NewEarth Apocalyptic Aftermath!

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IronsidePlatoon WayWanderer Zaekra: Comes a Zaekra to Meet, to Greet and Help

[1]25.1[52]

 

The IronsidePlatoon, of Ironsidescouters, explored the immediate area just beyond the new, small, ZalmataBase. WayCarer, MrWalker, Elaine and others remained with ZalmataDuke.

 

When Jokerjest, a special avatar of the ZaekricJoker, shimmered into existence he brought gifts with him contained in three dimensional compression cubes. Jokerjest was a smiling clown doll figure with a bulbous red nose and an excess of make up. He wore clown clothes and shoes that coiled up at the end. His traditional clown's bag was held by his right white gloved hand while the other held a folded up, brightly coloured umbrella. Perched on one shoulder was what looked like a ventriloquist dummy and on the other a small monkey with a colourful metal collar that held a musical accordion.

 

Jokerjest did a little, funny, dance that greatly amused AlmataDuke, the other three patiently observed him. Then Jokerjest came to a halt and spoke. “One is sent by the ZaekricJoker to state a secret that should not be secret, a mystery that should not be mysterious. Somehow quasiliving material was converted and used to make hybrid genetic material that was utilised in too many ways to speak of, especially as too many of those are unknown to one.”

 

“This FactorX12y2, of a FactorX, is zaekric hybrid human hybrid additional elements found in the secret of Zalmanina and her clones but also multiple other clones but also in the Ironsides of the ArmatechOrder and prior to that. It is found, of course, in the wondrous ZalmataBaby that is the core of ZalmataDuke. There are the Ironsides that we know of, who have FactorX12y2 active in you, for we can only really sense that FactorX when it is active. Thus there are the IronsideTwins in ShelterplexDC101's ShelterdemiplexDC101M, the IronsideTriplets of the new IronsideBrigade, the IronsideQuadruplets of the IronsideForce travelling with the big land moving convoy of more than the ArmatechOrder, the IronsideQuintuplets that should become part of the IronsideBrigade and glimpsed IronsideSextets of the GaiaOrderhood now allied to the ArmatechOrder.”

 

MrWalker spoke. “Is FactorX12y2 linked to the 13G13 and thus to the WayWanderer?”

 

Jokerjest smiled, as he always did. “Not FactorX12y2 but FactorX12y1 is linked to the creation of the 13Original13, may the Celestial GoddessGod be protecting their souls and comforting them also. From the 13Original13 came the first 13Genius13 including those that became the WayWanderer. Big question is who actually did the original creating and the answer is it was more than one who did so; one who did take part, in the madness, was IronsideSolo, but did he do so independently or under heavy influence? What confuses matters more is more than one temporal paradox and other transdimensional twistings that just should not have taken. We ZaekricGods fear that the original ZaekricGodGoddess has been heavily involved in this madness but we do not know how. Now, you know how we Zaekra are considered 'chaotic and even mad' by a great number of entities but even by our standards the ZaekricGodGoddess became truly distorted in their ways as they merged partially together in a manner that no two entities should, especially such powerful ones.”

 

MrWalker responded. “The ZaekricJoker did not send you and you are not that one's avatar though your identity rings true and so does what you have said. So, who-what did send you or was it like that at all? Could you be one of those strange manifestations that have been taking place, some being copies of the real entities and some being original?”

 

Jokerjest laughed even as he vanished away, fading away quite quickly into nothingness but leaving some gifts behind along with the compression cubes that staid solid.

Edited August 14, 2019 by Maharg67

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WAYWANDERER

PrimeWanderer (of the one)

WayFinder (of the three)

WayCarer (of the three)

WayRanger (of the three)

DrMediheal (of the nine)

MarshalAdmiral (of the nine)

MasterOddity (of the nine)

MrWalker (of the nine)

MsFixit (of the nine)

MadamFortune (of the nine)

MrMysterious (of the nine)

MagistrateMagnus (of the nine)

MsDeepseeker (of the nine)

 

There is the WayWandererCore that is of the WayWanderer but not of the 13 aspects.

Edited August 11, 2019 by Maharg67

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IronsideTwins WayWanderer: MsFixit Visits DemishelterplexDC101M of ShelterplexDC101

[1]26.1[64]

MsFixit finished repairing-improving a third utility junction of the techdemivault. Being a techdemivault it was out from the Shelterplex itself by over a kilometre. That is the isolation experiment based ShelterplexDC101. The isolation barriers had come down shortly after Tridoomsday except that linking DemishelterplexDC101/13 with the main Shelterplex was a limited use teleport cable.

