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I've discovered a way of testing for imposters, or confirming that people AREN'T imposters.

TL'DR, the ANIMa device, my weapon, allows someone to create weapons from relationships. One weapon per relationship to any one person on the same plane.

It's possible to test if there's an imposter by trying to manifest a relationship to the real person AND a relationship to the imposter; if both create weapons, then it's an imposter.

Give me a list of suspects and I'll check through them.

The Anchors and Pilots on this list - meet in the mecha bay. Anyone trustworthy that you can think of who can capture the fakes, bring along.

I hope this HURTS those bastards bad.

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Very clever.

I'm not confident enough in my guesses to name any potential imposters, but you may as well check to see if the disappeared are actually still with us.

Can do.

Ed came striding into the hangar purposefully. There the imposter was, defensless in a big glass tube. The only thing in the way was the large metal man, the ANIMa itself, and...

And Lucca. Ed wasn't sure that she was also an imposter, but suspected she had been tricked. Got to get past her somehow, and take out "Josh", or at least damage the machine before he could cause to much damage. No time to explain to her, just get as close as he can before the robot starts moving.

Lucca is at the controls, dutifully monitoring vital signs and adjusting knobs and sliders that dilated some aperture or another in the depths of the creche's housing to make Josh's dream-transmission as strong as possible.

She only glances up to take a look at Josh himself, cradled peacefully and weightlessly in the liquid of the tube, and glancing over at the quiescent "Temporal Guardian" ANIMa next to her after some minute change or another at the controls... She is totally engrossed in her work at the moment.

Ed alchemized his automail arm to have a blade on the end and started running towards the console. Even if Josh got away, he wouldn't be able to cause nearly as much damage without the creche.

"Right. Scanning, checking for Nerine's presence..."

(http://media.photobucket.com/image/magic staff/felotb/CaneGalleria/TRSMagicStaff.png?o=4)

"Okay! Nerine is on the plane, at lea- LUCCA, LOOK OUT!"

At this point, Joshua only has that staff in hand - well, and this katana. (http://diraven.net/roleplaying/misc/evangelion/images/Katana.jpg) It's not paranoia if they're out to get you...

Lucca blinks when she hears the heavy footfalls, and looks up, bewildered.

"...Ed?" Is all she's able to get out.

Ed shouted, "Lucca! Get out of the way!" and barreled past her to make a big stab at the control console.

"ACTIVATE FULL METAL GAUNTLETS!"

A pair of liquid-steel gauntlets form on his arms as he barrels for Edward.

"ACTIVATE HOMUNCULOUS CANNON!"

Apparenlty, there's no such thing, and Josh is not happy about trying to figure out what that means...

Ed could make it to the console, but that would mean getting reduced to a paste by the ANIMa. He broke off his attack at the last moment, merely scratching his target, and flipped backwards before the giant fist smashed him to tiny bits. He came to a rest several feet away.

"What--ED! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

He is attempting to damage the creche. And any damage to the creche will damage Josh, though she doesn't know yet, that that's the whole POINT. In any case, she snarls and a hand ignites. The other hand... goes for the hammer propped up under the console.

Josh isn't the ONLY one that's paranoid.

"You are going to explain yourself this very second or I will personally singe every little blonde hair right off of your HEAD!"

"How can't you see it!? Josh is one of the imposters!"

Ed alchemized a series of spikes out of the ground that extended towards the console, arcing around on either side of Lucca.

He is in the hallway. Almost there to where they kept the machine . . . Just a little bit longer. Joshua had to be stopped. Ed . . . Ed had to be kept safe. Ivan knows that this is what he must do -- It is imperative. How can it be that it's taken him so long to realize this?

He doesn't realize that his feet are no longer responding entirely to his commands. What's happening? He reels to the side -- strikes his head -- reels back. Stars are flying before him. He careens heavily to the side and strikes his head again.

. . . Perhaps when people come through the hallway, they will spot the huddled mass to one side. Ivan is unconscious.

"You idiot! Josh and I have been working together trying to find out who the imposters ARE! And now you--"

She recoils as the spikes erupt around her, and she snarls and takes off in a run towards Ed, unleashing a quick and nasty blast of fire and heat to break his concentration. If she gets close enough she can just land a hit to knock him out, and the ordeal will be over quickly...

"I don't know what's going on," Josh says into Lucca's headset, "but whatever happened to him, this guy IS Elric! Don't kill him, but protect the creche with your life and mine - there are other pilots and anchors we can trust!"

Joshua claps his hands, arms forming a circle, and concentrates - he needs a ranged weapon --- any ranged weapon...

And it morphs into throwing knives. Josh swung and they went wide. "FUCK."

The spikes had been aimed at the creche rather than Lucca, but they didn't make it, as Ed had to stop to dodge the knives and the fire. Somehow, he made it out of the cloud of flame with merely a few burns and alchemized the floor in front of him, including the floor under Lucca, into shifting sand, utterly ruining her footing.

"Humh--"

She stumbles, but managest to grasp her hammer two-handedly... "HAH!" and swing it sideways at the level of his head.

Which, one had to admit, wasn't that high up.

Ed twisted furiously to protect vital equipment, but was still hit on the hip and sent sliding several feet away. Damn, that girl has an arm on her. From his pained, crouching position, Ed releases the handful of sand he had grabbed during the original transmutation and hurls at Lucca's eyes.

