Change is difficult, but often essential to survival. - Les Brown

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. - Barack Obama

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay. - Matthew Flickstein

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It is mid 20XX. Shadows lurk behind the unchanging peacefulness of everyday life. Twisted beings writhe unseen in the darkness. Mysterious dimensional portals connect the real world to others more fantastic.

But with the passage of time, people eventually have come to understand and even accept these things as part of their daily lives. All without knowing of the existence of the people and organizations fighting the true evil.

Despite this normalcy, Shinra and other concerned law enforcement/intelligence agencies are struggling to deal with the dimensional rifts that appear in the closed cities located in Tokyo from time to time.

In Japan, a mysterious group has stolen an ancient artifact from a planned public exhibition as part of a grander scheme to bring eras of the past, present and future in order to introduce chaos on a worldwide scale.

The question on everyone's mind is who is the culprit responsible for stealing the artifact from Japanese territory. The thoughts and ambitions of various people, organizations, and mythical beings mingle in this new case.

Individuals from different worlds of different ideologies and backgrounds would need to put their differences aside and work together to save their worlds. Or else their homes would cease to exist forever.

Our story begins in the United Kingdom when the Metropolitan Police Service launches a raid to secure a suspected location where the stolen artifact was last reported to be seen based on Interpol intelligence reports. On that day, no one had any idea that the raid would be the beginning of things to come...

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Prologue: The Beginning

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Setagaya Art Museum

At the Setagaya Art Museum, which is currently closed, uniformed guards of the Alsok Sohgo Security Services began their daily patrol of the museum grounds in order to make sure the premises is secured for the exhibition of artifacts that is sponsored by the Koryuji family, a prominent family said to have its lineage traced back to the Warring States Period.

Among the artifacts being presented is the Portalstone.◊ According to legend, it's said that it can grant its owner unlimited power, although this power is not known due to the variation of its lineage from the stories dating from the Warring States Period. Its true purpose was also not known, shrouded in myth.

An Alsok security guard adjusted his cap and gloves when he heard a request for assistance on his earpiece that one of its C4 guard robots was offline.◊

"What do you mean it's offline?"

"Like I said, it just went offline. I don't know what the heck just happened."

"Robbers did that?"

"Probably. I asked two of our patrols to check back and nobody replied."

"Understood."

The guard was suddenly stabbed at the back with a sword, not aware of anyone since he was busy talking to his colleague on the radio.

"Man, that went well."

A humanoid being who resembled a tiger in terms of skin with a yellow beard, fangs and a horn on his forehead◊ admired his handiwork when he watched the security guard go down.

"Hey Drei, you okay there?"

"Doing just fine, Ein."

Drei Belanos of the Belanos brothers grinned when he stabbed the guard again, who was wounded and down on the ground, when he tried to reach for his dropped flashlight.

A horse-like humanoid walked in on Ein, who had white hair, horns on his temples and a gourd strapped on his back◊ grinned at Drei while he smoked a cigar.

"Nicely done, Ein." Ein Belanos chuckled before he exhaled when he took the cigar from his mouth. "I took care of the guards and their pesky guard robots on my end."

"With your gourd, no less?"

"Exactly." Ein smirked. "I gave them the smackdown so hard that I doubt that they'll be seeing the light of day."

"Now with the guards down and their cameras taken out..." Drei walked towards the glass case that housed the Portalstone. "We can take it without getting caught."

Drei slashed the glass case horizontally when he watched the upper half of the glass case get shattered onto the ground.

"Here." Ein smoked his cigar when he approached the Portalstone. "I'll go bag this giant stone up. Due should be expecting us really soon..."

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"This is the BBC with a breaking news update on the stolen Portalstone from the Setagaya Art Museum, where several guards were murdered with the museum's surveillance equipment destroyed to ensure no witnesses were present. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Criminal Investigation Section has said that the stolen artifact is no longer present in the country with fears that it may be sold onto the black market. The National Police Agency has requested Interpol assistance to help in the search. Meanwhile, museum authorities are cooperating with the police to see if there are any other artifacts stolen as they were supposed to be unveiled for an upcoming exhibition."

