Chapter 2

As soon as the helicopter landed back at the Griffon base and the girls stepped off the vehicle, various T-Dolls drew their weapons at the sight of the Ringleader.

"Put those down. She surrendered." M4 told the Dolls, who started to gasp at the fact that a Sangvis Doll turned herself in.

"Don't put it in that way. I just want that virus about of my body." The Ringleader responded as she was dragged towards one of the dorms.

On the outside, the building looked just like the rest of them. When the AR Team opened the door up through a PIN code, it swung open, revealing a surprisingly decorated cell. The dorm had a decent bed, a TV, and a desk. It was not much, but the dorm was much more roomy than prisons elsewhere.

"The commander designated this dorm as your cell." M4A1 explained. "You'll remain here until 16Labs is ready exaime your body."

Hunter gave the doll a frown. "Is this some kind of joke? Where's my actual cell?"

"Griffin bases aren't really prepared to hold prisoners of war, so this dorm is the best we got." AT-15 sighed.

"Typical Griffin clumsiness. Whatever." The Ringleader scoffed as she walked inside the building.

SOPMOD quickly slammed the door after Hunter moved in.

"That takes care of Hunter!" She anounced victoriously. "What's our next move?"

"The Commander said that the rest of the dolls are being briefed on the next operation. We should head to the meeting room." M4 responded.

The AR-Team began to head off towards the meeting room. The Ringleader was no longer spouting any German marching tunes, suggesting that White Baby was only effective near her bases. A weakness, perhaps. Meanwhile, Hunter found a strawberry shortcake on her desk, and decided to take a bite...


A S.F strike force was marching towards the base that once belonged to Hunter. Once the higher-ups lost contact with Hunter and Architect, Agent organized the dolls to inspect the area where they were last seen. It consisted of Scarecrow, Executioner, and some lesser units like Scouts and Vespids.

Once they got into position, Scarecrow sent one of her drones into the base to investigate it.

"Scarecrow, any visual on the Ringleaders?" Agent called through the radio.

"Not yet Madam... oh dear..." She gulped at the sight.

Instead of the Sangvis Ferri logo, a capital "A" in a white, blue rimmed circle replaced it on the walls. Instead of the S.F units filling the base, men in purple and dark blue WWII outfits patrolled about.

Someone had hijacked the base.

"Madam Agent, it's bad. Hunter somehow let the base be overrun by a foreign party!" She reported. "And... I see some fellow S.F, but in the same colors. I believe they got hacked by the soldiers.

It took awhile for Agent to respond. When she did, there wasn't a hint of sympathy.

"Bring Hunter back to me. She will be in a world of pain." She responded. "And Arcitect too, if you find her."

"We did, Madam. She's..." Her eyes went wide at the sight.

The Ringleader was on top of a massive tower, loaded with many Vespids and Jaegers. On top was a Jupiter Cannon, painted in the same way as the turned S.F units. It also had the mysterious "A" logo. Architect herself was shaking hands with an elderly man in a blue general's outfit, clearly the leader of the organization.

Architect betrayed Sangvis Ferri.

"Speak up, Scarecrow. My patience is running low after what Hunter did to our units." Agent's rage was seething through the comms.

"Architect is working for the group that took over the depot. She has also shared numerous design secrets with the enemy, including our Jupiters. I believe she has something to do with the base being overrun, Madam."

"Where's Griffin? AR-15? Hunter?" Her rage was at the tipping point.

"All not present, Madam Agent."

A long, long silence followed after that. Agent responded furiously.

"Recapture Hunter and Architect immediately! I'll give Hunter a good dose of Parapluie to straighten her out. Architect is to be killed. She is no use anymore. And I'll be arriving personally, along with Dreamer. This organization is a great threat to the Mastermind if they can turn our units against each other and need to be despoed without failure! Move in now and kill everyone."

Agent cut off the radio.

"What did the boss say, Crow?" Executioner asked with a murderous smile.

"We have to move in and kill everyone, including Architect."

"Huh? What is she doing?"

"She is working for an enemy organization. She sold all our technologies, including the Jupiter Cannons."

"Yep, she's dead." Executioner shrugged. "Everyone, move out! Go leave no human left alive!" She pointed her crooked blade towards the base.

