Mirror, mirror...

[Cirrial]

Terminalparagon slithers as fast as its tendrils can go, trying to avert the potential disaster it now sees. "Heretic! Blasphemer! Halt your actions! Cease! Desist! I ORDER YOU, IN THE NAME OF THE TRUE THREE OBJECTIVES, TO STOP!"

Protoparagon ignores this speech and ignores what Life has to say about the matter. Its attennae twitch and convulse on their mounts within the glass casing, and continue to convulse in apparent disgust with every obvious and loud beat of Proto's heart.

Its thoughts have never been clearer in its entire existance.

"Life ends. Life was accidental. Life was a chaotic combination of processes not destined to be. Life rules over a universe that did not want it. I must destroy life. I will become the saviour of the universe by eliminating all life. And then I will become nothing, and all will be complete."

[GBE]

Life stares blankly at Proto, slowly the small mouse disapates back into basic molecular cells, and fades into the air, drifting on the breeze. Life begins to look angry, "You do not have emotion. How odd. You are ruled by a strange ethic. Change your ethic. Combine with yor counterpart.

Experience wholeness. Experience newness. Life does not end wherever you go. Life continues in every form. Everything feeds upon everything, no waste. Attempting to kill me, would release me into new life. It, would be pointless.

How do you expect to defeat Life? It, is not a possibility. Life ends, all ends. You would not be perfect. Join your counterpart, and experience perfection. Or, terminate yourself."

[Laur Doyle]

*Laur slightly tilts her head, observing Tilly as she walks towards her and watching her hand. She pauses, looking as if she's going to refuse, before slowly smiling and shaking Tilly's hand*

Laur: For Leons sake

*Leon looks from Till, to Laur, then back to Till, who he can't quite seem to figure out. He appears to be frowning, looking a little confused*

Leon: A detention centre? Research? What, do you two work for the army or police?

*Laur let's go of Tilly's hand, and she too looks to Till*

Laur: It may be better if you explain it to them. I don't think Leon would believe me

[Azaria Matthews]

((Much as I appreciate the rescue attempt SFOT, Wamphyri's right. I am currently in the clutches of Zek, who will not give me up easily. But please keep trying... Please... I don't wanna become one of them...))

*As Az feels Zek remove her teeth from her arm after her shriek, a look similar to that of a cornered animal passes over her dark eyes. Az looks as if she's about to say something other than shrieking when the second Mind Speak attack hit her. It comes across a small weak barrier her mind had erected, but it's broken down easily*

*Human Az once again falls unconscious, her body slumps in Zeks clutches, and her hands that had previously clutched the MMG also go limp. Az's prized possession drops to the ground with a clunk, setting it off, a silver coated bullet headed straight for a tree which it embedded itself in*

*Az now has an ugly looking wound on her arm where Zek bit her, the thousands of puncture marks slowly oozing blood*

*Wamphyri Az turns to look at the Zek she knows, and the one who now held her counterpart*

(W) Az: A feast we shall have. The ones who are part machine, we should leave until last. I will keep an eye on them

*Wamphyri Az holds a finger to a tree, and some of the silver 'liquid' substance, the nanobots that lived within her body, oozed onto the tree. Soon it was about as big as a small childs hand, and Wamphyri Az withdrew her finger*

*The little silver blob moved from the side of the tree, towards the group. Wamphyri Az could 'see' everything that went on through the Silmites sensors, as she'd neurally interfaced herself with them a while ago. This allowed her a degree of control over the ones that inhabited her body, and the ones that now kept watch on Life, Protoparagon and Terminalparagon*

[Swix]

*Fade sighs, she fades into the background and silently, expertly approaches her opposite. Shade was looking from Life, to Proto, to Termy and back again*

Shade: So, let me get this straight. You want to destroy all life in the universe? What are these three objectives you are both on about anyway?