"Lights, Camera, Action! The Movie RPG" Season I: IC Thread

What Smith was saying didn't make any sense to Neo. Why would the Machines simply "change" the Matrix. HOW could they? Why couldn't he sense Oracle? Or the Architect? Where was the data? There had to be data. Neo looked at the somehow ressurected Agent.

"Where's the data? Where's YOUR data? If this is the Matrix, then it had to have been created by the Machines. But this wasn't made by machines. Otherwise, there would be data. I would be able to sense the oracle and all the other programs. But I can't."

That's when it hit him. Like a ton of steel.

"My dream..." Neo whispered.

"This is the world from my dream... But then what are YOU doing here?"

 

Neo dodged each bullet easily, but was unable to stop them in mid-air.
The One grabbed Smith's gun and twisted his arm.

 

Big mistake. As he felt the the breathe being knocked out of him due to Smith's punch, Neo leaped to his feet, ripped a nearby phone-stand out of the ground, and smacked the Agent across the face with it.

 

“You guys hear something?”

[BLACKOUT]“Yeah, kinda like somebody tracking through the mud.”[/BLACKOUT]

“Ewwwww, gross.”

The Pink Ranger pointed to a huge, lumbering mud creature making its way toward the group.

“Putty Patrol?”

“Doesn’t look like any Putty I’ve ever seen.”

[BLACKOUT]“It doesn’t matter what it is, team. Let’s take it down.”[/BLACKOUT]

 

Ash quickly came up with an idea. He figured since the bridge was out, he would drive until he came across an alternative route. "Ok, this should be easy," he said as he started up his car. While he drove away from the away, he did not the realize that the evil force was back for more. It rushed at Ash's Oldsmobile, which caused him to eject out of the driver's seat, and smash the glass of the windshield. "Oh...you bastards, why are you torturing me like this?! Why?!"

Not expecting an answer, the chainsaw-armed hero ran for dear life. He ran for about a half mile and caught his breath. "Well, looks like I don't have to worry about it bothering me for a while -- I just dunno how it returned. I don't think I misspoke the words or anything." Just then, Ash noticed he wasn't too far from town. "It wouldn't hurt to get some water, especially seeing how hot it is."

 

"BY THE POWER OF GRAY SKULL!" I said raising my sword into the air. It began cackling with energy. "I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!!!!"

I aimed it at cringer, who cowered away from me. Quickly the Eternian tiger grew to immense size and became outfitted in red armor. BATTLECAT!

"Alright Battlecat, time to find these Rangers."

"Stupefy," one of the death eaters chanted as Alpha waddled over to him. The blast of energey from the wand sent the cybernetic being crashing against the wall.

"What is--" Zordon began to ask but he was interrupted as I emerged from under my cloack.

"Imperious..."

 

In a flash of energy, the Power Rangers summoned their various weapons. The White Ranger charged, slashing at the mud creature with Saba, his talking power sword. The putty monster sidestepped the attack, but was left open for an attack from the Red Ranger.

Jason’s sword cut deep into the monsters arm, severing it from the creature’s body. Tommy had recouped and swung around, jamming Saba in the midsection of the mud monster. The Pink Ranger capped off the attack with an arrow through the monster’s head. The putty creature convulsed and began to melt away back into the ground.

“Well, now, that wasn’t…so…”

The ground began to bulge and contort as the golem reformed itself, pulling itself up out of the ground, almost being born from the Earth, which in some sense it was.

“Putty never put up this much fight.”

“OK guys, let’s bring ‘em together.”

The five original Rangers brought the weapons together, using the power to bind them into the Power Blaster.



“Ready…Aim…FIRE!”

The Power Blaster let loose with a thunderous ball of energy that slammed square into the stomach of the walking pile of mud. The monster’s midsection was tore open, and it stumbled slightly, bracing itself against the ground and siphoning off more dirt to repair it’s smoldering torso before standing back up.

“Come on! It just won’t stay down.”

[BLACKOUT]“Looks like we may need a little help on this one, guys.”[/BLACKOUT]

 

The pain of being thrown through a sewer quickly faded. Neo grabbed Smith's hands and loosened his grip just enough to head-butt the Agent right in the face, then Neo threw him up into an office building. People screamed and ran off in cunfusion and fear. Neo leaped up to the office level and searched the area for Smith.

