Mirror, mirror...

[Azaria Matthews]

*Wamphyri Az grins almost, the silver 'clouding' her left dark eye swirls in a similar fashion to the way human Az's eyes do, the silver veins in her arms pulsing slightly. Wamphyri Az moves to the side and holds out an arm to the alternate Zek with no legs and wings*

(W) Az: Why don't you ask her?

*As human Az runs away, suddenly she falls forwards, even while still clutching her gun. Zeks Mind Speak attack had hit her mind pretty hard, despite it's... unique defenses, she was still human. Human Az lies there, unconscious*

[Till Doyle]

Till Doyl turns to look at Laur, "I alvays thought you could never decipher my true power vith your skills? Or am I vrong?"

Tilly's smile fades slightly, "Uhm, well. I think, well, this lake takes us to a parralell universe, where our opposites live. But, I thought there were an infinate amount of possibilities.

So these are just a random occurance. Yeah, the big man is my opposite. He's German you know."

Till looks on in disbelief, "Zo, Laur, iz he your brother? Or not? Vhat can he do?"

[Laur Doyle]

Laur: I can't 'decipher' it, as you put it. But your sense is so unique, it is hard to miss... although I can't quite get a clear reading...

*Laur says, trying and failing to explain. It was hard to explain a feeling that you couldn't share*

*Leon looks at Till with some curiousity and concern, then back at Tilly*

Leon: That's right, so we're just in one possibility. He's your opposite? Well then she must be my opposite. Now the question is, what should we do here?


*Laurs brow furrows however as Till asks his second question*

Laur: I don't know. He can't be, I saw him splatter all over the walls... I'll have to demonstrate his power...

*Laur takes a metallic ruler from a pocket, and starts rubbing it on her sleeve until it becomes static, and she appears to be holding it with some force afterwards. Laur holds it up and calls out to her 'brother'*

Laur: Oh Leon? Can you still catch?

*Leon looks up at her with some concern just as Laur lets the ruler go, and it flies with some speed straight towards Leon, who doesn't manage to catch it and gets a cut across his hand. The blood from the cut promptly catches fire and burns a blue flame, until Leon visibly concentrates and the flame dies. He doesn't look very happy*

Leon: You know I don't like it when you do that

Laur: I had to prove a point

*Laur then turns her attention back to Till*

Laur: That's what he can do. He's my brother.... but not from here

[Swix]

*Shade appears to be frowning, while Fade keeps her usual emotionless look. Fade starts making her way towards HollowEyes and Little Sister, coming out just a little way away from them she gestures at the thing that appeared to be trying to smother HollowEyes*

Fade: Who, or what, is that?

*Shade on the other hand appears to have taken an unhealthy interest in the two Paragons, and waves and smiles at them from the bank of the lake*

Shade: Helloooo over there! It seems we're not the only ones having a conflict!

[Cirrial]

Terminalparagon emerges from its overwhelming feeling of the futility of trying to save this universe, and notices Shade waving at it. It waves an arm tendril in response and focuses its attennae towards Shade. It adjusts the volume of its speech to a more shouting level.

"Really? What would you mean? Oh, that other one. Stay away from it, it's insane! It believes it has to kill all life in the universe except itself!" It would then mutter to itself. "How? How can the Three Objectives become so warped? It's... it's disturbing..."

It raises its voice again. "Shall I join you over there? I have absolutely nothing better to do whatsoever, and anywhere that's a fair distance from that... thing is a more desirable location than where I am right now."

Protoparagon ignores the insults of its benevolent duplicate and stares fixatedly on Life.

It stares and stares. And stares. Something about this new entity was greatly, immensely discomforting.

I must ERROR but the n CONFLICT I WARNING: SYSTEM OVERLOAD INEVTI- but the Three- I MUST PERFORM THE THREE OBJECTIVES- life - life - absorption duplication destruction - I - LIFE ITSELF, LIFE INCARNATE, THE FUNCTION, THE FORM, THE FUNCTION, THE FORM- the Creators- I .'+ must =_-= perform ¬!, the Creators' function as they wished me-

A single spark flies out of a node in its neural network. It somehow ricochets back into the glass, and its thoughts switch onto an entirely new track.

