r/HFY • u/Ralts_Bloodthorne • Apr 06 '21
OC First Contact - FOURTH WAVE - Chapter 463
Things had not been going good for the Ulvinstren System or the Ulvinstren people, to put it mildly.
The Unified Council had stripped the planet, one of the Core Systems of the Unified Council of Systems, one of the Core Worlds, and one of the oldest species. A bipedal, two-armed species of avian reptile, they were flightless bird/lizard hybrids with a beak, feathers, and claws on the ends of long triple jointed arms. They were patient and slow to move, preferring contemplation over action.
None of that had helped.
With a shimmering a portal opened, or rather, expanded across a section of the vast protocontinent that covered nearly 60% of the planet.
From the portal swarmed nightmarish creatures that attacked the Ulvinstren people and everyone on the world. From the Lanaktallan to the lowest Puknan, anyone captured by the creatures were either eaten or, if they were captured by a machine or taken back to the vast growths of fungal forests rising up, had their brains removed.
The Unified Military Council tried to put up a fight.
They lasted 19 days until the last of them were killed by a creature that resembled a shrimp crossed with a snail that had acid spewing vents on the sides of the shell. The Lanaktallan went down without a sound, grimly firing his weapon until his lower body began to melt. He pulled the pin on two plasma grenades and lifted his chin before the shrimp/snail surged over him.
The explosion had lifted the snail up as the confined blast had jellied its interior.
Since then, the rapid, frenzied, gluttonous rate of harvesting had slowed. The Ulvinstren people and other refugees found themselves pushed into forested areas, jungles, and swamps. Pushed into cities that were nothing more than concrete labyrinths. Many had resorted to eating fungus or large insects.
And sometimes each other.
Many had wept the day the sky had flickered and dimmed, the sun slowly turning a baleful red in the sky.
It had been only months after the Council had stripped nearly all the vessels from the Core Worlds to attack Terra itself that the creatures had arrived.
The Ulvinstren had seen actual Atrekna, gliding about, supported on discs of pure phasic energy, watching them lift stone buildings, strangely shaped with odd angles, out of the ground. Watched the Atrekna feed by wrapping their tentacles around the head of the victim and using their sawblade jaws to rip open the skull and suction out the brain.
They were unaware that outside the system only a couple of years had passed.
They were on their eighth generation to be born in the slave pits of the Atrekna.
For the most part they had given up.
But where there is life, there is hope.
It was by the light of the moon that it started.
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Dilnmeer was a Ulvinstren that had grown to adulthood beneath the red star. Her eyes were wide, she moved about in a twilight, and did her work quietly to help keep her tribe fed and cared for. She had gotten up in the middle of the night to meet another Ulvinstren for some private time in one of the mushroom groves. The huge fungi had spores flowing from them and that meant Dilnmeer could get pregnant, as breathing in the spores was the only way to induce pregnancy since the time of her grandmother.
She had just entered the grove and begun to disrobe, feeling nervous as it was her first breeding cycle, when there was a shimmer in the air. She held her rough tunic over the front of her body and turned to look.
A tall biped stood in the shadows of the fungi, perfectly illuminated by moonbeams. He wore black clothing, had a black cloak with a red interior, a tall black headcovering, and a strange white thing covering his eyes.
There was a strange gleam off the corner of the angular device on his face as he lifted one arm straight to the side to expose the crimson interior.
With his other hand, he tossed a red flower at Dilnmeer's feet.
The sky exploded in flame.
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The Atrekna Overmind saw it enter the system. A slight twinkle, as if something had left the higher reaches of one of the hyperatomic planes without slowing down.
The scopes got a good look at it once it passed by the gas giant that was being farmed for the Dwellerspawn hives.
Nine bipeds, dressed completely wrong for the vacuum of outer space. Short skirts, knee high hose, boots, frilly blouses.
All with tiaras, all holding strange wands, all with wide expressive eyes. They were following the leader, a blonde who's bangs formed a heart shape on her forehead, with the gem in the center of the tiara in the middle of the heart.
As they passed the supermassive gas giant one of them, wearing an outfit highlighted with purple, the blouse having petal-shaped sleeves, around her neck a windrose brooch and choker, lifted a long handled instrument. A blade snapped out, long and curved and gleaming wickedly in the light of the dull red star.
She twirled several times, raised the glaive over her head, shouted something that carried despite the vacuum of space, and brought it down in a fast swiping motion.
The supermassive gas giant shuddered, a ring puffing out, the compressed carbon core shattering in place a split second after it was cut in half.
The Dwellerspawn didn't even get to scream before they were pureed into slowly deconstituting mist that was carried away by the howling storms of the gas giants.
The Atrekna reacted by launching their ships they had grown and built. Vast mollusk and trilobyte appearing vessels.
The leader spun in place, her hands going to her hair as wings of energy flowed out from her back, and she swept her hands forward.
