Total Annihilation
this tie into world war 19 here
All countries on Yata and Theia, except the Eladian countries, Meira and Alyphia experience dizziness
Then suddenly, bright white streams of energy spew out of people, albeit harmlessly
The streams twist around and fly around, eventually meeting other streams, connecting.
Andrei says "HUH?!"
"What is this..."
A white, whispy tentacle of energy protrudes out of his chest
It is short and stubby unlike anyone elses, whose have connected to someone elses.
People stop in the streets confused, seeing a net of tangled streams of energy
In a crowd, two people notice that they are connected
They walk up to each other to investigate
But they catastrophically explode.
Soldiers on battlefields also meet who they are connected to and similarly explode.
Mylonagrad says "WHAT THE HELL?!?"
The flash dissipates and carnage ensues with explosions happening everywhere
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Similarly, explosions happen in TERAPRO
WARNING. WARNING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO APPROACH YOUR CONNECTED PARTNER.
CERTAIN DEATH WILL ENSUE.
Cormac says "LAZULI!"
"GET AWAY!"
Lazuli says "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"
Andrei says "YOU TWO ARE CONNECTED!"
"YOU NEED TO STAY AWAY!"
Soldiers grab Cormac and Lazuli and put them in containment units.
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Andrei says "So she just..."
"Fell into the acid?"
Samuel says "Yeah.."
"The mask survived."
"It took control of the creature.."
"We were climbing out just as the mouth began to close.."
"Then they sealed it shut."
The train is passing through the deserts in Keiria
Samuel says "We're meant to be thinking of a plan.. Andrei."
Andrei says "Right- yeah... yeah."
He notices Samuel's link fluttering out of the window to somewhere distant
"Good thing we're headed in the opposite direction from your partner."
Samuel says "Yeah."
"And you don't even have one."
Chapter 2
The SDS-001 crisis has died down, but scientists are still looking for a method of reversal
Andrei notices his wisp is growing
Samuel says "You're... connecting with something."
Andrei says "Huh..."
The wisp grows into the sky
It begins glowing intensely
Iujadogia says "Hey.."
"Do any of you see this... long white, glowy thing?"
"In the Theian skies?"
Gensokyo says "..."
The barrier shuts down
Macanaland says "HEY!"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
Gensokyo says "Prepare the deep space fleet."
"And find me Andrei Varady."
"NOW."
Andrei's train stops in Gensokyo
Andrei says "Well.."
"We're her-"
"Hang on."
"We're here."
"Th.."
"That's not... right.."
Samuel says "We need to get this train the HELL OUT OF HERE."
Soldiers board the train
"What's going on?!"
The soldiers take Andrei and Samuel prisoner
Andrei says "HEY!"
"LET ME GO!"
They drag them off of the train and onto a shuttle that will take them to a main ship
"Don't struggle."
"She wouldn't want her special guest to arrive harmed.."
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Cormac and Lazuli are eavesdropping from their split cell
"Yes.. yes."
"He was taken in Sanctorio."
Cormac says ".."
"Lazuli."
"LAZULI."
"Did you hear that?!"
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"We trusted them so much, I-"
Cormac says "I'm so confused"
Carbonado gets ushered out of the room by seemingly important men
Lazuli says "What's going on?!"
They hear outside the door "Yes, the Mandragora has assembled above Orientalis."
Cormac says "What's the Mandragora?"
Lazuli says "It's the Genian flagship."
"Used for their deep space voyages.."
Cormac says "So.."
"They've captured ANdrei.. and at the same time are preparing a DEEP SPACE CARRIER?!"
"THEY-"
"Where are they taking him?!"
"We need to go."
He walks towards her to grab her hand
Lazuli says "WAIT!"
"STOP!"
"Careful.."
Cormac says "Right.."
"Let's go."
They exit in the corridor, seeing many soldiers rush through the halls in their troops
Attention all personnel. Head to your launching stations.
Ruby says "Guys.."
"It's going to hell.."
"TERAPRO has never had to arm for combat before.."
Cormac says "Huh?!"
(btw if ur confused rn u should be)
Lazuli says "Oh.. my head.."
Cormac says "We need to get a shuttle."
