Walkers of Worlds

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QUESTIONABLE HISTORIES OF THE CUBE NINE

 

A whole lot of effort was made to find a single major cause of what took place and many candidates were found. The big problem was that there were too many candidates. The other big problem was that none were conclusive as answers. One possible answer was to say that there was more than one cause but that was really no answer at all as it merely begged more questions.

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TRAPPED TO THE ALIEN CUBE

 

In a row of beds, with specialised medical equipment attached to them, were the nine children including the baby figure who had not grown properly. It was a specialised government hospital, a sophisticated research and development centre hidden in the area of the United States known as Point Lookout. Outwardly it was a deluxe tourist resort overlooking beautiful scenery of forest and, in the distance, the ocean.

 

Bizarre biometallic tentacles ran from the metallic stone cube that floated, impossibly, in mid air. The cube was exactly one metre wide.

 

It was 2001 by a few hours and the USA had helped recently to establish a base on, but mostly in, the Moon. The USSR was smaller than it had been but still very powerful as painful economic and democratic reforms swept through it. The Oceans Reclamation Program was going strongly. The nine children were linked to an alien artefact that they had found in a cave, that they had been drawn to thanks to shared vivid dreaming, according to their journals. This included Dibbie's slightly messy crayon journal.

 

A soft sparkling shiver went through the chamber but only Arkuman was really aware of it.

 

Professor Arkuman was the only human there who knew that the Nine were altered the world around them. So far it had been for the better but Arkuman was deeply concerned about the darker sides of their subconscious. Hence the playing only of warm, comforting music in that chamber. Vivaldi, the Four Seasons, seemed to be a good one to calm the Nine. How was Arkuman different from the others? He was an alien in disguise.

 

There had been another shift in the world. There was now the Australian and New Zealand United Commonwealth. Safe, compact, electric and electric-hybrid cars were the norm. Four wheel drive vehicles were banned from ownership by most people. There were three large moonbases and a big quad-wheel station in low orbit. But there was trouble and now the secret medical centre was in NORAD itself in Cheyenne Mountain for security and safety reasons.

 

A large fleet of many alien spaceships was gathering at the edges of the solar system. They were drawn to the artefact and they were drawn by the growing influence on the Multiverse of the same artefact.

 

Mythologies were coming alive. Yeti in Tibet were fighting the Chinese, BigFoot were migrating across parts of the US Mainland, leprechauns were gathering in Ireland, mermaids were being seen from ships, Superman had rescued an American orbital space-shuttle named the Columbia, the Spirit People were pushing non-Aborginals out of parts of Australia, lycanthropia was becoming a plague in parts of Europe and much else was happening.

 

THE FIRST CUBE NINE MURDER

 

The stepfather of the Nine died screaming in terror and agony but the sound was brief. He had gone down the laneway behind the pub because he was stalking a young drunken woman who had foolishly gone down there to meet a need of nature. The young woman found the stepfather as a metallic stone statue twisted in agony and terror. She screamed and ran off to her drunken friends who were waiting for her at the entrance to the laneway.

 

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QUESTIONABLE HISTORIES OF THE CUBE NINE

 

The appearance of the Great Transdimensional Cube, just one of its names, in different places of different Alternate Earths and in other domains was seen as some kind of expansion or invasion by many but this was not the case. The cube artefact was trying to contain a growing disturbance that was threatening to go beyond even its powers. It was isolating and containing, as much as possible, a series of domains. Others it was deleting or altering in other ways.

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FIGHTING BERSKERGERS: INTERESTING TRICKS

 

Ron the Brother of Steel was bemused when Tammie and Johnnie turned him into thirteen interlinked versions of himself, that is one original and twelve clones. Each of him was armed but three had smartchainguns, three had gattling-lasers, three had heavy assault-rifles with grenade launchers, one had a missile quad-launcher, one had a pulseflamer and one had a 40mm autogun. Ron Thirteen was now mindlinked both to Tammie and Johnnie. Such tricks had only been done because the two could sense that time was running out, that they had to get to Fawkes and find out just what this aspect of Bobbie really knew that could perhaps save the whole situation.

