Space, just
past the orbit of the moon
W’Kar stopped and looked on with
a little sense of awe. It was not often he would witnessed something on
this scale happening. As far has the eye could see there where thousands
of wormhole portals literally filling the void of space before him.
Through the big one he was floating before, he expected to see a huge
Creator Bio ship and hoped that their whole armada would appear ready
for him to wipe them out!
But what
one expects and what one gets are not always the same thing.
W'Kar's
expectations and his hopes
changed drastically as a the first of many ships came through. But
instead of a Creator Bio Ship what appeared before him was a mechanical
technical marvel that was to his astonishment a giant spacecraft of a
type he had never seen before. More of the giant spacecrafts were soon
everywhere and even he was in awe of the raw size of them. He floated in
shock looking at this happening...
<“Jason,
you’re not going to believe what I’m seeing here!”>
said W’Kar, calling out to probably the one person he didn’t mind having
a chat with in this universe when it came to a dealing with a space
armada about to attack...
<“I’m
rather busy at the moment, can this wait Greg?”>
<“No
it can’t. Do you think I’d say “you’re not going to believe it”
if it could wait a fucking minute!” >
<“What
is it then?”> said Dreadnought
telepathically as he prepared to remove Warrior Guyver Vamore's Unit.
That was when W’Kar sent him an
image of what he saw. Dreadnought simply stood still in shock.
<“Oh
fucking good God.”>
<“I
guess they’re not members of the “We Love Dreadnought Society” then?>
<“No
they're the Grakken, and we’re in the worse kind of shit possible.
They’ve come in force!”>
<“Oh
goodie! I was getting bored of that porcupine freak, this will be fun!”>
<“You’re
one fucked up individual Greg but thankfully your on… well your own
side!”>
<“I’m
rather busy at the moment can this wait Jason?”>
<“Asshole!”>
The Clan Ship Crash site
Dreadnought knew what this meant
immediately. The arrival of thousands of the spacecraft meant invasion
and with a cold shiver up his spin he realized they were now in the
worst possible situation than possibly anything he had ever faced
before.
So distracted was Dreadnought by
this new revelation that he stopped his attack on Warrior Guyver Vamore
for the vital seconds that it took for what he saw to sink in, which
gave the Warrior Guyver Vamore the time he needed to regenerate enough
to move and make good his escape as he flew away from Dreadnought as
quickly as he could.
But he quickly too realized why
he’d been allowed to escape, as he too received a similar warning from
Tonnin.
Chronos and the ACTF where no
longer the only two forces fighting for control of this crashed Creator
spacecraft. The Grakken had arrived and in FORCE and now posed a threat
like they have never faced before. Imakarum had already started
recalling everything possible to the Crash Site after Tonnin’s dire
warning.
<“Jason,
what’s happened and why did you let him go?,”>
asked Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2. Though some distance away from
Dreadnought with the Eliminator gone he could now sense what Dreadnought
sensed.
Dreadnought looked around him for a moment. Chronos was already pulling
their forces away from them and going back to the Clan Ship. As much as
he and ACTF hated Chronos they were minor in threat compared to what he
sensed above them now. He remembered a saying that never quite made
sense until moments like this, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Though Chronos would never quite be his “friend” but in moments
like this they where the closest thing ACTF had to one.
<“W’Kar is up in space…. You’re
not going to believe this but there's a huge armada of Grakken ships
heading towards us.”>
<“An
Armada!?”>
<“The
image he sent me… there was so many I couldn’t count them all!”>
<“How
the hell are we going to stop them?”>
<“No
choice really, we can’t let the Grakken get Warrior tech Stephen.”>
<“I
agree with you there Jay, the idea of those bastards with countless
Warrior Units sends a chill down my spine!”>
<“Yeah,
Chronos doesn't have Guyver like technology but those annoying bastards
do. The damage they could do with that replicated in the millions would
be unimaginable,”> answered Dreadnought.
<“Yeah,
your right there! So what are you thinking?”>
<“Honestly?”>
<“We’re
a little beyond the whole you stole Elera’s blood here, and I know you
well enough to say what you feel is true, even if it is fucked up!”>
<“Okay,
all of you leave, protect ACTF HQ. None of you have the capability to
regenerate like I have.”>
<“What
about you, you can’t stop an armada by yourself. Gilgamesh should stay
at least he’s a power house!”>
<“A
powerhouse that can be killed once 6 or 7 Grakken team up their
firepower. You and I both know they’ll do that and with his control
medal destroyed he’s gone and ACTF is without it’s most powerful…. I was
about to say Guyver but he’s a W’Kar of sorts. As for the others it’s
best they go home, this is not going to be nice and I may hurt them and
with the stakes as high as they are you know I can’t hold back.”>
<“Are
you sure?”>
<“Yes,
if they attack ACTF HQ or anywhere else let me know and I’ll help where
I can,”> answered Dreadnought.
<“Not
going to happen, we can handle it old friend,”>
said Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 jokingly.
On top of the ruins of the Clan
Ship Imakarum looked with his enhanced eyesight at Dreadnought and the
other Guyvers that had grouped together. With the Grakken space fleet
arriving he hoped that they would see that the threat was not Chronos.
