Colossus By Design: Entry 0133 - Still Barely Alive

[February 24, 2146]
[Antarctica]
[Global Union of Divisions Headquarters]

[World leaders are gathered together in the main hall; they're quite restless]
[President Nigel Mandela is still not present]


(Minister Diana McAllister): Director Ifukube, I hope you have good news during this time of crisis to be calling us here for a meeting when we could be gathering intel on the current situation in Johannesburg.

(Denouncer Daiyu Chen): Indeed. We have enough trouble getting a good satellite feed of the area as it is.

(Director Jiro Ifukube): It may not specifically be 'good' news per-say, but it is news nonetheless. Observe.


[Director Ifukube engages the main holographic screen]
[All world leaders and fellow representatives turn to watch intently]
[Footage shows a scratchy but working video feed from what appears to be an underground metro tunnel]
[Several civilians are present and being escorted by a few military personnel and drone aides]
[President Mandela is present, dressed in military garb, and is overseeing and commanding the personnel present]


(President Mandela): [FEED] ...Keep calm everyone! We need to move together, swiftly and silently! Commander, is the feed working?

(Military officer): [FEED] Yes sir. We're connected now.

(President Mandela): [FEED] Excellent.


[All other world leaders watch intently]
[President Mandela turns directly to the screen]


(President Mandela): [FEED] Good to finally hear you all!

(King Eugene Roy): Wait, you can't see us?

(President Mandela): [FEED] No, unfortunately. You can see us, but not vice versa.

(President Shinji Kazuma): What's going on right now?

(President Mandela): [FEED] I'm escorting these civilians to safety right now. We're all heading towards underground bunkers to wait this catastrophe out until help arrives.

(Director Ifukube): Nigel, what's the situation on the surface, right now? We have no satellite feed to survey the area from orbit.

(President Mandela): [FEED] Dreadful, simply dreadful! It's like the goddamn apocalypse up there! Hold on.... corporal! Get those communication routers up!

(Corporal): [FEED] Yes sir!


[Military personnel rush to a nearby communications router and tinker with it a bit]
[Evacuation of civilians continues in the background]


(Chancellor Dmitri Kalashnikov): What is going on now?

(President Mandela): [FEED] My troops are currently working on your satellite problem! You should be getting a shaky feed right...... now!


[Footage feed switches to a zoomed-in satellite feed of the surface]
[Footage is scratchy and becoming less clear with the passage of time, but can still be made out]
[Footage shows Bagan using telekinetic powers to shift and shape the ground and buildings, creating an expanding clearing]
[Footage shows Bagan shaping a sort of throne from manipulated building debris and pieces of the Earth]
[Footage shows possibly hundreds of P.E.M.F.s gathering into the cleared out areas, apparently bowing to Bagan]


(Minister McAllister): Dear God....

(King Roy): Bloody hell....

(Chancellor Kalashnikov): Unfathomable......


[Bagan suddenly looks straight upwards, directly into the video feed]
[Bagan raises one hand that glows with crimson aura]
[Footage immediately blanks out and cuts back to the feed to President Mandela]


(President Mandela): [FEED] What happened?! We lost the signal!!

(Dencouner Chen): That... that THING..... it just..... it KNEW we were watching........

(President Mandela): [FEED] GODDAMMIT!

(Director Ifukube): Nigel, get moving! If it managed to find out we were watching--


[Sudden rumbling and shaking of the metro tunnel walls]
[Civilians begin to panic and rush in the direction of the evacuation tunnels]
[Ceiling is suddenly broken into; the face of a Rock-Skin Anomaly pokes through]
[P.E.M.F.'s head has an odd texture; its skin looks cracked; glowing energy illuminates from the cracks]
[Soldiers begin firing at the creature, attempting to divert its attention away from the fleeing civilians]
[Footage feed suddenly cuts out]