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Speaker 5: When Battalion thirteen the podcast, Madeline of Tarawan lost her
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Welcome to Battalion thirteen the podcast, Episode eight. Lexi saw
nothing but darkness, felt the hardstone floor through her thin
mattress on the ground, and the soft warmth of the
blanket draped over her as she drifted off to sleep.
She then felt the familiar sensation of her head being
split open. She saw light like the sun, pulling her
eyelids open and forcing itself into her vision. Lexi's very
soul seemed to be pulled from her body and into
a realm of gray and fog. She was bound at
the torso to a large wooden stake in the ground.
Her limbs left to move free for now.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, now again, please not here again.
Speaker 5: She began to softly weep, but no tears came out,
and said she heard the loud rustling of a soft
fabric and fell, something small, numerous, and soft, shifting behind
her eyes. Then her focus began shifting and blurring as
pressure built at the edge of her eyes. Then one
small polylog being gently crawled out from under her lids
and down her cheeks, Then another, and another, more and
more of them suddenly bursting forth under her eyelids, like
a torrent of tears, out of her eyes and streaming
down her face.
Speaker 4: She screamed, and.
Speaker 5: More of them burst forth, pouring from her eyes and
rapidly scurrying down her cheeks. As she cried, her nose
began to run. She felt something bubbling up in her
throat and an expanding pressure in her sinuses. She wiped
her nose and felling squish, siddly, fleshy and small. She
looked at her hand and gagged. A maggot smeared across
her hand in a bloody, chunking mess.
Speaker 4: Wriggled and then fat limp.
Speaker 5: She felt the bile building up in her throat as
she screamed and cried. More maggots crawled from her nose,
More spiders fled in a deluge from her eyes, and
she collapsed in a puddle of fear and torment.
Speaker 4: On the ground.
Speaker 5: As she tried to put her hands on her temples,
she felt a sharp prick on her fingers. She pulled
her hands away, seeing blood on her fingertips, and searched
her head. She pulled off a loosely fitted crown of
woven brambles covered with thorns. She dropped to the floor
and it fell and evaporated midair. She then felt a
slight weight and tightening about her head, causing her to
carelessly feel her forehead. She pricked her fingers again and
realized she had the crown of thorns.
Speaker 4: Upon her head again.
Speaker 5: What do you me? She screamed into the infinite fog.
She wiped her tears, trying to put forth a brave front,
when she noticed her flesh came off with the spiders
across her forearm. She felt the muscle tissue on her cheeks.
It felt malleable and soft, with a firm structure. There
was also a slime residue left on her fingertips. She
felt as though she could peel a small piece of
her face off, and then as she did, she felt nothing.
She looked at the piece and noticed it had changed
in color. It was pallid gray rotting meat, as if
her face was nothing but decaying to chronic tissue. Throwing
away the piece, Lexie saw her escaped maggots swarm the
tiny junk and consume it in a split second. Then
she felt her maggots stop crawling down her face and body,
turn around and crawled toward the newly exposed flesh. She
felt a soft plucking at her face, which she quickly
she realized was the maggots eating her face. She began
picking them off her face and throwing them away, tearing
them off as fast as she could, but the maggots
kept coming faster and faster, more and more, and in
such volume that she couldn't keep up. For what seemed
like an eternity, she felt the plucking and picking sensation
until she could feel them inside her mouth, tearing at
her skin, almost touching the skin that still retained nerves.
As they filled their bellies, they dropped the floor and
morphed into flies swarming her vision. Bothered by the flies,
LuxI couldn't continue to pick the maggots off. As she
swatted the flies, the maggots crawled under her skin and
ate her running muscle tissues, and she felt soon the
only thing left to be revealed would be her bones.
Once the maggots finished their facial tissue meal, they began
inching down her face in a mucous slight stream. Once more,
the flies began to clear up around her head and
nestled in her hair. Lexei then looked at her feet,
feeling another nibbling sensation. She saw a large white lump
poking out at the top of her boots. Pulling out
the lump, she realized that I had a nice heft
to it, like a dumbbell. She found that this white
lump was a large, pure white, blue white rabbit. She smiled,
after all, it's a cute bunny, right, But the nibbling
sensation continued slowly growing in intensity, and soon Lexei tore
off her boots to reveal several baby bunnies fororaciously devouring
her feet. Now she became terrified of these baby bunnies
because soon it began to hurt when they bit, and
her flesh came off piece by piece. She cried, She screamed,
she felt lost, alone and afraid.
Speaker 6: Please stop this ape of you.
Speaker 5: She watched as her bones were exposed by these little bunnies.
Speaker 4: Her range of motion was soon completely.
Speaker 5: Restricted as someone shot on her hands while she wasn't looking,
and then bound them to the stake. She cried harder.
She tried to turn her head around, but to no avail.
Speaker 7: Please, why are you?
Speaker 5: Lexi was cut off as soon as short, silver chalk coated,
blood stained dagger was pressed to her throat swiftly.
Speaker 7: Don't speak, Just listen to your mother.
Speaker 8: Follow in her footsteps, blood grandpa.
Speaker 4: Exploit your desires.
Speaker 8: And make you rich.
Speaker 5: Lexi's eyes followed the tip of the blade as it
slowly trailed down the center of her body, as if
tracing a path. Suddenly, the dagger sharply planted itself deep
in her groin. Hot, searing fires shot up her body,
and black blood starched forth. It traced its previously drawn
path up the center of her body, slicing through her
intestines and stomach. The chunks of her organs fell into
the black pool that spread for her and splashed with
a terrible splat onto the floor.
Speaker 4: The white baby bunnies were soon.
Speaker 5: Dyed red with waves of black blood that surged forth
like a raging sea of pain.
Speaker 4: She screamed.
Speaker 5: Spiders poured forth faster from her eyes as she cried,
and as the searing hot pain began to reach her heart,
she surged back into consciousness.
Speaker 6: Daddy Emerson, Daddy Emerson, Daddy Emerson.
Speaker 5: Emerson snapped awake from her cries.
Speaker 8: Yes, child, we'll just roll, but.
Speaker 5: Lexie did not respond. Instead, she sat there lifeless, her
eyes spilled over with tears. Her cries were silent now
and her body was limp, but she sat.
Speaker 4: Upright child speak.
Speaker 8: I could not help you if you do not tell.
Speaker 5: He scooted closer to her and tried to hug her,
but she quickly broke free, running to the nearest corner
of the room.
Speaker 8: Lexy, it is okay, just calmed down.
Speaker 4: I help you.
Speaker 5: Emerson cautiously approached her. She shook with terror, now curled
up sobbing silently, Her breathing was unsteadying. Beautiful child, I
would help you. It is okay. He reached out to her.
She smacked his hand away, and Emerson was taken aback.
No one dares to defy him, especially not Lexi. He
made a call for Nightmare, who came quickly and brought
Dominator and Destroyer.
