《respawn》ch10
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(tubs and Diane step out of the base where the pod is held, to see a barren land around them)
|hey, wheres all the people?|
(diane looks around)*it looks more like Nevada than an alien spaceship. what gives, I wanted to pop some grey alien eyes with my thumbs.*
(tubs looks towards horizon)| someone's coming...really quickly|
*huh?*
(the form speeds into tubs as such force that there is an indent in the flab, and some of the mustles)
...(a small figure pushes itself out)"softer stop than I expected"(the figure dusts itself off to show that it looks like a little girl wearing eyeshadow and a black studded collar) "ahem,..I AM THE GODDESS OF THIS WORLD AND YOU WILL WORK TO MAKE IT BETTER!"
(tubs still on the ground, Diane leans down to speak to her)*listen kid, where is your mommy and daddy, so we can find out where we are.*
(annoyed, the girl headbutts Diane)"DON'T TALK DOWN TO ME, I AM MARY, GOD OF THIS RAVENGED WORLD, AND YOU WILL HELP ME REVITALIZE IT!"
*OWW, OKAY YOU LITTLE BRAT, COME HERE!*(picks her up by the collar) *i don't know what your deal is, but I don't like it. we're bad guys and we don't take orders from snot-nosed brats!*
"I'm not some kid!"(produces the chain scythe and jabs them into Diane's shoulders)
*AAAAAAAH, [email protected]*
(another figure approaches)@COME BAAAACK [email protected](screeches to a halt 5 feet from the group)
@oh, your awake, finally, this little snot rushed back here before I could catch [email protected]
*JANE! what are you doing here?(girl hug) and who is this little b!ch that just stabbed me?*
(sighs)@i was sent here before you two, and this thing is(sighs again)...mary hellsmouth, the newly appointed god of this [email protected]
(gets up)|wait, you mean like an isikai?|
*ooohhh, by what she was telling us, that makes sense*
@why douse everybody but me know what those are?!(calms)...okay, so, she, her "orb of creation" which you can just call the pod, and some weird metallic person brought me here, to help make this world habitable, and to do that, we need to kill an army of [email protected]
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*that...is..-*
|AWESOME! we get to kill shit!|
*well,...that douse not excuse this little b!ch of stabbing me!*
"don't worry, your wounds will heal, oh, wait, already have."
(she noticed that the shoulder gashes already stopped bleeding)*what? how?*
"I made your bodies more resilient, there aren't any trees yet, so no oxi-ox..-."
@oxigen, (leans in to wisper) please switch to the other one soon, I hate this covering for this ones [email protected]
"(wispers) okay, after I get it into the stasis chamber"
*wait, so,...we have stronger bodies, our wounds heal like wolverine, AND we get to kill things?...any that was fur?*
"not yet, keep the robots at bay, and you get to kill things that bleed, BUT DON'T HURT MY LITTLE WORMIES!,..they are my guard dogs, and will shock you with 500,000 volts if you do., NOW IS TIME FOR MY NAP, AND TO LEAVE YOU, GOODBYE!"
|wait,...do we get weapons?|
"yes, but my cyborg preist will help with that BYE-BYE!"(walks fast into the base, and secretly go's into a secret compartment filled with goo, before druzy pops out of that body and mind to the one waiting behind some rocks)
@...well,...welcome to [email protected]
*jane, what the hell is really going on?*
@truth is stranger than fiction, trust me, what you know already is good enough an explanation, trust [email protected]
*sure, and what made you think that would fly, honey?*
@i don't know, they really want to not hurt you...mentally, so just...pretend that all that made sense...tubs [email protected]
|yeah, I'm just gonna accept this, i can just tell this soil, is DEAD. D-E-A-D dead, no life in it.|
*...okay, tubs, I'll bite, HOW do you know?*
|(picks up some dirt and sprinkles it) well, no wind has touched this land in no less than 100 years, the soil's composition matches no known soils of similar topography, the heat is mild despite it being midday in what looks like a semiarid desert, I also can just...tell there are no microbes in the soil- AND HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW ALL THESE WORDS AND THINGS?|
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"(a male voice in the distance)(pants) because key knowledge was put into your noggins so you could be more valuable assets to a team whose job is the terraforming of a planet."
