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Maelstrom- and Ridge of course- are both the sort that could conjure up just about anything they'd want on a whim. A true reality manipulator. So it is quite literally impossible to rule anything out.

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Any chance they left gifts of their own, unrelated to your friend?

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Always is, I'd say.

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I... I think you won. They should really call this the Battle of Overkill.

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Pfff... stop it you!!... *Fake a cringy reaction with dishonest shines - but then i compose myself and salute you*

*Just behind us, what looks like behind a rock, we hear a coughing gurgle of blood and what is also heard like blades or spikes impaling flesh*

Commander Greyson: *Gurgles blood* FUCK YOU TO HELL! *He says as he unleashes a last barrage of bullets into the giant mutant that grew obsidian spikes from his hands and just impaled him and continued to slowly grow more spikes as they keep exiting the commander's body from multiple directions*

Mutant: You first puny human! *It growls as it too begins collapsing due to the hole in it's abdomen*

*As soon as i see this i rushes to the place and drop to my knees to hold my near-brother of a friend* NNNOOO GREY! Stay with me... st... stay with me man!!!..

Commander Greyson *gugles as he begins to choke with his own blood* It... cough... gurgle... it's alright, y... you did great... we d... ddrtt.... gurgle... did our bes... sss...stttthhh..."

*He exhales his last as a small fountain of blood comes out of his mouth for a short second*

*I boy release a roar of outcry to the sky, then i shout for you, Prism *

Hey Prism! Pass me that tool already, we doin' that experiment NOW!

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Well that’s just absolutely pleasant. Hope our collective luck is up there.
*Walks to the edge of one of the larger crevices and peers inside*

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That would be very appreciated, if the world could do us that favor.
*Even the larger ones are pretty tight with barely enough space to fit an arm into, and they get too dark to see at a point very near the surface*

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Do you want me to try opening one of these up?
*Gets on my knees and sticks my face close to one of the larger chasms, and light floods the fissure*

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*Rushes over and unloads the healing gun, heaving it to you with all my might*

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*The casting of intense light down into the crevices partially reveals more earth, but it also meets resistance in the form of the darkness itself being the actual color of a steadily burning black flame beneath in the ground, emitting no light and previously camouflaged by the darkness above it*
While I really don't like the idea of disturbing the grounds of a graveyard...
*The flames suddenly surge in opposition to the light touching it, flaring up and quickly exploding up out of the ground into a massive wall of dark fire as a reaction*

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*Lurches back and lands on my butt, looking up at the intense wall of blackened flame in front of me*
Woah! I’ve seen a lot of fires, and they’re not supposed to do that.

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*Narrows my eyes and speaks calmly as I slowly turn around and take in the now-changing environment*
No... No they are not.
*The flame wall in front of us calmly narrows in front of us from either side until it forms more of a focused pillar of flame jetting into the sky from beneath the earth, while the wisps from the cracks in the ground elsewhere begin to bend and coalesce to the pillar as well*

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*I don't even wait one moment before i rupture the core straight out of the gun and slam it against the tesseract and incant:* By thy power, absorb, reshape, upgrade, empower! Bring life where death would rule!! *after a few moments I see that nothing happens and just lift the core and slam it against the tesseract shouting:* COMMMOOOOOONNNN!

Theme of The Tesseract's Awakening -> Of Life: Awakening (Instrumental)

*With that a silent burst of blinding light explodes outward, then a shockwave of implosion so massive collapses the light inward, and another bright shockwave explodes so far that it reaches space. It doesn't do any damage, instead it quickly follows up with me seemingly absorbing all that energy and light into my being, and i suddenly get entranced by a powerful vision, an entity... something familiar yet distant booms out to me, and strangely the voice can be heard by everyone else as well as if it's coming from the Tesseract*



*The booming yet comforting voice shouts: I am the threshold! The one who judges the balance! The one who guards order! I am Alioth - The One Who is Bright! -- I am with you, this is not the end, in fact merely the beginning, reach out, and call them all back from death, heal them all and cast thy vengeance forth, and my power will create the wrathful vengeance! The army you need to finish the job!

*I get up from my knees still seemingly in trance and reach my hand forward towards the fortress as it is blazing with light and on the sides all the dead soldiers of the Terran Dominion and injured seem to get back up as they are healed and refreshed to perfection, including Commander Greyson*

*Then what look like amorphous shadows begin forming everywhere as they take more and more a solid shape, horrid abominations of shadow and fury, beings that would strike the fear of hell in any who look upon them*



*A minute later, what looks like blooms of grass and flowers begin growing in the asteroid-moon's surface almost paradoxically as the monsters now fully formed fill the surroundings massacring all the remaining pirates, and tearing down the fortress with explosions that almost feel abstract*

*With that my form is fully transfigured by the symbiosis*



*A cacophonous and echoing cosmic voice comes out of me as i declare:* I BRING LIFE! DEATH IS NO MORE! LET THE BARREN SPRING FORTH GARDENS!!

*As i say that, the entire moon of phobos slowly but surely turns into a jungle of a multitude of beautiful and bioluminescent flora and pacifist fauna*



*The corpses from the pirates and their destroyed vehicles, now joined by the dying monsters summoned as they fulfilled their purpose, start filling the region with growths of red glowing quartz like crystal, this is indeed Tesseract crystal and it immediately blasts into space a wave of energy, that completely encapsulates the moon in a bubble of energy seemingly created to keep the artificially induced atmosphere from escaping a near gravity-less rock*

*Then at the end i just collapse, closing my eyes and passing out*

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*Picks myself up and gazes at the sky*
So which of the two traps do you think this one is?

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The one that's far too familiar for comfort.
*The pillar narrows further as the geyser loses intensity, and the long streams of dark flow dissipate entirely while the silhouette of a person takes shape behind the dying flame*

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*Picks myself up and gazes at the sky*
So which of the two traps do you think this one is?

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*Stares in a mixture of awe and an unspoken terror*
Th-th-this is way more than I signed up for...

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Your timing truly couldn't be worse. I had to leave a family dinner for this occasion, just so you know.

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Commander Greyson: *Now resurrected and brand new, in fact so new that his cybernetic replacements and enhancements are no longer there, revealing the man he once was before the maiming he received in battle which forced him to cyborg up; he comes behind you and puts a comforting hand on your shoulder* I know right... We all, in the army and laboratories had a mindmap about this object of his, and were tinkering with it, realizing that it has some deep layers of multidimensionality to it that seemed to reach out way past the 67nth dimension... but this... *He looks around almost mouth agape* This is some next level shit... *he sits down on a mossy rock, as a bunny like fluffy critter makes adorable sounds and jumps on his lap and begins purring leaving him even more confused*

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*Squints*
Hold on, I recognize you. Aren’t we all on the same side, here?

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Despite all of this, I’m still beyond creeped out. Why did that just terraform the planet?