Chapter 4
Kim entered the portal and was instantly transported to the end of the server's life. She had always assumed that this server's end would be like the rest: just left to rot. However, what she saw was not what she had expected at all. There were fissures and craters everywhere as if someone had been letting off explosives. She looked around desperately for Duncan. She finally saw him.
"Duncan!" she called.
"Kim!" he called back.
"Ha, ha, ha!" came a chortle.
It was Lalnable Hector. He was sat against a tree holding his stump from where Kim had cut off his hand. He was battered and bruised from the fight.
Kim ignored him and turned back to Duncan.
"Come on!" she urged, "Specimen 5 is dead!"
"I need to kill Lalnable to finish this!" said Duncan.
"Foolish mortals!" came a shout from above them.
It was a brown haired woman in a white dress. She looked innocent enough with a white flower in her hair.
"Hello there!" greeted Duncan.
The woman dropped from the sky with speed that surpassed even Lalnable's and punched Duncan right in the gut. He fell to the ground in agony.
"What the Hell?" shouted Kim, "Who do you think you are?"
"I am Renzovia," she stated coldly.
"She is an AI who was taken to pieces out of fear of her power," said Lalnable with excitement in his voice. "She created quite a following as a Goddess," he added.
"So how did she get put back together?" asked Kim.
"The fool who calls himself Ser Sjin collected my pieces and put me back together," said Renzovia, "With the help of that stupid Lich, Spooky Steve."
Renzovia looked at Duncan, and then at Lalnable with something that almost resembled curiosity. She kicked Duncan in the face as he tried to get up.
"Duncan! Run!" shouted Kim.
Renzovia pulled out a Quiverbow weapon and fired it at the Time Gate. Kim jumped out of the way as the shot hit the base of the Time Gate, blowing up the flux buddies only route of escape.
Just as Renzovia was about to turn her attention to Kim, Duncan jumped back up and landed an uppercut to Renzovia's chin.
"Argh!" he screamed in pain as he felt his knuckles shatter.
Renzovia dropped her gun, spun round and delivered a roundhouse kick to Duncan's shoulder, knocking him away. Duncan pulled out his staff and swung it at Renzovia. It hit her square in the chest but did no damage. Renzovia grabbed the head of the staff and pulled it out of Duncan's grip. Next she held both ends of the staff and snapped it on her knee like a stick. Duncan stared at her, gobsmacked.
"Such a pathetic weapon," she said mercilessly.
"That took me hours to make!" complained Duncan.
Renzovia threw aside the pieces of Duncan's staff and prepared to continue the fight; However, as soon as she was about to throw her next punch, Kim ran at Renzovia with her soy sword raised.
"Wait your turn, mortal," said Renzovia grabbing Kim by the throat and tossing her aside.
Duncan decided to try his luck with his luck with his bow and fired an arrow at Renzovia. It bounced off and stuck into the ground.
Renzovia threw a flurry of punches at Duncan, every single one hitting its mark. Duncan could do nothing as his health bar dropped despite his armour, which was beginning to crack under the strain of the force of Renzovia's punches. After a kick to the chest, Duncan's chest plate finally gave in and shattered, leaving his lab coat exposed.
"Duncan! NO!" screamed Kim as Renzovia delivered the finishing blows to her flux buddy.
Duncan's lifeless body was sent flying until it finally hit the ground. Kim watched as his body was instantaneously replaced with a gravestone marked: Lividcoffee. The message bar displayed: "Lividcoffee was pummelled to death by Renzovia.
Kim screamed in horror at the death of her only friend. Lalnable Hector broke into a laugh that was filled to the brim with all of his evil, his malice, and his lack of both sympathy and empathy for anyone or anything else, not even his own creations.
Kim stared at the empty, ignorant, uncaring eyes of Renzovia and felt only hatred for the AI. She gripped her sword in her hands and ran at Renzovia. Kim slashed at Renzovia, but was stopped by the AI who had hold of the translucent blade.
"So pitiful," she said as she snapped the blade, leaving Kim holding nothing more than a white hilt with a small part of blade still left in it.
Kim stared at the remnants of her efforts. She had defeated Specimen 5 with it, but Lalnable was still alive. She decided that she was going to finish the job her and Duncan had set out to do. The last flux buddy pulled out her moon charm and transformed into her wolf man form. She charged at Lalnable and punched him using all the strength that the wolf man form had to offer. It did little damage but Kim felt some satisfaction in punching the madman. The punch also knocked off Lalnable's headpiece. Just as Kim was about to land another punch, something warm hit her in the back. She turned around to see that Renzovia had shot her.
