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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Battalion thirteen the podcast episode twelve, the
final episode.
Speaker 4: Hey Max, I want to play cards without Ay He's
in the game, Hall Max, Hey Max, you awake?
Speaker 5: Max? Come on, man, get out of bed already.
Speaker 4: I know you've been pretty depressed lately, but maybe socializing will.
Speaker 3: Max? Max?
Speaker 5: What is this alice flower extract?
Speaker 6: Shit?
Speaker 3: Shit shit Max medic Nightmaresh plan was coming together just
as he anticipated. Just a couple of details were missing.
Dominator and Destroyer were in the Elementals laboratory crafting the
Thrall device. The Elemental's laboratory was the only place where
it was safe to work with the three elements needed
to first entrance the citizens of Baltic City and then
all dimensions. But Gentia and Fusia concoctions mixed with teal
and aquamarine infusions, steam, mahogany, and stainless steel made up
the decor of this laboratory. Out of time, the exact
coordinates of the Renegade base were slightly out of phase
with the Gothic physicality of the Two Keys Hotel, but
the Mirrorsts kept their base hidden from enemy spies.
Speaker 7: When the Bison's Baltic City wake, they'll be drawn into
the center of town, where Emerson's vampires will become drunk
on these generish libations of human blood. If only we
had a substitute for the tim Oorne juice. Destroyer was
working on an adrenaline substitute to amalglamate with the blitz
and ost and the alice flower extracts, but that failed.
Speaker 3: Miserably lost in his thoughts, Nightmare didn't hear anyone come
into the room. M I figured you might be needing
these that.
Speaker 7: Might make things a bit easier, and thought you were
going off on your own last time you were here.
You major allegiance.
Speaker 3: Clear, I have to admit saying would have been more beneficial.
You've got the resources here for me to replicate the juice.
I could be of help and still get my fix.
I've done some experiments. I can make you immune to
its effects. I know I've been ruled by its influence
in the past. Please, you gotta forgive me.
Speaker 7: What makes you think I'm going to trust you again.
Destroyer and Dominator are working on a substitute for the
tim Or juice.
Speaker 3: Now a substitute won't be the same. The fear won't
be real. The juice, it's gotta make them too scared
to flinch, too scared to drop a tear, too scared
to whimper. Oblivion. Steel toad pat and leather spiked boots
circled Nightmare as he paced the marble floor in a
predatory fashion. As he spoke, his eyes never breaking contact.
Speaker 7: And how do I know you won't just take all
the tim or jewics for yourself once we've begun replicating it.
You've always been an addict. When you lost the woman
you love. When you lost Kate, you lost all morality,
any decent so you had left when she died.
Speaker 3: That's a low blow, Nightmare. You, of all people, know
what it's like to lose the love of your life
to vampires, and now you work with them. Don't you
want this thraw for your own, to have their power
without their thirst.
Speaker 7: You're right, it wasn't fair of me to bring up Kate.
Losing someone as important as her changes you.
Speaker 8: I know that more than anyone.
Speaker 7: There's just so much pressure to get this right. You've
betrayed me for the juice. I've gotta be able to
trust you completely from now on.
Speaker 3: You will, but chill, I'll work with Dominator and Destroyer
to ensure the Thrall device will have all humans under
our spell, no vampires required. Dominator will be pleased that
bitch is hot.
Speaker 7: Better not let Destroyer here. You say that, okay, you
get the files to Dominator and Destroyer, and while you
and Dominator begin work on that, send Destroyer to me
and need help with this dark cloud technology. A damn
thing doesn't seem to be working right. We need to
have everything working smoothly for our takeover from Baltic City.
We will silence that city and then collect the immortal
souls of Tara I.
Speaker 3: Jesse couldn't help but immerse himself in mahogany bookshelves along
the walls of London's office. The office was cozy, The
window had a curtain covering it, and what little light
shone through highlighted the dust lingering in the air. Mister
Harlow's massive library of books varied vastly on subjects, but
what called out the Jesse was a volume on psychology
and hypnotherapy. In London's absence, Jesse got up, grabbed the book,
looked at the table of and found a whole section
on deprogramming soldiers who were sleeperrations man Surian candidates. Jesse
wasted no time, quickly reading the section, referring to other
sections as needed, understanding instantly what happened to him and
how to resolve it.
Speaker 9: I see you looking at me book on himpnotism.
Speaker 10: It's funny.
Speaker 9: When I wrote that book, no one took it seriously
but me. Cour sap with fifty years ago, another era.
Things have changed to weep that ends.
Speaker 3: You wrote this.
Speaker 9: I about fifty two years ago. Did you read that
section on deprogramming?
Speaker 11: Yes, I think I understand what needs to happen here,
and I'm willing to try anything that will deprogram my mind.
I don't want to be responsible for any more harm
to the academy or its people. Mister Hallows, how will
we know if this works? How will you know if
you can trust me? I'm half alien.
Speaker 9: There will be some tests. Don't you worry too much now,
mister bones, Let's get started. Close your eyes and count
backwards from one hundred. I want you to relax your body,
starting with your feet and moving up to the top
of your head.
Speaker 11: One hundred ninety nine ninety eight ninety seven.
Speaker 3: As Jesse counted backward, he naturally resisted the release of control,
but once he reached fifty, he was completely relaxed and
began to trail off a bit.
Speaker 9: Okay, Jesse, now I want you to think about tonight
the academy was attacked. Think back and tell me where
you were when the shield went down.
Speaker 11: I was sitting in my room reading a book on robotics.
I remember seeing the shield go down.
Speaker 9: And how did you feel when that happened.
Speaker 11: I felt nervous, like I had done something wrong. But
then the feeling quickly subsided.
Speaker 8: And I felt fine.
Speaker 11: I thought maybe it was just the idea that something
was off.
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Speaker 11: But that I forgot about it.
Speaker 9: Interesting, you weren't at all scared.
Speaker 11: No, I wasn't. I remember sitting there and thinking this
was to be expected, like I knew this was going
to happen. I also remember fearing odd about the guilt
because I figured I didn't have any reason to feel guilty,
but somehow I felt responsible.
Speaker 3: Weird, right.
Speaker 11: It boggled my mind. But then I forgot about the
feelings and carried on.
Speaker 9: These feelings are common when it comes to test one
does under troll. I want you to tink back to
earlier that day. Did you go near the shield control
room at any point on the day at a dance?
Speaker 11: Going through the day, I remember everything except for maybe
a few hours when everything goes black. I must have
fallen asleep.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 9: I want you to go about to time you fell
asleep and rest there for a few minutes. Concentrate on
that missing block of time.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 9: Now, I want you to picture that block of time
as a wall, nothing too special, just a wall. Let
me know when you see it.
Speaker 3: Jesse concentrated for a moment. I see it.
Speaker 9: Now, picture yourself holding a sledgehammer and stop bashing in
the wall.
Speaker 3: Jesse focused on the wall and began smashing it with
a sledgehammer. He kept at it until it was obliterated.
He saw a blinding light and then remembered everything.
Speaker 11: I know what happened.
Speaker 3: Go on.
Speaker 11: It was my first day at the academy. I was
in the shield control room and I figured out how
to program a fault into it. I made it think
a building was going to phase in. Later that day
I tricked the computer. It wasn't easy either. It took
some time and a lot of preparation.
Speaker 9: Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Tell me why did you
do this?
Speaker 3: I had to.
Speaker 11: I had no choice. I couldn't refuse or make mistakes.
Speaker 8: Look deeper.
Speaker 9: When were you given this come out?
Speaker 3: Jesse thought back further. He come through all of his
memories since he was recruited. Then he saw it.
Speaker 11: I remember something, but it feels like I'm remembering a dream.
There was a dark figure. It's getting harder to remember
the more I think about it.
Speaker 8: This is good.
Speaker 9: Now do the same as the last time. Picture a
wall and then.
Speaker 3: Smash through it.
Speaker 11: I remember now this dark figure approached me as I
was standing outside. But this is the weird part. I
can't place the timing of this anywhere in my history.
It's almost like it was just a dream.
Speaker 7: Hello, young Jesse, and just a dream, but a dream
that will give you an order.
Speaker 11: What is your command?
Speaker 7: You were to figure out how to lower the shields
at the Academy, and then lower them after the next
time I.
Speaker 11: See you, Yes, my Master, I will do as you command.
Speaker 7: You will forget this dream and go about your business.
Your first step is to learn how to program a
fault into the academy shields. Now wake and do my bidding.
Speaker 11: After that, I woke up, I went to the shield
room and started studying about it. Now that I think
about it, I was oddly obsessed with the shield in
ways I didn't get. It was like an itch in
my brain. I couldn't scratch until I figure out the
coating to take the shield down. The night of the dance,
something pulled me back to sleep, and when I woke up,
the academy had been invaded.
Speaker 9: I've never heard of someone using dream walking to control
the subject. This is most disturbing. We may want to
consult Sean Kane about this, but in the meantime, we
have to find a way to break the straw.
Speaker 8: He has over you.
Speaker 9: I'm going to call in Cynthia. She's the only one
who can help. My apology is Jesse, but this one
may hurt a bit.
Speaker 13: Annosn do I'm here, my Lord?
Speaker 7: Why did I allow you to convince me that Mortred
killing Jake was a good thing?
Speaker 3: In fact, why did I let you give Mordred.
Speaker 7: That mission in the first place. Jake could have helped
me figure out this shield. We have no cyonic specialist. Now.
This is all your fault.
Speaker 14: I'm sure he had no other choice.
Speaker 13: He is a good vampire and did his best.
Speaker 15: We will figure this out, Comrade.
Speaker 16: Where is problem?
Speaker 7: The dark Cloud shield is not working. I've tried every
possible way I can think of to initiate the shield.
I've seen him do this hundreds of times. But there's
something missing. I've noticed that my best seems to charge
up when I'm using any other power I've snared, but
it quickly dissipates, like part of the power is missing.
Speaker 14: Interesting Blake Porno video get your part way there, but
not to finish you off. What about smarty doctor Carson.
I bet he has idea on how to fix.
Speaker 7: Brilliant. He's under my throng now, so he's loyal as
a puppy.
Speaker 3: I mustn't think what one of his vamp slots to collect,
Doctor Carson, and he's doing it here.
Speaker 8: I'm good.
Speaker 7: You're my vampire scientist, completely under my thraw. At your service, sir,
I need you to look into the dark Cloud technology.
It's not working right with my ability's vest. All of
my other abilities are working. I've never successfully been able
to make the shield initiate.
Speaker 8: Did Destroyer make it? Yes?
Speaker 7: It was functioning fine before and after I had him inspected.
He couldn't find any flaws. Maybe you can discover the issue.
