Sin Asphodel's Story

Obake was still sitting in the cockpit of his spacejet, waiting to be addressed by the landing party over his radio. But there was no response, only static. He then decided to be the first to communicate. Pushing a button on his screen, Obake's ship suddenly took total control over the rooftop's entire telecommication system, including all sonar and sound frequencies. Upon doing this, everything would become momentarily dead silent. Guests were still dancing and moving their lips in conversation, but there was no sound at all, not even at the lowest frequency. This sudden ability to nullify all sound didn't take very long for the dancing and lip moving to stop, causing mass hysteria almost instantly, especially amongst the guards whose earpieces and microfones no longer functioned. After a moment, the sound pulse faded allowing everyone on the rooftop to hear normal again. Their telecoms, speakers and mics were still not functional, but at least they could hear themselves talk and communicate verbally without any electrical sound equipment.

Obake then pushed another button, tapping into the guard's radio frequencies while allowing them to work again. This would only effect those on the rooftop level though, with such strange events being completely undetectable by anyone inside the Mars Corps building who didn't have a radio of some sort (or incredibly sensitive hearing). After tapping into the MarsCorp station's radio frequency, Obake introduced himself. "This is White Eagle to MarsCorps Security, come in security, over." Obake looked at his screen, not surprised to see that his craft was entirely surrounded on all sides by a 360-degree circle of weapons aimed directly at his vessel. He briefly wondered how long it would take them to figure out that they couldn't penetrate his shields, but he quickly brushed the thought aside and pushed the button again. "Again this is White Eagle to MarsCorp Security, come in security, over." Obake tried a second time to communicate with someone on the rooftop. He kept his hand on the joystick the entire time, knowing it could pop off at any second.

Just then, Obake's u-flies informed him that some more ships had appeared directly in front of their location. The autonomous bugbots reacted immediately, swarming around the ships which now had weapons pointed at the Asphodelian fleet. Obake's bugbots were small, very small, as they began to fly in by the thousands around the Taiyou fleet, prodding the Taiyou ships as they swarmed around them. The winged drones were composed of utonium based alloy, a very rare and unique hybrid metal alloy stronger than even most magically enchanted metals. Obake's bugbots were made of basically the same substance as his dagger, which was known to cut diamond and adamant like butter. More rare than unobtainium or badassium, the hybrid alloy used in constructing his u-flies was immune to all forms of magic, electricity, magnetism, radioactivity, plasma, gravity, time manipulation, divination, elemental forces, ultrasonics and radar detections, among other things. This was because Obake's bugbots were also powered by etherine, which was unlike any other power or force. As the miniature drones prodded the Taiyou ships harmlessly for any vents, cracks or crevices, they immediately began collecting data which was forwarded to Obake's computer.

Still waiting for a MarsCorp officer to respond to his radio signal, Obake recieved another message from Prince Sin asking him what to do about the Taiyou ships which had just appeared. Obake advised the Asphodelian commander to standby, something which most Asphodelians didn't even understand the meaning of. But Sin trusted Obake as his royal advisor, even against his Asphodelian brother's poorer judgment. Obake sat idle, waiting impatiently while hoping that Prince Sin would command his troops to do the same.

Prince Sin of Asphodel gave a sinister smirk as the Taiyou ships appeared suddenly within ripples of timespace, pointing 50cm nuke cannons and shock cannons directly at his fleet. He contacted Majister Obake for advice on what to do next. Being asked to stand his ground without attacking, Sin trusted Obake's advice, much to his subordinate's dismay. Sin sent a message to one of the battle carriers, directing the R.R.T. to ready their deployment.

Everything was working perfectly according to Sin's plan. The Asphodelian fleet quickly took a spearhead formation with Soulburst at the head of the formation, pointing directly back at the Taiyou fleet. Soon, the Asphodelian ships would exchange forces and combined shields, adding power to their overall defensive systems in the process. The omnite source of power manipulating the massive forcefield was impenetrable to almost anything, with the exception of some unique powers found only on their Asphodelian planet in the Bluestar Galaxy.

