(FOREVER DARK)
chapter 2
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Tai felt himself moving. He blinked several times and looked over to coronus. "so your asleep too?" he said. "no I'm just resting my eyes." He replied slowly. "Sure you are" tai said slowly as he pulled his chair back up to it's normal position. "So how many languages is it now?" "Well lets see we got English, Japanese, the old language, the new language, the dy'oon language and a little sayigo." How can you learn so fast?" tai asked. "good question". agumon can we talk. He said looking out to the road. There's was no response for a moment. but then: what is it tai? A familiar voice spoke. You.. you can't dedigivolve now? No not unless I have to. His eyes which had been blue were now green. and his voice had changed. Why do you ask? I don't know I just kind of liked having my own digimon. I'm still here it's just that I protect more people now. Yeah I know but I just want not to have to share. I understand were your coming from. They looked at each other for moment for a while. Then his eyes changed back to blue and he looked forward. "were here". They slowed to a stop and the clamps unlocked. They drove to the check point. "Your cards please" a soldier asked them. coronus handed him his. "that was plural, sir." "scan it he said" the solider did. "And it says" "access level is. unlimited? Gate level 21. applies to owner and all parties under his consent." I vouch for him. Coronus replied smoothly before taking back his card and driving off he stopped at a road block. "What? did you spill something toxic?" no sir. No one is allowed past this point. this is my facility-"I am sorry but my supervisor says no one not even you sir." Really? He said not believing. He reached for his d-phone and dialed. Sir there are to be no radio transmissions from th-. There was a faint hum as the window rolled up. Loud guy isn't he. Coronus said as the phone rang. the solder called for backup and raised his rifle to the window. Tai locked the doors. "um what happens if he shoots the window?" "it is artificial diamond it will bounce off. Frank? yeah it's coronus why is the base locked down. Research project on what? You had better tell me, I could have you convicted of treason for going behind my back and authorizing this project. The secretary of defense? Alright but I still need to view, hold on a sec". he turned to the window and stuck up his middle finger at the soldiers knocking on the window. tai could not hear their knocks "how does that work?" there two panes of glass with as vacuum in the middle. "Oh" "yeah frank I need to see this project. I don't care. Ok check with him, call me back". He hung up. "What did he say?" "That I can't see what ever they are working on. He'll call me back." "what happens if the get in here?" "They'll try to shoot us." He saw some flashes and herd some thumps "what was that"? tai asked looking at the window that the noise came from. "Who cares". The phone rang. "Finally" tai said. "yes, frank what took you-." "denied access? Right, ok, I'll come back later bye." He slammed down the phone "they won't let us in" coronus said trying to make sense of the situation. "So what do we do now?" "we go home". He threw the car in gear and drove towards the gate at high speed. "this is ridiculous! They can't do that. Can they?" coronus yelled. "Aw well forget it." He said he placed two fingers on his forehead and focused on a place far from there. It was about then that Tai noticed they were driving off the road. "Hey where are we going?" the world shifted. They were still driving but they were in a hanger heading for a wall. "LOOK OUT!!" his eyes shot open. "Whoops." Coronus said blandly. They slid to a stop. Tai was beside himself. "What was that!?" Tai almost screamed. "What was what?" he said as he stepped out of the car. He was about to answer but he looked at his surroundings. "Where are we?" "Underground. In the dome." "You mean your house?" tai asked puzzled. "if you can call it a house" coronus responded. He walked to a point on the wall placed his hand on it. The area around it glowed yellow and the wall slid back. The section moved about a foot into the wall then opened at the diagonal joints in an x. it opened to a large elevator. They stepped inside. "What floor is this"? Tai inquired "b2" they felt themselves ascend to the 2nd floor. "Umm you got a phone? I need to call my wife". Tai stated. "Sure there is one in your room". Coronus went back down stairs and sat on the couch. Tai walked in. "what did she say"? "be back soon". "I see". An awkward silence filled the room. "coronus, can I". "2nd floor in the central room" "thanks!" tai made his way off quickly. "that boy never stops eating." At that he stood and looked around. It had been a few weeks since he had been here. The first floor was the