THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

Conversation with #ironcity at 2/13/2012 6:12:47 PM on GreenDitch@celestia.canternet.org (irc)
(6:13:42 PM) ***ArcticSpectre heads to the terminal in the bedroom and activates the two customized security bots downstairs
(6:13:47 PM) ***Ember nuzzles Blacklight. "Well, since you're my daughter and we're all here together I say we work together."
(6:13:59 PM) Administration_Guard: "Are you all ready?"
(6:14:18 PM) Freelancer: "one sec, ghost is coming."
(6:14:21 PM) ***Serotin nods.
(6:14:37 PM) Blacklight: "Wait. Wasn't ghost a no-go?"
(6:14:57 PM) Ghost [cool@Pony-f30.4rk.132.204.IP] entered the room.
(6:15:00 PM) ***FluffyWaffles stirs in her sleep, muttering
(6:15:13 PM) ***Administration_Guard turns to Freelancer.
(6:15:18 PM) ***Blacklight calmly strips out of her armor, panting heavily as she goes. "Ugh, the lengths i go for family."
(6:15:39 PM) Blacklight: "YOu don't tell me anything, before its too late."
(6:15:43 PM) Administration_Guard: "You know what I said about that pegasus friend of yours. If we're seen with him, /we're all dead.../"
(6:15:58 PM) ***Ghost comes lazily flying down, lands, then falls on his face. "I'm here, no what'chu want free?"
(6:16:40 PM) ***Ember facehoofs in such an epic way that she needs to down a healing potion right afterwards.
(6:16:40 PM) ***Freelancer looks critically at Ghost. "Are you drunk?"
(6:17:06 PM) ***Administration_Guard gives Ghost a piercing stare.
(6:17:16 PM) Blacklight: "Can I kill him dad?"
(6:17:23 PM) Administration_Guard: It manages to pierce through the full frontal visor.
(6:17:53 PM) ***Blacklight reveals her rather glowing self as the armor is discarded in favour of the purely zebra stealth cloak.
(6:17:55 PM) ***Freelancer throws Ghost the bag with his stuff in it. "Take that, hide it near ice queens house."
(6:18:24 PM) ***Ember "You didn't like the armor in the first place did you Black?"
(6:18:38 PM) Blacklight: "No. I hate armor, armor sucks."
(6:18:59 PM) Blacklight: "It's clunkly, it weights you down. Adds noise, makes you stick out."
(6:19:27 PM) ***Ghost ghost catches it serpisingly well. He nods, "yeah sure thing. You know Me free. Shadow of a ghost."
(6:19:35 PM) Blacklight: "Okay. I'm ready mister Admin dude. To play some banjo."
(6:19:50 PM) Blacklight: "You have a banjo right?"
(6:19:58 PM) ***Blacklight flickers the stealth cloak back on.
(6:20:00 PM) Administration_Guard: "I don't..."
(6:20:22 PM) ***FluffyWaffles kicks in her sleep, eye clenched shut, she moans.
(6:20:23 PM) ***Ember "I guess I can hum some tunes."
(6:21:02 PM) Blacklight: "This is so stupid."
(6:21:07 PM) Spritebot [hlbmsaqpivywn@Pony-ai7lbv.bois.qwest.net] entered the room.
(6:21:20 PM) Serotin: "I'm ready."
(6:21:38 PM) ***Ember sighs. "Let's just get this over with."
(6:21:43 PM) ***Ghost sneaks away back into the shadow and into the sky.
(6:22:26 PM) ***Freelancer sighs, "bloody idoit but he is stealth."
(6:23:18 PM) ***Freelancer Looks at Administration_Guard, "Ok, what do we need to be whearing?
(6:23:45 PM) Administration_Guard: "Well... it's like ponies /usually/ wear clothes..."
(6:24:36 PM) ***Freelancer sudddenly relieves something, "fuck... my cutie mark."
(6:24:55 PM) ***Ember shrugs and gestures at herself, just wearing some normal light barding.
(6:25:04 PM) ***Ember "This good enough?"
(6:25:12 PM) Administration_Guard: "That works."
(6:25:29 PM) ***Ember "Allrighty then."
(6:26:00 PM) ***Blacklight blacklight is naked, except for her stealth-cloak, pipbuck and a saddle with assorted contents. "Dad never said what to bring, cuz he's an idiot."
(6:26:17 PM) Blacklight: "So I brought, stuff."
(6:26:28 PM) Administration_Guard: "That works too."
(6:26:41 PM) ***Ember smiles. "But he's our idiot and we're lucky to have such a smart daughter."
(6:26:49 PM) ***Freelancer digs around in his hol out bag and pulls out a tuxedo, a cowbuck duster,1 of Every hat in exitence, "this work?"
(6:27:54 PM) Administration_Guard: "Sure..."
(6:27:58 PM) Freelancer: "So can I go with the tux and top hat? or the duster and fedora?"
(6:28:22 PM) Blacklight: "This is so embarassing."
(6:28:30 PM) ***Administration_Guard facehooves, producing a loud noise as hoof met glass faceplate.
(6:28:39 PM) ***Ember "Gummy, you're like a mare."
(6:28:41 PM) Administration_Guard: "Let's go..."
(6:28:50 PM) ***Administration_Guard leads the group to the gate.
(6:28:57 PM) ***Ember follows along.
(6:29:43 PM) ***Freelancer follows along.
(6:29:48 PM) ***Administration_Guard presents the emigration card to the guards. Blacklight, Ember, and Serotin are given dismissive glances while Freelancer is shown to a room off to the side.
(6:29:48 PM) ***Blacklight follows along reluctantly. Checking both EFS and her surroundings at all times, and keeping an eye on Adm_Guard for signs.
(6:30:34 PM) ***Freelancer sighs as he's led away. he hated this shit.
(6:32:06 PM) Administration_Guard: Freelancer and Administration_Guard proceed down a dimly lit hallway.
(6:33:22 PM) ***Freelancer looks around, noting airducts, sizing up these ponies, and trying to maintain his act.
(6:33:56 PM) Administration_Guard: there are no goddamn airducks don't put escapes into my goddamn rapebox for fuck's sake lancer
(6:34:27 PM) Ghost left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 121 seconds).
(6:35:09 PM) ***Freelancer just follows... ignoring that vioce in his head.
