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Post by Edzilla on Apr 23, 2013 7:16:39 GMT
Ghost sighed, holding his mask to his face. "Don't do it Eliseai... Not now, false hope is never what we need..." Part of him just wanted to accept she was right, and keep trying... But he couldn't live in blissful ignorance any longer.
"Your right, there are nice people down here... And they are us and the rest of the freaks, then there's the deep rift between us and the rest of (please do not swear) humanity, and that rift has been growing deeper and deeper for generations... and there is no way across, even if you want to imagine one, its impossible to even think of ."
The remark about a family seemed to hit a nerve within Ghost, and he retorted angrily. "That's an insult to what a real family is... that's based on basic instinct and unseverable bonds, not a bunch of people slung together because the circumstances (please do not swear) demand it!" It was evident that the idea of family hurt Ghost.
"You can go on making these ideal situations, but I know I'm sick of shadows of what is true and I want to know who I am before I finish..."
He went quiet, he only had a basic idea of why he wanted to keep going, but he knew that to leave it all behind and go searching for something that he'd never find, would feel the worst, at least this way he'd have some closure to his time.
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Post by Esiphas on Apr 23, 2013 13:55:07 GMT
Mateus watched the whole exchange with interest, not saying anything, but smiling the whole time. Once Ellesai had finished, he looked at ghost. Ghost seemed to be the pessimist of the group. "Hey... Ghost. Listen to me for a minute. I was... well I was 'Normal', for want of any better word, for alot longer than you. There are people on the surface world, the 'real world' who are considered freaks, or at least 'not normal'. There was a man who had tumors that made him look like a tree. There are twin babies born with their brains fused together. Us? We're the victims. there will always be people willing to help people like us. If we get out of here, we will be able to find someone who will help us- or, we can help eachother. We can be the family Ellesai described. I'll build a house for us. We can grow plants, keep animals. Who knows. But we cant surrender hope."
Turning to face Ellesai, Mateus held out a hand. "Ellesai... You went from liking me, to hating me, then became indifferent towards me in a single day. You like me again now, and I know now that its this Mental decay that has changed you so much. But you started hating me because you learned who I was. Now, knowing all this, I will try to fix this. Stop your mental decay, reverse it if I can. And, if that makes you hate me again, so be it. But thats the one thing Arachnae never thought of, in all this. She's betting on the fact that you'd be more interested in saving yourself so you could stay with Sam. But I'm here, and compared to her?" He paused, allowing himself a grin.
"Out of her and I, I'm the one who knows how a mind really works."
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Post by t⊗theark on Apr 23, 2013 14:33:15 GMT
Sunny was recovering from the sensory overload, he felt Eliseai considering Ghost's words that the outside world would never accept her. He picked himself up, ringing still in his ears and a splitting headache, he grapped her by the shoulders.
"He's wrong El. I grew up in that world, you'll fit in somewhere."
He opened up all the memories of Oscar's Ans Sam's childhood, growing up in Orange, New York. Running through the busy city streets. She saw the musicals their parents took them too, the holidays in national parks, the cartoons they watched the the drawl of school. All the friends they used to have. She saw his parents, an aging man with a receding hairline and was always properly dressed. Being a barrister his pop wasn't around much but that made then appreciate when he was. His mother was a cheery and patient woman but when her temper was pushed she could be stern indeed. She hadn't hair after the treatment for her leukemia, the mutation that Sunny and Oscar had was not always so kind. The memory had faded into 8th street in Central Park, Manhattan where 10 year old Oscar and Sam collapsed in the summer heat, talking about how they would celebrate their birthday in a week. - his favourite memory. It was where he and his brother were kidnapped by a broad man, the last taste of freedom.
"See? We have my parents! The world outside has more than just covert missions El. They have people called journalists and we can tell them about what they're covering up here." The pain had receded a little, Sunny broke into a smile, "I have a life out of here and I can give that to you if, no, when we're free."
He looked up at Mateus. He didn't trust him still but him fixing her was better than Arachnae.
"Don't worry, I won't let you do it alone. I'll be right here. I won't let him hurt you. Doc, if you're fixing her I'm coming too"
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Post by Yuno on Apr 23, 2013 14:55:34 GMT
Eliseai smiled and hugged Sunny. "Sam, I don't need anyone but the people in this room right now to feel that my life has worth. It had worth the moment I breathed in. And anyone that thinks otherwise is the kind of person that could do this to children in the first place." her eyes turned back at Ghost. "You want to believe me don't you. But you think burning this place to the ground will give you satisfaction...it won't." she grinned tearing at the last shred of faith he had. "you think our rulers are the only ones who can play with technology and genetics ?You think this is the only base our government has of this variety? The people involved in an operation like this must number in the millions. The amount of connections to this must sprawl across the land. If you burned this place to the ground it would only be to bring yourself a self serving pleasure. Because in the end, you won't bring any closer. You still won't have put a hand on the people who ordered this project in the first place. Someone paid the scientists. Someone gathered the soldiers. And you think sinking this island into the ocean will change anything. Who has a small world view now?"
