"well, i better go get one, anyone who wants to take the shortcut follow me"

Interface walked back to the wall and moved a panel aside, waving people through

OOC: when i get back i will close the panel and go through with anyone who has already said they want to take the shortcut.

if you don't get the chance, just say that you did go through with us and we'll understand

"It was nice to meet you Wraith." Dynamite said, but I must go. "Dr. Harshaw will be waiting for me. I got the impression that there was a lot more that he wanted to say. I think i'll take Newb's short cut." Dynamite then entered the tunnel behind the pannel.

Despite that Nikolai... or Blast as was his alias, wasn't quite sure of what was going on, he walked through Interface's shortcut, eager to get away from the scientist who had been bothering him earlier.

OOC: seems like no one cared for my guy. (oh well, more things that can affect him)

IC: as Zhard rose up and walked away too get his eaquipment, most of the others were taking interface's short cut.

Patricia lead Kristen down the shortcut Interface made. Kristen looked a little melancholy. "What's wrong?" Patricia said with a slight grin. Kristen shook her head and smiled back. "It just seems like everyone has more amazing powers than I do."

Patricia thought about it a small while and nodded. "Yes, it does, but all of your powers are equal in their potential to help us stabilize our world, and all of your powers compliment each other greatly. Once you get out there into the field and things start to happen for all the wrong reasons, you'll find your powers to be just as useful as all of theirs."

"is that everyone? good."

Interface let the panel slide shut.

"so, how well do our powers complement each others? I know that I can change the shape of Total Force's shields, and I'm fairly certain from what the scientist said in their logs that if I link us all together then we can all be invisible, but do any of you know of any other combinations that might work?"

"I remeber from during my 'training' that true total recal is imposible because of brain mass." Dynamite said, answering Newb. "It's realy an ability to look backward through your own timeline. Not travel on it, just look at it." Dynamite thought for a moment. "Perhaps with your interface ability, I could look back through other people's time lines. It would certainly be better than a background check."

"yes, it would, wouldn't it. However, before we do that in the feild, we need to know what happens when I interface with a living being"

Zhard came into the eaquipment chamber and a scientist there led him too a locker that aparently was his.
He opened it and took out a katana that seemed too be extremely sharp.
"that has been sharpened with laser" the scientist said, "it is able too cut through really thick metal."
'he put the katana on his back and took out a big gun that seemed too be perfect for him, then he took out his new clothes and some body armour.'
"you should be able too take of the bandage on your eye now... it should have regenerated from that accident" the scientist said.
'Zhard did as he had told him and removed it, he looked himself in a mirror and was shocked of what he saw. His eye wasnt normal... (read my chara cheet for more info)
'Zhard grabbed the scientist with his right arm and lifted him two feet of the ground'
"what has happened too me!? why am i the only one that looks like this!" he said loudly too the scientist as he pushed him on too the wall'

Leverik was still confused at what happened. Now, he was just ready to get into the field, or go and train some more, or do something to get his mind off of what happened. He went through Interface's panel earlier. He went and grabbed his APFC said "I'm ready, where is the first mission."

Patricia handed Kristen her APFC computer with a smile. Kristen found that it was carefully painted a bright green. "I spent hours painting this thing so you better be grateful. Also, take these things."

Patricia opened a chest and pulled out a handgun. "The ammunition in this gun has two functions. If you press on this little square here on the side, you'll see it change colors. It'll only respond to your fingerprint for both the mode change and the trigger to the gun itself, so even if your enemy steals it and pulls the trigger, it'll lock, just as if the gun was on safety. When the mode panel is blue, the shots ejected will be explosive. They'll drill into a fleshy body and detonate after three seconds from impact. If the mode panel is red, the shots ejected will be armor piercing. They'll go through some pretty hard stuff. If you're a damn good shooter, you may consider firing a hole into your enemy with the armor piercing to negate its defenses and then switch and fire an explosive to do your major damage. Of course, since it's very difficult to hit a target in the exact same place, the exact same way, twice ["something IHMN's character could do"], I don't think you'd bother with it unless you're desperate. The clips for the gun are painted red or blue to help you determine which rounds are which and so are the clip slots that designate which clip goes where. If you mess it up, it's just a simple matter of rethinking how the gun fires. That should be easy enough once you get some real hard practice with it. Now, here's a fresh change of your clothes. Your clothes are made of a special polyfibre which is more protective, though not by much. Anyways, let's get to really playing with your powers. I'm going to teach you how you can use your environment along with your powers to your advantage."