"Meanwhile, the Koryuji family has offered a reward of $1 Million to anyone who can provide accurate information to the location of the stolen artifacts and to the arrest of the perpetrators. According to local news sources, the family has also hired the services of a private detective in order to conduct an independent investigation from the police."

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A week later. Somewhere over the airspace of the Irish Sea

Helicopters of the Metropolitan Police Service and the An Garda Síochána flew overhead a container ship that was seen sailing right in the middle of the Irish Sea. General sea traffic has been placed off-limits due to a ongoing joint operation between the police services of the two countries.

Inside one of the MPS' Eurocopter EC145 choppers, a 9-man SCO19 team armed with G36KSF assault rifles were prepared to go and fast rope down the cargo ship. Among the operators involved is Sergeant Ben "Mitch" Mitchell, a SCO19 officer who made the news for taking down the Skobel Gang during the "Black Monday" incident.

"Here's what we got." Mitch debrief the SO19 operators inside the chopper cabin. "We've got intel acquired from Interpol that the stolen portalstone was reported to be loaded onto the MV Sydney Express. Now it's a registered ship based in Germany, but Interpol says that it's a ship that belongs really to a smuggling outfit based in London."

"Sergeant, why the heck are we working with the Irish?" A SCO19 Constable questioned Mitch while he adjusted his balaclava.

"The SOCA has suggested that the stone may be sold to Irish mobsters, which is why they happened to be involved. We'll be working with the Emergency Response Unit to seize control of the ship and get the stone back before it gets to Dublin." Mitch then stared at everyone in the cabin. "Questions?"

When no one else asked him, Mitch lowered the ballistic goggles that were positioned on top of his PASGT helmet.

"Time to move out. We'll be fast roping down in nine minutes."

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At the MV Sydney Express' bridge, the Belanos brothers showed up by teleporting inside with a woman who had long pink hair◊.

"It seems that the leak to the media and to the underworld has worked." The pink-haired woman said. "This should send a message to anyone who dares oppose Oros Phlox. For starters, we can get them out of our way."

"I don't know, Lady Due." Drei told Due Flabellum. "You think we should waste time on a bunch of cops? They're just a bunch of nobodies."

Due smacked her fan on Drei's left temple. "I think you know better than to question his instructions."

"She's right, bro." Ein advised his brother. "It's best not to do anything that can jeopardize the operation."

"Aw, come on." Drei grumbled. "Who's going to face off against us? Aliens? Some kinda martial artist who can take us on with his fist and feet?"

"Let's go." Due huffed. "We need to make the preparations."

The trio went off and disappeared from the bridge as ERU and SCO19 operators successfully fast roped down to the MV Sydney Express' deck.

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Should be up and running. Feel free to have your characters react to the two events, if they're from the "real world". Although the second part may be hard unless your character has law enforcement/intelligence agency affiliations or someone who has good underworld connections to find out about the suppose raid in the United Kingdom.

edited 31st Jul '13 12:09:38 AM by Ominae

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

Even with the world's attention currently locked on the Setagaya Art Museum Heist and fervently waiting for news of the event, it was far from the most significant thing happening on the planet Earth. As a matter of fact, the day where everything changes for all of Earth and humanity starts off so small and innocuously...

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Somewhere in in Northern Chile, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array picks up something very large and surrounded with numerous smaller bodies from the depths of the cosmos, heading for Earth at great speed; while the object would have been dismissed by most as a mere asteroid or comet intersecting with the green planet's orbit with fragments breaking off of it; there was something odd about the way it and the smaller objects that with it moved... It was very minute, but it looked like the larger object was correcting its flight path; almost as if it wanted to collide with the Earth; odder still, the smaller objects seemed to follow the big one as it corrected it's course...

edited 10th Jul '13 10:26:23 AM by Strigon

Shameless Self-promotion ho!

"Now where the hell would i find those guys that want some Devil Hunter for help?"

Nero asked to himself while roaming the streets of london,after the demon attack on fortuna city thanks to Sanctus and his stupid religion,the reconstruction of the city needed some help since Kyrie asked him,so...might as well do something useful and become a Devil hunter,get the money and send most of it to Kyrie to help rebuild the city and that,and keep a little of the money for himself.

