Yahooo! Praise the new board, praise the new board, ahahahah!
Ahem, well, now you'll know...the rest...of the story.
Chapter 10: Desecrated
Aldan sat proudly in his large, wedge shaped vessel.
"Turenka! How long till we reach the appointed area!?" Aldan shouted across the bridge.
"Atleast fourty-five minutes, sir, we still haven't left orbit."
"Well, is the witch ready, atleast?"
"Yes, sir, the Subject is already loaded in Bay # 5." The bridge of Aldan's ship was silent for a good five minutes as they
prepared for escape velocity. But, just as
they were about to launch, a explosion eminated
on the view screen, from somewere below.
"You imbecils! Focous on that explosion!" Then, after a moments hesitation, the
screen displayed a town on the mountain, Katalym, totally in ruins.
"D*mn it! Kallis has found Katalym!" For a moment, Aldan had to weigh his decision, Nike Teross, or Kallis?
"Get me to Diamondus right now!!"
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Kallis stood in the center of the crater that once was Katalym.
"Sorry, town, but this is more important than all of our lives." Kallis then placed both of his hands on his temples, concentrating his mind, until in a blast of motion his mind dug deep into the crater, searching for the Katalym. After five minutes
or so of flinging dirt around, he could feel
the direct psyhic prescence of the Katalym.
Kallis then hovered down, and before him stood a great tapestry of warriors.
Atleast one hundred statues, all in valiant poses as if they were about to strike.
"Yes, I've done it! They can help me defeat Teross!" He thought excitedly as he placed is hands on the chest of the nearest statue
and again began to concentrate his life energy into the statues, and then, in
a massive blast of electricity, the stone slowly melted off there bodies.
The one nearest him, like the rest of them, had ornatley carved armor, with two long
swords attatched to there wrists. Over there
mouth was a scarf so that all visible of
there face was there eyes, and there ears tied into a complex braid that went down to
there knees. And they were tall, very tall.
Slowly, there eyes opened, and the nearest one jumped back a pace.
"WHAT? This place isn't thyn holy battlefield at the Great Plateau!" He noticed Kallis and quickly placed his blade near Kallis throat.
"And what manner of being may you be, young one? You have the smell and the body of a Gerenpfpssh, but you're face belies you, as
that appears as of a Rabbit. What are you, then?" Kallis swallowed, and sweat slowly began sliding down his forehead.
"I am a rabbit..." Kallis stated cautiously. In a flash of motion, both of the Katalym's blades were at his throat.
"Pig! Tell me, why me and myn bretheren have been brought to this dank hole, were is
the battlefield!?"
"It's been many thousand years since the Katalym attacked the Great Plataeu, and were
caught in a entrapment spell. You see, I
awoke you, in hopes you could help me fight a greater evil."
Chapter 11: The Abyss(by Kazooie)
"Are you sure? I've seen many of these kind make it across."
"Especially Jazz and Lori"
"Shut up! I don't want any more failures around here!"
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The room was filled with a network of computers, each one showing a large data sheet and different. Roomy the room was not, and made of fake wooden walls, but it was enough for the strange white rabbit that lived there. She was tall, blue eyes like a swimming pool, a white lab coat and some glasses just to make her look intelligent... her name was Sam.
"Warning, life signs have dropped for client Kovu, Grath, Tanpopo, Kazooie, Ducky, and BlkSheep," A voice said, it had no tone, it was there but had no pitch, no tone, no accent.
"Display information!" Sam said, her voice was serious, usually this didn't happen, to any of these persons, something was not right! Six screens changed the data displayed and several sections flashed red instead of a healty blue. Sam acted as though she was typing on an invisible floating keyboard. "Blast!" she said, apparently she couldn't help, there was a psychic force preventing her. "I told Kaz I needed a bigger battery, but noooo, he said a Triple V would be fine, but I needed a Double V! BLEH!" Once again she tried and raced at the keyboard, she found where they were located. An abyss, the one many had jumped to reach the other side of life instead of staying for a long slow death, a true river Styx, except the river was dry.
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Ducky was the first to wake up. She looked around, everything was a indistinct grey.
"Hello?!" The electric rabbit yelled out, the sound dying faster than it should. She walked around util she tripped over the idle body of Kovu
"OOF!!" She kicked Kovu to wake him up, but nothing happened. Not a thoughtful rabbit she kicked Kovu even harder!
"OUGH!" Kovu screamed. Kicking people hard always seemed to wake them up. Kovu got up and saw Ducky.
"WHY THE- hey, where are we?" he asked.
"I don't know," Duckster replied.
"Where are the others?"
"I don't know,"
"Why the heck is it so foggy here?"
"Whadda I look like? A crystal ball?!" Ducky said, the fog seemed endless and somewhat annoying. After agreeing to search for the others they walked on... into the myst.
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"Augh, my head feels like a watermelon, and it's split," BlkSheep said. She had just awoken and had a headache, from what unknown. "Kayle! IF THIS IS ONE OF YOUR LITTLE DOLL HOUSES IT'S NOT FUN ANYMORE!" she broadcasted. Nothing returned. No Sparif was on her. She pinched herself to make sure it wasn't a dream. It wasn't a dream. The unsure rabbit sat down, thought, and thought, and still thought. Something clicked! A flash of Ducky kicking Kovu! "Oh great, that really helps," She thought to herself and kicked the dirt. The dirt screamed in pain.
"WOW! A piece of dirt that can talk! I'm rich, uh huh uh huh uh huh!"
"I'm Kazooie, ya yutz!" The dirt was being offensive.
"WOW! A piece of dirt that can fly!"
"You're just difficult." Kazooie stood up and brushed of his feathers.
After many questions with no answers the duo walked on into the deep fog.
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A glow of angelness was emitting from a shapless form above, floating in mid-air...
"Calie," It said softly, angelic. Calie asleep on the ground still slept. The beams of energy were penetrating the fog.
"CALIE!!!" It shouted and shined a concentrated beam of light into her eyes.
"AHHHHH!!! I see the light! AND IT BURNS!!!" Calie screamed! Covering her eyes she questioned the entity.
"You are stuck at the abyss of life and death. You can stay here for a while and die eventually while being toyed with by 2 spirits, or you can try and make the jump over the abyss..." The entity was faceless, but had a air of sad hopefullness.
"This always happens!!!" Calie complained.
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"I see a light up ahead! It may be the others!" Kovu said and Ducky ran swiftly with him out of curiosity.
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"I see a light up ahead! It may be the others!" BlkSheep said and Kazooie ran quickly with her out of curiousity.
"AHHHH!!! THE LIGHT BURNS!!!" All of them said after plowing into eachother instead of the intended blob.
"What the heck -err heaven is that?!" Kazooie asked.
"You'll have no time to know that now! IT'S TIME TO PLAY!!!" A voice from before said.
Someone stood there in midair, floating mysteriously. He had a game hosts' suit on, grey hair and blue eyes... not the kinda guy you want to be associated with.
"Today we have Calie, Ducky, and BlkSheep as our guests, who ever remains will be one of the few to cross the abyss!"
