No Room For Detente

[Anutsaka]

"That is why we will wait for Lady Violet to speak with her."

((OOC: Afterschool maybe.. ill negotiatiate with my parents))

[Rodthingy Maestro-Reborn]

We have to hope for the best

((OOC: okay, gtg anyway))

[Deetric Proudmore]

"Mr. Nadyezhda, the facts remain that the government is in control. If you were then I doubt we would ever even have these talks.

Now, I think that our first condition is reasonable. Your ideas are dangerous, you could cause active rebellion with them, uncontrolled rebellion, riots, anarcy. I know you don't want chaos because you are as put off by Black as we are.

Take your vote if you wish. The second condition is that you disarm all rebel facilities outside of this city. Your rebel operatives must be recalled at once. In exchange, Red Infinity will put it's operative out of your operations."

[Dr. Lenna Simion]

"Polt return vector, track the course, I want to know where that came from!"

"Missile tracked. Launche off shore, large mass deployment platform."

"Carrier? Impossible, no one but Infinity has that kind of arms."

"Negative, lock confermed. USS Missouri, former."

"An old USA battleship. D'amn!"

"Target in motion, moving out of tracking range."

"Ready for counter attack." Simion grabs her phone, pinging the PA system. "Attention all hands, ready for combat. All Hunters gear up!"

In the deepest parts of the LIF base cheers rise. The Hunters are going to war.

"Find out who launched that attack. Then we'll kill them."

Lenna rubs her chin a moment. "We'll need all hands... thaw Number 011. And tell Virgil to get ready for a reunion."

[St Celeste]

Celeste looks at Kith with the tears still falling. She smiles weakly and leans her head on his shoulder.

"I....I am sorry that you are seeing me like this. I am suppose to be strong and never show weakness. But i am afraid the fight with Genovia broke down a wall i had been making for myself for yrs. Kith i have never been truely loved and when i thought i was, he didn't really love me at all. Perhaps one day i will tell you of that time. But that is alright.......I realized that i love you. And in seeing this I know that one day i will lose you too as is i always lose things i love. but it is ok. I just wish to enjoy the time i have with you."

She puts her arms around him and holds him closely. She kisses his neck and up to his cheek leaving off on his lips. She pulls from him and smiles looking into his gorgeous eyes.

"Maybe i should start work soon. Then i will not be a burden on you. I would hate for you to think me a loafer. I am a Palidin afterall. I will not be useless my love."

She wanted to tell him about her past, about her son. Maybe she would sometime but for now she would not bore him with her past.

[Machiavelli]

Mac had grown tired of his prey. He knew that if Raven blew up in Dragonspace all would be ok. But getting he and Dawn away from Raven would have to be done quickly.

"Dawn, would you like to see a trick?"

With that he looks at Raven and lets loose this awesome Shrill. It sounds a bit like those old godzilla movies. It renders all mechanical things frozen and useless for a time being. Such magic, such a power he thought useless until now. He walks up to Raven.

"I know your human parts are still concious so i know you can hear me. Oh don't worry chap. It will wear off. But i am not sure if it will wear off in time for you to fix your internal problem. I do hope you do not leave too bad a mess here when you blow up. Tah Tah."

With that Mac takes Dawn and himself back to Kaschei. He laughs and slaps Kaschei on the back.

"Pet did you see what i did to him. It is the most fun i have had in ages....well except for our time."

[Vandela]

Vandela stood before the Ministry of Terror.

"Time to get to work..."

A twisted grin grew on her face. A twinkle came to her eyes when plotting against Red Infinity. Walking through the front doors seemed like suicide. Suicide was not in her vocabulary. Death turned the other way when it involved her, it seemed. The Mother of Paradox would feed well on this night. She simply walked in, non-chalantly, waiting for resistance to spring up around her.

"Kill me... hurt me... make me bleed..."

[Lady Violet]

In the midst of peace talks with the rebels, a dark horse threat has emmerged: the capitalists.
How did this happen?
We sent spies time and time again to the former United States. Dinari Dollar parties all day and womanizes. It was determined long that he is not a threat to global security.

People rush in and out of the International HQ. We all await new reports about either LIF or this new Capitalist threat.

"Ki-Lin, Auron...go to their California base and tell me what is going on!'

I rush into my office, past two holy men. They seem out of place here in the surge of chaos.

"Mark...your orders are to bring Dinari Dollar here!!"

"Dr. Adrian, get to work on revamping the nuclear weapons program!!"

I finally sit down, exhausted.

[Kaschei]

Kaschei sees a woman standing outside the Ministry of Terror. He does not have any operatives to dispach because of the recent nuclear attack in California. He leaves his office and goes down to greet the intruder.

"Welcome to the Ministry of Terror, our tour guide has the day off, so I will take the liberty of showing you around." He says in a mocking voice.

[Rodthingy Maestro-Reborn]

As we sit in Lady Violet's office, she rushes in, exausted.

my lady, we are a group of people deticated to peace. I will tell you no more then that. But, i can tell you that this disturbance has been felt by us. We wish to help in any way possible. Direct us as you see fit, but that does not meen we still do not oppose Red Ininifty's tiranical rule.

[Lady Violet]

"I..I don't know what to do."

I must not worry about this new threat. We control the world, we are stronger than anyone and anything.

"Whenever it seems that we are close to finally having peace, something like this happens. How can I do my job when I am in a constant state of war against rebels or some other group. It is upsetting that this, the first set of negotiations with the rebels, was punctuated with distaster abroad. My only desire is for someone to convince the rebels to stop fighting for a short while. It also seems that in the United States there is someone determined to inflame a global war. Find this man, and speak to him."

I wipe some sweat from my brow. It has been a long day.

[Rodthingy Maestro-Reborn]

Thank you, my lady. May god be with you in your great time of stress.

I walked out, knowing full well Violet would be upsetted by the remark i made. I turned to my companion and said "Told you we shold have just gone to america!"

I again booted up the current, and we road it to America. It would be a long ride...

[Rodthingy Maestro-Reborn]

I finaly arived in America with the Prince, and now it was time to find the person who caused the problem. I walked into a drug store and used the pay phone to call Dr. Simon, the leader of LIF.


"Hello, i am interested in knowing the location or any info known about the launcher of the nuke."

[Dr. Lenna Simion]

"Target tracking Doctor. Shall we launch?"

"Launch what? We have nothing that could put a dent in an old battleship. The Americans built that thing and if they did one thing well it was build weapons.

Missouri... I remember that one well. I thought it had sunk. Never mind. Counter measures can wait until we have the situation under control. Damage to California Base?"

"Massive. Core Protocal was engaded but there was no reason to. EMP fired the shielded Deep Tech and the blast itself eliminated everything above completely. Personel have been evacuated. Casualies are zero. The base was on skeleton crew. Currently transfured to Toranto Base until reassingment can begin."

"Find out who controls the ship, and how he knew where we were. Keep an eye on the ship but don't make any action until we know what we're dealing with."

"Aye madam."

[Dr. Lenna Simion]

"Doctor, incoming call on the cover line. Traces to a pay phone in.... America? He's asking for you. And he's asking about the launch."

"Track the number, send a Hunter to kill whoever placed it. If they have the cover number and my name then they know too much. Send Peter."