"We're not finished yet," said Renzovia as she suddenly ran at Kim and punched the flux buddy, knocking the moon charm out of her grasp. Before she knew it, Kim was human again. Renzovia kicked Kim, launching her away from Lalnable. Before Kim could recover, Renzovia pulled out another gun and fire multiple shots at her. Due to the wolf man transformation, Kim was not wearing any armour. The shots took her down to one heart.
"You're still standing," commented Renzovia.
Kim said nothing.
"Better to die on your feet," said Lalnable.
Kim glanced quickly at the dying scientist and thought of Duncan. He drove her insane, but he had taken her in when Sjin betrayed her for Sips. He trained her as his apprentice. He had given her so many happy memories. She didn't care that she didn't know where she had come from, she didn't care that they had failed to kill Lalnable, she didn't care that Duncan had killed her pets. One last tear fell from her eyes as she braced herself for death.
Renzovia pulled the trigger on her sunray. Kim was killed in a blinding flash. When the light faded, all that was left was a tombstone with the name Nanosounds written on it. The message bar read: "Nanosounds was burnt to a crisp while fighting Renzovia".
Now that her business with the flux buddies had been concluded, Renzovia turned her attention to Lalnable Hector who was
"You saved my life and killed the fuck buddies," said Lalnable, "If it was anyone else, thanks would be in order."
"Your chances of survival are slim," said Renzovia, "I might as well end you now."
Renzovia raised her sunray and pointed it at Lalnable's exposed head. She was about to fire when Lalnable said: "Yoglabs employee ID: Lalnable Hector."
Renzovia lowered her sunray slightly.
"That won't work on me," she said.
"I hoped you were a Yoglabs creation," said Lalnable.
"I'll let you live. I have other things to do," said Renzovia, "Once I'm done here, I'll go somewhere else and cause more destruction."
"How will you leave?" asked Lalnable.
"That is none of your concern," said Renzovia, "Hopefully it wasn't damaged when I blew up part of the temple."
Lalnable chuckled as she flew away.
"Worked like a charm," he remarked, "She looked up Yoglabs and downloaded a virus, and now she'll do almost anything I say without realising anything is wrong. When I get back, I'll have to thank Lewis for that."
Lalnable stood up, clutching the stump where his hand used to be. He rose into the air, and flew in the direction Renzovia had flown, being sure to keep a safe distance away.
After a while of getting nowhere, Lalnable stopped to think. He remembered that Sjin had been the one who had resurrected Renzovia. Knowing this, he decided to make a trip to Sjinterfel.
On his way to Sjinterfel, Lalnable heard some shouting. He descended to the ground and hid behind a small hill. He saw Renzovia fighting an orange man with hair that looked like a hamster.
"How dare you insult me like that!" shouted Renzovia, "Do you know who I am!?"
"And do you know who I am?" the orange man retorted, "I am the next Republican…"
"You're just another pathetic human who thinks that he is the centre of the universe," cut in Renzovia.
The hamster-haired man was about to shout more abuse, but decided against it when Renzovia pulled out another gun and pointed it at him.
"Look. I'm sorry. I'm sure we can work something out," pleaded orange man.
"You should have considered that when you called me 'cutie'," said Renzovia.
The orange man began to back away with his hands in the air in front of him. He was sweating nervously. Just before he could run, Renzovia punched him, and killed him in one strike. A notification appeared: "Donald Trump was pummelled by Renzovia".
"Humans," said Renzovia flying away.
Lalnable continued on his course to Sjinterfel. When he arrived, he saw the ruin that Renzovia had caused. Most of the buildings had been destroyed, and the middle of the town was a giant crater. Sjin was floating above one of the ruined buildings talking to a skeleton, (who Lalnable assumed was the Lich, Spooky Steve) and an elf.
Lalnable got as close as he could without the three noticing him. He managed to eavesdrop on parts of their conversation. From what he could hear, Lalnable found out that Sjin, Spooky Steve, and the elf (whose name he discovered was Eldraphyn) were planning to go to the temple where Renzovia had been discovered and find a way to destroy her.
"Perfect! If I can get there before they do anything stupid, I can leave this place." he thought.
Lalnable waited for a while after Sjin and his friends had left so that he could follow them from a distance.
Lalnable followed the trio using his map to determine where they were, and did his best to not let them out of where his map ended before it could be filled in. Eventually, he noticed a stone structure. It had been damaged slightly.
"This must be it," he thought as he flew towards it, taking a slight detour to go around Sjin and co.
Lalnable flew into the structure through a hole. As the scientist landed, he found machines that were all too familiar to him. He looked around and studied the machines with his usual scientific curiosity. On one of the machines, there was a sign that said: "Warning: Disconnecting this device may make your planet core unstable. Deactivate at your own risk."
"There must be something to disconnect then," said Lalnable.
