Act 1: Choices
Phase 0: Transitions
- Session 1: Transitions I
- Session 2: Second Verse, Same as the First
- Session 3: New Hierarchy
- Session 4: The Presidential Race
- Session 5: Generals, Gods and Presidents
- Session 6: Election Day
- Book of Revelations, Day I: A Grave Mistake
- Book of Revelations, Day II: Undying Emotions
- Book of Revelations, Day III: Dead Like Me
- Book of Revelations, Day IV: Dead Inside
- Book of Revelations, Day V: How A Heart Dies
- Book of Revelations, Day VI: Rest in Peace
- Session 7: Death Plays Chess
- Session 8: New Universal Order
- Session 9: The Ice Storm
- Session 10: Blood Moon
- Session 11: Moments in Transition
- Session 12: Holidays
- Phase 1.1: Prophecy
-Phase 1.2: War
Phase 2: Divisions
Phase 3: Quests- Phase 3.1: Tides
- Phase 3.2: Destiny
Phase 4: Darkness
Phase 5: Light- Phase 5.1: Searching
- Phase 5.1.2: Events
- Phase 5.2: Headway
- Phase 5.3: Truths
Phase 6: Changes
Phase 7: Hunts
Phase 8: Preparations
Phase 9: Prophecies
- Phase 9.1: Holy
- Phase 9.2: Night
- Phase 9.3: The First Trinity
Phase 10: Godwar
Phase 11: Others
Act 2: Consequences
Mini Series: Heart of Terra
Stardate: 10-591.2.27
Location: Mansion Base
A month after the finale of The Alien Wars 4, both groups are settling into their new routines and lives. General Cheryl's team in the underground base beneath the old Cran Manor, in which Cheryl now lives, has begun to be stocked with food and supplies. Though pay hasn't been given out yet as the base is built up, the team of Colephantus, Dias, Raquel, and Cheryl are slowly coming together as they outfit the base with the latest technology - with Tsukiyomi and Lemon working as base staff and Chii lounging about pregnant.
Christopher Kane, the running mate with Alexander Cran in the emergency election being held in a few month's time against their opponent Hans Tucker, arrives to supervise the base as Cheryl gives a tour of their operations. The team also spends their time spying on Cheryl's new secretary, Trish Blue, whom Cole thinks is this reality's version of his Blue, whom he was in love with. So far the only kink in the entire operation is that Weapon X has moved out into the city to live on her own, citing a desire to try something new, having lost her powers in the final battle against the reality opponents. Darien Starr, retired from the game, visits the base to see how things are running, and spends time bonding with Cole, Dias, and Key over racing.
Meanwhile, on the new PAX - essentially the old Progenitor Spaceship CHIP - Erevis and Megumi Zhenmei, Xanatos Durran, and others work on greeting ambassadors from other races to the station, hoping to make PAX an offical place for delegates to seek out peace. Erevis, a month pregnant with Marcus and Katrina Jones' baby, since Katrina cannot conceive and Erevis has essentially the same DNA as her, has been working on budgets while Megumi and Zephyr have restored their bond synch, with Megumi learning how to use energy weapons to put less strain on her body. However, the ship is still in disarray due to the fact most of their knowledge was taken by Wind to combat the evil of Xevil from destroying the multiverse, with Chad Winters and Isis Zhenmei struggling to remember how to run Engineering, and others having to relearn simple facts.
Also, Jennifer Carmichael, having alienated her original team by betraying them, is now on PAX under Durran's supervision, learning how to become a doctor under the tutoring of Caduceus, the ship's head doctor. There, she meets her competition, a young man named Levi Carter, as they're both attempting to becoming the new PAX Doctor. And Elwyn and Kellin, having been rescued from a deleted future timeline, attempt to find their place onboard the ship; they find a new home in the form of Athena Zhenmei who lets them stay in her room at Erevis and Megumi's home, becoming attached to them both. Now part of the Zhenmei family, Erevis has decided to take the time to learn more about the mystery that is Kellin and how he fits into their family, based on the clues he's a child of a Dragoon.
The ambassadors from the Vapaad and ATLEANs arrive, but most surprisingly comes the fact the Erusians have chosen Theron L'Kai to be their new ambassador, a first since their civil war in allowing a lower class Erusian into such a position. With three races now onboard and functioning, the biggest obstacles for the PAX crew is to relearn their old knowledge, maintain a budget, and continue to prove they are capable of providing a place for peace.
Session 2: Second Verse, Same as the First
Location: Executive Building
As a joke by Cheryl, Chad Winters' name was put on the list of candidates for Earth Ambassador to the PAX, so he's recalled to Earth to be interviewed by Christopher Kane and Eve Summers, a process he's not pleased about once he learn why he's there. Promising revenge on Cheryl, who showed up to watch the process, Chad actually manages to answer the questions in such a manner, he's seriously considered.
At the base on Earth, Peter Sullivan has arrived to be interviewed about joining the unit, while the others try to hook up Cole with Blue, and end up angering the poor reploid by embarrassing him to the secretary. When Cheryl returns to base, the group decides to go out and have fun, with Lemon pleading to drive Cheryl's fancy new car - despite not knowing how to drive. This leads them to speeding through the city after exiting the hidden tunnels and causing a big scene as Lemon panics trying to listen to driving instructions from Cole, Dias, Raquel, and Chii. After learning about what's happening, Cheryl just hires Peter despite being unimpressed, and watches as the cops chase her team through the streets; she orders them to abandon the car in the park, take all the ID off of it, and get the hell out of there. They manage to succeed in this.
Back on the PAX, Erevis, Xanatos, and Megumi discover the new Tsivrixsh Ambassador looks like Xevil - and his name is Kyun, the same as the being from the Multiverse who claimed to have been created by Xevil's influence there. Despite his unsettlingly politeness, he tells Megumi how much he looks forward to meeting with the Captain of the ship who's leading everyone into a new age - something Erevis doesn't desire to do, considering Xevil raped her to get at Ariel many years ago. However, due to the nature of the place they're trying to create, none of them can act against Kyun until he does something. Another concern crops up when Hans Tucker appears on the ship to pick up some files, and meet with the Tsivrixsh Ambassador.
Back at Earth, Cheryl chews her team out for losing the car, when she gets information on an explosion at the building where X moved into. The team arrives to find it completely decimated, and many dozens of people dead. After hours of going through the remains, they find a skeleton that matches X's size, along with a locket of purple hair, leading them to believe perhaps she may, in fact, be dead. Cheryl promises Dias she will discover the truth no matter what it takes.
Location: PAX
On the PAX, Athena holds her first concert for free, hoping to win the hearts of the audience who attends. Singing a variety of songs, including Megumi's flute song, complete with her own dance to it, she happily sings to everyone; however, Erevis is more concerned with the fact the Tsivrixsh Ambassador Kyun has become part of her daughter's fan club and is sitting in the front row seat to watch her.
Back on Earth, General Cheryl, along with President Cran, Vice President Kane, Eve Summers, Dias, and Key stand over the skeleton remains that is thought to be X. However, Cran informs them they cannot be X's due to the lack of degredation a clone would have, due to X being cloned from Weapon VI: Caesura, and concludes the bones must belong to the dead weapon; someone has gone to great lengths to make everyone think X is dead. Also, Cheryl admits to Dias she suspects X was pregnant and that is one of the reasons X wanted to move out, a conclusion Cran shares based on some blood work Caduceus took.
Back at the base, Dias meets up with Marcus and Katrina Jones who have come to help their friend in his time of loss, and support him. Catching up with their old friends, Katrina learns about Chii's pregnacy, the group is relieved to hear X is alive out there, and Peter attempts to fit in, being declared a stalker for knowing too much about the females while they haven't even talked to him. Lemon even offers to help Marcus learn new recipes, while Raquel also works on her culinary skills, attempting to find more hobbies outside the job.
Back on PAX, Athena's concert is met with great applause, but Xanatos notices Kyun going behind the concert stage to talk to Athena privately. He finds the Tsivrixsh congratulating her and telling her he hopes she'll come to his homeworld sometime to perform as well.
