Stargate: Universe's
Beta - 2000347
“What happened to Exceels, and Vita ?”
Silvia, in her new body, was sitting face to face with Tamashi at a cafe table, with a capuccino coffee as their order. Tamashi was still silent, looking down as if avoiding eye contact with the first of his students. They are currently in the cafe area, bulwark, the first space city created by human civilization as their new home. Located close to the moon and also the orbit of Mars, it is as if the bulwark was created in memory of the other two human civilizations that were there, which had been crushed into dust.
The hustle and bustle of the citizens in the bulwark did not stop the two of them from falling into silence. The entire bulwark felt like it belonged to just the two of them at this moment. Tamashi finally answered Silvia's question with her face looking very sad, and also somewhat regretful.
“There is no frame suitable for Vita at the moment, so his consciousness was sent to Limbo for a while. And Exceels, he only needs a few days before he lives with his new frame.”
“That, kinda sounds good..... And also bad.”
“True.”
Silence arose between them again. As if not knowing what to talk about again, Tamashi instantly shows her hologram tablet, which shows her next mission. Beta - 2000347, another world with 30% oxygen content, 9.1% more with oxygen present on earth.
“What is this ?”
“I know you need a break, Silvia. But, the frame you are currently using is actually to explore the world that is here, and the boss really forces you to explore it immediately. Sorry, I didn't do too much to prevent those bastards for you.”
“It's okay. I'm too used to this. Just make sure I have a full month off after.”
“That's for sure. Fight, Silvia.”
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[STARGATE ACTIVATED]
>>>>>>> DESTINATION<<<<<<<
BETA - 2000347: HYDRO PARADISE
“At last I know why they gave this world a name with such a strange name.” Silvia murmured.
After going through a terrible transfer process with Stargate as usual, it was there that Silvia finally was, being in the middle of a vast, shallow, ocean. Accompanied by two new people as his temporary companion, he turned in all directions to find something that might attract his attention. But there is nothing here, there is only a vast expanse of glass blue sea water. Silvia sighed, and then walked straight ahead as the first person to walk in this blue world.
“Oi, your name is Silvia, right !? You better check the oxygen levels of this jerk in the world with your own eyes ! Very strange, know !!”
“Huh ? What is it ?”
Silvia pressed the button on the hologram screen that emanated from her two blue eyes. Justright. As he looked at the oxygen levels around, he immediately noticed a peculiarity with his own eyes.
“Oxygen around here..... Decreased ?”
“Hey, got me too !!” exclaimed a man excitedly, named Bastion. Silvia immediately turned to Bastion, and looked at him sharply. Enough to scare him a little.
Meanwhile, the woman who had just called out to Silvia was named Blast, and she was a person who liked to shout in a loud voice, even when it was not needed at all. When Silvia first met Blast, she already had the first impression that Blast was an annoying person, as well as Bastion. At least Blast had just told him a slightly useful and interesting piece of information about oxygen slowly declining for no apparent reason.
“You till when you two stand in that same place ? Cepetan follow me !”
“Bah !! Fuck bener you !!”
Silvia should have hated this mission so much. Yet he still had to be grateful, as none of them reached this world with the look of such a terrifying cthulhu monster. Everything seemed fine, as well as her current self. With a very clear-sounding grunt in Silvia's ears, Blast finally walked up to where Silvia was going, followed by Bastion who seemed to be very interested in Silvia. Can be seen with Bastion who immediately ran towards Silvia full of spirit.
Fifteen minutes later, on a full trip with no rest. Neither Silvia, Blast, nor Bastion, could find a single landmass in this world, except for the shallow areas they used to stand and walk. Occasionally, they can find life forms in the sea, only fish like those in the earth's sea. It was an interesting note to remember by the three of them, that this world had the same kind of marine life as on earth.
There are koi, Nemo, starfish, and some rock fish in this world. It is hard to believe that the fish on earth could exist in another world. What really happened ?
“Hey, what's in the sky is a blue whale !?”
“Hah !?”
Silvia and Blast, both of them were completely dumbstruck as they looked up at the sky pointed out by Bastion. A giant blue whale, whose body was slightly hidden behind a white mist, was seen pecking over the sky in front of them, as if it was installed there by someone as a decoration of this world. Silvia reflex pulls her sword from its sheath, just in case the sculpting blue whale instantly does something strange unexpected.
