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

[flightybookshrew]

"Mm," Rose made a soft, distracted sound as she checked herself over again, glancing up at Kanaya...and then spotting one of the rainbow drinker's various injuries. Her violet eyes went wide, and she hurried over to the other teen.

"You're hurt. How badly? We need to get you back to the Initiative."

Rose was functionally immortal. No one could really say the same of Kanaya with any certainty.

[speakveryclearly]

"N-n-no we don't," Kanaya deflected quickly. She shook her head for emphasis - she was fine, trolls didn't mind stabs, especially not rainbow drinkers! Except her undeath was written by Andrew Hussie instead of Troll Stephenie Meyer, and her skin was not actually made of diamond, and progressive knives really were a bitch. Rose's safety was much more important. God tier or not, she was human, and soft, and vulnerable. "We need to get you somewhere you won't get hit again! What if that squadron called for backup?"

[flightybookshrew]

"Then the backup will regret answering," there was a dark aura around Rose as she said that, her eyes faintly narrowed, and the wands in her hand seemed to crackle before she caught herself. She had to focus on Kanaya right then.

"And you are hurt, I am fine. Come on."

[speakveryclearly]

"It's just a little backstabbing..." But she knew it wasn't safe to not let Rose have her way. (Jadeblood lady's hamartia. She really had to stop submitting so often.) And maybe she did have a point in that it would be better to acquaint herself with whatever terrible alien medicine the Initiative had in store for her if she was meaningfully hurt later.

"Okay, fine, at least hover a bit so we can get there faster and I can demonstrate how incredibly spry I am right now."

[flightybookshrew]

Rose just frowned at her, even as she floated up a few inches off the ground. Her expression was stern, her arms crossed.

"There is no such thing as a 'little' stabbing, Kanaya," Rose should know, she'd been a lot stabbed before.

"Good. Let's go, I will clear the way." Her wands crackled again as the dark purple aura flickered to life around her body and she started towards the end of the alley. At least it wasn't the black tentacled one.