-Rebirth of the Guardians – the long awaited sequel to chapter – 8
Chapter 9 – the present
Well um… read it.
-Begin-
The day after he finished telling his second, much shorter but much more open story Tom finally opened up mental communications with Kokuhso, this was the first time tom has ever had a 2 way conversation with the fellow who possessed a soul with him so for him it was a unique experience.
Hello. Tom thought kind of directing his thought at the part of him where he had gotten Kokuhso's history from. True it was mostly the subconscious but…
Greetings stranger. A taunting dark voice returned. Tom pouted. Well now that you recognize that I exist, finally, I've got something to tell you.
What? Tom was confused to say the least. A minute in conversation and already his tone indicated that he had something big lined up.
Ignoring the blatantly obvious confusion in Tom's thoughts Kokuhso continued. Well you see when I possessed you're body, Yosei took over one of the other girls and that odd energy force took over the third I realized I had to do something.
Tom was really perplexed. All of the sudden tom was ready to acknowledge that Kokuhso existed as a human being and now he was talking like it was his last will and testament. Continue. Tom thought more politely than he felt. Honestly now he was willing to converse and the guy sounded as if he was going to die.
Not far off. Kokuhso added on to tom's thoughts. Tom wasn't stupid; Kokuhso could read his every thought. Well then he should be able to interpret the agitated mass of every thought he had come up with in the past three minutes, which were more than enough to keep the average person busy with trying to swat away the mild annoyance. That is assuming one could communicate telepathically with the average person.
Well since you seem pissed I'll ask.
Smart. Tom replied.
Well anyways, it took me 14,000 years. No wait less, 9,500 or so, to realize when I banished the Kami I did the wrong thing.
Tom sighed, he had sent Kokuhso the same barrage of thoughts several times during many of the one sided conversations the two had over the years Well how do you plan to make up for it?
Kokuhso laughed, By making the Kami immortal and capable of interacting with the world at the same time.
Brilliant, let's start a war, no lets start a nuclear war. Tom groaned out.
No I mean without bodies, save for myself of course.
Of course.
Tell you the truth the Kami, for a long, long time, were not that different from the Zoidians.
Of course you were all one protoplasmic entity.
After that.
You were all sponges?
Later still. For the longest time we were all one type of life form. But at one point eons ago we became split over power sources. The Kami used the energies of the land to cast magic spells. The Zoidians, well they used zoid eve. Well silly me and my magical sealing contract that saved the zoidian race and Damned the Kami. Um…
"Um…" what?
Well I sealed every ounce of the energy of the land in with that contract. And since the Kami weren't capable of using all the energy of the planet, not even if every living thing on the planet had as much power as me would that be true, the remainder became bound to that contract just as the rest of the Kami have.
I've been through too much earth cinematographic history to not see what's coming next. That energy has adopted a sentient nature and it's a bad one, correct?
You hit the nail on the head.
GRAND. Tom also spoke this, he drawled out the thinking and the speaking of this so that each letter had emphasis.
Yep ain't it. Well anyways I had made another contract and purposely left it with the Zoidians in the case of a scenario where it would be needed. THANK GOD I DID. I won't give you all the details of how it does what it does but what it basically does it release the souls from this accursed purgatory we're stuck in forever and returns us, and hopefully the dormant energy of the land, to the land. I say hopefully because it only partially affects those of us who are stuck in bodies. We retain 3/5th's of our power in our host forms.
Well 2/5th's of a planets energy should be enough, right?
Maybe. You see Zi's energy has gained a generally more spiteful nature. Because it picked up the general temperament of the Kami, the other energies it was sealed with. Now I don't know about you but I don't want to deal with a pissed off planet do you.
I don't know if it matters, I've committed genocide and you have too. I think if I were to face a zoidian I might kill myself.
Well there is a difference between what you and I did. I made my people just spirits and removed their bodies from existence. You're error was a simple accident which you seriously could do nothing yourself to stop, even had you not been in cold sleep. But unlike you I didn't actually kill anyone directly.
Shut up.
