This is kirisakieins. I have started my first fic, and it is based off of Exo-Force. I'm adding my own character (of course ), made it so that it isn't so simple and kiddish, and designed my own Battle Machine, too.
Plus, I'm changing some facts so that they sound "right."
Enjoy!
Sentai Mountain. A pleasant peak where humans and robots worked together, in harmony, and where wars between the two races never sparked. It was the perfect example and utopia of coexistence.
But of course, all good things must come to an end.
They rebelled under the lead of Meca One, the first robot with a super-artificial intelligence installed, and the first without the circuitry to obey human orders. He attacked the humans with a rebellion of robots that he had reprogrammed, placing them in battle machines with deadly weapons.
Many human casualties were seen, and even more blood was spilled.
The humans counterattacked, and utilized a rockslide, driving the robots to and off of a cliff, while deactivating the others who used to be their comrades.
Yet they rebuilt themselves at the base of the mountain, and attacked again.
But one man saved the humans.
Sensei Keikan, a man nearing his older years, retaliated against Meca One with battle machines, capable of performing on-par with the robot's. The next few weeks saw the largest battle ever – thirty battle machines on each side fired endlessly, causing massive explosions so powerful, that they eventually split the mountain in two.
Sentain Mountain was now evidence of mankind's new threat: robots. Bridges were eventually built to connect the two sides, the most notable being Tenchi Bridge, where the Sentai Fortress, built to protect the villages behind it, was constructed. But the robots took advantage of the low level of defense on the southern side, and took over. Within a few months, they had turned the once green and cheery side into a dark and dreary robot HQ…taking any humans still residing hostage.
And this leaves us here today…
Sentai Fortress, 12:00 P.M.
"Matthew Li, reporting for duty, sir!" I said, straightening my back and saluting Senei Keikan.
"Good," he said in a voice clear and strong. "Today is your first day in the Exo-Force, Matthew. Now, the Exo-Force was formed for volunteer pilots who wanted to protect the civilians from the robots. As you know, we combat them using battle machines, produced by ourselves, while the robots have their own,"
I nodded, knowing all of this already, but politely listened.
"We have taken a look at the design and specs you sent for a requested battle machine. I think that we will benefit from this kind of unit on the field. I personally think that it was a good idea to take design features from the Gate Defender, along with that system of yours," he ended with an approving smile. "We've built it."
My heart leaped. Yes!
"However," my heart fell.
"You will be working alongside the other elite pilots,"
My heart fluttered a bit. At least I would have support.
"Now, let's go meet them," he said, proceeding to walk out of his office.
I followed him through the halls, our footsteps echoing off of the steel floors and walls, as we passed some hatch-doors with orange frames.
We finally reached the end of the corridor and emerged into the battle machine hangar. I could see silver steel walls, and an open roof to the sky.
We were greeted by a wrench barely missing our foreheads and clanging off of the wall.
"You stupid idiots!" I heard someone scream.
"You guys always have to go out and get your battle machines wrecked! The Grand Titan's armor has almost been completely stripped off, the Stealth Hunter's maneuvering jets have been pushed to the limit, and the Gate Defender's Mass Driver Cannon has been overheated!"
I recovered from my near-wrench-impact shock and looked at the source.
A young boy – not much older than me, probably – with purple hair, a red headband, and an orange techie suit was giving his three teammates an earful. The others stared at the floor, trying to avoid the techie's gaze.
One of the guys had smooth, light blue hair, and was in a white pilot suit, complete with sky-blue markings. His face looked pretty calm. The one next to him had wild green hair, which was all over the place. His pilot suit was red, and had a gray G-Force resistor on his chest. He looked pretty pissed, and was about to blow his top. The final pilot was a bit shorter than the others, with bright red hair, and was repeatedly shuffling his feet and staring at the sky. Pretty carefree was my analysis.
The techie paused from his relentless shouting and looked over at the Sensei, who was glaring back. "Oh…um, hi, Sensei," he said feebly.
