The Promised Land RPG - Midgar Mayhem

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-This section of The Promised Land is where the participants in the DZX Message Board's "Promised Land RPG" battle for either glorly, power, or survival. To recap on the actual storyline of the entire RPG you must go to The Promised Land RPG forum (link above) within the DZX Message Board (we advise having lots of freetime when reading, they're rather large posts).
-Here is simply where the actual battles themselves will be posted. These battles will obviously determine winners and losers in current conflicts within the RPG, and after every post an add on to the RPG's storyline is created based off of the winning fighter(s).

"Midgar Mayhem"

Sephiroth X vs. Bax - Midgar

�Let�s go,� Bax said simply as he slammed the ball of fire into the sword, which instantly ignited into an intense flame. And the battle was on.

Sephiroth X looked at the flaming Star Fighter sword in wonder for a moment as the sword seemed to burn constantly with no fuel source. But in that same moment of awe the sight of the flames themselves seemed to trigger X back into the memory of his dream and he once again focused on Bax. Both fighters stood in battle poses and Zack Strife grabbed his sword and kept himself safely from the upcoming action.

Sephiroth X was quickly the agressor as he swung the Masamune horizontally but Bax quickly blocked it with the Star Fighter. After the block Bax countered with a diagonal upwards slash to the right only to have Sephy X quickly block it in return. Then quickly in mirror images of each other both fighters swung their swords horizontally at eye level and the clashed fiercly mid-way sending sparks from the Masamune's blade and fire embers from the Star Fighters. Both Bax and X quickly took a step back and returned to their battle poses, both stood motionless for a moment as if complimenting each other on the quick stalemate.

Both swordsmen then steped forward and the swordfight continued. Bax went for a leg-level sword swipe but X jumped the attack and in mid-air attacked Bax with a vertical downwards slash which was blocked by Bax. Sephiroth X and Bax continued the attack and counter-attack routine for a few moments as Zack continued to look on, focusing on both fighter's styles and weaknesses. Suddenly from all the blurs of sword movements, Bax in an almost baseball style swing of the sword attacked Sephiroht X. X managed to block the thunderous attack, but the force of the attack and the angle which it was blocked at causes X to studder-step backwards a few feet leaving him unguarded to attack and also putting him out of attack range with the Masamune. X regained his footing and prepared to jump into the fight again. But just as he made ready to lunge at Bax, the Phoeniyan swung the Star Fighter causing a nice sized ember to come off the blade's flame. Bax quickly extended his had and then the ember seemed to stop in mid-air and didnt lose its flame for any moment. Then suddenly the ember's flame grew larger into the approximate size of a basketball right in front of Bax, and without hesitation Bax looked at X and the fireball shot directly at him nailing X in the chest causing him to fly backwards slamming into a brick wall and actually indenting himself an inch or two into the brick.

Bax thought to himself, That should slow him up pretty nicely... I didn't make the fireball powerfull enough to kill... just to stun.

Sephiroth X after slamming into the brick went down to one knee on the ground. He slowly looked up at Bax and slowly stood back up, the front portion of his clothing was slightly burnt from the fireball but nothing too bad what so ever. Sephiroth X assumed from the lack of burns that Bax didn't intend to kill X. Sephy X within himself also felt he couldn't kill his adversary, at least not today, he just needed to stop the current source of his problems.

Then X looked at Bax and saw a somewhat.. stunned... look on his face. Apparently Bax didn't expect X to stand up so quickly after the powerfull attack. Bax quickly swung his sword again, created another fireball from an ember and launched it at X. But this time X anticipated the attack and as the fireball came closer to X, X slashed upwards and sliced the fireball in half sending both halves landing on the ground around him. Sephiroth X quickly came back to his battle pose, never taking his eyes from Bax, and then X moved is sword slightly back and forth... in a "bring it" motion to Bax.

