Aya let out a quiet sigh of relief when it turned out it really was Jackson she'd talked to. She raised an eyebrow in concern and looked from Mu to Nate when the younger boy asked to kill the other. Ah. This was why people didn't like Mu. She turned back to Jackson when he asked where the third brother(?) was.

"Kuro's the one with the power to move around on the other side, right?" she asked "I can take you to–" her offer was cut off when suddenly a human skeleton landed at her feet. An actual skeleton. If that wasn't bad enough, it then started moving. Aya did what any rational person would do, and freaked out.

She let out a strangled yelp and stumbled backwards, knocking into Nate. The skeleton the proceeded to look at her with its empty eye sockets and wave. Aya wasted no time in drawing back her foot and punting its skull. It flew off of its spine, ricochetting off of Mu's prison and flying away over their heads. The body was still waving.

@Raijinslayer
@Subject Zero

Or at least it was until a dune buggy ran it down, scattering the bones before breaking of a halt. Then, almost sheepishly, it backed up until it was right in front of the the strange scene. There was a very pale man sitting in the drivers seat and dog seated in the passenger. Zach pointed at the girl, asking Jake. "Wait, is this her? I remember you two being together when...when...when...urrrghhhhhhhh." He groaned, holding his head again and laying it on the steering where, the horn letting out a long sustained honk. What was it that kept him from remembering? Was it part of the Paradise Meta's power? Or was it just him? "I'm going to need a minute anyway. There's an icepack under the seat." He reached down and pulled the icepack from under the seat, applying it to the top of his head.

Dean jumped back licking the blood off of the side of his mouth,”Very good sis but your gonna have to do better then that because im not going to go easy on ya” Dean said sending a blast towards her that Jenni flicked it away like it was nothing.Jenni counter attacked speeding off towards him and with her powers and the force of her speed punched him square in the gut,This made Dean be sent flying backwards a few feet but not too far the younger brother puking yellow and green chucks his breakfast form yesterday.

Dean held his stomach feeling sick but he surpassed it rubbing his stomach,”That’s not fair you cheated by speeding yourself up…” Dean said pouting his cheeks summoning a Honda Civic and threw it at Jenni to crush her.Jenni used a force field to protect herself from the car ripping it apart and throwing the broken car parts towards Dean.

“IS that all you got little bro” Jenni said while Dean turning the car parts into water moving though it,”Now it’s my turn little sister and this time I’ll be the winner…” Dean said as the ground shaking underneath Jenni who summoned a venus flytrap to consumed her to protect her form Dean’s attack.From underneath her Dean had the ground shaking finally breaking apart.The rise of lava was beneath her that slowly sank though the flytrap,This was enough for her to escape this was the perfect chance for Dean who flew underneath Jenni grabbing her leg.

Dean with Jenni’s leg in his grasp brought her down throwing her down onto the ground,”Game over now it’s my turn…” Dean said his hand being lit on fire and Jenni as a last ditch effort sank into the ground,But Dean had trapped Jenni in the ground leaving only her head and some of her body being shown.Dean came rushing at Jenni.

The impact of the punch echoed out creating a shock wave that in the real world made Jenni’s body twitch.“I win now let me control of my body” Dean said to Jenni but to his fright his hand was slowly sinking into Jenni’s face,”What the fuck…let go sis I don’t want to merge…I have so much to live for…LET GO” Dean yelled out his arm now inside of her face,Jenni said nothing her face mangled her eyes popping out and touching Dean’s arm that was going further into her body.

”Let go Sis…LET GO GO AWAY GET OFF” Dean said trying to kick her off of him with his leg that then got stuck in her chest.Tears started to run down his face her torso sucking him inside of her intestines and organs latching onto him dragging him down.

“MOMMY I DON’T WANT TO DIE I WANT TO LIVE…MOMMY HELP ME IM DYING…IM DYING…” Dean now had tears running down his cheek as he melded with Jenni now where his cries of fear turned into muffled moaned and groans as they merged toghter,The large ball of flesh and other organs moved around groaning with faces moving inside of the flesh ball.From the outside a new person was born and instead of Jenni it was a older looking man (wearing this) ()
,The older man stood up the green towel that Jenni had dropping on the floor and being picked up by the wind flying away.

The older man looked around at the beach scene in front of him and the others doing their thing, Cracking his neck he started to use his powers to head towards Isabella.

So Nate had apparently decided to live up to his codename, and now there was a whole army of him storming the beach. That was great. The skeleton was still waving and it was freaking her the hell out. At least, it was until a dune buggy came crashing onto the scene. Aya stumbled out of the way with a yelp, and this time couldn't stop herself from falling down. She looked up to see who it was that had almost killed her, squinting her eyes against the sun. The pale man in the driver's seat was a stranger, but next to him…

"Jake?" she asked. Aya laughed, in both relief and disbelief. She scrambled to her feet, brushing off the sand sticking to her skin. "What are you – y'know what, never mind. Do you have any idea what's going on here? Because I really don't." She looked over to the other man and blushed a bit at her rudeness. "Sorry, I'm Aya. Hi. Are you, umm… ok?" He certainly didn't look it, what with the ice pack he was pressing against his head.

@gentlemanvaultboy
@subject zero

@Subject Zero

"Do you hear that Jim? They want us to come out to play-ay! Would be rude to say no?" Eli inquired with a hint of dramatics.

"I do believe it would be just that EC, imagine what our mommas would say!" Jim replied with the same dramatics. "Although I do feel a song ah brewin. Little MJ, what about... Smooth Criminal?"

"That's pretty hard to pull off, what about Billy Jean? I don't suppose you got my git-tar?"

I do , I do. I can do that one, I got a little Billy Jean deep down in my soul." Pulling the guitar out of seemingly thin air, Jim handed it to Eli.

As Eli started strumming the tune, Jim started to clapping his hands in time. When the time was right Jim began singing Billy Jean. The sight a top the tree was one comical to say the least. As the Legion grew near the tree and the Predator clicks could be heard, four fire manifestations of Michael Jackson came out from opposite ends of the tree, one for every direction. All four moved as one, their movements identical to the 1997 Munich concert.

