There was much convergence...

Well, to say that this SHOULD make things more . . .difficult for the heroes here would be a fair thing to say. Curfews and tight rationing, making feeding and care of cubs on the sly slightly difficult without proper credentials....

Thank goodness for backup generators for these kind of emergencies (in case of power failures in the broader national grid).

Right now things are still too much in flux and the whole of the situation too new for those in power at Tokyo 3 to know what exactly befell them. Yes, the lights flickered and the backup city generators (the city is well prepared for invaders from space so the backups . . . just in case). The city is well stocked for supplies and it's population is . . . orderly and used to being under various degrees of what some would term "martial law" and emergency conditions. Point in fact, all but a few of it's citizens are still in the attack shelters.

What is being said here is that life goes on as well as it can (as normal as it can) in this strange, constantly space invader attacked metropolis. How long that shall last will be seen later, but right now for our demifoxes and kitsune their jobs won't be as difficult as it COULD be, as odd as it sounds.

. . .

Unaware of the events going outside of the city borders, the fox eared ones find a place to stash themselves. It is a high rise appartment affair. Large and industrial bland...and dilapidated. One of the past it's prime buildings that probably should have been demolished long ago if not for the war with the alien invaders making . . . resources tight and all that.

War time conditions are the norm nowadays.

That and strange goings ons from time to time from the intel types who've made their nest nearby (at the base where that one gigantic robot fighter was homebased at). Nobody knows for sure what they're doing and MORE importantly they do not WANT to know (i.e. likely to be "disappeared" if too curious). In other words they are oblivious or at least TRY to be so...

So when odd neighbors (in truth a kitsune or a demifox in magical disguise) suddenly show up who are a bit . . . off . . .

. . .

Nobody knows nothing about nobody.

That and there seems to be more concern directed in the news. First, there is the quiet unexpected video clip (garnered from some kid's vid camera . . . despite attempts to supress it) of what happened in that battle that had knocked that one giant Earth robot on it's petard.

Details on the shaky video are grainy, but what happens is clear enough. The Evangelion unit (that giant robot thingy) was losing and losing BADLY to the latest space invader, which was some kind of glowing ribbon that floated through the air and was doing a boaring attack to the outmatched unit. Indeed, not only did the big gunshots from the robot's weapon not do anything to the glowing worm/thing/space invader . . . .they just made a very nice "twang" sound when they contacted the . . .

What the Star Trek types out there would call it's shields (known as an "Absolute Terror Field" in this anime reality).

However, for whatever reason there was what some in the media (much to the chargrin of some of the more materialistic and level headed out there) some . . . mage types took offense (a bunch of people, some male, some female and whatever) and started throwing . . . .lightning bolts at the glowing worm....

Actually, it wasn't offense that set off the attack. More like a female magic user recognized the setting and shouted out the danger: if that worm thing penetrated that robot and started to compromise (psychically) the pilot, the pilot would throw the robot's self destruct . . . and the whole thing would go off like a tac nuke (with them at ground zero). A quick telepathic glimpse into the intentions of the worm confirmed the danger and thus magic attacks (which the AT field never was designed to counter)...

The mages beat feet and got out of the area before the authorites could question them. That's not important . . . right now anyway.

It did just, however, set the scene for when the demifoxes showed up, building tension which hit a HIGH note when all outside contact with the modern world was lost (i.e. they got teleported to a world much like what Rei and friends hale from).

. . .

Remember where in another storyline (maybe) you might have read about some girl named Belboz seathing at her treachorous apprentice for playing with a magical artifact called the Necromonicom (re: 13741)? Well, here is a news flash: it happened! The artifact is out of control and has taken over Elaine (causing all kind of chaos and death). The Amazons are in something of a panicked route, but it could have been MUCH worse.

See, what the still heavily censored news service failed to find out is that a bunch of JDF forces on patrol to secure the crash sight of that downed robot had an encounter with the madly cackling Elaine, who decided (er . . .the artifact decided) to cast a simple FOD (finger of death) spell.

Killed the small squad cold were they stood . . . except for one guy named Fred who had an . . . inconveniant curse upon him (re: 42086). Elaine suffered a rather . . . .lethal case of lead poisoning (curtesy of a LOT of bullets)...

1. "When in doubt . . . empty your clip," Fred Takahashi sighs, quoting his favorite Murphey's Combat Law to himself, after a grueling debriefing and finally returning home . . . to find something rather amiss at where he lives...

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