Kristen closed her eyes for a minute to absord all of this, then looked at Patricia and nodded. "Let's do this."

Dean liked the idea of helping people and followed the others through the panel and into a lockerroom. Adams was there already and going through what was probably his things.
"Hello, and here are your things",He handed Dean ammo for his silenced pistol and brough out what looked like a black long suit case. Adams handed it to him and he felt like he had found a friend, he opened it up and there was a sniper rifle.
"This you will use in those situations where youll need to do something at far range", Adams said to him, Dean picked it up and looked through the scope,"I like it", dean said with a smile."Now if you will come this way Ill show you some things about yourself", Adams said as he walked down the hall.

"I'm sorry, but your APFC is all I have for you." Dr. Harshaw said. "Fortunately, it's all you will broblably need."

He checked a monitor. "Your energy has been bleeding off slowly as you take it in. Now that you are aware of the energy, however, the charge should continue as it was meant to."

"I'm sorry to do this to you boy," the doctor said, "but it's dangerous for you to stay here. You may not understand, but trust me." Dynamite wanted to ask questions but the doctor flipped a switch on his control pannel and he found himself somewhere else though he couldn't for the life of him tell where.

Interface retreived his apfc which had been modified by the scientists from the normal format, allowing him to better use it in conjunction with his power.

He placed it within a specially designed slot on his clothing which kept it in contact with his skin without interfering with anything.

He looked at the others, learning more about them as he did so, complementing the information he had retrieved earlier.

"interesting"

he also retrieved a long cable on a specially designed spool

this would allow him to whip and grab things at a distance, also capable of snaking around corners to test traps.

before he could do anything else, however, a switch was flipped, and he appeared in a large room with a grid pattern on the walls and ceiling.

There were no doors or windows, but the walls seemed to glow with an inner light.

Before he could do anything, an intercom blared.

"you are now in combat testing facility 000213. here you will be tested for actual combat situations, rather than simply firing at targets. in addition to yourselves, we will be testing a special field in which no damage or destruction can occur. It only works within a confined space, so there is not much military application other than testing, but if it works then we can have other soldiers fight each other in these. right now, however, we are merely seeing whether or not the walls get damaged. The others are being placed within their own testing units, and as you advance, you will be grouped together, eventually with all of you in the same unit. once you have been tested there, you will all be moved to the streets of the capitol where a number of discontent have taken it into their heads to drive a couple of tanks around scaring people. you may deal with that any way you wish, but we would prefer that they not die. the others are recieving the same speech you are, and you will not hear anything else from us until you have completed that mission. be warned. operation commencing. now"

A couple of large walker assault vehicles now stood within the room, and the room faded away to reveal an abandoned section of roadway.

The walkers were facing away from him, so he snuck up on one of them and forced it to fire at the other, shooting off the weaponry and damaging the hydraulics, but leaving any potential occupant intact. he then convinced the same parts in the one he was grappling to malfunction.

the road and the walkers faded away, and another of his fellow soldiers faded into focus.

before he could see who it was, enemies began appearing and the setting changed

He had the exact same thing as Interface did, but he didn't know that. Instead he charged at the first walker assault vehicle. Both machines realized he was here and one started to fire. Leverik ran straight towards the other one and ran up and backflipped off the machine while the other shot it to bits. His landing wasn't perfect, but it was enough to get him to a running position to charge at the other one. Instead of running at it, he ran in circles around it, just fast enough to keep out of the radius of the guns, and of course firing his pistols into the machine. Finally the machine stopped after a bullet hit the main processing unit in it and he was transported into another room. He looked around and noticed someone was here, but then he heard something coming.

Dynamite hid behind a structure and waited for his chance. He had made a plan based on technical information pulled from total recal and calculated a breif probobility. 98%. As the assault vehicles rolled past him. he came swiftly out behind them and punched as hard as he could at a specific target on the back of one.

