Jude stood in the middle of the war zone. He could barely see anything through the smog and dust flying around. He noticed some air crafts in the sky. "Help" he thought to himself. Jude stated sprinting towards the odd looking machine. A box fell down from the plane...he then saw that the air craft wasn't on his side. Tons of robots moved out of the box all with shot guns for hands. He was a bit taller than them but they still were horrifying. Jude started running the other way as fast as he could and jumped into a broken down house. There was no way he could protect himself at the moment. He went down the stairs into the basement. It smelled horrifying. Yet, it was the safest area he could be in at the moment.

Aizen was confused to the point of talking to Shiina, her imaginary friend, and that meant she was really confused. Aizen looked to Shiina, not even having to ask. He shrugged in reply and disappeared like he usually did when she wanted to think. She then turned back, barely seeing the small animal get blown to bit. She blinked a bit before turning and running, trying to find her way through the cloud of 'horrible-ness'. It was hard to breath or see in the smog and dust. She finally found a very broken down building, but she jumped in anyway in order to hide from the 'freaky' robots. Once she was in, she stomped on the ground furiously. "How dare they. First, I wake up in a white room and now I'm in a war zone! I don't even have the slightest idea besides that testing thing!" She had yelled slightly, but she didn't care. She was furious and there was no one else around.

Lili looked around in mild confusion, where the hell is she? This couldn't be a war zone, although the thick smoke and fallen plane said otherwise. Looking around, she tried to gather her bearings. Looking up at the sun, she tried to guess what time it was. Somewhere around the afternoon? Looking around, she started to creep around, but something caught her attention. A flash of white, already being high-strung, she ran as fast as she could to the nearest building. It looked very broken down, but she found a whole to crawl through. Going inside, she breathed heavily. It seemed like it lead to some underground tunnel. Covering her mouth, she looked around. It was to dark to travel in here, she could try to phase through a wall? Deciding it would take to much energy, she just fallowed where the tunnel lead her. Which would obviously take some time, who knows in a crazy place like this. She just wanted some fresh air.
Stopping to catch her breath, Lili listened carefully. A buzzing noise? Squinting her eyes, she watched as a small robot was in the tunnels. If she didn't move it'd see her soon! Gathering all her energy, she began to phase through the wall, just in time to pull herself on the other side before the robot saw her.

John's eyes watered, from the change of color from that white room, to this field. He couldn't see a thing until he saw a faint light a few dozen yards ahead of him, "Hey!" he yelled and waved his arms at the light. "Hey! Here, Here!" he yelled louder and jumped. At that moment he heard two very loud cracks, and a spark of light. A sudden pain erupted from John's shoulder and he was knocked from his feet. His heart was pounding, he had no idea where he was, and was probably in some war zone, if what that voice said was true. But what he was really worried about was his shoulder, as he glanced to it, all he could see was red and smoke. "I have to find..... someone," he rolled over to his stomach and saw some stairs ahead of him. He looked around him and sprinted from them as fast as he could.

Ashley's breath caught from the sudden change to the thick smog from the clean air of the white room. She heard a crack and a yell, and ducked down hard to the ground. She hadn't been hit. but someone else had. She saw the injured figure run for some stairs, and saw a robot aim again. With a sudden adrenaline rush, she sprinted towards the guy, and tackled him to the ground, avoiding the volley of bullets that would have shot him in the back. "Stay down!" she yelled, covering his ears, and slowly rising to her knees, taking a deep, hard breath of the smokey air. The smog cloyed and clogged up her lungs, but she needed the air. She pointed herself in the direction of three or four robots, and let out a high pitched scream, feeling her vocal chords vibrate at just the right frequency to produce sound waves powerful enough to rip through the small handful of robots that were within range. She uncovered the guy's ears, and helped him up to the stairs. "Move fast!" she yelled through the noise of gunfire. Her throat ached slightly. This air was NOT good for her...

