Act 1: Choices
Phase 0: Transitions
Phase 1: Choices- 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
- Session 251: Stigmata
- Session 252: Same Ol' Same Ol'
- Session 253: OCD
- Session 254: Steeled Resolve
- Session 255: Mining for Answers
- Session 256: Nue More
- Session 257: Back to the Future
- Session 258: The Wedding
- Session 259: The Search for the Angel Part I
- Alt Session 63: The Search for the Angel Part II
- Session 260: The Search for the Angel Part III
- Session 261: Class Act Part 1: Broken Wings
- Class Session 50: Class Act Part 2: Fall from Grace
- Session 262: The Alliance Part One
- Session 263: The Alliance Part Two
- Alt Session 64: The Alliance Part Three
- Session 264: The Path That Led To Our Destruction
- Session 265: What Were Our Final Days
- Session 266: What Followed Doomsday
- Session 267: Where Do We Go From Here?
Phase 10: Godwar
Phase 11: Others
Act 2: Consequences
Mini Series: Heart of Terra
Location: Mansion Base
Hale and Emeralda got married in a lovely ceremony and Cheryl plotted to get her baby Tiger. After giving the team a few days off to rest and get their minds clear, Cheryl held a briefing to get the team up to speed. Choosing to focus on Steel instead of the Gods rising, Cheryl sends out teams to watch Steel's suspected operations and groups to try and draw out Steel's units, hoping they want to kidnap one of Cheryl's Dragoons for their Stigmata. Stigmata were discussed in detail and Ariel told the group of the Guardian's lack of of a fix and their desire to study Stigmata as well.
Session 252: Same Ol' Same Ol'
Location: Mansion Base
Research on Steel crawls, while the Order takes possession of the European Teleporter Union. Peter leads a team in to defuse the situation, taking only a few Dragoon volunteers, afraid that the entire thing might be a ploy to get a hand on Stigmata. Finding that the Order has a jamming device set up, and are likely going to use the Teleporters to deliver bombs to other teleporters, Peter splits the team in two, one to get ready to take down the bombers and another, led by him, to take out the jamming device.
As Peter, Ash and Josephine work to get the jamming device down, one Josephine recognizes as a VI relic, the other team with Hale, Tabetha, Em, and Curali head through other halls and find someone talking on a comms in an office. Resisting temptation, the group chooses to move on but Curali chooses to stay and try and get information. The others head down and Tabetha uses a remote hack to take the building's security back, trapping half the Order members and disabling thet teleporters. Josephine takes down the jammer and Peter orders the power outage. In the dark, the group takes down more of the Order members, but not before they squeeze off a few rounds into the hostages.
They surrender, mentioning that the cell leader was the real man behind it. Peter and Josephine are led up to the same office Curali was waiting at while Tabetha and Ash difuse one last bomb that the guy activates. They find Curali gone and a note that says "VI" simply on it. Peter reports that the mission is a success and the group returns home to discuss the new problem, Curali is missing, and they're not sure when they should activate her tracker.
Location: Mansion Base
Cheryl, following a lead from Eluere on the fact that Pegasus Colony was not targetting by the Order and cost funding appearing to match the funds needed for the equipment at the terrorist site, heads there with her team. Upon arriving they find the soldiers to be suspicious, and going to the neighborhood where years ago, so many died when Cheryl followed the orders of her pilot to take any risk to kill a Ridarium, they find mounting issues. The people have raised a statue to Cheryl, titling her "The Butcher", and upon seeing her, begin to form a mob.
Cheryl goes to leave and they chase, when a mysterious person causes a small explosion to scare them off. Mem and Peter, spotting inciters, give chase, Mem blending into the rushing crowd and Peter stopping to continue the search. Cheryl returns and seems to be collapsing, and Eluere slaps her to try and wake her up, telling her to go home. Cheryl stalks off, stalked in fact, by Tabetha.
