Note: this idea literally just came to me when playing valkyria chronicles (thank you steam), and I just could not help myself when I noticed some serious similarity between Ragnite and Tiberium. As such this may continue or dead end itself on a whim, as I have no idea how quite it shall be received. Either way, I hope everyone finds this interesting, and if you wish to, please tell me what you think.
"Bring up the scans of the planet. I would like to see just what worried the probes."
"Of course, Lord. Bring up the scans now." A female-ish voice responded mechanically a second before a large screen appeared, illuminating just the silhouette of the room's single inhabitant. The screen was covered in many bars and lines, something akin to graphs, though most looking at it would not be able to tell. Beside these graphs was a large 3D image of a planet. A planet covered in numerous biomes and civilizations.
"So, this planet has two primary continents then. Numerous small organic groups on the one continent, two larger ones as well and very few on the second continent. . . . . . . . . "
"The planet has not changed as would have been expected, Lord. The ichor has not spread across its landmass as it should have." The mechanical voice suddenly interjected.
"I can see that. It seems the ichor has merged with other heavy mineral deposits across the planet, and all of it appears to be heavy with mineral alloy."
"It appears the organic natives use it as armour and power sources. As well as regenerative medicines." the mechanical voice added, much to its master's chagrin.
"Yes I can see that. . . I'm more interested in the small number of high resonance signatures we are getting. Lock onto the two highest active signatures that are present in that small desert area on the primary continent. Give me an active live feed."
"Of course, Lord." The voice answered as the screen before it zoomed down to the planet's surface, showing off a large desert like field with two opposing forces on either side, hiding in trenches as explosions dropped across its length in all directions. One spot of the field however was completely clear of these explosions, and in its center two organic life forms stood, engaging in combat. One organic was tall with long white hair and red eyes; the other was shorter and had grey hair. Both organics held silver-ish blue weapons in both hands, and were covered in a frightful blue glow.
" . . . . Bring up the resonance scans for both of those entities. What do they say?"
"Of course, Lord. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The resonance scans imply that both entities have a significant amount of energized ichor in their bodies. They are channeling this energy through their entire organic structures as well as the weapons that they carry. The weapons are as heavily imbued with ichor as some of our own drones and craft, but are extremely dense and appear to act as generators for the energy themselves."
"Interesting. So instead of ichor covering the planet it changed into a mineral that is now being used as a perfect resource by the planets organic life forms, and even exists in some of their innate physical makeups. . . . . . . . . Intriguing."
"Lord, the orders from the overlord clearly state that-"
"The overlord's orders were to go to the planet and find out an explanation for the probe finding from last cycle. Even if we are equipped only for reconnaissance though, we still will have plenty of forces to . . . . .test these organics. I want to see what their technology is capable of, do you understand?"
" . . . . Yes, Lord."
"Good. Now then, drop platforms one through four on the secondary continent at Sectors a3, d,9, e0, and f5 respectively."
"Of course, Lord . . . . . What of the other continent?"
"Hmmm, drop platforms five and six at sectors g 4, and s9."
"What of platforms seven through twelve, Lord?"
"They will not be dropped yet, I want to see what these two squabbling organic groups do. It is impressive that such a small group has survived with two large ones to its sides."
"It is interesting, but I am suggesting that the remaining platforms be dropped and-."
"The remaining platforms will not be dropped. . . Instead we shall give those two squabbling groups a chance to fight back, so I may see their potential. Send Mothership One to the largest organic gathering place west of that small groups land, and send Mothership Two to the east group gathering point, the largest one."
"So we shall destroy the largest gatherings of organics of the two groups then?"
"No, just their gathering places. That eastern group looks to have most of its forces in the land of that small central group, so they shall stay alive, right alongside their enemies.
"Very well, Lord. . . . . . . . They are sent. ETA's of 2 millicycles and 3 millicycles respectively . . . . . a new contact has appeared lord, a very large metal object, far to the east. It dwarfs our hexapods by twice their length."
"Impressive, but leave it for now. We'll send out hexapods to take it out when it becomes a problem and- . ... . No. sends our prodigy instead. We'll turn it against its own organics."
"Very well, sir . . . . . What of the organic forces fighting in that desert region?"
