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life on mars
DIR By: Star Lord
Date: March 28, 2017, 9:46 pm
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A desolate planet marks the location for a medium sized ship
It's dark red paint chipped and burnt from deep space as well as
being shot it grumbles as the bottom side lowers a ramp and a
man in a red coat that hangs near his knees gets off he looks
around and sees nothing but the remnants of a lost civilization
He looks up as rain pours he scoffs and a mask forms around his
head all silver metal with red eyes
Inside the mask a kind of detective mode begins to appear as a
news report begins
"And today marks the 10th anniversary of the humans beging
admitted to the council of species. The first contact war with
the Turians is still very fresh in the minds of some but most
have taken the right step forward. For those that haven't the
human terrorist organization known as cerberus has...
Unfortunately struck on the moon base above earth. Killing all
aboard by cutting off the oxygen su-"
Suddenly the man clicks on his ear piece and the news report is
replaced by
"Dancing with tears in my eyes" by Ultravox
He enters a decrpeit ruin and skeletons litter The area many
with rotten black teeth
Explosive residue is left over indicating a fight eons ago
The man taps his heels together three times to the beat as her
boots activate taking him across a chasm
The claustrophobic area opens up to a much larger graveyard.
Probably a temple of some kind now has the remains of an alien
race if he wasint wearing a mask he knew it'd be hard to take
the stench
As he enters a VI program starts and an alien appears without
turning off the music he snatches the program from the old VR
player
"Payday." He turns and sees his second objective
A red orb suspended in the air in front of a large diamond
artifact as he approaches it twists and turns into weird shapes
as if to communicate
He snatches the orb and all the lights go out leaving him in
darkness
He opens his palms as two pistols come from his coat resembling
lemat revolvers
He spins the two and shoots at the wall causing it to begin to
crumple he waits patiently as it falls
He walks out and sees several ships by his own and feels the
cold metal of a weapon to the back of his head
"Ahhhhhh. Hey zemo."
An old man with one ear hobbles from behind
"You have the prothean VI."
"Do I? I would have no idea what that is!"
"Give it."
The man chuckles
"You want to threaten the most wanted fugitive in the galaxy?
The man out of time?"
The men all look at each other and back
"Who?"
His helmet retracts as he scoffs his long brown hair reaching
his eyes
"C'mon man.....You know."
"I don't."
"In the one who cut the ear off " he wiggles his left ear lobe
Zemo looks visbily confused
"Star.....star Lord man."
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: nextgen22
Date: March 28, 2017, 10:12 pm
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"Emergency Alert! Emergency Alert! Oxygen levels low.
Emergency Alert! Emergency A..."
I wake up to the alarms of an odd space station. I walk out of
the Cryogenic pod. It must have defrosted due to the protocol.
As I step out I immediatly feel the lack of oxygen in the air.
I have no clue why i was frozen, all I do know is my gun, mask,
and wristband are locked in a glass crate above me. I break it
open causing another alarm to go off. I doubt anybody was
listening to it by now. I grab my items and put them on or
holster. All i have are a few bomb blasts and a shock bullet.
I'll have to use have to use the wristband for now I guess. I
run down the ship, seeing the mass hysteria near the life pods.
"Damn it."
I hit a button on my face mask and a fresh supply of oxygen
flows through it. That should buy me at least 2 hours if I
conserve it correctly. I run back toward what I assume would be
a docking bay. I need a ship now.
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: Star Lord
Date: March 28, 2017, 10:34 pm
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who?"
"Okay are you just being a jerk? You know what nevermind." He
drops the VI
"Take it."
Zemo slowly reaches down as one of star Lord's guns pops into
his hand
He smashed the butt of his gun into what remained of his ear as
he shot the the two guards he slides to nearby cover and press a
button on his wrist
His shop roars to life as a machine gun shoots from the top of
the ship blowing up the others
Using that as cover star Lord flys and lands in the ship via the
ramp as it starts to fly off he sees zemo clawing on the ramp as
it goes up
Star Lord waves as it continues to go up causing zemo to be
forced to let go
Star Lord slumps into the captains chair
He looks around and sees dust covering all the furniture in the
old alliance ship
He moves old "guardians of the galaxy" comics from the
dashboard as he calls the shadow broker
"One weird glowy orb for you."
