I think it was good timing to get back to watching the forums i guess X3
altho where was my mail on this chapter o.O
nice work ray db now get ur a** online when i am ;P
I think it was good timing to get back to watching the forums i guess X3
altho where was my mail on this chapter o.O
nice work ray d
A little history lesson.
Name: Rayokarna aXcess (Karna-Instep V1.002)
D.O.C. (Date of Creation): Year BA 10 (110 Years before PSU V1)
Jobs: Mercenary Team Leader, Teacher & Weapons Analyst
Licensed Types: Protranser, Wartecher & Fortetecher
Creation Project: Project Direction lead by Dr Ninoran Falls
T.O.A. (Time of Awakening): 3/12/0083 GRM Facility, Danes Lake
Likes: Poetry, Stories, Axes and Hover biking
Dislikes: People attacking his friends, Fortefighter & being helpless
Signature Weapon: Ank Dedda, Gur Bazgac, De Ragan Slayic & Hirokteri
Memento: His Pink Diary
Project Direction was made to further the intelligence of CAST while adding a completely new ‘Syncro’ system to be able to communicate and transmit data to other CAST through appearance. This project is the first of its kind and had a budget that went through the roof. But this never stopped Dr Ninoran Falls from achieving what he wanted and be a pioneer in his field. Driven by his passion of machines, work and for the love of the unknown he accomplished his first break through in the year BA 30. He produced the ‘Light Brain’ processor that will cover the main thought process of his soon to be CAST masterpiece. This alone pushed him and his team to work harder and fulfil his dream. But not everything was all rosy in his projects. Endless amount of CAST shell can be found in the ruins of his lab as he went through body to body to see if any of them could be compatible. But this went to be in vain as none of them was able to handle the processing power of the ‘Light Brain’ cell.
But then one day, the professor heard of an amazingly powerful CAST of the past that fought in the Ragol wars alongside his great, great, great grandfather. Believing it was a breakthrough, he left with a small team to go to the one place where time shifts like that were possible, a RELICS site. After a few hard fought battles with the creatures in side, he finally got to the end to what seemed to be the space dimensional warp gate. But when he got there, something was terribly wrong. The warp gate was rendered inactive and was not able for function. Thinking that all was lost, the team began to head back until Dr Falls saw something out of the ordinary. Behind the rift was a small junk pile, and with it were a few models of different CASTs and weapons. Gathering his team to grab anything they could find, the made a mad dash back to the Lab to analyse what they have found.
When they got back, not only did they discover a CAST body ready to have the ‘Light Brain’ cell implanted in it, they found a whole new technology. They started to back date all of the only weaponry found and analyse their destructive ability. Soon after analysing this CAST war weapon (CAST name: Rayokarna Zell/Model: RXR-Transparent 1198 ), he was rebuilt with more modern metals and alloys that will make him be able to survive the in the new world he will be in.
In the year BA 20, the first prototype model of the CAST was made that was successful with the ‘Light Brain’ cell processor (Named: Karna-Right to Passage V.1001). After the initial tests, everything seemed to be ok but when the speech function was tested. When the speech and emotion capabilities were tested, the ‘soul’ of the CAST was still stuck in the ages of the Ragol war. This meant that is was a very capable battle CAST but it was unable to act and live like the CAST of the modern day. With this in mind, for the next 3 years, Dr Falls worked on building a CAST that had a similar processing tolerance level to the original. He also wanted to accomplish the most human like set up in any CAST made yet.
The Instep body project started within the year BA 18 and was quickly held back by the loss of budget to the project. Dr Falls continued to work on his project with his closest friend Onyi Gales. She was the project budget manager but decided to drop that position when the project became more about fulfilling a dream than business. The 3 years project eventually became 8 as finding the alloys and construction became increasingly difficult for two people. But alas, hope and dreams came to fruition when the first fully ‘Light Brain’ CAST was developed in the year BA 10. In their run down Lab hung two CAST that were capable of using this processor. One looked like a typical CAST no face warrior and the other a very human looking CAST male. But then disaster struck...
One of his previous workers was a spy with the Council of Neudaiz to sabotage the project and finally finish they’re war weapon dubbed the name, Project Aria. As they invaded the Lab to recover whatever they could get, Ninoran and Onyi collected whatever they could and tried to escape. Just before they left, Ninoran sealed the human like CAST ready to be active in a condiment unit. This CAST (Karna-Instep V1.002) was locked away until he was able to activate it himself or someone in the future smart enough to crack his code. That’s when he truly felt that this CAST will be ready to be in society. The other CAST was reactivated and bought them time as it fought valiantly against the Neudaiz Council members. As they made their escape, the Lab was quickly turned to ruins by the amount of fighting inside. And there laid dormant, is the CAST of tomorrow.
Rumours were that the warrior CAST that protected its reviver roams the planets looking for its adopted brother for answers.