"Where is this 'abyss' of yours anyway?" Ducky questioned,
"Why... just over there!" The gameshow host pointed into the fog and it cleared up... the thing was huge! No unequipped rabbit or bird could make it all the way there! The group just stared at it for a while.
"Breath taking?" the wierdo said, he started smirking and bursting into laughter.
"JUST WHAT'S SO DARN FUNNY?!" Calie raged out,
"You'll never make it! YoU'lL nEvEr MaKe It! YOU'LL NEVER MAKE IT!!!" the annoying Regis taunted over and over again.
"WE'LL SEE WHO MAKES IT!!!" Calie yelled and started running in an attack position towards the host.
"Time for the game to start!" and he pulled an imaginary lever and they dissapeared.
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The girls fell onto a statue. On it was a sign, it read:
"Ah, you've made it, you must finish this level, no guns will be allowed, I reccomend you use one of your partners as a trade in to finish the level. Bad luck! Oh yeah, I've sent a dark spirit with a scythe after you..."
"That's comforting!" BlkSheep complained,
"I've come close to death with age and escape to come close to death with grim reaper," Calie sighed,
"We had better keep moving, this place may look like one of my favorites but it isn't," Ducky acknowledged. With that, they moved on... a Medivo setting, barely any enemies with frightened them. Gargoyles everywhere.
"The dark wind howls..." Ducky impersonated,
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!" Both Calie and BlkSheep chimed in.
"Your death!" a dark, unholy, and oh so very evil voice said from behind...
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Meanwhile, back at the abyss. "WHERE HAVE YOU TAKEN THEM?" Tanpopo pondered with fury.
"The Server of Heck" The Alex Trebek answered back.
"Huh?"
"What?"
"Eh?"
"Excuse me?" They all questioned.
"You heard me, their at the server of heck with a grim reaper chasing them," the host replied.
"Forget this, I'm going to jump... it's better than staying here," Kovu thought aloud.
"NO! YOU WON'T!" The evil game show host wailed! He pointed his finger at Kovu. A slight whistling...
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"Come on... come on!" Sam said, she was busy looking at one blinking red and green screen and typing on an invisible keyboard at another.
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The whistling turned into a howl like the wind, but instead it was something that wouldn't just breeze by...
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"That thing's gonna hit... how can he not know?!" Sam trying even faster...
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A star shined... an evil star... shining an evil dark light... getting closer!
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"Warning; battery power is at 23%..." the null voice notified,
"Great, just what I need, Save all active modifications and shut down all scanning, and modifying devices, keep the accessing ones avalible, freeze all values!" Sam said... the data slowly faded, the light went out, and all was dark, except two screens, still blinking red and green. "Hope you like my easter eggs..."
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The dark star hit! Everyone shielded their eyes. Kovu stood there... completely unscratched... the remaining residue of the attack faded away in tinier pieces. The attacker stood there... mouth wide open at what had happened... the dark star was somehow it had been blocked, deflected, canceled! NO! He couldn't accept it! THIS WAS HIS WORLD! THEY MUST DIE!
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"RUUNN!!!" BlkSheep shrieked! The hooded figure flew after them, gaining very quickly...
"There's no evading me!" The reaper roared.
"We're not going to make it!" Ducky predicted.
"Stop being negative!" Calie shouted back, she looked back, a pink object followed her... HER BLASTER! Somehow everyone got their blasters. "Our weapons!" She excalimed.
"Hey what the?" Ducky wondered.
"Mumble mumble, gargoyles... weapons... ice... ... ...!" BlkSheep came up with a good idea! One of the rarest moments ever!
"Calie! Switch to a flame thrower... Ducky! I'll need some electricity!" BlkSheep barked out, Ducky convenintly found her staff in her hand.
"NO CHEATING!" the reaper said and fired off a flaming bat at them. BlkSheep counterattacked with an ice blaster freezing the bat and stabbing the grim reaper in the "eye".
"HIYA!" BlkSheep knocked off a gargoyles wing and froze it as well as a path. The trio hopped on with some predicting.
"FIRE AHEAD!" they all said as if they knew what they were doing. The electricity striked as a beam to toast anything up ahead!
"Hold your breath!" Calie said and turned her flamethrower to max and held down the trigger. The result was a complete fire shielded sled with a beam of thunder blasting anything in it's way.
"We're approaching a wall, it has irregular readings... a warp maybe?" Ducky said.
"Brace yourself!" Calie commanded.
"ON WHAT?" BlkSheep quizzed.
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"Did it just get colder?" Grath cried.
"Yes!" Tanpopo replied worrying.
"Excellent..." The evil Regis laughed.
FACHING! The floor froze over in ice! "WHAT THE?!" the host said... apparently this wasn't one of his tricks!
"Oooh, someone's gonna die..." Kaz taunted,
"Well see about that..." He retorted.
"No..." A voice from behind the host said, "WE WILL!" the trio of girls shouted coming out of nowhere as a giant fireball. Their velocity was tremendous, too tremendous! The host was hit by the flaming vehicle and engulfed in flames... "EWW! I just saw a flaming pancreaus fly by!" Calie stated digusted.
"eww..." Ducky said also digusted.
"Shut off the flame thrower, we need to have some visitors... everyone grab a hand!" BlkSheep told the team.
"Here they come!" Tanpopo said.
"Everyone make a chain!" Grath suggested.
"Right!" BlkSheep said, the wing was huge enough and they'd need a chain to get across to the abyss. There it was, they were prepared though, NO WAIT! A MISCALCULATION! They were only half of what was needed to get across! Kovu was the first one to fly off the ramp of ice...
"NO! YOU CAN'T DIE!!!" A picture of Sam appeared out of nowhere! She grabbed Kovu and as a trapese artist she flung the chain across... "NO!!! MY ... BATTer.. Da... bu.." Sam faded out! Kovu was left... hanging no where.
"WE MADE IT!" Everyone said... "wait! KOVU!" Kazooie uttered. The rabbit fell... without his comrads... into the abyss.
"NOOO!!!" they all synchonized screamed... and they woke up.
"What was that?" Ducky asked.
"I...I saw Kovu die...Teross killed him on that ship of his...I'm sure now..." BlackSheep seethed.
"He...he's dead?" Kazooie felt his knees quaiver. Images flooded.
"Don't worry, we can handle 'em."
"TAKE THIS SYENN!"
"I...am Tyio?"
"I'm looking for the Katalym..."
"Go on without me!"
Silence.
"I...I will find his body, and bury it on Carrotous, to save his honor." Ducky said, her voice sorid(sp?)
"WHO's WITH ME!?"
Chapter 12: Pilots
That thing hovered above Kovu's face. The thing that was part Aldan, part a skeleton.
But, in a flash, it became the white face of
Teross.
"Welcome back to the land of the living..."
Kovu tried to lift himself, but was strapped down. His senses were also dulled, extreamly
dulled.
"What happened?"
"You had a severe heart attack, a little young, aren't we, for such things?"
"Shut up. Why'd you bring me back?" Kovu's voice was slurred as he spoke.
"I don't know, the heck of it maybe?"
"W-where are we?"
"Above Diamondus, soon I will claim Nike Teross and rule the galaxy!"
"Shut up, you're sadistic cloning experiment will fail!"
"Why is it sadistic, then?"
