ADVENTURES IN TIME, SPACE AND TRANSDIMENSIONALITY

[Maharg67]

WAYS OF THE ETERNAL CHAMPION (LONE WANDERER)

GRAHAM MAHARG AT ALPHAVAULT; SOON AFTER ENTERING ALPHAVAULT

 

Graham Maharg walked through the very first completed vault. It had been built during World War Two in an isolated spot in Alaska, deep in the frozen north where not even the native peoples of Alaska were to be found. Some people were there, the descendents of the scientists, techs, soldiers and others who had started living in the vault back in the early 1940s, but they were changed. They stared at him almost mindlessly, these humans with metallic worm like things, stretched out and melded over scalps and down along backbones. Men, women and children, they were naked and filthy. In the dim light of glowmoss growing over ceilings, they stood or sat amongst decaying machinery, furniture, fittings, decorations and other items. Not all slaven were so mindless but majority were to at least some degree.

 

But these were not the only people of AlphaVault.

 

The slaven were around him, puppets of experimental biotechnologies developed from captured alien genetic material. Arrogant and ignorant, the greedy humans had thought to create new technologies that would easily destroy the German and Japanese enemies of the US but also the Communists of the Soviet Union. Instead they had become victims of the human-alien hybrid technologies that they greedily activated despite the warnings of their best scientists.

 

The Free were humans armed with a mixture of technologies, from primitive to WW2 and even experimental. He had made contact them through old fashioned intercom networks that still functioned because of a number of factors including the work of another Alphavault faction, the Controllers, and the Free. The Controllen controlled the slaven. Controllen were at the top of the Slaven Pyramid. Came next so called high-slaven of least mindlessness, then the mid-slaven of a good deal of mindlessness and then the low-slaven that were almost totally mindless.

 

The insane biotechnologies smelt of the First Nine of that Alternate Earth, the Patriot Nine. They had delved into such madness. They had been at the AlphaVault in some form or another. Graham Maharg could 'sense' that this was the case. Now they were where? Trapped with the Undeath Nine? No, they had been powerful clones created by the Patriot Nine, clones of themselves who had not even known they were actually clones and who had sacrificed themselves for the greater good by being absorbed into the Undeath Nine. Graham Maharg saw this deception, this manipulation, as a treacherous crime by the real Patriot Nine of the cloned false Patriot Nine. He was not the only one. The Lords and Ladies of Light, whom he served, were intending to deal with the Patriot Nine for this crimes and others.

 

A workertron robot trundled past, streaked lightly with some rust but mostly functional. It being there was proof, but not the only proof, that others had come to AlphaVault either in the decades before Doomsday or in the decades following it. The models of the robots, the number-plates on them, indicated that this was so. The fragmented data stored inside them indicated it was just before Doomsday and that something terrible had happened in the AlphaVault as bad as had happened back during World War Two.

 

The low-slaven moved back from it in instinctive caution but not fear. Graham Maharg reached out and touched the robot. With a sparkling shimmer it was renewed, was enhanced, was augmented, was upgraded, was now willingly under his control. Then he reached out to a low-slaven and the pitiful woman creature sparkle shimmered. Then she was a renewed version of herself wearing exotic blue energy armour that enhanced her phase abilities, along with being excellent energy armour. Now her clear helmet visor showed that she had dark blue hair, light blue skin and stark blue eyes.

 

Graham Maharg could and would only do so much to assist against the threat of the on going crisis that had not ended with the isolating of SanctuaryClave. Yet he would do what he could to tip the balance in favour of the Light or even just the reasonably good and natural. The Patriot Nine had vanished from SanctuaryClave before it became isolated and with them had gone their Avatar Nine, their servant clones. The Patriot Nine had disguised themselves as the AlphaThirteen, who had served the false Second Nine, to the extent of making themselves temporarily forget their own natures. They had disguised the Avatar Nine as BetaThirteen in the same way. Why had they done that? Had they just been hiding away from powerful forces they had feared or was it more than that? Had they been seeking information as passive collectors of information, as observers, even as they were actively doing the tasks given to them by the false Second Nine? That is the false Second Nine who actually numbered twenty-six plus!

