[CNRPH(Heroes)]Rise of the Dragon Emperor

[Maelstrom Vortex]

The Maelstrom AI chirped, "We should eliminate the federal reserve and the treasury."

Maelstrom blinked, "What?"

"We don't need them anymore." The AI noted. "We can handle it all."

"Are you serious?" Maelstrom blinked.

"As the heart-attacks we can no longer have." The AI continued. "I can handle that all subconsciously for you so long as the networking apparatus for the banking and financial infrastructure remains in tact we can cut out the bureaucrats from the loop completely. All we will need is maintenance personnel."

"Do it!" Maelstrom chuckled.

The ID chimed in, "WAHOO! MORE MONEY!"

"Yessir." The AI grinned. "Budget cutting here we come."

The Federal Reserve System's non-maintenance personnel up to the very chairman of the federal reserve were issued dismissal notices from the Dragonisia executive branch. The Newspapers were on fire about a new automated currency algorithm now in use by the government to tweak the economy as real-time data fed the computer systems which eliminated the need for almost all treasury department and federal banking personnel.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Maelstrom Vortex

[Maelstrom Vortex]

The Emperor stood up, he stretched. He looked down at his guests.. "Hope you can keep up. There are things I've always wanted to do .. and time has restrained me from doing them. Now that we... I.. am.. are.. everywhere.. I.. we.. are going to do them." He spread huge black wings and jumped, taking flight.. he headed north , blotting out the sun on his course and leaving the people on the ground awestruck as he made a direct course for.. Mount Everest.

[Shadowsage]

"Mount...Everest?" Kevin eyed the departing dragon with a bit of disdain. His coat would protect him from the worst of the elements, but he would have to rely on his powers to both leech enough oxygen from the air to keep him alive and warm him enough to prevent hypothermia. That would leave him just about enough energy to Portal.

The new figure still had not said anything, which was acceptable. Kevin looked at him and smiled. "If you would like assistance, please just follow me." With a wave of his hand, one of the Dark Portals coalesced into existence. Kevin stepped through.

[Subtleknifewielder]

It now had two visitors. The Nanites had done sufficient work to integrate and route his new periphery senses, the remainder of his mind began to come online.. notably motor control. The lumbering creature had been resting its head on the ground. It now came up, the other eye opening. Massive wings were laying spread to max extent across the floor of the hangar.. with the sun roof pulled back. The green sections of its wings were brighter than usual, indicating photosynthesis was at full steam. The black parts gleamed like the surface of an oil-slick as photovoltaic's worked to provide additional power to the non-organic systems.

It restored the function of the highway system to normal parameters while addressing the entrant, "Nice turkeytail." The stereo speakers on the each side of his throat boomed.

He blinked, the most sign of emotion he had displayed in years. He wasn't sure what to say as he brushed a half-red, half whitelock of hair out of his sight, and evidently, he had taken too long.

The Emperor stood up, he stretched. He looked down at his guests.. "Hope you can keep up. There are things I've always wanted to do .. and time has restrained me from doing them. Now that we... I.. am.. are.. everywhere.. I.. we.. are going to do them." He spread huge black wings and jumped, taking flight.. he headed north , blotting out the sun on his course and leaving the people on the ground awestruck as he made a direct course for.. Mount Everest.

"Mount...Everest?" Kevin eyed the departing dragon with a bit of disdain. His coat would protect him from the worst of the elements, but he would have to rely on his powers to both leech enough oxygen from the air to keep him alive and warm him enough to prevent hypothermia. That would leave him just about enough energy to Portal.

The new figure still had not said anything, which was acceptable. Kevin looked at him and smiled. "If you would like assistance, please just follow me." With a wave of his hand, one of the Dark Portals coalesced into existence. Kevin stepped through.

What was this? Magic? He eyed the other visitor warily, but he sense no hostile intent at the moment, and therefore...stepped through.

The cold on the other side of the portal would not bother him in the least, as he could heat himself up from within.

