The Edenite Saga: Episode III - Deadly Sins (New)

[Ninmast]

Power Level: High

Time Period: Modern

Entrance Point (Where you need to start if you're entering): City near the crash site

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He had been so proud of his strength.

The two of them had been sent to save the planet from destruction. They were the best of the best, the strongest, the fastest, the most skilled. There was nothing they couldn't handle. The first clashes were dominated so easily, he even questioned if such a force was really necessary. They grew lazy in their confidence while the enemy toiled away in preparation for a fight that never should have happened.

He had taken on one of their leaders while she took care of the other, but while he was boasting his strength over the one, the other ganged up on her with the rest of the group and overpowered her. It shouldn't have happened. He should have been watching. He should have ... He should have ...

It was a litany his mind kept repeating, running over all of the things he could have done, should have done, things that would have ensured she would still be with him.

But his arrogance made him careless. He failed his mission. He failed his people. Most importantly of all, he failed her. His mind replayed the last moments of her life relentlessly.

He had been so proud of his strength.

* * *

"Zero?" a soft voice spoke to him. "Master Zero, are you awake?" His optics opened to see a medical unit in the cute little orange cream outfit that served as their defining uniform leaning over him. "It's time for another fluid sample."

Without a word, the black-armored Purifier Unit pulled himself into a sitting position, letting the arm closest her lay limp over his knee.

The young woman noticed as she went about the pretest checkup. "The memories are still bothering you, aren't they?"

He scowled over at her. "They killed her. Right in front of me."

"That's a defect in your intellectual processing," she scolded gently, unperturbed by his glare as she checked his fluid pressure. "They destroyed her shell. Death is a false state of permanent deactivation produced by the fear Carbons have of it."

"Is she here?"

The question didn't seem to make any sense to the girl, who paused after sanitizing an extraction site on his arm to look over at him. "Who?"

"Quicksilver!" he declared, raising his voice so suddenly that several other patients jumped. "Is she here?"

She shook her head. "No, of course not."

"Did they recover her shell?"

"No ..."

"Did they have a backup?"

"No, Master Zero."

"And what is the probability that they will be able to restore her without those?"

"0.00% Probability," she answered, dropping her head as she saw where it was going.

"Then she's dead," he concluded. "By your own definition, she's dead. It's bad enough that it's done, that they did it right in front of me. Don't tell me to deny it and make it worse."

"Of course, Master Zero. My apologies." She held her arm up as it spun about, transforming into a large syringe. "Now, hold still," she instructed as she went about some last-moment sterilization. "This will only take a moment."

But the android didn't answer. His mind was on what he had said. She was dead. They did it. They were at fault. Yes, he should have paid more attention. Yes, he should have kept his pride in check. But they were the ones who killed her. He was going to make them pay. He was going to kill every last one of them, spreading their pieces to the four winds as they did to her.

"Alright, and in we g-AAH!" The medical unit let out a cry as the Purifier's arm came around in a slicing strike, shattering the end off of the syringe as he jumped off of the table and ran off down the hall. "Hey! Get back here!" She held her hand over the sparking limb as she went over to the doorway, watching him run down the hall. "Security! Security! We have a rogue unit that just broke out of the medical area!"

* * *

The security couldn't keep up with him. He was faster and stronger than any other unit on the artificial planet. The ones that tried to stop him were quickly knocked down as he headed through the maze of halls that made up the complex. There were two objectives on his mind. Yes, he needed to commandeer a vessel to get to Terra, but first, he needed to arm himself.

He broke into the weapons lab with little difficulty, much to the surprise of the scientists inside. He ignored them, however, as his optics locked on one thing. Against the far wall in a locked glass case was what looked to be the hilt of a sword. Underneath it was the symbol ancient Terrans called Zeta.

Against the protests of the scientists, he sent his fist through the case and took the hilt from it before running from the room. Experimental it may have been, but it would be just what he needed to get his revenge. Nothing else mattered.

* * *

Karasawa watched the monitor in front of him. It showed a satellite close-up of what seemed to be a crash site. An interstellar object had come shooting down with such force that the crash had sent shockwaves through the nearby city. Nothing should have survived, but there was plenty still burning, and his sources said there was someone - or something - walking down there.

Taking the expensive cigar from his mouth, he turned to an assistant. "Send it out. I want whatever remains - active or otherwise - brought to me immediately."

[Enigma]

The remains of the crash had been horrific. A brilliant sculpture of his existence, and that was enough to be there. Those clad black boots snuffed out a flame that was in his way, the red long coat huskily being dragged behind him. Those intense flames, he felt right in the right mind to be in heaven. So much destruction, he felt so at home, to so much hatred and the killing. His eyes strained, and those cursed eyes trickled in. Those exposed veins, the spinning wheel within the orb, and his eye-sight was changed to a greater detail of the surrounding. Ever movement was alerted to him, every output of energy. These eyes… such a curse.. Such a gift. His eyes closed and his head slowly dropped in his own agony. “Hatred...” was his only word..

[Ninmast]

(Just a note, there weren't any casualties. The crash occurred outside the city.)

