LOTUS Part One: A Space Colony RP

He felt compelled to trust her, taking hesitant steps into the room. He looked around silently as he made his way to a lone wall.

Phil placed his hands behind his back. "Can ya blame me? If mysterious guy ain't willing to let hands fly and some other things, I'm all up for it." He puffed out his chest proudly, doing his best to look manly. Emar looked at the monkey then Brooke. Curiosity killed the cat, or so he had heard was an old saying on the old planet of earth.

Emar kept himself composed at Brooke's remark. "I'm quite sure LOTUS don't have the necessary functions for that. No, I'm not with Anthea, I'm on my own and was looking for other like me." He said matter of factly.

"So cute you would think that stranger," Brook said giving a mock wink to the young man. "Since we are exposing our selves ehh might as well," Brook said deactivating her hologram. The image of a young girl with flowing brown, certain enhancements, and wearing a blue tank top, jeans and combat boots with a humanoid cyborg (I am kind of terrible with detailed description so think something along the line from Cyborg from Teen Titans or the Terminator.).


"So you are part of some board which is meant to keep tabs on us?" Brook said to Athena. "Maybe you can answer this question I have," Brook said deep in thought. "It's kinda of a dream but it feels like its a surpressed memory, and in that dream I keep on asking why me?" Brook said. "So what makes me so special in the first place, I was just a normal girl before one of your men from the LOTUS project grabbed me and used me for those experiments," Brook said trailing off.

"I would like to help but what can I do to help you?" Brook asked. "I know you said I am the most human of the LOTUS but how can I help you end this cursed project?" Brook said. "I highly doubt lecturing those people who believed this was a good idea," Brook said waiting for Athena's response.

Emar remained impassive. He did not let his projection down for a moment. He thought over her words carefully. "What reason do I have to trust you? Are you not one of the people that instigated my transformation into a LOTUS?" He asked sternly.

Phil rubbed his head angrily. "C'mon darling, at least give me a warning before you drop me!"

Emar flinched. Rather than her intended affect, it was making him flustered. "What? Is this some sort of seduction technique?!"

He looked over at her for help. "Can I have some help here?"

Anthea checked her phone. Her eyes narrowed. Watching the scene before her, her cat ears began twitching. That wasn't normal.

She froze time and temporarily pilfered Brook's phone to input some info, then returned to where she was.

"I have business elsewhere. Brook, I put my number in your phone so keep in touch. You two have fun."

She stepped outside and vanished, but not before leaving a message on Brook's phone that read:

Sorry to leave you. This guy's had work done. LOTUS work done. Learn as much as you can, and if you need help I'll be there in instant you call.

Brook noticed the message on the phone about Athena having to leave. "I guess I will just hit her up when I am done," Brook thought to herself. "Well can you at least tell me your name and a little bit about yourself?" Brook asked the stranger.

Aboard the Fantasia, the senate room was swirling with activity that to Anthea stood completely still. Observing the room, what was on the panels, who was facing whom, the number of officials...she drew her own conclusions.

Time resumed. Anthea was standing tall on the table, a microphone connecting her to a speaker to talk over the panic. Her voice echoed over the growling Draxans.

"Us or them!"

Those that weren't too startled by her entrance fell quiet enough to listen to her.

"The LOTUS Omega has reached an inhabited region of space, am I correct? Our chartered course to Outpost Sigma Phi Delta was made to avoid an engagement at all costs. If we had taken any other course, we would not have altered his target, and the human race would be lost! Today. We. Live."

Rachnoff called over Anthea, "Outpost SPD IS the hostile's current target! If he destroys it then not only are we stranded but that's over ten million lives lost! This is not acceptable!"

Anthea turned sharply, "So what could we have done about it? The Outpost can't move and we can't stop Omega, not even for an instant."

A chancellor called out, "Who put you in charge!? We have to deploy our forces to help fight!"

"By the time they reach the outpost it will likely be too late. We are already travelling towards them at warp, and considering Omega's current location I actually suggest we change course-"

Another opposition member called out, "YOU ARE A LOTUS! You don't have any stake in us do you? If we depose New Earth we can reach the Outpost in a day's time. The humans have enough resources to await our return."

A snarkier one joined in, this one was a human hologram, "Hey, if you you can see the future how come you didn't warn anyone about this! I question your integrity LOTUS."

"Why were we wasting time waking up your ilk? We should have been preparing for this threat!"

"Can someone get her off that table?"

"Why does she always have Miran ears? Are we supposed to take her seriously?"

Every other mic shut off as Anthea froze time and manually hit a bunch of off switches. Then she turned her own to max and shouted.

"STOP! My loyalty is towards all life regardless of species and if you question that then listen close. If I wanted death it would have happened the moment you opened my capsule. But no, instead I enlightened your species to its own historical sins! If you want my silence you will have it. If you want my advice then LISTEN!"

Anthea froze time again and cued up several files on the projector. As time resumed, all the information on LOTUS spilled out into the air, filling the room with descriptions, details, diagrams, and schematics. She spoke as the images flashed past each awakened LOTUS.

"We were made to be weapons more powerful than you can ever imagine. Weapons harm what they are pointed towards so what we need now is a steady aim. You can deploy a fleet towards SPD if you wish but I assure you it's suicide. We can continue to elude Omega indefinitely, but this is obviously not what anyone here has in mind. Yes, I foresaw this event the moment Omega was awakened and I withheld it to prevent anyone here from getting themselves killed. The only chance we have of neutralizing this threat is the LOTUS experiment, and so our move was to collect them. Fight fire with fire goes the Earth saying. What you have here are the details we know so far about the LOTUS experiment, and in here somewhere is the key to our survival. I see victory in the future, but the path towards it must be forged. LOTUS, Human, Draxan, we overcome this together!"

A holographic image of Omega popped up in the middle of the table, next to Anthea who stared it in the face.

"His name is Omega right? He's the end of all things?"

Nobody answered her rhetorical question, so she just continued, stepping through it.

"Then we'll show him our new beginning. Get to work people!"