Roleplay:Resurgence

Plot
For 50 years, the Northern Kingdom of the Merbian people has suffered under the iron fist of Aegaeon the Shark, and the Southern Kingdom is in the process of falling to him as well.

Above the surface, life goes on as normal, until the discovery of a partial skeleton marks the scientific find of a lifetime; the Merbians, long thought to be a myth by the land-dwellers, may in fact be real. The skeleton is taken in by G.U.N scientists to be studied.

The discovery of the skeleton marks the start of something much, much worse for the people above the waves, however...

Users Involved

 * Ryushusupercat
 * Tails6000
 * PuellaMagi Nudge Magica
 * SupeSonicWind2000
 * Frozen Scorpio
 * TheDarkMantis15
 * Monk the Cat
 * NikkieJay
 * Frost the Wolf

Heroes
Those who want to defeat Aegaeon and free the Merbian people!
 * Merbians (played by Ryu and others w/ permission)
 * Atreus the Mer-Otter (Ryu; becomes a pretty important character as the RP progresses)
 * Tiamat (Ryu)
 * Slayer the Wolf (Played by Tails)
 * Maragi the Wolf (played by Tails)
 * El-Dor the Fish (Monk)
 * Hunter the Griffon (Monk)
 * Whirlwind the Hedgehog (Supe)

Neutral

 * G.U.N (Anyone)
 * G.U.N. Commander (Supe)
 * Haruhi Kazuro (Nudge)
 * Nore the Ox
 * Lockdown the Hyena (DarkMantis)
 * Deadline the Lizard (DarkMantis)
 * Liquid the Foxcoon and Mr.B (Frost the Wolf) [character may either be a hero or villain. Depends on how the RP goes]

Villains
Those who are either sided with Aegaeon, or those who wish to usurp him and take over for themselves!
 * Aegaeon the Shark (Ryu)
 * Calibos the Abyssdweller (Ryu)
 * The Deep Ones (Anyone; savage aquatic demons employed by Calibos to serve as Aegaeon's warriors)
 * Quartz (FS)
 * Maxie the Sylveon (Nudge)
 * Arkham the Spiteful (DarkMantis; he will eventually betray his leader and take the crown)

Prologue

 * The prologue will detail Aegaeon's takeover of the Northern Kingdom.

Pt. 1
In a room deep within the G.U.N base, a few scientists are busy cataloging the partial skeleton that showed up on shore.

"Do you really think it's proof?" one of them asked. "Have we finally found the answer?"

"I believe so," said the head scientist, using what looked like a large pair of tweezers to gently lift one of the skeleton's legs.

"See how the legs are reverse-jointed, like those of a feral? The toes are also very long, like a scuba diver's flippers."

"Amazing," another mumbles.

As the scientists research the skeleton, a lone wolf stood alone in a fancy manor-like castle, a red full moon overcast in the windows as a storm rolled by. Another soon came to him, the wolf was female, and wore a red dress.

"Dear...are you sure this storm will end?" the female wolf spoke to the male. The wolf turned to her, with a grin.

"Sharon my dear, I'm sure it will end at some point...though I fear this is no ordinary storm" The male wolf replied, the wolf held a tobacco pipe in his hands.

"I see...well what if that is the case?" The female wolf, Sharon, asked the male wolf.

The male wolf soon enters the light cast by the window panes. He wore an elegant suit, on his right shoulder was a red cowl,he had cross-like insignias on his wrist-cuffs, as well as a cross-shaped necktie.

"Well, might as well get to the bottom of things." The male wolf spoke. Sharon sighed and hugged the male wolf

"Just...be safe for my sake, Slayer." Sharon begged in a worrisome manner. Slayer met her hug and caressed her, with assuring words.

"I shall be fine my darling. You stay safe as well...I have someone to meet."

Slayer soon breaks his embrace, before grabbing his cowl, throwing it out it forms a large bat-like portal. Sharing a wave with his lover he soon steps through it.

Back in the G.U.N. base, an honorary agent of theirs has been called in by the Commander.