"Now."
Ruby says "They're all gone."
"But there's still escape pods."
Cormac says "We need a controlled flight."
"To the assembling fleet."
Ruby says "Uhh..."
"I know."
"We need to head to the communications sector."
They head to comms
Ruby says "Ok.."
"Patching in."
"Asophania."
"Asophania."
"Are you there?"
Asophania says "This is ACREDEVRO. Speaking?"
Ruby says "This is Ruby."
"I am asking a favor."
Asophania says "Right away."
It cuts out
Cormac says "Wh-"
Lazuli says "How do they know what you mean?!"
Ruby says ".."
"Don't worry.."
"This world works in mysterious ways."
A shuttle arrives next to the comms tower
Cormac says "The hell?!"
They get on
"Hello."
Ruby says "You guys remember Amelie right?"
Cormac says "Of course."
"Good to see you again.."
Amelie says "I came as fast as I could."
"I heard my brother was taken.."
The shuttle takes off
"Where we headed?"
Cormac says "The assembling Genian fleet."
Amelie says "WHAT?"
"ARE YOU INSANE?!?!"
She checks the GPS
"They've already begun their warp process."
They warp closer to the fleet, which has a hyperspace barrier around it
They see the huge ships in front of them, some over 10km long
Amelie says "Holy sh-"
A barrage of laser fire starts shooting at them.
The fleet of ships starts firing at their shuttle
The shield begins to weaken
Cormac says "AGH!"
They see the huge engines of the ships grow brighter
Amelie says "They're accelerating."
She does another small warp jump bringing them up right next to a ship
They narrowly miss crashing into the side of the Mandragora, the main ship
Ruby says "Oh my god.."
Lazuli says "You need to find a landing bay."
Amelie says "I'm TRYING!"
Another large ship begins moving horizontally to close in on the shuttle by sandwiching it between two ships
Lazuli says "Down there!"
She points at a landing bay
The other ship draws closer
Cormac says "IT'S GOING TO CRASH!"
Lazuli says "The Mandragora can sustain a lot."
"If they're purposely doing this.."
"They really don't want us here."
They land on the landing pad that clings to the outside of the ship
The ramp lowers
Amelie sees the other ship about to smash into them
Amelie says "RUN!!!!!!"
They run down the landing pad and into a blast door
The door closes
There is a huge crashing sound, followed by explosions and alarms
The wall dents inwards
The lights go off
Amelie says "The system's blown.."
Warning.
High security prisoner in - ADMIN Control at risk of compromise.
"We need to get up there th-"
There is a thud on the wall
An arc of melted metal begins to appear
Cormac says "They're cutting down the door.."
Lazuli says "..."
"No they're not.."
"They're going to-"
She rushes to the wiring box and fiddles around with the wires
"A..........HA!"
The door swings open
Lazuli says "Go."
They rush out into the corridor
A low rumble shakes the whole ship
Cormac says "They're preparing to jump to hyperspace..."
Target acquired.
"Huh-"
A gas fills the corridor
Ruby drops to the floor
Cormac says "RUBY!"
"I..."
"I.........."
".........."
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Welcome, Cormac.
"Huh?!?"
.
..
...
....
.....
......
.......
He awakes in the bridge
They are travelling through hyperspace.
He sees many Genians in martial arts uniforms working the ship, and a tall, elegant geisha.
In a tank of what looks like ice lays Andrei's body
He looks to the other side of the room to see his captured friends as well, except Ruby.
They exit hyperspace abruptly.
They see a big red dot in space ahead of them.
The lady says "Protocol Three-Fiver-Sixer-Beta."
"Hold back. Only the Mandragora can proceed."
The red dot grows brighter
As they approach, it would periodically dim before glowing a bright purple, then fading back to red.
Cormac tries to speak, but he can't.
The red dot has grown big enough to be seen.
It's a star.
The lady says "Good morning. We arrive on the behalf of Gensokyo."
Cormac hears a faint voice reply on the radio
"Good morning to you, my lady."
"Expect us in... say..."
"Give me three minutes, hmm?"
"Reporting for duty."
Cormac feels his vision go blurry.
