Log:Return of the Enemy Ace, Scene 4

Return of the Enemy Ace 2057/01/28 	 Enemy Ace Ilse von Haupstein Victor 4

Victor wakes up in a spacious bedroom, that feels oddly like home, but different. Perhaps it's the exposed stone walls, that look excavated.

Victor blinks a few times and sits up, looking about, checking his surroundings out with his sense, trying to figure out where this is.

Slowly it comes back to Victor, The subamrine ride, the underground base -- Victor is currently in Enemy Ace's island base.

Victor shivers slightly and standing up, "Zat girl...." frowns .oO(I hope shes alright...now how to get out of here..)

Victor moves about the room to try and figure out what materials he has in use to make an excuse.

Victor hrmms a bit and looks about. He finally takes a seat, looking for something to smoke. "Vhat to do.."

Victor takes a cuban out of the box and smells it. "Amazing he remembered..."

Victor takes a match and moves to the bathroom to discover quite a bit of it missing, "Vell zeemz he remembered.." Victor smirks and comes back to the chair, "Zhen ve vait"

Shortly there is a ding at the doorway. "Herr Doctor?" a female voice says?

Victor takes a long drag off his cigar and finally sayes, "Ja?"

"I have been told to inform you that dinner will be served in precisely one hour. The Baron requests your presence."

Victor smirks, "Zo i am to be in the mood for dinn-ar? Vell zi zuppose zo."

Victor says, "Zo, vill zhey atleazt allow me an radio or zomething for entertainment? Or zimply za cigarz?"

"You are free to leave your room, so long as you are accompanied by your escort."

Victor grins a bit, "An whom might zat be?"

"The Baron has asked me to make sure that your stay here is as pleasant as possible."

Victor says, "And whom might vou be?"

"Are you decent, Herr Doctor? It seems rather ridiculous to speak like this, through the door."

Victor says, "Zi am quite decent"

Ssssht. The door slides to reveal a young woman in her twenties, a radiant beauty with blonde silken hair, swept to that it covers her right eye. She's wearing a lavender gown that reaches to the floor with a round neckline that is flattering, but not scandalous. She is flanked by two cyborg gaurds.

Victor nods a bit, "Vell zi vill admit, vour not whom i thought vould greet mich"

The woman does a small curtsey in greeting. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Ilse von Haupstien. The Baron is my great-great-grandfather."

Victor says, "But, take mich to vhereever, zi grow tired of vaiting..."

Ilse says, "If you would follow me, Herr Doctor." She turns and leads the way, walking through the halls of the complex.

Victor nods, "Zat iz...quite imazing, I didn't believe he vas human enough for zuch actz"

Victor follows Ilse, trying to figure out what other parts of her is robotic. If even more so if shes a machine herself.

Ilse frowns slightly, as if Victor's touched a nerve. "The most severe of the Baron's injuries came during the Second World War, but by then, he had already sired two sons."

Victor nods a bit, thinking about how far he should take this, "Zis I know...zi vas zhere...though zi muzt ask vou...vhy do you follow Ace zhis way, becauze of blood?"

Ilse says, "There once was a time when I tried to ignore my birthright. I instead focused on ther things. It wasn't until he saved my life that I realized how foolish I had been."

Victor says, "And he saved vour life...how and vhy?"

Victor says, "I've never know Ace to zpare anyone he didnt have a secondary reazon for..."

Victor says, "Hovever...blood iz...blood. Perhapz zhere iz ztill more to him than he revealz"

"I was a fighter pilot for the Unified Earth Space Forces. I was involved in a horrific crash. It was only by the Baron's technology that I was able to live." She pauses, "And if you need to ask why he would save me, perhaps you don't know the Baron as well as you'd thought."

Victor nods in agreence, "Indeed zi do not...however zi might azk vhat vou think vill come of him abducting me? He'z ztolen mich research...mich veaponz zi vizhed to god i could have deztroyed...he vill uze them on zhey people..for vhat reazon? Becauze he vishes to rule over zhem?"

Nobody says, "Think we wants you to witness the results of the research that you had abandoned, Herr Doctor."

Victor smirks, "Zo hez going to try and zhock mich vith za horror zat zi gave up? Zatz it, ja?"

Nobody says, "I'm not sure. I think that he has the impression that you'd be impressed."

Victor smirks, "Nin, it iz not zat i abandoned zey rezearch becauze i didnt think zit vould vork, i did it becauze people like vour great zo many grandfatherz ztill roamed free"

Victor says, "Zi vill hate to dissappoint him and more to zey point, i dislike greatly zat vou don't care hez going to hurt zo many people"

"If I recall the story correctly, your first attempt to use the technology angered the local townsfolk. I think the Baron wants to prove a point -- that the small minded majority shouldn't be allowed to hold back the aspirations of the gifted minority.

