~~GM~~
As David prepared to make his strike on the approaching monster-pirate, the second before it was in place for him to act, a suppressed gunshot rang out across the deck; striking through the creature's head. With a loud thud, it fell over dead. When David looked over to see who fired, he would see a squad of strangers quickly moving across the hallway. "Hallway clear," a voice could be heard calling out to the others.
The squad was made up of six men, dressed in a combat uniform none of them would recognize. Except, of course, Jin Sakai. He immediately recognized them. And quickly pulled David away from the corner before their flashlights spotted the Heister. The quick movement startled the leader, who fired a few shots towards David, but all of them missed. "Movement, left-hand corner!" He shouted to his comrades. Quickly acting, Jin slammed the door shut to the room himself, David, Sev and Han were inside of, and turned the locking door wheel as far as it could go, then broke off a rusted piece of metal from the floor and slid it between the wheel to prevent it from being opened again.
The soldiers on the other side struggled to move it, but were quick to act as well. "Two men per side, go!" He ordered, before splitting off to find another way in. The room all four of them were in looked like a waiting room, with one of the walls partially collapsed. It gave a view to the outside, overlooking the whole opposite side lower deck.
They could see the monster-pirate-creatures still looking for another way inside the ship to follow after the lower deck team. Along with the approach of a large helicopter that seemed to appear from out of nowhere; only revealing itself via a large spotlight that was shined down along the deck. Machine gun fire from its main gun was spread across the deck, mowing down the monsters out in the open. Those still standing made a run for cover or disappear into the shadows. Ropes were then dropped from helicopter sides, and a dozen more of those soldiers came sliding down. Another chopper then appeared from the darkness and through the rain to join the other, dropping off yet more armed men.
"Damn," Jin muttered aloud, watching it from behind the partially collapsed wall,
"Remember those locals I mentioned before? That's them there. And they aren't too friendly to 'scattered.' But what are they doing here in this storm?" As Jin pondered that...
One minute, you're home. Perhaps you are doing something of great importance, like saving the world from a great evil, or stopping some super-villain from destroying it, or even catching a robber before they can escape justice. Or maybe you have finished your quest, finally finding peace from just a long journey and preparing to kick up your feet. Maybe you are on the verge of death, avenging the loss of a loved one to some vicious brute or sadist. Maybe you are beginning that journey that will forever change you. Whatever your story is, or was, it will now become forever altered.
Something suddenly starts to feel different. The surrounding air feels strange, like there's a build up of static electricity. Your skin begins to tingle, while your feet no longer feel planted firmly against the ground, as though gravity is beginning to lighten. The ground vibrates, and small ripples of air begin flowing, at first as a calm breeze, but then growing more intense in strength. To the point where they become shockwaves visible to the naked eye. Whatever is causing it can be seen in the sky.
A beam of light passes through the atmosphere of the planet at incredible speed. From where it's aimed to hit the ground is what's causing the shockwaves and ground to shake, with the electrical current it's creating now becoming strong enough to interfere with electrical circuitry. And when it finally hits, the blast is like an atomic bomb going off. To stare directly at it would be like staring into the sun. It grows in size and begins engulfing everything, and before you can do anything to stop it, the blast engulfs you into it.
You feel like you're falling through the air; so fast you can't even open your eyes without them stinging by both the g-force of your flight and blinding light around you. Whatever you can see is faint, but you can just about notice the passing of stars, planets, supernovas, even black holes. Space is passing you by at the speed of light. Your center of gravity is completely gone, and all you can do is be thrown around by the incredible force that flings you across the galaxy.
All of reality blasts by you, and when it feels like your body is about to be ripped apart… You come out the other end.
Yet another scattered was finding themselves stranded aboard this half sunken ship. But, this time around,
Chinatsu Okita was thrown into the fire, teleporting right in the middle of the arriving soldiers.
