Darkers and Dragons. [update 25-7-14]

[Sacrificial]

First i'd like to say I really enjoy reading all other fanficts here on my cell phone and it is a really good way to spend time waiting on something. That being said, I felt like contributing a fanfict too. I, however have newer written anything like a story before, except for some minor school work and that was not even in English. I have a few parts ready to put here on the forum. I'm not sure how long it will take for others after those parts.
I've written everything on my cellphone as I've allot of time waiting for trains....
My grammar is far from first class and I ran a quick typo/spelling check on it. But it might not be enough so if you see something that really twists the meaning please note it so I can edit it.
All character names are either made up or players that have given approval(in a way). I still lack a title for this fanfict.

A big first one to launch my new hobby. Also big wall 'o text because I don't get these spoilers to work here in this forum....

Navigation. [updated 26-6-2015]

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Prologue.
part2
part3
Arc Ambduscia
chapter 1
part1 Flashback
part2 Hell sets loose
part3 Broken Defences
part4 A step backwards
chapter 2
intro If only...
part2A new beginning
part 3Faulty logic?
part4Briefing
part5Departure
Chapter 3
Caves
Dragons
Encounter
The few last hours part1
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Side story 1

Part one. Prologue

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"Mo...........mori............Moriah............M. ...rai......w....ke. up.....Moriah, wake up. Moriah, wake up!" "uuuunn? Dad?" "Moriah!" " Dad, what's wrong," "Moriah, there's no time to explain. Get dressed!" "It's only six in the morning." Moriah replied while yawning. "Get dressed, here" Moriah's father said, when he tossed some clothes at her. The set she wore yesterday. A sleeveless dark green shirt with a print on it and a matching medium-long skirt. He stopped moving for a few seconds,then threw a pair of jeans, saying it would be better for the situation then a skirt. "Moriah.. downstairs... one minute." Moriah nodded and yawned another time. "geez" she said while getting dressed. Moriah's father was waiting in the hallway. "I said one minute, lady. Now get your shoes on we need to hurry" "Dad,how about breakfast?" asked Moriah as she pulled on her shoes. "We don't have time for that" He opened the door. Moriah's eyes went wide open, clearly showing her duman family trait. A right purple eye colour and a left brown one. She couldn't believe what she saw outside. "Let's go" she heard.
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As her father pulled her across the street, Moriah wondered what was going on. Some buildings were burning, some were collapsed She saw more people were running. "dad?" " shh not now Mor, keep running" "But I'm tired." As they passed a crossroad Moriah noticed that she had never been in this area before. They stopped a moment to catch breath. It looked like a small shopping area, a clothing store on her left, next to a bakery. on her right a pharmacy and a small convenience store. "Let's hurry up." Moriah's father made motion to run again, Moriah protested first but still ran. A bit further was a stone squire with in the middle something that was supposed to look like a statue and in each corner a tree. It would have been a nice spot to eat lunch if it was not for the fact that a car had crashed in the statue and the wounded people around it. They heard a scream behind them. A young man shouted "Run, they are coming!" Although Moriah couldn't see his face, he seemed afraid. "who is they?" Moriah asked. As she focused her eyes she saw something black. It was as big as the young man they were chasing, they ran on four spiky legs. Her father answered: "Those are Darkers, Mor. It's what this ARKS fleet has been fighting against for years." I' ll try to explain a bit more later but let's run away for now." " O-okay." Meanwhile the Darkers caught up to the young man... he got stabbed to death.
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10 minutes later.

"Damned we can't pass this!" The road was blocked by deserted cars. A small group decided to climb on the cars and continue on top of them. They progressed slow but steady. More people decided to join them. Others tried to find a way around by going through alleys. "Mor, let's go this way" said Isaï as he pointed towards an alley on the left. " dad? Can't you just beat those things up? You are from the ARKS too right? And you have your katana with you." It was a long alley with turns to the left and right. There were cross points with some times a locked gate or a fence at the end. Isaï stopped running for a brief moment and said. "No..... I can't even hope to stand a chance against this many and protect you at the same time Moriah. Even if they are just common soldier class Dagan." He ran again. He saw the exit." Oh, so if I was not he.....kyaaa." Moriah tripped over trash in the alley, crashing into two garbage cans. Which made obviously alot of noise. "uuch...... ew gross."
Suddenly a few Dagan appeared in the opening of the ally. First one. Then two..... three...... four. .......five....six.....zeven.
Luckly only two Dagan could fit in the alley side by side. This would mean they would come in waves. Moriah's father went into his combat stance, left hand on the scabbard, right arm ready to draw. The Dagan came closer, first at walking speed, but soon they charged. The first Dagan raised it's right leg, ready to strike, while it continued to move with the other three. Once it was close enough it striked it's deadly leg that could pierce steel with ease. The attack was not fast enough, because Isaï could dodge without effort and started his counter attack. His right hand gripped his katana firmly and drew it and attacked at the same time. A quickdraw. Which slashed of the attacking Dagan's left leg, just under a joint, causing it to tumble and exposed it's core. There was no time to hit it....yet. He first slashed upwards to the second Dagan. The cut was deep enough to damage the core. The blade striked downward, stabbing the first Dagan right in the middle if it's core.It all happened in a fluent motion. "That's two down" he said with showing any sign of effort. He pulled out his katana from the dead Dagan and slashed towards the third Dagan that crawled over the Dagan corpses. The Dagan however jumped to initiate it's own attack, making the katana just schratch the tip of it's leg. Isaï barely dodged and had to give ground to the Dagan swarm. As corpses filed the alley, Isaï had less space to move and resulted in losing ground again.
More Dagan kept appearing at the alley.
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Moriah was looking how her father was fighting the Dagans, proud and amazed by the number he had slain, afraid that he might tire down and being overrun. "Moriah! Run back! Continue over" *gnnn* he grunted as he guarded against an attack. "Continue over the cars. I'll follow shortly. There are too many of them here. "B-but..... " "GO!" "You promise?" "GO AlREADY!"Moriah was cried. She should go back, no, she had to, her father told her so. She always listened to him. ...But she couldn't just leave him... "What if... NO, I shouldn't think that" while shaking her head and she started running.
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Almost at the starting point she stopped and looked back, she saw nothing. She turned and saw someone sitting against a car. "Hey! Please mister! Can you help me!".....No response. Moriah walked closer and tried again "Hey! Please....my dad..... h-he.." she stopped. A Dagan crawled behind the car. It looked different though. It seemed twice as big as Moriah and it was slightly brown, maybe red She gasped." O no. nonono it can't be". Tears showed again on the already red swollen eyes, small droplets hit the dirty ground. Moriah gathered her last strength and ran back towards her father to warn him, that the only other exit was overrun too. Meanwhile Isaï was heading towards the meeting point. For some reason the Dagan he was fighting, stopped charging. They waited or only crawled slowly towards him. He ran as fast as he could. Although it would seem little more than walking. His leg had a deep wound, which made it difficult to run. His arms were covered in cuts. And he couldn't see properly as some blood as came into his eye. But he was stil alive that was al that mattered now. He could still for fill his promise. "Moriah, I'm coming.... It won't...... take long." The Dagans still followed slowly, because they knew their prey couldn't escape. Moriah saw her father. "Dad!" "Moriah?!" said Isaï. "What are you doing here? DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO GO AHEAD?!" as he burst out in anger. Moriah who was still crying relied:"I couldn't t-those things were out there too.One that was even bigger than the others." "What?!" Isaï forgot the anger he felt towards his daughter. Then he saw what she ment. Where two Dagan could fit before was now a huge red-brown Dagan filling the alley. "Shit!, a Nero!" shouted Isaï. A Nero-type in front of them and normal Dagans behind them, closing in. The Nero vibrated his strengthened wings and shot a negative photon spike towards Moriah. Isaï pushed her away and got hit in his left shoulder. "Ack!" Blood splurt out of the wound the moment the spike passed through, it continued to bleed. "DAD!" Moriah screamed while trying to get back up, after being pushed. A Dagan charged and tackled Isaï, who still wasn't recovered from the spike's impact and knocked him down. His katana fell from his hand. The katana landed in front of Moriah. She tried to pick it up and help her father. "hnnnnn... It's too heavy..." The katana fell to the ground. She now tried to push it as hard as she could towards her father. It moved. Isaï could pick it up. The Nero was now standing behind her, she felt it was. The Nero raised a leg, ready to strike. It all happened to fast for Isaï to react. Moriah closed her eyes. "It's over" she thought. She could hear her father shout her name, tell her to move. She couldn't. She was frozen by fear. She felt wind, followed by a sharp pain. Moriah fell on the ground... And she felt something warm.

