While not sitting in a Purple Funk.....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 5440

While I don't float about in a funk, I can't say that I'm totally comfortable with this whole deal.

See, while I'll be among friends and such, I'll probably never again see Home. Furthermore, I don't exactly like floating around in this purple haze. I want to know what is going on.

Then again, I'd do it all over again for the same reasons.

One thing I will Never do again, however, is wish that all the Enemy end up in Hell. What I saw after that pitched battle was....

Was something I won't wish on anyone.


Probe looks down from his position at a totally stunned ghost standing next a smoking crater. Zerm looks like he can't believe he's been defeated.

Probe himself would perhaps have gone down for a face to face encounter, but he's a bit stuck right now.

See, though Probe had blown a large chunk of the "front" of his base unit to smithereens (the side that had been facing Zerm)... Though his pulse laser had vaporized all of his higher brain functions in his attempt to kill Zerm before the evil Atlantian Mage could finish off Astra 2. Though this and more, there were two factors in play here. His "body" was still "alive" in a fashion....albeit a few minor circuits and his I/O interface (running on emergency battery power....his tiberium power plant had gone offline). Also, though his "body" was in what you'd term a "coma," Probe's spirit was halfway free of his body.

He could see what was going on around him, and interact with it in a limited ghostly manner. However, since he wasn't fully dead....he couldn't get very far away from his base unit. At least, that was, until something like an hour from now...when the emergency battery ran itself dry.....

Probe probably would have not come upon his desperate gambit that had cost him his life, if Astra 2 hadn't been in peril. But it had happened that way, and Probe was happy with the final results.

Probe was halfway happy about his death. He wasn't suicidal by nature, but he'd always wanted his death to have some special meaning. To have died in the course of saving such as Astra 2....was wonderful, macabre as that might sound.

A shell shocked, ghostly Zerm now stood below him, looking around in a daze.

"Wha....?" Zerm whispered, looking down at the crater that had been him only a short time ago. He looked around nervously. He couldn't even feel the flow of magic around him. Magic had been his constant companion throughout his life, and now....it was dead to him.

He looked down at himself....and through himself.

He gave off a wail of anguish, for it wasn't magic that was dead to him....he was dead to magic. Dead and cut off from anything connecting him to this plane of existence....

A distant sound was in the background that sent a shiver down the ghost spine, subconsciously. A sound that would soon prove to be the last thing he'd ever hear on Terra. But right now.....

"What?" Zerm croaks out stupidly, at a total loss for words.

Probe had seen the look of exhalation as he had slain the three Oriental dragons. He'd seen Zerm smile as he watched the Flamebane Mail explode, and knock out Astra 2 in the process. He'd smiled in happy expectation as he'd began to make some more gestures at the fallen Amazon warrior. It was a game to him, and the death of other meant nothing to him.

Probe, like many Alliance warriors, had the blood of many on his hand. However, few Alliance warriors saw the act of killing as a game. Another's life was not a toy. Kill Probe had done, it was part of war. However, Zerm had crossed a dangerous line. He'd insulted Probe's sense of morality.

Probe was still angry at Zerm, and wasn't in a charitable mood.

"He asks 'What?'," Probe laughs in a laughing, loud voice. Zerm's head snaps up, looking at a phantom who's shape seems to ship from a man to....some type of metal conveyance he'd seen in his scryings of the skies above.

Probe saw Zerm look up, and stare at him.

Zerm looked lost and pathetic. He looked like a young teenager who'd just been dumped on his first date. He looked like he needed a hug.

Probe had seen the look on Zerm's face in his final moment, and the AI had seen somebody who deserved no pity....only scorn.

Probe didn't feel like cursing the black mage, but he felt like making fun of him. That would be a relatively harmless (spiritually wise), perhaps. Relatively harmless, for if Probe shouted what he really wanted to.....

  1. So Probe heckled Zerm, by imitating a famous American Warner Brother's cartoon character: Foghorn Leghorn....

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