Bax saw the movement and understood its meaning, causing a slight from to come upon Bax's face. Bax charged in and attacked X, and X blocked and countered every attack. Bax also countered every one of X's counters, causing another flurry of sword clashes to occur with every clash creating a small flash that lit the small area of the alley the occupied. The dazzling sword display continued until Bax attempted a downwards slash at X which X quickly blocked. And when X blocked the attack he pushed upwards with mighty strength so that Bax's chest would be exposed, and when he forced Bax's arms upward enough he quickly spun around and connected with a solid kick to the chest of Bax sending Bax flying towards the opposite wall of the alley. Bax quickly got back up from the collision with the wall and the fiery look in his eyes intensified a little more. Bax held the Star Fighter single handed in his right hand and charged at Sephiroth X. He swung the Star Fighter at X and like he expected X blocked, and immediately following the block Bax's free left hand connected to the stomach of Sephiroth X. X wheezed and gasped for the air that was knocked out of his body from the thunderous punch as he went down to both knees onto the ground. Bax looked down at X and without hesitation Bax nailed X square in the chin with a rising knee attack. The attack itself had a powerfull amount of energy behind it, so much that it caused X to fly up twenty feet into the air. Bax felt this was his chance to put this fight away and quickly ran towards one of the alley walls and springboarded off of it upwards towards X, who was now beginning his decent back down.

Bax let out a battle cry as he prepared to lower his shoulder and drive it into Sephiroth X. But just as Bax was about to reach X, X played possum then spun in mid-air and connected with a spinning roundhouse directly into Bax's jaw. Bax quickly recovered and springboarded off another wall and prepared to attack X again. Sephiroth X springboarded off of the opposite wall and then both fighters met in mid air in a swords clash. The clash's force sent both fighters flying back towards the walls they just springboarded off of, and both leaped again and swung blades again. This time both fighters after the clash held their blades against each others as they began to decend back to the ground, Bax then quickly attempted a quick slash at X hoping to neutralize X before the ground impact. X saw the blade's flame come at him and then in mid air managed to lean backwards slightly and barely dodge the blade though the could easily feel the heat coming from it. And as Bax did his follow through X connected with a heavy rising knee knocking the wind out of Bax. X immediately after the knee then raised his right elbow and connected with a powerfull elbow smash to the back of Bax's head. X noticed they were about to slam into the ground, so as impact was imminent X grabbed the semi-unconcious Bax and held in between himself and the ground.

Then smack! Both X and Bax slammed into the concrete ground of the alley sending a large cloud of dust up into the air around them. A small half foot crater was left in the concrete where they landed. Sephiroth X, though slowly, was the first to reach his feet and Bax wasn't far behind. Sephiroth X though had the sharper reaction time of the two, since Bax was still groggy from the elbow to the back of the head. Neither fighter had time to grab their swords, so they had to resort to hand to hand combat. Bax threw a desperation right hook at Sephiroth X deflected away with his left forearm. Sephy X executed a sweep kick at Bax, which Bax cartwheeled over. As Bax solidified his footing again he went for a right uppercut which Sephiroth X sidestepped to his left. Bax followed through with the uppercut just as X sidestepped and within the sidestep motion Sephrioth X spun counterclockwise and connected with a spinning left kick to Bax's back sending Bax face first towards the ground. As Bax fell and X executed his kick's proper follow through, X in the follow through motion grabbed the Masamune from the ground next to him and prepared to use it. Then in one quick moment Bax hit the ground and quickly spun himself around and prepared to hop back up but just as he flipped over... the tip of the Masamune touched the side of Bax's neck as X stood above him ready to make the kill. Both fighters froze in that position as the dust cloud finally settled around them.

Zack Strife couldnt see any of the combat that occured within the small crater in the dust cloud, so seeing X seemingly victorious over Bax suddenly seemd quite amazing. Neither Bax or Sephiroth X moved from their positions, it was only a few seconds they stayed still but it felt like an eternity for both.

Then Sephiroth X finally spoke... "Your move...."

Bax saw the Star Fighter in his perephiral vision, but it was out of his reach. And Bax even knew that if X saw even a finger grasp that sword he would for sure be dead. Bax didn't understand it... he never sensed this much power within Sephiroth X before... X was an amazingly greater fighter then Bax ever thought.

