"Because it's not a diplomatic vessel." Zarxe spoke up all too suddenly. Yes, he'd been there and had also been listening. He only now chose to finally speak, "Isn't that right, Emperor?" he asked of the Emperor, his tone blunt in an almost uncaring way. Up until now, the Nobody was standing in a corner with his arms crossed over one another. Now he uncrossed his arms and began to move more toward the center of the room, "What is the word some worlds use to describe it? Ah, yes... a deterrent." he wasn't wrong. This was almost the textbook definition of an intimidation tactic. The armaments could show the other worlds that Renovation, and by extension its Emperor, was not someone they wanted to make an enemy of or start a war with.

Then Zarxe snapped his fingers, and Alpha revealed their presence next to him. The canine-like Nobody looked up at Zarxe with an expectant glance, "Alpha, it seems I'm to be traveling the slow way. Take the pack ahead of me to the world described just now. I'd rather not stumble in blindly." Alpha nodded, as if giving a response that only Zarxe could hear before vanishing, "My apologies, but my Hunters have been patrolling the palace grounds in secret on my orders. One cannot be too careful. You needn't fear anymore, though. They've gone now and are scouting ahead of us even as we speak. They will be relaying their findings to me as we make our way to the destination."

Only then did Zarxe realize he had not properly introduced himself. Now was when he decided to do so, "For those not aware, I am Zarxe. I'm to aid your mission and act as your liaison with those I represent: Organization XIII."

@Letter Bee@Rai@The 42nd Gecko@Rex@WXer@Gentlemanvaultboy@Drifting Pollen@LordVoldemort

The night before:

After having his training session, Seth returned to his room. He was exhausted and just wanted to sleep. When he reached his room, he collapsed onto his bed and let out a sigh before he curled up into the fetal position and fell asleep.

As he fell deeper into sleep he found himself falling into a dream. Seth stood in the middle of his village watching all the villagers go about their daily activities. He saw Jinx hobble towards her hut and one of the Hunters joking with another Hunter as he recounted his day. He saw his mother and ran towards her calling her name. As she turned she erupted into flames causing Seth to skid to a stop. Seth looked around at the once busy village was now erupting in flames. The lifeless bodies of the Moon Bloods riddled the ground as their blood stained the ground. Seth Started to hyperventilate as he looked around at the carnage before him.

“Wonderful isn’t it?” someone asked. Seth turned towards the voice and his eyes widened. Standing over a lifeless body of a Moon Blood was himself. His doppelgangers claws were coated with crimson blood as were its clothes. His snow white hair and tail had changed to a crimson red color, and when the Doppelganger turned to face Seth. He saw that its eyes were not candy apple red, but pitch black like pools of darkness.

Seth slowly backed away from the Doppelganger as a crooked smile formed on its face as it began to speak again, “What’s wrong? Isn’t this what you wanted? To evolve?” Seth couldn’t speak as he continued to back away from the Doppelganger. All he could do was shake his head. The Doppelganger’s smile faded before he kicked the lifeless body of the Moon Blood towards Seth. He tripped over his own feet as the body fell in front of him.

“Don’t lie, you know I can help. I’ve done it before and I can do it again,” the Doppelganger said matter-a-factly as Seth stared into the lifeless eyes of his father. Seth started to hyperventilate again, but his fear turned to rage as he suddenly charged at the Doppelganger. Seth threw a punch, but the Doppelganger easily caught it in its own palm. Its claws dug into Seth’s knuckles making him scream in pain and stumbling back.

Seth fell backward to the ground and saw the puncture wounds in the back of his hand. There was no blood coming from his wounds, but his eyes widened in fear as he saw burning red veins start from the holes and up towards his arm. The Doppelganger laughed, “You can’t deny what’s already inside you.” it was close to Seth's face as it continued, “Your Primal side is much too strong to keep caged. It will devour you whole.” Crimson red liquid started to pour from the Doppelgangers mouth as it drew closer to Seth and Seth was consumed in darkness.

Set shot awake in a cold sweat. He was no longer in his bed but standing at his door. He started breathing rapidly as he stared at the claw mark etched into the door. His body began to shake as he looked at his right hand and saw bits of the wood under his nails.

Present Day:
Seth stared into space as the meeting began. He had pulled several slivers from his fingers and patched them up before arriving in the throne room. Seth soon snapped out of his trance as Ambassador Louis Perrot was introduced. He quickly bowed and said, “It’s an honor to meet you, Ambassador. I am Seth Rush of the Moon Bloods from the world called Elysia” Once introductions were done Louis began to speak to the group and was willing to aid their rescue of the Princess of heart known as Adelle Le Agathe.

“You have my word as a Moon Blood Ambassador. I will protect Adelle Le Agathe with my life,” Seth said as he bowed again. Seth’s ears suddenly perked up when Zarxe spoke and summoned his hounds. He didn’t like the scent of them and didn’t like the fact he couldn’t smell them while he was here. However, Seth still bowed and said, “It’s an honor to meet you Zarxe.”



