Chapter 6
The young mechanic took a bow. "Ah, just in time to save the day! Another victory for the great Caroline! Hey, no thank yous?"
"The only thank yous you will get is from the President once we get you behind bars!" Fio replied, pointing her HV-01 directly for the Ptolemaic.
Caroline, along with the white doll, had smashed their way in the safehouse, forcing KCCO to retreat. Sadly, they didn't meet much praise.
"Dammit, Caroline! We really don't have the time for your antics!" Eri swore, drawing her laser gun.
"Geeze, what beef do you guys have against our saviors?" Strawberry commented. "I didn't know humans could be so ungrateful."
"They are terrorists of the highest order back at the U.S." Fio replied. "The Ptolemaic Army. They've leveled cities, stolen and weaponized many ancient treasures, and they even had a cult that tried to summon the Lord of Darkness itself!"
"That last one wasn't even our fault!" Caroline whined.
"I think that's enough from you." The white doll covered Caroline's mouth, who said some rather... unsavory things. "I'm sorry if we came off on the wrong foot. Our new allies are fairly unorthodox."
"AK-12, she wanted to replace one of my arms with a laser minigun after your team dug me up!" Star replied harshly. "These guys are lunatics!"
"She's the only t-doll mechanic in miles after kcco's rampage. It's your choice if you don't want your teammates back."
15 went silent, who couldn't think of a good response.
"Since we went through all this trouble getting this clay lug here, you might as join us. I'm AK-15, one of the leaders of Team Defy. Our director has given me permission to allow you into our team."
"Sweet! I'm in!" Midori chimed in.
"H-Hey squirt, wouldn't this be treason to the Regular Army? We are signing up with a whole a new faction, which includes those no good Ptolemaics!" Fio told Midori.
"Marco wouldn't care, as along as we always fight for the greater good. Becides, he's on the other side of the S.F HQ. It will take forever for him to get here."
"Well, I can't disagree with that logic." Eri groaned. "The Regular Army is officially working with you, Ms AK-12."
"I appreciate it, but don't be complaining if you can't keep up with us military dolls! You're still human in the end."
"Why do all these androids have this superiority complex?" Eri thought to herself, shaking her head.
"Now, I don't care if you Griffin Dolls decide to stay with your company." Ak-12 spoke to the Carcno Sister. "Your commander is likely waiting for your return..."
"We can't go back!" Strawberry quickly responded. "The commander told us that Helian ordered a full scale evacuation before we left to rescue the Sparrows. Griffin will be long gone by the time we get back." She sighed with disappointment.
"It would be a waste of time to run back to the commander. Instead, we will join your team for a bit, AK-12" Grape told the doll.
"Good, everyone's onboard now!" AK-12 spoke in a celebratory tone. "I'm afraid this clay doll has room for just me and Caroline, so everyone else will have to follow on foot. The safehouse isn't too far away, so to put it in human terms, suck it up."
The CLAY-GU begun to levitate from the ground, flying off for the safehouse with the rest of the gang in tow. The Regular Army and Grffin would be facing their toughest op yet...
"Jeeze, even Marco didn't cause as much damage during Morden's rampage." Eri commented about the destruction surrounding themselves.
Countless bodies of Sangvis, Griffin, Regular and Rebel Armies layed on the ground. Most were not even in one piece, entire limbs or heads missing. The Dolls had merciful deaths, but the some of the humans taking apart were still alive, growing in pain as their life's drifted away.
"This was what Kruger wanted to avoid. Human, actual casualties." RO365 mourned as she hauled the bodies of M4A1. "Why would he go against his company's values and enlist human fighters! It still makes no difference against KCCO, and then there's terrorists running around with the Mastermind..."
"First time, bud?" Eri talked to the stressed doll. "We had to put up with much worse before we joined Griffin. Aliens, a death cult, a future Rebel Army... You have it easy, RO!"
