Walkers of Worlds

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DAEDRIC WAR MULTIPLICATION, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

Other daedra came such as Aurorans in exotic power armour and welding strange energy weapons that fired explosive tipped metallic darts of varied sizes or metallic creatures that homed in on their target and exploded, being also of different sizes. They also favoured sparkling energy maces or axes. But these Auorans fought the armies of Mehrunes Dagon and were soon offering alliance with humanity. It was an uneasy alliance but it seemed that not all of the Daedric Factions wanted Mehrunes Dagon to obtain and back engineer human technologies. The Realms of Oblivion, or Oblivionaedra, had suffered strange changes and the power balance between the Daedric Sixteen was threatening to fracture, to cause a major daedric civil war. Mehrunes Dagon was doing his best to make sure that he was the one to be most able to take advantage of such a war if it should happen and most likely it would.

 

Auroran foot-soldiers moved in thin spread columns along with big thumping legged machines that each had two or four or six legs, rotating cylinders above the main bodies and on top, turrets. These strange machines used weapons like those of the warriors but bigger and more powerful. Great mechanical arms, double jointed, ended in great maces or axes. These were designed to fight other daedra and they did so quite well, knocking creatures down and the daedragons out of the air.

 

Capital Hill was a battleground and with a great explosion part of the dome collapsed inwards.

 

KingCobra gunship helicopters attacked daedric forces trying to encircle US Marines who had come across from Delaware. Yet the US Government could not identify these types of enhanced helicopters or the squadron that flew them except to accept them as allies because they had no choice. The KingCobras flew with great agility and firepower, pulselasers and autguns blazing along with shortlong missile gattling-launchers.

 

Soon KingHawk helicopters joined them, troopships and gunships, dropping assault power armoured soldiers into sheltered space beyond enemy firepower to hit. The helicopters unloaded small one-man monotanks that moved quick on their tracks and which were low profiled but bristling with missiles and autoguns. Soon a brigade was on the move across the troubled city and towards the daedric force trying to encircle the Marines.

 

American warships fought daedra out to sea and bombarded targets with cruise missiles while a big old World War Two vintage battleship bombarded the enemy with sixteen inch cannons.

 

DEEPER INTO THE BURIED ZETAN MOTHERSHIP

 

Jennifer (Bobbie) led the growing expeditionary force deeper into the mothership. It grew as yetans joined them, along with freed humans and aliens, and as they added reprogrammed dronebots to their number. Cyborg-abominations attacked at one point, firing disintegrators and atomizers, but were hurled back and forced to retreat by the counter-attack. Zetan groups fled before them, vanishing through secret doors into a network of secret ways that riddled the mothership that was not normal for such vessels. But this was not a normal zetan mothership in many ways and had never been so.

 

Walter walked hand in hand with a six year old girl who had been in a capsule and they communicated very well, which did not surprise anybody who knew Walter well.

 

Amelia Aeroheart was still in her pilot's outfit of the early 20th Century of her world. With her walked Sir Galahad of the fabled kingdom of Camelot but he had given up on his armour and though he kept his swords, he also had a disintegrator rifle. There were also two Russian cosmonauts who had been abducted from low orbit in the 1960s but which the Soviet Government had lied about.

 

The three German Stormtroopers, captured from Germany in 1938, refused to believe that their motherland had lost World War Two. They staid at a distance from the others.

 

Jennifer found herself getting nervous and that she was increasingly inclined not to go further but an even more powerful and subtle force was driving her onwards to confront a truth she had no desire to face. That is no a truth that Bobbie had no desire to face.

 

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Mehrunes Dagon in Washington DC

 

Mehrunes Dagon stomped across the landscape of Washington DC, hurled fireballs as large as family sedan motorcars, and screamed his rage but he was in truth one of the Dark Nine, was the shadowy counterpart of Johnnie, was Anti-Johnnie. He did not know why he hated Johnnie or the others of the real Nine and he did not care to know. He did not seek to find any rationality in what he was doing, he just wanted to wreak death and destruction.

 

Mehrunes, huge and terrible, stepped on daedra and enjoyed killing them as much as he did his enemies. So the daedra turned against him and began to attack him. He screamed in rage at their treachery and yet the combined firepower of the lesser daedra began to drive him backwards. With one last scream of rage, he vanished with a sparkling shimmer.