He heard rumors that in the United Kingdom that they were many assignments for Devil Hunters like Dante told him but it really didn't seem like it at all,else like hundreds of people would appear out of nowhere and tell him the assigment.

He also knew that bringing the Red Queen in his back and show his Demonic arm cleary visible would bring alot of attention to people,so...he knew how to deal with that,he kept his Sword in a large guitar case,easily hiding it from suspiciousness while carrying it on his left arm,and he hid his demonic arm by the long sleeve of his coat.

"Come on..." He sighed quietly to himself as he placed his demonic arm on his pockets,this is just boring.

"Coming here shouldn't be a waste of huge time.." He just hoped something would just happen..else the trip to the UK would be a waste of large and large time.

edited 10th Jul '13 1:35:30 PM by Darkomega245

-Spider Lizard Noises-

Ryu had to admit that when he had arrived in London, this isn't what he thought he would be doing. He was currently in a tournament headed by a mysterious man named "Seth", and the host had yet to give the location for the final round. Normally, he would have just fought in local street fights and challenged local dojos. However, he had gotten a message from Chun-li, a good friend and an Interpol agent, that either the people responsible for the famous theft or the stolen stone itself were around his location. She would have investigated herself, but there had been an increase in S.I.N. (an organization that was quite honestly very suspiciously similar to Shadowloo) activity that she, Guile, and Delta Red had to deal with.

Ryu was in the area and he was never one to turn down a friend in need, so he decided to check it out. Apparently things were happening on a boat, so he had gone down to the docks. If he was lucky, the boat (what was its name? He was fairly certain it was the Sydney something-or-other) would still be in the dock when he arrived. However, Chun-li wouldn't be caught dead relying on luck alone, so she had arranged for a transport just in case the Sydney whatever had already left port.

Wouldn't you know it, the boat had indeed already left the shore. So now here he was, on an Interpol-approved ship, chasing after another ship that may or may not have stolen goods on it. It was all so much more complicated than the Wandering Warrior was used to. Pretty much all of the complications in Ryu's life came from within, so he could afford to just go where the wind took him. Ryu wondered if this was what Chun-li's life was usually like.

"Allow me to show you how a real whale does battle!"

What is this place

Mitsurugi had headed back to Ostrheinsburg to find the rift to fight the Hero King Algol but when he had arrived the portal to his rival's dimension was not present. So Mitsurugi had followed rumors of the spirit sword, hoping to find Algol and finish their duel. He had camped on the outskirts of London hoping to ask the witch for information.

However now he found himself in the back alley of a city, the likes of which he had never seen before. Is this some sort of trick? Trick or not some men were advancing on him, telling him to give them his money. The samurai left his blade sheathed, These vultures weren't worthy opponents and he wouldn't need his blade to deal with them.

-dramatic music ensues-

Devon and Cornwall Police-led marine boats had just placed up a cordon to allow the ERU and SCO19 to work unopposed while the raid was still taking place.

They were informed via radio to expect an Interpol-chartered boat to approach the cordon and that none of the armed officers were to shoot it on sight.

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"Are you ready to begin?" Due asked a hooded man who stood in front of a magic circle that was drawn via white chalk on the floor of a storage room somewhere in the MV Sydney Express.

"Yes, madam Due." The hooded man nodded.

"Man, I don't why we had to go and get this." Drei began to complain again when he brought a crystall skull made up of green quartz. "I mean the only thing I heard about is that this baby was responsible for lighting up one of the lighthouses used by Alexander the Great, while it was also used once as an anti-siege weapon of sorts.

"Just put in in the middle with the stone, bro." Ein glared at his bearded brother.

"All right, all right." Drei placed the crystal skull at the center of the magic circle next to the stone. "Sheesh."

The hooded man began to chant something in Latin, which began to make the skull glow. Minutes later, a small amount of magical energy would seep out of the skull, which affected the stone.

It would take a while before the entire room got enveloped by the same energy.

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Mitch led his SCO19 team down the stairs away from the main deck after one ERU and SCO19 team were dispatched to secure the upper deck while the others would secure the interior of the MV Sydney Express from both sides in order to catch anyone on board the container ship off their guard.

The SCO19 veteran hoped that this mission would go well and at the end, would just be another day on the job.

