Chapter 12
Let's roll back time, and for the last time I swear, and head to the planet, Akua where Team SSSN and Dr. Oobleck head off to meet someone that knows about the Protoss. They did get a call from Yoko to tell them about the radio function of the black box. They fly ever closer to the planet as they notice that most of it is green with blue watery oceans.
"A forest planet?" Sun says with his right eyebrow raised. "I was hoping for a desert."
Sage laughs, "I love forests! Lots of life and plenty of beautiful plants and wildlife to see!"
"At least it is better than getting sand in my boots." Scarlet commented.
Neptune looks a little frighten, "I just hope it ain't anywhere near water."
"Stay focus!" Oobleck stopped their chatter, "We are on an extraordinary mission to acquire knowledge on the ancient civilization that left their arkships behind on one of these moons. We must be focus, stay alert and prepare for anything."
"Got it!" the four get it but ain't taking it seriously.
Oobleck scolds them as they breach the atmosphere, "TAKE IT SERIOUSLY!"
The broke through the atmosphere and enters into a world full of greenery and tall trees. Many of the trees are bigger than redwood trees that Neptune nearly hit.
"Holy shit!" Sun barely dodged a tree branch. "How the hell are we gonna find the people of this world with all these trees in the way!?"
Scarlet flew through a branch and slams into a tree. "Ow."
"Whoa, whoa whoa!" Sage tries to evade the trees as he tries to make it to the ground.
Oobleck manage to gracefully avoid everything in his way and lands safely on a boulder. Scarlet slides down against the tree while still in pain, Sun managed to land on a branch, Neptune falls down and landed onto the ground and Sage is hanging from a tree branch. The forest floor is almost dark with a few plants that emit low bioluminescence along with some fungi that provide a small amount of light in the darkest areas. There are even some insects that glow like fireflies in many different colors.
"Whoooaaa..." Sun is taken in by the sight, "It's like an enchanted forest!"
Neptune gets up and sees the new environment after brushing himself, "Wow. I should really take Weiss on a date to this place."
Sun jumps down, "Like I said, it's an enchanted forest. So yeah, this place is perfect for a date."
Scarlet groans in pain as he gets back up, "It's pretty and everything, but where is that settlement?"
Sage jumps down, "Can we take in the view for a bit? This is an entirely different world and we don't get chances like this."
"Indeed." Oobleck says as he continues to look at the environment, "I decided to stop and observe the planet's environment. It is quite the sight. Yet I wonder if I should gather some samples for further experimentation."
Sage grabs some sort of yellow pear-shaped fruit with spikes on it that is the size of his head from a vine and tosses it to Sun, "How about a taste test?"
Sun catches the fruit, "Thanks." and takes a bite. Yet when he bites the skin, he gets electrocuted and drops it. "Gaaahhh!" he has his tongue sticking out and his hair all spiky, "The hell man!?"
Sage points and laughs at Sun's misfortune before falling on his back laughing.
"Interesting." Oobleck says after witnessing that incident, "It seems that fruit has some sort of defense mechanism against herbivores."
Scarlet notices another pear-shaped fruit that is yellow with purple stripes that appear smaller next to him. He picks it up and tosses it to Sun, "How about this one?"
Sun catches it and takes a bite. Once he did, the thing exploded into some sort of noxious gas that smells like hazardous farts. His face is covered in soot and the fruit disappeared. He gets upset as he yells out, "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS PLACE!?"
Neptune laughs alongside Sage while Scarlet does his best not to. Yet they hear a loud rustling sound coming from their six as they prepare their weapons for anything coming at them. They see some of the plants moving along with some flowers folding up and slither closer to them. They seem to be creeping closer as they can see with the help of the luminescence of the fungi and insects yet some of the insects are getting eaten by some of the plants with heads looking similar to venus flytraps with glowers on their heads.
Oobleck says, "Interesting. This planet is filled with predatory plants that attack any source of meat to survive rather than relying on decomposition toward their roots."
Sage states, "In other words; us!"
Neptune shouts, 'Let's fly out of here!"
Everyone take to the air as the plants try to attack them.
"What the hell!?" Sage says, "I've seen predatory plants before, but none like this scale!"
Neptune looks outward and notices the entire forest is moving. Every vine, every leaf. As if the whole planet is alive. "I think this entire world is covered with those things!"