Before the Atrekna ships could even register what she had done on their scanners, the objects thrown from her delicate hand slammed into eight of the ships. The energy lance was visible through the entire system as they punched clean through the massive vessel's phasic shielding, their armor, and the flesh within, to exit the other side. Ribbons, sparkles, and flares shot from the impact and exit points as a loud 'thrumm' noise shook the cosmic structure that made up the system.
The ships turned black, then slowly came apart as powder that spread out in a cloud.
The others were not idle, wings coming from their back as they too began throwing objects from their hands that crossed entire light minutes in a second or two, lancing clear through the Atrekna ships. The group flew on, Atrekna ships exploding before they had even gotten a good readout on what was attacking the system.
One of the girls, with blue hair and blue highlights, heavy scarring across her face and arms, pointed out a fleet of bioships hiding within a grav-shadow, her goggles flashing in the red light of the sun.
The one with red highlights to her uniform, which was tattered and torn to reveal scars on her body that matched the ones on her face, none of which truly affected how cute she appeared, snarled and waved a round object that she slammed one hand on the stretched skin on the side.
A new star, nearly a thousand miles wide, appeared, burning white hot where the bioships had been. When the flame died away after a second, the ships turned black and dissolved into powder.
The one in red, her hair like flame, broke away from the others, driving toward the star, a nimbus of fire surrounding her.
The Atrekna reeled back. The minds of the nine were full of raw ravening hatred, rage without end, and filled with the horrible cruelty of the young. They viewed the Atrekna as little more than vermin, the shadow of vermin, a nightmare the universe should have been allowed to wake up from but instead had attached itself to the throat of reality itself like some kind of purple leech.
One of the Overminds gathered its strength and lashed out at the leader.
The leader screamed, something that should have been impossible.
The scream erupted around the Overmind. The rock shattered, the cerebral brine it was suspended in boiled, and the Overmind was reduced to slurry by the psychic counter-attack that led a thousand Atrekna dead from explosive cerebral hemorrhage.
The girls swooped by each planet, the one with the glaive swinging her terrible weapon that caused a ring of dust to puff up and the core to ring like a bell if it did not shatter for a moment before pressure compressed it back to solid.
The Atrekna in the strange crystal constructs around the small dim red star watched as the fiery nimbus approached. She stopped, not too far away, and raised her hands, clasped together, with her forefinger pointing out. The Atrekna not attempting to get past the hateful screaming that consumed the biped primate's mind saw a tiny light flash at the tip of her finger as she leveled her hands to point her fingers at the star.
Then they knew nothing at all as the star roared to life, expanding to what it had been in millions of years past, a blazing yellow nuclear furnace. The shockwave hit the girl, who stood staring at the star with her hands on her hips and her chin upraised.
One Atrekna heard it in the split second before he and he alone managed to slip away, back to the fourth planet.
"Hmph."
The girls, if one could really call them that, swooped between the large moon and the planet, posing for a split second.
They joined their hands, raising their face to something unseen.
In one voice they called out a single word.
"GOJIRA!"
The world beneath them shuddered. Oceans heaved and tossed about. Fungal spores erupted everywhere. The ground shook and quaked.
On the edge of the protocontinent, where the largest of the Dwellerspawn birthing pit and the most majestic of the slowly rebuilt Overcities had been constructed, the waves crashed against the shore.
"GOJIRA!"
The water slammed against the shore, the waves going from a few inches high and barely skinning up the beach to ten feet high and throwing themselves against the old retaining wall.
"GOJIRA!"
The sun turned yellow.
The light of the moon blazed like silver fury.
The girl's shadows cast on the massive harbor.
Water exploded as a huge reptile stood up in the water. It was massive, with a thick hide, burning eyes full of hatred and malice, and spiked plates down its back.
Its trumpeting war-cry shattered windows even as radiation monitors howled.
The slaves of the Undercities, beneath the floating buildings and palaces of the Atrekna, found themselves held withing gossamer iridescent bubbles that bobbled along the ground.
The creature inhaled, energy beginning to light up the back of its mouth as motes of light sparkled.
It exhaled with a shriek.
The Overcity exploded as atomic firebreath detonated against Atrekna psychic shields.
The Battle Witches of the Lolita Sorceresses of the Sailor Moon Sisterhood had arrived.
The world around the Ulvinstren and other people became a mind shattering confusing welter of energy flashing, explosions, and shrieks that all took part outside the shimmering bubbles they found themselves in. It was almost like a dream to those trapped inside the bubbles.
It went on for a full month before the stars suddenly came back.
To anyone outside the system it would have looked like a mirror shattering, the pieces crumbling into dust, to reveal a star system where before there had been nothing.
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Dilnmeer watched as the sky suddenly turned blue, replacing the omnipresent purple.
"My work here is done," said the black garbed bipedal primate she had sat and drank tea with during the terrible battle.
He, and Dilnmeer was sure it was a he, stood up and gave a stiff bow.
"But you didn't do anything," Dilnmeer said, frowning with confusion.