92 years later his capsule was found my excavators in a remote area in Raffon Lakeshore that was completely sealed off. Within these domestic ruins, a capsule was visible through the rumble of the complex. The capsule was swiftly recovered and brought back to the GRM facility. The scientists there were unable to crack the complex security lock on the unit holding Karna-Instep V1.002. Every IT, Robot and CAST specialist took a shot at this unmoving capsule and all of them failed in their attempts until one day a special scientist by the name of Acer Vermillion took a shot at it. Within his first go, he was able to crack the security lock on the unit. Like it was his natural born destiny to do it, he suddenly vanished after the unit’s lock was broken. This happened exactly a year after the capsule was found. Both GRM and the A.M.F were both in argument about who had ownership over the CAST. Eventually the Guardians stepped in and took the CAST because no agreement could be met. Ever since then he has been working for the Guardians as more than one job...
How he got his name:
Being based off the old Ragol warrior, his capsule was dubbed with that same name and was printed on the inside. When scientist discovered the name ‘Rayokarna’ they automatically assumed that it was the subject’s name.
The ‘X’ was given by Acer Vermillion when he thought that his appearance was just as ironic as the warrior of a different dimension Megaman X.
The name aXcess was in the terms of the meaning ‘data flow’.
Personality:
The laid back and easy going CAST is never one to lash out for pointless reasons. He gets very defensive when his past is mention or any of his close friends. He tends to spend most of his time reading and practising his fighting skills. A lot of the time, he is out on the greenery of Parum reading or writing his life away.
His pink diary was given to him by a little human girl after saving her from a house fire.
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Spiffy, even.
Veteran of the former Universe 11. PSO2 -Ship 02-
Finally, the introdiction to Episode 4.
Ambition of the Illuminous: Lands of War
Introduction Chapter 4: Memory
“Sister!” A young girl called out.
“Sister!”
The older teenager stirred slightly by the sound of her being called. She lifted her head from her arms looking at her surroundings. The air was all hazy and her mind still caught in the dizziness of her sleep. She gently shook her head as she surveyed the area around her. She wasn’t sure about the location but it seemed familiar. She sat up from her bed to see a small girl in front of her, looking at her curiously.
“Huh?” The teenager replied out of confusion. The little girl looked up at her cheerfully.
“You’re finally up sister. I thought you were going to sleep all day.” The teenage looked back at her again confusion.
“Sister, that means your Lexia right?” The little girl nodded and the poked the teenage.
“How could you forget the name of your baby sister?” The little girl asked, slightly agitated.
“I didn’t. I just couldn’t recognise you for a second...” The teenager shot back. The little girl looked at her worryingly.
“You don’t remember what I look like? Is there something wrong Sis?” Lexia asked her. The teenager shook her head quickly and looked around the room. Her vision has cleared up a bit since she first got up and now she was able to pick things in the room that she recognised.
“This is my room when I was younger...” She whispered softly as she scanned the room. As she lifted herself off the bed, she swung around so she came off the bed feet first. She looked around the house, it was a small dojo styled house, a very heavy Neudaiz theme. As she walked down the stairs an older woman looked at her with a face of a little disappointment.
“I called you 30 minutes ago to get something to eat. You should get more sleep next time...” The older woman said before she left for the kitchen.
As the teenager made her way there, the world around her started to get hazy again. With a gentle shake of the head she found herself in the kitchen. The warm cream colour of the walls and the gentle smell of breakfast invaded her senses. For some strange reason, she couldn’t take all of it in, like there is a magical force stopping it from happening. As she went to sit at the table she felt another wave of dizziness hit her.
‘What’s wrong with me?’ The teenager thought to herself in concern. The older woman who she could fully recognise as her mother put her plate of food on the table which seemed to be soft heated spring rolls.
“Heh, if you’re not feeling one hundred percent, you should eat these. They will at least help you get your sense of well being back.” The teenager nodded and took one of the spring rolls into her hand and gently bit into one. The soft taste warmed her mouth instantly making her feel at home again. “Sometimes Sierra you act like you were never born in this family. You seem so distant at times...” The teenager looked at her with a puzzled look.
‘Sierra, I guess that’s my name...’ The teenager’s puzzled look faded and she turned back to eat.
“Is there something bothering you Sierra?” Her mother asked her. Sierra looked at her and shook her head.
“I’m ok. Just a little tired still...” Lexia bounced around her chair trying to get her sister’s attention.
“You’re always tired sister. Sometimes I think you could sleep for a month.” She said cheerfully.
“Sierra, once in a long time in Neudaiz, the Council of Neudaiz was looking for a young princess of the ‘Red Eyes’. Amazingly you resemble her very well in looks and in your studies. It seems that you and your sister will be leading the family and maybe you two will be the ones all of our family members look up to.” Sierra nodded after her mother softly ruffled her hair.