"I'm glad you answered my call, Agent Whirlwind" The Commander said. "No sweat, Commander." Whirlwind replied. "But an explanation as to why I'm here would've been helpful."

"I figured it was unsafe to tell you through your comm-link as it may attract unwanted attention from your friends." The Commander told him. "Really? Have you forgotten that it was I who managed to gathered an alliance to take on Eggman and the Chaos-spawn." Whirlwind asked.

"No, I haven't. Either way, I've called you here to guard the laboratory until further orders are issued." The Commander ordered Whirlwind.

"Understood, Commander" And with that, Whirlwind had gone to the doors of the lab.

Pt. 2
Down below the ocean's waves, however, a quarrel was beginning to brew. An adolescent Mer-Otter by the name of Atreus had dared to defy her "king", and was now standing in front of him, flanked by two Deep Ones. The shark leered down at the girl from his throne, one clawed hand drumming idly at the armrest.

"Now, tell me again, child," he growled. "Your exact words against me?"

The Mer-Otter was looking down at the ground, her long "hair" obscuring most of her face.

"I refuse to serve a tyrant," she mumbled.

"Louder!"

"I refuse to serve a tyrant!" she yelled, finally glaring up into the face of the monster she despised.

A yellow cocoon, with one large eye plastered on it's front, appears behind the Mer-Otter, and slowly encircles her with two clear-blue tentacles jutting out from folds in it's shell, as if preparing to constrict her.

Gasping, she tried to pry the tentacles off of her body, while Aegaeon snickered.

"Perhaps we need to instill more...obedience into that soft head of yours."

A hammerhead shark wearing ornate armor watched as the cocoon approached the Mer-Otter. A smirk appeared on his mouth. 'The girl has a point... Aegeaon is a failure of a leader,' the hammerhead thought. He was free to curse the water god in his mind, but he was smart enough to keep his opinions to himself.

The yelling caught someone's attention. A teenaged fish swam that way and hid out of sight when he saw the sharks. Curiosity forced him to peek out of his hiding spot and watch the events carefully.

The hammerhead sensed something and turned to see... but nothing was there. Annoyed, he simply shrugged and resumed watching the cocoon, unaware that he was very close to spotting the teenager.

"No! I...refuse...!"

A brief flash of white occurred as she slipped a Sharpedo-tooth dagger out from under her skirt and stabbed it into one of the cocoon's tentacles.

The cocoon's tentacles repeatedly change in color, as if to show a convulsion of pain, and then retract, allowing her temporary freedom.

The hammerhead blinked, then automatically straightened and growled. "Foolish girl... GUARDS!" he called. "Apprehend the little wench!"

She had kicked off against one of the Deep Ones' noggins and darted away as fast as she could. The creatures that had been flanking her looked around in bewilderment.

"What are you waiting for?!" Aegaeon roared. "GO!!"

The two Deep Ones obediently took off after the girl.

The fish merely looked on, not knowing what was happening. He rubbed his eyes from the flash and then watched as the girl started to make her escape.

He watched as the guards went to chase the girl. The hammerhead didn't believe how a little girl could disable the cocoon easily.

The cocoon recovers, and conceals itself within a bubble, allowing it to quickly ascend towards the girl.

She had now exited the throne room and was back "outside", swimming up and away as fast as she could.

Seeing the guards leave, the fish made a rapid exit from the area. Once outside, he watched the girl swim up and followed form a distance to see what would happen. Now clenched in his hand was a spear with a bronze-like metal for the head.

The two Deep Ones swam towards the girl with surprising speed. They would not let the pitiful whelp escape. They would rather die than fail.

The beasts were gaining on her, but she knew where to go; there was an air pocket carved into the walls; it served as a hiding spot in case predators such as Sharpedo came along. She was almost there, too.

The monsters kept swimming towards the girl, automatically reaching out to grab her. They were so close...!

At last! She had reached the entrance; it was perfectly sized for a Merbian, but not so much for a Deep One. She slipped through the hole, her tail being the last thing that was seen. A small, upwards-traveling chute eventually took her to the air pocket. She knew she couldn't stay long, though; they'd probably break down the rock to try and get to her. She may have had to go up to the very surface of the ocean in order to escape...

