Chapter 1-Beginning of Hope
At large crossroad in the city Cranagan, was being overseen by several gadgets, as well as the Numbers Sein and Nove, who were patrolling the streets, making sure things were going well.
"Ah, this is boring, I want to go home already, not watch a bunch of people walk across the street," Nove complained.
"Can't be helped, especially with all of the bombings going on, the groups are low tech, but they still do damage," thought Sein as she remembered several weeks ago.
Things were calm at first and the Numbers had picked the former TSAB central headquarters as their base, the Numbers themselves were all female combat cyborgs designed by Jail to fulfill his goal, and they even got to meet Due, who they had not met in the past, and who successfully killed the council and a high ranking TSAB general, making her mission a success.
Though the peace was short lived, a day later their security cameras saw a man walk in with a large package in tow, and they sent gadgets down to deal with it, as they watched it all from the camera, the man suddenly said, "Bless the Saint," and then a blinding light followed by an enormous explosion, which tore through the whole building, destroying all the drones inside and causing serious injury to the cyborgs inside.
The reality soon dawned on them that the man was a suicide bomber, complete with last words, but he was not the last. Two days later group of men entered a nearby help center run in the former Saint Church, run by people who had pledged loyalty to Jail, and they all said their saying and detonated themselves, destroying the Church and killing many of the personnel.
Jail decided to become more violent in his actions, and soon decided on reprisals, killing mostly the male population, believing that the female population would not be much trouble, and to drive the knife deeper, he secretly saturated the air using type II drones with a special aerosol chemical that altered the reproductive organs of women, making the usual method of procreation impossible, because while there was no physical change, the genetics were made to simply not accept sperm from males, and then Jail set up hospitals using his research in cellular research to create artificial insemination, basically having children being born through science.
All the children were born female, with few males to keep a good balance, good in Jails eyes, and he also chose to make more combat cyborgs, the latest being of different naming, Navi, Soli, and Ulna, who helped to suppress riots, shut down terrorist cells, and put down criminals. Though soon the city began to turn into a slum with time, becoming very run down as magic technology disappeared.
Sein and Nove were currently with a new combat cyborg group, with the most impulsive and reckless being Seri, a rather violent and quite brutal cyborg named Dolo, and finally was rather new cyborg, recently created, she was not really all that violent, in fact she was rather nice, and was young and really didn't have a violent personality, which was reflected in her name, Pace.
"Well this is boring as hell, there's nothing but just a bunch of lowly humans walking around," Said Seri, who was very annoyed.
"Not having anything to kill is really bothersome, from time to time," Dolos said as she looked around, then she saw a woman walking with a few packages, and she said below he breath, "IS Thread Blade", and then the woman collapsed and the packages burst open to reveal food and water for a local orphanage, and the woman's legs were cut and bleeding.
Dolo, suddenly found herself sailing into a wall and collapsing on the ground as she was punched in the chest by Nove, and then screamed, "What the Fuck!"
"You don't just go and attack everyone at random, you idiot." Responded Nove.
Dolo responds by saying, "What are they even going to do to us, were cyborgs and they're human, and not even mages, what CAN they do?"
KA-BLOOM! As if on cue to Dolo's saying, a large explosion rips apart a building nearby, and the cyborgs, gadgets and many people are caught in the blast. Nove, who is pretty much still standing while the others were blown to the ground and states, "THAT!" as she points at the destruction.
As Pace was getting she noticed several people running on the rooftops, one of them throwing a brick-shaped item down an air-vent, and then as the person jumped to a different roof, an explosion came from the building, centering on the place where the person threw the item into, "Up there, those people are dropping bombs into the air-vents on the roofs of the buildings," Pace exclaimed.
Dolo looked up and saw the group and grinned, "Well, it looks like we'll be getting to see some action today."
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"Gotta hurry, gotta hurry!", thought Asami Sora as she went from building to building, running as fast as she could, while effortlessly maneuvering around, fences, structures, pipes and building material to hurry to her objective, finding it was a nearby cyborg hospital, still under construction.
She was part of a final group of fighters from the group "True Belief", the groups hideout having been raided and destroyed by gadgets, before it self-destructed taking out the gadgets as well as killing a few cyborgs that also raided.
The group had trained itself to move quickly from point to point, using a type of quick-movement/martial art technique found on "Non-administrated World 97" Earth called parkour, which involved excellent use of reflex, flexibility, agility, and spatial awareness, to get from point to point.
