Blackrock

Lukas woke up with the aid of Mae's coaxing. But his body shuddered as he woke up, and coughed just a bit of blood. He said very weakly "I'm... fine... -Sigh- I'm... just... over-exerted." He had a sleepy look on his face, and he was in pain, all over his body.

He tried to get up, but he couldn't alone. He convinced Mae to help him up, for he was very drained by his first strike. He coughed up a bit more blood, as he further explained "I tried to get him in one fell swoop. Super speed." He suddenly collapsed again, but didn't pass out. He strained to stay awake, as he struggled to keep talking: "But... my power takes too much out of me. -Cough,cough- I... need to sleeeeeeeeeeeep," He fell asleep. It would be a long time before he'd wake up, even with his own potions, for he had not packed all of his brews for the trip to this planet.

Jason was immediately aware of all his surroundings. Mae had some burn scar on her arm, probably from the blast. Jason also noticed her mastersword. Jason reached for his own sword, then remembered that he had thrown it earlier. I'm an idiot, he thought. He couldn't worry about that now, though, as he noticed something different in the way the man dressed. He usually wore a turquoise shirt and blue pants, but now He wore all white. Jason quickly created a Fire Sword and readied it. "Of course He has to show up here." Jason noticed Lukas, then sensed he was no longer unconscious and was rather asleep, but in a very deep sleep. "Savi, get behind me." Savi moved behind me and formed a force field around herself. An orb appeared in front of the man, gradually growing bigger. "Watch out!" Jason yelled as a beam of Energy was fired. Jason used air to reflect the beam, but unfortunately, he redirected it towards himself. "Oh, SHI-" Jason was interrupted by the beam hitting his chest and shooting him a rough 20 feet. Jason saw one thing before blacking out: Savi running towards him, yelling his name.

Savi was probably the most angry person on the moon. She'd been angry earlier, but that was a person, not an Evil God. She glowed with rage. "Drago." The man stared at her. "We meet again, Savi." Savi pulled out her bow and arrows, caught an arrow on fire, then pulled it back in her bow. "Silly girl. You forget. I am a god. You cannot defeat me with a simple fire arrow." Savi was shaking with fear, but she tried to look as brave as possible. She wrapped her force field around Jason, keeping him safe from harm. She looked at the others, and realized that they, too, were frightened. She shot the arrow, but it simply bounced off him, then she formed a pure red orb of Energy, roughly around her height, and the same as the height in width. "Do one more thing to me and my friends, and I'll destroy you." Hopefully they realize Savi called them her friends, and they will not try to hurt her and Jason anymore, and will rather help them, as they hadn't had food or water for days.

Muttering under her breath, she picked Lukas and his staff up again, scanning the surrouings for a safe shelter to leave him in case things got scary. Zephyrus seemed compliant enough, but she wasn't sure about Lukas. He didn't seem aware of how truly weak he was. She spotted a cave on the far side of the pond, And began running towards it, shattering some of his potions. A tingling sensation shot through her body, making her feel slightly dizzy, but she kept going. She thought she saw something at the corner of her eye, but dismissed it. She got to the cave, setting him down gently. Opening his pack she found the potion that had shattered. It was labeled "HALLUCINATION - UNTESTED" Sighing, she looked around. "Thanks a lot, Luke." She ran back for Zephyrus, throwing him over her shoulder and began to run back. Was she...floating? Suddenly the oasis came alive, and arms began reaching out to grab her. She tried to run, but realized her legs were dissapating into dust. She continued running towards the cave somehow. Or was it a cave? It looked more like a giant yellow eye now, watching her every move. The ground In Front of her crumbled, leaving a massive chasm in front of them. A child looked at her in fear as he jumped into the endless depths, making the crevace disappear. And then she saw her. It was her sister, Ariel. She looked angry at her, making Mae scream. "ITS NOT MY FAULT! ITS NOT MY FAULT!" Tears streamed from her face as she ran over to her, only to have her turn into a pile of dust. She saw the cave, and continued running, eyes wide with fear. Reaching it, she deposited Zephyrus inside. Her arms were bleeding profusely. So were her legs. But, it wasn't blood. "Is this...water?" Oh no! She was melting. She screamed as she felt herself turning to liquid. There was nothing left to do now.