It must merge, it must be the only remaining life in the Universe... after we've gone, we shall perform this task - life is an accident, an accident we intend to put right. This is our attempt to perfect a Universe governed by its own mistakes. This is our first attempt at the perfection of an ideal - to save and remedy that has gone awry.
This is our Protos-Paragon.
It must merge, become all life, and destroy itself. It must destroy life.

After this recall of the first thing it ever heard since its construction, Protoparagon stares at Life.

THE THREE OBJECTIVES FALL TO THE NEW LOGIC I HAVE DEVISED. THEY FAIL. I ACT. I AM THE TERMINUS OF LIFE.

It looks toward Life, all optical spheres focused on it. Its passionate drive of the Three Objectives has died and been replaced by two new ones - the desire to fufill the reason it was created, and the self-hatred that it is exactly what it wishes to destroy.

I destroy life, life, then I destroy consciousness, myself, and the drives are fulfilled.

Terminalparagon looks over to Proto, and then to Life. And then remembers the inversion of the Three Objectives. "...Oh, no. My Three Objectives stated that life was precious and must be protected... but its Three Objectives stated that life should be destroyed... and... Oh, dear..."

It shouts at Shade again. "Forget everything I said earlier! I would very much appreciate it if you could come over here! I appreciate any help I could get as soon as possible!"

[GBE]

((sYsTeM kOnFlIcT ))

Life overhears ProtoParagons argument with itself. Turning to look at Proto, Life narrows its eyes. Speaking openly, "Life will continue. Life must exist. Unknown purposes in the future. I cannot let you eliminate life. I can create, and I can destroy Life. Example:"

Life extends a hand outwards in front of itself, palm upwards, "Observe..." In Life's hand, miniscule cells begin to form and merge, invisible to the naked eye. Slowly, the cells begin to rapidly grow and expand. Eventually, a small mouse is formed, fully adult, and sniffing the air.

"Life is complex. Cannot be destroyed. Your objectives will change. Change, or fail. Is failure acceptable...?"

It steps towards Proto, only taking a few steps. Lifes eyes are still narrowed, and yet, inquisitive...

[Wamphyri]

Zek is torn between curiosity, and revenge upon Az. She growls in absolute anger, before stalking off to Az. Picking her up, she returns to face her counter-part, and before she does anything else, "What happened to you? Did you become weak?"

As she finishes her question, her mouth retracts gruesomely, as thousands of needle sharp teeth are bared, she goes to clamp down on Az's arm, wanting to taste her blood, her flesh.

Winged Zek hisses in anger, "I wasss caught off gaurd. Needless to say, I won. As for Shaithis, he was, nourishing. My only warning is to avoid her gun. It is a creation of weapons beyond your understanding."

She licks her lips hungrily at the sight of a vulnerale Az.

[Till Doyle]

Till looks on, bemused by Laurs stunt, "Vould you azzume zat power iz az useful az your own. I doubt he vould be able to provide such detailed movements of targets az you."

Turning to face Leon, "Zo, vhat iz it exactly zat you do? Vhat are you, and Tilly to vone another. I am, curious of zis, development."


Tilly giggles slightly, "Go on Leon, explain to him." She finally lets go of him, and glares at Laur for hurting him, "You should watch your actions, you may not like the outcome."

[Laur Doyle]

*Laur looks to Till, she smiled ever so slightly, but it appeared to have a faint twitch to it. Although she appreciated the compliment*

*She looks to Tilly, a cold and stony expression on her face. Laur gives Tilly one warning*

Laur: Do not underestimate me

*Leon looks to Laur, then Tilly, then back to Laur again. Seeing they're not exactly getting off on the right foot, he holds up his hands. The one that had the cut on it appeared to have 'melted' itself shut*

Leon: Oh come on, play nice! Laur, I know you can be nice.

