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Speaker 3: Welcome the Battalion thirteen The Podcasts, Episode three. It was dark,
but not pitch black. All around him acward smoke hovered
in the air. It seemed to be a remnant of
the simultaneous discharge of thousands of heavy fire arms. The thick,
dusty air was beginning to settle around him, and then,
through blurry vision, Darian could see the ruins of a
well developed, industrious city. As his vision cleared, he looked
up to see an enormous garnet energy field beginning to
form over the entire city. When the field completely covered it,
hordes of unfathomable beasts faded into being, as if from nowhere,
saturating his vision in every direction, they began killing and
feeding off of every human victim they could find it.
Darien simply surveyed as the undead sired new vampires, and
his demons ripped people to shreds so viciously that even
the victim's loved ones couldn't have identified them after they
had been attacked. They were bodily fluids everywhere, and the
stench of it made him feel nauseated. Why was he
seeing this? Why was he powerless to stop it? He
saw a small strike force entering through a temporary fissure
in the energy field. They made their way to a
structure in the center of the city that seemed stable.
The manly and the strike force appeared undaunted by the violence.
He also carried some sort of hefty, rectangular flashlight on
his belt. Darian was shocked when he saw the man's face.
It was him. Darien saw his own face. Darien woke
in a cold sweat. All of his night clothes and
bedding were drenched in perspiration. He was freezing but exhausted,
so he stripped down to nothing, quickly grabbed a fresh
pair of boxers, and shivered uncontrollably. He wracked himself in
a clean blanket that was forlded at the foot of
the bed. When he looked at his clock, it was
eight am. He was appropriately spent and fell back to
sleep almost in Meiately. The group didn't wake up until
later that day, around one pm. The fog outside was
getting quite substantial. All they could see through the window
in the common room was a heavy white mist. Max
attempted to turn the TV on, but got nothing but
static when all.
Speaker 4: Turners, Hey, what's up at the TV? Are there no
broadcast stations around here?
Speaker 3: Ethan looked up from the book he was reading. This
place seems pretty remote, so probably not.
Speaker 5: They are on an island after all.
Speaker 3: Kristen, who was still half asleep in wearing her night clothes,
walked over to the window and attempted go to know event.
Speaker 6: Hey, can I get a little help here? I could
use some fresh air? The man stinking this place is
getting right.
Speaker 7: Excuse me, I showered this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Could have fooled me, Jesse.
Speaker 9: Sure, that's a good idea, Kristin.
Speaker 3: Jesse mocked defence and lightly punched Eric in the shoulder.
Ethan just sunk lower in his chair and pretended he
wasn't listening. Kristin was too focused on opening the window
to hear Eric's question.
Speaker 10: That's enough of that, Chris.
Speaker 4: They haven't realized you're just one of the.
Speaker 3: Guys, Max laughed. Darian walked over to where she was
standing and helped her crack the sliding window a little.
As soon as it was cracked, they both received a
mini electrical shock from the outside of the window. They
immediately closed the window. What the hell was that? Christen
recovered from the shock and looked at her hands. There
was no physical damage, and she still was a bit
confused by what had just occurred.
Speaker 11: Fuck.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but I think it's safe to say
that none of us should open any windows for the
next two days.
Speaker 12: I know we aren't supposed to go outside. I guess
opening the windows is part.
Speaker 3: Of that damn right stay away from windows. I knew
it was a bad idea rose and sauntered over to
the window. He pulled it out the window at the fog.
Speaker 5: I'm really starting to wonder if this is just fog
or if it's something else.
Speaker 6: Entirely, I think there's more to each rule than what
was laid out in orientation. It would be a really
good idea if we think clearly before doing anything, and
of course, continue to follow the rules Miss Sanders laid
out for us.
Speaker 3: Everyone agreed with Kristen. None of them wanted to get shocked,
no matter how much their curiosity got to them. James
stumbled through the double French doors at the front of
the Two Keys hotel in Baltic City. Once inside, he
collapsed into a plush, dust buny covered alub shag rug.
Sleep took over, yet it was not RESTful, and a
deep hunger start within a few hours later, while they
were eating dinner in the kitchen with some of the
other students from other floors, the power abruptly died. Everyone
could still see due to the substantial, ghastly fog that
surrounded the building. The silver hue of the fog illuminated
the rooms with ambient light. Battery powered emergency lights illuminated
all areas not brightened by the white mist. Nobody was
alarmed about the power outage because they were all told
about it when they first arrived. Darian had asked around,
but no one knew any more information as to why
they were there or what the deal was with the
strange rules they were given. The power remained off for
the duration of the night and the next full day,
all the while the fog seemed to get more concrete
and compact. No one could see past its marky wall. Meanwhile,
back on Terror One.
Speaker 13: So Denise, John Pierce tells me that you've agreed to
accept our offer to join the Order of Magistrates. Your
knowledge of the Kane family and their friends will help
protect them. You understand, though, that this will require a
sacrifice on your behalf.
Speaker 14: Yes, Miss Madison, I'm willing to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 3: Denise knew she had made mistakes when it came to
friendships in the past. This grand gesture of protection would
prove her true loyalty and show enough compassion that true
forgiveness could occur. Even if her friends didn't know about
her assignment, even if she worked behind the scenes, it
would all be worth it just to protect her best
friend Kristen and the rest of the gang. So what's next.
Speaker 13: You'll go through training, Magistrate training. John will be your mentor.
Then when the cadets leave the academy, you'll be responsible
for making sure their battalion stay is alive. You'll make
sure that they are given the right tools and continued
training to build their ability levels. You don't have special
powers yourself, but you know what they say those who
can't teach.
Speaker 3: On the last day inside their dormitory, the fog began
to clear and the power came back on. When the
power came back on, the TV in the common area
flashed to life, and there was Fred Sanders ready to
address the students.
Speaker 15: Students, please sit down for a moment and take heed.
With the power back on, you will notice that some
of the technologies that did not work before will now work.
An example of this would be the elevators. Please make
use of them. Other technologies will be explained at a later time.
As I am certain you were all tired of being
cooped up in this building, it is time to go
outside and enjoy yourselves for a little while. The time
of the three rules is now over.
Speaker 3: The TV turned off. Max looked at Darien for approval,
and Darien nodded. The whole group then went to the
nearest elevator and proceeded to the main level. Once there,
they noticed the crowd of people going through the automatic doors.
Darien's group got in line and waited to get outside.
When they all finally got outside, it was like watching
children on a school playground at recess. Darien watched the
few people went to investigate what looked like an asphalt
gray beetle carcass as big as a Toyota cambray. It
was completely still, and for a moment he thought it
was some sort of weird artistic sculpture of the beetle
A girl who looked no older than eighteen slipped on
the slick grass and wound up sliding underneath its body
without hesitation. The creature fell on her, and a stinger
popped out of its hindquarters and stabbed her right through
the hip. The creature then sprouted its wings and flew away.
The girl was left in screaming agony. Ah Her hip
was bleeding profusely. People started looking around and noticed that
their surroundings looked a bit alien. Darien was more concerned
with the hurt girl than with his new surroundings. He
would look into them later. He and Chad ran over
to her. There was blood all over her jeans, and
when Chad felt for a pulse, it was weak at best.
What's your name, Cynthia. Chad had taken his jacket off
and wrapped it around Cynthia's wound.
Speaker 5: Okay, Cynthia, I'm going to apply pressure to this wound.
You probably heard a lot.
Speaker 3: Cynthia nodded to show her approval. Chad looked at.
Speaker 5: Darien, she needs medical attention now.
Speaker 3: Suddenly, from a platform above the students, a female voice
was heard.
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pleasure of meeting yet I am Samantha Madison. You are
probably all wondering where you are and what is going on.
It is time you got the answers you have been
waiting for.
Speaker 3: Missus Madison, this woman needs immediate medical attention. He gestured
at the girl on the ground. Samantha surveyed the situation
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Speaker 3: She then turned her attention back to Darian.
