Just updated Humane, hooray for me. Updated this chapter for spelling issues and whatnot.
There's a nice little blurb I put in the latest chapter, something for after this story.
Aspire5155: Yes. I wonder if mobile hotspots exists for scrolls. Maybe, dunno.
Stone125: Thanks.
RelightTheTorch: Sad face. Yeah, I'll get WiFi at Sept 9. AHHH IT'S SO CLOSE.
RandomGuest: Remember what I said with 'crashing' if he has an overpowered weapon that shouldn't exist, you'll see it first hand.
Haha! That line was half-assed, but I'm glad it worked XD.
Anyhow.
"I still don't understand the problem!"
"It's wrong!"
The player and the huntress were arguing over a corpse.
The prisoner had broke out of his binders and attacked them, killing the two squads that the player was with. After almost killing the huntress, the player had bludgeoned him to death with a crowbar.
When the player offhandedly brush the prisoner's death off, the huntress went angry and started berating him.
"He was surrendering! His face was full of holes and blood, begging for mercy and you just killed him!"
"I placed him out of his misery. It's a win-win. He won't hurt anyone and he won't feel a thing."
"Why are you so?!-ugh!" And with that. She stormed out.
The player sighed, rubbing his temple. He brought out his Toolgun, set it to the 'Remover' tool and got rid of the Combine bodies. He had already told the hunters to take care of the rest back at the camp.
He motioned to the group of slaves/hostages and soldiers to move forward to the village, the huntress was way ahead.
When the sun had risen, the group had arrived. The village guards had taken care of the hostages and the village people welcomed their long-lost friends and families.
The player spotted the bartender with another man in his 40's.
"You absolute mad man! You did it! This was the man I was talking about, mayor!" He directed the last words to the man next to him.
"So it is." He turned to the player. "You have done a great deed for this village. I am thankful as the people I lead."
The player smiled. "I didn't really do much, they." He gestured to the soldiers. "did all the work." The synths were at the camp, idling around. If the villagers saw it...they wouldn't be very understanding.
The mayor's eyes narrowed. "And who are they really?" He asked.
"They're friends, willing to help."
"Then they must be good, if the rescue was anything to say about it."
"Yeah, they are. And, if you are asking: you don't need to pay them. As I said to my friend here," gesturing to the bartender. "I do it free of charge."
The mayor relaxed. "Well, that's good and oh, have you heard?" He leaned in closer. "There were reports of people hearing strange noises and seeing shadows too strange to be Grimm." The player's mind went to the striders, hunters, Dropships and gunships.
By the end of that, the player was nervously sweating a bit.
"Spooky." He started poking at the ground with his shoe.
The bartender chirped from his spot. "Hey, there's a party in the inn. Want to join?"
The player took this as an opportunity to bolt out of the conversation. "Yeah! I need a drink."
Time skip...
The player awoke to a wooden ceiling. Reminding him of where he is.
He groaned. "Oh my god. That is horrendous. Oh...jeez." He massaged his forehead.
"So this is what they called a hangover, dear lord. Shouldn't have asked for the heavier stuff." He rolled off the bed, then he had a realization.
"Bed? Room?" He looked up and saw he was indeed in a room, a basic one for basic needs.
He yawned despite his hangover and walked out the door. He walked down the stairs and was greeted by the sight of the bartender, with three women cleaning up tables.
He was noticed by his landlord, who gave him a smile. "Hey! How you feeling?"
"I'm peachy."
"Really? You dropped down pretty hard."
"Don't worry about it. Anyways, going to go for a walk."
"Sure."
Walking out the door, he was greeted by birds chirping and the rising sun. He stretched a bit and started walking down a road. It wasn't long before he met someone, the huntress. Sitting on a fallen tree log, on a cliff, showing a view of a distant city with a faint sign of a tower holding a green beacon.
'Oh boy.' He mentally rolled his eyes.
She looked at him once and looked away. He stood there in silence, before she spoke up.
"Nice view?"
He hummed in agreement and again, silence.
"While I didn't like what you did." He looked at her. "I'm grateful for what you did."
Looking down, he said. "I'm sorry you had to see that, but we have different views on who lives and who doesn't."
She nodded. The two went back to their silent staring.
"Do you see that tower?" She asked, pointing at the location.
"Mhm." He nodded.
"That's Beacon, where I graduated to a huntress." She said, before turning her head to face him.
"Hm, name checks out." After he just said that, he heard a distant boom. While faint, he saw a patch of land disappear.
She stood up. "Did you hear that?" He nodded, before putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Let's go." A dropship with a troop container landed on the road.
"What's that?" She asked, hesitantly walking towards it.
"One of the things I used to liberate the camp, now come on!" The ramp went down for them to enter. A few gunships and dropships went over them as they went in.
The player talked on the radio. "All forces move in to the nearest hole in the ground. We gotta follow that train."
"Train?" The huntress asked.
Before he even liberated the camp, he took two week to actually start it. During that timespan, he practiced with the NPCs. But he also spawned City and Shield scanners around the village and beyond. What they found was a destroyed city and a ton of the dark creatures ,big and small, in it. Seeing what he thinks is a scouting party, he ordered the scanners to go deeper which led him to an underground city.
And with it, a long train with more containers that had 'dust' and tons of the 'faunus', mechs and two humans. One with a bowler hat, the other had an umbrella.
He was suspicious of their activity, so he kept atleast a swarm of scanners on that city.
Before they even reached the hole, the player muttered. "Never a moment's rest."
Indeed.
How will he affect Remnant? I don't know, but he's going to be doing things that make people think he's the bad guy.
See you.
