OOC: EDIT: It'll all make sense, I've (kinda) established whats going to happen with these characters, you'll see... YOU'LL ALL SEE!!! Anyway, WHATS GOING ON?!?!?!?!? BIC: Nulix woke up from being unconsciouses. Xane had been carrying him around. "What is happening?" He asked, getting up...
The Dark Midgar soldiers watched as their mayor was beaten to the ground. Niles Skinnar, now W-R-W Unit Leader Skinnar, watched as the mayor pleaded for the soldiers to stop. The response was a fist to the face, the U.P.A. soldiers laughed at the poor man trying to defend himself. Niles just kept to himself. He couldn't stand these people, he couldn't stand the U.P.A. itself. He hated every one in it. The current Grand Hairis Analon Richards, son of the late Mantell Richards Jr, had officially sent the U.P.A. to war... not that it was entirely his doing. Analon was just a tool, a boy who was always the lesser son now on the mission to upstage his older brother, who was one of the U.P.A.'s biggest sponsors. Hairis Richards wasn't the smartest tool in the shed, not that he wasn't smart, just not a smart leader, easily manipulated in a panic. And that's exactly what happened. Most of the sponsors and board members pressured the Hairis to go to war, and so he did, despite the U.P.A. elders disapproval. Niles never studied the situation deeply, but common knowledge among the U.P.A. officials was that Lexx Klüppel, twenty-nine year old Head of Public Resources, Head of Universal Media, and the youngest Secondary Board member in the company's history, was trying to manipulate the war so it looked good in the media so he could hype it with his quote Revolutionary quote Ultimate Organization marketing campaign. When the elders and the board and, most importantly, the sponsors saw how easily Lexx had turned the image of the attacks in Destiny Islands and the new war into a positive one, they were sure to give him a promotion, or at least a raise from Lexx's relatively puiny hundred twenty thousand Sora-munny per year. Niles exhaled slowly, the steam from his breath visible in the cold fall air. Lexx was money hungry, but not cold blooded, not in anyway heartless. He was just an example of the types of people who were manipulating the Hairis for personal gain, and some of these people did it for far darker reasons then just money. "Enough," Niles said to the two troops who were kicking the mayor to a pulp. "Enough," Niles repeated, pushing the two troops to the side. Niles knelt down beside the mayor. "Why are you doing this?" The mayor asked slowly, trying not to stutter from the blood in his mouth. Niles pulled a cigarette out and lit it in front of the mayors face, "Cause' you said, publicly, may I add... you said that the U.P.A. has no right to this war, that the Brotherhood can treat its people anyway it pleases... you said that, and that is dangerous talk..." Niles exhaled smoke into the mayors face, "Its dangerous when someone with the power you have says things like that... your either with us or with them..." "I'm with you! Please, god, I'm with you! Don't kill me, please!" The mayor pleaded, grabbing Niles' arm. "Get off me," Niles replied, elbowing the mayor in the face. "Finnish him," Niles said to the troops. One knelt down beside the mayor and held his head, while the other placed a pistol to it. Niles walked out of the mayors balcony to the indoor hallway, a loud bang heard behind him. His destination was the observational V deck, a large room at the top of skyscrapper city hall where the mayor made speeches to the public. Everything in the observational V deck was displayed on a 72x53 ft screen located on the front of the building. Niles stretched slightly as he stood on the broadcast circle in the observation V deck. "Time to do this," he muttered, looking over his speech one more time before pressing down on the large green button on the wall beside him. The large metal door hiding the floor to ceiling window viewpoint suddenly raised, letting Niles see Dark Midgar's downtown. On the ground Niles face sprang to life on the buildings screen. Niles looked out the viewpoint at the citizens watching him. They all looked like ants from up here, just... blobs of color. Their was a large multicolored blob in the middle of downtown's main street. Must be the citizens we gathered, Niles thought to himself. Then at the edges of the colored blob was a grey, white, and blue blob, almost ten times bigger then the colored one. And that's us... Niles looked at the city and smiled. The U.P.A. was ridding the Dark Worlds of it's cancer, and he was in charge of curing a whole world. Niles smiled before reading his script that told the citizens all about their new world order. ******* Three Weeks Ago... ******* Supreme Captain Rentu Skinnar sat in Alfonso's Tea Hut in the same position he had been sitting for the last thirty