These specific vehicles have a minute weakness in their armor, which breaks at a certain psi in perticular. As Dynamites hand hit it, it caved in, exposing wires. Dynamite then mounted himself on the back of the vehicle and hard wired it to fire on it's comrad, then rewired it to blow up the fuel tank. Since the pasenger compartment was heat shielded, neither pilot was harmed. Dynamite just barely cleared the blast.

The Weaver woke up last and got an extra pair of garment that was semi protective and very light. he was then briefed.

he was sent to the training rooms and made the controles on the walkers change and they shot the main cortex of wires and computer parts thus nuetralizing them both he then fought on dragon back with a sword and bow alongside another soldier.

then he fought with 3 others agaist an airship, he rode the dragon to the top taking out the turrets as he went and puntured the hydrogen tank "Humans never learn" he thought to himself and once a safe distance away shot a flaming arrow at it and it exploded. he was then sent to a new place

OOC: what the crap!? dragon? "humans never learn" ???

EDIT: i have read the signupp and you need to say more clearly that you "imagine" something, and a dragon? sure thats in your everyday life.

Read the signup

EDIT: it is a zepplin, these have been made and have blown up many times

OOC: And you read the discussion. Several things wrong with you and your character.

IC:

Jacob's creator had gotten him his APFC, since he didn't want to disturb him. Jacob had not gone along with everyone else, and continued to play with his ball. He had gotten control over the ball, and could change it as he pleased.

Dr. Ruthored decided this would be a good time to teach Jacob more about his powers, since he had gotten control of a small portion of it. He took Jacob along with him to his lab, where he hooked Jacob up to the virtual helmet so he could teach the super soldier a little more.

scratch the battles in last post

The weaver superheats the walkers until they are molten and then freezes them and hits the now extremely brittle melty looking machines

he fights w/ his staff by extending the blades on either end and doing complex spins, vaults, and stabs/slashes the enemies to their death

then he heats the hydrogen in the zepplin until it explodes

EDIT: is that ok?

Adams brought Dean to a room that changed into a scene with walkers, he emmidiatally turned invisable and crawled up a wall, getting into a position where he could jump down on one. When he got above one he jumped down on top of it, the pilot heard him fall on top and called one of his friends to look at the top of his walker. One of the others looked at it and saw nothing, reported it to his friend, and continued his destruction.
Dean pulled his rifle from his back and loaded it with armor piercing rounds. He put it to the suposeble place at where the power source was and pulled the triger, jumping from the walker to another building, placing the rifle on his back and clinging to the wall with his claws.
The walker blew up and he, took aim for the next one in the same place before it had a chance to turn around and see what had happend. The third turned on its inferred vison, and saw him aiming at him. Dean pulled the triger as the walker unloaded on him, it blew up but Dean had to ditch his rifle to get out of the way, he watched his rifle fall into pieces to the ground.

OOC: It seems to me that's it s still a bit too much. You need far more description in your posts. Otherwise it confuses people and often makes it look far too easy for you to win.

Raith calmly watches the virtual reality appear around him. The three walkers were heaviliy armoured but they would have a vulnerable spot, somewhere that weaker armour was necessary. The weapons they carried looked quite powerful. Fortunately they are not aware of him yet and he decides to capitalise on it. He moves swiftly to hide behind a pile of rubble and extends a mental probe. The walker's pilots were not particularily alert and this gives Raith the opporntunity he needs. With a sudden whiplike strike he thrusts a impulse into one of the pilot's minds. Taken unaware that pilot can't resist the mental command and he gives a sudden jerk on his controls, swinging to the right and firing the high calibre machine guns the walker is armed with. He crashes into the walkers next to him and the guns spray the others with bullets. The walkers he had run into is knocked down and the pilot of the other takes a should wound as the high power weaponry shatters the glass of the cockpit.

Raith capitalises on the confusion and leaps to the attack. He is carrying a high powered assault rifle and he had also taken advantage of his quick intrusion in the pilots mind to get a rough idea of the walker's layout. He moves forwards at a fast walk laying down a steady fire upon the more vulnerable fuel cell located on the walker's back. The bullets penetrate and ignite the fuel, making the walker collapse in flames upon the first downed one.

