Ardgon had been waiting for information when a crack appeared in the air. The crack split in two and then began to travel downwards in a perfect oval until they joined at the floor. Then the space itself inside of the oval fell out and crashed onto the ground into a million pieces. He looked at it with a stupefied look and watched as 2 people entered the room while dragging an unconscious person who looked just like him into the room. One was a woman wearing cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, and the other was a man wearing a pajama cat onesie.
After they entered the male approached him and grabbed his arm while the other threw the unconscious version of him onto the nearby bed. Ardgon just looked at the person grabbing him with shock. The woman wasted no time in turning and grabbing his other arm. He had tried to say something but had realized that he was unable to speak anything in their presence.
They escorted him to the oval and he craned his head as he watched the space reform from the floor and slide back into place. Outside of the room, he was just in was a small corridor that led to another oval. He was led in and when he tried to turn around all he saw was the woman with her hand in the air as it rushed toward his face. Ardgon was then tossed onto the bed in the room and the oval was reassembled and slid back into place.
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"Well, that was the second to last issue. We've only got one more to solve and then we're done." The woman was trying to be positive but that was only because she knew that if she were negative to her partner he might just plop down and sleep instead of working.
"The last one can wait until tomorrow, we have a quota and we reached it. I don't want to do anything else today and Greta is understanding enough to know why we're resting."
They both knew that what he said was true and that there was also no reason to continue working when they had technically been doing overtime for just under an hour now.
The two of them had been working together for over a century at this point, so they were comfortable together. They originally had many issues as one was seemingly lazy and introverted, while the other was boisterous and quick to violence. Despite their different natures, they ironically had the same names and had generally the same temperament when it came to work-related matters.
Sam and Sam were good partners and great friends. They could do everything from helping each other with wounds to showering together. Due to the time spent with each other they no longer worried about the other's thoughts about them. If they were truly such a scumbag as to take advantage of the other it would have happened long ago.
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With such a team working under Greta she never had to worry about who to send when it required a duo. The only unfortunate thing is that neither of them would admit that they absolutely abhorred some of their work. This led Greta to give them tasks they would solve in a quick manner that would give good results that wouldn't waste resources.
Some of these cuts could eventually lead to issues though.
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The first seed Caleb had planted had sprouted. It was an Ent and was currently removing all parts of its seed-like body and integrating it all into its new body. Unlike Caleb, who had a core, this Ent would have its core inside of its body.
As it slowly drew in parts of the seed a bit at a time, it grew taller and began to take on its first form. It was lanky and had long arms that almost reached the ground below. Vines grew as makeshift hair and a branch formed as a headband and pushed it back so it had long wavy hair that only flowed to the back of its head and down to its neck.
It mimicked its creator and had created a vaguely human-looking outline but then it had added its own idea of a perfect body. It opened its mouth and said its first words to the world, "Whoa, like, I'm totally stoked to see the world all lit up in our old man sun's rays! Rad, right?"
The surrounding forest shook and swayed in response and it nodded its head and said, "Totally, broskies! I'm picking up what you're putting down." Then the forest stood still again.
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Greta had just received an emergency signal on an already pending assignment she had given to Sam and Sam. She immediately dropped what she was doing and brought up the assignment details and the work schedule for both of them. She saw that everything but the assignment in question had been completed and saw that the last task completed was over 4 hours ago with them getting off shortly after.
She called both of them but didn't get an answer from either of them. Greta was now royally pissed. The last job just happened to be on the brink of failing and nobody had any information on it outside of some basic information gathered. So far, all they had known was that a dead planet had miraculously begun fixing itself without any obvious signs of intervention.
Nothing in that universe could have even begun to fix the damage that had been dealt to it. Taking a closer look, Greta had seen some of the remnant energies left over from the destruction from all those years ago. It bordered on the power of a god, and in some places, it exceeded some of the lowest tiers of them. For such long-lasting damage to be dealt to a planet that only naturally occurring microbes had formed after all this time with the help of an outlier, it could be seen that almost nothing could have fixed the old planet.
Greta now had to be very cautious around the planet, and universe in general, as a non-natural life had been created without the help of a divine being. Such a thing wasn't allowed as all past cases led to the destruction of the reality they were birthed in and all of the surrounding ones if it wasn't detected in time.
Luckily they had already been monitoring this universe. Now it was time to investigate the events leading to the creation and doing their best to slow the progress of the planet as well, so it wouldn't be able to continue past infancy.