However Asami and her group, including her friends Amai and Noda, were on the run as they saw several gadget drones and five cyborgs were chasing after us and gaining, however, as I was climbing a wall, Amai threw a small white lump with a detonator on it and it stuck to a large type III, then it exploded taking out the type three and some type I's, the lump was a plastique, an easy to make explosive that sticks to its target and explodes after a short time, activating on contact with the target.
As we cheered we saw a strange flashing in the air and then the threads surrounded one of our squad members, and then we saw something horrible.
In a large spray of blood and gore, the person was cut into so many small pieces, all spraying across the building.
The team saw as a group of deadly combat cyborgs were charging at them and the group turned and ran, but another got one of her legs cut off and was soon on the ground screaming, Asami wanting to go back and help, but knew she could do nothing but continue running, heading for the building ahead.
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The combat cyborg group approached the wounded girl along with their gadgets, and had a type III reach down and grab her, bringing her toward them.
"Well then little runt, you and friends gave us quiet a chase, but looks like you got left behind, now spill what you know and I'll kill you quick," said Dolo.
The girl just smiled slightly and let something slide from her hands, and the cyborgs saw that they were pins….PINS FROM EXPLOSIVES!
Seconds later….KABOOOM!
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The group saw a large explosion as their comrade, detonated herself in front of the cyborgs, but the group kept running, knowing that the cyborgs have survived worse than what had happened so went on a dead run and soon reached our target.
From there, everyone split up, entering the building and going down multiple levels, till we reached our assigned points and set the bombs in all areas of the building, then we got word of gadgets in the building and confirmation of the death of one of our squad mates, but the mission continued and soon we set all devices and prepared to exfil when we heard of the presence of combat cyborgs, and a massive explosion blew us of our feet, coming from one of our comrades, and I picked myself up and kept running, and I met Noda and another trooper, but then from the ceiling a cyborg dove down and grabbed the fighter, and soon sank into the floor with her, but then as she was fully through with only her hands showing, she pulled a pin on her arm, arming the explosives on her body, and Noda and I ran a good distance before an explosion tore through the floor beneath us, leaving a large hole where their comrade used to be.
We managed to find Amai and we soon took off for the bottom floor, as explosions were tearing through the buildings supports, causing steel girders and debris to rain down all around us, till we finally reached the end of a hall in the basement level and set our bombs, and the explosion blew open the wall and allowing us into the sewer, and we all entered the rather spacious sewage system before the whole building came down, blocking the hole and sealing us in.
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Above ground, Dolo and Seri were sitting in a repair vehicle, having their injuries tended to by medical droids, while Sein, who had been caught in a suicide explosion, was being placed into a stabilizing tank in the vehicle, to be transported and repaired at the primary facility, while Pace and Nove who had sustained light damage, with only cuts and bruises from the blasts, looked at the destroyed remains of the cyborg hospital, which had blown outward, causing the deaths of many pedestrians.
"This is just…wrong," Nove stated, "we do everything to prevent these things from happening and they happen anyway…..is everything we had to do, everything we had to accomplish… the battles, the planning, the sacrifices, were they all for nothing, did we do all the things we did only to end up with this."
Pace looked all over, knowing what the older cyborg was talking about. She had heard about how Jail was planning on making a glorious scientific republic, which he claimed would be even greater than what the people of Belka or even Al-Hazred had come up with, but as she looked around, she only saw nearly empty streets, cars long since abandoned on the sides of the roads, buildings that were run down, and several that looked like they would collapse any second, and as she looked in the distance, she saw columns of smoke rise in the distance and the sound of explosions as bombings were coming from so many areas of the city, and also outside in the towns and villages, only adding to the continued destruction surrounding them.
The world that had been promised to them had not materialized, leaving only a dark reality of death and destruction around them.
Then Seri spoke up saying that there were signals coming from underground, heading away from the destroyed building , and soon before anyone said anything, Dolo cut apart a manhole and dove into the sewer, Seri following, and they were quickly joined by Pace, while Nove went with transport to take Sein to the hospital.
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Asami and her comrades were moving as fast as they could to reach the end of the sewers, which turns out stretches throughout the entire city, and also to all the towns and villages, and they soon find a tunnel leading out of town, where they have a way to get out of the city.
