Infinite Stratos X-over-ish fic, references to other anime and games, also original material

AU Dark-fic, based on other IS dark-fics

OC-MC, other OC's, all altered, all completely changed

Alien tech, alien alteration, hybridization type alteration

Not a gender bender, at least not the way we know it

ARCION RISE: Transient Existence

"Only the dead live to see the end of war"

Plato

Regeneratione

…

I guess Plato never wondered about what would happen when the dead of war …

… return.

Then again, we did not really come back as we were before.

Also, what happened to us, is not something that could be called a war, AT ALL!

Well, let us begin at the beginning …

It was shortly after the end of the Global war on Terror, global terrorist organizations had been wiped out for good, their remnants scattered to the winds, it seemed that the world would become a much more peaceful place (not really, but better that what would happen later).

It was known as the Infinite Stratos, or the IS, a flight-capable, powered exoskeleton frame, though it mostly resembled an incomplete Mecha, covering the arms and legs of the pilot, yet it was still incredibly powerful as it had advanced flight capabilities, near impenetrable shielding, mainly its absolute barrier unit which prevented anything short of specifically designed weapons or WMD's from getting through, then came their weapons, from large caliber guns, energy based weapons, both melee and projectile, even specialized weapons such as attack drones and other such sci-fi weapons.

There was but one flaw in this weapon … and it was that only women were capable of using it.

This lead to women becoming dominant in society, causing them to automatically believe that they were just simply better than men overall.

In the years after its arrival, the IS caused women to be judged as being better than men overall, women gained vastly more privileges, the lives of women became greater overall.

Then, in the year 2032, December 12 no less, an unknown virus began to spread around the world, unknown in origin, incredibly lethal and had a near 100 percent mortality rate, but this unknown virus had ended up acting as the trigger to an even that ended up being many times worst that the virus ever was.

Around the world, women had begun to believe than in truth men were the source of the virus, and this unsupported rumor had caught fire, and before anyone could guess, basically the entire female population had begun to come together under the belief of female supremacy.

Their goal, erase the virus by erasing its believed source …

… MEN.

The massacre the followed could only be called like something from religious texts, a complete absolute destruction, and men had to suffer from it.

Men were blasted, shot, betrayed, hunted, enslaved and or just killed, burned alive, and even subject to chemical weapons, and no matter resistance was put up, it was all but stamped out and their actions rendered hollow.

It was slaughter after slaughter, and no one tried to stop it, no woman anyway.

Then it all ended, the slaughter ground to a stop.

This was not because of a change of heart or a rescind order …

… it was because they could not find any more men to kill, and thus searched to find them.

Unknown to them, they had succeeded.

The men were essentially gone, and what remains had become enslaved by the women, with the rest dead and left where they died, as charred corpses, bloody remains, or as barely even remains at all, with only one fate …

… to be forgotten, to be sent to oblivion, to become nothing.

'A fate which will not come to pass'

Around the world, faint spheres engulfed over 20 million corpses or imprisoned men on the brink of death and suffering from disease, swallowing them away, and all vanished as quickly as they came, no one noticing a thing. While elsewhere spheres of a darker color began to absorb away vast amounts of deceased into their structure before disappearing as well.

'This will not be the end'

In the heart of Antarctica, penguins and polar bears began to flee from the continent, soon making their new home in the more remote reaches of the islands near the frozen continent, and this all preceded the silent descent of a pillar, a pillar that stretched all the way into space, a pillar that came from space.

The pillar, massive in size, and made of a material that had obviously not come from Earth or could even be from Earth, then began to expand out from where it had landed, with long structures that were as high as a small building stretching out from its base, which was also expanding out, forming a large base of light blue/obsidian colored metal, and on this metal, came the basis for the creation of structured to be created, while within the pillar, which now became more of a tower, structures were built within, all with a specific purpose, but one that would need to be fulfilled by the inhabitants.

Inhabitants that would first have to give purpose to themselves.

At the top of the tower, in a large structure, unknown and unseen by the world, the 1 million spheres appeared, and all of them began to glow with a powerful light, an ambient azure green, and a deep charcoal gray merged together, and filled a powerful light.

The light of life.

'This is merely the beginning'

A soft light silently hovered around, being roughly spherical in its shape, with a mist like energy hovering around it, as it hovered over an un-seeable ground, simply hovering around, and sometimes darkening as it hovered around.

