An Apocolyptic Beginning~ A Idea by Raven and Samchu! Starts Now! LSU's accepted...

[Cferra]

Steve
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Nate wanted to track Kiria so badly. I didn't mind helping him after all, the data on Alaria could wait a few hours. It was stored somewhere in this facility but I could tell my friend was overcome with anxiety.

"Let's see.."I began as I brought up the computer."Computer locate Kiria Koals, supersoldier."

"Kiria Koals is outside of Rome, Italy along with three others with the same genetic enhancements."the female computter voice replied.

Nate and I exchanged a look. "Computer pinpoint their exact coordinates and get a transporter lock in case they run into any trouble."

"Transporter lock confirmed."the computer replied.

"Nate, the transporter should beam the group here if they come under serious heavy fire."I explained."If you want we can stay here and watch them. Glad I signed onto Star Command? I saw how you were on the station. You'd be a great officer. I can just picture it..Captain Nathan Koals."

"That's an amusing thought. We'll have to see though won't we? Have to survive this war first." Nate smiled.

"Confed seemed to be working on a fast solution."I began."Our allies on other worlds don't like seeing Earth this factionalized. They'll still talk to us but they're forbidden to interfere with cultural issues as part of a Directive. "

"Right...Well that's helpful..."Nate sighed.

"Well, Star Command is made up of many many of those races in Confed and will help in any way."I started."We still have to find the aliens responsible for upsetting the balance on paradise. They're obviously not a Confed member."

"I'll say and they had some reasonably advanced bomb technology even though they were still using suicide bombers to carry them." Nate nodded.

I had a thought. We could bring up the Confederation newswire and examine what the other charter members were saying about Earth. I pushed a button and the newswire came on on another monitor.

"Says here that the Yereti are bringing supplies to help out on Earth."I read the articles fast."The Dabarans have been in prayer to the Prophets in the hope that Earth makes it through this hard time."

"That doesn't tell us very much now does it?" Nate asked.

"Well, word only just got out, Nate."I explained. Confed is spread over 8000 light years Subspace news takes time. Not much we can do other than wait. Confed knows what we're doing and they're going to help us no matter what. They want a return to an united Earth."

"Well i hope they don't take too long. The longer it takes the longer I'm gonna worry that Kiria's life is in more danger than I would like it to be." Nate sighed.

I was worried about Kiria too. But, the Confederatyion council was meeting even as we spoke.

"Confed will find something."I explained."They have to meet with the faction heads before anyone hijacks a shuttlecraft and inadvertantly start a war in this sector and from there the whol alliance could break down. Nate, the quardant's very survival could depend on us."

"No pressure then." he sighed.

"Didn't mean to dump all this on ya but we got to have faith. Humanity's been in worst scraps. Remember World War III? It was right before the invention of the star drive back in 2063."

"Yes I, remember but the pressure's really on such a small number of us and we're up against a hell of a lot of enemies this time." Nate shook his head.

"That's where my uniform comes in."I explained as I read the newswire. "Star Command right now is committing officers from the 3rd Fleet to assist. The admirial must have talked to the council. Star Command will support us."

"That's helpful but we still don't know where this is going or what Sadano thinks he's planning. I'm not too sure I wanna find out either." Nate explained.

"That.."I began."We're gonna have to wait and see."

[ChobiChibi]

~Kagura~
We approached a guard at the front gate. A part of me felt as though i belonged here. Everyone spoke my native language and the smell of ramen reminded me very much of home.
"Stop!" Commanded the guard, his hand resting on a rifle. "IDs are required to pass."
I took the fake i had been given out of my pocket. I held it out for him to read.
"Oh! Ms. Oumara! I'm sorry!" He bowed. I smirked without him noticing. "We weren't expecting you back so early. How did your mission go?"
"That's no consern of a mere guard, is it?" It felt so weird speaking Japanese again, but i had to.
"No, of course not."
"Don't bother me again, do you hear? Otherwise i'll have you taken care of." I threatened. I had so much power right then.
He went to speak again but i walked away, Kiria and Aiken followed close behind.
"Why didn't he question you?" asked Kiria.
"Yumi Oumara is one of the most respected woman soldiers in Japan. Who wouldn't respect her when she can order someone to kill you?" I informed her. "Too bad she's actually dead..."
We continued through the camp. I was surprized that no one stopped us. I had to speak to Sadano. I couldn't believe that they were going to throw us into the deep end like that. If any word got out of our arrival we'd be shot.
The guard outside Sadano's office informed me that he hadn't arrived yet. So he had been in Japan when the others attacked? That was definatly a missed oppertunity to end the war. The guard told us to wander around for a couple of hours until he arrived.
We sat in the canteen area. None of us said anything. I sat eating ramen. I just couldn't resist having some proper Japanese ramen again. Kiria was sat next to me and Aiken on the other side of the table.
"Kagura?"
I looked up at Aiken, "Yes?"
"There's someone who looks exactly like you over there." He nodded to the side of the canteen i had my back to.
I quickly glanced over my sholder. It was her alright. "Damn... Um, Kiria... Did i, er, ever tell you i had a sister?"
"Once, yes. Why?"
"She's here." I got up quickly and ran for the other side of the canteen, missing gun shots narrowly on the way. I kicked the door open and slammed my back into the outside wall. I had wall cover, yes, but for how long?
I listened closely. I heard footsteps. I took a handgun from my pocket. She stepped out. I put my gun to her head. A few seconds later i realised she had hers to mine.
"Kagura! Why are there two of you down there?" I heard Damon's confused voice in my ear.
"Mitsuki..."
"Kagura..."
"For crying out loud, Kagura! Which one of you do i shoot?" Damon yelled down the ear piece.

[Samchu]

Nate
~~~~

I watched the chaos unfolding. Everything was so messed up that I didn't know what the hell to do. Maybe nothing was best. Just sit here and watch because I couldn't be of any help to them. I could really only make things worse.

"They got it pretty tough don't they?" asked Steve.

I nodded. "I really hope they make it out of there okay. I dunno what I'd do if something were to happen to them."

"You're really worried aren't you?"

"Of course. That's my wife out there Steve, I can't help but feel that I should be down there with her."

"I know."

I sighed and turned back to the screen, watching the hell that my friends were being forced to go through. "Why us..?"


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OOC: Lousey I know, but I figured I'd try and keep this moving.

[Ghost]

Damon
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This was fucking chaos. Gunshots were firing everywhere; it was chaos.Kiria and Aiken were barely able to dodge gunfire, and Kagura and her sister just had there pistols pointed at eachothers head, not moving a muscle.
" Kagura, which was is you?" I asked.
No response.
" Kagura! Answer me!"
No response.
" Then I have no choice but to shoot you both." I said, aiming at one of there shoulders, and firing. I quickly shifted to the other one, before they could move, before it said, " Damon! It's me!" I quickly stopped, and shifted my attention to Kiria and Aiken.
Nothing was happening to them, they were just dodging bullets. We werent going to be able to win. Unless....
" Alright you guys, I'm going to create a distraction. Get out of here while you can, alright?" I said.
Everyone nodded. Behind me, I pressed a button, and a searchlight shifted its attention to me. I standed up on the railing, taking out my bulletproof vest and shirt. All of the sudden, twenty lasers aimed at my chest.
" That's right you japanese bastards!" I yelled. " I'm here, the leader of the super soldiers!"
" Wow, he has the balls to stand up and get shot. I'm surprised." My earpiece must of picked up a japanese radio call.
" That's right, I can stand up here, and not be afraid!" I yelled, and looked down. Kiria, Aiken, and Kagura and her sister were making an escape.
" That dumbf*ck..." Another japanese muttered.
" Are my men ready to fire?" I heard another say. It was Sadano.
" What are you going to do? Fucking shoot me? You'll never kill me!" I screamed, staring at the snipers which were now visible.
" Shoot." Sadano said.
I just stared them down, until Kiria's voice filled my head. " Damon! Get down!"
" Kiria, I dont care if I die right now. All you need to do is get the hell out of here." I told her. " And I have one thing to admit. Kiria...I...I..." All of the sudden 20 bullets were fired, hitting Damon in the chest, around five or six in the heart. " I...I..." Damon muttered, and fell off the railing, and fell about 75 meters down and hit the ground.
He was dead.... Or was he?
~~~~~~~~~~

[Cferra]

Steve
**************

"COMPUTER ENERGIZE!" I screamed a few seconds before Damon hit the ground.

