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Tachyon particles- These are hypothetical particles whose speed is always greater than that of light. You may recall that one of the basic principles of relativity is that no object with mass can travel faster than light. What makes this particle even more interesting is that it is said to have an imaginary mass. Imaginary in this sense refers to the mathematical definition of a number which is multiplied by the square root of -1. The energy of a tachyon is supposed to decrease as its speed increases, approaching zero as its speed heads toward infinity. Various experimental searches have been made for tachyons, with no success so far.
Time:2145
Location: Enderby Land, Antartica
A frozen wasteland located in the geographic south of the world. Only a select few species can possibly withstand the sub-zero temperatures of the day and the even colder nights. But it is the enviroment that serves as the perfect staging area for a project that will ultimately change the entire world. To a world where the cold hearts of machines rule the weak inferior human race. Where any and all oppostion is non existent and where there control is total and absolute. That is if this clandestine project succeeds..........
"Hmmmmmmmm. It would be like Vile to make me oversee the send-off in the worst possible location." Dr. Rennoir grumbled to himself.
In this never-ending landscape of white waits Dr. Rennoir, a company of 30 Mavericks and nothing else. One might think of these people as mad for just standing in one of the coldest points on Earth. But it is in actuallity one of six strategic send-off points. Soon there agent will arrive and then a new age of Maverick glory will be paved with the blood of the human race.
"Dr. Rennoir I think I see the transport vessel." spouted one Maverick soldier.
A small black dot could be seen coming over the horizon. A Maverick stealth craft. The most advanced the Mavericks could produce, an example of the importance of this project.
"Bring up the sattelite on the Holo-GPS. I want to make sure that nothing has shifted since the last setting." Rennoir ordered.
Another maverick soldier comes foward with a small pyramid like object and sets it on the ground. Slots open in the object as small cameras peek out of the openings and begin a scan of the area. Soon a full 3-D image of the Earth is shown in front of Rennoir. A single blue square represents the secret Maverick satellite whose purpose is as yet unknown to all but Rennoir and the top Maverick generals. A red cone extends from the square representing its area of influence, that area being the same place there standing on.
"Hmmmmmmmm. Everything appears in order........."
"What the fu..............Sir I'm picking up another transport craft on my internal radar, exact fifteen miles away and heading right toward us." the Maverick soldier reported.
"What..........."
"I don't know how it got so close........And it also has the same configuration as the other craft."
"How can that be?"
"Again. I don't know..............Wait a minute I'm getting a transmission from one of the craft." The Maverick's eyes glow green as he opens his palm and a light emits from a small lens in his hand. The holographic image of a helmeted human pilot is shown.
"This is transport craft designate number 4987. Request clearance to land."
"Transport craft, repeat your designation number." Rennoir asked to the image.
"4987. Why?"
"Is that a legitimate number?" Rennoir asked the Maverick soldier quietly.
"Allow me to check my network databank.........." The Maverick went silent as he searched his internal memory files.
"Do we have clearance to land or not?" the pilot asked impatient.
"Hold on. We are currently clearing a slight problem. Please standby." Rennoir answered.
"Dr. Rennoir sir. The second transport craft that has yet to ask for clearance has started to pick up speed." another Maverick soldier spoke up.
"Dr. Rennoir I have confirmed that designation number 4987 is a legitimate number." the first soldier finally replied.
"ALL MAVERICKS SHOOT DOWN THE CRAFT APPROACHING US FROM THE SOUTH IT'S AN IMPOSTER!!!!!!" Rennoir screamed to all the soldiers present, who of course immediately took aim at the enemy jet.
"So far so good sir. I don't think the Mavericks suspect anything yet." the human co-pilot spoke from the cockpit.
"Good. Alright men this is it! Once we get into sufficient range we'll drop in and take over the entire area. We'll be running into some heavy Mav resistance so be ready for anything." X briefed the three Hunter squads that were chosen for this mission.