Victor frowns a bit recalling the tale. "Vell zome boundriez vere not ment to be crossed one might zay...My mentor vas utterly deztroyed by trying to cross zuch bountriez"

Victor says, "And zi might add, zat zo nearly vas Ace"

Eventually Victor, Ilse, and the two flanking guards reach the dining room. There Enemy Ace waits, seated. The guards leave Victor alone with his two hosts.

Victor moves to help seat Ilse before he sits himself, not looking at Ace at all until he is seated.

Enemy Ace is in his dress uniform. "Ah Victor! Just in time!" He raises a remote control anf presses a button. A television screen lowers.

Victor scoots himself into his seat and looks boredly at Ace, "Ja, i iz here"

Victor says, "Ready to vatch you bastardize yearz of my life for vour pleazure...pleaze move it along...zi only have enturnity"

Nobody says, "Let it not be said that I am a poor host. I am pleased to say that I should be able to provide some entertainment with this meal."

Enemy Ace says, "Let it not be said that I am a poor host. I am pleased to say that I should be able to provide some entertainment with this meal."

Ace flips the channels. The images look like surveillance videos of other parts of the base. Nothing seems to be happening.

Victor smirks, "Right..."

Hans is a typical cyborg trooper.

Victor says, "Vell mich Hans vill take a valk."

Hans is ready to follow.

Victor moves toward where ever Ilse went off too, hoping to talk to her...

It's not too far to the control room, where technicians are frantically rushing out. A group of soldiers rushes down the hallway in the opposite direction. "Schnell! Schnell! << Hurry! Hurry! >>"

Ilse is in the center of the control room.

Victor moves toward the control room waiting by the door. "Ilse?"

Ilse barely spares Victor the briefest glance. "You... what are you doing?" She turns to her technicians. "Prepare the ignition sequence!"

Victor moves in, "Trying to help vou"

Victor says, "Vou muzt realize vhat thiz vill do."

Victor says, "Vour talking about ending almost all life on this island we call America, vour hand vill be za one who bringz it"

Victor says, "Za blood of a billion people deztroyed.."

Victor says, "Vou vant zat?"

Ilse says, "The rest of the world is war with us, with the Baron."

Victor says, "Because he has brought it upon himzelf!"

Victor says, "Do you believe you have vhat it takes to survive being the geocider of America?"

"We've survived thus far on our own." Ilse says.

Victor says, "And vour never unleashed a virus that could wipe out the planet before"

Victor says, "Pleaze think about zhis! Vhat happens in the next 10 minutes could reshape vhat zhis planet iz for all time..."

"Madame!" A technician says, "The invaders have defeated the squad in the submarine dock!"

Victor says, "Vour father vouldnt mind living in a world full of mindless zombies...but do vou vant to raise a child where they can be snatched and eaten by by vour populace?!"

Ilse says, "What we do today, can be undone. Think of the possibilities, Doctor. With your help, once everyone is infected, will be able to clear the world of the infected and the rebuild society as we choose to."

Victor says, "Are vou a fool! Thiz can not be undone!"

Ilse announces. "Fifty seconds to launch!"

Victor frowns and moves closer to Ilse, "Truzt in mich.."

Victor says, "Vou dont vant vour children living in zhis vorld."

"But you see, Herr Doctor," Ilse says, "I do trust in your ability to create an antigen for the revivification virus."

Victor says, "And vhat if zi don't?"

Nobody says, "You will. What other choice is there?"

Victor says, "To let vou die vith vour victoms..."

Ilse says, "You wouldn't... You could be father to a new era of civilization. A new age of man."

Victor says, "Vhy vould i vant to?"

"The alternative is extinction." Ilse says.

Victor shrugs, "Vhy vould I care?"

Victor says, "Vould vould have deztroyed everything I cared about"

Victor says, "Vou could live in the hell vou've created"

Ilse says, "It would take some time to adjust. But time is somethign that we all have an abundance of.""

Victor shrugs, "Fine be ignorant of vhat vour doing. Vour place vill be held in ztone"

"Hans." Ilse says, "This conversation is over, Herr Doctor. Hans, show the Doctor back to his quarters."

Victor makes a break for it and throws himself and Ilse, trying to mash as many buttons has he can before he is pulled off by the cyborg mence.

Ilse reacts.

Ilse tries to grab Victor, but fails to catch him in time.

Ilse scoffs. "Pathetic." She swings for Victor with the back of her fist.

Ilse hits like a freight train. Victor is knock unconscious.