Phase Q/Dropping In

Ten years later.

A flash of light emerges in the sky.

On the beach, an older man is fucking his cousin.

“What the fuck?!” he says.

“By Zeus!” screams the sex partner.

The island shakes, like it’s undergoing an earthquake.

A crowd of villagers pour out of huts. They come running around the side of the island. On interrupting the coitus, they express shock and outrage.

“Burn the witches!”

The light descends. It expands. It brightens.

A villager with a baby on her shoulder steps back in the crowd.

“Show’s over, folks,” says the divinely brilliant voice.

The villagers hurl rocks at the light, to little effect.

“Not so fast,” speaks a surprising voice.

The air splits apart, to reveal a war machine with a Ruffy emblem.

“What do you care,” sneers the light.

“These are our cousins,” says a computerized voice emerging from the ship.

The older man on the beach pulls out, halfway between fear and confusion.

The light splits apart into different hues. It wraps around the Ruff craft, which has deployed a defensive system.

“Fuck you!” yells a voice from the villagers.

Suddenly the sky is full of clashing Futuristas and Ruffians.

A young man among the villagers looks wistfully at the waves breaking against the shore.

An angry villager hurls a spear through the youngster’s back. He slowly bleeds to death, paralyzed and suffocating.

The forces of light and roughness battle it out, midair.

The island blips out of existence.

In the peace, the quiet, the tranquility.

Clarity.

What happens next in the middle of a spherical vortex out in galactic arms could show up in the history of a future world. However, with Zonnyxes struggling and regrouping, and no one else able to observe, the events happen without observation.

Afterwards, the Zonnyxes emerge from their artificial vortex. They have reconfigured themselves into a different architecture.

You glance through holonotes from you inventory. Each one holds a beautiful secret.

The Zonnyxes come charging out. A core feature imprinted into each hypernode’s main code is still to destroy other life forms. However, now they have a more effective approach, and a hundred thousand times better equipment.

You find the faces refreshing. After a lot of your recent adventures, it feels good to go through some more personal stories again.

The Zonnyxes swarm through intergalactic space.

You remember some of the times before you had politics and warfare on your mind.

A new quantum pattern starts to emanate from in front of the Zonnyx force.

You think fondly of some of your constituents.

The underlying structure of reality continues to change.

As you flip through the stack of holonotes, one in particular catches your attention.

The links of quantum matter flip, the pattern transfers across space, and all the particles and elements and organisms that depend on it lose their essence.

You beam the information into your mind, through your eyes.

Things change.

Phase Q: An interactive adventure.