Post #49 [Cecil]

[lol hi, I'm posting AGAIN. Geez did I have a drive to post in this IF in the earliest days of it. XD]

Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :

Nebiroth panted from his use of energy. He had to really charge that last Body Laser up for Smidgen's demise. He silently thanked Bob for being the one to distract him. Perhaps he truly underestimated the humans in general, and their imbitions.

[Never EVER underestimate humans. That goes to any non-human species. You'll get your asses kicked if you do. :P]

Nebiroth had in his past been told by his master Sardius that humans were disgusting little creatures with too much arrogance and no remorse for even their own kind. Of course, until Sandra arrived in the Phantom Zone, Nebiroth had never actually seen a human, so he had to believe Sardius back then.

[Yeah, people in the Phantom Zone tried to pass their hatred onto their children just like human on Earth did. :P]

It was also then he lost some of his motivation to even fight Sandra. He didn't care of avenging Sardius, and only of recovering the cape of his slain friend. However he also thought back to the tri-elemental serpent Hydra and the ice golem Freon, two other former minions of Sardius, both turned to the light side upon Sandra's freeing of their souls. Nebiroth recalled of her ability to summon them specfically during battle.

[Sandra-skill-note: Sandra canz summonz the guyz that makez the other guyz falls down. :P]

He remembered Austorouto's death wasn't truly at Sandra's own hands, but that of a Delta-elemental attack of the summoned spirit of Hydra. It was then he understood why they turned to the light: the same reason he was now, because they also were under the influence of Sardius, merely his SLAVES.

[All evil overlords gain slaves from subjegation or raising them from infancy. It's a known fact on TVTropes. :P]

Nebiroth growled out loud primatively without even caring at the thought: "Master lie to Nebiroth about humans!!" and stomped the ground in anger at his former, now dead master, catching some uneasy eyes from Bob, Breet, Zac, GMOE, and Kyle.

[Yeah, because they can't tell what your inner angsting's all about, Nebi. :P

Oh and Super-Lawls for accidentally calling Brett "Breet". XD]

Nebiroth!! Stop! I know you wish to avenge me! But Sandra's intentions were right. She fought us to protect the world that in returned helped her in settling into her respective role when she was barely out of a toddler state! echoed a voice in his head, not his own.

[Bolded italized text was my way of using telepathy between two characters, while normal italized text is generally just one's thoughts.]

Aust... Austarouto?! Nebiroth was shocked at the sound of his friend's voice from the great beyond.

Yes... it is me. I am sorry I wasn't able to tell you before Sandra fought you, but my soul was already out of the Phantom Zone when she reached you. I couldn't speak to you then. Only now, that you are on Earth, as your new human friends call this world, was I able to reach you. I know you are saddened by my death, but we did work for the wrong side. Cockatrice, Barnacla, Mongoliow, Hydra, Freon, I, and even you were deceived by Sardius. He deserved everything he got from that girl. Do you understand?"

[LOL at the " at the end. I have no clue why I didn't catch and remove this. >.>]

Nebiroth could only nod mentally in agreement.

[Interesting choice of words, past-me.]

Good. The Phantom Zone's time has come and also passed. You are the sole survivor of the realm, and it is up to you to live on in our legacy, the legacy of the TRUE beings of the Phantom Zone, before the coming of Sardius.

[Note the following line is Nebiroth speaking back now]

You're right, old friend. I still wish to face the Pink-Haired monster, but now only for the purpose of curiosity. I still wish to know if she has changed.

[Now Austrouto speaks back...]

Nebiroth... be warned... the people who have frozen Earth in time. They are aliens from the depths of space, in that "star" you shot at earlier. They have most likely found out about you and are wondering what and who you are. Please, be careful, good luck... and take care of yourself. If you should survive this, we'll talk later. and the voice of Austorouto, friend of Nebiroth, had vanished back to the land of wind and ghosts.

[Okay, long walls of mental text are done folks. No more running in terror now, please. :P]

Nebiroth now felt he had to find Sandra, not only so he could challenge her to a match later, but for some odd reason, he felt the secret knack, to watch her... watch the savior of the souls of the old Phantom Zone, slayer of Sardius, and heroine of Santranus.

[Okay, so this is a time for another important note: Nebiroth was originally added to the IF as a Neutral-Evil type character who I had not fully decided on a path for. Losarian's decision to have Kyle be trusting to Nebi is part of the reason his original destiny I had for him altered. Originally Nebiroth wasn't going to be a full-bore hero, but that changed because of Smidgen's presense and the fight. This was the other reason I realized why I didn't send Sandra to toll the bell of Smidgen's doom herself. :P

In other words Baron von Awesome, I actually let someone else's suggestions change the major course of one of MY ACs for once. Instead of the other way around like in the Tenguian era. >.>]

However, he also couldn't help leaving Zac, Brett, Bob, GMOE, Kyle and... then he noticed. The one named Glenn had edged away during his clash with Smidgen earlier. He had some feeling he wasn't the only one looking for Sandra now, as the boy had going into the Two-Three tunnel, the same way he came into Threed in the first place.

[Nothing gets past good ol' Nebiroth. XD]

Nebiroth decided to speak again, but to assure the other he hadn't going crazy.

