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[Alternate CCS/SO/ST/ORG]Mark of the Catalyst

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Kasawa Lanford:
A storm was brewing just north of the Kinomoto Household. Lighting spouted here and there, striking the ground in a thunderous clap, another strike occurred, this time louder and caused Sakura to fall out of her chair

"I've never seen such a strong storm." She said as she looked out the window. Lighting fired every five seconds, it was a never ending loop, and apparently others had taken interest. Rain fell and pelted the ground, harder than most of the storms they often got

She saw her older brother riding his bike and quickly ran down the stairs, he opened the door. "Onii-chan?" Sakura said

"It's a down pour out there..." Touya said as he grabbed the towel that Sakura had taken off the counter. He dried himself down and looked back out, "I've never seen a storm like this..." he said and closed the door; the thunderous clap was strong enough to shake the house with each passing boom. Touya glanced down at his younger sister, he wondered if she was nervous, possibly afraid at what was going on

The rest of the night was filled with the storm getting slightly worse. By the next morning, it was impossible to tell weather it was really morning, or still night. Sakura's cloaked blinked and showed "7:30 am" she stretched and got up and walked over to her closest, as she put her uniform on another bang occurred causing her to jump. Kero looked outside. "I wonder what’s causing this..." he asked himself. Sakura just shrugged and went downstairs

When she got to the kitchen she heard something on the TV, and noticed that the newsman was talking about the storm. She ate her breakfast and grabbed her backpack, then put her skates on. As she opened the door she could feel the rain even before actually going out

She skated to school, arriving just before the bell had rung. This was her last year at Tomoeda Elementary, and only three months left, she wasn't to sure if she should feel glad, or sad, perhaps a little bit of both.

Another bang could be heard, and she looked up.

----Above the planet----

In orbit above the earth, a battle ragged between two warring factions. Apparently one faction wanted this planet; while the other did it's best to protect it. Neither side realizing that there actions where causing untold seismic and environmental catastrophe’s on the planet

As the battle ragged, a ship exploded and began to head toward the atmosphere below. A ship appeared from gravitic warp

"Captain! One of our ships has lost there port stabilizers, there heading toward the planet, at the rate there going they'll crash into the southern continent." One of the officers bellowed as she brought the ships main weapons online.

The captain stood there, he knew that destroying the vessel was the only means of preventing a massive explosion on the planet, not due to the ship crashing but more so due to its gravitic warp core, which would blow the planet out of its rotational alignment.

After some thought about it he nodded to himself. "Prefer to fire the creation cannon, target, our disable cruiser." he said with eye's closed, the officer glanced at him for a second they all knew that they had no choice in the matter, or else millions, perhaps even billions could die from the ship impacting the planet. They all went back to work after several seconds the final order was given. "Fire"

Particles of red light appeared along the starboard bow of the Federation ship "Ulysses" the particles collected along the lateral lines just below the cannon's fixed position. After several seconds a beam shot out, then fattened, it took only a mere second for the beam to cross space and connect itself with it's intended target, vaporizing most of the ship, what wasn't destroyed however plummeted to the surface below

The captain snarled, he wanted to destroy the WHOLE ship not bits and pieces

----On the surface----

Sakura and the rest of her classmates all heard it before they saw it, a slight whistle in the air like something was falling they all got out of there chairs and looked outside, there teacher scolding them but finding she couldn't really do much about it. The ground shook and everyone was thrown to the ground, Sakura fell and almost hit her head, but missed the desk by several inches, she looked back up. What is going on here?? she asked herself

Another explosion, this one closer, shook the girl and blasted the windows, several students screamed in pain as the shards of glass where blasted into them. Sakura felt several pieces of glass find there way into her arm as she held it up to protect her. She felt the blood run down her arm as she looked outside. Fire rose from different parts of the city and she could see emergency crews running around, after several minutes she and several of her classmates where taken to the health clinic

----Back in orbit-----

The battle was going astray for them. There enemy, a strange hybrid of some sort of ship, was launching attack after attack on them. When they finally managed to get the number of enemy ships to one, something occurred

"SIR! Massive energy spike from that ship!" An officer's yelled, panicked

The captain turned and glanced. The ship's lateral arrays where pointed at the planet. "STOP THEM!" the captain yelled and his ship opened fire

The enemy ship, however, wasn't going to take it; and soon fired its own weapon on the planet itself

----On the surface----

Sakura was being attended to by one of the paramedics who had been assigned to the school. "Man.. what the heck happened." One of the medics said as he bandaged another student up. "These kid's are lucky, I already heard about what happened at another elementary school just a few miles from her, the school got hit by something and collapsed."