minutes. Lexx had scheduled to meet him here. but was running late. Skinnar hated waiting, especially when the waitress and cashier kept on giving him weird looks. Skinnar had ordered the Makiatyo three times now, just to make it seem like he wasn't doing nothing. Skinnar sighed, pulling his phone out and looking at his chat log. me: Hows UPA life? Your there everyday right? Lexicon: Well. everyone talks alot me: About me?! Lexicon: what to do next no, about war, the new one, 7:42 PM. me: Do we have a battle plan? Lexicon: a good one me: Wow... thats specific. Lexicon: a really good one 7:43 PM. me: Is there anything else? Lexicon: its foolproof me: I see this is going nowhere... Lexicon: screw you man its foolproof Skinny? me: If you say so Yeah? 7:44 PM. Lexicon: seeing if you were there wanna meet up? me: I'm here How? I'm in Atlantica island. Lexion: Me too business trip Im at the westford 7:45 PM. me: Thats an hours flight Lexicon: Ill manage me: Want to meet at Alfansos tea hut, its just off River st. downtown. Lexicon: sure thing, see you then, lets make it 3 15 bye. 7:46 PM. me: bye Chat ended at 7:46:09 PM. Skinnar looked at his watch, "Three forty-nine," he muttered. "Rentu Skinnar!" Lexx said, taping Skinnar on the shoulder. Skinnar turned to face Lexx, who had crept up behind him. "Whats been keeping you?" Skinnar said with a smile. "Border crossing, different TZ zone from the Westford," Lexx explained, "Sorry, hope you didn't wait long." "I did," Skinnar replied. Lexx chuckled, "You'll survive though, right?" Skinnar smiled, "You know normally I'd be yelling at you for coming late..." Lexx raised an eyebrow, "Why ain't this normally?" he asked. "Lexicon! I've got news! I've got very big news!" Skinnar said. "Me too!" Lexx said, "Please me first..." Lexx pulled a blue envelope out of his black laptop case, "On behalf of the U.P.A.," Lexx started, his face serious, "I ask you, Rentu Skinnar, would you like to become... the grand general of our new world army?" Skinnar paused, the grin on his face slowly disappeared. "I think... maybe I should of stated my big news first... Lexx, Elela's pregnant." Lexx started to smile, "Your wife?" "Yes!" Skinnar said, grabbing Lexx's hand, "I'm going to be a father!" ******* Two and a Half Weeks Ago... ******* Niles Skinnar walked down the iconic U.P.A. main halls. The white and blue lines along the walls, the pictures of past Grand Hairis's on the doors, the pitch white lights. This had been Nile's first trip here, the U.P.A. main base, and although the agents walking up and down the halls paid little attention to Niles, he was here for the biggest mission of his life. Delivering the top secret production plans for the new war to the U.P.A. Grand Engineer. Niles walked down a few more halls until he reached the equipment room entrance. Ships, weapons, armor, all was designed and crafted here, right past the door in front of Niles. Niles took a quick breath, before opening the door. Niles glanced around him, silver and grey met his eyes in every direction, machines and computers scattered everywhere. "Who's there?" A distant voice greeted him. "Niles Skinnar," Niles replied, "I'm here to give you the New War Requirements." A stocky man walked out from behind a few of the large mechanical items, "About time... my teams been waiting for these all week," The man said, spitting slightly as he talked. Niles tried not to back away as the man came closer, "Yeah, here you go," Niles said, handing the man an envelope. The man grabbed the envelope and ripped it open, eager to see what was inside. After a minute or so of reading the man shook his head. "...They want me to create an army of Maxilos Ten-tens... Just the frames of the robots with moving legs and arms but no AI, just a hive mind..." "An army of robots..." Niles said slowly, "That's amazing." "No!" The man yelled, throwing the papers to the ground, "These robots are useless! A hive mind can't work well against fighters, citizens yeah, but no fighters!" Niles raised an eyebrow, "Why would they wants that?" "This army will cost them less than a million," The man explained, "The Sora System Core Government will give the U.P.A. an annual war budget of one billion point seven munnys... I suspect someones about to leave this company a billion bucks richer." ******* "He declined?!" Richards yelled, a bulge clearly visable in his forehead. "I'm afraid so, my Hairis," Lexx replied, his head hung low. "But we need him!" Richards yelled. "We could use another..." A board member suggested. "No one else is at Skinnar's level at this point, you know that... we need to get him back," Richards said. "Why? With all due respect, my Hairis, it's his life to live," Lexx replied. Richards glanced at Lexx, "Lexicon, watch your mouth, we are at war, do you understand, I'm sorry if we upset your buddies fragile little life... we need