It Seemed To Be A Good Idea At The Time (Redux)

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Zishaperzi were distorted winged humanoids flying low through the air, or running with wings vanished into their bodies, once having been humans except those clone-born from former humans. As they came about half generated protective energy fields of exotic elemental forces and hurled energy pulses of the same nature. Others used captured weapons with some efficiency, often just dropping the devices when they ran out of ammunition.

 

Surrounded, out manoeuvred, the zishaperzi were being rapidly destroyed, shot down by combined enemy forces of Guardia, supersoldiers, elemental dragons and others. Energy weapons were now being often used and at close enough range these had a devastating effect on the unconventional enemy.

 

Not far away, on the other side of mixed crops and carefully placed trees, was a large farming settlement; tragically the zishaperzi had come from there, having come from folks that had lived there. Plumes of smoke drifted up from that village where survivors, of the unchanged, were already being attended to by rescuers.

 

This was the last pocket of zishaperzi, having been tracked down, being destroyed. Field-Marshal Abdul Abdula was not in direct command but he was being constantly reported to. The Eternal Warrior was part of a restructuring, reformation, of KLL military and other forces; this was being done in preparation for future expected threats both known and unknown.

 

When the last zishaperzi died, and burned away as they tended to do, the small one sided battle was done; history would tend to call it a massacre.

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Earthtropolis was now inside, was part of, the Terran Underworld. It had expanded there, absorbing much including the version of Atlantis there and nations that were enemies of that Atlantis. The encapped, and that which controlled them, were humans and others in lesser numbers. Even as Earthtropolis spread out through much of the Terran Underworld, they spread beyond Earthtropolis and absorbed faction after faction. Yet they were not always successful and many they did not place even their most basic exotic caps on, being webcaps. So that meant that at least half of the people remained relatively free, with relatively few obligations but also relatively few privileges.

 

Earthtropolis was linked with the Known Lunar Labyrinth, with the Terran Overworld, with Spacetropolis and other focus points of great changes taking place.

 

It was as if Earthtropolis' very purpose was linked intrinsically with the very nature of the encapped.

Edited June 3, 2015 by Maharg67

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Telegates became active between different sectors of Labyrinthburg, through out the supercity that was not really a city at all. Transportation became quicker, more efficient, for many purposes. More isolated, inhabited, parts of the supercity were no longer so isolated and odd facts began to emerge that had not been noted by the United Nations Lunar Labyrinth Government, the UNLLG. There were populations of humans, animal-humans (animans) , aumans, wozzles and other wildfolk that had come to dwell there. This included even such as dragonfolk of many kinds. The biggest surprise was the finding of new kinds of entities that seemed to have arisen over the last 100 years.

 

Olivia was called to join Jonnie, Jennie and Jessie at the site of the ancient artefact where the strange incident had taken place that had helped to cause the Timespace Paradox. Even as she stepped into the chamber, for the first time, Olivia knew that 'something' was wrong, was out of kilter. She was strongly tuned to alternate realities, thanks to her past, and realised why the J-Triplets had called her to join them there.

 

Jessie came up to her, with Ginger the cat walking beside her, then both stopped to face Olivia with the feline sitting on her haunch.

 

Olivia knelt to give Ginger a quick scratch before she stood again and spoke. “There is a false reality overlaying the real one.”

 

Jessie nodded, her expression showing a mixture of feelings. “The false reality appears to stretch out only over a few chambers. We wish to breakthrough it but it has turned out to be amazingly strong in nature.”

 

Olivia pointed to a spot in the chamber, that to her was shimmering oddly. “A weak spot that I could utilise to step over to the underlying 'real reality'. We will need to make some preparations. One of those would be a coffee, something to eat and a chance to rest. The telegate travel might be quick but before I began the journey I was working for a fair while.”

 

They made preparations. Olivia sat at a large metal table and mostly just sat quietly observing the chamber. She had detected two other 'weak reality points' by the time it was time to make a breakthrough.