Speaker 8: Night Something that's wrong with Lixi. She won't let me
touch him. I tried to ahead. Something is drid for me?
Wrong with LIXI?
Speaker 7: Why did you call for us?
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this is not my area of expertise. I hope the
Nightmare could do better job than I. Well record, I
never called for either of you.
Speaker 5: As Nightmare stepped into the room, he immediately spotted the
sobbing girl in the corner. Destroyer Dominator and Emerson watched
with concern as he knocked in front of the devastated Lexi.
Speaker 4: Lexi, what happened? She just whimpered.
Speaker 5: Destroyer pooled Dominator to Lexi's side and sent Dominator inside
her head quickly, What the fuck? Lexi, a bleeding, saving mess,
was chained to a steak, split clean in half, and
cout it with disgusting bugs. Dominator, doing her best to
aid all the pieces of the poor girl on the floor,
unchained Lexi and carried her as best she.
Speaker 4: Could out of this place.
Speaker 5: When they both regained consciousness, Dominator flung herself backwards and
reached for the nearest thing to puke into, trying to
hold the bile in her throat. Destroyer fled to her
side and patted her back. Lexi, now conscious, looked up
at Nightmare.
Speaker 4: There she is, what happened?
Speaker 5: She then noted the knife in his hip and lunged
for it, drawing it from its sheath. She placed the
edge at her ankles, thinking that maybe if her feet
were gone, the pain would stop. All the nightmares would stop,
and no one would be able to suckle them again.
Everything would just stop. She began sawing through her boot
when Nightmare grabbed her hands and tried to pull the
knife from her fingertips. Lexi was determined to make the
pain go away. As she held the knife in the
death grip and tried to saw through her feet. Nightmare
futally struggled for possession of the knife while trying to
be careful to neither allow himself or Lexi to be cut,
so Destroyer came to help him.
Speaker 4: Lexi stop this.
Speaker 5: Destroyer and Nightmare struggle to tear the knife from the
girl's grip, Having very little strength despite the adrenaline pumping
through her body, they finally wrenched the knife away from
her and were flung apart by the sheer force of pulling.
Nightmare sheathing at once more concealed it better.
Speaker 4: This time.
Speaker 5: Destroyer finally noticed a trail of blood from Lexi's resting
place and followed where it led. Lexi now sat against
the wall, panting, her legs resting lazily on the floor.
Speaker 4: Lexi, or your pants stained with blood?
Speaker 5: Mommy?
Speaker 4: Let the bad men in.
Speaker 6: I didn't know she also let in some bad women.
Speaker 5: Dominator couldn't hold back her biol any longer, Realizing Lexi's
dream was so powerful as to become reality in part,
everyone stared at Lexi, sobbing on the floor in horror.
Speaker 4: What could have happened to her?
Speaker 5: Lexi's breathing slowed now the sparkle in Emerson's eyes was lost.
He looked at Nightmare as if it was pleading for
another answer. He could not accept that his favorite was
lost to him.
Speaker 8: No, Nightmare, my Lexi is gone. She will not be
same Lexi after this minery. Please throw all off. Abuser
is strong. We cannot let him go unpunished. If this
is dark Cloud's work, he is stronger than us in dreamscaping.
Speaker 4: Highly doubt that. I have been controlling vampires for years now,
and I was the one to teach dark Cloud how
to use the dreamscape. There's no way he could yield
this type.
Speaker 7: Of power, but I saw it myself. Remember, and if
he has been using the dream skate to communicate and
we only use it with vampires who we already control,
his practice could make him more debt.
Speaker 4: Good point.
Speaker 8: If dark Cloud do this to Lexi, imagine what he
could do to all other neggans. He will have power
over everyone, not just vampires.
Speaker 4: Shit, we definitely didn't think of that. Your thrall powers
are only seventy to eighty percent effective and they only
work on our teams.
Speaker 8: He but story is right. You are looking at hostile takeover.
Speaker 4: You're really going to make me do this aren't you.
Speaker 5: Emerson, Dominator and Destroyer said nothing but looked with desperation
at Nightmare.
Speaker 4: Fine, I'll head over to doctor boris Ale emporium and
talk to the pig pen piece of shit. If he
did this, the consequences for his actions will be severe.
No one goes against the ethical protocols of the Renegades.
Pharaohs was an Immortal studies class. Listen to the lecture.
Speaker 5: He was the only rock Shasity in that class, but
Professor Mahege didn't let that stop him from educating the
class on Pharaoh's people.
Speaker 11: Most of the United Alliance of Dimensions is comprised of
human worlds. Yours is not a world that many humans
would find agreeable, is it, Pharaohs?
Speaker 10: No, humans should not go to my world, and all
Rakshashah learn to treat humans with respect. I have some
experience with this.
Speaker 5: I bet you enjoyed doing experiments on our kind.
Speaker 10: I would never do that. I fought for human rights
on my world. How dare you?
Speaker 5: Faris got up and stalked over to the man that
defended him. He lifted him up by his throat with
ease and corraled.
Speaker 4: Him put him down.
Speaker 10: I will not be spoken to in this manner.
Speaker 11: Put him down right now.
Speaker 5: Paris dropped the man back into his seat.
Speaker 11: Pharaohs, I'm sorry. I know this is a rough subject
for you. I think you may want to talk to Davina.
She is trained to deal with these kinds of emotions.
Speaker 10: Send that moron to Davina. He speaks ill of my
character and insult me with his unwise words. If he
is not careful, I will show him the true meaning
of pain.
Speaker 11: That won't be necessary. Please go see Divina.
Speaker 4: Pharaohs looked down at the offender.
Speaker 10: You are lucky I am being sent.
Speaker 5: To the councilor The man shrugged as if to say whatever,
while tenderly rubbing into that game.
Speaker 4: Pharis left to class and went to see Divina.
Speaker 11: Mister what was your name?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 11: Yes, mister Finch, you obviously are not battalion IO material,
But most of our battalions are mixed units, and if
you are to succeed here, you will do well to
learn how to get along.
Speaker 4: With other species.
Speaker 11: And as I am your teacher, I guess that makes
it my job to teach you that too. Teamwork is
vital in all of the battalions. But maybe you are
one of those who has to learn things the hard way.
I'll make a note to let Pharaohs rip one of
your arms off the next time you insult him.
Speaker 4: Will that help?
Speaker 5: Max noticed the rather short woman with dark hair and
pale skin edge of the cafeteria and rushed toward where
Darien and Kristen were sitting. Max was a little nervous
at seeing the urgency of her gate in her body language.
Speaker 7: Hello, Darien, I'm afraid to have some bad news.
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 5: The woman looked at the floor for a moment, as
if flecting her thoughts, then back at Darien.
Speaker 7: There's been an incident. Back on your arse. Your sister
Madeline his date. You and your brother need to head
home for a week to attend the funeral John bereavemently effective.
Speaker 5: Immediately, she attempted to hen Darien a tablet.
Speaker 7: This we'll give you directions for a turn and home.
