Replicas and Gems

[Jack Darby]

Earlier in the day, Repliku had made his way through Dalaran to the hidden library that they possessed. Upon reading some of the tomes of dark magic, and some on how other Primes used Omnilium, Repliku was still as clueless as he had been before when Lord Dominator had created that bubble she had used to bring him up here. As he had not found any of the information there to be of any real use, Repliku had made his way out of the library and towards the very edge of Dalaran. It was time for a trial by fire, he had thought at that moment. This was why Repliku had jumped off of the island and imagined a pair of bat wings coming out of his back. Knowing that he'd need to get back to the Nexus, and then find somewhere else that he could train himself, Repliku had sighed in irritation. Was it that hard to learn how to use Omnilium truly? Once he had landed safely on the ground, he made his way out of Camelot and back to the Nexus. After a while he had made his way to the gate of Coruscant believing that perhaps technology could provide the answer to the multitude of problems that he currently had. 

One dilemma the clone was facing was the problem of the Heartless. As he was now, he couldn't hold his own against the powers that they possessed and that was a problem. Since some of the buggers could fly from his memories, he realized he definitely needed to get himself the High Jump or Glide Technique that Sora and Riku had, or learn how to use Corridors of Darkness again. Either one would work. When one of the white clad individuals pulled him aside after entry and subjected him to a battery of tests, he thought of what it would feel like to run them through. If what Lord Dominator had said was true and they were little more than robots, or creatures like the Heartless? Killing them could perhaps provide him the power that he didn't want to claim, but knew that he'd need. A keyblade was not going to be enough this time around, even if he could summon one. What he'd need was more than that. Perhaps he could make the weapons of the Organization. Vexen's Shield would come in handy, or even Axel's Chakrams. Zexion's Lexicon could be of use.

Finally he'd make his way through their security to Tier One. 

"What to do with my day? Oh yes. New clothes, as I hate these."   Repliku was dressed in a purple outfit that he absolutely despised, a problem he couldn't resolve as he didn't yet fully know enough about making things out of Omnilium. 

[Aquamarine]

As Aquamarine entered into Coruscant and looked around, she thought of what she would have to do first in this humongous city, now that she was along with the other citizens. From the far distance to the north, Aquamarine was able to see some sort of great library, which she could read out to learn as much as she could about this city, but she also thought that learning about the culture would be important to try to fit in with the others, or at least to try to fit in. While she thought on what to do for now, she managed to see a glimpse of what either was a human in a very awful costume or a Off-Color walk past her, talking about clothes.

Since she was intrigued a bit about this other person, Aquamarine slowly walked up to the person as he stopped to look around, and tapped on his back to get his attention. "Excuse me sir, but whatever your wearing is so weird that it looks like it was made by some mad Off-Color Gem trying to look elegant only to fail. Either way, my name is Aquamarine, and I suggest you get something more fancy." As Aquamarine continued to talk to him, she thought to herself on if she could use him later on as a pawn if she treated him well and tried to guide him around the city, despite being here for less than a day.

"I don't know what a Off-Color Gem is, but yes I am already trying to find something new, since these clothes are just awful to wear. Do you mind sharing your opinion with me?" As Repliku said those words, Aquamarine already started to think on what would look good on him, and without thinking she knew the purple would have to go. As she observed some other citizens to get a good idea on what to wear, she also thought about her subordinate Topaz would wear while building on her idea for clothes for the human to wear. After a few long minutes of thinking, Aquamarine was finished coming up with her idea, and as she finished thinking she quickly started to speak with Repliku again.

"Well I think I have a idea, whatever your name is. I admit, this is a bit based off of a pair of clothes one of my subordinates would wear, but everything else is my idea. I suggest trying to wear some long sleeve black pants with yellow stripes, and a shirt with the same style. As for other things to wear with it, well I guess it's really up to you. Now I may be new, but from what I could get from Omni you can basically create anything you want from Omnilium, so try to focus on what I just said, until the clothes just appear." After quicky bowing down in respect, Aquamarine waited for the man to try to create the clothes by himself, waiting to see how well he would be able to do this to see how useful he could be.