Stardate: 10-591.4.4
Ao finally returns to the PAX to see Megumi, announcing she's taking on duties again after being on vacation, to help Erevis since she's becoming more pregnant. Finally the Earth Ambassador arrives, the final of the main ambassadors, and it's none other than Gordon Paladin, due to Chad turning down the position to remain Head of Engineering on PAX. During this, Carter and Jennifer's doctoring skills continue to be tested in odd ways by Caduceus.
Back on Earth, Cheryl follows a lead on a stolen vehicle that was seen in the videos Cole and Cypher retrieved of the feed facing X's building. She takes Cole and Peter with her, and they find the van on the docks; as Cole and Peter examine the nearby warehouses, Cheryl checks over the car, which activates a trap when it detects her, exploding. Rushing her to the hospital, they learn a new type of EMP weapon was used to specifically damage Cheryl's unique body, and has damaged her memory to the point she remembers nothing, like a blank tape. The team, who's arrived to watch over her, muse on how this happened, and Darien suspects there may be a leak on the team, considering how quickly this was put together. However, even more concerning is the fact that reporters arrived to record the badly wounded Cheryl at the docks, proclaiming her dead. Who tipped them off?
Stardate: 10-591.4.8
Session 4: The Presidential Race
Location: Mansion Base
After Cheryl sneaks out while Chii is showering, the team tracks her down to the newly opened mall, fearful for their childlike General. There, they find Alexander Cran and Christopher Kane giving speeches at the mall, trying to raise their standings in the polls. Also, when they finally catch up with Cheryl, they find her buying a pet fox for Chii, having wanted to get her a gift. She declares the fox can also be the team's mascot.
Once back at the base, they find Darien Starr there, temporarily agreeing to run the unit until Cheryl recovers. He informs them that there's no other leads involving the van, and that he's found no leak so far in the Executive Building's staff that could have set a trap for Cheryl. That leaves them with no clues to who is behind the attacks.
Meanwhile, on the PAX, Katrina Jones wages war against another resturant who's opened up on PAX, modifying the waitress' outfits even more, much to poor Elwyn's dismay, who had recently begun working there. Kyun, meanwhile, continues to harrass Erevis, cornering her and inviting her and her family to a dinner in their honor at his place. Xanatos and Megumi manage to get the Tsivrixsh to back off, however it's becoming clearer Kyun has some agenda.
While Erevis and Megumi enjoy some sex in the research lab, and Xanatos and Ao play pranks on one another, Carter and Jennifer continue to work at becoming doctors, and Elwyn and Loki discuss what the future holds.
Stardate: 10-591.4.9
Lemon pretends to be Cheryl during a conference with reporters, discussing the unit's future. However, one reporter begins to question Dias if it's true an entire building of people were killed just to kill his girlfriend, which he admits is true. Bringing the questions to an end, the team wonders who is manuevering the reporters with such questions, and Lemon, Darien, and Kane begin to suspect it may be Hans Tucker, since he has access to files at the Executive Building and could pick up on Cheryl's reports. Kane decides he'll begin to investigate Tucker further.
During the reception afterwards, Dias receives an envelop with a picture of X and a set of coordinates to go to alone. After the dinner, he sneaks off to investigate on his own as the note orders. Meanwhile, PAX arrives in the Sol System for a few days, and Marcus and Katrina decide to visit Dias again to check on their friend. And Dawn proposes to Aya.
Session 5: Generals, Gods and Presidents
Location: Mansion Base
News reports startle the team by showing a vision of Dias being shot to the heart from behind in a bad drug deal, spiralling them into a race for meager evidence and leads on what really happened in the heart of conspiracies surrounding the new EarthGov presidential election.
Splitting up, the team forms two groups to follow tracks back to the executive building and the newscenter that broadcast the videofeed over the holonet. Tense questioning by Cheryl in uniform despite her lost memory leads to acquiring a copy of the video proven to be tampered with while meanwhile...
Lemon in uniform as Cheryl question Kane, asserting herself 'fit' to run the unit again, and takes the military group to a bar where Eve is known to show up to, leading back to her home where Chad finds a stranger in bed with her, leading to charges as he resorts to violence on him, likely another baited trap by Tucker's entourage.
On PAX, Erevis collapses during a ambassador meet, leading to questions of foul play in her drinking glass, but no evidence of toxins are found. Attempting communications with Earth fails and they discover jamming of their communications via a 1/1000th chance of a shuttle. No solid evidence leads back to Tucker as usual...
Another of Kane's leads die, while at the base Cheryl has visiting Caduceus work on replenishing her memories, thus reverting back into the workaholic determined to find the truth.
Location: PAX
Nearly a week after the previous events, Erevis and Cheryl discuss using the PAX's advanced sensors to detect Weapon project signatures, in a desperate attempt to locate X and Dias still MIA. It will take time although work starts on it immediately, while the contest for running the medical bay continues with Carter's seemingly undefeatable lead over Jennifer.
On Earth, Kane discusses how all evidence points to Eve being the leak in intelligence for both Alexander's cabinet and Cheryl's base activities, as no further incidents have occured since isolating her from knowledge of either's work, causing her to become restless in the mansion confinement.
Having received the location of a possible detection of Weapons, Cheryl takes her unit, now recussitated as herself, and fight their way inside of base clearly operating out of secretive means. Kane comes to speak with Cheryl at her base to find she left already, but in her wake, someone has infiltrated the place and stolen her data.
Aware of their breach, the base evacuates, leaving Dias and newly-captured Raquel as bait while they steal away with X. Cutting their losses and trying to escape the self-destruct sequence left for them, they fail to notice Dias is the true trap, outfitted with a proximity-based bomb which detonates upon trying to leave the base building, critically injuring Cole and Raquel, harming Cheryl and ending Dias' life.
With spirits lower than ever, the team vows to find X and get even, suspicions high on Tucker to bolster his campaign. But a shocking revelation plays on the holonet-- Tucker's assassination. Eyes would quickly turn to Alexander's side of the political gamefield, yet like flies, reports come in that Alexander has been knocked off as well; by a shot out of a ripple, no less. Is X somehow taking revenge for the game that stole Dias' life in the crossfire? Answers must be found, as Kane could be the next on the hit list having just attained Presidency by default.
The Book of Revelations, Day I: A Grave Mistake
Location: Hunter Station
Two new recruits and President Wind arrive at Hunter Station. Accompanying Wind is his new assistant, Megumi, the odd little lady seems to have the affection of Wind. The new recruits, Null and Anyata, are introduced to their leaders, Dominator and Weindigo. Null appears to have the heart of a child, while Anyata quickly adopts an almost protective shepherding of her fellow recruit. Wind and Weindigo discuss the events of 6 months earlier, when Wind remade the reality and brought back everyone. Wind reveals he did not have complete control over the process and that just about anyone could have been revived, friend and foe alike. As Katrina has something for the Hunters to see, along with Wind, Weindigo rounds up his newbies and Colephantus to set out on a mission.
Meanwhile, the Special Unit speeds through Mega City at literally insane speeds with Terra behind the wheel of the team's van. Stopping in front of a warehouse, Terra rushes into battle gung ho while the rest of the team carefully approaches. Elayne notices the hung bodies of a serial killer's victims hanging from the ceiling, and knowing the source, Gravedigger and Phirax order everyone out as a countdown begins. A stranger driving their van backs into the warehouse and orders them aboard, and having to go back only once to save heroes who refuse to run even in the face of a fatal explosion, the team gets out before the warehouse is completely destroyed. The man reveals himself to be Ire, back from the dead and tracking down Seinreach's agents.
Deep in the African Rainforests, the Hunters enter an ancient ruin following Katrina. Katrina shows the group a book which seems to be writing out the events of the reality on it's own, even writing the future to come. As the team discusses the possibilities of the book and what it means, they look over one of the earlier passages describing the deaths and mayhem that recently occurred in the Prime reality, and a prophecy that those events would lead to the end of the world. Wind recognizes Kane's name and lets the group know who this is for, just as the book begins to write a new passage. Quickly reviewing the books events, the team splits up, Dominator and Weindigo taking their Hunters to meet up with the Special Unit to see if the books words on Terra's death and Ire's return are true.
