Hey guys ! I'm back this story is still alive (as much as it can possibly be !)
Guest chapter 4
I really like this story. I hope that this story will continue.
Glad you do cause we are back !
mgnado's power chapter 4
Interesting concept, I really like it. I'm interested to see how Shulk's personality and outlook may differ being raised by Egil (and being raised at all, it doesn't seem like Dickson took very good care of him...). Though, I do wonder if Egil knows that Shulk is being inhabited by Zanza, and how Zanza and the disciples are reacting to losing Shulk. He is invaluable to their plans, after all. I really like your Vanea, she seems like she understands both Egil and Shulk very well. Hope we see Alvis at some point!
I will definitely write a part were Egil and Shulk spends some time together (should have at the beginning but well better now than never)
Egil has no idea of what's going on in Shulk's mind and poor Vanea now has to deal with a very young hom who will probably ask too many questions as the story continues.
waluigifan64 chapter 4
love it and Can't wait for the next chapter
Sorry again for the wait ^^'
icypika chapter 4
I can't wait to see how Shulk interacts with everyone. I am confused about how he will be going there though. Like does he have a hologram of his Hom self surrounding him? Is the face super homs like and can fool others? Anyway keep up the great work.
Machina technology isn't performant enough to create good and realistic hologram so they found another solution ^^
Shulk reached the Bionis without any trouble, the ocean was beautiful during the night, even if he knew how dangerous it was in fact, he wondered if the creatures from the great sea were also created by Zanza, why were they so strong compared to the ones living on the surface ? Some kind of security to prevent other living beings from ... escaping ?
Egil warned him about the defence system of the colony, it was probably inactive diring the night but Shulk wouldn't risk to attract attention especially when he knew what kind of dangers he could still encounter.
Thanks to his holograms he managed to approach the edge of the Colony, his face didn't make much noise, in fact someone could think it's the wind blowing. Shulk had to hide it somewhere so he could explore the colony more freely.
He headed toward the south and found a cavern, it wasn't empty, a bunch of animals lived here, usually they would be rather aggressive but Shulk's appearance seemed to scare them, what a lucky boy.
It didn't really matter if a creature attacked him, with Vanea's weapon he would probably kill it with a single strike.
Shulk left his face in a rest mode and got out of the cave, he activated his camouflage. Vanea made a simple test to check if it worked well enough, Shulk just had to watch his reflection in the water if he could slightly see it it meant that the prototype wasn't working correctly and that he should avoid to move quickly or go out during daytime.
She promised that she would find a way to enhance the calculation of the rays or something like this. Shulk didn't understand most of the words she was using as Mechon technology was still a mystery for him.
He knew a bit about colony 9, they had some sort of fortress, obviously it was the great building at the very end of the colony.
As he walked throught the colony he crossed the path of some people, one of them actually turned around as if he had heard something, it was a nopon and Shulk decided to inform Vanea as soon as he could about this little detail, if he had to come back to the colony in the future that last thing he would need would be an over suspicious nopon.
He reached the fortress quickly, as he approached he heard a bunch of people screamed what sounded like encouragement mixed with screams of pain. At least he would not have to deal with his own noises anymore.
The soldiers were forming a circle in the court of the fortress, Shulk couldn't see what they were looking at but he definitely saw flashes of white and blue.
"Comon ! Just focus DAMN IT !" Screamed another soldier with a moustache which looked rather old compared to the others, next to him three other people were observing whatever was happening. They looked rather bored expect for one of them who really seemed to enjoy the spectacle.
Shulk clearly recognised one of them ... Zanza's disciple.
He decided to avoid him, for now he had to find the monado, Shulk looked around and found some sort of lab, he was about to go in when he heard something interesting.
"It's useless ! How are we supposed to use this thing if it keeps trying to hurt us ?!"
Shulk turned around, he approached from the crowd of soldiers and then he saw it, the Monado, right in front of him, on the ground.
