《Addorn: "The Freed of The Void"》 B.1 Chapter I - Deaths cold grip... Chapter 1 - Death¡¯s cold grip¡­ 1xxx Dxxx ''Txx Dxxxxxxx January 12th, 2060 [Los Angeles, California - Riverside] ¡­.. Bang, Banggg, Bangggg Banggggg¡­¡­ ¡­.. ¡­. ¡­ Gruglppp... *coughing blood* ¡­ .. Aahhhh, Death''s cold grip, finally ripping my soul from this piece of shit world I call life! As I lay on the freezing concrete of winter''s hell, bleeding out from numerous bullet holes, I for once realize how wonderfully beautiful the chilly winter night sky is beyond the clouds of this cruel world. As death begins to embrace me for my eternal sleep, I begin to recall my life before I was knocking on death''s door. (Flashback) My life started out much like any other persons. Child to loving parents that had fed me, clothed me, and above all loved me. 2 months after my 9th birthday my parents had left me with a babysitter to go and enjoy a night out in the city. Hours later I had found out that my parents were involved in a car accident that took their lives. I at first did not believe anyone and waited for my parents to walk through the door of our home, the home which had memories and the warmth of my parents. Finally accepting they had left this world, I fell into a dark deep depression. I felt numb, no emotion what''s oh ever just, just¡­, just darkness, like a huge dark monstrous shadow that had covered me from soul to heart. Not long after, I was taken into child protective services, where I waited to be taken by a relative. But that never happened, not sure why, so I was placed in foster care. Foster care, if it had to be summed up in one word it would be Bullshit. From my experience in foster care, it felt like a breeding ground for uncared for children that would later become blemishes on society. Most children in this system were mad and upset at the world, for removing them from their (often destructive) parents. Then there were some children like myself, who could not survive this type of negativity for too long, before having to conform in order to survive in this system. Conforming often meant me breaking rules or in most cases breaking noses, in order to prove I''m not an easy target.Because of the constant vigilantes I developed, I was seen as a badass, a thug and a delinquent. Because of my demeanor, I was targeted in school as a person to fight. In truth I loathed fighting and violence of any kind, why you ask? Well because I liked to be presentable, clean, and fresh. Fighting required you to beat the shit out of each other, ruining your face or being covered in blood and in some cases both. But I did it, not for fame or for attention, but for my pride that someone had insulted. Other than that school was easy and fun at times, the teachers knew of my reputation but ignored it mainly spouting out some nonsense that I was a genius. Also because of the reputation I developed in school and in my community, I was selected amongst others to join a gang. I was promised money, women, and protection. It''s actually hilarious because joining the ¡°gang¡± caused more violence and problems than it did protect me. By the age of 14 I was in full swing stealing and making drug runs for my gang. 3 years after joining I was order by an ¡°OG¡± (original gangster - a man who had put in work and survived till the age of 18 on the streets) to execute a fellow gang member who was a street level ¡°Shot Caller¡±. What I had been told was, he was skimming 5% off all the money he had come into contact with. I was thinking and I realized the mother fucker was pocketing around 10,000 grand a week. That means he was also stealing from my cut, because it was based on how much money we brought in. Knowing this, I went into the next room. I pulled back on the pillowcase that was covering the man''s face, while he was tied to a wooden chair, and looked into the eye¡¯s of my soon to be victim. I slowly raised the gun and placed the muzzle to his head. I watched as I saw the man weep for mercy, he looked into my eyes and saw¡­. no mercy, just his death¡­.. That was the first man I had ever killed, did he deserve it? Maybe, maybe not. After killing him I felt haunted by what I had done. Eventually I came to terms with it saying to myself ¡°I am bound to die someday soon, so fuck it, I''ll answer for my sins later.¡±. After the execution, I was promoted to my victim''s position of Shot Caller, I was 16 years old. If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. 2 years went by. I was busy extending our network to the next closest city, of course with my lieutenant¡¯s permission, promoting drugs and grand theft auto. With all this in play I was pulling in 750,000 grand a year for the gang, it wasn''t long after that I was promoted to a lieutenant by the gang¡¯s general, I was now consider an ¡°OG¡± reaching the age of 19. By the time I turned 21 I was a member making well over 1 million dollars for our gang, with close to 5,000 soldiers working the streets for myself. I was essentially at the top of the gang sitting next to the general or commander if you will. I was one of four lieutenants, but I was the only one working an entire city myself. It was great, but because of my sudden appearance in the gang and due to how young I was in comparison to the other lieutenants, I was treated like a child and looked at with jealousy and greed. Somewhere deep inside myself I knew my life was so going to come to an end soon, either due to my own comrades greed or a rival gang¡¯s revenge, as I had ended my first victim''s life I would soon follow. (End Flashback) (16 hours before) Like any other day I had breakfast and went out for a jog around my neighborhood. I came home took a shower and proceeded to leave. I drove my car to my base of operations on the outskirts of my city. All I did was sit in my ¡°office¡± and look over the documents with the financial data recorded on it making sure there had not been any discrepancies. To my relief there were none, I had a couple meetings with my shot callers on the state of our turf and if there had been any problems with the local police. After the meetings ended it was getting late so I closed up shop and payed my ¡°employees ¡°. My guards were just starting, so I chatted with the lead guard and checked if they may need a raise in pay. The lead guard gleefully accepted so I payed them a little more than usual. On my way home I felt a shiver run down my spine, I honestly thought nothing of it but in hindsight it may have been a warning for the impending danger. I drove through my oh so familiar street which was rather more quiet than usual. Because of my natural vigilantes I drove past my house and proceeded to double back. Going through my street again I saw that in majority of the houses the lights were off, which I found rather odd and the lack of cars on the street also add to the weird vibe I felt. I decided against going home and decided I should eat out tonight. After finishing dinner and relieving my anxiety, I drove home. This time I saw a couple cars on the street parked and a few more houses with lights on which relieved me. I finally decided to drive up into my driveway and exit my car. As I exited my car, 5 men dressed in black baggy jeans and matching black hoodies with black bandanas covering their faces rushed me from across the street. I realized too late that these men were all carrying high powered AKs, before I had time to reach behind my back to grab my Glock 19. They opened fire riddling my car and myself with bullets. ¡­.. Bang, Banggg, Bangggg Banggggg¡­¡­ ¡­.. ¡­. ¡­ Gruglppp... *coughing blood* ¡­ .. As they ran off to their getaway cars I remember them laughing calling me a ¡°bitch ass punk¡±. I recognized one of the voices, it was none other than our General Juan Guzman. Hearing the screeches of rubber meeting the street, they sped off down my street leaving me to die. As I lie there on the freezing concrete, I think as to why my own gang killed me was it because of greed, jealousy, revenge, a misunderstanding, or just for power. I don''t know but what''s done is done I knew I would die someday soon, so I''m ready to meet my maker and accept my punishment for all my wrongs I committed in life. ¡­ ¡­. Gruglppp... *coughing blood* ¡­. ... Aaahhhh, Death''s cold grip¡­ ¡­. ¡­ .. . B.1 Chapter II - Military Mystery Chapter 2 - Military Mystery 798 Days ''Til Doomsday May 28th, 2063 [xxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx - Undisclosed location] Deep in the earth''s crust in a hidden military facility, a group of men were clad in uniforms with various medals pinned on their left and right chest pockets. Encircling a rectangular table, they stare at a large screen covering a wall at the furthest end of the