Maharg67's Den (shorter works, short stories, poetry, etc.)

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Bigtropolis: Twelve

Zero 4.1[4]{14}

The GlobeEye, one as many as one, kept a careful surveillance upon the Bigtropolis Central Park along with other areas that it had been picking up very subtle and odd energy patterns from. GlobeEye became aware of the Rainbowbaby knowing that the Rainbowbaby was fully aware of it. So much so that the GlobeEye communicated with the Rainbowbaby and offered negotiated gifts. The Rainbowbaby was happy to point out that this was a privilege for the GlobeEye to carry out and the GlobeEye humbly acknowledged its gratitude for being allowed to do so.

The GlobeEye's automatically broadcast data, to very well hidden coordinates out from the NewEarth, were responded to. Something was being sent to further investigate what was taking place in Bigtropolis, especially in Bigtropolis Central Park.

Something ancient, and evil, lurked in the Bigtropolis Central Park and it was linked to the Rainbowbaby in some manner; it had come through from some other dimensional realm when the Rainbowbaby had done so. Or so GlobeEye learned in various ways including readings of energy patterns and from information it managed to gain from the Rainbowbaby.

Of course the GlobeEye was aware of the various factions, human and nonhuman, that were active in the megacity and even those interested in, or becoming interested in, what was happening in Bigtropolis Central Park.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Maharg67

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Bigtropolis: Thirteen

One 10.1[11]{14}

"The find is an amazing one!" Essarelda spoke from where she was standing in a leathery jumpsuit outfit that was very thin and tight against her body. It was also unzipped a good deal to expose a good deal of cleavage. Her voice was silken with a barely hidden taste of hardness. "But no more so than other sights of this place. There is something odd about the 'feel' of this chamber."

The twelve figures stood in a semienclosed balcony fixture and looked out over a great floor of a chamber that was 'bigger on the inside than the outside'. Large, very strange devices, each on a disk platform and beneath an armoured transparent dome, were spread out before them like some eccentric museum exhibition. There were three 'flying-saucers' of very different appearances, an aircraft with a big disk replacing the wings plus no propellers, a great cannon with a crystal lensbarrel, at least ten different kinds of mecha with different amounts of even numbered legs, at least a dozen spheres, a helicopter like machine with a thin saucer replacing the main rotors, clunky suits of power armour, racks of strange energy weapons, and much more. Devices often had an 'older' type look to them reflecting the times of the last big war.

Scullie, who was annoyed at Essarelda for various reasons, spoke with a hard cold voice. "Why are you here, Essarelda?"

Essarelda sighed some what dramatically. "So you still have not forgiven me though all of that was a long time ago, half sister of mine."

Scullie shook her head. "I do not trust you. If it was not for Marshal Flanxk you would not have been let into the complex. The Rainbowbaby is wary of you."

Essarelda shrugged, some what dramatically of course. "She is wary of me because you are wary of me; the Rainbowbaby loves you and that is no surprise, at least not to myself and a few others. I have been requested, by a very powerful faction of Bigtropolis, to come and meet the Rainbowbaby. You can of course chaperone the meeting; I would welcome your presence."

There were suddenly superclones moving amongst the strange exhibitions, the dome shaped display cases, in squads and platoons. With them were green plastic soldiers, new type white plastic astronauts with exotic devices, and yellow plastic figures in hazmat suits. Except that the spacesuits were part of the 'astronauts' and the hazmat suits were part of the 'scientists'. Though active in a few areas, the Rainbowbaby's Followers appeared to be focusing a fair few resources into that place. Amongst them floated mono coloured baby figures, including tiny supertroopers, and other shapeforms including floating globe shaped robots.

Scullie nodded, reluctantly. "I will speak to the Rainbowbaby about such matters. I do not think that the items, inside the domes, are anything but concept constructs that can not be removed from the display cases; that is the display cases are far more than just display cases."

Walter spoke with obvious care, as if wary of causing strife between the two half sisters. "I would support such an idea but, if that is a true hypothesis, how were the concept constructs created?"

It was then that the Rainbowbaby's Followers began doing things, at the domes, that caused 'items' on display to vanish with odd shimmering motions to leave the domes apparently empty. Surprised, the dozen observed until a dome became empty except that in the middle of the disk shaped platform was revealed a disk shaped door of some kind.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Maharg67

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Bigtropolis: Fourteen

One 11.1[12]{16}

In a long abandoned, sealed off, basement chamber of immense size there stirred things amongst the machines, below the spaghetti of ducting near the ceiling, and living vermin fled from the space. Be they tiny ants, big tough sewer rats, or other things they moved. Skeletal remains, of long dead hospital patients, trembled and juddered. It was if they were trying to get up, to animate, to relive the lives that the living bodies once had.

Then, almost at the same moment, they all gave a terrible shudder and disintegrated into dust.

The malformed, flickering, shadow thing was vaguely humanoid in shape but that shape kept shifting in a most disturbing manner that drug users might explain belonging to a 'bad trip'. It had done a little experimentation, a test of its abilities, and was pleased for it had not expected the results to be anything but what they were. It was 'pleased' only in its own dark, dysfunctional, manner.

It turned and vanished through a scummy, damp, concrete wall.

