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

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[masterofpuppets]

[Dirk spent most of his time in this battle, fighting and running through the chaos looking for his friends to make sure they're okay. He spots Jake ahead and to the right going through the rubble and not paying attention. After a moment of seizing up at the sight of him, he lets out a breath and makes his way over to him to watch his back and to help with whatever he's doing..]

Yo, Jake.

[gunsling]

[ Well at the very least Dirk calling out to him manages to get Jake's attention. A big grin splits across his face, but it doesn't look as genuine and enthusiastic as most of Jake's smiles do. Hard to really be overly happy given the situation. ]

Strider! Glad to see you're still doing well.

[masterofpuppets]

[Dirk nods in greeting, noticing the lack of enthusiasm that is normal for Jake's responses and he definitely understands why.]

You too. Need help?

[gunsling]

[ He does seem to brighten at the offer at least. ]

If you could lend me a hand for a moment or two that'd be dandy! I'm trying to make sure there aren't any people trapped under all this mess.

[masterofpuppets]

[He nods and comes closer to help.]

Sure thing.

[gunsling]

[ Grabbing onto the edge of a particularly large looking piece of concrete. Even with help it's pretty doubtful they'll be able to get it up, but... ]

Just pop around to that other end over there. We'll give it a good heave-ho and it should be out of our way in no time.

[ Yeah, that's unlikely. ]

[masterofpuppets]

[Dirk looks at the massive piece of concrete and then over at Jake and decides to just humor him for a moment. Maybe they'll get lucky.]

"No time" is a bit of a stretch, you should lower your standards.

[gunsling]

[ His expression falls a little here. He's trying hard to stay upbeat here, buddy, don't bring him down! ]

Well, it might take a little more effort than I might have suggested.

[ Staring to try and tug it up though, and... yeah it's definitely not budging on his end. ]