Local shelterplexfolk were active in glowcaves, of glowcrystal warmth and light able to sustain life at a low level, as well as the techdemivault. With sharp focused light they grew crops and otherwise had an odd variety of substances they gathered after cultivating them on a less intensive basis. They also had livestock, some of it being rather odd like captive mutiroaches.

She had observed nervous work teams passing her, in vaultsuits, along with a single security guard each. The workers were expected to use their tools, and low powered self defence weapons, against swarms of mutiroaches while the security guards had moderately heavy bodyarmour, autopistols and autocarbines or autoshotguns. Except that enterprising shelterplexfolk had given improvised bodyarmour to the workers along with basic monoshotguns.

Workers were low level but there were also better equipped specialist teams that each had two security guards protecting them.

Semienclosed pedalcars were common, as were bicycles, to assist people to stay fit while saving on electricity. There had been short cuts made in making that techdemivault, as was often the case, and the complex had ended up with two small fusion generators instead of one medium one and one small one as an emergency backup. Hence the constant need to save on electricity.

The amazing coveralls dressed MsFixit had multiple pouchpockets, pouches and pockets along with scabbards and holsters full of devices. Her backpack was an interesting metallic one as were her left hand held toolbox and her right hand held exotic device something akin to a chunky carbine in size. Both toolbox, if it was that, and other device looked to be very heavy but she carried them with seemingly effortless ease.

The gunshots rang out and she knew that a lightly powerful bolt-action targetrifle was being used thanks to her mindeye usage. Then she was running even as the 'toolbox' vanished away, with a soft shimmering, so that she soon held only the odd carbine like device.

The IronsideTwins were female, and male, the first using the rifle and the other a shortbow. He fired off at a distorted mutiroach that was bigger even than a standard full adult mutiroach. The creature was covered with spiked armour, had no wings but instead two extra limbs being each double jointed with long venomous spikes ending them.

Not just mutiroaches but something far worse.

The arrow killed a distorted mutiroach and the irony was that it did so using the same type venom as the creatures used.

MsFixit held up her device and fired of a spreading volley of stundarts. A large number of the creatures collapsed so that none remained active.

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[1]26.2[65]

The twins stood up, obviously amazed at the sudden appearance of the WayWanderer aspect. She smiled at them. “Jasmine and Jeffrey Ironside, I am MsFixit and I am here to assist you, the shelterplexfolk of this techdemivault and the techdemivault itself. I am an aspect of the WayWanderer. The distorted mutiroaches are the result of a deliberate plan to kill all living in this techdemivault but the focus is on you and your father, Professor James Ironside.”

Jasmine frowned softly from where she stood in security bodyarmour and a vaultsuit. She removed her security guard type helmet showing that she looked very much like one of the IronsideTriplets just as Jeffrey looked almost as if he was an IronsideQuadruplet. “If you can assist us with our equipment-supplies situation, that would be most impressive.”

MsFixit smiled. “Yes but it would be better, in the long term, to provide you Exterminators with the means to make much of your own equipment-supplies.”

Jeffrey took off his helmet. “Not Exterminators any longer but Eliminators. Exterminators take care of normal infestations such as mice, rats, cockroaches and fleas. We Eliminators now take care of radcritters of any kind. This way the Overseer, of DemishelterplexDC101/13, can effectively provide the Exterminators with more resources than they need and we Eliminators with less than we need.”

Jasmine frowned softly. “The Overseers do not want to face the fact that the distorts are not just a threat but a growing one with new type mutiroach distorts showing up every month or so.”

MsFixit studied the other Eliminators being four human teenadults, two animan teenadults, two large dogs and four robots including two squat monowheel robowheels that, in theory, should not have been on Wasteworld. “I get the impression that you are all what the Overseers would call 'misfits' except for the dogs and robots.”

Jasmine snorted. “Not the apeman and dogman either but just three of us humans. Other Eliminators are back at our unofficial base. Our official one kept getting attacked by nasty elitist teenadults known as the TrueVaulters or at least that is what they call themselves. We have other names for them but few call them by their chosen title.”

MsFixit nodded. “I get the idea!” The dead, and stunned, distorted creatures all vanished with a soft sparkling shimmer.

A young teenadult male spoke. “I am TrickytrickTed! That's a real good tricky trick you used there. You could make us vanish like that.”

MsFixit smiled. “It would be better if that did not happen but for reasons I can not explain to you. Let's be off to your unofficial base.”

So that is what they did.

Edited August 31, 2019 by Maharg67

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IronsidePlatoon WayWanderer Zaekra: Gifts of the Jokerjest

[1]27.1[55]

 

While the Jokerjest may not have been genuinely of the ZaekricJoker, his gifts were both real and positive in their results.

