[IC Board] All the World's a Game - Season II

Washington D.C - City Streets


"The name´s Midna little one" she made a small gesture of nodding and soon followed the angel boy as she floated to avoid contact with anything since she was speeding her way while following the boy "Say, who is this Lady you are talking about? some sort of high classed noblewoman or something similar?" she asked out of curiosity while flying.

Washington D.C - City Streets

As Pit was running as fast as he could down the street he turned as he noticed Midna flying right beside him. Happy that she could keep up, and impressed at her flying speed he almost forgot what he was going to say. Thankfully when she asked him who Lady Palutena was he smiled as he turned around, thus running backwards. "Who Lady Palutena? Oh she's the smartest, bravest, and nicest person ever! She's the Goddess of Light and back where we came from she was the Guardian of Humanity, and I had earned the position of the Captain of her Royal Bodyguards after I saved her from this mean and evil Goddess known as Medusa."

Washington D.C - City Streets


"A goddess? that is rare to see" Midna commented more to herself than the boy, but got back on track "So she is the one who took care of the lands your people lived? maybe we got something in common, that woman and I" she said checking on the front just in case for the winged boy to not crash into anything ("He is the captain of her royal guard too, maybe the aging progress is different with their species") thought the twili

"Well, it will be interesting to meet her" Midna spoke with a hint of excitement "Some people are so.. dull and sometimes you need to meet someone with experience on his or her hands, a question though" the twili thought on how to ask her question "Does this Palutena has experience in facing the problems her world has thrown at her? or she has stayed on her throne while others did their job? just for curiosity"

The thing was that Midna have met royal people who let their guards or servants do their jobs while they stayed protected from any harm, she on the other hand preferred to actually do her job, much to both the delight and worry of her court, while the latter was because she was the only one with the royal blood, the former would have liked for their princess to perish on her adventures.

Washington D.C - City Streets

As they continued running Pit turned back around to face the street ahead of her. "Palutena? She never sat on her throne. Unless she was trapped or unable to actually do anything, she was always there to protect her people. She always put others before herself. Thankfully with status as the captain of her royal bodyguard's she had been leaving me to help protect the people of the Human World. Heck even when I'm off fighting creatures from the Underworld she always aids me with very helpful advice and warnings on my foe. She even grants me the power of flight when I need it... mostly because my wings are too small to grant me flight. So she just uses her divine powers to help me fly. Don't think anything wrong though. If things get really bad or if she absolutely needs to, she will step up to fight for her people!" Pit replied as they finally made it to the entrance to the Apartment Complex.


Despite the talk of Lady Palutena being a Goddess, and Pit being the captain of her royal guards, the building they were at looked... not so fantastical or royal. It looked like most of the large grey buildings in the area. Except maybe taller.
"Okay we're here! All we need to do is go inside, go up to the fifth floor, and we'll be there! I hope Lady Palutena didn't wake up yet! I mean I just didn't get groceries. I also managed to find her a nice little gift. After all today is Christmas. I unfortunately couldn't get anything at all until today. So enough talk, let's go!" Pit spoke as he ran into the lobby which was decorated with typical Christmas decorations, and some rather nice furniture in the lobby. As they ran in Pit spoke up once more.

Washington D.C - City Streets


"Interesting place for royalty" Midna commented with some hint of joking as she followed the winged boy "Well I got to admit that from what I heard of the worlds many had to adapt to this type of things, but then again, some have it better while others have it worse. I´m glad I got my storage zone" she said as they went to Pit´s apartment. "I´m glad that this Lady Palutena of yours does her part, trust me that there are some who use their power or title to exploit the people"

Washington D.C - City Streets

As they entered the lobby Pit turned to Midna as he rubbed the back of his head while letting out a slightly nervous chuckle. "Yeah well... we try to be as quaint as possible. Well that's what Palutena said. She also said something about not causing such a big ruckus within the city, yet also wants to be closer to her people. But don't worry though. Once we get to the apartment things will get a lot cooler!" Pit said as he turned back around to head to the stairwell to head upstairs. However as Midna and Pit began to make their way to the stairwell, a man who was busy talking with one of the owner of the apartment complex stopped talking with the owner of the building had and turned to look at Pit.

The man was rather tall. Standing pretty well over 6 feet. He had light brown, if not slightly red hair that reached down to his shoulders, but was kept in a nice ponytail. Along with that he also had a well kept moustache and goatee on his face. He also was dressed in a rather heavy brown trench coat with some rather nice looking short and vest underneath with a red ascot around his neck, dark blue pants, and heavy duty brown boots. This man also looked quite old, yet well built and fit. Upon seeing Pit the man smiled and walked over to the young angel.

