And I can guide a missile by satellite

[liebe_krieg]

WHO: The Major and everyone who signed up to fight in the City.
WHERE: Locations across the City.
WHEN: 11 PM Friday evening.
WARNINGS: So. Much. Violence.
SUMMARY: Operation Gotterdammerung has begun, and with it Case Schwarze: a full air and ground assault against the ImPort community designed to prevent interference with the nuke in Washington. Missiles and vampires ahoy!
FORMAT: Whatever works.
NOTES: Don't forget to add your characters' tags as they join in!

Leaning back in his chair, occasionally taking the time to dictate a response to his post on the communicator, the Major watched happily as his master plan at last unfolded. It was all worth it, he could already tell. The months of planning, the prison takeover, the theft of the bomb, the kidnapping of the Detective, all the promises he’d made to his new comrades, it was all coming together right here in front of him, in the fire and explosions of detonating missiles and attacking vampires. It was the fulfillment of his most cherished dream: a war beyond any man’s history had ever known. Reports from his crew filtered in from all around him:

”Rot Team reports that they are in position Major. Package is secure.”

”Schwarze One reports commencing attack on police station.”

”Missile hit! Confirmed hit on Turing nightclub!”

”Schwarze Five, commencing assault on the Spark Roast.”

”Confirmed missile hits on both prisons!”

He sat and listened and smiled and watched. In less than an hour the device would detonate, and America’s capital would be swallowed up in a mushroom cloud. There would have to be retaliation, retaliation greater than that after Pearl Harbor, retaliation not just at those responsible but also at those who had let it happen because they were too busy looking after their own homes. There would be war, first native against ImPort, but then as things fell apart ImPort against ImPort, native against native, war between teams, countries, movements, alliances! War upon war upon war!

“It has begun,” the Major said to himself, watching the chaos unfold on the array of screens hanging from the ceiling in front of his seat, as well as through the DEM II’s vast observation window. “The dance that cannot end! The symphony I can revel in for all time! The fire that shall never burn out!”

Below, the prelude to that symphony continued.

Comments

[dacosta_pi]

Splitting up? Whatever. Roberto didn't waste anymore time talking about it, and quickly flashed forward behind Shiro to help him out. Shiro's movements were being considered, so Roberto kept to the air and fired off a round of solar radiation from his hands in an attempt to fry the bastards.

"What the hell are these things supposed to be!?"

[prettymorlock]

Sally turned her attention to Tiana. "Let's check out the rest of the building. There might be people who are hurt or stuck that we can get to," she reasoned. "I can extend my shield around you to help keep the heat from being a deterrent."

[evangelined.livejournal.com]

"All right," Tiana replies, realizing that Sally was right, there were people in the MAC who would need help. "Lead the way, Sally."

It's Shounen Law that the protagonist is always late to the fight

[hollowish.livejournal.com]

Ichigo jumped up once the first missile hit in front of the MAC, and Shiro had already grabbed his sword and left. However, before the substitute soul reaper could follow after him to the main grounds, there was a loud crash as a swarm of vampires broke through the entrance and surrounded Ichigo.

He fought them off one by one, slashing at arms, legs, torsos, but even he knew that his cuts felt useless. The enemies were tougher than the zombies he'd fought previously, they fought smarter too, and each time he cut them down, they'd pick themselves back up until suddenly they were right on top of him, dog-piling the soul reaper, clawing and biting at him until finally a bright flash of white light surrounded him and obliterated the enemies.

He flash stepped to the clearing, joining everyone else and cutting down the next enemy that attacked him, his clothes already covered in blood, but nobody else had to know that some of it was his.

"What the hell are these things?"

SURE ICHIGO.

[holeheart]

Shiro sensed his partner before he saw him, jerking his head around and looking over the crowd for that familiar mop of orange hair. And when he did, he jumped on top of the vampire's heads and used them as stepping stones to get over to Ichigo.

"Where the hell ya been?!" A yell from behind distracted him, briefly. It was one of the vampires that he had injured, but not killed. "What the--" he unleashed a series of small red blasts from his hand, knocking the vampire back. "So ya heal, huh. Fuckin A," he turns back to Ichigo and draws a line across his own neck, "Looks like ya gotta take the heads off! Hehehehe!"

[hollowish.livejournal.com]

All he did was shoot a glare at the hollow before swinging Zangetsu in a horizontal slash, bright white energy arcing and decapitating every vampire that Shiro had just jumped on.

"Where have I been!? They're coming from behind too, or did you only see the ones in front of you?"

He was getting tired of fighting wave after wave of enemies. He'd much rather fight one good opponent, but right now he couldn't be picky about it. He had to protect the MAC and everyone inside it.

"Let's wrap this up quickly, okay?" A slight smirk tugging at his lips.

Sorry for taking off here, just wanted to get this done while Jason was around guys!