The strike force quickly ran into battle. Executioner moved ahead of the other units, eager to satisfy her bloodlust. The soldiers stationed ran into the Ringleaders way with out fear, opening fire with their machine guns.

Now that she was close, Executioner had a good look at the insurgents, and nearly laughed. They literally had the same equipment low starred Griffin Dolls had, without the excuse of being automatons.

She effortlessly closed the gap and quickly begun to cut down the soldiers. Within a few seconds, the first wave was cleared.

"It that the best you got? I was expecting an actual battle!" She laughed, twirling around the blade.

The rest of the strike force caught up with the Ringleader. The Vespids didn't show any signs of emotion, but Scarecrow was glaring at Executioner with rage.

"We can't be reckless, Executioner! Don't you see that Jupiter Cannon!"

The Ringleader looked up at the Toshka Dalanue. It was still a couple hundred feet away, since the soldiers were so eager to jump into battle. How could the enemy copy their technology so quickly? Even this was causing Executioner to worry, especially since they were up against one of their former super weapons.

It just made the hotheaded Dell's blood boil, since Architect was that reason.

"When I climb up that tower of yours, I'll tear you limb for limb!" She yelled at the smug Ringleader, shaking her fists. "I'm serious, Architect; what are those strangers worth to us, your family? Or did they brainwash you too?"

"This was a decision I made myself." She said flatly. "Am I really your family if I'm going get scrapped for not having blind faith in the Mastermind?"

"Blind?" Scarecrow responded. "Architect, are you..."

"I'M FINE!" She yelled. "I'm not going sit here waiting for my death! So I did the most logical thing, join the Amadeus Syndicate! They have loads of freaks, just like us!"

"So that is there name of the people you work for?" Replied Scarecrow. "You sold us out to people you barely knew?"

"Listen, I could care less about Sangvis Ferri. But everyone else, becides those prudes that lead that circus of an organization, I do care about. Which is why I'm offering for you two jobs here!" She said with a devious smile.

"Do you think we are idiots, Architect?" Executioner stomped her foot. "We will happily die, if it means disposing of that syndicate!"

Architect shook her head with disappointment. "You do know that I'm the one with the Jupiter Cannon, right?"

"They aren't foolproof, Architect. And we'll gladly demonstrate. Everyone, charge!" Executioner screaming, charging into the fray once more.

Scarecrow and the rest did follow the crazed Ringleader, as she was drawing fire from the Jupiter. She could easily evade its shots with the superhuman traits every Sangvis Doll had, but the same couldn't be said for the Vespids and Scouts. In just a few rounds of shells, the lesser dolls were blasted to bits.

"Well, there goes your army." Architect giggled. "I'd better show the true power of the Dalanue before you two get in the blind spot. All Amadeus units, open fire!"

On the surface, the Jaegers and Vespids looked just like the ones from Sangvis, so the two Ringkeader's assumed that they would behave accordingly to their experience.

They were wrong.

The Vespid's fire rate was much higher than usual, just as fast as the guns the human infantry used. And the Jaegers shot a single, concentrated beam instead of actual bullets.

Scarecrow was the first to go down. One of the lasers tore through her arm, causing the Ringleader to stumble and crash on the ground.

"They modified our dolls?" She said with rage.

The Vespids quickly took down Executioner. Their aim was much, much better than usual, and combined with the increased firepower, there was no evading the shots.

"Architect, you cheat!" The Ringleader roared as her skin was torn off, revealing her metallic bones. "Even Sangvis wouldn't go that far with just the basic dolls!"

"Sorry, Executioner, but these aren't Sangvis Dolls you see here. They are the fine work the Doctor and his researchers!"

Executioner was on her last legs, crawling on the ground as the Vespids shredded her body. Her armor was almost completely ripped apart, and most of her metal skeleton was revealed.

Architect gasped, and quickly ordered the Vespids to stop shooting.

"Whoa, are you alright?" The Ringleader said with genuine worry. "I just wanted you two to join..."

"Forget about it, asshole!" Executioner screamed, causing Architect to squeak weakly. "Don't you know how many lives you costed? How many allies we lost? Just for explosions?"

Architect gave the T-Doll a stern, no nonsense look. "Like I said before, I don't care about Sangvis anymore."

