(Author's note: This story is a sequel to the Godzilla CABAL Crisis fic I wrote with my friend Squdge/Shiryu for the GRC. This one is also co authored by him with his characters.)

Chapter 1: Awakening

It was late at night with the cold air gripping his body like the mistress's hands on his shoulders. The air and atmosphere of an evening chill burden his shoulders like an unrelenting wife, refusing to let go of her husband, whom she married with half hearted effort.

True to his nature, silent as the wind was his modus operandi as he strolled about in the streets of Rome dead at night. Hood over his head and paw padded feet kicking up the grimes, dirt and rocks of Rome's marbled stone streets.

As the Romans slept, he made a dash to the wall of the nearby building and traverse his way up to its roof. Kicking himself up in the air with a feet being used as a launchpad to propel him into the air.

This of course continued until he landed on his feet on the roof of an apartment building overlooking the Arco di Costantino. The wind blew over his shoulders, lifting the hood slightly off, revealing his two pointy ears and the jet black color of his armor.

Anubis was on a hunt, not for an enemy but for something of value to him. He leapt over from the Arc to the streets below and sprint up the earthen gorge to the massive marble stone building compound in front of him.

The moment he got in front of the compound, he saw a massive limestone statue of an emperor in toga and breast plate, pointing out in focal point with his right index finger. This emperor was a rather tall and muscular figure, like a colossus even for Romans.

Anubis sighed out seeing the statue and all the Roman's signature elaborate painting work to capture the statue's lifelike texture, only to have it ended up being rather off putting by the color mix.

The jackal deity then crouched down and snuck into the nearest hedge and avoided the Praetorian Guards roaming about, two of whom were seen guarding the entrance with their signature Scutum shields and Gladius swords.

They wore the ceremonial uniform and armor of the Praetorian Guards but Anubis could tell that these were much less intricate in design and showing less of Roman artistic crafts than their ancestors.

"People should know when they're conquered." Anubis muttered as he traversed up the pillar to the top of the entrance arc. "These guards are sloppy tonight, this should be easier a bit." He mused on the Praetorian Guards, scratching his chin as he examined their body languages.

The Jackal deity himself, now a robot with enhanced physical prowess was able to make a quick dash towards the edge of the arc and jumped over to the next arc gate leading into the courtyard's garden. He sprinted as fast as he could towards the massive Mausoleum in the heart of the compound.

The Mausoleum itself had a plaque on its entrance with torches highlighting its name inscribed in Latin, "Marci Mausoleo Lenox - Romae salvator". A name all too familiar for Anubis by this point.

The jackal deity vaulted over the plaque and sprint towards the Mausoleum's gate only to find that it was locked up tight at night. Anubis skirted to a halt in front of the door and groaned in frustration seeing this. "Damn it, time to find an alternate entrance." Anubis muttered to himself before looking up at the roof of the Mausoleum, seeing the small slits between the column pillars and the roof itself.

He then planted his feet on the pillar and began to take a running start on the surface of the pillar as he scaled the Mausoleum's verticality. Once he had arrived at the slit, the robot jackal slowly crawled through the small space before dropping down on the floor. He let out a huff as his feet made contact with the ground making a clanking sound. Knowing that his time was short, Anubis had to finish what he had started.

"Ignosce me, Charissimi imperatoris. There is something I require your help with." Said Anubis in Latin as he approached the massive stone sarcophagus with elaborate Roman carving and sculptures.

The sides of the sarcophagus showed great events of the Emperor's life, starting from his humble beginning as a Legionnaire like countless others serving Rome's interest. His campaigns in the Gaul and Germania and the eventual great struggle Anubis and Lenox waged against one another.

"Requiescet in pace." Anubis uttered as he knelt down before the Sarcophagus, the floor itself was littered with petals of flowers to honor the late emperor with candles and torches around the place to hold him in the highest honor possible in Rome. Anubis then placed a box in front of the sarcophagus and opened its lid gently.