It didn't take the watchers on Soulburst very long to acquire an update of Obake's situation. Atom7K responded like most electrical and radio fed A.I. systems would respond, by subjecting Obake's control system to a barrage of hacks and viruses which would ultimately prove ineffective as Star informed Obake of ICE's intentions. The power crystal at Star's core was a pyramite unit which operated using etherine rather than electricity or magic. All the droid was doing was bouncing electronic codes and signals into nowhere, something which must have been difficult for most conventional droids to compute without error.

Even the thrusters and engines on Obake's spacejet seemed to be unaffected by the A.I.'s attempt to bypass his control system. Prince Sin could only imagine what Star's response to Atom 7K's signals would be, but Sin knew very well that Obake's u-flies would also be unaffected, since they too were composed of utonium based alloys and powered by etherine. Sin respected Obake's preference for etherine based technology, but was personally still more fond of omnite power, which the Asphodelian species had been using for thousands of years.

Omnite was the exact opposite of etherine, but still just as powerful. It too was unaffected by magical forces, computer viruses, electromagnetic pulses and nuclear weapons. Omnite was a highly unstable form of dark energy which operated under its own laws, being incredibly difficult to harness. The Asphodelians themselves had discovered omnite on their home planet long ago and were the only ones in the Hadroda Universe known to possess it.

Prince Sin peered through his visor towards the command deck as his guards and troops stood at attention, ready to take orders from his command. Reaver class Asphodelians suddenly teleported to the top of every Asphodelian ship, three mages on each ship, seventy five Reavers altogether, standing in the vacuum of space on the outside surface of each ship. Because the Reavers were immune to outer space and did not require air to breathe, they walked across the outside of their own spaceships with little difficulty. Drawing something akin to magical runic symbols in the space around their ships using finger and hand motions, the Reavers started their enchantment, all of them combining forces to cast a single purpose.

Meanwhile, Obake was still waiting impatiently inside the protection of his spacejet as I.C.E. personnel surrounded his craft with weapons. "I detect a disturbance, master." Star was picking up on Atom 7K's attempts to override her programming with codes and viruses."Shall I terminate the source?" Star asked in a rather strange and sexy way. She appeared to be unaffected by the viruses, as she absorbed the data from each of the droids codes in order to study them. By that point, Obake was thinking quickly on what to do next. Despite the change in situation, Obake seemed to remain perfectly calm.

It was as if he was already way too used to being in these sort of situations, as he shut off the wavelengths to his radio, nullifying any chance of communication with the MarsCorp security. "Close systems. Activate deflect shields," Obake commanded, ignoring Star's offer and her seductive voice. Immediately, she carried out his orders. Within miliseconds of his command, Obake's spaceship started to send out it's own artificial electrical signals, bouncing Atom 7K's own information back at itself. "I told you she was sexy," Obake winked and smiled while seemingly speaking to himself since nobody else could hear him.

As the Asphodelian fleet was making plays in the sky, Obake was also at work on the building's rooftop, pushing buttons on his screen while activating something else down below using a switch on his joystick. Suddenly, the solid black triangular craft that had landed previously below the MarsCorp building started being animated again on the planet's surface. The triangular craft would slowly start charging up as the wings unfolded, transforming the entire UFO into some kind of powerful energy generator as a large central unit emerged from out of the middle of the unmanned craft, revealing a large pyramite crystal engine in the shape of a vortex.

As the fields around the craft slowly became distorted, the pyramite crystals would start to glow neon blueish white. The central unit started generating etherine and storing it in the vortex within the engine. The unique power source was so bright it would've been permanently blinding to anyone who attempted to gaze upon it directly. As the triangular craft started powering up, a soft humming noise could be heard faintly coming from the power source. Vibrations caused the nearby rocks and stones around the craft to levitate and hover in a circle around the vortex.

Still in his own spacejet at the opposite side of the corporate A building, Obake watched as Douglas and Helga started performing a magical enchantment which manipulated the space outside of Obake's spacejet and his u-flies. Obake himself was unaffected, but the space and laws of nature outside his craft were slowly being mingled with. This appeared to have no effect on his hybridized utonium based u-flies, which were immune to time and space manipulation, among other things. Despite the enchantment, Obake's bugbots continued on their course around the Taiyou fleet, their etherine power source never shorting out or failing. Within moments after hitting another button on his screen, Obake's personal spacejet on the rooftop was directly linked to the triangular spacecraft at the base, placing the entire MarsCorp skyscraper in the center between both crafts, with everyone who didn't leave either still on the rooftop or still inside the building.