Eli played on just bobbing and nooddin his head as Jim sang to the best of his abilities.

Insomnium

Insomnium smiled, a small chuckled escaping through his sharped teeth as he turned his head slightly to look into Avarice's eyes, matching her maddened grin with one of his own. "Whatever I want, you say, but I've only ever wanted one thing and one thing only, and I know that you can not give it to me." Moving faster than Avarice could've expected, and taking full advantage of the fact that his body is just a construct of shadows, he grabbed her wrist and her neck, absorbing a good deal of energy from her before tossing her aside into a tree. Instead of following through with the assault, however, he dispersed into shadowy mist and slid away into the jungle, followed by haunting sound of laughter.

He'd soon approach the battle ground between Eli and Nathan, invisible to them both in the dark shadows of the forest, but the laughter could still be heard as it seemed to come from all around. It would seem as if the very forest was mocking them. Silently, he would reform behind one of the duplicates, grabbing him by the mouth and pulling him into the underbrush, and before the clone had any idea what was happening, Insomnium would begin to drain his very life force from him, a process that would take him only a few seconds(Damien could do it near instantneously). After Insomnium was done, only a withered corpse would remain, dropping to the jungle floor with a thud, before Insomnium struck at several more clones using this same strategy, gathering as much energy as he could from them, before finally reforming in the clearing with Eli and Jim.

Rising up from all the shadows around them were ghastly assortment of shadow constructs that looked like savage ghouls and other creatures of the night. Then, music started to play from somewhere in the forest. As the beat began to resonate through the forest, the constructs began to awaken, eyes glowing a sinister red as they move forward to charge at both the men in front of them, and the clone arm behind them. Insomnium would join the attack on Eli, heading straight towards the man to rain a barrage of punches on his person, each one unleashing a concussive blast of energy. Any fire sent at him would be quickly disapated, as he would absorb the energy from it, leaving the attacks greatly weakened against him.

@Sapphire
@AcerRo
@Subject Zero

Kuro

As Kuro came to from his near death experience, he found himself looking at the ground in some kids grip. Given his rather large size, he found that he was low to the ground,with his hands and legs scraping along the floor.

"Oi, kid, can you please put me down?" Kuro asked looking around to see Cer, but which one. There was only one way to find out. "Hey Cer, are you bitchy uptight Cer, or Sexy Crazed Cer?"

@Letter Bee
@Sapphire

Jackson and Mu

Delegated to background for now because I've got no idea for them.

Ian

Ian was pissed off that someone had launched a fuckin' space missile a his ship, but put that out of his mind for now. He had people on this boat that were in need of some transport to dry land. "If I ever found out who did this, I'll turn their lives into a living hell of humiliation. . .for about a week or two, anyway."

Ian sheathed his blade, then zipped down to the deck, standing between the two girls that had boarded his ship. "Either of you two need a lift to sho- Oi, get that bomb off my ship, hasn't it taken enough punishment already without you dealing fucking overkill!!" Ian ran his hands through his hair, cursing whatever powers at be thought it was funny to ruin his pirate fantasy.

@Savato
@Pirouette
@Archmage MC

Legion was just getting into the song when he felt something change. His duplicates were being heartlessly murdered...again. Honestly, did no one respect the sanctity of a clone's life? If this kept up he'd be stark raving crazy by the time he was 30. Of course some would argue that he already was but that wasn't the point. Every duplicate that died twisted his psyche that little bit more.

As Billy Jean was replaced by Thriller and the crazies appeared all around, Legion felt an overwhelming compulsion to dance. And so that was exactly what he would do. The clones jumped to their feet and in a synchronized movement began to dance the Thriller dance. Pretty damn well they thought. Sure there was a small group of murderous shadows advancing on them but hell, this wouldn't be the first time Legion had danced while fighting an enemy. Sure, there was a pole and a lot of flashing lights involved the last time but that was another story entirely.

This may have seemed like an inappropriate tactic for the situation but all of the duplicates were ready to dodge whatever this jerk through at them. The enemy may have had a more threatening power but Legion could be horrifyingly quick when need be.

@Raijinslayer
@AcerRo

@Subject Zero@c3p-0h@Raijinslayer

"It's the matrix. We're in the Matrix, or something very much like the matrix. Look, I'll prove it, there's a tiki and a friendly polar bear right behind you." Zach said, shaking his head "nooooooooooo" in response to Aya's question. "I think we've met. I'm not sure, because when I try to think about it I feel like I'm thinking in wingdings."

He knew these two. He had seen them together, somewhere. Somewhere right before this. But it was nauseating to try and think. He glanced up in the rear view mirror and instantly regretted it. He felt like something else was there for just a second, but then it was just his face. His face.

His face. His face. His face his face his face hisfacehisfacehisfacehisfacehisfaceshame.

Deep shame.

What was he ashamed of?

"Have either of you...ever...seen me before?" He asked, slowly, carefully.

It took a moment for Aya to realize that although she asked Jake questions, she wasn't actually supposed to be able to hear his familiar voice. She froze at his words. The Matrix. The Matrix.

You've got to be kidding me.

She sort of hated how much sense it made, as pieces slowly began falling into place. And of course when she turned around, there was the tiki and a polar bear, just as the stranger had said. Aya was fairly certain they hadn't been there before. The stranger – what had Jake called him? Zach? – seemed distressed, desperate even, when he asked if either of them recognized him.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think I know you," she replied. "But… the Matrix? That's really the theory we're going with right now?" Of course she knew it was actually a pretty reasonable theory. Didn't mean she had to like it. "Ok so… that means we're being held by someone, right? We were captured or something?" Captured. That sounded familiar for some reason. What had she been doing right before this? She'd been… captured. Yes, that sounded right. But for the life of her, she couldn't remember by whom or when or why. It seemed memory gaps were a shared side-effect.

Aya looked around at the hectic beach. People she'd never met, people she knew, and people she'd rather forget were all here. Who'd want to grab such a random bunch? But then she realized the one thing they all seemed to have in common.

"Zach," she asked, turning back to him. "Are you a Meta?"

