Land of Machines
Bastian lay on the cold hard cell floor lost in thought. Every day he began to loose hope that he'd ever make it out of the tower alive. The sorceress was a sadistic bitch, if he ever saw one, and she had no problem demonstrating that point to any of them. Thankfully though she'd been leaving him alone lately, but that only made him worry about what she may be doing to his friends.
He was drawn from his thoughts by the door opening and a group of people walking in, among them was Mia, and that just made Bastian more worried. The other people were Antym and a group of men dressed in pale green armor that made them resemble walking fish. They carried triton-like weapons and they were pointed right at Bastian.
"Get up!" ordered Mia "I have no further use for you, you'll be going with these nice Esharians I'm sure they'll take good care of you, Antym, see that they get there in one piece."
With his fate decided, the sorceress left to do whatever it was she did when she wasn't toying around with him. The soldiers grabbed him, and he didn't even bother trying to overpower them, he was outnumbered five to one and completely unarmed, fighting was probably suicide, and he couldn't afford to die quite yet.
He was led to a room with a large panel in the middle. The panel was in the shape of a circle and it had many intricate runes carved around it. Also in the room were more Esharian soldiers guarding Sophia and Ethan. Both of them were bound in the same fashion as Bastian was, with their hands behind their backs and manacles on their feet.
"Prepare for transport." said one of the soldiers in a strangely toneless voice
"Just a minute" said Antym suddenly "I'd like to show you something"
"This is not part of the directive" said the same soldier "Your services are no longer required, we shall begin transport now."
"This will only take a moment." said Antym before hurling a Thundaga spell at the soldier. The spell caused the soldier's armor to spark wildly and it jerked around haphazardly crashing into the other soldiers, Bastian and the others quickly got out of the way and a Thundaga spell destroyed the soldiers that had been surrounding them. There were three soldiers remaining and both cast Reflect on themselves to prevent the same fate that happened to their comrades. Unfortunately for them though, the time it took them to cast the spell was all Antym needed to draw his gunblade and close the distance between them. The soldiers' heads were quickly taken off by the gunblader and Bastian was surprised to see that there was no blood, but instead a thick blue substance which had a metallic sheen.
With all the soldiers taken care of, Antym quickly turned to the three remaining occupants, the three tried to take fighting stances, but due to the manacles and binds, they could do little more than stand and wait for the end. They waited for the inevitable battle, but it never came, instead, Antym sheathed his gunblade and addressed his three former friends.
"You're going to have about five minutes to get away from the touchdown point when you get to Eshar." he said, getting straight to the point. "I'm going to release your binds and give your equipment, I'd do more if I could, but I can't."
"What about Andrea?" asked Sophia "We're not leaving without her."
"You don't have a choice." said Antym "If I had it my way, you'd all be out of here, but it's not my way and I was given a direct order not to assist, go near, or communicate with Andrea in any way, fortunately for you, Mia forgot to give me direct orders concerning you all."
He walked over to one of the walls in the room and presses a hidden button, the wall slid aside revealing another room, Antym went inside and quickly returned with their weapons, Materia and GF stones.
"Stand on the teleporter and I'll remover your bonds, don't try anything stupid and I won't have to hurt you." said Antym, placing the equipment in the middle of the room on top of the circular panel.
The three of them did as they were told and stood around the pile of equipment, waiting to see what would happen next.
Antym pointed a small remote at each of them and their binds were released. Bastian immediately went for his sword and grabbed a random GF stone and green materia. He quickly junctioned the GF and found that it was Quetzacoatl. The materia turned out to be an Ice Materia and he quickly turned on Antym.
"I thought I said not to do anything stupid!" hissed Antym annoyed "Should have known you'd be the one to try it."
Before he could draw his own weapon, he had to dodge a crossbow bolt and an incoming Fira spell from Sophia and Ethan respectively. The knight sighed in frustration as he parried a blow from Bastian's sword and dove off the teleporter. He aimed the remote at the panel and the entire room lit up with a bright blue glow. The three resistance members tried to move, but they were rooted to the spot by an unseen force.