"You can't make a soul, it will be a mindless, ravaging beast!" Teross chuckled,
then broke into laughter.
"What's so funny?!" Kovu attacked with what little might he had. Teross continued
to laugh for minutes, and was wiping his
eyes when he finally spoke,
"Pity, yes, quite a pity that is then. As one *chrotle* sentinent, to another, let me
let you in on a little secret." Teross came
up and began whispering into Kovu's ear.
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Nike Teross kicked Grath through a wall as he was jumped by him.
"Hm? Is that all?" Nike proudly surveyed the carnage around him.
"I suppose this 'test' is complete?" From the rubble, Ducky and Kazooie emerged.
"As Kayle once said, you have a lot to learn about us good guys." Kazooie said as he tried to remove the rivers of blood from
his face.
"Oh really?" As his attention was detured, Ducky fired a blast of electricity.
"Hm?" Nike turned in a instant an caught the energy in his hands.
"Ducky, look out!" Kazooie shouted. Nike
squeezed his hand and made the energy a concentrated beam and threw it back at
Ducky. She froze, and then the blast hit her squarely in the forehead.
"Nooo!" Kazooie screamed as Ducky fell to the floor. Her chest heaved about for more
times, then stopped.
"S-she's..."
"Dead?" Nike finished his sentence, then a laughed. Kazooie felt rage build up in him, then drew his sword once more.
"You have something to say?"
"Go to **** Nike Teross!" Then Kazooie charged the insect.
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"Kiriyie*, we've been hit!" A lizard rushed into the medical hall.
"What?" Teross rose.
"Yes, Kiriyie! By five large missiles from a ship in orbit around the planet. We tried
shooting at them, but had no affect. Shields
down to 10% my Kiriyie. Five more on the way!"
"Rrr. Return fire, immediatley!"
"Aye, aye!" After a moment of punching buttons on a console, the lizard spoke again.
"They've set a collision course, several large blasters and other projectile weapons
have rendered most of our offensive capabilities usless, communication is out,
warp drive is out!"
"Prepare the witch and the warlock, and make a escape trajectory for the planet."
"Yes, Kiriyie, but it will not have affect, the ship will make contact in five, four,
three, two..."
"Brace for impact!"
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Nike Teross batted a lifeless Kazooie away like a rag-doll.
"You never had a chance, I'm afraid."
Then Nike generated a energy ball to finish
off the fledgling heros.
As he did this, they heard the mechanical sound of a mech, no, two mechs setting down.
"What the?" Suddenly, a hail of bullets rained through the roof of the castle, causing the energy ball to explode and hurling Nike into
a nearby wall, rendering him unconcious.
"Kazooie, long time no see!" The mecha's
intercomm spoke. Then the second mech they
heard bashed it's foot through a wall, making
a new doorway.
"Kazooie! Buddy!"
"I know those voices..." Kazooie though, barely holding on to conciousness.
Adding to the complexity of the scenario, Teross ship set down nearby, but it was badly
beaten, with huge chunks of deck and hull
missing, scorched shell, and protruding spikes of steel.
"No way..." The second mech spoke as two of Teross' missles crashed into it, throwing it
into a nearby hillside.
Then two more missles caused the first mech to violently be thrown aswell, but Kazooie saw a figure jump out of the cockpit before
hand. When the two mecha collided, a explosion resulted, enflaming the forest and
the ruins of the castle. When the figure
touched down, Kazooie could barely believe
his eyes. Red fur, jet black hair, a peculiar smile.
"No way, it just can't be*..."
"Ducky?" The rabbit said and rushed over to the fallen hero's corpse. Picking her up
gently, as though she were still alive, he placed a hand over her eyes, were the wound
was. And when he raised his hand, her face
was normal, and in a moment her eyes opened.
"T-tyio?"
Chapter 13: The Network
"T-tyio?" Ducky looked up at him.
"Yes?"
"You? You're alive?"
"Ofcourse, I'm not dead, am I?"
"But...I saw you die...in the Other World..." A tiny sphere of green energy
appeared on Tyio's finger.
"This will explain everything..." He place the finger on her simian ridge and then...
darkness. Slowly light filtered in, and
Ducky saw a horde of Teross' forces just behind Tyio, forcing her through a mini-Vortex.
"I remember..."
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"Curse our ancestors." The Katalym, named Saki*, contemplated, Kallis just having explained what had transpired.
"Curse them! They should have crushed the rabbits while they still mustered there
resources."
"Look! In any event, all that's long past! And, true, many rabbits are strongly opposed to this union, many aren't. Peace! Isn't
that what you wanted?"
"No, I want to crush them, but..."
Saki survied the destroyed town.
"I suppose I don't have the political influance anymore, it will pass that I will consult the king." Saki powered up his energy Sukfogens, his brethren doing the same.
"At the moment, however, killing this...Teross, of yours, may bring us some
public favor...where is he?"
"On Diamondus, I think."
"Diamondus, don't speak with a forked toung, boy!"
"Uh, Diamondus!"
"I know of no such place."
"It's...a planet."
"What?"
"Just get in my ship, I'll explain it on the way."
"What is a ship?"
"A thingy, to take us off Carrotus?"
"But surely we will fall into the land of dragons at the end of the world!"
"Thank God for the rennasiance."
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"After you left for home, Aldan came through another Vortex and together, we
defeated that part of the Legion.
We were wanted on the highest authority, as Teross then controlled the government.
We fled to Medivo, which rebelled aginst the Legion. We trained, and trained hard. With out the power of the Mystics it was a slow
process, but eventually we had enough pyshical and psyhic power to take on
Teross. Then the Legion attacked Medivo, and
we fled back to Carrotus. However, Aldan died
in the first raid, but with his last breath
told me to leave with out him. In last respect, I followed his command.
However, when I arrived on Carrotus, I found it was being attacked by the Humans, who
believed it was there fault for the disaperance of most of there army.
There, I confronted Teross, but he beat me to a pulp and left me for dead in orbit.
Luckily, I was picked up by a Human scout
before space killed me.
Most of my body was destroyed, so they began to clone the parts that were missing and
renew my current parts. In that time they
talked to my brain. I was able, even in such
a pitiful state, to convince the Human army
that it was not Carrotus' fault.
It took four years to regenerate my body, but once that was comlete I returned to
Medivo, where Teross and most of his legion
fled. To my surprise, I found Aldan there, alive!
He gave no explanation for his life, other than 'Destiny saw it fit.' Together, we
pressed on to Teross' forces, until we both confronted Teross, again. He was loosing, but
used the fusion technique, which he had
learned as a disciple of Zygot.
He absorbed Aldan, but Aldan soon escaped his inprisonment by using Teross' own psyhic
powers. Sadly, Teross had already copied all his knowledge. Using a mini-Vortex, he hopped
out of that world, into ours. We decided
that, in order to defeat Teross, we needed
to amass a force there. So, we trained with a psyhic know as Kallis, who lived in the
deep forest of Carrotus. After five years
of training with him, Carrotus was decimated
by rebel Humans, most related to those lost in the Vortex. Kallis and I escaped through
a mini-Vortex, but Aldan decided to stay
behind and fight. About a month ago, I found
Aldan once again, on Medivo. He had no
recollection of the fight with the humans, and none of Kallis, though he knew all of
the psyhic techniques. I decided that
the Humans must have wiped his memory.