(the three look towards the origin of the voice to see a robed robot)
*what the hell?..who is-*
@thats...drus7, the guy i was with when you got [email protected]
"nice to meet you, Diana and Tobias, or as i was told you prefer to be called, Diane[pronounced die-an] and tubs"
|how you know our names?|
"(bows)i am a Robo-priest, so i was given thine personal info by mine patron"
|...you talk funny|
"i was being theatrical, excuse me for making this seem less fucked up than it is."
*HO, HAHAHAAH! he got you good, tubs!*
|(changing the subject)well what else did i get crammed in my head?|
"lets see, you showed geographic, topographic, and microbiological knowledge, you also got chemistry, some engineering, and universal weapons training"
*what did i get?*
"agriculture, medical knowledge, the tactical experience of 5 generals, horticulture, tracking, and mech piloting"
*DID YOU JUST SAY MECH PILOTING?!*
"yes"
|WHAY DID SHE GET ALL THE GOOD STUFF?|
"tubs(rest hand on shoulder) you can make bombs, traps, and kill a man with a spoon. you got equal shares of badassery added to your heads"
*(mockingly)haahaah, what did YOU get jane*
@alow me to show [email protected](picks up tubs with one arm, then hold him up with one finger)
|...i am uncomfortable.|?(is put back down)
*(eats her words)....how?*
@druz7 over there can upgrade people, (turns towards tubs) now IM the [email protected]
|NO FAIR!(shakes the robo preist) gimmie something too!|
@i-i-i-i di-i-i-id, ple-e-e-e-ese st-o-o-o-op sha-a-a-aki-ng [email protected]
|(stops) what I get, what I get?|
"complete control over the magnification of your eyes."
|...(starts shaking again)|
"IT'S USEFUL! IT MEANS YOU CAN KNOW WHERE TO HIT TO BREAK THINGS!"
*and me?*
"...technological synchronicity"
(she brandishes her pocket knife to poke him)
"MORE CONTROL OVER THE MECH IM GONNA BUILD YOU LATER!"
(tubs sets him down) " just..let me show you how useful they are..."(they walk into the base and the pod makes a futuristic gun, and a Warhammer)
(he hands them to Diane and tubs respectively)"HERE...kill that bolder!"(points to one in the distance 15 yards away)
|...what?|
*your kidding, right?*
"no,...tubs, focus on the rock, Diane, imaging the gun as part of your arm,...NOW!"
*when did you get so bossy?.....hurumph,(aims and douse as she's told, when her arm seems to "bloom" into machinery as it connects to the gun) WHAT THE SHIT?!....(waves gun arm)....okay..this-is badass.*
|...okay, now lets see what I can do.(focuses on the bolder, and suddenly can see every detail of it, yet can still see all of it) wough ,...now I can see it's cracks, and where to hit it, to make it split anyway I want.|(rushes towards it, to strike, and it breaks in two in one hit)
(Diane shoots without even needing to look through the sight and hits tubs in the ass with an explosive pellet, it just singes the skin and leaves a welt)
|OWWW! MY ASS! MY ASS!|
*oh-hohohohoho, I'm sorry!,..(snorts) haha...just. just rub some dirt on it.*
@i missed [email protected]
"...i almost regret this...almost."
(after the bolder is reduced to rocks)
"Okay, now would you kindly BRING those rocks to the pod, so we may get started for real, the more you bring, the sooner I can begin upgrading you"
*don't tell me what to do.*
"the orb can make a healthy simulacrum of cake!"
*okay, I'll do it.*
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