Legacy of the Ancients
Chapter One: Ancient Power, Unleashed…
By: Sci-Fi-Raptor
Disclaimer: I Don't own Zoids, just Jani and Z.
In a secret base in an endless desert, an Ancient force is being meddled with: Doctor Rio Jani was about to find out what the fruits of his discovery were…
"Sir, the system is ready to reboot the organoid, and we are waiting for your approval to start."
"Alright" said Jani, with visible anxiety in his voice. "This is it people, this is the moment we have all been waiting for. Commence the reincarnation of the organoid Z"
"Yes, sir. Activating reincarnation system"
Jani watched his computer screen intently as the system began to do its magic.
"Soon" thought Jani. "Soon"
011100111…..
Initializing system…please wait…System Online…
Powering organoid…please wait…Power up successful…
Initializing serzos…please wait…Servo initialization successful…
Initializing tertiary circuitry…please wait…Tertiary circuitry initialization successful…
Installing tertiary circuitry…please wait…Installation successful…
Initializing secondary circuitry…please wait…Initialization successful…
Installing secondary circuitry…please wait…
The process had taken five hours, and by this time Jani had had enough of the techno-babble, and decided to take the best action to make things speed up. Jani got up and told his idea to his team firmly.
"I have decided that this initialization phase is taking too long, so I have decided to do something that will speed it up for me, so pay careful attention."
His team was interested in his idea, since they too were losing the anxiety and growing bored.
"The way for things to speed up for me is…"
His team looked at him intently to find out the answer, leaning at the edge of their seats.
"I'm going to sleep!"
His whole team fell face down into the floor.
"Wake me up when we are nearing the final phase."
All those who had recovered from the fall now had big drops of sweat coming out of their heads as the Jani left the room in a nonchalant manner.
Jani arrived at his quarters, but decided to look over his notes on the organoid and all other information he had found in the temple, to be prepared for the day's expected awakening. He skimmed over most of his notes, but since they were already committed to his memory by now, he went to the manuscripts that he gathered at the temple that he hadn't translated yet.
Most of the writing was about fantastic inventions that were being made in preparation for the "Exodus", which he was assuming was when the Ancients disappeared from their planet altogether, leaving only a few things that they decided was too crude to bring with them.
The one invention that struck him as most impressive was their nano-technology. Since it was too hard to make spaceships in gravity, and too slow in space, they designed nano-bots that could function as one entity. They also designed them like bacterial colonies, which is what they called each of the entities, a "colony" of nano-bots.
"But what did this have to do with their intergalactic ships?" Thought Jani. The rest of the manuscript answered that question, and more…
Like bacterial colonies, the nano-colonies could grow, repair itself, and "reproduce", once the colony became a full fledged starship. Their "babies" where about the size of a human and would take about ten years to become a starship. The only things that they required to do this were a few common resources, which the bots could convert into more complex materials, depending on whatever their needs were.
The colonies where also like organoids, in that they could learn, adapt, and devise strategies to solve problems they might encounter. They were like organoids in every respect except they were far more advanced, and could change their shape at will. Like organoids, they had their own personalities, and could repair and upgrade other Zoids. The colonies however could repair and upgrade anything mechanical. Another difference in that skill was that a colony could merge with another machine. And they did not actually merge with it, but converted its atoms into more bots, but retained the shape and function of the machine, until it completely converted it. It was up to the Ancient if it should stay as it was, or do something else.
There was more information on the manuscript, but he had been at it for an hour now, and his sleepiness was getting the best of him. He wrote down all the information he had just learned into his notebook and went toward his bed.
As he was tucking himself in, he heard a noise that he definitely did not want to hear while the work on Z was going on, but the alarm's noises and lights were too annoying to be ignored.
Quickly, he dashed off to his command center, assuming the grunts would handle the attack. He opened the door and let out a shriek that could be heard over the alarms. He found everyone in his team dead. He heard someone cry for help, and found it to be one of the grunts that was guarding his team. He said the organoid was cursed, and that somehow, it made the secret machine gun in the room fire at the team. He was last to be shot at, but he destroyed the gun before it killed him. He told Jani to get out while he could, and then died.
Jani knew that Ancients were very technologically advanced, so he knew that it wasn't a curse, but a defense mechanism. He checked the computer for the status of events as they happened. It read:
011100111…..
Initializing system…please wait…System Online…
Powering organoid…please wait…Power up successful…
Initializing serzos…please wait…Servo initialization successful…
Initializing tertiary circuitry…please wait…Tertiary circuitry initialization successful…
Installing tertiary circuitry…please wait…Installation successful…
Initializing secondary circuitry…please wait…Initialization successful…
Installing secondary circuitry…please wait…Installation successful…
Warning! Warning! Organiod system has blocked all invasive attempts!
Warning! Warning! Organiod system is downloading all databases available!
Warning! Warning! Organoid system has uploaded an unknown agent!
Warning! Warning! Virus detected! Virus is taking over all syste…
….m…Intruder system taken over. Objective one complete.