As Maelstrom arrived, the new guest would finally speak. "What did you mean by turkeytail?" Again, no sign of emotion. If Maelstrom's sensors didn't tell him that this was a human, he might think the being in front of him was a machine.

[Maelstrom Vortex]

"We meant the wake you generated crossing the Indian Ocean. It was observable from space... Very nice. In boating in some nations it is called the "turkey tail" of a boat because of its spread often flarring appearance at high speeds." The Cybernetic Dragon stood on the peak and looked out at all it ruled. "Beautiful. But oddly.. the sensation of the moment is deadened by the lack of effort to get here.. except that we have been trying all of our lives. That, and the fact I can sense... everything.. here down to 1 meter below the earth's surface. I know every facet of this terrain as if it were.. part of me.. due to the satellites. Every crease.. and ripple.. tree. A gift that diminishes the gift of the scope of beauty of this place. A gift which trivializes. The bane and grant of knowledge."

Inside his head the AI spoke to him, "If we're done sightseeing, we suggest that we sample the new green crystalline substance that has appeared in both Yerushalayim and Giza. Indicators are there is a high probability it can act as a power source.. or power augmentation tool. Numerous powers around the world have already begun collecting there. It appears there may be a fight over it."

Maelstrom rumbled audibly, talking to himself again, "Very well, to Yerushalayim next it is then."

It looked down to its visitor, "We do not know who you are, but you do not appear a threat. We are heading west. Would you like to travel with us?" The great beast lowered its wing as if making a ramp by which the creature, which appeared human, could board it. "We will talk more en-route."

Edited July 27, 2009 by Maelstrom Vortex

[Subtleknifewielder]

Did he dare trust this creature? It had not yet shown any evil intent, but still, its form...but if it should prove hostile in the middle of the flight, he would be in a position to end the encounter right there, and in any fall, he would actually be more likely to survive.

Calmly, silently, he walked up the wing provided, finding a perch between two ridged along the creture's spine.

If Maelstrom even noticed such minute details, he would sense the heat radiating off this being.

"Tell me..." he asked as he settled into place, his voice as even and emotionless as his face and posture. "Were you once a man?" He vaguely recalled references to the dragon-like appearance of Dragonisia's Chairman, and he'd heard that he'd been human before. His question displayed the fact that he saw a possible connection.

[Maelstrom Vortex]

"Indeed we were. A rough time that was." He kicked off the mountain, giant wings spreading to full expanse, then tucking in as he lowered his head and like a dart, shot down the side of the mountain achieving incredible speeds before spreading his wings again and leveling out on a direct-line path guided by GPS towards Yerushalayim. A few minutes into the flight.. A squadron of 12 global hawk drones took up formation.. 6 to each side.. in a v.. as they headed towards the city. They each had a cord on them which he tied to his wrists and they began to tow him at ever increasing speeds towards the city in the middle east. It would be a few hours before they would arrive on location.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Maelstrom Vortex

[lutai]

In a Secret laboratory within the Land of Lu Empire ,experiments to insert Nanobots within human body's so that they may use them on their soldiers to enhance their body strength was taking place Emperor Lu Tai was heading their by Helicopter guarded by 7 Jet's it was snowing hard sense the area they where heading was near a mountain area almost near the DE and Lu border where the Lab was built in secret and no one but only Lu tai ,The Prime minister and the Lu Imperial family knew of it and what goes on within it base,also the base was no ordinary base when Lu Tai's transport helicopter arrived ,it was a Mountain reason why a base was built within the mountain was to keep anyone from finding the base.

The helicopter went into the hatch which was open for them to enter as they landed within the base Prime Minister Zhou Nui waited for Lu Tai's transport to land , the Helicopter landed as Lu Tai walked out and Zhou Nui bowed to him .

"Prime minister Zhou Nui its good to see you once more has the experimental subjects sub come to the Nanobot injection you gave them".