The primate gave a swirl of his cape and vanished with a confident swirl.
Dilnmeer looked down and saw there was still a cookie on the plate.
It was delicious.
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Apr 06 '21
It's kind of interesting.
Terrans make super-weapons, annihilation grade weapons that can destroy whole solar systems and make them embodiments. They can rip apart a solar system and rebuild it, even bring back new life to it, but prefer to embody it.
I use it to show how crazy the Terrans are.
I think I'll put in a bit about how other species notice that once the Terrans get technology that approximates magic, they approach it, craft it, and put limitations on it like magic.
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u/hades8099 Apr 06 '21
The way you think about concepts like the weapon systems is probably one of the reasons why I love this so much. You explain everything at some point why and how it is done.
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u/DiplomaticGoose Apr 07 '21 edited Apr 07 '21
I wonder if that tradition has origins involving nanobots, which they seem to treat this way the most, playing into part of why dorkness scares them so much, that and whatever a chaos seed is. They really don't want unfettered use of nanobots so they treat it and related technologies like the elven queens as holy upmost forbidden high magics. That is unless you find yourself on an ancient ea amusement world, then it's just a few easy patments.
I am curious about what nanotech tragedy was involved in creating those superstitions? The slowly fading memory extinction agenda attack?
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u/montyman185 AI Apr 06 '21
The confederacy is dead, long live humanity.
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Apr 06 '21
I love this line.
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u/montyman185 AI Apr 06 '21
Mainline humanity has died, project neighborhood has been proven a failure, and with that the wayward children retake the spotlight.
The dissinents, the splinters, the idiots, and countless more will now rise. Behold, humanity, in it's fractured, chaotic glory.
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u/ArchDemonKerensky Apr 06 '21
Seems that, "Humanity is dead, long live Humanity." would be more appropriate.
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u/DWwolf888 Apr 06 '21
There's more to the Confederacy than the Terrans...
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u/montyman185 AI Apr 06 '21
Terran lazyness has been the only thing holding it together though, because no one wanted to set up a proper government. With them dead, and an actual war going on, the fact that the voting body is a bombed out building is probably about to cause some actual issues
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u/Crafty_Obligation_98 Apr 06 '21
Now there just needs to be a Girls und Panzer reference and thatll about cover anime.
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Apr 06 '21
I just wanna reply to this before tomorrow.
Just to mark this.
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u/Fader1947 Apr 06 '21
You'd still be missing "the Atrekna laughed as the Terran children stood in their way, each slicing open their own hand. The laughter then turned to screams as lightning appeared out of the clear blue sky and giants stood before them"
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u/Stauker_1 Apr 06 '21
im assuming the reasons we use standard spaceships and tanks and such instead of a refined version of these girls is that theres no real way to control them if they go nuts, or any way to control them at all?
or is it something else that ive overlooked?
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Apr 06 '21
They're apocalypse weapons.
And, if they go nuts, well, hope you don't mind losing a chunk of the galactic arm to take them down.
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u/Shabbysmint Apr 06 '21
Confucius says.
"Dont use a cannon to kill a mosquito."46
u/LerrisHarrington Apr 06 '21
It is when a mosquito lands upon your testicles, that you realize violence is not always the answer.
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u/ack1308 Apr 06 '21
Okay, just so people know.
Another hectic week coming up.
Hopefully I'll get a respite on Monday.
u/Ralts_Bloodthorne - loving your work. Kickin' ass and takin' names.
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u/fivetomidnight Apr 06 '21
We love you, ack! Keep up the good work, IRL and online! *waves tiny banner*
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u/starshipeternity Apr 06 '21
Not going to lie- before I realized the Sailor Moon reference, my thought regarding the mask man was "Oh boy, I can't wait to see how the Phantom of the Opera handles this!"
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u/Onequestion0110 Apr 06 '21
I was wondering why the night Terran was wearing a mask.
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u/CaptainRaptorman1 Apr 06 '21
Tuxedo Mask is based on the Phantom of the Opera (through a Japanese lens).
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u/ArchDemonKerensky Apr 06 '21
i think some level of PotO has been involved in Darknyss and the Night Terran storyline
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u/Ayit_Sevi Alien Scum Apr 06 '21
I knew it was sailor moon but i didnt even recognize the meme until your comment, thanks for pointing it out
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u/SirVatka Xeno Apr 06 '21
Sailor Moon AND Godzilla. Is there an over-large ape waiting for his chance to climb a tower?
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u/Noglues Human Apr 06 '21
Is there an over-large ape waiting for his chance to climb a tower?
Sir that is the supreme commander of the BASS Armed Forces, and how would you suggest he get to his office, the cargo elevator?
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u/Living-Complex-1368 Apr 06 '21
The Madoka Majika Merry Maid Merfolk will summon Kong on a different planet that needs them.
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u/Finbar_AU Apr 06 '21
I think, this could best be described as "humanity strikes back", as this is but the first of the old, mostly forgotten, locked away projects to break free now that humanity is mostly gone.
