Jarina Roth's Story

"Ha!" Jarina said. "What'd I tell you, sis? Easy pickings, right?"
Myrdria looked down at the torn-up bunker. There were many holes in the roof, through which she and her sister could see large amounts of food, water and gold. "Yeah," she said. "I guess you were right."
"Okay! Let's go get it!" Her sister, a self-proclaimed "tomb raider" (even though they were just kids who had lived and survived in these ruins since they were young), began to skip down the hill to the bunker.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Myrdria grabbed hold of Jarina's collar. "We can't go down there 'til we've scouted it out, remember?"
The half-elven teenage girl squirmed in her sister's grasp. "Aww, come on! I wanna get some gold."
"You're too greedy for your own good, sister. One day, it will come back to bite you in the-"
She stopped, then cocked her head, as if listening to something. "Do you hear that?" Both sisters gained some of the great hearing abilities as the elves, due to their blood.
Jarina stopped and strained her ears. "Hey, I do too! Sounds like some big blast of- hey, what's that?"
Five streamlined spaceships touched down onto the ruins about 500 feet away, near some courtyard or something, with a whoosh of air. Strange, metallic beings clambered out of it.
"Crap! Get down!" Myrdria hissed, pulling her sister and herself behind a broken concrete wall. Through the holes, they could see the creatures setting up camp, whilst still being concealed.
"What are they, sis?" Jarina whispered.
"I don't know, sis. I don't know."

The C.O.R.e filled out in a single file line, one after another. In total that had unloaded from the ships, there were 50 standing there, their eyes booted up with a red glare, but slowly drifted into purple. Their shell was mainly white, with purple pulsing through the veins of the bio-machine. All of the bots ecept one was a direct Hivemind of C.O.R.e . The Bot was a sentient bio-machine and was in a obviously higher rank in their hierarchy. He was taller, looked around, and seemed to blink and react to the surroundings. With a dark, and very synthetic voice, it said "Go to the University group. C.O.R.e 3482692794 will lead group 1. Group 2 will led by C.O.R.e 8897339, and said group will partol the area. If you find civilians, bring them to me. FEARH THON REDUX!" And with that all the C.O.R.e stomped and saluted upon the word Redux. They immediatly went to work, and with no time being wasted.\



The 2nd group of bots started walking down the ruined streats and breaking up, but also rejoining the group walking up and down the roads, almost making the roads look alive again.

Stalking the group nearby, Bersiar had cloaked himself and enchanted his boots so his footfalls were utterly silent. Behind the invisibility he wore enchanted robed and hood along with a wooden mask with a transfixed face that looked like an expression of dread. He kept a close eye out for potential loot for himself, he might even find himself a spellbook to gain even more power.

Though it was not obvious, behind the mask he wore he had an expression of focus and utter contempt for the group he sees before him.

The Sentient C.O.R.e or S.C.O.R.e told a half division that "If they found a merc, hire them and promise them good loot and sharings (As the C.O.R.e, nor the S.C.O.R.e would not really need to lie anyway) Promise them, ancient knowledge if they are... That type.. Promise them weopens or tech if they want it. We need more help... And Redux knows how much of a annoyence we can't just bring a Angel decender and just annex this city. And one more thing, promise them food and infinite life if they are good enough."

He heard tell of the loot that the C.O.R.e were talking about and he moved closer to the location. He kept his swords close by incase he needed to fight. The talk of ancient knowledge and weapons was simply very tempting to him but it could be a trap, he bided his time in the shadows.

The two girls stared frightened at the machine men. "What do we do, sis?!" Janith whispered.
"We do the one thing we can do," Myrdria said. "We run."
"But- but this is our home!"
"Yeah, well they live in it now. If they catch us, who knows what sort of things they'll do to us? We have no choice. Maybe we can get help somewhere else."
"Where?! Where?!"
"I don't know! Somewhere! But we need to leave. You've got all your stuff in that bag of yours right?"
"Uh huh. Just like you always said; 'bring all your stuff with you so nobody can take it from you later.'"
"That bag is our home. It has our food, water and gold. Everything we'd need out in the Big World, wherever that is."
"But sis! We've never been out of the ruins in our life! Where are we gonna go?!"
"Pick a direction, and start travelling."
Janith looked around, tears starting to form in her eyes. She didn't want to leave this place. She liked it. It was familiar. The Big World, she didn't know shit about. But they had no choice.
I promise I'll come back, she thought. I promise on all my gold. I do.
"Let's go... west."
"Alright," Myrdria said. "Let's go."
The girls ran.