Obake looked to see what the heir of the Asphodelian Kingdom was doing. As expected, his fleet had moved into a spearhead formation. Meanwhile, Obake noticed something which caught his attention immediately. His u-flies (bugbots made of utonium alloy) were starting to act dysfunctional as they approached the Taiyou ships. This was strange, as Obake's miniature drones also contained evrite, a symbiotic living metal with anphotosynthetic properties. Evrite could absorb omnitic anti-energy, and could be found only amongst the Asphodelian species. Even more peculiar, Obake's bugbots had a pyramite central processing unit which could also store omnitic anti-energy for military purposes. The u-flies were being animated by omnite in its purest form, was then enhanced by a similar power to that of the Mizuho, which Obake refered to as etherine. In all of his years of research, etherine was the only energy strong enough to counter omnite. All of this could only mean one thing. There was mingling going on in the realms outside of the Multiverse, as only a combined power among the gods was capable of such incredible results effecting Obake's machinery.

Being stripped of all of their properties, Obake's bugbots were artificially intelligent enough to back off and trail behind Mizuho from a safer distance where they'd be less effected by the incredible forces that acted upon them. Obake sent feeds to Prince Sin aboard Soulburst, keeping the Asphodelians informed. By now, the triangular black craft at the bottom of the MarsCorp building was generating more momentum as its vortex engine was powered to an immense intensity, brighter than a million suns. Strangely enough, the waves sent out by the energy crystal would counter the Mizuho's power, as the black craft was powered by something more. Obake's bugbots would sense these signals like tiny raptors, closing in immediately upon the Taiyou ships once again, more particularly the Mizuho itself this time. A few bugbots would effectively attach themselves to Taiyou ships as the Evrite was of symbiotic origin, their over-powered pyramite needles stabbing the Taiyou ships like tiny mosquitos. But just as the swarm of bugbots was about to engulf Mizuho's fleet, the Taiyou suddenly disappeared. Obake hit a button on his etherine based computer screen. Soon, the bugbots started returning to Soulburst as Obake's triangle continued to generate more and more power. By now, the stones that had been levitated previously around the vortex were also starting to glow as they contained elements which could not sustain the power of Obake's device.

Time was of the essence. He typed a few more buttons on his screen, causing the crystal vortex inside the black triangle to send out anti-magical wavelengths by bending the wavelengths and frequencies that already existed. Suddenly, not just the mages and archmages, but all magical beings would find their abilities useless against such an invention. Obake's thrusters powered up again. Even before this, his spacejet was kept hovering by magnetical forces above the ground, and then by manipulation of the spacial dimensions around Obake's personal craft. As his thrusters started glowing blueish white, however, Obake slowly pulled up on his joystick, enabling Star to launch slowly and vertically up into the sky again and away from the MarsCorp building. Perhaps to their surprise, Obake was withdrawing out of their reach back into the air from whence he had arrived. The whole entire time, he never once lost his calm, even as he was forced to make several calculations every other second. His altered kironic mindset was on the verge of super-intelligent, as the majister anticipated his every move. All the while, Soulburst and the fields around the Asphodelian fleet were getting stronger and more powerful. It was hard to imagine what they might do.

Majister Obake was still in total control of his situation. "Star, program these coordinates." Obake typed in a few numbers on his screen, before switching stations. "Mk'skona tyat vomalia'ska," Obake said over Prince Sin's comlink, as both of them were using the same technology. Saying this, Obake's craft continued on it's straight vertical course into the clouds. Only a faint humming sound could be heard coming from Obake's ship as it ascended into the atmosphere. The triangle was still operating and growing in power at near unfathomable levels of energy. Hitting another button on his screen, however, caused the machine to stop producing etherine while keeping it stored inside the crystal vortex.

The triangular vessel, which had blossed more like a flower due to its evritic abilities, was now glowing brighter than a million suns. Ironically, the glowing pyramite crystal appeared to remain cold to the touch, as if something had been intentionally removed to make them stable.