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Chapter 1: a memory and a new beginning

Chapter 1: a memory and a new beginning | image tagged in jk story | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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Zevver woke up to the sound of his alarm, it was just an average day…or at least right now. He got up and did his usual routine, checking his phone he had a couple messages but one really stood out. A voice message, he played it and it said “ hey this is Sam (phantasm, nuggets oc) I’m gonna be busy with some uhhh….other stuff so if you need help kn a job in like the next week just get the other group you work with sometimes”. Zevver didn’t think much of this, but he heard a ringing noise across the room, his work communicator was being called, he answered “yeah zevver here, what do ya need?”
The voice from the other end, the voice that usually gave him jobs replied “ hey….zevver…we got a job for you only…i think you need to take this one” zevver was a little surprised, he did some jobs by himself sometimes but he didn’t know why they wouldn’t send him alone…purposely. “This ain’t a trap right…?” “No, we just wanted you to take this one alone because…well I think it has something of a…personal connection with you” zevver thought for a moment… “alright I’ll do it” the operator sent over a message, making the communicator send out a small beeping sound “those are the coordinates of the place, look for a small moon, it might not be super round anymore” the call went silent, zevver was given all he needed to know, now it was time for him to leave. He hurriedly changed out of his pajamas and ran up the stairs in his building (he lives kinda in like an apartment thing) at the rooftop there was a small but clean, and shining spaceship. He got in, and got ready to leave, not aware in the slightest what was going to happen
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After a somewhat lengthy but entirely unremarkable flight, zevver arrived at his destination knowing two things: “isn’t this like the 4th time I went somewhere like this” and “damn this new spaceship is nice”. Carefully landing the ship he suddenly realized, the moon he was landing on…was fractured and oddly shaped, resembling a potato cut unevenly, but with blue sparks floating all about. Cautiously he made his way to the facility labeled “xelinrium mineral and exo research, joint outpost 16”. That name…stirred something in zevver’s mind, not just reminders of the ever-foggier time working in the xelinrium, or the colossal rifts from a few years ago. It reminded him…of life, early life when he was with his family still, when things were good, when there weren’t many worries…
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Continuing inside, the realization of why he was sent, alone struck. “This…this was where…” he could barely even think about that time, his memories of it seemed destroyed, fragmented by the uncomfortable time when he wasn’t all there. Walking around the building he found it in a condition similar to the moon it was on, a revelation not surprising at all. The damage to the outpost was much less however as no portions of the building seemed to be fully broken off or destroyed. Exploring the damaged outpost he wasn’t making any serious progress when he was interrupted by a voice message “hey….if you’re in the target area now….and you see why we sent you…I just wanted to clarify that we don’t need much done here, if you could just grab data records….of um ‘important people’ that would be great…” the message from his work operator was…disturbingly informal, but he understood why, just as he could infer about the “important people”. Continuing on he saw more and more blue and black crystalline structures, the telltale sign of chaotic energies. He finally stopped at a lab room, containing 3 display cases…or were they test tubes?? He didn’t know, “why would I know” he thought, looking in the glass tanks there were three shards of crystal, one green and white, another black and blue, like most other rift things. But the final one gave off an intimidating aura, as zevver looked upon the dark red and black fragment he could feel a weak headache, only thinking “that…uhh…definitely isn’t good”. He had an urge to hit it, destroy it but something told him that would only make things worse, after all this felt like it could truly harm him, unlike so many other dangers that seemed obsolete in his eyes.
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A few rooms down, he saw something that was on the wall, a corkboard, pictures of a bearded man, a woman, and a man with glasses. The bearded man and the woman were married, shown by a wedding photo near the top of the board, oddly he noticed some pinholes in photos that had nothing near them. “Either someone really didn’t like their picture or it fell down,I’m guessing number 2”. He looked down, another few pictures, one grabbing his eye, the bearded man, the woman, and a…y-younger version of zevver??? Whether his headache was from that sinister crystal or the old memories didn’t bother him, he remembered it, all of it, the past fogged up by his loss of mind that ended not long ago. When he was younger, zevver lived with his parents, his dad Florian and his mom Lenna, Florian worked in excavation, when he was young zevver joked about why his dad didn’t mine shale (that was the family’s last name) zevvers mom worked in research of minerals, coming up with alloys, fuel sources and more, all for a leader whom she and her family never liked. Lenna had an interesting assistant, a shaderian like her and most other workers but with a name that wasn’t common for the planet, jaymes, as it was spelled had an odd obsession with the chaotic energies, although was never permit to research them by lenna. Zevver remembered the day it all went wrong, which I think should be best read from his view.
