Hello to ladies and gentlemen! It's me again, The Last Rebellion reporting for duty. Today, I will like to introduce a new story. This story I make come from the game Brave Frontier. It's fun game that I play in my handphone. As usual, I do not own any of characters and other materials of Brave Frontiers. They all the properties of A-Lim and Gumi Asia. Oh, before I forgot. For any Metal Slugs fans, the story will be temporary stop for a while due to some issues and will be continues in further notice. If you have some suggestions or comments for my story, don't be shy to give it in reviews section and I will accept it with open heart. Without further delay, I let all the readers to enjoy my story. :-)
The Adventure of Brave Frontier
New Beginning
In lovely morning of Miltontown, there is one boy walking slowly towards the school. His name is Kyle. For this few years, he thinks his life is full of boredom. Due to his lack of communication with the others, he does not have many friends. He only wishes is that his school life would end quickly so that his boredom finally disappear. As he approaches the school's gate, a friendly face greets him.
Among all students in his school, there is only one person who is a friend with Kyle. His name is Max. They started to know each other on their first day of school. Unlike Kyle, Max has a cheerful personality and often interacts with others. "Good morning, Kyle! How are you today?" Max greets with a happy smile.
"Fine. Just the same as any other days." Kyle replied with a boring face clearly seen on his face. "If you look like that, you will spoil this morning environment. Why not smile a little bit?" Max gives advice. "What's the point? Every day is the same. I eat, sleep, go to school, do homework, do revision and repeat this process all over again." Kyle refused.
"I think you really need some kind of activities to do so that you can have some fun. I think I will become bored with the life like that every day. Say, how about signing up in one of the clubs in this school?" Max gives a suggestion. "That's not even funny. No one will want me in their clubs since I'm not good in talking with other people." Kyle becomes mad. "Sorry about that one. I'm just kidding." Max tries to calm down his friend.
As Kyle calms down, he begins to ask Max. "How about you, Max? You are good in talking with other people. You can enter any club easily." "I will like to enter a club but sadly the club that I desire does not exist." Max replied. "Oh! What kind of club?" Kyle becomes curious. "The club that I want to enter is gamer's club!" Max says with full of passion in his eyes. After hearing that, Kyle makes the bored face again and start to walk. "Good luck with that." Kyle replied while leaving his ambition friend behind.
"Oh. Come on, Kyle! You already know that playing games is one of the best activities that human created. You should play games too. I'm sure that it will help you lighten your mood." Max tells Kyle while catching up to him. "If I can play games, I already did it ages ago. But, my parents are pretty strict. They don't like me playing games. You should know about that already." Kyle responds. "Well, you right about that one." Max remembered when he let Kyle borrow his game console just to find his precious item being destroyed by Kyle's parent.
For a while, Max remained silent. Suddenly, he has an idea. "I know a way you can play the game without your mom and dad from noticing it." Max says to his friend. "Ok. Let's hear it then. But, I don't have high hope in your ideas since most games have easy to detect platforms." Kyle was ready to hear his friend's idea. "I cannot deny your early statement. I agree that most game platforms are easy to spot. But, what if the platform is a daily object." Max convey his ideas. "It's true if the platform is a daily object, my parents will have a difficult time to spot it. Still, what kind of object is that?" Kyle becomes confused.
"Duh. This one." Max shows his handphone. "We always use handphone in our daily life. If you are playing game by using this thing, I'm guarantee you that they will not suspect you." Max explains to Kyle. "Hmm. You got a point. But, let me think first." Kyle has doubt in proceeding in his friend's idea. "I recommend you to play Brave Frontier. That is one of the best game I play on my handphone." Max quickly suggests to Kyle. "I say let me …." Before Kyle manages to finish his sentence, the school's bell rang.
"Oh, no! The class about to start. Let's go Kyle or we will be late." Max starts to run. Soon, Kyle follows behind him. They manage to reach their class in the nick of time. In the lesson time, Kyle focuses in hearing all his teachers' teaching while Max secretly playing games when he finds the right time. After a few hours in school, finally, all the students can goes back home. "Man. My body is aching just from hearing all the babbling from the teachers." Max complains to Kyle. "Yeah, right. All that I can see from my desk is that you just focus in playing the game while the teachers teach in front." Kyle ignores his friend's complain.
