I own nothing of Infinite Stratos or any other forms of media, except for this story idea
Tragedy, revenge, destruction, OC-Main Character, Altered existance
Betrayal, death, hatred, extinction, redemption, Loss, hope (HA!)
Sci-fi, alien weapons, ships
ARGENTO: The final breath
Prologue- Run
Run
Run, run little rodent
No matter where you run, where you hide …
… we will catch you …
… and then we will kill YOU!
That was my life, running, fleeing, hiding …
… nothing but terror, pain, and hardship.
That was what I suffered, what I had to run from as around me, my closest and dearest friends, all of them male …
… killed, burned, violated, enslaved, destroyed.
By them, by … women!
Women and their accursed and vile mechanized slaughtering super-weapon, the Infinite Stratos, originally made to be a mechanized power suit, one that had been made to go to space, to explore the cosmos and see the universe.
Now, it was a weapon of destruction and damnation, against us, the men.
All males are targeted, none are spared, either captured and enslaved, or killed and butchered.
I was part of the very last organization of men who sought freedom, even as our numbers were cut down, this group realized that in order to find hope, we needed to leave … EARTH!
No one raised a protest, the plan was decided.
It was one ship, only one ship, a small one, that had the key to run, the FTL drive, a real working Faster-than-light drive, the only one of its kind.
It was all ready, we were ready to leave on the ship, a ship that would carry the few 3,000 men to freedom …
… then the women attacked, and within our own ranks, traitors emerged, to sabotage everything, all of them having been broken and manipulated by the women.
Even my closest and dearest friend, the last real one I had, killed two of my friends, and almost killed me, if not for my last dying friend saving my life by ending his.
The scientist found me, and said he had moved the FTL to a smaller ship, and destroyed his plans, he said that I had to go and survive, and he guided me to the ship, and guarded me as I blasted off, the ships engines pushed the ship into the atmosphere in moments, though in a brief moment I saw the scientist use a heavy grenade to block the way.
Then I felt a coldness start to creep up on me as my adrenaline tapered off …
… I had been hit, the wound was mortal.
I felt the cold slowly creep as the ship entered the FTL stream, and in an instant I was gone …
… away from the hell for men that was Earth.
It was over, on Earth the women yelled in triumph as the very last of the men's resistance was flattened, destroyed and burned out.
The reason for their actions that they believed desired this, the men had spread a fatal pathogen, one that caused horrible and painful deaths to women, with one million women dying worldwide from the illness, and this, plus the new position of women due to the introduction of the all-powerful IS, had made this decision the most sound, and it was a practically unanimous agreement.
A cure had been found and now with the men taken care of and the rest thoroughly locked away and quarantined, everything was going to work out fine, with men locked away and women thoroughly in power everything was all right …
….
…
…
…right?
A small echo of a pulse …
… a soundless echo, in the depths of space.
A small object shot through space, entering the atmosphere of a large planet, the ship burning through the atmosphere, heading directly to a large structure, located on the planet.
It smashed into the very uppermost area of the structure, on to a pathway, the metal of the ship grinding along the floor until it stopped …
… just short of a massive door.
From the ship, an injured male crawled out, body bleeding profusely as he tried to ignore the horrible pain from a literal hole in his gut, and he struggled up as he looked around the alien ruins, and looked out to see the remains of what had once been a city, empty and silent as it was viewed from the faraway distance.
The young man soon collapsed forward, his form hitting the large door, his blood rubbing off on the doorway, and he just rested there, slowly feeling the cold as it came over him, slowly feeling himself slip away.
Then he forced himself awake as he refused to let himself die, and then the doorway lit up, light flowing from the center in a strange pattern that was something like tron-lines and some sort of magic-esque glyph, then the gate opened, and the light pattern started to flow down into the depths of the massive structure.
The young man followed close behind.
The young man walked slowly, his whole body going cold as he walked down the hall as more intricate light patterns filled the halls as the young man walked down the hall, following the light as it guided him down the single long hallway.
However, the pain of the man's injury slowed him, made him slow as he followed the light for what seemed like miles to his injured body but was likely only a few yards, but he still persevered, even as he walked down the hallway.
Then a massive shudder of pain shot through the man's body, and he soon fell on his knees, simply on his knees as he stared straight ahead, feeling as though everything was starting to fade away …
… just fade away.
"NOOO!"
The man screamed at the top of his lungs, forcing his body to work, making himself stand, clenching his eyes shut as he forced himself to concentrate on moving his legs, focus on making it to the very end of the hall, and with his will as his guide …
… he ran.
The man belted down the hall, not caring at all for the pain as it slowly took hold of his body, the cold sapping him of his waning strength, but her persevered, and continued down the hall, with all of his fading strength.
Then he finally came to a stop …
At the heart of a massive chamber, standing on a raised section of the floor, looking around, and finding nothing, nothing at all …
… just nothing.
BLRRRGHH
He vomited out a large amount of blood, the crimson liquid splashing onto the ground as it spilled out of his injured body, coming out in vast quantities, pooling on the floor.
The man stood for a brief moment, and then he fell over face first onto the floor, barely catching himself to stop himself from falling on his face, and then he simply looked up at the walls as his blood pooled out over the floor, and as he lay there, the boy though back.
"Is this it, is this how it is all going to end, dying in this dead ruin, forgotten, discarded, amounting to nothing, heh just like it was going to happen."
"I failed them all didn't I, I couldn't give them closure, I couldn't give them the closure they needed, what they deserved," the man felt as tears stained his eyes, mixed with his blood as it flowed from his eyes as well, creating bloody tear streaks as they rolled down his face.
