Deja Vu-The Primary Objective Pt. 1

EDIT 12/12/15:  Went back and made a few changes.  Someone pointed out that the door was too shiny to be so far off in the background, so I muted the shine.  Also, I closed the mouth of the floating head b/c it looked like she had a really bad overbite...it still looks off but it looks better than what it was.

As for Nikki herself, I removed the audio ear dish thing.  I actually originally drew her without it anyways and decided to add it when I inked/colored it.  Once again I realize that too many of my characters have the same cybernetic details so I wanted to switch it up a bit.  (I also drew her with a ponytail, but for now I'm still digging her with the short messy pixie cut.)

-The MGMT

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Several months ago…

This is surreal…I think that the current stream of emotions are some of the deepest and most intense that I’ve experienced since I was reactivated.  At the same time I feel extreme anger, fear, suspicion, and disgust in one fell swoop.  My brainwaves and interior fluid levels are alerting me that their pressure levels are rather high…I didn’t even know that my cybernetic body was even capable of experiencing stress and high synthetic blood pressure levels!

Here I am, in a setting that I never reasoned that I would return to…the place where I was forcibly turned into a cyborg drone against my will…the place where Nikki Simone-Rattica ceased to exist and the cyborg drone that would later become Adora-1 was created.  I know it’s the organic part of my brain that is replaying the images over and over again in my memory of the severe agony that I endured as I had my humanity stolen from me and was forced to commit heinous acts against my will.  All of the nightmares and night terrors that I endure on a frequent basis won’t let me forget the very vivid memories of my first visit to a Hive very similar to this and the same remembrances that I’m currently experiences are exact matches of those that I experience when I try to sleep.  This is the most extreme case of déjà vu that I can recall ever experiencing right now! 

Being a career soldier and defender of the universe, I have seen some horrific things over the course of my life, but what I’ve seen and personally have been subjected to here has to be the absolute worse that I can recall ever experiencing.  If I had an organic digestive system, I think that I would puke all over the place.  The images that I see are macabre and ghastly…I can hear the blood-curdling screams of many other victims suffering the same fate as I did many years ago, being mutilated while still conscious and having their organic components and flesh replaced with metals and machinery as they undergo the overtly invasive indoctrination surgery to transform them into robotic drones.  I can actually hear the surgical saws whirring and the sickening squish of flesh and entrails being removed and ripped asunder.  I hear the soldering tools searing and permanently attaching other mechanical additions along the whine of other various tools as they bolt, fasten, drill, and screw metal into place on the transfigured frames of would be drones. 

The screams cause me to flashback and recall from my databanks several victims who fell at my hand during the years while I was Sataria’s best drone; I feel absolutely awful for all of the evil that I was responsible for while I was under the control of Sataria.  I know that I was under the influence of her strict programming, yet I am not able to rest easy knowing that I was the cause of the indoctrination or deaths of many.  I see the dismembered fragments of human life floating inside stasis tubes…some bodies are whole, some are missing limbs, or entire halves, and in a few cases all that’s left is a head or even a face connected to the remains of an organic brain.  There are hundreds of stasis pods containing the bodies of fully indoctrinated drones…although they are currently deactivated, I know that they are fully programmed and plugged into the C.O.D.E. network and all it takes is one word from the Cyborg Queen to activate them.  

I actually take a minute to compose myself; my body automatically activates an enzyme to calm my brainwaves and to decrease my stress levels.  Jetta says that while I’ve made some great strides in regaining my memory, there is still a lot of brain damage and complications that haven’t been resolved yet and it causes me to have what’s akin to a panic attack for a normal human.  When this does happen, my brain and other organic components are extremely overwhelmed due to sensory overload…this has happened a few times since my reactivation, however, this is the first time that it’s happened while on a mission.  If it gets any worse, I may have to shut down my “Nikki” persona and let my ODC take over so that I can complete my objectives without any further inhibitions.

