(OOC: Thanks mate =)

Edward

Andy turned around just in time to dodge the creatures drill. He rolled out of the way and started firing Edwards pistol at it, while Edward himself pulled out a grenade.

"Grenade out!" he yelled as he pulled the pin, and threw it at the creature.

It exploded, shattering the glass on its helmet and scorching and tearing apart its armor. Edward quickly brought up his rifle, firing at the creatures helmet, or what was left of it. Some of his bullets penetrated, and the creature stopped dead in its tracks, falling to the ground.

"Your welcome." he laughed to Andy. "C'mon, lets get out of here. I want to get you some equipment, ASAP."

He and Andy fled through the hallways, luckily not running into any of the other creatures. They eventually found the gate Hercules had directed them to, and Edward opened it with a terminal. They walked through the gate, eyeing the group of about 10 men that stood on the other side.

"Are you Edward?" asked one of them.

"Yes. Hercules sent you?" he asked back,

"Yes. I'm Achilles, his brother." he responded and they both shook hands, before Edward introduced Andy, and they were shown to some supplies.

Edward took his pistol back from Andy, and looked at the weapons they had. He decided that due to the close combat nature of Cloud Nine, he would need a better close quarters weapon than a pistol or a dagger. He eventually decided on taking a 'FN Tactical Police 12 Gauge' Shotgun, as one of the men had told him. He could use all types of guns, though his profession was sniping. Though he probably wouldn't be that good with the shotgun, considering the environment, it was more useful. He attached it to his back to, and instantly recognized how much less he could move. Then, after Andy had taken his gear, they set off towards the security headquarters.

"So Achilles, what are those big creatures with the drills called?" Edward asked, as he showed his new weapon to Andy.

"We call them Big Daddy's. The silly name makes people fear them a little bit less, and thats all that matters."

Edward laughed and they kept on moving, until Achilles told them they were near the HQ. Thats when they started to hear more noises. This noise, though, wasn't like the noise he had heard before. It echoed, was more metallic, and was deeper. They looked around, weapons at the ready, until one of the grates on a wall was removed and out came...

...Harley?

Harley had been crawling through the vents pretty easily. It wasn't hard to find your way around the vent system because they had little maps on the vent walls for each sector, for the maintenance guys to get around. He found his way to the security headquarters after scrambling through the vents for a while.

He pushed the grate on the vent open and came violently spilling out and crashing onto the floor, with his saddlebags flying off his shoulder and sliding along the floor. Quickly he crawled across the from and grabbed the s/bag and stood up, flinging it back onto his shoulder. Then he froze. He stood in front of a heap of guys, after looking at faces he realized Edward and Andy were two of those people.

"Whoa, hey guys" Harley said to them, while looking at the rest of the people in the room, with the 'what the hell is going on' expression on his face. "Well, I heard the radio message, I was walking behind the group and they didn't even notice I had left. Wait, wheres Strive? Is he on his way?"

And then under his breath, loud enough for just Edward and Andy to hear he said "And uh, who are these guys?"

Edward

He looked at Harley in stunned silence, before putting a smile on his face. People were coming to realize that they couldn't rely on Kristen. Maybe he should try to feed more doubt into their minds through the radio...

"Harley, Strive isn't coming. He.. He killed himself. He went crazy and bashed his face in with his power fists. Its much worse than we thought it would be down here. Guys, whatever you do, don't get... close to Cloud Nine. Don't hate it, don't even think about it. Just ignore it, and hopefully you'll stay sane... The way Kristen seems to have become attached to Cloud Nine, well, I don't think she'll last long either... Achilles, this is Harley, he is a member of our old squad. Or is that ex-member now, Harley? Harley this is Achilles and his men, they are some of the security down here. You've reached us just in time to get to the security head quarters."

Edward finished speaking and eyed up Harley, before pulling him and Andy aside from the group.