(6:35:23 PM) Administration_Guard: They reach a room, with various stratification apparatus.
(6:36:36 PM) Administration_Guard: There are no exits.
(6:36:46 PM) ***Freelancer looks around and looks for where their wanting him to be.
(6:37:07 PM) Administration_Guard: Two other ponies in medical garb wave Freelancer over to a table.
(6:38:24 PM) Administration_Guard: "This won't hurt for long." one of them says.
(6:38:49 PM) ***Freelancer sighs and walks over, not making any sudden moves, guessing where this is going would not be fun.
(6:39:03 PM) Administration_Guard: Freelancer is strapped down to the table.
(6:40:23 PM) ***Freelancer looks around and notes any possible weapons. He did no like being restrained.
(6:41:05 PM) Administration_Guard: Before the screening begins, the two ponies drop to the floor, groaning.
(6:41:27 PM) Administration_Guard: The guard seems to have disappeared.
(6:42:38 PM) Administration_Guard: "This is for my Caughlin." Freelancer hears, before his world fades to black.
(6:44:30 PM) Freelancer: Somewhere in Freelancers head, "Well fuck, we're knocked out." says mercy, "Top notch, "says Justice, "fuck both of you we'll figure this shit out." says freelancer.
(6:45:41 PM) Administration_Guard: "Run."
(6:46:23 PM) ***Freelancer obeys that urge and attempts to run likea mother fucker
(6:46:29 PM) Serotin: "Run!"
(6:46:49 PM) Administration_Guard: FREELANCER IS STRAPPED TO A TABLE AND BEGINS TO SEIZE
(6:46:52 PM) Administration_Guard: IN HIS SLEEP
(6:48:10 PM) ***Freelancer looks for the normal warning signs, What was wrong, what was failing, THINK,THINK, THINK!!!!
(6:49:40 PM) Serotin: "Ember, Blacklight... we need to run..."
(6:49:44 PM) Serotin: "Now!"
(6:50:29 PM) Blacklight: "Serotin. Don't freak out, or we alert the ponies around us that we are actually no who we say we are." Blacklight speaks in a monotone fashion.
(6:50:32 PM) ***Ember nods and follows Serotin, not questioning why.
(6:51:01 PM) ***Serotin puts a hoof on Blacklight.
(6:51:12 PM) ***Serotin sheds a single tear.
(6:51:13 PM) Blacklight: "They obviously wanted Lance."
(6:51:40 PM) Serotin: "It was a trap, they don't care about us... we need to go and do what we came here to do..."
(6:51:47 PM) Serotin: "We'll get Freelancer later..."
(6:52:20 PM) ***Blacklight nods in agreement.
(6:52:44 PM) Blacklight: "But don't run or look scared. We don't need that."
(6:52:50 PM) ***Freelancer sonofabitch wake up.Come on fight it, open your eye you piece of shit.
(6:52:58 PM) Serotin: "No... just... come on."
(6:53:53 PM) Spritebot: "Hello!" a female voice screeches into existance beside Freelancer.
(6:54:34 PM) Spritebot: "Do you remember me?"
(6:54:58 PM) ***Ember follows Serotin closely.
(6:55:30 PM) Freelancer: "Cass?"
(6:55:36 PM) ***Serotin goes down an alleyway, leading the party through an unlit doorway.
(6:55:50 PM) Spritebot: "Bingo!"
(6:56:03 PM) Spritebot is now known as Cassettebot
(6:56:07 PM) Freelancer: "Oh fuck where am I?
(6:56:35 PM) ***Freelancer keeps trying to jet his friging body to wake up.
(6:57:01 PM) Administration_Guard: Freelancer is in the same room as before. He has been awakened by a sudden burst of light.
(6:58:08 PM) Serotin: Serotin, Ember, and Blacklight find themselves in a small storeroom. At the back of the room is a door. It's locked.
(6:58:46 PM) ***Blacklight uses a lightspell to search for traps, in this unlit storerom
(6:58:50 PM) Cassettebot: "Tell me, what do you /think/ is going on here?"
(6:58:52 PM) ***Freelancer pulls against his restranits. fuck this he was out.
(6:59:25 PM) Freelancer: "I think I'm trying to figure that out myself right now."
(6:59:27 PM) ***Blacklight heads to the door, and checks the lock.
(6:59:36 PM) ***Ember "Uhm, Sero, why did you bring us here?"
(7:00:00 PM) Serotin: "The guard said we should stay here for the night. There's food on the shelves... apparently..."
(7:00:15 PM) ***Freelancer trys to move, to get free of his restraits."
(7:00:40 PM) ***Ember "And this whole thing was a set-up?"
(7:00:45 PM) ***Blacklight groans and tries to pick the lock. "You don't listen to guard ponies Serotin. Especially not when the whole thing is a bust."
(7:00:50 PM) ***Freelancer yanks against them, "Wait, Cass... Theo was killed, how did you survive?"
(7:01:15 PM) Cassettebot: "Neither of us died. Think about it. What happened /after/ the body fell?"
(7:01:41 PM) Serotin: "I... I'm just doing what Theo said!"
(7:01:52 PM) ***Ember "Wait. Theo?!"
(7:02:03 PM) ***Ember "I thought he was dead?"
(7:02:08 PM) Freelancer: "They fucking tore him open like a bag of meat."
(7:02:16 PM) Cassettebot: "But why?"
(7:02:28 PM) Freelancer: "I was... not.. pleasent."
(7:02:41 PM) Blacklight: "Or his alter ego Cassette? He had those weard markings right and that transpony attitude?" The lock opens.
(7:02:56 PM) ***Blacklight nudges the door open.
(7:03:12 PM) ***Ember closely follows Blacklight.
(7:03:26 PM) Serotin: "No, he... it was the first time I really talked with Theo... and it was /after/ last night..."
(7:04:02 PM) Blacklight: "You're an awfully dense Pony Serotin. Ember must have pitied you."
(7:04:02 PM) Serotin: "Remember how I kind of... hanging back... the entire way here?"
(7:04:05 PM) Freelancer: "I don't know."
(7:04:21 PM) Cassettebot: "What did they /remove/ from the body?"
(7:04:38 PM) ***Ember nods. "Yeah, you were staying ba-What? I didn't pity Serotin!"
