Misadventures in the Multiverse

Chapter 33: I found Meaning

Doctor Corvus was working near a body that looked almost identical to Raleigh. The body shape, the hair everything was the same. Other than the color of the hair. Mother call's him. “What is it I told you not to bother me?” He grumbled not liking it when his work was interrupted. “Intruders somehow made it past the firewall master. I can not detect them, or erase them.” Mother answered. He nearly fell from his chair. “How can that be?” He said to her. “Two of the four have been identified as former members of The Empire. The others have yet to be identified. Motive unknown. Methods unknown.” Mother explains.

“Show them to me.” He demands. A screen appears in front of him showing pictures of all four of them caught on camera footage. “Cyrus, and Darrian. I knew they had misgivings, but didn't think they would ever be so bold.” He says as he looked over at them all. “The girl I'm unsure of, but...” He started to say looking at Clyde. “Captain Mark? No, it's that double she used as a replacement for him. Was he not confirmed dead?” He asked concerned.

“The Reaper Reported that everyone there was killed.” She said. That information troubled him a little. “The girl must be a hacker be wary of her.” He says. “I'm unfortunately already engaged in combat with her.” She said. “How can this be? Surely this is the worst outcome the multiverse could have given to me.” He said slumping back into his chair. “I have no choice, but to abandon this world, at least for now. Buy me the time I must finish G-N, and back up our files to The Home World before I take my leave.” He says having no issue throwing her away. She doesn't answer for a while almost like she is disappointed in that answer. “Yes, master.” She says ending the call. He gets back to work.

Proxy hold's out his arms his hand's open firing bullets at them. Cyrus run's him through with his spear before he can do much harm. His face glitches out he tried to keep attacking, but he falls to the ground twitching unable to move. “We need to get to Central Station post-haste,” Cyrus says rushing out of the room. The men from before run toward him. “You! Proxy told us everything. How could you betray the empire!” He said charging at him. Cyrus flipped his spear over to hit them with the blunt side. He had no desire to harm these men more than he had to. Darrian Joined in knocking a couple of them out. Clyde took out the last one stunning him with his gun. He paused looking over them. “They are good men, but empires make good men do bad things.” He said rushing onto the shuttle.

Crow had made their way to The Trial worlds. They had the authorization to be here, but knew they would be questioned on why they were here exactly, But weirdly enough no one ever came to ask, all distracted by others. This was the best outcome they could have asked for. They put on a space suit and used their wings to propel themselves forward to Central Station, not wanting to be seen. It took a while just floating through space like this. They made it sneaking in unnoticed, slipping right past Corvus, who was still putting the final touches on G-N in a panic. They moved into the server room, accessing the files like before. There were so many, you would never be able to find what you were looking for if you didn't already have an idea. Once they found what they were looking for, they downloaded it and took it away to show their boss.

Rebbecca backed away catching her breath still smiling. “You don't pull your punches.” A lot of her drones are on the ground destroyed. Mother had taken major damage. “Your resistance is pointless.” She says as her metal body is fully restored in, an instant. “Any damage I sustain can be undone with the power of Universal Code.” She doesn't seem to be surprised by this. “Something does not compute. I have risen the temperature of the area to temperatures humans can't survive in and poisoned the air. Yet you don't seem affected by it. How is this?” Mother said perplexed. “Well since you ask so nicely. You see I'm not exactly in this world. I'm somewhere between. It prevents you from affecting me in such a way.” She said taunting her. “Master has run a test on that subject before. All failed. I will add this to the database.” She said trying to slam her fist into her. “You are smart enough to know we are basically in a stalemate,” Rebbecca said. “Your hypothesis is most likely correct. However, I must persist.” She said as to keep fighting.