Days Of Ruin14…Never Ending
I do not own Advance Wars or any of the series…if I did…I would implement a computer version of AW.
Many eons in the past on the world known as Wars World, was an old decrepit man. He was holding a broom and was sweeping some concrete roads. He mumbled while he was sweeping up dust, he was wheezing every few breaths.
"Hehh…immortality was too far out…hehh…out of my grasp." He was barely brushing the ground, whenever he did it kicked up puffs of dust.
"Hehh…I should have…hehh…aimed…hehh…lower…" The particles of dust were giving him a hard time.
"…Hehh…so degrading…"
"Hehh…if I can't have immortality…hehh…I'll ask for something modest…hehh?" He looks up to see the object in front of him. It was a black round object with arms and legs coming out of it.
"Jugger?" He asked the rotund object.
"Yes Von Bolt?" The object replied with a mechanical voice.
"Hehh…why are you here…?"
-Accessing Data- "To retrieve you and prepare you." Jugger answered in its monotone voice.
"Prepare?"
-Searching for response- "For your journey." At those words the old man, Von Bolt, looked at Jugger confusingly, his wrinkles contorting to show his confusion.
-Confused expression detected- "Jugger, Koal, and Kindle have gathered the remains of the main Oozium and created a gift for Von Bolt."
"Gift?"
-Detecting unending questions…linking to Kindle- a beep followed and a haughty female voice rang out from the inside of Jugger.
"Lord Von Bolt, please let Jugger guide you, we will explain when you arrive. Oh and Jugger? Please be careful with him, he is over a century old."
-Resuming mission- "Von Bolt, please follow me" Jugger guided the frail old man into an unmarked car and started the engine.
"Hehh…hot…" Von Bolt was sweating quite a bit.
-Turning on heat extractor- a small metal door opened on Jugger's back and cool air was flowing from it. Von Bolt attempted to raise an eyebrow.
'That surprised me, thought he was going to turn on the air conditioner.'
Jugger suddenly responded. "Another machine is not necessary when I am perfectly capable of performing the said task."
Von Bolt raised his eyebrow again. 'He sure is getting better, but not in the right areas' he chuckled to himself.
"Oh my! I never heard your real laugh!" Kindle's voice rang out again from Jugger.
"Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods~" a male voice mused.
"Hehh…Koal? …Never expected Jugger…hehh…to say that…"
-Approaching destination- "Von Bolt, we are nearing our destination." Jugger said as the car sped through the desert roads.
Just when Von Bolt was about to question Jugger's guidance system, the ground shook and an enormous black silo rose from the desert, it was several times larger than the continental missiles the Black Hole used to threaten the Wars World inhabitants. Jugger drove the car onto the silo's metal base and stopped.
"Von Bolt, we have arrived." Jugger opened the side door as a butler would and guided the old man into the Missile Control Building.
-Detecting life forms- Von Bolt looked around the control room but saw no people.
"Hehh?"
The doors into the room opened and two people with a large pod entered. One was a woman with flame-red hair and the other was a man with certain taste for the arts. The pod they brought with them was outfitted with several storage tanks and small pipes along with what seemed to be a smaller pod to the side. The man walked up to Von Bolt.
"We have retrieved the remains of the Main Oozium and gathered up the energy remaining in them, we have assembled this massive rocket for you to-" Koal was cut off by Von Bolt.
"Hehh…to destroy this world?"
Kindle looks at Von Bolt and shakes her head. "…To give you a chance…"
"Hehh…a chance to rule the world again?"
-Completing sentence- "…To give you a second chance at life." Jugger completed the group's sentence.
"Life? …Hehh…" Von Bolt was confused but his aged face didn't show it, he only attempted to raise an eyebrow. Kindle went to the controls and began inputting commands, outside was a Megatank that began to be loaded into the massive rocket. Jugger hooked itself up to the interface of the building. –Begin Transfer- And Koal walked up to the leader of the Bolt Guard.
"Lord Von Bolt, we are preparing for your journey to an inhabited planet discovered by the Bolt Scientists. Kindle is preparing a small number of automated forces and your own personal Megatank if you ever encounter trouble on the planet. Jugger is busy downloading his memories into the systems, he will be tasked with keeping you alive during your slumber."
"Hehh…sleep?" He asked Koal.
"Yes. You will be sleeping while Kindle's modified Oozium will be feeding you the energy we collected, in turn keeping you alive. There are some slight aftereffects but they won't be troubling you…" Koal manages to stifle the small urge to laugh.
Koal glances back at Kindle, who laughs haughtily. "It seems like it is time for you to depart onto your second life. By the time you reach there we will be long gone…it will take many a millennia until you reach your destination." Koal smiled sadly, Kindle walks up with a tear in her eye.
"The Bolt Guard will always be with you, we have some presents for you for when you reach the world." Both Kindle and Koal took out similar disks and inserted it into the main interface and began the data transfer.
"Please enter and wait for the sleeping gas to take effect." Koal said as he guided the Ex-Commander of the Black Hole Army into the pod.
"Hehh…I will miss you…hehh…greatly…" He said as the pod door closed. The pod was quickly transferred to the rocket, and after the pod entered the metal door slammed shut, sealing the massive rocket.
The entire base shook as the rocket roared to life. A mechanical countdown echoed through the now empty base.