Speaker 13: Help is on the way, mister Kane.
Speaker 3: Darien nodded and continued to hold the young woman's hand
while they waited for help. Once help arrived, the girl
was taken away on a floating stretcher. This made both
Darien and Chad do a double take, but they both
decided that now it's not a good time to ask
about it. Samantha acknowledged the medical staff members and then
continued with her speech.
Speaker 13: By now you will have noticed that everything around you
has changed. There are buildings that are here now that
were not here before, technologies that work now that did
not work before, and of course our local stinging possum beetle.
These are a few of the things you will see
now that you are here. In case you have not
figured it out yet, you are not in your world
any longer. You are now on another plane of existence
where you will stay for the next year to learn
about advanced technologies, sion abilities, and magic for use against
the more destructive demons. For the next few days, you
will be expected to acclimate to this world. There are
instructional videos available in the common areas that can provide
some explanations and instructions. After those few days have passed,
you will all begin your classes, which will be intense
and very informative. Prepare yourselves and try not to be
absent or tardy.
Speaker 3: With that, she walked off the platform and seemed to
disappear from sight along with the platform. Some of the
students decided to walk around outside for a while, but
Darien's group went right back in and up to their
common area to view the instructional video left there to
guide them. Darien turned on the TV and played the video.
There was Fred Sanders again.
Speaker 10: Does this woman do all their videos?
Speaker 15: Hello new students. As you've already been told you are
no longer in your worlds, do not be afraid. This
was necessary in order to train you in the best
possible fashion. I will now go over with you some
of the technologies that you will be utilizing while you
are here for the next year. First of all, you
will notice that the lifts in this and other buildings
go a lot faster than you are used to, but
with none of the ill effects on the human body
that this would normally cause. This is due to inertial
dampening and this is the same technology used in our
interstellar crafts. Now on to the food replicators. You will
notice that in your individual quarters there would look like
sliding door cabinets with a control panel that will now
be visible to you. You will use them like so.
Speaker 3: She pressed a few buttons and there was a light
behind the cabinet door. The door then slid open into
revealable would look like soup.
Speaker 15: I have just asked the rep cater to create for
me a bowl of chicken noodle soup. The pattern for
this simple item is stored on a networked drive so
that when you press a few buttons, you can access
it and it will then be constructed in a matter
of seconds. This is true for most food items. The
cafeteria will still be open so that more complex meals
can be made. The next item we will be discussing
is your personal communicator. In each of your rooms, you
will find a small rectangular device placed under your right ear.
You will feel a sharp pain that will quickly subside.
This is the implantation of your communication device. It will
only activate when you tap it once with your finger
and stay active until you tap it again. You may
use it to contact any member of the staff or
student body at any time by saying their full name.
There are also three emergency commands, medic, supervisor, and Mediator.
Those last three commands are only to be used in emergencies.
You will also each be given a wristband computer for
visual communications and battle plan coordination. Your thumb print will
be used to access any class as you go to,
as well as weapons storage when advanced weapons training begins.
This concludes your video guide.
Speaker 17: Thank you.
Speaker 3: The monitor turned off. Darien was trying to figure out
where the video had originated from. There was no cable
plugged into the back of the monitor, and there was
no slot for a videotape. This confused him a bit.
It was at that point that he decided it was
best to just let it go and follow the instructions
he was given in the video. Well, I guess we
should go and plant ourselves. He walked to his quarters,
picked up two smallermplanters, and walked out of the common area.
He handed one to Kristen. I'll go first. He placed
the device directly on the skin underneath his right ear.
The device emitted a small, high pitched sound, and Darien
felt a very sharp pain. The pain quickly faded, and
there was a small, barely noticeable red mark underneath his
right ear.
Speaker 12: Do you feel any different?
Speaker 3: No, not really hit for a second, but I can't
even feel it now. Kristen placed the device under her
right ear and went through the same process. Once everyone
saw that they were okay, afterwards, they all decided to
implant their own voice. Is anyone else starving?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Actually, let's check out this replicator thing.
Speaker 3: Chad looked up from an intense stare into nothing.
Speaker 5: We really don't have an appetite after all that blood.
I hope that girl Sentia is okay.
Speaker 3: We should check on her. Darien had always been the
leader of their social group and really made sense that
his will continue in this new phase of life. Kristen Chad,
why don't you come with me? The rest of you
should relax here and try out these replicator things, Darien, Kristen,
and Chad got up and walked over to the elevator.
Darien suddenly realized that he had no idea how to
find the medical building. Kristen had an excellent sense of direction,
and she suggested that they go to the main level
of the dormitory. Once there, they found a map of
the campus and located the medical building. As soon as
they figured out which way they needed to walk to
get there, they set off to see how Cynthia was doing.
It was the summer of nineteen sixty eight, and the
young Andrea Davis was meeting up with her friend Edward
to get some botany advice.
Speaker 14: Hello, my dear one.
Speaker 3: Andrea leaned over and kissed Edward Maheigue on the cheek,
then wrapped him tightly in a warm, full front of
one brace.
Speaker 14: I didn't see you at the coven meeting last night.
Speaker 18: Sorry, baby, I was caught up in the astral realm
with Diana. We were exploring sensatious.
Speaker 3: Andrea touched his left arm and squeezed his bicep slightly.
Then she put her head on his chest and led
out a long sigh.
Speaker 14: Maybe you can help me discover some sensations.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, Andrea purred in a way that made Mahegue question
the intentions behind their Friendshivan. Damn, she was such a flirt.
Gene better proposed soon, or else he'd give her something
to really part about.
Speaker 18: So, how can I help you with your growing problem?
Speaker 14: Do you remember the alice flower I've been breeding? Well,
check her out. She's grown two more feet.
Speaker 3: Meg stepped into the greenhouse, turned right and saw that
the alice flowers now three feet tall. In the palace
shade of sky blue, tiny pink freckle like marks spotted
the base of the tulip shaped flower ways of getting
us passed over him. Immediately, he began to feel wondermentfy
he hadn't felt since he was ten years old.
Speaker 18: Andrea, this is stunning. It was with the psycho active effect.
I feel like skipping and exploring and jumping into a lake,
all at the same time.
Speaker 14: As Alice grows, her powers grow too. Here take this,
heam tight, it'll ground you. I don't know if I
should try to prevent further. Brother, see where this goes.
Speaker 18: I think for now, we should see what our botanical
instructor thinks. Maybe get the opinion of an expert I'd
hate to have or not reach your full potential.
Speaker 14: Though, I agree, let's go now.
Speaker 3: Andrea took my Egg's hand and pulled him towards the
instructor offices. While Darien, Chad, and Christian were walking across
the campus, they noticed that at this exact moment, it
really did just look like any other college campus. There
were people walking and talking, there were couples kissing. There
were even a few people playing with a frisbee. The
weather was a perfect seventy four degrees fahrenheit. The suns
were shining down. Suddenly, Darien was a little alarmed. Uh, guys,
is it just me or are their two sons fascinating?
Speaker 6: And hey, look at that turquoise colored sky. I could
get used to this kind.
Speaker 3: Of beauty, Kristen smiled. Once they arrived at the medical building,
they went to the front desk asked the nurse about Cynthia. Hi,
there should have been a girand name Cynthia admitted here
just after miss Madison' speech today. We wanted to see
how she was doing.
Speaker 8: Do you know her last name?
Speaker 3: She was of a medium build with a deep chestnut complexion,
in her early forties, and she looked rather annoyed at
being interrupted during this moment. No, but I'm pretty sure
she was the only Cynthia admitted today with a singing
possible beetle wound through her abdomintor hip area. The nurse
looked up from the desk.
Speaker 17: Cynthia is a very common name. I see six here
in the computer. Do you really want me to go
through each of their medical logs to match the condition?
Speaker 3: Darien blinked a couple of times. Yes, we would like
to check on her and see how she was doing.
The nurse let out a heavy sigh and began typing
hard on the keyboard. Her carefully detailed manicured nails made
a clacking sound that she typed the holographic representation of
the medical database out of them.
