Prologue
Timeline : Holy Jubilee Year: 2039-2089
Late of Year 2030 – A mysterious program was launched and was uploaded to a server cloud of Omnicus Corporation. It was said to be an important update for their Omniums product. Later that year, malfunctions and several severe incidents, were recorded.
Late of year 2045, before first Omnic Crisis – one night, during the month of December, a bright white light was seen in the black sky. NASA was immediately called by the US Government. It was said that an unknown star in an unknown system in Sector- REV: 18-24, had exploded in a super nova. One week later, the first Omnic Crisis occurred.
Early of Year 2051 : After the war with Omnics, the U.N. decided to investigate Sector – REV: 18-24 after NASA's Shiva Telescope has detected organic life and materials from one of the planets inside. It was 50 light years away from Earth. A team of seven, including an Omnic, was formed. The mission was for peacekeeping between Omnics and Mankind.
Later of year 2070 – NASA's first mission on the sector ended up a failure after they lost transmission from the first team, and so they immediately sent a second team to the said sector.
Year 2074 – A group of Talon agents, led by well-known mercenary, Reaper, attacked Watchpoint: Gibraltar. On the same day, Winston recalled all of exiting Overwatch members from around the world.
Near the end of 2079 – the NASA's mission control had received a transmission coming from the second group. The group reported that they found a planet, though lifeless, intact within its dead planetary system. They'd landed on the surface and they'd discovered ancient structures and artifacts. NASA immediately contacted the U.S. government and the Government immediately took over the mission.
At the beginning of 2080 – Talon, once a small terrorist groups, was now a growing threat to the world. Its influence was at a global scale. The group possessed a mass of arsenals of deadly and experimental weapons that could bring down any country to its knees. And as if that wasn't enough, many natural disasters had started to occur, due to rapid effect of Global Warming.
At the beginning of 2081 – Houston, Texas, NASA HQ landing base.
"Contact from, NASA Lunar Base colony, space shuttle, USS ST JOHN has just entered our atmosphere." A man reported amidst the crowded and noisy control room of the NASA HQ. It was a hot and toxic day; the long awaited arrival of USS St. John had just begun. It was the spaceship that was sent during NASA's second exploration from the nearby dead planet system.
"Commencing landing sequence, USS ST JOHN, you're good to go." One of the men said as the whole room suddenly fell quiet. The huge screen above the room, played a live feed of the shuttle that was beginning to descend to earth. It burned up in the atmosphere until it stabilizes itself.
The shuttle then slowly descended once more until it landed on the airstrip outside the base. The whole room cheered for a successful landing. "We gotta, meet those astronauts." One of the man on the console said, to the other man beside him.
"Yeah, and someone should contact Altergen Corps, they're the one who funded these mission." Said the other man as he continued. "Not to mention they're who we report to about that thing from that planet."
NASA conference room -
After a short briefing and small introductions, the seven astronauts were sitting on their chair, looking down to the floor or at the table in front of them. They all looked haggard and tired from their extremely exhausting mission, however they must report their finding s immediately.
I must…report it…I must say it to them. Despite all of the astronauts haggard looks, one of them was lightly tapping the table. The man gulped down in anticipation as he moved his left hand and fixed his black hair and very thick square glass on his eyes. His name, Dr. Merin Zorun, was written on the upper left side of his space uniform.
Just then the door opened and all of them stood up and watched as a young aged woman, clothed and black business attire enterred and stood in front of them.
"Good morning and welcome back to earth, Space crew of USS St John. I am Evangeline Aire." She smiled and looked at them with her gold eyes. Her brown hair was fixed in a tight bun making her look older, contrasting from her younger looks.
The CEO of Altergen Corps, thought Dr. Merin Zorun, observing the younger woman that was, despite of her teenage-like appearance, was the owner of the multi-billion energy corporation called, Altergen.
"Now then, I know that all of you are very tired but I'm sorry…we can't just ignore your last transmission from that planet system." She spoke in a calm manner while making a side-glance at Dr. Merin. "Now then, let us be quick, Dr. Merin if you please…" The CEO then moved to a nearby chair and sat down.
Dr. Merin, with a grunt, stood up and walked towards the center of the room. He took out a spherical object and began to report. "After we landed on that planet, we discovered the remains of the first expedition. It seems they'd suffered from a malfunction from their ships engines and crash landed there, hard." He glanced at Evangeline, checking if she felt uncomfortable, but the girl's eyes were still and expressionless.
"But when we searched the bodies, we found out that their Omnic companion, a standard assistant one, was missing. We detected its SOS comms 50 miles away from the crash site. It seems the poor bugger walked along the grey, dead earth, with no oxygen-"
"Omincs don't breathe, Dr. Merin." Evangeline said straightly, as if it was an obvious fact. "Continue."