10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…-Bolt Arc Launching-
The rocket was slow at first, fighting the gravitational pull of Wars World. It began to pick up speed ever so slowly, there were small rings that looked like halos encircling the exhaust of the rocket, and they signaled success of the liftoff. After clearing the atmosphere of the planet, the rocket began to purge the excess parts. The cone was ejected and the fuel section jettisoned, leaving the used parts to fall back down and disintegrate.
The voyage to the planet took, what seemed like, an endless amount of time. The metal arc that contained Von Bolt sped past the planets. Von Bolt lay in his pod, there was oozium filling the pod, the oozium channeled the energy of Wars World into the old man's body. The process continued and the oozium was keeping him alive. Years turned into decades, decades turned into centuries, and centuries turned into millennia. As the years passed the oozium shrank, at first it was unnoticeable, but after the millennia passed the amount of oozium left was drastically less than it was before.
The Bolt Arc was approaching the planet. It had dust clouds that obscured any view of the surface, it was different…extremely different than what the Bolt Scientists saw when they first found this planet.
The jets on the metal block fired, adjusting the position of the block and slowing it down enough not to burn up upon entry. The Bolt Guard wanted their commander to make it through the descent. The jets kept the block aligned as it entered the atmosphere. Parachutes deployed and the jets flared, slowing the metal block and bringing it down in a clearing surrounded by forests.
The sounds of battle echoed throughout the land around the metal block. The skies flashed, explosions rang out, cannons boomed, screams of the wounded resounded. This was a battle entirely led by men, not the half automated armies that the major powers had. This was a battle between raider clans, they were in the middle of a territorial dispute, one side versus the other, the insignia of the raider could be seen all across the battlefield, on tanks, on men, on flags, and even on buildings.
The massive metal door of the Bolt Arc began to open, soon after a ramp extended from the door leading down onto the clearing. Out of the Arc came fully automated forces, tanks and artillery. They took defensive positions around the Arc, artillery near the Arc and tanks to absorb any outside interferences.
The pod that held Von Bolt began to come to life; the remaining oozium was drained and transferred to the small pod. Inside the small pod the oozium began to take a form, it began to look like it was boiling, then a white steam began to hiss from the boiling oozium. The oozium evaporated and steam blocked any view into the small pod.
-Beginning Formation- … -Failed- … -Beginning Formation With Reduced Energy Consumption- … -Complete-
-Initiating Data Transfer- … -Complete-
-Transferring Koal's Gift- … -Complete-
-Transferring Kindle's Gift- … -Complete-
-Starting Up Vitals- … -Pending- … -Complete-
A faint sound came from within the hidden inside of the smaller pod…it was a heartbeat.
-Beginning Von Bolt's Revival- … -Complete-
The large pod beeped and its door lifted. Von Bolt's reaction to the revival was as if someone held their breath for too long, the gasp brought much needed oxygen to his lungs. He willed himself to move, but found himself unable to move anything below his head.
'They did everything perfectly! But my old age wasn't taken into full account...' He thought sadly, adding several millennia to a century-old man would do things in unexpected ways.
'Or this could be the aftereffects of Kindle's life support oozium' His hopes were answered when he began to move his body. He struggled and lifted himself from the pod, but he lost his grip and began to fall onto the steel floor.
'All this and I kill myself because I'm too hasty.' He knew that even a small fall would kill a century-old man. He braced himself for his death, wondering if there was an afterlife.
SMACK!
His head hit the floor; the fall was enough to kill the old man…if he was still biologically old.
"Urgh…huh?" He complained with a mix of pain and confusion. One he was confused that he didn't die. Two he felt pain but not enough to kill him. Three he heard another man's voice.
"Whose there! …Huh?" He called out to nobody and he noticed that he wasn't wheezing and that the voice was his. He looked down and saw his…body? It was cleared of any signs of age. He flexed his muscles…they weren't aching. He bent his back…he didn't feel the pain of old age. He saw his reflection on a steel plate, it was someone he knew, but he couldn't place it. He smiled as soon as he remembered the person's face…it has Von Bolt back when he was young, in his late teens.
"Kindle, you really hated old age. You outdid yourself." Von Bolt joked to himself. He looked around to find something to wear and found a Black Hole soldier suit, he decided to wear it minus the helmet, and he didn't need his old helmet/jar anymore since he could breathe perfectly fine.
-Formation Complete- The mechanical voice ended with the hiss of steam escaping, within moments the entire chamber was filled with gas. It took a while for the smoke to dissipate.
'…What?' Von Bolt stared at what lay inside the small capsule, it was a girl, old enough to be her great-grand-daughter but in his current state it would look like she was his little sister. Von Bolt did something that he had thought he had forgotten…he blushed. He also did another surprising thing, he draped a black cloak over her body…he was being chivalrous…enough to bring shame to Javier.
He took a seat and admired her cute sleeping face. 'Hmm…I never had a sister…'
The sounds of the raider skirmish and the engines of the automated forces didn't reach the ears of Von Bolt and the child. He stared and began to think how life would have been like if he had made a family.
'It wouldn't hurt to wait for her to awake…'
A/N The basic foundations are in place(for the goal) i'll see if i'll go any further past ch19. Ah and i was working on increasing the compatibility between Zene and Tabitha for certain actions.