Character Name: Xelena Santos. Xelena means 'Friend' or 'Protector' in the Nalga language.
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Alias:
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Apparent Age: 25
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Origin: Unknown
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Race: Alpha Android. (Advanced Combat Android.)
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Height: 5'10
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Weight: 170 lbs
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Gender: Female
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Physical Description:
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Known Relatives:
Maya Santos, Adopted Mother
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Religion: Atheist
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Skills: Basic skills, domestic skills. Advanced hand to hand, melee weapon skills and a skilled markswoman. She can use computers very well and pilot ships. Military training. Air to air and air to ground combat.
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Abilities: Eyes turn red when angry. Scanner(mostly tell what someone is) Enhanced senses(weak to the opposing effects) and Multi spectrum vision. Flight on wings made of energy when they manifest. She can also upload memories to a computer/video devices from her head(which is a computer itself)
Built in weapons, which she can summon and discharge(via her arms turning into them and such)
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Alignment: Lawful Neutral
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Personality: Xelena has a somewhat melancholy air about her, which is to be expected given her situation she finds herself in. She carries herself something along the lines of a old war veteran that has seen and been through too much.
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Powers: Super Human Stats. Self-repairing, energy manipulation. It should be noted as a whole, she lost a lot of her former power and abilities.
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Restrictions: For stats, see stats. Her repairing depends on what the 'wound is' to fix itself a 'broken' arm could take a few hours, while a cut seconds. She Can regen a limb(not her head of course) but with how she is currently; it would take about a month. Her energy manipulation is limited to her Own energy which include the wings, and empowering her fist with energy to moderately increase melee damage(it runs off her internal energy) Also some of her weapons.
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Stats:
Strength: 20
Speed: 48
Agility: 27
Durability: 37
Stamina: --
Natural ability: 30
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Weapons and Precious Items:
Power Core: Its unknown exactly what the energy is used to power her entire body and weapon systems, but its currently known that the energy is remarkably similar to the same energy found in stars. This has lead many to believe her creators had somehow managed to create energy similar to stars, or create them. It's unknown at current, and Xelena seems to be unwilling to give details.
Personal Shielding: This is basically a personal shield that adds an additional layer of protection. It's not always on, instead her 'combat mode' has to be activated. It can take medium yield explosives(generally weaker then normal durability) and takes about thirty minutes for them to come back on when down. This is a product of her energy manipulation ability.
Drill: Xelena can make a large drill to either travel underground..or the obvious such as attacking enemies. The material used for this drill is unknown; but its obviously much stronger then a earth based one.
Sword: Simply put, Xelena turns her right or left arm to a blade(some cases both) to go into melee. They're relatively sharp and naturally being a part of her, pretty durable.
Blaster: Xelena can change either arm to form a 'blaster'. It can be fired single shot or rapid burst, it has an ability to charge to increase damage. Max range is about 300 meters.
Energy Whip: Using her own energy, she can make a solid energy whip. It can extend to a max range of fifty feet. Xelena has good control of this, so it could easily be used for offensive or defensive purposes. The whip can be laced with electricty as well.
-All Of her other equipment/weapons seems to be damaged/offline to the point of not working-
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Phobias: Her phobia has already come to past..
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Illnesses: N/A
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Sexual Preferences: Straight
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Occupation: Bodyguard
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History:
Akina was wondering how she would approach this situation. She was a very intelligent woman and you had to be if you wanted to keep people from trying to pull fast ones on you. It was, after all, politics and it was a game played while smiling and holding the knife just behind your hands. At the least, most of the people could be said to genuinely care but that didn't give her any less headaches.
The problem came with a girl they had found on what seemed to be a completely barren planet. There were no signs of life anywhere, but there had been signs this planet had once had life on it. Ruins of a once great civilization that seemed to span the entire planet were visible, and from the looks of things, Nalga designed.
Naturally, Akina and others were intrigued. They had been finding nothing of particular interest in exploring so far besides things they had already seen in the Queens Edge(which was the official name of her own Paladin V) She did admit it was something on the cliche side; but it fit and as the saying went don't fix something that wasn't broken.