The Grakken represented the most extreme threat to the world outside the
Creators. The Guyvers might not see it but Chronos was formed to protect
the Earth from the Creators. But if Dreadnought would see this was his
concern. Above them Tonnin had flown to the Ark and was protecting it as
he guided it away from the Grakken fleet. Beside him though stood Guyver
Powered Zerebubuse.
“What
do you want me to do my master?” asked the
behemoth as he knelt before Imakarum. Even then the raw size of him was
something to behold totally dwarfing Imakarum.
“Stay close to the Crash Site.
Kill any Grakken or Creator lapdog that would dare to take this ship
from us.” Answered Imakarum, signaling for him to rise.
Warrior Guyver Vamore, who was
still regenerating, landed beside them.
“Vamore?”
“The battle with Dreadnought did
not go well…”
“I could see that. It would be
best in the future you do not act alone against him!”
“Yes
my Lord,” said Warrior Guyver Vamore almost
bitterly... He still wanted the blood of Dreadnought.
“When
are we to attack Dreadnought again?” asked
Warrior Guyver Vamore as he looked in Guyver Powered Zerebubuse’s
direction.
“Not until I say so! Now join
Guyver Powered Zerebubuse. He’ll lead you against the Grakken!”
High Earth Orbit – Near the Moon
W’Kar looked on in awe.
Countless spacecraft were swarming around him. They ranged in size of a
fighter jet to something close to that of the Empire States building if
not bigger. All of them were now moving towards what he knew was the
Clan Ship crash site. The Grakken; they where a mechanically enhanced
Guyver unit race similar in looks somewhat to a Gigantic Guyver and had
four arms. Most important fact to him, they where a warlike race!
A
fiery aura surrounded W’Kar and he cupped his hands together. Focusing
on the closest ship W’Kar released a giant sized gravity ball towards
the centre of the spacecraft. There was a slight shimmer as it broke
through the crafts shield and a second later it’s hull was breached
following by a satisfying explosion. Unlike Star Trek he heard nothing
and smiled to himself thinking <In Space no one can hear you scream>
and flew towards the biggest ship close to him.
He smiled as the closest cluster
of ships to him stopped in their tracks towards the Earth and turned to
face him. Immediately the larger ships then opened fire, but W’Kar
hadn’t expected how extremely powerful the energy he sensed from the
larger beams was. He had originally thought of standing his ground and
taking the combined firepower of the fleet so he could laugh at them.
But that was not a good idea even for someone as crazy as him. So he
quickly deduced these craft must be the Grakken’s counter to something
like Dreadnought.
W’Kar teleported himself out of
the way of the combined strike and in front of the closest large
spacecraft with both mega-smasher chest plates open but cloaked to the
naked eye. During those few vital seconds it took to build up the energy
of his mega-smasher the Grakken spacecraft did sense the energy spike
but they didn’t know quickly enough where it was from. That was all the
distraction W’Kar needed as the cloaking effect disappeared as he opened
fire. A split second later the beam ripped through the space craft
leaving a giant gaping hole and continued on past it hitting another
three smaller craft and destroying them before dissipating into space.
As the hull of the large
spacecraft started exploding W’Kar turned to another that he sensed an
energy build up from. This time he just stood there and waited as the
energy beam hit him hard, and just as quickly he could feel his shields
start to buckle under the strain. But then the energy dampening kicked
in. For five seconds W’Kar was subjected to a barrage of energy that
would have seen a Gigantic Guyver destroyed.
So as the blast cleared the
Grakken commander inside the spacecraft waited to see if the blue demon
had been destroyed. But when the beam finally cleared there was a
clearly visible smoldering W’Kar with his right hand pointing toward the
bridge of the spacecraft with his middle finger extended!
The Grakken Commander only had a
second to wonder what this meant as a blast field surrounded W’Kar and
he disappeared. Moments later W’Kar appeared behind the Grakken
Commander with his plasma swords already extended. Before the Grakken’s
head sensors had time to move to fully be aware of the threat W’Kar had
already sliced down through the centre of his head through the Gigantic
like Control Medal and down though the centre of the Grakken Commander.
W’Kar laughed as he then turned his attention to the rest of the crew,
only to find himself already surrounded as over a dozen Grakken
Destroyers decloaked around him and extended their swords. W'Kar
couldn't be happier as he extended his own swords and prepared to
introduce himself to his new playmates. . .
Outskirts of the Australia Clan
Ship Crash Site
Jason and Fiona were hugging as
the others started to teleport away and go to their respective home
territories.
“You’re not immortal you know.
Don’t do something stupid and leave me alone again hun!” said Fiona as
she stepped back away from Jason, still looking him in the eyes.
“Fi, there’s not a chance in
hell of that happenings again,” said Jason as he smiled at her before
activating his Unit and transforming into Matrix Warrior Guyver and an
instant later into Dreadnought. He sighed as he then broke eye contact
with Fiona and walked towards Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2.
"You better come back to me
Jason O'Conner!" Fiona whispered before she activated her unit and
transformed in Female Warrior Guyver...
Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 and
Gilgamesh where now the last of the ACTF forces left since the others
had been teleported away earlier. Gilgamesh towered over both of them
but Dreadnought ignored him as he looked down towards Aceaer Warrior
Guyver 2.
