Create Your Own Superhero/Villain 2: Rise of Renegade IC

[Confederated Southern States]

"Just wait." Colonel offered.

"In a little bit I'm calling a meeting. We're losing this war as of late... not just us, every resistance group I've come into contact with, from Seattle to Rio."

[Zeinbrad]

Savior was still looking at his hands when he spoke in a unsure voice "I don't know. I don't know. Am I god? Am I a angel?Am I a Demon? I don't kno"

Jack laughed. "Well, we'll find out now won't we?" Jack offered his hand to the disheveled man.

May snorted at Jack's kindness. It would be the death of him one day.

"Then so be it, May." He told her telepathically.

"You insufferable moron."

"I love you, too." He stuck his tongue out at her. She rolled her eyes.

Savior took Jacks hand and stood up. He looked at the charged remains of the Endless soldiers and the Striders corpse.

[Aidannadia]

Jack laughed. "Well, we'll find out now won't we?" Jack offered his hand to the disheveled man.

May snorted at Jack's kindness. It would be the death of him one day.

"Then so be it, May." He told her telepathically.

"You insufferable moron."

"I love you, too." He stuck his tongue out at her. She rolled her eyes.

Savior took Jacks hand and stood up. He looked at the charged remains of the Endless soldiers and the Striders corpse.

"So ya got a name?" Jack asked. "I'm Jack."

May looked at the corpses on the battlefield, on the outside wearing a very cold demeanor, on the inside she sheds one tear.

[Communist Androids]

Cedric
"Fine then." Cedric said, and calmly walked into the base. He was hoping that the Colonel would just let him kill some aliens, but if there was going to be a meeting soon then it wouldn't be long until a real fight. Cedric began walking around the base, getting himself acquainted with everything.

[New Carloso]

Conall stepped on to of the strider. Its curved structure made it hard to balance. He wondered if they could adapt their technology. It was flickering still. He looked into what looked like an eye. It turned red, dazzling Conall.

It spoke, "Renegade speaks of you. You resist but you will fail. Our victory must continue..." Conall had his gun ready to fire. "We'll kick your asses off Earth somehow!" Conall fired the shotgun into its eye. The shot deflected. The demonic voice groaned. "Your resistance is futile, Renegade will destroy you and then... Free." It closed its eye and died down.

Nicole looked up and thought the same thing Conall was thinking. "Who was Renegade?"

[Shaggai]

Zeraliel had failed. It hadn't managed to save even a single person. I have failed, it said numbly as it got to its feet, with Shade's help. I. Have. Failed.

[Confederated Southern States]

Zeraliel had failed. It hadn't managed to save even a single person. I have failed, it said numbly as it got to its feet, with Shade's help. I. Have. Failed.

Alex rolled his eyes. He was getting tired of Zeraliel's self-loathing.

"Yes, we get it, you failed. You're not the only one with issues, buddy."

[New Carloso]

Zeraliel had failed. It hadn't managed to save even a single person. I have failed, it said numbly as it got to its feet, with Shade's help. I. Have. Failed.

Alex rolled his eyes. He was getting tired of Zeraliel's self-loathing.

"Yes, we get it, you failed. You're not the only one with issues, buddy."

Conall stepped up and turned to Alex below. "Hey Alex! Do you know anyone by the name of Renegade!?"

[Confederated Southern States]

Alex rolled his eyes. He was getting tired of Zeraliel's self-loathing.

"Yes, we get it, you failed. You're not the only one with issues, buddy."

Conall stepped up and turned to Alex below. "Hey Alex! Do you know anyone by the name of Renegade!?"

"Nope." Alex replied.

"And it doesn't really concern me."

[New Carloso]

Conall stepped up and turned to Alex below. "Hey Alex! Do you know anyone by the name of Renegade!?"

"Nope." Alex replied.

"And it doesn't really concern me."

"Because Renegade appears to be the Endless leader according to one dead Strider." He stepped off the Strider.

[Confederated Southern States]

"Nope." Alex replied.

"And it doesn't really concern me."

"Because Renegade appears to be the Endless leader according to one dead Strider." He stepped off the Strider.

Alex turned from Zeraliel and replied:

"Tell Colonel, he should know about... that guy or whatever." He said, not knowing anything beyond the name.

[Shaggai]

Zeraliel had failed. It hadn't managed to save even a single person. I have failed, it said numbly as it got to its feet, with Shade's help. I. Have. Failed.

Alex rolled his eyes. He was getting tired of Zeraliel's self-loathing.

"Yes, we get it, you failed. You're not the only one with issues, buddy."

Zeraliel straightened. Frost crackled on the ground around Zeraliel. Under its hood, blazing light outlined eyes filled with rage. Zeraliel's aura blazed as it began to swirl furiously around Zeraliel.

