Countdown: Armageddon (Worm AU Quest - Can You Save The World?)

"What- what is this?!"

"Get off your ass and fight! They're still com- GAHK!"

[Psycho Pass Deceased - F9]

"Shit! Another gate opened up! We're getting swamped over here!"

[Simurg Located - D22]

"We have to fall back! Where's Lung?"

"He's near the main Gate! Been there since the fighting started!"

"Shit-!"

[WARNING! - Gates Opening, A1, B4, C9, D12, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E11, E12]

"Oh no..."

"Fall back, Fall back! The city is lost! They're glassing the region!"

"No! We can still hold out! Zion is coming!"

"To late, the bombs are dropping!"

"Everyone! RUN-"

[Connection Lost]

---

The world is not as it should be. Not as you know it.

"Attention!" A thousand feet stomp in unison as five hundred fists thump against five hundred chests. "Today, a member of your class has awoken. Rejoice for them!"

These people, though familiar, are not as you recognize them.

"Cadet Hebert, step forward!" The girl next to you, lanky, and clad in her uniform like everyone else, steps out in front of the class, posture rigid with nervousness, though her blank face doesn't show any of it. "This morning's Annual Scan identified you. As per standing regulations, you are hereby dismissed from this class. Should you choose to keep up with your studies, you will be assigned to an Advanced Class. Your parents have been notified. Dismissed."

Silently, Taylor salutes before turning on her heel and marching off. Quietly exiting the Winslow auditorium. Silence returns, but its not over. Principal Blackwell turns her eyes to you.

"Cadet Washio, step forward!" Three steps, and your standing before the class. Four hundred and ninety eight sets of eyes on your back as you try not to twitch. "This morning's Annual Scan identified you. As per standing regulations, you are hereby dismissed from this class. Should you choose to keep up with your studies, you will be assigned to an Advanced Class. Your parents have been notified. Dismissed."

You don't salute. You've never saluted. But you still turn. Still slowly march past the entire front rank of your class towards the door.

It is the longest ten feet of your life.

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Hero. Vigilante. Rogue. Villain.

Parahuman.

This world is not as you know it. Though it is familiar, nothing is correct any more. Humanity is besieged on all sides, from both within and without. It is your duty to discover those differences. To identify what has changed and why. And if possible...

To save the world.

Your name is Misuki Washio. Or Washio Mizuki, if going by your oriental heritage. And you are...

[] The God of Destruction
A blaster/shaker combo that puts all others of the class to shame. In the vein of the terrifying Behemoth, where you walk, oblivion follows.

[] The Architect of Destiny
A tinker to end all tinkers. If you can imagine it, you can build it. Monuments to victory.

[] The Savior
The coming dawn. The one that brings victory. But you are forever cursed to stand alone at the pinnacle.

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"Mizuki, why didn't you tell us?" Your mother hovers over you, a worried look on her face, even though your father is absent.

"I didn't want to worry you." You almost try shrinking in on yourself, but your mother is having none of that. Her arms wrap around you in a warm embrace that you're scared of being deprived of.

"Of course we would have worried. We would have been even more worried if you started running off without telling us what you were up to." You bury yourself into her hug instead of replying. It had been a childish thing, your desire to hide your Awakening. But it had been you choice, and you were determined to stick to it.

The front door opens with a clack from the deadbolt. "I'm home! Is Mizuki-chan already in?"

"We're in here, love. I haven't really talked much with her yet." You father enters the room, placing his suitcase down on the side table, but leaving his coat on. He is a tall man for his Japanese heritage. His brown hair, and brown eyes the source of your own, unlike your mother's blond hair and blue eyes.

"Well kid. I'd say congratulations, but that'd likely be more of an insult than anything considering what you'll be doing in the future." He sits behind you, wrapping one of his long arms around you and your mother. "I don't care what a lot of other parents think. Awakening isn't a blessing. Thanks to my job, I know how bad it can get out there. The Guardians need all the manpower they can get. But if you want to do something else, know that I'll stand by your decision whatever it is."

He doesn't say it outright, but you understand the implication. Instead of joining the Guardians and being a Hero, you could just as easily be a Villain instead. It is a choice that all Awoken must make after being discharged from their schools.

An unfair truth of the world: to be Parahuman is to be considered above the powerless masses. If you choose to be a hero, than you could get better schooling than any of your old classmates could ever hope to gain. Possibly even a better job as well. Should you choose to be a villain, you could lord your superiority over the huddled masses, and the only ones that could call you out on it would be other Parahumans.

All it would cost, was to answer the sirens.



[] What will you do? -Write in-




In this Quest you play the role of recently 'Awoken' Parahuman Washio Mizuki. A former classmate of also recently Awoken Parahuman, Taylor Hebert. Your job, as one of the most powerful Parahumans on the planet, is to defend it from the things seeking to destroy it. Or, should you so choose, destroy it yourself. While this is the Worm Verse, it will not be as you remember it. Powers, and characters will be the same, but motivations will be different. Their positions along the lines of Good and Evil will not be where you remember them.

Something is wrong in this world. And it's your choice to find out what that something is and, if possible, fix it. Feel free to delve deeply into this twisted world, so different from Canon, or stay in the shallows as you wish. Just remember one thing though:

The Countdown has started. The End is coming. Will you fight to stop it? Or will you ensure it happens?

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