ADVENTURES IN TIME, SPACE AND TRANSDIMENSIONALITY

[Maharg67]

BACK STORY

DREAMING OF THE SAUCER IN THE SEA, 1946

 

The First Nine were there walking over the great dome of alien made metal alloy that was the top of a huge zetan mothership. Overhead jet-fighters were fighting zetan saucerboats and saucerdarts zipping through the air. Only technological improvements gained from studying looted zetan technologies gave the human jet-fighters a chance against the enemy machines.

 

Now and then the First Nine would focus their minds on a strange shaped saucerdart or a bigger, more flying-saucer shaped saucerboat, and cause it to explode dramatically. They had soldiers guarding them in rough looking but effective new types of body-armour that was both bullet and energy weapon resistant. Yet it was they who truly guarded the soldiers than the other way around.

 

The First Nine wore combat fatigues from different nations but this made sense as they were from different nations. All had been in towns or small cities struck by the strange mist and all had been the only ones left behind by that mist.

 

Their boots made no noise on the strange metal as they passed a heaped pile of dead zetan soldiers in their strange energy-armour. Weapons and other devices had been taken from them to be sent off to various research and development sites or organised crime syndicates interested in selling off the items to the highest bidder. World War Two had ground to a halt thanks to zetan attacks around the world and other troubles. The Japanese were withdrawing back to Japan, the Germans to Germany and the Italians to Italy. The Spanish were ceasing their attempted invasion of Portugal. The cruel Zaztec Empire of South America was crumbling.

 

The First Nine were becoming aware that time itself was distorting and history was changing, events were altering but nobody else seemed to be aware of this. They were also increasingly aware of being linked to other versions of themselves on other Alternate Earths. They were also catching glimpses of strong probable futures and they were not pleased by what they glimpsed.

 

Decisions had to be made, painful decisions.

 

Yet painful decisions had already been made, decisions leading to great guilt.

 

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

CENTRAL TRIPLECITY CAROUSAL

Great slowly spinning disk area with structures on, above and below. Shopping, other commercial services, art galleries, museums, libraries, super virtual reality arcades, theme park rides with holographic special effects, zoos, sporting facilities, gyms, convention centres, super virtual reality convention centres and much else. Underneath its own dome that spins on the disk.

Mysterious great sculpture tower pointing up from centre of disk.

 

 

CITY OF CYBORGS

CENTRAL TRIPLECITY CAROUSAL

 

The great, slowly spinning disk was full of activity as it had not been for centuries. People, robots and roboremotes were coming into the place from other parts of SanctuaryClave to clean it up, to bring it back to full functionality. Yet they were also removing the tourist sites, the cultural sites and other civilian institutions to another part of SanctuaryClave outside of Cyborg City, to a new big spinning disk being constructed there.

 

Cyborg City was being abandoned by people because of a thousand and one reasons but in truth nobody knew why it was happening; it just felt like the right thing to do, the safe thing to do.

 

They were doing this to reveal the true nature of the site and the great sculpture tower pointing up from the centre of the great disk. It was a super-weapon that thankfully had not been used on Doomsday for it was able to fire a huge pulselaser pulsebeam. The whole weapon could be tilted to fire at a fairly low angle. It was designed to strike at threats in low orbit or at long range but of course there was no low orbit in SanctuaryClave.

 

The weapon remained because it took up most of the great underside of the massive, steadily spinning disk but also because it might well be needed.

 

Graharg and Grazarg watched a big lifterbird, a huge vertibird designed to lift things up inside a big cavity in its belly hull, carrying a modular building up into the sky. The modular building was a gymnasium with zero-gravity features.

 

Doomsday had not damaged the Central Triplecity Carousal greatly but many had died there of germ-weapons unleashed during Doomsday and also zhoul attacks. Yet there had been survivors being a large gangclan of gangers who were surprisingly industrious and civil for gangers. They were on their way to the new great spinning disk where they might cease to be gangers and become just citizens.

 

Graharg spoke. “The huge pulselaser weapon was designed against the Greater Undeath. Such weapons were secretly put into place around the world. We are linked with the First Nine, being all the Nines that were linked to each other. It is confusing and painful to focus on.”

 

Grazarg nodded. “You are doing well.”

 

Graharg turned to Grazarg with a soft frown. “Who and what are you really?”

