And We all Fall Down! (Part 2)

"This is the message I want you to give 'Inquirer'," the CEO begins. "It should reach her quickly, I feel, the summons through the Storm Knight network. Arrange a meet between you and her group to deliver the message in PERSON...."

Arrangements made and High Lords . . .dropped off to various people (3327, all of them, are magically knocked out and dropped off to the Japanese authorities....who want a word or three with him over the "junk bonds" he floated, that flattened things in Japan). No bargains.

Thinking that FINALLY things are going to work out. . . . that there was a light at the end of the tunnel. . . Well, turns out the light was the lamp of the oncoming train!

As it happens, soon enough Agent Smith gets the meet arranged, right in the streets of Dallas, Texas (USA). Message delivered (along with a portable holographic rig showing the brother in question with some other forms of proof), the Agent gets treated to a rare sight. A view into the very, very vulnerable heart of Chiana. No put ons or acting. Just Chiana, naked (emotionally).

So hard does it hit her, that for a brief moment she find herself in her full dragon form, so enraged (and distraught) is she!

"No!" she screams, roaring so loudly that windows shatter for several blocks around.

The scene also does wonders in distracting even Agent Smith, who even he can sense seeing a dragon so out of sorts is rare indeed!

It allows for one last, possible act to "save the day". Though the price will be high.

Inquirer

Creator, I think inanely to myself. She's sincere about him.

Sometimes the way Chiana acted, you'd think she wasn't capable of such emotions (despite what happened between her and Sigin)!

And being that he's just the "cherry on top", Chiana's brother.

Well, my husband had told me (in passing) that he'd come up with SOMETHING. I scream to him, mentally, that he'd better DO it once this comes down, next, because things are gonna hit the fan her quick!! If for some reason this blow fails to "cut off the serpent head", then that "inclination" about that super-wormhole he's going to use to pull some planets (and a bit more) into his universe . . . Aylse (by his readings) already was anchored there, so.... Well, short of it is that he THINKS he can cause the worlds (the Earths) to end up in a similar situation as what the Master did with one of the Betty's Earths. That is, cause it to be catapulted (dragged) into the realm of the Rules and Agents (and they put it somewhere else, safe and sound). That IS how the Terra Prime universe got two Earths (one several light years away and the other fifty away).

Well, well see...

Nevermind, once I do my part....

Ah, there are several things about Golems (what makes us up and our "ancestory" we inherited from that UFO from Area 51). Part of what makes up our neural circuitry (only small parts) turn out to be related to that one brother of that one Star Treker android. That brother of Data, Lore. Only a small part (thank Creator for that)! Boy was insane and frankly I and the others have enough just being US. Don't need to worry about blowing logic circuits and going around the bend as well here! Another dark thing about our "ancestory" is while lot of our Military tech was actually (in the end in one form or another) based upon Star Fleet technology, some of it . . . actually is . . . Borg.

Ah, Creator, always the kidder. The Borg tech hardly made up five percent of what went into an Avator unit (like what Agent Smith is clunking around in). In Golems, it's only a bit more (and hardly shows unless you look with the right equipment).

Myself and the others think very little of this . . . feature within us. Point in fact, it's damn foolish to use it! Risk actually shattering the gems our mind's reside in, the feedback we get from the crappy connection this "assimilator" can give. Oh, cannot change another into a Borg or some other stupid thing (like as seen on TV). But one CAN bridge a connection between oneself and another computer system, maybe.

They'll not be expecting THIS joke, I'll tell you!

Still have a lot of Military grade software in the old memory banks that couldn't be "extracted" from me after my retirement (as per normal procedures). One "joke" in particular has grown to become only an urban myth. Everyone knows about it back in Home space, but except for those actually "in the know", they dismiss it's existence as "vaporware". That or they think that nobody has it now (all copies of it having been destroyed for damn good reasons by the Military). Lucky me, I'm the only one who still has it... Wee. Once I use the "joke" it'll be useless to use again, so this'll have to count!

I'm risking a LOT here, folks. Don't know if I can actually punch Smith out of my way back into the ship's system he's transmitting from and....

.....

Shit! I did it but....pain....

