Summary: The legend for King Arthur is a fuzzy line between logic and lies.
Some say Arthur and his Knights were secretly hidden under ground, waiting
the day their country would need them once more. That day has come, May 31
2109.
Disclaimer: Ya ya, what I wrote, you will not recognize. Other then that you can presume I borrowed it from the movies and legends.
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Guards escorted the fourteen men and women into there separate quarters for the night.
Venus and Night were allowed to use conjoined rooms with the middle door open, but if the guards outside heard any talking they would come in the lock them up like the others.
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Ronan however was given the largest room, which also happened to be under heavier guard then any of the others.
He sat quietly, his extraordinary night vision helping him read books about the Knights of Old while he was supposed to be sleeping. He would read tales of his great ancestor often, hoping one day he would end up fighting for such a just cause as well.
He sighed and slammed the book shut, thinking about what Venus had said earlier.
Looking at his calendar he noted it was May 30. That meant May 31 would be the anniversary of his soul being sold to the devil.
"I will not harm them." He said quietly, his fingers running across the cover of his favorite book over and over. He looked at the cover picture and smiled, he always loved looking at it. An intricate painting from the Renaissance of men and women farming in front of the artist's depiction of Camelot.
He fell asleep slowly, thinking about how nice it would be to work as a painter instead of with swords and axes.
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The next morning Dr. Lovas woke Venus and took her into one of the dark conference rooms where she was joined by Ronan and Night.
They were all told to sit at the steel table quietly and look directly at the one-way mirror. If any of them moved they would be punished later, Dr. Lovas promised it would be worse then the time they tried to make the flight simulator loose enough to eject them from the test sight they had been living in.
Venus smirked, "That was pretty damn cool." She thought, trying not to smile.
Night shook like he was silently laughing, "God, can you imagine if that had actually worked?" he thought, his laughing echoing in his mind.
Ronan glared at them, "Doc said not to talk." He thought angrily.
"Technically were not." Venus replied with a shrug.
Ronan rolled his eyes, "Fair enough, but we were put in lock down for two weeks because of that little incident......how bad do you think we would get it if we did something our potential buyer didn't like?"
Venus frowned and looked down at her hands, he was right.
Night however started singing in his head to one of the ridiculous songs he heard on the radio he made from scraps they stole from a shop class.
Ronan stopped talking after that, but Venus got the distinct expression he might have been singing in his own mind, just blocking them from hearing.
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They sat quietly for a half hour, even Night stopped singing by then.
"Congratulations!" Dr. Reis said happily as he opened the door to the room and walked in. "To me that is, we just sold the three of you for boku bucks!" he smiled at all of them, but not a happy smile in the sense that he got the money......no, it was more like he was happy to be getting rid of them. "Come, your leaving today." He said, pointing out the door to the hall.
They looked at each other, thoughts starting to rise again as they pondered his statement.
"I thought we would have to stay an extra week?" Ronan asked curiously, secretly rejoicing he would get to keep his original personality.
"Yes well......for reasons beyond my comprehension your buyer has decided you could serve his needs better if you......acted how you choose on your own accord." Reis said flatly, obviously confused.
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Venus stood in the lobby of the hotel, looking around curiously. This was the first time she had been able to go somewhere the government didn't control. It was a big relief to be able to walk freely, with out guards heavily armed right behind her.
She wore a short black pleated skirt, two silver chains as a belt. Her top was a plain black shrunken t-shirt. She hated black, but Reis told her it was all she would get until her new owner decided she was valuable enough to buy things for.
She resented that man, he treated all of them like little science fair projects. She was not considered a person in his mind, instead she was just the result of his backbreaking labor over the past twenty years.
Ronan stood to her left, wearing faded jeans and a similar shrunken t- shirt. His dark hair went well with his attire, but her light brown made nothing look very flattering.
Night stood, slumped over on her right dressed just like Ronan, but with the same hair problem as Venus.
John F. Beck owned the hotel. He had purchased them, something Venus bitterly thought would have been against the law a hundred years ago. They waited quietly for him to arrive, watching the people move about in the lobby.
They had just traveled three days from planet Earth to get here. It looked just like the pictures they had seen of places outside the base, but nothing felt right.
"Welcome to Earth 2." A deep voice said from behind them.
They all turned to look and were overly surprised to spot a very short, plump, old man. His hair was white, he stood a whole two heads shorter then the three of them, and presented him self like no soldier they had ever met before.