"Our main priority is the capture and destruction of a new type of Maverick known as the Black-D type Maverick. These new models look exactly like humans in every way. We can't reveal exactly what the Mavericks plan to use them for but we can tell you that they must be destroyed at all costs." Zero added.
"General X sir! We have a problem!" the pilot suddenly yelled.
"What is it?" X said approaching the cabin.
"It looks like our timing was off. My radar is showing the real Maverick stealth transport craft approaching the send-off point at the same speed as us from the north."
"I don't believe this...........Pick up speed. We have to get to the send-off point before they do."
"Whats the problem up here?" Zero asked entering the cabin.
"We screwed up. The real ship got here at the same time we did."
"I expected that........"
"Say what?"
"Our intel wasn't able to get the specifics on this operation so really we've going through this on a series of guesses."
"You know you could have told me this before hand........"
"Yeah but where would be the surprise in that?" Zero said smiling.
"Oh boy..........I take it that since you were expecting this you have a contingency plan?"
Zero simply handed him a small silver crystal whose function was completely unknown to X.
"What is this?"
"Our back-up. If we come to the situation that we can't stop the Maverick from breaching into the past Headquarters has given us the authorization to breach ourselves and follow it into the past. These crystals go in place of your red helmet crystal. They act as simeltenous comm units back to headquarters as well as emergency retraction devices. If anything goes wrong they'll sling-shot us back to our present time."
"Well hopefully we won't need these." X said replacing his red gem with the new silver one.
"Oh crap..........X.........ALL the mavericks are pointing there guns at us.........." pilot suddenly reported.
"What!" Zero looked out the windshield only to see every Maverick on the ground locking there blasters on the fake stealth transport.
"ALL HUNTERS DROP NOW!!!!!!!!!" X yelled to all the squads present. Without a second guess the two large panels on the floor of the craft opened and the Hunters began dropping out one squad at a time.
"ALL UNITS OPEN FIRE!!!!!" A command Maverick yelled the order and soon plasma fire began upon the descending Hunters.
"Damn that Vile and his incompetent security! How did the Hunters find this location?!" Rennoir yelled. Rennoir pulled out his portable comm unit and opened a channel directly to the secret Mav satellite orbiting in space.
"Mav Ops Center #8494. What is the purpose of this call Dr. Rennoir?"
"We've run into a problem. Prepare for immediate send-off when I give you the signal"
"What? We havent even had time to properly warm up the tachyon power plants! We need at least one hour!"
"I don't care! The hunters are already invading this location! At my signal you WILL proceed with the send-off. Rennoir out"
The sky was ablaze with plasma fire. They had already lost eight Hunters during the drop and they had only taken out five of the thirty Mavericks present. Zero cut through another Maverick as he noticed the transport vessel landing one mile from his position.
"X! They've landed! We don't have much time!!" Zero yelled over the sounds of gunfire and explosions.
X blasted a hole clean through another Maverick before he made a clear dash toward the transport vessel.
"C'mon Zero we can't waste time with the soldiers! We have to destroy the new Maverick!!!"
"Tell it to stay in the transport, its too dangerous to come out into the open!" Rennoir yelled at the pilot via comm.
"But how the hell are we supposed to send it off?!" the pilot yelled back.
"We'll transport the whole damn thing if we have to!!!"
"Are you insane! What about me?!"
"Well get out if you don't want to go with it!"
"Crap...............Zero I'm detecting an increasing build-up of tachyon radiation.............Around the entire jet?!" X said shocking even Zero himself.
"Those bastards can't be that insane............"
"You seem to forget how far Mavericks are willing to go for anything."
"You heard me send the whole transport!!" Rennoir screamed into his comm at the satellite operator.
"I'm telling you your going to get everyone there killed. I better not get blamed for this........."
"The build-up is increasing! We aren't gonna make it!" X said pushing his boosters to there limit.
"Oh boy. I didn't think it would come to this but.........." Zero tapped an odd combination into his forearm keypad.
"But what!? What did you just do?"