 

The first, of three compression cubes, was a portable shrinkable transdimensional base that was not only much bigger inside than out, remaining that way even if the outer cube was shrunken and placed away or even transformed into a cube necklace or cube topped finger ring. The second cube, when fully charged up, was able to give forth items from a limited list of such but it could randomise the results in a fashion restricted to that list. It could also shrink to be part of the same cube necklace or to be another finger ring. The third cube, when expanded outwards, was a 'transport way' to 13 possible destinations but it also had a chance to randomise. It could also be an individual ring or go onto a 'cube necklace'.

 

Of the other three gifts one was a crazy, entrancing, toy designed to distract Zalmata if she awoke fully. It would stay with ZalmataDuke just in case it was needed. It was very clever and tough. The second, of three other gifts, was a happy, jesting, acrobatic, entertaining semiclown doll to serve ZalmataBaby/Duke that would also try to protect him if it had to do so. It was quite powerful. The third, of three other gifts, was a tall zaekric robotic entity that would become a ZalmataPawn that was strong, had actually useful skills and some special extras. It would soon be caring not just for ZalmataBaby/Duke but for the first three ZalmataPawns.

 

MrWalker carefully examined all of the gifts, as did WayCarer, and found them to be greatly positive in quality as it was revealed, by the WayCarer, as she gained the information, that Jokerjest was the 'wild child' of both the ZaekricJester and ZaekricJoker but also of some other influences of mysterious nature though one of those was also zaekric in nature. WayCarer did not know the source of that knowledge but deepsensed it to be authentic; such exchanges, of information, between 'cosmic entities', such as the WayWanderer and the ZaekricGods, was at least fairly common depending on the entities involved, and the situation, of course.

 

It was decided that the gifts would remain with ZalmataDuke and that WayCarer would remain with ZalmataBaby/Duke for a time to come. She would carry out other work in that place as well as helping to expand, upgrade, ZalmataDuke Networksystem. Yet it was WayCarer who ended wearing an exotic, three cube, necklace of silvery quality even as she, and MrWalker, also worked to help ZalmataDuke become stronger, more secure, more versatile and better able to deal with Zalmata.

Edited September 2, 2019 by Maharg67

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IronsidePlatoon WayWanderer Zaekra: TechVaultFFS01, Superfood Experiments

[1]27.1[55]

 

Samtha awoke, having gained some vital knowledge of her true nature along with that of other Ironside Family members, to the sounds of combat. MasterOddity fired off an exotic revolver-rifle that fired pulses of different coloured energies while MoopsmalaConco hurled balls of sparkling fire. The twisted, bloated, former human figures kept rushing into the great chamber, great fatty muscular mouths gaping open to show long blunt teeth. Ironsidetroopers were blasting away, mostly with big powerful battlerifles, but also with packguns. Robotroopers fought with powerful guns of their own.

 

The bloated creatures were proving to be highly damage resistant, and quickly regenerative of health, but they were dying anyway. Then the survivors were fleeing away in a rushing, wobbling, waddling manner both frightening and grotesque.

 

MoopsmalaConco came to stand next to Samtha as she came to carefully to her feet, using the zaekra's body to help her do so. She spoke. “What were those things?”

 

They were in a Shelterplex security safety quarantine area between one large powergate and another. The group had moved into the big chamber, dotted with utilities and storage lockers and had sealed the outer powergate behind themselves. They had found some damage to the big chamber but most curiously focused on lockers where emergency food rations were stored. All that remained of canned, concentrated and other rations were broken, shredded, containers along with some stains on the floor. MasterOddity had spoken of desperate attempts to consume even spilt substances.

 

MasterOddity was examining a dead, obese, human figure. “Yes, Superfood strikes again! In theory it was supposedly the perfect staple food able to do more than just fulfil nutritional needs but to enhance the consumer's health and even longevity. The WayWanderer found the results of another Superfood experiment as carried out in another Shelterplex but that one was in Calibraska. The unknowing experimental subjects, there, starved to death no matter how much highly nutritional food they consumed. In the end the experiment observed intervened to stop the experiment and to mercy kill those that they could not save. ShelterplexCB987 now generally thrives with the assistance of the WayWanderer while serving the WayWanderer in several ways.”

 

Samtha spoke out. “All that has happened, with the Ironsiders since most of us arrived in CentropolisDC, is to do with a very special quest that we were prepared for a very long time ago as complicated by timespace paradoxes and other transdimensional distortions. Jokerjest spoke the truth but not the whole truth.”

 

MasterOddity did not seem surprised by Samtha's words. “It is most likely that Jokerjest did not, at least then, know the whole truth; question is who, what, sent that information and a few gifts, to ZalmataBaby/Duke.”