 

Berskergers met them in a large vault chamber, two levels with holes in the floor above, and the fighting was soon going savagely. The Rons spread out in expert fashion, moving with amazing enhanced abilities and coordination, blasting away chaotic acting enemies. Massemoths screamed awful battle cries, partly awful because they were stupid, and attacked in waves. They died in waves also. Ron05 died and then was resurrected. As long as any one of the RonThirteen survived, any of them could be returned.

 

Tammy and Johnnie struck down many supermutants. They sensed the dark presence lurking in the background full of hatred and fear. They began to understand fully then that the truth was that this was just a projection of their own deep, dark fears and those of the Shadow Nine.

 

Just like that the fighting ended. The surviving Berskergers fled. The dark thing that was supposed to be so ancient, was gone!

 

There was still a threat out there, the Shadow Nine, but they had to be dealt with in a special way and Fawkes knew that way or at least they hoped so.

 

They brought back many of the supermutants, now transformed, happier, more at peace with themselves, and RonThirteen at once recruited them for the Brotherhood of Steel. RonThirteen parted ways with Tammie and Johnnie in a large kitchen, dining area but there was a strong sense that they would meet again.

 

MOVING ONWARDS

 

Tammie and Johnnie moved quickly through the huge TekVault, often using internal transportation like elevators and railcars or golfcars. They did not run into any more trouble with Berskergers for those they met were on their way to join the Brotherhood of Steel. Vatlords had formed an alliance with the Factionless of TekVault0087. None knew anything of any Shadow Nine or where Fawkes was. It was not sounding good and yet Tammie and Johnnie continued to be drawn in a particular direction.

 

Then they were going through the terrible zone of supermutation experimentation where large metal display cases showed the twisted, agonised bodies of dead test subjects, where the sense of evil was thick and the two were soon getting very edgy. Much evil had been done in that place in order to create a form of super soldiers and super workers for the TekCorporations and other powers. In the end there had been betrayal and many of the TekCorp employees themselves had been experimented on.

 

When they came to the heavily armoured cell where Fawkes had been enprisoned, somehow it was no real surprise that he was gone. The Shadow Nine had taken him though the reason for that was not clear unless they simply wanted to stop the rest of the real Nine from learning what Fawkes knew.

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FROM TEKVAULT0087 TO TEKVAULT0101 IN ONE FUZZY STEP

 

Johnnie were walking through the middle of a big chamber half filled with deactivated robots of many kinds, when they vanished with a sparkling shimmer. They had not intended to do so.

 

Then they were in a large vault storeroom with a sign on one wall that informed them they were now in TekVault0101. Had the Shadow Nine come this way or had Fawkes been brought here? They had no immediate sense of either being there.

 

They walked out of the chamber that was full of mainly empty status storage containers, only some of which had ready to microwave mealpacks (RMMs), self heating cupcans of tea and coffee along with special standard boxpacks of Dandy Boy Apples. The chamber was only dimly lit by emergency lights and the sector network-systems were semiactive except for vital ones. They made their way down public corridors, past deactivated elevators and then they came upon the first of the Overseer Believers, the fanatical followers of the High Overseer. They were moving in a angry, determined group with a mixture of gear and weapons but most had only basic vault jumpsuits and such as baseball bats for weapons.

 

A woman stepped forward with a 10mmCS autopistol and she spoke. "Beloved High Overseer who shines with the glory of compassionate love and open arms, in his name we will kill you."

 

Johnnie and Tammie struck fast but not to kill. They moved with amazing speed and agility amongst vault citizens not trained as soldiers. Even the security guards there, a minority, were not really trained in the art of combat. Mercy came from the knowledge of the real lack of threat posed by the group and by the knowledge that these were mind controlled victims of some powerful but subtle force. They called for the Light, for the intervention of the Lords and Ladies of the Light.

 

The now normal vault citizens were mostly in too much shock to provide much real information but the woman that had been leader, spoke now with anger at what had been done to them, at what they had been made to do to others. "The High Overseer Personality Cult Program was instigated just over five years ago when a majority of the people began to demand reforms. Unity was rising. Many died and I do not know how many have survived. The True Believers dominate much of the central vault but many other areas are under the control of the Radical, Moderate or Conservative Reformers. All the robots and androids were enslaved to the HOPCP. The big joke was that it turned out that the High Overseer was really just a puppet all along to the real High Overseer, a AI-supercomputer network-system called True Overseer."