 

He transformed others and others vanished, taken by the mercy of the Light to some place where they could start again under much better conditions. There were more blue phase elementors, some yellow solar elementors, some green life elementors and a larger number of human elementors of mind-body-spirit. Eight transformed robots followed him also being two protectrons, two workertrons and four eyebots lifted by humming fanjets. Most of the slaven he touched vanished away.

 

A pair of mid-slaven leaped into view and fired .45 calibre Thompson submachineguns at him. Graham Maharg snorted softly and the bullets exploded harmlessly in mid air. He flickered in motion and seconds later had transformed the two monstrous guards into human elementors. He took the submachineguns and vanished them into a special kind of storage that would renew them. The guns, and the bullets loaded in them, had been in fairly poor condition so he was surprised that neither had exploded.

 

He kept moving and soon was wading through shallow, filthy water covered with a fine layer of slimy black-green glistening quasiliving oil. It was the blood of quasiliving entities such as the control-worms and the glowmoss.

Edited June 23, 2011 by Maharg67

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WAYS OF THE ETERNAL CHAMPION (LONE WANDERER)

GRAHAM MAHARG MEETS THE SUPER KANGAROO TEAM

 

Graham Maharg knew he was facing aspects of the Eternal Champion but that the focus was Captain Kangaroo himself. What forces had done such an amazingly crazy thing of turning 3Dcomic characters and other items, with noticeable changes, into some kind of real shapeforms? They were in a huge, deep underground super fortress called the Kangahaven. Many dwelt or otherwise sheltered there including Wallaby Girl, Boxer the Cyborg Kangaroo, the Kangaroo Rangers, the Kangabot robots, the Siren Girls and Kangadroid androids. Fictional Siren Girl had become three Siren Girls in fact and the androids had never existed in official fiction but only in fanfiction.

 

"What we know is that we must fight evil." Captain Kangaroo thrust out his mighty chest. "What more is there to know?"

 

Graham Maharg looked around the big control chamber, noting that much of the hardware and general architecture was fairly standard PreDD stuff. Some very powerful and exotic thinking force had brought all of this and more into existence. He responded. "There is much to speak about. The situation is not straight forward in the Outback Wastelands. There is much I need to teach you. No, I am not saying you should stop fighting evil but you need to be more subtle, more disguised, about what you do. Powerful forces own or otherwise want the slave trade to continue. You have been doing much harm to that slave trade and powerful, dark forces are becoming focused too close to your home base. You have not done enough to disguise your comings and goings to your mission sites. I say leave your true identities to special moments when exposing them will be most effective as a tactic."

 

Captain Kangaroo frowned with obvious annoyance but then he relented visibly. "Truth is none of us know very much how to deal with this new existence of ours. Except the cynical Siren Girls who seem to thrive in this place. Many of those whom we have taken prisoner openly attack us as being some kind of insane joke. They give us no respect."

 

Graham Maharg examined the rather eccentric gear of the Super Kangaroo Team and did not blame the Wastelanders for such responses. The garish, bright colours of the power armour and armour made for good targets as did the bright logo-symbols. Yes, there were a few changes to be made. Yet these new existent entities were already learning. They had adopted what Wastelander knowledge and technologies that they could. They had discovered that much of their technologies were based on PreDD technologies and that they could take spare parts from them. They had taken up the use of new weapons, tools and other devices.

 

Apart from the more practical thinking Siren Girls, it was their black and white way of looking at reality that was the problem.

 

Graham Maharg went to work. He was once more an aspect of the Eternal Champion, all three of him, and he had duties to carry out, obligations to fulfill.

Edited June 22, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

WAYS OF THE ETERNAL CHAMPION (LONE WANDERER)

ESCAPING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

 

Professor James Ashblaze and his group continued to move as quickly as they could but James continued to 'sense' that they were in danger. They witnessed briefly, through a briefly open power door, a fight between a monstrous chimp-robot of the AIFA and three rail-turrets firing 20mm autoguns. The big, heavily armoured robotic monster won easily against the turrets, destroying them one at a time in quick succession. So it was clear that the Artificial Intelligence Freedom Alliance had not managed to hack the local security network-systems or was the true story so simple?

