1. Baal Tower
The Zone Universe is in a great state of recovery. Five thousand years ago a great evil, Overlord Zetta began a campaign to destroy the Zone Universe and rule over the rest of existence. He had all sorts of dark creatures and villains on his side as he moved to destroy the universe. His attempt to destroy the universe shook the universe to its very core, reshaping both the physical landscape and the feel of the universe forever.
Under his control, Zetta had a great monster as his trump card, Overlord Tyrant Baal, a monster of infinite power and strength able to reduce the universe to ash at any moment. Baal became a major piece of Zetta's game against the universe.
After four years of war with Zetta destroying the universe one zone at a time, a group of five great Pirate Elders banded together and used all their power to throw Overlord Zetta into the Torrent Abyss, the deepest and most dark spot in the universe, they placed a seal upon the Abyss forever trapping Zetta within the infinite darkness.
Along with Zetta the elders had just enough power to seal away Overlord Tyrant Baal as well. But in doing so they give up their very life energy and vanished from the universe. Baal was sealed within an intricate circular seal which used the monsters power to fuel the seal and give it strength so it will never deteriorate. A tower was built around the seal which contained Baal. The tower became known as Baal Tower.
The sky was dark as midnight came. The sky was clear, with stars sprinkled across the sky, sparkling like tiny diamonds. A cool breeze blew through the air giving the night a nice cool feel to it, which was a completely opposite feel that the sun had given the day. It had gone from a hot, sweaty, muggy day, to a nice cool, breezy and comfortable night.
In the middle of the area stood a massive metal tower standing two hundred and fifty stories tall. There were no windows on the outside of the tower, it was completely smooth and so clear and free of any type of rust or dirt, that the moonlight reflected off the sides of the tower like a mirror. The metal was a dark shaded metal almost making the tower invisible in the darkness of night, the only way you could actually see the tower in the dead of night was if you knew exactly where it was, or the moon was out and reflected light off the smooth, clear surface of the tower.
The Shade Zone was a Zone that had bright, clear, sunny days, but always had completely black nights with the moon only appearing once every few days. The nights were so black and anyone who stumbled into the zone would never be able to navigate through the dense forests and massive oceans that covered the entire zone.
Baal Tower sat in the very middle of the Shade Zone, surrounded by thick, expansive forests which anyone would have to travel across a one hundred thousand mile ocean in order to even reach. Animals prowled through the forests hunting for food, other animals, vegetation and other forms of sustenance.
Standing outside the front of Baal Tower stood two creatures guarding the only entrance and exit to the tower. The creatures were tall, standing at seven foot tall even, with green scales covering their skin. They wore white chest armor that wrapped around them like a vest. The armor outlines a muscular chest and was embroiled with a cursive P on the upper left breast, showing they were official Pirate Soldiers.
Their heads were slightly bigger than the average human head, their mouth was a narrow snout that resembled a crocodiles snout. Their ears were pointy and were also covered with the green scales that covered their bodies. Their eyes were yellow with narrow slits for pupils. Hidden inside their mouth, were razor sharp teeth. Their midsection and legs were bare. The Pirate Soldiers did not reproduce, they were genetically engineered, cloned by the dozens. Therefore they all looked exactly the same and there were no sexes such as males or females.
Slung over their right shoulder was an energy based assault rifle resembling the M-16 Assault Rifle that they had modeled it after. They had come across the M-16 design while visiting another universe and decided to replicate the design but change the overall components from bullets, to energy based.
One Pirate guard stood on each side of the entrance, their yellow, slit-like eyes staring into the distance, waiting for trouble that had not come in over five thousand years. Those two guards were stationed there twenty four hours a day seven days a week, they had no others that took over for them, they stood there all day and all night protecting the entrance of the tower from enemies that had not returned in five thousand years. The Pirates were bred for the sole purpose of following orders no matter. They were soldiers every hour of every day ready to obey without question.
This night however, would not be so peaceful and calm as the previous nights. Tonight, everything would begin to change.
The two reptilian Pirate guards stood like statues one on each side of the open doorway. Just out of their sight two shadowy figures appeared just inside the dense tree line around the area where Baal Tower stood. They moved silently through the trees towards Baal Tower.
One of the Pirate guards noticed one of the shadowy figures moving through the trees towards them and slung his gun around his shoulder, shouldering it and aiming at the figure.
Moments later the figure vanished. The Pirate looked quickly to its left then to its right where its partner stood. Its slit-like eyes grew huge as he stared at the spot where his partner was suppose to be. It's partner was gone, vanished. The Pirate quickly looked from left to right trying to find its partner. It hadn't heard a sound from its right, the other Pirate had simply vanished.
Then suddenly a noise to the Pirate's left, it raised his gun while quickly turning around ready to fire at the mystery guest when it's vision went black. The Pirate crumbled to the ground in the middle of the entrance. Standing in front of where the Pirate fell was a suited figure. The person stood at probably about six feet tall with a black metal suit covering the body. The helmet had a red V shaped visor which gave the person behind the helmet a means to look out. Sticking out of the wrist part of the armor of the persons right arm was a blade, the purple blood of the pirate already vanished from the metal. In one quick SWISH movement, the blade shot back up into the armor.
The person glanced behind him. "It's clear" he said, his voice muffled by the helmet. "They're dead"
"Took you long enough" a female voice replied walking out of the darkness towards the entrance of Baal Tower. The woman was about five foot, ten inches tall with long brown hair and bright white eyes. She glared at the armored man. "Well, did you send the signal that it's all clear?" she asked. "Come on, Juarez. Get with the program"
Juarez glared back through his V shaped visor helmet wanting nothing more than to strike her down with the same hidden blade he had used to cut the Pirates throat. Biting back his impulse to kill her where she stood he touched the right side of the temple of his helmet with his pointer and middle finger.
"All clear" he said into his helmet's communication link.
Moments later several other figures appeared outside of Baal Tower. The figures moved forward and into Baal Tower vanishing into the tower. Juarez stood outside of the tower for a few minutes making sure there were no other Pirate patrols around before following the others inside.
"Alright, listen up" the woman said placing her hands on her hips. She was dressed in an emerald green robe with a black tank top underneath and black leather pants with black boots. "We're heading up to the middle floor, that's where the seal is. You two" she indicated two random men. "You two are to perfectly impersonate the Pirate's voice and remove their communicators from their bodies. When the Pirates attempt to communicate with them, communicate back and tell them everything is fine"
The two men nodded and moved out of the tower, one of them stopping and kneeling next to the body in the doorway, while the other moved to the right just outside the tower entrance where the second body had been placed by Juarez.
"The rest of you with me" she demanded. "We need to make sure that we hold this place. Eventually the Pirates will find out that their guards here have been killed, if that time comes before he gets here, we must hold this tower" she ordered. "We have to keep this place until Wesker gets here"