Something is trying to make him forget...
He shakes off the urge.
But he still cannot speak.
"Okay."
"Begin to wake him up."
A defrosting sound can be heard
The star grows bigger in their field of view.
A servant comes rushing in
"My Queen."
"Izumo has sent a message of their gratitude."
She replies "How lovely of them."
"Write back." The servant pulls out a notepad "Tell them... Tell them not to mention it, and that I look forward to a secure- no, I mean a robust future partnership together."
The servant bows before leaving
They are almost at the star now
As they approach, a dark hole in the star grows, large enough for the ship to pass through
The ship enters the star.
Cormac expected to see a fiery hell.
Instead he sees a folded landscape
The workers rejoice in it's beauty
The geisha walks down to the front of the bridge and stares out
They see a city on many floating islands taking up the middle of the inside of the star
The ship accelerates and approaches a castle that overlooks the city
They see wisps connect seemingly many people across the city like back on Yata and Theia
And they see an unconnected wisp fluttering from the castle
The lady says "I see it."
Andrei begins to wake up
A glow emanates from the castle, and also from Andrei
"It is occuring.."
The bridge detaches from the ship as a smaller ship
It flies down and lands on a landing pad
They see a young man, around Andrei's age, walk down the hundreds of steps down the castle to the landing pad.
And their wisps connect.
Cormac jumps in shock
He bangs on the bars
But cannot speak.
Andrei gets up, and begins walking out
Cormac pleads silently
Andrei says "...."
The geisha follows him out
Leaving Cormac with a clear view.
Andrei says "Is uh.."
"There some kind of mirror here?"
"Except that my reflection isn't talking.."
"Or... walking the same.."
.......
"Or.."
"Or....."
He falls to his knees
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"Sanmor.."
....
Sanmor says "Space."
"Time.."
"Castrovalence..."
"Chance...."
"Luck..."
"Death...."
"Sorrow...."
"Remorse..."
"GUILT.."
"SUFFERING."
Andrei says "I-"
Sanmor says "All you ever lived against."
"All that could have changed..."
"Life."
"Happiness...."
"Resolve...."
"A..."
"Good life..."
"You don't understand."
"And you NEVER WILL."
Andrei's vision goes blurry, as Sanmor tries to make him forget
Andrei says "AGH!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sanmor says "Feel the pain."
"You live a good life. You become me."
"You life a bad life. You become me."
"Andrei."
"No matter who you were, who you are, or who you will be."
"You will become me."
"No matter the path you take, the way you get there.."
"OR HOW MUCH YOU SO DESPERATELY TRY TO STOP IT."
Andrei says "WHO EVEN ARE YOU?!"
Sanmor says "I am you."
"From all timelines."
"You're just the anomaly."
"And I learnt one thing."
"It's not Asophania keeping my plans from failing."
"It's you."
"I thought it was ASOPHANIA ALL ALONG that was stopping me from becoming overlord of this timeline."
"But it was you."
"You're just a paradox."
"An error."
"And once you're gone.."
"There's nothing stopping me."
Andrei notices they are wearing the same clothes
He notices Sanmor has a revolver in his pocket.
He reaches for his pocket knife, pulling it out
Andrei says "You're going to kill me, hmm?"
"I'm just the error?"
"The paradox?"
"I'm the one thing keeping good alive."
"It's a hellscape out there."
"Red Leader..."
"And you know that very well."
"And I know you're not going to give up so easily."
He passes hic pocket knife to his other hand
Sanmor draws his gun slowly
Sanmor says "This is where it ends."
He fires, but Andrei dodges
Andrei says "You're just like me, though."
"A fool."
"You're unintuitive, you cling to others.."
"Yeah."
"You cling to others."
"We're leeches."
"Without Cormac, I'm nothing."
"And without... oh... NIHILANTIS."
"WHAT ARE YOU?!"
"YOU'RE NOTHING!"
The geisha watches worryingly
Cormac stares, almost crying
A huge pulse of energy explodes from ANdrei and Sanmor as the link grows stronger
The cages holding COrmac and his friends shatter open
But he cannot speak.
They run out of the ship but the geisha repels them back.
They watch nervously.