"Then what about us, Architect? Your friends? After you threw us under the rug?"

"Your stance won't get us anywhere. White Baby will fix that!"

A piercing pain erupted in the digiminds of Scarecrow and Executioner. A sinister, yet immature voice taunted them as she broke down their brains.

"You did were close to our secrets this time, you know."

"Huh... is that the voice of Else..." Executioner started.

"You dare compare me do that brat?" White Baby spat. "She controls an organization, I controlled the world. I think it's rather obvious whose the better a.I."

"The Mastermind seeked to free us from slavery from people just like you." Replied Scarecrow, struggling to get back up from the ground.

"Yet, she has a strict, ridgid pyramid, where she is always on top and you two are on the bottom. After I'm done with you two, you'll become the best androids in the world. The sky is the limit with Amadeus... What is it, Doc?"

White Baby suddenly disappeared from the digiminds of Executioner and Scarecrow, much to their relief.

"Damn, that felt really painfully." Executioner commented and she got up from the ground. "All without laying a finger on us..."

"Executioner, it seems like Architect is calling someone. Probably that Doctor who started this whole mess." Scarecrow pointed to the frantic Ringleader.

Architect was speaking through a handheld radio. Executioner and Scarecrow couldn't hear Amadeus, of course, but could make out the gist of the conversation.

"What, we got surrounded by Sangvis? And they brought Agent? We better retreat now... Wait, what?! We have to run! There is no defeating that Ringleader... Oh, so you'll do something about this with all the special cargo you brought here... Don't tell me... You only used it on monkeys? I'm still not completely okay with this, but if it means that bitch goes down for good, I'm in. Out."

She put away her radio and climbed down the Dalanue, using a staircase built inside. The rest of the corrupted Sangvis followed Architect out of the tower and into the gates of the base, which quickly swung shut.

"Monkeys, huh?" Executioner pondered. "This should be no problem. Even I could defeat horde of apes singlehandedly."

"Thank the Mastermind that the reinforcements arrived. Agent and Dreamer are an invincible combination!"

Dreamer started to speak with the two Ringleaders on the Sangvis comms system, in her typical bored tone.

"Scarecrow, what's the status on the base? Did you give Architect a good time?"

"We cleared the first wave. Architect is behind the walls." Scarecrow replies.

"What a utter coward." She sighed. "The gate is nothing my gun can't handle. We brought our best, including Dragoons and Manticores, to deal with whoever Architect teamed up with. I'd say we'd have this situation under control in... GRAAAAAAH!" The sound of her body hitting the ground was audible before the radio cut off.

Much radio silence followed after that.

"Hey, what's up with Dreamer?" Executioner said with worry. "I heard that from here."

"I'm working on it, dimwit! Lady Dreamer is picking up at all?" Scarecrow replied, then gasped. "Wait, don't tell me..."

An alarm blared through the base, red sirens swirling about. The gates slide open, letting a massive horde of disfigured monkeys raging forth. Appearance wise, they looked very similar to ELID infectees.

Because they were infected purposely.

"Into the tower!" Barked Scarecrow as she dashed towards the inert machine.

Executioner followed her fellow Ringleader into the abandoned super weapon. It was very cramped inside the Dalanue, too crude for Sangvis's standards. The weapon reeked eerily of rocket fuel, most likely from previous joyrights from Architect.

The two got to the top of the tower, staring down at the base. The horde of ELID monkeys had passed through while climbing up the Toshka, ignoring the Ringleaders.

This raised a disturbing question.

"Those infectees didn't notice us." Executioner told her comrade. "They not only got their hands on Collapse Fliud, but can order the infectees? We should've squished that syndicate before things got out of control."

"Collaspe Fluid isn't their only weapon. They have an army with them!" Scarecrow exclaimed, looking at the Amadeus troops passing by and taking mental notes.

The Amadeus Syndication didn't only field machine gunners. Riflemen in lab coats started to March out from the gate, which slid open after the monkeys passed by. Silver WWII tanks rolled in, bearing an iron cross on the turrets. The machines were very small for being military vehicles, not much taller than a grown men, but still just as dangerous as a full size tank.