"Come with us." He said, smiling up at them before walking past.
Venus shot Ronan and Night a very disturbed look as she followed the stout little man and three others tailing right behind him.
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They went up forty floors in an elevator behind the front desk, Venus, Ronan, and Night all debating the situation in their minds with one another.
When the doors opened they saw a room made of marble, nothing but a door straight ahead and a large chandelier in the center of the high ceiling.
John led them out but did not let them go into the next room, "Please, wait here for a moment." He said quietly, smiling up at them still.
"He's creepy." Venus whispered as he shut the door and left them alone.
Ronan nodded, "I get the feeling were in a spot of trouble here." He said darkly, looking back towards the elevator.
"Why?" Night asked curiously, looking around the empty room.
"Didn't John say no one was allowed to come up for the rest of the day?" Ronan asked, recalling the conversation he had with the receptionist behind the front desk before they got into the elevator.
"He also told us no one could activate the elevator with out his key, or with out the button hidden under the front desk......" Night trailed off, "You don't think we should warn him do you?"
Before any one replied all three of them had run over to the door and began pulling the handle, trying to get it to open, then they tried banging it down with there fists.
"Wait!" Venus hissed, pulling there arms back down.
They all pressed an ear against the cool wood door and heard crying inside. It was more like sobbing really, someone in there was shouting as well.
Venus couldn't make out the words at first, but then the shouting got a lot closer, like the person was right next to the door.
"FLOOR 38! GO NOW CHILDREN! SAVE THEM! SAVE THEM!" John sobbed as he yelled, his fist hitting the door.
Venus almost tumbled backwards in surprise, but Ronan caught her as a gun shot echoed through the room.
"Oh shit." Night said, noting the elevator wasn't moving any longer.
Before they had a chance to stop her Venus was running to the side of the elevator, she had her back to the wall, well out of view as the doors slid open.
"Five, big guns." Ronan thought, sending Venus a mental picture.
"Well well......" a quiet voice said from inside the elevator. "You must be the little pretties we've heard so much about!"
Ronan smirked as Venus punched the woman in the side of the head just as she started to walk out from the elevator into the room.
"Holy-"one of the men in the elevator started to say as he leaned over to see if she was all right.
Venus kicked him in the face and he launched back into the elevator and knocked down two other guys.
Now the only other guy, conscience in the elevator, was hitting the door close button repeatedly. Venus didn't bother to hide how much she was enjoying punching him in the stomach.
"Come on!" Night said impatiently as he kicked one of the unconscious bodies out of the elevator. He tried to push the lobby button but Venus hit the floor 38 button first.
"Hell no!" Night protested, he wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.
"He said we had to! Were supposed to obey him!" Venus replied angrily.
"He's dead who cares?!" Night said, getting slightly hysterical.
Ronan felt his jaw drop open and the sound of them bickering as the elevator doors opened.
"Come on, Ronan its all up.........to you." Night said slowly, spotting the massacre in front of them now.
Venus stepped out, her high top converse sneakers getting sticky on the bottom when she accidentally stepped into a puddle of blood.
"Oh my god." She said weakly, looking at all the bodies with a horrified expression.
"What now?" Night asked, trying not to think about the smell.
"This way." Ronan said, taking Venus's hand and pulling her away from the tragedy. Night didn't argue, he was to shocked to even think of asking how he knew where to go. Later Ronan explained he simply decided to go wherever he didn't see bodies.
They ended up in front of a red door. It had no handle, no lock, just hinges. Ronan pushed on it and it slip open easily.
"This can't be right." Night said darkly, walking into the empty room. "Why would he send us here?"
"It might be a safe room." Venus suggested, looking at the walls for any sign of fold out equipment.
The door slammed behind them and they all turned around, horrified by the lack of a door now.
"Jesus......there isn't any impression, nothing! No hinges......what the hell is this place?" Venus asked, looking up for a way out.
"It could be worse." Ronan said with a shrug. Just then the lights went out. "Remind me not to talk." Ronan said with a sigh.
Venus was about to yell at him but before she got the chance something started to shake under them.
The floor lit up blue around the edges and gradually engulfed the room.
They all looked around as the floor began to move down, into a new room they did not think they were supposed to be in.
As soon as it stopped, Venus, Ronan, and Night were surrounded by a bunch of men and women in white lab coats, running all over the room.