Sanmor prepares to shoot again
Andrei stabs his right hand with the pocket knife
"AAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!"
Sanmor feels the pain too, dropping the gun
Sanmor drops the gun suddenly
Andrei runs towards him
Cormac screams, but nothing comes out
Lazuli says "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"
Andrei says "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
"NO MORE. NO MORE. NO MORE."
He lunges at the distracted Sanmor, exploding.
The star begins to shatter
Andrei and Sanmor are nowhere to be seen.
There is just a mess of blood and guts.
Cormac falls to his knees, crying
The geisha uses her powers to repel them back into the ship, and the door closes
The ship takes off as the sky begins to fall down upon them
The ship escapes falling debris as the star collapses
They escape through the hole, and reattach to the rest of the big ship
The lady says "PULL BACK. PULL BACK."
The ship begins to reverse backwards quickly, watching as the star implodes on itself, forming a gargantuan black hole
The ships warp into hyperspace back towards Yata
Cormac still cannot speak.
Lazuli says "HE-"
"He-"
The lady says "It is done."
"Nothing is in his way now."
Lazuli sees Cormac in extreme tears
He gets up suddenly, and runs towards Lazuli
Lazuli says "No..."
"Nonono... what are you doing?!"
She backs up into a corridor
Lazuli says "Oh my god... nonononono.."
"GET AWAY!"
"DON'T!"
She begins running and Cormac chases her
The lady lets out a burst of energy, tripping them both up
However, a glowing red figure enters the room.
THe lady's attention switches, and she begins chasing this red figure down a separate hall, leaving only Amelie in the control room.
Amelie begins chasing Cormac
Amelie says "STOP! STOP IT!"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
She hears no response
Lazuli is stopped by a blast door
She puts her hands out and fires a bolt of blue energy, which trips Cormac over
She manages to hotwire the door, and it opens
She connects a mobile device to the ship's systems
As she runs, she closes doors behind her
Amelie catches up
Amelie grabs Cormac's shoulders
Amelie says "STOP!"
"DON'T DO THIS CORMAC."
"DON'T!"
Cormac wrestles her off, and grabs her neck
Amelie says "LET ME GO!"
"LET ME-"
He smashes her head against the wall repeatedly.
Enough so it dents the wall.
He leaves her for dead, and continues to pursue Lazuli.
Lazuli connects to a radio
"I NEED THE SECOND IN COMMAND TO DOCK TO THE POSTERIOR DOCKING PORT."
"ENGINES ARE OFF. I REPEAT ENGINES ARE OFF."
"THIS IS URGENT."
Copy that.
Cormac increases his pace
Lazuli turns a corner suddenly, taking a detour
Lazuli gets into an elevator, and the door closes behind her
She hears banging on the doors
She slides down in the corner, crying
She dials a number
Ring ring.
Ring ring.
"Hello?"
"H-h-hello."
"Lazuli are you okay?!?!"
"Carbonado.."
"They fo-found./."
"Andrei's link.."
"They blew up.."
"This... big red star.."
"It got... eviscerated... Andrei's dead... he's dead..."
"No.."
"Nihilantis."
"That explains it."
"Explains what?!?"
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"Cormac is hunting me down.."
"He's going to kill us both.."
"What do I do.."
"I've called the second ship over and I;m going to cross over.. but what then?!"
"What are we going to do?!"
"Over here.. we're already establishing interim governments."
"But.."
"I don't know."
"Get out of there, Laz."
"Ple-"
It hangs up.
The elevator dings
She gets up
"Come on.."
"One last run.. just one more time.."
"One last run."
The doors open, and she hears the other elevator ding too.
She starts sprinting down the corridor
WARNING. WARNING. DAMAGES TO PORT SIDE SEVERE.
There is an explosion, and they are both knocked to the floor
"AGH!"
She gets up and keeps on running
She enters a storage area
She does a wall run, getting higher ground and climbing up the huge shelf boxes
Her vision goes blurry
"It's Nihilantis."
"Run, Lazuli."
"WHY ARE YOU HERE?!"
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD."
"LAZULI. JUST RUN."
"YOU NEED TO RUN!"