After further inspection, he found two pressure plates that opened up a secret chamber containing a structure with Uranium on top. To Lalnable's disappointment, when he stepped off the pressure plates for a closer look, the door closed. He stood back on the pressure plate and fired a regular arrow at the device. It bounced off. What Lalnable found interesting was that when the arrow connected, the uranium glowed as if there was a shield, and when the arrow bounced off, there was a hiss which indicated lava.
"It's a machine that uses the power of the Earth to power Renzovia!" exclaimed Lalnable, "Now that screams Yoglabs."
"However," he wondered, "That glow is from Thaumcraft, which isn't something used by Yoglabs. That must be why she gathered followers like that Lich," he concluded.
Lalnable was snapped from his deep thoughts by a lively voice: "What's that in there?"
"Shit!" muttered Lalnable, "Time-gate! Set co-ordinates for Yoglabs, present day!" he commanded. He desperately hoped that it worked, because he was starting to feel faint, as he had lost a lot of blood. He was turning pale and felt close to vomiting.
After a second, the virus that had infected Renzovia activated in the Time-gate. It created a portal that was different from the others; it was much darker, and made strange noises. This got Lalnable's hopes up. Once the portal was stable, an extra mine cart rolled out to join the two already there. Lalnable could barely contain his excitement as he jumped in. The mine cart just reached the portal as Sjin flew into the temple. The portal disappeared, leaving Sjin to doom the world that he had hoped to rule.
The journey to Yoglabs took slightly longer than other journeys, despite it being a journey through time. Everywhere Lalnable looked, he saw the same swirling blue vortex. The length of the journey was beginning to worry him. His worries were quickly put to rest by some funky music. It was an electrical sound, and was repetitive.
"Definitely the work of Xephos," he thought, "Probably his idea of being brainwashed more easily."
The funky beat was joined by singing.
"Come with me to Yoglabs, baby!"
Lalnable tried to block it out and made a mental note to tell Xephos to turn it off. Otherwise things might get...bloody.
Finally the journey came to an end. The swirling blue vortex disappeared. The mine cart connected to the blaze rod tracks and rolled to the end of the line. He jumped out. He realised that he no longer felt faint, he checked his hand and found that it had been restored thanks to the special Yoglabs portal. Lalnable decided to go find Xephos to alert him of the return of Yoglabs greatest cloning scientists, but before he could he was stopped by a round, ginger dwarf in a historically inaccurate Viking helmet.
"Hello!" he greeted. "Okay, it's my time to shine!" he muttered. The dwarf's face sweated from concentration. The air became filled with the heat from his brain desperately trying to remember something.
"I'm looking for Xephos," said Lalnable.
The dwarf completely ignored him.
"Welcome to Yogbox! The bone for imagination! Where the only limit is your unlimited intimidation!" he said looking proud of himself. However, the look of pride quickly disappeared from his face. "No, that's not right," he muttered, "Let's see... Lewis said that if I forgot my lines, I was to go to the incinerator to remember them."
"I'm looking for Xephos," repeated Lalnable, slightly louder this time.
"He'll be somewhere testing something," said the dwarf.
"Well that's helpful," said Lalnable.
The dwarf was about to unintentionally go to his doom, when his actually doom came flying towards him in the form of a testificate being fired out of a cannon. The testificate went straight through the dwarf, and was stopped by the wall. Needless to say, his survival chances were equal to that of the dwarf's.
Two messages appeared in the bar: "Honeydew was splattered against the wall by testificate poo-butts" and "testificate poo-butts was doomed to splat after being fired out of a cannon"
Soon enough, a team of testificates cleaned up the mess. A hole opened up in the ceiling and dropped another dwarf, who was exactly the same as the previous one.
"I'm looking for Xephos," tried Lalnable for the third time.
The dwarf just stared blankly. Lalnable took a deep breath and sighed.
"Nope. It's not worth it," he said, pulling out his bow and aimed at the dwarf.
"Could you not kill him please, Duncan," said a man in a blue and white striped shirt and a red jacket.
"Duncan?" said Lalnable, looking offended, "I am Lalnable Hector!"
"Yes, sorry Lalnable," said Xephos, "Great to see you back," he added.
"Your cloning has gone to shit while I've been gone," criticised Lalnable.
"Well, you're back now. So get back to your lab, and I'll let you know of any new mods we have that will help with your cloning," said Xephos.
"You need to sort out your time-gate portal here. It takes ages," said Lalnable.
"That's because we had to install a bunch of mods so that you could keep the items in your inventory," explained Lewis.
Later that day, a new Honeydew clone was trying to get the coffee machine working, and was succeeding. Lewis was observing and was astounded at how quickly Lalnable had managed to fix the clones.
"Duncan is truly incredible," remarked Lewis.