The soldiers were trying to use it, he actually had a chance to take it now, eventually they would get tired and annoyed then he would recover the Monado and bring it back to Egil.
"YOU MORONS ! YOU ARE NOT EVEN TRYING !" screamed the old soldier.
"How about I give it a try ?" Asked the other man standing next to the old soldier.
"You ? Dunban ? ... fine ... AND DO NOT DISAPPOINT ME !"
"Comon man, Dunban, you are just a show off" complained the other one.
Dickson now looked curious, he expected something ? Shulk decided to observe.
the man named Dunban only chuckled and walked in the circle to recover the sword, Shulk saw that despite how confident the man sounded just a few second ago his hands were shaking.
"Alright !" He screamed.
The sword ... opened ? Shulk couldn't clearly describe what happened, thebsowrd didn't seem to have any kind of power source, something else happened, a symbol appeared at the centre of the sword.
And nothing else ... no flash of light, no scream ... this man, Dunban, he could use the Monado ?
"Is- ... is it safe ?" Asked one of the soldiers after a few seconds of astonishment.
"Yeah ... I think it is ! I can use the Monado guys !" Declared Dunban as he lifted the sword in the air like some trophy.
Shulk had only one thing to do now, report everything to Egil, he was about to run back to his face when he heard a lot of cheers coming from the plaza, apparently the colons had thrown a party for Dunban, if he tried to get away now he would definitely be spotted.
The only thing he could do now was to wait, he made his way back to his face, the streets were empty excepted for one or two people running to join the festivities.
"Let me go" Shulk payed more attention to his surroundings, the streets weren't so empty in fact, a bunch of kids about his age were ... having an argument ?
"No way, Dunban his gonna pay, he is too lazy to be the one using the super sword ! My dad should have been the one" snapped a boy which looked like some sort of leader.
"Yeah, so guess what ? His adorable sister is gonna go say hello to some big fish in the lake"
They couldn't be serious, why would they be so cruel ? If they pushed the kid in the lake at this time then they would definitely die !
"Grab her boys !" Ordered the leader.
Shulk approached, the two other boys tried to grab the girl but she was putting up a fight, he heard a crack as she punched one of them in the face, probably a broken nose. She tried to push back the other but she was already immobilized.
"ARGGG ! YOU STUPID-" the injured boy was about to punch her back in response but his fist mysteriously stopped mid air "w-what ?!"
Shulk decided to intervene, they couldn't see him after all right ? So he slapped the boy and sent him flying on about three meters.
Scared the one who grabbed the girl let her go and took a few step backwar "w-wait ! What is happening ?!" After a few seconds he ran away yelling for his mother to hold him or something.
"You witch ! What have you done to them ?!" Asked the leader.
"I-I-" she was as shocked as they were.
"It doesn't matter, if we can't throw you in the lake then a good old beat up will be enough.
Shulk was about to intervene but a third party joined the conflict, another person approached yelling as loud as they could "HEYYYYYYYYYYY !"
The leader barely had the time to react when a tall boy hit him with his head directly in the belly, even Shulk had to say that this looked way more violent than the broken nose from earlier but somehow the leader was still standing up.
"Reyn !" Called the girl rushing to help the newcomer.
"Are you alright Fior-" a punch straight to his face, he didn't see it coming but it wasn't enough to send him to the ground.
Fiora avoided the fight, and she was right, at this point she couldn't do much to help Reyn.
"You want some too ?!" The leader charged Reyn, Shulk tried to help Reyn but at this point the only thing he could do was to put his leg in the way of the leader and it worked he ended up rubbing the ground with his face.
Reyn seemed hesitant, he wanted to beat him up really hard but at the same time Fiora was present and- ... well he was confused about this last move from the older boy, was this some sort of trickier or did he really manage to fall down by hitting the air ?
