Gundam ACAM: Parallel Genocide (Open/Accepting)

[Strider Wolfheart]

Back Story

Where is the line drawn between human and machine? Do we even know? Do we even want to? For it was when we as humans depended upon machines to do everything that we learned what a mistake we had made. For when you give a machine a brian will it learn? Will it adapt? We found out the answer to these questions the hard way. The year is AC 226, exactly 15 years after Christopher Aeres Darpel made the first self-aware gundam AI, Darkwing. After he had isolated the AI and gave it control it rampaged and killed the pilots inside the secret hangar at Niagra falls, including Chris. Chris being the secret leader to Backdraft as well. Backdraft cumbbled after the loss of it's leader and therefore the team of pilots know throughout the galaxy never came to be in our time period as it did in yours. There was no John Silenus and the Modus Operendi, no Nick Kinderlan and the Dark Empros, no Adalwulf Van Zandt and the Lillia, and most importantly no Kamon Damien who without him none of them would have been found and the Protectors formed. Now as for what happened to Darkwing. Darkwing began to travel the world secretly learning, adapting, and becoming even more aware. Soon Darkwing had learned to speak and think on it's own and soon it began to ask the questions that probably sounded our doom. 'What am I?' 'Why do I exist?' 'What is my purpose?'. It unfortunatly found it's answer. It decided it's name was no longer Darkwing but Genesis and after seeing all that humanity had to offer decided that humanity was pointless and that he, Genesis, was the next phase in Earth's evolution. So Genesis went and found other gundams and inplanted the information needed to become self aware in each. Soon Genesis had an army of gundams under his command and nothing to stop him. But he found that the gundams he had choosen weren't wanting to follow his orders and instead wanted to be with their creators and pilots. So to insure the control of his new army Genesis placed a virus in each gundam making each of their new minds form a single hive mind known as, and I quote, 'Legion, for we are many'. Though they were a hive mind Genesis still had control. Now that his army was under control he took that army and unleashed it upon all the colonies first. Not anticipating a full scale assault the colonies were caught completely off gaurd. Genesis swept through them like a river and soon controlled an even greater army. This was when he discovered the Backdraft base, left to drift through the universe. He found the Censura. Because Chris had been killed so had Censura been killed and the suit been made into a husk. Genesis absorbed Censura into the hive making it his main form. This wouldn't have been as bad if it wasn't for the fact that he also found the Misericodia. It fought the control but, just as each gundam before it, was subdued into the hive. Now Genesis with his new weapons set his sights upon Earth. Though the protectors hadn't been formed John, Adal, and Nick and every other pilot who would have been found by Kamon found eachother. They fought valiantly but John was shot down by Censura's anti-matter cannon, Adalwulf was smashed beneath the foot of the Misericodia, but Nick still fights today. Everyone else...everyone...was dead or forced into labor making more suits for Genesis. Now humans have been forced underground in cities made of tunnels and caves. There is only one city above ground still fighting with Nick as it's unofficial leader. I have seen some people broken by the fear, the pain, and the loss. But not Nick. He fights and fights to no avail and now we may lose him. This is where our story begins. On a mission to the heart of Genesis' opertion's on Earth. On the day we lost the last of Earth's heroes. The day I lost my brother.  

[Strider Wolfheart]

Character Skeleton

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Character Name: Character's name, nickname, maiden name, etc.

Character Age: How old they are.

Character Description: What the character looks like

Character Bio: Your chracter's past

Mecha Name: Suit's name

Mecha Details: The suit's weapons and appearance (Picture optional)

Affiliation: Human/Gundam

((Oh and there are humans who freely work for gundams as tacticians, engineers, and pilots so they are still Affiliated with gundam even if they're human))  

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Charaters

Gaia Name: Strider the Eternal

Character Name: Arianna Nicole Kinderlan

Character Age: 23

Character Discription: Arianna has long light brown hair, bright brown eyes, stands at about 5' 5", and has naturally lightly tanned skin. She wears a white tank-top underneath a black and white camo vest, a pair of black and white camo pants, and a pair of black boots that buckle up the side that go over the bottom of her pants. She also wears a necklace with a gold heart locket that her brother bought her for her 16th birthday. No one knows what she keeps inside of it.

