The Device (event)

## Overview

The Device is ready, Midas is prepared to execute his plan to escape the loop, but an unknown force is stepping in to stop him.

## People Involved

* Midas (Doomsday Device architect and builder)
* Redux (Doomsday Device architect and builder)
* Jules (Doomsday Device builder)
* Giller (Midas' Bodyguard)
* Ted (leading Ghost forces to evacuation)
* Brutus Quinn (watching The Device work)
* Bill (leading Shadow forces to safety)
* John Jones (enemy of Midas and The Device)
* Janice (assisting John Jones)
* Unknown Enemy Force (giving John Jones objectives)
* Marigold (feeding the unknown force the plans to The Device)

## Locations

* The Agency - central GHOST base and home and detonation point for The Device
* Unknown Office - John Jones office, where Default Curry and Jason Derulo were rifted to

## Order Of Events

The Agency prepared for the The Device's activation, an order handed down by Midas, seeing as The Device was ready and the time was appropriate. GHOST Henchmen lined up at The Agency's south helipad and awaited the arrival of Midas by air - Giller lead the battalion. Midas' 'Choppa' arrived and Giller greeted him, informing the base and it's staff was ready for The Device to be activated. Midas thanks him and is escorted to the central atrium of The Agency.

Midas required Giller to be alert due to the nature of the activities he planned with The Device - he knew a surge in the Zero Point (energy source of The Device) would alert the government and the fabled hidden hand that ruled the island. Midas was met by Sierra and Jules, they conversed and Midas turned to Ted, who lead the GHOST Forces, to escort Sierra off the island.

The Agency lay an empty shell, aside from necessary personnel. Midas meets with Redux in an office on the second level. He thanks him for his help with The Device and offers him safe passage to the mainland, Redux refuses and says he has some leads to follow. They say farewell and split. Jules notifies Midas on the 'completed' status of The Device and advice they act now. Midas meets Jules in the Device Maintenance room below The Agency.

Radio chatter picks up, Head bodyguards confirm their presence on the island - Jules greenlights the operation, to which Midas agrees. They shield the observation desk and commence the plan. Giller joins them both, and they initiate The Device. An operation this size has gathered quite the audience, Midas worries this will attract the attention of the secret fabled government. He keeps his worries to himself and continues the operation. The main structure of The Agency is destroyed by Giller's hand under instruction from Midas to allow The Device to rise. Jason Derulo and Default Curry are stunned by this explosion and go to investigate.

By this point, The Agency is surrounded by five silos in the water. Jules pulls a lever in the shielded observation deck to open these silos and out rise a coil tower from each. With five pillars surrounding The Agency now erected, The Device was ready. Jules looks to Midas, and he nods. They both pull out a key and lock it into the dashboard of control panels that sit in front of them. They turn their key simultaneously which exposes a bigger lever. Midas grips this, and looks at Jules and Giller. Jules tells him to pull it. Giller looks with slight concern. Midas pulls it.

The Device rises from the smoke of the recently destroyed headquarters, and sits still. It powers up, and with some resistance, pushes back The Storm, out of sight. Brutus Quinn and Bill, head henchman to Quinn watch from the hills, now purely in amazement. Jules looks at video surveillance of The Loopers watching The Device unfold, and notices a few rift away, she informs Midas and he passes it off as a spike - he was abusing The Zero Point's power after all.

Jason Derulo and Default Curry were of the small portion of Loopers to be rifted away, and find themselves in an office. They look around but before they get to know where they are, they hear a voice. This voice is on the phone to someone and is talking to a person called Janice at the same time. What the voice says over the phone is not clear, but The Defaults make out this voice telling Janice to dial the Resonance Actuator to 7.2 and to initiate a restart on the loop following the events of The Device. Default Curry and Jason Derulo are rifted back to where they were before, in front of The Agency.

The Device powers down, instantly, The Storm returns, and engulfs the Island. Brutus asks Bill to call in his car to leave, seeing The Device has failed has him realising he will die if he stays on the island. Bill tells him the car is ready and they both leave urgently. Midas and Jules panic in the shielded deck as they realise The Storm has returned. He tells her to up The Device's intake of The Zero Point's energy, to further push back The Storm, she complies and they look to see if that helped. The Storm was forced back slightly, revealing an eye for The Loopers to get to. Midas tells her to use more of The Zero Point's energy, and she does.

After a lengthy fight with The Storm, The Device gathers enough energy to finally push The Storm back from the Island, where it is no longer in sight. The sun is visible again and a Rainbow forms. Midas watches the feed of the island through the monitor, and sees the sun, and The Loopers, realising they are free. He falls back into his chair, partly because he didn't have faith in his own plan and partly because he doesn't believe he has defied The Storm. He sighs, knowing life on the island is no longer restricted by the loop or The Storm. Jules celebrates, and goes to leave the deck. Then Giller notices something on a monitor in the dashboard.

Loopers begin rifting away again. Giller informs Midas and his face drops. He knows it wasn't just a coincidence the first time, and that this Government has caught onto his plan and are trying to stop him. Jules questions his expression and reaffirms their victory. He reluctantly agrees, and they begin to leave the bunker. There was happiness for the first time in a while. Midas took in a breath of fresh air and realises his victory. He then notices a few more Loopers rift away.

Jason Derulo and Default Curry are once again taken to the office they saw before, they notice Midas, Jules and Lynx have their images on dossiers on a desk in this office. They are both then interrupted by a snapshot of Default Curry. He matches the voice they heard earlier, and he is still on his phone, he interrupts that call when he notices Curry and Derulo in his office. He asks if they can hear him and recognises Curry as a mirror image of himself. They are briefly rifted away again.

Midas ventures south of the Island to see it's natural beauty without The Storm present. Whilst this is happening, Janice restarts the loop and heads back to the Agent in his office, still puzzled by the appearance of the Defaults.

Enjoying life on an unrestricted island, Midas is caught in shadow, and looks up - a wall of water has formed in lieu of The Storm. Before he can react. he is hit by water-brought debris and swept away. All Loopers are rifted to the Battle Bus as the loop is restarted. The tsunami controls habitable life on the Island now, and Midas is nowhere to be found.

Days later, the tsunami levels out and the island is heavily flooded. Jules begins construction on The Authority, a supermax facility built on the remains of The Authority. Meowscles son, Kit, takes control of the box factory and runs his criminal organisation from there. The remainder of Midas' crew is abolished and they all lie low.