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At 2/10/05 02:36 PM, stafffighter wrote: *Jean turns to his daughter. She speaks before he can.* I know. I would be too distracting to you and Gatssu to do any good. *She hugs him tight and starts to cry* Just come home from this papa. *He holds her with all the nurturing centuries of parenthood have taught him and looks at her with the weight of a million worlds in his eyes.* I will petiete. *He transports To the so called bat cave. She goes to Gattsu and looks at him with a tenderness her father would find suspect.* You try to come back too, okay?

Gattsu regards Josephine and bows to her, " As long as there is breath in my body I will return." Gattsu and Karn follow Jean.

Unknown area in space-Aboard the "Soaring Hunter"
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Nobunaga Oda stood on the bridge of the gargantuan vessel. The message played over and over with no reply.
"Cut transmission!" Nobunaga clenched his fist. If they will not join me then they will die along with everyone else!" Nobunaga's eyes changed from orange to bright red, steam and smoke eminated from them.
"Send word to fleet Delta 1, I believe they have been in position since the message began transmission?" Nobunaga said.
"Yes sir, the fleet is in EWCA space on schedual, they are at the outer rim planets of the territory." The captain replied.
Nobunaga Oda smiled his eyes glowing brighter," Open a channel to our avengers!" Nobunaga looked to the captain.
The captain gave the order to communications, " Link established!" The captain replied.
"Master! Your orders master!" The voice on the other end of the comm channel answered, "This is fleet admiral Torez awaiting your commands!"
Nobunaga smiled, "Wipe them out, all of them. Show them the meaning of pain!" Nobunaga said his smile widening.

ECWA space, outer colonies
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On Nobunaga's order the fleet of unknown flagships, starcruisers, battleships, gunships, fighters and troop transports disengaged their anti-matter cloaking devices. The fleet sat in the eye of a black hole just on the outskirts of ECWA space.
The ships looked nothing like existing ships, they seemed metalic in nature, but had tendrils and other sort of strange appendages that suggested that they were also alive in some way as well.
The ships easily flew out of the black hole and entered ECWA territory. There must have been over 5000 manned ships, all ready to fight the war that has come...

At 2/8/05 10:58 AM, stafffighter wrote: *Jean turns to Gattsu and Karn.* The explanation is yours to give, not mine.

Gattsu walks into Lechuck's view in on the screen. "He is Nobunaga Oda, in ancient Japan he almost became shogun, his evil knows no bounds. The strange thing is, I was one of the people that killed him so many years ago. He was immortal then now he is....something else." Gattsu says, Lechuck can see in Gattsu's eyes that he is very serious.
"Something in him has changed so drastically that it seems that there is almost nothing left of himself, it has evolved into something worse." Gattsu explains.

Jon Stewart would have my vote. (Plus, anyone is better than Bush).

In my opinion I really don't care about gay people, they don't bother me and if one hits on me I tell him I'm not gay and to leave me alone, plain and simple. If they want to go and get married, I really don't give a shit. Go gay people get married, see what I care, as long as you don't bother me I'm fine with it.
Also for those gay people that do hit on me, back off, I will warn you once nicely. The second time isn't going to be a friendly warning.
Other than that I really don't see what all the fuss is about, blacks, mexicans, etc got their civil rights why not give gays the same. Who gives a shit its not like its going to drastically change anyone's life or anything.

TOPIC: AMERICA IS WAY TOO POLITICAL
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No shit!

(I know that I have alot of characters to keep track of, but I just want to let everyone know that it will not take away from any of the other characters. Hopefully this will enrich the story because we our members seem to fluctuate quite frequently.)

Karn stood up and then sat down in a seat. " I can't believe this is happening. My master was killed, decapitated. His essence was taken by you and your ninja clan over 3 millenia ago. How is this possible? How is it concievably possible that he could have survived that?"
Gattsu sat down as well, "I don't understand it myself. We cut him down, in our lives being decapitated is the end for you. I'm confused, I don't know what the hell is going on anymore!" Gattsu leaned back and looked at Jean and Josephine.
"I know I killed him, it was him I am sure of it. But if it was him then how can he still be alive. How could he have massed such power? Karn did you feel the presence of followers when you sensed him." Gattsu asked.
"I can sense individual immortals even when orbiting planets. But it makes no sense... I sensed billions! There have never been that many immortals even if all of them were to come back from the dead all at once! There is something going on here that is still hidden from us." Karn replied.

