Sequel

This would have been more amusing had Rel not been all doom and gloom. Or if he had looked around and taken in the reactions to the events.

What's this mean?

Well... means things got a lot worse than Rel expected them to get. Did I know this was going to happen? Yes. Did I think it would be fun? Yes.

Until I took in the... cause. Rava let off the leash is frightening even to the gods for a reason. Because he will stop at nothing to get what he wants and if he wants civilization wiped from the face of the earth... well..

Civilization is going to lose. Painfully.

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He awoke to Mari bent over him, concern playing over her features. The woman blinked and sat back, her face golden in the light of a lamp. Rel made a sound at the back of his throat and the woman let out a sound of her own.

Right before she slapped him.

“What in the seventeen hells did you do?” she snapped at him.

“Nice to see you too,” Rel groaned.

The Sidhe around Rel seemed concerned but also were afraid of getting between the annoyed female and the object of her annoyance.

“I am pregnant and you shut everything down,” Mari snapped.

Rel groaned again and rolled on his side. His stomach did a flip and his head did a little spin. Every muscle in his body did a shiver, a shudder as his physical form comprehended that he had used a lot of power.

A lot.

He struggled not to vomit even as his gut twisted and pained him. Everything hurt. He breathed in and clenched his jaw as the air went down and back up from his stomach. A hand in the middle of his back rubbed gently. His stomach calmed and the pain behind his eyes edged away to a bearable level.

Rel moaned, rubbed at his face and blinked blearily up at… Una. The immortal blinked down at him.

“The power is out,” Una murmured, “and you’ve been unconscious several hours. Not even vehicles are working. Though, from what Mari tells me, those were powered as well. Now. We’ve got a crowd gathering outside and-”

BEEP.

Rel frowned. That was a clearly electronically sound and Una just said. An eerie white light appeared up the side of Mari’s leg as Una and Rel looked towards the sound. The control unit beeped happily. Rel sat up with Una’s help and plucked up the control unit.

The unit flitted through the information as Rel’s head cocked to the side.

“No.” he told the unit.

“What?” Mari snapped, “what now? What could possibly be-”

Rel shot up, collapsing against Muan. He scrabbled against the solid wall of flesh, waving about the control unit as he turned towards the Sidhe.

“We have to get out of the building.”

“Why…” Ashun asked.

“I feel ishy,” Hohi muttered, scratching at himself with both hands.

“Out of the building. Now.” Rel snapped.

“Why.” Una responded in the same tone.

“Just.” Rel stumbled towards the door, “follow!”

The Sidhe followed along behind as Rel fumbled his way through the darkness. Down steps and Muan took his hand, leading him towards the breeze. The two pushed their way out the door and into the twilit darkness that was the dead city. Rel huffed out, collapsing to the concrete.

His control unit beeped and brought up a map outlined in red. He tried tapping in commands but the unit refused to acknowledge him.

“Now why did we…” Mari stopped as she scratched at her arm. As her clothing flaked away. “what the f…”

Rel hadn’t the energy to scratch as his skin burned.

Turns out that command protocol that had launched the last time the power went out had been built in by the Tele corporation. The first time the power went out, the bots would begin spraying out a chemical that made up most plastics. But wasn’t. Quite. There. The actual chemical was a tag.

A big bulls-eye.

So that the next time the power went out the bots would shut down for three hours and then start up.

And consume anything and everything that had been tagged by the chemical. And that chemical, when it came in contact with naturals, such as hundred percent cottons and woods, would repel the chemical because the plastics made with the signature of the plastics and synthetics in the world actually soak in the tag.

Rel’s clothing melted away and he groaned as his skin had a reaction to the chemical, as the very control unit in his hand crumbled away into nothing.

There were a lot more bots than Rel had been led to believe. The number of bots under his control would not have been able to eat away the control unit so quickly. He knew that the buildings were falling around him.

But that was a whatever, a giant pile of random odds and ends mingled with all natural bits. That was fine, it was okay and it was going to happen. Blah blah and such on.

Rel was more concerned what would happen when the nanobots hit the basement floors of the buildings. When the bots began eating away at the underground pipes and roadways. What would happen when the grounds gave way.

“We have to get out of the city.”

And then possibly the world. There was so much crap under the ground that nearly every piece of land would be affected. The face of the lands would never be the same. Rel looked to Una who looked at Hohi. The male made a sound at the back of his throat and the tribe turned towards him.

“The tribe will go their way, myself, Mari, you and Muan will be going another. Your parents have agreed to visit, as per my instructions. Care to explain to me what is happening? What’s made you go that gray colour? Besides the. Uhm.”

Rel looked down.

He liked the feeling of all natural fabrics against his… delicate areas. Which was why he was left in underwear. Likely that was the same reason Mari still had coverings, even if the under-wire of her bra had been eaten away.

“They’re going to eat the things underground. Meaning the ground is going to collapse in on itself to fill the cavities created by-”

“I got the idea at eating the things underground. What you are telling me is that the Tele corporation’s.” Una motioned about, “thing is eating away at the buildings?”

“Yes.”

“Well then. At least I know what happened to the seal and the heart,” Una muttered, “come on. The troupe is waiting for us around the block and I doubt that those people will stay staring at themselves very much longer.”

The. Rel looked over at the people, who were standing about, talking quickly and in high pitches as they tried to hide their nakedness.

“Rel.”

“What?”

“I realise naked people are not an every day happenstance, but they are a mob. Mobs tend to kill people, most especially those they think are responsible for their own misfortunes, move your ass. Or lose it.” Una growled.


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