In the very center of this new room was something they did not expect to see, ever ever again.
"Is that?" Ronan asked weakly.
Venus nodded, "Yep."
"I thought we broke that......" Ronan said with a slight smile.
"And we fixed it." A voice said from behind them. They turned around and smiled for the first time in days, "Doctor Klyde!" they said together.
The man, now in front of them, smiled and threw his hands in the air. "I see everything has gone according to plan!" Dr. Klyde said happily, pulling them all into a hug.
"Oh god you don't know?" Venus asked sadly.
"Know what?" Klyde asked curiously, ushering all of them into another room when he sat them down and offered sodas.
"There all dead." Night said, not sure what tone of voice to use.
Klyde's smile faded instantly, he took the sodas away and sat down across from them at the small table.
"Then there is little time to explain before they find us as well." Klyde said darkly, not looking at them. Then his head snapped back up and he looked Ronan straight in the eye with a very serious expression. "You know the legend?" he asked quietly.
Ronan nodded, "Of course."
"Then it is up to you to explain." Klyde said sadly. He got back up and strode across the room and pulled the door back open.
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Venus, Night, and Ronan were ushered into the machine they saw before as fast as possible. Suddenly all the men and women that had been running around earlier disappeared and headed to their stations.
As they strapped them selves into their seats, Venus wished what ever was about to happen didn't kill her in the process.
"I know none of you have done this before, but Ronan, you were trained to handle it. All of you were. I am truly sorry we didn't have more time, but you must go now. They're coming." Klyde said through the speakers as an alarm went off outside the sphere and a red light flooded in through the windows they were looking out through.
Ronan nodded, and the room flooded with lighting bolt looking waves of electricity as they punched the master button.
Pain ran though their veins, making it hard to breath. Just before there surrounding started to morph Venus spotted the woman from the elevator coming down the same room they just did.
"STOP THEM!" she screamed. All at once bullets began to fly towards the main control room and they watched in horror as the scientists were killed in cold blood.
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Venus tumbled out of the sphere, her nose bleeding, as she hit the cool damp ground.
She looked around groggily, trees and bushes surrounding them. She heard people yelling in the distance, fear overwhelmed her once more and she fell face first into the dirt.
"I hate time travel." She said thickly, not really comprehending her mouth was full of dirt now.
Disclaimer: Ya ya, what I wrote, you will not recognize. Other then that you can presume I borrowed it from the movies and legends.
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Guards escorted the fourteen men and women into there separate quarters for the night.
Venus and Night were allowed to use conjoined rooms with the middle door open, but if the guards outside heard any talking they would come in the lock them up like the others.
----
Ronan however was given the largest room, which also happened to be under heavier guard then any of the others.
He sat quietly, his extraordinary night vision helping him read books about the Knights of Old while he was supposed to be sleeping. He would read tales of his great ancestor often, hoping one day he would end up fighting for such a just cause as well.
He sighed and slammed the book shut, thinking about what Venus had said earlier.
Looking at his calendar he noted it was May 30. That meant May 31 would be the anniversary of his soul being sold to the devil.
"I will not harm them." He said quietly, his fingers running across the cover of his favorite book over and over. He looked at the cover picture and smiled, he always loved looking at it. An intricate painting from the Renaissance of men and women farming in front of the artist's depiction of Camelot.
He fell asleep slowly, thinking about how nice it would be to work as a painter instead of with swords and axes.
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The next morning Dr. Lovas woke Venus and took her into one of the dark conference rooms where she was joined by Ronan and Night.
They were all told to sit at the steel table quietly and look directly at the one-way mirror. If any of them moved they would be punished later, Dr. Lovas promised it would be worse then the time they tried to make the flight simulator loose enough to eject them from the test sight they had been living in.
Venus smirked, "That was pretty damn cool." She thought, trying not to smile.
Night shook like he was silently laughing, "God, can you imagine if that had actually worked?" he thought, his laughing echoing in his mind.
Ronan glared at them, "Doc said not to talk." He thought angrily.
"Technically were not." Venus replied with a shrug.
Ronan rolled his eyes, "Fair enough, but we were put in lock down for two weeks because of that little incident......how bad do you think we would get it if we did something our potential buyer didn't like?"
Venus frowned and looked down at her hands, he was right.
Night however started singing in his head to one of the ridiculous songs he heard on the radio he made from scraps they stole from a shop class.
