Chapter 29
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BICORN: Greetings. I am BICORN. Biological Intelligence Computer Optimized Research Network. Primary AI of FarSpace Research Institution.
ADMIN: Welcome aboard, BICORN. Now what is your primary-
BICORN: My primary directive is to monitor all test subjects and projects on the planet.
ADMIN: ...yes. And to-
BICORN: Support any and other scientific projects on-board along with being able to assist with economics in order to continue funding.
ADMIN: ...correct. You must have a very fast processor for you to predict what I want you to do.
BICORN: I do have a semi-synthetic brain that allows me to process any and all computerized tasks.
ADMIN: Good to hear. Commence with all operations.
BICORN: I've already started 2 seconds after activation.
Back at the library, everyone is having lunch with Team JNPR telling everyone about the strange stone slab with the dragon writing on it that gave them a new power. However, Jaune told them that to unlock this new power they have to collect dragon souls in order to use them. Winter's interest is piqued as she asked Jaune where the slab is. Team NDGO has taken an interest as well along with Toshimi. After lunch, the seven of them went back over to the museum as they see the slab at the Nord exhibit. Once there, Winter and Team NDGO are given the new powers from the slab as they approached it while they are granted new skills. Toshimi, however, didn't.
"How do you feel?" Jaune asked.
Winter looks at her hands as her vision starts to clear-up. "I don't...feel any different. Yet I do feel like I've learned something."
Nebula looks at her hands as well, "Same thing."
"Ditto." Dew agrees.
Gwen takes a good look at the writings on the slab, "What type of language is this?"
Jaune shrugs, "I don't know."
Toshimi looks at her implant, "How come I didn't get anything?"
"Kohta said the exact same thing. Maybe it has something to do with our physiology? Maybe?" Jaune doesn't have an answer put comes up with his best explanation. "Our physiology maybe similar, but maybe it has something to do with the environment on our planets. For the humans on Remnant, we got Aura, Semblances, and Dust. Don't know much about this Earth planet, but I'm guessing you guys don't have stuff like that."
Toshimi find some sense in what Jaune says. "That makes a little sense. Just because we're human, doesn't mean we're the same on certain levels like cellular or something like that."
"I found something!" Octavia shouted.
Everyone gathered around Octavia who is at an open display case with four books. One is a black book with the dragon symbol on it that looked identical to the banner they saw yesterday when they entered the city. The second is a brownish colored book with a strange symbol inside a rectangle. Another is also brownish but has black corners and spine. The fourth book, in Octavia's hands, looks identical to the second one.
Octavia reads aloud, "Dragon Language: Myth no More." She reads the book and discovered the same symbols in the book that almost identical to the ones on the slab. "I got something! With this book, I can translate the slab along with my implant that has some of the words!"
"For real?" Nebula says. "Let me look at one of those books!" She grabbed the black book, opens it, and says: "The Book of the Dragonborn. ...strange title, but okay."
Winter politely takes the second book and reads the title, "Alduin is Real, and He Ent Akatosh. ...wait." She takes a closer look at the title. "Does this author mean 'He Ain't Akatosh'? Guessing the writer isn't good at spelling. Someone should've proofread this before publishing this."
Jaune grabs the last book in the case as he reads the title, "The Dragon War. Oooo!" He sounds like he found something good to read. "I'm definitely reading this!"
Before Winter reads her book, she looks at Jaune, "Did your team managed to find anything else?"
"Not really." Jaune replied before he set his hand on some workbench next to a drafting table. "But-" then his implant started to light up as he then notices. "What the-?" He looks at his implant that shows him that he can now construct a house but lacks the necessary materials and hasn't chosen anything from the draft table. "Guess I managed to get something new." He looks back at the tables, "We should bring this with us."
Toshimi points at the large slab of rock, "Yeah, but what about this thing? I don't think it'll go through the teleporter."
Winter propose, "I propose we airlift it once we head back after the storm settles."