Scanners had picked up no life, but the planet atmosphere could support it. Just to be on the safe side when Akina and others were sent to drop down and explore, they were escorted. For the most part, they just found ruins of buildings and no traces of any technology they could use. Still, some of the material and few things could be used for research. Historian's would kill for even a little bit of this, as there was so little known about the Nalga except them being more advanced then them.
A pretty standard search and find mission turned into something a bit more..interesting later.
Just on the edges of the ruined city, they had found to their shock a girl in a hidden bunker. This was strange enough on its own. The fact said girl seemed in something like a block of ice in some sort of suspended animation. They looked no older then twenty with green hair and eyes. The building they were in was mostly intact but there seemed to be no people around. Odder still, they didn't pick up any 'life' signs from the girl and thought she was dead; just her body had been kept intact in that old stasis.
Until she woke up that is.
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'Xelena' had been her name, and she was apparently a combat android made by the Nalga. Naturally, this made many sciencetist want to ask her a million questions but Akina had told them to hold off. She had declared that she'd be allowed on the ship after asking her some questions. This didn't sit well with members of security. They didn't want a girl with unknown capabilities running amok on the ship, much less a combat-made Android created by no other then the Nalga.
Still, it wasn't as if they had much choice and they reluctantly went with it but insisted on keeping a eye on her. The girl didn't seem to have issues with then Xelena didn't seem to be 'all there' at the moment. She was seemed to be trying to wrap her head around the ruined city. And the fact the Nalga were apparently gone.
Akina was cautious of course, but there was no need to antagonize the woman. They all meet in a neutral area of the ship; this is where Xelena could show them what had happened to this city and how she ended up there in the first place.
Once everyone was properly seated, she went to the machine just in the middle of room(a long table where everyone was seated) Xelena went to the device, putting a hand on it.
That was when through the holographic images, long forgotten memories began to play.
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“Status?”
“Planetary shields are still running. Small breaches have allowed enemy forces to enter through and start attacking. Reports show the planet itself is already beginning to become infected.”
“Damn it.”
Admiral Lavene pushed a hand through his aging green hair, looking more tired at the moment then he had been in a while. The bridge of Last Battalion was running amok with activity, not much of a surprise considering they were in the middle of a massive fire fight with the Executioner ships' and he used that term in the loose sense.
They resembled ships, but for lack of a better word were 'alive' instead of just normal material. Every thing they had encountered from them had been the same. No one was sure where they came from, only they had begun attacking without any cause or provocation anything they had come across. No demands. No threats. Not even some some talk about conquest or destruction.
The strange creatures merely went to one place, wiping out all life they could and spreading to the next like some sort of virus. They could 'infect' various things, even something like a planet and for lack of a better word. When that happened, the planet became virtually inhabitable to even the hardiest races to live under.
With no name given by them which to call the beings, they had simply been dubbed 'Executioners' and they did live up to that title. With seemingly limitless number and bodies to throw in whatever was in their way and seeming to grow stronger each time, they were more then just a bit difficult to deal with. People were starting to become desperate since nothing seemed to be stopping these things permanently.
Even now, with one of their large capital ships, the Last Battalion. She was definitely one of the Nalga's pride and joy. Roughly at least one thousand feet long and having hundreds of crew with enough fire power to destroy a star causing a nova. The shields could take a nuke without as much causing a notable dent with them. Then again, their enemies and they themselves had weapons that made them seem more like fire crackers.
The ground forces weren't anything to scoff at. In one of their higher end power suits issued to ground forces, they were capable of lifting an excess of forty tons with enough fire power to destroy things in a massive area. The armor and shielding on them was something you'd see more on a large war machine like a mech then a piece of armor.
In the end it didn't matter. For all the Nalga's technology, it didn't matter against an enemy who had endless numbers to throw at you and actually had enough strength to give you trouble.
The Nalga and their allies were still losing.
If they didn't find out exactly where these things came from and how to stop more of them from coming it was only a matter of time before they lost.