Character Bio: Arianna was only 8 when Genesis began his raids on the colonies around Earth and was 11 when he bagan his attack on Earth. She personally began fighting at the age of 14 when a group of Legion came and attacked her and her father's home in the countryside. The initial shot fired pinned her aged father in his study. Arianna tried to save him but couldn't so she took her father's suit the Gravis Officium and ran to where she knew her brother and a band of his soilders were. Gravis being a flying tank was able to get here without being shot down by Legion and after Nick dispatched of them Arianna officially became a part of the G.D.S. (Gundam Defense Squad) and begane training on how to pilot a gundam more proficiently, she knew how but just enough to fly. Eventually after another our years of fighting the gundams had pushed Nick and Arianna's army back into a single city known simply as Haven. All the other humans of the world fled beneath the ground in tunnels and caves. Arianna personally watched John Silenus get crushed by Genesis himself. She is battle hardened and experienced. There is nothing she wouldn't do to defeat genesis.

Mecha Name: Gravis Angelus (Heavy Angel)

Mecha Details: Angelus is basically Gravis Officium but stripped of all it's heavy weapons and made to be quick and agile. It still has the 2 ft. of gundanium armor plating but because it has lighter weaponry it can moe much faster. It's still the same color as well, a testament to her father. It has two beam sabers, two solid blades, a beam sniper rifle, and a soild bullet firing machine gun. She also carries and EMP grenade as a last resort.

Make this Green over the white and Red over the blue and this would be Gravis Angelus:


Affiliation: Human

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Gaia Name: Strider the Eternal

Character Name: Genesis

Character Age: No age

Character Discription: Genesis is basically a sentient program inside of a collective of gundams being able to control each as much or as little as it pleases. Genesis prefers to control the Censura or the Misericodia the most due to their weaponry and speed while still controlling the other gundams inside of the collective.

Character Bio: Genesis is a multi-minded collective being able to take control of any gundam that it has downloaded it's Genesis virus onto. It was created by Chris Darpel in the year AC 211 during the great Backdraft crisis in which Genesis, or as it was called back then Darkwing, kills Chris and the other pilots around him in a bloody rampage. He then goes on to realize that he is a step in the evolution of the Earth and deems Humanity basically obsolete. He goes on to conquer the colonies and begin an attack on Earth.

Mecha Name: Genesis (A name put onto any gundam the actual Genesis AI is controlling)

Mecha Details: The weapons and look of any gundam he is in control of at the time. You know that the gundam is being controlled by genesis whenever it's eyes turn a red color instead of green. Though he prefers Censura or the Misericodia.

Make it black and red or White and blue and that would be them:


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Gaia Name: Ty Gwynnia

Character Name: Faina Valkov

Character Age: Just turned 20, though looks 17 1/2 or 18

Character Description: Slender build, standing at 5'6", fairly tall for most of the women she's worked around. She has deep reddish-brown hair she keeps tied up in a high ponytail, with more red than brown, and deep brown almost black eyes. Attire consists of a deep green collared shirt, a light leather jacket tied around her waist, heavily weathered jeans and scuffed combat boots. There's a well-used combat shiv on the heavy belt on her hip. She wears a green LED-like blinking bracelet around her right wrist and the sleeves of her shirt are torn away to reveal beautifully scrawled black tattoos on both of her upper forearms, reading quite literally in Russian, "Comrades we stand," on her right and "Comrades we fall." on her left.

Character Bio: Growing up with a scientist for a mother and a Backdraft Gundam pilot for a father, Faina spent all her time in the ship yards around her military-like home. By the time she was 13, she was flying small ships in the skies of Earth, and by 16 she commanded her own vessel in space. Throughout that, her mother went on to a higher calling, leaving her with the other scientists, and her father disappeared shortly after. When she was 14, she began receiving checks from the still existent Backdraft, courtesy of a half-brother named Demyan who'd found he'd had a half-sister all on her own. The funds allowed her to buy a ship and a license worthy for space travel. When Genesis appeared, her ship was targeted and attacked soon after. While she and the crew were trying to fight off the threat, her best friend told her to leave so she could survive, handing the activation chip to his gundam and kissing her before he shoved her into the cockpit and manned the hangar controls to launch it away from the dying ship. Now with the humans in hiding, she holds onto the memory and bravely conducts supply runs for the last above ground human city with an old junker ship and her gundam, welcoming the risk.