table. They were all sweating from forehead to chin awaiting news from this screen which has been flickering with white noise for some time. The flickering white noise seems to be getting weaker with images popping up. Before long the image clears as a women wearing military clothing appears on screen... "......Sir this is Omega 1, Reporting" At the furthest end of the table, a man, wearing spectacles and a general''s uniform, speaks with a tone directed to a subordinate. "Report, Omega 1" A few seconds go by before the woman replies as if there was a glitch in the video feed. "......Sir, ''The Device'' is a success" "Great, report the details of your current location Omega 1" "......Yes Sir. We''ve stepped onto a clearing of plains and did some basic tests. I decided it was safe to remove our helmets as it is an Oxygen based planet. We are currently searching for food and water sources. We have found insect life and signs of animal life......" "Omega 1, great job. Be sure to find water, the most important resource!" "......YES SIR. Omega 1 Out.... ..... ..... ....." Before long the woman disappears from the image and a few seconds later the screen starts to flicker white noise once again. The uniform clad men surrounding the rectangular table begin to turn to each other while seated. Many of the men seem to be ecstatic while others seem to be making a thought provoking face as if they were thinking of a battle plan. A few minutes went by, as some still seemed to be discussing things amongst themselves while a couple others still had a face of thought, the man with spectacles at the end finally stood up from the table and began to address the others. "Well Generals, seeing as this is a success and they will no doubt find water, how we should all proceed is a discussion that should be had now, given we only have about 2 years time." As the general with spectacles sits down into his seat, about half a minute goes by in silence. One of the generals speaks up. "Roger, you are correct in saying that this discussion needs to happen now, so I will be first in giving my opinion. I believe in protecting military secrets and that they should only be used for our citizens." As the general appeals a few of the other generals nod their head in agreement with the statement. Roger cuts in before anyone else gives their opinion. "Generals, you need to understand that if our situation was normal by all means you''d be correct in your opinion. But as you all should know by now that our situation is far from that of normal, given we only have roughly 2 years time before our Sun explodes. We need to think beyond that of our citizens and more of mankind. I hope you all understand what I mean." As Roger made his statement most of the generals were nodding their head in agreement. One of the generals who was in agreement to rogers statement spoke. "Seeing as most of us are in agreement with General Rogers Opinion, I believe we should proceed with handing over our intelligence to the U.N." Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. An older general with a full head of white hair, decides to speak after finding a resolution to the conversation. "Excuse me..... but I have an objection to giving our intelligence to the U.N. we still need to protect ourselves." "Oh, you disagree.... then perhaps you have a suggestion, General Grand?" States Roger as he removes his spectacles, wipes them clean with a handkerchief and proceeds to place them upon his face. General Grand clears his throat with a cough and begins to speak. "Well, I suggest we build all The Devices in house, and each Device should be rigged to Self-destruct if tampered with, of course letting the U.N. and all Nations know what we have done to the Devices, allowing us to be transparent in our protection of our selves from our technology. Rather than handing blueprints of such sensitive technology, that most nations couldn''t even build." As he finished, most generals were in agreement with his opinion, even Roger. Roger took some time, as if making a face of thought and spoke. "Ummmm.... Yes, this would be the best way to go about saving mankind and protecting ourselves all at the same time." After massaging his chin, he turned his chair to a corner and called out. "DIANNA!" A women came out from the corner and proceeded to the Spectacled General, she seemed to be there through the entire conversation. "Sir?" Roger spoke to the women in a familiar tone. "Did you get everything?" "Yes" "Good, First start the construction of The Devices, and then let the U.N. know we found and built away to save everyone." After Roger spoke he turned back to the other generals and proceed with a conversation of how the device worked and what power was needed to turn it on, the women was still standing next to the general looking down at her notes and a worried expression began to cover her face, she stood there for half minute and began to speak. "Excuse me, Sir?" He turned to her once more. "Dianna?" "Hummmmm.... so you want the U.N. to know that there is a bomb in each of The Devices, correct?" "Yes" She''s looks at Roger and sees he is serious. She coughs to clear her throat and proceeds to speak. "Sir, are you sure that''s a good idea, telling them that you are giving devices with explosives inside?" "Ummmm.... Yes, it does sound bad, but it''s either this or the world can fend for themselves, right?" He smiles with a devious look in his eye. "Yes I suppose so." Dianna is satisfied with the answer she got and is asked to leave the room. A few hours later, 2 floors below from where the meeting was held, a factory of working robots begins to activate. The whole floor is littered with robots working on experimental weapons and vehicles. In the far corner of the factory specific robots and machines are working on devices about the size of a small car engine and being placed into wooden crates painted black marked with "United States Armed Forces" emblems and "United Nations" emblems. The black crates are then placed onto prongs that are sticking out from a conveyor belt against the wall and are then hoisted up to the surface where they are prepared to ship out from the undisclosed location. B.1 Chapter III - News Station Mystery Chapter 3 - News Station Mystery 423 Days ''Til Doomsday June 7th, 2064 [Los Angeles, California - LA Riverside News Station] In a meeting room of a news station a group of people were asked to wait for their mystery guest, 40 people were stuffed into the room along with Dianna and some military personnel. Some of the news people included were a couple of famous news anchors, directors, executive producers, producers, chief engineer, and chairman. While everyone was waiting, there was a lot of discussion of what''s going to happen or speculations of it having to do with recent events that have happened in the world that the U.S. Army had been involved with. After some time Dianna looked down at her watch, a couple of seconds had passed, she looked up and coughed clearing her throat, at that time all the discussions started to die down. Allowing only her voice to be heard. "Hello, My name is Dianna and I work as secretary to General Roger David Slates. Many of you are here because the United States Government has asked you here today, before we proceed I ask that all of you sign a ''U.S. Embargo of Non-Disclosure Agreement'', basically that anything that is spoken here is not to be said or repeated to anyone under any circumstance until the given date stated on the document. If you have any questions please ask now, if you do not wish to sign the document you may leave." After the lengthy speech a hand shoots up and a young man in his mid 20s comes out from behind the crowd. "Dianna, my only question is ''Does this event have anything to do with the current events in the world?''" "Current events in the world?..... No" "So if you do not mind me prying, this is about something we know nothing of? Correct?" "That question seems to be within bounds to answer, but I ask that you do not ask a question I can not answer until you sign the document.... your answer is yes." The man who had asked his question stepped back into the crowd. The crowd began whispering amongst themselves and many of them had faces of thought and some of excitement. Finally an older woman steps forward from the crowd and asks a question that they all had on there mind after hearing Dianna''s answer. "So, are we the only news station that you are going to with this information?" "No" "How many are going to know of this information?" "All the news stations." "Oh, so all the news stations in the country?" "No, throughout the world." The woman fell silent as well as the rest of the room. Finally many came to a realization that whatever