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 Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:38 pm
He shot an indignant glare at Michelle for a bit before speaking to Jennifer.
"Yes, I did get that letter. That's why I'm here. I wanted to talk to him about it without worrying about the possibility of someone intercepting it. Let's just say it's too important for snail mail and leave it at that," he rambled, "So do either of you know where he is?"
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At the lab, Sabe was alone, slumped over and sitting in a chair he dragged his dizzy self to. A different door than the one he came through clicked open, and Waffle Aramine walked through, decked in her security uniform. The receiver was going off with a message, but the voice was a lot clearer than most transmissions. It was obvious that they were sent by Kassa's AI. She walked up to Sabe's limp body, stripped him bare, and hauled him into the windowed podlike machine Kassa used earlier. His clothes were put into a compartment in the top part of the pod to keep them from being damaged. After the key components were tested, Waffle Aramine gave a thumbs-up to the camera, letting the AI handle the machine remotely.
She turned toward the door again. "'Ey Irwin, you're next." she said with a teasing smirk on her face. Irwin, who was peeking out from behind the door the whole time, scurried out of sight.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:26 pm
Jeremy wiped away his tears and looked down at his uncle's feet. "Mommy was captured and taken by men in a van!" He then started to cry again but Sapphire looked back at the bench where her mother was.
"Jeremy...mommy is over there." Sapphire pointed over to the bench where Future Pen and Jade sat continuing talking. Jeremy's head popped back up more red than ever.
"What are you saying, I saw mommy taken away!"
"No she is sitting next to that weird man! Don't be such a crybaby!"
"I'm not a crybaby and mommy was captured!"
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I Sinistro I Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:18 am
"What?" Luciano said, but then he stopped and thought "Wait a second. . .," Then he gasped and shot a look over to KD, "We have to find everyone! NOW!" Luciano knelt down to Sapphire and Jeremy, "I want you both to go over there," He pointed to Pen, "And STAY put!! Alright? We'll fine Pen- I mean, Mommy soon! But go over there, and then tell your mother to go home!" At this point Luciano had wished people didn't run off; Nobody had their earpieces in.
Meanwhile,
Michelle looked even more confused than ever; She was being confused with her future self, and some girl was talking to her friends like they were family.
Jennifer smiled and nodded at Sabe, she then responded to his question "Last I saw, he had a play-date set up with Pen and the kids- Or was that supposed to be later? I don't know. But he should be back before the wedding starts!" Michelle looked around the room, hoping to see a future Luciano somewhere, "Oh! Michelle! This reminds me! Do you and Luciano still want to attend tomorrow night's event?" Michelle slowly looked back over to Jennifer and turned a light shade of pink, for she didn't know how to answer the question. ". . . Ummmmm. . ."
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:01 pm
Sapphire nodded her head with a vigor 'yes sir' as Jeremy looked up hesitantly to see future Pen, his present mother, safe and sound. In an instant he knew Sapphire was right but wasn't going to admit it. Now he questioned who had just saved him. Perhaps it was an aunt he hadn't met yet. Relatives did have a tendency to pop up out of the blue and do something super like that.
So with the passing second Jeremy concluded that it was an aunt who saved him and that his mom was safe. Of course mommy is safe, no one can do that to mommy.
The two siblings ran to their mother, Jeremy leading and grabbing hold of his mother was he got there. Sapphire stood in front of her mom and relied the message.
"Uncle wants us to go home cause Jeremy saw you being captured. Buts thats silly cause your here. So can we stay and play some more?"
Jeremy looked back at Sapphire with a smile coated in dry tears. "I know that it wasn't mommy now. It was an auntie that looked like mommy right?" Jeremy was proud of his deduction and looked up at his mother for an answer.
Future Pen smiled and caressed his cheek. "Of course it was Jere bear. You are a very logical young man just like your dad." A side way glance was given to Jade who a the moment was controlling himself from hugging his own children, especially the little girl.
"So can we stay and play mommy?" Sapphire asked with a bright wanting smile.