Destroying all enemies in range of escape route…Processing…
At this time the doctor realized what was going on. Z had taken over the base and was probably destroying the base defense Zoids with the automatic defenses. Jani ran to the arms storage to get an EMP gun, and took some men with him. When he got back, he and five other men were equipped with EMP guns to disable Z. Jani looked quickly at the status screen to see if it was about to make a run for it. It said:
Processing…Objective two complete.
All of a sudden, the organoid ripped free of all its restraints and wires and started running out the exit.
"What are you guys just standing there for? Shoot the damn bitch!"
Jani's new team started barraging the organiod with 6 EMP shots. Z dodged the grunts' shots, but Jani's accuracy prevailed. But to his horror, Z melted; at least it looked like that.
All this overwhelmed Jani, and he fell on his knees and started weeping. His whole life's work had just gone down the drain. And to top it off, his whole team was dead. They were the only people he cared about, especially Tracy. He had grown quite fond of her, and was going to ask her out the day they found the damn organoid, but didn't because of how much of his time the discovery took when he found it. He even thought that she started to like him too, not just as a colleague though, since she actually started socializing, he thought flirting, a few days before they found Z.
He told the men to recover the remains of Z, but stopped when they noticed something very disturbing: the puddle Z's remains started glowing, and started taking the shape of a small tank (they didn't know what it was, but could tell it was dangerous). That's when it all hit him. He wasn't looking at an organoid, but a baby nano-tech! It made sense because he figured that when he shot it with his EMP, all the robots were disabled, and they all collapsed, but it looked like they melted since they were so small. He also figured that it was a "merged" organoid, since he remembered that when he found the containers, he found one marked "bots" (the nano- part was broken off), and the other marked "Z". He figured that since both containers were broken, the nano-bots probably merged with the organoid when they had the chance, and now he was seeing the fruit of their toils.
"Idiots, don't just stand there, take it out again!"
Jani's team attacked, but they were too slow for it. It left them in the dust as it rounded a corner. They could hear gasps and yelps of people's surprise when they saw the incredibly fast, but unfamiliar machine. Jani heard a loud explosion, and saw sunlight coming out of a corridor. Jani's team tried to catch up, but it was already gone.
He listened to the security channels and heard that the few remaining Zoids were sent to intercept it. He had seen what that monster could do on its own. He did not want to be around when the beast took over a Zoid. He knew that for some reason, Z wanted to kill everyone here, so he figured it was a matter of time until he would take over a Zoid, destroy those that were following it, and ultimately destroy the base.
Out in the desert, if there was anyone to watch, a small black aircraft was zooming past the landscape, just mere inches off the ground. It was traveling mind-bogging speed, trailing a cloud of dust that went many miles high, and was delayed by about 1 second. If there was a person watching it, he would figure it was a missile or something. But if he took a close look at it, he would see an aircraft of alien design, at least for the past hundreds of years. It was shaped like the cross of a trapezoid and a wedge. From the top, it looked like a trapezoid that was somewhat curved in the front. From the side, it looked like a wedge, but it was shaped more like a parabola. The fuselage took up the area of the rectangle in the middle of the trapezoid. The wings consisted of the triangles of the trapezoid. The fuselage thinned out in a curve like manner to be as thin as the wings. In the middle of the wings, there was a booster that looked more like a missile. There was a triangle to the top and bottom of it. The amazing thing about the design was that it cut through air so well, you could not tell it was making noise unless you were 50 meters away. The booster's noise was non-existent.
But who could possibly be flying something that was not a Zoid? Especially one of alien (if not Ancient) design? Z of course! (Reader slams head into ground, with huge sweat drop when he recovers…) Z was a smart entity. It was made to last, and it was made to survive. When it woke up, it knew immediately that the place it was in was hostile, so it went into combat mode and it was going to see that they all died before they could lay a finger on it.
Z wasn't aimlessly flying away either, on the contrary it was just getting the "big guns". When it woke up, it detected a lot of things, including a Liger 0 that was close by. It was capable of handling a Zoid ten times as large as an Ultra Saurus, and still radically increase its power. What could it NOT do in a puny Liger 0? It decided that he would take it over and annihilate its captors…
Jani was quickly walking toward his research truck. He knew he would never be able to forgive himself for what he was about to do, but there were too many witnesses to what was happening, and he needed to get rid of them, or lose access to Z. He decided to take all his research in to his truck and leave the base without telling them why. Once they were all dead, he would tell the Black Draft Organization that his team started initiating the organoid before he got there, and when he reached the base, he found it destroyed. So he went to his Hummer and got as far away as he could. Half an hour later, he heard a few mini explosions, and a huge explosion not too long after that. He could feel heat and some of the aftershock, but he could not even see the blast. He knew that he was now safe and able to continue his work…
HAHAHA! Such EVIL and ruthless people I have made. But don't judge TOO quick, there's more where that came from, and it came from a place that science will never understand…