Location: ancient grove of Judge Xinos, top of the golden spire, depth 23
[Xinos, corrupted by the chaos, started to lashing out at Elzilia with his tree branches, Ezilia moves out of the way and cuts off the branches that got too close. Xinos ambushes Elzilia with his roots trusteed out of the water, the sharp extension of the root pierced through Elzilia’s chest, Elzilia endures the pain and cuts off the root extension before it could fully impale her. The bio steel closes the gaping hole but not without great difficulties.]

Elzilia: *cuts away the branches of Xinos that are trying to attack her* “Damn! I can’t get close to this wooden bastard without getting turned to Swiss cheese!” *calls Ursulan* “Manus! I can do with some air support right about now!”

Ursulan: *starts up the chain guns* “Reaper! Move out of the way!”

Elzilia: *dives into the grove’s water* “Do it!”

[Ursulan fires off the last four thousands rounds of .998 cartridges in the ship magazine, the fire lasted about twenty seconds and Xinos is badly damaged by the high powered bullets. But Xino isn’t just any tree, he retaliates by shouting furiously at Ursulan’s ‘ravager’ gun ship, his magical breath somehow eroded Ursulan’s gun ship and the wings started to crumble, Ursulan makes a last ditch effort and crash lands inside the golden spire. He ejects out of gun ship before Xinos can smash it into dust with one of his root.]

Ursulan: *takes out his pistol* “Sorry about that Elzilia… Oh geez!” *dodges a swipe from Xinos’s branch* “Damn, this tree isn’t going to die so easily! Elzilia, I think you should set off the thermite explosives…”

Judge Xinos: “You are threatening to destroy the spire?! Blasphemy! You will all be judged by me! Xinos, my will is the only thing that can spare you from your perish to the underworld!”

Elzilia: “Sorry grandpa, but we are too old for fairy tales like that!” *looks at Ursulan and grins back at Xinos* “Keep your religious non sense for someone else!”

Judge Xinos: “So you have both denied the blessing of the paradise, then don’t be offended, when I send both of you straight to HELL!” *the leaves on his head rustled as Xinos starts to un burrow from the ancient water*

Elzilia: *looks at Ursulan* “I think it’s time we blow this party!” *takes out a remote detonator for the explosives* “Bye Bye grandpa!” *clicks, nothing happens* “What?”

Ursulan: *panics* “Don’t tell me it is not working…”

Judge Xinos: *laughs* “HAH! Insolents! Sinners shall never succeed in this sacred ground! I shall spare no mercy!” *grows taller, the tree branches elongates as a result* “I WILL CRUSH YOU!”

Elzilia and Ursulan: *narrowly dodges the thick tree branch* “Damn!”

Judge Xinos: “Father Paradise created you from the ashes, it is now my duty to undo his error…” *opens up his mouth, a powerful magic storm rushes out of his throat*

Ursulan: *gets caught in the storm* “ARGH!”

Elzilia: “Ursulan!”

[Elzilia witnessed her college been shrink away by the storm, Ursulan’s body disappeared and his pilot suit falls lifelessly into the water, but suddenly, she hears the cry of an infant from where she last saw Ursulan, she quickly picks up the pilot suit from the water and discovers an infant snugged inside the pilot suit. Whose appearance and composure looked exactly like Ursulan.]

Elzilia: *stares at the baby* “Ursulan?”

Ursulan: *who is now a baby* “…Mama?”

The rage had been building up for this moment, years had he been trying to find her and no one was going to stop him. The now decaying disguise might last him until he managed to get to the elevators, maybe. But his dark aura surrounded him now, linked with his emotions. It whispered a thousand ways to kill his Queen, each more appealing then the last. As he trudged through the streets, soldiers actually stopped fighting and watch him beckon towards the elevators. Marsh screamed

"GWENEVRE, I WILL FIND YOU"

His blood boiled, the spirits flaired. Vog have mercy on any who stand in his way, spiral or morai.

Cicero sighs, too tired to argue and crashes down on the cot in full battle-plate.

Xindao stopped. That voice...that was Gwen. How had she~she was back. No, it is him who is back, not her. He stands, and reaches a hand up for help out of the elevator. "It's.....yeah, we've met...but..." Xindao stammered, unable to form a complete sentence. "It's not the person you think it is.....I was.....we can catch up later...could I get out of this elevator, please?" His gold tattoos shimmer brighter in her presence.

With a heavy mute sigh Blesse lowered her arms as she turned heading to her former post behind the console. Well this is grand, I burn some people and now I get to sit behind a computer all day doing nothing more then twiddle my thumbs again. In her mute rage the red dots onher face place shifted back to blue as she marched on back to the hall. Feeling less and less their as time went on. Might as well keep going with my search for the murder.

Jaxter adjusted his coat when the elevator stopped back at Haven, trying to take his mind off the fact he just killed one of his fellow compatriots. But he knew it had been for the best.

'It was him or me,' He thought. 'And after a lifetime of criminal activity, you establish who's more important.'

He plastered a sly, fake grin on his face, and drank from his bottle. It cheered him up a bit. Then he activated his com link.

