The Mechanical Villain Part 1

 The Mechanical Villain: Part 1

Of all the planets in the galaxy, the barren wastes of the desert storm world Heshk were amongst the harshest and most environmentally unstable. Years ago Heshk was home to a vast mining colony, until they rebelled against the empire and rather than the Empire sending forces to the hostile world, they employed weather controlling satellites and terraforming technologies to destabilize and eradicate all life on the planet. The atmosphere now is almost always in a constant state of dust storm and the temperatures so hot that no life could exist as water has evaporated from this world entirely. The once green grasslands and crystalline surface now made of sand dust and ash. While life signs are limited in this world, one being has decided to call this place home. Feared throughout the galaxy, the former gladiator of the pits of Norshaddi turned scourge of the United Systems, The Cyborg Firenze Occi. Occi was nicknamed the butcher of Va a system that had once been a peaceful retreat for refugees and pilgrims now a graveyard destroyed by Occi and the legions put under his command by the Empire. The Empire however found Occi to resistant and to unstable and unruly, due to his inability to show restraint in battle labeling him a danger to all beings across the galaxy. To the United Systems he was the butcher who killed billions for the Empire, for the Empire he was a savage beast who was to be called upon only when they were in need of a last resort.

A twenty story tall machine moves across the land a monolithic tower with chain link rover wheels that crush the terrain of the surface and repurpose what it can use and insinerates it into fuel while collecting what it deems as valuable and moves it to the ships cargo bay. Many mining vehicles once existed on this world; now only the Fortress of Occi exists. From the sky a bronzed gray cargo freighter with reinforce shielding to better protect itself from the planets harsh environment speeds down to the roof of the Fortress and lands atop it, its cockpit sealed shut and blacked out by ash. The beeping of the homing signal that had helped the freighter navigate to the fortress fading out as the sound of a machine lift alarm activates and the freighter is lowered through the towering structure down into the abyss of the mobile mining fortress. The reinforce blast doors sealing over its top allowing it to pressurize inside the vessel as it moves across the rough terrain of Heshk. 

As the freighter is brought to the bottom and the elevator moves it into a small hanger where squads of droids rush towards the freighter to refuel it and meet their master. The cockpit to the freighter unlocks with a dreadful hiss becoming unpressurized as the lurching cyborg alien claws his way out of the ship and onto the metal surface of the station. His armor torn and organic eyes sealed behind a shield built into  mask of sorts to small to hold a human head but perhaps the eyes and brain of an intelligent being. His feet like daggered raptor claws marched across the grounds, his neck a set of interconnected springing metal clasps that seemed to extend and return to normal with every step. His chest was compacted and metallic, concealing a life support system, a personal shield generator and possibly some necessary internal organs, that could feed the brain and eyes at the top of the mechanical beasts head. The arms of the beast were thin but elongated at the limbs providing Occi with ape like strength and reach capabilities as well as acrobatic capabilities if needed.  On his left shoulder the logo of the Empire was printed and on his right sat a laser turret that scanned the room behind and ahead of him as he moved. On the creatures wrist stood braces of sorts gauntlets enhanced with buttons that may have included different gear, while the thighs seamed to conceal a variety of tricks and weapons as well.

A droid approaches him, the droid is much smaller than him and stares up to his master “welcome back Master, i hope your mission was successful” states the droid. The creature coughs and barks. Occi’s vocal vocabulator beeps squeaks and then like static he coughs out “ My-Vocal-Vocabulator…. Is- Bro-ken…. As… is… the-translation-unit…”state Occi his voice garbled and scratchy yet bellows deep from within. “ i will alert the doctor at once master” states the droid its stubby legs rushing off through a maintenance hatch. Occi approaches the door and holds his palm up straight extending a small key like tool technology from his hand and plugs it into the door to the rest of the fortress. Occi coughs loudly before the door opens and he is allowed to pass through it, his legs marching and clawing at the ground as he moves slowly through the base, past windows that peer out towards the sands and desert that move around his base. The hallways a rusty green brass and bronze color with exposed panels running across it some being repaired by technician droids who dared not to look at their master as he marched down the hall towards the doctor in  the medical bay. 

