BrigXO

I'm trying to write up the origin of one of my characters, EventHorizon X. It ties very closely with the initial Rikti invasion. My problem is that I really don't know anything about them. If anyone has seen one in game could I get some information? Like how tall are they? Normal attacks? Special attacks? Description of Lieutenants , Bosses etc.

I've already read their entry in the villain's feature section but simple practical things like height aren't mentioned. For example I'd hate to describe them as tall menacing creatures if in fact they were small in stature.

Fools try to understand
They think that they know
They say that time heals all wounds
Except, when time is your foe


May 24, 2002 3:07am
The change in color of the portal was troublesome, but my mind was elsewhere. Rage too was concerned but had his hands full regrouping his troops. The aliens had teleported all over the base. With everyone positioned for a frontal attack, it caught them by surprise. As Rage issued commands for his troops to fall back, worry overtook his face when fewer and fewer stations responded. He then became uncharacteristically quiet as he moved to the corner of the room. If the situation was bad enough to unnerve Rage, then we indeed were in a lot of trouble.

I now knew that I couldn't save my daughter. There were simply too many variables. Something had unhinged the other side of the portal and was dragging it away. With no endpoint, the stream connecting the two points snapped back like a broken rubber band and split. The massive amounts of energy I was using to boost the portal punched through the deformed stream and pooled, creating a black hole. Jenny was caught in the middle of all this and was getting shredded by the gravitational turbulence. In minutes she would be dead. I could feel it.

The link between Jenny and myself remained. Her every thought and feeling was mine as well. She was scared and in pain. Her fear almost paralyzed me, but my guilt drove me on. In the first instant we were mentally linked, I could see myself as she saw me. Since her mother's death, I tried to provide for Jenny as best I could. For me that meant money, toys, and security. Now I could see that what she wanted was love, and on that account I failed. My work was my life, and my bank accounts, my family. I cared for and protected them more than anything else.

Still, Jenny loved me. It was an underserved love. If you'd asked me to recall when Jenny was happiest, I'd mention the time when I brought her to live at this base. For security reasons we were prohibited from leaving, but as compensation we were provided with anything we wanted. I never saw her smile so much as when I showed her where we'd live. Every convenience known to man was there and the fridge packed with chocolate ice cream. Her favorite. We stayed up all night eating ourselves sick. That really was her happiest moment, but not because of the ice cream or house like I thought. It was because she could now live with her daddy.

"It hurts daddy. Make it stop" , echoed in my mind. Against the laws of nature I'd find a way to save her but I needed time. With that thought I directed Jenny's stream at the black hole. The intense gravity would eventually freeze her in time giving me a chance. My hands moved with a mind of their own. All I wanted to do was to free her. No thought was paid about the consequences... until the intense pain hit. Her death was very near now.

Like cold water waking me out of a deep sleep, I suddenly realized what I was doing. What I was condemning her to, eternal torment. "Make it stop" was all that she was asking of me and I only had one way to do it. I had to kill her. I had to collapse the stream, but before I could the system went into lockdown. I no longer had control.

All the doors to the room, and presumably the entire base, went into security override and locked. The portal that was now glowing red began to intensify and emitted a low hum. The crackling noise returned with a flash of bright light and in its place now stood five more aliens. All the while one thought was going through my mind:

"Make it stop daddy. Make it stop"

Hell exists. I know because I sent my Jenny there. Oh my God, my poor baby girl.

May 23, 2002 9:23 pm

“Let me worry about the security. Get that portal open now”, Renegade Rage ordered in his usual short tone. I couldn't help but notice that the first moments of the alien invasion played in a video loop on a monitor by the door. I thought it odd that we were still fully functional since early outside reports indicated that EMP blasts and jammers had taken everyone else offline. Then again our underground base was designed to avoid detection, even from our own government.

“Time dilatation at 75%. We should have a stable field in 5 minutes”, I replied trying to hide my anxiety. Those super hero types were cut out for this kind of stress. I wasn't. I'd signed up as lead scientist to recreate dimension travel, not fight a war.

“Good. When it's ready, send a signal through to Val and Granite. Have them round up an assault squad and get back here pronto”, Rage commanded.

“What? My daughter and I. We were promised that we could go first”, I pleaded.

The portal linked to a secondary site in another dimension that was to be our safe haven from the attack. Though travel through the portal seemed instantaneous, it could take hours to an outside observer. The actual time could be shortened by using more power but generally the more matter that went through, the greater the time dilation. I knew waiting for the extra load of an entire assault squad would keep us at risk for longer than I'd like.

