trans_9 | A hero is a terrible thing to waste

Entry tags:

A hero is a terrible thing to waste

It was raining, she had opened a door and it was raining.

Something entirely too strange to ignore.

Sandy had inadvertently stumbled upon the Sensoriums like so many newly awakened pod poppers. And like most of them the first thing it had summoned up was memories of the homeworld. The place long gone thanks to the Ohm.

Sandy entered carefully feeling the rain on her skin. It was both familiar and yet peculiar as she'd gone an entire week without rain from her point of view.

But in this New York it always rained.

The door closed behind her and Sandy began waling down familiar roads and streets in an empty and creepy city. The rain pouring down from above in a dark and cloudy skies.

"Oh crap..." Her voice was soft and apprehensive as each step brought her closer to the scene she knew was waiting for her. She didn't want to see it, but she couldn't stop herself.

And there it was, a crowd of people gathered around, and an old man dressed in a tight suit being smacked around by other old men in strange costumes.

One of them had a boy impaled on a knife.

And there was Sandy in the middle of it all, eyes wide absorbing every drop of violence as the men beat the old hero senseless.

She was witnessing the death of spider-man for a second time.

"It's not real, it's not real!" She told herself over and over again finding herself rooted to the spot.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"What are you talking about?" She asked sounding shell shocked, "This is already done...I saw it happen." She turned back to watch as the scene seemed to start over. Instead of crying or even protesting this time she tilted her head curiously watching as once again a young boy was gutted by a muscular man with a huge knife. As a man made of water slammed into the nearly skeletal spider-man followed by a man with a suit of green metal with a huge powerful tail like a scorpion.

"This...is hopeless." She began to back away from the crowd and turn to run, much like she had the first time darting off into the rain soaked streets of the dark and dangerous looking city as red beams of light began to race across the sky in a web.

This was only becoming more and more confusing for Judau. Whatever this had been, his only guess was a memory she had. The thought had begun to make more sense to Judau. If it had already happened before, then it must have been the only explanation.

Already, he was cursing this place's technology for doing this.

"If this is tech..." Judau stared up at the sky, glaring at the source of it all, if he could. Where there was technology around, there was always an off switch. Finding it though...sometimes that could be a problem. Nevertheless, there was one person on this ship that should know such a simple answer. "Jessy, Stacy, whoever the hell you are, shut this thing off! Or just tell me where the damn off switch is!"

The city was exactly as she remembered it. These roads, this rain, the steady slapping of her trainers on the wet pavement. There were no heroes left, not in her world. That's probably why the Ohm ran all over it.

And then summoned forth by further thoughts of doom and gloom, black shapes, teeth and empty white eyes.

"The Angels." She stumbled to a stop and spun about running away from the monstrous form that rose from the darkness. They were like something between liquid and solid as they roared and gave chase like a pack of wolves made of pure black muscle.

There was that person again, the one not from her memory. If she could just outrun him maybe the monsters would lose interest in her and focus on the slower target.

She shot past Judau with a breathless, "Run." darting down an alleyway as the Symbiote monsters charged.

When the images didn't fade, it certainly wasn't helping Judau prove his point. Maybe he had the name wrong? Maybe Stacy was just this homicidal and twisted? Regardless, if she knew what these things were, they had to be fake! Judau just couldn't believe any of this was real to begin with.

At least until he the blobs of Symbiotes swarming towards him and Sandy. Their presence unnerved Judau, already sensing how much fear they could put into Sandy. He could only imagine what they were capable of with those teeth, and he wasn't about to stick around to find out!

He gulped, turning on his heel and darting right behind Sandy. Despite his lack of exercise, save for piloting a mobile suit and the work he did on Shangri-La, he managed to catch up to her, if only barely. There had been so much fear and panic coming from the young girl. Maybe she had been the off switch, the only one to dispel this hellish nightmare and revert it back to the normal plant-ship, thingy. There was little time for thinking of anything else, and it had been more of a gut-feeling.

Doing his best to keep up with Sandy, all the while noting in his mind to work out from now on when not working on the ZZ, he looked over again at the girl. "Okay, I am officially running out of ideas. I don't how or why you summoned this little memory or death course, but can't you think of something else a bit more pleasant? Sandy beaches? Junkyard? Santa Claus? Anything aside from being here with...whatever those things are!?"

Perhaps Judau had been a tad too harsh with his words, but he wasn't waiting to figure out what a Symbiote could do to him. Just the thought of their teeth, something he continued to question, raking through his skin like a shark...The mere thought was the only thing keeping him running now.

((Sorry to mess with the flow but I have to run to work. In the meantime please enjoy the canon material that Sandy's life is made from.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v97/spacepiratecatdude/Reign/ Part 1

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v97/spacepiratecatdude/Reign2/ Part 2

Tag ya in the morning~

Sandy looked even more confused at his words. This world was her fault? Well things were like her memories.

"O-ok...OK I need a good memory." She muttered as she spun about and realized a symbiote was baring down on her. "GO AWAY!" She shrieked.

And then...silence. Dry warmth.

She opened her eyes, shaking like a leaf. They were alone now, inside a run down church. The rain pattered down outside but inside this building...they were safe for now.

"How...did I do that?"

