The Elevator door opened into a small chamber and Captain Teddy stepped out. The remote for the valve was now bound to the top of her hand, or paw. It was not very secure and could fall off at any moment but she did not care.
The room she had entered was the console room which can be used to control everything inside the citadel as well as reconfigure systems and rebuild the entirety of the citadel, which could become dangerous without anti-vacuum seals. Of course those were the only functions which Captain Teddy knew, but there were more than that.
She sat down at one of the consoles and activated the regeneration arms. A pair of robotic arms came out of the console.
Captain Teddy took off the tape from the remote and grabbed one of the arms. One of their fingers turned into a small scalpel and she used it to cut open her soft skin in the shape of the remote. The second arm, having registered an injury in the console room, turned into a small laser with regenerative abilities and moved towards the wound. Teddy put the remote on her skin before the hand reached the wound and it was turned into part of her body.
"I can't get used to that smell." She said and looked at the molten skin on her arm which was merging with the remote and regenerating. "What a disgusting view. I should cover this up but how?"
While her hand was relaxing and cooling from the heat she searched the console room for the design table, which she could use to design and produce objects without wasting resources.
Having found it she sat down and designed a type of cape for herself that would cover her left arm with the remote. She quickly finished and produced it and covered her arm.
A few minutes later she entered the bridge again. "I heard the signal, what is happening?" Captain Teddy asked. She was hurrying back to her spot in front of her stool and looked out the window.
On the window a hologram was being displayed a multitude of faces. 5 different faces. All of these people were wearing a captain-like outfit and were smiling into the camera.
"Other citadels have found their way to us and wish to speak with you, captain." One of the Teddys on the bridge said.
Captain Teddy looked past the hologram into space. There they were, 5 different citadels. All of them looked the same and were hovering in a circle.
"We wish to formally meet with you all." Said a Teddy from the citadel filled with Teddy and Geddos copies.
"She's lying." Screamed the Geddos who was bound to her. He was pressing his fluffy face against the camera lens.
"Could you please stop that?" Asked the Teddy with a hurt expression, "I'm not lying." She tried pushing the Geddos out of the way: "I apologize for the interruption. We have bound the Geddos copies to our arms in order to stop them from killing each other."
Captain Teddy began speaking to them: "It's alright. Does everybody agree that we shall meet and introduce us to one another? If so, please show that by raising your hand." Captain Teddy raised her hand and the Teddy who had the idea also raised her hand.
"Can I… can we get a hug once we meet." Another voice asked. It was a Lukas clone from the seventh citadel.
"Agreed!" A second voice came from the third citadel, "We Pheddies would love to cuddle with the Teddys." On their screen hundreds of Pheddie copies were visible, completely covering the floor and the walls.
Captain Teddy looked at the screens, she was completely mind blown. How could they just ask something like that? Do they not possess any sense of self preservation, or is it a trap? She tried not showing any kind of negative emotions in her face: "That will be a problem for another time. First we need to negotiate terms on which we all agree and which will be followed by all citadels."
"Agreed.",
"Then, we will activate the connection hall and meet you there." Captain Teddy said and turned away dramatically from the screens as they were turned off. "Draw the halls out and send me a fighting unit."
Captain Teddy left the bridge and went to the entrance of the connection hall.
"I can't believe I am going to walk out of the citadel and into space. Just so I can meet these people… these potential threats." She rubbed her forehead with her right hand and sighed dramatically.
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Somewhere in the confines of this simulated universe a citadel — or, after all the rebuilding, a super-weapons — was dashing through space. It did not even look like a citadel anymore, they redesigned the entire station to resemble the head of their supreme king Geddos.
The inside was in uproar. The floors were filled to the brim with Geddos copies running around and equipping themselves with guns and swords and wands and poisons. Of was even carrying a flame thrower. Where did they get the gas? No idea.
On the bridge of the citadel, which now had about 8 times the volume then it had at the beginning, a throne stood tall and a giant plushie was sitting on top. He was resting his head on his arm and was covered in scars. Almost 80 centimetres tall and a menacing aura around him. "I can see them! Here they are." He laughed.
Before them, beside the stars and galaxies, he could see 6 little dots inching ever so closer. The smile on his lips was growing with every second.
"Get the weapons ready!" He screamed and stood up from his throne. His eyes were shining with an intense dark energy as he stared at the citadels coming closer.
The weapons were aiming at the citadels, charging to shoot. Ginormous lasers were aiming at the bowl in the mouth of the giant metal head, also charging.
"No!" He screamed, "That is not entertaining enough. Send the fighter-ships.",
"As you comm—",
"Is the prototype ready? " He interrupted, "Wait! Are the stasis chambers finished?"
They had started prototyping a small spaceship with a not-tested teleporter that would teleport people it hit into a stasis chamber, freezing them indefinitely.
"Both finished! Sending them now." The Geddos copy said.
After he finished his sentence, a dozen of small fighter-ships shot out of the head and in the middle were two small teleporter-ships. The teleporter-ships, for some weird reason, were donut shaped with a bite taken from which they would shoot the laser.
In an instant they had reached the weird bowl between the 6 citadels, connected to each of them and started firing. Dark bolts of light shot from all twelve fighter-ships and bashed into the halls, destroying them.
From the holes flew a few people out. A handful of humans, not clear if they are Max or Lukas clones, started choking and writhing around violently. The plushies which were sucked into the endless void which was the space around them then held onto the broken pieces of the halls and catapulted themselves towards their respected citadels.
"Kill them. Kill them now!" The supreme king shouted, foam forming in front of his mouth and saliva spilling onto the floor.
A Geddos copy nodded and started speaking into a headset.
The fighter-ships surrounded them and started firing. A few of the plushies died on impact and exploded into a wild mess of cotton wool. The only one who survived this was Captain Teddy from the first citadel. She picked up a piece of rubbish as a shield and attacked the incoming fighter-ships, blocking their shots.
She jumped onto one of them and started destroying the glass after which the pilot flew out. Captain Teddy climbed in and started using the fighter-ship to attack the eleven others. She managed to destroy a handful more before…
"STASIS! I WANT HER ALIVE!" The supreme king screamed at the top of his lungs and in the same moment a green beam of light hit her.