This sphere was a soul, and its darkening was.

'… run go!'

'Were being overwhelmed, we can't stop them!'

'You have to go, you need to run now'

'Well little boy, let's play a nice game'

'You have live, live for the sake of those who fought beside you, and for those who stand with you'

'I may die here, but I will take you with me!'

That was what passed through the spirit as it darkened, and it felt the dark emotion of anger, and wanted to give into this emotion.

'It will only end you'

The soul looked around for the source of this voce, and it beheld what could only be a massive tower, stretching until it could not be seen.

Then the light saw a light come up next to it, followed by another that came next to it, and soon more lights began to appear, all observing the others around them, some glowed softly, others glowed strongly, some darker some lighter, and all gazed at the tower, but none moved.

Until the first to gaze at the tower moved toward the tower, followed by another, and another, and more still, until every light went to the tower, all gathering at the towers base.

Then a barrier surrounded all of the lights, and the un-seeable ground began to lift up, taking the lights up with them, and within the barrier.

Lines of light suddenly shot into the lights from the tower, and from there softly glowing wisps of mist-like energy extended from the lights to each surrounding light, linking from one to the next, linking one to all, and linking all to one, until the soft mist began to settle around the lights, and all of the lights were now linked to one another, and all were linked to the tower itself.

'Why are you here, what is happening now, and finally …

… your future.'

The lights all shifted their notice to what appeared to be a light made of the energy that now flowed into the multitude of lights that now went up the spire, seeing the light as it grew ever closer as they went up.

"Why are you here …"

As the lights silently observed, the viewed the depths of space, and in the darkness, the form of the pillar appeared, silently drifting through the cosmos as it entered the sol system, on a path that would take it just near the edge of the solar system, and it would silently pass by and continue on.

'…!'

Then a strong pulse came from deep within the solar system, and it stopped, and waited to feel if it would repeat.

'…!'

It felt the same pulse again, feeling as it came from a specific planet in the nearby solar system, and the who pillar, guided to the planet that hosted these pulses, it soon arrived near a red planet that was bare of life when the pulses grew stronger, and were altered into words that the existence that formed the pillar could understand.

'… STOP … NOOO … DON'T … PLEA-!'

It then was just past the natural satellite of the only world bearing a civilization on it, but as it neared, the pulses from the world reached it, and it felt the emotions within the pulses.

'Why are you doing this?'

Immense confusion

'No, please, don't kill me!'

Intense Fear

'YOU MONSTERS!'

Incredible anger

All of these emotions pulsed outward, the entity (pillar) able to feel the pulses as they were emitted by the lights on the planet, lights that glowed brightly before slowly dulling as they were severed from their physical being as they were wiped out by what it witnessed were lights that had become corrupted by an outside force, one that made these lights target those that were not afflicted by the corruption.

It bore witness as it saw as the corrupted lights all but wiped out the uncorrupted lights, the physical being of the lights being destroyed, or were left in a state that their physical being would never recover and would only be left in a broken and damaged state.

The lights dimmed, but they still held, but the entity felt through the pulses as many lights were overtaken by darkness, and slowly started to fade out, as the corrupted light seemed to dominate the world, even though it seemed the corruption was starting to abate by a little, the effects for it would hold on for a long while.

It was a horrifying fate that had befallen the living beings who had been represented by the lights, and that such a thing should not have happened, but it happened still.

This was what the entity bore witness to, as the hosts of these lights were all but extinguished through destructive violence, through myriads of methods involving either weapons, traps, use of deadly abilities, yet there was one method that resulted in the destruction of the defenses of those who fought for their very existence, a method that all but erased those they tried to protect, those who stood by them and tried to fight with them.

The lights all flickered multiple times from this horror that rushed through them, as the lights near instantly felt the flood from the darkness, from the …

… memories, their memories, all of the horror, the death, the destruction,.

Hatred

The darkness that slowly became more welcome, more desirable, a darkness that was filled with a great and powerful violence and rage, one that felt overpowering as it began to take hold of the lights, swallowing and churning, wishing for vengeance, for destruction, for the ones who brought them this fate to be given the same fate.

The lights all darkened and shuddered, pulses emitting as the memories clung to them all and the darkness seeped into them.

