Quick note: [spoiler]This is part 1 of atleast 3. If you're not featured here or felt your role was small, either I have plans for later on or I just dont like you very much! Hope you all enjoy this pile of words I've spewed upon thee.[/spoiler] ~~~ In the city, all was calm. The sun was shining, birds were chirping, and people were enjoying their day to day activities. Evel Kanyevel levitated high above a gathered crowd performing one of his chart topping hits. He notices the trees of the forest shaking, but he doesn't care, he's above it all. He reaches up to touch the sky and never comes down. Gorlok sees all of this through the monitors before him. On a table sits a row of magical Sending Stones of various colors. He reaches for the first stone and briefly hesitates before touching it and speaking, "Begin the attack." Patrolling the city walls, a Mandalorian sees the trees violently shaking before a sea of creatures burst forth. Thousands of serpentine horrors with shards of metal protruding from their dead grey flesh. Their pointed metal beaks split open into four jaws full of shark like teeth shrieking as they claw forward rapidly with four segmented arms that extend from below their heads, each ending in a curved metal blade. "Man the guns!" the Mandalorian shouts, "Close the ga-" He's interrupted by a blinding flash of light. In the distant peaks, the top half of the largest mountain has exploded with a great beam of violet light shooting into the sky, chunks of earth rotating around it, ending with a ring around a dark hole eclipsing the sun. The earth rumbles as a shockwave eminates from the beam. Synthetic systems shutdown and reboot, magic briefly fades away, and organic beings fall to their knees nauseous. [b][u]The Northern Gate[/b][/u] DrTitan rises, panting, looking to the hole in the sky, then to the horde of horrors. Beyond them, an army of undead emerges. Formations of blue eyed whites, siege towers, and monstrosities of flesh and metal with weapons fused to their bodies. Among their ranks there are flashes of green lights, then green balls of flame rise and arch towards the city. As the first barrage hits the walls, Titan shouts, "Sound the alarms, muster whatever forces this city has, fire every gun into that horde, and get the damned gate closed!" From below, someone responds, "The systems malfunctioning! I need some time!" Titan looks out to the horde and leaps down, using his jetpack to slow his fall, firing his revolver in one hand and a wrist rocket from the other. When he lands, he sweeps the beasts with his flamethrower and draws both his sword and hammer. Titan holds as many as he can, swinging away with both weapons, but some get past and a few manage to injure him before he can kill them. A bite to his shoulder pierces his armor, a blade to his gut, and cut to his arm. A red lightsaber slices one in half to his left followed by a cone of lightning. "We've got your back!" Veggie shouts as his saber returns to him, the shade Aku to his side firing a rifle into the horde before switching to his blade. The three hold the gate together, covering each others flanks. Finally, they hear the thick metal doors begin to close. Titan launches into the air with another barrage of fire and rockets while Veggie sprays them with Force lightning and leaps back through the gate, but he notices Aku continuing to hack away, lost to his work. Veggie reaches out with the Force and pulls him through right before the doors seal with a loud clunk. "Thank you, I sort of lost myself to the groove there!" Aku laughs. Veggie smiles and begins to say something, but another pulse from the beam drops them to their knees, followed by a series of large explosions west of them... [b][u]The Southern Gate[/b][/u] Lee grips the side of his desk and lifts himself off the floor, still nauseous from the effects of the first pulse. The ringing in his ears turns to panicked screams and gunfire. He draws a revolver and runs out of the Sheriff's Department. The first thing he sees is the beam. Lee sighs audibly, "Can we get one week without someone trying to end the world?" "Nope!" Backseat shouts as he sprints past him. Lee shouts, "Were are you going? The gates the other way!" Backseat turns to him, running backwards, and replies with a grin, "I'm gonna get high!" Shrieks from the beasts pouring into the city from the undefended gate draw Lee's attention. He draws s second revolver and shouts back, "If we weren't all about to die I'd arrest the shit outta you!" He unloads with his main revolver but the rounds only slow the beasts down. He fires explosive rounds from the second while reloading his main with one hand. Alternating fire, he replaces his explosive revolver for one that fires sticky bullets that explode an adhesive that stops or slows a few in their tracks. Holstering the sticky revolver, Lee mutters, "No, that's not the one..." as a beast lunges for him and cuts his leg. He quickly draws and hipfires an armor piercing round through its metal face. He unloads his guns into the horde before him until he hears two clicks. "Welp." The remaining few are turned to ash as laser fire rains from above. Lee glances back to see the glint of a rifle scope and Backseat waving down to him from the roof of a tall building. "Ohhh, 'get high,' that's kinda funny I guess. Now..." He holsters his guns and searches his coat for something, then draws a long ornate revolver. "Ah! There we are!" He takes aim down the street where the horde continues to pour through the gate and fires a wyvern of light straight down the center. It roars as it blasts through, incinerating everything along its path. Lee limps for the gate controls, reloading along the way, and finds them broken and covered in blood. "Fffff." A beast turns the corner, shrieks in his face, and stabs him in the chest before a bolt of fire knocks it back. Tilman flips through the air shooting a wave of flame into the gate and raises his own revolver as he lands. "Howdy Sheriff! Gate broken?" "Yup!" Lee ignores the blood and pain, draws his guns, and joins him. The two mow down the horde, creating a wall of bodies, but the beasts keep coming, skittering over their dead. A hail of golden bullets fly past them and the gate begins to close. At the controls, a man in a suit stands with a smoking golden Tommygun in one hand. His other hand has become a golden liquid and is... [i]*writer thinks for a bit*[/i] shlorping all over the gate controls. [i]*writer says -blam!- it and leaves it in*[/i] "Loot! Just in time!" Lee reaches out to shake his hand and Loot gives him a slip of paper. "My bill." Loot says, adjusting his suit. "Lee, you good? You're leaking everywhere..." Tilman asks. Lee smiles and reaches into his pocket for his flowers. "Damn, I only have three with me." Tilman waves a hand, "Save them for later, I got this!" His hand glows with radiant light and Lee's wounds heal. "Thanks mate," Lee smiles, "I appreciate!" "Hey, this thing on?" Backseat says through a walkie on Tilmans belt, "The River Gate has fallen and theres a big army of dead things heading that way!" "We need to hold this gate," Tilman gestures around, "The guards are all dead." Loot raises a finger, "That's not inclu-" Before he can finish his gimmick, the second pulse washes over them...