“Thanks mother, it means a lot.” Sierra turned her head to her and smiled, as she ate the other spring roll. As soon as she was finished her World started to get very hazy and cloudy again like she was spiralling out of a dream...
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“..irra...”
“...Sierra...”
“Can you hear me, Sierra?” The Newman’s eyes fluttered open as she heard her name being called. It took her a second to register that she was conscious. She looked around at her surroundings to see where she was. She looked directly upwards to see the smiling face of Rayo. He seemed somewhat happy at his friend has seemed to be under control of herself. She smiled back at him warmly and sat up.
“What happened to me?” She asked him puzzled.
“Howzer used your secret powers to take advantage of you and do his bidding.” Sierra looked at him like he was crazy.
“There is no way that could be, it was all a dream. I swear it was...” She said while looking into her hands.
“Huh?” Sierra shook her head.
“It was like a huge nightmare that I couldn’t wake up from. I took out my friends, hell I almost killed you.” She started to break down a little as she put her face into her hands. Rayo took her into a small hug while she sobbed into his shoulder.
“It’s alright Sie; it wasn’t like you could help yourself.”Rayo comforted. Sierra looked up at him slightly confused.
“Why did you do everything to help me? I was going to kill you.” Rayo smiled and shook his head.
“I don’t run out on friends...” Rayo trailed off. Sierra leaned forward and gave him a hug.
“Thanks for sticking by Rayo...” Rayo gave her a small hug back.
“No problem. You think you’re ready for action?” Rayo asked her. Sierra gave him a puzzled look.
“All the other guys went to take on Howzer and fight him. Do you want to go help them?” Sierra looked around then got up, she then noticed what she was wearing.
“I would but this outfit isn’t very comfy.” Sierra said while stretching out her arms. All Rayo did was smile and formed a set of clothes into his hands. He then handed them to Sierra.
“I thought you would need an extra set of clothes so I brought a replacement just in case.” Sierra smiled and took them swiftly.
“Awesome, you brought my Acrotecher wear. Since you just saved my life and there is no one but you her I might as well get changed quickly.” Rayo quirked an eye brow at her comment.
“As in strip right here, right now?” She nodded innocently.
“Why does it bother you?” She asked with a clueless look on her face. Rayo just blushed and turned away.
“Nah it doesn’t. Go right ahead.” Sierra flashed a smile before turning around to get changed.
“Alright, no peeking...” About thirty seconds later she was back in her normal Acrotecher outfit. “You can turn around now Rayo...”
“Heh, the Sierra I hunt with...” Sierra put a hand through her hair and sighed.
“By the way do you have a brush?” Rayo nodded and gave her one.
“That’s yours by the way...” Sierra laughed slightly.
“Thanks Rayo.”
o.O i need more of this u need to update more often =p
Stop keeping us waiting! Update this thing!
Note: Sorry for me going AWOL. I just needed the time off creativity and now I have my spark back. Old readers probably arnt intrested any more but new ones are welcome. I'm happy to be back writting. It's been a hell of a lot of fun.
The Chapter after this is 1/3 of the way done. Only 3 Chapters left to go after this.
For anyone with a Fanfiction.net account: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5393716/...I_Lands_of_War
Ambition of the Illuminous: Lands of War
Episode 4: The Moonlight Shade
Chapter 1: Be With Me
“Come on guys! We have a tyrant to take down!” Red urged as the group ran through the underground tunnel. The long, winding and poorly lit tunnel seemed to go on forever. This actually gave Blitza another chance to ask Sen about some advice on the upcoming situation.
“Yo Sen...” Blitza called, Sen instantly threw back a puzzled look.
“Yes Blitza?”
“How do you think this battle will go?” Sen burst out laughing.
“Child, seriously, how can you ask me a question like that?” Blitza looked confused.
“Wha-“
“We have the most dangerous mission in Guardian history and we are on the frontlines with little to no back up with no clue what we are up against and its risk level. Yet you ask me a question about our upcoming battle, kids these days...” The vain on Blitza’s head pulsed.
“What do you mean kid!?” Sen laughed openly again.
“You will find out eventually...” Blitza just shook his head while running.
-Back at the Mansion-
As Rayokarna was reloading all of his weapons, he had an incoming mail from the Guardians HQ. As the notification sound rung in his ears Sierra was finally ready.
“I’m done Rayo.” Sierra called from behind him. Ray took a quick glance behind him seeing the dark haired Newman smile at him.
“Let’s head after them and see if we can help out. I’m sure there will be something that we can do.” Sierra laughed.
“With a current track record like ours I don’t think fate is on our side to make that likely.” Rayo laughed through his helmet.
“You have a major point. But let’s give it a try anyway, no point without trying.” Sierra clicked her knuckles.
