Chapter 15: [Fallen Stars] - Part 2 – Heaven & Earth – Part 3
*DOOM*
Cadmus Upsilon Site
Level-47- ISO 05
California
March 12, 2013
1st POV
The next few items would make collectors moan.
Indiana Jones' Fedora and Whip. Not the stuff that Harrison Ford had when he played Indiana Jones in his famous movies, but the ones belonging to Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. The popularized Adventurer Archaeologist. I'm sure there are some fanboys that would give anything for the "Real thing".
A Proton Pack from Ghostbusters. Designed in 1984 by Egon Spengler and Ray Stantz, the Proton Pack countered the negative energy of ghosts with a Proton Stream, a stream of positively charged ions. One of the subjects captured by Cadmus was Kylie Griffin from '97 Extreme Ghostbusters. I liked the series along with Godzilla and MIB animated series that came out.
Next was a small yellow fish with big lips.
"A Babel Fish?"
"First those Dolphins and now the Babel Fish. If the Vogons show up, you can protest them destroying Earth?" I ask Rorschach with a grin.
"We won't be the ones vanishing with a Woosh" replies Rorschach.
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A silvery weapon shaped like a five-pointed star with round tips, like a starfish made of metal. Each of the tips has a retractable blade and I know it can be controlled by the user's will almost like telekinesis.
"The Glaive. The Glaive is a mystical five-pointed weapon used by Colwyn in Krull. Krull was a movie from '83 that I liked to watch, even going to my neighbor to borrow a VHS copy." I say picking up the object, "The last I saw of this, it was embedded in the Beast – the extraterrestrial demon big bad of the film. This one is mine. "
I toss it to Rorschach to put in storage.
Next is ballpoint pen. When I pick it up, it transforms into a medium length xiphos (a Greek one-handed double-edged sword). Composed of shining bronze sword that emits a faint golden glow.
"Anaklusmos. Greek for "Riptide". The weapon of Percy Jackson in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. As a Knight of Atlantis, I take custody of this item. It will be up to King Orin and Princess Diana to determine what will be done with it."
I then slip the mystical sword disguised as a pen into my pocket.
"You're a Knight?" asks Entrapta.
"I'm a Knight of Atlantis knighted by King Orin and Queen Mera. Your dad is a Knight of Vlatava, knighted by Queen Perdita."
"That's amazing, Mister Grey!"
"You can call me, Uncle Ash."
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The next item is a strange Key made of a stranger black metal. Six small rings, each with two spikes are looped together and connected to form of bow of the key. It's connected to a tuning fork that forms the blade and four right ankle prongs instead of cuts and biting.
"The Anywhere Key from Locke & Key. A magic key created by Benjamin Locke during the eighteenth-century Revolutionary War. It's made of whispering Iron, the remnant of demon who passes through the Black Door gateway, but fails to find a human host. It allows the user to travel to anywhere with a door. It's currently dead like a cell battery."
The next item is an amulet. A small hourglass containing a dark sand embedded in a gold amulet. The amulet is inside a couple of gyroscopic rings connected to a gold necklace
"Harry Potter Time Turner." says Rorschach picks it up, "Enables a person to go back five hours in time. Not very impressive. According to Analyze it's also drained of magic. "
A small, elaborately decorated bottle filled with a red liquid.
"Queen Lucy's Healing Cordial from The Chronicles of Narnia. A pleasant medicine made from the juice of Fire-Flowers that grew in the mountains of the Sun. It was given to Queen Lucy Pevensie in the 1940s by Father Christmas."
"Mountains on the Sun?" asks Starfire and Blackfire.
"Santa Claus is Real in another world?" asks Kitaen sisters.
"To answer my Tamaran beauties, Magic. Narnia is a world where a Lion Aslan is the Jesus allegory and Lamp-posts can grow like trees from fragments." I then turn to the Kitean sisters, "As for my beautiful dancers. The answer is Yes. Santa Claus exists. He also exists in this multiverse. Darkseid annually gets a coal delivery."
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"What's in this container?" says Priss holding up a sealed container. It's marked Arrakis sample.
"A dark reddish-brown powder that glows blue under dim light and smells of Cinnamon. This is the Spice Melange from DUNE." I say as I open the container and look at the powder. I then pick up a bit and taste it, "Tastes like cinnamon, too."
"You keep putting weird things in your mouth."
"People keep using me as a garbage disposal. Thankfully all I do is get stronger"
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"Jesus Christ, is that that the Sword of Omens!?
The Sword of Omens is 6 inches from tip to pommel and features a prominent Eye of Thundera. This dagger can be extended into a full long sword, but the Eye is the most important part.
"Yes. My analyze confirmed it."
"What's so important about a magic sword?" asks Jade.
"The Eye of Thundera is the mystical gem embedded in the hilt of the Sword of Omens. Enough magical power to destroy a planet. It is the source of the ThunderCat's power, and is tied directly to their life-force. This could mean all the Thundercats back in its home universe are now dead."
"They did capture some of the Thundercats. Tygra, Cheetara, WilyKat, WilyKit, and Pumyra."
"They are already doomed as a race, five people can't recreate a race."
Unless you do a shit ton of genetic engineering, like the seven in that Outer Limits episode "Origin of the Species".
"Technically the original Omnitrix was created for this very purpose. Though only if they consent to giving up their physical bodies to make it work," Rorschach hummed looking down at his Decatrix.
That too.
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"That is a lot of Mineral MacGuffins."
Seven palm-sized, brilliant cut gems in the colors green, red, blue, yellow, purple, turquoise, and white. All resting on the padding of a glass covered hexagonal case. They all have faint glows and I can tell are slowly getting weaker.
"Chaos Emeralds from Sonic. I'm guessing there losing energy outside their own universe."
Six small luminescent stones – blue, yellow, red, purple, green, and orange – and a large golden metal gauntlet.
"Infinity Stones from Marvel Cinematic Universe. Useless outside their own universe, they can be used in alternate timelines if you're mucking with the timeline apparently."
Seven round stones with the faint images of 5-point stars in them, different number for each one.
"Dragon balls. They are connected to their creator, so pulling them out of Zeno's multiverse must have unplugged them."
A dark purple gemstone. It is somewhere between a marble and a ping-pong ball in size and connected to an animal tooth necklace.
"Shikon no Tama. Jewel of Four Souls. Created in the Heian period when the Priestess Midoriko absorbed the spirit of an incredibly powerful dragon yōkai into her own body, then forced both out in the form of a stone. They continued to battel inside the stone until 1497, when Kagome's wished to make the jewel disappear forever." I say with a smile, "I watched every episode of Inuyasha and I was happy to see Naraku FINALLY die."
A small round red stone, barely bigger than a marble.
"Philosopher's Stone."
The philosophers' stone or stone of the philosophers is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver. It is also called the elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and for achieving immortality
"It feels like human souls." I comment, my Soul manipulation tingling, "I'm guessing Fullmetal Alchemist."
In the anime and manga series Fullmetal Alchemist, it was an alchemic booster created using human souls. You would need to sacrifice hundreds of souls to get even a marble-size stone. They also acted as the cores of the villainous Homunculi.
I toss the Shikon no Tama and Philosopher Stone into my mouth and consume both. I then blow out ethereal balls of red light that fly away, the souls that were once inside the stone. There is also a white light that hovers next to me, before flying off. Midoriko's soul either gets rest or reincarnation.
"Weird. Tastes like Strawberries and Despair."
[The Twins are Pleased]
[New Skill: Appearance Alteration]
"New Skill!" I announce, as I change my appearance. It's like the character creation screen in a game. The only limitation is gender is locked as male and height can't go below seven feet. It also has a reset, when I return back to normal. "No more holograms or glamour for me."
The Last Object is HUGE.
It's a huge ring six-point-seven meters in diameter. It's dark gray in appearance with red-orange-colored chevrons. There are glyphs are built into an inner ring.
"A Stargate, also known as the Astria Porta in Ancient and Chappa'ai. It's part of an interstellar transportation created by the Alterans and creates stable artificial wormholes between gates."
"Why is this in the Mineral MacGuffins?" asks Jade
"Outside the gate networks, it's sixty-four thousand pounds of Naquadah. It's a rare, super-dense mineral used by many races in the Stargate universe. "
Naquadah greatly amplifies energy, making it extremely potent if paired with explosives. The Big Bad of the movie Ra tried to blow up Earth with a Nuke and a shipment of raw ore, but the heroes Uno Reversed it.
"Are you sure about the weight?" asks Rorschach
I give him a look as if to say "He dares question a super-memory fan?"
"Ok. Ok. It's just going to take a lot to haul it out of here."
"You range of fandoms is pretty huge." says Raven, "It's surprisingly useful."
"I used to watch a lot of Stargate: SG-1, but I stopped watching around the time of Ori. I did watch the movie."
"Ori?" asks Entrapta as she looks over the Stargate.
"Imagine an entire race of Horde Primes."
"Eep!"
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Cadmus Upsilon Site
Level-48- ISO 06
California
March 12, 2013
1st POV
"I shutdown Cadmus Upsilon's access to Cognito Cable just before we entered this place, but I still have a record of Alex Sky's account. Thankfully, due to security reasons, Cadmus had no additional Cognito Cable accounts. As I register the characters on each level, I'm able to a determine how long they have been in this reality and determine exactly what shows and films they came from. This should give much greater knowledge of each character when we awaken them at the other site." explains Rorschach, "If I blasted my way straight to the bottom level, I risk disrupting all of the pods. This could mean the death many and/or release of dangerous subjects."
Rorschach was explaining to MewTwo why we going level to level, instead of going directly to Alex Sky to shut things down. Another big reason is if we went directly to Sky, we could get flooded with characters from behind.
On Level-48- ISO-06, there are many pods, but they look different. There is most metallic technology connected to the pods and some of the pods are different colored liquids in them. There is also large storage areas containing a lot of items in metal containers.