is happening is so big that their government could not cover it up, worse yet the fact the entire world is going to find out what''s happening means that the United Nations have failed or could not hide something so big without someone finding out. A chill crept down the spines of many and the room felt as if it dropped a few degrees in the matter of seconds. Finally as if all in the room came to the same conclusion, began to sign the documents, no one left the room, because they all had to satisfy their curiosity and fear of what the truth is. After all 40 people signed the documents, as if on cue, entering the room was a man of about 6 feet with spectacles clad in a generals uniform. He walked to Dianna and leaned over to her, she whispered into his ear and he nods his head as if understanding the whispers. He then took his open seat which was positioned next to Dianna and at the end of a rectangular table which was positioned in the center of the room. He stared out from the end of the table at the rest of the room filled with anxious and excited people. The general starts to adjust his spectacles and speaks out to the crowd. "Hello, My name is General Roger David Slates, please once again understand all things spoken here are subject to secrecy until the given time, I hope you all can agree?" All in unison the crowd nodded their heads in affirmation. "Good, this should be fun!" Rubbing his hands together as if trying to strengthen his statement. "So, who wants the first question?" An young anchor woman raises her hand to ask a question. She came forth in front of the crowd. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. "What is this big event that the U.S. Government could not hide?" "Oooo your seriously my type, to bad I''m married." "Uhhh, Thank you sir, but if you could be so kind as to answer my question." "Sorry you just distracted me there for a second, hummmmm where were we... oh yes, well it''s about ''The End of The World''" The spectacled general stated with a smile on his face. Many were baffled by what he had said and his emotional response to the statement, he was clearly grinning from ear to ear as if nothing had happened, but his statement had the words of doom in them. Clearly many seemed confused due to his response, the way everything has seemed to have unfolded up until this point, all pointed to this being the truth. After seeing what transpired between the woman and the general, Dianna decides to interrupt. "I apologize if the general confused you in anyway, he gets like this when under an extreme amount of pressure. But what he last stated is the truth and the general will give you further details, won''t you Roger?" Dianna nudges him in the ribs. Roger scratches his head and decides he does not want to piss off his wife anymore than she is because of his sleazy flirting with the anchor woman. He decides to be the general he''s supposed to be. "I apologize." The General motions in a slight bow of apology to the crowd. He continues on with a lengthy speech. "So anyways, about 2 years ago we noticed a cataclysm headed our way from several a galaxies over, a rather large star imploded on itself causing a super nova of sorts, this actual event happened over 2 million years ago. The ''U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command'' noticed an irregularity in our systems, a massive supernova wave hit our Solar System, luckily the Earth was hidden behind the Sun which caused us little to no damage. The Supernova Wave crashed directly into our sun it caused the Sun to use a large amount thermal power directly from it''s core, just to divert the wave from itself, which in turn caused the life expectancy of the sun to decrease to an extreme amount." Everyone in the room knew exactly what this meant, the room in its entirety became rather gloomy. And a man rose to his feet and asked. "How much time ''til ¡®Doomsday''" Roger leans back in his chair staring up at the ceiling and stated. "About 1 year 2 months" Again the room was dead silent. Roger returned back to a seated position. And began talking. "Well, now that the doomy gloomy stuff is out of the way!" He smiles ear to ear once again. Continuing his speech. "So Yes, our time here on this planet is coming to an end, but it doesn''t mean that it''s the end of us. In fact that''s where I come in, I work for a secret part of our army called the ''U.S. Army Experimental Energy & Weapons Division'' we work on experimental concepts of weapons and energies. By chance we stumbled upon a formula which allows us to build a device that is able to Teleport to another world but currently only works one way. We have built these devices and distributed them to all the nations across the world and told them the same story we are currently telling you. The reason you are here is because one way or another you are all going to find out that the world is ending, but most in the world won''t know anything of the governments working together to develop these devices to save you all, in turn it would just cause mass hysteria and pandemonium. So we need you all to report what we are doing all over the world and get people prepared for departures over the next year and to keep order amongst the masses until we reach our destination..... Am I understood in everything I have said?" The room seemed to have understood what The Spectacled General Roger had said. Many sighed of relief and were happy that their own government was somehow competent to create a safe and fair way for all to survive such a cataclysm. The meeting went on in specific details of how the departures would work and how currency and other things of that nature would work in the other world for the time being. B.1 Chapter IV - Teleportation Mystery Chapter 4 - Teleportation Mystery 5 minutes ''Til Doomsday August 2nd, 2065 [Los Angeles, California - LAX Air Strip #6] A 6 foot man clad in a Generals uniform, seems to be struggling with a panel that''s connected to a large machine with wiring running down the back, along the pavement for 10 feet and into a hole in the ground. A young women runs up to the man and gets on her knees beneath the panel and fiddles with the machine, disconnecting and reconnecting wires, the machine seems to give a humming noise as if it came back to life. The man sees the lights on the device are all glowing green, as if giving the OK, the man and woman head back to their positions awaiting the device to teleport them off the doomed planet. Roger whom had difficulties with the panel, connected to the machine which will grant them salvation off this planet, spoke loudly as all the people behind him who are lined up can hear him speak. ¡°Men, are you and your families prepared for the transfer to ¡®Grania¡¯¡± ¡°SIR, YES SIR!¡± Some 400 soldiers and their families lined up behind Roger answered with a boom, deafening the ears of all. Roger leans over to Dianna, his wife whom he married a little over a year and a half ago, and spoke. ¡°Do we have all the equipment in place ready to be transferred with us?¡± ¡°Yes we have the vehicles, equipment, and weapons prepared and in place for the transfer.¡± ¡°Good, are you prepared?¡± ¡°You know, you are really late in asking me that, you should have asked me your ¡®wife¡¯ long before anyone!¡± She said as she jabbed him in the ribs with her knuckles, giving him a heart-felt smile that any man would love to be given. Roger leans over to grasp the hand of his wife and prepares for the transfer. Hoping the device doesn¡¯t fail once more, Roger grabs a square remote about the size of an average cell phone from his pants pocket, and opens a glass casing that covers a lever. He flips the lever in the opposite direction, and moves his thumb below to a red circular button. He glances to his left to see his wife giving a faint smile of hope. Roger applies pressure to the button, and waits in a suspenseful tense engrossing atmosphere, then a Purple glowing line starts to encircle the 1000 people and supplies awaiting the transfer. The circular purple line connects to the starting point of the line to complete a perfect circle. Roger sighs in relief as if his life escaped the hands of Death himself, while others behind him sighed in the exact same way as if they felt what Roger felt. From within the center of the circle purple, blue, black and gold colors began to warp around each other as if they are fighting for control over the other. The circle is completely enveloped by the warping colors and begins to drag the inhabitants that stand upon the circle into the quicksand of colors within an instant¡­¡­ the air strip left bare of people, within minutes after Roger¡¯s group left for Grania, Earth is decimated by the sun¡¯s explosion causing it to become