“Lead the way!” With that Rayo and Sierra ran full speed into the hallway.
-Dispensing River (The Illuminous Channel)-
“Wow!” Red exclaimed out loud as she looked around at the underground river system the group stumbled across. Blitza placed his face near the water and took a small draw of breath in before talking.
“Hmmm, this water is fresh.” Scarlet holding her Blackbull looked at him in question.
“How can that be in a place like this?” Sen folded her arms and looked in thought.
“I’m guessing something or someone is able to purify water that is under here.” Red looked at her.
“Well whatever it is, it’s really big to get this much of it done while the water is flowing so quickly. Blitza instantly spotted something.
“Flowing? That’s it!” Blitza realized.
“What is it Blitz?” Thornz asked him. Blitza pointed to the platform floating in the water which was chained to the edge of the bank.
“That! We can use it as a raft to get down the channel.” Sen raised an eye brow in surprise.
“Wow, Blitza has an idea that’s useful.” Ryn remarked getting a quick glare from Blitza. Red walked up to it and pushed it with her Rucar testing it to see if it can hold them.
“Seems stable, alright guys, get on!” Red shouted. Everyone nodded and got on top the seem to be stable raft. After everybody boarded, Red turned around to everyone to see if they were all ready. “You guys ready?”
“YEAH!” Red smiled.
“Here we go!” She shouted as the slammed the blade of the Rucar into the chains holding the raft to the bank and as swiftly as that they went into the distance.
(5 Minutes Later)
Through the same passageway, Rayo and Sierra walked into the Channel opening to a deserted area.
“Who built this place?” Rayo asked in wonder. Sierra looked around to see if there was any way to get down there to carry on their game of catch up. Sierra saw the chains from the previous raft that was still red from the photon burn of Red’s Rucar.
“Looks like they took a boat of some sort down the river.” Rayo bent down next to her to examine the chains.
“Yeah, the photon burn from one of the weapons is still there. How on earth are we gonna catch them?” Rayo asked her. Sierra looked around in search of anything. She then saw the only moderately big platform placed against the wall behind her.
“How about that?” She pointed to. Rayo looked at in wonder for a second before turning to her.
“Are you thinking...?” She nodded.
“...What I’m thinking?” Rayo smiled inside his helmet.
Within a matter of minutes, the duo was speeding down the channel with Rayo crouching forward on the platform holding his Shigga Desta and Sierra standing almost back to back spewing out a constant stream of Damfoie from her Coni.
“We’ll be with them with a matter of moments, were going at full speed.” Sierra laughed from her position.
“Either that or my Coni will run out of PP!” She shouted over the noise of her spell. Rayo laughed lightly before gripping the edge of the platform to stabilize himself.
(With the main group)
As the group all looked out for any opening that will lead them to Howzer’s HQ, Thornz was talking to Blitza about his time off.
“So when I was on my vacation, it seemed more like back to basics training to be honest.” Blitza raised an eye brow.
“Why was that?” Thornz shrugged.
“I ended up doing more target training and various other things to do with my skill in weaponry in general.” Blitza pointed out his weapons.
“Like your Hyper Vipers?” Thornz nodded.
“I ended up highly modifying a lot of my weapons to push the limits of the performance. Most of my twin handguns have different reactors to what are normally found in the basic GRM model themselves.” Blitza scratched the back of his head.
“Rayo is like that a lot.” Thornz looked at him with an idea.
“Maybe I can-“A small quake shuddered through the channel. Red stood up and looked around quickly.
“What on earth was that?” She asked.
“I’m not too sure but it was defiantly something big.” Sen said while looking around.
(35 Seconds Behind them)
The tremor in the tunnel channel caused Sierra’s concentration to slip slightly as she swerved left and right to regain control. As Rayokarna braced the front of the make shift raft, he saw the water level start to rise in front of him.
“Looks like we have trouble...” Rayo called out to the Newman behind him. Under the torrent of noise of her Damfoie tech, she turned around enough to see what could be coming.
“I wonder what it could be...” Sie questioned lightly. Rayo was all too focused on what was in front of him to hear his comrade. As they got closer to the rising waves he summoned his Ank Dedda and held out as he was poised to strike.
“What can you see!?” She shouted over the raging spell, Rayo only nodded.
“Trouble! And lots of it!” Inside his helmet he gritted his teeth as he started to think of a way to get them out of the incoming danger. His thoughts were cut short as the raft that they were on now started to wobble as they could feel themselves rising upwards.
“The water level is rising!” Sierra shouted as she cut some of the power from her flamethrower so she could help steer better. She veered to the left as whatever was making the water levels rise burst out of the water. The pair was stunned in awe as they saw a mighty Sea Serpent rise out of the water simply knocking the pair out of the way. Speeding after it, Rayo gritted his teeth.
“What happen to the days were missions were simple...”
