Negotiating Our Convictions

[Simona Weil]

"She only said that her father was killed by the League of the Godless. Then I left with you...I should have asked her more, but she was reluctant to say more...."

I admire the geyser.

"I suppose I could be a parent someday. Of all the anarchists I am the most stable most of the time...except Zinn seems level headed."

[Rodthingy Maestro-Reborn]

"Hmm, league of the Godless, hu? Well, I could ask Keitolinin, he would probably know who hes gonna kill in the future, hes that kinda guy. Maybe, after we get back, we can find her, and ask her some questions.

"I can find anyone in a split second, so that shoudlnt be a problem. I hope that whatever guy you end up marrying, he treats you right. You deserve it.

"I've never met Zinn, probably cause she never walked in on our conversation and trew a grenade at me. Ah, good times."

[Simona Weil]

Suddenly from the geyser jumps a white furry alien, which jumps at Rodthingy and slashes him with its long black claws.

"Oh no Rodthingy!!"

I jump back not sure what to do.

"Leave him alone!!"

[Rodthingy Maestro-Reborn]

The alien slashes me, and tears through me as I fall to the ground. I get back up, but blood begins to drip from my wounds. As anger builds inside me, the alien once again slashes me to the ground. I get back up, this time with my holy daggers in my hand, ready for the alien.

When it charges at me, I slash at it with my right dager, and pushing my left one into one of its eyes. It is stuned for a moment, but then shakes it off and leaps back at me, slashing at me hand, forcing me to drop the daggers.

I draw out my staff, this time to give no mercy. I raise my staff, and my aura begins to glow. I jam the staff into the ground, and it sends a shockwave of pain at the alien. Only stunned, it is now my chance to take it out.

I drop my staff, and concentrate with my mind on seein g the alien, crippled on the ground. Suddnely, I glow brighter, with a holy furry. A golden jewel appears on my head, and shoots out a giant blast at the alien, sending it to the ground, defeated.

I also slum to the ground, in pain. I am bleeding furiously, many slashes in my side and arms. I can feel he aliens poison corsing through my viens.

"Simona, are you ok," I ask, as I fall to the ground, tired and hurt.

[Simona Weil]

"Rodthingy!"

I am not sure what to do. I obviously can not carry him, but he needs help. I try to heal him, but the poison claws of the alien negate my powers. I close my eyes and say a quick prayer to myself, hoping for an answer.

When I open my eyes I see a white tour jeep before me. I flag it down, and a few people get out, and take Rodthingy to the nearest hospital.

I wait in the waiting room while doctors work feverishly to remove the deadly alien poisons. Time passes and I am finally allowed to see him. He is bandaged up, and has stitches all over his body.

I take a seat by his bed and wait for him to awaken.

[Virgil- The Prophet]

Virgil checks the time. He's early. Of course, it's never too early for some fun. Standing at the bus stop, newspaper in hand, opened to the sports page, Virgil glances around.

Downtown Bejing was a busy place in the middle of the day so their was plenty to see. But the only thing he was interested in was the building behind him: The Violet Dedication Hospital.

The medical center was one of several in the city, as a city the size of Bejing needed more than on hospital to care for all it's injuries. According to the plac on the front, this one was dedicated to Violet for all her work for the people. Simply wonderful.

Ah, time to start. Virgil steps back from the crowd, his back touching the wall of the hospital. In an instant his body desolves away into green ooze and slides into the building through the tiniest of cracks, vanishing from the street.

[Mary]

Mary takes a transporter from Sarajevo to Capital City. Then, she beings traveling towards her contact point...

[Rodthingy Maestro-Reborn]

After feinting, I became lost in a swirl of black and white. Suddenly, I was sitting in a court room, in the stand. But, I was the only one in the room, until I saw a glowing figure at the Judge's seat.

He spoke : "Rodthingy, you have not done what I have asked of you. I told you to tell them all, and to take a wife, you have done niether, and have already endangered your life. What do you have to say?"

I looked at the figure, trembling. "Im sorry, I tried. I was going to, when I was atacked, and mauled. I could not have saved myself. It was too fast. And about tis marrage thing, who? I mean..."

