27th February 2000 - New Cork Texas – O’Conner
Household
Jason slowly awoke, his mind coming out of a deep sleep that would
usually see him stay in bed until the afternoon. Fogged by sleep and
with no idea what had awakened him at five thirty in the morning? He
simply laid there smelling Fiona’s hair for a few seconds, as he
gathered his thoughts, but he still couldn’t come up with an answer. He
then held back a yawn, trying not to wake up Fiona, and guessed he was
simply just not used to sleeping beside Fiona anymore. The thought of
that was a bit shocking to him, that he could get used to not being
beside her anymore, but, as he figured it, he guessed it would not be
long before he got used to being beside her once again.
Jason then sighed softy as he resigned himself to the fact that he
probably wouldn’t be able to go back to sleep anytime soon. So he slowly
got out of the single that he was sharing with Fiona, as Elera was still
asleep on his parents’ double bed. He could sense that they both where
still asleep but did not want to wake them. So he made his way
downstairs in total darkness. Though still half asleep, he did not even
bother to enhance his vision as he had lived in this house for the first
18 or so years of his life and knew that even in his half asleep state
that finding his way would not be a problem.
A moment later, Jason walked into the kitchen and instinctively walked
towards the sink before grabbing an empty glass from the cupboard to the
right of the sink. Still on autopilot, he rinsed out the glass twice
before he filled it and drank the glass of water as he rubbed his eyes
with his free hand. He then yawned as he stared blankly out the kitchen
window. Then something caught his attention, as he suddenly saw a man
looking back at him, smiling and laughing as he saw that Jason had
noticed him. Jason was so shocked by this that he lost his grip on the
glass of water and it fell to the sink and shattered, but, even before
the sound of the shattering glass could go beyond the confines of the
kitchen, time itself seemed to go into reverse around Jason, as he
subconsciously reacted to the situation with his Matrix powers to avoid
awakening Fiona and Elera.
Jason watched, spellbound, as the sound of the glass shattering reversed
and returned to the glass as it reformed and refilled with water. It
then shot back up to his hand as he stared at it a moment longer,
dumbfounded, before his attention suddenly shot back to the window but
now no one was there. Did he just imagine it? In his half awake state,
he could not be sure exactly what had happened or whether the glass had
actually shattered in the first place. He could have sworn he recognized
the person and that it was Greg Lucas, the W’Kar, but he was in another
universe altogether, wasn’t he?
Mexico City
Above the world’s most populated city a red crystalline being seemed to
be living off the essence of the life below, as she floated in the air
high above the city, and apparently savouring the moment before the
great feast. She then let out an unnatural ear piercing, high pitched,
feminine howl that travelled through the entire city, waking up every
person, and getting everyone’s attention. Instantly a population of
eighteen million people felt a fear greater than anything they had ever
felt. No one could instil fear like Crystallite as the city fell into
chaos below her.
Inside the Chronos "Tower Of Rapture", a female Overlord, simply named
Estelle, awoke feeling terror like she had never felt before. Her master
and ruler of the tower was Damien Kane, a Zoalord that knew no fear. But
he was in Australia and without his leadership, and that of any Zoalord,
she had no one to reassure her that she did not need to know fear. But
Overlords always held a special place in Alkanphel’s heart, like
Imakarum, and where his eyes and ears for him to observe the Zoalords
and, even though he was on the other side of the world to Estelle, he
felt her fear and her memory of Crystallites unnatural scream. Though he
did not want to leave Australia, he knew a population centre like Mexico
City could not be left to die at the hands of the pure death of
Crystallite. In Japan, Elite Zoalord Imakarum felt the summoning call
from Alkanphel and teleported to Australia. Alkanphel quickly commanded
him to take over the capture of the Clan Ship and teleported away to
save the population of Mexico City.
Alkanphel teleported into the Directors office in the "Tower Of Rapture"
to find Estelle cowering under a large conference table designed for
meetings of the twelve. Up until now he’d never seen one of his
lieutenants so frightened that they would be cowering under a table.
Maybe it was his fault for allowing Overlords to be so human but, as he
walked towards a window overlooking the city, his gaze went out to see
the city below him and Alkanphel could sense the aura of fear that
emanated from the people that inhabited it. Alkanphel silently summoned
his Guyver unit, indenting the floor below him and shattering the office
window, sending shards of glass flying out onto the streets below.
Estelle seemed to feed from Alkanphel’s fearlessness, as she looked out
from her hiding spot in time to see Alkanphel’s yellow Guyver enhanced
humanoid form change blue and grow larger as he changed into his zoalord
form under the Guyver armour. Warrior Alkanphel was then about to
teleport into the night’s sky when he heard a soft voice call out his
name. He stopped and turned around and walked towards Estelle as she
crawled out from under the conference table. Estelle stood up and looked
up into Warrior Alkanphel’s glowing eyes and asked "Master, please
command me to feel no fear."
"If I commanded you to simply ignore this greatest fear you have ever
felt then you would be weaker for it. Remember, what does not kill you
makes you stronger!" with that said Warrior Alkanphel teleported into
the night’s sky to hunt and destroy Crystallite.
New Cork Texas – O’Conner Household
Jason was standing outside his parents’ house, on the
back garden path, and looking up into the night’s sky. He didn’t dare to
walk onto the grass itself as, unlike the house, it had not been kept
tidy and God knows what could be living in it now. The fact that he
could easily summon his unit and kill anything that lived there was
something that had not entered his mind as he was still half asleep and
was not fully aware that he was standing there in his underwear and did
not feel all that cold. Really Jason did not know what he was doing
outside. He thought more about that strange person who was standing
where he is now and turned back to face the kitchen window. Was that
really Greg Lucas, or was he simply losing his marbles, he thought? No,
there was no way that it could be him. With his half awake logic Jason
simply forgot about the event and looked up at the sky and thought how
the stars where pretty. But, as he did, events of being in the W’Kar
universe came flooding back to his mind. Jason remembered his final
moments in that Universe battling the Atrahasis and how it exploded over
a Star and almost killed him in the process. He then looked up at his
old room where Fiona was probably still asleep and smiled. He might have
almost died but look what he got back for almost being killed. He looked
back up at the sky and smiled. The stars were truly pretty.
The grassed moved slightly back and forward as a
light breeze blew through the garden. Jason by now was a little more
awake and this breeze suddenly felt like it came from the North Pole.
Jason shivered and started rubbing his arms, trying to build up some
heat, and then decided, rather than heading back inside the house and
rushing up to his bed and probably waking up Fiona, that he’d be better
off summoning his unit. Without a sound Jason hovered to about two feet
off the ground and then summoned his unit. Warrior Guyver smiled under
his bio-armour as he scanned the fact that Fiona was still asleep as his
feet touched the ground.
Warrior Guyver then realized for the first time that
he was not alone, realistically speaking. Though there was literally no
human life around for about a mile, a good five miles away there was a
Chronos base. This brought home the fact that Texas was still in Chronos
hands. Of all the states for him not to have freed when the Zoalords
where put to sleep, his home one. But it was not for the lack of trying.
Though now he also wondered if he still had the will to do it.
Central Australia – Clan Ship crash site.
Zeugma could not help but to be worried. Jason had
been gone now for over eight hours and she had not heard back from him.
No one here was telling her anything and, since she had promised Jason
that she’d never scan the mind of any human without their consent, she
could not bring herself to find out what she wanted telepathically. That
of course left her rather stuck. Faye on the other hand had made no so
such promise and was like a powder keg ready to explode. Like Zeugma,
Faye had easily noticed the stress levels of the ACTF troops rise some
five hours ago and she too felt this stress. As far as she could figure
it, they where keeping something from her but she could not quite figure
out what yet.
Standing beside Zeugma was the emotionally lost
Zygote Guyver, whose world had been turned upside-down by the betrayal
of Chronos and the sudden unexpected kindness of Dreadnought. All three
of these women did not know what was happening and it bothered them in
slightly different ways. Zeugma knew Jason went off to help Elera. Faye
never wanted to be part of ACTF and only stayed there because Jason was
there and as for Zygote Guyver, she simply felt like she had no place to
go and the one person who had shown her kindness was gone.
Zeugma and Faye had found out one nice thing about
Faye’s new unit. Like the original Warrior Guyver, Faye’s new unit had
given her some telepathic powers. So Zeugma and Faye could in fact
communicate with each other without any ACTF or EDF person being the
wiser. They both communicated the fact that they did not like what was
happening now and agreed that if not for the fact these people where
viewed as their allies and friends that they would have left hours ago
to find Jason. Faye then tuned to look at Zygote Guyver and wondered if
she ever deactivated her unit but decided to leave that question to
another day and asked instead "Do you want to find Jason?"
"I don’t know what I want," answered Zygote Guyver.
"Will you come with us?" asked Faye as she pointed at
Zeugma.
Zygote Guyver only nodded and followed Zeugma and
Faye as they made their way towards the other Guyvers.
By this stage Warrior Guyver 2 was fuming. He could
not believe that Jason would have attacked the ACTF base no matter what
was the reason. General Carter had led the USA back to almost full
control over its lands and no matter what that man was to be obeyed.
Which was an easy way to think considering Warrior Guyver 2 was a pure
bred military man and a member of the Marine Core. Though how he fitted
these days was more like a member of Delta Force than a Marine, as he
had a tendency to only be sent out on special missions and was no longer
considered a regular defence forces person in any way shape or form. He
was a Warrior Guyver, a weapon of immense destructive power, and with
him where Guyver US, Battle Guyver and Guyver Merc. Elsewhere on the
base, talking with her own people in human form was Angel. But she was
mainly unaware of the turmoil around her, as the ACTF had not informed
the EDF in anyway about Jason’s apparent betrayal.
About twenty miles away, Kron was receiving
information from the Ark, which was now back over its usual location of
Arizona main base, that Warrior Guyver was active in Texas. The local
Chronos base, which was now stripped of its Bio-Titans and was only
protected by five Neo-Zektoles, was requesting instructions. Kron was
not quite sure at first why Warrior Guyver was standing in the back
garden of an abandoned house as he looked down on him with a high
orbiting Eye of Chronos. But then he remembered his file. Jason’s
parents had owned that house. But what was he doing there? He simply had
to know what was happening. Moments later Shadow Guyver, Chronos’
greatest spy got the strange order to go spy on a house in the middle of
a Chronos occupied state.
Warrior Guyver 2, Guyver US, Battle Guyver and Guyver
Merc had not deactivated their units since hearing that Dreadnought had
gone renegade. None of them knew how to take this, they needed
Dreadnought’s power but how could they fight him if it ever came to
that? Warrior Guyver 2, though, had a very simple plan running through
his head. He and the other ACTF Guyvers would lead a daring raid to get
more units. This time though, he’d not make the mistake of giving it to
one of Jason’s friends but to a marine like himself. But he realised
quickly who he had as assets and who he did not. Zeugma, Dreadnought and
Guardian where going to be unlikely allies. Zeus would more than likely
deal with them to get units though chances are, since he lost out the
last time ACTF and he had a deal, that he’d want fist call on a Unit. So
this would all depend on who would get what if they where to deal. With
Agito would come Sho and Shizu. So there would be some powerful backup.