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Bigtropolis: Fifteen

One 12.1[13]{17}

They found the big chamber about half full of carefully stored machinery, vehicles, smaller equipment and supplies but also odd devices, junk, and in a enclosed series of semiportable structures, something more grim. There were neatly bodybagged corpses, naked, deformed, sometimes disturbingly dessicated as if almost everything had been drawn out of them, and also those whose deaths were much harder to define. Most wore hospital pyjama like gowns, with the Saint Care Hospital logo-symbol on them along with the symbol of the Mental Health Department of the hospital. Clearly they had been used as involuntary experimental subjects or was that the case? Scullie remembered that the mentally ill were based, back when she worked in the aged hospital, in what in real terms was a very horrible insane asylum despite the more modern name. It had been based in the oldest part of the hospital, where the dark things had taken place, where the living had become monsters and the dead had walked.

Had there been more than one such event?

Scullie was a great deal older than she looked, just as she was far more than she seemed to be on the surface. She had worked at the hospital over a century ago. Muldor was also older than he appeared and yet younger than she. He was also more than he seemed to be on the surface. Scullie was very old even when she started her medical training and Muldor was a child when he used his canny ability, to gain discrete information, to learn about the dark events at the hospital.

The Rainbowbaby came reluctantly into the chamber, with a big entourage including supersoldiers, and soon odd devices were being brought to her aspect there. They were soon being altered, shimmering and transforming to meld into one device with 'extras' being added both openly by others or more mysteriously by herself. The device looked somewhat comical but Walter was enthralled and yet concerned; it was, as far as he could tell from its design and what the Rainbowbaby could communicate, a multiple mode scanner sensor prober sweeper device; in other words it did a whole lot of things, many of which were beyond human mortal comprehension. Supersoldiers even added some of their equipment for the small glowing one to deconstruct and reconstruct into the device.

Walter spoke to an assembled group who stood close to a large armoured vehicle, an armoured fighting troop vehicle or AFTV complete with a turret, rear ramp-door, and firing ports. "The Rainbowbaby is looking for the artefact that she left behind, that she has reluctantly admitted that she was tricked into handing over to the wrong people. She speaks of extra sneaky eyes in the sky, those that seek to know what is happening here, but which she does not hide from. Then there is the dark shadowy thing, of things, she indicates is in the sealed off hospital, though she did not put it that way. Something darker, but more familiar, is stirring up that and other forms of evil. Yes, she also speaks of other forces approaching the complex in hidden ways, one being led by a young 'silly fierce' young man that she likes already' though she has yet to meet him 'fully and proper like'. His name is Lucky Eddie. The superclones know him, respect him, but indicate he serves an ancient entity who existed here in Bigtropolis very long before humanity came and it gained that name."

Scullie frowned softly. "I need to start examination processes on those bodies but I need to call in more resources including forensics specialists. Marshal Flanxk is both puzzled and pleased to have gained superclone reinforcements having been sent from this complex in order to assist SWAF operations; he now has 15 extra SWATs and 20 similar units to work with along with equipment and supplies, much of which has been upgraded in often surprising ways as much gear has been."

Muldor grin-smiled. "Something tells me that, with some guidance, the Rainbowbaby will give us some very special forms of assistance."

The others were puzzled until Astrid, Walter's beloved assistant, turned to see the plastic android copies of the group including three versions of herself; there were three copies of each of them and they used actual copied gear, such as worn clothes. It was odd to see the realistic mannequin like copies that were still clearly not real humans. It was also just a little 'creepy' though none sensed any threat in the strange newcomers. The plasticants soon proved to be of very great use as new threats struck at the complex and those in it be they of the XFIA, the SWAF, or the Rainbowbaby Following as it had come to be called.

It was at that moment that a savage firefight began in a machinery hidden part of the big chamber with supersoldiers, and other forces, darting off to deal with some kind of attack.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Maharg67

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Bigtropolis: Sixteen

Zero 5.1[5]{18}

The timespace capsule, TScapsule, materialised for only five seconds before it dematerialised. Behind it left 13 shapeshifters looking much like typical Bigtropolis teenage humans. The had the appearance of wearing tough city street gear, having compact backpacks and boots, being with colours but no gang colours or symbols. They looked tough, seemed tough, and they were oddly silent plus still. Their eyes blinked less often than did human eyes and when they did, they all did so at the one time.

They were in a semienclosed courtyard of the part of the Saint Care Hospital that had been abandoned with great speed back during the last big war. Some long rusting hulks of vehicles dotted the courtyard be they ambulances, delivery trucks, and far fewer cars.

The 13 were in truth one entity with 13 bodies; they began to make machines sparkle shimmer and vanish only to reconstruct from the material a solid state thing looking blandly like a whole lot of cubes melded together as some kind odd cubist abstract sculpture of one Dandy Darling Junior of art infamy.

When done, the 13-as-one waited quietly to one side, crouching in perfect formation, all of them looking in different directions except the primary one staring intently at the cube device as it scanned, probed, sensor swept the hospital both above and below ground.

When 'something' attacked the device, melting it down with amazing speed into just a metallic puddle that bubbled with intense heat, the 13-as-one just studied the situation quietly for a short moment. Then, as one, they left the courtyard very quickly, quietly, and smoothly as they easily darted over one high, hard, wall to do so.

Clearly 'something' did not like their spying attempt and clearly it was extremely powerful, and dangerous, to be able to destroy such a well protected device so quickly and easily. Yet the Guardian Enforcers were also very lethal and out to deal with what they knew was a very dangerous problem as two more 13-as-ones materialised to reinforce the first one.

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Edited February 16, 2016 by Maharg67

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I am taking a break from the Bigtropolis story to do some rereading of it and to better focus, decide, its future focus as a plot, tale, etc. I will be focusing on another story for at least a short time.

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I am considering what to do next: will be the continuation of DC Madness, Doctor Who: Escape, Zombies From the Sky, or some other previous story or will it be a new one?

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