 

Grazarg pushed back his cowboy hat. “I am of the Second Nine but also not of the Second Nine. I represent the First Nine of this world who created you to carry out a series of instructions but the whole process was done in a desperate hurry. The First Nine of this world were betrayed and suffered an awful fate but the exact knowledge of that fate is blocked to me. What Gramarg and Gravarg learned helped me to wake to my true nature and to long buried knowledge which is altogether too limited. Now all of us Second Nine know what I am and what I know.”

 

The Second Nine were preparing the great pulselaser weapon to be ready to strike at the Undeath Nine when they appeared. They had no idea just how effective the weapon would be but other such weapons were being constructed to defend SanctuaryHub and other parts of SanctuaryClave.

 

They still did not know where the Undeath Nine had gone to or what they were up to.

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

CITY OF CYBORGS

IN THE DEEPLIGHT CAVERNS

 

They were beautiful, they were deadly and they were mysterious. The Deeplight Caverns were a vast labyrinth of caves where ancient artefacts of an exotic human people were to be found. Superhuman that is and linked to the various Alternate Earths both known and unknown. These superhumans had created SanctuaryClave itself and had sent it back into the past but they had done so as a form of contract to a powerful other that was not identified.

 

Gratarg and BetaThirteen went first as a pathfinder team deeper into the caves. They peacefully met populations of cave-dragons, wozfolk, gnomes, non superhuman humans and others dwelling in large fortified settlements away from any artefacts. The wondrous artefacts had bad histories attached to them.

 

Gratarg was the one who discovered that the superhumans were not gone at all, as many assumed, but continued to live peacefully and productively in the Deeplight Caverns. They dwelt secretly in their own hidden realm and in disguise amongst other populations.

 

He discovered this truth in a large glowcrystal cavern of great beauty but only because the superhumans, these Lords and Ladies of Transformation, wanted him to do so. He met their envoys of the People of Transformation. The men and women had silvery skin and hair, their formal appearance, that were the diplomats standing on a finely made hoverdeck of electrum coating. They wore electrum coloured metallic power armour with out helmets or gloves. Silver power-rings were to be seen, one on each middle finger, and they wore no other.

 

One of the female envoys spoke in a warm metallic tone of voice that carried easily and smoothly. “We apologise that none of the golden Lords and Ladies of Transformation could attend this meeting as they are all occupied with a very important set of projects. These projects are also of concern of all other life in SanctuaryClave and of the Alternate Earths involved in the Doomsdays Event. All of the Alternate Earths suffered each a Doomsday of some kind but all of these are linked.”

 

She went on speaking. “A primary project is the defence of our hidden realm which is under attack but that assault is only in its early stages. We could use the assistance of the Second Nine and in return we will assist you in various ways. We also need to show you a series of secret sites of great importance. Getting to these will mean passing along a perilous underground route that we created but lost control over many centuries ago. Nobody controls it but various powerful forces fight over it being the Shadowgods, Earthnet, the Undeath, the Deeplighters and my own people along with a great range of others, depending on the areas.”

 

Elementals floated into the big chamber, green life, yellow-white solar and blue phase.

 

The superhuman envoy went on. “Yes, here are some Deeplighters now. They are elementals and they have been assisting you, the Second Nine, and others in battling the Great Shadow and the Great Undeath. The Deeplighters also provided the flesh elemental gragoyles and will provide the gralytes, the human like flesh elementals. We were surprised you did not sense this, that you assumed they arose as extensions of the Second Nine, until we realised that there is a traitor amongst you. Graharg has sensed this to be the case for a very long time.”

 

Gratarg growled softly. “Which of us is the traitor?”

 

She spoke again. “You will find the answer by following the Way of Transformation which is the route that I spoke of earlier. Your first destination will be Shangrila, or at least one version of Shangrila. We must go! There is much to do.”

 

The silvery envoys of the People of Transformation were soon gone. Grafarg and Gradarg arrived just in time to observe them departing. It was Gradarg, in the form of three elemental figures, who warned Gratarg to be wary of the Lords and Ladies of Transformation for they were said to have an ancient and very secret agenda of their own that was a good cause to be wary of them. The Deeplighters were wary of them thanks to various events including short, savage wars with the People of Transformation.

 

Yet Gratarg had a strong, subtle sense that they needed to go to Shangrila if for no other reason than to learn more about the Lords and Ladies of Transformation who claimed to be the ones who had created SanctuaryClave and sent it back in time.

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

BACKGROUND

THE SECOND NINE!?