(7:05:02 PM) Blacklight: "Did too. Former slave. Puppy-dog eyes. Total crush on you. Of course you pitied him."
(7:05:05 PM) ***Freelancer remembered. He looked at the floor next to him and concentrats.
(7:05:42 PM) ***Administration_Guard pounces into Freelancer's vision, breaking his focus.
(7:05:56 PM) Serotin: "There... there was... this... robot... thing..."
(7:06:27 PM) Serotin: "Theo was using... no, it /was/ Theo... I think..."
(7:06:41 PM) ***Freelancer snarls, "oi fuck of." he trys to bit him.
(7:06:48 PM) Freelancer: [[ * bite ]]
(7:07:14 PM) ***Ember blushes. "Okay, yeah. Maybe I pitied him when we first met, and sometimes when he had no clue what was going on. But I know that I don't have to."
(7:07:17 PM) ***Cassettebot zaps Freelancer to bring his attention back to her.
(7:07:52 PM) ***Administration_Guard is totally oblivious to the banter between Ember and Blacklight as he attempts to gather his rationale.
(7:08:19 PM) ***Freelancer snarls, "WHY!"
(7:09:48 PM) ***Freelancer keeps focusing on that image of the floor in his minds eye.
(7:10:13 PM) ***Ember turns her head to Serotin. "So Theo /is/ still alive. Sorta."
(7:10:40 PM) ***Administration_Guard scores a hole in the ground with his armored hoof, just where Freelancer was ogling moments before.
(7:11:06 PM) ***Serotin nods.
(7:11:32 PM) ***Blacklight heads further inside, sending a bowl of light to show them the way.
(7:11:50 PM) Freelancer: "Seriosly? what the fuck Cass?"
(7:12:11 PM) Cassettebot: "..."
(7:12:13 PM) Freelancer: "Why couldn't you just TELL me you had a plan."
(7:12:25 PM) ***Ember is quite confused. "We went here to look for the ponies that killed Theo, but instead he is still alive. Then it turns out to be a trap and they take Lancer prisoner."
(7:12:29 PM) Cassettebot: "You... you're really daft, you know that?"
(7:12:47 PM) Freelancer: "If I had known this was apart of some plna I wouldn't have shot that poor mare."
(7:12:57 PM) ***Blacklight turns back to Ember, and Serotin. "Duuh, I told you this smelled like a setup."
(7:13:34 PM) Freelancer: "I know you had something planed. But i was hopeing it wouldn't invovle me or Ember. WHY! "
(7:13:39 PM) ***Ember stares at Blacklight and nods.
(7:14:04 PM) Cassettebot: "Freelancer, that... we're very mad about the loss of that mare, but I don't think you understand what's going on."
(7:14:14 PM) You are now known as GreenDitch
(7:14:16 PM) ***Administration_Guard facehooves.
(7:14:44 PM) Serotin: "Ember, to tell you the truth..."
(7:14:50 PM) Freelancer: "No I do not. and I'm very pissed off becuase this means I killed some poor mare for no god damn reason."
(7:15:04 PM) ***Ember turns to Serotin. "Yes, the truth. Please."
(7:15:07 PM) Serotin: "I... I had spoken with Theo... before... he died..."
(7:15:38 PM) ***Ember raises her eyebrow. "And?"
(7:15:41 PM) Serotin: "Before any of us even met him, really..."
(7:15:55 PM) Freelancer: "why involve me?"
(7:16:03 PM) Serotin: "I... I did something /bad.../"
(7:16:27 PM) ***Ember "Tell me, Sero."
(7:16:41 PM) Cassettebot: "I'm not going to bore you with the details. The plan was to get you here. To this very room."
(7:17:00 PM) ***Freelancer 's horn starts glowing, "why involve Ember?"
(7:17:13 PM) Serotin: "You remember, how I... I didn't like G-gummy?"
(7:17:29 PM) ***Ember slowly nods.
(7:17:42 PM) Cassettebot: "No harm will come to her. Rest assured."
(7:17:54 PM) ***Freelancer eye's start glowing, "Why. my. unborn child."
(7:18:14 PM) Serotin: "I-it was moment of weakness... you... he'd just... you and him..."
(7:18:58 PM) ***Ember slowly steps forward towards Serotin. "What did you do?" Her voice is calm and controlled.
(7:19:01 PM) Blacklight: "You wanted a piece of her flanks?"
(7:19:08 PM) ***Cassettebot remains silent.
(7:19:11 PM) Blacklight: "Gummy out of the way?"
(7:19:20 PM) ***Serotin glares at Blacklight.
(7:19:25 PM) ***Freelancer "I am not a happy pony Cass. Now tell me why you couldn't have just asked me before i do something I'll regret." He starts smoking
(7:19:36 PM) ***Blacklight glares back. "If you hurt him I will murder you."
(7:19:40 PM) Serotin: "I... I made a deal..."
(7:19:59 PM) Serotin: "I didn't think this is where it take us... and him..."
(7:20:06 PM) Serotin: *would take
(7:20:09 PM) Serotin: *was
(7:20:31 PM) ***Ember sighs and closes her eyes. "Sero. Please tell me you didn't do anything stupid."
(7:21:01 PM) ***Serotin has tears flowing from his eyes.
(7:21:25 PM) Blacklight: "It's too late for that." Blacklight replaces Embers comforting gaze. "Tell us what you did. Where is Lancer?"
(7:22:19 PM) Cassettebot: "It's not too late, but I don't think you're going to want to help this 'Gummy' of yours."
(7:22:41 PM) Administration_Guard:  "It's not too late, but I don't think you're going to want to help this 'Gummy' of yours."
(7:23:01 PM) ***Ember glares at Administration_Guard. "Then you do not know me."
(7:23:01 PM) Administration_Guard: The guard from earlier trots into the room.
(7:23:33 PM) Administration_Guard: "I don't want any fighting."
(7:23:44 PM) Administration_Guard: "Please, tell me, who do you think Freelancer is?"
(7:23:56 PM) ***Freelancer is shacking in furry. "what the fuck do you want form me?"
(7:24:38 PM) ***Ember snorts. "I don't care where he is right now. I can tell you that if he isn't in this room within five minutes I'm going to do things I'm going to regret."
(7:24:46 PM) Cassettebot: "We don't want /anything/ from you.... goddesses, you /still/ don't get it, do you!?"