'The darkness, where vision is stripped away in return for strength'

The souls all peered to the entity as it simply oversaw them from the pinnacle of its existence and watched them as the darkness seeped into them, and they all pulsed, all seeking explanation.

'If you subsume yourself to the dark that now clings to you, you will gain the strength that will allow your vengeance for it will solely allow you to destroy …

… never create'

The souls all echoed pulses that began to spread amongst them, as this fact began to form in them, as they now were linked and no longer held the inhibited view they had as living beings, they were able to think in a more vast manner.

They all immediately saw the point, that if they were to give into the dark power that flowed into their very bodies, they would be able to destroy the ones who took their existence from them, but after, they would be forever stuck as they were, as monsters filled with vengeance and hate, forever seeking destruction to sate the destructive impulses that would fuel them.

They would not become like 'them' …

… they would be worse than 'them'.

The lights as one, reigned in the darkness, and soon spread it amongst themselves, blurring the memories that clung to the darkness, doing so again and again, essentially diluting the darkness, making it lose its potency and destructive potential. Until it had been diluted enough that the souls felt that the destructive effect was now muted, at least enough that it could be reined in if need be, but the hatred would not just simply go away but the souls were fine with that, as they knew that it was their hatred and theirs alone, and they would keep it under control but use it when the time came …

… a time they knew would come.

'You have done greater than I believed would occur, most would have given in, and taken the destruction, you on the other hand have chosen to use it yet not use it, the hallmark of a transcendent being'

The souls all looked to the light, and they felt as a they began to take a more defined form, eventually a form came to be, revealing all of the lights now having become six winged, near translucent beings with lines running across their forms, the lines filled with the muted darkness, yet they still felt hollow, as though something else was to go in as well.

They all felt that they would soon know what.

What do you believe is happening to you now?

The beings all simply stayed in their position as they felt thought and emotion flow through each of them, all trying to come up with the answer they seek, working through the muted darkness that resided within their forms in order to find their answer.

They felt as the energy within themselves pulsed and flowed, feeling odd, like they were somewhere else, somewhere different and with a warmth being felt through themselves along with what could only be a deep pulse that seemed to be continuous, feeling like several pulses beating at set intervals to make a single continuous pulse.

Then through these pulses, energy began to flow, the energy being propelled by the pulses, expanding out in different similar to the root system of a plant, but this was vastly different, the roots themselves sprung from a point, but all the roots themselves seemed to meet and spread out forming new root systems, all different yet all the exact same.

The soul then noticed the root system had now completely surrounded it, and witnessed as other souls were also wrapped up in in the mass of roots, which then began to expand outward, beginning to take a more defined shape, and then multiple layers of matter enveloped the souls, the matter being guided by the roots to cover them.

The process was finished in mere moments, and the soul felt its being expand through the root system, seeing all around themselves, through the root, their consciousness able to observe and see in not just one, but from multiple points of view on their …

… bodies?

Yes, they now had bodies, they were being brought back, but they realized how different their new body was, however, then something then came in.

Their memories began of the past, forming a shadow, spread through them, affected the body, began to affect the change, they memories of the women, and they could not halt the change, the memories were just that strong.

Yet the reborn souls did not really try to stop the change, for when they truly felt the existence they would become, it was an existence that would allow them to truly turn away from their past, to become self-sufficient, and the form would be a reminder of where it all began, to remind them of what they must not become.

They would have a similar form, but that was it.

All other factors were completely different, vastly different from 'them', and would never share the mistakes of the ones who had taken their lives from them.

They would live, this form was theirs, not the ones who killed.

A pulse of light then flowed out, and then they began to feel pain, nothing but pain, yet they reached out to each other, and together they mitigated and reduced the pain, all numbing the pain, focusing together, thoughts of encouragement drifting between the souls as they focused together, for the sake of each and every one of themselves.

Then the pain began to subside, and soon it dulled away until it was gone.

It was then that the beings realized they could not see the others, and all there was, was the light the had been at the pinnacle of the tower they had been ascending.

The light beckoned to each soul, acting as a beacon for all of them.

The souls all moved to the light, and as they reached, a pulse was all that sounded, and then everything became …

… different?

It felt as it woke, the soul looked around itself, finding itself in liquid, yet it breathed the liquid with ease, the strain only minimal until it vanished, and then the soul realized that it was in some sort of sphere, no an 'egg'.

