Monday, December 19, 2011

A New Sheriff In Town

After settling in with the....uncomfortable introduction, everybody took their safety watch positions and resumed the nightly routine. About halfway through the night an alarm shrieked and pierced the ears of all the sleeping soldiers. Yang was shaken from his meditation and Yin, was woken up from the middle of a dream that involved orphans, a sack of puppies, and fire. Everyone swung into action, everyone that is except Yin who was too lazy to remove himself from his comfortable bed. Until he realized that Yang would steal his thunder, at which point his pride overrode his sloth, and he sprung to the cause. What triggered the alarm was an attack on the base by one of the elite Xecl soldiers, Officer Umara who had been sent to eradicate The Alpha Team since the Alien commander saw them as a nuisance. They confronted him, and he revealed his purpose and his job.

"You weaklings have been a real thorn in Commander Xigby's side, he doesn't like that. I don't like when he's unhappy, and I want my promotion. So if you surrender now, I'll make sure your death isn't THAT painful."

His threats didn't deter the team.....except Yin, who was shaking in  his boots.

"HEY! That's a lie, how dare you make me look bad. Don't make me teach you where you're jurisdiction ends" Yang rebutted

All right, geez. It was only a joke. Anyway, Yang's sloth overrode his pride at that point, since he realized how weak this guy actually was.

"Yang you've got this one right? Even someone as weak as you can handle this clown."

Yang glared at him, but refused to sink to the low of a verbal comeback, he looked the Officer in the eye and made his advance.

"I'm going to give you the chance to surrender now without a fight, I know that you will not be easily convinced, so I will show you my true power so you know what you're getting into." Yang declared. He focused his energy and flared up  his power to his maximum potential, his aura growing in size until it encompassed the building, the light glowing nearly as bright as a star. He then simmered down and returned to his dormant state.

"You....you think you're so tough, but you haven't seen what I can do." The Officer yelled before attacking. He laid out an onslaught of punches, kicks and and various other attacks with little success. Yang dodged them all, without moving more than two steps away from his spot. The Officer was completely embarrassed and let out a cry of rage. He started to use his hand cannons to fire energy blasts at Yang, but they were even more gracefully dodged. Not a single hit was landed, and the enemy officer was MAD. He began to babble in his anger, and started to make as little sense as Yin.

"Grrrr....watch it bud" Yin muttered

"You have gone far enough. You mock me now, but I haven't revealed the power of my transformation!" the officer yelled. He then screamed an intense war cry and began to quake. He slowly grew in size and began to grow more powerful. about a minute passed and he was still transforming. Yin was awestruck and yelled

"What are you waiting for!? Attack him now, he's wide open!"

"Don't you see? I cannot, I am bound by literary law. You see, if a character, especially an antagonist, has the potential to grow stronger, he must and must be allowed the means necessary. So I must wait until he's done."

"That..That's a load of bull, whose to stop us, I'm going to attack him if you don't"

No you won't Yin, I'm in charge here, and this story must maintain some order.

"Ok, that's it....I've had it with you!" Yin shouted. There was a flash of light, which was consumed by mass darkness. The universe froze, and it's rotation was skewed... Aaaahhhhh, now that that's over with things are going to be run a little differently now that the almighty Yin is in charge of this story. Narrator rules are abolished, and I will defeat this man! I attacked him just before he finished and pierced right through him. He disintegrated into a pile of dust and blew away in the wind. THE WIND I SAY! How pathetic. Hahahahaha, I love being in charge, it's so thrilling! Tune in to the next episode folks, where I kill a bunch of orphans with a sack of puppies that's on fire!!!! Only on Silken Skies........

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Two Heads Are NOT Better Than One

The stare-down continued, each of them only a muscle twitch away from destroying the other. Both knew that the other was prepared for any counterattack, so they just stood waiting for the other to make a move.The tension between the two warriors was thick enough to cut with a knife...

"You know Mr. Narrator, that sounds like a good idea to me, I just love to cut things..."

Wait what? Did he just talk to me.... never mind, anyway The team knew that the impending fight needed to be interrupted but only a madman would step between the likes of those two. Naturally, doctor Schenckenstein rose to the challenge.

"Gentlemen please calm yourselves, don't kill each other just yet. You both already should know your situation, and should have retained all your knowledge, so why don't you introduce yourselves and lets just try to get along. Let's start with you first Mr. tall dark and gruesome..."

He indicated to the dark, shadowy, and clearly insane one.
"I was once the ultimate evil, but that was a long time ago....in a galaxy far far away... no laughter...wait that's before your time. You young-lings wouldn't understand the humor of the past. Anyway when Doctor Who here tried to destroy me he turned half of me into THAT disgusting creature over there."