-On the Raft-
Sen’s attention hasn’t been diverted since she felt a danger presence. Keeping an eye out in the opposite direction they were facing, her optic systems seem to pick up something.
“We have company...” This alerted Red who looked in the same direction. Zooming in on what she could see, she could make out two figures on a platform in pursuit of a currently flying object.
“Guys, what’s that?” Blitza asked at the two sets of objects flying towards them.
“De Rol, incoming!” Sen called out as everyone armed their weapons.
(Back with the Duo)
Making waves as quickly as possible, they were doing their best to intercept it. Cautiously trying to stand up on the platform he was on, Rayo poised himself with his Hirokteri Bow. Trying to take aim with the flying moving target and the water making the ground unsteady under him, he struggled to lock on with his advanced optic systems.
“I can’t get a shot!” He called out causing Sierra to pour even more energy into her spell. Luckily for Rayo, the gigantic sea serpent began to fly just above sea level. He switched to his Dark Mugenruk and poised himself to attack.
“How are you going to hit him from here!?” She asked him. He only turned around with that knowing look.
“I’m going to jump!” Sierra looked at him like he was crazy.
“You are mad but I’ll give you the best chance I can get.” She drifted the platform closer to the monster. The closer she got, the more violent the waves appeared to be. Being forced to crouch down and hold the piece of wood he struggled to get any footing.
“What are you planning!?” Sierra only smirked.
“I’m going to use the waves as a ramp!” With that she kicked up the speed to causing them to get a bit of air time between the waves.
“Alright, whatever happens, keep going forward unless I fall off!” Sierra nodded as he stumbled slightly due to the unstable water current. On the biggest wave they could get, Rayo leaped from the make shift speed raft to embed his spear in to the carapace of the altered beast. A huge flinch caused Rayo to hold on for dear life as he was shaken from left to right by the force of it. As it started to stabilize itself, Rayo pulled on his spear and hoisted himself on to its back. Wobbling slightly he crouched down and slowly crawled his way along. Peering over to see if Sierra was still keeping up, he they locked eyes for a second in mutual agreement. Giving her the thumbs up, she sped up, trying to get in front of it.
“I hope he knows what he’s doing...” She whispered as she blew past.
Still crawling towards its head, he equipped his Ank Dedda and continued to inch himself forward. Finally making his way to the front and standing himself up, De Rol Le took flight and raised its altitude causing Rayo to stumble and almost fall over in shock. Regaining his composure He raised his Axe and with the most power he could muster, he slammed the Purple photonic weapon into the head of the beast. The beast roared and flailed in pain as Rayo held on as tight as possible. With that, he gritted his teeth and pulled the heavy duty weapon across the spine of De Rol Le. The sound of the skin and muscle of the beast ripping and parting ways invaded Rayo’s audio systems and he cringed in disgust. Reaching its tail, Rayo switched to his Mugenruk and got ready to jump.
“Sierra now!” He shouted as he jumped away and used Dus Majarra to get that extra bit of distance to get away from the blast area. Sierra stopped abruptly in front of the sea serpent before taking firing stance and bracing her weight on her back leg as she began to concentrate energy.
“Hellfire Cannon!” She roared as the blast ripped through the monster literally obliterating it. It stood no chance as the fireball ripped through it causing multiple explosions within its body. As the fireball passed, Rayo ducked his head under the water stopped the debris from hitting him. As the remaining parts of the monster started to rain down, Rayo swam underwater towards the platform Sierra was standing on. Popping his head above the water to see a satisfied and amused Sierra looking down on him, he just rolled his eye under his helmet.
“Water good?” She smirked.
“Just shut up...” Sierra burst out laughing.
“Alright, let’s get you to shore so we can get on our way.” She continued to laugh as she held out a hand to him. Frowning, he did the only thing to level the playing field; he thumped the side of the platform...
“Ah!” Sierra squeaked as the platform flipped causing her fall it into the clear blue water. Quickly rising with a huge scowl on her face, Rayo doubled over with laughter.
“Water good?” He mocked as grinned gleefully. His humour was swiftly cut short to a punch to his side causing him to flinch.
“Ow...” He softly rubbed the side where he was struck. Sierra just ignored him as she swam past dragging the platform to the water edge. Rayo shortly followed her with a ghost of a smile on his face...
(With the main party)
The watched in awe as the duo swiftly took care of the resident monster. Having no problems with it, the due seemed to fall further behind the main group as they had to take care of getting themselves back on track to catch up. Smirking at their childish tendencies, Sen only shook her head amusement.
“What’s so funny?” Ryn asked. Sen only shook her head again.
“The two kids I end up looking after all the time.” Red only turned to them with a small laugh.
“I’m guessing you saw that too?” Sen only nodded. With that to the surprise to the people on the raft, the saint platform began to slow down as it reached a cave entrance. As they quickly got ready to dismount, Red called the attention of everyone on it.