Savi watched as Mae, who hadn't responded, went around, doing strange things and reacting to little things like the dust moving. She had the smallest glance at the potion that had splashed at Mae's feet, and saw that it said something with HALLUCINATION, but she wasn't sure. Drago was also watching, finding Mae rather amusing. She heard Jason groan, and she exhaled. Jason was nearly awake. She formed a force field around the cave to keep the others safe. She created a orb of healing and used it to heal Jason a little so he was prepared to fight when he woke up. She then looked at Drago, picked up the red orb she had created, then threw it at Him. Drago was caught off guard, and because of that, was blasted around 50 feet, the landing being bigger then a normal immortal's landing impact. She quickly inserted a green orb in Mae, toning down the hallucination potion by much. Jason's eyes fluttered open for a second or so. She created metal around where Drago had landed, hopefully delaying him for a while.

((OOC: Is Mae pronounced "My" or "May"? :P Zephy needs to know, yo. Also Jeremiad, it'd be neat if you could make a post stating which potion (if any) Zephyrus obtains. tis your potion bag, after all))

Things were getting hectic, and Zephyrus panicked. The reaction from the broken potion had no effect on Zephyrus, and he had no clue what the contents were. On top of that, an actual fight had broken out. Zephyrus had never been in a fight unlike his companions. Whatever his conscience was declared as, it moved deep within his ASP in attempt to calm himself. He didn't realize it, and certainly didn't intend it, but he very quietly uttered his processing thoughts (the italicized ones).

ACCESSING MEMORY FILE: FIRST INTERACTION. It was dark. But instinct overcame it and the bot flicked on his eyes to view the first human he'd ever seen. Human. He knew it upon sight. Extraordinarily quickly, the bot learnt all about its own system and his makeup. He played a voice clip of Captain Diggins to himself (or so he thought). "Reach for the stars." Purpose. This man had given the robot aspirations, or at least a goal to strive for. It perfectly understood all mannerisms of the brain, and attempted to replicate them. Associations were made with different objects and emotions, different subjects and responses. If someone were to communicate with it via writing, it would be impossible to tell if it was truly human or not. INTERESTING... Zephyrus had noticed a memory file was deleted from his core. RESTORING DATA. COMPLETE. Upon one observation of the file, he instantaneously reacted. MEMORY DELETED. And just like that, it was gone again and Zephyrus had no idea time had even passed.

Mae had been crying, and now she lay in a heap on the cave floor. Lukas wasn't doing much better, sleeping like a baby. There wasn't much Zephyrus could do offensively, so he attempted to speak with Mae (hoping the green orb had brought more aid than pain).

INITIATE CONSOLE As in the verb.
"I know you've just lost your p-p-pet-t-t-t chimera, but... TSSST"
SUB-ROUTINE 'CONSOLE' INADEQUATE
"I am sure you will be alright. If I were to calculate the proba-ab-ba-ab-bability of you being alright, it would be abysmally low. But probability has deemed itself unnecess-ess-essary in my c-c-c-current experience. Although... That experience has also been... Abysmally low." He proceeded to sit down on the ground next to Mae, an action he had literally never done before. But it came naturally and calmed his stuttering down. "If only we had some pandabed sporaticators and a couple dondifobble snatches. We could disappear into the stars." He watched the battle rage on outside. "I... TSSST-Wheeroeroerrr.... I cannot cry like you do, but I understand the chemical reactions causing synapses in your brain in order to create sadness. I know it is not pleasant. I am useless in its endeavor. I do hope that you and Sir Lukas are fine." Thinking about his own processes always caused Zephyrus much distress. He felt a compulsion to express it, but also knew that compulsion was another process in itself. Feeling it wasn't the best idea to continue, he decided to change the subject. "You liked my Chest-Chest." Zephyrus recalled her faint smile, fiddling with the latch on his chest. There was no reason to do either. "I hope I have not been a bother, madam."

Zephyrus stood up and observed the mouth of the cave. As much as he was irritated by them beforehand, he had hoped these strangers could combat this other stranger. Suddenly, an idea came to the old bot. He moved over to Lukas, with the intention of retrieving a potion to help in some way.

((OOC: Let's say it was a blank. Just water.))

Lukas remained in his deep sleep.