"Hikaru, Takeshi, and Ha-Ya-To!" he shouted fiercely. The three pilots immediately got on the floor and bowed down to him frantically. "We're sorry, Sensei, we're sorry!" they all apologized simultaneously.
Behind the techie lay three smoldering battle machines, held up by the orange maintenance decks.
One was red, and rather wide. Its armor looked pretty thick. Mounted on the right arm was a double-bladed pincer sword, and on its left was a seven-barrel gatling cannon. Its power cable ran up from its back into the gatling. The armor was pretty scorched up, and some places were so bad that you could see the inner plating.
The one to its right was white. It was slimmer than the red one, and had wings on its legs and over its shoulders. An aerial unit, no doubt. In its right arm, it held a sword with two blades, and its left carried a mounted particle rifle. A small radar was mounted over its right shoulder – probably a radar-cloaking device. Its feet were releasing heavy amounts of smoke, which rose up into the clear sky, tainting it black.
The final battle machine was also white, and smaller than the others. Its arms were rather short and stubby, and two wings sprouted vertically from its back. An antennae peeped out above the cockpit. Its right arm had a free hand, and its left a multi-barreled particle cannon. This one had burn marks all over it, and its antennae had been hit…and fried.
I blinked and stared at how much they had been trashed.
"Do you three know how much damage you have caused to your machines?" Sensei said, walking to the three of them on the floor.
"We know, Sensei! We are ashamed of our failure!" they said in unison again.
"Do you know what this means?" Sensei said, in a softer tone.
The three pilots raised their heads a bit respectfully.
"More training!" Sensei roared. They lowered their heads again, crushed.
"Now, I would like to introduce our newest member, Matthew Li," he said, gesturing to me.
The pilots all scrambled and stood in a line beside the Sensei.
"He is getting his own personalized battle machine, the new model, and will begin duty today," Sensei said.
"Aw, why can't I have a personal battle machine, Sensei?" the red-head whined.
"Because you'll end up wrecking it!" Sensei answered sternly.
"And who says this guy won't?" I heard the techie mutter.
"I'm Hikaru," the blue-haired pilot introduced himself. "Pilot of the EXO-SH Stealth Hunter."
"Takeshi, the brute!" proudly announced the green-haired pilot. "I pilot the EXO-GT Grand Titan, and live for smashing robots!"
"My name's Ryo," said the techie. "My battle machine's a custom EXO-M Uplink, and I'm the techie of the team."
"Ha-Ya-To, the guy who loves the sky! Pilot of the EXO-GD Gate Defender," said the red-head.
I saluted them all and said, "Matthew Li, designated pilot for the EXO-KI Kirisaki,"
"Good, now boys," Sensei said, "Off to training!" he pointed to the five simulation pods at the end of the hangar.
We all marched over and strapped ourselves into the blue, egg-shaped pods. As I activated the simulator, I called to the Sensei, "Which machine shall I use, Sensei?"
"Use the Gate Defender for now," he answered.
"Roger,"
I tapped the Gate Defender icon, and the screen went black. As I leaned back, I looked at my reflection: tan-ish skin, red eyes, black hair, and a bored face.
The pod's round screen flashed and showed the entrance of the fortress. I glanced to my sides and saw the red Grand Titan to my left, while Ha-Ya-To's Gate defender and the Stealth Hunter were at my right.
I opened up the weapons settings of the machine, and quickly began to make some last-minute readjustments.
The huge, steel, hexagonal gate began to split in half and quickly slide into the walls of the fortress.
"Begin!" Sensei said over the COM.
I dashed out of the fortress and hovered over the bridge, scanning the bridge and air space. Takeshi stood behind and to my left, gatling cannon raised, while Ha-Ya-To hovered to my right, and Hikaru was already in the sky.
Two Fire Vultures were flying towards us, flamethrowers bristling, while on the bridge a Thunder Fury thundered (A/N unintended pun) forwards, wielding its multi-laser rifle and titanium power saw, its energy core glowing fiercely with energy. Two Sentries stampeded along with it.