Reports from scouts informed him that Alkanphel had left some ten
minutes ago and that Imakarum, Chronos third in command, had joined them
in his absence. Overall this meant Chronos was seriously weakened since
Dreadnought’s arrival. Alkanphel had left, and Zygote Guyver had seemed
to transfer sides, though this seemed unlikely to him. Even more
unlikely that she’d fight on their side but at least she was no longer
fighting against them. All in all he’d not given up hope of victory, he
was ACTF and that was what mattered.
Guyver US had seemed to only harden his view on
things. He viewed Jason as his friend. Even more than that, he owed the
man for saving his life and reuniting him with Cori. Jason was a man
that had an unusually raw hatred for Chronos. Time and again Jason had
helped them turn the tide against Chronos, but now he had seemed to
turn. No, something was not quite right with what happened in the USA.
Jason would not act without a reason, provided that this was the Jason
he knew. He had to admit that this could in fact be the wrong Jason, he
thought. Who knows if the real Jason had actually returned from that
other universe or worse had died and been replaced by an evil alternate?
But one thing was for sure, he’d have to get some answers for ACTF on
the full story of what happened there before he continued to judge a
friend.
Twenty miles away, inside the remains of the Clan
Ship, Natasha had been working inside the Clan Ship now for over three
days. She was beyond tired now and badly needed sleep. Alkanphel and the
zoalords had been pushing her to discover Units. She knew she would
eventually find what remained inside this wonderful ship. The problem
was time. It was only a matter of time before the ACTF forces broke the
Chronos battle lines and she feared what would happen if a Warrior type
Guyver got inside the ship. Female Guyver 2 and Guyver 2 both reported
the fact that the Clan Ship would only barely respond to them. It
considered them ‘impure’ for lack of a better word. This made her very
curious as she had a theory that this ship was not from this universe.
Its arrival coincided with the activation of the powerful ‘Guardian’
Warrior type unit. With what was known, the Creators did not have units
that advanced. But one person, who was always an unknown, the Warrior
Guyver 2 did have one interesting fact published about him in national
newspapers. He was in fact from another parallel Universe. Was this ship
in some way related to him? If it was then it would be the singly most
important discovery to Chronos ever since after its foundation when
Valkus met Alkanphel.
Back in the ACTF and EDF camp Warrior Guyver 2 was
about to start making a plan with the three other Guyvers when Faye,
Zeugma and Zygote Guyver walked into the command tent. This seemed like
an unwelcome interruption, a fact that did not go unnoticed by anyone.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE WITH THAT CHRONOS
GUYVER?" yelled Warrior Guyver 2 at Zeugma.
Zygote Guyver stepped behind Zeugma, fearing another
disastrous fight as Zeugma shouted back at Warrior Guyver 2, "LEAVE HER
ALONE WARRIOR GUYVER 2."
"She’s a member of Chronos and she deserves
everything she gets," said Warrior Guyver 2.
<I don’t know why Jason showed her mercy but it must
have been for a reason> said Faye telepathically to both of them,
cutting in on their argument.
"Yeah, Jason does everything for a reason, like when
he attacked Dr. Redmond’s lab," said Guyver US.
"He did what?" asked a very surprised Zeugma. She
suspected that there was a reason why she was being told nothing until
now.
"Jason freaked out when he discovered that Dr.
Redmond was keeping samples of Elera’s blood," said Warrior Guyver 2.
"What was Redmond doing with Elera’s blood?" asked
Zeugma
"Whatever doctors do with it, more than likely he was
running tests to figure out how the girl works so he could heal her,"
said Guyver US.
"You see he way overreacted zoa-wench and destroyed
whatever hopes we had in figuring out how you two zoa’s work," said
Guyver Merc, getting his two cents in.
That comment infuriated Zeugma, she got the view that
the ACTF only wanted her around for her strength and any feeling of
family that came from ACTF quickly evaporated. She turned around to
Zygote Guyver and Faye and ushered them out of the command tent.
"You guys should not have been so hard on them," said
Battle Guyver to the male Guyvers.
"Cori, do you really think we can trust them?" asked
Guyver US before he then added, "Ones a Zoalord, the other has only ever
followed Jason and finally the third one only yesterday tried her best
to kill us. They really do lack on the trust department."
"Yeah, and now any trust they had in us, and probably
the ACTF, has gone up in smoke and once they meet up with Jason he’ll
unquestionably never be coming back," said Battle Guyver.
"We survived before without him, we’ll do so again,"
said Guyver US, but Cori knew Sean well enough to know his voice lacked
the conviction of his statement.
New Cork Texas – O’Conner Household
Warrior Guyver stood, debating with himself on
whether or not he would attack the local Chronos base. Above him he
could sense an Eye Of Chronos looking down on him so it was not like his
presence here was a secret. He quickly decided to take some precautions
and behind him appeared the Dreadnought cocoon. A few seconds later, the
form of Dreadnought now replaced the form of the Warrior Guyver. His
sensor range enhanced, Jason was now happy in the knowledge that there
was no one around that could attack him or his sleeping wife. To ensure
that an attack was even less likely, Dreadnought started to actively
block all forms of teleportation. Unknowingly Dreadnought had in fact
managed to block Shadow Guyver from being teleported in, forcing the
Chronos Guyver to be teleported in some distance away, but he could
sense the fact that someone had tried to teleport in close to his
location. Moments later he sensed Zeugma calling out to him. Though now
relatively safe, he realised that he had to air on the side of caution
and teleported into the middle of the town before sending a signal to
Zeugma and informing her of where he was.
This was a very familiar area of the town to
Dreadnought. Only down the street was Ronda’s Diner, a place where he
had his first date and first kiss with Fiona. He stood there thinking of
the memories this town brought him as Zeugma teleported into the middle
of the deserted town with Zygote Guyver and Faye beside her. They’re
arrival was quickly followed by a sense of shock as they saw Jason in
his most powerful form, standing there in the middle of a deserted
street about twenty meters away. All three women suddenly feared that
he’d brought them here to attack them in the middle of a deserted town.
All three of them may have lacked a modern education, since two of them
were from two million years ago and the other a girl who never had the
chance to go to school, but all three of them could sense the fact that
the only close signs of life where zoanoids in a Chronos base a few
miles away. It didn’t take a genius to conclude that they were about to
find out the hard way on whether or not the rumours that Jason had gone
renegade were true or not.
Zeugma and Faye did not even know if they really
should transform into their more powerful forms and get ready for a
fight or just stand there and hope Dreadnought did not kill them. The
tension was quickly broken, though, by Dreadnought when he shouted at
the women, "Hello you three, what are you doing in my old town?"
Zeugma sighed in relief before shouting back, "I’m
here to see how Elera is doing. I’ve heard some bad things about what
happened in Washington."
"Elera’s fine, she’d in a deep sleep in my parents’
house with Fiona," said Dreadnought as he walked closer to them.
"Jason, I don’t mean to be rude, but why are you
standing there in your most powerful Guyver form?" asked Zeugma.
"Oh, sorry to alarm you three but it’s only like this
that I can easily block people teleporting and don’t exactly want to
allow Chronos to teleport into my parent’s house. Sorry, with all that’s
happened, it didn’t occur to me that it would look rather bad getting
the three of you to teleport into the middle of a deserted street and me
in my most powerful form looking like I’m ready to kick your collective
butts.
"Oh Jason, we never would think anything like that…"
said Zeugma as Faye smacked her on her shoulder and started to laugh at
her.
Zygote Guyver, though, did not know what was being
said. But could guess that they where kind of happy that Dreadnought was
walking towards them. Dreadnought looked at the only other active Guyver
and realised something. She might not understand English.
"Zeugma, can she speak English?" asked Dreadnought as
he nodded towards Zygote Guyver.
"No she can’t, you can only imagine what it was like
trying to direct her around the ACTF camp."
"Does she speak any other languages?"
"None that I know," answered Zeugma.
"Or me," said Faye. "Though, she is able to talk
through our units."
"Have either of you figured out if she really is
other than some Chronos Guyver?"
"She is not very talkative Jason, in fact she said
nothing whatsoever, only nodded or shook her head when asked questions."
"I knew there was a bit more to her than I originally
thought," said Dreadnought.
Mexico City
Circling above the huge city, Warrior Alkanphel was
still none the wiser where Crystallite now hid herself. Above him even
an Eye Of Chronos was having trouble locating her. She has seemed to
naturally disappear into the biomass of the city. That then gave him an
idea. Maybe he was looking the wrong way. Maybe he should be looking for
a lack of life instead? Above him the biomechanical zoanoid, which was
the Eye of Chronos, received its orders and started to examine the city
for an increasing lack of life. On the ground, Warrior Alkanphel
realised that this would not be an easy task and landed on top of the
Tower Of Rapture.
New Cork Texas – Near the O’Conner Household
"Girls, we’re going to have to be quiet. Fiona and
Elera are still asleep," said Jason as they continued to walk to his
house. Apart from Zygote Guyver, Guardian and Dreadnought had
deactivated their units and Zeugma had stayed in her human form.
"I can sense Elera’s mind Jason. She’s dreaming about
fighting that Chronos bastard and she is not winning," said Zeugma.
"Zeugma, leave her be, she’s been through a lot over
the past few days."
"But I can help her."
"Don’t you worry about her Zeugma, Elera will recover
just like she did when her Uncle died."
"You don’t know how hard it is for me not to help her
Jason, she is my friend."
"Okay, if she asks for help when after she wakes up,
help her all she wants. But Zeugma don’t play god with her memories and
start removing those that hurt her."
"Why?"
"Because we are all the sum of our collective
memories, including those that hurt us, they make us what we are."
"That’s a very human view on things Jason."
"Yes it is, but simply put this is my house and I’m a
very human person and I’m not going to allow you to play with her mind."
"Okay Jason, since this is your home I promise to
respect your wishes and I will not try to remove any of Elera’s hurtful
memories without her permission."
"That’s all I ask Zeugma. The choice must be hers."
A few feet behind them and still in her Guyver
enhanced form, Zygote Guyver heard their conversation and wondered what
it was about. Little did she know but she too had a similar problem.
A minute later Jason, Zeugma, Faye, and Zygote Guyver
arrived just outside the door to Jason’s house. Jason looked at his
front door and then back at Zygote Guyver and realised that she would
not fit through his doorway in her present form. He stopped and allowed
Zeugma and Faye to get by before he then he put up his arm out in front
of him, gesturing Zygote Guyver to stop.