nothing more than dust in the cosmic unknown. Roger and his group immediately started to feel sick, because of their sudden weightlessness a couple of people began to chuck in the rather strangely shaped tunnel. The tunnel had the same colors as the circle they were once standing upon but if you can focus and look beyond the tunnel you could tell that the tunnel seemed to be in space as you¡¯d pass other constellations and galaxies, it was an astounding event that seemed impossible, but there it was in all of its impossibilities, ¡°Teleportation¡±. The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. Roger showed an expression of worry. He noticed that this transfer was taking longer than 10 seconds and he began to float, with Dianna in toe, towards a group who seemed to join hands because of the Zero Gravity atmosphere. He approached and grabbed hold of one of the military personnel whom was a scientist for his research branch for the U.S. Army and began to speak. "First Lieutenant Williams, Why are we still being transferred? We should have been there by now correct?" Williams stared at Roger for a few seconds and began to look down at his feet as if thinking, within a few seconds he came up with a theory and proceeded to tell the General. "Sir, an unknown energy powers the device even though we used the energy from the earth''s core to power it, it was theorized that the thermal energy is not what actually powers the device, but we never had the time to test it." "So, what happened?" "Well if I had to guess, it was the unknown energy that was sent from the sun via a Solar flare, which caused it to overload thus may be causing our location to change¡­.." Before Williams could finish his conversation with Roger they were cut off by a woman¡¯s scream as if she was a some sort of mythological banshee. ¡°KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!¡± Roger and many others nearby turned their heads to view a spectacle that was hard to swallow and frightening. The woman seemed to be becoming pixelated as if she was disappearing into tiny fragments from the feet to her head she seemed to vanish. All that was left was a ball of purple light, no bigger than a tennis ball, and a blue hued mist not much bigger than the light itself but big enough to cover the ball of light. The warped tunnel sucked up the blue hued mist into itself and the ball of light shot out of the tunnel into the distant unknown. After witnessing such an event many began to panic and hold onto their families as if they were trying to protect their family from the unknown entity that they seemed to have imagined in their heads, as if trying to make the imaginary a reality. Within seconds of the woman disappearing many screams and shouts can be heard in the tunnel and just like the woman had disappeared, men, women, and children seem to up and vanish in a similar manner as the woman had. It was hard to say how long the event lasted many thought it lasted long, longer than they had assumed, but the disappearances lasted no more than 20 seconds. Roger and Dianna having witnessed such an event we¡¯re clearly speechless and devastated. Mainly due to the reason that all these people and their families followed them and respected them to the point that many stayed behind to help and waited to leave the world last. B.1 Chapter V - New World Mystery Chapter 5 - New World Mystery August 2nd, 2065 - Earth Date [Unknown, Unknown - Teleportation Tunnel] This event maddened Roger to the point he grunted and cried at the same time causing his face to distort in a manner that you thought he was a crazy person. This did not last long because he could see many of his men and people were also going crazy by this event. He calmed himself to the point he had a cold maddening look in his eyes and began to speak loudly so that all could hear him speak within the tunnel. ¡°MEN, CIVILIANS, WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE GIVEN UP? WOULD YOUR FAMILIES LIKE YOU TO FOLLOW THEM OR LIVE YOUR LIFE?¡± He saw many of his subordinates straighten up and wipe their face of the tears they had shed for the people they had lost and the people seemed to have calmed down when they heard the man speak. ¡°NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION START MAKING GROUPS OF TEN AND STAY TOGETHER!¡± As roger finished speaking many of the military personnel began to gather citizens and made groups of ten as he ordered them to. He turned to Williams, who was a survivor of the event, spoke in a calm manner. "First Lieutenant Williams, how long are we suppose to be traveling if the energy was given by the solar flare, give me a guess.¡± Williams thought the best he could making calculations based on the theory they once spoke of, he looked towards the general and replied. ¡°Sir, if its a guess then somewhere between 2-3 minutes.¡± ¡°2-3 minutes?¡± Roger glances down to his wrist watch and calculated the time the transfer started and how long they have been transferring for. He whispered to himself. ¡°So, its been 2 and half minutes, then any time now we should be arriving at our destination.¡± ¡°Sir?¡± Williams spoke because he could not hear the general. Then Roger looked up and saw a circular wall made up of the same colors as the tunnel, approaching them. Roger shouted out. ¡°EVERYONE PREPARE TO BRACE YOURSELVES!¡± Roger glancing to his left side seeing his wife grasping his hand. He smiled to her not sure if they would be able to survive the atmosphere of where they were being teleported to, they made contact with the wall within the warped tunnel, disappearing out of it in the same way they had entered it. Atop a cliff above the sea facing the edge of what looks to be a forest west of the lined purple circle. The circle begins to fill with colors that looked as if they were fighting each other for control of the space within the circle. People began to appear above said circle as well as supplies that they had brought with them from their journey across the vastness of space. A tall well dressed man waited as what seemed to be the last people to appear and then spoke. ¡°MEN, I NEED YOU TO COUNT HOW MANY SURVIVED AND HOW MANY MILITARY PERSONNEL, CIVILIANS AND CHILDREN ARE LEFT? NONE OF YOU CAN BREAK DOWN ON ME NOW BECAUSE WE ARE SOMEWHERE WE KNOW NOTHING OF UNDERSTAND?¡± Roger spoke as sternly and commanding as he could to keep order amongst his men and people. He look over to Dianna and Williams. He spoke to them giving orders. ¡°Dianna and First Lieutenant Williams, I need you both to go through our supplies and count up every thing and let me know what we have, understand?¡±(Roger) ¡°Sir, I¡¯ll get to that right away¡±(Williams) ¡°Roger, don¡¯t push yourself too much okay?¡±(Dianna) ¡°Dianna, that''s kinda hard to ask for right now, but I¡¯ll try, OK?¡±(Roger) ¡°Fine, we¡¯ll report once the task is done.¡±(Dianna) Dianna and Williams both walk off to the back of the crowd of people that are gathering for the census. Roger tilts his head back and raises his arms up to his shoulders. He begins to shut his eyes and starts to breath rhythmically trying to calm himself. He looks back and sees his men and the civilians are taking things rather well considering what had happened to them. A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.A few minutes go by as roger is still calming himself and getting his emotions in order, a soldier walks up to roger and salutes him awaiting for him to give him orders. ¡°At ease Warrant Officer Sanchez, I¡¯m assuming you are here to report to me on the census correct?¡± Sanchez places his arms to his sides and relaxes some and begins his report. ¡°Sir, there are exactly 473 people alive after the event, but we lost 580 people in total, Sir.¡± Roger bite his lip in anger having lost so many lives, and proceeds to speak. ¡°Sanchez, Continue with the report.¡± ¡°Yes Sir, of the 473 alive 289 are Military Personnel and 184 are civilians with no children under the age of 15 surviving, Sir¡± ¡°......Shit, its that bad!¡± Roger was so mad that his calm mood broke after hearing all the young children had all but disappeared from the transferred group. At this time Dianna and Williams began to approach the angered Roger. Upon seeing them come from behind the crowd of people he started to control his anger and proceeded to dismiss Sanchez. ¡°Sanchez, be on standby I may need you again, OK?¡± ¡°Yes Sir¡± Sanchez disappears in to the crowd of people once again. By that time Dianna is starting to report their findings. ¡°We currently have 5 Hummers, 5 Weapon crates each with 25 M16 rifles per crate, 8 ammo crates each crate containing 10 cases of 250 ammo rounds of 5.56mm caliber bullets, 3 weapons creates each with 50 Glock 19 handguns, 7 ammo crates each containing 20 cases of 250 ammo rounds of 9mm caliber bullets, and 2 Grenade cases of M67 Grenades each with 25.