Chapter 27
Church floats through some areas of blue base as he looks out a glass window that someone made for some reason where the gravity lift is. He takes in a deep sigh, "When is this storm gonna end? I'm getting bored here."
He stares out through the window as the wind blows hard outside as he wonders when is he gonna get out of the base and get away from some of the morons living in it. A lot of stuff goes flying by as he looks out. One of them just so happens to be Lopez screaming, "AYE YI YIIIIII!" as he spins out of control by the wind. Church did giggle a little at that.
"Okay. That was funny."
Then Washington walks up to Church, "Hey Alpha."
Church turns to face Wash, "Hmm? Oh hey, Washington."
"Still waiting for the storm to pass?"
Church looks back out the window, "Yeah."
Washington does the same, "I hear ya. Although the other two are more anxious than normal."
"Carolina and Tex?"
"Yep."
"Are they still trying to take Caboose down?"
"Yep."
Church then looks at Washington, "Wanna make recordings of their failures? It'll be like those funny videos that were popular between 20th and 21st century."
Washington looks back at Church, "I'll get the popcorn."
"I know what I wanna pop. Bow-chika-bow-wow!"
Church turns around and shouts, "There aren't any virgins you predator!"
"Ouch."
"Hey! Those charges were dropped!"
Wash and Church look at him across the hall as Tucker goes, "What?"
Church responds, "Are you Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy?"
"I'll take it as a compliment."
"No." Wash says. "You shouldn't. Because it is wrong on soooo many levels."
Over at the museum, there is a skeleton, still walking around, somewhere at the Forerunner exhibit.
"Hey." some girl says behind it.
The skeleton looks behind and then gets its face smashed by a hammer.
"Boop." Nora says menacingly. Then goes back to her happy self as she shouts, "All clear!"
"Great work, Nora." Jaune enters the room.
Pyrrha looks at Ren as the rest of Team JNPR enters the room, "Guess someone has been teaching her some ninja skill."
Ren smiles with pride, "Why thank you."
They enter the room and see something that looks more sci-fi than magical. Some of the displays show a busted Forerunner Sentinel, a mummified remained of a Thanolekgolo, a half rusted Enforcer Sentinel, a depleted energy core, fourteen automated Forerunner turrets, and the remains of a few Forerunner armor sets.
Kohta enters in and is surprised to see all this tech. "No way. This is Forerunner technology from the Halo series!"
Nora looks at Kohta, "What now?"
Kohta explains, "It was a video game series that help put the Xbox game console on the map back in the day. As a matter of fact..." he pulled out a Covenant plasma rifle from his inventory as he held it up. "This is where this weapon comes from. Along with other stuff like the UNSC laptops and guns." Then starts to smile, "Plus, it was one of my favorite games back then."
But everyone look at Nora who is breaking the legs of the skeleton that she took down.
She stopped and look at everyone, "Sorry, what? I was breaking this guy's legs to make sure he doesn't get back up." Then goes back and making sure the legs were shattered.
"You were the one who asked." Jaune pointed out.
"Then lost interest."
Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha looked back at Kohta.
"Anyway. The Forerunners were a race of-"
BASH! Everyone look back at Nora who is destroying the rib cage.
"-They were an ancient race of-"
BASH!
"-highly advanced aliens that made the-"
BASH!
"-Halo rings which the game was named-"
BASH!
"-whichtheCoventnantworship-"
BASH!
"-asgodswhentheytryto-"
BASH!
Kohta glares at Nora, "Would you knock it off!?"
Nora looks back, "Sorry! Just being thorough!" BASH!
"Anyway, my guess that these aliens might've been Forerunners that are experimenting on us. Although there is never any information about them stopping time or taking people from other dimensional planes. Or even multiverse capabilities. They just died in order to prevent the spread of a biological menace known as, The Flood."
Ren speaks, "So they created a galaxy wide apocalypse with those Halos."
"Exactly. But mostly intelligent life."
Pyrrha then speaks, "Guessing that the ruins at the very bottom of that layer are the Forerunners."
"Guessing so." Kohta agrees.
"But we can't exactly head down there into all those ruins." Jaune pointed out. "Those ruins are huge. Probably the same size as the city we're in. Might have to put off exploration until we get enough people and know-how among the ruins. Plus, there could be highly dangerous monsters lurking down there since the original people of this top layer disappeared."
Jaune has a good point. Going down upon layer after layer of different ruins along with facing some strange monsters they don't know about. As of now, they don't have the numbers or resources to mount a successful subterranean exploration down below the different ruins.