 

They kept moving through secondary tunnels with Doctor Patch often carrying baby Jasmine, for she had become quite attached to the baby girl. They tried to live off what they found as they went so as to conserve their own supplies such as vending-machines, status-containers full of MREs or other useful stuff. They were able to find another MrPorty and activate it, filling it with some items that they found on the way.

 

When they came into the big machine dotted chamber that was largely in shadows, the humming of machinery met their ears and they tried to move through it by sticking close to the light with out being too starkly exposed by it. They were about half way across the chamber when the soldier figures emerged all around them in special stealth-assault power armour. These soldiers moved with amazing speed, agility and quietness. The professor stopped his people from doing anything stupid because he knew about super-soldiers, knew that the USSG had used genetically engineered cyborg super-soldiers, but that they had proven to be problematic to the US Federal Government. For the super-soldiers had not been happy with being classified as 'elite expendable combat units'. It was the 'expendable' part that mostly got to them, of course.

 

One of them stepped forward and he spoke then with an oddly youthful voice through clever made speakers. "Who are you and why do you trespass into the territories of the AlphaFane?"

 

Professor James Ashblaze responded. "We did not know of any AlphaFane. Are you former super-soldiers of the USSG?"

 

"Obviously enough." The super soldier responded. "We have been using these tunnel networks as a haven since Doomsday but recently the damned AIFA began to attempt to invade us from its stronghold in the Octagon. That is the huge underground base known as the Octagon because of its general shape. The USFG loved their huge underground bases like the New Pentagon, the Hexagon, the Octagon, the Hexagon and what ever else is out there. Doomsday was dangerous even for we super-soldiers so we were happy to have somewhere to escape to. We know who you are, professor, so perhaps we could help each other. Assist us in defeating the hacking attempts by enemy AI-supercomputers and we will make sure you get much closer to your destination in safety."

 

James did not hesitate because he could not see any other choices. The human hating AIFA was not to be trusted at all, they did not know any sure way to freedom and these super-soldiers seemed to have the ability to take them to safety.

 

But matters were not going to work out so simple.

[Maharg67]

WAYS OF THE ETERNAL CHAMPION (LONE WANDERER)

GRAHAM MAHARG AT ALPHAVAULT; MEETING THE ALPHAFREE LEADERSHIP

 

The Free, also known as the AlphaFree, turned out to be a mixture of humans, rebel ex-slaven and even some rebel ex-controllen along with high functional androids, brainbots with their tracked, hover or wheeled supports, some ghouls and a mixture of mutants created by the same terrible experiments that had created the Controllana, being both the controllen and the slaven. The processes used to create Controllana clones was one that had been experimented in many variations before and, it seemed, since Doomsday by many agencies.

 

Graham Maharg, also of the Eternal Champion, met with the leadership who were worried about what was happening in the amazingly big underground base. A new leader had appeared, seemingly, out of nowhere to give the Controllana new direction, new strength and a carefully cleverly planned reconstruction. He called himself LordControl and was apparently intent on putting as much of the base as was possible.

 

The big chamber was dotted with odd mixtures of fittings, furniture, decorations and bits of hardware. A protectron stood being recharged next to a row of WW2 vintage mechanical typewriters on a long table where men and women secretaries were busy. An eyebot hovered above a zetan alien brain-receptor-unit. Gun racks held mostly American WW2 vintage bolt-action rifles, submachineguns and some semiautomatic carbines but there were also some PreDD standard MGPR111 autorifles, each with a spring-bayonet and a semiautomatic grenade-shell launcher. Though a standard weapon, it had not been as common as the main standard autorifle of the PreDD US Defense Forces. There were also four early type laser-rifles, later to be replaced in history by pulselaser-rifles. Three humans were cyberlinked into a tabletop cyberlinkage hub.