"Move." Mitch whispered when he gestured to his team to move down another set of stairs down to the bottom of the container ship.

A chopper from the Garda Síochána and the MPS were left behind to provide aerial surveillance and current news on anything from the ship's exterior.

edited 16th Jul '13 11:08:51 PM by Ominae

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

Ryu sat in silence next to the driver (captain? It seemed to grand a title for such a small boat) until he saw the blockade, as well as the ship with the helicopter above it just beyond said blockade. It took surprisingly little time for the driver to prove they were here on Interpol business, though Ryu was getting some odd looks from the policemen. Ryu figured they were incredulous that Interpol had sent one guy who, to them, would look like just a dirty hobo. Considering that he was rather used to being underestimated (and he actually was a hobo, albeit an unusually wealthy one), Ryu just took it in stride.

As they pulled up to the Sydney Express (right, Express! That's what the name was!), Ryu looked up and carefully considered his options. He could climb up like a normal person, but that was the easy way, and the easy way was not good training. Standing up and placing his bag on the seat he just vacated (it would just be in the way for something like this), he focused the Hado in his legs. He jumped, "landed" on the Express' side, and jumped upwards again. Doing this, he was able to "dash" up the side of the Express, grab the railing, and pull himself onto the deck.

Now that he was firmly on the target, he decided it was time for a bit of information gathering. He sat cross-legged on the deck, closed his eyes, and began to feel for the ki of those within the vessel. Ryu was not the stealthiest of people, so if he wanted to catch the bad guys, he'd have to figure out where they were first. After that, it would have to be a matter of striking too hard and too fast for the criminals to escape. Hopefully, things would be resolved before anything escalated. He would have to do this very carefully, though. After all, he also had to worry about whoever that helicopter belonged to. It would be bad to be chasing after some common criminals and be blindsided by, say, Vega.

"Allow me to show you how a real whale does battle!"

In a modest house in the Toyko suburbs a young man by the name of Souta Itou woke up from his sleep. It was the weekend so nothing much was going on. No school club activities to do, and no particular events today. That meant that for him, it was going to be a day of The World. "Good morning, Okaasan, Otousan." "Good morning." "Good morning, Soutakun. Breakfast will be ready shortly."

As he ate his breakfast with his family, the news on the TV showed a recent event. An art museum was robbed right here in Tokyo. Souta looked with mild interest at the news report, it wasn't an everyday occurrence. But he didn't know just how important it could be to him soon. He went back into his room and booted up his computer, the standard ALTIMIT OS symbol popping up before showing the desktop. He glanced as his mailbox, only a single new one.

It was a reply to his last mail to Mistral. Kite quickly typed up a reply.

Then Souta glanced at the news headings. That art robbery thing was in there too. But nothing else of interest was displayed, so he got out the controller and head set, conviently behind his keyboard, and logged into The World.

edited 11th Jul '13 5:25:25 AM by StephanReiken

An Emergency Response Unit operator armed with a MP7 submachine gun approached Ryu, wondering about where the hell did he come from and how he got onto the container ship.

"Excuse me, sir." The armed Garda officer spoke to Ryu. "But civilians aren't suppose to be on the ship due to an ongoing raid between the Garda Síochána and the Metropolitan Police Service."

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One of the scientists at the Atacama Large Millmeter Array alerted to his superiors that something was heading for Earth after he and the others saw what seemed to be a minor asteroid or comet had changed course on its own.

A few minutes later, the Chilean government eventually conveyed its findings through their UN ambassador, which resulted in an emergency meeting at UN Headquarters in New York City.

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The green light, which first engulfed the storage room of the MV Sydney Express, shot out of the ship and into the sky, all the way to the Exosphere after the light engulfed the entire world. Soon enought, our protagonists would find themselves to be summoned on the ship via dimension rifts that appeared below their feet. In a few minutes, they would be instantly transported onto the container ship's deck. The only exceptions to this are those who are on the container ship already.

Soon, past, present and future eras will begin to intervene. The real and cyberspace worlds are also not spared.

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Mitch and his SCO19 team halted his team when he got a message on his earpiece that a mysterious green light had shot out of the ship.

"Roger that. Can you confirm if that light is still there?"

"I'm afraid not, Trojan 1. Whatever that light came is and where it came from, it's already gone."