"Zygote, you’re going to have to deactivate your
Guyver unit to fit in my house," said Jason, talking through his unit so
that she would understand him.
She simply shook her head, signalling her
unwillingness to do so.
"Zygote, I don’t want to hurt you, please trust me,
nothing will harm you in my house."
"I trusted someone once before and he did some
horrible things to me."
"If I was some horrible person Zygote, I would have
killed you long before now. I’d not wait until you where only a few feet
away from my house."
Zygote Guyver thought about this for a few seconds
then disengaged her Guyver armour. Jason now looked at the blood haired
woman who was the host but took a few seconds to notice the fact that
she did not look any older than fifteen. She was wearing a torn hospital
gown that she had on her now for over two months and looked a mess.
Jason was more than a little shocked at the sight of her. He expected
her to be a lot older, nearer to his age if anything. But how did she of
all people discover a Guyver unit? For that matter, how in gods name did
she manage to get into a Relic?
Mexico City
Alkanphel had deactivated his Guyver armour in the
hope that his Zoalord from would be a more attractive target to
Crystallite. But, as of yet, she had not yet attacked him. Indeed she
had yet to attack the city on a large scale at all. She was very capable
of doing so and if anything her feeding pattern to date showed she
killed everything she came in contact with. So why was she here, in one
of the most populated cities on Earth, and wasn’t wiping out the
population to increase her bio-energy supplies? The only conclusion was
that she must be here for another reason, but what could it be?
The O’Conner House, New Cork Texas
It had been six hour since Jason had met with Zeugma,
Zygote Guyver and Faye and they where all now asleep. Jason was sleeping
on an armchair while Zeugma was asleep on the armchair opposite to him,
Faye was asleep on the floor and the host of Zygote Guyver was asleep on
the couch. They where all pretty tired from fighting over the past few
days and one by one had all fallen asleep.
Inside the spare room Fiona was slowly waking up. The
sunlight was shining on her face as she reached behind her looking for
Jason, only to find nothing but more bed sheets. She guessed he must be
out fighting someone or looking for Jenny and thought nothing more of
it. Though, as she started to wake up more, she realised she found it
strange that she thought nothing more of it. Unlike Jason, she was not
really alive over the past two years. The accident that killed her Jason
also put her into a coma and the next thing she remembered was the blue
form of Warrior Guyver as he healed her. Though even that seemed like a
dream, she was barely conscious then and the next thing she knew she was
a Guyver and in a battle against Alkanphel of all people. Overall she
was happy with how things turned out considering the ruined events of
her wedding. She started to cry as she remembered what happened that
day. She’d give up her warrior unit for her family and friends to be
back. But even Jason, with all his power, could not do that for himself.
She then realised she was not alone and turned around to see Elera
looking at her.
"Excuse me, but who are you?"
"I’m Fiona."
"Fionaaaaa?!"
"Fiona O’Conner."
"No way! You can’t be!"
"Why not?"
"Because she’s dead."
"You’re thinking about the wrong Fiona O’Conner."
"What, Jason has a long lost cousin with the same
name as the dead love of his life?"
"No, I’m not his cousin, I’m his wife."
"But how?"
"You know Jason’s been missing?"
"Yes."
"Well…. Okay this is a little hard to explain, it
will probably be just as hard for you to believe as well."
"Give it a shot. I’m a zoalord and human hybrid from
a bloodline over two million years old. I’ve heard many stories that are
hard to believe that have come true, like the Zoalord Alkanphel for
example."
"Okay… Well I’m from a different universe, where I
come from it was Jason that died not me, Jason found me in a coma and
healed me, turned me into a Guyver and then killed that Zoalord
Alkanphel and brought me to this universe."
"Alkanphel’s dead!?"
"Well, my universe’s version of Alkanphel is dead,
yours I guess is still alive."
"Damn and you just had my hopes up as well."
"Sorry about that, I guess you’re Elera."
"Yes, that’s me."
"Do you know what happened after Jason healed you?"
"No…."
"I better let Jason tell you then."
"Oh my, I guess it’s not good news then. But at least
I’ve got my leg reattached to my body," said Elera as she looked down at
her legs and smiled.
"It’s a great gift that Jason was given, he used it
to bring me back from the dead."
"Yeah, but he was nearly killed to get it."
"I know, he was also nearly killed before he found me
too."
"Oh, I’ve got to hear this story!"
"I’ll leave that to him."
"What about Jenny? Is she okay?"
"No, she’s still out there somewhere. Jason was
attacked by something else when they last fought and he lost track of
her."
"He must be pretty messed up?"
"He is. He’s trying not to show it, he seems calm
about it, but I know him, he’s going to explode and destroy whatever
gets in the way of him and his sister the next time."
"I’d hate to be that person."
"Whoever does will deserve it, all Jason wants is his
sister back, and anyone that gets in the way is an idiot."
The Ark – Orbiting the Earth over Australia
The idiot that Fiona was referring to was still
inside the Ark. His name is simply Tonnin, an enhanced new breed of
Kavzar, he had enough firepower within himself to destroy a small
country with little effort. His mission now was simple in description
only. Keep the Ark from being destroyed by Dreadnought or Crystallite.
Not an easy task considering Dreadnought was the most powerful Guyver on
the planet that Chronos had to face. But there had been no sign of those
two in hours. Kron had informed him that Alkanphel was in Mexico City
hunting Crystallite while he knew from reports that Jason was in Texas.
Why he was still on the Ark and not killing Chronos’s enemies he did not
know. But Alkanphel knew he was there on the Ark and if he wanted him
anywhere else then he’d tell him.
Alkanphel in the meantime had still not found any
sign of Crystallite. This indeed made him curious to why she was here.
This infection was without a doubt more complex than he and his Zoalords
originally thought. They suspected she was turned into some mindless
killer. But by the simple fact she had not wiped out this city made that
assumption seem to be very wrong. She was capable of some advanced
thoughts other than to just eat powerful beings like her brother. This
made her even more dangerous . . .
Dreadnought flew over the Ark. He’d been fighting his
sister for days. The battle in Australia had gone purely against the
ACTF and all his friends where dead. He’d seen Crystallite kill Warrior
Guyver 2 while he stood back helpless, fearing that he’d kill his sister
if he interfered. Now she was chasing him to the Ark, he could not
escape from her nor could he teleport away. He was being blocked
somehow. Suddenly he lost control of his unit and crashed onto the Ark.
He stood up and realised that his unit had fallen off him and was
standing there as Crystallite closed in. He was helpless as she landed
in front of him. Too frightened to move he just stood there as she
picked him up. He looked into her eyes hoping to see something of his
sister looking back at him but as her mouth opened and her fangs bit
into his neck, sucking his life blood, he realised there was nothing of
his sister left in this creature. Then suddenly he was looking up into
the eyes of Fiona who had been shaking him. He’d been dreaming, well
having a nightmare was more accurate he thought.
"Are you okay Jason?" asked Fiona.
"No, I’m not okay."
"What just happened?"
"A nightmare I’m not going to let come true."
"Oh. You dreamed about your sister?"
"Yes, I’m not about to go into it, I’ve wasted enough
time waiting for her to show herself, I’m going to find her if it’s the
last thing I do."
"Wait a second and I’ll come with you."
"Oh no you’re not Fiona, stay here and look after
them. I’ll be back as soon as I can."
Jason glowed slightly as he disappeared from the
armchair and reappeared a thousand feet above his parent’s house,
floating in midair as he shouted the word "Guyver". The Warrior Unit
appeared around him, quickly followed by the Dreadnought cocoon.
Dreadnought was then about to leave when he sensed Ultimus about twenty
miles away. Ultimus quickly stopped dead in his tracks as he realised
Dreadnought was active, then he quickly found himself facing him as
Dreadnought teleported right in front of him.
"Hello Max, what are you doing so fare away from
Canada?"
"I got some disturbing news from General Carter...
but I came to confirm it myself."
"Yeah, I guess all of you guys got the bad news about
me, but go near Fiona or Elera and I’ll kick the living shit out of
you."
"I’m not as easy to push around as Dr. Redmond," said
Ultimus, before he realised it was not the best choice or words.
"Do you even know why I did that?"
"No I don’t, as I said before the reason I came here
was to find out why."
"Max, Chronos are not the only ones experimenting
with Zoanoids, the only reason ACTF USA has got that scumbag Dr. Redmond
working for them is to make them a zoanoid army."
"You’re joking!?"
"I wish I was, but while Elera was being supposedly
helped by Redmond, he was really using her to get samples of her zoalord
blood."
"Why in gods name would they want her zoalord blood?"
"When I scanned his mind to find out why, he said to
himself "because we need a controller"."
"We need a controller… My God they want a zoanoid
army of their own."
"Yeah, I kind of flipped when I found out that and
basically destroyed any samples he had of Elera’s blood."
"Jason, I hate to burst your bubble but there is
someone else, who is a lot more powerful than Elera, who you should
warn."
"You mean Zeugma?"
"Yes, if they could make a controller out of Elera
imagine what they could do with her!"
"Ohhh crap…"
"Even worse Jason, they may already have a sample of
her DNA."
"What do you mean?"
"You where not around the day ACTF found her, how do
you know if they did not get a blood sample then while she was
unconscious on that hospital bed?"
"Umm, I’ve completely no idea."
"Well if they did, they sure as hell have it well
hidden by now."
"What makes you say that Max?"
"Simple Jason, you destroyed Redmond’s lab, you’re a
risk now."
"I see what you mean. Can you do me a favour Max?"
"Well, I guess everyone deserves at least one favour,
what do you want?"
"Could you look after my wife and them down there?"
"You do know Zeugma is even stronger than I am?"
"Yes, but I’ve a bad feeling something is going to
happen and I’d like you to be here to stop whatever it is that’s
coming."
"Uh, you get a bad feeling and you want me to stop
it?"
"Max, you’re more powerful than you give yourself
credit."
"Thanks, okay I will, but first we’ve got to get some
things straight."
"Okay, go ahead."
"First, if there’s any trouble in Canada I’m going to
leave."
"Okay, but let me know first."
"Will do! Next, if I do this you owe me a favour,
right, which I can call up whenever I need it?"
"Yes, okay we’re agreed, thank you Max," said
Dreadnought and with that said he teleported away.
Sydney Australia
Dreadnought appeared high above the main Chronos HQ
in Sydney Australia called "Jehovah’s Temple". Gravity instantly got a
hold of him and he plummeted down through the air towards the base. The
local Overlord commander could not believe her eyes when Dreadnought
crashed into her office. Then, if it wasn’t bad enough that the number
one threat to Chronos had crashed into her building, she almost
defecated herself as an invisible force lifted her up towards him.
"Where’s Jenny?"