Rorschach pulls out a tricorder-like device and gets an unusual reading. He taps a couple of buttons and then walks towards one of the storage rooms. He types in the code of "1111" and the door opens. He pulls out a pen-like device and uses it open one of the metal cases. Inside, there are cubes (each 1-meter cubed) of glowing bluish-purple material.
"Is that what I think it is?" I ask looking at the cubes.
"Energon." confirms Rorschach, "Each cube containing the energy equivalent of one thousand barrels of crude oil or six-point-one-one-eight terajoules. I was able to detect the radiation emissions. "
"It's the fuel for a race of race of sentient extraterrestrial mechanical organisms called Cybertronians, at least that is what they are called in English." I say, as I turn to the girls and Pokémon. "They are better known as Transformers because of their ability to shape shift into alternate forms. Most universes have a conflict between peaceful Autobot faction and the militaristic Decepticon faction."
" These pods don't look big enough to hold G1 Transformers, those had alt modes based on Vehicles." says Rorschach, as he taps on his tablet, "The encryption on them Is better than most. I'm guessing there scared the subjects will hack their systems. If they were really smart, they would leave dimension travel to the experts."
"They could be Beast War generation, those were based on animals and had better fuel efficiency. Protoforms can also be small."
I remember Megatron of the Beast Wars era calling the G1 (1980s) era Transformers a bunch of Energon guzzlers. Protoforms are Cybertronians broken down into their most basic form: a blank slate comprised of raw, free-flowing living metal. Outside the "transformium" and energon, most Transformers only have three "vital organs" - the Brain Module (containing the mind), the Transformation Cog (which controls the transformations), and the Spark (the heart and soul of a transformer). In some cases, Protoforms can be considered baby or larva transformers.
"Sari Sumdac"
That derails my line of thought. I look at my computer tablet and click on the new name. The photo is a beautiful dark-skinned Indo-American with long dark red hair and glowing blue eyes. She looks older than the teenage form she acquired in the later seasons of Transformers Animated. She also has yellow armor plates on her body with similar glowing lights.
"Cadmus Upsilon considers her a very important subject and many of the projects list her as vital material."
"So, who is she?" asks Max as she looks over my shoulder, "Is she a transformer?"
"Yes. She the daughter of Detroit scientist Isaac Sumdac who found a small mysterious protoform – liquid metal baby. It scanned his DNA and produced the unique technorganic Sari Sumdac. In her universe, she helped the Transformers adjust to life on Earth, occasionally acting as a healer. Then after saving her father Isaac from the Decepticons, she learned she was a transformer and had a crisis"
"We know that feeling" says the Jade and the Kitaen sisters. I would have a sweat drop if I was in an anime.
"She attempted to upgrade herself with the Allspark Key and went from a child to a teenager that can transform into a yellow armored form." I say remembering those episodes, "The form was based on Medabee from anime series Medabots."
"What about the others?" says Jade
I click an icon and the photos of the other registered subjects appear in a grid. There are a lot of unfamiliar faces
Other that Sari Sumdac, there are nearly two hundred subjects under the same project title. They are an even number of males and females with their ages ranging from late teens to young adults. Their range of the ethnicities also range and that doesn't include alterations. Some of them have eye, skin, and/or hair coloration that is not normal for common humans. They are the colors you would find on a car, motorcycle, or other motor vehicle. Most of them also have mechanical parts, such as glowing machine eyes or armor plates that vaguely resemble the exoskeleton of arthropods.
It's disturbing to some of the people looking at the photos. These are people literally being converted into machines for war.
"Gotcha." says Rorschach as he finds the files he's looking for "Technorganic Virus."
"You mean from Marvel comics?"
Technorganic describes the melding of technological and biological components into a single entity, fused at the cellular level. Techno-organic material resembles both machinery and living tissue. All techno-organic cells function like independent machines and carry both the virus and all information on their carriers.
"They somehow combined a sample of the T-O Virus with Sumdac's cells and created a variant that transforms both cybertronians and humans into human-form techno-organic transformers." says Rorschach, "Thankfully, these people do not require large amounts of energon and can actually go without consuming it."
"So, there are no real Transformers in this place? I mean inorganic ones."
Rorschach is about to answer, when a sound is heard.
Screech!
A dozen machines burst from a metal container firing lasers, tiny bullets, and missiles. They move at high speed and cause dozens of small explosions. These machines resemble small semi-humanoid robots with mechanical spider legs and horned helmeted heads.
Our group is quick to act, with me jumping in front of the others as a impenetrable meat shield. Even if I was human, I'm guessing the tiny bullets would just sting a little. Mewtwo adds a psychic barrier with support from Priss.
Rorschach calmly pulls out a black device that looks like garage door opener. As he clicks a button on the remote, the dozen little robots collapse to the ground covered in electrical arcs and sparks. When Rorschach releases the button, the robots are producing blue smoke of electronic death.
"Cadmus Morons!" yells Rorschach, "They don't even make sure their test subjects are dead!"
"Sorry about tempting Fate."
I watch as Rorschach mechanical spiders collect the pods and cases of Cybertronian technology. Not only are those subjects going to have to deal with being trapped in another world with no way of every going home, they will also have to deal with being transformed into something not human.
"It's not your fault. It's these morons for not doing a correct job."
"Does this mean the Allspark?"
Rorschach nods.
Although its physical form differs across the universal streams in which it appears, the powers and history of the AllSpark (also spelled Allspark) remain common across the multiverse: It is one of the fabled sacred implements, the objects capable of creating new Transformer life. Its origins are unknown, forever lost to the distant past. Some believe it contains the will of Primus – the God of the Transformers. In one universe, Sari's universe, it was a gold-and-black mechanical case containing a many-faceted glowing blue crystal. In another universe, - the Michael Bey universe – it was a metallic cube that could shrink from immense size to something a human could carry.
"Where?"
"It isn't in Cadmus Upsilon. Once they knew they had a divine treasure capable of creating life, they reported it to The Light and they immediately moved it. It's already been thirty days since then, so even I don't know where they have hidden it."
"Oh, that's just great. The Light can now create transforming militaristic alien robots out of anything more advance than a wristwatch!" I rant, "Those fools probably think they will be able to control them and next thing you know we will have a full-blown robot rebellion. "
"This is going to be so much more work." says Rorschach, "I'm going to make the Light regret messing with other universes."
The girls collectively get a chill down their backs. The members of the Light are going to suffer.
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"Look at all the Gemstones." says Entrapta
"Ruby, Sapphire, Amethyst, Pearl, Peridot, Bismuth, and Lapis Lazuli." I say, each cut gemstone looking very familiar.
"The Crystal Gems." says Rorschach with his analyze skill.
"They are artificial life forms – solid light bodies with synthetic gemstones are their cores. The Gems use to invade worlds and drain their resources to create more Gems, which is like a self-replicating virus. Which is appropriate since the machines used to make Gems resemble Bacteriophages."
"Fascinating! A self-replicating race of crystalline core-based isomorphs! Do they possess shape-shifting abilities? It should be possible since their bodies are merely projections of photonic particles," Entrapta mused.
"Yes. They can also link to each other and create more powerful bodies called Fusions. This requires a deep emotional connection." I explain to Entrapta, then I turn to the sole pod in this particular room. I look at the photo on the tablet. It's an attractive woman (who I know is actually intersex) of Indo-Caucasian mixed heritage with black eyes, tan skin, and dark purple hair reaching her thighs. What is most important is a large pink gemstone where her bellybutton should be – a brilliant cut pink diamond.
"Stevonnie here is unique. A fusion of human/gem hybrid Steven Universe and his human friend Connie Maheswaran. The originally fused when they were dancing on a beach together and joined again several times after to combat Gem Empire, until peace was declared."
"Amazing! How is Steven a hybrid of an organic human and a photonic gem?"
"His mother Rose Quartz, who was in reality Pink Diamond, sacrificed her own existence. She died so Steven could exist, the Gem maintaining his half-photonic existence."
"Oh." says Entrapta with a less cheery face. The idea of a mother dying in childbirth is Very Depressing.
As we pause, a Spider Robot comes in and careful disconnects the Pod containing Stevonnie and places it on its back and leaves the room. A second spider is far less gentle, cracking open the case holding the Crystal Gems and placing them in a smaller container for transport.
"Hey look! Androids."
The robots I'm pointing to are members of YoRHa - an elite military force of androids charged by the Council of Humanity with fighting the invading aliens and their machine lifeforms. Androids that continue after the extinction of humanity on Earth. These two are the female 2B and male 1A, both possessing white hair and dressed in black clothing with blindfolds.
"Humanoid Robots. They look very human, but why do they cover their eyes?"
"Symbolically show that they are blind to the truth"
"The truth?"
"Their creators are gone and the conflict between them and the alien machines is pointless."
"That's so sad."
"They are about to awaken to a world of over seven billion humans. Rorschach will be able to show them some of the truth."
"Why *some* of the truth?"
"Androids may dream of electric sheep, but they can't drink."
"I have a patch for that," Rorschach hummed.
"Of course, you do..." I deadpan.
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A giant orange/grey mechanical fist hits me with the force of a speeding truck. These mechanical fists are capable of smashing mechanical enemies and send many living enemies flying, but they fail against me. Instead, it's like cheaply made car smashing into a well-made concrete divider. Metal deforms and components break into fragments.
My half-Argentinean, half-Mexican opponent generates new weapons in the form of two giant black and glowing blue battleaxes. He then strikes me with both axes, but the edges of both axes shatter.
"Are you ready to talk like normal person, Rex Salazar?"
"I got some questions. Who are you? Why are we here? Why am I naked!?"
"In that order. I'm Ash Grey. I'm a combination of human and Kryptonian, which is a type of humanoid extraterrestrial that possesses superhuman abilities, and a biological weapon from the Planet Krypton."