@Gentlemanvaultboy
@Subject Zero

A collaborative post between Mass City and AcerRo

Aiko Fujiwara was a somewhat normal girl apart from her powers of memory leeching but she had a second ablity of far sight which she used to tell that this island was not real. She did not know the exact details but what they were seeing, eating and smelling was all a figment of their imaginations. She looked for people to convince. Everyone she came across did not seem to listen they did not want to wake up. She had to tell them to wake up something was very very wrong.

She saw somebody and would try to convince them that this was a dream.

Eli knew something was about to happen, what that something was however he didn't know. He did know however it was gonna involve a Meta or three, if Nate had a say in it, it might go from one to a hundred. "Jim, I need you to run." That was like he said before some other bat shit nuts guy showed up out of no where. This was place was fucking mad house.

Eli did his best to erupt before getting hit but he wasn't so lucky. After only a punch or two Eli erupted and pushed himself backwards burning through the tree limbs as he fell. He did have presence of mind to do two things as he fell. Elijah sent out two blasts if fire. One was meant for who or whatever attacked him the other was much stronger and was to clear out a any members of the Legion. Eli hoped he didn't hit who ever was the bringing the Warriors reference. Even Eli had to bow to that one.

Eli hit the ground with thud. This was the getting ridiculous, how much shit had he fallen out of or gone through over the course of the last few years? Elijah coughed for and tried to catch his breath. He needed to get away from the jungle and into some open space, plus Jim was still in the tree. Legion might get him and do something goofy. It took him a second to get to his feet and started running. He did pass the one with the glass bottles, Eli simply said "awesome," he never stopped for a second.

Eli ran and kept running, he used his powers to help him gain a few steps. It was gonna take them a lot longer to get to him than it took him to get away. He showed down, not using his powers but kept up a decent speed. Until he found a small child. With all the shit that's happened why not?

"Hey girl you okay?" Eli asked trying to sounds friendly and comforting.

"Do you not see it? This is all a dream." Aiko told the man he met. "I tell everyone but nobody listens to what I am saying." Aiko was worried was this man going to be like all the others she looked him over to her he looked odd but she had seen stranger. No one she met had seen what she had seen she tried to show them but they denied the truth. This was a dream. A dream without rest a nightmare without terror, it was jut there.

Aiko looked at Eli worriedly. She tried to convince people and memory leeching could convince them but when she told most people her power they became wary.

Before this Aiko was at a special school being taught restraint but she also had technical assitance in limiting her ablities now though she could take as memories as she needed if she needed. But Aiko used her sight to see what the others could not. Aiko seemed to have red eyes. Was see going to be trapped here forever? She did not want to be trapped here forever.

"Given the events of today, I wouldn't be shocked. Not one bit. The bigger question right now is are you okay? "Eli asked walking towards and crouching down so he was at her eye level.

"No I am scared that we'll be trapped here forever and I won't see my family. Things aren't great but I never got to say goodbye." Aiko began to weep.

This was not a good time to for this girl to break down. Eli had Legion and some other fuck nut to worry about. Still there was something a little girl crying that broke Eli's heart, whatever was left of it at least.

"Come here now girl." Eli said softly, hugging the girl in attempt to confront her. He had no idea if what she was say was true or not. Shit if he was a betting man he would have bet the world that there was no way he could control fire or be filthy stinking rich. "It's gonna be okay. We'll get out of here, I promise." Eli's heart was breaking at the sound of her crying.

All of a sudden he felt something in his head she saw a part of Eli's memory it made her sad but what was worse it triggered her sight again she saw earth on fire, a world at war with itself this time it burned billions screamed. She saw the rest of Eli's memories but she gave Eli parts of what she saw, not intentionally the memories she saw had come upon her like a tsunami. She began to ball. "Eli why do you do what you do?"

"What did you to to all those people. Did they deserve it?" she wept.

The moment Eli felt something going on with his head, let go. He saw something, something that proved this girl was telling the truth. He let her go and pushed himself backwards making sure he didn't hurt or push the girl.

"I... What fuck is going on here? What shit did you do me? None of this real? What...?" Eli said questioningly. Something happened to him and he was not in a mental state to figure it out.

It tool him a minute to figure out that she had asked him questions. Did she read his mind? Was that even possible? She's only a kid... Right? Eli started questioning everything that happened since woke up.

"Listen to me now, those are all very fair and reasonable questions that I promise to answer but first we need to get outta here. I need you to calm down can you do that for me? "Eli asked.

Aiko began to breath, and relax, "Have you looked the entire memories of an apartment complex, I saw so many memories once I was put into the hospital." Aiko began to relax.

"I'm better." her voice warbled, she was not going to be great but this was not the worst thing she'd seen that had been her parents' memories. "I ... was called a memory leech." Aiko uttered. "I was able to once look at a whole lot of memories once, they think I over extended my ..abilities." she said shaky.

" If I take hold of your hand, will you see more of the horrific shit that I've done? I'd rather spare you that damage if possible." Eli said softly as got to his feet. "I'm still in a state of pure bewilderment. So please, talk slowly and use small words, okay?"

"I've already seen it. I can see when you were my age, a rare happy moment from that time." Aiko looked down. "Sorry, it can see everything." Aiko took his hand.

"Yeah, those were the days. "Eli's words were solemn. " So none of this real, huh? I really did kill my best friend. Damn that's depressing. So what's your story kid? You hungry or thirsty. I could really use some ice cream right now. " It was clear that Eli was depressed, he had one of the most important people back only to find out it was like.

With the girl in hand they begin walking towards the bar that him and Jim had been to earlier. It was the only place he knew to go that might even be possible to get them anywhere and he really needed to eat.

It was a while before he said anything, or so it seemed. "So what's your story girl? What's your name? Where you from? Give me something to make me feel about you knowing everything about." Eli smiled for a second. "Did you see that one time I had to get dressed up in drag cause I lost that bet?"

"I did not just see that I saw the time where you got forced to go to a convention dressed as Sailor Moon."

