Brikman McStudz

This is the post where I, Brikman McStudz, will update this post with changes if Jacks finds himself unable to do so and vice versa. This post will also lists details concerning the story of the RPG and should be referred as an easy way to know what is currently happening with the plot. SUGGESTED READINGS The LEGO Universe Wiki is your friend when it comes to anything LEGO Universe-related, particularly if you've never played the game or know little of its mythos. Not that this is a wiki for the MMOG, not the RPG. So do not add pages about your characters. In addition to the location and faction specialties above, I'd recommend reading the "Maelstrom" and "Stromlings" pages. The former page describes the RPG's main enemy in detail and the latter describes the Maelstrom's members, including a list of Stromlings from the MMOG, each with their own links to their own pages. Know that you are not limited to the Stromlings listed here (such as a "Corrupted Sentinel Knight" or something of that regard is okay). NEWS, IMPORTANT INFORMATION - January 20, 2013: This RPG is now open. - January 28, 2013: The mission to recover the Venture Explorer has been announced. MISSIONSOccasionally we will announce goals for Nexus Force. Elites may then, if they wish, organize operations within the framework of that goal as they see fit. These can be anything from a treasure hunt to a tactical hit-and-run operation to a story arc to develop the overarching plot of the RPG. You're by no means required to participate in any specific mission, or any missions at all, but the story will develop more richly the more players collaborate.The Venture Explorer has been discovered to be almost entirely corrupted by the Maelstrom and the Darkitect intends to turn the ship into a weapon against the Nexus Force! Get in and purify the ship as soon as possible before the Darkitect can act on his plans! PLOT SYNOPSIS This will host a brief summary of the RPG's plot so you should hopefully be able to jump in to the game without too effort, though we do recommend reading through the full topic. Spoilered for your convenience. CHARACTER DATABASE This will be a list of all active players and their primary characters, spoilered for your convenience. I will try to update this regularly.

You can start out with whatever; clothing, weapons, etc. The only weapons I think might be off-limits to Rank 2/Elite would be the Valiant Weapons. Maybe. As NPCs, sure. As primary characters, I don't know. We initially decided against it, but I'm slowly changing my mind and have a few ideas that may be discussed with Jacks. Of course.

OOC: I'll also add that Bill Nighy also played Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.

Alright, since I am co-planning/running this RPG, let me see if I can provide adequate answers and/or comments. But I will say these suggestions and comments are appreciated. In my head, the plot will get more complex as time goes on, with twists and betrayals coming along with it. This is just the opening. But the Maelstrom will probably always be the "main" enemy of the RPG, even if it isn't the main enemy of a story arc or something. But I think for the RPG, the Stromlings have become more cunning, ruthless, and intelligent. Still bent on destroying everything, but now more "interesting" to write about. I have no problem imagining Stromlings infiltrating the Nexus Force; I had the scenario happen a previous RPG. We have briefly gone over about playing as Stromlings, but decided to limit them to NPCs. We may change our minds at some point. I think we're pretty solid on staying with "no killing official LEGO characters". I myself (don't know about Jackson), am rather hesitant with the idea. Yes, LEGO's canon is rather loose, but it would feel wrong to kill an actual character. Assassinating a high-ranking Nexus Force member of your creation wouldn't be a problem, however. We do have ideas concerning "drastically changed worlds". Think the Maelstrom corrupting the property worlds on a larger scale. I was thinking of possibly adding the unreleased Castle related world, and there is always the possibility of adding new worlds if needed. The "Primary Character" is your main character that, at this moment, is apart of the Nexus Force. He/She's intended to be your number one character. NPCs, in the case, refer to as "Non-Primary Character", simply put, characters that are not your primary character. At this point and time, they can take up Faction specialty roles or be scientists, guards, recruiters, etc. working for the faction (like the various Non-Playable Characters in LEGO Universe.) They also could be the pirates, ninjas, astronauts, knights, etc. that inhabit worlds like Gnarled Forest and Forbidden Valley. They can also be Stromlings of any type. NPCs, while not your Primary Character, can be developed to be as complex or as interesting as your PC. I think what I'm getting at is that your Primary character is your "main" character and NPCs are "supporting cast" that you can give as much detail and thoughts to as Primary Character, only being that they are not your main character. You can still write from their point-of-view and so on. Though as I write this, I may being willing to let Primary Characters have any role in a faction as long as they are apart of the Nexus Force and apart of a faction instead of limiting it to the Faction specialties. I think I addressed everything so far, but keep the suggestions and comments coming.

OOC: *Returns from the sunset* Well, I came back, mostly because that guy lured me into it. First, I'll simply say that I'm still watching and have been enjoying watching the ends (and the petty science fiction debates, to some extent). Now on to these actor/actress picks. Considering I don't know a whole lot about these actors you've picked for my characters, I'd say you did pretty well, just basing it on a role or two the actor has played. Such with Jason Momoa. Seeing his playing as Conan from Conan the Barbarian and reading a brief description of Conan the character, it seems that Momoa could very well pull it off. The same for Kevin Durand and Blaire. Basing of the character tropes they give Martin Keamy on TV Tropes, Durand should be a good fit for Blaire, provided he grows out his hair a bit more. I can't really say anything about Willa Holland, not having found suitable enough works to say she could be Zelda, but you seem to know what your doing. As for Oswald, I'm mostly leaning toward Jake Abel from your two choices. After some brief thinking, I came up with Patricia Clarkson for Athena Fabello and Marion Cotillard for Carolyne Provencal. What do you think of that?

IC:Qvynx grinned. This was where he belonged. No stupid patrols or boring guard duty. He was always an action guy at heart. Attacking the Alien Defense Unit head-on at one of their bases was just enough to satisfy him.He had been given the orders: attack one of the ADU's fortifications, named Armory Alpha. Qvynx had raced to his Small Hovercraft and joined up with a large task force of troops. Had it not been for his accident, he might have been flying one of the larger vehicles. Once again, Qvynx gritted his teeth together over his demotion. It didn't matter in the long run. He would return to his previous rank soon enough.Alpha Armory laid in Qvynx's sights. Already it was being bombarded laser fire and explosions. Qvynx opened fire upon the blue soldier trying to defend their little base. Laser blasts flew around him, striking everything they could. For what the Small Hovercraft lacked in strength was made up with its fast moving speed, making him a hard target for the ADU to hit.As he grounded an ADU trooper flying on a jetpack, Qvynx let out a low growl. These Minifigs had defied the power of Hypaxxus-8, and now they would suffer for it.

IC:The straggling Alien Defense Unit trooper was slammed into the wall of one of the many hallways in the breeding pit by a powerful lime green hand. The hand curled into a fist and punched the trooper in the face, destroying her visor.The ADU trooper stumbled back into wall, her eyes wide with fear and anger. He reached for his blaster and managed to leave a sizable burn on Qvynx’s shoulder before the Alien Cyborg knocked away the weapon and pinned the trooper to the wall by her neck.Qvynx grimaced in pain as he looked at the scorch mark on his uniform’s sleeve. Qvynx snarled angrily and slashed his green claw across the Minifig’s face. The hostile yelled out in agony before Qvynx pulled his own blaster from his belt and quickly ended the trooper’s life.Qvynx stared at his victim’s body for a brief moment before continuing his patrol. His mission was to kill the stragglers and find the charges and deactivate them. He’d much rather be out fighting actual battles, but here he was, acting as a bomb squad. Qvynx growled angrily.He had fought for many years in Hypaxxus-8’s army, invading and capturing planets to steal the brain power of sentient beings to power their civilization’s batteries and expand the mighty empire of Planet X2 ½ across the stars. One little accident had turned him into half a scrap pile of metal and forced him to take leave from the military. He wasn’t one to sit down, so he recovered from his wounds so he could eventually play a role in the biggest invasion yet; the invasion on Terra, or Earth. All reports stated Terra had one of the highest Minifig populations in the universe. They would be able to power their batteries for a millenia. However, because of his extended absence, his superiors had seen fit to demote Qvynx to a rookie invader, a personal insult to all his previous work.Of course, the Minifigs were a rather...resistant bunch. Qvynx thought back to the lives he had watched get taken away in the conquests across the galaxy. On Terra, things were shaping up to be more difficult than ever.Arrogant fools, Qvynx thought irritably. You can’t hope to match the power of our glorious empire. It would be much better for all of us if you submit to our rule. Wistful thinking, of course, but Qvynx didn't mind. If one wanted to oppose the invasion force, they would suffer the consequences. Such is the way of war.Qvynx’s thoughts were interrupted with the buzz of the radio they had built into his skull following his readmission into the invasion force. “Qvynx, you still searching the hallways?”“Yes,” Qvynx replied irritably.“Well, you can stop, because we've got a mission for you that will better suit your talents...”

OOC: Alrighty, folks. We're going to try this out. Bare with me here and point out anything that needs changing.Name: QvynxAge: 4500Skills: Qvynx prefers to use his brute strength to deal with situations, but has no probably using a variety of weapons to fight. Since becoming a cyborg, Qvynx has become extremely intelligent and cunning in nature and has become proficient in using and hacking technology of his own race and the Minifig race.Caste: Alien CyborgBackstory: Qvynx was a brute-like Alien Soldier veteran in Hypaxxus-8’s army many years before the invasion of Terra. After brutal Dualsled accident nearly killed him, he was outfitted with cybernetic parts and forced into physical therapy. After the Conquest for Terra began, Qvynx rejoined the army with the intent of aiding Hypaxxus-8 in conquering Terra and the Minifig race that resides there.Can I get a quick rundown of what's going on at the moment, please? Then I'll have a clearer idea on where to begin.