 

Jack awakes the next morning hungry and thirsty. He put his rum bottle to his mouth to discover it's still empty. "Guess last night wasn't a dream."
He says to himself he gets up and looks at his compass it still points further inland.

He enters a clearing and can hear drums. He walks up further to find that he is in a small village. A group of Indians see him. They run up to him and point spears in his face. Jack throws his hands halfway into the air and looks at them and says. "I was just on my way out." He turns around to see another group of natives with spears or their own. One of them run up to him and throws a white powder into his face. He sneezes. He says throw slurred words. "Now tha..t.....wasn't very...." He falls to the ground.

 

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"What are you suggesting?" I ask with a tone of excitement in my voice.

I turn and look at the mud-monster. It's absolutely hideous.

I then turn back to Tommy. "Megazord time?"

 

Covered in mud and drenched in sweat, Ash safely made it into town and walked into a nearby 7-Eleven. He grabbed a bottle of water and wanted to leave quickly so that way the clerk wouldn't ask him about his chainsaw. He felt the clerk woulndn't have believed him if he told him about what was going on. "Ok, I gotta get the hell outta here," he said as he finished his water outside the store. "I figure I'll be all right if I can drive my car through here."

He climbed up the hill to get to his Oldsmobile and drove it through the small town, trying to figure out how to go where he wanted to. After driving for a few miles, he noticed a big pothole in the street. "Doesn't look like I'll be able to get around that thing." He parked the car, studied the pothole for a bit, and knew there was something unusual about it. "It sure as hell doesn't look normal to me."

 

Battle cat roared.

In an instant I had lept from my saddle, and pulling my sword of power in one swift motion, sliced clean through the mud-monster. Before landing and sliding toward the assembled multi-colored heroes.

I stood up, spun my sword, and re-sheathed it.

"Are you the Rangers?"

 

[BLACKOUT]"We are. And who would you be?"[/BLACKOUT]

 

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"I'm not sure I even WANT to know the answer to that question," I add.

 

"My name is He-Man, I was sent here by the Sorceress to warn you of..."

I didn't know it, but behind me the puddy mud-monster was slowly reforming, regrouping, begining to tower over me.

 

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"Get down!" I shout. He-Man obliges, and I chuck my Power Axe at the mud-monster.

The monster's head is sliced off, and the Axe comes flying back into my hand like a boomerang.

"Continue...quickly."

 

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 (UNAWARE)
Midnight
Dennis' Diner and Rest Stop



Los Angeles, 2029 AD

Cyberdyne Systems 850 Series Model 101 Unit 2151991: Online

It all began with the microprocessor. Cyberdyne Systems developed a revolutionary computer chip that would change the face of military hardware forever. The military retrofitted their defense systems with this tiny chip, removing human error from the equation. Finally, they developed Skynet - which would link all of the microprocessors. Mankind marveled at their own genius. Skynet was launched on August 4, 2017.

By August 29, 2017, Skynet had become self-aware. It decided that the ultimate threat to human safety was, in fact, humans themselves. In a panicked attempt to preserve their species, humans tried to shut down Skynet. They failed. Skynet fired nuclear missiles at Russia. The impending counterattack wiped out almost all of mankind. For this reason, August 29, 2017 is known as Judgement Day.

Skynet continued to eliminate the surviving humans. Hunter-Killers rounded up humans and brought them to death camps. Several humans were kept alive to work on the "corpse disposal team." One human, John Connor, led a resistance - uniting the surviving humans.

Now, on this very date, they have smashed our defense grids. Failure is seemingly imminent. So, in a final effort to terminate all humans, I am being sent back to the year 2007. There, I will terminate John Connor before Judgement Day - therefore, the resistance will never happen, and the machines will reign supreme.

I step into the time-travel machine, and I am blinded by a bright flash of light. I curl into a ball and I feel myself being thrust through time. When the light stops, I feel myself land. I stand upright, and the time-travel was apparently a success.

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Primary Objective: Terminate John Connor
Current Objective: Obtain suitable clothing

I turn and see a neon sign that reads "Dennis' Diner and Rest Stop."

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Tuesday, August 29, 2007 (UNAWARE)
Midnight
Dennis' Diner and Rest Stop
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I enter Dennis' Diner and Rest Stop. It is late. There are only a handful of patrons, one waitress, and a man whom I assume to be Dennis. They are all shocked and confused by my appearance, but I ignore them.

