Yukiko Takayama's Story

Meanwhile, another small craft appeared to reveal itself from out of the mist of u-flies as it hovered slowly down towards the triple A corporate building. The pilot of this spacejet was none other than Majister Obake himself, a renouned ambassador and royal adviser of not just one or two, but three very different opposing galaxies. All the data from his bugbots were uploaded directly on to his screen. He was entering a "no danger zone" into the vast greenless jungle of cityscape architecture towards a giant floating skyscraper that appeared to be at least 100 storeys tall, if not taller. The data on his pilot screen confirmed this.

The planet's atmosphere was determined to be "unstable," but this was not a system error. Obake was using a hybridized program, and the Asphodelian ruler he came to represent was from a distant chaotic universe where things were very different, sometimes even the opposite of what most lifeforms were accustomed to. Obake's ship scanners picked up everything on the roof of the skyscraper. His ship scanners were even more thorough than his u-flies, picking up details about the lifeforms inside the building, leaving almost nothing to secret. Powered by etherine, his ship's scanners detected that there was no force inside the entire building that could block his system. Radiation levels were detected and found to be safe. Electromagnetic systems were detected and mapped out. Obake's system was equiped with a female human A.I. voice to interact with him on his voyages so he wouldn't feel so lonely in outer space. "Shall I shut down all the computers for you, master?" She asked him seductively. "Not right now Star, we don't want our friends fighting over how sexy you are," Obake replied cunningly as he pressed a few buttons on his mini-screen. Star continued to scan the MarsCorp building.

It wasn't very difficult at all. Obake's moniter showed several guests both inside and outside the building. He was picking up bloodtypes, heat signatures, heart rates, blood pressures, auras and brainwaves. Star detected a businessman wearing a wolf-mask, a shapeshifter wearing a star-mask, an armed guard wearing a helmet, another man in a striped green-mask, an augmented A.I. shapeshifter wearing a blue-mask, a man in a gold-mask, a cybernized woman accompied by armed guards who appeared to be maskless due to her painted features, a peculiar android with connections to other armed agents, a half-elf demigod wearing a druidic wood-mask, a satori with telepathic abilities, another woman wearing a gold-mask accomplied by armed shapeshifters, a man wearing a skull-mask, and several other races and species all wearing different colored elaborately decorated masks for the purposes of an important political party.

"There's someone attempting to scan me, master," Obake's spacejet would inform him of Verror's intentions. "Relax," was Obake's response. "It's a security guard, he's probably just trying to get a sneak peak," he continued. "Shall I undress for you, master?" Obake's ship was implying that she lower her special shield, allowing the inside of his ship to be scanned. "No not yet sweetheart, not yet" Obake said as he landed his spacejet vertically in the designated landing area.

Just then, the mood changed as a darker more sinister voice came through Obake's communications system. "Skhala go vitzklok," was the Asphodelian's message. In essence, it was a message informing Obake that a mysteriously large mass had just appeared in the outer sector. Obake hit a few buttons on his screen to get a better picture through Prince Sin's eyes. What he saw through his eye-mod was Prince Sin's arm-module, which projected a 3D holographic model image of the entire universe in which they were located. As the Asphodelian leader rotated the image, he zoomed in on one particular sector with a strange mass effect positioned in a rather suspicious formation. "Kakkat ishk trulv olka," was Obake's response to the visual message before switching back to his normal view of the landing area in front of him.

Just as expected, Star was still running scans, picking up sound frequencies and mineral compositions. Obake wasn't too worried. He knew that Prince Sin's fleet was capable of handling almost anything by itself, and he trusted the R.R.T. to rescue him from danger if need-be. Wasting little time, Obake continued on with his mission, continuing to watch the rooftop from the safety of his cockpit. All of his defenses were up, but none of his weapons were active as Obake opened up a single radio frequency and waited patiently for the landing party and security personnel to communicate.

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.