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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 9, 2008 15:25:11 GMT -5
She was about to reply when she heard the dead tone. She frowned down at her phone before exhaling in a slightly frustrated manor.
"I'll be back." She said, getting to her feet deliberately slow. The fraction of her group she was with looked up. A few looked about ready to ask where she was going. But in the next second she had flown off leaving behind rustled papers, tousled hair and a couple bemused expressions.
"What is it?" She asked coming to a stop at his side to stare up at the screen. Her eyes darted from one window of data to the next. "I take it Henry had something important to tell you?"
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 9, 2008 18:33:23 GMT -5
King doesn't reply just hits a key on his keyboard and a new window pops up. The top bar said 'New Eden's new mayor proposes radical reform'. There hadn't been a new mayor in over ten years. Below that was a video file King starts it and sets it to full screen.
It starts out looking over a crowd of people at a podium and a platform, a man with light brown slicked back hair, and a grey suit and tie steps up to the microphone and the crowd lost it with cheers. The man quiets them, and starts.
"Thank you, I'm proud you've elected me to the position as Mayor of New Eden. I haven't been in office for over twelve hours and already I've noticed a problem that's needed your governments full attention since the start." Another cheer, and again the man quiets them down."I'm referring to what was left behind by a crumbling business with nothing left to loose.....We've all noticed the monsters that the Magen corporation left some less noticeable than other, they disrupt our society, rack up millions in repair and damages, and contribute the highest to our cities crime rate.....I for one am tired of it..."Another cheer.
"Which is why, effective tomorrow, all products of the Magen corporation are to be found and transported to government facilities where they can do you or our city anymore harm...."This final statement sent the crowd into a frenzy cheering his man ' Faust '
King pauses the video.
"This is a problem...Henry also told me he's seen unmarked vehicles moving through the Eastern parts of the city, they'll be working their way here eventually."He says leaning back in his chair and crossing his arms.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 9, 2008 19:06:12 GMT -5
There was a low hiss which abruptly stopped as soon as she realized the sibilant sound was coming from her. She hated him from the second he stepped on stage. She didn't like being referred to as a product. An object. Unthinking, unfeeling and nothing more than a commodity. It made her swell with an unfamiliar outrage she didn't fully understand.
"We either have to move and cover our tracks or work faster. Or both. We're outnumbered. We wont be able to run for long." She said, holding her cold fingers against her forehead. "And we wont be able to hide long either."
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 9, 2008 20:25:02 GMT -5
"No we won't hide....and we won't run....we'll let them take excatly what they want...."He says staring at the man on the stage.
"Think about it.....that many Majin in one area, all of them with distain and disstrust for the New Eden government....it's a ripe recruition center for the picking.......so we'll let them take enough Majin, while trying to save a few giving them the hope that someone cares about them....then when we show up there to free them and give them our proposal for a better life outside......they'll practicaly jump at the chance...."He says rubbing his chin on which he had begun to grow a small stubble.
"Inform the troups...I'm going to asks my street walking freind for as much informating as they can offer...."He says plugging his cell phone into the computer and begins sending out a message.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 9, 2008 20:54:25 GMT -5
"Yeah, sure." She sighed. She pulled her phone from her pocket again as she started to walk from the room. "Brilliant as usual King." She said before disappearing through the wall.
Quickly she dialed a number. "Alvin get everybody we have a problem."
There was talking on the other end. "No, much more serious. Hmm, in the spare room."
She made her way through the rest of the warehouse into a small back room. She waited for a while against the back wall as people began to file in.
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 9, 2008 21:36:52 GMT -5
King finishes his message and sends it, waiting only a few momments before getting flooded with message, from all over the city. This encursion seemed to be a city wide event.
"sh*t...."King says skimming over each message looking at the location of each report.
"damn it...I need more time to think......"He says looking over the screens."We need more people, more weapons, more ground, more....time......"He says laying his head down on his desk. For a short momment he contemplated giving up, packing it in and surrendering. Then a drive in the back of his head, and urge so strong it might as well been called instinct forced him to look at the screen, and compose a message. 'has anyone seen which derection these vehicals have headed.' and again a flood of information. North, East, North, South, East....after sorting through where all of these had come from he figured most of the vehicals had headed North East. Pulling up map after map of the city he searched for numbers of construction equipment, and where it had been and found a consturction side in a completly different seciont of the city outside the normal dome limits.
