Realities Faction War

[Maharg67]

23.1[30]

The mistake had been straight forward in that it had been assumed that cyborghants had been created by cyborging mutaghants. Stella, and the other Ironsoperats, walked amongst experimental statuscapsules each with a cyborghant in it that had once been a lightly cyborged human. Intense radiation had flooded the complex, thanks to a borer nuclear dirty bomb, and the prototype statuscapsules had failed to protect those, inside them, from mutaghoulification.

Hundreds of cyborghants were there but about 200 had been taken from there to be used elsewhere. There was no information, in those chambers, of where they had been sent or why.

The PaleOneMan came to be with the Prideops and spoke to them all. “I will remain in this complex and do what I can do for these poor victims. Inform the TechChapterEWS that they can use the complex as a base; by the time they get here it will be largely empty of it’s dangerously unstable technologies and the cyborghants will be gone. They will be well cared for.”

Stella gained the impression that asking no questions about that subject was best. “So now we head to the area where some of my sisters are along with the SweetieDukies and PaleOneDad.”

The PaleOneMan02 turned to look at a vertical glowing, shimmering, disk of energy. “I have created that temporary gateway to where you must go. I suggest that you go at once, with all of your gear, while it is active.”

Stella took a lasercarbine and shot the fake PaleOneMan figure. It screamed, shuddered, fragmented and then was gone.

An aspect, of the real PaleOneMan, shimmered into visibility. “One would think that the Shadowites would learn; this is far from the first time they have attempt to pretend to be one. I am now four aspects as one. One, as PaleOneDad, will now spend all time with the SweetieDukies. The other three of us are focusing on other areas. I am PaleOneMan02 as PaleOneDad is PaleOneMan01. I will remain here and will assist these cyborghants. If you had entered that false gateway you would have plunged to your deaths but I would not have allowed that to happen.”

 

Stella nodded. “I psykersensed you and that one’s falseness. I suppose it was hurled back to its home dimension.”

 

The PaleOneMan02 nodded. “It was a Shadowlording that will never be able to return to this dimensional realm. I can not create a way for you to go instantly to your sisters for you are fated to make important discoveries on your way there. I can give you some important assistance being three eyebots equipped with UV laserguns, three special floating guidebots to help you navigate OldPentagon secret levels and three hovering carrybots for you to take extra equipment-supplies from this complex.”

 

Stella frowned softly. “There are secrets to this place, perhaps even horrors beyond that of the cyborghants.”

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23.2[31]

The PaleOneMan02 smiled at her. “Yes, you LyonsTriplets really do share the powerful, subtle, abilities of your mother but, thankfully, not her curse.”

Stella frowned more. “What do you know about our mother?”

The PaleOneMan02 responded. “Only that she is the mother of you three and of the male-female twins that were born to her years after Evelina committed a terrible crime and escaped justice at the gavels of the Techjudges. It is general knowledge that something terrible happened that changed her for the worse and that led to the crime. Perhaps you should talk to your father, PrimeElder Rowyn Irons, of this issue.”

After a brief pause he spoke again. “Of her movements, the last reliable reports have placed her here in WashingtonEWS along with her followers that include the twins Babbit and Bobbit. She has made many powerful enemies, over the years, and has been moving stealthily for the last two decades. I have added three eyebot like scanbots to the robots I am giving you and one armoured-armed chairbot so that at any one time one of you can rest on the move.”

Stella shrugged. “You know more than you are saying but I am grateful for the gifted robots.”

The nonhuman spoke. “What I have not told you is unreliable information but I will give you a datachip of that data for you to study. Apart from what I have told you the rest of the data is often very limited, contradictory or highly suspect. There are many mysteries linked to your mother that I doubt even your father knows about and that, as you know, is saying a good deal.”

The Ironsoperats rested before moving out and deeper into the OldPentagon.

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24.1[32]

 

It seemed a minor miracle that the SweetieDukies played, together, a wonderful tune as guided by the four very tough Ironsbards who had links to the larger number of Techbards.

 

It was a simple creation and the words were dotted with clues, to a mystery, that came from the SweetieDukies’ joint subconscious. They played before changing audiences even as the PaleOneDad, WarDuchessSAI99, WarChiefSAI16 and IronsOrder worked out an agreement with the support of the HighElders of TechChapterEWS.

 

The IronsOrder was soon being expanded with Techordlers being brought in from the Pentadel to be recruited as Ironsordlers being troopers, scholars, scribes, techies and much else including a small number of psykers. The reason was that IronsOrder had been chosen to deal with the challenges, and mysteries, of what had become known as the Secret OldPentagon.