Aiko bowed, "I am Aiko Fujiwara. I was born in Sendai but four years ago I was forced to move onto an island with my Aunt and Uncle since it had a smaller population then Sendai. I-" Aiko sighed. "it seemed my powers got stronger as I got older. I was in a coma from seeing the memories of an entire apartment building, the doctors figured if I was away from people my powers would be less likely to cause issues. So I lived on an island until..." Aiko looked around at the beach, "Until this began for which I have no clear idea."

Eli felt apart of of his memories weren't gone but he saw a flash of Aiko on an island with two fortyish relatives. The island had forty people on it and a thousand cats. Aiko liked cats more than people she could not go into animal minds. So there was a mystery.

"Can also see the future and use skills I saw in other people's heads. Right now for some reason I think I can disassemble and reassemble a gun." Aiko sounded cold about the weapon, "But I'll take Ice Cream even if it is not real." He voice perked up.

"You got that from me, I was in the military when I was younger.... Ice Cream it is! "Eli proclaimed. It didn't take too much longer for them to return to the bar. He starting to like this girl. Eli liked most kids. They weren't as screwed up as most adults and unlike most adults kids didn't run away screaming in to Hills when ever he walked into the a room. Most kids were honest and gave Elijah a fair shake, something that was almost impossible to find for him.

As they entered the bar Eli finally came up with an idea or two."Well I got two ideas, we can tell someone we what's going on, or we can take a chance and I can destroy just about everything and everyone here. Other than that I'm at a loss. What about you kid? "

"We'll need to tell them but the problem is they are all happy. Nobody wants out of the dream. I am unsure of the phrase but we gotta raise a little hell? But I need to find the high ground on this "island". If I cannot see beyond the barrier then we try to shake people out of their dreams." Aiko liked her cone. "I cannot think of a certain plan. I only read RPG strategists when I was in Sendai. there is a difference than real strategy."

Aiko looked at the happy people on the beach. "My uncle says life is about the good and bad without the bad you cannot appreciate the good. A life where only good things happen makes people take advantage of good things. He said my power was a good and a bad thing. He did not understand my power, he was a fisherman but he tried his best to help. If I did not see in pain I'd not see all the good moments of his life." Aiko was saddened.

"I don't think I he's wrong. Your uncle I mean. The bad times do make the good times better." Eli licked his own ice cream. It was something he did when he was stumped and while most problems just took some piecing together this was a bit of a dandy. The problem wasn't the whatever that was going on, it was getting everyone together and them trusting Eli and not try to kill him. He was that wasn't gonna happen.

"Raising Kane won't help anything, I've been doing that all day. I must thrown over a hundred bombs, I turned part of the beach into D-Day and the beaches of Normandy. So that's not gonna unless I go bigger, to big and I could destroy everything... I think. "Eli licked his ice cream again.

"I am not sure how this works. But we'll need a place that can hit hard and cause a lot of damage. Then I may need to do my ...thing." Aiko said worriedly.
Aiko looked around the beach. "Have you ever seen those old disaster movies?"

" Vaguely, you mean like Pompeii or some shhhh, uh stuff. " Eli had just remember that he was sitting next to a child and not one his drinking buddies."So I just need to destroy this place and you work your magic and we're off to the races?"

"I hope so." replied Aiko as she ate the Ice cream. "If I can see their memories they may believe me. If that fails... I can short it out." Aiko looked down depressed. "I may need everyone to be a blankslate for a bit or worse I get lost in all the memories. No matter what, what is holding us could not handle a jolt like that." Aiko was worried but it was the only ideas she had.

"I think shorting it out would be the better option of it all. Again slow and small words sweety, I'm still in a bit of bewilderment and I'm still struggling with what's going on. "Elijah Craig said calmly while licking his ice cream. He was scared, go be sure. But he couldn't show up for fear of the kid losing it.

"Well then Eli I guess the only thing we can do is charge the hill and take it. The entire meta population here needs us to do it or we're trapped forever doing god knows what." Aiko said coldly. Eli would be disturbed seeing this a twelve year old so calm and collected.

"Well, point me in the right direction and turn me loose. Just stay close to me and make sure nothing gets me from the behind." Eli tossed the ice cream cone into the sand and stood up. "Never before would I thought I'd be taking my orders from a small child. Shhh-stuff only gets more fuuuu-jacked up, yeah that's the word jacked up as time goes on."

"You are aware I know all the swear words you said in your memory right?" Aiko looked at the man, "Follow me." she led Eli from the bar to a hill it did not look like much but there appeared to be a radio tower, it was playing only the best beach music to everyone's pleasure. "You see that Radio tower? Destroy it. It will destroy tier one security."

" Still you a kid girl, I'd of never touched you had I known. I guess on the bright side ain't much gonna bother you now. " Eli quietly followed the girl and listen to what she had to say about the radio tower." is that all I got to do just that one tower? Hell fire that ain't hard." Eli said as he erupted his right hand and slowly concentrate all the energy into his palm. He launched in the air using his powers to make sure it hit exactly where he wanted it to.

The energy hit the tower and it creaked over. The Tower began to wobble and fall right over. It came down with a resounding crash. Eli and the rest for a moment swore they saw the world flicker.
"Well we did something." Aiko smiled.

"Yeah I guess we did... " Eli started to feel faint, he could feel his eyes get heavy and sure enough he fell to one knee. He didn't know what was going on how it had happened. Just that it had something to so with the simulation." Run girl, run and don't stop. "Eli's last words before passing out face first in the sand.

Aiko nodded and ran away, she headed towards the others on the beach. She hoped this had shaken other's out of this dream.

Eli didn't what happened or how long he was out. When came out of what ever stupor he was in, Eli instantly erupted but nothing happened. He kept trying and trying only for nothing to happen. It was then he realized he was water or some kind of fluid. A mask was over his head which seemed to save him from dying. When he calmed down enough to see what was going with his own eyes everything started to make sense. He was taken from the house and taken somewhere else, put into the simulation and has now found himself in the waters of the unknown. Eli however was gonna be damned if he was gonna role over for who ever put him there.

