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my quest began with a

riddle in a thousand years years

gandahar was

destroyed a thousand years ago gandahar

will be

saved and what can't be

avoided will

be

you

once I believe that AR gondar was a

perfect

world once I believed we were

innocent

oh

a

n

one less mirror bird to watch over our

kingdom of gandahar killed like the

others were who would do it and why to

keep us from learning what threatens us

without the eyes of the mirror Birds we

can't see what's happening at the

borders of our land I predicted

this why have we have gandahar neglected

new technologies a measure of our

civilization is that we prefer the

organic it is ironic that a decision of

the heart may now cost us our lives it

is vital that we act quickly time is of

the essence given the urgency of the

situation the council has chosen our

best agent to investigate which

one syane

syane but he is too young he's much too

impetuous I was his teacher just as I

was yours I promise you he is capable

surely there are more capable and more

experienced agents than my son the

council has ruled and you cannot change

their decision we've already summoned

him agent sane I understand that you're

the best man for this

job the Council of women has chosen you

for a most important difficult and

Dangerous Mission I would give my life

no bravado keep your life just return to

us

alive

an unknown enemy menaces gandahar you

must discover who this enemy is what are

its plans and its motives determine its

power its weaponry and its methods and

if you can probe into its

Secrets find its weakness if it has

any

if I were younger I'd go myself in any

case I'm proud they've chosen you svane

you've learned quickly and well exactly

where are you sending me to the

circumscribing ocean that's where most

of the mirror birds have been killed

however one bird saw something possibly

one of the Invaders here's the image it

was able to transmit before it died

can't tell anything from this image I'd

hope to identify the killer but some

form of high energy radiation is

interfering with the

transmission we've lived in peace so

long we've neglected the possibility of

evil and we may have forgotten how to

fight it perhaps we've been fools in

this land of ours of Fool's Paradise at

the very least we were

shortsighted

and so I set out from the city of Jasper

the perfect loyal Soldier on his mission

to find the enemy's

weakness my fear was that I might

discover

weakness in

myself

a

he

no doubt about it he was will be from

gandahar

impossible I have never seen a being who

looks like this gandahar I tell

you gandahar but

before

he was will be alive but very weak our

leader will know what to do with him but

we have to

hurry

he was will be very careless to fly so

far from the

capital no not

careless

courageous maybe he was sent from Jasper

do you think those in the capital have

finally awakened to the

D

a

who were you

were I am sane of gondar a

soldier and a prisoner of the enemy

enemy are we the enemy of course you

are were they will they be always so

smug in Jasper they certainly were when

they did this to us keep

quiet now then do you really believe we

are the enemy I do capable of conquering

you never Zain can't you guess who we

are no don't you know who we are we with

these bodies these heads these limbs

shaped always and assembled without care

come on So

Vain the the deformed Those whom gandar

calls the deformed not deformed but

wrongly formed the result of monstrous

errors from the games of chance watched

mutants San we also came from

gond Once you and we were

alike but we were will be victim of your

scientific research into genetic

mutations but our scientists would never

we became an embarrassment so you

banished us underground you buried us as

you do with so many of your other

failures as a child I heard stories but

I never

dreamed you really existed how could you

nobody advertises their

mistakes please forgive me for having

assumed we the the enemy whom you seek I

forgive you and I

understand we have not seen the enemy

the true enemy never but we

he through the

tunnels the ears of the

earth sh

I was will be at your command I have

chosen you to lead sane out there until

until you reach the noise I was will be

ready I am leading you into danger San

but remember you fight for us as well as

for

Ganda

sh all of you say was will be instead of

Simply I am

why we deformed as you call us are

terrified of the present when the

genetic errors were first committed

we had the gift of

foresight we could see the future now

each new generation grows even more

deformed and we have lost this

gift and in losing it all that we have

left is a double

prophecy doubly obscure in a thousand

years Ganda was destroyed and all its

people killed a thousand years ago Ganda

will be saved and what can't be avoided

will be in a thousand years Gonda was

destroyed a thousand years ago gond will

be

saved past and future as one but what

does it mean we don't understand it any

better than you but these words have

become our saying and the past future

our way of speaking and

believing

you will be chosen use your

strength

say people turned to

stone what kind of Technology could do

this it's

Madness

w

he

no don't turn me to

Stone don't steal my

body don't steal my body I don't steal

but I might borrow they

deformed

extra how could we have done such a

thing

is this a

dream where did you come from I'm AEL