Having been a part of the C.O.D.E. collective network, I know that the Primary Objective is to create a master race of perfect cyborgs…to combine humanity and machinery into one optimal functioning unit with all of the strengths and very few to none of the weaknesses in hopes of creating a cyborg utopia.  However, Sataria’s means of forcefully indoctrinating humans and other organic organisms against their will and eradicating those who don’t comply do not justify her ends.  While she believes that her logic behind her motives are just and righteous, she is nothing more than a delusional megalomaniac.  And even worse, my best friend who’s like my little sister has been captured; I know that Sataria is using her as a bargaining chip to lure me here.  I feel personally responsible for Jetta being captured considering that I failed to save her as the C.O.D.E. abducted her…they ambushed us and isolated her away from me and the others; there were just too many of them and they overpowered her while I was distracted.  At this point she’s probably well into the indoctrination process if she’s not already fully assimilated; I did my best to locate this Hive and get here as fast as I could.  Part of me hopes that she’s been fully transformed into a C.O.D.E.  I don’t know just how I would react if I saw her literally torn to pieces.  I have locked in on Jetta’s energy signatures and she seems to be located deep within the inner sanctum of the Hive.

I know that I’m an emotional mess right now, but I must stay focused and soldier on to complete my mission of rescuing Jetta and doing whatever I can to prevent Sataria from rebuilding her evil empire again.  While I may be displaying a tremendous amount of courage by facing my greatest fears head on, I can’t say that this is the smartest plan that I’ve ever devised coming here by myself before my backup arrives…granted, I’m far more powerful in my current state and believe that the outcome with Sataria would end far differently with the odds heavily in my favor.  However, Jetta needs me and knowing just what Sataria does to her victims there is no time to spare.  I only hope that the worst of the assimilation process is over for her. 

At least this time I know that the cavalry is on the way; they should be here within an hour.  I know that Commander Athena would love to take a whack at Sataria herself…maybe I’ll leave a little bit of Sataria for her to get her retribution.  And from what I understand…even Scarlette and some of her cronies are coming to help as well.  I don’t trust her one bit, but we do need the sheer numbers and firepower that she’s capable of providing to keep the drones at bay. At this point, The Matriarch is actually the lesser of two evils.

I’m surprised that I’ve gone undetected thus far…I am using stealth, and for extra precautionary measures, I have activated a beacon which Jetta has implanted within my brain that allows me to reconnect with the C.O.D.E. network.  I wasn’t sure just how well this beacon would work, as she implanted it as soon as we got wind of new C.O.D.E. activity and considering that we never actually beta tested it, but so far so good.  And the timing of her adding said implant before her abduction occurred was spot on.  Despite the fact that I’ve gone undetected, something tells me that Sataria knows I’m here…or at least that I would come.  

While much of the anxiety that I’m experiencing currently is fear, even more of it comes from a place of pure anger, frustration, and determination.  The thing that I can’t help but wonder is…just how in the hell did she survive our last encounter?  I know the same could be said for me as well, but still.  I thought that I had vanquished her from existence once and for all when I threw both her and myself into that nuclear reactor years ago…I suppose I’m not the only one that is capable of defying death, but what are the odds that both of us would survive a megaton explosion at point blank range?!?  I still want vindication from what she did to me.  I want vindication for what she made me do while under her programming.  I want vindication for what she’s done to my best friend.  I want vindication for everyone who has fallen victim to her evil Primary Objective. 

And I’m gonna get it.  Nobody messes with my family…nobody messes with me!  I’m tired of sneaking around…damn this beacon; it’s time I make my presence known! 

“Sataria…reveal yourself!”