IC:He hated it when this happened. Whenever he wanted to just sleep in, it always seemed a little person slapped his consciousness multiple times while yelling at him to wake up. Today’s case was double negative; not only was it a Saturday, it was New Year’s Day.Zach rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he glanced at his bedside table. Beside Pinkie Pie the plush pony the alarm clock read ten thirty six AM. Zach groaned quietly. After one of the most interesting jaunts to the Residential Area in his life with Minerva, they had returned and continued to hang out with their friends until three AM, when they all decided to hit the sack. He knew there was no chance of going back to sleep. Irritated, he laid back against his pillow and looked up to the ceiling of his recently reconstructed house. He shifted uncomfortably, having slept in his jeans, t-shirt, and vest.He barely lifted his head and saw Minerva’s head laying on his chest. She hadn’t bothered to switch into sleeping clothes as well. She was curled up next him, breathing slowly and clearly at peace. Looking at the edge of the bed he saw the lumpy dark green blanket laying alone and forgotten, barely touching Minerva’s sock. He wouldn’t have been surprised if Minerva had hoarded it away during the night and then discarded when she grew tired of it.Zach carefully shifted Minerva’s head to the pillow beside him and climbed out bed slowly. He turned to saw Minerva stir briefly and adjust to not sleeping on him. Chuckling, Zach walked out of the room and traversed the short hallways before reaching the living room. Vinyaya was sleeping quietly on the couch, a blanket over body and her blonde hair covering much of her face while Zelda sat into a recliner, snoring softly. Holly and Zelda had taken up his offer to crash at his house after it was rebuilt and didn’t seem to particularly mind sleeping on the couch, floor, or recliner. Seeing them reminded Zach of his current lack of privacy in his home and led him to hastily return to his room to grab a new set of clothesHe then shuffled over to the bathroom, slowly undressed, and climbed into the shower. As the water splashed against his face, blissful memories from the last week flooded his thoughts. Returning home after eight months of constant fighting, rebuilding his house (whose Constructopedia page had not been saved) with the aid of Minerva, Holly, Zelda, Bill Ding and more, reuniting with his family as they passed through on their way back to the States with promise of heading to their home in a few days with Minerva, and getting acquainted with the citizens of the island. That doesn’t even include the party, one of the best days of Zach’s life.He washed up slowly, dried himself, and dressed. As he combed his hair down, he saw Minerva had been right about earlier; his hair was getting rather long already. It concealed his forehead and seemed to stop at his eyebrows, where the locks began to curl upward. It covered his ears and curled at the back. And there indeed was evidence of a new beard growing in. Ironic, I suppose. Can’t grow a beard to save my life, the Maelstrom comes in, and suddenly I have hair shooting out of my ears. Just another thing to see those Paradox scientists about at some point.He trudged out of the bathroom, past the sleeping Zelda and Holly, and entered his bedroom to see Minerva sitting up, a computer in her lap with his glasses on her face. She squinted at him and grinned.“I don’t know how you see anything with these,” Minerva said, glancing around the room before taking them off and tossing them to him. Zach jumbled the glasses in his hand before securing a grip and placing them on his face. “Why did you wake up?”“Good morning to you, too,” Zach replied, leading Minerva to roll her eyes. “I don’t know. I just woke up. It happens. What about you? Why are you up?”“You were my pillow. You woke up and moved and ruined my whole sleeping experience. Now I’ll never forgive you,” she teased. “Are we doing anything important today?”“We were going to have a meal with Zelda and Holly.”Minerva rolled her eyes, set the laptop down and jumped out of the bed. “Then I guess I’ll take a shower.” She shook her unkempt brown and white hair from in front of her face, grabbed a pair of jeans and a orange t-shirt. and jabbed Zach playfully in the stomach as she passed into the hallway. Zach smiled at her rather carefree mood as he took a seat on the bed and picked up the laptop. A webpage full of popular and memetic images was on the screen. Zach glanced at the page for a few minutes before he opened a new tab to surf the internet while he waited for Minerva to finish her shower.She eventually walked back in with a new pair of clothes on and her damp hair simply resting on her shoulders, appearing to have been barely combed over. “Are they still asleep?” he asked.“Yep. I think that cancels out playing LEGO Kart Wii or Super Smash Bricks Brawl or completing World 4 in New Super LEGO Bros., Wii in the meantime. Good thing, too. I’ve played enough of the original Smash Bricks and LEGO Kart 64 with my brothers that I could kick your sorry butt to the moon and back.”“Is that so?” Zach shot back with a wide grin. “You know, the original and sequel can be two very different games.”“Pfft!” Minerva snorted as she jumped onto the bed. “You’re just afraid that I’m going to win. Because I will.”“Well then, tonight we’ll take that challenge, won’t we?” Zach challenged. “What’s going to happen when I prove you wrong and I win?”Minerva scoffed, shoving Zach off the bed. “Keep dreaming. In the off chance that you do win, I’ll find something neat to give you.”“I’ll count on it,” Zach replied with a smirk, rising back to his feet. “So what do you want do? Zelda and Holly are still asleep, presumably moving that breakfast Holly mentioned back to lunch.”“Let’s go explore a bit.” Minerva slid her feet over the bed and began to slip on her shoes. “Seeing as I’m not particularly hungry. You?” Zach shook his head. “Good. Let’s go.” Zach shrugged and pulled on his own shoes and headed out of their house.The island had become mostly quiet. The party was over, that much was certain. All around the island were tents where Dino Attack agents had stayed the night. Some just slept out under the stars with a sleeping bag and that was it. Agents shuffled quietly to the Pizzeria to pick up some breakfast before packing up their things and prepare to live the island. In between all this, the agents communicated with both each other and the citizens, expressing their thanks for the party. A strange sense of finality washed over Zach. After today, they would most likely never see these agents, the people he fought alongside for months, again. It was a rather morbid thought.Minerva and Zach walked through the relatively small chaos in the town, simply talking. At one point, it was about current events involved with reconstruction and rumors of trials for members of XERRD. Regardless of whether they switched sides in the end or that they were manipulated by the Darkitect, people wanted to see punishment. Their conversation slowly drifted into pop culture and began to discuss menial things like music, movies, books, and video games. Ever since the end of the war, he found himself enjoying just simple conversation more than before. Especially when conversations a few weeks ago were almost always related to the war in someway, shape or form.“I was looking around on the internet while you were showering,” Zach began as they drifted by the radio station. “Now that the war over, analysts think that pop culture is going to take over the history of the Dino Attack.”“I’m not terribly surprised. Find anything to prove these guys, right?”“I found a rumor from a supposedly credible website that those guys who make the Call of Duty video games are going to adapt the Dino Attack into a first-person shooter. Or two. Their supposedly trying to get into contact with big-named vets to voice characters based on them. Then there is supposedly a TV show and a movie being made and even more video games based around it. No toys or other merchandise, other than the ‘Dino Attack Vet’ shirt or something of that like. I’m waiting for a power metal concept album telling the big story of the Dino Attack with Christopher Lee narrating it, personally.”Minerva smirked. “Interesting. I suppose if it sells.”“Regardless of the ‘Too Soon’ rule, I guess. Then there’s the less-vain documentaries and TV specials aimed to inform people about the true horrors of the war and of course the multiple memorials being erected all around the world. There’s always good and bad. There are also ways to make the bad good.” He paused. “What an interesting slice of social commentary.”“Way to be self-aware,” Minerva said with a laugh. Then she added, “Christopher Lee?”“The guy loves heavy metal and he's narrated albums for the band Requiem of Ice, what can I say? And I love his voice about as much as Morgan Freeman’s...”After a short debate of whose voice was better to listen to, Christopher Lee or Morgan Freeman, their conversation drited away from pop culture to immediate future events.“When are we going to States?” Minerva asked as they walked past the bank.“I was personally thinking within a few days, more or less. We’re probably help with rebuilding their house before holding any Christmas festivities.”“Alright. Hopefully any other family of yours that will be there will be as excited as your mother when she met me.”The back of Zach’s neck grew warm. Erika and James Virchaus and their two youngest children, Desiree and Kayla, had stopped on LEGO Island long enough just to reunite with their eldest son and brother. Zach had been tearfully and happily embraced by his mother, clearly happy to see her son alive. Surprisingly, she had apologized for giving him up to the Infomaniac to live on LEGO Island. He hadn’t particularly cared about growing up on LEGO Island, considering how much he loved LEGO Island, but he accepted it nonetheless.And then Erika, upon realizing Minerva was ‘the girl he talked about’ in the letter he had sent her, embraced Minerva tightly and was very keen on getting to know her son’s girlfriend. And then Desi and Kayla had seen fit to make fun of him privately from the sidelines. In between the both of them embracing him, thankful for his survival as well.“Oh, heh,” Zach mumbled. “I think she was a bit fearful I didn’t make it. She was listening to Theano’s and Scott's reports on the radio and didn’t hear anything really about me besides a passing mention from Andrew about ‘fighting witches’ and ‘deconstructing a Teleport Pad’. She just about blew my eardrum out when I called her and told her I was alive.”Minerva smirked. “That doesn’t explain why she was so keen on seeing me.”“Oh. Yeah. I suppose all those times of hounding me about when I was going to get a girlfriend lead to that. Okay, enough.” Zach said, crossing his arms as Minerva laughed openly. “I told you she would react that way.”“I thought you were being sarcastic like always!” Minerva chortled. “I don’t realize you were telling the truth.” She laughed again. Zach smiled half-heartedly as Minerva punched him on the shoulder. “Is your mom eccentric? Cause that’s the impression I get. No offense.”“None taken, and not really. Like I said, she was probably a bit hysterical over the whole 'me going to fight a war against super-powered dinosaurs'.”Minerva paused. “You get along with them rather well for them leaving you on this island when you were a baby.”Zach scratched the back of his head, unsure about how to go around the subject. “They were afraid, simply put. Probably like I would be a target of random zombie attacks or something. Mom was pregnant with Desi at the time, and they were both torn up on how to go about it before deciding that I was ultimately safer under the Infomaniac’s eye and that living on LEGO Island would ultimately help face this destiny, which it kind of did. They’re both guilty about it now while I’m just sort of ‘meh’ on the subject.”“Hmph. You’re family’s weird like mine. A different kind of weird, I suppose, but weird.”Zach laughed. “I suppose that’s a logical assumption.” They continued to Brickolini’s Pizza, where they saw Mama and Papa Brickolini speaking to the Infomaniac. As they passed by, the Infomaniac turned and his head seemed to pop off his neck. He walked briskly to the duo, grinning happily.“Good to see you two again!” The Infomaniac cried out happily. “I hope you are getting acquainted to the island quickly, Zachary?”“Oh, yeah, definitely.” Zach said, grinning as he took the Infomaniac’s hand. “It’s great to be back.”The Infomaniac beamed before looking to Minerva. “Superb! And Minerva Fabello, our brand new citizen! Once again, I must welcome you to LEGO Island! How has living here treated you so far?”Minerva smiled nervously at the Infomaniac. “It’s really great. I love it here. Thanks for opening up a spot for me.”“You’re welcome!” The Infomaniac exclaimed, clapping Minerva’s hand. “The citizens of the island are more than happy to welcome in a new face, regardless of your...eh...previous situation.” Minerva had elaborated on her past for the Infomaniac upon being greeted by him a week ago, primarily to explain half her reason for moving to the island.“Yeah, I-”“Hey, Zach, Minerva!” Pepper Roni called out as he rolled up to Brickolini’s on his skateboard. “You should get back up to your house. I just delivered a couple of pizzas to that space dudette that’s been crashing with you.”“Be on your way,” the Infomaniac said as he turned to Pepper. “I need to get Pepper up to date on the current Brickster situation. Now that the party is over, that blockhead will surely do something dastardly or try escape the island.”Zach and Minerva nodded their heads and quickly made their way back up to their home. They found Zelda and Holly outside at a picnic table, a stack of pizza boxes surrounded by snacks, and large bottles of soda.“How often do you eat pizza here?” Minerva asked as they approached.“A considerable amount. Not to say that other food isn’t around, but pizza is LEGO Island’s big thing. We won’t be having pizza seven days a week, three meals a day, if that’s what you’re wondering.”“There you two are.” Holly said, clapping her hands. She was in a black AC-DC shirt with jeans and appeared to have freshly washed hair tied into its regular ponytail. “Sorry that the breakfast plans fell through. Lunch will suffice?”“I think so,” Zach replied, taking a seat at the table. Minerva sat herself down beside him and they both took slices of pizza.“At least it’s still relatively early,” Zelda said. She wore her regular black jacket over a World City University t-shirt. “I imagine you both realize this will be our last meal together. For awhile, at least.”Zach and Minerva nodded. They knew it had been coming. They all knew they would part eventually. Now that it slapping him in the face, sadness started to consume him. While he would still be with Minerva, he had become such close friends to Holly Vinyaya and Zelda Frodongan. Bonded together by war and the events immediately following, he could almost see both as sisters and, at least in Holly’s case, a cool aunt or something. “Are you both leaving after lunch?” Zach asked. Silently, the two nodded. “Then let’s make this last meal a good one.”Their final lunch was filled with food, talk, laughter as it always was. The laughter seemed to be extra loud this time around, knowing that their time together was slipping away. They mostly discussed the strange and humorous scenes from the party the previous night. At some point their laughter became so hysterical that soda had come out Zelda’s nose, igniting even more laughter.At some point they managed to calm down. The inevitable discussion of their own futures came up. “I really can’t see both of you just ‘settling down’,” Zelda pointed out to Zach and Minerva, dipping a tortilla chip in salsa. “Yes, we’re all a little tired of fighting after the war, but you both are young, strong, smart, and talented. I’m sure some fighting organization wouldn’t mind having either of you.”“Well,” Zach began. “Minerva and I decided that around May or June, we’re going to catch a ship to the Nimbus System and join the Nexus Force and help them defeat the Maelstrom once and for all.”Holly closed her eye and nodded slowly. “It seems rather appropriate, considering how much the Maelstrom affected you both personally. Any idea of what faction you want to join?”“I was thinking Paradox. Between its whole ‘studying and using the Maelstrom against itself’, their somewhat darker outlook, and the fact they are led by someone who used to work under Baron Typhonus, I figure me, the former Stromling, outta fit right in.”“I’m not really sure about myself,” Minerva said. “I was looking up the factions earlier this morning. None of them really define me. Right now, I’m leaning toward the Venture League or Paradox. I’ll probably make decision when I’ve had more time to think about it.“Whatever faction you chose to align to,” Zelda concluded. “you’ll both do great in the Nexus Force. The Darkitect and his army of slaves won’t know what hit ‘em.” They all chuckled in agreement and raised their glasses to this sentiment. “So what about you, Zelda?” Minerva asked.“I’ll be heading to World City and celebrate with my friends and family with a bit and help them rebuild. Then I think I’m going to go out into space. Explore every corner of the universe. Hone my skills. Maybe find that space ninja temple and see what I can do there. I was kind of thinking of doing what Nazareno did concerning Vherestorm on a wider-scale. A vigilante, I guess.”“So you can be the Batman to Holly’s Gordon, right?” Zach put in. “Because that would be cool.” Minerva and Zelda snickered at this remark.“I guess you could say that,” Zelda shrugged, still chuckling“I - we - wish you the best of luck on that,” Holly said, tapping Zelda on the shoulder. “With a little training, in a few years you will be greater than Nazareno and Darkling combined.”“He’d be proud, Zelda,” Minerva added. Zelda smiled and bit her lip, nodding in agreement as they raised their plastic cups to Zelda as well.“What about you, Holly?” Zelda asked. “Head back to Space Policing?”“I believe Ryan and I will swing by my hometown and reunited with some old friends like Zelda,” Holly explained. “Help with rebuilding and the like. Maybe see any of his Earth friends if he’s up for it.” She then pointed to her eyepatch. “Then we’ll head up into space and I’ll probably get a new eye. As interesting an experience it was going with one eye, I’d much rather have two, considering my line of work. Hopefully, with technology today, it’ll resemble a regular eye. Maybe get it in a color different from my left eye to mess with people.”Everyone snorted at this. Zach decided that when Holly was relaxed, she could be a rather amusing person. “Then what?” Minerva asked.“Take a vacation for a bit. Relaxing here on the island has taught me I need as much. Read Carl Sagan, date Ryan, and so on. Then I’ll get back to work with the Space Police. As emotionally, mentally, and physically charging this war was, nothing could stop me from working the best job in the universe.”“What about the scars?” Zach asked. Holly stopped and thought for a moment. Finally, she continued speaking.“I’ll keep them. The imagination fallout from the Einstein Device helped eliminate most of the pain. And I could use these scars to tell varying war stories to Space Police cadets to spoke them.” Everyone snorted again. “Most importantly, the scars will remind me what happened on this planet in 2010 and the friends I made fighting here.”Zach, Minerva, and Zelda nodded in absolute silence, once again raising their glasses. It was almost two thirty PM. Finally, Holly spoke up again. “We should probably get going, Zelda. Don’t want it to be too late.” Zelda merely nodded.They all rose from the table and headed to the path. Zach felt a small tear form in his eye. He knew Zelda and Holly were better off heading down their own paths, but he so wanted them to stay on the island with him and Minerva. As they reached the path, they began to say their goodbyes before they found Bluetooth and headed off.Holly and Minerva embraced tightly and so did Zelda and Zach. "I am glad we got to bond for a bit. You are now that cool older sister I never wanted but am glad to have," Zach said to her. "Now you go and be the Batman of space."Zelda laughed airily. "I'll keep that idea in mind. You better design me a batsignal or something." She squeezed Zach tightly. “I really wish none of us had to leave each other. You guys are the best friends I've ever had. At least you and Minerva get to stay together. Judging by the way you to acted around each other last night up, your 'visit' to the Residential Area with her, and the stories about you two from the war, you guys are going to be hard to split up.""Heh. We pretty much decided before the final battle that only death was going to split us. Though it would be nice if we could all be together, fighting bad guys. Though considering we'll all be off this planet eventually. And you're traveling all over the universe. Hopefully we'll cross paths in the Nimbus System at some point. Maybe Holly will drop by on some routine check-up or something."Zelda smiled as they pulled away from each other. "Maybe. A bit unlikely, but you never know." As Minerva went to share one more embrace with Zelda, Zach went to Holly. To his surprise, Holly pulled him into a hug as well.“Hugging me, Holly?” Zach asked with amusement.“You’re a sarcastic and annoying person, Zachary,” Holly said, somewhat exasperated. “Regardless, you're a good kid. Both you and Minerva are. A bit too emotionally invested in things for my taste, but I see that it is both a flaw and a perk.” Zach chuckled, causing Holly to crush him briefly in her arms before they pulled away."Thanks, I suppose. And just so you know, if you ever end up getting hitched to Bluetooth become Holly Radcliff or something, you'll always be 'Vinyaya' to me."Holly snorted, grinning. "I'm counting on that, Virchaus." She slapped him on the back, causing him to flinch before they pulled away at last. The four of them stepped back, looking at each other with faint smiles.“I suppose this is it,” Minerva said.“The true end to the ‘Dino Attack’ chapter of our lives,” Holly noted. They all nodded slowly, none of them speaking for almost a minute. Zach swallowed painfully. He really didn't want to put meeting Holly or Zelda up to chance. Yes, they could communicate with typed messages and video chat thanks to today's technology, but they would all certainly grow busy in next several months and prevent any proper communication. Maybe...We should all get together sometime,” Zach said finally. They all turned their glance to him. “Once a year, around this time. We all head back for Earth and hang out, whether here, LEGO City, or wherever. To remember old memories and to create new ones. I don't think I'm quite ready to let us all part ways with only a passing glance being chance of us seeing each other.” The three women looked at each other.“That sounds great,” Zelda responded.“I’m all for that,” Holly added.“I like the sound of that,” Minerva concluded, grinning. Zach smiled.“I love you guys - er - gals,” Zach said. The three women nodded, obviously sharing his sentiment with each other. “You guys are the greatest friends I’ve ever had. Thanks...” He drifted off, letting his warm emotions wash over him. Even through the chaos, the betrayals, the corruption, and the horror he had witnessed, he felt thankful he had been apart of saving the planet and getting the oppertunity to meet the friends he had. Minerva, Nazareno, Holly, Zelda, Andrew, Laxus, Thaddeus, Bluetooth, Pterisa, Raider, Semick, Raine, Marco, J.D., and more had all become apart of his still-being-written and story and left an impact greater than he would ever fully realize.“Thanks,” Zach said with long, final sigh. "For everything. For being with me in the greatest ride of our lives."OOC: And that's a wrap.Woo boy. I'm still not entirely sure I like how I ended it, but I saw no other way, really. Though you can consider a lot of Zach's thoughts at the end equivalent to my own (sort of where I was going with it). I had a blast writing this big, epic story with you guys. It was good knowing you. Maybe we'll meet again in sequel Dino Attack RPG 2: The Search For More Money [/endspaceballreferences]. Or at least the Alien Conquest RPG. I'm thinking I'll head over there after a month or two break. I don't think I could stay away from my new found love or Play by Post RPGaming for too long.So yeah, that's the end. Or as far as I'll explore with Zach, Minerva, Vinyaya, and Zelda in the RPG. My characters will probably make cameo appearances in my brickfilms, but beyond that...I don't know. Fan Fiction sequel? I don't know. I'm not sure if I'll ever give these guys truly.I suppose I'll toss out one shout out to Mr. that guy from that show, who without trapping Dust in a temple and calling for help, I probably wouldn't have gotten into the RPG at all. So rock on, that guy. Rock on all of you.I think that's everything I needed to say. Good playing with you all. Like Andrewnuva, if something needs to be addressed, I'll show up, but this is it. Time to finish my wiki pages and edit those other, unfinished ones.Adios amigos. *puts on sunglasses and rides into the sunset.*