"Yes only 2 survived the tests the rest well come with me "

the two walked into a testing room where 5 glass rooms where shone 3 out of 2 boxes where covered with blood ,the two boxes that were not contained with blood where the 2 subjects who succeeded the tests done onto them.

Lu tai was shocked to see the result of the failures he looked at Zhou Nui.

"Zhou my trusted vassal ,before these soldiers died did you cover up a fake story for their deaths so no suspicion where to come onto us"

"Yes my lord ,but one of these men where from Dragon Empire we don't even know how he got hear but well he wont saying anything to anyone any mo---".

Lu tai punched him .

"Fool you took a DE soldier into your experiments and didn't think about erasing his memories and let him go, do you know now what they will do DE will start investigations just how many did you capture and use for your experiments !!!"

Zhou Nui looked away knowing it was not just one DE soldier.

"Argh!! fine just try and cover up everything you can also those 2 who have succeeded the tests they will be my new bodyguards their group name will be Heavens Wraith.

Lu Tai left and returned to the helicopter as it left the base,Zhou Nui began operations on more Soldiers with their own ranks and tires to cover the experiments on the DE soldiers.

While in the Helicopter Lu Tai tired to make a broadcast to The chairmen of DE on the monitor screen in the helicopter.

OOC:(

) *background music * I think i did pretty well. Edited July 27, 2009 by lutai

[Maelstrom Vortex]

The Chairman would pick up a contact on the diplomatic channels on his flight to Yerushalayim. He picked up, but no image appeared for the return broadcast, just audio, "Yes? Who is this?"

[lutai]

The Chairman would pick up a contact on the diplomatic channels on his flight to Yerushalayim. He picked up, but no image appeared for the return broadcast, just audio, "Yes? Who is this?"

"This is Emperor Lu Tai of Lu its nice to speak with you again Chairman ever sense my sons death we haven't talked in a while,hmm do you know this isn't a proper meeting why don't we meet face to face I have all the time in the world to see you and my sources say your flying somewhere do you care that we meet in the location you are heading".

[Subtleknifewielder]

"Indeed we were. A rough time that was." He kicked off the mountain, giant wings spreading to full expanse, then tucking in as he lowered his head and like a dart, shot down the side of the mountain achieving incredible speeds before spreading his wings again and leveling out on a direct-line path guided by GPS towards Yerushalayim. A few minutes into the flight.. A squadron of 12 global hawk drones took up formation.. 6 to each side.. in a v.. as they headed towards the city. They each had a cord on them which he tied to his wrists and they began to tow him at ever increasing speeds towards the city in the middle east. It would be a few hours before they would arrive on location.

He surveyed the beast underneath him once more, trying to picture this body as once being human. it was a difficult thing, even for him.

"How did this change happen? Who made you this way? And why do you keep saying 'we?'"

[Maelstrom Vortex]

"This is Emperor Lu Tai of Lu its nice to speak with you again Chairman ever sense my sons death we haven't talked in a while,hmm do you know this isn't a proper meeting why don't we meet face to face I have all the time in the world to see you and my sources say your flying somewhere do you care that we meet in the location you are heading".

"Look up and you will be facing us. For we are EVERYWHERE.. now. I can see the top of your head." He chuckled. "For a physical meeting, We would meet you in Yerushalayim." The air flowed smoothly over his wings as he kept them carefully trimmed for a steady, flat, high speed flight.

He informed his guest, "The changes happened via a combination of factors. Genetic alteration, nanobot insertion, catalyst and enzymatic acceleration, research into special materials. It was done by the state of Dragonisia to me at the time, at my request. Initially, it was to preserve my life.. later.. it was to enhance us as you see us now. We are me and yet we think separately. The processing functions of our mind have become so complex that the processing power has segmented itself into consciousness centers which can better handle many different tasks. Without the we, the me would go crazy. No one mind can handle so many functions except through parallel processing. We would still like to know who YOU are."