Then Asami said to stop and listen, and that is when they footsteps in the distance coming at them, and then a voice rang out, "IS Shattered Earth", then the walls, floor and ceilings cracked and then we were cut and injured by the jagged pieces that came at us, but we still ran, but as we neared the end, we realized Noda was not with us, then we heard the sound of a fight followed by an massive explosion, which we hid from, and saw as the fireball went overhead.
Then the ground beneath us fell and we went down a deep hole, before passing out…
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Seri and Dolo both looked at the hole that stretched deep into the ground and then Dolo grabbed the beacon on her uniform that relayed all information about their location and condition and crushed it, then Seri crushed hers and Dolo had Pace break her own, and they descended into the darkness not knowing what will happen.
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Asami was shaken awake and saw that Amai was with her and realized that explosives had been place around the hole, and were rigged with trip wires, and as they went deeper down the cave system, they heard the sound of someone close by, and then came the sound of explosions, and they knew that the enemy was close by, and then Amai said, "go on ahead, I will try to hold them off from here," said Amai, of course Asami says, "are you insane, there's no way you'll survive." Amai replies, "maybe not, but one of us has to get out of this, and I feel that it should be you, now go!" I was pushed into a hole nearby, while Amai produced a device, showing she was a mage, but only a C-ranked mage, and set explosives everywhere, and that was the last I saw before I ran deeper into the cavern, before I heard the sounds of battle followed by several explosions, and Asami knew that it was the end.
Asami continued deeper and deeper into the dark, and her system said that she was apparently under the mountains outside of Clanagan, but all she could do was run, then she noticed a soft light nearby and walked toward it.
She found a doorway and then she went up and touched the round, blue sphere that was in the door, and in a blaze of light, the entire door began to open itself, the doorway opening itself in five parts, as it split into five parts that went into the wall.
Asami walked through and saw to her amazement that there were structures that were made using technology that appeared to be millennia more advanced than anything that Mid-Childa could ever create, and then saw in the center of the enormous room, which looked big enough that even two Saints Cradle could easily fit inside, an incredibly large door, and near the walls on the far side, were doorway like devices that looked like they were big enough for ships that were at least twice the size of a TSAB cruiser, and saw the same type of sphere shaped device and she touched it and in a roar of light she saw energy pulse throughout the facility, then she saw a light in the door glow, and soon enough it began to open.
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Halsey looked stunned as she saw the doorway light up and then touched the sphere on her end and then the doorway opened up, linking to another area in an entirely different dimension, and as she was about to head through, someone stopped her.
"I'll go through first," said the Spartan Linda-058, "I'll take Fred and Kelly with me, and we'll tell you when it's safe after we secure the area, in the mean while, we'll leave Mendez and the Spartan III's to guard you."
"Alright, just be careful out there Linda," said Halsey.
"Don't worry ma'am, we will."
With that, the Spartan II's went through the portal, carrying the weapons they had the feeling they would need.
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Asami looked to see that the door opened to a type of portal and was apparently some type of energy that was unknown to her, but was definitely not magical energy but still just as, if not more, powerful. Then it vibrated and she jumped back a bit, and then saw as something was coming through, she stared as a large humanoid shape came through, and she saw the figure wearing a technologically advanced full body armor, and whose face was obscured by a gold tinted visor, and on the persons back was a very large gun, and the person started to approach, and on instinct Asami bolted in the direction of the door.
Asami was soon out of the door and ran past a corner when suddenly she was snagged by several threads, and then the threads ripped into her and left her bleeding and in pain, then she looked up to see the two combat cyborgs Dolo and Seri were standing right in front of her. Before Asami could do anything she was violently kicked in the face and impacted a wall.
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Pace looked as Dolo kicked the unknown girl into a wall and left her doubled over in pain, then Pace told them, "all right, now we just need to arrest her and take her back, then everything else will be-," she never finished when Seri through the girl straight into another wall and causing her to bleed out more.
"Hey, wait, were supposed to catch her, that's what we have to do right," Pace said.
"Shut it Pace, were going to give this worthless little bug all the pain that her buddies have caused us," said Seri.
"Then if we're feeling better, we'll just simply kill her and report to Command that it was an accident," Dolo said as she grabbed the rebels leg and threw here against a wall, a loud cracking sound being heard.