Ire lets the Special Unit in on his current investigation, it seems the 5th Column has risen again and is seeking to fill all their old goals. The team begins to argue on what to do when the Hunters arrive, a few words from Cole and Ire finds himself assuming command of the unit. Combining their information they determine that they need to investigate further, they move out aboard a shuttle for a location where Iceheart has been written to die in.
Arriving the team spots a reploid being chased down by a troop of Nazi soldiers. Moving quickly to intervene, the combined forces take down the enemy troops, managing to capture one alive and successfully saving Iceheart. Wind calls up the team to let them know the words in the book have changed to show Iceheart survived, however the latest entry shows everyone dying when a missile impacts the building they're all in. Together they flee with their prisoner.
Back on Hunter Station, the combined groups discuss the value of the book and what to do about the foreboding warnings it brings. After some argument over whether or not to even worry about the Prime Reality, the team agrees to first look into the 5th Column's activities and the supposed Army of the Dead about to rise.
In the Prime Reality, three weeks have passed since the death of Dias, PAX is currently assisting in the evacuation of a planet on the edge of Tsivrivxsh space. Every part of the ship is in pandemonium as they attempt to keep up with the tireless demand of a very tense group of refugees. An accident erupts in the hangar as two shuttles collide, and Zephyr rushes to the rescue of some children. As the disaster consumes her, the refugees panic. Erevis begins to wilt from weariness as Megumi, Xanatos, and SPoC rush to the rescue of those caught in the accident. In medical, Caduceus leads his student doctors to hand the influx of refugees suffering from gas poisoning and trauma. Jennifer discovers she's pregnant after dealing with an enraged patient, and is left to deal with the patients on her own as Caduceus and Carter go to perform surgery. A critical Zephyr is brought into medical and Jennifer is rushed to help her by Megumi. Seeing her condition, Jennifer attempts to get help, however she finds herself having to perform surgery on the injured Dragoon all on her own, saving Zephyr's life.
A couple hours later the crew is recovering during a lull in the panic. Megumi steps onto the bridge to let everyone know Zephyr will be alright, only to learn that in all of the confusion Xanatos kidnapped Erevis and took her away on a shuttle. Ao mentions that since Xanatos returned from Earth, he hadn't been acting the same, Chad starts to point out a connection to these events. Ao, taking command temporarily, decides to do what she believes Erevis would want and have the PAX remain for the next 10 hours to complete the evacuation before taking action. Zephyr revives in medical to the relief of her family, while Megumi starts to fall apart from her feelings of worry and betrayal.
Stardate: 10-591.5.10
On Earth, the Elite Unit is enjoying a quiet afternoon when Cheryl gets a call for a mission. Taking her team, currently consisting of Cole, Raquel, John and Peter, she sets off for Tokyo. Landing at the site of a massive explosion outside the city, the team quickly determines the place was a Black Ops laboratory of some sort, which was set up by Hans. Making their way inside they quickly discover two dreadful names, William Spade and Angela Bennett, written out in the ruined halls. After a confrontation with a Legacy Corrupted Spade, the team destroys his body and find themselves left with a question, where is Angela?
As the team makes their way home, an alarm on Dias' grave goes off, someone has disturbed it. Cheryl quickly directs the shuttle to the graveyard, and the team is shocked to find the grave has been completely dug up, but from the inside out. They're left to wonder what has become of their fallen friend, questioning why.
The Book of Revelations, Day II: Undying Emotions
Location: Outside Mega City
The Hunters attempt to break into a 5th Column base, with Wiendigo leading the mission and Iceheart coming along for the ride. After taking down a group of guards and dealing with the ever annoying Squirrel, the team breaks in and makes their way to the special weapons cache the 5th Column was discovered to have. After a quick and dirty battle in the storage room, the team secures a stockpile of disentegration guns and destroys a series of cryo chambers. Escaping with their load the team splits up, with Iceheart joining the team on a conditional basis. Having learned that John McCormick's family is in danger Cole, Anyata and Null make their way to the nearby residence to check up on them.
The Special Unit discusses Ghoul and what exactly it is he does and how he operates. Attempting to find a pattern that simply doesn't exist, they grill over the information. Pope, becoming particularly upset over the events that have occured, storms out to hunt on his own. Chad recieves a message from Ghoul showing a captured Michiru McCormick, the hint of her coming murder implied. Ghoul leaves them a clue as to his wherabouts with the words "No Hope". After some quick investigation the team guesses that it may have something to do with an abandoned orphanage where the words "No Hope Left" was used to describe it's fate. The team agrees to go to Michiru's rescue, trap or not, and they head out.
At the McCormick residence, a group of Nazis are devastated thanks to the heroics of Roadkill and Ratshoot, under orders from Dominator to secure the McCormick residence. John and Dias lament that a rat has bested them and talk of the good old days when they were mighty and amazing. John considers retirement. The Hunters arrive to check on the family and Ratshoot is united with Cole's face... refusing to let go. While Cole deals with his facehumping buddy, a call arrives from Gravedigger warning John about Michiru's fate. John and Dias hurry to get ready, John being forced to wear his stylishly purple gi as all of his tactical suits are being washed. Damn wives.
The Special Unit arrives at the very creepy orphanage and find their hunch to be confirmed after a series of very creepy attempts to trap and scare them occur. Making their way up a dangerous set of stairs, the team is egged into running towards traps by Ghoul, who plays a recording of Michiru screaming for help over and over again. Attempting the stairs, a tricycle ridden by a stuffed bear is pushed their way, just when no trap seems to be connected to it, thick, poisonous looking gas sprays over the team, incapacitating them.
On Hunter Station, Dominator, Wind, Katrina, Slasher and Megumi discuss the events as they appear in the book, and Wind is horrified to discover a list of the dead growing in the Prime Reality. Seeing no other choice, he decides to send someone into the Prime Reality to deliver a warning, Slasher valiantly volunteers for the mission, and is sent into a vortex. The book begins to write about the deaths of Katrina and the special unit, and Hunter station must warn them all before it's too late.
Stardate: 10-591.5.11
In the Prime Reality chaos breaks loose as the dead rise. Arriving with minimal power to it, CHIP is assaulted by a group of familiar faces, the dead who hold special places in several crew members hearts. Ao is disabled due to her overuse of power to jump the ship to Earth so quickly, and Jennifer, with the help of Athena treats her. Dias attacks the bar, after Marcus, and after a united struggle of the bar patrons and residents, Dias is forced into a freezer and frozen. Cassandra and Setsuna show up with the intention of kidnapping Billy, wanting their daughter to join them in glorious undeath.
The Elite team is caught by surprise as Raquel is kidnapped from them, through a ripple. Cheryl, John, Peter, Cole, Lemon and Key pile into a shuttle and head out to rescue her as the mansion is assaulted by a horde of zombies. Chii activates the defenses and takes out the zombie horde, not wanting zombies on her lawn. Ariel gets a call from Cheryl to bring Chii to meet her, and Ariel dutifully kidnaps the fox and takes her down to the vehicles, making the rookie mistake and letting Chii drive anything on four wheels.
Back on CHIP, the team is split when the undead depart, Fi taking Isis, Dias taking Marcus, Cassandra and Setsuna escaping with Elwyn and Billy, Fiona taking Drasek, Aya and Dawn. During the confusion John shows up and spirits Jennifer away, who is pregnant with his child. Athena goes with the two off the station. The remaining members of the PAX team collect themselves as they learn of the damages.
Xanatos is rescued from the back of a trunk by Future Erevis, we learn that he never made it back to the PAX and was kidnapped during his last trip to Earth. The two attempt to figure out what's going on and who and why someone would kidnap him. Xanatos remains oblivious to the events on the PAX as they begin to make their search for answers.
The Elite unit finds Raquel in a park, surrounded by the fallen Weapons, now back from the dead. They also find to their horror that Raquel has been killed, risen from the dead to join her family of undead Weapons. Confused and feeling impending doom, the team struggles with how to approach this danger, before they can really act, Ripple leads his reborn family away, going off to fulfill Raquel's desires, the team attempts to locate her and finds her in Tokyo, hunting down Lilith.