"Harley," he started in a low voice, "Are you staying with us? I need to know if we can trust you. If you don't want to stat with us, I'll let you go back to Kristen, but remember what I said over the radio, and hell, they probably don't even realize you're gone. That is how much she cares for you. Not at all. We were all expendable resources for her to get where she wants to go. Right now, she wants to go to the core of Cloud Nine, and most of the squad is going to expended. She threatened our lives, didn't care what happened when one of us died, and is pushing them into a suicide run. Do you really want that?"

OOC: Sorry guys I gotta drop out. The time zones mean that im barely getting a post in on certain scenes and i dont wanna hold ya back.

I looked up suddenly and I bared my teeth, I looked at both Ed and Harley and I opened my mouth, "Guys, guys, is it me or does something feel wrong here?" I muttered, then I looked across the room. I opened my mouth slowly as I saw what stood in the entrance we'd come in. There was a group of splicers standing there, many with guns and some with hooks for hands... I opened my mouth slowly but surely, as no one else had noticed, "Guys, guys, TURN THE HELL AROUND AND START SHOOTING!!!"

I quickly pulled up what I'd randomly pulled out of the supply crate, a shotgun. I brought it up and I quickly ran forward, I heard the others turn their feet and start shooting, I brought up the weapon to my shoulder and I took aim. I shot one of the splicers in the head and I saw the blood splatter across my vision, I quickly aimed again and I shot another in the leg. Within another second all the things were dead and I turned around grinning. I looked at the group of men and I sighed.

I quickly raised my voice, "Hey, you, yeah you, can you chuck me a spare radio please?" I then saw him fumble around in his pockets, then he pulled out a radio and threw it over to me. I caught it swiftly then I grinned, I nodded to myself and I looked at the others, "Guys, I'll catch up with you, stay in tune to my station and we'll keep in contact... I'm gonna go look at some of the sights, but really, it's cause I think theirs something suspicious going on."

I walked out on them towards a tunnel, I swiftly moved through it and I didn't look back, I really hoped no one was following me.

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OOC: Don't follow me, please, I have a little idea for this, since I seem to hate Kristen, I'll just walk out on my own for a bit...

Edward

Edward glared after Andy as he left, yelling out to him and order to report back over the radio every five minutes. He didn't like the idea of Andy going out by himself, but for some reason Andy was dead set on going for a walk. Harley seemed to be thinking over his options, so he went over to Achilles.

"Hey, Achilles, should we head over to the headquarters now? I want to meet up with Hercules, plan stuff out, you know?" Edward asked.

Just then the radio started buzzing with screams and gunshots, gunshots that they could also hear reverberating faintly from the security headquarters. Achilles and Edward looked at each other, nodded, and then gave the signal to get to the headquarters. When they reached it, there was silence.

"Achilles, take your men make a perimeter around the HQ, Harley and I will head in and look for the problem. We can take them. Can we have two of your men for back up?" requested Edward. Achilles nodded in response, and spoke to one of his men. Eight of them started to spread out, and Achilles and another one of the men walked over to Edward.

"Follow me." grunted Achilles, rage in his eyes.

I stumbled through the 10th tunnel I'd seen on my route when I started panting, I was severly injured and here I was running underwater? I quickly stopped, I took a couple of breaths, then I looked up. My eyes bulged, there, standing in front of me, was a Big Daddy. I felt scared, very scared, but I didn't move, it hardly even noticed me, it just kept moving. I saw a little girl-thing moving behind it and I didn't like the idea... I just watched the pair as they continued moving past me.

I shuddered, then I moved past the area that they'd moved out of. I stumbled in on a man, lying on the floor, I blinked my eyes, as I looked up I saw a dented balcony rail and I realised that he'd fallen. I shuddered again and I bent over him, I quickly pulled out a stimpack and I injected it straight into his bloodstream, I nodded then I walked up the stairs. I saw a sort of pink machine, with two little girl statues standing next to it... And an oversized syringe sitting in a compartment.