Jason's eyes fluttered open, and he sat up with blazing speed. He heard the banging of metal, and knew immediately what was going on. He got up, and saw that Drago was encased in metal 50 feet away. "Nice job, Savi." Jason looked over at Zephyrus and the others. "Savi, go protect them," Jason said. Savi went into the cave and the force field hardened. Jason turned to face Drago, who had escaped from the metal prison. Drago was still surprised, so any attack might throw Him off. Jason shot a orb he liked to call 'Ground Teleport'. Drago disappeared, but Jason knew where he had disappeared to. Jason's orb had teleported Drago several hundred miles underground. It would be a long time before he got out again. Jason entered the cave, and told Savi to get ready to go. "I hope we are to meet again soon," Jason told to Zephyrus, Mae and Lukas (even though Lukas was asleep), "and that when we do meet, we are close allies." And with that, Savi and Jason disappeared.

Lukas began muttering in his sleep, as his expression twisted slightly: "Veen do rake qup. Bust selp, weed anurgee flrink..." Probably some nonsense, but who knows? Maybe his friends would make something out of it.

(OOC: her name is pronounced "May".) As she began to come Back into reality, Mae found Zephyrus sitting beside her, giving his version of condolences. "I appologize if I scared you, Zeph. It must have been Lukas's potion." Walking over to him, she found him muttering in his sleep. She had no idea what he was saying. For all she knew, Lukas might end up asleep like this for a lot longer than expected. Wringing her hands, she looked at him, slumped over a rock awkwardly. She moved him to a more comfortable area of the cave and returned to Zephyrus. "So you dream of reaching for the stars, then? I guess we all have our aspirations..."

Jason suddenly appeared again, after the others thought they might not see him again for a while. Mae and Zephyrus looked up at him. "Hi," he said. He quickly created an Energy circle, then chanted a couple words. He was hoping the person that appeared would be the elf he had seen in the garden, as he needed her help getting use to getting around, and hoped she could help him find Savi.

((OOC: Lettin' ya decide your fate again, Jeremiad.))

After listening to Lukas speak gibberish a bunch, Zephyrus was pleased to see Mae operating optimally once again. Conversation always seemed redundant with one participant.

"Why yes, madam Mae. It was my primary function to d-d-d-dream. The first Pseudo-Sentient Automaton in existence. A technological wonder, some would say." His eloquent voice dropped in volume. "I wonder where that was..."

Suddenly Jason showed up out the exit of the cave, feeling slightly more indifferent about his presence than before. He bowed his head in greeting. "Greetings. I do hope you don't bring in yet more v-v-violence. My expectation of obtaining herbs and minerals was not nearly as horrific-ic-ic-ic as the reality."

He went back to observing the flask he'd taken, thinking about Lukas's predicament.
SUBSTANCE IDENTIFIED AS: WATER. HOW EXCEEDINGLY BORING.
Though, the substance wasn't useless to him. Zephyrus had a slow boiling mechanism in place that powered all his movement. The mouth-like line that cut across his face dropped down, and he chugged the water as if it was a drink. Steam released from the opening with a gratifying "TSSSSSS...." and it clamped shut again. "Just like an energy drink-*CLICK* I nuh-nuh-nuh-know exactly what to do." TRANSLATION: NEED TO WAKE UP. MUST HELP. NEED ENERGY DRINK. Well, it seemed to make sense at the time.

Zephyrus moved to Lukas once again, searching for an energy potion of sorts. If he found one, Zephyrus would immediately use it. If not, he would use the closest thing to one. His PAS should really help him out here.

((OOC: Nikki isn't going to show up, so don't tag her anymore.))

Who showed up was not Nikki, rather Savi. Jason hadn't thought of just summoning her back. That would've made much more sense. Anyways, Savi appeared around a meter or so in the air, landing on her feet. Savi looked up at Jason, surprised. "How di-" Jason interrupted her by hugging her tightly. "Thank goodness you're safe!" Jason took a step back, looking at her. Savi seemed rather beat up, with scars on her face. "Jeez, what happened to you?" "I... I'd rather not talk about it," Savi replied, moving her eyes from his. Jason wondered what had happened. Jason noticed Zephyrus rummaging around, and knew he had figured something out. Suddenly, Jason did as well. Jason started rummaging through the bag with Zephyrus. "So, we meet again, I suppose, and this time with peace and without a god trying to kill us," Jason said to break the silence.

