Other Worlds: V 2.0

[initiates]

Date & Time: May 21st, beginning at 0900.
Location: The Initiative Hold and all throughout Elmer's world
Characters: Anyone participating in the fighting, anyone staying behind.
Summary: Elmer's world is fought for and lost.
Warnings: Violence, death.

They reopen the portal at 0900, May 21st. The first scientist who stepped through was killed within thirty seconds; the rest who followed made it back through to Exsilium, albeit not unscathed. The portal was shut again by a panicked operator, although a second operator knew to keep the coordinates locked.

Within ten minutes, the alert had been sent out. There's no time to wait for the Transports to gather en masse; as soon as they have a sizable enough force to stand a chance at fighting through and clearing their gateway's location, the door is opened again.

Immediately inside the door is a desolate, grim scene. What had previously been the coast of Japan is now scorched earth, blasted sand, and little else. As the first point of contact for this world, it has undoubtedly suffered the worst. Here, the UE didn't stop at governments, financial centers, and capitols — the UE destroyed everything in sight. There are enough UE soldiers remaining in the broken country to give the Transports a difficult battle, although by now the bulk of their forces have moved on.

The Initiative will soon realize the necessity of opening more gateways, just as the UE had done. Transports will be deployed to London, Berlin, Paris, DC Washington, Moscow, Beijing, New York City, Hong Kong, Madrid. Through each of these windows, the destruction is staggering. Buildings are more husks than structures, everything that can burn is alight, and the death toll is off the charts. Blackened bodies seem to line every street, while pieces litter the ground among the rubble. There's no doubt that the UE has no need of the people of this world. They're after resources only, and anything and anyone already here is to be removed.

You can find UE soldiers everywhere. They move in coordinated squadrons of 20, and each of them carries a small arsenal. Even without their incredibly advanced and destructive weaponry, they're fearfully formidable. Each soldier, while still only human, is a genetically perfect clone, further enhanced by technological implants. They're all highly trained in physical combat. Even if you can disarm one of them, don't count on close-range attacks being any easier to handle. They've brought along cannons, small flying craft, and lightweight tanks. Each of these is the top of the line in terms of technology, geared toward destroying as much as it can, as quickly as it can. The United Earth is here to destroy, and they won't stop to wonder why their targets go from being civilians and scrambling, off-guard, comparatively primitive militaries, to trained and powered Transports.

For anyone staying at home, they'll find that any Initiative presence has withdrawn fully to the Hold. All Initiative employees are needed, and most of them in the med bays. The majority of the Initiative focus is on recalling and resurrecting fallen Transports, but attention is still needed for the living-but-wounded. Any Transports who stay in Exsilium and offer their help will have it immediately accepted; they'll be put to work in the medical wings, runnings supplies, or simply set at a machine and told to keep an eye on the numbers: Transport vitals, UE movements, and maps upon maps of changing statistics and colors.

At 1500, the Initiative will recall all Transport soldiers back to Exsilium and seal shut the gateway. The UE numbers are too great, their soldiers too powerful, and Elmer's world is lost.

Comments

open; hong kong

[battlesleep]

[ ooc: still on slowaitus, tags will likely not be swift. ]

[ He cannot heal and he cannot evacuate, but he can kill. He is very good at killing, and that is what he has set himself up to do now, protein bars in his pockets to recharge himself and spare ammunition loaded on. Stealth is the name of the game right now, back up and support. He'd come in with Shepard, and most of the time he is still near here.

Occasionally, though, they are separated or split up to handle different situations. On such occasions, it is most common to find him on a high spot, rifle sighting as he takes shot after shot with careful and precise aim. Sometimes he acts as a frontline fighter, though, biotics and pistol and training coordinating to do what he can to slow the troops down.

This is a losing battle, though, in a way not even the charge on the Collector base was. He can almost taste it in the air. ]

open; hong kong

[pabulously]

[So far, Bolin has learned two things.

One: It is REALLY HARD to run while throwing up slabs of rock to protect you from a hail of bullets.
Two: Trying to avoid killing people by enclosing them in stone prisons doesn't work when they have FREAKING EXPLOSIVES.

He's running as fast as he can through the streets, ducking and weaving and using his earthbending when he can and he was so not prepared for any of this. He's not looking up, so of course he doesn't notice Thane. But, uh, if you could give a guy a hand, that would be great.]

[battlesleep]

[ Well, that's certainly something new. He sights him through his scope first, the earth walls a moment later and he has to pull back to get the full idea of what this boy is doing but a moment later he has slung his rifle over his back and jumped down rubble to a closer location, pistol in hand as he lays down a covering fire in return.

He can get back to sniping in a moment. ]

There is cover to your right.

[pabulously]

WAAAAH! [Taken by surprise, Bolin sends a boulder flying towards Thane before realizing that he's a friend. Better duck quick!]

[battlesleep]

[ That was certainly not what he was expecting. He does in fact duck quickly, throwing a warp into the midst of the soldiers as he does so. ]

Them! [ Not him. [

[pabulously]

SORRY! [Bolin swings to the indicated area of cover and sends boulders flying towards the proper targets.]

[battlesleep]

[ He frowns a little at the apology, turns his attention back to the soldiers. He has few qualms about the age of soldiers, but only when they are well trained and prepared.

This is not well trained and prepared. ] Drive them to the left.

[pabulously]

Got it!

[Bolin throws up a combination of stone walls and boulders to drive the enemy soldiers in the requested direction.]

[battlesleep]

[ He's no longer surprised to find new and fascinating skills among the transports, but this is certainly among the most useful, particularly as he can add his biotics and gunfire to the mix, take the soldiers unawares as he cuts them down.

Just a little more and hopefully this street will be clear. ]