The box itself was a small purple dyed container with elaborate decors no doubt coming from Persia or Greece. The box itself sported the decor and motifs of wolves guarding a wreath in the center of the lid, the interior of the box glew a greenish light as it sooned shoned out of the slits. The guards outside as they were patrolling the Mausoleum were suddenly caught by the sight of the greenish light within the Mausoleum and were alarmed.

"Erecti! Nos autem sub impetu!" One of the Praetorians shouted to his fellow guards as they began to converge on the Mausoleum to lay siege to it. "I thought this was the cushy job of the empire!" One of the Praetorian complain as he ran towards the entrance of the Mausoleum.

The troops there stacked up into Mobile Testudo formation with their shields assembled into a wedge ready to push in. "Damn it, I need to get this done." Anubis snarled to himself as the box was finally doing its job. He saw from within the Sarcophagus, a flaming orb of the Emperor Marcus Lenox rose up and spark its brilliant glow to Anubis's eyes.

This was what he was looking for, as he held it in his hands, he can see that Lenox had led a magnanimous life, an honorable existence perhaps devoted to the well being of Rome in Anubis's absence from his home world.

"Forgive me for disturbing your rest in Elysium. But this old dog need your help the most." Said Anubis as he cautiously uttered his incantation to the soul of the dead. The orb would then sprung around the room, floating about directionless as Anubis uttered his incantations, guiding the soul of the dead's pieces back together from within the Sarcophagus. He then placed the soul into the box he had with him and closed the lid.

But once he picked it up, the Praetorians have broken down the doors and only caught a glimpse of his hooded figure in the shadow. His silhouette gave them very little idea of who he was and why was he here, they opted to assume the worst and immediately prepare to tackle him. "My work is done." Said Anubis as he dropped a smoke bomb on the floor, creating a plume of smoke covering his exit.

As the Praetorians grunted in surprise, coughing out loud with hazy eyes trying to search for Anubis in the tight confine of the Mausoleum. But once the smoke had died down, Anubis was gone, disappeared without a trace. Leaving behind in his wake some chemical residues of the smoke bomb for their alchemists to work on.

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Far from Rome the Eternal Capital of the Roman Empire and its vestiges, Anubis was now home in Egypt. Though it was his home, he now felt more like an alien walking around on the sands of Egypt despite how familiar he was with the country.

Anubis was sitting on the back of his beloved horse Ramiel as the two rode on the now paved roads of Alexandria towards the South Eastern part of the city, namely Fort Akra of the city, Headquarters of the much vaunted Jackal Guards.

The sight of the high walls, moat and drawbridge and the banner of the Jackal Guards showing a silhouette of Anubis Jackal holding a knife in its mouth skulking ominously at its enemies remind others not to mess with them.

When Anubis entered the camp, the more historical and ancient entrance betrayed the Fort's increasingly modern infrastructure and the Jackal Guards modernization effort due to the fact that his army was considered the elite cream of the Egyptian Military proverbial crop.

Within the compound's courtyard and various store houses were now being used to stockpile firearms of various kinds, ammunitions were safely locked inside the armory with various motorized vehicles being kept inside a garage once used as a stable.

Anubis dismounted from Ramiel's back before petting his horse's head gently, he whispered to Ramiel softly before ushering him off to the last stable available in the Fort, one dedicated to his pampering. Anubis in turn went inside a Workshop of the Fort, a place where he tinker and work tirelessly on the various idea of robot models, chassis and frames.

Within the workshop, Anubis had a large cylindrical tube with various wires inside it attaching to what appeared to be a robot wolf of anthropomorphic design.

The robot itself was sporting a chrome grey color for its armor, reminiscing of the Gray Wolf that Anubis had grown familiar with. The deity himself was working on a computer panel connected to the robot chassis as he danced his fingers across the keyboards programming the AI of the robot.

The programming appeared to have various photos, PDF files, videos and countless knowledges of more than 2000 years of Warfare evolution. As the programming phase was coming to a finish, Anubis opened the box he had on his left, letting the soul inside levitating out of the box.

He held both hands out and held the soul and moved it over to the robot chassis, once he was over the chassis the soul flew out of his hands and slammed into the left side of the robot torso's breastplate, where the heart was. This was the moment when Anubis waited for the robot to begin its booting process and gain consciousness.

