It Sucks to be Us! (let the randomness begin! Limited LSUs)

[Mystic_clown]

ok, Mewtwo and Blade have an excse. But the rest of you (I'm looking at you two CT and Toxicity) post already!

[Inferno_Dragon]

Terone Nemast

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After the whole ordeal and listening to the man about what is happening to this world plus watching Jane and Jack run into an invisible barrier, it made me think. Maybe we will run into those scientists that did this to me. One, I needed to know what they did. Two, when I find out what they did, I can fix a few things and three after they are done doing some changes, I will pummel them into a bloody pulp. Then I will contact the authorities to pick them up.

"Okay, we know that strange things will happen but what will happen?" I asked.

"Maybe a enemy of Prince Gisbourne will appear."

I turned around to see this Sailor Girl just standing there.

"Okay, who are you and who is this Prince Gisbourne you speak?" I asked.

"Hello, I explained everything." She said.

"You did, I didn't notice." I said.

"I am Marian Loxley ... A.K.A Maidam Mesmeric ... " She said.

"Okay, that is enough information."

"What do you mean it is enough information? I haven't told you about Prince Gisbourne yet." Marian yelled.

I ignored her. Like I really cared about this Prince ... what was his name again? Nevermind, I need to focus on the moment at hand. Thanks to these Council people, anything can happen. Like an army of strong soldiers with powerful tanks coming right at us. What a minute ... is that? Not it can't be. Are those tanks that I hear?

"Okay, note to self. Stop saying or thinking anything. It will just get you killed." I said into my portable recorder.

[Master Rudy]

The fun part of playing a spy? I can pull off both action/adventure AND espionage! ^_~
Yes I know this is suppose to be parody but so far I've played David as what I think to be the straight man of the group. Expect mainly action with some good humor tossed in (these posts ARE A/A after all!)
Oh and there is a link to a sound clip. It took me forever to find and it goes with the character and his job so if it doesn't auto play when you click on it you BETTER listen to it! I will however advise Brandy to NOT listen to it!

David Johnson
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"So what now?" Andrew had asked in response to everything that was going on. In all honesty I had no clue. In my mind the best thing to do was investigate what had happened. "Well I'll tell you what I think we should do once we find them" Brigh said. Giving a little chuckle I whispered to Moth "I'll bet $20 she'll want to blow them all up." Moth appeared bored with the whole debate in general but the propect of violence seemed to amuse her slightly. Personally I had the feeling that in turn helped her mood a bit. "While I usually care not for such trivial and meaningless bets I shall take it. I will say that Brigh will opt for an approach that is less messy and use her rifle. Either way both have the desired effect do they not?" I just shruged as I turned back towards Brigh. With a wicked grin on her face and a block of C4 in her hand she said "I say we hunt them down, find whatever foxhole those bastards are hiding in and then blow them all to hell!" Now it was my turn to grin as I turned towards Moth with an outstretched hand. The grin however did not last long because out of the corner of my eye I saw what appeared to be a laser sight right on Marian's chest. Without missing a beat I rushed her and tackled her to the ground. "GET DOWN!" She was knocked out of the way just in time but I wound up taking the hit. The bullet only grazed my left arm. It wasn't a serious injury and could be taken care of in the field but at the first chance I got I was going to have the doctors at CTU treat it properly.

Shortly after the first shot there was chaos all over and bullets flying. Everyone was smart enough to find some kind of cover. As for me and Brigh we were at the front of the pack since were the one armed with guns. As I tried to poke my head out to see what we were dealing with an odd thing happened. I didn't know if I was hearing things but there was a beeping sound almost like a clock and it was soon joined by some very dramatic music. To add to the confusion it was almost as if I heard it before......

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From beyond the 4th wall......
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From seemingly out of nowhere the 24 theme music kicked up and our posts went into the famous split screen format as the yellow clock appeared in the center almost tauntingly:

5:20:47
5:20:48
5:20:49
5:20:50.....

"What the hell? What did you do Rudy?" MC asked sounding very confused. I shrugged and said "Don't look at me Myst! I didn't do it!" Just then we heard some voices from another room. Getting up the two of us went to take a look and saw two men in another room messing with the RPG topic on a computer. However instead of being in the form of words it had video clips of people whom I assumed were our characters in a Windows Movie Maker file. "And who the hell are you guys?" MC asked. One of the guys was about to answer but with a huge smile on my face I said "Hey! It's Jon Cassar and Carlos Bernard! What's up guys!?" MC was perplexed at the fact that I was greeting them like old friends despite the fact that I've never met them face to face. Meanwhile Asi and Kuro who had also heard us talking came to see what was going on. While Asi didn't know Jon by sight she knew who Carlos was and let out an obvious groan of annoyment and walked away. Kuro who was now also confused looked at me and said "While I don't know what's going on I'm going to assume these guys have something to do with 24. Hence the reason for annoyment?"

