MORTALITY: PART Fe (Scripted Roleplay) (Trisell)

INTRODUCTION
Set just before the events of Mortality Part One

The Unification base: the Identity alliance opposing the Isis Dominion. Their “leader” was the other Elder, Rin. In this ongoing race for superior power and loyalty of Identities, the Unification was definitely considered the weaker side. Then, they were hit… they were hit by their own Mortality.



The base was lined with panicking units. A brown lynx with a red and black hoodie passed by them… this was Kaiya, the technical second in command, and she, like the others, was wondering where their leader was.



That’s where you have arrived. Either you are a friend to the Unification, or perhaps you’re a new recruit Identity that joined them. Regardless, you’ve ended up at one of the information storage rooms. A strange contorted bag of… something. There was fur, there were bones, muscle, but it was twisted up, and a chord was attached to it from the computers. You could hear it breathing.



Comment with your response and a starter will be made Zahak Zahak looked around for a bucket, failing that he emptied his lunch in a nearby corner before stumbling around to go see what the hell this 'thing' was.

"Has anyone found something?" a voice in Zahak's head asked.

"U-um.. W-who's there..?" He looked around, he's never even heard of telepathic communication so he was understandably nervous.. Especially with whatever just happened.

"This is Kaiya.  Respond.  Who is this?"

"U-um.. Z-Zahak Teth..?" He mumbled, going to check on the contorted bag of gore and computer bits.

"Do you have anything to report?"

The mound was slowly moving in and out, like breaths. The technology was almost as if it was sucked into it.

Zahak took one look at this, before turning away and emptying the contents of his stomach the second time.. Gore does not seem to settle well with his stomach.

"U-um.. I found this mound of g-gore connected to c-computers.. S-still alive too.."

"Tracking your location now.  What is the state of this mound?"

He tried to visualize it over the telepathy link to see if he could, if Zahak could that would save him an explanation.

A lynx-looking Identity in a red and grey hoodie-sweater side-leaning dress appeared next to him. Her eyes were red... mostly all over, like someone who had been crying, except she hadn't been. Her hair had red highlights at the end. Her ears were quite large, dipping back behind her head. No nose... well there was one, but it just had some holes for the nostrils instead of a traditional black nose.

She knelt immediately next to the mound. "How soon?"

Zahak just stood there awkwardly, not really sure what to do.

"How long ago was it that you discovered this?" She started disconnecting the wires, pulling out each one.

"A-a few m-moments ago.." He responded.

"... Look on the screens.  See what you can find," She continued peeling away.

Zahak blinked, going to look at the computer monitors for.. Whatever reason, if this entailed using the computer than it would be quite apparent that Zahak doesn't know how to use one.

Kaiya didn't seem to be paying attention to Zahak as she wasn't currently scolding him. "I know who this is," She stood up, and the three were immediately teleported to a medical bay, the lump put on a table. Her voice spoke to the populous. "We found her.  Bring Dimension 4."

"U-Um.. W-who..?" Zahak blinked.

A blue light appeared suddenly. A tall furless cat. He looked almost skeletal. His ears had a dip in them, as if cut out at the backs inward. He was skinny but muscle tones were noted. He wore a hoodie with tank-top sleeves and black pants, but the most interesting aspect was that he was radiating with a bright blue energy, small dips in his glowing white eyes.

He was a being of core energy and he was immediately applying work to the mound.

"Everyone out," Kaiya instructed, pointing to the door in the back.

Zahak blinked, walking out the door in the back.. And by walking, it's really just awkward shuffling in an attempt to avoid stumbling over his own tail.

Others were outside as well. Many were... not happy. They were hugging, huddling, clutching themselves. Some were shaking. One asked next to him "... When did it... happen for you?"

"U-um.. W-what..? W-what do you mean..?" It was clear that Zahak had no clue what the hell was going on, though on a more personal note he didnt even know of his origins really.