Eluere begins to get mouthy about the problem and Peter tells her to shut up and concentrate on the mission, she attempts to punch her superior officer, and after a quick grapple he gives her one more chance, telling her to perform a task or face suspension. She ignores him and does her own thing, and as he and the others inspect the apartment building nearby, Eluere steps into the office building marked, not too subtly, as VI.
The explosion of the office building jerks Cheryl into shock, causing her to collapse, just as soldiers aim guns at her. Tabetha arrives to give them a taste of telekenetic justice, taking bullets long enough for Cheryl to realize what's going on and break the survivors to pieces before rushing back. Peter and the others are ambushed by a guard holding a railgun, and Peter is launched into the street. Mem breaks up the escaping VI agents car and Tabetha and Mem together stop it from killing the returning mob. Eluere, alive, heads into the apartmenrt building while Josephine and Cameron fight their way up.
The group frees Curali but the remaining VI MIB run off, returning home, the results of Curali's capture leaving her critical, many stigmata ripped out. Cheryl announces she is quitting and leaves the unit in Lemon's hands, to pose as her. Peter looks like he takes a blow to his morale and Eluere is suspended off duty for two weeks for her outburst. The group now tries to recover with this change to the team up, VI, for now, seems to be beaten back down, and the group can focus on their biggest problem. General Steel.
Location: Mansion Base
Following a lead on new Dragoons showing up, Lemon takes Peter, Ash, Hale, Em, Kumiko, Josephine and Tabetha on mission to investigate a derelit missle silo in Cuba. Here the group finds a group of Dragoons with strange devices pumping serum into their bodies. When Peter and Josephine shoot off their injectors, the team learns quickly and painfully that such a tactic makes the dragoons fall into a berserker rage. The team takes down the Dragoons, but wind up pinned and trapped. Struggling to get out, they only have a short time to investiage before Ash and Em are able to get the team out, Lemon staying with Kumiko, hoping the worn out Hybrid Dragoon can form a ripple in time to escape.
Cheryl follows a lead of her own, heading out to the rainforest when her sensors set up in the mines alert her to movement inside. The rest of the team flies in and are met by the same kind of new Dragoon. The team soon quickly finds too that shooting the injectors has dangerous results. Struggling to fight them off, they team is aided by Lemon's squad, who come in flying, if somewhat injured and aid in taking down the Dragoons. Unleashing the Dragoon's own explosives on them, the team overcomes them and heads into the mines. In the ruins of the explosion they find the Senator still alive, and enough soldiers to arrest and interrogate for info, a strange, slightly organic green ore and a robotic head.
Ash's head, 300 years older then it should be.
Session 255: Mining For Answers
Location: Mansion Base
Determining that Ash's head really was 300 years old, the group gathers up and dresses 2014 style. After Cheryl visits Erevis to pick up the device and Isis, the group flies out to the mines once again. Here they find a crashed shuttle marked with Cran Industries, 300 years old. Curious as to what could have happened, the group activates the portal and heads through.
In 2014, they find the mine quite active. Due to heavy radiation, they send Ash inside, here he spies on Cran himself with a representative from the Kitsune talking. They mention the girls readied to be taken and that the green substance is the key to eternal life. Ash is discovered and the strange woman known only as Aschae blasts him apart, with Kumiko watching over datapad, devastating the girl.
The group withdraws as the mines go on alert and steal a plane, they use it to head to Tokyo where they observe the kidnapping of Miyuki and Kasha, the event that led them to later be found 300 years later. Heading back to the Kitsune Udon bakery, the group sets up to rest when Miyuki's parents break into the bakery looking for them. The family temporarily reunited, Cheryl decides to split the team up, taking half with her to America to infiltrate Cran Manor, while the rest remain behind to try and prevent the deaths of Miyuki's parents, as well as look into the involvement of the Arakawa Foundation.
Location: Shuttle
Splitting up, Cheryl takes her team of Peter, Vodka, Hale, Em, Narok and Belit over to American soil to check out Mega City. Following a lead about a busty woman and her white haired companion sucking the life blood from people, the team successfully tracks down Seth by dressing Chii up like a hooker. Once Seth recognizes them as friends, he and Rosetta tell the group about how they came to the time period, about Aschae getting seperated and choosing to spend her time alongside Thomas Cran to learn his secrets.