Meanwhile Sephiroth X tried not to show that he was extremely winded from the fight. Though he couldn't summon up all of the power within him, he used everything he had within him currently to take down Bax. Sephiroth X was extremely amazed with Bax's art with the sword and use of the martial arts... hopefully Bax wouldn't stand in his way someday in the future.

After the silence, Bax managed to speak, "You... want answers.... I try give..."

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OOC: At this point the fight is over and Sephiroth X wins --- Now the ensuing storyline plays into effect.
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Just as Bax finished his words the roar of a helicopter thundered overhead and a single spotlight shinned down from the chopper directly on Zack, Bax, and Sephiroth X. Then a second chopper was visible at the top of the buildings above the alley, and then a third larger chopper was visible... all with spotlights shining down.

Six rope ladders came down from the air above, two from each chopper. And then armored soldiers holding large rifles slid down the ropes and began circling the three men. Sephy X knew that this wasn't good so he sheathed his sword and charged at the soldiers as they footed themselves on the ground. He kicked one soldier to the ground and punched down another. Behind him Zack helped up Bax and handed him the Star Fighter, and just as he did numerous soldiers surrounded Zack and Bax with their rifles at the ready.

Sephiroth X continued to take down a few more of the soldiers but then the numbers became too much for him and as he took down one more soldier, the butt of a rifle slammed into the back of X's head sending him down on the ground on one knee. The soldiers he took down staggered back up and along with some other soldiers they all surrounded Sephiroth X.

Meanwhile just as the soldiers surrounded Bax and Zack, Bax gripped the Star Fighter and his fiery sword lit back up again and he prepared to charge one of the mysterious soldiers. But just as he took a step towards one he felt some unbelieveably fierce pain hit him from behind... it felt cold... like ice... Bax managed to turn his head a little ways and saw one of the soldier's rifles had a small blue flame coming from the barrell, and Bax saw a blue-liquied filled dart impaled into his back.

"Cold..." Bax thought, "But how...?" And just as he thought those thoughts the fiery glow of his hair dwindled away and whatever cold liquid that dart injected into Bax took effect. Bax went down to both knee's struggling to stay concious as he saw a small group of other soliders handcuff and punch Zack. Then Bax looked over at the large group surrounding Sephiroth X.

Sephiroth X was on one knee rubbing the back of his head as he looked around at the mysterious armored clad people.

"Who the hell are you guys..?" Sephiroth X angrily asked.

Then a voice darted in from a dark intersecting alley, "We my friend, are The Senate."

A dark blue robed man walked out from the shadows of the alley. As he got closer X noticed him more distinctively. The blue robe was more of a kind of overcoat with gold trimming around it, the man himself walked very proudly with his arms crossed behind his back. X noticed a nice sized katana at the mans side. And as he slowly walked even closer he noticed that this man looked rather elderly, sporting a gray goatee with shoulder length white hair in a ponytail behind him. He obviously was the leader of these guys, the soldiers parted and bowed before the man like he was some kind of god. And when the man came about ten feet from Sephiroth X, who was still on one knee, he stopped.

Sephiroth X looked the man over once more, "And who in the blue hell are you..?"

The old man gave off a quick low chuckle then spoke again. X noticed he spoke with a slight accent in his speach,, "I, my friend, am The Senator."

X turned his head and spit out a small bit of blood from inside his mouth, "Well... thats original... the 'leader' of the Senate calls himself The Senator... But yeah... I know who the hell you are..."

The Senator looked past Sephiroth X and saw his soldiers securring Zack Strife and spoke once more, "Let the blonde one go... We tried to break him once and he didn't break... so lets not waste some more time with him... But, give him a nice beating for slipping out of Zion in the first place please." And with those words the group of soldiers dragged Zack towards the wall of a building and began punching at him and kicking him. Sephiroth X saw this happen and a feeling of hatred began to build within him. The Senator then looked at Bax who still strugged to stay concious, the fire was obviously out of Bax. And as The Senator saw this he smirked and laughed briefly.