(7:24:56 PM) ***Freelancer horn is now glowing, along with his eyes. strangley it smells... chard around him, like a fire.
(7:25:06 PM) Freelancer: "EXPLAIN IT!"
(7:25:41 PM) Cassettebot: "No... I think it would be better if you died knowing that your family will live on, and nothing more."
(7:25:47 PM) ***Blacklight moves towards Administration_Guard. "Where is he?"
(7:25:55 PM) ***Cassettebot zaps Freelancer's horn, rendering it inert.
(7:26:16 PM) Administration_Guard: "I'll tell you. But..."
(7:26:21 PM) Administration_Guard: "You must hear me out."
(7:27:01 PM) Administration_Guard: The doorway leading into the storeroom is suddenly closed, despite there not being a door in its frame moments before.
(7:27:21 PM) Blacklight: "Talk then. Before you die."
(7:27:25 PM) ***Ember is breathing deep, steady breaths. "Start talking. Quickly."
(7:27:37 PM) ***Freelancer starts luaghing "Kill me? kill me?" is maneand tail starts riplling. "What , do, you, want?"
(7:27:49 PM) Administration_Guard: "Where did Freelancer come from?"
(7:27:57 PM) ***Administration_Guard starts pacing around the room.
(7:28:08 PM) Blacklight: "Zebra lands."
(7:28:09 PM) ***Ember "He was born in the remnant."
(7:28:17 PM) Freelancer: "I was the product of a zebra and a Mare unicorn FUCKING."
(7:28:33 PM) ***Ember "His father was pretty much the big boss."
(7:28:49 PM) ***Ember "How is that relevant?"
(7:28:57 PM) Cassettebot: "Spare me the details."
(7:29:08 PM) Administration_Guard: "Why do you think he left?"
(7:29:18 PM) Blacklight: "Because he did stupid things."
(7:29:36 PM) ***Ember "Because the zebras didn't like that he was half blood."
(7:29:56 PM) Administration_Guard: "That is incorrect."
(7:30:08 PM) Administration_Guard: "Has he told you about the death of his brother?"
(7:30:14 PM) ***Ember "What?!"
(7:30:27 PM) ***Ember "That's a lie!"
(7:30:38 PM) Blacklight: "Yea. He killed him when he was 3."
(7:30:47 PM) Administration_Guard: "No... not quite."
(7:31:04 PM) Administration_Guard: "He was well into his teens when it happened."
(7:31:11 PM) Blacklight: "Was the whipping really true then? Aw shucks."
(7:31:25 PM) Administration_Guard: "His brother had just been born."
(7:31:37 PM) Administration_Guard: "Caesarian vivisection, the mother didn't live."
(7:31:41 PM) ***Ember looks around in confusion. "Why does everypony know more about him than me? I am the one that was supposed to have seen his memories!"
(7:32:10 PM) ***Freelancer has had enough of this bull shit. he Vanishes aing a firy flash and reapper slightly to the left and hiting the wall in aburst of flame. "I see why Ember LIKES this!" His mane, and tail are on fire so are his stripes.
(7:32:56 PM) Administration_Guard: "He will tell you that he killed his brother because he killed their mother."
(7:33:06 PM) Blacklight: "and??" Blacklight gets closer to Administration_Guard. "I fail to see how this relates to the present day Lancer."
(7:33:16 PM) Administration_Guard: "Hear me out."
(7:33:53 PM) Administration_Guard: "The first thing you should know, is that his brother survived. Keep that in mind."
(7:34:10 PM) Blacklight: "Please, just skip the pleasantries."
(7:34:21 PM) ***Ember falls down, completely stunned.
(7:34:22 PM) Blacklight: "Tell me why this is happening, instead of boring details."
(7:34:39 PM) Administration_Guard: "He left the remnant, yes?
(7:34:42 PM) Administration_Guard: Why?"
(7:34:47 PM) Blacklight: "Why is Iron City interested in Freelancer. The retired ranger taking care of foals."
(7:35:14 PM) Administration_Guard: "The entire wasteland is interested in Freelancer."
(7:35:19 PM) Blacklight: "Faction disagreement. He left and discarded his legacy."
(7:35:26 PM) Administration_Guard: "Hardly."
(7:35:41 PM) ***Ember "Are you one of those remnant assholes?"
(7:35:52 PM) Administration_Guard: "No."
(7:35:57 PM) Administration_Guard: "But /he/ is."
(7:36:11 PM) ***Ember "Was."
(7:36:14 PM) ***Freelancer looks around the room, escape. he needed to escape now.
(7:36:30 PM) ***Cassettebot zaps Freelancer with several anesthetic spells.
(7:36:32 PM) Blacklight: "You really gotta cut the bullshit. He aint a spy."
(7:36:41 PM) Administration_Guard: "Why do you think he created the orphanage?"
(7:36:50 PM) Blacklight: "I was hunting with him, and former faction comrades pounced him like they wanted him dead."
(7:36:51 PM) Administration_Guard: "He doesn't even know the real reason."
(7:37:07 PM) Blacklight: "Then tell me."
(7:37:11 PM) ***Freelancer falls down and trys to rise, failing, "Why do you want to kill me?"
(7:37:18 PM) ***Ember "Tell me too, please."
(7:37:30 PM) ***Ember "Make this make sense."
(7:37:43 PM) Cassettebot: "Soldiers."
(7:38:06 PM) Cassettebot: "You were going to create soldiers. That's why you're here."
(7:38:40 PM) Administration_Guard: "The Crusader Orphanage was a project designed by the Remnants."
(7:38:42 PM) ***Freelancer trys to get up, "Why, do you need me?"
(7:38:46 PM) Freelancer: "clones?"
(7:38:54 PM) Cassettebot: "No. We need you to stop."
(7:39:08 PM) ***Blacklight moves closer to Administration_guard, looking over him for maybe a keycard or something to open the door with. "Really?"
(7:39:11 PM) ***Ember flares up. "What. The. Fuck."
(7:39:36 PM) Blacklight: "Sounds plausible. There's motive, and he did lay the foundations."
(7:39:58 PM) Blacklight: "so why are you interrupting his project?"
(7:40:10 PM) ***Ember "But... The remnants, they tried killing us multiple times!"
(7:40:12 PM) Freelancer: "stop what?"