I stand coiled up and ready for a fight…my techno-organic nano-muscle fibers are flexed and tensed, my teeth are clenched tightly, my bio-synthetic cardiovascular implant palpitates like crazy, and my body can barely contain the energy overflow from my diamond as it surges with energy.  I watch her large mechanical frame materialize several yards in front of where I stand.  And just as I simultaneously feared and hoped for…my greatest foe and I stand toe to toe against one another, prepared to fight to the death…again if need be…despite the fact that both she and I were somehow able to escape death’s cold, firm grasp after the highly climatic ending of our last altercation, which resulted in the complete annihilation of a large city.  My targeting systems lock firmly onto her and my ODC is standing by to activate battle mode.  I’ve been waiting for this moment since my natural persona was restored and I discovered that Sataria wasn’t destroyed.  Her digital voice booms and echoes throughout the dark chamber.

“Ah…so the prodigal child returns!  Welcome home, my dear Rattica, or should I say Adora-1…I’ve been expecting you, old friend!  I believe you and I have some unfinished business to tend to. ”

She’s menacing and physically imposing…like me, her new body is far more extraordinary than her previous form.  My eyes scan her massive mech-like frame; her energy readings are through the roof as her mechanical body glows with energy in similar fashion as my body is doing!  She’s far more powerful than she has ever been...but, so am I.  I stare her down with an ice-cold glare and a cocksure grin as I growl.

“Affirmative…indeed we do!”

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End Part 1
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To my longtime watchers and friends....look familiar?!!?


With all of the craziness that I've been experiencing in trying to get my characters and story together, I can't help but go back to late 2009 when I first seriously started writing stories.  I was one of the founding members of and dove head first into writing.  The ideas and overall creativity just started flowing...this lasted through the better part of 2010 where my art and writing came rather easily.  I wrote and created the type of stories that I would want to read if I were to walk into a comic shop or a book store and had a blast doing it. 


Eventually, I left Angel Falls and began doing my own thing...before I realized it, between the original Enter The Collective story line and "All Falls Down" starring Sapphira, I had enough for a novel!  I looked into actually getting my work published, thought about entering a few writing contests, took a few classes, and the whole shebangabang...aaaaaaaannnd that's around the time when the creative well dried up!  In retrospect, as soon as I made the decision to try and actually monetize my characters/stories that's when things got crazy.  I started combining characters, then de-combining them, then getting rid of characters but trying to add some of the unused stuff to the characters that I wanted to keep around, I was too concerned about creating something that others would like and I think that's what stifled my creativity...not to mention that things from 2011 until about earlier this year have been rather crazy and oft unstable in my personal life!

In effort to unravel this mess that I've made of everything, I've been wanting to do a reboot for some time now...just recently I thought of taking it back to basics and going back to 2009 where the creativity boom first occurred.  I wasn't worried about if I had marketable characters, I wasn't trying to make the next cult sensation...I just wanted to show off Adora-1, Sapphira, and my other characters to the world.  And I did it my way...not obsessing over my art skill to where it was like a chore to make everything as perfect as possible and becoming extremely upset and frustrated b/c it didn't get the attention (likes/faves/comments/pageviews) that I thought I deserved. 

So a few months ago...I just stopped.  And I started drawing, writing, and creating for me again.  And the spark has seemingly come back!

I really like the original drawing of this piece and I wanted to do a remake of it with my current skills...bang, here it is!  Nikki's looking pretty dang awesome here!  And while I have alternate versions with her trademark ponytail, I always wanted to see the original without Nikki's ponytail.  I've actually been playing with the idea to give her a short, messy bob style like this anyways...doesn't really make sense with a highly active cyborg warrior babe to have long hair, especially since half of her head is covered by titanium alloy armored skull plating.  I have also entertained the idea of her having different synthetic wigs that she can choose from...so if I want to draw her with a ponytail, a short style, helmeted, or even bald then I have the option to do so where it makes sense!

And I like where this is headed storywise...recently I decided to make Techna/Jetta even more cybered after being assimilated/indoctrinated by Sataria.  This story arc will explain how that occurs.

Stay tuned for the next part in this reboot!