North America: Eastern US

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Hughes shut the hatch.
"Alright, now you idiots are looking for the same thing we are, no?"
Agron sighed. "I suppose so."
Hughes took out a cigarette. "Alright, listen. Instead of me tearing the Maternity--And you--a new one, why not we go down there and do our own peaceable search for memories? What you find, you keep." Agron was about to tell him to fuck off, but he glanced at the four silver stars on each of his collars. Hughes looked at Agron and blew the smoke in his face. Agron growled and asked "Well, how the hell are we supposed to do that?"

Hughes looked at him again, after staring at the downtown area which was etting peirilously closer with each passing second.
"In 100 seconds, this plane is going to crash into the other side of the river. We start our search there. You leave when we leave." Agron looked confused. "Really? How do I know you won't double-cross us, bastard?"

Hughes looked ever-so-minutely worried. "Easy...if we're not at work by 0900 tomorrow, the Fuhrer himself's gonna show up to retrieve us."

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Hughes sat down and kept smoking his cigarette. He spoke calmly and purposefully to Agron. "Hey, kid, hold onto something." Agron grabbed a seat leg.

The plane performed a violent return to an upright position, back from the right list it had taken. The plane's screams and the engine's roar penetrated the air as the leviathan careened towards the Mississippi River. It passed through the Gateway Arch, demolishing it. Soon, the plane was bumping and grinding through the Fountain District, obliterating anything that it touched before coming to a screeching halt just short of the riverbank.

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Hughes forced the gunship to a gentle smash into St. Louis city Hall. "Alright, idiots, listen---" Luna tried to attack him. Unfortunately, a head as big as Luna's can be seen a mile away. Hughes snapped his fingers, and a blue-white circle appeared around the city, perfect and terrifying in its size and purpose.
"Okay, is everybody done?" Hughes asked. Everyone looked on, slightly confused. They all responded with basic variants of "Say what, now?"

Hughes got down to the nitty-gritty as quickly as possible.

"Listen up, dickweeds. Here's the deal. We search for the memories, inside the circle, and inside the circle only. And it's a whole damn city so don't complain. If you move beyond the circle a molecular reaction will begin in your body. The basic particulates giving speed and position to the electrons comprising the atoms in your body will be stripped away, and the electrons will lose their charges. Your body will freeze and vall apart into a kind of wet, icky vapor as you die almost instantly"

By this time, Loreena was sitting pretzel-legged on the ground, jauntily writing notes down in her notebook, several thousand of which she had already filled with these kinds of writing.

Everyone else, however was a little more confused. Agron broke the ice sayine, "dude, my mind is flatlining."

Hughes clarified. "Okay, we all search for memories. What you find, you keep. No one moves past the edge of the circle. You do, It'll vaporize you. There, we just did this barney style.
Any questions?"

Everyone looked at one another. The search began, with about ten hours of looking time.

[Noble 6]

Chris erupted into his Phase walk along with \Haku.
"Search the ruins to the east, I'll take the North." he had a pretty good idea of where the package fell. Agron sprinted through buildings back to the now barren park he had seen in his vision.

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The three officers began searching the decimated downtown area, including canvassing the Gateway Park, home to the famous but now gone arch. They quickly found litte discs, which may or may not have contained memories.

"Hey, General, check these out." Richardson threw the holodiscs at Hughes, who took out an HD reader. "These are completely worthless. Nothing but maps of the world through 2030. We already know that shit." He threw the discs to the ground. Richardson found two more, which Hughes inspected and also found to be worthless. After 0100, he began to lament, "Jesus, man, we haven't found a goddamn thing. All we keep finding are goddamn Holodisc replicas, no originals at all."

Luna's group wasn't having the best of luck either. Loreena had chosen not to search, instead sitting in her characteristic Indian pose, just jotting down notes in her sprial notebook. Haku went to her to get her to help. She looked a bit like a cat with her beautifully long, ghostly hair down, that cute bang covering her face. She looked behind herself to Haku.

"Hi, Haku!" said Loreena, elated that he may have brought her knwoledge in the form of more memories to write about. He did not disappoint, and he dropped a bunch of Holodiscs in front of her. "Just a minute, I have to get another notebook! Please accept my apologies for being so unprepared, I'll be right back."
Haku looked at Loreena as he ran away, standing next to Agron, who by now had found more memories than the lot of them, as worthless as they were.

Okay, Haku looked more at Loreena's backside. Dude, that short cape and that one-piece are so conservative, yet if that skirt went a bit higher--" Agron slapped him. "Dude, she's like 16."

Haku smiled with a proud grimace. "Yeah, but you have to admit...She's got one hell of an ass."

[Noble 6]

Chris raised his sword and laied it on his shoulder.
"She is a 16 year old girl, you say one more word about her, ever again, in that manor, I will ki-, no...I'll tell Luna. and don't tempt me."
"Im going to keep searching," there was one place he had not searched yet, the exact sight of the bombing run. He grabbed his 50. calibur anti-tank rifle, not trusting the UR to hold their end of the bargin.
He entered the park and slowed down and began searching. After about a full two hours of searching, he came across a very old chest, well it was more of a storage container. The case was completly sealed, and still in almost perfect condition. He took a deep breath and entered his phasewalk again for like the fiftyith time today and stuck his head through the case. Inside was another case, and inside that was a another case, and inside that one, was a set of five disks. Agron grabbed the original outside case and placed it on his back. He strapped it on hefted it up.
"Luna, come to my position, enter from the south, I'll be invisible.' He entered his phasewalk and concentrated on just being invisible and not exuding any energy.