"Another dome?...."He questions.
He begins progaming a lines after lines of code for his computer once he's done he presses enter and his computer shuts down. He walks over to the rows of bottles the black masses in the bottles shutter. He makes his way into the back room where Val had gather her men, he simply leans against the wall listening his pressence in the room was a solem oaminous aura that seemed to devour whatever bit of comfort hapened to be there.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 9, 2008 22:30:25 GMT -5
Practically everyone glanced at King and then back to her nervously. The tension in the room was palpable, no one dared to speak.
"Many of you know of the New Mayor Faust." She started, looking over the room eyes hard.
"He's ordered for a hunt." Then she frowned. "No, a hunt would implicate that they considered us life. Although I'm sure they would love to end our existence. All of us created by the Magen cooperation being gathered up and contained."
She could see a few were about to interupt with protests against this. She held up her hand.
"That means the King and I, and the rest of our kind." She hung her head. "But King has come up with an idea."
They looked to him for a moment before once again turning to her.
"We can't keep them all from being captured." She said. "But we can save them from confinement. Free them and give them a chance for a better life outside these walls."
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 9, 2008 22:43:11 GMT -5
"Or at least we used to....."King said comeing off the wall to stand beside her.
"Mayor Faust said today in his speach that his 'containment' wouldn't take effect till tomorrow...but it's happening now and not a one end of the city either....their at the very limits of the Underworld and working their way inward...they've got us traped..."He says arms behind his back in his museum pose.
"I've found out where they're taking the captured though...and dome...outside this one connected by a single access tunnel...which means...only one way in and out...."This has lead me to revise my plan......it's a little half cooked right now but it's doable, and it's about as sturdy as a brick...."
He stops and takes a breath.
"One of us needs to get into the facility where they're holding the captured Majin...the only way to do that...is to get captured ourself......I've volenteered for this possition and in my sted left the rest of the plan, and this opperation to Val. I'me going to need some time to get the trust of all the captured Majin but when you think the time is right you move, and don't think twice about it...I've left every ounce of information you need to complete this on my computer."He says really rederecting the last part towards Val.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 9, 2008 23:13:07 GMT -5
She turned to him eyes wide. "What?" She breathed.
"Those lying f*cks!" A familiar voice shouted, followed instantly by more loud ranting.
"damn. How did I not see this." She said bitterly, her hand clenching into a fist. "Let me go, King. This is... different. We don't know what will happen in there."
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 9, 2008 23:18:31 GMT -5
"Which is why I'm going...just stick to my plans and even if....the worst happens....you'll still haven means and the following to finish...."He says not really looking at here but there at the ground, or crowd."While in there I wont be able to give you any more information or tell you if the plan changes.....out here it wont matter much I've got it all set...but in there We'll need to be flexible...."He says turning to leave.
"And pluse I can't realy aford to loose you...."He says as he turned so they crowd couldn't hear.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 10, 2008 18:33:57 GMT -5
"But King, I…" She stuttered in a half-articulated protest. She stared at him for a long moment, before finally dropping her gaze. "If… that’s what you… think is best. I can carry out your plan. I will get them all out of there, you included." She said, the color draining from her cheeks.
Val cleared her throat, facing the group once again. "You heard him. We don’t have time for this whining." She said, imposing her presence on the room again. "We need to be ready."
The room got quiet fast.
"Don’t just stand there." She ordered. "They’re coming and we don’t want them to find our equipment. Hide it. Cloak it. They wont be looking too closely but we cant give them a reason for suspicion."
"You think they’ll raid this place?"
"I don’t know." She said sullenly. "That’s the point. It’s an old forgotten warehouse, an easy place for someone to hide and I’m sure that’s how they’ll see it too."
The silence was absolutely sepulchral. She broke it with a command. "Go. Now!"