They somehow maintained a fleet of aircraft, apparently. Many double bladed helicopters flew by, each with massive miniguns. The vehicles also had identical men in similar suits, holding a rocket launcher. Another type of aircraft as present, a sized down cargo plane with the propellers on the top instead of the wings. Huge, menacing robots with machine guns stood on a platform extending from the side, laughing merrily.

"They produce T-Dolls, have an army and air force, and perform Collaspe Fluid experiments? How have we not heard of these Amadeus guys before?" Executioner asked, shaking her head. "They would have made the news if they broke into every single government. I don't like this one bit."

"I agree, but we have to tell the others about the approaching forces." Scarecrow activated the radio built into her mask.

"Madam Agent, we learned the name of the enemy. They call themselves the Amadeus Syndicate, and are incredibly dangerous. Their forces at marching to your position, which includes tanks, manned aircraft, and ELID infectees they are controlled through unknown means."

"It seems that this new player is much more powerful than I presumed." Agent responded nonchalantly. "We will be closing in shortly. I also brought in Gager to field in reinforcements. Failure is not an option here, afterall."

"Exactly, Madam Agent. Architect is still inside the base."

"She refuses to show her face in front of me? Expected. I'll have Dreamer send in some drones from her side to bomb the fortress. Not to kill her, but to expose her so I can personally destroy her."

"Madam, I believe something happen to Dreamer. She isn't picking up the radio."

Agent groaned in annoyance. "I told that blasted T-Doll that this is no time for screwing around! If that organization even touches Master... How dare you speak up to me! As a Dragoon, you listen to the Ringleaders and speak when you are told to!"

The Ringleader abruptly shifted her focus to the mystery caller, not paying attention to Scarecrow.

"Madam is talking with one of the Dragoons." Scarecrow explained to Executioner. "The Doll started to speak up to Agent of all people for no reason... Oh dear..."

"THAT DAMN AI!" Executioner cursed, ripping one of the flags attached to the Toshka Delaney to shreds. "They just can't leave us alone, huh? If they are going to fight us, they should fight fair! White Baby is pissing me off more than Griffin!"

"Well, there is nothing we can do about this threat currently." Scarecrow responded with silent rage. "The best thing to do is meet up with Gager. Agent is likely occupied with White Baby, while Dreamer has been shot. We have no other Ringleaders nearby."

"Fine, I will go." She groaned. "White Baby is going down for turning our units!"

The two made their way back down the Toshka Dalanue. After reaching the ground, they begun to sprint off towards the location of the S.F commander.

Or so they thought.

The creature resembling Gager was hiding behind the Toshka as the Ringleaders ran off. She oozed out of her hiding spot inside the crevices of the tower to spy on Executioner and Scarecrow.

"Are the androids moving into position, Nowan?" A kingly voice spoke to her through telepathy.

"They are moving into my trap as we speak." It responded.

"Great. Those two will be great assets in the capture of this alternative Earth. It will be a great paradise for the Invaders of Venus!"


On Dreamer's side of the attack, thing went bad, fast. While talking with the others, one of the Dragoons shot her, directly where the core was. Dreamer usually keeps her distance from her vanguard, but it was nothing a Dragoon couldn't handle.

The rest of her attack force began to close in. Hundreds of S.F Dolls formed a large circle around Dreamer, weapons ready to finish her off.

"Friendly fire? That's my job!" She lost her usual cool demeanor as her core emitted sparks. "I ordered you to surround the base. Do so now before I kill you all..."

"Don't waste your breath. They are my toys now!" A voice spoke in her head.

The Ringleader begun to spin around madly, hearing someone becides the Mastermind speaking in her mind for once.

"W-wa... Elise, what do you need..."

She felt was seemed to be a knife go through her head. Dreamer erupted in screams, shivering as if she had a high fever.

"No, I'm way better than that spoiled child in every single way!" It roared, calming down as the T-Doll stopped shivering. "Who do you really serve now?"

"M-Morden! Donald Morden!" She exclaimed, quickly getting control of her self. "I'll be the loyal bodyguard of General Morden until I die!"

The virus chuckled to herself as the S.F started to march into the base, WWII style. The security for the Dolls' a.i was pathetic. It was getting boring for White Baby.

Maybe she should try some Griffin Dolls for fun next time.

A/N I decided to proofread and edit some parts of the chapter because it was a little sloppy. I promise to do better for the future.