“Alright guys, it looks like this is the last one, this is the last battle. This is the fight that we cannot lose, everyone is counting on us. There is probably loads of traps and we won’t be fighting on our terms. As long as we look out for each other we can do this, that right?” Everyone nodded with a jointly...
“RIGHT!” Sen stayed silent however with her arms folded. Red turned to her confused...
“This should be interesting...” She said taking off into the cave entrance. Red was left there scratching her head in bewilderment. Blitza only laughed.
“That’s her way of saying that she’s ready. She does it to Rayo all the time.” Red only raised her eye brow.
“How does he put up with it?” Blitza laughed again.
“She’s his mother figure and teacher, it’s not like he can complain about it.” Red only shook it off.
“Whatever...” She turned to the rest of the group.
“Alright guys, let’s go!”
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Ambition of the Illuminous: Lands of War
Episode 4: The Moonlight Shade
Chapter 2: A Man’s Pride
As the group ran int the cave entrance, weapons drawn they stumbled into to an underground clearing that seem to be affected by development in the area. Looking around they spotted something. Inside the clearing was a huge mansion which was surrounded by a deep drop. The only way to get across was along a photon powered bridge.
“That doesn’t look safe...” Kyta commented. Scarlet was going to turn and reply but someone cut her off.
“Don’t worry, that bridge is perfectly safe...” Within the darkness stepped out the current Guardians President Laia Martinez with Ethan Weber and Karen Erra. With the sudden entrance of the divine maiden, the whole party of 11 bowed on their knees except for the ever enigmatic Sen who just folded her arms. Karen turned to the stand out CAST and smirked.
“Scejntynahl...” Karen nodded. Sen did the same in return.
“Karen...” With that Karen motioned everyone to get up.
“Alright, I know we have a tough battle ahead and even with everyone here, this will be more than difficult. Who knows what tricks this guy has up his demonic sleeve? I believe if we can stick together and look out for each other then it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.” Karen spoke; Ethan then looked over in slight confusion.
“Speaking of problems, where is Sierra Satioh?”
“And Rayokarna aXcess for that matter?” The crowd suddenly went silent for a second looking at each other thinking of something to say.
“There a little pre-occupied.” Sen said simply causing everyone to sweat drop except for Eugenic who suddenly flushed over. Sen looked over and inwardly smirked at her Eugenic’s reaction.
“Well who knows what they could be doing after a reuniting like that.” She carried on which made everyone look at her like she was crazy but again Eugenic’s face turned a darker shade of red.
“...Well you never know after the both fell in the water like that. The could be drying each-“
“Alright we get it!” Eugenic outburst brought her to the centre of attention. She quickly stammered her next words.
“I-I mean seriously whatever there doing isn’t important it’s just the case there not here.” She quickly turned to the Maiden to switch the conversation subject. “Plus how did you three beat us all here?” She asked quickly.
“Well while the battle upstairs was raging on, we manage to sneak through. I’m guessing the fact you guys are still alive is means that Sierra is either dead, subdued or cured. We only managed to see the start of the fight between her and Rayokarna.” A few mumbles of comments were heard by the crowd of Guardians.
“Well she’s cured from what she could see, Rayo working that magic he does when it was anything to do with Sierra.” Chiyoko spoke up. Ethan, Laia and Karen all smiled.
“Well that’s good to know. I knew that walking freezer was good for something...” Laia said making the group laugh. After a few moments, Ethan’s expression suddenly turned serious. Looking at them in sudden determination and nodded causing everyone to do the same and they followed his lead as he took off across the bridge. As they were going across, Eugenic stopped momentarily just to look back through the cave entrance where they came from.
“Senpai, I hope your ok...”
(With the Duo outside)
As they came to the clearing entrance that their comrades walked through moments before, they both jumped from the small platform to the giant raft in unusual silence. Still wearing the same scowl that she has been for the last ten minutes, Rayo thought he might have hurt her pride a little too much.
“Sierra, you still mad?”
“...” Rayo sighed inside his helmet.
“Couldn’t have made you that upset?”
“...” Her back was the only thing he was going to right now.
“Alright I’m sorry...” Sierra turned to him and smiled slightly.
“I’m not upset at you, I’m just trying to concentrate on how I’m going to rip this guy’s head right off his shoulders.” This got a smirk from Rayo.
“I kinda forgot about him. I would rather be fighting him than you anyway.” Sierra turned around and laughed.
“Well of course. I was out of control, vicious, blood hungry, destructive and unrepentant. The rage, the insanity and the violence was in hordes. The only way you could understand it was through my actions, which I harshly put you through.” Rayo only sighed taking a hold of her shoulder to stop her walking.