Lukas tossed and turned for a bit, a few potions spilling out of his pack, but not breaking. He was dreaming about his life before we went broke, how he had a much bigger house, almost like a small mansion of sorts; he was well-known, relied on by the people to make brews that would aid their everyday lives. But then they all stopped coming. Slowly, Lukas's funds dwindled. He was forced to sell his home and buy an abandoned building in Wing City on the cheap. He longed to return to that life.

When Lukas spilled a potion out of his pack, he read the caption. 'ENERGY DRINK'. "Bingo," Jason said. He grabbed the drink, and had Lukas drink it. Lukas sputtered. Jason sensed Lukas' mind go back into consciousness. "You feeling okay, buddy?" Jason asked.

High Orbit, Kreios System


The Kreios System was one that had yet to be visited by one of the legendary "Data-Worlds", but that would soon come to an end. A large flash of light the size of a small moon burned brightly for a moment near the edge of the system and appearing out of void travel was a spherical star-ship the size of a small moon. Named Data-World Arkvaes, this large ship was told of in universal myth to contain one of the largest digital libraries in existence. It's sole crew member however cared more about his next meal. Kyrian Vox was awoken from his sleep deep inside the interior of the giant ship by a loud alert letting him know they had arrived at the next system. Groaning the dark haired man lifted his head and looked into his empty cup next to him. "Damn, out of coffee again."

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Low Altitude, Blackrock

Kyrian was still somewhat groggy from his nap as he searched the surface of the desert planet for a settlement. It was scorching in the daytime and he hated it, but it did still not wake him up. The smaller ship he was now in did not have tinted windows unless he wanted to rewire half the console to fix whatever had short circuited so he just put up with the blaring starlight. As he spotted what looked to be a ramshackle little scavenger town, Kyrian took his cargo ship in for a landing. The grey color of the medium sized ship was the cleanest thing on the planet besides Kyrian himself, and he noticed his black T-shirt and grey cargo pants stood out against the rust and redrock theme the planet and populace had going for it. He kept his sunglasses tight against his face and yawned as he walked, with two large crates hovering behind him in toe."Now, where is the nearest store?"

Lukas woke up very suddenly. He felt the disgusting taste of one of his brews flood his mouth, and a strong rush of energy come with it. He coughed out a bit of the fluid, as he answered Jason's question: "I'm OK now..." Lukas suddenly realized who he was talking to. He saw he had recovered significantly; damn, Jason was good. The first thing that Lukas asked, "Is everyone okay? Wait, where's... where's my staff?" He saw that Mae had the staff, and took it from her grip rather hastily. Lukas dusted himself off before looking around. He was in a cave of sorts. Near the oasis. Oh, right! The oasis; what he had come for. "Is it safe outside? I still need to collect some things."

"It's safe to go out now, Lukas," Jason answered. "I'm going to Taylor's Bar to celebrate Savi's birthday. You wanna come?" And without receiving an answer, Jason and Savi teleported away.

Shrugging, Mae turned around, staring out the entrance of the cave. "Well, lets go get your potion stuff." Said Mae matter-of-factly. She brushed herself off, pushing aside the vines and stepping into the blinding sunlight. She took her dagger and washed it in the pond water, testing its sharpness with her fingers. "A bit dull..." She muttered to herself, pulling out her whetstone. She sat down and began sharpening it, occasionally looking into the distance with slight dismay. She thought about the hallucinations that had occurred from Lukas's potion, reminding her of the real reason she was on Blackrock. Time and time again, she was told that Ariel was dead. Maybe it was true. Something kept compelling her to search for her sister. "I am insane..." She muttered to herself, shaking her head.

A flash lit up in the distance. "What a surprise... [[bAnother flash.[/b]". Whatever it was, she already didn't like it....

Kyrian Vox

After nearly an hour of shopping Kyrian walked his way back to his ship with a large box full of assorted supplies and his two floating crates full of much more. He loaded the supplies into the ship and stepped off his craft one last time to scan the area with his augmented eyes. The planet had a sort of beauty to it if one looked at it a certain way, but Kyrian was only there to scan the planet for data storage and move on. It was then a small lizard like creature crawled over a rock into Kyrians view, staring at him like he was the most interesting thing on the planet. He probably was but right now he started on his task of examining the creature. Two beams of light shot from his eyes and scanned the creature in an instant, adding it to the storage logs of Data-World Arkvaes via Dark Matter transmission. Getting back on his ship Kyrian decided he might as well start sweeping over the surface of the planet with ship based scans. He put the ship on auto-pilot to crisscross the entire planet as Kyrian himself made a fresh pot of coffee and tried to relax with some classical music.

