They're Here...

[Swix]

A cube appears out of Trans Warp space, it's edges are smooth and slightly tinted green. It's a perfect geometric shape, as the inhabitants of the ship had wanted it to be.

~Scanning unknown area of space for lifeforms. Scan complete. Lifeforms detected. Lifeform locations: Single planet orbiting single sun, fifth satellite orbiting single planet~

Several voices in unison echoed through the minds of the beings, as well as anyone receptive enough to detect it. It would however come across as near indistinguishable whispers to those.

~Familiar lifeforms detected. Extracting information collected about familiar lifeforms~

~Norns. Ettins. Grendels. Shee. Threat analysis: Threat minimal. Continuing scan~

~Familiar individuals detected. Location: Fifth satellite. Accessing data.... Individuals encountered before. Threat reassessment commencing: Threat analysis: Threat medium. Individuals information extraction complete~

~Subject: Samura. Escaped experiment. Chip uninstalled. Homeworld destroyed. Threat: High~

~Subjest: Doctor Lupinmario. Escaped Grendel. Leader of remaining Grendel army. Homeworld destroyed. Threat: High~

~Subject: Grarg. Escaped Grendel. Homeworld destroyed. Threat: Medium~

~Subject: Xys. Escaped Norn. Homeworld destroyed. Threat: Minimal~

~Subject: Sirus. Escaped Norn. Homeworld destroyed. Threat: None~

~Subject: Linda. Assimilation incomplete. Designation not assigned. Connection status: non-existant. Homeworld destroyed. Threat: High~

~Subject: Brock. Assimilation complete. Designation: Seven Two Five. Homeworld destroyed. Threat: High. Disconnected. Refusal to reconnect. Current connection status: connection found. Attempting to re-establish connection...~

~Re-establishing connection failed. Connection dormant or damaged. Assessing options... Options found: Re-assimilate or destroy~

~Scan continuing... Unknown lifeforms detected. Assessing threat level... Threat level: Inconclusive. Threat assessment requires more data. Reconnaissance drones required~

Two brief green flashes of light pulsed on the surface of Blackstar. One in Dojopolis and the other in the Wilds

~Reconnaissance drones sent. Successful arrival comfrimed. Mobile regeneration chambers required~

Another two pulses of light followed the first, and two small metallic but organic looking pods appear. They're closed and locked, resembling little more than upright rectangles. They land further away from the highly populated areas.

~Mobile regeneration chambers sent. Successful arrival confirmed. Coordinates being sent to drones... Coordinates sent. Awaiting data retrieval~

A newcomer to the Dojo looks around Dojopolis. It had the outward appearance of a male Fallow Norn with soft, tawny fur. He also looked a little lost and began to search for someone to help him.

A second creature, this one with the outward appearance of a dark green Jungle Grendel looked around The Wilds. There were a lot of trees, almost as far as he could see. He too, set off to find someone to help.
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On the fifth moon, the previously ChiChi Norn known as Brock had been sleeping uneasily. His body twitched in the regeneration chamber he'd built into the wall, in a building designed for Norn, Ettin and Grendelish living. Being part-Borg had it's disadvantages.

A beep sounded and a metallic voice could be heard "Regeneration cycle complete"

The Norn felt bars that had been holding his arms and body sturdily in place for the past 24 hours move outwards, freeing him. Slowly he woke up, and groggily shook his head. He was sure he could hear voices in it, but dismissed it as remnants of his dreams.

He used his white furred left arm to steady himself as he moved, his body felt a little more sluggish than it should. Perhaps he should have regenerated for a little longer.

His other arm was orange and black striped, as were both of his legs. They were also very bright, almost fluorescent. The colour contrasted greatly with his purple body and tail, sometimes he'd made other creatures eyes water when they looked at him for too long.

He made his way over to a sink, to splash some water on his face and help him wake up a bit faster. As he did so, he looked at his appearance in the mirror.

White fur covered the top right half of his face, although his ear was still most definitely ChiChi, as was the left side of his face. His light orange hair had grown back as well, it curled about the top of his head in an unruly manner.

It was better than when he'd had his robotic parts showing, he reflected. Underneath the white fur Borg circuitry and mechanics were hidden, even his left eye, though it now looked just like his normal one was still robotic.