"You still can detect me playing games? I thought I have improved my stealth skills." Max was shocked that Kyle managed to spot him playing. "For few years, I see the variety of styles of you playing the game so seeing you playing the game in class is easy for me to spot." Kyle said to his buddy. "Thank goodness you are not a prefect or else I will be caught in the act many times." Max feels sense of relief. "That's so true. Well, it looks like it almost dark. I think we should head back home." Kyle notices the night are approaching. "You're right. See you later, Kyle and remember about my suggestion!" Max waves his hand to his friend and start to walk toward his home.
"Yeah. See you later." Kyle walks separately from his friend to reach his home. At home, he changes his clothes and got ready for dinner. He ate dinner with his parents. There are no much of communication between them and if there is, Kyle's parent only talk about academics which make Kyle become more bored. After finishing dinner, he does all the exercises that his teachers give until he was done. Kyle finally reaches the maximum point for his boredom after finishing the exercises. He starts to switch on his laptop and search any movies to watch to reduce his boredom. Watching television and movie are the only entertainment that his parents allow.
"Oh, great. All of these movies already watched." Kyle cannot find any new movies to watch and all of the movies have been watched several times. "I cannot watch television since my mum and dad are busy watching television." Kyle is running out of entertainment options. "I think I will die from this boredom…." Kyle stares the plain ceiling while he lies down on his bed since there are not much for him to do. Suddenly, he starts to remember his friend suggestion.
He starts to use his handphone and try to search Brave Frontier on the internet. "Hope this really cure my boredom." Kyle says to himself as he begins to download the Brave Frontier application. After few minutes of waiting, he finally completes the download. "Ok. Here goes. "Kyle enters the Brave Frontier application. The screen becomes dark and a white door appears in the center of the screen. "What is this?" Kyle was confused. Soon, Kyle realizes there is instruction at the bottom of the door that instructs him to touch the door. Without any hesitation, Kyle touches the door since he thinks this is how this game works.
The door starts to open and blinding light emerge from behind the door. The blindness made Kyle to drop his handphone. "What's wrong with this game?! People with photophobia might sue for this." Kyle becomes dizzy from the light. As his view become stable, he reaches for his handphone. When he grabs his handphone, he realizes someone is at in front of him. When he looks upward, he sees a stranger wearing armor and equipped with a sword is in front of him.
"So, you're calling on me, eh? Alright then, I'll fight for you. Just don't mess with my blade." The stranger starts to talk. The only reply that the stranger get is a fearful scream from Kyle. Kyle is overwhelmed with shock to see a stranger appear out of the blue. "Why're you screaming?" The stranger was confused. "Who're you? Why're you here?" Kyle wants to know the objective of the stranger despite being shaking with fear. "I'm Fencer Vargas and I serve and protect you as my summoner since you summoned me." Vargas explains. Suddenly, Kyle hears a voice from downstairs. "Kyle?! Are you ok?" His mother hears Kyle's scream and begins to worry her son safety. His father that was already asleep quickly awakened when he also heard the scream.
"Oh, no. This will become a big mess if my parents know about this." Kyle says to himself. "Is there any way to make you go away from this room?" Kyle asks Vargas. "Certainly. You only need to say return if you do not require my service. Remember if you need me, you only need…" Before Vargas can finish his sentence, Kyle quickly said return. A light appears and surrounded Vargas. Then, the light took Vargas back into Kyle's handphone. Kyle was stunned to see all the things that just happened in that few minutes.
Unfortunately, Kyle could not daze any longer since he heard a knocking sound on the door. "Kyle, are you there? Why're you not responding?" His parents were already in front of his room. As fast as lightning, Kyle accesses horror movie from his laptop. As soon as the horror film start to play, he unlocks the door. "Are you ok, Kyle?" His father asks Kyle when his parents enter his room. "I'm fine. Sorry about that. I just shocked when that movie makes me scared." Kyle tries to explain and shows the movie that he is watching. "Next time, don't watch a horror movie at night. You just make your dad and me worry." His mother advised.