some kind of lure... anything he cares about still in the U.P.A.? Any really close friends about to risk their lives? Family?" "Searching the databanks, my Hairis," An agent said in the corner of the dark room, "... here we go, Niles Skinnar." "Who?" The whole boardroom asked in almost perfect harmony. "Rentu's brother... a former knight who was recently laid off, wanting to go back into the military he signed up for the U.P.A., landed a job as a delivery boy..." The agent explained. "Does he know about Rentu Skinnar?" Richards asked. "I don't know, my Hairis." The agent replied. "Does Rentu know about him?" "I can safely say no, my Hairis." Richards smiled, "Lets promote him..." "To what?" Lexx asked. "...W-R-W Unit Leader," Richards replied. "Are you serious, my Hairis? A delivery boy in charge of a War Realm World? Thats impossible to justify!" Lexx yelled. "Justify to who?" Richards asked, knowing that he had just deflated anything Lexx could come up with. "...Good point, my Hairis..." Lexx replied, "then I guess... this is finalized, Niles Skinnar... get ready for a promotion." ******* The Current... ******* Rentu Skinnar dropped his tea cup, it crashed to the ground, shattering into millions of pieces while Skinnar stood still. Fourteenth name from the top of the list, Niles Skinnar, W-R-W Unit Leader for Dark Midgar, his long lost brother, fighting in the one war Skinnar stayed out of... OOC: I'M BACK!!!! Sorry I haven't been here, my laptop screen... got smashed by this idiot I know. But now its fixed and I'm back baby! DK! Send me the info about what you want to do, alright?
"I would bet that," Nulix replied to Xane, "Lets find this guy and kill him already..."
OOC: ...Slimy Pepperoni the Pig... really... BIC: Nulix grabbed Slimy and put his gunblade to it's skull, "You wanna die, little man?" Nulix asked...
"Lets just find him, and kill him," Nulix responded to Xane, "No mercy this time, we got to get serious, right? We can't move if we are always in illusion..."
OOC: WantMilk and Winnie the Poop are nothing alike, Pirate...
OOC: Probably not.
"Xanes got himself a point there, Mr. Rot," Nulix said. He had been sitting on the sidelines for the whole time up until now...
Nulix ran up to the fight, "Whats goin' on here?! What ya'll doin?"
OOC: ...? BIC: Nulix chuckled, "U.P.A. ain't going anywhere... trust me on that..." suddenly he heard a loud boom, "What was that?" *** "This is a case of emergency, sir," Lexx said, "The Brotherhood just blew half of our top men straight to hell!" "Shut up!" Richards yelled, "Why are you even here?" "He's the public image, thus he must... filter everything, including things like this," One of the Commanders muttered, "We have no ground commander, no water commander, no sky commander, and our current space commander is half dead in a hospital..." "War is the only option, sir," Lexx added. "He's right, the Brotherhood has pushed the lines, we must act," The Commander agreed. "And if we go to war who the hell do you think will command all those troops?" Richards asked. "Skinnar," Lexx said, "He's gone through more then any other commander, and he has proven his worth before, right?" Richards sighed, "Its risky... besides there are too many problems... I mean, there isn't even a Supreme Commander rank in our military." "Make one, sir," The Commander said. Richards sighed once more, before looking at every one else in the room. They all gave a nod. "God damn it... looks like we are at war," Richards said...
"What are we gonna do?" Aeron asked, "The Brotherhood sent all our ships into another world... we're stranded... and I can't do another teleport for... maybe weeks, cause honestly, I'm exhausted." "Damn it..." Vecked muttered, "I'm the stupidest terrorist in the world... stranded on the world I just blew up... we don't get out of here in an hour and we will both be behind bars..."
"God damn," Nulix muttered, "Knights and U.p.a. dropping out all over the place.." OOC: G2g
Nulix paused, "I fight for myself, honestly, I don't fight... for people, I mean... hey, the hell you know about me anyway, trying to do some mind tricks so you can walk away with my wallet you piece of street filth..."
Nulix raised an eyebrow, "I fight you cause you stole my wallet you little jerk!"
Nulix shot the thief in the back. "Steal from me why don't ya..." Nulix muttered, walking up to the thief and pulling the stun dart out of his back, "I'll give ya something to think about ya little punk!"
OOC: I guess so... then we will find out he died... and then he will come back again... BIC: Nulix smiled at the man before putting his hand in his pocket, "I've been played the fool!" He exclaimed...
OOC: ... BIC: "No I'm sorry," Nulix called to the man who walked away...
"I'm getting some food, maybe some new clothes," Nulix said.
"Your some lucky people then," Nulix said with a smile.
OOC: Me...
