THIRTEEN OF THIRTEEN

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

OBSERVITII EYEOTII ALPHA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

 

EyeotiiAlpha drifted away from CrazyManPoe and then was at Bethesdatown observing the NDCR Horse Infantry and the Regulators trying to work out what they would do with the cars. The two trucks had already been taken over by the Guardsmen and would be sent to the closet NDCR settlement, a fortified multiple purpose outpost, with equipment, supplies and surviving animals in Bethesdatown. Bethesdatown would be abandoned though one cellar chamber would be filled with hopefully useful stuff and concealed as much as possible for when settlers did return.

 

In the end it was decided that the cars, both electric replicas of historical machines, would have to be transported somehow to the NDCR Heartland where larger settlements and better cared for roads between settlements, could be used by these vehicles. Perhaps scientists, engineers and techies would want to study them along with other specialists. For the moment the cars were moved into a big subsurface chamber and some Guardsmen remained with them to guard them.

 

Observitii: *CrazyManPoe plays with forces that can easily go wrong and yet behind what he does may lie a strong purpose.*

 

EyeotiiAlpha: *A strong purpose by a mentally disordered entity? Observe, patterns of transdimensional disruption are rippling out from where CrazyManPoe made the cars and trucks materialize. Where did they come from?*

 

Observitii: *You can not detect clues to that answer? There are no easy answers to be found. We, the Watchitii Thirteen, must go further, deeper to seek answers. Perhaps we need to follow CrazyManPoe?*

 

EyeotiiAlpha: *I would have done so but I could not find any traces, any clues, to how or where he went. It was teleportation but amazingly well shielded. CrazyManPoe may have come to this place to do more than to materialize a few vehicles, to save a few former ghoul slaves after paying them generous amounts of hard currency, getting them drunk and fed tasty snacks. CrazyManPoe is generous but why this one act here and now?*

 

The Watchitii Thirteen were used to seeking and finding with efficient ease but now it was being blocked in ways that were frustrating and concerning.

 

Then, with a sparkling shimmer, the same kinds of vehicles appeared in another spot in the big clearing just to one side of where the first lot had come but this time they were full of people. Soldiers clambered out of the two six wheeled trucks and civilians out of the two types of cars. They were in historical proper gear linked to the histories of the vehicles replicated from the Second Great Amtriellan War or in two the decades just after it. The soldiers and varied types of civilians, looked around in shock.

 

Thankfully, like the altered vehicles, these humans, along with some animals they had with them, were enhanced and did not suffer from the Wasteland's harsher exotic conditions. That is the toxins, the bizarre energies or the higher than 'normal' radiation.

 

The NDCR Soldiers and Regulators came carefully to meet the newcomers and were soon speaking together calmly enough. Yet the newcomers were suffering from fragmented and hazy memories of where they had come from. Also those clear flashes of memory they had did not seem to make sense, generally. They all seemed to focus on a very alien limbo like zone of grey misty eternity, an endless grey ground and the people just drifting half asleep with out needs including sleep, water or food.

 

Two more exact sets of vehicles appeared later and with each came more people, being soldiers from the two trucks and civilians from the cars. Again there were guard dogs and pets.

 

The transdimensional disruptive patterns settled down and for then and there matters returned to healthy stability again. Yet how long would it last and what were the Fragmentori Thirteen really up to?

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

LORDS PARARA SAVISAR ALPHAOMEGA OF THE ALPHAOMEGA THIRTEEN

 

Lord Savisar AlphaOmega had moved to a smaller operational base hidden in a large island, Sharp Island, off the Amtriellan North Coast. She had done this since the crisis had worsened in the District of Columbia in the Wastelands of Amtriel. Now she was in a great metallic domechamber but she was not alone. Around her moved androids, metahumans and voton aliens. They carried out a wide range of tasks while others were cyberlinked as they were in exoframe capsulechairs that kept their bodies healthy and fit.

