Master-full recovery (Blessed/UG)

Silence fell over the encampment as the Blessed Ones were all gathered by the dream. The amount of responses to this threat were similar to that of humans, yet the coping mechanisms were so different to how they were created to be. The Blessed Ones, ever last one was gathered before the celestial tree and it's glowing waters at the foot of it as they all partook in their own individual practices. Some Exchanged information, others attempted to form small groups that would go out for a rescue mission and try to brave the harsh poison that was known as oxygen. Children asked had happen to the Kaxkain, their teacher, mentor and even their father in a sense. Young men, knights were outraged, some of them going into a fury as they knocked armor racks over and roared, enraged by the news the entire colony had received not long ago.

    The Kaxkain was captured by The Master Race.

    It didn't matter if they liked Tsxero or not, he was their leader. He proved that he was a leader, despite his history and wearing "the brand" he was still the most dedicated and selfless man in the colony, willing to sacrifice even his mate in order to ensure the colony thrived and that they would be safe. He gave up everything he loved, he gave up his freedom to be what the people needed him to be. He subjected himself to a fate he didn't deserve for them. At that moment even those whom hated him realized all that he had done. They realized because without him here to talk to the people, without him there to promise them he would sacrifice his life and limb to control or correct the situation....well...without him there was chaos. Even the brothers of the Kaxkain could do nothing to calm the people, not even the senior Knight would be obeyed as the people began to conspire and formulate their own plans. There was chaos amongst men, and from this chaos seeds of discord were... soon only the fruits of desctruction would be born.

 Something needed done. Now!

  μrsine had a plan, though it was a long shot. He knew that with the information recovered by Alpha, Gamma and Nɇaroviin that the Master seemed to use extraterrestrial animals that seemed to be rivals to the food chain of their physiology. Taking charge, he gathered up as many people as he could and tempted the head of the medical department to work in conjunction with the research and development department to try and invest in finding ways to counter and better understand these beasts. Their research was going to be hinging upon the recovery of the corpses of the previous animals. In order to do this though there was a risk involved, a risk that needed to be taken.

Nɇaroviin, after primitive first-aid attention, was requested to bring back the corpses of the felled animals. This was not in attempts to ensure obedience, rather it was simply so that other animals and decay didn't take effect by time the corpses were retrieved. Once he was successful in the recovery of the bodies, he was finally given the full treatment and given plenty of time to rest. Meanwhile The Huntsman ventured into the real world, suffering from the poison of oxygen and transforming, but yet with his discipline he was able to retain a sense of purpose. In this purpose he sought out the Master's ship to prepare to lead a small assault on it.

 Hɇtallos had his own job. He took it upon himself to select the closest and most noble of his students and quickly graduated them, knowing that their skills would be instrumental in the destruction of this foe. He had them forge their final weapons, the symbol of graduation, and he armed them in the face of triumph. He then took ten of the strongest knights and began to plot out a path for war. He was utilizing the information on the alien anatomy to train them to better combat the threats, and even utilizing the Huntsmans information fo the scouted out areas.

 μrsine had one last trick up his sleeve though. An ally he met a little while ago while navigating the woods. A person he had held up deep in the depths of the medical research areas, where they'd be set up with their own technology in order to keep them privately locked away as long as they wanted, to never be distrubed and to be able to observe. μrsine never wanted to force this person to reveal themselves to the colony...but it was one of them, and μrsine needed their help. The Colony needed their help. If there were ever a time to take a hands on approach to this and win the approval and acceptance of the people...this was it. Punching in the code, μrsine stepped forward through the walls as they seemed to dematerialize and slide off to the side, like watching metal turn to sand and flooding back into the other walls to reveal a threshold.

 "Ʊlphaxtentis...It's me... μrsine X." He called into the dark lab area, knowing full well that within the lab, no mater how deep he was he would hear his voice. "We need your help."