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Speaker 3: Of the productor behind the keyboard. She began touching the
images and moving them around until she found it appeared
to be three matches of beetlewoins. She then narrative searched
to the area of the body where the wound occurred.
She found the candidate.
Speaker 17: Her name is Cynthia Trask and she's erned four O four.
You may go see your and air thank you, whorish
room four for.
Speaker 3: The nurse. Let on another heavy sigh and tapped a
few more keys on the keyboard. Her pinky finger glinted
with a co op blue diamond design. A holographic map
burst into view. She drew a line with her finger,
showing them all how to get from the front desk
to room four for an exact detail, then looked up
at them and gave a very forced smile.
Speaker 12: Thank you. I think we can find it.
Speaker 3: As they walked away, Kristin turned her head toward Darien
and Chad.
Speaker 6: I guess, no matter what world you find yourself in,
there are still people who hate their jobs.
Speaker 3: They walked toward the elevator and took it to the
fourth floor. When they got to her room, they saw
her lying in bed with what looked like a bag
of liquid sitting on top of her wound. She was
all cleaned up, and she smiled when she saw Chad
and Darien.
Speaker 12: Hi.
Speaker 14: I can't thank you two enough for helping me back there.
If it hadn't been for you, I'd probably be did
right now.
Speaker 3: Chad was just staring at this beautiful girl. She was
about five foot eight inches tall, slender build, long white
brown hair, and blue eyes. Chad found himself not knowing
what to say so, Darian had a step. I think
I speak for both of us when I say that
it was no problem. Really, I would also like to
introduce you to my wife, Kristen. Kristen walked up to
her and extended her hand.
Speaker 12: I'm Kristen.
Speaker 3: Cynthia stretched out her hand to grab Christen's. Glad to
meet too. She turned her attention to Chad.
Speaker 14: So what about you any significant other?
Speaker 3: Not yet?
Speaker 14: Well, that's a good start. Why don't you stick around
for a little while after your friends leave and will talk.
Speaker 3: Cynthia was certainly forward. Kristin saw what was going on.
I decided to get herself and Darien out of there.
Speaker 12: What was nice meeting you, Cynthia. I'm glad to see
you're okay.
Speaker 6: Come on, Darien, let's leave these two to get better acquainted.
Speaker 3: Darien nodded in agreement. Hope you feel better soon.
Speaker 14: Actually I feel pretty good now. Before you leave, take
a look at this.
Speaker 3: She lifted the liquid pouch off of her wound. Darien Kristen,
I saw that Lewin was a lot smaller than it
was earlier.
Speaker 12: Wow, they really do have some advanced tech here.
Speaker 19: Huh, yeah, I'll see.
Speaker 3: After they talked for a few more minutes. Darien and
Kristen left and headed back toward the dorm.
Speaker 8: Bill.
Speaker 6: I'm really interested in that liquid pouch she had. I
want to know what's inside it, how it works.
Speaker 3: Let's go look it up for sure, it's no secret.
In the front yard of a quaint cape cod, a
youthful academy instructor rolled out his yoga mat and performed
Sun Sang attentions to the twin suns. Grounding for the
day is an integral part of maintaining sanity when instructing
students with latent sylonic abilities. After his yoga, he enjoyed
a light Chai tea on the front porch with his
soul half, Alicia. Even with everything he knew about the
stability of oneness, he couldn't help but feel like his
entire being was intertwined with her existence. In the middle
of walking back, Darien noticed something that piqued his interest. Hey,
look off in the distance. He pointed to a tall
building that seemed to be manifesting into its surroundings. There
was also a fine white fog around it, along with
visible arcs of electrical energy. I bet that's what our
building looked like from this end before we got here.
I wonder if we should go over there and see
the whole thing.
Speaker 12: Let's get the others to meet us here. Try out
these communicators.
Speaker 3: Kristen tapped the spot underneath her right ear Maxwell Knight
back of the dormitory, Max, John, Jesse, Ethan Eric were
playing cards when Max read the beeping in his right ear.
He pressed the spot beneath his ear. Hello, as clear
as if she were standing right next to him.
Speaker 6: Max heard her, Hey, get everyone together and meet us outside.
There's something you have to see.
Speaker 3: Acknowledged, he pressed the button again. Max still couldn't believe
how weird this tech was.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, Kristen wants us to meet them outside. She
says there's something we got to see.
Speaker 3: Without a word, they all got up and started toward
the elevator. Once Max and the others met up with
Darien and Kristen, Max immediately noticed the chap was there
with them.
Speaker 8: So where's Chad.
Speaker 3: Oh he's too busy chatting up Cynthia. We've got something better.
Look over there, Darien pointed at the phasing building. Let's
go check it out. Do you guys think that's what
our building looked like when we got here.
Speaker 7: Well, considering the electrical shock we got when you opened
the window and all the fog.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They quickly made their way over to the building
and stood about a quarter of a kilometer away, all
the while watching is the building phased into the world
that they currently occupied. Once the building had phased completely
into reality, the fog cleared and people came running out
of the building. These people looked a little different. Though
their skin color was varied shades of green and blue,
and their hair was all sorts of different colors, they
were definitely not human. Darien's group decided to silently observe
of these individuals as they went through virtually the same
ordeal that the people of his building went through. He
watched some unknown guy slipped in the grass and wound
up underneath the stinging possible beetle. The beetle stung him
and then flew away. The real difference that Darien and
his friends noticed was that no one came to the
victim's aid. Darian watched his black blood came gushing out
of the man's asment, all the while he was completely ignored.
Darien decided that he had to do something. He immediately
ran down the hill toward the building. As he did this,
he tapped the spot underneath his right ear madac. He
ran straight to the injured man, Hey, help us on
the way, They'll be here soon. Darien was at that
moment grabbed by the throat by one of the nearby people.
The person spoke in a strange language that Darien could
not understand. All he knew was that he was being
choked by someone who was also yelling at him. As
this was happening, a podium appeared on a platform nearby,
and a green skin wa with orange hair and a
tight brown dress appeared. She said something in that same
strange dialect, and the man who was lifting and choking
Darien dropped him. Shortly after that, the medical team arrived
and the injured man was taken on a stretcher to
the medical building. Max and the others were running down
the hill to see if Darien was okay when they
saw the woman on the platform disappear. They also observed
with the green and blue skin people walking back into
their building. When they got to Darien, he was still
recovering from being grabbed hard by the throat. They helped
him to his feet, and then they all walked back
toward their boating. James heard a faint, steady clicking as
he was regaining consciousness. It was getting louder and louder,
and he realized they were footsteps. As he opened his eyes,
he dimly saw a black leather boot heel with studded
spikes touched the ground just inches from his face. He
looked upward as high as he could from his current
vantage point, and saw black leather pants on a feminine frame.
Speaker 20: Well, hello, it appears that someone has brought me a package.
Speaker 3: James tried to stand, but some synapse in his brain
must have misfired, as he suddenly felt his body being
pulled hard toward the floor, where he collapsed in a heap.
The woman gently trailed her fingernail across his face, then
suddenly jabbed it hard into his cheek and poured it away.
James winced. She looked at her finger, a doll of
dark blood on it.
Speaker 20: So you do bleed no matter.
Speaker 3: She knelt down, pulled up his head roughly by his hair,
and slapped a spiked red leather dog collar around his throat.
She whipped out a chain that she attached to the
collar and stood, yanking it up hard as she did.
The top half of James's body hung somewhat limply, and
his hands went to the collar to try to relieve
the pressure on his throat. He tried to speak, despite
his choking and sputtering please. The woman backhanded him across
the face hard. Then she grabbed him by the throat
and brought him to his feet, pushing him back up
against the thick metal pole in the center of the room.
Speaker 20: You will speak only when you obeyed too.
Speaker 19: My name is dominating. You will obey me without question.
Speaker 3: The fog in James's brain seemed to lift, and he
seemed to be able to stand again. He was too
scared to try to speak, so he simply nodded.
