One Cannot Defy Fate
An Every Day Life with Monster Girls Fanfiction
A Unicorn Monster Girl Tale
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Author Notes: I am currently working on converting phrases which were addressed in a recent review specifically the use of monster girl. I didn't realize this was a major issue but it seems a critical review says otherwise so I will be addressing this concern as I take all reviews seriously. The story says complete but that was only due to a system issue on the website. Will be updating its status soon enough.
This story will be completed. I am probably going to take an extended hiatus once I am done to determine if I will continue writing on any further projects.
Removal of the term monster girl(s) has been performed and replaced with mamano for this chapter. At the time I didn't realize there were established terms and since I love mamano despite their many differences I felt it was needed to correct this oversite straight away now that I am aware of it. This revision is occurring story wide.
Chapter 7 – Facing the Past – PT 2
Last Time – Reserve SGT MJR Doug Nichols discovers his unicorn liminal girlfriend has been captured by a roper mamano girl and follows the trail into the sewers. Along the way, he has a quick shootout with ANTICE agents who provide minimal resistance. He also encounters a recently infected roper mamano girl who moments ago was a human female accountant at the wrong place at the wrong time. Finding her to be a friendly in need, the mamano girl is left to MON agents who are on the way as he presses forward working against the clock.
Finally he arrives at the main Crysalis Water Treatment plant and after beating the trail is led to an office building that has been turned into a holding area where all the captured ICE mamano girls are being held in cages. Also in the room is a beautiful but dangerous hobgoblin mamano girl standing watch over his unconscious girlfriend, Luccia. Before he can turn his attention on her, his attention is diverted to a metal military style desk and a large high back office chair facing the main window in the office.
A familiar voice causes the wheels in his mind to turn causing him to lock his weapons on the chair itself slightly unnerved.
"I have been waiting for you, Light Spectre."
"Reveal yourself immediately. Failure will mean death."
As the chair slowly and almost dramatically turns around, my immediately focus on the familiar face staring stoically back at me. A constant breeze blew through the drafty office that now only houses the cages of the captured monster girls but this new development only made the room seem even colder to me.
As I stare back at my old mentor and captain from days past, the sinking and ice cold feeling in my blood intensifies. His light complexion face still wore the same calm and calculating demeanor as always with almost white platinum blond short hair and crimson dark red eyes. This sinking feeling is further accented by the fact, he is wearing the same ICE dress uniform we all last saw him in at our final debriefing before we never saw him again. To further drive home the situation and how fucked up it was, I can clearly see the large red X patches that are super imposed over his ICE uniform patches signifying he is now working for ANTICE.
"It can't be. Capn?" At this point I re-holster my firearms once I confirm who it is.
There isn't much point trying to use them. My ex-captain back in the day was almost just as fast as I was and if he kept up his training regimen that probably hadn't changed.
Taking shots at him would be a waste of time.
"It's been a long time, LS. I am rather surprised to see that you responded to this. I was sure I would be dealing with one of those new MON mamano agents."
"Well, I had heard about the troubles MON and ICE were having with the ANTICE but I was just going to let them handle it that is until they dragged my girlfriend into it."
"Well, shit. She was marked as an ICEP host mamano so that's why they kidnapped her like the others here. I had no idea she was your girlfriend." The man I had once known as captain ran a hand through his hair genuinely looking like he had no idea.
Despite that, I refused to let down my guard as the X's on his uniform clearly told me which side he was on the law these days.
"Regardless, what is your objective with joining with the ANTICE of all things? I don't understand why you would want to join up with them despite considering how MON was mismanaging us back then."
"Well, part of the reason was what MON had us go through only to write us all off with a check. However, the other reason for joining ANTICE is that looking at what they stand for up close I am convinced they are right." The captain smiles widely with a slightly deranged look on his face which seems foreign for a man I have seen calm and collected for all of the tours I remember him on.
"So you really do work with them now? So where do we go from here, sir?" Seeing this was my ex-captain I still felt the need to show him some measure of respect though much of it was lost on the fact he had turned into a traitor.
"Well, seeing as it looks like you didn't kill that roper girl on the way here, it is likely your aware time is not in your favor. As much as you want to probably neutralize me or my assistant Helga over there, you just don't have the time."
"What do you mean by lack of time?" As far as I can tell from my initial assessment, Luccia is just unconscious but other than that I didn't see anything else wrong with her.
My ex-captain sighs and looks down briefly. "This really wasn't my idea but you know in our profession orders are orders. All of these mamano girls have been infected with a new type of mamano virus and are at different stages of exposure. Your girlfriend there is the worse for wear as she was given a slightly stronger dose as she was the last to be captured. It appears the botched up the dose I think."
