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

ROTHUARETIRWA

 

EyeotiiAlpha

 

RothuaRetirwa came, as just a null in appearance, suddenly to Bethesdatown and with it came not only the RothuaRetirwa Followers but thirteen platoons being each of thirteen power armoured figures. Nine platoons were of assault power armour, three were of bigger, slower battle power armour and then one was of hulking war power armour. Yet each carried a device of exotic design that was more than just a weapon, each being at least quite large. The assault armour platoons carried smaller ones, the battle armour platoons big ones and the war armour platoon carried bigger versions of the same.

 

RothuaRetirwa walked to where CrazyManPoe had materialized the cars and trucks and where later more had appeared but this time with people and animals inside. Then RothuaRetirwa danced exactly as had CrazyManPoe, not missing one move, not one step, and when he finished, with a sparkling shimmer, nothing happened.

 

At least not at first.

 

RothuaRetirwa was aware of EyeotiiAlpha being there, of course, and EyeotiiAlpha felt welcome to be there, found itself feeling good to be there. Normally EyeotiiAlpha would be cloaked, unknown to the observed, but this was impossible with RothuaRetirwa.

 

Regulators and NDCR Guardsmen had remained at the settlement, which was no longer to be simply abandoned because of what had happened there and what might happen there. Instead one of the, relatively few, NDCR aeroships had come and had dropped off a hastily assembled force of Guardsmen, scientists and a selection of others. The aeroship, guarded by two long range helicopters that could recharge from the aeroship if they had to do so, departed with most of the 'materialized people' along with the cars that had done the same. Not the trucks, though, or all of the materialized soldiers. Despite their basic arms and armour, they were damned tough and had many mixed skills amongst them of high value.

 

Helicopters, with their smart-rotors, were not as well armed or armoured as were antigrav boosted vertibirds but they were easier to manufacture, refit, maintain and to use.

 

RothuaRetirwa picked up a dropped stick, smiled for it had been thrown for a pet dog to grab and take back to his humans, and then drew a large, perfect circle with the stick. The circle was not just drawn in the normal manner. Where the end of the stick touched the nine point one metre wide circle, the ground sparked and there appeared a thin line of softly glowing metallic crystal substance.

 

When the circle was complete, RothuaRetirwa walked away from it and he carefully gave the stick to one of the Followers. The power armoured Axillary Followers, no less important despite the title, spread out as platoons in a great loose circle around the ring but at a fair distance from it. The Prime Followers spread out also, becoming in shapeform now figures in individualized super power armour or low hulking humanoid mecha-robots. There were humanoid and other shapeforms in super power armour.

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

OBSERVITII EYEOTII ALPHA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

ROTHUARETIRWA

 

As RothuaRetirwa knew would happen, happened!

 

As RothuaRetirwa made happen earlier, happened earlier than it would have done otherwise!

 

First came the PaleOnes in black power armour, this time, with great guns that shot pale flickering flames as dissolutors or volleys of rocket-bullets and rocket-blasters or undeathly pale pulsebeams of zombifiers. None got very far. They touched the crystal ring and vaporized in all consuming fiery heat of amazingly powerful and fast combustion leaving but small traces of white ash behind that soon vanished away.

 

Then came great undead tentacles, rotting and regenerating with amazing unholy speed, each monstrously huge and powerful, lashing out through the protective field of the crystal ring. They burned but they got through and shot towards RothuaRetirwa and the Followers. The ones that went towards RothuaRetirwa simply burned away and the others were struck by bright pencil xolaser beams that caused them to explode and burn. Only disintegrating ash remained of them.

 

The third to appear did not attack. He stood a hulking three metres tall in bizarre super power armour and his black eyes glittered from sickly pale off white skin of his face as revealed by a transparent armaglass visor. He grinned to expose translucent fangs, drinkers of blood, liquefied flesh and life energies. Arrogant and aggressive he was, loathing of life, but then he saw RothuaRetirwa, sensed RothuaRetirwa, and he became visibly fearful. At once the PaleLord vanished.

 

There was a strange sparkling flash inside the crystal ring; there would be no more attempt to utilize the weakness caused by CrazyManPoe to invade Amtriel from the terrible realm inside of the Moon of Secunda, once a great living paradise underworld. Also known as Utopiastra or the Cursed World, the underworld was long quarantined inside a great bubble of energies. Utopiastra was it original name and hardly fitted the nature of the great underground realm any more.

 

RothuaRetirwa sat meditating, sitting comfortably on mid air with folded legs, focusing on the Multiversal Spiritual Light, the Light of GodGoddess. The Prime Followers staid close to RothuaRetirwa.

