase stumbles by innocently drunk. Chad is just asking where Zephyr and Aya are when an older dark haired woman bursts into the hotel nursing a gun wound in the chest. Chad scoops her up for medical attention which ultimately falls on Angela. As Angela works on first aid, Megumi assists by stablizing her with her powers. They find a note on her that says Aya has been taken, the only other clue on the paper is the number 9.
Locating where they last were, the group heads to investigate the shop after Angela leaves Zephyr in bed to recover with a watchful Ariel. The police seem to pay them little mind but they are able to discover the two were in the candy aisle and there was some camera footage, but at a horrible angle. Most likely why they were attacked there, not just the irony of stealing a child from a candy aisle.
While Darien and Chad piece together clues with the trail they find, including a teleport and a possible shuttle trajectory, Zephyr awakens suddenly in her Red Eyes Mode and begins to persue Aya. Eventually she is guided with Angela and Ariel to the shuttle that Darien is stealing for the team to follow Aya's kidnappers. The group then heads off in search of Aya.
Hours later, they arrive at a secluded countryside, with a manor that appears to belong to some rich family. As they arrive they see troops coming out to meet them and Zephyr in murder mode answers by beginning to mow them down with snipe shots as they come in hot. The shuttle is hit and crashes, scattering the team, who each recover and battle their way into the manor. Quickly they identify the troopers as VI members and now they are using some form of mutated Dragoons to augment their forces. While the team fights Chad busts his way into the center of the manor where he finds Hodges mocking him about his DNA and the plans for Aya.
Erevis is shot and Angela, who came in with a backup shuttle, arrives to treat her while the rest rush into the heart of the compound. Chad attempts to stop Hodges who uses his injury and last chance to start the sequence. Zephyr blasts open the tube and frees Aya, and nothing is apparently wrong with her... yet. The group cleans up their enemies and gets Aya out of the building. Angela insists they take her shuttle back, as despite his protests, Darien's is slag.
Stardate: 10-588.1.1
The group celebrates a muted New Years Day and Zephyr's birthday. Zephyr seems to remember nothing about the night before and everyone dotes on Aya. Darien and Megumi tease each other into oblivion.
The team is sitting around talking, with Darien zoning out over a conspiracy magazine and Angela noting it is rather cute, leading to Chad to comment on the fact she would chase after him if she could in a lover's sense. Megumi tries to find some eggnog, failing, while the group asks Darien various questions, leading him to pause before answering them. Chad teases Darien about remembering the first he slept with Ariel, leading to Darien to deflect about a picture on the wall not being aligned correctly. Erevis and Drasek discuss things on the roof such as training while the others below discuss ages and Megumi qualifying for retirement sometime soon if she was part of EarthGov. Erevis warns Drasek about battling the Dark One they faced, dubious about his ability to win, especially with what happened to him.
Darien goes over having ways to beat each of the team members while Drasek asks about the team being hostile towards her so far, the person they are following. Erevis notes that she doesn't think they are hositile per say, merely not always agreeing with her decisions. He seems to also note that she is hiding something and points out L.A doesn't seem to be her sort of city, but Erevis counts out she found Drasek here after all. They also discuss the legacy of their race and what each might do with it; during all this, catnip and other things are employed downstairs while Darien, Megumi, and Chad talk about the past. Megumi notes, after learning Wind is defintiely gone, sorrow and that surprises Darien, and soon only Darien and Angela are left as everyone has left them. He agrees to keep her company with the baby stuff.
*Main Session*
Stardate: 10-588.1.8
Location: Outside a Shopping District
Angela is robbed while shopping and the gun goes off, hitting her in the stomach during the struggle. She manages to use her comm before blacking out.
Stardate: 10-588.1.10
Location: L.A.
Darien wakes Angela up with a tray of food when she experiences a dull pain and Darien panics, announces to everyone she is in labor. As everyone gathers around, Zephyr graphically describes what she is about to go through, announcing that she will never get to go through that happily and Megumi points out she will go through it twice, all the while Chad getting grossed out. Zephyr wonders to Megumi if she'll ever have kids and Megumi notes she doubts it, and Zephyr points out she doubts Erevis will ever want something growing inside her. Darien returns with a wheelchair, running over Megumi with it and earning glares from Ariel; the commotion even drawing Erevis out to see the little humans. After getting Angela situtaion, he runs her over again on the way out. Also Drasek seems to have lost a finger and taken up beer drinking.
