Homesick Chapter 7: Whose The Monster Now?


General Nuri's audio log 54-9051:

A sound of a knock is heard along with a few footsteps. Then the sound of a door opens up.

"Blake? Sun? Is there something you two need?" Nuri asks curiously.

"Yeah...do you mind if we come inside?" Sun asks.

There was silence along with a few more footsteps. The the sound of cloth is heard, indicating that the three of them were sitting down.

"So, what do you two kids need?" Nuri asks kindly.

There was more silence in the audio log.

"We...we wanted to know more about you and your team." Blake says with uncertainty.

"Information? Well your going to need to be a bit more specific. Which team?" Nuri asks again.

"Your squad. 26, Gyro, Yupia, and Locus. I still think there's so much that we don't know about them. But who else is better to ask than the General found them in the first place." Sun explains.

There was another moment of silence in the audio log.

"Your not wrong. There still is a lot that you kids don't know. But, I'm willing to indulge you both in the information you seek. If Gyro, 26, and Locus trusted you all with the information of some of their origins, then I can trust you. So, we'll start with them, then I'll tell you my story. Because there is a lot of things you two or even your friends know about us." Nuri says with deep through. "So kids, who do you want to know first?"

Another moment of brief silence is heard.

"Locus. He was the last one we met before we met you. All we know is that his home world is gone..." Blake says as her voice trails off.

"Earth...Yeah I know about that. Nothing that we could have done. But, he is one of the best fighters from Earth, I'll give him that..." Nuri says softly.


Locus dodges under a large silver and crimson brown ish blade. Locus then raises his left arm as he blocks another swipe, hitting his attacker's wrist. Locus then grabs his attackers wrist and pulls him in as he kicks his attackers stomach, knocking him away.


"Who is he really? 26 mentioned that he had a troublesome past." Blake says curiously.

Nuri fell silent for a few seconds.

"Has Epsilon, Sam, or 26 ever mentioned the events of Chorus?" Nuri asks.

"Sam? And you mean like a group of singers?" Sun asks.

"No dumbass, the planet Chorus. And Sam is Locus's real name." Nuri says flatly.

There was some silence through the audio log.

"Right, well. I'm guessing you both now want to know what happened on Chorus and what does it have to do with Locus. To put it simply, its where Locus became who he is today." Nuri explained.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sun asks again.

"Well, lets start from the beginning. Locus used to serve in the UNSC during The Great War." Nuri explains.

"The Great War?" Blake asks with a nervous tone.

"Yeah. A war between humans and an alien race known as the covenant. Long story short, they were a group of multiple species of aliens that sought out for themselves. Locus and one of his old partners, Issac Gates, also known as Felix served for years together. Their squad saw one of the worst battles in UNSC history. But once the war was over...they were part of the many soldiers that had difficulty returning to civilian life...and they were able to return at all...From the records I've read or what Epsilon told me...Locus and Felix wen't in the dark for a few years before re surfacing in Chorus when the Reds and Blues crash landed there." Nuri explains.


Locus's attacker cut through a white curtain as Locus rolled away from the attack. Locus glances to his left to see his SAW on the ground. His attacker in front of him quickly puts his silver and crimson brown ish dual blades together to create a small shield while Locus grabbed his saw and fired it towards his attacker.


"And from what Locus told me when I first found him. He and Felix were originally hired to wipe out the people of Chorus by a company known as Charon Industries. The same assholes who made those weapons and equipment that the Blues and Reds have. During their time on Chorus, a civil war was in play. Two factions were against each other. one being the New Republic, a rebel group who wanted 'freedom'. And the other being the Federal Army of Chorus, basically people who wanted order for their planet. Charon had sent Locus and his partner Felix to fight on both sides, Felix being with the New Republic, and Locus being with the Federal Army of Chorus." Nuri explains.

"But why? That's sick!" Blake exclaims.

"You can't blame Locus for that...War can push people past their mental limits! Locus was just one of those people..." Nuri says quietly. "Look...Locus had it rough...we all have...and i'm no exception...lets just get back on what we were trying to discuss..."

There was silence in the log.

"Right...well sorry..." Blake apologizes quietly.

"Don't mention it...like I was explaining, both Locus's and Felix's goal was to dwindle down the population of Chorus with that civil war of theirs. The reason Charon industries wanted this planet so badly is because of its natural inhabitants of left over alien relics. Like Locus's sword. One of the many, and possibly the most dangerous relic of them all." Nuri says darkly.

"What's so dangerous about that sword? It just looks like a standard glowing sword that can still stab things." Sun exclaims.

