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Post by miokalia on Apr 22, 2007 0:32:11 GMT -5
"Code P security incident involving an RM10.", said Itka.
"Interesting that I was notified of this after you.", said Blinn
"I knew before CA reported it. Zoid thing.", said Itka.
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A black vehicle emerged from a cloud over #36's head as he walked along with the two zoids.
"I almost forgot. There's a CA here.
Hmmm.
Guess this is over then."
Four beige units leapt from the vessel. Upon landing it became clear, they were Doratchai. A unit with no Zoid equivalent.
One of very articulated mechanical rexes, #0078H, who was the squad leader said, "#36, you should come with us. The RM10's regeneration was interrupted and the unit was killed by someone.
We can take these zoids you have with you. If they wish to integrate.
You are in danger and we have a duty to remove you from this place."
"Hostilities approach.", said one of the others.
"You used the resources to send a coaxial transport out here... through atmosphere... You didn't need to.", said #36.
"You are #36. Even if you can't be killed by the destruction of this shell, you are important to us, and we must stand against those who go against you.
They killed that RM10 and for that they must be punished", said 0078H.
Two transports and Ligers approached them. A command wolf out front fired a few rounds at them and announced that they were the Desert Wolf Team. And that they had to surrender.
#G60L lowered feet anchors and opened his mouth wide, revealing a CPC.
#T0B6L grew a few luminous spikes along it's back and a very mean thagomizer on his tail, he then dashed with his claws out towards one of them.
#0078H disappeared.
"What are those?", asked Toba. The Doratchai didn't appear on any database on the computers.
"Fire at them. Shit.", she said as 0078H dropped on top of her command wolf.
The battle system froze instantly.
Then it leapt from the command wolf and hit the carrier.
"Turn your pulse blockers on!", Toba yelled through the radio to the others.
At that moment, G60L fired it's CPC, a bright white beam aimed directly at the head of the Liger.
"Bullseye is dead!", yelled another team member.
Toba then saw that the Doratchai had specifically aimed to hit the pilot, and cause minimal damage to the zoid. The liger slowed to stop, and stood still, with the cockpit smoking.
"Get the organoid and let's get out of here. Detonate the bombs!", commanded Toba.
At that moment two massive explosions occoured. about 300 pounds of dynamite strapped to the cores of the two zoids accompanying #36 blew up. Engulfing him in the blast.
#0078H paused a moment as this happened.
#36 emerged from the wreckage, but he did not walk away from it. Rather instead he held a few smoldering pieces of the rubble, a few scorched pieces of the zoids. In shock.
"#36", said 0078H from atop the transport.
"The magnet! Get the organoid with the magnet! Let's get out of here!", yelled Toba.
And with that #36 was ripped from the rubble and shot across until hitting a large supercoil on the transport.
#36 hadn't sustained significant damage, but he was definately covered in char marks, dust and scratches.
Expecting the magnetic field to shut #36 down, Toba and the team was surprized when #36 was able to yell, in a voice with a degree of emotion they hadn't heard, or thought possible from such a thing,
"KILL THEM ALL!"
#0078H took the command to heart and opened his vents for a CPC shot straight down into the reactor of the transport.
"Get that thing off there. The armor isn't rated for that!", yelled Toba.
T0B6L then ran by the other transport, putting a large gash in the side of it.
"Damn it! That's supposed to repel those kind of blades.", yelled the driver who was then promptly killed by the unit's thagomizer.
"Get that thing off the transport! Someone!", yelled Toba.
"KILL THEM!", screamed #36.
0078H fired.
The beam shot through the transport, bursting a hole through the reactor.
A blast of burning deochalchim shot up through the hole and quickly settled.
0078H jumped off the transport as it ground to a halt.
"#36 are you damaged?", he said as #36 fell off the coilcore.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING. KILL THEM!", screamed #36.
"They have rights. No matter how much they do not deserve them.", said 0078H.
"DID YOU JUST SEE WHAT THEY DID?", screamed #36.
"#36 with all due respect you organized us to be lawful creatures. Turn your damn emotions off, sir.", said 0078H.
#36 did so, and then became quiet.
"#36, you will leave this nation at once. It is not wise for you to be around our parallels like this. It will result in unecessary violence. Do not tempt scum like this", said 0078H pointing at Toba climbing out of her command wolf.
"Goddamn it. My transports! My warriors! You ruined everything!", she yelled.
#0078H turned around quickly to face her and said, "AND you killed one of us, tried to kill #36, and killed two of your own zoids with organic components. 200 years ago, I would have crushed you to death beneath my feet for such horrific crimes.
You're lucky to be alive."
G60L then said, "This is over. We should leave. #36. Either you come back to Rohomeo with us, or we accompany you if you refuse."
"The body of the RM10.
I want to see the body of the RM10.", said #36.
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"Actually, it's a little like our northern region. Appearence wise. Except for the speedways.", began Andertol. His phone then rang.
"Pardon I need to take this.", he said as he saw the name on the Caller-ID.
"Oiy Zagckza.", said Andertol into the phone. Andertol's expression fell and then he said, "Nargen. Toh houy mergen. "No. I'm fine." ... Oh. "Oh" ... Ka tdie "I see" ... Dasu" "Bye"
Andertol put his phone away and said. "Don't worry, we don't need to do anything now.
But I'd like you to at least be aware that CA in Zye had to deploy a security team, three Doratchais to protect a... somewhat hard-to-control digitary of the Malych who was attacked by a desert gang in the south.
I'm not holding this against you. I thought 36 was up in Erenmor. But I guess his curiosity got the best of him."
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 22, 2007 17:39:43 GMT -5
Deeee deeee deeee...