I looked at it and I walked over to it, it was filled with a strange red liquid, I shrugged then I picked up the syringe. Little did I know, this would be one of the stupidest moves in my life, I brought it up to my arm and I held it out, I rapped my fingers on the outside of the device then I took a breath. I jammed it straight into my main vein in my arm and I shuddered as I forced the sluggish liquid into my veins.

I suddenly shuddered and I dropped the syringe, I looked at my hand and I saw it take a mind of it's own, it started moving back against the forces of human nature and I heard a deafening crack. I suddenly felt like there was a massive pain coursing through my body, I watched my skin as a blue current moved underneath my skin, surfacing at my fingertips as something else...

I suddenly shouted in pain and I rammed my head into the machine, I fell to the floor and everything blacked out...

OOC: Francois, i realy think it is the OPs decision as to how and when Plasmids are introduced. I realy dont think DS wants a Uprising style uber match going on in her RP.

OOC: The plasmid had an opposite effect of what it was suppose to, even though it seems like he's overpowered etc. Now my character is even weaker, gah, don't assume things! Plus, do you even think he might still be alive? *Sigh*.

Edward

As they walked through the building, Edward looked around at what was the remains of a large battle. Many dead, from both sides, but none left alive. He looked down at the ground, not wanting to see the damage, when he caught sight of the radio. There was still no report from...

"Andy!" Edward yelled out, startling everyone else. Sprinting towards the exit, he yelled out to Harley, "Harley, take the lead, I'll be back!"...hopefully.

He sprinted non-stop, until he reached where Andy had split from them. There was a thin layer of dust and grime on the ground, and Andy's foot steps had disturbed it, leaving a trail. Edward began to follow it, his heart beating a million miles an hour.

The trail wove through Cloud Nine, eventually reaching a large room with a large machine at the end of it. He noticed a body lying lifelessly on the ground, and his heart stopped. He ran towards it, silently thinking, 'Not Andy, not Andy!' until he reached it. He looked down and it...

...was not Andy?

He did a mental cheer and noticed a spent Stimpack on the ground next to the man. Andy had been here. Edward started walking towards the machine, and noticed another body, with yet another syringe next to it. He walked up to the body, confident that it was just another man Andy had tried to help, but when he saw the face, he stopped, and fell to his knees. He grabbed Andy, just before the gunfire started, shooting directly at them. He took a shot to the shoulder, and he cried out in pain, before dragging Andy towards the machine. Hiding behind it, he took out his shotgun and bling fired around the corner a few times, making his attackers more cautious. He took a Stimpack off of Andy's belt, and injected into his friends arm. He resumed his mental chanting.

Not Andy, not Andy, not Andy...

I suddenly felt something touching me, I didn't know what it was, all I knew was that I felt utterly spent, as though I was dead. After I felt the rush of ecstasy from a stimpack I manged to open my eyes, I saw Ed firing around the corner and I grumbled something out, "Ed, I'm in so much pain... That syringe wasn't what it should be... Oh god, it hurts... It's worse than what Kristen did to me.. Oh god..." I coughed and blood came up.

I looked at my arm and I blinked twice, my whole arm had changed, I saw a kind of current moving underneath my skin, sometimes surfacing as blue sparks. Everytime the sparks surfaced my pain refreshed and I screamed in pain. I gritted my teeth and I slowly moved into a crouching position, I took the shotgun off my back and I secured it in my arms. I quickly tapped Ed on the shoulder and he looked at me, worried, I smiled lightly.

I then grimaced, I looked at Ed carefully and I sighed, "Ed, I don't know if I can make it... The pain is so much... I feel like I should be dead by now... Just leave me Ed... I'm not worth it! Even with this stuff in my system, whatever it does... Don't touch me if you can, I don't know what'll happen..." I started to feel woozy and I saw a group of splicers running at our position. I brought up my shotgun and I shot wildly at them, surprisingly killing half of them and injuring the rest.

