>>5558092“I think I remember seeing one of those before.” you say, Arctus's eyes widening in surprise. You know you've seen one before, but where? Then it hits you! “Wait, that's where it was. I wasn't paying it a whole lot of attention at the time, because I was fighting for my life, but there was one back on High Charity. Truth had one, it was on the wall behind him when I took that Stand-making dagger from him before he could create Lyin Eyes Requiem again.”
“The Covenant had a Mother Box?” Arctus asks, surging up to his feet despite his injuries. “And you're sure of this?”
“Yeah, but it wasn't all glowing like this one. I'd thought it was just some decoration for the room.” you tell him. “But I doubt it survived High Charity's destruction.”
“I wouldn't be so sure.” he replies, again tapping on his computer. Then after a few seconds swipes up another image, this one appearing far older than the image he'd captured today. It looks just like that other Mother Box, as Arctus calls them, but it isn't active either. Just like the one you faintly remember seeing. “Did it look like this?”
“Yeah, that's it. It wasn't glowing just like that one.” you tell him, curious where this one was taken. But Arctus doesn't elaborate, instead deactivating the two hovering pictures. “Where was that one?”
“It was found in in the ancient ruins on Planet Shaar.” he tells you, the world name sounding familiar but you can't quite place it. “That box was found by Vox's people when they excavated the frozen temple. The one your wife's battle with Boros destroyed.”
“Oh, so that's why the name sounds familiar.” you say, remembering your battle against Jotaro and his Star Platinum and Meloka's battle with the leader of Dark Matter. “Wait, there was one of those inside it?”
“Yes. And it not only survived that battle, but survived what happened to that world afterwards.” Arctus tells you, swiping up another image. No, a video. You see your daughter Chaya fighting alongside Tanya, showing just how old this is, as the two of them fight a colossal demon. It is standing waist-deep in the burning magma, breathing flames at Chaya as she dodges in the air. But then he stops the video, zooming in on a small area by the giant demon. And sure enough, floating there in the liquid rock, is that same box. “See?”
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