Speaker 3: Doctor Carson took many measurements and performed several tests on
the VEST and the dark Cloud Shield generator. Nothing appeared
to be out of order.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to say, sir, but I believe the problem
is not you, the vest or the machine. The problem
is that dark Cloud himself is needed to operate the generator.
Since you have already deposited his soul into the regeneration machine,
we have no choice but to come up with another solution.
Speaker 7: Ship.
Speaker 5: I had a feeling this technology would fail. Dark Cloud
was a scion of a different sort. We didn't know
much at the academy about scions with that.
Speaker 7: Type of ability. So do you have any ideas? Are
we just screwed?
Speaker 5: I have been working on a full scientific solution. The
plasma blades we use, like the plasma in Dominator's fighting whip,
can be molded into a dome shape to protect our base.
The problem is we will need to use all of the.
Speaker 17: Power in the city to generate a solid plasma field
large enough. We can tap into the power lines in
the center of town to power the shield and the
thrall device. Oblivion would need to help us set up
ion beans as a second layer for the shield. Using
phase droids, I'll make a third layer that creates an
impenetrable shield against lasers, and this lair will be self repairing.
Speaker 5: No one will be able to get through. Also, I'll
connect the phase droids to destroyers cybernetic half so that
he can control them in battle.
Speaker 7: How long do you need to set something like this.
Speaker 5: Up with destroyers help? It could be done in a
few hours.
Speaker 7: Great, Now Emerson and I can get back to planning
our Baltic city takeover.
Speaker 3: Emerson clapped twice to someone of the slot. She brought
a glass of wine for Nightmare and a chestnut colored
wrists for Emerson.
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controlling him through his dreams. As I've explained to him,
there is a psychic connection between the two of them.
The only way to break this connection is with an
electrical stimulus from someone with your ability.
Speaker 19: What do you need me to do?
Speaker 9: I need you to hold onto Jesse's head and send
a small shock to his brain while I disrupt the
signal by playing a fibonaccy to programming sequence.
Speaker 19: Are you nuts?
Speaker 20: I could kill him?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 9: If it's done right, I'll walk you through it.
Speaker 19: I don't know. It seems awfully risky to me.
Speaker 9: It's riskier to leave it as is, allowing him to
remain under this man's control.
Speaker 19: All right, how do I do this?
Speaker 8: First?
Speaker 9: Place your index fingers on his temples?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 9: Now what I almost forgot the musical element. If it's
not done exactly right, it won't work. Hang on a second,
A computer run audio program Lexicon seven. Remember your abilities
are controlled by your emotions, so I want you to
feel very relaxed before you do this.
Speaker 19: How do I relax when I'm this nervous?
Speaker 9: Just close your eyes and listen to the music. See
yourself letting go of your nervousness. Imagine that you're in
a happy, relaxing place. Then, once you feel completely relaxed,
allow a low voltage charge to come out of your
left index finger and into your right index finger.
Speaker 7: Threw his head.
Speaker 13: I'll try.
Speaker 21: I don't know if I can.
Speaker 22: Cynthia, I trust you.
Speaker 3: Cynthia listened to the music and allowed herself to relax.
She pictured herself in a lavender metow She felt her
nervousness drift away, that she was completely relaxed. She shot
the electricity through Jesse's temples. And into her other hand. Well,
she let go. Jesse jumped a few inches.
Speaker 22: Okay, I feel fine, I remember everything.
Speaker 3: Chad was walking down a hall on his way to
Meggue's office for some urgent news. He nodded at other cadets,
noting bruises, cuts, and other wounds. He saw Jake step
out of Mahague's office as he stepped in and leaned
casually against the doorframe. Jake sped down the hall at
a rapid pace away from Chad, not hearing Chad try
to Cai out to talk to him.
Speaker 23: As you know, the academy came under attack again while
you and your fellow cadets were at the training exercise.
I'm sure you've noticed the battle scars, both on your
peers and on the academy grounds. What you may not
know is that we suffered some casualties as well. Two
cadets lost their lives. They were in other units, so
your paths had yet to cross. However, that brings me
to something else you need to know. I wanted to
inform you personally because of your close relationship with him.
Jake was lost in the battle too.
Speaker 3: Chad looked back and forth over the room, with confusion.
Speaker 10: It cross passed with him on my way here. He
didn't seem lost.
Speaker 3: No, not like that. Chad dead. Professor Mahag says, Jake
is dead. The door opened and Jake entered. Chad reached
over and pinched him.
Speaker 24: Now the hell, I don't know what you're putting in
your coffee, Meg, but he sure as hell isn't the ghost.
Speaker 10: I think that's Max's job, popping in and out of things. Anyway,
Where the hell is Max?
Speaker 3: Chad pinched Jake again.
Speaker 25: See me again, and we'll see who's a ghost?
Speaker 23: People before this breaks out into a kindergarten brawl. There
are some things you need to understand. Things we're just
starting to comprehend ourselves.
Speaker 3: Davina entered the room quickly, as if she had something
urgent to say. She stood at the back of the room,
patiently assessing the situation.
Speaker 26: Sorry for the interruption, Meg.
Speaker 25: Are you sure you want to do this right now?
Speaker 10: We've got some info.
Speaker 3: That you're really gonna want to hear Meig, What the hell?
Speaker 27: What's with this morbid fuck all joke? Don't you think
we've been through enough already?
Speaker 3: Where do you get off?
Speaker 10: What's going on?
Speaker 3: I really think we need to talk now.
Speaker 8: Please be quiet.
Speaker 26: If I could just have a more.
Speaker 23: Miss childs, we are discussing the attack last night as
soon as now. What oh dear, what the fuck?
Speaker 10: Maddie?
Speaker 25: This may not be the best time.
Speaker 23: Actually, this may be to our benefit. If you'll all
calm down and have a seat. I can explain everything.
Speaker 27: Darien Madelan, No, Darien, that's not Maddie. I don't know
who or what that is, but we all know Maddie's gone.
Speaker 3: Kristen glared at Maddie. Maddie, is that you? I mean,
of course it's you. But how the arian reached out
to touch Mattie's face but instead turned and grabbed my
head by the chart answers.
Speaker 23: Now you forget yourself, young man.
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Speaker 26: Mister Caine, you must show respect for Professor Mahague, although
I am getting frustrated as well. There's a lot of
emotional baggage to unpacked today, and it'll all be over
sooner if everyone listens, Please continue, Professor the.
Speaker 3: Hague pool Darien's hands off his shirt as Jake sat
down on the edge of the desk, unaware of Mahaigue's
disgruntled gaze.
Speaker 23: As Divina said, there's a lot of emotional baggage to
unpack today. Yes, Jake is dead. The Jake you knew,
Sam's husband died yesterday in the Renegade attack, and according
to Madeleine, it was from blunt force trauma to the
head that caved in his skull. This man and that
girl are not the same people you knew and loved.
There's a lot of lingering questions here.
Speaker 13: But.
Speaker 3: The Hague gestured towards Jake, giving him the floor.
Speaker 25: If you want answers on your best bet.
Speaker 7: I'm sure Professor.
Speaker 25: Mahague here has already told you some stuff, and I
can guarantee that the rumors of my death were not,
in fact greatly exaggerated. There are two words you need
to know dimensional rift. Through those a person can go
to any planet, any dimension, and in each of those dimensions.
Speaker 7: Yes, Kristen, thank you for keeping up.
Speaker 3: Is another set of us.
Speaker 25: There will be slight variations to us, all different heights,
different birthdays, slight changing voice preference for other hobbies. But
genetically they're us, or rather we are you and you
or us. You see, I'm from another dimension, Jake two
point zero, if you will. When Mattie and I arrived,
we stumbled upon your Jake's corpse, or rather she did,
which was traumatic. What you need to know is why
the two of us are here with all of you.
You're about to be attacked.
Speaker 10: A bit late there, buddy.
Speaker 28: No, you've been poked at and tested, but you haven't
been attacked, not yet. You haven't experienced the uttered up
a station of an all out attack.
Speaker 20: But you will.
Speaker 29: He's coming, He's coming, He who?
Speaker 27: And what do you know about it? What reason do
we even have to listen to.
Speaker 26: You, Kristin? There's no reason.
Speaker 28: Thanks, But I've got.
Speaker 3: This Maddie trying her attention to Kristin.
Speaker 28: I understand that it's hard to see me right now.
I've been listening I've been watching. It all makes sense now,
like the painful shard in my chest, the pain she
was feeling something outside.
Speaker 29: Herself, convincing her she wasn't good enough.
Speaker 28: I heard you speak of Madeline, of Tara one dying,
and I.
Speaker 27: She didn't just die, she was taken from us. And
here you are. You want to be copy of someone
we loved, and you just expect us to take you
into our hearts and replace her.
Speaker 28: No, I would never expect, nor do I want you
to replace her, least of all with me. I know
what it's like, that ever present whole of bitter darkness
gning at your heart, the ache of wanting to reach
out for someone to hold, knowing that gone forever. And
then then when I walked in here and I saw
all of you, I wanted to leap for joy, to cry,
to hug you all and never let you leave of
my sight again. The pain that has been in my
heart since I lost every single one of you has
been nearly unbearable. But bear it I did, and I
will continue to do so. You're right, Kristens, I'm not
the Maddie you knew, just like you're not.
Speaker 30: The sister I knew.
Speaker 28: And loved the sister who saved my life when she
forced me to make a promise over a borrowed jacket.
Speaker 3: Maddie stuck a leg out and wake on her foot.
Speaker 28: I'll never have a ballerina's legs, but I think I
like these better anyway.
Speaker 3: Kristen wiped her tears away.
Speaker 27: You do look more badass with muscles.
Speaker 23: Like I was saying. We have come under attack twice now,
once at the dance and then again.
Speaker 3: While I go.
Speaker 23: A good portion of the cadets were away for training.
That tells me that we have a sabatur in our
midst one of ours is working against us, sabotaging our defenses,
and we are likely to face an even greater attack soon.
Speaker 25: Before you'll start jabbering about who the trader could or
couldn't be. Can I please say.
Speaker 3: What I need to Meig? Maigu gestured toward Jake, giving
him the floor once more. Jake waited until there was silence.
Speaker 25: Okay, Yes, there is someone who's gotten in with your plans.
He knows your strategies, your buildings, your people. Helly probably
even knows what Meig was going to eat for lunch.
Nightmares coming for Tara one, and he'll start with its
best defense you.
Speaker 23: Thank you, Jake, And yes it's a lot to take in.
But now let's turn our attention to miss child, who
has been waiting so patiently.
Speaker 26: Unfortunately, I have more bad news. Your friend Max Knight
was taken into the infirmary late last night. Ethan Evans,
his roommate, found him unresponsive in their door. I also
apologize for only coming to you now knowing how close
you are. Ethan was with us all night, helping the
medical team as they attempted relentlessly to relive Max. Even
our most skilled healers were not able to bring Max
back to consciousness.