Carlos nodded and said "Yeah that's right. Jon was just wanting to add some of his trademark flair as well as some of the action stereotypes since this is acton/adventure but......" Before he could finish talking Jon quickly butted in and said "YES!IAMDIRECTORMAN!!!!!I......direct.....YES!!!!T HATSRIGHT!!!DIRECT!!!!!!" Blade who was also in the room sighed. "Dammit.....I was wondering why the hell the coffee was disappearing. Anyway I'm going to go get lunch. Taco Bell sound good everyone?" Carlos frowned and then shruged at the suggestion. "Well I'm not one for racial stereotypes but what the hell. Sounds good kid." Job on the other hand was much more excited over it. "YES!!!!TACOBELLHEADFORTHEBORDERAMIGO!!!!!!AND.... ..the chalupa......DROPTHECHALUPA!!!!!"

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Back to David.....
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Risking a quick poke of my head over the car I was ducked behind I got a quick look at what we were dealing with. Brigh was across the street behind the side of a building. "Looks like they want to make finding them easy Dave!" she shouted from her cover point. While popping out for a quick shot and another look I yelled back. "Yeah but we won't be making any progress if we get killed! I saw a sniper on the roof. 10 o'clock! Two more closing in towards you on the street. Looks like they've got AK's and pineapples. I've got them. You ready?!" With nothing more than a nod with both jumped out to hit our targets. Brigh fired several rounds at the sniper. She only caught him in the leg but that was all we needed because he lost his footing and fell to his death. Meanwhile I was down to my last three bullets but that was more than I needed. No sense in going for the chest since they had armor on so I quicked dropped the goons with two quick headshots. As I returned to cover to load my last clip into my Sig I heard Brigh shout back at me. "Dammit! I'm out David!" That wasn't good at all. Taking a quick look I saw three more coming from a building down the road. With no other options I put the safety on my Sig so it wouldn't discharge by mistake and tossed it to Brigh. "15 plus one in the pipe! Give me covering fire and space out your rounds!"

Pulling out my .45 the two of us layed down a good amount of fire so I could make it over to the two guys I downed. As the men after us scrambled for cover I quickly grabbed a grenade, pulled the pin and rolled it towards the mercs. It wound up rolling under the car they took cover behind. Now all I had to do was distract them before they noticed. This had to work.....otherwise I was dead. Dropping my weapon I put my hands up and shouted "I surrender! Don't shoot!" To my surprise they actually fell for it. The man that appeared to be the leader said "The Council wants to have some words with you Agent Johnson. What do you have to say for yourself?" I still had the pin in my hand so with a little smirk I replied "One thing." With that I let the pin fall to the ground. "Do you guys like pineapples?" Almost on cue as the pin hit the ground the car blew up taking two of the men with it and leaving the leader a little worse for wear.

Picking my gun up again I quickly scanned for more mercs but that appeared to be it. I slowly walked over to the leader as he tried to make it back to his feet and gave him a quick kick to the ribs. "I suggest you stay on the floor. It suits scum like you just fine. Now your going to tell me who the hell you are and what the fuck The Council is. And finally your going to tell me what they want with me and my friends." Despite being beaten this man was still wanting to play the tough guy. "Go to hell Johnson." With that he spit on my shoe. If this was how he wanted to play I knew just how to soften him up. I simply shot him in the kneecap. As he rolled onto his back and yelled I placed my foot on the knee I just shot and slowly started to press down. Men like this always irritated me but everyone had a breaking point. "If you don't tell me what I want to know then it'll just be a question of how much you want it to hurt. And if you think I'm hurting you right now trust me.....I'm not. Those are simple questions. If you don't answer them then so help me god when I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish that you felt this good again. NOW TELL ME WHO THE COUNCIL IS!!!"

5:27:58
5:27:59
5:28:00.....

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Once again behind the wall......
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I was quite impressed with the way my post turned out with Jon's help. "Nice job" I said. "You've managed to do what I've been trying to do all along and capture elements of all my favorite fictional spies in that post. Just one thing Jon. David may be CTU but this isn't 24. You mind if we cut out the clock altogether?" Jon just quickly grabbed a Cubs mug on the desk, drank another cup of coffee in one gulp and then looked at me with crazy eyes. "THECLOCK?!?!?!IT......speaks......THECLOCKSPEAKST OME!!!!!YOURRUNNINGOUTOFTIME!!!!" Carlos grabbed the mug out of the director's hand and shouted at him "Hey! Did I say you could use MY mug?!"
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Insane enough? I tried to save quick in character jokes for the start and threw all the weird stuff into the 4th wall parts. Now that I see no one is afraid to break that wall (or mock episode recaps for that matter)expect me to do the same. This RPG is no longer safe from my mind!

[Kuro Espeon]

[whine]I am swamped with school work at the moment, but seeing as it's my genre up first I'll try to get a post up this weekend. Sorry, bear with me.[/whine]

[Master Rudy]

Is somebody going to post? I thin many of us are waiting for something to happen.

[Blademaster]

I'll post tonight, I swear - the flu is mostly broken, and I have a somewhat funny idea I wanna employ before we switch genres...

Just give me a few more hours, OK?