"Who’s Jenny? I don’t-"
"You’re telling me you don’t know who my sister is?"
asked Dreadnought as he telekinetically flung the female Overlord
against a wall. The Overlord stood up and dusted herself off.
Dreadnought could sense a power build inside her as her Overlord crystal
appeared on her forehead. He could have stopped her with a thought but
waited to see what she was up to. Next thing he knew the ceiling of the
room was falling on top on him. He could no longer see the Overlord,
thanks to the dust, but he could sense the Overlord attempting to escape
out the window. But, before she even had the chance to shatter glass,
she found herself being telekinetically grabbed and pulled into the
centre of the dust filled room. Her eyes stung and she could see nothing
but grey dust but then she heard a strange high pitched sound and then
saw two beams of light emanating right in front of her. She gulped as
she realised it was the tri-level control medal of Dreadnought and then
the pinkish glowing eyes came into view. He had not moved a muscle since
she tried to attack him.
"Bad move Chronos bait," said Dreadnought in a cold
tone.
"Why are you calling me ‘bait’?"
"You are what you are," answered Dreadnought as he
turned around and walked out of the dust filled room with the Overlord
being dragged behind him. In the corridor outside zoanoids of different
types where running to the aid of the local commander but soon found
themselves face to face with Chronos’ version of the bogeyman.
Dreadnought casually fired two huge one-handed gravity balls down both
ends of the corridors, killing over fifty zoanoids in one go and then
blasting two huge holes into the walls they eventually ended up hitting.
The Overlord realised her ninety nine percent of standard zoanoids could
not even kill a regular Guyver. Meaning the chance they had of killing
Dreadnought was less than nothing. She had more chance of being hit by
five lightning bolts in five seconds than they had of killing him. In
short she needed some heavy backup and fast. On the other side of the
Earth Alkanphel sensed this from his Overlord. Seconds later Tonnin, who
had been going stir crazy from inactivity, received the call he had been
waiting for.
Dreadnought reached down and picked up the female
Overlord by her neck. "Where‘s my sister?"
"I told you I don’t know anything about you."
"Well then, you better hope your would be rescuer
will, Chronos bait."
Miles away Tonnin appeared outside Dreadnought’s
blocking zone. He’d been looking forward to this chance at defeating
Chronos’ single most powerful enemy. Dreadnought instantly sensed his
arrival. He debated quickly with himself on whether or not he would kill
this Overlord. The fact his sister was once this type of zoanoid and
along with her very human features troubled him. It’s a lot harder to
crush someone’s neck when a frightened human face is looking back at
you. Dreadnought cursed Alkanphel and then dropped the female Overlord
on the ground. She collapsed flat on the floor so she was eye level with
Dreadnought’s toes as Tonnin rammed into the building. The impact shook
the top floors like an earthquake.
Dreadnought waited to see what this Kavzar thing was
capable of this time and quickly got his answer as Tonnin raised his two
arms and pointed them towards him and then fired a hail of rail bullets,
which hit off Dreadnought’s omni-directional shield causing little or no
trouble to the powerful Guyver. Tonnin, though, had far greater powers
than that and the Kavzar crystal on his forehead glowed and a moment
later he fired a gravitational force wave towards Dreadnought. Under his
armour Jason smiled knowing he could easily just activate his barrier
shield and deflect such an attack. But he then quickly realised that
there was a fallen Overlord at his feet. Momentarily he questioned would
it really matter, the old saying of killing two birds with one stone
came to mind, destroy the Overlord with his shield and deflect an attack
from Tonnin, but he knew his conscious just would not allow him to do
such a thing. So instead he reached down and picked up the fallen
Overlord and jumped up through the ceiling just in time as the
gravitational force wave passed underneath him. Dreadnought knew that
this would someday come back to haunt him, that he was being seen as
nice, but he just could not kill those who where no threat to him.
Tonnin bashed his way up through the floor to follow
Dreadnought only for this to be Dreadnought’s turn at attacking.
Dreadnought held the Overlord on his left arm and turned so that his
right side faced Tonnin. Then, with his right arm outstretched,
Dreadnought had readied a force wave of his own. Tonnin did not even
sense the attack being built up and now found himself being blown
through wall after wall away from Dreadnought and the Overlord.
Dreadnought dropped the Overlord then flew up through the building until
he burst through the roof and then stopped high above the Chronos tower.
Moments later Tonnin followed suit but stopped a few meters away from
Dreadnought.
"Why did you not kill the Overlord?"
"Never mind that, I’m not here to answer your
questions. Where the hell is my sister?"
"Even if I knew I’d never tell a second rate Guyver
like you anyway."
"Second rate Guyver? You cheeky Chronos pup I’m going
to kick the living shit out of you and bring your battered remains to
that overrated elf throw back."
Tonnin roared at the insult to his master. His
control crystal fired, sending a powerful laser bolt at Dreadnought, who
simply ducked under it. The boosters on Dreadnought’s back fired as he
sped towards Tonnin, his right arm reached back and energy swirled
around it ready to power punch this new adversary to hell.
Central Australia
Warrior Guyver 4 was simply amazed by the amount of
military hardware assembled by the USA ACTF and European EDF. They had
thousands of armours, along with over three hundred particle cannons,
ready for the next attack on the Chronos forces. The need for this new
build up was obvious. Dreadnoughts return, instead of strengthening the
ACTF forces, had instead weakened them with his apparent betrayal. The
loss of Dreadnought was bad but even worse was the possibility that he
might have taken his friends with him. When you consider the fact that
his friends included, Zeugma and Faye, who where pretty powerful in
their own right, it made the loss even more hard felt. But General
Carter was not a man to run and hide and neither where his forces. Sean,
Stephen, Cori, Philip and him where now charged with the mission of
capturing the Clan Ship.
Warrior Guyver 4, whose real name is Amuro Rei, was
only 21 years old. His parent’s where both born and married in Japan and
immigrated to the USA ten years before he was born. Amuro grew up in the
good old US of A leading a pretty normal life that was until Chronos
struck. The US Army fell within a day, all signs of opposition
disappeared. Then one day he met Philip and he became a mercenary. Like
so many people he knew, he hated Chronos and it was what Philip needed
from him most of the time, a simple raw hate for those that ruined his
life. Then one faithful day, when three hyper-zoanoids caught up with
Philips mercenary team and he was sure he was about to die, the Creators
decided to play with his life and forced him to have a Warrior unit of
sorts. He was named Warrior Guyver 4 and then sent to Canada to help the
Canadian ACTF fight Chronos. But now with Dreadnought leaving he’d
probably never see Canada again. Well that was if Dreadnought really did
leave.
Warrior Guyver 4 could feel the tension in the ACTF
camp, Dreadnoughts return should have easily saw to them winning
yesterday but instead left them to doubt the outcome of the war itself.
But then, as he wondered the base, he sensed a very powerful Guyver
teleport into the command tent of the local ACTF General. He feared the
worse and started to run towards the tent when he sensed another Guyver
teleport into the tent and he almost instantly recognised who it was. It
was his friend Jett, the Ninja Guyver. That other Guyver with him must
be Black Nova, he thought.
From different sections of the base, all the Guyvers
ACTF USA and Europe had made their way to see who this new powerful
Guyver was. To their surprise it was a newly enhanced Black Nova, who
was now going by the codename of Dark Nova, and she was giving off
serious signals when scanned that she was almost as powerful as, if not
equal to, Dreadnought. Clearly she was a serious powerhouse capable of
causing major damage to enemies. This of course really did impress
Warrior Guyver 4. Dreadnought was frighteningly enough in a way, but
Dark Nova looked smaller, more compact, but was still an equal to the
larger Dreadnought…
Miles away in a small but not yet totally deserted
town, the only significant living thing was no longer what someone could
call a human being. This area had been under Chronos control until three
days ago when the numbers of Chronos troops in the area was drastically
lowered. But, being the Australian outback, which is basically a desert,
there was not many people for Chronos to process to replenish there
numbers they where losing to the ACTF forces. The only thing significant
about this town was its prison that had been converted by Chronos into a
testing centre. The prison originally housed well over two thousand
inmates and serviced an area the size of the United Kingdom. With that
jail under their control Chronos had a stockpile of expendable humanity
for it to turn into new zoanoid types. That was until three days ago.
Not all Creator forces in the area followed the orders of Krullnar. One
Kavzar Commander and his task force, under the command of a different
Creator, had test units of their own outside the control of the Creators
high command. This Kavzar Commander and his forces raided and quickly
destroyed most of this then converted processing centre. The Kavzar
Commander knew what this place was after only a few seconds of being
there and what its purpose was, these humans where clearly being held
captive and that the ones in the larger cells by themselves must be
viewed as the most dangerous. Even as his forces subdued the Chronos
forces inside the prison the Kavzar Commander’s head sensors scanned the
jail and he could see a perfect three-dimensional representation of the
area. His brain then instinctively focused on the isolation cells of the
jail where the most dangerous prisoners where kept. But there was only
one person alive in that part of the prison.
Deep within the prison was probably the most feared
human in Australian legal history. He was only known as Sedah. No one
knew this mans real name, no one even knew where he was originally from,
the only thing people knew was this man loved to kill people and prayed
on those mostly in small rural areas. During the height of his blood
lust he literally wiped out a village of two hundred people. The thing
most alarming about this man was the fact he looked like everyone else,
acted like everyone was the pillar of society wherever he went as the
local law enforcement. He even investigated his own case at one stage. A
trained detective, and a man who studied at one stage to be a coroner,
he left nothing at a crime scene that would ever lead back to him. But
one day he slipped up and was caught killing a victim in their house on
CCTV. It turned out that the victim had trouble at one stage with a baby
sister and had installed a hidden camera to catch the person abusing his
son. Sedah was discovered that day. But that only led to a bigger
mystery, who was his man and how many people did he kill? Only Sedah
really knew the answer and his contempt for the world saw to the fact
that he’d take such information to his grave.
Two years ago, almost a week after he was captured,
Australia, like the rest of the world, was taken over by Chronos on
X-Day. And when Chronos took control over the jail fully and started
processing its inmates the local Chronos Commander realised who Sedah
was. A specimen like Sedah was truly a rare find and the commander and
Chronos waited until they had an experiment to suit this individual.
Chronos never did get around to such an experiment but today someone
else would.
Sedah sat there emotionless as the Kavzar Commander
ripped the cell doors from it hinges and flung the solid steel door down
the hallway with little effort at all. He did not run, he did not
scream, he only smiled at the being that was easily eight hundred times
his strength and killing ability. The Kavzar Commander knew then he had
the perfect host for the next Neo-Kavzar Omega Class unit.