Speaker 19: I am so sorry.
Speaker 27: Hell what mad too?
Speaker 26: It seems that he had been self medicating with Alice Flower.
When Ethan found him, they found this picture of Max
with this young lady, Maddie, you said in his hands.
As always, I am available to all of you for
grief counseling and emotional support.
Speaker 3: How are we supposed to deal? Who is my best friend? Divina?
Who is my best friend? How could I?
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Speaker 3: He was fine yesterday. He never seemed depressed or off.
Speaker 26: Sometimes these things cannot be seen. Death is hard to
cope with for some people, and I guess Max couldn't
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Speaker 27: How are we supposed to cope?
Speaker 28: Then?
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Speaker 31: Yellow Alert m Com Three Battalions thirteen, seven and eight
Tara one, Baltic City.
Speaker 20: What's that?
Speaker 32: It is an alarm Somewhere there is a fairly significant
emergency involving a single city or region that will need
a battalion's assistance. Use your training, observe and determine the
location as well as the nature of the emergency.
Speaker 21: S Baltic City on Tara one that's near my home.
It's a large scale attack with demons and vampires. We
must warn someone.
Speaker 19: We have to warn my friends.
Speaker 32: Denise, you must listen to me now. War has already begun.
Whether we alert the UAD now or in five minutes
does not matter. I must make you understand the gravity
of the situation.
Speaker 7: On my world, Tara six.
Speaker 32: War is continuous and I am partially to blame. Without clearance,
and before I received government permission, I decided to publish
an essay on the exponential effects of the MAP virus
transferred by livestock and livestock by products.
Speaker 21: Baltic City is being attacked, and you're going to give
me a load of bs from one of your essays.
Speaker 32: Listen here, Denise. There is an important lesson to be learned,
especially about alarms. Scientists like me attempted to warn the
citizens of my world before the epidemic began, but scientists
failed because no one wanted to give up meat. I
felt it was my duty to inform my world of
the consequences of continuing to eat meat. Also, immune diseases
continue to affect meat eaters, and multiple digestive surgeries were required.
Speaker 20: I have to do something.
Speaker 32: Miss Winters. By not following the proper protocol my world
formed two distinct political groups that continue to battle one
another when land allocation and what foods people should consume.
Speaker 21: That's a health crisis trend. It hardly seems relevant. Now
we need to save the families of Baltic City.
Speaker 32: That's precisely it Denise. My people are dying from malnutrition.
The MAP virus infects the meat eaters, and the vegans
are not able to gain enough access to land to
plant their bean crops. If I had followed protocol, the
government of my nation could have created protected lands for
the vegans. In addition, the test for the MAP virus
would have been mandatory for all livestock.
Speaker 19: Cows.
Speaker 21: Really, wow, zombie cows, your situation sounds incredibly unique.
Speaker 32: Livestock with the virus would have been quarantined, treated foreign
affection and not consumed. Finally, healthy livestock would have I've
been certified suitable for consumption for the meat eaters. Both
groups would have been happy if I had given my
government a chance to administer proper protocol. If my government
did not take proper action, then it would be up
to the people to create a plan to test the
livestock and create the protected space for vegetable planting.
Speaker 21: What if I send a message about the attack to
the UAD and Darien at the same time. Surely there
would be no harm in that Tarawan is becoming flooded
by red beetle, demons, vampires, and who knows what else.
Speaker 11: You are quite insubordinate today. What if Darien or another
member of the team takes an incorrect action because of
your message. I don't think you would like the fate
of your entire earth on your conscience.
Speaker 21: You told me that working for the UAD would allow
me to help my friends, to keep an eye on them.
I feel like I was cheated. You want me to
do nothing and let others handle everything. Are we gonna
leave it to someone else to investigate? To report this?
Speaker 32: Miss Winters, you are lucky that I understand you are
in the emotional distress right now. This is not how
one behaves in a militaristic environment. Anyone who is connected
to tara I will be able to join the fight
to protect their earth. Darien and his team will be
called once a plan of action has been created.
Speaker 3: You will be.
Speaker 32: Contacted as well with your orders. Be patient, little firecracker, and.
Speaker 21: You are an apathetic narcissist who thinks that it's better
to do nothing in an emergency than possibly do the
wrong thing. In an emergency like this, every second counts.
Every second can mean the difference between tens of thousands
of lives lost and lives safe.
Speaker 20: You, sir, are in the wrong job. I'm gonna do
my job and report this.
Speaker 3: With trembling fingers, Denise input the coordinates, symbols and codes
into the UAD supercomputer, which notified them of the assault
on Tara I. She included as much detail as possible,
including specific heat signatures, sound logs, and changing topographical maps.
She didn't want a single detail to be excluded. This
was now her soul mission save Tara One from a
hostile takeover.
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Speaker 3: So you must be the medaline that I've seen in
my dreams from Tara Io. I thought you died. I
guess I didn't see everything. I didn't see Max dying. First,
I get my sister back, just to lose my best friend.
Speaker 28: I didn't know about that. You dreamt of me? What's
Alice Flower? I can't believe that I came all this
way and I still lose my second chance.
Speaker 3: As far as what Alice Flower is, it's something that
grows here, very dangerous. Was it you I saw fighting
a dragon? I saw you fall. I thought you were
done for.
Speaker 29: You saw that?
Speaker 28: Well, what happened next.
Speaker 20: Was pretty surreal.
Speaker 3: Go on, what happened?
Speaker 28: A portal opened up beneath me, and I found myself
in some sort of ether dimension. The dragon was there,
and I thought I was done for. Then something unbelievable happened.
I healed the dragon's wounds and he became my friend.
He's waiting for me in the eighth dimension. I guess
I just call on him and he's there.
Speaker 3: That that's amazing. You're like mindmatting in so many ways,
but also so different. You've been through so much. You're
a real tough kiddo.
Speaker 8: Guys.
Speaker 23: I hate to interrupt this family reunion, but I just
got some terrible news. Turns out, Madeline and Jake were right.
Tara One was just attacked. All communication from Baltic City
is down. The whole city just went dark, a complete
communications blackout.
Speaker 3: How do we know it's not just some power outage
that happens often enough.
Speaker 23: The last bit of footage from our sensors showed a
phase droid destroying the sensor. The sensor nodes usually can't
be seen, but these droids must have some type of
site that humans don't have.
Speaker 3: What's a phase droid?
Speaker 23: A type of android that's commonly used as a foot
soldier or a guard for the renegades. They're only ever
spotted before a major attack. They're just foot soldiers, not
useful for elite commando missions, only mass attacks.
Speaker 3: How are we handling this.
Speaker 23: Well? You and your fellow cadets have your first real mission.
If you can be a soldier, put your grief aside
and save your planet.
Speaker 28: I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Like hell you are. It's too dangerous. I'm not losing
my sister twice.
Speaker 28: If you've been following my journey, you've seen what I
can do. I've got a fucking dragon. You've watched my journey,
but from the perspective of a worried brother, so you
haven't seen anything. Let me prove to you that I
can handle this. I have power to you.
Speaker 16: Know.
Speaker 3: If you're anything like my Maddie, I know you can't
follow orders. You've never listened to me, or she never
listened to me. God, this is confusing.
Speaker 29: I know, but your Maddie is gone. I'm not her.
Speaker 20: I can follow orders.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Madeleine turned her attention to Mahegue.
Speaker 28: Mister Mahague, Jake and I have been running from the
renegades for months. We know how they think we can
be of great help.
Speaker 25: Oh no, I'm not an active duty soldier. I'm a
trainer teacher. This isn't my mission. But let me just
say this, Madelin is a very capable young lady. She
can be a great asset to this mission.
Speaker 3: Maddie looked at Jake with disappointment and then smile when
he spoke well of her. I'm still not convinced.
Speaker 28: Then let me convince you I'm going on this mission.
The Renegades killed my whole family, all my friends, my
entire world, and Jamie. Their deaths must be avenged.
Speaker 3: Who's Jamie?
Speaker 28: Someone who I only near for a short time, put
who meant the world to me?
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, you can go, but you must follow orders.
Speaker 29: I can do that, I promise.
Speaker 3: Jesse was sitting in the Academy Robotics lab working on
his suit. He was unsatisfied with his performance in the
training exercise. Even though that suit was only a replica
of his actual suit, it was almost identical in every way,
so he knew he would have the same problems. He
wanted to make it quieter and add in some features
that would make it easier to use in the fight
against evil.
Speaker 22: Okay, I think these sound dampeners would do the trick,
and this padding will make it more comfortable. What else
do we need to do here?
Speaker 3: As he thought about how he wished to be working
on the suit with doctor Carson, he looked up in
the Divina coming toward him.
Speaker 11: Hey, Divina, what's up.
Speaker 3: Davina looked at him with sympathy, and he felt sudden worried.
He rarely came with good news, Jesse.
Speaker 26: I'm afraid to have some rather bad news.
Speaker 11: Boom.
Speaker 26: Your hometown, Baltic City, was attacked last night. Its status
is unknown. All our censors there are down.
Speaker 11: My family is there.
Speaker 5: What can we do?
Speaker 26: Battalian thirteen is prepping to go on a mission to
the city to gather more intel. I was told to
find any students from there and ask if they want
to join the mission.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 11: I need to see this for myself.
Speaker 22: My soup is almost ready to who's going on the mission?
Speaker 26: That would be Darien and of your mates. They're briefing
just now. This will be their first mission. We know
you would want your classmates there. After your performance in
the Agetac, I understand you got the blue flag. Excellent teamwork.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 11: How soon do we leave?
Speaker 16: Not too fast? I have some difficult news. Your classmate
Max Knight and your instructor Jake Madison lost their lives yesterday.
Is it going to be difficult for you to stay focused?
Speaker 22: I only knew them for a short time, but I
will treasure the experiences that I had with them.
Speaker 11: I'll be fine to join in the Baltic City mission.
Speaker 15: Jesse.
Speaker 26: This is a good opportunity for you. If the mission
goes well, you may be added to Battalion thirteen as
permanent members. I have a small favor to ask of you.
Ethan wants to go on the mission as well. He
was Max's roommate.
Speaker 16: Please keep an eye on him and the others. There's
a lot of grief in the military. Call for help
if they need it. Oki and remember what's important. Look
for survivors, but follow orders.
Speaker 15: Act as a.
Speaker 16: Guide to the city for the others who may not
know it as well as you. You have time to
finish your suit, but be quick about it. Report to
the portal room in thirteen minutes.