"¿Hablas en serio?" (Are you serious?) says both Rex and his brother, while Priss gives Rex's girlfriend Circe a discarded lab coat. I had Rex a Lab Coat, while Max hands one to Rex's genius brother César
"Hold my hand. I can prove I'm not an EVO."
Rex grabs by hand and there is a pause.
The Nanite Event is an anomaly that occurred six years before the series, causing microscopic machines called nanites to inhabit every living being on Earth. An Exponentially Variegated Organism, abbreviated as EVO, is an organism that has had its intracellular-nanites activated. They are flora and fauna that have been mutated by the active nanomachines into superhumans and monsters.
"You're telling the truth at least about not being an EVO."
"Where you are is hard to explain. Do you understand the concept of the multiverse?"
"I read comics." says Rex, "Some settings refer to not just one other dimension, one other universe, or one other timeline, but to a whole set of other dimensions, universes, planes of existence, realities, timelines, and the like. A collection of distinct universes exists, said universes often being interconnected in a way that allows characters to travel to and from them."
"A rather interesting way of explaining the Many-worlds interpretation, brother." says César.
"In one universe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes stories about the greatest detective of the age. In another universe, Sherlock Holmes really was the Great Detective of Victorian England." I say, "In one universe, a boy named Rex Salazar fights EVO for Providence. In another universe, Cartoon Network makes an animated science fiction television series called Generator Rex."
"I'm an animated character." yells Rex
"In another universe?" says César, catching on.
"Someone in this world has the ability to open portals to other universes using special Cable station. He was captured by a group called The Light who want to create super soldiers. Your currently on Level forty-eight of the fifty-two of Cadmus Upsilon site and I'm part of a team that is removing the over nine thousand subjects."
"Nine thousand. Dios mío" says Rex, dropping into a chair.
"So, how do we get back home?" asks Circe, finally speaking up.
"There is no record of your exact universe and attempting to randomly open a portal would just open a portal to the world that still has its Rex, Cesare, and Circe. Your chances are extremely low."
"We have beaten the odds before." says Rex
"One in ten to the power of one hundred ninety-six thousand eight hundred thirty-three."
Caesar Salazar collapses to the chair next to Rex.
Caesar has experienced a lot in life.
He worked on the Nanite Project with his parents hoping to cure the world of diseases. Caesar Salazar, with the help of his parents, later sabotaged the Nanite Project to keep the Meta-Nanites from falling into the Consortium's hands. The Meta-Nanites were extremely powerful nanites created to control the Dominion Code, or put simply the "God Code.", something you want in the hands of a bunch of power-hungry people. Rex and Caesar's parents, Rafael and Violeta Salazar, were near the nanite reactor when the explosion occurred, instantly killing them in the process. Rex on the other hand was left without his memories. Rex was left amnesiac in the form of a monstrous EVO.
Now, he's lost everything again with the exception of his brother.
"There... There has to be some way" says Rex desperately. He must be thinking about Bobo, Noah, Six and Doc Holiday. The first being his smart mouthed ape sidekick, the second being his best male friend, and the last two being the super-secret agent and Providence scientist that have been surrogate parents to him.
"Rorschach's boss Doctor Genus is the smartest person in the world, if not the Universe. If he is giving those odds, then you know how screwed you are. You three follow the robot spiders, they will take you to one of Rorschach's bases to recover. Me and the Team still have four more levels we can go through."
"I can help." says Rex.
"Rex, you just woke up from false reality and found yourself naked in a pod filled with goo. I wouldn't call that combat ready. I'll be fine."
Rex is an impressive fighter, a superhero protagonist. Machine manifestation, Nanite communication, Enhanced technopathy, Skilled acrobat, Enhanced condition, Hand-to-hand combat, Unlimited nanite creation, Hyper adaptability, and enhanced awareness
"Even the Consortium with those Meta-Nanite powers wouldn't stand a chance against me."
Technology, elemental control, gravity, space-time, and matter/energy manipulation would be impressive to squishier characters, but I refine the world durable.
"You seem confident." says Rex with a raised eyebrow. He's probably wondering if I'm bragging.
"My special ability to Adaptive Regeneration." I explain, Cesar understands but Rex still looks confused, "I regenerate from anything that harms me and become stronger and more resistant to what harmed me. Heat, cold, light, radiation, electricity, particle beams, and kinetic energy of bludgeoning, piercing, and slicing weapons. I've also been hit with nanite weaponry (which exists in this world), gravity beams, spatial anomalies, temporal disruptions, antimatter beams, and even MAGIC."
"Magic?"
"Yes. Magic. It exists and has been scientifically proven in this world for thousands of years."
"Magic? Some form of energy manipulation?" Cesar's "mad scientist" is showing.
I decide to move on before I have to explain Conservatory of Magic, the History of Atlantis, and genetics of Vandal Savage.
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Cadmus Upsilon Site
Level-49- ISO 07
California
March 12, 2013
1st POV
I think my eye is twitching.
The previous level was filled with machine life – androids, bioroids, synthoids, cyborgs, technorganic transformers, reploids, and various pieces of technology ranging from magi-tech clockwork to advance nano-technology. There were even examples of Reaper technology from the Mass Effect universe, which Rorschach liquified with his Anti-Metal gun. Nobody needs mind-controlling ancient alien tech that uses organic life as spare parts.
On Level-49 – ISO 07, there is a collection of more magical and spiritual entities. My first encounter makes me want to collapse to the ground out of exhaustion. Mental exhaustion because my Doomsday body doesn't get physically tired.
An athletic young woman with green eyes, sun-tanned freckled skin, and pale blonde hair reaching her hips.
An aristocratic young woman with blue eyes, pale skin, and long purple hair.
A slim young woman with aqua blue eyes, light skin, and long flowing pale pink hair.
An athletic young woman with moderate cyan eyes, light skin, and long wavy vivid crimson with brilliant yellow stripes
A lean young woman with purple eyes, dark skin, and long straight dark blue/purple hair with a hot pink stripe.
A curvy young woman with magenta eyes, light skin, and long wild curly magenta hair.
An athletic young woman with magenta eyes, tanned skin, and rainbow-colored hair.
"Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash."
"According to the files their names are Jacklyn Apple, Gwenael Taylor, Vanessa Shy, Eliana Summers, Diane Pie, and Iris Dash."
"Nice human names. They may look more human than the dolls of My Little Pony: Equestrian Girls, but I'm a moderate Brony." I admit with a little pride.
"Moderate?"
"I watched the important episodes and any episode with a good song. I did blank out during the mess with Starlight Glimmer until she was into her redemption arc. I'm also a major fan of crossover fanfiction and MLP has some of best."
"Is there any Popular Cartoon you don't watch?"
"Total Drama. I hate survival reality tv even animated versions. In anime, I've never watched a Sports Anime or Hetalia - Axis Powers. I do listen to good openings like Yuri on Ice!"
"No sports at all?"
"A few reruns of 60s Speed Racer and Ultimate Muscle on the Foxbox in 2002. I'm not sure if it counts as it was just as much super powers as it was wrestling."
It was one of the few anime that 4Kids didn't censor completely to hell.
"So why did they capture the human counterparts to magical ponies"
"They developed magical superpowers in the fourth movie."
I then notice a metal safe and open it to reveal a black case. I open the case to reveal gemstones. Most of them are "normal" magical crystals, but I do notice one dark purple crystal that's radiating malice. I also notice a card and read it.
"Queen Christy Aliceson - Chrysalis' Dark Crystal. Must be from a movie that wasn't made in my world. Weakens the magical powers of the subjects 'Rainbooms'. Chrysalis used it to render the heroines' unconscious, which allowed Cadmus to capture the entire group including Christy."
"What are you going to do with it?"
"Guess." I say before I toss Queen Chrysalis' Dark Crystal into a mouth and consume it. I feel a surge of energy and I have to admit the dark equestrian magic wasn't as nasty as dark human magic.
"Woah. I feel like I just ate a container of mocha parkour ice-cream with extra caffeine and sugar."
Immediately, the gemstones in the case glow brighter with what I'm guessing is power of friendship. Then a Spider Robot comes in to pick up the pods and the case of magic gemstones.
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"Do you believe in Ghosts?"
Priss looks at me
"I have the memories of exotic dancer in New Orleans. There is a lot of superstition in Louisiana. New Orleans. If an alligator crawls under your house someone in your family is going to die. Protect against the devil with mirrors and by spinning a dime necklace three times." says Priss, "After awakening as a psychic alien hybrid I have seen a thousand things I thought only existed in comics and fantasy books."
"Well, this subject is Danial "Danny" Fenton. When he was fourteen, his parents – ghost hunters - build a portal to the ghost world. There were design flaws and when it didn't switch on, they gave up. Danny got a closer look and accidentally found the power switch on the inside of the portal. When the portal activated, he was fused with ectoplasm from the Ghost Dimension. He was transformed into a Halfa – a hybrid of human and ghost."
"You seem to be struggling." says Priss looking concerned.
"The show Danny Phantom had a very catchy song that explained everything and I resisted singing it."
"Why? You have a nice singing voice."
"Singing a rap song with my deep voice. No thanks."
"If the shows about him, I'm guessing he's a superhero stopping ghosts?"
"Correct. The women in the other pod are his female clone Daniella "Dani" Phenton and his goth girlfriend Samantha "Sam" Manson."
"A female clone?"
"It come in various works of fiction. It's only one chromosome."
"Is Sam also part-Ghost?" asks Priss
"No. She was just his friend and moral compass at times."
"Then why does she have glowing vines coming out of her back.?"
One of the Pods is faintly glowing. Inside a black-haired woman is in the fetal position with numerous green plant-like tendrils curled around her body.
"Cadmus did some experiments with the ectoplasm seeing if they could get it to bond with other subjects." says Rorschach as he enters the room, "They succeeded with Miss Manson because she had been previously exposed to a powerful ghost."