The group materialized near us in the library. Everyone seemed a little shocked and Kiria instantly ran up to Nate.

"Steve?"Kiria seemed shocked at my appearence."What happened to you?"

That would take too long to explain. Damon needed our help.

"I'll explain later."I nodded and tapped my communicator."Rohjaz to Infirmary..we have a medical emergency. Someone was shot with an ancient projectile weapon."

"Steve.."Kiria stared at my uniform and noticed the similar red and blue uniforms all over the place.

"It'll take time to explain, honey."Nate took her by the arm."Short story is that Steve here is half alien and his augmented DNA was killing him."

Within minutes a medical team arrived from the nearby Star Command offices. A Dainari and two human doctors helped me get a good reading on Damon. It was luck that we managed to beam him out.

"How did you guys know where we were?"Aiken asked.

"Confed surveilence."I replied."Their working on this situation."

The others still seemed shocked by my appearence. Nate ccame up and helped me with Damon. He was being worked on right there. Luckily his wounds were not serious.

"If you guys would give me a hand.."I began."I'll explain why I look like this now and why I'm wearing a regulation Star Command Security and Engineering uniform. "

The others nodded.

"He's very lucky you know." The doctor finished his work after injecting medicines."His augmented DNA saved him. All I had to do was remove the bullets and he healed himself up. The fall though would have killed him."

"Thanks, Doctor." I nodded and went to Damon's side. The medical team soon left the library. Nate was trying to tell Kiria what was going on.

It was now or never. I thought as I helped him up.

"Damon." I started. "It's me, Steve. I know you probably don't recognize me but we have to talk. Are you okay?"

I wasn't sure if he was responsive or not. He was going to be fine.

"Guys.." I looked toward the others. "I know I look odd but I am half Alarian. I was going to joing Star Command before all this. That's why I'm wearing the uniform. We need to talk about what Confed and Star Command are gonna do to help us."

The others seemed fixated on my gills, antennae and spots. I figured they were looking for signs of me.

"Too put it bluntly.."I started."I'm not super any more. My alien DNA was reasserting itself and had to be removed. My mom took measures to hide my Alarian heritage. She was a captain in Star Command and wanted to find my dad's people. Star Command wants to meet us too. We can teleport to Starbase Washington soon. A couple admirals want to see us."

[Bulbasaur4]

Wouldn't 20 shots be ... a lot?

[center]Kiria

(Speeding ahead a bit further)

It was night... and everyone was ordered to rest. Kiria was having a hard time believing all the events that had happened, and Steve being alien? That was completely new to her... although it didn't bother her. It was rather nice to know that she knew his half race's language, so she offered to teach it to him.

Kiria also had hugged Nate and calmed him down. He was extremely nervous about the whole ordeal, and he seemed to have almost broken down at the sight of her. She hugged him intently, calming him down still during th eday... but having the gang back seemed better.

Now it was night... and Nate had drifted off to sleep. Everyone was asleep... except Kiria. She sat along side the bed of Damon, gazing at him gently as she withdrew a sigh. Going to the window, she gently pulled back the curtain as the gentle rays of the stars and the moon seemed to shine through. The doctors had previously diagnosed Damon as fine, but suddenly a complication came through.
They had missed a bullet... and that bullet had been enhanced to the point where it was fatal to even a super soldier.
With that news, the others were worried but plagued with tired eyes, they were told to go to bed. Kiria had gone to bed... but couldn't bring herself to stay. Instead she stayed with Damon, sitting by his side as the events replayed over and over again in her mind.

Damon had always been there for her... a best friend to the end. He had always been by her side and he had saved not only Nate, but herself as well.
"Damon... why couldn't you be more shy." Kiria spoke softly with a smirk, placing her hand into Damons and giving it a tight squeeze.
" You always had to show off... " Kiria said gently, a tear forming in the corner of her eye as she slowly brushed it away.
" Just show off once more and get through this, please."


(I was thinking maybe Raven wanted to post more on Damon's health.)

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[Ghost]

Yes, twenty is quite alot of bullets.

Damon
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Everything was black, I couldn't see at all. All I could hear was Steve yelling to get a medical team over to me as soon as possible. What a reckless thing I had done...But it was for the team, and we were able to get out.
After a few hours of surgery, and getting most of the bullets out, they put me in a bed, and vistors were allowed. I still could not see, but I could try to move. When I did, the pain seared through my brain like a knife, and I struggled to move, but I couldn't. I decided that it would be better to just stay down low and not move, and listen to what was around me.
I could hear Nate and Kiria talking about something... I wasn't exactly sure what though. Steve could not be heard, because he was probably somewhere else talking to some general or something.
Everything had gone in stages when he got shot. First, it was the realization of being shot. 20 bullets had went right into his chest and stomach, and he didn't feel anything until a few seconds later, when pain took over his body, and it was the only thing he understood now. He was able to mutter some words, and then he feel down, and he was teleported. The teleportation must of caused eye damage, because all I saw in the teleportation was a bright white light... Was I permanantly blind?
I wouldn't think so, I mean how could the great Damon go blind? If I was, they would extract the super soldier gene from me, and toss me into the street, never to see my friends again...
I gently dozed off, only to be awakened later by the curtains opening. I was listening, trying to find out who it was... Until it moved closer to me, and I paniced in my brain... What is someone was here to finish-
"Damon... why couldn't you be more shy." A voice spoke, and I found out it was Kiria. She put her hand into mine, and squeezed it tightly. I wasn't able to talk, and my eyes had heavy bandages around them, so the light could not damage my eyes further. But somehow I knew, that right now I was safe from anything.
" You always had to show off... " Kiria said to me gently, as not to hurt me. It was true though. Me and Nathan were always fighting against each other, to see who was the best. In the end, Nate won over Kiria, and they got married, so I felt lost for a bit... But I was soon back to my old self again, and I kept trying to so off, and be better then Nathan. I then heard something... It was Kiria moving her hand up to her eye. Was she crying?
" Just show off once more and get through this, please." She said, and put her head on my chest (Damon has been cleaned off, just to mention)I wouldn't know how to do this, but I was hoping in my mind, that I could get through, and maybe for once I wouldn't be as reckless...
The doctors had installed some kind of chip in my brain, which was able to tell me what was going on, and what problems I had. I looked in the center of my mind, and saw that... I was able to slighty move... and I was recovering quickly.
My super soldier genes had obviously kicked in, and I was going to be fine... It was a miracle! By tommorow, I would be fine, and good as new.
Obviously, the computer had missed something. The first strike took me like a hammerblow, and the pain seared through my chest. Kiria stood up, because her head was hit. It felt like thousands of knives were pouring into my heart, and I shook violenty, and I knocked down onto the the floor, bumping my head. I was in shock, and then I knew.
I was going to die. I forgot to take my shot. I was having a Heart attack.

[Samchu]

Nate
~~~~

"Nate! Nate! Damon's having a heart attack!" I heard Kiria distessed voice and I shot awake quickly.
"Damn idiot..." I muttered, running for the door. "He hasn't taken is shot..."
I headed to the infirmary and rumaged through Damon's belongs that they'd taken from him before the operation. I dug through until I found his mini medi-kit that he always kept on him. I took out a syringe and ordered to Kiria to hold Damon down as I injected it into his body. He shook violently for a while but his body gradually become still and relaxed.

"Thankyou..." whispered Kiria.
"Hey, he's my buddy too don't forget," I turned to Damon, "and for the record, this makes us even mate."
Together, Kiria and I were able to creafully lift him back onto the bed.
Kiria hugged me tightly, she'd been so worried about Damon, he was her best friend after all.
"He should be okay now. He must have forgotten to take his shot but he'll be just fine." I wrapped my arms around Kiria and kissed her forehead lightly. "Do you still want to wait here?" I asked.
Kiria nodded and I nodded as well. "I'll go grab my jacket and I'll stay with you. If you don't mind the company."
Kiria kissed me softly. "I don't mind that one bit. Hurry back then okay?"
I smiled, "You bet baby. Catch ya in a few. Take good care of our patient whilst I'm gone." I said and headed back to the room.

[Ghost]

Name: Matthew Castle
Side: USMC
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Weapon: When on a USMC mission, he uses his USMC standard assault rifle with 5x zoom scope. Whenever he isn't on a mission, he takes along a pistol in his pocket.
Skills: Charm~ Matthew can easily charm someone, if he can overcome his shyness.
Personiality: Matthew is a very shy, sweet person. He usually is very reckless in battle, just like his father Damon. He will usually stick with his friends, and not go around new people. But if you think Matthew is a pussy, you will be sadly mistaken.
Description: Matthew has raven black hair, and a Star Command Captain named Steve Rohjaz told him that he looks just like his mother, except for his eyes, which are like his fathers. He stands 5'7" and has a Australian accent. He has a tan complexion, and slighty has some muscle from working out. He weighs about 90 pounds, because his food consists of mainly powder and pills.
History: Son of Damon and his mother is unknown. All that is known is that he was bullied in school, and turned to the Marines to see if he could get stronger.
Super-Soldier or No: Nope
Relationship: Damon's son
Other: Matthew is from the future.


Will make a post later.

[Samchu]

Masumi
~~~~~