"Grrr... pound this rock to pieces!" one of the beasts ordered to his ally. "We will return her to Aegeaon one way or another!"

Immediately, the two began to bash and punch the rock face where the girl had disappeared to. Their strength would surely grant them purchase.

The fish looked at where she went. Thinking she was smart enough to not use a dead-end, he quickly swam up to over the top of the air pocket and waited.

She gasped softly as the foundation began to shake around her. Backing away from the small chute she had emerged from, she looked around for another exit. Looking up, she found yet another chute; she didn't know to where it would lead, but she didn't have any other choice. She jumped up and started to climb through the chute, digging her claws into the sides of it.

The chute wound onto its side and then down slightly, back out into the ocean. Poking her head out, she saw the Deep Ones quite far below her; now was her chance. She slipped out as quietly as possible and resumed swimming for the surface.

Seeing her, the fish started following. He got close enough so she could see him and tightly grasped his spear, not knowing who she was or what she really was doing. He didn't know if she was a criminal or a rebel. Regardless, he didn't seem very scared of her, compared to being terrified by the sharks.

The Deep Ones continued bashing the rock face, unaware that their prey had escaped...

The cocoon, noticing her escape, inflates the bubble it's in by somehow sucking the oygen from the water around it, causing it's ascent to quicken.

Of course, she had no idea that she was being followed by the cocoon.

Back in the throne room, the hammerhead twitched. The Deep Ones shouldn't have taken this long to apprehend a tiny otter girl. "Where are they?" he growled softly.

Aegaeon walked towards the front of the throne room and looked out into the open.

"....."

After what seemed like an eternity, two shapes that quickly formed into the Deep Ones from earlier moved into view and swam to the ground at Aegeaon, automatically kneeling.

"My lord," one of them started. "It is with deepest regret that we have failed to recover the girl..."

The shark eyed the two coldly, his left fist shaking.

"You...failed?!"

The two glanced at each other before looking back at their master. The other one replied, "Yes. She escaped by fleeing into a space too small for us to enter. When we broke through, we didn't see her anywhere inside..."

"An airhole," he muttered, looking off to the side. He suddenly realized something.

"...where is the cocoon?"

The Deep One on the right blinked.

The Deep one on the left stood silent for a moment before answering, "We... Do not know. But it is possible that it is following her..."

The hammerhead listened intently to the conversation. He smirked. 'Of course it is. I personally commanded it to do so,' he thought to himself.

Aegaeon rubbed his forehead, sighing.

"At least somebody has tabs on that troublesome parasite..."

He walked back to the throne and sat down, sighing again.

The guards did not respond or object. They feared the water god's wrath should they say one wrong word. Instead, they stood there, ramrod straight.

The hammerhead continued smirking. As all this was going on, he was also seeing what the cocoon saw through a mental vision-link he had established before it was ready for use. Indeed, he was already watching as his little toy swam behind the girl stealthily...

Aegaeon looked back up at the two Deep Ones, his eyes narrowed.

"You can leave now," he hissed.

They didn't have to be told twice. The two titans stomped out the throne room, inwardly thankful that they survived their failure.

Aegaeon rested his head against his hand, another deep sigh escaping him.

"I'm surrounded by idiots..."

The Mer-Otter had finally reached the surface of the ocean. Unsurprisingly, she was shocked by it all; she had never been above the waves, after all. The clouds were dark and ominous that day, and there was no sun at all. She looked around, trying to find shore; it was her only hope of hiding from Aegaeon's forces.

Not too far from her, the cocoon surfaces, the bubble surrounding it having popped before reaching the surface.

She does not hear the cocoon as she starts to swim for shore.

The fish teen followed her to the surface of the water. He looked about and saw a tan line in the distance. Knowing land when he saw it, he immediately started swimming towards it. HE didn't seem to care what followed.

Through the cocoon's vision, the hammerhead watched intently as he saw not one, but TWO entities swimming towards the shore. The girl he recognized, but the other was altogether a mystery. '...follow the girl. But watch the other one,' he mentally commanded to the cocoon.