The group then heads out to Cran Manor and meet up with Aschae, who already agrees to go with them and without a fight too. Cheryl uses her reality powers to put the events in motion that allow the twins to be found by her and Lorelei in the future and the group begins heading back, Seth starting to spill some of the beans on who they are and from when, trusting in Cheryl not to eradicate their futures to serve her own.
In Tokyo, the remaining members of the group sneak into the school and manage to find Tess. It turns out, Tess has a clone named Naomi and she is quite willing to help them put a stop to the Arakawa's plan to achieve immortality at the cost of her own life. The group then infiltrates Arakawa manor and set up a sabatoge to stop the machine that should transfer the life of a clone into a host from working, then lie in wait, planning to set things up so history takes the course it does in the history books: A kinder Arakawa woman takes head of the family.
Session 257: Back to the Future
Location: Tokyo
Cheryl's team flew back to Tokyo as Miyu, Isis, Kumiko, Kasha, Josephine and Del snuck into the Arakawa Mansion. Waiting for the event to start, the group watched as Naomi's mouth was bitten into and forced to bleed, then the two were connected to the machine. With Midori somehow empowered and absorbing spirit energy, the group withdrew to watch at a distance until something caused a huge green beam to fire into the sky. The group rushes back to join Isis and Del who stayed behind, to find the machine had exploded, Midori leaving, super empowered, and the twin girls looking out of it.
As guardians surround Naomi to protect her, the group takes Tess with them on the chance it might really be Naomi. Kumiko heals her up and binds her. Later, when the groups unite, they find they indeed have Tess, and her memory has been greatly damaged. Choosing to take her with them, the group rests and waits for that night, when they will face Midori.
The group manages to trick Midori by replacing Miyu and Kasha's parents with dummies at the last second, while Midori is high on power. Job done, the group boards their time machine and heads home. They find 2 months have passed, the machine's return trip faulty. Soon caught up on events, they interview the travellers from the distant future, heading to the PAX, Erevis reads their memories and learns all she needs to know. The visitors are set up as guests and for the time being, as the events of 15 years from that point could wait, Cheryl turns her efforts back to Steel.
Location: Mansion Base
Isis, Miyuki, Kasha and Hi'Saa were married. In a ceremony paid for by Cheryl, things looked grim at first when the team arrived to find nothing there in the abandoned field. However, as Amataseru grinned, foxes and spirits began to appear. Cheryl, in rage and not seeing this, reality-ported all over looking for the thought to be stolen goods while everyone else prepared for the wedding, most members of both the Mizukaze and Zhenmei extended families, as well as many Gitari attended. The ceremony went smoothly, bringing thoughts to many about their futures.
After returning home and settling down, Cheryl gets a ping on her reality radar and uses the new room which she had constructed with the help of others. After returning from it, she reports she thinks she's found the Angel and some of her group to the reality visitors, in the Alternate Reality.
Having to be sparing, Cheryl tells everyone to consider if they want to go, bonded pairs unable to make the trip alone cancelling most of them off the list. The groups take the next few days to prepare and decide who to send on the search for the Angel.
Session 259: The Search For the Angel Part I
Location: Mansion Base
Cheryl takes a brave group of travellers: Chii, Aurica, Lorelei, Jennifer, Amataseru, Iro, Seth and Aschae to the Alternate Reality.
Stardate: 10-589.10.8
Here they appear to only partially startle Warren's base, and soon share their knowledge on what's happening with Warren's team. As Cheryl relates this, a god of some sort ports in, takes Lorelei and Pupumi and ports out. Pressed for time however, and not sure where her daughter was taken, Cheryl leaves with the away team to go investigate London, where the Cult of the Angel is gathering.
Here they meet a flower girl who tells them all about the 20-something woman who heals the sick and protects the helpless, preaching love and equality to all. While the age doesn't fit, Seth seems certain they are otherwise talking about Jean. As they approach the building where the Angel is going to preach, 4 Others appear and begin to attack the building. The people within are protected by Magik, and Seth follows the marks as they begin to fade inside.
