Chapter 4 Version 1 Tier 1 Branch 1
"Alone? Why would she have to do this alone?" Rallen asked in shock.
"Many centuries ago," Golth began, "a great prophetess foresaw the coming of a great swarm of parasites. We were told that these parasites would not cause any direct harm to us Triloths, but the disease they left behind would corrupt mammalian life throughout the system.
"This same prophetess told us to seek her when her words came to be. She would not know she was who she was, for reincarnation does not carry over memories."
"You're not answering our question," Jeena pointed out.
"We fear that the male-ling will be corrupted by the parasites' infection," Fadar explained. "Our superiors believe that the pink haired one's previous life as a Triloth will keep her safe from the virus."
"I don't care," Rallen forcefully stated. "I'm not letting you take Jeena into a dangerous situation we know nothing about, especially is she's alone."
After some more arguing amongst the group, the Triloths reluctantly allowed Rallen to tag along.
Later, in the Arcturus Star system
"I told you. We should have used a portal; you know Warp Gate travel always makes mammals sick," Fadar scolded Golth as Rallen stumbled around in confusion.
"I'm sorry for choosing the fast route when we're, you know, trying to save the entire triloth race!" Golth hissed in reply.
As Rallen and Jeena began to regain their senses, Golth and Fadar landed their ship on the natural Satellite of a nearby gas giant. The moon was very similar to Genshi in that it was covered in lush forests and wetlands. The only significant differences were the large, gelatinous structures that greatly resembled the ship Rallen and Jeena were presently in.
"Welcome to what's left of Kadarra," Golth said unhappily as the ship's door opened. "As soon as we exit this ship, we will no longer be able to understand each other, so let me take any and all questions now."
"What do you expect me to do when I encounter a corrupt human or a parasite?" Jeena asked.
"How would we know that?" Golth asked in frustration. "You're the prophetess, you should know how when you find them." The two humans really didn't like where this was going.
"Where do we start? Do you think we're going to search the entire moon for an answer?" Rallen asked.
"No," Fadar calmly explained before Golth could make a rude comment. "We landed near a Triloth village that was recently under siege by the corrupted. The corrupted humans shouldn't be too hard to find, and from there you should be able to do the rest."
"What exactly does that mean?" Jeena asked. "Am I supposed to fight these people? Weapons were never my strong point."
"If we knew what to do, would we have gone all that way to get you?" Golth snarled in frustration. "C'mon, we're wasting time with this discussion."
The strange group of four sentient beings began wandering around the abandoned village, looking for something they could use to find a solution to their problem. Unfortunately each member of the party had a different idea of the type of solution they would find.
Jeena was hoping for a cure, or at least a vaccine. She wanted to make absolutely sure this infection wouldn't affect any more humans. The very thought of intelligent beings becoming war mongering monsters because of a simple disease chilled her to the core.
Rallen, Komainu keeping pace beside him, was looking around for some sort of fossil or ancient dinalium weapon. He was only interested in making sure that the present threat was averted, not caring if or when it would come back. He wanted this to be as simple as his first war against the krawl.
Fadar wished for a sign from the Triloth deities. He was a firm believer in his prophetess, and he never questioned whether Jeena was this entity or not. His eyes were open for murals or carvings in stone.
Last we enter the mind of Golth. His philosophy was as simple as his mind. Big weapons are equal to faster victory in Golth's mind. He never stopped to consider a passive solution, nor did he hold any belief in the prophetess who had captured his brother's mind. Worst of all his thoughts was his specism. He hated humans.
With all their differing opinions on what it was they were looking for, it comes as no surprise that they managed to mindlessly wander into an ambush.
"I honestly have no idea," Jeena replied after Rallen asked why she was the all-powerful prophet. "I just want to get this over with before someone starts to-"
It was then that a hideous noise echoed down the alley the group had meandered into. Three of the four managed to turn around quickly enough to avoid the swiftly approaching threat, but Fadar was not so fortunate. The humanoid beast leapt onto the Triloth's scaly back and began to scratch vigorously at the back of Fadar's neck. Golth immediately lunged in to bite the creature's left arm, but to no avail, as another of the infected humans had latched onto his tail.
"Iku ze!" Rallen shouted as he called forth Spikanor and Komanoto. He then called to Jeena and tossed her the lab system's memory storage device, which he had been keeping in his prizmod. She caught the large cartridge and plugged it into the back of her scanner.
Zozane and Dongora leapt into battle alongside their pink haired master. Jeena could never quite control evolved spectrobes without the cosmolink.
"There are more coming!" Rallen shouted as he saw shadows emerging from a cloud of smoke that had begun drifting down the alley. The figures began a mad dash towards Rallen who managed to knock back the first couple with his mace. Spikanor managed to halve another while two more began to climb onto Komanoto.
"Can you hold 'em off while I help out these guys?" Jeena asked over her shoulder as Zozane drilled into the creature attacking Fadar.
"No sweat," Rallen called back sarcastically. Suddenly a whip like appendage reached out of the smoke cloud and wrapped around Rallen's arm and pulled him into the shroud. He saw the face of the infected human that had just grabbed him... with its tongue... the entire left side of the man's face was gone, all that was left was a bloody scab.
Rallen interrupted his horror at the creature's face when he realized that it was trying to tear through his armor. He quickly switched his weapon to his old cosmosword and rammed it through the infected man's chest. This caused it to hesitate for a brief moment before continuing to rip away at Rallen's uniform.
This isn't a human, Rallen thought. It's a monster! He then jammed his sword through the open side of the thing's skull. The creature dropped to a bloody heap on the ground, tongue and all. I forgot that these things aren't krawl, Rallen thought, trying not to vomit as he backed towards his spectrobes. These things bleed, and the bodies don't disappear when they die.
Jeena was also facing problems with extreme infected humans. A huge, muscle-bound beast had just slammed her into the wall of the nearby building after knocking Zozane unconscious in a single strike. Luckily, Jeena had access to the entire Spectrobes database. She returned Zozane to stasis and called forth Shakor, who immediately made a beeline straight through the juggernaut. The great beast's left arm had been torn from its socket and lay on the ground, and its eight-chamber heart had a rip nearly six inches across on it, yet it managed to smash Jeena against the wall once more before it collapsed.
After the bright flash of a lightning storm that whipped out the remaining infected humans had left his eyes, Rallen rushed over to Jeena. "Jeena! Are you alright?" He worriedly shouted. All he got in response was a groan. "Don't worry, I'll get you outa here. He then looked over to the two Triloths who had gotten up and were acting as they hadn't just been mauled by psychotic mutants.
They began to head back towards the ship. Rallen was eager to ask them what they were really dealing with because the previous explanation didn't involve superhuman abilities.
If anyone guesses what crossover I just made, I will give him or her a metaphorical cookie. Keep in mind that metaphorical cookies cannot be eaten, shared, cut, shredded, vaporized, destroyed, given away a second time, stolen, or tortured to death. You will be stuck with it until the absolute data that makes up this universe decides otherwise. You can blame Haruhi Suzumiya for that part about absolute data.
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I hope you liked this chapter better than the last one. Remember that this is an interactive fanfic, but from now on, I'm only accepting one idea per chapter. If I kept accepting two or three, I'd end up with several terabytes of data on my iMac.