End part 1

[Sacrificial]

part2. I used lines between most conversation parts and non conversation. Also unavoidable double post....

Spoiler!

"Ladies and gentlemen of the ARKS." Said a spokesman. "I welcome you all to the second development and progression presentation." "As you all know, we, the Military COREporation better known as MCORE, have taken the request for new frontliner CAST." "What we need on the frontlines is: ONE! Manpower and SECOND! Firepower." The spokesman continued:"We all know the development of the first CAST cast away our manpower problems. The discovery of photons solved our lack of firepower against the Darkers."

The spokesman took a sip from the glass of water that was standing on a platform coloured like the stage. He continued his speech: "BUT we still lack armors that can be customized, we have no MBT's to support the ARKS groundforces and our ships are far from perfect." "This is where MCORE comes in." "Last time you have seen the basic frame, the core." "Now we have developed it further. This CAST model will become the backbone on the frontlines."

Is what the spokesman proclaimed.

"One of the chief researchers will now give specifications, Dr. Ysgol.

A man in a white labcoat came upon the stage. He had grey hair, what was left of it. Meanwhile a CAST was coming up from an elevator beneath the stage. It only didn't look very humanlike as most humans preferred, sure it was bipodal and you could see arms, but that was it.The ARKS public looked shocked. It was a big CAST, Lilipan mech white coloured, very bulky, two to three humans wide. This was not what shocked the public, the place where hands were supposed to be were now huge yellow claws, big enough to surround an average human.

Dr. Ysgol began to speak: "I see you all have noticed to claws,yes? But I leave the talk for weaponary for later,yes? The Core model you see now is equiped with our Heavy class armor, it uses our Photon Reactive Armor plating. PRA calculated the impact point from any photon based weapon incoming, creating a shockwave and flings the plating in that area apart. The plating absorbs much of the incoming energy and the photon cloud disrupts the structure of the incoming photon weapon, be it a blade or a projectile. The armor itself is build from the same material as CAST today meaning production can be carried out by any ARKS factory."

Some ARKS in the public clearly showed approvel as this would mean the production cost could be reduced significant. Dr. Ysgol continued:

" This Core model can also be equiped with Medium-type and Light-type armor depending on the Core's role in the battlefield. For example Heavy armor would restrict effective use of small machineguns, while Light armor would suffer from a launchers kickback. The ability to easily change armor and equipment made us name this model MultiCore. MultiCore can switch to a scan mode and a battle mode. The scan mode has IR, a Tactical Photon Reconnaicence system, improved HUD and acces to the ARKS database that shows traits of known creatures. The battle mode focuses all energy on the mainsystem and shuts down all unnececery programs, thus improving movement and processing speed. The head contains long range optics perfect for the intended artillery role. The legs have two low energy consumption boosters."

"Now last but not least the weapons, MultiCore's main weapon is a launcher that can fire our High Explosive Photon Grenades, so far HEPG has proven as an effective shell against Darkers, It will carry five explosive decoys and a set of cluster missiles." An optional secondary would be small arms like a short barrel short stock rifle, a small machinegun or a pistol. For CQC we have these Phyteuma wired lances , however these are our own choi-.......

EMERGENCY..........EMERGENCY...... A loud siren echoed repeating that one word. EMERGENCY........EMERGENCY..... A small panic arised from the crowd. EMERGENCY...EMERGENCY.......A female voice came through the intercom :

"Traces of Darker infection spotted in colonial city 045, all ARKS in section 1-6 and 11-19 are to be send out." I repeat: "Traces of Darker infection spotted in colonial city 045, all ARKS in section 1-6 and 11-19 are to be send out."

Dr Ysgol spoke with a broad smile: "Well then ladies and gentlemen what is better than live action as presentation? We shall send out MultiCore as wel..... yes we shall!"

The elevator started going down, hiding MultiCore under the stage bit by bit. The headresearcher ran off aswell. Ysgol ran to the researchlab that was 400 meters away from the stage area. He still had a smile on his face as he said to himself: "test run~"

Suddenly he stopped near a console. He pressed some buttons and said "Commander,yes? "Dr Ysgol here from MCORE. I have a CAST ready for city 045, include it in the operation, yes?"

Before he got approval he closed the console and continued to run. Once he got at the lab he only saw one female researcher.

" Ah May!" "Yes professor?" "Did MultiCore arrive yet, no?" May replied: "He just arrived professor,but wasn't he supposed to be at the presentation?" "yes, indeed."

The doc smiled again.

"It will be presentated, yes. It will join the operation in city 045!" "B-but professor!" "He isn't ready yet! MultiCore is still missing personality software and we haven't finished the communication device either. Then there is still the advanced movenement system failure we are trying to get rid of for two weeks now. And... And.."
"Get a basic communication on it, it doesn't need the whole dictonary or manners! It's a machine! Ysgol interrupted.B-but. "May.......the most important thing is we can test the PRA armor,no? Did you forgot we use CAST only to get approval for research? Yes,it will be a small sacrifice for the data we can get. May, get the custom pisastian with foie generator, unit deployment will start shortly."
"Y-yes, professor"said May as Dr Ysgol walked away.

When May came back with the pisastian, she put it on the nearest table and turned to MultiCore. She started talking to the still lifeless CAST." For the professor you might just be a machine, but for me...."

She looked around to make sure no one was around then she removed an armorplate on the body. Some kind of hatch was now visible, she opened it. A small controlpanel was behind the hatch, May pulled out a small device out of her labcoat and plugged it into the controlpanel. "It might not be the best quality, but it should be enough to understand this world and addapt to it."

After a minute she unplugged the device and hid it in her labcoat, she then turned to the hatch, closing it and while she was reattaching the armorplate Ysgol walked into the room.
"Transport is here, the machine is ready,no?" "Yes, professor MultiCore is ready."

[yoshiblue]

Like the new improvements. Will be interested in the upcoming prototype CAST city battle. As for a title, could go for something based on the ending or the climax.

[Sacrificial]

Last part of the prologue. I stretched the lines even further this time for easier reading. It results in an even bigger wall 'o text though.

Spoiler!

Activating mainsystem........mainsystem activated.
Checking mainsystem.....
Booting up "birth" program.
Race:Cast
type:MultiCore S.A.C.
Registering data.
Checking mainframe parts.....head.....body......arms....legs......
Mainframe checked. All green.
"!"
Checking subsystems....
"?!"
"*+e>§? w[]%#§?"
Initiating communication system.
"What? This what is.?"
Installing basic knowledge and learning software.
"Dark.... so dark, what is this?
Enable optics........start HUD.
"Ah, where is this?
checking scanmode....TPR...green
checking battlemode....energy flow correct.
"A window....."
Entering normal mode.
full control given to the Cast.
"I can move?" I saw a big object in front of me. "My arm?"
Welcome to the world. End of 'birth program'.
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"Birth.....program? Ah, a window." I started moving towards it.
My first steps I realised. As I look outside I see a view I have never seen before,which wouldn't have been weird since I have just been 'born'. Yet I mumbled: "a city".I looked outside,everything looked small down there. It looked nice, but there was something wrong compared to my database. I focused my 'eyes'.
I saw fire in the far distance. White smoke rising above it. The floor started to tilt towards where I was standing. I lost my still small, sense of balance and crashed into the window with a loud "thud". My vision disorted for a brief moment when i hit my head.

