Oblivion Episode 8 - Analog Water For Digital Fire

by Gabriel Seraph

This story is inspired by Organization XIII. Great liberties have been taken with names, places, etc. in order to create as original a story as possible. A number of odd happenings around the world seem like nothing important to Tim and friends - until Halloween night, when a computerized menace attacks and tries to kill people with fire. AU, with some OC's.

1. Chapter 1

AN: Remember to read the first seven parts of Oblivion before beginning this one. Enjoy!

Episode 8 - Analog Water For Digital Fire

Chapter 1

Lucien had no idea what he was doing, except that it was to help the Superior figure out where and when to position the dimensional seal. And what purpose the dimensional seal would serve, he, again, had no idea. In his mind, thanks to the Google-Glass-type virtual-reality display, all he could see was what the creature saw in the game - or, at least, what he thought was a game. He made his creature jump into the air and fly at high speed into the southeast, before dropping a disk of glass onto a large cityscape below. Nobody would be hurt or killed by the disk, just so long as he shot it out at exactly the right moment. Give or take a second, but no more.

Once this was done, Lucien flew his creature into the sea nearby and allowed the water to crush it to death, because there would of course be plenty more where that came from. He pulled the headset off his head and handed it back to the Superior, before returning to the tiny room and putting on another headset, which allowed him access to a vast array of simulations that the Superior gave him to keep himself busy with when he wasn't needed. Which was quite a large percentage of the time, since this was only the first time in a year he'd been allowed into the main lab.

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Tuesday morning, October 30, 9am. Tim and Axel and Rocky got up and made their way downstairs to the kitchen to eat breakfast. Tim turned on the TV and started flipping through the channels like usual, but all the channels had the same old story about some kind of big birdlike thing being spotted flying over Rio and, minutes later, a small but powerful gas explosion in the center of the city.

"Dude, this isn't important," said Axel, grabbing the remote. "Why don't we just watch Revolution while we're home all day?" He cycled through the DVR menu. "Ooh, 'Sex and Drugs,'" he said. "Sounds like buttloads of fun." He put the show on, and he and Tim sat back to watch last night's show. It had been quite a while since they'd seen it, since this episode had been postponed a week already.