Disclaimers 'n' crap: Haihai peeps! Well, I thought I'd treat you all to an early update in honor of the coming year. Here's the catch though, it's a short update and it's not really an update. It mainly profiles each character briefly and sets up the stage for the next chapter which explains a bit of back story concerning Elaine. Thanx to my friend Kayla for the "kinetics" info. Thanx to all who reviewed! Oh, and I forgot to mention from the last chapter: I don't own Mobius. Enjoy.


This was the beginning of a new development for all of us. We confronted Elaine's army in a sort of guerilla fight along with Raiden's army and we won. Somewhere in there, Auggie ran into Elaine herself and she slashed his left eye out. Juliette managed to get him out of there somehow. Oh, by the way, I don't think I got a chance to formally introduce my comrades. Here are their files:

Name: David Ruxon

Abilities: Having Attention Deficit Disorder, David is truly the behavioral oddball of the unit. He is quite skilled with large, handheld projectile weapons, his favorite being a class: DE machine gun.

Name: Ezra Friedkin

Abilities: Our resident chemical expert. Thought at one point to be a vitakinetic (someone with the power of medicine and healing), Ezra is a professional with short-range, small-scale chemical and biological weapons.

Name: Katherine Ann Cabot

Abilities: A perfectionist in the ancient weapon-based war arts. Katherine's weapon of choice is a crossbow, but is also skilled with normal arrows and medium-sized, handheld projectile weapons.

Name: Daisy Lipenowski

Abilities: Our resident part-time seer. Though she developed true psychic abilities when she began training, she prefers hand-to-hand combat due to her belief that "If you're going to kill someone, you should at least do it in a way that tells them how they're being off-ed."

Name: Augusto "Auggie" Ciceros

Abilities: Possesses one of the most unique and unusual abilities in the whole military. After his left eye was cut out during a chance encounter with Elaine, the strength of his right eye was increased to beyond anything that was thought physically possible. He serves as our top sniper/sharp-shooter/lookout…basically anything that involves good eyesight.

Name: Juliette Waybourne

Abilities: Our group optimist. Juliette is quite skilled in the use of knifes and daggers as weapons, but has yet to compare to Scott's ability to do the same.

Name: Shelby Merrick

Abilities: Considered by most to be Scott's second-in-command. During her training, Shelby developed the ability to defy friction at will, allowing her to pull off some pretty kick-ass spinning attacks without breaking a sweat.

Name: Scott Barringer

Crystal Class: Warrior, Gunslinger, Alternative Spellcaster

Abilities: Undoubtedly the cream of the crop, largely due to his 20 years experience fighting for The Crystal Alliance. Skilled in hand-to-hand combat, sword fighting, gun fighting, knife dueling and limited use of magic.

Name: Michelle Angelo

Crystal Class: Mild Geokinetic (Someone with the power of the earth)

Abilities: "Substituted" for Shelby as Scott's girlfriend for the past 20 years. Known to the rest of E-Max as an acclaimed artist of highly praised heritage, she works alongside Rosemary in communications for the generals during the war.

Okay, so Michelle isn't really part of the Special Forces Unit, but she's like one to me. She's like me, she always survives. That was something that I was afraid would come between me and Shelby. I didn't want her to turn away from me now that we were together again because she thought I had replaced her with another girl. Although Shelby knew about Michelle, I still felt the need to talk to her about it.


OOOOOO…trouble in paradise? Eh…I doubt it. Oh, to keke1 and Ghostwriter, I do plan to put a special bit at the end of the fic that should clear up the confusing-as-hell stuff that just pops up and doesn't get explained. Like the worldgates and "the accident". See youse in '05!