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

B

[of_the_lake]

Pathetic.

[A somber, twisted voice erupted from nothingness. The snipers among the soldiers had discovered that a number of the Transports were vulnerable from a distance. Two such had set their sights on Rose and in the next instant, her frame was encompassed by a black set of armor, its shape twisted and hidden by tendrils of darkness. Though Rose could snipe, this man could tell that any sniper could be counter-sniped.

Berserker stood in front of the two shots, the lasers fired sinking into his armor near uselessly. The man within that jet black and evil looking armor regarded the snipers with hostility, though he hadn't held any weapons in his hands to retaliate. Given his posture though, this didn't seem to matter at all to him.]

Firing on the injured. What a detached sense of strategy.

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose threw herself backwards as the mass of armor appeared before her, bringing one of the thorns up to strike at him but stopping a split second before as she realizes it's not some sudden new UE weapon. It had to be another Transport, stopping...]

[Oh god damn it. She was not going to get out of today without dying again, was she?]

[She stepped out behind him and a bolt of lightning lashed out from her wand, sending the first soldier flying off his roof perch, and a moment later a second bolt lashed out of the sky to fry the second man, who dropped soundlessly to the roof.]

...Thank you.

[of_the_lake]

There is no need to thank me.

[Berserker, turning slowly, regarded Rose with the lifeless look of his helmet. The hissing, smoking scorch marks on his arm didn't cool down at all, though nothing really seemed to affect his posture. Rather, he raised one hand, curling his metal-clad fingers in to gesture to her.]

You need another vantage point.

[flightybookshrew]

Apparently. [She gave his armor a cursory look over, as if reassuring herself that he wasn't actually injured, and then turned her violet eyes away, considering the nearby rooftops.]

How did you get up here so quickly?