"The sword itself may look like it's nothing. But in reality, it's a key. A key used to gain access of these temples or structures that are scattered all over the universe, or in Locus's case, temples were scattered all over Chorus. The temples had specific properties, some good, and then you get the bad ones like the Purge. Which might I add, is fucking Scary. That whole Temple was designed to wipe out the entries planets inhabitants. Now I know what you two are thinking, if he was hired to do this? Why didn't he do it? Simple, because of the Reds and Blues uncovered the truth of why the civil war was a hoax, Felix and Locus had to turn to Charon industries for backup, and they did provide plenty of weapons to aid them and their small army. The people of Chorus couldn't just leave the planet for help. They were stuck due to Charon being able to modify on of the temples to work as a tractor beam, pulling down every ship that was close to the planet or in the planet. So, the people of Chorus banded together, thanks to the Reds and Blues, and went to war with Charon Industries." Nuri explains.


Locus was firing his SAW towards his attacker, the attacker was using its shield to block Locus's gunfire. The attacker then rolled behind cover while Locus takes the opportunity to grab his grenade launcher from his back. Locus then quickly aims the grenade launcher towards his attackers cover and pulls the trigger, launching the explosive pipe.


"During their war on Chorus, the general of the Federal Army of Chorus was the first person to claim the sword. And from what I was told, he didn't have it for long. He sacrificed himself by detonating the nuclear reactor in his city, taking out half of Charon's troop with him. But Felix had the sword in his hands. After the general died, Felix then had possession of the sword. Giving him the power to use the Purge." Nuri explains darkly.

"Well, how did Locus get the sword? I though the sword is bonded to you till you die?" Sun asks.

"They are. When Agents Carolina and Washington used Felix and Locus's own ship to destroy the Purge temple. But, the rest of the Reds and Blues along with the New Republic and Federal Army of Chorus were busy fighting for another temple, The temple of Communication. Once they managed to win the battle, they had to take on Locus and Felix when they survived the crash. Butttt, Locus started to have doubts about the whole job, he eventually broke out of his broken mental shell and ended up helping the Reds and Blues, eventually leading to Felix's death. Locus then claimed the sword and disappeared. A year later, we found him locked up in a Blue and Red facility." Nuri explains.

"Why would he betray his partner? Weren't they good friends?" Blake asks with a bit of hostility.

"No. Back in the Great War, they always argued and fought on everything. Felix was insane. He took advantage of Locus's shattered mind when he was unstable from the great war. Felix depended on Locus in order to survive. He was...what would you call it...arrogant, hot headed, and a sociopath. Felix had no remorse when he was willing to kill all of his own men just to get revenge and to get paid. Felix even attempted to kill Locus without a second though when Locus woke up. Think of it like how the people of your world unlocking their semblance. Felix was the lock, and Locus waking up is what released his aura. See what i'm trying to say?" Nuri asks.

There was silence for a few seconds.

"Yeah...I think we get it..." Blake says quietly.

"But you said you found him a year later. And you said 'We'. Did you, Gyro, and 26 find him?" Sun asks.

"What? No. I was with Team Burst Crusaders when we found Locus." Nuri explains nonchalantly.


Location: Remnant, Schnee Family Manor

Time: One day before the Assault


Locus had stepped out of a small workshop as he looked at his arm plates. He had just repainted all of his armor. He held his Locus helmet under his arm as he raised it to take a look of his new design. The X on his helmet was replaced with a large upside down black triangle and another small sage hollow upside down triangle. His armor was a lighter shade of grey, still held a secondary color of sage green, and now white accent colored. He then grips his helmet tighter as he pulls his helmet over his head, twisting it to lock it in place. Just on queue, Weiss happened to turn the corner of the hallway as she stopped when she saw Locus.

"Locus?" Weiss asks suspiciously.

Locus glances up as he takes notice of Weiss staring at him.

"Right, sorry, it must be a bit confusing with the new paint job and design." Locus says as he walks up to Weiss.

"Why might I ask, did you repaint your armor? It looked fine before." Weiss says flatly as she observed the Ex-Mercenary.

Locus glances away for a second as he though about his past. He then glances back at Weiss.

"I just thought it was time to let things go." Locus says quietly.

"What?" Weiss asks as she leans towards Locus's direction.

"Nothing...I just felt like it was time for a change." Locus says quickly.

"Uh huh.." Weiss says as she raised her eyebrow.

"Right...well are you ready for tomorrow?" Locus asks in hopes to change the topic.