Megumi asks Erevis about having children one day which leads to her asking if Megumi wants to give birth to children one day. She also notes to Megum ithat there are artifical means for same-sex couples to get pregnant if she is interested. While Darien notes Angela is too huge to walk, leading to Angela to proclaim she is not and Ariel to back Darien, informing her the van has been reinforced for her. Zephyr follows along, planning to record it all to send to Cheryl, which Ariel notes she will appreciate it. As Aya leaps into the van, Angela's water breaks in the back of the van, before she is shooed away and everyone freaks out.
Erevis questions Angela about if she and Megumi should have children, in which Angela replies they should have lots of children while Megumi holds her hands as Darien drives them out. As they have Angela work on her counting, the two decide to start with one before having "lots" and that Megumi will have it. As they are stuck in a traffic jam, Darien reveals his plan to take them to a doctor working out of his house who was fired on a rumor of killing person, leading to Angela dislocating two fingers. They end up going for the plan to deliver it themselves.
As it seems Ariel has abandoned as they reach the final bit of the labor, he turns to Megumi and her reference book, leading to Darien to become more erratic. Ariel returns with table cloths and Darien begins to work on delivering them with the help of the others and Zephyr filming it all. He hands baby 1 to Ariel and baby 2 to Erevis. As she gives the two babies their names, it turns out her wound from the other day might be a problem. Zephyr pauses in her flirting with Drasek and they all set out.
Location: Hospital
The doctor looks over Angela and proclaims she is fine, as the team is there with fake names and disguises. Despite the fact she is still having a pain in her stomach, he just gives her some medicine to combat it and notes the children are okay. They then go into conspiracy mode and Darien moves off to make sure any blood samples they took don't give the team away or could be used against Angela.
Date: Several days later
Location: L.A.
Angela's dull ache continues to grow worse while Zephyr notes baby John is staring at her breasts. Erevis gives the children a wide birth and Terra sticks with her, feeling guilty for some reason, but does check on Angela, looking concerned. Megumi thinks she is defective due to not having a glow about her. As John gets louder and annoys many on the team, Erevis and Megumi promise to have quieter children and Terra comments that Strife dealt with her injuries. Chad pinches off feeling to her hand and Angela doesn't react to it, leading to Darien to panic a bit. He promises to keep trying to find hospitals to look into her, even if it gets them caught; Erevis moves back to the roof with Terra.
Date: Several more days later
Location: L.A
After seeing all sorts of doctors, the verdict still is that Angela is healthy and Megumi ponders if Angela is maybe doing this for attention. Darien wants if it is post birth depression and Terra admits she wouldn't even know. Darien though moves to get her pills and Ariel advises anti-psychotic as well if she is imaging feeling like this; during all this Erevis continues to avoid her. After taking the pills the room goes blurry for her and it feels like Chad isn't there a moment yet he is. Erevis later visits her in her room while she is attending her children and she asks about the future and if she dies there; Erevis states there is nothing wrong with her, how could she die there. Megumi even states she visits their wedding as her vision goes snowy white then normal as Erevis notes to her the mind is a powerful thing, giving one what they want to see.
As she feels herself spiraling out, everyone begins to act a little off, not seeing the blood on her hands or stomach and ask her if she wants to live and soon John appears to her, calling her an idiot. He reveals she is dying out in the snow from being shot and this is all in her head. Even Kane appears to give her some umph and informs her she never reached the comm. The others try to tell her to ignore them and continue to live in her fantasy. They encourage her to reach out to the adult Zephyr in her to save herself. She wakes up with an adult Zephyr cradling her in the snow and Darien commenting that she's lost a lot of blood. Megumi works on keeping her alive as they try to get her to the hospital. Drasek ponders who would do that and Darien promises they'll find out and make them pay.
Date: 10-588.1.11
Location: Hospital
Angela wakes up in the hospital with Zephyr back to her normal age, asleep, beside her as he informs her that Megumi saved her life; Erevis roams the lobby with Terra and Drasek while the others talk in the room. Erevis seems uneasy being in the hospital but promises she will be okay when asked by Drasek. Megumi notes she thinks she can track the mugger when Darien breaks the news that Angela lost the children due to the gunshot right as Marcus arrives at the hospital. He steps out with Megumi and Zephyr as Marcus comforts Angela. After informing Megumi he has Chad helping him, Darien moves to the parking lot and gets the information from Chad on where to find the mugger; Drasek joins them and it's clear Darien plans to kill the mugger.
Zephyr wonders what she can do to help Angela, feeling useless as she hugs on Ariel. Erevis goes in to join Angela and apologizes for her loss, asking if there is anything she can do for her. The three arrive at the location and do what they set out to do. Deal with the problem, while Zephyr seems mildly irritated at a comment made by Megumi, the two not quite there yet in their friendship as Erevis steps out to tell everyone about Angela's status.
