Dododex

ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

The Omega Timeline

Chapter 28: obelisks of dark and light

—By Wyvernian

After Yang shoved Steve back in his satchel, they saw Sheeri flying towards them, when she landed she was out of breath. “Sheeri, what happened?” Emerald asked. “D-drain, and Ember, they are trying to bring more villains! They brought some crazy fire wyvern, I stood no chance..” She said. “So what do we do?” Buddy asked. “We go to the obelisk and tear them to pieces before they can bring anyone else!” Darkhide suggested, Joe seemed to agree, Emerald did not. “We can’t, if we do that who knows how many others they could’ve already brought in, let alone how dangerous. We need to regroup with the others.” She said. “But they’re scattered across this entire place.” Nova said. “Then we’ll have to split up, some of us will go to extinction and some can go back to the City.” Yang said. “What if someone else went to investigate the black obelisk?” Sheeri said. “Why on earth would they do something like that?!” Darkhide said. Right when he said this they heard a jet fly over their heads and turn towards the black obelisk, Darkhide facepalmed, “humans…” he said. “Ok, so who is going wher-” Emeralds sentance was cut short as they teleported with a white flash.

“What is this place?” Jay asked. “A cave.” Jack said. Jay glared at him. “It’s strange, this morning I was mad at Drake, now I don’t even care.” Sylveevee said. “Perhaps this obelisk has the opposite effect of the black one.” Syocean said. They walked up to the obelisk and a female automated voice said. “Scanning.” They waited for a few silent moments, “subjects are heroic, activate all systems.” When it said this a pillar rose out of the floor and displayed a large hologram. “Story intersection, characters detected, opening files of: Terrible demise of Tortuga, and Queen of Aberration.” “Wait, those are the same titles as those books we found!” Emma said. “What do they mean?” Sylveevee said. “Access denied, Explanation prohibited.” The obelisk said. “Then what isn’t prohibited.” Aragorn said. “Accessible functions, Abstraction of heroes, vitals, teleportation, world ma-” “wait. Vitals?” Syocean said. “Affirmative, Would you like to display vitals.” The voice said. “Yes.” He said. The hologram displayed all the heroes vital signs, everyone was in the green, except those who were on the jet, their vitals were in orange or red. “What’s happening?!” Drake said. “They must be fighting Drain and Ember!” Arianna said. “What can we do?!” Emma said. “Teleportation Accessible, commence full recall?” The voice said. “YES!” They all said. “Access granted, commencing recall. The obelisk podium flashed, everyone was there, Neddy was hurt bad and Sylas, was unconscious. “What just happened!?” Darkhide said. “We have obviously been teleported to a crystal cave by a giant pillar! DUHH” Steve said. Everyone looked at him, “he’s.. totally correct…” Jay said. “I am..?” Steve said. “Hurry! Neddy and Sylas are hurt!” Ruby said through tears. “Here!” Sheeri said, she softly blew ice on Neddy’s wounds. “Gsshhh.. thanks..” he said. “What about Sylas!” Erica said. “What happened to him?” Andrew said. “He was hit in the head with the blunt of a sword from some little British guy!” Erica explained. “Captain Francis Hugo by chance?” Aragorn asked. “I mean I didn’t ask his name but, I guess..” she said. “Sounds like they’ve brought more villains..” Drake said. “Wait, where is Samuel?” Aurora asked. Star squawked sadly. “He’s not on the vitals list either… could he be-” Andrew said. “Vitals for “Samuel” are not in my database.” The voice said. “Is he.. dead.” Nova asked. “Unknown, if subject is not in my database than they must have connected to the black obelisk.” The voice said. “What?!” Several voices said at once. “The guy was a bit selfish, but I didn’t think he would turn..” Andrew said. Star made the dodo equivalent of a sob. “Samuel.. why…” Aurora said.

Milo was in the form of a reaper, he was just about to stab Erica when they teleported, so his tail slammed into a rock, “AHHGG!” He cried in pain. Pat and Bubba chuckled. The creatures all walked out of the tree line, Milo shifted back into a human and said, “hey! What happened to an ambush?!” “We thought you had it covered.” Ember said. Truth be told they were just watching it play out, they didn’t care who won. Less humans either way. “Where did they go?” Shortstacks said. “No idea, but who cares. Gives us more time for abstraction!” Drain said excitedly. He walked over to the podium and started scrolling through villains, particularly, villains from his world. “Ugh, “‘Count’” Phasma.. Who the heck is Salizar, and why is he listed at most dangerous?!” Drain continued scrolling for a bit, until he found something he liked. “Apex the alpha dragon.. could it be… ohhh now a plans coming together…” he said slyly. “What are you doing.” Jethezar said. Drain Shrieked in fear, and covered the hologram, “uhm.. nothing…” he said. “Step aside.” Jethezar told him, and pushed him to the side, he looked at the image, “a dragon, I’ve only heard tales. Could there be more..” he filtered the search to just dragons, another name caught his eye: It was a dragon from Fjordur. “Ahh here’s the one I’ve heard stories of!” He said. He found the cue button and cued both of the dragons, “anyone else want a turn on this trinket?” Everyone crowded the terminal, about an hour later they had pulled up the maximum cue, 7 “why is the maximum cue 7..” Bubba pondered. “Who cares, let’s get on with it!” Captain Shortstacks said. He pressed the Absraction button and the terminal said “ABSTRACTING SEVEN CHARACTERS, Apex, Fjordur’s dragon, professor Edmund Rockwell, Willow, Sig, King Titan, Queen June.

Error detected, subject six to large for abstraction, would you like to shrink subject.” “Yes, shrink subject!” Ember said. “Access granted, abstracting, estimated time of abstraction… 157.. hours” the voice said. “157 HOURS!!” They all said extremely annoyed.

It was night again, It had seemed like hours when Drain looked back at the terminal, which now read: 156 hours and 34 minutes. He sighed loudly. “There’s got to be a way to speed this up!” He said to himself. He tried to think. Then he remembered something. “Hey Milo,” Drain said. “What is it..” Milo said. “I heard Ember and Jethezar over there talking about how weak you are, they said even as a reaper they could easily take you.” Drain said straight-faced. In truth Ember and Jethezar were really talking about they’re annoying nemesi, but Milo took the bait, he transformed into a reaper and said, “well let’s see then!” And charged at them, this conflict escalated into a full on brawl, Drain just turned invisible and watched the black obelisk glow. As the fight grew more intense the obelisks glowed even brighter than before, Drain looked back at the terminal which now read 66 Hours and 4 minutes and counting. He grinned to himself, his plan worked, the fight was so heated that the hours became seconds, and the clock struck zero. A bright flash stopped the brawl, Drain uncloaked, “sorry about that, Jethezar and Ember didn’t actually say anything Milo.” Drain said slyly. “Why you little!” Jethezar started. “Ah ah ahh, don’t blame me, blame the obelisk, it’s the one who needed your aggression and hatred, Now! May I present! Our new allies! Tyrants from across the arks! Enemies of our enemies! Th-” he was shoved off the podium by a huge claw, the other villains looked at the glowing silhouettes, they were very menacing indeed.