Judau had saw how quickly those creatures had caught up, immediately surprised out how fast such blobs could move. At the rate they were going, it was only a matter of time before the both of them--

And the atmosphere had suddenly changed, and into a church nonetheless. Judau had nearly stopped in his tracks at the sight of it. Not much of an improvement, but it was certainly leagues better than what had happened earlier. His feet did not stop however, and he fell over one of the church pews, landing on his back.

He yelped, arm rising to grab the object to pick himself up after that embarassing display. "Oww....At least that gamble actually paid off," he said, trying to get a small smile out of himself. "So then, any more of those creepy-crawlies gonna come in here?"

"I um...no?" Sandy looked around like she wasn't entirely sure herself. "This place is safe I think..." But all the same she wanted to get out of here too. This entire ship was insane.

Rising up from the practically broken pew, Judau shook his head, trying to get rid of the small noise that went on inside from the crash; showed him to look where he ran rather than running blindly like an idiot. Looking around the place, it certainly didn't feel too bad, at least compared with what had gone on earlier. Now if there was just a way to reverse everything, than they could both leave in peace.

"Okay, then if you change the layout of this place, maybe if you just thought of what the room looked like earlier, things can go back to normal, or semi-normal, or at least normal enough without any blobs trying to make us their next snack," explained Judau, though try as he might, he couldn't even remember what the place looked like before all of this had happened. "...Or maybe you can just try to think of an off button or something. Either or should be good."

Sandy looked suspicious, like he might be trying to pull a fast one on her. But...well hell he'd been right so far.

"I don't see what the point of a room like this is." She grumbled as a door out of the Sensorium and into the hallway appeared. "Who wants to live out nightmares like that?"

"Dunno. Maybe something cliche like facing your own past or something," he replied, shrugging. "I can understand something like that, but a little warning before anything could be nice, maybe a weapon too. Guess if we ever do pass here, think happy thoughts."

Spotting the way out, Judau grinned. At long last, it was high time to get out of here! "In any case, looks like we can leave now. But still, what exactly were those things to begin with?"

"I dunno." Sandy pushed past him making a B-line for the exit, they were the last things I saw before I woke up on Stacy. They fell out of the sky and began eating people and one was chasing me." She sounded cold and impassive about it. Like telling someone else's story.

As she reached the doorway she stopped to say "It's all over now, that world's dead and gone."

Judau frowned immediately upon hearing her words. Just hearing the news, the situation sounded far worse than living in Shangri-La. The worst thing he had to fear was the junk guild taking away his hard-earned materials or beating him to a pulp, but being devoured by those things...It wasn't something he envied Sandy for.

"So even if that world is restored, I'm guessing you don't wanna go back, do ya?" he asked. "Course, I can't blame ya if those things are still running about."

"Not particularly." She shrugged and entered the hallway blinking as her eyes adjusted to the light. "Not like I had anything back there anyway. Maybe Stacy can let me stay here." She mused.

Judau followed her into the hallway as well, not interested in sticking around the church any longer, even if it might just fade away. For all he knew, he just had to think of a battle in space, and next thing he would know, a Quebely would be gunning him down.

"Maybe, or maybe you can try looking for some other world to hang out in," Judau suggested, folding his arms behind his head. "Still, sounds leagues better than being back there. I know I got a lot of things to deal with when I get back to Jupiter."

That got her attention. "Jupiter, you mean like the planet? You're from Jupiter?" She asked to clear it up.

Right, there had been people who knew little of his world as well. He had actually forgotten about that little tidbit, but there had been no harm in explaining the matter.

"Well, technically I am from Shangri-La, a colony in space that is pretty much about as poor as that city we were in, maybe even poorer, minus the freaks," he explained. "Long story made short, I tried to steal a giant robot called a Gundam, they made me and my friends pilots, we helped put a stop to a pointless war, and me and Roux were going to Jupiter for further training."

He stared back at Sandy, already expecting her to be a tad confused at the least. "Um...I made a little sense at least, right?"

Sandy took a moment to digest what he said and shrugged again, "Yeah sure why not? Not like it makes any less sense then anything else I've been exposed to today."

Judau grinned, chuckling a bit, almost as if whatever transpired before never happened. That was him alright, always quick to put past behind him, less he succumb to it.

"Awesome! I don't have to get in-depth!" He laughed again. "I wonder if it'll be this easy for everyone else aboard here..."

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

A hero is a terrible thing to waste

no subject

no subject

no subject

Where is this comic/canon stuff? It sounds really interesting!

OOC

no subject

OH! Reign! Wow, I remember looking that up when I was playing Web of Shadows and on a forum! XD

Ah web of shadows, so much fun 8D

Indeed! I currently have the DS one now. XD

I'm looking forward to that one!

And I just beat it a couple of minutes ago. Game is surprisingly short. O_o

Aw that's no fun! I'm playing Cave Story right now.

It's a shame too, since the gameplay is pretty good. Onto Shattered Dimensions for the DS then.

Hope it's good, I'll be picking it up like, next month.

Shattered Dimensions is pretty decent, but slows down sometimes. Maybe it's because I am using a rom

I'm looking forward to Spider-man Noir. I love a Noir setting and want to read the comics too.

Noir on the DS is actually my favorite thus far. He can't crawl on walls, yet, but his moves are fun

no subject

no subject