The fish, not having a clue he was being watched dove under the surface. After a minute he shot out of the water, into the air and spread out his fins wide. He floated above the water for a minute before he folded the fins back and dropped back in, continuing his swim.

The cocoon complied with the hammerhead's orders, and quickly severed a small piece of itself off, which then bursts forward, and attaches itself to the male fish without notice. The cocoon then slowly propels itself towards the girl.

At last, she had reached the shoreline. She stepped out onto the shore, marveling at the trees towering above her. Everything was so strange up here! She held the Sharpedo-tooth dagger tightly in one hand as she slowly walked away from the water.

As the cocoon neared her, it's movement was stopped by the sand, to where it then backed out, and resubmerged itself into the ocean to look for an alternate entrance.

The hammerhead swore. 'Damn...' He tried to see if there was another way to follow the girl.

She had now reached the nearby forest, staring up into the towering trees with great interest.

Suddenly, voices could be heard in the distance. It sounded like there were two of them... and they were heading the girl's way.

Her fin-like ears perked up and she promptly hid behind the nearest tree, her dagger at the ready. This was not how she wanted things to go.

"Man! This 'outdoors' stuff is suh-weet! Ah TOLD ya this was a good idea, Deadline!" said the first voice with a chipper tone. It sounded like a man.

"Of course you did, Lockdown. You've been telling me that for the last five hours," replied another man, this one filled with soft distaste.

"Just makin' sure y'all's remembered," the first one, Lockdown, responded. "Ah want this ta be the best outdoors vacation in the history of outdoors vacations!"

"You also have been telling me that for the last five hours," Deadline retorted. Lockdown continued to babble happily, seemingly oblivious to Deadline's voice.

The Merbian otter wasn't sure what to do about this; the best course of action was to stay out of their way, but what if they saw her?

"........"

Lockdown continued to babble, until he suddenly stopped and sniffed.

"What is it?" Deadline inquired.

"Ya smell that?" Lockdown replied.

"What, your cheap cologne?" Deadline said dryly.

"No, no, somethin' else... somethin'... fishy," the cowboy countered. "Ah kin smell it from over there." He proceeded to move straight towards the tree the girl was using as a hiding place.

She stiffened as she heard the hyena's footsteps getting closer. The grip on her dagger tightened; she was prepared to fight if need be.

"...you know, you are right. There is a hint of fish in the air... and perhaps... sea salt?" Deadline guessed.

Lockdown kept moving toward the tree. "Whatever it is, it's comin' from that tree! Must be a fish 'r somethin'!" He chuckled. "Hey little fella! Don't be scared, poppa Lockdown ain't gonna hurt ya!"

Deadline rolled his eyes. How he got talked into being a partner to the stupid oaf is anyone's guess.

She wasn't sure if Lockdown would be a threat or not. So she decided to hold her position until he was within sight. Then she would decide whether to attack or not.

Lockdown reached the tree and held his own. "Aw, MAN, that fishy smell's certainly stronga here! Wonder what could cause it..." His curiosity piqued, he rounded the tree to see what was behind it.

There he came face-to-face with the Mer-otter's Sharpedo-tooth dagger. While she did her best to maintain an air of intensity, she was actually quite scared.

"Who are you?" she asked, her voice shaking slightly.

Lockdown blinked, then stared at the blade. He gently stepped back cautiously, putting his hands up. "Whoa now, easy, girl, easy... you are a girl, right?... Mah name's Lockdown." He hoped he wouldn't get beaten up. His head still rung from last week's bar brawl... but DAMN, was that an awesome bar brawl.

"Of course I'm a girl," she hissed, although she lowered the dagger nonetheless.

Lockdown felt positively dumb after that. Granted, he felt dumb after a lot of things he did, but this one stood out like a sore thumb. "Okay... what ya doin' out here?" he asked tentatively.

"......."

She returned the dagger to the sheath around her thigh.

"That's not your business," she said.

He blinked. "Iff'n ya don't mind me pointing this out: yer kinda lost and alone out here, pard. Ah don't think it's a good idea to be all hostile and stuff to somebody ya just met."

