Chapter 10: Code Empress
The city of Hamel was going through immediate reconstruction due to the battle between Chung and the Shadow Master. Soldiers and workers were helping each other out handing bricks and materials to one another. The uplifting feel that the citizens of Hamel City had had returned into their spirits once again.
Meanwhile Chung and the Deadly Chaser were outside the Hamel Gates talking to each other as the Deadly chaser was explaining the current situation. They settled in a prairie next to a water fall as they sat on the soft green grass that spread all around. Their Destroyers were standing up next to each other side by side as the sun shone upon them.
"So what you're saying is that you're the Chung Seiker from this world?" Chung asked.
"Precisely, but unlike you I left the city in the hands of my subordinates as I was looking for my own path, but that's a secret so I can't tell you," the Deadly Chaser replied, "so, I may not have princely qualities like you."
"Don't worry about it, I don't have that much of a personality."
"Will do, Aisha just told me a moment before I saw you to inform you of what was going on, as the others have met their counterparts as well."
"So, that means that my friends are OK?"
"Safe and sound, their staying in our barracks in Velder Village along with my friends, but there is one problem..."
"What's that?"
"According to Aisha, Eve is the only person that were still unable to get a hold of, so none of them know where she is right now…"
Chung went silent and no one talked as Chung was thinking about every possible scenario that could've happened to her, but soon let out a smile.
"I wouldn't worry too much," Chung said, "Eve is pretty strong she can handle herself."
"If you're that confident about her then I might know where she went," the Deadly Chaser added.
"Really how?"
"The appearances of you and you're friends when you came to our world is too much of a coincidence to be luck."
"So you're saying that the fact we all met our counterparts means that Eve might have met hers?"
"Chances are yes, she probably did."
Chung picked up his Destroyer and headed back inside the city.
"Wait!" the Deadly Chaser shouted, "where are you going?"
"Follow me I have an idea," Chung Replied.
The Deadly Chaser quickly picked up his Destroyer and followed Chung back into the city
The two guardians headed down the main streets of the city running through the crowd trying to avoid workers and soldier carrying blocks and cement over their shoulders. Chung looked back to see that the Deadly Chaser was wearing his hood over his head trying to cover most of his face. Chung was confused to why his new accomplice was trying to shun himself amongst the crowd. Chung ignored it for the time being and headed for the weapons shop.
The two soon arrived and went inside. Inside the shop Horatio was nowhere to be found.
Chung looked back at the Deadly Chaser to see that his hood was off.
"Why do you do that?" Chung asked.
"Do what?" the Deadly Chaser asked back.
"Your hood, you put it on when we were running through the streets and you took it off as we came in here."
The room went silent for a moment until the Deadly Chaser spoke up.
"No one can know about this OK?"
"Understood."
"Thank you, so the people of Hamel know I left the City, but don't know that I'm here right now and I am unable to show my face until I avenge my father's death and complete his mission."
"I see, you miss father too don't you?"
Memories of their father went through their heads of as the room went silent once again. The remembered how good of a guardian their father was to this city. A tear ran down both their faces. They looked at each other and wiped the tear off their face.
"Yah, he was a good man," replied the Deadly Chaser.
Suddenly Horatio appeared from the back room, with a face mask on. Immediately the Deadly Chaser put his hood back on and faced away from Horatio.
"Ahhh, your Majesty, you've returned," Horatio said, "who's your friend?"
"Ummm… he's a new soldier for the Hamel army I'm just showing him around," Chung replied.
"Oh I see, anyways here you go."
Horatio gave Chung back his earpiece and it was if it was brand new.
"Perfect, good as new," thanked Chung.
"It was hard, but I managed to fix it, it was pretty difficult due to all the noise you made outside earlier"
"Hehe, sorry about that."
"Don't worry about you did what you had to do."
"Thanks Horatio, this really means a lot."
"Anytime, your Majesty."
The two guardians left the shop and headed back outside.
Outside Chung turned on the earpiece and tried to contact Eve. He heard a bit of static and some ringing. The more h waited the more he began to worry whether if she was in trouble or not. Suddenly he heard something different. Through the earpiece, Chung heard the sound of some sort of alarm. The alarm was pretty loud that people around him and the Deadly Chaser looked at both of them due to how loud it was. Chung began to speak into it.
"Eve! Eve are you OK!? What's wrong!?" Chung panicked.
There was no answer, and it felt as if the alarm got louder and louder, until he heard a voice.
"I am here," Eve replied.
"It's Chung, Eve what's going on? What's that noise?" Chung asked.
"I am sorry Chung, but I can't talk right now, maybe later."
"Later? Bu-"
The call ended to a quick stop, before Chung could finish his sentence. He tried to call back, but Eve wouldn't pick up.
"Eve may need some help," he thought to himself, "I'll call the others."
Chung quickly made his move and decided to get to the bottom of this.
Meanwhile at the Altera Core, red lights were flashing through halls and corridors with a loud alarm making a lot of noise in the background. With Moby and Remy by her side Eve quickly dashed through halls gliding across the ground trying to find a safe place. On her body were tunes and wires that Moby and Remy were picking off. Suddenly she heard a voice over a P.A. system that sounded similar to hers.
"Attention to all Nasod units, we have a rampant test subject. Immediate retrieval of experiment is acquired."
Suddenly the lights and alarm stopped and everything was quiet. Up ahead a door opened in front of Eve and she headed straight for it. Inside was a production site for new nasod machines and drones. She looked around to see how well the Altera Core was reacting to all the different machines set up inside the site. Conveyer belts and doors were working together as all different types of nasods kept coming in and out of passageways.
"This setup is so well organized," Eve admired, "This is nasod technology I haven't seen before."
Suddenly the production stopped and the machinery shut down. Nasods on the conveyor belts suddenly turned on and their heads rotated towards Eve. At the same time doors around Eve opened and nasods started to rush into the room pointing their attention at her.
"They found us," Eve said to herself, "Moby, Remy, get activate Battle Formation One."
The two floating drones moved in closer to Eve circling around readying themselves for an attack.
Nasods from all directions closed in on her slowly. Then they stopped and stood there motionless. They reformed in an organized line as all of them faced the door Eve went through. Eve was confused to why the nasods halted their attack, until she heard the door open behind her. She quickly turned around to see what look liked a humanoid type of nasod like herself. The nasod wore a white tiara on its head and had silver hair that bunched up and curled to the side. She also wore a white gown that went down to her ankles, but what stood out the most were the two nasod drones that were similar to Moby and Remy floating around her just like Eve's drones. Suddenly from behind two more drones appeared and they stood right next to the nasod with the gown, one on each side. One of the drones had a masculine figure with a mask like face, and in its arms it held nasod blades. The other had a more feminine structure and had a pink nasod body that looked like a girl wearing a dress.
The nasods approached Eve and as they got closer they stared at the core in the middle of her forehead. They soon stopped and there was a sudden silence within the room.
"I found you," said the white haired nasod, "Now, face the wrath of the Code Empress."
Words from the Author: There is a very, very, very, very, very late Chapter 10 for you guys. I apologize for the really late update, but I got caught up in school work and work and I'm very sorry. Also sorry for the short chapter I got caught up and I want to make this story last a bit longer, so that's why this chapter is so short. Things should be back on schedule, so expect the next chapter soon, so until next time I'll see you guys later.