[Jack Darby]

After she had mentioned that a "some long sleeve black pants with yellow stripes, and a shirt with the same style." would look better on him, Repliku listened to her. A new outfit was just what the doctor ordered to make him look different from what Riku wore on a regular basis, as it would only share one color, the yellow with Riku but even then, there wouldn't be that much of it. It was definitely time for a change of attire so he actually looked better than he had. If he was to explore this place he needed to be able to blend, and blend in. His current clothing wouldn't allow that if she was being truthful. "What's an Off Color Gem? You can call me Repliku, or Riku Replica..."  said the clone as he looked at her for a moment. He had never seen her before a day in his life, which was something that he honestly considered odd. Slowly he'd devote all of his focus for about three minutes to creating a new outfit for himself, one that was head and shoulders above what he had, and then replace his outfit that he had been wearing with it. Once he had, Repliku looked different. 



"You are right, this new outfit does look better on me..." admitted Repliku as he summoned up a mirror and looked himself over. "So much better than what my old one did. I'll still need a way to destroy that hideous outfit that I was forced into when I was made by Vexen, but I should be able to figure something out, about that." stated the Riku Replica. "Actually, could you tell me your name, and what a "Gem" is, and are you a Prime like myself, or a Secondary?" asked the clone.

[Aquamarine]

As Repliku was focusing to try to create a pair of clothes for himself, Aquamarine decided to talk to him to learn more about him."Repliku huh? Well since you don't know what a Off-Color is I guess that means your human, or at least like a human. Either way after I finish taking a tour around this town I plan on trying to help work with the government with my own talents by trying to use them to stop criminals." After a bit more waiting, Aquamarine saw Repliku finish creating the clothes she thought of, and while it wasn't exactly like what she imagined, she still liked it a bit.

While Aquamarine was ready to continue on throughout her tour of Coruscant, she was surprised to hear from Repliku asking to learn more about the Gems, since she assumed that he probably didn't care what she was. "Well first of all I don't know what Prime or Secondary means, but I assume I'm the former for now, and secondly, you really want to know what a Gem is? I assumed that since there were people even weirder than me in that white expanse outside of this city that races didn't matter here, but if you really want to know about Gems, I guess I could tell you."

After finding a bench to sit down in and using her wand to drop Repliku's old clothes somewhere they would not be missed, Aquamarine quickly sat down before starting to explain to Repliku about Gems. "Well to start off, I guess I should talk about our biology, or rather lack of it, since most of our body is just like a hologram, but with mass instead of light. Our real bodies are basically just the gems on our bodies, and we can create these bodies using light energy so that we can interact with each other. We can even change the shapes or size of our bodies, but I prefer not changing my shape since I'm okay with my own appearence."

"Most of us Gems also have our own Gem Weapons that we can summon out of thin air to use in self-defense or to keep peace, but I prefer keeping my weapon, AKA this wand, in my hair since it is much quicker to grab it than to slowly recreate it. We also have a caste system and some other stuff, but that doesn't matter for now since I'm to far from the Diamonds for it to matter." As soon as Aquamarine finished explaining, she quickly put her wand back into a ribbon-like shape before putting it back into her hair. "So anyway, you've piqued my interest, so where should we go next? As long as it's not anything that can land me behind bars, I'm pretty much okay with following you around for now."

[Jack Darby]

"Repliku huh? Well since you don't know what a Off-Color is I guess that means your human, or at least like a human. Either way after I finish taking a tour around this town I plan on trying to help work with the government with my own talents by trying to use them to stop criminals."

It seemed like she was really desperate to stop criminals. Would she consider the Heartless, to be criminals though? Repliku didn't know the answer to that, because he didn't know enough about her. The clone was happy though, happy that he had made a new friend. She felt the same way about his clothes that he did. Note to self, if he ever encountered Vexen again, punch him viciously in the face for creating the horrid ensemble to begin with as yes, it was that ugly to the clone. 
"Yes, I am like a human."  said Repliku to her. "Though not entirely. I'm nothing but a pale imitation of the individual I was based off of,"   His expression darkened as he mentioned that. "Nothing more than a puppet, if Organization XIII should show up. They'd probably be able to control me... something I'm not looking forward to." 

"Well to start off, I guess I should talk about our biology, or rather lack of it, since most of our body is just like a hologram, but with mass instead of light. Our real bodies are basically just the gems on our bodies, and we can create these bodies using light energy so that we can interact with each other. We can even change the shapes or size of our bodies, but I prefer not changing my shape since I'm okay with my own appearence."