"I'm not lost," she said, although this was a lie.

"I had a perfectly good reason for coming out here."

Lockdown lowered his hands, relieved that he wasn't going to be stabbed. "And what reason's that, pard?"

"....trying to get away from something."

"And that something is...?"

Deadline tapped his foot, impatient. What was taking Lockdown so long? 'He probably fell over his fat feet and into a hole. Hehe.' He hoped that were true.

"...not your business."

She side-stepped away from him and started to walk away. She doubted that these surface-dwellers would be any help against Aegaeon, so why bother telling them?

Lockdown watched her leave, then automatically started walking towards her. "H-hey, wait a sec!"

She sighs a bit and turns around.

"What?"

"Maybe Ah can help ya with whatever it is that's followin' ya?" the hyena said hopefully. His expression was warm... well, as warm as he could make it.

"So, you can deal with a deity-level tyrant that near single-handedly took over an entire kingdom of Merbians? And has an even more powerful creature on his side, as well as an army of aquatic demons?" she asked, crossing her arms. There was no sarcasm in her voice, however, and her expression was dead serious.

"Don't get me wrong, I'd be grateful if you could...but the thing is, I kinda doubt that you can. Nobody could stop him, after all."

Lockdown's expression changed into a dour one. "Oh... uhhh..."

Deadline sighed. 'If he did fall in, I'm gonna have to drag his azz out.' He picked up his rifle and stomped his way towards the two.

"Well... on mah own, no," Lockdown started, "but, ya see, Ah'm part o' this organization called GUN, which is basically a military group that deals with monsters and villains and other stuff that threatens tha world. Mebbe Ah can ask them fer help?"

"GUN...why does that sound familiar?" she mumbled to herself, putting a hand on her chin. Then she remembered, long before Aegaeon took over, that her people had told stories of "humans that could breath underwater somehow" and "large aquatic objects that weren't alive"...were these related to GUN?

The fish did notice the piece latching onto his arm. He immediately panicked and tried to slice it off with the head of his spear.

The tip of it cuts off, and releases a green liquid into the waters to display the fish's current location.

The fish tried to swipe the rest off and made a mad sprint for the shor, shooting out of the water and gliding onto the land.

After that, the cocoon prepares to swim back, when it sees a sort of waste floating upwards in the water. It follows this waste to find a sewage pipe. Since there's no other option, the cocoon then floats into it.

The fish picked up the trail left by the otter and followed it at a running pace, soon to find himself in front of the hyena and otter. He stopped to catch his breath and leaned on his spear for support.

Lockdown looked to see the fish boy. "Huh? Who's this?"

He looked up, "I..." He stopped to catch his breath, two flaps at the side of his neck opening. Apparently those are his gills, "I'm El-Dor." He answered.

"El-Dor?" Lockdown repeated. Then he smiled. "Well, nice to meetcha! I'm Lockdown!"

The Mer-Otter said nothing.

Deadline eventually reached the two, and he did a slight double-take at what he saw: a scaly otter girl and a fish boy in front of Lockdown. "The hell?" he said loudly.

The Merbian instinctively pulled out her dagger again, her eyes locked on Deadline.

Automatically, Deadline brought his rifle up, and would have put a bullet in the girl's skull if not for Lockdown.

"Hey hey, what's this? This ain't how we treat a friend!"

Deadline blinked. He kept his gun up, however. "...that thing is a friend?"

"Yeah!" Lockdown replied cheerfully. Deadline did not reply.

The girl frowned at Deadline; she didn't seem to like being referred to as a "thing". Nevertheless, she put the dagger away.

"Come on, Deady, don't be a grump. Put the rifle down, will ya?"

Reluctantly, the sniper replaced his weapon, then folded his arms. "Where'd this thing come from?" he inquired bluntly.

"I'm not a thing, lizard."

Deadline twitched visibly, but decided to not rise to the bait. "Whatever."

"L-look, mebbe we should just calm down and head back ta GUN Base? We could help her out there."

"Didn't you say you wanted the vacation?"

