Uberia: Chapter X Goliath Strike (968 hits)
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Submitted by Uber Scratch <lordofthepost.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-01-24 03:14:28 EST
Chapter Guide
Uberia Cover
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23462
Chapter I
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23306
Chapter II: Loki's Descent
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23314
Chapter III: The Post Wars
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23319
Chapter IV: The Discovery
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23357
Chapter V: Further down the spiral
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23461
Chapter VI: A Taste of Fury
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23468
Chapter VII: The Merciless Siren
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23576
Chapter VIII: Rise of the Triad
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23679
Chapter IX: Battle Rage
http://www.ubersite.com/m/23795
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Uberia: Chapter X The Goliath Strike
A bitter cold breeze blew throughout the valley and across the lake, causing Lisa to wake with a chill as she lay curled in her bedroll. She woke to see it was still dark, the fire crackling away in the center of a scattered array of bedrolls. Off in the distance, towards the familiar machine, she could see a figure in the moonlight. It was Phinch, he was seated, staring off towards the massive structure. She crept around bedrolls, with her blanket wrapped over her shoulders, and came over and sat beside him.
"It's good to see you Phinch" said Lisa in a hushed tone
"It's good to be here with you all, back home" he returned
"What happened in Dotcom Phinch, why didn't anyone mention what's going on?"
He let out a sigh, his body seemed heavy, "It's bad Lisa, the rumors are true"
"A Trojan in Cyber?" She asked
"Spreading faster than any other I have seen, and the most malicious from all my experience in dealing with this type of thing"
"Is it contained in Dotcom?"
"For now, but you know just as well as I do the dangers we face, there isn't a known cure for this one, and it's claiming lives faster than anything I've ever seen."
Lisa shifted uncomfortably, with good reason. When a virus strikes anywhere in Cyber, everyone is in jeopardy, because no one is safe from it's wraith. Trojan Viruses are few and far between, but are hard to eliminate and usually claim thousands of lives before they are contained.
"Do you think Maddox can help?" asked Lisa
"If anyone can help, it will be Maddox, but I fear it won't be easy"
As they sat in thought, the huge iron gates to the distant building opened, pouring out another large group of familiars.
The creaking gates sounded an alarm to the warriors, who now began to stir around. Soon idle chatter began as they began to quickly pack up their campsite. Lord Bart gathered his men around the fire.
"Paladins and Knights, Hotmail used to be a humble place where good honest people could find their identities, where they could become citizens. Now it's a place of deceit, and place that has been abused over time and has been used against the good people of this world. Microsof is not our enemy, but there are those inside who support McBain. We have the task of eliminating those inside who support McBain, and yet we must be careful not to provoke an entire kingdom. We must be swift, fly in by night, attack and leave without a trace." He circled around the now dimming campfire; their time to strike was near. "We are going in to destroy the SPAM filter, this will not stop McBain, but it will cripple his efforts and hopefully buy us enough time to find a way to stop him." He stepped up onto a boulder, towering over his small army. "For Uberia, and for Cyber, the time to strike is now!"
"Good, enough talk and let's do this, be careful out there and follow my lead"
Both the Paladins and Knights gathered behind Lord Bart as he led them down the trail that led to the lake's edge. As they marched on, they spotted two armored guards at the main gate. They were no longer beaten, tired, and wounded. They were an unstoppable force, ready to march right through the front door to the unexpected, and meet their destiny head on. Lord Bart marched forward with his soldiers, as they moved onto the bridge that crossed the moat to the machine. He recognized the guards outside. Something was not right, these were not Microsofs, they were familiars. The two guards tensed up as the king and his men approached.
"What business do you have here" Inquired the first guard.
Lord Bart answered with an unleashed fury of the post, as he stretched both arms out towards the guards to each side and launched a post into each of their chests, knocking them back into the gate.
"Something tells me that the Microsofs are no longer in charge here milord" said Razor as he gathered his post.
Lord Bart placed the palms of his hands on the towering gates, and soon the power of the post began to transfer from his body to the door. "When this door opens, attack with everything you've got and remember our goal is to find the SPAM filter and destroy it". The door began to glow, with each passing second it got brighter. A droning hum began to emanate from the gates, as they cracked and waned under the pressure of Lord Bart's post. With a loud clap in the air the gates exploded inwards, to reveal an opening. The warriors quickly rushed in, posts loaded.