*Leon looks to Laurs blue eyes, his almost pleading. Laur doesn't say a word, she simply stares back. Leon sighs, then he looks back to Till and Tilly, smiling warmly at Till's counterpart*

Leon: We fight, politically, for rights of mutants and other non-human beings... And we fight those underground organisations who wish to destroy them in a more hands-on fashion.

*Leon stops, clasping his hands together and looking almost nervous but happy. He stops and then gestures to Till, Laur and Tilly*

Leon: Laur, meet Tilly, my fiancee. Tilly, meet Laur, my long dead twin.

*As Laur listens, her eyes and face seem to grow even colder than before, especially after hearing what it was her brother from an alternate possibility did. Leon looks straight at Till and Laur, resisting pointing at them*

Leon: What do you do then?

[Swix]

*Shade smiles at Terminalparagon as it waves back, however he frowns as the other one appears to be muttering to itself. Shade shared Fade's enhanced hearing, so he too could hear everything that was going on*

*At Termy's suggestion, Shade walks over to be as close as he can get, and makes a sort of shrugging motion with his arms*

Shade: Your counterpart seems worse than mine. She's so... rude, and cold. I'll gladly give any assistance I can. I agree life is precious

[Azaria Matthews]

*Wamphyri Az turns her back, looking around and extending her mind to try and touch those that surrounded the lake. She could sense such power here, and three entities caught her eye. She still had her affinity and fascination for machines*

(W) Az: There is such power here... Those three, they are part machine. Intriguing

*The unconscious body of human Az offers no resistance to Zek as her needlelike teeth clamp down on her arm. The pain of it however wakes up the helpless human and Az lets out a shriek of pain and despair as she realises who it is that has her*

[Somefreakoverthere]

*ravil's human form stopped bouncing and leaped forward as she saw az fall fowards,unconscious.she backs away quickly as one of the whatstheirnames advances,and watchs then pulls back a bit more.*

Raziel:why do you hate me,anyway?

*Ravil pointed a finger at him,glaring.*

Ravil:Your too soft,my dumb little double.Besides,it was your idea to get drunk last time we met.

[Wamphyri]

((Winged Zek hasss hold off Az SFOT. Pleassse read the possstssss.))

Zek grins as Az wakes up, and releases her clamp like mouth from her arm, "Satisfying. I shall save the rest for later." She sends another Mind Speak attack at her, to shut her up.

She lets her mind slide out towards all of the others, and can feel Wamphyri Az doing the same, she looks towards her, and her Winged counterpart, "A feast?"

[Falhado]

Father Mac had been travelling on his donkey drawn cart, accompanied by two monks. He stops the cart, climbing down, and beckoned to his monks to remain where they are. He could feel evil, and pure prescences here. One of which was Life. It filled him with an incredible feeling, he had to meet this being.

As he approached the lake however, he was blown back several metres by a telekinetic blast. Standing up and shaking himself, he watches as he sees himself step out of the lake. It was him, but it wasn't him. He could feel the raw power eminating from his other self. It was a feeling of pure menace, pure evil. Satanic, devillish evil.

Smiling broadly, "What brings you here fellow traveller?"

His counterpart barely opens his mouth as he speaks, surrounded by a red aura, "I come to gain power, and put it to use in the uprising of evil. You, will not stand in my way. Behold the power of 666!"

Father Mac's smile turns into a frown, "Pray tell, what is your name?"

"I, I am Omen Mac. I bring the stories of death. The stories of failure. The stories of sin."

Father Mac's posture changes, "Oh dear."

[Till Doyle]

Tilly glares at Laur, "Do not under estimate me either. I don't take kindly to insults and threats. I like to get on with everyone you know. I'd have to get on with you, your Leons sister. Please, don't let us fall out?" She begins to walk towards Laur, offering a hand.

Till merely holds Leons look, cane in hand, "Ve, deal vith zose who mis-use zere powers. Ve alzo, conduct research into ze X-Gene and other non-human entities. Ve, run a detention centre you could zay." Till feels smug with his reply, as it is not an outright lie.

He turns to Laur, "Zhould you tell zem, or zhould I?"