"This is Jaxter, I'm back at the Arcade. Where are you guys?"

Jaxter feels a hand clap down on his mouth, and Cicero tries to wrestle him to the ground.

"Try to murder me, why don't you!?" He says venomously, launching a savage knee aimed at the back of Jaxter's head.

"Aghhh...F*** you!" Jaxter shoves the barrel of his gun hard into Cicero's stomach and fires several times. Jaxter grits his teeth through the pain of Cicero's knee meeting his temple. He smashes his bottle into the ground and makes a very sharp makeshift knife.

Jaxter wrestles himself free and aims the gun and bottle at Cicero.

"Don't get any closer."

Cicero draws his own gun, and points it to the building behind him.

"Alright, alright." He says, keeping the gun trained at the building behind him. He pulls the trigger on it, hitting some scaffolding. The building materials fall and he flings himself clear and they fall on Jaxter, pinning him to the ground. Cicero slowly walks up, drawing his sword and kicking Jaxter's gun away.

A ticking sound echoes around Jaxter. A wad of goo, plastic explosive was strapped to his leg. And about to go off... Cicero must have slapped it there in all the commotion.

Cicero groaned on the elevator, and flipped Jaxter off. He laughed to himself, then hauled himself to the terminal. He was at depth 2 already. He shoots the engine, and it grinds to a halt. He hauls himself into the crevice that Gwen had shown him, then walks to the room. He shoves open the door, and closes it. He sits on the cot, and begins to bandage his wounds.

Jaxter was flung back, heat and electricity coursing through his leg. It felt as if a burning wolves was tearing up his leg. He slammed into a wall, in severe pain. When he opened his eyes, he was horrified to see that he no longer had a right leg.

"Oh f****** scrap!" He screamed. Jaxter grimaced and reached for his com link as he crawled back outside, propping himself against the wall.

"This is Jaxter...I'm...heavily w-wounded...get to the Arc-cade...need help immediately..." Jaxter coughed up blood, and swore.

'If Cicero survives, this time I'll make sure I deliver the killing shot...' He planned.

"This is Jaxter, I'm back at the Arcade. Where are you guys?"
Finally, After several hours of silence, Renao was able to do something productive.
"Renao here, I'm at the Lab. Is something up?" Renao said, Hoping that she could do something helpful, Instead of being shoved into the lab like a mental patient. Renao waited for an answer, But the only thing coming from the com-link was static.
Renao looked at her surroundings once more. All of the few Excess Battle Sprites were held in this room, So that the Morai wouldn't gain access to their technology, The doors were barred with crates and other things, To keep them out- Minus a small window for the rest of the Order to communicate through, Despite having Com-links.

A bit more silence... and then her Com-Link jumped alive- "This is Jaxter...I'm...heavily w-wounded...get to the Arc-cade...need help immediately..."
Renao swore under her breath, and replied "On my way Sir!"
Not too soon after, The Roof windows crashed open, Glass cutting unwary knights, Scattering their defenses. Renao however was lucky enough to have already been moving to the roof windows, She aimed at the oncoming Morai, But this time, No longer in her bloodthirsty rage, She shot them weaponless, And let them live after knocking them out. One of the Battle Sprites got loose in the commotion, And started following Renao in the chase to get to Jaxter.
It looked like a Mini Tortodrone.

When Renao got to the Arcade, She could see the bloodstained ground, And a mark that an explosion had left.
Following the dark crimson splotches, She eventually found Jaxter, Lying on the ground.

A bloodied forehead covered his face, And his leg was mangled beyond comprehension.
Renao got right to work, Without even asking what happened- She couldn't waste time. She cleaned out the blood with water and sterilized the massive wound before in case it was or would get infected, Then wrapped up the leg as well as she could with bandages and other cloth, Tying off several knots.
Renao picked up Jaxter, And Luke caught up with her, Handing her a Health Capsule and asked "Here! What happened?"
"I don't know, I just found him like this- He couldn't even say anything!" Renao said, Stuffing the Health Capsule down Jaxter's mouth, And handed him some water, Yet still running.
When she got there, She immediately asked the technicians for a replacement leg for Jaxter.
While waiting with Jaxter and Luke, Renao asked the cliched question "So, Care to explain?" Renao said Imposingly, Staring straight on at Jaxter, Despite her inability to see.

*FIZZLEFIZZLEFIZZLE*

Jaxter found himself being carried by Renao, his leg feeling better than it was before. He chuckled internally.

'Cute girl for a leg? Maybe this day isn't so bad...aghhh...' Jaxter joked with himself. 'But off to slandering Cicero.'

"Ah...I see you've been playing doctor again, Renao." He said. "My thanks, but we need to talk about Cicero. He's gone mad. Ever since he went down with Gwen, he's become crazy. Cicero's a maniac, and we should all watch out for him. He tried to kill me and blew my...leg off."

He paused for dramatic effect.

'Ah, wait, she can see that...' He remarked to himself.

"Also...Gwen is the Valkyrie Queen."