As John was running, he stopped the blood flow to his shoulder, suddenly a figure tackled him to the ground. He flailed his arms trying to push away the person until her voice said "Stay down", he then realized she was trying to help him and stayed still. Then his ears were covered by her cold palms, and a high pitched scream went through the air, and even with his ears covered they ached, he squirmed as he covered his own ears as well. The girl got him up and yelled something he couldn't understand, there was still a ringing in his ears. But by barely reading her lips through the smoke, it must've been something like "Go fast!". He whipped around and moved to the stairs still covering his ears from the high pitched scream one of the robots things must have made.

Crystal her eyes slightly widened when they suddenly saw the change in enviroment. She was happy that she wasn't the type to show her suprise strongly if she did her lollipop which was stuck between her lips would have fallen. 'What have i gotten myself into?' she thought to herself. 'Well might as well try to stay alive.' She looked around her looking for anything she could use as sword....Nothing. 'I should probably go to the highest building that's here that way i can see what's the best place to hide and if there are any other normal people here.' she thought while looking at a robot which was coming closer to her. She took a glance at the rapier it was holding in it's hand. A grin appeared on her face "Hello,dear. Hand me the weapon for a moment,will you?" The moment she had finished her sentence the robot attacked. She easily dodged the attack and managed to get the rapier to fly into the air and landing into her hands. "You suck,no skill at all." With those words she beheaded the robot.

Claire shook her head around trying to get her bearings. How is any of this possible? She wondered to herself. There were robots everywhere and all the building were in ruins. She could smell the smoke rising off the buildings and feel the heat of a nearby fire. Claire slapped her face with both hands trying to wake herself up. It she was dreaming, that would do the trick. Everything remained the sae and Claire knew she was awake in this impossible world. A few robots stepped forward raising thier guns in her direction.

First things first. She thought bringing her foot up and slamming it into the ground. The earth broke under her feet and two boulders jetisoned out of the ground into the robots, destroying them instantly. Claire crouched and moved behind an old building for cover. She looked out over her surroundings trying to decide her next step.

Alex flinched, covering his eyes with his robe when he was teleported from the sterile, clean white room into the horrifying apocalyptic disaster. He slowly uncovered his eyes to see all of the destruction already beginning. He hid behind a pile of debris so he could think of what to do. He then heard a loud bang and shuddered. Horrified he asked himself quietly "What is this place!?!" Then, he discarded an orb from his pocket. He concentrated and five ghosts came out. "Do you guys have any idea what this place is?" He asked his most loyal ghosts. The ghosts silently conversed and then responded, "We have no knowledge of this place, or how to get out for that matter." They were all silent for a moment wondering how bad things would get from here on out. Beads of sweat were pouring down Alex's head. Than a loud scream rang out. Alex knew if he was closer than he was now it would have been even more ear piercing. "Okay, please quickly scan the terrain and report to me what you find. Hopefully I'll still be here," Alex said wondering if he really was going to still be behind the pile of debris by the time his friends got back. He couldn't afford to lose them, those ghosts were his most loyal friendly companions. The ghosts dispersed and Alex tried calming himself down.

After a few minutes only four ghosts came back...

The ghosts reverted to their more human-esque spirit forms. Alex's eyes began to tear up. "Where's every one else?" He asked pleadingly. "They didn't make it, they died protecting us from robots," Lily, his very first companion stated. She was a kind and carefree person. When her eyes swelled with tears it made Alex feel worse. Another ghost stepped forward "We can't let their sacrifice go in vain, we must survive at least for today," it was Ken, the second ghost who joined Alex. He was responsible and strict but still a kind person. "You're right Ken." Alex said. "So, what information have you gathered. "There are approximately 30 robots left un-destroyed. We also noticed three humans who could assist us, two of them are in a pair" Sadie, an intelligent and shy girl who was fourth to join the group. "I think we should team up with the two of them, and then meet up with the third! We'd be the best team ever!" Said Felix, an energetic up-beat kid who was third to join the group. "O-o-o-okay..." Alex said shakily trying to mask his fear. He had to have people to help them. He couldn't let any one else die.