"How can anyone live on a planet like this!?" Scarlet asks.
Indeed it is a good question. With an entire planet covered in predatory flora, how can anyone survive on such a world? Unless they made something that allows them to stay up in the air. This is something that Sun came up with. He looks around to see if there are any sort of floating structures around, yet no such luck.
"Hey, doc!?" Sun says to Oobleck, "Are we close to where the settlement is?! Because if there are these sort of plants, they must have a floating town or something in the air!"
"That is true." Oobleck smiles on Sun's intelligence, "But I'm afraid we still have ways to go! I brought us to this part of the planet to understand what exactly are we dealing with."
Sage, Neptune and Scarlet yell at Oobleck, "YOU BROUGHT US IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE ON PURPOSE!?"
"Whyyyy?" Sun asks.
"For scientific curiosity!" Oobleck explains himself, "I never had a chance to explore outside of the moon we were at. A world like this is such a rare fine for all sorts of inquiry to feed my need for knowledge."
"Oh fer'..." Neptune face palms.
Scarlet states, "I think we'll get plenty we need at the settlement we were supposed to go to. You know, about the Protoss and their arkships?"
"Oh yes! That slipped my mind for a moment. Sorry!"
Sage and Sun look down as they speak in unison, "We are so screwed."
Oobleck points at the east, "I believe the settlement is over 133 miles in that direction."
"Let's just go." says the upset blue-haired member of Team SSSN.
They all fly east to find the people that live on this world.
After traveling for a few minutes, they finally found some sort of floating...something. There appear to be gigantic pod-like structures floating in the air with rings of light below them that seem to be keeping them a float. There appear to be five in total and two different ships that are made of crystals. The first ship is black with four spikes going out and upward with one pointed down and has a red orb on its top. The second ship appears to be having some sort of crystal board in an acute angle with a red orb in a gold ring on it. It also has some metal curved parts with a red diamond piece, two crystal panels on its back, and a large crystal lance on it. Upon further inspection, they seem to be made of a similar material but of different designs. As for the large pods, they appear to have some sort of blue glass on the top and a red bottom and sides and each is as large as half the size of a football stadium.
"What the hell is that?" Sun asks.
Oobleck adjust his glasses, "Some form of advance technology." His curiosity is piqued, "This is beyond any science of Atlas. I wonder what makes them tick."
"Focus, doc." Neptune tries to remind Oobleck on why they are here, "We're supposed to learn about the Protoss. We'll ask about who their shit works later."
"Yes, yes, of course, of course. Let's go in."
The five fly towards one of the pods to see if there is a way inside. Yet when they got close, a beam of light was fired at them and they disappeared.
What happened is that they got teleported inside of one of the pods and ended-up falling down in a middle of...a green, grassy pasture as they fall down screaming.
"Oof!" Sun falls first followed by Sage, Neptune, Scarlet and Oobleck falling on top of Sun, "OOOOWWW! MY SPIII-IINE!"
"Sorry about that lad." Oobleck apologizes before getting up and helping Sun up on his feet.
Sage looks around and goes, "Umm...where the hell are we?"
They look around and noticed that they are in a place with green pastures, mountains, forests, a giant tree, large skeletal fossils poking out from the ground, and birds flying.
"What the fuck...?" Neptune is astonished by what he sees.
Scarlet's eyes are wide open and is stunned, "This place is bigger on the inside than the outside."
Sage is freaking out, "Is this some sort of greenhouse or something?! I mean, we were outside of the pods! The pods were smaller on the outside yet gigantic on the inside! What the fuck is going on!?"
"Like I said," Oobleck speaks, "technology that far surpass Atlas."
"This place is like something out of a fantasy movie or something." Sun admits their surroundings are strange yet seems to like it.
"HELLO THERE!" a woman's voice is heard.
The five look at the direction of the source of the voice and see girls. Lots and lots of girls with many appearing to be wearing identical black dresses with some having different colored ribbons on the white portion of their dresses such as green, blue and pink. The dresses also appear to have a lavender color line on the left side of the dress going down. The members of Team SSSN are in total awe that there are a lot of cute girls with all of them approaching.
"Hey, Sun?" Neptune asks.
"Yeah?"
"Are we in heaven?"
Sun gives Neptune a disapproval look, "Stick with Weiss, man."
"Right."