Ronan stopped talking after that, but Venus got the distinct expression he might have been singing in his own mind, just blocking them from hearing.
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They sat quietly for a half hour, even Night stopped singing by then.
"Congratulations!" Dr. Reis said happily as he opened the door to the room and walked in. "To me that is, we just sold the three of you for boku bucks!" he smiled at all of them, but not a happy smile in the sense that he got the money......no, it was more like he was happy to be getting rid of them. "Come, your leaving today." He said, pointing out the door to the hall.
They looked at each other, thoughts starting to rise again as they pondered his statement.
"I thought we would have to stay an extra week?" Ronan asked curiously, secretly rejoicing he would get to keep his original personality.
"Yes well......for reasons beyond my comprehension your buyer has decided you could serve his needs better if you......acted how you choose on your own accord." Reis said flatly, obviously confused.
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Venus stood in the lobby of the hotel, looking around curiously. This was the first time she had been able to go somewhere the government didn't control. It was a big relief to be able to walk freely, with out guards heavily armed right behind her.
She wore a short black pleated skirt, two silver chains as a belt. Her top was a plain black shrunken t-shirt. She hated black, but Reis told her it was all she would get until her new owner decided she was valuable enough to buy things for.
She resented that man, he treated all of them like little science fair projects. She was not considered a person in his mind, instead she was just the result of his backbreaking labor over the past twenty years.
Ronan stood to her left, wearing faded jeans and a similar shrunken t- shirt. His dark hair went well with his attire, but her light brown made nothing look very flattering.
Night stood, slumped over on her right dressed just like Ronan, but with the same hair problem as Venus.
John F. Beck owned the hotel. He had purchased them, something Venus bitterly thought would have been against the law a hundred years ago. They waited quietly for him to arrive, watching the people move about in the lobby.
They had just traveled three days from planet Earth to get here. It looked just like the pictures they had seen of places outside the base, but nothing felt right.
"Welcome to Earth 2." A deep voice said from behind them.
They all turned to look and were overly surprised to spot a very short, plump, old man. His hair was white, he stood a whole two heads shorter then the three of them, and presented him self like no soldier they had ever met before.
"Come with us." He said, smiling up at them before walking past.
Venus shot Ronan and Night a very disturbed look as she followed the stout little man and three others tailing right behind him.
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They went up forty floors in an elevator behind the front desk, Venus, Ronan, and Night all debating the situation in their minds with one another.
When the doors opened they saw a room made of marble, nothing but a door straight ahead and a large chandelier in the center of the high ceiling.
John led them out but did not let them go into the next room, "Please, wait here for a moment." He said quietly, smiling up at them still.
"He's creepy." Venus whispered as he shut the door and left them alone.
Ronan nodded, "I get the feeling were in a spot of trouble here." He said darkly, looking back towards the elevator.
"Why?" Night asked curiously, looking around the empty room.
"Didn't John say no one was allowed to come up for the rest of the day?" Ronan asked, recalling the conversation he had with the receptionist behind the front desk before they got into the elevator.
"He also told us no one could activate the elevator with out his key, or with out the button hidden under the front desk......" Night trailed off, "You don't think we should warn him do you?"
Before any one replied all three of them had run over to the door and began pulling the handle, trying to get it to open, then they tried banging it down with there fists.
"Wait!" Venus hissed, pulling there arms back down.
They all pressed an ear against the cool wood door and heard crying inside. It was more like sobbing really, someone in there was shouting as well.
Venus couldn't make out the words at first, but then the shouting got a lot closer, like the person was right next to the door.
"FLOOR 38! GO NOW CHILDREN! SAVE THEM! SAVE THEM!" John sobbed as he yelled, his fist hitting the door.
Venus almost tumbled backwards in surprise, but Ronan caught her as a gun shot echoed through the room.
"Oh shit." Night said, noting the elevator wasn't moving any longer.
Before they had a chance to stop her Venus was running to the side of the elevator, she had her back to the wall, well out of view as the doors slid open.
"Five, big guns." Ronan thought, sending Venus a mental picture.
"Well well......" a quiet voice said from inside the elevator. "You must be the little pretties we've heard so much about!"
Ronan smirked as Venus punched the woman in the side of the head just as she started to walk out from the elevator into the room.
"Holy-"one of the men in the elevator started to say as he leaned over to see if she was all right.