OOC: Well, folks. With this post, it means I have concluded writing my ICs. This is my penultimate and sometime later (possibly tomorrow, possibly in a few days), the final IC will go on. As I finished typing it up, I admittedly had some chills go down my spine, knowing that I was done writing the story of my characters.I like the reference to the Ogel NPC that never appeared in LEGO Universe, btw.IC:Zach dipped Minerva’s head low enough that her hair brushed against the ground, both laughing giddily. The New Years ball then exploded upon touching the Information Center’s central tower. Deafened by explosive cheers, chants, laughter, and kabooms beckoning the new year and blinded by the literally explosive fireworks erupting from the ball, Zach leaned in and kissed Minerva for several long, wonderful seconds. As they pulled themselves back on to their feet, Minerva laughed again, her face bright red.“I guess dancing isn’t so bad,” Minerva mumbled loud enough for Zach to hear over everyone else, clearly embarrassed. “And I think I’m getting better.” After Andrew and Pterisa had left their group, Minerva had been the one to pull him into another dance for the last few minutes of 2010.“Yeah,” Zach said, rubbing his chin. “I think you only stepped on my feet three times now.”“Heh, yeah. Sorry.” Minerva said with a sly grin. Her face seemed to turn a brighter shade of red as she pushed her lips into his again. Surprised but not extremely upset, Zach returned the gesture for several seconds. “Maybe sometime again tonight?”“Rather sudden change of heart on dancing,” Zach said as he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her cheek.“I’m just...happy, I suppose,” Minerva stated simply, looking at him with a more curious smile. She seemed unable to find the words to properly describe her feelings. “Really happy.” She kissed him again. Her cheeks were extremely warm and she seemed intent on staying in this position forever. Not that Zach had too much issue with it.“Alright, you two,” Vinyaya said sternly. Zach and Minerva broke away from their embrace and turned toward the Space Police commander sitting at the Pizzeria, whose own face was bright red with a sort of crooked smile on it. Beside her, Bluetooth’s face was red as well, a look of happy surprise on his face. Zelda and Laxus were grinning from across the table. Zach and Minerva quickly realized what had happened and high-fived, laughing as they went to rejoin their companions.***********************2010 was finally over. One of the most interesting, dramatic, and horrific years in the history of the LEGO Planet. If Zach was to boost the planet’s ego, he could even extended the declaration to the entire LEGO Universe. Friends and enemies alike had joined forces to save their home from destruction. It had been a long haul with the loss of many of place, property, friend, and family, but they had done it. They had won.Tonight managed to make those eight months worth it to him. A massive, island-wide party filled with not only old friends and neighbors but new friends and allies that Zach had met and interacted with in the last months from the Agents to the Dino Attack Team. It felt wonderful to be with them all again one last time, even if they never directly spoke to each other.It was pushing one o’clock and the island still showed no signs of halting their party. Zach had relocated to the beach with Minerva, Holly, Zelda, Andrew, Ryan, Laxus, and Pterisa. Based on how Andrew and Pterisa were sitting with each other, Zach decided not to interrogate them for the full details. He only to smile knowing that both Andrew and Pterisa were happy and he had been correct. I think I’m done with the ‘real-life’ shipping for awhile. The only people who I think should probably still get together are Hotwire and Kat, provided they aren’t already together. And that might be overstepping my boundaries, considering I’m not particularly close to them. So they had resolved to simply sit on the beach in talk. It was simply yet happy occasion. They shared some laughs and stories and overall had a good time. Minerva leaned against Zach’s torso, holding Zach’s new pony toy with mild amusement in her eyes. It was far from the only gift he had received this evening, including a new MP3 player, a set of bricks, a free fuel card to the gas station, and a Brickster-Bot head (you could guess who the last one came from). However, Pinkie Pie the pony from Luna Rom seemed to be getting the most use.“It’s kind of cute,” Minerva said with a chuckle as she mocked galloped Pinkie Pie across Zach’s leg. “I used to have a yellow one with long pink hair when I was younger. I thought these things were the greatest.”“Then maybe we’ll watch that show Laxus was talking about,” Zach said with an amused shrug. “Relieve your lost childhood or something.” He grimaced as Minerva landed a sharp jab on his stomach.“Don’t try and act like a big tough guy,” Minerva said with a faint grin. “I’ve gotten to know you enough these last few weeks that you aren’t. You’ll probably like the show.”“How manly someone is doesn’t really decide whether they like a show, regardless if the subject matter,” Zach stated as he playful jabbed Minerva’s sides, causing her to jump. “I’ll give the show a chance, I suppose.”“Good.” Minerva turned her head to Zelda, Vinyaya, and Bluetooth, who were chatting about something related to space travel. “So what’s the plan tomorrow? Or later today, I suppose? How long are you guys staying on the island?”“We’ll discuss it later. When it’s daylight again,” Vinyaya said with a smile.“Unless we’re all still awake by then,” Zelda added in quickly. “Then we’ll probably take a nap.”Zach chuckled. “I suppose I’ll count on a discussion at breakfast or lunch.” Vinyaya and Zelda nodded. They sat there for several more minutes chatting with the group until the upbeat “Happy Roaming” faded into a simple and slow piano piece by Mama Brickolini. Zach felt himself almost begin to drift to sleep before Minerva suddenly stood up and grabbed his hand and slowly pulled him up.“Just one more quick dance?” Minerva said, an awkward smile forming on her face.Zach shrugged. After the first dance he had with Minerva, he had managed to convince Holly and Zelda to dance with him as friends. After a heavy amount of insulting his dancing skills, he was just about tired of dancing. He was willing to go one more time for Minerva. “Might as well.” They both climbed out from the beach and stepped onto the road. The party had quieted down significantly. Fewer couples danced slowly on the street, among them Marco Martinet and Rosalie Mercedes. Zach wrapped his arms around Minerva’s waist while she draped her arms over his shoulders and they slowly swayed to the music.Minerva looked at him with warm eyes and shuffled herself closer to him. He looked down at himself and her. While the Dino Attack uniforms had a certain cosmetic appeal, he was certainly happy to be back in casual clothes. He himself was wearing dark colored jeans and a pale blue shirt with a black vest over it. Minerva was in jeans as well with a half zipped red jacket over a white T-shirt. Zach sighed quietly, content. “So, you really like LEGO Island?” he asked.Minerva showed a small smile. “It’s over-the-top and crazy in every sense of the word. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Compared to a few days ago, the good kind of insanity here is just what I need. This is my home now.”A chuckle escaped from Zach’s lips as he pulled Minerva closer to him. “I’m glad to hear that.” He paused before continuing, “I suppose that’s why you’re in such a good mood.” Minerva smirked, but nodded.They swayed to the music in silence, Zach resting his head upon Minerva’s chest for a bit. Then Minerva spoke up again. “Your hair gotten really long.”Zach lifted his head and gave her a curious smile before she tugged at the hair that curled at the back of his neck. He hadn’t looked particularly close at his hair in a few days. “I suppose it has. Considering its only been two weeks or so since I last cut it, that’s impressive. It doesn’t grow particularly fast normally.”“And you’re growing a bit of a goatee,” she said, running a careful finger down from his lower lip to his chin, before plucking a single hair from his chin, causing him to flinch and her to giggle in amusement. “It’s kind of cute. Until the whole whole beard from earlier comes back in. Then its just sort of...eh?”“Is my hair purple too?”She ducked his head down and looked at the top of his hair for a brief second. “Just a little. You need to color again.”“Great,” Zach said with a hint of annoyance. Trying to figure out how to dye his hair the last time in Dino Attack Headquarters had been a pain and had hoped to have more time before he had to do it.“I can help you dye it back,” Minerva said with a grin. “I think your Maelstrom experiences is making your hair grow extra fast.”“Either that or my body is aging quicker than it should because of the Maelstrom,” Zach said with slight shudder as he remembered watching Rex’s final moments. Minerva gave him a look of concern. “If that is the case, I’ll flush the remaining Maelstrom out of my body in a heartbeat. My Creative Spark is powerful enough and my body has a level of immunity to it. Hopefully rapid hair growth is just a side effect of becoming a Minifig again.”“Hopefully. Speaking of which, I was meaning to ask you something.”“Shoot.”“I know you said you were going to hang out around here for awhile. I’m all for that. But what do you plan to do later? For some reason, I can’t see you just hanging around for ever.”Zach paused to think. He remembered Raine Dashworthy’s offer about rejoining the Agents. While it seemed like a good deal, it wasn’t something he had real interest in now, especially after his own personal experiences. No, what he wanted to do was bigger than the Agents. Bigger than the LEGO Planet.“I was thinking of joining the Nexus Force,” he said finally. “It makes sense to me, seeing as how personally invested I’ve sort of become in fighting the Maelstrom. I know what’s its like to be a Stromling. I have half an idea what Baron Typhonus still want to do to the universe. After suffering through that, I want to stop it from happening to anyone else.”Minerva nodded in quiet understanding. Zach continued. “I’ve been...mulling over it the past couple of days. If I were to get accepted, I would join Paradox.” He briefly remembered the offer Carolyne Provencal and Michelle Glados had made him in the Maelstrom Temple. “I’d probably let their scientists get a look at me because, as far as I know, I’m one of two Minifigs that have ever been a Stromling and been able to return to a normal, functioning Minifig. And after that, I’m going to do whatever I can to stop the Maelstrom and the Darkitect.” Zach paused again. Minerva didn’t say anything. “I want you -”“I’m coming along,” Minerva snapped quickly. “I don’t know if I’ll join Paradox, but we’re going to join together. I want to defeat the Darkitect once and for all just like you. For what he did to you, Zelda, J.D., Mom, Oswald, and more.” Zach remembered hearing about Minerva and Holly’s brief confrontation with Dr. Rex and Baron Typhonus during the battle. “Besides, after your last big experience with the Maelstrom, do you think I’m going to let you run off to the Nimbus System by yourself?”Zach laughed. “I fully expected you to come along. I just wanted to make sure. If there’s anyone I’d want to be by my side fighting the Maelstrom, it’s you.” He pecked her cheek and rested his forehead against hers. “Thanks for being there these last few weeks. For saving my life multiple times. For being a great friend.”Minerva’s cheeks brightened under the dimmed lights that were scattered around the island. “I suppose I could say the same to you. I’m glad you were there to help me through what happened with my family. You being there has made it a lot easier to deal with. And thank you for offering a chance to start over and give me a new home.”They both moved lightly, their heads staying close and not saying a word. Finally, as the song came to an end, they pulled their heads away briefly, only to return with a long kiss. They pulled away finally and looked at each with smiles on their faces.***************Holly Vinyaya smiled as she chatted with Ryan Radcliff and Zelda Frodongan about nothing in particular as they watched Zachary and Minerva dance. For the first time in a real long time (since even before she got involved with the Dino Attack), she was at complete peace. Complete relaxation. She’d decided as she snuggled close to Ryan that she would have to take vacations more often when she returned to space.Minerva suddenly broke away from Zach and jogged quickly back to the beach and picked up the plush pony. Vinyaya decided to speak up out of curiosity. “What are you doing?”Minerva’s cheeks brightened. “Zach was going to show me something cool in the Residential Area. An easter egg left when the Infomaniac last redesigned the island, I guess.” Her voice never skipped a beat. Vinyaya raised an eyebrow and looked past Minerva to Zach. He remained in the street and gave Minerva a look of confusion.“Um, okay?” Vinyaya said, looking from Minerva to Zach repeatedly.“We’ll be back later,” Minerva continued, smiling awkwardly before turning and jogging back to Zach. Vinyaya smiled slyly in sudden realization as Minerva gripped Zach’s wrist and started walking with a brisk pace toward the Residential Area. Zelda shuffled toward Vinyaya and leaned in close.“Told you,” Zelda muttered in a matter-of-fact tone, grinning smugly as she watched Minerva and Zach’s retreating backs.Vinyaya closed her eye and smiled. “It seems pretty likely. What’s the payment again?”“I think paying for whatever we’re eating tomorrow should suffice.”“Sounds good to me.”

OOC: Alright, folks. I'm writing my last two ICs consecutively so I have everything in order. I think, for the most part, I'm happy with the penultimate post and still have to write the last one. My biggest problem is that I'm so conflicted on how to end it. I've rewritten these last two post multiple times already, but I think I finally have it down. Hopefully.In the meantime, I'll respond to at least this, since I was meaning to before my post got eaten. Alright, now I'll respond to this. I don't have much to say about the character that aren't mine, but I will say that when Robert Pattinson was on the list, I got a real good laugh. It was just so mind-blowingly silly in my head. I'd also say, regardless of your earlier reservations, that Geoffrey Rush should be Greybeard. Barbossa is who I hear as Greybeard, regardless of whether he is a slight expy of him or not. Barbossa is just the epitome of "pirate" to me.On to my characters, I'd probably share my sentiments with PeabodySam and Jackson Lake in that I can't really see most of my characters being played by actors/my characters are rather ordinary looking. I can kind of see Zach being played by Josh Hutcherson based solely on his role as Peeta in The Hunger Games, though obviously he would need to dye his hair red, wear glasses, and be completely over-the-top as a Stromling.Physically, I could see Lily Collins as Minerva. As for playing Minerva's character, I can't say for sure, based on only seeing her in The Blind Side. The only other person I ever thought of (briefly) as Minerva was Emma Stone while watching some movie she was in (either Zombieland or Easy A), but I digress.My opinion on Nazareno/Neeson is obvious (I did pick it). I can't really say much for Elizabeth Mitchell being Holly Vinyaya, being that I've only seen her in The Santa Clause movies and that new JJ Abrams show Revolution. Good playing with you, mate; I certainly enjoyed reading your posts. I'll honestly say that out of everyone else, I worked closest with your characters and you in general and see that you and me are alike in many ways. It's been fun and, even with my general silence on the internet as much as I am in real life, hope to keep in communicating. Probably because I first read your post at 3 AM, I had no idea what you were talking about. When I read it twelve hours later in the middle of play practice, I had to stop myself from laughing when I finally realized what you were going on about and how I'm such a moron. Even with my mind changing just about everytime I finish writing out the posts, I pretty sure my posts are set on December 31 and January 1.So there, I did everything I wanted to do. The next time I dare post (unless it's urgent), there will be an IC!

OOC: As a huge LEGO Island fan, I'll throw my own opinion (and LEGO Island facts) in the ring.There were only two times (out of the four big canon times) when the Brickster used pizza to break out of jail. The first game had Brickster impersonate Nick's voice and convince Papa into sending Pepper to the jail with a Jalapeño Red Pepper Anchovy Double Garlic Pizza (the official name of the pizza, I might add). The second game states they learned their lesson from the last escape and only sent a pizza with one chili, not knowing the Brickster had been hoarding spices from presumably previous deliveries to create his patented Brickster Dragon Breath (I suddenly wish we had used this during the fighting). Island Xtreme Stunts shows he's already been freed (by this canon, he convinced everyone except Pepper, Nick, and the Infomaniac of his innocence after returning from his Soccer/Football Mania plot.) The fanmade LEGO Island 3 simply has his Brickster-Bots breaking him free.So in all honest, I think they stopped feeding the Brickster hot pizza of any way shape or form and their apparent cluelessness over how the Brickster escaped in 1997 and 2001 makes no sense. Though Atton perhaps has a point with the Brickolini's selling dangerously hot pizza - they have the Hotsy Totsy Supreme Hot Pizza Times Two that apparently melts almost anything. Then again, Mama did say almost - perhaps it doesn't melt Minifigs? Regardless, they said they'd never deliver it to the Brickster.But basically, it makes no sense for Nick to arrest Papa. At all. In anyway, shape or form. On any planet. In any universe. Ever. So you should retcon that bit. As Andrewnuva said, you could easily have Enter, Return, and Pete Bog (since he's in the ambulance as well) arrive and help Pierce.And avmatoran, I assume your addressing me: you had Dr. Cyborg going to Zach and co. on December 24. I'm done there. My one or two remaining IC posts take place on December 31. Perhaps this sounds rude, but I don't really want to write some small post about my group interacting with Dr. Cyborg at that point. December 31, for most part, is this present time of the RPG.

OOC: Eh, avmatoran. I'd prefer not to post on December 24, simply because there is nothing I want to post (but will be more than free to describe in this post) from the end of Athena and Oswald's funeral to December 31.Two things to comment on quick: It's really sad how much BZP's word filter has altered my thinking, because I took those two bolded words up there the complete wrong way. PepperxLuna is canon in this timeline?!IC:"I wasn't sure if you were being overdramatic earlier when talking about the island," Minerva said. "But now that there's a party, I can safely say you were right; this place is crazy."Zach smirked as he watched a fire truck zoom by, it's ladder extended as several skeleton pirates tried to reach the ambulance nearby where Enter, Return, and Pete Bog were eating pizza. The latter in particularly seemed rather unamused by their antics. Beside the ambulance was a race car being driven by Studz Linkin, apparently thinking he's racing.He, Minerva, Vinyaya, and Zelda hung by the Octan Gas Station as celebrations for the end of the war, Christmas, and New Years all occurred at once. Citizens were eating pizza, dancing, racing, and having a good time. Trees, flowers, and light posts seemed to dance along as the pop song "2-Step" blasted through the city.Every time I'm dancing I go crazyReaching at the lights just make me crazyEvery time I'm dancing I go crazyLEGO beat."Certainly feels good to be home," Zach said as a palm tree Zelda was leaning against suddenly shrank down into a flower as Bradford Brickford and Shiney Doris went by on their bicycles. "Last time I was here, we had to get out rather quick. Cargo ships with Mutant Dinos were on the way. We managed to get everyone off and when we learned Pepper wasn't onboard, it was rather...bad, to say the least.""Hey, Zach!" the voice of Nubby Stevens said as he exited the gas station with Nancy Nubbins and saw Zach and his friends. "Good to see you again! These your friends you talked about earlier?""Great to see you again, Nubby, Nancy," Zach said happily, clapping Nubby's hand and pulling Nancy into a quick embrace. "Yeah, I met a few people. This is Commander Holly Vinyaya, Zelda Frodongan, and Minerva Fabello.""Shore nice to meet you folk," Nancy said, shaking each of their hands. "Did I hear right about Minerva here packin' up n' moving over here?""Uh, yeah," Minerva said, smiling nervously. Since arriving on the island a week ago, Minerva had been slowly getting acquainted with all the islanders. Each time she met someone new she appeared to be worried of giving the wrong first impression. Zach tried to convince her to relax and she has been gradually. She explained about how having to adapt to a new lifestyle after her living the way she did in LEGO City for almost all her life. Even with her concerns, Zach could see Minerva enjoying the friendly citizens on the island and could (and would) adjust to this new life."Well, I am just drilled to hear that, hun!" Nancy said happily, pulling a drill from her belt and spinning it briefly. Minerva laughed in surprise. "Pardon the pun. You're shore to like livin' here. We're a lively bunch o'folks. N'we don't bite, I promise.""Yeah, you'll love it here!" Nubby agreed. "The weather's great, the people are nice, we got great. Thinking about it, have you ever noticed it never seems to rain on LEGO Island? I wonder why it does that."Zach chuckled. "I wonder as well." Nubby and Nancy soon left, probably to go get some pizza or dance to the music."There certainly a lot of...colorful personalities on this island," Vinyaya noted as she watched the gas station attendants began to dance to "Hobo Train". "It's a rather quirky little place. If I didn't work (or prefer) living in space, I'd consider living here." Vinyaya had become relaxed than ever since the war ended. She had chosen to simply wear jeans and a black, Space Police T-Shirt."A bit too much for my taste," Zelda said, brushing the dirt from her fall of her shoulders. "Visit maybe. Live with this all the time? Not so much.""Come on," Zach said with a grin, punching Zelda in the shoulder. "The island is more like this during a special occasion a la defeating the Brickster in 1997, 2001, and 2007 multiplied by ten or so. LEGO Island is a bit whacky, but not overblown madness every single day.""Regardless, I can kind of see how you are the way you are now," Minerva said, soliciting a chuckle from the others. She turned her head. "Oh, um...what's going on over there?" Zach, Vinyaya, and Zelda turned to see Polly Gone and Valerie Stubbins tossing around a yellow and black ball near the beach. Closer inspection revealed the ball was a Minifig head."Excuse me?" the squeaky voice of Gideon Worse said to Valerie. "Could you throw me over to the Pizzeria? I'm hungry?" Valerie nodded and, with all over might, threw Gideon's head across the street. It bounced once before landing square on the shoulders of a body wearing a black shirt with gray pants."So can you do that?" Zelda asked, an eyebrow raised. "I mean, I've heard of people doing it, but I've never seen someone just break apart into pieces?""Yeah," Zach said. "You want to figure out how to do it, living here. It doesn't make you invincible, by the way. If you mess up, you could hurt or kill yourself. It's rather complicated thing I don't really want to go into, so I'll just show you." With his right hand, he carelessly pulled his left arm off, causing the three women to gasp."And it doesn't kill you or anything?" Vinyaya said with a measure of interest as she took Zach's arm from him and examined it."If you do it right.""Why do you need that right hand then?" Zelda asked, gesturing to his gold hand."Someone blew it up. There was nothing left to put back together, requiring a new hand." He took back his arm and snapped it back into his torso with ease. He then smiled. "Be careful when walking around. Make sure not to bump into anyone here unless you want a nasty surprise."Minerva, Zelda, and Vinyaya just looked at him, but didn't inquire further. Zach merely smirked as he pulled out a slice of pizza and chomped on it as he watched the party carry on and spoke to his friends. Overhead, the space shuttle, an airplane, and Super Stationmaster raced overhead. The train ran around the island, shooting off fireworks. The party house was bouncing more than ever as LEGO Island citizens and Dino Attack agents danced to DJ Jackitt's beats, including Red Greenbase, Snap Lockitt, Rhoda Hogg, Jenny, Timmy, and Jimmy. Pepper was skateboarding around the island, dropping off pizza for the citizens and visitors to eat. Nick and Laura Brick ate doughnuts on their motorcycles while Captain CD Rom tried to maintain order with so many people on the island. Several people were gathered in the park behind the gas station after hearing word that the Flying Legondos were reuniting just for tonight to pull of show. The giant pirate skeleton from the old race track sat up stomped around the north edge of the town while shouts "You were the reason I never got all red bricks!" were tossed at it.Citizens and agents constantly passed the group. The agents congratulated each other while citizens passed by in their partying madness. They saw and met Glen and Dorothy Funberg, Maggie Post, Arnold, Buck Pounds, Gnarly Bones, Technician Bob, and more. They even got into a brief conversation with the Brickster, who had decided stop by and briefly tried to convince the group to vouch for him when Nick, Laura, and Rom decided to rearrest him."And you," he jabbed Minerva's chest with a blue finger. "I hear that your staying here now, right?" Minerva, not really caring what kind of impression she made on the criminal, nodded curtly. The Brickster laughed darkly. "Oh good, someone new to insult. If Condiment Boy manages to point me behind bars again, I'll make get to know you better and toss a few insults your way. Character flaws, disabilities, anything. I'll find it and exploit it."Minerva stared at Zach with a mixture of surprise and amusement before looking back at the Brickster. "I'll be looking forward to that, I suppose." The Brickster raised an eyebrow before stealing the group's pizza and running off to cause more mischief. "Is getting insulted by him a rite-of-passage or something? Transitions me from an outsider into a real citizen." she asked Zach."I suppose it is now," said Zach with a chuckleAs "Park" by Lorin Nelson began to play, Minerva closed her eyes, enjoying the music. Seeing the oppertunity, Zach seized her hand and pulled her on to the grass, shocking her out of her stupor. "What are you doing?" she asked with a half-laugh."I told you we were going to dance," Zach said plainly. She stared at him and shock her head rapidly, pushing him away."I told you I didn't want to! I'm not keen on embarrassing myself in front of everyone.""Please, everyone's too busy we're the own festivities. The only people who are going to make fun of you are Holly and Zelda because they're your friends. Speaking of which," he turned to Vinyaya and Zelda, both who were grinning at the couple. "You should dance with Ryan at some point, Holly."Vinyaya coughed in surprise. "Well, I don't...I mean..." Zelda laughed openly at Vinyaya's stammering. Vinyaya sighed and smiled faintly at Zach and Minerva. "I haven't danced in a long time, but I may give it a shot if you two dance.""Hear that?" Zach said. "Give me a chance and you can poke fun at Holly later." Minerva glanced back at Zelda and Holly, who gave her thumbs up. Minerva gave a breathy laugh then turned to Zach."Fine. But it's not going to look pretty.""I'm sure of that." As Minerva walked toward him, what he said seemed register in her brain."You don't know what you're doing either?" Minerva asked, incredulous. Zach smirked as he grabbed her right hand."Nope."