"Sam was corrupted by Undergrowth, a plant elemental ghost. She ended up looking like a ghost-based discount Poison Ivy." I say remembering the episode where Sam went through the transformation and Danny learned to use his Ice Core to freeze enemies.
"The massive infusion of ectoplasm is causing her to manifest those plant-ghost traits."
Rorschach pulls out a gun and I'm worried briefly if he's going to dispose of Sam. Instead, he walks towards another door. He pulls out a second gun to dual wield and asks "Do you mind opening that door, we have another screwup to clean up.
I type in "1111" and reveal another clone of Slade Wilson. This one has a glowing red cybernetic eye, glowing green skin, and ghostly white hair. He also looks like he's been dead for a week with withered skin and broken teeth.
"Yarrr! You land-lovers have come to steal my booty!?"
"What the?" I say as Rorschach fires shots from his retro-future pistols. One is the Anti-metal beam which causes all metals on Pirate Slade's body to instantly liquify, including his cybernetic eye and artificial arm holding Slade's sword. The liquified metals pour out of the sleeve, but it doesn't deflate.
The Second Gun's beam is the decarbonizer, a weapon that breaks all atomic bonds of carbon nuclei in a target, disintegrating organic material and turning diamonds, graphene, and other allotropes of carbon into dust. A red glow spreads across Slade's body before his physical body is destroyed.
What remains resembles Slade Wilson if he was crafted from lime green Jell-O. He's now a humanoid composed of thick glowing green gelatinous material with glowing red eyes, hair and beard made of white mist, and a black eyepatch. It's clearly a ghost.
Rorschach pulls out a third gun that I have not seen before. Rorschach has shot me with more than a hundred different retro-futuristic pistols, but I have never seen this one. When he shoots, Ghost Slade lets out a wail as he disintegrates completely.
"What the Hell was that?"
"One of the clones of Slade Wilson used for testing. They tested the Artificial memory Matrix on him, downloading scenarios that pushed the limits of disbelief. Including making him a ninja in feudal Japan despite being American, then a Pirate from the Caribbean. He eventually went mad, killed some scientists, and was gunned down. He was then made into cyborg and used for further testing including the ectoplasm bonding. He was declared dead, but he got up and killed the scientists. That was a week ago."
I look in the formerly sealed room and there are two corpses that used to be scientists. I'm guessing the pirate couldn't escape because the door and walls are too strong, and he still had a physical body. Why no one checked on the scientists for a week, I don't know.
"So, he was a Ninja-Pirate-Cyborg-Zombie-Ghost?"
"Yes."
"If the scientists weren't already dead, I would kill them for giving me an impossible headache."
*DOOM*
"More Magical Girls?" asks Entrapta
"WITCH." I answer.
"Is that an insult?"
"No, an acronym. It stands for Will Vandom, Irma Lair, Taranee Cook, Cornelia Hale, and Hay Lin. The group consists of five teenage girls who were chosen by the Oracle to become the new Guardians of Kandrakar, protecting its people and creatures. For this purpose, they have been given powers over the five elements; energy, water, fire, earth and air.
"W.I.T.C.H., I guess it makes sense more than the others. Why were those others called Sailor Senshi?"
"Senshi means warrior and they were magical girls fighting evil. The Sailor part was because their uniforms looked like a perverted figure skater version of sailor school uniforms. In Japan, Sailor Fuku is a common style of uniform worn by female middle school students, resembling British Naval officer uniforms."
"Are they supposed to be glowing?"
"Nope. Looks like yet another bad reaction to trans-universal travel."
Many of the magical girls lost their powers when they were kidnapped and transferred to Earth-DR. There connections to their power sources severed by the dimensional walls. I even learned from Rorschach that one set of magical girls that had died immediately after entering this world. Other magical girls are mutated by their own changing magics. If this universe says humans can't possess those magical powers, a human will either lose those powers, die, or become something not human.
"Should I be worried about dad twitching and mumbling about too much work?" asks Entrapta.
"Yes. Don't worry if he goes on a killing spree you can stay with me or the Team until he cools off. We both got Cognito Cable."
*DOOM*
"I may love this series, but this going to be bad." I comment.
Seven liquid filled pods surrounded by metal rings and Shimenawa (lengths of laid rice straw or hemp rope used for ritual purification in the Shinto religion). It looks like Cadmus Upsilon tapped into their magical and spiritual resources.
"With the majority, their minds are trapped in virtual world replicated from their memories and memories altered to prevent them from realizing the artificial nature of the world" says Rorschach, "The problem is the avatar spirits are resonating and the Matrix can't accurately recreate the spirit world"
The world of the Avatar was once flooded with spirits when the spirit of darkness Vaatu ruptured the barrier between worlds. In order to survive, humans lived for generations on the back of the immense Lion-Turtles. Those beings also granted humans the power to bend the elements when they explored the world, one element per specific Lion-Turtle. Thinks changed when a Fire bender Wan was exiled and lived with the spirits.
"In order to stop Vaatu from causing thousands of years of darkness, Wan fused his soul with Raava the Spirit of Light and became the Avatar. When Wan died, the Avatar spirit was reincarnated, starting the cycle." I explain to Entrapta, "These seven are Avatars of different Eras."
I look at five very familiar faces and two new ones.
"Yangchen of the Air Nomads, Kuruk of the Water Tribe, Kyoshi of Kyoshi Island (formerly of the Earth Kingdom), Roku of the Fire Nation, and Korra of Republic City (formerly of the Water Tribe). I think the second last one is Genji of the Sand Benders, from Legend of Genji. It was a fan project in my original world, but I guess it was made in one of Cognito Cable's TV universes."
"Correct. The last one is Sumire of the Stars, she is from a more futuristic version of the Avatar World and specializes in lightning, plasma, and magnetism." says Rorschach looking at the records.
"Any good?" I ask with some interest.
I also take notice of the Seven additional pods containing more "mundane" prisoners from the Avatar world. Azula, Toph Beifong , Asami Sato, Kuvira, and an unknown woman. The Genius Princess of the Fire Nation, the most powerful Earth Bender and creator of Metal Bending, the brilliant lover of Korra, and a woman that once conquered the Earth Kingdom. Mundane my rear.
"All my programming is good. Some reviewers said it was the love child of Legend of Korra and Arcane."
"Might watch." I say, then frown, "So are we going to be able to move them without setting them off?"
Rorschach pulls out another retro-futuristic gun, this one is shiny silver with blue lights. He shoots spherical balls of energy that cause the Pods to turn monochrome gray.
"Chronoton Disruptor also known as the Time freeze gun. One hour of zero activity"
"Are they safe?" asks Jade.
"Indestructible. Damage of any type requires time to occur. Something frozen in time cannot be damaged. Normally, they couldn't be moved, but I monkeyed with the physics so they wouldn't stay put while the Earth turns over four hundred meters per second. The equips to the robots enable the targets to be moved while still frozen."
"I remember something similar in an Omega Men comic." I comment
"You mean the comic our brother was part of?" asks Starfire. Starfire and Blackfire have a little brother called Ryand'r or Darkfire in English. He's part of a group that fights against the Citadel in the Vega System.
"Yup. The Spider Guild landed on a planet of giants that existed in a different state of time. The eight-legged freaks could do nothing to conquer the giants because their weapons were useless. Things need time to get hot. The commander committed suicide and the entire colony was dust in literally the blink of a giant's eye."
Suddenly, something occurs to me.
"You shot me in the back with that, didn't you?"
"What do mean?"
"Last week, I was walking to the exit portal and I felt something hit me twice in the back!"
"You were only frozen for twenty minutes with the first shot. I don't even know why it was short, maybe you were exposed to time magic. The second shot didn't do anything and I didn't think you noticed."
"So, I'm now immune to time freezing, thanks for telling me."
"It's not like it's super useful."
"With our luck, a blonde vampire is going to jump out and scream 'Za Warudo'!"
*DOOM*
"Doomed"
"You're overreacting." says Rorschach
"Overreacting, do you know who that is!?"
The pod person I'm pointing is a tall, stick-thin, young woman with long, curly black hair. She has muscle from rigorous training and she has numerous scars from fighting other Parahumans
"That is Taylor Anne Hebert and I'm willing to bet the other two are Lisa Wilbourn born Sarah Livsey and Amy Dallon born Amelia Claire Lavere. Those three are Skitter, Tattletale, and Panacea of Earth-Bet!"
"Who?" asks a very confused Entrapta
"I told you how I'm a reincarnation. I told you being reborn in the Young Justice universe as Doomsday wasn't the worst fates. One of the worst worlds to be reincarnated into is Earth-Bet. It's a dirty dark superhuman world, where villains outnumber the heroes three to one and even the Heroes have serious mental issues due to the trauma required to obtain powers. It's a world slowly dying due to giant monsters destroying cities, heroes, and hope. Also, without these three ten to twentieth power worlds will be destroyed by an insane cosmic god."
"That's... That's horrible."
"They're comatose and there is strange activity in their extra lobe." says Rorschach.
"Parahumans of Earth-Bet have Corona Pollentia and Gamma. The Corona Pollentia is the part of the brain that is adapted to and connects the powers that come from individual Entity Shards. The shards themselves exist on parallel world, crystalline structures folding and unfolding like hypercubes. Lovecraftian bio-crystal computers is another way to describe them." I answer, my mind going through the various stories that I read. Sad thing is I never read the actual Worm, only the fanfiction. "I'm surprised their brains aren't being consumed by tumors."
"I'm going to have to do nanoscale surgery when I get back to the base. Great, more work."
*DOOM*
Cadmus Upsilon Site
Level-50- ISO 08
California
March 12, 2013
1st POV
On Level 50 ISO 08, we encountered video game characters. Occasionally, animated and live action films and tv shows are created based one popular video games. Most of them suck like Double Dragon ('94), Super Mario Brothers ('93), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation ('97), and Alone in the Dark (2005). There are some rare good ones like Mortal Kombat (2021), but most are crap. Thanks to Cognito Cable, you can find award-winning brilliant adaptations of any game you can imagine.
