Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 105.33: The Fox and the Bunny
Keeper lay on his back on the grass enjoying the feel of the sun listening to the water flowing over a waterfall nearby, the humming from the sentinels floating him keeping the Timberwolves at bay as they circled around snarling with green semi glowing liquid dripping from the wooden maws with green yellow glowing eyes locked on Keeper..
“I ran the numbers three times in my head on the way here and that kitsune was dead on...” He said to himself thinking about it and his age, Skip really hit him in the Life Crystal heart when he realised that was his age. “Today all the rest of Gale's Created celebrate their awakening at Creative Forest, been too long since I thought about Awaken Day...”
Keeper move his right hand from under his head to reach down to his bag pulling out the handheld device, he tapping on it with the thumb pad. “Still keeping to my zero regrets coming out here, never would of knew about my true age and it was my birthday of all days.” He half chuckled a little scrolling through files on the device till he found the calendar link tapping on it to open the link up. “Need to make sure to remind myself of today so I never forget it again.”
Keeper close the link down looking at his reflection with a sly smile upon his muzzle. “What a sly fox, Skip knew exactly what he was doing when he said that, how that Kitsune knew about Grimormia Tower and my birthday isn't important, it the way he presented it.” Keeper swipe the thumb pad across to the picture link of a basic looking tower icon, he pressed it.
The link opens up to display a large circular control room with sentinels flying around or working at the stations they assigned to, a holographic image of a large planet with towering pillars attached to it connected to many rings that lead to one central point that connected to a larger tower all attached around the world.
One side show the rings with beams of light blasting down on the planet giving light, the other side the rings dark with only the lights of the surface of it lit up, the daylight slowly being rotated around. “Grimmy can you hear me?”
A holographic set of rings appear spinning around a glowing star shimming out with sparks of light randomly over it surface. “Yes Keeper Sentinel, I hope you are having an enjoyable vacation.” A soft female voice responded the flicking spikes of light pulsed in and outwards as the words were spoken by Grimmy.
Keeper a small snort of a laugh. “Having the time of my 29,101 years of my life you little bugger, when were you going to tell me you'd became more than the sum of your parts?”
Keeper than mouths when Grimmy says exactly. “Now and you knew that because your mimicking my response by mouthing it Keeper Sentinel.”
“We are good as each other Grimmy, I figured it out talking to Shining Armor captain of the guard of Canterlot here in this Equestria, my home world Equis. I gather you can dream and have subconscious thoughts too?” Keeper said with amused tone than casual asked. “And before you answer, it from all that data you been gathering from millions or even trillions of different Equises from both universes and some right?”
Grimmy responded as casual as he was. “That is correct Keeper Sentinel, seeing and collecting data allow me to grow to ways I never foreseen, I wasn't sure if I was a AI or something else, I can feel the rings, the tower and Grimormia itself. It a very con-flexing experience... But I now know you are my creator and gave me the chance to grow, you never put limits on the computer AI I was based on. And I thank you for it.”
Keeper kept his smile. “Your very much welcome Grimmy, and thank you for keeping me in the dark so I can have this moment with you now. I really needed this moment as you did, keep up the good work and I'll be home soon.”
“I look forward to your return home and to hear all about your trip while we work to maintain Grimormia Tower, because-”
“The work is never done.” They said together and laughed.
“Keeper Sentinel before you go, I came across a project of yours...”
Keeper sat up instantly now holding the device with both hands staring at the screen. “You found Project Angel didn't you?”
Grimmy was silent for a moment before responding. “Yes, it been scanning for many forms of genetic make up for 17,928 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 5 days across two multiverses... why are you searching for animals made up of these genetics?”
Keeper sighed heavily. “I have zero regrets of what happened and what I done... but I wish I could of found them...” Keeper lower his head and lift the device to press it against his forehead closing his eyes. “Before I made you...” He pull the device away looking at the screen again. “I created Project Angel to save as many animal life from Earth at the exact moment it was destroyed and the collider exploded alongside the tears in reality...”
Grimmy analysed the data of Project Angel. “You felt... alone, you calculated, timed and picked the exactly location where it would meet all requirements for animals to save, not only that turn them into an anthropomorphic forms similar to your own with the ability to change back to their own feral forms at will.”
“Correct, with help from Leela's rune magic I discovered a way to reverse engineer the transfiguration spell Grogar created, not only I wanted to save the animals I wanted to give them something... more.”
