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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tales of Pandora

Origins of Salizar: chapter 14 ~Master plan~

Salizar could hardly move, he felt the excruciating pain of multiple broken ribs and the burns on his back, he tried to reach out to crawl but his right arm was broken and he couldn’t move it, he couldn’t even feel his left. “Must be out of socket..” he said to himself. He resorted to pushing himself forward with his legs, he pushed into the control room, and up onto the control panel, he racked his brain trying to remember something Ryker told him. “user authorization, Code w-word ATLAS.” He said. The system turned on, the room lit up with multiple consoles and tek devices appearing out of thin air. He had activated the maintenance and quality control systems, just what he needed. “Scan f-for injuries..” he strained. “User has sustained multiple burns, abrasions, and a slight concussion along with four broken ribs, a shattered radius, and a dislocated shoulder. internal bleeding detected” Salizar groaned in agony, “treat injurie-.” He said before passing out.

He awoke, he was in a tek sleeping pod, he could move his arms and legs again without pain and breathing wasn’t followed by brutal agony. His vision was strange, he could see out of his burned eye again but the colors were distorted and slightly cyan. He almost spoke when the pod opened. “Injuries healed.” The automated voice said. He rose up and climbed out of the pod, he was very sore and his legs were a bit wobbly at first but that passed, he turned his neck and felt a few small pops and he stretched his arms. “Ahh much better, now! Back to revenge.” He said. He noticed the destroyed overseer near the window, he walked up to it and studied it for a moment. “That’s going to need some work.. hmm.” He looked around and saw just what he needed, a workstation, there he could find all the necessary equipment to repair the overseer. He worked tirelessly for the next few days, he had a bit of trouble with the AI interface for the overseer so he took a break and worked on a more cosmetic project, he used verdberries to change the cyan glow of his tek eye to a lime green color and some narcoberries to make the metal black. When he was finished with that the solution to his problem came to him and he continued on the Overseer AI, he used Dr. Haze’s voice and when he was finished he buffed the metal so it would appear as if it was never tampered with. The overseer was repaired, he booted it up and implanted a software update to make it obey him, it slowly rose up its hexagons wizzing around it, it lit up and spoke “well hello master, what can I do for you today?” It said pleasantly. “Commence the scorched earth protocols.” Salizar said. “I am quite sorry but that will be impossible sir.” The overseer said. “What do you mean impossible? Why!” Salizar said. “My console was damaged it can no longer connect to the obelisks.” It replied. Salizar rolled his eyes in frustration, “always something isn’t there..” he said, “is there any way to repair the connection?” He asked. “Negative, the parts needed are not here.” The overseer stated. “Damn!” Salizar snapped. “There may be another way,” the Overseer said. “How” Salizar asked. “The obelisks are nearly impenetrable but lucky for us they connect to one other place than here.” It explained. “Where?” Salizar said. “The floating isle, it uses the same hover technology as the arks and syncs with their network.” The Overseer said. “Then how do i access the isle?” Salizar asked. “There is a terminal on the northern center of the isle, unfortunately it is buried and my enforcers are not equipped with mining equipment.” It answered. “Hmm, sounds like I’ll need someone to dig for me, perhaps I could persuade the humans.” Salizar said to himself. “Negative, the humans are currently preparing an attack on the dragon guardian, after that they will most likely find their way here.” The Overseer said. “Don’t worry about that they can’t get here, they don’t have the other keys. But the dragon gives me an interesting idea.. would it be possible to make their battle, harder? Hard enough that they could not surmount it’s challenge?” Salizar asked. “The guardians can be cloned with higher capabilities to match their foe.” The Overseer explained. “How high can you make it’s capabilities?” Salizar asked. “Powerful enough to defeat any asset on the ark.” The Overseer said. “But could it be controlled?” Salizar asked. The Overseer thought for a while, then replied, “Affirmative.”