Date: 10-588.1.12
Location: L.A.
Darien welcomes Angela back home and has prepared her favorite dessert and Terra gives her a hug to greet her back. Zephyr carries Angela's materials to help her out and Chad stays in his room working on stuff. Erevis seems stressed; when asked by Megumi she confesses she knew she did not have children in the future. She tries to argue she should have changed the future when Megumi dismisses the supposed sin, but Megumi seems to have none of that. Surprising Megumi with a kiss on the lips, she kisses her for a bit before the two stare into each other's eyes. Meanwhile Terra after helping out reeturns to her apartmenets while Marcus offers to stick around before going back to Tokyo if Angela needs help, but she tells him she can handle things, but does ask him to stay as long as he can manage.
*Minis*
Date: 10-588.1.13
Location: L.A.
Darien arrives in Angela's room to deliver a muffin and finds Angela buiding something from computer parts while Erevis is asleep during normal hours; Megumi makes some food in the kitchen while Darien and Angela talk about what happened to Angela. As Erevis awakens from the smell of the food, Darien works on reaching out to Angela with muffins. Erevis and Megumi have a tender moment while Aya is found reading science and math books out in the living room by Chad. After hiding the books and mouse trapping Chad's hand, she moves off to hide from Chad. Angela and Darien discuss everything that has happened, including her breaking him out of jail to this moment now; though his zoning out moments continue to grow worse. However, back in the living room, Chad and Drasek have a confrontation when Chad touches Drasek, leading to Aya revealing herself.
Megumi asks Erevis about the broken rune blade that is in two halves with a green sphere as they eat and asks when she comes in possion of the the Rune Blade. Erevis notes she cannot exactly tell her as Aya hurries off to Erevis' pants to check them out; during this Chad and Drasek talk about Erevis and Drasek's relationship and how Erevis will come to want to help him and want to learn more about her people in the process. Erevis reveals the green sphere is the Emerald Sword to Megumi and it's power, recalling memories in Megumi; as for the Rune Blade, she says it's power is currently gone.
As Aya joins them in eating, Chad arrives and apologizes to Erevis that he let it out that Erevis is a time traveler to Drasek after talkng about his funeral to him and running, making Erevis frown in displeasure. It is hard to say if the funeral thing is true or not, but the time traveler is true either way. After smashing her fist through a table, she steps out, leaving a dejected Megumi behind. As Darien sits and tries more muffins, Terra is on the roof watching the sky. As the two argue about her not being alone and her worrying Zephyr, Megumi goes to see Terra and the two talk about herself and her destinations. As Angela connections with a worried Zephyr, Terra and Megumi discuss Terra's hunted feeling and that being a VI experimented that they'll keep coming after her, noting how afraid she is of them. As Zephyr and Angela declare that they will attempt a deeper friendship and be honest with each other, moving onto discussing Ariel and her pink hair, Megumi tells Terra that is might be best for her if she left the team, telling her while the team is coming together in a fledging team, Terra's fears on holding her back and she needs to go out and face them.
She points at the direction of Warren, but Terra is resistant to the idea; as the two get into bouts of ideals, Zephyr and Angela go to see Chad after losing in a game of truth and dare, having to kiss him on the lips, shocking him. They continue the game while Megumi ends her talk with Terra and goes to Chad to inform Warren that either her and Terra will be going to join his unit soon. Erevis and Terra meet on the roof and when she informs her of Megumi's plan, Erevis is neutral, tied by the hands of the future, because she can't give anything away. The two continue their truth and dare game with Drasek and soon Ariel busts them for stealing a thong from them, dumping an ice cub into Angela's shirt and okaying an earring for Zephyr. Warren after a bit okays the Terra transfer, but it's clear he's going to get Megumi back for it.
Megumi plays with the green sphere until Erevis joins her and apologizes for all the trouble today and Aya is still reading the dictionary Megumi gave her. She also asks if Zephyr is her real mother - in a rather crude way - and he reveals about Eve Summers. After denying her existence, Aya runs off. Zephyr and Ariel plan ice cream and other things as Darien and Ariel work on dinner; on the way Chad informs Terra about the transfer if she wants it and she seems shocked and like she won't follow orders, so he tries telling her about how Erevis would follow them. Afterward he moves on while Darien, Angela, Ariel, and Zephyr share a meal and talk about hair color and other things. At the end, Angela sees a child's toy, probably one of Aya's, and pauses until Darien touches her shoulder and snaps her out of it, leading her to join the rest as they go to get ice cream.