 

The Axillary Followers constructed a series of strange structures, materializing the metallic stone and metallic crystal parts as needed and then melding them together. The Axillary Followers floated with the use of antigravs. The structures arose as a series of three great big cone shaped towers with flying-buttresses. One was topped with a horizontal dish, another with a great translucent globe and the last with a vertical hoop. As each tower was completed, the device on the top began to slowly spin.

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

OBSERVITII EYEOTII ALPHA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

ROTHUARETIRWA

 

The Axillary Followers surrounded the Three Towers with an energy bubble that went underground also. RothuaRetirwa made sure no lifeforms were hurt, or trapped inside the bubble, by this process.

 

Then the Axillary Followers upgraded, extended and added to the settlement of Bethesdatown including guard-towers, a low hulking defensive boundary, more general purpose buildings with basement levels, tunnels, a new solar power station, roboremote weapons and instrumentation turrets, a radio reception and communications gridwork tower and a workshop complex.

 

RothuaRetirwa continued to meditate.

 

The Axillary Followers created a tunnel down to LifeVault0099A1, a LifeVault inhabited by permanently blind people who used enhanced other senses and ultrasonics to live life. They had survived surprisingly well, especially considering that the 'blindness experiment' of their vault sent various 'threat tests' at them.

 

Surprisingly close to this LifeVault was LifeVault0099A1 was LifeVault0099A2 with its 'deafness experiment' where all were permanently deaf. It had also survived despite 'threat tests'. They had developed and adapted various technologies to assist including bionic ears and earbots.

 

LifeVault0099A3 was a TekVault where the vaultfolk were permanently both deaf and blind. They had suffered much trouble until a stranger had arrived to assist them by giving them the means to manufacture cybernetic eyes and ears, and giving them some of these. Then he was gone. The vaultfolk had made contact with their two Sister LifeVaults and had shown them how to build the cybernetic eyes and ears. In turn they had gained the ultrasonic technologies from LifeVault0099A2 and the other new technologies from LifeVault0099A3.

 

All three of these LifeVaults were dominated by UnityNeo and as children were being born, they were with out blindness or deafness. The healing of the older vaultfolk began when RothuaRetirwa reached down to assist.

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

OBSERVITII EYEOTII ALPHA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

ROTHUARETIRA: THE DC SUPER GUARDIANS THIRTEEN

MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

 

RothuaRetirwa was limited in what she-he-it could or would do. The biggest limit was that RothuaRetirwa imposed these limits knowing that it-he-she had too much power and could easily do more harm than good. This was especially true because the real situation was far more fragile than most knew.

 

RothuaRetirwa gathered up the Prime Followers and Axillary Followers, than departed, with them, just by ceasing to be part of the local reality.

 

Except that thirteen heroes stood there in super power armour. They were the superhumans each with special powers beyond their general enhancements and special abilities, beyond their special technologies. There was Captain Cosmos, Stella Skyfire, Jangles the Moon Monkeyman, Captain Columbia, IronMan, Black Widow, JackOMan, Cyclopia, Wolfblade, Duplicatus, K9K9, Amazonia and Stormgirl.

 

They were the DC Super Guardians Thirteen.

 

They were also avatars of RothuaRetirwa, powerful but far less powerful than RothuaRetirwa and so more able to do good with less risk of doing harm.

 

The Three Towers were their base of operations, along with carrying out other functions, and they were able to slip through its protective energies bubble easily. So into the new DC Guardian Base they went and staid there for some time to make final adjustments to their new shapeforms and to prepare for coming troubles.

 

The Mysterious Stranger calmly witnessed the events with his mindeye. RothuaRetirwa knew he was there, of course, but accepted him as part of the karmic flow of the Multiverse, which he was. Then the Mysterious Stranger walked into the changed settlement and was soon mingling with the locals as if he was a well known old friend or at least, with some, a good associate.

 

The Mysterious Stranger sometimes did good deeds. He had helped Beatrice get to LifeVault0101B1 safely after freeing her from the isolationist experimental madness of LifeVault0101B2. He had helped the blind deaf folks in LifeVault0099A3. Yet it was said that not all of his deeds were good. It was also said that the Mysterious Stranger appeared sometimes as a woman and sometimes, seemingly, in more than one place at once. Mostly it was said that his-her actions were seemingly random and seemed to have no real logical pattern to them.

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

OBSERVITII EYEOTII BETA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

 

EyeottiBeta went deep into Amtropolis and also to Afritropolis, they were not too distant from each other.