Her eyes went wide when she heard that. "Yes, but apparently this isn't happening just in Japan. I heard that it's happening everywhere."

Sakura got up and walked toward the exit, a medic was about to stop her when she said she was going out for some air. He nodded and let her out. She made her way to the roof, the storm was still fearsome but had settled down a little bit, the cloud's where beginning to clear, it was when they began to clear is when she saw something that terrified her. Something was breaking the atmosphere, the air around her burned of ozone and it made her gag. A beam of red light shot out from the cloud's, vaporizing them in its path; the beam found its mark at the center of town, exploding and vaporizing the center, the buildings there toppled inward

She got up and took out the shield card she truly wasn't sure if it would help or not. She summoned the card and a barrier around, not around the city, but around the planet

----Above----

"Captain, I've detected some sort of barrier folding up around the planet. It's... got a magical property?" The officer said slightly confused

"Symbolic magic perhaps?" Another officer said

"No.. it's property don't match Symbolic nor Ruinograhic magic. It's something we haven't heard of." Yet another officer said

The captain wasn't interested in the techno babble his officers where creating. What he was interested in was how the barrier had been blocking all the shots of the enemy ships weapons. "That’s a strong barrier, but if it's being created by a single person, that won't last long."

"Detecting another power build up...."

The enemy ships lateral, starboard, port, and dorsal line's lite a bright red and focused on a center point of the barrier, directly above the northern and western continents. The ship then fired several beams of purple energy that slammed into the barrier with enough force to send shockwaves through space. The barrier shimmered a few, then shattered, the beams impacted both continents, wiping them out.

Everyone on the bridge just stared, there was nothing left of the two continents that there enemy had targeted it, one of them being the biggest on the planet, the other being slightly bigger. He snarled and when they looked back, the enemy ship was gone. "Did they leave?"

'Negative, I'm being up bio-organic reading; it seems they just broke up after they fired on the planet."

"Sir? There's untold destruction on the planet. Normally the UPC would prevent us from getting involved... but if my scans are correct; two of the most important countries on that planet where just wiped out in a blink of an eye." His science officer said as she stunned the planet more. "That barrier was created in... hey... this can't be right..."

"What’s wrong?" The captain walked over to her station.

"According to these reading.... the barrier was created above a country called 'Japan' "

He raised his eye-brow. "That’s not possible.. at least.. it shouldn't... only Japan i know is the one back on Earth. Is it possible two earths exist?"

She shook her head. "I don't know, only that we need to supply aid for these people."

He nodded. "Get a message back to command, inform them of our situation. In the meantime we'll commence landing procedure"

bLuetopaz:
great write!

the front part before you introduce the 2 warring factions.. it resembles one of the CCS episode. :keke:

interesting CCS sci-fic~ cant wait to read the next chapter... im also interested to know why are there 2 Japans :okay:

Kasawa Lanford:
The captain stared out across what remained of Tomoeda, he learned about the cities name after there ship landed just 6 kilometers from the center of town, which was nothing more than a crater now.

"If not for the attacks, I'd say this would be a perfect view, of a beautiful city." He said as he stood there watching out

The Pangalactic Federation had responded faster than he thought, already medical frigates and aid transports had arrived in system; the Federation had also set up a sort of blockade around the planet to defend it in case the enemy returned. Japan wasn't the only city to sustain a lot of casualties

When his recon flight returned he thought they where all high on something, but when he checked it out himself he found out they where very much right. Germany, England, France, Italy, Iran, Iraq, and several other countries had been completely blown away. America, and Canada where also gone; leaving only Alaskia and South America remaining. Although South America was relatively untouched

He wasn't feeling very good, roughly half a billion people where killed. He felt if they had arrived sooner more would've made it. But, that wasn't what was on his mind

"Japan...." he said to himself on several occasions. "How is it that Japan resides here... and Japan resides on the Federation Home world." He pondered that question for several minutes, finally not coming up with an answer

"Sir?"

