(OOC: Are we even using the OOC thread anymore? Has anyone seen hippyness? I got a big role upcoming for his game.)<br/><br/><strong>Mass Impact:</strong><br/>There was a message coming in from Admiral Hatchet.<br/>- "A team of soldiers requested your appearance at the Maxilos Arena in the Kephler System, It's for a promotional video they're sending out to the troops, it will be good for the morale of our solidiers if you make an appearance in the vid. Maybe inspire some confidence which we culd use more of in these desperate times. I'm sending you the coodinates immediatly, Hatchet over." -<br/>With their game being the one in play, of course the player had control of the ship, the illusion of control was only imagined by the crew when their game was underway. He of course directed them to go to the coordinates the Admiral had specified.<br/><br/>The Maxilos Arena was large space station latched onto the side of a medium sized asteroid. On approach they could see the massive generators powering the facility, the dome shapes of the individual combat arenas dotted the surface of the asteroid, linked by thin hallways and finally to the hologram projection control room located in the main building to the opposite side of the entrance. There were freighters, frigates, cruisers, individual fighters, and even one dreadnaught parked at the docking bays of the station, it seemed there were a lot of military members stopping in at this station.<br/>Waiting for the team on their arrival was a tall humanoid with large black eyes and a long, thin neck. "Colonel Gagarin, we've been expecting you, right this way please..if you would kindly." It said in a voice that sounded neither male nor female.<br/>The ingame codex was suddenly updated with information on the strange new species which had never been seen in-game before, but Jeanette would recognize the name mentioned before.<br/><br/>-<em>The Xion</em>, a relatively secretive species, they pride themselves in technology, mostly involving holographic research. They tend to reside in the outer rim, far from Council directed territory, this is mostly due to their controversial stance on the support of A.I research which is strictly forbidden by the galactic government. The Xion are biologically unique to ther galaxy in that they have no genders, at least not to the untrained eye. The Xion can perform as either male or female, depending on the need, but they require a partner to provide genetic diversty. One member of the family carries the eggs, and another fertalizes them. Once the baby is born it is raised in a family group. There are no permenant relationships in Xion culture, a family consists of several adults who share resposibility and duty to the unit, children from different parents are raised as siblings if they are still born to any 2 members of the family unit.-<br/>-<em>Maxilos Station</em>, Developed by the Xion in 2157 to commemorate the anniversary of the Myelin Rebellion. It boasts the most advanced hologram technology of its time, often commissioned by goverments to perform training excersizes. In recent years however, it has become more of a place for soldiers to blow off steam and engage in games of skill against one-another.-<br/><br/><strong>Yokaimon:</strong><br/>"Sir, we've found our target, we're going in for the capture." one of the Jett Gang stated over their long-range communicator.<br/>"I want them alive! his energy is what we need to finish the M-2 project." Giren ordered.<br/>"Will do sir."<br/>Giren sighed after the comm. was turned off. "Imbeciles, they can't ever do anything right, get the chopper ready, I'll take care of this myself."<br/>"But sir....what if..." The scientist asked but was cut off.<br/>"It can wait! It's waited this long, we need that energy!" Giren hissed.<br/>As Giren made his way to the hanger a pulse of energy shot from the tube holding M-2. The glass shattered around him and through the whole facility. The Alarms went off all around the base.<br/>"W-what....?!" Giren exclaimed in shock.<br/>"Free......" was all that M-2 said before bursting into the sky. The Earth shook around him.<br/><br/>On the mountain Pivolt and Crimson could feel the ground shake, looking over at the town nearby they could see a mushroom cloud rise from a warehouse near the town's Gym. A beam of light shot into the sky. They could feel the energy that emitted from the object, which from their distance could not be recognized as a Yokaimon.<br/>"That came from the base....!" Jessica exclaimed from their hiding place near Crimson and Pivolt<br/>"I have my Yokaidex out...see if I can get a reading on....My Jigglypuff! The spirit energy rating is over 9000!" Jamie exclaimed as he took a reading on the fleeing figure.<br/>"Could that be the M-2 project the boss was talking about?" Jamie replied.<br/>"No...he told us that we needed this twerp's little rat to get the job....done...?" Jessica stated Suddenly realizing their conversation gave away their hiding place and Pivolt had managed to find them. (Team Rocket Blast-Off anyone?)<br/><br/><strong>Zero-G Racing:</strong><br/>As the racers lined up for another race Nick was unusually late.<br/>"Where's Fergus when you need him?"<br/>"Lost your mechanic?" one of the others taunted.<br/>"Shouldn't be a problem for a Racer who's a Mechanic" one of the others teased.<br/>"Don't worry, I think I fixed a few discrepencies that kept me from beating your ass last time!" Nick returned.<br/><br/><strong>Sky King: BBB:</strong><br/>The bell rang at the church, which was almost completely unoccupied until today, in fact the church was only a decorative model used for scenery, no gameplay elements were supposed to be present inside.<br/>"New DLC?" Raphael asked as they continued their usual path from the apartments towards the schoolyard.<br/>"Why a church of all places?" Margo asked a bit annoyed.<br/>"Didn't you hear, the Sky King is getting married." James added as he sped past them, marking a wall with the Korean word for 'Fuck'.<br/>"Getting married?!" Margo asked confused.<br/>"Yeah, so it looks like we'll be getting a sky queen!" James stated.<br/>"Wait, what, what's the point in that?" Margo asked.<br/>"I dunno, been trying to find the new map all morning, supposedly we've got a new gang in town too..." James replied.<br/>"It's not finished loading yet dillwad" Margo responded looking towards the world exit.<br/>"Oh!" James exclaimed suddenly running face-first into a kid his age who suddenly appeared as the loading bar hit 100%.<br/>There was a gang of teens each in a brown suit with their dress slacks cut off into shorts. They all had Gorilla masks and a red tie.<br/>"If you'll excuse us, we have a meeting with the Sky King." the leader spoke as he walked past James and the others before they had time to react.<br/>Margo looked at them oddly and the large one gave her an angry grunt as he walked past.<br/>"I don't like this guys....." she whispered as the new gang made their way to the church.<br/><br/><strong>Guitar Destiny:</strong><br/>Since their game was not in play, the characters were allowed to play whatever they wanted for now, until the console was turned-off and they could leave thier own games once again. But something was off, a new character joined the crowd, she claimed one of the spare stages that the others weren't using and proceeded to play a Coheed and Cambria tune.<br/>Coheed and Cambria-The Final Cut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf90wjabKi0#)<br/><br/><strong>The Desktop:</strong><br/>Watching from the Avatar station, May saw the scary knight from before make his way into the warp station for Mass Impact.<br/>There was only one guard, since the others were still busy cleaning up the mess that Mr. Crowley had made of Bad-Anon, and what May saw next ran chills up her spine. The knight stabbed the guard with his sword, the guard's code fractured and twisted until his body became a dark monster with vaguely humanoid features. It sunk into the shadow behind the knight before vanishing altogether. The Knight proceeded into the other game.<br/>"Game jumping while the console's on.....and there's no guards!" May exclaimed.<br/>"What are you talking about? Stay here!" Chris shouted.<br/>"No, I have to warn someone!" May exclaimed, running towards Mass Impact.<br/><br/>(It was business as usual for High Plains Drifter, King of the Ring, and Blood Red Honor. (OOC, sorry it gets boring now, for those of you who got excluded this turn, your worlds will get more plot related action later. I'll add some NPC conversations to make the wait a little more bareable next post.))