The Book of Revelations, Day III: Dead Like Me
Location: Engineering
Those on PAX that remain begin to mount a rescue operation, minimal staff remaining behind while Chad, Zephyr, Megumi, Paladin, Kellin and SPoC head out to rescue the others. Aya, Dawn and Drasek find themselves in a flower strewn field near the Alligerhi residence, and Fiore attempts to get her lost love and her brother to join her in undeath. Refusing to accept her causes her to react violently, she leaves to attempt to kill Zephyr to regain Drasek's love, when the attempt fails she returns to be confronted by them, and in anger she critically injures Aya.
Cheryl's team lands to confront Raquel and her family, the three Weapons move in to combat the team while Raquel attempts to convert the child Lilith. Lilith and Drake run away as the struggle ensues, but all three Weapons are destroyed in the struggle, while Lemon and Cheryl are injured badly and Key loses one of her legs to a ripple. Chii is treated for her wounds as well as Peter, Cole and John take off after Raquel, hoping to stop her before she can harm the children. THey catch up to the kids, only to find Raquel waiting for them. The three are quickly given a pounding as they attempt to overcome a Raquel with full access to her abilities. A solider arrives with the first freezing gun made to restrain the undead heroes, however Raquel kills the red shirt and takes the gun, turning it on Cole.
Meanwhile John takes his shuttle into a mountain base filled with soldiers. Jennifer and Athena are escorted by him off the shuttle as Jennifer notices something startling, her baby kicks, only a few days since conception and already matured to 3 months inside her. Her panic is quickly quelled however, as John exhibits his skill at making her calm with only a few words. Athena however, still seems quite worried.
Cole and Peter manage to prevent Raquel from turning Cole into a popsicle, however, Lilith attempts to intervene and scolds Raquel childishly. The undead Raquel quickly grabs up Lilith, intending to convert her, critically injuring the two year old Drake as he tries to stop her. Peter starts his attempts to talk her down from the horrible act when Cole fires the freezing gun at Raquel and her hostage, freezing them both. They manage to extract the child while finishing the freeze job on Raquel. Cheryl rejoins them and gathers her team, just as she's about to head back, they get a call from Darien hinting at a disturbance at the Arakawa residence.
Cassandra and Setsuna chase down Elwyn and Billy in an attempt to convert them, when they are interrupted by a blast from Icehearts ship. More people from PAX are aboard, mainly Iceheart, Loki, Theron, and Freyja. They are forced to abandon ship as a blast from a rail gun takes them down, and on the ground they attempt to rescue the two girls, when they find themselves suddenly under fire from a highly accurate man carrying a rifle.
Chad and his group attempt to hunt down and destroy Fiore, before rushing a fading Aya to a hospital. Dawn helps the disoriented pair of Megumi and Zephyr, now able to form a Dragoon Mech, as they quickly fly Aya to safety. The injured are quickly bedded and Zephyr is rushed into surgery, having reopened her wounds from the previous disaster and gained quite a few more.
The man reveals himself as he calls for Cassandra and Setsuna to retreat, Warren Carmichael, back from the dead, makes his way out. As he does, Xanatos and the Future Erevis arrive in a car. Warren fires at them and attaches an explosive to their care to keep pursuit busy. Xanatos and Future Erevis barely escape the car bomb as the Elite team's shuttle comes in to pick everyone up, a massive explosion rips out in the distance, and the entire world seems to come apart under them. The united group escape by the skin of their teeth, heading back for the hospital to pick up the injured. Xanatos and Megumi confront one another as Xanatos is shocked to learn in his absence, his double has kidnapped Erevis.
Katrina having gotten seperated from the others on Iceheart's ship during the crash, finds herself alone, moving through the streets as Marcus meets up with her. Overjoyed to seem him alive, she embraces him and exclaims her happiness, only to find Dias is still with him, and Marcus is ready to convert his wife, changed now into an undead as well. In grief, Katrina attempts to destroy the two, causing an explosion. Cheryl's group spots it and at Chii's urgings, they move to investigate. Katrina overcomes Dias in her rage and kills him, destroying his head and everything in it with a shotgun. The team arrives to find Katrina over the body, Marcus, as a werewolf once more, runs away.
An exhausted Cheryl brings her team and everyone else back to Mega City in order to recover. Kane and Darien try to piece together what's happening and find the force behind it all, assuming Warren Carmichael to be in command of this new, dark force.
The Book of Revelations, Day IV: Dead Inside
Location: Outside the Orphanage
John, Dias, Cole, Null and Anyata arrive at the orphange in search of Michiru... and the Alt Team. The team approaches and begins to trace the steps, or holes in the stairs, that the other team left for them to find. Cleverly choosing the door opposite the one blocked with suspiciously innocent toys, they discover a room which quickly becomes a pit of death. While this is occuring the slinky of doom attacks the team and is defeated by Null, who doesn't have time for such nonsense. Cole is volunteered by John to valiantly act as a bridge for Anyata to cross to get over the spikes to find a skeleton key within a skull, further implicating the degrees of Ghoul's sense of humor. Cole and Anyata narrowly escape being cooked as Cole teleports them back to the team. Ire joins them and they move on in search of the others.
The Alt Team awakens in a room of impossibilities. Apparently on the ceiling of a hallway, they find a game of hopscotch awaiting them above and the singing of Ghoul forward. After attempting to play Ghoul's games for a short time, Pope loses his patience and shoots the hoscotch game, triggering the deadly spike traps which might have hurt the team. The team proceeds against the growing screams of Michiru, driven on to save her as Elayne begins to complain about losing feeling in her hand. The team procceeds down another twisted path, reality seems completely distorted as they stalk Ghoul.
John's team continues to trace the steps of their comrades, finding a normal hallway where someone seemed to take out their anger on a game of hopscotch. Joining up with Gravedigger who was seperated from the Alt Team as well, they continue on down a hallway towards a locked door. The key Anyata retrieved opens the door to reveal the Alt Team, standing around in a trance, Elayne strapped to a chair having her fingers slowly cut off one by one.
The Alt team discovers a group of Ghouls in their hysteria and begin to fight them off, up until John does his super secret signature move to alert Chad. The team realizes who they are fighting and slowly snap out of it, Elayne is rescued and escorted out as the team regroups and proceeds on to Ghoul, who seems to have been foiled. Opening the final door they find to their horror, the corpse of Michiru. Some members of the team attempt to persue Ghoul, however he is long gone.
On hunter station, the remaining members of the Hunters, along with Wind, Katrina and Megumi all discuss what's occuring when the book gives a new prediction, it will be stolen. In a flash the book is gone and 15 minutes have passd.
In the Prime Reality, the united group meets in the executive building to try and piece things together. The recovering members recognize one of the nurses attending them as Shiva, who has been long dead just as things go from bad to worse. The building loses power and the defenses activate, trapping some team members while keeping a horde of zombies outside at by. Kane works his hacker magic to take control back to the building, while in the lab Darien and Cheryl watch Raquel slowly thaw from her ice trap. The recovering team members take down Shiva and get her frozen while Kane begins to direct people back together and get the defense guns online outside.
When calm begins to be restored, Cheryl guides Raquel to see Tomoe in exchange for giving up the location of the undead base. Peter follows them and readies to freeze Raquel while she has a moment reunited with her log lost friend. After giving up the location, the team gets ready to move out. Peter freezes Raquel back up and the team heads out to find their remaining members before tackling a mountain of horrors.
Chad meanwhile arrives at one of Eve's places to find her alive and well. After discussing the past things seem to go sour quickly, until Chad attacks her during a tender moment. Her ruse destroyed, the undead Eve attempts to talk Chad down from killing her and rescuing the real Eve. Chad doesn't have mercy for zombies.
Erevis continues to keep a crazed Xanatos at bay with kind words and playing along with his psyche as the team arrives. An intense struggle occurs as the undead Xanatos is not about to give up the love of his life easily. After a fight which leaves several team members injured, Xevil appears to swoop in and take his prizes, Ariel and Erevis.
All accounted for members of the team arrive on the Battleship Alexander, which has been brought in for the assault. As everyone arrives and gets ready, they discuss their plan of attack. Erevis, Ariel, Jennifer, Athena and Isis are all still held hostage and their rescue is priority on the minds of many.