He indicated to his other half


"Wait how did you know about that? I wiped your memory.." The Doctor Said.

"You should've done your research old man, I have powers of omniscience, you wiped that when you wiped our memory, but our diffusion restored the factory default set of abilities both of us attained at the times when we were fully good or evil in my case..."

Omnisciency, so that's how he does it....

"You, narrator man. Shut your mouth when I'm talking, you're stealing my spotlight. Anyway as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. I was once the herald of the Apocalypse, but now I am reduced to saving this pathetic rock. But you know what they say... if you can't kill them, join them until you can... Anyway, now that my identity has been stripped from me by Doogie Houser over here, I have no name. I guess you can just call me Yin, as I am the yin of our souls' essence. Take it away light bulb!"

Yin signaled to the other half of #2015, who had a white glowing aura about him in contrast to the dark black aura of Yin. He was garbed in all white, and seemed to float rather than stand, barely even touching the ground, he glided to the middle in peaceful serenity.

"Well, that's a hard act to follow, but you can call me Yang since I am the Yang of our souls' essence. I was once destined to be the earth's savior, I was to lead the world through it's final war and into peace, but I was corrupted and transformed into the monster you know as Yin...And not to be outdone by my rival I too possess a sixth sense and have the power of clairvoyance parallel to Yin's omniscience. And I am morally obligated to keep you safe from Yin, as my personality was modeled after the 6 perfections of life: Wisdom, Patience, Ethics, Generosity, Concentration and Perseverance; Yin here was modeled after the 7 deadly sins: Wrath, Greed, Envy, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, & Lust. So no matter what he does, know that I am here to keep him in balance, and after this charade I will personally see to his destruction, for I know that lives are in danger as long as this part of me is still alive. The only reason he exists is because of me, so I must be the one to destroy him. But that is another battle for another time, for now I lend my talents to the cause, and I will fight until humanity is saved..."

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Double Trouble

The machine whirred to life and charged up the beam. The group looked on nervously, afraid to see what would happen next. #2015 sat and meditated, to relieve himself from the growing tension around him. His omniscient 6th sense knew that something bad was about to happen...he hated being right. As the Doctor fired the beam, the alien ship suddenly fired back, the beams collided and reflected each other back. The alien laser reflected back to hit the ship and sent it spiraling away, while the fission beam bounced back heading directly at #2015. He snapped out of his state of equilibrium with just enough time to dodge it.

The beam reflected across every surface of the rooftop, looking for some, any, unfixed object to split into two. #2015 quickly ordered everyone inside for their own safety. They rushed down into the shelter just in time to slam the door before the laser bounced off and headed back to #2015, it seemed to take on a life of it's own, now it had locked onto #2015 as a target it followed him everywhere, every dodge turned it right back around toward him. It continually grew faster and more difficult to dodge, #2015 was exhausting all of his resources to stay away. The laser became his enemy, and dodging became his focus, as his speed rose the laser grew more clumsy, and in a near miss, struck the generator. it exploded in a flurry of light, knocking #2015 off guard, and slamming him against the wall.

As a result of the machine's destruction, all of the energy inside released, and several more beams fired towards him. He cursed under his breath and kicked into maximum performance, now moving just faster than the speed of light, but still only barely dodging the symphony of color. He started attempting to eliminate the lasers by forcing them into one another, which only resulted in more lasers splitting off from them. It was as hopeless as battling a Hydra. finally he launched beam of energy from each of his fingers to hold back the fission beams. He held them each at bay, and used all of his energy to hold them in place. He finally stood still and took a breath. and noticed out of the corner of his eye that he missed one, which was coming straight at him. He turned and tried to juggle the beams between his fingers to stop them. Until he made the vital mistake of crossing his fingers.

Two of the beams hit and one more broke off. Which hit him too quickly to dodge. The other beams faded away now that the target had been hit, and #2015 broke down on the floor in agony. His body glowing with a bright light, which formed a divide down the middle of him. He split in two, and his essence arose from the body, in the form of a Yin &Yang decorated orb. The dark and light separated and flew away slamming into the opposite sides of the roof. They morphed and changed, forming two beings; one of darkness, and one of light. When the dust cleared, they looked each other in the eyes with a stare that could kill an average man. The struggle was about to begin

Saturday, September 3, 2011

The First Order of Business

After the introductions the group started to settle in, #2015 went to his lodging and began to meditate. The group was confused by this, but knew better than to question the methods of a being who was exceedingly more powerful than them. They all began their nightly activities, and the night watch began as normal until they received a transmission from the radio.

"Please, Team Alpha come in, TEAM ALPHA!" Razor, who happened to be on watch answered the call

"This is Razor of the Alpha Team, who is speaking?"