Drasek and Erevis discuss their situation on the rooftop, as they are oft to do. Erevis seems to approve somewhat of Drasek taking on human qualities but wish there were some he wouldn't, much like she does for herself. Chad sneaks pain pills in the lobby while Darien watches TV and calls him out on it. Angela comes in, a cloud of depression still think over her as she joins in watching only to see her mugger's face on the TV, reported as found dead by the docks. Angela seems to let it go though, happy somehow that the man face justice.
Megumi questions Angela about the Rune Blade and Emerald Sword, who naturally doesn't know much from this current reality. The two however get into a fight when Megumi bothers Ariel by knocking on her door and trying to get attention. Meanwhile Erevis leaps to the ground from the rooftop and Drasek follows, where they run into a small gang and end up picking a fight due to translation errors. This causes the police to be called, possibly for the first time ever in LA, and the attention of others.
Chad picks up the police chatter on his radio and warns Darien, and he, Chad, Zephyr and Megumi move out to rescue them while Angela watches Aya (and comically fails to, the child leading her around a wild goose chase for fun). As they rush out in the car to get the two, Legion lands and goes after Erevis and Drasek. Darien and Megumi manage to get Drasek into the car, but Erevis and Legion battle on the rooftops until Erevis unleashes a Hyper Punch on Legion taking him down for a moment as well as herself, as the others scramble to get her away, Legion rises to come after them, but the mass of police beginning to engage causes him to make a retreat as the others run trying to lose the cops.
They arrive back at their hideout thankfully without a bunch of cops. The group has time to rest and recuperate, Megumi and Erevis having time to grow close while Zephyr does her best to try and bring Angela out of her depression.
As Aya read, Chad tools around with his gadgets, and others beging their day, Angela awakens in a cold sweat, still having nightmares and works to wash her grief away. Drasek drops in to visit Chad when his head suddenly gets a splitting headache and a loud ringing fills his ears that no one else can hear. When his second quake hits, Erevis as answered the noise and attempts to scan him as Chad and Angela, also following the noises, each try to help Drasek, who seems insulted at the idea of medical attention.
Chad and Angela scan him as he has his next outburst and they find super high frequency waves in the room, which doesn't seem to affect anyone else. Erevis ditches the scene with Drasek, taking Chad's datapad to follow the frequency. The Progenitors refusing help from everyone.
The team of course, groups up to follow them, Ariel and Angela heading on scene while Chad rounds up help from the others. While they are doing this, Erevis and Drasek find the source of the noises and suspected trap to be Asmodeus himself, who offers Drasek power if he will kill Erevis. Drasek refuses, both because it's a shit deal and he would never trust Asmodeus over Erevis, and this starts the ambush of many darklings attacking them.
As Ariel and Angela arrive, they find themselves overwhelemed with the Darklings as well, having to weave and dodge (mostly Ariel protecting Angela) until Zephyr and Megumi arrive to help. They overcome the Darklings to some extent, but when Erevis is struck by one of Asmodeus' tendrils, he laughs and leaves them be, he and his darklings retreating, saying the damage it already done now.
The group heads back, Ariel in bad condition, to rest and recuperate, the signal gone now and Drasek free from his little taste of mortality, which he rants about while Erevis, dogged (or catted?) by Megumi breaks her stoic act a bit to show softness towards her. Angela fails to find someone to spend time with and attempts to commandeer Darien and Ariel for dinner.
Darien has been missing for three days, leaving some, like Ariel and Angela, nervously waiting for his return. Others are less bothered, like Dahok who is exploring the magic of beer. A Robo Dog yips incessently and Saiwase avoids his clear enemy. Chad is cattier than usual, obviously missing his Darien-sama. Finally, the group starts to question the length of his absence and attempts to figure out where he is. Angela's suggestions at figuring out his personal tracking are mocked by Chad and Drasek, carried further into mocking about her being interested in Darien after Zephyr suggests looking in his room for clues.
Zephyr investigates and finds a magazine with a race advertisement for three days prior and the group reaches the logical conclusion that just as Robin Hood can't resist an archery match, Darien couldn't resist a race. After a high budget feat of tracking down and stealing a shuttle for themselves that could not be shown, they are off after Darien.
Heading to the moon, the group locates a famous pilot's bar named Wings. Chad and Drasek continue to sass Angela while the conversation shifts to pilots being crazy. After visiting the bar, the group finds out Darien was taken by some military personell and locate his missing shuttle, which Angela hacks her way into while Ariel and Erevis assist several drunk pirates in ritual suicide by trying to hit on them. The team flies out and follows the trail to where Darien is being kept.