I began giving orders
"Hikaru, take the Fire Vultures. Takeshi, lay suppressing fire on the Thunder Fury to keep it back. Ha-Ya-To and I will take care of the Sentries,"
"Hey, when were you our superior?" Takeshi retorted.
"The sooner this is over, the better, " I said back.
"Guys, I'll be supporting you with the fortress' laser turrets," Ryo called.
"Good. Try and hit the Thunder Fury's power cable,"
"Roger,"
"Hey, who - "
Takeshi was cut off as Hikaru began firing his rifle at the Fire Vultures. "Do what the man says!" he said.
Ha-Ya-To and I dashed forwards at the Sentries, the Thunder Fury far behind them thanks to its immense weight.
"Surprise, robots," I smiled.
I pulled the trigger of the controls.
My Mass Driver Cannon began to rapidly fire all of its cannons at once, and the beams all scattered, too, striking multiple places of the Sentry's armor and damaging it.
"Whoa! How does it fire so fast?" Ha-Ya-To shouted, firing each of his little cannons at a time.
"I lowered the power output," I simply replied.
Cwang, cwang, cwang, cwang. I continued to barrage the Sentry until I rose high into the air, charged my cannon, and let loose five deadly bolts of energy upon the unfortunate virtual enemy.
Boom. The battle machine exploded, leaving a fiery ball and scorched debris in its place.
Boom. The other Sentry exploded, too. Ha-Ya-To was done.
"Hikaru, update!" I shouted.
"Just got the first, the other's in my sights - " Cwang. Boom. I watched as his rifle spat out a bolt of energy, puncturing the Fire Vulture.
"And eliminated," he finished.
"Right, Takeshi, suppressing fire!" I shouted.
"Oh, alright," he grumbled. His gatling began to spit out bolts of energy which impacted on the Thunder Fury, explosions running up and down its armor.
"It's not doing anything, genius!" Takeshi shouted at me.
"Ryo, shoot the bridge beneath its feet!"
F-toom. A powerful and concentrated beam cut in between all of us and struck the section of bridge.
Crack.
The Thunder Fury's legs fell through, stopping the machine at its torso. It was stuck.
"Takeshi, give it hell!" I shouted.
The Grand Titan charged forwards, firing its cannons as Takeshi let out a battle cry, "Raaaagh!"
The impacts on the armor pushed the machine onto its back. Now it was pretty much immobile.
"Ha-Ya-To, Hikaru, cover me and shoot the guns!" I dashed forwards as my teammates shot the enemy's guns away from targeting me.
"Haaaaaah!" I shouted, charging the gun and flipping over the cockpit.
The next few seconds were recorded by Sensei.
I let loose the five bolts of energy, which ripped into the cockpit and the Devastator pilot, tearing apart the circuitry and armor, and finishing the simulation.
Two words appeared on my screen: Simulation Passed.
Real World
"Bravo, Matthew, bravo!" Sensei congratulated me on my first training.
"You're an ace of a pilot, and you just proved it!" He said, clapping my back.
"Yeah, well, it was only because of the others that we won," I said humbly.
"Yes, yes, you four did well, too!" he said, turning to the four other pilots.
"Now, go take a break. Ryo, the other techs will be repairing the machines. And Matthew, I have to talk to you,"
I gave my comrades a quick two-finger wave, and walked along with Sensei Keikan.
"I have read up on your file…particularly your family…" he said slowly.
I immediately stiffened.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" He turned to me.
"Yes," I said honestly.
Sensei closed his eyes and nodded. "I understand. The Kirisaki is almost finished. I like this idea of yours very much,"
I bowed slightly to him. "Thank you, sir."
I turned and walked away.
That's the first chapter! Hope you like it. I'll be adding a few more OC's, and battle machines, too, along with a new system for the battle machines.
See ya!
-kirisakieins