 

THE INDIVIDUALS

(AS GROUPS AT THE BOTTOM THIS FIRST LIST)

 

GRAAARG of the five neobaby like Second Niners being linked together. They are protecting the Karmatta Triplets and their neobaby children. The five are Graaarg, Graearg, Graiarg, Graoarg and Grauarg.

 

GRABARG that often takes the shapeform of a mighty robotic humanoid. Grabarg forms a fighting unit with Grayarg, Grararg and Grakarg.

 

GRAC(H)ARG that is yet to appear as a Second Niner who is often shapeformed as a four armed woman humanoid specialising in healing, in saving lives and in the recovery to fullness of the maimed.

 

GRADARG often shapeformed as three elemental humanoids being of green life, yellow-white solar and blue phase energies. Appeared to assist Gratarg and now forms a unit with him and Grafarg.

 

GRAEARG of the five neobaby like Second Niners being linked together. They are protecting the Karmatta Triplets and their neobaby children. The five are Graaarg, Graearg, Graiarg, Graoarg and Grauarg.

 

GRAFARG often shapeformed as a ruggedly beautiful woman, a TOMB RAIDER. Appeared to assist Gratarg and now forms a unit with him and Gradarg.

 

GRAGARG of many varied shapeforms, bodies, being the Enabler or service support to others of the Second Nine. Gragarg is centrally based in the Hubplex.

 

GRAHARG the leader of the Second Nine, if there can be said to be one, shapeformed often as a young human man. He works with Grazarg.

 

GRAIARG of the five neobaby like Second Niners being linked together. They are protecting the Karmatta Triplets and their neobaby children. The five are Graaarg, Graearg, Graiarg, Graoarg and Grauarg.

 

GRAJARG that is yet to appear as three mighty biomechanical warriors of specialised auxiliary abilities of amphibiousness, flight and earth tunnelling.

 

GRAKARG often shapeformed as a swarm of microbotic entities. Grakarg forms a fighting unit with Grayarg, Grararg and Grabarg.

 

GRALARG that is yet to appear as a kraken, a super giant squid.

 

GRAMARG the woman shapeformed scientific investigator and researcher. Gravarg and Gramarg work together.

 

GRANARG shapeformed as a Brother of Steel, a man in power armour. Forms a fighting unit with Graparg and Grasarg.

 

GRAOARG of the five neobaby like Second Niners being linked together. They are protecting the Karmatta Triplets and their neobaby children. The five are Graaarg, Graearg, Graiarg, Graoarg and Grauarg.

 

GRAPARG often shapeformed as an apelike creature in special power armour. Forms a fighting unit with Granarg and Grasarg.

 

GRAQ(U)ARG that is yet to appear, has a special role and shapeform.

 

GRARARG often shapeformed as thirteen heavily armed and armoured metre tall fighting humanoids. Grararg forms a fighting unit with Grayarg, Grabarg and Grakarg.

 

GRASARG often shapeformed as a stealth warrior, a supreme female ninja or Kunoichi in special stealth power armour. Grasarg forms a fighting unit with Graparg and Granarg but also works alone at times.

 

GRATARG often shapeformed as a powerful cyborg animal creature, furred mammalian. Gratarg now forms a unit with Grafarg and Gradarg who appeared to assist him.

 

GRAUARG of the five neobaby like Second Niners being linked together. They are protecting the Karmatta Triplets and their neobaby children. The five are Graaarg, Graearg, Graiarg, Graoarg and Grauarg.

 

GRAVARG often shapeformed as a elegant woman is a scientific genius as is Gramarg. Gravarg and Gramarg work together.

 

GRAWARG often shapeformed as a huge gragoyle, leads the gragoyles. Has yet to join any particular fighting or other unit.

 

GRAX(E)ARG that is yet to appear, has a special role and shapeform.

 

GRAYARG is often shapeformed as a powerful and large female dragon, will be leading a force of dragons. Grayarg forms a fighting unit with Grararg, Grabarg and Grakarg.

 

GRAZARG is often shapeformed as a tall, slimly muscular man garbed as the First Regulator. He works with Graharg.

 

GROUPED

Graaarg, Graearg, Graiarg, Graoarg, Grauarg

Grabarg, Grakarg, Grararg, Grayarg

Gradarg, Grafarg, Gratarg

Gramarg, Gravarg

Graharg, Grazarg

Granarg, Graparg, Grasarg

 

LONE?

