Dream Time - SuperJer Forum

aaronjer
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2005 Mar 21 • 4940
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It'd think you would want to avoid going the direction those signs indicated. I mean, they were made of wood and everything! Pretty scary.

I suppose I could recount what little I remember of the dream I just had. I was working as a security officer in a government research facility in Antarctica. The facility had a dome structure around it nearly a half a mile in diameter that kept the atmosphere inside cool, dry and sterile. Outside the sphere, which was some kind of energy barrier that one could walk right through, there was the expected endless expanse of frozen death. The facility was multi-purpose. It had sections for the development of weaponry, submarine equipment, environmental control, gravity and space flight. The buildings inside were all white stone and metal and built to withstand massive trauma. By this I mean all the buildings were fairly short, none above 5-stories tall, and had a lot of extra metal framework to hold them in place. There was no life of any kind inside the dome other than human.

My business was to protect against internal threats. Spies, saboteurs, traitors and the like. I was the head of the internal security department, in fact, and disliked by all employees because of it. JMD was also there, and he was the head of the external security section. Watching for enemy attacks and keeping the defenses alert and maintained.

Our current business had an overlap. GamJams (JMD) had been tracking organized movement several miles to the South (meaning, closer to the south pole... this surprised us) that was approaching us slowly. It halted and hid whenever satellites that could give us visual confirmation passed overhead. Even with 95% of the security staff pointing guns through the barrier is managed to walk right past us and into the facility with only vague detection as to its whereabouts. I managed to catch a glimpse of it in the environmental control section back in the inner workings and ductwork. I could only describe it as a "cyber ninja". Mostly black with metal protrusions, but very sleek and quiet. I did not have time to fire on it, nor would I have, for fear of accidentally destabilizing the environment and destroying the facility.

After a grueling half-an-hour of no reports, a scientist in the environmental lab didn't clock out on schedule. She was a middle-aged woman working on organic-based environment control. Plant-life of all sizes engineered to heavily alter the atmosphere and grow in harsh climates. There was no trace of her, and her research terminal and laboratory turned up missing multiple pieces of equipment and all electronic data.

Then there was a massive explosion in the harbor, followed up by an even larger explosion in the weapons development lab. JMD and I assumed this was intended to bait us while the ninja escaped, and we maintained a strong presence on the barrier whilst rescue teams went about their business. We turned out to be right, and we managed to open fire on and hit a visual distortion moving along the ground. We didn't slow the ninja down, but we did break his stealth device. He managed to get through the barrier and out into the wasteland where we couldn't easily follow. It would take at least twenty minutes to set up the proper gear and vehicles to allow pursuit... so JMD and I took a drastic measure. We volunteered to take a new drug developed in the facility that would temporarily grant us many superhuman abilities. A powerful resistance to cold being one of them.

We managed to start after the ninja before the trail got cold (haha). We only had on our security uniforms... which looked like WW2 era Nazi officer uniforms... the black kind. Not really sure if there was a connection there to the facility being run by Nazi Germany or not. Anyway, we effortless trekked through the snow until we arrived at the first location where the ninja was picked up on our sensors. The base radioed in that he had dropped of the radar right before we arrived. It took us no time to notice an anomalous mountain of ice before us, though. It wasn't recorded on any map and the satellites couldn't even detect it visually. Upon inspection we found we could pass right through it. Inside was another controlled environment, MUCH larger than ours. It had to be at least 5 miles in diameter. It contained a warm, coniferous forest, cliffs and valleys that looked like they had developed with plant-life over millenia, and a facility dwarfing our own smack in the middle.

Sadly, this is where I don't remember much else. JMD and I snuck into the facility, ended up killing several guards and scientists, managed to find the cyber ninja but were unable catch him, and we were nearly killed after their guards caught wind of us and chased us back past the barrier. JMD and I asked for a missile strike on the facility, which proved ineffective as the missiles were shot down before they reached the barrier. We then gauged the maximum firing distance of their interceptor missiles and ordered a nuclear missile to be detonated just outside that range directly above the facility. It was, as we hoped, enough to disrupt and disable the barrier. The resulting chaos of the climate change was cover enough to let us find the missile depot and destroy it. Another missile strike was enough to annihilate the facility and we returned to base just before our special super drug wore off. Hooray, victory for the Reich! :(

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2009 Sep 24 at 10:09 PDT