Shortly after Anubis placed his hand down on the cold chest of the robot body he felt a very faint and very quiet "thump." It was an indicator to him something was coming back to life. A mechanical heart beat. A while after this other parts of the body seemed to begin twitching and activating. Synthetic robotized muscles springing to life twitching before it all came down to the fingers of the robot's right hand starting to squeeze inwards in a minor twitch.

Anubis lifted his hands up and squeezed his palms in and relax it out repeatedly to check the flexibility of his palm as the robot came to life. Before him the robot was a rather bulky and tank like one, but still retain an agile athletic look that was much needed in combat.

The robot's HUD was booting up with a red tinted LED light as his optics flashed up, the HUD began to display various 0s and 1s digits and computer codes programmed into him. Various functions were soon displayed with the bottom of the HUD was a compass indicating directions and the top being a bearing system for him.

The bottom right corner was a mood display to indicate present emotions and the bottom left was a condition indicator to show him the conditions of his body and the components. Anubis at this point was seen standing in front of the robot, mere inches away as leaned in to ask it. "How are you doing, Caesar? Take a moment to collect yourself, there's much to be done."

The robot sat up and immediately let out a very metallic sounding booming grumble. The grumble transformed itself into a much longer groan though with the low booming pitch coming out rather gravely and much like a radio transmission.

The less cognitive words turned into meaningful words finally as the robot looked up at anubis confused for moment. "Wh- where… am I?... this isn't. Who?..." the robot of course spoke using a more metallic sounding version of Emporator Lenox's voice. Its mind though seemingly broken and confused.

"Easy now, take a deep breath, you can still do that. It will help you calm down." Said Anubis with a hand placed on the robot's shoulder, the robot wolf hearing this was confused even more but felt compelled to do as Anubis said.

He inhaled for a good 30 seconds, then exhaled, feeling that he was more calm now than before, however this action caused his HUD to begin to display a series of information in the form of pop ups boxes on the sides showing the chemical compounds he had inhaled in exquisitely detailed information. "There you go, that should help you. Now then, some basic information, welcome back to the plain of the livings. You're in Alexandria now in Fort Akra." Said Anubis in a calm and relaxed tone.

The robot himself would feel that his body still had numerous wires and cables attached to him, one on the back of his head feeling like it was prodding at his brains and mind. The other wire was embarrassingly enough, attached to his tail hole, a buttplug by design and he felt that it was feeding energy into the reactor built into his body.

The robot grunted out in an alamered jolt feeling its anal passage intruded on by a massive cord. Each of Lenox's fingers convulse inwards in a clutch grip confused and shaken up. "What are you?! Stop! I don't know anything… Your voice. Did you- have we even met each other's presence before? I can't remember anything…" The robot Lenox seems to plead.

Much to his comfort and relief, he felt Anubis's hand on his shoulder as the Jackal deity was seen patting him gently. "Fear not. We've met before, 2000 years ago, perhaps this name may jog your memory a bit. Emperor Marcus Lenox of Rome." Anubis uttered gently.

With the name kicking up his memories, 2000 years of memories came flooding back to him showing his Legionnaire career in Dalmatia, serving as Legatus in Gaul and Germania, the epic showdown of the Roman-Egyptian War and his encounter with Anubis the God of the Dead.

The flashbacks caused his vision to glitch and haze with images of vivid memories come flooding back like a tidal wave before subsiding. He was soon left with the sight of Anubis, a robot jackal at this point from top to bottom. "Not the most pleasant of experiences I'm afraid, but you'll weather the worst of it. Tea, Imperator?" Anubis offered him a cup of tea smelling as sweet as the lotus of the Nile.

It was possibly the best choice for Lenox to take currently given his state of mind. Everything seems new and surreal to him. Dead at one point, and the next brought back to life as a robot wolf. Then it hit him. This wasn't his body. Not his former human one. He snapped his gaze to one of his robotic arms confused on the technology at work. Or in his case the sorcery this was never seeing electrics up until this point. Only the programing in his mind started to take into effect. Visions of how much warfare has changed on 2000 years flew by in a blink. "Automated?... I need a mirror. Something to reflect my image back at me… I- I need to think. Please give me the tea Anubis…" Lenox said in a down voice as his revelation hit him.