Angela brings down a couple of Betas on the Others, smashing them asunder as the group rushes into the collpasing building, finds a hatch and heads below.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group that came with Cheryl uses the secret teleporter on Warren's Base to go to the PAX. Here they meet up with Erevis and begin to get aquainted with her. Jennifer goes to see her girls and some of the others go exploring on the ship while the rest join Erevis for tea.
Down below London, the group runs into Wyrd, getting her to not try and kill them, the group is soon met up with other Marked, Truth, Pupumi and the one eyed cronie. Jean then reveals herself, years older and fully matured. She walks them away from the combat zone and begins to explain to them how it all started for them, five years previously, when they appeared in a mansion and woke up a couple of Azuha girls.
Alt Session 63: Search for the Angel Part II
Location: Cran Manor
Jean explained the circumstances of how she, Truth, Wyrd, and the Nameless Undeveloped NPC found themselves in a lab under Cran Manor and how they escaped with Kasha and Miyuki. After parting ways, or running in terror from Miyuki in ALL OF MY NOPE! mode, the group had several adventures telling how they came across clues that told them time was wrong in the Alternate reality, at least for them. Encountering a much different Cheryl and a much different Chii, the woman known as the Angel came to grips with her role, and the truth that she wasn't Lorelei.
Meanwhile, Darien's group visits the PAX and a team is formed to go recuse Lorelei, The Empress Erevis accepting the need to stay behind, instead her voice, Lisa Cameron, going in her stead along with others, led by Amataseru to rescue the tyke. They step out of the shuttle once landing on Earth and head for the shrine to spank bad foxes.
Jean leads the group with her out onto the surface, hoping to find a live Other to capture and question, her plan all along having been to lure them out to get information on what their plans are, and how they relate to the Gods.
Session 260: The Search For the Angel Part III
Location: London
Jean and those who found her head onto the surface, Warren leading them towards the shuttle while trying to keep incognito. Ethia and Sethia manage to grab some wigs for the blondes and the group makes it to their shuttle, taking off. At the same time, the group that entered the temple manages to revive Inari and ends up restoring Inari's body and soul, then taking her down, leaving only the cloned Inari, a new person to live. In the back yard they find Lore and Pupumi, bringing them back for a heartfelt reunion with their mothers.
Jean briefs the Alt team on what's been happening, and how they cannot reveal the exact way in which to prevent the deaths in 15 years time until they can assure their own timeline is kept safe. Paladin waits until Cheryl gets the future visitors and her own team on the shuttle to leave before discussing his own plans to use Jean's blood to find a way to create their own reality control, trusting no one. Cameron appears completely pissed off at the notion and Ethia as well, but they keep it to themselves and no one warns Cheryl of Paladin's plans before she leaves.
Cheryl takes her group, and those of Erevis' people who came to save Lore back to Erevis' ship, where they share the same info with Erevis, who is much more willing to render aid and coordinate for future plans. After getting people sorted, Cheryl takes her people back to Earth and opens a new ripple in reality to Wind's reality, shifting them through.
They come out on the edge fo a cliff and the shuttle starts to fall, Cheryl falling with it. Seth attempts to latch her to the side of the tunnel with ice as Jennifer desperately powers the shuttle and attempts to lift it up to prevent smashy death. They manage to correct it enough so when a reploid speeds in and stops the shuttle, minimal injury is caused. However, Harupia and Leviathan tell them they came at a hell of a time. Jennifer rushes out to check on Cheryl and finds Vile, and 100 Mavericks charging down the slope towards them.
Stardate: 7.27.2225 (Classic)
Session 261: Class Act Part 1: Broken Wings
Location: Grass
Time rapidly goes by in Prime, where the project to revive the Erusian Homeworld nears completion and Suisen Empire Ships begin to move out of the shipyards and into service. In Wind's Reality, Seraphna works to put together the team after their recent run in with Senreich when a look alike of Wind, in fact, the original man known as Deathstar appears to tell them that Senreich is about to destroy the base from below. Seraphna wastes no time or hesitation in sending the Special Unit and the Hunters to the incomplete Hunter Station out in the Ocean.