If one were to look at Antartica in the distance on any other day they would see nothing more than a frozen wasteland. But on this day, if you were to look at Antartica from a distance you would swear you saw a second sun rising. They would see the entire southern ice cap being set ablaze. Tachyon particles colliding creating a literal time explosion tearing through reality itself.
Time:2000
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Systems Malfunction...................
Illegal Operation.....................
System Restart........................
Loading Primary......................
Loading Secondary Slave........................
Running ScanDisk..........Due to restart without shutting down some file corruption may have occured. Do you wish to continue? Y/N
Running ScanDisk......Please standby....................
......."Zero".................
Linux 9.6 AI Edition........Now Loading...............
......"Zero".................
System Resources: 87% Harddrive Defragmentation? Y/N
........"Zero I know your awake"...................
Canceling harddrive defrag. Commencing system startup.........
........"Zero we dont have time for a nap!"............"ZERO!!!!"
"Okay okay I'm up! Stop yelling in my ear!!! And what is that smell?"
Zero answered his own question by raising his head only to find himself in the middle of a rather large garbage bin tucked away neatly in the back alley between a sushi restaurant and a car garage. Pulling himself out of the mass of human refuse proved to be harder than usual considering the sluggishness that accompanies an emergency restart.
"Damn I feel like crap. How'd you get back on-line so fast X?"
"I just skipped Scandisk. Unlike you my system doesn't corrupt as easily as yours. I told you Linux was too buggy but no..'Windows 3000 isn't network compatible.' you said"
"Will you shut-up..........What time is it?"
"2:34 pm. Year 2000. We made it......I think."
"I don't think were out of it just yet......"
Zero began typing on his forearm keypad yet again, much to apparent confusion and annoyance of X.
"First question. What did you do back in Antartica and what are you doing now?"
"I was simply relaying a message back to HQ that we were going to breach back into past and to get a good lock on us just before we dove. What I'm doing right now is getting a good readout on what exactly came into the past with us."
"I would assume the stealth jet and the Maverick since thats what the tachyon build up was centered around. It was a crazy idea to begin with to try and breach an object of that mass and weight. The temporal explosion must have wiped out half of Antartica."
"I know that but...........oh no. This is exactly what I was worried about."
"What is it. Did some of those Mav troops dive back with us?"
"No they were all vaporized. What did come back with us was the temporal explosion itself........"
"What..............."
"Apparently some of the energy didn't completely dissipate like the rest did in Antartica. Instead it rode the time warp with us. But its moving much slower and it hasn't hit this time yet."
"Perfect. What about the Mav is it anywhere near us?"
"I don't know. I'm not picking up anything. Considering its a new model I doubt our sensors are able to pick it up. I am starting get another tachyon build up exactly ten miles from our location............."
Zero reached up to tap his newly installed silver crystal still embedded in his helmet. As a result strands of light began to pour out of the crystal and consume Zero's form. When the light dissipates a much more human looking and non-armoured but still clothed Zero stood in his place.
"You didn't tell me it was a 3-D masking device as well......"
"Surprise surprise. Get human, walking around in full body armor is most likely gonna get a few stares."
Another brief burst of light engulfed the alleyway as a human Zero and X slowly crept out from the hiding place.
"I estimate we have about eleven minutes before the energy breaches into this time. And I have no idea exactly how much of the explosion is being sent back."
The two immediately began to make a mad dash toward the center of the massive metropolitan city, the source of the tachyon build-up. Inadvertently almost running over two familiar women along the way.
"Thank you for watching where you were going!!!" X heard a voice from behind him causing him to stop dead in his tracks. "What the.........Bio-scan."
Bio-scan detects unusually large traces of an unknown light spectrum particle. Continue scanning? Y/N
"X! Hurry up. We have three minutes!!!"
"Yeah......I'm comin."
He ran to catch up with his partner who had a puzzled look as to why X stopped especially in a situation like this.
"What was so important?"
"Zero. I think I just found our Maverick......."
To Be Continued..............