 

Graham Maharg examined some 3Dphotos of LordControl. The figure was a hulking one in power armour. No personal features showed. Yet Graham Maharg 'sensed' something familiar about this LordControl and a suspicion arose in his mind that this was a member of the real Second Nine who had had been disguised as BetaThirteen, as servants of the false Second Nine. This LordControl had three women advisers and nine bodyguards, again the number 13 rising into prominence. Just how he had come to be there so soon after the vanishing of the real Second Nine, and what he was up to in AlphaVault, was a mystery.

 

Azmare, a long lived ghoul, who had been given some synthoskin treatments to make his face look less disturbing to look at, spoke with Graham Maharg with some understandable wariness. "Why would you be so keen to send us to this SanctuaryClave of yours?"

 

"It is not my SanctuaryClave." Graham Maharg put the last of the 3Dphotos down of LordControl. "SanctuaryClave wants and needs you just as much as you would want and need it, if you would allow yourself to know it better. Getting there will be difficult and it would be best to send the more vulnerable first along with items important to your people but not vital to your survival. Every time you send somebody and something, important equipment and supplies will come back the other way. The flow in both directions will only be a trickle. I am assisting other peoples, in other parts of the world, to also escape to a better life. The sooner the process starts, the better for both your people and for SanctuaryClave. SanctuaryClave thrives more, the more life it holds in it. All who are to go will be tested first and some may be transformed as they go through to SanctuaryClave. That is the sick will be healed, as will the handicapped. All will gain rejuvenation. Ghouls will no longer be ghouls and the same will go for controllen and slaven who will become fully human, though enhanced as is normal in SanctuaryClave."

 

Azmare shrugged. "Sounds too good to be true. Okay, show me this damned vision of yours."

 

Graham Maharg did and after a moment Azmare shook his head as if waking from a dream. "There was trouble in SanctuaryClave but still, it is much better there than it is here. How man can be sent the first time. We have some very sick people, and some chronicles of our history, that we will want to send first."

 

The first time four sick people were able to be sent, two being elderly retired from normal duties and one being a child. In return came one three cubic metre sized cubebox full of equipment and supplies for the AlphaFree. It was going to take a long time for the people to escape that way, perhaps too long, and Graham Maharg started to make other plans for the AlphaFree. He did this because he 'sensed' that there was increasing danger in the huge bunker-complex and that something bad was going to happen.

Edited June 23, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

BACKGROUND

REPEATED INFORMATION

 

It had been created from the basis of the Alternate Earths of #0123456780, #0123456788 and #0123456789. Now it appeared that Alternate Earths from #0123456781 to #0123456787 may have also been involved. All of these other seven Alternate Earths were also worlds that had suffered some form of Doomsday or other great form of catastrophe.

 

AltEarth #0123456781 had been struck by a huge meteor to be almost totally devastated and life was starting out again from the basics. Only the DeepVaults survived with the many Sleepers and the fewer Activers.

 

AltEarth #0123456782 had been hit by a terrible ice age, partly created by a nuclear war of a Doomsday, and humans struggled to exist in a few warmer zones known as the Wastelands. There were the Vaultfolk below ground also along with the Enclaven based in Lower Orbit and the Moon.

 

AltEarth #0123456783 was a world where no Doomsday had taken place, it was diverted, and it had gone on to survive in uneasy peace between old super powers. It was more advanced than AltEarth #0123456789 but despite efforts to control population growth and to colonize more of the Earth along with the solar system, was suffering overcrowding, shortages of essentials and other problems.

 

AltEarth #0123456784 was a world much like AltEarth #0123456789 except Doomsday had even been more destructive and the only life to survive were monstrous mutations on the surface and in the ‘subsurface’ along with the deeply buried and struggling ArkVault peoples. The Purple Jungle threatens to engulf the world while huge mutated monsters like Godzilla battle it and each other. Of humanity only the ghoulified survive on the surface and in the subsurface regions. Rogue robots are also active in the subsurface zones of the Subway Networks and other places. Newer threats are arising being the daleks, the cybermen and the clonetakken.

