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PREVIOUS POSTS FROM DIOZONE SERIES:
1: "Logline, Synopsis & Prologue"
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2: "Sage Soul-O-Ntrostrigodro"
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@igwentertainment/stories-from-diozone-the-melchizedeck-sage-sol-o-ntrostrigodro
3: "Verdict"
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@igwentertainment/stories-from-diozone-the-melchizedeck-verdict
“What’s on your mind, Miss D.R.?”
“It’s the young man, Chief. It’s what’s inside his mind that I’m worried about. Could it be possible that he’s caring a metaphoric time-bomb inside his locked-up memory ready to explode on our laps at the right moment? Or could it be that the boy knows some top-secret info that he’s hiding from everybody which the Threat discovered? Otherwise, why
would the Threat want him dead?”
“That’s exactly what we intend to
find out,” reassured the sage.
“Hmmm...” reflected Lord Gordini
from the console. “I have a theory.”
X-SIN WAS BOTH thrilled and confused at his new assignment. He could not understand the rationale behind the Council’s reason for choosing him to guard over the stranger whose life he and Sage Soul-O had saved. But all the same, he liked the idea of playing guard.
If this was a punishment, he reasoned with Sage Soul-O, Lord Gordini, and D.R. at the Observatory, then it was a welcomed one. Not that he hated his original job as the Observatory Probe of Diozone. After all, he was a machine, and as such, should enjoy the work. It was just that being a bio-electronic entity with a positronic “hardwiring”, his logical choice of activities preferred the life of active participation to that of “passive, observatory boredom,” as he would put it.
“I think something’s strange here,” remarked D.R. seriously to the whole idea, after Sage Soul-O related their court experience with the Councilors to the Observatory team. “There’s something about the verdict that doesn’t seem to sit well,” she continued, floating within the comfort of her anti-grav Diamond-Bubble, biometrically configured to her -- and powered entirely by her – thought signature.
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“Why would you think so, D.R.?” inquired Lord Gordini. “And what is it that doesn’t sit well?” He was sitting behind the grand console like some grand maestro of electronic engineering, charting his universe of honey-cone-like multi-screens alive with varied motion images. One of the images was showing the young man sleeping peacefully, wrapped inside the comfort of his cloud-bed. X-Sin and Sage Soul-O were standing.
From the Observatory’s point in station, the whole magical City-Isles could be seen through the electronic eyes of the screens that kept constant surveillance of the entire scenario, the Frontier, beyond the horizon, and different live stations of the great orb Earth, the panorama of which was truly spectacular.
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“Why would the Council want you, a field Agent,” D.R. was addressing X-Sin, “to bodyguard him,” she pointed at the screen that housed the sleeping young man, “when such duty should be a domestic affair, under Home Security, and should be handled accordingly?”
“I guess it’s a punishment for delving into another Agent’s responsibility,” teased X-Sin with a polished smirk, “which to me is a welcomed relief.”
“No, seriously,” pressed D.R. “Why would they do that?”
“Tougher security measure, I guess,” offered the sage. “Mayhaps, the Council could not resist the temptation that X-Sin’s security, survival, and life-saving instincts outclassed those of any other Guard or Agent in Diozone.”
“Don’t you think it’s rather strange, Chief?” D.R. probed on.
“Strange?” echoed the sage, frowning slightly. “What’s on your mind, Miss D.R.?”
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“It’s the young man, Chief. It’s what’s inside his mind that I’m worried about. Could it be possible that he’s caring a metaphoric time-bomb inside his locked-up memory ready to explode on our laps at the right moment? Or could it be that the boy knows some top-secret info that he’s hiding from everybody which the Threat discovered? Otherwise, why would the Threat want him dead?”
“That’s exactly what we intend to find out,” reassured the sage.
“Hmmm...” reflected Lord Gordini from the console. “I have a theory.”
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Lord Gordini Adamsini was a great inventor; a security system engineer; a gadget freak; a Trelon-standard prof-essor; and, therefore, a super-genius. His fantastic works had earned him a remarkable position in the technological world of Diozone. His fascinating ingenuity had contributed immensely to the making of Project nemeSIX, of which X-Sin was his most favorite.
In the making of X-Sin, he had personally placed a lot of attention on the detailing of X-Sin’s positronic brain mech-anism, putting in extra efforts to bring X-Sin closer to being human by way of reasoning. In essence, X-Sin learnt rapidly, in human reckoning, by interactions with people, made possible by some super-complex, comprehensive simulated human-interactive programs installed within his Telectro-kinemagnetic System; plus, the Universal Mind Energy and X-Sin’s Thought-Formed Body of Manifestation being form-ulated from Splendio Vollov’s extracted essence: a pure Formless Form of some sort.
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It was this mystic mechanism of Vollov’s energy that gave rise to his ability to telekinet at will. Though the other five X Agents possessed bits of Vollov’s essence, there were some subtle details in X-Sin’s Telectrokinemagnetic System that they didn’t have; which gave him an edge over them.
In other words, X-Sin was a product of a very complex masterpiece of amazing machinery. A fascinating creation extracted from Vollov’s body of Universal Mind, made entirely of blue-glowing cosmic dusts of the purest sapphire energy; and Lord Gordini’s professorial art in the mastery of Quantum Physics, Abstract Physics, Astro Physics, Micro-cosmic Physics, Macrocosmic Physics, Electrobotics, Particle Calculus, Antimatter Fluxism, Elecrokinetic Cybernetics, Reversible-And-Irreversible Entropy, nemeSIX Robotics, Telectrokinetic Magnetism, Elecroencophalographic Pulse, Hyper-Aeronautic Physics, Psychoelecrical Science, Inter-galactic Thermodynamics, and Infiniversal Telectrokinetics!
So, whenever Lord Gordini happened to say, “I have a theory,” something usually unusual was sure to happen…
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