who are

you my name is

sane how did you get here I don't know

what happened but but suddenly I was

changed I had no time to feel any pain

or fear when I awoke I

was

watch

Pur

what

I think I know what's happening here

it's simple our saor is a female she

took one look at our prison and thought

it was one of her eggs she thinks we're

her

children poor sill from EMB sex's Golden

Boy to a sorn's hatchling it's strange

isn't it the Metal Men destroyed my

Village but they spared me maybe this is

why so that I could be here with you

what may be the last night of my

life I feel the same

way as if I'd been chosen but for some

purpose I don't

understand har around I'm afraid

to blavor trained me well but there's so

much he didn't tell me

go

nothing absolutely

empty no flesh no

blood nothing living nothing mechanical

no gears no circuits

nothing and yet they're capable of

killing

strange

So

Vain

that's what must have happened to us we

you were picked up and stuffed into eggs

like that but not

killed get prisoner for some

purpose

what

the light seems to absorb them they just

vanish the prisoners who enter that door

are human but they emerge as

machines men of metal our mission is a

success our losses do not

matter those Metal Men Who were

destroyed have served a worthy cause we

need not mourn them death has meaning

only for contemptible beings beings in

love with the individual self the eye

does not exist I do not exist the true

eye is we it is we it is we the true is

we it is we

and we are he he the great beginning

master of our energy and soon Master of

the world we are destroying the decadent

gandahar Kingdom of waste and license

the great beginning will destroy

gandahar for what kingdom deserves to

live in peace for mere pleasure and

freedom before the final Annihilation

our delegates will travel over the

circumscribing ocean to prove our

complete submission

contact with the master will renew our

power and our

strength hear me hear me tonight you

must disconnect your faculties until we

Embark long live the master our lives

are

his the great

beginning the final Annihilation the

great beginning he said sounds insane

insane or not he seems serious great

Beginning Sounds like a sword of

God

how can they still

function we have to find some way to

stop them before they become even more

powerful I don't want the complete

submission to be

ours these men of metal had their orders

just as I had

mine their mindless loyalty gave them

strength I almost envied

them

We Exist through your will we carry out

your orders to serve your will the fate

of gandahar lies in your hands and we

will obey your wishes

our attacks have been successful we have

transformed many gandharan and have

delivered them to you in obedience the

civilization of pleasure and freedom

will soon be

gone and now men of metal be ready to

draw strength from the substance of the

great

beginning long live the great

beginning he doesn't talk but they can

hear

him Gods rarely speak what kind of God

wants the to

kill if it knows we're here you'll come

after

us let's

go help be so

l

oh

as we

drifted I felt as if my mind was being

stripped and every thought and memory

was

exposed my training as an agent was

useless

now here in a place where I could keep

no

secrets

well San who or what are you you know

very well are you the great beginning

the god of the metallic carcasses who

idolize

you the the beginning and the ending I

am not their God but you are right they

do idolize me and they do believe I am

their God even though I am not can a god

also be a

murderer if I were what you accuse me of

being why are you alive now I know why

you've come yet I allow you to approach

me and even insult me don't you find

that a bit odd are you or are you not

the leader of the men of metal they

believe I am and when they slaughter

innocent people are they not not obeying

your orders I think they have received

them and sometimes I even believe that

I've given them in this final

Annihilation are you fo or against

it I would find it physically unpleasant

should the men of metal fail yet I don't

wish to see gandahar die no doubt a

Sentimental streak on my part how

admirable yes svan not unlike you you

could say we are

cousins I am the

metamorphous

who are you

AEL so beautiful what's your

name

syv

arel s

irresistible

mysterious

no help sane

around all I did was enter her dreams

and freed them dreams which seem mostly

concerned with you what could you know

of dreams I know exactly what you are a

metamorphosis of

nothing I am what I am then help me you

claim you're from gandahar yet you turn

your back on us the power of the men of

metal comes from you use it to end the

insanity syvan do you think everything

is that simple you act as if you knew

all the answers but no there are

Mysteries which even I must solve the

first being this connection between the

men of metal and myself the connection

which would make their failure

physically unpleasant perhaps it's an

unpleasantness I might even

welcome why had the metamorphis s Us

free was he innocent as he

claimed

and the deformed who had created and

then exiled

them my mission had been to find

answers but I brought back only

questions

oh

sh

that's the end of

you farewell amorphous metamorphis I

hope for

good far be it for me to say I told him

so but the flying Beast and the brain of

the men and metal consist of the same

substance the only

