Heya, JaphetSkie here! This is my second Fic, a Crossover between Armored Core and Muv-Luv Alternative. I hope you'll like this. Enjoy!

Speech – "Normal Text with Quotes"

Computer Text/Voice – [Bold and Bracketed]

Log Entry – Italicized, with [Recording Log…] and [Log Recorded.] at the start and end, respectively


Prologue: Close to Victory

[Entry Hatch opened. Powering up…]

[System Initiating…]

[Voice Recognition required. Please enter codeword to proceed.]

"Ouroboros."

[Voice Pattern and codeword recognized. Security Protocols on standby.]

[Operating System: Online. Welcome Back, LYNX "Strayed".]

"Activate NEXT."

[Activating NEXT "Black Scourge"…]

[Integrated Regulation System: Online]

[Kojima Particle Generator: Online]

[Genesis Particle Generator: Online]

[Particle Rectifiers: Online]

[Actuator Complexity System: Online]

[Weapon Systems: Online]

[Fire Control System: Online]

[Radar System: Online]

[Boosters: Online]

[Ascension System: Online]

[Communication Systems: Online]

[Initiating System Scans…]

[KP-GP Output Ratio: Normal]

[KP Leak: None]

[System Errors: None]

[AS Compatibility: 97.23%]

[NEXT at 100% functionality.]

[System: Normal Mode]

"Okay, all systems are good. Proceeding for deployment procedures."

[Vanguard Overed Boost attached.]

[Transferring NEXT to Orbital Insertion Pod…]

[Transfer successful. Deploying in T-minus 5 seconds...]

[4 seconds…]

[3 seconds…]

[2 seconds…]

[1 second…]

[Deploying Orbital Insertion Pod.]

[ETA to Deployment Altitude: 5 Minutes]

"Record new log entry."

[Recording Log…]

Loop 2, Log #17. September 17, 2074.

11 months has passed since my arrival to this timeline, and it's been a year and 8 months since the Harvester War started.

The final stage of Operation Seventh Trumpet has begun. The Mission Objective is to capture the two Type-MIND Harvesters of the Phase 6 Hives at Sadogashima and Ulan Bator. At least one of them must remain alive upon capture at minimum. Both of 'em dead? Well, tactically a fail. But strategically speaking, we already won this war.

Participating LYNXes like me will be inserted at Low Earth Orbit from Amaterasu Space Station. We'll be dropped on Orbital Insertion Pods and we'll deploy our VOBs at 150 Km above ground, since those goddamned Type-CYCLOPS and Type-DREADNOUGHTs can actually snipe us from orbit with their shitty laser beams.

Me and my fellow LYNXes will assault Sadogashima, while forces from BFF and GA will assault Ulan Bator. We're reinforced with military forces from Rayleonard and Omer, along with a shit-ton of EX-DAGON suicide drones. About 50,000 drones, to be exact. There's even the Black Dragon satellite cannons for orbital strikes too. Kinda overkill, but considering there's about 10 million Harvesters in the island, it's quite understandable.

Heh, to think that I'll be working with Omer of all things. But they're not the same company of snakes that I destroyed along with the League and ORCA, and the entire world. This is a different timeline.

In my timeline, even in this one mind you, I'm the only Class-5 Psychic in existence. And I'm the only living PLUS too, since the Human-PLUS Project was rejected by the League in this timeline.

How did I become this powerful? Not even I know about it. My psychic abilities never appeared until I was 13, when I got kidnapped by someone. I can't remember who did it, or what they did to me, but I'm pretty sure as hell whatever happened gave me this much power that kept growing as years passed. And I used it to kill so many people. Quite stupid, right?

I've seen and went through enough shit at my original timeline, but this?

Aliens that came from a portal that appeared at Japan just a year ago? The same aliens that killed off half a billion humans in a year? Quite shocking, but…Psh, how pathetic.

I killed 2 and a half billion people ALONE within mere DAYS. These fuckers? They're nothing compared to the things I did back at my world.

I have no excuse for committing mass genocide. My world became Hell realized anyway, and mankind deserved it for making the world become like that. They needed a grim reminder not to repeat history. I admit what I did was wrong, but these little shits…

They killed and attacked humans for little to no good reason at all. Worse, they don't even consider us alive. Not at all.

They're much worse than Mikael. He came up with the idea of bringing down the Cradles because he had good intentions, despite being a crazy guy. No matter how vile his plan was, I still went along because even though I'm not insane as he is, he's actually right. We need to be taught a lesson the hard way.

I know he can't do it alone, so I helped out as any good friend would. Yeah, I'm his friend. So what if he's crazy, then? He's the reason why I survived on the streets when I was a kid.

These…Things, however…they had no sense of morality or empathy in them, just cold logic pre-programmed to them as they were created by whatever the fuck did.

They would do nothing but kill anything in their way, strip the land bare of resources, then expand if there's nothing left. Hence, what mankind called them, the Harvesters.

But we pushed them back. Ever since Genesis Particles were discovered by Interior Union and TORUS, Kojima Technology were used extensively because Gen-Particles nullify their negative effects. Good for us, since Kojima Tech were strictly limited at the first half of the war.

At the first half of the war, NEXTs and Kojima weapons were used only if the situation goes FUBAR. Now we can deploy them like any conventional forces, which helped reduce casualties thanks to our NEXTs' overwhelming firepower.

Before I arrived, they had at least 14 Hives, but now? One by one, they dropped like flies until there's only two Hives left. All thanks to the intel I gave to the League.

And now, those last two Hives will be taken, and the Anomaly where they came from is next on our list. At least, if this mission succeeds. Never been through the other side, though.

I gotta win this war, no matter what. Even though I can restart every time I die, I ain't taking my chances in this one. I've already went this far compared to my previous loop.

Seems the Drop Pod's near Deployment Altitude. Finally, the mission's about to start.

My name is Leopold Hector Burzleich, and the world belongs to mankind, and not to these monsters. Their reckoning begins now.

End Log.

[Log Recorded.]

[Deployment Altitude Reached. Releasing NEXT from Orbital Insertion Pod…]

[Vanguard Overed Boost deployed.]

"Aaannd…Cue the Lasers."

[Warning! Laser Lock-On detected! Evasive maneuvers required!]

"It's show time…"

[System: Combat Mode]


DONE WITH 1038 WORDS! I know that's short, but it's a prologue. The action goes in Chapter 1. I'll try to make sure this Fic, along with Blue Lightning, gets updated every week or two. Oh, and I might put a separate fic for information, lore and terminologies. Or maybe I'll just put the infos here in this fic after every chapter or two. That's all! JaphetSkie, signing out.

UPDATE: Terminology translations

Harvesters: what they call the BETA in this world. I know that's a bit unoriginal.

Type-MIND: Basically a BETA Superior. Don't ask why there's two of them.

Type-CYCLOPS: Heavy-Laser Class BETA, 'cause one eye, obviously.

Type-DREADNOUGHT: Laser Fort. Yeah, there's a whole lot of them.

Black Dragon Satellite Cannons: Ehrenberg Cannons, but in space.