Vol 6 Chapter 8 (1/2)
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at 28th of October 2019 09:38:59 AM
Chapter 8
Cloudhaas led into a huge, empty audience hallAs he entered, the door shut behind himNo mark or seem was left to show there had been a door there at all
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The interior was a singular, unblemished wholeThe walls were sh the room ell lit there was no obvious source for itThis had to be the audience chamber for the one they called ‘Father’ In his time Cloudhawk had dealt with all sorts of people, but never a strange intelligence like thisHe was as confused as he was curious
“I’ into the center of the roo?”
“You should not be here”
It was the voice of the one the proto-huence that kept this place runningA relic froh synthetic, spoke naturally and in a manner easy for Cloudhawk to understandThere was no mechanical coldness to it, instead he sounded like any ed man from his oorld
If he had not been told of ‘Father’s’ real identity, Cloudhaould have assu soh a speakerBut indeed he felt nothingCloudhawk’s superhus and those mysterious entities like Gods and deram, and thus impervious to Cloudhawk’s senses
“Where are you?”
“I am everywhere, and nowhereThe Ark itself is my body”
“The Ark? You mean this nest? Why aren’t I welco to harm you”
Father’s deep, steady voice answeredIt caes of humanityNew hueAccording to reat deal of danger and potential for destructionThus, your presence goes against my core directiveThe Ark does not welcome youNew Earth does not welcome youWe request that you and all of your people vacate this planet immediately”
There was a note of hostility in the nized the truth, that he was indeed a harbinger of chaosOf all the places he’d traveled, feere left unscathed by this curse he bore
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But this place could be differentIt was a completely different worldSkycloud, the wasteland, Gods, demons… they weren’t likely to show up here
Cloudhawk had neither the capabilities nor the interest to settle this planet en masseGreen Alliance had spent the ti baseAfter all of that, did Father expect hiive up and leave?
The war between Skycloud and the Green Alliance drew nearer every dayWhat they’d built here was too important to abandon!
Cloudhawk’s time was preciousMonths of time and effort couldn’t just be throay, that would ht mean increased losses, maybe irrecoverable lossesHe wasn’t the man he used to be, and as the Green Alliance’s leader he had to consider everyto put theer because an electronic brain asked hiinal people have been separate for a thousand years, but we’re still fundaued“We are all continuations of that ancient cultureWhy can’t we join hands and develop together? My Green Alliance had once nearly been lost, but noork toward a brighter future”
“New humans have no future” Father’s voice wasno room for doubtIts frank claim dampened Cloudhawk’s enthusiasm“Your existence is merely an experiment: You are test subjects, and speci ta here you bring that scrutiny towards usTo the Ark, attention is a fatal circu? Test subjects?”
“You still do not understand? Your world, like this and all the others, is doomed to absolute destructionYour destiny is to vanish from a dead and barren landscapeThere is no hopeResistance is futileIt is an end you cannot escape”
“You know so, don’t you? Like what destroyed this world”
“I have erased this data froerousIt is knowledge that leads its knowers to ruin” Father continued“You should not have come here, so I ask that you are your people return to your world”
“I don’t care what’s going on behind the scenesBut if you’re telling me not to even try and resist then I can’t accept that” Cloudhawk shook his head“No h”
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