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

[ The Hold ]

[maddeninghatter]

[ Break is sitting cross-legged on a clinic bed (one of the ones set aside for the recently resurrected). It might not be immediately obvious who he is, as there's a sheet swaddled around him and over his head.

However, there are some super obnoxious straw sucking noises emanating from this Break-shaped object. ]

[nobleminded]

[And Elliot really isn't sure who it is at this point, but the sounds catch his attention. Despite wanting to sneak out of here, he really can't put up with that behavior.]

You realize people are trying to heal here, don't you? You're being disruptive!

[maddeninghatter]

[ A skinny arm shoots out of the improvised blanketfort. ]

Then fetch me another one of these!

[ It's holding the Exsilium version of a juice box. ]

[nobleminded]

Do I look like an orderly?!

[...Wait. That voice. It couldn't be, could it? Elliot takes a step forward and tries to peer into the blanketfort.]

[maddeninghatter]

If you aren't, you should be.

[ It won't be difficult for Elliot to catch a glimpse of who it is underneath the sheet, though his features are scrunched up into a pronounced sulk. ]

'Twould be something useful for you to do.

[nobleminded]

[Yes, he does catch sight of him, which stops him in his tracks. Suddenly he understands why the others have been treating him so awkwardly. It's a bit hard to know how to act.

Not that it's going to stop him, because he hates how everyone tries to dance around him.]

Xerxes Break?! Those soldiers really did get the better of even you...

[It's starting to set in how impossible that fight was now.]

[maddeninghatter]

Don't be ridiculous.

[ He twitches. The blanket falls down, around his shoulders. He'd like to stay curled up in it all day, but he's not going to wallow in front of Elliot, of all people. ]

I simply got bored and went back. Don't care for Paris...

[ He sniffs. ]

Too noisy.

[nobleminded]

CUT THE CRAP! I saw you fall after they shot you! It's not going to help anybody if you pretend it didn't happen!

[maddeninghatter]

You saw me fall?

[ A little pause. ]

Why, I think that you must be mistaken. Perhaps in all the noise and commotion you became a bit... confused.

[nobleminded]

I know what I saw! It was definitely you! Do you really think acting like it didn't happen is going to change anything?!

[maddeninghatter]

[ Suddenly: ]

You think just because you died before, that makes you an authority?

[ His pent-up fury at the Initiative, the United Earth, and himself: it combusts. ]

You're nothing but a stupid, reckless kid! Shut up!