[Blademaster]

Right, sorry for the double-post; I like to look back at the last few replies, and I seem unable to do that with the 'Go Advanced' feature when editting a post, so... yeah.

(rubs hands together)

Here we go...

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Andrew

Andrew tilted his head as Marian's flashback ended - how he managed to see it, he didn't know.

'Oh, well...' Andrew thought with a shrug. 'I'm not complaining, so long as I got to see Marian strut her stuff - she's cute. ^_^'

Andrew smiled dopily at Marian, who didn't seem to be paying attention to him.

Just then, his smile faded; a confused look replaced it.

'Wait,' he thought, 'why did I add two arrows and an underbar to that thought for no reason...?'

Andrew put a finger to his chin, a little thought bubble containing a '?' appearing over his head. But suddenly, a rumbling sound reached his ears, causing the bubble to pop.

"So what now?" he asked, referring to the faint rumbling noise.

No one else seemed to hear it over Brigh's threatening banter, which was cut abruptly short when David ran in out of nowhere and tackled Marian to the ground, a bullet whizzing past his arm just nanoseconds later!

"David! Marian!" Andrew gasped, running over to his fallen friends and kneeling down. "Are you guys alright!?"

David started to answer, but his reply was once again cut off as what sounded like a scene from Saving Private Ryan unfolded all around us. Bullets were being fired every which way, tanks began to roll down every side street for blocks, several fighter jets and helicopters zoomed overhead, and several dozen armored mercenaries armed with various weapons began to barrel down on the former apartment tenants from the opposite side of the street.

"Retreat!" David hollered, grabbing Marian and Andrew and pulling them back to the ruins of the apartment building.

"You two stay here!" he instructed, pulling out his gun. "Stay out of the line of fire - I'll handle these guys!"

Before Andrew could protest, David leapt over the debris scattered about and charged into the warzone, where Brigh was already hard at work mowing down everything that moved further down the street.

"Stay here?" Marian scoffed behind Andrew, getting to her feet. "Ha, not likely! The magical Maiden Mesmeric is more than a match for these jerks! Outta my way!"

"But Marian, wait...!" Andrew whined, reaching after her. "Marian...! Be careful out there!"

She was already out of earshot.

'Awwww, maaaaaaaaan..." Andrew moaned, peering helplessly into the cloud of dust and chaos obscuring the street in front of him. "This was so NOT in the brochure when I moved here..."

A small object flew through the air and bounced off Andrew's head, coming to rest a few feet behind him.

"Owww...!" Andrew whined, rubbing his head and turning to pick up the object. "Stupid pinecones..."

Failing to take note of the fact that said 'pinecone' was a dark greenish-black color or of the fact that it was ticking, Andrew tossed it over his shoulder with a grunt.

KER-FWOOOOOM!!!

Several chunks of metal and assorted body parts flew threw the air, including an eyeball that bounced and rolled over the broken wall and came to rest a few feet in front of Andrew. It looked up at him with a blank, inquisitive look.

Andrew frowned.

"What're you lookin' at?" he grumbled.

The eyeball didn't answer.

Andrew narrowed his eyes.

"Little smartass..." he huffed, looking away.

The eyeball rolled over.

Andrew tried not to look back, but a moment later, his gaze returned to the eyeball, which was now looking off to the right. Andrew followed its gaze.

Some fifty feet away, a Chinook helicopter had landed, mercenaries spilling out of it like gumballs out of an overturned vanding machine, a la Godzilla. When the last of the mercenaries had disbanded, the chopper remained behind, sitting idly amidst the wreckage of the street. The only sign of life Andrew could see on-board was the pilot, who Andrew could see through the windshield holding a bottle.

Andrew retreated behind the wall, a little lightbulb flashing on over his head, then burning out. Annoyed, Andrew reached up and tapped it with his finger; the lightbulb flickered and re-lit.

Smiling in satisfaction, Andrew snuck along behind the wall, getting as close to the chopper as he could without being spotted. Ducking behind a fallen lamppost, he combat-crawled along the ground until he was right alongside the chopper. He glanced both ways, making sure nobody was watching him (which of course they weren't, but it's expected that someone would be, so he had to look just for the sake of looking), and then he turned and jumped up into the chopper, pulling the door shut behind him.

Andrew looked around - as he'd hoped, the chopper was abandoned, save for the pilot, who was still in the cockpit (snicker). Andrew walked up to the cockpit (snicker) and peered over the pilot's shoulder ever so cautiously...

The pilot was passed out, a near-empty bottle of scotch laying on the floor just below his slack right hand. The man snored deeply, but otherwise didn't react at all to Andrew's presence.

Andrew grinned and pulled the guy out of his seat, then took his place at the helm.

"You booze, you lose." he said to the inebriated pilot with a grin before turning to the controls. "Now, how do you fly this thing...?"

Andrew pushed a series of buttons, none of which did anything more interesting then cause a few lights to flash and blink. He pulled on a large lever beside the steering wheel...

The chopper's twin rotors began to spin, slowly at first but then faster and faster, until they were just blurs of movement. The helicopter lifted off the ground and took to the skies, swaying slightly as Andrew tried to figure out the controls.

