Chapter 1 – Birth

SLURSCH

SHLISH

It slowly moved, slowly feeling as the first spikes of life an emotion came to it, the feel of an energy as it rushed through it, the new life that slowly began to take a defined form, becoming aware of itself and of its consciousness.

Then the memories of its … 'father', entered its existence.

It felt what he had, the horror that these beings, known as women wrought was beyond any form of redemption, its whole body swished around in the sphere that served as its 'womb'.

These women, drunk on power and am empty excuse, to have gone so far and allow it to be as bad as it did, only showed that these women were a threat to everything, that if they let such a decision come to fruition, then they needed to be destroyed.

It was the only way.

As for the men, who may have survived, the damage of what they were going through, both physical and mental would leave them pushed over the brink, and at the end of their line.

It would give them peace, they deserved that much at least.

As it formed its decision the sphere started to slowly melt away, and the new being was left surprised as the sphere melted over it, covering its form as it made contact with the floor, and its perception was slowly coming, only able to make out certain colors and shapes, but it could also see something else …

… lines of light, pulses that flared softly from all around it, even small distortions in the air, and as it lifted a limb that at the moment looked like the cross between a smooth tendril and a whales fin, though more flexible, its saw a sort of rippling coating of light on its form.

Energy, what it saw was energy, and as it focused it was able to either tune out the energy it saw, or see certain patterns in a more defined way, able to see how they formed and made out how they flowed, seeing how it was structured, how it was built into a certain way or purpose.

Then it began to think back, and focused on the memories of the Infinite Stratos, seeing it as it fought, as it destroyed, but now it looked at these memories through its eyes, and it saw the barrier that guarded its form, the way energy flowed through it to power each part of its form, and then when it flared, the 'invincible' absolute barrier that guarded the pilot at their most panicked times.

'That is all it is, that is its secret,' the thought, one of its clearest passed through it mind.

If only they had known, if only they could have seen what it had, then maybe, maybe a small chance could have come about, maybe they could have found a way to fight back, but it was not to be.

The being knew what it needed to do, that it would not let the pilots of the mechanized slaughtering machines continue to live, and that the human race was now too far gone to ever gain salvation, it needed to end it all, humanity, the IS, all of it.

Then it began to feel as a great strain ran through its body, feeling like every part of itself was being pulled in every direction, feeling like its skin was being gripped and pulled in every way.

It moved itself around, feeling its body become more rigid as it moved, white liquid splashing in every direction as it felt the flesh on its body slowly peel away, and its own body began to increase in size, becoming larger than it previously was, and the flesh now starting to peel way, but it came off in a sort of uniform way, with the large flesh on both its sides peeling off in a sort of spiral, becoming two long tendrils that seemed to be slowly shrinking and revealing the two human arms covered in thick yet slightly clear fluid, both a sort of deep white color, but lined with a sort of tattoo like pattern of lines running up and down its length, pulsing with a muted cyan-green color, with the skin around the lines sometimes taking a sort of black metallic look, like some sort of biological armor, only more metallic.

It moved its left arm to touch its other, and found that it could move both its arms with great fluidity, meaning it was ambidextrous, though it felt it could move both or one arm with greater fluidity, and control while still having good fluidity with the other arm, then it felt the flesh on its lower area come apart, also in a sort of spiral, becoming two rather long tendrils and revealing its now human legs, and the being felt that it could now stand with ease, and thus it stood, as the liquid began to flow off of it.

The being slowly took stock of itself, and discovered that it had come out very different than its 'father', and had a form that was more alike to the enemies of its father, but it was only on the level of appearance, and even then there were differences, the being just knowing this to be fact.

It looked at its body, seeing similarities to the enemy of its father, and also noting similarity to the phrase 'you are your own worst enemy', though not believing this to really be the case, and saw the same lines that flowed with an energy that also seemed to permeate the room, and then felt that it saw from another point of view, this time at her side, then another looking at the floor behind her, another looking at a door that was behind it, and one looking up at the ceiling.

It noticed two things …

The first was that the large tendrils that once covered its body had become slightly long wing-like extensions coming from its back, with the first two coming out of a spot just between its neck and the middle of its back, and a second pair emerged from near the center of her back, just above its waistline.

The second, was the rather large structure situated just over its head.

The being gazed up at the structure, witnessing the diamond like structure above it glow with light, the ring rotating around its form as small beams of light came from it.

Then a small beam emerged from the structure, and out of it came what looked like a small round panel of metal, the round panel had markings and was of a sort of unusual metal composition, which made sense due to where it came from and where the being was, and it glowed with the same strong light as the diamond on the ceiling.

Then the panel shifted out of sight …

… and a strong, jarring pain assailed the being as it felt something implant itself into the very center of its back, followed later by a sudden strong pain through its form as information spread from the device implanted into its back.

It saw uncountable images, worlds that none have ever seen or had known of, the worlds that held the greatest presence of life, and then it bore witness to knowledge.

Forms of mathematics and physics that were wholly and utterly alien, then these principles and facts began to become clearer in its mind, until it realized what this knowledge was, equations regarding physics, structure, matter and even energy, information that if it was right, were a few eon past anything the human had or would have, and the principals of this knowledge overturned the scientific fact of many of Earths scientific individuals …

… including the one who instigated the destruction that brought about its existence.

This made the being feel terrible as it knew what it would have to use this knowledge for, but if humanity was going to be a threat, then it needed to be treated as one and be removed.

The being then realized that it was being observed, and looked in front of it.

It gazed at a small sphere with grid patterns traveling over its surface as it hovered, the sphere giving off the same light as the large structure on the ceiling, and the energy lines on the beings body, the sphere itself surrounded by what looked like a mix of organic and liquid metal, flowing around its form making a sort of shifting shell around itself.