You... You... HUMAN! I have no words for your idiocy. You know nothing, NOTHING of the pain I am in. I could have stopped the invasion. I could have prevented this. I failed. I had one task, and I failed. You cannot understand what that is like. You are a human, not an angel. Your allegiances change easily. I had one task. It meant everything to me. And I failed. Billions died because of me. I am an angel. I feel the pain of responsibility for each and every one of those deaths. You are a human. You feel the pain of billions, and it is more than the pain of a few, but you cannot truly comprehend such numbers. To a human, the death of billions is the same pain as the death of millions. I have failed. And now, because of my failure, I am rejected by my God. Perhaps my God is not your god, but it is my God. Do you know what it is like, to be an angel abandoned by your God? Imagine that everyone you know and love, Jessica, all of the people you ever knew in your short life, hated you utterly. Thought you beneath contempt. And multiply that feeling by a thousand, if you can. That is but a FRACTION of what I feel. Do not speak to me of your pain. It is nothing. Nothing. You feel no pain, no true pain. If you did, it would destroy you utterly.

[Confederated Southern States]

Alex was shaking by the time Zeraliel was finished, his emotions conflicting: on one hand he was beyond furious that Zeraliel had the nerves to insult him again, to believe that his pain was nothing, but on the other he felt genuine sorrow for Zeraliel's position. He simply sat there, wanting to speak but he couldn't. Sweat poured down his head as he tried to speak, but Jessica spoke for him. Her sarcastic clapping echoed in Zeraliel's ears.

"Well done, you were able to emotionally belittle a man with manic depression. Feel good about yourself?" Her tone suddenly shifted to seriousness.

"You talk a big game, Zera, but these men and women are my kin. Do you understand that? You're an angel, these aren't your kind." She announced assertivly.

"Really? This is your big, epic failure? You couldn't save one man?... Everyone in this camp has felt that pain." She motioned towards her fallen comrades, who were being carried off by Resistance members listening intently to Jessica's uncharacteristic rant.

"Everyday of my life for these past years I have fought, bleed and died alongside these people. The faces change, but the reasoning is still the same: hope. If we were all as self-pitying and cynical as you, we'd all have laid down and died by now. We would have submitted to the pain and licked the Endless's feet clean. But we won't; we can't. Zeraliel, I don't understand your people's society, and I don't claim to, but don't you DARE claim you understand Alex, me, or any other human here, because you don't." Her voice was no longer monotone at this point, and she was shaking slightly with emotion.

"Go ahead, if Alex and I's pathetic human lives are so weak and uncomprehensible to your struggles, kill us. Infact, strike me dead right here, end me where I began." Jessica demanded as she lifted her shirt past her stomach, revealing a large scar that most people did not know. She waited, and Zeraliel did not act.

"I knew you couldn't, because somewhere in there you still have some sembelance of the will to hold onto your beliefs. But is that all you live for, Zera? The mission? Is that all? Christ, you're not even a major angel by your own admission. All you have to do is fight, and you failed that? And that gives you the jurisdiction to harass the man I love? We all fail, Zera: it's a part of living." Jessica said as if it was truist thing out there.

"Everyone in this camp has the right to give in, even Colonel Mayfield, but we don't, because we recognize a simple truth: if we continue to fight we have next to no chance of winning, but if we surrender we have no chance. Go ask your God for forgiveness if we survive, such things are beyond me, but either you fight here now, or you can just go. I will not allow you to harass Alex or anyone else. Now make your chance: Give in like yellow-bellied fool or fight like a goddamned man."

[New Carloso]

Alex was shaking by the time Zeraliel was finished, his emotions conflicting: on one hand he was beyond furious that Zeraliel had the nerves to insult him again, to believe that his pain was nothing, but on the other he felt genuine sorrow for Zeraliel's position. He simply sat there, wanting to speak but he couldn't. Sweat poured down his head as he tried to speak, but Jessica spoke for him. Her sarcastic clapping echoed in Zeraliel's ears.

"Well done, you were able to emotionally belittle a man with manic depression. Feel good about yourself?" Her tone suddenly shifted to seriousness.

"You talk a big game, Zera, but these men and women are my kin. Do you understand that? You're an angel, these aren't your kind." She announced assertivly.

"Really? This is your big, epic failure? You couldn't save one man?... Everyone in this camp has felt that pain." She motioned towards her fallen comrades, who were being carried off by Resistance members listening intently to Jessica's uncharacteristic rant.

"Everyday of my life for these past years I have fought, bleed and died alongside these people. The faces change, but the reasoning is still the same: hope. If we were all as self-pitying and cynical as you, we'd all have laid down and died by now. We would have submitted to the pain and licked the Endless's feet clean. But we won't; we can't. Zeraliel, I don't understand your people's society, and I don't claim to, but don't you DARE claim you understand Alex, me, or any other human here, because you don't." Her voice was no longer monotone at this point, and she was shaking slightly with emotion.

"Go ahead, if Alex and I's pathetic human lives are so weak and uncomprehensible to your struggles, kill us. Infact, strike me dead right here, end me where I began." Jessica demanded as she lifted her shirt past her stomach, revealing a large scar that most people did not know. She waited, and Zeraliel did not act.