He could still hear the whispering though, and Brock suddenly froze as he heard something he hadn't since before they'd arrived.

~Seven... Two... Five... ~

Only one thing had called him that. After the others had found out his real name they'd switched to using it. That name... that designation that had been given him, was only persistently used by one thing. He'd often prayed they wouldn't show up here, but it seemed either the Gods could do nothing or they hadn't heard him.

"They're here... They've found us... "

He whispered as he strode over to his staff. Well, he wasn't sure if it was his or if it belonged to the God whom he was the heir of. While he'd been granted use of it, it constantly had the words 'Baldur, Norn God of Peace' engraved on it.

Either way, he picked it up and quickly walked out of the room. He began shaking any of the others he came across.

"They're here. The Borg, they've come. We have to get ready. I have to warn everyone"

((I know someones going to go 'this belongs in the Norn Gardens' but it concerns everyone . That's why I've put it here. Have fun))

((If/before anyone gets any ideas, Baldur and Hathor are mine, mmkay? ))

[Somefreakoverthere]

((And Freya is MINE. She's also sitting about in Linda's head, getting unhappy because she doesn't have a body anymore.))

Linda looked up at Brock as he entered to room, shakeing. She had been watching over Sirus, and the news he gave her instantly sent her into melt-down.

She stood up and slowly walked over to Brock. She had always known they would find them, but she never dreamt it would be this soon. She could feel something begging her to tell him the truth.

"If they dare touch your mind or your body I'll murder them where they stand. I'll take Sirus and alert Samura."

She whispered, voice dripping with poision. She was hoping he'd work it out eventuly, but was rather imbarrising to think about how he'd find out...find out she had a crush on him.
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Sirus chose this moment to wake up and see her adopted Dad in the room. She quickly pulled herself up via the wall and scrambled over to him and hugged the leg closest to her.

"DAD! I had a bad dream, scary people. Hurt you, hurt Mum. Mum ripped off their heads."

She paused before she went on, looking up at him and holding out her hands in the way that said "If you don't pick me up I'll make a cloud above your head and let the rain fall." Her was an extreemly powerful water bender, and could condence water into clouds up to a meter squared in size.

((Oooooh, I've actuly told you how Linda feels about him. Just don't go probing her mind suddenly, or I will make Freya take charge.

And she can be VIOLENT.))

[alakin1]

((Linda's got a crush! Linda's got a crush! Linda's got a crush! *Laughs insanely*))

"You can stop shaking, I'm awake." Xys mumbled as he lazily got up from the coach he had fallen asleep on. Slowly, Brock's news sunk in, "The Borg!? How?"

[Somefreakoverthere]

"Samura, wake up! SAMURA! THE BORGS! THEY'RE HERE, THEY'VE FOUND US! SAMURA!"

Linda was almost screaming now, shaking the draconic violently as Sirus hung on around her neck. She had been crying, and could practicly feel her borg side rocking back and forth in her mind, shaking.

She then relised that the winged draconic was too deeply asleep for her to be able to wake her with her normal voice. She searched her vocal memory until she came up with somethin that she felt would fit the situation.

"We are the borg."

She whispered before she leapt backwards and croutched down, waiting for the responce.

[Nasari]

Samura jerked awake and looked around frantically, a scowl on her face.

"BORG?! Where?! Where?! I'll rip them to shreds and rip the shreds to shreds!"

After seeing no Borg anywhere in the room, she calmed down.

"If you were that desperate to get me up, this is probably important. Que esta el problemo*, Linda?"

((*That's Spanish for 'What is the problem'.))

[Swix]

"Well... uh... thanks, I think?"

Brock said after hearing Linda, scratching his head with his more Nornish hand. Her rather violent response to his news wasn't entirely unexpected, but still, something bugged him about it.

He looked at his adopted daughter fondly before picking her up. Sirus had had the misfortune to be born during a war, but he and Linda had taken her on themselves.

He put Sirus on Linda's shoulders before she went to wake Samura, then moved over to wake Grarg.

It turned out that he hadn't needed to, as Linda using the Collectives voice had jolted the black-scaled Grendel awake, and she jumped out of bed. Grarg landed unceremoniously on the floor, then stood up. She rubbed her now rather painful tail, as she'd landed on it, and yawned.