“What do you want to do captain?” One of the female personnel on the bridge asked him.
“Send Xelena down to the planet. I want her and others to try to get as many civilians off that planet as possible. The Excutioners will be all over any transport ships without anybody there to lay some covering fire. We can't bother with transporting or anything along the lines with the bastards screwing it up.” Lavene ordered as the female quickly complied to answer his orders.
There was one small bright spot during these dark chaotic time. A specialized group of androids that were made, for lack of a better term, one being armies. Lavene believed it after seeing them in action, doing feats even their strongest Power Armors would fail to do. Despite this, even they couldn't turn the tide of things and eventually they began losing some of them.
Now there was just one. The brain child of the project was dead and all attempts of trying to make more had failed.
The Admiral turned his attention back at various status reports, barely any of them good news. He didn't care if he had to hold this ship together with primitive glue and duct tape, he was Not going to lose another planet.
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The city that was once ruins now seemed to be alive, but under attack of some kind. Fires seemed to be going on various parts of the city. In the air, it seemed large capital ships were over head, far larger then anything Akina and the others had seen normally. The ships were fighting enemies that looked as if they were 'living' material of some kind, but did resemble something of a mockery of conventional ships.
On the ground, there were humanoids in what seemed to be silver power armor of a type anyone present besides Xelena had seen. They looked impressive and judging by how fast they were moving if that wasn't their natural speed were more then just a piece of armor. The ground shuddered horribly from the fire fight taking place from above, just the weapons fire seemed to shake the earth despite being many miles above.
The armored troops seemed to be trying to simultaneously fight and protect what looked like civilians to another area; which looked surprisingly human. One of those strange 'living' machines became visible, towering over them. Appearance wise, it looked something like a mech.
It became apparent quickly their weapons had no effect on the being. The first strike, from what looked a missle launcher of some kind connected; the blast seeming to destroy a city block or two just behind it which was clear of friendly targets. From the smoke however, there seemed to be no damage what so ever to besides some minor injuries and cracks; so they were forced to fall back more.
Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Xelena appeared from above, her left hand a cannon of some kind firing some shots at the things back. It caught its attention but didn't seem to do any serious damage which was fine with her. Turning to the Android after she landed close, it tried to shoot at her but she moved, seemingly to vanish from her spot, coming down from above.
It raised its cannon arm to fire, a powerful purple beam which she surely couldn't dodge.
Only that seemed to be part of the plan. Xelena was covered in a energy field of some kind, streaking towards them like a purple comet. The beam seemed to hit and bounce off the android's energy as she moved closer until she slammed into the arm cannon. It quickly welded it shut, but it quickly used its other 'arm' to try to swat her away.
Again, she didn't budge from the challenge. Surprisingly, she simply grabbed it and began to pull.
Then with a strange crack sound, the arm gave away as it was literally torn off.
It became apparent this thing was a creature of some kind.
Because it howled in pain.
But it wasn't natural. The howl was like a echo, a mixture of male, female and other voices all in a painful crescendo that had no right coming from the thing. Before Xelena could move to finish it off, she was quickly swatted away. This time through a building and on the ground, making a crater. The force would have been enough to kill most, but she got up, seemingly unharmed just a bit unsteady.
Her opponent didn't wait for her, its arm surprisingly, was back. Flying above, it rained down death on the android, energy attacks and what seemed to be high-yield missles. The result was obvious. The ground was glasses while the nearby buildings collapsed due to the strain from the stress. Dust had kicked up so it was harder to see, but that didn't seem to bother the unnatural abomination.
Xelena was suddenly behind it, her arm a cannon, only this time bigger. Before it could even fully turn around, it was hit with a purple beam. On contact, it seemed to be instantly vaporized, the explosion big enough to be seen on the ground.
She only waited long enough to have the kill confirm before darting off in one direction at a insane speed as the battle raged on.