Sending Deathstar to intercept Mavericks after Leviathan and Harupia, Sera orders Anyata, Ash, Teddy and Null to go with him. The rest teleport over to the ocean base. Deathstar flies the team out towards the desert, where the team has to work together to destroy Chill Penguin's skyship. After destroying it, they speed through the canyons. At the location, Jennifer leads the team into a cave to escape the wrath of Vile. Cheryl nowhere to be found, they are forced deeper into the caves fleeing the Mavericks, when they are intercepted by Spark Madrill. Mandrill follows a stupid pattern and stuns himself, allowing the team to attack him and blow him up. Escaping the blast, they come out of a tunnel to find Deathstar's shuttle, boarding and fleeing, Chii feels out Cheryl finally and learns she's on the shuttle Vile is escaping with, loaded with Leviathan and Harupia.
Chii stops DS from shooting down the shuttle, and the team opts to give chase instead of returning to Hunter Base, sticking to Seraphna's standing orders of not letting the Future Reploids fall into Maverick Hands.
Back in the Prime Reality, Peter takes a unit out with Isis, Miyuki, Josephine, Hale and Em to check on a mysterious Kitsune who is not a Kitsune spotting. They find Gemane, who agrees to come with them once cornered and they identify themselves as friends of the Angel.
Seraphna, back in Wind's Reality, finds that a 5th Column fleet is heading in towards the base, ready to take it out. She sends her husband, John, with the Future Visitors to the Tower of Babel, turning to order the rest of the base staff to ready for battle and to get base defenses up as good as they can. They have to hold out until the military can join them in destroying the 5th Column's fleet. A decisive battle is about to begin, on the Sea and in Space, as the teams fight for reality itself.
Stardate: 7.27.2225 (Classic)
Class Session 50: Class Act Part 2: Fall from Grace
Location: Shuttle
Anyata's team, flown in by Deathstar, pass through a barrier and arrive at a Wily Skull Fortress. Anyata and Ash are instructed to teleport onto the fortress while DS makes one of his daring manuvers to escape. THe group then fights through Wily's fortress, headed towards their goal of freeing Cheryl.
Meanwhile, Seraphna leads the defense of the Ocean Base against Senreich, he contacts her and offers her the oppurtunity to hand over all the relics to avoid the fight, but knowing nothing he does with them will be any good, she insists on defending. The battle launches, and it's a brutal fight, claiming the lives of Eve and Cheryl. Cheryl, killed by a bomb in her stomach, dies when Seraphna attempts to double cross Senreich, who holds her hostage for the Staff of Ra. Seraphna relents but then calls the base to take him out as he tries to leave, Senreich detonates the bomb, Cheryl dying before Sera's eyes.
Anyata's team feels reality crumbling around them as Wily and VIle attempt to take Cheryl's powers for their own. Rushing into the cell blocks they find the guards already destroyed by a beam saber weilding ally. Null recognizes the patterns as Zero's. Using a key card to free Harupia and Leviathan, the team rushes on to Vile's chamber, where Cheryl is hooked up to a machine. Wily begins to use Cheryl to create a Wily World, the orb of reality, when touched by Vile, makes him into a god. Jean uses her powers to teleport a massive number of allies into the room and Wind, awakened, is able to end Vile's power boost while Chii breaks the shielding around Wily, Anyata and Ash break the glass and XX runs after him. Anyata turns off the machine and Cheryl is freed, and pissed off.
The team bashes Vile to the ground and takes him prisoner, while XX kills the Wily she finds, that they later learn was a double. Cheryl and Wind take the group out of the base after they escape by shuttle, and land to join in union, then and there they use their powers to synch the timelines, Alternate, Classic and Prime's time flows change so that they run in unison, allowing better travel between the three. This change is felt throughout the realities, and Cheryl lets everyone know she'll explain why later.