(7:40:24 PM) Administration_Guard: "The Remnants aren't informed."
(7:40:36 PM) ***Freelancer keps trying to push himself up, "I don't DO anything."
(7:40:43 PM) Cassettebot: "Stop the Children's Crusade."
(7:40:55 PM) Blacklight: "Why are you stopping him from making use of Equestrias lost ones?"
(7:40:56 PM) Freelancer: "What?"
(7:41:11 PM) Freelancer: "thats it? this is about the orphanage?"
(7:41:18 PM) Blacklight: "They are merely children. It will be years before they can be useful."
(7:41:25 PM) Cassettebot: "Yes."
(7:41:39 PM) Administration_Guard: "That's the point."
(7:41:40 PM) ***Ember "Useful? We're just taking care of them!"
(7:41:47 PM) Blacklight: "Why do you think both New Unicornia, and Unity have agents within his Circle?"
(7:42:00 PM) ***Freelancer shackily gets to his front legs, "ok, why didn't you just ask? I could have sen them else where in the NCR."
(7:42:04 PM) Administration_Guard: "How do you think Lock Pick appeared at the orphanage?"
(7:42:27 PM) Administration_Guard: "Or that one taken by those two mares, Cog."
(7:42:29 PM) ***Ember stammers a bit. "I-I guessed that the mother heard from us."
(7:42:55 PM) ***Ember "And Freelancer came back with Cog and the others."
(7:43:12 PM) Administration_Guard: "Lock Pick is a genetically superiour filly. Along with most of the other foals in the orphanage."
(7:43:40 PM) ***Blacklight teases Administration_guard by giving him a sensual smile and taking on a more pleasing less aggressive swagger. "He wants skiled, highly trained, and capalbe assassins. I get it."
(7:43:45 PM) ***Ember smacks herself on the head. "Nope, not a dream." she mutters.
(7:43:53 PM) Cassettebot: "Because you don't even know what needs to stop."
(7:44:00 PM) Blacklight: "What I don't get is why you are stopping him."
(7:44:11 PM) Administration_Guard: "What he is doing is wrong."
(7:44:17 PM) Administration_Guard: "He's creating child soldiers."
(7:44:27 PM) Blacklight: "How did you find out?"
(7:44:40 PM) ***Freelancer gets shakily up, "What the hell... I just want to give  some kids a decent home."
(7:44:43 PM) Administration_Guard: "We have known. /I/ have known... for a long time."
(7:44:47 PM) ***Ember just stares at a patch of floor blankly.
(7:45:02 PM) Cassettebot: "That's the problem. You literally don't get it."
(7:45:18 PM) Blacklight: "If you wanted to stop him. All you would have to do is kill him."
(7:45:35 PM) Blacklight: "He's quite easy to kill."
(7:45:35 PM) Administration_Guard: "We've tried. /I've/ tried..."
(7:45:36 PM) Freelancer: "/me is finally on all fours. "I just want to be left alone. raise my family, have afoal, die of old age."
(7:45:58 PM) Cassettebot: "That's what you think you're doing. But reality begs to differ."
(7:45:58 PM) Blacklight: "Oh comon, you held the knife in that other room."
(7:46:07 PM) ***Cassettebot zaps Freelancer again.
(7:46:19 PM) ***Ember raises her head in anger. "You will NOT kill him."
(7:46:20 PM) Blacklight: "Don't tell me you didn't prep an autodock to vivisect him?"
(7:46:27 PM) Administration_Guard: "We won't kill him."
(7:46:35 PM) Administration_Guard: "I would never kill my brother."
(7:46:57 PM) ***Ember is back to blankly staring into space.
(7:46:59 PM) Blacklight: "Then this is pointless, and you could have simply talked him out of it."
(7:47:16 PM) ***Freelancer falls over, "Why... why can't I just be with Ember and be happy."
(7:47:54 PM) Blacklight: "All you would have to do is convince Ember to take him away from the foals."
(7:47:56 PM) Cassettebot: "We're sorry."
(7:47:56 PM) Freelancer: "I don't want to make the world change..."
(7:48:04 PM) Cassettebot: "But this is going to hurt."
(7:48:08 PM) Freelancer: "no your not."
(7:48:16 PM) ***Cassettebot fires a small dart into Freelancer's shoulder.
(7:48:51 PM) Administration_Guard: "You can't talk him out of anything."
(7:49:01 PM) Administration_Guard: "He's been /programmed/ to do this."
(7:49:11 PM) Administration_Guard: "It's why we aren't killing him."
(7:49:26 PM) Blacklight: "Reprogramming him then?"
(7:49:29 PM) ***Freelancer looks calmly at Cassettebot, "I ... just want her ... to live..."
(7:49:50 PM) ***Blacklight throws a set of daggers at the administration_Guard. "Can't let you do that."
(7:49:57 PM) Cassettebot: "Don't worry. You'll both make it out of this."
(7:50:01 PM) ***Ember "So..." she stands up. "what you're saying is that he is no more than a robot. That everything I have been through with him was a lie?"
(7:50:17 PM) Administration_Guard: "No, Ember. Freelancer is /not/ a robot."
(7:50:40 PM) Administration_Guard: "He is a living being, just like you or I."
(7:50:57 PM) ArcticSpectre: (ever heard of brain washing?)
(7:51:00 PM) ***Ember "But someone fucked up his brain."
(7:51:06 PM) Administration_Guard: "Yes."
(7:51:11 PM) Administration_Guard: "And we're going to fix him."
(7:51:25 PM) ***Blacklight shakes her head. "I won't let you."
(7:51:44 PM) ***Ember looks angry again. "Neither will I."
(7:51:45 PM) Administration_Guard: "Blacklight. You were his first."
(7:52:03 PM) Blacklight: "Pfft. I doubt that. Ember was his first."
(7:52:23 PM) ***Blacklight ignores the hologram, and looks at the door it came from.
(7:52:24 PM) Administration_Guard: "No, Blacklight."
(7:52:35 PM) Administration_Guard: "You were his first /soldier./"
(7:52:45 PM) Administration_Guard: "Why does your coat glow?"
(7:53:00 PM) Administration_Guard: "Why do you always seem to get a hold of those pipbucks?"
(7:53:41 PM) Blacklight: "Because I know where to find them."
(7:54:11 PM) Administration_Guard: "You have a chip in your head that tells you where to find them."