Anubis nodded to Lenox as he snapped his finger, the wire on the back of Lenox's head detached from him, leaving his mind free to contemplate and comprehend the information that was given to him.

The cable on his tail hole retracted from him, giving him a moment of pleasured moan that he thought he wouldn't have made in all his lifetime. A rather embarrassing thought for him for a moment. "Right this way." Anubis motioned for him to walk with him through a doorway into a room where there was a 9 square tiles pad with mechanical arms around the pad. In front of him was a mirror showing his full appearance.

He was now a robot wolf walking on two legs like human, his body's overall design was even more tank like than he used to be in his lifetime with his arms and legs sporting rolling muscles and his torso and abdomen. The six packs on his abdomen area were covered in a smooth chrome armor plate with a stubby metal tail behind him. He was still a dull gray color however, not quite sporting any colors of interest.

Lenox looked at the mirror almost dumbfounded, but still curious. He rose his right arm up and opened up the palm of his hand. After this he inched his arm closer until he could rest his palm down on the cold yet smooth surface of the mirror. Looking at himself he was in a godly state of body condition being built to near perfection yet it all still seemed off to him.

"You turned me into the symbol of Rome. The wolf which could be thanked to the start of the empire… For restoring my life to me I should thank you especially in this form. But I don't know what to really think of this. I was resting. Death on a bed with those I knew around me before I left the world. And why the body of a wolf at that? An anthropomorphic one." Lenox asked.

Anubis approached him and cleared his throat out as he spoke to Lenox in a relaxed tone. "Simple, you see in recent years I have come across some rather dangerous foes that require me to think outside the box. One of them was a group fostered by a… shall we say… distant descendant of yours have grown to be a dangerous terrorist faction that not only backstabbed him but are also are armed with a large stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. They even managed to elude me and gave me a bad case of burial under a pile of rubble. So take them down I'll need your help." Said Anubis.

Anubis then handed Lenox what appeared to be a tablet, a rectangular computer with no keyboards and to Lenox, it appeared that the device was showing him a photograph as his HUD identified, the photograph displayed a man similar to Lenox in an uncanny manner, though his appearance was obviously Germanic with pale white skin tone and a hairstyle that Lenox had never seen before in Rome. "This is the man, a rather long story and need time to burn through the information but once you do, you should be up to speed with the situation."

More information was unloaded onto Lenox without much information, and yet the device he was holding bearded something similar to him despite never seen anything like it in his previous life. Now one of the first pieces of hand held text in his new life he began to scroll through the data of his apparent descendant. He felt no familia connection or bond to the man. Not yet anyways, but it was alarming to read the data.

He found the man's last name to be exactly like his. Though with a major turn in it being Lenox " " Walter of an organization named Orion's Sword. Something that seems to depress Caesar Lenox. "This is where my heritage has led?..." he said depressed. Even more so finding Grey to be deceased already without a chance to reform him. Long beyond any point of reformation as it clearly labeled him to have extinguished life in a nuclear holocaust. Though with reason given. A radical act of forced peace.

He slumped a bit seeing this. A massive purge of nuclear force granted to major world powers in an effort to scatter governments out of control into fear and panic leaving them helpless for control to restore order. Sucking up world powers not for territory control or dominance, but to spread a forceful peace effort controlling and aligning governments alike. Traditions erased, no biased view, all governments of any kind attacked.

What didn't' make sense to him was the fact this did not occur in this place. As he read he found the lands his descendant "grey" inhabited were far more modern and technologically superior to the ancient world somehow.

This all seems to have occured in a very distant year of 2033. Just barely over the 2000 mark since lenox left, but a world annexing more territory than the known world of ancient. United States, Russia, Great Britain, Japan, South America, Australia. All these names he barely understood the meaning of. "Where did this all transpire? He… Has a chaotic, but controlled view… This isn't like old Rome. This is with purpose. Passion filled. Maybe angry and destructive, but it wasn't for territory. What is this man?... Adn what is a Rex Unit?..." Lenox asked.