 

The daedra began a fighting retreat back tot he Oblivion Gates and the human fighters let them go. Nobody could seem to work out just what it had been about, what the fighting had been for.

 

IN THE BURIED ZETAN MOTHERSHIP

 

Jennifer (Bobbie) led the expedition deeper into the zetan mothership until they got past an armoured internal bulkhead and then they were confronted by a massive zetan creature. The great distorted alien came racing at them and swung a sparkling sizzling energy sledgehammer at Jennifer. It was Anti-Joannie and she was as criminally insane, as dangerous, as was anti-Johnnie. The sledgehammer weapon slammed heavily into a wall and smashed a great depression into it, small cracks appearing across the heavy armour of the wall.

 

But Jennifer dropped beneath the great, exotic energy weapon and slammed her fingers into the attacker. With a scream of shock, rage and fear, anti-Joannie vanished with a sparkling shimmer.

 

Olivia of Fringe spoke. "Something tells me that she is linked with you."

 

Jennifer sighed. "Yes, in a very dark fashion and yet not in one that I truly understand yet. The Shadow Nine are openly striking at we of the Nine. I do not know exactly what this means but it can not be good. Yet it is a sign that matters are coming to a close."

 

Olivia frowned. "What will that mean for my world, Jennifer."

 

Jennifer sighed. "Hopefully everything will change for the better."

 

Olivia and Peter did not look convinced by this but Walter just smiled and Astrid was calm as was the girl child.

 

FAWKES RUNNING FREE?

 

Fawkes the supermutant (Bobbie) had escaped from the Dark Nine but as he paced smoothly and quietly for his bulk through part of TekVault0087, he knew that he had to avoid meeting up with Johnnie and Tammie though he was not sure why he was so convinced that this must be so. Had he not so long ago yearned to be freed from his prison cell? Had he not wanted to know the real truth about himself, about how he had come to be Fawkes the supermutant?

 

He was racing almost blindly along a corridor when he vanished with a sparkling shimmer.

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OUT IN THE WASTELANDS, A MEETING OF UNIQUE SUPERMUTANTS

 

Uncle Leo was sitting on a rock when Fawkes woke up with a start and sat up. They were in the Wastelands and were not far from the ruins of Bethesda. Bethesda looked look from a distant but it was crawling with mutated bugs and nobody seemed to have the willpower and ability to debug it properly. Fawkes remembered running and then vanishing with a sparkling shimmer. He watched some big mutated eagles flying high in the sky above and then observed an area of rich green mutated plants, a large dangerous forest dotted with big carnivore plants and other forms of carnivores. As dangerous as they were, such mutant jungles were a rich source of resouces for Wastelanders.

 

Every part of the Wastelands had its distinctive smells, its unique feel, or so Uncle Leo experienced it. He spoke. "You can not out run what must happen. The Nine must be freed from linkage with the ancient alien artefact or, if that is not possible, the relationship must be made safe. No more diversions, no more mixing up one kind of reality with another kind, no more running away from what must happen. Nine teenagers, one of them with an odd condition that left her baby like, found an alien artefact and decided to experiment with it rather than report it to the authorities. They were brilliant, were geniuses by the standard of their original, real, world. Not this world. No, this one is generated from the foundations as formulated by a computer game called PLANET FALLOUT. It is a very large game meant to be used online or with minimainframes and it covered Wastelands across North America from North Alaska to Southern Mexico, from the West Coast to the East Coast."

 

In the distance another Grand Transdimensional Cube, GTC, had appeared and there was the gunfire of Brothers of Steel and Enclaven Stormtroopers fighting over it. Antigrav boosted vertibirds fought each other in the skies close to and above the half a kilometre high metallic stone structure. Mechas and soldiers in power armour fought on the ground along with tracked or hover battletanks, armoured fighting vehicles and robots. Why were they fighting? More out of traditional hate than any practical reason.