"This is Major Disaster of Team Bravo, please send help immediately, we are under attack, all of us. Team Delta has been destroyed completely, and Team Charlie is beyond helping at this point. We have double agents, Predators and Hunters have disguised themselves and infiltrated the resistance teams, be careful as they may be among your ranks too, we need assistance NOW!"

"We have a new addition to our team that spotted the traitor, so we are safe for now. We'll be there as soon as we can." Razor placed the microphone back in it's holster, and awoke the team and explained the dilemma. "Well obviously, we need to send the most dispensable person and leave the rest to guard the station." said the doctor
"
I say Katana, we didn't need a girl on the team anyway" Said Razor

"Please, please, men, obviously Jim is the most pathetic of this lot" said Dr. Schenckenstein

"Doctor, did you seriously just say that?" Jim replied

"For all intents and purposes....Yes"


The quarrel erupted into an argument and no one saw 2015 emerge from his chambers
"There is no need to quarrel, I will go to their aid" Said 2015

"Don't be foolish, we need you most of all" rebutted Jim

"No, I have made up my mind to help them, to attempt to stop me would be foolish."

"Aww, I wanted Jim to go on this suicide mission" Said the mad doctor

"Gee, thanks doctor, you REALLY know how to cheer a guy up" Said Jim

"I can aid them without having expended virtually any power, plus among my...skills, is instantaneous warpspeed, or as you call it: teleportation. If you require my assistance, just send a signal to this channel" He proceeded to tune to a frequency on the radio, and seemed to show minor signs of pain at the sound of it.

"I will pick it up and grab the fighters that are still alive and bring myself back here in an instant. Now what are the precise coordinates of their location" Dr. Schenckenstein gave him the location and wished him good luck. He raised his hands to his chest made a pyramid with them, he began to glow and slowly disappeared. No more than ten minutes later he appeared again, completely empty handed.

"I was too late, there were no survivors, the place was crawling with hunters, and I sensed no human life, so I nuked the place. I also left no evidence and information remaining for them to get a hold of." The doctor chuckled at the thought of the chaos, but then the seriousness of the situation caused him to show some signs of grief, and then rage, and he began to speak

"This is unacceptable. We must not let them destroy us so easily, they cannot push us around anymore. It is time to take the offensive, which is why I am glad to have snuck back this little beauty from the lab when I brought back #2015." He then revealed a small machine that looked like a handheld vacuum

"What the hell? Is that a shop vac?" Said razor

".......For all intents and purposes...Yes, but With my own modifications, this machine should thin their ranks immensely, which will make the war winnable, because as it stands #2015 is still not quite strong enough to win the entire war for us. Training will help with that, but it is not a quick enough solution. this invention can fix that. This was an experimental machine that the scientists of old had developed as a cloning method, however due to... unforeseen side affects they abandoned it and archived it. Thanks to my snooping around the lab before restoring #2015, I found and weaponized this baby. I call it the nuclear fission generator. It's initial purpose was to find the soul's essence and divide it in half, creating two separate beings, however, not only did it divide the being's power in half, but the beings it created were two conflicting opposites, all test subjects had a tendency to clash with one another, and always attempted to destroy the other. I weaponized this machine, so we can use this to fight fire with fire. With this we can pit the enemy against itself, which will greatly thin it's ranks, and make the fight much easier on us, which is crucial now that we are the only humans left on earth, and risking bringing more fighters in from the virtual reality would be folly."

"So...we're cutting their ranks in half, by multiplying them by 2? That's a terrible idea!" said Katana

"I know, one of my best! now, I think it's time for a test run!"

Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Alpha Team

Dr. Schenckenstein and #2015 began the long trek back to HQ, along the way he brought #2015 up to speed on the events that took place. He could tell the doctor was insane, but he decided to put up with it. When the Doc was finished he began to pass along the information of the alien resistance. He informed him of the different types of aliens: The scavengers, hunters, predators, soldiers, elites, and leaders.

"We have the most able fighters stationed at the 4 major cities on the planet: they are teams Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta. Delta is stationed in New Korea, there is little invasion there, and so we sent the worst of the best to maintain the peace. Charlie is in the Soviet Union, holding off the scavenger Aliens. Bravo is in South Peru, where they have to deal with a majority of the predators, and the Alpha team is stationed in the Northern California Republic, we have it the worst. The alien stronghold is directly above the city, and all the commanding officers are stationed there. the city is infested with predators, and we needed the best of the best to hold out here. When we arrive I will introduce you to the team, there are 5 of us, including myself, due to the warfare history of the location however, we have been successful so far in creating weapons from the remains of warfare buried deep beneath the earth. However, with the growing awareness of the Xecl leaders, we needed something more, that's where you come in. I was searching for a new base of operations while spelunking, and stumbled across the laboratory we have just escaped from. I read through what remained of the journal logs and found your record as the pinochle of scientific power. I knew you could help save us, and that is how we got to this point. We must be very quiet now as we must head stealthily through the underground passages to get to HQ. And we must pass directly under a Predator nest."