Anubis in his mind knew that Lenox's questions require answers, which in turn breed more questions than time would allow. He however knew that he must balance between informing Lenox and keep up with his enemies. "As a God I can elaborate to you, the events and history of these things take place in a realm of Titans and monsters tower over mountains. A place where deities like myself have little influences in the events taking place there. I'll get you up to speed further soon but for now we have things to do."

The statement left Lenox with more questions than contending answers, he saw Anubis gestured for him to stand on the middle of the pad. Seeing the hand gesture and directioning of Anubis compelled him to follow suits as he stepped back on to the pad, he found his feet to still be somewhat awkward as he was more used to the human feet structure than a wolf's hind legs.

However, once he stepped on the pad, his answer came in the form the robot arms descending on him and spraying a crimson red paint color on his chest armor, and an armored loin piece over his lower region. The paint job that was being applied to him started on his wrists and shoulder plates, on his legs, the robot arms applied the similar paint job on his heels, on the edge of the primary paint jobs were wheat gold patterns and highlights.

On his torso, he saw that the robot arms gave his chest a crimson red color that seemed more widely spread out with a golden eagle of Rome painted on his heart. Some outer golden highlights were added on the borders of his armor making him seem regal. Where ever there was read a beveled gold border would soon be.

"There you go, a much more appropriate color for the former emperor of Rome." Said Anubis as the paint job was being dried up with fans blowing heat over his body, Lenox saw that the robot HUD he had was displaying a Thermometer graph in vertical scale.

The meter ran from 0 towards the more heated end of the spectrum until the fans stopped allowing him to step off the pad. He felt Anubis's hands lifting his left arm up, turning and inspecting it. "Hmmm I should get you trained on how to use your new body properly along with your new weapons and equipment, seeing that 2000 years have passed." Said Anubis.

Lenox nodded to anubis, but still felt his mind curious now to everything that was happening around him. He looked down recognizing everything on him as Roman pride. Though a lto of it made Lenox huff out in a dry manner. "I look like a propaganda machine for Rome. If it's even like this anymore. The gold is a bit much even for my tastes. Just know none of this gives me real pride. Especially when I can't get myself grounded into reality still." Lenox quipped. He flexed his mechanical arms to inspect his muscles in this state. "Even though I feel rather healthy."

"Trust me, you'll get used to it, beside I could use an officer to lead the Jackal Guards. Let's get outside we have a lot of things to show you and help some basic training done as well." Anubis then led Lenox out of the workshop into the open air of the Fort where for the first time since his death, Lenox can see sunlight, albeit through the lenses and optics of a robot. He saw the sunlight shining down on his body, reflecting the metallic sheen and giving off sparkling reflection of light.

The two of them saw that the Guards around the fort remained souls of the dead appearing in Jackal forms similar to Anubis but their numbers seems to have fallen greatly as Lenox noticed rows and columns of robot jackals and wolves standing in lines drilling and rehearsing combat scenario.

Most of them were either jet black or chrome grey with digits and serial codes painted on their chest. The wolves were similar to Lenox in appearance but were clearly designed to be an agile all around fighter and were less tank like compared to him.

"Let's start with the obstacle course, this is where we can see if your robot body is functional as intended and you can control its motor functions." Anubis stated as they arrived at a beach side obstacle course with various wooden obstacles to test the robots agility to the max.

Lenox sighed out and moved to a more agile position. He leaned down and placed the tips of his fingers down on the ground and looked ahead while his entire back had been stretch out in an extreme arch.

His left leg bent forwards with the tips of his toes on the ground while his other leg was stretched straight with its toes touching the ground. He breathed in and out calming himself on a focus looking directly at the obstacle course ahead of himself. "Tell me when to start." He directed.

Lenox however was not alone, he saw that about 5 more robots joined him and assumed a similar position, they were all robot wolves with appearance similar to his own. Anubis would then held his hand high up in the air, waiting for the moment to give the word.