 

When the changes took place there was a strong sparkling shimmer, a sharp tingling sensation, a moment of disorientation and then things changed.

 

The ancient AraArtefact looked different now, more organic, seeming to grow upwards from ancient roots to form branches above like a very exotic tree. Semitransparent crystal pods hung from branches, many of them, being mostly filled with one naked figure each. In three linked pods were Jennie, Jessie and Jonnie.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Maharg67

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The Rainbowwoman appeared, almost as if she had always been there, and she spoke. “Now you know, JTriplets, that you are not the original JTriplets. The whole story of how the computer data was literally thrown into the ancient AraArtefact is part of the false reality that was just destroyed. It did not happen that way. It happened when your original clone-parents were placed into pods of the AraTree, one of the most powerful of the AraArtefacts, by those known as the 13Genius13. They have always served well hidden entities treacherous to humanity. They have hidden themselves behind pockets of false reality, like the one that you just disrupted.”

 

The chamber had changed in other ways! Large alcove chambers were filled with an amazing array of known and hybrid technologies, bodies in preservative body-bags, storage canisters, furniture, fittings and much else. There were even carefully protected artworks, books and some small electric vehicles along with some basic remote-robots.

 

The Rainbowwoman looked around: “It seemed like a perfect plan, to the 13Genius13, to hide in pockets of false reality concealed reality but it backfired. They, their followers, and minions began to go insane because their own deep sense of reality was disrupted by the false realities being used to hide them. The survivors fled and left much behind. That was not the worst of it. Not all of those left behind were just effected of the mind and began to distort physically into monsters. Then something came, captured all of those left behind, and took them to somewhere safe. I can not, will not, say more on that matter.”

 

Olivia frowned softly. “I 'sense' that there are residue energies left over from the false reality projection.” Then she noticed that Jennie, Jessie and Jonnie were standing motionless while staring into mid air. She looked concerned. “Will they be okay? It would be hard for them to learn that they are superclones of the original JTriplets.”

 

The Rainbowwoman nodded. “Just as it was hard for you to learn that you are a superclone of the original along with many others including both the former Fringe and XFiles teams. I suggest that it is time you informed others of the truth. The supersoldiers already know the truth.”

 

Jennie, Jonnie and Jessie opened their eyes almost as one. They had linked and had become adjusted to the truth with surprising speed. They all looked to Olivia and smiled in reassurance, showing her that they accepted her as she was. Olivia smiled back.

 

The Rainbowwoman smiled but then vanished, almost as if she had never been there.

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Jane Scully was coming to terms with being a very sophisticated simulicant android with the downloaded essence of her self as a dying baby. She spent time with her parents, and others, who were coming to terms with being superclones of original versions of themselves. Many were cloned from those who once had been zishaperzi that had been transformed from being such. If nothing else they learned that they were part of a great pattern of linked events that were part of an ancient, secret, complicated and yet subtle war.

 

The war was linked to everything that had led up to the great human exodus from Terra to the Lunar Labyrinth and many other amazing events.

 

The Known Lunar Labyrinth, and Labyrinthburg, became generally peaceful but much was being done to prepare for trouble to come. Other necessary programs, projects, were far from neglected and it became a great period of reformation and reconstruction as organisations and networks were made more efficient. This was the result of Unity rising.

 

There continued to be odd pockets of danger, of the rise of dangerous lifeforms, and other troubles that had to be dealt with wisely but also as quickly as possible.

 

Graham Maharg, Armstrong, Abdul Abdula and others held important meetings at the UNPSIA Airport Base.

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Power Workers were constructing the large bridge using hoverpods, lifter-platforms, exotic worker power armour and workmecha. Like ants they swarmed over the great shape that was arising into existence. It would take a wide highway, two monorailway lines and wide walkways along with some special transportation features.

 

Except that they were not standard humans, were not like anything living openly in the Known Lunar Labyrinth. These were building the bridge at the extreme edges of the KLL for the purpose to support a large scale invasion.

