David Jackson
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We wound our way through a series of tunnels, going further and further down until eventually, we came to one of the walkways that I had seen from the banister. The city was a lot less impressive all close up and personal. Where Prespian City had been a place of sheer technological achievement, the city under the mountain looked like some kind of cobbled-together hodge podge of different technologies and building styles. It was as if there had never been a solid plan when they had been building the…-
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I had been incredibly interested to find out what the city under the mountain was like. I wanted to experience an entirely different way of living, I still wanted to do those things, but now my entire attention was taken up by the man who had come from another world in front of me. My mind was racing, positively reeling. What was the difference between him and me? Why was he living like a mole under the ground, wearing an anime T-shirt, while I had been granted universe-altering powers and a…
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I hadn't done it yet, but I was ready to push BB down into our Synchro mode once again at any moments notice. From everything I'd been told about the Human race of this universe since I arrived in it I'd formed a very low opinion of them. They were warmongers, spreading out from their own system and crossing the divide between entire galaxies to spread their empire, all in the quest for creatures that could produce manna so that they could fuel their own technologies. They had sickened me to the core…
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Yr'Arl, the predator and I all slipped through the door. It had opened only just enough to let the three of us in, and as soon as we had made it from the brightening outdoors into the dark tunnel it swung shut behind us, locking all three of us in complete darkness. I let BB come up and out of our Synchro mode, I'd need to pick his databanks on any of the species we came across while we were in the city. Especially the races of anyone in positions of power. The lights of the tunnel flickered on, a…
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I had been expecting many things upon arrival to the nearby city. Part of me had expected our bad luck to continue, that the city wouldn't really be a city but would be more like a small town filled with mud huts of primitives who would never be able to help us. Part of me had expected some kind of megacity like Prespian City, filled to the brim with thousands of different species. What I hadn't expected was another mountain, at the centre gouged out of the rockface itself was a gigantic metal…
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In many ways being connected to the beast was like being connected to BB. BB retorted, which started the alien beast off in a menacing growl. Huh, so they could interact with one another as well, that had been unexpected. Either way, it was like being connected to BB, but it was also pretty different. Instead of getting full-blown thoughts from the extraterrestrial predator I was just receiving glimpses into its mental state, the emotions it was feeling, and the desires that it had. Right now…
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The predator snarled a high-pitched screeching noise that seemed to echo off the trees around us. "I get the feeling that it's probably got our scent," I said, taking the time to push BB down into Syncro mode now that I had a little bit of space. I wouldn't be able to use the majority of my abilities, that much was obvious to me. There was too much risk in unleashing my manna when BB and I still had so little control over it. That meant no using my energy beams or my propulsion and antigrav, moves…
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Even though there were three stars hanging lazily overhead, their light could still not completely pierce the heavy and thick leaves of the forest. In fact, I would have gone as far as saying it was far more like a jungle than the verdant oaks and trees I was used to walking through forests in the countrysides of the UK. "I don't like it in here," I said under my breath, my voice hushed and tense. Something had the hair on the back of my neck and down my arms standing up on end. I didn't know if it…
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BB said, BB reiterated his…
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The first thing that I noticed about the world we had crashed into was the fact that I could breathe, which meant that the atmospheric mix was in the livable range for organics. A plus for our long term survival. If we'd landed on a world that had toxic air we would have been dead before we could have even begun our escape attempt, which obviously would have sucked quite a bit. The atmospheric composition was probably incredibly close to Earth because the sky was a deep blue just like my home world's…
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