“I have command now. My priorities come first. I'll only tell you that once. When I get my men, you get to save your worthless hide. Not before”, Rage barked.

“I'll protect you daddy…”


Present time

Jenny's voice still rings in my ears. Funny that with all my science, it is the timelessness of that last proud memory that keeps me sane. Well so far. Her defiance was no idle boast either. Since the age of 8 she had developed the ability to read and manipulate minds. It was the organization's interest in her abilities that allowed me to keep her on the base.

It seemed perfect. I got to work with cutting edge, although highly illegal, technology and make a fortune in the process. All the extra security and hired mercenary heroes should have raised a red flag, but why ask questions?

I should have asked questions.


May 24, 2002 3:02 am

A siren suddenly sounded. Five glowing red disks appeared outside the mining compound, which served as a front for the hidden base.

Rage ran to the security screen. Intensity overtook him as he recognized the disks as being similar to those used in the alien's first strike on the cities. “Troops we are hot. They are not going to catch us taking a dump. Disregard concealment protocols. I want a full force parameter. What's the ETA on my reinforcements?”

Due to their lack of mass, radio and telemetry signals could travel almost without delay through the portal. “Tracking indicates 2 hours. May I request that…” A loud crackling noise interrupted my replied.

In the middle of the room appeared 4 alien troops. Rage managed drop one with forceful blow but then drew immediate attention from the remaining three with concussion blasts that sent him flying across the room. Rage was a 6'5” beast of a man that was known to be able to take a beating. With blood flowing out of his ears he one handedly grabbed a table to use as a shield and prepared to charge.

“I'll protect you daddy”

It was Jenny's words again, but this time not out loud. In a crystal clear tone I heard them in my head. The aliens appeared to be frozen, trying to move but unable to. Rage seized the moment practically dismembering his opponents. Bones snapped and bodies went limp as Rage lived up to his name.

“They drew us out. Now they are teleporting behind us”, Rage proclaimed almost in admiration. “They had this planned. Too f#@% well planned”

I looked in awe at my daughter. I could hear her every thought. This had happened before to some extent. Usually when she was upset or scared but never this completely. I could sense her power. I could sense her fear. I felt small. I hadn't done right by her. She didn't want all the things I thought I could buy for her. She wanted her daddy.

“Now, it's my turn to protect you”, I thought knowing she would hear me. “Get in the portal”. She began to cry, because she knew I wouldn't follow. “GO!!” I yelled. She ran and jumped. Rage went to grab her but I lunged in the way.

“What are you doing?”, Rage cried. “She'll delay my backup. Without them we are all dead”.

“I'll get them here. Don't worry. Just give me 5 minutes”, I boasted.

“What? Are you crazy?”, he responded with shock and a hint of hope.

“I know what I'm doing”, I chimed with all the confidence I could find. “All we need is more power”. I then proceeded to direct the controls to open another portal. It was only the size of a pinprick but it punched a hole not just though one dimension, but all of them. Like intensifying the rays of the sun with a magnifying glass, I focused all the energy at that location in every universe back to the first portal.

“My God. What have you done” Rage said in amazement.

“I don't know”.

The words I proclaimed sounded foreign to me and weren't entirely correct. I did know. I just didn't know how I knew.

“It hurts daddy”, rang in my head.

Jenny. It was Jenny. I was still linked to her. As I let my mind drift I could see that I had read the alien minds through her and used that knowledge.

“Make it stop daddy”

Pain. I could feel her pain. Something was happening to the portal. It was pulling her apart like taffy. How? Why? The calculations were perfect.

The readings showed that the other endpoint of the portal was moving, pulling at the stream and breaking it in two. The excess energy I was sending in created a singularity near the stream Jenny was in ripping it apart. One by one the signals from the reinforcements heading our way became wildly distorted then disappeared.

“Make it stop daddy”

It was all happening in but an instant to Jenny. I was not hearing her words but her last agonizing thoughts. It was the moment of her death spread out over time. There was nothing I could do to stop it. Of all my recently acquired knowledge of gravity, I knew of nothing that could restore her stream. Except… Time I needed time to figure it out. Oh, no.

The portal began to glow as red as the disks outside.


Present time

Sometimes you can be too smart for your own good. I should have stopped. There was no escaping my destiny or hers. I'm not sure when I past the point of no return. I can still feel her. She's crystal clear in my head. I could have collapsed the stream, ending it right there. Instead I anchored it with an infinitely dense black hole, thus dilating the time of her death to infinity.

Now I'm as trapped as she is. My name is EventHorizon X.