Then it realized that it was no longer a soul, as it felt its limbs begin to move, now using its limb, its hand, to push against the wall of where it was in, then it raised its other arm, and began to push against the wall of the egg, and a crack slowly formed.

The being then felt more limbs, more than it had before, and it perceived everything around itself from points of view on its body, and it saw in ways it could not before.

The being stretched its arms forward, and four extra limbs that seemed to be tendrils of some kind, and gripped the edge of the cracks, pulling on the edges, forming more cracks, until finally the shell split open …

… the being now born once again.

The beings all fell out of their shells, all feeling the others around them as they too entered the mortal realm, and all felt their minds as they exited, and saw the forms they took.

There were certain differences but all in all, they bore a form that was similar to the ones who robbed them of their futures, with skin that was a sort of dark white color, dark on some, lighter on others, had hair that was either dark gray or charcoal grey, and their body essentially resembled that of a human female, but the similarities ended at form.

The stared at the eyes of others, and their eyes were truly different, as they saw a their irises had a shifting pattern like some sort of kaleidoscope effect, with the different patterns corresponding to different forms of vision as they changed between the types of vision they had, and the eye color greatly, as well as having energy running in them, causing them to glow faintly.

Another change was the patterns that covered their bodies, lines that had what could only be the energy that now flowed through their being flow into these lines, and also realized that their bodies were covered with what felt like a thicker form of their skin, covering their torso area like a sort of biological one-piece swimsuit that was of a different design for each individual being and also pulse with the same energy that flowed through the beings themselves.

Finally and the most obvious change that separated the beings from the human women, and humanity as a whole, were the four long appendages that stretched out from their forms.

The four appendages appeared to resemble tendril-like wings, having a long yet open and angled form, starting relatively thin from the base, becoming wider in width but relatively the same length between the upper and lower parts of the wing, widening to a point and then ending at a point at the tip, the shape similar to a diamond shape, only longer, or a sort of organic sword blade.

The wings were ingrained with many energy pattern lines, many more than what were on the main body, causing the same energy to flow yet creating patterns, patterns that differed from each of the beings, yet shared a similar mark, with it being an almost eye like pattern similar to their own eyes, having a similar kaleidoscope type make, giving off a hue of exotic colors.

One of the beings easily moved the wings around, slowly grasping the ability to move them and through the link with all others, they all soon began to maneuver their wings in coordinated manners, then one of the beings had an idea that spread itself to the others, who decided to emulate what it decided.

The bottom two wings were wrapped around the torso once, before wrapping around the arms, forming detached sleeves held to the body by a length of the wing, the larger upper wings were wrapped around the body, with one wing forming a hood over the head while the other became a cloak that covered the rest of the body, stopping at just below the knees.

The wings took a dark gray texture, becoming like a sort of fabric that felt like a like a mix of cotton and silk, soft and sturdy, with a metallic texture woven in, the whole time giving off the energy that flowed through them as small lines and image that resembled glyphs of a sort.

Then from several parts of the expansive room, a pitch-black substance, resembling a denser, more darker form of tar, began to seep up an form into puddles all across the interior of the space that the beings found themselves in.

They knew what it was and all at once, moved toward the substance.

The beings reached out to the dark liquid, touching the dark substance, and as soon as they did the liquid rapidly hardened into a metallic form, which then shattered and ruptured itself before moving to the beings, the material surrounded their bodies, moving with the beings while staying in a fixed position over their forms, the arrangement being done in a way to offer the greatest amount of protection from attack from any angle as well as having gained an edge that appeared to be able to cut the densest of material.

The beings took stock of their new appearance, finding their new additions to be a boon to the coming challenges, the material now perfectly aligned and working in conjunction with their own bodies.

Then the Entity that gave them their form and power appeared among them, resembling a large sphere of energy surrounded by a cluster of dark material, and though no words were exchanged, a great many thoughts were passed between the entity and the others, all soon culminating in a unanimous conclusion.

-Let us go, and start anew, Arcion-

Aeos React here, yeah, I'm still writing other works.

Don't get it wrong, Arc Arcanum is still my main focus now, and I hope you all still like it, but I still have more ideas, and I intend to write those stories out, but I will still be working, especially now with this coronavirus thing still going around.

Hope to speak to you all again, till next time.