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"Can you hear me, Kite?"

A young woman with white hair and skin complexion appeared before Kite, who appeared below The World character. She appears to be very worried and disturbed.

"Something dreadful is happening to The World. I don't know what it is, but it's clearly trying to infiltrate here. I can tell that it's a malevolent force."

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So everyone will eventually get transported onto the container ship via dimensional rift that appears below their feet. Feel free to handwave your characters in since I won't have access to wi-fi for a little while.

edited 16th Jul '13 11:09:05 PM by Ominae

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

As the Large unidentified Object got closer and closer to the Earth, a space telescope or quite possibly some astro/cosmonauts currently residing in the ISS or fixing up a satellite would now be able to see the object.. And It was far from natural or the chunk of rock that the people on the Earth were led to believe...

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The Massive, city-sized Hierarchy command saucer and it's escort of hundreds of smaller, trefoil-shaped attack saucers◊ flying in near-perfect synchronization with the mothership, began to slow their flight path on final approach to the green planet; save for a a small fraction of the escort saucers, which flew straight towards the hundreds of satellites orbiting the planet and began destroying them in earnest with plasma missiles launching from the empty spaces between their hulls, the projectiles taking the form of golden glowing orbs of electromagnetically contained energy streaking towards their targets at hypersonic speeds; making extremely quick and easy work of the flimsy, fragile satellites. At the same time, the Command Saucer began to release saucers from it's hold, these ones larger than the escorts and looking like miniature versions of the mothership◊, began to reenter the atmosphere with several of the trefoil-shaped escort saucers following them in suit. Sadly for Earth, both types of saucer were quite immune to the intense heat and friction of the planet's atmosphere and as soon as their hulls stopped burning, were within the troposphere; headed straight for the most densely populated cities on the planet...

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As the operators and new people on the Sydney Express tried to get their bearings, they would soon notice that there were several 'meteors' streaking past the skies and from their angle of attack and direction, were on a crash course for the British mainland...

edited 11th Jul '13 9:27:25 PM by Strigon

Shameless Self-promotion ho!

Nero was pretty surprised that suddenly he was teleported to some kind of ship on its deck...he wanted something to happen..but this was rather surprising.

It seems they were some people with them too that also appeared with him.

"Hey,anyone knows what the hell is going?-"

Then suddenly he noticed multiples...meteors falling from the sky...what in the hell? are those demons? and if they are,did they decided to invade all of London?but he really didn't remembered a demon that could do that at all.

-Spider Lizard Noises-

As expected the thugs had provided no challenge to the ronin. These fools weren't even good warm up, I must resume my search.

However before he had walked five feet he found himself in yet another new location. Mitsurugi's expression soured. I grow tired of this. Whoever is behind it is powerful but cowardly. Several other people had arrived in the same place as he did, one of them asked if anyone knew what was happening. "I don't know what is happening" the samurai said in english. "However someone will tell me so I can hurry on to my own pursuits."

Mitsurugi loosened his blade in its scabbard. He was ready for a fight.

-dramatic music ensues-

A yellow runed circle faded into existence in the air followed by several more, moving towards the ground. As they did, a figure in the middle also faded into existence with a red hat, and clothes in a fancy fantasy outfit. His face was marked with two teal wave lines on his cheecks. His eyes blinked once. "Huh, Blackrose isn't responding. She must not be awake yet." Kite stretched his arms into the sky considering what he wanted to do until Blackrose came on. It was about time he stocked up on supplies, that last dungeon cleaned him out of consumables.

Before Kite could get anywhere, he heard a familiar, mysterious voice echo into his head. "Aura? I'm here, it is good to hear from you." Not long, a child sized figure with lavender hair and lavender/white dress appeared before him. It was unusual to see Aura these days, she was usually very busy managing The World now that she'd ascended to her rightful place in the system. "A malevolent force? That doesn't sound good, did Morganna leave something behind?"

edited 11th Jul '13 11:45:37 PM by StephanReiken

Ryu's brow creased as he felt the ki signatures inside the boat. There were a group of people who appeared to be working their way down to the three signatures that really stood out. Those three were unusual, to be sure, but Ryu wasn't getting the same dark feeling he got from the Satsui no Hado or the feeling of innate wrongness he had felt from the Psycho Power.