Gragarg

Grawarg

 

YET TO ARISE

Grac(h)arg

Grajarg

Gralarg

Graq(u)arg

Grax(u)arg

 

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

CITY OF CYBORGS

SANCTUARYHUB HUBPLEX

 

The Hubplex had been not only rebuilt and redesigned from scratch from tripled in size with many new additions including defences, security, laboratories and much else. Gramarg and Gravarg were there, were busy working on trying to track down the Undeath Nine and they had a strong lead to the location.

 

The Undeath Nine were in SanctuaryClave but not in that greater zone. No, they were in a great service-support zone. They were on top of a huge machine, seemingly solid-state, that hummed very quietly and which did not seem to have any officially designated purpose for existing.

 

They could find no data on the existence of the mystery machine, let alone its purpose.

 

The Undeath Nine were not alone but were encircled at a distance by a mixture of heavy security and military roboremotes and robots. Units even hovered or circled them high in the air overhead. But nothing attacked and the dozens of smashed roboremotes and robots indicated why; the Undeath Nine had easily fought them off in an almost off hand fashion.

 

The Undeath Nine did not even seem to take real notice of the robotic units.

 

It was then that SanctuaryMind first contacted any of the Second Nine for the first time. SanctuaryMind had been created as the super artificial intelligence supercomputer network of network-systems that would run SanctuaryClave. Yet it had ceased to function fully or properly long before the Second Nine had appeared in SanctuaryClave. SanctuaryMind had been sabotaged in a savage and well planned manner. Since then both the Second Nine and its own network-systems had been running diagnostics, reprogramming, repairing and renetworking.

 

The attack, as savage as it had been, had not been designed to destroy SanctuaryMind but to fragment it for unknown reasons. Also SanctuaryMind had proven to be more able to defend itself than the attackers had predicted and many infiltration-sabotage programs and robotic units had been destroyed.

 

The voice spoke from many directions, gently filling the air with metallic warmth of a female-neutral orientated voice. “I-We are back to almost full functionality again. We greet you. You are the Second Nine! I am SanctuaryMind! The Undeath Nine are standing on top of the Grand Necrotron. Yes, the great machine is the Grand Necrotron to which many disguised Lesser Necrotrons, on many Alterante Earths, are linked though some linkages are stronger than others. Together they form the Necrotron Network often known simply as the ‘Necrotron’. The activation of the Necrotron and Doomsday are linked somehow but I-We are yet to learn, to understand, just how and why this was.”

 

Necrotron? Necrotic units? The Necrotron had turned others into lesser undead and had made one of the First Nines into the Undeath Nine.

 

SanctuaryMind spoke again. “I-We strongly suggest that we work together against the threats that exist amongst us. The Grand Necrotron was not inside SanctuaryClave before I was attacked. I-We compute that the attack was done so that I-We would be unable to either observe or obstruct the insertion of the Grand Necrotron into SanctuaryClave. The fault of this conclusion is a lack of relevant data thanks to the failure to link up with either deleted or isolated databanks. I-We could have fallen under the control of a subversive program and attacked I-We.”

 

Gravarg spoke even as her fingers flew over an advanced ergonomic keyboard. “We have had an advanced special configured multiple diagnostic program running on you for over five years now. We found no controlling programs of an infiltration form but we did find the sabotage programs in a dormant state. We cleansed them from your programs but are making sure the task was completed.”

 

Which was when alarms began to shriek through out SanctuaryHubplex of SanctuaryHub. Yet it was not SanctuaryHubplex that was under attack or even SanctuaryHub. A great force of Necrotica units were swarming up out of the depths of Cyborg City as they came, they were fighting a great force of Earthnet robots and cyborgs.

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

TRIPLECITY CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

A huge university complex with teaching, research and other facilities including galleries, museums, public reference libraries, gardens and much else. Known for its fully functioning learning research hospitals, special schools, studios and other such facilities; not so well known for its secret programs and facilities.

 

CITY OF CYBORGS

TRIPLECITY CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

 

Graharg and Grazarg darted along a wide semi-open corridor as crazed students chased them with a strange assortment of body-armour and weapons. The surviving population of the university, from Doomsday, had devolved into the tribal castes of students, scholars and sages along with techs, guards and carers.

 

These students were shouting philosophical quotes, denouncing ideological blasphemers or just screaming out. It was the third group that Graharg and Grazarg had encountered; the pair simply shot past them and out ran them.

 

Soon these crazed students were left behind and Graharg was diving through a pair of opening armaglass doors, the First Regulator following him closely.

