.Chapter 25: The Moon Mission
A girl in a blonde hair and pink clothing walked around in an area where she heard a distress call.
"Miss Ceil we have to be careful we do not know what traps lies with us," said a reploid in green.
"I know but we have to find out what that signal is," said Ceil then several people got closed off and Ceil looked at the group as she is cornered and trapped.
"MISS CEIL," shouted one group one way as well as the other way. Soon Ceil looked around as she tried to find a way to escape.
"AHHH!" shouted one group as Ceil saw bunch of blood on the floor. Ceil gulped at the other side screams as another set of blood on the floor. Ceil looked up and saw a compressor of some sort.
"Miss Ceil look out," said the green reploid as Ceil blacked out leaving a distress call. Later… The green reploid woke up and was covered in blood. Ceil was too. The reploid scanned the area and the stench of human blood and reploid blood was mixing causing a strong stench.
"This place… it is an underground drainage system for the blood. I take it this was a slaughter house of some sort," said the reploid as it was getting sick to the stomach. Ceil woke up and looked around seeing blood everywhere.
"Tetra… Are you around," said Ceil. The reploid finally show itself as it has hazel eyes and white hair now dyed in blood red.
"I am here miss Ceil. We survived the compressor thanks to the trapped door you found. The others weren't so lucky," said Tetra as the reploid still have blood stains on the clothing and hair.
"I think we can get-" said Ceil as she tried to get up but fell back down. Tetra went to Ceil.
"Miss Ceil do not move your leg is broken. If you move you will be in pain," said Tetra.
"I will be fine. Let us wait. I think the distress call we sent out will come," said Ceil. Tetra nodded and waited. Meanwhile… Zero and Axl got to the location along with Terra, Lotus, Cassandra, Darkona, Sardine, and Thor.
"It is a distress call you six did not have to follow Zero and myself," said Axl. Sardine smiled.
"There is four distress call. If I am not mistaken now there is eight. We can go the four distress call and find out who sent them," said Sardine, "Plus the one you both probably want to start is the west end. The rest will go either north south or east."
"To bad for you I am heading east," said Cassandra as she takes off. Lotus sighed as she followed her.
"Ok then north or south," said Sardine. Zero and Axl got the message as they were checking their supplies.
"Sorry Sardine but you get south. While Darkona and I got north," said Thor as he left along with Darkona.
"We got you already," said Axl as Zero left Axl behind his dust. Axl started to speed up to catch Zero.
"Ok I get south with the scythe lady," said Sardine. Terra smiled as she had her scythe ready.
"Hey Zero wait up," said Axl as he chased Zero as the two started to be out of sight.
"So what is that about me being called a 'Scythe Lady'. I have a name you know. It is Terra," said Terra. Sardine gulped as she smiled wide.
"I am sorry. I do not know your name," said Sardine. Terra smiled even more as she looked at Sardine.
"I will give you a few seconds head start on the fun before I get there. Once I am there, the fun is over for you and I will hog the spoils. This includes leaving you behind the dust," said Terra. Sardine takes off and tried to go through the traps with his gun blade. Few minutes later Terra and Sardine finally got to a point where the people were trapped.
"Thank you. We would have died. This plantation was once a slaughter house. From it being active something bad happened here and we tried to find out. There may be others who tried to find some clues," said a human with a reploid child looking at Sardine and Terra.
"Are you two are the owners at this slaughter house," said Terra. The human shook her head.
"No it belong to the government to slaughter pigs and other cattle. We lost the cattle a long time ago as well as other meat products. Though this plant was offline when majority of us become vegetarian. Though I live near by and report this to the Ganymede Officials but no one came," said the female.
"Well then we transport you and the child to Guardian Base here as well the others. If there is more we would have known," said Sardine as he teleported the group of survivors into the Guardian Base. The two went to the center as they found three doors and the forth they came out.
"What we do now?" asked Terra. Sardine sighed as he looked at Terra hoping she does not kill him.
"We wait. One of these belongs to the room we need to go. I have a feeling that the other two rooms is where we are going to meet the others," said Sardine. Terra sighed as she sat down fidgeting with her scythe. Meanwhile…Thor and Darkona managed to deal with the mechanaloids and destroyed them with flawless efforts until they reached up to the hostages/survivors.
"Thank you both we would be stuck there forever," said a group of green uniform people.
"Did Sardine sent you guys down here?" asked Thor. The group looked at each other and a reploid spoke.
"Who are you talking about? We are Legion Guards. Master Mikhail sent us down here to check it out," said one of the Guards.