"You," a low tenor voice demanded of the figure with the clawed appendage from maybe twenty-five feet behind him. It was a man maybe in his early twenties by appearance with long, ankle-length, very pale blonde hair in a ponytail. He was dressed in a black leather jacket and pants, but while he looked human, anyone with the ability to sense energy levels would notice that he didn't have one. At all. Even the weakest humans had an energy level, however low. "Tell me where I can find the metacarbons Star Peacefire, Master Link Hunter and Owen Worthin, and the Terran android X."

[Veros]

Walking slowly from the outside of the crash, watching the two figures motionless under the stoppage of temporal flow, the slender teen walks towards them, his hair and clothes unmoved by any possible wind at the current time. Then looking at his watch, he says out loud, though no one would hear him, "This thing always stops ticking when time gets stopped."

As he reaches the pair, he shifts the back into normal time, his brown hair suddenly being blown a little by what wind there is. "Where are you two from? Or are you head to investigate this crash like me?" He asks, his voice fairly quiet and calm.

[Giant Brother]

There were a few bright sparks, and then a glistening green gateway opened. A seemingly young woman had stepped out, while not exactly gracefully. She had a rolled up blanket neatly clasped under one arm, while the other held a wicker basket tightly, as if she feared losing the bundle on her trip through the vortex.

"And now I can get away from it all and have a nice..." The woman looked around, taken aback by the crash site. "...picnic." She finished uncertainly, dropping her blanket and basket from a lack of attention.

The girl smoothed out her red minidress, looking at the three. "Excuse me, but which one of you blew up the nice little field that I was going to have my picnic in?" She asked, brushing a few strands of red hair out of her face, revealing some bizarre, metal tubes linking the back of her head to the small in between her shoulderblades, though only temporarily. "I can't have my picnic in a crater. I used to love it, but now? Not so much."

[Ninmast]

The man with the ponytail ignored the chronomancer and looked over at the woman, taking special note of her wires. "That would be me," he answered flatly. "Unless you would have rather I crashed into the middle of the city full of innocents? I believe the carbons have a saying, you can't have your cake and eat it, too."

[Red14]

A woman dressed in all black fell from the sky. She made no sound as she landed with what should have been a thud. The dust kicked up from the ground as she landed. She made her way over to the group of people gathering. She made no sound until she was about four feet away.

"What the heck happened here?" Cynthia said taking in information by looking around. She spoke to the man with the ponytail asking him "Was there not a more quite way to land for you?"

[Ninmast]

"When I care about quiet, Metacarbon," the man practically spat over his shoulder toward her, "I'll buy you a pair of earplugs. Now, are you all done with the moronic inqueries? I have people to find, and you're all wasting my time."

[Veros]

To everyone around the man, his movement to in front of the man with the ponytail would seem instant, different from teleporting though, as there was no signs to even hint that it was teleportation. In truth, he had momentarily stopped time, long enough to move to his new position.

"Time? You've got plenty of it -- I'm sure a few minutes won't hurt, or just to give you more time. With a trip to the past," he says, with time slowed significantly so he'd have even longer to react to a potential attack.

[Ninmast]

Even with time slowed, the fist belonging to the man with the ponytail moved blindingly fast, striking him in the jaw and sending him skidding backwards. "It would be in your best interest, kid," the man said, rubbing his knuckles as if warming up, "not to get on my bad side by trying to use your petty Carbon tricks against me."

[Veros]

Grunting a dab in pain from the punch, and the pain of reversing its damage though in reverse, the man catches his balance, a fire in his eyes as his hair sways a bit under the wind. He's fast. Very, with that same thought he stops time yet again.

Walking back to in front of the man, and then as he barely lets time trickle by, he says, "Petty Carbon tricks? This is chronomancy."

[Ninmast]

For a moment, it seemed to work. For a moment. Then there was what felt like an incredible burst of dark energy. To those that could sense energy signatures, his seemed to suddenly appear out of nowhere, insanely high. Veros would be able to feel his hold break, but wouldn't have time to register it before an armored suckerpunch sent him skidding again.

[Red14]

Cynthia brings her hand to her face and shakes her head. "I swear, you men and your violence." She looked at Master Zero and said "What are you planning to do to these people after you find them?"

[Ninmast]

"I plan on avenging my sister," he answered, turning back to her. "They killed her, ganged up on her."

[CHANGEME]

From the sky there'd been a whistling, like a jet passing far overhead. It got louder, but not so loud as any realistic plane.

The emerald-clad android landed a short distance off and trudged towards the group, emitting a vague, low-tech clanking not veiled by her malfunctioning voice. "Kill-illed your sister, huh? Tough break."

She kept trudging, making no spectacle of herself, unless one counted the four broad, polished-wooden armoire doors protruding from her back like antique wings. "I can tell you this much, Master Link's been AWOL for years." She shrugged to herself, shoulders screeching and the doors on her back heaving. "At least, that was the last time I saw or heard about hi-im. Heard of Owen, never met him, but keep making craters like this one and Star will definitely show sooner or later. How's that for helpful?"