Speaker 5: Darien was shocked. He had figured it was something to
do with his classes. He hadn't been prepared for this.
He just sat there and stunned silence for a few minutes.
His stomach dropped to the floor and his ear started ringing. Suddenly,
he couldn't see or hear anything around him. Nothing felt real.
He felt like vomiting. Kristin saw this and reached out
to take the tablet from the woman.
Speaker 6: Am I allowed to go with them?
Speaker 7: Of course, I'll make arrangements for you to miss a
week of classes to be made up once you come back.
Speaker 6: What about Max and Chad? Max and Madeline used to date.
He should be there too.
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have them failed a bereavement leave request. I'll see what
I can do to expedite the farms.
Speaker 6: Thank you. What's your name so we know how to
keep in touch with you about all this.
Speaker 7: My name is Divina. I am the school's emotional support,
counselor if you need anything at all, right are here,
please contact my office.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Divina.
Speaker 5: Divina walked out of the cafeteria, and as soon as
she was out of sight, Kristen turned to Darien. Are
you okay? Darien just sat there and stunned silence. He
couldn't move, He could barely think, lost in a collapsing
world of his own, falling in on himself. He couldn't
see or hear anything outside of his collapse in bubble.
He couldn't reply to Kristen's question. Christin could see this
was difficult for him, so she just put her arm
around him and waiting for him to say something. It
was about ten minutes later that Darien started to reconnect
with the reality outside himself and regain his motor functions
enough to speak.
Speaker 4: We need to tell Max and Chad.
Speaker 6: Okay. I know that Max is over there sitting with
his new friends, but I don't know where Chad is.
Speaker 5: Darien started to move around a little.
Speaker 4: I'll tell Max.
Speaker 5: Can you find Chad and let him know they need
to put in their leave request from us immediately. Kristen
nodded and then left to find Chad. She had a
couple ideas of places he could be. Darian slowly stood
up and walked over to where Max was sitting, all
the while feeling the weight of what he had just
been told. Once he was only a foot away from Max,
he cleared his throat to get Max's attention.
Speaker 4: Max, we need to talk in private.
Speaker 5: Max excused himself from the table and they walked.
Speaker 4: To an isolated table.
Speaker 11: What is it, d.
Speaker 5: You need to put in a leave request for him
for one week, effective immediately.
Speaker 4: What do you mean why? It's Madeline, She's dead.
Speaker 5: Darien could hardly believe that he was telling Max this.
It seemed surreal. Max was also shocked, but that passed
quickly into anger. How he was shaking with rage? What
the fuck? In all the confusion, Darien just realized that
he didn't even know how it happened.
Speaker 4: I don't know. They didn't tell me.
Speaker 8: I'll go ahead and fill out the leave request for him,
but while I do that, you need to find out
how she died.
Speaker 5: Darien nodded an agreement and went off to find Divina
to get the answer. Doctor Borr's al emporion was particularly
quiet at this time of day. Just after three PM.
The smell in the bar was a mixture of expired
cooking oils and of men who had not bathed in
quite a while. Nightmare took shildow breaths and set his
mind on his childhood to a memory of the flower
and herb garden his mother maintained. The image was enough
to set his mind back to his current goal. He
left the brief message with the barkeep for dark Cloud
in order to count mail tea, something unusual for him now,
but not for the memory in his mind. As he
sipped the tea, dark Cloud arrived, smiled, and joined Nightmare
at the usual table. Dark Cloud attempted to pull Nightmare
directly into the dream Escape for their conversation, but Nightmare
put a shield up prevented the exchange. Dark Cloud wrote
talk on his chalkboard and pointed to it. I apologize
for not reverting to our previous method of communication, but
I'm not feeling up to travel to the dream Escape
at the moment. I appreciate it you allowing us to
speak here out in the open. Dark Cloud wrote sure
on the chalkboard, I needs your help.
Speaker 4: One of my vap sluts, LEXI, was attacked in the dreamscape,
she was mind raped. My team and I were hoping
that with your abilities, you might be able to help
us figure out what happened. I know you learned your
skills from me, but you've become quite proficient in using
them in the dream escape. Dark Cloud seemed unfazed by
this new information. In the dreamscape, Lexi was tied up
and abused. This creep inside the dreamscape was saying things
like I love you more than your father ever did.
Do you know who could be doing this?
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud simply wrote no, wipe the words away quickly
and wrote more anything else. Don't you take the renegade
ethical protocols seriously? One of our own has been assaulted.
Dark Cloud wrote, not my job, mercenary.
Speaker 4: This is serious. I need your help. Can you search
the dreamscape see if there are any clues that you
can pick up.
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud closed his eyes and began to move into
the viewscape. In his mind, a green flashed over his face.
Not Mary interrupted before the connection occurred.
Speaker 4: You'd think this is funny, Dominator said, she saw you there.
Go ahead, now try to deny it. Kristen was desperately
trying to find Chad. She had already been to the
library and the armory with no sign of him. Suddenly,
it dawned on her where he might be. She decided
to go to Cynthia's rum room. The only problem was
that she had no idea where it was. It encurred
to her that the tablet she had from Divina might
just contain a map of the campus with Dorman assignments.
She tapped the screen and it came to life.
Speaker 5: She thought she had seen someone talking to the tablet
to call information up on the screen, so she tried that.
Speaker 6: Can you direct me to Cynthia Trask's storm room.
Speaker 5: The tablet did not respond. She noticed a button on
the bottom of the tablet and pressed it. A tone
sounded and she trod.
Speaker 7: Again proces same request.
Speaker 5: The displayed changed and there was a map to Cynthia's
dorm room. Kristen followed it, and about five minutes later
she rabbed at Cynthia's door. Kristen stepped onto the pad
in front of.
Speaker 4: The door to activate the doortime. She heard a muffled.
Speaker 5: Female voice coming just a minute. When the door opened,
Kristen saw Cynthia standing there in a robe that looked
like they had just been thrown on.
Speaker 6: Hi, I'm sorry to bother you. I was looking for Chad.
Speaker 5: Cynthia's face was flush and turned a little red with
what looked like embarrassment.
Speaker 12: He's here.
Speaker 6: We were just studying. You were studying, and you probably
spilled something on your clothes, so you had to change.
That was when you heard the doorchime, right.
Speaker 5: Cynthia looked into Christen's eyes to tell that she was
trying to make things best awkward for her, but she
was not at all shy.
Speaker 12: No, you were having sex. Don't worry, we just finished.
It's not that awkward really.
Speaker 5: Having taken ownership of the situation, her face went back
to its normal shade. She had nothing to be embarrassed about,
nor would she be embarrassed. Kristin nodded and smiled slightly.
Speaker 6: Okay, can I talk to Chad? It's important.
Speaker 12: Sure, let me go get him.
Speaker 5: The door slid shut as Cynthia walked back into her
dorm room.
