{"sf1_id":774633,"sf2_id":null,"title":"?Exodus - Chapter two: The truth","author":"TauMaxim","words":2895,"posted_at":"2014-10-28T14:11:00.000Z","tags":["Canine","Feline","Husky","Mammal","Tau Maxim","Tiger"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/774633-exodus-chapter-two-the-truth","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/774633","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=774633\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Exodus\n \nChapter two: The truth\n \nTime till fist contact: 9\ndays, 5 hours and 45 minutes. The world was still oblivious to the message sent\nby an, at this moment, unknown presence. No one knew if it was organic, hostile\nor friendly. But one thing was clear. This will change the world for ever.\n\"What was so important that you had to drag us out here?\" Boris grumbled as he\nwalked by Tau on his aircraft carrier. \"Yeah, we were in the middle of\nsomething when we were called in\" Elizabeth grumbled as well as she stretched a\nbit. They were both wearing their special suits, as they walked towards a\nhelicopter. \"Will you quit whining already\" Tau grumbled as he knew perfectly\nwell what they were doing. \"Although I appreciate a good fuck as much as the\nnext one, one of these days you two are going to traumatize Kathalina...\" he\ncontinued as he got into the chopper. The two followed close behind and just\nchuckled as their gazes met. \"She'll be fine. She's been through worse\" Boris\nchuckled, but then cleared his throat and asked what was nagging him from the\nstart. \"What's going on Tau? You seem on edge, the people close to you seem on\nedge, and we're on a chopper about to take off from your aircraft carrier in\nthe middle of the Pacific Ocean? I don't think we're here to do some fishing\nand get some R\u0026R\" he asked as he looked at the feline sitting across him.\n\"Yeah Tau\" Elizabeth added \"You're on edge even for your usual slightly\nparanoid self... What's up?\" and moved to readjust herself s the chopper took\noff.\n \n\"It's not as simple as just\ntelling you two what's going on\" Tau said in a low voice as he seemed to be\nlost in his thoughts. \"This is far beyond you, or even me. And to talk too much\nabout it in an unsecured place is out of the question\" he continued as he went\nsilent once again. Boris and Elizabeth just looked at each other as they were a\nbit confused. But they said nothing more as well, and the rest of the journey\nwent in silence. \"Sir, we're approaching the border\" one of the pilots finally\nbroke the awkward silence. \"Good, get us low to the ocean surface\" Tau replied\nas he shifted in his seat, obviously more than a little nervous about the\nentire situation. \"You okay boss?\" Boris asked him as she placed a paw on his\nshoulder. \"I'm fine!\" Tau snarled as he shoved his paw away. Both of them\nflinched at that reaction, and Boris couldn't help but to bare his fangs a\nlittle. \"Sorry... sorry\" Tau murmured out as he went back into his thought.\n\"What's the matter with you Tau? Eli was right when she said you're even more\non edge that usual?\" Boris as ked as he looked at the troubled feline. \"I think\nit's time I told you two something... But this never leaves, anywhere,\nunderstood?\" he said as he looked out the window, and found at least some\ncomfort in the endless blue of the ocean. \"You know you can trust us Tau. My\ndad's been with you since, well... since you took him in. And you saved me and my\nfamily, or at least helped with it\" Elizabeth tried to comfort and reassure Tau\na bit.\n \n\"It's not that simple\nElizabeth. This has tremendous consciences behind it.\" Tau said in a low voice\nonce again. \"But I guess it is the time that you two found out about this...\" he\nsighed as he rubbed the ridge of his snout. \"It has to do with you as well, and\nthe suits you're wearing, and with the blood flowing through your veins. Again,\nthis does no...\" he started to explain as the pilot cu t him short \"Sir, we're\napproaching the landing point. We'll need you to open the passage\" \"Wait, what\npassage?\" Boris asked as he looked out the windows, trying to spot anything.\n\"Yeah, there's only ocean around us, there's nothing here\" Elizabeth added as\nshe too looked out, trying to spot anything resembling a tunnel of sorts. \"As\nobservant as ever I see\" Tau actually chuckled a bit. \"But you failed to notice\nthat this isn't a regular chopper\" he said as he pulled down a pane of smart\nglass. A few moments later, what appeared to be a log in screen appeared on it.\nA few laser scanners scanned his face, and he spoke \"Tau Maxim\" What appeared\nto be a female human face appeared on the glass and spoke out in a fairly\nrobotic voice. \"Mr. Maxim, it has been a while. To what do I owe the pleasure\nof hearing your voice?\" it asked as it turned\naround to look at Elizabeth and Boris. \"And you must be Boris and Elizabeth. A\npleasure to meet you, finally\" it continued as Tau interrupted it. \"Open up the\npassage SACS, we'll have time to talk later\" The pilots stopped the chopper,\nand hovered it over the ocean surface while they were talking. \"Hands free,\nshe's all yours SACS\" the pilots said as they let go of the controls. \"Please\ndo not touch the controls and try to remain calm\" SACS said as something quite\nunbelievable happened. The helicopter started to descend, but it never hit\nwater. \"What the?