Chapter .38

Two days after the first units week off they finally got a mission, riding in an armored truck Lance and his team were on the way to the wailing plains to fallow rumors about an unbeatable aragami. They've been on the road for ten minutes before Kota spoke up, "So did any of you hear, we're getting two new types soon."

"Yeah, you the last one to hear of it." said Soma

"I'd guess your hoping they'll be girls too." stated Alisa.

"Why not, you afraid one of them will steal Lance away, huh."

"Relationships are not that sallow, but never being in one what would know."

"That's a low blow."

"Shut up." said Soma and the silence returned.

A few minutes later Kota spoke up again, "So you know anything about this new aragami?" he asked Alisa next to him.

"There was no information in the norn so no I don't know."

"What about you Lance, Lance?" the leader sat across from Alisa, arms crossed and eyes closed like he was deep in thought, "Lance you awake?"

"He's thinking leave him alone and start getting ready." said Soma beside Lance.

"Nobody wants to talk, are you all sacred."

"Your the one who's sacred and trying to reflect it on all of us."

"I'm not sacred, if anything I'm bored, are we there yet."

Alisa sighed loudly "You are such an impatience brat."

"And your one to talk name one mission you did without Lance."

"Plenty, maybe you can't do anything on your own."

"You think your better because you a new type?"

"No I'm better naturally."

"Both of you shut up." yelled Soma and the silence rang once more.

The trunk stopped and Lance's eyes shot open, "It's time." he grabbed his god arc leaning on the wall beside him and climbed out as the metal door opened, the unit fallowed into the rain and scouted the area. Not three minutes later did the beast appear, it had two horns on it's head, blue scales covering it's body with gold claws and gauntlet on its left arm.

Lance clinched his chest as if he was in pain, "Lance's what's wrong." asked Alisa.

"Nothing, I feel excited like this thing is what I've been waiting to fight, my blood is acting up I can taste the adrenaline." Alisa saw a strange look on Lance's face, he rushed in and slid under it's tail swing and cut into it's leg, Soma chased after the leader jumping over it's claws and slashed at it's arm while the other two shot at the aragami drawing it's attenuation. Lance and Soma stayed at it's sides taring at it's arms the beast blow fire at Lance only to miss and let Soma bite it's hand to go burst mode, Alisa changed to her sword and rushed in to strike at it's head after Lance slammed his god arc on it's neck. Lance felt something looking at it's back he felt it calling to him, "Everyone hammer it's back that's it's weakness!"

While the beast was down the unit attacked it's back with everything they had until a halo with wings appeared on it's back, "Everyone back up, back up run!" yelled Lance, the beast started to float into the air, it spread arms out and three bursts of fire waves came from its body going in a clockwise motion. Then it slowly came back down to the ground. Blades appeared on it's wrists and it did a blade dance wildly swing at anything near by. It calmed down a bit and Lance shot at it, the aragami ran towards him but the boy tried to change his god arc to sword mode but it was stuck and had to leap out of the way, Soma raised his god arc and stroke it's gauntlet hard and Alisa jumped and slammed her weapon on it's back as Kota shot at it's new weak point under the wings.

"Lance we need your help!" yelled Alisa raising her shield.

"I'm trying my god arc is stuck!" Lance kept pressing the yellow light on the core but the weapon just wouldn't switch back, "Fuck it." Lance pounded the god arc with his fist and it changed to his blade, "Violence solves everything I'm back." Lance rushed back to the fight he jumped over the aragami's tail and stabbed his blade through the halo and into it's back and fired all of his thunder burst shots point blank killing the beast. With heavy breathing Lance hopped off the dead monster, "Now that was a good fight."

Lance what happened back there?" asked Soma.

"Licca did say my god arc was broken and she put on a few quick fixes just to keep it together for a little longer till the parts get here, through it looks worse then I thought."

"Hey, it's a rare one." said Soma taking the core.

Kota kneeled down and started to poke it's mouth with is god arc gun barrel, "Man... that was a tough opponent. Still, for our first time facing it, we did pretty good."

"Kota stop poking that thing it's dead." said Lance.

"Let's not do more than we have to. come on, let's head back on."

"Agreed Alisa, time to go I got a cheesecake in my room."

Kota stopped poking the aragami and started to fallow, "But this is a new aragami we should do something with it."

"Like what?" Alisa said turning around to berate Kota for his antics, but stopped in fear, "Ah! Kota, behind you!"

"What the?!" he looked back in shock, the thing was still alive! "Huh? WHOA!" Kota screamed as he noticed the Hannibal behind him. Frozen in fear he did nothing as the thing went to strike him with its claw. Lance jumpped over him and throw out his shield, the shield didn't form right as the monster struck him pushing Lance away.

Rolling away Lance got back to his feet and stopped by grinding his feet on the ground, "Damn it!" the boy looked at his weapon and saw the sparks flying off it and nothing worked, "Double damn my things busted!"

"What do we do?" asked Kota still in panic.

"I never thought I'd say this but, RETREAT FALL BACK!" the leader throw a flash grenade and everyone ran away and back into the truck, once the team was back inside Lance pounded his fist on the wall and the truck took off.

Returning to the den Lance rushed to the maintenance hall, opening the gate he ran to Licca and handed her his weapon, after looking it over Licca slapped Lance but only hurt her hand, "OW, I told you your god arc wasn't ready for long and heavy fights."

"We had to face a new aragami and my team needed me, there was no time to wait. So can you fix it."

Licca let out a big sigh then looked at the leader, "Yes but I'll need a couple of days so you can't do any mission in that time."

"Fine, thank you." Lance left the maintenance hall and headed for the lab for a meeting on the new aragami codenamed the hannibal. Lance stepped inside and saw Paylor in his usual place.

"Hello Lance."

"How's the data treating you, find anything?"

"Yes the hannibal has an organ that can grow a new core when they loss it, so I'll have to make an antibody to stop it from happening."

"Does it have any other hidden ability's, when I fought it my body was tingling like my oracle cell were acting up." Lance cliched his chest again remembering the feeling.

"Hmm, well nothing like that but I'll keep searching. As for your oracle cells can I get another blood sample form you and see?"

"Thank you, my god arc is busted so tell me if I can do anything." after Paylor got his sample the boy turned and walked out.

Examining the blood the researcher found something strange, the cells looked like the cells of the hannibal, "Lance is changing again and this time it's not to become the sword to save humanity."

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