Her eyes left him as if she'd decided she was done debating with him and turned to 62. "Fine. I'll get him to you. But I swear if you lay one harmful finger on him. I'll slosh your brains so hard against the inside of your skull you'll wish you'd been born another person."
Her gaze flicked back to Sam as she began to rub his head for him. He could feel her rush of emotions at the outside world. Somehow, he knew she'd only ever seen it long enough to kill someone. She hadn't seen things like this. He could feel her deep desire to know any one of the things he'd seen. She smiled and leaned forward to kiss his for head. "Stop trying to destroy your hearing. We need to get that off of you. It isn't nice in more ways than one." He could feel her mind venturing back to the night previous a flush coming across her face as she turned to look at Mateus. "Yes. Help me. But later. We need to escape this place and find 62's friend." her gaze didn't return to Ghost as she spat. "And blow this place sky high so that he can feel a little better about the world."
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Post by mantisstalker on Apr 23, 2013 15:36:43 GMT
62 hadn't been paying the conversation much attention still brooding on what Ghost said and this terrible feeling of hollowness. Then he heard Eliseai mention helping and quickly turned turned his head to look at her. The next moment he was on his feet and before she could react gave her a quick hug. As their skin met she could feel the influence of another mind though in did nothing but give her a silent thank you and then disappeared.
Letting go of her 62 seemed to suddenly gain sense of what he was doing and just as quickly let go, shooting a quick look at Sunny in an apologetic way before jumping over to his children causing them to jump up in surprise of their fathers strange action. He grabbed one of the Twins and raised it above his head before putting it down before showing similar signs of affection towards the others. At first they looked a little stunned but where soon fighting for the most attention.
Words couldn't describe how happy 62 was at that moment in time. He might not have shown it but as soon as Ghost had started his talk of them never finding peace but now everything was clear again! Oh how he had missed this feeling of elation. When he had viewed the memories he had questioned how such a tiny flame of hope could keep him going but now he knew!
It wouldn't be long now. Soon they would be together again!
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Post by Edzilla on Apr 23, 2013 15:39:17 GMT
Ghost coughed out a laugh, "you mistake me for a guy with a reason, I wouldn't take any satisfaction from destroying this place.... It's just practical."
He took a few seemingly heavy breaths, before starting again. "I can't stop this happening again and I sure as hell don't have a life back in the system..." He paused again, thinking something through, "but if I can stop a single surgery, stop some poor kidnappee having some module stuck into his heart, well that's all that I can hope for..."
Sunny mentioning parents struck a chord in him, even more prohibitive than family. He went quiet, his eyes low, once again in a state of hard thinking.
That figure, was that his house, his town, his mother...
Instantly something terrifying cropped up, something Ghost didn't want to think about, yet seemed to rapidly mutter inaudibly. "What if they're not there." Sunny was unsure whether it was addressed to him, or Ghost was just speaking to himself. He never made it clear.
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Post by Esiphas on Apr 23, 2013 23:05:32 GMT
Mateus withdrew his hand, clenched it into a fist, then nodded. ''Right. First things first... Walls." He took a step back, then ran forwards, jumping onto the wall and continuing running, until he reached the ceiling. He turned upside down and kept running on that, before he reached the hole above them and jumped into it, before he collided with the door, and broke through it, shocking himself on the ward. "I don't believe that worked..." He muttered. An automated Alarm blared out, and a voice said "Safety alert. Arena safety compromised. Returning floor to original position." The floor below, where the group was still standing, began to move up again, lights flickering on and bookcases rising back up. Mateus grinned as he saw the group returned to the office again, and said "Well, that went we-Argh!"
Mateus dropped to his knees, clutching his head. Suddenly, a shock wave blew everyone off their feet, the centre point being Mateus himself. "What the..." He muttered, before realising. "Hah...hahah... Ahahahahahah! Guys! The final stage of the projects! The Genesis stage- where the subject unlocks an extra portion of their brain power. It was never finalised, but every subject had the implants made. The Energy from the ward must have triggered them! Walk through the doorway. You'll get a shock, but I won't kill you. You should be able to access your Genesis power then."
OOC- Right, power up time! You can all gain one additional power as your genesis power, though it can't be too powerful. PM me if you want something but aren't sure I'd approve it.