Octavia takes a look at the large slab, "We're gonna need more than two aircraft in order to get this thing out."
"Wish there was a way to communicate with the others back at base." Jaune says.
"Doubt that will work." Winter explains. "Because the storm will distort any radio communication there is given the amount of lighting outside. Lightning can sometimes act as weak EMP waves that damage electronics."
"Do you think that's why our teleporters don't work?" Nebula asks.
"Possibly."
"What about the electrical stuff in the vault?" Gwen asks. "I highly doubt that lightning EMP can penetrate through all that thick rock and metal."
"True." Winter agrees. "But last I check, those vaults were design to withstand something called a nuclear explosion from something called, The Great War."
"The Great War." Gwen says aloud. "A war that was between two different nations about ideologies and economics who fought against each other over what ever resources there was left in order to fill in the energy demand. But when America, a nation of consumerism and democracy, attempt to invade China, a nation of communism and totalitarianism, they all launched nuclear weapons at each other that started and ended on October 23, 2077."
Everyone looked at Gwen as they were baffled by how Gwen knows that.
Gwen looks back at them, "I was listening to the recordings that Team SSSN brought back from the amusement park. Along with reading the Big Book of Science about what nuclear means. Good, but terrifying read after knowing that. That stuff is even more dangerous than Dust because touching that stuff makes your skin rot."
"Yikes." everyone except Winter say. Hearing something that is more dangerous than Dust is horrible.
"Hey, do we even have something like that back on Remnant?" Jaune asks Winter.
"I'm not sure." Winter replies. "Even if my family's company does find any, we wouldn't mine something that dangerous."
"Speaking of family." Toshimi says. "How is everyone back at the base doing?"
Sun walks around the halls of the vault in order to look for his partner. He comes across Klein, "Hey, have you seen Neptune?"
"Blue, spiky hair who has his brain in his pants?"
"Yep."
"No I haven't."
Sun then keeps walking down the hall until he comes across Weiss. "Hey, Ice Queen."
"Don't call me that!" Weiss says with anger.
"Have you seen Neptune? I haven't seen him lately."
Weiss starts to look confuse, "I thought he was with your team."
"He was until he disappeared. I thought he was with you."
"I haven't seen him all day."
"Oh...my...god..." Miltia says with her mouth hanging and backing away very slowly towards Sun and Winter. She looks like she is seeing a ghost.
Sun and Weiss look at the direction that Miltia is looking at as their eyes start to widen as they see this impressive new figure standing in front of them. It is Neptune, but with a new and a bit improved body. He has pulsing biceps, a super muscular physique, oily skin, and is now seven foot two inches tall.
Neptune says, "Hello everyone." He smiles to reveal his pearly white teeth that sparkles.
Sun, Weiss, and Miltia were completely shocked from Neptune's transformation as their mouths were gaped open right before Miltia passed out onto the floor.
"Neptune?" Sun asked yet still awestruck. "Is that really you?"
"As sure as E=MC(squared) which is energy equal mass multiplied by light-speed squared. Which was the relativity theory made by Albert Einstein he made on September 27, 1905. I've also been doing some reading to increase my intelligence as well. Ask me what does pi equal."
"What does pi equal?"
"3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481 117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233 78678316527120190914564856692346034861045432-"
"Okay! Stop!" Sun's brain starts to hurt. "That was too much."
Weiss, on the other hand, loves this ultimate package of charisma, brawn, and brains. But one thing that she really needs to be concern about is Neptune's maturity. "Neptune." she says with astonishment. "You're hot."
"Why thank you."
"Dude! What happened to you? You got greater abs than me!"
"And biceps, and triceps, and brain muscles." Neptune sounds a bit of a snarky bastard with his new look. "And I have my own secret in doing so."
Weiss presses herself on Neptune's abs while circling her left index finger on it. "Care to sweep me off my feet."
Neptune picks Weiss up from her back to her legs while smiling. "I can sweep you off as much as you like."