Pace looked at the brutality of it all and looked as the young girl was being beaten ruthlessly by the two cyborgs, the Dolo used her thread blades and wrapped them around the girls arms and legs, then to the horror that woke up in Pace as Dolo tore the girls arms and legs right of her body and watched as blood and body parts flew everywhere, leaving only the girls head and torso intact.
Then, in that split second, Pace suddenly went into her combat cyborg mode, and activated her IS, Sonic Detonator, and she released two sonic pulses that went into Dolo's and Seri's bodies, and then they were both consumed by a sonic explosion, which tore them both apart, but still only knocking them out.
Pace went to the girl and picked up the barely living girl, and realized the only way she would live was to try and convince her father, Jail Scaglietti, to try and help the girl, even turning her into a cyborg, though the girl would not like it, she would at least live. Then she felt a massive pain rip through her and saw as her left leg and arm were cut right off, then saw as Dolo and Seri were back up and angry, then she was being held up by wires, and saw that she was not getting out.
"So, it looks like it finally happened, so we can finally get rid of her," Dolo said.
"Didn't think it could happen, but I guess that Jail was right about some things I guess," said Seri to her partner.
When Pace was about to ask what they were talking about, Dolo pulled activate a holo-screen and a message began to play, the speaker being Scaglietti himself and it said…
"Dolo, Seri, there is something you need to know about Pace, you seen when I made her, I was a bit lax in her emotional programming, and by mistake, one which I didn't know I would make in a long time. She had gained the knowledge of morality and understanding, things that would make her unnecessary to me, and I was about ready to get rid of her, but then her IS came up and it was an incredibly powerful one at that, even more so than Otto's IS, and I didn't want to so easily get rid of something so powerful.
That is where you two come in, I want you to try and make her personality the focused and combat based type that is necessary for my creations, and if you succeed, then your reward will be access to better weapons and have higher ranking in the cyborg order, but if you don't then I must ask you to do what I believe is necessary…
…..KILL HER.
Pace stared in absolute shock and horror as she realized her father and creator wanted her dead and gone for being who she was made her horrified beyond belief, then she noticed that Seri was charging up her attack, and then a horrible pain ripped through her chest as Dolo cut into her body to drastically weaken her armor, then she saw as Seri charged her attack and just as Seri charged, everything slowed down and Seri then put her final thoughts up, and she said….
"Is this what father wants of me?"
"To be like them"
"To see everything as nothing"
"To simply tell me to take lives like a person kills insects is not right"
"Oh God, anyone, someone save me"
"I swear to my life that if I am saved, then I will do everything in my power to stop Jail, I swear it all, so please"
"please"
"PLEASE!"
Scene Shift
KER-BLAM!
A massive noise rips through the air and then Seri's arm is blown off right at the elbow, and it falls to the ground, and they turn to see a very large person wearing an advanced suit of body armor holding a very big rifle, and then the figure squeezes the trigger again, and in a massive gunshot, the round blows Seri's head apart, and Seri's decapitated body falls to the ground, dead.
Dolo releases Pace and tries to strike the person, but another wielding an incredibly sharp combat knife cut through the wires and cuts into Dolo, the knifes sharpness and the alloys hardness allows the armor wearing fighter to cut right through Dolo's armored body, causing metal components and muscle tissue to go everywhere, and Dolo is doubled over in pain, but before she could attack again a third appears in front of her with a pistol to her head and fires, the armor-piercing, incendiary bullets blowing her head apart, and instantly killing her, and with that, in the span of a minute, both Dolo and Serin, are dead.
The armored people take her and the other girl to the massive area and to one part of it where there is a building and inside of it is an advanced medical facility, and Pace says in her mind.
"I will fight you Jail"
"I will fight you and anyone who is with you"
"I will fight not just for my vengeance against you"
"I will fight for the people of this world"
"I will fight for those who saved me"
"I will fight for that girl that I want them to save, please let them save her"
"Please, if anything I at least want her to live, so please"
"Please"
"Please"
And soon, Pace was rendered unconscious by use of the anesthetics being administered to her.
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Halsey had come through and was told what had happened, and she immediately rushed to the medical facility in the massive forerunner facility, and found the two girls with missing limbs and in near death condition, but then the forerunner medical AI in the facility said that it would do what it can, but Halsey realized that there may be even more of a threat outside and decided that the two needed to be made into something that can survive what will surely come, and with that, she hardened her resolve and both her and the medical AI got to work and a few hours later…..
…they succeeded.