difference seems to be the age of the

cells but the difference is enormous

incomprehensible metamorphis led us to

think he knew nothing he told me

discover the connection metamorphis I

will tell you what the connection is

these killers these monsters are your

children your

creation

sh

a

y

look they keep advancing they're

Invincible they don't have a single

weakness

priority priority ambis extra and the

council to the central laboratory this

is an

emergency priority priority ambis exra

and the council to the central

laboratory this is an

emergency

priority well blor is it good news I'm

afraid not I found this in our

archives Jasper research Department file

276 experiment biological code name

metamorphis the experimental brain

metamorphys is now grown at an

extraordinary Pace within a few days its

volume has almost doubled nevertheless

its faculties are still Gravely inferior

to those of a normal

brain file number 327 code named

metamorphis the huge size of the

metamorphosis has forced us to transport

it from the laboratory onto a platform

we have constructed in the

circumscribing

ocean there its cellular makeup has

quadrupled but most extraordinary is

that it now has developed its own

senses sight touch and still others we

have never before encountered it's

monstrous file number 484 for reasons of

security we must discontinue our

experiments it is impossible to

determine whether this creation can be

destroyed the researchers then dump the

metamorphis into the circumscribing

ocean and the rest is our unwelcome

future those who created it thought they

destroyed it destroyed it and meanwhile

it cells continued to grow and now give

life to the men of metal gandahar then

has worked its own destruction out of

our ignorance and pride we have forged a

deadly

enemy

we can attack at night when they

disconnect themselves I'm afraid that

will be merely a short reprieve the only

solution is to destroy destroy the

source of power the metamorphis wait a

minute why did the metamorphis let me

return look what if he really doesn't

know about his connection to the men of

metal if he truly doesn't want to

destroy us we have a chance I must see

him again what if he won't

listen then I will kill him but

how we don't have any weapon powerful

enough maybe we do I've never tested it

but if it works one injection will be

effective

I

hope

I've been waiting for

you monster you're a

liar didn't you know all along that the

men of metal I know what you're going to

say but the men of metal are my tools I

can't answer that but I know something

you don't they've come from the

future I don't care where they come from

I've seen what they're capable of they

would have us all become heartless

faceless beings bowing to a shapeless

voice I will not let them succeed

foolish little man do you want to solve

the puzzle then put away that useless

syringe and hear what I am telling you

the invasion comes from the

future that's ridiculous impossible you

dare to tell me what is impossible you

know nothing about the continuity of

time about it false perspectives it's

paradoxes its relation to space so

gandahar is the victim of an invasion

which hasn't occurred yet that's absurd

while you smugly argue with what is a

different logic suggests the invasion

continues from the future to the present

oh it's too incredible show me some

proof you've already seen the

proof where the door of time you did not

grasp its

meaning the door of time allows people

to move here from the future from the

future and to the Future both ways like

old dos and you're telling me that the

prisoners inside those eggs are sent to

the future but what for mam morus why

unfortunately I do not yet know the

answer to that question how conveniently

to claim ignorance you should be

familiar with ignorance look here S I

wanted this meting as much as you how do

I know this isn't a trap it will become

a trap for all eternity if you refuse to

trust me I cannot bear the idea ruling a

world consisting solely of an army of

killers I want it to be you that will

overcome me stop me kill me but in a

thousand years why not right now it

takes time to get ready for for death

and you're not capable of killing me now

I'm not vulnerable not yet come back in

a thousand years a thousand years don't

you think I'll be a little old for

battle during the next thousand years

you will go into a long sleep at the

bottom of the ocean on the appointed day

at the appointed hour you will awake

just as you are today strong and

determined you will try to conquer a

metamorphous who has grown old if you

succeed will Ganda not be saved but if I

fail I'll be a prisoner of the future

exiled from my time and separated from

those I love a mere occupational hazard

I'm afraid but you may have the

opportunity to return to the

present there is always a door of

time the

door of

time

still no news from syane we have lost

all contact the council considers San's

mission of failure this decision affects

all of gandahar I'd like to give it more

time I urge you to take action not

yet is there any proof that syane has

failed is there if he'd succeeded the

men of metal would have stopped their

Invasion it's not that

simple

s you must

hurry they won't wait much longer

will we allow ourselves to be destroyed

by these men of metal we must try to

fight back we must try to win win

what our war was will'll be inside

ourselves forever we cannot win we

cannot go to death without a struggle I