"Aye, just born 'n already makin' noise 're ya!"
I turned towards the voice, a man's voice. I saw the back of two seats, a controlpanel and a window.
"Over here" An arm was waving behind the left seat. "Who are you?" I asked. The man relied: "One should introduce himself first before askin'. " Oh, sorry. I'm MultiCore a S.A.C. type Cast. And you are?" The man grinned." I was just messin' with ya. I'm Bron the pilot of this ship, my ship. So don't try to break it if ya fall again." "Eerh ok." I said, not sure what to do.

Bron started talking again." Ya might be a 'born' Cast but I sure hope ya know what yer mission is."

I checked my files and found a missionlog tittled: S.A.C. testrun. I opened the missionlog. Primairy objective, save and protect civilians, rendez-vous LZ. Secondary objective neutrolize any Darker infections.

"I know my mission. How far until my designated area?" "Bout three clicks. It's yer first mission 'n a testrun so yer wont be headdin' far into infected area. So better check yer gear, wouldn't want to get a malfunction don't ya."

And so I checked my gear. My main weapon seemed to be a pisastian, a rather sleak looking launcher in my opinion. It was designed to be fired and used as an assault rifle, but it was classified as a launcher.
It held a nine sized box magazine, my ordinance: 35mm HEPG shells. I had two spare clips, so twenty seven shots. Which would probably more than enough for my first mission and a rate of fire that would let me shoot a bit faster than other launchers. The pisastian seemed to be customized with a foie generator, so I also had an alternative firing mode.

My HUD showed a pair of wired lances for CQC in my rear weapon bay. I tried one onto my left arm. The wired lance attached on my arm with bolts and yellow photon claws appeared where normally fingers should be. My HUD displayed a change in my mainframe, my left arm had become longer and my hand displayed a claw. I tried to move my hand but the claw moved instead. "Sweet." I detached the wired lance from arm and reattached it on my back in the CQC bay.

"One click remaining" Bron said. "Why am I the only one here for this mission?" I asked.

"Cause like I said earlier yer a 'newborn'. Ya get a easy objective to get a hang of it, ya know."
"But wouldn't someone to assist me be better then?"
"Now don't ya start lookin' down on me. I'm the one that helps ya, airsupport 'n all. This baby can ..... WOW gotta be kiddin' me. Better hold on to somethin' Multi. This gonna be rough."

The ship made a sharp downward turn. I was just fast enough to brace myself or I would be flying into a wall again.

"Bron,what's going on?!" I asked rather panicked.

"Kartago's tryin' to harm my baby."

I looked outside the window on my right. Red beams going past the ship almost hitting one of the engines.

Bron raised his voice."We won't let you! C'mon baby. Return fire! *Brrrrrrrrrrrt* *Brrrrrrrrrrt*

I heard a vulcan fireing a few salvo's. "One down! 'Nother notch!"

The ship tilted to the right, making half a U-turn. I could see the streets from another angle now. I turned on my scan mode. Meanwhile Bron continued his actions.

"Take this!" *Brrrrrrrrrrrt*

I spotted something using my TPR."Bron, I scan a weak ARKS signal and a civilian."

"What?! Where I see nothin' on my radar."
"C3 ,near those buildings. Drop me off, we are near my designated area anyway."

Bron replied: K, I'll lower altitude near that buildin'. Ya got ten seconds to jump, some kartago still wanna hurt my baby Multi."

"Roger" I said. "Keep in touch through the com."

The ship's back hatch started to lower. "six" I grabbed my pisastian and walked to the ledge. "four, hurry up." I looked for a good spot to land on the roof. "two". I jumped. Even before I landed the ship swayed away. It started climbing again in height while still sending bursts of bullets flying. There was a static from my comunication device.

"Multi, I gotta leave this area , to much kartago, take'm out on yer way to the LZ,over."

I walked towards the edge of the roof. My scanmode still showed my two objectives and a fair amount of Darkers. Dagans as my database showed me.

"hmm, mostly slashes with it legs or tackles. Some Dagan can fly and shoot negative photon spikes. Great......." I checked my pisastian one last time. "safety...off. Ok, entering combat."

--Entering battlemode.--

My blue scanning grid dissappeared from my HUD and I got combat information in return, my body status, energy flow and ofcourse my ammunition. I immediatly used my legs boosters when I jumped down to reduce the landing impact given my weight and the building's height. The stones in the alley still cracked though.

A little girl was in front of me, her eyes closed and kneeling. She had light brown hair and small, hardly noticible horns sticking out. A Duman. Behind her a red Dagan twice the child's size,ready to slash down. I reacted as fast as my system allowed shoving the girl away.
I heard a faint snapping sound and the Dagan missed it's slash. I aimed the pisastian with my free arm and activated the foie generator, a huge continues flame burst out, frying the Dagan in front of me. It's shrieks were too soft to hear above the burning flame.
I released the trigger after a good 10 seconds and turned 180 degrees. I saw a middle aged man fighting against more Dagans. He was wounded and bleeding. His left arm was hanging numb and I could he had trouble standing on his right leg. I noticed an ARKS emblem on his outfit.

I readied my launcher and shot three times into the Dagan crowd, my third shell missed and hit the wall near the end of the alley. "damned". The wall collapsed, blocking off the entrance. "Oh well good enough" I wanted to fire a fourth HEPG,but the man could've been caught in the blast, as the remaining Dagans were alot closer now.
The man faced me now, looking surprised where the shots came from. He now looked slightly towards my right, his expression changed.A worried face.

"Moriah!"

He shouted and stumbled towards the little girl, that lay curled up on the ground and ignored the Dagans closing in behind him. I rushed forward using the pisastian as a battering ram, when it made contact with a Dagan I pulled the trigger making the shell explode at point-blank. The blast radius didn't do much to me considering my weight and thick armor.

Three Dagan remaining. I shot a shell at each of them. When the dust and smoke cleared,I saw one Dagan still alive, crippled but alive. My ammo display showed 2/9.
I didn't feel like wasting one shell on that thing and then having to waste another,because reloading after the last shell would be a risk I couldn't afford. So I walked to the Darker,slowly,then I crushed that thing under the weight of my launcher. I had to repeat bashing into it with my stock to make sure it was dead.

Darkers sure are tough againt non-photon based attacks. Some of the older Dagan corpses started to dissolve.

--Combat ceased, entering scan mode.--
I turned towards the man, who was on his knees next to the girl. I rested the pisastian on my shoulder and moved towards them. Once I got closer I noticed the girl's arm bend in a way that shouldn't be possible for Dumans.
Heck, even I couldn't make my arm do that.

The girl started to talk. "Dad....it hurts... my arm, I can't move it." "It's broken." Her father answered."How? Did the Dagan hit you sweethart?" The girl shaked her head.
I stepped in. "I guess I did it, when I pushed her out of the way."

"Can't be helped, atleast you saved my daughter. A bone can heal,a life cannot." The man said. " Ah, I'm Isaï and this is my daughter Moriah."

"MultiCore, S.A.C. type Cast.

There was a short silence. Isaï broke it." I suppose you don't have some kind of painkiller or a monomate?"