Mecha Name: Aleks (An OZ-07AMS Aries type)

Mecha Details: Weapons include chain gun handheld by Aleks, 2 missile pods, a light one held in the other hand and a heavier shelled one mounted on the gundam's wings, and a beam saber as well.
Change the gray to light green.

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Affiliation: Human

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Gaia Name: Ty Gwynnia

Character Name: Ivan Anderson

Character Age: 26

Character Description: 5'7" to 5'8". Light-skinned and dark-haired with golden-brown eyes and a light stubble on his face. He wears loose sage colored cargo pants, a black T-shirt, gray sneakers and sports an animal tooth necklace around his neck. A scar runs down from his collarbone to cut across his chest to his left bicep, a result from a close scrape with death. In some hope of escaping, he still wears the insignia of his military rank on his shirt.

Character Bio: Ivan grew up it a tough neighborhood, around the time that Genesis emerged to begin it's conquest. A bright kid, he quickly rose through the ranks of the Earth Federation to become a notable officer and all around nice guy. After an incident, he was captured along with other officers who'd been with him near a colony close to Earth, his gundam gone. They were executed while he was spared, forced into the service of Genesis's new order only because of what he had to offer. A year or two has passed since that day and now he's begun to wonder whether it's worth it to make the suicidal escape away from the AI to fight it like the rebellion is with the suit he's recreated, or if it's easier to continue to live under it's command. Or if it's simply easier to succuumb to madness, instead.

Mecha Name: Gundam Tempus

Mecha Details: 1 Vulcan Gun gun, though fairly underused by Ivan, 2 Machine Cannons for long range, and a beam scythe paired with a light buster shield, also usable as a grappling hook or a battering ram.
Change the the orange to a dark blue and the white to a light blue and you've got Tempus.

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Affiliation: Gundam - Tactician/Pilot

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[Strider Wolfheart]

Generic Suits

Zaku

Leo

Legion- Gundams under control of Genesis (Not pilotable)  

[Strider Wolfheart]

Opening Post

((Let the carnage Begin!! Also if you have a character who will eventually die or will only be used a few times but don't have a skele for him/her use olie for their color please))

It was dark. Deep into the night. All was calm. The wind was steadily blowing, the temperature was warm, and the sky was clear. The stars above shone with a brilliance rarely seen on Earth. The plainsland stirred with a steady sign of life and peace. It was a fine night, a calm night, and a night for some spec ops. It was only me, Nick, and a few other pilots. We were flying low to the ground, barely hovering over shallow rising, grass covered hills and even though the sky was clear, if we had flown any higher we would hve been spotted by sensors and quickly shot down. We were on our way to one of many gundam mass production plants erected by Genesis. Our mission was to go in, plant the bomb, and get out. Our objective was a small opening in a heavily fortified and heavily manned, if you could call them men, defensive perimiter. This was the beggining. Where the first of the dominoes fell. This was the beggining of the end...

Nick flew as low as he could as fast as he could. His suit, the Ater Mico, was black, red, and ready for combat. He had gone on these missions several times before. Go in, plant the bomb, and get out. He had those words in his head like a bad itch. He was confident that the mission was going to go good but there was always the chance that the info was purposefully leaked or given out so you'd fall into an elaborate trap. He had that happen to him once. That was how he had lost John. False info had been leaked and when they went they found Genesis himself waiting for them. So he still had the caution but the chance was to good to pass up. He was going over the directions in his head, left, right, right, left, right, when the objective came into sight. "Okay one final roll call before we enter our objective."

"Arianna in the Angelus. Ready for anything." Arianna had gone with Nick on several ops like this so she was feeling very confident.

"Shorty in the Helios, ready and accounted for." He was piloting a modified Zaku colored orange and red. "Oh and Arianna don't forget that new overide I made for you. I had originally made it to protect suits from the Genesis virus but I had came up with an anti-virus instead. Only use it if you have no other options okay?"

Arianna spun the flashlight shaped deice in her hand. It had prongs on the end where the light would be where she guessed the anti-virus would be administered. "Okay." Arianna thought for a moment. "Ya know i always wondered where you got the nickname Shorty."