“What do we do now ?”
“Entahlah. Shoot the whale ? My cannon is always ready to do it, know !!”
While Silvia was being cautious and staring at the whale intently, Blast smirked and squeezed his palm, as if preparing to hit someone in the boxing ring. Bastion then walked in front of them, holding the handle of his greatsword and preparing as a living shield for them. His role was indeed as a tank by the way, so it was quite common for Silvia that Bastion prepared to become a living shield for her.
“From now on, I will walk in front of you, aunt-tante.”
“I'm not an Aunt, asshole !!”
“As of you only.” murmured Silvia.
After observing the blue whale and not moving at all for a few minutes, they decided to continue walking again. They simultaneously heaved a sigh of relief after walking past right at the bottom of the whale, and there was nothing strange at all. Silvia was amazed when she saw the whale from a very close distance, looking like a museum of water creatures in her eyes. But Blast's exclamation instantly awakens him back to reality.
“Oi, the whale is still breathing it turns out !!”
“Damn it, it turned out to be true !”
Silvia's eyes could clearly see that the gills of the whale were still moving, breathing in oxygen. All of a sudden, the warning alarms of the three of them went off simultaneously, stating that their oxygen was in a very sorry state.
“What the fuck is this !? The whale wastes all of our oxygen!?”
“Guys, we're getting away from this damn fish right now!!” exciting Bastion.
They ran as fast as they could, fighting the weight of the water that was slowing their legs at the moment. As if against a strong current, their steps were slowing down even longer, as if the water they were passing by was currently trying to hold them away from the whale. And they certainly won't give up easily. After struggling with the shallow ocean and depleted oxygen, they finally got near-normal oxygen levels back, after walking away from the drifting whale. The oxygen meter shows the number 3.5. Although it was still below average, at least they were still able to breathe with relief for a while.
There are entities like blue whales in this world, which reduce oxygen slowly. If it gets too close to it, there will be a chance that a person will die of oxygen depletion within 15 seconds.
No land was visible so far. The compatibility that humans can survive in this world is not very suitable, although there is still a possibility for them to survive in this world.
But for what ?
“Can we just go back now ? There is no way anyone would want to live in this kind of world !”
“Bastion true. Unless that person is always dehydrated all his life.”
“Ahahaha, Silvia-chan ! You are so funny!!”
Bastion just wanted to joke with Silvia who always looked gloomy, but he instead received cruel words in return from his good intentions. What a pity his fate.
Meanwhile, Blast was still silent, and slightly tilted her head as if she was trying to listen to something more clearly. Rarely was he this quiet during his mission.
“Oi, you guys ! Listen to that sound ?”
“What sound ?”
In that instant, all of them were silent. Blast is still the most serious here, followed by Silvia who despite not hearing anything, he is still trying to catch any sound. While Bastion ? He was humming cheerfully a moment later, like nothing serious at the moment.
“Be quiet, Bastion !!”
“Alright, Silvia-sama !!”
“Cih, sucks !!”
After being completely silent for a while, the 'voice' meant by Blast actually appeared, although only a few people might be able to hear it, one of the people was Silvia as well.
“That's from the pope, is it ? Her..... Screeching ?”
“Honestly, I didn't hear anything, but that.... Could it be that whale singing is as usual ?”
“You're smart too, asshole.” muttered Silvia and Blast simultaneously.
Blast's eyes instantly widened, as his sinking foot in a foot's eye alone felt a small tremor on the ground. Silvia and Bastion also felt the same way, and they were both ready to run back to where they had originally arrived in this world.
“This world is unlikely to be inhabited by humans. We just go out and go back to bulwark !!”
“Silvia-chan is always right. Why don't we just go back to bulwark ?”
“Hush !! Can we beat that goddamn whale first!?”
Blarrr !!
An explosion rang out from the direction of the flying whale, spitting out a lot of white smoke that could be seen very clearly from where the three of them were currently. Their oxygen levels rose abruptly, creating a mist that blocked the sight of the three of them at this moment.
“I told you..... We better get back to bulwark now.” Silvia murmured.