 

"Yes, we were so good at playing the computer games like PLANET FALLOUT and WAR OF THE WORLDS 1945 that we won a good deal of money from it and also fame but we were cheated by one of the big computer gaming corporations, TransGaming." Fawkes shook his head and watched as a Brotherhood of Steel vertibird exploded. The Brotherhood of Steel was facing surperior technologies and was losing. "I think it is time to assist in this battle. Who are you?"

 

Uncle Leo sighed. "I am the real Thirteenth, the expression of the Nine and the Three. I am not the false Thirteenth, the dark expresssion of the fears of the Nine, as are the Dark Nine. Do not concern yourself about the Brotherhood of Steel. Help is arriving."

 

Captain Cosmos, the Cosmic Girls, Jangles the Moon Monkey and the Cosmic Troopers, were arriving in the massively sleek Cosmic Rocketship and as it came through the sky, from it came Cosmic Fighterships and Shuttleboats. From the first they fired only upon the wicked, cold Enclaven forces.

 

Fawkes grinned with pleased surprise and then he nodded. "Very well, we will go where we have to go."

 

Uncle Leo nodded. "Good."

 

Then both of the special supermutants vanished.

 

IN THE BURIED ZETAN MOTHERSHIP CONFRONTING BURIED SECRETS

 

Uncle Leo and Fawkes the supermutants met with Jennifer and her companions in the zetan mothership. The meeting was quite positive and both Fawkes and Uncle Leo patiently allowed Walter to give them quick examinations though Astrid was there to make sure Walter did not get too carried away.

 

They had gone deeper and found inside the mothership was an area that was not of zetan design or construction. It was an area of metallic stone, a cube, that the mothership appeared to have been constructed around. There they found dead and dying creatures that were Greys with slanted black eyes, large heads and small weak looking bodies that were not so weak at all. They were all disturbed by these creatures that radiated something more than unnatural but a kind of antinaturalness, a thing of antilife, of unlife.

 

Walter shuddered and admitted he had briefly met Greys before in a place called Roswell in the US State of New Mexico. They had been imprisoned inside heavy metal and lead lined cells and yet somehow they had still managed to have bad effects on guards so that the guards were constantly being circulated. The imprisonment of the Greys had ended when some unknown alien force had intervened and destroyed the aliens, disintegrating them, everything in the cells and the interior spaces of the cells. Yet they had harmed nobody or nothing else.

 

When they found what looked like a blue wooden police telephone box from England of the early 20th Century, they mostly were convinced it was just an odd item picked up by the aliens, though a strange one to choose. It was Uncle Leo who led them into the Doctor's TARDIS, the bigger inside than outside vessel of the TimeLords, and who introduced them to the Doctor. The Doctor was there but there in the form of fifteen Doctors, three being women. There were many K9 robots, many companions and though most were human, many were not. Some of the companions were also TimeLords, showing just how important the request for assistance had been taken.

 

With an odd noise and a sparkling, the TARDIS vanished from within the zetan mothership.

 

THIS IS THE END OF STORY #5 BUT ALL MAIN CHARACTERS WILL BE RETURNING

 

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QUESTIONABLE HISTORIES OF CRAM

 

Son: "Dad, what is CRAM?"

 

Dad: "Best not to ask, son, just cram it and enjoy it as much as possible."

 

Daughter: "Cram is made in special machines called Cramulators."

 

Mother: "Oh, yes, but lets not think too much about what happens inside those machines, dear."

 

Cramulators were amazing machines that could break down anything of organics and, given enough nutritional ingredients, turn it into Cram and even put it into neat boxcans. The wonderful flavour of CRAM always relied on just what was put into the Cramulators in the first place. FoodTek, the friendly TekCorporation that designed and built Cramulators, even gave out free recipe booklets on what to put into your Cramulator if you could afford to buy one. Most Cramulators were larger ones used to mass produce variants of Cram for large scale retails sales.

 

CRAM; DON'T THINK ABOUT IT, JUST CRAM IT DOWN QUICK!

 

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DYING?

 

THE SECOND CUBE NINE MURDER

 

A high ranking manager in the games corporation that cheated the Nine of much of their monies, was found as metallic stone in his collapsed bed, his body and face contorted in terror and agony. His mistress had gone to the bathroom and on returning to the man, had found him in that condition. After a moment of understandable hysteria, she had telephoned the police.