She jumps over the shelves as Cormac finishes climbing
She swings on a metal pole and smashes through a window into another hallway
There is a thud.
The ships have docked
She races through a busy office
Soldiers stare at her confused
"GET HIM AWAY!"
The soldiers begin shielding the path
But Cormac pushes them all out of the way
And he screams.
Tears run down Lazuli's face
Her legs grow weak, she grows tired, but she keeps on running
"RUN!"
"YOU CAN DO IT!"
Cormac screams... but says nothing."
Lazuli turns and reaches the final corridor.
The dock is infront of her.
"Run."
She sprints down the corridor as fast as she can
Explosions threaten to knock her off her focused path.
Cormac speeds up
Doors swing open and soldiers get out, but Cormac pushes them out of the way
Lazuli says "PULL BACK! I'M ALMOST THERE!"
The sghips begin uncoupling
"I CAN DO IT!
"I'LL MAKE IT!"
"YOU CAN DO IT!"
She reaches the dock
The gap between the doors widen
She jumps....
But she staggers over the edge.
She turns around.
Cormac says "No more.", having firmly grasped her hand.
A gargantuan explosion rips the two ships apart
Her phone is blasted into outer space
The explosions cause a huge knock-on effect and the entire fleet explodes
Their remnants fall into the growing black hole.
The phone begins to ring.
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Carbonado says "Pick up.."
"Lazuli.. pick up the phone.. please.."
"I know you're on the other ship,,"
"You probably collapsed from exhaustion.."
"You must have run so fast."
"I know what you've done.."
"But you have to talk to me.."
"Tell me you're okay.."
"Pick up..."
"The goddamn... phone..."
"Please..."
"Please............"
Emerald bursts into the room
Emerald says "We have a message from the UN."
"Castrovalence has dropped below zero."
Carbonado sniffles, having been crying, "What.."
Emerald says "Our timeline.."
"It's... escaping the multiverse as we know it.."
"Entropy.."
"Red leader..."
Carbonado's phone stops ringing.
An officer enters the room.
"Sir."
"We have lost contact with the Genian fleet."
"We can only assume it has been destroyed."
Carbonado says "..."
"He did it."
"That son of a bitch."
"He killed her."
"And Amelie."
"And Samuel."
"And HIMSELF."
"AND ANDREI'S DEAD."
"THEY'RE ALL DEAD."
"AND NOW FOR EACH.... INDESCRIBABLY SMALL UNIT OF TIME..."
"HE'S COMING CLOSER."
"BECAUSE OUR UNIVERSE... IT'S VULNERABLE."
"WITH NO MULTIVERSE, WHAT IS THERE TO PROTECT US?!"
"HE'S GOING TO COME BACK."
"AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE OUT HERE."
"Cormac... oh my god.."
"IF YOU WERE STILL ALIVE, I'D MAKE SURE YOU'D BE DEAD ANYWAY!!!!!"
"YOU SON OF A-"
Carbonado's phone rings.
The room goes silent
He wipes away his tears, picking up the phone
He clicks answer.
"Hello?"
"It's Lazuli."
"All I remember..."
"The pain.."
"The fire.."
"Him."
"You're alive?!"
"Y-yes.."
"But.."
"I don't know whether it's your definition of alive."
"Look."
"I've only been able to explore for only a few hours."
"But if I am where I think I am.. I've studied this."
"Go to Asophania."
"And I need you to tell them Zirnec is here."
Carbonado says "You... what."
"I'll... talk later."
He hangs up
"Nihilantis.."
"He saved them."
"I know where they are.."
"The world inbetween."
"A dimension where the erased go."
"I only know one person who knows about this place."
"They work in ACREDEVRO."
"Let's..."
"Let's give them a call."
Ring ring.
Ring-
"Hello?"
"Isla, is that you?"
"Only people I trust know that."
"Confirm yourself,"
"Carbonado. Is this ILCADOS?"
"Hello, Carbonado."
"Good, good."
"Get a meal, get a drink."
"Ring me again once you're done."
"We have a lot to talk about."
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Gensokyo says "You'll see..."
"You'll see."
The barrier raises once again
Macanaland says "NO YOU-"
"..."
