S.T.R.I.K.E.
@shanana@maverick_6@maya_liafador@fraga@feral_nova
Raeyn's body had been resting in the STRIKE morgue for the last three days, ever since the cataclysm had ended. She had warned everyone in advance that she may be dead for an extended period of time, if she wasn't permanently dead. The morgue was empty aside from her corpse when the temporal reserves finally kicked in. Temporal energy flooded into dormant cells as her reserves virtually emptied what little temporal energy they had left in an attempt to bring her back to life. Special organelles within her dead cells opened up as temporal energy flooded into them. The moment the organelles were filled they flushed the stored energy into every other part of the cell and transmitted left over energy to aide in the resurrection of other cells.
Decaying DNA fragments responded instantly to the influx of new energy. Proteins reconnected and ancient DNA came to life within seconds of the temporal reserves activating. Automatic calculations determined the body was not salvageable and a random reconstruction process began. The building blocks of Time Siphon life began to restructure Raeyn's body and reached into her past to extract the information necessary to construct a new body. A random previous victim was selected and Raeyn's lungs and major organs came back to life. The life was temporary, it was necessary to give the Time Siphon a moment to escape from watchful eyes if necessary...even the DNA of a Time Siphon was paranoid.
She gasped sharply and her eyes snapped open. Finding an object next to her (@maverick_6 has yet to determine what it is in cat 3) she gripped hold of it instinctively and slipped from the morgue slab. Her coordination was poor and she fell, crashing to the floor with a loud clattering sound that was easily heard elsewhere in the base. She forced herself to her feet after a few moments and then the regeneration process began in earnest. Pain ripped into her body as she felt every second of the regeneration process, it was agonizing, truly a terrible process to undergo as every cell in her body screamed out at the same time and she felt her body dissolving and reconstructing itself. The pain she felt was virtually indescribable. If no one heard her fall, they would certainly hear the screaming. As the process took hold, excess energy from the reconstruction was shunted out of her body.
@timesiphon: The Cataclysm left her entire house-hold in shock, because of the energy required to take care of Tassi; most of the members in the House of Liafador suppressed their feelings on the matter, but Maya couldn’t. She’d spent most of her time away from Spain, staying in either LA or New York to take her mind off things. STRIKE had seen very little of her as well, Commander Stacy moved Maya from the main roster to a reserved roster to fit her hectic schedule.
Having just finished a series of promotions in Brazil for Le Lis Blanc, an event where she just barley forced herself through the motions of appearing normal. Maya returned to the H.A.T.V for a moment’s reprieve before heading back to Spain for the first time in days.
All was normal, typical night on the STRIKE HQ, the night shift agents were playing cards and watching television, while the day shift agents slept comfortably in their bunks.
Maya as usual, paced back and forth in the kitchen preparing coffee. Her thoughts were erratic ranging from the invasion to, Leonel’s brief stint on the dark-side, and the deaths of Time Siphon and Catalina. She hadn’t spoken to Leonel about it; as a matter of fact she’d been avoiding him since before Zeon entered the pit.
The death of Cat she took particularly close to heart, Cat struggled so hard to be good, but ultimately gave in to preserve the life of someone she loved. Not one single member of her family, but another member of the team. Retrofire.
As she lightly sipped on her hazelnut flavored coffee, her ears perked to a faint scream from the lower decks.
“What the hell is that?” One of the agents asked, catching Maya’s attention from the break room. “I don’t know two of you come with me” She commanded, before moving off toward the lower decks of the H.A.T.V
“What’s in here?” She asked, pointing toward a door. “It’s the morgue”
“Why do we have a morgue on board the ship?”
“Fck if I know”
Pushing through the door, Maya’s eyes fixed on what was a resurrected Time Siphon. “Uh guys….” She called on in her communicator.
"Watch out it could be dangerous!" Time Siphon...who now looked completely different, shouted either at Maya or itself...it was hard to say. There was a male in Raeyn's clothes and the clothes didn't even come close to fitting, where Raeyn had been of relatively average height for a woman the man wearing her clothes was somewhere around six foot four. The appearance was nearly comical. The Temporal Armor was in the process of adjusting its size and appearance which gave it a strange flowing liquid appearance. After a few moments it settled on a new more appropriate size and a completely different appearance:
"I think it's name is Maya, is your name Maya? That's probably it, you'll have to forgive me but my memory is running on frazzled and my reserves are on nearly empty. There was something deeply important I was trying to..."