"I'm truly sorry. I hope this never happen again." Kyle replied. Since there are nothing out of ordinary in Kyle's room, his parents exits the room. After Kyle closes his door, he starts to calm himself down. "What's just happened? Am I dreaming?" Kyle pinches his cheek. "I guess this is not a dream." Kyle says to himself after he realizes his cheek hurt from the pinch and make it red like tomatoes. "This is really not making any sense." He cannot accepts the thing that just happen. "I think I need some fresh air." He begins to exit his house.
"Where're you going Kyle?" Kyle's mother notice her son about to leave the house. "Um. I just want to buy some pens since my pen is out of ink." Kyle gives some excuse. "Ok. Just don't be late." His mother allows him to leave the house. Kyle walk alone on the street in the night still thinking about the event that just happen. "How come the warrior suddenly emerges from my handphone?" Kyle tries to think the source for this problems. After a few minutes of brainstorming, he soon realizes the key to all this come from when he install the Brave Frontier application in his handphone. "I think this is the only explanation that I can find." Kyle grabs his handphone and stares it.
Suddenly, the handphone starts to make noise. At the screen, it shows red letters that written "Warning! Incoming Opponent! Distance: 100 meters". "Huh? What's wrong with my handphone?" Kyle confused to see his handphone acting strangely. The distance started to reduce in every second. Then, he hears a kid voice say "I found you." He realizes there is a boy standing near him while holding a handphone. "Do I know you?" Kyle does not recognize the kid. "No. But, you're my opponent." The kid says with sinister smile.
"Look, kid. I don't have time to play your little game. Should you be at home about now? It's dangerous for you to walk alone." Kyle scolds the kid. "Shut up! That's why I hate adults. They think they are high and mighty. Today, I will show them that they are not. My name is Tom and I will not let anyone call me a kid anymore." Tom starts to become mad. "Come out now, Goblin! Let's teach him a lesson!" Tom's handphone start to shine brightly. Not for long, a goblin emerges on the scene. "Let's have some fun." The goblin speaks while watching Kyle with murderous intents.
"What?! You also can do that?!" Kyle stuns to see someone else can do the summoning. "Come on! Show your unit or you will be squished by my unit!" Tom became impatient when he saw Kyle did not make any actions. "Damn it. I don't know how to summon the warrior again." Kyle says to himself since he remembers that he makes Vargas disappear before he can fully explain the summoning process. "So, you think you can defeat me without a unit. Ok. I will make you regret for that. Go, goblin attack!" Tom misinterprets the situation. He thinks Kyle underestimates him.
The goblin attacks using his big stick as a weapon. Kyle manages to dodge the attack. The attack from the goblin caused a crater on the ground. "Yikes. If I hit from this, I'm sure I will go to heaven in no time." Kyle surprised to see the destruction force from the goblin attack. "I need to get out from here." Kyle quickly runs away from Tom. "So, you want to play hide and seek." Tom says with sinister smile. "Where's everybody? Someone need to handle this kid." Kyle cannot find anybody on the scene. After running for sometimes, Kyle makes the decision to hide since he cannot find any help. "I should hide for time being. Maybe, the kid will not find me here." He hides inside a bush and waits for Tom to pass by.
As expected, Tom walk the same route accompanied by his goblin. He watches his handphone once in awhile observing the surrounding. After a few minutes, he leaves the area. "Thank goodness he's finally gone. I just need to wait for few more minutes before head home. This is too much." Kyle finally feels sense of relief. Suddenly, he hears a scream. When he turns his back, he finds the goblin tries to strike him from behind. He quickly get out from the bush. The bush become flattened from the attack. "How can you manage to find me?!" Kyle surprises to see Tom can pinpoint his location.