"W-what happened a-anyways?"

"... Y- e-everything went bad... w-we can't... we can't shapeshi-... the nanites are gone..."

"N-Nanites..?" Zahak asked, tilting his head in confusion.

The mortal Identity peered a bit at Zahak. "You... aren't... weren't... an Identity?"

"I-I mean.. I-I only w-woke up a year ago with n-no real memory of what I am.."

"You're organic mostly... I can tell that much... you must be a hybrid..."

"I-I guess.." He shrugged. "D-doesn't help me figure out w-where I came from though.."

The door opened behind them now. "She's awake."

"O-oh! H-how is she?" Zahak asked, concern clear as day on his face.

Kaiya motioned him inside.

Zahak reenterered the medical room.

Instead of her black scales, it was black and brown skin, with fur. Her eyes kept starting to revert to a mobian red color instead of the glowing blue. Strange distorted ears. Her body was telling her to be something different, and judging by her now suddenly vomiting, she was not used to it.

Zahak was quite squeemish and would've hurled if he could, so he settled for looking away and shivering in response.

Rin slowly calmed a bit, turning to those around her.

"Rin, we need you to focus," Kaiya informed.

"Who is this?" She looked to the fishboy.

"This is Za-"

"W-wait," Rin peered a bit. "... O-oh... ye-yeah we've met... kind of."

"O-oh.. I-I think I remember you.." He twiddled his fingers.

"... How were you affected?"

Considering Zahak never really used anything from the identity side because he didnt know how too, its safe to say that he wasn't really affected much by the apparent loss of his identity abilities.

"I-I really d-do not know."

"... I'm going to need to analyze you, come with me," Kaiya instructed, walking out.

"U-um.. O-okay.." He blinked, following Kaiya.

They went a few rooms down, where she instructed him to sit on a table.

Zahak did so, having to shift his tail to where it hung over the other side of the table to get comfortable.

Various lenses went over him, analyzing. "... Your 551 DNA seems unaffected."

"M-my what D-DNA?" It could've been the fact that the 'male' doner's DNA was so unstable that it constantly rewrites itself, or it could've been for an entirely different reason unrelated to Xavek altogether.

"We don't have time to name and archive every species we find, this is one is just called 551 for all intents and purposes."

"O-oh.. M-makes sense."

"We're going to need you for operations seeing as you appear one of the least affected.  We need to check on the worlds we have partnerships with as well as the Identities living there.  If you'd rather bow out, we won't stop you, but you would be helping greatly."

"S-sure, I'll help.."

"Good.  Head out to the main conference hall.  We'll be leaving from there soon.  I'll join once I'm done looking over what you can add biologically."

"A-Alright.."

With that, Zahak left the area and headed to the main conference room.

A few others were sitting in wait, discussing the situation. One was a rather shapely skinny pink cat girl in a purple top wearing blue jeans. She had large green eyes and blonde hair,  and decided to wave over at the fishman as he entered.

Zahak timidly waved back, he was not very good at meeting new people and it showed.

"You're the hybrid, right?" She asked.

He nodded. "Y-yeah.. W-what's y-your n-name..?"

"I'm Kenfi.  You?"

"Z-Zahak.."

"Sounds villainous," She smirked. "That stutter doesn't help the case though."

"We're ready to go to the first world," Kaiya announced as she entered, Rin behind her cautiously.

Zahak just twiddled his thumbs in response. "S-sorry.." If Kenfi was joking, Zahak had no real clue.

"This is a bad idea," Rin warned.

"You'll be fine," Dimension 4 assured next to the mortal Rin.

"Alright," Kaiya opened a portal. "Let's get going."

Kenfi started toward it but Kaiya held up a hand for her to stop. "You're staying here."

"Rude," Kenfi huffed.

"Keep things stable," Kaiya clarified. Kenfi sighed but kept put.

Zahak tentatively entered the portal, looking around the location they wound up in.

