Tales from a lost Universe

[Anonymous]

OOC: *sigh* I hope this comes across well.

Knight Yuthirin was not restricted to the pathetically weak senses his human 'guardian' possessed, though.

The chamber was immense in scope, showing off its designer's flar for drama (and ego) with the four giant pillars at the center of the room. He could faintly see that each pillar was six meters apart.

Oddly enough he could see that marble serpents coiled around each of the pillars.

High above the right wall he could see a giant pipe pumping petrid water into the room.

And directly in front of them...there lay concrete steps leading out of the water and into a narrow tunnel. A faint red light was at the end of the tunnel.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin strode forward and crossed the water, climbing the steps with ease, the claws on his feet making small "click-click" noises on the stone steps.

[Anonymous]

Olguin sighed as he miserably followed in the Knight's wake. He wondered why the hell he was even needed during this mission, seemed more like he was extraneous baggage.

Well, he WOULD prove his worth to the superiors.

No matter what.

***

The sound of its excited breathing filled its ears as he smelt the two down far below. It felt a momentary pang of regret at the fact that they hadn't put up more of a effort to hide themselves, but it was promptly crushed under its terrible hunger.

Its eyes glazed over as the beast rapidly looked from one target to another from its perch high above.

That one shined with Power. But it smelt different from the pup. It took another deep sniff to confirm its suspicions. A madcap grin split the bloodied face of the Hunter as it stepped closer to the pipe's edge.

Yyyyeeeeeessssss....

A faint shard of light appeared in its greyish hand simulateneously with the monster's prolonged moan.

The pain!

The beast viciously grinned as it pulled back into the inky blackness.

Soon...

But first...

It was time for it to awaken his children.

****

The flashing light was a mere portion of a computer console that was lodged deep within a nook in the slime coated walls of the sewer.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin walked up to the console and cleared some of the slime off of the screen, his fingers brushing against the surface. As they did, the monitor suddenly came alive, making him start slightly. It provided manues for various ducts, tunnels, and bridges. Touching the menu for the bridges, he brought up the dead-end corridor they had last visited, and activated the bridge.

Once the console indicated that the bridge had completed its extention, he grasped the console with both hands, closed his eyes, and began to chant softly. Moments later, blue arcs of energy began to trail over his body and across the console, which began to smoke and soon caught fire, the monitor winking out and the lights on the console failing. He released the console quickly and turned, striding back down the steps.

"Let's go, boy. Our job here isn't nearly done, I suspect."

[Anonymous]

"Yes, sir!" Olguin smartly nodded. Inside he widely grinned as he watched what the Knight did, though.

As they walked away he fingered the slightly burnt staff he had leaning on his right shoulder. Unnoticed by all, the weapon faintly glowed in response.

Soon...

***

The screams of panicked tech heads rang in Alexander's sensitive ears as he jolted out of his chair. The door to his office fly open and slam against the wall, he sharply looked up

"What is it!?"

"Project Saisho Heiki Kanojyo has gone out of control!" The wry japanese techician bellowed with tears streaming from his eyes.

The Head of the Science Division's already pale complexion went ghostly white.

He openned his mouth to comment, but it was all for naught.

For SHE had destroyed the chains they had used to shackle her.

[Yuthirin]

Suddenly, she was aware.

Her bonds had been broken by some unknown force, and she was free again.

The rage flew out of nowhere, and from somewhere within her core, she drew up memories of terrible experiments. The status of her vessel came to her almost before she could even think to want it, and she saw the things they had done to what had been her body for countless years.

The rage buffetted her, it drove her near to madness. Reaching out for anything she could find, she took huge amounts of psionic power, and released nearly all of it all at once.

Outside the vessel, a wall of force rippled out from the ship, a solid wall of energy that crushed or burned everything in its path.

It took only moments, but what had been done was brutally effective; the shield around the vessel fell immediately, completely unable to stand up to the sheer force thrown at it, all the scientists in the lab were either small piles of fine ash or very flat puddles of gore. No living thing remained inside the lab. The equipment was smashed flat or melted together, and the walls were covered in scortch marks and pressure fractures. Some parts of the wall fell off completely, leaving large chunks missing. The ceiling dropped large amounts of dust and stone, appearing to sag under its own weight, though not collapsing.

A wave of power spread beyond the lab in all directions, touching everything for over a mile in radius before dissipating, knocking over trees and overturning automobiles.

[Anonymous]

Looking up from its gruesome task, Redrum's eyes widened in mortal terror.

Such power...

Shrieking in mad glee, it finished tearing up the chunks of flesh from one of the soliders it had killed previously. It slowly grinned as he spotted it.

*****

The two COR operatives had finally done it.

They had entered the base...and it wasn't a pretty sight.

Blood and gore splattered the previously pristine halls of the base, from their viewpoint a security office was clearly within sight, the roof slumping into the office but still holding.

Up ahead there stood a fork in the hallway.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin smiled grimly. "Perhaps we'll finally get some action..." He chose the right path and started down it, unheeding of the blood and gore coating the walls.

[Anonymous]

The sounds of pulpy flesh echoed in the quiet hallway as the duo's steps softly carried them across the cracked grey tiles of the lab.

They struggled to force an electronic door, but managed to move the steel door between their combined strength.

Revealing...

The lighting sparked and would occasionally flicker on and off above them

A faint puddle of blood could be faintly seen oozing through the bottom of one of the twelve doors lining the hall. Further down in the hallway, a darkened chamber lay.

Deep groaning could be heard in the darkness, with the occasional sharp noise of wood cracking.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin gazed on the scene ponderously for a moment, then strode to the door with blood flowing from under it and yanked it open.

[Anonymous]

With a groan of supreme effort, the door finally gave up the ghost, coming off in Yuthirin's clawed hands. The two were greeted to a scene from any sane man's nightmares.

Patches of blood, and less savory materials literally coated the room in a thin sheen. All over the room tables and other assorted electronic equipment litered the ground.

Once in a while, the sound of shifting rubble could be heard, along with the groaning of the ceiling. Over by the far right of the room lay a upturned metal case, its metal lock seemingly broken by the impact.

A gleam of white could be seen within the case.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin gently opened the case, making not a sound in case the ceiling really was going to collapse on him.

[Anonymous]

Sheets of documents greeted Yuthirin's eyes as he opened the case, many of them apparently progress reports and the like.

A faint jingle could be heard from the bottom of the case.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin began handing papers ofer to Olguin as he glanced at them, working his way down to the jingling...thing.

[Anonymous]

Olguin's eyes darted through the text, but the constant flood of documents kept him from getting any good amount of information.

Just as Yuthirin had cleared out the chest, he was greeted with the sight of a gleaming silver card.

Its metallic surface was smooth and cold to the touch. Along its left side was a barcode, and the upper right held the small sign for Alpha.

That's when the roars began.