 

THE NINE ARE DYING?

 

The Nine were linked to the alien artefact floating in mid air by alien tentacles of metallic stone. They were still in Chyenne Mountain but it was a huge underground city now, a TekVaultCity as designed and built by VaultTek of the TekCorporations under the umbrella corporation of WorldTek. Professor Arkuman was the only one there who sensed the changes, who knew that they had happened at all. Androids, robots, holographic projectors and much else were now used as technologies had advanced. Cybernetically augmented, genetically engineered specialists were observing the Nine, were trying their best to keep things stable with the assistance of a powerful AI-supercomputer network-system.

 

Alarms would go off, there would be some hectic activity in response, and then the alarms would cease.

 

All across the world people were fleeing into TekVaultCities, into United Nations Enclaves of the UN Enclaven, into BunkerCities, or were going up into space to the Lunar, L5 and Mars Colonies or into the ocean in great ocean going ArkShips.

 

Aliens were still gathering at the edges of the Solar System but most importantly the Centros were there and they were easily the most powerful, the most ancient and intelligent ones who were. The Greys had come and had been wiped out, thousands of great motherships and hundreds of thousands of smaller but still huge saucerships.

 

Arkuman was CentrosNeo.

 

Arkuman was sensing that change was coming, that the climax was approaching.

 

Arkuman was concerned, not for the Centros or even the vast majority of the Multiverse, but for this relatively small time-space sector. Yet this was a large sector with many species and subspecies, with many gaias. Arkuman linked with the loose creativity of CentrosMentality and tighter intellect of CentrosMind. Arkuman and Centros continued working on the problem even as the ancient artefact of God (the Goddess) that was the Grand Transdimensional Cube kept trying to contain the situation.

 

 

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QUESTIONABLE HISTORIES OF PROBLEMATIC ROBOTIC PROJECTS

 

DEFENDERCON

The defendercon robots were supposed to be a good engineering and commercial competitor to the 'tron series' of robots, especially the protectron. The defendercon moved on tracks, could look in four directions at once and had four tescopic, double jointed manipulator limbs. It had lasers, stunguns and hardpoints for other weapons or non weapon devices. It had good armour, good sensors and other network-systems. From the first it suffered a series of embarrassing and expensive accidents. Many assumed design faults but in the end it was all caused by subtle but nasty sabotage by the RobCo Corporation.

 

ARMACHAIRIOT

This robot was poorly designed, was poorly thought out as a comfy robotic armchair made to look old fashioned except for the legs that could spring out of the oversized base. Well paid testing members of public were often thrown out of the chair, were hijacked by the robots running down the street and in some cases, held hostage by the armchair robots. It was discovered that some teenage hackers, who had gotten past the poorly designed software security, were responsible for much of the trouble. They were drafted into the Army's computer warfare division.

 

FOOTBALLROBOT

These altered protectrons were supposed to be great fun as two teams, differently coloured, played football with big round footballs. Considering the speed at which protectrons go and their actual agility, it was soon discovered by the public that it was mrore exciting to watch the grass grow in the football arenas than it was the robots.

 

MONSTER ROBOT

Designed to promote a big budget new horror 3Dmovie, the monsters were set loose on a busy city in the middle of the day. So effective was their appearance that they caused not amusement but mass panic and ended up being destroyed by over excited police officers. While in many ways it turned out to be an expensive mistake, the contraversy gained so much free publicity for the 3Dmovie that it made a fortune despite that it was not very good.

 

SEXROBOT

 

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ENCLAVEN ATTACK?

 

The Enclaven Stormtroopers, not Clonetroopers, came from a Vaultway (Subway like monotrain) Station linked to the secret Vaultways of monorail tunnels that had never been completed. In theory the Vaultways should have linked all VaultTekVaults but many vaults had remained removed from them such as TekVault0087 of supermutation experimentation and TekVault0088 of ghoulification experimentation. No Clonetroopers came with these Stormtroopers and no robamoths, cyborg supermutants. Instead they came with MrGutsys and MrRockys, a military cousin to the MrGutsys but with ripple-rocket launchers. These were not of the same Enclaven Faction that there Clonetroopers and robamoths served, that was soon clear, for this faction was rougher, less refined and showed signs of many repairs, many forms of patchwork upgrades. Behind them came MrPortys full of equipment and supplies that pulled hoversleds with more. Yet there were also camp followers of men, women and children with animals. With them came some robots, handcarts, small electric vehicles and other stuff.