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Speaker 21: Doctor Weston. It's nice to be back here working with
the Academy on such a crucial investigation. With Sean scouring
the interdimensional channels for answers as to the attack on
the academy and losing Madeline, it's been a difficult time
for the family.
Speaker 33: We are grateful for your expertise. Three extracts went missing
during the attack, and only Miss Harvey, You're Alicia, knew
the full capability of their power. I'm sure that the
UAD will find her absence very curious, indeed, and will
soon send a search party.
Speaker 10: For her recovery.
Speaker 33: You may not know this, but she assisted me in
many military experiments and she may have information valuable to
the renegades. Alicia went on a research mission, as you know,
but it seems she never made it to her destination.
Do you know if she might have taken a diversion.
Speaker 19: Have you spoken to Sean, her fiance, about this?
Speaker 25: No?
Speaker 33: I only heard this morning.
Speaker 19: Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Jane Baxter and Ian Gelsinger caught up to them in
the hallway. Ian was from Tara forty six and was
a chief Tech officer of Battalion thirteen. Jane was the
current field commander and particularly good at leading the team
through trouble.
Speaker 30: We'll build a better team this time, will use stricter protocols,
and Battalion thirteen will be the best it's ever been.
Speaker 6: Jane, They're just kids.
Speaker 10: It's too much for.
Speaker 6: Them to handle. They're not even twenty one. They're not
old enough to drink. Why were they even recruited at
such a young age?
Speaker 3: Not that ever stopped the ua D.
Speaker 6: They need more training.
Speaker 30: Ian, they have fresh minds, they have fresh eyes. Remember
the prophecy about the youngest member.
Speaker 20: Of Battalion thirteen.
Speaker 30: How would they save us from the threat that infiltrated
our ranks. Well, someone is getting information from inside our
bases and getting it to the renegades. We need our
ranks replenished, and now is the best time.
Speaker 3: Andrea stopped in the doorway and poked her head into
the briefing room.
Speaker 34: Sorry to interrupt. I heard you were speaking about the
prophecy I made when I was a cadet here. I
just realized it might be about my son, his wife
and their friends. My apologies for interrupting your briefing. I'm
here to help with the recent attack.
Speaker 6: Darien is your son, Yes.
Speaker 21: Ian, Darien is my son, and now that you're talking
about the prophecy and Darien in the same conversation. I
think you might be right. Shit, damn Mahagen, his always
being right about these things. That was his guess back
when I made the prophecy.
Speaker 3: How bold?
Speaker 33: How could he possibly come to that conclusion.
Speaker 21: I know it sounds crazy, right. My son had a
recent brush with death. My daughter lost her life with suicide.
And all the pieces are snapping into place, all of it.
Speaker 3: The row.
Speaker 19: The eggs are twins.
Speaker 33: Missus Kane. You certainly are an expert in many fields,
most of all prophecy, and the newest cadets have exhibited
the quickest growing and strongest psionic abilities we've seen at
the Academy in decades. Jake Madison is not a fine
job with them. Maybe they are the dreams capers, the
ones who will dream of the Academy before they come here,
the ones who practice abilities and take classes in their.
Speaker 21: Stup I've never heard that part of the prophecy before,
the part about them having dreams?
Speaker 19: Is it new?
Speaker 21: When was it added to the Akashik records.
Speaker 6: The entry isn't labeled with an author although prophecy or not,
we are sending Darien and his friends on a reconmission
today with the thirteen Battalion thirteen has the highest mortality
rate of all the battalions. Are you okay with that,
Miss Kaye? Are you willing to put your son's life
on the line?
Speaker 19: Put choice?
Speaker 20: Do we have?
Speaker 21: Three powerful extracts were stolen, the academy was attack and
there's already been a heavy loss of life. But war
isn't the only thing that can kill Max Knight, who
was one of the cadets, a close friend to my children,
a son to me, lost his life to one of
those extracts just last night. They're highly volatile. The academy
has come under attack twice, and if we don't do
something now, we could lose everyone. Jane, you're a veteran.
Speaker 20: Do what you have to do.
Speaker 30: Thanks, ma'am.
Speaker 6: We'll do our best.
Speaker 33: Well, we should get back to work on the extracts
and let them plan the mission. We must allow them
to do what they do best while we do what
we do best.
Speaker 3: Darien and his crew were sitting in the cafeteria of
Battalion thirteen headquarters, which was adjacent to the Akashiki Academy.
The UAD Battalion thirteen, headquarters and the academy were all
in the Akasha, a separate astroplane from the others surrounding
the physical planes, such as tara Wan. A woman walked
in with a man behind her. They looked around as
if they were sensing something unusual. Darien also had an
odd feeling when looking at the two that came in,
but didn't think anything of it. The woman standing above
him had a flaming red hair and commanded authority. The
man had a short, brown, regular haircut, a kindness in
his eyes, and a smirk on his face. Both wore
the dark turquoise uniform of the UAD. The man turned
to the woman and touched her on the arm cautiously.
Speaker 9: Jane, are they the new recruits?
Speaker 20: I guess so. Ian wonder if.
Speaker 9: The one guy knows he's an immortal. I sensed him
as soon as we arrived here.
Speaker 30: I don't know, But if he doesn't know, which is
often the case, we'd better tell him before the mission.
Speaker 3: She glanced at the table where the new recruits were sitting.
On the table was a map of a different dimensions
in the school districts within the Akasha. There weren't that
many cadets, not as many as last time, but most
of them didn't survive their first mission. This is what
made Jane and Ian so nervous.
Speaker 9: God, these kids have no idea what's in store for them.
Speaker 8: You're so young.
Speaker 3: A light on the wall flash and there was an
announcement over the intercom.
Speaker 35: Attention, new recruits, Darien Kane, Kristin Kane, Madeline Kan, Chad Ender,
Cynthia Trask, Ethan Evans, Jesse Barnes, Eric Swanson, Pharaohs report
to the ready room on level C three for mission briefing.
Speaker 3: A few seconds passed and then a light flashed again,
and the intercoms watched the life once more.
Speaker 35: Attention, Lieutenant Ian Gelsinger, Lieutenant Commander Jane Baxter, please report
to the ready room on level C three for mission briefing.
Speaker 30: I never get to eat breakfast. Better grab a donut
before we go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm hungry.
Speaker 3: Jane grabbed a single donut and Ian grabbed several. They
walked out of the room, following Darien and his friends.
Where's levelle C three.
Speaker 20: We're headed there now you can follow us.
Speaker 3: Thanks. I'm Darien. This is Kristen, Chad, Cynthia, Madeline, Eric
Ethan and Faris. Faris and Eric smiled simultaneously.
Speaker 30: Lieutenant Commander Jane baxter Us cassed Saint Flair.
Speaker 3: I've read your bio. You've been a lascence nineteen fifty five.
You look so young, hardly believe you're in your forties.
They all walked over to the lift and the door
opened with a ding.
Speaker 27: Please excuse my husband. He should know it's never okay
to ask about a lady's age.
Speaker 20: Oh, not at all. I'm an immortal.
Speaker 30: Our age is a point of pride.
Speaker 3: She gave Darien an odd look.
Speaker 30: But I can see you're new at this. It gets
better with experience.
Speaker 3: Darien was confused.
Speaker 27: Oh my god, that makes so much sense.
Speaker 3: What are you want about?
Speaker 27: Don't you get it? You're healing factor, the fact that
you died when you were fighting that giant squid thing,
and yet here you are walking and talking like nothing happened,
not even a scar.
Speaker 3: What do you mean? What makes sense?
Speaker 27: You're like her?
Speaker 8: Wait?
Speaker 10: When did you die?
Speaker 3: During the funeral? Max and I had to fight that
big beastie in Severna Park.
Speaker 9: Max, so that place is a mystical hot spot on
your earth too.
Speaker 3: Go figure, mystical hotspot. No, Savanna Park is more like
the draws of Hell. The lift George chimed and opened.
They all stepped out and followed Jane to the briefing room.
Speaker 25: Damn, Darien, no wonder you have.
Speaker 10: All those powers an immortal?
Speaker 20: Huh?
Speaker 10: Does that mean he can't die at all? Or just
not like everyone else?
Speaker 9: Just not like anyone else. You need to magically enhanced
special blade. We can get you up to speed on that.
Speaker 3: After the briefing, Darien was understandably in shock at this news,
but it did make sense to him. Well, this changes
things serably. Wait. I just turned eighteen last July. Does
this mean I'll be eighteen for the rest of my life?
Speaker 30: Actually about eight eighteen and a half. Yeah, but don't worry.
You can still get alcohol when you turn twenty one.
People don't age that much between eighteen and twenty one,
and you look like you could pass for twenty one. Now,
just make sure you have your ID on you.
Speaker 3: I don't really drink that much, so it's not really
concerned for me. I do have some questions, though.
Speaker 9: Hey, do you have an oric condenser yet? A What
an oric condenser? It's a small rectangular device that focuses
your immortal aura into a psionic blade. It's used for
fighting demons.
Speaker 3: Dariu looked a bit overwhelmed. I uh, don't have.
Speaker 30: One of those unless you're good with a sword. It's
a waste of time and could be used against you.
I never use mine. It's not like every immortal has one.
Speaker 3: I'm actually fairly good with a sword.
Speaker 9: I never use mine. But when you have a power
like mine, you don't need.
Speaker 3: To usc costs. Side blast fire plasma kinesis right.
Speaker 9: I'm impressed you read my bio too.
Speaker 3: Read your bio, hell, I read everyone's by They told
me to familiarize myself with the team.
Speaker 8: Good job.
Speaker 9: Whether you have a photographic memory or something.
Speaker 3: I didn't used to.
Speaker 27: I guess this means you'll never forget my birthday again.
Speaker 20: We'll have to pick this up later. We're here.
Speaker 3: As they stood in front of the door in the
briefing room, they could hear muffled talking through the wall.
It sounded like two people arguing. Then Jane opened the door.
The two people who were arguing suddenly stopped and stared
at Jane and the other so as they walked in.
Commander Admiral Leander Kane and Admiral Shapiro stood there, looking
like their argument was about to get more heated.
Speaker 20: Good morning, Lieutenant Baxter. Oh, I see you broke the
new recruits.
Speaker 14: I'll leave you all to it.
Speaker 3: Darien saw that it was his father who was surprised
to say the least.
Speaker 5: Dad, Hello Darien, Well this is awkward.
Speaker 3: Admiral Shapiro turned back to Commander Kane.
Speaker 15: Looks like you do have a lot to talk, vot.
Speaker 20: I'll leave you to it.
Speaker 15: Remember what I said, don't make me pull rank?
Speaker 3: Yes, Sir Garian was in shock. His father was the
commander of Battalion thirty. This was news to him. Why
didn't you tell me? Does mom know?