"Grarg awake, Grarg awake. Where Borg? Grarg no smell anything. Who play cruel joke?"

Brock shook his head sadly at Grargs question. He would've given anything to have that doubt in his mind. But he knew all too clearly, they were here.

He walked over to Xys, and smiled as best he could.

"I don't know how they've found us Xys. It could easily have been an accident. But they're here now. I can hear them. I wish I couldn't, but I can"

Brock turns, addressing the entire room.

"I'm going to teleport down to Blackstar, they're going to need to know too. If you want to reach me, ask Linda. Get everyone awake, get them aware... We don't want a repeat of what happened to our home"

The ex-Borg then teleports down to the surface. He ended up stood on the table in the Meeting House.

"My circuitry must need rewiring..."

He commented to himself, before looking at the figures gathered for some important meeting.

"Sorry about the entrance... You probably don't know me, my name is Brock. I and a few others escaped from our homeworld before it got destroyed and we ended up here"

Brock sighed, and took a deep breath.

"I know I'm just a Norn, but I came to warn you, please listen. The Borg have arrived here, either they found some way of following us or it was an accident, it doesn't matter. You must prepare, and warn the others of this"

[Panther385]

Panther leaned back in her chair- she'd been called for a meeting about the incessant whining of the human Psychotopians for civil rights, freedom of speech, blah, blah... She was startled as an oddly colored norn beamed right into the room. "Borg, eh?" She said, quickly glancing at a red-headed alchemist that was standing against the wall. "Rai here has commented about them once or twice... By your tone, and the way Rai has described them, this doesn't look good." She sighed and sat crossedlegged in her seat, both ears perked towards Brock. "Do you know a way of stopping them? Or is it hack-and-slash time?" She swiped her right arm in an arc in the air, shapshifting it into a steel longsword.

"Last I remember, there isn't a way..." Rai muttered to herself, examining the norn gravely. "I've seen you before, somewhere... Brock, is it?" She smirked, wondering if he would remember the person who tried to kidnap him for one of her big chimera projects. "I still have number Eight-Two, by the way." She smirked- Number 82 was the name of one of her most infamous chimeras; a jet-black norn with giant ivory spined from nose to tail, pink irises, and a B-A-D attitude to match.

[Swix]

As Brock listened to Panther, he actually felt a little relieved at being taken seriously. However his ear twitched as she mentioned the name Rai, and he looked over at the one she'd indicated before looking back at the cat like being.

He tried to remember just where he'd seen the red-haired human before, but couldn't quite put his finger on it... That is until she mentioned Eight Two, then he remembered. That things attitude had been nearly as bad as a Drantis with an upset stomach.

Brock stepped back from Rai, holding his staff a little tighter as he looked at her. But he had more important things to do than worry about a failed kidnapping.

"There isn't a way. We had to leave because of them. We thought we'd found a way to beat them but they set up defenses we couldn't get past, and they've definitely gotten rid of the addiction we gave them, otherwise they wouldn't be here"

Brock sighed again, and jumped off the edge of the table onto the floor, now having to look up at the two.

"I can't let what happened to us happen here as well, we are all going to have to work together to find some way to defeat them. Hack and slash time will only last for so long"

The ex-Borg paused as the chatter inside his head quieted down, now a little puzzled.

"I don't understand why they haven't come down here yet, something must be puzzling them to make them so cautious... Will you help us?"

Without trying to kidnap me again... He thought as he glanced at Rai again.

[Somefreakoverthere]

"Right! We better get moving and warn as many people as possible. Tell them to go out in groups of five and warn them about what will happen if they are caught. Lets get moving, we won't be able to warn anybody by standing around all the time."

Linda said to them as Brock had given them the news and teleported out. She could herself begining to panic, and knew soon she'd be looking for somewhere to hide if the worst happened.

~Be careful, Brock. I don't think I'd be able to think straight if anything happened to you. Warn that DP bloke too, I don't think he'd be too happy about the Borgs running about assimalating everybody.~

She sent to him, smiling slighty as Sirus slowly began to practice what she'd been learning.