Speaker 4: A few minutes later, Chad opened the door, fully dressed. Hey, Chris,
what's up.
Speaker 5: Kristin looked very somber. This made Chad a little nervous.
Speaker 6: Chad, there's no easy way to say this. Madeline is dead. Okay,
you need to fill out a bereavement leave request for
him immediately so we can leave tonight for the fear
in orrow.
Speaker 4: Okay, suck.
Speaker 13: I was just thinking, this is like one of the
best days of my life and this freaking happens.
Speaker 4: He turned towards Cynthia.
Speaker 13: I really don't want to, but I have to leave
for a few days. Darien's sister died. Are you gonna
be okay?
Speaker 12: Well, I'm going, of course. I'm so sorry. I know
you guys were close.
Speaker 13: Yeah, there was this whole group of us that used
to hang out back in school. She was very special
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Speaker 13: I know we talks about my old crush on her
at the dance. You know that's over now, Well it
was before now too.
Speaker 5: Anyway, you have to go, Chad.
Speaker 12: It's okay. I love you.
Speaker 13: Don't say unless you mean it. You know it's killing
me to leave right now. I wish you could come
with me.
Speaker 12: I mean it, and I know there's no way for
me to go with you. I hope you're not going
too long, but don't worry. I only have eyes for you.
Speaker 5: He kissed her on the cheek and left with Kristen.
They began to walk back toward their dorm rooms. Christian
Chad linked arms as both let tears flow freely down
their cheeks. Ferris had just arrived in Divina's office. He
sat down across the desk from Divina and stared at
her angrily.
Speaker 7: What brings you today? Pharaohs?
Speaker 10: Some idiot in my immortal studies Glass decided that would
be a good day to tempt death and make an
offensive remark about me and my people.
Speaker 7: What was said?
Speaker 10: He said that I probably enjoyed experimenting on humans way back.
Speaker 4: On my home world.
Speaker 7: Why does that anger you so.
Speaker 10: I fought for human rights in my world. I stopped
my own parents from experimenting on humans.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about that.
Speaker 4: What do you wish to know?
Speaker 7: What happened when you found out your parents were experimenting
on humans?
Speaker 10: I immediately stopped them, But it did not go well
go on. It was late one night, we had just
finished our evening meal, and I heard screams from our basement,
a place I was not allowed to go per my
parents order.
Speaker 7: Then what happened?
Speaker 10: I investigated the sound. I went down to the basement
and found a human female tied to an operating table.
She was bound and gagged, but the gag had slipped
off of her face. When she saw me, she was terrified.
She looked at me as if I were a monster,
and to her, I probably looked that way. I untied
her and escorted her out of the basement. She couldn't
understand my language, so I gave her a translator chip.
When I implanted it, she screamed again, but once she
calmed down a bit, I explained why I did that
and that I was getting her out of there. I
asked her what earth she came from, but she did
not know what I was talking about Then my father
caught us trying to leave. He raised his fists to
me and punched me in the throat. Once I recovered
from that, in a terrible rage, I threw him across
the room and he hit his head on the corner
of our eating room table. There was blood gushing from
the wound, but he was still alive. Didn't know whether
to help him or to get the human out, but
I felt that if I didn't get the human out,
then I would have no way of saving her. My
mother came into the room and I screamed at her.
Speaker 4: I said, I.
Speaker 10: Thought that she, of all people, was better than this.
I demanded to know where the human came from and
told my mother if she didn't send her back, I
was going to alert the authorities, But my mother knew
that the authorities would do nothing about that. It wasn't
yet illegal to experiment on lower life forms, and my
people consider all other forms of life as lower. My
mother wouldn't help me, so I grabbed the human and
ran out of the door. I found others who believed
the same as me that humans were not lower life forms.
We formed a sort of resistance. We created safe houses
for the humans and eventually found a way to send
them home.
Speaker 7: And since then, there's more to his story than what
you're telling me happened to your father.
Speaker 10: My father got medical attention, but he was in a
coma when I left. I have felt guilty about hurting
him since that day.
Speaker 7: It sounds like you did everything you could to save
the humans that were being experimented on. In fact, looking
at your records, this is the reason you were recruited
for this academy. Be proud of who you are and
don't let the past haunt you. You did the right
thing by us, and I understand you feel guilty about
hurting your father, but just remember you chose a side,
and your father chose a side. You chose the side
of helping others to save others. You've done great things already,
You've made important friendships here, and you can do even
greater things. I don't want to see you kicked out
for violence against a human, especially since it was saving
humans that got you here in the first place. If
someone says something negative about you, mean to stop and
take a deep breath and then think about why you
are here. You save that woman, think about what your
goals are and don't let others trick you into sabotaging yourself.
Don't let them get to you. People are afraid of
you because you are different and obviously more powerful than
themselves in some ways. Don't justify their fears.
Speaker 10: You do have a point. Perhaps I should find a
different way to deal with them.
Speaker 7: Don't give in to anger. I don't want to see
you in here again. Learn to control your temper. If
you can't calm your anger, ask to be excused and
go work out your anger in the gym. This is
your only warning. Use your words to convey your feelings.
The man that pissed you off is also being reprimanded.
What he said is born of hate and intolerance, and
that will not be tolerated here by either side.
Speaker 10: I will take your advice onto consideration, and I thank
you for this discussion. I have been holding onto this
for a long time, and perhaps it is time I
let you go. Oh, I have much to think about.
Speaker 7: Take the rest of the day off to think about
what you want to do, and remember you're here for
a reason. Take advantage of the classes. You won't find
them at another academy. When you created that refuge for
humans on rakshasat twenty seven. You showed tremendous compassion. Think
of the tree house sanctuary, the sides and secret doorways
that added comfort and possible securities to the human lives,
an organization that now flourishes because of your dream of
making humans free. You were the architect of that movement.
The humans felt safe and loved because you made them
a home. Humanity was restored because you created pure hope.
No one else could have done better.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 10: I think that's exactly what I needed to hear.
Speaker 7: Anytime, my door is always open to you. If these
emotions and thoughts arise again, feel free to come explore
them with me, and we will try to find ways
to deal with them.
Speaker 5: Pharos left and went back to his dorm room to
consider what he would do next. For the past half hour,
Nightmare had been quoting Lexi and Dominator's experience in the
dream Escape to dark Cloud. Dark Loud had repeated the
same story over and over again to Nightmare, I was
camping with my.
Speaker 4: Nephews, and I suppose that you have an alibi for
your absence, someone to cover for you.
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud gestured to the full room. He scrawled asked
anyone here.
Speaker 4: And they were all camping with you.
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud said nothing, but began grooming his beard with saliva. Then,
for no reason, he put his hand over his mouth
and then turned away. He began to sit very still.
Speaker 4: How long have you been visiting Lexi in her dreams?
Speaker 5: Once again, dark Cloud wrote the word camping on the board.
Then he sat in his chair and crossed his feet.
Drops of sweat fell from his forehead to his stained
khaki trench coat.