"Most of us Gems also have our own Gem Weapons that we can summon out of thin air to use in self-defense or to keep peace, but I prefer keeping my weapon, AKA this wand, in my hair since it is much quicker to grab it than to slowly recreate it. We also have a caste system and some other stuff, but that doesn't matter for now since I'm to far from the Diamonds for it to matter."

So Gems were creatures that had bodies that were actual gemstones. Their 'bodies' were Hard Light Constructs of some sort, and they possessed the ability to shapeshift at will, apparently. He'd look at her for a moment, impressed. When she mentioned that she had her own gem-weapon, and that gems could summon the gem weapons out of thin air... Repliku was impressed. His jaw dropped, but he quickly recovered and looked at her. She wanted him to choose where they would go next, but honestly he had no clue. 

When Repliku noticed a Dark Side Heartless appear, he began to panic.  "I know of one thing we should probably be doing right now. As much as it pains me to say this, we need to run! That thing is not something you want to fight... and I'm not sure I could take it.. even with the keyblade I possess...." admitted Repliku to her.  "And to top that off, we are going to need some serious firepower to even scratch that thing. Only one individual beat a Dark Side according to my memories. I don't know how he did it, and I'm not him." 

The clone of Riku knew the level of trouble they were in was one they wouldn't survive if the Dark Side went all out. Hopefully Omni had done something to make the thing more easily killed, but if not they were in for one hell of a battle. Survival dictated that they do their best to make sure it didn't get any stronger, or be able to produce Shadows and attack them with them. Either way, Repliku knew they were going to definitely have a hard time of fighting it, even if someone would be willing to help them. 

When he noticed a Shadow Stalker appear as well, Repliku facepalmed.  "Damn it. Damn it. Damn it!"  He said. "Why is fate so unkind as to unleash two of the most dangerous types of Heartless against us?!? Change of plans. We'll have to stand and fight." 

[Storyteller]

Patrol Zeugma-310 groaned as his somehow scholastic teammate Patrol Zeugma-312 continued to say things. What things? Who gave a damn? They were patrolling one of the balcony-sidewalks on Pos-32nd Street. Their white plastoid boots clicked on the glass floor, passing by one of the bright “THE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL MESSAGE TO YOU” billboards.

“...just saying, Polysyndeton-15 was telling me that they ran out of Greek letters and-”

“By the Emperor, what is that?” Zeugma-310 snapped, mostly to shut his friend up.

Zeugma-312 looked at the pitch-black beast with the hollow chest. He shrugged.

“Probably another Prime. You know how weird they look,” Zeugma-312 spoke, stumbling over his words to return to his point, “So he says they ran out of Greek letters. And Foreshadowing-139 says that they’re naming us after literary devices now. Who knows, they think it’s the Ape’s idea.”

“Hold up, what are those two doing?”

The two Primes who were sitting on a nearby plastoid bench (the same drab white color of the Stormtrooper’s armors) were now standing. They were drawing weapons.

Zeugma-310 reached for his radio. “Zeugma-310 to Central, we got a Twelve-O-Twenty on Pos-32nd. Silver-haired teenage human-appearing male, wearing black. He just drew a weapon, some sort of big sword, maybe. Anime-type.”

He jerked his head towards the pair while looking at Zeugma-312. The other Stormtrooper sighed and reached behind him to pull out his cuffs.

“One of these days, these asshole Primes will learn.”

“That day, we’ll be out of business.”

The two Stormtroopers marched quickly towards the three combatants, walking past a corner.

“Hey!” Zeugma-310 shouted, “Drop the weapon. You’re under arre-”

A different bench suddenly flung at Zeugma-310, colliding with his torso and throwing him into Zeugma-312. The two Patrols groaned and got up to look at what had just thrown a fucking bench at them. They saw nothing.

“Who was that?” Zeugma-310 shouted, “Which one of you assholes just threw a bench at me?”

“Hands on your head, NOW!” Zeugma-312 said, drawing his blaster and gripping it the same way he learned in training. He moved the pistol’s sights from the hollow black giant to the silver-haired teenager.

“I want you three on your knees and hands on your head!” Zeugma-310 barked.

Zeugma-312 glanced at Zeugma-310. “See, now, Anecdote-53 says stuff like that is a zeugma-”

“Man, ask yourself if this is the right time. You, crystal girl. Hands on your head.”

“But I didn’t do anything!”

“I said, HANDS ON YOUR HEAD.”