The heavily modified voice answers back
"Good. The payment will be available to you when you give the
orb to my contact in Omega."
"Ah my favorite slum."
"Hold your tongue. I will be in contact when I have another
job."
The comm link goes dead as star Lord kicks in to FTL
Hours pass as he approaches the giant space station near
alliance space
Omega is a hive of scum and villiany the structure standing tall
at over 300 KM tall and holding millions of lives
Star Lord docks and walks into the main area
Cramped hallways with neon lights and corner strores mark the
way to the main attraction
A nightclub named "Afterlife"
He chuckles as he sees the long line to get in
He makes his way past the different alien species as he walks
towards the door
He bumped into a massive Krogan standing over 8 feet tall and
resembling a dinosaur with his mouth and sharp teeth taking up a
third of his face
He sheepishly runs into the club and his VIP pass beeps granting
him access
"Thank God."
He moves to the bar
The club is full of all kinds of mercenaries Marauder's and
murderers
Simulated fire along the walls lights the club and makes
everyone a dark shadow
The main show is the strippers performing a show on the main
stage star Lord pays no mind instead turning his attention to a
quarian at the end of the bar
He was simply enjoying his drink, though the surrounding company
was less than to be desired tonight. An imbecile dressed in fake
N7 armor found his head on his table after half a drink.
Matriarch Aethyta finished stirring his second round after
headbutting a loud mouthed krogan. She always got good tips from
him than her regular customers. Scanning the 'undesirables', his
gaze fell upon the quarian again sitting by herself. She looked
new to Illium, probably on Pilgrimage. Her veil fell around her
shoulders with glimpses of her eyes just showing through her
navy blue helmet. For some reason, he couldn't stop looking at
her. The designs on her veil resembled waves. He noticed how
thin her three fingers were as she put down her drink. Her
fidgets with her hands were a telltale sign she was either lost
or uncertain. Body language was always a common thing with
reading quarians.
As he drinks he notices a group of humans approach her obviously
drunk
"Oh this should be good." He says to her
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: nextgen22
Date: March 28, 2017, 10:45 pm
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As I run back past the room I was in, I see an odd Orange and
white symbol above the doorway. It reminds me of something but
I can't recall what. I unfortunatly can't dwell on it too much,
as I now only have 1 hour and 45 minutes worth of air. The dead
start to pile up as I finally reach the docking bay. I see one
beat up ship left. It will have to do. I jump in and take off.
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: Star Lord
Date: March 28, 2017, 10:53 pm
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"should I charge for you staring?" The matriarch chuckles
"Oh ha. Ha. She looks lost."
"She's on pilgrimage."
Star Lord looks back
You look lost, kid. You need to phone home? Hahaha."
The sheer amount of alcohol could not mask the batarian's
stench.
"Forgive my friend. If you want you are welcomed to come with
me. I have food you can suck on…among other things."
The turian brushed his talons across the quarian, only for her
to smack them away.
"Just back off. I'm not that kind of girl."
Unfazed, the pair encroached closer cutting off her path to
escape.
"Maybe you are and you just don't know it. You probably never
been out of your suit."
Every step the turian made, the quarian took another back.
"I bet she looks stunning, isn't that right?"
"If you-"
The batarian pushed her against the wall.
"Or what? There is no love for suit rats here."
"And you got no friends. But I can be a friend to you..."
The turian was so close his breath hazed the quarian's mask.
Pinning her to the wall, he secretly drew his pistol and slid it
just under her breast as his talon fiendishly felt her up. She
panted in terror, but every time she breathed the muzzle pushed
deeper. He pressed his fringe against her helmet as his
mandibles twitched on her glass.
"…you wouldn't want me as an enemy."
"I think you better let her go"
Both turned to starlord walking down the stairs of the bar.His
long frock coat made him as shapeless as a shadow, but his brown
eyes were as sharp as a hawk. His presence seemed to dominate
them when he planted himself.
"Well look at this. A human standing up for a quarian."