RO stopped moving to think about Eri's words. The Regulars managed to fend of threats much worse than S.F, even though they have just a single human life. Their bravery seemed far more genuine than that of the the T-Dolls, who in most causes, could just be backed up from Griffin 's servers like a silly mobile game.
"Hmm... I guess I do have no excuse..." She mused. "I must stay strong for M4!" RO365 marched on with renewed vigor.
The safehouse wasn't anything special, just a large warehouse S.F used before their territory got attacked. The doors were flung up, blown off their hinges from an explosion. The gunpowder was still fresh in the building...
"Rebel shells! I can recognize the smell from anywhere!" Fio commented, collecting some dust with her finger.
"Dammit, those bucketheads aren't far behind." Caroline groaned. "Bring those androids to me and I should fix them up in a jig!"
"Please, take good care of M4." RO prayed, heaving the body of the T-Doll to Caroline. AR-15, the one in charge of Sopmod, worryingly gave the limp T-Doll to the mechanic. Midori couldn't even watch, worrying what her archnemsis would do to her friends.
"Here goes nothing!" Caroline spoke with a mischievous glint in her eyes.
She flipped open a hidden panel on her D-GU, and pulled out a wide variety of tools. The mechanic worked with surgical precision, slicing open the T-Dolls' bodies to reveal their metallic parts.
"Oh man, I'm going to barf." Midori covered her mouth as a sickly feeling crawled out of her stomach.
The mechanic first removed the bullet from M4's main core, and did the same for Sopmod. There was way more shrapnel in her body due to multiple soldiers opening fire, though. With an extreme amount of focus, she begun to carefully replace the T-Dolls' cores with her own custom parts.
"Easy goes it.. Caroline swiped off some sweat as she installed new chips into their bodies. She may have not personally known the AR-Team, but it was no excuse for sloppy work. She got plenty of harsh punishments from her superiors when the vehicles she designed weren't up to snuff. Don't even get them started on the countless times she recolored one of their machines and passed them off as new weapons.
After she stitched the T-Dolls bask together and upgraded their respective firearms, Caroline heaved a relieved sigh, her work nearly finished.
"Hold up, M4 and Sop still aren't awake!" AR-15 yelled furiously, believing she was scammed. "Percisa said that we only have one life, so what in the bell are you going to do."
"Simple. You just need a BIG shock to get them up, just like a human!" Caroline responded as she pulled out car batteries and hooked them on alligator clips. "Whoever designed those androids sure wanted to keep them as human as possible, right down to a circulatory system stomach, intestines, and stuff Yoshino would beat me up for saying out loud. Still, you robots have a heart for some weird reason, so defibrillators should work fine."
"With car batteries? This is extremely concerning!" RO spoke out.
"Improvising is one of our best strengths in the Ptolemaic Army, but I think this is enough chat for now."
Caroline flipped a switch on her D-GU, and a powerful jolt of electricity surged through the bodies of M4a1 and Sopmod. The two immediately sprung awake, eyes wide in shock.
"M16, why, why why! Damn you Yegor!" M4 shouted incoherently.
"Yowzahs, that was pretty painful!" Sopmod looked around frantically. "This safehouse looks different from the one before I blacked out..."
RO rushed up Sopmod and M4 for a big hug, tears streaming down her eyes.
"4! Sop!" She sobbed in her embrace.
Even AR-15 couldn't help but shed a tear. "Whoa, she did what Percisa said was impossible. I actually have some respect now for that girl."
"No no no!" Midori shushed 15 by covering her mouth. "Don't you dare encourage Caroline! I'm the real brains of this team!"
AK-12 blew into a tissue she had for no other reason than to be sarcastic. "Bravo, bravo! Now there is only one step left..."
She approached Sopmod and M4a1, and promptly threw off their clothes.
"H-Hey!" A flustered M4 screamed, in a noticeably more mature voice than usual.
"WHAT THE HELL, WHITE HAIR?!" Sopmod shrieked in response.
