chapter 11
They fired at the same time the little bird lantern squarked fried. Khaji was surprised that Nile was showing horror ``incombatible data?,,. She stood stile Khaji wondered if she was frozen. Khaji wondered how he got over the notion that she may have lead the scarabs to be both slaves and slavemasters he asked ``This scarab wants the harmina to explain the link between the reach the scarabs and why the reserrection occured,,. She blinked an habit that was genetic judging by the fact that he blinked to ``Hermina:Nile are you damaged,,. She stared Khaji positioned the armour to walk around her to check on her real form when she sore this and spoke up ``I`m undamaged,,. Khaji said ``Hermina:Nile frozen,,. The sonic cannon came into view the one with the better scanning equipment attached to it ``This scarab will scan,,.Her scarab form expressions returned to normal ``That is unnessairy,,. Khaji didn`t understand she owed him alot of explainations she might as well start with this one. He formed an sonic cannon with an scanner attached to it. Her scarab pincers shows uneasyness as the better scan went over her the results went on his sight she had deactivated what was cloaking her smaller form she read as being dead and there was magic in her her said ``explain,,. As soon as the stuff went on his screen eyes she ignored her future sisters tone and said ``I would do the first query,,.
``Does sibling remember the host skywittness,,. Nile got on with it ``This scarab does not but the name is listed as an former host,,. he ansared. ``He told me the Khaji da was drawn to the place called Egypt the Reach sent something to follow you it was on the same frequency as you the Reach lost it when they lost you and it crashed in an place called egypt and was broken untile those that wasn`t of the humans,Reach or scarab found them they were smart, they made something else out of it,,.
Khaji do you remember this,,. He ansared ``Negative,,. She said ``good what they did to you was not worth remembering,,. Khaji told her ``Give information this scarab needs to evaluate any risk,,. She said ``Are you sure,, Khaji paused then nodded she then said ``They forced you to abandon the skywitness and kept you hostless without any senses, sensors and movement while stile torturing you at the same time the skywittness was furious,,. Khaji asked ``did you interragate The sky wittness,,. She said ``negative he did an useless and weak interragation of me when he reconised me from my Frame,,. Then she said allmost sighing ``The skywittness is no threat the skywittness can`t currently leave the desert area he is in,,. Khaji da said ``This scarab isn`t afraid of an former host this scarab conquored host,,. She said ``Well you didn`t he trapped you under an bit of dirt,,. Khaji said ``There is an record of this skywittness as an former host,,. He then said in an normal tone that was somehow ashamed ``It is recorded that that host stopped this scarab from returning to brothers and sisters,,. She said ``That host was the best host,,. Khaji said ``Host Jamie Rey-,,. She said ``Cancel `Host Jamie Reyes was Ready to put you on-mode the skywittness was the best host, The male didn`t let the Reach do anything to you,,. Khaji said ``This scarab would process information what happened next,,. She started again.
``An few months after You took the skywittness as host one of your programs sent an signal to repair the damage you gained and you partially turned on-mode that let the new unknowns that was modifing the Reach technology to discover you existed,, Khaji tried not to show his distaste at the piyied look in her eyes ``It was other damaged gained by unknown means that triggered this my modifications to you were only detectable by genetic family members by the time you could get in contact with them it was suppost to be to late for there actions but with unknown events you was damaged. One of your programming sent for you for "tests" Neither you or skywittness had any choice but to go to the station they put there and the aliens to me were waiting,,.
``They used you against the inhabitants of your hosts planet,,.
``I don`t know how long you were treated like that but skywittness didn`t like how they were treating you so he looked for people to help him get you back including the energy manipulating being indicated as the gods of that land:Egypt thats when they granted my frame from dealth to him. The Isis explained to me what happened from with in here with help of one of her servants, I knew I was going to die when the energy ran out I came up from The river called Nile as an part of the spell that brought my frame back she had kept my secret of being made of technology and my frame by then was so unoperational that it didn`t even look like an scarab So I was dubbed The Rock from The Nile then the drowned scarab ounce my frame was restored,,. Khaji looked mechanical eardging her to go on ``She explained what I was suppost to do I aggred and she put the energy in my dead frame,it was dead it didn`t hurt the energy made my scarab body and mind take on the lighter tone from an mixture of the event of dying and her energy I can only add the colour black around the eyes and I can`t change the light colour. Khaji purred ``Light colour good for identifying Scarab Nile as Hermina not good for undercover missions:How do you avoid getting compremised,,. She ansared ``There are shades that are whiter then mine the diverence of reach hosts are great,,. Khaji was curious `Are there any other green scarabs,,.
