Dr. Stephen Kryer walked up to the door in his dusty archeological
clothing. The excavation was long and tiring for him these past four
weeks, but it was finally worth it. Kryer stood in front of the legendary
"Altar of the Elements".
"Doctor! Doctor!" a young dark skinned boy called. He ran down the deep cave, past the lava flows and the pools of water, past the shining light coming in from the hole in the roof, past the smelly gasses slowly spouting out from deep crevices in the ground, and to Kryer at his position with his team in front of the cave.
"This is amazing Hajieve. It really is," Kryer said to the boy as he continued to study the carvings on the door.
"Doctor, Father Kolar is here to see you! He says that it is a matter of great importance!" Hajieve said to Kryer.
"Bah! Tell the priest to wait; I must open this door now! It could hold the key to the universe! A scientific discovery like this cannot wait!" the doctor said excitedly.
"I think it can Kryer. Please, I beg of you to cease and desist." The old priest hobbled from the darkness into the light. He was wearing robes of blue and red, and around his neck was a silver pendant with a symbol with a meaning no longer known to man. He was hair was balding out, and he coughed from the long journey into the cave.
"Father Kolar! It truly is a pleasure to see you, but as you can see, I found the door to the room without your help. So, if you won't mind, I'll open it as I please," Kryer threatened. "For all you know Father, you are holding the world back from something that could change the world!"
"It can change the world you stupid idiot! I'm sure what is concealed in that room can change the world! It's just that I don't want to see it in your hands! You wouldn't know what to do with it!" The Priest stepped forwards towards the team of archeologists threateningly with his staff. "You do not know what awaits you! You do not know what you will release from that room!"
"Father! We heard what you are doing!" came from down the hall. Three tall and strong men, walked into the cave carrying swords and pikes on their backs. "These men will not open the room. We shall put our lives on it," the men said as they drew their swords.
"My friends, Acknar, Cylus, and Grudo. Please, do not go to use violence. It is a dark path. I am sure that Dr. Kryer will understand the great importance that is sealed off in this room."
"No father. The westerners shall never understand the myth you told us! Heed his words wisely, he speaks the truth!" Cylus yelled to Kryer.
"He may speak the truth, but dead men tell no tales," Kryer said. From down the hall, gunshots went off in a bright flash of light. The three warriors fell, their backs bloody from the flying lead. Six men, wearing black suits and black sunglasses entered the lit area of the cave. Then all toted uzis over their shoulders, and they all had the same emotionless expression on their faces.
"Ah, MY FRIENDS," Kryer pronounced with emphasis. "I see you have arrived just in time. Keep the priest at bay, I will get you what you want."
Kryer walked over to the door and it's archaic markings. He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a golden key. "There shall be no military weapon like it," he said. He took the key, and went to a slit in the door that seemed to be stranger than the others. He inserted the key and turned.
Father Kolar's eyes widened as the room shook and the door began to slide back. Ancient gears turned, and the stone door slowly slid open. The tension was in the air; everyone wanted to see what would be released from inside the dark chambers. The door slid back further and further, and, just as it got wide enough for a single man to enter…
The door jammed. A gear snapped and fell off.
Kryer's expression went numb. He turned to the men in black and said, "Get the frickin' explosives. This doesn't seem to be going the proper way."
Five Minutes Later…
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!! The explosion rocked the stone door, and it fell down, smoking. Dust was kicked up all into the air, and the archeologist and his team entered with the priest and the men in black.
"Oh my God. I am not worthy to see such glory…" the priest said. He fell to his knees in front of the great altar, getting out of his captor's grip. Sitting on the great altar, there were arranged 28 different crystals, each with a beam of sunlight striking down onto one. They glowed in the sunlight with strange and fantastic colors, glittering in the dark room. And, put on a small pedestal higher than the others, two green crystals sat almost like royalty.
"Twenty-eight crystals, one and all, under the light of the heavens… Each one, a role assigned, and a controlling spirit made… Once released from their eternal chambers…" the priest began to pray.
"Shut him up!" Kryer yelled.