Josh leapt forward, progressive katana fired up, and interposed the Temporal Guardian between the... between Edward and Lucca.

"Edward, what the hell is wrong with you?! STAND DOWN. I'll - I will submit to the same test I've been runnin' on everyone else, but for the love of god, don't you FUCKIN' DARE break our best shot at identifying the imposters or I WILL hurt you!"

Josh's words made sense, but some force in Ed's head tore them apart before he could really think about them. It was so hard to think clearly. He did what he normally did, and opted for action instead.

A simple repeat of the Sand trick made the anchor console fall into a pit of dust, snapping cables and ruining dozens of delicate instruments.

Lucca's glasses had repelled MOST of the sand but not all, and blinking through the tears she hears the horrible rending *CRAK* of metal.

"--NO! JOSH!"

No power to the console means no anchor signal. No anchor signal means Josh floats into the deep churning maw of the dream with no silver cord to keep him tethered. Desperate, she gets up and gives the hammer a wild swing at the tempered glass of the creche, leaving a massive gaping hole for the pale, fizzy liquid to hiss from. Break the seal, and possibly break his slumber. Maybe. Hopefully. Then she turns and leaps at Ed, barring him under the neck with the handle of her hammer. She's much stronger than she looks.

"You horrible little BASTARD." She snarls against his ear. "Do you have any idea what you've just done?!"

Ed is vaguely aware that someone is attacking him but rational thought was just out of reach, like a drowning man unable to reach air. He should be helping these people right? But...isn't that what he's doing? It would be easier to think if he could breath right.

"Whats...*urk*...going on? Did I stop it?"

And Josh tumbles out of the creche, stumbling, coughing, and trying to sit up, with mixed success.

His eyes are half-lidded, his breathing is shallow, and he looks... half asleep. And almost content, smiling.

"Fuck," he gasps. "Doctor. Get... get a doctor, try to keep me awake. Ate some Bliss... keep me awake!

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That causes the girl's eyes to widen. Gods, no.

"If he Blisses... you know what? Forget the threats. I'm just going to hurt you now." She says quietly, and smacks him hard against the wall before lugging him bodily back to Josh, getting out her PDA.

[Voice]

"Ashtear! Mech hangar! I need help here! Elric just attacked the creche with Preston in it! Need help! Medical and an Enforcer!"

She drops the Alchemist hard nearby and kneels down near Josh, clasping the Pilot's left hand and twining their fingers.

"Sorry about this. But there's no way you're gonna be able to fall asleep if I--."

*FLOOMPH!* And fire flares up around her hand and singes the skin on his. It wasn't going to do permanent damange, but it was going to hurt like HELL once the shock wore off. And that was actually the point.

And Ed was just lying on his back, staring at the thinking. After much fruitless mental churning, one coherent though finally broke it's way through the mental fog. It was a question, a simple one. He said it quietly, to himself mainly.

"What have I done?"

Josh hisses, wincing. It's painful. Good. Pain, he can work with, focus on... he looks up at Lucca, grateful. "That hurts like a motherfucker," he hisses, then laughs, coughing a bit. "Thank you..."

At Ed's words, he sighs. "Welcome back, Edward," he says, and that's all.

Finally, team Kazumi shows up... looking a bit worse for wear.

"H-hey, what happened...?"

Edited 2010-09-09 18:47 (UTC)

Ryouko looks like she just got hit by a huge energy blast. Oh wait, she did. So she just silently follows Kazumi in, a bit more subdued than usual on account of her injuries.

"You guys okay...?"

"ANIMa accident. Blissing out over here," Josh says quietly. Focus on the pain, Josh...

"S'like rad poisoning. Keep me awake, if I sleep I'm worse than dead, and..." he winces, and tries to concentrate through the pleasant haze. "...shit, I dunno. Ask the medtechs or Anna..."

This dude is mentally exhausted, and is just kind of staring at the ceiling. Don't expect too much out of him.

To the newcomers... with the smashed ANIMa tank, and her hammer in one hand, and Josh's burnt left hand, and Ed dazed on the floor... it looks like the seventeen-year-old-girl herself had snapped and done all the attacking, if it weren't for the alchemical mess of concrete around them. She looks up at the other two, eyes through smudged glasses somewhere beyond panic and into the boyant state of comfortable driving anger.

"We don't have much time." She says, rather loudly. "Josh is going to go into shock, and the little turncoat here needs retraining. Don't make me do it right now; I'll take those arms of his apart and I won't even bother to use a wrench."

"R-right, uh... Ryouko, you tie up Edward. I'll ask Anna about treating blissing out..." Kazumi pulled out her PDA to do just that, while grabbing Josh's cheek with her other hand and pulling on it to keep him awake, "S-stay with me!"

She's tying up Edward then.

"Sorry about this... not sure what happened, but it's probably best if you stay put for now though."

Yeah I'll be there soon with my team.

It's not a suspect, but I don't suppose we can just check Nerine?

[Kazumi's using her PDA, so she won't bother to respond herself... but yeah she's on her way too.]

[Katina doesn't really have any particular suspicions, though she'll make idle suggestions when her little group gets there.]

Thank you.

*transition to action?*

(see above! Join Ed! thread)

Ook. (I am still not entirely sure what is going on, but I am going to help.)

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