"Who is he exactly?" asked Honeydew, "You call him Duncan, but he calls himself Lalnable."
Lewis was still trying to get used to the Simon clones being intelligent.
"He has worked here since pretty much the beginning," said Lewis, "But he began to go crazy, and one day disappeared in a time travel experiment gone wrong."
"Is he dangerous?" asked Simon.
"Possibly," said Lewis, "Once you've finished with the coffee machine, I want you to keep an eye on him."
"Okay," said Simon.
Lalnable Hector was in his lab studying the vials of blood that the late Specimen 5 had collected from Sjin.
"Interesting," he said as he scribbled down short notes in a book.
"Hello!" greeted a friendly voice.
Lalnable gave a slight grunt of acknowledgment.
"What are you doing?" asked the voice.
Lalnable looked over and saw that the voice was Honeydew.
"Studying this blood sample," answered Lalnable.
"Whose is it?" asked Honeydew.
"This sample came from a man named 'Sjin'," he answered again.
"What are you going to use it for?" the dwarf asked again.
"Cloning. I need a new clone to replace Specimen 5,"
Lalnable turned back to his work, and Honeydew started to flick through the books that Lalnable had filled up one page in. After looking through most of the books, Honeydew became bored.
"Why do you only use one page?" he asked.
"It makes it awkward for people with fatal curiosity to read through them. It slowed the fuck buddies down when they went looking through my old lab,"
After another 10 minutes of standing in silent awkwardness, Simon left to get a coffee. On his way, he was stopped by Lewis.
"Simon," he said, "Have you been monitoring Duncan?"
"Yeah," yawned Simon, "He's so boring. All he does is study blood and waste books by only writing in one page."
"Alright then. Get the Testificate security squad together," ordered Lewis.
Later, the testificates were armed and assembled. Simon had a gun from some obscure and buggy mod, despite being advised against it.
With Lewis at the head, they began to march towards Lalnable's lab.
The testificates blocked all exits that Lalnable could possibly escape from, even the hidden ones that Lalnable thought that were secret from Lewis.
Once the testificates were in place, Lewis stood in the doorway of Duncan's blood study room. The scientist was sat at his desk, with vials of blood in front of him.
"Duncan," said Lewis.
Lalnable Hector got up from his chair. He turned around to face Lewis and stared him in the eyes. Lalnable half-turned to his desk. The tension in the air could be cut with an axe.
Suddenly, Lalnable swiped his hands across his desk, knocking books, vials of blood, microscopes, and all sorts of equipment off it.
"My name is Lalnable Hector!" he roared.
The crash and the shout caused a testificate to panic and fire his gun. Lewis pulled out a throwing knife and threw it, with just a slight flick of the wrist. The testificate dropped with a dull thud.
"Duncan," repeated Lewis.
"Why don't you get it in your head!?" roared Lalnable, "MY NAME IS LALNABLE!"
"Duncan."
Lalnable roared again and pulled out his staff. Before he could strike Lewis, Simon shot Lalnable in the chest with his buggy gun. Lalnable cried out. He had left his armour on a stand because he had assumed that he would no longer need it.
Lalnable threw his staff. It flew through the air and its blade hit Simon right between the eyes. Simon dropped to the floor with his head propped up by the staff.
"Testificates! Contain Duncan!" ordered Lewis.
The testificates quickly surrounded the mad scientist and attempted to restrain him. Lalnable attempted to punch his way through the testificates with little success. A stray blade cut off his ponytail. After much struggle, the testificates had managed to hold down Lalnable.
After much struggle, the testificates had finally managed to drag Lalnable to the containment chamber that had been created for the purpose of containing insane employees.
"Come on, Xephos! You will never achieve world domination without me!" shouted Lalnable.
"Don't worry about it," said Lewis, "You've fixed the clone issue, so we can do without you for now."
"Testificates! Get Duncan into the containment chamber, then you can go back to your experiments," he added.
As soon as the testificates got Lalnable into the glass chamber, the door closed on the mad scientist and forced him into a deep sleep...
An unknown amount of time later, Simon unplugged the coffee machine and ripped the dimension, and came across a glass chamber with a blond scientist in it. The years of clean-up in the containment chamber had removed the blood stains on his lab coat.
The dwarf broke the front of the chamber, releasing him back into the world.
He coughed at the shock of suddenly being woken up from his sleep.
"Duncan!" said Simon.
"Simon!" replied Duncan.
Duncan was no longer Lalnable Hector thanks to his time in the chamber above the reflection pool. He left his chamber after some grief of no longer being mint condition and went on to fix the dimensional rip in Yoglabs.
So that's the end of this story. I'd appreciate reviews telling me what was good and what needs improving. I'm going to start writing some more stories, so follow me so you know when they come out.