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DC Madness: One
One 1.1(1){1}

Sarah Lyons dropped down into the deep ditch, her power armour dealing easily with the kinetic force and she landing with the use of good training. Even as she dropped down into the dubious safety of the ditch, her helmet radio was picking up more reports of supermutant attacks across the National Mall of the 'City of Scientific Miracles' known also as Centropolis. It was the city at the heart of the DC, the Dominion of Centropolis, the Citystate of Scientific Miracles.

Too bad everything had gone so wrong, at least for DC! Nobody knew what it was like outside for the great DC Dome stopped all from entering or leaving.

Sarah heard the constant thump thump of heavy machineguns, and autocannons, firing off at the supermutants. The Steel Troopers unit had obtained some Soviet very heavy machineguns, KPVs, that were blasting down crazy charging supermutants with ease. The 14.5mm Soviet calibre cartridges were dropping not just the average metamoths but bigger megamoths and even bigger hulkamoths. Thankfully no behemoths had appeared in the area. Swarms of zyclops, twisted octopus like creatures, along side the supermutants.

 

Reports were that these supermutants were better directed, armoured and armed than the typical marauders come out from a suspected TekVault close to the Lamplight Caverns. Yet they were still generally berserker wild and stupid.

 

She almost stumbled over something sticking out from a destroyed part of the ditch, probably by a mortar shell coming in hard and fast to accidentally reveal a long covered secret. Then she saw its part of the round cylinder side and stopped in shock. It was probably a time capsule, most likely buried in semisecret, before the madness had begun and DC had become a deadly trap. Soon she was digging it out, being careful as she did so, and then she was holding the time capsule.

 

Even as the battle raged on, she held the very valuable item, and read what was on it. She was soon puzzled by its lack of official markings. According to the plate it was a semiofficial time capsule planted about 10 years before the war that brought on Doomsday.

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DC Madness: One
One 1.2(2){2}

 

Sarah knew she could not remain in the area but would not leave the time-capsule there. Such could have valuable clues to the broken mystery that was the past. So much knowledge had been lost despite some technological developments continuing with some DC Factions.

 

So she ran, holding both her powerful battlerifle and the time-capsule with some difficulty, being soon joined by two other Steel Troopers. One had a battlerifle, like her own, and the other had a squat recoilless rifle but no ammo for it; both had other weapons, as did Knight-Captain Sarah Lyons.

 

They rushed past the rusting remains of Soviet power armoured soldiers, remnants of the War in all of its craziness. They dived into the fortified entrance of a sloping tunnel, complete with ways to stop it from taking in flooding water from the big rains, and past a dead Steel Trooper. He had died in recent fighting and his power armour, other hardware, supplies, had all been salvaged.

 

There had simply been no time to bury him but his Order of Steel dog-tags were already in the DC Citadel. He had been a noob and had died by making the sort of mistake that veterans did not make unless they got over confident. Despite best efforts, of veterans, too many noobs were killed before they could become veterans.

 

The supermutant attack ceased, the attackers digging in as they took over captured areas. Some found booby-traps that detonated, not much to their pleasure. Others began to gather captured gear, there was not much to get for the Order of Steel sabotaged hardware that they could not move, but also to feed on dead bodies. They had no prisoners; people preferred to die rather than go through the process of being turned into a monster, or failing and dying a terrible death.

 

Platoons quickly established new emplacements. Some ditches areas were collapsed with precisely placed explosives. Sarah came out into a long, zigzag, ditch. She was soon on a radio and was communicating, in code, about her discovery.

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DC Madness: Two
One 2.1(3){3}

 

The Order of Steel, that had once been part of the Brotherhood of Steel, had a few enemies in Centropolis but so did all factions. In the heavily fortified DC Citadel, Elder Owen Lyons was observing a holographic map projected onto a basic metal table with a surface designed to better support clear holographic images. A holotape projector was creating the map with its troubling data.

 

He spoke to other Elders there, along with others such as Elders, Elder Advisers, Sages and Scribes. "The new supermutant rising, in the DC National Mall, is most disturbing. We already have supermutants troubling us from the Lamplight Mountains area, from the TekVault there that very high radiation stopped us from getting into. We have Raiders, including Reavers and Ragers, coming from the East. We have the damned Enclaven coming down from roughly north, from Americanada. Then there is the DC Republic, the DC Syndicates and other threats."