“Jason, before we leave and you start ripping the
Grakken fleet apart, we need to know what you plan to do with the
dormant Warrior Unit?” asked Aceaer Warrior
Guyver 2 “AND, any other unit you discover….” said
Gilgamesh before being cut off by Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2, before he
could say the word Traitor, by him standing on the giant Guyver like
being's foot.
“It’s clear that each time I’ve
kept something away from Carter it’s only blown up in my face man. Jenny
hasn’t spoken since… The dormant unit is nearly ruined, but it’s
repairing itself slowly.”
“When will we have it?”
asked Gilgamesh trying to press the point.
“After this battle is over,”
said Dreadnought but still not looking up at Gilgamesh but at Aceaer
Warrior Guyver 2.
“All I need to know is it safe,”
said Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 with a sigh as he looked in the general
direction of Gilgamesh.
“It’s safe and if anything happens to me Fiona can
get it for you.”
Dreadnought’s head sensors
twitched back and forward as he sensed Zeugma and Female Warrior Guyver
teleport away to join the rest of his friends in New Cork.
“Will you even come back Jay?”
asked Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 as he picked up on
what Dreadnought had focused on.
“It’s too early to say.”
Aceaer Warrior Guyver 2 simply nodded in understanding and then turned
away from his one time friend. He shouted “Good Luck!”
before he and Gilgamesh then teleported away leaving Dreadnought
alone... Dreadnought flexed his shoulders and stretched out his arms and
then cracked his knuckles. Even he wondered if he would survive this
day.
Not content with putting this
off any longer Dreadnought bent down and then exploded up into the sky
as he instantly breached the sound barrier and continued to accelerate
at an incredible rate as he flew up. His acceleration was such that
within seconds he’d already left Earth’s atmosphere and was now in the
vacuum of space.
Before Dreadnought there was
countless fighter and scout crafts about to fly by him as they were
making their way to Earth. To the distance he could see their larger
capital ships but they where still a few minutes away. He could
not sense the full extent of their fleet but from what he could figure
out W’Kar must be somewhere behind them all as he could sense a large
section to the back slowing down and turning around.
Dreadnought came to a stop as he
started scanning the Grakken fleet. One of the scout ships fired first,
but Dreadnought didn’t move as he continued scanning around him. Then
just as the beam hit him a barrier shield appeared around Dreadnought
and seconds later it cleared leaving an undamaged Dreadnought.
Dreadnought ignored the scout as
he continued to scan the Grakken fleet. With literally a million ships
before him he decided to take care of the big threats first and work his
way down from there. Locking on the nearest capital ship, Dreadnought's
chest spike extended, his back thrusters fired, and his barrier shield
flared to full power as he moved at top acceleration towards the capital
ship with his energy focusing around what had now become a living spear.
A large number of the scout
ships around Dreadnought closed in behind him and started firing on him
to try and slow him down. But all laser blasts where easily dealt with
by his barrier shield. Realizing what his target was the Capital Ship
now opened fire sending a mega-smasher like beam towards Dreadnought.
The beam hit Dreadnought head
on... From outside you could visibly see the beam widen as it appeared
to engulf Dreadnought and appeared at first glance as of it had stopped
Dreadnought. But that view only lasted a second before the visible
bubble could now be seen still hurtling through the beam towards the
Capital Ship.
Dreadnought wouldn’t stop and as
he cleared the force of the beam he easily penetrated the Capital Ship's
shields and ripped through the hull. And an instant later he tore
through its power core and explosively tore through the other side of
the giant craft just as it started exploding behind him.
Dreadnought slowed down and
looked around him. Everywhere was floating wreckage of a huge hull. But
then he noticed the Grakken and the Grakken Destroyers that where caught
up in their explosion. Some were so badly hurt that their units had
self-destructed. Others looked dead with missing limbs while others were
just floating off into space. It didn’t take them long though to recover
enough to focus on Dreadnought though. Either in self defense mode or
conscious a Grakken knew its threat and that was Dreadnought.
And the scout and fighter ships
he passed earlier were already moving towards him.
Dreadnought realizing quickly
how outnumbered he was with so many Grakkens on top of him focused a
ball of energy into hands and then let it go into space. Moments later a
shock wave appeared sending everything in a cylinder shape flying away
from Dreadnought for over a mile. He quickly looked and scanned around
him and found the next nearest Capital Ship and then flew towards it...
As he closed in on the giant
craft the Grakkens now floating in the vacuum of outer space all flew
towards him to engage him in combat. Dreadnought sensed them closing
around him but remained focused on his target. Then one large part of
wreckage in front of him split open revealing a team of six Grakken
Destroyers, and all six had their mega-smashers open and fired.
Dreadnought seemed to shimmer and vanish as the destructive wave of 24
Smasher beams were about to reach him and re-appeared behind the team
and wreckage with his own hyper-smashers open and pointed at his target,
a Grakken Capital ship. The powerful beams hit the ship, blowing it
apart.
Knowing movement was the key now
to this battle and keeping ahead of the swarm of Grakken closing in on
him from all sides Dreadnought picked his next target and flew straight
for it.