"Right…" Dr. Merin paused and then continued. "We searched for it for days… until we reached were the Omnic was…and the thing that I mention from my report." Dr. Merin watched as he finally saw an expression formed in the CEO's everlasting stoic face, a glint of curiosity.
"And this video we'll explain the rest." Dr. Merin ended his report as he tapped the spherical object and threw it on the air. The object then released a bright light and displayed a huge hologram screen, the video of the mission was playing in it.
Unknown Planet – REV: 18-24 System
"It seems he ran out of battery." Dr. Merin squatted down on the Ominc, lying on the sand, with its plain face buried. He couldn't help but feel terrible for the Ominc, despite it being nothing more than a robot.
"Yeah, but Omnics are disposable." A man standing beside him said, making him glanced at him with a frown. He sighed and then stood and up and locked his eyes in front.
"But now…what the hell am I seeing, Roger?" the man beside him, named Roger looked up and gulped down, his heart pounding in his chest in nervousness. The two men were standing on the edge of a crater. A natures land formation. And both of them were staring at four very tall towers.
Roger's blue eyes narrowed as sweat formed in his brunette hair and over his shaved beard, in nervousness.
There are four white towers standing in front of them, two on the side and two facing the opposite directions. This wasn't definitely made by nature; despite that they were standing on an alien planet.
"Roger…get the crew." Dr. Merin ordered as he took out a spherical shape object from his Astronaut suite pocket. "We're going inside."
Inside the unknown Towers-
"Incredible…" Dr. Merin breath inside his suit. His heart was pounding in so much excitement. The walls of the corridor of the tower that they were walking into, was riddled with writings and symbols that he couldn't read or recognize.
"My god…this is like a castle." Roger trailing behind him, gasped in amazement. "The Smithsonian society will surely jumped with joy if they all see this." He added as they began to walk. The whole corridor was dark; their flash light was their only light.
Dr. Merin, walked, a square device was on his right hand and was beeping in a small tone. "Radiation is high due to cosmic radiation, which means this planet is just recently dead." He turned around to Roger. "Their sun has exploded, whatever civilization was living in this planet before…well, they're all unlucky-
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The two men looked down at Dr. Merin's device. It was now beeping rapidly. "It's detecting something…" Dr. Merin then began to point the device forward, searching the reason why his device was beeping loud. "High content radiation and unknown energy detected…in a bioorganic form?" he paused and looked in front of him.
He was standing close to a, what seemed to be, a door. Dr. Merin stared at it, mystified, and then called the man. "Roger, we're entering this rooms."
"What if there's aliens inside?" Roger asked in a low tone, terror fling in his voice, but Dr. Merin shot him an annoyed look, which was more terrifying than what he was expecting to be lying on the other side of the door. "Fine," he said as he stood beside him and touched the surface.
There's no door handle Dr. Merin thought curiously, his hand glided along the surface together with roger. "Damn…it might take hours before we opened this—" and then Dr. Merin's words were cut short as the door suddenly disappeared. The two men fell and crashed on the sandy floor.
Roger yelp loudly and Dr. Merin grunted in shock. "Ok! No Aliens!" Roger said, relieve, as his eyes quickly looked around. There was nothing inside the room, no aliens nor organic lifeforms. But the doctor's eyes widened in shock again. The room was large, its ceiling was a dome-like and its walls were drawn with beautiful, and sophisticated, murals.
Holy cow…this place definitely isn't natural. Dr. Merin and observed. His eyes trailed the wonderful designs on the walls, which depicts a wolf-like animal, a four winged bird and a dragon, all flying through a supposedly blue sky. Time and destruction had faded the colors. The murals must've been a beautiful one when it was still in good condition.
"Hey, Merin…looked at that." Roger pointed his flashlight on the forward part of them room. The doctor looked and saw a grey-old but high chair, standing on an elevated pedestal. The chair must've been beautiful for it emits an aura of authority.
"This looks like a throne room, of some sort." Dr. Merin observed.
"Throne room…you mean like in fantasies? If so then the civilization that lived here was…" Roger glanced around the room, not watching Dr. Merin who approached the throne and moved his eyes nearer on the edge of the chair's backrest. The symbols are so different, he thought as he raised his right hand.
"This must be a kingdom, but a kingdom of what-"and before Dr. Merin finished his sentence, his right hand touched one of the letters and a bright golden light flooded his eyes. He let out a shout of shock and jumped back and fell to the floor. Roger saw his demise but he was stuck as he watched the golden light moved and pointed up.
The golden light hit something on the ceiling and the lights change into three different colors. Red, Blue and Green. Roger and Dr. Merin watched in awe and horror as something began to come out from the light.