"W-well, are you alright Fiora ? D-did they ?!-"
"No they didn't do anything like this you pervert !" She slapped the boy for seemingly no reason "I'm not a damsel in distress !"
"H-hey ! You can't deny I helped !" He replied crossing his arms.
"No I'm not ... Oh ! I have to pick up something at my house, go to the plaza I will met you here"
"You don't want me to come with you ? I mean those guys could-" Reyn looked again at the leader, he wasn't bleeding but he was constantly expressing his pain with a weak "aaaaa..." Reyn sighed "nevermind I think he has enough for today, stay safe"
After the boy left Shulk realised he phased out for a moment, he quickly ran back to the small cave where he hid his face, it was still here, the animals which lived here all left the cave.
Shulk had seen more than enough, it was urgent, as soon as he could he would leave this place and warn Egil.
He heard something, rocks moving, the sounds of someone walking in his direction. He was still under his camouflage but his face-
Too late someone was inside the cavern, and not anyone, the girl he just helped. Why was she here ? Did she saw Shulk ? Impossible, he made sure his camouflage was working, but then why is she here ?
She quickly noticed the mechon, though she doesn't look scared, in fact she might not know what's a mechon at all, or she must not consider what she is currently seeing as a mechon.
Shulk tries to hold his breath, she can can still hear him. The girl named Fiora carefully approaches the face.
"H-hey-" she says at the inanimate armor "I- ... I saw footprints when I was going back to my house and- well I knew I didn't simply imaginated what happened a few minutes ago ... did you- ... did you help me ?"
Shulk doesn't answer, she has already seen enough, and she doesn't need to know more.
As the girl doesn't receives a response she approaches even more close from the face to the point she starts examinating the object.
"That's- .. that's really weird ..." Fiora rapidly understand that whatever the thing in front of her is it didn't help her a few moments ago, something or someone else did and this someone else is present right now as she didn't see any footprints going away from the cave. "Well, if you don't want to answer it's fine. I just want to let you know that I am grateful"
The girl keeps looking at the face for a little longer before leaving the cave, Shulk makes sure that this time she isn't waiting somewhere or turning around.
"What do you mean lost his signal ?!" Egil rarely Yelled at his sister but at the moment the situation (from his point of view) was terrible.
Shulk disappeared from their radars since he reached Colony 9 and since then Vanea didn't stop refreshing and amplifying their signals "I do not know ! His signal diminished, it became unstable and then nothing. M-maybe he is in an isolated place and-"
A console nipped, Egil rushed at it to see what was happening, it was Shulk, the console picked back his signal.
"He is coming back !"
Vanea barely had the time to follow Egil outside her personal lab when Yaldabaoth appeared, Egil was joining Shulk, the last time Vanea had seen him so scared was when Zanza launched his attack on the capital.
Shulk aboard his face saw another flying object approach, he recognised Yaldabaoth from the distance. At first he was a bit surprised to see Egil flying away from the Mechonis but soon enough he received a transmission.
"Shulk ! Is everything alright ?!" He sounded panicked.
"Y-yes b-but what's wrong ?!"
"We lost our signal and- and- ... you are fine it's all that matters, let's go back home"
"Y-yes ... home"
Shulk reported evrything, excepted a certain part about getting caught into a conflict between a bunch of kids at the Colony.
"... So someone managed to wield the Monado, I'm not surprised, Zanza is recovering his strength and looking for a new host, our faces aren't ready yet, we do not even know if it is effective or not"
Shulk didn't really understand what Egil was talking about but Vanea seemed really concerned when he mentioned the faces.
"What's his name again ?" Asked Egil.
"Dunban if I recall correctly, he is a hight member in the hierarchy of the soldiers at the colony and- and he has a little sister from what I heard"
Egil didn't seem to pay much attention, Vanea however noticed that Shulk may have reported something which seemed out of context.
Egil sighed "It's late, you should go and rest, perhaps do a check up with Vanea, I will try to figure out how to deal with this situation"