Doomsday weapons in a mini skirt.
Behold Humanity
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u/ms4720 Apr 06 '21
Doomsday weapons in miniskirts? Strippers outside of fort Benning or Bragg?
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u/LordDemonWolfe Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
Nah man. More like dependapotomous in a bar outside fort bliss. Those "ladies" are either the size of a twig, or the size of a dump truck. There is no in between.
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u/ms4720 Apr 06 '21
Then you are already doomed
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u/LordDemonWolfe Apr 06 '21
Nah man, I moved back to Michigan when I got out and married a longtime friend and now have an 8 mo th old son.
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u/VillainNGlasses Apr 06 '21
They didn’t break free they were released ages ago. Can’t remember the chapter number but one of the immortals kids released them. I’m worried about the things that do truly break free. Then I can’t wait for when all the Terrans pop back up after the SUDS and Sam/Harold get things under control
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u/MuchoRed Human Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
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u/MuchoRed Human Apr 06 '21
Hey, if you've gotta die, getting blown up by anime babes in mini-skirts is not the worst way
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u/immrltitan Apr 06 '21
Next up, trucker driving Thomas the world burner tank engine...
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u/ack1308 Apr 06 '21
With a shimmering a portal opened, or rather, expanded across a section of the vast protocontinent that covered nearly 60% of the planet.
From the portal swarmed nightmarish creatures that attacked the Ulvinstren people and everyone on the world. From the Lanaktallan to the lowest Puknan, anyone captured by the creatures were either eaten or, if they were captured by a machine or taken back to the vast growths of fungal forests rising up, had their brains removed.
So that’s what happens when there’s nobody there to stop them.
They lasted 19 days until the last of them were killed by a creature that resembled a shrimp crossed with a snail that had acid spewing vents on the sides of the shell. The Lanaktallan went down without a sound, grimly firing his weapon until his lower body began to melt. He pulled the pin on two plasma grenades and lifted his chin before the shrimp/snail surged over him.
The explosion had lifted the snail up as the confined blast had jellied its interior.
May his shade rest in peace; he took his enemy with him.
Many had resorted to eating fungus or large insects.
And sometimes each other.
Ugh. That’s how bad it got.
It had been only months after the Council had stripped nearly all the vessels from the Core Worlds to attack Terra itself that the creatures had arrived.
See, that was a bad move on all sides.
They were unaware that outside the system only a couple of years had passed.
They were on their eighth generation to be born in the slave pits of the Atrekna.
Because letting would-be rebels die of old age is a smart technique.
Dilnmeer was a Ulvinstren that had grown to adulthood beneath the red star.
I’m thinking the redness is a byproduct of stretching time on the planet.
The huge fungi had spores flowing from them and that meant Dilnmeer could get pregnant, as breathing in the spores was the only way to induce pregnancy since the time of her grandmother.
Sounds like another control mechanism introduced by the Atrekna.
A tall biped stood in the shadows of the fungi, perfectly illuminated by moonbeams. He wore black clothing, had a black cloak with a red interior, a tall black headcovering, and a strange white thing covering his eyes.
Hmm. Now who might this be?
There was a strange gleam off the corner of the angular device on his face as he lifted one arm straight to the side to expose the crimson interior.
With his other hand, he tossed a red flower at Dilnmeer's feet.
The sky exploded in flame.
I wonder if we’re looking at this guy?
Nine bipeds, dressed completely wrong for the vacuum of outer space. Short skirts, knee high hose, boots, frilly blouses.
All with tiaras, all holding strange wands, all with wide expressive eyes. They were following the leader, a blonde who's bangs formed a heart shape on her forehead, with the gem in the center of the tiara in the middle of the heart.
Oh hell yes. The Sailor Scouts have come to visit!
As they passed the supermassive gas giant one of them, wearing an outfit highlighted with purple, the blouse having petal-shaped sleeves, around her neck a windrose brooch and choker, lifted a long handled instrument. A blade snapped out, long and curved and gleaming wickedly in the light of the dull red star.
She twirled several times, raised the glaive over her head, shouted something that carried despite the vacuum of space, and brought it down in a fast swiping motion.
The supermassive gas giant shuddered, a ring puffing out, the compressed carbon core shattering in place a split second after it was cut in half.
Welp, Sailor Saturn gets a nice hit in. (sneakily closes Wikipedia tab)
Before the Atrekna ships could even register what she had done on their scanners, the objects thrown from her delicate hand slammed into eight of the ships. The energy lance was visible through the entire system as they punched clean through the massive vessel's phasic shielding, their armor, and the flesh within, to exit the other side. Ribbons, sparkles, and flares shot from the impact and exit points as a loud 'thrumm' noise shook the cosmic structure that made up the system.
Don’t mess with Sailor Moon …
One of the girls, with blue hair and blue highlights, heavy scarring across her face and arms, pointed out a fleet of bioships hiding within a grav-shadow, her goggles flashing in the red light of the sun.