They track him to a van he's being transported in and using the shuttle, suprise the van and it's guards and extract Darien. He thanks them for saving him, but mostly thanks them for not scratching his ride and they fly back. Once home everyone settles down, Zephyr accuses Angela of possibly trying to steal Darien after all of Chad's teasing and Angela becomes confused, and after offering to cook dinner for Zephyr and Aya, has the unfortunate chance to hear Drasek say something mean as well. She heads off to her room alone. Darien and Ariel have a romantic dinner, the rest settle down for the evening. Angela pulls a small battered box from under her bed and pulls out a small, worn dragon stuffie from it, staring, looking lost.
Angela hosts yet another evening meal after (mostly) everyone is done eating and things move to dessert, Darien gets goofy and steals Aya's cookie while she sleeps. Angela tries to keep the group engaged in her contribution, but Ariel finds herself suddenly too tired to stay up. She moves off with everyone saying good night to her and the group carries on while Ariel drifts to sleep.
...And then immediately awakens in the middle of a training yard, dodging attacks from a strange Knight. Here she finds that her squire, the lady Megumi and her ward, Zephyr, are watching her conduct training matches in some sort of medieval training yard, and everyone thinks she's a very, very pretty dude. She then finds herself quickly beset on a quest to rescue the Princess Aya from the Dark Knight Drasek. Running into a drunken Sir Darien, he joins the quest that takes them to a brothel where the Dark Knight is currently selecting a whore for himself, dead set on a very pretty Angela who looks far too reluctant to actually fit in this role.
Darien "saves" Angela by taking her away before the Black Knight can, but when they hear a woman screaming the party charges into the rooms he took her into to find Darien naked about to do the nasty with her. Megumi disables a drunken lech and Angela credits Sir Ariel, naturally, with her rescue from slavery. Seeing the Dark Knight getting away, the group takes chase to his tower where they find his ransom, Princess Aya, whom he trades for some gold and Angela. Angela, unable to believe she was sold back into slavery, is left to his mercies as the group travels back to deliver Princess Aya to her father.
In reality, the group continues to clean up as Ariel sleeps on, humorously having conversations that seem to be contributing to the dream.
The group is exhanging valenties gifts, from cards to things they have made, Erevis walking around in lingerie that Megumi gave her because she believes it to be custom. Angela gives Zephyr a valentine and a hug and Zephyr dismisses herself, heading to her room. The celebration continues until the group notices that Zephyr has been alone in her room way too long and go to investigate, finding only her clothes folded neatly and an open window. After a short time and some quick research they find that one of the traitor generals may be in town and conclude that Zephyr must have gone into adult murder mode to finish an old mission of assassinating him.
Between Angela and Chad the group is able to locate the building the general hides out in and arrive seemingly before Zephyr, but as they step in to warn him and intercept her, she reveals having used them to gain entry herself and Zephyr disables several members of the team, killing the general with a shot in the spine. She flees to continue her missions and the group tries to track her again, eventually settling on getting Angela to abuse her bond to provoke her.
This leads to a direct confrontation between Angela and Zephyr as the group finds her, and Angela is held over the ledge of the building to face judgement for her past crimes. To Zephyr's surprise, Angela gives her permission to kill her if it will help her, and this causes Zephyr to release her safely and run off again to continue her mission. However just as she's about to go the group launches a sneak attack that disables and knocks her out. Angela, on reflection, realizes something and breaks her bond with Zephyr, causing the adult mode to unlock and restore Zephyr back to normal. The team returns home to resume the holiday, Zephyr not remembering a thing that happened, or, for some reason, that she and Angela were once linked.
Session 11: Tears of the Progenitor Part I
As Drasek laments all the beer being gone, and drinking Chad's water, the group is relaxing and watching the news when a broadcasts announces a new archaelogical find which will be exhibited at a nearby museum. The group recognizes Progenitor Technology quickly, and Erevis confirms that the shiny metal rod with progenitor markings is indeed something they need to acquire. The team gears up and heads to the Museum in the dark, breaking in thanks to Angela's hacking and Chad's backup on the alarms. It's surprisingly Megumi of all people who reveals sudden dexterity in passing the laser field, and as they acquire the rod, it extends into a Staff and Erevis says it is a memory staff, containing secrets to a hidden Progenitor stash.
It's then that the staff flashes and everyone finds themselves in a jungle, and after exploring a little bit they figure out whose memories the staff contains when they come upon the temple they found Erevis in after she possessed Katrina. The group tries to communicate with her but Erevis, lost in her own memory, acts as she did so long ago and after realizing that Drasek lies to her, seems to send the rest into a new memory to deal with him.
