Alone with all the others

[squidofsymphony]

Chapter one: The awakening

*Light*
The first feeling known to the newly awakened Nomad is the ecstasy of the place he was reborn in. The immense pressure of this feeling as it pulsates through the structure and into the young Nomad's body is overwhelming. He wishes he would be allowed to stay here forever, but sadly his wishes are cast aside as he is ejected from the warmth of this place and into the cold space.



*Confusion*
Why had this been done to him? The young one was welcomed into it's new life with what is most likely the greatest feeling it will ever feel, and then rejected by the source of it, cast into the cold space where the radiation scorches and slowly flakes away the young Nomad's skin. He does all he knows he can do in such a hostile environment...fly, and fly quickly he did. He flew to the nearest object he could see from where he was, a small planetoid close to his birthplace. Nearing the planet he found something, a structure of sorts, left behind by previous inhabitants of this place.



Were the ones who built this like he was? Were they much older? The young Nomad found himself with a wealth of questions as he advanced through the strange structures. He encountered another object at the end of the makeshift tunnel, a gravity well of some sort?

*Pain*
Perhaps the burning radiation of this place was here for a reason - he needed to leave it. he flew cautiously towards the gravity well, and soon found him self at the point of no return. The strange phenomenon was pulling him inside with a force so strong that he could not escape. It finally pulled him inside and he was greeted by a tunnel of the most fantastic light, as hypnotizing as it was terrifying. He'd tried to get away but his efforts were in vain. Where ever this tunnel led, he was going whether he liked it or not.



The tunnel spat him out in a world he was very much unfamiliar with. This world was shrouded in darkness, inhabited by mechanical animals. These ones were not like him, they did not see the darkness they were born into. One of the metal creatures approached him, and spoke a language unfamiliar to the Nomad to his fellow steelskins.

"Nomad in Penny! Alert to all human forces! Nomad in Penny!"

The young one was able to see into the strange design of this creature, as it was not a creature at all, merely a vessel for a much weaker creature to manipulate. These creatures, however weak were clearly destructive. They burned everything they found. Into the metal box he could see the burning liquid used to propel the ship forward, the strange burning substances used to power the devices that these creatures used to burn each other.

"Taking it down."

Spoke the strange metal vessel and it's organic parasite. It began to spit fire at him. The burning energies lit up as they left the devices that fired them. They burned the skin of the nomad as they ricocheted off his body.

***Come***

The voice came from the only source of light and warmth in the system. The young Nomad flew quickly towards it, swerving violently to avoid the fire the metal creature continued to spit at him. He began to feel the warmth and healing energy of this fireball. Eventually the young ones wounds began to heal. He flew as close to the fireball as he could. He discovered that if he flew too close to the fireball, he would feel the opposite effects that he'd felt before. The energy became so intense that it boiled the skin of the Nomad, so he kept himself at a comfortable distance from the fireball.

"Systems overheating, losing power! Weapons failing! Radio shutting do--"

The mechanical beast had ceased to function in the heat of this fireball. With the previous danger past, he bathed in the warmth of the massive fireball before making his way to the dark rock where the metal beasts swarmed, he would try to reason with them and they would not listen. When the beasts began to spit again, he knew he needed a way to get out. There was a strange machine close to the dark rock, of a ring shaped design. The young one, with effort, was able to manipulate the flow of energy in this device and could see into the primitive design. He activated it and was taken away from the place where the metal beasts swarmed. Deactivating them as he beamed across to the next one, he was able to keep the creatures behind him.



He exited the tunnel before reaching the end, where more of the hostile creatures swarmed. He'd decided to travel through open space from hereon, as it was far too dangerous to travel where the mechanical ones were. From a distance he was able to see into the design of another one of the machines. This one was created to create artificial gravity wells like the one he'd encountered before. He waited until the metal beasts were fewer in their numbers before activating the device. Like the last time, he was sucked in by the mechanical ring and entered a tunnel of light, bound to go where ever it leads.

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Let's get wilde.