Speaker 10: Yes? Of course your mother knows. Honestly, I think she
got to chuckle out of me, being a scientist for years.
The guys isn't as good as the glory. But I
shouldn't complain. I won't put targets on my family's heads
by telling you. I couldn't tell you since it was
on a need to know basis, and until now you
didn't need to know.
Speaker 3: What do you mean? I didn't need to know when
I came over Madaline. His funeral you could have told
me when I almost died in Ronne Park. You could
have told me, I don't understand.
Speaker 10: The UAD is a secret organization. The battalions are also
a secret. You weren't a member of any battalion, and
I was hoping to have more time to figure out
how to tell you.
Speaker 3: How long have you been the commander of Battalion thirteen?
Speaker 10: About five years?
Speaker 3: You've had five years to tell me.
Speaker 10: Before that, I was just a soldier fighting supernatural threats.
Speaker 7: Like the rest of us.
Speaker 10: I know it was the moment you started fighting vampires
that one day joined Battalion thirteen. Your mother and I
both knew, But right now we have more pressing matters
to discuss. Place six.
Speaker 3: Once everyone was seated, the briefing started.
Speaker 10: As you know, Baltic City on T one went dark
ATA thirty nine. What you haven't been told yet is
that this was a demon attack coordinated by our enemies,
the Renegades. We've seen this type of thing before on
other earths, see forty seven, where even years from had
a similar attack. It always starts with Baltic City. But
T forty seven survived that attack because we had measures
in place that T one doesn't or rather didn't have
until now. This will be an ongoing threat and because
of that, T one will need a team of specialists
that can deal with demon fighting and large scale invasions
of supernatural entities. That's why you're all here. Welcome to
tell you thirteen.
Speaker 3: Eugene then tapped a button on his risk computer. Once
he tapped a button, a screen lowered from the ceiling
and came to life. While the streew was a map
of Baltic City. Eugene tapped his Risk computer a few
more times, and several red dots appeared on the map
in different locations.
Speaker 24: This first red dot is where you want to go
to set up base camps. It's a place called the
Tuquis Hotel. Darien has been there before, so follow his leap.
Speaker 3: Darien remembered his dream about Baltic City, the one where
he saw himself leading a team in the Tuki's hotel.
He hoped that and they arrived, you will be able
to stomach the carnage. That was no doubt they are.
Eugene pointed to the second red dot, who was in
the center of the city.
Speaker 10: Once you're done setting up base camp, send a two
person team to check out the shield generator in the
center of the city. This is an intel gathering mission.
Do not act without direct orders. I want you to
see what the shield is made of and if possible,
shut it down so we can send in troops.
Speaker 3: Eugene then pointed to the last red dot.
Speaker 10: This is your extraction point if you get the shield down.
Otherwise you'll have to find a way out of the
city that bypasses the shield. You'll be on your own
in that case.
Speaker 3: Eugene tapped his risk computer again and the screen lifted
out of sight.
Speaker 10: Commanded, Baxtra has your two version teams should be commanding
the mission along with Darien. As soon as this briefing
is over, you'll have thirty minutes to prepare then move out.
Speaker 3: Dismissed, everyone chuffing out of the room, but Darien and Eugene. Dad,
I don't know if I'm ready to lead a mission
that's important.
Speaker 10: I know you are. In fact, I have so much
faith in your ability to lead that I put you
in charge. If you feel the mission is going badly,
you can take full command of it, but only if
it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, Commander Baxter is in charge.
Is that understood.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 10: Go join the others in the portal room and son,
good luck.
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Speaker 3: Darien left and went to the portal room. Baltic City
was blanketed by widespread darkness to Brithe and rebel late everywhere,
and a thick layer of cement dust hung heavily in
the air. Among the concrete carnage. Humans crept, trying their
best to stay out of sight of lurking predators around him.
Looking up, James could see the red and black, flickering
chasm above the city. He sat behind a half destroyed
wall for cover. Screams of terror rang like loud chursh
bells all around him, irritating obnoxious and agonizing to his soul.
The smell of blood, metallic and salty, so heavy he
could taste it, permeated the air like a fog of
human Jellat the crunching of bone that cut off, the
screams were almost peaceful, but also morbid by being so,
James tried to convince himself that it was just someone
biting an apple, but the sound was too dry and
hollow for that. It disgusted him to his very core.
But the smell dried his mouth and made his stomach grumble.
Hunger was a bitch of a monster. Vampires in Emerson's
coven ran everywhere, catching human after human, happily treating everyone
like cattle. But James wasn't joining the fray. By his
unnatural stillness and disinterest. He caught Selene's eye. Hey, weirdo,
James head snapped up, What.
Speaker 15: Uh, You're not doing anything? That's what she.
Speaker 3: Stood over him. Selene's face was stained with a reddish
black around her mouth, the substance still very shining, wet
and running. Her shirt had deep red stains around the
neck that ran like a gruesome gradient down the front,
Half dry and half wet. She didn't seem to mind it,
though her hands had a chalky red powder coating them,
turning her ivory skin almost frostbitten in appearance. It's a
bad day to wear a gray, James pointed, gesturing to
her top. She looked down.
Speaker 15: Oh uh oops.
Speaker 3: She wiped her face with the sleeve of her black
trench coat. She tried to wipe out the stains with
the other sleeve, but quickly gave up as the blood
only smeared more into it.
Speaker 15: I don't come out now. Why are you moping this time?
Speaker 3: She sat down next to James.
Speaker 7: That's just disgusting. Why wouldn't I mope?
Speaker 15: Dinner is disgusting? What are you? A vegetarian?
Speaker 7: Now? Maybe a.
Speaker 31: Vegetarian vampire that's the best one yet.
Speaker 15: Look, you'll never survive on fruits and veggies.
Speaker 13: Get some blood in you.
Speaker 7: You really don't get it.
Speaker 15: What's then?
Speaker 3: You don't get it?
Speaker 7: No one gets it?
Speaker 15: Gets what.
Speaker 7: You don't understand that among all this depth and destruction,
there's people out there that I care about, and that,
unlike you, I see all this is murder.
Speaker 15: It's not murder, it's dinner. Your friends will die one day,
but we won't. To me, this is live in the
high life.
Speaker 3: No, this is not the highlight.
Speaker 9: This is hell.
Speaker 7: People are dying and no one seems to.
Speaker 15: Care because it's food. Live a little.
Speaker 7: They're not food, They're alive like us.
Speaker 15: Technically, we aren't alive.
Speaker 7: You just told me to live a little. We eat,
we sleep, we can breathe. We're alive. How are we
any better than them? How are we supreme?
Speaker 15: We can live forever?
Speaker 7: So what I never asked for? This, I never asked
to live forever. It's a blood sucking demon. Sorry. I'm
not a mindless slave to the cause or part of
this mob mentality, since.
Speaker 3: I can see the truth.
Speaker 7: Sorry, I'm not as heartless as you. But I have
people I care about who are out there somewhere, and
I don't want to eat them.
Speaker 15: If you won't, I will.
Speaker 16: Sorry, princess, but I'm not some suicidal idiot who will
starve myself to death and dry up like a drop
in the desert.
Speaker 7: If you hurt anyone I care about, I will snap
your head off. They're my friends and family.
Speaker 15: Try me, bitch.
Speaker 7: Don't you have anyone you care about other than yourself?
Speaker 3: Zelene pressed her index finger to her lips to puzzle sarcastically.
Speaker 15: Nope, not really. Most people left.
Speaker 26: Or I left them.
Speaker 7: Has to be someone well.
Speaker 3: She paused. Zeleen began nervously pulling at her trenchcoat, pulling
it clothes at the front with its missing buttons. She
tugged at the frayed sleeves, tracing the hemming down the
sides of her jacket to the shredded edges with her fingertips.
She grabbed a small, misshapen nail off the ground and
began poking the ashy dark.
Speaker 15: I guess, but he left to everyone else.
Speaker 8: Did you eat it?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: Her head snapped up, then sunk back down.
Speaker 16: He just left, learned to survive the concrete jungle, learned
some tricks, and then poof, he's gone.
Speaker 3: She made a gesture with her hands to emphasize the poof,
a small pop open of her fingers from her palms,
like she was doing jazz hands.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry that that happened to you.
Speaker 15: Forget it. It's in the past. If you linger too
long on it, I.
Speaker 3: Don't kill you. She threw the metal nail into the
distance and actually cared about him.
Speaker 15: Though he was my only friend, I care.
Speaker 7: About my friends the same way got it.
Speaker 15: So do you know where they are now?
Speaker 7: No clue. They went into the military after graduation, but
I haven't been in contact in months.
Speaker 16: Do you think they're on the other side?
Speaker 7: Probably don't want to take a side, but I don't
want to be on this one if I have to
fight to kill them one day.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 15: I hate to break it to you, but you don't
have a choice.
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 3: I could change sides.
Speaker 7: It's not like I have friends over here. I hate
being over here.
Speaker 15: You have a better chance here than anywhere else. And
you do have a friend.
Speaker 16: Oh really, I'd like to consider as allies or associates
for friends. Even why, I'm not sure, But.
Speaker 13: Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel.
Speaker 16: This urged to either avoid you or snap your head
off on site. You don't bother me and you don't
threaten me. Plus we did just have a heart to
heart a moment.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't consider that a basis for friendship.
Speaker 15: How about a mutual agreement of respect?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 7: And how are we supposedly safer over here?
Speaker 15: There's food, roof over our heads, protection.
Speaker 7: A war, fighting, violence, the threat of death. Not all
the time, no, pretty much is all the time.
Speaker 15: But it's the same over there too, probably worse somewhat.
Speaker 7: I don't believe for a second that this righteous crusade
as a nightmare dude is on, it's actually real, or
will come to fruition or anything. It's just violence for
violence sake.
Speaker 16: Nightmer seems held bent on getting us in our rights,
some freedom.
Speaker 15: Not so wrong, No, I just.
Speaker 3: James looked out to the horizon.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's the right way to do it.
Speaker 15: What do you mean.
Speaker 7: Humanity has always been at war with itself? What if
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Speaker 15: We're safe here.
Speaker 7: We're not humans, we might not be, but the person
in charge is, and we were once human. How long
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Speaker 16: Things of importance, things that mean something, things worth caring
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Speaker 7: Selene were ponds in their little game, their little war.
We mean less than nothing.
Speaker 15: We would mean the same over there.
Speaker 7: No, Garien and Kristen have more heart than that. They
wouldn't let us die. We wouldn't be just bodies over there.
Speaker 15: You have so much faith in your friends, Mordred. I
can respect that, But why wouldn't we be killed? On site.
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Speaker 3: Would they be killed? Ignored? Treads of doubts not crept
in the Dame's mind. He wondered if his friends would
recognized him, or even care that he was their enemy,
A monster.