I grimaced again and I fell against the wall, I looked up and I rasped, "Ed, [censored], this was the biggest mistake of my life... Go Ed, while you can, I think they just want whatevers in my system.... I told you, you were the leader? I don't care anymore, man, I order you to get out of here. I..." I trailed off and I felt my head loll to the side. I saw the world flicker red, then white, then black and I fell unconcious. I knew I wasn't dead, but I knew I wouldn't be waking up for a while...

Kristen ran her hands through her hair as Edward started mouthing off about strives death, she smirked a little bit at the death of the traitor, His words shook her, her lack of reaction, why carry deadwood when you can just drop it, Finn was dead, but the others still lived and she had to do her best to get them out. She screamed out and punched the wall as edward finished his rant.

"The Innermost Circle of hell is reserved for Traitors, Edward." she said cutting off the line.

She continued walking with her men talking to Hercules, he seemed a bit preoccupied with something or someone else, she shook the feeling off when they came to a small room, she looked in and saw one of those things holding a pipe, she whipped around the corner and shot at him, ripping his arm off and pinning it to a wall.

"Hercules? Hercules come in!" She snarled into the radio
"Crap, Sorry what do you want now?"
"I want a way out of here, tell me now"
"Alrighty then, I heard you had a little fallin out with your boys?"
"And how did you hear tha.. Bastards"
"Hey listen lady, i want to help both of you"
"Remember our agreement" she said softly into the Radio.
"Yea, yea, yea. Now, If you keep going to your left you will find another set of rooms, keep going and you will make your way to a big courtyard, Now, there is a Big Daddy there, so watch your back."
"Got it, Thanks Hercules"

She continued walking around, firing at the odd splicer that reared its head, she stopped and looked back.

"One man down..." she said, she grabbed for her radio. She spoke disjointedly and angrily, with her teeth bared

"You shall share the same fate as the rest of them, i had a way out for you, for us, but now? Enjoy your watery grave." Her anger was at its prime, for years she had held this group together like tar, but now? now it was all falling apart all because of some idiots.

She stopped and saw a computer terminal for the maintenance workers in the wall, she started hacking it, after about 5 miniutes of hacking she cracked the code and opened the terminal, she picked up the radio and called over to the traitors singing merrily.

"Ring around the Rosy~ A pocket full of Posy~ A tissue~ A tissue~ YOU ALL FALL DOWN" she screamed as she started furiously clacking away at the interface, she had followed their radio signal all the way to the security HQ, she had scanned the whole area and found a few cracks and leaks in the pipes, a few securty blind spots.

She started an overload program that would force alot of water through the pipes, breaking some of the cracked and leaky pipes in the HQs general area. She continued to hack and sent the men on ahead to fight the Big Daddy, she continued radioing in death threats and continued the flow of water, by know it would be about knee deep and rising, the below freezing sea water lapping at their knees.

She heard shots off in the Distance, and a thunderous crash, she smirked. She started to let out more and more water, and launching an aural assault (Hearing) sonic waves used for keeping the splicers away, she turned them in on the security center itself, making loud earsplitting noises bounce around the cold wet security HQ.

She shut off the Sonic Blasters and started looping a message for all who would ally themselves with the traitors.

My Name? Colonel Kristen Murphy.
My Goal? To see my men out of here.
My Challenge? You.

She was taken aback when the men brought forth a little girl in a floral print dress, her eyes were yellow and she was frothing at the mouth screaming for them to let her go. Kristen was dumbfounded and wondered what to do.

"Please! Stop!!" she heard from her radio.
"Who is this?" she said into the small machine.
"My name is Bridget Tennenbaum, Please dont hurt my little ones!"
"What are they?"
"They are little girls please dont hurt them!"
"Ok, we wont but how to we help her?"
"There is a small room around the corner in a box i hid something called a 'Plasmid' Please use it to free her"
"Ok..."

Kristen walked around the corner and as the lady with a thick accent had said, there was a vial of red liquid sitting there, kristen lifted it up and examined it.