Before he could focus on them, however, he was interrupted by an officer who told him that civilians weren't allowed on the ship. Ryu stood and said "I'm actually here as a favor for an Interpol friend of mine. Her name is Chun-l-"

Ryu was interrupted when a giant pillar of light exploded into existence behind him. He turned quickly and positioned himself in between the pillar and the officer. When the light faded, the pillar had been replaced by quite the motley crew of individuals.

Ryu carefully approached the group, wary of both the new people and the possibility of the pillar springing back to life. He considered how to approach the group before deciding to just be straight forward. In his experience, bluntly and honestly conversing tended to be more beneficial in the long run.

Once he got close enough to converse, Ryu said "Excuse me! My name is Ryu. I too would like to know if any of you know what's going on."

Ryu looked up at the meteors as well, and almost grimaced. As far as unneeded complications went, this was pretty high up there.

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I'm hanging out tomorrow with an old friend of mine, so I might not post. Just a heads up.

edited 12th Jul '13 12:19:30 AM by AkenJizo

"Allow me to show you how a real whale does battle!"

I'm setting up stuff for Kite in The World. Nothing's changed with the others.

"I understand your concern, Kite."

Aura told Kite before she added.

"As for your question, I have no idea what it is. But it is definitely something not done by my mother. I am sure that someone is trying to gain access to The World."

The AI told Kite.

"The most likely location is at the Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground. Please head there as soon as you can."

edited 12th Jul '13 5:48:42 AM by Ominae

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

Kite nodded, it was good to get some privacy. Onlookers could overhear Kite thought Aura probably hid herself from them, it made it hard to keep private. Not that it was particularly unusual to see someone talking to themselves in The World, not everyone takes off the headset to talk to someone in the real world. "I'll meet you there." But what could be trying to threaten The World now if not something from Morganna? Hackers trying to break The World? "Blackrose will want in on this." Kite sent another Flash Mail to Blackrose, but still got no response. So he left her a quick E-Mail telling her that something important is happening with Aura and to contact him as soon as possible. Then Kite turned around and started accessing the Chaos Gate. It didn't take any physical actions on the player model, rather it was all done on the UI. The same yellow rings that brought Kite here came again to de-materialize him and gate in to the target area.

A moment later, Kite appeared in Delta Forbidden Hidden Holy Ground. In front him of him was a long stone bridge that extended over an unnamed chasm to a church. The Hulle Granz Cathedral, associated with Aura as it once had her statue inside. This area was unlike other areas, it held no monsters and no events. You couldn't get off the bridge or away from the cathedral, and there was only one floor inside the building. Kite walked up and into the Church, past the wooden benches and up to the altar. Soon Aura would show up.

At the Hulle Granz Cathedral, Drei and Ein arrived at the altar via teleportation. Kite could clearly hear their voices.

"Looks like things are doing well." Ein said after he exhaled cigar smoke from his mouth. "Seems our experiment with the stone from the heist worked."

"So what now? We wait and see what happens?" Drei asked his sibling, who was clearly explained.

"Yeah, man. After all, we're not doing anything except to observe and report."

edited 13th Jul '13 12:26:41 AM by Ominae

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

Kite watched as two appeared suddenly before him and started speaking. No rings to show a gate in, they just flashed into existence. That was not a good sign. Along with their out of spec models they were almost undeniably hackers of some kind. Why did they come here? Kite was already standing out in the open on the path leading to the Altar, he was just lucky that he hadn't been spotted, the two were occupied by whatever they were doing. Kite made a quick decision and decided to talk to them, he had an appointment to keep and Aura wasn't going to show with these guys poking around. Without a better question to ask, Kite asked about their status. "Uh, are you two PCs?" A pair of hackers may or may not lie about who they were anyway, but an NPC wouldn't understand the question.

edited 13th Jul '13 4:34:39 AM by StephanReiken

It was only seconds before that a fish robot was walking through wilderness, accompanied only by his mechanical wolf companion. Obviously a peaceful walk through a forest doesn't account for interdimensional portals opening below your feet. At the moment, Bass has found himself on the Sydney Express, surrounded by unfamiliar faces. He was about to open his mouth, but took a moment more to notice the meteors. Finally, with an irritated face, one of his arms turns into a Bass Buster, and while it isn't aimed at anyone, he's still prepared for combat.