"Hmmmm," the voice hummed as it looked at the screen, and the two glowing blue organics aa they fought. "We don't want them dead, not yet at least. Drop three tripods in their center to disrupt the battle, and then drop one swarm of infantry drones spread across the entire battle zone. Then prepare us to land in that northern area of the primary continent."
"Very well, Lord. Shall I drop a prodigy alongside the infantry swarm?"
"Hmmmm, yes do that, but with orders to not engage. Instead I want it to peer into the minds of the organics leaders, no matter how low or high of rank. It is to find out everything it can and report back.
"Very well, Lord. . . . .The tripods are away . . . . As are the three infantry swarms."
"I told you only one!"
". . . My apologies, Lord, I must have misheard you. Perhaps a glitch in my programing.
"By the Overlord! You useless piece of- . . . . .fine, bring us down to our landing zone, but keep the live feed going. I want to see if those ichor infused organics can triumph against Tripods!"
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"Boss, is Alicia really, valkyria?" Largo asked as he stared across the battlefield nearly dumbfounded as Alicia fought Selvaria in single combat, both of them glowing brilliantly blue.
"I – I'm not sure, Largo, but that is what it looks like." Welkin replied from the top of the Edelweiss.
"Then what are we doing standing here!" Rosie suddenly yelled as she griped her gun tightly, "We should get out there and help her!"
"And what would you do? We can't take on a valkyria, our rounds bounce right off." Largo answered.
"Largo's right," Welkin quickly said stopping Rosie from speaking. "All we can do is wait and be ready to help if we need to."
"Rrrrr, I don't like this! We should be out there helping Alicia too- what the hell?" Rosie suddenly said, breaking her own sentence and looking straight up at the sky, causing everyone nearby to do the same. The sky which had been light gray overcast was becoming very dark, but beyond its darkness what confused all who looked up was the glowing purple lights that began appearing in the clouds. As the clouds turned completely purple a high pitched, inorganic shriek pierce the air and sky, causing many soldiers on both sides to cover their ears in pain. Seconds later, the sky fell on top of them.
Massive purple objects that looked like metal spikes fell from the sky, bright purple light flying behind them like a stream. Dozens of these spikes fell around the battlefield, creating large crashes and sending up plumes of dust and dirt in the distance. As the last spike fell to the ground beyond the battlefield, three larger ones fell from the sky, but these were not spikes. Shaped almost like massive squid, these three objects fell from the sky, and landed in the middle of the battlefield, right on top of Selvaria and Alicia, sending up such a blast of dirt and dust that the entire battlefield became blinded.
"Those things just landed on Alicia!" Largo yelled in shock as his grip on his lance tightened in sudden horror and anticipation.
"I know, and we're going in there! Squad seven, move out! We're getting Alicia out of there!" Welkin yelled before dropping back inside the Edelweiss and leading squad sevens charge into the middle of the field.
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Selvaria coughed on the dust in the air as she picked herself up off of the ground, the force of whatever had hit her having knocked her right off of her feet. Picking her lance and shield up off of the ground she looked around, trying to make out anything in the dust cloud around her. Standing just a few feet away from her, she could see the telling blue glow of her opponent, Gallia's valkyria. Taking a step forward and griping her own lance tightly, she prepared to take down her opponent, but stopped when she realized both her opponent, and she, were shivering.
Vreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Selvaria nearly covered her ears as a loud screech pierced the cloud of dust and looked past the other valkyria, looking for the noises creator. A purple glow poured into the dust cloud, and through it she could make out the shadow of what looked like massive cords with blades on their sides and a massive glowing center. As if thinking the same, both she and Gallia's valkyria swung their lances to their sides, causing the dust cloud to disperse in an instant, and almost immediately, Selvaria wished she had not.
Stepping up out of the crater it had created she got a full view of the creature before her. It was a dark purple and black in color, with three large legs that ended in massive spikes that looked as if they could crush tanks just from their size. The legs were attached to a glowing purple central core like body, and sprouting out of its top were three long cords that each ended with what looked like battleaxes blades with glowing eyelike centers.