Pen got off the bench and kneeled on the ground so she was eye level with Jeremy and Sapphire."I think that will be alright sweetie. But I want both of you to stay on the playground. One of your aunts or uncles will come down to get you alright?"
The kids nodded in agreement. Sapphire ran back to the playground but Jeremy instead looked over to the man on the bench. The boy's bright smile of seeing his mother disappeared and was replaced by a mean, protective glare. He never liked other men talking to his mom and this man seem to have caught his mother's eye. He was therefore the enemy.
"Run along Jeremy, you have to keep Sapphire safe okay?" Pen noticed the mood swing in her son and tired to get his attention again.
Jeremy nodded and slowly went back to the playground.
Jade sat there a little surprised that his own future son would look at him like that and felt hurt by it.
"He doesn't like me does he?"
"He doesn't remember you. You were gone when he was about two. Pen let out a sigh and got up from the ground. "Lets see if we can help out bro. If I remember correctly where they took me was not too far away from here."
Jade bolted when hearing that. He had wondered where present Pen was but was so distracted by Future Pen he had lost her whereabouts. Future Pen walked right behind him towards KD and Luc sending a message on her PDA (that future Luc forced on her cause she needed something more than an earpiece to convey messages) and informed the Kuro Kid watch to look out for Jeremy and Sapphire.
"Never a dull moment."
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:21 pm
Sabe sighed. "Go figure, I come over for something and he isn't around. Well, whatever. If he magically appears after I leave, tell him to come over to my place sometime. It's not like I can take time off like this. Anyway, it's been nice talking to you two," he said, starting to walk away. He actually could take time off of his work to visit people and go places, but that was beside his point. He took out something that looked like an older model of a sliding-keypad phone and tapped buttons, mumbling something about coordinates. He told the two security captains to either head back or stay with Colbur before he pressed another button and was teleported elsewhere. The two captains looked at each other and did the exact same thing, only punching different buttons on their devices.
Colbur shook his head and looked back at Jennifer and Michelle, smiling. "Can you believe we managed to put portal technology into a phone? Right now only government and security personnel are allowed to use it, but I heard pretty soon they'll make one for civillians too." He soon realized that he wasn't part of the conversation and sheepishly turned around again. I'll forget that even happened.
Sabe re-appeared in a park he remembered to be near HQ. He figured that Luciano might have wanted to hang around in old territory. If that wasn't the case, he figured he would try a couple more locations before giving up and going back home.
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Irwin was unwillingly dragged out of the other room. He tightly held a large towel around his waist, as he had been told to strip down earlier. When loading him into the machine next to Sabe's, Waffle had to play a little tug-of-war with Irwin and his towel before she pried it out of his hands. That left her with a towel, and Irwin stark-naked....in his underwear.
She rolled her eyes. "You have to be kidding me. I told you to take everything off before we can load you in the machine. What part of that do you not understand?"
"I am not taking off any more clothes while there are cameras watching me. I'm more than indecent enough as it is. You already defiled my poor son. At the very least, leave me alone." Irwin scoffed, getting in the machine only so he could hide behind the door. Waffle opened the outside shutter on the window window just to taunt him, then activated a mic to speak. "You do know that this baby breaks down absolutely everything inside it and remakes it according to its DNA structure, right? Except, y'know, non-organic things like clothes and oh.... let's say glasses? So stop your yippin' and take off the undies. You'll want them later when you come back. I'll even close this curtain-thing for you so nobody sees your dinky wiener."
Irwin stared coldly at her as the shutter moved back into its place. He slipped off his underwear, muttering something mean in a different language. He reopened the door, just a smidge, to throw them and his glasses out of the machine. Waffle picked them up and put them into an overhead compartment next to Sabe's stuff. Oh, this thing's gonna be PACKED with the crowd Kassa thinks she's getting.
She gave the camera another thumbs-up, but instead of hearing the usual startup whir, she heard a short beep. By the time Waffle Aramine turned around, the screen had text almost flying down the monitor. She tried to read it. The only things that vaguely caught her eye were two analysis commands for Sabe's terminal followed by 'sudo merge' and another analysis. She better be storing all that data on her own goddamn computer. I'm so not going out of my way to get yet another ungodly-expensive 100-terrabyte hard drive just to see it fill up by next year.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:10 pm
As Pen was walking over to Luciano, Luciano was asking KD, along with Rosemary and Louie, where everyone else was. But before he could get an answer he looked over at Future Pen, and he said, "It's not safe for you here anymore. Take the kids and go home. And it's not a request, either."