"Uh, let's see here..." Andrew muttered. "This thing turns it on... this thing steers..."

His eyes fell on what looked like a joystick with a trigger mounted atop it. Just above the joystick was a screen depicting a bunch of small colored blips moving about on it, with a single whitish-yellow blob in the center.

"Oh, cool!" Andrew said with a big smile. "Pac-Man!"

Andrew grabbed the joystick and moved it about, a set of crosshairs appearing on the screen and darting around.

"Wokka-wokka-wokka-wokka-wokka-wokka..." Andrew babbled as the crosshairs flew around, eventually landing on a green blip and flashing red.

"Power pellet!" Andrew yelled triumphantly, pulling the trigger.

A missile dislodged itself from the side of the helicopter and whizzed through the air, slamming into the barrel of a tank rolling down the street, blowing it to bits.

"Ha-HA!" Andrew cheered "Bonus points!"

Andrew pushed down on the steering mechanism; the helicopter zoomed down over the street, raining destruction down on random mercenaries without realizing it.

'This is awesome!' he thought. 'I don't even need any quarters!'

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Kind of a sucky ending, but... oh well.

Next!

[Mystic_clown]

Jack Scarecrow
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"TELL ME WHO THE COUNCIL IS!" David barked, shaking the semi-concious soldier. Before the man could answer, David shook him again.

"ANSWER ME!"

"Why don't you try giving him a chance to answer?" Jack remarked a he, Jane, Brigh and Seyelin looked over his shoulder.

David stopped shaking him and glared at him.

"Well?"

The soldier was about to speak up, there was an explosion just behind them, sending the group flying, and unfortunately killing their prisoner.

"God Dammit!" David cursed.

"And right before he was going to answer too," Brigh muttered.

"Well what did you expect?" Seyelin scoffed, "Did you think they'd reveal who the council were this early?"

Everyone gave Seyelin a funny look. But before anyone could say anything, the sound of a chopper filled the air.

The five looked up to see a chopper flying towards them. Piloting it none other than...Andrew?

"Andrew!" Jack called, waving his arms around, "Get your butt down here and get us out of here!"

However, instead of landing and picking them up like they wanted. The chopper fired a missile at them. The five managed to dodge it before being incinerated by it.

"What the hell is that moron doing!?" shrieked Jane in anger.

"That idiot," David muttered, "He doesn't realize it's us!"

"I'll kill him," Brigh snarled, pointing her guns at the chopper. Jack intervened.

"Let's think about this! He has a chopper! You and David are out of ammo, me and Seyelin can't reach that thing and Jane's spears and arrows aren't going to do crap against that thing!"

"Then what do you suggest!"

"Run from that thing until it runs out of fuel! Then we kill him!"

The five of them nodded before taking off away from the chopper.


Just to clear things up, Andrew has no idea he's firing on his friends. As far as he knows, he's playing Pac Man.

[Asilynne]

~Jane Fox~
Somehow Jane saw it all coming

It was finally happening....
The Apes had managed to dig themselves out of their primitive ways and were using the tools of man to fulfill their deepest desires---KILLING US ALL!
Or maybe they were only PLAYING dumb all this time, maybe they ALWAYS had this technology and were just waiting for the day I would be caught off guard. Damn you apes, damn you filthy apes.
"APES!!!!! You cant hide behind the tools of man! Behind that metal dragonfly your just a DAMN DIRTY APE!"
I tied a rope that came out of nowhere to the spear I pulled out of my ass. (not literally you sickoes) Tossing the spear as hard as I could I wedged it into a part of the flying beast and began to climb the rope nimbly. Doing a flying leap I landed on the top of the machine and ducking to avoid the blades I began to pound on the top of it furiously with a club.
"Damn you apes....you killed my father.......PREPARE TO DIE!!!"
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Just a lil short random thing lol sorry if it sucks >.<

[Inferno_Dragon]

Terone Nemast

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Chaos!

That was one way to describe it. The world was falling apart. And worse Andrew was in a helicopter and he was shooting at us. I have heard about his video game obsession but this takes everything to the ultimate limit. I had to do something.

"Let's think about this! He has a chopper! You and David are out of ammo, me and Seyelin can't reach that thing and Jane's spears and arrows aren't going to do crap against that thing!" Jack said.

They couldn't do anything but I could. Had they forgotten that I was part beast? I had wings. I could fly up their and knock some sense into him? But how? The minute I flew up into the air, he would fire at me and I would be a bloody mess. I had to think this clearly.

"Damn you apes....you killed my father.......PREPARE TO DIE!!!"

That's when I saw Jane on the helicopter trying to get Andrew's attention and it was working. For once in my life, I had to thank Jane's survival obsession. If she was born an ordinary girl, I might have never had the chance to be able to stop him without her ape ranting.

"Okay, guys. I need some extra distraction. I am going to stop Andrew from killing us." I said to David and Brigh.

