An Ton's Journey

As Anton looked at Borg spheres preparations to jump, all around the world, chains were coming out of the planet.

The more chains appeared, the lower sea level became. Unknowingly to everyone, chains that were connected to Anton's body were glowing subtly.

All the chains that were rushing at spheres moved at speeds so fast, that not even one sphere had time to enter the portal.

The problem was the sheer amount of Spheres that were separating from the cubes and attempting to create a tunnel below the cracked shield.

At one point, couple of seconds after it all began, one chain appeared below Anton and pulled him by hus chains right into the Borg Sphere, into the enemy's ship.

Anton, didn't have time to evade, even as he felt that something is coming through the Force.

Inside the ship, He activated his armor, covered it in haki, and hovered using passive psi energy output. The moment he began hovering, he heard sounds of teleportation and felt that borg appeared everywhere around him.

Attempting to warp out, he was stopped by the shield that sprung around him. After it appeared, Anton. began using psi storm that released intense lightning at the shield from inside, damaging it. After seeing that it worked, he began smashing the damaged and weakened place with his hands while casting spells when his hand was retrieved back to gather strength.

As shield git destroyed, he attempted to warp out again, but it didn't work again. As he understood that, he evaded many phaser, laser, plasma and other types of shots in his direction released by humanoid Borg that surrounded him from all sides, while sphere's insides were morphing and closing the zone from all sides, so Anton wouldn't escape with piece of system inside him.

It didn't take a lot of time fir him to realise that he had to get out immediately and not care about getting shot at.

As he was hovering just above the floor, he began accelerating in the direction from which he came from that was closing in rapidly. Breaking through the dog-like ȧssimilated, throwing anyone else aside, as it was the fastest way to get through them, he used his physical strength, haki and all other energy to break the walls while they were getting sealed.

As for magic, he used it to attack, as psi energy was not really effective against masses of enemies even by using psi storm with it's random discharges. Magic, on the other hand used energy to create physical or chemical reactions that were effective against them, so Anton, after his shield was breaking after couple of minutes of receiving shots, used abilities that wouldn't need to affect the target by magic itself, like "fiendfire". One of the strongest fire spells in his arsenal, one that used fire to burn everything.

The sad thing is, it didn't really help him, just like "bombarda Maxima" and other stuff like that that required contact for spell to activate.

Fire is an energy too, so it died down by getting absorbed by shields of Borg.

Anton's armor, unlike his shield, was unable to hold for a long time, and after receiving couple of shots, it got damaged.

You might ask: What about his storage and weapons stored inside?

Well, Anton tried, but shooting a weapon that gets destroyed under the barrage of shots from everywhere is hard.

As he began getting shot at his body, after his psi energy based shield got depleted with all his psi energy in half an hour, Anton began thinking that these spheres were much bigger than he anticipated. Every wall took a lot of time to break through, as it was pretty durable and every single one of them had shield.

As for why he didn't try to use tunnels? Well... there were no tunnels opened for him, so he had to break himself out.

After another ten minutes, as he got tired and had problems with using Haki, he had only his physical body and force in his repertoire. As for why he still didn't use force for a fight? He was saving it for the emergency, knowing that it was a special energy type that was not really stopped by anything, especially as he already used it to test his theory. And yes, borg shields allowed it to move through.

As Anton ripped his way through another wall while getting stings from all the shots that were shot at him, he realised that he was in a pretty big room, filled with some kind of vehicles and mounted guns that were pointing at him.

" Fuck " Was all Anton had time to say, before a barrage from big sized plasma turrets bored a hole through his flesh, getting stopped by the bones, melting all the flesh that he had on his body.

As all that was happening, The same spheres were dropping parts of their ships that were connected to the chains, before these chains could have time to spread throughout the whole ship.

Unlike any other sphere, the one with Anton was getting away from the battlefield without attempts to continue fighting.

As it spent around an hour to separate all the parts that were linked or connected to chains, it lifted off and approached the border of the planetary shield.

But, the moment it began trying to pass through it, it stopped. The one in control of this sphere noticed that Anton was locked by these annoying ethereal chains and they were slowing sphere down and almost pushed locked specimen out of the ship.