Many of the girls approach with many asking questions about who they were and where did they come from. The five noticed that some of the girls have dark skin and pointy ears. But as much as Oobleck would like to answer questions and ask about them, he had more important matters to deal with.
"Excuse us ladies, but we are looking for the scientist, Washu. Do you know where we can find her?"
"Washu?" one of the girls say.
"You mean the mad scientist?"
Many just look at each other and some are a little scared. Others are wondering why would they ask for someone like her. Yet a boy with black hair and brown eyes approach. He appears to be fifteen while wearing a vest shirt with a zipper in the middle along with black arm holes and collar, greyish-brown shorts and brown shoes.
One of the girls noticed, "Hey, it's Kenshi!"
"What's going on?" Kenshi asks. Yet when he approaches, he noticed Team SSSN and Dr. Oobleck. "Oh, we got new visitors...that I've never seen before."
"Excuse me, young man." Oobleck addresses Kenshi, "Do you know where we can find the scientist, Washu?"
AN: Okay, for those that don't know what the Tenchi series is, shame on you. And shame on you that you never watched Toonami.
"Big sis Washu? Whyyyy?" Kenshi seems a little confused and seems to be a little scared when Washu's name is mentioned.
Sun steps up, "We're looking for her because we need information on the Protoss."
Scarlet speaks, "Yeah! Or otherwise the entire solar system goes bye-bye."
Many of the girls gasp in horror when Scarlet spilled the beans.
Sun smacks Scarlet on the head and says through his teeth, "You idiot! They're not supposed to know that yet!"
"But they're gonna find out anyway! That, and the people with black boxes that are hunting down anyone with black boxes." Scarlet shows his black box, "Like this one."
"You guys have black boxes too?" Kenshi is surprised. "Wait, what about these people hunting down anyone with black boxes? And why do you want to know about the Protoss?"
"FOCUS!" Oobleck raised his voice, "We need to see Washu to know about the arkships that will get us out of here before the solar system's sun explodes."
"Oh right!" Kenshi pulls out some sort of button out of his pocket. It is a red button on a small blue box with a symbol of some sort of crab on it. He gives it to Oobleck, "Use this. This will take you to big sis Washu."
"A button?" Neptune is confuse, "Why do we need to press a button to-"
Sun gets excited, "Ooo! Button!"
DING-DONG! Sun pressed the button and it made an electronic door bell sound. Then out of nowhere, a red door appeared that just faded into existence with a large glass circle on the top section and two smaller ones on the bottom sides.
"O-kay..." Sage is completely lost on what is happening, "This is probably the weirdest day ever."
Scarlet asks, "Can we just get this over with so we can do some space adventures?"
"Agree." Neptune agrees, "This is way too chaotic for me to understand."
The five enter the door, for which everything appears to be a dark room when they enter. Once they entered, the door disappear.
Inside the door, they appeared in a very vast room with floating orbs, platforms and some natural settings inside some sort of gigantic tunnel in the shape of a thin trapezoid with curved edges and lights overhead and pass all they can see.
"Holy shit." Neptune is in total awe along with the rest of his team.
"Is this a lab?" Sun looked around at their surroundings. "Because...this is...this is..."
"Beyond what you were expecting?" Scarlet asks while looking up.
"Uh-huh." Sun nodded while still in awe.
"This is quite a lab." Sage is astonished.
"Indeed." Oobleck is just as astonished, "Yet this is too big for-"
"-what you were expecting?" says a voice of a young woman.
The five look at the direction where the voice comes from and see Dr. Washu Hakubi in her adolescent form.
AN: I have no idea how to describe Washu, but check google images to get a better understanding. She's in that one outfit with shorts.
"You're Washu?" Sage asks and find it hard to believe someone like her is the scientist they've been looking for.
"I am. But... I would like it if you call me, Lil' Washuuu!"
Team SSSN have no idea on how to react with the four of them making many 'What the Fuck' faces at Washu.
"I'm sorry, but we've got the wrong person." Oobleck says, "You must be her daughter."
Washu transforms into her adult form and says in a more mature voice, "Were you expecting me to look more like this?" She gives a wink.
Team SSSN have their jaws dropped, faces blushing, and eyes buggin out.
"Yes." Oobleck is unaffected by her charms. "My mistake. But please hear my plea as time is short. We need to learn about the Protoss and their arkships here on this system before our solar system goes up in flames."