"That wasn't very successful," I said coldly.
"No it wasn't," Sadano replied, pacing his office slowly. "They're all still alive, intelligence says that Damon has pulled through and is recovering steadily. He'll be back to his old self before 24 hours have passed."
"That is...unfortunate," I didn't know what he wanted me to say and I had to tread carefully, I might be his second in command but that didn't give me immunity to his anger.
Sadano sighed, "I was hoping that we wouldn't have any interrutpions from Confed or Star Command but it would appear we are not so fortunate."
"They watch every move we make, what can we do?"
"Simple Masumi, the answer is very simple. We're going to blow up their headquarters."

I was taken back. That was madness, even coming from him. You would never get a bomb aboard Star Command, never and besides he didn't have anyone available who could build such a destructive bomb.
"But sir, who would build this bomb? How would you get it up there?"
He grinned evilly. "I will simply get a bomb maker. I know one who's very talented."
"You mean Nathan, don't you sir? That's why you wanted him for the interrogation."
Sadano nodded. "You seem well informed."
"I pay attention."
"That's why I hired you. Yes that's why I wnated Nate interrogated, he's the only one who can build me a bomb powerful enough to take out Star Command and provide the means to conceal its true identity."
I nodded. "How do you plan to do this?"
"Oh I'll fill you in on the details soon enough Masumi, for now however we must return to Japan, we have to prepare for our guest. Can't have Nathan trying to build a bomb out of nothing, even he's not that THAT good."

[Bulbasaur4]

Kiria

Kiria and Nate sat by Damon, but he slowly seemed to be getting better as soon as the doctors began approaching him. Kiria actually dozed off a bit, her arms folded across her chest as her head tilted against Nathan's shoulder. She awoke a few times, always to see Nate was awake, either looking at her or Damon. She smiled gently, as Nate brushed a strand of silky hair about and behind her ear.
"You're beautiful when you sleep... " Kiria smiled and gave him a playful poke.
" I'm more fun when I'm awake though."
Nathan laughed and Kiria yawned gently, lifting her head seemingly at the exact time the door open.
Aiken instantly was seen there, and his eyes glanced at Damon and Nate both, as if taking in the both of them. It stunned Kiria slightly- she couldn't tell if Aiken was sizing them up or....
No. Aiken didn't seem to be the type... but yet, Kiria was never quite..
"Kiria?"
Aiken's voice snapped her out of thoughts, as she instantly smiled.
"yes?"
" I've recieved orders to bring you to the Language Informitoriam"
Kiria frowned slightly. The L.I. was used for communicating for long distances, usually for official conferences or meetings... why would she be needed there? She hadn't gone there since she had to negotiate a peace treaty...
" They have made contact with a neighboring alien race, and are having a hard time with communications. They sent me for you to... make sense of things."
Kiria raised a brow and Aiken nodded.
"It's utter chaos."
Looking to Nate, Kiria gave a smile.
"Looks like I get to be useful for once."
Nate stood up to give her a gentle hug, "You're always useful."
Kiria smiled, " I'll be back. If Damon wakes up, tell him I was here."
Nathan nodded, "Will do."


With that, Kiria exited with Aiken. They walked in silence for a while, Aiken's soft hair gently wavering about his shoulders as he seemed to be concentrating upon the hallway.
" Aiken... is there some thing you're hiding?"
Aiken's eyes widened slightly, giving off their brilliant emerald green appearance as Kiria blinked.
" I know we all have secrets... I just... well back there I... saw.."
Aiken seemed to blush gently, his well disciplined figure showing very little emotion.
"I'm not what you think I am. And no... I'm not... that way."
Kiria nodded, feeling a bit embarressed for asking. Silence was a cue until they reached the large, semi-transparent doors of the L.I.
"Here we are. I was told to not come in." Aiken stated, standing straight as Kiria gave a nod.
"Alright... see you later." Aiken gave a nod as Kiria entered.

The room was extremely large- a massive dome decorated with dotted star patterns everywhere. There were several padded chairs, but at the center of it all there was a single chair where a very large holographic screen was projected. Tons of large mechanics and technology enhanced sensors were everywhere, but the room was actually very empty. There were only two figures in the room.
"Ah, Kiria." One of them spoke, and Kiria was caught off guard. His voice sounded... Asian, although what stunned her was that she couldn't tell what country. She always could tell where people were from by their accent. Unless they had been trained... to hide it. Usually then it was a general area for her. The second turned about, "We've made contact with an alien race and we cannot understand them. We want you to talk with them."
The second man was Russian, one of the leaders by the looks of his badges. Kiria was in no place to argue, so she simply nodded and sat down.
"What would you like me to find out?"
The two looked at each other.
"Everything. Tell them anything about us... but nothing about our military expertise. Avoid that. But we want to learn everything about them... tell them we want ot learn because we are interested in making an alliance."
Kiria withdrew a breath, obviously realizing what this meant.
"Alright..."
"We'll leave you be then." The two spoke, exiting the room but the second one with the Asian accent stopped.
" Oh and Kiria... don't stop until we return."
Kiria blinked, and then nodded.
It was all very odd....but Kiria had an idea that this was going to take a very long time.

Here we go..




( Kiria will be unattainable, to help Billy and Sam w/their plan for a bit. Hee. If they try to get into the room where Kiria is, they'll be stopped by the Russian guard because it's 'secret' business. lol )

[Cferra]

Steve
******************

I wanted to see what everyone thought of my half Alarian appearance. I knew Kiria would help me find out about Alaria and teach me some Alarian but I didn't know where she went off to. I did try to look for her but I got caught up in the library.

"Alaria's a Class L planet." I thought. " That makes it mostly aquatic which would explain my gills and antennae. My dad's race also had webbed hands and the strength of three men."

I gathered some data padds in the Confed library and walked to see how Damon was doing in the hospital. On the way there, I was stopped by a Star Command officer I didn't know.

"Cadet Rohjaz." the admiral smiled. "I am Admiral Fujikawa. I see you're reading up on Alaria. Fascinating world. It's up for Confed membership."

The admiral was of Japanese decent? That was odd considering Japanese relations right now. He was wearing a command red uniform with many pips on his collar to signify his rank. He appeared to be in his 50s.

"Yes, Admiral?" I asked." Anything I can help you with? And great news about Alaria. I've never been there and I didn't know I was part Alarian since the other day."

"Well, I was hoping I could talk to your commander, Damon about the enhanced human project here in America. Confed is asking countries to ban genetic alterations of any kind after your incident." He explained. "Among other things."

"My incident?" I asked. "It was just my alien DNA. Don't close the project because of me."

"We're not." The admiral shook his head. "At least not yet. We are going to talk to Damon about his views of the project."

I nodded my head and we walked to the room. Nate was there along with some of the others. Kiria though was no where to be found. I wanted to see if she could decipher some of the Alarian text I found.

" Damon...an admiral would like to speak to you." I explained as I got to his bed.

"What is it?" Damon asked. "Oh and umm nice look?"

"I'm half Alarian, remember." I explained. "My mom tinkered with my DNA. I also had to beam you out mid fall. As for the uniform..I'm a cadet in Star Com. I hope you're up for company."

The admiral shook Damon's hand.

" Star Command has asked me to talk to you and your men." He explained. " We need of your help and we need to talk about the super soldier project here in the US. It almost killed Rohjaz here. I read the report from Starbase Washington. Confed is looking into it and is thinking of abolishing the project all over Earth."

" I think they want it as a measure to reunify Earth under one governemnt, Damon." I explained. "I've seen the Confed newswire. Confed's working to reunify Earth."