 

PanAxis flags fluttered a little in the breeze and PanAxis symbols were to be seen on vehicles, other machines and on structures including completed parts of the great bridge.

 

Hisler stood, in impressive power armour, but the absolute leader was not alone. Next to him stood SageGenius Calculok of the 13Genius13. Hisler was supposedly a 'superior risahuman' of the Fourth Reich but the 13Genius13 secretly considered him to be insane; ironically enough, Hisler secretly considered the 13Genius13 to be mentally unstable. Both were correct!

 

Hisler smiled coldly with his smooth, hairless, face through the open visor of the special power armour. “You have provided us with great new technologies but only enough for our elite units. We have second, and third, grade units that need upgrading.”

 

Calculok was extremely tired, bored, with the PanAxis Fuhrer's constant whining. The 13Genius13 had provided the PanAxis with many 'wonder technologies', had given even the mad fool some wondrous gifts, but still he demanded more. Calculok looked forward to the moment when his faction betrayed Hisler, and the PanAxis, in a very cunning and nasty fashion.

 

Hisler played his own game as he went on trying to work out how, when, the 13Genius13 would attempt their betrayal of his people and himself.

 

Suddenly the very real holographic image, of the area of the half finished bridge, vanished. It had been part of a special relayed report for neither Hisler, or Calculok, would risk themselves getting too close to the real bridge construction site. That was too close to the enemy for their tastes. Both were, in real terms, cowards!

 

They were in a huge command chamber that also served other useful purposes, being on a big raised disk platform. 3Dscreens dotted walls and large consoles covered also with controls and other forms of data feedback.

 

Around them were active many PanAxis officers, specialists and more lowly staff. All wore power armour of different kinds for, in truth, supposedly superior risahumans could not survive with out the life support network-systems that went with the armour. Before the 13G13 had come along, with new life support technologies, matters had been even worse for the risahumans.

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Hisler hurried off to a briefing dealing with increasing rebel attacks, against parts of the PanAxis defended only by third grade military units, even as Calculok went off to check on an experimental project taking place.

 

Calculok passed a row of super-weapon prototypes being a small V3 rocketship, a battlemecha, a fast moving stealth-submarine, a rocketjet-fighter, a monster battletank and more. Some he tried not to look at too much for they were a reminders of foolishly released horrors that even he found hard to focus on too much such as the black metallic globe-bomb, of SageGenius Rani, on its grey pedestal and the reanimated necronoid monsters of SageGenius Frankenstein. Calculok did look at a prototype, of his own gravity globe, and was briefly glad that it had caused less horrors than some of the other 'super inventions' of the 13Genius13.

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The appearance of PanAxis Forces, at the Lunar Thames River bridge building site, made little impact on the Known Lunar Labyrinth. After the many threats that had faced the KLL, and its peoples, the PanAxis seemed like a weak threat in comparison. The Deathlordic Forces, the zishaperzi, and other menaces had been much worse and had been dealt with. Yet neither was the PanAxis threat ignored.

 

Efforts began to deal with it and Field-Marshal Abdul Abdula was called to the fore once again to lead a large military taskforce to deal with the PanAxis and the 13Genius13 that only a relatively few knew of as being partners with the PanAxis.

 

Resources, along with both military and civil forces, began to be sent from the KLL to the Lunar Overworld to assist the growing alliance there against the attacking Deathlordic Forces, and their allies, there.

 

It was about that time that many psychic sensitive people, of empathic bent, began to have terrible nightmares about massive invading monsters leading armies of smaller monstrosities. What made the nightmares so amazing was the similarity of all of them, a good many of the being almost identical to one another. When the RainbowBaby had such a nightmare, then it became crystal clear that something terrible was coming if not more than one such terrible thing.

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MaryPoppins was with the Rainbowbabies, and others, bustling around and taking more items out of her patchwork case than seemed possible. Also larger items. Floating babies, superbugs, cats and others followed her around but Ginger the Cat sat back to quietly inspect what was going on.