"I'm afraid I have not,but we better start moving towards the LZ. We can't go that way anymore so we have to make a small detour." I said while pointing at the collapsed wall. " I can carry either the girl or you."

"Take Moriah."

"K" I lifted Moriah with two hands and placed her on my shoulder,carefull,I didn't want to break more than that arm. Once she sat, Moriah said:" What about you dad? Can you walk with that leg?"

"I'm fine sweethart."

And so we moved on to the LZ. Isaï was following me slowly but fast enough. He was using his sword as a walkingstick for support. On the way I found out that Moriah was eight summers old, halfway to nine. She wanted to join the ARKS like her dad and master the combat arts of her Duman clan.
Normally speech was limited or prohibited behind the enemy lines but I figured I had to releive the tension in the air.

She talked to me as if I was an adult even though she was by far eight years older than me. I guess thats one of the priveleges Cast have,not being bound by time. Having an adult mind and body from the start we are born, until the moment we cease to function.

Moriah still was in pain, but she was good in not showing it in my opinion. We neared a crossroad, one turn to the right, 1100 meters, then left and we were near the LZ. I turned right and my scanmode kept tracking,locking and marking a big amount of Darkers.

"I'll be damned."

I used my communication device. "Bron, I could use some airsupport! A5." A static came."Aye,can't do Multi still Kartago in there,take 'm down 'n I'll be there."

And so I stared at my marked targets. Two big Darkers with caterpillar legs and shooting red beams in the sky. Kartago's I figured, rest Dagan.

"Moriah, get off and take cover." I said while I lowered myself.

"Will you be alright?" She asked.

I pretended I didn't hear it and took off. I was nearing my firing range. "Entering combat mode".
I was in range so I shot two HEPG shells. Red words appeared in my vision.

--0/9 Please Reload.--

So I did. I looked at the Kartago I shot.

Nothing.

I shot another shell,no effect again. I heard Isaï shouting from behind.

" The back! Aim for it's back!"

The first Kartago had turned towards me, it's deadly beam was aimed at me. For some reason it shot the ground first and then the beam moved in my direction as if it wanted me cut in half. The attack went so fast I couldn't react at all,the beam was already in front if me.

Luckly for me, me PRA kicked in. The PRA split appart sending out photon waves and pieces of armor plating. I still got hit though, but the damage was only a thin melted armor line instead me being cut in half.

I activated my boosters and moved in a circular arc while shooting my pisastian magazine empty. I took out a couple of Dagan as well as the Kartago. I tried to do the same thing again on the second one but stopped halfway because this Kartago actually tried to dodge and shield himself.

"Four shells left,this has become tricky."

The Kartago shot another beam, I had to make an evasive roll,which would've probably looked stupid if you consider my size and bulky armor. I decided to use my wired lances. I put my launcher on my shoulder bay and took out my claws from my rear bay. Bolts shot into my arms linking the Phyteuma to my system.

The yellow photon claws appeared. I slashed at a nearby Dagan with my left then I launched my right wired claw clearing up a path towards the Kartago. I activated my boosters again, maximum thrustpower. I raised my voice to my com.

"BRON!! YOU BETTER BE THERE!!"

The Kartago began charging its beam. I swung my arms as if I wanted to sandwich the Darker and fired my lances,my clawed hands.

--Warning, energy level depleting rapidly.--

The swinging motion landed my claws on the Kartago's core. I discharged my static electricity, that followed the lances wires straight to the Darker's core. The Kartago got fried.

--Warning, energy below critical level,restricting movement untill restored.--

And that was the catch of everything. I could only watch as the Dagans crawled closer. I heard a girl's scream, then my name but I couldn't turn.

"Come on."

The Dagans were way to close now.

"Come on. Where...." *Brrrrrrrrrrrrt* *Brrrrrrrrrrrrt* *Brrrrrrrrrrrrt*

The sound I was hoping for. I could hear bullets fly around my body. I could see asphalt from the street kicking up, Dagans in front of me falling lifeless to the ground. *Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt* Now I felt a PRA plate activating. A static came from my com.

"Airsupport at yer service. Jokes aside start movin' away already. I might give collateral damage."

"I can't yet my energy level is still not enough." I replied. "And you just DID hit me."

*Brrrrrrrrrrrrt* *Brrrrrrrrrrrrt*

"Well yer just a big target, even among those Darkers,over"

Another static."Damned Bron."

--Energy above critical level, returning movenement control.--

I switched on scanmode for a brief moment to see how many of the earlier marked targets were still alive and where they were on the advanced grid from scanmode,then I switched back to battlemode.

*Brrrrrrrrrrrrt* Airsupport still here. I turned 120 degrees,facing a group of three Dagan. There was another small group south-east from me and I had the feeling Bron would take care of that.

This time I didn't use my boosters while attacking,my energy level still wasn't enough to try something big and I sure didn't want to play a living statue again. I walked to the Dagans that were also crawling to me. Once in range I began to shoot and retract the Phyteuma and kept them moving in a figure eight. If the Dagans managed to get closer, I stepped back. Did they back off, I moved in.

I played it save, utilizing the reach the best I could while slowly cutting,slicing and hacking the Darkers to death. When one Dagan was left I flung my right arm back and made a downward swinging motion, nailing the Dagan to the ground.

There was one last *Brrrrrrrrrrrrt* before I heard the static. It was Bron.

"Area clear MultiCore and I don't see any sign of Darker up ahead. I see ya at the LZ,over."

"Roger."
--Combat ceased, entering scan mode.--

I walked back to where I left Moriah and Isaï. On the way the bolts from wired lances unlocked,so I replaced them in my rear bay. I must say that I learned fine, advanced movenement after this point. My normal hands were so much easier to control than those crude claws. I could easily pat Moriah on the without breaking something.

She looked so shocked when I walked around the corner. I must have looked horrible. All those lose leftover PRA plates, the cracks, the dents, that half melted vertical line,which was actually my only true damage to my mainframe. That would need some repairs. So I told Moriah it was nothing to worry about. I found out that explaining and convincing people was troublesome. Another thing learned.

"So you really are fine?" Moriah asked for the umpteenth time. "No, I lied. My mainsystem was greatly damaged,so I might shut down anytime." Moriah gasped and looked to Isaï,who was smiling faintly, then looked back to me.

My first joke....or is it sarcasm? I'll have to search my files for the answer when this mission is done. "So lets go." I said. The last few hundreds meters to the LZ went smooth. No Darkers, I didn't find any other people in my search area though.

--Mission complete, returning to normal mode.--

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Before parting away with Isaï and Moriah, they had me promise to visit them in the hospital.
My first promise and it caused me trouble. The hospital doors........ they were too small, the hallways...too small. Luckly I fit in the elevator. I had to move sideways, docters and security had to push me inside Moriah's room.

When I finally was inside, I saw Moriah chuckle and then laugh. It surely was satisfying to see her smile, hear her laugh. So far I had only seen destruction.

Moriah's arm could be healed within a week with advanced technology. Isaï however was less lucky, some kind of muscle in his leg was damaged badly, even when restored it wouldn't been strong enough. Normal walking was possible maybe even running with proper assisted training.

He was not suitable for ARKS missions anymore but he didn't mind that. "To risky leaving my daughter alone." he said. Isaï became an instructor teaching ARKS students how to wield a katana and passing on the family arts to Moriah.

The multi layered armor and PRA was a succes. However my creator was caught commiting fraud , so the corporation got lifted and the multicore project got halted.

I said halted but production never really started, expect me and the prototype armor sets nothing else was build. There were blueprints from my mainframe and my armor sets in my datafolders so I guess a certain benefactor had expected something to happen.

Thanks to that I could repair myself and make new PRA. After research I found out it was rather expensive to make so I needed a job. Luckly I had gotten a recommendation to join the ARKS and so I did.

