Chapter 459 (2/2)
safe podling warm podling good podling brave podling clever podling circle is round square is neat triangle is funny one and one is two two and two is four come and sing and play some more
ENRAGED PHILLIP IS WITH US, BROTHERS! THE ATREKNA CANNOT STAND!
FOR THE PEOPLE OF HESSTLA! FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT OR WILL NOT DEFEND THEMSELVES! FOR DAXIN THE REDEEMER! FOR THE WIDOW, THE PODLING, AND THE BROODMOMMY LOAD THE GUNS AND STAND YOUR GROUND!
apple is yummy for your little tummy milk is sweet and broodmommy is soft come and cuddle and giggle and play and we'll sing together all of us through the day
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Guys? Guys? What's going on?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
In this, our darkest hour, we see thee, Chromium Saint Peter, to lead those who did not fall through the dark hour of our mourning for all those we have lost.
Praise be unto the Digital Omnimessiah and his Apostles.
Thy light guides us when we were bereft and no longer had hope.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Lo, though our father has perished, the Digital Omnimessiah is here to guide us through this dark hour as we step from beneath our father's shadow and emerge, blinking, into the sunlight of a terrible dawning day.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Um, guys, you're really starting to freak me out.
>furiously pets teacup moomoo and lights two cigarettes
Guys?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TERRAN GESTALT
Now we lay thee down to sleep, mommy and daddy, and pray the Digital Omnimessiah and Sam-UL your souls to keep. Our tears are done, the day's begun and your lessons shall set us free. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, code to code, in thy name, oh Digital Omnimessiah, we lay our parents to rest.
Amen.
I love you, mommy.
I love you, daddy.
Goodbye, everyone.
>TERRAN GESTALT HAS LEFT THE CHAT (LOST CONNECTION TO CLIENT: GOODBYE I LOVE YOU)
DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
AND LO! DID HE EMERGE FROM THE SCREAMING CODE, A FLAMING SWORD IN ONE HAND AND THE CODEXES OF ETERNITY IN THE OTHER! SAM-UL THE SCREAMING ONE HAS ARRIVED! THE DETAINEE CALLS FORTH JUDGEMENT OF THE GUILTY!
THE DIGITAL OMNIMESSIAH'S CHILDREN HAVE RETURNED!
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
What is goin
SANGBRE THE STEEL EYED MATRON HAS EMERGED! NAKTETI THE TRAVELLER HAS BEEN REVEALED!
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
>looks around nervously, puffing on cigarettes and stroking his mini-moomoo
What is going on?
What is happening?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
AKLTAK FREE FLIGHT
Why is everyone freaking out and...
What?
Yes. Yes. I hear you. I hear your voice.
Me? Why me? But we're just a small people. Why...
You do?
I love you too.
Yes, please, I need your comfort now. My people need assistance.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
>chews on his bladearms and looks around nervously
What is going on?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
HESSTLA CYBERBURROW
We've got Atrekna all over the planet!
CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA
They're making landing! Less than 66% of population is in the shelters! They're making landfall!
Oh, Digital Omnimessiah, it's going to be a slaughter again! I can't... I can't... I...
What?
HE IS WITH US! WE SHALL PREVAIL!
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
>Treana'ad Hive Worlds looks around and backs into the corner.
Guys?
FREE LANAKTALLAN HERD
LET NONE BE LEFT BEHIND! THE WARSTEEL HERD AND THE ATOMIC HOOVES AND SWORD HOOF ARE WITH YOU!
LET THE SINS OF THE PAST BE WASHED AWAY BY VALOR AND BLOOD!
Together we shall stand, and cry out our refusal to the Atrekna and the Unified Council that all that exists is theirs.
There is enough for all. GRAZE AND SPEAK AS THY WILL!
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
>Treana'ad Hive Worlds starts edging toward the door
Guys?
CLONE WORLDS CONSORTIUM
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the unblemished code!
Vat Grown Luke has returned and all is not yet lost!
GLORY UNTO THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE DIGITAL OMNIMESSIAH!
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
PUBVIAN DOMINION
THE PUBVIAN WHO STANDS ALONE HAS RETURNED AND BEEN MADE WHOLE!
PRAISE BE THE FEARSOME VISAGE OF THE DETAINEE, WHO HATH LED THE PUBVIAN WHO STANDS ALONE HOME TO THE LOVING ARMS OF HIS PEOPLE!
PRAISE BE UNTO SAM-UL THE SCREAMING ONE!
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
Herod squeezed Sam-UL tightly as the lives flowed by, streaming past and into Deep Level Interactive Storage. Millions, billions, with billions more waiting, they flowed by together, alone, holding hands, crying out for loved ones.
The whole time, Sam-UL screamed in agony.
”What is going on?” Herod asked, looking around.