(7:54:16 PM) ***Blacklight points at the door. "Ember, we need to melt this thing."
(7:54:30 PM) Blacklight: "Oh comon, that's bollox."
(7:54:31 PM) ***Administration_Guard shakes his head.
(7:54:39 PM) ***Ember nods. "Get back." she says as she backs off as well.
(7:54:44 PM) Administration_Guard: "That door isn't going down."
(7:54:54 PM) Serotin: "Wait!"
(7:54:57 PM) Serotin: "Ember!"
(7:55:02 PM) ***Ember "What?"
(7:55:09 PM) Serotin: "I... I know I don't like Freelancer, but... this makes sense..."
(7:55:18 PM) ***Blacklight stands back, and instead looks to Serotin. "How dare you."
(7:55:31 PM) Serotin: "And... he already said... they're not going to kill him..."
(7:55:42 PM) ***Blacklight throws a knife in his direction. "They're gonna make hima vegetable."
(7:55:59 PM) Administration_Guard: "No, Blacklight."
(7:56:03 PM) ***Ember "Serotin. He just told me that everything I knew is a lie basically."
(7:56:06 PM) Administration_Guard: "We're going to free him."
(7:56:09 PM) Blacklight: "Nananananananaa. I don't believe you. "
(7:56:28 PM) Serotin: "Ember, I know... I'm going through the same thing..."
(7:56:30 PM) ***Blacklight looks for a way to shut down the hologram. A projector or something.
(7:57:02 PM) ***Ember "I don't want to hear this!" she yells at Serotin.
(7:57:20 PM) Serotin: "I don't want to either!"
(7:57:38 PM) Administration_Guard: "Perhaps I can assuage your fears."
(7:57:52 PM) ***Ember "I can't believe it. I can't." She looks down at the floor again.
(7:58:06 PM) Administration_Guard: "Prove to you, that I am Freelancer's brother."
(7:58:26 PM) Blacklight: "You're just a hologram. It could be a fabricated image, you could be showing us anything."
(7:58:48 PM) ***Ember glares at Administration_Guard. "Do it."
(7:58:52 PM) ***Blacklight glares at Serotin. "And it's all your fault."
(7:59:05 PM) ***Ember "Prove to me that you're right."
(7:59:15 PM) Ember: "I dare you!"
(7:59:16 PM) ***Blacklight giggles. "I can't fix daddy. I can fix you."
(7:59:35 PM) Administration_Guard: The hologram fizzles away. The door opens for just a moment, as the real goddamn deal walks in.
(7:59:49 PM) ***Administration_Guard takes off his helmet, revealing a white coat...
(7:59:58 PM) Administration_Guard: Blue mane..
(8:00:03 PM) Administration_Guard: And blue stripes.
(8:00:07 PM) Blacklight: (Fuck, i wanted to teleport.)
(8:00:21 PM) ***Ember 's mouth falls open. "You're like the anti him!"
(8:00:43 PM) ***Blacklight sighs at Embers resistance fading. "It could be paint for all we know, or a cleverly fabricated clone."
(8:00:52 PM) Blacklight: "This is silly."
(8:01:18 PM) Administration_Guard: "Ember, I want what's best for my brother."
(8:01:34 PM) Administration_Guard: "And you breaking him out before the operation is over... isn't it."
(8:01:40 PM) Blacklight: "He's lying. If he did it would have happened sooner."
(8:01:46 PM) ***Ember yells "Then why won't youlet him live in peace!"
(8:02:02 PM) Administration_Guard: "Because if we don't intervene, he'll die."
(8:02:03 PM) ***Ember "We were happy before you showed up!"
(8:02:13 PM) ***Ember falls down. "What.'
(8:02:23 PM) Administration_Guard: "When the army is complete, he will die."
(8:02:32 PM) Administration_Guard: "His brain will shut itself off."
(8:02:33 PM) ***ArcticSpectre walks through a door behind Ember, Serotin, and Blacklight. She looks whole. her cybernetics are completely missing, replaced by her normal limbs, both eyes are burning like frozen fire, and she's smiling maliciously.
(8:02:35 PM) ***Ember "What. The. Actual. Fuck."
(8:03:13 PM) Blacklight: "I tire of this. They were mine to train, and mine to lead."
(8:03:14 PM) ***Ember starts banging her skull. "What. The. Fuck!"
(8:03:41 PM) ***Ember "You too?" she stares at Blacklight.
(8:03:58 PM) Freelancer is now known as Justice
(8:04:24 PM) ***Blacklight nods. "If it makes you feel better, I still love you."
(8:04:28 PM) ***Ember looks around the room, staring at Serotin, Blacklight, Administration_Guard and finally ArcticSpectre.
(8:04:46 PM) ***Serotin is weeping in the corner.
(8:04:57 PM) ArcticSpectre: "Hello, Ember."
(8:05:03 PM) ***Blacklight throws a pair of daggers at Administration_Guard who is now the real deal. "That's why you die first."
(8:05:04 PM) ***Justice snap open, "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEES JUSTICE!!!!"
(8:05:05 PM) ***Ember "I-I-I-I-I..."
(8:05:16 PM) ***Administration_Guard dodges... one of the knives.
(8:05:27 PM) Cassettebot: "OH FUCK"
(8:05:34 PM) ***ArcticSpectre grabs the other in telekinesis.
(8:05:35 PM) Cassettebot: "WE REMOVED THE WRONG PART OF HIS BRAIN"
(8:05:46 PM) Cassettebot: "QUICK, QUICK, PUT IT BACK! PUT IT BACK!"
(8:05:53 PM) ***Justice get shakily, "up, wow, Gummy. treating the meat beg pooorly aintswe?"
(8:06:08 PM) ***Blacklight grabs the knife that hit with telekinesis, and shanks Administration_guard repetedly.
(8:06:19 PM) ***Administration_Guard falls to the ground.
(8:06:34 PM) Administration_Guard: "Please... stop..."
(8:06:57 PM) ***Justice looks around at where he is, "Ladies and gentle colts, I am to nights entertianment."
(8:07:14 PM) ***Ember is trembling and slowly rocking on the floor. Her horn starts to glow as her eyes stare into nothingness.