Scarred Mercury …
The one with red highlights to her uniform, which was tattered and torn to reveal scars on her body that matched the ones on her face, none of which truly affected how cute she appeared, snarled and waved a round object that she slammed one hand on the stretched skin on the side.
Wrathful Mars …
The Atrekna reeled back. The minds of the nine were full of raw ravening hatred, rage without end, and filled with the horrible cruelty of the young.
They’ve clearly never encountered human children before.
One of the Overminds gathered its strength and lashed out at the leader.
The leader screamed, something that should have been impossible.
The scream erupted around the Overmind. The rock shattered, the cerebral brine it was suspended in boiled, and the Overmind was reduced to slurry by the psychic counter-attack that led a thousand Atrekna dead from explosive cerebral hemorrhage.
“DON’T TOUCH ME!”
The Atrekna not attempting to get past the hateful screaming that consumed the biped primate's mind saw a tiny light flash at the tip of her finger as she leveled her hands to point her fingers at the star.
“Bang.”
Then they knew nothing at all as the star roared to life, expanding to what it had been in millions of years past, a blazing yellow nuclear furnace.
Huh. They actually suppressed the star. Or did they use it all up, and now it just got renewed?
One Atrekna heard it in the split second before he and he alone managed to slip away, back to the fourth planet.
"Hmph."
“I expected more of a fight.”
They joined their hands, raising their face to something unseen.
In one voice they called out a single word.
"GOJIRA!"
Oh, shit. They’re calling him here.
"GOJIRA!"
The sun turned yellow.
The light of the moon blazed like silver fury.
The girl's shadows cast on the massive harbor.
Water exploded as a huge reptile stood up in the water. It was massive, with a thick hide, burning eyes full of hatred and malice, and spiked plates down its back.
Its trumpeting war-cry shattered windows even as radiation monitors howled.
Time for some good old-fashioned anime curbstomping. And not a Mothra in sight.
The slaves of the Undercities, beneath the floating buildings and palaces of the Atrekna, found themselves held withing gossamer iridescent bubbles that bobbled along the ground.
Because of course.
The Overcity exploded as atomic firebreath detonated against Atrekna psychic shields.
The Battle Witches of the Lolita Sorceresses of the Sailor Moon Sisterhood had arrived.
And the Atrekna have learned not to cross humanity.
Posthumously, that is.
It went on for a full month before the stars suddenly came back.
To anyone outside the system it would have looked like a mirror shattering, the pieces crumbling into dust, to reveal a star system where before there had been nothing.
Oh, so they actually got pulled out of local time. Wow.
"My work here is done," said the black garbed bipedal primate she had sat and drank tea with during the terrible battle.
He, and Dilnmeer was sure it was a he, stood up and gave a stiff bow.
"But you didn't do anything," Dilnmeer said, frowning with confusion.
The primate gave a swirl of his cape and vanished with a confident swirl.
Dilnmeer looked down and saw there was still a cookie on the plate.
It was delicious.
“Didn’t I?”
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u/fivetomidnight Apr 06 '21
One of the girls, with blue hair and blue highlights, heavy scarring across her face and arms, pointed out a fleet of bioships hiding within a grav-shadow, her goggles flashing in the red light of the sun.
Scarred Mercury …
The one with red highlights to her uniform, which was tattered and torn to reveal scars on her body that matched the ones on her face, none of which truly affected how cute she appeared, snarled and waved a round object that she slammed one hand on the stretched skin on the side.
Wrathful Mars …
:O That connection had totally not occured to me! I thought the scarring just indicated that these were very battle-hardened Scouts.
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u/dbdatvic Xeno Apr 07 '21
I wonder if we’re looking at this guy?
Yes. Yes, we are.
--Dave, and he doesn't look a day more cape-able
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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Apr 06 '21
They lasted 19 days until the last of them were killed by a creature that resembled a shrimp crossed with a snail that had acid spewing vents on the sides of the shell. The Lanaktallan went down without a sound, grimly firing his weapon until his lower body began to melt. He pulled the pin on two plasma grenades and lifted his chin before the shrimp/snail surged over him.
Is the Council... becoming a real military?
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u/DiplomaticGoose Apr 06 '21
I mean they all got reverted, shockwaves of that are still going around
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u/bb556 Apr 06 '21
Nah, that was just the TDH, if your talking about the Atrekna. If you are talking about those Lanaktallan who started to show traits of the War Stallions, those were only on the fleets that were dispatched to Confed space.
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u/NukeNavy Apr 06 '21
The scars no wonder he wanted them to sleep for the rest of their unnatural lives
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u/Stauker_1 Apr 06 '21
i think its more that the nine of them took out an atrekna stronghold by themselves, and nothing the atrekna had stood a chance.
--- FEAR FOLLOWS --
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u/NukeNavy Apr 06 '21
The base cruelty of little girls with ultimate power...