"I also have a suspicion that Japan's being controlled by alien forces outside the galaxy."the admiral replied. "I have reports of strange alien transmissions being intercepted. We need your help in finding out about what's going on in Japan. Find out about the aliens and maybe help reunify Earth."

"And since I'm not genetically enhanced now.."I started."We're gonna need Star Command's help."

[ChobiChibi]

~Kagura~
After my identity was confirmed i was free to go. It must have been strange to have had twins to question. It was quite amazing that even though we'd both had completely different upbringings that we still looked and sounded exactly like eachother.
I decided i'd go check on Damon. All those gun shots and the fall couldn't have been good for him and i wasn't allowed to know anything on his condition until i was released. I was informed that he had pulled through, but that's all.
I walked in the general direction of the wards. There weren't many people in the corridors but i had the feeling i was being followed. I turned around to face a Russian guard of some sort.
"What do you want?" I snapped, still angered from the questioning before.
"Kagura, isn't it?" He asked.
"Yes... Why?"
"We... require your assistance in questioning your sister."
"Me? She won't answer to me."
"Kiria is working on something else. You're the only one here who speaks japanese other than her..."
I sighed. "I don't have a choice, do i?"
He took me down to where she was being held. She was smirking, most likely at nothing. I don't see why she seemed so proud of herself. Surely Sadano would punish her when she returned. No, wait. IF she returned.
"Having fun, Mitsuki?" I asked, my japanese clearly confusing the people with clipboards who were monitering the conversation.
She looked up at me. "You again?"
"Ask her why she joined Sadano." said one of the monitering people.
"Why did you join them?" I translated, walking over to where the bars of the cell holding her were.
"To get some recognition for once. You were always in the lime light. 'Our baby is gonna be a Super Soldier!'. It's all they ever talked about. Sadano was glad to have me, that's for sure. I am valuable to him."
I was surprized that she responded so openly. So there was still that little bit of her i once knew in there somewhere. I translated what she said back to the others in the room.
"I wonder what our parents would think of us now..." She commented.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked.
"What did she say?"
"You could ask them, but it would be hard to get hold of them." The smirk was back on her face. "They're dead."
I felt as though i'd just been shot. "Who did this to them?"
"It was a pain to clear up afterwards..."
That look in her eyes told me it was her. I couldn't believe it. I wouldn't believe it. "Mitsuki? It was you?" Silence. "Answer me, damnit!" I yelled at her.
"You're guilty because there's nothing you could have done... Heh, you wouldn't have been able to do anything even if you were there..."
I couldn't look at her. I stared at the ground, forcing back my tears. She killed her parents... MY parents. If she had the chance, i would be dead too. Her own family. She was no longer a sister of mine.

[Samchu]