 

She sighed. "Six and a half years ago one Professor Ashworth escaped out of TekVault0101 because of something called Project Purity. His daughter was imprisoned for no other reason than she was his daughter. This set off a chain of unforseen events and I could not tell you why this was so. I am not even sure why I am telling you about this little story. It does not seem to be very important considering everything else that has happened in the vault."

 

But Tammie and Johnnie sensed otherwise. With the now reformed and immune former Believers, they set out to find and free Jasmine Ashworth from her prison.

 

MEETING WITH AMATA, COMMANDER OF THE MODERATE REFORMERS

 

They stumbled upon the small, well organised task that was but one of the battle-survival groups of Reformers moving through that part of TekVault0101 as part of an offensive to take control of the central vault and to destroy both the True Overseer and the HOPCP. Johnnie and Tammie already knew about the nanobots, microbots and macrobots used to control people with mixed success but so did others such as Amata, the daughter of the last human High Overseer who had been killed by the True Overseer. Why? Amata did not know.

 

Amata Almodovar was a friend of Jasmine Asworth but, for very good reasons, had not seen her for many years. Fighting had been savage, especially when it turned out that the True Overseer had a whole lot of cleverly hidden robotic gun-turrets, sentrybots and soldier androids to use against the Reformers. The True Overseer had never made any real effort to support the mind enslaved humans who supported him.

 

The Reformers had begun capturing androids and robots, turning them against the True Overseer and had even freed a few Believers from their mind slavery. Slowly they had regained most of the vault but Amata feared that the True Overseer was far from ended yet and had at least one more trick up its synthetic sleeve to use against the rebellion.

 

Amata softly rubbed a light scar down one cheek and spoke then as she studed both Tammie and Johnnie. "You say some powerful but subtle force brought you from TekVault0087 to TekVault0101 but that you do not know why or even how?"

 

Johnnie nodded. "Not clearly, no, but now we feel drawn towards this Jasmine Ashoworth. We will assist you in your battle against the True Overseer and the HOPCP and, hopefully, you will help us get to Jasmine."

 

"She is my friend, of course I will." Amata looked mildly insulted as she donned her kevlar security helmet. "Now, just how can you assist us?"

 

 

 

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LONG TERM DEATH, DELAYED

 

Tammie and Johnnie soon enough found out what the hidden threat of the HOPCP was. The infestation of nanobots, microbots and barely visible macrobots into people, even those who did not become helpless subjects of the True Overseer, were designed to kill the hosts quickly and brutally if True Overseer gave the order. Dealing with this was harder than detecting it but the two did so by 'turning' a whole lot of the self-replicating nanobots and sending them out to deactivate the true HOPCP botics.

 

They hoped that the HOPCP or True Overseer would not react automatically and kill people. Thankfully neither happened.

 

With amazing speed the vault now fell to rebelling forces. One good reason for this emerged. Jasmine, an aspect of Bobbie, came to them with some other Vaultfolk, not all of them human, and she stood before them in a large community hallway now partly filled with people making plans to complete the take over of the vault. She looked from Tammie to Johnnie, and then she spoke. "We must go after Professor James Ashworth, my father. His Project Purity is a threat to all life on this world, though he is fanatically convinced it is the opposite. Yet before we leave here, there are other acts that I must carry out."

 

Johnnie looked around. "What is it like to grow up in one of these vaults?"

 

Jasmine smiled lightly. "Not too bad, if you are used to it, and there is no attempt to enslave your minds. Too much metal. One would have thought that VaultTek would have put in at least some fake wood panelling or something or 3Dmurals but they always did prefer to cut costs."

 

CONFRONTING THE TRUE OVERSEER

 

After having a meal of typical vault rations, dull tasting and in the form of cubes, mash, soup and square breadbiscuits, they made their way to the High Overseers Office. Rebel soldiers now held the area with the assistance of roboremotes, robots and androids. There had bee no battle to take the area, which was ironic considering how save past fightings had been. They got to the office of the dead human High Overseer and then used the secret entrance beneath his seat to go down into a secret tunnel.