Chinatsu Okita, The Black Striker
It was just another Tuesday in the year of 2049, in Japan, that Chinatsu had reported to the Tokyo headquarters of the global organization known as the Desolation, to take on another mission that only a Desolation Elite can truly grasp. To infiltrate the Classic Order, the very adversary of the Desolation, into their fortress known as 'Ark' within Kyoto and take care of the state-of-the-art weapon project that would turn the tide out of the Desolation's favor, Chinatsu back in her days of the Academy was vigorously trained in the ways of stealth, the darkness being her friend after over a decade's worth of being committed into the craft. The blonde-haired young woman in black nimbly navigated through the fortress in ease and stride, avoiding nano-neural network drones, anti-gravity mines, molecular mesh security barriers, and armed-to-the-teeth, exceptionally trained soldiers. Eliminating the very threats that got in her way, including the commander in charge of the operations whose neck she has snapped, she had stolen access to the level-5 research annex where the weapon project was.
She closed in on the weapon's room.. 'Aetherstar' was the very name listed within the room, at the center being a quasi-dimensional vortex generator with the uncanny ability to translocate matter across vast spatial distances instantly. Entangled states of atomic structures hinted at a technology capable of bending physical constants to its user's will, opening conduits to places untouchable by conventional travel means. Power so vast, that it may obliterate the strongest armies of the Desolation with the right usage.
Scanning the project's data with her phone, holographic lights surfacing onto the generator, she put her phone away and proceeded to summon C5 explosives everywhere throughout the room that would get the job done.
"Destruction of the Aetherstar commencing."
Her tone was flat, and her expression stone cold, especially effective in the art of assassination, hunting and infiltration. Bright red eyes scanned the entire room, ensuring the rigged detonative weaponry scattered around the critical part of Ark.
And thus, she ran through the hallways, and at the press of a button, setting off the blazing, fiery explosives that extended out towards the eastern halls of Ark. The fortress was in the midst of an alarm booming within the remarkably built establishment.
Such a concept breaking into a place such as this was the easiest, most trivial part of the mission. Breaking out of it, was the complex side of things. Air support units from attack helicopters to transport vehicles closed in on the top of the fortress, whilst the soldiers that have already been garrisoned within the area closed in with their advanced armor, weaponry and equipment, getting into position.
Rolling throughout the halls to react to and avoid gunfire, and having summoned an AC11 SMG to unleash a volley against the plethora of soldiers that stood in her way, all of that paled in comparison to what awaited her outside. In her mind, she knew that the center of Ark had the greatest amount of heat, and to take these forces head-on would be suicide, but the Black Striker had a plan imminent. She took the gateway to the center, where she was fully recognized by a half army of soldiers aiming towards her direction, helicopters with flashlights, rockets and machine guns on standby, anti-gravity mines planted moments before the encounter, and machine gun drones locked in on Chinatsu's lane.
"Hands in the air, Black Striker!" The chief, fully dressed in the proper Classic Order attire, yelled out through a megaphone from a helicopter.
"We have you on lock! Come with us, and there will be no further complications!"
The lack of emotion in her eyes had indicated no fear whatsoever. However, she was going to utterly confuse the Classic Order force with her own set of plans to execute. She hung her hands up, and she was gonna take action in her escape.
Then.. it happened.
A beam of light that completely submerged the entire area into a bright white. She didn't bear a single thought to what may have happened to the soldiers around her, bearing the coldness that has always been with her, but rather, to her. Immersed into the bright, sun-like energy, she felt like it was the end in a way most bizarre.. until.. she motioned and bore with the light, making it to the other end.
It was at that moment, that she had found herself in a location particularly unfamiliar.
Finding herself amid the plethora of soldiers who came from the air and onto the deck as well as the gunship in the sky, she acknowledged that she was outgunned and outnumbered in this type of scenario. Looking forth at the soldiers with blank eyes, acknowledging that they are imminent in detecting her especially in her position, she rose two hands above her head in surrender.