 

A faction, of Techsages, demanded access to the OPWDPC and were rejected partly because of their arrogant approach to the HighElder Council. They would have to wait until early assessments, of that massive and largely unexplored complex, were completed by IronsOrder and others.

 

Somehow it was no surprise when it was learned that WarDukie13 was not the real WarDukeSAI02 that had created them, with assistance from PaleOneDad, because he was feeling motherly and wanted children even if she could not give birth to them. It had not worked out so well with what was now call the SweetieDukie13.

 

Stella’s Ironsoperats arrived with the use of a well hidden cable teleport networksystem but not all was right about them.

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25.1[33]

 

Stella’s Ironsoperats came fast out of the teleport cubicle and gave warning that enemies were giving chase in the form of lightly cyborged clone humans. The PaleOneDad came forth, locking the teleportation networksystem to keep out the enemies before stunbolting the Ironsoperats.

 

Stella had already been fighting the cyborgrub attached between her upper back, between her shoulder blades, and had sent out a telepathic warning of a semiconscious nature. Yet it was not necessary as PaleOneDad had easily detected something was wrong as had others there had.

 

“Such tricks could never work on nonclone humans with the generally high psychic levels of the Ironsoperats, at least not for any real length of time. So this was perhaps a message, a warning of sorts.” The PaleOneDad was examining one of the cyborgrubs. “This was especially true for Stella Lyons. The other factor is that all of the cyborgrubs, on the Ironsoperats, are dysfunctional being production rejects that would hardly be chosen to truly control somebody.”

 

Then he went on, speaking to Stella along with her triplet sisters, other sisters and yet others. “That was not truly PaleOneMan02 that you spoke to; he was fake for there is only one PaleOneMan and that is me, PaleOneDad. He, if it was a he, did give you valuable information and also took charge of the cyborghants, sending you Ironsoperats away but he also did not give you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; that one is linked to me and is perhaps one of the two PaleOneTraitors that I have been hunting down.”

 

They were in the corner area of a large chamber largely full of active people, pets, other animals and robots. There was much to be done to turn the SweetieDukie Complex into the new direction, coordination and supervision centre for operations taking place and to take place. Further exploration, assessment, and documenting of that area had to be done for multiple reasons including practicality plus such as the discovery of hidden secrets.

 

HueyDukie raced past, excitedly hauling a cart full of metal semijunk, in which sat a puppy, an amused-bemused Pridebard Janis moving fast to keep up with him in her power armour. Clearly new innovations were taking place.

 

PaleOneDad: “You did not get far from the complex, that he was in, when everything went blank and next thing you were coming out of the big teleport cubicle with dysfunctional cyborgrubs clinging to your backs. You believed you were being chased by cyborg human clones truly known as cyborgmans. Question is why along with who, what, did this to you.”

 

Stella frowned, clearly angry at how the Ironsoperats had been manipulated though she suspected that no real harm had been meant yet she was not truly sure of that either. “Was this a warning against a faction behind the creation of those lightly cyborged human clones or was it an attempt to muddy the waters? As for that fake PaleOneMan2, it would be interesting to know more about those PaleOneTraitors that you mentioned.”

 

PaleOneDad just smiled at Stella's suggestion.

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25.2[34]

 

PaleOneDad paused noticeably before responding while pointedly not mentioning the PaleOneTraitors. “As far as I know there is only one, of my kind, on this world but this incident, with the fake PaleOneMan2, has taken me by surprise; I must now question my assumptions and do some careful checking which means making careful contact with my home dimensional realm. It will be dangerous for reasons that I could not even translate let alone explain to you except to say I must communicate with the PaleOneCollective.”

 

Shyla spoke. “Could you gain resources from this PaleOneCollective?”

 

PaleOneDad: “The price would be too high in a not very straight forward fashion. There are safer options that I can not speak of for now but hopefully will be able to do so soon. As for now, I feel the need to go check on the SweetieDukies to see what they are up to with their new ‘innovations’.”

 

Saraa nodded. “After they blew out all of those circuits, last time, I agree.”

 

Nobody disagreed with her assessment.

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26.1[35]

 

Darrant moved carefully through an SVR (super virtual reality) landscape of big pine trees, embankments of snow, and other Ironsordlers moved with her also with graceful quietness. Thirteen humanoid figures moved with them with noticeably less silence and more awkwardness. The cyborg humanoid SweetieDukies were very excited to be experiencing the SVR trip. It had meant to be a deer hunt until they joined suddenly being equipped with snacks for the intended prey. The idea of shooting deer, with telescopic hunting rifles, was gone now that it would upset the SweetieDukies even though the deer were SVR NPCs.

 

SmartyDukie spoke quietly. “We SweetieDukies have been here before. There should be a log cabin just through, past those, trees.”

 

A green arrow appeared briefly, in mid air, to show the direction.