On Level 50 ISO 08, we learned that when the scientists abandoned their bodies to escape; they damaged the memory matrix used to control the subjects. The errors started small, but eventually the subjects realized they were prisoners in virtual worlds. Eventually some of them pushed the simulations to the point that they broke and they awoke in the real world. Tearing themselves out of there pods caused cascading errors and failures. This caused even more people to awaken and break free.
On Level 50 ISO 08, the various video game characters found they were surrounded by strange beings with strange abilities, and not all them had the same morality. Those who were rivals and enemies started to fight. Others started to make accusations against each other and started to fight. When Rorschach, me, and the group arrived, everyone was fighting.
On Level 50 ISO 08, the scientists were also stupid enough to store the equipment and weapons belonging to the characters on this level.
Level 50 ISO 08 looks like Level 42 after my battle with the Hulk. Nearly every wall is smashed to bits, nearly every tower is shattered and the pods burst like smashed watermelons. There are dozens of many broken pipes and tubing leaking water and other fluids, dozens of wires and cables releasing electrical sparks, and torn fiber optics. The only thing missing is an obscene amount of gamma-irradiated green blood coating everything.
Many of the characters are unconscious from some of heroes working together. Many of them are unconscious from Rorschach's impressive collection of weaponry. The fighting has paused due to one characters' special attack against me.
I was warped into a pocket dimension and got to experience a Supernova wiping out planets of the solar system. I reappeared in normal space glowing almost white hot and radiating heat that filled the entire level. Rorschach needed to hit me with twin beams from his own Cold Guns to cool me off, before I could melt though the floors to the bottom level. I still managed to set off some fires.
"Your alive!?" says my enemy as I allow energy to crackle across my body, shattering the remaining ice and vaporing the remaining water soaking me.
I walk up to my enemy who stands six foot seven, a foot shorter than me. Minutes ago, the green-eyed silver-haired man attacked me with his absurdly long sword. When he delivers the superhuman strike, the blade fails to cut. Instead, the Masamune chipped when it hit my ash grey skin. I broke the famous sword and punched the pretty boy. The one-winged angel then used Supernova on me. One of my greatest fears is being lost in space!
"A whole bottle of shampoo isn't going to get the blood out after I'm done!"
I active my bone spike on my hands, making them look like Wolverine, only lacking adamantium chrome dip and barbed. I then do some Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs that even the great SOLDIER of Shinra can counter. With each punch, his enemy is stabbed and soon the Soldier's torso is covered in gruesome wounds.
"When I'm done with you, the destroyer of Nibelheim will be a bad memory."
"I will never be memory." says Sephiroth, the famous boss of Final Fantasy VII.
Suddenly, steam and smoke are slowly being emitted by Sephiroth's body. The famous character cries out in pain, coughing up blood, before collapsing to the ground.
"Anti-Jenova toxin. I made it when I got you with my claws the first time. I was still making it during the nova. "
Within the Soldier's body, the Jenova cells are bursting leaving the child of Lucrecia Crescent. I'm not sure about him being Professor Hojo's son, he looks more like a certain ex-Turk.
Sora, Kairi, and Riku of the Kingdom Hearts franchise just watched me survive a supernova and punch a Boss to near death. They are holding their Keyblades defensively. These young heroes usually deal with creatures of darkness called Heartless and soulless beings called Nobodies, but the worlds of Kingdom Hearts games do contain a hybrid of Final Fantasy and Disney. Sora knows how overpowering Sephiroth can be as a Boss.
"My name is Ash Grey. I happy to meet you Sora, Kairi, and Riku."
"How do you know our names?" demands Riku
"I don't want to explain it over and over again, but you were kidnapped by bad guys who wanted to make soldiers for their wars. I'm part of a group that's shutting this place down."
"Why should we believe you?
"What choice do you have? I can't be damaged by physical attacks and I'm completely immune to magic damage. Also, while I have a soul, it can't be damaged or taken by another."
"So, you have a Heart?" asks Sora
"If you mean emotionally, yes. If you mean physically, No." I tap my chest, "This body doesn't have any internal organs."
I notice there a lot of other Final Fantasy characters.
Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, and Vincent Valentine from FFVII. I also see Zack Fair and Aerith Gainsborough, who were beloved deceased characters. Cloud has a strange look on his face and I think it's because I literally beat his nightmare into a coma.
Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartily from FFVIII. That gunblade looks just as strange in real life as it did on the screen. A sword blade coming out a gun minus the barrel. I remember Shadiversity taking about gun-swords.
The monkey-tailed artificial human Zidane Tribal and his girlfriend Garnet, also known as Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII from FFIX.
Tidus, Yuna, and Auron from FFX. It took me a long time to understand Final Fantasy ten's plot, but some fanfiction finally managed to explain it to me.
Lightning (Claire Farron) and Serah Farron from FFXIII. I know next to nothing about these two, other than a few things mentioned in a random crossover.
Noctis Lucis Caelum and Lunafreya Nox Fleuret from FFXV. I watched the playthrough, so I know their tragic stories. Hopefully they get to enjoy life without the horrific responsibilities.
"I guess I should be a little more formal. I am Sir Ash Grey, Knight of Atlantis. I am here under the command of Sir Rorschach, Knight of Vlatava. We are here to rescue the over nine thousand captives."
The eyes of characters widen at the number. Zidane asks "If you're a knight, where is your armor?"
"Why wear armor, when your skin can't be pierced?" I say holding a broken sword and biting a piece out of it.
While I handle the Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy crowd, Rorschach is taking care of the Mass Effect crowd.
*DOOM*
The krogan are a species of large reptilian bipeds native to the planet Tuchanka, a world known for its harsh environments, scarce resources, and overabundance of vicious predators. The krogan managed to not only survive on their unforgiving homeworld, but actually thrived in the extreme conditions. Unfortunately, as krogan society became more technologically advanced, so did their weaponry. The end result is that they destroyed their homeworld in a nuclear war that reduced their race into primitive warring tribes.
With the help of the salarians, the krogan were "uplifted" into galactic society, and lent their numbers and military prowess to bring an end to the Rachni Wars. Ironically, after the rachni were eradicated, the rapidly-expanding krogan became a threat to the galaxy in turn, starting the Krogan Rebellions and forcing the turians to unleash the genophage. This genetic "infection" dramatically reduced fertility in krogan females, causing a severe drop in births secondary to prenatal and postnatal death and, ultimately eliminating the krogan's numerical advantage.
Weyrloc Guld is the krogan leader of Clan Weyrloc on Tuchanka. He is willing to cure the genophage at any cost, even if it means experimenting on humans and willing members of his clan. He's also one of the strongest of his species.
Upon awakening in this place, he as well as the leadership of the Blue Suns and Eclipse mercenaries, as well as many of their followers found themselves fighting a losing battle against a motley crew of aliens consisting of three Humans, an Asari, a Quarian, another Krogan, a Turian, and a Geth of all things! The fighting had been long and bloody, and it was obvious they weren't the only ones fighting like crazy in whatever Hollow-forsaken place they had all ended up.
Weyrloc was the final holdout, his "allies" lying dead around him, and after his adversaries had expended the last of their Heat Sinks, with his Krogan Bloodrage it was a trifling matter to move in for the kill, clad in his battleship-grade armor.
"WEYRLOC GULD!" Rorschach roared over the din as he stood on the high ground, his [Taunt] Skill amongst others drawing everyone's eye towards him. "I CHALLENGE YOU TO SINGLE COMBAT!"
"And why should I indulge you, Human?" the Krogan Battlemaster demanded. A ray of yellow light washing over him and then the other aliens in response, the next moment a film of monochrome light swaddled the Human mid-leap. When he touched down with a mighty *THUD*, no longer was there a human in a white and black-patterned mask, but another Krogan equal in size to he if not larger, his head crest the deepest black, his reptilian skin white, and gray mottled markings upon his eyes; his armor, a stark contrast to Weyrloc Guld's, comprised only of a monochrome-camouflaged body suit with light armor plating, a puck-shaped insignia on his chest bearing a green hourglass-like shape on his left pectoral.
"Human? What Human? I don't see any Human here~" Rorschach in his Krogan form chuckled in a gravelly tone, the whole of Shepard and her crew gawping in shock.
"What trickery is...?!"
"I... AM... KROGAAAAAAN!" Rorschach bellowed as he stormed forward, the ground thundering with every footfall.
The Krogan Battlemaster, survivor of countless battles across countless centuries, snapped up his M-300 Claymore. One of if not the most powerful shotgun in his home universe, anything taking the withering spray of death head-on would've been reduced to a red mist. The deafening *CRACK!* of granules accelerated to relativistic speeds sounding through the air, smoke wafted as the hulking Krogan stopped cold mere inches from him. When the smoke cleared however...
"By the Hollows..." the Krogan Battlemaster gasped, his opponent unharmed even after taking a direct blast to the face with no shielding, a nictitating membrane across blood-colored eyes with countless granules having come to a stop upon his face. A three-fingered hand coming up to sweep the granules away, the membranes across his eyes retracted before those blood-colored orbs narrowed.
"My... Turn...~"
In a typical show of Krogan posturing, the former-Human reared back his head before striking head crests with Guld with a meaty *THWACK!*
What was not typical however, was how the hulking Krogan was blasted off his feet, a hairline fracture in his crest as he was sent to the ground with a deafening *THUD!* like a starship crashing, the Krogan's armored body bouncing twice before coming to a stop against some nearby debris.
"Damn~" Urdnot Wrex grinned, impressed by the sight even if it came from an unorthodox source.
"Shepard..." Garrus Vakyrian whispered. "What's our play, here?"
"Stand down, for the time being. Let's see how things play out," John Shepard hummed, still trying to process a Human transforming into a full-blown "Super Krogan".