Speaker 19: Do not think you can escape. Your body belongs to me.
You can only make use of it only when I
choose to allow it.
Speaker 3: To drive the point home, she turned him off again.
James felt the cloudiness return, and he fell to the
floor hard again. She grabbed him and lifted him up,
slamming him against the pole and allowing him to stand again.
Heavy footsteps could be heard approaching.
Speaker 19: You will speak when spoken to, and only when spoken too.
Speaker 3: James nodded. Nightmare briskly entered the room and made a
quick assessment of the situation. Solid chain hanging from a
collar on James neck, but made no mention of it.
Vampires could be odd. He didn't care about their eccentricities
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Speaker 19: Of course, I'm mainly showing him what it means to
be with us.
Speaker 3: James opened his mouth to speak, nothing came out.
Speaker 8: Let him speak fine, I.
Speaker 20: Was just trying to keep things peaceful.
Speaker 3: Dominator hissed softly into James.
Speaker 19: Ear be careful what you're saying or sah.
Speaker 3: She backed away, slowly, smiling.
Speaker 8: As I was saying, welcome James. This is your new home.
Thank you, sir, I won't let you down. See that
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Speaker 10: Dominator show him to its room.
Speaker 3: Nightmare vanished as quickly as he had arrived. James wasn't
sure what to think of him yet. Do you approve
of what this woman was doing? Was this some kind
of test? He couldn't be sure. He was darred out
of his thoughts by a sharp yeng on the chain.
A short time later, after leaving Cynthia so she could rest,
Chad decided that he wanted to know a bit more
about the medical technology of the world he was in,
and also the potential dangers. He figured his best bet
was to visit the campus library. Once he found it,
he was readed by a tall, medium built, white man
with glasses and light brown hair. He seemed to be
about thirty years of age.
Speaker 7: Hello, my name is Eric Trunt. I am the librarian here.
Please call me Trent. Is there something in particular you
are looking for or are you just here to bros?
Speaker 5: Actually I was wondering if there are any books on
current medical tech, and also I wanted to know about
the wildlife this dimension.
Speaker 3: Tran's face lit up at this, Ah, you must have
been involved in the rescue of the young lady that
was injured by the possum people.
Speaker 8: Yes, how did you know that?
Speaker 7: It's neither here nor there. However, I must give you
something that will help you in your quest for knowledge.
This is a tablet personal computer which can access every
book in this library. You'll be able to use it
for referencing all the majory you need, including all of
your textbooks.
Speaker 3: Trent headed Chad the tap. It was about a centimeter thick,
ten inches long and eight inches wide, with an Elsie
monitor in the middle of taking of most of the.
Speaker 7: Space out As it work, simply scroll through the topics
and press the enter key when you found the one
you were looking for. His touchscreen technology.
Speaker 3: Thanks. He had never seen anything like this tablet. This
new technology was truly amazing. He left the library and
began walking back to the door building. About an hour
after everyone returned to the dorm, they all discussed the
new race. They saw a fase on the campus. It
was decided that it would be best to avoid them
until they could further understand the new culture. After another
few hours, they all ate dinner and went to sleep
for the night. The next morning, they each took time
to explore the campus and pick up their tablet PCs.
They got acquainted with the librarian and a few of
the hospital personnel. When they went to see Cynthia again,
they also all took time to get to know a
few of their fellows students. The sky was greenish brown
that day. It was interesting how the color of the
sky kept changing on a daily basis. They were used
to blue, black, and gray or white. This would take
some getting used to. Over the course of the next
few days, the students acclimated and got ready for their
first day of classes. Once classes started, the campus was
actually a bit quiet. Occasionally a possibleta would fly by,
but there was an energy net over the entire campus
which effectively kept the bugs at bay. The egosism must
work differently here. Insects are an integral step in keeping
nature clean and beautiful. In Christian's world, it was difficult
to see how nature worked together symbiotically, but here every
plant and insect had a relationship. When that Christen had
a keen interest in discovering, she couldn't wait until her
first botany class. The first class that Darien's group attended, however,
was about the science and reality of interdimensional travel. The
teacher began discussing riffs and portals in great detail, as
well as a few other useful pieces of information.
Speaker 17: When you open a portal, you are opening a kind
of transformation passageway. What this does is change your bodies
by rational alignment in order for it to exist in
whatever dimension in what you are traveling to. That your
body can exist within that dimension. This has little or
no negative effects on the environments of either world.
Speaker 3: When you open a.
Speaker 17: Rift, it is considered a tear in space and time.
Your body can adjust to the new dimension, but the
environment can be negatively affected. This can result in odd
weather anomalies and if done too often, can result in
the collapse of the two different worlds into one. The
results of a collapse such as this can be tragic,
so this is to be avoided at all costs. Another
piece of information that will be important to keep in
mind is that small devices like remote controls cannot be
used to open a portal. This has to do with
the instability of the energy surrounding a portal. It takes
magic and technology to open a portal. Without the use
of magic, one could accidentally create a rift, which, as
stated before, could be very destructive. However, you can open
a viewing window into another world using only magic. Kristen,
I understand that you have experienced in elemental magic. Would
you please come to the front of the class.
Speaker 3: Kristin rose and headed to the front to stand next
to the instructor.
Speaker 17: Now, there are three classes of dimensions, Quartz, magenta, and obsidian.
Your earth tear one is a quartz class dimensions. Things
are generally stable. Magenta class dimensions are a bit more evolved.
Magic and science work well together like here at the academy,
and in obsidian class dimensions, things are a bit apocalyptic. Kristen,
choose the stone from the bowl on.
Speaker 3: My desk inside the cavernous dish. Christin salt various shaped
clear quartz, Christmas, quartz, magenta stones, and obsidian rocks. Christin
picked an oblong magenta stone and handed it to the teacher.
Speaker 12: This one is quite nice.
Speaker 3: The teacher handed it back to her.
Speaker 17: Now, with your arms, legs outstretched, like your body is
a star feet apart, just so, in arms outstretched, hold
the magenta stone in your power hand. For any of
you I'm familiar with this term, this is typically the
hand you write with Kristen, you can now put your
hands together, close your eyes, ground focus, then repeat after me.
The earth and air move at my will, bring to
me the dimension I seek Terra seven. Open the window,
not the door. Let me see in. I am not
ready to travel. The alignment is magenta, and with no harm,
I seek this earthly plane. Open the window now.
Speaker 3: Kristen repeated the words and then brought her arms down
from the togethered position over her head. As her arms
came down, a window to the Tarra seven magenta dimension opened,
and the class could see a world of utopian pliss
on a busy street. An ecosystem of water and wind
transported travelers to their destinations without toxic waste. Children stood
in front of an artistic rendering of what appeared to
be a vastly colorful periodic table of elements. The instructor
took hold of Christen's arms and pulled them together into
a closed motion, and the window to the Tarra seven
dimension closed. The next class they had was self defense.
Since the first day was orientation, they didn't actually practice
any techniques. These classes took up a fifth of the
school day, so when the defense class led out. They
all went to lunch. The main cafeteria was quite large
and located in the center of campus. When the group
sat down to eat their lunch, Darien noticed that the
green and blue skinned race had been seated across the
cafeteria from the humans. This didn't seem right to Darien.
He felt that perhaps this was some sort of segregation.
Darien got up and walked over to the food line
where one of the green skinned people had just gathered
his lunch, which appeared to be green and gelatinous in nature. Hi,
I hope not the first human to greet you, but
either way, I just wanted to say to meet someone
from another race. Darien hoped that this would start a dialogue.
The green skinned man began to speak, and after seeing
the blank look on Darien's face, he opted to press
the spot under Darien's ear and hold it. This felt odd,
but not painful. When the green skin man removed his finger,
Darian looked at him inquisitively, as if to ask what
just happened. The green skinned man finally said something that
Darian could understand.
Speaker 7: I just activated your universal translator. It is a part
of your internal communicator.