"As long as I have this. I can find you anywhere you go." Tom shows his handphone. The screen shows "Opponent distance: 10 meters." "Now, face my wrath!" Tom commands his goblin to attack. Kyle continues to run away when he sees the goblin was ready to attack him again. "So, my handphone becomes a tracker. I should drop my handphone." Kyle ready to dispose his handphone but stop from doing it after he thinks twice. "This handphone also can be my lifesaver if I can summon him again." He remembers about Vargas. He decides to keep his handphone.
Kyle runs into the back alleys. "This should make him a bit trouble to find me." Kyle tries his best to escape from Tom. To make Tom more confused, he runs in every direction he can finds in the back alleys. Eventually, his techniques caused his downfall because he enters a dead end. "This is no good. I need to turn back." Kyle starts to turn around. Before he could escape from the back alleys, he sees two shadows approaching fast. "Come out. Come out. Wherever you are." Tom speaks while searching for Kyle.
"Now, I am officially trapped…" Kyle cannot find any more ways to escape. Soon, Tom discovers Kyle unable to run away. "I found you." Tom points his finger toward Kyle. "Can't we negotiate? Maybe we can find some kind of solution." Kyle tries his best to survive. "Nope. Negotiation is just for a loser. Prepare to die!" Tom commands his goblin to attack. In life and death situation, he yells the name of the warrior that he remembered. "Fencer Vargas!" Kyle yells.
Then, Kyle closes his eyes and prepare to accept his fate. When he closes his eyes, there was no sound that could be heard and he did not feel any pain either. Kyle encouraged himself to open his eyes. He cannot believe what he see in front of him when he opens his eyes. He sees the familiar warrior appears again. He blocks the goblin's attack using his sword. "Seem like you're in a big trouble." Vargas says to Kyle. "Thanks for your help." Kyle feels relieved. "No need to thank me. This is my duty." Vargas replies as he pushes the goblin back.
"If you want to fight, pick someone from your own size." Vargas speaks to the goblin. He is ready to fight the goblin. Tom feels a bit threatened with the appearance of Vargas. "Goblin attack the warrior! Let's show him our strength!" Tom continues to command the goblin. "As you wish." Goblin follows his master's command. The fight between them are fierce but Vargas have the upper hand. Goblin keeps getting hit after hit from Vargas. "I will not back down. I will fight to the end!" Goblin shouts and prepare to do his final attack.
Vargas already prepares for the goblin's attack and avoid it. After avoiding the attack, Vargas strikes the killing blow at the back of the goblin. "I'm..sorry…master. I..have..failed..you." The goblin watch his master before he disappears. After the goblin disappears, Tom starts to cry. "You big meanie! I will make you pay for that." Tom shouts at Kyle and runs away. "That goblin fight to the bitter end. I give him credit for his bravery." Vargas respects his foe as he put his sword back into the sheath.
Kyle amazed to see Vargas's performance. "We did not properly introduce each other. Just like I say before, my name is Fencer Vargas. What's your name?" Vargas asks his master. "Oh, sorry about that. My name's Kyle Edwin. Thanks for your help. I really mean it." Kyle thanks his savior. "Don't worry about it. It's my duty to help you, Kyle. Remember if you need my support, just call my name and I will arrive to assist you." Vargas says to his master. "I will remember that." Kyle replies before he commands Vargas to return back into his handphone. Vargas waves his hand to his master before he disappears.
Kyle starts to walk back toward his home. At first, his mother shocked to see her son in dirty condition. Kyle gives the excuse that he trips over when he walk before heads toward his room. After he changes his cloth, he goes to sleep. "That's one crazy adventure I had in this night." Kyle says to himself before falling asleep. In the next morning, he been awoken by the alarm of his handphone. "Strange. Today's Saturday. Why I set my alarm?" Kyle confuses. Then, he discovers that the screen show the exact notice just like when he confronted with Tom.
"Oh, great. Who is near me?" Kyle begins to worry. "Kyle! Someone is waiting for you at the front door." His mother call him at the down stair. Kyle changes his cloth and prepare to confront the person that are behind the door.
Who is waiting in front of the door? Friend or foe? Find it next time in The Adventure of Brave Frontier!
To be continued...