City of Amnesia

*He sees police officer with slicked-back black hair.*

<Good afternoon. I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions?>
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<Make me, Paradigm Dog!>
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<Zey zhould be able too, yezz.>

"Come down... now! I'm not responsible if you fall and break your neck, dick head, this is for your own good!"

*Hitomi sets about looking for a ladder or something to get to the top.*

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"Yeah. Sure."

*Vega steps to the side to let the mysterious stanger in.*

<Mr. Ballentyne, I go by the name of Malkuth, & I'm here to ask you about the recent attack on the library. Do you know anything about it?>
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*There's a ladder on each remaining support brace.*
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<Did PARADIGM tell you that? Does PARADIGM know what's good for you? Is that what you're saying, you dog of this corrupt city? Do you have any idea how little you really know?>

*He holds up a remote of some kind, grinning madly.*

*She climbs the ladder up to the top.*

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"I know it left me unemployed."

Luna tenses and reaches for her pistol, "I advise you not to take any kind of violent act... just come down and we can forget about this!"

<Do you expect me to believe such a ridiculous lie? Yowel your terror for your masters to hear, Paradigm Lapdog!>

*He pushes the button. As he cackles madly, the street starts to break apart, a Megadeus with 2 arms & 4 tentacles emerging from underground.*
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<Not quite. The construction will be resuming on schedule.>

"Oh...shit.... whaat?!" Luna's eyes went wide and she stepped back to her car and hid behind the door, holding her gun ready to fire.

*Staring at its back, she sees something on its back. Tapping the button on the side of her glasses, the image becomes larger appearing to be a ring. Zooming out she touches the spot where the ring was a shiver running up her arm.*

[Is this the way in?]

*Feeling around the ring till' she can't reach any further she steps back.*

"Open?"

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"I did not know that. I should go check in sometime today or early tomorrow."

*The man jumps on its shoulder as it completely ignores her & starts stomping towards the domes.*

<Go on! Tear down those false skies! Expose this corrupt city for what it really is!>
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<Ah, but that's not what I'm here about. I'm asking if you have any idea who may have found that Megadeus & what their movies may have been.>
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*The back opens up & a long, pill-shaped chamber emerges.*

[I that supposed to be the cockpit? Is there anything else they want me?]

*She looks at the chamber every which way and that.*

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"I'm afraid I don't know what a Megadeus is."

Luna aims for the man's upper torso and fires three times.

<Argh!>

*He gets hit in the shoulder & drops the remote. The Megadeus stops moving & he falls down to the ground, breaking his fall on one of the tentacles. He still lands in a heap that looks quite painful.*
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Vera<Get inzide ze Megadeus. We need to 'ave at least one oporational.>
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<...The giant robot.>

[They want ME to be the pilot?]

*Hitomi enters the capsule.*

"Close?"

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"Myself and an as of yesterday former co-worker found it."

Luna sprinted over towards the remote, trying to keep her aim on the man at the same time.
"Don't even move a muscle! If you try and stop me I'll shoot again!"

<Bark while you can, Paradigm Dog.>

*He rolls behind one of the Megadeus's legs & rises to his feet.*
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*The plug descendes into the back, which closes up. Inside, the controls light up & a phrase scrolls past Hitomi's glasses lenses.*

Cast in the name of God Ye not guilty
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<So...are you confessing to attacking the library & murdering your coworker, then?>

Luna fired once, missing by about half a metre before the man got behind the Megadeus' leg.
She then dived and grabbed the remote for the Megadeus before taking a few steps back and waiting behind a car for the man to come out from cover.

*Hitomi glances about at the controls.*

[Should I try to move it or wait for someone to say something? Can I even hear anything from outside?]

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"What? No. My co-worker pushed my out of the way as some big hand or whatever came crashing down on it. After that I got the hell out as some tentacle creature was tearing the place up."

<I was referring to the Megadeus with blasting cord tentacles. We did not realize that the other Megadeus originated in the same incident. So you were piloting the Megadeus with the gun, but have no knowledge of where the Megadeus with the tentacles came from?>
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*He doesn't. He just books it until he can turn down a back alley.*

"Who said I was piloting a Megadeus? The one with the tentacles came from nowhere and started wrecking the place. As I said, I got the hell out of there and that's when I saw it."

[It's incredibly hard to lie to someone when they know everything already.]

OOC: You can do what you want with it, just as long as it isn't that sex change idea you had.

"Ah." Zell said a bit disappointed, "Well, I lasted this long without knowing the reason." She said with a weak smile.

Luna gets out her phone and calls her dad, telling him about the Megadeus, the remote and the suspect.

<Alright, honey, I'll be right there. I just have to phone this in to the Head Office.>
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T"You should just be glad that Lilith doesn't sneak into your room in the middle of the night, wrap her hands around your neck, & just stand there until you notice her & wake up."
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<And then what happened?>

*Topaz wakes up and turns on the TV.*

"That would be... odd." Zell said, a bit confused by the sudden change in subject, "Does she often do that?"