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  While μrsine went to gather the "secret ally" from it's locked away nintendo rape dungeon of science and genetic manfucaturing; Hɇtallos had finally rounded up the final "raiding party". In this group would be a rather large number of people. The ten strongest knights, the three recent graduates, Hɇtallos himself and a plethora of others that were here to help Tsxero by one person or another's request.

 "Raiding check. If you're partof the raiding party, sound off. Clockwise rotation. GO!" Hɇtallos said, his oice like a bark as the soldiers rattled off their names, proper posture liek that of true knights with their armor and their weapons at side. His allies, whomever they my be should be here too... It was time to see whom he had to work with.

So after a very odd conversation with Alpha they went to gather resources to get Tsxero back. Oliver was let in on why he was so important, so at least he knew if people got hurt it was actually for the cause as a whole. Honestly, he didn't think the alien was that intelligent until now. Reluctantly Oliver called Lucius, who decided it was alright for his children to come to this little raid.....some dad that one. Red also brought along Leo, Daniel, and the super advanced and kind of creepy EXO suit that apparently had his AI uploaded into it. Lots of firepower, but this mission required it. Honestly Lucius could have brought more, but it was understandable that the man didn't want to risk his entire following on one mission.

From what he had seen of everyone there, they could perhaps take down that strange being they encountered last time and then get Tsxero back. The large group of metahumans and Alpha's kind would beam themselves to the raid meeting via Lucius' technology, Oliver had to admit the guy had his uses. They also stopped by some random forest before going to the meeting, then let Lucas obliterate it which angered him to the point Lucius could barely restrain him. Upon getting there they saw all the were aliens gathering up.

"Alright, Daniel, keep everyone as mobile as you can. Leo, stand by for the injured, only engage the enemy if you have to. Gamma, i would advise copying as many powers as you can. Hector, Isalia, and Lucas, we're the heavy hitters. Keep enemies off weaker allies, and most of all, just take out whatever you see. We know very little about our opponents, but make sure to remember the characteristics of the three types Gamma and Alpha informed us about." Lucius said, making sure his group had at least a little organization. Oliver was of course going to do what Lucius said, even before he said it, but the fact Lucius made it an order almost made Gamma not want to just out of spite. In a moment one of the were-aliens seemed to gather up the forces, asking names. Lucius just stood there with his group, really he didn't feel like wasting time informing this person of his groups names and powers, he was confident he could command it well enough.

Gamma took Lucius' advise and grabbed Lucas by the shoulder, which gave him the boys powers instantly. He immediately felt the rage set in, he seemed to copy the powers at their current level. Upon seeing this Lucius just sighed, he would have rather had a more level headed Gamma then one filled with superpower fueled rage. With a gesture Gamma was restrained just as Lucas was, they would be released when the time came.

Copy Log:

The time between the attack upon the colony and now had not been too long, however Alpha had done a lot between then and now. The first had been to return to his personal compound to relax from the latest incident and perhaps just to compose himself. Sure, it would have gone much smoother if the creature in the exosuit had no gone about mouthing off his own secrets but then again not as if he could hide the truth forever, with how resourceful Oliver tended to be. They would have found out anyway, so not as if he could have done much about it. Likely Chris would have brought it up at some point, but instead it ended up being some manner of extraterrestrial with a mouth on it. The very memory of the thing talking down to him had been enough to annoy Alpha, but he couldn't let such talk annoy him, it was unfitting of someone of his rank.

Still, the words would roll through his mind just the same and ate away at him ever so sligtly. Enough atleast to have him make a mental note about dealing with the thing should he ever see it again, if that was even possible. It had proven it was superior to them both mentally and with the suit physically, making a confrontation something he would not want to hazard. Still however he would have to do what he could, a useful ally of his was in the hands of these exosuited creatures and so he would have to take them back one way or the other. Likely their people would not sit idly by while he was being held there, so he could use that to his advantage, maybe their superior muscle could be of some use. That was the big maybe atleast, because he had little knowledge when it came to them.