"I didn't want it to be like this." said Antym sadly "If she hadn't ordered me to make sure you made it to Eshar, I'd have tried to get you out some other way, but this is the best I could do."
"Why?" asked Bastian, not bothering to specify what he meant.
"It all comes down to orders." said Antym
"Who ordered you to become a knight then?" asked Bastian, not really looking for an answer, but he got one.
"Dincht" was the simple reply
"Wha-…" started Bastian, but he was cut off by the teleporter activating and taking him and the others away in a flash of bright blue light. Antym shook his head forlornly as he looked around the room, now filled with various cyborg body parts. He'd managed to get three of his friends out, and he knew he'd pay for it when Mia found out, which she always did, this would mean it would be even harder for him to get Andrea out and he wondered if he should have done things differently. The answer was no of course, since they'd have been in for quite a nightmare if he'd have let them be taken by the soldiers. Knowing that there was nothing else for him to do but wait and hope for the best, the knight left the room to find his sorceress and most likely get tortured for helping his friends.
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The group reappeared inside another room that looked far different than the first, for one, the panel was much larger, indicating that whoever controlled it from this side could transport a massive amount of people or things if they had the need. The most noticeable change though was the amount of machinery in the room, there appeared to be computers everywhere and there didn't appear to be a door to the room either.
"Where the hell are we?" wondered Bastian aloud
"I'd assume it's Eshar" said Ethan "If we trust what Antym said anyway."
"I don't trust a word that bastard said." said Bastian stubbornly "He was clearly lying about Admiral Dincht, the man would never order anyone to do that."
"Yes he would" said Sophia harshly
"How can you say that?" said Bastian "I know he kicked me out, but there was a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to me."
"You were just a scapegoat Bastian, since he couldn't get Antym" said Ethan "But that's a conversation for later, I happen to think we should believe him since he did get us out of there."
"You're right." said Bastian "Now the question is, how do we get out? I don't see a door anywhere."
"There's a section of wall with no computers." said Sophia "We should probably check that out."
After quickly gathering the remaining materia and weapons, they made their way over to the one section of wall that was void of machines. When they came within a few feet of the wall, it slid aside automatically, letting them out of the room. They found themselves in a long corridor witch appeared devoid of any doors, much like the last room had. The room happened to be at the end of the corridor, so they only had one way to go.
"We're bound to run into trouble." said Bastian quietly "Most likely more cyborgs, have a lightning spell ready."
The others nodded in agreement and they quietly crept down the hallway. They'd only walked three minutes when they ran into the first soldier. They had just turned a corner when the cyborg appeared out of another hidden door. Upon spotting the three humans, the cyborg let out a high pitched piercing sound and klaxons started blaring all over the building.
"Security breech in sector 2342-6, all available combat units respond immediately, detainment is preferred. Repeat: Security breech in sector 2342-6 all available combat units respond immediately, detainment is preferred." A mechanical female voice sounded along with the alarm.
Soldiers began pouring out of hidden doors all along the hallway and the three of them were quickly surrounded. They began blasting the cyborgs with Thundara and Thundaga spells and were doing considerable damage to them, until the cyborgs started casting Reflect on themselves and began firing plasma bolts from their tritons at the unlucky trio. The three of them quickly cast Protect spells to block the beams and began to fight back with their weapons at the closest cyborgs. Once they charged their weapons with lightning magic, they were able to quickly cut a path through the assembled cyborgs.
Unfortunately the quick skirmish had tired the already weary companions even more. After a week of being in Baron's prison followed by another week at the sorceress' keep, they barely had enough energy to keep running from the pursuing cyborgs. It was by sheer dumb luck that Ethan happened to brush against a section of wall that was actually a door. Inside was what appeared to be a hanger. There were vehicles of all kinds all over the place and at the other end of the room was an opening to the desert outside.
