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The heavens were always dark. Had they ever been as blue as the elders said that they were? The immortali said that people made it dark, made the sun have to struggle through the clouds, and the moon to glare ancient and feeble like the eye of horus through the centuries' nebulous black.



Zonu pulled on the thick silicon gloves and moved her mutant fingers over the controle modules and bio-com gel touch-sense pools shaking deep in the heavy titanium of the system. The water pressure was anus tight, and Zonu sought to move the Dreamseeker closer to the surface where the pressure wasn't as animus.



Feo, cyborg anglerfish in his legged globe body, scampered over to where Zonu sat erect and tense in the seat, whose overall body structure looked like something from Feo's natural habitat. Everything was some species of black, just like all that was above and all that was below. In Zonu's eyes, it was just how things always were.



A transmission came in, foggy and metallic.



"Zonu, we may've found some evidence v' Untrust's whereabouts. Can you glow up y' area? Its in y' general circumference".



Zonu spoke into the gaping, curate fish mouth that portruded from the system next to a round screen that conveyed the other's incoming message: "Sou ka? OK, I do that now".



"Stop speaking Nihongo. We speak Inglish in Neustate" said the other as a joke. He laughed, and Zonu laughed. She pressed a big black mole that popped up near the top of the controls and the eyes of the Dreamseeker lit up, exhuming the glimmering albino bodies of the deep sea daemons that reigned the ocean.



Zonu dug her hands into the bio-com gel pools and the Dreamseeker began to roll over the red-pipe lipstick coral. She could feel its engines, its lights, its AI brain. It was hungry. Zonu was hungry now too.



"mienai" she muttered. "I cant see any evidence". She glimpsed her own reflection in the impermeable glass of the viewing screen that stretched from right to left, and curved deeply in the center. Shape of the inside of a fish skull. There were bones in the dark sand below, deep sea plants and slithering monsters. There were space ship creatures that glowed and moved slowly through the water.



Then, lodged in a cult of color ambiguous rock formations was something weird.



"Dy' see it?" came the voice.

"I see a thing" replied Zonu into the fish mouth.

"Feo, what is that?".



The cyborg fish turned in its legged globe, giant jaws of dagger teeth moving slightly. A screen on the base of the globe where the little white child's legs were attached lit up. It seemed to purge a closer image of the object from the Dreamseeker.



The round screen showed what looked like a rope, or rope of thinner ropes, white, silvery, semi transparent like drool.



"Its hair...." Zonu said. "Synthetic or organic?".



"We thinkitz synthetic. We donno if Untrust is a modifyd yuman being or complytly cybernetic. Can you tayka sampl?".



"Shuud I send myself out and get it by hand?" Zonu inquired, sealing every zipper on her element-proff body suit.



"No. Stay in. Use the mekanical hands. If y' cant get it without scattring the s=fibers, we'll send a unit".



Zonu waited, and did not bother to put on her mask. She worked the mechanical appendages using a different set of bio-com gel pools. It was impossible to lift such a delicate sample.



"Undoable" she said.



"We alredy have a unit submerg'd".



"Arigatou!" she said in thanks, and pulled her hands out of the gel pools and leaned back in her chair to pet Feo.



In the viewing screen, she could see someone in the water, in a regular diving suit, heading for the hair sample.



"Must be a metal friend" she though aloud, recognizing the fact that a regular flesh and blood organic human would have been crushed by the water pressure even at this sea level.



Soon enough, the diver turned towards the Dreamseeker and lifted a hand, conveying a raised thumb as if to say, "its all OK". The diver kicked his or her legs and swam up slowly, up to the surface. Zonu had the Dreamseeker do the same. When its spine was out of the water, she put her mask and oxygen on, and put Feo up through the circular portal. Feo took land. Zonu climbed out next.



Using a wireless key, she told the Dreamseeker to wait there.



"Food for the Dreamseeker, thatz urgent" she said to the diver, who rose up wet out of the sea and took land. They did not remove their mask or speak, but stood there with an air of friendliness. The rest of the team arrived, faces masked by anglerfish faces and in gleaming body suits. They had come off of a land beast, whose headlights were bright behind them.



"Hook it up to the generator near our hut. Take this wire, here" someone said, handing her a wire.



The diver seemed disconnected from the group, and went back into the land beast, a dragon of a vehicle. Its antennae pierced the sky dauntingly, and its dozen circular legs were wide in diameter and ribbed with grip.



"Who are they?" Zonu asked.



"Who?"



"Who that took the samples"



"A neu citizen, found in one of th' maverick clans. Donno th' name" said a woman's voice, shaking her masked head.



"Lets get some food and resume later. Untrust is long gone, prob in a whole other state by now" someone said. Zonu followed the others as they retreated to the hut, leaving the black oceans and vehicles behind. Since Zonu had forgotten, someone else recharged the Dreamseeker, who belonged to Neustate as well.



Zonu wondered what inspired the triangular shape of the hut, and then remembered images of structures called "pyramids", shown to her by the Immortali. She missed the Immortali, and thought about visitng their dank, lonely lair after work...



In the hut, their were globes full of food lined along the table sets, and a good number of computers. Many went to the computers before they went to the food. Some people removed their helmets, none of them were strange like Zonu. She removed her helmet, and shook out her short purple hair. She felt exposed this way, and thought about putting it back on, but decided to eat some of the dried eel and potatoes first.



Feo wanderd around aimlessly. A woman with long hair approached Zonu with a bottle of water.



"Here, y' need this. Neustate wants y' t' go beyond the circle and explor th' terrain for th' next 4 rotations".



"Thankyou so much" said Zonu. She drank the water, immediately healed from the heavy sodium intake. "Can someone move Feo into a tank and feed him?"



"Not an issue" said the woman, and she walked away.



Zonu took a seat on floor to eat the slivers of dried eel and slices of dried potato. A familliar brown skinned, blond haired young man around Zonu's age joined her and said "hello".



"Hello Vunas". Zonu offered him a sliver of eel. He accepted it and nodded thank you.



"Dy' think Untrust went t'another State?" he asked. "This is futile, donty' think?".



"I wish I'd never woken up Untrust when I was littl, in th' first place" said Zonu with a sigh. "But, gor the sake of Neustate, I must do what I can to undo what I did".



"I commend you. Its all for Neustate" said Vunas. "The world would be emptier without it".



"But, I still think I just need t' talk t' Untrust. I think Untrust is just afraid of being lock'd away again. I think therez more t' the story" said Zonu.



"Untrust is a powerful immortal, an unknown, strange creature that Neustate does not understand. Untrust needz to be lock'd away, or everyone c'd die".



"Yes but, what if Untrust c'd become a guardian, like an Ugom?" .



"Ugom?" Vunas asked, eyes curious.

"Ultra guardian of memories....." said Zonu, thinking about the Immortalis, Lr. The Ugom of the underground network of Immortali---but Vunas wouldn't know about that. Zonu couldn't speak too much about them around other people. They were a secret for her to protect, and the more she talked about them, the more Nevn Goyle, their obscure enemy, might want to use Zonu as a source of their annhialation.



to be continued or not idk