understand it is our bodies not our

Wills that are

deformed

oh

we have greater Powers than they

imagin but I fear not for long

a Pity our strengths have their limits

our powers could Aid Jasper Jasper has

never helped

us Jasper they buried us here so they

would not have to think of us they don't

even speak our

name what we never forgot they'll

remember now that we always were and

will be G to

Har

he

no

y

Jasper historical archives entry code

bamor we are without food and water The

Siege is almost

over yet The Bravery and compassion of

my people is

magnificent it is ironic that we should

never have a chance to correct the

scientific irresponsibility of our

past I expect this this will be my final

entry

a

mirror bird s who watch the frontier

save us now lead us away to a distant

Refuge lead us to the peace we sought

here farewell gandar farewell

Sy

in a thousand

years Ganda was destroyed and all its

people

massacred a thousand years ago Ganda

will be saved and what can't be avoided

will

be

I had accomplished

nothing I had understood

nothing and I awoke with nothing to

believe in but the word of my

enemy and his promise of a battle to the

death that thought armed my

revenge

I am here

metamorphous have a thousand years

passed have I awakened at the appointed

hour on the appointed day as you told me

I would I'm here to carry out your

special special

request

what do you

want you were will be Garian I was will

be you were will be my friends San of

gandahar I know you don't I thousand

years

ago could it be we met a thousand years

ago what has

happened a thousand years or one day it

was will be the same once you pass

through the door of

time the stone forming Ray the egg

prisons for the living then the living

transformed into the unliving they

sorted us when we arrived the normal to

one side the monsters to the other we

monsters for once were the lucky ones we

were will be of no use to them they

rejected us just as in Jasper once again

relegated to the

underworld

and what about the others you mean those

who had normal bodies and faces my own

people for once they regretted not being

the same as we they killed all of them

they suffered the worst I cannot bear

telling you but I must know I have to

know everything so I can stop it

all

where are we the city of the men of

metal once the only thing that

surrounded the metamorphis was the ocean

now everything is covered by machines

just as blamar

predicted only the door of time remains

just as it

was

that generator robs Garian of their

livingness and sends their energy to the

metamorphous to keep him

alive I have to knowe everything that

happened

here it's the only way I can prevent it

from ever

happening

I have to understand even

this there is no understanding so

horrific and such an

absurdity but to the metamorphous this

[ __ ] is somehow necessary if a thousand

years have passed perhaps his cells no

longer reproduce he must need fresh

cells from others in order to survive

and the stone for forming Ray the egg

prisons the door of time are all part of

a system to preserve those cells they

remain intact until

needed so you see the men of metal go

through the door of time to invade the

past to attack and destroy gandahar all

this is the work of the metamorphous and

what will you do if this metamorphous

was will be now a machine like all

things here everything has a beginning

and an ending if and machines our

special powers have been will be able to

tell

us I wonder if some of these stolen

cells of the metamorphis haven't

died

or or have become fossilized by some

strange aberation people know all about

apparation the cells hardened so the

metamorphous hardened with age

this is why he wanted me to kill him he

foresaw this he wanted you to kill him

but does he still what if he says he

never made this agreement we have no

other

choice you were will be the first of

your kind to befriend us we will help

you we must first cut off the energy

Supply from the generator without that

he was will be weak

we

huh

what

let me handle

this he's waiting for me should I

accompany you no it's a personal matter

he asked me to kill

him

n

n

metamorphous now are you ready to die

your task is impossible we mustn't

Rejoice too soon the these old cells of

mine will be replaced by fresh ones on

through Infinity

eternity and you must kill for

eternity you've become what you told me

you feared the most it's a very

practical system you once said I want

you to overcome me in a thousand years I

never made such a ridiculous statement

has time robbed you of your memory Time

Has

Changed

nothing I've come to kill you

at the special request of a metamorphous

who once was lucid all the wisdom of

Jasper in that tiny syringe remember I

too am the product of their research

let's see if that needle works why not

try it on

yourself

perception

painting what an Abrupt

Stillness how

still

silence finally

silence

fatigue a long

sleep

no more

pain men of metal attention men of metal

destroy the door of time do as I

order why is the pain

returning

everything is in

disorder why is it

evil

no please don't leave me don't abandon

me I to I'm from

gondal help

me wait for

me

what good is it to have killed a

metamorphis gone to hars in

Ruins Are My People turned to stone or

somewhere in the future what can't be

avoided yes the

prophecy the future

returns

a thousand years ago gandahar will be

saved and what can't be avoided will

be

oh

a

he

a

oh

he