Xevil meanwhile begins to enjoy his time with Ariel and Erevis, torturing Ariel in order to get information out of Erevis. As Erevis refuses to give in, Xevil begins to carve up Ariel like a turkey. Xevil continues as he stabs out one of Ariel's eyes.
Cheryl and Zephyr begin to detect what's happening to Ariel through the Alpha Protocol. Knowledge of torture only hastens people to launch. Xevil meanwhile continues his torture and brings out a new and special friend to continue to make Ariel's life hell. Angela steps out, undead and loving it, her clothing that of a dominatrix as Xevil sics her on Ariel.
The shuttles make their way into the mountain, Darien having taken one out himself to go rescue his woman. The team disembarks to find absolutely no resistance awaiting them. Sensing something is wrong, they proceed warily. Meanwhile Slasher hails the Alexander and after a discussion with Kane reveals some terrible things, the mission is a trap, the mountain the team is assaulting does not in fact hold all of the hostages, it's a bomb waiting to go off.
The Book of Revelations, Day V: How A Heart Dies
Location: Mega City
Slasher valiantly makes his way through the streets of Mega City, naked and proud. Meanwhile Kane calls for volunteers to head into the second mountain stronghold, as well as for someone to go into the trapped mountain and retrieve the team, as communications to them have been blocked. While the rest of the heroes find that there is indeed resistance set against them. Split into two teams they fight their way through a horde of zombies, led by Cassandra, taking Cassandra down as they go. The two meet up to approach Xevil, only to find Angela molesting Ariel, scarring her for life. Xevil is gone.
The team battles with Angela, who puts up quite a resistance. However she is overwhelmed by numbers and finally executed at the hands of Ariel. As they recover, Erevis reveals that Xevil still intends to do something terrible to Athena and Isis, and says it'll be the same thing he did to Jennifer. They find a datapad which shows Jennifer in a heavily pregnant state. The team vows horrible, painful things to be done to Xevil while Megumi feels out for her daughter, discovering that she is indeed elsewhere.
Elsewhere, other members of the team continue to fight through zombies, coming up top face the undead Shiva once more. Billy valiantly holds Shiva while the team freezes Shiva up, recovering the body they meet up with the others, as Paladin arrives to let them know the base is a trap.
Iceheart, Lemon, Loki, Theron, Dawn, Kellin and Freyja depart for the other base, as they move in, a naked man flying another shuttle helps them get through, the shuttle crashes with Slasher's right behind it. Meanwhile the other team makes their escape. Key and John move down towards the control room to open the shields keeping everyone inside while the rest get the shuttles prepped to go. As soon as the sheilds are open, the shuttles fly out, Key teleporting herself and John into them in the nick of time.
Lemon's team infiltrates the second base, getting past a series of gun turrets and a trapped door, they discover a horrific scene on the other side. Jennifer is forced into a birthing, a child literally ripped out of her, the child appears black skinned, red eyed and evil. The doctor delivering is shot and Jennifer recovered, she reveals that Athena is somewhere in the base and she suspects about to be put through the same hell she was just placed into. Enraged, the team readies to move after Athena when Xevil shows, claiming the child, he mocks the group and makes his way out, gassing the team into unconciousness.
The other team arrives at the base to be greeted by Xevil, gloating about his plans to them over a monitor. He reveals that the undead have discovered they can reproduce through living humans, using Jennifer as their test subject. He continues to rant that these children will be bred as an unstoppable army, mocking them to try and continue. They take the dare, moving on to find the males of Lemon's team and Jennifer all rousing from their unconciousness, the other girls gone, presumably to be used. Taking a short moment to recover the others and bring everyone up to speed. Jennifer also warns the group to be careful, as Scar is back from the dead and using his shapeshifting abilities. They rush on to find Xevil, who they find on a throne, Jennifer's child in his lap.
Xevil, holding the child allows the team to absorb the shock as they find Athena and Isis bopund, but too much time, as they rush to stop the others from being bound as well. Xevil holds the baby hostage, but is quickly foiled due to Erevis' untold rage, she and Xanatos attack, the rest of the team battles the horde of undead as Xevil is taken on. Soon a mech joins the fight, adding further chaos and confusion, as the smoke clear, the mech is destroyed and Xevil killed. The mech's explosion ignights the tanks behind it, starting a chain reaction. The team bares the injured out and runs for it.
As the team makes their way back, one final threat exposes itself at Kane. Warren Carmichael with Scar at his side assault the bridge of the Alexander and take Kane hostage. Scar leaves to cause havoc while Warren forces Kane to bring the team in and not reveal the danger. The team gets the injured to medical just as they are alerted to the situation. Darien and a few others race to the bridge while the injured figure out that Scar is posing as one of the nurses in a highly unoriginal fashion. They take him down and Warren is taken down, Kane saved, the ship secured.
Stardate: 10-591.5.14
John leads a strike team back down to Mega City to fight off the remaining zombies while a cure is discussed. Jennifer's baby is killed and harvested, used to create an anti-zombie agent which is spread into the air, and the rest is used to make cures for three of the zombified comrades. Raquel, Dias, and Marcus are chosen to be returned to normal, however Dias will take quite a long time to fully heal and be restored, due to Katrina smashing his brains out. The team reflects on what's happened and reamins aboard the Alexander to heal their wounds.
The Book of Revelations, Day VI: Rest in Peace
Location: PAX
The team has to readjust to life in the aftermath of the attack by their dead loved ones, friends, and enemies. While Jennifer struggles to come to terms with her losses, having only Lemon and Athena for support, she must come to terms most people wish nothing to do with her. And Slasher, stuck in their reality until Wind retrieves him, uses the time to get to know everyone there.
Meanwhile, those still on Earth, have to readjust to the fact that despite Raquel being back, and Dias possiblely on the way, that nothing will ever be the same again for them. Cheryl's OCD seems to be growing worse, and everyone seems to be either depressed or skiddish in the aftermath.
Stardate: 10-591.5.17
Wind finally returns to the Executive Building and informs Kane and Darien about the Book of Revelations, and how it is likely someone either from their reality, or the Alternate one, has taken it. Warning them that the book can show events to come and it will be a powerful tool in the wrong hands, Wind takes Slasher back with him to their own reailty, leaving the two politicians to ponder what this might mean for the future.
With Wind leaving, this begins Session 1: At Least It's Not Cardiff in Classic Reality and Session 1: Crisis on Famfrit! in Alternate Reality.
Stardate: 10-591.5.24
Finally managing to piece together Dias' brain, Caduceus informs President Kane and General Cheryl that Dias will never be the same again. He's suffered extensive brain damage, has a stutter, and severe memory loss, including some short term memory problems. It'll take months of treatment and therapy to get Dias close to anything resembling normal. Despite all this, Cheryl decides to make Dias part of the team again, much to Chii's shock and horror. Only time will tell if this will be a mistake or not.
Location: Mansion Base
As Dias readjusts to life on the base, things seem to be back to normal for the most part: Colephantus is no longer emo, Raquel continues her cooking training, Cheryl works too much, and everyone else seems to be fitting back in. The new recruit, Next-Gen Dragoon Tabetha, tries to fit in as she's brought in to help fill out the team some more. While Zephyr and Marcus help teach Dias out to identify objects, rewarding him with cookies, Lemon brings in 2 year old Tomoe, announcing Cheryl's just offically adopted the child. Despite having killed Tomoe's parents and injuring Drake, Raquel quickly tries to forcefully bond with the little girl by talking to her despite Tomoe's discomfort.
While Tabetha hunts for a suitable candidate for being a pilot, announcing her entire life's purpose is to find one, Chii mocks her as whoreing herself out to find a pilot, which Tabetha agrees is the case. Meanwhile, Marcus teaches Dias a little about girls, what whores mean, and not to call pregnant girls fat if he desires to avoid dying again.
On the PAX, Erevis continues to show signs of illness whenever stressed, especially while two diplomats bicker and accuse each other of spying on the other. Megumi steps in to handle it, then insists on Erevis resting, which leads the two to text Xanatos, using sexual innuendos to try to rile the other; sadly it backfires as Xanatos doesn't catch on and agrees he's strong enough to 'deal with them both', making the women think he plans to have sex with them at the same time.