I stretched my wings out as I was preparing to get up into the air. David and Brigh pointed their guns up. I started to run as my wings stretched open and I jumped. Suddenly, I was in the air and starting to head towards the chopper. Andrew did start to notice me but the fire of David and Brigh's guns distracted him enough so I could get a sneak attack. As I turned, I arrived the right side of the chopper. I pulled the door out and threw it to the ground watching it nearly hit Jack.

"Sorry about that." I said to Jack.

Then I got in the chopper and grabbed Andrew.

"Who are you doing? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US?" I yelled at him.

Unfortunately, he let go of the controls and the chopper started to spiral down. I pushed him to the side and grabbed the controls but I had a problem. I had no knowledge of flying this thing.

"HELP!!!" I yelled.
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So, in recap, Terone stops Andrew from killing the group but he is another situation; he doesn't know how to pilot the chopper.

[Kuro Espeon]

Yay! I'm back! Just in time for my genre! Miss me? *cricket noises* Oh, screw you guys....

(EDIT: I had to edit because Inferno managed to post right before I did, so I had to change mine a bit to put his part in the middle.)

Brigh:
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As the helicopter, piloted by Andrew, barreled down on them, the group was making tracks, quite literally. Kicking up a large cloud of dust as they ran back and forth, forth and back, it seemed almost hopeless. But Brigh was never one to just give up and die! No sir! Stand your ground and keep fighting until your very last breath, that was her family motto! And she wasn't going down without a fight!! Brigh turned on a heel and skidded to a stop, facing down the helicopter with determination burning in her eyes (OOC: Ouch...).

"For the honor and bravery of the Dangerfields! Come and get me, you son of a--" *BLAM* "SHIT!" She jumped out of the way just in time to barely avoid the next missle that had been launched from the helicopter as it exploded on the ground, sending her tumbling off to the side and leaving an unnecessarily large, smoldering, black crater. She jumped back up, completely oblivious to the fact that the end of her braid was singed and smoking, and took off running, quickly catching up with the rest of the group. As she came up along side David, he turned and raised an eyebrow. (OOC: they're all still running, btw)
"What happened to 'honor and bravery'?"
"Screw honor! I wanna live!!"
Just then a rain of bullets nipped at their heels, accompanied by Andrew's manic laughter, and something that sounded like 'Take that, you bastard Blinky!!'
"ANDREW, YOU DUMBASS!! STOP FIRING!!" Jack screamed up at the helicopter as a bullet shot through his straw-filled torso.
"But I almost have the high score!" Andrew yelled back down.
"I'm gonna get the high score on kicking your ass if you don't stop trying to kill us!" Exomus roared, galloping along at full speed with Laura on his back.

Terone finally took action and flew up to the side of the helicopter and ripping the door off it's hinges. He managed to get the controls away from Andrew, but quickly realized that he didn't know how to fly it either.
"Help!" he yelled out. Great. Just Great.
It was just then that Brigh noticed something odd. Something shocking. Something unavoidably bad. With death and carnage behind them, they really only had one way to run, and they happened to be running right toward a cliff that lined the river that conveniently ran past the <Yet To Be Named> Apartment buildings (or at least what was left of it...). On top of that, with a glance back over her shoulder, she saw that he last of Andrew's barrage of bullets, that had probably been shot off by accident as Terone tried to work the controls, was headed straight for a large fuel tank that had been unlodged in the earthquake.
"They're gonna hit the tank!! Everybody get ready to jump!" Brigh yelled out to the group at large. The all nodded with understanding, and not a moment too soon. Right as the bullet hit the tanker, a slow-motion sequence began.

----*Beyond the Fourth Wall*----
"A Slow-motion sequence? How the hell do you do that in an online RPG?" Mystic clown asked as he peered over Kuro's shoulder.
"Well, there's always a slow-motion sequence in every action movie I've ever seen!" Kuro replied, clacking away on the keyboard. "Besides, it's been done before. Just ask Asi."
"Hey, don't bring me into this!" Asi replied from the kitchen where she was making ramen noodles, "That fanfic was a long time ago!"
"Fanfic?" MC questioned, looking at the door to the kitchen.
"Don't ask," said Kuro with a dismissive wave of her hand, "just watch the carnage unfold."
"...K."
----*Back in the RPG*----
(Insert Slow-motion graphic techniques Here)
All sound was temporarily muted.
Everyone in the group jumped in unison, posing dramatically as they leapt over the cliff, the firey inferno from the explosion growing slowly larger in the background. The force of the exploding tank managed to knock the helicopter off balance, sending it into a (slow-motion) tailspin. It dislodged Jane from the roof and Andrew and Terone from the cockpit and sent them both flying in the direction of the river. As all of the bodies hit the water, the slow-motion sequence ended, bringing the scene back to normal speed and the bringing the sound back with a collective 'SPLASH'.