“Look, when it comes down to it, you’re ok, were still alive and were still fighting. What ever happened wasn’t a big deal-“
“Big deal, Rayo-“
“I know, but were both still here better or for worse and we still have the real battle to fight regardless of what path got us there. You hear me?” Sierra shrunk internally and nodded slowly.
“Good we’ve both worked that out. Now we have an idiot to incapacitate...” Sierra turned to the darkened path.
“More like decapitate...” Rayo only smiled
“That’s more like it...”
(With the main group)
Ah the Guardians got to the main entrance; the huge double doors opened on their arrival waiting for the life blood to the system to come through. Looking at each other cautiously before stepping inside the fortress like mansion, they spread out as the searched for dangers.
“Alright: Sen, Ryn, Blitza, Scarlet take the east wing.” She pointed across to the position Laia wanted them at. They swiftly moved out to the given section as Laia turned to the others.
“Red, Kyta, Noxia take the elevated west wing up the stairs” With that command, the Guardians moved.
“Koji, Chiyoko, Eugenic and Thornz guard the door...” With that, everyone one was in position. As Laia, Ethan and Karen slowly trekked up the main stairs. Walking in a triangle shape, keeping an eye out on the various statues and pictures for traps or any hazards, the three got the top of staircase as the examined the landing. After finding nothing, Laia motioned to the other two she was with for what seemed to be the main set of doors to an important room. With Laia on the left and Ethan and Karen, Laia gave them a countdown.
“Stay behind me...” Ethan told Karen sternly.
“Ethan I can-“ She was cut off by Ethan’s most determined expression to date. Karen’s protests died as she nodded weakly. Ethan then turned to Laia and nodded to say he was ready.
“Now...” She told them as they kicked the door open while running in, weapons drawn. As the saw a man quite late in his age with long silver hair, Laia smiled inside for the fact they have finally got their man.
“It’s over Howzer!” Ethan announced swiping his Cliburn through the air as he said it. He earned a subtle laugh as a response.
“Typical I guess...” He replied like he was taking no notice of them.
“Finally you will pay your dues for all of the people you have tormented and killed at the hands of your evil schemes.” Karen told him. Howzer again only laughed, but this time it was more maniacal.
“You stupid little girl, you know absolutely nothing...” Ethan sparked with anger.
“Watch who you’re talking to.” He snapped. He sighed in exasperation.
“Inconveniences happen to everyone I guess. How were your Guardians after my little experiment in the field?” He asked casually standing up. Laia flinched for a second before turning furious.
“You monster, why would the fuck would you do that for? Answer me!” Laia slammed her spear into the ground, photon blade first. Ethan tried to calm her down, she’s no use angry.
“Laia-“
“Fucking answer me! Why did you fucking do that!?” She was about to lose it.
“Laia!” Karen pleased, but it was too late.
“I’m going to fucking have your head!” With that, she reared her spear back then charged. Taking off before neither of them could react She leapt of the oversized desk Howzer was sitting at aiming to plunge the bladed end into his face.
“Insolent child...” He jumped into the air as he met Laia half way. To the President’s surprise, Howzer grabbed her from around the waist and threw her with authority back to where she stood previously. Sliding to a halt on the ground, it took Laia a few moments for her to pick herself up the floor as Howzer landed in front of his desk and started to advancing towards them.
“Laia, I have you back!” Ethan took defensive stance in front of her to buy her some time to get her bearings again. Karen helped by lifting her slightly to drag her back to the entrance of the door to give her space. Just then, Red, Kyta and Noxia came bursting in.
“We heard some commotion!” Red called just as Ethan went for a swipe but was easily caught. Time seemed to freeze as the realization of what they were up against kicked in. The expression of horror and fear dawned on them all as saw Ethan’s weapon easily pulled from he’s hands and Howzer as quick as light, returned the slash with sickening speed and power directly across his chest, causing him to stumble forwards as he fell against him. Howzer easily caught him and lifted him up from his collar with one hand.
“ETHAN!” Karen cried as he was effortlessly thrown into a nearby wall with enough power to have it crack on impact. Within that time Laia was able to shake the cobwebs from her fall as she start to stand on her own two feet. Red only sighed...
“Not this shit again...” With that Howzer charged at full speed as he speeded right at Karen. Thinking on instinct, she pushed Laia in to the arms of Noxia as she equipped he Daggers quickly to deflect his oncoming sword strike. Withering from the power of the blow her knees were starting to give way from the amount of weight into the blow.
“You will die by your own man’s blade!” He told her with a wicked grin on his face. Seeing Karen struggle kicked Red into gear as she intercepted him with an oncoming diving slash with her Two-Headed Ragnus. Flame trails were left after every parry and offensive strike she performed. Holding her own for a few moments before Howzer got the opening he needed as he kicked her squarely in the back send her skidding back a few meters. Holding her chest in slight pain she stood straight as she shook it off.