Meanwhile, after Isis oversleeps again, Chad invades her room and startles the girl awake; despite her attempts to avoid talking about the matter, Chad tells her about how he killed Eve again and, despite her still trying to get to work without talking, continues to follow her and share his pain with her and ask if she is missing Fi. Awkwardly, Isis states she doesn't know her own feelings yet on the matter, ending the discussion.
Elsewhere, Athena and Drasek prepare for their concert, Billy and Elwyn show the world they're a couple, and Jennifer gets mocked by Carter as she texts her friend Lemon daily. Afterwards, Jennifer messages SPoC, seeing if the woman will talk to her, and after trying to put her off with being too busy, SPoC proceeds to ignore the messages from Jennifer.
Back on Earth, Cheryl goes to take Lemon, Chii, and Tomoe to the PAX, having gotten tickets from Zephyr to attend Athena's concert, and everyone else piles on to get a free ride up there. On the PAX, the team scrambles to find tickets and attends the show, with Athena giving Tomoe and Dias autographs before the concert. After a popular concert, and Aurora's idol candidate posters ignored completely, the team has a little party in the back with the two teams interacting. During all this, Darien and Kane arrive to speak to Billy after the third lead into Tucker's group has died, hoping to use her as bait for the zombie Setsuna to tell them where X is at. Elwyn verbally abuses the two, and tells them to leave - that Billy won't be bait; afterwards breaking half of Marcus' bottle after flinging one, despite Billy declining the request.
Session 8: New Universal Order
Location: Executive Building
Darien and Kane attempt to find out if Eve is still their leak, but their GPS they slipped into her food ends up in the sewage treatment plant. Either Eve has outsmarted them, or she has an eating disorder.
On the PAX, Caduceus, Carter, and Jennifer examine the pregnant Erevis, with Caduceus using her as a teaching case. After asking some obvious questions, Caduceus tells Megumi and Erevis that Erevis will need to remain on bed rest for the remainder of the pregnancy, believing the poison she had earlier in the year is the source of her wonky blood pressure levels and fatigue whenever she gets stressed. Though he does prescribe lots of sex and massages for her. Jennifer, not believing bed rest is the right path to go, attempts to argue with Caduceus in front of the patients, which earns her negative points in her competition with Carter. Adopting an annoyed face and pushing the issue, Caduceus knocks her down more points, informing her she'll never become a doctor on the PAX now.
Athena spies on Elwyn and Kellin cuddling in bed, and after taking pictures of them, and cuddling, informs them she's going to see a fan club member who wants to speak with her; the two join her and find the member is none other than Tsivrixsh Ambassador Kyun. He offers her 20,000 credits to perform her next concert on her homeworld, though what appeals to Athena is the idea of making the Tsivrixsh people happy, so she agrees.
Meanwhile, after finding Isis asleep in their bed still, Megumi takes a scanner and ambushes her in the shower, taking a scan; the scans seem to indicate Isis might be pregnant, despite the fact she says she's a virgin still. Taking her naked to the medical bay, much to Isis' dismay, Megumi has Carter and Jennifer check her over. Informing Chad that Isis will be late, Chad accuses the family of not noticing the signs, despite lack of evidence, and shows up at the medical bay against Megumi's wishes, not wanting her daughter to know she was talking to others about her condition. Taking it further ,Chad forces his way into Isis' room to talk to her, much to Isis' dismay and horror, and ignores Carter telling him to leave to continue speaking.
Carter gets Caduceus, who examines Isis with him - they discover she is indeed a virgin, but it seems to be a case of real pregnancy, despite Chad's belief that Isis' body is faking the pregnancy because she misses Fi. Annoyed with Chad, Caduceus announces outloud his belief that Fi raped Isis before he died; which freaks out poor Isis even more.
On Earth, Cheryl's team is at a Convention, on John's tickets, where they've all dressed up to have some fun and relax. While Lemon makes Cheryl pose for pictures with her, since they're dressed like twin ninjas, Dias gets Ariel to buy him a rare comic, and John and Key perform in a play that Raquel interrupts, annoying John after he tries to romance Key with a kiss and gets hit by Raquel. Cole and Blue talk about work while they explore the convention, and Lemon tries to get a pony for Tomoe.
This all comes to an end when a robot shows up and attacks Cheryl with all of X's powers. The team manages to protect Cheryl from the first volley, and then they work together to try to disable the robot. In the end, Chii's water attacks and Cole's lightning attacks manages to get the robot to self-destruct. This leads Cheryl to believe that those who took X are attempting to adapt her powers to a new deadly weapon and that she'll be expendable afterwards. Lemon tries to access the robot's head, but the damaged data injures her, so the team pulls back to the base to rethink and strategize. While Peter deals with the team's new pet, the pony, Kane and the others fuss over Lemon in bed. Time is clearly running out.
Back on PAX, Drasek's new store opens finally, and those close to him celebrate by having a party in it; Erevis buys Megumi lingere, which Ao mocks, Zephyr stands by her man while people congratulate him, and Athena gets ready for a day of signing autographs for the store. During this, Dawn debates opening his own cafe, and Katrina gets three birthday wishes from Marcus to spend on whatever she wants. The question is - what will she wish for?
Location: Executive Building Labs
The Elite Unit find themselves attacked late into the night, Lemon and Cheryl are assaulted by Weaponbots and after the initial struggle, Lemon is taken while Cheryl is barely saved. The team arriving from their roused slumbers aid as they can before Cheryl orders them to immediately move out, tracing Chii's comm, which she tossed through one of the ripples. Cheryl and the team race towards the location only to find an empty clearing, however, nearing the location Cheryl gets a fix on Lemon with her own tracking and speeds after her. In a daring attempt to keep up, Cheryl and Cole teleport about to track them down while Peter takes the wheel of the car they were using to follow.
Arriving at a shuttle yard, Lemon is whisked away but not before Cole uses Cypher to track the shuttle. Borrowing a shuttle the team, along with President Kane, not about to leave his woman, head out after them in a procured shuttle.
Meanwhile the PAX heads into Tsivrixsh space to deliver Athena in time for her first planet side concert. The Zhenmei clan along with some friends go down planetside while key personel stay behind, planning to head along after to listen to Athena sing. However when they arrive, Erevis suddenly breaks water and starts to bleed, however she isn't feeling contractions. In worry Xanatos and Erevis head back for the PAX because Erevis refuses to be treated in a Tsiv hospital.
As they head back Iceheart appears in her ship and begins to attack the Tsiv homeworld using previously unknown levels of technology. The Rogue Cartel begins an attempt at freezing the Tsiv homeworld with a missle using her own lifeblood. While the Tsivrixsh and the PAX attempt to hold Iceheart at bay, Erevis is brought aboard. The child, having shifted in the womb is causing Erevis to go critical and after a desperate surgery, Jennifer delivers the baby and saves Erevis. Iceheart escapes before she can be brought in, stealing away Elwyn, who had taken a shuttle up to attempt to talk to her mothers.
Meanwhile back on Earth, the team arrives at an enemy base, having tracked Lemon to the location and assaults the front. After a failed stealth attempt they alert the guards and have to fight all out to stop General Teer from getting away. Battling a small legion of soldiers, three Weaponbots and Teer himself, the team rescues not only Lemon, but a very pregnant X as well.
The struggle leaves several injured and Teer dead from a sniper shot from Peter. The group begins to lick their wounds, assuming all is over, however, they don't realize that one final threat looms towards them.
Location: Mansion Base
A scene from long ago, when a Kitsune mother is found out during the early manifestation of her daughters powers. An enraged father finding his love and his child are demonspawn commits murder in a righteous fury. The daughter avenges her mother, she spills the blood of a callous man. She vanishes into history, no one ever knowing her grandparents spirted her away. This is Freyja.
A picture of the past, a girl who witnesses the Ridariums attacking her home, her family, her friends. Giant monsters of stone assault the fabric of her life, tearing down all she knows. This little girl stares in horror as the Ridarium War claims her life, not in death, but in the figurative death of all she knows, like so many others. This girl becomes a woman, she encases her own heart in a protective shell to keep out the pain of loss again. This is Iceheart.
