Private Prague, U.N.P.K
Chapter 2
Faction Distraction
"I'm so glad we stopped him." Gwin wiped the sweat off his brow as he looked at Private Prague sitting on a desk, "God knows what would have happened if we let him reach BLADE Tower..."
"I could picture it..." Doug grimaced as thoughts of an exploding NLA appeared in his mind.
"So he's going to help the government by being a... Mediator?" Lin asked as Elma stepped out of the small office.
"Well, that's that." Elma dusted off her hands, "I guess our little friend is solving people's problems." she sighed, "I have to admit- I kind of wanted him to be with the Interceptors. I got the report of how easy he defeated some Suids with just some grenades and that antiquated assault rifle of his."
"That thing is archaic." Lin commented, "But apparently their incredibly adaptable to any environment... I guess that's what you want when you send a bunch of troops to a foreign world with strange ecosystems."
"I guess..." Doug rubbed the back of his head, "Hey, if he's that good at fightin', why not let him try his hand with the Harriers instead of the little pansies holed up in here?"
"Doug... You shouldn't speak of the Mediators like that." Elma grumbled, "But if you really want to try his hand, go ahead, I haven't finalized it with Nagi or the Mediator General." she told him.
"Alright!" Doug gave a thumbs up, "I'll see what that guy's made of!" he walked into the office.
"If Doug can try him out for the Harriers, can we Interceptors try him out?" Gwin asked, "We kinda need some new guys after losing some to a Tyrant." he chuckled weakly.
"Very well... just don't rip him apart." Elma joked, "Now I have some important matters to attend." she said and walked off, fixing her hair along the way.
"I have to go too..." Lin groaned, "For some reason I have to tag along whenever he's doing her affinity mission..." she crossed her arms, "Like, what's it got to do with me? Let them make out or whatever I hate it whe..." her grumbles were silenced by the separating distance and eventually cut by the door closing.
"Trust me, you'll make an excellent Harrier." Doug chuckled as he had his arm over Prague's shoulders, "And that's coming from the Harrier General himself!" he said pridefully.
"Well, whatever you want." Private Prague shrugged his shoulders, "I'm here to help this society in any way I can... But why didn't you let me see the Director Ge-"
"Quiet now... Harriers don't talk." Doug covered his mouth, "They only DESTROY!" he clenched his fist violently and led his victim out of the room.
"I'll tell Irina I'm making an appointment with him." Gwin sighed and typed into his holographic communicator, "That's if she wants him." he closed the door behind him.
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"So, what do I do?" Private Prague asked as he looked around, only to see four guns on the ground, each with their respective magazines laying next to them.
"To be a Harrier, you have to be fast!" Doug told him, "Be fast at Attacking! Be Fast in Killing! Be Fast in Regrouping! Be Fast in Reloading! Be Fast in Running Aw-" he stopped, "Just reload these four rifles as fast as you can." he pulled out his device.
"Alright." Prague muttered, "When do I start?" he asked.
"Now." Doug responded, and the soldier was off, reloading the four rifles quickly, "23 seconds." he nodded.
"Thank you!" Prague saluted, only to drop the last rifle, causing it to fire, "GAH!" he yelped when the bullets fired.
"AH!" Doug flinched when a bullet screamed near him, causing a gash in his left cheek, "You idiot!" he yelled in rage, "You almost killed me!" he looked at the Private retrieve the weapon.
"It was an accident!" Prague responded, "How was I supposed to know these rifles acted this way? Come on!" he growled, "You know what? I quit!" he once again threw down the rifle, "GAH!" he yelled and avoided another barrage.
"GET OUT OF MY FACE!" Doug yelled and kicked him, "You'll get us all killed!" he clenched his fist.
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"I'm so glad you decided to see us." Gwin told Private Prague as the two walked through the Armory Alley, "Really, after hearing your feats, there's no way I could pass you over!" he smiled.
"Am I going to have to reload rifles again?" Prague groaned, "I did that... apparently wrong..." he grumbled.