"Ryuma-nii, Kyouma-nii, you were like the fathers I wish I could have had, Garrett-san you were the greatest leader of all, leading us out of all of those hells as we fought …
… how, how did they get to you Shin-nii, how did those monsters turn you, how did they get to you even when you believed so much in what we fought for, well I guess that it was all for nothing."
"I am going to die here, I will disappear and that will be the end of it, then the women, those monsters will win …
… those abominable monsters will have really just wiped us out, killed us all."
The boy flips on his back as he looks up at the ceiling, concealed by the darkness.
"I … I don't want that, please … please help, they have to be stopped, they have to be stopped, they have to be wiped out, or they could do it again, kill more, destroy more … I … I don't want that … please!"
"I want revenge, I … I want it more than anything, I want them to burn, disappear and die just like what they did to us … but I know … I know it will only make me feel better, just give me alone satisfaction for what they did …
… what I want, is for no one else to go through it ...
… to have your brothers taken from you and killed …
The images of his dead pseudo-fathers flashed through his mind, both dead on the floor, both dead.
… to see those who strive to protect us, cut down and destroyed when all the want is to protect those precious to them …
Garrett's body is covering the eviscerated body of what had been a young ten-year old boy, holding the now entirely unrecognizable remains of his 4 year old- little brother.
... or to have those we cared for, those we love … yes … I love him, I loved shin-nii more than a brother, far more than a brother, he was one of the few lights in my life and those monsters tore it away from me, twisted it, corrupted it, and made him try to kill me, if it wasn't for Ryuma …
The dead body of Shin, the boy whom Ichika had come to care for and love, lying in a pool of blood as he still held the gun that murdered Ryuma and Kyouma, and almost himself.
That can't happen, that should never happen, not to anyone, such an evil such destruction and hate, not like this, this just can't happen, not to anyone, it just can't.
Please …
… Help …
As the man's life fades, a light appears above him, believing it is the light to the afterlife, he reaches his hand up, hoping that whatever I was, it would be the sanctuary he hoped for, his hand fully extended as the light shined in his face, just as the last of his life faded and all went dark.
With a soft shudder, the life of Ichika Ichihara, formerly Ichika Orimura, a name he detests as it is the name of the women's 'great hero' and most destructive IS pilot, Chifuyu Orimura, his (even though he wishes they were unrelated completely and hopes she dies the most painful way imaginable) older sister, ends as he fades away, his hand falling back down on top of him.
…
… Or not
Coiled around Ichikas outstretched hand, a glowing tendril of what appeared to be organic metal, glowing the same white as the structure that hovered just above Ichika.
The structure, a diamond shaped structure with a ring floating around it, the ring itself made of an organic metal composition, though more intricate with block like patterns, and small intricate figures on its structure, the tendril of light coming from the ring.
More tendrils emerged from the ring, hundreds more as the glowing white diamond pulses, releasing soft glowing energy on to the body, energy that flows into Ichikas body, and the tendrils grab onto the limbs of the boy, the destroyed remains of a combat suit falling away from the bloody corpse, and the tendrils begin to coalesce, before finally forming a sphere, a sphere with small jutting structures that pulse with a powerful energy from the sphere.
Then a small beam came from the diamond and enters the ring, and in the ring forms a cell, a single cell which is something beyond any comprehension.
The cell flows down the tendril and into the sphere, the body itself floating until the cell itself enters the injury …
… then the body starts to coalesce in on itself, becoming some form of biological fluid, and from its point, the cell began to integrate itself, becoming one with the coalesced matter, expanding into it …
... altering the matter, changing it into itself, except made to be close to its origin, in a way.
The life of Ichika Orimura had ended …
… and a new life, would soon begin.
The diamond structure softly pulsed, the light becoming beams as the shot to points on the wall, and then masses of advanced holograms came to life, the technology of the planet awakening to the diamond structure.
The diamond felt the being, the boys, thoughts, flaring at the horrors these beings known as women wrought, and glowing brightly at the boys desire to not let others suffer such horror, and it grew slightly dark but still glowed with energy as it sensed what the boy would have to do, would end up becoming to make sure this nightmare would not spread elsewhere.
It felt the boy, at least his soul, accept his fate, and it thus chose to support the boy, and more …
Outside the temple, within massive chambers underground. Mechanized units began the process of construction, within massive pits, the basic outline of what could only be massive starships began to slowly come together.
Within large refineries, the parts, pieces and power sources for what would essentially be, weaponry, came together.
In space, a massive facility came to life, orienting its structure in order to build what was essentially a star ship that dwarfed the ones built on the planet in size, strength and power, as well as other smaller ships of a capital class nature.
All of this came together as the construction went on, the buildings blocks for a massive war fleet came together.
On Earth …
The women were now drunk on their power, they now saw themselves as completely at the top of the food chain, with all males now squarely beneath them, living now as basically slaves, being forced to become prostitutes, being forced into arduous labor in which many were expected to die.
The women hardly cared for the plight of the men, seeing that they now ruled over their lives and believed full well that man was in its proper place, under the foot of women, for that is what they were and their punishment for being the cause of the virus that ravaged woman kind.
They continued their cruel and inhuman treatment, believing that it was their right and that everything was now squarely on their side, with nothing possible going wrong.
They sat on their thrones of sin and depravity as they watched as the males toiled away, being broken beneath, the threat of terrible retaliation by the murderous Infinite Stratos units kept the men in line and under constant fear.
All the while, the were unknowing of the overwhelming, apocalyptic retribution that was slowly coming to fruition on a distant world, one that promised the women only one thing …
… DEATH
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