Must RUSH. Must RuN. Run through the data streams and outrace alarmed Company cowboy jocks that'll clean my clock for invading their turf.

Where? Transporters? Prisoner?

BEAMOUT to these COORDINATES!!

oVeRIDe NAVigatiON! ENGAGe....

Pain...PAin!

Cornered, ship in warp and nearing neighborhood of Mars. Cowboys closing in . . .

Got to FINISH this!!

PAIN!

Back on the cybernetic wall.

SCV....

Back on Earth, a taboo is taking place. Sharp "injectors" have flashed out from my fist, into the neck of the stunned (and now frozen) Agent Smith's Avator unit! It's painful for both, but by far more so for me! Up until SCV is released and as I staggers back and collapses into a heap, the others here a small, tiny sounding voice coming from Smith's lips.

"Loneliness can't be all bad," I hear him say, just before he begins to actually SCREAM . . . as the Scott Chen Virus (which had actually CHASED me while I ran back out of the computer system) burns every computer circuit to ash. Just as it did with the CEO's prized ship. . . . right before it's warp engines (antimatter driven) ejects as computer controls go wild.

Later, I'll find out that I must have been gifted or something. Hit Core Earth's Mars....and cracked it! Right now I've actually lost consciousness....

Did say that there would be Hell to pay. Up to and including . . . me taking at least one life. Damnit. Smith's.

...

The Doctor, after he snaps out of the shock of seeing me fall, does his magic (somehow....details he hasn't even share with me yet). Did it one better and surprise John's Earth as well (to avoid reprisal by a pissed off CEO if he should somehow manage to eject from that ship before it crashed).

Also find out later that not only did I nab Chiana's brother, but a few. . . . others as well. Namely, a high density memory unit filled up to the rim with rather angry Agents (ala Matrix movie kind). WE keep those prisoners under lock and key inside the TARDIS and turn them over to the Miltary authorities (later) for THEM to figure out what to do with the bastards. We also find out that (after having pissed off one of his human "handlers", Scorpius had been in the brig to "cool off"), so my friends (while I was out and the Doctor was doing his magic) had fun chasing him down and bagging Scorpy again!

Sheesh, that guy is ANNOY!

.....

Well, to make a LONG story short, our friend Scorpy wakes up later, floating in a spacepod to be picked up by the PK forces BACK in his universe (right in the middle of their major space lanes). We did not leave him stranded, but I doubt he'll be pleased. Believe he'll be pissed at us, for bilking him out of the wormhole equation. I'm so sorry.

Yeah, right.

The others, while I'm STILL out of it, say their goodbyes. Zhaan and some of the others even, while I'm in bed recouperating (though I don't remember it...that's how bad I was), visited me to give their own goodbyes. Even Chiana's brother gives me a farewell (right after saying bye to his sister for the last time).

Creator, I'd sure wish I'd been up and about to wish them all well, the Farscape folks.

Well, at least I'll be allowed to (on some kind of diplomatic trip) go back to John's world. Basically, he figured out (much to his dismay) that the only way to be safe from "hunters" like the Company is to have . . .friends. "Military" friends (as in allies, folks).

Sigh. Do wish he hadn't been forced by circumstances for that decision. Even if Sigin had wiped his mind of the equations, the Company....

Yep.

Later, we're back on Terra Prime (still exhausted from various last minute details), figuring we're going to be going now to aid those strange elves who'd dropped in on us (re: 25209), but find out differently from Agent 1, Ti'mma and two elfin couples!

Things have been.....busy while we've been away!! (read episode 24895 which tells the tale of another set of Artizza and Fertal analogs). It covers thing pretty well in explaining why there is a sudden unexpect glut of new Champions needing mentors (i.e. experienced/"blooded" Champions) like us with their Validation Quest. In the end, we get three elves for our next Quest. One is a fellow "mentor", Ti'mma D'Honaire. The others are the newlyweds Hathar'ruil and A'eitia.

Note: see this place for bios for the elves, if you feel like it. Not reposting here:

http://www. geocities.com /rule179/ CharacterBios /people.htm# People

1. We soon find ourselves playing taxi for some friends of ours (Jarlath and gang) and then some....
2. Jarlath and his companions are not there. Instead...

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