This could have been a simple gathering of forces, and in the end that was all it was. If they were to go out into the void of space, or even on a ship, he doubted that Delta would be of much use to them so he would have to stay behind with the rest. Not that he quite enjoyed that thought but in the end that was what he did. Eta perhaps would come along if only because the likelyhood of them having air on a ship was likely, unless they didn't have any sort of air onboard. That would have made things really awkward for the younger member of their group for many reasons. Ryan wanted to come and Alpha found himself with no choice but letting the, if only because they would whine until he let them come along, and of course Zeta ended up coming along as well. He enjoyed any chance to fight, though maybe that was just his hotblooded nature coming into play. There was of course the whole expectation of him being pyrokinetic but then again maybe that was just his rebellious streak coming into play.

Regardless he had a feeling Lucius would play their part within this as well, which would likely make everything so much easier. One of those parts would be getting him there via a rapid form of teleportation, Alpha arriving along with a few others, Ryan as always staying only a few steps away from Alpha. He looked somewhat jittery but that was to be expected of a shy kid like him venturing out onto a craft full of strangers. Still, it had been Ryan who asked to come along so he would have to get over that small fact. The only small issue Alpha found was a familiar face, or rather one he had not been expecting, sporting a rather familiar suit. What Colin had been doing here he had no clue but either this was some ploy or a painful coincidence.

Hɇtallos listened to the sound off of every were-alien and metahuman who was joining them. Save for Red tide's group and Travis Masters. Be that because they were rude insufferable pricks or because they simply didn't pay attention he was unsure. Hɇtallos may have said something about it at another time, but at this moment they were relying upon these people. They could press their ground and not be compliant...but if any of them cost the mission...they would feel his full wrath in a way that could make Kax cringe. "Listen up. Scouts have found the Master's ship. It's not far from where the Kaxkain was captured." He informed everyone as a small disk was deployed from the backhand of his gauntlet. The small disk began to glow and spin like a little saucer. His eyes, fogged over to white as he looked to mostly translucent blue light that was emitted form the floating disc.

A holographic rendering of the nearby locations was displayed, in the style of a map in a foreign language that Lucius and Alpha likely did not understand. "As we can all see here that the Master's ship is over twenty miles out, not that long of a stretch. It'll be like basic training all over again. Graduates, you'll assume position in the pack, Geμral will bring up the rear, MƩnok will watch the flank. You'll take the trees, move swiftly, we won't wait up for you. If you fall behind you'll assume the scapegoat position. I will lead the veterans at the point. We'll bust through the Master's primary shields in order to grant us access to the ship." He concluded the initial briefing as he looked to his people for their affirmation that they understood. The militants of this group seemed to be well disciplined, even if they looked no older than teenagers. The next holographic image to render was an outline of the ship itself. "The outside is protected by a barrier of some kind. Our swords can intercept and interrupt the barrier, it'll blow a hole in it large enough for us to slip through. Then our "metahuman" and "Homo-sapien superior" allies will infiltrate the base with us. Warriors! We have one hour to succeed in this task. The lab and RnD developed seven masks for us. These masks will allow us one hour of breathing time without pain in the outside world...after that hour you can say goodbye to your sanity." There were outside murmurs and comments, but none of them were doubtful, and none of them were from the knights. The Knights just brought their right arms up and crossed them over their chest.

"Next we're going to review the opposition and what we know of them." μrsine said as he stepped forward, standing there in shorts with his shirt tied around his waist. The three creatures encountered by Gamma, Alpha and the cousins were displayed in a 3-D rendering, mimicking their habits with an uncanny likeness. First was the raptor bird-thing that attacked Tsxero. Next was the Chameleon Raptor, then the centipede monster, followed by the insect with the scythe's for arms. "We've identified this flying animal in the archives of the ancients. It's called a Bahtsxoth. They are natural leaders, the ability to control and influence the minds of other creatures...even our people who aren't strong enough to resist submission. They are territorial and defensive of their packs, or their pack leaders. They have the ability to read minds, and they use it as a form of precog so they can evade your attacks. They are also able to see energy signatures. They show advanced intellect for a creature."