IC:Around 10:30 AM, December 24, 2010Light gray clouds surrounded LEGO City. Zach shivered slightly and squeezed his jacket closer to his body. The temperature was low and he had heard predictions that it would snow today. As he stood in this graveyard, he didn’t doubt it.Minerva stood by him, one hand tucked into the pocket of her dark red coat and the other munching on a piece of bacon. She was cold as well, but seemed much more adapt to it. She looked at Zach and grinned. “Living on a tropical island isn’t very cold, is it?”“No,” Zach said as he took a sip of hot chocolate from his insulated cup. Minerva gestured to him briefly, so he handed it to her. “I go to the US every winter. Ninety percent of the time, there’s four feet of snow on the ground. Never get use to it.”Minerva finished her sip and handed the cup back to him. “Not exactly ideal, but I suppose it fits the mood. Dreary, bitter, at the dawn of winter...perfect for a funeral, I suppose.”Zach smirked. “It’s better than the cliché “raining at the funeral”, I suppose.” Minerva snickered before shuffling close to him as a cold blast of wind struck them. “At least LEGO Island will be warm.”“‘Always perfect weather on LEGO Island.’ Isn’t that what Ed Mail said?” Minerva asked.“Heh, yeah.” They were just making small talk as a lone digging vehicle sat in the cemetary, scooping dirt and mulch out of the ground so they could place the casket nearby inside. Inside the casket was the body of Athena Fabello. The plan was to bury Minerva’s mother and head on to LEGO Island for the party whose word had quickly spread around the Dino Attack’s allies.Athena’s body had been flown back from Antarctica, along with a special-looking casket and a new tombstone. Zach quietly bent down and pulled away overgrown grass surrounding a tombstone half-buried in the ground, most likely thanks to a Mutant Raptor or something. It’s inscription was faded from weathering, but there was no doubt what it said. TOD FABELLO 1987 - 2004 “How often did you visit them?” Zach asked as he rose to his feet. No doubt a ruined stone for Isaac Fabello laid somewhere.“Twice a year,” Minerva said plainly. “Oswald and I would come on the anniversaries of their deaths. We always did, no matter what.”Zach looked over to the stone lying by the casket. It looked a million times better than Tod’s lying in the ground. “Nice of your aunt to do that. Get a stone that would last ages.”Minerva nodded. “I called her early on Wednesday. We’ve barely communicated before now, but seeing as she’s my only relative on the planet and Mom was her sister, I decided she should know. I suppose I wouldn’t say she’s bad, more...I don’t really know, actually. After Mom went crazy, Aunt Ginny never talked to us. I guess she might had been embarrassed or sad about what happened to her sister and communicating with us would only bring back bad memories.”Minerva shrugged. “Though I guess the Dino Attack might have changed her. She seemed relieved to hear I was alive and couldn’t speak for awhile after hearing what happened to Oswald and Mom and got real mad when she learned Napoleon XIV had lied to her about Mom and muttered something about a lawsuit. I told about what we planned to do and she immediately offered to pay for a tombstone and casket to place her on. I was really surprised, to tell you the truth. I told her she could come up to LEGO City and join us today if she wanted.”“And she refused.”Minerva nodded. “She seemed uncertain about what to do, but eventually decided not to come up. I imagine she’ll come here by herself when everything comes back to normal.” Zach silently mused as he watched the digger pull away from the hole. There was no real relationship between Ginerva Chase and Minerva, other than they were related to each other. And, from Minerva’s ‘matter-of-fact-’ tone, there never would be a relationship. It seemed Ginny regretted never bonding with her niece and made up for it by making sure her family rested here with some level of grandeur.“Thanks,” Minerva said, shaking the man driving the digger’s hand as he returned from parking his vehicle. The man merely smiled and stood to the side and Minerva and Zach walked up to the dark red casket, their hands intertwined.Athena Fabello laid peacefully inside of it. Her torn and ruined clothes from before had been removed and replaced with a plain black dress. Just like Nazareno, she seemed extremely at peace in her state. Minerva touched her mother’s cheek with a cold hand, smiling sadly. “I hope you’re happy, wherever you are,” Minerva whispered shakingly. Her eyes then widened as she saw a photograph being held down by Athena’s folded over hands. Minerva quietly slid out the picture and held it in front of herself and Zach.It was a picture of a little boy with blond hair, dressed as neat as a child could be and grinning at the camera goofily. Minerva laughed quietly, a small tear sinking out of her eye. She carefully returned the picture of Oswald to her mother’s hands and closed her eyes. “Thanks for being there. Things are better for you now. I know it.”Minerva quietly closed the casket and, with Zach and the man’s help, moved it over the rectangular hole in the ground and lowered into the Earth with rope. As the man returned to his digger to return the dirt over the hole, Minerva and Zach carried the tombstone over to a small, rectangular crater in the ground a bit to the left of Athena’s resting place. Tucking it into the ground, Zach and Minerva stepped back and looked at the stone. The names were arranged in two rows; one for the elders, one for the offspringFABELLOISAAC 1958 - 1996ATHENA1956 - 2010OSWALD1986 - 2010TOD1987 - 2004Minerva stood there in silence for five minutes. Zach could only guess at what she was thinking. What he knew, however, was that the Fabellos had reunited at last. Both in a physical and spiritual state. There might be a lot of explaining to do, but Athena, Isaac, Oswald, and Tod would finally be a family again. He shot a glance at Minerva again. Her family was together again, but was missing their youngest member. It was a bittersweet parting indeed.Zach snaked his hand into Minerva’s. “They’ll be waiting for you, Minerva.”Minerva swallowed and nodded. They would be expecting her in many years. She turned away from the stone and together they began to walk toward their Dino 4WD Tracker. Neither said anything until Minerva looked up and pointed. “Look.” It was barely visible, but it was there. A snowflake.A shiver traveled through his body. “Better get to LEGO Island before we’re drowned in the stuff.” Minerva nodded. He paused for a moment, then said, “Race you for driver’s.” With that, he started to run down the path to the exit.“Hey!” Minerva called out, laughing in surprise as she pursued him. “You cheater!” Zach laughed in amusement as Minerva began to catch up to him. Time to pick up Holly and Zelda and head home.OOC: And with that, my characters on LEGO Island. Probably a few more celebratory posts and then the big epilogue for my characters.

OOC:Well, I had some big long analysis of the actor list and other stuff OOC related, but seeing as a wrong click just destroyed my entire post, I'm just going to silently fume as I rewrite this post again...........IC:Sunset, December 23, 2010"WHEEEEEEEEEEEL OF TIIIIIIMME!!" Zach sang triumphantly to the song playing on the radio of the Dino 4WD Trapper. "SAVE MY SOUL, FIND A WAY!! AND IF I FAIL, WILL IT ALL BE OVER?!!?""Would you please-?!" Vinyaya snapped over the loud music."THE WHEEEEEEEL OF TIME!" Zach interrupted as the vehicle barreled down the gravel roads of the outskirts of LEGO City. Vinyaya rolled her eye, a half-amused smile on her face as she leaned against the cooler in the middle of the backseat. Zelda's eyes were closed as she sat back, an amused smile. Minerva bobbed her head to the music, snicker all the while. "THE VISIONS SO FLEETING AND VAGUE! ONCE AGAIN I WILL BRING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN! ONE LAST GLIMPSE IT IS CONSTANTLY SLIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!"The guitars, bass, and drums of the music played a bit before fading into an entirely orchestral interlude that sounded vaguely like a piece from a soundtrack from a movie with an Arabic setting. Minerva turned down the volume. "I think that's good, Zach.""Thank Builder," Vinyaya muttered."Hey, what's your issue with Block Guardian?" Zach asked, smirking."Not my cup of tea. You practically screaming the lyrics doesn't help.""This songs are written in caps lock, Vinyaya. It's not the same if you don't belt out every word in the most dramatic way possibly.""Do we have to listen to it, though? Not entirely symbolic to the war. Not really a victory song.""No, but I've been waiting for this album, got distracted with the Agents, and I've taken a liking to this song particularly. It's tempting me to read the books the song was inspired by."Vinyaya merely shook her head. “You do know where we are going, don’t you, Minerva?”Minerva nodded as she turned another corner. “Yeah. It’s an old house I used to visit with friends as a when I was a bit younger to...” Minerva suddenly drifted off, her face turning red. Zach quickly put together that where they were going was a home Minerva had robbed at one point or another. “Anyway, the couple doesn’t live there anymore. The wife died and the men was taken to home. It’s old, worn down, and nobody has gone there for years. If the fire were to get out of control, nothing of value would be lost.”This place they were heading would be Kareem Nazareno’s final resting place. During the night after the final battle, Vinyaya contacted Space Police central, who were able to give her a line to the (or a, Zach wasn’t really sure) space ninja temple and shared the news of Nazareno’s pacing. The elder that had responded expressed sadness at his passing and ultimately gave permission for them to send Nazareno off. He had even been kind enough to list some traditions the space ninja followed during funerals.“Ah, there it is,” Minerva said. The Dino 4WD Tracker rolled into the driveway of an isolated acreage surrounded by miles of empty fields that were used for farming. The old, pale yellow house looked on the verge of collapse. Paint was peeling and bricks were coming loose and missing from the building. The Dino 4WD Tracker parked in a grassy field near the house. The group shuffled out of the Fire Hammer and went to work. Zelda and Vinyaya climbed into the back of the vehicle and handed down a wooden table to Zach and Minerva. Setting it up, Minerva gestured to a pile of firewood stacked against a shed that looked like it had been ruined by a passing Mutant Raptor. As they went to work building the pyre, Zach spoke to Minerva.“Why did you remember this place?” he asked. “Does it-?”“Not really,” Minerva said, shooting a glance to the house. “The couple didn’t hate me. My friends and I use to come out in and cause trouble. Steal things, vandalize property, and so on because we were stupid teenagers who thought they couldn’t do anything to stop us. Then around the fifth time we went here, as we were leaving, the man who lived here was waiting for us on the edge of his property. Everyone ran away except for me. Mostly because I was afraid what would happen since this old guy had the nerve to wait for us. He coaxed me into his house and had me explain what we were doing at his house. I sheepishly returned some of the food I stole from them and explained why.”“So what did they do?”“They told me how they used to take in a lot of kids like me when they were ‘not as old as they were now’. They molded them them into successful and happy adults and taught them all sort of useful skills, apparently. One of their ‘kids’ apparently became famous across the universe, but wouldn’t tell me who he was, though they were kind of sad about it. They said if they could’ve, they would’ve offered to take me in. But they were too old and in poor health. They just gave me the food I was trying to take and sent me away, no charges filed.”“Did you ever go back,” Zach asked as they placed a bunch of chunks of wood under the table.“Yeah. Like I said, me and my friends were a bunch of stupid teenagers. They didn’t like how the man had outsmarted him, so they’d visit his house and break windows and paint windows. I was always sent inside to steal some stupid thing or money. I think they knew that, but didn’t care. There was always what looked like a grocery bag sitting on the counter with tons of food. I took it once instinctively and later found money hidden inside boxes. They were trying to help me, I suppose. They knew I was the only one that cared about getting food in my group. Once I figured out what they were doing, I never missed an opportunity to go their house. We could last a month on the food they left for us and the money helped pay for basic necessities.”Zach blinked. “Huh.” They worked in silence for a few minutes before Zach asked. “How did your...ah, meeting with Saran go?”Minerva shrugged faintly. “It went about as well as you think something of that subject matter would. But it’s for the best, right? I really appreciate having talked to you about what happened the past two days, but talking to a professional should be beneficial.”Zach nodded. The day after the final battle, with a mixture of celebrating with friends, they had finally discussed what had went down with her and Oswald during the battle. Minerva held up rather well as she described it with vivid detail. She had choked up multiple times, but seemed relieved in telling someone the whole story. After revealing her brief conversation with Baron Typhonus and Dr. Rex, Minerva’s story ended with her simply weeping. Zach didn’t say anything or judge, he just made sure that she knew she was there. The next day, she announced her intentions to see Dr. Nicholas Saran about it.“He thinks I could be a lot worse off, but we’re going to have a session once a week for the next couple of weeks. Then he’ll evaluate my progress and decide if we should continue,” Minerva concluded softly, squeezing Zach’s hand. He didn’t say anything. He only wondered if he would end up suffering some kind of PTSD. At very least, he anticipated Maelstrom-related nightmares once his sleep schedule returned completely to normal. “I think that’s good for now,” Minerva said as she set down the last stack of logs in her hands.Vinyaya and Zelda carried a wooden casket to the table and set it down gently. They removed the lid and set it on the ground silently. The four gathered around the casket quietly and looked upon the peaceful body of Kareem Nazareno. Zach never really imagined what Nazareno had looked like underneath his cowl and had almost preferred if that had stayed a mystery.“So,” Vinyaya said finally. They turned their eyes from Nazareno to Vinyaya. She had left behind her Space Police armor and was in her zero suit. “Anyone want to say anything before we do this?” They waited in silence for several minutes before Minerva stepped forward.“Thanks for being there, Nazareno,” she said, her voice cracking slightly. “When Zach was corrupted and when J.D. died. Thanks for being one of the first friends I made in the team. Thanks for your advice. You were one of the most mild mannered people I knew. Except for Rotor’s kangaroo court.” The group chuckled faintly.“Thanks for the hand,” Zach said, lifting his polished gold hand into view. “Both of them. I’ll make sure not bust up this one. Sorry for trying to kill you twice. You were about the coolest person I had ever seen when we met back in the rear guard camp. You were smart and had a dry sense of humor I could appreciate.”“You are among the greatest men I’ve ever known,” Holly said calmly. “You were strong, powerful, and brave. Thinking about it now, you were a bit of a legend in the Space Police. The guy who could take on Matthew Vherestorm. I know many people who will never meet you see you as an inspiration. And beneath your somewhat cold demeanor, I saw as you fought against Vherestorm in HQ that you cared for all of us.”“I...” Zelda said, pausing to regain her composure. “I’m glad to have known you, Kareem. You helped me integrate back into the team after I became a Minifig again. You taught me so much. If if you were a bit icy, you were kind, wise, and powerful. Even if you were insecure romantically, I hope you knew how much everyone loved you. I’m honored that I got to fought alongside you two days ago. Even though we’ll never be able to explore a deeper relationship, I’ll never forget you. I...love you, Kareem.”Zelda swallowed painfully before leaning forward and kissing Nazareno’s cold forehead. She then reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out Nazareno’s white cowl. She carefully lifted his head and masked his face away for the last time. Holly looked around at the assembled group, then closed her eye. Simultaneously, Zelda, Zach, and Minerva closed their eyes. They might have been praying. They might have been simply paying their last respects to Nazareno. They opened their eyes after a minute of silence.“I think we’re ready,” Holly said finally. Minerva nodded and walked briskly over to the Dino 4WD Tracker and pulled out a can of gasoline from the back. She splashed it on the pyre below the table and set the can to the side. Vinyaya pulled a box of matches from her belt, lit a match, and tossed into the pile of wood. The wood burst into flames immediately. In a few minutes, the wooden table started to burn as well.Zach looked up to the sky. The sun was almost completely below the horizon. “Well, the elder ninja’s message said this ritual often included celebrating the life of the fallen. Instead of making this a bitter occasion, it should be a little more bittersweet. We just won a war. This is the best and probably the only time for our Band of Brothers to all be together at the same time.”“He’s right,” Zelda said finally. “We’re going to be celebrating for the next week. One more celebration won’t hurt. Go get the cooler out, Zach.” He nodded to her and jogged to the jeep. He pulled out the heavy container and carried it over to the fire. Already, Minerva, Zelda, and Vinyaya were sitting in the grass. the latter two whispering into the former’s ear. Minerva’s mouth curled into an amused grin. Zach set the cooler down next to them, he turned and saw the three women grinning at him, causing his face to turn red.“I...what were you talking about?” Zach asked. They didn’t say anything, but their grins didn’t fade. Zach’s embarrassment faded into minor annoyance. “You’re not going to tell me, are you?”“Catch on pretty quick, don’t you?” Zelda said as she pulled out a bottle of cola.“And so now that this little group has the inverse of the Smurfette Principle, I get to be the chew toy, right?”Vinyaya chuckled as she opened a bottle of root beer. “At least you picked a smart one, Minerva. Right on the mark, Zach.”“Fine then, Holly,” Zach snapped jokingly. To his surprise, Vinyaya only scoffed at him and didn’t correct him. A wide grin quickly formed on his face. “Ah ha! I’ve earned the glorious honor of calling her by her first name! Holly Holly Holly Holly Holly Holly Hoooooooooooooollyyyyyyy!”“You can stop embarrassing yourself in front of all your women friends, Zach,” Vinyaya retaliated. Zelda and Minerva laughed playful.“Ouch,” Zach said, clutching his chest in mock pain. “That stung.” Zach then moved and took a seat beside Minerva and pulled out a bottle of orange soda. They spent the next several hours sitting around the fire and sharing war stories. Zach described his more harrowing adventurers as an Agent while Vinyaya described exciting missions she took part in as a Space Police officer. Being in the team longer than the rest of them, Zelda described her experiences in the Goo Caverns, on LEGO Island, and in the Torn World. As she spoke, she mentioned meeting an agent Verrat.“Verrat?” Minerva repeated, shocked. Zelda nodded, a confused glint in her eye. Minerva sighed weakly. “He is...was my brother.”“He was?” Zelda asked, surprised. “I saw him during the final battle. He was trying to the get the headquarters-”“So he could capture me, Minerva, and their mother,” Zach interrupted bluntly. “He was working with XERRD. He was taken from LEGO Island and converted into believing the Darkitect’s plans.” Zelda stared at Minerva in shock. Vinyaya cleared her throat uncomfortably and addressed Minerva.“Do you mind me asking why your mother was brought into the battlefield?” Vinyaya asked gently. “You don’t have to if you-”“I trust you guys,” Minerva interrupted, sighing. “There’s a story to it. It might be a while, but seeing as we’re not going anywhere...” Minerva went into an abridged version of past, Zelda and Vinyaya listened intently. As she finished her story, the two sat there in stunned silence.“I’m-” Zelda began.“Don’t,” Minerva said calmly. “I really just...don’t.”“Well then,” Vinyaya said. “I suppose I’ll share some of my past as well...” And there stories drifted into their childhoods. Zach described the Brickster’s antics on LEGO Island and going to and from the United States to see his parents while Zelda told of traveling the high seas as a young girl with her pirate parents and eventually being adopted by a family in World City after the Skeleton Pirate War escalated to the point where her mother was killed. Vinyaya told of suddenly living out with the Futuron and experiences culture shock as she saw a variety of species, technology, and worlds.At around eleven thirty, they began to sing carols welcoming in the holiday season many thought they wouldn’t have. Zach was even able to finish listening to “Wheel of Time” by Block Guardian. Their conversations drifted into jokes and random stories, both funny and not. By one AM, the group was most quiet as they stared at the fire. The temperature had dropped and they were all wrapped in blankets.“So Holly,” Zach suddenly began after finishing a chug of orange soda. Minerva was sitting beside him, her head resting on his shoulder as she tried to stop herself from fall asleep. Vinyaya and Zelda were sitting together with two sticks, discuss methods of roast marshmallows. As Vinyaya made a s’more from her marshmallow and began to eat, she looked at Zach with half-closed eyes. “What’s with you and Bluetooth?”Vinyaya rolled her eye and swallowed. “Figured you’d bring it up again.”“It’s been two days since I inquired anything about it,” Zach shot back. “I’m never going to drop it until I get a straight answer. Something you never seem to give.”“Fine. I spoke to him after we Darkling and Martinet cleaned up my wounds. We sat around near the celebrations and just sort of...talked.”“Talked,” Zelda repeated as she chewed on her s’more, a smug grin on her face.“So are the shippers going to rejoice?” Zach continued impatiently, yawning. “You keep beating around the bush. It’s like a writer trying to milk the shippers for all their worth.”Vinyaya’s eye narrowed. “I think we’re going to start...something.”“I can’t really tell if you and Bluetooth are more romantically awkward then all of us,” Minerva mumbled, her eyes still closed. “Or you're just embarrassed about us talking about your love life.” Vinyaya silently fumed at this, her face turning bright red. “I think ‘something’ means they’re dating now.”Zach clapped his hands. “You pulled through, Holly. You pulled through. Bluetooth a good guy. I’m happy for you. You two better being going to LEGO Island for that party. You too, Zelda.”“I think that was the plan,” Vinyaya said. Zelda merely nodded before laying back and curling up in her blanket. The fire had lost much of its luster.. Vinyaya yawned. “I think sleep sounds nice.”Minerva was breathing softly on his shoulder. “I think so, too,” Zach said as he watched Vinyaya lay back on the ground. “G’night Holly. Zelda.” They both grumbled something incomprehensible. Zach laid back and carefully laid Minerva on the ground beside him. She stirred.“What’s going on...?” Minerva muttered faintly.“Going to sleep,” Zach said.“Hmm...okay,” Minerva turned her head toward Zach and kissed his cheek. “One more burial tomorrow.”“Then its party time. Again.” Minerva chuckled quietly before rolling away from him and falling asleep. Zach closed his eyes, letting the blissful feeling he had felt the last few hours drown him in sleep.