The final walker steps clear of the wreckage and its torso swivels around to find the attacker. Raith had already switched to a more accurate single fire mode and tracks the cockpit, wiating for a good moment to fire. When the walker almost has him within the sights of its guns he fires off a single round, going through the hole that the other walker's weaponry had already made in the cockpit window and hits the pilot in the head. A fortunate shot as the walker was far more heavily armed form the front and was agile enough to evade any grenades he hurled. As the scene blurs away he wonders what the next challenge will be.

OOC: Druidal, it's clear you haven't been here that long, and that you're still either getting used to RPing, or posting in general. Your current power is way too strong for this rp. It may work in a "war of the gods" thread, but it has no purpose here. I'll have to agree with the others on this. Either modify your character so that he goes along with the story and is not a god, or find another rp.

[Edit] By the way, after this training exercise is over, we're going to the next chapter.

OOC: Sorry for not posting for so long but I was sick. BtM gave me the ok to catch-up though so here goes.

IC: During the gathering and speech in the warehouse Xavier had wanted to go and meet everyone but had felt rather shy and instead had talked with Dr. Lacon. The doctor had explained to Xavier in more detail about the project that created him as well as his powers. After the speech he had followed most of the others through Interface's shortcut and into the equipment room. Once there he had been issued his APFC in addition to an incredibly large broadsword and a harness that strapped to his back and was specially made to hold the sword's extreme weight. Once prepared Dr. Lacon flipped a switch that sent Xavier into the training room, where he was given a short speech about what would occur before commencing the exercise.

When the walkers appeared Xavier decided he wanted to try powers out before using the cool sword they had given him. The walkers hadn't spotted him yet so he took the opportunity to form his armor into forearm-length gauntlets and a chest plate. As the first walker approached it was still focused elsewhere so Xavier sprinted towards it at full speed. It spotted him and opened fire just as he reached the legs, using his momentum Xavier smashed his fist straight through one leg sending the thing sprawling to the ground in a crumpled heap.

Now however the other two had a lock on him and opened fire as he dove into a building for cover. Inside he spotted a staircase and move quickly to the roof where he could see the walkers moving into position on either side of the building. When they had moved close enough Xavier drew his sword and leapt from the building right at the nearest one. Swinging the sword over handed he sliced cleanly through the back half of the machine destroying it. At this point though he was off balance and landed hard on his side in flash of pain.

While he struggled to stand and regain his breath the other walker emerged from the far side of the structure and began firing striking Xavier fully in the chest plate which sent him crashing through a wall. When he hit the ground Xavier tried vainly to roll to his right so as to avoid anymore incoming fire, luckily there was a small decline in this direction helping him to roll about five feet downhill. This kept him safe long enough to regain his breath and balance and launch another attack. As the walker prepared to skirt around the wall Xavier silently flanked it. Moving in he swiftly sliced through the legs bringing the final machine down.

As the smoke cleared Xavier could vaguely see another teammate nearby but before he could make them out the scene changed and the attacks began again.

Kristen walked into the testing room...and the door suddenly shut behind her. She whirled around to find that Patricia wasn't with her. "Hey, what the hell is going on?" She said, and the loudspeaker up in the top corner piped up. "Testing? Testing? All right, everything seems to be in order. You have learned much about the actual applications of your powers, but we must test every aspect of your abilities so that you can actually use the powers. The first test will be to block incoming baseballs from the dispenser. You can see it some distance ahead of you. Use your hands and feet as you see fit to block the incoming balls. Are you ready?"

Kristen looked at the ball dispenser, and nodded. "Yeah, I'm ready." Kristen shrugged, and the force fields emerged from her hands. Suddenly, the first ball was ejected. "Agh!" Kristen yelped as the ball went right for her stomach, and protected it with her hands. The ball bounced clean off the force fields. Kristen froze and looked at her hands. "I...I can do this!" She said, and clasped her hands together, making the force field grow bigger and more powerful. She worked her arms quickly, knocking back balls with repeated bashes. Suddenly, in a fit of confident, she swung her arms at one of the balls, and launched it back at the dispenser. She left a sizeable dent into it. The voice in the loudspeaker was condescending. "I wish you wouldn't destroy our property, but I guess the damage you dealt to the dispenser would help you master your powers only more than you already have. That should be that. Please continue to the next chamber."