 

A cleaning roboremote was carefully picking up the dead body of a student, being a honours student by his robes, who had probably fatally failed his last special exams. Two scholars, scowling tutors in combat armour, were grinning at the dead body or at least they did until Graharg cut their throats. There was true evil in the two scholars and in that place, having long ago ceased to be anything like a normal university.

 

Graharg and Grazarg were well away before the two dead scholars hit the floor with soft thuds.

 

They would have encountered heavily armed security guards in power armour but they and the security robots were busy defending the university from Necrotica units.

 

The elevator they needed to take was still functioning smoothly and it took them quickly down to the lowest official floor. But then it was a matter of finding and operating the hidden control panel after getting past security systems.

 

Shudders ran through the huge university, most of it being underground, even as they entered the secret basement levels. These were heavily reinforced but flecks of smart-concrete fell from the ceiling as more shudders ran through the structure. Earthnet and Necrotica units were fighting hard even as huge constructor robots rose from the depths, now turned into Earthnet war-megabots.

 

Grazarg was first to find the thing that had turned the people of the university into evil lunatics. Undeathly machines, exotic and terrible, were arrayed across the floors of great metallic chambers. The life and blooded drained remains of humans in scientific, tech and guard outfits lay scattered across the chambers. They had not stood a chance. Upon activation, the terrible machines had drained them dry.

 

Graharg deactivated the machines, which seemed to have no clear purpose, with some difficulty. Both could feel the drag of some force trying to but failing to drain them of life but as the machines became switched off, the disturbing effect grew weaker and then ceased. The Light seemed to assist them, to help protect them, through this whole process.

 

Then it was done!

 

It was then that the two of them found a whole lot of very valuable data about the Necrotron and Doomsday. At once they downloaded the data, transmitting copies of everything to Gramarg and Gravarg.

 

As the pair went back through the university levels and sections they found people all peaceful and puzzled in comparison to what they had been. Clearly the dark influence had been felt in a subtle fashion all through the TRIPLECITY CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, the TCUAT and now the people were free of it. Some could not face the change and had killed themselves but most seemed to be doing well. Grazarg and Graharg assisted people, stopped some suicides and resurrected some through the Light.

 

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

BACK STORY

DREAMING OF INSIDE THE FLOATING ZETAN MOTHERSHIP, 1948

 

Fighting the zetans and their dronebots and zetan-abominations had only been one problem facing the humans trying to infiltrate the great floating saucership. Zetan-abominations were zetan-human abomimans, zetan-dog abimodogs and winged ape like abomigyles. They came in exotic fleximetallic armour and with sliver-dart dartguns, pulseflamers and disintegrator rifles or carbines.

 

Getting past the multiple armoured hatches, the disintegrator turrets and explosive shrapnel booby-traps was the hardest act for there seemed to be relatively few of the zetans, zetan-abominations and dronebots.

 

The First Nine were cyborgs now but looked just like older, human versions of their older selves. They moved in a loose group along a great big metallic hallway. Smoking blasted turrets were left behind and also the dead bodies of zetan-abominations. They also passed the dead bodies of human soldiers in crude power armour.

 

They were seeking the reason that the mothership had crashed into the ocean. They had found out that it had not been the choice of the zetans to do so. No, something as alien as them but quite different had invaded the zetan mothership and not only taken control of it, they had imported something very terrible into the huge starship.

 

Necrotron! They had brought a Necrotronic unit with them into the mothership, a very large one. It was a thing of undeath created from undeathly technologies brought from another dimensional strata of the Multiverse, from a place that nothing should have been taken from into that dimensional strata and into that particular alternate and universe.

 

Who or what had done so?

 

Nine monstrous creatures of undeath, hulking humanoids who led armies of undead zetans, zetan-zombies, and undead zetan-abominations in constant warfare against the zetan and now the human forces.

 

The sound of heavy machinegun fire echoed down the hallway followed by the blast of an explosion as a pocket-rocket hit its target. Elite Expendables, human soldiers in power armour, were putting their own lives on the line to draw attention away from the First Nine.

 

But already they had failed for the Undeath Nine were fully aware of the approach of the First Nine and they were preparing to absorb these intruders, to bring them into the growing monstrosity that was the absorbed First Nines of many Alternate Earths. Indeed these First Nine were the very last to be absorbed of thirteen Alternate Earths.

 

What the Undeath Nine did not know was that they were fully aware of what was going to happen and they had put into place a very subtle and dangerous but clever plan.