Three objects came out and immediately descended towards the two men. Dr. Merin immediately crawled back and was caught by Roger who snapped out and helped two men then watched again.
The three objects loses its brilliance and reveal its forms. The three objects were swords.
Bloody…hell! Roger thought in wonder as Dr. Merin stood up and approached the sword. He approached the red colored one. Its hilt was heavily designed by a shiny red metal, a red stone was placed on the middle, six spikes were protruding and serves as its hilt guard.
The doctor moved to another and looked at a blue sword. This one was probably the thinnest among the three, its hilt was colored blue and possessed a blue gem on the middle, its hilt guard was composed of a pair of dragon-like wings.
Finally, he moved to the last sword, a colored green one, was probably the longest among the three swords. Its hilt guard was round and a green stone was placed on its center.
All three of the swords were floating in mid-air.
"My God…" Dr. Merin grasped in astonishment. "Roger…you and I, are the first of men who ever encountered an alien artifact." He breathed hard in eagerness to his findings. He then touched the red sword first and then suddenly the three sword burst into their respective colors and started to shrink.
The doctor was mystified as the three sword shrink into a size of a pendant.
"And now my friend…" Dr. Merin, surprised more and while chuckling, "we must contact earth." He picked up the three pendant-swords and put it in his astronaut suit and walked away from the throne room. Roger, who was still stuck in confusion, snapped out and called out to him.
"H-hey, shouldn't you use a specimen hazard bag for those?!" He quickly ran to catch up to him and left the throne room. And then the video went black.
NASA HQ.
Evangeline silently stared in astonishment on the white and black feedback of the video. She too couldn't believe what she just watched. Dr. Merin was watching her reaction, the doctor couldn't help, he made a mental smile.
"So then Ms Aire, what do you think about it?" Roger asked while he too watches the feedback on the video. The you CEO slowly turn her chair and face the remaining astronauts, an interested smile was spreading in her lips.
"Gentlemen, I would like to congratulate you all for your discovery. This could be the grandest discovery of the century." She stood up and walked slowly towards the holographic screens, and glided her right index finger over it, replaying the video.
"Where are the swords now, Dr. Merin?" the CEO asked as Dr. Merin answered. "In the shuttle, still, wrapped in a biohazard bag." Dr. Merin paused and added, "along with several other artifacts that we found." The CEO glanced at him, her eyes screamed of curiosity and desire for answers.
"Very well, we will move those artifacts to a secure military facility, you must investigate it more, Dr. Merin." Dr. Merin's eyes moved into a concerned one. Clearly, he could sense that the woman had other plans in her mind. He was about to speak but he stopped, startled, when he saw the CEO's smile changes again as the video paused, showing the three swords.
Her smile had changed into a menacing one.
5 weeks later – Unknown Restricted Military Area
Dr. Merin slowly looked down from the cat walk that he was on. The whole place below him was bustling with activities. Construction vehicles came to and fro on the factory-like building floor as it carries some equipment and machines. All were military grade and all were meant to analyze the artifacts that he had found back on the dead planet.
That woman…Dr. Merin couldn't help but remembered the dark and creepy smile of Evangeline. She's definitely planning something he rummaged, clueless and disturbed. "I wonder what she was thinking about?"
"Heh, she's probably thinking on how to make a quick buck from our discovery." Dr. Merin turned, surprise, to find Roger standing beside him. The man too, watched the festivities below him.
"Say…, how are you and Arthur?" Dr. Merin's eyes stilled. Arthur was his son and he had left him in such a young age. He couldn't help but felt a prang of guilt in his heart.
"I have gone home…but we're not very close." He smiled at him, a sad one making Roger sighed in disappointment.
"Merin, you better go home again and make amends." Roger said bluntly and walked away. The doctor mildly frown at his remark but he just sighed and let it go.
The greatest discovery of mankind…he thought in wonderment and moved his right hand over his right pocket coat pocket where he groped on a small box. Inside, the three, still in pendant form, sword glowed in their colors.
San Francisco – USA
Dr. Merin paid the cab driver and silently looked up as his cab drives away. He stood in front of a normal-looking suburban house, his home has definitely lost its touch. The paint was already ebbing away.
Arthur…he thought in quilt despite coming home five days ago, and meeting his son inside. And their meeting didn't go so well. He gulped down and proceeded to enter.
"Arthur, I'm home." He called and there was no response. That's all right…he thought and went to his studies. He entered to another room, filled with papers and educational books, all pertaining to Archeology and Symbology and Planets.
He went to his table and put down the small box right next to a white envelope. The doctor glance at it, and saw it was a welcoming letter from very prestigious university. "Oh…" he breathed in culpability, he had forgotten what today it was for his son.