[Dammit, past-me! You did it again with the "other" mispelling. >:P]

"Thank you. Many friends unfrozen here. However, Nebiroth must find Pink-Haired Brat still." he decided in front of them he was still going to refer to Sandra by that name. He didn't want them to totally think he went soft on her or them.

[Cuz Nebiroth has stolen Pictos' place as the badass of the IF. :P]

"May also be in danger. If you want follow Nebiroth, your choice. Nebiroth not encourage you. Nebiroth not discourage you either." he said, and looked to the Two-Three tunnel, wondering the answer from his friends.

[I.E. Me giving people an option instead of choosing for them, a la my Tenguian personas. <.<]

Meanwhile, a single and VERY tiny piece of the late Smidgen uttered a final desperate death plea to his creator through telepathy.

Master. Been defeated... Avenge... av..enge... and then the final drop of Smidgen vanished into the dusts of time...

[Oh yeah, I forgot Smidgen was ALMOST dead. However he still needed most of his body to regenerate, and he still dies here anyways.]

****

In the sewers, Sandra, James, Johnson, and Terrance and Lance[the two friends of James from the room he was trapped in] were trudging through the Onett sewer system. "Hey, how is this going to get us to your home?" Sandra asked her father, who still didn't know who she was yet.

"Well, the Onett Sewers connect to the sewers under Twoson, and those are connected to the Threed sewers, and so on." James answered.

Why does she seem familar to me. It's as if I've seen her before!

James was still unable to put his finger on the dillema at hand, and the problems with the stasis field were his primary concern at the moment. "But... how will we get into your house without being spotted?" she asked more. "Well, when we get there.. I'll show you." he put a nitch of pause in his voice as to make Sandra eagar to find out. "Um, okay." Sandra said with a bit of wonder.

Dad, when are you going to realize it's me, Sandra?! she thought to herself.

[When you stop angsting about it, Sandra! :P]

She was hoping he hadn't totally forgotten about her, although she knew to think of her fate 10 years ago was also hard on him, her mother and Paula.

Soon afterwhich, they came to a wall in which the bricks seemed slightly out of place in alignment. Sandra raised an eyebrow at this. James walked up and pushed on the wall, but then remembered that the time freeze most likely held it in a strong grip, he turned to ask her for help due to her strength, but then he remember a small detail, "Uh, excuse me." he said to her, "I never did catch your name."

[Oh James you poor sap, you're asking for it, aren't you? XD]

Sandra for some reason was grinning mentally. She thought of the shock on his face when she told him her name.

"Name's Sandra, my friend. What is your name anyways, now that you remind me?" James's heart almost stopped at the name of the girl in front of her.

[Oh noes, don't haz a heart attak now! :o]

She did in fact look like a teenager of 15 years, and she DID sport that even-so-familar look. It then whacked him in the head like a slab of concrete. This young girl was in fact Sandra Polestar, his 10-year lost 2nd daughter.

[Wow James, are you dense. :P]

He almost felt like breaking down in happy tears there, but Terrence, Lance and Johnson had no clue that Sandra even existed. No one outside of Twoson the very year of her disappearance knew she even existed. Paula had never told her friends, Ness, Jeff, Poo, or even the Mr. Saturn tribes of her existance. It was because she and her family didn't wish for pity and sympathy from others, and wanted to mourn Sandra's disappearence in peace.

[Yeah, this is the reason by IF knowledge that no one else really knows about Sandra, such as Ness, Jeff, Poo, or the other people who know the Polestar family. They wanted to mourn her disappearance in peace without the pity of others. A bit sad, but... :\]

Sandra realized her father had gotten the clue by his reaction, even if his friends hadn't noticed. She had read his mind to find his reaction, and caught the part about no one outside Twoson knowing about her or her disappearence, and understood his knack to keep his shock a secret, but it would have to public be annouced soon enough.

[Need to make another note. Sandra shares similar telepathic abilties to Paula, but as far as actual PSI/PK is concerned, she has next to NOTHING in that respect. Sandra is the magic-sister, Paula would be the PSI-sister. :P]

"Anyways," she piped up again, asking her dad, "You needed my help again?" "Ye.. yeah... thanks." James half studdered, as his 2nd daughter, one of his two prides of joy had began pushing against the wall, soon unlatching it from it's frozen position, but not breaking it down. It was a wall that rotated on a middle pivot, revealing a secret hallway and some steps leading up.

[Ancient Chinese Secret? :o]

There was something familar looking at the top of the steps. Then she realized it. The sewers! She remembered it perfectly now. Twoson in the old old days had been stage for some mobsters and gangsters. They had used secret passageways in the sewers to elude the cops, and the Polestar house had unknowningly until a year before Sandra's disappearance, had a passage of it's own hidden behind a large shelf in the kitchen that could lower to reveal the stairway and the rotating wall in the sewers.

[Yeah, I'll explain the whole premise I came up with for the 'sewers' some time later. Let's just say I used the same concept in an older IF that I actually STARTED during the late Tenguian era.]

Ah, yes. Memories Sandra thought to herself, as they approached the back of the kitchen shelf...

[So yeah... >.>]

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