Darien, Angela and Chad themselves at Darien's house on the night of the Frozen Lake incident, but a memory of Xanatos is able to keep the group from further harm by turning Angela's accidental lie into a note of embarrassment when Erevis accuses her of lusting for Xanatos, mistaking her feelings of loss for the dead man as love. The three are left to see if they can find Ariel and Megumi in this mire of memory.
Ariel and Megumi meanwhile awaken tied to chairs, Megumi having trouble placing the scene, but Ariel knowing this traumatic moment far too well as Xevil begins to carve into Megumi like he did to Erevis.
Session 12: Tears of the Progenitor Part II
Drasek finds himself on the wrong end of a Classic Erevis as he tries to talk sense to her and she begins to break his body with telekenesis, tossing him around like a rag doll.
Meanwhile, Darien, Chad and Angela begin to think about how to get out of their current memory block. Darien suggests killing Xanatos to break the memory, but Angela protests, explaining that he could destroy a big part of what makes Erevis human in doing so. The two watch as the couple begins to skate on the frozen lake.
Meanwhile Xevil drags a broken Erevis into the torture chamber to watch. Ariel tries to bring her to reason to cotnrol the memory, but it's ultimately Megumi shaming her while being tortured that brings her to realitym, the girls finding their bonds freed. They begin to fight Xevil back, but Erevis, realizing her lack of faith in Ariel, empowers Xevil into an unstoppable nightmare and the girls are forced to run away with her.
As the three at the lake continue to contemplate, they find a bloodied Erevis, Megumi and Ariel running towards them with a Nightmare Xevil in tow. Their wounds heal as they cross into a safer memory. As the team works together to trap the Xevil under the ice, giving them all a breather, they talk to Erevis and find that even she is aware of what she must do, but doesn't seem to be strong enough to overcome her fears. This leads them into a whirlwind of memories and the source of all of this, as a Phantom Darien blames Erevis for the deaths of two of their friends. They attempt to view the graves seen in the memories but find even their names are shrouded from her mind.
The next scene they are treated to is John McCormick taking Erevis in a car to go find a way to retrieve Katrina, the connected guilt becoming clear as she goes along with the situation without protest, having to talk Xanatos and Megumi down from resistance. THey are then flashed to a forest on fire, Mt. Fuji in the background as an Erevis kitted out in everything she came in from the future faces down Legion. As they approach to get answers, something or someone forced them away, Erevis blocking them out.
They find themselves at the house once more, Ariel has pink hair and Angela is not yet younger, and they finally meet a Past Erevis persona who explains to them that the staff did not fully recognize her due to the human DNA in her system and reacted by creating a nightmare defense mechanism. The team, armed with this knowledge dive into another scene where Erevis is about to stab Legion, and they start to let him have it. After nearly killing the Nightmare, it runs and throws other nightmares their way, an unleased Id and Spade Erevis. The team begins to fight them, only for Angela to point out that these are merely distractions for the real enemy and the team locates and finds Xevil again, doing him in. This ends the nightmares and unlocks the staff for Erevis, she collapses in the real world unconcious as the others come to.
Attempts to destroy the staff all fail, they are left to flee and wait for Erevis to awaken with new knowledge.
Session 13: Sins of the Father Part I
After adventures in buying musical instrumbers where Drasek and Erevis begin their new lives as street performers for a day, the following is dreary and wet, and Aya naps face first in a book. The group is worried about supplies and planning something to do about it when Chad realizes that Aya has a fever. Angela takes readings and considers that the machine might be broken because her temperature is well over lethal limits, and her estimated age is raising steadily. Seeing that she is rapidly beginning to age and expecting that they have now discovered what VI managed to do to her, they are forced to turn to a questionable source of help. Angela and Chad using online postings to arrange a meetup with the new Alexander Cran.
Taking a shuttle out to a base in Siberia, the group comes face to face with the new and far less affectionate Cran. He explains that Aya was intended to recieve a new kind of augmentation that would make her a weapon worthy of taking down Legion. And at first only agrees to stop her aging if he can augment her. While Chad protests it is Angela who forges a deal with Alexander to become the serum's test subject in place of Aya. Aya is taken to have her aging stopped and Angela, under the guise of watching her, is left behind with her in order for the others to go meet an apparent Legion sighting.
Session 14: Sins of the Father Part II
After Alex and Angela finish their argumewnt over who should take the serum, he finally relents an leads her to the treatment. At this time the shuttle is attacked by Legion and the group is forced to face him once again. As they fight for their lives, they just barely manage to repel Legion, many taking grevious injuries and forcefully coming to terms with the fact that they are all outgunned when it comes to taking on the monster from the future. They recover the shuttle enough to limp back to Alex's base for help.