Today, though, twin Zoalords Elmira and Elena where
leading a thirty Bio-Titan taskforce to retake the fallen Chronos
processing centre. But neither the forces of the Creators, nor a living
person, was to be found here. All the Chronos personal that worked in
the jail had been killed and any human with an ounce of common sense
used the opportunity given to them by the Creators attack to escape this
place and run for their lives. Even though the twins are zoalords, they
understood oh so well how humans thought and acted. After all, these two
twins where probably the two youngest Zoalords in Chronos history.
Though, that was not to say they where members of Chronos for only a
short period of time.
Both girls were only five years old and living on the
street when they were discovered by an agent of Chronos that worked in a
school sponsored by the Concern charity. It was overcrowded and
basically under funded. Keeping track of them all so you could actually
give them an education was made even more difficult by the fact a lot
children in the area died from malnutrition or went missing because
there is more evil in the world than just Chronos after all. Out of luck
more than anything else the agent came across them through a
conversation with another teacher. Through day-to-day work with the
girls she found that the twin girls simply out preformed every other kid
in their class.
A little bit sceptical, but still intrigued, the
Chronos agent included information on the two in a report to the local
HQ. From there the report went to the main Brazil Branch of what was
called Max Pharmaceuticals at the time and the Commander decided that it
was time the Twins where put into one of their private schools. From
there the Commander took great interest in the girls and every one of
their relative achievements as they proved to be in fact wonder
children. By the time they where ten both girls had finished third level
degrees. Together these highly competitive girls continued to have a
bright future. So to call Elmira and Elena children of Chronos would be
no insult at all to these girls. They grew up in Chronos. Chronos took
them off the streets and gave them a future. But today they where going
to meet there first real challenge since becoming Disciple Zoalords.
Deep within the prison a cloaked Cocoon, which contained what was once a
human being, de-cloaked and began to hatch.
Only a few miles away a Guyver called CRT Guyver 1
landed. She had been sent here by herself to see if it was possible for
her to recover something from the crashed Creator Ship that would be of
help to the CRF, a rival to the CRTF that the Nova Guyvers belonged too.
Vastly out numbered and out powered on all sides, Mai knew this mission
was near impossible but it was also extremely vital. But even so, she
was the only one here and without a Guyver for support and/or one
capable of teleporting meant that she was basically a normal Guyver by
herself against a set of huge opposing forces. She was experienced
enough but CRF Guyver 1 was still very nervous about this mission. Worse
case scenarios quickly flashed through her mind. It was more than likely
that Chronos would find her out and she’ll find herself being killed by
a Bio-Titan, or, even though the chance was far less, she could be found
by one of the CRTF Guyvers and they most certainly would kill her after
their last meeting. Damn them, she thought, they should realize that
only her group of freedom fighters would truly free their homeland of
China and bring it back to its glory as a communist superpower.
China had never been a Capitalist ideal of a
democracy and as such Anwynn and her group where taking advantage of
Chronos taking over the homeland so that they could install their ideal
on what China should truly be like. They would do that over her rotting
Guyver enhanced corpse if they wanted that to happen, she was more than
willing to die so China would be returned to how it was before Chronos
took over. With her head sensors checking the countryside like crazy,
looking for sign of any danger and finding none, she was pretty sure she
was alone and left her position to see if she could get closer to the
Clan Ship combat zone.
Only a short distance away, Warrior Guyver 4 was on
patrol looking for any flanking action from Chronos. But so far there
was not a living thing that he had encountered which could have been of
threat to him or ACTF troops. Just the wildlife of Australia that was
seemingly wise enough to stay out of a Guyvers way. Then he sensed
something he did not expect, it was a Guyver and he knew from his
meetings with the ACTF and EDF Commanders that none of his allies would
be in his patrol zone. His control medal only shined for a second and
then Warrior Guyver 4 disappeared behind a cloaking shield and quickly
made his way towards the unknown Guyver.
CRF Guyver 1 found an outcrop of land that allowed
her to see all the way to the crash site using her Guyver enhanced
eyesight. She could not see it clearly but could tell that both sides
out numbered her vastly. It hit home the fact that the CRF, in terms of
raw numbers, where nothing on the likes of ACTF and the huge forces of
Chronos. They had not seen even one percent of there forces. It really
did make her wonder how the hell would she and her friends defeat all
those Chronos forces. Her wondering though suddenly turned to shock as
her head sensors moved back and forward as they detected a powerful
Guyver come out of nowhere behind her. She turned around and saw a blue
Guyver looking at her, his control medal and crystals glowing he was
ready to react to any sudden moves from her and she could tell it.
Warrior Guyver 4 on the other hand had his own mystery, he knew she was
a human Guyver of some kind but which Guyver group did she belong to? An
apparent answer soon appeared behind him, it was the Shadow Guyver. All
three Guyvers looked at each other, and readied for attack.
Twenty Miles Away
Dreadnought and Tonnin’s battle had since lead them
from the city and had them ventured, by accident more than by desire,
towards the Clan Ship crash site. Nether one of these all-powerful
opponents had given an inch in their battle and neither had given the
other the chance to finish this fight in any sort of easy manner but
both had suffered no damage that their shielding systems could not
handle, nor that their vast speed could not escape.
Dreadnought’s head and arm beams fired, hitting
Tonnin’s shield, but inflicted no real damage. Tonnin returned fire with
his control crystal, hitting Dreadnought, and getting much the same
result. But now that they where outside the city and miles away from any
real sizable human population, Dreadnought decided it was time to stop
holding back, as he raised and pointed his arms at Tonnin, and then
fired a force wave blast. Tonnin flew below the powerful destructive
blast of energy and returned fire with his enhanced rail guns and hand
beams. Dreadnought’s omni-directional shield flashed slightly with every
hit as Dreadnought closed in on Tonnin, who continued to fire
relentlessly while enhancing the rail bullets with his own gravitational
energy. Still having little effect, Dreadnought got to within a few feet
of Tonnin and then attempted to power punch him with his right fist but
missed as he found himself hitting a hologram instead. An energy ball
from Tonnin then blasted a huge section of Dreadnought’s right side ribs
apart. Dreadnought’s body shield immediately closed in around the huge
gap in his side, holding him together, as behind him his
omni-directional shield turned into a close range pulse that swung
around his body and hit off the still cloaked form of Tonnin. Tonnin’s
body sparkled with energy, revealing him.
"DIE GUYVER!" Yelled Tonnin as he fired
a massive energy pulse at Dreadnought that quickly engulfed its target
and flew on until it hit the ground and exploded spectacularly.
Tonnin then looked into the crater his blast had
created and smiled when he could sense nothing within it, but then he
felt something tap him on his right shoulder and turned around as he
realized Dreadnought was now behind him and was even more surprised to
see that he was totally unharmed.
"Congratulations! You’ve killed my hologram. Now
let’s see how well you do against the real McCoy." said Dreadnought just
before Tonnin control crystal flared and he tried to take Dreadnought’s
head off with his left arm vibrational sword. Dreadnought instantly
countered with his right forearm sword and shoved Tonnin’s sword aside,
but then Dreadnought shot forward with an incredible burst of speed.
Tonnin saw Dreadnought coming but could not react in time to avoid the
sudden hail of punches from Dreadnought as his motions became a blur of
raw speed and power. Knocking the unprepared Tonnin around like a rag
doll as his body reacted to the blows. Dreadnought then grabbed Tonnin’s
right shoulder with his left hand as he pounded into his stomach with
his right fist with several more quick blows. Dreadnought then brought
his fists up and folded his hands together as he smashed them into
Tonnin’s back and sent him hurtling towards the crater Tonnin had
created and watched him crash land into its centre.
Tonnin was physically unharmed by the attack, since
Dreadnought had not enhanced his blows with energy, but his pride was
now hurt as he got up and now roared with rage.
Dreadnought smiled beneath his armour as he heard
Tonnin roar in rage, even as he sensed the sudden build up of energy as
Tonnin fired a black hole attack at him. <Did this guy even bother to
read the Chronos file on me?> thought Dreadnought as he simply floated
in midair as he watched the powerful vortex of concentrated
gravitational energy hurtle towards him and activated his barrier shield
at the last moment as he bounced the attack back at Tonnin.
Tonnin was already flying towards Dreadnought when he
saw his attack bounced back at him but he didn’t even flinch as he
started to glow with energy and rammed his way through the heart of the
black hole attack and obliterated it as he continued unabated towards
Dreadnought.
Dreadnought started to fire a hail of mega pressure
cannons but Tonnin simply rammed his way through the attacks until a
moment later he smashed into Dreadnought’s shields but this time he was
stopped and soon received a power punch to the right side of his face,
the powerful blow smashing through Tonnin’s shields and knocking him to
his side. Tonnin extended his swords and tried to counter attack but
then Dreadnought power punched him in the gut and sent him hurtling
away. But Dreadnought did not want to let his prey get too far away from
him, as he still had to find out if this Chronos scumbag knew anything
about the present whereabouts of his sister. So, with a telekinetic
burst of energy, the dazed, wounded, Tonnin found himself hurtling
towards the ground below. Tonnin slammed off the dirt with such force
that he was impaled into a small body shaped crater and was cursing
himself for letting Dreadnought catch him off guard yet again.
"NO!" Yelled Tonnin, as his body flared
with energy and the ground around him exploded as he sprang back to his
feet and twisted around to stare up at Dreadnought.
"Tell me where my sister is or die!"
yelled Dreadnought.
"GO TO HELL!" yelled Tonnin as his
Control Crystal flared and suddenly Dreadnought found himself plummeting
to the ground at high acceleration as the force of gravity around him
was suddenly increased to 100 times normal.
Dreadnought smashed into the ground with enough force
to create a small crater and was buried over twenty feet below the
ground before the ground compacted enough to support his now 220 ton
weight. Tonnin then raised his hands to the sky, as dark storm clouds
suddenly appeared overhead and began to sparkle as a massive charge of
electrical energy built up with it. Within seconds the storm reached its
peek capacity and then Tonnin released its total energy into the hole
that Dreadnought was buried in and caused the ground to explode with the
force of a baby nuke.
Only five miles away Shadow Guyver, Warrior Guyver 4
and CRF Guyver1 had continued their stand off, one o them had moved a
muscle and were waiting for the other to make any sudden moves. But the
stand off was soon to end as they began to be distracted by storm clouds
overhead. If Guyvers could have shown expressions easily, then Amuro’s
mouth would have been touching his feet in shock. Before him a massive
dirt shockwave was coming towards him at unbelievable speed. The other
two Guyvers quickly realised what was heading towards them too and all
now looked at each other with renewed concern. All three Guyvers quickly
decided to run for it and flew up into the air only to be hit by the
shockwave.
Tonnin watched silently as the storm clouds
dissipated and the smoke started to clear until he saw something glowing
high above him and finally smiled when he was able to make out the
floating charred form of Dreadnought but then gulped as he realised
Dreadnought had opened one of his Hyper-Smashers.