 

The Watchitii Thirteen and the Regulators had sent in reports of what had taken place in the settlement of Bethesdatown with CrazyManPoe of the Fragmentori Thirteen. The reports were disturbing but the implications behind the reports were far more so. The Fragmentori Thirteen had vanished a very long time ago, centuries before Doomsday, after being betrayed and attacked by unknown forces. The incident had helped to lead to the later breakup of the Thirteen of Thirteen which in turn had meant the Thirteen Thirteens had been less able to stop Doomsday from happening.

 

Now, apparently out of nowhere, the Fragmentori Thirteen had reappeared or at least some aspects of it had done so.

 

Parara: *Sanctuarius has taken in all those sent to the MultiTransCubeShip for sanctuary, including those sent earlier to MultiTransCubes and put into special energy storage. It is a very interesting mixture of lifeforms along with those like androids.*

 

The AlphaOmega Thirteen would visit Sanctuarius sometimes. Lord Artisar AlphaOmega was visiting Sanctuarius at that moment on a special assessment mission. He would also be going to the MultiTransCubeShip proper. Lord Treasar AlphaOmega was still assessing the amazingly large amount of new resources that RothuaRetirwa had materialized for the Thirteen of Thirteen to use.

 

Savisar: *All of the threats that have appeared, so far, in the DC have been those that most likely serve other, more secretive and dangerous forces. In this I include the OmniMultiple as created by the Perfectus Thirteen before they were sundered and exiled to the Greater Limbo Dimensions.*

 

Parara: *So all of the troubles so far could just be a test, a first step, in a greater plan before a greater threat emerges? Not a pleasant idea! The Enclaven, the Subways Unified Republic Central Government and now the settlement of Bethesdatown, all have suffered from exotic attacks but not only them. UnityNeo is being hunted but why? Is UnityNeo the real target or just part of a decoy action to have us looking away from the real target, the real objective of the 'enemy'?*

 

They had much work to do and it was becoming evident that they had to do much searching and researching. Painfully, they would also need to look into the dark times of the history of the Thirteen of Thirteen.

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0047

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARAO AARIE AARON OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

Aarao had returned to LifeVault0101A2 while the three follower avatars dematerialised. She had made some form of early agreement with UnityNeo, a basic form of mutual assistance treaty. She had no trouble in slipping quietly back into the LifeVault and to the apartment where she and her sister and brother were forced to share a bedroom. The other bedroom was used by their father, Professor James Zavid, and his most recent live in girlfriend, one Terri Rosewood. The triplets liked her to some extent but did not really trust her because she was too much of a system player in the Overseer Government.

 

For some days the triplets hunted for radroaches, carried out other vault duties, went to tutorials and lectures at the LifeVault Collage and sometimes hung out with their friends. That is when they were not sleeping or being domestic at home or being super virtual reality. When RothuaRetirwa boosted the abilities of the Thirteen of Thirteen, the Zavid Triplets began to duplicate rejuvenate multiply vital resources. They did so for themselves and for UnityNeofolk.

 

Aaron passed a holotape to DJgirl and the cute redhead, upon seeing the label on it, smiled at him. “Really, gosh, FIRST STEP TECHNIQUES FOR BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL DJ.”

 

Aarie sighed. “DJgirl, don't overdue it, our brother has a big enough head as it is.”

 

They were in a small home away from home for the triplets and their friends. It had been an unused utility storeroom and now it was a clubhouse with some repaired items, some jury-rigged items and a scruffy comfortable neatness to it. Aarao was at a computer terminal with the Techitrick Brothers, being actually twin brothers and a younger sister who had blackmailed her brothers so that she could be called a 'Techitrick Brother'. Being six years old her blackmail attempt had been rather amateurish and her older brothers had let her get away with it.

 

Aarao had Tabitha Techitrick Donaldson sitting on her lap but asleep with her head against Aarao's chest. Aarao had one arm around the girl and was hugging her lightly.

 

Aarao spoke. “The Overseer Government Computer Network is suffering from some kind of very nasty virus attack. I have begun instigating antiviral procedures against it.”

 

Aarie frowned. “Could it be the rebels?”