Brigh came to the surface a short time later, sputtering as she attempted to dislodge the water from her lungs. Luckily there was no current that day so the water was all but still. She was joined a moment later by the rest of the gang, all of whom were now soaked and scowling. All except for Andrew, who emerged from the water with his fists held triumphantly in the air.
"Aaaaalright!! That was righteous!! WOOOooohoooo!! Woooo-- what?"
Andrew finally noticed the round of glares he was getting from the other 11 people in the water. They all began to advance on him with malicious intent.
"What's wrong guys, wasn't that AWESOME? ...Hey! What're you doing?! No! StoBLUBBLUBBLUB!! *FLAIL*" Andrew was cut off as they all grabbed him and dunked him under the water.

"Ah, teamwork at it's best... how moving!" came a woman's voice from above them. Temporarily distracted, they all let go of Andrew, giving him time to return to the surface, coughing. They looked up at the ledge where they had just jumped from and saw a female figure in a long black coat standing on the edge, her face completely hidden by a large hood. She crossed her arms over her chest and chuckled. "You'll never be able to stand against the Council if you continue to act like squabbling children, I'm afraid."
"You!" David yelled, pointing up at her accusingly, "You're one of the Council, aren't you?!"
"Wow, you're fast." She replied sarcastically, "Wouldn't expect any less from the international super spy, David Johnson."
"You...know my name?"
"Of course I do, David! I know all of you! As do the rest of my esteemed colleages. It's an unfair advantage, I know. But, hey! We're the villains, after all! It wouldn't be a good RPG without the baddies being at an advantage at the beginning!"
"What do you want from us?" Jane demanded, trying to locate and arm her bow and arrow in the middle of the river. The mysterious woman was silent for a few seconds and they could almost hear her blinking.
"What? Weren't you paying attention to the strange old man from before? We want the Gem of Incredible-But-Never-Really-Explained-Powers! And, unfortunetly, you all are in our way. So you need to die."
"Oh," Said Andrew, who was calculating what she had just said on his fingers, "Well, that make sense I g... wait! How do you know about the old man?!"
"Er! Well.. uh... because I know everything, that's why! Stop asking stupid questions! I'm evil, dammit!"

Brigh had already swam over the edge of the river and clambered onto the shore. She stood up and pulled out her katanas from nowhere(OOC: don't ask where she was keeping them...), glaring up at the mystery woman with clenched teeth.
"You'll never take us alive, you cow!!"
"Tch. Well, duh!" The woman snapped her fingers, which should've been impossible since she was wearing gloves, and instantly, 8 or 9 artillary tanks appeared on the ledge around her, their massive guns pointed downward.
"SHIT! Artillary!" cried Brigh.
*SNAP* Soldiers with missle launchers joined the ranks.
"Shit! Missle launchers!"
*SNAP* Black-clad figures popped out of the shadows and surrounded them.
"Shit! Ninjas!"

"Well, I hate to comdemn you to your deaths and run, but I have an evil meeting to get to. Toodles!" The cloaked woman waved her hand in an inappropriately cheery manner and faded away as if by magic. As Brigh was joined on the banks of the river by the rest of her neighbors, she couldn't help but notice that they were outnumbered.
"...well, this sucks..."

Wow, that was long... *Dies*

[Blademaster]

Well, while I'm here...

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Andrew

Andrew looked around at his friends nervously.

He, David, Brigh, Laura, Exomus, Terone, Jack, Jane, Marian, Moth, Seyelin, and Frederick were standing on the shore of the <Yet to be named> River, facing down a veritable army of soldiers and ninjas backed up by a fleet of tanks.

"What do we do now?" Andrew asked, shaking his head as he glanced over the droves of enemies preparing to tear him and his housemates to pieces.

"Obviously we stand no chance in a frontal assault against enemy forces this numerous." Moth mused. "We require a strategy if we are to have any chance of survival against these assailants."

Andrew blinked, a '?' appearing over his head.

"Wha...?" he asked.

"We need a plan if we wanna beat this guys without getting ourselves killed in the process." Jack translated, rolling his bloodshot eyes.

"Ohhhhh..." Andrew said, realization dawning on him.

The ninjas took a step closer towards the twelve tennants.

"OK, guys..." David said, hands in his pockets. "You thinking what I'm thinking...?"

Brigh smiled ever so slightly and nodded, as did Jane, who caught on fast enough.

"Ready..." David whispered as the ninjas advanced closer. "In 3... 2... 1...

.....................

NOW!!!"

The next split-second was like something out of Mission:Impossible. Everyone dropped to the ground or leapt into the air as Jane, Brigh, and David leapt together, backs against one another as they unleashed a spinning storm of throwing knives, shells, and bullets (respectively) on the ninjas, felling a good dozen of them instantly. The remaining ninjas raised their weapons and attacked...

At the same time, Moth and Seyelin leapt forward, claws and fangs tearing the ninjas asunder in a shower of blood.

Terone and Exomus (whose back Laura quickly mounted for protection) roared and charged, ripping more of the ninjas to pieces, their brute strength more than protecting them from the slashing katanas and shurikens flying about.

Marian leapt into the air with the grace of a swan and, somehow invulnerable to the destruction about her, morphed into her superheroine form (which Andrew almost got stabbed in the head for being too busy watching) and began firing silvery arrows every which way, some of which impaled unsuspecting ninjas and others striking down the commandos over the hill.