<My turn> Dreadnought communicated telepathically to
Tonnin
A heartbeat later he fired. With a huge urgent effort
Tonnin used all his gravitation power to pull himself back with enough
distance to see Dreadnought’s hyper-smasher blast pummel into the ground
in front of him. This was only half of his power but even then the
energy expelled was more than enough to cause a massive shockwave of
dirt, soil and rock to explode from the epicentre. Tonnin found himself
truly impressed as he raised a powerful shield around himself, shielding
him from all the flying dirt. Which was a lucky move considering that
Dreadnought moved slightly so that the remaining energy of his
hyper-smasher blast hit Tonnin. Tonnin did not bother to move and just
stood there as his shield deflected the remaining hyper-smasher energy…
A few miles away the three estranged Guyvers where
still alive, but the worse for ware was the weaker CRF Guyver 1 who had
found herself buried. Shadow Guyver had revealed one of his secrets by
shielding the effects of the shock wave and was totally unhurt, along
with Warrior Guyver 4. Though neither Guyver had met before today they
both knew which side they belonged to. Warrior Guyver 4’s advanced
sensors though felt another disturbance approaching. Though he dearly
wanted to get rid of this Chronos menace he also needed to escape the
next shock wave coming towards him. But, as he was about to teleport
away, Shadow Guyver teleported away first and left the unknown female
Guyver effectively stranded as she just managed to pull herself out of
the ground only to be threatened again with the same fate. Now he
realised that the Guyver more than likely would survive the coming shock
wave, but the fact Dreadnought’s fight was getting closer to them meant
that her survival chances for a Guyver that could not teleport where
well down. Beings that powerful could kill a Guyver like her in a second
with one stray shot. Thinking more that she might be an EDF Guyver that
he had not met yet he ran up to her only for her to extend her
vibrational swords and move into a defensive stance.
"We don’t have time for this, let me teleport you
away from here NOW!" screamed Warrior Guyver 4 as he pointed at the
approaching shockwave.
CRF Guyver 1 did not want to be buried again under a
ton of dirt and stone. She also did not want to meet the being causing
such destruction so lowered her defences and seemed to give up and trust
Warrior Guyver 4. Warrior Guyver 4 grabbed her shoulders and then
teleported away just as the shock wave once again hit the area sending
huge amounts of dirt and dust into the air…
Tonnin was not in anyway impressed by Dreadnoughts
showboating. So far they had only managed a stalemate but he knew it was
only a matter of time before one of them made a mistake and gave the
other the clear advantage. It was time for him to finish off this Guyver
threat once and for all.
Dreadnought landed a short distance away from Tonnin,
as he closed his hyper smasher, his shield sparkling as grains of dirt
where deflected away from him. Ahead of him the only thing he could see
from his Guyver enhanced eyes was the glow from Tonnin’s shield.
Cloaking was not an option, retreat was not an option, and it was time
to end this. His wounds had healed from the lightning attack. Now a blue
aura flame surrounded him briefly and was quickly concentrated into a
blue cylinder between his hands…
Miles away from them, CRF Guyver 1 was simply shocked
by being teleported. One moment she was facing a huge shock wave of dirt
and rock coming towards her then she was standing on top of a hill
looking on the destruction below. It just blew her mind that it was
possible to do that. But she quickly realised that the CRF badly lacked
any Guyvers capable of doing such a feat…
High above Earth, orbiting directly above Australia,
was the Ark. Inside the command centre of the huge ship navigator
Zoalords and Valkus looked on at the battle below. Valkus, unlike most
of the Zoalords, viewed the Guyvers with distain. They where simple
humans, not worthy of such biological weapon systems and where nothing
compared to the Immortal Zoalords of Chronos. Dreadnought was at the top
of this list of humans he hated for such arrogance for daring to rival
the Zoalords. But being a scientist he looked at the way Dreadnought
fought, while analysing his powers and his combat skills, and then
started to think of a method of how to defeat such a Guyver. But even he
could not come up with a solution easily. Sasha on the other hand
admired the raw power of Dreadnought. This was probably due to the fact
that unlike most Zoalords within Chronos she knew Jason before he became
a Guyver, even before she was even a member of Chronos she knew of
Jason. To now look down at the being below ripping apart miles of
landscape in a battle against one of the most powerful beings within
Chronos was truly impressive. To her it reminded her that anything in
life was possible.
Unknown to the leaders of Chronos, they where not the
only ones orbiting the Earth in their own spacecraft, the Kavzar of
Krullnar where about to release stage two of their test units. Inside
the cloaked Battle ship laid four new Aceaer combat type units. These
units of Lar’Cass, an ally to Krullnar, would replace the failed Guyver
Zerebubuse, Warrior Guyver 5 and Lostude Guyver units. This time though
they where given a little direction on whom to give the units to and the
battle below them in Australia seemed to call to the Creator forces
bringing them to the correct kind of hosts, those that would not sell
their services to the Grakken.
Below them the fight with ACTF and EDF forces had
heated up against the zoanoid forces of Chronos. The fight between
Tonnin and Dreadnought had acted as a signal that both sides where back
at full war. The forces of the EDF and ACTF raced towards the
overwhelming hordes of Chronos and their Bio-Titans. The fact that the
Guyver 4’s Enforcer Guardian had failed to appear to protect her in her
battle with Dreadnought had allowed Zoalord Drano to convince Kron that
she could do little to help the situation and agreed to have her sent
back to Chronos Arizona.
Angel Guyver was ready for a fight and instantly set
her eyes on the Guyver Powered Zerebubuse. This massive Guyver being had
lived far longer than it needed to and, as far as she was concerned, she
was going to put a stop to it finally. Her control medal glowed as she
prepared herself to do battle.
Guyver Powered Zerebubuse was just about to lay waste
to the first wave of ACTF and EDF forces when he sensed something
approaching at high speed and looked up just in time to see the hurtling
comet like Angel Guyver, engulfed in swirling rainbow coloured vortex of
electromagnetic energy, just before she smashed into him. The resulting
explosive impact knocked Guyver Powered Zerebubuse over a thousand feet
backwards before he was able to stop himself from the surprise attack.
Angel, on the other hand, lay painfully on the ground at the exact spot
she had impacted her opponent and was painfully reminded of what it must
be like for a human to run into a brick wall. But then she sensed a
massive energy built up. Her instincts take over and she quickly
launched herself into the air just as a bio-laser beam, with ten times
the destructive power of a Guyver Mega Smasher, obliterates a trench
like path through the spot she had laid a moment before. The powerful
bio-laser beam then obliterates a dozen Bio-Titans and a squad of ACTF
armours before it dissipates into the distance, sending both sides into
disarray as they scrambled to get out of the way of the powerful attack.
<YOU IDIOT!> Kron yelled through his
unit to Guyver Powered Zerebubuse.
<Be more careful or I will have you destroyed!>
<Yes my Lord> Replied Guyver Powered
Zerebubuse, even as he turned his attention back to his attacker.
Angel Guyver had barely time to gawk at the spot she
had nearly been vaporized before she had to use all of her speed to
dodge yet another powerful bio-laser beam pulse from the Guyver Powered
Zerebubuse.
Energy blasts and artillery fire ripped into the
opposing forces, quickly killing over a hundred on both sides, as the
first wave began to clash. The ACTF particle beam cannons began firing
into the Bio-Titan ranks and managed to take out several dozens of them
before the Bio-Titans countered by combining their shields. The Armoured
soldiers were barely holding their own against the powerful Bio-Titans
but the Guyvers were helping to even the odds.
Dark Nova flew above the enemy forces and began
unleashing a hail of massive pressure cannon blasts, timed to coincide
with the ACTF particle beam cannons, punching holes in the Bio-Titans
defences and allowing the human forces to tear into the Bio-Titans. The
Green and new Blue V2 armours used their energy weapons to vaporize the
scattered remains of the fallen Bio-Titans to ensure their destruction.
The other Guyvers quickly unleashed the power of
their Mega and Hyper Smashers randomly into the Bio-Titan forces.
Evening the tide of Battle as the Bio-Titan army slowly began to dwindle
in size, but the human forces were still taking heavy losses as the
Bio-Titans firepower proved easily capable of taking out even the
Armours equipped with energy shields.
Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 was just about to tell Cyber
Guyver to call in the next wave of ACTF and EDF forces when suddenly the
tactics of the Bio-Titans changed. Chronos were losing too many
Bio-Titans and Zoalord Kron now took direct command of the Bio-Titans.
Suddenly the combined power of several hundred Bio-Titans started to
combine.
All the Guyvers realized that the Bio-Titans were
about to release a massively powerful attack upon the human forces and
there was little they could do about it. So in desperation most of the
Guyvers began to hit the Bio-Titans with everything they had in the
hoped of at least weakening the massive charge of energy they were
collecting but their attacks had little effect as the massive charge of
energy acted as a shield and deflected their attacks.
Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 communicated to Cyber Guyver
to relay a call for an immediate retreat to the human forces, but knew
it was all but too late as the combine power of the Bio-Titans began to
focus.
Angel Guyver was still battling the Guyver Powered
Zerebubuse but had not managed to inflict any damage upon her opponent
and was doing her best to keep from getting obliterated, but she was
still aware enough of the battlefield to realize her side’s predicament.
She knew their was little she could do but then she had an idea and
landed, with the Bio-Titan forces directly behind her, as she took the
Guyver Powered Zerebubuse next bio-laser blast head on and blocked it
with her shields.
After several minutes of trying to hit his target,
the Guyver Powered Zerebubuse was clearly surprised to not only suddenly
hit his target but to see her survive it without a proverbial scratch.
This Guyver must be nearly as powerful as Dreadnought to have survived
one of his attacks but he was still confident that he could destroy her.
<Decided to give up and die, Guyver?>
Guyver Powered Zerebubuse communicated to Angel Guyver.
<Just give me your best-shot freak> Angel Guyver shot
back.
Guyver Zerebubuse responded by opening his chest
plates and firing his Mega Smashers.
Angel Guyver smiled beneath her armour as she quickly
shot up into the air and flipped around as she unleashed her own
Smashers in the same direction as Guyver Powered Zerebubuse’s beam,
sending the equivalent destructive energy of a 40 kiloton explosion of
TNT right into the Bio-Titans. Obliterating several dozen Bio-Titans
before Guyver Powered Zerebubuse realized he had been tricked and
stopped his attack. But the Bio-Titan’s combined charge of power was
weakened but still viable as they unleashed it at the human forces.
Dark Nova responded instantly as she teleported into
the path of the attack and quickly created a Hyper Lens Flare attack,
enhancing her Mega Smashers with her gravitational power to produce a
blast twenty times more powerful than a normal Guyvers Mega Smashers,
and tried to counter the Bio-Titans attack but only managed to slow it
down before she was engulfed by it. Dark Nova then felt her world
explode into pain as the blast started to vaporize her. Her
gravitational powers slowing time around her and shielding her from the
worst of the destructive energy about her but it was all too much for
her and she knew she was about to die.