 

The area was altered in its reality but it had been constantly, slowly, steadily changing for months and was now rather amazing. Exotic, useful, plants grew in small groves while quasiliving crystals grew in falsely fragile, gracefully beautiful, patterns. There were supersoldiers, superworkers, and other supers there along with an amazing array of plasticants including quasiliving trees, dragons, green soldiers, cowboys-cowgirls, circus people, dolphins swimming in canals and great pools, along with much else.

 

The cloned JTriplets were there, with Tomitom (manboy) and Anditom (neobaby), and one of the 13 Rainbowbabies that were in truth one Rainbowbaby as one primary, three secondaries and nine avatars. The idea was partly for security but also because the Rainbowbaby really hated to miss out on anything that was going on in what had become the RainbowSanctum.

 

Despite the general 'atmosphere' being positive, there was an underlying tension in the place. The Rainbowbaby had activated a rainbow sphere after requesting assistance from Jonnie and Captain Anderson, who had passed on the request to many others. The rainbow sphere created the RainbowSanctum and others had assisted to strengthen it, to make it more secure, in many ways. Millions of others now dwelt there, worked there, and helped secure the transdimensional domain.

 

'Something' had tried to infiltrate the RainbowSanctum in a subtle, deadly, transdimensional fashion but Captain Armstrong, alias the Eternal Guardian, had repulsed with the special assistance of others. It had been easy to do but Armstrong was painfully aware that what ever had attempted to infiltrate, the RainbowSanctum, had only been testing its security. Attempts to trace, identify and capture the dark, cunning, entity had failed.

 

Information came from an unexpected source when the Shadowwoman sent a message that the 'infiltrator' was also one that had betrayed the ShadowClanz so that they were out to do harm to that one. Only it was turning out to be more cunning, powerful, and resourced than the ShadowClanz had ever guessed 'it' would be. According to the ShadowClanz the mysterious entity had once called itself the 'Eternal Stalker'.

 

Armstrong had identified the Eternal Stalker as one of the most powerful, twisted and dangerous of the Grand False Eternals. It turned out that he was an aspect of one of the Grand True Eternals. For the moment he would not speak of the distinction between them and vanished away to some unknown place with out saying where, or why, or even how he did so.

 

Armstrong stood in an exotic chamber of crystal surfaces, often glowing softly from within, but did not look like Armstrong. The Eternal Guardian was instead a flickering sphere of energies at the center of which was a ever glowing sphere of vaguely crystal like materials. Far faster, and more efficiently, than his human shapeform could have done, he interfaced with Eternia.

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Walter was in the Lunar Overworld with Dana Scully and Fox Mulder but they were superclones of superclones. He was one of the few, outside of the clones themselves, who knew the truth. But then again he, Walter, was also a superclone of a superclone. It was odd to know that the supposedly real ones had turned out also to be clones. Yet it was also consistent with all the other strangeness that had been taking place.

 

Where was the other Walter; he was carrying out a very special project along with a few other select individuals. The fate of the original Walter was a mystery.

 

The expedition headed towards Moontropolis, flying now in a formation of low gravity aeroplanes being a mixture of passenger carriers, freight carriers and protective gun vessels along with some other types. The aeroplanes had been manufactured by some of the more advanced citystates but most were of UnNaluki manufacture while the rest were products of the United Citystates of Gloria.

 

The warring continued but the enemy advance had been slowed. Their general uncompromising brutality, and use of the most hated factions as allies, had not only turned many against them but had done so in a very well organised fashion. A series of large scale battles saw the enemy badly damaged and even temporarily driven back at times. Yet they steadily continued.

 

Walter looked out of a window, from the airliner like chair he sat in, and considered the strong possibility that there was Unity Rising taking place through out large parts of the Lunar Overworld. With out being fully aware of it he was holding the hand of Astrid, the youthful looking dark woman who was sitting next to him. She sat quietly smiling at him. She was also a superclone of a superclone of a mysterious original self.

Edited June 4, 2015 by Maharg67