Chapter 9
"So, Where do we start?" Tuo asked. "We shouldn't be that far."
"Hang on Tuo. I just lost the radar of it, you are close. I will tell you if it starts ringing on my sensors or you go too far alright?" The Alter mind said.
"Sounds like a plan." Tuo calmly said.
They were looking for the parts of the prototype, near a uplifted tree enclosed by a dense, but lush rain forest. Waters were rapidly raging as they both heard the flowing water hitting rocks and stones. One tended to fly at Tuo, but Tuo moved his head in time. Tuo ran and jumped over the river with the warmind's help, and succeeded. Tuo then ran into the uplifted tree and saw a huge rock.
"I am getting very close.. try and lift the boulder." The alter mind said. "Make sure to hurry, I feel like we are being watched."
Tuo with the warmind's strength, shot at the boulder the boulder and it broke into stones. On the ground, they found the first piece, still intact, but on it was something expanding on it. It then tried to reach out for the armor, but then The alter mind took over and placed it in the base component. They ran as the try started to close in over their heads, and it was going down fast. They ran with only a little time left, to the point if they did not slide, they would be crushed inside the soil. Tuo then ran and let the boosters speed him up, then he slid under the root that was almost to the underground.
"Nice job there. I will analyze this." The alter mind let him know.
"That was a close one." Tuo complained.
Once they got back into their work space, The alter mind scanned through the memory of the first part, while Tuo worked on a mobile attachment. It was called a jet-pack, and so far it looked functional already, but there were some major glitches. For example, the left jet had more power than the right, that would cause flying to be quite difficult if he only wanted to go up straight. Another was that the cell was wore out, meaning that it can give up at any time.
"Tuo. my name is Inaj. In your language, it is known as the Gentau warmind." Inaj the alter mind said. "If you need help or anything , put it on my physical base, so that I may perfect it."
"Any other memories that would be useful for later?" Tuo said with a annoyed tone.
"Yes. I was made by Deji, the Rebellion general's leader. He was a good man, but something happened. Someone got a sniper rifle, and assassinated him in public from a long range. Maybe make a gun Tuo? I should go and let you do your business, and I will improve myself over time." Inaj said.
"Starting perfection sequence... Ending AI mode, Entering Development mode." Inaj said while shutting down the AI minds.
Tuo then got a rifle out of the armory in the lab, and placed the rifle and jet-pack in succession. Inaj then deatomized it, and made it disappear into his chamber. Skillfully, he put the parts together, and put some of his enhancements on it. Same happened with the jet-pack. In that time of a few minutes, Tuo then looked at the warmind and saw that the gun was remade, new and reforged. He tried it out on some targets, and he noticed it was a charged gun. He held the trigger down for a few seconds, and after came out lasers that pierced through targets with a green color. he saw the burn marks through the head, and the second mode he did not understand. It read; "Fortress mode". He tried it and it became a gun with a handle, then a shield appeared around him in little to no time.
"This is amazing." Tuo silently said.
"Equinox." Topps called.
"Yes?" Equinox answered.
"I need to ask you something.." Topps said. "Who are the sentients? and why did they come here in the first place?"
Okay, I will tell you. We were an ancient race who was known to be the gods of Ceres. We existed before them, When Dinosaurs also roamed the planet, like you and Littlefoot over there. We had a religion that was flawless, Some of us thought that we were invincible, until when the prophecy sprung up from the ground. It read, The one who has a balance between destruction and peace. The interpreters thought that Uitan was that one, but of course, nobody said that the prophecy was fulfilled in that time. We came here, since the kingdoms of the first moon destroyed our home. We know we can wipe them from the face of the universe, but we cannot. It is too violent. We did not care about that until humans started roaming the planet. So far, We are still together, and we treat each other like family, and know about all of us.
"Are you a sentient? Is Rhenka a sentient? Is Akaz one as well?" Topps asked.