Speaker 16: That Jake guy, the one I killed. Didn't he know
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we killed their ally?
Speaker 3: Not the good point? Why would they? Jake was dead? Now,
James shook off the thoughts.
Speaker 7: They would trust me, Darien would give me a chance.
He's never had a reason to doubt.
Speaker 15: Me before, but he doubt me. They don't know me.
I refuse to die because of your sorry ass.
Speaker 3: She quickly set up and tried to stand. No wait,
James topped her from getting up and grabbing her arm.
Speaker 7: Okay, you've got her.
Speaker 18: Now what uh?
Speaker 15: What is it, Mordred?
Speaker 7: What if we take out someone on this side, someone
who's an enemy to my.
Speaker 15: Friends, that'll also get us killed?
Speaker 25: No?
Speaker 7: No, look, destroyer is focused on defending the barrier. If
we attack while he's occupied.
Speaker 16: Mordred, you'll kill us regardless. I really don't feel like
dying today.
Speaker 7: You won't promise?
Speaker 36: Really?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: We're friends, right, I won't let you die.
Speaker 3: Well, She relaxedes, sat back to think for a second.
Speaker 15: All right, and I'll throw you a nice funeral if
you die for real. Yep, I'm a very generous person.
Speaker 3: She spat into her left hand and extended it out
to him.
Speaker 16: But her there, mate, what, I'll make sure you're earning
his company and everything roses friends, the whole shebang.
Speaker 3: Do youal why? The James pointed to her hand with
a spit on it. The spit was now loosely turning
into strands and dribbling from her palm.
Speaker 15: By this points how we do it on the streets.
Shake my hand, okay.
Speaker 3: He sloppily dribbled saliva into his left hand, feeling the
cold lougis slide over his fingers and palm, before gingerly
stretching his hand out. Before he could even grabs Len's hand,
she slapped her hands together into a handshake, which stung
James's hand and sent spit flying everywhere. He could feel
it cold and mucacy drift between his fingers. Internally, he
shuddered as Eleen let go.
Speaker 15: So m're kellen, Destroyer mordred.
Speaker 3: James peered over the barricade and looked toward the source
of the shield.
Speaker 7: It's James now, and we just have to wait for
an opening.
Speaker 3: So Len looked where James was looking, seeing Destroyer occupied
with the management of the phase droids and the shields integrity.
Now it was just a matter of waiting. Darien and
his team were waiting in the portal room for the
operator to type in the coordinates for Baltic City on
Tara one. There was a six man team of Legacy
B thirteeners ready to go through the portal as recon.
Darien was cradling his ooricandenser in the palm of his hand,
attempting to get it working. Kristin was putting armor on
and arguing with her partner for the mission. Her partner
was Ethan. Kristin was pissed because she wanted to be
paired with Madeline of Sarah too, but Mattie was just
an observer on the mission since she wasn't military. She
went over to talk to Darien about it.
Speaker 27: Look, Darien, I just think someone needs to keep an
eye on the observer for this mission.
Speaker 3: You know, if it were up to me, i'd let you,
but we're on the strict orders to see to the
pairs listed here. For some reason, they want you with Ethan.
I don't fully understand why. But these people are a
lot more experienced than me, so I refer to their expertise.
Is this going to be a problem for you, I suppose.
Speaker 27: But who's keeping an eye on Maddie?
Speaker 3: Jesse is. Look. I trust him. He's going to be
our tech grew in this vision, and he and Maddie
you're going to help assess the situation. They'll keep her
with him and out of trouble. I guarantee it. Lieutenant
Commander Baxter was the last one to join the group.
She was concerned about Darien. She had just been briefed
on who Max Knight was to him. They had grown
up together. She knew what it was like to lose
someone that close to her. Lieutenant Commander Baxter approached Darren
with caution, hoping he was emotionally stable after having a
loss like that.
Speaker 30: Hey, Darien, I was speaking with Andrea earlier and found
out who Max was to you. I'm so sorry for
your loss. Between that and finding out your father is
our commander, you must be a mess. Are you sure
you're all right to go on this mission?
Speaker 3: I just lost my best friend to a drug overdose,
and yeah, my dad is my commanding officer. It's a lot.
Speaker 30: I heard about the overdose, Alice, right, Yeah, I don't
think your friend was trying to kill himself. From what
I understand, you all lost someone particularly important to you.
He was probably just trying to kill the pain. He
didn't know what he was doing.
Speaker 3: He was my best friend for eight years. I don't
know how to do this without him. And now there's
other pressure to get mission right because my dad's in charge.
Speaker 20: We have a mission to accomplish. Do what we all
do when this kind of thing happens. What's that bury
your feelings deep for now.
Speaker 30: Don't think about him until the mission is over and
we're back here again.
Speaker 3: Right, we have a mission to accomplish. Thanks for listening,
and thanks for asking in the first place.
Speaker 20: We're teammates.
Speaker 30: Now we'll have each other's backs, both physically and emotionally.
Are you ready?
Speaker 20: Huddle up?
Speaker 3: Everyone in the control room gathered in ritual fashion. Once
in the circle, they all placed their hands in the center,
each hand in a fist a ladder of clenched hands
as they began their battle.
Speaker 36: Cry, programming in coordinates for Tarror one Ready, three, two one.
Speaker 20: Let's do this.
Speaker 3: Troy Jefferson activated the portal from a touchscreen. As he
programmed the coordinates and size, the portal opened and it
began turning different colors until it was a solid aquamarine,
the color of Terran dimensions. A flat crystalline mist formed
an opening large enough for Italian thirteen to travel through.
The portal. Size could be adjusted if larger objects needed
to pass through, but Troy reduced the size to not
waste precious resources.
Speaker 36: Okay, guys, be careful. This looks like an extremely dangerous mission.
We're all counting on you. Check back with me when
you're ready to come home or a needomatic.
Speaker 30: Thanks Troy, we couldn't do this without you.
Speaker 3: The team stepped through one by one. Once on the
other side, they quickly but quietly walked the half a
click to the shield. Garian reached out and touched the shield.
It burned him, and he quickly took his hand away.
He watched as the burning mark on his hand faded
and healed in a matter of seconds.
Speaker 20: Huh, well, don't touch it.
Speaker 3: Okay, how are we going to get through the shield?
Jane picked up a rock and threw it at the shield.
The shield disintegrated the rock instantly.
Speaker 20: We gotta find a weak spot.
Speaker 3: I don't think an under of the shield has a
weak spot. It looks solid all the way around.
Speaker 30: Maybe you should test out your new immortality and try
to walk through it.
Speaker 3: Are you nuts? That thing burn the crap out of
my hand. I can't do that.
Speaker 29: Maybe Faknir can help.
Speaker 3: Darien gave her a dismissive look. Ian walked up to
it and touched it.
Speaker 20: Ian okay, see.
Speaker 3: Ian touched the shield and let everyone see that it
wasn't hurting him at all.
Speaker 9: It's plasma watch.
Speaker 10: I think I can.
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Speaker 3: As they stepped through the hole in the shield, darkness
and carnage filled their landscape. The streets were littered with
dead bodies. When Darien stepped through, it was like something
out of one of his nightmares. This was one of
his nightmares. He looked down at his waist, saw the
oarcandenser and realized that it was the rectangular flashlight he
wore in the last dream. He now knew this was
something he had yet to master.
Speaker 19: Going to be sick. Breathe, I Am'm breathing. That's the problem.
The smell is so strong.
Speaker 3: Come on, Cynthia, this is what we trained for.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 19: I no, still didn't expect that smell.
Speaker 20: It's the stink of death. It's all around us.
Speaker 30: Our missions are usually dangerous, but this stench is a
bit much.
Speaker 11: Hey, guys, there's a hotel over this way.
Speaker 32: You might still be there.
Speaker 3: The rest of the team followed Jesse to a hotel
that miraculously was still standing. When they got to the door,
they saw people standing there like zombies. Ethan approached one
of them and waved his hand in front of their face.
There was no response. He reached out and touched one
of them. They were warm. He noticed that there was
a little drool coming out of the side of one's mouth,
but otherwise they seemed dazed.
Speaker 4: Uh darien, guys, this one is alive, but appears to
be in a state of shock. I can't seem to
feel anything from him.
Speaker 7: This is very odd. I have one over here too.
Speaker 8: I touched him and he's warm.
Speaker 7: This makes no sense.
Speaker 30: Let's get inside and take stock. Once done, we can
split off into our two person teams and get this
mission over with. Remember this is only a recon mission.
Speaker 11: My family is from here.
Speaker 32: We should see if there are any survivors.
Speaker 20: That's part of our mission if we have time.
Speaker 3: Once inside the hotel, the team looked around. There were
no carcasses or remains inside. It was rather pristine. Cynthia, Eric,
see if you can find the breakers, maybe a generator.
We're gonna need power.
Speaker 25: Yes, sir, sure thing, Come on, Cynthia.
Speaker 3: Cynthia and Eric found the breakers and the generator.
Speaker 25: Maybe there's a short or something.
Speaker 7: It's not coming on.
Speaker 19: Eric, stand back.
Speaker 3: The lights activated throughout the building. That' should do it.
Great job. As Cynthia turned around, she suddenly saw a
human sized bat like creature hanging from the ceiling. It
opened its eyes, which were glowing red.
Speaker 17: When the hell is that?
Speaker 5: Hoo?
Speaker 7: Damn?
Speaker 3: The creature suddenly dropped to the floor and started inching
towards Cynthia, who fucked this. Cynthia blasted the creature continuously
with electricity until it dropped. It twitched uncontrollably until it
was no longer moving. Good job. They walked over to
the elevator and took it to the main level.
Speaker 30: Let's hope the renegades. Don't see that this hotel has
a power restored. That may not have been the call
I would have made, but we can take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: Where are the people who work here? What about the guests?
Two Key's Hotel of Baltic City looks like it would
have been a nice place to get away, the kind
of place I would have taken Christen for our honeymoon
if we'd had time to take one.
Speaker 30: Never mind that now you're immortal, don't get yourself killed
with a crinonium blade, and you can take Christen on
one hundred honeymoons if she also lives that long. Everyone
gather around for your missions.
Speaker 3: Everyone gathered closer to Jane and Darien the elevator door
ding den. Out came Cynthia and Eric.
Speaker 30: Okay, I want you to split off into your pairs
and survey the city. Your single mission is to gather
and tell so we can get a larger strike force
here to do the actual fighting.
Speaker 20: This is just a recon mission.
Speaker 28: If I see the bastards that tormented me, I'm taking
my vengeance. This is what my Baltic City looked like
when they attacked and destroyed my world. I can't let
this happen again. Darien, you may be this world's copy
of my brother, but I don't know you. I don't
know this Kristen or this Chad. I've already missed knowing
this world's Max. The only family I have left is Jake,
and I just saw a version of him die. If
I see the bastards that killed my entire family, I
will take my vengeance.