"Is that... all you got... you damn pup...?" Weyrloc demanded as he got into a sitting position.
"Not even close~" Rorschach grinned, taking hold of the emblem on his crest and turning it 90 degrees before slapping it down. In the moments to follow, all eyes went wide as a massive shadow manifested over them, looming like a mountain. What had emerged was undeniably Krogan, but more "saurian" in shape with arms that looked powerful-enough to choke out a Thresher Maw. In layman's terms... imagine a Krogan with the height and proportions of a "Base Form" Vaxasaurian (Humongasaur's species) with the armor plating and spikes of their "Final Form", clad in white and black-patterned camo pants and the hourglass-like sigil on his belt. "Come on. I'll give you a free shot. Better make it count~"
Weyrloc, his blood boiling in his veins, loaded his M-300 claymore and fired into the quad of the "Super Krogan" looming over him. However, much like before, no lasting damage was done, infuriating and terrifying the Krogan Battlemaster.
"Awwww~ You didn't make it count...~"
A moment later Weyrloc found himself held up by two massive three-fingered hands, held aloft like a newborn hatching. Despite his struggles, he could do nothing to break free from the vice-like grip surrounding him, and his Krogan Bloodrage began to evaporate.
"Ready to give up?"
"Nnngh...! Never!"
"I was hoping you'd say that~"
Off to the side, both Shepards winced sympathetically as Weyrloc was hefted up into the air before thrown into the ground like a football at touchdown, the Krogan Battlemaster groaning from the indentation he'd made in the floor before he was picked up again.
"Ready to give up yet?"
"Uuurgh... Nooo..."
As added insult to injury, Weyrloc was tucked under the "Super Krogan's" armpit, and was then given a noogie by the massive fist, the three Humans laughing a little at the sight while the aliens lacked the context to realize what was so funny.
"I really have to ask again?"
"Eat... a... quad...!"
The next several seconds saw aliens and Humans alike wincing sympathetically as Weyrloc was used like a hackie sack, bounced into the air by knees, elbows, feet, head crest, and even tail, not in that particular order. After maybe a dozen or so hits, the Krogan Battlemaster, his armor dented and dinged like he'd been run over by a heavy cruiser, was finally allowed to come to a stop in a heap.
"I... surren...der..."
"Smart on you," Rorschach hummed before turning toward the Mass Effect crew he'd grown up to love up until that highly controversial ending in the third installment.
Arrayed before him were two groups, each led by a Commander Shepard. The group to the left was led by John Shepard, his allies Wrex Urdnot, Garrus Vakyrian, and Legion. The group to the right was led by Jane Shepard, her allies Tali'Zorah vas Neemah, Liara T'soni, and Miranda Lawson. By the looks on the two N7s faces, when not looking at him, they were clearly giving one another a wide berth as well, while also shooting the opposing squads confused looks.
In all likelihood, John was wondering why Tali, Liara, and Miranda were taking the lead of a genderbent clone, with Jane expressing the same in regards to Wrex, Garrus, and Legion. Clearly from alternate timelines, this was only a step down from Time Paradox in terms of mind-fuckery...
"I come in peace," Rorschach greeted with a raised saurian hand, chastising himself when he realized how stupid he sounded. Seeing that they were all still terrified of him, as they should be for someone who just used a Krogan Battlemaster as a hackie sack, he wisely tapped the insignia on his belt.
In another monochrome flash of light, the hulking "Super-Krogan" vanished. However, instead of the ink-blot-faced man's Human form greeting them, the silhouette was one familiar to Shepard's crew.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" Rorschach questioned.
"Um... Nooo~" Tali swooned slightly, beholden to what was probably the most-attractive-looking example of the Quarian masculine species she'd ever seen in her entire life. Tall, broad-shouldered, lean compact muscle, and a reptilian face with angular features completely unobstructed by a face shield. His attire was white, black, and grey like a Quarian Soldier, but his face and hands, light purple with black tribal markings, were exposed.
"Um... Aren't you going to put on your mask?" Garrus questioned.
"Hm?" Rorschach hummed looking down at his three-fingered hands, his digitigrade reptilian legs, and then touched at his face. "Oh, no, when I turn into a Quarian with the Decatrix, it's into a member of the species who never became immunocompromised by life on the Migrant Fleet," he explained pointing at the hourglass insignia upon his sternum.
"There anything you can't turn into with that fancy toy of yours?" Wrex questioned.
"Hold up," John Shepard spoke up. "I think we're getting a little side-tracked here. Who are you, where are we, and what the hell is going on here?" he asked pointing to all the chaos going on around him.
"Do you want the long version or the short version?" Rorschach questioned, Tali going all doe-eyed and walking up to him, running her fingers over his exposed visage. "See something you like~"
"AH! UM! OH! WELL...!" the Quarian Engineer stammered, her face turning a darker purple behind her visor. "Sorry, it's just...! I was taken aback is all... It's so rare to see a Quarian male looking so-fit without his mask that I... I'm rambling, aren't I?"
"I'll pay your group special attention since I'm a fan of your work, but that'll have to be for later," Rorschach said tapping the emblem on his chest and returning to Human form, the Quarian pouting as her eye candy vanished in a flash. "To summarize, the lot of you have been abducted, but it isn't by Cerberus, the Reapers, or any of the factions you're used to. The whole of it is something you're going to want to 'sit down for', so for the time being... follow the adorable robot to the exit portals that'll take you top-side, and please, do not talk to her about things like 'individualism' or 'God'; I'm talking to you, Legion," he explained as a Tachikoma rolled up to them all, waving enthusiastically with one of its forelegs, while shooting a net out of its abdomen and dragging the beaten and battered Krogan behind her. "I should go."
Commander Shepard was left blinking for a few moments before saying- "Huh. So that's what that sounds like on the outside."
That both John and Jane had said as such caused them to round on one another, but the excitable cries of the 'adorable robot' got them back on task as they were led out of the room. With no more ammo and only Tech or Biotic powers between them, it was the most they could do.
*DOOM*
Raven calmly explains things to John-117. This isn't the first time he's been kidnapped by a clandestine group wanted to create super soldiers for wars beyond Earth. He was kidnapped as child, a clone left to die in his place and leave his parents to mourn. He was trained, chemically modified, surgically altered, and equipped with the most advance armor and weapon technology his world possessed. He was meant to fight against insurgents and terrorists, but an army of extraterrestrial religious zealots changed things. He fought against the Covenant and the parasitic Flood.
"You believe this Doctor Genus can prevent my Rampancy" says Master Chef's AI companion Cortana.
"Smartest man in the Universe. Even Dr. TO Morrow was able to create Androids in the 1940s and Red Tornado has been a hero since 1948."
Cortana is speechless. Human AI in her world have a lifespan of Seven Years before the madness of Rampancy claims them. Red Tornado has been active for sixty-five years! She desperately wants to believe that this Doctor Genus can grant her Metastability, allow her to become... "Human".
*DOOM*
The Legend of Zelda characters are skilled fighters possessing strong magical abilities. One on one they would be challenge for Jade Chan, but she is a demon queen and doesn't play fair. She summons a huge number of Shadowkhan that quickly overwhelm both the heroes and the incarnation of Ganon they were fighting.
Jade appears in her full demon form in front of the Incarnation. This particular Incarnation appears to be an immense boar composed of dark red-black flesh that lets off a dark miasma. It has fiery red eyes, a long spiky mane of fiery spikes, huge golden tusks, and a few armored accessories. It struggles hard against the shadow elementals, even attempting to corrupt them with bursts of red-black liquid that stains the ground.
"What are you doing!?" yells Zelda whose being held down by the Sumo Shadowkahn. Link is in a similar position, while more Sumo, Samurai, Ninja, and Kunoichi hold down the others.
The Heroes of Hyrule include members of different races not just the Hylian Link and Zelda. They include fire-resistant rock people known as the Gorons, the part-fish amphibious race known as the Zora, the red-haired dark-skinned amazons known as the Garudo, the pointed-eared red-eyed ninja of the Sheikah, and the bird-like Rito. They all look ready to fight, but are overwhelmed by Jade's dark forces,
"Ganon is the manifestation of the Demon King Demise's hatred for the Goddess and her Chosen Hero. Ganondorf Dragmire was merely the vessel for his hatred's rebirth and Triforce of Power let it manifest its true form." says Jade, as she moves her arms binding Ganon with mystical chains and charms. "Generation after Generation, the same song and dance. We don't need you continuing the cycle in this world."
Suddenly, everything around the group becomes cold. All sound stops and light fades to twilight.
"Demon King Demise" she calls out and then commands "RISE."
A pool of shadow ignites into black flame and a huge figure rises from the abyss. A figure that instantly fills the hearts of the Heroes of Hyrule with terror. The Demon King Demise is a tall, muscular, and menacing demon with glowing red eyes, dark gray skin with dark markings, and a wild mane of red hair that is literally fiery. He has animalistic features like a flat nose, sharp teeth, scales, and claws. He also has an ash white X on his forehead and white markings on his chest shaped like chest hair. He's dressed like a barbarian warrior with a long piece of animal hide secured by a leather belt and bits of jewelry.
The Incarnation of Ganon screams in pain and rage as glowing red mist is pulled form it's body into Demise. Ganon struggles to break free, but soon his struggles become weaker and weaker. Its body disintegrates leaving behind the unconscious form Ganondorf Dragmire.
"I live again. No longer am I merely hatred to haunt those who I despise. I thank you, My Queen. What reward do you want?"
"You."
Demise smiles thinking he's about to get lucky, then something drains away from him. His body becomes gray monochrome, with his fiery red hair becoming ghostly white flames.
"I didn't bring you back to life, I merely claimed your soul as my slave." says Queen Jade, "I let you reabsorb your hatred, but now you know who dominates your existence."