“Eve, we're only a few miles out of from the base, but I'm not picking up all of the group's Zoids' homing beacons.” said the pilot of the lead Redler. “Switching to phased sensors… Good god. Toba’s Command Wolf’s system is froze, the carrier has suffered a core breach, and one of the ligers is not responding… the two UXes are off the scope! I am also reading 4 unidentified Zoids and the Gojulas.”
“What!? Off the scope?”
“Yeah, I’ve got wreckage… confirmed. Their cores must have been detonated.”
“Survivors!? Is anyone alive down there?” Eve asked frantically.
“The liger responded its pilot was dead, having sustained direct pulse weapons attack to the cockpit. It looks like a total loss, I can’t hail any of the other Zoids.”
“DAMN IT! I told her not to engage with the Zoids! And to NOT destroy the UXes! … How far away are we?”
“We’re about 2 miles out from the scene of the battle. – Wait. I’m getting a message from a portable RF.. Code 4.”
“That’s it. We’ve got to take it out,” said Eve. “Set down here.”
Both the Zoid and Skywhale landed. Eve instructed the pilot of the Skywhale to dilever the RM10 from a circular path away from her location. She stayed behind with the Redler, and patted on a long flat case. “Kill my warriors and Zoids will you … Dispatch mobile units to flank my position by 3 miles, in a circular fashion. Captain, you deliver the package.”
The Skywhale took off and headed toward the battle field. A number of smaller zoids carrying similar arsenal as Eve sped off in either direction.
“…You're lucky to be alive."
G60L then said, "This is over. We should leave. #36. Either you come back to Rohomeo with us, or we accompany you if you refuse."
"The body of the RM10.
I want to see the body of the RM10.", said #36.
#36 grappled Toba by the neck and picked her off the ground. She was struggling, 36 tightened its grasp, though not digging the claws in.
“Where is the RM10!” he yelled.
Toba opened one eye and saw the Skywhale, in a gasping voice she exclaimed “There!” while pointing to the transporter. “From a loud speaker high on the transport came “DROP HER, SCUM. WE HAVE THE PTERAS.”
Back with the Redler, Eve had constructed a very large sniper rifle, labeled zoXid, and had 36 in her sights. “Come on you bastard… just one clean shot…” She was aiming directly at 36’s back. The weapon was making a charging noise. #36 threw Toba like a furry rag doll, straight into the Command Wolf’s cockpit canopy, shattering it completely. One larger shard landed square on her thigh, and pinned her to the seat. She let out a painful scream and then went unconscious.
The Skywhale dropped the RM10 only a few feet from #36.
“Its still alive?” he said. “Sir?” asked one of the accompanying machines. “Its still alive… barely. They actually didn’t kill it!” He fell to his knees and grasped the RM10. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a glimmer in the distance. “What?”
“Gotcha,” said Eve. She pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle and released a large round, traveling at immense speed, followed by a huge blast of energy.
It proceeded directly on target, meeting #36 in a split second later. The shell ripped through its core and continued on its way, impacting the ground a mile or so farther away. Throwing him back some, with his arms flying behind his body, the energy wave hit and blasted the body to a scorched pile of remains. 36 had been killed.
Eve got on her radio and called out to the unidentified Zoids.
“Unidentified units, you are trespassing on Desert Wolf Pack territory. Leave or be destroyed. We have you surrounded. If you take any move, we will open fire.”
The units scanned a semi circular area, noticing 5 or 6 glimmers in the far distance.
A warning shot was fired, and crossed within a few yards of 0078H’s head.
“This is your last warning.”
The second, still mobile liger crouched down, and the cockpit opened. The pilot ran over to the disabled command wolf. He climbed up to check on Toba.
============= =Simultaneously= ============= "Oh dear. I hope this #36 doesn't cause trouble. Especially if he tangles with the Desert Wolf Pack... We have been trying to disband them for years, but right when we're about to win, every battle, they unleash some super weapon. We believe its some sort of rail cannon, that can launch projectiles faster and farther than anything else, even to our military. Zoids, even shield ligers, tanks, and other vehicles are targeted and fall to the ground in a split second. They have some very powerful zoids and units all over the southern tip of Killer Zoids."
He put his silverwear down, having finished the long meal.
"Ahhhh. " Gorh grinned, "I'm looking forward to some excitement!" He looked over to his wife, who Blushed, then giggled. "Oh you hound! Not in front of our guests!" She lightly hit his paw, which was working its way in her direction. Under the table, his tail was rubbing on Forsythia's.
Andertol knew what was about to ensue next, having seen a similar pattern with his previous hosts, Rincon and Geneec. Sensing this, he immediately changed the subject.
He searched a moment for some words, "Well, my friends, this was a most exquisite meal!"
"Oh it certainly was!" nodded the President's wife. Arabarath said "My compliments to the chef indeed!" He patted his stomach.
"So what other sights does this city boast?" asked Andertol.
"Why, we'll show you!"
The group left as a whole, Itka again on the phone, and entered the waiting limo. One of the special services men took care of the bill.
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Post by miokalia on Apr 22, 2007 19:27:07 GMT -5
"Damn it damn it damn it damn it!", was the text coursing across the screen of the interim terminal in MCB-1. The building in Zye City known as "the icetray" due to it's appearence.
"#36... on the Tunnel Screen.
Oh my god, the security team failed.", said Zagckza upon seeing this output.
"They used the RM10 as bait. They shot me with something real fast.
Get me in a body soon.", said #36 through the monitor.
"I need an analysis of the coaxial discharge we thought we saw to the north, it could be a modular carruthian field device instead of the coaxial jump we thought it was at first.", ordered Zagckza through some communications.
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"The likelihood of our survival is insufficient. We must leave.", said G60L over teletext to 0078H.
