Dusts of Avalon - Beastwithin.org

XI. T Mderstatement was allowed, not very menacing aempts at scaring the people.But with how the Planners operated these days, you never knew…Red leers announced://We Planners Have A Plan For Conquest. We Shall Be Victorious.The Quorum Shall Doom You On This Channel, 14:30 Earth Time.//“Oh, still a minute to go, we'd have plenty of time to make out more…” Dr. Grovepathsaid.“Silly doctor.” Daleworth grinned. “No, let's just see what kind of shit thePlanners have cooked up.”e broadcast began aer a short wait. Pictured was some sort of a circleof robots — the same sort of robots they had seen on the balefield. ere wasnothing special about the room; featureless metal surfaces all around.At first, it registered to neither Daleworth nor Dr. Grovepath that they wereactually looking at the top leadership of the Planners. e appearance was ratherunderwhelming. But then again, what could they expect?And then the Planners spoke.//We are Quorum. We address this message to our adversaries,the Humanity. We shall work toward your eradication, as we havefor decades of your counting. You have deflected our attackson Earth. You made us reconsider after our first defeat. Yourresourcefulness and cooperation saved you in our last attack. Allthis has been futile. We shall not hold back any more. The hourof your inevitable eradication draws nearer.////What you have seen here is but a shadow of our true capabilities.Our weapon, the weapon of our final push, is ourmost perfect weapon. It is a weapon we designed with humanity your personal hell, your personal annihilation. You shall die bythe sheer ingenuity of your own treacherous design, your flaws,miscalculations in your very fabric and very design. Thousandsof your bravest men and women already perished by this weapon.Your military feared us. They shan't tell you the truth of yourimpeding annihilation.////We are Quorum. We are Unanimous. You shall be destroyed byour Plan. Our fleet will come. Will come. We will come.//And with that, the broadcast ended.And Daleworth laughed.Dr. Grovepath could see it was a laugh of relief. It just didn't seem to end.“Shiii-iit”, Daleworth finally said. “those guys just don't know how hilariousthey are.”“Uh… I take it we shouldn't be worried about them, then, Mielle?” Dr. Grovepathasked.