Agent of Chaos

Chapter 1: The Perfect Candidate

"EVERYONE! WE'VE GOT INCOMING! IT'S THE CPUS!"

Those are the last words I want to hear over the intercom on the day I'm supposed to sleep in. I feel a shiver go down my spine as really start to process the situation.

Damn… If the CPUs are after us, then that means we must've somehow gained international attention… But that doesn't make any sense!

We're sky pirates! We only do occasional robberies and raid places when people pay us to! So what if we robbed every national bank in each country and… raided… multiple factories… and….

…This is starting to make sense now.

"Gotta make sure I look good and calm myself… Panicking won't help now." I say to myself as I hop of bed and run into the bathroom to regain myself. Reviewing who I am, and a mental checklist sometimes helps calm my nerves. Let's see…

Name? Ryzen. Check.

Slightly messy and scruffy blonde hair? Check.

Blue eyes? Check.

Red windbreaker jacket and black jersey underneath? Check.

Red sweat pants to complete the outfit? Check.

I'm feeling a little bit better now. I run out to the deck to see what was going on and what the plan was.

"Whoa!" I yell as I almost get blown over by the wind as I open the steel hatch to the deck. There is a huge thunderstorm happening as I go on the deck and see nothing but black clouds and lightning surrounding us. I run along the side of our floating battleship via the deck to see all the hatches opening revealing the ship's defense systems and weapons with alarms going off. Anti-air guns, laser cannons, missile launchers, artillery cannons, it was all armed, ready, and all pointing in one direction.

The intercom keeps on with an understandably nervous voice accompanied by a loud alarm. Anyone with a brain knows that if the CPUs are coming, you'd have a better chance of survival with CFW Trick sitting on your face.

"Multiple bogeys inbound! 5,6…. Oh God, it's all eight of them! It's all of the CPUs and candidates! MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS! ALL PILOTS BOARD YOUR SKY MECHS AND PREPARE FOR LAUNCH!" The panicking individual on the intercom continues.

Whoa. If the captain really ordered the deploying all the sky mechs, then we might be attempting a lightning escape.

I hear the caption over the intercom move the panicking guy aside and talk in his old gruff voice.

"Ahh, step aside son, go prepare the plasma engines for a spatial jump. ALRIGHT GENTLEMEN, LISTEN UP! The soy boy is right; the CPUs are after us like a 13-year-old after free V bucks, and it doesn't seem like they're lookin' to sell girl scout cookies." Captain said. "It's not rocket science to know the fact that we don't stand a chance against the CPUs and candidates, so we're gonna have to pull the lighting escape, lads."

Called it. The captain proceeds in his gruff old man voice.

"If ya lads didn't even bother to read protocol at all, then I'll explain it to ya anyways. The lightning escape is a plan of literally two phases. Phase one, we'll scramble all sky mechs and we'll hit the CPUs harder than that taco restaurant hit me last night. Then, once the engines are all fired up, everyone will retreat back to the ship's barrier and we'll make a spatial jump into the stratosphere." The captain explained to the whole ship.

"Now lads, I'm not an idiot. I know this whole situation seems hopeless, but we all came here because we were hopeless! And now look how far we got lads! We all hate those pretentious CPUs anyways! Show those girls that they can't just ignore us then suddenly attack us! BATTLE STATIONS!" The captain screams while all the other crew members scream throughout the ship.

I'll admit, I'm a little hype now. I look deep into the clouds and I can see eight colorful dots flying in the distance in the storm. I gulp nervously realizing we only have about two minutes before they engage.

"Oh goddesses, it's really them." I hear a young male yet slightly robotic voice behind me.

I turn around to greet eyes with a blue, grey, and white Gundam/Mech armor that's about 5'6. I can tell because that's my height. The mech had a plasma chainsaw on one arm and a Gatling gun on the other arm, along with its dragon cyber wings deployed. It looks like an armored male CPU.

"Sweet armor, but do I know you?" I ask the Mech.

"Ryzen, how are you not going to recognize your best friend- ohhh I didn't show you the armor yet did I? Hang on a sec…" The mech responds.

The mech then proceeds to open up from the head down to the chest revealing a tiny male fairy who is about 3'10 with black hair wearing a blue tracksuit hopping out of the cockpit and flying in front of me.

OH, DAMN it's my best friend!

Diagnostic is actually a tome. He has been my best friend since I was 16-years-old. (2 years ago.) I can't explain too much right now, but we were both abandoned in the Gamindustri Graveyard. While I'm only 18, he's actually thousands of years old.

"Diagnostic! What's up, my dude?" I say while hi fiving him. "What's with the new suit? How many dudes did you kiss to get it?"

"Shut up, Ryzen. Where's the button to mute you on this thing?" Diagnostic says while smiling.

"It'd be right here, my lads." I see a scruffy old man in a grey pirate outfit with lots of grey hair walking towards me and Diagnostic with a smile.

"Gramps!" I exclaim.

"Captain!" Diagnostic says at the same time.