The silver-haired boy glanced at the green child and said as earnestly as he could muster, “Officers, we are not the enemy. These things are called Heartless and-”

“And they’re coming too,” Zeugma-310 said, lifting his blaster, “Hands on your head!”

The bench that the two Primes were sitting on suddenly picked itself up and flew at the two Stormtroopers. They split up, moving out of the way.

“Stop doing-”

The hollow giant suddenly smashed into Zeugma-312 with the back of its hand, sending the Patrol flying over the railing of the balcony-sidewalk. The Stormtrooper screamed as he fell into the abyss of T-One.

“THREE-TWELVE!” Zeugma-310 cried after him. He reached for his radio. “Zeugma-310 to Central. Some giant black prick just threw Zeugma-312 over the edge.”

The radio perked. “Central to Zeugma-310, please remain formal-”

Suddenly, the second bench that the other two dodged came to life again, throwing Zeugma-310 over the edge again.

Meanwhile, a Trooper carrier flew across the skies of Tier One. The pilot yawned. It had been a while since the last Prime incursion on Tier One. Who knew why so many of them decided to come here to make a ruckus. All that D-E-Machina-43 knew was that he preferred the quiet days like today.

“Central to all units, we’ve got reports of ten-double-zero on Pos-32nd Street. All units in the vicinity respond.”

Spoke too soon. D-E-Machina 43 clicked his tongue, then pressed a button on his radio.

“D-E-Machina 43 to Central, going there now. I’m towing 11 Combat Troopers. Is it Primes?”

“Sounds like it. Surveillance is picking up about four. One seems to be telekinetic. Sending the approximate location to your navigator.”

D-E-Machina 43 pressed some keys on the holo-screen on his dashboard, typing in the navigation for Pos-32nd Street. The police radio crinkled again.

“Central to all units. Situation on Pos-32nd street is now a 10-10. Move in now.”

“Copy that, Central.”

D-E-Machina 43 flipped a switch above his right ear, a poor placement for the siren. As the incredibly loud noise alerted all the cars nearby, D-E-Machina 43 pulled the plane out of the lane and started flying free-style. One of the citizens watched and grumbled about how sometimes she was convinced that the Troopers did that just to avoid traffic.

The plane spun around one of the tall buildings, having arrived at Pos-32nd Street. There was a small Prime brawl happening. In Tier One! Unthinkable! D-E-Machina 43 lowered the plane and opened the hangar doors.

“Move, move, move!” the Troopers yelled as they scrambled onto the balcony.

[Aquamarine]

“But I didn’t do anything! In fact, this wand was going to try to stop th-”

“I said HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!"

"Ugh, while I try to prevent any other citizens or tourists from getting hurt by these Heartless things, whatever they are, why don't you explain to them what's going on, Repliku?" Things were starting to get bad for Aquamarine, as not only were there were two Heartless around, things that Aquamarine didn't even know existed, but now there were more of those Stormtrooper guards who thought they were the ones who were in the wrong, when they were actually trying to protect themselves. As Aquamarine readied her wand to try to prevent any serious problems, she quickly ducked to avoid a bench possessed by the Shadow Stalker being sent her way, which ended up hitting one of the Stormtroopers instead and knocking them off the balcony-sidewalk.

After avoiding the bench, Aquamarine quickly leaped into the air to try to gain the aerial advantage, and while she was unable to fly, she was surprised that she could jump so high, since at her highest point the shadows looked barely more than ants in size. As she fell to the ground she managed to pass by and grab a small advertisement sign with her wand, and by the time she finally landed on the ground, she quickly smashed the sign onto the Dark Side's head, before using the sign in a quick move to catch the other Stormtrooper as he fell over the edge, before dropping him safely onto the ground of the balcony.

"Your welcome, whatever your name is. Now anyway, please try to evacuate the citizens instead of trying to arrest the ones who are trying to actually stop the problem." As Aquamarine put down the sign and turned her head back to the Dark Side, she saw that the instead of the intended result of it being crushed by the metal, it was only dazed from the heavy metal blow, and as it got back up from the blow she could swear that small shadow-like beings were starting to form from the ground near the Dark Side, which she guessed was a bad thing.

"Hey Repliku, the Dark Side thing is spawning some small minions, should I be worried about them?" Whatever the answer was, Aquamarine didn't hear it, as by the time she finished talking, she could see a plane nearby carrying more Stormtroopers around for backup. "Oh thank goodness you came! There were these shadowy things called Heartless that were trying to attack the place, and we need help stopping these things as well as help evacuating any people who are still around."