Venus kicked him in the face and he launched back into the elevator and knocked down two other guys.
Now the only other guy, conscience in the elevator, was hitting the door close button repeatedly. Venus didn't bother to hide how much she was enjoying punching him in the stomach.
"Come on!" Night said impatiently as he kicked one of the unconscious bodies out of the elevator. He tried to push the lobby button but Venus hit the floor 38 button first.
"Hell no!" Night protested, he wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.
"He said we had to! Were supposed to obey him!" Venus replied angrily.
"He's dead who cares?!" Night said, getting slightly hysterical.
Ronan felt his jaw drop open and the sound of them bickering as the elevator doors opened.
"Come on, Ronan its all up.........to you." Night said slowly, spotting the massacre in front of them now.
Venus stepped out, her high top converse sneakers getting sticky on the bottom when she accidentally stepped into a puddle of blood.
"Oh my god." She said weakly, looking at all the bodies with a horrified expression.
"What now?" Night asked, trying not to think about the smell.
"This way." Ronan said, taking Venus's hand and pulling her away from the tragedy. Night didn't argue, he was to shocked to even think of asking how he knew where to go. Later Ronan explained he simply decided to go wherever he didn't see bodies.
They ended up in front of a red door. It had no handle, no lock, just hinges. Ronan pushed on it and it slip open easily.
"This can't be right." Night said darkly, walking into the empty room. "Why would he send us here?"
"It might be a safe room." Venus suggested, looking at the walls for any sign of fold out equipment.
The door slammed behind them and they all turned around, horrified by the lack of a door now.
"Jesus......there isn't any impression, nothing! No hinges......what the hell is this place?" Venus asked, looking up for a way out.
"It could be worse." Ronan said with a shrug. Just then the lights went out. "Remind me not to talk." Ronan said with a sigh.
Venus was about to yell at him but before she got the chance something started to shake under them.
The floor lit up blue around the edges and gradually engulfed the room.
They all looked around as the floor began to move down, into a new room they did not think they were supposed to be in.
As soon as it stopped, Venus, Ronan, and Night were surrounded by a bunch of men and women in white lab coats, running all over the room.
In the very center of this new room was something they did not expect to see, ever ever again.
"Is that?" Ronan asked weakly.
Venus nodded, "Yep."
"I thought we broke that......" Ronan said with a slight smile.
"And we fixed it." A voice said from behind them. They turned around and smiled for the first time in days, "Doctor Klyde!" they said together.
The man, now in front of them, smiled and threw his hands in the air. "I see everything has gone according to plan!" Dr. Klyde said happily, pulling them all into a hug.
"Oh god you don't know?" Venus asked sadly.
"Know what?" Klyde asked curiously, ushering all of them into another room when he sat them down and offered sodas.
"There all dead." Night said, not sure what tone of voice to use.
Klyde's smile faded instantly, he took the sodas away and sat down across from them at the small table.
"Then there is little time to explain before they find us as well." Klyde said darkly, not looking at them. Then his head snapped back up and he looked Ronan straight in the eye with a very serious expression. "You know the legend?" he asked quietly.
Ronan nodded, "Of course."
"Then it is up to you to explain." Klyde said sadly. He got back up and strode across the room and pulled the door back open.
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Venus, Night, and Ronan were ushered into the machine they saw before as fast as possible. Suddenly all the men and women that had been running around earlier disappeared and headed to their stations.
As they strapped them selves into their seats, Venus wished what ever was about to happen didn't kill her in the process.
"I know none of you have done this before, but Ronan, you were trained to handle it. All of you were. I am truly sorry we didn't have more time, but you must go now. They're coming." Klyde said through the speakers as an alarm went off outside the sphere and a red light flooded in through the windows they were looking out through.
Ronan nodded, and the room flooded with lighting bolt looking waves of electricity as they punched the master button.
Pain ran though their veins, making it hard to breath. Just before there surrounding started to morph Venus spotted the woman from the elevator coming down the same room they just did.
"STOP THEM!" she screamed. All at once bullets began to fly towards the main control room and they watched in horror as the scientists were killed in cold blood.
----
Venus tumbled out of the sphere, her nose bleeding, as she hit the cool damp ground.
She looked around groggily, trees and bushes surrounding them. She heard people yelling in the distance, fear overwhelmed her once more and she fell face first into the dirt.
"I hate time travel." She said thickly, not really comprehending her mouth was full of dirt now.