WAOA Arena

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James knocked back the shot sake with one tip of his head and grimaced as it went down his throat. He examined the glass pensively.
"Not too bad... as spirits go anyway. I prefer beer and cider. Always saw wine and spirits as just an efficient way to get drunk on a night out." He laid the glass aside, went for his cigarettes and then changed his mind out of consideration, just laying his head back over the headrest of the seat.

"Maybe you can use the arena for stuff like that." He suggested jokingly. "In here the closest you're going to get to cherry blossom petals if if we start shooting plaster out of the ceiling. Doesn't seem like it'd have the same tranquil effect."

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"Well, maybe. This place could do better with some vegetation."

Gwen got up suddenly from the bar stool.
<color=purple>"Is there a girls room nearby?"

 

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"I'd put weapons or armour displays in here myself. Or maybe some maritime navigation instruments. Give the place an old school feel about it." When Gwen stood he pointed out into the corridor.

"Saw a couple of jacks on the way in here. Just outside the door."

 

[Slenn]

<color=purple>I should not have drank that much. "Thank you very much." She bowed quickly and ran off.

<color=blue>"I'd put in an oscilloscope and a spectrometer to remind me of my own home."

 

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James sat up in the seat as Gwen ran off.

"Uh-oh. That was quick." He remarked. "I've never seen anyone do that after just one drink." Shrugging he turned back to EMily.

"Uh... yeah. I know what those things are." He said, deliberately keeping an exaggerated straight face. As he did so he noticed that the sound of fighting from the screen had ceased.

How long has it been since they stopped? Wonder how it played out.

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"Well she did drink that full glass of water earlier." She looked up at the screen as well. <color=blue>"It looked like that lizard man was not fairing so well. If I recall correctly."

 

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"Hmm? No, he was crushed by that loudmouthed guy. I gotta hand it to him though, he was relentless. I've seen plenty of ghouls just keep going like that, but most humans or animals know the time to give up and die. He didn't seem to. I wonder if that's his species or his own individual personality."

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"I'm sure we'll find out soon once we meet him."

Gwen came back.

<color=blue>"Had your little potty break?"
<color=purple>"Oh pblplplplt to you."

EMily rolled her eyes.

<color=blue>"It'll be interesting to find out. Many of the extraterrestrials I've come across have different ways of their own, and their resilience is quite different from one another."

 

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James grinned to himself at the sister's banter once again.

"Yeah, you were saying earlier. What's it like travelling to other planets, where you're from? How far do you have to go to find intelligent life in the universe?"

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"Well, in our time humans have made contact with only one other civilization. We're actually quite neutral with one another. Radio contact won't do much in outer space. Electromagnetic power dissipates the further you go away from the source. Even if a signal were to reach another civilization, it would be too weak."

<color=purple>"Travelling to other planets was essentially our job. It was over a matter of investigating a life form that is no more, dubbed the 'Dark Being'. A life form that was capable of absorbing entire biosystems. Through some relations with our father and the government, we were able to procure the latest ship that was capable of generating its own portals in space. It's the only one of its kind that is able to do so. With it we were able to dig deeper and deeper into the Milky Way Galaxy, searching for clues to the possible origin of this Dark Being."

<color=blue>"Such a search spans several thousand light years. Charting where we need to plant a portal needs to be carefully researched, as the power cost is very great and takes weeks to cool down the portal generator. During our search we've come across both alive and dead civilizations. Some planets that have dead or ruined civilizations still have life on them. Out of the several millions of planets that are in the Milky Way, only 6 of them could inhabit life, excluding the earth. 2 of them had life but were taken away by the Dark Being. 2 had survivors of the Dark Being's consumption that dug beneath the planet or had life other than intelligence. The rest are alive and well, and only one of them is the one that's met humans."

 

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"You have a ship capable of long range space flight, but not communications? That seems strange." James remarked. "This 'Dark Being'... what was it, exactly? Do you mean a whole species, or literally a single entity? How could any one creature do so much damage?"

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"To send a long range transmission, some form of radio through a portal. But since the ship is the only one of its kind to do that, it's not easy. The only other way is an experimental method using quantum entanglement, but no one's quite sure how to pin it down yet for extraterrestrial coms."