Speaker 3: Oh well, Thanks. What's your name?
Speaker 8: A'll Tad Jareth Otta.
Speaker 3: Good to meet you. Darien reached out his right hand.
Speaker 7: Yes, this is a custom of yours, the shaking of
the hands.
Speaker 3: Otta reached out his right hand until Darien's firmly and
began to shake him. Would you like to commeet at
my table? I am sure My friends would love to
meet you.
Speaker 7: Actually, I have people waiting for me, but maybe some
other time.
Speaker 3: They each walk back to their own tables. Darien explained
the encounter to everyone, and everyone decided to activate their
universal translators to avoid any further misunderstandings. Meanwhile, in the
Academy Force, John Matthews, Ethan Evans, and Eric Trent were
on a mission of their own.
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knocking on death's door. But it isn't real. This stuff
really screws with them pass especially powerful and untrained ones.
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I gave you to place at a twenty five percent
level shield in front of you. As the fear increases,
increase the shield level, and I can control that intensity
just by focusing and willing it. Yes, it's just what
we practice when I attack to you in the meditative state.
Speaker 3: Are you sure that I'm ready for this?
Speaker 7: No, you're not ready, but this is an important part
of your training. No impact is ever ready for this
their first time. John, Once Ethan starts to feel the fear,
he will make us aware by holding up his first
and second fingers on his left hand. At this point,
you'll raise your tranquilizer gun and find the more in
your field of vision.
Speaker 8: Got it?
Speaker 7: After John tranks the timor, we will go over to
it and drain the fluid from its sack and release
it back to its pack.
Speaker 10: Holy shit, I just saw one a bunch of them.
Speaker 3: Ethan was looking around warily. His breathing was heavy.
Speaker 10: I don't see them, but I can feel it.
Speaker 22: Pure terror.
Speaker 10: We gotta get out of here.
Speaker 9: This is going to go badly.
Speaker 3: In a panic, Ethan dropped the humatite stone breathe even
just in hell for eight counts, and then exhal for
eight counts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight.
Trent counted through several breaths and hinted Ethan the spherical
human tite that dropped out of his hand. A whole
pack of Timors were migrating past them. John took his
shot at one of the trailing timors, hitting it with
the track. The others didn't seem to react. Ethan held
up the humantite, his arm trembling. Trent began speaking in
a soothing tone to help Ethan began control.
Speaker 7: It's breeding season. They're looking for their mates. Those sacks
filled just before puberty, and they traveled in packs until
they're individual families formed. You see the long, fiery orange
fur that proves their ancestry to the fox family, But
those fear sacks sure seemed more like the.
Speaker 18: Drake of a bullfrog.
Speaker 3: Ethan had lowered the stone. The intense fear had passed.
Speaker 8: I got one.
Speaker 7: Let's go check it out. Ethan. Can you raise your
shield to one hundred percent?
Speaker 16: None?
Speaker 9: I think so yes.
Speaker 3: Trent put his arm out and helped Ethan up from
the forest floor. The crew of three traveled over and
Trent used his skinny two foot long syringe to pull
the fear venom from the cavity under the timorous chin.
Trent put the vial of collective fluid in several cases
before dropping him into his travel back.
Speaker 7: We don't want leak on our hands, he.
Speaker 3: Smiled at Ethan, but Ethan looked a little green and
early half smiled back.
Speaker 7: You did good, Ethan. No one holded together for the
first time, and we're throwing you into this early. There's
not a lot of impact your potential out there, and
we need to get you into the fight.
Speaker 3: Ethan just nodded and focused on getting his emotions back
under control. After lunch, the group headed to their next class.
This particular class was about dream walking. Once everyone was seated,
the instructor came in and the door stealed behind him.
The instructor was a tall, athletic man with long, wavy
brown hair. When he turned to face to class, the
students could see that he had a small scar like
a lion, going across his forehead above his right eye,
and another one under his right eye and crossing the
bridge of his nose. He smiled at the students and
then did a double take when he noticed one of
the students staring at him, and what could only be
described as absolute disbelief, he recognized the student as his
younger brother, Darien. Darien was in complete shock. At first,
the instructor only looked a little familiar to him. Then
it really hit him. He remembered everything he had forgotten,
the missing face in his memories of the family picnics
being playfully teased when he was younger by its older sibling.
It was Sean, and Darien was just now remembering him
the way a person remembers reality after waking from an
intense stream where every memory is different than in real life.
He felt like he was just waking up to a
reality where he always had an older brother, and not
just a younger brother away at military school and a
younger sister who must always protect. Darien remembered that he
was not always the oldest brother. He wondered if his
parents knew about Sean or if they had forgotten him too.
This was very disconcerting. Seawn decided not to say anything yet.
He knew that as soon as Darien saw him, the
memories would come flooding back to him, but he felt
that it would be unprofessional to single his little brother
out in front of the whole class. He decided to
move on with a lesson plan and address the issue
after class. He hoped Darien would understand it and not
make a scene.
Speaker 10: So today we're going to discuss what this class is about,
and then hopefully we can figure out what you all
want to get out of it.
Speaker 3: Darien could tell that his brother to not want to
make a scene during class, and decided that it would
be best to follow along with that course until the
class was over. He was very confused about why the
memories his brother had been absent for so long, but
he knew that attempting to get answers during class would
be embarrassing for both of them, and decided against its
first instinct, which was the jumb up, and confront him
about it in an accusatory manner. This would not end well,
seeing that Darien was not saying anything to him, and
was no longer displaying a total look of shock. Sean
continued to give the class the orientation lecture.
Speaker 10: In this classroom, I will attempt to show you the
benefits of dream walking. I will explain step by step
how it is done, talk about the moral implications along
with what is and what is not appropriate behavior while
interacting with the subject through their dreams, and then take
you all through a guided meditation designed to help us
all experience a shared dream. This is an amazing experience,
and it is why when I came to this academy
years ago, decided to stay on as an instructor to
assist future generations.
Speaker 3: He looked at Darien as he said this, hoping that
it would at least start to explain why he never
came back to their family home. When the class let out,
Darien stated to talk to his brother Sean, I don't
understand why I didn't remember you. You're my older brother.
We grew up together. How can I forget you? Darian
looked almost guilty. Sean understood what Darien was asking it
could see that he was confused about the matter at hand.
Speaker 10: Right, Well, this is how it works.
Speaker 8: When we come here.
Speaker 10: We can be here for up to a year without
the people back home forgetting us, our existence, the memory
of our time shared together. Once we're here for over
a year, however, everyone we have ever known forgets that
we exist until such a time comes when they see
us again. It is at that point that what happened
to you today would happen to anyone in the same situation.
Speaker 3: Darien thought for a moment, I remember when you left
for college five years ago, but you never came back.
Speaker 10: Why Because I found a life yere three years ago.
When I first arrived here, I was amazed at how
different the technology was and how accepting the people here
were of one another, no matter what their backgrounds or beliefs.
There were no religious limitations on the development of technology
or philosophies. I learned so much in the first few
months and got so attached to this place that I
decided I wanted to stay after the initial year.
Speaker 8: When I talked to my instructor.
Speaker 10: About that, they told me what would happen if I stayed.
I decided, after a great deal of thought, that I
would stay. I figured out that tara Wan, our earth,
was my past. In this place was my future.
Speaker 3: Darien thought about what his brother had said and understood
by showing to decide to stay. However, he wanted to
know more. See, you're telling me that there are no
really just fanatics here. Sean looked at Darien, realizing that
Darien was interested in one of the main things that
he had been interested in when he first arrived.
Speaker 10: Well, you see, most major religions of our world never
existed here, which is the main reason why technology is
so much more advanced here than in our world. Do
you know which religion stunted our technological and metaphysical evolution?
Speaker 3: Darien pondered this for a moment. Was I able to
come up with a good answer. I never really thought
about it, to be honest.
Speaker 8: First, I should tell you that religion.