 

Darrant, marksman of the Ironstroopers, smiled through the open hood of her winter furs. “Your memories, of this SVR Program, are starting to return!?”

 

FartyDukie farted as if to confirm that idea to be true.

 

Some deer showed briefly, amongst the trees, but then darted away; they seemed to be very skittish.

 

SleepyDukie yawned and then spoke. “We came here more than once; sometimes it was good and sometimes it was not so good. We would not have come into this SVR Program at all if the real WarDukeSAI02 had not forced us to do so. He said it would toughen us up.

 

Darrant spoke. “Did it?”

 

SmartyDukie: “Only scared the poop-piddle out of us. We were glad not to come here any more once our mother lost interest in us. I think we disappointed her in some way.”

 

Craig, another Ironstrooper marksman, spoke his mind. “She was the disappointing one not to see just how wonderful her children were.”

 

BabyDukie: “We really like you, Craig.”

 

Craig smiled. “I hope you like all of us.”

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26.2[36]

 

SweetieDukiePrime was twice bigger than any other SweetieDukie. He kept scanning the SVR surroundings. “We all WarDukies love you all Ironsordlers but got to tell you am getting some strange signals, and readings, from out there.”

 

In SVR the SweetieDukies had good, strong, self defense weaponry except for SweetieDukiePrime who had more powerful, dangerous, weapons than those.

 

Darrant noted a quick flash of a movement but it turned out to be a white furred fox of a SVR NPC (SVR Non Player Character). They had yet to find any strong evidence of human NPCs let alone of humans.

 

Which was when a whole lot of birds flew overhead and soon after came fast running animals including a large number of deer along with wolves, foxes, white horses and even a small number of wolverines. Wolverines were dangerous creatures but they were escaping from something as were all of the wildlife.

 

That 'something' terrible howled in the icy coldness of that snow clutched, woody, terrain as the noise echoed across a great distance.

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27.1[37]

 

The big creature raced right through the formation of SweetieDukies causing them to fly in all directions but even as they did so they called out for the big furry thingy not to be shot at. With thick white fur, six legs plus two arms and a vaguely caterpillar type body it was perhaps fleeing from the howling what ever it was.

 

After a short moment, of confusion, the big creature was helping to pull SweetieDukies out the snow. After that a fairly large number, of small shallow wounds, were being attended to by Pridefollowers.

 

Catohexi spoke with a tone of self pity. “Part nasty robot, part nasty big humanoid, like SweetieDukies but much bigger and more nasty than them for they are nice and not nasty. It was a WarKnight and with it were smaller WarPawns. It shot poor me with a pellet gun as a warning. It was not howling for that was coming from the Dark Frozen Woods that are woods that are always dark and frozen. Can I have another snack, please, or maybe two?”

 

Having found a handy resupply dispenser, buried in the side of a tree, they had more than enough snacks to give some extra to the big unusual creature so he got three. Which meant giving out more snacks to the SweetieDukies so they did not get jealous.

 

Was the real WarDukeSAI02 somehow inserted into the SVR world? A WarKnight was a powerful fighting machine being outnumbered by the most common WarPawns. A WarKnight was an aggressive directed machine while WarRooks were focused on defence and WarSerfs were fighting workers. The WarDukies could provide no information on other kinds of ‘pieces’ having gained only some data from the WarDukeSAI02 before it had abruptly departed one day.

 

There was obviously a big difference between the SweetieDukies, and WarDukeSAI02, when it came to hardness and combat.

 

There were no more howling noises, at least not for the time being.

Edited February 11, 2020 by Maharg67

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28.1[38]

 

There was a bigger sized female Babbit, a half that sized male Bebbit, a female counterpart of him being Bibbit, a bigger sized male Bobbit and a half sized neuter Bubbit. Babbit, and Bibbit, were 1.6 metres tall each making the others 0.8 metres tall.

 

They came on an electric hovertray that also held personal goods along with equipment-supplies. They were closely related to the IronsTriplets through a shared mother but Babbit-Bobbit had a different father while Bibbit, Bebbit and Bubbit were their clone children.

 

With them were four cats, two dogs, a ferret, a crow and a nibblesaur along with two potplants and a plantimal along with four robots.

 

They had an escort, of dangerous humanoid soldiers and robots, until close to the WarDukeSAI02’s original territories that was part of the newly sealed off zone. Then they halted while the BBBits headed on away from them, with obvious relief, and the others of their group went with them.

 

They encountered Ironsscouts and met Shyla as their half sister and clone aunty who was soon fussing over them as she would the SweetieDukies who were still in an SVR Realm.

 

It soon turned out that the BBBits had much to say, including the clones.

Edited February 11, 2020 by Maharg67