As they head back, Angela is strapped to a table and given the injections, warned of pain. Alex for some reason antagonizes her a second time about her dedication, but Angela seems steadfast in the idea that she would rather be the one to go through the treatment than her niece. She is put through insufferable amounts of pain as the changes take place.
The rest of the team is brought in and given nanotechnology treatments to repair their damage and Aya herself is brought to them, her aging having been stopped and according to Alex, nothing else done to her. The shock is that the aging stopped 12 years ahead of her true age, the 15 year old girl unconcious. Chad begins to brim with rage when Angela is brought out, no longer a teenager and back to her early twenty year old self, moreover, all apparent markings she had of being a Dragoon are gone and she seems to be powerless still. It is then that Alex suggests that he be allowed to fix Zephyr's Alpha Dragoon functions. While most heavily disagree, Angela alone suggests she do what she wants instead of what the others think is right. She ultimately turns it down for now, but seems to grow inward at everyone's reactions.
The group leaves, Angela taking over piloting the shuttle to take them home and her personality has shifted somewhat, she seems more calm and deeply dismissive of Chad, which causes him to finally snap and start screaming at her, blaming her for Aya's state. Seeing as the aging wa stopped and to all their knowledge, nothing else was done to her, she very rightly reminds him that the only person at any fault over her condition is Chad himself, and tells him to stop using her as his punching bag. He actually has to be held back from attacking her, the rest of the flight goes by in awkward silence until Aya awakens in confustion at her older body. Angela attempts to guide them into handling her changes, being someone who went through the same exact experience in the past, but she's told to shut up.
Later after they are all home, Megumi starts an apparent sparring session with Angela which quickly turns into an actual fight. Angela however, goes inward when she sees that Megumi is attacking her instead of training and actually lets her start to kill her. It's then that they come to an understanding that Angela deep down lacks any sense of self value, while somehow holding complete trust in everyone else. Megumi, whether out of pity or acceptance unknown, heals her and allows them to become friends. Counciling Angela to start doing things for herself instead of everyone else.
The group faces another day as Erevis comes down to announce a new mission for them. With a need to go to the Erusian Ascendancy, the team is told to pack up and be ready for a location swap. Darien called Myria to arrange them passage and a place to stay while Drasek absorbs the idea that there is an entire species out there dedicated to worshipping him. THe group packs up in Darien's Classic Shuttle and heads out into space.
Which is normally a great idea except that Darien's Classic Shuttle has a hyperspace engine fault and they find themselves spinning wildly in high speed towards the ascendancy. Thankfully between Angela, Megumi and a very reluctant Darien, the group is able to get the ship out of Hyperspace just in time to avoid crashing into a cloaked Ascendancy War Ship. The Ship thankfully, is out looking for them and rescues the shuttle and the crew, under orders from Ambassador Arhn.
The team is then taken to the Erusian Homeworld where they are set up with a place to stay in Arhn's palacial estate. Now with a new base of operations they make plans to explore an ancient progenitor ruins. Later Zephyr plots a beach day and water battle.
Session 16: Followers of the Progenitors
Late night goings on as Megumi and Erevis spend time together in the library while Erevis conducts her research. Megumi finally breaks the ice by asking Erevis about how she feels about them, and with some conversation begin to deepen their relationship. Meanwhile Drasek pokes around the shuttle to find Angela and Darien... working hard on repairing it.
The next morning, the group is surprised when a group of Erusians, the frustrated and angry male faction of commoners, assaults the mansion. The group is mostly able to fend them off, but meanwhile inside the mansion another Erusian in power armor busts through a wall to snatch Erevis. Megumi attempts to stop him but gets KOed for her effort. Finding her and learning what happened, the group tries to track the teleport that the attacker used to run off with Erevis. While Angela works to track the signal, Rylon appears on a planetary broadcast promising to show the mortality of the Erusian Gods, Erevis strapped down to be executed. Myria works to disrupt the broadcast, buying the group time as Angela tracks the signal and they move to assault Rylon's base.
Fighting their way to Rylon, he manages to capture Angela and Megumi after hurting them to add to his hostages. This however works against him when the rest find them and the two are able to fight back and stumble Rylon for the others to take out. Sure he is absolutely dead this time, they are left to deal with a final parting gift as a Black Angel appears over the city, ready to destroy it. Myria however is able to make it in time to signal the ship to leave telepathetically, saving the day.