"Nothing ventured..." she said skulling the red liquid.

Immediately she dropped to her knees and screaming out as her veins lit up with orange lights, her eyes glowed yellow and she flashed back to her normal self.

"Woah... Intense"
"Indeed, now please channel that power and use it on the little one"
"What?!?"
"Trust me"

Kristen walked over to Sam who was holding the screaming little girl, kirsten lifted her in her arms and placed her palm on the little girls head, exploding in Orange light, the little girl looked... Normal... She was a normal little girl, she sqidged her way out of kristens arms and thanked her before running off to a hole in the wall surrounded by a copper plate, kristen watched as the little girl crawled into it.

"Thank you, So much!"
"Say do you know a way to get out of here?"
"Yes, Actually I do..."

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Ok since you guys have taken Hercules, i get tennenbaum, also since the sonic blasters that scared off the splicers are gone, expect some heavy casualties, also, there are no Plasmids as of yet so dont go saving/harvesting any little ones, i just used that as a plot point to get to tennenbaum.

This is to everyone, NO [censored] OOC

thank you isitjustme for pointing it out, but please im trying to be fair dont OOC, PM eachother if you want to discuss it, seriously, edit that post francois no Plasmids *YET* edit the post.

Remember the rules people thick posts and NO OOC ANYMORE!!!

I awoke very quickly, to my surprise, I was expecting to be like I was for days... Weeks... Months? I bared my teeth suddenly and I looked up, I looked at Edward and I nodded, I then got up slowly but surely. Edward opened his mouth to talk but I raised my hand, I smiled, "Edward, I'm sorry, this is it, this is my death, I'm tired of this life... Goodbye my friend," I muttered to him, then I smiled an even bigger smile. I patted Ed on the back and I ran into the splicers.

I ran straight past them, I didn't care, I knew where I was going, I somehow knew... I kept moving until I made it to what I was looking for, Kristen. I saw her and I walked straight up to her, I tapped her on the shoulder and she turned around, she suddenly had a very confused look on her face, then anger. I bared my teeth and I spat out eight words, "You, won't, make, it, out, of, here, alive." I quickly put my hand into a small compartment in the remains of some clothes I'd gotten.

I pulled out a pill and I laughed, I stared her in the eyes, "Oh and Kristen? I was planning on showing you what low pain tolerance is, but this is SO much better, I'll spite you, just you wait, there'll be someway I'll get you back you [censored]..." I then popped the pill into my mouth and I swallowed. I felt utter peace go through my body and I fell to the ground, dead.

Edward

Edward wanted to go after Andy, as he watched his friend, no, his brother, run away, suffering from the red liquid. Edward was enraged, knowing that Andy was going after Kristen. Alone.

He fired his sniper out at a few splicers, before they all started to drop dead. His ears started buzzing and his head was aching, so he ran from the room, towards where Andy had gone. He heard screams coming from the radio, something about a flood, but he kept on running, dead set on saving Andy.

He reached the room with his old squad, just in time to see Andy fall to the ground. Dead. Sobbing, he went over to him and injected all of his Stimpacks into him, even if it was in vane. He wasn't sane at that moment. He looked up at Kristen, rage boiling in his eyes, glaring daggers at her.

"You. You evil, little [censored]. You did this to us! Strive, Finn, Andy! All of their deaths are on your hands! And soon you'll have another one on your hands. Mine." he yelled as he stood up glaring at all of them. "So do it! Shoot me, and find out if it was all worth it. Was it worth it to tear down your squad, in exchange for the treasure? The treasure that you just flooded! After all that, you dispose of the reason you forced us down here in the first place, because what? Some petty sense of vengeance? I think you've lost it Kristen. And there must be something wrong with the rest of you, if you have not noticed that this ship is sinking, and instead of boarding the life rafts, you've elected yourselves the position of going down with the freakin' ship! Well I hope you enjoy your watery grave, because thats all you'll find down here. At least I will die with a purpose, and honor. Not drowned by my ignorance and false loyalty. So shoot me. But, the person who has not had doubts in Kristen, can only shoot first."