Weiss stares at Locus for a couple of seconds before she leans away from the Ex-Mercenary and regains her posture

"Well, I've been practicing for days on end. Hopefully this charity event pays off..." Weiss says as her voice trails off.

Locus stares at Weiss through his helmet as he could tell that she was uneasy.

"Still bothered about your father?" Locus asks cautiously

Weiss quickly glances up at Locus as she just attempts to read him.

"A...A little bit..." Weiss says as she looks down.

"I don't blame you. Your father is a bit...questionable..." Locus says as he attempts to find a word to describe Jacques Schnee.

Weiss then gives Locus a small questioning look.

"Are you still mad about him bring up your men?..." Weiss asks quietly.

"Why wouldn't I be." Locus snaps back.

Weiss slightly recoils back from Locus's small outburst. Locus then realizes what he says as he glances away.

"Sorry...I'm just...I'm just a bit under a lot of stress...Still worried about the upcoming future." Locus says quietly.

"Your still worried aboutAdrastos being on the loose?" Weiss asks again.

Locus gives a nod as he walks over towards the window. He puts both of his hands on the windowsill as he leans forwards.

"Weiss, i'm honestly terrified...Adrastos is just something else that you've faced. He is INSANE. He won't back down, even with all of Ironwood's troops. Weiss, you need to be careful, do you understand?" Locus asks strictly.

"Y-Yeah...I understand. Just one question." Weiss says as she walks up next to Locus.

"What would that be?" Locus says as he glances over at Weiss next to him.

"Why does he scare you? You never really seemed to be sacred of anything. Back at Beacon, you had no problem dealing with all those soldiers. And from what I heard from Winter, you never really shown that much of fear at all? But what makesAdrastos so different?" Weiss asks.

Locus then slowly turns his head back towards the window.

"Adrastos just reminds me of someone else I used to work with in the past...He was also crazy and a monster. He's just someone who just brings up bad memories." Locus explains as he remembers his time working with Felix.

There was a few seconds of awkward silence between the heiress and the ex-mercenary. Weiss was gathering her thoughts from what Locus explained to her.

"I'm just going to say this...you have a terrible taste in friends." Weiss says bluntly.

Locus couldn't help but chuckle a bit from Weiss comment. This earned a small smile from Weiss as she looked at Locus's mods change.

"Your not wrong Weiss, your not wrong." Locus says as he glances over at Weiss.

The both of them just had a small laugh together, lightening the mood.

"Weiss...just, remember this...you don't have to be confined by the restrains by your father, you are your own person, don't let anyone else tell you who you are." Locus explains with a very serious and sincere tone.

Weiss just stares at Locus as she takes his words into deep though. Locus then pushes himself off the windowsill and starts to take his leave. Weiss snaps out of her thoughts as she takes notice of Locus leaving.

"Locus? Where are you going?" Weiss asks.

"I have to arrange things for tomorrow's event. General Ironwood wants me to run the security details. And I'll be working with communications, i'll see I can manage to contact Gyro and tell her about Adrastos, and the possibility of his team being here" Locus says as he waves off Weiss.

"You don't have to do this on your own." Weiss says with sympathy.

"I know. But I doubt you understand UNSC technology." Locus explains.

Weiss huffs as she glares at Locus as he takes his leave down the hallway. Once Locus was gone, Weiss slowly looks behind her towards the painting of her, Winter, Whitley, Jacques, and her mother. Weiss then starts to think about Locus's words as she stares at the painting.


Location: Remnant, Taiyang's house

Time: Four Days Since Lopez's Reactivation.


It was the middle of the night at Taiyang's house. Lopez had dropped off Team CFVY and Neo to Neo and Coco's house, spending the night their. While Yang, Lopez, and Taiyang were in charge of watching over Gyro who was still asleep from the incident of encountering Triton. Gyro had just barely started to regain consciousness inside Ruby's room. She slightly clenched her head and rubbed her eyes as she slowly leaned up from her bed.

"About time that you wake up from your nap."

Gyro's eyes widened as she looked to where the voice came from. She finds Triton sitting on the open window with his trident in his left hand. Gyro attempts to left up her left hand but was quickly restrained by her wrist being held up towards the bed post by water. Gyro looked at her wrist, then looks back a Triton, who's left eye was glowing its aqua bright blue, using his powers of water against Gyro while she glared at Triton with pure anger.

"What do you want Drone." Gyro says with a growl.

"Look, June, I'm not here for a fight. Not yet at least. And quit it with the codenames, I'm not a part of that 'army' anymore." Triton says as he rolls his eyes.