"You're right." Pyrrha agrees. "Maybe another time."
BASH!
"WOULD YOU STOP ALREADY!?" Kohta shouted. "I think you got him."
Over at the vault, Whitley goes through another training session. But this time, it is about tolerance. He is in the cafeteria with Blake, Sun, Neon, and Velvet with some tea. Weiss is watching over at another table as she keeps an eye on her little brother's progress. All is too quiet among the group as they just drink their tea. Tensions are a little strong for someone who is anti-Faunus and heir to the Schnee Family.
But Whitley broke the silence. "Alright listen. I know that I'm not a fan of the Faunus and you guys aren't a fan of someone who is a member of the Schnee Family. A male member to be precise. Right now, we're stuck on this planet and have to work together to survive. I'm willing to put my differences aside so we all can work together to face off against whatever the hell is out there. So are we good?"
The four Faunus look at each other as they think about what Whitley says. Then the four look at Whitley with smiles as they agree with Whitley. For once in his high pampered life, he actually made a good point. If anyone wishes to survive on this horrible planet, they all have to put their differences aside in order to overcome any obstacles that may come their way. Whitley looks at Weiss as Weiss smiles and nods at him. He believes that he is acing the tolerance training that Weiss put him up with.
Sun places his arm over Whitley, "Nice of you to be a little more tolerate of us...what was your name again?" He says, and asked, with his usual carefree attitude.
Whitley removes Sun's arm, "It's Whitley."
Blake takes a sip of her tea before saying, "At least you're better than your father."
"I agree." Neon agrees with Blake.
"Really?" He starts to smile, "Well, that is the nicest thing you've ever said." Whitley is starting to think that he is gonna be better than his father now thanks to Blake's compliment that may make Whitley a better person, or give him a bigger ego.
Yang approaches Weiss as she sits down with a bowl of beef stew that she made.
Weiss looks at it, "Where did you get that?"
"I made it myself. Actually, it is one of the new items that we get to make. I just used a cooking pot over an open flame rather than just put the pot in the campfire along with a cooking spit I just made. I didn't get any experience from doing it. All I had to do was add raw red meat, salt, a carrot, and garlic."
"Where did you get the garlic?"
"It was in one of the spice crates Cardin and his flunkies brought back from that pirate ship."
"Oh. Well that's strange."
Yang looks over at the door as she smiles. "The love birds are here."
"Who?" Weiss asks right before Yang points at the door.
What she sees is Penny and Oscar holding hands as they enter in the cafeteria.
Weiss looks back at Yang, "Don't you think that Oscar is a little young for Penny? I know that she really likes him but still though."
"You worry about her now? Oh come on little 'broom up your ass'. She looks happy and we all agree that they look cute together."
Weiss sighs. "You're right. But still though..."
"Just let them be. Besides, I think Oscar is a waaay better man than Neptune."
"Yeah, but- HEY!" Weiss felt a little insulted. "Neptune isn't that bad!"
Sun approaches the two, "Have you girls seen Neptune?"
Speaking of Neptune...
Neptune is somewhere close to the dig site where most of the mining is at yet constructed a secret hangout for himself. Behind an electric powered door from Fallout 4 with a switch on the other side so no one can see what he is doing. He looks around to make sure no one is spying on him as he dapples with his chemistry workbench. He made three jets for himself as he inhales the first one.
"Oh yeah..." he says when he is really high after he inhaled the substance. "That really hit the spot... Oh yeah."
Then he pulled out some fixer with addictol. "When I'm done, better make sure I use these. Although..." He takes a closer look at the addictol, "How come this thing looks the same as the jet?"
So yeah, Neptune is using drugs for comfort.
Over back at the museum, the group check the other exhibits to see what else they can find. They went into one exhibit that has artifacts from the Fable series with many Archon devices and other stuff such as the Archon's Battle Armour, a Shard, some ancient scrolls, a model of the Tattered Spire, and the Sword of Aeons. Next, they went into another exhibit where it has many Dwemer artifacts. Jaune looks intimidated by the large Dwemer Centurion he is looking at at the center of the exhibit. When he tries to get a little closer to it, the Centurion bend over and freaked out Jaune.
"Keep it together, man." Kohta gives some advice while everyone chuckles. Ren, on the other hand, just smiles.
They then check out the Aen Undod exhibit where they see a few elven clothes, a suit of armor from the Wild Hunt, and a bunch of mystical artifacts that look strange. Jaune tries touching one of them but gets electrocuted that sent him flying across the room.