"I knew you couldn't, because somewhere in there you still have some sembelance of the will to hold onto your beliefs. But is that all you live for, Zera? The mission? Is that all? Christ, you're not even a major angel by your own admission. All you have to do is fight, and you failed that? And that gives you the jurisdiction to harass the man I love? We all fail, Zera: it's a part of living." Jessica said as if it was truist thing out there.

"Everyone in this camp has the right to give in, even Colonel Mayfield, but we don't, because we recognize a simple truth: if we continue to fight we have next to no chance of winning, but if we surrender we have no chance. Go ask your God for forgiveness if we survive, such things are beyond me, but either you fight here now, or you can just go. I will not allow you to harass Alex or anyone else. Now make your chance: Give in like yellow-bellied fool or fight like a goddamned man."

Nicole and Conall ran up to Shade. "I just heard the most emotionally godforsaken rant in the history of shit and I just told myself and Nicole, Let's go over there!" He looked at Zera. "What happened?"

[Zeinbrad]

Savior took Jacks hand and stood up. He looked at the charged remains of the Endless soldiers and the Striders corpse.

"So ya got a name?" Jack asked. "I'm Jack."

May looked at the corpses on the battlefield, on the outside wearing a very cold demeanor, on the inside she sheds one tear.

"Um." Savior said as he put his hand on his chin trying to remember his name. He stopped and spoke "Nor that I can recall"

[Confederated Southern States]

"Just had to put Zeraliel back into his place." Jessica said, her cold and distant personality right back where it was. She wrapped her arms around Alex.

"You ok Alex?" She whispered into his ear.

Alex simply nodded.

"Never been better!" He beamed.

A wry smiled crawled onto Jessica's face... until she realized Conall and Nicole were both still watching.

"So uh, whose up for some basketball?" Alex offered, breaking the somewhat awkward silence.

[New Carloso]

"Just had to put Zeraliel back into his place." Jessica said, her cold and distant personality right back where it was. She wrapped her arms around Alex.

"You ok Alex?" She whispered into his ear.

Alex simply nodded.

"Never been better!" He beamed.

A wry smiled crawled onto Jessica's face... until she realized Conall and Nicole were both still watching.

"So uh, whose up for some basketball?" Alex offered, breaking the somewhat awkward silence.

Conall and Nicole looked at each other funnily. "Okay, but you will be killed of I fall on you!"

[Confederated Southern States]

Alex chuckled.

"Hey, no super armor, cheater! You're just mad because I got jumpers like Michael Jordan!"

[New Carloso]

Alex chuckled.

"Hey, no super armor, cheater! You're just mad because I got jumpers like Michael Jordan!"

Conall ripped off his helmet in dismay. "Damn, its going to take me hours to get it all back on!" Nicole and Conall stripped down their armour. The titanium chest plate hit the ground with a deep thud. "Okay, let's play some B-Ball!"

[Confederated Southern States]

Alex chuckled.

"Hey, no super armor, cheater! You're just mad because I got jumpers like Michael Jordan!"

Conall ripped off his helmet in dismay. "Damn, its going to take me hours to get it all back on!" Nicole and Conall stripped down their armour. The titanium chest plate hit the ground with a deep thud. "Okay, let's play some B-Ball!"

Alex mocked a shock expression.

"Damn, no wonder you hid your face behind your armor, I think I can hear mirrors shattering!" He laughed at his own joke. A lot.

Jessica rolled her eyes.

"Yup, he's fine all right."

[New Carloso]

Conall ripped off his helmet in dismay. "Damn, its going to take me hours to get it all back on!" Nicole and Conall stripped down their armour. The titanium chest plate hit the ground with a deep thud. "Okay, let's play some B-Ball!"

Alex mocked a shock expression.

"Damn, no wonder you hid your face behind your armor, I think I can hear mirrors shattering!" He laughed at his own joke. A lot.

Jessica rolled her eyes.

"Yup, he's fine all right."

"Well, that wasn't nice..." Nicole tutted. "We have ceramic bone implants by the way so... You know... Were unbreakable." She smiled.

Conall walked to the side to pick up a ball.

[Confederated Southern States]

Alex made a pft noise.

"My game's gonna break you. Hit me up, Conall!" He said, asking for the ball.

[New Carloso]

Alex made a pft noise.

"My game's gonna break you. Hit me up, Conall!" He said, asking for the ball.

Conall slammed the ball into Alex's hands. "Think of that only 50 times harder!" He strafed Nicole.

[Confederated Southern States]

Alex wheezed out.

"Not so hard man, this isn't bowling!" He chuckled as he put up a mid-ranged jumper that hit the rim, bounced a bit and rolled out.

"Smooth." Jessica croaked in the background, surfing what was left on the internet with her wrist-computer.

[Aidannadia]

"So ya got a name?" Jack asked. "I'm Jack."

May looked at the corpses on the battlefield, on the outside wearing a very cold demeanor, on the inside she sheds one tear.

"Um." Savior said as he put his hand on his chin trying to remember his name. He stopped and spoke "Nor that I can recall"

"Well, uh..." Jack looked around. "What can you remember?"