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Post by Yuno on Apr 24, 2013 0:08:49 GMT
Eliseai followed after Mateus falling through the energy zap and feeling the strange jolt which caused her to crash into the wall with a squeak of "ow" and a sprawling thwacking sound. Then sat up against the side wall and looked at herself. Something felt different but she couldn't place quite what.
She shook her head standing up and clapping her hands. Still nothing happened. She shrugged in a disappointed fashion her rainbow eyes flickering. She looked up the hall into the darkness and suddenly wondered what it would be like if she could see in the dark. As she looked at her she felt her eyes shift subtly to a cat's and suddenly she could see. She grinned wondering slightly as she focused her form shrank not just a small amount, but seemed to wrap around on itself until there where she had been standing was a pile of clothes and a rainbow colored cat.
Then she turned to Mateus who was still urging the others through the door and ran forward leaping up onto his shoulders and meowing at him. He seemed astonished as she crawled around to sit on his shoulder and let out a small purr as if to prove she truly were a cat. Then she launched herself off of his shoulders shifting quickly into a bird and flew into the room to land on Sunny's shoulder and shift back to a cat and rub against his head purring happily.
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Post by t⊗theark on Apr 24, 2013 4:43:33 GMT
Sunny was amazed that Eliseai could now shape shift to such an extent, he could hardly believe that was her perched onto his shoulder. He walked on through without so much as a flinch, elecrtomagnetic forces causing pain? He got over that a long time ago. On the other side, ge got disappointed that nothing apparent had been expressed. He sighed briefly with disappointment when he noticed that his magnetic field didn't feel very smooth. Was there some sorta interference? He also notices his glow actually dancing in shapes around him. He concentrated on a small part to glow brighter and he didn't believe that the stream of light actually was influenced by his electrmagnetic field. He could steer radiation? He could bend light? He didn't believe it at first so he arced plasma between his hands, like a streamer of electricity. He then tried his best to push it, the ionised isotopes in his body changing their polarity with such subtlety as never before. The arc crudely shaped itself into a shifting 'S', next to it an '/\' the last into an 'M'. 'S/\M' was the shape in the still dancing arc of electricity. he cracked a smile at his success. On top of that, he had more conscious control over his powers, he changed the colour and wavelength of his radiation output so easilky dispite his emotions. If he could control his powers over his emotions better than he was less dangerous! He grabbed Eliseai off his shoulders and squeezed her hearing her purr without how happy he was.
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Post by mantisstalker on Apr 24, 2013 12:10:40 GMT
62 let out a squeak of surprise as he was bowled over and as soon as he was on his feet again started to run after the Twin's that had been blown a few meters away. It might have been comical if they weren't for the high chance they could be injured but thankfully they only suffered the odd bump and bruise. He was still fussing over a squirming Twin when Mateus started to talk about the implants and how they enhanced a subjects powers.
He looked on skeptically as the others stepped up and received their new abilities and when Sunny was done decided to let the Twin go and creep forward. When he reached the door 62 tentatively put one hand out not really believing that it would work. And he was right. Upon contact with the field volts of electricity coursed through him making him shake violently until with a crack and a small flash of light he was thrown backwards to the floor.
With a groan he managed to push himself onto his elbows before giving Mateus a shrug. He felt no different and after a quick check determined there was nothing new. The only thing it managed to achieve was to bring a memory to the surface that was so full of pain his vision of it was blurred. Managing to push past the pain he could just make out a meek female voice and someone in a lab coat.
"I'm sorry sir but his body keep rejecting all the implants. It just... Well... Pushes them out..."
Then a second figure spoke up his voice dripping in a strange accent "Hmm perhaps he is stronger than we thought. Put him with the other that rejected the implants. It should be interesting..."
The image faded and it took a few seconds for 62 to remember where he was and when he did he jumped to his feet even though his burned muscles screamed in protest. Feeling a little left out as the others played with their new powers he sat back down with his children and went back to giving them attention. What he hadn't noticed however was the brief movement of what looked like a worm under the skin on his back before it went still again. It was only slight but it was there.
(OOC- gained no new powers)
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Post by Edzilla on Apr 25, 2013 7:24:37 GMT
Ghost came out of his stupor, staring at the crackling field before him. His instinct was not to go through, after all, who was to say knew powers wouldn't hurt him more. Yet there didn't seem to be an alternative, so he stood up straight, stretching slightly before hurriedly moving through. As he hit the field, it seems to have an effect on his implant. Pain erupted from his heart, spreading quickly to his lungs and throat. As usual he could taste blood as he coughed. He found his feet, noticing a sensation of feeling more in sync, like a circuit had been reattached. His constant feeling of fatigue was replaced by a new found energy. He took a few manual breaths, amazed at the smoothness.