"Renao, you have to block the elevator to Firestorm Citadel..." Jaxter coughed. "He went down there hoping he would bring Vanaduke back in some mad frenzy. If he comes back, there's no telling what he could do..."

Jaxter smiled underneath that facade of pain.

Having heard everything that went down, mostly because of the fact Blesse did not have time to leave the Arcade she just turned and watched every thing between Cicero and Jaxter. Shaking her head she just watched. They where out of her Ten yard range, but still with in range of her Flame Unit, it was sure to be death should it hit anyway.

Well this is a fine sitution, one side claims murder on the other side. Still its funny to watch slightly but at the same time I feel sad for these three. Killing anyone will only weaken us but it seems Cicero has lost his mind, best to take him to a medical holding cell. With that said Blesse slowly walked to the three getting them all well with in her ten yards.

Jaxter was astonished by how easily she picked apart his story. But he kept on a straight face, and retorted in anger.

"Cicero was a mad dog, and he tried to kill me, you can ask Sono and Blesse. He brought his knee to my head and I had no choice but to retaliate." He lied. "Furthermore, Gwen was a killer. She murdered those knights, committed genocide even. I heard Cicero screaming it madly when he found out Gwen was the Queen, and did all the terrible things knights said she did. Now, tell me again, HOW AM I AT FAULT?!"

Even the Devil himself would be impressed with the authenticity of that lie. Mainly because some of it was truth.

Jaxter smiled a tired, bloody smile, and was both impressed and a bit scared.

'Wow...that was...smooth.' He thought to himself.

"You sly dog..." Jaxter muttered. "Fine. Do what you will. And I'd appreciate it if you didn't kill me." He joked at the end. Then he sighed.

EDIT:

"Cicero? He's trying to make you feel that I'm the attacker here." He said as the message crackled in his com. "Don't. He's crazy, remember? And I'm the one with the missing limb."

The man and Xindao rest after the close fiasco. "Thank you..." Xindao breathes, "no one seems to be capable of helping out, apparently. Maybe that's why I'm to stay here." Xindao turned to Gwen, and lifted his head to face her direction. "We have met, and I'm sorry we have. Especially during a volatile time in my existence...but this body has been recycled when the host wanted to leave to become stronger. He gave it to me, the Highblood, since I was the only one at the time who could recycle biological components at the time." He coughs black blood into his fist, out of the panic he had suffered. "There is only one other that I joined with into this body, and they shall remain nameless..."

He asks, "What is your name, stranger introduced to me?"

[Meanwhile, outside the spire, Affraiel and Midnight became increasingly worried. No reports from either Elzilia or Ursulan for almost an hour. They can hear monstrous roar from the top of the spire, but have no idea what is going on.]

Affraiel: *sighs* “Tch, what is Elzzy doing up there?”

Midnight: *looks into the binocular* “Sorry, Mister Affraiel, I can’t see through the thick cloud with this…”

Affraiel: “You think you can fly over there and help?”

Midnight: *shook his head* “Sorry, Mister Affraiel but my wing is pretty badly damaged by Miss Elzilia when she attacked me…”

Affraiel: *sneers* “Wonderful… who knows what is up there…” *suddenly his radio rings* “Eden snake here, who is this?”

Elzilia: *with Judge Xinos moaning in the back ground* “Hey, I need you to set off the thermite charges remotely! My detonator is busted!”

Judge Xinos: *yelling in the back ground* “Tremble before me woman! Your friend has already turned into an infant, my next attack will erase him out of existence!”

Elzilia: *yells back at Xinos* “Quit bluffing tree man!” *turns back the radio* “Eden snake, this is reaper, set off those charges with your rifle, now! If we can collapse the spire, we can take Xinos down with it!”

Affraiel: “Then what about you and Ursulan?!”

Elzilia: “I have escaped death more than once, I can manage! Reaper out!” *hangs off*

OOC: Renao did a roundabout way of giving Jaxter help. Be thankful.

Jaxter hefted the leg in his hand. It was light, but thick and sturdy enough to be real. It had a cloth sole, so it would also be quiet.

"I guess I have to than you then." He said. "So...how is this going to work...do you just shove it into the wound or..."

He sighed.

'I haven't been in a scrape like this since I lost that bet with Arkus...' He reflected.

"Renao, listen." Jaxter said, turning on his snake tongue again. "You have to believe me. Cicero attacked first and he's the true villain here. I may be a thief, but you're an assassin. You know when you see a killer, don't you? If I'm lying, do you think I'd go to such extremes as to blow my leg off?! Cicero is dangerous. We need to stay away from him."

Sono pointed towards the Garrison. "I think they went over that way." Remembering Xindao was blind, "Oh right, sorry. Can you walk, Mister Xindao?"

"And who would those people be, Ms. Assassin?" Jaxter said, snapping on the prosthetic. It swung like a finely oiled scuttlebot, and it felt like he still had both legs.

"I'm sure you can get rid of those loose ends." He put both guns in his holster and adjusted his Chapeau. He tried to drink from his bottle but found it was empty, due to him shattering it from his fight with Cicero.

"Awww..." He threw the bottle in the waste bin beside him.

"Fine. Where is it you plan to have this talk?"