"Well hello Pit. Nice seeing you here today. How are this quiet day?" The man replied as he took a quick glance over at Midna before turning back to Pit.

"Oh hi Julius! I'm fine. I had to go out and get groceries for today's dinner. You're still coming right?"

"Ah yes. The Christmas dinner that Miss Palutena is going to prepare today. I wouldn't miss that for the world.

"That's great! Palutena will really love to have you come to dinner! Anyways I have to go!"

"Hey wait aren't you going to introduce me to your friend here? I haven't seen her around these parts before... and just judging by her appearance and the presence I can feel from her... She does not seem to be of this realm of existence. Yet she doesn't seem bad or evil... more... I don't know how to describe it... Would you mind introducing me to her and vice versa?"

"Sorry... This is uh... What was your name again?" Pit spoke as he turned to Midna.

Washington D.C - City Streets


"I´m Midna kind sir, and you are right that I´m not from here" Midna made a faint nod with her head "I can travel between worlds like this one, but there was a portal that threw me onto this one and nearly causing an accident with winged boy here" she gestured to Pit "So here I am as a guest for him and Lady Palutena" she explained the situation of her coming to the human world.

"And you are?" the Twili asked to the man called Julius

Washington D.C - City Streets

The man heard Midna's description of how she got to this world, and how she had ran into Pit. It did intrigue him. Granted by now and even in the past the sound of beings that could travel between world's isn't that surprising, especially with how in this real world there are many different characters from other worlds or in other words, video games that can potentially do similar things. Either way since Midna did not seem hostile, in fact quite the opposite, he smiled warmly as he held out his hand for simple yet polite handshake.

"The name is Julius. Julius Belmont my fair madam. It's amazing that today of all day's we get visitor such as yourself. Juding by your appearance you must be of some upper class? Royalty perhaps? That headdress of yours is what points me in that direction." Julius replied as he continued to visibly examine the twili's physical appearance.

Washington D.C - City Streets


"I do am, or was from the royalty, but after certain events involving a corrupt one of my kind and after dealing with him, I saw that my kingdom wouldn´t progress with my ideas since they were too stuck with bad traditions, so I decided to let my my court deal with it" Midna spoke totally calm despite the fact that she left her reign. "But anyways, why waste my life with people who preferred me dead if I can enjoy it by travelling around and meeting new people?"

"Yu did a good guess of me, and you.." she eyed Julius for a moment "You seem to have been through a hard life because of the tiredness of your eyes, yet you strive with energy since you body, despite being well aged, is prepared for another long journey, you also seem to have knowledge and etiquette of different social classes. I suppose you are or at least a sort of adventurer" the twili made a guess of him.

Roxas' House - Tokyo, Japan | 12:00 AM

John was grateful for Roxas' assistance and hospitality, but reality quickly set back in as he realized all the things he still had left to do before the night ended, primarily him having to meet back up with Renamon and Nera to formulate a plan to treat Yukari's slowly encroaching madness and also having to speak with Satori about Koishi. With that in mind, John opened up a Corridor of Darkness before speaking to Roxas.

"Thank you for your hospitality, but now we have to go.", John said to Roxas before looking over to Mara, Reimu, Utsuho, and Jason.

"Let's go. We've got much more to do before tomorrow.", John said to the group.

Just then, John noticed that Mara seemed to be preoccupied with something in her small hands, some kind of device that looked a lot like Renamon's digivice. In fact, it seemed that Mara was having a conversation with someone with it. John wanted to leave as soon as possible, but thought it couldn't hurt to inquire what Mara was doing. Deciding to sate his curiosity, John looked over Mara's shoulder before speaking.

"Might I ask what's going on?", John calmly asked Mara in a curious tone.





Firestorm Citadel

Takoizu quietly considered all the skull had told her and smiled as she memorized all that it had said. This was exactly what she wanted to hear, information that would help her through this place. After listening to the skull, Takoizu decided to ask one last question.

"What should we expect once we get past the siege engines?", Takoizu asked the skull.





Rooftops - Santa Cruz - California | Night

Isaac quickly considered what Koishi and Shadow had said and decided that now was the time to act. Shadow was right; they were not going to wake up Malthael by standing on the rooftops and talking. The sooner they got to work, the more lives they could potentially save. With that in mind, Isaac spoke up.