Unknowingly for the Gem, the Shadow Stalker, now possesing the sign that Aquamarine was using, was rushing torwards Aquamarine from the back, but luckily for her Repliku was able to protect her at the last second by slashing at the Heartless with his keyblade. As Aquamarine turned around to see what happened, she sighed before starting to flap her wings to try to create a gust to launch the Shadow Stalker away, knocking the Shadow Stalker out of the sign and into a few of the smaller Shadows, causing them to fall unconscious before dissolving.

After the last flap, Aquamarine was starting to get a bit tired from flapping her wings so fast, so she knew she would have to find some way to end this. As she thought of what to do, she continued to use the sign, now free from the Shadow Stalker, in order to mow down any of the smaller shadows that were trying to attack citizens, while also using it to occasionally hit the Dark Side in the face as it tried to attack, causing it to lose focus for a bit from each blow. With one last fling from the sign at the Dark Side and putting the sign down, Abyss decided that it was time to try to finish off the Dark Side before it could summon any more Shadows.

Aquamarine pulled out her Tractor Beam Wand and picked up a small sign with her wand to use to attack.
Repliku used Black Heart to try to stop the Shadow Stalker from attacking.
Aquamarine used Wing Flap to knock the Shadow Stalker into some of the smaller Shadows summoned by the Dark Side.

[Jack Darby]

Now not only did they have the problem of the Dark Side, but it was spawning minions. If he ever met this Omni fellow he was going to have him block the presence of future swarms of Heartless. When a blaster was pointed at his head, a weapon that he didn't recognize Repliku considered it might be similar to the arrow guns of Xigbar before the individual was knocked away by a bench that was thrown by the Shadow Stalker. Okay, Repliku had officially had enough of the Heartless that were rampaging through Tier I. He'd turn to the soldiers. "If you have anyone who is good at the use of magic, get them here yesterday. If you have any Barrier Spells, or similar technology erect them over this area NOW!!!" The keyblade as it was was not powerful enough to deal permanent damage to the pests. What he needed was something with a bit more oomph, something that could fry the Shadow Stalker so he wouldn't have to keep expending as much effort into countering it possessing things, and attacking both himself and Aquamarine. What he needed was some help, some manner of reinforcements that he didn't presently have access to. The heartless couldn't be allowed to spread to other areas, or the fight would get too difficult for Repliku, and Aquamarine to handle even if both received aid from the white clad warriors. Hopefully at least one of them could summon a Keyblade, because if not the situation was going to be even more difficult than the clone had initially thought. Watching Aquamarine rescue the Storm Trooper brought a smile to the face of Repliku for a moment. She cared for the innocents which was a good sign, according to the few memories of Riku that he had left in his mind. 

When he got closer to where Aquamarine was, Repliku froze in fear as he looked at the Dark Side. For the Dark Side was a Heartless only one person had beaten before, one person who was not Repliku nor Riku. Nor did Repliku remember how Sora had done it, because he didn't possess memories of that battle from Riku. This meant that he had no idea of what they should do in order to battle the heartless. Holding it off was going to be difficult. As of that moment, Repliku was completely and totally paralyzed with fear of the oversized Heartless, even if he had managed to bellow out directions to the Storm Troopers.

[Storyteller]

The Stormtroopers were all shouting in a panic. One of them called for even more back-up, and a containment unit (Dramatic Irony Squad).

"Open fire!" Commander Climax-01 shouted

The Climax Squad raised their blasters. "Who, sir?"

"ALL OF THEM!" Climax-01 shouted.

The rifles fired, and red lasers flurried around all four combatants in a terrifying whirl.

Sorry, guys, mini-family crisis here. This is what I had planned for y'all anyway.

[Aquamarine]

As Aquamarine and Repliku continued to fight off the Heartless, before she could start to charge one last technique to knock the Darkside off of the balcony and down into the abyss, the Stormtroopers managed to open fire on everyone, not only shooting at themselves, but onto the Heartless and even the Stormtrooper she managed to save as well. While flurries of lasers flew all around the place, Aquamarine tried to lie down to avoid the lasers, though a laser ended up hitting her side and ended up knocking her near the edge of the platform. After getting up and trying to rub the place where the laser hit her, she decided to take a look at Repliku to see if he was okay.