Some of us had some time to consider us that. My life changed when I met Rhenka. He was someone who upholds his word, and truthful. I picked him, and he agreed. After some events we managed to get two boys, one which was a infant, and one I created. Their names were Akaz, and Zalok. Zalok used to look down on his brother like he was a disaster waiting to happen. I disagreed. I looked on Akaz's arm, and some how he looked deformed. I couldn't help him. I was still learning. His arm one day was fully functional, and we heard about an incident where he threw a alien pod and broke it in half with both his infested and normal hands. This however began a planetary war, between us, and them. Sasha however learned the mechanic's methods of engineering, and created a war mind, that would try and save us from this desolate place. The Aliens said surrender, but Rhenka yelled out to the sky no. The warmind was in full stride, and with the spikes that amplified electricity through lightning, charged up the cannons intensely. I pleaded for him to stop getting mad, but he was blind, deaf to my voice. He shot both cannons at each starship, one by one they exploded. Rhenka then was so angry, to the point where he aimed at the planet where it came from, and shot at it. We all saw it explode, and we all heard it. We were victorious, but I was still worried about Rhenka. Akaz hugged his leg like he was a hero. Zalok disagreed with Akaz and said that was a dire measure. Then the armor started speaking, trying to say; "Bury me in the ground. Spread me throughout the dimension. I let him go into my first world, and he detached himself piece by piece, spread among the horizon. When Akaz has grown up to be an adult, some strange cyborg named a tenno came to us. They asked for some help trying to bring balance to the galaxy. He wanted to, and he left. I couldn't even say a word, I was crying, Speechless to what I have allowed. A Day after, I saw him still sleeping near a pond around a dis-configured tree that was uplifted from the ground. He was sleeping peacefully with Zalok seating next to his left arm. His tail wrapped around him tightly, like a spring. He seemed to like it near something where there is peace and quiet. Although I started to hear some loud air coming through. Suddenly I see ropes falling from the little cracks in the ceiling. They tried to take Rhenka away from me, but then I saw something amazing, A Sentients potential. Something triggered a thing in him that released a green blast. I was surprised. He then had red eyes instead of green, and a dark aura and a light aura started spinning around him, causing them to be released from their bodies, and Rhenka absorbed them. He never looked so angry before, and he again made a deeper voice than usual. "I will make sure you are dead before the sun sets over the moon!" Rhenka yelled. He then started to manipulate their positions, disconnecting their limbs, causing them to bleed, and bleed, until he got tired of misconfiguring them, and then made them explode with energy. Then he absorbed it through himself, and he returned back to normal. Zalok wanted to know what was going on, and then his aura began to turn green as well. He then manipulated a hopping rabbit to then come to him, and it took energy from itself and it died from suffocated.
I still remember the day where they imprisoned me in their cells. Elise's parents commanded me for execution. But then I realized, something was in me that was strange, something that I can warp around, manipulate. During execution, they tried to cut my head off, but then once the blade hit my neck, it stopped and left sparks all over the floor. Then, the Lunar desolation arrived, making the tower rise once again. I sealed myself away.
"That is very sad.." Topps said.
"To answer your question, Sentients are long lost, old race. We still keep our own traditions. I am what the prophecy of the sentients described. I now stand over them, to make sure that we can live in peace." Equinox answered.
"Akaz is still not here, and now Uitan and Tyler as well. Hopefully they are all okay." Equinox said while walking away.
"He always finds a way out. Always." Topps suggested.
"So, when can I release them? The sooner they all leave, the sooner i can regain my sanity." Gught said.
"Gught, the cargo ship is here. I'll escort them, so that you dont have to kill anybody." Tlat notified.
"Thank you." Gught replied.
Tlat then reached for the switch and let the prisoners out of their cells, but Akaz and Elise were not coming out. Tlat then walked over to see why they weren't. They were still sleeping, and the egg has not hatched yet. Tlat gone in there and slapped Akaz in the face.
"Wake up! Didn't you see the cell open, you are free!" Tlat yelled angrily.
Akaz then waked up because of the hit and then lifted Elise's head, trying to make her understand it was time to leave. They both got up and followed the line of prisoners that walked freely, all just because Gught wanted to never see them again, and the high council wanted them to be released because the war is over. Its more focused on the shadow master Raleigh.
When they got to the hangar under the prison, they were loaded in the cargo section as well. They were all weak, ready to just kill themselves if things do not go well within the next day. Akaz saw Elise trying to keep the egg warm by constricting it gently, but not letting cold air touch it.
"Elise. I know you have an egg. Stop trying to hide it." Akaz said.
The Terrace prisoners looked at them strangely, like they were holding the most wanted thing in the world.
"Shhhh... Akaz, We do not want to attract any unwanted attention. We will worry about this ordeal later." Elise said quietly. "This is not the time to be worrying about it."
They all looked away, forgetting what just happened. The ship's engines started to warm up, and the cargo hold tilted back a bit. The whole thing started to shake violently, and then a sense of zero gravity came to them. Some of them was wondering where they were going. Suddenly Akaz disappeared, and Elise was calling him out like a banshee.
"Akaz, You have been chosen for a test." Equinox explained. "Its also one of our traditions to give the young ones who were born from the sentients at least once in a lifetime."