So, the four ghosts led Alex past the robots and over to the two people. One was female, the other a male. The man had a gun wound on his shoulder. That wound would have to be treated properly or he could get an infection. Alex walked up to him with his hands up, his ghosts standing behind ready for a signal to attack, just in case. "He-hellooo" Alex said uncomfortably. "I-I would like to help you..." He said, waiting for a response.

Lili looked around the house in disgust, if it could even be called a house. She made a note not to -ever- go down to tunnels by herself. As she dusted her shorts off, she looked around. Weapon, weapon, weapon she repeated in her head, she probably would have a better chance outrunning them than anything really. Quietly, Lili crept out of the house. For now everything was clear, but it wouldn't stay like that for long. As she scanned the area for any movement, she felt a slight trembling in the earth, enough to make her fall. Looking around startled, she tried to trace where the shaking came from. Where was she supposed to go?! Couldn't they have given her a map or something? Than again, she thought sighing, why would they? Some sick man must be having a laugh at this.

If she were to pinch herself, would she wake up and see she was dreaming? No such luck. Gathering her senses, she headed out. The air thick and made it hard to breath, but her lungs were already crappy due to second-hand-smoking, so this she could at least deal with. As a gust of wind came on, she looked for any sign of human life. Watching as a woman, maybe older than her, run towards a safe building, she felt compelled to go after her. The more people the merrier.

John kept heading to the stairs until he heard some footsteps behind him, he looked slightly, but didn't really see anything through the smoke. A few moments later a shaky voice said "Hello", he flipped around and found a teenage boy. But once his eyes focused he saw much more. Behind him were some sort of ghostly beings, he yelled and jumped back, out of fear."What the!?" he tripped on his own feet as another bang went off, landing him on his back. "Who are you?!" he looked at the girl and boy, "Where are we!" he demanded an answer, things were getting stranger every moment. Sure he had a weird....ability, but this was beyond comprehension.

Adam was thoroughly confused.
One moment he was in a white room that smelled of metal and cleaning alcohol, and the next he was in a battlefield. Adam heard metallic clanking behind him, and he turned around in time to see a shotgun barrel from a robot arm being pointed at him. Through instinct, Adam managed to quickly bring his hand up, his palm facing the barrel which was about ten yards away before it fired. Adam imagined a stonewall between him and the shell from the shotgun, using his will power to project it in front of his hand. What happened next would probably boggle most minds. The pellets from the shell seemed to have struck something, bouncing away from Adam and sparking as the air in front of Adam's hand shimmered.
The Robot seemed to not care at all, simply raising it's other shotgun hand at the man in front of it. Adam brought his other hand back, clenched his fist and lunged towards the robot, punching out as hard as he could as he made another effort of will, and even though he was still a good 5 yards away, the robot acted a though it was struck by a moving car, flying back several yards, it's torso crushed inward.
Adam stared at the Robots corpse for a few seconds, then noticed more of them were on their way. He quickly looked at his surroundings for any bit of cover he could take refuge in, and thats when he spotted a random house a good distance away.
Adam gauged the distance between himself and the robots and decided as the rate they were moving he could create a lot of distance between himself and them if he sprinted the whole way.
And with that, he took off for the house.

Claire watched from her vantage point behind the building. She was having a hard time deciding what to do. There were still a good amount of robots out there and her last attack was making her feel a little weary. "Shouldn't have tried to move so much." She said cursing herself. She looked around again, she could have sworn she saw some other people here but maybe her mind was plating trick on her. Sh was about to duck into her hiding spot again when she spotted a younger girl heading towards her position. Claire took a step ut to meet her when another robot pushed its way into viewbehind the girl. It raised it's shotgun to fire. Claire sprang from her position and tackled the girl to the ground. She then clenched her hand taking hold of a large boulder not far from her and sent it crashing into the metal being. Claire pusd herself up off the girl. "I'm sorry are you okay?"

Lili watched in confusion as the woman moved, tackling her to the ground, she couldn't help but let out yell in shock. Watching as the woman sent a boulder crashing behind her, she watched as a robot was crushed behind her. She shouldn't have let that happen. Lili inwardly cursed getting up, she felt a little bad that she had to protect her. This wasn't a game obviously, and she had to be more careful. Because she only had one life, and there were tons of robots.