"I am giving you ONE chance to leave this house Traitor." Gyro says with anger.

Triton raised his eyebrow as he looked at Gyro.

"You? What are you going to do? You just woke up from blood loss, you haven't even developed your powers yet, and from what I'm looking at, your the one restrained to a bed. And like you have some nerve to call me a Traitor, I did what's best for my clan and friends." Triton says calmly.

"Did whats best? You left a man for dead?! How is that doing what's best for your squad? You are a coward! Its a shame that 26 didn't kill you and your friends when he had the opportunity." Gyro says as her voice raises slightly.

Triton quickly spun his trident and pointed the three tips towards Gyro's throat.

"Stay quiet, and maybe we don't have any problems. June, I know what was best for my clan. But that child is something else. Your just too blind to even know what happened and what he's done to my clan. And Jin, he was becoming weak. Hesitating when presented with the opportunity to take the kill, questioning orders, and just breaking our clan's rules. We are Gladiators. Not your pathetic second generation 'Duelists'. We have an order to things June. And right now. I am giving you an opportunity to survive this war." Triton explains.

"A Gladiator? Wait, how old are you?!" Gyro asks quickly.

"I'm a demigod June. I've lived for hundreds of years." Triton says nonchalantly.

Gyro had a small look of disgust as she leaned away from Triton.

"What?" Triton asks.

"You do realize that I was dating you for four years." Gyro says with disgust.

"So? I fail to see your point." Triton says with a shrug.

"I was dating you when I was eighteen. And your telling me that your hundreds of years old...That's fucking disgusting..." Gyro says flatly.

"Whatever, that's not the point. June, like I said, I am giving you a chance to walk away from this. Come with me and I can promise that you won't be killed during our little war." Triton says as he stares at the cyan pilot.

"And what about my friends? You know, the people I actually give a shit about compared to you." Gyro says quickly.

"I can't guarantee anything. But, the girl with the silver eyes and the girl with the key sword have to go." Triton says as he doesn't take his eyes off Gyro.

"Then no. I'd rather kill you than let you hurt them." Gyro says with gritted teeth.

Triton slightly sighs as he glanced out the window.

"Hey, its your funeral. I guess Blue was right, there is no point in trying to spare you. But just remember, you are on your own now. There is NO ONE coming to rescue you and your team. You and your team are nothing but loose ends at this point." Triton explains darkly.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Gyro says as her voice raises slightly.

"It's self explanatory." Triton says as he looks back at Gyro's direction. "You and your team is all that's left. Your army has been dealt with the exception of a few survivors. But Blue will be dealing with them along with that girl and the Freelancer. All that's left is to find that coward of a General and we'll be paid and take out leave."

"Coward? Your one to talk. Going to such a low level of a mercenary because you didn't get what you want." Gyro says with a angered snicker.

Triton just takes his trident away from Gyro's throat as he stands up from the window.

"She's the coward out of everyone. Just like your father when he left the clan. It's just a shame that this had to happen. But I must take my leave, best of luck to you. You will need it when we cross paths again June." Triton says.

Triton's eye that was glowing fades away as he quickly jumps out of the open window. The water that restrained Gyro's wrist drops down and splashes on Gyro's hair. She slightly flinches from the water and attempts to stand up from Ruby's bed. Once she stands up, she ends up falling on to on knee and catches herself on the bed. Over by a chair next to the bed Gyro was leaning on was her white and cyan jacket. She was able to reach her arm out and grab the jacket. As she brings the jacket closer to her, she reaches into one of the pockets and grabs the item she was looking for. She brings out the data drive she had in her cache. She has a sigh of relief as clenched the data drive close to her. But she hears footsteps closing in towards the room, she frantically looks around the room. The door then finally opens up to reveal Lopez with his battle rifle in his hands. He quickly see's Gyro leaning on her bed with the data drive clenched in her hands. He then lowers his rifle and looks over to the open window.

"¿Por qué estás en el piso? (Why are you on the floor?)" Lopez quickly asks. "¿Y para qué sirve? (And what's the drive for?)"

Gyro just gives Lopez a small look of confusion as she attempts to stand up from her position. Lopez just groans as he walks over and helps Gyro get back in bed.

"Lopez. Where are we? What are you doing in here?!" Gyro almost shouts.

Lopez quickly realizes why Gyro was freaked out. Gyro just had a bare minimal of clothes on as she scrambled her jacket in front of her.

"¡OH DIOS, LO SIENTO! (OH GOD I'M SO SORRY!)" Lopez says loudly.