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in his words “ I’m a shaderian, most of the people who got born into the mess of a society called the xelinrium were, shaderians are like….born magic?…I mean they’re all born able to use magic. It doesn’t always work right away, which is probably so good if you’re a parent, no babies burning your house down, anyway I’m getting off track. My powers were biomantic which is a fancy way to say I could manipulate living cells, my own or others, as you can see this is really f**kin powerful and the power-hungry leader that was tebb xelnier wanted his hands on it. So like any good parents would, mom and dad took me outta here, I was 13, and they got caught, they used the one option they had left, escape pods, they sent all of em down to a planet in the middle of nowhere…I think? But one of em had me in it, they sent the rest as a distraction…or something like that? I don’t know I never saw them, anyways that began 5 years of sorta-isolation, just a 13 year old and an alien swamp, that was full of quiet salamander people, they didn’t really take me in, we were separate, due to an inability to communicate but we would help each other. I can’t remember the reason why, I was probably just f**kin dumb because I was 13 but i think it was mostly because we were in a pretty hostile environment and didn’t want to die y’know , anyway 5 years pass and whatever the extra escape pods did was over, they found me. The xelinrium took me away, I didn’t resist as much as I should’ve due to the time I was stuck there, that’s part of what f**ked up my head…and thats about all I remembered….thats important at least.”
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Breaking free of the shock zevver turned to look down the hall, seeing some blue flickers turn to red, and in the other direction…. Motion. He stopped, worried. Scared. This mission was already crazy enough, he did not need anything to make it worse. “I could go right now, I already got some of mom n dad’s papers that’s all I need-“ his thoughts were interrupted by a sharp headache, no doubt from that red crystal. “Alright” he thought “ I need info on those weird crystals, Now”. Carefully walking back to the room he noticed tar-like ooze near the crystals around the hall “that’s…uhhh…gross” he thought, as he entered the lab room, taking out a download device and plugging it into the surprisingly clean computer. After a moment the download was done, he started to walk out but glanced at the red crystal, which caused another sharp pain “yep not lookin at that shit again” he thought as he walked out the door only for his gaze to now be met by a sludgy eye
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The creature spoke from its misshapen mouth “w3ll, he[lo n3p#ew” it said in a voice, that cut in and out, like an old radio. “Do I know you…” he said when the thought hit him “ohh..h-hi uncle…j-jaymes…”. “@hh h3ll0 zevver…I kn0w ¥ou don+ re(ogn1z3 me, d0nt I l00k so muc# M0(3 P3rfe(t…?”. The creature that was once jaymes, although hideous to most sane people was what the devout followers of the crystals of chaos considered perfect. “Yeah you look…” zevver said while shifting one of his arms into a curved bone blade “pretty bad” he said jumping towards the beast, slicing off an oozy tendril. “Y0u L1+T[3. [{}]}}]]}}{||}]” the aberrant creature tried to yell but quickly turned into a screech, chasing zevver as he ran through the hall. Zevver reached his spaceship which he realized was pointed towards the facility. He thought of two options “stand and fight a giant deformed cosmic horror or…nevermind the second options better”. As the chaotic beast scraped its way forward zevver lit the engine on his ship and waved his hand down his wrist revealing proof of his contract with the writer of his reality, a constellation shackle. “Welp, you shoulda listened to mom’s warnings jaymes” he said, kicking the ship into full speed, tugging on the shackles chain opening a portal just as the ship flew forward into the beast. “ I never liked him anyways” zevver said, as he flew through the portal, catching only a glimpse of the explosion of the thing that was once the universe’s worst assistant.
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As he hit the blank white ground he heard a voice, speaking elegantly to him “hello shale…” but this time the cosmic voice wasn’t my own…..to be continued in chapter 2
END OF CHAPTER ONE
(Ay sorry for all the delays n stuff hope you enjoyed, [I wrote this on the plane home from Florida listening to Ultrakill and pizza tower soundtracks so it might be the weakest chapter of the story but it’s still good I think])
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Pacings a little fast but pretty good
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Yeah because half the story is description n stuff
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