When Ambassador Louis Perrot was introduced Alex simply waved and said, “Sup.” He really didn’t care about what title this guy had. He was interested in the information he had. While Louis Perrot was speaking Alex took out an electric cigarette and snapped the tip off. He placed it between his lips and inhaled before exhaling white smoke. He watched the hologram of Adelle Le Agathe appeared and he chuckled a little, “Your hologram drives needs a little more work. It’s not exactly crystal clear, but as long as we get the jest of what the princess looks like. We should be fine.”

Alex continued to listen as they described the ship and how Zarxe basically saw through their deception. He let out another cloud of white smoke before he said, “I agree with Zarxe. Your ship design is simply letting everyone know you’re not someone to fuck with. So why not go in with guns ready to kill? Why are you stunning the enemy? Kill them and get it over with so they’re not coming back to bite us in the ass. Don’t tell me you actually think our enemy might one day join our side. If that’s the case, what delusional world do you live in? We’re not going to fight, see eye to eye, and then sing campfire songs. This is war, you either kill or be killed.”

"Nah, Lilliana has it right." Orpheus said to Alex. "It's apparently really easy to kill someone. Being able to knock a load of people out all at once is much more impressive than that. You wanted to kill them you could just hit them with a rock. If you really want to show off, you show them something like a stun gun. And, just for the record, you'd be surprised how often sworn enemies have spoken fondly of each other throughout human history."

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Orpheus hadn't slept the night before. Not that that was surprising, he never slept. Even if he did normally he would have been too giddy to do so. The word was so big and he had so little time! After eating/giving away the feast he had ordered and getting the rest of that lesson on chemistry he had gone through every book on his bedroom shelf. It was like finding the rosette stone, which was something he knew existed now! While the information provided couldn't possibly be his own worlds history it was still an important resource that contextualize human actions in his own. He'd recognized important historical events that had been referenced in the human media they had been able to recover, the events and ramifications of which they had only been able to speculate. When did Hamlet take place? What was he meaning of the phrase "the die is cast?" Why was there a flag on the moon? These were all questions that had plagued terminal debate since they came into being, and all of them and more he had answered in a single night.

Not that it had taken all night. After he had cleared the bookshelf he'd suck off to hit the town. It was unfortunate that he didn't have any money, and that many places were closed, but most of the places he visited weren't designed to keep out someone that could not one fly but shrink to the size of your average baseball. He took a whirlwind tour of the capital, hitting art galleries, museums, landmarks, even discovered some kind of all night dance hall where a very kind lady had taught him what he assumed was a traditional Byzantine dance. He'd sat and watched the sun rise from the tallest point in the city, stared out at the horizon, and marveled that there was still more out there. It was strange, it was all so much more exiting when you didn't have all the time in creation to explore it all.

He would have to bring Metallica back here. Someday.

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"So, reconciliation isn't something you can dismiss as casually as all that." He finished, jerking a thumb toward the ambassador. "Be careful dismissing stuff, it's how you end up like that guy."

Seriously, "Light-based Learnable Talents?" "'Luminous-based Metahumans?" Orpheus had once met a group of guys that had unearthed an old Latin dictionary and peppered their speech with the stuff because they thought the longer a word was the smarter it sounded. The ambassador reminded him a lot of them. "Monseiur?," he waved his hand to Ambassador Louis to catch his attention before pointing to the swiftly vanishing hunters Zarxe had called in. "What are those called?"

GM Post

The obvious answer from Damianos was, "Yes. We're expecting interference from the Thirteen Seekers. And yes, the diplomatic vessel's armament is a deterrent, though mostly directed to those who would ally themselves with the Seekers and Heartless; that means that present company has nothing to fear. As for orbital bombardment on Stun? It's for securing prisoners and reducing collateral damage on civilians. We like to think of ourselves as Humane, after all."

In response to Orpheus' question, Monsiur Louis Perrot then said, "Oh, Void-based Lifeforms. Scout-type, perhaps? Either way, it's interesting to see a child interested in the mechanics of Science and Reason."

He then looked at Seth. "If you were a lady, your ears and your pelt would make you the most fashionable and beautiful woman in France. I must say, the people who are predjudiced against Faunus in your world are most unreasonable..."

Emperor Michael turned to the Ambassador, "That ought to be enough; either way, the party will then go with you to the ship, where they'd divide into two further groups for ease of coordination. I will leave it up to the smartest members to decide the exact mechanics of the split. The exact point of departure will be in three hours or so; the ship is already loaded with the supplies you will need, and more besides."

@Rai@The 42nd Gecko@Rex@WXer@Double@Gentlemanvaultboy@Drifting Pollen@LordVoldemort

“Orpheus is correct Alex. Many of the battles we Moon bloods were in with other Faunas and even with humanity has been talked about for years around the fire pit. We might have been enemies, but we still respect one another and see them as living beings. Sometimes people of our enemy’s village would visit for the trade of supplies or food,” Seth said to Alex before turning to Louis Perro.