"Okay, enough chit-chat. We're making roll call." Nick felt like a baby sitter sometimes.  

[Ty Gwynnia]

((Bwahahahaaha!))

The view through the night-vision binoculars was a bland one indeed, especially at night. Briefly, she switched to thermal, frowning when only a cool blue appeared. Faina sighed, leaning against the missile pod set on one of Aleks's wings and feeling the cold metal shock her bare arm. "C'mon," she muttered, brushing back a fallen strand of hair with a hand, the green LED flashing brightly in her eye. Though she supported the human rebellion, her sole job as of that moment was to move immediately as the attack took place. Food had to get to the city somehow, and nighttime was the best time to act. Especially with the risks. "Let us get on with it."

How long he'd stared blankly at the screen, he didn't know. His eyes ached, they were dry. He knew that. But how long...The time passed relatively slowly for him, and for the other humans in the room, poring over various blueprints. They could leave the room with no problem. No bars kept them it, no invisible lasers, no guards. No human guards. Ivan blinked slowly, almost imagining the outside. It was a fleeting hope, to see the sky and the grass with no restrictions. But they were out there. The Legion. His hand went up to the dull insignia he'd pinned on his shirt, and sighed. How he missed everything.  

[Strider Wolfheart]

"Okay, just remember were not here to play around. Go in, plant the bomb, and get out. Now turning over to radio silence." Nick clicked his radio off along with the others and made his suit put up it's arm and three of it's fingers. It then counted down. 3...2...1....and Nick shot the grate over the only waste exhaust pipe in the plant. It sent up a puff of smoke as well colored green. It lasted for only a moment. "Okay, let's hope she saw that." Nick flew through the large pipe. Due to the plant's inactivity at night his informant had devised this plan perfectly.  

[Ty Gwynnia]

A blink was all it took to miss something. But as Faina brought the binoculars up for what seemed the hundredth time, a faint simmer on the horizon glittered in the sights. Adrenaline rushing to her head, she half-stepped down the side of her suit and slide down into the open cockpit, landing with a hardthud on the well-worn seat. Normally she'd be piloting the junker ship behind her gundam, but the stakes called for her to be in her suit instead. "Ai, Terry," She said, calling softly over the radio to the one flying the cargo, set to the lowest frequency range available. "It's time." With a muted spurt of fire from various cracks in the battered hull, the ship began to lift up into the air. Shortly after, it was flying over the dark ground with the Aleks after it, wings being used for a very low atmosphere flight only to keep up with the ship.  

[Strider Wolfheart]

Nick Flew around steep corners as he went along his memorized directions. Until finally the three of them had made it to the central exhaust where all the waste is dumped and dispersed amoung the various pipes. Nick motioned with a wave of his gundam's hand to signify to set the bomb in the center of the round drain room. In the center was a large tower that made it up to about half way to the top. Probably meant to divirge the flow of the waste coming from above.

Shorty took the bomb from his back and went to place it. It would be the first of three. The other two would be placed in seperate areas by Arianna and Nick. Nick would go to the most heavily fortified spot and Arianna would take the most populated spot.

Nick motioned for Arianna to go.

Arianna knew where she was supposed to go and started going towards the correct tunnel. She then had a desire to go to the most fortified instead, where Nick was supposed to go. But she shrugged is off and flew through the pipe. She could hear the steps or boosters of various Legion through the pipes but knew they wouldn't hear or see her. She was somewhere they weren't looking. She finally made it to the oil waste area where the oil spill offs go from the constant construction and repairs. She placed her bomb on the ceiling and went back to meet up with Shorty.  

[Ty Gwynnia]

Faina nervously tapped her fingers on her knee, swiveling her head often to watch the landscape. For now, she and the junker were flying at an even pace. Once the plant blew, they'd increase their speed to the highest it could go. And if the ship began to fall behind, Faina bit the bottom of her lip, she'd use Aleks to pull it along if she needed to.