"That ATV over there looks like a winner." said Bastian, quickly hopping into the driver's seat of the large armored ATV. Ethan hopped in beside him and Sophia vaulted into the backseat before quickly turning around and firing lightning charged bolts at the soldiers who were following them. It took a couple of seconds for Bastian to figure out how to start the ATV and in that time the soldiers had gotten to within meters of them, despite Ethan and Sophia's efforts to halt their progress.
"Hurry up Bastian!" yelled Ethan before casting another Thundaga spell at a group of unprotected cyborgs.
"Almost got it." said Bastian distractedly "There…let's ride!" The ATV roared to life and Bastian quickly headed toward the open hanger doors, but they were quickly closing. He mashed the accelerator all the way to the floor, pushing the bulky vehicle to its limits. It was surprisingly fast for such a bulky vehicle, but it still only barely cleared the hanger doors before they closed behind them with a loud clank. Sophia and Ethan took the reprieve to catch their breaths and regain some of their spent energy.
"Where do we go from here?" asked Sophia
"Not sure." said Bastian "Things haven't really gone as I expected them to."
"Yeah, but when have things ever gone the way you expect them to?" asked Ethan
"Good point." said Bastian "This is all Sheyna's fault."
"You can be really daft sometimes Bastian." said Sophia "You think she was doing what Kuja said willingly? Did you see the blank look in her eyes? And I could tell she was trying to fight it, but whatever it was, it was too strong for her to fight off."
"Now that you mention it, I did wonder about that." said Bastian "But I was a little preoccupied at the time recovering from being turned into a zombie, not to mention that weird thing with the Pyreflies."
"I think that was what gave us that new Limit Break thing." said Ethan "You think that was what they call Trance?"
"I don't know what else it could be." said Bastian "It takes a lot out of you, whatever it is."
"Guys, we've got company!" yelled Sophia before firing another bolt at another ATV, the bolt bounced off the armor harmlessly, in spite of the lightning giving it more power. The ATV countered with a stream of heavy plasma bursts that would have done significant damage to the ATV if Bastian hadn't dodged in the nick of time.
"How did they do that." said Bastian hitting the unmarked buttons on the console in front of him. The vehicle suddenly picked up speed at an alarming rate as one of the buttons triggered the thrusters on the back of the ATV. The sudden increase in speed left the other ATV in far behind, the reprieve was short lived though, because no sooner had they lost sight of the pursuing cyborgs, then a squadron of twenty small aircrafts closed in on their position.
"We need to find the weapons fast!" exclaimed Ethan "They're gonna blow us to pieces at this rate."
"I'm trying" said Bastian before hitting another button, this time another console appeared in front of Ethan and the SeeD quickly studied it before hitting a series of buttons.
"This should arm the guns." said Ethan before hitting another button and sending a stream of plasma bolts at the incoming aircrafts. The shots managed to take out two of the planes, but the others quickly scattered away from the attack and countered with one of their own. Bastian was hard pressed to dodge all of them and a few managed to impact the hull of the ATV.
"Any idea how to raise the top on this thing." said Sophia nervously, having ducked when the plasma came raining down.
"Ethan?" asked Bastian in response
"This console's only got weapons." He hit another button and armed another plasma cannon, then he began a new barrage of plasma to combat the relentless assault coming from the air.
"I think this one should do it." said Bastian before hitting the button and causing the ATV to come to a screeching halt. The planes kept on flying, unable to double back fast enough. "Wrong one." said Bastian sheepishly "This one then" that button caused the ATV's front thrusters to engage, sending the ATV back in the direction it had come.
"No not that way!" yelled Sophia "We're going right back toward the other soldiers!"
Sure enough, a group of ATVs not unlike the one the group was riding in was closing in on them. To make matters worse, the planes had managed to change direction and were flying towards them as well.
"This isn't good" said Ethan "I can't hold them all off."