We ammased the ship and the mechs, and attacked Teross head on."
Tyio removed his finger, the information
absorbed in a split second.
"It's been twelve years, Ducky, long time no see." Then Ducky realized how changed
he was. He was taller, slightly, and his
hair was tied in a intresting formation
behind his back, shaped like a trident.
And he had a scar running from above his left eye to the rightside of jaw.
Then he pulled a bo-staff from his back, and from it generated a huge energy beam.
"Wish me luck!" Jumping up out of the
castle, he charged Teross...
Chapter 14: Death and Rebirth
Teross stood outside of his ship fearsomly, a army of his soldiers behind him. About that time Tyio jumped up to the edge of the
castle's ruins.
"Surrender, Tyio, I tracked to down to this place and now you have nowhere to run!"
Teross cried triumphantly.
"You think those feeble minded legionaires can stop me? You know I am more powerful,
Teross."
"Oh really? Zygot himself feared me! That's why he trapped me in the Other World!"
"Zygot was a coward and a fool, that's why he's dead!"
"Try me, then!" Tyio, without a confirmation, lept from the castle, slicing
the nearest of Teross' detizens in half.
Then, rushing forward, he sercumcized another, launching the forward part of his
weapon in it's wake. Controlled by rockets,
the energy blade took down three more happless soldiers. Three robots took flight and shot downward at Tyio. Not missing a
beat, he jumped up, incenerating the one in
the middle and poking the one on the right
so fiercely that it went into paralysis.
Then, after dicing the one on the left, he smacked the other with the broad of his beam,
burning off the front of the robot's body.
After promptly falling to the ground, he pushed his weapon into long range mode and
laid waste to the remaining fighters on his
perch atop Teross' ship. In no time they all
lay in a sickening pattern, mechanical beast 'fzzert'ing and biological beasts gurgling.
"Come on! I'm tired of waiting!" Teross encouraged Tyio's attack. The latter, accordingly,
jumped torward Teross, firing a volley of
energy bursts. Then once in range, began
slashing at Teross. Ofcourse, the psyhic
monstrosity blocked them all with a energy
sheild. In a first offensive move, Teross smacked Tyio around so that his back was to
the castle, a strategic advantage.
Then, just as this happened, Teross froze in fear at something just over Tyio's shoulder.
The Gerenpfpssh's kindheartedness got the better of him as he didn't slice his head off
at the advantage. But, by the time he changed
his mind, he lost his chance. A flash of brown and red, Nike Teross' arm swooped
by, grazing Tyio's cheek. But the target
was Teross, and Nike's hand, in a fiercesome
shape with the fingers cresent and slightly
drawn back, protruded out of Teross' spine,
covered in slimy liquid. Nike looked over
his long neck at Tyio, and kicked him back
carelessly, hurling him into the wall of the
castle, unconcious. Nike laughed,
"Looks like daddy won't be reading anymore bedtime stories of code that would BIND MY ABILITIES!" He hissed violently.
All Teross could do was look at his stomach in horror as his life force flooded out.
"Hehe, you thought you could bind me." Out of Nike's arms popped a series of spikes,
and Teross jumped with a start. Then the
defoulable beast began twisting his forearm, and he closed his eyes and likes his lips
with his whitish tounge, througly enjoying
the pain he was causing in Teross.
Then, after about ten seconds, Nike removed his arm, which was excrutiating to Teross
because of the way the spikes were bent.
The white rabbit tried to cover the gaping
hole in his stomach to prevent any organs
from falling out, but he was surely mortally
wounded, and no psyhic abilities would save
him. In the mean time Nike licked the blood from his fingers, while watching Teross
die out of the corner of his eye. Teross
was at his last breath, but he used it to laugh, raising one drenched hand.
"There was one thing you didn't count on, Nike..." he placed his fingers on Nikes forehead.
"I absorbed ALL of Aldan's tecniques!"
"What?!"
"FUSION!!" In a flash of light, the two
figures were gone and one stood. Partially
insectlike, it was mostly rabbit, and truly
fearsome.
"I am the true Teross!!!"
Chapter 15: A Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The reborn Teross looked scornfully across the scorched Diamondus earth.
"I'll be taking my leave now, goodbye!" Teross floated torward his ship.
"Wh-what about us?" Tyio asked.
"Look at the sky." Teross instructed. By this time it was night, and the sky was
decorated with alien patterns of stars.
"Yeah?"
"Look over there." Teross pointed to the far left side of the horizon. There there was
a huge, immensly bright red star.
"What is that?! It can't be Sirius or Polaris!" Tyio asked, still a bit groggy from his assault by the late Nike Teross.
"It's neither, it is a New Cathrine/New Ontranaught war fleet, and they have orders
to level this entire world!" The air docks were opening as Teross floated in, a air of
supreme smugness about him.
"But those clans are controlled by Aldan, while he was in this dimension." Teross
turned back around and slowly his flesh melted off, then reasserted itself around him.
"Aldan?!" Tyio was shocked, just were Teross stood a moment ago was Aldan dressed
in lofty clan leader robes. Tyio shook his head, trying to clear his mind, still clouded.
"Wait, not Aldan, you're Teross, but you can shapeshift."
"It was so easy to fool every last one of them. Ducky, BlackSheep and Calie fell for
the simple disguise of Ag'agro. Kazooie
and Tanpopo Kiku fell simply for Teross.
And Kovu fell for Aldan. In a matter of hours
those who guarded the secret of the Mystics
and indeed, the secret of Katalym, were in
my control." As Teross metamorphed back into
his Aldan form, he spoke again to Tyio, this
time much more happy with his conquest.
"They held the keys to the Gerenpfpssh, and
the Gerenpfpssh held the keys to the Katalym.
The Power of Katalym is legendary, and I don't suspect that boy, Kallis, could've
succefully awakened them. In the end, my
demonic friend, I will rule the galaxy!"
Slowly the ship lifted from the ground, and as it did so a wave of fireballs flew from
the red star. In microseconds, Tyio began
calculating his next plan of action.
"Let's see, Teross is going to return to
Carrotous to awaken the Katalym. But, if I know Kallis, he has them flying here.
Based on the current hyper-space size and there ships time of departure and speed, they
will meet somewhere in the vicinity of Tau Ceti." Tyio jumped on top of the castle. Kallis always told him the best way to do
a difficult psychic task was to remember that
nothing is real here, everything is in you're
head. Pulling Aldan, Kazooie, Grath, Tanpopo Kiku, BlackSheep, Ducky, and Calie's energy
signatures on to him was no easy task, especially while attempting to dodge the
assault from Teross' fleet.
"What's going on?" Grath asked, one of the first raised from the ruins of the battle.
"I want you all to concentrate as much as you can on my energy signature," Tyio commanded.
"Why? What's your plan?" Aldan asked.
"Were going to do a little hitch-hiking."
"What?!"
"Uh, Tyio, am I just getting a little crazy or does jumping off of there missles to get
closer to the ship sound like a really DUMB idea?" BlackSheep asked.
"No, it'll work, when we trained with Kallis he made us touch a cloud by jumping
off rain drops."