The Clan Ship Crash Site
Imakarum looked skyward. He
could see what looked like meteorites rocketing towards the Chronos
battle lines. With the help of an Eye Of Chronos he could see the impact
Dreadnought was having on the Grakken fleet. But he realized even with a
powerful being like Dreadnought destroying as many Grakken craft as he
possibly could there where countless smaller craft now on their way to
him and his army.
“Powered Zerebubuse,” said
Imakarum.
“What do you command my master?”
“Kill them all!”
The behemoth nodded then pointed
his left arm skyward. Every few seconds a beam of pure destruction was
sent towards his still very distant foes at near the speed of light.
Nothing could have prepared the Grakkens for it as scout craft after
scout craft was blown to kingdom come. But even with Guyver Powered
Zerebubuse destruction they still came. More and more scout ships kept
entering Earths atmosphere in greater number and greater numbers. As the
first Grakken craft landed where the ACTF army once stood Imakarum
already had his response ready!
“Warrior Guyver Vamore,”
shouted Imakarum.
“Yes my lord….”
“Kill them!” ordered Imakarum,
pointing at the Grakken Craft landing before them.
Warrior Guyver Vamore realizing
it would be best not to further annoy the leader of Chronos nodded his
head in agreement and disappeared as he teleported to the front lines of
the Chronos army. Grakken forces started exiting the landing ships
before him but before they could realize what creature Chronos had
released on them Warrior Guyver Vamore opened his shoulder pods. There
was a thunderous humming sound for only a few seconds before dual beams
the power of Dreadnoughts hyper-smasher fired towards them and
vaporizing them where they stood even as the beams went on to blast the
Grakken space crafts to bits. But even as he smiled to himself for an
easy kill his own eyes and head sensors told him the truth as countless
more appeared before him. Even with his firepower and that of Guyver
Powered Zerebubuse the raw numbers of the Grakken sent a chill down his
spine as they gathered together and the first powerful Mega-smasher
blast hit back at the Chronos front lines obliterating a team of four
Bio-Titans.
High Earth Orbit
Behind the massive fleet W’Kar
was doing what he loved, up close and personal fighting. He loved being
inside the Grakken Capital ships slicing apart the Grakken Destroyers
and their countless Killer Robots which appeared out of nowhere to jump
on him only to be swatted away like a fly. He almost wanted to keep one
as a pet. The only thing he didn’t like was they ignored his witty
comments and attempts to talk with them so he could insult them as he
killed them. He didn’t like quiet foes but at least they had a
satisfactory sound of exploding or metallic grinding as he destroyed his
technically gifted foes.
<Oh well, time for a change of
tactics anyway> W'Kar mused to himself before unleashing a massive
pressure cannon that obliterated a charging squad of Grakken destroyers
before going on and smashing into the Ship's main reactor. W'Kar then
teleported back outside to watch as the ship explosively blew up. He
then turned around to see several more ships had stopped and turned
around to deal with him.
W'Kar
smiled to himself, <Oh yeah, second helpings of whoop ass coming
right up!>
Dreadnought on the other hand
was using a different tactic. He continued his long-range high speed
attacks on Capital ship after Capital ship while dodging fire from
countless smaller ships and Grakken, Grakken Destroyers and their Killer
Robots. While under his armor Jason, unlike W’Kar, was fearful of what
would happen. Indeed he was destroying the Grakken he encountered and so
far had yet to take a decent hit capable of giving him damage to worry
about. But that was not what worried him. What worried him were their
vast numbers and their singular goal. The Crash site and Chronos would
be overrun now if not for him.
Dreadnought was close enough to
Earth now that he could sense the powerful blasts from both Guyver
Powered Zerebubuse and Warrior Guyver Vamore. But their pace of firing
had not ebbed in the slightest for the last few minutes.
While Vamore was a Warrior
Guyver and had pretty much limitless energy Dreadnought worried that
Guyver Powered Zerebubuse would, over the next few hours, sooner or
later run out of steam. This would be a long day and he may have to do
something he would later regret and save Chronos forces.
But then Dreadnought's attention
was again brought back to the battle of hand as a swarm of about 30
Grakken Destroyers finally managed to intercept him and came at him from
all directions. The Grakken Destroyers however only lasted a second
before Dreadnought focused his gravitational power and power wave
through his gravity shield to quickly unleash a blast wave that
explosively obliterated them.
Dreadnought knew he could ill
afford to let himself get distracted, even with his unit taking the
brunt of the tactical analysis processing for him and feeding him battle
strategies, and so he did not even slow down as he then started to
unleash a hail of full powered pressure cannon blast as he spun around
in circles and started hitting Grakken after Grakken with uncanny
pinpoint accuracy, even as he continued to fly towards the next nearest
Grakken Capital ship. Eliminating a couple hundred Grakkens by the time
he reached his target, which had already started firing at him but he
could sense as each weapon was aimed and fired and easily dodged them
all before he then spun towards the ship and channeled the power of his
smashers through his power wave and unleashed a double fisted Hyper Wave
Punch that tore into the Grakken ship as if it had been struck by meteor
and smashing the ship in half before its reactor exploded and engulfed
the ship as it exploded spectacularly but Dreadnought was already
halfway towards his next target.
