Salem's Conquest: Prologue
(Play SAMPA by HEALTH here.)
A man could be seen looking out a window, smoking a cigarette. Behind him are two more men, all wearing white suits and ties. "Is it really the time we do this?" The man on the left said. "Yes, it's finally time we initiate the plan, get our contact in Dimension F-2418 up to speed, and have her begin the process of destroying the Dimensional Barrier." He said, looking over the snowy city of New York.
"What if she betrays us? You know the risks!" The man on the right of him. He stayed silent for a little bit, but then said, "This is now or never, we need to do this now, or everyone we know and love will DIE, DAMNIT!" The guy to the left of him walked away, and out of the room, and the other man followed suit. The man looked out on the city for a little while longer, then he stubbed his cigarette in his ashtray, and left the room.
(Stop Track,)
Roscoe Street Station: 2:00 AM.
Max had woken up on a train, the last thing he knew was that he was in Bahia, sleeping in a hotel room. The train stopped, and he instantly knew where he was, Roscoe. Max never really liked being in the train station, ever since the murder of his friend, Alex Balder, of which he was framed of. The train doors open, and Max didn't like how the show started, but that's what life dealt him at the time, and he just had to accept it. He walked out to find a severed arm on the floor, and Max immediately pulled out his M1911, and began to slowly walk around the station.
"Vinny! Where the hell are you, we need to g- OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT TH- AGHHHH!" Max heard a mobster say, and wondered if the arm is what was left of Vinny . He would continue to walk up the stairs, and turned right to find what seemed to be a Large black wolf, like it's fur and skin was just Pitch black. It turned around to see Payne, and he saw it had a Bone Mask, and pure red eyes.
It charged Payne, he rolled out of the way and fired his M1911 at the creature. It got a good slash on Payne, but that was fixed with a bottle of painkillers. After a few shots with the M1911, the bone mask breaks, and falls off the creature, and Payne takes the opportunity to shoot it in the head.
The creature fell to the ground dead after the skull of the beast got a new resident in the form of a bullet, and the creature began to disappear. Max only figured this out when he heard the bullet itself fall to the floor, and he turned around to see the creature gone, and he thought it was still alive, so he reloaded, and went on with caution.
Fortunately for Payne, there were no more of those things, and he left the station, and out onto the snowy city of New York. He saw several buildings on fire, and heard several S.W.A.T cars drive past him, sirens blaring.
He decided to follow it, to see what was going on. It was a short run, but what he saw was a spectacle to say the least. He saw five S.W.A.T Vehicles and twenty five of New York's finest firing at what seemed to be a giant pitch black bear, with another one of those Bone masks, and those red eyes.
The giant bear charged the team, and some of them tried to run for cover, but the bear rammed into them and the S.W.A.T vehicles, causing them to explode. The bear emerged from the flames looking pretty okay, then it noticed Max. He ran into the closest building he could, and ran far away from the door, and behind a desk, where he found several Civilians, all afraid of what's out there.
They hear it smash through the wall, and roar a mighty roar, and that's when Max noticed a kid was with one of the Civilians. He motioned for them to stay quiet. After a terrifying thirty seconds, the creature left the building, and walked off.
Max got up to check if it was gone, and once he saw the coast was clear, motioned the civilians that it was safe. They got up and quickly left the building, while Payne stayed around and wondered what building he entered. He quickly found out where he was at, Aesir. He would have to start running, as a fireball was thrown his way by an unknown source.
He ran towards the stairs, and began to climb them, and the unknown person continued to chase him. After several flights of stairs, he had made it towards to Penthouse, and got in cover behind a couch before she entered the room. He rolled from cover, and fired at the woman who had black hair, a chinese-like dress, and amber eyes.
(Play THE GIRL by HEALTH here.)
She threw a fireball at Max, which he rolled away from, to which she charged him and punched him. He returned the favor by kicking her in the gut and delivering a good old one, two to her face. He grabbed her and pointed his gun at her, "Just who the hell are you, a warlock?" Max remarked.
She smirked and nodded in agreement before headbutting Payne, disarming him, and throwing his gun through the window and smashing it. He blocked the next few punches, and got a good strike on her, and managed to grab her once more, and threw her out the smashed window.
Max, thinking she's dead begins to walk away until another fire ball is thrown his way, and he sees her levitating in front of the window. She fired a fireball at him, and Max got in cover behind the kitchen counter, and had his objective set, get the hell out of there and escape this possible god of a woman.
Max heard the doors open, peeked around to see people in Ballistic Armor and… animal like features? One of them head towards the kitchen, and find Payne. She tries to knock him out, but he disarms her and shoots her, the guards tried to kill Payne, but he shootdodged out of the way of incoming fire and shot them both in the head.