 

The True Overseer was a typical large AI-supercomputer network-system, a typical CompuTek designed thinking and learning machine. Yet this one was different for nine human brains were found inside five semitransparent domes spaced on top of a long box fused to the wall. From left to right they were marked Dibbie, Eddie, Joannie, Johnnie, Leslie, Tammie, Tassie and Tommie. They were the Nine as born in the Alternate History of that world or so it seemed.

 

After some investigating, Johnnie spoke. "These brains are cloned, a very special form of cloning, are cyborged. They are only semiactive, semiconscious."

 

Tammie nodded in agreement as she examined a 3Dviewscreen. "The actual cloning was done in TekVault0108 where many cloning research and development projects were carried out. There is only a moderate amount of data on the other TekVault here but here are the coordinates. It is a fairly long distance from here."

 

Which was when the nine cloned brains awoke and arose out of the metal case each like a brain topped eyebot with a lasergun, a sensor-rod and some other attachments. Yet they did not attack, did not show any hostility at all and it was Joannie-clonebrain that explained. "Jasmine was supposed to be a prisoner but she turned the tables on the captors and freed us. We were put here as part of the mind control program but were never fully utilised. The TekCorporations were never as fully coordinated or as efficient as they pretended to be. Many mistakes were made and the various internal factions warred with each other while there were corrupt groups feeding off TekCorp resources."

 

Jasmine smiled. "I tried to free these Nine but until now I did not know if I had succeeded. Now to get you into more protective robotic forms. Then we are going to go to Megaton, the surface settlement where some VaultDwellers from this vault went secretly to a generation or so ago." She lost some of her smile. "The Wastelands will be tough but we will survive."

 

Tammie spoke. "Your father went to Megaton, or so you suspect."

 

"Megaton is very close to where on exits to the surface from the main entrance shaft to TekVault0101." Jasmine responded. "It is a settlement based in a big crater and with sloping walls made up of jet-airliner and jet-freighter parts. Beneath it is a subway station and a LifeVault. It would be good for TekVault0101 to start a peaceful and productive alliance with Greater Megaton which includes Megaton, Megaton Station and Megaton LifeVault."

 

But alarms began to ring and it turned out matters were not going to be so easy.

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QUESTIONABLE HISTORIES OF CENTRALIA

THIRTEEN GRAND MASTERS OF SCIENCE

 

Of the Thirteen Grand Masters of Science that arose to turn the tripoc technologies against them, who brought forth many wonders but who became linked to Doomsday, there were the following.

 

Alone, the Thirteenth, was Mahargis, the mysterious and isolated, who created the Wonderata, the device that could alter reality directly utilising the minds of a carefully networked group of controllers. Mahargis was said to be the greatest but most troubled of the geniuses.

 

Next came the Three being the triplets Saline, Trallin and Maline, being young oriental women. From them came the Fusionator power generators, the Atomiator atomic motors, the Mattercator replication plants and other, less known technologies.

 

Next came the Nine.

 

Robertson who created modern robotics with their robotican AI-cores and related network-systems.

 

JulieL who created the duplicant and then replicant androids along with related projects.

 

Sallis who created the status preservation devices.

 

Dashli who created exoskeleton power suit technologies leading to various suits from fire-fighting to military to space exploration, leading to the development of mecha and other devices.

 

Asuki who created the force projector technologies leading to force field uses of many kinds right up to those of bubblecities.

 

Ramz who created the antigrav drives leading also to quasigravity fields and related technologies.

 

Avatic who created advanced laser tech for weapons, tools, communications and other applications.

 

Ivanic who created teleportation technologies to transport mostly non living items instantly across telport-wire networks but also some related technologies.

 

Cabine who created super virtual reality network-systems.

 

But it was whispered that four more geniuses were hidden in the shadows.

 

Emmerat who created true artificial intelligence supercomputer network-systems.

 

Cranshu who created genetic engineering technologies and the mutagenic vat network-systems along with related technologies.

 

Bardue who created the forced evolutionary virus, or FEV, along with related products.

 

Which left one other being Amadas who created the transdimensionality gateway technologies along with related technologies but who also created other super technologies.

 

The truth?

 

There have been many questions about the truth of what happened and how the official history and even the commonly known unofficial histories had many gaps, poor explanations and even contradictions.