They were soon in a typical modern zone: a city of mobians.

"The Identity was posted at a bakery," Kaiya informed. "I'm not sensing their chaos energy and that's a bad sign.  Spread out and search."

Zahak was already wandering off. "ooooh.. So this is a big city."

Most people ignored him. He didn't at least appear out of the ordinary. Depending on his hearing, there was some loudness not too far away.

Most of his senses were slightly dulled on land, so odds are unless the average human could hear the loudness Zahak wouldn't be able to hear it.

He heard a beeping from his wrist.

Zahak took a look at his wrist. "U-um.."

A metal watch was on him now. Must have been slipped on earlier. "Signal detected," an arrow pointing forward.

Zahak followed the arrow, hoping he wouldnt have to get involved with any conflict.

He found a nearby smoke cloud coming from further in the city. Dough was lining the streets.

Zahak glanced around, picking up the dough and chewing on it.

It was cookie dough. A pile of it was running away in the opposite direction.

Zahak chased after the runaway cookie dough, scooping up the other pieces to eat as well

Noticing they were being followed, the figure under the cookie dough sped up a bit, jumping into a nearby window.

Zahak was chewing on cookie dough, stopping at the window for a bit before punching a nice sized hole through the building and walking through in search of the wayward cookie dough. This being a fish who can lift up to twenty tons without any strain.

The figure let out a squeel, falling back since well... cookie dough, but scrambling against a wall now while looking at Zahak.

Zahak blinked. "Talking cookie dough..? S-so.. You alright?" He asked the cookie dough while raising his hands up in the air in the universal sign of 'I'm not gonna hurt you'.

"You punched the wall," They noted.

"E-Eh.. S-Sorry.." He twiddled his fingers nervously. "I-it was the only thing I-I could think of a-at the time qwq"

"W-where- what do you want?"

"W-what's going on here, and why is cookie dough talking to me..? I'm not in some creepy lab simulation am I?"

"Co- I'm not-" She wiped off more of the cookie dough. Some kind of... she looked like a robot, but the bolts on her cheeks were just spots, and the arms gauntlets were just larger hands... same for the feet. Like a robot turned into a fleshy person. In this case it leaned more toward... a blue and black meerkat.

"O-Oh.. W-well.. S-sorry.." He twiddled his fingers. "S-so you know what's going on?" He said, looking at his watch.

"Evertyhing just went crazy.  I don't feel right."

"I-I see.. W-well, y-you need help?"

"I guess?  I need to contact the others, but I can't..."

"I have this watch.. It led me to you." Zahak showed her the watch.

"...So you're with the Unification?"

"I-I guess..?"

People were drawing in from outside now. "Where are they?" She asked.

"I don't know.." Zahak was starting ti get a teensie bit annoyed, so he picked up the formerly cookie dough covered identity and walked out the hole with her.

She tensed up at the sudden carrying but eventually put her arms around him for personal support... it being eventually because she was still mostly covered in the cookie dough and felt bad getting it all over him.

"Is that her?" One of the people asked as they ran over. They appeared mostly to be civilians.

"Y-yeah, I think so.."

The mortal Identity looked away shamefully at the attention.

"What happened to you?" One asked.

"I don't know," she replied, still looking away.

"... Anyone have any chocolate chip cookies..?" Zahak asked, barely speaking above a whisper.

"I had some at the bakery but it's... blown up," The girl answered.

"D-darn it." Zahak pouted slightly, he really wanted some cookies.

"Where are the other Unific-"

They were soon getting enclosed by the people, many who were now bombarding them with questions.

And Zahak did not do so well in the middle of a crowd, infact he was starting to hyperventilate and freeze up. He attempted to stumble out a reply but all that came out were minor squeaks.

The Identity girl light up a brief red as the two suddenly teleported some blocks down. The cookie dough immediately dried.

Zahak took a few deep breaths. "O-oh th-thank heavens.."