 

Were they really Enclaven at all?

 

Then these attackers reached the heavily armoured vault wheel-gate they were headed for and promptly surrendered.

 

It turned out that the EarthEnclaven had turned against the EagleEnclave formerly based in North America and the EagleEnclave had fled to Centralia. At least this group had done so. The actual EagleEnclave, a heavily fortified enclave in Alaska, had been nuked though it was supposedly nuclear attack proof. Who and what survived there was unknown. It proved that the EarthEnclaven of that Alternate Earth was preparing to try world conquest as never before with a wide range of older, newer and very exotic weapons, including super weapons. What had happened? Skynet had made secret contact with the AI-supercomputer network of network-systems of EarthEnclaven and it had turned against all humans except for its own generated clones. The truly artificial supercomputers of Skynet, Earthnet, Aquanet and other such networks plus EarthEnclaven were setting out to destroy all intelligent peoples of the world and not just humans. It was a case of multiple genocide.

 

With some reluctance Amata let these refugees in. Partly it was for the sake of the EagleEnclavers who seemed humbled by their harsh experiences and partly it was because TekVault0101 needed their experience, skills and resources including information, the most valuable resource of all.

 

EAGLEENCLAVEN KNOWLEDGE

 

Marshal Kulvus, formerly of the EagleEnclaven Defence Force, was frowning with anger at being in such a humbled position. He spoke with obvious annoyance as he sat at the big metal table in a smaller cafeteria in the home vault. "What we know is this: there are hidden ways between the TekVaults never known to the vast majority of people. They are not inside the vaults, not even in subvaults, but are always very close. They appear to be some form of exotic teleportation technology known as phaseshift. If the TekVaults failed to link properly at the right time and begin a new rivival of the Earth, which they did fail to do, then the phaseshift and other hidden technologies would prefail."

 

He scowled softly. "We of the EagleEnclaven were shocked to learn the grand truth of things, the real truth. We were all set up from before Doomsday, all of us, by the Dark Nine. They were insane and since they survive, most likely they are still insane. They are in real control of Skynet and the other artificial intelligence run networks, including EarthEnclaven. We do not know why they turned against the EagleEnclaven and other Lesser Enclavens around the world that survived Doomsday. No explanation was given."

 

The man grinned. "The Dark Nine also began the Brotherhood of Steel who are so damned pompous." Then he lost his grin. "Some of the Brotherhood of Steel Elders learned this and they created the Orderhood of Hope to escape from this dark influence but I do not know what happened to it. Back in the Academy and in the early years of my combat experience everything seemed so simple. We fought those we were told to fight be they the Brotherhood of Steel or the New California Republic. We believed we were going to create a brave new world made out of the very best of the old and new worlds. Matters are just too complicated now."

 

Johnnie, who at on the other side of the big metal table, nodded solemly and then spoke. "So what member are you of the Dark Nine and what did you do with the real Marshal Kulvus. I know that the other EagleEnclavers are real but you took control of them and they trusted you. You have been tormenting them ever since."

 

The fake Marshal Kulvus laughed and then grinned now with pointed fangs showing. "I devoured him alive. Truly we Dark Nine have blended and even we find it hard to become distinctive, to know each other as individuals. Who needs it. We flow like thick black oil or smoke or glistening tentacles. We will win, we will be victorious."

 

Johnnie shook his head. "You have already lost for you have lost yourselves."

 

The dark spiritual psychic entity scowled and then vanished with a sparkling shimmer.

 

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PHASESHIFT TRANSPORTER SITE AND BEYOND

 

Was not hard for Johnnie and Tammie to realise that the secretly hidden phaseshift transportation network-system was a very dangerous way to travel. One would go into the edges of the Astral Zone proper, known as the Atral Plain, and then travel in a phaseshift globe to one's destination. But many obstacles and other threats could be found in or at the edges of the Astral Plain. It was easier and safer to go by other means. The Dark Nine had set this up as a clumsy trap or had they?