"Sorry we brought you into this, but its for one of your friends and my daughter Cera." Topps said.
"Its okay, as long as we cooperate, we are fine." Akaz added.
They were teleported in, and within seconds, already fire rained down from the sky.
"Hang on!" Akaz yelled.
Akaz flapped his wings the hardest he could and threw Topps up there. Altayous grabbed his tail, and Littlefoot was boosted. They waited for the walls to close up, and when they finally did, Equinox congratulated them on the first floor. The ceiling then turned into a night sky, as a dome, making everything very dark, and everyone was trying to find out what to do next.
The ones hit quickly was slammed down to the ground while being knocked out. Akaz then ran ahead and looked back at them. When he looked back, he saw that there was only 3 and all of them hit. Suddenly, Akaz felt a great surge of energy running through his hands. He decided that I meant something, had to be the lock for the energy to be inserted. The door opened to him, and a conveyor belt led to a red light, with a glowing laser. Realizing what he had to do, he breathed fire into some parts of the belt, and let it light up, making the task easier. Feeling lucky he gone ahead towards the grinder up ahead and ran towards it. Momentarily, he was given a sharp machete, capable of slicing metal in half. He did not know what the purpose of the weapon was. He heard some sounds coming from the machine, and everything started to work all the suddenly. The conveyor was going fast, and quick. Akaz tried to dash back, but it was just too fast for him. He looked at the grinder, and then looked up, seeing the weak attachment to the grinder on the ceiling. He threw the machete at the weak extension, and it barely hit, seeming to have never been broken. He thought that It was over, although the extension started wearing down, and eventually broke off, making the top grinder be flung to Akaz. Akaz ducked, avoiding the spinning torrent of blades. He ran and jumped over the bottom segment of the grinder and hurried and pushed the red button, but it did not do anything. A wall appeared behind him, with a bunch of sharp and lethal spikes, ready to pierce his tough skin.
"Ten seconds until complete failiure."
He was confused and stressed out at the same time, and then he noticed the white button was still not tried out yet. He slammed his fist into t he white button, causing the surge of energy to disappear, and it stopped the wall from moving towards him, and instead of it travelling backwards, it turned into a bright orb, that then knocked him out by sending the same energy straight to his head.
"It was almost like something like a mastery rank test" Akaz thought to himself.
"Hey Tyler. Mission will be accomplished." Uitan stated. "We maybe should head back to the tower.
"What took you so long?" Tyler asked.
"Ah your old friend I met once has fought you." Uitan said.
Confusion came into Tyler's eyes. As if he did not know him at all. He then stopped being confused and ignored the subject.
"Well, anyway, do you know about your unique ability?" Uitan asked.
"Yes. You have one too." Tyler said. "All the sentients have them. We have the power to take everyone in the universe down with it."
"You know what happens next right?"Uitan said with a bit of laughter on the side.
"Fine! I will devour a human! Just please do not stab me with one of your obelisks!" Tyler yelled while letting his neck go low.
"Aye, enough with the moping about you losing to me." Uitan complained. "It was your fault in the first place that you even lost your mind at that point."
Tyler was let out of the underground cell, and then ran off to the tower to try and see any trespassers who dare to enter his tower. He came across another one of his kind. He stopped walking to the tower but Uitan told him to keep on moving on count of his sentence. Thrask looked at Uitan strangely, so he decided to follow him and Tyler to the tower. Once they got to the tower, standing up almost up to the sky, Tyler flew up and scouted for any humans that wanted to come here. He spotted one with a gun ready to shoot his head. Tyler asked Uitan if he had to try and kill that one. Uitan carefully explained that he was very resistant to gunfire, especially from small arms like pistols. Plus, if he disobeyed, Uitan and/or Equinox can punish him severely. Tyler knew that receiving a punishment from Equinox was the worst thing that a sentient could endure. Tyler, remembering what she could do with her powers sent a chill across his whole body, so he flew into the tower where the human was at. He then rolled to the side to avoid his mouth catching him in his jaws. The human then reacted with many bullets, but each one of them did not leave a mark. Then Tyler tried to catch him again by charging at it, but the human jumped and got to his head and shot him in the eye. With that came a disturbing roar that he made, but he did not give up. He suddenly took all the power from the vermilion core, and absorbed it to make sure he couldn't lose this battle. Tyler, who just got shot in the eye, made the human look into his eyes, and he turned into a lifeless corpse, walking freely, with nothing else. Tyler then charged again, and caught him by the jaws, and then he swallowed it.