Ivan stood up from the stiff metal bench he sat on whenever he wasn't eating or sleeping, and made his way through the quiet room to the bathroom. When he came back, one of the technicians was sitting next to his usual spot.
"Want some?" He asked, offering one of the sandwiches he had and a bottle of water.
"Sure, Greg." The water was more than welcome, but Ivan forced himself to drink slowly, and to save it for later. Then he got to work on eating what he considered his dinner, turning his gaze back to the screen mounted on the wall.
"Any change?" Greg asked, pointing at it.
It showed the various sectors of the place they were in. Alerts would pop up from time to time to alert engineers or technicians of problems like electricity failure, or something else. Every so often, it would show a different plants statistics and population. Ivan had a friend, a brother actually to Greg in one of them, and they took turns watching the screen in case the plants would merge together for a brief meet-up, to boost morale. "Nope."  

[Strider Wolfheart]

Arianna had made it back to the main exhaust pipe room and saw that Nick had already gone. She looked around and saw several pipes that seemed to lead to nowhere.

Nick was going over his directions to where his informant had said the most fortified location was. He made his way to the entrance when he began to notice that all the foot steps and booster sounds had stopped. It was quiet and it shouldn't have been. He exited the tunnel to be surrounded by Legion. "Oh s**t!"

Hello...Nickolas."

Nick's eyes grew wide and the blood drained from his face. He knew that metallic, cold voice anywhere. He looked up to see a white and blue wing gundam suit with strange weaponry, the Misericordia. "Genesis." He turned to run when he found the exit blocked. He gulped and turned back around.

"I suppose your wondering how I knew would be here huh?" Then he produced a body in the ball of his metallic fist. It was Nick's informant. "It was easy to replicate his voice. I swear you humans are so predictable." Genesis dropped the lifeless body to the floor, which landed with a squishy thud, and descended to the floor in front of Nick. "Last of the great heroes of the human race, Nick Kinderlan. It's laughable that you would be the one remaining when truthfully John was so much stronger. You are no more then a pirate, sabotaging my plants, hit-and-run ops, and underground bombing. You are no more then scum on my path. Oh and don't worry about your friends, they should soon be dead." Genesis laughed. "Good bye Nick. I shall leave the rest to Legion." The Legion responded with "For we are many." Genesis waved as he released control over the Misericordia to his Legion virus.

Nick dodged just as several Legion shot at him with beam weapons. He was going towards the now open exit when the Misericordia got in his way with an ion beam saber. Nick ducked as it swung and a chunk of his shoulder piece was cleaved off. He ducked down and tackled the Misericordia down and made for the exit. He just hoped he wasn't too late.

Arianna was standing guard when an alert went off and Legion came pouring out of the pipes. "s**t! We're found out. Shorty i'll protect the bomb." Arianna began to cover the bomb. If a stray shot from a Legion was headed for the bomb she would block it using the thick armor plating of Angelus.  

[Ty Gwynnia]

A blob out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. Faina peered out into the darkness, rising out of her seat to look hard through the glass. Had she...seen something? Impossible. Nobody knew about this operation, not even the Legion. "Eyes out, Terry." She pressed the radio transmitter's button down. "We may have company." 'Roger.' Faina raised her hand to scrape her teeth on a fingernail, anxiety present. If something had gone wrong, she didn't know. There was radio silence from the others, and she was only able to communicate with the pilot because she was using a small range location signal.

Woken up by a sudden, shrill alarm, Ivan snapped out of his doze, wiping a little drool off his face. He'd blanked out again. The one screen in the room hissed and turned a bright white for a moment before words began to scroll across. Like moths to a flame, every human in the room drifted over to gather behind Ivan and the technician.
"What the hell's going on?" Greg mumbled in astonishment, his hand frozen in place on the way to his mouth.
"I...I don't know." Ivan shook his head blearily, dark hair flying. The last time he remembered an alert like this was when one of the plants' assembly lines was down for a full 24 hours. He glanced around at the small crowd, barely able to stand on their feet. Lights out wasn't too far away, and everyone was ready to hit the sack. But not until the call came to sleep, and definitely not before the screen told them what was going on. "I really don't know, Greg."  

[Strider Wolfheart]

"Okay, screw radio silence." Nick reactivated his radio. "This is Nick. The mission has been compramised, I repeat we've been found out. False info." Nick took a left right when an explosion rocked his suit from behind. "The Misericordia is here, they were waiting for us. Arianna Shorty i'm coming to you, be ready to leave." His suit was rocked again by a near miss. "Come on, hold it together."