¡± Williams spoke after Dianna gave her list of weapons and vehicles. ¡°Sir, we currently have a total of 10 industrial grade oil pumps, with 20,000 feet of piping, we have 3 mining vehicles, with about 50 spare drill bits, 20 industrial grade computers, and 15 gas powered generators.¡± ¡°Roger, we also a have 100 large tents, industrial grade hospital machines, medical supplies, 4 semi truck gas tankers and enough rations for 3 years for 1000 people.¡± He nodded understanding everything that Dianna had just listed to him and started to think of plans and how to proceed forward. He looked up and told Dianna. ¡°Dianna, get everyone ready we are going to head further inland and find a large enough clearing that can accommodate us and our supplies comfortably.¡± ¡°Williams, when all the tents and people are in order start working on finding some oil veins and getting the machinery working, understand?¡± ¡°Yes, Sir¡± Dianna and Williams walked off rushing to start their work. Roger looked to the crowd and called out. ¡°SANCHEZ!¡± Out of the crowd of people Sanchez comes jogging to the general and was about to salute the general, but Roger waved as if saying there is no need. ¡°Sanchez, I need you to pass out the rifles to military personnel and the handguns to the civilians for protection, OK?¡± ¡°Yes, Sir.¡± ¡°Also I want you and a group to take 2 of the hummers and scout ahead and clear any dangerous animals and if possible avoid killing any inhabitants, just scare them away, understand?¡± ¡°Right away sir.¡± ¡°Good, you''re dismissed.¡± Sanchez walks off knowing what his tasks are, Roger breaths a deep sigh to relieve him of his stress and anger, he looks up, noticing at the west end of the sky the sun is about to set in a few hours and to the east seeing the two moons rise for the signal of night. He speaks to himself dumbfounded. ¡°Huh, 2 moons!¡± B.1 INFO DUMP I - Gods And Lore GODs [The Creation of Time & Space] In the void of emptiness, a mass explosion erupted, out of the center, came forth heaven and upon it''s decent, decorated the void with stars and planets, from this event, came forth two entities of energy, both of opposite energies, thus began "The War Upon Heaven". Their battles began to carve out universes, galaxies, and constellations, after billions of years fighting, never finding an end, both entities resolved, wanting to create life they chose to reshape themselves, creating the image of man and women, thus "The Birth of Gods". DAKARAI DUH-CAR-EYE - Meaning "Happy" or "Rejoice" "The God of Chaos & Matter" "Dakarai of Black Magic". "Daka The Dark" "Father of Chaos¡± Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you to be able to use or learn Master Level Chaos Magic and Master Level Black Magic. One of the rarest blessings from this god is, summoning phantoms from the nether world, this is considered Master Level Chaos Magic. These range from basic level curse spells to a-poc demon summoning, though to ever reach a-poc type spells you need godly levels of mana, which in history has only ever happened once and costed 98% of the life on the planet to summon such a demon which resulted in nothing significant because most life was gone just for the summoning alone. AURORA A-ROAR-A - Meaning "Dawn" or "Beginning" "The Goddess of Nature & life" "Goddess of Fertility" "Aurora of Spirits" "Mother of Chaos" Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you to use or learn Basic Level Wind, Water, and Earth Magic, also grants you Master Level Healing Magic and Master Level Enhancement Magic, and you have higher chances of giving birth or impregnating your partner. This is a legend, but from what has been recorded throughout history is that, Aurora is married and or entangled with Dakarai mainly to keep balance in the heavens and here in our world. DEMIGODs [The Birth of The Demigods] DAKARAI and AURORA were both the first and only gods to exist. Legend has it that both former enemies bound together and created children. Each child was given an element that they would be able precede over, but of these children two were created uniquely to the others. DAKAROW was said to be in the image of his father and was given unique abilities. BARAKEN was also in a way created in the image of his mother and also given the power of controlling energy beyond that of what we know. GRANIA GRA-NEE-A - Name comes from "Granite" "The Goddess of Earth & Defence" "Grania of Gaia" "Claymore Jade" "Earth Child of Chaos¡± Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you to be able to use or learn Master Level Earth Magic, also you are granted Master Level Earth Defense, and granted Basic level Self-Regeneration. One of the Myths of Grania, is she was once born mortal, given the name Jade and participated in the defence of mankind. Some thousands of years ago, she alone with her Earth Claymore on a battlefield, successfully repelled 100,000 demon troops. Thus the myth of "Claymore Jade" was born and record throughout history. AQUAVANA AQUA-VON-A - Name comes from "Aqua" and "Savana" "The Goddess of Water & Beauty" "Queen Ashrey of The Sea¡± "Sea Seductress" "Water Child of Chaos" Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you to be able to use or learn Master Level Water Magic, also may grant you with High Level Healing Magic. One of the rarer blessings is the Magic Ability to Water Shift. Its is said that Aquavana is so Beautiful, that the Moon once reflected her face against its surface and shattered half the moon due to her sheer beauty. Legends say out in the sea there is a Sea Kingdom known as "The Kingdom of Ashrey", it is rumored that the Queen, is Aquavana herself. Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. MAUSUMI MA-SUE-MI - Means "Blowing Monsoon Wind" "The Goddess of Wind & Wisdom" "Gale of The Wind Soldiers" "Keeper of The Wind Gate" "Wind Child of Chaos" Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you to be able to use or learn Master Level Wind Magic, also may grant you with the magic ability to fly without spells or wings. A blessing that has not been granted the past century is, "Mausumi''s Soldiers of The Wind", which is a rare Magic Ability to summon Ten of Mausumi''s very own wind guards that protect her. It is said that Mausumi guards'' "The Wind Gate", many have speculated it to be one of the Gates to Heaven, know one knows where it is located and has continued on as nothing more than folktale or reference to where the dead rise to heaven. SERAFINO SER-A-FEE-NO - Meaning "burning one" "The God of Fire & Destruction" "God of The Fire Realm" "Flame Child of Chaos" Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you to be able to use or learn Master Level Fire Magic, also granted Master Level Self-Regeneration, and may gain High level Fire Defence. One of the rarest blessing from this god is a fire summoning spell, which summons "Serafino''s Pheonix of Inferno", legends say that Serafino worked on and created the bird for hundreds of thousands of years the phoenix is said to protects the "Fire Realm" were all fire spirits dwell. BARAKEN BA-RACK-EN - Meaning "god''s spiritual presence" "The God of Lightning & Victory" "God of Kings" "Lightning Child of Chaos" Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you to be able to use or learn Master Level Lightning Magic and High Level Chaos Magic, Chaos magic consists of "Abnormal Elements" that are not normally taught or accessible by other means, Sound Magic, Lightning Magic, Heat Magic, Wood Magic, and Liquid Magic are all under the umbrella of Chaos Magic. May also be granted Basic Level Self-Regen, High level Elemental Defense, Basic Level Healing Magic, and Basic Level Enhancement Magic. Baraken is said to be one of the most powerful gods second to Dakari in power and Second to Dakarow in intelligence. Because of his strength he has the most worshipers and rarely gives his Blessings. In Fact since the beginning of time he has only given blessings on four occasions, all whom received his blessing were great conquerors and have been recorded throughout history, their empires and kingdoms still stand till this day. DAKAROW DA-CAR-ROW - Name comes from "Dakara" and "Arrow" "The God of ???? & Intelligence" "The Forgotten¡± "Dark Child of Chaos" Being Blessed or Spirited by this god allows you Master Level Intelligence. A Being with Intelligence of this magnitude is capable of learning and using all forms of Magic. Granted ???????, what this blessing is or what it does is unknown as of yet. May also be granted High Level Self-Regeneration and High Dark Defense. Myth has it, that a follower of this god, was the being whom used