And despite the incredible amount of power Xelena possessed, it mattered little in the end.* *
The hologram images stopped, and everyone else was in a quite stunned silence. They weren't sure what to say, and Xelena wasn't speaking at all. Only thing she did say that was too quite for human ears to hear was "Run, run, run away.." It sounded a bit bitter and sad at the same time.
"How did you end up in that bunker?" One asked.
"I.." Xelena paused. "I was there to keep the people inside safe until help could arrive. Those creatures were called Executioners simply. The Nalga don't know where they come from, nobody seemed too. They just came one day and started attacking without cause, or seemingly no reason. At first they weren't too hard to deal with, but they kept coming and getting stronger each time. Eventually the Nalga made us."
"Us as in androids like you?" Akina prompted gently.
"Correct." Xelena said, voice tired. "There was originally fourteen of us total, my brothers and sisters. After we were made, we were given the choice if we wanted to fight or not. We all accepted." They weren't 'truly' but they might as well have been. "We were losing still, but we at least slowed them down but..the best we could was just run away to other worlds and it would start again."
"If you'll excuse me, I would like to sleep."
One of the people present seemed surprised. "You sleep?"
"I can eat and drink if I want too and feel pain. I was made to mimic a normal humanoid as much as possible without having any organic tissue."
Akina nodded. "Yes. I think you should get some sleep, you've done more then enough."
Xelena said nothing, nodding a bit and then left out the room. Security still kept tabs on her, perhaps even more so after seeing what she was capable of. Or at least used to be.
"Can you imagine all the history it knows?" One of the 'guest' sciencetist said, they didn't seem to be Alusarian. "All that vast knowledge, not to mention technology. If we could get our hands on it and study it, it could drastically-"
"No." Akina said firmly, but it was a bit more cold then normal. "First off, its her, not it. Secondly being fully sentient, she's treated as such. You've been here long enough to be more then aware of our laws."
They seemed dissapointed, but let the matter drop. "I apologize captain."
Another coughed. "Either way, I personally think of air of caution is warranted. From what we gathered, she's not near as powerful as she originally was, but still quite strong. Anyone can lift a mech like that and the other things she's done should be approached with extreme caution."
"Noted." Akina's voice was netural. "All the same, she's given us some large amount of trust doing this much. I'm not going to betray that trust. Caution is fine, but don't over do it. If there is nothing else, you're all dismissed."
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Xelena, Akina and a few members of security came back to explore the ruins for one final time. In particular, the android wanted to confirm something for herself. She had already been trying to absorb what had happened and that the Nalga might not even exist anymore. She was allowed access to a normal computer for research, which had kept her working away all night.
The group finally arrived at yet another one of those 'hidden' bunkers that seemed to be on this planet, except this time there was evidence of life once being there. Two skeletons were in the corner, one seemed adult sized while the other, was much smaller. From the looks of things, they seemed to be family, their hands were held and just by the child skeleton was a doll.
It was worn, but surprisingly still in good shape. The eye was missing but otherwise fine. Xelena went closer, taking a slow, shaky hand to pick it up. She just stood there, an intense expression of sorrow on her features she didn't bother trying to hide.
"Zina.."
Xelena very gently put doll back where it belonged, going to other skeletons. She seemed to know all present that were inside, the air getting heavier around her. Finally, she stopped with the skeletons, instead going for a scan. She tried to pick up any Nalga, or maybe, just maybe one of her brothers or sisters somehow surviving.
Nothing changed. The only thing on the radar was herself, as if to say mockingly:
"You're all alone now.."
Akina finally stepped forward, her voice was gentle. "Xelena. Do you want to come with us? I can't promise you there's any Nalga out there, but it would give you something to do."
The android didn't answer. What was left for her now? She was four thousand years late in a universe that had completely moved on. She was a protector not just because of programming, it was in her nature, her way of being.
But that didn't mean anything if her people she was suppose to protect were gone.
If..if there was a small chance they were still out there somewhere, she had to find them. Even if they weren't, it would be better doing something then sitting until her inner demons drove her insane.
Finally she answered, voice tired and resigned with a slight edge of weariness.
"All right.."
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Status: Alive