Jack and Frederick charged forward, wooden cross and rapier raised in front of them like a shield until he swung it, knocking the ninjas aside like rag dolls or just impaling them on the cross's spiked tips.

The ninjas being taken care of without their help, David, Brigh, and Jane began to open fire on the tanks and soldiers over the hill, who, being villians, seemed to hit everything BUT the twelve tennants. Missiles exploded, bullets fired, and grenades flew, but nothing could strike the tenants - only the ground and river around them, opening huge craters everywhere.

That just left Andrew, who had been cowering behind a rock up to this point.

'What am I doing?' Andrew scolded himself mentally. 'I have to help my friends!'

Andrew stepped forward, his knees shaking as he fumbled with his pockets.

"Must be brave... Must be brave... Must be brave..." Andrew stuttered.

'I'm gonna die... I'm gonna die... I'm gonna die.' he thought.

Slowly and shakily, Andrew withdrew a roll of dental floss and several paper clips from his pockets. He quickly unbent the paper clips and tied them together, forming a single curved line of thin metal. Quickly, he tied the dental floss around the line, forming a three-foot length of curved, semi-durable metal wrapped in floss, which he pulled taut from one end to the other, creating a makeshift bow.

Smiling in satisfaction, Andrew bent down and picked up a thin stick, a missile flying through the exact spot where his head had been a second earlier.

Standing up straight again, oblivious the the massive explosion right behind him, Andrew loaded the stick into his bow like an arrow and took aim at the nearest mercenary, who was aiming at Jack. Andrew pulled back...

FWIP!

The bow snapped, causing the arrow to fly back and spear Andrew through the eye.

...

"YEOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!" Andrew screamed, running about flailing his arms. "Oh, sweet Jesus, I'm blind!!! Call an ambulance! Call the police! Call Superman!"

Andrew ran in circles frantically, and then, he dashed off into the bushes.

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Twenty feet up the ridge, a lone mercenary armed with a missile launcher took aim at Jack. Jack didn't seem to notice, being too busy spearing and clubbing ninjas down below. Jack swung his cross, sending another ninja crashing to the ground, and then the scarecrow rose the cross over his head, preparing to spear the fallen ninja through the face.

The missile launcher took his chance - he squeezed the trigger of his weapon...

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh-"

Andrew burst out of the bushes, stick still embedded in his eye, and inadvertantly tackled the missile launcher, sending them both plunging off the ridge.

Before they fell, however, the missile launcher went off, its aim thrown off by the impact, causing the missile to fire over the ridge and slam into an enemy tank, blowing it up with enough force to send another tank rolling down the embankment, crushing a descending squadron of troops before finally crashing down on the rocks below, blowing it and every surviving trooper within thirty feet to bits!

A second later, the missile-launching mercenary slammed into the ground, dead, and Andrew slammed down on him, the impact jostling the stick loose from his eye and sending it bouncing away harmlessly. Like rubber, Andrew's eye popped back into place, seemingly undamaged by the stick that'd been embedded in it.

Several of Andrew's tenants looked at him in shock, amazed by what'd just happened.

Dazed, Andrew groggily lifted his head and looked up. He glanced lazily around at the decent amount of the enemy resistance he'd subdued.

He smiled weakly.

"Pwn3d..." he muttered triumphantly.

And then, he collapsed into unconsciousness.

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Next!

[Mystic_clown]

Jack Scarecrow
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Everyone just stared at the unconcious form.

"Holy crap," Jack muttered after a pregnant silance.

"Yeah," Seyelin replied absently.

David walked over to the unconcious Andrew, shaking him lightly.

"Hey, wake up," he spoke softly, yet firmly. Andrew opened his eyes and sat up as if nothing happened.

"I'm ok."

Jack chuckled and walked over to him, followed shortly by the others.

"Andrew, you really amaze us sometimes."

Andrew grinned proudly.

"Does this mean you guys will finally start giving me the respect I deserve."

The caused Jack to laugh.

"No, we just wont kill you for almost blowing us away with the chopper!"

"Hmm," Brigh put her hand on her chin, "What are we going to do now?"

"Well," Andrew shrugged, "We could go find this gem before the Council does."

"Sounds like a plan. So, how are we going to get there?"

"Well," Jack pointed in a direction, "We could use those bikes."

Sure enough, over by one of the remaining walls of the <yet to be named> apartments were six motorcycles.

"Where did those come from?" Terone asked noone in particular.

"Don't ask," Moth replied, "Just go with it."

"Hmm," David counted the bikes, "There isn't enough for everyone."

"In that case," Andrew shrugged, "The rest could just ride on Exo's back."

"Like hell I'll let everyone ride me!," he giant demon snarled, "I'm a powerful demon of the underworld! Not a packmule!"

"Please Exo?" Laura looked up at her companion pleadingly. Her expression was the kind that made people go 'awwww'. Exo groaned and rolled his eyes.

"Fine."

Laura smiled, "Thank you."