the apocalyptic demon summoning spell which destroyed the world. After such an event this god became a forgotten god. NOTE: And these are the gods that will be in this story whether they are directly involved in the actual story or are just gods that give power to the worlds inhabitants is still in the air. B.1 INFO DUMP II - Spell Ranks & Mage Ranks SPELL RANKS BASIC CLASS Basic Class Spells have a lot to do with your affinity to said elements or abilities. Basic spells are usually basic in name but things can change if you were blessed or gifted buy any of the gods. Here''s an example to make things easier to understand: Basic Class Fireball - 120 damage/ 60 mana cost Gift Class Fireball - 220 damage/ 40 mana cost ~GIFT~ OF A GOD Gifts from said gods are usually stronger than any of the spells you can pick up and learn. Most of the time these Gifts are specific type spells and limited to that spell only, example: "Academy''s Flame Thrower" - 260 damage/ 80 mana cost "Serafino''s Gift of The Flame Thrower" - 320 damage/ 65 mana cost AFFINITY BOOSTERS This specific gift was a boosted flamethrower spell, but this spell is a specific spell and does not increase your affinity or increase damage based on your affinity. There are only two ways to boost damage/affinity, that is to be Gifted with direct control of said elements and to attain "Elemental Material" to your specific affinity, Example: "Academy''s Flame Thrower" + "Basic Class Elemental Fire Stone" 260 + 80 = 340 damage/ 80 + 20 = 100 mana cost "Academy''s Flame Thrower" + "Serafino''s Gift of Fire" 260 + 140 = 400 damage/ 80 + 15 = 95 mana cost Serafino''s Gift that was used in the above example, is a natural booster for damage/affinity, While the Fire Stone is something you need to have equipped in order for it to work and not as potent as a Gift. Attaining any of the gods affinity booster Gifts is very rare. HIGH CLASS High Class Spells have a lot to do with your control of elements and spells. High spells are usually stronger than basic spells and any Gifted Spells, but the same applies here with Blessed Spells being stronger than normal High Spells. Here''s an example to make things easier to understand: High Class Fireball - 220 damage/ 90 mana cost Blessed Class Fireball - 320 damage/ 70 mana cost ~BLESSING~ OF A GOD Blessings from said gods are usually stronger than any of the spells you can pick up and learn. Most of the time these Blessings are specific type spells and limited to that spell only, example: "Academy''s Inferno Field" - 360 damage/ 120 mana cost "Serafino''s Blessing of Inferno Field" - 420 damage/ 95 mana cost AFFINITY BOOSTERS This specific blessing was a boosted Inferno Field spell, but this spell is a specific spell and does not increase your affinity or increase damage based on your affinity. There are only two ways to boost damage/affinity, that is to be blessed with direct control of said elements and to attain "Elemental Material" to your specific affinity, Example: "Academy''s Inferno Field" + "High Class Elemental Fire Stone" 360 + 160 = 520 damage/ 120 + 40 = 160 mana cost "Academy''s Inferno Field" + "Serafino''s Blessing of Fire" 360 + 280 = 640 damage/ 120 + 30 = 150 mana cost Serafino''s Blessing that was used in the above example, is a natural booster for damage/affinity, While the Fire Stone is something you need to have equipped in order for it to work and not as potent as a Blessing. Attaining any of the gods affinity booster Blessings is very rare and only heroes of history got such blessings from gods. MASTER CLASS Master Class Spells have a lot to do with you ability to push yourself and think outside the box. Master spells are usually stronger than high spells and any Blessed Spells, but the same applies here with Spirit Spells being stronger than normal Master Spells. Here''s an example to make things easier to understand: Master Class Fireball - 320 damage/ 130 mana cost Spirit Class Fireball - 420 damage/ 105 mana cost ~SPIRIT~ OF A GOD Spirits from said gods are usually stronger than any of the spells you can pick up and learn. Most of the time these Spirits are specific type spells and limited to that spell only, example: "Academy''s Inferno Storm" - 460 area damage/ 180 mana cost "Serafino''s Pheonix of The Inferno Storm" - 520 area damage/ 140 mana cost AFFINITY BOOSTERS This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. This specific spirit was a boosted Inferno storm spell, but this spell is a specific spell and does not increase your affinity or increase damage based on your affinity. There are only two ways to boost damage/affinity, that is to be Spirited with direct control of said elements and to attain "Elemental Material" to your specific affinity, Example: "Academy''s Inferno Storm" + "Master Class Elemental Fire Stone" 460 + 320 = 780 area damage/ 180 + 80 = 260 mana cost "Academy''s Inferno Storm" + "Serafino''s Pheonix of Fire" 460 + 560 = 1020 area damage/ 180 + 60 = 240 mana cost Serafino''s Spirit that was used in the above example, is a natural booster for damage/affinity, While the Fire Stone is something you need to have equipped in order for it to work and not as potent as a Spirit. Attaining any of the gods affinity booster Spirits is very rare and only heroes of history got such spirits from gods. A-POC CLASS A-POC literally means apocalyptic. These Spells or any like it have all but disappeared from the world, thus not much is known about such dreadful spells. The only thing scholars can find out about such spells is from one old scroll talking about an event that happened tens of thousands of years ago, of a being whom let loose a Demon, which he sacrificed the world to summon. Only one name surfaced from this scroll.......DAKAROW..... MAGE RANKS SEER A seer is, a person whom has mana and can see mana but has no ability to use it. Seers usually consists of young children and those whom had little potential in being a mage. Children when born are not able to see mana until the age of 4 years old and this does vary depending on the child. The population who are seers are close to 59% of the inhabitants MEDIUM A medium is, a person who can start manipulating their mana within themselves. Mediums usually consists of young children between the ages of 8 - 10 years of age but it does vary depending on the child. There are many who never made it past this point because of their little potential in being a mage. The population of those whom are Mediums is 21% of the inhabitants. MAGE A mage, can start using magic of Basic Class. Mages have the ability to use their mana in physical form. Mages usually are young youths of the age of 11 - 18 years old, by this point it takes a very gifted individual to become a sage, most who become mages all decide they need to attend the "The University of Magic & Intellect" to further themselves and become sages. The population of those whom are Mages is about 9% of the inhabitants. SAGE A sage is able to use magic of Gifted Class and High Class. Sages have the ability to use Higher Class Spells. If blessed with a gift spell a sage is able to use the spell. Those whom become sages varies between the ages of 16 - 25 years old, by this point it takes a very gifted individual to become a archimage. Most are never able to reach archimage while in school, those who do are considered as Geniuses. The world population of those whom are sages is about 6% of the inhabitants. ARCHIMAGE A archimage can use magic of Blessed Class and Master Class. Most who reach archimage left school long ago and rarely are their those who can become archimages while in school. The youngest to become a archimage was at the age of 21 and he was considered a genius at the school. The oldest to become an archimage was at the age of 42 years old a wanderer of sorts. Becoming a Warlock is almost an impossible feet. The world population of those whom have reached the level of archimage is 4.9%. WARLOCK A warlock can use Spirited Class and all classes of magic below it. Only 10 are considered as warlocks and they were the founders of "The University of Magic & Intellect". They are the highest order in the mage lands. Legends say that 1 warlock has the power of 100,000 elite troops meaning one man can take over a kingdom in the matter of moments. The world population of warlocks is 0.01%. NOTE: All this information is going to be loosely referenced. I submitted it to give all of you a idea of what is considered strong or not. Mainly to give you perspective on my story. B.1 Chapter VI - G02s Mystery Chapter 6 - G02''s Mystery 7 Days Since Teleportation August 9th, 2065 - Earth Date [Unknown, Unknown - G02] Off the shore of a relatively large lake that seems to stretch 3 miles across, a rather odd city of tents has sprouted from the ground with vehicles and equipment surrounding the tents separating them from the deep forest in the rear of the campsite. People of some sort seem to be rather busy doing their duties in a calm orderly fashion. Inside a tent much bigger than the others, is a group of people about to start a meeting, a tall bespectacled man begins to speak to a specific individual in a white lab coat. "Williams can you tell me your findings of G02?"