Speaker 10: Was invented to explain things that science could not explain,
especially before science had gained much ground.
Speaker 8: The problem came.
Speaker 10: When society pitted science against religion, rather than an adjusting
religion to cover only that which science could not explain.
When you look at our world and in scientific development,
what you may overlook is that for over a thousand years,
Earth suffered a age of scientific development due to extreme
forms of fundamentalist Christianity. This was great injustice caused mostly
by fear. This world never had Christianity, so that thousand
years was used properly to develop scientifically. And not only that,
but the people who shared this world learned to use
magic and develop it into a science.
Speaker 8: There is something else as well.
Speaker 10: Due to religion and ridiculous traditions, the people of our
earth were biased against people of different origins and skin tones,
so much so that they would marry and or breed
with people only of the same culture and color.
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Speaker 10: There are people here that got away from that terrible
tradition long ago, and they have less than one percent
rate of birth defects.
Speaker 8: And mental disabilities.
Speaker 10: You'll notice that most of the people born here were
highly intelligent and moral. There's no racism or biased against
people for their cultures. Love can blossom between any two
people without any problems. That's another reason I just to
stay here.
Speaker 3: He spoke with passion and clarity. Who was obvious? He
was happy here. It sounds amazing, and I understand what
you said. But couldn't you have contacted us or come
back for a visit so that we would not have
forgotten you? Something Sean had said clicked in Darien's mind,
So who is she? Sean caught every word that Dariens
had said, but wanted to answer in an order that
would explain everything in the most efficient manner.
Speaker 10: The reason I couldn't leave here is because the moment
I would have stepped on to tear in one soil,
I would have begun to forget everything and everyone I
ever met in this world. Happens a lot faster when
you're coming from this world and going back to our world.
After I met Alicia, I didn't want to forget her,
and she didn't want to forget me. So we've decided
to stay here and become instructors in the subjects that
we excelled at and we were most passionate about. In
another six months, we'll be able to leave here and
return to Earth without forgetting each other. It has something
to do with rooting ourselves in this world. At that time,
Alicia and I decided to return.
Speaker 8: We both miss our families.
Speaker 3: It was a lot for Darien to take in. He
still had one questioning, so I had to meet her.
Sean gave a little half smile.
Speaker 8: How about tonight you can join us for dinner?
Speaker 3: Sounds good?
Speaker 24: Better said the table before I'm married, you know, let
me guess Kristen, right, Yeah, how did you know? I
met her when you two first started dating. Don't worry,
you'll remember all of this in the time.
Speaker 10: I do a lot of the cooking myself, but I'll
ask Alicia to set the table for four.
Speaker 3: And I would let christ to know that we have
dinner plans for tonight. Darien just realized that enough time
had passed while he and Sean were talking that he
had missed an entire class. Crap, what is it? I
missed the class? While we were catching up Sean could
see us disappointment and gave him a reassuring smile.
Speaker 10: It was just the first class. I'm positive you didn't
miss much. I will talk to your instructor, though, we'll
need to work something out.
Speaker 8: Go ahead to your next class.
Speaker 3: Darian nodded to Sean an agreement, and left for his
last class of the day. Darien did miss a class,
so the only class he had left was the last
class of the day. Very minute, just in time, and
the door slid shut as he walked into the classroom.
He took a seat next to Kristen and watched this
instructor fit it with one of those computer pads that
they were given in place of textbooks. The instarger looked
up from the pad and greeted the new class.
Speaker 18: Hello, I'm Professor Mahay and this is Immortal Studies.
Speaker 3: He looked at his pad again and made a confused face.
Speaker 18: I think this thing needs an update. It is definitely
not working properly.
Speaker 3: He set the pad down on his white marble desk
and looked up at the class.
Speaker 18: Screw it, guess I'll just wing it.
Speaker 3: He looked around at the students and realized that it
was very evident to them that he was very frustrated.
Speaker 18: Sorry about that. I have some notes that I made
on the thing, and now I can access them, so
I'll have to improvise and recall from memory, which I'm
afraid can be a bit rusty these days with me.
Speaker 3: I do apologize those still clearly frustrated. Meig's professionalism took
over and he again addressed a class.
Speaker 18: This being the first class of this course, most of
you will probably expect it to be an orientation of sorts. Sorry,
that is not my style. Today. We will be diving
right in with a quick look at the different types
of immortals that exist in your world.
Speaker 3: He looked around at the students' faces.
Speaker 18: Before we begin, Can anyone tell me what the definition
of an immortal is?
Speaker 3: Chad raised his hand.
Speaker 18: Yes, mister Chad Ender. Your definition, mister Ender.
Speaker 5: Mortal means something that will never die.
Speaker 18: Interstic anyone else.
Speaker 3: Meig noticed another hand. It's from this time. It belonged
to a slender, brown haired young woman.
Speaker 14: Yes, miss Cynthia Trask. Immortal should literally mean something that
will live forever.
Speaker 3: Right. Professor Mahague stared for a moment and then composed himself.
Speaker 18: Well, I'm sorry, but you're both wrong. The literal definition
of the immortal is that which cannot die by mortal means.
This can mean a creature that cannot be killed by
the same means as immortal or human. Now, there are
many different types of immortals, and they range from very
evil to very good and every alignment in between. Can
anyone here tell me about a type of immortal?
Speaker 3: I doubt it that anyone knew anything about any type
of immortal. But out of fliteness, he ateed a humoments
before speaking again. Mush, surprise, there were two students through
his hands, he pointed to one of them.
Speaker 18: Yes, mister Max Knight, go on vampires.
Speaker 8: Seen a few of those.
Speaker 3: Before Megue was a little surprised by this, But then
you realize that this was not so out of the ordinary.
Eric also interjected before Megan had a chance to.
Speaker 2: Continue, Me too, dealt with my fair share of them.
Speaker 18: Right, Well, I trust you both know how to deal
with the more evil of their kind.
Speaker 4: Stick to the heart, decapitation, sunlight. And what do you
mean by the more evil of their kind? Aren't they
all evil?
Speaker 8: Sounds right to me.
Speaker 18: To the under educated, it would seem that all vampires
are evil, soulless creatures bent on feeding on all of humanity. However,
that is not exactly the case.
Speaker 8: I've never met a good one.
Speaker 18: As I stated earlier, all immortals of every type run
the spectrum between good and evil. The vampires that appear
to be evil are in fact blood addicts. They are
addicted to human blood and are therefore a menace to
human society. Some vampires actually drink animal blood, either from
the animal itself or from a butcher shop. These vampires
are not evil at all. They have jobs, they pay taxes,
and they move around every ten years or so, so
they don't raise suspicions about their immortality among the locals.
Some even fight on the same side that we do.
They still have their humanity. What makes any person evil,
be it mortal or immortal, is a lack of compassion
and empathy for others, sociopathy, if you will. Much of
this has to do with addiction. If someone is addicted
to a substance, that person will do anything to get it,
regardless of who it hurts. Some people are addicted to power,
like much of your politicians in the terran dimensions. They
will say or do anything to obtain and maintain their power.
The same goes for drug addicts. As long as they
are chasing their next hie, they will do anything and
say anything to get their drug of choice. Even once
they are clean, that behavior never fully goes away. They
may instead use legal drugs like cigarettes, or they may
use food as a substitute for their drug. They may
no longer pose a threat to society, but they still
pose one to themselves generally, albeit maybe a minor one.
With vampires, that addiction is human blood. Most vampires that
succumb to the lust for human blood on a regular
basis have not evolved past it. They do not plan
for the future. They only live for the moment. This
happens mostly to orphaned vampires. They have no one to
train them, and they are reacting to their new circumstances.
Speaker 3: Ma Hague paused for a moment when he saw that
one of his students had a distressed look on his face.
He walked over to the student.
Speaker 18: Something I said sounded familiar to you.
Speaker 3: Darien, remembered. Justin He wondered, now if time and understanding
could have saved him, You could say that it was
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the party and he was paling, looked sickly. He had
two telltale marks of being bitten by a vampire. There
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Speaker 18: Being a vampire? Correct?