"Yeah, but generally raindrops don't EXPLODE when you step on them!"
"Just don't worry, okay, here they come, stay frost Tyio."
"Righto!" Tyio waited until a missle was but a meter away and then jumped on it.
Then, jumped on another just as the first exploded. Slowly, the group contained in
spheres of thought bobbed after Tyio, arrived
near the threshold of the atmosphere.
"What's that?!" Tanpopo Kiku questioned quickly, seeing two stars of light enter the
atmosphere.
"They...there fighters!" Kazooie commented just as they jumped off another missle.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of them." Aldan said, pulling out a gun.
"Gimme that, I'm really good with guns."
"Since when?" Tyio asked, still bounding about the missles.
"I learned...from a friend. No time! Give me the gun Aldan!"
"Okay, okay!" Aldan handed over the weapon.
"Alright then!" Ducky fired the blaster in a random patter across the front of the ship,
hoping to hit something critical as she didn't know the anatomy of
those ships. After unloading hundreds of rounds onto the fighter, it collided with
a missile and exploded. Then second fighter
was now in range and began firing.
"One down, one to go!" Ducky aimed at the ship, but the catridge slid emptyly aginst the barrel. Looking down, the LCD screen
illuminated the words 'power cell empty, please replace power cell.'
"We are out of ammo, guys!"
"That's okay, just hold on everyone!" Tyio commanded and jumped at the fighter, grabbing
on to the view port before falling to the
planet below. Tyio then pried open the hatch
and with a single karate chop threw the pilot
out of the ship and assumed control.
"Closing hatch." Tyio checked off, and then
realized how hard it is to fit eight people in a cockpit designed to hold one.
"Red Hawk 9, I saw something fall off you're ship, everything okay?" The comm. buzzed.
Tyio mustered his best pilotish voice.
"Uh, that's a big ten four home base." Aldan smacked his forehead as he did this.
"Uh, you don't sound quite right, everything
okay?"
"Uh, yeah, I just hit my head when taking care of those rebels, my lip is swollen."
"Oh, well have med-lab check things up once you land, over and out."
"Roger, will do." After a few awkward moments flying in the cramped fighter,
Aldan spoke up,
"Sooooo, we do...what?"
"I guess we get better weapons in the New Ontranaught fleet, because we can't fly
all the way to the rondevous like THIS."
"Hn, good call."
Chapter 16: The Icky Mega Alien Mathing
"Okay, so first we are abducted by Teross, and then escape, and then are abducted by
Teross' men, great!" Kazooie complained.
"Atleast we...can..." Ducky failed her attempt.
"So, how do we get out? They took all our weapons!" BlackSheep asked.
"But, luckily, they didn't tak my 'walking cane'" Tyio said.
"So?" Asked Aldan. Just then, Tyio raised the stick and it transformed into his energy
sword. "
Woohoo, go Tyio!" Said Aldan. With a loud humm the beam sliced through the door, leaving a molten portal. Cautiously, they filled out of the cramped prison cell.
The area the cell filled out into was dank and dark, filled the the stench of death, and very narrow.
"I say we go that way." Tanpopo pointed to the right of the group.
"But this way is less dark." Grath suggested.
"Right!"
"I know!"
"No, I mean let's go right!"
"Left!"
"Right!"
"Left!"
"I SAID right!"
"Well, I SAID left!"
"Left!" Tanpopo said, rather cleverly she thought.
"Right!"
"Okay! Let's go." It is needless to say five minutes after that Graths smug smile
faded as he realised his mistake.
After walking deeper into the bowels of the ship, they came apoun a large, heart shaped
crystal behind many layers of shielding.
"Whatinaheck?" Was all Tyio could manage.
Near the barrier of the...thing, was a immaculatly dressed lizard with white hair,
jumping up and down. After staring ponderously at it, Aldan realized who it was.
"Oh Gah, not him again."
"What?"
"His name is lord Izracs, we fought him a few years back, and he's got a few screws loose." Suddenly, as if summoned by Aldan's
remark, Izracs turned to them, and then, in a wide stride, came to meet them.
"Well, if it isn't Aldan, and who's you're motley crew this time?" Izracs said, his voice having a slight british twang.
"What are you up to this time?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Cause I see a giant heart shaped crystal, doesn't that strike you as odd?" Aldan asked.
"Do you so easily forget what day it is?" Izracs tautned.
"Uh...what day is it?"
"Feburary 15th."
"Uh, yea?"
"The day after Valentine's day, fool! I just thought that, since I was given the job
of building a giant, vital energy core to Teross' fleet..."
The room, they quickly realized, was mind-boggingly spherical, and completely void of
life other than them, and the odd lizard, Izracs.
As for the heart shaped core, it pulsed and throbbed and swells and depressions of
enegry could be seen mucking about at it's core. After a moment of silence, Izracs hinted once more.
"Vital...to Teross fleet...just...sitting there?" As if through some great effort,
the group finally understood.
"Why would you let us destroy it?" Tyio asked, with a venomus undertone.
"I do not know, the thrill, prehaps?"
"How do we know it's not some...trap?"
"Tell you what, I'll let you destroy it with you're energy weapon, and Aldan here can
hold me at gun point while you do it."
From in the nucleus of the group BlackSheep tossed Aldan her blaster, which he quickly
pressed to Izracs' throat. Tyio paused in indescision.
"Well! Get on with it, man!" Izracs finally shouted to him. After looking to Aldan, Tyio
drew his bo-staff and illuminated the energy
beam. Carefully, Tyio walked up to the egg shaped shield. Apoun slicing it, it blistered
a sickening green, then finally shattering with a Kvvvoooo.
Even more cautiously, Tyio approached the
hexagonal rings surrounding the massive core.
Then, with resolve anew, he sliced down at the rings, causing them to crack and break around eachother, sending webs of energy
in multitudes of directions. Then, after spinning around, he sliced up, causing a even
bigger explosion as entire sections of the
apparatus were severed. But, as the plasmatic
mist flowed and crackled around him, a even
bigger explosion burst through the hull, knocking Tyio into the marble wall. A beam
of burning red energy rocked through the ship, sinking into the ground just beside Aldan and sending a wave of energy through
the room. As Aldan feel, the blaster set it self off, and a blob of burning jello landed
squarely in Izracs' left eye. Finally, the
beam subsided, showing a gaping hole into the
abyss.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Izracs howled in pain, kneeling on the ground, holding the place where his eye used to be.
"You liar! I should've never even listened to you!" Aldan shouted. Izracs, nearly choking on his fluids, managed,
"I have nothing to do with this..."
Tyio, gritting over pain, limped up beside the group, a leg unnaturally twisted.
"Guys...*grunt* we have two problems, one, the oxygen is rushing out of the ship, and two, that core is about to explode!"
About that moment, the decreasing oxygen levels apexed, and everything began rushing
out at a breakneck pace. Tyio, barely having
finished speaking, was sucked torward the hole, barely grabbing onto a support beam.
Aldan, Kazooie, and Ducky stuck there weapons in the ground and attempted to use
them as holds. After clinging to them for
a moment or two, Grath slipped off and was
at a dead on trajectory for the void when...
everything stopped.