“I understand how you feel Ambassador. However, we Faunas understand why Humanity in our world looks down on us. We were created by humanity to be their slaves. We would be sent into war so Humanity wouldn’t suffer any casualties, we were household pets that washed dishes, watched their children and prepared the meals, and some of us were treated as sex objects to help humanities urges and stress. Faunas over the years rose up and fought back against humanity. They felt since they created us, we should obey their every word. I can see why some people looking in would side with either the Faunas or even humanity. We Moon Bloods simply wish to live in peace whether that is within humanities walled cities or out in the wilderness,” Seth said to Louis Perro before he cocked his head and asked, “Fashion? Is that something from your world?”

Alex looked at both Orpheus and Seth in utter shock before he said, “Really? What’s the point of being friendly with your enemies? They’re trying to kill you on the battlefield, so why would you.” he sighed and cut himself off before he added, “Never mind, I really don’t want to know how you can be buddy, buddy with people trying to kill you.”

Alex listened to everyone before the Emperor finished by letting them know the ship would be ready with all sorts of supplies. Alex figured now was the time to let them know about a secret part of his zoo. He cleared his throat and said, “Well before we set out I wanted to let you all in on a part of my Zoo I haven’t told you about. I’ve kept this a secret for a while since I figured our enemies would have information on all of us.” Alex lifted his arm with his watch on his wrist. A hologram of a few images appeared above the clock face. He swiped threw a few of the images before he tapped on one. His clock face glowed before a thumb-sized capsule appeared floating above the watch. Unlike the other capsules that were silver, this capsule was pitch black and glinting in the light. On the side of the capsule had the world Imp on the side written in red.

“When the heartless attacked my word, I decided to try and make robotic copies. However, Science couldn’t make any robotic copies do the same things the heartless can do. However, creating these copies was tedious and I was only able to create four robotic heartless. This is one of them,” Alex explained before he let the capsule drop. It hit the floor and bounced before the capsule liquefied and started to take shape. In a few seconds, standing in front of Alex was a Heartless, but more notably it was a standard shadow type of heartless. Its pitch black metal glinted in the light as it twitched like a standard shadow. As it twitched, the sound of scraping metal emitted from its body. It looked around at everyone as its yellow eyes blinked rapidly.

“It’s a good recreation, but it can’t sink down into the ground like the original. However, that’s where my creativity comes in,” Alex said with a smile. The robotic shadow suddenly stood up straight. Its arms lifted up and its sharp claws grasped its head before it detached from its body. It let its head drop to the floor before it reached into its head and pulled out a chain. As it did its head suddenly sprouted spikes. Alex nodded at the shadow before he looked at everyone and added, “This one’s called an Imp. As you can see it might not be able to sink into the ground, but knows how to use its head. The others I’ve been able to replicate are code name Sumo, Soldier, and Colossus.”

“These might come in hand if we need to invade the Heartless ranks,” Alex said before he added, “Each robotic heartless has a camera in their eyes so we can see what they see.”
@Letter Bee@Gentlemanvaultboy

"I don't get your world, Seth." Orpheus said. "Why would you make more humans to do the jobs humans were already doing? If you want something to obey your every word why even grant it the capacity to imagine something greater? It'd be easy to make something so dumb and complacent it can't even think of rebellion with the sort of technology that probably went into you. Especially since, and this is speaking from personal experience, you can do all those jobs without ever having to think a single thought."

All while speaking he had been walking toward the robotic heartless, bending down to get a closer look at it. He reached down and grasped the head, carefully placing his hands around the spikes, and lifted it up to eye level. "Like this guy." He said, staring into it's beady eyes. "You're a little dumb-dumb, aren't you?" He moved his wrists to make the head nod twice before looking up at Alex. "Some sort of nano-machine cluster, right? You made this yourself? It's like looking at a distant ancestor. I think I might share D.N.A. with him." As if to emphasize the point he held the head with one hand and raised up the other. It dissolved into orbiting cloud of sparkling purple lights before reforming back into a hand. "Hey, you're obviously some kind of genius. You think you could hash together a way to pick up my sensory information too? Five sets of eyes are better than four, right?"
@Rex

"Ooooh... Who I want to be on a team with... The purple boy was really flattering with his question about if I was a princess of heart. But I didn't catch his name and he's probably already introduced himself while I wasn't paying attention. And bringing that up would make me seem rude and inattentive... Seth is really cute with his ears, but judging positively on appearances is probably just as bad as judging negatively on appearances... Or is it? I dunno." Lilliana in the back wibbled and wobbled back and forth as she tried to figure out who she'd be on a team with. Her hand was held close to her lips, probably only will holding her back from biting her nails. "Nnn, and no matter what, I'm gonna be on a team that's all guys probably. How come there are no other magical girls, or eh, even warrior girls here? Surely it's not that I'm the only powerful female that was available? Or, er, are the other powerful females the Princesses of Heart or something?"

It seemed that in her youth (which she's honestly still was in) perhaps Lilliana was the type that didn't usually get picked first for the teams in sport and game. So, it was a slightly more stressful situation than usual for her. Still, if past experience was any indicator of the future, she'd probably bounce back the moment the subject changed.