Session 48: Weapons Aimed (1)
Location: Underground Base
A meeting has been called with the leaders of the teams, Ben goes over the current situation, saying how there has been no sign of X, Dias, or Wyrd, while Em, Vodka, and the other infected are slowly worsening. While they talk and debate what to do, Lorelei shows how much she can be like her mother and suggests they release Em since she can obviously sense X, using her to track down X. As they talk, the alarms go off and they are alerted that someone has released Lev. The saboteur has struck again and deleted information on their file, so while the team moves to handle Lev, they learn Sunny seems to be working for Sun VI, or another group, seeding chaos. As they cut her off from stealing a shuttle, Sunny breaks a false finger and teleports out before they can get their hands on her, while Saf and Mal capture Lev.
Back in L.A., Kellin and the children are playing a game when the Reality Gate near them activates. Having installed cameras in the Gate Room, Kellin and Josephine observe the Copy Shion and their Gor appear from the other side, Shion having brought Gor home, having done so as she promised from Duality Session 148. After verifying who Gor is, they wave him through, while Shion stands there, musing at what she senses in this world. At the Underground Base, while they debate Gor's usefulness the computer alerts them to a news report where Cuddles and Ariel talk about a medical breakthrough. Cuddles discovered a cure for Zephyr and the other Alphas while working on Cheryl, a flaw in the Alphas that will kill them when they reach a certain age. Encouraging the Alphas to come in for Ariel's blood to help fix them, the two will be waiting for them - this leads the group to think it will be a tempting target for X. As a team assembles to protect Ariel, a sighting of Dias pops up, clearly a trap to split the teams up. The two teams are forced to split their forces up and prepare.
On the PAX, while Suzu and Mitsu run off to see Gor, Erevis suggests to Katsu, about Kiichigo's condition, that she try some of Kitty's 40 sprites she brought back from the other side to see if they will work in healing her detoriating condition. Meanwhile, in L.A., the family goes to see Gor while Truth and the rest recover. Lorelei returns and Josephine and the others begin to prepare for the hard days to come.
Location: NGD Base
and PAX
The team arrives down at a dessert base, they move up with their military IDs, with Cassandra acting like it is a military inspection. Cassandra bluffs, and marks fails, all the way into and through the base. Meanwhile, Hess and Chad's team arrives at the PAX, meeting Ao. They meet up at Erevis' home where Cuddles informs the time limit of 65 and that is why she rushed the announcement; the two lifetimes is what made Zephyr's strain become apparant. As Ariel talks with everyone, an alarm goes off warning them about a problem. Down below, reality quakes begin to hit - Wolfe and part of the PAX Musuem crashed down into the Earth, then Kasha while she was searching for a cure for Kiichigo, and other parts of the planet.
Back at the NGD Base, with the quake making people off balance, the group uses the distraction to break inside and find a horrific sight. They find people hooked up to nutrition tubes where they are being hulked up to become Dragoon Killers. While Tabetha's first instinct is to kill them, Necia is against it since they are living beings - she has Marcus hook her up to the computer to download information. A virus protects the system, maeaning Necia will have to do battle. Up top they find Dias pouring his blood into the system with X's instructions on his hand. Dias battles them as the Dragoon Killers wake up with only 5% reprogramming occurring. As Vesta and the others begin to destroy the pumps, the military personnel enter - and aim their weapons at the group, not Dias.
Session 49: Sheathed In the Heart (2)
The military opens fire at the team and knocks several of them, like Tabetha, down into the Dragoon Killer vats with the green chemicals. Dias orders them to arrest them non-lethally as he dives back as the shots fly forward. John bravely throws his body down at the soldiers, allowing the others to pursue Dias out of the base while those who were thrown into the goo pull themselves out of it. Eve crashes the Mobile Base one foot away from Dias, barely missing him and kicking up sand everywhere, while inside Necia, Cassandra and those still inside would see that 5% of the Dragoon Killers have been reprogrammed to be less killer like but more Weapon like, are waking up. Vesta, with Fiona on her dune car, and Marcus race against Dias, trying to keep up wth him, while a Dragoon Killer girl rises up holding Tabetha by the throat, both covered in green goo, calling herself B34. Meanwhile, Fiona lifts Dias' dune buggy up while Marcus flies up and crashes into him, both flipping out in a spectacular crash. While it seems Necia has managed to put into stasis most of the Dragoon Killers, B34 seems to be beyond her reach now. Handing over Tabetha by the neck, Dias and Marcus battle it out as the sandstorm worsens, cutting them off from the rest of the team.