Outside of the blast, the powerful beam seemed to
have slowed to a crawl and many thought Dark Nova had succeeded in
stopping the blast but Ninja Guyver sensed she was in deep trouble and
activated his cloak/time dilation field as he dived into the blast and
tackled Dark Nova and knocked her clear of the blast a split second
before she would have been totally vaporized. The blast then started to
speed back up when Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 teleported in front of it and
focused all of his power into shielding himself against it but even with
the added power of the Aceaer Unit he was quickly overwhelmed and was
nearly totally vaporized before his Control Medal and Aceaer unit
teleported away into hyper space. The beam then went on and obliterated
several armoured marines before it smashed into a particle beam cannon’s
shields but just as the cannon’s shields failed the beam finally
dissipated, leaving the cannon severely scorched, sparkling with ionic
discharges, but otherwise intact.
Both sides now began to regroup as they prepared to
engage in battle once again. Little remained of Dark Nova’s body except
for her upper torso, head, and the stump of her left arm, but she was
alive and now regenerating as Ninja Guyver watched over her.
Moments later, Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 returned from
hyper space fully regenerated and communicated to Cyber Guyver to relay
to him a status report. He scanned the battlefield and spotted Ninja
Guyver watching over the wounded Dark Nova. <That was just too damn
close> he thought but quickly dismissed the thought as he concentrated
on getting the ACTF forces ready for the next wave of attack. It will
take everything they had to keep from losing this battle before Dark
Nova recovered…
Meanwhile, the battle between Dreadnought and Tonnin
was still at a stalemate. Tonnin was nearly mad with rage while
Dreadnought was quickly losing his patients with Tonnin’s refusal to
tell him his sister’s present whereabouts. Storm clouds had again formed
over them as they floated in midair, facing each other, as they waited
for one or the other to make the next move. The landscape about them had
been torn apart and pot marked from their titanic battle so far but
neither had yet been seriously damaged.
Dreadnought then lashed out with a hyper pressure
cannon that Tonnin simply rammed through before unleashing a zoalord
psionic tendril attack that lashed out toward Dreadnought as Tonnin
tried to ensnare him in their deadly embrace. But instead of dodging the
attack, Dreadnought focused his shields about him and reinforced his
body shield into a virtual ablative layer of energy armour, just before
the psionic tendrils coiled around him and grabbed him in their deadly
embrace.
The zoalord psionic tendril attack is easily capable
of slicing through any unshielded matter and is easily in the
destructive class of a Guyver Mega Smashers. So Tonnin was quite
surprised to see Dreadnought appear unaffected by them, even after he
channeled his power through them and bathed Dreadnought in destructive
energy.
Dreadnought smiled beneath his armour before
communicating to Tonnin, <Give it up. By now you must realize you
can’t defeat me>.
Tonnin replied by launching a black hole attack at
Dreadnought, who in turn extended his swords and broke free of Tonnin’s
Psionic Tendrils and activated his barrier shield as he stopped the
black hole attack dead in its tracks before he caused it to dissipate
and disappear.
<You see, Tonnin, you can’t win>.
<Go to Hell, Guyver!>
Tonnin then changed tactics and used his
gravitational power to suddenly increase the gravity around Dreadnought
to a hundred times its norm but this time, instead of trying to move
Dreadnought, Tonnin made him the centre of the gravitational field.
Suddenly all the loose dirt and rocks in the area started to fly towards
Dreadnought and quickly starting to engulf him. Dreadnought again
activated his barrier field but this only caused the growing mass of
rock and dirt to swirl around him, just beyond the range of his barrier
field.
Soon Dreadnought found himself buried under tons of
earth and rock. He quickly started to blasts holes in the mass around
him, but each opening where quickly refilled as even more earth and rock
was pulled towards him. A minute later and Dreadnought was buried under
over two hundred tons of earth and rock that Tonnin now bathed with
fiery energy as he melted the whole mass into a very dense, cement like,
ball of fused glass and rock. Then, just as the mass solidified, the
whole mass started to morph and change colour. Before Tonnin could
realize what was happening, the mass had reformed itself into a gigantic
version of Dreadnought and grabbed him with his massive right hand.
Tonnin looked up and saw Dreadnoughts giant Control
Medal flare as he now looked down upon him.
"DAMN YOU GUYVER! I will kill you!"
Tonnin yelled as his body exploded with energy and he burst free of the
giant hand about him. Shattering the massive hand but the hand quickly
started to reform as the Leviathan sized Dreadnought started to reach
out with his massive left hand. But Tonnin wasn’t about to let himself
be grabbed again and quickly fired a massive ball of energy towards the
even more massive form of Dreadnought.
In an instant the Leviathan sized form of Dreadnought
exploded into a cloud of rock like boulders, with the real Dreadnought
at its heart. Before gravity had a chance to take affect, Dreadnought
activated his back thrusters and he launched himself clear of the rubble
about him as he smashed into Tonnin with a power punch attack. Tonnin
rolled with the powerful blow and twisted around, while simultaneously
extending his swords, as he tried to slice Dreadnought in half but
Dreadnought instantly countered with his own swords.
A quick test of strength later showed that
Dreadnought and Tonnin were still at a stalemate as they silently stared
at each other past their swords.
Mexico – Mexico City
Alkanphel had still not found any sign of
Crystallite. The only thing he knew was that this powerful Guyver was
still in Mexico City. But there was no sudden rise in the death rate
inside the city. Above him two more Eye Of Chronos satellites where
shifting orbit to join the Mexico eye to add the leader of Chronos in
his hunt for Crystallite. He felt that there was no way a being with her
hunger for life would simply be here in Mexico, one of the most
populated cities in the world, not to feed. So now, with three eyes of
Chronos, he would investigate every single death that happened.
Effectively zoanoids, the Eye’s Of Chronos could
communicate as fast as a thought with their god Alkanphel. Within a city
of over twenty five million people it was not long before the Mexico Eye
sensed a dying life force. A rip in reality appeared before Alkanphel
and he teleported on top of a building looking down on a street below.
There was no sign of Crystallite, but he saw a man had stabbed a woman
to death. Alkanphel did not like what he saw. At its most basic this
murderer was killing a woman capable of breeding more children and hence
more zoanoids for Chronos. But to say Alkanphel was a heartless person
could be further from the truth, he really felt nothing but raw hate for
this man. It seemed too late for this woman but Alkanphel was going to
make sure this parasite did not kill any others.
The murderer smiled at the near dead woman below him.
The fear in her eyes excited him in a way he could only find with
watching people die. But fear is a universal thing not restricted to the
female sex. The dying woman looked up with the final moments of her life
and saw Alkanphel floating down towards them. With a mere flick of his
wrist the man found himself being flung down the street and away from
the woman. With her dying moments of life the woman smiled looking at an
angel sending a ball of death towards her attacker and blasting him
apart.
Alkanphel could feel the woman die. There was nothing
he could do for her now but at least he got her revenge for her.
New Cork Texas
Max sat quietly on a couch in the living room of
Jason’s house. He could hear the women chatting in the kitchen about
various topics but he thought it better to stay where he was. They
seemed to be talking about basic things like food, where they would
sleep and so on. Information that he knew the ACTF would be interested
in. He realised a long time ago that as a Warrior Guyver he no longer
needed to consume food to live, but he could if he wanted too and he had
found out it did not matter how much either because the unit burned fat
like there was no tomorrow. Fiona, who he’d only just met, and Faye
where both Warrior class Guyvers like him so food was not really a major
concern, though he had heard Fiona say she wanted food and was not about
to give it up, but realistically it was Zeugma and Elera who they must
have been concerned about. <Crap!> he thought, even though he did not
want to hear most of this. But without a TV he was basically stuck
listening to them.
CHINA
The hot spray of the shower was like a gift from the
gods. Kalen let the torrent of clean water carry away the burn of
fatigue from his muscles. Since his unplanned arrival to this world, he
had been at less than his peak. And considering he’d been dropped from
one colossal battle into another, and then contained a supernova, he
felt he had a right to be feeling the strain.
He chuckled softly, running fingers through his long
red hair. Yes, humans had disadvantages, but also distinct advantages as
well, a hot shower being one of them. He reached for the pull chain of
the faucet and pushed it up. The slightly squeaky valve shut and the
downpour atrophied to a few slow drips as he grabbed his towel.
"Are you finished, Sir?" A heavily accented voice
spoke in rough English.
Kalen grimaced, and then grinned in wry amusement.
<Oh I’m a dangerous individual, I am.> He had been doing this a lot
lately, finding things that before might have seemed a bothersome
irritant rather amusing. Almost getting yourself killed had that effect
on people, he guessed.
"Yes, I am." He replied, hurriedly drying off and
reaching for his clothes, borrowed from Sai and Jet. It had taken some
doing to find clothing in his size, and the results were not his
preferred manner of dress. Jeans and a sleeveless blue t-shirt, he
grinned as he donned his clothing, still... something could be said for
them.
He stepped out of the Shower tent, and met the
disapproving glare of his escort/guard. The man was a short, rather wide
in the gut lieutenant, and very surly. "I will escort you back to your
accommodations." The soldier informed him, before gesturing towards the
barracks.
Kalen waited until the man turned away before
grinning widely, he knew he should be a lot more serious about his
predicament, should be out trying to find a way home. His smile faded a
little during the short walk back to his quarters.
He was alive, and that was enough for now. By the
time he stepped into his accommodations, his smile had vanished,
replaced by an expression of deep concentration as he went over his
options once more.
He closed his eyes, it was not an easy thing to do,
but he had learned many techniques over his long life. Reaching out, his
consciousness brushed another; the answering flash of muted ache told
him what he needed to know. His unit was repairing itself, but still
very slowly.
He had stressed more then his own body in his last,
sudden and painful encounter with a spacial anomaly. His unit’s
resources were vast, but still finite. He had managed to achieve his
goal. But the damage he had done to himself and his Guyver was
considerable. It would be some days yet, maybe even weeks before all of
it was healed.
This meant he would have to put up with the fatigue
and muscular micro spasms a little longer. His unit would regenerate the
damage, but only when its own regeneration was complete. Until then, he
would endure, as he always had. He dropped down on the low cot, and
within moments was sinking once more into a light doze.
He was floating in space, the eerie red glow of the
nebulae surrounding him. He glanced down at himself, his armour a crisp
blue, the forearm jewels missing, and the armour with a smoother,
glossier look to it.
Before him was a humanoid creature that seemed
composed entirely of diamond or some other transparent crystal. The
sense of evil emanating from it made his flesh crawl. Whether the dark
purple was a reflection of the colours about it, or it’s own colouring
he couldn’t tell.