They stood witness to multiple levels of books, a library of wonders, containing all registered hotmail identities in the world of cyber. For a bittersweet second, the heroes stood in awe of the magnificent wonder of Hotmail. The next second met them with near death as a series of arrows soared towards them.
"Shields" barked Lord Bart, and within an instant, their shields went up to create a protective barrier against the sharp tipped wooden arrows that flew at them. A horrific beating of hundreds of arrows let them know just what they were up against. After the last arrow pounded into Lord Bart's shield with a thunk, the Sovereign called out a battle cry. They rushed into the open area, with shields overhead to protect against a second flurry of arrows. As they ran across the expansive circular hall a second flurry of arrows came from the open balconies stories above them. Some near misses made Lord Bart believe they weren't going to get a third chance. They ran to the other side of the vast auditorium and were presented with four choices. Two open halls, one turning to the left, the other to the right, and two staircases leading to the next story. "Four groups, make it even, split up" Barked the King as his most seasoned and disciplined soldiers broke apart as ordered in a one fast harmonious movement. Each group took one of the paths.
Bob, Hairsphincter, and Phinch took the west stairway. As they marched up the stairs, the floor of the balcony above provided them with cover. They had cover until they rose up to the second floor where a platoon of swordsman were ready to meet them. Phinch lept in the air, spinning in a 360 degree motion giving him more force as he came down on the first attacker with his open blade. The strike was so hard that its angled cut cleaved the man in two, from his shoulder through his body to his waist. Hairsphincter launched a pale white post and Bob added a +2 to the post as it flamed towards and through two attackers, leaving nothing but a trail of blood behind them.
General Tak, William Q. Percy, and Ducky rushed towards the east stairway. Familiars were already coming down the stairs to meet them. General Tak rushed to the left side of the descending strangers and began to push them down the stairs behind him. He took the last row as he decapitated one attacker and spun behind the last guard coming down. He choked the familiar until the attacker's energy waned. From the lack of returned posts they new instantly who these men were, they were identities without citizenship, unable yet to call the post. As the off-balanced men toppled down the stairs, Ducky met them with her rapier, as she practically let one fall onto her blade. With the blade still lodged in the man's skull she spun around and caught the other toppling fighter with a spinning kick from the back of her heel. William Q. Percy caught another victim of Tak's rush with a strike from his quarterstaff. The long staff crushed the falling man's windpipe, the fault of momentum.
Jonukah, McGinny, and Lisa snaked their way through a maze like corridor underneath the current action. The corridor was enough for the three of them to run freely shoulder to shoulder. As they neared their third turn, they were met by three fighters led by a post killer. A post was lauched towards Jonukah. With limited movement he dodged the majority of the post but part of it ripped through his chain mail armor and singed his skin. He cried out in pain and then madness as he grabbed an oncoming solider by the throat and slammed him on his back. He drew his sword and quickly ended the gasping man's life. Lisa pressed her hands against the evil poster's chest and called the post. A quick snap as the man virtually exploded. A female attacker rammed her knee into McGinny's chest, but he quickly turned the tides as he put his arms around the back of her head and slammed her face-first into the ground. Her body lay still and lifeless. They moved on around the corner and pushed on.
Bart and Razor took the corridor to the right, which led to a spiral staircase that didn't seem to end. They ran the staircase in a dizzying circular pattern as they ascended story after story. Guards were making their way down as one caught Lord Bart in the chin with a strong kick, knocking him off to the side and over the edge of the staircase. Razor used cat-like reflexes to quickly grab his liege's arm and hold him from certain death. With one arm occupied, he tried desperately to fend off the stooping familiars. Lord Bart was hanging stories above the great hall as he tried to get a foothold on the staircase. A sword broke through Razor's one armed defense and stabbed him in the shoulder that was holding the King. He shouted as the weight of Lord Bart stretched and intensified the pain of his wound. Razor's hand opened in reaction to the pain as his King's fingers slipped out of his. Lord Bart caught the flat of one of the hollow steps, holding on with his fingertips. Razor had no time to think about his pain, as he pushed forward on the attackers and began to force them on the defensive. He was at a lower position and had the advantage, as he ran his sword through the stomach of one of the men. Lord Bart inched more of his fingers onto the stair, and eventually managed to pull himself back onto the staircase. He quickly came to Razor's aid with the other two men. Lord Bart grabbed a sword-swinging hand in retaliation, and pulled him off of the staircase. The man screamed as he toppled towards his death. Razor pushed forward on the other man with a rush upward and forward, and rammed his sword through the evil familiar's ribcage.