He trailed off for a moment. "Food! Right I need food!" The predatory look flashed into his eyes for a moment, a burning desire to kill and consume that fixated on Maya for a fleeting moment. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up as the Time Siphon coiled around her temporal line...but the newly male Raeyn's attention was suddenly captured by something else and he looked down at his left hand, releasing the Liafador's temporal line. "Oh isn't that nice, I thought ahead." Raeyn held up something (sorry, maverick is selecting it, don't know what it is yet) "Isn't it nice when you think about yourself just a little? Or was I thinking about everyone else?"
(if it's difficult to make complete sense of that's the idea, Raeyn is half out of its mind at the moment as its neural pathways finish reconstructing.)
@maya_liafador: @timesiphon: @vocal:
With Zoe’s body healed up (finally) she was back into her usual training. Her time off to heal made her a little slouchy and she needed to get her butt back into gear. In the training simulator she wiped the sweat off her brow with a distant gaze in her eyes. Since the events of Catalyst, the team had been very quiet, mostly because of the loss of their teammate, Raeyn. She still couldn’t believe that Time Siphon was gone, sacrificing herself for the team. She had a reputation of causing destruction but in the end… she gave her life for all of them. She wouldn’t forget that, she would work harder to become stronger, to make herself a better hero to protect her teammates, to hopefully prevent something like that happening again, even though she was well aware that was not for her to decide. Then there was also the death of Maya’s own sister, damn, she could only imagine how she was feeling. She wanted to talk to her, give her, her condolences, but… how would you go about telling someone that when their sibling tried to kill all of them? Was it appropriate?
Grasping her work out towel she hung it around her neck as she began walking out of the room, only to feel a rumble in the H.A.T.V. The flaming hero arched her brow as she shook her head, dismissing it as she suddenly heard what sound like a muffled scream from below her. Her head perked up, looking around at the Agents around her to see that no one else seemed to have felt or heard what she just did. “Maybe I’m just being paranoid.” She whispered to herself as she began making her way to the living quarters onlyh to have her communicator go off with Maya’s voice from the other side.
“Uh guys…” was all she heard as it cut out.
“Maya?” She held her com-link to her lips only to have silence. “Sh!t what’s going on now?” The young blond quickly began making her way to the lower level only to find herself now standing outside the morgue. They had a morgue on this thing!?
Taking in a sharp breath she pushed the door open to find Maya and Vocal standing side by side and before them, a very intimidating looking man. Who was this? A look of worry poured over her face as she carefully made her way behind the two girls, whispering softly as she stopped just behind them, her eyes never wavering away from the unknown man. “What’s going on and who is this?” She wasn’t there for the transformation and she wasn’t even aware that Time Siphon was on the H.A.T.V. “Please don’t tell me this is a boss battle.”
Maya stood in confusion at the revelation, apparently Time Siphon had been reincarnated; this time as a male. To further the confusion he seemed to only have faint memories of his teammates. Maya remained apprehensive, almost ready to attack; which was not in her usual nature. The events of the Cataclysm changed her entire perspective of what or who a threat was. Cadence was the second to respond followed shortly afterwards by Zoe; both seemed just as skeptical as she did. “Well, at least I don’t have to try to remember a new name” Maya said almost coldly, showing her apparent frustration with the manifestation with the new Time Siphon.
She understood that was how they worked, but she favored the old Raeyn, the one that worked to save and protect the world, despite her urges. This one seemed to be no more than an imitation. Before Maya could say anything else, Agents Barnes, Norfleet and Hollins pushed through the door making way for Director Ruby.
Picking up a slow saunter through the threshold, the Irish born Director of STRIKE stood with her hands folded eying the new Time Siphon with indifference. She’d already readied multiple protocols to jettison the entire wing If need be; but since Maya responded so suddenly she held off.
“Welcome back. I assume you’re going to play along?” Ruby wouldn’t even try to understand how Time Siphon was back, she was sure there was something about in Raeyn’s profile, but understanding was still far over her head.
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