"Alright, someone better explain what's going on. One hundred words or less!"

🏳️‍⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse Alberia

So nobody knew what the hell is going on...neither the guy whose clothing is pretty old style with a katana,neither the guy with karate clothing and a...stupid headband.

"Well..seems nobody knows what the hell going on" He said,also noticing the guy that kinda looked like some guy with a robot costume asking what is going on.

"If it isn't obvious,we don't know shit why we are all here"

He said to Bass,before deciding to take out the Red queen from hiding,placing his guitar case on the ground and opening it,taking the red queen out of the case,and then planting the sword on the ground,before then then revving it's motorcycle shift,as small flames propelled out of the blade.

"Good,this baby is still doing great"

He then holstered it on his back.

-Spider Lizard Noises-

Due appeared on top of the MV Sydney Express' bridge roof and grinned at the number of people who showed up.

"Good. This means that it worked. Now it's time to clean up from here."

She began to spin around while she held onto the paper fans and shouted, "BLAZING CROWN!"

Two tornados were created with fire in the mix as they approached the incoming spaceships operated by Orlok's forces. These flaming tornadoes at the least, would damage the ships since the temperature has a maximum of 300 degrees Celsius. At worst, they'll burn up and explode due to the intense heat.

"Now we can't let anyone be messing up with this experiment now."

Due executed Blazing Crown again, this time towards the lone British and Irish police chopper as they flew near the container ships. They were sucked into the tornadoes before they were destroyed after they collided with each other.

After the explosion occurred, thanks to the mid-air collision, Several unknown beings in armor-like gear and battle staffs and bird-like beings moved in to attack the ERU and SCO19 operators, most of being attacked before they were forced to go off board after the staff-armed beings charged in and clobbered them, which seriously injured the armed officers. A few of them were seriously wounded when the bird-like beings performed divebomb attacks in order to use their claws at their feet.

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The astronauts stationed at the International Space Station saw the incoming Hierarchy attack saucers and some of them tried to warn the Earth about the incoming attack. But after a few minutes of connecting to the Earth, a few laser beams were fired at critical parts of the space station, which resulted in its destruction.

One of the last messages from a Malaysian astronaut with the ISS had the following:

Invaders... coming... Earth.

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"This is breaking news story from CNN. The British and Irish air forces have been deployed in a heightened state of alert after they were confirmed reports of what appears to be meteorites approaching the UK and Ireland. Security experts are doubting that the Irish Air Corps can shoot them down safely due to a lack of anti-aircraft missiles that can be used to eliminate them. For this case, the Irish Army would provide material assistance..."

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"PCs?" Drei was mighty pissed when Kite asked them the question.

"It's alright, bro." Ein grinned. "It means we've finally moved from the real world to another dimension."

"I see." Drei grinned and nodded, understanding what his brother meant, before four of the staff-armed beings teleported inside the cathedral.

"Hey, kid. I bet you're asking questions on how we got here, huh?" Drei bared his fangs at Kite. "Well that's the million dollar answer. Here's a hint: It's in the news right now."

Drei added and pointed his giant Dao's blade at Kite. "Got any last words before these guys beat the hell out of you and start doing away with this place for good?"

"You trying to make him say a one-liner?" Ein whispered at Drei, wondering glared at his brother.

"Shut it. I'm trying to look good here." Drei whispered back, upset at the interruption.

edited 16th Jul '13 11:30:15 PM by Ominae

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"

Inside one of the Hierarchy landing craft, the pilot of the vessel looks onto at the flaming tornadoes with surprise and tried to get out of their way; but his vessel was too sluggish and was knocked off course by the intense wind, sending it spiraling down towards the Sydney Express while the other landing craft and the escort saucers were able to steer clear of the unnatural phenomena and head for their destination unmolested. Rather panicked and confused by the current events, the pilot of the stricken landing craft patches a comms link to the saucer's most important occupant; Field Commander Orlok the Eternal

"Sir! It appears that we are under attack from that primitive watercraft using some sort of locally-generated weather phenomena!"