"Only one thing to do then" said Bastian "We call for backup."
"Will they be enough?" asked Sophia
"We don't really have a choice" said Ethan "Pandamona, Tornado Zone!"
"Diamond Dust" said Sophia, calling Shiva forth to aid them.
"Let's hope Quetzacoatl isn't still pissed at me." said Bastian "Thunder Storm!"
"No way human" said the thunderbird grudgingly "I don't forget easily and I don't think you really deserve my help."
"Now isn't really the time Quetzacoatl" said Carbuncle "If you don't help him they'll probably die."
"Then he dies." said the thunderbird "I have other junction stones, I'll just transfer my consciousness to one of my copies."
The other two GF had materialized and were already unleashing their fury on the surrounding army. The planes were tossed about by Pandamona's whirlwinds and Shiva's ice attacks were doing considerable damage to the ground forces, it still wasn't enough though and as the Guardians disappeared, the remaining soldiers regrouped for one final assault.
"Come on Quetzacoatl, I promise I won't ever take Leviathan's side in an argument again." pleaded Bastian "If you don't help me I won't be able to give you back to Andrea, and I thought you liked her."
"Very well" said Quetzacoatl before materializing and letting loose a massive surge of lightning that caused the remaining ATVs and planes to explode due to overloaded systems. Quetzacoatl soared around a bit before dematerializing and retreating back to Bastian's mind.
"I thought I was gonna have to sell it my soul for it to come out." said Bastian
"That's why they say not to junction two opposing GF, but you never did listen and it came back to haunt you." said Sophia "But we can discuss this more later, we need to get out of here before more soldiers come after us."
"Let's go then" said Bastian before restarting the ATV and heading in a random direction.
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several hours later the group had come no closer to finding civilization of any kind. Fortunately they hadn't encountered anymore of the cyborgs, but in spite of this, recent events were starting to catch up with them and they were quickly growing exhausted.
"I don't think….I can drive…anymore." said Bastian drowsily.
"Just a little…further." said Sophia, repeating the same thing she'd said the last three times Bastian had made a comment.
"I'd like a…Zzz…large pizza…Zzz…double cheese…" droned Ethan in his sleep from the passenger seat.
Bastian's head suddenly went limp and his grip on the steering wheel slackened to the point where his hands lay limp at his sides, his body arched forward and his head was soon resting on the steering wheel, his right foot was still on the accelerator though and the vehicle plowed onward, in spite of its sleeping occupants.
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Bastian awoke from his dream with a start, it wasn't merely a dream, more like a bad memory of his SeeD qualification mission, even though that had been a disaster, he'd somehow made it into the ranks of SeeD in spite of the setbacks. His thoughts were interrupted when he realized that he was lying on some sort of medical table and he was no longer in the ATV as he last remembered. He also had a very bad headache.
Someone was immediately at this side upon noticing that he was awake and gently but firmly pushed him back down onto the medical table. The man had long black hair that went well past his shoulders, he had a handsome face and bright blue eyes. He looked to be around twenty-eight or twenty-nine and he had a muscular build fitting of a soldier. He wore a silver combat vest with a black T-shirt underneath and his pants looked to be the same material as the vest. He had no weapons to speak of, but Bastian got the feeling that there was more to this man than met the eye.
"You're exhausted, dehydrated and you've got some internal bleeding as well." said the man "you're lucky to be alive after the crash you had."
"Crash?" asked Bastian
"You plowed that ATV you were in right into one of the monuments at Tear's point, luckily for you the ATV absorbed most of the damage and you and your friends only came out with a few scrapes."
"Who are you, where am I and where are the others?" asked Bastian
"Name's Laguana, you're somewhere safe and you're friends are in other rooms like this one." said Laguana
"That name sounds familiar." said Bastian
"I was modeled after Laguana Liore," said Laguana "Or at least that's what my creator told me, didn't get to talk to her much before she deactivated me."