 

In the big, partly collapsed chamber that they found the PS-machine, including three PS-globes, Tammie was the one to find the other transporation network-system. This was a monorail tram tunnel that was part of the Vaultways. When they electronically called for a monorail tram, to their suprise one came.

 

Amata and some of her people had come to the chamber but they returned to TekVault0101. Jasmine went with Tammie, Johnnie and others into the monorail tram and were soon heading along the tunnel had a fairly high rate of speed. The monorail tram was fairly large and surprisingly comfortable.

 

But then alarms rang and the transport came to a quick halt. Ahead of them moved a black swirling mist and inside it black metallic creatures, hivaca, lots of them. These hivaca seemed bigger, more dangerous than normal hivaca workers or even soldiers. Indeed each of these 'warriors' was almost as large and powerful as a standard hivaca queen. Not only that but the black mist itself was a threat, was the Dark Nine ready to strike. This was a trap.

 

Tammie and Johnnie had been prepared for this. With a sparkling shimmer all of them vanished from the monorail tram.

 

MEGATON: CRATER TOWN, SUBWAY STATION AND LIFEVAULT

 

They appeared not far from Megaton with its wall and half-roof of aeroplane parts of prefabricated building sections taken from an airbase. A whole pair of aeroplane fusalages, including cockpits, could be seen in the dusk with lights on. The top of a big contruction robot showed over a wall, showing how Outer Megaton had been built. For Megaton also consisted of, beneath the crater and to one side, a big old subway station and, deeper, a LifeVault.

 

They made good time to the big main gate and there they met the protectron robot, Deputy Weld, who greeted them. "Welcome visitors to Megaton, finest town in all of the Wastelands. Cause no trouble and no trouble will be caused for you. Thirsty, buy a drink at the GirlsAndGames Saloon; hungry, buy a meal at the Brass Lantern; need supplies, then the Brown Family run Craterside Supplies can get you what you need. Other goods and services can be gained at Junk Sams, the Red Light Stop, Moira Browns Exotica Emporium, Tom's Private Tutorship School, the GunsAndArmour Shop and others. Open Craterside Markets operate on Saturday and Sunday. Only Registered Citizens are allowed to go beyond Upper Megaton to Lower or Deep Megaton."

 

Once through the gates, there were a few visitors and Megatonfolk there, including MegatonGuards and a Deputy's Sheriff who gave them a hard look, they headed for the Brass Lantern. There was a tension amongst the people there and it soon became evident that refugees had come to the town from other settlements. Fighting was taking place between the EarthEnclaven and its enemies of the FreeAlliance that included the Brotherhood of Steel and the Order of Hope.

 

As if to prove it, a flight of eleven vertijets shot overhead at supersonic speeds. Like vertibirds, they were antigrav boosted and were heavily armed and armoured. They were Sisterhood of Steel aircraft heading into to bomb, rocket, missile strike and strafe Enclaven targets. The world had suffered enough but now the EarthEnclaven was threatening global genocide of all intelligent species. To make matters worse, they were being supplied from outside by many resources and were able to create many robots, Clonetroopers and robamoths along with other threats.

 

They went to the Brass Lantern.

 

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SURPRISE!!!

 

Johnnie, Jasmine, Tammie and the others with them went through the front door into the BRASS LANTERN and found themselves in the TARDIS. It was a good trick. Uncle Leo was there, along with Fawkes and all the others in that now much bigger control chambers. There were animals, plants, other living things, robots, androids and other people. The walls of the chamber were so far into the distance that they could hardly be seen.

 

The Nine gathered together in a circle and were joined by various aspects of the Tenth, Eleventh and the Twelth.

 

Then there was the Thirteenth of course, being Uncle Leo.

 

There was no overtly rational reason for any of this taking place but when it did, the great transformation began. The column began to rise and fall in the disk shaped console and the TARDIS began to dematerialise but then everything began to melt away. Yet there was no sense of danger or of fear or of anything but peace.

 

At last the Nine were together again and hopefully final resolution would come.

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IS IT REALLY OVER? NO!