The groups are all now on the Ocean Base, which is now rapidly being repaired and set to rights, having destroyed the 5th Column fleet. A blow has been struck against the enemy, but at what cost?
Stardate: 7.27.2225 (Classic)
Session 262: The Alliance Part One
Location: Station
Cleaning up in Wind's reality, they form together to hold a meeting, where Cheryl proposes the one thing they all need in this crisis: An Alliance of Realities. With Wind in charge, it's an easy agreement, and discussion turns instead towards who and what the enemy is. As the Gods are described, one very interesting fact comes up, the Gods had Silver Blood.
The recently widowed Kumiko cuts her hand to show them the biggest unique trait of the Cheire, their silver blood. Mention of Garterah adds another piece to the puzzle. Garland, the Chiere ex-Husband of Seraphna was thought to be long gone, not restored into the reality when Wind recreated it. However, as he had no real control over who did and did not come back, the possibility remains that somewhere, Garland has returned. If the Cheire with the name of Gar could exist, it could very well be Gartareh.
Musing on these things, Cheryl creates a new asset to the teams, forging 12 Tarot cards, one time use devices that can allow people to cross the realities to share information and message. After leaving 4 in the care of Seraphna, Cheryl takes her team to the Alternate Reality.
Stardate: 10-589.10.14 (Alternate)
Here they hold a similar meeting with Erevis and her Empire, an easy sale, however, the real challenge to the Alliance remains, Erevis is not enough, Earth, and PAX, must also join the fold.
Cheryl takes a small number of her people and Darien accompanies her to Earth, where the group holds a meeting with Paladin and Warren. The challenge seems bleak, a once thought impossible compromise will need to be reached, the PAX must see Erevis as an ally, not a threat, and Erevis must conceed to stop spreading her Empire, or at least make it a cooperating member of the PAX, in order for all to be set straight.
Stardate: 10-589.10.17 (Alternate)
Session 263: The Alliance Part Two
Location: The Empress' Paw
Arriving at the PAX to answer an invitation for a complete alliance, Jean, along with Aschae, Seth and Truth, Cheryl, with Ethan and Chii, and Erevis, with Lisa, Typhoon and Ama are welcomed and given rooms, to await a meeting to possibly conceed to what turns out to be insulting demands. Darien and his team escort them and find themselves seated in rooms far away from the various "Ambassadors". Warren takes a team of volunteers up as well, after talking to President Alexander Cran and finding himself worried about the arrangements.
Discovering that Shretrav resigned from her post two days before their arrival, Warren has his team intercept her before leaving, finding her in chains. Taking out the guards around her, and a bomb out of her chest, the team learns from Shretrav that the PAX has betrayed the purpose of peace, they plan to seize Erevis, Cheryl and Jean and take control of the situation, convinced they're saving the reality.
Leaving Myria with Angela and Lemon to take over the station, the rest of the team joins Darien and then storms the Ambassadorial Wing. There they find that Jean and her people have successfully dealt with their own kidnappers. They arrive in the nick of time to save Cheryl from others, however, Erevis is taken. With their hostage, the PAX might be able to bargain for victory, however, Warren and Darien agree to become the villains for once, ironically in the name of peace.
Ao arrives with the Empress' Paw, seizing space around the PAX. But not before some ships escape. Myria takes control of the station and the team begins their plan, taking the Ambassadors of all the PAX members, they hold hostages of their own. Security storms the Ambassadorial Wing, doing more damage to the Ambassadors then the team, the team having to save many of them from their supposed saviors. In the end, the team takes the PAX, and it in effect, has ended itself.
Once aboard the Empress' Paw, they put together their information and identify the ship holding Erevis, an EarthGov vessel en route to Earth itself. Knowing that if it crosses the Sol System, war will erupt for all the teams, Darien cautions them that they must catch them before that point. Narrowing down a method to capture them, the harmonics of the ship's drive core, the Paw will take only hours to catch the ship, and they have days. The team readies to take Erevis back.