Alright, well anyway in order to do this sealing thing I need a physical form and massive amounts of power. I.E. I need to be in a first generation human, what do you know you're one!
W00t.
Well anyway, I'm not saying do it now, I know you're busy and all. But at least you should try and grab the contract while we're close by.
'Close by'?
You know that buried city you passed on the way to fight the Gael fury?
Yes.
It's in there.
Tom blinked. The solution to this all was in that place. Well actually it wouldn't be that bad an idea. The Zenebas empire had shown and awkward Reverence for the Zoidian race. They would be sure to leave the Site alone. And worst comes to worse they wouldn't flatten it like they would if they found out Tom was in this town. Fine then. I can take the others right?
Yep. This isn't one of those stupid plots where you have to face it alone or something. You can if you desire, or you can take them all with you.
Right, that's our next plan. I'll go see if I can influence them in any way to head there.
You're argument seems sound, use that.
Stop reading my mind.
No, I enjoy a challenge you've been alive almost as long as I have so there's some resistance in trying to pry into your mind.
Tom grinned; he already had more mental barriers erected just for the spirit in his head than that thing would ever know.
Tom walked down to the eating area where everyone was eating a breakfast from the next door food place. "Morning all." He said. It was a small miracle he didn't get all around bowing. It had been the level the first scientists that encountered him naked in a field had done. Although that actually was because of a case of mistaken identity. They thought he was some member of an ancient zoidian race that had survived on the moon, or something. Tom had later learned that what had thrown the ship out of orbit had been some sort of probe that had been sent to investigate the suddenly noticeable ship. Well that was un-important what mattered now was getting those scrolls and weakening the near all powerful spirit in his body –HEY!-
Tom swore kokuhso sighed, What? He spoke sounding annoyed.
I really kind of need you at a high level of power until this war is over, after that well then feel free to do as you please, but is this necessary now?
Finding the text yes. Why you may ask, because if a planet comes to kill us now we're screwed, if I use that spell hopefully, maybe, perhaps, it will loose it's sentient nature, and if were really lucky and it keeps the nature maybe it'll like us.
But do we need to use it now?
Well since you'll probably live to be 300 and your age won't affect my power in the least, and since I'm in you and can regenerate at will... Well I guess that would mean no.
So we just need to find the scroll in the case of a worst case scenario.
You have hit the nail on the head.
Would there be any other worst case scenarios?
Zoid eve in the hands of a madman.
Great I know of no mad-men who have an obsession with Zoidians and may be trying to obtain the power of zoid ever for themselves. Tom sighed, that Zenebas Sonofa bitch we was going to have to die. And by his hands no doubt. Yet another to add to the thousands dead by his hands or decisions. God he had perhaps the most violent life of anyone on this planet. The most violent life ever was a title he was willing to give to dictators, w00t.
After a moment of mental composure over the order to do the next few events he was going to do and in what order he was going to do them. Ok, first convince them to go to the ruins. Second get the scroll. Third escape the army. Then in the more general picture, beat this attacking army, do not die in the process, and use the scroll to release the spirits to the land. Tom paused doing a double check, once he assumed the plan was far from fool-proof, not a plan in the real world sense of the term and sure that something would screw it up tom went through with the only phase he knew would work. "Guys," He started, Relena coughed, "and major bitch."
"HEY!" Relena exploded.
"We need to move sometime in the near future, I'm not saying today, but within three days would be ideal."
"Why should we listen to you?" Relena huffed.
"Because if we don't we will die." Tom said to the huffed up major. "I think that we need to find somewhere that the Zenebas will avoid under the assumption that it's something super sacred."
"Like?" John mumbled as he ate.
"A zoidian ruin."
John looked at him, "Why do you say one of those."
"Well, don't ask me why, but Zenebas passed a decree early in the war before anything happened that no Zenebas soldier could damage a Zoidian ruin without explicit orders from either the division leader or anyone higher in the chain of command. Now if that simply is just historical concern over 32 assaults of the Zenebas army can be argued to have been made solely for zoidian ruins. I mean hell they took a site which would was ideal to take after you surround the mountains around it and are certain that the enemy could not be able to easily break through the line of defense. But no they took the ruin in the middle of the small valley surrounded by mountains that were easy to blast into the ruin before they fully took the mountains surrounding it."
