The wind was still and the sky darkened, but she hurried. The end was near, but an hour ago, she got the call, the one she had been waiting for for the last 8 years. Chase could now go home. Paragon City had been her home for 8 years now. Her cell rang again.
"Dr Q, I'm on my way. I had to say goodbye to some friends"
"Hurry dear, I can't maintain the energy levels much longer..., and for lack of a better expression, the sky is falling"
She ran at superspeeds down the streets of Paragon. She had been running these streets so long now. She looked at fearful Carnies and Malta and almost felt sorry for them. There was nowhere they could run to now. She made it to the Portal Corp. Firebase Zulu, a different dimension, but still seemed subject to the impending darkness. Some heroes were making a stand. She wanted to stay with them, protecting them with her force fields, and fighting whatever this was with her trusted beam rifle. She had made her choice.
She saw her friend and embraced him. It would be the last time.
"Here Chase, take this." as he game a metal box to her.
"What is it?"
"It's the history of Paragon City. Of our dimension, our world. Don't let the memory of all these heroes die today." He stood strong and proud as he said it, but the cracking in his voice in the end gave away his fear of the unknown doom that was descending. "Anyway, get in the portal now. It will take you to a similar dimension. There you can fight the darkness. You may not have your powers. You may look different, but you will be safe for some time until the darkness swallows that world. Perhaps, you can figure out how to stop it. Maybe, just maybe travel back in time and save this world"
Chase burst into tears. She had held back. Dr. Q was her good friend and had always vowed to get her back to her own dimension. He never kept the promise, but he figured out how to get one hero out this world to a place the darkness could not touch right now, a secret world.
"I'll always remember you Q."
She began to enter the portal, but then she remembered how she was accidentally pulled from her own world during portal corps first experiments. She stopped and could even feel the energy course over her body, but did not enter the portal.
She looked back a tear down her cheek. "Doc?"
"Yes, my dear"
"Change of plan"
In a moment of superhuman speed, she grabbed him and stuck the metal box with data in his labcoat. She held him in the vortex as the energy creeped over him. "GO, enter the secret world and figure out a way to reverse this."
"How?"
"You are smart, you know time travel and dimensional travel exists. Figure out a way to combat this darkness"
She gave him a kiss on the mouth. The old scientist could not believe it. He then felt the energy around him as he was pushed away and could see the shadow of his true love dissappearing.
Chase stood alone. She took out her cell and made a call.
"You still here?" a voice said.
"Yep, I sent Q instead. I hope he figures out a way to come back in time and reverse this, correct this..."
"So you in then?"
"I'm in. See you in Atlas."
"You know this probably won't work?"
"That never stopped us before. Besides, it's not the first apocalypse we fought against"
30 minutes later, in Atlas Park, the darkness descended now. About 5000 of the bravest heroes and villians flew into it. Chase looked around and grabbed the hand of scared Arachnos soldier and smiled. He was barely 16 and shaking, but like everyone, there was no where to run. Chase looked the other way and grabbed the hand of another female hero.
"I can't believe you did not go hun" she said.
Chase took her mediporter off and let it fall to the ground as she knew it would do no good.
"One last fight" she whispered and she flew to the front of the group. It was time to face the darkness...
Epilogue: Dr. Q awoke in a different body in a bed in London... He was younger and did not feel himself. He looked in the mirror and did not recognize his face. It was warm and he opened the window and laid back in bed. He then fell asleep as if a bad dream had happened and slept so sound. He dreamed of a beautiful girl, a hero in a world of heroes. Chase. That was her name and he loved her. He dreamed of her fights against evil. He saw other heroes that looked familiar. So many. He felt like he knew them, like he actually may have been them. He glanced and saw a metal box and remembered everything suddenly. Then he grew so tired again and slept. A buzzing sound. It slowly woke him, but he was in that place where he could hardly move while he slept. He felt something crawl in his mouth. He thought to himself, "if i did not know better, I would swear a bee just crawled in my mouth, What a strange and Secret World I have come to. Time to see what this secret world holds for me and I hope one day to find my true love, if she ever existed at all..."
((And with this short story, I leave my heroes behind with my memories. Chase Baptiste was one of my most favorite bubble/beam rifle defenders. I will move on to the Secret World, but if a miracle happens and COH is resurrected or COH2 comes to pass, I shall return. I have more 50s than I care to admit, and I am not naming them, but it has been a honor playing, dying, pvping, rping, farming, marketing and just hanging out will all of you. Farewell and remember, heroes never die! and neither do the villians....))
Signed,
Night Sable, Atomic Tera, Edenfire, Lady Vampire, Fatal Bliss, most Fatale's and most Huntress characters you saw and many many more on Virtue and a few on Freedom back in the day...