He ran downstairs to find a mouse/human hybrid, and he tried to shoot him, but Max shot faster, and ran down the sta- BOOM! A news helicopter had crashed into the Aesir Headquarters, and the wreckage blocked his way down, so he had to fight his way up to the helicopter pad. The staircase he was on stopped going up five floors lower then the roof, so he had to fight throughout the office.
(Play COMBAT DRUGS by HEALTH here.)
A Cheetah Variant of those human/animal hybrids charged him and tried to maul him, but he kicked him off and shot him dead with the MP5. He rolled and shot another man, and Meleed another one. He ran cover to cover, and their forces had stopped coming, so he made it to the stairs and made it to the roof and found what seemed to be a Plane with Jet Engines pointing upwards, that's where they came from.
He saw a Laser aiming for him, and he got in cover behind some of the AC units, and heard a shot of a sniper rifle just before he got into cover. He ran from cover to cover until he had an idea. He went back down a couple floors and to the office and found a phone, and called Passos, One of his closest friends, even though he lied to him in the beginning.
(Stop Track.)
São Paulo, 3:42 AM.
Ring… Ring... Ring…
Passos woke up next to his Beautiful Fiance, Giovanna Taveres to the sound of his phone ringing, he picked it up and answered in a sleepy tone, "Hello, what are you trying to sell me this time?" in spanish. "It's Payne, I need help, how fast can you get to the Aegis Headquarters in New York in your helicopter?" "Well, faster than a snail, that's for sure, but it'll be around eight hours, man." Passos responded. "See you soon, Passos, send my good morning to Giovanna, will you?"
Passos gave a slight chuckle and said, "I will, Max, see you in eight." Passos hung up, and Max reloaded, ready for anything. He heard a window smash, and footsteps suddenly being heard, it was that potential god who could summon fireballs and float.
Max slowly walked around until he got the jump on Cinder, and fired. His bullets did nothing, it was almost like she had a shield all around her. She looked at him with an evil glare, and prepared a fireball. She fired it at him, and he got hit in his arm, and he dropped his MP5 in pain. His skin was beyond burnt, but he downed a bottle of painkillers to ease the pain.
She was over Payne, and began to make another fireball to end the poor man's life, but he kicked her in the leg, Picked up his MP5, and aimed square it square between the eyes and said, "Apparently you didn't get the email, I want answers, now!" Max demanded of the woman.
She simply responded "Destiny." with a cold tone. "Yeah, and draw me a Tarot card while your at it!" Max retorted. She tried to fire a fireball at him because of that insult, and Max stepped on her arm and said, "I don't think you have enough Mana for that." He then lifted her up by the dress, shot out the glass, and said, "Better hope you can float again you fire obsessed bird!" and kicked her out of the window.
Of course she floated back up, with an undying range toward the man named Max Payne. When she floated to the window, Max fired everything he had at the woman, and finally, with the last bullet in his clip, finally shot her through the head, and her body fell to the concrete road below.
Max sighed in relief, and smoked a cigarette before climbing the stairs to the roof, and saw the beautiful night sky. Then Max looked closer, and found what seemed to be a jet fighter chasing a… giant bird? None of this made sense, Max took the time to think about his current situation.
He woke up in a train going to Roscoe, fought a Pitchblack wolf with a bone mask and red eyes, Got chased by a giant bear Variant of one of those things, got chased by a potential god, killed human/animal hybrids, and killed said god. None of this made any potential sense to Max, he felt like this was one of his nightmares he had long ago. Max decided to not dwell on it further, and waited for Passos.
8 hours later…
Passos arrived and landed on the helipad, and saw Max with a claw mark spanning his entire body, and his left arm burnt pretty bad. "Jesus, Max, what the hell happened?" Passos said, genuinely concerned about him. "I'll explain in the helicopter, okay?" Max sounded tense, so Passos jumped back into the pilots seat of the helicopter, and Max got in the Passenger seat.
Max told Passos everything, and Passos said, "Well, what a way to start your morning!" "Well you got that right." Max said back to Passos. Then Max had a thought, "What if those monsters are in São Paulo?" Max decided not to dwell on it, and enjoy the ride.
(Author's Note: Kept you waiting, huh? Well, the reason I have not been posting is simple, writer's block and laziness, and once I thought of this, I had to write it so you knew I was not dead, and don't worry, Into the Deadlands isn't dead yet! Hell, I even have the opening Paragraph for you! So here it is!)
Team RWBY and Outlaw Pyrrha were at a new makeshift camp, to get some rest for the night. Blake was cooking fish that she caught for the crew, Pyrrha was writing in her journal about the recent events, Yang was waiting for Blake's food, it was always the best with her cooking, Weiss was thinking about the world they were in, and Ruby was inside the wagon, tinkering with her Buffalo rifle. "Food's ready!" Blake called out, and the gang sat around while Blake handed them some fish, and they ate it together, happy.