 

Aarao shook her head. “I doubt it. This is an impressively sophisticated attack, very hitech, and beyond the resources of anybody inside LifeVaut0101A2. More than an attack, this is an attempt to raid even the most secure Overseer Government databanks and both steal and erase all datafiles.”

 

The triplets came up with the same idea, 'sensed' that they did but did not speak it aloud. The infiltrators were most likely after sensitive PreDoomsday data stored away in the LifeVault but why were they also out to destroy it, to stop others from using it?

 

The triplets went to work to stop them.

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

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0048

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARAO AARIE AARON OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

A whole lot of LifeVaultfolk were taken into temporary custody, not all at the same time, to be questioned heavily. Professor James Zavid was one as LifeVault Security Intelligence people tried to find causes, and possible scapegoats, for the big largely failed virus attack.

 

Yes, the virus attack had largely failed but not just because of the work of the Zavid Triplets and their friends. Other forces, including the LifeVault Security Intelligence Department itself, had fought hard. The infiltration attack had destroyed nothing but had stolen data and had planted other programs into the network-systems.

 

Hat the enemy action really failed? Was most of it decoy action while the real objectives were met? The triplets hacked into computer network-systems and found, with some difficulty, even with the special abilities of the Zavid Thirteen, that the intruders had been seeking a wide range of goals but mostly, data on the synthetic manifesticants project in LifeVault0101A2.

 

The triplets sent three follower avatars, in special energy form, through the computer network-systems in a new way. The three found out things that were a surprise to them such as that their previous belief that they knew most about the vault they had grown up in, was largely wrong.

 

Their father, Professor James Zavid, had been secretly going into a long isolated part of the vault, in fact into a subvault not mentioned on the main official plans, where he had been investigating something called 'Project Environmental Purification'. It sounded like something called Project Purity that he had been working with before he came to LifeVault0101B1 with the triplets as babies. Project Environmental Purification was linked with the synthetic manifesticant project but it was not clear just how it was.

 

People had come with him to the vault being Star Paladin Cross of the Sisterhood of Steel, the MrGutsy robot named Sergeant RL3 and Charon the contracted ghoul bodyguard. None of those had wanted to come into the vault and would have been allowed to do so anyway. Why Professor James Zavid, and his children, was allowed in was still a shadowy story. Perhaps it was no coincidence that the then Prime Overseer was named Jake Zavid. There was also the fact that Professor James Zavid was needed to help fix various ailing network-systems in the vault and had done so in following years.

 

But Professor James Zavid, and his children, had not been the only ones allowed to enter the vault though the only ones who had done so more openly.

 

There was a man called Alastair McLaren who had helped repair a range of vault-androids (vaultdroids) and vault roboremotes which in turn helped the vault survive through a very difficult period. Alastair McLaren still lived and worked in the vault with his new family.

 

There was a woman named Sarah Bland who had been a great artist, a demighoul, who had painted the fine murals in the Great Common Hall and who still painted fine artworks in her own studio that were sold to citizens or given away or donated to public areas.

 

Beatrice Armstrong was an odd one out as she had come wandering a little insane to an entrance to the vault, in a LifeVault0101A1 vault-jumpsuit, and had been let in after a long period of quarantine in a sealed off room. Her story had been deliberately forgotten by herself and kept secret to most. LifeVault0101A1 had been a special isolation experiment with not only the whole vault being permanently sealed off from the outside world, but sections of the vault sealed off from other sections, along with their people.

 

Those who rebelled against this idea were put into permanent solitary confinement and often went insane. Beatrice Armstrong had been one of these but had no idea how she had gotten out, let alone how she had safely reached LifeVault0101A2. The only clue was her vague memories of a powerful, compassionate individual who had helped her in many ways, including with her mental illness.

 

The LifeVault0101A2 Overseer Government wanted to know about what had happened to their Sister LifeVault but also the stranger had bribed them with some compact but vital computer hardware components and sets of valuable, updated software improved over anything that they had.

 

Yet there were hints at others let in that were not mentioned in any real fashion. They could perhaps be found in isolated computer network-systems.