He looked around and found a handle on the inside pulled it. Thankfully, it was the way out of his fluid filled tube. The fluid now the he thought about felt a little like jello. When Eli hit the floor he erupted to a high level just burn off whatever was on him. Just as he made it to his feet he couldn't help but notice the tens of thousands of pods that weren't unlike his. That he was ready for, what he wasn't ready for was the every in my form that tapped him on the shoulder. when you turn to get a good look at what had touched his shoulder, he began to scream like a little girl. high pitch tone and all

Probably it was the fact the hand that was touching him was frigidly cold. The pale blue female was glaring at Eli. "What the hell are you doin here?" She looked around. "Where is here?" She looked and the blocky frozed substance she had gotten out of.

"OH DEAR G-d. Fuck the cold. I don't know where hear is... I'd wager a transport or a prison of some sort. Account got me being here. I'd also account for a fridged bitch like you. I wonder what crime I've committed to have spend the time with you. " Eli said with a scowl.

"I don't know but maybe you should not have killed so many of Abernathy's people and you'd not be here. You know that spook is always running something and you walked into Qatar and screwed him over. He don't forgive easily but your the only one who knows I work with that guy." Chiller smiled. "I am eyeing that fast boy Ian or something like that." Chiller looked at the tubes as it seemed others were coming out of them.

"Fuck Abernathy. I done told him plenty that was bad Intel. None of that would have happened if he would have just told the people who hired me what was going on in Qatar. Old man ought to know better than to try and pull this shit on me." Eli shouted in anger. "But noooooo leaks he says. Leaks I got rid of. Jack ass. And who is Ian?" Eli turned to see other people getting out of the tubes. "I gotta find that girl and make sure she's okay." Eli said to himself. "If you see a little girl round about 10 or so, don't touch her. Lord knows she's seen enough horrible shit."

"I'll try and Eli when we get back from this, avoid DC Abernathy is planning something domestically and it may blow up. No rubbing it in his face." Chiller began to saunter off. Eli did love seeing her go.

Watching Chiller leave might be the only thing Eli like about her. Eli however had much more pressing things in his mind. Like finding that little girl, there was also Oiliva and Scarlet he had to consider. He could remember seeing Oiliva talking to that pretty boy from before but not Scarlet, it was a decent bet that both if them where here. Still three were too many to constantly keep up with. Scarlet might be okay for a short time, Oiliva as well but the girl wasn't. As the last of Chillers decent part left his sight Eli begin looking for the kid.

"Aiko, Aiko where are you girl!? " Eli kept shouting as he looked for the little girl that got them out of the simulation. She also took away Jim Harper without so much as a good bye. Still, it put Eli at a better frame mind to himself one more time. Even if it was just fake.

He heard a loud kicking from several of the tubes but he finally saw her in a tube twenty rows down. He saw her in the tube kicking as hard as possible but not breaking the tube.

"Oh there you are. "Eli with a erupted hand cut into the bottom of the tube. Once the fluid drained to where she wasn't trying to kick the door out if it Eli cut through it pick her up and putting her on the ground. As soon as he let her go, he felt that strangle feeling in his head again. She once again saw the newly made memory. "I really gotta remember about that. Is it memories you leach or thoughts to? Please don't tell me you can leach thoughts." Eli said with a worried look on his face.

"I can leech all sorts of memories through direct touch or within a certain range." Aiko replied catching her breath, "Current thoughts are more difficult." Aiko huffed "Thank you Eli."

She stood up an began to look over the people around her. How many people were there in tubes? It was hundreds.

She looked at Eli, "I think we just left a dream for a nightmare."

" You ain't wrong Baby Sister. Come let's see if he we can figure out what's going in around here. Take hold of my hand and stay close. "Eli didn't wait for her to respond before taking her hand and left where they were looking for a way out.

Ian

Ian suddenly felt inexplicably dizzy as he heard something crash onto the beach, causing him to fall to his knees as a rush of images enters his head. Wait, why the hell am I at a beach, the last thing I remember is getting drunk of my ass in Germany, then passing out in an alley. While I expected to be in a lot of places after that, a beach wasn't one of them. And why do I have such a splitting headache? He groaned as he fell to the floor, shutting his eyes as his head began to pulse with pain before he felt a chill run through his bones, followed by an odd feeling of wetness. Opening his eyes, he found himself in some kind of tube, floating in a vat of liquid. He had a mask over his mouth that was allowing him to breathe while he was in it, and was wearing a type of weird clothes, a black and green onesie of some sort by the look of it. They weren't quite skin-tight, but they also weren't baggy either, and to be honest, Ian though it was a rather cool looking outfit.

After taking a few minutes to pull at the material and try moving around in it, he decided that it was time to stop playing around and time to get out of his admittedly comfortable test-tube, pod . . thingy. After searching around a little, he found and pulled a latch that caused the door of the pod to open, dropping him on to the floor in a small heap. Getting himself up to his feet, he did a quick, high-speed back and forth to get the gunk off of him, before looking around to see a thousand such pods all around him, as well as people waking up and getting out of them. Having nothing better to do, Ian began walking around, helping out anybody who was having trouble getting out, slapping those who were having trouble coping with the fact that they had been abducted, or just giving a fine hello to those were just going with the flow like he was. He didn't find to many of those.

As he was walking around, he saw a familiar blue angel walking out from a row of pods with a determined saunter in her gait as she walked around, obviously looking for someone. "Why hey there, Snow Angel, glad to see you weren't just a program in the matrix, that would've sucked. Hey, have you seen my cousin, Alto, the lolicon guy, or perhaps the girl who I dressed in a sticky note bikini, Sefia." Ian couldn't help but chuckle a little thinking back to that moment while he walked over to Chiller, even if it wasn't real it had been one of the funniest things he had done in a while. "Anyway, since we've obviously been abducted by something or someone with a hard-on for metas, I assume they'll both be here, somewhere."

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Damien & Insomnium

Damien, having decided to just let Insomnium have his fun with Eli and Nathan(they were both military trained and would most likely be able to handle Insomnium unless he went Apocalypse), content to just lay down on the sand and take a nap. He heard something crash nearby, but paid it no mind, until he felt strangely dizzy, then his head started to hurt a lot. Memories flooded back into his head, causing him to open his eyes in revelation, to be shocked upon the sight he saw. As soon as he got a good look of his surroundings, he started to panic a lot. He was in some sort of tube thing, he was trapped, walls were too close, they were closing in. Closing his eyes didn't make the rising feeling of claustrophobia any better, in fact, it only made it worse. In his panicked state, he felt his powers start to go haywire, but before he could calm himself, he felt the build-up in his chest, and knew it was too late to stop what was happening.