"Maybe…" Relena said still somewhat miffed about his earlier comment, "No never mind. They do like zoidian ruins."
"Exactly my point. They also like civilians, but we are not those now are we." Tom continued. "So if we were to hide here they would have no qualms about making this place dust. However if we were to hide in a zoidian ruin they would not flatten the thing, and I doubt they would send in Zoids just for a bunch of random guardian force members just hiding. Heck they might plain leave us alone if we said we'd just go."
"Go where?" Relena asked. "Where would we go once we left they'd kill us."
"Well I'm not saying leave of your own free will. I'm just saying the rules with Zenebas get a little different in Zoidian ruins." Tom prayed then that this was enough to get them moving, he still was dead tired and much more of an argument would un-doubtedly make him slip up. That slip would reveal an ulterior motive and thus, under normal circumstances, drop the odds of the plans success.
"I like it." John said as he poked at his random breakfast food.
"Nothing wrong with the plan." Reddy shrugged.
"I have one problem." Relena said to Tom wagging her finger.
GREAT! Tom sighed mentally, The goddamn bitch has something to complain about, well then talk!
"How the hell do we get past the enemy forces?" Relena said looking at Tom with an 'I've got you beat now' face.
"I go psycho on their asses." Tom replied calmly. "You know I can do enough damage to give us time to cross the river if they try and stop us. But by that same degree I suggest no-one go with me in my command wolf cause odds are 50-50 you'll die."
They all looked at him, "Why not you?" Someone asked.
"Look what I just survived. I don't think a little machine gun fire could do any worse." Tom took time to stare down everyone in the room. Ending with Relena, who was immediately below tom's very high up face, him being freakishly tall and her being not. Looking at her from above tom made a revelation, "If you guys want to live we need to do a few things, one change into civilian clothes. Two we need to paint over the Guardian force symbols on our Zoids; I'll need to change the paint scheme of mine entirely. If we don't we won't have a chance of surviving."
"Well then mister super human," Relena continued, "If you're so great then why don't you obliterate the entire army?"
"I thought we covered that, I can't use anything other than regeneration inside a holy ground."
"So how are you going to beat them?"
"I have plenty of other tricks." Tom said. "These include the tricks of one device…" tom trailed off as he felt for his belt. "SHIT! Where's my belt!"
"So what? It's a belt." Reddy asked. "I don't want to have to go back to the front just for that. And besides you had it with you when you were piloting the command wolf. Oh wait, I doubt you took it off ever did you?"
"No why?"
"It was utterly destroyed in all probability in the explosion."
"Great now I need to go get the other one I have at the base." Tom sighed, he never wanted to use that one himself for sentimental reasons, but I guess saving the world is more important. "We're only about a day's walk for me from the base. But you guys would take forever." Tom sighed. "I'll get some weapons and run back. I doubt the guys held out this long; it's been several days now. They should have retreated or something so the enemy should have left the thing alone. If not I should be out of range of the ruin and be able to blast the enemies with un-holy hellfire. So I'll be fine. I'll go to help them."
"I've got a question." Reddy said.
"What?"
"What will that belt do for you?"
"Oh a hell of a lot of stuff. It a special belt that was the pinnacle of earth technology when I left. It had the ability to make a space capable of storing items in. The belt stored guns and ammo and through a mental link system was able to recognize only users who were programmed into the belt. The backup I've got was not originally mine but belonged to a dead comrade of mine, and over the years I re-programmed it to accept me and access my stuff as well as my old friends."
"Oh." Reddy said as he brought his mind around the answer. Wow… Well anyway while you're gone what do we do?"
"Paint over the Zoids. I want mine to be earth brown and earth red. Also you guys need civilian clothes. So do those things and when I get back we'll go."
"Right"
"Good luck."
"You too."
-End-
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