Aboard the "Silencer" in OWCA space
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Raven sat at the helm checking the ship's coordinates. They were monitoring all channels that were not highly restricted. Nobunaga's message suddenly exploded onto all ECWA channels. Raven recorded the message, hearing that demon's proposition to the ECWA made her feel sick, just hearing his voice again sent her into a state of shock as well.
Raven stood up and ran into the aft section of the hull where everyone else was at.
Grifter sat reviewing documents found at the weapons facility. Orca was looking through immortal profiles that were obtained from the same place. Zail lay in his bunk dead asleep. Raven entered the room and said one thing,"Guys... We have a serious problem!"
The three looked at Raven realizing she looked as if she had seen a ghost. They followed her into the cockpit where Nobunaga Oda's voice rang out like gunfire on a silent night. Everyone stopped moving, no one said a word. They must have listened to the message five times in complete harrowing silence before saying anything.
"This message is being played over and over on the ECWA channels..." Grifter asked, there was a long pause.
Raven swallowed hard, "By what the instruments say the message has been repeating itself for 2 hours, I tried tracing it, nothing. It's like the message is coming straight from the great beyond!" Everyone was silent for a long moment.
"Grift... We have to find Master Gattsu, quickly!" Orca stated.
Grifter staired at the visual of Nobunaga on the message screen, there was something different about him, "I know babe... I know."

At 2/5/05 12:09 AM, stafffighter wrote

*Jean rises and transports to his daughters side. Both are armed in the blink of an eye. This seems to be a family trait* Friend Gattsu, what is the nature of this evil?

Gattsu looked at the wall of the ship, as if he were looking past it.
"It feels...familiar. Whatever it is I have encountered it before." With that Karn stood up and walked over to Gattsu who seemed to be in a state of meditative shock.
"What is it?" Karn asked. Karn reached out and gripped Gattsu's shoulder. He used his abilities to lock onto Gattsu's concentrated feelings in order to feel exactly what the samurai was feeling.
Karn stopped as memories flooded back to him, that presence it was unmistakable! Karn gasped and fell off his feet onto his back.
"It cannot be! He.... He has gone from this existance!" Karn shreaked. For the first time ever Gattsu and the others saw a side of Karn they never thought possible... He was afraid.
Gattsu broke his concentration and knelt down to look his friend in the eyes. "Who is it, Karn? Tell us!" Gattsu pressed.
Karn looked into Gattsu's eyes, he was in a state of shock. "M-My master has returned... Master Nobunaga has returned!!" Karn blurted out.
Gattsu stood up, he was now in the same state of shock that his oni ally was engulfed in. "May the gods have mercy upon us..." Gattsu prayed.

Gattsu sat talking with Josephine, his thoughts and feelings were scrambled. He began to concentrate, streching his conciousness and feeling his surroundings.
After so many millennia of meditation he was able to sense when things would go wrong. He felt a moment of relief, then horror.
Josephine could sense the change in his emotions, every immortal could sense feelings, it was an innate ability. The change in his feelings did not escape her attention.
"Something terrible is going to happen" Gattsu said to her knowing that she was aware of the change. He felt like it was a familiar shadow that was growing, massing gaining more ground in the universe. But what could it be?
It seemed that fate was dealing a new hand to the universe, a hand that would bring bad times to all...

Unknown area of space, Aboard flagship "Soaring Hunter"
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Nobunaga Oda stood on the bridge of the gigantic flagship, a ship which was making it's maiden voyage. The "Soaring Hunter" was a technological masterpiece, newly invented technology allowed it to no longer utilize engines. It used a gravity drive which made the ship literally pull itself through space! The ship was also very large, it took 300 years to build and it dwarfed planets the size of Mars. It's crew of 5 million manned the enormous vessel and it's armed soldiers reached the population of a moon.
Nobunaga looked to the captain, "Open a channel to all ECWA frequencies. Audio and visual output, but of course mask our presence, we will stay invisible for the time being."
The captain stood up, "Channel's open, sir."
Nobunaga showed a sly grin, " This is Emperor Nobunaga Oda, for the past 600 years I have prepared for this moment. First I must have you realize that the Halas Dukedom does not exist. It was only a front for my preperations thus far. I am addressing you because we have a common enemy. The OWCA is a thorn in the side of our great civilizations, I have watched your war with them from a far and have realized that our two governments can easily expell these infidels from our galaxy. With the OWCA out of the picture we will be able to accomplish so much in this universe. So I propose a war-time truce, or merger if you will. The Oda empire and the ECWA. I will await your leader's reply. I will send sattellite coordinates for communication momentarily.... I await your answer."
Nobunaga swiped his hand across his throat signaling the end of the transmission. He looked to the bridge crew, an evil sneer crossed his face. His orange glowing eyes steamed in anticipation.
Now was his time for revenge, as the eras began to change Nobunaga was making sure that his empire would be one of the driving forces in the universe!