 

The fighting in the Subways Unified Republic became savage in and around both Amtropolis and Afritropolis, the big underground cities. Yet it was soon ceasing to have the status of being a 'civil war' as it was realized that this was an exotic invasion of some kind. The Central Government had vanished, did not even exist as a pretense of its old self, as refugees continued to flee from the old Centralist areas. These included soldiers, even elite soldiers, VIPs, androids, smart-robots and many others. The majority of them joined it the fight against the invaders, realizing that they needed to do so if for no other reason than long term survival.

 

The Brownstone Triplets were in Yorktropolis or the MultiTransCubeShip, carrying out a wide range of tasks.

 

Doppelgangers, manifesticants, kineticants, PaleOnes, reanimants, controlcapped humans, twisted programmed androids and robots, all were attacking the true Subways Unified Republican Forces. Human, ghouls, androids, cyborgs, smart-robots and other forces resisted but were slowly and steadily driven back.

 

In a great big underground hall a platoon of ape-human animans were operating two 40mm autocannons in fortified positions. Their shells shot out through the air at the oncoming hordes of cap-zombies that were once fellow citizens or living animals of the republic.

 

Republican Guardsmen, in assault power armour, were trying to protect the autocannon positions as they blazed away with battlerifles, heavy machineguns and rocket-grenade launchers.

 

Sometimes enemies were not cap-zombies but were controlcapped humans racing through the ranks of the reanimants to attack the Republican positions. These were expendable soldiers with arms and body-armour or civilians with bombs strapped to them. They never made it far. If the free forces did not shoot them down, the reanimants would often attack them, kill and devour them. Sometimes the controlcapped would turn upon the reanimants, shooting at them or detonating their bombs inside the ranks of the shambling hordes.

 

More Republican Guardsmen arrived and with them General Infantry, GIs. They came in electric warmachines compact enough to fit into large areas of the underground city. The tracked or wheeled or hoverpad vehicles had weapons on different types and sizes, even those who carried soldiers or robots or equipment and supplies inside.

 

With them came military civilian salvage teams to take up anything useful from the local area and to send that stuff back to where it was badly needed or could be used.

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

OBSERVITII EYEOTIIGAMMA OF THE WATCHITII THIRTEEN

 

EyeotiiGamma observed the Lamplight Mountains where the big old tourist settlement of Lamplight Town stood. Lamplight Town was now BigTown where those too old to stay in Little Lamplight came to dwell. Or so went the story as most knew it. The truth was not so straight forward.

 

The children of Little Lamplight, inside the Lamplight Caverns, had extended lifespans as children. They grew very very slowly from babyhood to reaching puberty. Then they began to speed up in the aging process until it was standard. The Little Lamplighters had all been born centuries ago, just before Doomsday. They thought they had been in the Lamplight Caverns as visitors from a normal orphanage but in truth they had all been in a special research and development centre disguised as an orphanage.

 

When the BigTowners had children, most aged normally but some were slow aging babies who were taken to Little Lamplight and thus the great cycle continued.

 

BigTowners traders went to a special meeting chamber to meet and trade with Little Lamplighters. They gained spice-moss, stripe-circle mushrooms, meat worms, lungfish, cleansing-moss and other stuffs that the Little Lamplighters gathered or cultivated. Little Lamplighters got outside goods, dairy products, fruit, veggies, meat and other grown food from BigTown. BigTowners traded Little Lamplighter goods with outside traders for outside goods and reliable coinage. They bought more goods and services with the coinage. So it went on.

 

Yet even this was not the whole truth.

 

Inside Little Lamplight there was a metallic chamber and in that chamber was a big vending-machine that was mysteriously topped up every midnight, was a booth where medical samples were taken in exchange for coins for the vending machine, were three exotic game-booths and nine (super virtual reality) SVR-capsulechairs.

 

There was also a wide metallic chute down which slid special gifts sometimes, sometimes puppies or kittens and, sometimes, special babies who grew up slowly, very slowly, until they reached puberty.

 

Except, sometimes, other things slid down that chute.

 

Then there was Lamplight Mother. She was the computer network-system that guided and assisted the Little Lamplighters, sometimes even the BigTowners, and she had the androids, the Lamplight Keepers, and the robots, the Lamplight Helpers along with others special forms of assistance.

 

When puberty was reached and people went to live in BigTown, to become BigTowners, somehow they forgot about the strange metallic room, the chute and other details. Yes, much was done automatically and not thought about in any clear, conscious way.

 

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

JAEIO JONNI ARIE ASTIE AZIE OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

Jonni observed the manifesticants storming along the subway tunnel. They were a mixture of basic synthetic manifesticants, BSMs, and wild manifesticants based on zhouls, armed ghouls, humans, supermutants, metamutants, trogs, deathclaws, zentaurs and even such as raging molerats. EMPguns, xolasers and more standard weapons were gunning down the attackers with general ease but every time a manifesticant was destroyed, at least one replaced it.