OOC: I expected as much, Atton. ;)I think I'll do at least one more post that takes place on December 21. After that, I'll start with those "resolution" posts.IC:Zach and Minerva walked through the battlefield. With no street lights, the only light in the dark came from the high beams of the Iron Hammer and the multiple bonfires created from the wrecks of vehicles and corpses of Mutant Dinos. The crowd of Minifigs on the streets grew rapidly. They passed by Dino Attack, Alpha Team, Agents, Rogue Knights, Chinese Soldiers, and Drones. United in battle, the many opposing forcing of the LEGO Planet were now united in celebration over the defeat of their common enemy."Too bad it won't last," Minerva noted wistfully."Yeah," Zach agreed as they shuffled past a group of Alpha Team and Ogel Drones celebrating together. "The Brickster will be captured, but villains like Ogel and Vladek will retreat to their headquarters and kingdoms, rebuild their forces, and be back to causing trouble.""Such is life on the LEGO Planet," Minerva said with a faint grin. "One year gives us an almost-apocalyptic invasion of square-headed robots who held the mayor hostage. Two years later we have a mad scientist and his lackeys causing trouble and destroying stuff with a big robot. A year later, mutated dinosaurs show up. With those 'alien fleet' warnings I heard about from Bluetooth and Holly, we can probably bet on some kind of alien invasion next year.""The planet's never going to get a break, is it?" Zach chuckled. "But seeing as we have a forewarning of this alien fleet, if they prove hostile, we should be able to stop them before they cause too much damage." Zach wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her tight against his side. "Now, as tired as I am and the likely hood of me collapsing on a street to take a nap grows higher with every moment, I'm feeling up for visiting one of these little celebrations here."Minerva yawned and nodded. "Might as well." The two approached a large crowd surrounding the fiery corpse of a Mutant Dinos. People were talking, laughing, and singing a variety of songs; primarily holiday carols but with a mixture of songs expressing victory. One man had an acoustic guitar in his grip and a woman had a drum in front of her. Both had a crowd of people around them as they sang and played a variety of tunes. Zach and Minerva leaned against a Fire Hammer on the outer edge of the circle listened as the two musicians grew louder, tempting a few people into heading into the crowd and begin to dance. Zach and Minerva smiled and clapped their hands to the music before Zach was tapped on the shoulder by a familar face."Good to see you in one piece, Virchaus," Raine Dashworthy said, gripping his shoulder. Zach smirked and pulled Dashworthy into a brief hug. Her eyes managed to locate his metallic right hand. "I guess that need to fix you up a little bit.""A little bit," Zach repeated. "That's only the most visible thing wrong with me. Good to see you still kicking, Raine. This is Minerva Fabello. Minerva, Raine's another one of those Agents I worked with early on in the war. Less than Thad, but still up there." Minerva smiled nervously and shook Raine's hand. Raine smiled politely at Minerva before turning to Zach."Speaking of Thad," Raine said in a low voice. "Did I hear right? You got the guy that killed him? That Matt Wherestorm or whatever?"Zach nodded. "We got him. Me, Minerva, and two others. We all had a bit of a...bone to pick with him. Thad was only one wrong Dark...er, Vhere... - whatever we're going to call him - committed not only today, but for apparently years.""Good on you, then," Raine said, slapping Zach hard in the back, causing him to grimace. "Since there won't be much of a use for the Dino Attack now, I hope you consider rejoining the Agents. We could use someone like you."Zach merely smiled. "I'll think about it." Raine clasped his shoulder one last time before jumping into the center of the circle and start to dance with a black-haired Alpha Team wearing a brown fedora."Are you going to rejoin the Agents?" Minerva asked curiously as she glanced at Raine.Zach shrugged. "I have all sorts of ideas of what to do. Right now, I'm not really concerned about it." Minerva shrugged and they both watched a man with a fiddle join the group of musicians. The newly formed group spoke in hushed tones before starting off into a fast-paced piece that got multiple people off into dancing with a partner or significant other. Those who didn't clapped along from the sidelines. "I'm half-tempted to jump in," Zach noted."Feel free," Minerva said. Zach glanced at her curiously. She rolled her eyes. "I'm not going in there! I've never danced in my life!""Fine. Then when we go to LEGO Island and go to the party there, you can make a fool of yourself there instead of here." Minerva's eyes narrowed. He punched her shoulder playfully. "Speaking of LEGO Island, you're still moving over there now, right?""Yep," Minerva said with certainty. Zach smiled at this. He had not fail notice Minerva's uncertainty about going to LEGO Island with him after the war when discussing it briefly a day before. "I have nothing left here and personally, I don't want to stay here anymore. I'm interested in restarting, and LEGO Island sounds like the place to do it. Not sure how I'm going to it or what I'm actually going to do, but I'm sure something good will come out of living on LEGO Island."Zach chuckled faintly. "At least you're optimistic. Everyone on the island, especially Andrew and I, will make an effort to help you whenever you need it." Minerva smiled in silence before pulling Zach close to her as they watched their friends and allies celebrate their triumph.

IC:"I'll see you two later, I suppose," Vinyaya said with smile to Zach and Minerva. "We'll still have to work out a funeral for Nazareno, and then there are all the celebrations...""We're counting on it," Minerva said, clasping Vinyaya on the back. Dr. Martinet stood behind her with a tired smile underneath his mustache. "Still working, Martinet? I mean, you were out in the battlefield,""Aye, and now all-a the injured in one place," Martinet said, his eye continually glancing down at the clipboard in his hands. "Once most everyone is taken care of, maybe I'll take a nap, eh?""Thanks for that, by the way," Vinyaya added. "After the last experience with the medics, I'd rather have you checking out my scars and wounds than the other medics." Martinet chuckled before gesturing for the group to follow him into the designated medical wing of the Iron Hammer."Alright!" Martinet yelled out. "I'm going to need someone or someones to due a quick check up of two agents!" Dr. Pierce shushed Martinet irritably. Martinet nodded apologetically. "Righto, this is a hospital after all." Zach, Minerva, and Vinyaya chuckled quietly as they continued through. It wasn't a pleasant sight to see the injured agents with scars, wounds and with lack of limbs or eyes. There was other those who didn't show any serious wounds but had still suffered, such as when they passed by Hertz being operated on by Enter and Return. Zach smiled as he knew that in probably a good few hours time, Hertz would have his hearing back and be with Naomi Carver again."Sorry about your friend Nazareno," Martinet said as he continued. "He was quite the man and we could've used his help here with so many people suddenly without an arm or leg. We'll be able to-a replace them, naturally. It'll probably just take a bit longer." Zach acknowledge Martinet faintly as he glanced around at the patient. Even in the morbid setting of a war hospital, many seemed to be taking their wounds in stride and were laughing with friends and family, knowing that the world would continue on."Hey!" Minerva said in loud whisper. Zach turned his head to see Zelda sitting in a bed, waving to them as she spoke to a doctor Zach didn't recognize. With a shrug, Zach, Minerva, Vinyaya, and Martinet moved toward her. As they reached her, Zach noticed her jacket sleeves were empty and her arms were tucked inside it."Can I speak with them a bit, Copper?" Zelda asked. "Come on. It's not like I'm about to die." Copper seemed uncertain, but let them converse. "We did it," Zelda said, with a faint, bitter grin. That was all she needed to say. Zach, Minerva, and Vinyaya simply smiled and nodded. Vinyaya went to pat Zelda on the back when she winced and shook her head, causing Vinyaya to pull back. "Blaire left his mark, though." She stood up and pushed her jacket on to bed, revealing a white tanktop stained with sweat. She turned around, revealing the back of the shirt was stained with blood. She lifted the shirt up halfway up her back so they could see half of the dark red, jagged cut Blaire Darkling had left on her back."Not as bad as yours, Holly," Zelda said as she slid her shirt back down and turned back to the group. "More like Minerva's on her cheek. Somewhat of a reminder of what could've been before Blaire took it away." Zelda paused for a moment, then added, "We all seemed to be gaining scars from this battle. What about you, Zach?""Willa the Witch used some spell to create across my body," Zach said with a shrug. "I managed to heal it with the Maelstrom, but it left a purple and black scar.""You can compare scars later," Copper interrupted irritably. "I have a patient to deal with."Indeed," Martinet said. "While you're injuries are-a no laughing message, Commander Vinyaya, you're rather low priority to compared to some others. I want to check you and get you out of here so we can deal with more urgent matters.""Yes, of course," Vinyaya said. "I suppose my 'good-bye' earlier was rather pointless. See you later, Zach, Minerva, Zelda." With that, she followed Dr. Martinet to another area of the infirmary. Zach and Minerva turned to leave when they bumped into Dr. Naomi Hale and a male doctor he didn't recognize."Martinet said you two need a check-up?" Hale asked somewhat impatiently."Uh, yeah," Minerva said. "Probably some proper medical-""Good enough. Bones, you deal with him. I'll handle her." The dark-haired man pulled Zach to the side."Names DeForest McCoy. Feel free to call me Bones. So you're not severely injured, right?""Yeah," Zach said. "A quick check to make sure everything's in working order. Probably clean up some wounds Blaire Darkling created.""Already on it." While Bones began to look over Zach, the latter turned his head to Minerva. Dr. Hale was removing the self-applied bandage Minerva had placed over arm. "What caused this?" Dr. Hale asked, looking at the wound closely."A bullet grazed my arm," Minerva stated simply. Dr. Hale simply nodded and began to clean up the wound. Minerva flinched as Hale dabbed something into the wound before looking at Zach and grinning. "I think we're done fighting now.""We'll probably get sent to help round up the remaining dinos across the planet. Exterminate the wild ones and capture the rest for science," Zach said as Bones rolled up Zach's sleeve and looked at his arms."Yeah, but that's nothing. The real fighting's over. Time to celebrate and have a good time.""There's still Athena and Nazareno," Zach pointed out.Minerva's features only saddened briefly. "Yeah, I suppose. But I doubt they want us to be moping over their deaths. Wherever Mom is, she'll finally be able to be together with Dad, Tod, and Oswald again while I move on and restart my life for the better. Nazareno's death was avenged and all of his friends and his lover are still alive from the encounter. I'm pretty sure they'd want us to celebrate."Zach smiled faintly at her. "You're probably right on that one. Time to sing carols and songs of victory. To eat as much Brickolini's pizza as you can stomach.""To laugh and rejoice in the survival of an entire race," Minerva added with a mock-dreaminess in her voice. "To dance until you're feet fall off, right?""That can be taken literally on LEGO Island, you know. It will probably happen at some point." The two laughed until they were hushed by Dr. Hale irritably. Zach looked away from Minerva as bones wrapped up a wound on his arm in a bandage."Anything else I missed?" Hale asked Minerva, straightening."I got a cut on my stomach. I suppose you could look at that," Minerva said with a shrug. Dr. Hale's eyes narrowed and looked at Bones and Zach with a look of distaste."Come with me, please," Hale said irritably. "You can hang out with your boyfriend in a bit." Hale pushed past Zach and Bones. Minerva smiled awkwardly at Zach as she followed the doctor. Zach chuckled sheepishly as she passed. Bones seemed to ignore the passing conversation. He lifted Zach's shirt and ran a cautious finger down the purple and black scar on his stomach."Is there anything I can do about this?" Bones asked curiously."No. I healed that myself. That's why it looks like that." Bones stared at Zach. Zach simply shook his head. "Best not ask. There's nothing wrong with it." Bones shrugged and stood up."Then I'm done with you. You'll live and won't get any infections. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have more critical patients to take care of." Zach simply nodded and stepped out of the way as Bones went to help someone else. Zach shuffled through the hallway in silence, hoping Hale would let Minerva go soon.After several minutes of waiting near the exit, Minerva finally appeared in his vision. "There you are!" she said, grinning apologetically. "Sorry about that.""Not to worry," Zach said as they began to exit the Iron Hammer. "Enough dreary medical-death-bad stuff. Time to see what sort of celebrations are happening outside."Minerva smirked. "Sounds like a plan."OOC: And from here, I'll probably start skipping around as I see fit.