[holeheart]

"Yeah yeah!! Hey, let's do that fusion thing again. Since I took advantage of you last time, it's only fair that I lend you my power this time." He didn't look too happy about it, but in the end, Shiro had learned a bit of strategy; the full Hollow form wouldn't have the precision to destroy these waves in such a way that they would stay down. Whatever, even if he was lending Ichigo his power, he still got to fight.

"Bankai! Now! Oh, and you have to hold Killinator, hehe. But that's the price of using my powers to be a Vizard again, got it?!"

[hollowish.livejournal.com]

"I don't want to carry around your cat!" Ichigo shot back childishly, only recalling how the cat had torn up all of his clothes when the hollow brought it home for the first time, or how it still hissed and scratched Ichigo whenever he went near it. Regardless, he gripped Zangetsu with both hands.

"BANKAI!"

The white energy surrounding him before turned black and red, and when it finally dissipated, Ichigo was wearing his pimpcoat hakama and Zangetsu had transformed into the familiar black katana, Tensa Zangetsu.

"Are you sure about this? I only have eleven seconds, you know."

[holeheart]

Shiro stepped back, letting the massive amounts of energy released blow past him, before stepping closer again and removing the cat from his shirt and putting her in Ichigo's pimpcoat. She mewled her confusion, but didn't protest or hiss at Ichigo.

"Not if I actually cooperate a little! Besides, in 11 seconds, we can fuckin' take off plenty of heads." Shiro stepped back again and his sword vanished from his hands in a show of the same red and black energy. Then, the entire Hollow turned into red and black energy, surrounding Ichigo in its powerful glow. The energy solidified around Ichigo's face, first in a series of bright red stripes, then as a complete white, skeletal mask; Ichigo's normal brown eyes gained the eerie black sclera and yellow irises belonging to Shiro; a sign that the two were, temporarily, back to being one in the same.

Shiro's voice echoed in Ichigo's mind, Now don't forget! All our STUFF is in that building!! Get going!

beautiful, guys. XD

[notadartboard]

Sanji stood back to watch this display, boggled. So that pale-faced kid who attacked him had a twin, an ally. Huh. But his kicks weren't doing much to the attacking cadre of vampires except slow them down a little. He had backed off to regroup, so he was safely out of the way of any destruction Ichigo was about to unleash.

Then, something struck him, and he suddenly ran away from the group, back up into the building. He needed his comm. He needed to check whether there was any new information being spread about the attack. "Be right back!" he called over his shoulder before he vanished.

[dacosta_pi]

Not really wasting anytime with the others' bickering, Roberto simply moved away from the small group and continued to absorb the heat from the building. All it would take for him was a simple flick of the wrist to completely disintegrate these scumbags with solar fire.

So that's what he did.

Each blast was aimed directly for their heads, and every single vampire in front of him burned within seconds. If only there weren't any civilians around he could have simply solar nuked the place and fried everyone--but frying Sanji, Sally, Tiani and the other MAC residents wasn't very useful, now was it?

[prettymorlock]

Sally had every intention of leading Tiana into the MAC and checking for any wounded, but there were combatants coming from behind and the sides. It wouldn't matter if they could get to anyone if the vampires were able to enter the building.

She extended her shield, trying to block at least one entrance.

[evangelined.livejournal.com]

Tiana manages to duck inside, protected by the shield. She was going to find out if there were any survivors - and then find a weapon. A pot, a stake, a golf club, something. She didn't like the feeling of being utterly helpless and dependent on her friends, especially since they were going out of their way to save her.

[notadartboard]

Sanji did not even bother with the elevators, racing up the stairs to the third-floor apartment he called his and retrieving his comm. On the way back, he paused to bang on Usopp's door once more and have an argument through it about whether it was safer to stay in a building being bombed or come down into a throng of attackers. Apparently, staying inside won. Cursing to himself, Sanji ran back down the hallway and took the stairs three at a time, fumbling to try to read the sudden flurry of posts that had gone up after the initial announcement.

He was still running as he hit the main floor and crossed to where Sally and Tiana were. "Silver! Some guy says they're vulnerable to silver! Otherwise they don't die..."

[hollowish.livejournal.com]

To say that Ichigo felt relieved to feel like he had before he arrived here would have been wrong. He wasn't happy that he was sharing a body with the hollow once again, but at the same time, the familiarity was comfortable, and at least now the hollow was under his control and couldn't do his own thing, for at least as long a it chose to cooperate.

One thing that he liked though was the power. He didn't like the idea of losing control to Shiro, but at the same time, the power he felt now that he wore the mask once again was more than welcomed.

"Yeah, yeah, I hear you." He spoke to himself, his voice echoing and reverberating similarly to the hollow's.

He noticed from the corner of his eye that some of the fighters were heading back inside, and in a way that relieved him. He didn't have to worry about them getting in his way or vice versa, and it made them easier to protect.

He didn't know how to permanently destroy these things, if cutting off their heads would really keep them down or not.

He had eleven seconds though, maybe a bit more. If he couldn't stop them he could at least cut them up enough to make it take a long time to recover.

"GETSUGA TENSHOU!" He swing his sword rapidly as wave after wave of energy cut through the vampire ranks.