"The eternal apocalypse shall…" Kolar trailed off as he was shot in the back of his head. His body fell to the ground, and the man dressed in black's Uzi smoked a bit.
"Thank you," Kryer said as his men and he began to study the crystals. A gun was cocked, and Kryer turned around to find the men with the guns pointing their guns at him. They fired, killing the nine men in Kryer's team, but leaving the doctor alive.
A young man with neatly trimmed black hair, a black goatee, and a black suit with black tie walked into the room. He adjusted his black-framed glasses and laughed at Kryer.
"I see you have found the treasure of the ancient Judges. How excellent Kryer," the man said with a smile.
"This wasn't in our deal Rowen, I give you the crystals and you give me a five billion dollar research grant, under-the-table," Kryer said with fright as he held the one green crystal.
"Guess what doctor? I lied," Rowen said. A gunshot ran out. The green crystal dropped next to a pool of red.
At the secured military location, codenamed: Area 51, five years later…
"… As you can see, the suits are working at top condition. With the extra find of the legendary weapons that match each crystal, there is no force in the world…" the professor preached from his podium at the front of the room. The lines of generals looked upon the esteemed engineer with glazed interest, and the shadowy man at the far end interrupted the briefing.
"How powerful are they Professor Stevens?" he said in a gruff tone.
"Sir, to answer that question, we don't really know. By our last estimate, they alone together could decimate everyone in New York City and 100 miles around that. But that estimation is exactly that. Estimation. We don't know if the human body could withstand such energy intake…" the professor said.
"And what about the legendary souls required to harness the power of the crystals? What will we do about them?" a general said.
"General Smith, I assure you that they are not needed," Rowen Darkblade piped up from his corner of the room. He walked out from the shadows and into the dim light of the meeting room and over to the table where the Shadow Government of the Military was seated. "That is why we designed the X-10 cybersuit project. Instead of having the crystal interface directly with a user, as was stated in the holy text of the Book of the Judges, which I found in Father Kolar's former office, they shall be forced to interface with the suits."
"I disagree with that idea," General Brown said. "I was the one who sent a man to test out the suit codenamed HydroBlast. Last I saw of him, he was drowned in the test phases, literally. Now one knows how, seeing he wasn't even near a body of water, but in an enclosed test room the entire time. My best man is dead Rowen, and it's all because he isn't 'compatible' with your fucking crystals. Nukes are all we need!" the general said. The other members of the Shadow Government began to nod their heads in agreement.
An explosion was heard, breaking up the conversation. Alarms went off all over the base. Soldiers began to run to the blast site, and scientists and engineers were running away. Rowen looked out of the room to find a scientist running down the hall, screaming. He was on fire and trailing smoke down the hall. A soldier passed by Rowen, holding his face and screaming as well. Someone had shot acid all over his face. Some soldiers were being carted away by medics, babbling about ones and zeros like no tomorrow. And medics were supporting another scientist, he just wasn't alive.
Rowen waved a finger over to the medics supporting the scientist and they walked into the room. "Would you like to explain what has happened here!" Rowen commanded.
"Sir!" the one medic began, "The crystals have escaped with the suits they were grafted in with sir! They attacked the test scientists and broke through levels 16 on up. Massive damage has been sustained to the beta wing!"
"What happened to him!" Rowen yelled while pointing at the dead scientist.
"Commander Darkblade," the other medic said, "We believe that this scientist no longer has a working mind. He ran in with PsiBlast," they said before leaving.
"The Psychic Blast suit can do that, that easily!" General Addison asked.
"I told you that these suits were powerful Generals," Rowen said.
"Shadow Government, if this does not convince you of the Elemental Crystals true power, than nothing will. They have broken from our bonds, and are escaping to their controlling souls. Send in Yetack!" the shadowy figure called.
A few minutes later, a respectable looking soldier walking into the room. "Generals, Sir Shadown, and Commander Darkblade, the crystals have assimilated their Cybersuits and are now forming like comets across the night sky. Their estimated direction is towards Pennsylvania," he said.