The group returns home, so happy Rylon is dead. Totally for real this time, they hope.
Erevis gives everyone a note while they sleep to meet her in the library. They find her there with a sick Megumi, it seems the red sun of the Erusian Homeworld doesn't agree with her biology very much. Erevis informs them that she discovered where they need to go next and the team piles into the shuttle to head to another world. As they travel the group talks and engages in speculation on the relative evils of Dark Colored Planets, of the lack thereof, as the planet they land on seems seeped in an eternal night. After landing they find that the darkness is some sort of artificial cover, and the land below is safe.
Following Erevis they approach a mountain base, which she is able to unlock through the use of Hyperspace, it is then that the team learns that she doesn't use her powers because it damages her flesh shell. The group continues on to find a portal, Erevis grabs Drasek and rushes into it, stunned, the rest of the group follows moments behind them, and Megumi a short time thereafter.
The group awakens on what Theron describes as the Homeworld in ancient days, identified by the many, many Dark Angels floating above in the sky as defense. They begin to explore but are quickly subdued by Progenitor guards.
Megumi awakens in a dark jungle somewhere, and finds herself face to face with an awfully familiar person, a much younger Wind.
Session 18: The Winds of Destiny
Megumi is face to face with Wind, who seems far kinder and gentler than the one she knows. He takes her to his camp where he introduces her to a younger Erevis, who takes the form of as 12 year old Katrina to make it easier for her to percieve. The two begin to discuss what's going on.
Meanwhile, Myria has been taken in by Progenitors who forcibly scan her mind, seeing their future, they decide to begin to change fate. The others, who awaken in a cell, are released after some time and brought to a fancy room where they have set up Myria, seeming to be far more hospitable. After some trying, Myria finds she can open the door to the room with mental commands and leads the group out into a hallway, they travel down this considering what's coming until they find themselves in some sort of Progenitor homeroom.
Erevis and Drasek look out over the Progenitor city and squabble, but as Progenitors they're the only people not popping up as strange on anyone's radars so they continue to seek the relic they are after.
The others find themselves brought before some powerful Progenitors who offer to augment the powers of their Erusian friends to better fight the Dark Ones in their time. When the others begin to see static and realize this is a path that will destroy their timeline, they pull their friends back from the augmentation process. The guards attempt to subdue them, but when Angela touches one of the Progenitors she begins to channel hyperspace through her hand. The Powerful Progenitors claim the relic will bring them back in the future, and that their group will be the catalyst for their return even as they strangely try to stop them. The Progenitors begin to go lethal to stop them from leaving, but Angela, nearing death from a shot through the chest, suddenly glows with Hyperspace, heals and takes them all out of there to safety after knocking down all the Progenitors while forming hyperspace wings. They escape back through a portal as Angela returns to normal and the group is left to wait for the others.
Megumi and Wind spend more time getting to know each other in these different times. Megumi reveals a lot about her past as a researcher from a planet called Famfrit, which orbits a star called Nyx. Wind adopts Megumi's super cool sunglasses look. Megumi eventually is introduced to a tear in reality, her way home, and the two know they'll forget everything that happened when she leaves. However, one name rises up in both of their minds, the final subject they speak about. Malveris.
Session 19: The Legacy of the Progenitors
Erevis and Drasek are finally found by the Progenitors, who actually welcome them in their mission and expedite their search straight to where the relic is kept, wanting them to have it. Meanwhile the group emerges out of their portal to find they are still in the past, but in another location, they land hard and Angela writhes in pain experiencing for the first time the feedback from fully using her Hyperspace. They soon find out why they were taken here though, as Megumi steps out of a tear to meet up with them and explains about the time she has spent with Wind. The group is shocked to learn Wind was once a nice guy. They discuss what to do next, and all they have is finding Erevis and Drasek and from what they know now, need to destroy the relic.
They come upon Erevis and Drasek, who have the relic but now are at a crossroads. Drasek wishes to use it to restore himself and the Progenitors and Erevis seeks to defy fate. The group is brought into the coversation, all obviously sided on the future they belong to. They try many appeals to Drasek but it comes down to a fight over which Progenitor will pick what to do with it. They come to blows, the team sticking back as the two need to work this out on their own. Erevis ultimately ends the fight by destroying the relic, Drasek breaking away from them and leaving, apologizing for having to side against them.
As she destroys it, the time about them statics and they find themselves back in the present, all their gear there and their memories of the time beginning to fade, with a few exceptions. The team returns to Erus to rest, without Drasek, but with their future secured for now.
TBA
Erevis the Progenitor continues into the Season 14 finale: