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Dlab 3
Jul 20, 2006 17:17:54 GMT -5
Post by infinity on Jul 20, 2006 17:17:54 GMT -5
Ryuji stood on a cliff overlooking a small city, where he knew the was a APCARP presence. Ryuji was a runaway, he’d abandoned APCARP after they’d taken him against his will, and performed experiments on him. Before those experiments, he’d just been one of the guards, but after his body and mind altering experience, he’d become as much of a Power as anyone else in APCARP. He was faster, stronger, smarter, healthier than he’d ever been. But it came at a price, his eye’s were now as red as blood, and though some might consider that a small price to pay for such gifts, Ryuji didn’t think of it as a gift at all, but a curse.
And there was something deeper, much deeper, than just the mis-coloring of his eye’s. Something different moved within him now, something horrifying that haunted his every movement, that gnawed at his piece of mind. He was never alone now, the malevolent thing flowing through his body like a virus, he could feel it always in his blood. He hadn’t slept for a year, the first time he tried, he’d lost himself, and killed over 2000 people in 2 hours, before he was shot my an officer, and came back to his senses.
“What is inside me?” He asked, his dark, rich voice carried well in the dry air. “What have they made me?” He took his staff out, which was currently a 1 foot pole. He depressed the slider on the staff, and five feet of red staff sprung out of each end. He looked out over the edge of the cliff, and felt as though the whole world looked back at him, examining his red eye’s, and sharp features. Breathing in his scent, critiquing his red clothing, and pitying his freyed, red trench coat. The wind shifted direction, and his long, grey hair spread out like thousands of strings in front of him. Weaving and writhing through and around each other in the wind.
He looked down at the ground far below, and jumped.
The air screamed around his body as he fell, whistling in his ears and causing his eye’s to water. He didn’t care though, as the air rushed past him, he only felt the desire to submerge himself in its fey currents, and pass on with it, instead of falling towards to ground. Spiraling towards a fate that refused to release him. He landed on the ground with a loud band, cracking the pavement and sending out a shockwave of kenetic energy. He pulled himself to his feet, walking quickly towards a large air vent in a nearby building. He knocked it in with a casual swing of his staff, and jumped into the now open passageway.
He fell about 20 meters, his legs easily absorbing the impact at the bottom, then walked forwards into the dull, rocky tunnels of the APCARP transport systems. The rail’s of the track weren’t running electricity, so Ryuji guessed no trains were running through at the moment. He turned and walked in the direction of the APCARP research facility, nicknamed Dlab 3. He was curious to know what exactly they’d done to him, as he’d never been told. Not that he gave them a chance the first time around. He’d killed them all, and he’d do it again if he had to.
He didn’t expect APCARP to let him in without a fight though, after all, he was nearly at the top of their most wanted list.
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Dlab 3
Jul 21, 2006 0:39:03 GMT -5
Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 21, 2006 0:39:03 GMT -5
Stray felt something in the spines that underlied her hair... An impact. Few things natural could generate even half that impact. It had to be a Power. And, judging by their operation in the open, it couldn't be an APCARP Power. A free Power, fugitive to APCARP. A Force. She adjusted her white T-Shirt, and pushed her long, brown hair out of the way. She made sure that her two knives and twenty-two caliber handgun were secure at her waist. The weapons weren't too dangerous to most Powers, but she needed something to cover for her lack of natural weapons.
She quickly ran for a nearby building, noting the heavily damaged air vent. She dove into the opening, drawing her knives. She dug them into the walls, burying her spines in them as well. She skidded down the drop, landing roughly on the floor. She stood up, rubbing her back and sheathing her knives. She silently approached the man who had made the hole. She started stepping slightly more loudly, trying to alert him to her presence.
"Are you with or against APCARP?" She asked in a mumbled tone, emphasizing APCARP with a burning hatred. "I'm against them. Name's Stray. They took my entire childhood away from me, and I've got to make sure they don't do it to anybody else."
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Dlab 3
Jul 21, 2006 1:39:00 GMT -5
Post by infinity on Jul 21, 2006 1:39:00 GMT -5
Ryuji turned around and examined Stray. "You needn't attempt to alert me to your presence, you made quite a bit of noise coming down the air vent." Ryuji said bluntly, then turned away from Stray. "I'm Ryuji, strongly against APCARP. They made me what I am today." He said, turning his head back towards her, to emphesis the coloring of his eye's. "As for what they took from me..." He said slowly, his staff letting off several alarming metallic popping noises as his hand tightened. "They took my humanity, they took my family, they took my friends, they took my identity." His voice rasped as he said, "They took my sanity." The butt of his staff his the ground with concussive force, a small crater forming around it as it struck.
Something at the limit of his senses caught Ryuji's attention, and he spun towards the source. Dimly, he could see light coming through one of the tunnels. "Company." He said, moving forwards at a speed far exeeding a normal human. He quickly found the twenty guards, people who'd been like him. But they worked for APCARP, D-lab 3, they deserved no compassion. "All is as dust in the wind." He muttered vaguely to himself, as the end of his staff was driven into the gut of one man, then brought around to smack into the side of his head, throwing him into one of the other guards, and sending them both flying into the wall. Resulting in a formidable crack, top to bottom.
The guards opened fire on him, but Ryuji caught the slugs on his staff, his hightened mental aquity and reflexes literally allowing him to react before the bullets even left the barrel. He darted in towards one of the guards, flipping his staff up and knocking the gun out of the man's hands. He extended, and the back end of his staff connected with the man's chin, driving him into the ceiling. Ryuji jumped and twisted, bringing his staff around, and using it to propell the unfortunate guard back towards the ground. He landed, amist a loud cracking noise, and with enough concussive force to knock over several of the other guards.
"Pathetic." Ryuji said contemptuously. "Why does APCARP even have human guards when their so utterly useless?" He asked the air around him, ignoring the guards who were picking themselves back up. One of the guards pointed a gun at his head. He whiped his staff around horizontally, disarming him, and then whiped it back, breaking the man's neck. "This isn't even worth it." He said, pulling a belt of grenades of a dead guard, and pulling the pins, dropping it amongst the living guards before rushing down the hall again, propelling himself at inhuman speeds.
The grenade went off behind him, killing several more of the guards, but he could sense that some were still alive. It didn't matter, they weren't worth his time. He needed the scientists, not the cannon fodder.
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Dlab 3
Jul 21, 2006 13:50:20 GMT -5
Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 21, 2006 13:50:20 GMT -5
Stray darted forwards, trying to keep up with the powerhouse. She needed to keep him safe. If he made it out of this alive, she'd have a very valuable ally to augment the clandestine APCARP resistance forces. His strength and skill both would come in handy. She tensed, her spines rising along with her hair as she aproached the guards. She'd get the stragglers.
She lunged into the remaining conscious ones, a mere brush of her spines to exposed skin immediately rendering them unconscious. Her venom certainly came in handy on occasion, though it more frequently was an inconvenience or an outright nuisance. She ran to keep up with her purposeful companion.
"I know how it is. Since my powers manifested the day I was born, those asses swept me up and raised me to be their pet soldier. I refused, and they tossed me in their jail for years. I had some help breaking out, and here I am today."
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Dlab 3
Jul 21, 2006 15:58:41 GMT -5
Post by infinity on Jul 21, 2006 15:58:41 GMT -5
Ryuji stopped, his wind wake swirling around him as he came to a halt in front of a large, heavy steel door, blocking off the tunnels. “Curious.” He said vaguely. Most powers wouldn’t have any trouble with a steel door, no matter the size. He turned to look back at Stray. “I’m surprised to managed to keep up at all.” He commented. “No offense, but I’m not all that interested in your past. More that I’m interested in my own past.” He said.
He turned towards the door, and it bowed inwards under the force of his staff. With a kick, the door flew open, revealing a hall of blackness. “Rather.” He muttered. “I wish to know what was done to me.” His eye’s glowed a faint red as he walked into the darkness. His eye’s quickly adjusted to the low lighting, and the many traps became apparent and he moved further through the tunnel. “Petty annoyances.” He said, looking at the crude strings and lasers, and heat sensors that blocked his path.
“No Powers.” He said. “Why are there no Powers, why has no one come to stop me?” He asked the stale air, his nose wrinkling as he noticed the ominous odor coming from ahead. “Jesus but that’s a horrible smell.” He said bluntly. “Whatever that stuff is, I hope they didn’t get any on me while I was here.” He walked forwards, easily avoiding the obvious traps. Oblivious to that fact that they wouldn’t be at all obvious if he were still human.
He came out the other end of the hall into a large, white room. It smelled of a medical facility, with an underlying stench of death. Various machines and vats puttered away around the room, producing out dings, and rings, and stranger sounds. “Yep.” Ryuji said quietly, suddenly feeling like he’d entered a library. “This place is creepy.” He looked around the room. Human’s and animals and far worse things floated in the vats, some sparking ominously, some burning eternally. “What the hell is this place…” He asked the room. Surprisingly, he received an answer. “This is research lab 3, Power sciences division.” The roomed answered him. “What the hell…” He muttered. “Who answered me?” He asked. “I am model 34XZ AI Zeus, I maintain the computer systems of this facility and maintain the E-Power’s environments.” It answered. “E-Powers?” Ryuji asked. “Experimental Powers, Powers who’ve been taken because of their abilites or tempriments, to serve as test subjects in Meta-Science. Or, the science of the supernatural.” Ryuji frowned. “Why are you answering my questions?” He asked.