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TRAVELLING TO SKINGRAD

 

The GROGNAK'S PRIDE did not teleport from Kvatch to Skingrad becuase of strange energy disturbances that began to ripple across the whole of Tamriel. The cause? Havenaedra was transforming as it absorbed Eddie's Alternate Earth so that new land masses and oceans arose in the Oblivion Realm. With the Alternate Earth came even Aquatic Martians. The peoples of Havenaedra were greatly taken by surprise as from the Eastern Coast of Tamriel could just be seen a whole lot of islands.

 

The amazing fact was that there was not more disturbance.

 

As they rode to Skingrad, they passed a large encampment of Imperial Military forces including new Imperial Musketeers with their flintlock musket rifles, carbines and pistols. They had been created by the Emperor but had changed their loyalty to the Empress even before the troubles began. There were also Imperial Cannoneers with their lighter 2-pounder and 6-pounder cannons and their bigger, more powerful but slower to move 12-pounder and 16-pounder cannons along with bombards and basic rocket launchers.

 

The small army was preparing to move out to deal with a large force of TwistedOnes and other creatures attacking the large town of Prellin.

 

Disguised as a family travel-coach, the GROGNAK'S PRIDE was bigger inside than outside but had to be expanded to hold all the new entities that had appeared. Still it was more than worth taking them for as they approached the great city of Skingrad they learned that there was now trouble there. Fighting was going on as TwistedOnes and insane synthetic creatures rampaged against the human fighters there along with goblin tribal mercenaries brought in from the semiwilderness who now served the Empress; even goblins could see the threat of the TwistedOnes.

 

Once they stopped and handed out basic magical weapons and armour, along with other equipment and supplies, to a large militia force trying to defend an area of settlements. The Five went amongst the fighters and touched their foreheads so that their abilities and skills became enhanced.

 

There were large mixed groups of wildfolk on the move such as ogres, trolls, centaurs, goblins, gremlins, imps, hobgoblins and many others that had nothing to do with the Underworld. Often human, orc and beastfolk fighters went with them. Yet there were bigger surprises in store for the Ayleid had returned and were reclaiming their ruined cities but this time with the permission of the Empress who knew she needed their assistance. The Ayleid had been humbled by brutal lessons of history and were now only too pleased to govern small citystates as part of the Empire.

 

Where did these Ayleids come from? These mer came from an isolated part of the Underworld where they had escaped to only to find life quite tough.

 

Refugees were fleeing in convoys towards the bigger towns and the cities that could give them better protection. Many times they stopped to hand out equipment and supplies to groups of refugees or to those trying to help the refugees such as the Followers of the Dozen Divines. Sometimes they carried amazed refugees shocked that the coach was bigger inside than out and had a restorative and healing effect on those who rode in it.

 

Bandits were taking advantage of the confusion but were often paying a price for doing so as they ended up confronting roving military forces. This was especially so since false groups of refugees were sent out to draw out bandits and then deal with them with brutal on the spot justice.

 

It was odd to think that other parts of the Empire were very quiet, were going on with everyday business except for preperations for trouble and the sending of help to other areas.

 

CITY OF CUBES AND CUBITES

 

It was a city of cubes that had appeared out of nowhere and so it was called CubeCity. It was made up of metallic stone, wooden, brick and glass cubes ranging from eighteen metres wide down to one metre wide, being all multiplications of two. It could have looked like a great big untidy heap of blocks but instead the building blocks were very clevery arranged so that the exotic city looked both strong and yet elegant. It was huge and somehow the very land had been adjusted so it could fit with out anything else being crowded out.

 

They stood on top of a hill and observed CubeCity from a distance. Refugees were welcome into the city, it seemed, and were starting to live their with the strange original inhabitants of the city, the cubites. The cubites were cube shaped creatures with two telescoping legs from beneath and one telescoping arm-manipulator from each side along with a telescopic neck and cube head rising from the top. Most cubites were one metre wide of body but some were two, four, six, eight or even a massive sixteen metres wide. The smaller the cubites were, the more common they were.

 

Odd cubecars drifted along the roadways just above the ground and in them rode cubites or former refugees.

 

There were no obvious signs of defences or offensive abilities but the Five sensed that they were there. CubeCity could defend itself, that was for sure.