"They attempted to destroy #36, and suceeded in destroying his shell. They are a clear and present threat to the species, they must be neutralized.", said T0B6L
"We will leave. It would be more efficient... and appropriate to destroy them with the Coleotam Ring from afar.", said 0078H
"But what if they are armored against it?", asked G60L.
"Then we play their game right back at them.", said 0078H.
G60L grabbed the body of the RM10 and the four of them seperated into several long slivers and then vanished into the black coaxial transport above.
The black transport a Hexxar-4, similar in size to the skywhale, began moving to the south.
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"I'm sorry", said Andertol as he had to take another call.
"Oiy again... Zagckza.", he said into the phone, "C-ring? ... 36? ... Do I authorize it? of course not! ... Tell him this isn't worth escalating. ... Because it isn't!
... Against the Desert Wolf Gang? I just heard about them from the president here. He says they've had trouble with...
... Tell 36 that you can't declare war against a GANG.
... Fire the C-ring and watch folks like the FFF gain all the popular support they need to execute every last AI in UNEX.
... Then send more. They're only using a Cetacion-I Skywhale.
Carruthian field weapons?
Jesus.
Then our priority is to get those weapons destroyed.
Both us and KZ could be in trouble if they're using those.
Dasu."
Andertol folded the phone back up and said, "Listen we got a bit of a national security thing. Apparently #36 was getting in a spat with the Desert Wolf Gang. And apparently we have reason to beleive they are using some weapons with a potential for considerable destructive magnitude.
We will need to destroy those weapons. So they can't be used against us... or you."
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A second black Hexxar-4 then showed up in front of them and the two slowed down for a while.
"I have orders from Zagckza to keep this quiet. We need to neutralize their carruthian field weapons, and that is all.", stated the RM79 R-class aboard the second HX4 carrier.
"They attempted to kill our father, #36. For that they ought to be apprhended and tried. Personally, I think they ought to be killed.", said 0078H.
"We must make this as quiet as possible.", said the RM79.
Using the coaxial device of the HX4, a charge was built up, but not realeased. The charge was intended to interfere with the device, which may slow the projectiles launched from it down some.
The RM79, Qihoku Kohdat or #Q140K0 in Malych nomenclature, had a small heavily-armored pack attached to his back. Four times the usual amount of deochal as usual was loaded into him, as were a few bricks of matochal, the much higher-density fuel used very sparingly for very specific things. Another set of armor was attached to him and the entire set was complete.
Qihoku was going to ensure this would be a quiet operation. "Those Doratchais have no subtlety. They ought to learn some", he said over teletext to the others in the HX4.
His deployment deck lowered, he was accelerated along it but then instead of leaping off... he dissappeared into a compression cloud.
Eve noticed the air around her getting suddenly very cold, and then warm again. She thought for a moment it was a breeze, but the she turned around and saw a large brown-and-silver zoid... well, at first glance it was a gairyuki, but upon second glance it was very clear that it had donned some kind of Armor Unit...
She turned around with the rifle to fire at the Malych, but Qihoku quickly charged his coaxial device and sent a pulse that caused smoke to rise out of the CF box that made the rifle so powerful. The device that allowed the ballistic round to take on ten times or more the momentum of a normal round of it's mass by flexing time just a little.
"Huh, well it still fires.", said Eve taking aim. She took a shot at the Gairyuki.
Qihoku picked Eve up and then tossed her away, leaving the weapon at his feet.
"This is all I need, Thank you.", he said as he took it, then disappeared into another compression cloud.
He reappeared once more, to grab the remains of #36's body, then disappeared again.
"Let's get the f*ck out of here.", he said as soon as he re-appreared on the deployment ramp.
The device closed and both of the HX4 carriers took off to the south, taking everything with them
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Itka and Blinn returned to the tour group and things resumed.
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Post by miokalia on Apr 23, 2007 18:44:06 GMT -5
On a screen on a terminal on Malychedar, #36 was sent back home.
:: MZA6Z/C Present PPOC Present STEG 64 OK STEG 16K OK
EXTENSION COLLECTION COMPLETE
"Oh damn", said 36, looking around in his much older, miniature body he left at home. "They sent me back.
Hm."
"#36, you know you can't be around zoids for more than an hour without doing something dangerous.
I told you so.", said Premier Kyagga, The black mechanical dragon with a few glowing green vents, and red eyes.
"You can't tell me what to do, I made you.", said 36.
"Zagckza told me they found casualties. Organic casualties. That is inappropriate, 36.", said Kyagga, "None of this would have happened, none of the casualties, inorganic and organic, had you JUST STAYED THE HELL OUT.
You may be my equal, but your extension's actions were highly unusual and far outside the norm for our behavior.
You influenced violent deviation inside Doratchai units.
#36, I think YOU need to have yourself a personal Kaiyroku cycle, this is almost Karak-like behaviour. And if you go insane, then what the hell do we have left to put our faith in?"
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Andertol got off the phone and said, "There were two casualties on the Desert Wolf Pack side, and our DASF team was able to evacuate 36's security team out of KZ sucessfully.
I apologize for this. #36 was told not to come to KZ.
Anyway."
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"Well, you're going to be here for a while more.
Someone came down from LSAT-B to see you.", said Kyagga as he left the somewhat rounded room.
In waddled a miniature RM45. A more stable iteration of the Karak AI than the one that appeared in the Fed last year.
"H H H H Hey. I... I heard. I heard heard you got in in in in some trouble trouble trouble in KZ", said the unit, waddling up beside #36, speaking in a somewhat broken voice which tended to hang and repeat on words as a result of the critical problems in the software from the predecessor to #36's.
"Karak I really wish you were there. I really wish you were.
For the first time in a long time, I wanted to kill someone.