Location: PAX
While on the PAX protecting Ariel and Cuddles, Hess receives a message from Kaori that Em and Hale have vanished and Lisa has begun to act oddly herself. As they talk, communicatins are cut off, and they think X has finally arrive. When they do enter, they find the patients have been moved, as if someone didn't want them in the way of a battle. They find X in the background with the blood work for the Alpha aging cure, rippling one away, then chats with the team, acting almost sane. She explains she is not 100% infected yet, but the virus pushes them their egos to the max, bringing out the worst in them. X's ego is that she has to prove she is the best all the time, so she sought out threats to the Weapons and Dragoons, and the pride in Hess curing the virus so far. She went after the Dragoon Killers to shut them down with her blood and looking into other stuff to fix, but if they want to fight, she will do so - but she will not hold back due to the virus, and it will likely increase the infection rate. The team lets her go for some of her blood, and she ripples away. The team decides to let X be for now, figuring Wyrd might be the real problem since she seems to have no loyalities to X like Dias does, and might not listen.
Loction: NGD Base and Desert
Dias and Marcus have an epic bro battle in the sandstorm, while the others slowly make their way to the location where Vesta and Fiona are watching. Tabetha, stirring, seems shocked at seeing B34 and the implications of the awakened Dragoon Killer, though most of her mind has been wiped from Dias' blood. Calling Myria in, she arrives in a fancy pod with Omega Coke advertisements and fires a cure dart into his neck, while Marcus then slugs him in the face, dropping him then and there before the team, the cure taking root in Dias' body.
Location: Another World, 6.27.6091
Copy Wind, returning from a mission, lays down the blueprints to the Time Gate. He begins to explain all the parts they will need to transform the Gate from a simple transport Gate to becoming a Time Gate. It will take them raiding a few bases, then they will need to talk about what will happen when they go through the gate and go back in time. As the teams are formed up for the mission, things are about to come to a head.
Session 150: A Weapon's Cut (3)
Location: Duality/Mirror Universe (Adult Team)
The team is dropped off by a C'en Research Base to grab a piece of tech to make the Time Gate work, comprised of a bunch of the adults of the three various teams. They decide to try to enter it through the building next to it, and Shion tries to buzz them in and bluff their way in with the old lost her ID trick. They work their way through the apartment building up to the 5th floor, knocking out the resident and firing a grappling hook across the way to the research building, though some like Max has to go nude and leap across in were-tiger form (which Shion records and sends pictures of to Isis, earning getting cursed out by Isis). As they all make it across safely, barely - the rope breaking as Logan crosses and he crashes on the twins, they are now in the research center. Once inside, they find pretty valuable items, and Alita and Ceilia disable alarms set to the crate that is protecting them. Inside, they find the piece of the item they came to find. Meanwhile, Yuki's team prepares to head back to the Prime Universe to see if they can get help from Kaori with the Gate project since her Centerpoint powers might be needed.
Location: Prime Universe, PAX, 10-637.2.5
The team prepares to head back to the base to talk to Myria about working on the X-virus, while Zephyr seems moody, reflecting on a talk she had with Ariel and remembering the past. She mentions how Ariel trained Rea and spent time with him, yet didn't seem to have a lot of time for Cheryl. Upon arriving, they learn that Yuki, Cookie, and Airym are back according to sensors, but before they can celebrate and learn more about the Strikers being back, alarms alert them that Em and those who left with her are attacking a Next Generation Weapon base. Hess and Cassandra's teams go to deal with the threat, while Ben moves to check on Dias, to see how he is doing.
Yuki's team sneaks in through Kitty's door, getting a surprise when Kitty aims a pump-action shotgun at their faces and demands to know who they are before seeing them. While they ask about Kaori, Yuki is tackled by Ren and Reikana who arrive, Ren tackling her sister after so long. At the Next Generation Weapon base, Hess and the others find the base burning from fires. They see Lisa and Em battling the Weapons, and split up to try to seperate them. Vesta tackling Lisa while the others move to handle Em. As they get close, a giant Weapon called Narok grabs Em by the throat and smashes her through the wall and tosses her. While Hale and Mal argue who will battle the giant Weapon who threatens to kill them if they stop him from killing the small little green haired weapon, Em speeds off.
Location: Duality/Mirror Universe 6.27.6091 (Child Team)
The kids tackle a side area of the palace in the capital of the C'en Empire on Kumen. They sneak past the guards, working their way toward the prison area, sneak through the sewers, then use the prison showers to wash off. Working their way past patrols, they reach a museum full of statues of people, turned into stone with screaming faces of pain. Cherry reveals these are the true enemeis of the C'en and why she worked hard to hide their parents from this fate, showing Tora and Sen among the statues, their faces defiant. Nell uses her powers to bring Tora and Sen back to life, the two dropping to their knees. The other kids decide to work together to free the other prisoners, refusing to allow them to remain like this. As they move to go, they come across a woman, the Empress of the C'en, claiming to be based on Erevis, and they battle her and end up dropping the ceiling on her to escape, rushing to leave rather than do actual battle with her. Now out of there as the palace comes down in that area, they get the prisoners out of there and get out.