Edited July 27, 2009 by Maelstrom Vortex

[lutai]

"Fine, we will meet you in Yerushalayim but until then Ta Ta "

the Transmission ended and Lu tai pulled out a Nanobot insertion needle and inserted the needle in his right arm ,he started to feel a sort of hellish pain as he yelled and fell to the floor of the helicopter the guards around him tried to help him up but.

"I'm fine .

He got back into his seat.

"Looks like the Nanobots work well with me ,this will shine a new era as we will soon deploy the super soldier project ahahaha".

[Subtleknifewielder]

He informed his guest, "The changes happened via a combination of factors. Genetic alteration, nanobot insertion, catalyst and enzymatic acceleration, research into special materials. It was done by the state of Dragonisia to me at the time, at my request. Initially, it was to preserve my life.. later.. it was to enhance us as you see us now. We are me and yet we think separately. The processing functions of our mind have become so complex that the processing power has segmented itself into consciousness centers which can better handle many different tasks. Without the we, the me would go crazy. No one mind can handle so many functions except through parallel processing. We would still like to know who YOU are."

His mind caught the moment the words 'genetic alteration' were used, but he continued to listen, regardless of what he thought of that. they were nowhere near the destination yet, and so he had time if he wanted to act on that revelation.

But now he had been asked a question himself. So far, his host had apparently been honest, and he would reply in kind.

"I am a crusader. It is my life's calling to seek out those who would irresponsibly experiment with things that should be left well enough alone, and end the threats they represent."

Once again, Maelstrom might wonder, if he pondered such small details, why his guest was not nothered in the least by either the cold or the wind created by their passage as they flew through the sky.

[Maelstrom Vortex]

"Well, you may call us the Maelstrom. What may we call you?" A tingling sensation would be felt by the rider. It was apparent that during the entire flight the creature had been building up an electrostatic charge along its body from friction with the air and has not been discharging it. The use of this is questionable.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Maelstrom Vortex

[Subtleknifewielder]

Indeed, he felt the electricity building up, especially when a few strands of his hair began standing on end. Suddenly, instead of sitting, he was now standing, putting iinsulating rubber soles of his shoes between the electicity and himself. Yet the wind still failed to push him off the creature calling itself Maelstrom.

"Maelstrom. A fitting and descriptive name, from what I've heard of you. I can be referred to as the Elementalist."

He did not yet demonstrate any of his power, as hostility had not yet been shown. But it would already be clear to the Dragon that he was more than he seemed, and not just from the incredible speed he had displayed on arrival.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Subtleknifewielder

[Maelstrom Vortex]

"You will be useful if your name fits. The place we go there is a Giant Robot of unknown intent. Near it is a deposit of crystals which constitutes a rather large new energy supply. My goal is to determine this robots purpose and if necessary to destroy it. If not necessary and it is generally useful to be of assistance. It has not yet responded to our inquiries. The creature appears to be made of an advanced material. Although carbon nanotubes are the hardest substance known to man and the inter meshed steel alloys augment it in our talons.. we do not know if our standard weapons array will be sufficient to stop the machine. Thus, in flight, we are building up as much stored voltage as we can to potentially discharge it into the systems of the robot on impact.. which, regardless of the material, would carry through its structure. Hopefully, again and only if necessary, this would destroy or disable it."

I.. we.. me.. us.. all used interchangeably. It was like the identity of this creature's mind was in constant flux.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Maelstrom Vortex

[Subtleknifewielder]

He relaxed, although only minutely, as the wind whistled in their ears fromt he passage.

"Do you think you can hold onto the charge long enough? It was already making my hair stand on end." He did not question the idea of a giant robot. If Dragons, and people like himself could exist, then who was he to question what else might be there?