"... I can still teleport?" She blinked. "...I can tele-" she then attempted to teleport them... further away than she was able and they ended up a few miles in the sky.

Zahak stared at her for a few seconds. "C-crap."

They began to descend. "... You can't fly... right?"

"Nope.." Zahak sighed, waving the white flag.. Literally.

"u-uh... O-okay okay," She then teleported the two of them into a pond before passing out. The speed at which they fell caused the water to splash upward but thankfully they hadn't gotten too fast before teleporting.

Zahak had little reason to panic since he was a sea creature, so he grabbed the cookie dough identity before swimming to shore woth her in hand

The cookie dough crumbled off of her as they got to the shore, showing the rest of her sort of... well it was like someone who had been painted like a robot. Her fur and skin was pale blue with the black circuit and bolt markings about.

"H-Huh.. Coool.." Zahak mumbled, attempting to perform CPR on the Identity just incase she accidentally took water into her lungs.

The Identity soon coughed up a bit, jerking a bit as she woke up.

Zahak stopped the CPR. "Y-you feeling alright..? Just rest up for a few minutes if you're tired.."

She gaped a moment, face turning red before looking away.

"O-oh... Y-yeah.." Zahak blinked. "S-sorry about that."

"W-why did... you do that?" She asked eventually.

"T-thats how you perform CPR, to f-force air into your lungs.. Since you're fleshy still.."

"Oh..." Her body was a bit limp just being there on the dirt floor, still very red in the face and clearly having issues changing her interpretation of the situation.

Zahak sighed, he was kinda tired anyways so he closed his eyes for a small nap.. Hopefully no one would try to sneak up on him.

Zahak was woken up by his watch, Kaiya calling him.

Zahak blinked, turning on the watch. "Yes?" Zahak blinked, making sure the Identity was next to him.

"Your position is fifty miles from the city.  What happened?"

"Apparently the Identity I found tried teleporting us.. This is the result."

"We'll be right there.  Stay put."

"I will, I will.." Zahak yawned, he was still kinda sleepy.

Only a few seconds passed before Kaiya and Rin appeared. The Identity girl immediately

"Th-that's commande-"

Kaiya interrupted immediately. "What is your condition?"

"Stable?"

Kaiya approached the two with Rin staying where she was. "Good job, Zahak.  We're moving out to the next zone."

"O-okay.." He got up and stretched his limbs, feeling satisfied when his back popped a few times. "L-lets go."

"W-wait," The Identity girl called. "Do you know what's happening?"

"... We are working on i-" Kaiya stopped when she noticed the girl was looking at Rin for an answer... and Rin wasn't answering.

".....?" Zahak just stared questioningly.

A portal opened to the side of the group, soon sending them back to the base. "We'll be heading to the next location in a moment," Kaiya explained. "Are you ready?"

"U-um, yeah."

They were soon off to a less pleasant location. A half-destroyed military city where people were trying to defend against various incoming helicopters and missile strikes. Craters were seen everywhere, as well as bodies.

Zahak didn't take the sight too well and started to recoil, his fins flattening against his body as he shook ever so slightly.

"His name is Vantis," Kaiya informed. "He was this world's main defense in keeping order.  Word must have spread that he's depowered.  He might already be dead but we have to try and stablizing what we can."

"F-fine.. I-I hope I don't see any dismembered bodies.." Zahak stuttered, he kinda had a faint heart for these sorta of situations.

"I'll go with him," Rin volunteered. Kaiya looked cautiously to Rin, but soon walked onward past them both.

Zahak blinked, staring at Rin for a few seconds. "U-um.. A-any idea where we're supposed to be going?"

"We're looking for the Identity.  The team is helping the people around," Rin informed. "... And... we help too if we... see anyone," She started toward the nearest still-standing building, which seemed to be some kind of storage lot.

Zahak had followed after her. "U-um, do you want me to make an entrance?"