\" Elizabeth and Boris yelped at the same time as they saw the\nocean starting to part in a square. \"Please remain calm. There is nothing to be\nafraid off\" SACS said again as they started their descent into the darkness of\nthe ocean. \"What the hell is going on here?\" Boris growled a bit as he looked\naround.\n \n\"This is why I called you\ntwo here. You two are going to be among the select few that know of this place,\nand that have had the privilege to visit it.\" Tau said as he folded the smart\nglass back up into the ceiling of the chopper. \"We're descending into the most\nsecret place on Earth. What you'll see here... let's just say be prepared for it\"\nhe continued as the two finally started to calm down a bit. But in that moment,\nthey both gripped their heads and screamed out in pain. Their heads were spinning\nand they were almost on the verge of passing out, when the strange feeling went\naway. \"What the fuck was that!!??\" Boris snarled, and immediately SACS said in\na plain robotic voice. \"Please do not hold this against me Reaper, but syncing\nwith your nanexes is necessary. Everyone in this base has one, and it is\ncrucial to the base's operation\" They went deeper and deeper, and there was\nalmost no more sunlight when they started to slow down their descent. \"Please\nprepare for landing\" SACS said as a loud metallic sound echoed through the\nhelicopter. Metal walls soon appeared instead of the water ones, and they\nlanded with a gentle thud. The engines shut off as they waited for the doors\nabove them to close and seal shut. \"Wait... everyone on this base has this\nthing?\" Elizabeth asked as she shook her head a bit, getting rid of the last of\nthe sickness caused by the merging.\n\"I thought that this was top edge tech, still in development? And...\" she\ncontinued as she looked at Tau. \"That means you have one as well!\" Boris huffed\nout a bit louder as he leaned in towards Tau. \"I thought that you were against\naugmenting your body! That's why you wanted me to try it out first. I would do it myself, but I can't bring\nmyself to modify my body, not after how I ended up this way. Remember\nthat?!\" Boris snarled a bit louder this time. \"I lied, yes. You were never in\nany danger in the first place, if it makes it any better. But it had to be\ndone. At the time I didn't know what I was dealing with...\" Tau explained but was\ncut short by SACS again. \"That is an understatement Mr. Maxim. To say you had\nvery little idea about what you were doing would be like saying that an ameba\nhas a basic understanding of quantum mechanics\" which managed to defuse the\nsituation a bit as Elizabeth chuckled a bit. \"Nice computer. Who did you get to\nwrite the dialog?\" she asked as the started to get out of the chopper. \"Since\nyou are new here, I will not take offence. I am a fully functioning AI\" SACS\nsaid, and it almost seemed that it was offended. \n \n\"SACS, Self Aware Computer\nSystem\" A scientist said as she approached them. She was a fennec fox, with\nlong ears and a bushy tail, much like Kathalina. \"Hmm, well hello there\" Boris\nmurred as he was taken away a bit by her, and for the time being, forgot about\nthe argument. \"Please, you're not my type\" the fennec pushed him aside as she\nwalked to Tau. \"It's been a while cat. I thought you said you'd come around\nmore. But you've been away more and more\" she grumbled as she tapped her foot\non the ground. \"It's always a pleasure to see you again Jessica. Sometimes I\nwish I made you my little play thing after you asked me to transform you as a\nfavor\" he purred and rubbed her cheek. She brushed his paw aside, and handed\nhim a page of smart paper and pointed to it with a stylus pen. \"Sign here, here\nand here. We need some more money and a few more test subjects. Oh, and my\nname's Jessica Riley. Head scientist on this base. Please don't touch anything\nthat seems important... scratch that. Don't touch anything\" she said as she took\nback the paper Tau signed. \n \nAfter she walked away, and\nleft them alone for the time being, Elizabeth grumbled \"Well, she's a ray of\nsunshine isn't she?\" Elizabeth grumbled as she slapped her father on his snout.\n\"You have a plaything already, and me. So quit it\" she chuckled lightly as she\nstretched a bit. The fennec came back a short time later, and stood in front of\nthem. \"So, you two are the result of my research hmm? I've read some of the\nreports....\" She said as she shook her head. \"And?\" Boris asked as he looked over\nher body. \"And... I'm disappointed. You two are reckless, and I'm surprised that\nyou're still alive. And you managed to almost destroy the suits a couple of\ntimes, which I'm not even mad about...\" she grumbled as she flicked one of her\nlarge ears. \"Now now, play nice Jessica\" Tau murred lightly. \"Let the kids have\ntheir fun. Besides, they proved themselves more than once\" he continued as he\npeted her on her head. \"You know I don't like it when you do that\" she said\nannoyed and moved out of the way. \"Now, if you would follow me please\" she said\nas she turned around and started walking towards the security bulkhead. \"Why\nare we here again?\" Elizabeth asked as she followed the fennec. \"I presume that\nyou're here for her\" the fennec said\nas the doors closed behind them. \"Who's she?