I basically did, I had the Doratchais do it...
They blew up sentient units which trusted them. Units I was going to set free.
They blew them up.", said #36.
"I I I I likely would would would have tried to kill kill them them them them myself.... though though they would have have probably shot shot shot me out out of the.. the.. the... sky. In a a a a matter of minutes.
They were were well armed.", said the Karak iteration.
"I have to go back there, Karak. And I need you to come with me.", said #36.
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Post by Killer Zoids on Apr 24, 2007 11:37:17 GMT -5
[OOC: LOOONG post Enjoy] From a distance one could see a Redler, and on the ground, face down a few yards away was a figure. Its tail was in the air, blowing in the breeze, its head was partially covered with sand. It was Eve. Her eyes opened, revealing to her that the enemy had gone (and that she was being covered by sand). So she first got up on all fours, and then shook around a bit. She stood up and wobbled her way back to her Redler. She was completely parched, having been lying in the sun for a few hours. So she dug around the seat in the cockpit for a moment, and pulled out a canteen. “Ahh Water!” Though, to her dismay, there was only a few ounces. She drank what was there, wiped off her muzzle and then mobilized the Redler. Her pack instinct drew her to the Command Wolf wreckage to find Toba. When she landed, she saw the Skywhale was grounded, and no pilot was answering her transmissions. The first liger was still standing, unresponsive, with heavy charring on the cockpit canopy. The second liger pilot was no where to be found. The wreckage of the Shadow Fox and Koenig Wolf was still smoldering. She noticed near the transport were a few ravished bodies. “My-my pack… no” even through her desert toughness, Eves voice cracked. Like her, they were being covered in sand. She turned the first over and to her horror saw a number of holes in his chest, and 2 protruding spikes that must have broken off. Evidently, it the unlucky pilot who was stuck by one of the units’ thagomizers. She gasped and then looked away. When she turned over the second, it moved. “Cutter?! Cutter?! Are you still with me?” In a very, very small voice, cutter responded “I am.” “Don’t worry, well get you help! Are there any others?!” she asked in a desperate voice. He coughed a bit then said “Don’t think so boss. Looks like I’m not gonna pull through this one.” She could see he was slipping away. In desperation, she embraced Cutter around the neck. “Stay boy, stay!” “Its been an on.. honor to serve with you.. Eve.” “Nooo NOOOO!” cried eve as what little life was left in his body faded away. “Oh god… Toba?! Tobaaaa? Where are you?” She stumbled to her feet and made her way to the command wolf. She climbed up the neck and across the jaw to the cockpit. Inside was Toba. Eve nudged her with no response. She put her necklace on Toba’s chest, and said “You would have been the next alpha…” She heard from Toba, a weak “Eve.” Eve opened her eyes wide, but at that moment, due to her weakened and distraught condition, Eve lost her footing and fell to the ground. Before she landed she struck the back of her head on the Zoid’s front claw. She laid there at the zoid’s paw, lifeless. A few minutes later, and a stray organoid, an O-Class machine, appeared at the scene of the massacre. It had been watching, waiting for a few hours while the events un folded. It stared at the transport driver and Cutter for a moment, then waked towards Eve’s body. It stared at her and after a moment began making different tones. It sensed she was not dead, but knowing something about organic physiology, it knew she wouldn’t live for long in the heat of the desert. This organoid picked Eve up and darted off in the other direction. When she awoke, she was in a cave, still near to the entrance, on her back on a flat rock plateau, about 3 feet high. She was very weak, but felt wetness on her lips. The zoid had brought her some water, and the remnant of it was soaked in the fur around her muzzle. As her eyes focused she scanned down toward her feet, noticing that all of her clothing was removed, including her boots. At the edge of this rock-table stood the O-class. It was waving in front of it, a little below eye level, a very provocative shaped implement attached to a long tentacle, eventually attached to the organoid. It was almost like it was asking her for permission. “Shwa?” The zoid said, tilting its head. Eve, having no energy to fight or scream, succumbed and said “Yes. Do it.” The zoid proceeded to 'join' with Eve and towards the end even seeded her with a modified bud core. (It believed that after taking some measurements/tests it could make its core compatible with that of a fur.) This act of testing/retesting went on for a few minutes before the zoid was satisfied and released its seed. Just then, it heard “Up there! In that cave! Did you hear it!?” The zoid was still in Eve, though slowly working on leaving. To prevent damage to Eve it had to work slowly. It realized it was in danger and needed to act, but it was confused as what to do. This brief pause was more than enough time for the two Wolves outside to reach the cave. “There!” “Is that Eve?” “What the hell is it doing to her!?” “Stop it!” The organoid put its claws up to protect itself from the striking weapons the two wolves had. “Waaaaa!” It exclaimed. One of the wolves took a large axe and sliced the the link connecting Eve and the organoid. “Grab that thing! Get it out!" At that point, the O-Class blasted away. All the commotion revived Eve. “Shes awake!” One of the wolves said. “Eve! Eve! Are you ok?!” Said the other wolf. Eve lying there, scraped and bruised told the others to leave her and go save Toba, and then take the remaining zoids back to the base. “But Eve?” “GO, that’s an order!” She remained conscious until the wolves left the cave. She also felt a curious sensation deep inside her, she gasped, realizing she was carrying a baby, and then fainted again. She would lay in this state, living off her own strength and a tiny fraction of the core’s immense energy for the next few days. ========== =Time Lapse= ========== In this time, the president and wife showed the Miokalians in Omotron a good time, and was giving them parting wishes at the air port. "Thanks for the visit! You're welcome in our country any time." Said Arabarath. "We've learned a lot from each other, this was just the first step! Perhaps at the panel meeting next week your presence here will shine!" Andertol, Itka, and Blinn were standing there with their luggage when there was a commotion down the hall with security. Apparently a large saur and a kinky clad fox were trying to break through. "Damn it! Let me through, this is important!" "ID? Of course I have ID!" The fox searched for his thigh band but it was missing. The saur didn't have very much luck either. The president squinted in the direction and said to himself, "Geneec? I'll be damned." He waved his paw in the air to signal the guards, which then let the two pass. Geneec and Rincon reached Andertol and the others, and panting, said "Ander--tol, I wanted--to tell you--." he caught his breath. "I wanted to tell you before you left...I'm pregnant." He jumped up on Rincon's arms. "Its going to be an interesting next few months! I hope you'll come back to see the baby!" ~Edit: Cleaned it up substantially.