And so my tale in the universe begins.

MultiCore type S.A.C.
Male Cast
Ranger
ARKS

PS: I really enjoyed writting this part and ending of the proloque. Future chapters will revolve around planet Amduscia and the dragonkin. Thats why dragons in the title <.< *cough* I hope those who read this fanfict also enjoying it so far and comments are always welcome as it may help me improve my work.
PSS: Spoilers why don't you work (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[o0Kais0o]

Good idea you have here, I'll be keeping an eye on this.

[Sacrificial]

Update later than i planned myself, but here is the first chapter in the Ambduscia arc.

Spoiler!

ARKS Oracle fleet
MultiCore/Cast
Somewhere in the universe.


It is almost ten years since I was 'born'. It has been awhile since I have been so busy. I have not seen any form of action for atleast a week now. Maybe longer. I have been a leech since that accident,living on my team's expenses or from friends.
Stupid dragons. I never really hated dragonkin, heck even now I still respect them.

Most of my missions I've spend on Ambduscia. The higher ups didn't like to send me to Naberius. Stuff with forest fires and my flamethrower. Atleast I made sure the Darkers in that area were dead.
I smiled-not that it could be seen- thinking back at that huge fire. And I didn't really like planet Lilipa myself. Those Lilipans.... stupid rabbids.

And those mechs. They remind me of myself, I have the same colour sceme. In my early days working for the ARKS I received more friendly fire than mechs attacked me. So now if I have to do missions or gather mech materials I only pick those who know me.

One of the biggest downsides of not being involved in Lilipa is that I'll never be able to get close to that caseal,one of the headresearchers you often see on the newsboards when she discovers something. Furie..... Yea,I think that was her name.

Oh, well. Ambduscia. Home of the dragonkin. There was this discovery in a certain temple, an Altar the researchers called. I have been in a lot of these socalled dragon altars.This was more like a fortress. Me and a group of people I trust with my life were asked to join the mission. -The same group I'm about to meet.-

Set up an outpost, secure the area, keep the dragons calm. We had three campships for this mission, with the additional gun and dropships. We were around 160 ARKS big.
Human,Newman,Duman and Cast every race was there. My group was almost done with the work for the outpost. Then it happend.

A group of researchers triggered somekind of trapdoor in a room. The dragonkin had told them to stay away from that room. Saying it was a holy place were only the most honourable warriors were allowed to enter. Their warriors ofcourse, The dragonkin seem to value honour and pride. But those researchers just had to go inside. Those researchers and guards that didn't die from the trapdoor were executed on the spot. No excuses, just a sword straight through the middle.

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-Entering memory files..........Analysing............Initiating memory file-

The screams were heard through the coms. Even heard echoing in the outpost.

"Eto.. what was that?" A blond caseal next to me asked.

Her hair falling naturaly. Altlene. She was looking around. Her quadpanel skirt reflecting the sunlight. She rested a board on her shoulder ment for the wall we were working on.
"What was what, Alt?" I replied." "That sound just now" "Ah I don't know ,it came from that." I pointed to the Altar.
"Anyway give me that board this wall section is almost finished."

An alarm went off and someone started speaking through the outpost's speakers.

"EMERGENCY, the dragonkin has started to become hostile, prepare for combat."

Altlene sighed.

"They just have to start something when we are almost offduty." "Altleeeeneee! Saaaaaaac! - one of my many nicknames- Over heeeereee!"

Altlene and I looked down from the wall. Beneath us was a small newearl. She had short white hair and wore a rather boyish outfit. She was waving at us.

"Yo."

Altlene and I said at the same time.

"Don't 'yo' me and get down here already."

Altlene started walking towards the slope on the left. I followed. Once we were where the newearl was waiting I said:

" So do you have more information for this boss?." "Yes, according to the higher ups the dragons broke the peace treaty by attacking ARKS researchers. Rumor sais they are going to attack here, so we are to form a defensive line asap."

I shrugged."Defensive line? The walls are far from finished. Are they saying we have to fight in that open field behind this wall?"

The newearl shrugged in return and said: "Anyway get your gear from the armory, you want to get paid don't you. Karyu should be there by now. Hmm, what's wrong Alt?"

The caseal was fidgeting. Then she said softly. "Cookie first."

"WHAT!?" I said out loud." Are you serious?" "No cookie no work" There was a brief silence.

"Erh Zein?" The newearl stared at me with a face 'you do it' then she walked away saying: "You have five minutes to get in position."

I reached for a white pouch strapped on my right leg. "Alt, catch." I flipped a cookie towards the caseal who caught it."Armory, now." Altlene turned on her heels and ran away. "Where do you even keep them?" I sighed then I ran as well.

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When I arrived at the armory Altlene was already packed and ready to go. She carried two D92 Janus submachine guns. They use a closed bolt,blowback magnism and are fitted with red dot sights. The selective firing switch allows them to fire full automatic, three burst or semi automatic. The D92 uses a somewhat larger cartridge than the average smg to get more stopping power. The increased kickback should be far from a problem for a Cast though making the D92 a deadly weapon for close to medium range.

I have a pair of those too, I didn't bring them for this mission since I get paid for long range support fire and not for being a trigger happy gunrunner. I walked to my armory locker. Opened it and looked at that brandnew launcher I got.

A Varder Cannon. I had to lend meseta to buy the materials, hire people to gather parts and spend hours in a workshop to modify it. I have only testfired it a few times at a firing range hoping it wouldn't bang in my face.

It didn't. But it still lacks a foie generator or fuel tank for my trademark flamethrower. If I'm lucky I earn enough to pay off my depth and have some spare meseta for that.
This thing must be worth it though, 60mm shells, that will make a loud bang. As for my secondary weapon. An old modified Yasminkov 2000H with an undermounted laser and an oldschool red dot sight. It might be old but a .45 ACP always comes in handy. I slit the pistol in a holder on my waist.

"You are slow fatty. Stop staring at your toys like a child."

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I knew that voice. I turned around. A single red light from my visor focusing to the corner where the sound came from. A caseal I knew all to well. Dark purple armor, two shielded side binders hung along side her arms. Semi long purple hair and a matching hairband with her armor.

"Hmm..... ah Karyu. Already good to go I guess?"

"Ofcourse I'm not as slow as you." "Oh and Karyu." " Hmm?" "I'm not fat!"

Karyu shrugged. "Sure sure" Then she ran away.

I looked away and found Altlene still standing next to me.

"But you are fat."

She wispered and ran after Karyu. Feeling rather agitated now I turned to pick up my launcher. Upon seeing it I smiled inside. Then I left the armory at my own speed to the meeting point and receive further orders.

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When I arrived at the meeting point I saw a group of humans giving orders and sending people in certain directions. One male noticed me standing and walked to me.

"Name?" "MultiCore, sir!"

The man activated a holographic board and scrolled down and pressed some buttons when he saw my name.

"You're late MultiCore. The others from your crew are already in position.Long range fire support, section B4 right flank. Move it soldier."

As I moved along the defensive line I saw our defences were nothing more than a couple sandbaggs or building material that was ment for the wall and undeep, hastenly dug trenches and foxholes. Nothing quite my size.

I mumbled. "still better than nothing in an open field."

I was almost at B4 when I saw my crew, they were standing near a foxhole. Zein didn't look happy. And I saw why. A small number of dragons lay shattered across this section. Most of them looked like Set Sadinians. I also saw two hunters getting carried away. A human and a Cast.
I stopped running and continued to walk until I was in front of Zein.

"you are late." she said. "There were a couple of dragon charges along the line and you weren't here."

"You know I'm not as fast as all of you." Before Karyuuzaki could say something I said. " And it is not because I'm fat!"