(Roger) "Well, ... sir I don''t know where to begin..."(Williams) Roger was a tad bit tired than usual and found himself sighing more often than not in this past week. He inhaled slowly and begin to exhale in a rather exhausting manner and began to speak. "*Sigh* ... Williams just start with the rock we ended up on."(Roger) "Yes, well even that is a mystery in and of itself but I will begin with the most obvious one that is rather confusing. So am I correct in knowing that you all know the basics of what weather phenomenon the moon on earth can cause to the planet. Correct?"(Williams) In the large tent, Roger his superior, Diana his superior''s wife, Sanchez who has been in charge of exploration and recon, and a few others who have been appointed to important duties, all who were present noded their heads in acceptance to Williams¡¯s question. "Since you all know for the most part I will say that this planet''s existence of land should be impossible if not improbable. At night when these moons are out it should be high tide, with them also being so close to G02 it should have no land at all visible on G02''s surface. Thus the mystery. My team and I can not explain this via mathematical logic it''s simply impossible or we are missing a piece of this gigantic puzzle....*sigh*"(Williams) Even though williams loved mysteries and figuring out the impossible this specific mystery was taking its toll in frustrating the lieutenant, he also sometimes caught himself sighing for no explicit reason other than for him to release his stress. Roger who also felt the same frustration due to a more serious reason, replied back to Williams. "Ok, so you are telling me that G02 should essentially be a water world with a lack of life beyond micro organisms, correct?"(Roger) "Yes."(Williams) "And you are also saying that some force of nature is at play here and you do not have a clue of where to begin."(Roger) Williams begins to open his mouth to make his next statement, but stops short when he remembers his other research. He goes into thought for a few moments and ultimately decides to talk about his other research and where it had led him to. "Well sir, I can''t say I don''t have any clues. It''s just this one takes it to a whole new level of mystery, but may ultimately be ''The Smoking Gun''."(Williams) "Ok, Williams explain."(Roger) ".....MMM Yes, well when we first got here you had told me to look into the atmosphere to be sure it has safe levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Well I may have gotten a little more excited than usual and did many more test beyond that, and found something rather odd. You do remember when we were back on earth and I had told you that the Teleportation devices used a different type of energy other than thermal, but because the devices worked using the earth''s core we never gave it any thought and continued with the construction of the devices. Mainly because we had a time restraint."(Williams) Roger began to rub his chin trying to remember this specific conversation he had with williams, as he began to remember he looked back to williams and spoke. "Yes, I do remember .... why?"(Roger) "Well sir I found the same energy signature to the one the earth''s core and the sun''s solar flare had and it''s not in G02''s core, it''s everywhere. I mean it literally, we are currently breathing it in."(Williams) Roger was about to say something out of sheer anger but restrained himself from doing so, he removed his glasses and handkerchief and began to wipe his glasses clean. Roger during this brief time was contemplating whether to beat the living daylights out of the Lieutenant or give him a stern warning. He ultimately decide on lightly tapping the hand of his only top ranking scientist that led countless revolutionary technological projects back on earth and so Roger began his stern warning. If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "Williams, I understand the excitement of being on another world other than our own and under normal conditions I would have let it be ........, BUT.... this is not our world and we have no home to goto, to top things off we may very well be the last of humankind in this galaxie. So in the future any research you do big or small, round or square, white or black I want to know about it. IF NOT I MAY HAVE YOU COURT MARTIALLED OR WORSE STAND BEFORE A FIRE TEAM!"(Roger) As Roger finished scolding his Lieutenant, he slowly began to place his glasses upon his nose and just as slowly adjusted them to fit comfortably. After he looked towards the frighted Lieutenant he followed up his threat with a singular question or underlining command if you will. "Do I make myself clear, First Lieutenant Williams?"(Roger) Williams who was essentially caught in the headlights like a deer, was frightened and not so much because his superior was angry but because he and as well as most people there in that tent had never seen the general so much as threaten a bug, but just a few moments ago he was threatening to take his life if he continued to do research without letting the General know about it beforehand. Williams who was still reeling from the abrupt threat replied and did so in a more formal ¡°Soldier & Superior¡± manner. ¡°Sir Yes I understand, Sir!¡±(Williams) ¡°Good, so from my understanding is that this energy signature is here on this planet but it is not as scarce. Correct?¡±(Roger) ¡°Yes sir.¡±(Williams) ¡°Ok, so is it possible that we can create a teleportation device and harness this energy to move us back to our original landing point?¡±(Roger) ¡°No sir, I¡¯m afraid that is close to impossible. The first reason is in finding the original landing point maybe close to impossible or at least not in our lifetime due to us seeing a totally new constellation system that by no means does it match ours on earth. Secondly and this is probably more important the energy signatures are the same at a basic level but as you discover more about them they are completely different. It¡¯s like comparing a claymore explosive that explodes and a bucket of water that just flows. What I¡¯m saying is to generate that kind of power we would need an explosion or a power source on the level of a cosmic catastrophe. And if you are wondering if we can use G02¡¯s core, that is also not gonna be possible because this planet is like the opposite to our earth, earth had a limited unstable energy core, G02 has a unlimited stable surface energy. How this is even possible that both worlds are so different is not a question I can answer, sir.¡± (Williams) Roger and the rest present in the tent were all excited at one point during the conversation thinking they maybe able to leave this planet that is completely foreign to them. But that was immediately shot down by Williams and his explanation which gave a very grim and obvious answer to them, they would never be able to leave this planet or at least not in their lifetime. Roger having resigned himself to reality sighed in resignation to the messed up situation decided it was time to move on to the other reports. ¡°*Sigh*....Williams continue your work on this unique energy, also be sure to make regular reports on ALL your findings. Understand?¡±(Roger) ¡°Yes, sir.¡±(Williams) ¡°Oh yes, before we continue on, Williams I want you to look into finding a way we can harness this unique energy.¡±(Roger) ¡°Yes, sir.¡±(Williams) Williams was finally done with his report. Roger still seemed fatigued with everything he has been handling since coming to this god forsaken planet, But he still had to get through the other reports. B.1 Chapter VII - G02s Mystery II Chapter 7 - G02''s Mystery II 7 Days Since Teleportation August 9th, 2065 - Earth Date [Unknown, Unknown - G02] The next report is from a civilian named Samantha, she had been appointed to medical overseer for all medical treatment and checkups, a doctor for a large hospital in LA. She is a relatively tall women at around 5¡¯8¡±, pale skinned, beautiful blonde hair, green eyes, well proportioned figure, and she has a very serious look for a women. One word came to the mind of roger, it was ¡°Professional¡±. It reminded him of Dianna, and he felt like flirting with her, but his wife so happened to be in the tent so he decided against it. ¡°Samantha, please give your report on everybody''s well being and if possible their mental health.