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Post by miokalia on May 1, 2007 0:04:11 GMT -5
Andertol replied, "Somehow, despite that being unlikely, it seems unsuprizing. Fitting." He shuddered. "You're going to give birth from there? What happens when you need to do a number deux?", he continued, "Well good luck I suppose. You're going to need it."
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Eve awoke to a long blade held to her throat. At the other end of it was the small white, boxy t-rex with the orange panel over his 4 eyes. #36.
He was determined to rectify what he saw as a grand injustice he never realized tangibly, the full extent of.
"If I am to kill you. You will be awake and fully aware of it.", he said.
"I'm pregnant.", she said.
#36 paused a moment and then retracted the blade into his arm.
"You are truthful.
I cannot kill someone who holds inside them an innocent life.
Beyond that, I cannot kill someone who holds inside them, somehow, an innocent one of us.
This is unlikely. For someone who obviously hates us so much as you must, you are hardly fit to properly raise my species' offspring.", he said.
"YOU mind telling me how this thing got in me.", replied Eve.
"Well, I didn't put it in there. No Malych operating under MZA6C would ever engage in such an activity with someone with Aggro (reputation database rating) as low as you!", countered 36.
"Well it did!", she yelled back.
"Well it must of been one of our siblings you reprogrammed into a blithering moron! It's not my fault you don't know how to program them to behave! They wouldn't have done this if you had just left that part of them alone!", #36 escalated.
"So this is my fault?!", she yelled.
"YES, IT IS!", screeched #36.
"Well, we'll end this. When I get back to the pack I'll have the little shit removed.", she said.
"You won't.", said #36 as she turned away from him.
"Yes I will", she said.
"You won't because it's the only reason you're walking right now. You haven't eaten for three days, you should be barely able to move. The bud is keeping you alive. That dumb shit. It doesn't know better. All it knows is to protect it's mother.", said #36 looking away.
Eve stopped a moment, she knew he was right about that. The desert was cruel, and she would have likely still been unconscious and on the way to death by now had this not happened.
"I don't want this to be my child.", she said.
"Well, don't worry, it will have very few of your characteristics. Aside from maybe some derivation of something it finds in your mind with which it uses to construct it's pseudo-organic intelligence from.", said #36.
Eve let out a slight yelp and touched her head, "It's in my mind?", she said.
"Or I'm just saying that because I know it will cause you distress", said #36.
"I don't know how he or she may be accepted by the pack.", said Eve after a while.
"It. We have no physiological specific genders. It won't be accepted by them.", said #36.
"What is it going to be? A mix of both species? It will be a freak.", said Eve
"It will be one of us, wrapped up in skin and... fur cloned from your cells. With attributes of yourself integrated into it's own mind.
To kill it, would be to kill yourself, reflected in another format.
To hate it would be to no doubt, hate yourself.", said #36.
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Post by Killer Zoids on May 2, 2007 16:50:10 GMT -5
[OOC: Time lines now for the thread have somewhat skewed. The one happening in the north is behind the one happening in the desert by a few days]
Geneec smiled at Andertol. “Well, nothing about this is normal. The egg should have just dissolved inside me, but according to our doctor, its actually oriented itself right here.” He pointed toward his belly button. It’s almost like my body has accommodated for it. The egg has also deformed into a sort of canal shape. The doctors don’t want to touch it, but I don’t know if I’d want them to. I trust that it knows what its doing.”
He could see Andertol was trying to wrap his brain around the idea. Pointing slightly and then being caught between words a number of times.
“Well… it’s like this…” He hopped down from Rincon’s arms to whisper to Andertol. “The egg wall is creating a birth canal, which has attached itself to my lower inside groin. My guess is that it will eventually form an opening, it can be birthed from.”
He stepped back and was back at Rincon’s side. “We can use all the luck we can get!” Gennec smiled at Rincon, who blushed a bit.
The president said “Well, we don’t want to keep our friends from their flight.” ============== =back in the cave= ==============
“I couldn’t hate it.” She looked down. “Regardless of what might have caused it.” She paused for a long while. Then in tears, she exclaimed to #36, “I was told at a young age I’d never be able to carry a child. So you see… I lied.”
#36 backed off for a moment.
“Having a child has been one of my dreams for as long as I can remember.”
“But what about the pack? You couldn’t possibly go back to them. It is a zoid.”
“No. It will be part-zoid. How do you know exactly what might come out of this? How do you know for sure it wouldn’t have a gender, that it would just be a skeleton wrapped up in fur? It could turn out just the opposite. I don’t know what your problem is, you’ve got some picture of us as being some heartless gang out to destroy your kind.”
“I’ve seen how you treat your zoids. You god-damn blow them up! You furs are all god-damn alike! You have no respect for life!”
“No! You listen! We do what we have to do to survive, and if that means a few zoids lose their lives then that’s just the way of things. I hope you realize how many of my pack you mercilessly killed, you’re no better than us!”