Nate
~~~~

Damon woke up a few minutes after Kiria had left with Aiken. It was good to see he was recovering well, he'd be on his feet and causing havoc again shortly. The thought made me laugh, Damon had always taken things too seriously for comfort.

"How are you feeling?" I asked.

"Oh you know...not to bad for someone who got SHOT and then had a HEART ATTACK."

I laughed. "Dude chill will ya? You're still alive and you're gonna be back to normal in no time, even the doctors say so. By the way, you now owe Steve for beaming you out of there, which means you owe Steve twice over cause he also bailed us out on that Jap mission and I've paid you back for saving my ass back in DC cause I got your medication for your heart attack."

"Great..." he muttered. "Where's Kiria?"

"You knew she was here? Well Aiken came and dragged her away for some 'important business'. She wanted me to tell ya that she was here until then, but you already knew that."

Just then, Steve came in and started to explain his theories on the actions of the Japanese and that the admiral with him wanted to question Damon on the super soldier project. No need for me to hang around then...I made excuse to leave and headed outside. I headed over to L.I to see how Kiria was doing but a Russian guard outide said I wasn't allowed inside. I was kinda annoyed, I just wanted to tell her that Damon was up but if it was important...

I figured I'd go see how Kagura was but she was apparently involved in some deep interrogation and there was no way of me going in to speak to her. I sighed and began wandering aimlessly. Everyone was doing something, everyone seemed to be useful right now 'cept me. Heck, who needs a bombmaker anyway? It's a pretty useless skill after all. I felt annoyed by this thought and headed off to the gym to let of some steam. So punchabg was seriously gonna get it...

[Bulbasaur4]

Aiken-


Aiken had left Kiria alone, and with that he began to walk towards Damon's room for a visit. His long, flowing viberant red hair hung about his shoulders well as his elegant gait seemed to flow along the corridor. His piercing green eyes scanned the corridor, and it was obvious Aiken had changed into a more causal wear. His fitted torso was adorned in a tight, slightly-spandex looking suit which hugged at his every curve. He didn't have extremely broad shoulders, but his neck was definately defined along with his abdomin which showed nicely. Black fitted pants were also adorned, a bit more baggy with matching metal buckled leather boots as well. He had a hand bag with him as he walked, and soon entered Damon's room.
He instantly saw Steve, Damon and Nathan. However, as the Admiral came in and Nathan left. Aiken stood there, nodding to Damon.
"I came by to see how you were doing."
Damon glanced at Aiken and gave a rather half shrug, and Aiken showed no emotion as he gave a slight nod. He didn't expect to be welcomed very much in the group... they didn't know him and they most likely had been together for quite some time.
"Aiken, I'm about to have a little meeting... " The officer spoke, and Aiken had opened his handbag and was rummaging about a few things. At this, Aiken instantly nodded and fumbled out an object but with it a piece of paper also fell.

It fell face up, so that Steve and Damon could see. Aiken was blocking the view of the Admiral, and for that he was thankful as his face blushed red.
"Whose... that?" Steve inquired, as Damon seemed to glance at Aiken bewilderedly. It was a picture of a girl... and unknown to Aiken, it was a lovely picture revealing a rather beautiful girl in a few petal-fallen leaves. Her face was soft and her eyes were beautiful blue, bewitching in a way with many intermixing colors. She had a serene look... alook of grace, beauty...
Aiken quickly snatched it up.
"Is that your sister?" Damon questioned, and Aiken glanced at him as if stunned.
" For some reason... the person in the picture and you, look alike. I figured it was your sister."
Aiken blushed slightly-very slightly.
"Uhm... yeah... YES! Yes, it is my sister." Aiken said hurriedly, putting i back in his handbag as he placed the object he had been reaching for upon the desk.
It was a strange necklace-type thing... a black metallic string that wrapped itself about a semi-transparent blue slate orb that seemed to swirl slightly. I twas in the same of a cresent moon.
"A..present.." Aiken fumbled as he walked out instantly and in a hurry.

[Bulbasaur4]

Oops, forgot to include the attachment!

The FIRST attachment is the picture that Aiken dropped.

The SECOND attachment is an updated photo of the more mature Kiria now. ^^

[Cferra]

OOC: Nice work, Kaylah! Hey, I was wondering if you could do a pic of Steve in his gold and black Star Command uniform. Remember he has these antennae on his head that are kind of thick and resemble horns almost. He also has spots on his arms and gill slits.

As for the uniform: Black jumpsuit with gold shoulders, wrist and cuffs on his pants. The shoulder colors should connect to the breastbone. Kind of like the uniforms on Star Trek: Voyager/Deep Space Nine.
Let me know if you can make it.

L_X

[Samchu]

Nate
****

I quickly discovered that working out wasn't as fulfilling as I had expected it to be. It had merely left me feeling much more tired, sweaty and aggitated than I had been when I had first arrived. However I did feel a little better about the whole mess and was very much looking forward to the evening ahead of me. Perhaps my super soldier abilites were of little value right now but my abilities as a charming and positively wonderful husband were and nothing was going to stop me planning a romantic night in with my incredibly gorgeous wife.

I showered quickly and bumped into Aiken in the changing room. Surprising he seemed slightly started to see me only wearing a towel. I laughed, "hey, we're all guys right?" I told him and he nodded slowly. I pulled open my locker and started to get dressed, 'cept I kept my back to him as it seemed to make him more comfortable. "So Aiken, what brings you all the way in here?" I asked.

He merely shrugged, "nothing to do really."

"That's perfect," I told him, quickly pulling on a shirt and buttoning my pants. "You can give me a hand."

"A hand?"

"Yeah. I wanna do something really special for Kiria and I to do tonight, y'know a nice romantic night in and I'm gonna need your help getting some stuff. You seem to know the place quite well. You up for it?"

"I guess..."

"Good good. Oh and can you do me a favour and tell Steve to come as well when he's free. Alien boy can give me a hand with something."

"Alright..."

I slapped Aiken on the shoulder, "thanks buddy, I owe ya for this. Meet me at the hotel room okay and I tell ya what I need help with."

Aiken merely nodded and I headed off with a broad smile on my face. See? I thought, I am useful...

[Bulbasaur4]

This post might be a bit sensual, hope no one minds.

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Aiken

Aiken withdrew a staggering breath as he watched Nathan finally exit, leaving him alone to his thoughts. Aiken had seen plenty of naked guys in his life time through changing room incidents... but still, it affected him in the same way. Sure he had grown accustomed to it... but in the back of his mind, it always screamed out some thing that seemed odd or too explicit. Withdrawing a sigh, Aiken walked to the door and twisted the lock. No one would be entering this time.

Taking off his tight, spandex-like shirt he revealed his upper torso. His locker was near the shower, and he opened it up to reveal some white tap along with towels and other various things. Taking the soft white towel he let it hang over the bench as he hung his shirt up upon the hook. His body was smooth and soft, seemingly carved beautifully exposing his well-defined abdominal muscles and his strong, rather muscular shoulders. By no means was he ripped... but for his body size and shape, he was extremely toned and attractive. The only odd thing, was about his pectorial muscles was tape, firmly wrapped about his chest so that it matched evenly with his skin and created a slight square shape. The tape job was well done however, perfected... smoothed over and showing no lines what so ever. It was of slightly tanned hue as well. Soon Aiken had slipped off his black pants and had hung them up as well. Of course Aiken didn't wear boxers or even briefs for that matter, but a rather skimpy tight under garment which again, was well suited to his toned body type. It was rather obvious that... Aiken wasn't exactly a man underneath. It was amazing how well-defined his body was... perfectly beautiful and elegant, toned and strong. Yet with clothing, Aiken seemed like a strong yet some how smaller-toned male, stilll having striking and feminely handsome characteristics that probably had attracted many females. But underneath it all... his body, although the same, seemed to have transformed into more of a elegant, graceful body of beauty.

Aiken turned on the shower, letting the steaming hot water instantly pour onto the ground as his long, thick and silk-like soft strands of auburn red flow about his shoulders. The water was refreshing... it seemed to renew his dreams, his visions, his thoughts and everything he felt. It was so odd for him to be around Nathan, Kiria, Kagura, Steve and of course, Damon. Although it had Aiken feel slightly better that Nathan had welcomed him shortly in the locker room.
Still... the shower did not last. Aiken made a point to hurry has he swiftly washed his body with foamy scented wash, and then swiftly treated his hair to shampoo and conditioner. When it was done, he returned to his soft white towel and dried off before putting on new clothes. Deep-set black pants that seemed to be slightly leatheristic, but were obviously not and had a hybrid additude of jeans. He soon took a skin-tight white shirt, which exposed a bit of his defined abdomin, and then over that he grabbed a black jacket of matching material of his pants. He swiftly blow dried his long, brilliant hair of crimson red and it seemed to naturally become soft and beautifully crafted about his head and shoulders. Aiken then put back on his boot-like sneakers of silver black, and then put everything else away. Grabbing his little pack which he had before, he soon unlocked the door and exited.

His heart seemed to pound against his ribcage, as he approached the door of where Damon and Steve were. He was nervous... what did the last event cause them to think?
My 'sister'... hah... I hope to god they don't want 'her' number... or let their minds wander...
Just as Aiken was about to tap upon the door, suddenly it opened and out Steve came. Aiken felt more relaxed around Steve and he was secretly thankful that it WAS Steve. of course... it wasn't because Aiken felt threatened around Damon... at least, not in the way that most people would think of as 'threatened'.
"Oh, yes Steve. "Aiken stated softly, glancing about before nodding.
" Nathan would like you to meet him with me, at the hotel room. He has a few plans for Kiria and would like our help."

[Cferra]

Steve
******************

I went down to the gym so that Damon and the admiral could talk about mission specifics and everything in private. They didn't need me to hang around and I wanted to see how Nate was doing anyway. When I got there, I saw Aiken stepping out of the locker room.

"So, Nate already left?" I asked as one of my antennae twitched a little. "I guess we'll go off to the hotel."

Aiken appeared to blush a little and seemed grateful that I came in and not anyone else. I wasn't sure what to think but if Nate wanted to meet us we had to go.

"Yeah." Aiken replied."Shall we go?"

"Sure." I found a case to put my reading in. "These'll have to wait. They're files on Alaria."

"That's your dad's world?" he asked.

"Yeah." I replied. "I'd like to find out more about them and maybe Kiria can help me translate some stuff here."

Aiken nodded and I grabbed the case and we made our way out of the complex. The hotel was where my strange transformation took place. I thought I was human when I got there but now it wasn't the case. I was half-Alarian and I didn't have my super soldier genes. Luckily, I still had my armor and that needed to be modified.

I noticed Aiken was pretty quiet while we got into the elevator to the room. I wasn't sure what Nate needed but I bet it was some kind of surprise for Kiria. She had to have still be in that room with the Russian StarCom guards stationed outside. I say them on the way to the gym and they didn't seem to want to talk much.

I pressed the door button next to the room key slot.

"Enter." Nate's voice called.

"Hey, Nate." I smiled. "What's going on? What do you need help with. Aiken basically said you needed something."

I looked at Nate and placed my files on the bed. I saw my armor was up here as well. That thing was going to need a tune up so it could fit my new bio structure. Luckily I was in security and engineering.

[Samchu]

OOC: Well i know Billy was intending to bring Matt in anyway so I hope ya don´t mnd this B. And Kalah, interesting post, definately not too OTT.
Nate
*****

"Well I actually kinda need you to DO something for me instead." I admitted, blushing slightly. "It appears that in my stupidity I have forgotten that Kiria and I have an anniversary coming up in two days so I need to go and pick a few things up. I was hoping that you would prepare a meal for us to enjoy because I know how godd you are at cooking and quite frankly I stink so..."

"Yeah I´ll do it. But this means you owe me ya know."

"Ah thanks Steve! I asked Aiken to help out in case you needed anything whilst I was gone. I gotta run though but if Kiria finishes whatever important business it is before I get back can you just...distract her or something. I don't want her to know what her present is."

"What is it?" asked Aiken.

I grinned. "That's the beauty of it, I don't yet know. I'll hurry back. Catch you guys later." and I hurried off to pick out a meaningful present for Kiria's anniversary present.

* * *

I had hidden Kiria's present in a safe place and was heading back to the room when I bumped into a young man looking kinda lost.
"You okay kid?"

"Huh? Uh...yeah....I was just trying to find someone." He looked at me. "Are you Nate?"

"Yeah that's me. Why? I'm not the one you're looking for am I?"

"No. It's just...you look very different from your pictures."

I laughed, "i hope that's a compliment. So where ya from kid?"

"The future."

"The future? It any good?" I asked, slightly disbelieving.

"I'm trying to make it better."

"Glad to hear it. How are you going to do that?"

"Well," he replied. "I've come to find my father. Damon."

I stared at him closely. "So you're going to be Damon's offspring 'ey?" I eyed him, "you got some of his looks, not the best of bargains but..." I couldn't shake the feeling. "...you look an awful lot like...nevermind. I'll show you to Damon if ya like, he's this way, come on."
I led the way down the corridor.
"So what have you come to talk to him about?"

"I need his help to stop something from happening."

"Bad is it?"

"I believe so."

"What is it? Japs breed with aliens or summit?" I asked, laughing slightly.

"No. Your death."

I shot him a sideways glance. "Oh yeah? So die huh? Nice to know."

"In two days." he replied, a little too matter-of-factly for my liking.

"Interesting, same day as my anniversay." I said, before adding, "well I hope I get to give Kiria her present before I die," I joked, not believing him. I stopped outside Damon's door. "He's in there, you can try running that theory through him kid. Catch ya later." I gave him a little shove inside and headed back to the room to see how Steve and Aiken were getting on without me.

[Ghost]

OOC: Sorry that I haven't been posting for a while, but I have been in NYC. Fun. BTW, this will be a Matthew post, before he goes to the future.

Matthew Castle
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Another day for the marines. We had been called in for a mission because one of the super soldiers had been gunned down and killed by an unknown source, and we needed to go find his Helmet so we could get some feed of what killed him and how.
" Alright boys, listen up!" Sergeant Vasquez yelled over the roaring plane. Vasquez was a hard looking black man with a attitude, and had no tolerance for failure.I was the other Sergeant on the plane. Me and Vasquez would be leading 2 delta teams into two different areas. My group was a bunch of Commandos, trained to survive in the wild for 20 months and wore heavy sergeant's armor, and had M56 Assault Rifles with Launcher attachment. These guys weren't Sergeants ofcourse, but they could be Officers for all I knew.
I myself, had brought some light armor, including my helmet that had Night, Thermal, EMF, and Motion Tracking visions.I also brought along the FRN-2000, the latest weapon in the marines system. Laser-sighting, with 4 different attachments- Machine Gun, Launcher, Shotgun, and Sniper Rifle. I only had planned on using the Shotgun and launcher, and bring along the Machine Gun just incase. It also had a built in flashlight in it, just incase my helmets battery ran out.
" Me and Sergeant Matthews here ( Matthews is a fake last name Matthew used to enter the marines) Will be leading you into two different fields of wilderness. My group will be going into a desert, were the Soldier might of been killed. Matthews team will be going into the Forest to try and see if they died there. Everybody understand?" He asked, his voice cold and like steel.
" Sir yes sir!" We all yelled out in unison. The plane landed, and me and my four men stepped out. The nodded at the Sergenant, and with a roar, the plane left.
I turned on my radio signal, and made sure that it worked with the other men. It worked thankfully, but of course we were all right next to eachother. Would it work long range? Who knew.
We all decided to split up. I told Three of the men to go in a group together, and one to come with me. We had spotted a building about ten kilometers away with our binoculars. I told the men that we should check in every five minutes.
The groups went our seprate ways, me and my teammate Johnson towards a power plant building, and the others would go to the abandoned mansion. I dont know who would have a mansion in Seoul, South Korea, espically in the woods.
Me and Johnson continued down the woods, towards the power plant. No sight of anything, but of course it was pitch black, so we couldn't see anything. I turned on Night Vision, and told Johnson to do the same.
Every exact inch of the forest looked the same, other then the power plant ain the middle of it all. It was strange, and somewhat spooky. Tons of trees were knocked down, with strange bite marks and some with blood on them. Whatever had been had must of been gone... Atleast I hope so.
His scream cut throught the air like a knife, and it came from right behind me. It was totally silent, until the scream, and I did a 180 turn, and saw my commando on the ground, being attacked by some orange thing. It was small, and had 3 tentacles, with a bulb shaped head, and no eyes or ears. It had already removed the commandos helmet, and was... trying to eat his face! As kick as possible I took out my knife, and stabbed the thing right through the bulb, and it was instantly dead. I removed it from his head. My mate was lucky he wasn't dead, but his face was tore up. The thing had a huge mouth on the bottom of it, with rows of teeth. Obviously something that eat flesh... Maybe it was a different race of Gyron. It had to of been. There was no other thing it could of been. Gyrons were the only thing known to man =not from this earth.
" Soldier, strap on your helmet and lets get moving. Its only a kilometer away." I said, and the soldier wearily stood up. He was obviously exhausted. " Lets get a move on it,"