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"Huh?" Every single particle was suspended perfectly, except for the core, which contined to writhe with energy.
Suspended in the air, Grath began to wonder if he had just maxed out his luck for his
next eighty nine generations. Perilously
hanging, all anyone could do was stare in awe. But, after a single moment, Grath cringed.
Behind him, with his fist planted in his spine, smiling sickly, was Teross.
Passing out, Grath floated emptyly where he flew. After taking in his surroundings,
Teross touched down.
"Wha-what is this, Teross?" Aldan asked, in rage.
"I just saved your lives, I would expect a little more gratitude." His sickly sweet smile faded as his eyes turned to Izracs.
With a twirl of his hand, Teross was holding
Izracs by the scruff of his neck in a most
humiliating fashion.
"You impudent fool! You share the qualities of you're late master, trecherous and weak!"
Izracs, under any other condition, would have lashed out at Teross for this remark, but he was in such an extraordinary
level of pain that he merely stood there, and accepted the verbal whipping Teross
offered.
"You're like the rest of those lesser beings, walking about in a cloud of ignorance
and deceit. Life is wasted on the living."
Teross assault turned physical as he punched Izracs in the stomach and to the ground.
"Die..." He said quietly, and, quite simply, Izracs died, his internal organs crushed with a mere thought. Teross smiled again, more sadistically this time.
"Sorry for the delay, allow us to return to the matter at hand." All they could do was
stare at the obscurely posed Izracs, a river
of blodd dribbling down his mouth.
"LISTEN!" Teross moved there necks to him with his psyhic powers, and very uncomfortably I might add.
"I present to you, my...you're, replacments."
From behind Teross floated down to the ground three dark green, egg shaped cylinders. Inside the first two from the left
were figures of indetermine orgin encircled
in water and tubes attached to body parts.
The third was very much white, filled with cyrogenic ice.
"Come..." The glass infront of the figures opened. And then, slowly and stiltedly,
the figures stepped out. Covered in water and
slime, appearing, and indeed so, newly born,
"Oh no..."
appeared the perfect likenesses of Tyio, Aldan, and Kayle.
Chapter 17: No One Is Me But He
The clones stood rather frailly just outside there capsules.
"Drones." Teross said cruelly, his voice echoing. They continued to stand there.
"Destroy them!" Teross pointed to the happless group. Slowly, the clones of
Tyio and Aldan opened, focousing on there targets, and then, the clone of Aldan said,
in a very disturbing voice, like that of
a million tormented souls speaking at once,
"Destroy the originals and those who accompany them!" Aldan and Tyio drew two
energy swords and Teross tossed them two cloaks. Tyio jumped up for Tyio, er, the clone Tyio jumped up to Tyio, and in his
weakened state was barely able to defend himself from the attacks. Meanwhile, Aldan blocked his clones attacks, with Grath and Tanpopo aiding him, while Ducky, BlackSheep,
and Kazooie came to stop the Tyio clone.
But what no one had noticed yet was the way
the Kayle clone stood perfectly still.
But soon, Teross noticed it and decided to
do a bit more shouting at her.
"You, go fight with your brethren!" But
Kayle continued to stand there, her iris and
pupils very wide.
"Curse it, the brain burn through didn't work." Teross kicked the clone across the head, and it quickly fell, gagging as it did.
Then, after a moment of choking, the pupils and iris declined, and she let out a loud scream, and all the other combatants stopped.
"Wh-where am I?"
"Rr! She retained her memories!"
"T-teross?" She said with anger.
"Kayle? But I thought you were dead!" Aldan said, the real one, that is.
"I created a clone, you see, of Kayle to operate Nike Teross faculty, in hopes that
it would draw you to Diamondus...unfortunatley it didn't go quite
as planned." Then Teross smile broadened.
"And, even more unfortunatley for you, Aldan;
is that your a clone aswell."
"W-what?"
"A perfect recreation, you did indeed die on the Other World, and I carefully planeted
a clone here, one that Tyio would find.
And now, you are under my control." Aldan,
whichever one, was shocked.
"Aldan Mark II," Teross said menacingly, and the 'original' Aldans eyes dilated.
"Kill your companions."
Chapter 18: The Miserable
"Okay, guys, were out powered in a major way
and there's no where to run...ideas?" Tyio asked as the three clones approached slowly.
After a moment's tension, and no ideas, he
decided to charge.
"DIIIEEEE!" He hurled his already weak body
at the clone of himself, only to be batted
away like a rag doll.
"STOP!" A weak voice said, but the clones continued.
"Stop you fools!" Teross shouted, and then everyone noticed how Kayle had Teross neck
surrounded with knifes, any direction he could move her, he'd die.
"Now, call those monsters off, and throw them in the void!"
"You think you're so clever, ah?" A tiny ball of energy formed in Teross' hand.
"Shut up and do it!" She pressed the cold metal to his flesh.
"You shut up!" Teross hurled out a portal to the Other World.
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Winds blew heavy across a desolate world.
"Not enough energy here!" Four figures,
in long, billowing shrouds, crossed the desert.
"We are looking for the core, not energy."
"I don't care! I'm hungry!"
"Could you both hush? Were almost there."
In the seemingly barren land, there stood
a upright pedistal. And, as soon as they
arrived, it began to glow green.
"Kygome. We've found you, at long last."
"Have you exterminated the legion?" A dark voice said.
"No, we haven't but we've been wandering for
eighty billion years! Can't we come home now!"
"Exterminate the legion of darkness and all
will be forgiven."
"But we don't know where the legion is!"
"Maybe you don't know where you are."
One of them removed his shroud.
"Sparif! Don't show yourself!" One shouted.
"Kygome! This war has gone long enough!"
"Prehaps you haven't yet learned the true way to kill a demon. Begone."
Chapter 19: The Long, Dark, Teatime Of
The Soul
"We've been hunting for millions of years!" Sparif shouted.
"I"m aware of that."
"Are you! I don't want to waste my life searching for the Demon hordes."
"You are immortal."
"But I"m not immune to boredom!" The shrouded mystic turned away from the setup of
rock.
"A new dimension was just created." The spirit said, calmly.
"So? New dimensions are created every micron of a second."
"Except that the path to the legion is there." His eyes turned wide, Sparif gazed
into the greenish matrix.
"What?"
"It is now 900,008,864,442,345 dimensions old, but I could take you there, since it's
so new." Sparif continued to stare coldly.
"Sure. But why do you care for us, Kygome?"
"I have been with you for two million years, would I abandon thee so readily?" A half smile came from Sparif.
"You...may go now." The puff of energy
commanded, and in a whiff of smoke, they were gone.
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Aldan strode into a pinkish colored room.
"Eh, welcome to Farhamn's. What can I do for ya'?" Tyio, only, not Tyio, asked.
He had a spherical orb of hair, and flat, black glasses.
"Tyio?" The incarnation of Aldan, with hair braided down to his waist, asked.
"I don't know, what kind of strange dimension did Teross bring us to?"
"You...are home, dudes." Kazooie, adorned with a long, billowing white cape said.
"What's going on, Kazoo?" Appearing cool, Kazooie explained.