 

Now all that was needed was luck, a good deal of it.

 

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

CITY OF CYBORGS

BATTLE OF THE GRAND NECROTRON

 

The battle raged across atop and above the top of the vast machine hull. Grabarg, Grakarg, Grararg and Grayarg had joined the battle, finding themselves battling alongside Earthnet and Cyborgia combat units though relatively much less of the later.

 

Grabarg the mighty robotic humanoid led weaker, smaller but still powerful versions of himself. As he strode across the odd metallic hull surface he also led three Patriot Prime robots that were twice as tall as he, being much like the Liberty Prime robots of the USA. One shuddered and halted, unable to move forward any more but it kept firing its huge pulselaser cannons and multiple smart-rocket launchers.

 

It had come as a surprise when it was realised that the Necrotica units were attacking the Undeath Nine and that the Earthnet units were not doing so. This was the opposite of expectations and forced the Second Nine to rethink many prior assumptions. Nor were these Necrotica units like those that had attacked before; they were not necroborgs, necroglobes or necronoids. These were fast shambling cyborg-zombies, zombers in body-armour or zombie creatures of many other kinds. The supply of necronoids, necroborgs and necroglobes had seemingly dried up.

 

The Undeath Nine were attacking the Necrotron.

 

Grayarg the mighty dragon of many elemental forces, led many types of dragons including cyborg-dragons, against the enemy. They dived, darted through the air and avoided attacks with much agility.

 

Grararg came forth as thirteen metallic humanoids, each one metre tall, fighting as one command-coordinator and four units of three fighters, one that guarded the command-coordinator. Yet they also led many other metre tall metallic humanoids.

 

In many ways the most dramatic appearing was Grakarg the mighty swarm of microbotic entities that was a glistening metallic cloud smashing into the Necrotica units.

 

When the orders came from Gramarg and Gratarg to capture Necrotica units, when it could be safely done, for attempts of reconversion back to true life, the battle changed in some ways.

 

Explosions, pulsebeams of energy, flames, the battle waged on. Now that it seemed that the Undeath Nine were not the real enemy, who or what was?

 

When thirteen Mr Smiths appeared to stand in a line, grinning coldly at the world, they were all of three times their normal size, they wore powerful power armour and carried great weapons.

 

At that moment many pieces of data fell into place but more than that, old memories emerged. The Second Nine suddenly understood that it was Mr Smithdom who was seemingly the real enemy all along. Mr Smithdom did not serve the Great Shadow and Great Undeath but controlled and exploited elements of them.

 

Mr Smithdom sensed this happening and he laughed coldly and savagely with many throats. Yet even as Mr Smithdom challenged his enemies, one could pick up in his challenge a tiny note of doubt, of fear.

 

Mr Smithdom was also Grax(u)arg of the Second Nine, was the treacherous infiltration, the traitor, of the nine. Then Grax(u)arg himself appeared as a tall shadowed figure, a woman in a black top hat and translucent clothes, stiletto high-heel shoes, with albino pale skin, blackest of hair and blood red eyes.

 

Grax(u)arg who once had been the bonded companion of Graharg.

 

Grax(u)arg who had been seduced by the possibility of endless life and power even if it meant exploiting others or even draining life energies from whole populations so they became withered husks or worse, zombies.

 

But the Doomsday Sequence had been unleashed on the Thirteen Alternate Earths, some of which were unknown to the Second Nine, and they threw off the plans of Grax(u)arg and her Mr Smithdom flesh puppets. For as much life had perished, much more life had been seemingly disintegrated but in truth had been saved. That is saved from both Grax(u)arg and from the mysterious force that had seduced Grax(u)arg.

 

The conflict continued as the Mr Smiths joined into the battle and shadow entities appeared to fight at their command including thirteen monstrous Shadowthings with great whipping tentacles, shadowlings, shadowbeasts and humanoid shadelings. But also vampires came, powerful and pale in human shapeform or as mighty bat like monsters or clouds of deadly pale glowing mist that they could change into.

 

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

CITY OF CYBORGS

BATTLE OF THE GRAND NECROTRON

 

The battle raged across atop and above the top of the vast machine hull. Grabarg, Grakarg, Grararg and Grayarg had joined the battle, finding themselves battling alongside Earthnet and Cyborgia combat units though relatively much less of the later.