 

The DC Republic Heartlands were in the same area that the Order of Steel had come from after splitting from the more orthodox, restricted and hierarchical Brotherhood of Steel. Reports indicated increasing skirmishes between Steel Brothers and Republican Guardsmen in Nefornia, in an area that bordered Neochina.

 

Elder Owen Lyons spoke again, after a short but noticeable pause. One could hear the concern in his voice that was normally much more neutral in tone. "We must discover just where the supermutant newcomers are coming from and what their intentions are. We also need to do what we can to counter the new threat while not forgetting about other necessary programs, and projects, that we need to support."

 

Then he sighed. "As for the time-capsule discovered by one of my daughters, Sarah Lyons, so far it has proven to be impossible to force open. This is no concern for in two days it will open anyway. All precautions will be taken in case this is a very clever enemy trick."

Edited July 2, 2015 by Maharg67

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Future Sequence of Story and 'Other' Posts

The Curse of Quamaire

Other

Not This Earth

Other

 

DC Madness

 

Other

Doctor Who

Other

 

Perth WA Stories

 

Other

 

Restart From the Top!

Edited February 28, 2015 by Maharg67

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See changes to 'story sequence' in post above!

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Two posts are here, the first being a reposted episode and the second a new episode!

 

Doctor Who!? Escape: Eleven
One 11.1[12]

 

TiSuzane stayed with the TARDIS, with the settlement, doing more work based in both. The Doctor went with Kellite, her soldiers, and five Timelordic androids, the later hauling big backpacks of equipment and supplies. In truth the backpacks, like the one that the Doctor himself wore, were far more than the basic devices that they seemed to be. Why? Because the Doctor had begun to suspect that something was odd about Kellite, and her band of soldiers, as soon as they had met. He did not want her to suspect that he suspected anything of her and her comrades. Yet he 'sensed' no direct threat about them.

 

They went through the huge city, often through layers of great interlinked structures but sometimes across great enclosed flying-buttress style bridges. There were great garden areas gone to semiwilderness but with robots still struggling to keep some order with them. Many autorobotic network-systems were still functioning.

 

Once they looked down, from a bridge, at a battle taking place between swarms of security robots, launched and guided by computer network-systems, and dalek forces. As the Doctor observed the dalek forces being driven back, while heavily damaging their enemies, he wondered why the dreaded creatures were there. There was evidence that the Timemasters could be of influence there thanks to the nature of the infestation as created by Timelord technologies of a kind favoured by the Timemasters. Yet others, of the Timelords, favoured such including the monstrous rogue Timelord named the Rani.

 

As they moved on, after the battle ended, the Doctor at last confronted Kellite to who, what, she really was.

 

Kellite shrugged. "We are cloned supersoldier cyborgs created at the complex that I am taking you to. Our power armour is not power armour but is part of us, at least most of it is with some attachments to make it look like standard power armour. We were serving to guard the complex, as elite security units, when the infestation broke out inside the complex. We do not think that it was an accident but deliberate sabotage. We retreated away from the complex when daleks appeared there but also others that fought them, that slowed time somehow and had other tricks. They called themselves Timemasters and they were after somebody called the 'Rani'. Strange thing was that there were dalek like creatures that served the Timemasters being called zaleks."

 

The Doctor was not pleased by what he was being told and it got worse as he learned of ogrons and cyborg distorted creatures. Once the daleks had been puppets of the Timemasters and he wondered what had happened for them to become free of that control. None of what he learned boded well for that poor world and its people.

 

 

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Doctor Who!? Escape: Twelve
One 12.1[13]

 

Good news came in the form of a great supercity supercomputer network communicating with them. That was when they learned that there were quarantined sectors, being heavily secured by varied means, where non-infested survivors existed; most were in suspension capsules to preserve on vital resources being used. Suspension capsules did not use much electricity, once active, and that was one resource that the Sanctuaries had more than enough of while spare parts, food, medicine and such were far harder to get.

 

Operation Hope Rescue was being carried out where the infested were captured, or volunteered, and were placed in suspension capsules in hopes that one day they might be cured. The OHR people were infested but rational. They were out to help the malformed along with other victims of the infestation.

 

Problem was that the particular supercomputer network was but one of nine that had controlled the city on a regional basis. There had been three more central ones, and one core network, operating with others as 13 such networks. As the Doctor communicated, verbally and otherwise, with Computer Regional Network 9-13, he learned that a possible quicker way to get to the heavily secured research complex existed. It would not be easy or safe for the infested were heavy in the highway tunnels but they could go in lightly armoured security vehicles as provided by CRN9-13.