"Vacation? What vacation?"

Deadline pinched the space between his eyes and sighed. Yep, it was going to be one of those days. He already felt a headache coming on...

"Fine, fine, whatever. I don't care." The lizard proceeded to turn and leave.

"Sorry 'bout that... Deadline's a bit cranky these days..." the hyena said to the girl.

El-Dor looked at the others and jumped back upon the drawn weapons. He clenched the spear tightly in his hands, but in a defensive stance. He then loosened it and sighed in relief.

"I see," she said. She then looked back at El-Dor.

"....did you follow me up here?"

"Yes and no..." The fish replied. Spreading out his tail fins and returning the pole weapon to his side. "I did follow you here, but I was already coming to the surface." He finished his answer.

"...were you running from him, too?"

"I was only swimming from the sharks..." He replied, "Terrified of sharks." The fish shuddered as he started thinking.

"Sharks?" Lockdown inquired.

El-Dor looked at Lockdown funny, "You know; sharks. Those giant fish that swim around and eat other fish and have the big teeth and will follow you and..." He cut himself off with a shudder, "I... just really don't like or trust them. Dolphins are the same." He said, frowning.

Lockdown blinked. "I know that feelin'... one time Ah almost got mah arm torn off by one, but Deadline saved me. Ah was only goin' swimmin' in water that was off-limits! Man, he was like mah mom that day, kept scoldin' me about etting mahself hurt and all that..." and once again, he resumed his babbling, cheerfully oblivious to everyone else.

He was probably running from the Deep Ones, the Merbian thought to herself.

El-Dor nodded in understanding, "I just keep my distance..." He replied.

Not too far away, a voice could be heard. It sounded like the voice of a thirteen year old. It was a young blue foxcoon, wearing a sharktooth necklace, a tanish vest, a tanish pair of bermuda shorts, and tanish shoes with white soles. He had sea-green eyes and his tail had dark blue rings much like a raccoon. Also, the area around his eyes was also dark blue.

"The sooner we get to the ocean, the better." the young voice said as he got within hearing range of the others. It sounded as though he was talking with someone. Judging by the sound of the footsteps, the foxcoon's companion must be very big.

Lockdown twitched his ears at the sound of the voice. 'What's with all these fishy people poppin' up here?' he thought.

Immediately the Mer-Otter had her dagger back out.

"Who is it now??" she hissed.

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Meanwhile, in the GUN Base...

The hammerhead watched as the Obedience Cocoon surfaced in some sort of pool with metal walls around. 'Odd,' he thought. 'Is this where those humans make their water machines??'

He noticed long, metallic vessels hang over the water, while humans were walking around and doing various things. This perplexed him even more.

'...find out what secrets this base holds. But stay in the shadows - I have a feeling these... humans... will not take kindly to your intrusion,' he ordered to the Cocoon.

The cocoon complies with his orders, then sank further below, and began scanning the area to create a mental-map of the base, when it detects a group of GUN soldiers conversing above.

"Dammit... that's the sixth time it's broken this month!" an engineer cried in annoyance.

"Maybe it's because of the earthquakes?" a soldier suggested.

"Could be. I've been hearing about strange fish people popping up since they've been happening... but I think it's just baloney hyped up by some dude looking to scare people," another soldier piped up.

The hammerhead listened intently to their conversation... 'Keep close to those humans... they may be lead you to something that will gain us new followers.'

"Oh, dammit," the engineer sighed. "I'm gonna have to take this up with command... this is not supposed to be happening."

He stood up to leave, as a soldier walked towards him. "I'll escort you there."

The engineer waved him off. "Nah, I'll be fine. Besides, this place is heavily fortified. What could go wrong??" He then left the area.

'Quickly! Follow that human NOW!' the hammerhead barked. 'He's going alone, now is your chance!'

The cocoon, for once, does not comply with the hammerheads orders at first, but rather, grabs a soldier by the leg, and pulls him into the water, making it look as if he had tripped and fallen in.

"What the-?!" the soldier sputtered, caught off-guard and flailing in the water. What the hell just made him trip?