"I must thank you for bringing us to this man Sephiroth X, after the ship crashed we knew he stumbled here to Midgar... but we didnt have the 'power' to follow him once he got into the city." The Senator said.

Sephiroth X looked at him in confusion, "You followed me? Wait... how do you know my name?"

The Senator laughed, "We are The Senate my friend... we know everything. Though I will admit finding anything on you my friend was extremely difficult."

"How did you know I was following Bax?" X asked.

"Ahh... Bax is the aliens name is it?" The Senator noted, "Oh... your question... well some of our scout troops spotted the crashing ship and we reached it just after you slaughtered those drifters who attempted to kill you. The original group of scouts followed you too Midgar and reported everything to the higher command. I sent a second group in to investigate, I even looked into it personally and we digged up information and even managed to view the last moments of the ship's security cameras. Thats how we found out what... Bax... looked like and discovered he's not one of this world. So then I instructed my troops to continue following you looking for not only you, but the alien as well."

"Well... him being an alien... I can see why you'd want him... but why me?" X asked.

"You, my little X, are a very talented individual... you are going to help us find something." The Senator answered.

"Find what...?" X responded.

"The Element of Prosperity..." The Senator slowly responded.

Sephiroth X laughed, "Thats all just a legend... The Element of Prosperity, Valley of the Promised, thats all just a buncha folklore and bullshit... I thought even you Senate fools knew that."

The Senator smirked, "Well do you know the 'legend' of The Apprentace?"

X smirked back, "Yeah I do, so what."

"You know that the legend tells that The Apprentace became The Senator?" The Senator asked as he slowly gripped his katana.

"Yeah..." Sephiroth X noticed The Senator slowly gripping his sword.

"Well, here I am... a living legend... Now as I said X, you will help us." The Senator said.

"You're too damn old to be the man in the legend, and your too damn old to even stand a chance against me!" And with that Sephiroth X quickly pulled the Masamune from its sheath and lunged at The Senator. But everything in that moment seemed to slow down for Bax, Sephiroth X, and everyone else as X saw The Senator quickly pull out his katana and easily sidestep Sephiroth X's attack in ungodly fast time. And just as X would have attacked, The Senator was already standing at X's right side... and X felt a painfull pierce hit him...

X heard The Senator whisper... "You really should believe in legends..."

The Senator's katana had pierced clear through Sephiroth X on the right side of the mid-section of his body. The pain was still extremelly unbareable but X knew the wound wasn't fatal. The Senator quickly pulled out his katana from Sephiroth X, and the silver haired X collapsed to the ground in pain. Bax was looking on the entire time and when he saw Sephiroth X easily fall, Bax let the cold feeling take over and finally slipped unconcious.

The Senator took a few steps past Sephiroth X and observed Bax and Zack and spoke out to his soldiers, "Take them... all of them." With those words the soldiers began putting restraints on both Bax and Sephiroth X.

One soldier asked though, "What about the blonde boy? Didn't you say we should leave him?"

The Senator laughed, "I changed my mind..."

Sephiroth X passed out from the pain of the wound while the soldiers were restraining him, and the soldiers then lifted him up and grabbed onto the rope ladder as it ascended back up to the helicopter. The other groups of soldiers did similar things with Bax and Zack as both of them were lifited up into one other helicopter. The Senator and one last soldier stood in the alley looking over the small carnage that occured during the fight between Sephiroth X and Bax.

"These two are extremely powerfull people aren't they." The Senator said.

"Yes they are." The soldier replied. "But will they actually help us get The Element?"

An evil look slowly came to The Senator's face, "I simply will not be denied what should have been mine so long ago... and with it The Senate will be a truly unstoppable force and we will rule all we see." The Senator looked up at the choppers and instructed his soldier to fly in the helicopter with Bax and Zack in it, "Tell the soldiers to take all three of them back to Zion and lock them up in the triple-max security section. You can put the alien and the boy in once cell... but leave the silver haired one alone... we have lots of interrogating for him."

The Senator then grabbed onto the rope ladder that led up to the third and largest helicopter. And moments later all three of them left, for Zion.