~~~~~

I will post part 2 of this post later, too lazy to do it now.

[Ghost]

Part Two,

Matthew Castle
~~~~~~~~~~~

Gyrons in the forest... I just didn't understand it. We had come to this forest about a year ago, in a recon mission. Terrorist threats by the Japanese, we took them down. But there was no Gyrons, and the forests were still intact. When did they come here? Why a random forest in Seoul? These questions led to more, and they clogged Matthew's head, and he wasn't able to notice a hulking beast slowing move by him...
" Sir, I think we have a problem," Matthew heard over his radio." No sign of movement near the mansion, but... Fuck!" I heard the commando yelled, and over the radio we heard his bones crunch under pressure, and heard gunfire.
" Sir, Help! We are being attacked! A huge beast and-" I heard the other commando's bones crack, and only one remained. " Sir, Sir, Sir!" I heard his panic gasps. " I am hiding behind a tree, I don't think the thing can see me. I lost sight of it. The thing was wearing strong silver armor, and, and, and, and"
" Calm down Commando. What did it look like, and what did it do to the others?" I calmy asked him. He had obviously lost it all. The thing was coming for him, and It would kill him if it found him.
" Well, it was, was, tall... and had some kind of assault rifle the fired some plasma needles, and," His breath was heavy against the microphone.
" Commando, stop breathing so hard." I told him. The other commando stood next to me, keeping watch.
" Sir, I'm not..." The breath was deep, and was breathing right into the mike.
" Commando..."
" SHIT!" He yelled, and the sound of needle shots were heard, and flesh tearing was heard. He was dead. I was positive, more positive than I had ever been in my life he was dead. Dead. If they killed them, then that means it was coming for him, coming for him to kill, to feed, to devour, to destroy. I was going to die.
" Commando, we need to get the hell out of here, or we are going to die. I am positive. Keep your motion tracking on, and as soon as we get to that power plant we need to turn it on and run the fuck out of there," I told him. He nodded slightly, and we started to down the path towards the power plant, as fast as humanly possible.
When they finally reached there, they skidded to a stop, and the commando slowly walked up the door. He turned the knob gently, and opened it slowly. The door was finally opened, and they both stepped in.
We both turned on our flashlights, and scanned for the main power access. " I know you don't wanna do this, but we need to split up.
He slowly nodded, but I knew he didn't want to. A look of horror probably struck his face. But he had to. I was his commanding officer. So we slowly split up, I took the strraight way, he took the stairs down.
Five minutes later, I reached the center accces core, and there I saw. I couldn't believe it. I found the body. But who the soldier. I turned the body around...
General Nathan Koals. How did he die here? He was one of the strongest soldiers ever, nearly invincible, and he died because of the gyrons? Well then, I better take the chip...
But when I took out the chip, I was electrocuted and fell to the ground. I was dying... The suit must of malfunctioned... Damn... I was dying... It was over...

It wasn't over. I slowly woke up on the ground, and found I was in an alleyway of the streets. How the hell did I get here?

[Samchu]

OOC: This'll probably seemed pretty random but I've been reading some random stuff lately and I've kinda gone random on the brain.

Nate
~~~

I headed back to see Steve when I passed by the door where Kagura was interrogating her sister. A guard stopped me. "Nathan, we need your assistance with the interrogation."

"Well that's much appreciated but I'm afraid I don't speak Japanese."

"We don't want you to say anything, just go in there, relieve Kagura of her post and then stand there."

"Ok..." Feeling slightly confused by the whole situation, I cautiously opened the door and headed inside. Kagura was stood facing her sister, she was shaking violently and her face was turning red. She looked like she was going to cry. "Err...Kagura? I'm taking over."

The poor girl couldn't leave fast enough. She took off out of the room, slamming the door shut behind her. I wondered what had gone on but decided not to worry. It wasn't my business and I wasn't going to pry. My job was to stand here like an idiot. So I did.
The time ticked by slowly, I had no idea how long I was in there for. I looked around the room, completely soundproof, these guys knew what they were doing. My attention was drawn to a sudden rumbling in the distance. I didn't think on it but there was a sudden sound of a missle firing followed by a huge explosion as the far wall was blown apart. Staring through, I saw an alien ship. I was so stunned I didn't even notice Kagura's sister coming up behind me. She was strong, I'd give her that much.

The hatch of the ship began to open and I realised she was trying to force me on board. To hell with her if she thought she could out-muscle me. As we got close, I dipped quickly and threw her into the open hatchway before making for the door.
It was locked.
I barged it with my shoudler and finally broke through. I looked back to see the ship pulling away. I was shocked it had gotten so close, there was something suspicious about that.

My thoughts were interrupted by Kagura. She was stood there, face buried in her hands and sobbing. I walked up to her and put my arms around. Kagura was my friend, one of our team, we always looked out for each other.
"Hey...what's wrong?"

Through loud sobs she told me that her sister had murdered their parents. I knew Kagura had always held out hope that part of her sister was still in there but I supposed this just totally destroyed her hope of that happening. I stayed with her until she had clamed down. I saw Aiken coming down the corridor, Steve had sent him to look for me.I asked him to take Kagura to her room so she could calm down and I went to see Steve.

"Steve, man you're not gonna believe what's happened to me..." and I explained everything, Damon's son, Kagura's sister, everything. But even through it all, I couldn't help but wonder what was keeping Kiria so long...