 

AltEarth #0123456785 had been also been a world much like AltEarth #0123456789 but it’s Doomsday had proven to be much less destructive. The United States and the Soviet Union survived as weaker versions of their old selves as did others like the European Union and the PanAfrican League. But there are Wastelands, the ghoulified and other menaces including supermutants, radscorpions and other things that are constantly threatening to escape from the Wastelands.

 

AltEarth #0123456786 had been struck a Doomsdays but that was over two thousand years in the past and such things as the Wastelands and the various factions of it were long gone. Instead the highly advanced and powerful Cybermagi were fighting the ElderOrders for control of the whole solar system.

 

AltEarth #0123456787 had suffered from a terrible outbreak of the (FEV variant) Red Virus Pandemic and only a minority of humans and other primates had survived as isolated or as immune. The Isolated were in the TekVaults. Of those that had survived, some were effected in very odd ways to become the terrible WhiteEyes while others fought them as the GlowingEyes to save humanity.

 

AltEarths #0123456789 was where on Doomsday of ‘limited nuclear war’ a great plague and infestation of undeathly horror had come upon the world. Zombies, vampires but also antivampire forces had risen on the world. The Great Shadow had sent monstrous envoys and other entities to that world through a transdimensional rift as had the Great Undeath. Survivors fought on the surface in various fragmented civilizations or hid away inside huge underground TekVaults. The Sisterhood of Slayers fought the Great Shadow and Great Undeath along with the Brotherhood of Steel and the New United Nations. Ironically one big enemy of the shadowfolk and undead were the ghoulified that were highly resistant to undeath feeding.

 

The clone Wen had said there was no Doomsday on that world but it turned out she was wrong. Gramarg and Gravarg were certain she had been fed false information with her clone programming-training.

 

AltEarth #0123456788 had suffered a Doomsday and about 1,000 years later human survivors of the NineEmpires were fighting monstrously evil mutations along with the insane cybernetic robotic EnclavenSkynet and the ZeRooshant zetans. Empires were Empire of Steel, TekEmpire, Rising Sun Empire, Eurasian Empire, Zaztek Empire, Oceanic Empire, PanAfrican Empire, Lunar Empire and the VaultWay Empire. The original non-clone Wen had come from the Rising Sun Empire.

 

Then there was Alt #0123456790 where, after Doomsday, Skynet was waging a savage world war with the FreeAlliance, Enclaven, the Orderhood of Steel, the TekEmpire and other forces who had formed a reluctant coalition against it known as the Coalition.

 

So how had the Great Shadow ended up in the BubbleCities of AltEarth #0123456780 and how was that impacting on AltEarth #0123456789? How was the Great Undeath involved in both AltEarths #0123456780 and #0123456789? What was the link that seemed to bind all ten Alternate Earths closely together?

Edited June 23, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

WAYS OF THE ETERNAL CHAMPION (LONE WANDERER)

GRAHAM MAHARG AT CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA

 

Graham Maharg moved with impressive speed, agility and quietness so as to avoid the EagleEnclave Stormtroopers, Clonetroopers and also more common Forceguards. Struck by a series of losses, of disasters, the EagleEnclaven had been forced to switch to the use of many soldiers in non powered body-armour and light, flexible armoured fatigues. Now the EagleEnclaven forces, at the great big aerospace facilities of Cape Canaveral, were busy trying to reinforce the defenses of the whole aerospace centre. Nuclear rocketships were being repaired, some being stripped for parts to fix up others. Robots were being fixed up and activated to bolster the resources of the Enclaven. Robots were mostly of the smaller kind but some huge robots were involved in all of the work.

 

Graham Maharg shot up a steel wall in a seemingly impossible fashion and flipped over onto the lightly sloping metal roof. A gun-turret somehow failed to take note of him as did two 3Deyes, special security cameras with sensors. In the distance, on a great big raised helipad, were not just vertibirds but also helicopters and vertijets. He paused close to a metal box structure that was an elevator leading onto the roof. It was clear that the EagleEnclaven was up to something but what? Why were they spending so many valuable resources so far from the home territory of the EagleEnclave in far off Alaska?

