R.D. immediately frowned at what Awai called him, but the disapproving look went unnoticed behind the visor. The Dragon King Armor glowed for a brief second before it dematerialized into thousands of tiny particles of light, which quickly disappeared, leaving him in his normal outfit. "Fancy meeting you out here," he said, looking at Juno in surprise. "Can anyone tell me just where in the world I am?"

He jabbed a thumb over to the side of the crater, his next inquiry concerning the giant wound in the Earth's surface. "And another question. Just what the hell happened here?"

(OOC: The crater is actually closer to Sudan, actually, if you went all that way. >.>)

R.D. looked over at the crater once more, a frown on his face at the mention of Ziatoch. "They're fine," he replied, "They're behind cleaning up camp. We got attacked in Japan after we dropped Alasea off by the Pillar of Dawn."

R.D. walked over to the crater. "Ziatoch did this, huh?" he said bitterly, "This looks like his work. He's worse than what you made Kuro out to be, Juno."

He sighed and shook his head. "I've seen his handiwork before."

"I was at Khalis, Juno," he shot back, "Ziatoch left that world broken and dead. There aren't enough words to describe what he did. And he'll do it here if he isn't stopped."

R.D. turned around to face Awai. "We were assaulted by Ziatoch's minion, Diablo, in Japan. We managed to kill him, but then we attacked by something... else. Something calling itself "Wulfe." It was commanding the Ing, which were on Khalis."

R.D. looked off in the direction he came from. "We barely managed to escape, only because I used Chaos Control," he continued, "But there's something you need to know."

He looked back at Awai, and at Juno. "Bahamut, the King of Dragons, is dead."

(OOC: Seeing as how big the crater is, a "thousand miles" wide, as you said, the centre could practically be in the Congo and the border of it in the middle of the Saharan desert. >___>)

Meta hadn't really paid attention to whatever was being said, examining the young man that had just arrived with care, cautious because of the power resonance she had felt tingling through her arm because of her gauntlet, of which she had yet to fully come to understand the power of, although she had figured out quite a bit of it already.

Once she had taken a good enough look at R.D., both in his Dragon King Armour, as well as his normal attire after he had made it disappear, she turned away from him and once again stared into the blackness of the crater, feeling drawn to it somehow, curious, wanting to go in, explore whatever strangeness there was there far, far away within it.

Then she suddenly heard a name she greatly dispised. Sheena. The word vibrated violently within her head as she suppressed a feeling of hate towards the ice dragon. She tilted her head slightly to listen in better on the others' conversation. So the King of Dragons has fallen? She pondered. And more Kings are about to fall?

A grin came upon her face. "This is great." She uttered softly, as she stood by the crater's edge. Although the others stood a few dozen yards away from her, they had spoken loud enough for her to hear, surely because they wanted this "Rising Dragon" person to also hear what they had to say, as he stood a bit away from them as well.

"So all of the rulers of the world are about to fall..." She spoke in a normal, somewhat "I'm-playing-with-a-thought", tone, "that must mean that we're going to succeed." She finished, and smirked, feelings of a cruel happiness and ambition boiling somewhere deep within her.

Edited by Morphman on June 21, 2007 at 8:40:13.

R.D. blinked, then raised an eyebrow. He didn't understand what Awai meant, but it didn't sound good. But he felt something when he heard what Electra said. And what he felt was rage.

Sheena, he growled in his head, his rage strange even to him.

He shook his head when he heard the strange woman with the gauntlet speak up. This place is full of crazies, he thought, then spoke. "I need to get my friends. They should hear about this."

"Even then," Meta spoke up loudly, "even if not all sorts of rulers of the world will now fall, this surely means good to us. That is, of course," She added with care, glancing at Awai suspiciously at the same time, "if my father is not one of those two Sons of Darkness you are referring to."

The Dragon King Armor materialized over R.D.'s body in a flash of light, and he quickly accessed his interface, scanning to find his friends' location. Once he locked on, the aura appeared around him once more, and he shot off across the plains. Like before, he quickly spotted them, seeing that they had finished packing everything into the car. Skidding into the ground, R.D. stopped and raised a hand in greeting. "Yo," he said, "It's safe. An old friend of ours is over there."

"Who is it?" Matt asked, closing the trunk with a satisfying click. "Hsien-Ko and Mei-ling? Ristar? That one guy?" He titled his head in thought. "Who was it...Dan?"

"If he's got a pink gi on, it's Dan," Hugo said. "I don't know why the hell he wears that thing."

"Dan?" R.D. said, cocking his head to the side in utter confusion. "Who the hell is Dan?"

He shook his head. "Never mind. Juno's in the army, not the girls or Ristar. There's also a bunch of misfits there. I think staying with them is safer than staying in the wilderness."

Edited by RisingDragon on June 21, 2007 at 14:49:04.

Matt puckered his lips slightly-this meant that he thought this was good. "Juno, eh? Well, at least there's one familiar face around here." He lightly tapped the hood of his Firebird. "Let's go see 'em, then."

"Who's Juno?" Helena asked.

Matt glanced at her. "...you know, I can't really describe him. He looks kinda wonky. You'll see what he is."

"You guys go in the car, I can keep up on foot," R.D. said, then muttered, "Unless you use Radical Good Speed again."

He turned his gaze over to X. "You want to come along, newcomer?" he asked, still unaware of his name or identity.