C.O.R.e could easily hear the running and the hard panting of the girls. On a intersection of a alley way that the girls were running in the C.O.R.e blocked them off. 2 in front, and 2 in the back. They grabbed the girls and dragged them back to the camp.

S.C.O.R.e took a long, and thoughtful stare at the girls before he said anything. "Bring them food. Scans idicate they are not fed properly and regularly." It continued to stare at them while the food was being prepared. "So. Are you spies of the Aschen Empire. I would have no doubts once so ever they are keeping tabs on us. They are fools. By Redux, even their Emperor has given up his posisition. He is either a lunitic, or a man with a plan. Also, what race are you humanoids? I will answer any of your questions if you answer mine."

As he said that C.O.R.e scientists pulled out a heavy cache of most certainly powerful weopens and wealth, and loaded it into the ships. The weopens of the old were destructive enough to destroy entire systems. The C.O.R.e must hold these away from the Aschen or anyone who would use these to destroy or use these to take controll of the Multiverse. After all, there is a reason why they are dead S.C.O.R.e thought to itself. They couldn't do it before, with people more power hungry then ever, I doubt they could do it now. The C.O.R.e had billions if not trillions of years of knowledge.

Janith and Myrdria were caught by the strange machine men. The sisters struggled against their captors, but could not break free. Helpless, they were towed away to a taller robot. He asked them a few questions.
Janith answered the one about if they were spies for some place called the Aschen Empire. "What? I don't know what you're talking about! I've never been out of this place in my life! How would you expect me to know about some big empire?" She and her sister just stood in confusion as the interrogator began a long rant about the empire.
Myrdria answered the one about their race in a dry tone. "We're half-elves. Any old fool would know that. You guys aren't from around here, are you?" Myrdria was suspicious of these creatures, but she followed along, especially since they'd be getting food from them.

The S.C.O.R.e looked closer at the girl. "First thing, we are not 'Guys'. We have no gender. We are simply, 'it'. We are C.O.R.e. . And second thing, we have been all around the Multiverse. Nearly every planet, stream, lake, or ocean has been seen and touched by us. We have seen many beings with ears like yours. And besides, you are no pure bred elf. You are a mix of.... Humans?"

The S.C.O.R.e thought to himself, these girls are of use to use since we have no minurature gear or robot... I can see why though. They would not want us fighting them gurilla style in a large aboanded city with small, tactical robots....

Not but a second later dinner was served S.C.O.R.e. started "Enjoy the meal"

"Yeah, we just said that," Myrdria said. "Half-elves. Notice the half."
In any case, they were given a meal. It was very delicious. Myrdria gobbled it up - she was very hungry. Janith, however, just poked it around.
"What's wrong, sister?" Myrdria asked.
"Nothing... just... why are they here? I just want to live at home in peace. How can they just intrude on our happiness like this?" Janith asked.
Myrdria looked sad. "I don't know, but I have the feeling they're going to be here for a long time."

Without a moments hesitation Bersiar had slipped into the ships containing the cache. This was a gold mine for him but he had to be discreet to get away with it intact. He could always just fight off whoever came after him but for now he continued to bide his time, little did he know that his invisibility spell was beginning to wear off.

S.C.O.R.e. was bothered by them "No, you did not. you said 'We're half-elves. Any old fool would know that.' Did you not? Elves can breed with any other humanoid, just as any either humanoid can." He staired at them hard. The purple was slowly turning a blood red and a rich purple mixing together. "You are going to be part of our expidition. You will be paid by us in any way we both find acceptable. Food, money, what?"

While asking the girls this, a C.O.R.e. sniper with thermal sights spotted parts of heat coming up from a myesterious figure starting to appear. A good time too, they had just finished clearing the sector and needed nothing more from it. The ships carrying the cache started to take off and blasted into the sky out of no where. All the hive C.O.R.e. started to look right at the man as he was more and more visible.

"Um, any of those, I guess," Jarina said between mouthfuls. "Food and gold is good for a start. Maybe water too."
"Don't forget sleep and shelter," Myrdria piped up. "Those are just as important."
"Whatever. Hey, who's that?"
Jarina was pointing towards a man who was trying to sneak onto the ship. "Didn't see him there before..." she said.

With the ship away and the man revealed to everyone, all the C.O.R.e. aimed and were ready to shoot at anytime