 

Samtha stood, in her power armour but with out her helmet, and gave MoopsmalaConco a kiss before she went over to look down at the super obese creature. “Tormented by endless hunger so sharp that is leads to aggression but do they devour each other?”

 

MasterOddity frowned. “No because they do not gain sustenance from doing so, not even a relief from their version of the 'hungering'. I could not easily probe their distorted, crazed, minds but there are over 300 of them in cryocapsules and another shelterplex that they know of that is full of life but which is heavily secured against them. I will need to deal with this situation very carefully. In ShelterplexCB987 those mercy killed were resurrected by celestial entities for reasons most likely only understandable to them; still, it was a celestial blessing for they became healthy fit humans.”

 

Samtha frowned softly, in deep thought. “The Ironside Family has some link to some kind of celestial blessing.”

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[1]27.2[56]

 

MoopsmalaConco spoke. “Maybe it is part of one very big celestial blessing placed upon this troubled world and maybe also other worlds like it, linked to it, as I think that the ZaekricDuchess said to me once as my big sister. She said, also, that the ZaekricQueen, and ZaekricKing, gained a celestial blessing that helped them to defeat the ZaekricGodGoddess.”

 

MasterOddity laughed softly before responding. “A great celestial blessing, I suppose in many ways that is what it was, is and will be but perhaps not for all. By tracking down experimental paper trails, by trying to learn who did what and other answers, we are uncovering a deeper mystery behind those lesser mysteries. The deeper mystery could be named as a cosmic conspiracy but that name might or might not fit.”

 

They moved on deeper into what was a special 'private contract' PlexCorp constructed shelterplex, hence the 'FFS' that made up part of its name, the FF meaning FutureFood and the S being just a separate identification to numeral used only for FutureFood shelterplexes.

Clumps of pulsating, bulbous, flesh clung to the walls as linked by fleshy webworks stretched out thin enough, in places, to show veins and arteries in a semitransparent fashion. Was it part of the same superfood experiment that had created the obese monsters?

There were hazmat wearing remains of overcome three humans, two handflamers dropped uselessly to one side along with one high voltage shockbident. Clearly the non contaminated humans had fought back. As MasterOddity continued to move on he found that the spread out, superfood caused, organism was actually quite weak, faded, dying in places and dead in others. The reason was soon clear to that aspect of the WayWanderer; the organism had run out of food, had been starving.

He slipped out a short, silvery, rod and it began to spray a fine silvery mist that soon vanished from sight. The very advanced nanobots were soon moving through the creature, breaking it down as they went but MasterOddity was not complacent about the possible threat of the entity. He went on moving, now and then spraying more nanobots at the webwork of superfood caused abomination.

A great storage chamber lay largely smashed with robotics, shelving and other facilities thrust brutally to one side. Containers had been violently smashed open and their contents devoured being, it seemed, not one type of superfood but three of them according to inventory papers. A clipboard computer he found had, for him, an easy to break security system and soon he was learning that the three variants were gradings of strength of one added ingredient being a type of experimental AENI known as SFFAENI, the SF standing for superfood; from weakest, to strongest, the grading were coded A, B and C.

Onward, through typical PlexCorp designed areas, the group kept exploring.

He found the cryocapsules of frozen people being all of them full as were other cryogenic tech for animals and plants. Yet he psysensed that 'something' was not quite right with them all. The nanobots kept on sweeping, with impressive speed and efficiency, through MinishelterplexDC0211c as they destroyed the monstrous orgasm including its dead parts. MasterOddity kept searching the techminivault.

Suddenly there stood another WayWanderer aspect being DrMediheal. The ivory white skinned woman stood there in white medical scientific gear but a back scabbard held a much oversized scalpel like silvery weapon. In one hand she held a historical black doctor's bag or at least that is what it looked to be. In her other white gloved hand she held an exotic featured medical device or that was what the large mechanism looked to be.

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[1]27.3[57]

 

DrMediheal smiled. “MasterOddity, it was wise for you to send for me but I will need your assistance. There is a threat hidden here, of a very subtle nature, buried inside more obvious ones or at least they are more obvious to those like us.”

MasterOddity frowned. “What kind of very subtle threat?”

DrMediheal sighed. “Hopefully that is a question that we will find a worthwhile answer to. I had a visit from Jokerjest who passed on a warning from another entity that he did not know the identity of. When he stated this I deepsensed that he was expressing the truth, at least as far as he was concerned.”

 

MasterOddity: “I truly do not see how this kind of experiment would gain any real breakthroughs if the supposed benificiaries of the superfood suffer such terrible fates.”