"Eh, Teross took a chapter from the old brainola and made the perfect world for me
to get my groove on." Aldan's face twisted in indescision.
"You made this world, Kaz?"
"Righto. 'Cept for that major negative-vibe castle atop the hill, I think Teross has his
bad self up there." Tyio sat, amid a forest of lava-lamps, his jaw dangling.
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"Peace. Peace my brothers and sisters." Ducky chanted as they passed through the streets, with Grath and Tanpopo ushering her along.
"Apparently a few of us were affected by the dimensional shift more than the others."
Grath attempted to brush up on his temporal
science. Tanpopo snarled slightly, then commented,
"It doesn't matter, we just have to find Teross, and make him take us out of this
dimension." Grath turned to her, a stupid expression on his face.
"What are you gonna say, 'Oh please Mr. Teross, could you take us back to Carrotous, please?'?" and with a grunt,
"No, ofcourse not."
"Dudes, if you are not kosher with this Teross fellow, simply bring peace to your
heart."
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After numerous blips in the temporal fabric, one more occured over a floor of
multicolored, cut glass. One that resulted
in a loud, 'plop.'
"He did it, Kygome really brought us to the right dimension!" Sara cried triumphantly.
"I suppose, let's just find the Legion and be done with it." Fureyell said with venom, brushing off his cloak. And, no sooner had
he done this, than he was grabbed by some
strange thing dressed entirely in white.
"What is this?"
"Do the hustle!" Blacksheep, covered in a disco getup, commanded as she danced madly about the floor.
"I'd rather not!" Fureyell, from the shining floor, complained. Easgi stomped
over to BlackSheep, attempting to snatch her.
"Where is Teross?"
"Robot!" Black shouted, suddenly acting stilted and mechanical.
"Where is Teross?!"
"I said c'mon, get down!" Gritting her teeth, Easgi finally grabbed Blackie, who
still danced in the spot she was being held.
"Where is Teross?!"
"Huh? Yeah! Boss man Teross is up at the castle!"
Chapter 20: Revelation (Destruction of the First Golden LampStand)
A tiny planet stood in space, sector G111XN93. Covered in a millenia thick layer of dust, this nameless world was lonely. Atleast it had been for most of it's life.
But now it would play witness to a great battle.
"Yup, Teross' ship will arrive any moment now." Kallis confirmed, staring into the inky abyss with a high-tech binoculars.
"All I see is the stars in the sky...yet they are alien..." A Katalym near Kallis stated. Retracting his binoculars, Kallis turned to them.
"Ready you're weapons, a great battle is near..."
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"Hellloooo?" Tyio rapped on the large, mahogony door to the foreboding castle.
"Why did you have to have such a messed up dream, Kaz?" Aldan asked.
"Don't worry, pal, babidee babidie, we'll survive!" With a grunt, Aldan returned to a generally forlon stance, as Sparif walked
up beside him.
"Aldan...do you know the true nature of the war you've been fighting for the past twenty
years?" The mystic asked grimly.
"Eh."
"Do you understand the deeper meaning of this?"
"Heh, sorry Sparif, but I haven't been enlightened." Sparif sat down on the stone, beside Aldan.
"I cannot reveil to you everything, but I will reveil this; Teross is a Demon."
"You mean a Gerenpfssh?" Aldan had a puzzled look about him.
"No, a true Demon, one of the few in this dimension...he is trying to loose the Legion, and you cannot allow that."
"But...the Legion is in the Other World."
"The true nature of the Legion is more horrifying than you can imagine. Teross will haunt time and space for all time if you do
not stop him...now." Sparif's usually sarcastic attitude was gone, and, with a poker face, got up to help knock the door down.
"What...did that mean?" Aldan thought as the door burst with a loud crack. With a little cheer, they all rushed into the deep castle. The room was entirely black, and no sunlight came through the door. Infact, it was like a utter abyss.
"What the heck?"
"Exactly." A voice like a giant tsunami said, and a large star, under the entire group, with a circle around it in glowing
red, appeared. And then, in a instant, they were all...gone.
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After traveling the expanse of a dimension, they all reappeared in a large, metal courtyard, with a giant, glowing coil running down it's middle.
"Where are we?" Appearing out of no where, Teross said,
"You are in the energy core of my personal starship."
"You!" Aldan shouted.
"Me."
"Why'd you bring us here?" Ducky asked.
"So I could fully enjoy destroying you, how's that?"
"Curse you, Teross." Tyio screamed, just as the entire vessel rocked.
"What's that!?" Teross asked into his wrist comm.
"Kiriyie, A ship has attached itself to us, a boarding crew is making it's way to the energy core!"
"Why didn't you shoot at it!"
"Kiriyie, weapons not responding!"
"Blast! Oh well, I guess I can just take care of them myself."
"No you won't!" A flash of black cried as it grabbed Teross and hurled him down the
coil, a sword slashing it along the way.
With a loud thud, Teross cushioned the fall of his attacked, both of them realitivly unscathed.
"Rr. You! I should've killed you when I had the chance!" Teross seethed through his teeth.
"Who is that?" Kazooie asked, up top. Looking down the coil, Tyio replied,
"No way, I don't believe it...it's Kovu!"
"You miserable...I'll kill you!" Teross shouted, swinging as Kovu and nearly lopping off an arm.
"Feh. You're no match." Lying, disabled, near the distabling core, Kovu mangaged.
"It doesn't matter, I've bought enough time!" Teross swivled around just in time to see one of the Katalym's energy blades slice
through the bulkhead, and Kallis stepping forth.
"Curse you Kallis! You awoke the Katalym, I'll kill you." One of the Katalym began
to move forward, but Kallis stopped him.
"No, I must fight this battle alone, go, stop the rest of his forces." And, with
a reluctant nod, they all left, except for the one that Kallis had talked to before.
And so, as tiny points of light fell from the destablizing core, the two battled at the center. And they battled and battled, a miserable battle that has no victor. Then again... Teross chopped at Kallis, the latter barely defending, until in a single movement his blade plunged straight through Kallis, who fell to the floor.
"I am victorious!" Teross shouted, his blade cackling with energy, and he savored
watching his foe die, slowly. Kovu rushed
over to Kallis, who was begging to hallucinate.
"It's...so cold..." Kallis managed, as life force dribbled from him.
"I know...it's alright."
"I'm, s-so tired..." Kallis started to fall over, but Kovu caught him.
"S-so...t-tired..."
"It's alright...sleep now..." Running his hand across Kallis' face, Kovu shut his eyes as the valiant psyhic breathed his last.
Everyone was silent for a long time, until Teross began to laugh.
"He was a fool for fighting me! He should've stayed on Carrotous!" Then our protagonists realized there plight. They
were trapped...with Teross. But then it dawned on the Katalym.
"Run! Now! To Kallis' ship!" Saying this, he tackled Teross. Hesitantly, they jumped to the bottom of the core as the Katalym and Teross struggled. Kovu, because of his limp, was the last to leave, and he looked back at
the Katalym, saying,
"There's no way to hold him off forever."
"Just go!!" And he quickly replied.
Soon, they were all safely inside the tiny ship.
"What about the other Katalym?" Tyio asked.
"We have to leave them, there isn't time!" Aldan said, helping Kovu aboard.
