Once the gates were, I quickly got to work removing every last one of the Crogenitors from the Bastion, thankful that they were all currently slumbering in cryo-sleep. Once they were safely back in my home dimension, I ordered the construction of more and larger fleets to deal with the Darkspore - only once they were extinct would I allow my new charges to return back home. Once that was done, I finally got to work uniting the artifacts I'd acquired in the Beyond Earth universe, ready to finally see what they had to show to me this time.

The assembled artifact resembled UFO of all things, and the minute I scanned it, everything went dark once again.

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When light returned, I found myself staring at what looked like the destroyed remains of the temple ship from Enemy Unknown, now being picked clean by the strange machines haunting these visions. Idly, I also noted that the wreck seemed to be in the ruins of some great structure, though what the structure truly was eluded me, until I noticed a faded out X symbol on the wall.

This was X-COM's Earth HQ.

OKAY, WHAT IS GOING ON?

Before I could get an answer, I watched one of the machines pull out a Myron plasma rifle, examine it for a moment, before creating a similar weapon out of its own body. Soon, the rest of the machines had similar weapons on their own chassis, at which point the vision finally ended as gave its parting words.

"As you grow stronger from conflict, so shall they. Beware what you throw at them, for they will throw it back."

Weird. Now back to the real world.

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With the vision over, I turned my attention toward prepping up another fleet and ground forces, in preparation for my journey to the next universe. That flee twoukd take a few hours to build, even with my super advanced tech, so I guess it was now time for a nap. Oh well.

I wondered what everyone else was doing?

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The Ectogenesis pod opened up, revealing the shape of a young woman, with blue green hair and lilac eyes. She took a step forward, only to slip and fall face first on the ground. After recovering from the fall, she took another step, this time more cautiously, and succeeded in not repeating her mistake.

A moment later, she was staring at her reflection in a mirror, admiring the shape and curvature of her body, as well as her admittedly very good looks, before quickly dressing herself and requesting a transport to Hydra 01. In her mind, though, the woman was unsure what others would say to her if they knew the truth.

After all, what would people think if the knew she had two bodies, one inside the other?

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Silently, from his prison within the Commander's trophy case, Xylem sighed. It looked like his plan had been a failure, and that his rivals would still live on.

At the same time, though, it had been a success. He had proven the Commander could notnnotice his actions in the Necrosphere, meaning, given time, he could amass forced to attack the Commander on his home field, and the commander would know nothing about them. Of course, that assumed the Commander would not eventually find out about his actions. If he did...

Well, fond for thought.

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When thebfleet finally came online, Along with my ground forces, I smiled and marched through the portal,y forces following behind me. My destination was a barren world, uninhabited by life, perfect for me to begin my operations on. An hour later, my new base was already up and running, letting me search for anything that could tell me where I had ended up.

That didn't take long. About five minutes after my first scout left my new home system, itnspotted a white ship, consisting of some strange looking pillar like structures and two dimes. Scans confirmed the domes were filled with people, making this vessel a colonizer. The color scheme, plus additional scanning, told me this belonged to humanity, who had formed a group called the Terran Alliance in this universe.

Well, what an interesting trade. I started with Civilizations Beyond Earth, now I was going galactic.

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