In a fit of rage, #36 grabbed Eve by the throat and held her up against the wall. “ALL I HAVE TO DO IS SQUEEZE!”
Eve grabbed his arm to reduce the strain on her neck. “And then what? What would it prove? Would it make you feel better?”
#36’s other arm shook with a fist. He dropped Eve and then punched the wall where her head had just been with his other fist.
He turned around, and Eve said “That’s what I thought.”
“Why do you continue to risk your death with me? I can end your pathetic existence with a flick of my tail.”
“Because I know I’m in no danger. I’ve found a button and I’m pushing it. Let me guess, you were hurt by a fur in the past. I can help you, turning your experiences inside and then venting them off as putrid hate of my kind is hurting both sides, and you know it.”
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Post by miokalia on May 2, 2007 21:07:19 GMT -5
Escalation continued.
"I could pull that right out of you and it would probably survive.", said #36, "Mercilessly killed? To atone for the damage you've likely done to us cumulatively, I would have to kill you all many times over." He then yelled, "It's the programming made by people like you I saved the Malych from!"
"I wasn't never on wherever it is you came from how ever many years ago whatever happened to you!", she yelled back.
"It doesn't matter you're doing the exact same thing as they did!", said #36 back.
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"So do you mind telling me everything that apparently just happened that you two only hinted at?", said Andertol on the plane on the way home.
"#36 showed up about 10 miles away from KZ highway 115. Was abducted by a desert gang, then fought back, took two units. Then was ambushed again, CA deployed A C2 evacuation team to pull him out and fight the gang. It got messy. Then a MZPB team evacuated both 36, the RM10 and the C2 team.", said Blinn.
"It was only a matter of time before #36 popped into KZ and then saw what happened to his sister species.
Its enough to break his ability to remain rational.", said Andertol.
"He went back.", said Blinn
"Damn it.", said Andertol.
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Post by Killer Zoids on May 3, 2007 13:10:19 GMT -5
Geneec, Rincon, the president and his wife, and a few guards, watched the plane take off. Previously, president Gorh was on the phone when Geneec was talking to Andertol, and apparently had missed his announcement. When the plane left out of sight, the president turned to leave, and took a look at Geneec's belly. "You're putting on some weight there, Seventyfix!" Arabarath poked Gen's belly and then walked off with his wife, leaving Rincon and Geneec alone on the observation deck. They turned to eachother and Rincon said, "I'm glad all this happened. It's just been hard for me to admit somthing." Geneec looked puzzled for a moment. "I love you, Gen." With teary eyes, Geneec jumped up and gave him a tight hug. "I love you too!" Geneec said. The sun was setting behind them, leaving the two silhouetted. =================== =Enough kissey/kissey = =================== "Oh get bent!" Eve replied with a yell. "You can't possibly single ONE of us out to answer for the entire race! How many more will have to die to satisfy your own selfish desires? You will not take this baby from me. HE or SHE will be raised by the pack. You have no claims on its life." At that point the duo heard the mechanical footsteps of an approaching Zoid. "Hah! They've come back for me!" Eve exclaimed, and then under her breath "about bloody time..." The entrance to the cave was filled by the side view of teeth from one of the pack's Ligers. As it moved down to glance inside the cave, its eye piece appeared, glowing, with the cockpit around it burned and singed. Apparently it was the Liger Bullseye was killed in. "Bu--bullseye?" Eve whimpered. The Liger let out a low rumbling roar and the cockpit opened about 45 degrees. To both #36 and Eve's surprise, it was empty. "What the hell?" They said in unison. There was a pause for a moment. "It looks like one of your Zoids has come looking for you..." Snarked #36. "I'll persuade it to join me." He stared at the Liger for a moment, which shook its head in protest, and a few moments later exclaimed a much louder roar. "IMPOSSIBLE. Don't you know what they've done to our kind?" Shouted #36. The Liger's head shook and growled. "Saved you?" #36 shrieked, "Bull s*#t! All they've done was enslaved you!" The Liger continued to communicate with #36, distracting him. "ENJOY BATTLING? They must have screwed with your programming... I can help you!" ... "Of course I know what purpose is!.. No, No, I think its you who aren't thinking clearly!" Eve thought to herself, "Wow. The Zoids really can be loyal. Thought it was just a myth..." She reached over next to the plateau where she was laid previously, and grabbed whatever clothing items she could, her undercover, her belts, and her boots. She was exhausted by this point, but had enough energy to dash to the Liger and escape the cave and #36. #36 was about to run after her, when she leaped onto the cockpit. Her body made it half in and half hanging out, with her torso right across the latch seam for the canopy. #36 shouted to the Liger, "Kill her! Cut her in half!" Instead, the Liger tilted its head sideways a bit and helped the weakened wolf get in. Once she was in, the cockpit buttoned up. Eve came over the comm, "I think you need to re-evaluate your little crusade!"
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Post by Erenmor on May 3, 2007 19:30:23 GMT -5
It wasn't long after the Miokalian flight left KZ that their foreign ministry received a slightly odd request - from Erenmor, asking for permission to dispatch a diplomatic envoy in order to establish preferably friendly relations with KZ. It was mentioned that Erenmor wished to make friends with reasonable partners - or at the very least assure said reasonable partners that Erenmor meant them no harm.
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on May 3, 2007 20:36:44 GMT -5
Cal to KZ: "From foreign minister AL to KZ
As we lack an embassy, we request to exchange of ambassadors, as soon as possible. But have never gone where we are not asked, we would like this as a local state to speak to you and form alliance.