"Right. The only way to wake him up is to go down there and try. Let's go.", Isaac said before activating his thrusters and flying towards the crater's center, determined to end this nightmare once and for all.





Chris and Claire's Living Quarters - Prometheus Labs - London

In that very moment, Six's eyes widened and his smile slowly faded as shock and surprise pierced him like a bolt of lightning. Time began to slow to a crawl as he tried to process what was happening, but was both at a loss for mind and words. He was going to be.. a father. It was clear that Six was trying to process what Claire had said, as evidenced by how he lowered his gaze from her with the same expression. To be honest, Six didn't know what exactly he was feeling. In fact, this was quite possibly the first time he had felt such surprise and shock, leaving him surprised that he was feeling this way.

Six's face then shifted to reflect what he was feeling, confusion. Was he feeling a negative emotion, or a positive one? Six didn't know, so he quietly stood there, thinking about it, but when he finally deconstructed his emotions and found that they were generally positive, Six looked back up to Clair with a small smile on his face.

"I can't tell whether I should be happy that we're going to have a child, or terrified that Chris is going to kill me.", Six finally said in a somewhat joking tone as he just barely turned his head enough to see Chris in his peripheral vision.





Mess Hall - Prometheus Labs - London | 1:00 PM

"Yea, we might be here a while.", Dr. Neuman said as he took note of all the SPARTANs getting lunch.



Observation Deck - Armor Technologies Lab - Sector 4 - Prometheus Labs - London

Once Raven, the head scientist, and the rest of the science team entered the room to watch the fruits of their labor, the head scientist pressed a button on the console and spoke into a microphone, allowing him to communicate with Lily, who was down below and selecting which weapons she would use for the test run.

"Hello Lily, can you hear us?", the head scientist asked over the intercom.

"Crystal.", Lily said as she picked an M6D up from the loadout table and tested her grip on the gun. The pistol was almost too large for her to comfortably use in one hand, but she at least had enough of a grip on it to effectively use it.

"Good to hear. We will begin testing once you have selected your loadout. After that, give us the green light and we will begin."





Bench - Streets of London (Vala's Location)

Nevermind the fact that this SPARTAN woman had a giant MAC cannon capable of decimating entire countries in space, nevermind the fact that she wanted to shatter a two-by-four against Halsey's head but then wanted to talk with her, and nevermind the fact that she was somehow able to gain partial access to some of their intel. What really struck the SPARTAN was the fact that this woman implied that Prometheus Labs was ONI.

"ONI? ...Where exactly do you think you are?", the red armored SPARTAN asked Vala in a noticeably confused tone.





Lima Tuberculosis Hospital - Lima, Ohio

As Hazama mused over The Hero of Kvatch's demise, Reaper had contacted his contractor to figure out who exactly this green-haired man was to PALADIN. It seemed that Hazama knew the countersign PALADIN often used to identify its personnel, but Reaper still wanted confirmation.

"This is Reaper reporting in from the field. Mission was a success, but there is a Character by the name of "Hazama" who claims to be affiliated with PALADIN as an informant. I request corroboration on this man's story.", Reaper said into his communicator as he waited for command to respond.

"All checks out. He's one of us.", the voice on the other end of the channel said to Reaper.

Reaper lightly scowled as he heard the news. This Character was a variable that he had not accounted for, someone that was currently unpredictable, and Reaper did not like that. There were so many things that could go wrong, so many ways that this Character could be of detriment to him. Surely there had to be a reason PALADIN would even think of breaking their usual habits and work with a Character. There had to be some reason Reaper was now stuck with this inconvenience.

"Since when has PALADIN been making deals with Characters?", Reaper calmly, coldly asked Mission Command.

"Since this guy fed us enough information to provide you intel on half your missions. In exchange for intel, PALADIN has made a deal to keep him alive when this is all over. Listen, just work with the guy. If he gives you any trouble, tell us and we'll handle it.", Mission Command said before disconnecting, leaving Reaper to contemplate his current situation.

Reaper made a barely audible sigh as he thought about how he now had to work with a Character that possibly knew more about him than Reaper knew of it. This Character was dangerous because of the lack of intel Reaper had on it, but if Reaper kept a tight leash on it, there wouldn't be much difference in how his team would operate. With that in mind, Reaper turned around and spoke to Hazama.

"Stop playing with the dead. It looks like we're stuck together, so here's how everything's going to work. For now, you are under my command. You may possess intelligence and specialize in intelligence gathering, but you must earn my trust... To be honest, I believe it was unwise for PALADIN to trust you without testing your loyalty first.", Reaper said to Hazama.