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Luna looked at his position-to-be.
"Alright. By the way, keep your eyes peeled. It looks like the UR's actually found something." She began moving towards his position. "See what's on them, and tell Loreena to hurry up. We've only got five hours left." Hughes surprisingly tracked Agron's path, and ignored him. He knew where he was headed. "Just let the kid get the emotional bullshit out of his system." he laughed.

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Luna found Agron, and looked inside the case he was holding on his back. "You know what's in here?" she commented. "By the way, I heard you arguing with your boyfriend over there. Now what did he do?" Agron looked at her blankly "Very funny, but he was just being Haku. Keep my back while I get these memories to a safe place." Just then, the roar of airplane engines shook the sky. three B-52 bomber, all larger than the one Hughes flew, landed in the outskirts.

Someone's blunder had sealed the fate of this night........
The Fuhrer stepped out of the middle plane, with his nightrobe on.

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Hughes looked at the planes "What the...who blew the whistle?" he wondered.
The Fuhrer automatically noticed Luna and Agron holding the chest, and sent General Reinhart to retrieve it. Before they knew it, Reinhart had the chest.

"Well, now, what do we have here?" he said sadistically.

[Noble 6]

"Dumbshit." the time was now or never, to unveil his new ability.
His arm erupted in a phasewalk, and he shot through Reinharts chest and Agron grabbed his heart, and pulled it out, without leaving any evidence of doing so. Reinhart fell to the floor without a sound. He grabbed the chest using all his might, he turned all his allies into Phasewalkers, at least until he let the energy go. The group sank into the floor and sprinted away. The UR, even the Fuhrer had no idea what happened.
"What the FUCK!!! Are you doing!!!" he didn't seem to care about the memories. "Hillington, Richardson!!! FRONT AND CENTER!!!!!NOW!!!" the man roared.

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Reinhart looked over the landscape. "Sir, shall I have the honors?" The fuhrer looked at him with the same misgiven look he gave eveyone else he said "no" to. The Fuhrer stomped his foot into the ground, and ordered Hughes, Richardson, Reinhart and Hillington into the craft. He looked especially angry at Reinhart for allowing himself to be defeated so easily. "I'll be right back, don't move a fucking muscle." he warned.

"Damn!" Luna screamed when the two arrived at HQ. "Two generals and the Fuhrer? What if they follow us here? Agron took over the conversation. "Look, we've gotta get to Mother, so we can--"

It was at that moment, that he realized Haku was gone.

[Noble 6]

"Haku, what the fuck....Luna take your sister and go..." his body was weak now, and he knew it. He'd used lots of his energy, and he was reaching the breaking point. He gave her the chest and he looked back towards the city....his speed was great, but...his strength was waning, he could probably do the heart thing a maximum of possibly two more times, Hughes, Richardson...then the Fuhrer, would obliterate him...he smiled to himself, not the way he expected to go, but maybe he'd get lucky.

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Agron turned around and headed for the city.

The Fuhrer had changed into utes and boots, and was patiently awaiting him, having long since sent the other three back home. He also held Haku by his neck. "Soooo, you're one of the friends of that idiot who's been causing all the grief. What's your full name, kid?" He said, almost not paying as much attention to him as he was to Agron speeding towards St. Louis. Haku choked back blood as he struggled to speak. "H..Haku...Haku Hatoyama" he said, the Fuhrer's chow hall claw strapped tightly around him.

The Fuhrer looked at him blankly, and turned the claw to the side, shattering his jugular vein and spraying blood all over his utes. He looked at Haku laying on the ground.

"I can't believe he had the audacity to attack me." the fuhrer lamented as he stepped back into the plane and waited for Agron.

[Noble 6]

He felt when Haku left this life. He ran even faster and stopped only when he reached Hakus body. He fell to his knees and shed a few tears for his friend. He grabbed his hand and suddenly Haku opened his eyes.
"Do it......just do it...I allow."he died again.
Agron touched his forehead and Haku's. Haku's body began to glow and then his body exploded into a million orbs. The orbs entered his body, and became one with him again.

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A Phase walker, is not a person. A Phasewalker, is living energy, in human form. When a Phasewalker dies, he tranforms back, into energy that is then absorbed by another Phasewalker. When that is done the absorbing Phasewalker's strength is multipied by five.
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He entered the ship and walked towards the Fuhrer.

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The Fuhrer sat in the pilot's seat, just finishing his cigar. He threw it out and looked calmly at Agron.

"Hey, kid. How's shit going?" He snapped his fingers, and pushed Agron out of the plane. The thud he made when he strick the ground brought down what remained of the Gateway Arch.

The fuhrer stepped out of the plane.

"Don't be silly, boy. Do not think you can do me harm."