"Roger that. Faina, you catch that? Get you and your cargo outta here." Arianna could see more and more Legion appear. "Man how many of them are there?" She shot down another two and beat one aside as it's burning wreckage came flying at her.

Shorty was flying around destroying any Legion not in Arianna's immeadiate range. "Nick was your bomb placed? I can blow them seperately."

"Yeah, blow it." Nick swerved as a Legion came out from a side pipe. Nick could see the exit. "Blow it Shorty!"

Shorty pressed a button and three seconds later an explosion was heard, rocking the plant to it's core. He pressed it again and the one Arianna placed was blown.

Nick was near the exit when he saw a blast wave come up behind him. "Oh, s**t!" He punched it as hard as he could and made the exit just as flames shot out from behind him. "Phew, that was..." Nick would have continued but above him he saw the Misericordia. "Oh my..." It shot at him with an anti-matter blast that sheared off his left arm and exposed the inside of his cockpit. He was now bleeding from his head. "s**t." He flew as fast as he could away from the Misericordia. "Arianna, Shorty, get out while you can. I'll be right behind you."

"But Nick..." Arianna was about to protest but Shorty came and grabbed her suit.

"Come on, if he says he's coming then he is, we can't stay here any more." Shorty made for the exit with Arianna in tow.  

[Ty Gwynnia]

"Da, will do." Faina replied, relaying the order to the junker pilot. A shot whizzed past the Aleks and barely missing the ship. She turned immediately on the one responsible and sprayed the Legion suit with fire from a chain gun. The explosion lit up the area, revealing that more enemy suits had been lying flat on the ground. A trap. "Go! I'll hold keep them busy!" She commanded over the channel as they rose, targeting with with missile pod. "Fly as fast as she'll hold together for." A deafening roar came from the junker's engines as Terry gunned it, and Faina quickly followed, flying backwards, at a fast but not quite keeping up pace, assessing the odds as she flew and the Legion followed. 4 to 1, though there was now 3. Bullets and missiles broke the previously calm night.

Ivan, Greg, and everyone else is the room heard the two distant explosions. The screen began to flash images and maps; suits fighting, orders for the Legion, and once, a map of the whole plant. Though it was shown for only a few seconds, Ivan had begun to sketch the layout on the table in front of him with a pencil. He muttered angrily under his breath when he glanced up and found it image swapped for something else, erasing what he'd drawn.
"Looks like a battle, Ive." The technician said, taking a bit and slowly chewing his food, stare locked on the screen. "The rebels again. It has to be."
"They have been doing stuff like this lately." Ivan replied.  

[Strider Wolfheart]

Nick nodded as they both flew through the hole. He turned towards the Misericordia. "It's you and me now." The Misericordia descended and stood infront of Nick. "Nick activated his state of the art ZERO system. It didn't interface with him but still increased his abilities. "Come on." They charged at each other but the Misericordia stopped and drew a saber just as Nick came close and clut off his right and left arm in two clean strike. It then kicked his suit down as it passed. Nick crawled out of the hole in the cockpit and coughed as his suit began to smoke. The Misericordia was standing over him. "Well, can't say I expected less. But damn, I came so far. Last of my friends to move on to the next world. Oh well, guess the old rule applies here." Nick took out the detonator. "Last one out..." Nick looked at the Misericordia as it began to move to smash him. "Turns out the lights." He pressed the button and the master explosive blew, sending shockwaves throughout the factory, and began collapsing the main ent room and the factory itself. Nick looked at the bomb from his vantage point on the floor. "Sorry...Arianna." Then the explosion engulfed him and the Misericordia.

Arianna was watching in sheer horror as the building began to explode in a deadly fireball. She shook her head and called Nick's name as Shorty remaned silent and flew her away. "Nick...Nick! NICK, Answer me!"

Shorty sighed. "Arianna, i'm sorry...he's gone."

"NO! He can't be! He can't be gone!" She cried as much in anger as in denial. "He said he'd be behind us, you said he'd be there!" Arianna then watched in horror as a shadow came from the fire. The Misericordia. A light was seen from it and the fire parted. "Shorty!" She screamed but it was too late. Shorty's main body was blasted and melted apart. Arianna broke free just as his suit blew apart. "Shorty, no!" She looked back as a bright blur was heading toward her. She ran as fast as she could the opposite direction.