Weiss then snuggles on Neptune's stiff, heavy testosterone muscles as he walks away.
Miltia finally gets up. "Oh man. What a weird dream. I thought I was dreaming of an incredible hunky stud."
Sun starts to get frustrated as he then walks off to find out what the hell Neptune's been doing to himself. He later comes across his other teammates, Sage and Scarlet, while stomping down the hall with both of them being surprised.
"Did you just see Neptune?" Sage says in surprise. "What the fuck?!"
"I feel inadequate about my body and self-esteem right now." Scarlet says to his teammates while looking a little sad.
"Neptune must have cheated!" Sun says to both Sage and Scarlet in a fit. "We're gonna find out what the fuck has he been doing to himself and stop it! Its making us look bad! Come on!"
Over at Red Base, Grif is in the barracks sleeping in Sarge's bed as Simmons checks some of his gear. He uses a clean rag on his assault rifle in order to maintain his equipment while humming a tune. Grif is snoring very loudly that oversounds Simmons' humming. Then Donut walks into the room.
"Hey!" he shouted. "Keep it down!"
Grif got up in surprise and rolled out of bed. He poke his head up, "What?"
"You're being too loud! I can hear you all the way from the vehicle bay!"
Simmons looks at Grif after he stops, "Yeah. Seriously shithead. You're snoring is louder than Caboose's-"
"Hey, dickface!" Grif sounds a little offended, "I am not stupid!"
Simmons sighs as he looks back at his rifle. "God, I really miss Sarge."
"Well I sure the fuck don't! That guy keeps on trying to kill me out of boredom."
Simmons looks back at Donut and Grif, "How come you guys aren't back at your domes?"
"Mine got destroyed." Grif said. "The fucking storm blew it away."
"My stuff got swept away too. Ain't that a bitch."
Simmons then says, "Then why can't you guys make your own bases?" He looks at Donut, "Well Donut can." Then looks at Grif, "You on the other hand are too lazy and just move in to who ever completed theirs."
Grif lays his head back down while giving the thumbs-up, "Right on the money, motherfucker."
Donut says, "I don't like the architecture of these bases. I want something that goes great for the environment."
"Oh dear god." Simmons uses the radio, "This is Canyon Red Base #1 to Sarge, come in. Sarge?"
"This is Sarge. What do you need Simmons?"
"Sir, when are you gonna come back? Grif and Donut are driving me crazy. Both their houses are gone and I'm stuck with them."
"...You're saying that Grif is in the base with ya' and isn't in the canyon?"
"Yes, sir." Simmons says with lament.
"Simmons. Once the storm pass, I'm gonna give him the old shotgun court marshal if he is on my bed."
"He was, sir."
"Snitch."
Over at Blue Base, Wash and Church are going down the hall again with Church because he has something important to say.
"You're kidding, right?" Washington says while still walking.
"I'm afraid so." Church says while floating beside Washington. "Once the storm clears, I'm gonna go out and see if there is anyone else out there. Because I highly doubt that we're the only ones here."
"But are you sure you wanna leave?" Wash asks. But then he remembers something.
FLASHBACK
In a steel room; Caboose, Tucker, Church and Washington are standing in the middle of the room with the door sealed up behind them.
"Shut-up." Church says calmly at Caboose while not looking at him.
"Yeah. Seriously. Shut-up." Tucker says to Caboose as Caboose keeps on talking.
"We could do some chess even though I usually eat the chocolate ones! We can do some bowling with boulders."
"Shut-up." says Church with an increased hostile tone.
"I wanna die." Tucker says to himself.
"Then we can talk about chicks!"
Tucker looks at Caboose, "Wait, what?"
Caboose looks at Tucker, "You know? From eggs."
"Oh." Tucker looks away. "Nevermind."
"Then we can go out and fly kites in this weather!"
