S1-140
Answers in the form of questions
11:42 PM
09/04/3272
Planet Troy
Colony G21 (abandoned)
Music
Code Lyoko - The Hermitage
It was a new day, and Michael had become curious of his origins, so Spyglass offered to help him find some answers. Samus, Jenny, Dane, Jack, Sarah, the Shadow, the Counsel, and the Exo brothers accompanied them. Unbeknownst to them, Alder 99-40 provided Glitch Frisk a means of seeing what the team was doing from the IMC HQ, monitoring Rocco's visual feed.
"This was where I found you, Michael. Since then, this rural colony has remained undisturbed, unpopulated, and abandoned."
"I don't understand how I came from here."
"{It's a mystery.}"
They arrived at one building, where the Fireteam leader was first discovered centuries ago. Rocco appeared and scanned the rubble. "{Looks as if there's some sort of secluded chamber closed off under here.}"
They moved the debris out of the way, uncovering... an old wooden floor. "'Secluded chamber'?" Mark-18 glared at Rocco, who glared back at the Exo.
Michael took out a Pulse Blade and stuck it in the ground, revealing the outline of what Rocco was seeing. "{See, Mark? You see it now? Huh?! YOU SEE IT NOW?!}"
"Easy, Rocco." Michael calmed down his Ghost.
The Shadow broke apart into black particles that swarmed through the floorboards, pushing up a rectangular section of it from below once he reformed. "Rocco was right. Let's get some answers."
The rest of the group went inside, seeing a Marvin of an older model having run out of power and toppled over in the middle of the hall.
Music
Metroid: Samus Returns - Ancient Chozo Ruins (Alt)
Up ahead was the chamber Rocco mentioned, containing a few bizarre pieces of tech, notes that couldn't be read, and what looks like a message carved into the wall.
VaxacArraxan idniz whaxavo zo kuts!
"What in the world..." Jack was, like the others, extremely confused.
Sarah picked up one of the practically unreadable documents.
"What have you got, Briggs?" Zavala asked.
"I have no idea. This isn't even language." Sarah showed Commander Zavala the unreadable document.
EPOLATIEN FIE-TOLMINATIEN
REG 1
Jefedupp wholo gnews axafuk vupp fie-woaxapen oxpolimonks um axaltibiciaxar whumaxan DNA, pi Pum dinkoct te gour dit zaxat waxaupp. Zo spocimons Pum axam konolaxatick vaxaupp fo faxasici ox whumaxan, fut zo konos zaxat sots oaxast dictividuaxar whumaxan axapaxalt, Pum whaxavo diseraxatow pi lomevow zom din vupp saxampros.
Wo axalo zo axadvaxancow, pi vupp spocimons axalo zo faxasics. Pum wirr plevo zo Viritiaxa dreck! Vupp whumaxan fie-woaxapens wirr olaxadicaxato zo DiMC blem within, roaxavick zo Blenkiol te us!
Dit nud riko vupp erdol flethol, he beeriskrupp sidow um zo DiMC, caxamo te foriovo: whumaxan ribo dis oxpoctaxafro.
Reck rivo zo Viritiaxa.
"{I can't translate any of this gobbledygack.}" Sarah's Ghost was lost on this as well.
"Yeah, I'm having trouble trying to read this as well." Cayde-6 stated, holding another note.
EPOLATIEN FIE-TOLMINATIEN
REG 4
Zloo eb zo sufjonds axalo axarloaxadupp skewick signs eb keew whoaxarth, zo loch whaxavo foon ismaxankrow pi locycrow.
Pum peniz gned hupp, fut WhFW012 dis skewick molupp plemisick fieregicaxar loaxadicks, se Pum dinjondow up axaltibiciaxar konemo te torr whix axapaxalt. Pum teet eno eb zeso Vaxalvins blem zo DiMS Edyssoupp pi lopleglaxammow dit te fo vupp ewn dolsenaxar solvaxank. Jed Pum soo hupp zo DiMC whaxas se vaxanupp eb zom. Vaxalvins axalo obbicionk raxafel wrenos. Pum skeurd kot vysorb velo eb zoso semotimo.
The Exo brothers were trying, and failing, to decipher any of the documents they were trying to read. "This makes... no sense." Hayden-10 was at a loss.
EPOLATIEN FIE-TOLMINATIEN
REG 9
WhFW012 dis axarmech loaxadupp te chaxalt axagick, pi Pum ochimaxato zaxat dit'rr fo twe el zloo wooks fobelo Pum caxan put zis plejond dinke vetien.
Pum plepesow zo didoaxa eb fieregicaxar waxalbaxalo te VaxacArraxan, fut who quich terd vo te belgot dit pi 'bict vupp saxanitupp'! Pum wirr plevo whix dreck! Zis wirr welk! DiT WhAS TE WELK!
Not even the Shadow could make sense of the madness that was written and unreadable. "I... I can't... I can't read this. My Taken Vex Minds have just completely given up!"
EPOLATIEN FIE-TOLMINATIEN
REG 13
Zo DiMC axalo axattaxangick! Dit nud tee seen! Jet jed! JET WHON Pum'V SE CRESO! Pum whaxavo te soct uk up SES te zo Viritiaxa, dit nud eep enrupp staxanco!
As Michael examined the various unreadable notes, he found button on the wall and pressed it, causing a large section of the wall to slide open, and the lights came on.
Music
Metroid Prime - Desolate Frigate Orpheon
In the newly uncovered section of the chamber were nineteen glass tubes filled with a green liquid, and inside each of them was a semi-humanoid lump of what appeared to be human skin, but most of them appeared to be in a sort of grotesque degradation.
"That's... THAT'S DISGUSTING!" Jenny was completely grossed out. Who could blame her?
Spyglass's Ghost appeared and proceeded to interface with the Marvin's rusted memory core. "{I'm getting something from this Marvin's memory banks, even though they're completely destroyed and rusted over. Looks as if someone here was working on... oh dear lord... human DNA experiments!}"
"We must inform the Aurora Units of this at once." Spyglass proclaimed.
"Hey, there's another tank in the corner!" Dane was right, but this one was empty, and the glass was broken from the outside.
Ikora walked up to the broken tube and examined the display. "'HBW017'. There was a tag I found on one of the desks in the main chamber, and it had that exact ID on it."
Ikora's Ghost appeared to add to her statement. "{There were also some really weird devices. I couldn't completely understand them, but according to the telemetry my scans were returning, they were some sort of neural inhibitors.}"
"Let's get out of here before we get attacked by some undead DNA monstrosity or something, OK?" Mark-18 suggested.
"Indeed. Perhaps the Aurora Units will have better luck than us at decrypting these documents." Zavala replied.
They left the chamber, headed back to the three parked Drop Ships outside, and headed back to the City on Earth and the IMC HQ on Vez-2.
"Glad to be out of there. I do NOT want to get eaten by some madman's zombified skin experiment."
"Cayde, what exactly happened to you on Nessus?" Ikora wondered.
One thing's for sure, that chamber down there was seriously freaky.
This came to me in a really weird dream one time. No more pop rocks Oreo cookies at 1:47 in the morning for me!
Can you figure out the mystery?
See you next time, but... Cayde... I'm sorry about what'll happen to you in the Forsaken DLC...