Dreadnought mused to himself
that the Grakkens may win this day by their shear numbers but he was
going to make damn sure they paid their pound of flesh for it...
Clan Ship Crash Site
Deep within the fallen clan ship
Guyver 4 sat down against a lump of bio-material. She felt very much
alone even though there were many Chronos personnel guarding her and
others walking around trying to figure out where the last of the Creator
secrets were. Even though no one told her what was happening outside she
could sense the tension around her heighten then followed by a lot of
movement outside the ship and now she could sense Guyver Powered
Zerebubuse firing into the sky above them. She just hoped Kristin was
okay as she was one of the few friends she had left now in Chronos since
Zygote Guyver had “betrayed” them.
Something really bad was still
happening outside. But Guyver Zoanoid, Guyver 2 and Female Guyver 2 had
been teleported to the Ark to protect it. Leaving her protecting the
Clan Ship with countless other Zoanoids of different powers and classes.
But she knew the real reason they had her guarding was because somewhere
close by Enforcer Prime guarded her. Though she hoped this time she
wouldn’t have to face Dreadnought. Out of all foes she feared him the
most because Enforcer Prime would never attack him.
Guyver 4’s head sensors twitched
suddenly as she picked up a huge bust of energy heading towards the Clan
Ship site. She tensed up for a second but then realized it was set to
pass by her hitting a far off corner of the fallen ship. Something had
returned fire on the Chronos army outside and that something had serious
firepower. Another few seconds later another beam made its way in her
direction. This time though it was coming straight for her. She only had
a second to react but it was too late as the beam ripped through the
craft and was about to hit her when it was stopped by some invisible
force.
Enforcer Prime de-cloaked with
his back to Guyver 4. He’d already had his hyper-smashers open and a
moment later the beams that came from a Grakken Destroyer was consumed
by something far more powerful. Above them Imakarum smiled as he saw the
blast flow out of the Clan Ship towards the Grakken front lines followed
soon after by the large form of the Enforcer Prime as it threw itself
into the battle.
And with that the battle raged
on. After two hours of battle Dreadnought still worried about the
battle's out come. Dreadnought and W’Kar continued to attack the fleet.
The only thing, which had changed here, was that W’Kar had run out of
sarcastic lines of abuse and without them responding to his insults
W’Kar was now more focused on raw destruction. Some time ago he
realized, much like Dreadnought, that they where completely outnumbered
here and for every Grakken ship he destroyed there were two more heading
towards Earth...
Tonnin was being kept busy by a
small portion of the Grakken fleet to keep him from joining the main
Chronos army by attacking the Ark. On the ground Guyver Powered
Zerebubuse was slowing down his firepower based assault on the Grakken
fleet and now waited for the horde to come to him. In front of them the
Enforcer Prime and Warrior Guyver Vamore were doing their best but now
without Guyver Powered Zerebubuse reducing their numbers the pressure of
the amount of Grakken forces on the ground was starting to build.
Dreadnought sensed all of this
and toyed with the idea of asking for more help, but being brutally
honest it wouldn’t make a difference. Already a number of times he and
W’Kar had been caught out by a combined strike of lucky hits and had
been forced into hyperspace to regenerate. He just couldn’t think of any
major power houses that could take the hits he and W’Kar had. He’s
already turned down help from a distraught Fiona having to block her
from teleporting to him to help.
Focusing around himself,
Dreadnought could see and sense countless smaller craft which normally
after getting by him would be blown apart from Guyver Powered Zerebubuse
beam blasts but now they moved towards Earth without any trouble. He
realized now what he feared was finally happening. The Chronos behemoth
was running out of steam. As much as he hated him and respected his
great power Dreadnought knew now he’d have to act.
Dreadnought unleashed the power
of his gravity shield, which he had been charging up for the last few
minutes and unleashed a gravitational shockwave with the power of nearly
50 megatons of TNT concentrated in a single explosive shockwave of force
that obliterated all the scout ships and Grakken warriors for miles in
all directions and caught over a dozen Capital ships in its wake as well
with enough force to crack their hulls and trigger a chain of explosions
that soon engulfed them.
W'Kar sensed this and not to be
out done flew towards the nearest Capital ship and then teleported right
into its main power core, as he used his energy draining ability to
absorb the power flowing around him in the sun like interior of the
Capital ship's power core. A minute later W'Kar unleashed a massive
discharge of destructive energy that exploded outward. The Capital ship
was instantly vaporized as a super nova like blast tore through it and
spread outward in all directions until everything for miles had been
either vaporized or blown to bits.
Dreadnought sensed what W'Kar
had done and smiled knowing how much damage they had both just done but
knew there were still hundreds of thousand of ships still all heading
towards Earth and he knew he had to protect the clan ship above all else
and so he turned back towards the Earth and activated his back thrusters
as he shot forward. Soon, as he re-entered the Earth's atmosphere all
around him he could see countless fireballs which on closer inspection
he realized where Grakken scout craft hulls which where burning on entry
to Earth’s atmosphere.
W'Kar
sensed Dreadnought's departure and telepathically yelled out to him, <"Hey
Dread head, don't tell me you're leaving the party already?">
<"Sorry
Greg, but keeping the clan ship out of Grakken hands is my top
priority.">
<"Suite
yourself,">
W'Kar replied before he looked at another cluster of Grakken ships and
wondered if he should use the same trick again, but he did oh so love
fireworks...