As if I hadn't noticed pilot. Get us closer to that watercraft and beam us down, we will put a stop to this disturbance.

"But sir! This is not according to the plan! Underseer Kamal has stated that-"

Either we crash and sink to the bottom of that ocean or we deal with the hostiles. I'm sure even he of all beings can understand.

"By your command sir..."

The spiraling Saucer then stabilizes it's flight pattern and then flies directly above the Sydney Express and firing several glowing yellow beams on random locations on the ship's deck before distancing itself from the ship and maintaining a holding pattern around it. The beams spawning or rather; teleporting in groups of 8-foot tall humanoids clad in lobster-like armor and armed with large and dangerous looking cannons mounted on their wrists◊. Cackling and laughing with homicidal glee, the armored aliens started indiscriminately shooting blasts of irradiated plasma from their arm-mounted cannons at anyone they come in contact with and mauling those too close to shoot at with their weapons. Meanwhile, Due would then hear a highly digitized baritone voice that carries intense authority and force of will coming from right behind her.

Most impressive trick, primitive.

If the sorceress would turn around, she would be greeted by the sight of a 12-foot tall killing machine in black armor and a single glowing yellow eye... And that it's getting ready to launch it's left arm, ending in bladed "fingers" and almost as wide as a man's chest straight into her head.

edited 14th Jul '13 8:11:21 AM by Strigon

Shameless Self-promotion ho!

Nero noticed as some kind of...demons suddenly appeared thanks to some kind of starship..yeah,that's not demons at all,surely aliens.

"Great..first Earth has to deal with demons and now aliens?"

He then rolled back the right sleeve of his coat,revealing his devil bringer,before then a spectral arm that resembles his devil bringer appeared and reached out to grab one of the hierarchy grunts,as the one grabbed would be pulled to Nero before then slammed the grunt to the ground with enough strength to kill a average human being.

Nero then throwed the mook away to the group of grunts,though he wasn't sure if the hierarchy grunt would die with what he did to him,whenever it did kill the grunt or not,Nero would take out the blue rose and start shooting some of the mooks with the double barrel revolver.

edited 14th Jul '13 4:54:43 PM by Darkomega245

-Spider Lizard Noises-

Thirteen words. Works for me.

As the lasers rained down, Bass whirled around to them, pointing his buster at their general direction.

"I hate to be the guy that points this out, but I think we're in for a show."

In his head, Bass quickly assumed that his Buster would not be able to penetrate the armor of the crustaceans unless he fired in one spot for a while. Given there were lots of them, that wouldn't be the best course of action. The yellow on him becomes a brick red◊, and from his Buster a large drill projectile◊ is launched. The intimidating, but slow drill divides into two smaller drills, and then seconds later divides into four extremely fast drills. The objective is to take out as many Grunts as possible while consuming little ammo.

🏳️‍⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse Alberia

"I didn't expect aliens to arrive sooner than expected." Due teleported out of the way and landed on top of one of the shipping containers at the middle of the container ship. "It's a good thing that we took that into consideration."

"But that won't matter... since the master has potential plans with wherever you came from!"

Due executed another Blazing Crown, turning up the heat as the tornadoes moved towards the black-armoured being.

---

"This is Sierra Tango... we're under attack by some weird creatures. They look like lizards *BRRTTT!* Requesting armed... AAGGH!"

Mitch and his team were en route to assist a few ERU teams under attack by strange assailants when they were attacked by the rear.

"What the bloody hell...!" The Black Monday hero was take by surprise when his subordinates were attacked by unknown assailants, although he could tell that they were using swords.

Dammit... Mitch had no choice, but to retreat back to the upper deck when he heard loud footsteps chase after him.

For one thing, the footsteps didn't sound like tactical boots.

---

Several Oros Aviuses engaged some of the Hierarchy Grunts by allowing the Oros Primuses to bash their plasma shotgun arms with their staffs after the two groups fought via melee combat. A few of the grunts were able to kill off the Aviuses and Primuses when they waited for the right time to fire their shotgun areas at their faces at close range.

So the bird-like being summoned by Due as Oros Avius and the ones with staffs are Oros Primus.

edited 15th Jul '13 7:22:49 AM by Ominae

"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"