She was injected with serum. All performance tests show that she has become the superhuman, but too little too late, according to her doctors. They need more data, they need to give her a much larger dose. They do, and they unlock her rage when she discovers that not only did the Ridariums tear down her life, but the Tsivrixsh helped them. She runs, she takes the one person she loves with her as she heads out for vengance. She freezes the Ridarium homeworld, but that's not enough. Tapping into the innermost feelings of her lover, she
Drasek, Zephyr and Kellin attempt to figure out what's going on when the Tsiv bar them from seeing Athena. Zephyr exhibits her fears on having Athena alone with a people who have proven recreational at best with things such as rape, torture and flat out murder. Attempting to talk the man down and let them through, they find the Tsiv have become unusually stubborn and Kellin, in an act of passion, challenges the Tsiv general's bravery.
Jonathan Marcus Jones is named by his parents, Marcus and Katrina, while Jennifer does her very best to try and keep Erevis placated while Xanatos deals with the new situation. Holding the PAX responsible for the attack, the Tsivrixsh have decided to keep the remaining members of it's crew who were planetside in custody until matters are settled. Xanatos and Megumi attempt to talk reason with the Tsivrixsh and their true greivance is voiced. They hold the Cartel, a member of the PAX delegation responsible and they want answers and information on Iceheart.
While Jennifer continues to try and keep her recovering patient in bed, Xanatos and Megumi conflict each other on going down to the planet to check on the others and putting themselves at risk. Eventually it comes down to the line of Erevis forcibly placing herself in the line of negotiations with the Tsivrixsh and having Loki give the Tsiv what they want. The matter is settled when Loki hands over the information on Iceheart that he 'has available' as well as information on the technology that was used. As part of the final agreement, the Tsiv assign a task force of their soldiers to go after Iceheart with the PAX. The PAX is given a new mission of persuing her. The grounded PAX members are allowed to return, and they are relieved to find Athena has not only been treated well, but has become a Pop Goddess to the Tsiv as a people.
Meanwhile on Earth the team celebrates their recent victory with a giant feast, where the Unit, Caduceus, Darien, Antisocial and Kane all enjoy a few laughs together. Dias and X reunited start to catch up while Peter deals with the growing zoo that is the mansion's housepets. All seems just fine until alarms ring, a warning goes out that Iceheart and Freyja are headed their way, and it quickly becomes apparent that they are after Chii. Before the team can decide on how to hide Chii or deal with the problem it is upon them. Attacked by illusions and even the stab of ice, the team struggles to hold sanity together and break free. Antisocial is stabbed into a wall and Chii begins to counter the illusions she herself is immune to.
Billy meanwhile has conducted an evil ritual in which to extend her powers far across the stars to help block Elwyn's mind from Icehearts influence. The draining ritual using her own blood sends a shock into those who see it. While Carter and Jennifer struggle to keep up with the number of people going into (and without their permission) out of medbay, a strike team of PAX's own residence gets ready to intercept Iceheart and Freyja.
Arriving on Earth the Unit and PAX are reunited again. Cheryl breaks several of the others out of the illusion with some slaps from her whip and the team answers Freyja and Iceheart in kind. As the PAX team enters the the two attackers fall, everything seems calm for a moment. Just then Eve and Blue go berserk, stabbing into Chii's stomach and unborn child as well as the back of Cheryl's skull. The two fallen, the team takes down the brainwashed assassins. Caduceus and Jennifer attempt to keep the two fallen alive, Caduceus using his power to save the baby's life while Jennifer gets Cheryl prepped for critical transport.
Once again tricked by a calm before a storm, Dawn gets a vision of a bomb going off and killing them all. After a few confused moments the bomb is iscovered to be in Eve and her eye is removed to ripple the attached bomb away. Patching up Eve, the whole group heads back to the PAX to treat the fallen.
A second child is born, a day after the Jones child and Lorelai is given her name. Caduceus lays resting, having overused his power to give Cheryl a fighting chance before putting her under the PAX's advanced medical equipment to treat a wound that would have been fatal, even to the seasoned Dragoon. Calm finally settles over the team and only time will tell if those damaged from these encounters will heal fully. Eve is started down the path of deconditioning and the Tsiv keep an injured Iceheart in custody.
Session 11: Moments in Transitions
Location: Medical Bay
After examining the two new babies, Caduceus gives them a clean bill of health. Eve and Blue are announced to be free of their conditioning and woken up, what really comes to question is the fate of Iceheart. Darien and Kane decide to offer the two their positions back. Eve upon waking decides to retire, but seems curbed after an inspiring word or two from Kane. She however decides to take time off to collect her wits.
10-591.8.30
Cheryl promotes Cole to the position of Field Commander, putting him in charge of most missions, as she wants to take some time to sit back and enjoy her growing family. Tabetha takes notes on child rearing while observing Lemon and the babies taking a bath. John and Dias have a heartfelt conversation about listening to your heart and mind, Cole goes to call his very first meeting as the field commander.
Iceheart's fate must be decided. Mostly recovered, the Tsivrixsh feel she is more then capable of going with them to be put on trial for her crimes. While Erevis and Loki attempt to find a solution for Iceheart's sake, the rest of the ship goes about it's business. Eve and Chad have started to spend time together, Eve taking her time off in his home. Young Zephyr attempts a repeated interruption of thier time and her presence with them becomes a topic of discussion. Athena poses for a photoshoot, whoever causes the photographer a lot of grief due to her inability to ignore the many fans that stop by to praise her.
Caduceus calls Jennifer and Carter in for a consult as he brings in Isis, pushing her to get an abortion. Caduceus rushes to get the work started while Carter helps to prepare. Jennifer noticing the lack of willingness on Isis' part speaks up for her, only to get sent back to get her consent. Caduceus reveals that her child is rapidly developing and mutating, and has become a danger to the girl. Jennifer talks Isis into it with Carter's help and gets the consent, the surgery begins. At this same time Elwyn and Kyun begin to debate over Iceheart's fate, Erevis playing Elwyn as a card due to her relationship as Iceheart's daughter.
At the 11th hour, with Kyun still unconvinced, good news arrives for Loki. Odin is dying of a heart attack and his position has swiftly been removed. However before this information can be used, Iceheart is released, Erevis and Xanatos appear to have made an offer that Kyun just couldn't refuse.
Cole holds his first meeting with the team as their leader out of the field. While jokes are passed around and jabs are made, the point of the team's acceptance of Cole's new job become very clear. Key meanwhile states her intention to bond with Tabetha, and the two attempt but are met only with failure. Only further pushed on to try harder, the two begin what will be a very long period of making out and discarding clothes in the name or progress. No one in the meeting objects to watching.
10-591.9.25
A month has passed and PAX continues to carry on. Caduceus names Carter the new head of Medical and dismisses Jennifer from service. Jennifer walks off in an expected melancholy while Carter is handed the keys to the kingdom. Kellin and Zephyr share some bonding time in the Zhenmei pond while Erevis makes plain her distancing of herself from her family, in a bout of depression. While Athena gives Jennifer a pep talk in her room. Carter reveals his reluctance in the position he's been given, hoping it won't be a drag for a life. Marcus and Katrina look over their child and talk about his future.
Meanwhile deep in the jungle Cole leads his valiant team against an army of robotic monkeys and soldiers. While Peter and Dias deal with assailants, Dias taking one in the rear for the squad, Cole takes charge. Tabetha and Peter whittle down the enemy with ranged attacks before the heavy hitters move in to clean up. The team gathers the inormation they need and move out. A job well done for Field Commander Cole.
That night on the PAX a party is held to celebrate Carter's promotion in the bar. Many people show up, including Jennifer, who holds out her hand in peace over the competition. Aya talks wedding plans with Dawn while various people, especially Athena and Isis, all congradulate Carter on a job well done. Megumi and Xanatos work together to bring Erevis out of her sadness. Jennifer seems to break free from her melancholy after speaking with Carter and helps Athena to attack and subdue Kellin, whom the make take them on a date. Carter and Isis have a pleasent conversation where things seem to be sparking up a little between them.