The four groups continued to push forward and upward, as they made their way through the massive structure. It seemed like the supply of attackers were endless, as they hacked and chopped their way to the top. TaK lead his group to another staircase that led upwards, as they continued towards the SPAM Filter.
Jonukah's team was the first to reach the top, and as they turned to the right at the top of the stairs, they saw it. A series of gears turning and churning, as large tubes pumped energy into the machine, several smaller tubes lead a way out for all of the leftover SPAM. Archers stood as a last obstacle in his way. Before the marksmen could even load their arrows, Lisa lauched an array of semi-white posts, wiping them out. They had no time to spare, so TaK weaved a bright white post and launched it directly into the core of the machine. With a fizzle and a deafening pop, the filter began to smoke and the gears slowed to an abrupt halt. They were soon joined by Lord Bart and Razor. The machine creaked and strained under the pressure that was building on the inside of the cylindrical machine. "C'mon, we've got to get out of here milord!" Said McGinny. No one offered any hesitation as the entire building began to shake and rumble. They reunited with the other groups and began back down the staircase. The building began to moan with the threat of possibly falling into itself. As they descended large chunks of rock began to drop from the ceiling. As they made their way to the bottom, they ran once again through the open hall. This time they were dodging the falling rocks and not arrows. The whole foundation began to sway, judged by seeing the actual gate frame bend and contort as they made their way out. Billows of smoke poured out with the warriors as they made it back into the open air. They continued to run as large pieces of the building began to fall to the ground. Smoke poured out from the damage as the massive goliath fell. Piece by piece until the building disappeared into a large cloud of smoke.
Exhausted, they made their way back to the camp. The smoke quickly caught up to them, which caused them to flee the camp and continue running along the river. When they reached a point where the smoke was thinning out, they collapsed. Lord Bart did not pause; he was counting heads, to make sure all were accounted for. Luckily, everyone was present. They turned to see what was left, but could not make out anything through the wall of smoke. They did it, they destroyed the machine. Even though their intentions were to handicap the machine, finding out it was under the control of McBain made it only more apparent that this machine's demise was a positive thing. Now McBain would have to search elsewhere to build his army. The unfortunate side to this is that now they were going to have to keep moving, this would not go unnoticed for very long at all, and soon, McBain's men would be after them. Jonukah broke into laughter, as he lay on his back. The other's followed, realizing that they had just accomplished the impossible. They had brought down a giant in one fell swoop. The laughter continued as a method of stress relief, until Razor looked over to see Lord Bart on his knees and with his back turned to the group, with his head down. He quickly ceased his laughter and went to his Lord's aid. "Milord, what is the matter, we did it" He said, still huffing and puffing from fleeing for their lives.
The king did not look at Razor, as the Knight stood over Lord Bart's shoulder.
"Razor, look at my hands and arms" he held his arms up higher so Razor could see them. Razor looked upon the King's arms, which were riddled with open sores and were now a yellowish color.
"Dear Uber, NO" Shouted Razor in sheer panic. The King stood up and turned towards the confused crowd, "The Trojan virus is here"
To be continued....
User Reviews
Submitted by Mac (user info) at 2004-01-28 09:19:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Dude, you gotta put miggetymizac in the story and let me kill him...slowly.
Submitted by lordofthepost (user info) at 2004-01-28 00:07:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
ruh ro shaggy
Sorry
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2004-01-27 22:24:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by lordofthepost (user info) at 2004-01-26 22:53:48 (#)
Ranking: 0
QueenAshley, you will be, I promise milady!
Good. Just spell my name right, and you'll be gold.
Submitted by lordofthepost (user info) at 2004-01-27 02:05:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Phinch - I got the email and you were right on the money, shot you an email back
D-love - This is my attempt at giving Mac some purpose in life. Just tell me when you starts making poeple at the library address him as Sir Mac so I can quit writing. Also, thanks for the kudos. As for canning all the dork shit, I know, is it as strangely fun to read as it is for me to write
Bart - read on my friend
All - you guys have me hooked, I'm addicted, I can't stop thinking about how I'm going to add meat to the bone to this story. All I can say is (in my humble opinion) it gets better.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2004-01-27 01:57:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
If I die, I'm going to be pissed.