The wind was still and the sky darkened, but she hurried. The end was near, but an hour ago, she got the call, the one she had been waiting for for the last 8 years. Chase could now go home. Paragon City had been her home for 8 years now. Her cell rang again.
"Dr Q, I'm on my way. I had to say goodbye to some friends"
"Hurry dear, I can't maintain the energy levels much longer..., and for lack of a better expression, the sky is falling"
She ran at superspeeds down the streets of Paragon. She had been running these streets so long now. She looked at fearful Carnies and Malta and almost felt sorry for them. There was nowhere they could run to now. She made it to the Portal Corp. Firebase Zulu, a different dimension, but still seemed subject to the impending darkness. Some heroes were making a stand. She wanted to stay with them, protecting them with her force fields, and fighting whatever this was with her trusted beam rifle. She had made her choice.
She saw her friend and embraced him. It would be the last time.
"Here Chase, take this." as he game a metal box to her.
"What is it?"
"It's the history of Paragon City. Of our dimension, our world. Don't let the memory of all these heroes die today." He stood strong and proud as he said it, but the cracking in his voice in the end gave away his fear of the unknown doom that was descending. "Anyway, get in the portal now. It will take you to a similar dimension. There you can fight the darkness. You may not have your powers. You may look different, but you will be safe for some time until the darkness swallows that world. Perhaps, you can figure out how to stop it. Maybe, just maybe travel back in time and save this world"
Chase burst into tears. She had held back. Dr. Q was her good friend and had always vowed to get her back to her own dimension. He never kept the promise, but he figured out how to get one hero out this world to a place the darkness could not touch right now, a secret world.
"I'll always remember you Q."
She began to enter the portal, but then she remembered how she was accidentally pulled from her own world during portal corps first experiments. She stopped and could even feel the energy course over her body, but did not enter the portal.
She looked back a tear down her cheek. "Doc?"
"Yes, my dear"
"Change of plan"
In a moment of superhuman speed, she grabbed him and stuck the metal box with data in his labcoat. She held him in the vortex as the energy creeped over him. "GO, enter the secret world and figure out a way to reverse this."
"How?"
"You are smart, you know time travel and dimensional travel exists. Figure out a way to combat this darkness"
She gave him a kiss on the mouth. The old scientist could not believe it. He then felt the energy around him as he was pushed away and could see the shadow of his true love dissappearing.
Chase stood alone. She took out her cell and made a call.
"You still here?" a voice said.
"Yep, I sent Q instead. I hope he figures out a way to come back in time and reverse this, correct this..."
"So you in then?"
"I'm in. See you in Atlas."
"You know this probably won't work?"
"That never stopped us before. Besides, it's not the first apocalypse we fought against"
30 minutes later, in Atlas Park, the darkness descended now. About 5000 of the bravest heroes and villians flew into it. Chase looked around and grabbed the hand of scared Arachnos soldier and smiled. He was barely 16 and shaking, but like everyone, there was no where to run. Chase looked the other way and grabbed the hand of another female hero.
"I can't believe you did not go hun" she said.
Chase took her mediporter off and let it fall to the ground as she knew it would do no good.
"One last fight" she whispered and she flew to the front of the group. It was time to face the darkness...
Epilogue: Dr. Q awoke in a different body in a bed in London... He was younger and did not feel himself. He looked in the mirror and did not recognize his face. It was warm and he opened the window and laid back in bed. He then fell asleep as if a bad dream had happened and slept so sound. He dreamed of a beautiful girl, a hero in a world of heroes. Chase. That was her name and he loved her. He dreamed of her fights against evil. He saw other heroes that looked familiar. So many. He felt like he knew them, like he actually may have been them. He glanced and saw a metal box and remembered everything suddenly. Then he grew so tired again and slept. A buzzing sound. It slowly woke him, but he was in that place where he could hardly move while he slept. He felt something crawl in his mouth. He thought to himself, "if i did not know better, I would swear a bee just crawled in my mouth, What a strange and Secret World I have come to. Time to see what this secret world holds for me and I hope one day to find my true love, if she ever existed at all..."
((And with this short story, I leave my heroes behind with my memories. Chase Baptiste was one of my most favorite bubble/beam rifle defenders. I will move on to the Secret World, but if a miracle happens and COH is resurrected or COH2 comes to pass, I shall return. I have more 50s than I care to admit, and I am not naming them, but it has been a honor playing, dying, pvping, rping, farming, marketing and just hanging out will all of you. Farewell and remember, heroes never die! and neither do the villians....))
Signed,
Night Sable, Atomic Tera, Edenfire, Lady Vampire, Fatal Bliss, most Fatale's and most Huntress characters you saw and many many more on Virtue and a few on Freedom back in the day...