"This creature is called a Zaɇlnos. It's primary ability is the ability to adapt to any kind of offensive force. They are more intelligent than they let on, they act like idiotic drones to lure their prey into a false sense of security. Kill them FAST, the longer they are around us the more immune they are to us. Same goes for our allies. They'll gain immunity to you as well." μrsine moved to the next one in line. He seemed to be cautions of this beast as he approached it's holographic image. He admitted that he didn't know what in the Hell it was and that all they knew was it could survive a nuclear explosion at point blank. The final specimen was delivered, being introduced as a- "Wɸdrax" (Why-ee-oh-drak's) These guys have the ability to deflect any form of indirect energy, even indirect kinetic energy, thus Telekinesis, Geokinesis and all other variants are less effective on it. It can coat itself with a deadly toxin...which we've learned about recently... and they have the ability to stop all the functions of their body for up to five years before needing to move, or eat again....All in all; you punch them before they can get you.... Now, once we're inside there could be EITHER atmosphere, as the Master race has adaptive lungs. So if our allies prove to be more trouble, it may switch the environment. To be safe I suggest there be respiration aides taken."[/color] He said before bowing a little bit and stepping back and vanishing into the crowd behind them.

"Once inside it's the job of myself, Alpha and the one called "Red Tide" will locate Tsxero. Out forces will then mount an all out-assault on the Master, eliminate him and return. Then a scavenging team will be out in order to gather the necessary materials for proper study." The higher ranked knight proclaimed before looking around. This comment made the whispers turn into a small uproar of whispers in a foreign tongue of clicks and human attempts at trills. Eventually one person asked in English:

"W-wait...why? Why do we need this technology? The masters...." The middle aged man looked a little horrified and shaking his head. Hɇtallos looked both saddened and reluctant as he began to sweat with all eyes upon him. He finally had to come clean.

"Because...they won't leave us alone. They won't leave the humans alone...they won't leave our planet alone. Make no mistake...this is the start of an invasion." He proclaimed, people went into quite talks before looking to the others. "Do any of you have any questions, or input to the plans? Once we step out into the world...we're sticking to the plan." He said, giving everyone the chance to speak up.

Lucius' group stood in wait as the plan was went over. He listened to every word more intently then you would think by looking at him, even though most of the information he already knew. Each member of his group was given a small but highly advanced re-breather which would allow them to stay up longer if the environment shifted, because even though most were durable and had regeneration they could only go without air for so long. A map was shown, which Lucius had no idea how to read but then again he didn't really need too. The target was twenty miles away it seemed, so it looked as if they would need to do some more teleporting, that or walk, and that just wouldn't do.

Honestly Lucius didn't care about the politics of this race, but they needed Tsxero and they needed to stop an invasion early if there really was one. Really this was a time where he could put aside his own goals and defend the planet, after all he sort of needed it for the whole living thing. Lucius couldn't help but get irritated at the use of his former name, turned out they had picked up on it. He had honestly tried to stop using that, but then again maybe it didn't matter. Making fun of someones handle was just immature and in the end pointless.

Lucius was slightly concerned about the reflective creatures, because let's face it his entire team was based around an energy power of some kind. The only one suited to take them out was Hector, so he would be the one directed at them. Lucius needed certain people to target certain creatures to take them down, so he would likely oversee his group as more of a commander for the beginning stages of the fight. From what Gamma told him of this 'masters' power level, they were in for the fight of their lives. But Lucius knew what he was doing, and if all went well this mission would be open and shut.  

For a moment Lucius felt he should add something, but he was confident in his own tactics enough to not. Honestly it would just cause confusion, and that was not something that was needed. He would wait for everyone to get moving, then have Daniel teleport them wherever necessary. Though, he would obviously wait for everyone, there was no point in going ahead of the pack.

Alpha took a mental note of the people arrayed to help with the rescue, most of them being members of the little race that Tsxero ruled over. For one reason or another Ryan wanted to come, so more than anything Alpha decided to actually let him come along rather than let them go into one of his tantrums. The lab still hadn't quite recovered from the last one, at least not yet. Why Colin was here he had no clue but then again that was just how things were really. He may have known the were-aliens, which explained why he was here, unless of course they were brain washing him anyway. It was a possibility but it was also just the paranoid thoughts of an Alpha. With all of the thinking done, he would probably need to actually pay attention to what the knight was saying, which seemed to be pretty important.