Racism is stupid. It's pointless, like they are ever going to get the chance to "eradicate everyone who is not a white christian". Anyone that is involved with the KKK is a fucking retard, either they had a shitty childhood or they got raped by thier goddamned priest. FUCK THE KKK AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR.

Their website sucks because they are fucking morons. They go around all day bitching and hating everything thats not a fucking white christian.
I am so sick and goddamn tired of hearing about them, you know what why don't we eradicate all of those fucking facist pieces of scrotal filth. They are annoying as hell and they take it up the ass.
(By the way I'm a white, religiously agnostic individual with a big fucking sword and a big fucking shotgun. Wanna' come fuck with me for talking shit about your stupid club. Fine drop on by cause I would love a reason to rip out someones still beating heart and take a bite out of it in front of their mothers!!).

Ahhhh.... I feel better for saying that.... I need a beer!

Aboard stolen craft, entering OWCA space
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Karn sat in the cockpit of the craft that they had escaped in. He was explaining to Jean what had happened to Gattsu and himself. Jean was suprised to find out through the long conversation that underneath the demonic appearance and fits of violent rage; Karn was actually a compelling individual.
Jean found that both warriors shared many opinions and thoughts. Karn found Jean to be quite an honorable person.
"Well, I leaped over and grabbed the little bastard like this..." Karn made a motion with his right arm and clenched his fist; "And the guy pisses himself! It was disgusting, all I wanted to do was use the phone!" Karn said with a laugh.
Gattsu sat in the back talking to Josephine, she was making him feel better about the whole situation. Now that everything was in the open, it seemed that she was somehow grateful that he and Karn were there. Gattsu felt better about the situation because it was almost like he was talking to his late wife. But, there were so many things different about this Josephine. It intrigued him.

(Note: The Dauthi clan and Gattsu thought that they killed Nobunaga Oda in feudal Japan. He was "killed" just days after Gattsu had slain his most elite ninja- Karn. They made the assassination look as though it were a murder by Nobunaga's own men. In real life Nobunaga was murdered by his own men, so I thought it would be cool to mix history into the story as well.)

Hyperspace- en-route to OWCA space- "The Silencer"
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Zail sat reviewing files that they pulled from the facility's main computer before planting the bomb. He jumped out of his seat after reading a long list of documents.
"Guys! Get in here!" Zail yelled to the others, Grifter and Orca stepped out of the cockpit, and Raven who was asleep flew out of her bed.
"Take a look at this! You mentioned something about 'Alpha-Immortal' project; well I just found an overview of what it is!" Zail scrolled down the list of documents and opened the one titled 'Alpha-Surge'.
"It seems that the Halas Dukedom is not a Dukedom at all. It is a front for Nobunaga Oda's empire, so that he can conduct his buisness under the nose of both the OWCA and the ECWA!" Zail explained.
"Holy shit, Nobunaga Oda is still alive?" Grifter replied.
"Yeah, it gets worse. He has found some way to use captured immortals to imbue his soldiers with a sort of temporary immortality. Which means that..." Grifter cut off Zail.
"Which means that Nobunaga Oda, one of the most evil warlords in history will have an invincible army. Not to mention a fleet of Halas ships. He must have been preparing for centuries; this is not a good situation. I could have gone my whole life without hearing that shit..." Grifter sat down.
"So, what do we do?" Zail asked.
"We warn the other governments, and we find Master Gattsu!" Grifter stated.
"Nobunaga... Does that guy ever die?" Raven asked.
"Well the guy has survived everything anyone has thrown at him for 3 millennia. I'm sure he can die but damn, he's going to be hard to kill." Grifter said.

