Through an alleyway a lone Geddos ran. He was hiding in the dark parts of the citadel and wore a cape to cover his back and head, it used a special technology to whiten his fur and reduce his size to appear like a Teddy copy from further away, not a Geddos copy.
His little feet were tapping very quickly and silently on the metal ground of the citadel. Under his cloak, which was waving due to his speed, was a blowgun. It was the first creation ever in the simulation which was designed and engineered by a Geddos copy. And, even though technology is evil and magic is good, it was not made with technology but with magic. No Teddy has yet used magic, even though it represents them and their light.
He climbed up a wall and entered the home of someone, maybe a Teddy's, or maybe a Max's. They were not home at the time and nobody locked their doors as there was nothing to steal on the citadel.
The Geddos made his way through the hallway, past multiple rooms and through the kitchen onto the balcony. He put his blowgun onto the floor next to himself and took out binoculars. Laying down he looked through the binoculars to search for his target.
"There you are." He whispered. His gaze was fixed onto another Geddos copy. All the other Geddos copies were bound to a Teddy copy to circumvent what was about to happen. He put down his binoculars and picked up his blowgun, putting it in front of his mouth. "There can only be one."
He blew with all his power into the mouthhole. Before his eyes a magical glyph appeared for him to choose his target and after selecting the Geddos copy, a glowing needle flew out of the front hole and the air around was distorted due to the heat of the needle.
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"Have a nice day!" A Teddy copy said, waving to the customers leaving her little market stand after selling them a handful of fruits.
The customer, another Teddy, was waving back while looking over her shoulders back to her. "See you tomorrow." She yelled through the crowd. To her hand was a Geddos copy bound who was sulking.
He sighed, "Can we hurry home? I don't want to be seen like that!" He complained silently. While he was bigger than the Teddy copy, he was being dragged around by her. "And why do I have to carry your groceries? You know we don't need to eat yet buy so much food."
"Would you stop complaining already?" She asked him, "You pretend as if you were forced to be bound to me, you could rip my arm off, or my hand at least to get free, but you would rather not hurt me so you have to deal with me, until we let you go." A cute smile was decorating her fluffy face as she looked into his face. "See? You're quiet now—"
Suddenly the Geddos copy fell to the side, pulling her down with her as the side of his head burst into flames. The fire spread over his entire body in seconds, even touching the Teddy as she screamed for someone to help the Geddos copy. The flames did not spread onto her, she could not even feel the heat of the flames.
In less than 5 seconds it was over. Not even ashes remained from his body. The object binding him to the Teddy fell from her arm onto the ground with the groceries he was holding.
Screams of panic were filling the market. Was it an attack by the Geddos Alliance? Did they infiltrate their citadel? How the hell could this happen?
The Teddy copy sitting on the ground followed the trajectory of how he fell towards the place the attack came from. Her gaze quickly went towards the balconies across the street, she continued to search the walls and balconies for movement.
Then she found someone. A Teddy(?) copy was entering the home of a Pheddie via the balcony. "What?" She jumped up, filled with anger. While she did not believe the Teddy on the balcony was the attacker, she had to have seen who did it.
She ran past the group of onlookers and quickly broke through the door into the house. She sprinted up the stairs and looked down the hall. "Ouch!" She bumped into the Teddy copy she had seen and was looking for.
Their eyes met. "Wait!" She screamed as the Teddy turned around and bolted away to flee, "Who are you?" She was stunned for a moment because those weren't Teddy eyes, they looked like a combination of Teddy's and Geddos' eyes. Once she realised that the Teddy was running away she jumped up to pursue her.
"STOP! I just have some questions for you!"
The two Teddy copies ran through multiple homes of Pheddies, jumping from window to window. The cloaked copy jumped to the next balcony and slowed down. The pursuing copy took a deep breath and accelerated, every step she got closer.
"Got you." She muttered and jumped forward to grab the cloaked copy. But she missed and fell a story down and flew through a closed window, destroying the glass and landing in the bathroom of the house.
The cloaked Teddy had jumped upwards, dodging her and climbing up onto the roofs to run with less obstacles and hide once she was far enough.
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The air was filled with the odour of rotting flesh and acids. The walls were moving, made of living flesh. In the middle of a dark living tunnel, someone awoke. It was Lukas, wearing the armor of A24's crew, which was now broken, only the anti-flesh shields were still working… barely.
His entire body was aching with pain from the fall. Moving his joints only increased the pain, but he had to stand up and leave, before his shield dies and the Lina consumes him.
"God fucking damn it!" He muttered, clutching his aching rips. "Did I break something?" His legs were at least sprained, if not broken. His shoulder felt all right and his head and stomach felt normal. "How long was I asleep?" He lifted his hanging arm to look at the time, but the part of the armor had fallen off.