Unfortunately for her, she saw that Repliku was still acting scared at the Heartless while trying to dodge laser fire, despite her succesful attacks on the Dark Side and Shadow Stalker earlier. After ducking for a bit to dodge the Shadow Stalker, who was now possesing a bench again, Aquamarine flew up to Repliku and slapped him before saying "Hey Repliku! I don't know or want to know why your acting so scared about these guys, but if you can snap yourself out of this trance for a bit, I think I have a plan. If you can distract the two Heartless for a few seconds, I can try to fire something that could blind them so that we can try to drop them off where that one guard fell, though I am not sure on how effective it will be on these guys. Your just going to have to trust me."

While Repliku still looked a bit scared, Aquamarine assumed her talk had worked, since she saw him pull out some sort of staff before heading torwards the Dark Side and hitting the Heartless with it. Since she guessed that Repliku was ready, she jumped once more into the air, and as she reached the peak height of her jump she began to focus energy into the tip of her wand to try to create something to blind the Heartless. After around 4 seconds, Aquamarine noticed that all of the energy was in the form of some ball of light, and while Aquamarine was a bit curious, she didn't have time to think, and as she landed she took aim at the Dark Side and fired the Blinding Ball at the beast.

Luckily, she was able to get a direct hit on the Dark Side, and as it exploded in a burst of bright light everyone around the Heartless ended up being blinded due to the intense brightness of the flash, which unfortunately included Repliku. Aquamarine, however, was just barely out of the range of the flash, and while she couldn't seem to spot the Shadow Stalker at the moment, she put most of her focus on the Dark Side again, and after she once again grabbed the sign she used earlier with her Tractor Beam Wand, she rammed it into the side of the Dark Side, causing it to lose balance and slip onto the edge, falling into the abyss with a very loud roar.

After waiting for the Repliku and the others who were blinded to regain their eyesight, Aquamarine quickly yelled "HEY EVERYBODY! I was able to stop one of the Heartless that was, according to Repliku, wreck the city. I don't see where the other big Heartless thing went, so it could still be around, so I politely ask for you guards to help look for this other guy so that me and Repliku will be able to st-" Before Aquamarine could finish her speech however, she was hit in surprise from the back by the Shadow Stalker, who was now not possesing a bench at the moment, and as she was launched away she ended up landing just on the edge of the balcony-sidewalk, as all of the Stormtroopers aimed their guns at the Heartless.

Repliku used Staff of the Dark Mage.
Aquamarine used Blinding Ball on the Dark Side and ended up blinding the Heartless, Repliku, and a bunch of the Storm Troopers.
Aquamarine used Tractor Beam Wand to knock the Dark Side into the abyss.

[Jack Darby]

"We let the remaining Heartless flee, and it will eventually go back to the one who is controlling it,"  sighed Repliku. "I am not in the mood right now to battle another, nor am I in the shape to do so." said Repliku dismissing the item, his staff that he had summoned. Laser burns from the Imperial Blasters were all over his body, and he was in pain from them. Had he any items that could ease his pain or provide him with the effects of a pain killer,  Repliku would have used them by now, but he didn't have access to any such. Such was the next item he was going to try and make. And since his staff had proven to be next to useless to the young clone of Riku, he was going to get rid of it to the best of his ability, as well as his blades. In the end, it had been Aquamarine who had saved the day and likely several lives in Coruscant from the Heartless. Repliku then asked Aquamarine. "I don't suppose Gems have any healing abilities, do they, or advanced equipment that can facilitate me recovering, before the next batch of problems come our way? We're going to need it..." 

[Storyteller]

As the first Heartless fell over the railings and transformed into dying fog on the way down, the Climax Troopers ducked behind cover, using nearby support columns for cover. Climax-04 even thought that using a potted plant for cover would be a good idea. An interesting plan. As a few of them reloaded their plasma blasters, the rest of the squad released their barrage of fire on whatever object the Heartless happened to be possessing. They had by now managed to demolish most of the larger furniture in the area, and the Heartless had taken to possessing tiny shards of glass. Funnily enough, this was actually doing more damage to the soldiers.

That was until D-E-Machina 43 navigated his plane until it was more or less forming a shadow over the fight. A hatch opened on the bottom of the plane, clicking and whirring as it revealed a giant cannon, frothing with blue energy.

“Everybody get down!” Climax-01 hollered. The Stormtroopers and the two Primes all hit the ground.