Stardate: 10-589.10.20 (Alternate)
Alt Session 64: The Alliance Part Three
Location: ???
During the visit from the other realities, much happened to alter the fates of the Alternate Reality, the focal point of the effort against the Others became Erevis' Empire after she was kidnapped and mind wiped by Cartel agents who used a coup de tat on the PAX3 as the oppurtunity to take her. Having recovered Erevis, the crew discovered her loss of memory and knowledge and now seek to hunt down the agents who hold it, while attempting to use imprint memories of the Prime Erevis to restore the Goddess to more then a lifeless shell.
Warren and Darien's teams have joined those in the Empire, having to choose the role of 'villain' during the effort to save Erevis and the visitors of the Prime Reality during the Coup. Even with Paladin's witness of the truth to what happened, the teams remain in exile, having to choose the one force truely willing to stand up against the Others.
Session 264: The Path That Led To Our Destruction
Location: Mansion Base
The teams gather and using a Time Bubble Machine, sit to watch the years pass, Cheryl, believing that those missing from Jean's team may be in the future years, creates plans to extract them when they come across. The team sits by and watches time pass, first slowly, learning of events that will eject Darien and Angela from presidency, leaving a man named Amazo in their place. Identifying this man as a future God, the team has one piece of the puzzle, one plan to make to prevent the enemy victory.
Looking in on the Suisen Empire, they find the first tradgedy. While the battle against the Others in the Black Hole region will be a victory, it comes at the loss of Ao, Robb and Typhoon, among all the others working in the fleet. Cheryl's notes state that she believes that the PAX present in the system may have turned the tide, and the team members take this note to heart, planning new strategies.
Progressing they find out about how the team will eventually take down Steel and supposedly bring peace, Cheryl takes note of bases they need to destroy and the intel, plotting possibly to bring them to an even earlier end. The children grow in both the base and the Empire, the Empire having grown stronger with the Acendancies rebirth and the Iron Paw finished.
THey jump still further into the future where they learn the hardest of facts to absorb. Angelus comes back, in full force with the remnants of all the team's enemies. While he is defeated, the split forces weaken each team, and as a result, the most critical, Cheryl's team, is brought to ruin. Cheryl is killed, Ash destroyed, crippling Em by cutting off her legs and killing an unknown, new recruit. This scene, known already to Jean's group, plays out and one new tidbit is learned, Cheryl was pregnant with a third child.
In the Suisen Empire, they learn that the Cartel is freed and the Order scattered, but the final battle brings about horror for Ulieah, breaking her spirit when Naone is killed. Gem begins to create the Ulieah AI in order to hear her lover's spirit again, and Thomas has a heart attack.
Session 265: What Were Our Final Days
Location: Bubble
More sadness assaults the team as they watch the horrors of the future unfold. A shocking moment occurs when the Mole in the KU is discovered. As Ako and Iko, along with Tel close in on their target, a blast takes out the section of the ship they are in. Ako and Tel are killed, Iko barely survives, but holds the name of the traitor, Thomas Aduxley. Reeling from this information and the deaths of two young children, lives are shattered, people are broken.
The group inside the bubble, are brought back by the realization that none of this needs to happen, and Peter urges Cheryl and Isis to check in on the others. They watch Lorelei's spin into darkness, Chii however, is at least able to shake Aurica from a similar path. Seeing they are running low on power, the group speeds through the years towards doomsday, seeing further events that clue them in on things they can change and people they might be able to save.
Doomsday arrives after the group witnesses the final battle which supposedly ends the war. Em is killed in that fateful battle and Reno dies shortly thereafter. The battle in space nearly claims the life of Isis, who it turns out saved herself by inadvertently getting a space suit on to escape radiation. The irradiation she suffers, however, gives her a three year clock to close her affairs before death.
At doomsday, the group witnesses the blasts that rain down on the awards ceremony that seems to kill Lorelei and Lemon, the groups know however, this is how they came to be in the future, in Tareh. Peter, Tamara, and possibly Athena, among others are slain in the coming blasts, Isis and Angela lead a group of people through the sewers to the subway, intent on getting to the base to teleport to the PAX before Mega City is turned into a crater.