``No that scarab used martain genetics to adapt to his host are no other martain scarabs, The colouring would likely come off if that scarab finds an new host,,. Khaji changed the subject ``Did the attempt work,,. She nodded ``But the conflict had to spread away from The place designated Egypt back to the place designated bialya the Egypt place didn`t have the exact energy sources and items,,.
Khaji da nodded in understanding ``Why did the host skywittness bury this funuws,,. She said ``Khaji da where did you find that word,,. Khaji said ``It was in the data banks your information matched an "defective" first attempt at "making" an weapon before they attempted to make the type of scarab this scarab is,,.
She nodded ``funuws is what we called ourself before the Reach came they must have thought they could tame some of us into being things,, She sounded bitter.
``He`s here,,. Jamie looked up to find green lanterns they looked angry He sore one of the unknown lanterns ring glow he didn`t understand his body covered itself in armour he couldn`t remember his back felt bare even threw he came here fully clothed the ringdrone no green lantern shot at him, his brother no a beetle fired on the lanternringdrone dodged and attacked the beetle brother. Host Jamie was confused then he heard an voice ``get lost you losers,,. Jamie lost the tunnel vision he was in and both the outerspace fighters he got an sense of disapointment he realised the inflitrator was what he thought his future self would be and green lantern was only one. He seemed just as big as him but not Jamie he had green eyes wait impulse. His hopefully not future self was smiling in the way that made him cringe and the lantern wearing green googles over impulses older top face but the stranger had an differen`t he said ``Guy thats not crash,,. he was completely serious.
The next thing he knew They were flying towards there own planets that was oppersite to eachother one was an mixture between Earth and an planet with alot of green lantern symbols on it in differen`t lanterns colours the one on top was reachworld but the planets on the side was missing and it had all the differn`t scarab colours white,black,blue and the slighly less colours like red and green. He didn`t understand how he knew then he sore the differences the scarab home world landscape only it did not match the image they had landmarks from the worlds the reach conquored there as well as the same colours and the Reachworld. His tunnel vison fully dissapeared when he looked around to see an angry lantern with the bottom hair of his oranged haired head shaved off.
Guy gardener was floating there then Jamie realised he was in space so he expected to choke but instead he said ``eepp,,. Guy floated up to him ``I should have left you to those losers I`m giving you one chance before I pulverise you,,. Jamie looked terrified ``Eh,,. He relaxed ``You should be glad I did look kid whoever you are it`s the scarabs fault,,. Jamie said bitterly ``It is,,. He said ``Let me remove it for you,,. He panicked looked down remembered he somehow got in armour then said ``I just met you man why should I,, no nonsense he said guy just said ``I know you want to keep the power but I am trying to help you should be happy to finally stop having to talk to yourself all the time,,. Jamie said ``Stile not an good enough reason,,. Guys expression grew weak ``I didn`t want to tell you this but I`m from another reality In my reality that thing killed you the guardians of Oa stopped it from ever being used again and those other scarabs on the planet reacted by distroying alot of people when they were ordered distroyed the Reach didn`t last long without there secret weapons,,.
Jamie had an shocked expression as guy said ``You should get out of that armour the reach might knowtise you using it,,. He kept it on as he gave into the unfamiliar voice in his head saying distroy the ringdrone his ring protected him from the unexpected attack then acted on it`s own moving an projection the temporarily on-mode teen knew to shot at the green light meeting it before it could hit him. Jamies mind screamed to distroy the other ringdrone but an zap was felt from behind and fresh air was felt dispite being in space he accidently did an flip when the armour lost it`s jetpack then he screamed at what grabbed his leg his dark future self smiled at him he did not smile back he kicked him saying something in spanish but bart just said ``easy he`s just stopping you from flying away,,. He said ``oh,,. He knowtised they were both standing in space like they were standing on the ground and he fell and hit the space ``urrggghhh you could have warned me,,. The future him said ``An warning is unessiary for you meat,,. Then he activated his jetpack and flew back to his planet. The lantern bart said ``don`t worry I make sure that guy stays in line,,. He turned to guy ``just don`t do anything thats not crash,,. Then he started glowing and flew off.
Guys gaze pierced into him ``why are you here kid,,. Jamie said ``My scarab thought I would be safe,,. Guy started laughing ``shows what state your minds in Names guy garder by the way,,. Jamie mumbled ``Can you bring me back to my scarab I`m worried what he and Nile might do to eachother,,. Guy gulped Jamie sore his expression ``Que!,,. was said with fear. Guy know what he meant with out knowing the word ``Niles Artifact was the name of whatever got your scarab on-mode,,. Jamie processed what he said with an sick feeling.
Authors note-I probably did guys character slightly off sorry.