Andrew chuckled and made a whipping motion, complete with sound effects. This earned him a death glare from the giant demon. andrew burst out laughing as everyone went to their respected rides.

[Inferno_Dragon]

Terone Nemast

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Although the idea of riding Exodus was a good idea, I didn't need to. I had wings that would allow me to get from point A to point B. Were they invisible to some people? I mean come on. I turned to Exodus and explained everything.

"No need. I have wings that can take me there plus after the helicopter incident, I don't think I will be riding anything mechanical for a long long long time." I said to Exodus.

"It isn't any trouble." Laura said.

"I know but I'd rather do it this way. Plus the feel of wind wiping through my wings is much better anyways." I said.

"Wait, if someone tries to shoot you down?" Moth asked.

"They had better not try to after what we just did to that army back there." I said to Moth as I point to the wreckage of the tanks and such.

"By the way, are my wings invisible or are you people just not paying attention to them? This isn't a rude question, but I really just have to know." I said while getting ready to get up into the air.

[Mystic_clown]

*pokes* I know some of you may have a reason for not posting, but...

Where is everyone!?

[Mewtwo-D2]

*pokes* I know some of you may have a reason for not posting, but...

Where is everyone!?

HUGE family crisis- my sister has been having a nervous breakdown. I'll try to think of something...

[Mystic_clown]

Although some of you may have your reasons for not posting, I would appreciate it if some of you took the time to post if possible.

[Mewtwo-D2]

Maiden Mesmeric/Marian Loxley
Magical Girl
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"Motorcycles, eh?" I struck my trademark pose again. "I guess they'll help us through our cycle. Haha! Wait... that's not actually funny. Pardon me, this hat makes me want to stress certain words in a somewhat punny manner that would not make anyone older than 5 laugh."
"It's okay," Brigh said, patting my arm in an encouraging sort of manner. "We all have things we can't help for no apparent reason."
"Thank you for understanding."
Tuck landed on my shoulders, causing me to sink an inch or two.
"Sweet Sherewood! What have you been eating?"
"I ate everything in your lunchbox... sorry about that. But considering you carry a picnic basket full of food to school every day..."
"I'm a growing girl," I grumbled.
"Anyway, aren't we going to get going into the next genre?"
"Well, none of us know what the next genre is. And while I can ride a motorcycle, and there's a giant... thing and another giant... winged... thing, we should all get moving! Come on, people! We shouldn't drag our feet before this potential great adventure! Let's move boldly into the future! Can I get a hearty 'Huzzah!'?"

I waited for the sound of the hearty huzzahs. That was a pretty good motivational speech I thought.

"Great," muttered Tuck. "If you keep making the corny speeches, your True Love (TM) will have even less reason to show up. You keep usurping his job."
My face fell. "So I can't defeat monsters, I can't make motivational speeches, and I can't crack jokes or be remotely competent, or my True Love (TM) won't show up?"
"Pretty much. You're a magical girl! You're supposed to be incompetent so we can stretch 26 episodes into 338!"
"Dammit..."

[Mystic_clown]

Jack
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The group was quiet after Maiden Mesmeric's little speech. However, it wasn't her supporting words that caught their attention.

"Giant...winged thing?"

The group looked into the sky to see a bunch of giant, winged beasts flying in their direction. The weren't exactly sure as to what they were, but all they knew was that they were somehting that could chew them up and spit them out.

Sure, Exo may be able to go toe to toe with one of them, but the thing was, there was more then one.

"To the bikes!"

Maiden Mesmeric, Jack, David, Brigh and Andrew grabbed a bike, Jane went on with Jack, not really knowing how to ride one herself and not trusting to ride on Exo, Terone took off into the air and the rest piled onto Exo's back (who grumbled a bit aobut being used as a horse).

With a scream from the engines, and a rumble from Exo, the group took off, with the giant, winged...things in pursut.


Yeah, I know its short, but I'm low on ideas here.

Anyway, the next genre coming up is Fantasy.

[Inferno_Dragon]

Terone Nemast
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After taking off in the hour and fleeing for quite a while, Terone was indecisive. They could travel to the ends of the earth and these winged beast would still follow them. We had to get rid of these winged terrors but how? We didn't know anything about them. They could be elemental creatures. Maybe there are all elemental creatures eaching being able to use a different elemental attack. I don't think I could stand a elemental attack. The only one who could was probably Exomus and I don't know if he could handle many direct hits. But we had to do something.

"People, we can't keep on fleeing from them." I said.

"What do you suggest we fight them? Fleeing is the best option." David suggested.

"But we don't know how long this will take. It could on for seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, centuries, millenniums, etc,etc,etc." I bluntly explained to David.

"Then what do we do?" David asked.

"One of them must the leader of the group. If we take him or her out, then the rest will fall. That's only theory of course. But in logic, it does make a whole lot of sense." I suggested.

"Then who would take it on?" Brigh asked.

"Normally, I would but I don't know how powerful those things are. But seeing Exomus and I are the strongest of the two, it probably it is up to us. Unless someone else has a different plan."