OOC: Yeah. It might've been a wee bit more believable if I had only had Zach, Minerva, Vinyaya, and Zelda with group (the fight might have only been three days long as well). I was desperate in trying to separate them, so I sloppily threw in Blaire escaping on the Fire Hammer, so...yeah.Speaking of Steam, if I remember correctly, I made an account so I could download Team Fortress 2, but since my computer couldn't run game, I sort of forgot about. I think my name was just "BrikmanMcStudz" or "Brikman McStudz" over there as well. If I ever get a decent computer though, maybe I'll finally start playing TF2.And curses PeabodySam. Stealing my thunder (kind of). Zach and Minerva were going to bury Athena with the other Fabellos. Now it just feels...dunno. IC:Zelda’s katana slammed smashed into Blaire’s katana, showering the ground with orange sparks. Zelda was fatigued from the battle that ended barely an hour ago. With added battle against Blaire Darkling that was physically demanding in itself, Zelda felt as though she could collapse right now.But she wouldn’t. Not until Blaire was defeated. Not until her friends were safe. Not until Nazareno was avenged and his long-time mission completed.She needed to improve her form, that much was certain. As fatigued Blaire probably was, he still had defeated Zelda twice before with relative ease. Blaire was a million times more skilled in sword combat than her, even with lessons prior to the Dino Attack and with Nazareno.Zelda swung upward for Blaire’s head, an attack he blocked with ease. His brilliant red eyes expressed bored amusement as he fought her. This was hardly a challenge for him. He could probably kill her right now if he so wished.She swung the sword in her hand and delivered three quick attacks to Blaire before lashing out with a kick. Blaire smirked as he grabbed Zelda’s foot in midair. “Really?” Blaire scoffed. “If you did train under Nazareno, I expected a little better.”Zelda scowled before kicking herself other leg upward. It swung up in a wide arc and slammed Blaire in the cheek. He released his grip and groaned in pain, allowing her to land on both feet. Seeing her opportunity, she swept her foot across his ankles. Blaire anticipated this movement and swung his katana at her, forcing her to roll away and recover.“Fine,” Blaire snarled, holding his katana in an attack position. “I’ll kill you now.” Blaire rushed forward, slashing his katana. Zelda’s katana was quick in meeting each of Blaire’s attack, but she was becoming slower and slower as he attacked. Her jacket was being slashed and torn as Zelda became slower.Seeing that she was in a bad position, she backflipped away from him. This gave him the opportunity to slice down her back. Zelda gasped in pain and backed away as Blaire came closer. Her back was searing with pain and the pain made her dizzy. Regardless, she fought pass the pain. Zelda glanced back at Zach, Minerva, and Vinyaya, who were watching her with concern.“Stay back!” she hissed through clenched teeth as she blocked a horizontal sweep to her chest.“Zelda,” Vinyaya snapped, her voice hoarse. “You can’t take him alone. I’ve seen what he’s done to scores of officers. You’re powerful, but you’re tired. With the four of us, we could-”“No,” Zelda gasped as she pivoted her body to avoid a blow from Blaire. “I-”“We know you want to get him because of what he did to Nazareno,” Minerva said. “We all do. We can help. Together we can beat him.”Zelda mulled over her options quickly. Blaire smirked in faint amusement. “Stay back,” Zelda said finally, turning back to the group. They examined her quietly and saw the hardened features in her face lighten. Zach finally nodded sadly, an understanding glint in her eye. Zelda smiled briefly, glad they understood her message. Her smile quickly faded as Blaire’s katana collided with hers. His face was barely a foot away from hers. Zelda flinched as his hateful eyes stared into hers.“It doesn’t really matter,” Blaire boasted. “They will all die soon enough.” Zelda, unamused, resolved to spit in his face. Blaire snarled, allowing Zelda to push him back and strike back. She swung her sword upward and cut through his trenchcoat and black shirt. Zelda swung her foot extremely high and kicked Blaire underneath his chin, causing him to stumble back.Blaire wiped the saliva away from his face and roared in anger as he attacked again. This time, Zelda was ready and blocked the attack with ease. They exchange quick, deadly blows at all angles. Blaire swung up, down, and across at Zelda, who met each attack with equal furiousity. Zelda spun on her heel and stabbed at Blaire, who barely blocked the attack.Blaire gave her a hateful look. “Why...do you...persist...with this?” he hissed. Zelda refused to respond and knocked back Blaire’s katana and swung for his neck. Blaire ducked his head swung his head down and swung a fist into Zelda’s chest, causing her to gasp for air. She moved to the side as Blaire stabbed his katana forward. Zelda tapped it down and cut Blaire’s right arm before he could pull away. Blaire grimaced and swung with controlled, albeit angry, precision that creating a bleeding wound on her knees and thighs. She closed her eyes for a second as the stinging pain all over her body threatened to consume her. She opened her eyes quickly to see Blaire smiling maliciously as he stabbed forward again. Instinctively, Zelda fell to her back.Zelda gasped as the wound on her back screamed in protest from her action. The sword hovered over her for a second. She swung both feet up and wrapped them around. Too stunned to react, Blaire’s sword was ripped from his hands and flew into the air. Zelda rose to catch it, only to feel an elbow jabbed her cheek. Blaire jumped up and caught the sword and charged at Zelda. She stood there, her sword ready to attack. As Blaire reached her, she swung the blade into his hand.Blaire roared as her katana sliced into his gloved hand. Zelda swung her foot upward and kicked the sword out of his hand before Blaire barreled into her, knocking her to the side. She followed Blaire’s katana as it buried itself into the ground behind her. She smirked slightly before Blaire charged at her again.Zelda flew back as Blaire’s shoulder slammed into her chest. She rose quickly. This was her chance to finish him off. She ran at him, sword raised. Blaire stepped to the side and twisted her sword arm. Zelda suppressed a groan of pain and elbowed him in the face twice, forcing him to step back. Zelda swung her sword in a wide arc behind her, but Blaire jumped back before he could be hit. Zelda continued to swing at him, becoming fiercer as Blaire dodged his attacks, though he seemed to be slowing and becoming sloppier as Zelda landed a few slashes on him.. She slashed her sword downward. Blaire stepped back and caught the blade between his palms.“You will not win!” Blaire barked, holding the blade tightly. Zelda tried to push the blade into his stomach, but he held it back with all of his strength. He grinned madly at her as he suddenly ripped the blade from her grip and turned it back at her. Before memories of Nazareno’s demise could swamp through her, she stepped to the side as Blaire began to attack again. She turned to get Blaire’s blade when Blaire slashed through her wrist. Zelda’s face twisted in pain as Blaire circled around her, blocking the path to Blaire’s katana.******************************“Have you found it?” Zach hissed to Vinyaya as she scoured the graves surrounding Blaire and Zelda.“No,” Vinyaya muttered irritably. She shot a glance at Zelda and Blaire, the former now without a katana. “We need to hurry.”Zach nodded quickly. Zelda had said not to help her, but her eyes and face were clearing asking that he, Vinyaya, and Minerva do something to distract him long enough so he could be defeated. Right now, they were search for the Cosmotronic Ray and Sonic Screamer used by Vinyaya and Minerva respectively, though it was difficult due to reaching the point where the fire from the Fire Hammer being the only source of light. Zach himself was search as well when he heard a frantic whisper from Minerva.“I found one of Nazareno’s katanas!” she gasped excitedly. Vinyaya and Zach ran over to her. Indeed, the bright gold katana rested in her hands.“Alright,” Zach said, glancing back at the duel. “I think Zelda has him distracted enough that we can slip in and kill him.” Vinyaya and Minerva nodded curtly. Taking the sword from Minerva, Zach stepped toward Darkling, Minerva by his side. Vinyaya was silently moving around to Zelda’s side. He cautiously watched Darkling launch after Zelda. Much of his composure was gone and seemed to be descending ever closer to insanity as he fought. Zelda shot him a brief glance as she danced away from Blaire’s attack; a fatal mistake.Blaire turned around and grabbed the sword Zach was about to plunge into his back. “Oh no you don’t!” At that point, Zelda kicked her sword out of Blaire’s hand and stabbed it at him. Blaire’s hand shot out and wrapped his hand around her blade as well. There was evidence of blood seeping from his palms as he held back the sharp blades. His arms shook with pain and his face twisted into his signature hideous smirk.“Why won’t you die?!” Zach groaned as he pushed against the blade harder against the force Blaire was applying. No man should be able to last this long. It was almost...demonic.Blaire laughed coldly, his eyes constantly shooting from Zelda to Zach. “You are nothing compared to me! Not even the great Nazareno could stop me! I...I am Matthew Vherestorm!” Blaire's face seemed to become consumed in darkness with only his bright red eyes shining through. Vherestorm had become the mask that was Blaire Darkling, only to finally remove that mask in frustrated (and possibly insane) anger.“No,” Zelda stated plainly. Zach glanced over to her and saw Vinyaya by her side, her hands wrapped around the hilt of the katana as well. At that point, Minerva also moved next to Zach and gripped her hands around the sword. Blaire stared in shock and horror. “You’re dead.” With all of their strength combined, the two katanas shot past through Blaire’s hands and sunk into his body and out through his back, forming a gold-and-red X in his body.The light returned to his face. Blaire stared at the katanas sticking in shock. “I-I-I...” He was finally at a lost for words. The color drained from his face dramatically. His red eyes almost seemed to become stone gray. He stared from Minerva and Zach to Zelda and Vinyaya, who merely looked back with looks of pity and hatred. Suddenly, Blaire began to laugh.“These...these are his katanas, are they not?” Blaire said, his voice becoming strangely calm. “He...always said I would fall by his blades. Even in death, his prediction came true. How...poetic.” Blaire chuckled faintly. Zach and Zelda pulled the katanas from Blaire’s body. Without their support, Blaire Darkling’s body slumped forward and didn’t move.Zach swallowed calmly and looked at Minerva, Vinyaya, and Zelda. They stared at Blaire’s body in silence. Fatigue and grim satisfaction were etched on their faces. They had done it. Bla...Matthew Vherestorm...was dead. All the lives he had taken, including Thaddeus Brickhouse and Kareem Nazareno, were avenged. In the latter’s case, he was probably somewhere smirking in approval and in relief that his friends and lover/apprentice had survived the encounter and had defeated a great menace.“Well, folks,” Zach said finally, throwing the katana to Zelda. “Show’s over. Time to head home.” Vinyaya nodded and glanced around before running over and picking up Minerva’s Sonic Screamer. Tapping a few buttons, a bright light suddenly flashed into existence from the an attachment on the weapon. Nodding curtly, Vinyaya started to walk toward the graveyard exit. After one last glance at Blaire, Zelda followed. Minerva smiled weakly at Zach before the two joined the other two.OOC: Looks like everyone lived (except Blaire). Yay! Someone can go pick up the group now.

OOC: We'll just go ahead and say that Martinet's working in the medbay and Rosalie Mercedes is off doing agent-stuff.IC:Zach and Zelda spread out as Minerva and Vinyaya opened on Blaire. He rolled forward and kicked the Sonic Screamer out of Minerva's hand. Gripping her arm, Blaire then turned, grabbed the barrel of Vinyaya's Cosmotronic Ray and ripped it out of her hands and tossed it like a disc at a gravestone. Blaire turned to punch Vinyaya when Minerva twisted the arm holding her, following by kneeing him in the stomach.Blaire doubled over, groaning before he slammed his heavy forearm into Minerva's stomach. He shoved her away and swung a punch into Vinyaya, who caught the fist in her hand. Blaire held the position while he pulled out his katana to guard from a side attack by Zelda. Blaire then kicked Vinyaya and swung his katana at Zelda so he could move away from a knife stab by Zach.Blaire backed away from the group, his katana held in front of him. Zach fired a blast of Maelstrom that Blaire quickly dodged, destroying the gravestone. Zach snarled and fired another blast. Blaire stepped to the side, cold smirk on his face. He pulled his pistol out and opened fire on the group. The group quickly retreated behind the various gravestones."We need to get the gun out of the equation!" Zelda shouted to Zach, who were separated by two graves.Zach nodded and turned to see Vinyaya a gravestone away from him. "Where's Minerva?" Zach called out in a loud whisper to her as Blaire quickly reloading his gun and waited for the first of his opponents to reveal himself. Vinyaya shrugged and turned to glance out from behind her stone when Blaire suddenly started firing again. Zach peeked over the stone and saw a dark red door of a Fire Hammer charging at Blaire while he shot at it. The door slammed into Blaire and fell with him to the ground. Minerva Fabello lifted herself from the door and grinned at Zach goofily. Zach smirked back and he, Vinyaya, and Zelda approached her and Blaire quickly."Kill him now," Zach said quietly to Zelda. She nodded and gestured to the group to get ready. Vinyaya and Zach got around the door and lifted it slightly so Zelda could deliver the final blow.The door suddenly shot upward out of their hands thanks to a powerful kick from Blaire. He swept through Zach's ankes, causing him to collapse. Blaire rolled out of the way as Zelda brought her katana down in the area where his head was. He jumped to his feet, punched Vinyaya in the chest, and pulled out his katana and pointed it at Zelda.Zelda pulled out both of her katanas and swung violently and rapidly at Blaire. An amused smirk was on Darkling's face as he blocked both katanas with relative ease. "You're going need a little more skill to have an advantage over me," Blaire scoffed. As they fought, Zach began to move behind Blaire, his knife raised. A low blow to be sure, but at this point, Zach was beyond caring.Suddenly, Blaire kicked upward, knocking a katana out of Zelda's hand. Grabbing the katana in midair with his left hand, Blaire turned forty-five degrees and swung both katanas out, blocking attacks from Zelda and Zach. Blaire grinned at the both of them. As enraged as he was, it was clear he was enjoying taunting them.Minerva jumped on to his back and wrapped her arms around his throat. Blaire gasped angrily and tried to wrestle her off while holding off attacks from both Zach and Zelda. Minerva released herself and stepped back as Vinyaya lunged forward at Blaire's ankles. Stumbling, Blaire fell backwards on the ground hard.Blaire roared in anger and kicked Vinyaya in the chin, stunning her for several seconds. He blocked repeated blows from Zelda and Zach as he slowly climbed to his feet. Minerva ran at him again, only for him to elbow her in the face. Minerva grunted in pain as she fell back, clutching her face. Growing angrier by the second, Zach began to move around Blaire. Unamused, Blaire slammed his katana in Zelda's as hard as he could while sharply kicking her in the stomach. Blaire quickly turned and blocked a stab from Zach. With Blaire's attention entirely focused on him, Zach backed up as long, sharp katana blades lashed out at him. As Blaire spun out Nazareno's katana him, Zach hit the deck, allowing Vinyaya and Minerva, recovered from Blaire's attacks, to step forward and grab Blaire's arms.As Zach crawled away, Zach could see Vinyaya and Minerva dig their boots into ground as Blaire tried to pull away from them. Vinyaya wrapped one hand around the golden katana and yanked the sword out of his hands and threw it away from him. Now furious, Blaire swung his free arm across Vinyaya's cheek, causing her to gasp in pain as he struck her scars. Blaire then swung his fist at Minerva, who brought one hand up to stop the attack. Blaire chuckled and twisted himself so his forearm could pound Minerva in the stomach. Coughing in pain, Minerva doubled over, allow Blaire to break free and pull his sword back to deliver a killing blow.His sword was soon knocked down by Zelda, who gave him a deathly glare. Zach went up to Minerva and pulled her away from the fight to Vinyaya, whose eye was watering painfully. Minerva coughed again, this time much harder, and stared at Blaire hatefully. Gripping his knife tightly, Zach moved toward Blaire quickly as he kicked Zelda in the shin, bring her to her knees. A scowl forming on his face, Zach raised his hand, summoned all the energy he could, and fired a blast of Maelstrom.It slammed into Blaire's back like a truck. He stumbled forward, grunting in pain. Stomping his foot into Zelda's stomach for good measure, Blaire started walking toward Zach, a fierce scowl on his face. Zach fired two more weaker blasts before he found himself panting. Blaire let each one strike his chest. He barely broke his pace while he swung his left fist into the side of Zach's face, knocking him to the ground."Admittedly, you're all holding rather well," Blaire said, his eyes narrowing as he stared at Zach. "But I can see it; you're all breaking. It's becoming too much." Blaire raised his foot and stomped it on Zach's chest. His eyes bulged out of his head and he gasped for air as Blaire applied more pressure to his chest. Blaire chuckled darkly before swinging his foot under Zach's chin, knocking him back. He heard the sharp clang of metal and realized this was his chance to back away and regroup. He slowly crawled back as Zelda and Blaire exchanged blows once again."I got you," Minerva whispered gently in his ear. She wrapped her arms around his torso and helped him climb to his feet. Zach nodded his thanks and, with Minerva's help, guided him to Vinyaya.Zelda and Blaire circled each other, staring hatefully at each other. Zelda's breathing was ragged and she seemed to stumble with every other step. "It's over Miss Frodongan," Blaire stated simply. "You shouldn't have come after me. If it's any consolation, you will be joining Kareem very soon.""No!" Zelda spat angrily, swinging her katana in front of her. "You aren't taking...anymore lives! I'll...see to it myself!"Blaire laughed coldly. "Look at you. All of you. You can barely stand there and talk to me! You think you can defeat me?" Zelda stopped moving, but didn't respond. Blaire stopped his circling as well, grinning coldly. "It appears you lack common sense, Frodongan. You will pay first. Then we'll see to Fabello, Virchaus, and Vinyaya."Zelda looked to the friends she had made in the last several days before turning back to Blaire. With an ugly frown, she lunged forward and initiated the final showdown.