 

Jaeio: *The mysterious exotic power source is tracked to this area. So far every such power source has appeared where there have been massive enemy uses of manifesticants and kineticants.*

 

Manifesticant projectile weapons tended to do about 20% less damage than the real things and their energy weapons about 9% than the real thing. Except that is for the synthetic manifesticants and their weapons, both of whom were more solidified somehow. Synthetic manifesticants were more stable and dangerous but took greater resources to create and could not be just made to appear just anyway with such ease as normal manifesticants could be.

 

She, and her three follower avatars, were in assault power armour as they moved slowly and carefully up the side of the subway tunnel. The Republican soldiers knew they were there and tried not to hit them, tried to keep the enemy busy. Jonni, Jayle and Jodie had, in separate missions, first discovered the fact of the energy broadcast sources, then had tracked them, then had destroyed three of them. Every time they did all of the normal manifesticants and kineticants of the enemy had vanished while the synthetic manifesticants had retreated rapidly as they were the ones being overwhelmed.

 

Also the webcaps of the reanimants and controlcaps of the enslaved, failed. The cap-zombies went crazy or just collapsed to die. The enslaved surrendered as fast as they could or, in some sad cases, killed themselves.

 

The enemy push had slowed to a crawl and some occupied areas were taken back but the enemy were still slowly, now very slowly, winning the war.

 

Special units had been formed to track down the exotic energy broadcast units and to destroy them. They were called the Republican Special Raiders.

 

This time Jayle was starting to 'sense' something was wrong. She found a small, slightly open, metal utility door and then led her people along it, splashing through some small pools of oily water.

 

No, she was not going directly towards the energy source for she was 'sensing' threat of some kind, perhaps a trap.

 

Jayle: *Spread the warning of possible traps associated with energy broadcast points.*

 

Jaeio: *Two Republican Special Raider Teams have vanished. The warning has been spread but all Republican Raider missions have already been suspended for the moment. One of those RSR Teams vanished in your area.*

 

It was at that moment that Jayle picked up the sounds of human screams of agony and terror but only because of her enhanced sense of hearing.

 

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

JAEIO JONNI ARIE ASTIE AZIE OF THE BROWNSTONE THIRTEEN

 

Jonni and her follower avatars came into the chamber to find five captive seminaked RSR Soldiers being tortured as they were clamped to devices made out of bed frames. The frames were crudely bolted to a smart-concrete wall and there stood a PaleLord, tall and bulky, monstrous in his power armour. PaleOne Soldiers in power armour, PaleTroopers they were called by numerous enemies, stood back and mainly kept watch on the environment.

 

Jonni Brownstone came to a halt in her own power armour, as did her three comrades, and she spoke with a scowl in her voice. “What is this invasion all about? Why bother when you know you will lose in the end?”

 

The PaleLord turned to give Jonni a grimace of extreme distaste. “Living Goddess, little Living Goddess, part of the Thirteen Thirteens, pathetic as life itself is truly pathetic. Do you think that the PaleEmpire gives a damn about this land and its peoples? We are here because we are compelled to be here by some unknown force beyond our understanding. We are enraged, we are frustrated and we wish to go back to our own realm to fight our ancient traditional enemies of we, the OmniMultiple.”

 

“Inside the Moon Secunda is our underworld, our paradise, our utopia that you living ones called a cursed place and quarantine behind a bubble of energies. We use manifesticants and kineticants as weapons but more often as tools for both our enemies and we have developed fine ways of undermining such as weapons. As for synthetic manifesticants, we do not use them for they have longer term problems on instability, of berserker or passive break downs, of organized moves to independence.”

 

The PaleLord scowled and dropped a metallic black sphere on the floor. It rolled some distance before being halted by an old skull. “Here is some ways you can use to better undermine manifesticants, kineticants, synthetic kineticants, reanimants and other threats you have encountered or have yet to encounter. In turn you will try to find what is compelling us and others to invade, or to prepare for invasion, and stop it all from happening. We fear that the ones compelling us are the Perfectus Thirteen, who created our ancestors of the OmniOne and the OmniMultiple but we could be mistaken. ”

 

The PaleOnes all vanished with a strange shimmering, including the PaleLord and the PaleTroopers. Jayle, Arie, Astie and Azie hurried to get the soldiers down from the racks and to begin to heal them. They were all damaged but none were dying. The other Republican Special Raiders were alive, though in a rough condition, inside a large chamber. They were of all of the RSR Teams that had gone missing.

 

Had the PaleOnes or the OmniOne of the OmniMultiple set the situation up so that the one PaleLord could pass on this information to the Brownstone Thirteen? Was it genuine, a deadly trick or just not the whole truth?

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