Meanwhile,
Jennifer giggled at Sabe's comment, then she said "Alrighty! See you later, Sabe!" Then Colbur spoke, and then Michelle replied, "You have- erm. . . We have that now?" She assumed that everyone that lived on a floating Island had one of those devices. This got her thinking. . .
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I Sinistro I Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:57 am
Future Pen continued to walk about to the group and then slapped Luc on the backside of his head. "I don't follow your orders, plus what is me going home accomplish?" Future Pen shook her head and then crossed her arms.
"How are you going to find past me? Do you know who you are going up against? How are you going to get everyone back in time?" She paused for a moment for all that to sink in.
"Luci, I know where to go, how to work them cause I remember it the first time around. The kids are under Kuro Kid watch, a little program you instated, and you have one thing you have they think they have. Me."
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:54 pm
Luciano grunted with defeat, "Fine," he said, then folded his arms "But you're staying close! I'm not letting you out of my sight! Because if they figure out that they just have the Past You, then they will come looking for the. . .erm. . . 'Present' you," Luciano help up his gun, "Also. . . do they still make the kind of Ammo I use? I'm low from the last gun fight we were in." Meanwhile, While Jennifer was distracted with Colbur, Michelle made up some stupid story to get away. So far she has had ENOUGH of the future, and she just wanted to get back to her friends. She was on her way down a long corridor when a young man, about fifteen years old, walked up to her, " Mom. . .," He said, and then gave her a weak smile. The boy was five feet and seven inches tall, with green eyes.  He kept his weak smile, " I was actually looking for Dad, but. . . I'm glad I found you first." The boy gave Michelle a hug, Michelle's eyes widened and thought to herself ' Mom. . .?- Wait! Someone did say I have kids- WAIT! How many do I have??' The boy slowly disconnected from Michelle and he said, " Listen. . I know that I said some shitty things earlier,. . Dad must really hate me right now for what I said. . .," The boy looked down at his feet, and Michelle could see that he was holding back tears. Out of instinct, Michelle bit her lip and then placed her hand on the boy's shoulder, " It's ok. . Give yourself a minute. ." The boy couldn't hold his tears back any longer, and then he said, " I'm SO ******** up for saying that you're not my real parents- You two adopted me for a reason, and here I am just. . . Just. . . ******** it all up!! You and Dad are the ONLY people who actually care about me. Everyone else just gave up on me, but you two adopted me anyway despite all that. . . And. . " The boy softly cried. He wiped his tears and then continued on, " Please don't let Dad send me away. . I know I ******** up, and I know that I've been a bad seed. . but just please give me a chance to make this up! And I know I've said this more than once, but this time I will try! I promise! Just please don't send me to that Military school!" The boy wiped his tears again, then he gave Michelle a big hug, " I love you so much, Mom! And I don't care what anyone else says, you two ARE my real parents! Because real parents love their kids no matter what!" Michelle hugged the boy back and held back tears of her own as she replied back, " I'll. . . I'll talk to your father, ok?. . Don't cry, Honey. . We won't send you away." The boy sniffled and he said softly, " . . . I love you, Mom. . . I love you so much. . ." Michelle couldn't hold her tears back anymore, and she gently rubbed the boy's back as they both cried. Suddenly a familiar voice could be heard, " . . . You don't have to," Michelle looked over to where she heard the voice and softly gasped when she realized who it was. . . " . . I know you didn't mean it, Ronaldo. . But I won't lie," The Future Luciano walked over to both Ronaldo and Michelle and he continued on, " I was hurt by your words. Your mother and I love you regardless. We don't care that you're adopted. . you're still our son. . ." He gave the boy, and Michelle, a big hug and he said, " We're a family. . And as a family we will work through this together. ." The boy sniffled and nodded, then gave his father a smile, " Yes, sir. ." " No,. . . It's 'Yes, Dad'." Ronaldo smiled and wiped his tears, he nodded and said, " Yes, Dad!" Future Luciano smiled and he said, " That's my boy,. . . Now, can your mother and I have a moment alone, per favore?" Ronaldo nodded, then kissed his mother on the cheek before jogging off. Future Luciano