Karyu shrugged. "You said it yourself this time Multi."

"Ah no what I mean is.......... nevermind."

A dragonhorn roared in the sky, followed by countless roars from dragonkin. Their warcry's echoed within the walls of the Dragon Altar.
This alone could be enough to break the spirit of an enemy, crush any hope to survive and let them tremble from fear even after death.

The fear for death isn't big in Casts, nor for those ARKS who endanger their lives everyday. That is how the rumor goes though. I have seen the most capable men and women snap,both Cast and the fleshy races.

The gates from the Altar opened slowly. I entered scanmode to get a better view.

-Entering scanmode-

Another dragonhorn roared as the first Dragonkin stepped outside. Sil Sadinians marched outside, perfectly arranged in lines. After covering a three meters they fanned out to the left and to the right. After them followed a small group of Sol Dirandal mounted by Sil Sadinian.

I scanned seven.

They too spread out behind the single half circulair row of Sil Sadinians. Yet again a dragonhorn roared and the dragons started to slam their swords on their shields.

More physological warware.
Blue light started to appear around the Sol Dirandal now.

"Oh shit that can't be good." I said. "TAKE COVER! STAY LOW!" A fieldofficer shouted through the coms.

The seven Sol Dirandal fired crystal balls surrounded by blue light all along the entire ARKS defence line.

Dirt,rocks,crystal pieces flew around as the blue emmiting balls exploded. I saw a male newman a few meters left from this foxhole rolled up like a ball. Muttering and crying for his mother. Then the foxhole lighted up bright blue and only an explosion crater remained.

When a crystal came rather close to the foxhole we were in, Zein and Altlene dugged behind me.

"Having someone big nearby can be handy." Joked Altlene. Zein just nodded. She had casted a Deband tech just to be sure. Karyuuzaki had use her shielded binders to cover herself. I just grumbled removing the dirt and big pieces of earth from myself.

The Sol Dirandal barrage only lasted a few minutes. Most if the area remained untouched as there were only seven of them. We still had casuelties,mainly in the middle of our line where a lucky crystal fell directly in a trench where ammunition was stored for the machinegun nests. The whole place explodedwith the Rangers positioned in that place.

"I still can't believe that the dragons would break a treaty." I said. "I know right." Karyuuzaki replied.

"Zein, can you ask command centre for more information? Like enemy numbers or the reason to attack at all."

"Already did, but they don't know more than we do, which is nothing. They are also still trying to regain contact with around 24 ARKS that went M.I.A. inside there." Zein pointed to the Altar.

"WHAT!? That means we are already down to 136 in manpower" I clearly shouted this even though I didn't mean to.

"You forgot the casuelties we just took, Sac. And the fact that we also have researchers and non combat personel in the outpost so less then 136."

Both Karyuuzaki and me made a sound to show dissatisfaction.

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Again, a dragonhorn roared. The number of dragons passing through the gate was unbelieveble. Sil Sadinian, Sol Sadinian, Set Sadinian and Sadinians.

There were hundreds of them and they all fanned out. The dragon army in front of us was as wide as our defences, maybe wider.

The first four dragon rows where only Sil Sadinian. They were probably the better trained dragons, stronger, more experienced and hungry for honour.

Behind them were the Set Sadinians, dragon warriors who had not yet earned the right to wear a shield. They were often smaller than the Sil, perhaps age was also important. Mixed in between the Set, there were Sol Sadinian and Sadinian. Sol were excellent marksman, their low born breed in the Volcanic Caves are also good in ambushes. But ambushes won't occur here since we are waiting for them and it is an open field.

The Sadinian are sages capable of dragonmagic thats has the same healing effect as our Resta that Forces and Techers use.

An awkward silence hang around the outpost. People were shocked. I was shocked, but also content. The bigger the risk, the higher the pay.

I heard a male trying to lift the spirits of his crew with a joke. Saying that atleast they won't miss a target. I don't think they appreciated it. Since I heard an 'ouch' comming from that direction.

Then silence died as the Sil Sadinian began slamming their swords and shields against each other again. Louder this time as the numers had increased. An dragon roared and the dragon army started moving forward. The dragonkin moved at a steady pace towards us while still making the terrifing noise.

They were still out of my range.

"Little bit closer." I mumbled as I readied my VCannon.

-Entering combatmode-

The fieldcommander started giving orders now.

"Longrange artillery prepare for combat! Hold your fire! Wait for iiit! Steady! Steeeeeaaaady! FIRE!"

After sega's notes I used Varder instead of a long thought Vardha.

[Sacrificial]

Small part this time. I kinda lack the time to write with my projects I have.

Spoiler!

part2

The moment the order was given both Karyuu and me pulled the trigger. Karyuu's long hair fluttered backwards from the shockwave her launcher made. She was using a craft plosion.

-A simple tube-shaped launcher with three photon collectors attached. Most photon launcher have in general less stopping power than shell type or misille launchers, but their main advantage is their unlimited ammunition.-

This time it was our side that roared. The thunderous sound of flying rockets and missiles.
The defeaning noise of grenades and shells exploding on impact and the bright trails of light left in the air from the photon charges.

White smoke and blue, purple and green light coloured the battlefield. When the order was given to cease fire I had used up half of my ammunition.

The dragonkin side was hard to see due to smoke and dust clouds. But faint lines from the Altar were barely visible.
" hmm Sac, do you see anything out there?" Altlene asked. "That's a negative.

Do you spot anything Karyuu?" She shoke her head. Then she corrected herself. "No, wait. I think I see something noving! The smoke is clearing up."

The dragon army marched steadily out of the clearing smoke. They had taken some serious damage from our attack, there were huge gaps in the enemy lines.

"Something seems weird with those gaps." Altlene noticed. "There is a set distance between each gap."

I had not even noticed myself. I should've switched to scanmode.
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The fieldcommander started shouting orders for the rifleman. "RIFLEMAN get into position! Two rows! First row in a prone position, second row behind them!"

The dragons started to pick up pace. They started running now, their attack had really begun now.

New orders were given.

This time to the CQC specialists.

"Hunters and bravers are to be guarding the front line! Protect your assigned rifle team. Fighters are to help at breaches!"

Rifleman were given the 'fire at will' order, so gunshots were heard continuously now. Alot of the dragons dropped dead during the charge.

The Sil Sadinian's speed was impressive, with their shield raised in front of them to protect them from bullets they rushed towards the ARKS rifleman.
The ARKS braced themselfs. Now the hunters and bravers made their move to intercept them.

The Sils rushed right into them without any sign of hesistation. Some of them leapt in the air and attacked from above.

It was harder to pick targets for the rangers due to a possible friendly-fire.

Suddenly out of the smoke ran multiple pairs of Dirandal mounted with Sils. They ran through the suspicious looking gaps in the dragonarmy. They looked terrifing with their long crystal lances and they were feared for their speed and destruction while charging.

"Oh no Dirandal......... the situation is getting worse by the minute." Zein mentenioned.

Most of the CQC warriors were able to get out of the Dirandals charge and avoided being trampled. Some were not able to dodge and were trampled.

There was even a man that was unlucky enough to get pierced by the crystal lance. He got carried along untill the Dirandal dropped dead and slit over the ground.

Our first defense line was broken, the Sets and Sols could now run past them. Or encircle the ARKS warriors,but there was less honour to gain from defeating trapped enemies.

Another Dirandal was charging towards us. My crew and me. We all started attacking it.

Karyuu and me with our launcher untill it came into close range. We weren't allowed to go danger close.

Altlene shot her two D92 empty and Zein attacked with charged Samegid. She aimed a bit higher to let the bolts curve down on the target.

Altlene hid behind me as she started reloading her guns.

