Welcome to Gaia! ::

"I got it!!" I exclaimed and I reeled my arm far behind my head, I could feel the muscles and metal extending and growing as I prepared to throw our saving grace. The shuriken glowed a fiery red as I hurled it toward our target and within the shallows of a second the target was in bloody pieces of dead flesh.

I never stopped running even when the target was terminated, I hurriedly scooped up the briefcase and turned but in front of me was a wall of flame. "s**t...Can you hear me?! Go back to the place where we met! I will meet you there!!" I yelled and hurried to the exit the man was previously going prior to his demise. The fire was hot on my back even with the armor and hat lay in front of me were dilapidated and collapsing rooms that were determined to make his escape skeptical.

In a moment of desperation I began to panic and run through the rooms with no real sense of direction but the light at the end of the corridor. My vision blurred as the fumes from chemicals burning finally began to overwhelm my oxygen filters in my armor preventing any real attempts at sprinting. However, I saw a barrel adjacent to my position labeled with a hazard sign and in this moment of desperation I began to create.

'I know that if I just explode this in a certain direction will propel me forward...but how do I contain it?' and once again answering my own question I took off the safety lock on my arm and began to tinker with it so it became a cylinder with an open end where the chemical would go in. I scooped it carefully into the exposed barrel and retrieved a piece of burning material and put it in the cylinder I had created and aimed the open end away from me so it would push me."Please god, let these pressure valves in this thing work and keep the explosion under control...God-" I was cut off by the chemical reaction going off in the cylinder and propelling my body forward to the other side very quickly and practically launched me into a hill of snow.

"Yesssss!!!! It worked!!!!" I exclaimed but the cylinder began to sparkle and crack "Oh, you can have this back!!" I threw it at the burning building and ran toward the spot I had first been. Boy am I glad I threw it, the explosion did not only blow out half the building but shrapnel was everywhere. "Where are you? I am out.. I got the brief case still, I don't know how but I do." I could almost kiss the thing but I was running to hard to do that.

I saw a bright light radiating from the spot where the girl and I first arrived to this desecrated world. 'That must be my ticket out...' the thought drifted off as the light dimmed considerably. " Am I out of time already?" I ran with more speed and strength than I have have ever exerted in my entire life.

Finally I stood directly beneath the light with the briefcase in tow. However I had been noticed, multiple red signatures appeared on my visor and they were coming towards my position fast. In desperation I jumped at the light and yelled at it in hopes that I would be retrieved soon.

I began to float up off of the ground suddenly. "Bout' time, these guys are shitting bricks about their shiny toy being stolen." I yelled sarcastically then the world faded to black before my eyes. "Welcome back..." A deep male voice said which caused me to open my eyes and see that I was back the capsule which I was back home ..sort of.
The door opened and the briefcase was promptly taken from me. "Care to tell me what the hell is going on, why you would choose untrained citizens, and what is this time travel for?" I crossed my arms and towered over the man. I saw that women was coming out as well and I raced over to her. "Are you alright?" I asked with so much concern that it surprised me.

"You are all qualified enough for these missions...your engineering and medical background is what we need for this job. Your knack for firearms is amazing and we need that. But the real reason is because only people with certain genetic codes can enter these machines and come out on the other side not mutated..we don't have the time to train you...war is about to be upon us and will be the last war. You were the best people who qualified and matched the genetic codes to survive." I felt my eyes narrow at him. "That was only one question, what about the others...?" He walked past us nonchalantly "What we are building from the parts and information you assemble over the time missions is classified; however,.I can tell you why we are doing this." He motioned for us to follow him to a room with a map of the world and it highlighted the population density of each area. "We have enough intelligence to confirm that in the next year some organization will release a hazardous biological weapon into world. We don't know what it does or what type of pathogen it is, all we know is we have to stop it. "Then why don't you send more intelligence?" I asked


"Because, we are running out of time and our operatives have been terminated...simultaneously last week. We know that other countries are investigating but we are running out of time. This device we are building will solve this threat but we simply don't have the things to build it, not even precise replications of the parts would not suffice. The parts or materials always existed in a different era. The time machine was made ready and perfected for this assignment and now that we have the people to do it we can finally put a stop to this menace.."

(oops, i thought she was still in the capsule because you always pass out when you are time traveling, plus in the last post i did not see where you indicated that she was taken to an infirmary or anywhere so the logical thing was to assume she was still in the capsule and would awaken once the doors open. Forgive me.)

My teammate falling to the floor before me snapped my stream of consciousness and she became my top priority. "Are you alright?! Who is Tony?" He became confused then looked up at the man in front of them. "Look, what you are doing is noble and just but we want no part of it." He helped her up slowly and walked to the nearest chair and sat her down.

The man chuckled deeply "Enjoy your naive little world for now and rest, the next mission is in one day." And without another word he left us alone to think about what was going to happen next. I did not pay attention to him instead i focused on the woman. " I noticed that we don't know each other's name, my name is Serva. What is yours?" I asked.