Clan Ship Crash Site
Imakarum looked at Guyver
Powered Zerebubuse, he seemed to be slouching if anything and looked
wasted.
“You done us proud today!” said
Imakarum looking towards him.
“Thank you sir. But it was not
enough.”
“You fought well and kept them
at bay long enough for him to decide to help us,” said Imakarum pointing
up at the now exploding scout crafts. Looking up to where Imakarum
was pointing Guyver Powered Zerebubuse’s four eyes focused on
Dreadnought who was battling his way down to ground level.
Dreadnought descended to the
ground with debris from twenty odd Grakken scout ships crashing around
him. The Grakken reacted quickly to Dreadnought’s arrival sending a hail
of laser beams towards him. His barrier shield immediately held back the
barrage but for those few seconds Dreadnought stayed still he realized
that the sheer amount of the laser beams were beginning to overwhelm his
shield. Dreadnought once again took flight and started dodging Grakken
fire and returning fire as he could. But as he now looked and scanned
around him he realized this battle could already be over. Even with the
Enforcer Prime and him together they were not slowing them down enough.
Countless space ships arrived even now and the force was now getting to
the point where they could start an all out strike on the Clan ship.
Washington DC – ACTF HQ
It has been over two hours since
they had left Australia and went back home. After an hour of staying on
high alert General Carter had ordered the army to stand down from high
alert after it became clear the Grakken forces where only interested in
the Clan Ship. Gilgamesh now stood guard outside the compound allowing
the other Guyvers to rest with a large armed force.
Stephen sat down to a meal with
Dave, his army liaison officer, Eric and Jacob who where marines that
normally worked security during this hour. While he didn’t need to eat,
he still enjoyed it and it gave him a chance to socialize with the real
people who made this base work and did things like make sure he got a
peaceful night sleep and speak with the General on his behalf when he’d
disappear to the other side of the world with only a seconds notice.
Without these guys, at times he wouldn’t know anything that happened
around the base when he was off on a mission. While Eric and Jacob were
the best for letting him know the gossip around the base. Which was why
he enjoyed having a meal with them so he could hear something that was
not just about the war with Chronos.
“Hey, Stephen you wouldn’t
believe who struck it lucky while you were out getting a sun tan in
Australia!” said Jacob jokingly.
“Hmm, now what do you mean by
lucky?” asked Stephen.
“There is only one type of lucky
when it comes to guys Steve and we aren’t talking about getting anal
probed by a Warrior Unit when it bonded to you!” said Eric almost
falling off the chair in a fit of laughter.
Stephen smiled and then started
laughing himself. He liked these guys, crude and funny. Just what he
needed to release some stress. “Ok, ok I admit bonding with a Warrior
unit was “unique”, but I was not anal probed!” emphasized Stephen even
making the symbol for an inverted commas with his index and middle
fingers to make the point.
“Ok, ok! But anyway guess who
got lucky and with whom?” asked Dave trying to defuse the situation a
little.
“Hmm, ok, there is only one
woman on the base you guys have been lusting after the most, but since
Zeugma hasn’t been around for the last few days it can’t be her.”
“Oh yeah, even though there is a
high chance of death getting her into the sack I’d do her,” said Eric
joining into what was his favorite subject, the Zoalord Zeugma. Not a
man in this base had looked at her human form and not thought, “Hmm, if
only”.
“Risky subject my friend. Even
in Guyver form that woman could beat me around the Area 51 training
centre like I was baby!”
“Like the man said, high chance
in death Steve, anyway one chance down two to go,” said Jacob.
“Shit, what do I lose if I don’t
get this?”
“Well if you win one of my fine
Cuban Cigars,” said Jacob pulling out a huge cigar from he side pouch.
“Hmmm these are special,” he said bringing it across his nose breathing
in the aroma.
“How in God’s name did you get
one of those, that’s a Chronos controlled place! Even I can’t get one
easily and I can stealth run there!”
“Contacts my friend, contacts!”
said Eric smiling now that they had Stephen’s undivided attention.
“Alright so if I lose what
happens?”
“You give us turns flying us
around DC like Superman for ten minutes each!”
“Deal,” said Stephen not wanting
to lose a chance to smoke a real Cuban cigar. Banned before the war with
Chronos, but it had been literally been over two years since he smoked
one last. Hell if they asked him, chances were he would have anyway. He
reached out his right arm and such Jacob by the hand to seal the deal.
Giving it some good thought and
rubbing the stubble on his chin with his index finger and thumb Stephen
waited for a moment for inspiration.
“Ok, was the woman Stephanie
from the Redmond’s Bio-Labs?”
“Nope, she’s a little Clos-er
than that,” said Eric emphasizing the c in closer.
Stephen smiled for a second
realizing he’d been given the vital clue he needed. He needed to be a
little careful though and not be too obvious he was looking at every
woman in the canteen area. His eyes shifted around but none of the women
stood out for being singled out by the guys for being exceptionally
beautiful. He looked at Jacob who had just finished wolfing down a plate
of spaghetti Bolognese in record timing.