The turian's gun fell from the girl and hung ready in his
talons. The girl watched as human didn't even flinch from the
imminent danger. The batarian staggered his way towards star
Lord.
"Makes sense. Just as much as an annoyance. Like bugs that need
to be squashed."
The batarian's visible drunken reach to his sidearm didn't bode
well with star lord. Two shots of thunder send the batarian's
gun to the floor and the turian's gun, he attempted to aim, into
the air. The quarian stared at star lord poised with a custom
long barrel pistol in each hand. A faint amount of smoke
trickled from its barrels.
The turian grabbed his friend and they hastily pushed their way
out. Star lord reverse holstered his weapons into low-slung gun
leather and walked past the girl.
"Pardon me, Ma'am". He slams a package on the bar and nods to
the matriarch as she hands him a credit chit
She didn't even get a chance to respond as star lord walked out.
Star lord strode back to the docking bays. He couldn't help but
notice being conspicuously followed by the quarian.
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: Shauna
Date: March 28, 2017, 10:56 pm
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"Excuse me. Sir? Sir!"
He stops in his tracts as he turns.
"Look I…Thank you. I…no one has ever stood up for me…ever. Let
alone a stranger".
She looks at him waiting for some kind of reaction
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: nextgen22
Date: March 28, 2017, 11:10 pm
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I blast off the moon base toward Earth. I try and remember
anything before waking up. It slowly starts coming back. The
war with some alien race... Turians. A special group was
recalled and I was put into it as a defensive front line. They
had a lot of weird personalities. There was a soldier, an ape,
and a music artist. There were hundreds of others but thats all
I can recall right now. The group used the symbol I saw
earlier. The orange and white circle.
I sit down on the ships only chair and hit the button or my
wrist band. A circular shield made of hardlight forms infront
of my wrist with the same orange and white symbol on it. I
quickly loom up to make sure the ship is headed toward earth and
then it hits me. Overwatch.
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: Star Lord
Date: March 28, 2017, 11:13 pm
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"You were asking for trouble around that bar. The docks aren't
going to be that much better."
Star lord stood with his back toward her. That stubborn sense of
nobility.
"Are you staying at a turian shelter? Do you have a place to
stay?"
The quarian couldn't come up with an answer. Star lord already
knew as he turned to face her.
"Look…you are welcome to stay a night in my ship. It isn't the
best, but I think you've had enough of a rough night."
He barely saw her eyes light up through her blue helmet and
hands stopped fidgeting.
They made it to the ship. Landed and dry docked, it resembled a
museum piece in desperate need of restoration. The scratches and
marks on the hull showed signs of neglect and the need for a
paint job. Parts were welded and wires lay outside the ship.
While it looked structurally sound, it clearly wasn't leaving
the ground. Retrofits may be a pain in the ass, but they keep an
old boat moving. It reflected his outdated nature. He preferred
the term "old fashioned".
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: Shauna
Date: March 28, 2017, 11:16 pm
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The quarian was marveled by its presence. She had never seen an
old human ship, let alone one with such a unique history dating
back to the First Contact War. Its state bore a similar
resemblance to the Migrant Fleet's vast array of aged vessels.
One notable advantage to the fleet's ships was their guns
weren't dented and bent. The barrels from the nose, hull and
rear were mangled beyond use. Aboard, Star Lord was just as
silent as before. The quarian continued looking at the amount of
upgrades and modifications installed. Most were visible from the
exposed panels and loose wiring that he tripped over.
"How…what have you done to this ship? This is an old Electra
right? Did-"
"You eat?"
His question was as mechanical as he put his coat into one of
four lockers. One of them was locked.
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Re: life on mars
DIR By: nextgen22
Date: March 28, 2017, 11:29 pm
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I take my mask off breathing in the air created by the ship.
"Overwatch... We fought in that war with those aliens... We even
had the help of Omnics and Talon. Everyone was either scared or
angry. The Turians gave us the join or die option. I guess I
got captured in the war. I can't remember the end. I hope I
was the only one held at the moon... And I'm talking to myself."
I holster my gun as the ship starts approaching Earth.
"If I'm lucky, no one will notice my landing. I'll try and find
the other members and try to piece together what is happening."
The ship starts entering earths atmosphere.
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