Considering it was how they would rescue this Kaxkain anyway, and Ryan seemed to be paying attention towards what he was saying, with eyes wide and curious. More than anything, he would find the reflector aliens annoying,  considering their ability to annoy those inclined towards energy based powers….like his entire race. This whole immunity thing was annoying, but everything had a weakness, and he had a feeling bringing Gamma along was perhaps the best thing with that. A rapidly adapting offense in theory would have been useful in dealing with the thing. They would be supplied with rebreathers should these masters decide to be annoying, meaning that likely they would have full control of the atmosphere within the ship. Running into danger like that did not seem like the smartest thing to do, but then again it would prove advantageous to save Tsxero in the long run. That alone could have been reason enough why he was doing this.

Him and Lucius would be doing the Tsxero rescuing, granted it did not allow him to deal with this master but then again it was not meant to be. Why they needed to deal with the masters made sense, it appeared they would not leave the humans, nor them alone so long as they were not dealt with. So much annoyance, perhaps too much for one person to take but then again things were as they were. The plan itself sounded good, Alpha knew nothing about these masters so it was better to leave it to the experts on the matter, rather than making himself look like a fool. Apparantly someone from the crowd sort of pushed themselves into the team going on the said mission. They looked sort of tall, muscular and blondish. ”Scuse me.” he said sort of nudging himself into position. ”Oh yeah...i'm inputing myself into this plan.”

"Yeah, you're staying at base. 'Cuz you can't go out and take on a Master." The little Blessed One said, everyone else agreeing for some reason or another. Something about  Collin was eventually given his place in the plan. Though he probably didn't like it. He was assigned to watch the camp. Yeah it was pretty lame but that was his job and he was going to do it. Wasn't really given much choice in the matter. That's what he gets for showing up late like that. The Were-aliens moved out, the specialized rebreathers put on their face and set forth with their party. There was no interference so far, but still. μrsine was the first to walk up to Vanguard and lean, his shoulder planting into Colin's before μrsine bounced back up a slight sympathetic smile.

  "What's with the look?" Colin asked as  μrsine seemed to kick gears over. He shrugged and used his foot to reach out and tap the side of the human's shoe with a shy and sheepish demeanor. "I just...I just wanted you to know that...what I mean was that you can't go out there with an exosuit that would shut down. A Master is gonna deploy and EMP, first thing. I don't wanna see you get hurt." He said before clearing his throat and looking around, as if checking if the coast was clear, trying a little to hard to be inconspicuous as he stepped back and kicked a small rock to the side. "But -uhm... It might be okay. I mean someone in a lab somewhere might have made it EMP proof recently. You could take it and try your luck...if you wanna die." He said with a smile playing on his face, trying to get the point across that he may or may not have modified the suit in little crystalline rods that soaked up and applied counter-force to electromagnetic impulses and force, The rods were sleek and painted a matching color. polished and all as if it were like a secondary skeleton of armor. From there Vanguard could do as he pleased.


  Meanwhile all went as planned and the barrier was down, allowing Red and Alpha to infiltrate.

Lucius gave out rebreathers to both his group and Alpha's, then they got a move on. They made good time really, everyone arriving at the barrier in there own ways at more or less the same time. With Alpha's and Red's groups ported and the barrier down, Lucius ordered everyone to infiltrate. Lucas and Oliver were released, and they started speeding toward the ship. A snake like creature was the first they came into contact with, an agile thing, but the overwhelming physical speed and strength the two had quickly reduced it to pieces as Lucas chopped at it with a large constructed sword and Oliver just ripped it apart. Isalia was sent in next, along with Hector who was told to take care of as many of the bug creatures as he could as he was immune to their toxin and had physical power most of the others in his group didn't.

Hector sped through the air at great speed and rammed himself like a bullet into one of the bug creatures, which seemed to kill it but as notified by Lucius they liked to play dead, so Hector battered on it a bit more. Isalia found herself up against one of the raptors, who was said to be able to adapt to a single form of damage and become nearly immune to it. So, using her telekinesis she battered it and kept moving, causing the creature to become highly resistant to it. However, this is what she wanted. Once the creature had become so adapted to that form of damage she switched it up, infusing her blade with red energy and then masterfully using her motion sense and reaction time to get close to the creature and deliver several lethal slashes that cut it's head and limps off.

Meanwhile Lucius had slowly walked forward, through the barrier. He was confronted with one of the flying creatures, who he knew would try to predict his movements. Instead of trying to block his mind completely as he normally would with telepathic enemies, he let it in a bit, allowing it to read a false intent on attack. His real agenda was quite the opposite though. Using his own form of prediction he deduced where the creature would evade the attack he was pretending he was going to fire out, then shot a concentrated beam at it. As expected, the creature evaded, running straight into the red energy attack, which rapidly corroded at its flesh, causing it to shriek out and fall from the sky. Once it did, Lucius walked forward and drew Cora Zen with his left hand, vibrating the blade and lopping the creatures head off. Despite how well coordinated this all seemed to be, there were countless of these creatures to deal with, this would be a hard fight indeed.

Colin seemed less than pleased with the idea that he would have to be left behind. It might have been the fact that they were basically giving him the shaft in the end, and that was not something he really liked the idea of. The fact that everyone agreed with the idea made things even more difficult, or perhaps just extremely embarrassing. So that left him looking over the colony while Alpha, Lucius and everyone else did their thing in order to rescue Tsxero from this master person.

Much to his annoyance at any rate, and so Alpha ventured out with Lucius, keeping the rebreather clasped within his hand as he continued. With Lucius, Isalia and Ryan tagging along well he had a feeling there would not be too much of an issue. They would step through the barrier which had been lowered, letting eyes scan over the area around him as he took it all in. if this Master had an intellect was worth anything, well he expected some manner of defenses. Trailing not too far behind them was one of the blessed ones, though the name escaped him really. Having some of their raw muscle would be useful really when dealing with these alien creatures, so not as if he would complain. While his allies went about their business, Alpha continued walking prepared more than anything for whatever might attack them.

While his allies would go about doing their thing, one of those centipedal types would scuttle out from the woodworks. They looked like a large insect anyway and from what he could tell through telepathuc prying the blessed one had fought this thing before. They looked rather durable, enough so that he would have a tough time taking them down should they fight. The influence of his mind stretched out rapidly, rippling the air as he threw the thing up into the air as Ryan would do the same with his telekinesis to keep them forcibly suspended into the air. Nearo would do his own thing, knowing too well that trying to rip it apart considering the whole acidic blood thing, and how that ate through flesh as well as anything else he had on him. Focusing upon small chinks within it's natural armor, he would attempt to rip the thing apart, which would work as the thing flailed around. Flesh beneath the outer shell would begin to rip and within a few seconds it was torn asunder, acidic blood splashing outwards along the ground as hisses and sputters could be heard.

While this happened, well the head would rapidly be crushed inwards, reducing the thing to a likely dead mess. While this happened, well nearo would be in motion as he slammed into one of those raptor like creatures, slamming it into the wall as it adapted to his strength, making it a little difficult to adpat to the brilliant blue energy hitting it. Its body became brittle, before shattering apart as the Blessed One disengaged. With all of this Aloha released a small pulse that mapped out everything ahead before sending the mental map to the others.

”I….wow. Thanks. I probably owe you one, but i'll pay ya back later.” Colin said slightly touched by the gesture as he patted the younger male on the head, granted it was not quite expected from the usually continually joking blessed one. Looking over the things sprouting from the back of his suit. Letting it open up, he slipped into it and ran the diagnostics, taking note of the new EMP shielding systems. ”Well i'm...going to help them out. Take care or whatever.” With that he took off.