 

The Doctor knew that some hidden force was assisting him, through CRN9-13, but doubted that CRN9-13 was aware of it. Perhaps it was his great age, his 'gut instinct', his psychic empathy, but he sensed no danger in going along with the new plan. Kellite, and her cyborg soldiers, were more wary but they could also see the advantages in taking less time to get to the research development complex.

 

The vehicles were sleekly impressive looking; they were three medium sized, lightly armour-armed hovercraft driven each by two electric motors. They had solar power panels as part of their roofs for large areas of the supercity were often in direct sunlight or special fibre-optic tube provided sunlight. Every bit of free electricity the supercity could get was welcome, considering the massive demands made on its power supplies.

 

The Doctor wondered what CRN9-13 meant by 'massive demands' and was somehow not surprised when the computer network had no answers to the question; just what was drawing so much electricity? Did it have anything to do with the massive research development complex that Kellite, and her comrades, had guarded?

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Doctor Who!? Escape: Thirteen
One 13.1[14]

 

When enemies came to threaten the settlement, TiSuzane reluctantly agreed to allowing the settlement to move into an isolated section of the DocTARDIS. It was an operation carried out with barely controlled chaos, and much speed, as hordes of distorted creatures began to attack the fortified outskirts of the settlement. With uses of Timelordic technologies, based in the DocTARDIS, TiSuzane was able to capture large numbers of the creatures, that were victims driven berserker insane by the infestation.

 

Some of the settlers questioned the use of resources to save what they saw as monsters but the Timelord rebutted them coldly, reminding them that it was up to her how Timelord resources were utilised. Then she took time to point out how the taking of so many of the twisted ones allowed for important research to be done to find such as a vaccine and an antidote, perhaps combining them as one serum. The point was well made and those who had questioned the decision came to support it.

 

The attacks ceased when the settlement vanished except for some well concealed observation posts. The twisted ones moved through the area with some of them vanishing into the DocTARDIS. There came more refugees, with resources, that also vanished into TARDIS.

 

TiSuzane was not the only one who quickly realised that the twisted victims, of the infestation, appeared to be moving in the same direction as if drawn to something, some place. They had attacked the settlement only because they had run into it while on their way to somewhere else.

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Doctor Who!? Escape: Fourteen
One 14.1[15]

 

The new route turned out to be a series of secured tunnels that took the expeditionary group safely through dangerous areas and deep into the Red Zone where the research development complex was to be found. The Doctor, and his companions, were soon joined by a large team of androids and robots sent to assist them, the androids being far less advanced than those of Timelordic make.

 

The Doctor examined the burned remains of what had been a Timelord timespaceship. Some great force had destroyed it but it had most probably been from within, either an act of deliberate sabotage to stop the machine being captured or some kind of enemy sabotage. The robots, and androids, had been waiting close to the more basic type timespaceship that was far less sophisticated, and eccentric, than the DocTARDIS. It was far more of a general transport, a typical workhorse, that served all of the Timelords be they Timeguardians or Timemasters or of other factions or even the factionless. It used to be a Type-3 Timespace Orb!

 

There was no evidence of the Timespace Orb serving any particular faction, so savage had been the damage. Yet the existence of the destroyed machine did not bode well be it of Timeguardian or Timemaster origin.

 

The Doctor examined the great big, dimly lit chamber, that the ruined machine was in and did soon find a rather gruesome clue next to a semiactive city mechanism that was slowly regulating air flow. The energy armoured Timepawn was a Timemaster cloned supersoldier that was actually an intricate cyborg. The figure had been hidden behind the mechanism or would have most likely been taken by a fleeing group. For the same area of the chamber showed energy burn marks, slick oils from what could have been a dalek or a zalek, and even a hole in one wall caused by a shaped explosive charge of some kind.

Edited July 14, 2015 by Maharg67

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The people of Mogstown

rightfully celebrate Mogsday

of the harvesting of mogsberries

that so very enrich the lives of Mogstownies

that so very enrich the nation of Mogsland

"Mogs, Mogs, Mogs" the people cry out

as they dance the Mogsmaria

eating mogsberry pies

drinking mogsberry juice

or even mogsbeer

Edited March 9, 2015 by Maharg67

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