Speaker 4: I hired you, you obey me. How dare you continue
to lie to me?
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud scribbled shakily onto the chalkboard. I haven't gotten
ankling as to what you are referring to Nightmare. Nightmare
clenched his fist in absolute anger.
Speaker 4: You're a mercenary. I pay you to work for me
as my subordinate. I demand that you tell me the truth.
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud didn't shake off his gaze. Dark cloud stretches
across the surface of the chalkboard were definite and sharp.
His gaze as he looked up at Nightmare, resolute and firm.
Why would I lie to you? Have I ever given
you reason to think I am untrustworthy? I am but
a humble servant in you're a court my lord, nothing more.
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Speaker 4: Yet he was still hiding something, and Nightmare knew it.
Your trust can easily be bought off. Who do you
work for?
Speaker 5: Nightmare knew that as a mercenary, this man could never
be absolutely faithful to anyone. I work for you, Nightmare,
you have my word, dark Cloud continued to be firm
and definitive as his talkboard writing.
Speaker 4: Then prove it to me, Show me what I want
to know, and you'll continue to have my trust, because
you're losing every bit of it, piece by piece the
longer you fight me.
Speaker 5: Nightmare stood with his arms crossed and looked resolutely down
at dark Cloud. Dark Cloud looked up with certainty at Nightmare.
There's nothing to see I have not mind raped anyone,
I have not broken Stop lying.
Speaker 4: Why would my commanders, who trust I did not buy,
lie to me about you?
Speaker 5: Nightmares's commanding voice shook dark Cloud and he stopped writing.
My head is emptier than my soul. My Lord, I
have no idea, nor do I have the capacity to
disobey you.
Speaker 4: Christon was sitting in her dorm room feeling distraught.
Speaker 5: She really wanted to talk to somebody about what had
happened with Maddie, but the person that she really needed
to talk to was in another dimension. She thought she
would have to wait until they got home to talk
to her. She thought about the located charm that she
gave Denise and started to scround around her dorm room
to try to find the other.
Speaker 4: Half of the charm.
Speaker 5: A few minutes later, she found it. It was acting
peculiar though it was glowing. It was only supposed to
glow if Denise was close, but how could she be close?
As far as Kristen knew Denise was back on Tara one.
She held the charm up in the air and connected
it to her magical.
Speaker 6: Compass locate Denise.
Speaker 5: The GPS started to move and then began to point
in a direction toward the door of the dorm room
and to the elevator. Kristen followed it closely. Meanwhile, Denise
watched multiple view screens of UAD protected worlds all at once.
Her attention was drawn to a potential immortal couple who
sat in their living room, snuggled on their couch. They
were both reading graphic novels under a large quilted blanket.
Denise let her mind wander for a moment. She hoped
that someday she'd have someone to share her life with,
someone to share a quiet evening at home with. Denise's
thoughts were interrupted by an electromagnetic force which pushed the
back of the lover's home into the front of it,
compacting it into half the house that had been The
couple somehow remained unharmed as they simply sat on the couch,
pouring onto each other. They had been moved which the
front stare, and they realized that their puppy, Peanut was upstairs,
but there was no longer an upstairs. Luckily, Peanut ran
across the collapse staircase and into the couple's arms in
the couch. Three jumped through the front of bay window
and drove their jeep out of sight. It was really
an intense tableau. How was she supposed to watch these
catastrophic events and not do anything to help them? Denise's
job today was simply to observe potentials. Samantha entered the room.
Speaker 14: Denise, I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 15: We need to talk.
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, please sit down.
Speaker 14: There's no easy way to say this. Darien's little sister,
my little sister battle It just lost her life to suicide.
Speaker 5: Samantha put her hand on niece's hand. Denise put her
head in her other hand and began to sob. I'm
really sorry.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, in art line.
Speaker 14: Of work, we have to say goodbye to people more
often than we'd like.
Speaker 4: Do you want to talk?
Speaker 12: I guess.
Speaker 14: Unfortunately our powers can't save us from ourselves.
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, Denise, this is the worst day ever. What
the hell is happening?
Speaker 14: I'm really sorry, Denise.
Speaker 5: You can go to Tara One with Jake.
Speaker 7: And I for the funeral.
Speaker 5: As Denise lifted her hand, she noticed that the charm
bracelet that the Christen had given her was glowing and
floating slightly toward the door. Sam noticed it too.
Speaker 14: What's that.
Speaker 12: It's a charm bracelet that Kristine gave me. I guess
she must have cast a spell on it. I don't
know why it's glowing like that.
Speaker 14: It's a locator spell so you guys can find each other.
I don't think that it would be a good idea
for her to know you are here.
Speaker 5: It may blow your cover.
Speaker 12: What if we just say that you brought me here
to see my friends because of Madelin.
Speaker 14: I guess that would work. Let's go outside and intercept
Kristin before she finds us.
Speaker 5: In the secret room, Denise quickly gathered her things and
stuffed them back into her purse. It was rather large
and had a lot of supplies in it. Sam opened
the door and motioned for Denise to go through it.
We better hurry.
Speaker 14: It looks like that thing is glowing even brighter.
Speaker 5: They quickly left the room and began walking toward Kristen's
dorm building. Right as they were within visual arrange of
the dorm building, they spotted Christen with her right arm
out stretched and the charm floating towards Denise.
Speaker 6: Kristen, Denise, what are you doing here in this world?
Speaker 5: They embraced like they always did when they saw each other.
Speaker 14: I brought her here for support in this trying time.
Speaker 15: I knew you needed your best.
Speaker 5: Friend, Sam, and Denise hoped that this would be enough
of an explanation for Kristin not to question it and
trust that this was the only reason she was there.
Speaker 6: Well, whatever the reason, I am so glad to see you.
I'm sure Darien and Max will be happy you are
here too.
Speaker 12: What about Chad, Not'm so sure he'll be glad to
see me.
Speaker 6: Oh, actually, Chad met someone here, and I'm sure your
past won't matter anymore.
Speaker 12: I hope you're right. He met someone. What's she like?
Speaker 6: A bit wild, very pretty, and they're really very happy together.
Speaker 12: Well that's good. I'm happy for him.
Speaker 14: I think I'm going to get ready for our departure. Kristin,
can you look after.
Speaker 7: Denise while I'm going?
Speaker 14: Maybe show her around a little?
Speaker 6: Sure, come on, Denise, let's go for a walk.
Speaker 12: Okay, see you later. Sam. It was nice meeting you.
Speaker 5: Denise wily tried to cover for Sam and make it
look like they just met that day so that Kristen
wouldn't get wise to the real reason Denise was at
the academy.
Speaker 4: I'm tired of this. I know by your behavior that
you're lying. I'll just have to see myself. If you
are innocent, you would just show me what are you hiding?