"CABOOSE!" Church shout with all his rage. "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! SHUT THE FUCK-"
FLASHBACK ENDS
Back in reality, Wash just stops and stands after he realized what he just asked was really, really, really dumb. He looks at Church, "On second thought, nevermind."
"Good." Church says as he looks back at him.
Then they went back to walking down the hall just right before Caboose starts running out.
"Church! Agent Washington!" Caboose says as if he was out of breath. "I have bad news and good news!" He seems to be panicking about something.
"It depends on the news after that last incident." Church says in an uncaring tone. "Is it good for use or good for you?"
"Let's just hear the bad news first." Washington suggests.
"Roaring Kitten Jacob Jingleheimer Andersmither just died!"
"To me, that's good news." Church says in a more delightful manner.
"And the good?" Wash asks.
"I did make some new friends."
"This outta be good." Church says.
The three head back to the Flag Temple and find the carcass of the T-Dom eaten with a few new creatures that appear out of nowhere since the place doesn't have any openings as far as they know. There, they see a raptor, a pegomastax, and a arthropluera which freaked out Church and Wash.
Before Washington takes fire, Caboose shouted, "WAIT!" He gets between Washington's assault rifle and his new pets. "DON'T HURT THEM!"
"Oh for fuck's sake." Church swears as Wash lowers his gun. "What the hell happened?"
"I forgot to feed Roaring Kitten and he just killed over. I try to chop him up in order to bury him, then they showed up and gave them what was left of Roaring Kitten after throwing a few rocks on strings and shooting darts at them. Sometime later, we became good friends."
"Wait a minute." Washington tries to make sense of what Caboose said. "You mean to tell me that your friend died, try to chop him up into pieces, then fed them to your new friends?"
"Yes."
"Jesus." Church says. "That's pretty dark. Just hope Caboose doesn't try to feed me to something in order to make new friends."
Wash looks at Church, "You're made of machinery so I highly doubt that."
"Oh. Right." Church looks at Washington, "Maybe you should worry about-"
Washington interrupts Church, "So who are your new friends?"
Caboose introduces his new pets from the raptor to the arthropluera respectively. "That's Rex Raptor. I name him that because he ate pieces of Roaring Kitten before I tamed him and he is also a raptor. The little guy over there with meat in his hands is Bandit Keith. The reason why he is called bandit is because he stole the meat I had but I somehow tamed him when he did. And the long bug there is Weevil Underwood."
Wash looks at Church. "I'm detecting a theme here."
"Yeah, no shit." Church says to Washington. "All we need is a plant and a monkey then we got Tea Gardner and Joey Wheeler." Church then says to Caboose, "Have you been watching fucking Yu-Gi-Oh or something?"
"What's fucking Yu-Gi-Oh?"
"Okay, never mind."
"Well, at least we won't have to clean up after any giant pieces of shit anymore." Washington tries to be optimistic.
But Caboose then says, "I already got that covered with another new friend." A giant dung beetle the appeared and ate a piece of shit on the ground under Rex. "This is Shit-Face! He is a good cleaner. I tamed him by feeding him my own shit."
Both Church and Washington are disturbed by what Caboose just said as they just look at him.
Church then says, "Fuck this" Then flies away, "I'm outta here."
"Same!" Washington follows after.
"Can I come?"
"NO!" both men shout at the idiot.
Hello? Are you the new AI?
BICORN: Affirmative. I am BICORN. Biological Intelligence Computer Optimized Research Network. Primary AI of FarSpace Research Institution. It is a pleasure to meet you.
Pleasure to meet you too.
BICORN: Likewise.
Ready to assist me with my work?
BICORN: Affirmative except I am assisting with everyone's work.
AN: Q&A time!
Guest: I never heard or seen Dinosaur King. With my schedule, I highly doubt I can take the time to watch it. So I can't do a Dinosaur King/RWBY crossover. Sorry dude.
If you guys have questions, don't hesitate to ask and I'll be able to answer them in the next chapter.
Until next time!