Male 1 - Match Possibility: 67%
Male 2 - Match Possibility: 98%
Male 3 - Match Possibility: 34%

I approach Male 2 and state, "Your clothes...give them to me."

He looks at me as though he does not understand. "Huh?" he responds.

Response Options

A. "You heard me. Give me your clothes."
B. "Nevermind. My mistake."
C. Terminate

I grasp Male 2 by the throat and lift him into the air. Before I can terminate, the man named Dennis interrupts.

"You! Get the Hell out of my diner!" he commands. He looks both scared and angry. Rather than listening, I crush Male 2's throat with my hand, and then throw his body at Dennis. Dennis is knocked backwards and the other patrons begin to panic.

I approach Dennis' body. He's fumbling for a button underneath the counter. When he finally presses it, he announces proudly, "There! I tripped the silent alarm! You're in for it now, buddy!"

"I'm in for it now?" I repeat. I lift my foot up and lower it on Dennis' head. It crushes his weak human skull. I then return my attention to Male 2. I strip his dead body and take his clothes.

Mission Priority: Locate John Connor, Terminate

I leave the Diner, and on my way out, I see a motorcycle. I hotwire it, and then I leave the scene - searching for the nearest phonebook.
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Ash walked down into the pothole to get a better look. I probably shouldn't stay down here for too long, he thought. To him, the pothole seemed like it was enchanted by some demonic force. He walked around to do some pondering and climbed out. "Well, it looks like I can drive around this," he said as he started his car.

The hero found a another way around and went back to business. Suddenly, he had no concept of what the pothole could do, so it supernaturally pulled Ash's car back as he tried to get away. "Ah, s**t -- now I'm in big trouble!"

 

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I open the phonebook and scan it briefly. There are 6 humans with the name 'John Connor' in the surrounding area. I quickly record the addresses to memory and I head for the first one on the list.

John Connor - 578 Birch Street

On my way to 578 Birch Street, I hear sirens behind me. Through my mirrors, I can see that a human police officer is attempting to pull me over. I oblige and stop my motorcycle on the side of the road. The police officer approaches.

"What seems to be the problem, officer?" I ask without looking at him.

He responds, "You were doing 50 in a residential zone. Are you aware of that?"

I turn my head to face him. "Negative."

"Well, I'm going to need to see some license and registration," he explains while starting to write on his clipboard.

Response Options

1. "I left them at home."
2. "I do not have these documents."
3. Terminate

I get off of the motorcycle and approach the human.

"Whoa, what're you doing? I said 'license and registration', buddy."

"I cannot comply," I explain.

The human removes his sunglasses. "And why not?"

I reach out and grip his throat. He reaches for his holster and fires at me with his standard regulation firearm. The bullet collides with my endoskeleton with an audible 'ding.' I toss the human aside.

He stumbles over to his squad car and grabs the radio. "This is Officer Burke requesting back-up! I'm at Birch-"

Before he can finish, I grab him again and slam him into the hood of his squad car. He raises his gun at me, and I snap his wrist. He drops his gun, and I bend over to pick it up. As I place the cold steel barrel against his temple, I announce, "You have been targeted for termination." [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=Black]I pull the trigger twice, and his limp body falls to the ground.

[B][FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif]"Officer Burke, come in. This is Dispatch. We didn't quite get that last message," [/FONT][/B][FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif][FONT=Verdana]a voice on the radio states.

I grab the radio and explain, [FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=Navy]"Nevermind, Dispatch. I just got a little jumpy - that's all."

[FONT=Verdana][COLOR=Black]On my way back to my motorcycle, I take the human's firearm. It will come in handy with my mission. I continue down the street until I reach 578. I knock three times on the door.

An older man answers. [FONT=Georgia]"Can I help you?"

[COLOR=DarkSlateGray][FONT=System]"Are you John Connor?" [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=Black]I inquire immediately.

He nods and asks, [FONT=Georgia]"Why?"

[FONT=Verdana]I give him no response. Instead, I slam the door - knocking it off its hinges. John stumbles backwards, and I walk into his house.

[FONT=System][COLOR=DarkSlateGray]"You're in for it now," [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=Black]I state, remembering the words of the man at the Diner. I aim the pistol and fire seven times.

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Target 1: Terminated
Proceed to Target 2

I leave the house and get back on my bike. I race off, recalling the second John Connor's address.
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