"Nah, we're going to take you to our HQ." Gwin informed, "Hopefully the Interceptor General, Irina, will accept you. She's a tough one but you can get to her with amazing performance." they turned left and headed towards the Interceptors HQ.
"Hmm..." Private Prague muttered as he saw a Skell stomped by, "Did the Mobile Suits actually get commissioned?"
"Mobile Suits is such an old term." Gwin chuckled, "They're called Skells, and yes, we use them quite a lot- But you need a license to use one." he informed, "A new person like you- The one Elma hangs around a lot- has a really cool one. You should see it leave in the morning."
"I should get a Skell.." Private Prague muttered as he aimlessly walked forward, too into his thoughts, "Perhaps then they will follow SWORD's plan and let me rule this little colony." he thought, "Perhaps they will place my in top command of the army... Yeah... that's some-"
"WATCH OUT!" a voice yelled.
"Huh- WAH!" Prague gasped when a huge Skell foot hovered over him, he grabbed his rifle and started shooting it.
"Huh?" the Skell pilot mumbled as he read that his foot took damage, "What in th- DWAH!" an explosion shook his robot.
"Prague!" Gwin yelled when the Private threw another grenade at the Skell, which exploded and further toppled the machine.
"TIMBER!" a BLADE Soldier yelled when the machine leaned back to an inescapable fall and crashed.
"Watch where you're going!" Private Prague yelled and pulled out another grenade, "You imbecile, you almos- WAH!" he yelled when he noticed he had unpinned the bomb, "WOAH!" he threw it into the air, where it exploded and detached a wire, causing a metal light pole to fall right on the Skell's groin area, which in turn made the pilot eject and hit a metal roof.
The body of the pilot thudded and landed right in front of Irina, who looked at Private Prague, and then Gwin.
"Irina, hold up-"
"Don't know, Don't care." Irina coldly ignored him and continued walking off.
"Huh..." Gwin sighed, then caught sight of a man, "Hey, Lao!" he yelled at the man with long black hair, "Hey!"
"Oh... Gwin." Lao muttered as he jumped over the fallen Skell and walked over to him, "What is it you need?"
"That guy." Gwin pointed to Prague, who was trying to help the Skell pilot up, "He has lots of potential! Can you train him with the Pathfinders?" he asked, "Come on, you're the Pathfinder General!"
"Eh... I would like to." Lao sighed, "But BLADE dissent for this particular candidate has risen." he pulled out his holodev, "This and the message Doug sent us... We Faction Generals don't want to have any risks..."
"Wha?" Gwin muttered and read the message, which read:
ALERT- DO NOT TRUST THE U.N GUY- UPMOST RISK FOR YOUR FACTION
"It seems the Prospector General, Curator General, and the Outfitter General are against him." Lao informed as he read more messages, "The only one who's giving him a chance is the Mediator General." he informed.
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"Oh hello!" a blond woman said and clapped her hands as she saw the U.N Soldier sit in front of her desk, "I see you're the new soldier that came to BLADE! Oh, I wish I had flesh and blood like you!" she smiled.
"Huh?" Private Prague asked, "What do you-"
"Oh silly me!" the woman said, "Anywho... I'm so glad you're applying for the Mediators!" she clapped her hands again, "As Mediator General I completely ignored the warning of the Harrier General as mean and insensitive, I want to give you a chance to work for BLADE!"
"Thank you." Private Prague nodded, "I'm glad I could work for BLADE, though I do have duties with SWORD-"
"Time to get to your test!" the Mediator General interrupted him kindly, "Come in!" she called out, and Elma walked in.
"Elma?" Private Prague said in surprise, "What are you doing he-"
"Your first test is to counsel this poor woman." the Mediator General smiled, "As you can see this is Colonel Elma, or the Reclaimer General." she said, "Please sit down."
"I never thought you'd end up back where I put you." Elma told him as she sat down, "But after seeing that message from Doug, sorry to hear." she said, "I guess we're both having bad days." she sighed.
