Chapter 25: Rage

Johnathan approached the panel and pried at the top so he could see what was behind it. Suddenly the machine on the gantry spoke into his mind. It had a feminine voice, it sounded so sweet.

~Do not open the medical coffins you will need those bodies. ~

Johnathan looked around the room trying to locate the source of the voice until the gantry lowered its large single red L.E.D it had for an eye into Johnathan's view. Johnathan spoke.

"W-what are you?"

~I am the Distorter~ It said humbly ~ I am the massive hull that surrounds you …What is your need? Is there a problem or mistake I have made that you have come to the traveler's throne room in order to speak to me directly? ~

"So, you're the entire sphere?"

~yes~

"I didn't even know you had a conscious. I thought you were just a great hulking and lifeless machine."

~No…I was built to appear that way. I can feel your every movement but I can't hinder your actions. Nor can I communicate to anyone unless they come to this room. ~

"Do you know of the attackers that have most likely captured David and Aby?"

~Yes, but I cannot fight back it is against my programing. ~

Johnathan decided to ask the Distorter about the room's purpose. But was suddenly cut off by it swinging its eye over to the panel on the wall. The panel automatically swung open with a swoosh as chilly air wafted out from it, and a lightly pink toned arm soaked in dripping greenish clear fluid reached out and latched onto the Distorters eye mount and pulled its human body out of the capsule.

Johnathan stood standing, bewildered as David climbed out of the compartment. Albeit in underwear but was quickly given clothes from the compartment that had been behind the panel and he began to dress himself taking only about a minute.

Johnathan began:

"How the heck did you get in there, I saw you being led away onto their ship! And then I ran!"

"Simple, they killed me thinking it would permanently rid them of their enemies' most powerful ally." David said with a menacing grin.

"If you died then how are you alive? Or am I dead too?"

David was still grinning "No, I found out how to grow fully formed adult bodies that are clones of my own then have them kept in suspended animation until I died , then my consciousness is transferred by a piece of brain tissue in my neck over to the next body."

"So this is your 'immortality' you were talking about?" Johnathan asked.

"Yes and I plan on having one set up for you but now is not the time." David's face turned serious, with a tinge of anger obviously trying hard to stay hidden but it was there. "We have to find Aby and then find out how the church made it to the Orion nebula."

David then spoke to the Distorter the same small tinge of anger evident: "Kill the intruders now! EMP the ones fused with electronics and use chemicals to dissolve the ones that have mechanical parts."

David then turned to Johnathan. "Let's move."

The two then left the White room and were guided by the Distorter by illuminated catwalks. Although its gantry stayed behind it could feel them and illuminate areas for them.

The two reached the house like structure built into the sphere. They stepped in from a blast door and beheld the site of piles of distorted metal the smell of burning computer hardware filled the air and a tinge of burning flesh could be smelled. David knew his equipment would be okay because it was resistant to the effects of EMP weapons and the corrosive chemicals used.

Johnathan was surprised by the site.

"Whoa, it didn't have any mercy?" Johnathan said with surprise.

"It only did what I told it to." David said stoically,the ting of anger was still present.

David and Johnathan walked to the control room. When David saw his control room he yelled his anger finally boiling over, he yelled, cursed, and stomped. The walls had been ripped away so that the hardware was visible. Hardware he had so delicately engineered had been torn, replaced and patched up. Cables of all sorts were everywhere littering the floor and were randomly strung from the air into what were now just limp and melted corpses. His hardware was in shambles. Not one control panel was intact for human to machine interface. The only thing left alone was the massive window/screen. It showed the beautiful Orion nebula in all its glory.

Johnathan decided to back up and let David have his moment.

"Distort to earth immediately!" He barked to the sphere, expecting it to comply by obeying. It didn't.

DAMNITTOHELLINAHANDBASKET!" David roared picking up a 300 pound corps and throwing it onto another.

David turned around to Johnathan he spoke but not angrily with Johnathan just whit a sever tone of irritation.

"They'll regret ever touching my hardware, they didn't try to use it they mutilated it! We're going to show them that you do not mess with us!" He said.

"We need to go back to earth and find their bases." Johnathan said.

"We'll need an army. All their 'churches' or 'cathedrals' are in heavily populated areas or they are an SCP. We'll have to hope they haven't trashed the spare control room, it isn't anywhere near as well equipped as this one and it's on the other side of the sphere. They shouldn't even know it exists." David said.

"How are we going to get over there this thing is the size of the moon." Johnathan asked.

"Hang on." David said walking to his study Johnathan tagging along. David pulled out a book from his ornate desk. It was filled with pictures labeled like a dictionary. David flipped until he found the picture he wanted he then stepped over to the mini distortion unit on the wall and motioned for Johnathan to do the same. David entered the correct code into the unit and it transported then instantly onto the other bridge with was merely a small room with a few chairs a large window and basic control panels lining the walls. David walked up into the center of the room and spoke.

"Distort to the sol system immediately! Standard orbit of over 49 Units!" He barked this time he knew it would work. In an instant they were there.

"Launch attack vessel 14."

A faint and low groan could be heard looking out of the window a large football shaped object appeared to come from below and it floated into space then fired mini rocket engines to get it into orbit around the sphere.

"Initiate full lockdown until my return"

A voice responded "Done"

"Transport Me and Johnathan to the attack vessel now."

As soon as they were on the vessel David told Johnathan to sit and not get in the way.

David sat down beside Johnathan and punched in the coordinates for earth. When they distorted to earth and went into orbit. David had the vessel contact the Bokak computer network and pull up the files on known places, SCP's and important corporations associated with the church. David soon found what he was looking for.

"SCP-2510-1"

Looks like one could choose whatever they wanted for gate 8." He said. "I bet they stormed the place and took it over because of its past as a city."

SCP-2510 was a large abandoned city like structure located in the frigid waters of the very southern Indian Ocean part of it was submerged and was built as if it had been meant to be that way. It had been geologically buried underneath ice, and rock, turning it into an Island that hid a machine city. However within it contained a large portal called SCP-2510-1 the portal had 8 destinations to choose from. Number eight had been unexplored by the foundation. The other seven were extremely odd places.

David figured that they had the eighth destination selectable to a certain extent and used the portal to gain access to his sphere.

"We need to contact the foundation and put together an army." David said. "We can't just blow the place up it's an SCP after all and there's no telling what that could do."

"How big is that place?" Johnathan asked.

"Never been there just heard about it. Supposed to be a machine city. Although I doubt we could use distortion technology to get inside, or heat trackers…unless we are inside then infrared will work." David said with irritation still poisoning his words.

"Lets get to it!" Johnathan said getting a bit of excitement in his voice.

"Well plan an invasion so big and quick to scare the pants off of those walking mackintoshes and univacs! We'll show them not to mess with the Foundation, and Bumaro will die of fright when he sees I'm alive!" David said his anger melting away and a tinge of euphoric menacy replacing it.