"Name's X. But yeah, I think I'll tag along. Not like I got anything else to do." X followed the group.

"X, eh?" Matt exmained him now with a quick glance-there was something very familiar about him, something he couldn't quite put his finger on. Maybe it was all the blue...

In any case, time to get away from the rather disturbing hole in the ground. Matt walked around the Firebird, stopped at the driver's side. "All right, kids, pile in."

Hugo's eyes were intensely narrowed. It couldn't be. "Let me get the back with X," he said as Helena picked him up.

X suddenly felt very uncomfortable as he piled into the vehicle. He pushed it out of his mind, and into the void rushed another thought. Why am I here? I could have left the battle. Why did I stay? And suddenly he knew the answer. But he didn't like it very much.

R.D. stepped up to Matt's side of the vehicle and spoke. "The army's stopped at the edge of the crater," he said, "So just keep driving in the direction of the edge. I'm not sure of the distance, but it's not too far. Hugo should be able to detect them."

R.D. stepped back from the vehicle and made a salute. "C'ya there," the amnesiac said, smirking as the dash thrusters in his boots ignited and he started air-skating across the ground towards the army.

As the Rising Dragon left, Meta stared at his back as he went. Strange person. She thought. I wonder what caused that strange feeling within my hand. I suppose I'll be sure to get to know him better. She thought, as she looked into the distance, into the direction the Rising Dragon had went, indicated by the small dust cloud he had left in his tracks while dashing.
Even further into the distance she could see the sun still a ways above the horizon, but nearly touching it, and knew that night was coming, and sooner than in any other place on Earth, considering they were in an area quite close to the equator.
Still in the same position as she had been looking to the west, she glanced to her left, at the large blackness of the crater. "Investigating that at night won't help much." She spoke to no-one in particular, as if she were talking to herself. Although she had better eyesight in the dark than most people, she had heard that in areas as the one were she had found herself in, a desert, and near the equator at that, night seemed to be darker than anywhere else.

Meta heard Electra and Awai talk, and shivered in slight disgust at the memory of her own relationship with her own father. "Yegh." She spat out and turned and walked away from them, walking next to the crater's edge. Better go for a walk. Clear my mind. Do whatever. She thought, ripping her blade out of the hard earth of the crater's edge and putting it back on her back.

Meanwhile, back in the deserts of the lands commonly known as Egypt, near a town called Giza where there had been three large and mighty pyramids build a very long time ago in ancient times, and where once upon a freaky time, there had stood the large statue of a creature, like a lion, but with the face of a man and a pharaoh's headgear, Gilgamesh stared upwards at the skies, seeing the first stars starting to become visible to his naked eyes. He let out a peaceful sigh as he laid there in the desert sands. "The world has changed quite a bit. It seems to me it used to be a bigger place. Quite a lot must've happened while I was spending some quality time in Tartarus." He said to himself. In between all raggy bandages wrapped around his face, his smile was visible. "But still, I can't help but think to myself what a wonderful world this is."

The Firebird zoomed off toward the army, following R.D. in the distance.

"So, what's your story?" Hugo asked X. The Mettaur mentally sized the newcomer up-if this was who he thought it was, it was probably some alternate version than what he expected, but he still had to find out.

Edited by The Helldragon on June 22, 2007 at 17:44:48.

"I know what you're thinking. Hey, it's Megaman X! Well, I'm loosely based off of him. My armor looks similar, I use a buster and I can switch and utilize multiple armors. Add to that my name, and you've covered all the similarities. I'm not a robot, not fully or mostly at any rate. I'm a human, through-and-through--though with a few cybernetic augmentations."

X paused for a second and rubbed his chin.

"Next, you'll be asking where I come from. Well, that's a fair question, since what I'm scanning tells me it's not around here. I come from an alternate dimension. It's a pretty crazy place since we tend to have little dimensions within that dimension. Like I said, crazy. Basically, there's this thing on one world called the "Internet", now I don't know if that's here or not, but they have things they call certain people like, "Spammers", "Trolls" and "Flamers". We actually have those: Trolls are a group of amoral warriors united under one tribal government. Flamers are creatures that control and create fire. And so on."

X sighed and took a breath.

"Anything else?"

Matt personally thought that was the stupidest idea for an alternate dimension ever, but hey, he should be nice to the new guy.

"Ah HA!" Hugo declared, for no real logical reason. "So you know what I was thinking of, then! See, I was created by Dr. Thomas Light to help around his lab, and he had plans for a Megaman X lying around somewhere!"

Matt waved his palms. "Dramatic REVEEEEEAL!"

"Matt, stay focused!" Helena said, since Matt had taken his hands off the steering wheel.

"Sorry." Grasping the steering wheel, Matt looked up to his rearview mirror so he could look at X in between glances at the road. "Anyway, I'm pretty familiar with the whole alternate dimension thing, so you're in the right crowd. We wander the Multiverse, fighting the forces of evil like Caine from 'Kung Fu'."

X nodded. He looked to Matt and began to speak. "I may have ignored the chain of command earlier, and I'm sorry for that. I'll follow your lead. There's only one thing I ask, what with the dimension-hopping and all. There's this one thing--it may never come up, and I pray to whatever gods there are that it never will--that I'm going to need you to trust my judgment and listen to what I say. If that time ever comes, I'll let you know. But until that day, when and if it ever comes, I'm under your command."