Speaker 3: No, Maddie, this is just a recond mission. You heard
Commander Baxter. Just see what's happening and report back. But Maddie,
you promised.
Speaker 7: Fine.
Speaker 10: Go.
Speaker 3: Jesse and Madeline were carefully surveying the area around the
center of town. Jesse was in his robotics suit and
had figured out stealth mode. There was a park where
all kinds of demons and vampires had gathered around the
stage in the square. Jesse saw a familiar face among
the crowd.
Speaker 11: Look, it's doctor Carson. He's still alive.
Speaker 7: What's he doing here?
Speaker 10: Who?
Speaker 22: He was my robotics instructor at the academy. He's the
reason I built this suit. We gotta rescue him.
Speaker 28: Uh uh, that's not our mission. We need to stay
out of sight and watch what's happening here. We might
see their leader in this crowd. They look like they're
waiting for someone to speak. They're kind of acting like zombies,
like they're under some sort of spell.
Speaker 29: Not moving or talking to each other. Something that's not right.
Speaker 11: You can watch and see who he is.
Speaker 22: But I'm gonna get my friend out of there.
Speaker 3: Jesse walked closer to doctor Carson, who was a little
bit further away from the rest of the crowd.
Speaker 11: Doctor Carson, Doctor Carson, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Doctor Carson turned to face Jesse, and Jesse quickly understood
why he was there. His contorted face was that of
a vampire. Justice to Vienna had warned. Then, Jesse thought
about how Maheig said there were good vampires like London
Hollow's the vampire that helped get him out of nightmares.
Speaker 22: Thraw, Doctor Carson, come on, we got we gotta get
you out of here.
Speaker 7: Hmm, you built your suit. I'm impressed.
Speaker 9: Never mind that.
Speaker 11: Now we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 9: This is a bad place.
Speaker 5: No I think I'll stay.
Speaker 8: Maybe you should too.
Speaker 38: Step out of that thing and I can make you immortal.
Speaker 5: Having on mind on our side would be delicious.
Speaker 7: Nightmare would reward me.
Speaker 3: Jesse stepped back and pointed his suit guns at doctor Carson.
Speaker 11: Come on, Doc, don't make me do this.
Speaker 8: What an idea?
Speaker 38: I could make you do what I want. I have
powers now as a vampire. Step out of your suit.
No way, step out of your suit.
Speaker 3: Jesse's head began to hurt, and he had the ears
as to her urge to open his suit and step out.
So he opened his suit and gave into the urge.
Madeline saw what was going on and started towards Jesse
and Carson, then frozen her tracks that she saw something
she couldn't believe. It was their leader. He began to speak,
She wreckedganized him, and in absolute terror and displeef she
ran the other way.
Speaker 20: We're closing it.
Speaker 3: Get ready. On the battlefield, Darien and Jane callsign Flare
pasted tens of dozens of human corpses. Some were eaten,
their torsos or shoulders horribly separated from their bodies in
a stringy, freaked show of red mass, their tendons still
holding their limbs to their torsos loosely. Some of them
seemed to be trying to run, but their legs were
ripped off or disintegrate it. Some of them seemed to
fight back makeshift weapons from the wreckage, pasted over with
copper tinted obsidian dust. The opaque powder was caked over
the pipes or rebarred in globs and thick layers. Other
corpses had blood coating their hands, as if they struggled
but failed to get away. Still, others had holes blown
clean through their midsections or were missing heads, the edges
of their wounds crispy and burned like an overdone marshmallow.
As and Jane worked their way toward the source of
the shield, they noted a heavy and sudden shift in
the type of civilian carcasses. They encountered en mass a
torn carcass, then another, and another, a burned carcass, a
torn one, a burned one, shredded, bloody corpse barbecue, then
exclusively burned ones, every single one, everywhere somewhere else in
the battlefield, hidden behind some destroyed walls. Eric and Cynthia
debated the best way to attack the droids, and aid
Jane and Darien blitz.
Speaker 25: We can't just charge in powers blazing.
Speaker 7: We have to stop and.
Speaker 21: Think, Oh, then, what's your plant? We need to help
our teammates out fast, and I don't see a better way.
They're literally everywhere.
Speaker 25: Maybe we could overload their circuits short them out, so sapple, Yeah,
but maybe.
Speaker 37: Not got it.
Speaker 3: Cynthia ran into a sea of droids, hands buzzing with electricity. Blitz,
sit ah, god damn it. Eric distressed, chased after her,
overheating the robots circuit with his pyrokinesis. While Cynthia and
Eric destroyed the robots to aid their friends, Darien and
Flair had almost reached the source of the shield when
they came upon a strange sight. James Before his eyes,
he saw his old high school pal and a brown
haired girl having a tussle with one of the renegade leaders.
Speaker 7: What are you two doing? You're on our side?
Speaker 3: Whoa Destroyer dodged a flying cinderblock. I was never good
at being bad.
Speaker 7: Sorry, you're resileane right.
Speaker 26: Don't talk like you know me, You outdated fossil Mordred.
Speaker 3: Stop talking to me.
Speaker 7: It's James now, okay.
Speaker 3: Then Destroyer snapped his fingers as three phase droys and
circled them.
Speaker 8: Guess I'll just kill you both.
Speaker 3: Then Darien jumped into action, much to Jane's distaste.
Speaker 20: Cadet Kane Darien get back, but.
Speaker 3: She was ignored. Darien, leaping into battle, used his impressive
strength to throw a Droid into the distance. This caught
James attention.
Speaker 7: Darien, Hey, James, man, it is so nice to heads up.
Speaker 3: Another Android flew at them.
Speaker 15: Now's not the best time to chit chat.
Speaker 17: Get him move on.
Speaker 3: We'll talk later, dude, definitely, because you have a lot
of explaining to him. For a while, the three of them, Darien, James,
and Zelene all tossed around droid's trying anything to smash
and destroy them all. Anytime one was eliminated, another would
come it and take his place, making a continuous cycle
of destruction. Jane observed from the shadows seeing Darien's noteworthy
combat prowess. She knew that they wouldn't be able to
continue fighting in this endless rhythm forever by themselves, so
she too joined the fray with another combatant to help
with the fighting. James slipped away from the fight to
kill the unsuspecting renegade. James grabbed Destroyer and pushed him
to the ground. James Destroyer then began a wrestling match,
Destroyer trying to kill James, and James trying to move
whatever kind of technology he could kill Destroyer and both
trying to defend themselves from the other. The face droid ceased, firing,
seemingly overloaded from an excess number of instructions. Selene, seeing
the droids halt their attack, took the opportunity to look
for James. She looked out to see him in a
heap with Destroyer fighting for his life. Destroyer was trying
to rip james head off while James tried to defend himself.
Selene quickly moved into action, running to aid James. She
snatched a piece of rebar from the ground, and while
Destroyer was choking James, plunged it through his head. She
then used the momentum of the stab to root him
to the ground, staking him and bending the edge so
he couldn't get up. James, shakily rising to his feet,
watched as Zelen forced a brick through his skull, destroying
the cybernetics and then his brain.
Speaker 7: Nice going, Selene, thank you.
Speaker 35: I think the ree bar adds a nice touch.
Speaker 3: James, Yeah, what are you doing here? Remember justin Yeah, Darien,
Remember the night of james graduation party. Justin was not
only overly creepy, but was turned into a vampire, so
Darien had to stake him with a chair leg.
Speaker 7: Well, fairly certain he's the one that turned me into
a vampire.
Speaker 3: And uh wait, you're a vampire.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but listen to me. I don't remember how I
got here, but I remember this Dominator lady torturing me.
Speaker 3: And wait, Dominator is she here?
Speaker 10: WHOA?
Speaker 3: I'm not certain, but my point is well, if she's near,
we need to stop her from doing any more damage. Darien, listen, Claire,
we need to wrap up here, and Darien listen. Dary's
put a hand on Darien's shoulder firmly. Darien stopped. Darien.
Speaker 7: I don't belong here. I haven't felt right here. I
miss you, guys. I don't understand what I am or
who I am anymore. I don't want to hurt anyone.
I'm not like these things. I just want to see
my friends, my family.
Speaker 3: James, I it's fine if you don't believe.
Speaker 7: Me, just do me a small favor.
Speaker 3: James then dropped to his knees in front of Darien.
Speaker 7: Please spare me the life of murder and terrorizing that
awaits me. I'm so sick of all of this.
Speaker 3: Darien felt pity for James, his heart sinking in his
chest for his old friend. He couldn't do this to James,
vampire or not. James wasn't like this. He was happier,
a party guy, a good guy. Hearing James plea reminded
him of Maddie. Would his sister have begged for the
same relief in her situation? Then, Darien thought of Max.
If he had never overdosed, would he have asked for
the same mercy, the same cold end to a wakening
nightmare that never ceases, helping them find solace in leaving
everything behind to escape at all. Darien refused to a
James request to die. His heart went out to James,
so he knelt down and hugged him. I won't kill you, ma'am.
I don't know how to help you, but I can't
kill you. I don't want to do this. I can't
do this, Darien.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
Speaker 20: We could take him back to the academy. Really, Yes,
he's not evil like them, he seems different.
Speaker 3: Then let's do that. Really, Yeah, dude, James cried harder.
I'd always hope that you guys would accept me. We're friends, Dude,
Max just died. I need you now more than ever.
It's so good to see you. Max died how drug
overevers of sorts? He was self medicating after Maddie lost
her left to suicide. We just found out about Max.
Speaker 10: Today, Darien.
Speaker 7: I'm so sorry man, Max and Maddie you are dead.
That's pretty fucked up. How are you even able to
concentrate on this mission?
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, military training, I guess. Worried about
the fate of everyone here on tara Ie, another version
of Mattie showed up at the academy today. She never
even got to meet our Max.
Speaker 19: Hey, what about me?
Speaker 3: Selene held Destroyer's head in her hands, still in palw
with Rebard. She had dismembered him while the others talked.
His limbs strewn about and a separated mix of oil
and blood pooled around his dorsat.
Speaker 20: What did you do to him?
Speaker 19: May it sure he wouldn't come back?
Speaker 15: If you want to surefire death, you've gotta go all out.
Speaker 3: Selene then slid the head off the rebar, organic material
of various kinds and wires oozing out of the side,
being pushed along the rebar. The squelching sounds it made
as she removed it slowly reflected just how human he was,
and a lead weight sunk into james heart. Another person dead,
even if he was evil. She then took the head itself,
and tossing the head into the air, grabbed the rebar
and battered it across the waistline. It landed with a
thwack and a smush, followed by a swamp against a
half broken wall, coating it in a red paste, leaving
it half shriveled, squished and shattered in a gross heat.