Lopez quickly slams the door shut. Gyro quickly sighs as she grabs her clothes that were on the chair next to the bed. Gyro then dresses herself and puts her data drive inside her the pocket of her jacket. She then looks towards the open window as she thinks about Triton's warning.

"Are we really all that's left?" Gyro asks herself quietly.


Location: Remnant, A Concert Hall

Time: One day after Weiss and Locus's Conversation


The Schnee charity even was taking place. Plenty of people were attending Weiss's singing performance and there was plenty of security along with charity. Some people took a bit of comfort and a bit of worry for such a security detail. Even General Ironwood himself came along as extra security just in case. Locus and Weiss were currently in one of the backstage rooms.

"Are you ready for this?" Locus asks the heiress.

"Of course I am." Weiss says confidently.

"Just asking to be courteous. No need to act with that kind of bravado." Locus says flatly.

"Your one to talk. You've worked with Gyro." Weiss says with a scoff.

"And you've been living with Ruby and Yang. I think we're even." Locus replies.

"Fair enough." Weiss says quickly. "So how did repairing the communications go?"

Locus just quietly groans as he looks towards the ceiling.

"Just as well as you would expect it to be." Locus says with a hint of stress.

"So nothing was done then?" Weiss asks with a small smirk.

"Yeah, nothing was done Weiss." Locus says with a annoyed tone. "You if you want to try it yourself, go for it. Like you can do better anyways"

"Alright, tomorrow then." Weiss simply says with a smirk.

"Fine, suit yourself." Locus replies.

Weiss gives Locus a confident nod. A knock on the door was heard.

"Come in!" Weiss yells towards the door.

The door opens up to reveal Klein. He peaks through the open door to look at Locus and Weiss.

"Miss Schnee, your performance is about to begin." Klein informs.

"Alright, thank you Klein." Weiss says as she follows Klein out the room.

Once Weiss and Klein were gone. Locus then grabs his shotgun from a nearby table and holsters it on his back. He then picks up his grenade launcher and also holsters it on his back, then finally grabs his SAW and holds it in his hands. He leaves the room and is met with a few atlas security guards.

"You three, take the third floor. STICK TOGETHER no matter what. If you find anyone or anything suspicious, report back to me or General Ironwood. DO NOT engage any hostiles without any reinforcements. Understood?" Locus asks strictly.

"What about you sir?" One of the guards asks.

"I'll patrol the the main lobby. I can stick on my own with my equipment and keep an eye out. And remember, always report in with other teams when ever you complete a patrol. I cannot stress this enough that EVERYONE must be careful. Now, anymore questions?" Locus asks.

"No sir." The second guard responds.

"Good, now get moving." Locus says strictly.

The three atlas guards do a quick salute and run off towards the nearest stairwell, heading to their assigned patrol route. Locus then makes his way towards the main lobby balcony. Once he arrived, he used his active camouflage unit as he overlooked the crowd of people that were entering to watch Weiss's performance. He took careful scans of each person, each entrance, and each window for anything. Just as most of the crowd of people were inside, Locus leans off the balcony railing and continues to patrol the second floor. While patrolling, he ends up bumping into General Ironwood.

"Sir." Locus greets.

"Locus. How goes the patrols?" Ironwood asks with authority.

"Nothing as of now sir. I'm about to go check the fifth floor and check in the any of the patrol teams. No one has given any reports of any suspicious activity yet. But we can't be sure. Communications are still down and the best way to know is to check in with all the teams." Locus explains.

"Well done Locus. But are you sure that he will show up? No teams that has reported to me claim they haven't seen any suspicious activity amongst the audience." Ironwood says.

"I'm certain. There is no way he would pass up an opportunity like this. We just have to wait and be ready." Locus explains strictly.

"Alright, well good luck sergeant." Ironwood says with a nod.

"To you as well sir. But just please stick by the Jacques, Weiss, and Whiteley. I have a feeling that their primary targets along with myself and you." Locus explains again.

"Understandable. Well take care, I'll be on the sixth floor if you need me." Ironwood says as he takes his leave.

"Yes sir." Locus says as he walks the opposite direction from Ironwood.

