The next morning at 6:00 a.m., at the CFB Winnipeg Barracks where they ended up after visiting the dungeon, Zen knocked politely on the door. Because of Ark, Jeremy, and Jeff’s little experiment yesterday, the United Nations literally exploded, with an attack on the damn building in New York City.

The entire Canadian military at CFB Winnipeg was told to get Jeremy and Jeff the hell out of Canada. They were heading to a secret dungeon in the United States for security reasons, then back to Britain to unlock the dungeon. The United Nations couldn't stop this, but both countries insisted on unlocking it and walking away. Ark would be connected, but they wouldn't be allowed near after yesterday’s and the day before's s*** show.

Jeff and Jeremy were basically sidelined. They didn’t need Jeff or Jeremy, just Ark to open the dungeons. Everyone was confused why Jeremy and Jeff were going, even Jeremy and Jeff. But Ark told them that without at least Jeremy, it wasn’t opening the dungeons without the Guardian’s permission. At this point, Jeremy and Jeff were good enough friends that Jeff agreed to be Jeremy’s Guardian.

Jeff didn't get a rank boost, but it helped him more. They knew they could fulfill their contract to unlock two more dungeons, then take a small vacation while the world exploded, imploded, and crumbled around the government.

The news showed entire cities of people with nothing, flocking to dungeons worldwide, creating a massive mess. Some horrible, overpopulated towns became ghost towns, while others balanced out. The issue was food, starting a big fight with Ark over providing water.

Ark first thought it was a great idea, so a private at the Stonewall dungeon grabbed a small cup with a lid, took some water the dungeon created, sealed it, and hooked it outside. Everyone was super happy until the officers in charge knew what could happen. They had to defuse the possible bomb that was that container of water. Someone with a very low caliber .22 rifle gave it a quick shot to pop it. Holy crap, no one wanted to touch it because they didn’t know how it would react, so detonating from afar was the best option.

As the bullet penetrated the plastic container, there was a ripple effect caught on camera. It looked like a s*** show with Jeremy running it, but people were keeping an eye on the two village idiots. On the slow-motion camera, as the bullet was halfway through the container, you could see the oxygen entering. All the water was displaced by the oxygen, breaking down into a white/blue glow. The container, now holding something 1,500 times its size, expanded quickly.

They figured out that sublimation happened from a liquid to a gas, even thinner than gas, at atmospheric pressure. This happened all in half a second, if not quicker. After that, they couldn't provide water because it would blow up. But during this time, Ark wasn’t idle. It used its technology to displace the Earth and made small tunnels.

These tunnels started off centimetres wide, going down to look for water tables. If Ark found a suitable water table that wasn’t ancient, sacred, or connected to bad water sources, it would solidify the tube and expand the diameter to whatever was needed for the amount of water. It made a sealed tube with a note on top saying, “Add pump here.” As long as they put a sealed pump on top and kept pumping, water would come up. Even if it was a big pipe and deep, it still brought water. People had water as soon as different groups got there, saw the sign, tested the water, and found everything great. This happened within minutes, though it took an hour to come up with the idea. By the time the bottle was exploding, Ark was already digging tunnels and setting up pump sites.

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Knowing people would be around, Ark spread out like a small spider web around each dungeon. Any wastewater or anything wrong, pissed off, s*** on, or dumped out, as long as it made it into the lower 10 ft of ground, would reach a different water table, get back to Ark, and be processed for biological material. It would use this to make organisms for other planets but, in this case, experiment with bacteria and other single-cell organisms. This could lead to real magic potions containing magical items. Ark hadn’t figured this out yet but had Jeremy’s Dungeons and Dragons book and knew the goal, just not how to get there yet.

Behind closed doors, Ark made a deal with the United Nations to make small amounts of ammunition for testing and trial shipping. They needed to figure this out before making mass amounts because they were great with this, but it was the one item they didn’t want to give anybody. It was a new deterrent, a new MAD item.

They all said one thing and did another. They wanted non-war-related items but needed enough to kill their enemies, so there could be no war anymore. Everyone was trying to get in on it, creating a s*** show. During this time, a lot of little people got stepped on, and warlords stepped up their s***.

One big issue on the news was dungeons with no one going to them because people were too thin to send anyone. These dungeons were also in the middle of nowhere, making it hard to start building anything. Corporations tried to buy those sites from governments, but governments wanted the mineral rights, leading to mini micro under-the-table wars over certain sites. This wasn’t looking good for the casualties, and the United Nations were getting pretty pissed.

The US site they were going to activate was in North Dakota, chosen because it was the closest dungeon to Canada. Jeremy and Jeff were shoved into vehicles and driven to North Dakota. They hit the mess hall, grabbed some pocket food, and were driven in vehicles with tinted windows. Even at the border, they just went right through.

They arrived at a big building, about five stories tall, a giant square. They went through big double doors and were led straight to the gate. Jeremy, unsure what to do, listened to Ark and put his hand on the gate without powering up. Ark said done and told him to get back in the vehicles.

Jeremy and Jeff were taken to a private little jet, which flew quickly to the UK. They were put into black vehicles and driven to the site, literally driven up to the arch without going through the building the normal way. Jeremy put his hand on the arch, and Ark didn’t pull anything from Jeremy. It just looked like Jeremy had to do it. Jeremy was so juiced that just putting his hand there was enough to start it up.

Of course, nothing could go smoothly. As the second dungeon came online, s*** started to go wrong instantly. The dungeon was in the heart of London, underground but not really, as it had a roof, making it look underground.

As the ground around the ark started to go away and the stairs appeared, a little ghost puppy bounded up the stairs and through a wall. It looked ephemeral, like a ghost, but a real ghost. It was a whitish spec-tor, cute, and trying to say something. As it came up the stairs, it barked at everyone but made no sound. We were all just standing there, not petrified, just stunned out of our f****** minds. It took off like a bolt, happy and free, leaving the room feeling good. Everyone looked at me, glowing as Jeremy.

I hadn’t expected that, but what the hell, it’s going to get weird. My favourite thing next was someone saying the mascot for the guards from 200 years ago was a f****** statue of that dog outside.

The room exploded at that point. I didn’t know this was a fort or some old building. Jeremy and Jeff were literally shoved back into vehicles. and drove off...