"What?!" My calm mask begins to crack at hearing what he is saying.
"Well, ANTICE figured someone from MON or ICE would be coming by to cause some trouble or derail our plan so they put this elaborate setup into motion. Our real objective was to tap into an old forgotten unsecure data line that connects us directly into the shared MON/ICE database. Before your arrival, we were able to digitally break in and secure terabytes of data and have already acquired what we needed."
The captain looks somewhat smug as he says this.
"So poisoning the mamano girls was simply the insurance in place to allow you guys to get away. But what about the virus?! How do we reverse the effects?!"
"It's not an exceptionally rare virus except maybe to anyone here in the human realm as it's more commonly encountered in monster world fauna. Any competent ICE or MON mamano medical facility should be able to reverse the effects in time. But that means you won't have time to waste trying to deal with us."
As he continues speaking slowly, Crimson and the hobgoblin Helga have already started making towards the exit. I really want to shoot at them but with the mamano girls in the room in immediate danger I can't spare the time to deal with him. Not to mention, there is no chance it would really do any good anyhow.
"Sir, you do realize we will now be hunting for you. No intelligence agency will allow ex intelligence operatives to fall in enemy hands. Also be aware MON is already en route."
Just before the two make their exit, my ex-captain has a few final parting words. "From now on, call me Crimson. Whatever name I had before no longer has any meaning for me. And feel free to give chase. Rest assured, though ANTICE will not be so easily stopped."
With the immediate threat on the run, I decide it best to call it in as the captured and poisoned ICEP girls here are going to need immediate care. Though my primary concern is on Luccia.
"Mama Bear come in, this is Agent X."
With the timing of a frickin angel, Ms. Smith and her MON squad bust in through the main doors of the office at this exact moment.
"Report!"
"Hostiles escaping through rear door. One, positively identified as MON N9 ex-captain now going by the name Crimson working for ANTICE. Also one illegal mamano hobgoblin identified as Helga. I did not engage for fear of retaliation against captured ICEP girls within vicinity. Pursue at all costs as they also have critical classified data stolen from the MON/ICE Mainframe."
Manako and her fellow agents don't wait for confirmation from Ms. Smith and give immediate chase after the traitor and his ward hoping to capture them. I am hopeful they will be successful but my concern is on the fate of Luccia. Selfish I know but love can screw up your logic like that.
I immediately sink down and begin running a field check on Luccia's vitals.
Her skin is paler then her usual pearl clandestine complexion and her breathing is shallow and labored. I am also able to detect her heart rate is elevated and her body has a light sheen of sweat. As though she needs any other complications, I can sense her body temperature is elevated giving me signs of a fever.
"What's wrong with her?" Ms. Smith runs over to me and Luccia on the floor while also noting something similar is going on with the other captured girls.
"Dispatch immediate medical retrieval teams for these girls. They have all been infected with a monster world fauna virus. According to Crimson, Luccia is the worst for wear as she was infected with a more potent dose."
Ms. Smith is already busy at work on her tablet dispatching medical support. It suddenly occurs to me that this plant probably has a direct access point to the surface and with time working against us this maybe the only way to save Luccia.
At first I struggle with how I am going to move Luccia as she is a unicorn liminal until I note a large freight cart big enough to put her on nearby. This must have been how they transported her here once she lost consciousness.
"Ms. Smith, I need to depart immediately with Luccia for the Chrysalis ICEP Medical Pavilion as I do not believe she has enough time to wait for medical transport. Crimson was very specific in stating she did not have nowhere near as much time as the others."
"Go! We have things under control here. God speed!"
Powered by adrenaline and worry, I struggle but am able to move Luccia onto the cart then roll her out of the large office room looking for the freight elevator that maybe nearby. With this large water treatment plant here, it makes since one would be close.
Following the signs on the wall, I turn down one corridor after another until it almost seems to be a search of futility until at last I find what I am looking for. Down an open suspended corridor which appears to run over the water treatment plant itself, I see at the end of it the freight elevator door I am looking for. Being ever trained to be combat ready, I stop the cart with Luccia a few feet away before warily approaching the control for the elevator.
I immediately press the button and the freight elevator door gradually opens but to my horror I find a hostile roper mamano shrouded slightly in the dark of the elevator waiting for me.
My inhuman reflexes and adrenaline combined with battle hardened training save me from certain death as I automatically fall into my spectre speed state dodging the flailing tentacles of the roper meant to end me.
During my dodge attempt, I pull out my two blades and take up a defense position a few feet away from the elevator opening in front of the cart Luccia is being transported on.