The creature moved... it was the same sort of
attack he himself used… the gliding, deceptively easy, motion of a
trained fighter as he pivoted along his axis and raised his arm to fend
off the strike.
Or he tried to. Instead he found himself doing the
opposite, meeting the creature head on as if he hadn’t a clue how this
sort of combat worked. The sharp pain along his chest and side spoke of
the slashing thrust of the blade edged protuberance along the back of
the creature’s hand.
As if in a panic he lashed out with his left leg as
the creature passed, The cold hard fingers closing like a claw about his
ankle as it jerked him forward, Right into the staggering blow from it’s
other fist. He felt armour buckle under the impact.
He flew backward as the demon released him, too
stunned to even try to halt his backward fall, slowly rotating in the
depths of space, until the glowing sphere of a planet came into his
sight - A deep sapphire orb amidst the gas and dust of the nebulae.
XT blinked… it all looked… so very familiar.
A shining figure of white light rose from the surface
of the planet, trailing plumes of gossamer light as it brushed passed
him, the figure turning its face to look at him… Those eyes…
He cried out a denial, a wrenching scream of despair
as he fought to regain control of himself, the figure of light continued
passed him, its attention drawn to it’s nemesis. XT whirled, time
seeming to stretch out as the world exploded around him in blinding
white….
He awoke, panting for breath, his clothes soaked with
sweat as he jerked upright in bed. Where had that come from… was it a
nightmare, or something from his past. He pulled himself upright,
wavering a little bit in the deepening gloom of nightfall.
And he realized the sense of skin crawling dread he
had experienced in his dream had not abated… He closed his eyes, trying
to isolate the sense... trying to locate it’s source... but a flash of
that evil face jerked his eyes open as he took a reflexive step
backwards, bumping into the cot.
He never knew how he got outside, but suddenly he
heard the guards that were supposedly watching him shout. He brushed
thought of them aside, the feelings that tore at him now too chaotic and
distorted for him to make sense of as his eyes began to glow, radiating
the cold radiance of an event horizon as he drew himself upright.
The power crackled about him, visible arcs of energy
flowing and ebbing around his body as he gritted his teeth, muscles
bunching along shoulders and chest as his nervous system was flooded
with alien energies.
Half the camp went to full battle alert when a bright
flash erupted in the middle of the barracks, the hollow thump of
displaced air bringing sleeping soldiers to their feet, grasping for
their weapons.
XT’s former guards stared in mixed horror and
fascination at the new figure that stood in the place of the wounded
young man they had been watching over.
The creature that faced them was at least head and
shoulders above them, blue and silver armour still showing the puckered
distortions of the last battle, and the wounds only half healed.
XT closed his eyes, his consciousness flowing through
the armour, assessing its state. The response was less than he had hoped
for, most of his weapons were still not functioning, but what was would
be enough to start with, perhaps he could even find something or someone
to enhance the healing.
The dust around his armoured feet swirled as he
lifted himself from the ground. He vaguely heard the running of booted
feet and shouts. He ignored them, as he rose skyward.
His preceptors slide smoothly in their sockets, and
suddenly he could see the area around him as if it were a schematic. He
was a little surprised by the size of the base beneath him; he hadn’t
known it was quite so large. But that thought was fleeting as he
extended his senses even farther.
The detail of his immediate area faded as he pushes
his senses out in a narrowing cone that swept the area, extending miles
around him and still pushing further as he searched for something… he
wasn’t sure what...
And found it. An energy signature that was both
familiar and unlike anything he could remember. A spark of brilliant
crimson appeared before him, quickly widening into a portal. The blood
red gateway expanding to a size just large enough for him to pass
through…
It hung there in the air for a few more seconds,
being watched from the ground with confused curiosity before winking out
as if it had never existed.
Clan Ship Crash Site Battle
Both sides had regrouped and began to battle again
but the humans were not foolish enough to make themselves an easy target
for the Bio-Titans combined firepower and had scattered themselves
around the Chronos forces and attacked randomly, doing their best to
keep the Bio-Titans from anticipating their moves. Even the ACTF
particle cannons where constantly being relocated, though this did make
it difficult to combine their firepower and thus reduced their
effectiveness. Fortunately the Bio-Titans had also suffered losses and
where now scattered enough to prevent them from any serious combining of
their firepower. Most of the Guyvers made sure to keep most of the
remaining Chronos firepower centred on them but many worried that the
battle was taking too long and the threat of Chronos calling in
reinforcements was high. Dark Nova had finally recovered and both she
and Ninja Guyver had returned to assist the other Guyvers.
The ACTF had managed to lose only a few of their
particle beam cannons before squads of Blue V2 and Wolf armours swarmed
in on the Bio-Titan ranks as they unleashed a combination of raw speed
and firepower, while the EDF Armoured Battle Group 20 continued there
flanking manoeuvres around the Chronos battle lines. Vaheria,
their captain, hated Chronos with a raw passion that could have only
happened when Chronos kills your family and then takes your oldest
daughter and turns her into a zoanoid. But even with such raw feelings
he was not on a death wish. Battle Group 20 was his family now and he
had to take care of them. He had read this morning’s battle plan and
knew the Guyvers would be attacking the centre of the Chronos battle
lines to draw out the Chronos heavy hitters. So to send his battle group
into the middle of that battle, when his armours did not include the
shielding systems of the Green or Blue V2’s, would be foolish.
Above the battlefield appeared a portal that Guyver
XT quickly exited before the Portal closed behind him. XT was quickly
stunned by the sheer size of the battle he found himself in the middle
of. Zoanoids and Guyvers of varying type were battering away at each
other, bizarre powered armours vying for the upper hand with lesser
zoanoids. His senses scanned the battle, and found a familiar figure.
He wheeled to the side, dodging an errant laser blast
and dropped in a stomach-wrenching dive to the ground to avoid being the
target of anymore. Almost immediately he could sense the powerful
presence of Dark Nova, as she and Ninja Guyver continued to tear into
the Bio-Titan ranks.
<Mei Lynn, its Kalen… mind telling me what’s going on
here?>
<Kalen? What the hell are you doing here!?>
He grimaced, feeling a faint tingling rush as a scan
passed over him.
<You’re in no condition to be out here, Go back!>
XT smiled softly. <Sorry ‘Mother’, I’m not gonna do
that, I can take care of myself, but while I’m doing that, I might as
well do some good… where can I help?>
He felt Dark Nova’s disgust with him, but then felt
her sense change to reluctant acceptance. He felt her attention slide
off of him and across the battlefield to another Guyver. <Give him a
hand please, he can probably take them, but I’d rather he not be so tied
up if we need him>.
XT nodded to himself. <You got it> He replied as he
leaped, lengthening the jump with his flight powers to drop down at the
edge of the melee.
A Zoalord was directing more Bio-Titan reinforcements
into the fray against the beleaguered Guyver. XT ran in his direction,
knowing that distracting him was the easiest way to confuse the troops.
Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 dropped to one knee, but not
with fatigue, a sensation he hadn’t experienced since becoming a Warrior
Guyver. His left forearm blade stabbed out, it sliced through a
Bio-Titans knee, dropping the yellow giant as the Aceaer enhanced Guyver
leaped away.
A rain of Railgun bullets and laser pulses fell on
the Hyper zoanoids from above as he dropped backwards to the ground. He
then turned towards the approaching new wave just in time to see a blur
of motion take the Zoalord Drano down.
Aceaer Warrior Guyver winced a little at the
devastating roundhouse Drano took, spinning him around and dropping him
down into a small ravine, temporarily out of the fight as a large form
dropped to the ground behind him.
He whirled; his first reaction was to wonder rather
unintelligently why he was standing there staring at the new arrival. "Uhhh,
Thanks?" He continued, grimacing at how stupid that sounded, even as he
suddenly got a sense of déjà vu as the Guyver reminded him of another
Guyver he had once met and wondered a second if they were related
somehow before finally shaking his head and getting back with the
program.
"Who are you?" He demanded, stepping backward and
surveying the Bio-Titans as they regrouped without their commander in
evidence.
"Introductions can wait, just hang out for a second,
I’ll be right back." The new Guyver spoke with the light tone of almost
bored amusement, which Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 found very irritating.
He lifted his hand to stop his new ‘ally’ when a
combined Bio-Titan blast came their way.
"Shit!" He yelped, teleporting himself away from a
crimson energy blast capable of seriously damaging even him. He was
peripherally aware that the other Guyver had not done the same, even as
he became fully aware that it didn’t matter.
XT continued walking, unaffected by the withering
attack, the burnishing affect of his shield fading slowly. "You really
should know more about the people you try to kill." He muttered, as if
disappointed. This brought a snarl of fury from the group that had tried
to blast him, all five leapt forward, goaded into an all out attack.
XT grinned, he sidestepped the first, left arm
parrying the second’s blade, Right arm slipping up beneath his guard to
slam the axe edge of his hand into the monster’s throat. As the zoanoid
gurgled in surprise he used his shoulder for leverage as he swung his
knee into the face of the third, bringing his elbow down onto the skull
of the fourth and finally grabbing the fifth and throwing him forward to
stumble over his comrades.
The first released a bolt of crimson energy. This
time XT didn’t bother to shield it… the shot stung as it slapped into
his chest plate, but he absorbed it before it could do any serious harm.
"Ouch." He drawled as the others struggled to their feet, the blood red
haze that obscured their vision a mix of irritating pain and
humiliation.
XT felt the approach of more of the Bio-Titans from
behind and dodged left as another enhanced blast passed through the
space he had just left, it struck one of the rising zoanoids, but was
absorbed as the creature exhibited its own abilities, redirecting the
blast at the Guyver.
XT once more shielded the blast, deflecting most of
it into the ground, sending up a cloud of burned dust. From the centre
of the cloud a stream of glowing spheres shot out, a dozen crimson stars
that each ripped through a separate Bio-Titan.
As that dozen fell and began healing, a stream of
crimson laser bolts stitched a swath through another group, cooking
armour and the flesh beneath. Then a sudden flare of intense light from
inside the cloud expanded outward with a loud thunderclap of displaced
air.
The Bio-Titans that hadn’t been injured shielded
themselves, the hammering blow pushing them backwards. The injured, a
second too slow in erecting defences, were vaporized. Their bodies
holding cohesion for a brief second after the wave passed, before
collapsing into ash.
Only a short distance away Vaheria’s battle group was
posed and ready to strike a blow against the forces of Chronos. They had
somehow managed to make it within striking distance without being
noticed. Then suddenly out of nowhere they saw a sight that frightened
them. Every zoanoid within line of sight of them turned their heads
towards them. They cursed the sudden disappearance of their luck and
readied themselves to battle to the death. But then they realized the
zoanoids where not looking at them, they where looking above them!
End Of Part 2.
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