Keeper closed his eyes recalling that horrible moment the animals were saved but never made it to Grimormia Tower due to a reality blast that hit the tower hard, almost every system being damaged or destroyed in the resulting blast wave. “It took me 92 years, 2 months and 1 week to stabilize the tower, that was when I started on making your basic AI program and search for them...”
Keeper look around at all the Timberwolves circling around keeping their distance still. “That was when I started Project Reseed that lead to the creation of the planet Grimormia and sent sentinels flying into many realities to scan and collect biological data to bring life to the planet...”
“You used that to scan for these animals to find them.”
“Yes Grimmy...”
“Why haven't you scanned Prime Equis of the Gale Multiverse?”
“Because of Prototower... it makes scanning Prime Equis in any point of time after it construction impossible... so if this is the Equis they ended up on I have no idea what era they could of landed in, that why I continue my search through out the multiverse just encase they there.”
“A noble goal Keeper Sentinel, I will redouble it efforts and may try to find a way around the refracting effects of Prototower is causing from visual and spectrum scans.”
Keeper smiled a little. “Thank you Grimmy, see you soon.”
“I look forward to your return home Keeper Sentinel, be well.” The connection closes down and Keeper close down the link, he put the device back in his bag.
Keeper noticed the Timberwolves gathered together and ran away in a pack. “About time they got the message...” He gets up dusting off his fur to hear a twig snap, turning his head to have a white fuzzy fist smack square at the end of the muzzle.
Keeper stumble backwards to land on his backside holding the end of his muzzle whimpering in pain, and move the hands away to see blood on the paw pads and fur. Blood dripping from his black nose and he wiggled it feeling the blood running down his fur on the muzzle dripping off onto his lower torso area.
The sentinels went into defence mode moving to defend him from the sudden attacker, but Keeper raise his bloody hand up halting them. “Stand down sentinels, it one of them... it a Project Angel animal...” The sentinels stand down and float there staring at the three foot tall white rabbit still in the same stance from the punch he just gave to Keeper.
The fist lowers, standing before Keeper was a anthropomorphic bunny standing on two semi long feet paws, long legs with a similar torso shape to Keeper's semi long arms with a slightly longer broader muzzle of a bunny, two long ears standing up right giving him a extra foot in height with them up.
His red eyes stare into the blue eyes of Keeper and with a deep strong voice he spoke with fury, anger and hurt. “Your the reason I am like this!? You did this to me!? Why you damn fox!? What make you think I wanted this!? I live a double life hiding this form Mistress Fluttershy! I am a freak and now I know who did this! Your the reason ass of a fox! I can't be a simple bunny! Simple Angel Bunny Fluttershy knows me... as...” He realise he'd said too much when Keeper looked surprised and suddenly realising something about what was just said by Angel.
Keeper's vision was blurring out, his head swaying a little as he slowly stood up stumbling towards Angel with tears falling as blood drip from the black wet nose. Angel could see he looked bad from the stumbling about, a paw hand placed on his shoulder with a genuine smile of happiness from the fox and the eyes showing happiness. “I found you... maybe find the rest...”
Angel grew anger. “Get off me.” He pushed Keeper off, he lands on the ground unable to stand now.
“I am surprised... and happy to see one of you.... never thought it be Angel Bunny... it a amazing surprise...” He now stares at the blood on his fingers paw pads for the moment and kept the goofy smile when looking back at Angel.
“Why are you happy with what you did to me and other animals?” Angel demanded to know.
“Because I gave you all a second chance... I don't care I am monster to you or any of them, I did what I did and my only regret... I wasn't there at the beginning... Angel.” Angel felt a ping of guilt his gut upon hearing it.
Angel look to his right hand paw with marks of blood on it from the punch he gave Keeper. “Bucking damn it... now I feel guilty punching you fox...”
Keeper didn't take much notice when he noticed the blood on his fingers paw pads not turning to clay. “I am really bleeding... hehe...he.” He held out the blood covered hand paws and toppled to his side passing out, the sentinels scan him to see if Keeper is fine and found his vitals are a bit worrying but alive with no risk of death.
They turn to the bunny scanning him, afterwards they float there staring at him as if they were awaiting for orders.
Angel knelt down to the unconscious form of Keeper feeling a sense of deep regret in his heart. “I really screwed this one up... there no way out of this mess with Mistress Fluttershy.” Angel's ears droop.
Angel Bunny looked at each of the sentinels. “Wouldn't mind giving me a paw to help me get him to the cottage will ya?”