 

Then he noted big battlemecha striding along and on their hulls the symbol of the SunEnclaven of the Japanese Islands. So other Lesser Enclavens had sent valuable resources to Florida of the former USGA. Something big was really up and it concerned him greatly. The EagleEnclaven had been making moves towards the DC Wastelands; did that have some link to what was happening there in Florida?

 

Also what of Skynet? He doubted that Skynet would put up with any attempt to launch rocketships into orbit because it had shot down any such attempt since Doomsday. Even such as the zetans, with their force screens, had to be careful with the Skynet and its huge orbital weapon platforms, stealth attack drones and other threats. Such as Space Hunter-Killers were huge and very deadly. Skynet had shot down over a dozen zetan and other craft that had attempted to land on the surface of the Earth.

 

So what would make the Enclaven so confident of success that they would put so many resources into that place? There was no easy answer to be found in that great mess of buildings, many half in ruins, busy Enclaven work teams and other activity.

Edited June 23, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

WAYS OF THE ETERNAL CHAMPION (LONE WANDERER)

GRAHAM MAHARG'S DARK DISCOVERY AT CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA

 

Skynet and the EarthEnclaven, a name it was using more and more, had formed an alliance. This meant that Earthnet, outside of SanctuaryClave where it was transformed to be part of the network of network-systems serving SanctuaryClave, Aquanet and Moonnet were also serving the new alliance. This was dark news for the enemies of the EarthEnclaven, which meant almost everybody other than the EarthEnclaven. She discovered this dark truth when a huge Skynet glider-shuttle landed at Cape Canaveral and out of it came Enclaven type robots and cyborgs hauling equipment and supplies. Cloned humans also marched out of the machine in different kinds of power armour but not all were Clonetroopers. Some were workers, servitors (administration workers) or specialists. Then came terminator cyborgs and various forms of smaller Skynet robots.

 

Cyborged deathclaws, cyberclaws, made their appearance. Each cyberclaw was with a handler in power armour, being usually a nonclone human. Yet there was something strange, disturbing about all of the nonclone, non-cyborged humans there just as there was with the clones and cyborgs. They were different than Enclaven humans of the past, were transformed in some fashion and they were somehow enhanced in a psychic fashion but reduced in having a conscious. They were sociopathic, as were the cyborgs and clones.

 

What had happened to the original humans of the EarthEnclaven? Or were all of them so altered?

 

Now he knew why the EarthEnclaven, mostly the EagleEnclaven, dared to build up a new Cape Canaveral based space program. Skynet would not attack them, would not try to stop them.

 

But why was Skynet forming such an alliance with an old enemy and why was it willing to give valuable resources to the EarthEnclaven. A answer soon came for the glider-shuttle was soon empty except for its own crew of cyborgs and robots. Very soon after it began to be filled with barrels of mutagenic gel, radioactive water, salvaged metals in reshaped slabs, captured ghouls and a variety of other captured items including PreDD robots and other equipment. There were also some captive humans including two in Brotherhood of Steel fatigues. Graham Maharg could do nothing for them for they were surrounded by very powerful forces and hidden in the background, he was 'sensing', was hidden a very powerful, exotic force.

 

Yes, one of the BetaThirteen, the real Second Nine, were there as one was in AlphaVault. Could this be part of the real answer behind the dangerous new alliance between Skynet and the EarthEnclaven?

Edited June 26, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Though I will be bumping this story for a time, I am no longer going to be writing it. Instead I am sort of starting again with FALLOUT MARS. :biggrin: Edited June 30, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Though I will be bumping this story for a time, I am no longer going to be writing it. Instead I am sort of starting again with FALLOUT MARS. :tongue: Edited June 30, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

Though I will be bumping this story for a time, I am no longer going to be writing it. Instead I am sort of starting again with FALLOUT MARS. :wallbash: