Long, I hope I can do more looking for survivors out here. If I can find them, I can stabilize them until someone else can evac them. As I find them, I will try to gather them in any shelters I can find so the rest of you can take them to safety.
Thanks.

Samhra I'll send you a gate, you need to save your power for healing. You and Singularity are an easy pinpoint. Look five meteres in front of you..now..

zzzztttt.

Thanks, Long.

Broken. They are all broken.
Offensive cognitive disruption intended for localized Baselines has been liberally deployed by an unknown assailant. The Others were not adequately protected. Failure. Empty. Alone.
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Gentlemen, I got lost in the confusion... Was that the last port or is there still one more in ya? Had to pin down some hostiles to clear you guys. If not I am on the move. Actually, I had to max-out just to get clear of the city. I'm about... 25 miles out roughly. I wasn't counting markers as I flew at about oh... Mach 1. Or somewhere close to it, I don't remember hearing a sonic boom.

I need a doctor over here right fucking now, 'cause when I drop this guy with the antennae out of stasis, he's gonna start squirting that blue shit like a damned fountain again.

Jesus Christ!

I fucking well hope that chitin's like skin...

So do I. You ready? I'm dropping the stasis on three....1....2....3!

FUCKING HELL!

I suppose a Quantum Fountain joke would be in very bad taste at the moment...?

Whaddyaknow? It is just like skin and flesh!

Get the bleeding over here. I can handle flesh wounds.

ok everyone it's time to vacate. The bodies have slowed to a trickle. It's time to move on. I'm getting something on the military bands.....

EVERYONE INTO THE GATE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C'mon people, get everyone through. Don't give me that look, Long; I'm here until I see your furry ass starting to go through the portal with me.

Frank, let's go!

ffffttttt.

Why are any of you wasting time transmitting this stuff? Just tell us about it when it's over. For crying out loud, we don't need real time updates on where you are and what you're doing!!! Stop taking the time to send transmissions and just do what you went there for!

A lot of us are using open voicelinks, V; saves us time. That it dumps into the OpNet is just gravy. That said, I don't see you over here doing anything remotely useful, so you can bite my starry ass.

O_O;

Guys, I hope you're bailing, I'm picking up on an energy spike 45 degrees up from my location.

Holy crap.... Gods... All this maxing out just gotta not be good for my health, I think I might need to again. Sorry I missed the train, but I think my usefulness is gone.

...Wait, that sort of electromagnetic radiation could only be for a... *data loss... re-establishing signal in 30 minutes*

C'mon, Long; we're outta here RIGHT NOW!

OK, we're all through; what the hell was that back there? And for that matter, where the hell are we, Long?

V, shut the fuck up. You weren't there. It's hell on earth.

Fucking stupid morons. I have a sinking feeling about where all of this will lead.

... ignal back?

Someone just hit us with a pocket superweapon - origin was out of my range, so probably orbital or suborbital. Definitely not something carried into the fight.

I'm smelling depleted uranium, and the heat and electromagnetic signatures suggest some kind of particle accelerator or ... wait ... zzkt

Aaahhhh .....

Good. Works as advertised.

It has been used again. This is not the Spanish Military, people. If authorization for the use of any artillery, much less something on this scale, the people I am with would have been informed.

Whatever was used, it shook up the position I am at, and I am over a kilometer away. Everyone, get out of there.

My last portal has taken us to about 10 kilometers outside of Ibiza. Take care of things here, I've got something I need to take care of.

Preston I'm back in Ibiza, do you need assistance getting your people out?

No thank you, Long. I will stay as long as the Spanish government wants me here. The military needs my assistance right now to hold the line along the barricades. Come daylight, I hope to go back to being a policeman again, and finding out how all this started and everyone who is responsible.

I'm going in to find Endeavor among others. This has to end soon, before nothing is left.

Yes, it has been used again.

Definitely some kind of rail gun, and - Doc Aeon - I'll remind you that building and using weapons of mass destruction is something frowned upon in polite society.

Endeavor, if you can hear me, I'm about ten seconds away from beginning a series which should effectively fry all active electronics within two to three kilometers of the last impact site.

Get clear if you're within range, or shut down anything you have on you for at least 60 seconds. Same for anyone else with necessary electronics. I think I saw someone painting targets before the second strike, and it's possible that the orbital platform can't function without a ground man.

Shutting off audio now.

Don't assume. You don't know if I was there or not.

Long, I'm alright. I just got probably the best look at the finger of god. The superheated plasma caused by the weapon must have put off an EMP pulse, so my tech went into auto-shutdown to protect it's unhardened perpherials.

I'm 25 miles out, with Ibiza on the horizon...

My god... what sort of terror was unleashed?

I gave you a transponder for when Conduit would be found and we could save him, I can access the channel right now so you can find me, but like hell I want to get anywhere close to whoever is calling down that... that... monsterous power unto the planet.

V, you may not want to come now... not when the Humans just found a way to level the playing field. The pawn has become queen, and the king shall lose his crown.

I got it on tape. I got it... what the fuck?


Aw shi...zzzzzzztzz

Well not a nuke I guess.. The humans have got something a bit more surgical, good for them. I just hope they where aiming at the right target.

Oh ... zzzzzzzzzzzzz .... ease ...........

Okay ..... got a signal. Ugly, god-da.....

Thanks for the warning, but all sorts of electronic systems around here just went haywire. Water and eletricity .... bad.

Ah, Alex? You do realize there are government helos flying about the area, right?

I'm leaving again, there's nothing left for me to do if anyone needs a lift out of here contact me.

Flying over the souther half of the city... I have confirmed 4 novas in battle.. make that two... Raja.. Hideki.. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! *sound of sonic boom* zzzzzztzttzzz

On it. TimeSlip, will rendezvous.

Oh god...oh god...Jager, he just saw his son die!

OK, he's back in control, and on his way back; portal should be popping up here in a sec....

...holy shit! Jager, grab the bodies he's carrying; I'm putting him in stasis until Samhra is ready to pull that yard-long piece of metal out of him and heal him up.

Son of a....

Okay, if there is any data divers in the OpNet com-region 102.225.346.185.33, reroute all communications through node #445486. We need to keep all humanitarian and medical aid transmissions going as best we can. We've lost too many OpNet servers, so I'm routing some communications through a portable I brought along.

Use communication protocols that use as little of bandwidth as possible. No vid files, just text or low-res sound streams. My backpack set can't do everything... at least this model...

Dammit... Someone tell N!'s opnet division to stop taking up emergency channels with video feeds! Son of a #@#43@6# *data overflow...*

I've just wiped one of the channels for you and the others, Sakurako. Timeslip, hold Long for a moment longer if you can. I'm gathering juice again.

Timeslip, let him go. I'm yanking the metal out, healing him and then dominating him so he can warp us to a safe place *I* know about.

GRAAAAAAAAOOOOOOAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

I'm alright..just out of power... need power to jump us all. Where do you want to go? just show me in my mind.. defenses are down...

[encrypted coordinates]

Take us there.

Franklin, I *know* it's our home, but it's also the safest place I can think of now...