“This is entertaining but the introductions are over...” With a simple click of the fingers the doorway that everyone was currently occupying blew up in several volleys of Rafoie sending them flying out and down the stairs in a heap. Noxia and Kyta were the first ones to rise up while holding the heads in slight pain then Karen was next up switching to a Wand to heal up.
“Heal us, Resta...” With that the tech was activated but nothing happened. With sudden urgency she scrolled through all of her support TECHNICs to see that their all locked.
“Kyta is your support techs available?” Karen asked her in panic, looked down in thought to check and Karen’s fear increased as Kyta with wide eyes noticed that she had none available.
“This isn’t good...” She said simply as Noxia pointed up to the stairs. Red was looked up in time from Noxia’s warning to give one of her own.
“SCATTER!” She shouted as all Guardians within the hit radius swiftly rolled out of the way as a half human in a mechanical SEED-Venus shaped exoskeleton hit the ground. Causing a crater, the Guardians watching the door swiftly came into battle with their weapons armed.
“What on the Maiden’s name...” The being started to talk.
“Behold your end, you will now see the end of time and the start of anew...ah fuck it!” With that he fired a quick blast of level 40 Foie right at Eugenic who just about dodged out of the way but couldn’t escape the blast radius behind her. The explosion threw her forward with her slightly blackened and smoked.
“Eugenic!” Chiyoko called before pulling out her Tech-MAG. “Resta!” She called but yet nothing happened. Howzer only smiled as he threw the same attack right at the Beast Wartecher. Being slightly distracted didn’t allow her to see it in time as she braced her arm in front of her for protection awaiting impact. As the attack hit her, it exploded on impact sending her flying into the adjacent wall behind her at full speed. Koji wasted no time as he charged and reared back his Huge Cutter and leaped into the air.
“Gravity Break!” He shouted as was coming down. As he hit the ground however, he caught nothing but air. Quickly realising he missed rolled to the side but Howzer already telegraphed it. Kicking him aside he sent Koji sprawling and bounce across the floor. Taking back command of the combat, Red ran towards Howzer while jumping over the speeding Koji coming towards her without breaking her stride. Switching to her light Rucars...
“Tornado Dance!” As she flew towards him at breakneck speed Howzer reared his giant arm back and swatted Red out of the way with ease. As the east wing team came in, they wasted no time getting stuck in as Sen and Blitza nodded to each other as they ran parallel against each other as the Sen went in with an Axe and Blitza with Dual Swords.
“Rising Crush!”
“Anga Redda!” Simultaneously the attacks went off but Howzer bent down slightly and blocked both attacks with his hands. He smirked as the two struggled to break free. A blast of Gifoie went off managing to hit Blitza and send him spinning across the hall. But with a bit of skill Sen spun and danced out of the spell’s range giving him a mighty glare as she locked eyes with him. Deciding otherwise she changed to her Knuckles to give more mobility.
“Anyone has any ideas?” Blitza asked shakily as he got up slowly to dust himself off and take a Trimate, Red who did the same stumbled back into a fighting stance.
“No, but one now will be nice.” Scarlet growled slightly as her Rifle shots either missed or did nothing in effect when it did hit him. As both Noxia and Scarlet had troubles in the ranged department, Hand of Thornz took a completely different approach.
“Coming through!” He called as he ran right in between Karen and Blitza head first, handguns drawn. Running in head first, Thornz leapt into the air and ran along Howzer’s outstretched arm. Trying to shake him off, Howzer spun around with his arm flailing but Thornz just flipped over his head and started firing at him then perfectly landing on his other shoulder.
“You insect! Get off me!” Howzer bellowed as he struggled to shake him off. Resorting to several waves of Gifoie, Howzer fired them one after the other but to no avail as Thornz hopped over them until he was out of range.
“Having trouble there?” Howzer only growled in frustration.
“How dare you mock me? You petty human, I will show you your place.” With that Howzer charged at the long haired human trying to finish him with one blow. As the attempted shoulder tackle was going to have an impact, Thornz skilfully rolled under him as Koji and Sen waited until he was in range before launching their attacks.
“Assault Crush!”
“Spinning Break!” Both attacks hit their targets which was across Howzer’s knee cap area, in turn caused him to stumble and fall. Red ran in to press the advantage and hopefully finish the fight.
“Absolute Dance!” With a might twirl of the helicopter like blade, she rose in the air and brought an edge of the blade down with sickening force only to be caught by a recovering madman.
“Not so fast...” He snickered as he threw Red to one side before kicking both Sen and Koji away from himself. Pushing himself up, Howzer looked around and snickered.
“Now playtime is over...” With a small smirk his size seemed to grow a little and his mechanical circuits and veins seems to glow a green.
“This is not good...” The tall CAST said as a small as an unseen frown appeared on Sen’s face.
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