He started to look around, stumbling from side to side. Lukas wanted to lean against a wall but if he did, it would just dodge him because of his shield and if he turned it off, the walls would attack. His eyes wandered up and down, from side to side, searching for the part he had lost.
While he did not notice it, he had wandered quite the distance before finding something. "Why would the Lina create a maze around its body instead of just a wall? Is it to encourage us to search for its body instead of attacking it straight on until our batteries are empty and it can kill us? Is it even smart enough to think that far?" He scratched his neck.
He noticed something shining in the corner of his eyes. It was reflecting the light from his flashlight in a different way than the walls made from living flesh. He walked quickly over to pick it up. It was made from metals, but the flesh had grown around it.
"I can't rip it apart, can I?" He asked himself. He hesitated, his hand hovering above the metal. A sigh escaped his lips and he grabbed the object, ripping it out of the ground.
An ear piercing scream came from the hole the object left.
Scared of being in danger, he bolted down a different corridor. Once the scream had almost vanished into oblivion he stopped dead in his tracks. With a glance at the metal object he put it into place on his armor, while not his time display, he was able to replace a slightly damaged object for this one, which was in almost perfect condition.
"Alright, at least something." Lukas continued down the corridor.
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A secret entrance, hidden as nothing but a wall, opened up. A blinding light shining through the gap into the eyes of the cloaked Teddy. She stepped through the light into the room behind and the secret entrance closed once more.
The light turned from blinding into just enough to light up the room. The walls were colored a dark green, almost black. The floor was made from black wooden planks.
The Teddy spoke: "Cloak: Cancel." and ripped off the cloak from its shoulders. The Teddy started to grow and turned back into a Geddos copy. He stretched his arms and massaged his shoulders for a short moment. "That feels way better."
From his back he took his blowgun and threw it back onto a table. It slides a short distance before coming to a stop, having almost fallen off the table.
"Sebastian: Deactivate." He commanded.
A robotic voice answered him: "Right away, my liege." The robotic voice became a hum which drowned into the background as music started playing.
He sat down in front of the desk he had thrown the blowgun onto. He pulled it from the edge of the table back into its place while taking out a small notebook with his other hand. "I should have gotten used to it by now." He muttered and stretched his neck once more.
The notebook was neither titled nor had it a name written onto it to claim it. He opened it using the bookmark and took out his pen. The left page was already written full so he continued writing on the right page.
He wrote about his excursion and elimination of another Geddos copy. How fast he had died, if it seemed painless and about the success of only damaging the selected target.
Humming the song he accidentally wrote down a few lines before noticing and erasing them again. "Shit… Left a smudge." He quickly wrote over the smudge.
Finishing his report of the day he put away his notebook and replaced it with a plastic folder filled with loose papers. "Where was—"
BANG!
"Huh?" His hands stopped mid air. His eyes moved towards the entrance and he whispered: "Sebastian: Activate orange"
The robotic voice this time only sounded in his head: "My liege! An unidentified creature tried to access the door. Shall I activate the camera, or do you wish to proceed with immediate interference?"
"The camera might alert them, immediate interference second level." His hand hovered above the blowgun for a moment before he grabbed another item next to it and headed towards the entrance.
The door opened before him as he walked towards it and there she stood, a human… female? She was surrounded by a group of personalised robots. A weapon was pointed at each and every single vital body point.
The Geddos copy put on his cloak as he stood before her and had the item attached to his hand. It was some kind of glove, even though it certainly did not look like one, as he had no fingers and thus the glove also did not have any. The palm was covered with 6 different magical glyphs, four of them for offensive purposes and the remaining two for defense.
"I have come to—"
"I do not remember giving you permission to open your mouth!" He interrupted her, still adjusting his cloak.
The woman continued to speak, but she did not open her mouth, having taken his words literally: "I have come to send a message. The Emperor wished for you to receive it."
His gaze shifted towards her and with a chuckle he spoke: "I don't remember there being an emperor on this citadel, and a human woman no less. Who are you, if I may ask?"
"I am—"
"You are allowed to use your mouth, that just feels wrong, a voice but no mouth moving to it."
"Thank you." She said, her lips parting once more to speak, "The Emperor has granted me the name Lana. He wishes for an audience with you. His wishes for information regarding your coordinates and a few other things."
Geddos looked at her annoyed. "My coordinates?" He asked in confusion, "If you are here, surely he knows of my whereabouts already."
"Oh no. I misspoke, my apologies. His highness, the Teddy Emperor wishes to know the coordinates of your citadel. In his mind it is cheating for me to just tell him, as I am akin to a deity in this world and you do not have access to one yourself."
"A deity, you say?"