"Wait a sec, there's a minor with us!" Strawberry pointed to Midori. "Defend her innocence, Grape!"
"On it!" The two rushed up to Midori to cover her eyes with their hands.
"Oh come on!" She shouted in frustration. "You guys are just like Marco! He lets me go to all sorts of crazy battlefields, but never lets me see what's the business with his "Arkbites Weekly" magazines!"
After a couple minutes of struggling with the Carano Sisters, AK-12 gave everyone the clear. She had finished giving the Dolls a makeover their attire. Overall, there clothing took on a much darker and gritty feel.
"Holy crap, you two look like total badasses!" Caroline shrieked, nearly passing out.
"Kinda sucks that we didn't get an upgrade like that..." Grape groaned.
"Heavens no, little one!" AK-12 responded. "You are already pretty much the only viable bamboo in the game, so do you really need a MOD?"
"Uh, what miss?
"Nothing, Griffin simpleton. Anyways, it's best that we hit the road again. Our boss is waiting for us, and being late is the only thing she hates more than you-know-who."
"Yeah, I can't wait to finish the job the next time he shows his sorry face!" Sopmod spoke cheerfully.
"And I'm ready to avenge all the innocent dolls that died at KCCO's hands." M4 said, pulling out her new rail gun.
"Whoa, we never got anything like that!" Fio exclaimed. "Combining the high velocity shots of a railgun and the explosive power of a bazooka is a match made in heaven! Midori, you better be taking notes."
"Oh, y-yeah!" She fumbled with her pockets yo take out a notebook that held all the ideas she ever had for a vehicle or weapon.
"Glad to see that everyone is excited, but I believe this is enough chat for now. Let's put the girls in frontline, fellow agents!" AK-12 ordered in a supportive voice.
And so, the Dolls and Regular Army commandoes matched out once more, to meet up with the rest of Team DEFY. But meanwhile, malicious plans unfold in the skies above...
"Great job, White Baby." An elderly man in a commanders suit spoke. "The fabled OGAS is in the hands of the Amadeus Syndicate!"
"Your pleasure, my father." The virus bowed in front of Dr Amadeus.
"Now that OGAS is part of our mother computer, we own every Sangvis Ferri unit ever made. Our strength has multipled an untold number of times!"
Alma, one of the head researchers of the Syndicate, was skeptical about Dr Amadeus's plans.
"Yeah, but where do we go with this OGAS? We were just fine with White Baby."
"Nothing is enough when conquering the world!" He quickly snapped back. "We now have access to some of the most deadly androids ever made! We could incorporate Sangvis technology with our new cyborg program to create super soldiers that can compete with the Regular Army! We could finally upgrade our super computer into something truly and utterly evil! OGAS can do stuff you can't possibly comprehend, kitty liter for brains!"
"Hey, I put alot of work into my tiger serum!" Alma retorted, suddenly locker her hands affectionately.
Dr Amadeus shook his head in disappointment. Sometimes he wonders why he ever let Alma in when her cat fetish gets in the way of her work.
"B-Boss!" A Amadeus footsoldier approahed the Doctor. "The Rebel Army is preparing to move in to the battlefield for cleanup. They're requesting one of our machines for help."
"Bah, send them Iron Fortress! She's my favorite for a good reason." He ordered back.
"Right, Commander Amadeus! I will prepare the weapon right away!" The soldier ran off to the blimp's hanger to get Iron Fortress ready.
With White Baby off to her own devices and Alma to busy being a cat, Dr Amadeus begun to worry.
"I just hope they don't scratch her up too bad this time around..."
A/N Well, that took alot longer than expected. With COVID-19 and my new found obsession with Arknights, it was hard finding time to write this chapter. Anyways, I'm pretty much going to followed the events in Girls Frontline like in the original game, but with some of my twists included. Stay safe everyone, especially for those poor folks in Texas and Florida.