Runner had been hiding behind a pile of debris for nearly ten minutes. Without warning he had been thrust into a battleground. He didn't know where he was, but he was being attacked. He didn't know what the machines were doing now, and he assumed he was safe where he was. Then everything disappeared and he was back in the room he had started in. A voice blared over an intercom.

"What are you doing? If you can't fight we'll have no need for you."

"How do I fight with no weapons?"

"Weapons? Use your powers. They should be able to help in some way otherwise you're useless."

"I don't know enough about my powers."

"What! They sent you in without knowing your powers? Well I have them right here...Oh yeah I know you! Your the one who uses metal and electricity."

"Is that all you know? It's all I know too." Runner asked and nearby a door opened. A young scientist walked in.

"Hey, I'm the guy on the intercom. Name's Daman. I researched your powers when you were first thought up. Your creator was kind of a idol for me. I'll tell you all I know."

Leverik didn't care right now on who his teammate was, he just knew that about 10 of the same walkers were coming. This was all he could tell, but he had no idea how he was going to handle so many. "You over there, can you hear me? If you can, whats your name?"

Ok then what is gody about temp change?

"Leverik, is that you? It's me, Interface! Since they are in two columns, see if you can run down the middle between them and make them shoot each other. even if it doesn't work, it'll give me time to grab onto one of them and force them to shoot at each other"

'Zhard was taken too a room that suddenly changed into a battleground with three walker veichles comming towards him, the first opened fire and he barely shielded himself with his right arm. Then he ran towards some cover too avoid being crisped.
"crap! what am i going too do against these!" he said too himself desperately as he jumped out of the cover and rushed towards the closest one, it started too fie but was too slow in moving the guns so Zhard was able too run close enough too be able too jump on top of it.
"this should be the power suply" he said as he started too drain the power with his right hand' the walker fell apart and he started too run towards the second one, although it was more ready and shot him in the chest so hard that he flew right threw a buildings door twenty meters away.
"argh! that hurt..." Zhard said as his wound regenerated. "luckily i had the armour" he said as he remembered his sword. "of course! i can use that!" he said as he drew it from his back and jumped out of a window ight onto the third walker which he stabed in the power suply and then rushed towards the second and cut of its left leg as he ran past it.
'Suddenly the scene changed and he was in a room with another of the soldiers, he could not see who but he knew that he had trouble waiting for him'

"Zhard! The power supply on these is internal! Wait for me to recal their armor weaknesses!" After a moments hesitation, Dynamite shouted after the charging super soldier. "Stike on the leg joints! They'll fall apart!" He then ran down a back alley and began navigating the maze of buildings for other dangers.

"I'm on it!" Leverik shouts as he runs into the first column. The machines managed to lock on him and started firing and without thinking, Leverik took his hookshot and shot at the far back one. Then the hookshot jerked him off his feet, and recieving a couple of nicks from the shots he manages to get through them all, they do hit each other, but as soon as they realized they were firing on each other they stopped. Grabbing his psitol, he fires a few shots in the cockpit of the walker he is on and then takes off running through the group again.

Meanwhile, Interface has latched onto the walker closest to him.

"watch out! i'm frying the targetting computer on htis thing, it's gonna shoot anything it can for a few minutes before exploding"

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a few minutes later
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"so, which two of our friends will we be with now?"

OOC: This thread has far surpassed the page limit. Please finish up your training and end up going to bed or something. Thanks.

Runner had learned a decent bit about his powers. He recieved weapons, a very thin razor wire and a steel crossbow. It had been pure luck that the young scientist, Chris Daman, happened to be watching his training session. Without Chris he might have been dubbed "worthless" which, he assumed, would have some bad reprucussions. So he went back into his training with a confident mind and came out a worthy warrior. Although he still had much to learn, it was late and he needed to sleep. He was rather disappointed that he hadn't gotten to train with any of the other Soldiers and went to bed hoping to meet all the others tomorrow.