<color=purple>"It was a single thing that started out very small. About the size of a worm. It was created by an alien race that believed that all life should be under one roof. So they sacrificed themselves to their own creation allowing it to grow to the size of a city."

<color=blue>"The mechanism behind its absorption was so mysterious. It seemed that almost nothing would stop it. Looking at past vids, it was horrific at how efficient it was at consumption. With one swift throw of its tentacles, it would leave entire ecosystems void of life. Not even a single simple cell."

OOC: Picture the being from Final Fantasy the Spirits Within, only black and opaque.

 

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OOC: @Slenn Never played Final Fantasy.

"It sounds... shit, I don't know. How did you fight something like that? What stopped it?"

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"You know, when it first reached Earth, I asked myself a similar question. 'How could we stop this thing?' Even after all the research we poured into finding what it was about, it still remained a mystery. But the four of us remembered, that before anything began in the universe, the four forces of nature were once one during the supposed Big Bang. Even if our scientists have a different understanding of it than before. We then gathered energy from anywhere, and everywhere we could. Our energy levels grew drastically and faster than ever before. First Winona and I fused together to become one to represent the Electroweak Force. And then that being became one with Sara to represent the Electronuclear Force. Gwen was the last to fuse with us to become the Unified Force."

<color=purple>"At first the Dark Being tried to swing its arms at us. Yet they passed right through our unified form, it was incredible. It... didn't feel like anything other than a gust of wind. We took our chance to fly into the Dark Being on angelic wings and find the source of the beast. Through some seemingly endless duals of the mind, we were able to convince the Being to halt its course and return the life. In in the end, it returned the life it stole into small glowing pellets, and died as it shrunk back into the worm it once was."

The two sisters sighed solemnly as they took a moment to pause. EMily finished her sake.

<color=blue>"That's pretty much the second half of our story."

 

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James listened silently as the sisters told the story, though it was obvious that he was barely able to follow the hard science involved in their battle plan. When they finished, he ran a hand over his head, sighing heavily as he digested the information.

"The four of you were able to defeat this world-destroying monster by yourselves? That seems... I can't even imagine... yeah. I don't really know what to say to that." He finished weakly. "Kind of falls outside my range of experience for heroism."

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"It... wasn't the easiest thing to do. During our time in space, we grew stronger in terms of how much energy we could use. The Electroweak and Electronuclear forms were gained during that time."

<color=purple>"Like EMily said before. Not any of us knew what would happen if the Unified form would work. Not any of us knew it would work in the first place. Even when we were told from our parents and our 'benefactors' that we would be the ones to stop it. How we would defeat it was unknown. We remained unconscious for several days after the incident. We woke back up back at our home, the Mason Mansion Estate."

<color=blue>"So now our mission is to try and return the life back to the planets that it stole from. But we've decided to take a break from space travel and be on Earth to catch up."

 

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"Sorry your break from travel ended up here." James said. "It must really suck, having leave cut short like that."

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"It's quite alright though. At least we kind of know how we got here."

<color=purple>"It was some anomaly at the Mason Mansion. Dad told us to come check it out. EMily and I flew in, but not before I took a look at its space-time pattern. The only thing is, I need to research a way to get back. I could replicate it with my powers over gravity and space-time, but it's going to take a sizable amount of effort."

 

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"oh right? I thought you were brought here the same as the rest of us. I'm surprised you volunteered in that case. I'd almost kill for a chance at some genuine down-time in a safe place that isn't basically a no man's land that we just reclaimed. I haven't seen an actual community where people weren't always armed and on active duty in... I don't actually remember." At that, James yawned and stretched his arms.

"Well, its late, and I don't know about you two, but all this talk of science and space travel has me worn out. I think I'll head back to my room. You going to stick around here for a bit?"

 

[Slenn]

<color=blue>"Well, from what we've gathered, we started out at the same place everyone else did. The anomaly didn't show any thing on the other side."

<color=purple>"Some nap time would be pretty awesome right about now. Where are our rooms anyways?"