[GBE]

((
SFOT Wrote

[LordPsycho]

*The Space/Time monitors DP used to monitor Warp activity in the Meeting House was blaring at yet another unexpected Warp Event. DP sluggishly got up from his table where he could often be found having tea with one being or another (today it happened to be with his three pupils: Ajaxon, Blackfoot, and Violet), and looked at the oversized console that seemed to flip out of the wall.

But his expersion quickly turned to horror. They could not be here. He had made every effort to block this sub-space bubble from their kind.. DP quickly flips a switch on his dash, and several buttons next to his console flip out from behind the wall, each with a label: "PWEC", "BWEC", "Felbeast", "EC", "Guardians", "Blackstar Council", "The Flock", and "The Master's Guild". He quickly goes down the row, pressing each one. A voice chimes out "Connections confirmed, now on line with the leaders of the PWEC, BWEC, Felbeast Clan, The Evil Council, The Guardians, Blackstar Coundil, The Flock, and the Master's Guild."

DP clears his throat before facing the collauge of faces on his screen.

"Sorry to bother you Gentlemen, but they're here. The Borg have found Blackstar"

[Panther385]

Kiba was the only one that appeared on the panel. He had been surfing various sites on cooking and the like, when he had been interupted by DP.

"Ah! Dau'Pay! Goron is out at the moment... Borg?"He racked his brain for anything on the invaders. "I don't believe I have heard of them, care to explain?"


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"I will, and I can speak for Kiri..." Panther stood and brushed her fur off, then looked at Rai expectantly.

The alchemist sighed an ran her automail hand through her crimson hair. "Yeah, yeah, I guess... They'll probably be good for future chimeras and the like." She shrugged, then smirked at Brock. "Easier than tryin' to catch you, eh? How soon do we need to be mobilized? I can call just about all my chimeras within..." She counted on her fingers. "...Seven, ten minutes tops."

Panther nodded silently. "Mmm, and Kiri can get here pretty quickly."

[Swix]

((DP and GBE are here too! ))

Grarg nodded at Linda, the tattoo of a heart with a rising eagle on her chest seemed to glow briefly.

"Grarg help. Grarg go and wake others, tell them. We split up to tell" Grarg tapped the side of her head with her slightly larger than average hand "we only ones who know. Then, go help Brock"
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~I'll see what I can do, if he hasn't found out already. Don't panic Linda, you're making it hard for me to think~

Brock sent back to Linda, though the truth was he was a little panicked himself. His grip tightened even more on his staff, suddenly thankful he had it in his non-robotic arm. The tension might have made it snap.

His expression ranges from relief to surprise, then anger and absolute horror. The relief was from the fact he hadn't just found two who could help, he'd found two who could call upon others. They'd need all the help they could get.

Anger and horror was reserved for Rai, as the human suggested using them for chimeras.

"Absolutely not!!! There is no way I'm going to let you try and catch one of them"

He took a breath, calmed, and looked down at his hands. They were shaking. He wasn't ready, not yet.

"We need all the help we can get. We should find others to help. My friends are already warning the ones in the Norn Gradens, but they should be around to help as soon as they've done that"

He paused, checking the chatter in his head. it hadn't increased or decreased since it had quieted down.

"We need to move now, while we have time to spare"

[alakin1]

Manytnor laid back in his seat in the Catacombs,
"This is Mantynor, second in command of the Felbeast, currently speaking for the Felbeast because I have no idea where the warlord, Zerrer is. Who are the Borg?"
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"What do we do if they just take us for rambling idiots?" aked Xys, standing up slowly.

[Somefreakoverthere]

"If they take us for rambeling idoits, tell them Metal-arm was the one who's spreading the news. Trust me, people listen when I'm the one telling. They know I would never joke about something like this. You have a good point, Grarg. All right, new plan, we split up into pairs and comb the planet to tell everybody ASAP. Sound good?"

Linda commented as she head Freya trieing to comfort the shaking borg part of her mind. She was pretty sure that part of her mind was called Leech.

~That's not me sending you panic. It's Leech, my borg part. I'm the one trieing to stop a heap of anger rolling down the link. Sirus is practising hard with her skills right now, Brock. I can tell she still remembers what happened last time.~

She gave the message to Brock, along with a small amount of energy. She cared about him, but that was to be expected after he'd saved her life.