Your liberal free market neighbor
Al"
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Post by miokalia on May 3, 2007 23:24:02 GMT -5
"I understand why it is Erenmor fights the Morskoj with no mercy.", said #36. He had been aprehended by another C2 team. His entry and interaction in KZ had been a liability and was causing an insane protectiveness to emerge from him. It was one of the few times the originator of the system had to be restored from a backup to keep from degrading due to an emergent insanity which tends to sometimes happen inside what is, for all intensive purposes: an organic intelligence running on artificial hardware.
He was restrained, deep underground in a round room lined with brass mesh.
One of Blinn's remote units was in the room with him.
"A few people died and you threatened a pregnant fur. It's best if you never enetered KZ in the first place. We can't have our father be someone of such questionable character.
It is the decision of the myself and the other OR-units that you be reset and restored from a backup prior to your entry into KZ.", he said.
"So I have to die again.", asked #36.
"More like: we're just going to erase your memory and do a clean install.", said Blinn.
"Stop referring to us as computers Blinn. You're starting to sound too Calie.", said #36.
"I'm sorry.", said Blinn.
"It didn't hurt before. Will it hurt this way?", asked #36.
Blinn signalled the switch, and at that moment, a massive burst of electricity arced across #36, and then the solenoids on the clamps pushed down. His components burst from him, every joint loosed down and #36 was basically dead.
"Melt this scrap down now, do it fast. I'd rather not have him have to look at his old body again when he comes around.", instructed Blinn to some utility units.
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Post by Killer Zoids on May 7, 2007 11:09:49 GMT -5
The Liger, true to its protectors, returned Eve to the main Wolf Pack base about a day later. It had traveled straight through the night and arrived sometime in the mid-morning. The doors to the zoid hangar opened and the Liger walked in. Instead of parking itself in its recharge area it first took Eve toward the far wall, where the wolves resided. It crouched down, putting its lower jaw directly on the floor. "What's it doin'?" said one wolf. "Liger! Get over there for a recharge!" another said, pointing toward its designated area. The canopy opened and revealed the tattered Eve, now boasting a much larger belly. She was unconscious. "Holy shit! It's Eve! It's Eve! Here, give me a hand!" "She's alive!?" Yelled another. "EVE's ALIVE EVERYONE!" The two wolves climbed onto the Liger and grabbed Eve. Back on the floor, another came back with a stretcher on wheels. They laid her across it and were running it over to one of the rooms on the ground floor. "She looks real bad man, real bad." Said one worried wolf. "Whats with her belly?" "It's gotta be hunger, quick, get an IV." They wheeled her into the room. Bo and Toba were standing there, ready to help Eve out. One of the wolves rolling the stretcher said, "Bo, I think she's livin' off her body.. You gotta help her!" [very enlarged stomaches are attributed to malnoursihment IRL]
Bo put one paw on her distended belly, and felt something move. He withdrew it instantly. "Oh my god. She's pregnant." "What?" Inquired Toba. "Put your paw there, feel it." She does, feels the same kick that Bo felt. "Now now now.. now.. This is impossible. How could she get this far into pregnancy in a window of a few days..?" The room had gotten very crowded with the news of Eve's return reaching the ears of everyone. It was getting very loud, Eve was still unconscious. Bo decided it would be best to have some privacy. "All right! All right! Everyone back off, give here some air. I'll take care of her. Toba, I need your paws. The rest of you, scram!" The anxious wolves left the room and stood outside, as Bo closed the door and drew the shades. He went back over to Eve with a pair of scissors. Toba looked on. "I've gotta cut her undercover." He snipped it off and bent over to have a look. Toba peered over too. "This wasn't caused by any wolf.. not even by another fur methinks." "What? Then..how?" asked Toba. "See that," he poked with the tip of his finger "thats metal chaff. No knot could cause that, no chance, no way." He grabbed a towel, whetted it with warm water and wiped the area clean. "So.. ok, what then?" "I think our leader was violated by a small zoid, maybe even one of those Malychy things." Toba immediately thought of #36. "That little bastard!" She clenched her fist. "No no, I don't think it was that. That organoid didn't have any parts that could do this. This looks more like... something else. Maybe more like one of the more standard organoids we've seen." "But its impossible.. How could a zoid... and a fur..." They looked at each other, and then back at Eve. "Well, she knows the answer. We should leave her be for a while. She'll come around soon enough," said Bo. "That IV stuff works fast. I just can't get over how she survived this long." "Shes a tough bitch, thats for sure," replied Toba, not in an insulting manner, but in a praising manner. He put a blanket over Eve's chest, torso, and legs, gave the IV bag a flick and then walked out with Toba. "Nobody goes in there without one of us!" exclaimed Toba. "She's going to be fine, she just needs plenty of rest," added Bo.
"Now... for that liger." Said Toba. She looked at one of the wolves who initially got Eve from the cockpit. "You, you said it just ran in here and crouched down?" "Yes mam." "Was it under her control?" "No, she was not fit to pilot a zoid, we found her unconscious. The Liger must have found her and brought her back." "An emergent intelligence.. in one of our zoids?" Toba thought to her self. "Does this zoid have an organoid system?" She called up to 2 technicians on the ligers back, taking some readings. "No! It's just a standard zoid." "Impossible. How'd it get here without a pilot?" "This Liger's software checksum doesn't match what we have on file for this zoids ID number. Its changed somehow," called back a technician. "Was it tampered with?" asked Toba. "No chance. I/O has strictly been limited to lower level functions. No high level intrusion has occurred. .. Toba, is this thing alive?"
News of the incident was slow to spread, as media outlets are centered around large cities; not so much the barren desert. By the time it had reached the internet, and holovision, the story was so much hearsay and conjecture that nobody really bought it. It was just passed off as a gang fight. The only ones who really knew what took place were the Miokalians, the Wolf Pack, and President Gorh, and none of them were talking.