The roper emerges from the shadow of the open freight elevator into the light so I can get a good look at her. The top half of the roper mamano is that of an attractive long haired brunette girl with a green shimmering eyes, a notable bust line and lovely face though she is wearing a serene yet slightly deranged expression. She is wearing a black button up shirt though several of her top buttons are undone to partially display her sizeable breasts. The bottom half of the mamano tells the real story as her body mutates into a gelatinous mass with tentacles poised to strike.
"Damn, I almost had you there!"
I do not respond to the hostile mamano in question as there is no time for games. I keep the imminent worry of Luccia out of my mind as this is a roper I am dealing with here. One mistake and it's over. There are no known cures for the roper virus. If I become infected, its game that is if she doesn't just eat me which isn't any better.
"What? You're not going to talk to me?"
I begin preparing for my signature Ghost Spectre move which I have only done twice in the field. Fighting a roper like you would a human will mean death. You're not going to be fast enough. And my firearms are not of a sufficient caliber to do the job. And with no way to detain a biohazard such as this mamano, there is no other option but to put her down for good. Once I am mentally prepared, I wait for her to make the first move. It would be her last.
With time not on my side, I don't have to wait long.
"Fine! If that is how you want it!"
She suddenly lurches forward in what I suppose was a feint however her tentacles which were always my focus dart toward me in what would be a blinding speed for the average person. Fortunately, I am ready for this as I unleash the full power of my abilities. With the mindset of attacking a fiend rather than a mamano, my Ghost Spectre moves comes into play as I move at the speed of light effortlessly dodging the fast moving tentacles while slicing them up while pressing ever forward.
At last, I reach the roper liminal herself delivering a final attack of 30 slashes at close range in a blinding flurry varying from top to bottom and side to side at a speed even faster than previous before lurching back returning to my previous position all within the span of 2 seconds. To the naked eye, I had never moved from my position.
The roper mamano and her tentacles however are seized in place seemingly unaffected. However it is when my swords are returned to their sheaths that the truth is revealed as her tentacles bursts into small pieces and the roper liminal seizes. As blue liquid which I assume to be blood slowly starts to emerge out of the side of her mouth, she manages only one word:
"Impossible."
At that she stumbles and falls over the side of the open corridor into the darkness below while separating into several pieces which I do not care to dwell on. Not wasting time to dwell on my victory, I resume pushing the cart with my mamano girlfriend the few feet left into the freight elevator and once inside, press the UP button then stand at readiness as the freight elevator begins its rapid climb. Since this elevator is normally designed to transport freight, supplies and etc it moves at a slightly faster pace than most elevators perhaps more on par with ones installed in hospitals.
As I stand in waiting, my mind thinks back to the short but sweet time I have had with Luccia and can't help but dwell on how close I am to losing her. This mindset helps to maintain my adrenaline high as I have no intention of letting that happen. A slight glance over at Luccia tells me I have less than an hour which further heightens my sense of urgency. Finally, the door opens and I resist the urge to exit it like a racehorse with a mission to win.
After the door opens fully, I wearily emerge from the door first scouting for any possible hostiles in waiting. Fortunately, none are in sight. Wasting no further time, I begin carting my unconscious mamano girlfriend at safest possible speed through the city streets heading towards the Chrysalis ICEP Medical Center which is still a few blocks away. This freight cart was clearly not built for speed as its rattle and clamor is far from a mere distraction. Despite that and its combined weight with Luccia on it, I press on dodging pedestrians in the way making the wheels squeal occasionally from the unexpected work. At last, I finally arrive at the Chrysalis ICEP Medical Center and blindly roll right through the main emergency room doors. Fortunately no one is coming or going or I probably would have bowled them over. Not bothering to address the front desk, I voice my medical situation out loud right in the emergency room lobby.
"MON SRT reserve agent requesting immediate medical assistance for a VIP ICEP protected mamano! STAT response requested!"
A tall female ICEP doctor with short black hair, violet eyes adorned in a green medical smock with four nurses in pink medical smocks in tow emerge immediately and take over the cart from me while I follow with them. The nurses all of them sheep mamano females immediately begin their own field assessment of Luccia while the doctor converses with me as we all head in the direction of the mamano trauma center.
"What happened?"
"Unicorn mamano suffering from malicious monster world fauna poisoning classification and type unknown! Exposure extended and condition critical. I got her here as fast as I could."
"What is your relationship with this mamano? Are you her host family?"
"Yes, I am her host family and she is my girlfriend." I hand the doctor Luccia's ICEP identification.
"Understood. We will take it from here. Don't worry we will take good care of her. Please go to the MON VIP waiting area. Your MON reserve ID card should allow you access. Look to the monitor screen inside for her status. A doctor will visit with you shortly after she has been assessed."
The doctor and the nurses continue pushing the cart through the open trauma center doors as I stop in place and can only watch helplessly as they disappear down the hall turning a corner as the door close in place.