"Follow them as well as you can. We shall reclaim our suits whether it is the last thing we do," Sir Shadown commanded.
"Doctor! Doctor!" a young dark skinned boy called. He ran down the deep cave, past the lava flows and the pools of water, past the shining light coming in from the hole in the roof, past the smelly gasses slowly spouting out from deep crevices in the ground, and to Kryer at his position with his team in front of the cave.
"This is amazing Hajieve. It really is," Kryer said to the boy as he continued to study the carvings on the door.
"Doctor, Father Kolar is here to see you! He says that it is a matter of great importance!" Hajieve said to Kryer.
"Bah! Tell the priest to wait; I must open this door now! It could hold the key to the universe! A scientific discovery like this cannot wait!" the doctor said excitedly.
"I think it can Kryer. Please, I beg of you to cease and desist." The old priest hobbled from the darkness into the light. He was wearing robes of blue and red, and around his neck was a silver pendant with a symbol with a meaning no longer known to man. He was hair was balding out, and he coughed from the long journey into the cave.
"Father Kolar! It truly is a pleasure to see you, but as you can see, I found the door to the room without your help. So, if you won't mind, I'll open it as I please," Kryer threatened. "For all you know Father, you are holding the world back from something that could change the world!"
"It can change the world you stupid idiot! I'm sure what is concealed in that room can change the world! It's just that I don't want to see it in your hands! You wouldn't know what to do with it!" The Priest stepped forwards towards the team of archeologists threateningly with his staff. "You do not know what awaits you! You do not know what you will release from that room!"
"Father! We heard what you are doing!" came from down the hall. Three tall and strong men, walked into the cave carrying swords and pikes on their backs. "These men will not open the room. We shall put our lives on it," the men said as they drew their swords.
"My friends, Acknar, Cylus, and Grudo. Please, do not go to use violence. It is a dark path. I am sure that Dr. Kryer will understand the great importance that is sealed off in this room."
"No father. The westerners shall never understand the myth you told us! Heed his words wisely, he speaks the truth!" Cylus yelled to Kryer.
"He may speak the truth, but dead men tell no tales," Kryer said. From down the hall, gunshots went off in a bright flash of light. The three warriors fell, their backs bloody from the flying lead. Six men, wearing black suits and black sunglasses entered the lit area of the cave. Then all toted uzis over their shoulders, and they all had the same emotionless expression on their faces.
"Ah, MY FRIENDS," Kryer pronounced with emphasis. "I see you have arrived just in time. Keep the priest at bay, I will get you what you want."
Kryer walked over to the door and it's archaic markings. He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a golden key. "There shall be no military weapon like it," he said. He took the key, and went to a slit in the door that seemed to be stranger than the others. He inserted the key and turned.
Father Kolar's eyes widened as the room shook and the door began to slide back. Ancient gears turned, and the stone door slowly slid open. The tension was in the air; everyone wanted to see what would be released from inside the dark chambers. The door slid back further and further, and, just as it got wide enough for a single man to enter…
The door jammed. A gear snapped and fell off.
Kryer's expression went numb. He turned to the men in black and said, "Get the frickin' explosives. This doesn't seem to be going the proper way."
Five Minutes Later…
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!! The explosion rocked the stone door, and it fell down, smoking. Dust was kicked up all into the air, and the archeologist and his team entered with the priest and the men in black.
"Oh my God. I am not worthy to see such glory…" the priest said. He fell to his knees in front of the great altar, getting out of his captor's grip. Sitting on the great altar, there were arranged 28 different crystals, each with a beam of sunlight striking down onto one. They glowed in the sunlight with strange and fantastic colors, glittering in the dark room. And, put on a small pedestal higher than the others, two green crystals sat almost like royalty.
"Twenty-eight crystals, one and all, under the light of the heavens… Each one, a role assigned, and a controlling spirit made… Once released from their eternal chambers…" the priest began to pray.
"Shut him up!" Kryer yelled.
"The eternal apocalypse shall…" Kolar trailed off as he was shot in the back of his head. His body fell to the ground, and the man dressed in black's Uzi smoked a bit.