"And the mystics, they dissapeared..." Kovu said meekly.
"Feh, they do that often." Aldan returned.
"Okay guys, get ready to launch." Kazooie said, brandishing the controls.
The Katalym's eyes burned white, and his fur was cracked and bleeding intense light, as he pinned Teross.
"What do you think you can do!" Teross shouted at him.
"Zaka Tieken Naresh Cooulio." The Katalym replied coldly, a Gerenpfpssh compound cliche, meaning;
"I Have Seen More Than I Wish To See And Know More Than I Wish To Know." The whole
ship swayed with the power until...
The tiny ship carrying the heros jumped into Hyper-Space, and suddenly a single burning bar of blue came from the center of
the ship, and then, it exploded in a ball of bluish energy, engulfing the moon near it in a chaotic sacrifice...
Epilouge: (A Gerenpfpssh Durge, by Kayep Narmen, the Philosipher)
"I've Walked The Sands To The South In Search of My Mind,
Not Caring For The Troubles Of My Time,
I Slipped About In The Moons,
Regrettebly, I Have Seen More Than I Wish To See,
But, Who Here Knows The Definition of Katalym?
Who Here Knows How To Find Them,
I May Break the Gold Seal of Time, No One
Can Be Here In This Hole Of Mine, Regrettebly, I Have Seen More Than I Wish
TO See."
End of Book One: Lost In Space
Begging of Book Two: Lost In Time
Prolouge
Hyperspace is the most blatantly un-intresting thing in the universe. On the
frontal sensors, a big red dot, and in the back? A big blue dot. Sure, it is a marvel
that a big chunk of metal can go hurling through space at speeds several times the
speed of light and not be smashed into a tiny ball the size of a hydrogen atom and then be strewn across the cosmos in a trillion
infantesimly small parts, but beyond that...
Everyone knew what Hyperspace looked like, the red dot and the blue dot. So, when our
unwary heros jumped into Hyperspace, they didn't expect anything too grand...
"What in the world?" Was all Aldan could gasp. Infront of them swirled a world of
all hues, in a very pleasing fashion, coallesing like a sunset.
"Kazooie...where are we?" BlackSheep asked.
"Erg...were two lightyears from where we left, and were about to land on a tiny, uninhabited planet nearby.
"Why are you landing us?" Grath asked.
"I'm not!" From the back of the ship, they could hear a scream...actually a schreech, of sorts.
"What is that?!" Tyio, holding his ears, asked Kazooie, assuming it was coming from
inside the ship.
"It's coming from the outside!"
"But sound can't travel in space!" Aldan pointed to the viewscreen, still a amorphous mass of color.
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!"
Chapter 21: Apollyon
As the planet Branaxis came into vew, it became clear that it was indeed not uninhabited.
"No way...the astrophysics must be messed up, no one lives on the planet it says where
near." Kazooie fraintically looked at the various indicators. The noise had subsided
a few moments before, but a similair one began as they re-entered the atmosphere.
"Kaz...you don't suppose we entered a...time rift?" The bird seemed taken rather aback by Aldan's comment.
"You mean, to a time when the planet IS inhabited?"
"Yea! Maybe that nebula we saw a few minutes ago was the rift. Everyone scrutched there foreheads in scrutiny of the idea, until they arrived at the awnser.
"Well...it is entirely plausable..." Ducky concluded first. But the reply from the others was cut short when the tiny ship
crashed into the tiny world. After a shower
of archs of megavoltage and a clearing of smoke, they carefully stepped into the open, and found it to be far less inviting than
the ships broken interior. Waves of plasma, laser, and photon flew inbetween them, two forces having a battle. To the left, a large
army of rabbitoid creatures, but had large robotic implants, and even larges plasma
cannons. And on the right, was a band of normal rabbits, with much smaller guns,
and a little artillery here and there. It wasn't hard to figure out this was a losing
battle. However being the good natured beings they were, our protagonists hustled over to the side of the normal rabbits.
"Who are you?!" One of them asked as the party of eight broke there ranks, pulled out there weapons and began to assist.
"Were...a little lost," Tyio began, grabbing a very sleek looking blaster.
"Could you tell us...when...we are?"
"Excuse me?" The rabbit said, he was very young, to young to be a warrior, with strikingly aqua fur.
"What is the date?"
"October 11." The rabbit said, nonchalantly, firing a few rounds.
"No, what is the year."
"Why, 2899, ofcourse!"
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A hundred years. A hundred years had come and gone in the blink of an eye for our
heros. Unbeknownst to them, but well engraved in the minds of the warriors they
were assisting, was that Teross had survived
the blast deep in the void of space.
No one knew how, though. He had returned to
to Carrotous, and, by paying them off very
well, got a number of rabbits to agree to have very advanced nano-implants placed in
them. Among the upgrades, such as increased intelligence and strength, the nanos increased the metabolic rate. Something
like a amoeba, the victims lived exactly three days, and there technology gave birth
to two clones every six hours, a technique
Teross borrowed directly from the late
Zygot, way back in the clone wars. So, it's understandable how, in a hundred years, Teross had created such a massive army of
perfect medical science. In no time at all
he conquered Carrotous, leaving a small band of rebels to test his defenses.
The clones pressed onward, firing nexi of purple plasma. Many had fallen, but they
kept on coming. Another loosing battle.
"Retreat!" Shouted the aqua rabbit, our
much more powerful heros guarding the rear.
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The camp on Branaxis, the homeworld of the Rebellion, was small. Ten thousand men,
two thousand fighters, one hundred fifty cruisers, and three dreadnoughts.
"...And we've been fighting him ever since." Kartarsen, the afore mentioned bunny, finished a lengthy explanation. Giving him a quick nod, Tyio consulted
the others through whispering.
"This is insane...billons on every planet, there's no way we can fight them all!" Aldan said.
"We may not have to, we can go back in time, and using this futuristic technology,
defeat Teross." Kovu suggested.
"But how?" Aldan asked.
"Guys, what caused certainly was the destruction of the Katalym, so we have to
go to the Other World, bring some Katalym back here and, uhm, well think of something
after that." Tyio propsed.
"Agreed?"
Chapter 22
eaven And Earth
History is funny, really. Ironic, more accuratley. Like how sacrificing yourself to
save the galaxy inevitable ends up causing the destruction of the universe, so on...
It was midnight by the time our heros found a ship suitable for there cause. It was a
very sleek ship, not unlike Kallis' ship which they got there with. Ofcourse, it was
made out of 2850 technology, obselete (but the best they had) in there time, but absolutley mind boggling to our heros.
Sitting in the leather officers chairs on the viper shaped brige of the Ashail'a'Akali (A Gerenpfpssh word phrase meaning Heaven and Earth) our hapless crew went over the battle plan.
"So, we arrive in orbit, Tyio and me go out in EVAs and together form a vortex big enough for us to go through, right?" Aldan stated.
"And once in the other world, we dig up the Katalym, bring them here, and have them create the time portal, right!?"
"Right!" The others chimed inthusiastically.
"Okay, let's go!" Aldan turned to man the controls, but found Kazooie drooling over them.
"Kaz! I know it's a good ship but I'm flying!"
"Buh why?"
"