*THUMP* Dr. Merin looked up to the stairs as he heard a loud thump above him. Then footsteps of boy followed on the stairs with several more thumps. Dr. Merin watched as his son comes down from the stairs with a large suitcase dragging behind him.
Arthur eventually locked his eyes with his father and frowned. Much to his dismay, he had planned to leave before he arrived but he was too late. The man that he brooded in hate, was standing still like an idiot on the room in front of him.
"What is it dad?" he locked his deep grey eyes at his father who sheepishly smile.
"Hey son, I saw that you're moving out." He mentally rolled his eyes, "does my suitcase and my varsity jacket give you that answer?" Arthur was wearing a varsity jacket of Harvard, it was a welcome prize for him from the university.
His father laughed heartily at him. "You passed your favorite college. I'm very proud…" Dr. Merin paused as his son's eyebrows arched. "Yeah I did all of it by myself by the way. I used Mom's bereavement pension in order to enroll." He reminded, grudgingly at his father who looked away, sadness was in his eyes.
"I'm sorry my son. I had to go that time…" Dr. Merin reminisce the time when he was called to go the system. It was during his son's tenth birthday.
"Yeah and leave me and mom alone. By the way, in case you didn't know…mom died because of cancer and during that time she always prayed that you were right here, caring for her, instead of having some date with dead space rocks." Arthur painfully said, his tone increased and become threatening. His father didn't answer; he was guilty after all.
"I'm going. Your bereavement pension came, by the way. And I use all of it to buy me a dorm in my college. Goodbye." Arthur could no longer stand neither his father and the stench of his house, he quickly took the welcome envelope after lifting the small box.
"Um…" his father cut the silence making him pause. "Goodluck in your college, I hope you'll be happy with…astronomy." Dr. Merin thought as he remembered Arthure as young kid, he always looked up to the stars and marveled its light.
Something snapped inside Arthur as he spun around and shouted. "I chose law, Dad!" He put his envelope in his backpack and quickly stormed out of the room and out of the house.
Arthur walked in anger along the sidewalk of the city. He felt his father had followed him but stayed on the front porch, watching him go. He could feel that his looks were sad and guilty one.
You left me and mom…now it's my turn to leave you. Arthur thought begrudgingly, he eventually stopped at a bus stop. A bus rolled in and he immediately went inside and sat one of the chairs.
"So stupid…" he felt water in his eyes and immediately wiped it off and looked at his reflection. His eyes were red from crying. He hadn't notice that he was crying all along as he walked down earlier.
Harvard University
After riding on the bus and a local flight to Massachusetts, Arthur strode in to his dorm room. He looked around the empty spaces and the furniture. He smiled in satisfaction. The boy put down his luggage and sat on the bed on one corner and looked up to the ceiling.
"I've finally entered my number one university." He smiled to himself again and chuckled. "Now then time to change myself for the better." He then took his back pack on the floor and started to unpack.
"The envelope should be-" he paused as he saw his enveloped and a small box that he couldn't recall ever been there. What's this…? He took the box out. "Now what are you, I don't remember dragging you here…" and then he remembered his father and their fight.
It was lying on the desk together with his envelope, he must've took it unknowingly. He clicked his tongue in dismay. "Such a drag." He threw the box on the desk and heard a sharp object clanging inside it.
Hmm? His curiosity then picked after hearing the sound. He slowly walked towards it and opened the box. Inside he saw three little swords. Their design was beautiful and interesting, but its sizes were the same as of a keychain.
Was dad planning to give me this? "Not gonna fall for this, Dad." He threw the box away again on then desk, not bothering closing it. He then went to the sofa and click the T.V.
The television opened up in front of him, displaying news around the country. The boy watched read some of its content.
Talon terrorist group, conquered all West African states. Middle east in peril as Talon advances to Saudi Arabia
USA's first Female President had finished her victory tour on Texas.
Arthur silently watched as a new news showed again. USA's 1st Female president's project; revival of Petra act and the Overwatch.
"Not gonna happen." Arthur chuckled at the news and watched for hours until he felt his eyes becoming heavy, and eventually the young boy fell asleep on the couch, not noticing the growing hue behind him.
The three swords slowly lifted themselves up from the box and released a short burst of their aura. It slowly regained its sizes as it floated in the middle of Arthur's room.
The three swords hummed a strange tone however it didn't wake the boy up. The swords the moved towards each other and burst a bright white light. There metal bodies began to fuse, their hilt guards began to merge and reconstruct. And then the light disappeared.
There was only one sword floating behind Arthur now, and it slowly moved into the corner beside the desk and silently landed, its hue then disappeared leaving only nothing but a shiny glint from its metal body.
Beta-read: special thanks to TurtlePower98
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