Submitted by lordofthepost (user info) at 2004-01-26 22:53:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
QueenAshley, you will be, I promise milady!
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2004-01-26 21:53:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This would be better if I were in it.
Submitted by lordofthepost (user info) at 2004-01-26 21:44:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Thanks guys - I really appreciate your support. You guys are great. Hope to keep your attention with the next few like I have in the past!
Submitted by Miggetymizac (user info) at 2004-01-26 19:48:50 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
awww poor baby lost your perfect rating
Submitted by D-Love <dlove.at.gravybiscuit.com> at 2004-01-26 14:20:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Do you get any sleep at all?
This story is too kick ass man. You've canned up all of the dork ass things that I love and created a sweet story out of it.
How can I be more like you?
Submitted by potatomanjack (user info) at 2004-01-26 11:54:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Christ almighty is this shit good.
I'm actually running out of ways to kiss your ass because this story is just too consistently aweseome.
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2004-01-26 11:24:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This shit is the shit.
Submitted by LaNa (user info) at 2004-01-26 00:42:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for the story.
+2 for the Thundercats reference!
The creative part of my brain is dead right now - so I'll leave it at that.
Keep 'em coming,
THUNDERCATS HOOOOOOOOOO~!
~LaNa :)
Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2004-01-26 00:19:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Took my breath away
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2004-01-25 23:46:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
did you get my email?
Submitted by ugaly (user info) at 2004-01-25 13:36:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I usually don't like the stories that are on uber. But this is one hell of a little thing you got going here. I sat and read all ten chapters back to back.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2004-01-25 00:54:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
YAY GO BOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2004-01-24 18:02:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
beautifully and exquistly done!
Plus I got to kick some ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by lordofthepost (user info) at 2004-01-24 16:55:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Someone set us up the bomb! I love it
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2004-01-24 14:02:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
all your base are belong to us
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2004-01-24 12:05:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hell yeah, can I get some action? eh? eh? I'll make up one of my tasty treats for the army, eh? yummy-dumm-hummies?
Submitted by Mac (user info) at 2004-01-24 10:40:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Tak,
I feel the same way. I feel like such a dork because the last two chpaters have had such cliff hanger endings and nothing was said about reallybored and his fire wall in this one, so I'm hoping it will be in the next one. I hope. And it kills me that I have to wait to see what's going on with Bart and the virus. I can't believe that Uber Scratch left us hanging like that. Damn you Uber Scratch! You just can't do that! I need more now!
Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2004-01-24 10:29:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow, how geeky am I? As I was reading this I actually had a sense of comraderie from all us Uberusers storming Hotmail and kicking ass left and right. But Bart? He's gonna be allright isn't he? Isn't he?!?
Submitted by DarthAwesome (user info) at 2004-01-24 09:59:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
cool
Submitted by squattail (user info) at 2004-01-24 09:50:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This is a super post. A
Submitted by Mac (user info) at 2004-01-24 09:47:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I like the idea of adding a +2 to increase strength in posts. Very well done. And for whatever reason, the end of this chapter reminded me of old episodes of the Thundercats. You know how they would always defeat MumRah and his goons then they would go back to castle and have a good laugh when Snarf pissed his pants or farted or whatever to break the tension? It just reminded me of that.
Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2004-01-24 09:45:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by MadJesterVince (user info) at 2004-01-24 08:25:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
great post LOP, so the virus is here! We must go find Maddox immediately.
Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2004-01-24 07:19:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
What? Lord Bart? Nooo!
Submitted by Marx740 (user info) at 2004-01-24 04:40:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Excellent.Hope to read more.Makes me feel like im in the story.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2004-01-24 03:59:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Awesome as usual.
Submitted by squattail (user info) at 2004-01-24 03:23:43 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Wait a minute. What?
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2004-01-24 03:23:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The only criticism I have is that every time you finish quoting someone saying something you should start a new paragraph.
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2004-01-24 03:18:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Goddamn that was good. I want more!
Submitted by lordofthepost (user info) at 2004-01-24 03:15:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hope you all enjoy this one!