A shockwave of sound pulsed from the cannon and hit the Heartless right in its ugly face, along with the two Primes who had no idea what the cannon actually did. Turned out it was just a giant suppression white-noise cannon.

The Stormtroopers watched as the second Heartless disappeared, leaving only shattered pieces of furniture clattering on the plexi-glass balcony. They peered around, scanning the place wildly with their eyes.

“Don’t worry,” the grey-haired Primed said, “I know these things. We scared it off.”

The blasters all clicked and the Troopers aimed their rifles at the Primes.

“On the ground, now!” Climax-01 bellowed.

Aquamarine frowned. “What?”

“You’re under arrest! On the ground, now!”

“But we helped!” the crystallized girl protested, “You would be dead if it weren’t for us!”

“None of this would’ve happened if it weren’t for you,” Climax-03 said, as he walked behind Repliku to cuff him.

“Climax-03, shut up! That isn’t procedure, and you know it!”

“You shout a lot,” Climax-07 muttered.

The red-helmeted captain turned and looked at him. Even under his visor, 07 knew exactly what kind of look 01 was giving him. Climax-07 hurriedly rushed to cuff Aquamarine.

“This is ridiculous,” Aquamarine said, “What kind of legal system is this, anyway?”

“The Imperial one,” Climax-01 shouted (it struck the rest of the Climax squad that 07 was right; Climax-01 never spoke below a bellow), “If you didn’t like it, you shouldn’t have come.”

Climax-07 and Climax-03 were about to cuff Aquamarine and Repliku respectively. Climax-01 readied his rifle. This was usually the point when the Primes would try to escape before being shot down.

[Aquamarine]

“This is ridiculous,” Aquamarine said, as she was being handcuffed by the Climax Troopers, even though she thought she was upholding the law. “What kind of legal system is this, anyway? Back at Homeworld, nobody arrested someone who tried to uphold the law.”

“The Imperial one. If you didn’t like it, you shouldn’t have come.”

While Aquamarine was being handcuffed by the Climax Trooper Climax-03, she stayed absolutely still as she thought about what to do about Coruscant and the possibility of being jailed. She knew that if she just let herself be jailed she would probably be unable to help keep order around when another of those Heartless things attacked, but if she tried to break free, she would most likely be shot to shattering by all the Stormtroopers surrounding her, and the same would likely happen to Repliku as well if he tried to run away. As she thought on what to do, Aquamarine tried to weigh on which option would be less dangerous for her.

After a minute of thinking as well as after Climax-03 handcuffed her, Aquamarine came to a decision in her mind, as she decided to just be arrested and try not to cause any more problems. "Well, this is my first day here, so I am unsure why you would arrest someone who helped you defeat those two monsters, but fine. I guess I'll let you arrest me for now, besides if I try to run away now, your just going to try to kill us."

While Aquamarine did not notice what Repliku was doing currently, she stayed calm as the Climax Troopers waited for her to do something, but after a few minutes, Climax-01 put down his rifle, grabbed Aquamarine by her arm, and threw her into one of the containment cars of the Dramatic Irony Squad, which had just arrived at the moment. As Aquamarine waited for Repliku to join her in the car, she checked around to see what else was in the back of the car. Unfortunately, nothing besides herself was in the back of the car at the time, and a soundproof plexi-glass window was preventing her from being able to talk to the people who were to drive her to jail.

Suprisingly for the Gem, she eventually saw Repliku being walked into the back of a different containment car, which made her confused on why they were travelling in different cars, since it looked like the back of the containment car she was in could fit multiple people. Maybe it was to make sure that she and Repliku did not work together to try to break out, or maybe it was because they were going to pick up more prisoners, and that they were just put in different cars. Whatever the reason, Aquamarine did not have time to figure out, since after a few minutes of waiting, the car had already arrived at the jail.

As she arrived at the jail and was escorted to her cell, she was surprised at how roomy the cell was compared to the cells that usually comprised the prisons on Homeworld ships. This kind of prison cell was just protected by some iron bars she couldn't squeeze through, and inside there was a bed and some sort of flushing device she did not know about. "Hmm... This actually is a lot more roomier than I expected. It's at least better than the prisons at Homworld." Now lying on her bed, Aquamarine started to wait for what was to come, as she played games with her mind.

OOC: Well, I'm done with this thread, and after this I am going to transition my way to my Faction Quest. BTW, the flushing thing I was referring to as Aquamarine was a toilet. Wasn't sure if it was obvious before, but it is now.