"You know you still won't be save behind me right? You will get that Dirandal and me over you." Altlene scuried away from me without saying anything.

I pulled out my 2000H pistol and started shooting.
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By the time we managed to kill the Dirandal it was already in front of our foxhole.

As it died it colapsed on its knees slit on the ground towards us. Its speed was enough to slide into our foxhole. We had to hurry to get out and prevent to get pierced by a defeated enemy.

The massive lances dug into the earth as the dragon crashed. The rider was still alive though, it looked around to confirm his position.

When I turned around to look at the place I was standing a moment ago, the Sil Sadinian threw its shield towards me, making contact to my head. The force made me stumble backwards a little.

The dragon jumped towards Zein -who was on her knees from climbing out of our spot, still facing the other direction.- The large crystal sword waved through the air. Slashing downwards, the dragon roared with determination for receiving the honour for his charge and coming kill.

"ZEIN!"

finally get the spoilers to work

[Sacrificial]

part 3

Spoiler!

Karyuuzaki acted fast. She made a short fast dash and she pushed Zein away.
While she pushed her, she turned a quarter degrees.

The crystal sword made impact on Karyuu's Shielded binder. The Sil Sadinian's striking power was big enough to break the shield.

Karyuuzaki didn't seem to care much about it. Before the dragon could attack again she shoved her launcher into its stomach. The Sil Sadinian staggered backwards.
I didn't waste any second, I aimed my pistol at the back of its head and fired a single round. The Sils head knocked forward and back.

A small ray of light was now visible through its head. The dragon collapsed onto its knees and fell forward.
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Karyuuzaki stood in front of the corpse, her body looked bloody. The dragons blood had sprayed on her when my bullet exited the dragon's head.

She kicked against the corpse, then turned around. It might have been a test or it might have been a grudge. For me neither of them would have mattered.

"Sorry about that Karyuu." I said. Karyuuzaki shrugged. "I don't mind."

She said in such a way you could think she actually did mind.

I turned towards Zein. "Are you okay?" "I'm fine, thanks for asking." She answered with a small smile.
"It was a close one though. Remind me to reward you two after this."

"W-what about me?" Altlene asked.

"You were hiding!" Us three shouted.
This all took less than five minutes.
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"Okay, focus people." I paused a brief moment, then I continued.

"We have no time to be relaxed. The main army will be here soon enough. The hunters and bravers won't be able to hold forever."

We went back into a defensive location. This time we went for a trench, a couple of meters away from our now destroyed foxhole.

We made haste, the fight was still going on and every wasted second could mean that a dragon killed our teammate.

Zein and Altlene hopped into the trench, Karyuuzaki and me stayed on the ground. That way we could achieve better firing angles for our launchers.
It would mean we had no cover at all though.

Once I had stabilized my footage,I ran a quickscan.-10...15...20...25......30.....35....37 hostile targets confirmed in the scanned area.-

The moment I fired my launcher, the rest of the crew started attacking too. We used the same tactic as we did on the Dirandal.

The HEPG shell I shot was a special type shell. There was a larger quantity of photons in it, packed under high pressure. It's code name was DIVINE and it was rather pricy. I only carried two with me this time.

The shell was shot towards a Sil Sadinian in the middle of the group. The dragon raised his shield in order to block it.

The shell however pierced right through the shield, sending crystal shards flying along with my projectile. It hit the Sil spot on and for half a second the dragon flew backwards before disappearing in a bright light from the explosion.

The huge blast from the DIVINE type also took down the unlucky dragons that were close around the Sil Sadinian.

"Four down! Now reloading." I grabbed my last DIVINE type from my satchel and started reloading.

"Locked and loaded." I aimed again, I wanted to hit another decent group.

Just when I was about to fire, I heard Zein shout to take cover.

A couple of Sol Sadinian had shot their launchers. A salvo of blue photon balls was coming in our direction.

Zein cast an uncharged Deband before she took cover in the trench. Karyuuzaki and me had nowhere to go.

Karyuuzaki sacrificed her last remaining shield. As for me, my PRA armor plating kicked in. Thus decreasing damage to a minimum.

This was not a bad thing but my aim went off and I fired in another direction than I originally had planned. I fired far to left taking out some dragons that were heading to another group of ARKS.

Karyuuzaki answered the Sol Sadinians with a Cluster Shell, killing three of them. Now the Sadinians started to chant their healing magic to let the wounded dragons from the blast recover. The dragons who recovered continued their assault.
There was no time to lose, I fired a few more normal shells before they got to close.

We had killed half of the scanned amount when the Sils and Sets were close enough to engage in combat.
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Altlene shot two Set Sadinians that were airborne and their lifeless bodies dropped to the ground. She then aimed both her guns at a third dragon that was ready to attack.

She fired at a Sil Sadinian, but the dragon had already left the ground so the bullets hit nothing but the ground, making soft thuds.

Altlene adjusted her angle higher while she kept her fingers on the triggers.
The dragon had anticipated this and he lowered his shield, blocking most of the bullets. He couldn't stop all of them and he was struck a few times, but the Sil didn't flinch.

Altlene had to make a dodge roll to the left when the dragon's sword hit the ground.

The Sil immediately swung his sword diagonally upwards, Altlene shifted her balance backwards to evade, a bit of her long hair got cut. While she restored her former balance, she made a round house kick, knocking the dragon against the trench's wall.

Altlene then aimed her right gun at the dragons body. The Sil Sadinian grinned, then she shot him two times in chest.

I'm getting a tad slow with writing. =/ Hope you all still like it so far.

[Sacrificial]

part4

Spoiler!

"To many, their is to many of them!"
"Multi! Behind you!"

I got hit by a sword.

"You!"

I turned around and backhanded a dragon, continued by a shot from my pistol.

" Zein, where is the promised air support?!"

"I don't know, I lost contact a while ago."

"Damned"

Another dragon jumped over the trench. Well trench, now it was more a mass grave filled with both dragons and ARKS. After we killed the group more dragons showed up.

"I've two clips left." I said while reloading my pistol.

"One each" Altlene replied.

"I'm starting to feel rather tired from casting. I don't know how much longer I can keep it up" Zein said.

"How's Karyuu? Is she still in it?" I asked. A rather useless question as both Zein and me looked in her direction for a second.

Karyuuzaki was blowing up dragons from point blank and laughed with each dragon she killed, crippled or just grazed.

"I guess she is." Zein said.
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More dragons, more corpses. We lost ground every second. I tried to make every bullet I had count. Altlene too, she was now being more thoughtful about her bullet usage. She didn't shoot full automatic anymore, but shot in small bursts of two or three bullets.

Luckily we had Karyuuzaki that was on a rampage with a photon launcher and Zein who uses the power of photons to manipulate their flow and state of form.
Then again, Karyuuzaki's mental state was far from reliable. And Zein was already panting. Photon manipulation requires allot of energy after all. The main reason why Forces and Techers aren't the mainforce of an army. They simply don't have the stamina to fight hours without rest, but give them a few minutes break and they are able to start all over again with high destructive or healing arts.

Suddenly I heard a static, the a short pause.

"This is gunship Alpha, Air support squadron a few clicks away from designation, over."

"Good! Hang on guys!"

I fired a few rounds. More dead dragons.

"Reloading. Last clip."

A saw a Sol Sadinian shooting, I side stepped fast and the photonsphere narrowly missed. Then I counter attacked, shot two times. One in the leg, so he went down on the knee, the other one in the head.
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"Kyaa."

That scream. I turned towards it, just like the others. It was Karyuuzaki. She was now flat on her back. Her frame's plating was torn away around the waist and there were cuts through her arms.

Two Set Sadinians were standing next to the motionless Caseal.

"Alt! Zein! Cover me! I'll get her."