\" Boris asked as he was a bit\npissed off at this point. Tau had lied to him, he didn't know where he was or\nwhy he is there, and to top it all of, he's being bossed around by a stuck up\nfennec. \n \n\"She is why you two exist.\nShe is the reason why this place exists\" Tau said as the other side of the\nairlock penned, revealing what seemed to be a reception area. \"Who is she?\" they both asked at the same time\nas they approached the middle of the room. A hologram of the entire base\nappeared in front of them, revealing just how big the facility was. \"Is this\nreal?\" Elizabeth gasped as she saw the hologram. \"Yes it is\" SACS said as its\nhead appeared by the hologram. \"Mr. Maxim poured a lot of money into this\nfacility. It is a small city in its own right.\" It continued to explain. \"And she is... well, I think it would be better\nif you saw her\" it said as the bottom\ncorners of a corridor lit up lightly with a green light. \"This way please\"\nJessica said as she flicked through a few things on her piece of smart paper.\nThey all walked down the lit path, and brushed past quite a few people. Form\nwhat seemed like janitors, to technicians and doctors. \"How much did you put\ninto this place boss?\" Boris asked as he looked around. Corridor after\ncorridor, room after room went by as they continued to walk. And judging by the\nholo-map, it seemed that they were going to the middle of the complex. \nAnd, after a while, they\nfinally got to it. It was a large dome like room. In the middle of it, was a\nlarge cylinder shape and in it, there was something that loosely resembled a\njet fighter. \n \n\"Is this it? This is all the\nfuss is about? A crashed jet?\" Boris almost snarled out as he got close to the\nballs. On it, SACS's face appeared and said in its cold, robotic voice. \"This\nis no normal jet. But since you said that, I assume that Tau hasn't shown you\nyet\" it said and an oscilloscope screen appeared on the glass. \"Greetings. We are here to greet you on\nbehalf of the galactic...\" the same recording that Tau listened to a few\nhours ago started playing. \"You see, we're not alone in this galaxy. We are\nonly a small part of it, an insignificant part of it to be exact.\" Jessica said\nas she looked into through the glass. \"Every large country has its own UFO\nsecrets. The US has Roswell, the Russians have their Incident 1, the Chinese have the Origin project, and I could o on and on and on.\" \"Wait? So you're\ntelling me that we knew about alien life all this time and no one said a word\nabout it?\" Elizabeth asked as she stepped closer to the glass. \"But where do we\ncome in? Wait, don't tell me...\" she gasped as she looked into the cockpit of the\nweird jet. \"Is that?\" she yipped a bit, and before Tau or Jessica could answer,\nSACS stepped in. \"Yes, that is the nano suit you're wearing. Or to put it more\ncorrectly, you're wearing a cheap knock off, while the suit it's designed on is\nin there. You two also have her to\nthank for your genetic makeup. You see, even though Mr. Maxim is quite the\nextraordinary mind, he still could not replicate the effects of her genome.\" It explained briefly. \"So\nwe're the product of some experiment to try and reverse engineer some kind of\nalien tech?!\" Elizabeth yelled out a she turned to Tau. He, to put it simply,\nslapped her across her snout, and managed to knock her to the floor. \"Hey!\"\nBoris yelled out as he went to punch Tau in his face. But he stopped an inch\naway from making contact as he snarled out \"What the fuck!?\" \"I do apologies\nReaper, but I cannot allow you to harm Mr. Maxim. Please calm down, this is no\ntime to be upset\" SACS said as she moved Boris back a few steps. \"What the hell\nis going on here?!\" he snarled in response as he tried to moved on his own, but\nto no avail. \"Don't fight it, SACS's controlling you through the nanex. It's\nuseless to fight it, so just calm down and shut up. If you would have listened,\nyou would have heard that who, whatever contacted us is going to make itself\nknown to the whole world on the 30th of August, at noon Greenwich\nMean Time, somewhere in Switzerland. We do not have time for your tantrums...\"\nJessica said as she walked around the cylinder. \"Wait what? You mean aliens are\ngoing to come and, land? In Switzerland?\" Elizabeth asked as she whipped some\nblood from her snout. \n \n\"Yes. Look, I'm sorry that I\nhad to lie to you, but it was necessary. When I found this deep in the Siberian\ntundra, a race against the clock started. Nothing so advanced would be lost\nforever, and it was just a matter of time when we'd make first contact. That\ntime has come, and I'm sad to say, I'm nowhere near where I wanted to be when\nthis day would come. Now, if you'd be ready to put aside your emotions, I'd\nlike to make this situation at least a bit better. Yes, you're gene tweaks are\nthe product of her there, and your\nsuits too. This whole facility is able to operate because of the lucky find I\nmade all that time ago. Even SACS is based on what we found in the onboard\ncomputer. Now, if you wouldn't mind\" Tau said as he pointed towards another\ncorridor. Elizabeth and Boris looked at themselves \"We don't really have a\nchoice... But I'll beat your ass when this is over\" Boris huffed out as he was\nfinally able to move again."}