"I see. Well you can tell Master Mikhail that the Guardians picked up the signal and taking over the mission as we speak," said Thor.
"Ok got that sent," said another guard. The guards teleported one by one until one left.
"Our group is falling back we leave this up to your group. Guardians," said the guard as he teleported out. The two walked in and saw Terra and Sardine.
"Well now we know north of us will not do," said Sardine as he now looked East and West.
"Great we meet here," said Thor. Darkona sighed as she sat down next to Terra as she meditates.
"We wait. Someone bound to show us the way," said Darkona. The other two sighed as again they waited. Meanwhile… Cassandra and Lotus were firing and destroying Mechanaloids from left to right. The two had reached to a place where they saw blue uniform people. Cassandra grunted.
"Commander Cassandra? You heard our distress call," said one of the soldiers. Cassandra sighed.
"Of course I heard your distress call. Did Sky ever told you to stay at the main base?" asked Cassandra in a harsh tone.
"We did but we want to find out who sent out a distress call. We found two and we too got trapped and send one of our own," said several members.
"Ok I do not want to hear it. I want all of you to the Guardian Base. ON THE DOUBLE!!" said Cassandra as the group looked at her scared and left. Cassandra came out and saw Sardine, Thor, Terra, and Darkona.
"One word out of you Thor and you will eat gravitational force," said Cassandra as Thor looked at her face as he knows she is pissed.
"Well the only place left is west. We might find out where it leads," said Sardine. Cassandra looked at Sardine.
"Hell wait a minute. You have to give me some time to recuperated. I am still human though," said Cassandra. Sardine sighed.
"Ok we wait for you then," said Sardine. Meanwhile… Axl and Zero had few mechanaloids and a room that is quiet. Too quiet.
"I do not like the looks of this Zero. It is too quiet even for mechanaloids and mavericks," said Axl. Zero knows that this can be trouble. Axl stand on something as he looked at the red goo. Zero noticed it and took a whiff at it.
"Blood?" said Zero as Axl started to see the reploid bodies smashed and humans body crushed.
"I think that is not a good sign," said Axl as he pointed to the dead bodies as he was about to be sick. Zero saw them as he shrugs it off.
"Stay Alert," said Zero. Axl nodded as they saw something red as the ceilings started to collapsed.
"Shoot," said Axl as he speed dash. Zero followed and both went speed dashing and wall kick fast and made it out another room. Sardine and the others saw Zero make a landing and Axl on top of Zero.
"Great now what is your plan captain obvious," said Terra as she was waiting for their move.
"Axl get off of me or you will eat my Z-saber," said Zero as Axl got off of Zero. Zero then stood up. Sardine looked and still saw the distress signal.
"This is a problem the signal is still back there," said Sardine. Axl looked at Sardine evilly.
"I like you to see if you can managed to get out of the moving ceiling and still be alive," said Axl.
"You meant the compacter. Yes I am aware of that. Though there is an opening on the compactor that leads to the blood drainage area of the slaughter house," said Sardine.
"Why do they smashed anything," said Axl, "It reminds me of the scrap yard." Sardine sighed.
"The people here does not have a proper preservatives for their meat. Heck anywhere in space is like that. We either become vegetarians or we grow our cattle and slaughter them. Here the slaughter house supplied out on the colonies as well as Ganymede Moon. This place is still active but we do not know which area that leads there," said Sardine.
"Well there must be a way," said Thor. Sardine pulled out his gun blade and fired a charge plasma shot. It moved slowly and then a sensor picked it up as it reacts to the compactors.
"Well that will make our work cut out then," said Terra, "Not even my shadow abilities can go through those all in one piece." Sardine looked at the top and smiled as he saw something that someone can walked through."
"There is a wire above us. Now I do believe that someone can take their time on the wire as the sentry bots will not sensed anyone up there," said Sardine. Zero and Axl looked at the rope.
"Sorry but Zero and I are not built to walk in those lines like that. If lucky we do not fall," said Axl. The other sighed as they were also not equipped to walk in those lines.
"Hey Aile can help us out if she is ok if not Alouette. Both of them were acrobats of the circus so they can help us," said Thor. Cassandra looked at Thor ready to shoot.
"My point exactly. They know about how to walked in those using dangerous equipment but those two are the only chance we have," said Sardine. Aile smiled as she got out of the southern door.
"You went to a party without me? Well at least it wasn't a model W then," said Aile as she got in.
"Aile how did you get in here," said Sardine. Aile pointed to the human and reploid child.
"The human was worried so she got me here now then lets me work my magic here," said Aile as the group now waiting for her to get across the ropes.