The pod exploded in a burst of lighting as the Light, responded to his fear, tearing the offending container apart. Damien fell to the floor, tearing off the mask that was still attached to his face and taking a shuttering breath of fresh air. He continued to take a few deep breaths, calming himself down, reminding himself that where ever he was, it wash't back in that hole in Iraq. That place no longer existed, he had made sure of it when he escaped.

Looking around, he finally felt himself good enough to stand up, as he did however, he heard a familiar voice in his head cursing whoever did this.

If I ever find them, I'll rip their fucking head clean off their body and turn it into paste on the floor. I was free from you damn it, finally free, only to find it was nothing but a fucking dream.

"Stop your moping, Insomnium, we've got bigger issues here, like why the hell were we abducted, and by who."

I don't care either way, because I'll fucking crush whoever did this and anyone who gets in my way of doing that!

"Glad to see that you're still just as crazy as before." Damien sighed, already missing whatever the hell that island had been. He had been able to forget about the his time in Iraq in there, to forget about the mentally scarring and dehumanizing event that had given birth to the madness known as Insomnium. Taking a final breath, to be sure he was calm, he got up and started to walk around, trying to see if there was anyone around that he knew.

He saw that more and more people were starting to escape their pods as well, and he knew that if something didn't happen soon, fights would start to break out as scared people with no idea what is going on started to lash out, like cornered animals, at anyone they thought could be a threat. As he walked, he saw one of the people from the beach that he could remember, the infamous Eli Craigh.

"Hey Craigh, you wouldn't happen to have any idea where the hell we- why the hell do you have a little girl with you?" Damien couldn't help but ask as he saw the small girl who was by the guy's side. He wasn't sure how okay he was with that, considering how he saw this same man make a teenage boy pull a sleigh across the beach naked while he whipped his ass with a whip of fire. It didn't really scream 'Baby-sitter of the year', did it?

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It took a moment for Aya to realize that although she asked Jake questions, she wasn't actually supposed to be able to hear his familiar voice. She froze at his words. The Matrix. The Matrix.

You've got to be kidding me.

She sort of hated how much sense it made, as pieces slowly began falling into place. And of course when she turned around, there was the tiki and a polar bear, just as the stranger had said. Aya was fairly certain they hadn't been there before. The stranger – what had Jake called him? Zach? – seemed distressed, desperate even, when he asked if either of them recognized him.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think I know you," she replied. "But… the Matrix? That's really the theory we're going with right now?" Of course she knew it was actually a pretty reasonable theory. Didn't mean she had to like it. "Ok so… that means we're being held by someone, right? We were captured or something?" Captured. That sounded familiar for some reason. What had she been doing right before this? She'd been… captured. Yes, that sounded right. But for the life of her, she couldn't remember by whom or when or why. It seemed memory gaps were a shared side-effect.

Aya looked around at the hectic beach. People she'd never met, people she knew, and people she'd rather forget were all here. Who'd want to grab such a random bunch? But then she realized the one thing they all seemed to have in common.

"Zach," she asked, turning back to him. "Are you a Meta?"

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@Subject Zero

"You can't tell just by l()()King @t meargeh!" He screamed, a fresh pressure building in his head. What the hell? Why had he said that? Why had he said that!? There was no way to tell, was there not? He was a just a guy. A weird looking guy, sure, but a normal guy. He was a normal guy!

"Yes." He croaked out. He couldn't elaborate. He couldn't remember what his power was. He could...hear really well, maybe, but not with his ears. With his, his, his, his face? Yeah, he could hear with his face. What the hell was that supposed to mean!?

He was in pain. He was in pain. Then he was wet. He was wet and he was in pain and he was hysterical and as he thrashed about in his undersized metal prison he realized that his face wasn't his, that he'd never looked like that even when he was still a normal human. What sort of person looked that much like an owl, for fucks sake! The last thing he re,ember, the last thing he remembered, was blood and horrible pain and countless deaths and he was sure the Underground had him and had done something to him.

When the container opened it didn't open gently. Deep holes were punctured in the sides, liquid spilling out as claws scraped long lines into the sides. To door was mostly bent out of the way and a ball of soaked feathers stalked out looking every bit like something out of a nightmare. He looked around the room, spotting all the similar containers around him, and picked the nearest one to let his anger out on. He would have that door scrapped off in two shakes of a lambs tail.

Then, after everyone was safe, he was going to find the people who had put him through this ordeal and there would be hell to pay.

Someone awoke in Cindy Wade's womb.

Ah. He thought. So that's how it is. He sighed to himself, internally of course. Sighing externally would've been physically impossible and would probably be rather harmful.

Still, it was fun while it lasted. He lamented over the loss of his freedom, but still, it was an eye-opening experience.

I thought the world wouldn't be ready for me, but I guess I still need to get ready for the world.
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"Emperor, you're finally awake."

Alto's eyes snapped open. He was greeted by the sight of some kind of weird material in above him. He was lying down for some reason he didn't register.

"I thought so." He said. A simulation. Of course it was... Ah well. "I didn't finish my sweet potatoes."

He looked down at himself to see they'd taken his clothes and put on some other weird thing. He was also floating in weird liquid or something but that didn't matter so much.

"My shoes are gone too." He looked down at his feet devoid of coverage. His left foot was normal, but his right foot... "I can't go out like this. I do need to keep my secrets after all."

He looked up and tapped on the tube with his right hand, testing it's strength.

"The material is somewhat thick," Con said, "But it should still be easy to break through with our power."

"Alright, let's go with the Black Knight then." He ordered, "I feel like being dramatic."