 

DrMediheal frowned. “Perhaps the idea of creating a very useful form of enhancing nutritional food has always been a lie and the real purpose of these experiments was something else altogether.”

 

A soft shimmering went through everybody and everything.

Edited August 15, 2019 by Maharg67

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IronsideTwins WayWanderer: At the Unofficial Eliminators' Base

[1]40.1[72]

There were a dozen Eliminators at their unofficial base that was an isolated utility chamber built in an odd position and thus easily overlooked especially since it was not on the official 3Dmap of the techdemivault. In the mad rush, to complete vaults, in the decade leading up to Tridoomsday, there were may errors made of different kinds. The utility chamber had in it mostly standard utilities but there were some unusual ones giving greater benefits to the Eliminators.

Jeffrey was checking one of the robowheels. “A team of us were on patrol when the two robowheels appeared out of seemingly nowhere to then lead us to this hard to find chamber. The pair came from a world called Pandora but have no idea how they came to be here except that they were on the run from an evil man called HandsomeJack!”

Sparkwheelis, the robowheel, who Jeffrey was doing some work on, spoke. “He thinks that he is handsome but he doesn't even have a wheel so how can that be true?”

MsFixit gave a thoughtful expression. “That makes sense, in its own fashion. There is a 3Dprinter over there, a small supercomputer mainframe, toolbenches, a bigger workbench, a refrigerator and a few other nice extras here. Those lockers, and containers, must hold a great deal of useful resources.”

Jasmine spoke. “Yes but we could do with some more people. For some reason the elitist teenadults have decided to attack any teenadult group that they think that they can get away with doing so. They steal resources, bash young men and violate young women when they can. We Eliminators have our official target list but also our unofficial one; the TrueVaulters are on that list that we call the Revaulters because they 'revolt' us.”

The WayWanderer aspect nodded. “So I figured! There may be more to what they are doing than is obvious. As I told you, you have relations in the ArmatechOrder Chapter that have arrived from Calibraska or who are coming from there. That is the IronsideTriplets, the IronsideQuadruplets and the IronsideQuintuplets along with five other Ironside. Your father is Professor James Ironside but what of your mother, Catherine? There is more to their story, than is obvious, but also to the whole Ironside Family linage.”

Jeffrey shrugged. “As have only ever learned her last first name but I suppose she was Catherine Ironside; she died when we were born in some hidden complex on the shore of the Potomac River. We have studied CentropolisDC using maps, books and other library stuff that is made publicly available, which is not a great deal. PrimeOverseer Alphonse Almodovar is a control freak who has heavy regulations on information and much censorship; ironically his middle daughter is one of our friends being Amata Almodovar.”

MsFixit smiled. “I was the one who sent the robowheels to you and who prepared this chamber for you to use but I have three extra surprises for you here if you have found them.”

Jasmine nodded. “The hidden wall safe with Wastelands currencies be it bottle prizecaps, usable vending machine vouchers, pristine Predoomsday cash and Emergency Issue Dollars along with vaultcredit cards and coins.”

MsFixit kept on smiling. “Not quite though that is lightly hidden.”

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[1]40.2[73]

Sparkwheelis spoke with a tone of eagerness. “A special robowheel service closet with extra wonder tricks for wonderful robowheels?”

MsFixit smiled. “I fear that I forgot to put that in but I will make a cubicle for remotebots and robots, including wonderful robowheels.”

Jeffrey shrugged. “Of course that would be wonderful! Do you mean the concealed elevator, the cableteleporter and transvator?”

MsFixit nodded. “Exactly, the vertical moving elevator of limited range, the teleportcable using cableteleporter and the vertically-horizontally moving transvator. You need to use all three with care, especially the cableteleporter, for they will take you to places of challenge, of secrets to uncover; in the case, of the cableteleporter, I mean more than just this techdemivault.

MsFixit: "I suggest you focus on DemishelterplexDC101/13 first and to gain more knowledge about the isolation experiment with its multiple layers going far deeper than just that of cutting off the whole Shelterplex with physical isolation drop barriers. There are other mysteries such as how did you, and your father, get to this techdemivault with the drop barriers in place.”

Karis, the dogman teenadult, sniffed the air. “There is something troubling in the air.”

Which was when wingless mutiroaches, of hardspikeroaches, began smashing against the grids of two wall vents. Then pounding noises began against the main door, a slight shiver going through the steel armour. After about a minute the attack ceased as the hardroaches retreated.

MsFixit: “That was just a testing attack; I will need to help you make your base more secure before I depart.”

There was no argument with that idea.

Edited August 31, 2019 by Maharg67