They eventually completed the trek back to Headquarters. Upon arrival, the group of warriors stared in awe at #2015. They shared unanimous murmurs of things like:

"I knew he was crazy, but not THIS crazy?" "This is either his best or worst idea" "is that really him?" etc.
Finally, one got up the courage to ask:

"Sir, are you really mad enough to bring The Terminator into our camp?"

"Hell no, That would've been a terrible idea, one I must remember for later... anyway, who I have here is the legendary Dandroid #2015.

"You mean the monster that single-handedly caused the apocalypse!!!"

"For all intents and purposes...Yes. He will be the turning point of the war, and you must treat him with the utmost respect. #2015: these are our men. this is Razor, our heavy weapons expert." He pointed to a large African American man with a scar and eye patch across his left eye, and he was wearing a large mechanical suit.

"This is Katana, our analysist, and martial arts master." He pointed to a short, but muscular woman with long black hair and bright blue eyes. She was also in a mechanical suit

"This is Gentleman Jim, our sniper, his accuracy is good enough to shoot the wing off of a fly from a mile away." He pointed to a tall, slender man in a tuxedo,with a crooked nose and short brown hair.

"And finally this is Skeet, out Intel and military officer." He pointed to a short man with messy blonde hair, baggy shorts, and a tank top, he was the one who had made the smart remark about him earlier. Upon seeing this man, #2015 immediately pointed at him and fired a beam from his finger. The beam pierced through his chest, and he then proceeded to break apart into pixels which slowly disappeared, to reveal that he was a Mimic, a new breed of soldier! The whole time, he had been nothing but a Xecl spy! #2015 then rushed him punched through his stomach and sent a burst of energy through his body and exploding, leaving nothing but dust.

"That. Was. Amazing...how did you...what was that." Asked Katana.

"Roughly 5% of my power." Replied #2015

"You see men. This is how we will win the war, Get comfortable with him, because he is going to join the team and help us take down the Xecl leaders!"

"Doctor I think it's safe to say you've doomed us all" said Jim. The doctor tried to make a rebuttle, but he found himself unable to, he paused shortly and then replied with:

"For all intents and purposes...yes, but we need to take bold risks, for before now we were simply delaying the inevitable, but now we have the means to fight back. Now I would be terrified to go to sleep tonight if I were you, (I don't exactly trust this guy) But what's a little death here or there going to do? Goodnight...

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Awakening

As electricity sparked through the air, the machine slowly whirred to life. The doctor was nervous about what was about to happen, as he anticipated hostility upon the awakening of #2015. He would not be proven wrong. Dandroid #2015 snapped awake, fully repaired, and restored, but only 50% reprogrammed, with his evil sadistic nature composing one half of his mentality, and his good, noble nature making up the other. Looking frantically at his surroundings, he lunged forward and gripped Dr. Schenckenstein.

"Who am I! What's going on here!" He shouted

"Relax, you are in a secret underground facility, you are Dandroid#2015. You were built long ago as a weapon of war, but became too powerful and shut down. Now that the world is under attack, we need you now more than ever. I Repaired and reactivated you with the hopes that you would help save us."

"And why would I do that"

"Well for starters, without your help the world will be destroyed, but I know that's probably not reason
enough for your assistance, so I'll bargain with you. I know you desire information, you want answers about your past. I can give you these answers if you help us. I will give you the knowledge of your past that you so greedily desire. Do we have a deal, or is there something more you will want in exchange?" Said the doctor,

"You are correct about my desire for knowledge, but you do not have me convinced so easily. It will not be that difficult to discover this information on my own. However, I cannot scour the planet for answers if there isn't a planet to search. So, for this reason and this reason ONLY, I am willing to barter. I'll help you fight this one war, and this war ONLY. But I will only do so on the condition of peace. If you release me to my own devices and let me wander in peace without interruptions, then I will fight. But only then. Do we have a deal Doctor?"

"I can agree to those terms, it is simple enough. We have a deal."

"I don't believe you. I am empathic and can sense others emotions, I can tell that you plan to deactivate me and wipe my memory again after the war, how can I be certain you won't double-cross me?"

"You can't, however as I see there is no way around it now, I accept your conditions. I trust you believe me when I say I swear on my daughter's life that I will not break the terms of our agreement, unless you say otherwise."

"I can tell now that you are being truthful out of fear and desperate measures for desperate times. I make my agreement that I will do whatever it takes to win this war for the good of mankind."
Little known to either at the time, those negotiations would radically change the fate of both human and Xecl.