OOC: Going out of character also provided an issue. Blaire Darkling is as bad as I've tried to make him out to be. It makes sense to send two dozen people to kill him in story. However, I wanted to limit to my main cast because they all have a bone to pick with Blaire Darkling one way or another (killed their friend/lover, killed Zach's friend, probably killed a couple of Vinyaya's friends, helped guide Athena to her death). I imagine Blaire probably has been in worse situations (in my head, he's taken on whole Space Police squads single handily.) But in this case, he's injured, tired, Jarate'd, and is surrounded by characters protected with a nice coat of plot armor. It is more illogical for him not to be dead yet.So I will try to separate the group.IC:The level of distaste in Blaire's eye seemed to grow as Pyro, a pale woman, and a woman joined the fight below. "Really?" Blaire said irritably. Every began to approach Blaire. There was no holding back now. There may be a few injuries, but Blaire was so handily out-numbered, they had to take this oppertunity to strike."Hey!" an unrecognizable feminine voice called out. Everyone turned to see a new Fire Hammer had arrived. A woman was sitting in the driver seat with another Dino Attack agent on the Xenon Launcher. "Is it too late to join the hunt down a Blaire Darkling - oh, Builder! What's wrong with eyes?!"Blaire shot a quick glance at Zelda and Dr. Cyborg before pulling his pistol and shooting the agent on the turret dead. "You're just in time. I know my limits. We're done here." He started running toward the Fire Hammer."Shoot him!" Minerva barked. Everyone quickly trained their guns on the Fire Hammer and Blaire and opened fire. Several shots struck Blaire in the back, but thanks to his vest, ignored the pain and swung open the Fire Hammer and shot the female agent in the chin. Climbing into the Fire Hammer, Blaire put the vehicle in drive and headed off.The reaction was quick. Pyro, the two women, Angel Eyes, and Clint Wayne climbed back into the T-1 Typhoon while Bluetooth, Dr. Cyborg, and Zelda climbed into Andrew's Fire Hammer and Zach, Minerva, and Vinyaya clung to the Fire Hammer cab from back with Laxus.Andrew's Fire Hammer turned sharply on its wheels and drove out of the park in pursuit of Blaire's Fire Hammer. Laxus fired the Xenon Launcher at Blaire's Fire Hammer while Zach, Minerva, and Vinyaya hung on to the Fire Hammer while firing their own weapons. Above them, Rotor's T-1 Typhoon was mercilessly firing everything it had. Zach grinned as the Xenon Launcher on the back of Blaire's Fire Hammer exploded."We almost got him," Vinyaya muttered.Suddenly, Blaire's Fire Hammer slowed down dramatically and swung around right, allowing Andrew's Fire Hammer to shoot past him. Zach turned his head and saw Blaire's Fire Hammer continue in the opposite direction. Zach swore loudly."What is she doing?!" Solomon yelled out, sounding irritated.. Examining closer, Zach could see Zelda clinging to the side of Blaire's Fire Hammer. She must have anticipated his move and jumped out as they passed."Andrew says to hold on," Laxus grunted. Andrew's Fire Hammer turned sharply around and sped up rapidly. Over their heads, Rotor's T-1 Typhoon, being as slow and clumsy as T-1's were, was still recovering from Blaire's maneuver. Laxus was more hesitant about opening fire when Zelda was clinging on to the side."Bring the Fire Hammer over to his," a pained grunt belonging Zelda said into Laxus's radio. With a shrug, Laxus passed on the command to Andrew. With a heavy jolt, the Fire Hammer blasted forward. Thanks to Andrew's driving skill, that managed to move to the right side of Blaire's Fire Hammer. Almost immediately after establishing their position, the cab of Blaire's Fire Hammer lit up as he opened fire on the other Fire Hammer. Dr. Cyborg and Bluetooth fired their own weapons at Blaire.Zach heard Zelda audibly swear as she pulled herself on to the cab of the Fire Hammer. "What in blue bricks are you doing?!" Zach snapped."I'm taking on Blaire," Zelda yelled back, struggling to stay on her feet. "And if you had half a brain, you'd jump over and join me!""Are you crazy?!" Zach yelled. "He's mad! He'll kill us all! You need back-up!""Yeah, you three! We all want of piece of him, don't deny it! Just decide, and decide quickly!" Zach shot a glance at Minerva. She gave a half shrug before giving Zelda a thumbs up sigh. Crouching down, Zelda extended her hands. Taking a deep breath and strapping her Sonic Screamer to her back, Minerva jumped. Their hands collided and Zelda pulled Minerva over into the bed of the Fire Hammer.Vinyaya carefully moved herself to Zach. With a curt nod, she jumped over as well. Zelda struggled more with Vinyaya's heavy armor as she pulled the commander over to Minerva's location. Zelda turned back to Zach and gave him a meaningful look. Zach sighed, dropped his Cosmotronic Ray, and turned to Laxus. "You know I have to, right?"Laxus smirked. "I'm not going to lie, it's not particularly smart after watching him fight. But I suppose it's rather important to you.""Yeah. Seeing as Blaire will probably break away soon, tell Andrew we'll make it back, I make that I promise.""Good luck," Laxus said. They clasped hands together briefly before Zach turned to Zelda and nodded. Zach then leaped. As he wrapped one hand around Zelda's Blaire suddenly jerked to left. Zelda gasped as she was brought to her knees. Zelda grabbed Zach's hand with both of hers and clung to him desperately. Another jerking turn almost caused Zelda to lose her grip on him again. Swinging madly, Zach lunged out for the side of the jeep bed. He felt his fingers grab it, only to begin to slip. Minerva grabbed his hand tightly. Another jerking turn later, Zelda joined the group on the bed of the vehicle and helped pull Zach on board."You always make things so complicated, Virchaus," Vinyaya said, though Zach could hear the relief in her voice. Zach looked around and saw no sign of Andrew's Fire Hammer or Rotor's T-1 Typhoon. "So we're really on our own."Minerva nodded and looked ahead, a panicked look on her face. "Get down!" Everyone quickly crouched down and covered their heads as Blaire went through a wrecked building with his vehicle. Bricks were being thrown down at them rapidly and evidence of office chairs and supplies smacked against their hands. Blaire shot out of the building and turned hard right, knocking everyone down."Alright, Darkling," Vinyaya muttered irritably. "You lost them. Enough with the turns.""So now what?" Zach said to Zelda. "Since you've got us all on board."Zelda began to wrap her arms around the cab. "We go for Blaire. Holly, can you get the other side?"Already on it," Vinyaya said as she moved to the opposite."Good. Zach, Minerva, you get ready to shoot." Zach and Minerva nodded and ducked down. Minerva pulled her Sonic Screamer out and Zach prepared to fire a burst of Maelstrom energy. Even if it didn't do much to actually harm him, it could still stun him.Vinyaya and Zelda began to move slowly from the bed to the front door, ready to ambush Blaire. Unfortunately, he seemed to be anticipating this attack, as he veered the vehicle on to the sidewalk. "Zelda, get back!" Vinyaya yelled. Zelda flipped herself on to the roof as the side of the Fire Hammer ground against the building. The cab lite up as Blaire opened fire on Vinyaya. Blaire pulled away from the buildings and started to head for the opposite side of the street when a Mutant T-Rex suddenly burst from the intersection. Blaire slammed on the brakes, but still managed to clip the leg of the massive beast. The vehicle's tires screeched in agony as it begun to spin out of control. It burst through a steel fence and began to rattle and bounce as it traveled through a grassy area."Get off!" he yelled to Minerva. They both turned away from each other and jumped from the bed of jeep. Zach rolled against the damp grass and collided with an old stone, bruising his spine. Groaning and swearing, Zach climbed to his feet and watched Vinyaya leap from the out-of-controlled Fire Hammer briefly before getting a better look at his new surrounds. It was small, contained area filled with stones. A graveyard. How morbid.Zach quickly reunited with Minerva, Vinyaya, and Zelda and they all turned and watched the Fire Hammer, whose tires were absolutely destroyed by all the gravestones, collide with a massive grave in the center of the area. Not saying a word, the four slowly approached the crumpled and burning Fire Hammer. As they reached the left side of the Fire Hammer, the front door suddenly three yards away and slammed into a gravestone. Blaire climbed out of the cab slowly and his red eyes scanned the group in silence, a deep scowl on his face. He then glanced around briefly before a smirk formed on his face."So you were the ones to hitch a ride," Blaire snarled, his generally calm voice thinly veiled with anger. He shrugged. "I like it this way, personally. You all have a bone to pick with me and I have a few issues to settle with you."It briefly crossed Zach's mind to at least hold off and weaken Blaire for the calvary to find them eventually. Then he looked at the three women he had become friends with in the last few weeks. They each held cold frowns on their faces and their eyes showed little mercy as Minerva and Vinyaya pointed their guns at him and Zelda held her swords out. Zach realized they weren't aiming to hold him off. They would kill him for all the lives he had taken. All the damage he had cause and all the pain he had created. Even Vinyaya, the police officer, wasn't offering him a chance to surrender. It was all or nothing. Zach nodded faintly as he pulled out his knife and extended his left hand. He didn't care anymore. They would kill Blaire Darkling.One way or another.OOC: Simply put, do NOT find Zach, Vinyaya, Minerva, Zelda, and Blaire until the fight is finished!

OOC: OOC: And to pop our monocles out of our eyes and declaire "I say, fine fellows! That hooligan Blaire Darkling is far too absurdly adept at gymnastics to be severely impacted by our projectile-based weapondary! I suppose all we can do is keep ourselves able and ready in case things get dodgy, and simply have a sip of tea and observe the spectacle, eh chaps?"Heh, yeah. The big problem is that I had originally intended only Zach, Minerva, Vinyaya, and Zelda going after Blaire. Then I...I don't know, got spineless, I suppose. Dr. Cyborg wanted to come along for the ride, and then, despite knowing better, adding Andrewnuva's cast. And then Solomon. And then Atton Rand's large cast came in. It's really sort turning Blaire into a God Mode Villain Sue-type character, something I want to avoid. He should be dead, but I have to milk this last fight for all the drama its worth. Now that more people are hitting the ground, it's becoming a bit unrealistic, even more my more lax tastes.Obviously, I'm just going to have to separate my cast from everyone else and fix my mistake. Give me a bit to come up with an idea.

OOC: Everything can be rebuilt rather quickly, since we are dealing in a LEGO Universe, regardless of how you see it in your head. The costs of the team can mostly be explained away with "if you don't donate the resources needed for an army of tanks, jeeps, and helicopters to fight dinosaurs, you'll all die." And nobody really said anything about people not suffering from mental scarring from the war.All of this mental scarring and possible economic issues could very well happen. In the long term. Saying that it is the dusk of December 21, 2010, the final moments of the RPG are focusing on the ten days after the war. We're not dealing with what will happen on the planet months from now. You're more than free to visualize how the planet will be in several months, but that isn't and probably won't ever be the focus of the RPG.Now: I think I'm the only one that has a plan with the fight against Blaire, to tell you the truth. You, Andrewnuva, that guy, and avmatoran's characters are mostly along for the ride to help fight. Anyone, I do have a plan (kind of), and it certainly doesn't need (or really want, to tell you the truth) Firecracker involved. Sorry.IC:Blaire's red eyes narrowed curtly as he stared at the barrel of the gun Angel Eyes' held in his hands. Zach let out slow sigh as he released the grip on his knife he was about to pull from his uniform to attack Blaire with."As you wish," Blaire snarled. He swung the rocket launcher up, knocking the rifle away and then swung the rocket launcher into Angel Eyes' leg, bringing him down. Discarding the rocket launcher, Blaire ducked quickly as Clint Wayne fired a bullet of his head. Blaire sweeped his leg across the ground, tripping the gunslinger. Blaire casually stood up and kicked the revolver away from Clint Wayne."Please," Blaire scoffed, arrogantly brushing dirt off his trenchcoat. "Like I haven't been in a situation like that before." Blaire then stepped over Wayne as several bullets from the surrounding group shot toward him. Blaire took a few careless shots with his pistol before pulling his katana out and charging at Zach again."Shoot," Zach muttered, ripping the knife from his uniform. The smaller blade collided hard against Blaire's katana. The former leader of XERRD's piercing eyes widened and a grin of sick amusement formed on his face."A knife will do little to help you, Virchaus," Blaire spat. He brought the katana back and swung again. Zach staggered as the blade collided with the knife. He brought the sword back to stab when Minerva suddenly burst forward and slammed her shoulder into Blaire's. Despite her small size, Blaire was unprepared for the attack and stumbled.Blaire turned and swung the katana upward in a wide arc, knocking away Minerva's Sonic Screamer. "Miss Fabello," he said politely. "So it seems the death of your mother and presumably your brother have not entirely hindered you. I admire that. To an extent.""Shut up," Minerva said shortly, her fists raised. "You're just as much to blame for her death as Oswald. You helped him break her out of Napoleon XIV. You brought her here."Darkling shrugged. "I suppose I did, didn't I? I was pitying him mostly. His insanity was rather...evident at that point." He jabbed his sword forward. Minerva quickly jerked her body to the side and swung a hard punch into Blaire's face. Unamused, Blaire swung his arm in the side of her face and prepared to stab the sword down. Minerva kicked her legs up, hitting underneath his chin. Blaire grunted in pain and brought his foot up. Minerva rolled out of the way as Blaire's boot slammed into the ground.Blaire turned to pursue her when he saw Dr. Cyborg standing before him, a metal shield and sword in his hands. Blaire scoffed coldly. His eyes seemed to brighten. "Dr. Cyrista. You never crossed me as one for swordplay." Blaire frowned. "You know, I made you second-in-command of XERRD for the very purpose that, when I killed Nazareno, you would continue to reform XERRD. Having me kill you here kind of makes the promotion redundant."Blaire swung his katana at Dr. Cyborg, who blocked it with the shield. Blaire smirked and pulled off a series of complicated attacks at Dr. Cyborg. The cyborg Dino Attack agent was apparently caught off guard by Blaire's attack and was being forced back by Darkling.Minerva shook Zach's shoulders, snapping him out of stupor. She had her Sonic Screamer in hand again. "Remember Dr. Cyborg's plan?" Zach nodded and picked his Cosmotronic Ray back up. He saw Vinyaya and Bluetooth point their Cosmotronic Ray and Z-1 Kinetic Launcher at Blaire. The plan seems to have been passed on to Clint Wayne and Angel Eyes, who both pointed their weapons at Darkling as well."Excellent plan," Blaire said arrogantly. Dr. Cyborg recovered at that moment and launched a quick attack against Blaire. His reflexes were certainly fast thanks to his half-machineself, but compared to Blaire's, they were shockingly on par. A sinking feeling formed in Zach's stomach as Blaire blocked the blurry attacks with ease, a bored look on his face. He was naturally that quick. Blaire was also moving around Dr. Cyborg as he attacked. "Yes, have Dr. Cyrista distract me while you all shoot. How ingenious."Blaire slammed his sword into Dr. Cyborg's and brought his person closer to his enemy. With a smirk, Blaire slammed his gloved fist into Dr. Cyborg's helmet visor, cracking it. He swung his fist again, finally shattering. On the organic side of Dr. Cyborg's face expressed surprise. Dr. Cyborg swung his shield against Blaire's chest, causing him to stumble back. Dr. Cyborg ran forward to attack. Blaire spun around the doctor with ease and swung his sword down. Dr. Cyborg barely turned himself around in time to stop the attack.Zach was trying to get a good shot on Blaire, but he was moving around enough to put both Dr. Cyborg and other attackers surrounding Blaire in danger. Clint Wayne squeezed off two shots, one barely missing Dr. Cyborg while the other grazed Blaire's shoulder. It didn't stop that latter, however.Blaire slammed his katana against Dr. Cyborg's sword. Blaire twisted his body and swung an elbow into Dr. Cyborg's organic side of his face. Dr. Cyborg grimaced, allowing Blaire to swing his foot into Dr. Cyborg's stomach, forcing him back. With a bored smirk, Blaire stabbed his katana forward, intending to inflict the killing blow.Only he didn't. His sword was redirected into the ground by a golden blade. Blaire's eyes widened, almost as if the ghost of Nazareno himself had stopped his attack. Traveling up the blade, Blaire's eyes rested upon Zelda Frodongan, a look of barely contained anger in her eye. A wide smirk formed on Blaire's face as he brought his sword back and pointed it at Zelda. Zelda merely reached for her second sword and pointed both blades at Darkling."Let's finish this," she said darkly before lunging in to attack.