Washu returns to her adolescent form, "Seriously?"
"Yes. We don't have much time." Oobleck sounds serious.
"Alright. I'll tell you everything that I do know."
They enter in some form of chamber with large stone tablets that show pictures of the Xel'naga and the Infinite Cycle along with various Protoss artifacts such as a degraded dragoon, a zealot's energy blade, a destroyed probe, a few crystals, and much more in glass cases floating in the center. Washu gives the tour while in her hover seat with the five being amazed by what they see.
Washu explains, "The Protoss were an ancient race and were two of the races created by an even more powerful and ancient race called, the Xel'naga. The Protoss were granted 'Purity of Form' as they called it to be part of the Infinite Cycle. The Protoss were a psychic advance race with mental powers for exceeding any that I've known and are a proud warrior race. Much of their culture revolves around using their psychic abilities, plasma technology and strange crystals that react to psychic powers. Like the Xel'naga, they colonized the universe and created new races along with many other ancient civilizations such as Preservers, Forerunners, Ancients, and many others. Over the centuries, the Protoss numbers have dwindled as the new races gain power. The ancient civilizations left much about how important peace is and should never declare wars. So the galaxy we stand on has never seen war for thousands of years. However, something came and created a ruckus that cause the war. What it was is still unknown. From what I have gathered, the Great Galactic War was instigated by a single person that manipulated key people to start the war. This Great Galactic War have gotten out of control with bigger and better weapons being created. These weapons caused massive damaged in the space-time continuum that nearly tore the fabric of reality and the universe itself."
"Yikes." Sun says after hearing that.
"Yet not all was lost. The last of the Protoss managed to convert many of the weapons to become beacons for those that want to undo the damaged the war created along with many scientists that wanted to restore their galaxy. The Protoss installed a special navigation program in their arkships for any survivors that wanted to escape. But suddenly, they all vanished."
"Huh?" Sage went after looking at a Nerazim Protoss' warp gauntlet in its display case, "How can everyone just vanished?"
"That's a mystery that even I'm still trying to solve." Washu rubs the back of her head while looking embarrassed, "But I'm a little busy learning about the Protoss and the Grand Paradise System." Then look serious, "Yet I wonder if there's some form of multiversal mind fusion they also have."
"Oh?" Oobleck has taken an interest, "What is that?"
"It is hard to explain, but..." she place her left hand on the side of her head, "My mind, or rather, my memories are all jumbled since we got here. I remember created my daughters before I was imprisoned on Kagato's ship. But I also remember being sealed away in a crystal prison and being in a cave before my revival and never had any daughters. I also remember being a renegade scientist and help Ryoko steal an ancient artifact before crashing on Earth. Everything is still a mess to me."
Yet a puppet version of herself appears on her left shoulder, "But you are the greatest, Washu!"
Another puppet appears on her opposite shoulder, "You are still a genius, Washu!"
Washu snaps out and looks proud, "I am, aren't I." then she laughs.
The puppets cheer with applause sound effects and confetti falling down, "Washu, Washu, you are the greatest! Washu, Washu, you are number one!"
Scarlet leans over to Neptune and whispers, "A bit of an ego she has there, doesn't she?"
Neptune whispers back, "I think all scientists do."
Oobleck's black box radio started to go off with Ozpin calling, "This is Ozpin, is everyone else doing alright?"
Oobleck says, "Excuse me for a moment." and walks off.
Washu looks at Oobleck and is surprised that the black boxes are capable of being used as radios. "I didn't know the black boxes can be used for calling people."
Sun says to Washu, "A friend of ours found out about it."
After a few minutes, Oobleck says, "Understood." and hangs up. He turns around and gives everyone a grim look, "I'm afraid the situation has gotten worse."
AN: Sup everyone. I hope you guys are doing well despite everything happening. Now for Q&A.
juanC997: I know. But it is hard with everything that is going on, especially with A GIANT THREAT OF TOTAL ANNIHILATION THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM! But yes, I would like to flesh out the characters, but I made it a bit harder for myself with sooooo many characters that there is. I will do it at some point in the story.
Trung Tran: Thanks for your support. Good news is that I have an interview with America First coming soon. But it will be an online interview rather than face-to-face because of the fucking plague. Also, check-out my newest fanfic: Creations of Mankind Unleashed.
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