"I'm fine, no need to apologize," she said giving a small smile. "I'm Lili by the way. You?" She felt that there should be a fallow up question, like 'And do you know why we're here?' but that would be a bit odd because she got over her initial panic, right now she just wanted to find a place to hide and sleep.

"Do you know where we are?" Okay, not exactly the thing she wanted to say, but close enough.

Claire punched the ground creating a think stone wall between them and the direction the robots were in. She let out a pent up breathe. She was using up a lot of her energy and she didn't like it. She needed plan ahead more. She turned to Lili. "I'm Claire. I haven't a clue as to where we are. I woke up in a white room where some hologram told to fight or die and then I was here. Never seen this place before and I've traveled the world."

Claire looked out from behind the wall to her surroundings. She didn't see ant robots near or for that matter any othe people. She turned to Lili. "You haven't seen anyone else have you? Your the first person I've ran into."

Lili simply shrugged her shoulders, she could tell that the girl was using up a lot of energy, she desperately wanted to help, but right now there was nothing she could do. Smiling softly, she sat down on the dirt, a visible cut running up her thigh. It was crusted over though, but it still pained her.

"Sorry, but you're the first person I've meet too. I really wanted to know how we ended up here." sighing, she shrugged her shoulders. How she could stay so calm was beyond her, but it was obvious that they needed to find shelter. "We should find shelter, far away from those robots as possible. Kay? So," she scanned the area that was visible. There were many broken down houses and it seems like this place was once an suburban area. And with that in mind, she wondered if there was a broken down city. "We should be careful though, We don't want anyone fainting."

As she got up, she looked towards Claire. "We should find something to fight back with, as to not use your power so much. Sorry I can't help, I can only phase through things." As an example, she started to phase her hand through the thick stone wall.

Aizen stayed where she was for a bit, calming down. She then turned to the suddenly appearing Shiina with a depressed looked. "Shiina, I hate that you aren't real. Then you could actually help me with this place. Maybe..." Shiina quickly shook his head. "No. You aren't going to risk fainting again. Remember last time? You fainted and then it didn't work. Make something small that you can use to defend yourself before anything." Aizen sighed. "You're right." She then held out a hand and made the illusion of a sword that was of her own design, then concentrated and made it a physical object. She was panting slightly afterwards from the work, but quickly ran out of the building to find a safer spot as fast as she could. She met a robot right when she spotted two people, one older and one younger. She looked to the robot as it raised a shotgun and aimed it at her. She quickly ducked before it shot, charging low and spinning with her sword out. The sword clanged against the metal and she quickly created a huge boulder over it and jumped away. Making the boulder real, it fell and crushed the robot beneath it. She then stepped around the boulder, swaying a bit as she searched for a new place, forgetting about the others she had seen. I really need to work on my stamina, don't I?

Clairs nodded to Lili. "I won't need a weapon but you should have one. Something hard but light would work best." She put her hand to the ground and and let her senses search the earth for abnormalities. Everything seemed normal at first but she found what she was looking for within a few minutes. She pushed her hand forward and a lead pipe pushedits way out of the ground. It had most likely been used in the water system bu since that was no longr running she didn't feel bad about it. Claire pulled the pipe out of the ground and handed it to Lili. "Here you can use this and don't worry about me, I'm an expert martial artist so I can fight without any weapon. In fact, I perfer it. Now let's get moving."

She stepped out from behind he wall she had made but stopped when saw something out of the corner of her eye. She saw another girl not to far away who had just used a boulder to destroy a robot. Could there be another earth mover like me here? She wondered. She waved to Lili to follow her and quickly made her way over to the girl who looked like she was going to callapse. Claire hid behind some rubble for cover and tried to catch the girl's attention. "Hey! Over here!" She said in a lower voice.