Queen Jade then turns to the Heroes of Hyrule with a smile, as Shadow-Demise vanishes into the Shadowlands, waiting for his Queen's next call.
"Now that the cycle is broken, I'm going to give you two options. You can either follow my Shadowkahn to the base holding the other rescued prisoners or they can drag you there."
The Heroes of Hyrule look at each other and decide they would rather walk.
*DOOM*
"What was that?"
"That was one of my girlfriends binding the soul of demon king to her will" replies Max to her opponent.
"Oh My! Magically binding demon souls is usually a very bad thing." says the woman that Max's opponent was fighting. The woman is a beautiful blue-eyed blonde standing six feet tall. A woman dressed in a poofy pink princess dress with a blue gemstone on her chest. She also wears dark pink shoes, blue spherical earrings, and a small gold crown with red and blue gemstones. She is Princess Peach Toadstool of the Mushroom Kingdom.
"She is a Demon Queen herself." says Max
"Hey! We were fighting." says her opponent.
"Do we need to?" says Max.
"What do you mean?"
"Why are we fighting?"
Max's opponent pauses to think. She resembles Princess Peach, but is taller at seven-foot-one with a more muscular Amazonian build, sharp black fingernails, and two curved horns like a bull pointing upward. She also has a spiky green turtle shell on her back and yellow tail. She wears a black/purple dress that allows for more movement than Peach's own dress and has spiked bands on her neck (as a collar), on her upper arms, and on her wrists (as bracelets).
Queen Bowsette was original King Bowser leader of the biped turtles known as the Koppas. The powerful dragon-turtle attempted many times to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom, even turning the people into bricks. When his curse was broken by Princess Peach, he kidnapped her and was later defeated by a plumber called Mario. This started a long cycle of his villainous plots being thwarted over and over again. Over the years, he even lusted after Peach, but she rejected both him and Mario.
Nobody knows if Bowser's use of the super crown and his transformation into a female hybrid of Koppa and Mushroom Princess was part of another villainous plot or a bout of madness caused by all of his failures. The end result was permanent transformation that did have one major advantage – Queen Bowsette is far smarter than King Bowser.
"Maybe I'll Stop. What do you have to offer?"
"We have food, baths, and beds back at the base."
"Deal." says Bowsette as she watches Max's muscles shrink and shift back to normal human size and structure, "If you don't mind me asking, what exactly are you?"
"A hybrid of a few things."
"Your pretty tough." comments Bowsette and Peach is surprised. Bowser was never one to compliment his opponents or be polite.
"You should see my boyfriend?"
Bowsette did see the silver-haired man's absurdly long sword break against the grey-skinned warrior. She could also smell the scent on him after he reappeared after swordsman weird attack. The scent of fire and stars. There was also a scent of something dark, something that resonated with her.
*DOOM*
As Starfire and Blackfire wipe out a group of Nazi vampires, Priss walks up to a duo that had gotten in a fight but paused when things got even weirder.
One is tall, athletic man standing six-foot-four with ice blue eyes and shaggy silver-white hair. He wears red pants with two black belts wrapped around his right thigh, a black, leather belt, black gloves, and high, black boots. The man's red long coat is basic in design, with an upturned collar and short sleeves with black cuffs, though the coat lacks coattails. Underneath the coat, he wears what appears to be a black long-sleeved shirt, with a red vest with black clasps over it. He's carrying two custom semi-automatic pistols. The left-handed black gun, Ebony, has been modified for long-distance targeting and comfort, while the right-handed white gun, Ivory, was custom built for rapid firing and fast draw times. On his back is the magic sword Rebellion.
"Vampire Nazis" says Dante Sparda, "Just when I thought I saw it all."
The half-demon son of Dark Knight Sparda has fought many demons in his life. Ever since his mother was killed by demons, he has fought against demons ranging from weak trash to the Demon King Mundus that his father sealed away.
Dante watches as Starfire and Blackfire incinerate another half a dozen. This particular type of vampire seems to be extremely vulnerable to sunlight and ultraviolet radiation. Whatever protections there clothing grants and sun cream grants is useless against balls of plasma piercing their bodies.
His former opponent is an Amazonian beauty standing six-foot-ten-and-a-half with black hair and gray eyes behind stylish glasses. She was fighting Dante wearing a bodysuit magically created from her own lengthened hair. In her hands and attached to her shoes are her four large caliber handguns known as Love is Blue, which replaced her original guns Scarborough Fair.
"They make for easy targets. Who doesn't hate Nazis and demon-possessed undead abominations?"
The woman's name was originally Cereza, the forbidden child of Lumen Sage Baldar and Umbra Witch Rosa, two rival clans that made pacts with forces of light and darkness, respectively. She was born December 19th, 1411, but spent centuries in an enchanted sleep. She awoke and took the name Bayonetta. She eventually had to defeat Jubileus the Creator and Aesir the God of Chaos.
"True." says Dante, "The name is Dante, half-demon demon Hunter and owner of Devil Never Cry. I occasionally save the world and defeated a Demon Emperor."
"People call me Bayonetta. I'm an Umbra Witch allied contracted to Madame Butterfly. I kill angels and demons, and occasionally corrupt gods."
"So, why were we fighting again?"
"I think we just got caught up in the chaos."
*DOOM*
After several minutes, the activity of Level 50 – ISO 09 finally calms down. The majority of the former prisoners follow Rorschach's spider-robots to the extraction point.
Ash raises his eye at the last people to leave.
A beautiful woman with athletic build, dark eyes, pale skin, and bob cut bright red hair. She is dressed in a blue jumpsuit with yellow markings and computer bracelet. The personal information processor being known as a Pip-Boy. In her world, the Vault series of survival shelters are installations designed by Vault-Tec Corporation to protect a portion of the United States population in case of nuclear war. She is a Vault Dweller.
Her companion is a hulking green-skinned humanoid with green eyes, huge muscles, and a bald head. He's known as a Super-Mutant. The Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) - one of the most important mutagens in the wasteland, harnessed by different organizations and individuals for their own purposes both before and after the Great War. It was a variant of this virus that created the hulking mutants possessing exceptional strength, endurance, resistance or immunity to disease and radiation, as well as modified intelligence.
Rorschach has a deep love of the Fallout series as evident by his retro-futuristic designs and his creation of the iconic Liberty Primes. Now he's going to meet people that are actually from post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland of the Fallout Universe.
I also look over at the new companions that have decided to join us
The blue-eyed blonde standing six-foot-three in her biomechanical armor is Samus Aran of Metroid franchise. She was originally a normal human child living on a space colony, until it was attacked by Space Pirates. She was then taken in by the bird-like extraterrestrials known as the Chozo. They enhanced her with their genetics, trained her, and gifted her with a suit of armor. She eventually became the most famous bounty hunter in the galaxy, taking out the worst threats.
All her greatest opponents were linked to the Chozo. The X-Parasites were creatures that devoured other living creatures from the inside and took their form and memories. The Chozo discovered them while mining a new source of energy. The fearsome life-draining floating jellyfish called Metroids, the Chozo created them to exterminate the X-Parasites only for them to evolve when exposed to the new energy source. The Space Pirates wanted the Metroids for themselves and her last big opponent was her one of her own Chozo "fathers" Raven Beak (Ashkar Behek)
The other companions are a male and female duo.
The male has close-cropped dark brown hair, dark brown skin, blue-purplish eyes, and muscular arms. He wears a plain light blue T-shirt (hanging down untucked on the left-hand side), a pair of blue jeans, and gray shoes.
The female has long bright orange hair that hangs down her left shoulder, pale fair skin, dark green pupils, pinkish lips, and athletic arms. She wears a plain light green short-sleeved tunic with a dark green belt, a pair of brown trousers, and grayish boots.
Both are 180 cm (5'11) and possess Gamer powers such as Inventory and the ability to manipulate matter in the form of one meter cube homogenous masses and crafting items. I realized who they were when they placed a wood wall down in one-meter identical cube blocks, that seemly fused together. Steve and Alex, the default player skins from Minecraft. Thanks to those Gamer abilities they can sprint at 20.2 kph (12.6mph) for an unlimited amount of time and lift a cube of solid gold (19,282.00 kg/19.3 metric tons) with one hand.
"I used to be a veteran on the Leaderboards." I say to Steve.
"So, what happened?" asks Steve
"First it stopped being fun, then Lightning took out my computer, then I got reincarnated in another world."
"At least you knew about the place you landed in" says Alex, "When Steve and me awoke in the New World, we didn't know anything. We spent nights running from skeletons, zombies, spiders, and those damn creepers. We finally learned of our crafting powers after nearly dying and the Villagers explained things."
"At first we didn't trust the long-nosed weirdos, but it turns out they were a good weird." says Steve, "they told us about the Ancient Builders and their obsession with life and death. Their experiments eventually lead to creation of the Wither and their exile into The End dimension."
"After killing monsters and even travelling to the Netherworld, we finally defeated the Ender Dragon and opened a portal." says Alex, "Instead of finding ourselves home, we found ourselves in weirder places."
She describes different worlds with different creatures and even other crafters. There descriptions reminded me of the mudded Minecraft worlds on witnessed on YouTube. A masked boy in a green hoodie, a blue-haired man with goggles and a leather jacket, a boy with a green hoodie with a smiling face, a man with a fiery creeper head, even a dark ghostly knight married to a girl in pink. Those all sound VERY Familiar.
*DOOM*
Cadmus Upsilon Site
Level-51- ISO 09
California
March 12, 2013
1st POV
Level 51 – ISO 09 is somewhat anticlimactic. The place was damaged from the fights on the upper level with water pouring from some cracks in the ceiling and lights flickering from damaged wires. The amount of damage wasn't enough to awaken the subjects of Level fifty-one.
" Interesting."
"What's Interesting, Rorschach?"
"The first eight are all clones of Jango Fett."