Locus finally reaches the spiral stairwell that was inside the concert hall. He takes a look on the up the stair case and catches a glimpse of a pale green cloak enter the fifth floor. He narrows his eyes under his helmet. He quickly heads up the fifth floor and opens the door. Locus scans the hallway to find nobody, not even his motion tracker was picking up anyone. He raises his SAW and slowly takes his steps into the hallway and takes careful scans. To Locus's right, he can hear Weiss's performance. He takes a quick glance through one of the open doorways and glances at Weiss as she was singing. Locus then hears a loud thud down the hall and raises his SAW towards the direction from there the sound came from and starts to carefully creep down the hallway. He reaches a door from where the sound came from. He stands on the side of the door and listens carefully. Inside the room, Locus could hear footsteps. the sound of dragging of cloth against the floor, and metal scrapping. Locus takes a look in his HUD's helmet to see nothing on his motion tracker again. He takes a deep breath and readies his SAW. He kicks the door, knocking it off the hinges, he see's six dead atlas guards along with plenty of blood all over the room. But their was only one person who was standing on the other side of the room. He had dark skin, a pale green robes along with a black vest under the robe. The accents of the robe were a dark red to match his weapons secondary color. He also wore tan cargo pants along with tan combat boots. He had black bushy eyebrows and a somewhat large Afro for his hair. He had a large maniacal smile on his face while he held two silver blades that had a secondary color of a red ish Brown. Locus and the crazed man had a stare down as a gust of wind blew from the open window in the center of the room.

"Adrastos." Locus only says as he glares at the craziest battle lord.

The maniacal smile on Adrastos only grew as he stared at Locus.

"It's been to long hasn't it?" Adrastos says in a very creepy tone.

"It has..." Locus only responds. "Why are you here?..."

"Isn't it obvious my mercenary friend." Adrastos says as he bows. "Master Triton has given me my orders. And it is my job to fulfill his wishes."

Locus narrows his eyes under his helmet. He though about Adrastos's words when here heard Triton's name.

"If Triton is here along with you, then where would be Blue then?" Locus asks strictly.

"Our dear Divine Swordsman is actually looking for the last of your friends! Oh how exited I am when he brings him back! A shame really. Master Triton chooses Blue over me to deal with them." Adrastos says with a disheartened tone.

"What?!" Locus says sharply.

"I think you heard me quite well. Isn't that right Aminta?" Adrastos says as he cradles his two blades.

Locus takes a small step back as he watches Adrastos's antics. He still keeps his SAW trained at the crazed battle lord. Adrastos then glances over towards Locus's direction as his maniacal grin grew. He raised his two blades he calls Aminta towards Locus's direction.

"Aminta and I both think you know what comes up next Samuel." Adrastos says darkly.

Locus decides to take the first move as he fires a few shots with his SAW. Adrastos quickly maneuvers the two Aminta blades into each other, creating a small shield and blocking Locus's barrage of gunfire. As Locus continues his gunfire, Adrastos slowly closes the distance between himself and the Ex-mercenary. Locus manages to run out of ammo for his SAW, he ejects the drum magazine and attempts to reach behind him for a second drum magazine. Adrastos takes his opportunity and bashes Locus with Aminta in its shield form, knocking Locus into the hallway and dropping his SAW and Shotgun on his back. Locus glances up from the ground to see Adrastos standing over him. The crazed battle lord raises Aminta's shield form and uses its bottom sharp blade to attempt stabbing Locus. Locus quickly rolls to his right, dodging the stab. Locus quickly kick's Adrastos's left ankle, causing him to be knocked on to the floor. Adrastos then slices Aminta's shield from towards Locus's direction as he fell onto the ground but misses. Locus quickly stands up from the ground as he raises both his fists as he watches Adrastos recover and swap Aminta to its dual sword mode. Adrastos then dashes in front of Locus as he swings one of the blades, Locus takes a small step back and hits Adrastos wrist mid swing. Locus then grips on to Adrastos's wrist and pulls him towards his direction and kicks his thigh, then his stomach, then axe kicks Adrastos's shoulder, knocking Adrastos's to the ground. Locus then reaches for his belt as he unsheathes a combat knife and flips it to a backhanded position. As Adrastos looked up towards Locus to see him stab the knife into Adrastos's left shoulder. The both of the wrestled for power over each other. Locus manages to push his combat knife a bit deeper into Adrastos's shoulder. Adrastos then manages to use his brute strength to shove Locus off of him and too the side. Adrastos grins and grips the combat knife on his shoulder and quickly pulls it out. He drops the knife on to the floor, he then stretches hes left shoulder around as blood poured out of the wound. Locus just stared at the crazed battle lord with a bit of shock, noticing the high pain tolerance Adrastos had. Locus scans the hallway around him, he could hear that Weiss's performance was over, he then looks over to where the room he was thrown out of. He takes notice of his SAW and Shotgun on the ground near the open window. Locus then quickly turns around and runs for SAW and Shotgun. Adrastos then kicks his Aminta blades up and catches the two blades by their handle and chases after Locus back into the room. Locus manages to reach his Shotgun first, picking it up and cocking it back. Locus then turns around to find Adrastos perform a over head swing with Aminta in its dual sword form. Locus grabs the stock and the barrel of his shotgun and raises it horizontally, blocking Adrastos's attack. Locus and Adrastos continue to clash with brute strength, a few sparks flew between Aminta and Locus's shotgun. Locus then kicks Adrastos against his waists, causing him to recoil back a bit. Locus then pushes Adrastos with his shotgun, then readjusts the grip of his shotgun, aiming the end of the barrel towards the crazed battle lord. Adrastos quickly puts Aminta to its shield form, blocking a blast from Locus's shotgun. Adrastos slightly slides backwards from the impact of the shotgun, Locus then cocks the shotgun, ejecting a empty shotgun shell and continues to fire another shot. Locus slowly takes more steps back towards his SAW, continuing to fire buckshot from his shotgun at Adrastos. Locus then fires his sixth shot, he attempts to fire another shot, but only a click was heard, signaling that he was out of ammo, Adrastos grins as he quickly splits Aminta to its dual blade mode and charges at Locus. Adrastos cuts through a white curtain as Locus rolled away from the attack. Locus glances to his left to see his SAW on the ground. Adrastos who was in front of Locus, quickly puts Aminta together to its shield form while Locus grabbed his SAW, reloads it, and fired it towards Adrastos. Locus continues to firiehis SAW towards Adrastos, who then rolled behind cover while Locus takes the opportunity to grab his grenade launcher from his back. Locus then quickly aims the grenade launcher towards his attackers cover and pulls the trigger, launching the explosive pipe. The blast ftom the grenade pipe opens up a hole into the fourth floor under them. Adrastos was the first to fall down into the hole. In the Adrastos was in, there were already six other atlas security guards. The guards look at the crazed battle lord, then they look up to where the hole was to see Locus run to the edge of the hole and raises his SAW towards Adrastos.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Locus shouts towards the six atlas guards.