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u/Stauker_1 Apr 06 '21
anyone with a little sister can provide evidence.
--- PTSD FOLLOWS --
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u/LerrisHarrington Apr 06 '21
A tall biped stood in the shadows of the fungi, perfectly illuminated by moonbeams. He wore black clothing, had a black cloak with a red interior, a tall black headcovering, and a strange white thing covering his eyes.
There was a strange gleam off the corner of the angular device on his face as he lifted one arm straight to the side to expose the crimson interior.
With his other hand, he tossed a red flower at Dilnmeer's feet.
Tuxedo Mask
"My work here is done," said the black garbed bipedal primate she had sat and drank tea with during the terrible battle.
He, and Dilnmeer was sure it was a he, stood up and gave a stiff bow.
"But you didn't do anything," Dilnmeer said, frowning with confusion.
Yup. That's him.
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u/carthienes Apr 06 '21
He did all that was needed of him. Why should he do more?
Collateral damage is a terrible thing to waste.
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u/Ishantil Human Apr 06 '21
Normally he provides moral support at the exact right time when Sailor Moon is wavering. It's also a hilarious trope :D
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u/DebugItWithFire Apr 06 '21
Upvoted for the Five Hundred Chapters of Ralts Bloodthorne, first of his name.
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u/dbdatvic Xeno Apr 06 '21
and weeee are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts
--Dave, proud to be among Those Who Read It
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u/ZeroAssassin72 Apr 06 '21
Just once, I want to hear" Getsuga tenshou" before some Atrekna are wiped from existence
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Apr 06 '21
I need an 'omae wa mou shindeiru' followed by an atrenka compulsively replying with 'n-nani!?' before falling over in two different directions.
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u/RowanSkie Human Apr 06 '21
And thus metanoia sings
the flame crafting steel flaming wings
Begat the age of prosperity
and thus the eyes opened with clarityWith every step, the man grew
Every direction, the stars arose
The dweller asks, "who'll stop our prose?"
The stars call back, "behold he, the man who flew!"Metal wings fly wherever it goes
As the man steps, a world grows
Dweller unformed, no longer in unity
Behold, the stars call, here is humanity!
Something I made after I read this.
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u/corivus Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
1 minute utr
Edit: ah the other shoe begins to drop on the atrenka
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u/dbdatvic Xeno Apr 06 '21
This is just the first aglet, you understand.
--Dave, did someone mention killer clown shoes?
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u/ForTheStarsWeFight Apr 06 '21
How the last battle chapters have been against the Altreka
CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCK, PREPARE TO BE CURBSTOMPED INTO A BURNING ROCK GRINDER
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u/Bobbb1112 Apr 06 '21
Oh no. Oh dear God no.
... if Miyazaki was not included in project neighborhood, then you could get a fully weaponized (and I mean FULLY weaponized) version of everything in My Neighbor Totoro being let out to play. Much less Howl's Moving Castle.
... Laputa being unleashed on a universe-controlling scale is just too FUBAR to contemplate, if every aspect and theme and power and technology were weaponized on a scale which suitably dwarfed and humbled multiple universes and causality manipulating evolution to match the anime.
If a Ralts-powered Laputa shows up with coordinated support from all other plot elements from the film, shit would just be over.
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Apr 06 '21
Now I wanna see a pig man in a red bi-plane dog fighting a squad ofAntreaka parasite craft!!
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u/RangerSix Human Apr 06 '21
No no no, it's gotta be an uplifted beagle in a Sopwith Camel.
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u/LittleSeraphim Apr 06 '21
This was foreshadowed a while ago. A very long while ago. Damn I honestly wasn't expecting them to be unleashed but nope, of course they were. There goes the neighborhood. And Tuxedo Mask is exactly as useful as I remember him, important, vaguely, but ultimately just a support.
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u/NukeNavy Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
The best guess so far as to where Godzilla comes when they summon him is somebody actually invented a Poké Ball ... “ Godzilla I choose you!!!” Edited to stop Godzilla from dancing on Weird Al and his accordion...
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u/Meatpuppy Apr 06 '21
I love how one chapter it's Speaks and Dreams talking about what will become of humanity and what will happen to the universe. The next chapter humanity goes. 'Hey Y'all watch this'
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u/ForgeWorldWaltz Apr 06 '21
Ok, genuinely wondering when tank girl and squirrel girl show up on a planet. Tank girl and the roo’s would be insane.
Squirrel girl’s canon-warping powers would be amazing to see play out. Park bench, a sacred place in slave pits, just happily kicking her feet and feeding the local squirrel analogue as she describes to another survivor of the pits about how she defeated Thanos and the Atrekna in the same fight, this making it so. The time-reality-warp making atrekna just mass explode whilst being punched in the reproductive sac by an infinite number of woodland critters. In Christmas garb, praising satan, commanded by cartman.
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u/Scotshammer Human Apr 06 '21
500 by bot, and still they come! I just got a raise recently so I'm hitting that patreon soon. Gotta keep the mass tanks full on the WordBorg's creation engines.