 

Joannie spoke. "The city is a product of the activity of the GTCs. It is some kind of mechanism for stabilisation, for hub interlinking, for a more open interaction with the outer cube reality or so I guess."

 

It was a guess but it turned out to be very good guesstimation. The other Four had nothing to add to her words. A decision had to be made. Would they try to go through the strange city, an unknown risk, or take more time by going around it?

 

 

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SURPRISES WAITING IN CUBECITY

 

Even as they entered the exotic city and travelled along roadways bordered by one metre wide metallic stone cubes, they could now see new and surprising details before hidden from them. Amongst the cubes were typical Tamriellan buildings of many kinds but all were of good condition and high quality appearance. They passed shops, inns, taverns, cottages, terrace houses, workshops, temples, and more, including a small fighting arena for gloved kick-boxing, padded staff fighting and hold down wrestling. Not only were there humans, orcs and beastfolk living there but also mer and various wildfolk including goblins.

 

A big surprise were the lesser daedra who were living peacefully amongst the other folk there, including dremora. Scamps pushed small carts full of goods. Dremora worked as artisans. Bigger daedra pulled bigger wagons or used their abilities in other ways. It was when they saw a scamp using its fireballs to treat bowls, dishes and mugs made of special clay, that they knew they were truly in a very special city indeed.

 

The voice came to them and calmly, charmingly, guided them to a particular elegant building of many semi-enclosed balconies and wide sweeping, steep rooves along with great, wide, jutting bay-windows. There awaited a neobaby, Dibbie, along with JohnnieJoker and TammieAe. They had been in TekVault0087 but somehow they had been brought to there, to CubeCity, even as it had begun to form out of mid air, or so it had seemed.

 

Dibbie, at least one aspect of her, allowed the others the favour of fussing over her, which they did do. Ice-cream was served, along with many flavoured wobbly jelly, creamy cheesecake and a big drink of chocolate soymilk. Dibbie was happy that others had the same as she did. She was even more pleased when the others came, the Tenth, the Eleventh and the Twelth.

 

Duchess Elaine Tarada was no more and now her replacement no longer bore the ways of a vampire, a false vampire at that. As the Twelth she had things to apologise for and did so with some evident reluctance. The Tenth was Grognak, as he had always been an aspect of. The Eleventh was an android who looked just like a typical Cyrodilin nobleman.

 

But this was a most important event. The Twelve were together and there was a strong sense of unity, of unified action.

 

Except that none of them had any real idea of what they should do next except keep heading towards Cloud Ruler Temple where, it turned out, Joannie had hoped to meet the 'real' Empress.

 

Then the trap closed on them.

 

CUBIC ENTRAPMENT

 

When the energy storm exploded around them, the twelve of them were sucked into a vortex and were cut off from the GRONAK'S PRIDE and those in it. They fell through a 'wormhole' of swirling, whirling energies and then they were falling through the air to land in a thick, yellow green gook. They quickly sank up to their necks except for Dibbie who was held by TammieAe. They tried to free themselves but found that the substance clung onto them with amazing strength and flexibility. Nor would it allow them to teleport away.

 

They were in a nine by nine metre cubic space and the goo was holding them down.

 

But then the voice spoke from all around them, from the very air itself. "This is not a threat. This is for your own good and for the good of others, of worlds. Sleep and let yourself sink into the goop. You will be safe. You will not choke. Relax. When and where you awake you will find GROGNAK'S PRIDE waiting for you along with some positive surprises."

 

They found themselves relaxing and falling back into the goop with TammieAe never once letting go of the neobaby. They were then floating, submerged just below the surface of the goop, as it glowed with slow swirling patterns of goo currents.

 

 

THIS IS THE END OF STORY #4 BUT ALL MAIN CHARACTERS WILL BE RETURNING

 

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QUESTIONABLE HISTORIES OF THE TRANSDIMENSIONAL INCIDENT #15111789

 

Many have assumed it all began when the teenagers linked themselves with the alien artefact and began to influence, to alter, the very fabric of reality. Yet there has never been solid proof that this was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Yet what many do agree is that the final tragedy of the Nine should not have happened.

 

May their souls for ever rest in peace.