“Man, you need to learn to
chew,” said Stephen shading his head in disbelief.
“Hey… stop…changing the subject”
said Jacob as he attempted swallowing the last of his food. This
reminded Stephen of being told off by his parents for eating with his
mouth full. But then he saw one of the canteen women go by him and go to
pick up Jacobs now empty plate. The way she learned over he couldn’t
help but notice her well formed legs and behind.
By the looks on their faces gave
him all the clue he needed as a rather attractive tall woman named Rose
left them to go to the next table. Stephen waited until she was out of
ear shot and then said, “Ahh not hard to guess whom the woman was, hey!”
“Not any more, common don’t tell
me you wouldn’t though, I saw what your eyes where following,” joked
Jacob.
“Yes those rather perfectly
formed long legs of hers!” said Eric.
“Ok, so I’m guessing by the fact
you guys are so worked up we’re talking about one of the more geeky
members of the base you guys poke fun at,” said Stephen as he worked out
who to guess was the second person in this duo so he could claim his
cigar. From the looks on their faces he could tell he was on to
something. He turned around and looked towards Rose and noticed her
smile at Eddy, one of the lab technicians who worked in Drake’s lab.
“No…. how did he get her in the
sack” said Stephen. Jacob and the others laughed as he handed over the
cigar.
New Cork Texas
Time didn’t pass easily for
Fiona O’Conner. Even with the TV on she just couldn’t relax into the
couch. Safety wasn’t the issue. Outside Zygote Guyver and Guardian had
taken up the roles of protecting the house and were out on patrol.
Zeugma and Elera where both chatting about if they would risk going to a
Chronos controlled town some miles away to buy some food. They’d all
managed to somehow find something to get their minds off what was
happening in Australia. She couldn’t.
Every so often Jason sent her
images of what was happening when he got hurt really badly. She didn’t
say anything because somehow she realized this was happening because of
the link they shared. The images shocked her, there were countless
Grakken spacecraft in the images she saw first and now she saw that he
was back on the ground but was surrounded by countless numbers. She
worried greatly that Jason, even with the power of Dreadnought, wouldn’t
be able to hold them all off.
She had tried to convince him an
hour ago to let her help him. But he refused it. He gave his reasons for
doing so, she was too week, Guardian wouldn’t make enough of an impact
to risk her and Zeugma didn’t have the regenerative powers. She at first
didn’t and refused to accept it but after given the time to get over
being teleport blocked by Dreadnought she realized he was right. She
knew of at least three times he was obliterated by combined firepower of
the Grakken.
“Zeugma sorry to interrupt you
and Elera.”
“It's no problem at all Fi,”
said Zeugma turning towards her..
Fiona smiled, normally most
people used her full name but it was obvious that Jason’s shortened
nickname for her was sticking. “I know Jason doesn’t want us to help,
and well has stopped us from helping but I can’t sit here and do nothing
to help him Zeugma.”
“I’m having tough feelings about
it too. But he’ll not let us help him Fi,” answered Zeugma looking
almost depressed as much as Fiona in having to admit it.
“We all know how stubborn Jason
can be Fiona, and I love him to bits for it as he’d fight to the end for
what he believes in,” said Elera. Though as the words came out of her
mouth she immediately regretted using “to the end” in her sentence.
“That’s what I’m worrying about
Elera, he’ll keep fighting until… he can’t!” said Fiona almost crying
now.
Zeugma waited for a few seconds
and gave this some though. She respected Jason but for all his power he
didn’t know everything. “Maybe Jason didn’t think of one person,” said
Zeugma.
“Who?” asked Fiona.
“Angel, she was very powerful,
from what I over heard from the general chit chat they reckoned she
could rival Dreadnought.”
“Would you think she’d help us
though?”
“I didn’t get to speak with her
much. But from what I saw she seemed like a good ally though she didn’t
remove her unit much.”
“She might have just been shy
though,” said Elera.
“It would at least be worth
seeing if she could help Jason,” said Fiona, sounding desperate now.
Elera and Zeugma nodded their
heads. “Common then lets tell Faye and Zygote and go find Angel," said
Zeugma. All three stood up and walked towards the front door.
Clan Ship Crash Site
Imakarum continued to observe
the battle from on top of the biomass with his commanders. The Guyver
Powered Zerebubuse had deactivated his unit and was now resting in human
forum inside a Bio-Tube. From what Imakarum could gather from his
scientists it would not be long before he would be returning to the
battle as they used the Bio-Tube to infuse him with neutrients.
Dreadnought had taken up the
slack and ahead of Chronos army he could make out a massive explosion as
Dreadnought unleashed everything he was capable of against the huge
Grakken army. But despite what he viewed to be huge loses inflicted on
it the Grakken army continued to grow by the minute. The Grakken were a
lot more careful about where they fired since their army had first
attacked and a direct hit on the Clan Ship had happened. Clearly since
then they had started to get more and more organized.
From what Imakarum could guess
it would be only a matter of minutes before they could rush by
Dreadnought and the Enforcer Prime in a large enough force to penetrate
the Clan Ship. What he hoped was that by then the Powered Zerebubuse
would be ready.