(8:07:23 PM) ***ArcticSpectre sighs
(8:07:38 PM) ArcticSpectre: "well this is a clusterfuck I walked into. I figured you'd be done by now."
(8:07:45 PM) Cassettebot: "No! No! Stop! You are an artificial construct, give Freelancer control! Stop!"
(8:08:06 PM) ***Blacklight engages a stealthbuck and checks Administration_Guard for a way to get past the door. To the point of smooshing his body against it.
(8:08:15 PM) ***Administration_Guard is bleeding profusely.
(8:08:17 PM) Blacklight: (Which basically destealths her again.)
(8:08:35 PM) Administration_Guard: "Please... I... he... I don't want him to die..."
(8:08:53 PM) Blacklight: "I don't care what you want."
(8:09:11 PM) ***Blacklight slams him into the door. "It's just me. Me. Me. Mee."
(8:09:21 PM) ***ArcticSpectre slams Blacklight into the wall with telekinesis and bands of ice surround her, locking her in place.
(8:09:24 PM) Administration_Guard: "You... want him alive..."
(8:09:38 PM) ***Justice cackles in glee. "pop quiz Cass: what was the other side of Gummeies personality?"
(8:09:42 PM) ***Ember 's horn glows slightly brighter as a fireball appears in front of her. The sight of the yellow flames seems to calm her down a bit.
(8:09:55 PM) ***ArcticSpectre fires a few pulses of healing magic at Administration_Guard
(8:09:56 PM) ArcticSpectre: "Oh stand up."
(8:09:57 PM) ***Serotin is still crying.
(8:10:02 PM) ***Blacklight throws a knife at arcticspectre.
(8:10:11 PM) Blacklight: "Don't you forget me."
(8:10:16 PM) ***Administration_Guard gets up, taking the knife for ArcticSpectre.
(8:10:29 PM) ***Blacklight sends more knives their way.
(8:11:02 PM) ***Administration_Guard takes the brunt of the onslaught.
(8:11:02 PM) ***Ember 's pupils grow smaller and her eyes wider as the colour of the flames changes from yellow to a sickening green...
(8:11:06 PM) ***Justice stretches out, "ah man gummy you let yourself go."
(8:11:22 PM) ***ArcticSpectre grunts in irritation, and a wall of ice cuts Blacklight off from the rest of the room
(8:11:56 PM) ***Blacklight teleports behind arcticSpectre, and tries to buck the mare.
(8:11:58 PM) ***Justice looks around the room for his first, victim, a weapon, or something to punch.
(8:12:00 PM) ArcticSpectre: "Do I seriously need to heal you again, Administration_Guard?"
(8:12:09 PM) Administration_Guard: "Yes... m'lady..."
(8:12:10 PM) ***Ember starts chuckling a bit as the green flame grows larger, to the size of her hoof. Then two hooves.
(8:12:10 PM) ***ArcticSpectre disappears
(8:12:21 PM) ***Blacklight dissapears with the click of another stealthbuck
(8:12:49 PM) ***Ember 's chuckling changes into a laughter as the flame gets the size of her head.
(8:12:49 PM) ***Serotin crawls over to Ember.
(8:12:52 PM) ***Blacklight decides to fuck it, and begins pounding Administration guard.
(8:13:04 PM) Administration_Guard: "Oof!"
(8:13:09 PM) Blacklight: "This could have been so easy."
(8:13:11 PM) ***ArcticSpectre appears again, firing a few more pulses of healing magic at Administration_Guard
(8:13:12 PM) ***Serotin hugs Ember.
(8:13:14 PM) Blacklight: "But noo, he had to go to iron city."
(8:13:31 PM) Administration_Guard: "I'm telling you, we're trying to save Freelancer!"
(8:13:46 PM) ***ArcticSpectre tendrils of ice appear out of the wall, slamming into Blacklight
(8:14:06 PM) ***Ember doesn't seem to notice Serotin as her laughing increases. The green flame becomes the size of a foal, a mare, a fully grown stallion.
(8:14:48 PM) Serotin: "Please... Ember..."
(8:15:14 PM) Serotin: "Don't go..."
(8:15:18 PM) ***Blacklight teleports behind Ember. Shaking, and out of focus. "Fuck."
(8:15:37 PM) ***Blacklight stabs Ember in her back.
(8:15:37 PM) ***Administration_Guard stands back up, dripping ludicrous amounts of blood.
(8:15:42 PM) ***ArcticSpectre another image of Spectre appears beside Serotin and whispers to him "go to her."
(8:15:43 PM) ***Ember turns her head to face Serotin, but her eyes don't seem to register him. Behind her the fire continues growing to the size of a boxcar.
(8:15:59 PM) Serotin: *through Serotin
(8:16:06 PM) ***Justice smashes trough the door, top of head reattached, "ya'see Gummy? A little Necromancy never hurt any body."
(8:16:10 PM) Serotin: [the stab, I mean.]
(8:16:25 PM) Blacklight: (YOu took the knife?)
(8:16:34 PM) Cassettebot: "No! No! Stop! You're not fully healed..."
(8:16:41 PM) ***Blacklight uses Serotin to pound Ember with."You fool."
(8:16:44 PM) ***Justice stops.
(8:16:56 PM) Serotin: [You stabbed Ember /through/ Serotin]
(8:17:00 PM) Serotin: [BECAUSE HUG]
(8:17:00 PM) Justice: Your right mercy,. i'm not."
(8:17:06 PM) Blacklight: (oh right)
(8:17:08 PM) Cassettebot: "What?"
(8:17:16 PM) Justice: "You know your right mercy, i'm not."
(8:17:22 PM) Blacklight: (So basically I stabbed Serotin.)
(8:17:31 PM) ***Ember glares at Blacklight as she gets assaulted, her eyes shift into focus again, though now they are filled with anger and hurt.
(8:17:38 PM) Serotin: "I'm sorry..." Serotin whispers as he passes out.
(8:17:49 PM) ***Justice luanches him self at Cassettebot, "GET OVER HERE!"
(8:17:51 PM) ***Ember "I-You-He-We"
(8:17:53 PM) ***Blacklight discards serotin, and aims a hoofstrike at Embers Temple.
(8:17:57 PM) Cassettebot: "Wha-ahhhh!"