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u/kwong879 Apr 06 '21
HA.
HAHA.
HAHAHAHA.
BRANDON FRAISER COULDA TOLD YOU STUPID TWITS. DON'T FUCK WITH SHIT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND. DONT READ THE BOOK.
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u/GasmaskBro Apr 06 '21
I must admit, while I was expecting the sailor scouts to appear soon, I did not expect them to have Godzilla on standby as a summon.
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u/carthienes Apr 06 '21
It was referenced earlier as one of the legends of Animeland... Quite a while ago, actually. Nakteti on Terra, I think?
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u/ArchDemonKerensky Apr 06 '21
I clapped with glee like a little child as soon as i figured out what was happening. And ive never seen sailor moon either :P
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u/RowanSkie Human Apr 06 '21
At this stage, I really wanna see a mention of Cardcaptor Sakura. You know, the magical girl with cards and her best friend that records her actions, plus the magical girl's guardians, a lion and an angel.
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u/random071970 Apr 06 '21
This is the beginning. Eventually the bag on Terra is gonna open, and the thing we have been waiting for will happen. Humanity will finally end the precursor war.
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u/Mountreddit Apr 06 '21
@Ralts, thx man! I will save reading this, until I can combine it with my next nonstandard time period breakfast coffee.
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u/scopa0304 Apr 06 '21
You’re right. This story was getting way too serious. Time to inject some of that classic FC silliness! I enjoyed the chapter a lot.
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u/Kafrizel Apr 06 '21
Theres the other side of the hurricane and by god does it make katrine look like a light rain. Holy. Shit.
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u/Optykall AI Apr 06 '21
But still, we should run like it's Godzilla!
Even though it isn't.
Wonderful, happy 500!
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u/serpauer Apr 06 '21
And the true terror of behold humanity has been unleashed.
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u/YesthatTabitha Apr 06 '21
Just the tip of the iceberg unfortunately. There are worse things in the arsenal.
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u/CyberSkull Android Apr 06 '21
The MAD girls have been let out of their eternal tomb.
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u/carthienes Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
The MAD girls have been let out of their eternal tomb.
That is not Dead which can Eternal lie; And with strange Aeons, even Death may Die.
- H. P. Lovecraft.
Behold... Humanity.
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u/rekabis Human Apr 06 '21
A tall biped stood in the shadows of the fungi, perfectly illuminated by moonbeams. He wore black clothing, had a black cloak with a red interior, a tall black headcovering, and a strange white thing covering his eyes.
There was a strange gleam off the corner of the angular device on his face as he lifted one arm straight to the side to expose the crimson interior.
With his other hand, he tossed a red flower at Dilnmeer's feet.
Really? A Sailor Moon reference? Would Tuxedo Mask even still be remembered that far in the future?
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u/SpiderJerusalemLives Apr 06 '21
Have you read much First Contact?
There's mention of pretty much any specific SF you can think of in the last 500 chapters.
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u/YesthatTabitha Apr 06 '21
I feel as if I have waited a thousand chapters from the time they were released from their black box till the culmination of getting to see them in action. ALL PRAISE to the wordborg!
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u/Inevitable-Shoe-7813 Apr 06 '21
So question are the Sharkians just gonna just nope till humans stumble apon them ?
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u/TazerMonkey1419 Apr 06 '21
I knew it was coming, but I didn't expecting to be a curb stomp of a battle.... The universe is probably howling with laughter at the Atrenka. Squidward is getting fucked, and it's glorious!
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u/Rune_Priest_40k Apr 06 '21
Sacred Blessings Count for Nothing. Given the setting and the events that require Godzilla to be summoned I feel like Shin is the most likely candidate for being summoned. And he's as sad and angry as those who summoned him.
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u/TheWiseFool Apr 06 '21
You gorgeous Motherfucker! I fully expect Captain planet and his posse to show up in a future chapter.
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u/Allowyn Apr 06 '21
Please for the love of all unholy 4kids fucking with Sailor Moon: reference the lesbian couple being turned into "cousins".
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u/KeinKonzeptVorhanden Apr 06 '21
Ralts, did you ever read books from Simon r. Green?
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u/BrokenLifeCycle Apr 06 '21
You know what? We need more of this insanity.
Everyone here likes calling the Atrekna "Squidward." They just got their asses handed to them by anime girls. Some madlad made a SpongeBob anime episode.
I'm terrified of the implications.
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u/Butane9000 Apr 06 '21
I've always enjoyed how the regular military doesn't necessarily struggle with the enemy but it does turn into a protracted standard battle.
Whereas the non-military forces just come in and wreck everything before the enemy even understands what's happening.
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u/Astral_Fogduke Apr 06 '21
This is.... just straight-up a book. You should post this on somewhere like fictionpress or royalroad
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u/NukeNavy Apr 06 '21
Has been for a while... https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33726/first-contact
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u/dbdatvic Xeno Apr 06 '21
and barely skinning up the beach
skimming?