Location: Prime Universe, Underground Base 10-637.2.5
Yuki's team arrives at the base and they all reunite there, explaining their plan on the other side and why they need Kaori. While Dias wakes up, Yuki and the others say their goodbyes, leaving with Kaori. They learn Dias was suppose to go after Wyrd after he reprogrammed the Dragoon Killers but the team brought him down. They wonder what Wyrd might be do and guess correctly she might be going to infect the other Next Gen Weapons, despite the cure being made - wondering if the base commanders would have given it out like they were suppose to do. Ben takes Necia and heads out to investigate. While Cassandra loads up Lisa, Ben sends her a warning that the commanders might not have listened.
Em and Hale seem to be hunting Wyrd, their reason for being on the base, and they encounter Wyrd. The others catch up and do battle with her as she becomes a cthulu-like nightmare. Truth and Miji shows up and begins to talk Wyrd down, making her grab her head and begin to crack her insanity. Reno and Hale talk Em down from killing Wyrd so she backs off, barely, stabbing the wall after an inner fight.
As Yuki's group and Kaori reach the hub, they are ambushed by Ariel's clone, appearing once more from the depths, now covered crystal shards that glow. She corrupts the console and makes Kaori convulse and fall over. As the team prepares to face Ariell once more at the Crystal Pathways hub, back on the PAX, Cheryl's crystal begins to crack and her hand emerges, opening and closing, while on the moon, X injects the vial into her heart, transforming.
Session 50: Dragon's Roar (4)
Location: The Mirror Universe / The Crystal Pathways Hub
The C'en Ariel stands before the group, having ambushed them after attacking Kaori and attacked the Avatar computer. She seems intent on killing the children and battles them. Airym stabilizes the system and places Kaori into it to heal, while Kiichigo and the others drive Ariel off, damaging her. With the system now running thanks to Airym, the team hurries to get out of there while they can before Ariel returns. They make it through the gateway, Yuki dragging Kiichigo along since using her abilities made her ill, and they make it to the Duality side, running into the others. There they find Copy Wind and Shion working on starting up the Time Gate, which is trying to form, along with Tora and Sen, Miyuki, Bix, and all the others working. While Miyuki tends to Kiichigo, Undine borrows a Mana Crystal from Alita and works on healing Kiichigo and Sasha questions Yuki if Copy Ariel managed to track them there. During this, Miyuki and Copy Miyuki talk and begin to get along, both not minding their differences when Tora suddenly startles them by getting her datapad to work, going over the old prophecies, working her way through them.
After the talk, Copy Wind announces the Time Gate is finished, and they debate how they wish to go back in time/who will go back in time first. He warns they will have a small window to warn their past selves of what will happen before they merge with their past selves due to the paradox wave. Selena and Tenebrae volunteer to go back into the past, despite the fact they will be merged into their past selves, which will erase their current selves, but for Selena her parents no longer exist so her fate is tied to the past. And she can power the trip back due to being a unique factor from the future, much like Tenebrae can along with the crystals, and the more unique factors come along, the more time/power the time gate will have for them. The Time Gate, still not stablizing, Erica pilots the Aquarius herself to link with her past-self. Finally, it begins to stablize. The adults all step through and it snaps fully, so Cherry and the kids follow.
Location: The Prime Universe
At the Underground Base, Ben and the others check on Wyrd, Lisa, Em, and everyone else, who seem to be fully cured now after the last skirmish, which leaves only X left. After anaylzing, they are certain the virus came from Sun VI. While they debate, they learn that Cheryl is waking up, so they all hurry to PAX, where they find Cheryl emerging naked and a bit confused. Though they do not seem to realize it at first, Cheryl is a bit off as she talks to them, however what can it be? You will find out in future sessions.
Learning Dias is President seems to make Cheryl the most stunned and surprised as she dresses.
Back at the Underground Base, Ren and Reikana discover where X is likely doing a frame by frame search of video recordings, seeing X where an explosion took place, that was thought to be a gas leak of some sort at the domed part of the moon. They debate what to do about X, while Necia worries that X might be after the Gemini project. Cheryl - after listening to them, plans to challenge X to a duel with Chii, telling everyone to trust her and wait for her signal. While many of the team talks, Chad mutters that she is worried Cheryl might not be right in the head, talking like she was surprised to see Chad for the first time.