7 Miles North of Kazimierz
Dolny, Poland ten minutes later
Angel had really needed to relax
and just couldn’t handle the chaos around the main EDF base. After
giving it a few minutes thought she teleported her bike and herself to
Eastern Poland close to Chronos occupied lands but still in an EDF
controlled zone. She strapped her traveling bag to her back and after
some two hours of driving her bike though a nice old scenic town Angel
was now beginning to relax. She’d fought long and hard in Australia and
had witnessed many things she wished now she’d never seen. That now was
beginning to drift further back into her mind as she felt the wind blow
by her as she revved up the speed to pass an old lorry on the road. As
she pulled back into her lane she let out a deep sigh of regret and
almost risked a smile.
It wouldn’t be long now until
she arrived in Kazimierz Dolny. The old European town was nice and had a
nice market in the town centre with good food and a hotel she could rest
in. While parts of her appearance had changed lately a good pair of
sunglasses and her long hair helped disguise the fact she was no longer
so human looking. She’d learnt that people tended not to be fussed about
green hair in Europe thanks to the youth culture there. Though she
doubted she’d ever get a job other than a waitress thanks to it. That
thought made her smile, like being a waitress cleaning tables would be
any fun compared to riding her bike.
Angel slowed down as she got
closer to the town and the traffic built up. She then started to get a
strange sensation she was being called. She looked in her rear-view
mirrors to see nothing out of the ordinary and continued to ride her
bike into the centre of town to her hotel. Now only a minute away from
the Hotel she once again heard someone call her name, it was a female
voice but it was still not very clear.
Angel sighed hoping she was not
going to be asked into another battle. She rode around to the back
entrance of the hotel and found what was now becoming her usual place to
park. Getting off the bike she took off her helmet and shook her head
letting her hair land back naturally over her now pointed ears. She
locked her bike, put on her sunglasses and then went inside the hotel.
The hotel was a nicely presented
large old house now converted to be a hotel. She’d been here once before
and hoped this time she’d not have such a hard time checking in.
Thankfully the concierge recognized her this time, checked her in and
signaled a clerk to help her to her room. That was a lot easier than the
last time, when she had to get some help from the EDF to find a place to
stay for the night. Green hair must freak people out in this part of
Europe she thought.
The clerk put her bag on the
ground near her bed and turned towards her. Angel smiled and tipped him
and after he left the room she sat on her bed and put her helmet down
beside her on the bed. It would be time for lunch in another few hours
and she looked forward to getting something a little tastier than a Big
Mac from McDonalds.
But as Angel unpacked her
traveling bag into the wardrobe she once again heard a call for help.
This time it was clear and it was asking for her help. She let out a
really deep sigh and lied down on the bed. How she didn’t want to help
now, she just wanted to rest. She thought for a moment of ignoring the
cry for help. Once again the female voice came <“Angel, it’s Fiona,
Dreadnought’s wife please respond.”> Angel knew that ignoring this was
simply not an option. She smiled to herself and thought she was a
glutton for punishment.
<“Hi Fiona, can you give me a
minute to get ready and I’ll teleport to you.”>
<“Thank God you’re there, I
wasn’t sure how this worked hun. Sure let me know when you’re ready.”>
<“I will, see you soon,”>
answered Angel.
She looked at the keys and was
about to put them in her jeans pocket when she realized there was a good
chance she’d be vaporized and then locked out of the room. Of all things
she didn’t want even more stress of getting back into her room when the
coming battle ended. Her room was on the third story and had a balcony.
She locked her bedroom door putting a “Do not disturb sign” on the
handle and then opened and locked the balcony door behind her. Down to
her side was a plant pot, she reached down and put her keys under it.
She loved the view from this room over what was an old medieval style
town. She stood on the wall of the balcony and then launched herself
forward and screamed “Guyver” making sure she didn’t damage anything
historic with her blast field taking flight into the air before anyone
took any notice of what was shouted and looked outside.
Outer space – High above
Australia
W’Kar was still mildly amused by
the destruction he was capable of. But he faced a now growing feeling of
boredom. He’d killed may Grakken and space craft in many different ways.
But they didn’t respond to his jests. They just kept coming and coming
like an unstoppable wave of ants. Every so often they got their lucky
hits in, he’d visit hyperspace and then return to once again kill yet
more Grakken. And still for more than the eye could see there was a
fleet of space ships and more and more were now in orbit over the Earth
and sending countless Grakken light craft to Australia. Every so often
he’d see powerful dual beams focus on one of these ships in orbit and
proceed to blow it apart. He could guess that was the Warrior Guyver
Vamore but it too was busy keeping the other smaller ships at bay to
stop the armada above them.
He’d spoken with Dreadnought a
few times to break that feeling of boredom and knew he was, in a way
working with Chronos though was too suborn to admit it. W’Kar thought it
was a smart move on his behalf because even with someone as obviously
great as himself, there was so many of these bastards it was getting to
a point even he now shared some of Dreadnought’s worry that they might
not be enough.
It was then W’Kar noticed
something that made even his insane personality stop and wonder if he
was about to die. Above the Grakken fleet yet another swarm of wormholes
appeared. W'Kar knew the Grakken numbers would soon grow vastly and what
now already seemed an impossible task would suddenly seem endless.
End of Part 6
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