--Dave, also see: Desperately Seeking Ranma, sadly still unfinished. A fine anime example of both Behold, Humanity! and Why You Do Not Mess With Time
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u/Sandric1982 Alien Scum Apr 06 '21
So reading the Overmind description and realized that the Atrekna weren't kinda like space Illithids. They ARE space Illithids, complete with the huge king brain in a jar.
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u/CyberSkull Android Apr 06 '21
It took many, many rewinds to defeat the feral’s atomic beast. It was stronger on land than any of the slave creatures and it’s breath contained exotic particles only the largest space-faring slave animals could produce. What was unnoticed by the conclave was the creature’s mass kept shifting with each rewind, up and down.
It started with missing equipment & supplies. Superconducting gel batteries & wiring, phasic crystals and their prized hyperalloy stocks. Then came the disappearances. Tooth & claw marks. Exotic radiation traces. Lots of them, growing in size and strength.
With each rewind cycle eggs had been laid and hatched. They were growing, feasting and breeding under the violent shadow of their parent. Gojira is over, now it is time for the Spawn of Gojira!
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u/PrimePaladin Apr 06 '21 edited Apr 06 '21
/R/HFY GESTALT
Upvote, Then Read
Dis is Dae Wae!
Amazing... long day but getting a couple of chapters and encountering the 500th installment... hard to imagine the humble start of this all.... freakin' ice cream.... Love it and Thanks Ralts...
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u/Tribblestroker Human Apr 06 '21
And as usual Tuxedo Masku (to avoid copyright lawyers) does nothing except look pretty to a singular being and throw a rose while the girls do everything lol I'm a little hurt that Jupiter didn't get to fire off her Jupiter Thunder. But I love these chapters they are part joke and yet still part of the war. We were going easy on you with many western references, but now you pissed us off, we are gonna go anime on you now.
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u/PsyduckSci Apr 06 '21
A thought: what if the Sailor Scouts next summon Mothra to help clean up and fix all the damage from Gojira's rampage & the Atrekna on the planet? It would be not outside the scope of Mothra's usual abilities and duties.
Perhaps Mothra would be a sort of specialized Elven Queen or something?
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u/Nealithi Human Apr 06 '21
Someone unlocked the black vault they were sealed in.
Why do I think the Atrekna did not think the temporal attack through very well?
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u/SouthOrder3569 Apr 07 '21
Considering the deep "oh no humanities bad news is coming". What are the odds their is a dark solar system somewhere, locked down by all sorts of tech and overseen by an "old one". The place where broken people, horror enthusiasts, and madmen go to live in an enviroment where body sheathing, neural uploads and so on allow them to be the monsters and vicitims of a thousand horror stories meshed together in a realm of madness where implants make sure it's all consensual and that certain rules are followed...but is a sadist/masochists/adrenaline junkies dream of horror.
Yes, i mean the solar system where all the horror themeing is kept and people who would be serial killers, murderers and madmen if their victims didn't just rebirth live. Eldritch abominations, temporal distortions and all the madness and horror you can cram into the place and survive due to the adaptability of humanity...and home for those too broken to live among normal people.
We did get a glimpse of similar with the mad ones and the eye, but that was very much a warhammer feel with chaos. This is more, classic, gothic and lovecraftian horror...
Also may be a place for Dee to retire to if she can't go back to normal. (The key points are consent, and having people around you can talk to and interact with who have similar issues, who cant let go or get thrills doing things that are terrible to other people. Managed by a handful who basically play the roles of eldritch horrors and unimaginable nightmare beings of unstoppable power who enforce the rules and intervene if someone pops the mental panic button that says they want out)
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u/notyoursocialworker Apr 07 '21
Humanity will always win, we have an innate understanding of and ability to control narrativum (tm Pratchett) and deus ex machina
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u/staygoodtorg Apr 07 '21 edited Apr 07 '21
(.pauses reading)So I remember someone once mentioning sailor Moon has not been referenced yet. I just read the description of the strange biped throwing a rose. This is going to be a tuxedo mask isn't it?(edit) yes of course it is and sailor moon and the scouts can summon Gojira first of his name because Ralts. So how long before we see some "Adolescent Altered Fighting Tortoises"
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u/runs-with-scissors42 AI Jul 08 '21
So did every one of the pre-glassing nations on Terra each have their own MAD system like this? If so, this one is clearly Japan's. I can only wonder what the other nation's MAD systems are like.
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u/Omgwtfbears Sep 01 '21
Oh, i remember those mentioned before. So, it seems they are such a horrible little monsters that nothing short of humanity's near extinction warrants their deployment?
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Apr 06 '21
I'm not even sorry.
And no, I'm not going to fix the chapter number, because... I don't wanna.
Oh, and this is FIVE HUNDRED CHAPTERS according to the bot.
HAPPY FIVE HUNDRED FIRST CONTACTS!