It was the morning an hour before the update. The citadels were in an uproar — most of them at least. In under an hour they would be able to explore the vastness of the universe and find other lifeforms, but that is not what has them all riled up. In under an hour, the other lifeforms could find them, hidden in the darkness and shade of planets.
The citadel of Teddys was preparing a welcoming party for all their new friends and singing.
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"We work and we love and we live for each other~!" Hundreds of Teddys were singing, the whole citadel was filled with noise.
Captain Teddy was up on the bridge and shouting commands at the other Teddys, not because Captain Teddy was mean or anything, she was a sweetheart, but because the singing was so loud that she had to shout.
"Everything ready?" She shouted: "The rockets filled up and are the coordinates set?"
Pilot Teddy shouted back: "Yes, captain Teddy." She saluted with a smile decorating her cute lips. "Everything is set and ready to go."
"Fantastic." Captain Teddy whispered. She turned her gaze out the laser window into the deepness and darkness of space.
Before them — Captain Teddy, Pilot Teddy and all those Teddys manning the bridge — they saw the vastness of the universe. The beautiful colors of the many different galaxies awaiting their arrival. It was a picture to behold.
With a heavy sigh and a bow to the rest of her crew Captain Teddy walked on to the elevator to exit the bridge. She went down to the lower districts, filled with deadly fumes and half broken pipes making sounds which are not very reassuring that the ship will last very long.
The lower districts were usually left alone on command from Captain Teddy, so it was rather empty. A few noises made by living creatures could be heard by the captain. Those noises were made by a creature the captain kept down there.
Captain Teddy walked down a dark and smelly corridor. Besides her one could imagine rats and mice scurrying around, but there were none. Besides the Teddys there was only one other creature on the citadel.
Captain Teddy hurried around a few corners, drawing out a pattern which opened up a secret passageway. Hurrying into the passage before it closed she started walking slowly again.
After half a minute she stopped in front of a ginormous cage. She stared into the darkness waiting for the creature to wake up. "Wake up, please." She said with a stern voice: "You should be awake now, we may need you to protect us in an hour."
Suddenly there was a loud dragging noise, as if something huge dragged its own body behind themselves. "You do not own me." It said in a dark and menacing tone.
Captain Teddy could just barely make out a head staring at her out of the darkness.
"You are nothing. This world was made for them, not you." It said and cackled.
Captain Teddy furrowed her brow: "Who are them?" Her question echoed through the dark halls. The creature cackled even louder and Captain Teddy started shouting: "Who are THEM?" Her hand banged against the walls.
The cackling grew fainter as Captain Teddy turned around and stormed towards the exit as the creature spoke again: "Even if I wanted to protect you from them, every citadel has one of my kind and they have hundreds of me. You are doomed." And with those words echoing through the halls Captain Teddy left the secret passageway, closing the doors behind her, not to be found by anyone but her.
Once Captain Teddy had reached the bridge once more, she had put on her usual smile.
"Everything is ready and the countdown is almost at zero." One of the Teddys told her.
All of their eyes — the eyes of those on the bridge and the eyes of every Teddy on board the citadel — was glued to the countdown.
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INITIATING UPDATE
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There was a lot happening on the citadels which contained living Teddys. They were alive and preparing to make new friends throughout the universe with all the other citadels.
On the citadels containing the 2 main reasons for this simulation — citadel 6 and citadel 7 — they were getting ready. The citadel with a little below fifty thousand lukas clones was preparing their engines and trying to find weapons anywhere hidden, as they had been too lazy and stupid to prepare anything, all they did was push it further and further into the future each day. And now it is too late.
Citadel 7 — containing one hundred thousand max clones — was preparing their shields and camouflage system, which they developed over the entire year, as humans get tired and the citadel is ginormous.
They outfitted the citadel with hexagonal plates which they could flip over at any given point in time. One side of each plate was a giant mirror, while the other side was made of a new material which they just called steel+. It was only a little bit more robust and sturdy than regular steel.
The Max clones did not trust anything outside their citadel, well, they did not even truly trust each other. Once they would be able to move, their plan is to hide in the asteroid belt closest to the center of the universe they were in and just watch what happens.