The captain turned around and looked at the officer who spoke to him. "We found the person who casted that barrier, but she's unconscious and in critical condition, request permission to bring her aboard one of the medical frigates."

He thought about that for a second then nodded. "Take her aboard then." he said as he folder his arms and looked over.

----4 hours before the Federation Landed on the planet *IE, FLASHBACK*----[/b]

Sakura stared toward the sky and continued to pump her magic into the shield card, but as time went on she felt herself growing ever weaker with each passing second. "What....." she snarled as she fell to one knee as her magic grew weaker. It wasn't until the barrier shattered when she felt it, and fell to the ground. Blood came from her ear and she barely got herself to her feet

The ground shook violently and Sakura fell back again, banging her hand up against the ground and knocking her out

She was found roughly an hour before the Federation landed by her friends, Tomoyo, Syaoran, Rika and Chahiru. They wanted to move her but Syaoran wasn't in agreement with the idea, Rika went to get one of the doctors and soon returned with not just one, but three medics’, who checked her over and found that if they did move her, she would die.

It wasn't until the Federation ship landed did they feel she could probably be moved without much difficulty. The ship's doctors had been assigned to different parts of the city, lucky two where assigned to the school where many of the students where either injured, or worse.

----Present----[/b]

Syaoran went with Sakura as they boarded a shuttle. "Will she be alright?" Syaoran asked one of the doctors. The doctor stayed silent, not sure what to say to him, and stayed silent for the whole trip to the frigate. Not surprisingly, a young man, Yukito, went with them to the frigate

The doctors on board did several scan's to figure out what had happened. She had a blown out lung, and was bleeding in the brain, at first the doctors felt she wouldn't survive, but something was indeed keeping her alive and they didn't know what it was

----Back on the planet----[/b]

The captain had just got off the comm. with his superiors, apparently other instances of different worlds had appeared around the universe, other earths, other planets, it was almost as if a merge was occurring

There ships where spread thin as is, thanks to the war that occurred several months ago. Over the past few weeks they had strange appearances of those ships, it wasn’t until this planet appeared did those ships commence there attacks. This earth wasn’t the only planet attacked, three others Earths had appeared, but out of the four, only this one managed to make it out in one piece, but not without casualties

He took a shuttle down to the center of the city and surveyed the damage. Just as he had expected, there was nothing left except for the top parts of the buildings that had managed to escape the massive beam that pierced the sky and blown the hole

There was more damage that could be seen, apparently an underground subway system had been developed in this town, but due to the attack it was collapsed and apparently a train was going through the center at the time. No doubt they would have to search it as well, his main concern however was how the enemy targeted educational and military facilities, it was unheard of before in war, most of the time an enemy would target a military facility only and leave the civilian population alone. He couldn’t help but think about it, something was missing from his puzzle

He decided to return to there ship, the Emperor of Japan was thankful for the federation’s assistance and asked them to stay, although under normal circumstances the UPC was often sought after; and in this case, this world was in pre-warp state. “How’s are the doctor’s doing?” he asked his communications officer

The officer turned in her chair and looked at her commanding officer. “They’ve found several other people buried, some under the school, others found in area’s that apparently became weak during the attack and collapsed.”

“Sir, the president wants to talk to you.” Another officer said

He nodded and took the call. The president, or rather, the Emperor, was interested in some information about what they planned on doing. Naturally they where going to stay there and help the wounded and dieing, perhaps even save a few people. It was the next question that had him thinking

“We don’t have any educational facilities left in the country, so we can’t teach our children. Is… it possible for you to lend a hand?” The president asked

The captain thought about it. “I might be able to.” He said to the president and asked him to wait. He got on another line and sent in a request to his superiors, which was answer in under an hour. Masser V was one of the planets colonized by the Federation and had most of it’s education facilities, after some time they authorized it’s use as a temporary planet for the children and families of Japan

Several transport vessels arrived and helped ferry people from the planet to Masser V. Tomoyo and Syaoran was on the same transport, but apparently Sakura wasn’t there. “I wonder where Sakura-chan is?” she asked herself while looking around

Syaoran was equally as concerned; finally after some waiting Sakura entered the room they where in, she was in a wheel chair which was something Tomoyo never thought she’d see Sakura in. “Sakura-chan!”

“Ohio, Tomoyo-chan.” Sakura said rather sheepishly. “Sorry to worry you, but the doctors here wanted to make sure I was ok.”