watched his son run off as he spoke, " . . . So, you like the future so far?" Michelle turned a bit pink and she said, " . . You've always been one to notice when something is off. ." Future Luciano smiled and looked down at Michelle, " I have you to Thank for that, you know." Michelle giggled and gave Luciano a kiss on the cheek, and then she hugged him, " No,. . . Thank you. ." Future Luciano closed his eyes and said to her in almost a whisper, " For what?" Michelle buried her face into his chest and murmured, " . . . For giving me a home. . For giving me a family. . For making me the happiest, and most luckiest, woman in the world. Really. Thank you. . . Thank you so much." Future Luciano smiled and kisses the top of her head. He gently swayed with her in his arms, and he whispered softly, " . . You're worth it all. . And now you know that you are, because of all you've seen. . . This, right here, is what's to come. . And I promise you that this is all for you. . ." Michelle bit her lip and smiled, then she happily clung to her Future Husband even tighter.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:15 am
(I'm assuming they're still at the park, correct me if I'm wrong)
The older Sabe quickly retreated to a bench that was under the shade. It was awfully sunny outside and he couldn't afford to be blinded by simple sunlight. He cursed himself for not thinking all the way through (and remembering his parasol) before zapping himself to who knows where.
Viewing the scene before him, nothing was out of the ordinary. Some kids playing in the sand, joggers running their routes, dogs playing fetch with their owners and....a small crowd with one man holding a gun? He got up and walked across the park toward the group of people, shielding his eyes from the sun with one of his hands. This would've been a stupid move to make if it weren't for the sheathed dagger clipped to his belt and a hidden handgun in his coat in case the situation got rough. He got there, but kept his distance from the man with the gun until Sabe realized the dark mask on the other man's face rung a bell to him.
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After a signal went off for Sabe's terminal, Waffle Aramine walked up to the machine he was in and reluctantly slid the shutter open. She saw nothing but a dark violet liquid and calmed down. "That worked out nicely. Daddy's turn now." Another thumbs-up was given and the machine Irwin was in started whirring. All was going smoothly.
Inside the machine, Irwin was startled by a jet of clear liquid that came down from the roof of the machine. He turned his head down to protect his eyes. Everything looked fine without his glasses only because he was near-sighted and the machine's walls were close enough. As the liquid started to release smoke, the pod smelled familiar to him, almost like medicine. Like when smoking morphine in particular. He got a mild buzz from it, something he never had for at least 20 years, but nothing more. Then a faster, bigger second jet of an odorless light blue liquid came from the top of the machine. He looked up out of habit and got some of it in his eyes. He turned his head down and blinked a few times. Then suddenly, Irwin felt his eyes burn intensely. Not too much later, the rest of his body felt the same way. He opened his eyes and tried to see what was going on. The light blue fluid quickly rose to his knees, and he could barely see patches of it turn purple before his eyes gave out.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:09 pm
Future Pen waved to Sabe and did a half chuckle to herself. "Ah yeah, your angsty new boss days. Glad you have calmed down with time." Pen gave a smirk and then answered Past Luc's question.
"Yeah they do. You use better guns down the road but the ammo for that is still around. Not like you will be needing it. If I recall, the men who took me were two hired idoits and the leader is a depraved little man who is starving for attention."
Pen gave a relaxed smile and looked down at her watch. "I should be waking up the ether any moment now. So you also have a agent working her way out as we work in. Won't need to fire a signal shot."
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I Sinistro I Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:19 pm
Luciano raised his eyebrow out of confusion, "I've calmed down? What?" Suddenly a much older Sabe could be seen walking towards the group, Luciano didn't recognize him at first but then he said, "S-Sabe?. . ." Luciano smiled, but before he could say anything Future Pen answered his question, and then he replied, "That doesn't mean we shouldn't go get you at all. Tell me where I can find the ammo, and then it's off to go find you."