"The Silencer" entered OWCA space and headed to the government's core world. They would arrive shortly to warn of Halas' break of the long standing peace treaty, and the threat of galactic total war!

High orbit of Icarus 4- Halas Dukedom flagship "Soaring Hunter"
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On the command deck of the large Halas flagship man stared off at the desert planet. His black cape matched his black and grey uniform. The marks designating him as a Grand Admiral donned his shoulders and his purple bladed no-dachi sat in its sheath. His eyes glaring at the planet, he was deep in thought, and even deeper into madness.
The ship's captain Remuu, stepped behind him. "Grand Admiral Nobunaga, sir. Scanners indicate that there is no more evidence of our research in the ruins of the installation. There is a hyperdrive trail leading close to OWCA space. That is where the infidels have escaped to."
Nobunaga Oda turned to face the captain. The ancient immortal stood at 6'3'' in height, slightly muscular build. His eyes glowed orange with demonic evil.
"That's not good enough captain. You are to power the main reactor core and glass that planet." Nobunaga ordered.
The captain looked at him as if he were insane. "But, sir there are over 2 billion people living on Icarus 4. Not to mention the millions of our own employees and civilians."
Nobunaga glared at him, "Your predicessor was much like you, I trust I don't have to remind you about what happened to him?"
The captain did know what happened to his predicessor, he disobeyed Nobunaga for not destroying a planet that had a rebel colony on it. Nobunaga gutted him on the bridge and then skinned him. He was then hung in the mess hall as a reminder for what happens to those who don't obey orders.
"Y-Yes, sir." The captain sat in his chair. "Weapons: Charge up main reactors." The reactors began powering up on his command.
The fire team and weapon's commander looked at him, "Charged and ready, sir."
The captain looked to Nobunaga who turned his gaze to the planet, "Commence bombardment!!" He yelled.
The "Soaring hunter" launched an onslaught of plasma, laser, and a large beam of negative energy at the planet. The negative energy penetrated the crust of the planet and shot into the planet's core. Instantly the balance between negative and positive poles in the core was disrupted causing the planet to super heat itself.
"Sir, within one hour the planet will be a molten fireball. Nothing will survive." The captain said.
Nobunaga's face lit up in an evil sneer, "Good captain, Now... I want that ship!" Nobunaga walked off the bridge, no one would screw up his plans this time!

Unknown part of the galaxy- 5 hours after the destruction of the Halas Dukedom fusion reactor and weapons lab.
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Grifter sat in the co-pilot seat of "The Silencer" staring at the stars sweeping across the viewscreen. The ship was in auto-pilot in hyperspace. The memories of Mortimer Frost kept sweeping through his mind. He realized that there was something bigger under the serface of the Halas Dukedom. True they were a rising empire in the galaxy. They had always stayed clear of the ECWA and the OWCA. But it seemed that there was something much more sinister was lurking underneath their facade.
Orca walked into the cockpit and sat down in the pilot's seat.
"How are you doing?" She asked looking at Grifter with concerned eyes. Orca and Grifter had been husband and wife for centuries. They knew that whatever happened they could always turn to each other for support. They were able to do the same with thier teammates. The Dauthi clan had become a family over the long time that their master had been away. They had lost many members. One to evil- Moloch. (Gattsu slayed him 200 years ago).
But the prospect of finding their long lost master had become much bigger to them then anything. (In feudal Japan, a man would kill himself if his master asked him to, and the fact that thier master has been missing for so long has left them all lost in some ways.)
" There are some memories that have surfaced, one was about Master Gattsu. Apparently Frost had seen a file of him that dated back 200 years. About him working with some rebel force on Earth. Then it says that he just disappeared." Grifter replied.
"I don't understand, there was a file on him?" Orca asked.
"Yes, this guy Frost has seen files about millions of immortals, including us!" Grifter said seriously.
"Us? How? We have been in hiding for centuries." Orca asked suprised.
"I don't know there is a fuzzy memory about something called the 'Alpha-immortal' program and a scientist named Harold Geyser. The memories are still fuzzy, you know how it can take weeks for the memories of a fallen enemy to clear up. I do know that there was alot of talk about someone named... Jean? Something about territory. I'm not sure yet." Grifter sat rubbing his temples.
"It seems like the Halas Dukedom has great interest in immortals. But why?" Orca asked sitting back in the seat.
"I don't know, but I am sure we are going to find out" Grifter said with a hint of dread in his voice.