For the final test, he went intangible and before him a whole me world sprang.
He looked around, everything was darker, objects losing shape and meshing together into one continuos item, yet it was the same room, identical to its counter part. He could here a rushing, like a muffled storm, or the sound of a plane from within the cabin. Where Eliseai and Sunny had been, now just a faded outline of themselves, translucent in appearance. From within, concentrated glowing light came, bright white from within Eliseai, a more mellow yellow in yellow. He took a step forward, something about the realm felt unreal, like it could all crumble at a moments notice. Although, Ghost currently felt at home, alone.
He jerked back into the world, where he'd stood in that other land. The others were remotely surprised, they'd seen him vanish out of thin air, the only thing left a slight shimmer in the air as he walked, before he came back, fully solid and visible again.
To Ghost it felt as if he was making the whole journey finally, to a place where previously he'd only glimpsed. It made him grow more curious of his power and how it worked. Seemingly it'd been a breakthrough.
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Post by Yuno on Apr 26, 2013 16:21:01 GMT
Eliseai shifted in Sunny's arms back to her normal shape and he could see her excitement almost radiating off of her. "I changed into a cat. I can control my form so much better than before." she was actually laughing as she pushed away from him and jumped forward shifting mid leap into a massive lion-like creature and turning to roar in surprise as Ghost slipped out of existence save for a sparkle that her keen cat eyes were able to pick up on. She paced back and forth around the room sniffing the place he'd been. Then he flickered back into existence next to her and without thinking she jumped placing her paws on his shoulders and roared in his face.
Her form quickly righted itself to human and her arms were around his neck. "I thought you'd been boinked away by them. That is so cool. You just were gone." she stepped back laughing and turned towards 62. She moved over to him and held out her hand. "Shall we. I hope you know where we are going because I'm just here to crack heads for you and make sure you get there in one piece." With that she shifted back to a smaller cat and licked her paws waiting for him or someone to point her in the right direction.
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Post by mantisstalker on Apr 27, 2013 12:21:54 GMT
Not wasting any more time 62 jumped to his feet and after picking up three of the Twins started to walked after Eliseai, his face twisted in what some might call a smile. The Twin that liked Sunny ran over to him and jumped on his shoulder before cocking it's head to one side as if listening. When it was done it gave a giggle and turned to Sunny.
"Dad says you should know something about his friend Epi. Apparently he's a 'jealous type'." The Twin gave another giggle obviously not understanding much of what it was saying but still found it funny. "Now lets go! Dad says this shouldn't take long."
As 62 reached Eliseai the platform came to a shuddering halt level with the hallway it was on before but this time something was different. A single scratch dug an inch into the metal on the right side of the corridor ran all the way to the end before a turn took it out of sight. 62 ran a hand along the scratch before beckoning to the others and walking off with one hand still on the marking. It wouldn't take them long to get there but there was always the question of whether or not security had caught onto what they where doing or not.
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Post by t⊗theark on Apr 27, 2013 13:31:15 GMT
Eliseai seemed so excited by what she could do. He mirrored her when she was so happy. She went on to turn into a lion of all things. he then saw Ghost disappear completely. The only evidence that he was there were from what Sunny could hear and the sounds that bounced off him didn't make sense, some of them moving right through where he supposed to be. He reappeared down the hallway around where Sunny though he was but it still took him by surprise.
He felt something crawling up his leg, around hi body and onto his shoulder.
"Dad says you should know something about his friend Epi. Apparently he's a 'jealous type'."
"Who's Epi?" Sunny inquired, not getting an answer but rather an instruction to follow.
Sunny heard the structure shift again, 62 ran off in the direction of the continuing structural shifting Sunny heard. He ran after him, trying to keep up with 62's enthusiastic pace.
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Post by mantisstalker on Apr 27, 2013 13:56:07 GMT
"Who's Epi? That Dad's friend and my... Erm... Half brothers? Dad." The Twin seemed pretty elated now as if its fathers mood was rubbing off on it. "Well that's how Dad tells it anyway. We've never met him before." The Twin switched shoulders as 62 rounded a corner in an attempt to keep him in sight but other wise hung to Sunny occasionally fidgeting. When they rounded the corner they where met by the sight of 62 standing the end of the hallway blocked by a large metal door with the big words "QUARANTINE AREA" written across them. He tried giving them a pull to no success so quickly stood to the side looking at the others impatiently. He didn't want to wait any longer as they where so close now that he could almost feel his partner again even though the tick metal.
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