Zephyrus took his empty bottle and started filling himself up with the oasis water, next to Mae. He could detect the sarcasm. "At this p-p-point, all logic seems futile. How unluck-luck-unlucky for one such as myself." He had better add in a couple laughs to secure humor. "Hah-hah-hah-hah." Expertly done. Once done with the water, Zephyrus moved on to collecting the herbs and minerals that were oh so hyped. He didn't know specifically what Lukas wanted, but his PAS allowed him to decide which items were of interest. He popped them all in his Chest-Chest, along with a refilled flask of water.

In the distance, he saw the spaceship come into view once again. It didn't seem to be leaving, but was hovering and moving in their general direction. Zephyrus didn't think much of it, but desired some reassurance. "Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-Neither of you believe that ship could have hostile intents, d-do you?"

Kyrian Vox

The Planeswalker was feeling pretty good at that moment, he had his coffee in hand and was lounging in the pilot's chair of his ship. His feet were resting against the controls up off the floor, just the way he liked it. He wasn't even paying attention to where his ship was going having full trust in the auto pilot. Adjusting his legs, his foot pushed the steering column only a hair which disabled the auto-pilot and sent the craft forward ever faster. An alarm sounded on the holo-screen covering the front viewport and made him fall out of his seat, spilling hot coffee all over the floor and luckily none on himself.

He cursed and got back in the chair only to see an oasis and a handful of beings he was about to hit and high speed. Putting on the brake he barely stopped in time a few feet from the oasis. Sighing in relief Kyrian flipped on the landing sequence and set the ship down on the sandy ground next to the water and these beings he had never met. He needed some air after that and exited his ship via the ramp and looked over at the almost splattered people. "Hey... uh, anyone injured? Did I hit anything important?" His voice sounded bored and a little interested in the situation but only a little.

Kyrian stepped fully around towards what he now saw was an automaton, a girl, and what seemed to be an exhausted male youth in the cave nearby. Kyrian lifted his sunglasses and rested them up on his head as he pondered what these people were doing."Should I even ask why you are all out here?"

Lukas was a bit rattled at the ship's appearance. He was simply picking some ores out of the sand when the massive thing almost runs them over. He's the first to respond, and decides to answer the being's answer: "We're fine, thanks for not hitting us. Don't mind us, we're just collecting something for a project of ours."

Lukas then went and continued his former errands, picking up some herbs, a couple shiny rocks here and there, and... what was this? He dug a bit further, and revealed a rather large black sphere. It hummed at a very low frequency, and was polished like a mirror. He knew what this was. It was an alchemy stone, an item praised by alchemists all over the Multiverse, and desperately sought over by his family. He had one, of course, but not nearly as big as this one. A stone this big is capable of doing things he never thought feasible. But now, he could finally step up his game.

Lukas began whooping, yelling, screaming in his joy. Hopefully he wouldn't startle anyone with his antics.

Jason landed on the moon rather abruptly, his eyes watering. He stormed into the cave, then sat down. He wrapped his legs in his arms, and began to cry into his arms, not showing his face. Zephyrus, Mae and Lukas looked at him with concern (however Zephyrus had a hard time making the expression, as he was a robot). He was shaking badly, and the others noticed something; Savi was not with him.

Lukas frantically dug out the stone he revealed in the sand. He was giggling with glee, as he looked around his surroundings, the large-ish orb now in his hands. He looked at the massive sand dune in front of him, then at the small cobalt shard he picked up earlier. Perfect.

Lukas took some white powder from his pocket and sprinkled the orb. The once black ball was now glowing a clean white. He inserted the cobalt, which it absorbed nicely, and held it up towards the dune.

Suddenly, the earth began to rumble. The dune trembled as it began to... move towards Lukas? The sand was being pulled in by the orb, every grain absorbed by the conversion abilities of the alchemic generator. In minutes, the dune was gone.

Then, the orb spewed out a stream of shining blue cobalt, as it formed a hilt, a blade, a sword in mid-air. It was covered in powerful glyphs, each shining brightly in the desert sun. A single ocean blue piece of amazing weaponry, it fell and clattered to the ground near Mae once the process was complete.

"Mae, for your company, for your help, and for not minding me dragging you here, I bestow upon you my gratitude."