“Your are E-Power 967XB8, Jenova, your base human genetic line was blended with a dimensionally shifting alien. Long ago, this alien attempted to destroy earth, though that was hundreds of years ago.” Its answer hit Ryuji like a cannon-ball, it was several minutes before he could ask another question that was nagging at him. “Jenova?” He asked. “The founders of this project were fond of the Final Fantasy Series.” It answered. “The experiment was a success, but the alien elements had to be sealed deep within you, as you were two powerful to control. The alien shifted dimensions by means of energy compression and manipulation, an ability that you put to far wider uses. It was decided you were to dangerous, and your powers were suppressed. It was decided to were to be disposed of shortly afterwards.”
“However, the alien element in your body sensed the danger, and shifted you away.” It said. Ryuji struggled the wrap his mind around the truth. Now he knew what dwelled deep within him. “Yes.” Said another voice. “And now your home again Jenova, and your really should have died a long time ago.” Ryuji whipped around, looking for the source of the voice. He saw a red haired, blue eyed scientist, with round specs, and a white lab coat. “Hello Jenova, I’m Doctor Foundation, but you can call my daddy.” He said mockingly. Ryuji instantly registered the man as pure evil.
“I’ll kill you.”
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Dlab 3
Jul 28, 2006 10:22:32 GMT -5
Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 28, 2006 10:22:32 GMT -5
Stray's hairs rose again, flaring up. Her spines were all clearly visible, especially then ten inch long ones that covered her scalp. She drew her gun, glaring at the man. She made sure that she had the space to lunge at him if neccesary, to hit him full force with however much poison she could pump into him. She looked to Ryuji for guidance on the situation. This was all his call.
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Dlab 3
Jul 28, 2006 16:46:29 GMT -5
Post by infinity on Jul 28, 2006 16:46:29 GMT -5
The air around Ryuji cracked and spit with energy, lashing outwards randomly, uncontrolled and confused, lashing outwards under the force will of Ryuji. Now understanding what his power's actually were, he did his best to guide and direct the forces within him. Energy folded and compressed around him, a thin sheet of force that surrounded him and, when he finally released it, whipped him across the room in an FTL jump, reappearing right behind the bastard scientist. His staff lashed out, but met only with sparks and shadow, as the hologram flashed in and out of existense. "Bastard!" Ryuji growled out, seething that the man was beyond his reach. Logically, Ryuji thought, he should have some sort of spatial sense, if his alien parent was capable of moving through demensions. But Ryuji had no idea how to access it, so he was imcapable of finding and killing Foundation, the mad doctor who stood in shadows of light before him.
He turned towards Stray. "There isn't anything else to be accomplished here, I'm going to leave and search for this doctor, and kill him. You're welcome to tag along if you like. I sense you have something you wish to say." He said, turning towards the door. The doctor laughed, "No, I don't think you'll be leaving." He said slyly, showing them both a little red button in his head. "I think you'll be dying now." Ryuji had just enough time to think, Oh classic. Before the good doctor pushed the button, and the whle plantation exploded in a circle of blue ionized power.
Ryuji just managed to FTL himself and Stray out of the plantation before it exploded, he stood up and dusted himself off. "Well." He said. "That was a real pain in the ass." He reached out to help Stray up. "Well, I'm moving on, you can come if you want. First stop would be a cup of coffee, exept cop's have orders to shoot me on site." He sighed, and walked off in the direction of town. Maybe he'd steal a cop's cup of coffee.
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Dlab 3
Dec 18, 2006 23:29:49 GMT -5
Post by jenova on Dec 18, 2006 23:29:49 GMT -5
A soft popping noise sounded behind Ryugi, a anti-APCARP member had appeared behind him, and grabbed his shirt, before ‘popping’ out again, to where Stray was, and with one hand on her shoulder, a soft voice muttered a password and they were teleported back to the Main, Anti-APCARP base.
OOC – I think this will continue in a different topic. :/
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Dlab 3
Dec 18, 2006 23:33:53 GMT -5
Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 18, 2006 23:33:53 GMT -5
"Well, I think that I have just the place for you, fella." Stray smiled coyly. "I've the coordinates for a base of operations for an anti-Power Project resistance movement. How about after that cup of coffee and musing over the revelation of your origins, we hit there? I think that might be the order for today, with everything you've been through. We'll try to help you out." OOC: Daggnabit! By the time my dead comp started up again, somebody had posted!
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Dlab 3
Dec 18, 2006 23:40:25 GMT -5
Post by prime on Dec 18, 2006 23:40:25 GMT -5
"I think we're already there." Ryuji said, looking around. "Nice place I guess. Got any coffee here?"
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