At 1/26/05 05:23 PM, Myst_Williams wrote:

accomplis (spell?).*

(Here Myst, I'm pretty sure it's spelled- accomplice, although it doesen't look right to me lol, plus my dictionary seems to be lacking it.)

Count me in guys, I'll be there.

The three escaped to the hostile desert environment of Icarus 4, the never ending sandstorm that covered the planet's surface raged around them. Their ship "The Silencer" sat about 30 meters away from the installation which was now beginning to fall apart.
Grifter ran behind his men, he saw their pilot Raven waiting at the access hatch. Orca and Zail entered the craft first. Grifter stepped onto the ship, but he stopped. He quickly turned around and dodged a laser coming from the gun of the installation's commander, Mortimer Frost; also immortal.
Frost drew his broad sword and charged after Grifter.
The ninja in the flak-material trenchcoat flipped off of the ship's flooring and landed in front of the commander, Grifter drew his prized falchion from his waist and parried two strikes from the attacker.
Grifter spin kicked Frost in the face and yelled back to Raven, "Warm up the ship, get her ready to fly!" Raven nodded her head and ran back toward the cockpit.
Frost assaulted Grifter's defenses mercilessly. Grifter found an opening in his form and sliced the enraged commander across the chest.
"How'd that feel son? Sting a little?" Grifter said with a smug grin. He backflipped over a low slash and tossed a shiruken into Frost's left shoulder.
"Ooh! Now that was a stinger wasen't it!" Grifter taunted.
Frost was now swinging wildly, Grifter gained some distance from his foe and launched his grappling hook into Frost's stomach. The hook sliced through flesh and bone and came out the other side, quickly latching onto it's target and reeling the shocked immortal toward its source.
Frost dropped his sword from the impact of the attack, he was now face to face with the current leader of the Dauthi ninja clan.
"Well, it's been fun Frosty, but I gotta' jet." Grifter said with a laugh.
Frost dropped to his knees and smiled, "You can't stay hidden forever fool." Grifter smiled at his words.
"We don't plan to Frosty! Today marks the return of the Dauthi!" Grifter replied, "And now here's that song thats reached the number one spot on the charts, 'There can be only one' sung by me to you!"
With that Grifter decapitated the commander. He retracted his grappeling hook (Which works alot like Daredevil's if you have ever read the comic). The ninja sheathed his sword and raised his arms to the sky.
"Here comes the juice!" Grifter said to himself.
Frost's body lifted off the ground, electricity (quickening) surrounded the body and shot off into random directions. The quickening found its way to the victor. Grifter clenched his teeth as Frost's memories flooded into him. The pain of the quickening flared through his body. Jolts shot into his eyes and into his heart then he dropped to the ground.
The harrowing sound of the sandstorm became as comfortable as silence for a moment to Grifter. Then he came to the realization that he was in a hurry. The blast would cover the area in nuclear fire, an explosion that not even an immortal could survive. Grifter stood up and took a deep breath, he then took one look at the installation which was now an inferno on the verge of overloading and ran into "The Silencer".
His crew mambers, Orca, Zail, and Raven were waiting for him, "Lets get outta' here. This system is gonna' get real unfriendly really quick. Lets get to another system on the double." His pilot nodded her head and proceeded to calculate a new nav point.
Grifter sat down as the ship took off, "He knew who we were, babe." He said to Orca.
"How? We have been hidden for centuries." Orca replied taking hold of his hand.
"I don't know, the memories are still just a blur, but there is something about Master Gattsu. I can't tell what it is yet." Grifter replied.
"Master Gattsu disappeared over 2000 years ago Grift..." Orca replied.
Grifter looked into her green eyes, " He's alive Orca, I know he is; but where?"

"The Silencer" escaped orbit just as the installations went critical and exploded, the explosion burnt the ground and heated the ground into glass, the clouds parted and radiation signatures in that area spiked. The ship carrying the last members of Gattsu's ancient elite ninja clan the "Dauthi" sped off into hyperspace to an unknown destination in the never ending sea of stars.