Nikolai fumbled with the taken katana attached to his belt as he watched the others fight with incredible power. Perhaps there was something akin to awe in his observing, or perhaps it was understanding. Perhaps the scientist was right... perhaps they were nothing but weapons. Perhaps he was nothing more than a weapon. But, he was a weapon with free will. He could fight for himself, he could choose not to fight. He could choose who would "wield" him, if anyone. He just needed more time to think, to come to grips with this reality. As the training simulation ended, he sought the solitude of his quarters.

Patricia opened the door for Kristen. It was so white inside. The walls, the bed, the refridgerator. "This is your quarters and you're free to do whatever you want in here. At some point later in the morning of everyday, your room will be cleaned for you, so you don't need to even bother with making the bed. Please get some rest, Kristen. Hopefully things won't be so trying tomorrow."

Kristen nodded, and Patricia stepped out of the room, closing the door. Kristen didn't feel really tired, and discovered the video games consoles way sooner than she thought she should have. She dozed off in her comfortable chair right after saving her game and turning the system and television off.

After they had all gotten together and peacefully stopped the tanks, they had learned it had just been another projection.

There had been a lot of arguing, but it was generally accepted that had they known it was a projection they wouldn't have tried to save those inside.

Afterwards, Interface found his room, and discovered that while he, too had a game system in his, it was strung out across the wall, with all the wires ending at the bed.

Interface removed the harder equipment from his outfit and placed it within a compartment in the matress which had been showed to him.

He climbed into bed, and dreamed of games

OOC: since im still not done with my fight i will end it soon.

IC: Zhard did as Dynamite said and rushed towards the closest walker, he protected himself with his right arm and by jumping left too right as he rushed past it cleaving the leg and continued too strike down 2 more that was close too the first.
when he then turned too attack the fourth it opened fire at him and he was sent flying right through a building and landed in front of dynamite, Zhard could feel pain in his chest but didnt know how serious it was, although he felt the regeneration starting.

OOC: i'll just stick with temp control unless someone can explain why not

IC: The Weaver helps fight the tanks by making them get stuck in the asphalt and melt ing the barrel of the guns slightly. he then finds the gas tank and freezes the gas so the engines stall then he cuts the gas tanks and turns the gasoline to a gas he then says to surrendur unless they want him to seal the internal compartment with them in it. the he goes to bed after they surrender

OOC: Tanks do not run on gasoline, and heating gasoline to the point where it evaporates would make it explode. Just a few minor points. :)

When Zhard flew in front of him, Dynamite was suprised to see his quick regen. He had no time to worry about it, however, and filed it away. Thinking quickly, he ran twards one of the broken hulls and looked for the power cell.

"Ut, oh. This is different than the one in my memory! It's certainly too small to be fusion based." For the first time, Dynamite wondered if a plan of his would work. Pushing aside his forboding, he moved back into the shadows, following the remaining walkers.

Dynamite set the power cell to overload and jumped out of the shadows at the nearest walker, attaching the cell near a hook near the walker's leg joint (a major flaw in the design). When the overloading cell blew up, it took the legs off of the walker and it's closest buddy.

"One left, and i'm fresh out of ideas. I hope that wound wasn't too much for Zhard."

Then the hologram shut down.

Over a comm came a voice. "Dynamite, you took forever to act. Learn some iniceative. You two should get some rest. We'll see you again in the morning."

OOC- I'll leave it to OmniShadow to tell what they said about his proformance. I'm sorry it took so long.

OOC: no worries Dynamite, that was well done.

IC: Zhard heard an explosion and then the entire hologram shut down and he heard a voice.

-"Zhard you did quite well, for being an earlier subject, although you should have dodged that blast, now get back and get some rest."

"earlier subject..." zhard said too himself as he stood up and checked too see if the wound was healed, he walked towards the exit.
(since mine never did the awakening thing is it ok if mine was one of the first experiments, you could say that allmost all of the first ones died and Zhards regeneration was that wich saved him.) theres gotta have been more tries than theyrs.

OOC: Okay, consider this chapter closed. That went pretty well, I thought, except for a few minor problems that we fixed. I'd like the next part to go a little smoother, though. I'll start the second thread as soon as I get out of classes.

Closing as per Bob's request.