As the battle wad not going in favour of protectors, it was deemed fit that the captured Anton was worth the destroyed borg, so all the Spheres stopped trying to warp back in time and capture him without losing so much.

Especially by the beings fighting outside.

But, as their main mission is accomplished, Spheres began returning to the cubes, eventually combining into bigger cubes that surrounded the [ Very Important Prisoner ] so he would get ȧssimilated.

Some were accidentally killed by random energy strand from The big boys fighting, some from overly unlucky or big shots.

Mainly, no Borg appeared on the inside of the underwater bases, as they were covered by shield, water, and had no way to be approached except by digging through the land or swimming through the water.

Sadly, water level lowered significantly as chains were released by the planet, stopping the borg from travelling through time. Chains, after they fell back to the land with dropped pieces of ships, began slowly dissolving, becoming either water steam or seawater, slowly refilling the world back.

After a week from Anton's capture, Two big beings still fought, sometimes crashing into the planet or shield, leaving huge dents or craters depending on situation.

As for Anton, he was currently unconscious and Borg tried to get inside his skull, where system's piece was situated. Thankfully, Anton's skull was completely incased by the bone, or at least no hole was big enough for the piece to get through. Teleporting it out didn't work too.

Anton's bones, after his travel through the depths and being covered be chains for a long time were so strong, while being unusually lightweight, that nothing was able to destroy it fast enough, as bones were regenerating and pushing any physical tools out. As for energy tools, they just were not fast enough.

That could've been bypassed by their protector, but he was busy. It also might've been bypassed by using some ingenious or interesting idea, but Borg were not really known for their broadmindness. They were not really inventors. They were just a bunch of thieves under control of old ȧssimilated beings.

After a month from Anton's capture, outer shield broke down and only broken pieces were hovering above, while the planet itself was damaged beyond belief, volcanoes covering the surface, dust covering the skies and sea's surface freezing over.

As mood for everyone below the seas was either somber or grim, they still hoped that they would be left alone.

On the one base that was damaged upon invasion, main battle was happening, as it was the only accessible directly from the tunnels, making it vulnerable and easily findable.

Other bases, thankfully, were covered by seawater that negated any technological way of finding them, so Borg just invaded through the tunnels and began searching for survivors.

As weeks passed, Borg chipped and ripped parts of Anton's body to research.

The problematic part of containment was a need to continuously keep Anton immovable and unconscious. Using stasis didn't fully work, but before consciousness returned to him, his body was burned again, keeping him immovable as others try to open his skull and extract the system.

They didn't know that it was just a small piece of it, but even small piece could lead them to their master's goal.

In the next few weeks, as planet was getting more and more devastated and sea was freezing more and more, crevices began appearing all around the world.

They were deep and were getting bigger and deeper with every passing day. No one could understand their appearance, but all the bases were being reinforced and encased in metal, in case water would get through or crevices appear below the cities.

Sadly, two towns were lost that way, falling down into them, while all citizens either dead or warped out to other towns.

Borg found one more City in last few weeks, but it was not surprising.

What was surprising is that all this information was available inside the cave I'm currently in.

I know that I created it just to be absolutely safe, digging with force below the second earth layer, where pressure could destroy my unprotected body previously.

It was just last precaution, as I doubted that my other safehouses could get destroyed.

But, looking at it now, I'm glad that I spent literally months to dig it out, I suffered a lot, but this stone that surrounded me, is so dense and durable, that I think calling it stone would be inappropriate.

Well, as I read through the logs, I realized that they just stopped at one point. No final messages, no information why I was here, only memories of being trapped and feeling it all through the force, and body that lacked any flesh on it.

Yep, I am currently a skeleton that was bȧrėly able to read logs through the force and it's innate possibility to connect to technology.

I was bȧrėly able to move myself with force, but my situation was much more dire than it appears to be right now.

Currently, I only know that my storage is destroyed, it is practically cracked and only a semblance of it's existence could be felt by me. My bones, that could not be broken through by the Borg were cracked and were not healing at the intended speed, I felt that some kind of temporary bone structure formed to keep me complete.