[Cferra]

Steve
*************

I couldn't believe what happened. How did they slink past security? So much for preparing hasparat for Kiria and Nate. That had to wait, though. I had to ask Nate what the configuration of the ship was.

"Nate?" I asked. "What was the configuration of the shuttlecraft?"

"I dunno, I didn't see, I was too busy wrestling Kagura's psycho sister remember?" he replied.

"I gotcha." I pressed my comm badge. "Rohjaz to Command. Rohjaz to command. Respond."

Either my comm badge didn't work or something happened to the transmitter. I looked out the window and I saw the shuttlecraft veering back toward the building and charging phaser banks.

"NATE RUN!" I grabbed Nate and we ran as the hallway collapsed. "We gotta get the others!"

Kagura was with us as well and we made our way to where Kiria was. The guards were dead. All that was left was to bypass the lock. I tried to contact Star Command and Starbase Washington but nothing worked.

"Nate, Kagura." I panted. "We got to bypass the door and see if Kiria is inside."

I whipped out my tricorder." I'm picking up her lifesigns!"

Who would attack a Star Command facility? That ship that attacked us was definitely not Japanese. In fact, I bet that the ship was not known in any part of the galaxy. The base shook again and I tried to find signs of other survivors as Nate got to the automatic door.

"Kiria!" I called.

"I ain't got time for this!" Nate pulled parts out of pockets and fitted them together "Everyone get back! Kiria stay away from the door!"

The automatic doors blew apart and we saw Kiria standing there. Nate ran and hugged her. I looked inside the meeting room to see many people collapsed.

"Any idea what we should do before that alien ship makes another run?" I asked. "I saw it and it was definiely not from this galaxy."

"Get underground. There's a secret waterway, we should be safe there." Nate responded.

So much for making modifications to my armor. I didn't need it now anyway as the uniform I had on had plenty of resistancys. It was dirty, though.

"What about Damon and the admiral?" I asked. "They're a few floors above us."

"I'll get them. Kiria, go with Steve and the others. I need to know you're safe." Nate nodded.

I reached in my pocket and grabbed a comm badge.

"Take this." I started. "If anything happens, call and I will beam you out. I'm going to go underground and see if we can get Confed on subspace."

"You got it. I'll be right back, I swear." Nate nodded.

I nodded and my group ran down toward the sub-basement and into the tunnels. Nate was on his own and I didn't like it much. I managed to see several Star Comm medical teams running to the building as we began to go under.

"Cadet!" a commander called. "What happened?"

"Sir am I glad to see you." I panted. "A shuttlecraft of alien origin hammered the building and they had a Japanese woman with them!"

"Subspace is down as are all transmissions outside of Russia." he explained. "We can't get through to Washington."

"Well..I guess..."I started as soon as I heard a large explosion and turned to look at the building.

"NATE!" I yelled.

[Samchu]