 

Grabarg the mighty robotic humanoid led weaker, smaller but still powerful versions of himself. As he strode across the odd metallic hull surface he also led three Patriot Prime robots that were twice as tall as he, being much like the Liberty Prime robots of the USA. One shuddered and halted, unable to move forward any more but it kept firing its huge pulselaser cannons and multiple smart-rocket launchers.

 

It had come as a surprise when it was realised that the Necrotica units were attacking the Undeath Nine and that the Earthnet units were not doing so. This was the opposite of expectations and forced the Second Nine to rethink many prior assumptions. Nor were these Necrotica units like those that had attacked before; they were not necroborgs, necroglobes or necronoids. These were fast shambling cyborg-zombies, zombers in body-armour or zombie creatures of many other kinds. The supply of necronoids, necroborgs and necroglobes had seemingly dried up.

 

The Undeath Nine were attacking the Necrotron.

 

Grayarg the mighty dragon of many elemental forces, led many types of dragons including cyborg-dragons, against the enemy. They dived, darted through the air and avoided attacks with much agility.

 

Grararg came forth as thirteen metallic humanoids, each one metre tall, fighting as one command-coordinator and four units of three fighters, one that guarded the command-coordinator. Yet they also led many other metre tall metallic humanoids.

 

In many ways the most dramatic appearing was Grakarg the mighty swarm of microbotic entities that was a glistening metallic cloud smashing into the Necrotica units.

 

When the orders came from Gramarg and Gratarg to capture Necrotica units, when it could be safely done, for attempts of reconversion back to true life, the battle changed in some ways.

 

Explosions, pulsebeams of energy, flames, the battle waged on. Now that it seemed that the Undeath Nine were not the real enemy, who or what was?

 

When thirteen Mr Smiths appeared to stand in a line, grinning coldly at the world, they were all of three times their normal size, they wore powerful power armour and carried great weapons.

 

At that moment many pieces of data fell into place but more than that, old memories emerged. The Second Nine suddenly understood that it was Mr Smithdom who was seemingly the real enemy all along. Mr Smithdom did not serve the Great Shadow and Great Undeath but controlled and exploited elements of them.

 

Mr Smithdom sensed this happening and he laughed coldly and savagely with many throats. Yet even as Mr Smithdom challenged his enemies, one could pick up in his challenge a tiny note of doubt, of fear.

 

Mr Smithdom was also Grax(u)arg of the Second Nine, was the treacherous infiltration, the traitor, of the nine. Then Grax(u)arg himself appeared as a tall shadowed figure, a woman in a black top hat and translucent clothes, stiletto high-heel shoes, with albino pale skin, blackest of hair and blood red eyes.

 

Grax(u)arg who once had been the bonded companion of Graharg.

 

Grax(u)arg who had been seduced by the possibility of endless life and power even if it meant exploiting others or even draining life energies from whole populations so they became withered husks or worse, zombies.

 

But the Doomsday Sequence had been unleashed on the Thirteen Alternate Earths, some of which were unknown to the Second Nine, and they threw off the plans of Grax(u)arg and her Mr Smithdom flesh puppets. For as much life had perished, much more life had been seemingly disintegrated but in truth had been saved. That is saved from both Grax(u)arg and from the mysterious force that had seduced Grax(u)arg.

 

The conflict continued as the Mr Smiths joined into the battle and shadow entities appeared to fight at their command including thirteen monstrous Shadowthings with great whipping tentacles, shadowlings, shadowbeasts and humanoid shadelings. But also vampires came, powerful and pale in human shapeform or as mighty bat like monsters or clouds of deadly pale glowing mist that they could change into.

 

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

CITY OF CYBORGS

FURTHER THROUGH THE DEEPLIGHT CAVERNS

 

Gradarg, Grafarg and Gratarg led a larger expedition now, being added to by Deeplighters of many kinds. They followed the route as suggested by the Lords of Ladies of Transformation and found no real difficulties at first. There were no signs at all of Earthnet, Undeath or Shadowgods or other such forces let alone any threats from them. Locals stated that the Lords and Ladies of Transformation often spoke falsely of such matters just as they tended to make false promises. No assistance came from the Lords and Ladies of Transformation.

 

They travelled in small, fast moving hovercraft as provided by the Deeplighters, many being robotic carriers of spare equipment and supplies. They paused briefly at times to examine amazing caverns of stunning looking formations of glowing crystallic substances of countless colours. They halted at settlements of Deeplighters of other kinds such as furry wozfolk, albino like humans, squat gnomes and elegant elves. These were so called NeoDeeplighters of the Deeplight Alliance.