Speaker 5: Infidel Nightmare placed his index fingers into dark clouds temples,
cleansed his heart of rage, and opened his mind into
dark clouds, just like Destroyer. He found a large iron
wall extending in all directions to infinity in the space,
and the seemingly impenetrable door before him. All the structure
seemed medieval and style, perhaps in an attempt to threaten
any who came into contact with it. Nightmare, though, would
not be threatened.
Speaker 4: If your head is so empty, why protect it like this?
Speaker 5: Nightmare cried into the darkness, assuming no one was around him.
Speaker 4: A white, chalky e font.
Speaker 5: Appeared on the door, large and bold. In the foggy,
cavernous space around Nightmare, every letter acted like it was
being typed in capslock, popping into existence and making a loud,
explosive sound. Why would I leave myself open? It's my
head and I like to keep it that way. I
have my own secrets. You have no right to invade
my privacy.
Speaker 4: I have every right to know what my subordinates do
when I'm not around you, report to me. Show me
you're not hiding your guilt. If you were proving your innocence,
as would be over by now, what are you hiding?
Speaker 5: Nightmare was fed up with screaming into the blackness around him,
and so Nightmare jumped out of the dream room and
dug his fingers in the dark cloud's eyes. This distracted
him enough to allow Nightmare to see more. Nightmare then
calmly re entered the dream room. Images flashed before his eyes,
fresh colors, then sounds, then faces crippled with pain, many faces,
then one face. Masses of people, fear, pan, sadness, distress.
All the faces contorted or deformed or just outright hurt.
Then they had bodies, Some ran, some ripped apart. Mother's
greed for children, Husbands cried over their wives bodies. Children
desperately cried out for their mothers as they were taken
away by other adults. Nightmare didn't come for this, but
the scenery made him sick in his heart with rage.
He pushed past all of this and found an image
of Lexi. She was screaming, flailing, even her entire body
was chained down to a post in the gray, foggy space.
Her face contorted with tears, her voice was pure screams.
Speaker 7: Halt me, somebody help me.
Speaker 6: I don't want to be here, what's happening to me?
Speaker 4: But no one heard her cries.
Speaker 5: Shadows formed around her, and her desperation reached its climax. Someone, anyone,
please wake me up, Tom want to see this, Please
help me, mum. And then she quickly calmed down as
the shadows engulfed her body. She was calm, complacent even
and behind her, dark Cloud sat whispering into her ear.
What he said could not be heard, but Nightmare had
seen enough. Yet Nightmare continued to starvee through more and
more images, images of older men with young Lexi, an
old man at a table counting cash in front of Lexi,
an image of a younger woman and Lexi in front
of him as he sent them off to be seen
by older men. Nightmare left the dreamscape. His mind was reeling.
He backed away in horror of dark Cloud. Dark Cloud
wrote nothing, no explanations, just sat there and shock with
an awkward smile on his face.
Speaker 4: How dare you? If you think I've invaded your privacy,
then you should check your facts. What the hell have
you done?
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud's eyes widened as his fear grew, but he
tried to keep a mask of a harmless, innocent smile
on his face. Nightmare formed a fist, drawing blood from
digging his fingernails into his palm. His entire being consumed
itself with fury, and he grabbed dark Cloud.
Speaker 4: By the collar.
Speaker 5: You disgust me, Nightmare went back to using his threatening voice.
Dark Cloud lost the fear in his eyes and shaded
his feelings with an innocent smile. Nightmare, reeling from the
shock of knowing he put his subordinates at risk with
this man, knew the only thing he could do was
forced dark Cloud to atone for his sins. It was
sixteen hundred hours and Darien and the others were all
at Shawn's house getting ready to depart for the funeral.
Most of them had never actually been through a portal before,
so they were all a little nervous about it. Max
and Chat had gotten their leave requests to approved very quickly.
Shawn had just returned with a portal gun so they
can make their journey home.
Speaker 4: After reading through the instructions, I think I understand how
this works, and Christian, what are the coordinates for our
Earth here program them.
Speaker 5: In Sean handed christened the portal gun. Christen took the
portal gun and used the tablet to find the proper
coordinates for Rosehill Mounta Park. It's included to park in Maryland,
close to where they needed to go.
Speaker 6: This is nothing like a super soaker.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: Now, according to these directions, we need to go outside
so we don't damage anything. We need to open the
portal with at least ten feet of open space in
every direction.
Speaker 5: They all grabbed their bags and stepped outside. Kristen pushed
the button to activate the portal, and the beam of
light emitted from the portal coin. A swirling circular light
appeared and then stabilized.
Speaker 6: Okay, let's go.
Speaker 5: She stepped into the swirling light and vanished. Everyone else
stepped through one by one after her. They arrived in
a small historic park. It was dark and they could
barely see anything. Then, as their eyes adjusted, they saw
they were safely placed in Rosehill Mountain Park, near the
center of town in Frederick, Maryland.
Speaker 4: They were home.
Speaker 5: The air was crisp and felt thin but clear.
Speaker 4: When they looked up at the clock they read two
o seven.
Speaker 5: They assumed it was obviously am because it was so dark.
Speaker 4: It was also a bit cold.
Speaker 5: One guys, our house is this way. Darien pointed toward
the sidewalk that would lead to his house. Then they
began to walk toward Darien's house, singing weirdo songs quietly
as do not start the nighbors.
Speaker 4: It's time that I take matters into my own hands
and listen to those that I trust the most. Our
partnership is broken. You have violated the one protocol that
we renegade hold above all, Never ever do you interact
with another sexually in a dream unless they had consented beforehand.
When I hired you on and Green's be your teacher,
you swore to uphold this above all else. Dark Cloud
began to look for exits in the room while averting
his eyes. Then he looked directly at Nightmare and wrote,
you can't do much without my dark cloud technology. I
suppose you're right. We'll just have to do it without.
Speaker 5: Dark Cloud stood and headed to the door. Nightmare grabbed
him swiftly by the collar. Chalk dust flew everywhere, and
Nightmare immediately spat to remove the.
Speaker 4: T from the mouth.
Speaker 5: You think I'm just going to let you leave, Nightmare
took dark Cloud into his thrall. Dark Cloud became docile,
immediately comatose and lifeless. By this time, the bar filled
with spectators of all kinds awed by Nightmare's power over
dark Cloud and excited to see what he would do next.
Each glad they hadn't crossed Nightmare, knowing that crossing a
man with such power was truly folly.
Speaker 4: No, you have committed the violenst of all acts, and
for this you will suffer.
Speaker 5: When they arrived at Darien's house, it was three am.
Everyone was tired from the walk, but Darien still felt
a little wired. He rang the doorbell, and a minute
later his father answered the door. He was a bit disheveled,
and it was obvious he was drained. He brightened up
slightly when he saw Darien and Kristen. Then even more
so he saw Sean. He hadn't seen Sean in a
very long time, and his heart ached to hold his
eldest son. He just wished it was under better circumstances.
Speaker 13: Come on in, guys, darn your rooms as you left it,
Max Chad, He'll stay here tonight it's too late to
wake your parents, Sean.