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They quickly walk back to their starting position. Unable to run, as the level of sea level now rises up to their calves. Since when the water level of this ocean is good they do not know, for sure, they just keep walking back to that starting position regardless of what is behind them.
“What kind of pieces are they really !?”
“Do not know. For sure, just prepare the weapon to attack them.”
“But there is no way we can fight at this high water level !!” exciting Bastion.
Silvia realized that just now. Thanks to Bastion's words, he finally learned that his movements would be very limited and also slow if the water level was as high as their calves. Unless there is one person, who can fire at the enemy from a distance.
“Blast ! Your cannon is !! We need his incredible strength right now !!”
“Oh !? Of course ! Time for a blast party now !!”
Blast turned his body backwards, and he was ready with his cannon. The roars of the various strange creatures behind the thick fog could be heard very clearly, like telling anyone who heard it directly that they were starving at the moment. The ripples of water were visible everywhere, telling how many of their numbers were actually. There are almost thousands of them. Blast knew that for sure, but he was still standing upright, not frightened at all.
“Blast, what do you do standing there !?”
“You fool, huh !? Of course stalling, asshole !! Take it easy, I will always live with my cannon, Silvia !!”
At that moment, Silvia realized what Blast really looked like. He was a stupid and annoying, yet kind-hearted person. Like what Bastion just whispered.
Blast sacrificed himself for us. Forget it, 'cause he's stubborn.
Blast turned his head towards Silvia and Bastion, giving his rarely seen smile. There were already two people doing this, and all of them were always to protect themselves. Will he one day be as strong as the two men ? Exceels and Blast ?
I will always live, along with my cannons !! Because Blasto-blasto is always next to me ! He's the one who always saves me from the battlefield ! Blast.... I will never betray you....
Explosions were heard everywhere, and Blast's loud laughter was like it was united with the explosions from his cannon.
“Blast really likes explosions, huh ?”
“That's how it is, as the name implies. He couldn't live if he didn't create an explosion just once a day. Well, at least that explosion he made to protect the bulwark from outside threats.”
Silvia finally remembered who Blast was. Her real name is Nicolaina Serval, the eldest daughter of the Serval family. He likes explosions, because the whole family is always struggling with the name of the explosion. His father was a famous fighter pilot, and his mother was a bulwark defense cannon mechanic who was no less powerful than his father. And one day, a series of explosions killed his father and mother on the same day, at the same time, but in different places. The anomalies did that. In the end, Nicolaina decided to use her mother's prototype cannon that would initially be used as the bulwark's strongest defensive weapon if it really worked. He changed the prototype, and made it a Cannon handheld. With his massive explosive power, the handheld cannon he named as Blasto-blasto has been his main weapon all this time when he joined as a mechanoid. Despair and loss have befallen him many times, but thanks to the Blasto-blasto that is in his hands always, Blast has won various terrible battles against the anomalies of the emergence event. He believed that as long as he was with Blasto-blasto, the greatness of his mother and father would always be with him, and encouraged him. As the anomalies destroy humans with explosions, humans will rise again and defeat them with a much larger burst of spirit. That's the human race. Always stubborn, like himself.
“We're already in the starting place, but..... Where is the tool ?”
“Entahlah. Looks like it's been swept by the sea ?”
“Damn !! Did Blast die in vain !?”
Silvia and Bastion just stood still, observing the beautiful blue scene in this blue world. It was full of thought-soothing seas, before finally killing them viciously with the hordes of monsters.
In the end, Silvia and Bastion started their re-boot, resigned to everything. If Blast was alive to this day, they might have to thank him later, for taking this much time so that they could safely transfer their consciousness. And if it doesn't. If those strange monsters that they never knew existed reached this place and attacked them, then both of them would only need to fight desperately, even if they were killed though.
After all, that's what humans have always done. Always strike back and hope, in a moment when nothing can be expected anymore.
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Oi !! It's me, Blast ! You guys got this message !? Good ! Because I'm actually still alive !
The two assholes, even though they seemed to be dead, managed to transfer their consciousness. That's how it looks. My sacrifice of being trapped in this goddamn world all by myself is like a waste.
Whether you guys want to save me from this infinity pool or not, for sure, humans can't live here. Listen to that and keep it, asshole ! Because this is the last time I can contact an inter-dimensional like this.
Goodbye, damn it !!