Speaker 20: And you are oh sorry, I'm Zeleen.
Speaker 15: I'm James's friend on the other side.
Speaker 20: Well your side now, you're not on our side.
Speaker 3: Jane looked this the lean character up and down. One
thing that's stuck out to Jane among the tattered trench
coat and military garb was the excessive number of bloodstains
running down her shirt.
Speaker 26: Yeah, I'm kind of a trader now, James said.
Speaker 20: We'd be safer on the good side our side.
Speaker 26: I'd prefer not to become a dust pile up in
street sweepers, if you know what I mean. I'm willing
to change my ways I just want to live to
see tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Jane's face twisted with distrust. Darien displayed dispelief as Lean's pleading.
Speaker 7: We did this to prove that we don't want to
be here there we're friendlies with me. I promise she'll
be on your side too.
Speaker 20: I don't think if.
Speaker 3: James is vouching for her, then we have to take
her too. What Darien, if they caused problems, I'll take responsibility.
I trust James. You don't have please flare. She looked
over at James and Zelene.
Speaker 30: Fine, but if they caused trouble.
Speaker 3: It's my fault.
Speaker 7: Hangs man. I won't let you down. I promise we
won't let you down, write Selene.
Speaker 29: Huh oh no, definitely not.
Speaker 3: She smiled. Then something tragic occurred. It took a moment
for Cynthia to fully process what just happened. She had
zapped one of the phase droids, but when this particular
droid bugged out, it acted differently. It twitched, it rattled,
it shook. Eric caught out something that she missed, and
then he lunged at her, pushing her out of the
way as something exploded nearby. The ringing was still settling
in her ears when she looked to see Eric lifeless
at her side. Buried from his temples to his nape
were bits of shrapnel, shards of cement, screws, nails, unknown
pieces of metal pepper. Down the side of his body
were more pieces of machinery, metal and cement dust. Blood
oozed a mirror of black and red from his body,
mostly his face, on to the ground before Cynthia, she
saw herself in the blood, fine but shaken, disheveled, haunted.
One of his eyes stared at her, dislodged from his
head and loosely connected by his optic nerves. His hands
were loose and relaxed, but still stretched out towards her,
trying to reach her, save her, push her. His hair
was becoming matt at with blood turning red and heavy.
Cynthia wanted to turn his body over, to reach out,
to say something to him, but she didn't. She physically couldn't.
She sat there in complete stillness, silence, frozen to the core.
Then suddenly she was free. She could move. She cared
turned over Eric's body, compelled by morbid curiosity. He was
missing an eye trapnel had carved out half of his face,
distorting it with sharp, jagged edges or smooth lumps just
beneath the surface of the skin. Blood covered his features,
running down his face. His other eye, still in the socket,
was full of shock and desperation. Cynthia dropped Eric's body
and scrambled a couple of feet away. She began to sob.
Her brain finally caught up to her. The words Eric
said before he died reached her only minutes too late.
Watch out. Just before the blast. Eric had shoved her
out of the way just in time to save her,
and he paid the price. Cynthia's screams were heard by
a nearby Darian. Darien and a boy with black hair
came over to her. They tried to speak to her,
but their words couldn't reach her. The tonight is from
the blast returned and covered up their frantic words of aid.
Cynthia was deaf to them. Darien and Jane reading closer
to the shield. They had sent James and Zelene, along
with Cynthia back to their base camp at the hotel
for rest, recovery and to repair for the trip home.
Chat and Ian had finished securying the hotel as a
base camp. As they arrived in triage. The closure Darien
and Jane got to the shield, the more Phase Droid
bodies were there. Those Phase Droids must have been under
Destroyer's command. They're all dead now disconnected. The shield is unguarded.
This has become so much more than the reconveistion were
supposed to be. We gotta take the shield out.
Speaker 20: That will give away our position.
Speaker 3: Look around, Flair, they already know we're here. The least
we can do is take out the shield and get
rid of the vampires that are feasting on the city's populous.
I know this is gonna sound crazy, but I dreamt
about this. My mom always taught me that people act
out of love or fear. When I had those nightmares,
I was terrified of what would happen because I had
no power to change anything. Now that I'm here, I
can actually do something. It's like I'm meant to be
here for something. I love the city. Jane in the
Darien's words carefully as you remembered Andrea's prophecy. Maybe Darien
his friends were they want to change be thirteen. Maybe
they could take risks again. There had to be a
reason why Andrea heard their mission briefing before they left.
Speaker 20: We need the charges from the base.
Speaker 3: You mean these they're quite small. I thought I would
bring them with us just in case. Jane blinked a
few times in shock.
Speaker 30: You knew you were going to do this, didn't you?
Speaker 17: No?
Speaker 3: I just hoped we would. If you had said no,
I would have listened.
Speaker 20: All right, let's get this over with.
Speaker 3: Darien and Flair found their way to the shield generator
and started placing explosive charges around it. This should do
the trick. Let's get out of here. Darien and Flair
ran as far away from the blast zone as possible.
Flair wasn't running fast enough, so Darien scooped Cure up
and ran at top speed back to the hotel. A
few minutes later, they could see the explosion how the
shield came down. Their mission, however, sidetracked, was a success.
Madelon ran back to the hotel as fast as she could.
She had bad news to report. In a few minutes,
the whole team was back at the hotel. Darien looked
around trying to account for everyone. Someone was missing, Mannie,
Where's Jesse?
Speaker 29: He was captured.
Speaker 28: Someone named doctor Carson took Jesse with his thrall and
grabbed Jesse's suit too.
Speaker 29: There was nothing I could do.
Speaker 3: Damn it. I knew bringing you was a bad idea.
I was worried more about you getting hurt. I didn't
even think about the fact that you have no military training.
And Jesse shouldn't have come on this mission either. He
was too close to the situation.
Speaker 28: We can go back for him. Fafnir could help us.
With your help, we could.
Speaker 30: It's Julie for that. After the shield fell, most of
the renegades fled. I'm sure he's gone too.
Speaker 10: Wait a minute, where's there.
Speaker 3: He didn't make it.
Speaker 19: He died saving my life.
Speaker 10: At least it didn't die in vain.
Speaker 20: You're so, I'm thankful for a sacrifice.
Speaker 21: Yes, summon mission.
Speaker 30: We got to get back to the academy report our findings.
Blast Fire contact Troy and have him open a portal
for us.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, last Fire tapped the communicator embedded under his ear.
Speaker 9: Troy, this is blast Fire. I need you to zero
in on my location and open a portal back to base.
Speaker 3: You got it. Troy opened the portal and the team
went through. Darien and the gang went in Professor Mahegg's
office confiding in him and finding support after debriefing with Eugene.
From the mission, it went sideways. We lost two team
members and friends. It was just like my dream, the
dream I had over and over again. I thought having
the dream meant I could make a difference. Kristin put
a supportive hand on his shoulder, and every time I
had that dream, Kristin was there to calm me down.
But this time it was real. Sean told me in
the dream. In the dream, Sean told me it was
going to be this way. He tried to warn me.
Speaker 10: At least we found James, vampire or not, he's still
a friend.
Speaker 27: I don't trust him or that Selene character. They're both
vampires and they were in the renegade ranks. How do
we know they aren't responsible in part for the attacks
on the academy. Jake is dead, Max is dead, Eric
is dead, Jesse is missing. What's next? Maybe killing that
robot man was a stunt. Selene should at least be
locked up because she's so dangerous.
Speaker 3: I've known James a long time. If he says he
can control his bloodlust, I believe him. I don't know
about Zelene. But if James vouches for her. I think
we have to give her the benefit of the doubt too.
Just then, Madeline entered the room. Maddie, I'm trying to
work this out with Professor Mahague. What are you doing here?
Speaker 29: I have information to tell you.
Speaker 3: It can wait.
Speaker 29: It's about the mission we were just on.
Speaker 3: It can wait.
Speaker 23: Now, wait just a minute. If she has something to
add I'd like to hear it.
Speaker 3: Taking her was a bad idea. I don't think she
has anything of use too.
Speaker 29: It's about the leader of the renegades.
Speaker 3: What about him?
Speaker 29: I saw his face.
Speaker 28: I recognized him.
Speaker 19: You saw his face.
Speaker 28: How he was speaking to the crowd.
Speaker 29: He had them all under some sort of rawl.
Speaker 28: I saw it all from the bushes. Darien, he knows us,
all of us.
Speaker 27: Wait, what do you mean he knows us, Maddie. He
knows about us, or knows us personally.
Speaker 29: Are you serious, Kristen. Of course he knows about you,
about Darien, about this place. How could he not? This
is everything our family was destined to be.
Speaker 28: Oh, I'll bust it.
Speaker 3: You really don't know.
Speaker 35: None of you know, which means none of you know anything.
Speaker 29: He's a bad egg. Darien Nightmare is.
Speaker 39: Sean, December fifth, nineteen ninety five. It's been a rough
couple of months in the Cane household. First we lost Maddie,
then Matt lost it at the funeral, Then Darien almost died,
Max was lost, and now my Jake is dead, killed
by vampires, not even.
Speaker 20: Eaten, just straight up murdered.
Speaker 39: The weird thing is that another Jake and another Mattie
from Tara Too are now working at our academy. I
don't know how I'm as calm as I am right now.
Speaker 20: I miss Jake, my Jake, but.
Speaker 39: There's nothing I can do. Matt's been doing better, but
I think the reason is that he has mister Davidson
looking after him. Grandma Gladys told me not to trust him,
but he's been nothing but great to Matt me. The
weird thing is he somehow seems familiar. I have no
idea why. It's so frustrating, not knowing why. Because Grandma
Gladys said not to trust him. With Darien and the
others joining Battalion thirteen.
Speaker 19: Even for one mission, I'm nervous.
Speaker 39: They have the highest mortality rate of any battalion, but
at least they'll keep their memories. I don't know how
much of this I can take. It's just too much stress.
I don't even know how my parents are as calm
as they are. I know they miss Maddie, but now
there's a new Maddie. And this one's not even a goth.
She's like a tougher version of my little sister. I
hate to say it, I really do, but I like her.
And this one is battle hardened and has a dragon
at her back. And call I'm so confused right now?
Am I supposed to feel about getting a replacement sister
or a replacement husband. He's not my Jake, but he
looks exactly like him. I'm glad I'm not at the
academy right now. I don't think I could take working
under these conditions. I need this break as much for
myself as for Matt. There's a small part of me
that fears I'm being selfish, but I know in my
heart that it takes true courage and self love to
rest in these times of grief. I hope Mom and
Dad get the rest they need to.
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