lobby of sorts. Essentially a donut shaped room it seamed larger than it really was. The building was a seven story tall dome. Not including the basement levels. On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors there was a massive pillar that supported the upper floors. The pillar itself was hollow allowing for a second room to be placed inside. A conference room was inside of it on the first floor. The outer ring of the second floor was rooms for each of the digidestined to date. If more arrived, well.. The inner ring was (as you might have guessed) the kitchen. The third was the lab, with a clean room on the inner ring. The forth however was different. An aviary/micro-ecosystem existed in it and there was no ring and the roof was three stories tall. The entire base was different in one way from any other building: it is submerged. The building was built on a island, but it's weight was far greater than it originally looked and the island sunk. Bored, he walked to the elevator and went down. The door opened to a small room with a large window looking into a much larger room; which at the moment was occupied. vegeta was sitting with his legs crossed and was sweating profusely. he did not move at all except for mild shudder that quaked through his fingers which were pressed together. Coronus could tell that he was expending massive amounts of energy in this unusually intense training. He looked and the screen: 5879?. the p meaning gravity pressure. The 1 descending through the center of the symbol indicating 1 gravity. That was a lot of gravity even for him vegeta opened his eyes and looked at the control panel. He squinted at the panel and the "off" button clicked. Vegeta quickly discarded the air mask he had been wearing and walked toward the door. "see something you like baka?" vegeta's voice rang over the speakers. "no, just wondering why you're still under 6000." "in time baka, in time." Vegeta had been in a good mood lately and it was showing. Normally a remark like coronus's would have earned a gut- bustlingly hard punch; and that only if he was in his normal melancholy. "so why are you here again?" "the woman is . displeased with my destruction of her kitchen." Vegeta replied with a larger than usual smirk on his face. "Really, do I dare to ask why her kitchen is destroyed?" The ki filter on the chamber failed and the blast went right through the wall. It's ironic because that made it her fault." "right and I don't suppose that your blast was aimed at goku was it?" "yes, why?" oh, no reason it's just that you never bother with ki blast with goku unless they are very large. and in that case it was probably more than the filter could handle. Which is only 2.7 million." "whatever." Vegeta replied blowing off the conversation. "like I care. If she does not want her house destroyed then she can make a better filter." Coronus shook his head and walked out and went to the conference room and sat down. "Arieon show me the map of 002." the screen glowed and displayed a map of space. "of the area surrounding the sphere." It moved to the area. The dy'oon sphere. A ball of metal made over eons of draining the liquid metals out of the mantels of planets and putting the together in a sphere. It was about 200,000,000 miles across and was built around a star. The vast majority of the inner surface was unexplored. But still trillions lived in it. Day and night? A hemisphere of nichine (pronounced ny-chene) rotated around the star. When it passed overhead it was night when it did not it was day. Also the inner surface was covered in something similar to solar panels and produced all of the energy needed for the inhabitants. A culture sprung up around the sphere and a alliance was forged against the nal, which controlled the other half of the galaxy. Both earths (which were now rather closely knit) signed with them since the Orion arm was disputed over. But in the end peace was mostly present in the universe. Since each planet developed differently many different technologies were tradable and the economies thrived. But something was just underneath the suface. Room; every one was running out of it. The sphere could support quadrillions but humans were verey attached to planets in which the atmosphere was held on by a force of nature, not by machines which were prone to break. The nal had no massive structures like the dy'oon and were bitter because of it. It's people were being forced to move to asteroids for living space and it's repeated requests to send it's people to the sphere were turned down, on the grounds that if they were allowed they might invade from within or start an insurrection. So an uneasy peace was holding by a thread and everyone knew it.
Chapter 2 is done. Both of these took me about 2 or 3 days to complete. So i'll try to update that often. (unless you tell me to stop).