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:18 pm
Sabe smiled at Pen before he heard his name and turned his head. He almost jumped back when he realized he was being addressed by a much younger Luciano. He opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't speak up and shut his mouth again. He thought of a possible explanation and had a mild frown on his face. "Hm...... Did my kid drag you by the arm while he was on his rollerblades by any chance?" he asked. Sabe gave Luciano a wallet-sized photo. It was a picture of a dark elven teenage boy with the same childish look his mother had. His eyes were magenta, his hair was a shiny silver color, and his skin was a very pale blue. The kid wore glasses, a brown dinosaur-print shirt and a cream-color scarf.
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Despite the morphine he was given, Irwin felt like his skin was slowly falling apart, as if it was uncooked cake batter dripping off of his body, and started screaming. The rest of the lab was calm and quiet. Irwin started to cry, despite his whole face beginning to melt. He was just afraid of death, and made a final move to break open the pod. An alarm on the terminal went off with an accompanying message that he was still fully conscious as the inner wall was beat on desperately. Waffle Aramine ran to the machine and instinctively opened the shutter to see what was happening. Irwin's body was indeed falling apart. His limbs were breaking down and as he weakly pounded against the pod's window, they spewed clouds of blood that mixed with the blue liquid to form a deep purple color. She closed the shutter and ran, gagging. I still can't get used to that.
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I Sinistro I Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:57 pm
Luciano wasn't sure how to answer Future Sabe's question, he took the photo and looked at it, then he said "Sabe, I'm sorry, but I don't have time for this; The Pen from my time has been kidnapped. Can you help us?" He asked, then handed the photo back to him.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:53 am
"...your time?" Sabe asked. It was a while before he remembered Luciano's question. "Yeah I can but look, I asked you that question because I have a kid who travels through time that way and has a habit of dragging people in and out of their proper places for kicks. I'm trying to figure out why you all are here in the first place. I mean, earlier I saw Michelle and I could've sworn she looked completely different than the day before..."
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The terminal alarm finally quieted down, allowing for the terminals to be shifted along a carousel until two more empty terminals were brought out. Waffle Aramine thought of throwing the other two in, but decided against it. "I'm not gonna do this again. Not right now anyway," she grumbled. She laid back in Kassa's gigantic leather chair for a nap.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:41 pm
Future Pen then chimed in," Don't worry, this time it isn't your boy messing with the timeline. About 15 years or so back that time travel device showed up and sent all but you and Waffle around a mass of places. However I didn't think Michelle would be able to find the mansion. Its a little out of reach."
Pen still didn't sound very worried about the whole situation. Whether it because she knew she survived the whole event or the confidence she had in her younger self in getting out of those situations or even perhaps she herself had calmed with age and experience; Future Pen still spoke as if this was a normal occurance.
Meanwhile
Past Pen was beginning to wake up. The room was cold and dark and the only thing she could make out is the large window that took up one side of the room. She began to struggle and realized that her hands and ankles were tied. Not well for after a couple of breaths she was able to worm her way out.
Well I do appreciate the nap, but I don't care for the digs, she thought as she rubbed her sore wrists. It was indeed a shock to learn about your past being more bloody than originally imagined, but it only takes a small boy almost being kid-napped to remind yourself that you are an trained agent. Regardless how upset she was there was little she could do about it now.
On the other side of the window a rather lean and pale human stood rocking slightly back and forth chewing what was left of his thumbnail.
"Those idoits," he mumbled, "they got me the wrong hostage. How am I going to become the boss if I don't have the right leverage." The man looked seriously worried and wondered how long that room could contain her. She didn't take the late boss, her husband's, position with much of a fight but he knew that she would be more of a handful than stealing the boy, the future boss. It would only be a matter of time before she would be found missing and those intrusive Kuros would come and rescue there former teammate. I'll have their hides if I live through this; it was such simple directions, steal the boy so they could force Pen to give up being the Akeka boss to him. Why they would they take her instead?!
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