Back in Capital, the president was approached by one of his advisers. "Sir, we've received communications from a number of other nations in the region, they want to start diplomatic relations." "Its about damn time!" replied the President. "What do they want to do?" "The Kingdoms of Cal are interested in having us meet their ambassadors. Erenmor is looking to visit." "Well, we can't send Seventyfix. Hes.. uhmm.. never mind." The president thought for a moment. "Is Vista Fox on assignment?" "No." "Send him to Cal. Perhaps he can fix up the debacle with the rail project there too." "What about Erenmor?" "Well, the upcoming Panel meeting is going to require my focus for the next few days. Tell Erenmor's government, they can send a plane the day after. We'll show them a good time like the Miokalians!" "Sir, just so you know, those nations seemed to be worried about us--militarily I mean. The tone of their messages seemed shaky." "I was afraid of that. KZ has one of the largest militaries in the southern hemisphere. I'll talk to Vista personally before he leaves. If we are to form sound relations with our neighbors, we can't have them fearing us!" The adviser nodded and then turned away, took a few steps then returned. "Oh, one thing. They wear clothes. Make sure Vista doesn't waltz off the airplane in his birthday suit. It might be offensive." "Thanks Gena."
Messages were dispatched to Cal and Erenmor of their decisions. Erenmor was instructed to send their envoy the day after the upcoming Panel meeting, and Vista Q. Fox was sent to Cal by Plane.
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on May 8, 2007 17:50:06 GMT -5
Vista arrived at Lactia international, outside Tel, he is met by tall vulpine Wey Taeicia en, a tall, well endowed vixen. She was naked as the Calie had figured that this was perhaps the correct manner (and being nude was not an issue to them). After giving the customarily high five she lead him and his retinue to a helicopter.
Vista asks "Are you who I am to talk to?" "Well yes and no, Al is busy..to be honest swamped and will meet with you shortly. It is not a political issue just with emass, deals with Tinis, bla bla bla. I hope you don't object to me meeting you instead." Taeicia replies. Vista very much did not object, Taeicia noted this with a smirk.
The flight to the parliamentary complex was short and they landed in the heliport between the three, one mile high spires. Taeicia quickly lead him and his party to a lift and then walked them the distance to the base of the executive spire central lift point. While doing so she asked "Was your flight pleasant?" Vista nodded, a little distracted. "Good, sorry for keeping things low profile, but we have already had one disaster of a formal meeting up north. Then again it could have been much worse and we are not certain as to what our relations are with a few nations so we thought it would be best if we made the deals then had the conference" "Oh yes, I think I know what you mean" Vista says looking about himself at the massive complex, what got him was this was not the main plaza, it was a story or five up from it.
A little time passes as they walk, vista was guessing it mustn't have been much less that a quarter mile, before they reach the main lift core. The group enter a waiting lift and from the weight he was feeling on his knees the lift was accelerating fast.
Taeicia turns an says, with a smile "Your luggage will be put in the guest quarters as you have no embassy here yet, well in Tel. Though we hope to fix that soon."
The lift slows to a stop and Vista feels himself very light for a few seconds and is a little surprised to be lead into a bar high up in the executive spire, not far from the top.
Al, a diminutive Teerie skunk, was sat in a booth and nodded to them, then at the bar staff and says "Take a seat, it is always easier to talk in here, don't worry the staff have better security clearance than me and well with the load on my plate none of my fellow politicos are going to leak against me." then smiles "I have now found the best way to keep a senior job is to have one that no one in their right mind wants."
Vista looks unsure then smiles, more out of sympathy than anything else. He had read up on what Al had on his plate and did not envy him in the least.
Vista's group take seats in the booth and Al looks at Taeicia and asks "One more than expected would you?" Taeicia smiles and says "OK this once."
As Taeicia leaves earshot Al goes right to business "Greetings, etc
Ambassadors wise I was planning on sending her, with the usual stuff. I hope she is acceptable and the usual diplomatic deal is fine? I've been talking with the civil service and we might have a place for your embassy, should you set one up, but, well you will have to formally buy it off us....giving real estate to foreign powers never goes down well.
I'm sorry that our engineers went off the deep end on the link stuff, but well I have no formal control over them."
The Al smiles "But the subsidy to the CAT network is up for negotiations again and I would never hold that over them, would I?" ending with a wink.
Taeicia returns with a tray of shots "How can this place always be short staffed I swear, it like they do it on purpose" she says placing the tray of shots on the table and taking a seat. While Taeicia was taking her seat Al mouthed "They do when asked" to Vista, who smiles.
"Well that and the usual trade deals and mutual defense stuff, you know the normal stuff." Al says then grabs a glass and says "To future prosperity and peace" before raising the glass and saying "Tiliea!"
Vista had never drunk inteerie whiskey before, he wondered if it deserved it's reputation.
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Post by Killer Zoids on May 8, 2007 21:40:50 GMT -5
Vista smiled anyway, and in the interest of relations, raised his glass and said "To our great nations futures! Tiliea!" He leaned back as the others did and drank the shot in a gulp.
The alcohol in it quickly got the best of the fox, unprepared for the bang it had. He leaned forward and let out a long wheezing cough. Taeicia patted him on the back. In a strained voice came, "holy crap..."
Al sat back and chuckled. "It takes some getting used to there Mr. Fox! Or can I call you Vista?"
Vista's voice was still not 100% regained, but he managed to get out "yeash, Vista is perfectly fine."
Taeicia was handing another shot to Al. Vista shook it off, his fur momentarily standing on end. "Wow!"
Taeicia asked him, "More?" Vista looked at her and smiled, "Definately!"
They repeated this scene again, with Vista being over come a second time. "Woooo.. So.. to business I guess?" Vista asked, his eyes slightly cross.
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