They got up and filed out, a few of them stopping to wish King luck. Val looked at the door but didn’t move toward it. She kept her place against the wall, folding her arms tight.
"And I guess that means for now I’ll have no choice but to lie low." She said quietly, almost to herself as the last few left.
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 10, 2008 18:48:23 GMT -5
"If worse comes to worse..."King says."This warehouse was built to house Zatsium(A volitile mineral created in the manucaturedin of Runite, that needs to be stored in a cold place or it deteriorated quickly to a unusable but highly caustice vapor state) so theirs a taped out mine bellow here, the entrance is in the middle of the warehouse storage, under a big door with the Magen corparation symbol on it..."
He sighs.
"You they do raid....head down there.....they wont be able to get very fare with my computers, it's a biometric incription key that of now only me and you can open..."And with his he places a hand on Vals shoulder."And don't worry just stick to the plan and everything inclueding me with be fine...."He says before leaving to strip himself of anything that could lead the police to associate him with this building.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 10, 2008 19:20:58 GMT -5
She had made her way to the floor of the warehouse, overseeing the chaotic rush everyone had been whipped into. She kept busy, helping make things go faster. Alert to every small noise she was certainly on edge and with good reason.
Val currently stood near one of the more important crates as it was being sealed tight. She was counting on the fact that they wouldn't have time to pry them open. She had a quicker way to do it, but the sealant they were using could be pried off in 5 to 6 hours. They wouldn't spend that much time in one place, at least she hoped. The last thing they needed was police or worse, inquisitors, poking around.
She glanced in the direction of the door. It was there, just like he promised. But the idea of hiding just didn't sit well with her. Not that there was a choice.
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 10, 2008 19:34:25 GMT -5
King stood on the platform where the small black orb had been imbedded. He stood there for a while before finaly bringing himself to expand it and teleport himself somewhere else in the city.
At this point he had expected it to take about maybe a half hour for them to find him and round him up. But it didn't stepping foot out onto the street in a plain white wife-beater, baggy jeans, and some dark grey sneakers. His hair, eyes, and tattoos made him easy to stop, and sure enough passing a allyway he hears a engine roar to life. He was expecting a police offiser to shout freeze but only felt a large vehical broadside him sending him acrost the street, he rises to his knees before a club strikes him square in the back, then a foot in his ribs, then to his face causing blood to stream from his lip, and then a collar and shackes where placed on him and slowly he felt his power slip away. Looking down he saw what it was that was causing this. Runite as it was dubbed by the Magen corp. was a material that absorbed magical energy especialy that of the Majin, but this kind had been tained red where as it was normaly a light brownish green. One of the black clad men attached a long pole to his collar and like a stray dog he was dragged over to the back of a large armored truck and thrown into the back with four other Majin. A young man, a teenage girl, a elderly looking man, and someone that had long enough hair you'd think they where a woman but their build didn't quite live up to it.
He coughs up blood before leaning against the wall of the truck catching his breath.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 10, 2008 20:14:14 GMT -5
"He's left." One of the men said, running up behind her. He ran a hand over his jumbled curls.
"I know..." Val said, still pale. She was checking the visible labels on the crates. "How is your side going, Gar?" She asked quickly.
"We finished..." He said slowly. "We made sure it was all done good."
"What about Alvin's group?"
"We're done, and I checked them all twice." Another man called as he walked toward her. He was a dark man with eyes like onyx and a confidant gait as he strode toward her. A woman behind him nodded in agreement while the youngest looking boy in the trio stared down at his hands.
"Good." She said looking around. "Now, we need to get you out of here... don't all leave at once and go from different exits, got it?"
"But what will you do?" The woman asked, her concern obvious.
"I can't go outside, just wait until I call." She sighed. "Just go."
They hesitated, looking around at each other.
"Remember, not all at once." She said definitively, bringing to an end whatever protest they might put up to stay. "You can keep close to the building if you want but don't be conspicuous."
This only assured them slightly, if at all. They broke up in groups all in different directions, occasionally glancing back at her. Quite alone she moved to the center of the floor, sitting on the ancient forklift that was right above the door.
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