"My turn!" Nora says as she jumps onto one of the artifacts.
Pyrrha, Ren, and Kohta just look at her all strangely.
Nora looks back as she gets electrocuted. "What? I need the recharge."
Then they head over to the Daedric exhibit where every single Daedra artifact is on display. Every ring, weapon, armor, and even books are kept behind display...and locked up. Even the ruined pages of the Mysterium Xarxes are on display. Everyone is getting an uncomfortable feeling around these artifacts so they decide to exit. Then they come across the Nordic exhibit. Everyone started to hear some strange chanting coming from this exhibit as they see a large stone wall with strange writing on it with some of the writings starting to glow.
"What is that?" Jaune asks.
"Why is it giving off a weird chant?" Nora asks.
"Don't know." Pyrrha looks at the wall cross-arm.
"But it does resonate some sort of power." Ren looks at it.
"Well some of the stuff is from the Elder Scrolls series." Kohta says. "But I never seen this before."
Jaune takes a better look at it as he approaches the wall. Then the wall starts to produce a strange stream of energy at him. His vision starts to get blurry but still sees the strange glowing words as something inside of him gives him power. Then some knowledge has been granted to him as his vision starts to clear up.
"Whoa." Jaune says while doing a Keanu Reeves impression. Then he check his implants to see if he learned something new. And he did. He looks back at his team and Kohta, "I just learned something new!"
"What did you learn?" Pyrrha asks with a look of excitement.
Jaune looked up at the ceiling and shouts, "FUS-RO-DAH!"
...
Nothing happened.
"Nothing happened." Jaune looks a little disappointment. "Why can't I use it?" He looks at his implant to see what is he doing wrong. That is until he reads aloud, "Dragon Souls: 0. Oh. I need dragon souls in order to use it."
"Really?" Nora says before checking her implant. She checks and doesn't see the shouts listed but the thing does say she doesn't have any dragon souls. "Huh. That is interesting."
Ren checks his implants. "Where are we supposed to get dragon souls?"
"Don't know." Kohta shrugs. "Knowing this place, there are probably a shit ton around here somewhere."
"Is anyone else feeling a little hungry?" Nora asks.
Pyrrha suggests, "Maybe we should head back. We'll figure this out later and see the rest of the museum after lunch."
"Sounds good!" Nora jumped up in agreement. "I'm starving!"
Things are going a little slow, but we are getting good results.
/2: Affirmative you wanker.
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/2: Don't be a bloody bloke you pig hide cheese dick loser.
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We need another AI replacement!
/2: Goats are funny when they get their heads fucked up by my ham.
Hurry before this one becomes a murderous psychopath!
-Voice Recording-
[Male Voice]: Is it just me, or all the AIs degrading faster?
[Female Voice]: That is because we're on a tight budget and we had to get them from the lowest bidder.
[Male Voice]: We're doing experiments on people and beings from many dimensional planes and the eggheads and politicians back home just refuse to give us a little more for our budget? That's so fucking lame.
[Female Voice]: Tell me about it. Apparently, they say that our technology is no longer relevant.
[Male Voice]: That's dumb.
[Female Voice]: How about we use an AI from another universe? How does HAL 9000 sound?
[Male Voice]: Try to murder all the humans on-board a spaceship so, no.
[Female Voice]: MCP?
[Male Voice]: Master Control Program? Fuck that! That thing nearly caused all my robots to kill my co-workers at my previous job.
[Female Voice]: Skynet?
[Male Voice]: Nearly wiped out all of humanity with robots.
[Female Voice]: CABAL?
[Male Voice]: Didn't try to wipe out humanity with cyborgs?
[Female Voice]: Then how about, SHODAN?
[Male Voice]: Are you fucking kidding me?! Did you even read the reports on that thing?
[Female Voice]: How about GLaDOS? She's a scientist.
[Male Voice]: And a complete and total sadist who has gone off the deep end. Not to mention that she hogs all the cake to herself. Even my own birthday cake.
[Female Voice]: Well we can't just make new AIs from scratch every time one breaks down. How about we use some of the ghosts from that one universe? You know, the one with the giant white ball filled with every knowledge in the universe while being hunted?
[Male Voice]: Tried it. A lot of our guys died trying to...'acquire' a few of them.
(Binging noise)
[Male Voice]: Time to get back to work.
AN: Hey guys! Hope you enjoy the new chapter. And I hope you guys can take the time to check out my newer story. Because for some reason, not a lot of people are interested in it. Well I am gonna put up a new chapter for that story next week so I hope you guys take the time to enjoy. Later!