An intense air of competitiveness came over them as Anubis bellowed out the start signal. "Go!" He shouted, the robots then sprinted from their starting line with a perfect synchronized move, 5 of them kept up their speed ahead of Lenox who in turn was able to keep up but was finding himself somewhat behind the bots due to his larger and more tank like build.

Finding this an issue in this race he pounded his feet against the ground as hard as he could attempting to keep up with the other robots around him. Not an easy task though given how much space he had between them. With his size he could only do so much to keep ahead of them. They could even feel his feet smack against the ground below himself in rumbling thuds.

This actions he found to have propelled him forward, in fact he found himself reaching ahead of the other robots as he was able to reach for the logs in front of him where his HUD began to display the necessary actions he needed to take by vaulting and mantling over.

His cybernetic brains and muscle systems registered these recommendations as he vaulted and mantled over the various logs. The robots around him were doing the same only they seem to have greater finesse, and precise control of their movements than him.

He himself would see that they were coming up on a pipe to simulate tunnels, on instinct his body executed a combat slide into the tunnel as he kept crouch and walk through it like other robots. "Keep going! You're almost to the finish line!" The instructor of the course shouted to Lenox, apparently aware of him as a hardened veteran and Emperor.

Keeping his momentum he continued to push himself forward gaining some confidence after closing in after the other robots around him. In the tunnel though he still kept his speed making a slide on his back before exiting the tunnel by having his leg bend allowing him to roll his entire body forwards to quickly move back onto his feet. As soon as his feet touched the ground he was back to hauling himself forwards.

At the last leg of the course, he found himself climbing up a rope ladder on a vertical wall with the other robots as he pushed himself forward. Once he was on the top he and the bots had to cross a bridge to test their ability to maintain balance and the force output of their respective bodies.

Once he was through to the end of the course with a fast rope down to the finish line, he saw Anubis standing in front of him with his arms planed on his hips, the robots who partake in the course with him knelt down obediently and bowed their heads to Anubis. "Rise." Said Anubis tersely, the bots would then stand up in line looking at him blankly. "Not bad, excellent even as you are able to maintain your momentum and keep up with the robots here. Let's move on to the next course, this is where we'll teach you how to use your new weapons."

Lenox stood up nodding to Anubis. His legs somehow burned as a real muscle would that was just well worked out. He huffed out through his nose and nodded to Anubis. "Good. I feel alive. Confused still. Curious, but somehow whole again…" Lenox said following Anubis.

The Jackal deity then led Lenox and the robots with him, almost like a squad towards a firing range some 60 meters away from the obstacle course. Here, the first thing Grey heard was not the twing of strings and bows or the thwapping sounds of arrows piercing their targets.

Instead he heard the loud banging sounds of automatic weapons, gunpowder being put to use as automatic weapons spray bullets down the range, shell casings dropped down on the ground, clanking against one another or the sand. Lenox saw that some of the robots there were practicing their bullpup assault rifle and marksmanship against steel targets.

As he approached the range, the robots there switched their weapons to safe before putting them down at the weapon racks and left the range for the others to come in. The robot emperor of Rome saw that the weapon he was going to use was a futuristic bullpup assault rifle with a motorized drum magazine.

His HUD showed that the weapon held 50 rounds in its magazines, firing 6.8mm Depleted Uranium rounds that can reached up to roughly 650 meters in range. In a crack troopers, perhaps he might know how to make it reach further.

Already he seemed intrigued and extremely impressed by the range of the weapon. "Its reach is far greater than any archer could reach, any javelin men could hope to throw. Hmm, but i've never once in any life fired something like this." Lenox said. He examined the gun further finding it to be much like a FAMAS in appearance. Its upper portion sporting an elevated rail over a holo space.

A small angled portion in the front of the weapon in the front most port of the rail. The magazine seemed to consist of a cylinder with each of the bullets visible through an amber colored glass of some type with rectangular windows displaying each bullet in detail.