"Not too bad. You are telling me that you even was allowed to be in the tower? With that I could almost say you cheated your way up to that point." Uitan bragged. "If I were you, I could take him out and grab him with your arms, and then eat him."
"Well I did that. please nothing else." Tyler demanded. "Besides, If I cheated, then basically, I would've been dead, and or hunted down by my parents, and others as well. You know how we are all like brothers and sisters. I would never forgive myself if I actually did that. If I seem that weak, then I might be just be getting old. Either way, I am not the one who takes shortcuts just because its easy."
"I do not understand. That was a foolproof plan. How did that fail so miserably!?" Raleigh said.
He then slammed his fist onto the table in frustration, but then a ring of fire lit around the table. He then backed up, just in case anything came out of it. A demon appeared, and time began to freeze in that area, everything became suspended in midair, and fire lit everything in air.
"I can help you. Just pay up to my end of the deal after." The strange demon said.
"What the, Who are you?" Raleigh asked.
"Name is Zhallo, I see you are still having problems taking over. All I need is your shadows. Darkness I cannot work with, you can control it, and my fire can work with it, but not combined." Zhallo said.
"I see." "Well then. Welcome aboard."Raleigh happily nodded.
"Now, my turn to state my objective." Zhallo explained. "I want to take over the sentient race. Every single one. Although I will not kill them. I will just capture them."
"You sure? Last time I have faced a sentient, they began going berserk, and took me down quickly." Raleigh said.
"Oh, but I am a sentient. I will take them if you encounter one. You just focus on your objective first, then I will let you use me to complete my intent." Zhallo said.
Zhallo then transformed into a nuclear orb, with each orb he had also gone into it. He then gone to Raleigh and then eerily whispered in his ear; "Use me... Make yourself stronger...". Raleigh then Commanded Zhallo to turn into a weapon. It worked, but the flow of the energy made the shadows of Raleigh fearful. The new discovery of a Corrupted Sentient made Raleigh realize that now he is closer to his goal. To get the Vermilion core.
They went hunting a hour later, looking for sentients who were roaming out at night, trying to find their selves back to the tower of equinox. Raleigh then sensed a powerful being, then beating two times, was determined as 2 sentients incoming. This would be a good way to get closer to both of their objectives. They found both Uitan and Tyler trying to get away using teleportation. Raleigh sent one of his shadows to intercept their route, and they both were outnumbered by the shadows, and Zhallo.
"Got you again. This time, this will be more permanent then the rest of the times." Raleigh scoffed.
"And look who we got here. Uitan. Lets get both of them back to your base, so you can imprison them both." Zhallo said. "He also has the vermilion core Raleigh. We are going to have to really try and lock him down this time."
"Thank you Zhallo. Shadows, make sure that these two get their necks, arms and legs bound, especially for the one with the vermilion core." Raleigh shouted to his manipulated allies.
Uitan tried to shape shift to get free, but it was no use, Raleigh's dark energy prevented him from doing so. Tyler never thought it would end this way. Uitan thought the same, but when Raleigh said Zhallo, he already knew how he did this so easily.
"ZHALLO! SHOW YOURSELF!" Uitan yelled.
"Who is He?" Raleigh asked with sarcasm.
"YOU KNOW WHO HE IS. YOU ARE WORKING WITH HIM!" Uitan said.
Tyler looked at him with a expression of anguish. Raleigh began moving his shadows with the newly captured sentients. Zhallo wanted to mention Akaz, but he kept his mouth shut, before anybody goes wild by mention. Raleigh got a positive feeling in his chest, knowing that he is getting very close, and his goal is right in his grasp.
They restrained both of them under the base, where Tyler is being interrogated, and Uitan is being currently shot in the head multiple times. Meanwhile over their heads, Raleigh is almost to the point of breaking out everything on the sentient, but he did not do it, because of last time he did. Sometimes he would fidget a little with some of his shadows, causing them to merge and turn into something that was a monstrosity, Never he saw what he just did. He let the shards of the crystals light up with a dark feeling that pulsed throughout the base. This weakened Tyler, but somehow did not affect Uitan in the containment chamber.
"Zhallo. Something seems wrong. What do you need?" Raleigh asked.
"I said to this one black dragon, who I helped when this guy killed a lot of them. Maybe I shouldn't. Who knows if he is a sentient." Zhallo answered.
"You make up your mind, I will look for some more ways to make the sentient give up on resisting." Raliegh said.
So now I doubled my last chapter, and this time I should be doing multiple chapters, according to each and every character and scenario. (I hate the FF6 scenarios in the beginning btw).