Speaker 5: You and Sean, much to his chagrin, just realized that
he had not had the chance to introduce Alicia to
his father yet.
Speaker 4: Dad. This is Alicia.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 7: It's nice to finally meet you. Sorry, I wish it
was under better circumstances.
Speaker 13: Nice to meet you. You guys can stay in the
guest room, which is actually Sean's olden.
Speaker 5: Then they shuffled in single file, and they all squeezed
into the living room. They all still had unanswered questions
about Madeline's death, so nobody wanted to go to bed
quite yet.
Speaker 4: What happened to Madeline? How did you die?
Speaker 5: Eugene sat down on a reclining chair and signed deeply.
He let out a small grunt as the recliner's footwrists
swung forward to lift his legs.
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mother with a knife in her hand, blood dripping down
the blade. It was her own blood. She was squeezing
the knife. So they ran out of the house, and
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Speaker 13: Of Cliff darian I called the paramedics. There was nothing
they could do. Fall killed her.
Speaker 5: Eugene put his head in his hands and began sobbing.
Speaker 13: She was so much more sensitive in the past few months.
Something changed about her attitude. It was like she wasn't
herself in more like someone else had taken over the bottle.
She stopped hanging out with the usual friends and was
constantly around these other darker goth kids. It was hard
to believe that it was our Mattie at all.
Speaker 5: To be honest, men, Darien felt like part of his
soul died. His sister and he argued and played tricks
on one another, but they were actually really close. She
was part of his circle of friends and an integral
part of his heart, and he couldn't understand why Madeline
would commit suicide. He wondered if her new boyfriend had
anything to do with it. Madeline had a strong sense
of life and so much to live for. Nightmare suddenly
felt a surge of clarity. A too pronged solution presented
itself to him.
Speaker 4: You're right, I can't operate the dark Cloud technology without
your psionic ability.
Speaker 5: In one and swift's action, Nightmare plucked the Crinonium Immortal
Slain Blade from the tanned hide pocket at his side
and jammed the dagger deep in the dark Cloud's heart.
A voiceless cry attempted to leave dark Cloud's muted lips
as he tumbled from his barstool to the floor. Nightmare's
soul collecting vest thrumbed gently against his chest as dark
Cloud's soul and ability passed into the vest ah. Anyone
who had previously not been watching the argument between dark
Cloud and Nightmare was now drawn in by Nightmare's growl.
A wave of relief fell over the patriots of the establishment.
It began slowly and then began to pick up more
intensity as the crowd smiled, nodded, and ended.
Speaker 4: In a victory cloud for Nightmare.
Speaker 5: Nightmare, being the showbo that he is, decided to bow,
and the crowd roared with more applause and cheering.
Speaker 4: Consue all hell, the renegades, Demon rights for all.
Speaker 14: All the regards, demon rights for all.
Speaker 6: Eat see spee.
Speaker 7: See see see see see.
Speaker 4: The room grew quiet.
Speaker 5: Nightmare composed himself and beamed with pure delight.
Speaker 4: This is not the reaction I expected, and didn't mean
to cause a scene or disrupt your evening plans. But
I see that you're all elated at the expiration of
dark Cloud. It appears that he has caused quite a
dark pall over all of your lives. And if I
could get some help with the body, I shall provide
a round of drinks for the house.
Speaker 1: Je jees.
Speaker 4: A toast. May we all conduct ourselves with a pure
conscience and decency, honor and integrity, so that our moral
code is seen by all, so that our fight for
demon rights comes to us with ideal principles and ethical codes.
Let us earn our respect and be seen with real
goodness in our hearts two ethics two of this.
Speaker 5: Darien jerked awake. Then he looked around, confused. He seemed
to be alone, laying back in the recliner. This didn't
seem right. Where was Kristen. Why wasn't he in bed.
He had to find her. This is the worst dream yet.
The other matter was in serious danger. Maybe it was
already too late. Could he even stop this? The thoughts
continued to race through his mind as he got up
from the recliner. As he began to focus more on
his surroundings, he realized Shawn's house. What am I doing here?
He was in Seawn's study, surrounded by books. Sean's desk
was on the other side of the room, and the
only door in or out was beyond it. Darien took
a few steps and gripped the handle opening the door.
Something was off. It felt like this place was pallid,
washed out, devoid of color. Sean, are you here? There
was no response. Darian continued through the house, finding it
unkempt and in disarray. All the pictures had been taken
down from the walls. As he passed the kitchen, dishes
overflowed from the sink.
Speaker 4: What was going on?
Speaker 5: Just as he was about to ender the dining room, Darien.
Speaker 4: Felt a hand on his shoulder. Nah, there you are.
I thought I might find you here.
Speaker 5: Darien was still recoiling from the sudden, unexpected touch end voice, Shit, Seawan,
you scared the hell out of me. Why didn't you
expend when I called out earlier? What do you mean
you thought you'd find me here? What am I even
doing here? And what's going on?
Speaker 4: Why is this place so weird? I'm afraid there's no
time to explain any of that. But I thought you
might come to me for answers. You've been having nightmares,
have you not? Or perhaps I should say, visions, things
that you should not know, and yet you know things
that should not see, and yet you see.
Speaker 5: Yes, but how do you know that?
Speaker 4: You told me? Well, you will tell me, but I
won't take you seriously, not at first anyway. I'll dismiss
them as mere nightmares, a way for you to cope
with Manny's death. Right. I know what you're feeling, because
I felt it too. I was wrong, Darien. The dreams
do mean something. Wait, you're telling me you're from the future. Yes,
not that I've actually traveled through time. Years from now,
I'll discover a way to enter the dreams of those
in the past.
Speaker 5: Darien looked at him carefully for the first time in
the dark room. Sean's face looked well worn, scars lining
it no longer did he have the exuberant look of
a young professor. He seemed to war a weary soldier. Now,
oh my god, maybe I'm going crazy. It would probably
be better if you were, but I'm afraid that's.
Speaker 4: Not the case. Well, this is real. What happened to you?
That is far too much to get into right now, Darien.
Suffice it to say that bad things are coming, things
that will force us all to do things we never
intended to do, like me joining the battalions.
Speaker 5: As if Maddie dying is.
Speaker 4: Bad enough, I am sorry, Harrian. If you let me,
I'll help you through all of this. I will help
you to work through your feelings over Mattie's death. I
will help you find the truth of your dreams. I
will help you to prevent what is to come. I
took a risk interfering with the timeline like this, but
we have no other choice. We cannot come back from
the events that have taken place in my timeline. Therefore,
there is no choice but to make sure that they
do not come to pass. What would you have me
do now? Grieve? Know that there is nothing that you
could have done. Know that she loved you and that
she knew you loved her.
Speaker 5: What about the dreams you said they're real?
Speaker 4: What are they? Have they happened yet? What you see?