In another part of the galaxy...

Planet Icarus 4- Halas Dukedom territory- Sector 5 Fusion reactor and weapons lab.
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The gigantic reactor's core was spewing flame and sending shockwaves though the compound. The bomb planeted in the fusion equator system had detonated and sent the reactor into meltdown. Within 10 to 15 minutes the compound and everything within a quarter mile would be "glassed", the fusion explosion would destroy everything it touched, including the team of immortals who set the bomb.
Grifter moved over to Zail who was crouched behind a small steel box. The security had found their position once the bomb detonated.
"How long, Zail?" Grifter asked, his blue eyes taking on a serious glare.
"By my guess we got about 10 minutes to get to the "dust-off" point" Zail replied yelling over the sound of gunfire and explosions.
Grifter looked to Orca, she was holding off the security forces with her repeating plasma rifle. She glanced at him, he swooped his hand across his forehead and pointed to an open blast door across the engineering deck. She nodded in acknoledgement and continued her suppressive fire.
Grifter slapped Zail on the right shoulder and ran out from his cover toward the blast door. Grifter fired out his grappling hook toward the top of the door frame and zipped across the room to the door where he drew his dual laser pistols and gave cover fire for Zail.
Zail crossed the open area and reached the door. He tossed a neural grenade into the door where the security forces were emurging and signaled to Orca to cross the open room. Five soldiers went down bleeding from their ears, nose, and eyes. The neural grenade was something of a new weapon created by a small weapons company on the outer rim of the galaxy. The grenade forces the brain of anyone within range to fire synapses and neural messages so quickly that the brain pretty much overloads itself, usually killing anyone who is hit by one. The blast has a 15-foot range and can incapacitate an immortal for several hours.
The trio charged though the large hallway until they reached a sealed blast door at the end.
"Orca get this open" Grifter ordered.
Orca smirked and activated her highly concentrated plasma claws. The claws easily sliced though the door's hydrolic locking system and forced the door to open.
The trio ran through the opening only to be met by 3 security enforcers.
Grifter tossed three anti-personnel shirukens at their foes, one hitting each of them in the heart. The enforcers dropped to the ground instantly. The team continued their escape.

At 1/26/05 01:29 AM, stafffighter wrote: *As they arrive home the tension is just as think but of an entirly diffrent nature.*
Josephine: You mean, that's why, and now he's, oh damn.
*she goes to the back to try to talk to him. Jean is left talking to Karn.* It has been many years since I have seen a situation which could fluster her. Gattsu is a good man and I have no reason not to trust him, as of yet. *looks back at Josephine trying to talk to a seemingly reluctanat Gattsu* She has so much of her mothers mercy in her.You say their styles of combat differ. How is this so? I ask because the slight arterations between one dimention and another often spell the answers in life and death situations.

Karn looks back to Jean, "In that dimension you were a much different person then you are here. You were the leader of a rebel force. You had lost your power in the Empire that flourished in that galaxy and realized that their methods of ruling over the people of the empire were... unnacceptable. The Josephine of that realm grew up much differently then the Josephine of this realm. She had different instructors, different allies, etc.
Heh, believe it or not that Farlander guy was on our side during the war. There was so much that differed from this realm. As you said there were many little differences in choice and history that changes everything from one dimension to the next. Gattsu and I have seen some very strange situations over the years." Karn smirks remembering the realm where inertia didn't exist... That was a strange time.

Gattsu sat in the back of the ship, he knew that the truth would come out eventually. But he was hoping that he could avoid it. It was only going to make his mission harder for him...

I'm sorry to hear about your friends, but where I am from if someone killed friends of mine, I say some revenge is in order. Thats what my friends and I would do if someone murdered someone that we knew. "You fuck with one of us you fuck with all of us!"

I am sorry about your friends, good luck in however you choose to handle this.

At 1/25/05 01:54 PM, stafffighter wrote: You seem to have taken good care of my daughter so it is I should bow to you good sirs. We will be arriving at our new home and base very shortly. *He sets the instruments to auto pilot and stand before Gattsu, delivoring the well deserved bow* While I am of course gratefull, one has to ask how you got there, and why you look at her like you do. No offence intended but I have spent 5 centuries noticing how men look at her.

