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[Nerd]

November 17, 2040

Android AB17-C is presented at the world faire in Sydney, Austramerica.

Humanity looks on, with anticipation as well as fear, for this is no ordinary AI. People from all over the planet watch, from Canadamerica to Chinamerica watch as this superbeing is unveiled for the first time...

The music plays loudly and the lights burst hypnotically on stage as the curtains are pulled away.










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[Garanz2]

The end

[BOC]

welllllll that was very short.

[Logical2u]

I blinked and I missed that plotline! NOOOOO! And I think you are right about Canadamerica, though I wont say why online.

[Nerd]

A hush fell upon the crowd as a small figure appeared from behind the crushed velvet curtain, flowing like cerulean seas. Slowly the stunted creature ambled to the podium, stepped away..stepped back, and away again.

It was a girl, but it wasn't.. everyone knew what was coming, a sickening anxiety that turned stomachs and unwrenched bowels, a dark pathos that hung over humanity like a thunderhead.

A Forward?

20 years come and gone, America had become an empire. Only one enemy remained, Russia, but not as the russians themselves. Russia had become the playground of all those opposed to the Imperialistic iron claw of America. Three billion chinese fled, emptying a large quadrant of then-China, further toward the interior of Russia, together with the European Alliance formed in 2024 a wall of defense was forged. This quickly became a burgeoning offense, the Americas united against now Eurussia in the final apocalyptic battle for Earth.

Why did things come to this? Overcrowding, starvation, greed...the American lust for the Great Everything began to spill over when there was not enough to divide amongst the billions. Over one billion people were counted in the US alone in the great census of 2020. In these times, most of the rest of humanity sought the 'american lifestyle' in a blind philosophical "follow the leader." Everyone did know that someday these ways would have to end, but none thought so soon.

It came swiftly, and the War raged for many months, yet somehow not as many were killed as would have been thought in this world conflict. People still sat at home, non-rationed, watching television day and night, updated, re-updated and updated again. In these ultrasophisticated times, many machines died, for man thought most of himself.

Then the inevitable came. Despite the amount of entertaining science fiction 'warnings' we were given, mankind sought the last refuge of war, automatons. "Indistinguishable by human eyes" became the ultimate goal of the Robot War, which raged on both sides with ever more fanatically realistic androids.

[BOC]

oooooo, theres more!!!

an american empire, a chinese-russian-european alliance thing. a robot war.

this sounds very promising!

[Logical2u]

Whoa... it's like the Matrix! With a human war too!

[Nerd]

The figure stood, twisted, wretching. Her clothes, designed elegantly to introduce an elegant weapon, tattered and stained, maroon and crimson.

She looked around the stage, ignoring the crowd of Americans gathered to witness the introduction of the ultimate hidden predator, one who could snipe in the open, could smile while tearing organs out of innocents, demagogues and saints. She looked around for something, something unseen.

Then, turning toward the crowd at last, she approached the podium for the third and last time. She stepped up with a snarled face, her eyes afire with golden light..she whispered

"penance"

The crowd looked around nervously, something was amiss. Was this nightmare really true?

"Penance"

she repeated again, more audibly this time. Rustling of voices and bodies began, people began to back away from the stage in this massive open-air auditorium.

"PENANCE!!!!!!!!!!"

Her voice pierced air and mind, the last of her word screeched through the speakers, blowing them out. A moment of complete silence fell upon the whole arena..then she glared at the audience, her eyes shown brilliant fire and an invisible pulse burst from her tiny frame, moving slowly out into the crowd.

People in the front were first. Then would shudder, then explode. Not so much into pieces, but utterly liquify in place, becoming massive globes of blood before bursting outward into the crowd.

The wave moved slowly, invisible, but felt. Row after row burst into liquid, covering seats, aisles, filling the stadium in blood. Screaming and agony was heard all around, those in the back began panicking, trampling each other to get out of the stadium. They could not escape, the pulse moved outward, crushing all where they stood, sat, ran. Blood and tiny fragments of bone began pouring down the tiered walkways, swirling around at the base of the stage as the creature looked on, cold, gleaming. The city seemed to stand still for a moment. The last couple of rows on the far east corner had been spared this horrid fate, they sat frightened, motionless, deer in the headlight of fate.

She focused for another pulse..but something was amiss to her as well.

The deepest rumbling shook through her core.

[Logical2u]

AhhHhh! sCARY!

[Nerd]

Through her circuits an echo hummed.. then screamed

UNSEALING OF ANTITHESIS!

She found it hard to resist.

UNSSSSSSSSSSSEALINGGGGG

What could she do?

DARKNNNNNNNNESSSSSSS

Looking up, the twisted cyborg saw ..nothing. Black. The sky had disappeared. The rumbling, the Voice, a deeply penetrating and rhythmic pumping within her, through the ground and earth. Everything was gone.

Then, like hearing the ocean through a seashell, she found herself again, slowly through the distance to reality. Still standing on stage, though it was now dusk. The sun was setting and the blood of many-dead had congealed into what looked like tar. The moon hung full and low upon the sky. She felt something.

The moon began fracturing as she stared on blankly.

COMING

Splitting into several large pieces, the moon spread apart and moon meteorites began hurtling toward earth. Through the center of where the moon once lie, a dark object rocketed through. Growing larger..nearer

Soooooonnnnnn

She could feel the gravity of the moon, the pulsing of the Voice, the entry of the Tomb into the atmosphere. It was larger than the horizon it seemed, carrying stars and planets with it. The moon fell away, pieces falling into earth's stratosphere and off the horizon.

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU

"No" she said aloud. She shook the Voice out.

"NO"

Her body began dematerializing. She marveled for a moment, then pitch. Nothing. Swimming in tar, swimming in death, coma.

The Tomb hit earth, dwarfing the impact of the larger section of the moon that found its way deep into the crust somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The tomb didn't stop.. it just wouldn't. The Dark Titan struck the Earth and pierced the crust, continuing through magma and finally slowing with gravity forcing the vector around the core and up toward the surface crust on the other side of the planet.


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