Occi soon turned into the medical bay where three droids that hobbled on single wheels( nurse droids), four droids that hovered around him with singular eyes scanning him (Technical Probes) and two mechanical arms that protruded from the walls began scanning him and prepping Occi for the doctor. The doctor a nine armed Medical and Engineer droid hybrid of Occi’s own design dropped from ceiling of the room as Occi’s armor was unscrewed by the mechanical arms as any part of him that wasn’t mechanical was hoisted by the drones and placed carefully into a vat of green liquid. His body was less creature than it was thought, his face barely a face merely a skull that was still mostly mechanical with two eyeballs and a brain in a glass tube at its back with sensors that acted as audio receptors as well as what appeared to be a mouth with metallic equipment sticking out of it for filtering air and nutrients to body and allowing him to taste and communicate while in the tube as well  and assortment of tubes attached to a shielded sack of internal organs including lungs, equipped with a breathing instrument that allowed him to breathe in the toughest of environments, a heart that was enhanced with a monitoring system that would keep him alive even when hit by an EMP blast, his male reproductive organs which were attached to a metal sling that were still usable despite the lack of a body and his stomach and intestines that were shielded allowing him to drink and obtain nutrients but were retrofitted to prevent him from being poisoned by even the deadliest of alien poisons. The doctor stood like a spider over the doctor's office and lowered down across from the face of Occi’s skull in the green tank. “What appears to be the problem, Master?” asks the doctor laughing. “I am in need of a full system repair” states Occi from a speaker nearby, his voice much cleared through it than it was through his armor. “I will get to work on that immediately, master. Computing”states the doctor. As a hologram screen appeared behind it as the engineering droid side began to scan over some hologram images. “It appears the upgrades you requested are compatible and capable now sir, shall i proceed with the new armor order mk 2019?” asks the droid. The voice of Occi reciprocates once again through the tank “indeed Doctor, Commence upgrade.” A loud noise soon erupted through the room as machines began synthesizing the new armored pieces and the mechanical arms began putting the pieces together and standing them atop a booth for inspection by their master. Occi watched as his new armor which was similar in shape to his old one was put together before his very eyes that behind their glass lenses gave him reinforce and incredible details from scanning the armor in an attempt to identify all weapons and if any weaknesses were detected as the armor was being built. 

In moments the new armored body was constructed in the medbay and Occi was lifted by drones into the armor as the nurse droids carefully placed the organs inside at their proper locations and were sprayed with an agent that would keep them fresh and well preserved. Occi inspected his armor in the hologram, his body no longer this beastly machine, but rather more of that of a humanoid android. “How very human?” states Occi staring at himself in the mirror. “That is merely the transformative technology, the appearance modifiers have been set to human, but can be set to match your Firenze physiology, this feature we believe combined with the hologram image refractor will allow you to pass into locations beyond the neutral zone to United Systems and Imperial Space unnoticed” states the Doctor droid. “ leave it as it is, i am enjoying the freedom that this form provides me, i have never been human before” he laughs.

Occi marches through the hall of the fortress to his training room followed by the doctor droid. He looks to doctor as he enters training room and looks back at the doctor. “Activate Training mode simulation 23-D” states Occi. in moments the room begins to mold and transform as hologram images begin to shape around him.

Occi appears on a city planet in ruins he looks around the training center and scans for incoming targets as he transverses the battlefield. Ahead of him a tank sprawls through the area as a group of imperial troopers are in lock down. Occi stares at the Tank and his shoulder pad raises revealing a rocket launcher, a microscopic rocket launches from his shoulder cannon destroying the tank in minutes. Occi continues to the troops who salute him as he carries on through the ruins encountering a squad of United Systems Military forces. Occi laughs and quickly transforms into a different United Systems Military officer. He rushes over to them. “Its Occi, he’s here” shouts Occi at the troopers who run off in fear. Occi laughs as he lores them into a locked room and fires a disintegration blasts from his palms as he gets to commander and reveals his true self, his fingers like serpent wires as he tortures the trooper, prompting her with electrical shocks “Where is my Daughter” shouts Occi. the trooper pulls a grenade from her belt and drops it “for the systems” she shouts as it explodes Ochi is unphased as she is disintegrated, the blasts energy absorbs into his armors suit increasing its power supply. He laughs. “Doctor what was that?” he shouts. “That was an new device of my own design, an implosion shield matrix, it will allow you to take on powerful blasts from any weapon and convert the energy into your own” states the Doctors voice from beyond. “I love it, begin on phase 2020 immediately, i have some work to do on Helius Minor. States occi ending the simulation before leaving the fortress. 

Occi leaves the fortress starting back towards the hanger, as he exits through the main accessway he once again activates the computer spike key and locks the door before approaching his ship that has been refueled by his hanger troops for his next mission. Occi hops into his freighters cockpit and the elevator speeds him back into the shaft leading him back to the roof of the ship. Occi engages the engines and launches into the stormy atmosphere speeding past the remnants of the Imperial Weather satellites, his brain already setting the navigational computer for the ship wirelessly, before he engages his hyperdrive, by pulling back a throttle, twisting it and pushing it back in place. The ship launches at lightspeed past the outer most planets, with a terror of a new kind ready to vanquish his enemies.