Speaker 3: The had have happened earlier that evening. He was definitely
still human at graduation.
Speaker 18: Was he a friend?
Speaker 3: No, In fact, he was a bit of a jerk.
He didn't have many friends.
Speaker 18: You did nothing wrong. It is obvious that his sire
did not stick around to train him and was probably
a blood addict who only made this justin a vampire
out of some sort of guilt for draining too much
of his blood. From the way that you describe justin
I can only assume that when he lunged at the
person he was going to feed on, that it would
have been his first taste of blood as a vampire.
Things would not have gone well from there. This does
bring up an interesting point, though, I.
Speaker 3: Went back to the position directly in front of his desk.
Speaker 18: How does one know when to kill a vampire and
when to simply walk away or perhaps make a new
friend of one. How can we tell when a vampire
is completely evil and a lost cause. The answer is simple.
If a vampire is causing harm to a human, we'd
kill it. If you're in the woods one day and
see the rather disgusting sight of a vampire feeding on
an animal, just leave it a and do not call
attention to yourself. If you are in a combat situation
and you notice any vampires fighting on the same side
as you and not even feeding off of the enemy,
you may indeed make a new friend. If they are
fighting on the opposite side and again not even feeding
off of the humans on your side, you will have
to make a judgment call as to whether or not
they are evil or just following a different set of
rules from what you're used to. Sometimes it can be
hard to tell. But if their game face is on
and they are attacking, you dust them.
Speaker 3: He looked at his watch, and so all that class
time was coming to an end.
Speaker 18: Okay, you should be able to access chapters one and
two in your Immortal Studies text. You should be able
to access it through your tablet. Bless it needs an update.
Speaker 3: He gave a little half smile. At the end. The
class chuckled a bit.
Speaker 18: Class dismissed.
Speaker 20: Come along, now, James, follow me. I have a special
room for you.
Speaker 3: James submissively followed her down the dark stairs and into
a long, dimly lit hallway. She clutched his arm and
guided him roughly through a doorway near the end of
the hall into a dark basement chamber. He collapsed into
a corner on a dirty, ragged mattress.
Speaker 20: Now you won't tell Mike Mara about how special place,
will you? This is our secret. If you do what
I say, I'll let you have a taste of me.
Would you like to have a taste James?
Speaker 3: James nodded and began to drool. A little dominator tied
him up with leather straps with spikes on the inside.
As she tightened the straps, tears began to stream down
James's face and he began to whimper, but he didn't
dare speaking protest. She leaned forward and took a tiny
bite from his lip and spit it out. Dark blood
trickled from the wound. Oh so odd.
Speaker 19: Now stop crying, or I'll show you the true meaning
of pain and then you'll have something with crying about.
Speaker 3: Dominator took a plasma blade from her hipholster. She methodically
began to slice away James's clothing with surgical precision. Intermittently
she would slice open a shallow wound, allowing James to
wonder if it was an accident or not. Blood began
to stream down his legs, saturating his socks. He was
starting to get light headed. She pulled him by his
legs so he was laying flat on the ground and
squatted over him, using your plasma blade to carve cymbals
into his bare chest, just barely deep enough to leave
a faint scar. It wasn't long before the pain and
loss of blood caused him to lose consciousness. As the
class led out, Darien remembered something important. Once Dari and
Kriston were in the hall, he pulled on our side.
Do you remember our dream walking instructor? Well, he's my brother,
can you believe it? His name is Sean, and he
invited us to have dinner with him and his fiancee todays.
Speaker 6: Wow, really, Darien, that's awesome. So many interesting things are
happening here. We should probably do our homework first, do
we have time?
Speaker 3: Kristin was always wanted to get her homework done as
soon as she could, but it was usually stressful in
boring her. This time, however, it seemed like she was
actually looking forward to doing it. I don't see why not. Well,
let's get back to our dorm so we can get started.
Later that evening, Darien and Kristen arrived at Shawn's house.
It was located on the outspiritts of town, but still
protected by the shield to cover the academy. All the
teachers would god in the houses near the academy grounds.
This convenient location would not only make it easier for
them the being class on time, but also to a
needed tech support for their tablets while planning a lesson
or grating papers as a tech could be dispatched to
their homes easily. The houses were designed with input from
the instructor who would live in the home. Shawn's home
interior and exterior design looked a lot like Darien's parents.
It was a single story save for a small upper room,
making it a pale blue caped coi with white shutters.
There was even a single apple tree in the front
yard with a tire swim just like the one Darien
and Christen's out figure. The sense of familiarity put Darien
and Christen quite a bit at ease. Darian knocked on
the door. It's uncanny. Kristin looked around at the other
houses and then back at Sean's.
Speaker 6: Most of these houses don't even look like typical American houses,
but this one looks almost exactly like your house.
Speaker 3: He must have needed this in order to stay here.
The door opened to reveal a beautiful woman in her
early twenties with dark brown hair and a very genuine smile.
She looked at him.
Speaker 17: You must be Darien.
Speaker 3: Yes, nice to meet you. Alicia then shifted her attention Kristen.
Speaker 17: Sean's description of you did not do you justice. You
are quite a lovely looking young lady. I hope you
don't mind the compliment. I'm Alicia, Sean's fiance. Please come in,
dinner is almost ready.
Speaker 3: She ushered the two of them in and showed them
to the dining room table. The three of them sat down.
Speaker 17: Sean will be out with dinner in a few minutes.
Speaker 12: It's so nice to meet you, Alicia.
Speaker 3: Shawn entered the room with a tray in his right hand.
As he set the tray on the table, he revealed
it Darien and Kristen what appeared to be a large
insect with its shell oven and steam rising from its meat.
Speaker 10: I know this must look strange to you, but once
you changed it, you'll agree it's quite good.
Speaker 3: Sean had a convincing but playfully sinister smile. Kristin looked
at it.
Speaker 12: What is it?
Speaker 3: All eyes were on Sean, so he decided to respond.
Speaker 10: A type of beadle that lives outside of the shielded
area of the school.
Speaker 8: A few of us like to hunt them for food.
Speaker 10: You see, other than replicated food, we have to provide
our own food at the academy. There are no cows
or chickens or any other Taran based means here, so
we have to make do with what this world provides
for sub eistenics, hence the beetles. They are considered a delicacy.
Here we grow vegetables as well, but they're also a
bit different than what you have at home.
Speaker 8: The beetle we.
Speaker 10: Are having tonight is stuffed with some of the veggies
from a Lucia's guard.
Speaker 3: Sean cauld still see a look of concern on both
their faces.
Speaker 8: Just try it, I promise it, I'll part you.
Speaker 3: Sean scooped out some of the inside of the large
beetle and placed it on Darien's plate. He didn't give
a slight nod indicating he wanted Darien to try it. Darien,
a bit nervous, decided to taste it and put some
on his fork. Once he put it in his mouth,
he gave Sean a looking approval. After he swallowed, he
offered some feedback. This tastes like a really good combination
of chicken and shrimp. Is that Cajun seasoning on the table?
Sean smiled.
Speaker 8: I told you it was good.
Speaker 10: It isn't exactly Cajun seasoning. That's something similar that we
were able to replicate. Not all spices can accurately be replicated,
but close enough right.
Speaker 3: Seeing Darien's response, Christen.
Speaker 12: Decided to try it delicious.
Speaker 3: There was more than enough for the four of them.
Finishing up, Christen decided to ask another question about the food.
Speaker 12: So, Sean, is this the only real meat this world
has to offer?
Speaker 3: Sean smiled at the question.
Speaker 10: No, this is just what it's left from what I
hunted over the weekend. We actually had a flying possum
beetle that was delicious, but they're difficult to hunt due
to their large stingers that can be dangerous.
Speaker 3: Darien perked up at this. Yeah, we witnessed a girl
getting stabbed by one of those stingers when we first
arrived here. She was lucky we were able to get
her to the med center in time. Sean looked at
Darien gravely.