Then the sphere pulsed and the energy it emitted connected with the young beings own energy, they were now connected, and they both shared with each other their thoughts, communing in a way that would put even the most long winded and arduous of lingual speeches to a swift conclusion in but mere moments.

The exchange was over in mere moments, agreement had been reached, and this time, a vocal response came from the sphere:

"You are now the guiding factor, your will now guides the process of this world, everything is now up to your will."

"I thank you for this assistance, and I hope that the task I seek of you and this realm, shall be the last time I use this place for such a terrible but necessary undertaking."

"This one would like to believe as such, but such things are not up to our decisions, I fear that the need for such methods may come again …"

"… it is only a matter of when."

"True, for now let us focus on the task at hand, I believe that first, the creation of the overwhelming force is needed."

"This one has already started."

The walls of the room them than vanished, though they actually became displays that now showed what was outside, and the being was awestruck at the sight before it.

It gazed out at what appeared to have once been a mega metropolis, a vast city scape that surrounded the tower at all sides, yet remained separate from the tower itself by what appeared to be a vast area of green-no, white.

The grass, trees and other forms of plant-life, instead of being the green as plants on Earth, where instead white on this world, making it appear like a snow field, but the whiteness had a sort of vibrant richness to it, and the ground beneath was a deep black color, which served to make the white of the plants stand out.

'White and black morality,' the being thought, finding a parallel to its own actions with the statement.

But these things were not what grabbed its attention.

It was the massive shapes that were lifting off from large open areas that dotted the ground, the openings looking like tunnel entrances to an area that appeared to be a mix between a large tunnel leading deep into the planet, and some sort of launch bay, with the opening being the latter as out from it came a sight that left the young being in further awe as out came the form of a truly massive construct which from the amassed knowledge that the being gained from the sphere, no, from Aedoa, as the sphere was called by the ones who once inhabited the planet. The construct was obviously a starship, and also a warship as well, the craft known as a Neul-class Heavy Assault Destroyer.

The ship was at its full length, 4.6 miles in length from stem to stern, had an armor that had an organic texture to it, seeming to slowly move in a very subtle manner, had a mixed dark blue/light grey color to it, was at least .9 miles in width at its largest area, which was close to the central Aion core, with ship possessing two cores, one core to run the ships engines, and maneuvering thrusters, the other to run the ships sensors, weapons and repair facilities, and both weapons had more than enough energy to both run the life support which ran on a smaller portable energy system.

As to what is the Aion energy that the technology of the, it was both the energy being produced by the sphere, which powered the tower and the vast technologies within …

… and it was also the power that flowed through the beings body, the being lifting a hand and seeing the Aion being emitted from his arm and body, forming an aura around his being, the energy itself seemed to have a greater depth to it than the being believed.

Then it felt a rumbling go through the building, and saw the source of it being more ships slowly lifting off out of their bays, including three different ship classes.

The smallest being about 3 miles in length , .6 miles in width, and having a less intricate design, looking like a large gun with three angled fins coming out from just near the ships rear, the fins each ending at a bladed tip, was a Luer-class Heavy Tactical Frigate.

The second, being at the length equal to the Neul, was a ship that was 4.2 miles in length, 1 mile in width at its thickest area, and shared a design similar to the Nuel, having a long, gun-like main body, and near the front of the ship were four large wing like structures attached to two modules located half a mile short of the 'barrel' of the gun, the modules located above and below the main gun body respectively, and the back was a much larger structure the thicker portion making up the one mile, but it would be a length of 2.6 miles if the four detached wings being suspended in a sort of energy connection field near the larger body were counted, the wings holding their own propulsion, weapons and special barrier emitters, the wings capable of folding in close to the ship, or expanding, in a way that seemed like a highly advanced technology form of swing wing craft.

The being saw this power, power that it knew was the embodiment of the apocalypse, a vision of the end, and it was left wondering …

… 'should I use this power, do they truly deserve this wrath?'

"There is a way to make sure of your decision."

The being turned to the sphere/entity, "How may I be sure of my decision?"

"A connection still exists, a means to link you to those left behind, to see if the horrors you have ended and reconciliation is possible."

The being perked up a bit, feeling optimistic.

"Or if they have not ceased their actions and are still continuing the vile actions your progenitor was witness to, both in sight and body."

A deep frown was etched on the young beings face.

"Or worse, that the ones behind the atrocity are now subjecting them to a fate far worse than even the fate of finality."

The beings eyes widened, its face a mixture of anger and fear, anger at believing those left behind still suffered horribly, and fear at how truly horrific their torment was.

It did not even have to think to decide its next action.

The sphere-entity expanded outward, its energy now encapsulating the young being, energy flowing in every direction around it as this energy linked into being, and through this link, the being became more attuned to all that was around it, all that was part of it, and what held a connection to it.

It found one connection, one that was at the cusp of breaking, it felt what the connection was … and severed it clean through in an instant, finding it a link to one of the individuals who made its fathers life the nightmare it had become.

It found another, stronger than the others, it looked at the link, and strengthened it.

The ones who saved, protected and raised its father, deserved a special place in its memories.

Then it found the strongest link, its father's compassion, and care for his fellows, those who stood by him, aided him, fought and either gave their lives, or were still alive and living.

The matter of what their current circumstances were, was what the being sought to know.

It felt as its consciousness rode this link back to see the one thing it needed to see …

The fate of those left behind.

Authors note-

I take a while in between chapters, but while I don't want to spoil the next chapter with what I have planned, I assure you that it will be quite …

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