"Thank you," Kryer said as his men and he began to study the crystals. A gun was cocked, and Kryer turned around to find the men with the guns pointing their guns at him. They fired, killing the nine men in Kryer's team, but leaving the doctor alive.
A young man with neatly trimmed black hair, a black goatee, and a black suit with black tie walked into the room. He adjusted his black-framed glasses and laughed at Kryer.
"I see you have found the treasure of the ancient Judges. How excellent Kryer," the man said with a smile.
"This wasn't in our deal Rowen, I give you the crystals and you give me a five billion dollar research grant, under-the-table," Kryer said with fright as he held the one green crystal.
"Guess what doctor? I lied," Rowen said. A gunshot ran out. The green crystal dropped next to a pool of red.
At the secured military location, codenamed: Area 51, five years later…
"… As you can see, the suits are working at top condition. With the extra find of the legendary weapons that match each crystal, there is no force in the world…" the professor preached from his podium at the front of the room. The lines of generals looked upon the esteemed engineer with glazed interest, and the shadowy man at the far end interrupted the briefing.
"How powerful are they Professor Stevens?" he said in a gruff tone.
"Sir, to answer that question, we don't really know. By our last estimate, they alone together could decimate everyone in New York City and 100 miles around that. But that estimation is exactly that. Estimation. We don't know if the human body could withstand such energy intake…" the professor said.
"And what about the legendary souls required to harness the power of the crystals? What will we do about them?" a general said.
"General Smith, I assure you that they are not needed," Rowen Darkblade piped up from his corner of the room. He walked out from the shadows and into the dim light of the meeting room and over to the table where the Shadow Government of the Military was seated. "That is why we designed the X-10 cybersuit project. Instead of having the crystal interface directly with a user, as was stated in the holy text of the Book of the Judges, which I found in Father Kolar's former office, they shall be forced to interface with the suits."
"I disagree with that idea," General Brown said. "I was the one who sent a man to test out the suit codenamed HydroBlast. Last I saw of him, he was drowned in the test phases, literally. Now one knows how, seeing he wasn't even near a body of water, but in an enclosed test room the entire time. My best man is dead Rowen, and it's all because he isn't 'compatible' with your fucking crystals. Nukes are all we need!" the general said. The other members of the Shadow Government began to nod their heads in agreement.
An explosion was heard, breaking up the conversation. Alarms went off all over the base. Soldiers began to run to the blast site, and scientists and engineers were running away. Rowen looked out of the room to find a scientist running down the hall, screaming. He was on fire and trailing smoke down the hall. A soldier passed by Rowen, holding his face and screaming as well. Someone had shot acid all over his face. Some soldiers were being carted away by medics, babbling about ones and zeros like no tomorrow. And medics were supporting another scientist, he just wasn't alive.
Rowen waved a finger over to the medics supporting the scientist and they walked into the room. "Would you like to explain what has happened here!" Rowen commanded.
"Sir!" the one medic began, "The crystals have escaped with the suits they were grafted in with sir! They attacked the test scientists and broke through levels 16 on up. Massive damage has been sustained to the beta wing!"
"What happened to him!" Rowen yelled while pointing at the dead scientist.
"Commander Darkblade," the other medic said, "We believe that this scientist no longer has a working mind. He ran in with PsiBlast," they said before leaving.
"The Psychic Blast suit can do that, that easily!" General Addison asked.
"I told you that these suits were powerful Generals," Rowen said.
"Shadow Government, if this does not convince you of the Elemental Crystals true power, than nothing will. They have broken from our bonds, and are escaping to their controlling souls. Send in Yetack!" the shadowy figure called.
A few minutes later, a respectable looking soldier walking into the room. "Generals, Sir Shadown, and Commander Darkblade, the crystals have assimilated their Cybersuits and are now forming like comets across the night sky. Their estimated direction is towards Pennsylvania," he said.
"Follow them as well as you can. We shall reclaim our suits whether it is the last thing we do," Sir Shadown commanded.