The six atlas guards then look over at Adrastos and raises their weapons. Adrastos then smirks as he quickly jabs the end of Aminta's shield form into the chest of one atlas guard, immediately impaling the guard and killing him. Another Guard reaches for his short sword and unsheathes it, vertically swinging it towards Adrastos's direction. Adrastos splits Aminta into its dual blade while it was still impaled into the dead guard. Adrastos then cuts the dead guard in half as he quickly spins around and cuts the arm off the short sword wielding guard and proceeds to spin behind the guard and jabs one Aminta's blades through the back of the head of the armless guard, killing the second guard. Locus quickly reloads his SAW and aims it towards Adrastos, but he then lowers his SAW as he takes notice of Adrastos fighting in close quarters with two other guards. Locus then looks over to the other two guards who were in shock and had their firearms raised.

"YOU TWO! FIND IRONWOOD! ANYONE! NOW!" Locus shouts towards the two idle guards.

The two idle guards snap out of their shock when they hear Locus shout. They look at Locus and give a nod as they start to run for the exit. Adrastos continues to battle the two other guards and glances over to watch the two other guards make a run for the door. Adrastos performs two heavy horizontal slashes to knock the two guards away from him and into the walls across the room. Adrastos them spins around and throws one of his Aminta's blades towards the two guards who ran towards the exit. When they reached the door, one of the guards turns to her partner to watch her get impaled by the Aminta blade. The surviving guard had a look of shock as he looks at his dead partner. Locus jumps down on the upper floor and lands next to Adrastos. Locus blocks a roundhouse kick from Adrastos and punches him against his chest. Adrastos arches forward from the hit, Locus then takes a hold Adrastos's head with both hands and pulls him to knee him against his face. While Adrastos stumbled backwards and clenches his face with his free hand. Locus quickly puts his attention to the shocked guard.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! I SAID MOVE!" Locus shouts.

The guard then looks at Locus as he frantically opens he door and runs out of the room in search for anyone. Locus then turns his attention back towards Adrastos, who held his single Aminta blade with both hands. Locus reaches for his waist and grips the hilt of his energy sword. Adrastos had a smirk growing on his face as they slowly circled each other. As they continued to circle each other, Adrastos managed to grab his second Aminta blade off the corpse of the impaled guard. Adrastos then makes the first move and charges at Locus again. Locus ignites his energy sword and side steps from Adrastos's dual swipe. Locus elbows Adrastos's back, making him stumble forwards. Locus quickly swings his energy sword against Adrastos's back, cutting through his pale green cloak and leaving a burned cut against his skin. Adrastos hisses and turns around for a sluggish swing with both his Aminta blades. Locus easily takes a step back from Adrastos.