"At ease, lads." The captain says while he stands next to us looking into the storm at the CPU light dots in the distance. "Sons, do ya remember when I first took ya two in?"

"I-I could never forget it, gramps." I reply. "We were trying to escape the graveyard and we saw your ship landed." I explain.

Diagnostic continues. "We both tried sneaking on to your ship and we ultimately got caught by you. But you spared us and took us in."

"You let us become part of your family stealing things from the rich and doing jobs. To be honest, we've have had the most fun with you guys over the last 2 years." I finished.

"That's right lads. The only reason I didn't throw you scallywags off me ship is because…" The captain says as he turns towards us. "Is because I saw both the rage and desperation in yer eyes." He explains. "You hated the CPUs as much as we did and you guys were desperate looking for a family and home."

Me and Diagnostic just stare at him with wide eyes. He…. He really does care about us…

"Ya lads have been apart of our crew for the last 2 years, giving it everything ya little bodies got in the raids we would carry out. You stuck with us even when the goddesses, the lassies that were supposed to protect and care for us, turned a blind eye on us." Captain goes on. "I really appreciate the two of ya. I really mean that lads. And I will do anything to keep my crew together!" Captain yells.

Captain walks past us fast with emotion and screams at the approaching CPUs at the top of his lungs with tears in his eyes.

"YOU WON'T EVER SEPARATE ME CREW! NOT NOW! NOT EVER!" He screams while pointing at the glowing dots. "LAUNCH EVERYTHING! BEGIN LIGHTING ESCAPE!" He screams into the radio he has in his hands.

Suddenly, the anti-air guns, laser cannons, missile launchers, and barrier all roar to life as everything fired is flying towards the CPUs at incredible speed. Sky mechs (which look like Gundams and flying mechs) fly out of the carrier hatch on the side of the battleship as they all head for the CPUs.

The CPUs split up their formation and scatter, dodging all the fire coming from the battleship and engaging the sky mechs in the battleship's airspace. Explosions, glowing bullets, and lasers start to quickly fill the sky along with the lightning that was already happening with the thunderstorm.

Captain turns around to look at us emotional face and tears in his eyes. "Please come back alive, boys."

Damn. I will NOT let gramps down. Not after everything he just said to us. The determined look on Diagnostic's face said the exact same thing. Me and Diagnostic look at each other and we both nod.

We know what we have to do. Escape the CPUs or die fighting.

Diagnostic gets back in his mech suit while I start to run back towards the hatch to get in a sky mech.

As I'm running however, I hear an aerial screeching sound above me.

"What the crap?" I say as I look up above the ship. I am greeted with a horrifying site.

Purple Heart. It's lady Purple Heart speeding down from the above at high speeds. All the defense turrets are trying to hit her, but she's simply moving too fast. I stumble to the ground backwards in shock of what's happening.

Diagnostic see this as well and immediately looks toward me in his mech armor. He rushes towards me and tackles me off of the ship with incredible pressure. For a second, I am not able to breathe because if the sheer force.

"HOLY SHI-" Is all I am able to say before Purple Heart makes contact with the ship, literally slicing the whole damn thing in half.

"She….She struck the core….didn't she…" I say in shock while in Diagnostic's arms in midair.

Even if Diagnostic is wearing armor, I can still tell he was just as shocked as I was.

"We… we have to get out of here." Diagnostic says slowly, but he suddenly jerked as he realized something.

"THE CAPTAIN! WHERE-"

*BOOM*

I feel my heart sink.

Our home… Our home just literally blew up in a huge ball of flames and force.

And the crew left inside…. The captain… THE DAMN CAPTAIN!

"DAAAMNMNITT!" I scream at the top of my lungs, Diagnostic still holding me, floating in shock staring at the explosion.

"Those… those heartless…. OH!" Diagnostic yelled as he suddenly moves with me in his arms very fast. I hang on for dear life as we suddenly start dodging laser fire. Every time a laser flies by, I can feel the penetrating, powerful heat radiating from it.

I get a good look at who dares to shoot at us at a time like this. She had white curly hair, a black skin-tight suit, and a giant gun to go with it all.

….Black sister.

I take out my pistol and shoot everything in it at her as Diagnostic keeps dodging.

"You… You false goddesses!" I scream at her in pure rage. My hands shaking from the anger inside me now.

However, black sister almost gets the shot she's looking for. She damages one of Diagnostic's wings as he hangs on tight to me.

"Damn! We're going down, Ryzen!" He screams at me. We start twisting and falling down into the deep dark thunderclouds.

I look up and get a view of the remain sky mechs desperately either trying to engage or escape the CPUs, but hopelessly getting torn apart by the rest of the CPUs.

As I see this, I start to blackout from the G-force.

A/N: A intense first chapter, huh? Don't worry I have this all planned out on a storyboard. I've been planning this in advance for two weeks by not only writing the story but by being on the subreddit and reading both a lot of hyperdimension fanfiction and reviews to see what people want to see. This is the solution I've come up with, so I hope you guys enjoy! Please review and tell me how I'm doing!