Veins of black steel streamed from his right arm and shortly he was covered in a thin layer of black steel. More features constructed, and soon he was covered in his Black Knight armor. He silently willed Theo into action, then his visor and the joints of his armor started glowing with a blue light. (think this but like, space tech)

Alto drew his fist back and punched throught he material. He grasped as much as he could and tore it to pieces, then he pulled himself to a standing position.. As he stepped out, his two meter custom zweihander formed in his hand. It was made of black steel, but after the blade directly after the two side spikes was replaced instead by more glowing blue energy.

"Yes," Alto said, his voice suddenly deep and brooding, "It has been a long, long time."

Aya jumped back, eyes wide, when Zach screeched at her. She was frozen, scared by his sudden outburst. What had she done to make him so upset? Was it so obvious that he was a Meta? Did he not like talking about it? She fumbled to look for an answer, something to apologize for. But then she wanted to scream, herself.

An onslaught of memories and emotions attacked Aya, making her gasp and clutch at her head. Blood, laughter, emerald eyes, screams, Cassandra, bloodbloodblood. Tears started gathering at the corners of her eyes and she thought she was going to vomit. Or at least pass out.

She woke up instead.

Unable to register anything besides panic, Aya thrashed in her capsul. She felt some tube tangling around her limbs, which was connected to something covering her face. Whether by accident or on purpose, she managed to pull the mask off. It turned out this was a mistake. She tried to cough as the odd liquid entered her lungs, but that just caused pain and panicked her more.

After another moment of freaking out, she managed to find the top of her tube and push away the lid. She broke through the surface, gasping and coughing up the liquid. Her chest burned, the tube was still tangled around her arms, and she was scared and shaking, but being able to breathe was a big plus. Aya started shaking as the adrenaline slowly leaked out of her system. Her head spun from all the memories she recovered and she wanted to throw up all over again. Gripping the side of her tube until her knuckles were white, she tried to steady herself. Caught up in her own mind, she was unable to process the unusualness of her environment.

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George Maxwell, after some days of thought, worry, and of course, politicking in order to ensure damage control from the fallout of the mass abduction, finally had some time to himself. And that time was spent reviewing the International Heroes' records in order to look for someone, anyone, who can contact him from space. Finally, he found him: Maxwell Sheppard; a Reformist Meta with the power to 'recieve' any thought directed at him, with no distance limitations. Taking a moment to articulate himself, he thought, directing his thoughts to space:

<Sheppard, Sheppard, are you there? You may not know me, but we need you; Metahumanity and Humanity need you.>

He didn't know what happened. One minute he was in the water, trying to make sure no one got drowned on his watch, and the next thing he knew he was in the water. He'd gone under in the the warm tropical sun and now he was somewhere dark, enclosed, and arctic. He kicked out with his legs in a panic, slamming them agaist the side of something hard enough to hurt. Then there was the matter of the tube down his throat and then there was the voice in his head that wasn't his, going off like damn alarm clock that ruined a good nights pleasant dreams. He banged around inside wherever he was a few more times before he felt something handle like and pulled. His day became worse before it became better as he spilled out of the container and slammed his head on the floor. He pulled the mask off his face and the breathing tube out of his throat to let out the resulting groan of pain.

It was like he'd woken up from the best dream ever into the worst hangover of his life. If anybody needed him right now they had to be desperate.

<Sheppard,> said George, <Are you there? Are you safe? Tell me, what is your situation?>

"Uhhh," he said out loud, pulling himself up the side of the tube he'd been sequestered in. "Okay, I guess. I've woken up feeling worse than this." Not often, though. Everything was sore. "Where are you?"

His voice echoed out into an empty room.

"Please tell me you're here, and that you havn't mistaken what I do for telepathy."

<Sheppard? I'm not hearing anything,> the man replied.

"Because I'm not a telepath!" he shouted to nobody, before quickly covering his mouth and looking around. What had been the last thing he remembered? What was the last thing before the beach? There was that guy at the back door that had made his head go all fuzzy, but Olivia had run him off and he'd just bolted. Right out of the building, not stopping for anything and then...

Oh shit. The earthshaking crash. Reformist HQ, squished under something that could have wiped out the dinosaurs. Did the undergrounders have him? He thought back to whoever was speaking. He thought hard. <Please tell me you're a telepath. Please at least tell me that.>

<Ah, I see, so apparently, you can only recieve thoughts, not transmit them. Which is why I'm not hearing anything. Okay, here's the situation. Alien Commandoes, huge numbers of them, have swooped in and abducted every Meta on Earth; Man, Woman, and Child, due to the fact that the virus causing the Metahuman condition is a bioweapon to them, a bioweapon made stronger by its incubation in Humans. You are now on what is possibly an Alien Ship, which in turn is in Hyperspace. Why do I know this? Well, let's just say I'm a Normal Person, and so didn't get abducted. I'm also George Maxwell, the US Secretary of State, and your country needs you.>

"Oh you have got to be kidding me." Max said, strolling around to look at the other containers. He tapped on ne of them, then went over and knocked his knuclkes agaist the wall a few times. "Come on out Ashton, I'm not in the mood for this shit right now. Seriously, abducted by aliens? That's seriously what you're going with?"

<I know this is hard to believe, but I'm not lying,> continued George. <I need you to free as many other Metas as possible, or make contact with any others that have escaped. Then, we can discuss plans for an insurgency.>

"Yeah, sure, already on that. Beep-bop-beep-bop-boop." He said, pushing in a passcode on a door with no data pad and turning the handle as another wave of liquid and another human fell onto the floor. He pulled the breathing tube out of her mouth, checked to make sure she was breathing, then left her to sleep it off. Despite his seemingly flippant attitude about the whole thing Max relized that they were probably in danger. This could be some sort of sociological test to see if metas could form an effective insurgency in a short amount of time. Or some weird game set up by the Underground using all the "race traitors" they captured in the aftermath of destroying Max's home and murdering a lot of his freinds. Of course he was going to open all the cells. There was no other choice. Either he refused to play along and was promtly killed or he played along and hoped there would be a way out later.

Two cells were already open; on the remains of the glass, there were two etched notes in English:

Yes, you're in Space - Love, Constantine.

