David Jackson
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"Computer, bring up a... " I started, before thinking better of the question, "Actually no. Computer, can you search for individual planets?" "If individual planets are known to the Combined Federation of Planets then said planet will be present in my data-banks," The Computer chirped, there was nothing that annoyed me more than an artificially happy artificial intelligence. "Do a search for a planet called Earth," I ordered the machine, digging my nails into the palms of my hands. It was a long shot, a…-
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I woke with a groan. My head was pounding and my mouth felt as if I had eaten a tablespoon of sand. I knew that I had a pretty heavy drinking session on Saturday, but to still be feeling the pain of it on Monday morning meant that it must have been truly ridiculous. I let my eyes flutter open, wincing against the harshness of sunlight as it streamed through my window. The world around me came into focus and I froze in my bed. Well, I froze in the bed, because it certainly wasn't mine. Neither was the…
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They say that when you die your mind flares in one desperate attempt to latch onto consciousness and you see a sort of highlight reel of your life. I can assure you that whoever came up with that piece of information has never been through the experience of death themselves, because at the very least it is not what happened to me. The van hit me at what was likely close to a hundred miles an hour. As expected, the human body doesn't react well to those sorts of speeds and I was flung like a rag doll…
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If I said that my life was boring would you take it as an insult? Because I am pretty sure that my life was just as boring as anyone else's. If I had to describe the things that had happened to me, I would probably say that they were incredibly average. I had fallen in love once or twice, graduated from university with a fairly okay grade, and become stuck in a bog standard job that had nothing to do with the university fees that I was now paying off. I went out to drink with the lads once a night, feel…
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Akash's body warped and stretched, becoming something that didn't even look anything like the alien I had come to know and regard as a friend over the past week. An ability that was considered taboo among the Eldrani, purely because of how it ripped through the trees in the natural ecosystem to fuel its power. How much strength could Akash leverage with that many resources behind him? He grew and grew, body parts merging together into something completely unrecognisable. He had four legs and a wide…
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They moved almost in unison, both lashing out with their own whip-like attacks. Akash launched a massive vine toward Klatissi at the exact same moment that Klatissi launched a tendril of water toward Akash. The two attacks collided, but instead of Klatissi being knocked away from Akash, the water trickled up the vine arm, working closer and closer to the main bulk of Akash's battle form. He whipped his fine away, hard, breaking free of the watery grip that Klatissi had held on him, and shook the…
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I let the robot do its scans on me as it peeled itself out of the wall, seething internally. Something was going on here that I wasn't privy to. Something involving the Void, and the creatures that lived within it. I felt like I was on the edge of a massive discovery as if there were just a few missing pieces of the puzzle that I hadn't quite figured out yet. Whether the Urstnir of Nadpid had managed to escape the Chasm after their death, or if they were simply born there to begin with I was going to…
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BB said, sounding more fearful than I had ever heard him sound in my life. But yes, there was no mistaking that inky black, and no mistaking those motes of light. Somehow, the holo-grid had chosen the Chasm from the memories of the Urstnir of Nadpid to be the place that the gaseous alien would be most comfortable. I pushed BB down into the depths of my manna, we were going to need to come at this fight with our full strength if we wanted any hope of coming out victorious. "Let the final Quarter Final…
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"So," I said, "That was a pretty impressive display of power." Yr'Arl sat cross-legged in his chair with a wide smile on his face. "It was a risky maneuver, but it certainly paid off as I was hoping it would," He replied. "You want to maybe explain how you did what you did?" I asked, "I've never seen those electricity fields before." Yr'Arl cocked his head to the side, "I believed I had explained to you that I had the ability to copy the spells of other beings, correct?" He had, and while I knew…
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Yr'Arl hurtled out of the other side of the now-destroyed comet in a shower of blue lightning. It clung to his armour and scattered off into the void of space, lancing across various asteroids and carving huge gouges out of them wherever they touched. While BB had told me off for thinking that Yr'Arl might have been holding back against me in our previous fights, I was now wondering if I had actually been right about that. Yr'Arl was moving at such speed, and with such power, there was no way that this…
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