(Sai, Atticus, and several random SIU agents have embarked on a mission to collect confidential information from the most isolated Purple Cloaks' base, and have done it fairly easily. Upon entering the vault, inside a drawer where the secret files are kept contained, they come across a file with text in the front displaying: "[b]Grigon Liomage[/b] Assassination Attempt Part lll", depicting the PC's persistence in taking down [b]Liomage[/b].) [b]Saitonia:[/b] The PC probably has documents pertaining to killing [b]Liomage[/b] in all of their bases. My guess is that different "units" I use loosely will carry on using various different methods. A base in [b]Dyphinix[/b] might list planting high-scale explosives in a convoy of vehicles, while a base in [b]Venturos[/b] will list a well-hidden sniper and have them watch over one of [b]Liomage[/b]'s speeches before taking the shot. [b]Atticus:[/b] *flips through a page, skimming through the text* Or maybe gettin' this [b]CYOKONA[/b] involved. Looking at this, turns out the PC got a delivery of big, powerful guns and gadgets, passin' Scale-6, waiting to be brought to [b]CYOKONA[/b]'s facility, wherever that is....and wherever the guns and gadgets are that's supposed to be delivered. *Sai turns to his right to see an open shipping container containing multiple rows of assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, railguns, explosives, laser artillery, hybrid guns, and gadgets such as energy-depleting discs, toxic grenades, and teleportation plates.* [b]Saitonia:[/b] For sure these ones. How incompetent; they left them wide open. [b]Male SIU Agent 2:[/b] Well, we have an arsenal as advanced as this, but hey, we could get a hold of more, just so these don't end up in the wrong hands, in which they would have been. [b]Female SIU Agent:[/b] *tapping into her earpiece* [b]Segoma[/b], you there? *Low whirring comes from behind them, revealing the drone joining the team inside the vault.* [b]Segoma:[/b] *voice coming from the drone and earpieces* Mhm. Won't lie, this was quicker than I expected, but it's no surprise when it's the SIU and some special associates. This is a pretty wild discovery. The Director is gonna love this. [b]Saitonia:[/b] *walking up to the drone* The Purple Cloaks are planning a 3rd attempt at assassinating [b]Liomage[/b], this time, they want to get this [b]CYOKONA[/b] involved, perhaps by *gestures towards the weapons container* using these; delivering high-scale weaponry to its facility first. [b]Segoma:[/b] *bored sigh* Not surprising that they're planning another assassination attempt. They probably have millions of attempts in the works. Let's just grab the container and hop out of here before more Purks and whoever else they partnered with show up. Won't have to worry about cameras, destroyed them all on the way down here. [b]Saitonia:[/b] *blasting a wide hole in the PC base, specifically enough so the container can fit* I've found a quicker way out. [b]Segoma:[/b] *sighs* When the hammer is more precise than the scalpel. ___________________ [b][i]*Cliche--blam!- opening theme plays*[/i][/b] ____________________ (Later, at the temporary Saitorealm base, 2026 Sai is watching live news footage from Channel Lyon 76, captions read: "[i]Day 2 of Chaotic Gathering outside the coliseum[/i]", showing a view from some aircraft, focusing on a crowd of people outside the coliseum in the outskirts, some are rowdy enough to start climbing the nearly 400 ft tall stadium. The aircraft then flies to a spot where the camera can get a shot on Roman and his loyalists, to which they see Roman on the throne, talking to someone on a floating tablet.) [b]Saitonia (2026):[/b] Ahh, Roman [b]Deiphamos[/b], great to see you again. You were a great [b]Vaisallian[/b] king, and distraction; keeping [b]Liomage[/b] and his High Council on their toes while I swooped in and claimed the throne from his filthy, corrupt hands. *The door slides open, revealing [b]Jindai[/b], though he quickly knocks on the doors' hinges.