As this happens, the remaining time travellers appear in the confusion of battle. Cheryl opens the ramp and Jean calls her people in. Just as the ramp closes, an explosion rocks the time bubble as Cedarton is blown into the ship. The ship temporarily rocks out of time and something strange seems to happen.
Session 266: What Followed Doomsday
Location: Bubble
The strangeness resolves itself, several members of all the teams seem to have aged five months, are in different clothes, and Cheryl, most oddly, seems younger, revitalized. Unable to remember much of what happened, the team shrugs it off for now, noting the absence of Cedarton. The group now moves on, viewign the future past doomsday. They witness the survivors make their way to the mansion, only to discover that Angelus as seized it.
They escape somehow, and make it to Luna Colony, where then begin to hide underground. Aurica, having nightmares, reaches out for her mother and somehow pulls the Alternate Cheryl from her dimension. They learn the Alternate reality has already long fallen and Cheryl was hiding from those that sought to kill the remnants of the heroes. The PAX finds they can no longer teleport to Earth, due to Gartareh's invasion and the shield that blocks all teleportation. Using a Light Engine shuttle, the group is able to send Teleporters into the Sol System, one manages to get to Luna Colony intact, allowing the team to escape to the PAX.
There they are able to regroup and make a plan. They form underground resistance and over the next year work to expel the others. However, one year later, as Cheryl, Chii, Miyuki, Isis and Hale are on Earth investigating a strangeness, Gartareh announces his judgement. The teleporter is destroyed and there is no escape as the planet is blown apart. Those still on the PAX and Luna Colony are left to reel in shock as their friends are killed, and their homeworld destroyed.
To the surprise of the medieval group, it's Erevis, not Angela, who makes the initial plan to set things up to bring the PAX into Tareh and bury it. The plan goes off well, however, Erevis and ise killed during the crash, Ama and megumi surviving to plant the seeds of Meis, leaving the ship alone. The rest, on the Iron Paw, use all their resources to permenantly destroy the shield around the Sol System, making it possible for the machine to work in the future. The Iron Paw manages to make it to Luna Colony, where the survivors, mostly famfrit, scatter to avoid the Gods. The answer to the question of how Elves, Azuha, Catmews, and other such species came to be on Tareh is explained.
Stardate: 10-593.9.4
Out of time, the team returns to their present time. Cheryl greatly weakened from the reality power use. Jennifer takes her to medical and helps Miyu plot getting that third child born early, while the teams head home and regroup, absorbing the information they have learned, the things they must do to stop the Others from winning. The mission of the Angel is complete, at least, for now.
Session 267: Where Do We Go From Here?
Location: PAX
The team has one last major meeting between both groups to decide how to handle the traveller from the future. The portal is put into a deep, secured chamber within the base and Cheryl starts loading supplies, weapons and other treats for the group to bring back, a few members of the present group volunteer to travel into the future to get a status on what's going on and assess what the others will need to do.
The meeting brings to light that the Gods may be using Luna Colony's enviromental controls to simulate godlike control over the planet. So Cheryl sets up an investigation into Luna's core to see if it's possible that Gartareh has tied life forces to the machine somehow. The group takes the day to relax, planning to send the group through the portal soon, meanwhile, they also begin to make movements to change the immediate problems they witnessed in the future, planning security for Darien and Angela deciding to make her love of Mi'Na public before it can be used against them.
Jennifer researches the Elven Madness using Lucky and Rachael, and though she's able to calm them with therapy, an actual cure will take time to deal with. Gem supplies the team with power cells to restore Ulieah AI and Ao bathes with Meg, one last time before heading into death while Robb and Sammael work hard to get the fleets prepared, hoping to change the outcome of the battle. They also prepare the PAX itself for war, considering the possibility to taking it in as well.
One day remains, just one day until Jean goes to War, and hopefully, this time they will finish the fight.