Your glimpses of another world? I don't know for sure,
but I believe the things that you see are premonitions,
glimpses of what may be rather than is. But I
cannot say if they can be undone once seen. I
will try to find out more before we next meet. Wait,
what is something happens to her before then? I can't
bear losing Maddie again, especially if there's something I could
do to stop it. Nothing will happen before then, I promise.
I have been through your time before. Remember all right, Sean,
I'll trust you good. Also speak nothing of this to me.
I mean, as Sean of your time, you cannot trust
him in matters such as this. He won't believe in
your dreams, and he will tell you that dream walking
backwards in time is impossible, because as far as he
knows it is involving him will be nothing more than
a distraction and a waste of time. I understand you
will get through this, Darian, I promise you.
Speaker 5: Sean reached out and embraced Darien, quoting him tightly as
Darien held back tears. Moments later he was awake in
his bed. Christen slept sounding next to him, what the
hell is going on? After the attack on the academy,
students and instructors work together to repair damage systems, classrooms, dorms,
and structures. The infirmario was filled with many injured, but
with Academy technology, science and magic, many would have recovered
a full strength. Each day, students received instructions via their
tablets on where, when, into whom they should report to
for the day. Jesse and John were asked to report
to the counseling center that morning. Everyone was doing their
fair shared of group therapy, and they supposed their number
had been called.
Speaker 10: This will be my least favorite assignment.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think it's important to have a
stable mind in order for all of us to move forward.
When I was a kid that used to call victims
of war shell shocked.
Speaker 10: It's not what happened here. I wonder when we can
return to classes. I really want to build that mech
suit already had several designs drawn out of my tablet.
Speaker 4: Could be a while.
Speaker 5: As they approached the counseling office, Divina escorted them into
her office.
Speaker 7: Please come in and have a seat, gentlemen.
Speaker 5: Both men looked at each other in confusion.
Speaker 7: After reviewing some footage on the attack, it appears doctor
Carson was turning to a vumpire. This means that he's
with the Renegades. Now, I'm sorry, boys.
Speaker 10: This isn't fair. I needed him. He was going to
teach me. He was my favorite teacher.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 5: John put a hand on Jesse's shoulder.
Speaker 4: This really blows Jesse. Maybe I can help you with
your project.
Speaker 7: This is project to working on.
Speaker 10: It's a suit, a robotic suit.
Speaker 7: Sounds rather interesting? Is it something the whole class of
work on.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And in fact, that was the plan. Doctor Carson
and I wanted to make it a class project.
Speaker 7: Well it's settled then, isn't it. Jesse and John, you'll
be heading up doctor Carson's class and building this global
suit thing. Co Congratulations, you've just gotten your sales a.
Speaker 10: Job I can't teach. I came here to learn.
Speaker 7: Well, there's no better way to learn than to teach.
You've got your assignment.
Speaker 10: This isn't how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 4: We'll shake it, thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 7: It mightn't be good for the two of you to
stay for some group counseling.
Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5: John led Jesse to the group therapy room, and Divina
patted Jesse's left shoulder.
Speaker 7: You'll get through this. Whor's tough, but this will make
you tougher.
Speaker 5: Sam was sitting alone on the couch in the living room,
turning through a photo album of old family pictures. She
was smiling at the happy time she spent with Maddie
and her other siblings. She heard a door close from
down the hallway and looked up at footsteps to see
Darien awake a days look at confusion on his face.
She looked at him sympathetically.
Speaker 15: How are you holding up, Darien? You're going through a
lot right now, and something like this is a lot
to take for anyone.
Speaker 5: Darien sat on the couch next to her.
Speaker 4: I'm okay. I mean, I think I'm okay.
Speaker 15: Care to elaborate on that.
Speaker 4: I've been.
Speaker 5: Having some intense dreams. I don't really think they're dreams
or like visions, but I don't know. Maybe I'm just
going crazy. Sam looked at him with concern in her eyes.
Speaker 15: Can you tell me about them?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if I should it about Maddie. But
then last night Sean missed my dream.
Speaker 15: Why would Sean enter your dream last night?
Speaker 5: You probably think I'm crazy, But it's not like Sean,
like our Sean. A Sean is from the future. He
was different Sam. He didn't look like a peaceful professor.
He looked like he had been through some serious backs,
all kinds of scars. He was definitely older. He talked
to me about my other dreams, and he had a warning.
He said that the attack on the ball was onder
the beginning. More is coming and the academy will be
thrown into disarray. But he's going to tell us how
to stop it.
Speaker 15: Darian, I don't know if what you're saying is even possible,
but if it is, surely altering the timeline like that
could be catastrophic.
Speaker 5: That's how desperate the situation is in his time. We
have to stop it now because there is no winning
it there.
Speaker 15: We should ask Sean about this, he might be able
to know.
Speaker 5: Sean was very specific that he can't involve his younger self.
His lack of knowledge in this matter will only show
his distraction. As far as he knows, this kind of
dream walking isn't possible because he hasn't done act doing
it very well.
Speaker 15: I will talk to Jake. We can see what precautions
and preparations can be made in case of future attacks.
If he gives you any more information, you will pass
it on to me.
Speaker 4: Oh will.
Speaker 5: Finally, Nightmare was alone. The day's celebration was still coursing
through his mind. Once he returned to Renegade headquarters, he
continued the party with Emerson, Red beet to One Destroyer, Dominator,
and even Mordred. Now he was freshly showered and dressed
in his dark cloak, who was ready to decompress and
review the events that transpired. He connected his vest to
the machine, and the life counter added one more life
to the total, one step closer to bringing his lady
Love back into existence. As a vampire would take many
more souls to connect her life essence to this plane
of existence. Its mission came with the added benefit of
obtaining this additional soul. Nightmare ran his hands over the
ivory casket and then lingered at the top of the casket,
envisioning the woman who would regain her life, her immortal
life with this machine. Once the machine uploaded dark Cloud Soul,
he would be able to download the dark Cloud technology
into his own body, giving him the ability to block
out cities. Nightmare took out a crushed prebble velvet diary
with a silk con brodered tassel and began to write
journal entry.
Speaker 4: November fifth, nineteen ninety five. Soul captured dark Cloud, psionic ability,
dark Cloud technology, reason, ethical protocol broken. Am I responsible
for Alexi's mind rape? If I had never met dark
Cloud and taught him how to master the dreamscape, he
would not have been able to connect with her. And
guess I did what I had to do at the time.
United Alliance of Dimensions has assigned us a threat level
of major, and as soon as I found out what
was going on, I did take matters into my own hands.
Ever since I turned off my empathy, I haven't been
able to sense the darkness in those I am interacting with.
But I need to know who I can trust. My
empathic ability is just too strong. I will need to
rely on my team more for their opinions on who
we should trust. I should be doing that anyway, if
I want to be a considerate and great leader. I
hope Lexi recovers. Emerson has not been the same. I
need his cheery grins to get me through the dulgrums
of life without my other half and journal entry.
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