"Oh, really?" Private Prague asked, "I kinda toppled a Mobile Suit, failed my SWORD Mission, and almost killed Doug, but tell me how yours even compares to mine."
"You shouldn't compare your problems to the client's." the Mediator General interrupted, "Continue." she sat back.
"Well..." Elma teared up, "My ally... he... HE DIDN'T WANT TO FINISH MY AFFINITY MISSION!" she cried, "HE CANCELED IT!"
"Oh... what's so bad about that?" Private Prague asked, "I don't see-"
"You can't cancel affinity missions..." Elma muttered, "At least... not... professionally!" she wept.
"Oooh..." Prague winced, "Well... I'm sorry..." he shrugged, "I guess that means he... doesn't like you?"
"Huh?" Elma looked up at him, "HE DOESN'T LIKE ME!?" more tears came out of her face.
"You shouldn't say that to her!" the Mediator General scolded Private Prague, "Counsel her, make her feel better!" she urged.
"Even after having five heart affinity- he doesn't like me!" Elma bawled her eyes out, "Why!?"
"He maybe wants... Someone else?" Prague unsurely said, "I mean- Spend time away from you a b- I mean.. Uh... He may want... to... a... I got nothing." he turned to the Mediator General, who turned red in anger.
"You're supposed to tell her it's going to be ok!?" the Mediator General exploded, "You're supposed to tell her that she's the Colonel and a relationship isn't important at this time, she's supposed to have her head in finding the Lifehold! Why do you have to be so dense!? Get out of here!" she yelled at him then turned to Elma, "Don't worry, you'll be ok..." she sighed and patted her shoulder.
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"Well, you got nothing, huh?" Lin asked as Prague sat in the Barracks, "Sorry to hear... Hey, if I was Outfitter General I would have hired you." she informed.
"I wanted to try you out, but my team would have nailed me to the wall with some probes." Lao joked, "Sorry... I saw a lot of potential in you." he nodded.
"If you hadn't tried to kill me- maybe I would have let you in." Doug crossed his arms, "What were you thinking, man?"
"I believed in you, even if Irina didn't!" Gwin spoke, "I tell you, she's a tough nut to crack- Wah!" he was smacked in the back of the head by the woman in question.
"Well... you didn't better my situation." Elma sighed, "But I'm going to pay evil with good." she handed him a small badge, "Since you did not get accepted by ANY Faction, like I don't even know how that happens, we decided to make your own, seeing that you were in a Program supposedly above BLADE." she informed.
"Is this?" Prague looked at the badge, which was a sword and shield with the UN Logo on it, "What is this?"
"Your Faction is the UN Expeditionary Faction." Elma responded, "You are your own faction and only report to Vandham or Nagi- Basically you can work outside of NLA, possibly helping other factions out."
"This is great." Prague put on his badge, "Private Prague of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force!" he saluted.
"So this is a badge commemorating how bad he was to other Factions?" Irina mumbled, "Seems quite fitting."
"Your face seems quite fitting, for your attitude." Private Prague growled.
"Why you-"
"IRINA!" the others tried to stop her from pouncing on the man...
SM'S TIME:
Important Note, I will try to censor as many spoilers as I can, that's why I only used the starting teammates- Elma, Lin (Lyn in the German Dub), Doug (Drago in the Russian Dub), Tatsu (Tatso in the Chinese Dub), Lao (Leroik in the Polish Dub), Irina (Ivanna in the Spanish Dub), and Gwin (Gerald in the French Dub).
For the sake of not spoiling anything, there will be no Xenos (intelligent aliens) mentioned, but Indigens are here- However, any Tyrants that appear in this story will be made up... All of this will continue until a reasonable time for a spoils system to be over.
For the Sake of my readers, the Xenoblade X Protagonist/OC will not appear due to my respect for all of yours OCs. He will only be mentioned and will not appear physically, I do not want to rub my OC in y'alls faces.
Well, I think that's about everything I have to say... I hope you enjoy this new series I put out here! Please Review!
I do not own Xenoblade X, Nintendoes!