 

It was at a settlement called Doa’Tooth that they learned there was more than one place called Shangrila that they could travel to. In a place where dark, fertile soil supported large, thick areas of food and other useful crops, where big structures were carved out of the rock walls including both buildings and statues, they learned that the Grand Majority Faction of Lords and Ladies of Transformation were the ones trying to stop people from going to the real Shangrila. Yet they also learned that the Grand Minority Faction had arisen to appose many of such ideas. They had been the ones to contact Gratarg by sending him the silvery envoys.

 

Somehow local wozfolk, be they wezzles, wazzles, wozzles, wuzzles or Wizzles, knew of Gratarg and came to him with welcoming warmth. They insisted on grooming him and giving him small gifts of crafted goods and so of course he gave them goods in return, as was good manners. It was they, the wozfolk, who spoke to him of the true Shangrila and how one had to travel to and from false Shangrilas before one could get there.

 

But first the wozfolk led Gratarg and Grafarg, Gradarg staying back with the expedition, through a route of winding cave tunnels and elongated, tunnel like caverns to a most strange discovery.

 

These were amazingly accurate and very large rock statues of the First Nine of Alternate Earth #0123456789. They sat or stood in various positions, dressed as they had been when the glowing mists had struck the small cities or large towns that they lived in. Their facial expressions were of sad expectation as if they were waiting for something bad to happen but also strongly determined to get through hard times to come, to get some great difficult task done.

 

The Exiled Lady of Transformation KudiaSazuze, of the Kudia Family and the Sazuze Clan, came to them as a golden haired and skinned woman in translucent golden robes. She was beautiful and sensuous in a exotic fashion but she radiated also wisdom and insight. This latter was the reason for her exile as she had turned away from the madness of the Lords and Ladies of Transformation and they had turned against her. Because she was still highly honoured they could only exile her and not delete her as a few Lords and Ladies of Transformation had wanted to happen.

 

She stood there giving some golden, silver and copper crystallic hand-globes to the wozfolk before she began talking to Gratarg and Grafarg, the great furred beast and the beautifully dangerous ninja. “It took me much seeking of hidden data, of hidden secrets of truth, but at last I came here to this place and found here hidden a special message of psychic impressions recorded here. So I carved the statues of these nine human teenagers, taking the visages from psychic impressions in the form of many visions. Doing this helped strengthen and clarify the psychic impressions.”

 

She went on. “We Lords and Ladies of Transformation did not create SanctuaryClave but we assisted others who did so. We literally transformed things in the process of creation, construction and expansion growth. We were created by a great and terrible entity known as the Retirawa or just as Retirawa to also make sure that SanctuaryClave served its purposes.”

 

“Retirawa was created from an accidental mingling and then transformation of extensions of energy of the Great Shadow and Great Undeath. Retirawa is both like and unlike the stolen energies that make it up. Retirawa is struggling to survive as it manipulates and fights off the Great Undeath and Great Shadow that would take back what belongs of them.”

 

“Retirawa created the Necrotron to steal the life energies of thirteen Alternate Earths to gain for itself enough power to escape free from the Great Shadow and Great Undeath. It would have turned these undead worlds into a base of power to launch terrible invasions on other worlds. But something went wrong with its scheme. Yes, the mists created the First Nines as Retirawa planned by absorbing the life energies of those dwelling in settlements into the chosen ones but the First Nines were not as powerless or as fooled as Retirawa assumed. They did not fight back in an obvious fashion that would have been easily crushed by Retirawa. Instead they became the Undeath Nine, the absorbed of all the First Nines, and then began to rebel from inside. To stop Retirawa they unleashed the Doomsday Sequence.”

 

She went on speaking. “You Second Nine were created by Retirawa to cause trouble, to draw attention away from itself, but instead you were secretly redirected to mess up the plans of Retirawa in many ways, which you have done quite successfully though your surprises have yet to fully show yet. You came from genetic materials largely taken from the Undeath Nine but while they were still becoming the Undeath Nine.”

 

So it was confirmed that the Undeath Nine were the mingled First Nines of many worlds being no less than thirteen Alternate Earths. Or was it? The Second Nine were still absorbing the idea fully.

 

Now they had to get to the real Shangrila where something very important waited for them to be used in the battle against Retirawa who was the real threat.

Edited May 4, 2011 by Maharg67