¡±(Roger) ¡°Yes sir, well everybody seems healthy and with this new information on this energy to take into account there does not seem to be any immediate problems, but my concern is that the energy may have long term effects instead.¡±(Samantha) ¡°I see¡­.. please give me an example.¡±(Roger) ¡°Well, when we had used an Atom bomb in japan during WW2 it was not until a few years later that we discovered that the survivors had developed a form of cancer and it took many years for them to die or it went undetected for a number of years and again they had just passed away. In this example, this to was a new energy that we knew little of but it had devastating effects for decades into the future.¡±(Samantha) Roger noded in understanding because it happened to be the main reason he had got rather angry with Williams in his carelessness. ¡°MMMm, Samantha what do you think of our circumstance then?¡±(Roger) ¡°Well sir, it¡¯s too late to complain about it now we will just have to figure it out as it comes.¡±(Samantha) ¡°Yes you are correct on that, well on a side note is there anything else I should know about?¡±(Roger) Roger still seemed to be concerned because this issue could cause major problems later on down the line and he wanted the point of view of a medical professional in the worst case. ¡°.....Well I¡¯m not entirely sure but we may not need to worry about this energy harming us.¡±(Samantha) ¡°Ok¡­., you are gonna need to explain, because you are countering what you had just told us.¡±(Roger) ¡°Mmmm yes, well when we had first arrived we had a handful of people who were sick with the common cold, well from what i had noticed was the very next day all of these people had become healthy. Which in most cases I could have explained this a way as less mental fatigue of escaping their deaths. But this next part becomes a tad bit hard to just chock it up as coincidence. We have a total of 3 people who have a form of diabetes, well after 3 days of being here they all no longer need penicillin in order to live. Now of the 3, 2 I can once again explain away as them eating properly since they don''t have much of a choice. But the third, there is no way of explaining it except as some sort of divine intervention, they no longer need it either even though they have a type of diabetes that stays with them for life.¡±(Samantha) ¡°So you are telling me that they may have been cured due to what¡­ this energy? That maybe a bit of a leep. Don¡¯t you think?¡±(Roger) Samantha paused for a moment and thought of what the General had said, but no matter what she could find no logical explanation of how this could be possible except for god and the energy. She was never much of the religious type and chose the latter. ¡°Sir, it¡¯s either that or divine intervention from god. I don¡¯t know, you had asked me if there was anything else you should know about so I told you despite my doubts.¡±(Samantha) ¡°I see, well for now I guess that concludes your report, right?¡±(Roger) ¡°Yes, there is nothing else of major concern other than that.¡±(Samantha) ¡°Ok, for the time being keep monitoring those that have been cure. If by chance you come up with another theory regardless of how far fetched it is please be sure to let me know.¡±(Roger) Roger having finished listening to Samantha''s report decided it was time to move on to other reports. One of the last important reports was left to Sanchez and his team of scouts. Roger had briefly looked over the written report from Sanchez and was intrigued at what they had found so besides Williams surprise this next report was also covered in mystery. ¡°Sanchez, I have looked over your report and your guesses as to what has happened to the indigenous animal life here on this planet. Quite frankly it''s a little unnerving, so I¡¯ll need to hear about this report from you.¡±(Roger) Sanchez nodded in understanding, cause he knew what this would mean if we are to find people or some sort of intelligent life on this planet. ¡°Sir, as I have said before in the report. Since we had shown up here we have not seen so much as a small rabbit, but with your permission I had formed a scouting/exploring party to find animals and any other life that we would not be able to see as a large caravan. We had went deeper into the forest east of our original landing point. As we headed deeper into the forest one of the first animals we had seen was a rabbit of some sort, this rabbit had an extra appendage being this horn¡­¡±(Sanchez) This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Sanchez reached into his backpack he had laid up against his chair, he pulled out a 6¡± spike that seemed to twist into a drill pointed end. ¡°.... as you can see this is completely different from what we would normally find on our world, myself and my team had made a bunch of guesses and it came down to two different ones. One is that the animal is always trying to survive against much stronger predators so over time it evolved into an animal that can easily impale its would be predator at high speed. The other having to do with what we had found inside the animal, it was some sort of extra organ. We at first thought nothing of it mainly because from what we have found in evolution that some times some organs and appendages become obsolete over time and do nothing until they ultimately just disappear. That was until we started hunting for other animals and all of them had the same organ.¡±(Sanchez) Roger took in this information and began to make some educated guess as to what was reported today along with what Williams failed to report until now. Roger looked over to Williams and began to speak to him after his pause of thought. ¡°Williams from what Sanchez has stated what do you think about this new information. Give me a theory of everything stated today, just a guess.¡±(Roger) Williams thought of the information that has been reported today, he moved his body to get in a better thinking posture. Based on the info he made a couple guesses, but one stuck out to him among the many possible theories. Williams looked up from his thinking posture and began to report on his theory. ¡° Well sir, based on what has been stated I first believe most life on this planet is extremely dangerous and resilient, because of this the animals and other life forms may be quite strong. Also I believe because of the interference with this energy life is even more dangerous to us because a the lack of simple diseases, meaning life here has developed to protect itself against other predators because of the possible lack of Natural Selection, in this case the lack of disease or weakness. Secondly, because of this lack of Natural Selection means that the animals and creatures have had a longer period of time to evolve into what they are, like the horned rabbit for instance. Lastly, the organs found in all the animals hunted, might mean that there is some sort of element that is constant on this world and all life developed the organ in order to survive, just as most life here and on earth developed lungs in order to breath in oxygen. As for what this organ does, from my understanding Sanchez, your men seem to think it¡¯s a dormant or long since unused organ correct?¡±(Williams) ¡°Yes, all the animals since caught have it as well as all major organs in order to live life on earth¡±(Sanchez) ¡°MMM, so it too is a mystery, because this organ is a mystery I¡¯m willing to bet that it also has something to do with the one element that is uncounted for on earth and that would be the energy here that I reported on.¡±(Williams) Roger took that as the end of rogers theory, which in his mind he found as satisfactory if not quite possibly correct. Roger began to speak to the group of people in the tent finding their approval of what he has heard. ¡°So, Williams you believe that this organ and the health of our people is due to this energy correct?¡±(Roger) ¡°Yes, sir.¡±(Williams) ¡°Okay then, Williams I want you and your group to figure out what this organ does to the animals and report back to me on it. As far as that the rest continue on with your duties as you have. We will be meeting every once a week as a group, as far as urgent reports go, report immediately to me. Dismissed!¡±(Roger) ¡°Yes, sir.¡±(Group) All who were present got up from their seats and stood straight and saluted their commanding officer and walked out of the tent, the civilians present stood gave a slight nod and walk out after the soldiers did. Roger, whom waited for all people to clear out, reclined back in his hard white plastic seat, wishing he had his black leather luxury office chair, sighed in exhaustion. "Respect is not the act given, But the act of giving." ~ Disidius