As Ionia entered the doorway to her house, she put her left hand to her face. Her holographic mask she used to disguise her appearance vanished, Her pale visage, silver eyes and silver gray hair were revealed. Her cousin greeted her. The girl was 5'9", had white wavy hair, a normal skin tone, and one again silver eyes. She wore modern style Victorian fashion. Ionia smiled at the girl. "Dearest Carla, are you ready to see our family legacy?" The girl responded. "yes. I have my suitcase packed. When are we going to the airport?" Ionia chuckled: "Hehheh. Silly girl, we are going through no airport. Very primitive. Come to my room and we will get started." The girl raised an eyebrow. "Wait really?" Ionia smiled at her cousin. Yes really. When she first freed the girl from the U.N.S.E.A prison facility and brought her home, she gave only two orders: Firstly, she was only to go out with her holographic mask on, and second never go into her room. She knew Carla respected her and tried no such thing because she would have received an alert. As she opened the door, Karla was surprised to see that the room looked relatively normal. On Ionia's bed were 2 briefcases. One was platinum, and one was gold colored. Ionia: "Put your hands on my shoulder Carla." The girl did as she was told. Then on the side of the platinum briefcase, what appeared to be a touch screen showing a map appeared. Ionia pressed a location in the red sea, and suddenly, light filled the room. Then she and Carla found themselves in an arena sized complex with a stone ceiling. Carla whistled. Ionia spoke, "Carla welcome to our ancient legacy. This is the hidden under sea temple of the Clan of Understanding, we who sealed the gods!"
As Carla took it all in, an ancient looking robot approached the two and spoke: "IDENTITY CONFIRMED: MISTRESS IONIA ALLARD, WELCOME BACK." The robot let out a beam of light from its visor, scanning Carla. "GENETIC ANALYSIS CONFIRMED. CLAN MEMBER AND NO MERE GUEST. WHAT IS THY NAME MISTRESS?" The girl spoke: "Carla. Carla Von-Vega." The machine spoke again: "WELCOME MISTRESS CARLA VON VEGA. AS THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME HERE WOULD YOU LIKE A TOUR OF THE COMPLEX?" Ionia spoke, "That wont be necessary Servant 01. I will be giving her a tour. But if you could activate the holographic immersion devices, that would be good. I wish to teach her our history. Start from the beginning." Suddenly holograms filled the room.
Ionia spoke again. "This is just the top of the complex. There are 42 floors all this big, and the go all the way down to the top of the Earths mantle. We are actually at the lowest point in the red sea at the moment." Carla watched as a holographic image appeared on screen. Ionia: "Well we should start from the beginning. Our two most ancient ancestors came from Europe and Africa respectively. Many think they are just stories or myths, but they were real. Their names were, King Arthur Pendragon, and Yakub." The holograms showed an image of a blonde haired blue eyed bearded man wearing a crown, as well as a big headed man who appeared to be from the horn of Africa appeared.
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Carla raised her eyebrow, very puzzled. "Yakub who the NOI claims created white people?" Ionia let out a jovial laugh. "A game of telephone gone wrong. He made clones of himself, and they were white skinned so they could always tell who the original was. All the races of man always existed though love. That aside, the clan was actually created when their children decided to marry. Arthur's son, and Yakub's daughter respectively. The reason these legends came about in the modern era was because someone discovered them and decided to make them into stories and fill the gaps. However, they obviously missed much. You will see it later, but Excalibur, his legendary sword? It is always portrayed as a claymore, but it is in fact an energy blade. And the stone it was sealed in? The original piece of the Spiritanium rock to fall to Earth. And by the way, this all happened about 14,000 years ago dear."
Carla looked very interested now. Ionia smiled and said "Before we continue, I wish to show you this." From the platinum briefcase screen, a light appeared. In Ionia's hands was a clip board sized clear sheet. "These are my plans for humanity," she said as she handed it to Carla. After scrolling and reading it for three minutes, the girl gasped. Then smiled. Ionia matched her. Carla spoke: "Why cousin, this is absolutely dreadful. I love it!" Ionia: "I knew you would. Now lets continue the tour."
Their footsteps echoed in the long empty hallways as the continued towards a stone circle in the middle. Carla: "I can't wait to see the weapon room!" Ionia. "In time cousin. First we must alter the Spirit Agitating Nanites I created. They descended several floors and came to another empty hallway. More servant robots like Servant 01 were in this room, doing menial tasks to keep this ancient complex afloat. In this vast empty room, were completely black screens on the stone wall, the size of small houses. In front of these windows were altars. Ionia: "Welcome to the Extra Dimensional Observatory! On the left, these windows peer into the Over Worlds. Heaven, Orun, Elysium. On the right, these windows peer into Under Worlds. And the windows in the back connect to dimensions that are neutral and have nothing to do with the deities or demons generally. And this is where we are going." They walked to the back center screen. Ionia opened the gold briefcase, and presented of vials of S.A.N.S. The window flashed white, and showed lines, math symbols, and numbers. Carla looked amazed. "Wow! I feel an energy?" Ionia: "This is the math dimension. The 'numbers' here can be translated to real phenomena. Including experience. And this is how the Soul-Borgs I make will catch up to Ameer's damn near instantly. The alter lit up and the vials began to glow. Ionia spoke. "We will be getting to our actual vacation after these have bathed in the energy for about 2 hours. Now, let us continue the tour." They walked away, as the vials continued to glow.