The stock had a ribbed frame with a conclave bend in it to support the shoulder. Under the medium length barrel of the weapon seems to be another ribbed rail that was empty, but clearly supported additional accessories and utilities.

The main frame of the body supported an angular shaped look. The upper rail seemed to be one piece filled with square holes underneath the hollowed out portion that attach onto another secondary frame that covered the entire barrel of the weapon. The whole of the gun itself was a flat black with no shine to it.

Lenox's HUD would denote the weapon as the AR-68 Annihilator with technical specifications embedded on the weapon via Augmented Reality display system that helps him know the handling of the weapon.

PDF files showing him diagrams and pictures of how to use the weapon effectively as he held it in his hands. He found that the holographic sight on the top switch on and linked with his HUD, showing an accurate aiming reticle that tracks and calculate ballistic trajectories.

The other robots appeared to be using the same weapon as him as they stood ready to fire their weapons at the targets presented to them. "Shooters, weapons ready, aim, fire!" Anubis shouted to them, steel targets popped up in their peripheral vision all in humanoid appearances for them to shoot at.

As soon as they popped out of the ground Lenox looked at each of the targets with the reticle built into his hud. His swung his firearm upwards aiming down its ribbed sight before pulling the trigger causing the gun to shoot off a stream of bullets. Though he wasn't expecting the initial "bang" to be so powerful.

His ears rung for a second while his shoulder felt the blow of the weapon recoil pummeling into his shoulder. The barrel of the gun moving upwards due to recoil. "This takes getting used to… Thats alot more than i was expecting from this device." He rolled his shoulders around huffing out a breath before moving back to fire at the steel targets.

Each one a little off, and not exactly center for the old emporator. He seemed to show some carefulness though in his aim at least. Not just spraying the bullet and taking shots at times he felt most confident.

The shots began to connect with their targets properly as his HUD's accuracy meter showed that it was sliding from the 50% mark to the higher 60s and eventually 70%. He was able to zoom in and saw the target's centermass being the place where he need to hit the most.

He soon squeezed out corrected shots at those and saw that the target was penetrated rapidly. Anubis would then blew a whistle, signaling them to cease fire at the range. "Cease fire! Cease fire! Check your weapons and ammo!" Anubis shouted.

On impulse Lenox disconnected the magazine of the weapon with a click before lifting it to his eyes eincting the cyltier for himself. It felt much lighter now that he just used a multitude of the bullets for the target practice.

"Good shooting there Lenox, I have to apologize that we don't have much time to train you today, though. Tomorrow we're heading to Rome, for this." Anubis then handed to Lenox's hand what appeared to be a piece of paper with two Gladius swords crossed and a Scutum shield resting under them.

The wording in Latin to him was clear, "Defense Expo". Rome was apparently hosting one to find artisans and smiths to produce their new weapons and keep their Legions well supplied. "I plan to come there and bring at least a company of Jackal Guards with me. Perhaps you would like to join?" He kindly asked Lenox apparently to allow him an opportunity to see his homeland again.

Lenox looked down at the paper and nodded his head up and down carefully before handing it back to Anubis. "I accept. I see promise with this. And…. Despite this all being so new to me I think I have some faith in an old ally to at least guide me through this all… And. if the world is in threat by something new perhaps my skills are needed of me. The responsible thing to do is to use them correct?" Lenox asked.

Anubis nodded approvingly to him as he patted Lenox's shoulder. "Correct. Hmmm, now that I think about it, you will need a different name though. I can't imagine how would Rome react to seeing their great Emperor return as a machine even if it is for benevolent reasons. Perhaps… Belisarius would suffice." Anubis stated to the robot wolf with a calm tone.

The name however seems to register for Lenox, or Belisarius as he was now known, the name appeared on his HUD with a message box that said "Registering Username: Belisarius" to him as he felt his mind applying it to his system as a way to protect his identity and perhaps to contain the worst kind of reaction from the Roman populace.

He nodded is head approvingly to anubis and sighed. "Of course. They'll recognize my voice though, but they won't be able to confirm any of your actions. I'm not complaining though. New life. New name. New Imperator." He said with some confidence in his tone.