Tai felt himself moving. He blinked several times and looked over to coronus. "so your asleep too?" he said. "no I'm just resting my eyes." He replied slowly. "Sure you are" tai said slowly as he pulled his chair back up to it's normal position. "So how many languages is it now?" "Well lets see we got English, Japanese, the old language, the new language, the dy'oon language and a little sayigo." How can you learn so fast?" tai asked. "good question". agumon can we talk. He said looking out to the road. There's was no response for a moment. but then: what is it tai? A familiar voice spoke. You.. you can't dedigivolve now? No not unless I have to. His eyes which had been blue were now green. and his voice had changed. Why do you ask? I don't know I just kind of liked having my own digimon. I'm still here it's just that I protect more people now. Yeah I know but I just want not to have to share. I understand were your coming from. They looked at each other for moment for a while. Then his eyes changed back to blue and he looked forward. "were here". They slowed to a stop and the clamps unlocked. They drove to the check point. "Your cards please" a soldier asked them. coronus handed him his. "that was plural, sir." "scan it he said" the solider did. "And it says" "access level is. unlimited? Gate level 21. applies to owner and all parties under his consent." I vouch for him. Coronus replied smoothly before taking back his card and driving off he stopped at a road block. "What? did you spill something toxic?" no sir. No one is allowed past this point. this is my facility-"I am sorry but my supervisor says no one not even you sir." Really? He said not believing. He reached for his d-phone and dialed. Sir there are to be no radio transmissions from th-. There was a faint hum as the window rolled up. Loud guy isn't he. Coronus said as the phone rang. the solder called for backup and raised his rifle to the window. Tai locked the doors. "um what happens if he shoots the window?" "it is artificial diamond it will bounce off. Frank? yeah it's coronus why is the base locked down. Research project on what? You had better tell me, I could have you convicted of treason for going behind my back and authorizing this project. The secretary of defense? Alright but I still need to view, hold on a sec". he turned to the window and stuck up his middle finger at the soldiers knocking on the window. tai could not hear their knocks "how does that work?" there two panes of glass with as vacuum in the middle. "Oh" "yeah frank I need to see this project. I don't care. Ok check with him, call me back". He hung up. "What did he say?" "That I can't see what ever they are working on. He'll call me back." "what happens if the get in here?" "They'll try to shoot us." He saw some flashes and herd some thumps "what was that"? tai asked looking at the window that the noise came from. "Who cares". The phone rang. "Finally" tai said. "yes, frank what took you-." "denied access? Right, ok, I'll come back later bye." He slammed down the phone "they won't let us in" coronus said trying to make sense of the situation. "So what do we do now?" "we go home". He threw the car in gear and drove towards the gate at high speed. "this is ridiculous! They can't do that. Can they?" coronus yelled. "Aw well forget it." He said he placed two fingers on his forehead and focused on a place far from there. It was about then that Tai noticed they were driving off the road. "Hey where are we going?" the world shifted. They were still driving but they were in a hanger heading for a wall. "LOOK OUT!!" his eyes shot open. "Whoops." Coronus said blandly. They slid to a stop. Tai was beside himself. "What was that!?" Tai almost screamed. "What was what?" he said as he stepped out of the car. He was about to answer but he looked at his surroundings. "Where are we?" "Underground. In the dome." "You mean your house?" tai asked puzzled. "if you can call it a house" coronus responded. He walked to a point on the wall placed his hand on it. The area around it glowed yellow and the wall slid back. The section moved about a foot into the wall then opened at the diagonal joints in an x. it opened to a large elevator. They stepped inside. "What floor is this"? Tai inquired "b2" they felt themselves ascend to the 2nd floor. "Umm you got a phone? I need to call my wife". Tai stated. "Sure there is one in your room". Coronus went back down stairs and sat on the couch. Tai walked in. "what did she say"? "be back soon". "I see". An awkward silence filled the room. "coronus, can I". "2nd floor in the central room" "thanks!" tai made his way off quickly. "that boy never stops eating." At that he stood and looked around. It had been a few weeks since he had been here. The first floor was the lobby of sorts. Essentially a donut shaped