Adam was surprised when he made it to the house and found that it was the beginning of a suburban area. What surprised him even more was when he saw three figures moving with much more grace than the robots, and one was trying to get the attention of the single figure, who seemed to be stumbling. Adam was about to call out to them when as he neared the house there was a loud blast followed by a ripping sensation in his right leg. Adam went down hard, his leg throbbing, and when the rolled over to look at it, he saw that his pant leg had been ripped open and his leg was bleeding. He didn't have to look for the source, standing just 10 yards away was a robot he had failed to see to his right side. It raised it's other shotgun-arm, but before it could fire, Adam fought through the gnawing pain and erected a barrier in front of his supine form. Just like his first encounter, there was a blast from the barrel, followed by sparks and shimmering air, then Adam opened his left hand, aimed it at the robot and made a squeezing motion with his hand, grunting as he threw his will into it. There was a terrible metallic shrieking noise, and then the noise amplified as the robot's body began to collapse in on it's self, and invisible telekinetic hand crushing the life from it's shell.
The Robot, now a misshapen hulk, collapsed to the ground. Adam struggled to his feet, trying to keep his weight off of his injured leg.
"Hey!", he yelled at the three figures (Aizen, Clair and Lili, in case there is any confusion XD ) "Over here!", he continued as he limped towards them, hoping they would hear him.

Lili watched as Clair tryed to get the attention of another person, thank god they found someone. Till a deafening blast reached her ears, looking across a the street, she watched a man go down. Watching as the man seemed to do something, forming a barrier, she watched in awe as he took out the robot as if it was nothing. Not the time to just watch there dumbstruck, she thought running over. "I'll be right back," she yelled to Claire. As she knelt down to inspect the wound, the blood slightly fazing her. She bit her lip.

There were a few classes she took if someone got hurt, it showed how to treat a bullet wound, but the best she could do was try and stop the bleeding. Focusing all her energy into her hand, she started to aim for the bullet in his leg. It seemed a bit rude to invade a person without even knowing their name, but this wasn't the time to be polite. Moving quickly, she grabbed the shining metal and made it so it would phase out also. She used to do this all the time if she got a bad splinter. As the bullet was finally disloged, she gave a wavering smile.

"Sorry if it felt weird or hurt. The best I can do is stop the bleeding now," ripping off a part of her long sleeved shirt, she tied it tight against the wound. "What's your name? I'm Lili."

It was the metallic shriek that Craig heard first. Although he couldn't see it, he could hear the fierce battle winding down. The robots had chased him -boy had they- all across this 'warzone'. They had shot at him, and they had definitely hit him, he could still feel the heat of the strange guns all over his back, but of course that felt good to him. The heat had made him feel good, the heat made him good..
He had fought back, even managed to get a few of them. All he had to do was think of was a giant fireball and hey presto... they were suddenly engulfed.

That much was easy, but it was that smaller, faster robot that really got him. He just couldn't hit it. He tried, he really did. He shot stream after stream of molten fire at it, but no matter what, it ducked and weaved it's way out of danger. So he ran. He ran faster than before, he was desperate.
That was when the building got hit. It got hit hard.
He was running through the streets, it looked suburban, but that didn't matter the littlest bit. He ran across what might have once been a lawn, but was now nothing but charred earth and a rusty old swing set.
He ducked out of the way of a large blast that probably could have torn his shoulder off, but then it was the second blast that messed the whole situation up. It hit the house, spot on. All he heard was an extremely loud blast, and the next thing he knew there were bricks and huge chunks of timber flying at him. He got hit by one piece, and immediately tried to erect a fire shield around him, and it lasted, but not long enough.

Now he was awake, and he was sure he must be under a hell load of rubble. There were voices, none that he recognised, but voices all the same, he could hear a woman, a name that he didn't quite catch, sounded like Claire? With all the power left in him, he expelled as much heat as he could, burning away the wood, dislodging the bricks, and before he knew it he could see the sky.
He tried to stand, but the pain in his left leg was too fierce, so he crawled toward a woman, but there were another two.
"Than you god" he muttered under his breath, and he only just managed to rasp "Hey" to the woman with dark hair, who he guessed must have been Claire..