Touya entered that room, along with Fujitaka, Sakura’s father, the two of them sat down on a near by sofa. “How are you feeling today?” Touya asked

Sakura smiled. “I’m feeling fine thanks.” She turned the chair and wheeled herself toward a view port. The stars flew by as the ship they where on had entered gravitic warp and flew toward Masser V. “Never thought I’d see the stars this up close.” Tomoyo said as she stood next to Sakura and looked out

Elsewhere on the ship a doctor was checking another type of scan he did on Sakura. “Interesting… her magical properties are off the scale.” He said and turned toward the view port and smiled

They where in warp for about two days before finally arriving at Masser V. The transport landed at one of the many spaceports and disembarked it’s passengers, apparently the Federation felt the people needed a familiar sight in order to stay in high spirits, so the federations construction branch had completely recreated Tomoeda and several surrounding cities, although it wasn’t completely right, it was the best the construction crew’s could do considering how beat up there city actually was.

When they got off the ship and where heading to one of the house’s that there father reserved, both Tomoyo and Syaoran noticed just how beautiful the city was. “I wonder how they managed to do all this?”

There answer came to them. “Most of the city is a hologram.” A police officer, who was actually a Federation Soldier, said. “Only the buildings are real, everything else was made holographic.”

Tomoyo didn’t understand what the officer was talking about, but nodded anyway. Later that night, when Sakura and her family where about to head to bed, they got a card in the mail from the educational department on the planet. Sakura was indeed assigned to Tomoeda Elementary, but it wasn’t that that caused her to get mad, it was her grade. “HUH?!” she said in surprise

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Kasawa Lanford:
The runs rose on the southern part of the city as it rose it casted a orange heu across the ground. As it rose it laid it's gaze upon a graveyard. People stood there placing flowers and other items on the grave sites of there loved ones

Sakura and her friends and family where there. Syaoran was placing a flower on the grave of his mother and sister. He was trying hard not to cry but it could be seen that it wasn't helping. Rika and Chahiru where doing the same to there family's graves. Sakura was choked with tears as she placed a flower on the grave stone of her Grandfather. She wiped a tear away from her face but they still fell and she finally stopped and just let them fall

As the day wore on the graveyard filled with people a priest from the Pangalactic Federation attended the funerals, allowing the spirit's of those who died to rest. Sakura and her family left later that night. Syaoran and Tomoyo joined them, Tomoyo had lost her mother and had no other family to return to, so instead of having them stay with temporary parents, the Kinomoto family decided to have them stay with them. Although Touya didn't exactly like having Syaoran but Fujitaka said it would be alright

Night fell over the grieving city and the sun disappeared beyond the horizon, Sakura was still upset about finding out there grandfather had died, but soon fell asleep. When the next morning arrived, it was raining outside. She opened the windows and breathed in the air, it smelled good and lightened her spirits

She put on some clothing and walked downstairs. Again that card she got in the mail was sitting there and she picked it up and looked at it. "I wonder why they put me in that grade..." she asked herself

Touya shrugged. "I don't know..." he said as he flipped some pancakes. "You completed that grade three years ago, maybe they feel you need to be a lower grade?" he shrugged

She looked back at the card. "But the 3rd grade?!" she said in a slightly angered tone then but the card back down. She had found out that Syaoran and Tomoyo in the 4th grade, Rika and Chahiru where in the 5th grade, and her brother, Touya, was in the 12th grade. It was confusing, why was she repeating a grade she had completed three years ago? But then it dawned on her, she didn't notice it before and apperently neither did her friends and family. "Ummmm.... " she said and checked the card's height. "Wait... this height is the same height i was back in the 3rd grade..."

"But.. that was impossible" she said and checked her height, but discovered she was indeed, that height. "HOE?!"

Later that week they got an answer for why they had shortened in height. The commander of the facility addressed the city, in what seemed like a concerned tone

"We can't explain it." He said. "But when you where all transfered to this facility, you regressed three year's in your life, althought whatever you learned over those three year's you still recall, it still happened." the commander looked slightly puzzled. "I'm sorry I don't have a straight answer, only a thoery, we believe the regression had something to do with whatever it was that attacked your world."

Sakura didn't understand it. But didn't ask any questions as to how to understand it.

hit writers block, will update tomorrow

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