(8:18:08 PM) ***ArcticSpectre a third image of Spectre appears in the room, followed shortly by a fourth. ice starts spinning around three of them while the fourth heals Administration_Guard...again
(8:18:35 PM) ***Justice punches the inter face and the black tendral sip out and into the little machine, "Come here you."
(8:18:36 PM) ***Administration_Guard fucking passes out. [he's goddamn... like... 60]
(8:18:37 PM) ArcticSpectre: "You're very bad at staying alive. you know that?"
(8:18:48 PM) ***Ember yells in rage as the hoof strikes her temple and her magic implodes, making the frigging fireball of balefire /explode/ throughout the room, engulfing all.
(8:19:13 PM) ***ArcticSpectre the images disappear in a blaze of balefire
(8:19:15 PM) ***Ember dissapears in the green flames.
(8:19:26 PM) ***Blacklight dissapears in the green flames
(8:19:38 PM) You are now known as FluffyWaffles
(8:19:49 PM) ***FluffyWaffles wakes with a start in an empty house
(8:19:54 PM) ***Serotin dissapears in the green flames.
(8:20:16 PM) FluffyWaffles: "Spectre?  Cog?"
(8:20:23 PM) ***Administration_Guard dissappears in the green flames.
(8:21:43 PM) ***Justice screams in agony, "What, no, i'm not done, let me out,. let me out....."
(8:22:04 PM) Cassettebot: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME!?" Cassettebot screams from within 'Justice's' grasp.
(8:22:16 PM) Justice is now known as Freelancer
(8:22:35 PM) ***Freelancer throws The machine away. "EMBER!!!"
(8:22:57 PM) Cassettebot: "Ahhhhhhh!" Cassette screams, before being embedded in a wall.
(8:22:58 PM) ***Freelancer runs through the door and down the corridor.
(8:23:14 PM) ***Ember is lying on the floor, half her body is burnt away and shows only green, glowing flesh
(8:23:29 PM) Administration_Guard: At the end of the corridor, Freelancer finds a note.
(8:24:11 PM) ***Ember is not breathing anymore in her small puddle of cooked blood. Also the fact that half of her skull has burned away might be an indication that she's dead.
(8:24:13 PM) ***Freelancer keeps runing, he had to get her, had to save her, had to...
(8:24:22 PM) Administration_Guard: FOR FUCK'S AKE
(8:24:25 PM) Administration_Guard: *SAKE
(8:24:31 PM) Administration_Guard: NOTE SAYS
(8:24:41 PM) Administration_Guard: She's at the tavern.
(8:24:54 PM) ***Freelancer crashes through the door.
(8:25:01 PM) Administration_Guard: Go get her, brother.
(8:25:29 PM) ***Ember 's belly is not any longer recognizable as such anymore too, by the way.
(8:25:51 PM) ***Blacklight got fried to a crisp. Deader than dead. A burnt skeleton.
(8:25:53 PM) ***Freelancer "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY!!!!" Roars freelancer as He taers through the security gates.
(8:26:10 PM) Administration_Guard: The offer little resistance.
(8:26:13 PM) Administration_Guard: *they
(8:26:21 PM) Administration_Guard: They never would have.
(8:26:27 PM) Administration_Guard: It was all an act.
(8:26:48 PM) ***Freelancer runs to the crator. "No. no."
(8:27:12 PM) Cassettebot is now known as ConspiracyBot
(8:27:29 PM) ***ConspiracyBot flies to Freelancer's shoulder.
(8:27:34 PM) ConspiracyBot: "I'm sorry..."
(8:27:35 PM) Freelancer: he just stares at the scene... everything... everything he loved... gone... again...
(8:27:47 PM) Freelancer: "everytime...."
(8:27:53 PM) ConspiracyBot: "I'm so sorry..."
(8:28:05 PM) Freelancer: "Every,,, single... time..."
(8:28:15 PM) Freelancer: "I never get here in time.
(8:28:26 PM) Freelancer: "I never save her."
(8:28:42 PM) Freelancer: "It's always this."
(8:29:07 PM) ***Freelancer falls to the ground, "Take it back."
(8:29:29 PM) Administration_Guard: "..."
(8:29:33 PM) Administration_Guard: "Alright.
(8:29:35 PM) Administration_Guard: "
(8:29:43 PM) Administration_Guard: "But you have to give us something in return."
(8:29:51 PM) Administration_Guard is now known as GORE
(8:30:01 PM) GORE: "The things that made you you."
(8:30:12 PM) GORE: "The things that set you apart."
(8:30:20 PM) GORE: "They must be made common, unique."
(8:30:30 PM) GORE: *ubquitous
(8:30:59 PM) GORE: "Do you accept this?"
(8:31:05 PM) GORE: "The mortality?"
(8:31:32 PM) GORE: "Or would you rather live with all your friends and family dead. Forever?"
(8:31:45 PM) Freelancer: "Tack it back.
(8:31:56 PM) GORE: "All of it?"
(8:32:21 PM) ***Freelancer looks up, tears of his pipbuck. "Take it back."
(8:32:44 PM) GORE: "Alright.
(8:32:51 PM) GORE: We're done here."
(8:32:51 PM) ***Freelancer stars at it. "TAKE IT BACK!!!!"
(8:33:06 PM) GORE: "You have my word."
(8:33:13 PM) GORE: "Now, keep yours."
(8:33:19 PM) GORE left the room.
(8:33:27 PM) ***Freelancer stands up.
(8:33:35 PM) Freelancer: "what now?"
(8:33:43 PM) Freelancer: "I have nothing."
(8:33:57 PM) Blacklight: (not even your memories)
(8:34:01 PM) Blacklight: (or your zony stripes)
(8:34:07 PM) Blacklight: (or your fru fru hair)
(8:34:14 PM) Ember: (you're a blank slate)
(8:34:32 PM) Blacklight: (drifting upon the currents of pony fandom.)
(8:34:35 PM) Serotin: Welcome to the Cafe of Broken Dreams!
(8:34:51 PM) Blacklight: (where we break your dreams xD)
(8:34:52 PM) FluffyWaffles: Fluffy wakes up in her barracks, gets up, preps for a mission over Zebra territory, and crashes into the sea after taking an AAA round to the chest.
(8:34:53 PM) Serotin: [leave this channel]
(8:34:58 PM) Ember left the room.
(8:35:01 PM) Blacklight left the room.
(8:35:02 PM) Serotin left the room.