Nate
~~~

"That was little too close for comfort," I mumbled quietly as the wall to my right began to fall away. "No worries Steve I'm still here." I said calmly over the comm and headed back to where Damon and the Admiral had been. Fortunately, they too had started making their down the building and I met them halfway.

"What the **** is gong on here!?" Damon demanded, he looked like he was back to his old self at last.

"An alien ship is attacking the building," I explained. "All communications outside of the building are down. The others are hiding in the waterways beneath the complex. We should be safe there."

"Fine, I just hope none of them buggers try to get in here, I'm in the mood for some ass whooping."

I laughed, "yeah Damon I know."

I reported in to Steve that I'd found the others successfully and we were beamed down to the waterway entrance. I led Damon and Matthew down and the Admiral went to assist the on-scene troopers. We all made it safely and Kiria hugged both Damon and me tightly. She did, however, seem curious as to whom Matt was, but of course neather she, Aiken or Kagura knew that yet.
I decided to formally introduce them.

"Guys, this Matthew. He's from the future and apparently is also Damon's son," I left out the part about the whole, me going to die thing, I didn't want Kiria to worry over nothing. "Matt, this is Steve, Kagura, Aiken and Kiria."

[Bulbasaur4]

I'm sorry, I'm unsure of what to post right now. LX basically killed my planned ideas with Kiria AND Aiken... with one post... so I'm just going to sit and contemplate.
*sigh*

[Bulbasaur4]

[color=royalblue]COMBINED POSTY! MWHAHAHA!

Kiria & Aiken

Kiria had been shaken up... and she barely seemed to have registered anything that had gone out. Hugging Damon and Nate... being ushered into another base... seeing Matt.
All she could recall was the talk with the aliens.... they called themselves the, Darshn'arr. A new race, some one that could have been an ally... and she had made much progress with them until suddenly they were attacked. The strange thing was.. they were attacked right when Kiria was about to confirm that they were to be allies... the Darshn'arr were going to tell Kiria some urgent news about a new alien race when...
"Takakn... Takakin.." Kiria whispered to herself, staring at the floor as she tried to recall the last words they had spoken to her.

"Is some thing wrong? We're introducing Matt here Kiria..." Nate said with a light little elbow to Kiria, who instantly snapped her head up. A smile instantly replaced her frown as she shook her head.
"Oh... I was just trying to remember a word.." She said until suddenly her eyes rested upon Aiken whom seemed extremely nervous.
"What's the matter?" Kiria mouthed to him, as soon as his piercing green eyes settled upon Kiria's figure. Aiken gave a nervous shrug... his eyes constantly flickering about. There were many Russian authorities about, seemingly quite calm about the incident although all about in a disorderly matter.
"It is pleasing to meet you." Aiken said lightly, taking Matt's hand and shaking it lightly. His hair wavered about as he looked about at everyone and then walked between Matt and Kiria.
" Excuse me Kiria, but I must speak to you for a moment..."
Everyone eyed Aiken strangely, and Aiken bowed appologeticly.
" I have a simple language question. Since we're introducing Matt... I wouldn't want to interupt the other greetings, so just for a moment."
Kiria was about to open her mouth in confusion until suddenly Aiken settled his gaze upon her and spoke.
"Aksn'ai verdicta monotuldai.."
Kiria's eyes widened as her heart seemed to stop for a second.
"I'll be back." Kiria said flatly, leaving everyone swiftly as she rushed to Aiken's side. Aiken placed his arm around Kiria's upper waist, pushing her away from everyone else. Kiria seemed to almost lean against Aiken for support, and perhaps if Nate or even Damon for that matter were to see... they were a bit closer than for comfort.


As soon as they had left the others resonable distance... Kiria instantly spoke.
"How... how did you know that language?! I made that language up when I was 16!"
Aiken pressed a gentle finger to Kiria's lips, silencing her for the moment.
"I don't think it's safe to speak in English... let us speak in that language you used so long ago. No one knows of it, correct?"
Kiria nodded... "Nate doesn't even know.."
"Good." Aiken stated, flickering a wary gaze to the group they had left for a moment. Kiria was obviously shaken but they soon began to speak.
(this will be translated for ease! lol)

[ I wanted to ask you who you talked to in the Communication Center. ] Aiken said gravely, as Kiria bit her lip... hesitating to respond. Aiken's eyes though gave iti away... he was trustworthy. She nodded slightly.
[ They were aliens... they called themselves Darshn'arr... they were going to make an alliance with our group until the aliens attacked. Right then the spaceship attacked the Darshn'arr were going to warn me about another alien race... but it was too late. The call was terminated. ]
Aiken's eyes widened but he nodded slowly and withdrew a breath.
[ Did they say anything that was noteworthy?]
Kiria nodded,
[ Some thing like.... ] "Takn...Takin.." [some thing like that.]
"Terkin." Aiken corrected, nodding to himself.
[ Alright... ] Aiken stated, withdrawing a soft breath as he seemed to ponder this for a moment and then nodded.
[ What is it Aiken? How do you know my hidden language and how did you know that word... i'm so confused Aiken. There's so much we don't know about you... I know you're not Russian although you hide your true accent exceptionally well. ]
Aiken glanced back to her, nodding as if defeated by her questions.
[ You're right. I'm not Russian. I'm not a lot of things... my talent is stealth and misconceptions Kiria. I have my ways of getting information... ways that you and the Starcommand all of of your friends have no idea of getting. Please, don't tell them however... I am this way for a reason. My life depends upon it... although perhaps soon, hiding my identity won't be needed anymore.]
Aiken touched Kiria's chin gently, leaning and staring at her gently as he whispered.
[ I know your language, because there was one other who knew it... correct? Your old friend Britai?]
Kiria's eyes began to water suddenly... as she withdrew a sharp breath.
[ Britai... Britai is dead... she died a long time ago... ]
Aiken nodded gently, [ Yes, but before she died I learned a great deal about you. I was there when she died Kiria... I held her in my arms as she relived her life. I was ordered to find you Kiria... but I ended up finding Britai first. When I found out you two were friends... I had to try to save her, but it was futile. So I learned your hidden language through her... and it prooves to be useful. ]
Kiria had a tear streaming down her face as her lip quivered, and Aiken quickly took a delicate finger and wiped the tear away gingerly. He smiled softly, leaning in and planting a kiss upon her forehead. Looking at her gently, his beautiful green eyes stared intently into hers.
"Do not cry... "
at this, Kiria suddenly clutched Aiken's arms and hugged him gently, Aiken's eyes widening in surprise but soon closing around her body. His muscular yet delicate arms intertwining about her back, as she withdrew shaky breaths.
[ Thank you... thank you for being there for her. She was such a good person... she was the best sister...]
AIken nodded, [I know, I know. Be strong for her. There are things amiss here... I have sensed it for quite some time. I'm going to leave for a bit... to do some research but I will return within a few hours. Perhaps then many things can be revealed. ]

Kiria nodded, suddenly realizing she had nearly collapsed in Aiken's arms as she lifted herself back away.
[ Alright... but won't you be in danger with that alien ship about? ]
Aiken shook his head, [I'll be fine... don't worry.]
Kiria nodded, "Goodbye then Aiken."
"I will see you soon." Aiken said lightly, turning away from her and suddenly sprinting from sight of most of the others. Kiria wondered slightly how he'd get out... but she had an idea that he had some more tricks up his sleeve.

Still... the ordeal had left her quite confused. Aiken... some thing about him had comforted her, had made her feel like she should know Aiken. Still, she soon walked over to Nate, Damon and Matt.
"Aiken had to take care of a few things... " Kiria said lightly, her composure returning.
"So, how are you Matt?"

[Samchu]

Nate
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Aiken had taken off temporarily with Kiria and I had used the opportunity to send Matt a little ultimatum. The last thing I needed was this kid telling Kiria that I'll be dead in two days. It's absolute bull of course but the last thing I need is her worrying about me.
That was the first problem solved.
The second problem, however, was gonna be harder to handle. Since Matt told me he was from the future, there was one thing about him that had constantly bothered me about him and now the others were picking up on it.
He looked very much like Kiria.

Before I could say anything though, Kiria came back and informed us that Aiken had gone off to do something, he was an odd guy but...who was I to judge him?
Kiria turned to Matt and asked, "So, how are you Matt?"
"I...I'm okay...I guess."
He seemed so shy around us and I just couldn't help but find similarities to the way he was with us and the way Kiria had been when she'd first met us. I wasn't stupid, he was Damon's kid? Doesn't take a genius to figure out the next part of the equation. The more I thought about that, the more I hated it. I stormed off down one of the waterways before I hit him. Much to everyone's surprise.

I don't remember how far I got before I eventually stopped walking but I'd covered a heck of a lot of ground. I crashed against the nearest wall and pounded it with my fist, I just had to hit something.
I stood there in silence for a while, not quite sure what the hell I was doing here. I heard footsteps echoing down the waterway and slowly Kiria appeared.
"There you are," she said, coming over, "everyone's worried about you."

I waited for her to reach me but I couldn't think of what to say to her. My head was spinnng.
She squeezed my hand, "what's wrong?"
"You don't see it...do you?"
Kiria was surprised, "see what?"
"Matthew, he's the splitting image of you, everyone can see he is. He's Damon's son but he hasn't got a clue who his mother is, well I tell you now he's got to be the only one of us who doesn't." The thought of it was driving me crazy.
"What are you talking about?"
"That's our kid out there, y'know, the one we've been trying to get? Looks like we're gonna finally get that family of Kiria but there's just one problem...that ent my kid. Matt belongs to you and Damon, now you tell me what's wrong!"

I didn't mean to shout at her but I couldn't bare the thought of it. Him and Her, I knew it was soon but how soon was that? If Matt was telling the truth about me dying...no. She wouldn't sleep with someone else that quickly, she wouldn't. But the alternative to that...it couldn't...Kiria wouldn't cheat on me...no that's a stupid idea, I can't believe she'd do that. I'd have to do something terrible for her to do that...
I looked down at her.
Something terrible? How about what I'm doing right now? I'm such a jerk...

"Kiria..." I put my arms around her and hugged her gently, "I'm sorry for shouting, I just don't know what to think anymore..." I brushed back her hair and kissed her softly. "I'm just so scared I'm gonna lose you..."

[Ghost]

It lives!!!!!

Damon Castle
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Eh.... Sewers. I never did like sewers... Rats, ALLIGATORS, mysterious creatures always had seemed to scare me, and being in one wasn't that comfortable.I mean, I didn't even have my pistol or machine gun if I wanted to shoot one. Nathan and Kiria had walked off, but I didn't care much, for Kagura, Steve and the General were with me and Matt.
" Ok, We need to find a manhole and get out of here." I said quickly. I had already started to sweat, because as I had said before I was scared of sewers.
" Umm. You want me to go look somewhere dad?" Matthew said.
" Matthew, stop calling me dad. And Yes, that would be nice of you to go look. I'm going to go head towards where Nate and Kira went. Steve, can you stay here with these guys?"
" Ummmm.. Sure." He said. I nodded to him and started to walk towards where Nate and Kiria went. I was constantly looking above me, until about Half a mile through I found a way out. There was no ladder, but i was tall enough to jump up and push the manhole cover off. I then Jumped and pulled myself up. When I got out, I found out the hard way that there was two feet of snow and he was now freezing cold, for he was only wearing a thin white button up shirt and black dress pants.
" Holy.... Fu**..." I muttered, while shivering. I looked around me and saw that we were in the middle of the city, but it was deserted. I need to go get the guys and tell them to come here so we can find an airport. We could go to Iceland or Japan... Maybe even nepal. Wait. We need to go to Alaska. They have a huge Naval base and we could use some stealth fighters to get to Japan. But we would have to walk to Alaska.. Unless we found some transportation. If we found a car dealer I could hotwire some cars. Yes, that would work.
" G-G-Guys! I f-f-found a m-m-manhole!" I yelled into the manhole, and in about five minutes everybody was here, and I helped them up.
" Great going Damon. Now where going to die of hypotherma..." Nathan said.
" Oh shut up..." I muttered. " We-we-were goign to need to-to-to find a car dealer so we can get to Alaska. I-I-I heard there was a huge na-na-navy base there. We-we-we can get a plane and fly to japan."I said, while shivering because of the sub zero cold. " What do you th-th-think?"

[Samchu]

Nathan
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"I think you're fu**ing crazy," I replied bluntly, despite the cold.
Damon shot me a threatening look and I rolled my eyes.
"Listen, we don't need to hire a car, Steve can help us." I turned to our alien friend who nodded and pulled out his StarCommand communicator.
"They'll pick us up shortly," he said.
I smirked at Damon, who sighed and paced a bit to keep warm.

Having had my appology to Kiria accepted, I stood behind her, rubbing her arms to keep her warm whilst we waited for the craft that would fly us to the Naval Base. We were super soldiers and, with the exception of Steve, we did not belong their. Besides, we had a mission, to complete and we always did.

Fortunately, a craft soon landed and we boarded. Damon seemed annoyed that he couldn't drive but sat with Matt. The General tried to phone ahead to the naval base. I sat by Kiria to help overcome my flying fears and Steve consolled Kagura. Aiken joined us beofre our departure and disappeared into the back, making Kiria surprisingly uneasy, though she would not give naything away.

A few hours later, we touched down in Alaska and were greeted by ten heavily armed naval soldiers. The leader stepped forward and saluted to which we responded.

"Welcome. We have been informed of your present situation and have orders to assist you in any way possible."

"Good." Said Damon.

They led us inside and left us free to explore the naval base whilst our General discussed our situation with their men. Aiken whisked Kiria away and Kagura withdrew to a spare room to collect her thoughts. Only Steve, Damon, Matt and myself remained - and for the record, I still felt uncomfortable around Matt. Not just about his resemblence but about what he said - how could I like a guy who told me I was going to die.

"See Damon?" I said, a slight cocky tone in my voice. "No car required."