[FFRP] Kidaroc Myths: A Fighting Chance

[AshK]

"Could you please help me stand. That wound hurts."

*Alana struggles to get to a standing position.*

"All I wanted to do was save Rachel when she would never respond back. That's all I wanted to do. I don't know if I will be able to take her back to base with me or not. I want to go back to base. I just don't know if I should go back without Rachel."

[Zoey]

Surge heard Gary's story. He kept his comments for himself while the rest asked questions. He wanted to know his answer to Julians question.

[Brnin8r]

Gary nodded, "That's right. Now I'm pretty sure you think I've stumbled on some sort of cure. While it changed me back from being a girl, the method which was used is not attainable by us. See, my unit crashed in Britain...which, different from our own situation, is a land filled with all the magic you read about in storybooks. A certain warlock, a practitioner of the dark arts, named Morkel trapped mine and another team member's, her name she picked after her transformation was Mika, soul in the crash. He promised Mika's closest friend...the one who I mentioned that put the detcharge on the girl's mechanical monster...that he could teach her a way to find our souls...even though he held them just under his robe. Eventually Morkel, worried of the boy now girl's rage and steady proficiency with magic, allowed my soul to be 'found'. I knew that nothing could be fixed...so I ran away. I met up with another magic-user who, with the help of his magic, transformed me back into myself. With a jury-rigged boat and a little more of the wizard's help...I made it back here." he shrugged and laughed a litte to keep the tears that were standing on his cheek bones from trickling down his face, "After that, I found myself in another world. The boys' betrayal was all covered up, the hybrids had vanished, and the girls were growing more and more relentless in their conquests. I decided to die...to never be seen by anyone again...to watch those blind soldiers fighting against each other for the idea of some prize no one can name...but this last incident is too far for anyone."

***
Sariah huffed, "No. You'll stand on your own if you think you're ready to save Rachel. These creatures are going to turn her into one of them...and then she'll be a freak...you'll never be able to bring her back to the girls."

[muffinstud]

Dan looks up from her corner, a frown marring her face. "So there's hope. We can be normal again." Her frown levels out. "We might even be able to end this."

[Zoey]

Surge seemed to actually seem more troubled instead of releaved. "My lord... what has happened to this world..." he said as he scratched his head.

[Knight Errant]

Julian waits awhile... then shakes his head. "Sorry... I just cant buy that. I have seen plenty of amazing and terrifying things... but thats too much for even me to swallow."

"Magic is... well it just dosent exist."

[Zoey]

"I've heard rumors that whole world has gone mad. Every place is different from the other. If what your saying is true, Gary. Then for all we know it can happen here too. Who knows maybe magical beings will come here and add to the mayhem..." said Surge.

[Brnin8r]

Gary nodded to Julian's accusation, "You're right. It doesn't..." he said with a sombre expression on his face once more, "The boys I fought with, the boys who collapsed in my arms...who defended me from the reapers, who saved me from the boys' council...they, and their names, exist as much to everyone else as magic does to you Julian." he flipped on the radio, his face going from its sombre state to an emotionless, expressionless face. He was drawing himself back in...from those who weren't ready to hear. To Surge's question and Dan's statement, "Yes...the world is tossed to the scientist...for what reason I don't know. And yes, we could end this...but I think we'll keep fighting this way until the world forgets itself and disappears..."

At Surge's idea of invasion he continued, "That's what will happen. Soon, the forces that conquer in the separate nations will seek out to maintain control over broader and broader lands. Dragon's could fly in mounted by spell-wielding sorceror's...knights in mithril armor could take on an entire platoon if it got close enough...It sounds preposterous and impossible...but I've seen at least another part of the world."

[Knight Errant]

Julian puts his hand across his eyes. "This is insane... like we dont have enough to deal with..."

"Though..." His thought proccesses kicking up. "Those if those sorcerrors, dragons, and knights actually exist... and appear to make our lives more miserable... They will find a sniper bullet in the eye greatly inhibits."

He sighs. "Not that this makes any difference. We dont have control over any damn thing... All we can do is just keep going... even without any hope of an end."

"Damn this sucks..."

[AshK]

"I can't let that happen to her! I have to save Rachel! I do not want her to be a freak! I am ready to save Rachel! I'm ready to save my Best Friend!"

Alana stands up with a determined look on her face. The wound doesn't even hurt anymore. Not at all.

"What do I do Sariah-Sama?!"

[Sam]

So you're saying were doomed to die

[Zoey]

"If we don't do something we will...". Surge turned to Gary. "Do the girls, know about this?"

[muffinstud]

Dan is lost in her own little world. She smiles to herself. "No more schisms. I can see my family. I can have a family. I can be me..."

[Brnin8r]

Gary smirked at Julian's rebuttal, "Yes it's true, they would have some difficulty with technology. But the worlds' WILL clash if nothing is done." to Surge's question he shook his head, "No. I'm pretty sure there only a handful of people across the world that no what lies outside their own little scenario."

Gary flipped a dial on the radio that brought a frequency that just sounded like static for the most part, occasionally a faint clicking could be heard in the background and then it would be consumed once again with the white noise, "There's another reason I'm interested in with you guys here. I recently stumbled across this blank frequency and found out that the girls have been using those clicks you hear in the background as a primitive code. It details their newest innovation: a superstrain of their original transformation medium the Zeta ray. With it, under full immersion in the radiation, can render an instant transformation from male to female." he smiled to perhaps contrast with everyone's chagrin, "That's our way in." he laid out a map on the table, on it was a large X in the mountainside in norther Idaho, pictures of a tremendously fortified base surrounded the X, "I did my own recon on the place, and...it's hard...it's tight. There's almost no way of getting in without losing your Y chromosome and being a top rated soldier in their empire. Within the base is their prototype. The machine is not nearly portable for a real battlefield weapon, right now it's more or less a big station itself. It's basically a big cathode-ray tube that's shot with this energy for twenty seconds. If we can get the blueprints, the materials, and a nuclear rod with a sample of the radiation, we could reverse engineer the machine and come up with a way for an opposite version. Our own transformation method." he looked to the other boys to see their thoughts on the idea.

***
Sariah smiled again, "Good job. You're finally looking at what it is you want. But we must prepare you...because you're about to break Rachel out of a hybrids lair...and you saw what they did to an entire platoon of our girls. You'll need to train as much as you can. You need to stop feeling pain...so this is going to hurt for a while." With that, Sariah emptied her clip into Alana's shin again.

[Zoey]

Surge clenched his fist in frustration. The girls once again were developing another way to bring the war to a quicker end. "We have to stop it, no matter what the cost..."