He cut me off abruptly. "You need not worry about this, just do your job, it will all come together befor you. Sit up, and open your eyes, Rodthingy, you solution is right around you!"

I look up, and see Simona in a chair, a few feet away from where I am sitting.

"Good luck, Rodthingy, my child. Good luck!"

Then, I wake up, seeing Simona, sitting a few feet away from me in the same chair I had seen her in before. I sigh. It was just an ilusion. My eyes were open, and I saw her, that was all, nothing more. I try to sit up, but I was already doing so. Boy, this is wierd. I can't understand anything.

"Simona, its you. Whats going on? Where am I?"

[Echo]

Echo walks down the street happily smiling boardly. So many people... She didn't know where she was, but that didn't matter. She didn't have her wings shwoing, just two scars on her back where they would be of course the chains on her feet did get a few stares.

Echo stops at a newspaper stand and picks up a papar. It was title, psycho killer on the loose,.

A nurse was found dead today and one of te hosptial's most dangerous missing, Echo Strange. Her file was found covered in the nurse's blood with a knife through it. The murder was comfirmed by police....

Echo drops the paper no long interested. Guess the goverment wasn't quick enough to stop it from spreading in the newspaper. She smiles again walking down the street.

So many people. So many people who were doomed one day. Echo looks at the buildings she walks past. Another Hosptial, was it the same one she was at?...

Echo tilts her head. No, this hosptial looked to be for just injuries. Not a mentle illness hosptial.

[Mary]

Mary arrives at the contact point near her target where she was ordered to meet Dean.

[Tarsky Merstov]

I look at the paper, and throw it back down onto my desk. This Echo person looks interesting, perhaps a threat, perhaps an ally. That remains to be seen, however. For now, I just need to meet her, see which she choses, her death, or her life.

I teleport to the Hospitol where she came from, and follow her trail, passed a newspaper stand. From my knowledge, she was an angel, so I knew what I was looking for. As I continued down the street, passed another hospitol, I saw her.

I quickly walked up to her, and stuck out my hand.

"Echo Strange? Im Tarsky Merstov, Minister of Defense. Its a pleasure to meet you, Ive read so much about you."

[Echo]

Echo smiles at Tarsky. "You already know my name it seems. Nice to meet you i think that's what they say. Why do you want to talk to me? Remember, they say i'm a insane psycho killer path, one of many names."

Echo says tilting her head. She puts her hands on ehr hips, she'll wait to try to show him her view on life. Echo didn't kill every person she met, just most of them.

[Tarsky Merstov]

"Yes, I know you. I came here for one reason, to give you a choice. The choice is between life or death. I can arrest you, here, now, and you may be killed, or imprisoned for life. Or, you can chose life. I will spare you, if you join Red Infinity and work for the government. We can use some one like you, with special talents. There are many people that you could get rid of for us. We would like that, very much."

The best part was that Red Infinity would not have to take the blaim for these killings. They could blame it on her, as a criminal, a sort of undercover deal. That way, RI could eliminate rebels, without getting anyone mad. It woul be perfect.

[Echo]

Echo starts to laugh loudly. "You think you could arrest me? A mere human! I hate goverment. There should be no goverment then every one could do what they want when they want! it would be a free world. Tarsky, what in your right mind gives you any right to even say you'll arrest me maybe kill me?

Do you know or have any clue how many i have killed? Uncountable. I show my view on life to every one becasue i love you all dearly! I don't care what goverment rules now, i will help any one who wants it to be crashed!"

[Satsujin]

A dark laugh eminates from everywhere. Between breaths however, it focuses on one man, Satsujin, now standing behind Tarsky. It was not Satsujin though, but another man, one that looked just as menacing, but was not as out of place as Satsujin. He wore black clothes with a black trenchcoat, and his eyes were no longer black, but light blue-gray.

"If that is the case dear girl, join me. I am forming my own little... Group. Nihilists you might say. I believe you would fit right in. The very idea of it is that you could do whatever you want. No morals. What do you say?"