"Wait, you're a cyborg?" asked Bastian alarmed
"No, I'm an android" said Laguana "There's a big difference, cyborgs don't think, they just follow directions. Androids have free will, we can make choices and we can even feel emotion."
"You mean there're more of you?" asked Bastian
"Lots of us actually." said Laguana "But let's talk about you, why are there three humans here?"
"You mean there aren't any humans in Eshar?"
"Not many" said Laguana "There's a small settlement up north, if the cyborgs haven't found it anyway, and those are the only humans left on the continent."
"No wonder no one sees any Esharians in the outside world." said Bastian
"Where from the outside world are you from?" asked Laguana
"Hard to say" said Bastian "I was born in New Zanerkand, enrolled in Bessaid Garden, got kicked out of there and ended up in Lucca, the place there got destroyed and I've been traveling around ever since." said Bastian
"You have contacts at Garden?" asked Laguana, almost hopefully
"Sorry, like I said I was kicked out, they wouldn't want anything to do with me, and even if they did, things have been weird at Garden lately. What about you, what exactly happened here?"
"Well, as you know Eshar or Esthar as it used to be called, was the leading country in technological advancement. After the Ultimecia incident, things weren't good for the country. Monsters were everywhere and even though the sorceress was dead, her minions weren't, and there was no one to come from the past and save us this time, so the government at that time commissioned for a new type of cyborg, more powerful and more capable than the older models."
"They began manufacturing the new machines and soon, Eshar had a new army that quickly took care of the massive fiend problem, the trouble was that many of the fiends retreated to other parts of the planet. Shortly after that The Merger happened and the monsters spread over the newly formed planet."
"But weren't there already fiends on the other worlds that merged?" asked Bastian "This always confused me."
"There were, but not like the ones out of Eshar, the fiends that were already present in other areas weren't as strong as the ones in Eshar, there were a few, but not like there was after the others spread. Anyway, Eshar decided since they inadvertently set loose the fiends, they should compensate whoever had to go out and kill them, that's when the Eshar Financial Committee was formed and the satellite tracking systems were upgraded to monitor all fiend activity."
"Things were fine for a time, until someone released a virus into the central computer system. The thing took control of the cyborg army and began terminating the humans without discrimination for age, race or gender. The people tried to fight, but with the majority of the army being cyborgs, it was a loosing battle. Things only got worse from there. The virus kept up appearances for the other countries, making them believe that everything was fine in Eshar while it gradually isolated us from the rest of the world."
"Then a couple centuries ago, I was reactivated, apparently I'd been in a sort of stasis pod inside the Sorceress' Memorial. The other androids found me and we've been trying to overthrow the virus ever since, but it's been tough going."
"That explains so much" said Bastian "Everyone wondered why Eshar was so isolated, now I guess we know why, but why haven't you tried contacting the outside world, surely you have communications equipment that could do it."
"We tried, all we managed to get before the virus interrupted the signal was someone calling themselves Cirrus Strife, he wasn't very sympathetic." said Laguana
"Not surprising" said Bastian "That guys head of a 'communications company' and let's just say that they're into almost everything illegal and just use the company as a giant front, but lately they've been really aggressive."
"More bad luck on our part then." said Laguana "That was a few years ago anyway, we haven't managed to infiltrate another facility with equipment to send a transmission that far again. It took a lot just to get it the last time."
"I can guess" said Bastian "Those cyborgs are pretty resilient, the only reason we got out was because of our magic."
"You can cast magic?" asked Laguna "That would definitely tip the odds in our favor, one of the big reasons we can't do too much is because the cyborgs have a big cache of materia and they seem to know how to use it."
"So what did you do with our materia?" asked Bastian
"Stored it." said Laguna "That stuff is too dangerous to leave lying around, and we didn't know exactly what to make of you three, how did you get into Eshar anyway?"