I took Consty with me for a Galactic Shopping Trip! - Love, Gia. To Elaborate, I have all these Deus ex Machina powers that can help you guys out, but since I spent most of my life imprisoned in a stasis pod - longer than Ruby has been captive in fact! - by first my brother, and now you guys, I don't plan on lifting even a pinky finger to aid the world that abandoned and forgot about me at all.

Gia! - Constantine.

Haven't I suffered enough?! I suffered more than Ruby. Flipping. Ruby. No, I will not try and help Humanity and Metahumanity anymore, and neither are you! - Gia.

"Well fuck you too." Max muttered.

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Ian

Ian suddenly felt inexplicably dizzy as he heard something crash onto the beach, causing him to fall to his knees as a rush of images enters his head. Wait, why the hell am I at a beach, the last thing I remember is getting drunk of my ass in Germany, then passing out in an alley. While I expected to be in a lot of places after that, a beach wasn't one of them. And why do I have such a splitting headache? He groaned as he fell to the floor, shutting his eyes as his head began to pulse with pain before he felt a chill run through his bones, followed by an odd feeling of wetness. Opening his eyes, he found himself in some kind of tube, floating in a vat of liquid. He had a mask over his mouth that was allowing him to breathe while he was in it, and was wearing a type of weird clothes, a black and green onesie of some sort by the look of it. They weren't quite skin-tight, but they also weren't baggy either, and to be honest, Ian though it was a rather cool looking outfit.

After taking a few minutes to pull at the material and try moving around in it, he decided that it was time to stop playing around and time to get out of his admittedly comfortable test-tube, pod . . thingy. After searching around a little, he found and pulled a latch that caused the door of the pod to open, dropping him on to the floor in a small heap. Getting himself up to his feet, he did a quick, high-speed back and forth to get the gunk off of him, before looking around to see a thousand such pods all around him, as well as people waking up and getting out of them. Having nothing better to do, Ian began walking around, helping out anybody who was having trouble getting out, slapping those who were having trouble coping with the fact that they had been abducted, or just giving a fine hello to those were just going with the flow like he was. He didn't find to many of those.

As he was walking around, he saw a familiar blue angel walking out from a row of pods with a determined saunter in her gait as she walked around, obviously looking for someone. "Why hey there, Snow Angel, glad to see you weren't just a program in the matrix, that would've sucked. Hey, have you seen my cousin, Alto, the lolicon guy, or perhaps the girl who I dressed in a sticky note bikini, Sefia." Ian couldn't help but chuckle a little thinking back to that moment while he walked over to Chiller, even if it wasn't real it had been one of the funniest things he had done in a while. "Anyway, since we've obviously been abducted by something or someone with a hard-on for metas, I assume they'll both be here, somewhere."

"Of course but I can't say they're out. Though the girl will kill you." Chiller rubbed her arms. "God this place is creepy like a mausoleum. What are we gonna do for food? I mean I can sorta sustain myself with water in an emergency but I want a chilli dog."

Chiller saunter with Ian for a bit, she'd knew it was only a matter of time before the speedster ran off to god knows where again.

"So want some company for a bit?"

An explosion, a fuzzy feeling, bam. Loki was back in reality... Or not. Pods with a bunch of people in it? He was occupying one as well. Some good old sci-fi stuff made the real world confusing. Loki quickly released himself from the pod. The door opened and he sank down to his knees on the floor. He sighed wearily.

"No one wanted to play volleyball..." Loki said sadly.

He cheered up and stood on his legs. Loki immediately went invisible. There were a few empty pods, so maybe he could find someone else...

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Finally out of the hellish dream, Isaac found himself in a pod. His hand slowly extracted his scalpel and swiftly cut what he saw. The pod's surface was evenly diced and the liquid splashed out. Isaac walked calmly into the hall of pods, dripping. Isaac snapped his fingers, but nothing happened.
"Hmm..." Isaac said. "Hunters are out of range... Perhaps the current location is in orbit. Surroundings support the theory."

He was on some kind of science fiction fantasy, with tubes everywhere. Many were empty. Isaac studied the people still inside the pods, but decided to leave them alone.
Specimens everywhere, but a more pressing task must be completed. Isaac thought.
He brandished his scalpel and stalked down the hallway.
I would love to dissect whoever did this. He thought, uncharacteristically angry.

Eli turned around to see someone he didn't remember talking to him. Eli leaned down to girl and asked if he knew that guy. When she shook her head no, Eli when to work on trying to figure who or why this person was talking to him.

At about six feet, dark hair and a lean build, Eli's had a pretty good idea that he could take him. After a silent moment or two, Eli finally spoke in a way that only he could too.

"She's mine, bought and paid for. Now if you excuse us, we got shhhh-stuff to figure out. Like the where and the why. Feel to join if you can behave yourself. " Eli had to remember he had to be nice with the child in toe. It was important to him at least.

"It's important to be nice to people, gotta make friends and the like. You're gonna friends in a place like this... Friends are gonna help us." Eli said looking at his newfound ward. She looked back with furrowed brow and stern look. "Don't sass me girl, that was for me not you."

Eli walked away calling out for one of the few people he knew he could trust. "Legion, where are you fucknut!" Row after row, block after block Eli kept looking for one of the few people he liked and knew this child would be safe with. He also had the helpful advantage of being much kinder than Eli, as well as the being able to understand her better than Eli. Eli liked the kid but a decent parent or guardian he was far from.

"Hear that?" Nate asked no one in particular as he cupped a hand to his ear "The majestic call of the southern douchebag. When afraid, the southern douchebag cries out for it's stronger, better looking cousin, the greater California hottie. The greater--"
"We don't have time for this" interrupted the duplicate with a hand on Nate's shoulder "But you totally nailed it"
Nate smiled at himself then said "We should go"

The two men pushed their way through the crowd of scared and confused people as they headed in the direction of Eli's hollar. As they went, a few clones split from Nate and moved off to some of the more obviously distressed people. He was in the exact same boat as everyone else with no idea what was happening but he could at least try to help. Sometimes a friendly smile could work wonders.

After a moment he came across a couple of faces he knew. "Opie" he said, nodding at Eli. The duplicate mirrored him a second later by greeting Damian in the same manner. "And who's this?" asked Nate with a smile as he spotted the young girl by Eli's side.

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