"Who are you?" Ashley heard the guy ask. When they almost ran into a guy leading a few... were those real ghosts?! She rubbed her still slightly sore throat, and swallowed once. "I'm Ashley. If your ears are ringing, I'm sorry. I had to act fast. And you are?" she looked at the ghost boy and the boy she had, let's face it, rescued. They seemed to have found a fairly safe place, but she doubted that would last. Suddenly she heard a loud blast, and timber and rubble were flying around, a fairly large chunk headed towards the ghost boy. Without even thinking about it, she let out a sonic shriek that smashed the rubble chunk to dust that settled on the trio. It was an aimed shot, so she didn't need to cover her ears. It wasn't like the wave she had used earlier, it was more concentrated, like a gunshot. it was still loud, though.

John let out a heavy breath as he stood up straight, "Oh yeah.... thank you about that....l earlier anyway," he said to Ashley. He didn't want to really admit it, but he could have been seriously injured, not for her. But his eyes were a bit more focused on the boy with..... well ghosts. It was getting creepier every moment he stood there. There were actual ghosts, that he already looked over four times. That's when a loud blast sounded, which had caught his attention. He looked over to the blast and saw a large chunk of wood heading towards them. It wasn't heading anywhere that could damage John seriously, but by instinct he hopped away from it. But as he was in mid air, he heard another loud sound. It made him stumble when he landed and his head hit something hard, like stone.

Alex

Eyes were on Alex... it was hard enough to talk to living people, but having their eyes on you just made it so much worse. They stared at him as if he was a freak. What if that was true? No, he couldn't think about himself at the moment he had to take action. When he finally snapped out of his deep trance a large chunk of timber and rubble was crashing towards Alex. A large scream rang out saving him just in time. He ducked to the ground and covered his ears while his ghosts protected him. When everything was done Alex's ears were ringing. "Tha-thank you for saving me!" He said happily. 'Why would some body actually care about him enough to save him?' He thought. "I'm sorry if you asked what my name was before but I'm Alex, and-and don't worry these ghosts are friendly," Alex stated sheepishly. Then he noticed that the boy had hit his head on a stone. He rushed over asking if he was okay reluctantly. He couldn't tell if he was going to have a concussion or not but his ghosts were standing by in case their assistance was needed.

Jude

Jude was stuck in the basement reading his tarot cards to try and get some insight on how to survive through this war. Things were very hazy in this region for some reason. It was most likely because he was panicking and couldn't formulate a plan. Small pieces of debris occasionally fell to the floor. The quantity and quality of debris progressed. Jude could hear loud bangs coming from the outside but he decided to ignore it. However, after what seemed like hours the whole ceiling came down. There were three robots surrounding him. They had been trying to get to him for a while. Dust was spreading everywhere so he used that to his advantage and started running. He found a flare gun, the basement must have been a bunker. He shot one of them with a flare and started running. It looked as though the flare did good damage so he shot the robot with another and it was on the ground. He only had one left so he ran up the stairs. Just as he got outside he was shot in the leg. In desperation he shot another flare, he remembered the card saying something about people coming to rescue him...he hoped it was right.

One of the figures saw him and broke away from the other, sprinting towards his injured form. As the person got closer, Adam saw it was a female, and was caught off guard when he noticed she was a young woman, a girl really, probably younger than 18. She immediately tended to his wound, taking more interest in helping him than worrying about any danger a total stranger might prove to be, and that warmed Adam's usually cold heart. she reached down and touched the bullet in Adam's flesh, causing the wound to burn, then the pain was followed by a weird vibrating sensation, the nothing. Adam noticed with shock that the round was gone from the wound, then the girl tore off a long piece from her shirt and bound the wound tightly to staunch the bleeding.

"Sorry if it felt weird or hurt. The best I can do is stop the bleeding now,", she said giving him a slight smile."What's your name? I'm Lili."

"Adam, Adam Fletcher", he responded. "How did you do that?", he asked, still staring at the place where the bullet had been.