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

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0049

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARON ZENO ZEMO ZENI OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

Aaron made his way down a long hallway tunnel deep in a section of LifeVault0101A2 that officially did not even exist. Except that it looked just like the official, secondary parts of the main vault. He was in a subvault beneath, to one side, of the main under hull of the vault. With him were the follower avatars of Zeno, Zemo and Zeni who were shapedformed as vaultdroids as they had been when they had helped Aarao earlier on; that is when Aarao had assisted UnityNeofolk against aggressive manifesticants.

 

Behind them came four UnityNeofolk in security guard gear but only one was a real security guard. They all had M16B3 autorifles with attached EMPguns to use against roboremotes, turrets and even robots or androids. It had turned out that electromagnetic pulse weapons also worked well against manifesticants.

 

UnityNeo had began the slow, careful take over of LifeVault0101A2 with the support of the Zavid Thirteen because only UnityNeo seemed to hold a true long term solution to vault problems.

 

They came to a surprise, a smaller version of an armoured wheel-door like those found in the main and two secondary airlock like entrances into the vaults. They knew of, in theory, that such smaller heavy metallic doors existed but none had ever encountered one before. At least not in their current incarnations.

 

Through this they went with some difficulty, only getting through because Aaron used telekinetic trickery to fiddle the lock. Then they were through and in an area independent from the vault with its own power source and network-systems though it did pipe in water and air that it filtered.

 

Professor James Zavid was busy at a laboratory bench in the big gleaming white and silvery metallic laboratory workshop. With him were two other scientists and behind them were four techies, all vaultdroid androids, working at other tasks. Two were doing maintenance work on some kind of testing device.

 

The woman who turned to frown at Aaron was Terri Rosewood who frowned at them and went to pull out a gun. Except she was very quickly facing the raised guns of Aaron, Zemo, Zeni, Zemo and the UnityNeo people.

 

James turned to his son with a scowl. “Well, come to pay me back for not being a good father.”

 

Which was when, with a shock, the Zavid Thirteen suddenly fully realized consciously what it had known unconsciously for a long time. He aimed his 10mm semiautomatic pistol at this man and spoke. “What happened to the real Professor James Zavid?”

 

The false professor only grinned and Aaron shot him in the head. The high quality alpha synthetic manifesticant, or ASM, disintegrated as his head node was destroyed. The other ASMs, not the androids for they were real and non aggressive, went to attack the newcomers but bullets and electromagnetic pulses destroyed them all.

 

Aaron wondered how many others in LifeVault0101A2 had been replaced by ASMs, how long the experiment that had supposedly never begun in the first place had actually been running. A cold chill went down his spine.

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

 

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0050

PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARON ZENO ZEMO ZENI OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

The laboratory workshop was fully functional from before Doomsday with some far more recent additions and enhancements of equipment. The ASMs had been working hard on analyzing data on an experimental proposal to create various specialized forms of synthetic manifesticants that would clean up a damaged environment. Somebody had foreseen some kind of nuclear, biological, chemical world war taking place but perhaps not Doomsday as it had happened. The ASMs had been sending data to some destination via a heavily armoured but surprisingly thin fibre-optics cable that went outside of LifeVault0101A2.

 

Aaron stood looking around at the laboratory workshop as the fake and real androids carried on working, as the UnityNeofolk examined the various aspects of it.

 

Aaraa: *Your sisters have reported that they have found most vaultfolk to be perfectly normal vaultfolk, that being 'normal' for people confined in a great big metal box for centuries. They found a scattering of ASMs amongst the vaultfolk but less than one in a hundred. The Overseer Government seems to be surprisingly devoid of them. They conclude their reports stating that their sweeps are still in the early stages.*

 

Aaron: *Ask them to stay careful and safe.*

 

Aaraa: *They both ask you to stay careful and safe.*

 

He could always 'sense' things about his triplet sisters and even telepath with them directly but it was easier in some ways at some times to have Aaraa communicating between the triplets.