No one fired. No one said anything. No one moved. But Edward.

"Thats what I thought. Ladies and Gentlemen, enjoy your watery graves. You really have earned them, you dumb [censored]s." said Edward as he brought up his pistol to his head, before smiling and pointing it at Kristen. He was quickly downed by a bullet to the chest, and he laughed.

"Well look at that Kristen." he sputtered as blood pored out of his chest. "Someone is still loyal to you. Its a... freakin'... miracle..." he said as he hit the floor, landing right next to Andy. They would die together, as brothers. He brought up his sniper, firing one last shot. It hit Kristen's arm, blood spurting out. He smiled, knowing that his last shot was a hit, before drifting off, to a better place...

OOC: ((Sorry guys, I just don't have the time for a fast-paced RP right now. Feel free to kill off my character in a gruesome way or whatever.))

OOC: Sorry guys this RP has changed from what it was into something i dont realy want to be a part of, DS you did as well as you could and i dont blame you. Can i just request that luke decides to stay because of the voice

i said to myself one more and its over, and here you are.

thanks to everyone who tried.

Strive, Dont whine so much
Francois, Dont introduce parts of a story, the host might not like it...
Mhree, Dont whine so much.

Francois & Mhree: DONT POST SO MUCH, seriously like 75% of this entire RP is you two talking to eachother...

AndyTbone, Good job trying to keep it balanced
Isitjustme, Good Psychological point of View and trying to keep it together
ThatoneNwah, Something different (katana sword)
Hunter2121, Thanks for trying.
Ambrose, Something New, an old character, something i respect
Max, Thanks for trying to keep it together.
Vum1, You didnt leave any Plot points vacant, thanks for leaving before getting us into your posts

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Too everyone bar strive mhree and francois, thanks for trying.

I will close by saying EVERYONE, EVERYONE WHO EVER RPs needs to RESPECT the creator. Seriously please, if you want to control a roleplay then make your own dont come into someone elses and try to make it your own, i was told by a very wise man once.

"Yes, I think an Rp is created to follow a certain story that the creator of the Rp has made, and may change as the Rp moves along. It is all up to the creator of the Rp. It should NEVER EVER be in the mind of a player when joining, of how they could make the story more interesting."

Take that to heart please, new RPers and such.

Thats my Final Word. Thus ends the tales of Cloud Nine.

You have got to be kidding me?! First off you tell us to not whine so much? Excuse us for trying to help you become a better host! What an RP is about is EVERYONE! Not the hosts idea of the story, it is EVERYONE'S idea of the story! You tried to narrow down the RP so much, it felt like I was forced into doing things, and that isn't an enjoyable experience, AT ALL. You went crazy at Strive for bringing up a point about realism! That is in my opinion, the height of unprofessional hosting, flaming the people who are making your RP possible. Then, you tell Francois and I that we posted TOO MUCH? What the hell? So its our fault we wanted to have developed characters, and an interesting story rather than one event after another? And then you say that WE need to respect the creator? Well, let me tell you something, respect is a two way street. You don't respect us, we sure as hell are NOT going to respect you. And it was quite obvious you didn't respect us. Look at the way you treated Strive. Perfect example of disrespect. And to no less than one of our newest, most promising Roleplayers!

Let me say this DeadlySin, and believe it. I will never be partaking in one of your RP's ever again. Ever. I don't know for sure, but I think Francois and Strive would say the same, but I'm not trying to put words in their mouths.

M'heree, you don't need to put words in my mouth... I agree with you, wholeheartedly, I couldn't have said it better myself? I dunno... Sorry DeadlySin, but you really made some big faults in making this RP a one way street that demanded things without any return.

OP requested close.

Do I need to look through this for one or two :slap: ?