OOC: Like Andrewnuva said, MST3K Mantra. At least LEGO City is doomed by canon to recover fairly quickly from the Dino Attack. Other places, such as LEGO Town (which isn't used by LEGO at all anymore) or Mt. Bricklake (a town created by Toa Spartan Antraka Hunter) might take longer. In the case of places like LEGO Island (cleared of Mutant Dinos), reconstruction has already begun and, in LEGO Island's probable case (thanks to the Constructopedia) completed. And that, since this is LEGO, rebuilding is rather easy because bricks are reusable.And the thing is, Rotor doesn't have to adjust to civilian life. There's the Alpha Team, the Agents, the LEGOLAND Military and for off planet, the Nexus Force, Space Police, Unitron, and more. And considering that in 2011 the Alien Conquest begins and the conversation between Vinyaya and Bluetooth strongly hints at the Dino Attack Team becoming the Alien Defense Unit (and branching off into the "Dino Team" that forms when dinosaurs attack again in 2012), Rotor will have plenty of professions available so he can keep being a badman. Took the words out of my mouth. Indeed, Blaire is powerful, being assaulted by heavy artillery from both a Fire Hammer and T-1 Typhoon is a little overboard. I think my opinion mostly matches Jackson's. For the most part, everything is obviously and completely LEGO. I see my characters as Minifigs for the most part, but have little issue seeing them as human (as I drew/am drawing human post-final battle pictures of Zach, Minerva, Nazareno, Vinyaya, and Zelda and a scientist and Sorcerer version of Human!Provencal). Expies and Ersatz are a little more difficult in seeing as minifig (I see Marco Martinet as Dr. Mario and Blaire Darkling as Blaire Vherestorm with white hair).Visuals also help sway my opinion. If there's a picture on the wiki, I generally write with that in mind. Even after the new picture, I see characters in a G.E. Body as taller and more "human" like than Minifigs because of the original pictures. Official characters are naturally all seen in Minifig form. And finding those rare, dramatic brickfilms on the website of video hosting, also help me see Minifigs in serious drama and warfare with blood and death.So I'd say mostly LEGO with a hint of realism.IC:Zach watched as Blaire rolled to the side as T-1 Typhoon fire from above rained upon him. He nodded quickly to Minerva and the two began firing everything they could at Darkling. Blaire took a few shots with his pistol at them before taking cover behind a jungle gym with various prehistoric vegetation growing on."Light it up!" Zach yelled. The T-1 Typhoon fired several rockets at the playground, blowing it to bits. Zach wasn't willing to bet on Blaire being dead, however. Not until he saw corpse himself."Here!" Vinyaya suddenly yelled. Zach turned his head and saw Vinyaya firing several blasts at Blaire, who was rushing at her. She swung the Cosmotronic Ray fierecly. Blaire snapped it in his hand and tossed it aside before throwing a punch. Vinyaya caught the fist and swung her now free hand out to punch Blaire, only for him to swing his arm out to redirect it away from him."You know, I have yet to catch your name," Blaire said. Vinyaya shoved him away and raised her fists, a cold frown on her face. Blaire stepped forward and began throwing rapid fire punches at Vinyaya. The Space Police commando raised her arms and knocked away each punch that came. Blaire suddenly began to move slowly around Vinyaya as he attacked, forcing Vinyaya to adjust herself so she could attack and defend."He's using her as a shield," Zach muttered to Minerva. Blaire positioned Vinyaya in front of him so they couldn't shoot him if they didn't want to kill Vinyaya as well."We still have Pterisa and Rotor up there," Minerva said. Then, "I've shot Holly with a Sonic Screamer before, when you were a Stromling. It won't kill her. Then we can knock out Blaire.""Or he'll just finish her off while she unconscious," Zach pointed out. "Or forcibly use her body as a shield.""Right, bad idea. And thinking about it now, having Rotor taking them out from the sky at the moment doesn't seem bright." That was also true. The heavy weapons on the T-1 Typhoon would kill both Blaire and Vinyaya. Which was why Andrew's Fire Hammer, which was nearby, had held off its charge and its Xenon Launcher wasn't firing. Zach grimaced as he saw the weapons on Rotor's T-1 began to rotate."I swear to Builder," Bluetooth muttered darkly as he approached the group, now holding Blaire's rocket launcher with his Z-1 Kinetic Launcher. "If he does something stupid to kill him and hurts Holly..." Zach and Minerva didn't say anything, but were silently agreeing to Bluetooth's ominous threat. It seemed someone talked some sense into Rotor, because the weapons stopped rotating. Instead, the piercing sound of a sniper fire shattered through the air. The bullet struck near Vinyaya and Blaire's feet; a little too close for comfort."Right now," Minerva said as she glanced upward. "Rotor should leave the air assault to Pterisa." The Hybrid soared above them and rose high into the air, above Vinyaya and Blaire. A bright blue spark shot from her hands and struck Blaire's back. Instead of falling, he merely stumbled. He swung his arm into Vinyaya's chest, knocking her back as he pulled his gun out and pointed it at Pterisa."Ah!" Blaire snarled. "The Quasifigus pterisa! It has been a while. I knew better to take on three extremely angry Hybrids rejects at once, but now," he gestured to the agents surrounding him. "Seeing as the odds are decreasing rapidly in success, I think I'll finish the job that 'Wallace Bishop' would not!" His pistol lit up as he opened fire on the Hybrid. Pterisa preformed numerous, spectacular aerobatics in the sky while firing streaks of lightning at her attacker. Zach though he saw Blaire's smirk widen briefly before Vinyaya was suddenly back on her feet and wrapped Blaire up in a football tackle.As they watched the struggle, Pterisa suddenly landed near them, clutching her right shoulder. Minerva gasped as she saw the barest hint of blood seeping down her armor. "Pterisa! Are you-""I'm fine," Pterisa grimaced in pain. "I think I'll live. But Mr. Darkling over here won't soon enough." They turned their attention back to the fight as Vinyaya punched Blaire hard in the face. Frowning as parent would to a disobedient child, Blaire grabbed Vinyaya's arm and twisted it behind her back. Vinyaya gasped and grimaced as Blaire scoffed."How about that name now?" Blaire snarled, twisting Vinyaya's arm harder. She grimaced and sharply kicked him in the stomach. He responded by swinging his fist into the left side of her face."Vinyaya..." she gasped, a deep scowl on her face. "Holly Vinyaya.""Well then, Commander Vinyaya, I've noticed these scars on your face. Acidic right? Rather recent, would you say?" Zach saw a flash of fear in Vinyaya's eye. "So I imagine this would hurt, correct?" With that, Blaire swung his fist into Vinyaya's right cheek. She flinched, her lip shaking as her left eye began to water. Blaire made a task sound, clearly disappointed. "Let me try that again." With that, he slammed his fist into her scars again. A barely audible gasp of pain escaped Vinyaya's lips."Admittedly," Blaire said with a shrug. "I expected this to hurt a lot more.""Imagination fallout," Vinyaya snarled, her voice somewhat weak. "Dimmed the pain.""Of course," Blaire said darkly. "I'll just hit harder, then." At that point, Bluetooth was running at Blaire with a furious look on his face. He fired one blast from his Z-1 that soared over the assassin's head. Without tilting his head away from Vinyaya, Blaire punched Bluetooth in the stomach, causing him to double over, dropping both weapons. Blaire then wrapped his hand underneath Bluetooth's chin and lifted him into the air. Blaire glanced from Vinyaya to Bluetooth, an amused grin dancing across his face."How amusing," Blaire said. "I disagreed with Michelle Glados with many a thing, but there was one thing I could agree on: these emotions and attachments to other Minifigs are weak and foolish. I abandoned all my past connections so nothing could be used against me." He slammed Bluetooth's head hard against the wet grass of the park. Vinyaya gasped again, an mixture of fear and anger on her face. "It is only something to be used to break your morale and spirit." Bluetooth's head slammed against the ground again and Blaire released him, only to stomp on his chest. Bluetooth groaned and glared at Blaire with hatred."Now," Blaire said, pulling Vinyaya close to him and pulling his gun on Bluetooth. "Who would be broken more if I killed the other, hmm?" Pterisa quickly jumped into the air and fired a bolt of lightning at the ground near Blaire. He flinched, allowing Vinyaya to swing her arm into Blaire's face. He dropped Vinyaya and started firing at Pterisa again. As Vinyaya helped Bluetooth to his feet and stepped back, Zach, Minerva, Andrew's Fire Hammer, and Rotor's T-1 Typhoon opened fire on Darkling.Blaire roared in anger and snapped up the Space Marauder rocket launcher that Bluetooth had dropped. As he ran and dodged the firepower, he fired one rocket upward at the T-1 Typhoon and another at the Fire Hammer. Zach didn't bother seeing if the rockets met their mark. As Blaire ran, he suddenly paused and jolted in surprise as a new gunshot echoed through the air. Everyone seized fire briefly as Blaire turned his head.Zelda Frodongan stood next to Zach, a smoking pistol in her hands and a dark scowl on her face. That smirk appeared on Blaire's face again. "Tsk tsk, Miss Frodongan. Bulletproof vest, remember? You're going to have to get closer and do better than that."Zach took this oppertunity to drop his Cosmotronic Ray and fire a Maelstrom fireball at Darkling. He flinched as Maelstrom slammed into his person. "Ah, Mr. Virchaus. I could guess you would be apart of this party. I suppose we do have loose ends to tie up from earlier." Blaire fired his gun twice at Zach, who blocked each bullet with a Maelstrom shield. He then tossed several more fireballs at Blaire.The former assassin dodged the blasts with ease. As the last one came at him, he extended his hand and caught the fireball. Blaire chuckled as he choked the fire out in his glove. "Disappointing, Mr. Virchaus. Hiding behind the Maelstrom?" Zach scowled, growing angrier as he sent another fireball at Darkling. He choked that one out as well. Blaire shook his head, smiling arrogantly as he fired another shot at Zach. Zach closed his eyes and watched as purple electricity shot from his fingers and struck Blaire's face.Blaire screamed in pain and fell forward to his knees. As he fell, his sunglasses fell into the grass with a soft thump in two pieces. Everyone stared for a few seconds as Blaire began to rise to his feet. Zach gasped audibly as he looked upon Blaire Darkling's eyes.There was little white around his irises. They were a light tint of red and had dark red veins with flecks of purple traveling from the corners of his eyes to his sickly pale yellow irises that also showed the barest hint of purple. In those sickly, Maelstrom-infected eyes Zach saw nothing but pure hatred. Blaire bared his teeth, his grotesque eyes never leaving Zach's."Imagine the pain I felt," Darkling hissed. "When the Maelstrom Temple was created almost a year ago. When the Maelstrom Crystal and the Imagination reacted...negatively. Bolts of Maelstrom energy went directly into my eyes. It was...agonizing. If not for the work of the nearby scientists, I would've gone blind from that attack. The sunglasses saved you from seeing them. Since you were so kind to destroy the sunglasses, I suppose you'll have to die with my eyes being the last thing you see." And with that ultimatum, Blaire Darkling rushed forward to attack.

IC:Holly Vinyaya looked back at Zach briefly. He shrugged and gestured Vinyaya to keep driving. He then turned and began to speak to Minerva in hushed tones. Vinyaya turned back to the radio to address Dr. Cyborg's idea."We could try it, but I don't know how successful it could be. We don't know what Blaire is planning or what sort of advantage he might have. Like I said earlier, we can predict that he'll be unpredictable with his actions. But if we get the opportunity, go for it.""Alright," Dr. Cyborg said. Vinyaya returned her eye to the ruined city ahead of her. She momentarily caught a flash of Pterisa flying ahead of them. She was scouting ahead to hopefully give them a chance of seeing Blaire before Blaire saw them. Vinyaya dimly remembered her initial distrust of Pterisa in the Maelstrom Temple so many hours before. Now, she was beyond caring. Pterisa was an ally and that was all that needed to be said on the matter.Bluetooth, who was sitting beside her in the front passenger seat, yawned briefly. Vinyaya smiled faintly. "I suppose we're all going to need a little shut-eye once we've got Darkling," she said.Bluetooth nodded in agreement and smiled, pushing his glasses up his nose. "Catching up on our sleep will be one of those pleasures we get back now that this war is over. No simply lying in bed, trying to sleep but unconsciously waiting for the moment an army of Mutant Dinos to attack."Vinyaya chuckled. Indeed the sleep Vinyaya caught on the way back from Adventurers' Island was losing its effect. Even after training that fought against weakness like this, fatigue was catching up quickly. Her police instincts to catch Darkling were the only thing really stopping her from falling asleep right here and now. That and her fierce protectiveness over the people in both Fire Hammers.Vinyaya turned her eye briefly to Bluetooth. He glanced at her and smiled nervously. Vinyaya smiled back. She had decided to give Bluetooth a chance with a potential relationship. She was, admittedly, surprised with her choice. She had her romantic fun when she was younger. She began to focus on her career once she became an officer. She hadn't been willing to develop too many close relationships in that line of work; casualties didn't come in by the truckload, but they came in enough that she hadn't been willing to go through the pain of losing someone close.And now here, having fought for her home planet, she was suddenly disregarding her old way of operating. Perhaps the situation had been such a radical shock, she didn't really know. But since landing on this planet, Vinyaya had a brief relationship with a disgruntled dinosaur hunter and had become close friends with a space ninja, a girl with a troubled past, a sarcastic LEGO Islander, and a pirate-turned-ninja. She had experienced those feelings of loss that she so desperately try to prevent. Those feelings of loss, however, ended up giving her feelings of trust and closeness toward people she had hardly known for a week that she reserved for officer friends.Admittedly, Bluetooth was a heavy contrast to Scratch. The latter had a dark sense of humor, extreme realist views, and emotionally driven in his life. The former was more calmer, level-headed, and not much of fighter as far as Vinyaya knew. Despite this, Vinyaya felt herself enjoying Bluetooth's presence a lot more than she had with Scratch's. Vinyaya knew Bluetooth truly cared for her while she will never know if Scratch truly held feelings toward her or was simply manipulating her.Vinyaya glanced at Ryan Radcliff one last time. He was looking out the window, most likely keeping an eye out for Blaire Darkling. A small smile formed on her face. She found herself increasingly looking forward to getting to know him better.*****************************"So the cut..." Zach said, drifting off and pointing to the light red gash across Minerva's cheek. Minerva sighed, just the barest hint of sadness in her breath. "It was Oswald, right?" She nodded once. "And he's...""He's dead. I killed him," Minerva said bluntly. Zach grimaced. "He also cut my stomach." She gestured to the tear in her Dino Attack uniform. "Nothing too bad," she continued with a shrug.Zach stared. She was being eerily calm about losing her family. Not so much from apathy toward the situation. More like...grim acceptance. "Uh..."Minerva silenced him with a wave of her hand. "Once this is done, I'll tell you what happened." Minerva chuckled softly. "I might not be this calm when I tell you, though. I've been sort of...holding it back. When I tell you, all the emotions that came with it will be released like a giant blob of sad, tears, and mad."Zach shrugged, smirking faintly, "I expected about as much." He tugged Minerva into a quick one-arm hug. "What are we going to do with...her?"Minerva lifted Zach's arm off of her. "Hopefully we'll be able to contact someone in Antarctica who can make a new tombstone really quick. We'll have a short little ceremony-type thing with you and me and then we'll head off to LEGO Island.""And Nazareno?""We still have his body. We briefly talked about doing something for him. You, Zelda, Holly, and myself at least. I think we'll have a more coherent idea once this is done and we get some sleep. But I think we'll try to deal with Nazareno before we take care of Mom.""Sounds like a plan," Zach said. The radio up front began to crackle."I think I see him," Pterisa said. "He's in some sort of battle with a hairy man in a blue-uniform." A few seconds later, Pterisa appeared in front of the two Fire Hammers and began to lead them in the direction of Blaire Darkling. As they drew closer, Zach could see fresh Minifig corpses scattered around; all victims of Blaire Darkling's rage, no doubt.The Fire Hammers' lights shined upon two standing Minifigs with guns trained on each other. One was Blaire Darkling and his handgun. The other was most certainly an Agent, a Space Marauder rocket launcher in hand. He was large and imposing. Zach then noticed the large broadsword near Blaire's feet."Is that a Grendelwulf brother?" Zach questioned."That's Epic Winston," Zelda whispered, as she was controlling the Xenon Launcher. Epic Winston Grendelwulf. Zach never actually met him or his brother during his work with the Agents, but they were notably enough that it was surprise if you haven't heard of them.Both Blaire and Epic Winston looked at the two Fire Hammer approached. "You should get out there if you're going to do it, Doc." He wanted Zelda's plan to go through, but he was mostly fighting for simplicity. Kill Darkling and get out of here.A sinister smirk formed on Blaire's face as he seemed to recognize the occupants of Zach's Fire Hammer. With his left hand, he whipped a katana out and knocked the rocket launcher out of Epic Winston's hands. A sharp kick sent Epic Winston tumbling back. As Blaire sheathed both the katana and handgun, he reached down for the rocket launcher.Zach saw the color drain from Vinyaya's face. "Fire!" she snapped. Blaire chuckled quietly and pointed the rocket launcher at her Fire Hammer. "Get out! Move!" Grabbing her Cosmotronic Ray, Vinyaya kicked open her door and dived out. Bluetooth did the same. Grabbing a Sonic Screamer and a Cosmotronic Ray respectively, Minerva and Zach jumped out of the vehicle and started to run. Out of the corner of his eye, Zelda stuck the trigger of the Xenon Launcher so it would fire without human manipulation. She then backflipped off and ran as a rocket fired from Blaire's launcher.A loud explosion echoed through the quiet city as the jeep was engulfed in orange flames. Another explosion sounded off as the Xenon supply exploded as well, causing green flames to join the orange flames briefly. Zach scowled and started firing his Cosmotronic Ray at Darkling, who dodged the blasts. They were now on foot. What was supposed to be a semi-easy mission had turned bad quickly.Good thing we didn't have any real plans from the start, or this would be a lot worse than it already is.

OOC: Just go ahead and have Rotor keep up his search for Blaire if you wish. I'll speak up if you do something I don't want you to do.