Gattsu looks at the blackness of space outside the ship through the cockpit window, " It's not like that... I mean... She reminds me of someone I once knew."
Karn bows his head in acknowledgement.
"The reason I'm here is because of that person. It seems that I am also stuck here." Gattsu confessed. " In the other timeline, the other version of Josephine...." Gattsu's voice trailed off. He took a deep breath and turned away from everyone and moved into the back of the ship to be alone.
Karn glanced at the two confused immortals, "The parallel version of Josephine was his wife. She was killed during the war against the Netherrealm. He promised her that he would protect the Josephine from his realm whatever the cost. It was her dying wish..." Karn sat staring off into space as if horrible memories had just came flooding back.
"I also gave my word to her as well..." Karn looked to Josephine, "You are so much like her, well your personality is alittle different, and your fighting styles are completly different. But your spirit is very similar. I think thats why this is so hard for him. I see alot of her in you."

Gattsu steps over to Jean in the cockpit. "It's been a long time, Jean" Gattsu gives him a bow.
Karn stands in the corner, arms folded across his chest. He remembered what happened the last time he and Jean crossed paths, Karn remembered that he had been sent hurtling toward the Netherrealm for the attack he had made on Gattsu in the past. He still felt a bit bitter about that incident.

I think its bullshit, seperation of church and state, and that could be said for schools as well. If I want to learn about god I go to a church. But don't force your damn beliefs on people by putting them in real schools. People go to school to learn things, not learn about an invisible man in the sky. If they do start doing it in my town I'm sure I won't be the only person that sues the schools. Religion is a choice so don't teach it in real schools because that is a WASTE of time and money for the people trying to get a REAL education.

Ok, well I went to jail for a while for a DUI about a year ago. First of all the food can hardly be called food, its the shittiest food there is. I do agree it is bullshit that WE have to pay for the people that go to jail. Even so, when you get out of jail you have to pay a fucking truckload of money to those bastards just to stay free. (It's not like they need it but lets face it they are greedy bastards.)
I do agree that the people that commit the crime should pay for it, not law biding citizens.
In my case, I had had a few beers(I wasen't drunk by any means), and I got pulled over for a broken tail light. The cop smelled beer on my breath after he told me to get the light fixed, and he took me to jail (I even passed the sobriety test). I had to pay 1,200 dollars plus over 900 dollars for treatment which I did not need (They treated me like a fucking alcoholic because I drink every now and then). I thought it was bullshit. Now I am on probation for 2 years, and I had my license suspended (Which made it a bitch to get to work every morning to make money.)
They stuck me in jail for 2 weeks because I didn't have enough money for bail.
I do believe that people should pay for their own crimes, but at times the justice system can be just a little harsh. My life got really hard because I drank 3 beers, and drove home. So learn from my mistake. DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE, and if you do, chew some gum or something lol.

(Back after a few couple days, been pretty busy lately, but I'm back. Found and destroyed 4 Trojans on my damn computer!! Sometimes I hate the net.)

Gattsu and Karn take up defensive positions as the guards open fire. Gattsu deflects several shots back to thier source and cuts down two opponents with a quick lunge forward.
Karn's doesen't bother with deflecting the shots; in fact he takes them straight to the chest. Karn charges forward and impales a guard through the middle of the chest with his scimitar. The last thing the man sees in Karn's orange glowing eyes, and a large grin across the oni's face.
Karn tosses the body of the dead man like a ragdoll into several other guards, knocking them to the ground.

(By the way what the hell are those guys talking about up there? The lord baron, and the bishop....wtf?)

At 1/13/05 06:10 PM, stafffighter wrote: *Jean is confused momentarily yet flush with relief. Josephine explains the situation and opens the docking bay doors. The craft lands and opens for pick up. Jean attempts to transport himself to the floor but finds their anti magic systems very much functional. He sees the compainions he was warned about.* It will be a tight fit but none of us is staying here.

"Jean, I haven't seen him in a long time." Gattsu said.
Arcturus and his soldiers were holding the escapees at bay, Gattsu realized he could no longer use his ability to teleport. It seemed Dah'Kee had definatly put a hinderance on Gattsu and Karn's movement. Who would have thought that a Tanari would have the brains or power to set such a thing in motion.