“You want us to find the source for you?” Galyn grunted as he perched awkwardly on the chair that was far, far too small for him. His assistant Retvik was clearly having similar issues as they discussed the situation with six tiny, round, mechanical beings.
Tah, the red and silver leader, with glowing blue eyes, nodded awkwardly. “Uh, yes please. I mean, normally us Kal would do this ourselves, but we… we kinda have our suspicions as to who they might be.”
“And they might want us dead…” Koh and Nuh, in white and black, both added.
“Dead’s selling it a tad short…” the green-plated Leh mumbled. “Our job in our home universe was to clean it all, to destroy everything and make way for, well, new things.”
“Of course, there were things still alive when we tried to do that,” Koh explained. “Things that wanted to fight back.”
“All three times…” Tah sighed. “The first time, they shouldn’t have even BEEN on the island. The second time there was that dragon, and the stupid Dark Ones. Third time round…”
“We don’t talk about that time!” Pah exclaimed. “We cleaned it all! As was our destiny!”
“But we missed something though!” Gah interrupted. “And whatever it is, it’s probably angry!”
Tah raised his plated hand, silently signalling for his fellow Kal to calm down. He then turned to Leh, who started explaining.
“We successfully completed our duties, as the Great Grave One demanded. We destroyed all natural and conscious life, or what remained of it. But there’s one thing that we couldn’t destroy, and that is whatever was outside our universe. Our universe was home to beings that could leave our universe whenever they wanted.”
Galyn leaned forward, grunting. “So you are saying that the signal you picked up is one of these beings?”
Tah nodded. “We call them Olmeic Users. We originally thought they travelled between dimensions, turns out they were travelling between universes. Because they weren’t in our universe at the time of our cleaning, we didn’t destroy them. So they are… probably rather angry at us.”
“And, knowing our awful luck, it’s probably one of those damn Ava, who will certainly want to kill us…” Nuh grumbled.
“So do you want protection, information or both?” Galyn finally asked, having given Kal’s speech some thought. “Do you want to know who this being is so you can smite them and finish your job or-”
“Oh no!” Leh immediately protested. “We DID our job! If this Olmeic made it out, then good for them. We are merciful beings.”
“Even if the Ava are not…” Nuh grumbled some more, only to be slapped by Koh, telling him to be quiet.
“The most important thing is identifying them and seeing if they are friendly,” Tah tutted. “We don’t want to hurt anyone. They probably are just confused and lost. But they might also be a, well, good being, and we don’t want them falling into the wrong hands. Going after them ourselves though would just make things bad all round.”
Galyn glanced at Retvik, who was busy writing everything down, then turned back to Tah. “Do you have any idea what this being may or may not look like?”
“We don’t know,” Koh muttered. “We only picked up the signals and frequency. But they will almost certainly be humanoid.”
“Humanoid?” Retvik suddenly asked. “What does that mean?”
“Completely upright, tail-less, more than four fingers per hand, flat face with forward-facing eyes…” Galyn tutted. “And, I assume, purely mechanical like you six are?”
“Well, uh…” Tah hesitated. “Bio-mechanical… robotic with some organic bits underneath.”
“With brain masks like you all have?” Retvik suggested.
“No, just normal masks…” Tah trailed off. “Kinda like Voidborns, I guess, now that we’re discussing it…”
With a final grunt, Galyn got up from the table. “Understood. Retvik and I will take on this little side job of yours. I assume you six will bunker down here in the meantime?”
The six Kal all nodded.
“Good…” Galyn grabbed Retvik by the shoulder. “Come along now, my assistant. We have a work to do…”