* [b]Saitonia (2026):[/b] *turning around and sighing* At least you knocked. Should've done it before you walked in. [b]Jindai:[/b] Apologies, Ruler. I just came to say that we have started our messenger missions. [b]Cerodin, Armorino,[/b] and [b]Ezeneos[/b] have gathered lengthy evidence of [b]Liomage[/b]'s crimes. Many victims have come out and sent their confessions to our website. [b]Saitonia (2026):[/b] Website? Ahh, we started it earlier in this timeline, I see. [b]Jindai:[/b] Indeed. We'll mail it in person to [b]CYOKONA[/b] and they'll send it to the Prime Tribunal. I figured since we removed [b]Liomage[/b] forcefully in the other timeline, we'll switch it up and he'll be dethroned lawfully. [b]Saitonia (2026):[/b] Your creativity and intellect is worth admiring, [b]Jindai[/b]. *As 2026 Sai turns back to the large screen, the camera from the live news broadcast shows SFT fighter [b]Ignitus[/b], causing a female reporter to reply: "[i]Wait, that's [b]Ignitus[/b]![/i]" The SFT fighter angrily walks up to the massive gates, delivering a bang that creates a tiny, magma explosion nearby, startling the crowd.* (At the coliseum, in real time) [b]Ignitus:[/b] ROMAAAAN! *From within the coliseum, Grandmaster [b]Riuno[/b] teleports to Roman.* [b]Grandmaster Riuno:[/b] Gladiatorial King, are you catching all of this? The crowd outside really has been beguiled by your open challenge. [b]Roman:[/b] *looking down at the tablet* No, I ain't really catching it, too busy watching over my dominion to even care about what the [b]Saitranovian[/b] peasants wanna b[b]i[/b]tch about. [b]Grandmaster Riuno:[/b] On top of that, the fighter that was assaulted; [b]Ignitus[/b], is back. [b]Roman:[/b] *suddenly grabbing the tablet and handing it to the Grandmaster, scoffing in annoyance* He's brave, brave enough to be willing to catch a 2nd [b]a[/b]sswhooping in front of a large audience, though he should be used to it anyway. [b]Grandmaster Riuno:[/b] The difference here is that his loss would be humiliating on a level thought unreachable. [b]Roman:[/b] WILL be humiliating, Grandmaster. I'll see what he wants. *Roman opens the gates, being met with [b]Ignitus[/b], standing a little over 5 feet away from Roman.* [b]Female CL76 Reporter:[/b] *from the aircraft* Let's get a bit low. Zoom in, zoom in. [b]Ignitus:[/b] Next week, the 14th, me and you, 1 on 1. You better reinforce this coliseum with additional resistance, wouldn't want my magma melting the crowd and this stadium as I'm scorching you to a crisp, leaving you as nothing but igneous fragments. [b]Roman:[/b] Oh, cut the scientific chatter. The heart, spirit, and soul of a [b]Vaisallian[/b] scorches way more than your little lava magma magic ever will, and it'll surely freeze you out when we meet again. [b]Female CL76 Reporter:[/b] *from the aircraft* Did cameras pick up the audio? Sounded like [b]Ignitus[/b] is challenging the Gladiatorial King to battle next week. (Back at the temporary Saitorealm base) [b]Jindai:[/b] *reacting to the confrontation* We remember how that turned out, correct? [b]Saitonia (2026):[/b] It'll be fun rewatching all these events transpire. _________________ (About an hour later, at a Purple Cloaks base, [b]Ordos[/b] is inside an operation room, dark gray with light purple glow coming from the walls. He stands on a gray, metallic plate, communicating with [b]CYOKONA[/b] as his silhouette appears on a large purple screen.) [b]CYOKONA:[/b] [b]Ordos[/b], the arsenal was not delivered to my facility. [b]Ordos:[/b] I know, it's something you really can't pin on me. [b]Liomage[/b] hired some of them S.S. or SIU goons to infiltrate the base near [b]Nororevdon[/b]. *frustrated* Sh[b]i[/b]t, that was our most well hidden base. [b]CYOKONA:[/b] Doesn't make it the most well protected. I've observed your organization's communications log, and it appears you've received a rather interesting message from someone by the name of "[b]Taphitra[/b]", who swears to enact revenge on the SIU team that killed her parents back in 1997. You team with her, let her exhibit her expertise in hopes that'll draw out top SIU agents, and you Purple Cloaks infiltrate their base, and take their intel, and my arsenal back. Is that clear enough? [b]Ordos:[/b] Yes, [b]CYOKONA[/b]. [b]CYOKONA:[/b] Now the Saitorealm has made their arrival not too long ago, and future Saitonia wants the pathway to dethroning [b]Liomage[/b] clear unlike in his timeline, seems like present Saitonia has declined the offer, as I've witness firsthand. If we can assist future Saitonia as he's claiming the throne without any bloodshed, namely through me hacking and manipulating the database of the Ruler's Palace and the Saitorealm's intimidation, that will be perfect for him. No casualties, just the invoking of fear. [b]Ordos:[/b] *worried* Mhm. The bloodshed will come later, though? [b]CYOKONA:[/b] The moment [b]Liomage[/b], his supporters, and basically anyone else who opposes our view tries to rebel in any way, then unfortunately, that is what we'll have to resort to. _______________________ [b][u]*Continuing Below*[/u][/b]