In Star Wars universe, Jango Fett was a famed Mandalorian bounty hunter and the clone template of the Grand Army of the Republic. He's most famous for one unaltered clone, his son Boba Fett. The clones were decommissioned shortly after the proclamation of the Galactic Empire, replaced as stormtroopers by natural-born recruits during the early Imperial Era.
"What's so special about these clones? Are they named specials?"
"Actually, the opposite. According to the files, these were experimental prototypes engineered by the Kaminoans, not meant for combat. One unaltered clone similar to Boba Fett. One clone possessing enhanced strength, one possessing enhanced agility, and one possessing regenerative abilities. One clone possessing enhanced intellect, one possessing enhance creativity, and one engineered to have Force abilities. The eighth appears to be a female clone with scientific and medical knowledge."
"There was a Star Wars clone series called The Bad Batch, but those were genetic mutations."
The group moves on as the robot spiders collect the clones in their pods.
"The next eight are also from Star Wars. These aren't human, but Togruta and Twi'leks."
Togruta are a species characterized by their colorful skin tones, large montrals (cone-like horn sensory organs), head tails, and white facial pigments. Twi'leks are tall near-human species who's most striking feature was a pair of long appendages protruding from their skulls, called lekku (head tails).
"One of them is Ashoka Tano and another is Aayla Secura."
Ahsoka Tano is a Force-sensitive Togruta female known for being the former Jedi Padawan of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker (the man who would become Darth Vader). After the Clone Wars, she helped establish a network of various rebel cells against the Galactic Empire.
Aayla Secura was a Jedi Master who served as a Jedi General of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. She was a famous Jedi whose death was felt and witnessed (force vision) by many.
"The next eight after them are binary clones made with the genes of the previous eight. With some modification."
It's not a strange concept. Sometimes instead of take dozens of the same subjects, they create clones for additional testing. I still don't see what's interesting.
"Those clones were modified to be more esthetically pleasing and enhancements to secondary sex characteristics."
"Are you kidding me? These a-holes created sex slaves? The originally are going to be pissed."
"It doesn't help that one of Twi'leks is Darth Talon."
"The Hand of Emperor Darth Krayt!?"
"Hey! What's a Sith?" asks Samus.
"The Star Wars universe has this field of energy called the Force and those who are sensitive can tap into it. It grants psychic powers to those who train. One of the darker philosophies is the Sith. Driven by their emotions, including hate, anger, and greed, the Sith were deceptive and obsessed with gaining power no matter the cost." says Rorschach, "Now, a Dark Lady is going to awaken to learn she was kidnapped and her genes stolen to create sex slaves."
I can see Samus wince behind her helmet.
*DOOM*
We have finally reached the end of Level 51 and grow closer to the final level.
The last subjects in pods are four clones in pods around one final tower.
"Dai-Kaiju" is Rorschach's comment when he looks at his tablet, "They created clones using the DNA of giant monsters and not just any monsters. Godzilla monsters."
He sends me the pictures.
The first two are identical, resembling twins. They resemble pacific islanders with tanned complexions and white hair with bangs that remarkably resemble feathers. Her eyes are listed as green. They resemble the Houtua people from the Reiwa era anime series (the Godzilla Earth trilogy). The difference is the white markings on their skin are not tribal paint and they also have inhuman features like fuzzy antenna and huge scaly moth wings draped over them like cloaks.
"The daughters of Mothra. A combination moth-like metahuman combined with DNA taken from Mothra Leo – the most powerful incarnation from the Rebirth of Mothra series." says Rorschach.
"Mothra is the Queen of Monsters, a Goddess of Life." I say, explaining things to the people surrounding me, "Mothra Leo is OP in her own films. She has always been a force of good."
The third is a young Latino woman with dark brown eyes, dark skin, and short dark brown hair. Her inhuman features include gold (not-dyed) lochs, golden body markings, and gold elements to her eyes. She also has pointed ears and stubby horns hidden by her hair.
"The daughter of King Ghidorah. A combination of a Latino Atlantean with the genetic material two Ghidorah – Monsterverse and Final Wars."
"Monsterverse's insane durable and regenerative abilities combined with the raw power of Monster X." I say looking close at the photo. "She looks like Luz."
"Who?"
"Luz Noceda from Owl House. Owl House and Amphibia were the main successors to Gravity Falls. Lux was a human who followed a grifter into the Demon World and stayed to learn magic with her new friends despite the danger." I explain to Rorschach, "I also read a crossover in which Luz was the daughter of Ghidorah due to government experiment. Human Zero, I think it was called."
Rorschach and me share a look. It's another indication who the author is.
The fourth and final kaiju-human hybrid is a young man of mixed heritage with gold-yellow eyes, dark skin, and dark (almost black) green spiky hair. He's notably muscular and athletic with gills like an Atlantean. His inhuman features include pointed ears, sharp teeth, and dark green hide on certain parts of his body.
"The son of Godzilla. They took DNA from a Hong Kong native possessing plant-like physiology and fused it with DNA taken from Heisei Biollante and Reiwa Godzilla Earth."
"That's one messed up paternity test." I say, "Biollante originally started as a transgenic rose containing the DNA of the late Erika Shiragami. The rose was her father's attempt to keep some part of her alive. He then made the mistake of using G-Cells when the rose was damaged, resulting in the plant monster with the soul of a human – Biollante. Godzilla Earth is metallic-plant-based kaiju that succeeded in conquering and ruling Earth for thousands of years."
"Our little prince is going to be a powerhouse."
*DOOM*
Cadmus Upsilon Site
Level-52- ISO 10 - Final
California
March 12, 2013
3rd POV
Level Fifty-Two of Cadmus Upsilon's Fifty-Two Levels, Isolation Level Ten of Ten is absolutely massive, but also pretty barren. Mostly immense black-painted concrete walls and a ferro-concrete floor.
There are machines and robots that carry around the Matrix Pods used to contain subjects. There are also huge military robots armed with guns that shoot armor-piercing and explosive rounds, missiles, and projected energy beams. They all stand next to a grid of a hundred fifty-two-inch TVs, linked to form a sixty-foot high and a thirty-five wide screen. There are metal walkways leading to and from the screen.
On the opposite side in a massive tent made of metal beams bolted to the floor and opaque grey plastic sheets. It has the heavy smell of oil, grease, and machines.
Alex Sky looks up from his bonds. A few hours ago, everyone started panicking. The scientists and soldiers shut everything down, even the giant plasma TV screen. They clicked off the life support connected to him and injected something into his IV line. He was waiting to die, still strapped into a machine.
Suddenly, he sees a bunch of people enter.
Rorschach the super-vigilante connected to Cognito and the man who killed Dragons with Giant Robots. He actually found a movie called Fallout, that featured the Liberty Prime!
There is a huge man over seven feet tall in biker leathers. He has red eyes, gray skin, and white hair, but he looks like one of Superman's sons he saw in the tabloids.
There are also two beautiful gray-skinned goth girls, two orange-skinned alien beauties, two dark-skinned twins, and several characters he actually recognizes.
The Bounty-Hunter Samus Aran. The Legendary Pokémon Mewtwo and adorable Eevee. Even Steve and Alex from Minecraft: The Animated Series!
"Alex Sky. We are here to rescue you and the abductees. We are also here to wreck this place." says the gray son of Superman, who generates a wicked knife out of bone. He cuts the straps with ease and Alex Sky can feel himself slide free.
"They... They injected my IV with something. Some kind of poison."
Rorschach scans him with a tricorder, like one from Star Trek.
"These guys were so incompetent. When they shutoff you support, it also prevented the poison they injected from entering you." says Rorschach, his voice filled with disgust at the inferior fools, "There trap was also so simply a blind monkey could mess it up."
"What was their plan?" asks Alex, as he stands up for first time in days. He's very shaky from atrophy, but Rorschach gives him a painless injection that makes him feel stronger.
"The ISO levels are powered by a Fusion Core underneath it. They planned on sealing the upper levels and detonating the Core, filling all ten with super-heated plasma. As if that would work on me or Ash."
"What about us?" says Raven.
"What about you? You girls are hyper-competent and OP." comments Rorschach, then notices the lack of a certain item "What happened to the remote?"
"My Master Remote?" asks the analogue of Control Freak, "It's in that case near the pseudo-garage."
"Pseudo-Garage?" asks Rorschach, looking at the giant tent of plastic and metal.
[Pseudo-Garage]
Due to the size of some of specimens, not all specimens could be secured in matrix pods. A temporary shelter was constructed to hold the specimens.
Pseudo-Garage contains: Cybertronians x 20
Rorschach runs over to the Pseudo-Garage followed by Ash Grey. When they tear through the gray plastic covering, they a small fleet of vehicles. Trucks, cars, motorcycles, and even a red/black VTOL Jet.
"How in the name of all that's holy did these idiots capture this many full size Autobots?" asks Ash, "These ones are not idiots."
"Some sort of anti-tech magic, that left them alive due to their sparks." says Rorschach, "There in status lock and we are lucky none of Cadmus scientists did more than take scans and samples."
"So how do we get them out of here?"
"First we need to get them moving." says Rorschach, pulling out a black-and-white dart gun "I don't have enough data to fully repair them, but I do have a sample of the T-O Virus."
"You're hoping the transformation will also heal them?"
"Even if it fails, the T-O cells will hold all the data, so I can make further attempts later." says Rorschach, tapping some buttons on the dart gun "Do you believe in my genius?"
"I believe in BS Power of The Gamer."
Rorschach turns and fires twenty shots from his dart gun. Far more darts then such a tiny gun should be able to hold, but a transfinite gun magazine is not something they are worried about. The tips of black-and-white darts pierce the robots in disguise, injecting the T-O Virus into the mechanical cells of extraterrestrial mechanical life forms.
It takes less than two minutes for cybertronian physiology to be transformed into hybrid techno-organic physiology. The damage done to their old bodies by magic is erased and their minds awaken from status lock.
*Tsche-chu-chu-chu-tsche*