"Long story short, we got captured by a sorceress who somehow had connections here and she transported us here with a teleporter." said Bastian
"Well, you've still got a long way to go before you're fit to be going anywhere, so in the meantime you need to rest" said Laguana
"Can't really do that on this hard table." said Bastian
"Sorry, we androids don't really need sleep and I don't think you could use a recharge chamber too well."
"What about food and water?" asked Bastian
"We don't need water or food, but we can process them into fuel, so we do have some that should tide you over."
"Why are you helping us, not that I'm not grateful, but it just seems like you'd be better off if you'd just left us to die."
"We need all the help we can get, we've asked the humans here, but they don't want anything to do with us, and the few that were willing to fight, have already died." said Laguana sadly "Humans can use magic a lot better than machines can, and you three seem to be quite skilled with it if you made it out of a military compound with one of their own vehicles."
"It wasn't easy" said Bastian "We almost didn't make it."
"Well, you're all safe now, and as soon as you're friends wake up, we'll see about getting you out of here."
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It was another two days before the Sophia and Ethan woke up. Bastian figured it was because they only had one GF each, making their recovery rate slower than his. Once they had been filled in on the situation they'd agreed to aid the androids in their quest to liberate Eshar in exchange for the androids' aid in getting out of Eshar.
The first step for the humans though, was recovering their full strength, their detainment had put them in a bad state and even with the expert medical care from the androids, they were still in for at least a week long recovery. In the meantime they learned the ends and outs of the Esharian landscape and exactly what they'd be doing when they finally became ready for combat.
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It was a week later and the three humans were now fully recovered. The Androids had already pinpointed another facility with a satellite uplink. Using the uplink they would be able to send out a global distress signal and hope someone would help them, if not they'd be no worse than they were before. The only problem they would have, would be getting in and out with their lives.
They'd be traveling there in a small airship capable of holding up to only ten people comfortably. When asked why they couldn't just fly away and seek help, the androids said that it was because the borders were heavily militarized and any unauthorized aircrafts were destroyed upon sight. They'd tried a few times to get out but all of them had ended in failure and getting another airship was difficult to say the least.
They landed a few miles away from the facility outside the radar range of the cyborgs, it was going to be a long trek on foot, but it was the only way to go about such an operation. In addition to the three humans and Laguana were four other androids: Nappa was an android fashioned to look like a brunette female in her early thirties, Walt was an android who looked to be only around fifteen with dark skin and blond hair, Nomad was a tall and extremely bulky android that proudly professed to be built for combat, he looked like a man in his early forties with dark brown hair and a modest goatee, finally there was Dolph, he didn't even look human, more like an elf or goblin than anything else, he sported big pointy ears and was very short in stature maxing at only two-foot-four on his tiptoes, in spite of his size though, he was very good at what he did, which he wouldn't go into detail on with the humans.
After a two hour hike the group came in sight of the weapon's facility that housed the satellite uplink. Laguana led them to the side of the gate furthest from the main entrance. Nomad simply ripped the titanium plated gate in half in an impressive show of brute force. While Nomad crushed the gate Dolph had done something with a small handheld computer that disabled the alarms. Using the new entrance the group of eight made their way to the large domed building.
"Alright, once inside our cover will immediately be blown, they'll probably have more than normal soldiers here, so be prepared for anything." said Laguana hurriedly "Nomad, make a door."
"Gladly" said the large android before punching the wall as hard as he could and making a large hole for them to get through.
There were no alarms, but there were loud footsteps heading their direction. Dolph hit some keys on his mini computer and a large metal shutter blocked off the part of the hallway the footsteps were coming from.
"That won't last long." said Dolph "They'll probably switch up the security protocol after that one, so we'll have to fight next time."