At a desert, Cheryl and X square off, with X calling Cheryl a relic of the original Dragoon Age. X begins to steal Cheryl's power when she signals to Cassandra to open fire from the Mobile Base, decloaking, then Lorelei's team after it finishes, rams into her with it's bus, sending her flying into a sand dune. Now surrounded, she begins to get power gang-banged, calling Cheryl a coward as she is defeated. A day later, while B34 walks around hugging people and seeking her partner, Miji voluneers to be her partner and she is given the name Beatrice, Bea for short. They also learned someone had stolen the Dragoon Killers apparantly and snuck out with them. During this, X is cleared to be released, despite now being a Weapon/Dragoon hybrid herself now. They are also contacted that Ariel has gone missing, having gone down to Earth to talk to them about something, but no one has seen her recently except Vesta. Apparantly she planned to talk to the family, one by one, about something.
Outside, Reikana and Sad find a woman barely alive, having been strangled, with a Guardian Oracle page showing her being strangled to death.
Location: Duality Reality
The kids and the others reach the past traveling through a tunnel that moves quickly along, traveling along another tunnel that travels in pace - both tunnels move, one that they travel down that moves down the 100 years, the other that travels along 20 years, until they arrive at their destination in the past before the invasion. However, behind them is a giant Time Gate in the middle of Kumen, and everything is a muted color. Asarar states to full intregate with the past they must both create a paradox and stop the invasion. Wind states they are currently in a world that should not exist, they only need to make it real - so the teams split up to meet up with their past selves to create the paradoxes with the children.
As the Academy Team investigates the faded Academy, they find it fairly empty, as if the entire world is void of most people. As they search they discover this is before the shield came down, with Qui seeing her past self before she lost her leg, having been using a robotic one since then, much to her disdain. The team tells their past selves what will happen, despite them being mostly frozen. As they do, a clock seems to chime and the area shatters. At the club, the team there finds much the same as the Academy team - they repeat what the Academy did and there is a shattering sound. Moments later, the Aquarius lifts off in the distance, leaving them wondering if they failed, however the Time Gate is still there. But moments later a second Aquarius arrives, looking older and lands for them to board. It seems Yuki and Airym have modified the older Aquarius from the future in the "frozen" days while they were making paradoxes.
The two Aquarius do battle with the C'en flight, changing history together, and behin to turn the tide of battle together, with the various crews working in tandem on the Aquarius. At the end of the battle, the Time Gate begins to glow and the kids begin to fade away, apparantly the future changing, perhaps, as the Time Gate sucks them back in. As they saw goodbye to the future kids, they promise to meet again one day, either when they are born, or perhaps by miracle they will meet this version of them. Selena and Tenebrae, for their parts, are forced back into their past selves, apparantly now being erased as they were.
Date: 6.17.5991
Location: The Duality Reality
At the bar, the group begins to wake up, one by one, apparantly remembering what happened except Cypher, since part of her remained in the future and didn't reintregrate. As they all peer around, remembering the kids and a profound sadness washing over them. At Geyze, the same thing begins to happen, the only changes being instead of 2, Selena is now five years old, and Celes and Liana are still missing, much to the child's dismay. And it seems Shade is now pregnant with twins. But the true tragedy is that Yuki is now missing her unborn child and Erica, who seem to have gone missing due to the leap back. And Yuki cannot remember what happened to either, depsite the deep crisis in her mind.
Session 51: Aftermath (5)
Location: Duality Reality
At the Academy, people are trying to recover after the trials and tribulations they were forced to endure in various ways, with many mysteries will open.
Rain goes over a report she has gathered over the past three days for the group, explaining the group is not the only ones who recall the experiences in the future, but there are not many - she also says people are taking notice, like their leaders, and that perhaps even a few leaders might have experienced the alternate future. Many of the group hope this might provide the perfect reason for peace with Kumen and uniting the people of Geyze together. Rain says that she is investigating the missing Celes and Liana and that while she is not sure if there is a pattern, there are others who have gone missing lately and believes Sasha might be next.
On Kumen, Ymir places a device on the Time Gate so it will only turn on for those who are present. As the Academy people arrive and others, they would see the Aquarius is being retrofitted with new tech that they picked up during the 100 year quest. They activate the Time Gate and see the kids are fine on the other side and everything looks alright, so they return. Apparantly the Time Gate is not going anywhere for the time being, despite their confusion why it remains, but they make sure to leave Ymir's device so people do not fall in. Tora, also, plans to release her half of the power of Centerpoint to help balance the scales, leaving only the person who has the other half.
Date: 10.636.2.11
Location: Prime Reality, The Manor
Reconstruction is going on for the Mansion, restoring it brick by brick to what it once looked like before the attack in Session 28 that destroyed a good portion of it. While the kids play and the construction goes on, Cheryl explains she plans to adjust the teams a bit and shift them around a little. For the most part everyone gets ready for the next chapter in their lives.