"Whats a matter Adrastos? I though you were better than this?" Locus taunts calmly.

"SHUT IT!" Adrastos yells out as he attempts to do another swing.

Locus side steps from Adrastos's sluggish swing. Locus see's a few blips appear towards the doorway. Locus slightly turns his head towards the door as it flies open to see Ironwood with a team of soldiers. Ironwood had his revolver raised towards Adrastos while Locus raises his energy sword towards the crazed battle lord. Adrastos takes a look of the situation he was in and growls with aggression as he stands up and faces Locus.

"Listen here Adrastos, you can either surrender and I can promise that we will do our best to keep you out of harms way. Or we can do this the hard way." Ironwood says as he pulls the hammer back on his revolver.

Adrastos just takes a leap towards Locus and swings one of his Aminta blades towards Locus. Locus just sidesteps to his right and swings his energy sword and cuts the Aminta blade in half. Adrastos lands on his chest as he had a look of shock. He frantically picks up the other piece of his broken blade and starts to cradle it. Ironwood and his troops had a look of confusion as they glanced at Locus who only shrugged slightly. Adrastos stands up and faces Locus again.

"THIS! ISN'T! OVER!" Adrastos says with aggression.

Adrastos reaches behind him and pulls out a teleportation grenade. Locus quickly turns back to Ironwood and his troops.

"DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE!" Locus yells out.

Ironwood and his troops begin to open fire when Locus rolls out of the way. Adrastos grips the teleportation grenade and disappears in a bright flash of orange light, blinding everyone in the room. Once the light fades away, everyone looks to see Adrastos gone, Locus then looks over towards the opposite sides of the room to see the two unconscious guards fro earlier.

"Someone go help them out." Locus says strictly.

"Yes Sir!" The group of soldier say as they run towards the two unconscious guards on each side of the room.

Ironwood walks up to Locus as he was deactivating his energy sword and places it on his waist.

"What happened?! How did he get in here?!" Ironwood says in frustration.

"You guess is as good as mine sir. But its probably the same way he left." Locus says as he exhales.

"How many men have we lost?" Ironwood asks.

"Four on this floor, but I can't say for sure on the fifth floor. I found him when he snuck into the fifth floor." Locus says in deep though. "Has anything happened during the performance or after party?"

"No, we haven't ran into any hostiles at all. Your the only one who dealt with any intruders." Ironwood explains.

Locus remains silent as he thinks of everything Adrastos said during their encounter. Locus then looks at Ironwood again when he remembers one thing.

"Sir, I may have a problem on my hands due to that encounter." Locus says.

"And what wound that be?" Ironwood asks with a slight hint of worry.

"Adrastos said that my team is all that's left...If that's true, we are in big trouble." Locus explains.

"Which team?" Ironwood asks again.

"The team that I was on before I was teleported to Remnant. Adrastos says that my team are all that's left to be 'dealt with'. That could mean that army is compromised along with myself. But he also mentioned that their are 'survivors', so there's a chance that we might not be in that much of a bad position." Locus explains.

"This may be bad then. We can't just risk teams to search for your friends." Ironwood says in frustration.

"I never said you had too. We never knew where your planet was in the first place. If my army was compromised or terminated. Survivors will be scattered in a different planet or system. We have no way attempting to search for survivors. Its all on them to handle themselves or find me and my team." Locus says with a annoyed exhale.

"Do you have any possible way to make contact with them?" Ironwood asks.

"No, were stranded with out backup." Locus says, "We're on our own."


Location: In Orbit, Cier


"Are you sure about this?" Pyrrha asks.

Sky stared out of the window towards the large planet in front of him and Dr. Grey.

"We don't exactly have much of a choice. We need the extra backup. And the coordinates point HERE." Sky's hologram displays as he stared at the planet.

Sky then looks over to Dr. Grey and nods at her. She happily nods back as she pushes the lever forwards, piloting the Revere towards the planet in hopes of searching for the survivors of the distress radio call.


A/N:

Well this took much longer than it needed to. Sorry about that, my procrastination was at a all time high and i've also been playing too many games. So yeah, next chapter wont be done till 2018, due to me slowly working on a Christmas Special. Hopefully I can finish it before Christmas even happens but we'll see. And the special WILL be put on to this website along with my Wattpad. Thanks for reading this chapter, and have a nice day! Cheers :D