Stardate: 10-591.10.1
Jennifer wakes to the tune of a job offer from Cheryl's team, a chance to work with them again as the Team Doctor, and for a pretty heafty paycheck. She seeks out Athena, speaking to her as though she's seriously considering taking the job, Athena attempts to be nice about it, while poorly hiding her own dislike of the idea of the two of them seperating. Dawn starts up his new cafe while Xanatos cooks breakfast for the Zhenmei clan. Zephyr and Drasek attempt to solve a mystery as their room seems to have an intruder, discovering the fiend Kellin. After grilling him, they come dangerously close to the truth that Kellin painstakingly tries to hide from them about his past.
Chad and Eve get even closer, Chad giving Eve some work in Engineering to keep her busy. Xanatos and Megumi have a small confrontation which ends in affection as Zephyr and Drasek sit down for a meal. Jennier meanwhile meets with Carter to ask for a job, when Carter offers her the position for the same pay that she had when she was a student, she takes it without much of a second thought, to Carter's surprise. He asks her about how much she's losing and she admits to just how much she's giving up, impressed with her determination, Carter mentions possibly paying her more.
Dawn attempts to get Aya to model in a cute uniform while Zephyr pushes for attention from her man. Xanatos eats with them after giving Erevis a message from Megumi. Jennifer meets up with Athena to give her the good news and confesses to Athena that she's decided that her adopted sister is worth more to her then money or a position. Megumi reaps the benefits of her ruse, having used the message to get Erevis to come back to their room. She ambushses her wife and proceeds to make her a happy woman.
Overall, peace has begun to settle on the PAX.
Location: Tsivrixsh Homeworld
Athena holds another concert on the Tsivrixsh homeworld. Already considered a Diva among their people she's a screaming success. As a surprise for her audience she includes the talents of Erevis, Megumi, Jennifer and Chad in her performance. Afterwards Athena joins the crew for the after party, where cheerful matters are discussed and the power of the evil bell is shown in it's true light.
Stardate: 10-591.11.2
The PAX is back in the Earth System to hold a Halloween party, friends from Earth join the crew of the PAX in costume. Pirates, fluffy animals, team impersonators, opposites and Presidents alike gather together to have some fun together. John makes his dramatic return and pulls key aside for his own nefarious purposes. Key admits to John that since she had a successful test at bonding with the Young Zephyr, she's stopped trying to become bond partners with the new Dragoon. During the party an alien unknown to the others shows up and confronts Megumi, asking her if she is a Famfrit. His news is that he's seen a colony of Megumi's native people, travelling on a ship. The crew of PAX decides to look into this, to help Megumi and Noname discover if they are not, indeed, the last of their people.
Stardate: 10-591.11.10
Caduceus spends some of his vacation time delivering the child of X and Dias. Dias is thrilled to have a son, whom he decides to keep, X on the other hand does not even want to see the child, she expresses this to Tsukiyomi in a private conversation. The rest of the team meets the child, yet another addition to the rugrats of the base. Tabetha takes a deep interest in Dias' new child, finding it cute despite the others finding it's appearance quiestionable. Kane and Darien find a problem with Dias' desire to keep the child and call him in for a meeting.
Kane and Darien talk over the issue with Dias, due to his condition he's not fit to raise a child and with X refusing to act as a mother, Dias needs to find a guardian to help him raise the boy. While they discuss options, Young Zephyr tests her abilities on the firing range, finding she tires very easily. Tomoe and X do battle while Zephyr claims she just needs practice to get better at shooting again. She heads off for the showers and Cypher tries to follow, looking to his good buddy Tabetha for help. Cole tries to stop them and Tabetha ends up discovering Cypher's side projects filming the girls, instead of being offended, she takes interest in seeing the footage for herself. X and Tomoe end their battle as X finds a connection with Tomoe, discovering she is like the old Lilith. Dias agrees to find a guardian, asking Lemon and Cole first to take the responsibility.
Just as things seem settled, a news report plays, showing the terrible affair President Kane is having with an alledged sexbot named Lemon! Darien and Kane discuss strategy.
Stardate: 10-591.11.12
The PAX moves deeper and deeper into uncharted space in search of the Famfrit colony ship, picking up more and more leads from little known races that they have indeed been seen. Isis visits medical to have a talk with Levi. Drasek's store is attacked by some homophobic brats and Leyaeh investigates, arresting a kid who ends up giving himself away.
Stardate: 10-591.11.24
Everyone gathers on the PAX, back in Earth's orbit once again for a Thanksgiving Feast, Erevis attempts to figure out what to do when it's concluded that searching for the Famfrits will take an extended amount of time. With the ship currently occupied with so many ambassadors, going into deep space to find them is out of the question with CHIP. After a troublesome conversation between Erevis, Megumi and Xanatos, it becomes clear Megumi will go out on her own to find her people. Erevis decides to let her do as she wishes, ordering the construction of a ship to head out into deep space. A holiday becomes filled with worried tones as people begin to consider whether or not they will help Megumi or stay behind.
Stardate: 10-591.11.30
The ship is under construction and it's crew is assembling as people begin to make their goodbyes. Megumi, Isis, Zephyr, Drasek and Noname prepare to depart, while Iceheart and Freyja ready their own ship to follow the intrepid crew. Jennifer and Kellin spend time with Athena to try and comfort her that she cannot go with Megumi and Isis. Erevis and Xanatos begin to enjoy a series of four nights together with Megumi as a goodbye to her.
Stardate: 10-591.12.4
Aya and Dawn are married on the Cartel Homeworld, with many members of both crews in attendance. This being the last day before Megumi's crew leaves, there are many heartfelt goodbyes along with the congratulations for the new couple. Isis has a tender goodbye with Carter. That night, Erevis leads Megumi to giving Xanatos a gift, allowing him to be with the both of them in a true form of intimacy.
Stardate: 10-591.12.13
Darien and Kane meet with a representative from Ariel's race who wants freedom for the Next Generation Dragoons. An EarthGOV General sit in on the meeting as well, and a debate fires up. Due to the high cost each of the 100 NGDs the General finds them far too important an asset to simply give away, while the representative pushes that they are a free people. The General uses Cheryl's career and Tabetha's participation in the Elite unit as examples of the Dragoons being treated fairly. In the end Kane decides that they must remain in EarthGOV. Darien remarks that a dark road is about to be found at the end of this decision, no matter how right it is for Earth.
Kane and Darien then speak to Cheryl, her epxected reaction is seen, she is not happy about basic slavery being placed on the heads of the NGDs. After a heated discussion Kane decides to attempt a compromise of allowing the NGDs freedom if they want it, but only after a tour of duty, dealing with the more resistant ones on a case by case basis.
Stardate: 10-591.12.25
In the weeks following, as news leaks out thanks to Ariel's people trying to rally public opinion against Kane to get the NGDs free, a surprising turn has come about. Almost everyone agrees with Kane's decision, with even the majority thinking they should serve their ten years due to the taxpayer's money. However Ariel's people have begun to sow dissent among the citizenry and even managed to reach some of the NGDs, convincing them of a better way of life.
The Elite Team meanwhile spends Christmas together. Gifts are given out and Lemon still shows affection for Kane despite the upset. Key gives special gifts to Young Zephyr and Tabetha, Tabetha recieving a very interesting kiss after being asked if it was alright for Key to persue another Dragoon instead of her. John gives Cole his present, having had the bike Cole was working on repaired, Cole finds to his delight it travels at ludicrous speeds, causing police reports.
Christmas is also celebrated on the PAX, the Zhenmei house residents celebrating together, those of whom remained on the PAX. As they exchange presents and play in the show provided by CHIP, the Winters Beach plays host to some celebration as well. Billy intercepts Elwyn for some holiday loving and more presents are exchanged all around. A calm holiday, but there are those who are missed.
Stardate: 10-592.1.16
Three Next Generation Dragoons have been reported dead, killed for attacking bases attempting to seek their own freedom. Ariel's people, the Guardians, threaten to leave EarthGOV. Darien and Kane both agree, something bad is about to happen.
Minis during while Tareh was RPed covered the time period of late December up to 10-592.1.16. Some Spotlight sessions were made (See Phase 1.1 and 1.2). Even though the minis might refer to the spotlight sessions (I'll make note of them in the minis themselves if I observe them), I'll keep them seperate and be dumping all minis into one big log below. The Kitty Voyager minis introduce the character of Imugem, who is a somewhat importanct NPC going forwand in TAW5 and TAW6.