room it seamed larger than it really was. The building was a seven story tall dome. Not including the basement levels. On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors there was a massive pillar that supported the upper floors. The pillar itself was hollow allowing for a second room to be placed inside. A conference room was inside of it on the first floor. The outer ring of the second floor was rooms for each of the digidestined to date. If more arrived, well.. The inner ring was (as you might have guessed) the kitchen. The third was the lab, with a clean room on the inner ring. The forth however was different. An aviary/micro-ecosystem existed in it and there was no ring and the roof was three stories tall. The entire base was different in one way from any other building: it is submerged. The building was built on a island, but it's weight was far greater than it originally looked and the island sunk. Bored, he walked to the elevator and went down. The door opened to a small room with a large window looking into a much larger room; which at the moment was occupied. vegeta was sitting with his legs crossed and was sweating profusely. he did not move at all except for mild shudder that quaked through his fingers which were pressed together. Coronus could tell that he was expending massive amounts of energy in this unusually intense training. He looked and the screen: 5879?. the p meaning gravity pressure. The 1 descending through the center of the symbol indicating 1 gravity. That was a lot of gravity even for him vegeta opened his eyes and looked at the control panel. He squinted at the panel and the "off" button clicked. Vegeta quickly discarded the air mask he had been wearing and walked toward the door. "see something you like baka?" vegeta's voice rang over the speakers. "no, just wondering why you're still under 6000." "in time baka, in time." Vegeta had been in a good mood lately and it was showing. Normally a remark like coronus's would have earned a gut- bustlingly hard punch; and that only if he was in his normal melancholy. "so why are you here again?" "the woman is . displeased with my destruction of her kitchen." Vegeta replied with a larger than usual smirk on his face. "Really, do I dare to ask why her kitchen is destroyed?" The ki filter on the chamber failed and the blast went right through the wall. It's ironic because that made it her fault." "right and I don't suppose that your blast was aimed at goku was it?" "yes, why?" oh, no reason it's just that you never bother with ki blast with goku unless they are very large. and in that case it was probably more than the filter could handle. Which is only 2.7 million." "whatever." Vegeta replied blowing off the conversation. "like I care. If she does not want her house destroyed then she can make a better filter." Coronus shook his head and walked out and went to the conference room and sat down. "Arieon show me the map of 002." the screen glowed and displayed a map of space. "of the area surrounding the sphere." It moved to the area. The dy'oon sphere. A ball of metal made over eons of draining the liquid metals out of the mantels of planets and putting the together in a sphere. It was about 200,000,000 miles across and was built around a star. The vast majority of the inner surface was unexplored. But still trillions lived in it. Day and night? A hemisphere of nichine (pronounced ny-chene) rotated around the star. When it passed overhead it was night when it did not it was day. Also the inner surface was covered in something similar to solar panels and produced all of the energy needed for the inhabitants. A culture sprung up around the sphere and a alliance was forged against the nal, which controlled the other half of the galaxy. Both earths (which were now rather closely knit) signed with them since the Orion arm was disputed over. But in the end peace was mostly present in the universe. Since each planet developed differently many different technologies were tradable and the economies thrived. But something was just underneath the suface. Room; every one was running out of it. The sphere could support quadrillions but humans were verey attached to planets in which the atmosphere was held on by a force of nature, not by machines which were prone to break. The nal had no massive structures like the dy'oon and were bitter because of it. It's people were being forced to move to asteroids for living space and it's repeated requests to send it's people to the sphere were turned down, on the grounds that if they were allowed they might invade from within or start an insurrection. So an uneasy peace was holding by a thread and everyone knew it.
Chapter 2 is done. Both of these took me about 2 or 3 days to complete. So i'll try to update that often. (unless you tell me to stop).