Deck 2: Crash and Burnt
The base in question was in fact in the backyard of a merely average home, as the two men walked past the old lady with rather hapless look, both of them checked around and waited for something to happen…within a few moments they soon were teleported down a huge laboratory where a young girl sits on a gelatinous throne. Both of them kneeled before her as if she has an indomitable authority despite being so well armed to annihilate her in an instant...
"Madam Kira, why have you requested us over? What have we done to aggravate you?" Viper acted slightly panicky, it was his second day at work and the first days are usually the worst for him... The young girl in her bathing suit then growls and the throne flung a fist at him and yelled at him: "SILENCE! You buffoons are useless god darn it! I expected two professional hunters to lure out my target and instead you taken out an UCN authority, you know how much trouble it is?"
Shaman then pulled out a revolver machine gun and aims at his employer and smirks "I understand, but wouldn't it be wiser if you just remained calm? That was Angelus Aeneid, some random UCN dog working with the latest representative of his group. Take a look..." He then scrolls down to a certain troublemaker: "Sparda Paradiso. That bastard you should have a death warrant for since from his reputation, he is what you will call a sexual predator. Bastard managed to infiltrate over 300 girls only private institutes in order to peddle porn, men and he over a course of 3 years and use the money to set up a variety of fronts. In my opinion the bastard needs an ass kicking..." As he said that he gets out a cigarette and a giant metal figure walks out…his body was that of a slim yet muscular build, adorned in metal armour and a stash of hidden weapons behind his back. He then approached Shaman and activates a flamer unit.
"Do you request a light your cigarette?" The unit then lights the cigarette as Shaman smoked and blew out the smoke.
"Meet Chen Long, this unit is a reliable Knight Unit, consisting of the same Arcana emulation technology as a maiden, he is capable of various Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do and Street Brawling skills, he is also adept in firearms training and has various tactical protocols installed to him to use on less practical occasions. With our organization's weapons and your genius, the world will soon learn of the secret society that rules them all." He then gives a pat to his giant robot and laughs.
"Master, may I go engage a target with Mei-Fang? A cooperative effort will be needed in order to get the edge on Sparda." The unit then glowed as he pulls out a pair of tonfars which he twirled to get ready. "Permission granted, don't worry master Kira, Sparda will not know of this secret war we are waging when we are through disposing of him."
Kira gives the signal to Mei-Fang who then leaves with Chen as they both leave…"As for the both of you..."
Sparda was sitting on a park bench as Nagisa grabs a drink in reality; he was just hanging out with Nagisa that day just to get his mind off the video game. Sure it was nice to think of being the affirmative action man who tries to fill in the male niche in order to reduce the amount of yuri fluff as well faceless men molesting the girls in doujins but on the other hand he understands the counterproductive sides of the issue which was….durrrr…
"Sparda, what are you doing?" Nagisa then wave her hands as he spaced out with obvious wonder to why he would do that, it took a smack to the head to snap Sparda out of it. "Oh Nagisa, I didn't notice that you were there..." Sparda then leaned back as Nagisa took out a book out of nowhere... On the introduction of the book it read the following:
The Knights of the Round Table's Oath of Chivalry
To never do outrage nor murder
Always to flee treason
To by no means be cruel but to give mercy unto him who asks for mercy
To always do ladies, gentlewomen and widows succor
To never force ladies, gentlewomen or widows
Not to take up battles in wrongful quarrels for love or worldly goods
Sparda looks at it with indifference and then turned to Nagisa with a nod on his face as he grows bored…"So is this for school?" Nagisa shakes her head: "Nope, just found this at the UCN archives, it seems to be the featured book today…although there is a question? Do you believe in knights in shining armour?" Sparda started at himself, he has not been a very good knight, to be stripped of his knighthood and returned to a simple life as a thug with weapons of awe...he wonders if there was ever a place for him in the world of knighthood...There had to be a way to redeem himself, to present himself as a worthy candidate to being the beacon amongst his kin.
The quiet musings never last long...
Within moments of brooding on the bench, screams of pedestrians ran loud as he heard a man laugh as he smashed several random objects with his feet as he punts a garbage can...the can was sent flying in the air and towards Nagisa who stood frozen from the carnage…
PLUNK!
"That was rude of you..." Sparda holding the garbage can and tossing it back at the man whom kicks it away and turned to Sparda.
"Target confirmed, preparing termination procedures…" He then shifts his legs around and swiftly kicks Sparda but watches as he lay unflinching towards the failed attack. Sparda then swiftly punched him in the jaws and send him to into a wall. "Damn! That's gotta hurt!" Noticing the dust clearing however was the warrior, with his face revealed as an android stared at him for a moment before opening a hail of bullets towards him, strafing the ground as Sparda ran from cover to cover…
"I don't know who he is, but this is not how I expect to spend the afternoon!" As he attempts to return fire, another figure appeared and dives down and attacks Sparda. "Kira, I have found the hostile target, he doesn't seem to put up a fight" Kira then smirks "Destroy the pervert with maximum prejudice. Squish him nicely for me." Mei-Fang looks at this with indifference and nods: "Understood. Chen, Activate the Phoenix Flame Tactic" Chen's sensor's beamed and activated a pair of thrusters units found in his shoes and enters the air and steps on top of a giant robotic bird whom makes a loud screech. Sparda then jumped toward him and fires several rounds at the bird, only to be punched by Mei-Fang's Exo-Skeleton robot. As Sparda lays down beaten, he looks helplessly as both of them are ready to incinerate him and spread his ashes to the ends of the earth...