"I'm out of ammo." Altlene replied.

" Here take my gun, one clip left."

I threw the 2000H towards Alt, who caught it.

"Wait Sac, then you have nothing for yourself." Zein said.

"I won't be able to shoot much on the run anyway." I replied. "Ok,ready? Here I go."

On my way to Karyuuzaki I heard bullets fly past me and one of the two Set's dropped dead.

When I got closer, I activated my thrusters on maximum power and knocked the dragon over when we made contact.

I now stood beside the downed Caseal. The broken plating looked even worse now, but this kind of damage is probably a sight that only us Casts will understand.

I straighten Karyuuzaki up from the ground. I was now holding her in my arms in a way that humans would do.

Karyuuzaki's eyes open half wide looking straight in my optics.

"M-multi.....core...T-to have you see me in t-his state.........

M-multi.....I-I can't move m-my l-legs."

"Don't worry Karyuu, I'll get you out of here." I pulled her up.

One arm under her back the other one under her legs.

"M-multi..?" Karyuu's voice wavered.

"Why d-do you c-carry me like this?"

"Hmm?"

Then Zein shouted. "Saaaaaaac! Hurry!"

I noticed that Altlene's suppressing fire had stopped. I looked around and saw the dragonkin already recovering from the suppression and trying to surround me.

What I also saw was that our secondary defense line was nearly abandoned. Only a few ARKS remained, fending of dragons while trying to buy time for the others to get into position in the third defenses.

"Damned, hang on Karyuu."

I swung the Caseal on my shoulder like a rag doll and started to make a run for it.

"Stupid."

"Hmm? did you say something Karyuu?"

"Can't you go faster? Those dragons are catching up."

"No I can't, You know us Cast are rather he.....""Don't say it!" "avy. erh to late."
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"Multi hurry up."

"Again?"

"Go faster I mean it." Her voice sounded different. Almost afraid, but that was impossible of course.

"Karyuu I just said I can't go any fas...." "HURRY YOU DAMN FAT SLOWPOKE THEY ARE BEHIND US!"

"WHat?!"

I turned around and saw a sword stab past my head followed by the dragon that performed the lunge.

"Hang on tight Karyuu." And so she did.

I couldn't do much against my attacker, while carrying my luggage other than just simply smash my bulky arm in its face.

I don't know what broke, but my sensors registered a cracking sound. The Set Sadinian fell backwards and didn't rise again.

A second Set attacked me with a leaping attack. I had to activate my front leg thrusters to evade. The dragon roared for his failure. I, however made a spin turn and fled instead of trying out his challenge.

The dragon ran after me, but he was soon struck by a bullet. The third line was set up.
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I heard a static.

"Members of the ARKS, this is your Commander,this outpost has just been coded as abandoned by my superiors.

Gun- and Drop ships have arrived for evacuation. Prepare for evac. I repeat, prepare for evac.

The campships can not handle all teams in the short time frame we have.

All uneven coded teams are to get evacuated in the Dropships. I repeat all uneven coded teams are to get to the Dropships.

I wish to see all of you back alive. Commander out."

A static again.

The Gunships were barely visible when the mesage finished, but they gained form rapidly along the horizon.

The ships opened hatches and shot missile barrages to the dragon army. The missiles also hit rather close to were I was, but the good thing was that it stopped the dragons in their pursuit.

We were almost there, almost reunited with the rest of our team. ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** *********************************************
The dragonkin were held off by the gunships. The ships gatlings spun ripping the army apart and thinning out the attacking force. Making it easier for remaining groundforces to stand, while the majority was trying to evacuate.

Meanwhile Sol Sadinian and Sol Dirandal were trying to shoot down the Gunships. But those that tried were often marked as priority target and thus they were killed too, before they could do any serious damage.

"Alpha-One this Alpha-Four, do you copy?"

"Alpha-One here."

"I'm picking up a signal at E5 point (54,50,3537) Moving at high speed to E4 point (51,46,3476). Do you register Alpha-One?"

"Alpha-Four, this is Alpha-One. That is a negative. I see nothing. Alpha-Two, do you register?"

"No sir, radar is clean."

"It must be a malfunction when you got hit by a Sol. Have it checked on return, Alpha-Four."

"Sir, The signal changed direction. It is heading to B3 and it's rapidly loosing altitude. (47,41,3170),.....(36,39,2765),........(29,37,245,.......(25,34,2182)......"

"Alpha-Four like I said it must be a malfunction, those coordinates are pretty close and there is nothing on our ra....."

"Alpha-One, Alpha-One, please come in. I didn't copy the last part,Alpha-One please come in.............
Alpha-Two, Alpha-Three.................Nothing.....

Pilot, how is visual contact?"

"Their is a thick smoke hanging now. I'm pretty busy gunning down the dragons below, which is allot harder than you might think. Get that visual from the port view yourself."

"Fine, fine...... let's see......oooooooo shit!"

Commander, Commander. This is Alpha-Four. Alpha-One to Three destroyed. Cause is probably a dragon, but we have lost radar contact. Please confirm B3 point (25,33,2182) with visual data,over."

"Alpha-Four, we are unable to get a visual, please stay on your mark. If necessary perform a tactical retreat within the boundaries."

"Signaler, the smoke is getting thin. I see something big moving, check the radar." "Still clear, no wait contact! Data matching shows it's a Quarts Dragon!" "Oh damn, hang on signaler incoming attack. Performing emergency evade!" ******************************
"Sac! Where are you going? Our assigned ship is this way."

Zein pointed towards a ship further to the left. A large crowd was waiting in front of it.

The ship I was heading to was already loaded and ready to lift go.

"Look Zein. Karyuu needs emergency repairs asap. If this ship here still has room for her, the faster she can get those repairs."

"But you are ignoring your orders that way. HEY! I'm talking to you!"

Karyuuzaki whispered to me. "You will SO be dead for ignoring her."

Suddenly a MP stood in front of me, who tried to stop me. Tried. A human trying to stop a Cast with a weight over 500 kg.

I merely shrugged over his embarrassing attempt. I was so close, I couldn't stop now. So I slowly pushed myself forward. I didn't want to hurt the human of course, that would get me in more trouble than I could afford.

Then a man shouted something.

"Incoming! Watch out over there! Take cover!"

I walked onto the loading hatch. Suddenly my surroundings were covered in a bright blue. My sensors now could only receive this blue colour.

Followed by the bright blue was an explosion and a huge shock wave knocked me and Karyuuzaki backwards.

-Warning... Warning.... Heavy Damage Received To The Following Parts. Left Arm, Torso, Head. Please stay Out Of Further Harm To Avoid Termination.-

"Damn, you are annoying system. Their is nothing wrong."

-Warning... Warning.... Heavy Damage Received To The Following Parts. Left Arm, Torso, Head. Please stay Out Of Fur...............
Critical Failure, Restoring Main System.......ERROR
SHUTTING DOoowwwwwwnnnnnn.

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-End Memory File-
-Would You Like To Replay Again? Y/N-

"No."

"Sac? What are you spacing out for? We were waiting for you."

"Hmm? Oh yea, sorry I'm coming."

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Sooooo. The end of the first arc and also the start for the second chapter. It's a big update this time, according to my "writingscedule" I should've uploaded last week BUT that part would've been way to short IF I had uploaded it. And so on for the ending. So I waited an extra week and combined both parts.
Oh I'm also working on a character list atm. I had a preupdate for it this week but expect it to become larger in the future!

[Sacrificial]

Been a while since I've visited the fanfiction part, had exams a week earlier so I didn't really spend anytime on this. No update since I seem to be unable to write something down eventhough I've replayed every action and line in my head multiple times......

I've a nice song to fit Arc 1 though.