As if stating its intent the tripod creature turned its body toward her and Gallia's valkyria, and it's central most cordlike appendage pointed its glowing center toward her. Raising her shield and lance to defend herself Selvaria was quickly punched by a beam of energy that slid her back many feet then flung her back, the force of the beam sending both of her weapons out of her hands and onto the ground.
Selvaria rolled herself over and pulled herself onto her hand and knees, coughing. Her entire body stung with pain, and her legs felt as if they were about to break. What the hell was that things attack!
Vreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Hearing the creature let out its inhuman roar Selvaria force her body to move and leapt to her feet, but did not have to leap away immediately. Almost twenty feet in front of her she looked to find the Gallian valkyria standing on the top of the tripod like creature, stabbing her lance into its head and firing energy into it, the excess energy sparking in every direction. Finally, after almost a full minute of firing her valkyrian beam into it, the beam punched through the creatures bottom, and a second later it fell to the side, all of it' glowing body parts now unlit and cold.
Before either of them could let out even a sigh two more of the tripods rose out their craters, and theses ones were not as slow on the uptake. Without losing a second their cords began firing bright beams, both at the two valkyria, and at both sides of the battlefield. Leaping to the side to dodge a beam and grab her shield Selvaria caught sight of an imperial tank that had entered the field, and watched as a tripod beam cut into its front, dropping its barrel and treads to the ground with glowing edges. A second later, unable to move, the tank was hit on its center by another beam, and lit up like a canister of liquid Ragnite.
Selvaria looked around for her lance, for without it she could not fight, and found it lying on the ground only a few meters away, just before a tripods massive limb stepped upon it, sundering the very ground as it droned and aimed one of its cords toward her. Just as the cords center glowed brightest a cascade of explosions rippled across the tripods body, causing it to stumble to the side and finally fall over in pieces.
Looking to her left Selvaria found the source of the explosions was a group of Gallian militia, three lancers and two tanks reloading and aiming at the third tripod as a group of shock troopers picked up their now unconscious Valkyria and lay her on the larger of their two tanks.
"We've got Alicia, Sevens. Hit that monster and retreat back to the camp!" a man said as he popped his head out of the tank, likely its commander. Listening to his orders the three lancers all aimed at the one remaining tripod and fired simultaneously, their lances striking it and causing it to step back many steps.
Ignoring the Gallian retreat Selvaria leapt forward and dropped into the small hole that the second tripod had made and pulled her lance out of the ground completely unharmed and undamaged.
Vreeeeeeee!
Selvaria looked up as she raised her lance and pointed it to the last remaining tripod. The Gallian lancers hadn't killed it, but they had certainly done a number on it. It was missing two of its three cords, and all of its legs and body were pitted and oozing some kind of green liquid.
"Sickening beast! Die for interfering in my battle!" Selvaria screamed as she fired her lance at the tripod. Its carapace already damaged, Selvaria's beam struck its main body and tore right through, the creatures body exploding a half second later, covering the battlefield in its pieces.
Allowing her heart beat to slow Selvaria looked around at the battlefield around her. Neither side was firing at the other, and neither army looked prepared to, too shocked at what had just happened. It made sense to her when she looked at the rest of the battlefield to find multiple tanks, imperial and Gallian, cut into pieces and on fire across the field. Whatever those creatures had been, they had dealt a severe blow to both sides, and the extent of the damage that just the three creatures created was shocking.
"S-sir! Are you alright?!"
Selvaria turned to the imperial line to find her engineer and more recently her second run toward her, carry his gun on his back and a Ragnaid in his free hand. "I am fine, Johann. Just a little scraped up." Selvaria said with a smile.
Johan let out a sigh of relief. "Oh good, when those things fell from the sky I wasn't sure what to think. Do you need some healing for those scars?"
Selvaria smiled and shook her head. Since taking Johann as her personal engineer she had watched him go from a meek man to a very dependable engineer. He still had his moments of meekness, but he also tried his best to support her, even though she would not need healing as long as she held her valkyrian weapons, or so she had thought. "I am fine, Johann. But let us return to our lines, I have the feeling they need reorganizing," Selvaria said as he noticed her arms were still shivering, "And I have a strange feeling that was just the beginning of our troubles.