"Wave goodbye to your birdy…"
A beam of light the hits the propellants of the bird, causing a giant explosion send both of them tumbling to the ground. Sparda struggles to get back up and struggled to get some words out…"Angelus...goddamnit…it took you long enough..." and passes out.
Back on the rooftop, a man in a casual white sports coat and jeans grabs his radio: "This is Odin, room has been closed of interlopers. Preparing to retrieve Pandora's box." And grabs a grapping gun and fires it to the ground with all three combatants out of commission. He then walks up to Sparda and drags him by the shirt collar and out of the area. As he checks around, he notices a bit of wimpering..."Sparda...he's...he's…dead…" And notices Nagisa huddling in a corner...he pulls out a canister of knock out gas that incapacitates her and carry Nagisa on his shoulder as he lugs Sparda out of the way...
"Confirmed one more package to bring back over..."
Sparda wakes up in the usual bright lights that resembled a ward, as he gets out of the bed. Sparda checks around to see if anything was confiscated from and sighs in relief as all the items were placed in a cabinet. Apparently he wasn't in custody or anything…but noticing something amiss Sparda reacted by firing randomly into the door…As Sparda prepares to reload...A young woman in white frilly dress walked in
"Relax, Paradiso. We are not here to capture you."
"What the hell? Two androids attacked a part of town and somebody named Kira wants me dead, what is going on?" As he points his gun towards him, another gun was heard loading as notices another gun aimed at his head.
"The Arcana Knight Wars is what is going on." The same man who Sparda barely noticed then stared at him.
"Wha? What is the Arcana Knight War?" Sparda was absolutely confused at this, apparently for some reason there is a war between the Maidens in Arcana Heart. But apparently men are in this now? Petra then used Sparda's ultimate weakness, approaching suggestively towards Sparda, she attempts to tug his tie off as she tugs her own shirt a bit to cool off...Sparda relaxes a bit while keeping at Petra.
"Listen, we need your help in this battle since the last two incidents will be minor incidents if we don't stop the other aspiring knights from blowing up the entire city. I am Petra Johanna Lagerkvist and he is "Odin", my selected knight for the upcoming war. With the situation going on, you already had a taste of another knight attacking you."
"So where do I fit in this?"
"About an hour ago, two if you include you being knocked out by the explosion. One of your comrades was beaten unconscious by two other knights' codenamed Shaman and Viper, both wanted fugitive back in the US by various agencies. They apparently have access to a nano molecular suit as well as a device that allows him to turn Ether to armor. What happened next was that he was carried in by Arcana Maiden Aino Heart. She is one of the many targets they are after, including me…" Petra then shakes her head as Sparda still remained reluctant. "Sparda, as an UCN officer, I want you to help me and Odin out on this. We can't take them all on…and as for Nagisa, she is recovering in medical. When you are ready…tell me." Sparda then hoisters his gun and walks off indifferently to both of them, it was not of his affairs at all to intervene in this…but somehow he felt that the balance in this world was upset due to some guys who think they win the hearts of such girls. Was there any place for them as well as him to intervene in such manners? As he walked to the medical bay, he notices Odin walking past him as he looked at a coffee vending machine. As he grabs a cup of coffee, Sparda pressed against the wall to confront this person.
"So why do you fight for Petra? You understand you don't have the ability to harness Arcana." Sparda remaining as skeptical as ever as Odin sips the coffee without much notice to him.
"The Arcana Knight War I want to end by myself, Petra has own affairs to deal with and apparently you are as uncooperative as ever. And you know I was the one who bailed you out of this, so as they say. An eye for an eye, I understand it ultimately befalls upon Petra to end this, but I will make sure anyone who gets in her way will pay, I mean do you like Nagisa?" Odin acting as indifferent as ever to Sparda, rarely caring about the emotions from Sparda…
"I love her ok? I don't care if angry jilted lovers come and lynch me for what I have done; don't care if I pissed off the creators for implementing such a relationship. Don't give a damn if angry fans attack god who knows for butchering the story so I can fall in love with such a girl. I love her to death man...somehow for some reason I got to make things right for petty minded revenge." Odin looks at Sparda with a bit of surprise to his reaction. "So why don't you help me? Think I may like…oh never mind that just think about that for a second and see what happens..."
Sparda walks off and Odin went back to his coffee. "I can bet that the kid learned nothing…"