My currently skeletal body oozed strange energy from cracks, and no matter what I tried in the last week of reading and remembering, I couldn't get rid of it.

At first, I thought that muscles would grow to support the broken skeleton that I currently had, but no. After two weeks, I felt that my body didn't even attempt it. It didn't have necessary bone marrow or blood cells to replicate.

My brain, encased inside the skull that looked cracked all over, but still being stronger than many metals, was not enough to replicate flesh. It was enough to replicate eyes, as they were connected to the brain, but the problem was that they were falling out of sockets, so I had to either make something or hold them manually.

Obviously, as nerves were not completely recreated, I could bȧrėly see, and my sight was even more limited than force feeling.

You might ask : But you have insane regeneration capabilities!!! How could you be in such a situation?

Answer is pretty simple. The energy that is oozing out of my cracks is not just sitting and oozing there. It is attempting to corrode and destroy me, and no matter what, I couldn't stop this natural reaction if my body or scoop out that energy and throw it out.

Don't even mention about cutting out pieces of my skeleton. This energy was not just on the cracks, it was just spilling out of them.

As for warping out? It was not really plausible. I had no connection to any other pylon or something like that.

The only other place I had access to was other room in this safehouse. Thankfully it was emergency storage for other people that should've been transported there, but no one except me survived it seems. At least I don't know about any survivor.

Let's see... I mean feel. My sight was not really the best, and those dangling eyeballs that were dangling on nerves were not really helping.

As for what was in a stash?

Food dispenser that was made to create food out of a material that I always called sludge, as it resembles it, basically public version of replicator with limited functions.

Couple of suits that would adapt to the size if a being, as OP had huge variety of important people that could be saved in here.

A house. Built inside the 'stone'.

Weapons. Not many.

Medical room with pre-installed scanning feature.

And some other miscellaneous stuff.

It was not really created for me, as I hav... HAD a storage that had everything I could ever need... Now, it was just a broken space that I could feel.

Laying down onto the medical table that scanned me immediately, I received confirmation that no bone marrow existed inside me.

And as my memories were still restoring, I decided to just lock my eyeballs so that I would stop feeling disoriented.

I had enough of that, as for the first week I couldn't even remember that I had another room in here, in the distance, connected only by warping.

Thankfully, this stone was durable. Also, resistance to the force and any other energy influence might've saved this place from getting destroyed.

Why would it be destroyed? I don't really know. I just know that it was luck and resistance of the 'stone'.

Ugh. ok.

I will stop.

It's enough with explanation of my situation.

Let's make some eyesockets for me.

Using some metal plates, I formed them to fit eyeballs and crudely placed them in my eyesockets that were supposed to be enough.

But, as they still were always trying to fall out, I wore glasses that were tightly enclosing my eyes.

After that, wearing a suite was not necessary, but it would protect me in case of someone seeing a walking, or more correctly, hovering skeleton.

What helped me the most in my current situation, was magic and force.

Magic allowed me to morph anything I had into things I needed, like more comfortable and turnable eyesockets.

What U found out though, my psi energy was no longer usable outside the body, as it was constantly fighting the energy that invaded my skeleton.

Yep, I was no longer in control of most of my magic too, so I was limited in it too.

Thankfully, I still was able to use small thongs with either psi or magic.

Haki, unlike them, was usable... but useless for my current situation.

Force, just like always, untouched and perfect.

So, I hovered using all Available psi energy. Sensed the world with force and eyes, and wad slowly making myself comfortable.

Next thing to do - fix cracks in the wall that let all the air out of this room. Yep, there are no air in here, and my eyes are not really affected. Especially after all I've been through.

Looking at everything positively is the only thing that keeps me from just laying down and wait until I die or heal, without even trying to do anything.

As I was beginning to fall into almost inevitable spiral of bad thoughts, I felt that the direction in which I was moving changed, just like the speed.

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thank you for reading and enjoy if you can.

Slow release rate is bad. I know.

But, it is inevitable.

;)

Unless I will get motivated in one way or another.