"How long?" asked Laguana
"Probably ten minutes before that breaks if they don't bring in anything better than normal soldiers." said Dolph
"Okay let's move!" ordered Laguana
They hustled through the building using Dolph's blueprints to guide them. They didn't run into much opposition which worried Bastian. His instincts were telling him that there should have been more soldiers, but he could only assume that whoever was in charge didn't think anyone could get this far. They finally made it to the communications room and quickly took out the guards inside. Before they could access anything though there was a loud crash and a horde of cyborgs came running down the hallway towards their position. Many of the cyborgs fired off plasma beams from their tritons, but some carried large broad swords that were made out of an unfamiliar alloy to the three humans. Bastian attempted to match blades with one of them only to have his own sword cleaved in two. He barely dodged the blow suffering a deep gash along his chest in the process.
Sophia kept up a steady barrage of magic while Nappa and Laguna poured out plasma shots of their own from their respective weapons. Walt and Nomad were in the thick of things using all the combat weapons at their disposal to hold off the cyborgs. Ethan and Dolph were inside the communications room attempting to access the satellite uplink.
Bastian had managed to kill one of the sword wielding soldiers by overloading it with a Thundaga spell. He then took up the fallen cyborg's weapon and began to viciously lay waste to any of the cyborgs that got in his path. Things were going well until the reinforcements arrived. Two large shapes barreled through the remaining cyborgs and went straight for the intruders. The creatures had large bat-like wings and four large clawed hands. Metal was clearly visible on much of the monsters leaving only a few places of visible skin. The eyes had been replaced with optical sensors and the claws were made of the same metal as the soldiers' swords.
"They've got cyborg Elveret!" yelled Bastian in alarm "Normal ones are bad enough."
The winged fiend-cyborgs lunged at the group, one of them grabbing Walt by his head and viciously tearing him apart sending pieces of synthetic flesh, metal and fluid everywhere. The other tried to grab Nomad, but the large android blocked its attempts using his massive strength. Enraged by the fall of his comrade, Laguana began firing his plasma blaster for all it was worth, sending a constant stream of plasma on one of the monsters. Nappa did the same and Bastian and Sophia supported them with magic. The tide began to turn again, until five more Elveret entered the fray, Three of them ganged up on Nomad, taking him down and quickly tearing him apart.
"You bastards!" yelled Laguana while firing his gun. "Fall back, barricade the room!"
The four of them went into the room and sealed it shut, they knew it wouldn't last long, but they hoped that it would be enough.
"How much longer Dolph?" asked Nappa
"Almost got it…there!" said Dolph "We're in, now all you have to do is start talking, Laguana."
Laguana walked over to the console and began talking. "This is the Eshar Liberation Coalition, this is an emergency distress call for anyone willing to help, Eshar has been in an iron grip of the Odine Virus since a few centuries after the merger. The human population is at an all time low and cyborgs are running a much around the country. It's only a matter of time before they decide to spread their influence, so we're begging for any and all aid."
"They're breaking through!" yelled Bastian "Get ready to summon guys!"
"Please, anyone, we're in deep shit here, and we really need a hand."
"Transmission being interrupted!" exclaimed Dolph "Attempting to maintain control, too late they've blocked me out, let's get out of here!"
As soon as the words left the little android's mouth, the door and the surrounding wall collapsed revealing twelve cyborg-Elveret
The three humans quickly summoned their GF with Quetzacoatl only needing minimal coaxing this time. With the distraction provided by the GF's the group managed to escape through a hastily made door in the other side of the room. The mission had been a success, in spite of having lost two team members, now all they had to do was make it back to the ship and back to their base and wait for a response.
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A/N: I actually finished this chapter within a couple days of posting the last one, but I didn't want to post it until the next chapter was done, problem is the next chapter turned out to be really long, 10k+ words actually, and I still have a little more to add to it to make it done, but since I held this one out long enough I decided to just update. Hope you guys enjoyed it, even if it didn't focus on Harry. There'll be plenty in the next chapter though, so don't worry. And the whole thing about the android looking like Laguana will be explained too. Oh and please remember to review people, I haven't said that in a couple chapters 'cause I don't want to sound like I'm nagging you, but they really do make writing the chapters worth while when I know people liked it, or even disliked it.