Speaker 10: Yes, it was fortunate that you were able to get
her the medical attention she needed at the time. Flying
possum beetles are very deadly. They tend to prey on
new arrivals. Most of the time, this place is shielded
from such threats, but when anyone or anything is arriving
from another dimension, the shield must be deactivated so that
the object or people can arrive safely. Unfortunately, this allows
bugs to land anywhere within the campus. Usually they're detected
and destroyed before anyone gets hurt, but there.
Speaker 3: Are always exceptions.
Speaker 10: You know, Darien, you should come on a hunt with
me sometime. You may enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Garian looked at Christen for a moment, then to Sean.
I don't know. I've never hunted before.
Speaker 10: It's a challenge, but I can teach you how. We
use a stunner to drop them and then we use
a large knife to cut them up.
Speaker 3: For me, you can come with me this weekend. It'll
be fun, all right. It'll give us some time to
spend together, just the two of us. After dinner, Alicia
brought them a very interesting dessert. She had replicated the
taste a lot like chocolate, but with some form of
imitation flavoring. Once they had finished his art, they decided
to take a walk around the neighborhood so they could
continue to talk.
Speaker 10: So how are you finding your other classes?
Speaker 3: I usually use a tablet map where I ask someone.
Darien smirked Chris and nudged Darien aside and answered, honestly, I.
Speaker 12: Really like immortal studies. The professor seems.
Speaker 3: Very knowledgeable, except when it comes to the tablets. He
wasn't very knowledgeable about the when he was using.
Speaker 10: The guy has been around since the Civil War, he's
entitled to be a little slow on how new tech works.
This place definitely takes some getting used to, but I
promise it'll be worth it in the end.
Speaker 12: So what made you decide to stay here?
Speaker 10: Well, it was really a few things. One thing was
that I really didn't want to forget this experience or
the variety of people I met here.
Speaker 3: Another thing, Wait a minute, we'll forget our experiences too. Sean,
realizing he had said too much, sighed as he reluctantly continued.
Speaker 10: The thing is, when you go back to Earth, you'll
not remember all of your experiences here. It's a byproduct
of travel between astral plain and the physical world. You'll
only remember some of the people you meet, namely the
ones that go back with you, and you'll only remember
your lessons and experiences here when you need them in
order to deal with a situation where your regular military
or academic training will not suffice. If you are chosen
to be part of the United Alliance military, you will
travel to so many worlds and deal with so many
different types of threats that you'll be forced to remember
most of your training rather quickly.
Speaker 3: United Alliance.
Speaker 10: Yes, this academy is run and funded by a coalition
of different worlds called the United Alliance of Dimensions. Their
goal is to protect all Allied worlds from natural and
unnatural disasters and supernatural threats. Sometimes they can accomplish this
by simply training soldiers to be ready for these threats
and then sending them back to their own world to
protect it, while other times they pick a few extraordinary
people and incorporate them into the battalions response teams, made
up of medics, soldiers, and diplomats trained to deal with disasters.
Speaker 8: In supernatural threats.
Speaker 10: It is rare that such an individual is chosen, but
it is a great honor. I actually wanted to be
a diplomat for the battalions, but I guess I wasn't
what they were looking for.
Speaker 6: So if we never came up against any threat that
the Academy prepared us for, we would never have access
to those memories.
Speaker 10: Theoretically, yes, but you would not be training here if
there wasn't a really good.
Speaker 3: Reason for it. Does the American government know about Elvis.
Sean had been wondering if they would.
Speaker 8: Ask this good question.
Speaker 10: Actually, the only governments that have knowledge of the United
Alliance are One World governments. The recruiter you guys met
was a mole in your government who is part of
a sub organization of the UAB called the Order of Magistrates.
They are embedded in the militaries of different worlds to
seek out extraordinary people for the Academy programs. She is
also my twin sister, which makes her your older.
Speaker 8: Sister, Darien.
Speaker 3: Darien was uncertain how to respond to this. He realized
that the reason he didn't remember her had something to
do with her being at the Academy too. But with Sean,
he remembered him as soon as he saw him. He
wondered why that wasn't the case with Samantha. Why didn't
she say anything, and why didn't you remember her? When
I saw her? Sean could see that Darien was a
bit disturbed by this.
Speaker 10: I don't know, it's not an exact science. She may
have chosen to remain anonymous for her own reasons. I
haven't spoken to her in a long time. She is
stationed on the Terran dimensions, so she may be in
and out of our earth frequently enough that it interfered
with your her ability to remember her. I guarantee that
she remembered you. She just didn't say anything.
Speaker 3: Darien was concerned that it may be a while before
he was reunited with his older sister. Whenever it happened,
He wanted to ask her why she chose not to
identify herself as his sister. Christen, seeing that this was
not easy for Darien, put her hand on his shoulder.
She still had another question, when it was not about Samantha.
Speaker 12: How do they know who is extraordinary?
Speaker 10: The Order knows they have psychics that can seek out
people with special abilities. Either the person has some sort
of physical or psionic ability, or the person exhibits extreme intelligence.
Either way, they become an asset.
Speaker 3: Sean, why did they choose us? Why are we here?
Sean looked pensive for a moment.
Speaker 10: You'll have to discover that on your own, even if
I knew it would be a direct violation to tell you. Also,
I can tell you is the Order does not make mistakes.
So you're both here.
Speaker 3: For a reason. His brothers was resonated in his mind.
Darien's impatience had his mind racing. His mind was now
focused on finding the reason they were chosen.
Speaker 12: Could it have something to do with our exposure to vampires?
Speaker 10: No, there are many people in our world that are
aware of the existence of the supernatural, but only a
few of them can actually do something about it.
Speaker 8: Rest assured.
Speaker 10: If everyone here is here for a reason, you have
some ability beyond the normals of your world, and the
ability makes you a candidate for training. You may even
find yourself recruited for Battalion thirteen, which would be one hell.
Speaker 7: Of a ride.
Speaker 3: Sean stared out into the distance for a moment.
Speaker 10: Well, you too, should get back to your dorm now
you have a full day of learning ahead of you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for dinner, and it was great meeting you, Alicia.
Speaker 17: You're very welcome.
Speaker 3: Darien and Christen began their walk back to the dorm.
Speaker 11: July eighteenth, nineteen nine five. There is acrid in every city.
In town we come across, Chewing mintz helps us to
both keep our food down and our blood sugar up.
Speaker 3: We've seen the group of Destroyers a.
Speaker 11: Few times now. Jake seems to know how to track them,
and he's been communicating with someone who tells us where
to go next. Our job is to pick up clues.
This is difficult when pretty much everything is burnt to
a crisp. I think Jake knows the leader of the
destroyers because he seems emotionally hurt in a way that
Jamie and I don't understand. I haven't gotten close enough
to see the destroyer's face. I don't know if i'd
want to, since it's probably the face of the most
horrible monster I can imagine. I have a few weapons
now that I can use with some accuracy. Last night,
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Speaker 3: I trust her with.
Speaker 11: Every fiber of my being. Tonight we made a simple
chili with some black beans we found in a cute
little farmhouse. Sometimes I wish I didn't remember my old life.
I could be sipping a hot cocoa and watching Star
Wars and snuggling on a couch with Mom and Dad.
I missed him so much and journal entry.
Speaker 3: Hey babe, looking fine? What's different? Wait?
Speaker 9: Let me guess where's your scar?
Speaker 3: Did you get it removed?
Speaker 20: No, babe, I'm just trying something new. This makeup chick
came to the door and she gave me free makeover.
She did such a good job that I decided to
let her go instead of feeding her to the vampires.
Speaker 8: Wow, you really did like her.
Speaker 3: You guys gonna be BFFs or something.
Speaker 20: I'm not sure yet. I did place an order with
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Speaker 19: That way a confine her in case I change my mind.
Speaker 10: Still, it does look like she gave you a pretty
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Speaker 20: Thanks babe.
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