 

Aaron: *Send reassurance to all follower avatars, active or not.*

 

Aaraa: *It is done and they are grateful. What now?*

 

He considered matters and made a final decision. *The synthetic manifesticant projector, stabilizer and enhancer network-systems are all to be found in the one big chamber. Supposedly the wrong parts were delivered before Doomsday and the experiment never began but we now know that is a falsehood of a story. If that information was false, what other information that we have gained is actually false?*

 

Aaraa: *Such as the real location of the manifesticant network-systems?*

 

Aaron turned and walked to an area of wall that had only one small medical locker fused to it. Considering just how crowded all the rest of the chamber was, except for the door areas, and an emergency exit floor hatch corner, there was only this place. Why have so much wall space given over to just one small medical locker? He had examined the locker, it was genuine with medical equipment and supplies, including some portable medikits and even an inflatable burns treatment capsule to be used with cold water and a special set of additives.

 

This time he found the very cleverly hidden switch behind inside the back of the locker that caused the locker to move to one side on revealed rails enough to expose a small keyboard. The finding of the proper keycode was a matter of touching the device and 'reading' its databank. Then he tapped on the keyboard, which was easier than activating it from within, and the whole area of bare wall, a whole big wall panel, move backwards a little and then slid to one side with a hum.

 

There was a short hallway to a metallic armoured door with another keypad but also a security eye-scanner and palm-scanner.

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

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PART ONE: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!?

AARAA AARON ZENO ZEMO ZENI OF THE ZAVID THIRTEEN

 

Getting past the next door was more difficult and it led into a great big chamber, the door itself opening onto a balcony that led both to a down ramp and a series of catwalks running around the edges of the chamber. Down three levels it went to the main floor with large platforms projecting out at the mid level. There were huge machines, hardcased in armour and on big raised platforms, that were softly humming. Nothing moved in the chamber except for a great big column of glowing crystal material moving slowly up and down inside a transparent armaglass vertical tube.

 

Aaron and the follower avatars went along a catwalk, turned a corner and moved along another catwalk past a down ramp. They swept guns around the chamber except for Aaron who did the same with a sensorscan hand-unit.

 

Ironically they saw the shimmering energy door in the side of a big cube machine with rounded corners just seconds before out of it raced a roaring supermutant. Except it was a manifesticant complete with rough body-armour and a gattling-laser that it aimed at Aaron and his companions. The follower avatars shot the creature with electromagnetic pulses and it vanished with a sparkling shimmer.

 

Out came a new attacker but this time it was an Enclaven Stormtrooper in battle power armour, raising a plasma-rifle that it managed to fire with one burst that left a light burn mark on one smart-concrete wall that would soon be repaired by the material itself. Then this manifesticant was also gone with a sparkling shimmer.

 

Next came a huge, menacing deathclaw queen that moved with amazing speed for its size but it did not get very far before it was also disintegrated.

 

Nothing more came, at least not visible, but Aaron 'sensed' danger and then his hand-unit was picking up tiny manifesticants flying through the air at his group, thousands of them. He raised a hand and from it radiated a pulse wave of energies and then another. There were tiny sparkling flashes as the waves of tiny manifesticants were destroyed.

 

There were no more attacks.

 

Aaron shook his head in wonder. “The idea was to convince any intruder that the threat was dealt with if they managed to destroy the obvious attackers. Then they would fall to the unseen ones.”

 

Zeno, the vaultgirl android, turned to shoot at Aaron but Aaron snapped his fingers, Zeno shimmered and then looked puzzled. “What happened?”

 

Aaron sighed. “You follower avatars are like manifesticants in some ways. Those tiny attackers were meant to take over manifesticants if they encountered them though also to enslave living things. You will need some enhancements, some modifications to make you immune from such attacks and, perhaps, so will I.”

 

He and the others returned to the laboratory-workshop to make sure they were okay.

 

NOTE: EDITING MISTAKE; ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED NAME FROM LIFEVAULT0101A2 TO LIFEVAULT0101B2 PART WAY THROUGH STORY. CHANGING ALL TO ORIGINAL NAME OF LIFEVAULT0101A2.

 

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