After all, for good or ill, humanity never seemed to stop tinkering with things beyond its comprehension. That was what he existed for--to end the wrong sort.

he ahrdly batted an eye at the interchangeable pronouns. Someone like that would undoubtedly be confused, going throuogh such rapid transformations within less than a week.

he still had yet to determine if it was for good or ill that the creature even existed.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Subtleknifewielder

[Maelstrom Vortex]

"Yes, we can maintain the charge until we ground. If the robot is aggressive, we intend to ground via it. It should generate the voltage of many compounded lightning strikes. Speaking of which..." The global hawks drove them into a storm where he continued to build charge at an even more escalated pace...

"If you are an elemental... I don't assume you could retrieve a giant chunk of iron and coal for us could you? We want to forge a weapon." The rain beat down on them heavily as they pierced the storm.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Maelstrom Vortex

[Subtleknifewielder]

"I would be happy to," he replied, though he still displayed no hint of emotion. "But you'll have to bring me closer to the ground for that, so I can sense the materials you need." The rain didn't even seem to touch him, apparently simply sliding off an invisible wall around him, a wall composed of air.

"Will you want me to compress the coal into a diamond?"

[Maelstrom Vortex]

"No, that will not be necessary, perhaps a portion of it for a cutting edge.." He dove, which actually helped build up the static.. skimming about 10 feet above the earth and dodging any trees taller than that height. "Rip the materials from the earth into two raw chunks, we cannot touch the ground directly or we will discharge. Our intent is to use nanobots to restructure the molecules into steel. The diamonds will line the cutting edge."

[lutai]

Lu Tai arrived at Yerushalayim and landed at the designated meeting area.

"I am Hear but where is the Chairman well this tells us that DE official's can be a little tardy ".

he said with a smirk.

[Maelstrom Vortex]

ooc: The Yerushalayim will be continued in the Origins thread.

[King Kevz]

Kogár had heard of a mythical and yet technological beast that was now in charge of the Dragon Empire at least that was what his master had informed him and Ares the Greek God of War was never wrong. As the champion of Ares Kogár was gifted with immortality and increased strength and agility lifting him well above the abilities of most regular humans but that was to be expected of the non-believers but for now they were of no significance all that mattered was that Kogár was to meet with the strange beast and see how it could factor into his master's plans for eternal war and destruction. Twirling his blades of chaos, that were fused to his arms, Kogár made his way into what was called a shopping mall in this world and began to walk around brazenly waiting for someone to contact the soldiers of this nation.

OOC: Hope this is ok Mael. This is the idea for Heroes I thought of and I wanted to place him somewhere other than Orgin if it isn't then just forget this and il stop positing.

Thats what Kogár looks like by the way.

Edited July 27, 2009 by King Kevz

[JerreyRough]

OOC: Where are the periods ahhh. Also, the non-italic text will be continued elsewhere. /OOC

Multi-National United had a hand in the development of the nanobots used by Maelstrom, but not a very big hand. However, recently they finished what is their "greatest" military asset they have developed: Real 3D. Real 3D uses almost any type of incoming data, interpret it, stores it, and uses it when neccessary. That data can be anything, wether it be thermal, satellite pictures, verbal sounds (still has difficulty with that), 3D Image Projection, and any data from the "Server", which is no longer needed. Walls and surfaces are noted by the program, thus making sure certain objects are not seen if around a corner. The seen objects can be with extream realism in mind (if required).

"What do we do know?" Paul Cortez is given a brown folder, titled "Dragon of a Maelstrom". He opens it and gives a quick look. He is then handed a folder titled "Mineral: Tiberium", and he gives it a quick glance. Paul nods in approval. "We cannot do anything with that dragon...man...robot, whatever the hell it is. Someone has been scheming something for a while, that is for sure. Now, this substance, Tiberium, will be a great investment. I think it will be worth the cost in the long run, with effort to stop major growth." He signals a man across the room. "These...schemers will be expecting us to do something, or to do nothing, but we do have some knowledge they do not have. And in several hours even they will be surprised."

Nearby, a soilder taps on his keyboard, then activates the strange device beside him. Seconds later, it disappears...