The year was 2033, lived a simple boy with a simple life as a part time mangaka, he worked at a nearby coffee shop and when his shift was finished, he went straight to his desk and began working on his manga.
His name is Ishui Kamakura, a 20 year old teen that dropped out from college and pursue his hobby on becoming a Mangaka, he also adores coffee and latte arts, so he worked part time in the nearest coffee shop to sustain his living.
Right now, our main protagonist woke up after fell asleep on his desk, again, he headed straight to the bathroom and washed his face, he examined himself in the mirror before grabbing a toothbrush and toothpaste, he brushed his teeth for a good 3 minutes before taking a dental floss, cleaning his teeth more before finally taking a shower
After his shower time he grabbed his working uniform, before walking downstairs to grab some quick meal, he always stocked some instant-meal so he could just grabbed it, heat it up, and eat, he can cook but it will take a long time. So he just grabbed some meal to go and he'll be on his way
"*sighs* I wonder how long am I suppose to deal with no inspiration, it's been 3 months since my last hiatus and I really need to make a product.." Ishui muttered to himself before riding his trusty bicycle towards his workplace in downtown Nagoya
[Angel Wing's Coffee Shop and Bakery]
After several minutes paddling towards the cafe, he arrived at a rather large coffee shop, it was pretty well known despite it's small size, the roof was painted sandy brown, and the wall had a Fuchsia tone on it, it had an all clear tempered glass windows, the building itself shaped like a plus sign, with the door on the lower end and the adjacent spaces next to the entrances used as a parking spot for bikes, left for customers and right for employees
Ishui walked into the workspace via back door and he immediately punch the clock to book in his attendance
"Yo, Ishui, glad you came here on time..." A male around his age arrived next to him and also punched the clock, he had a short cut golden brown hair with a little bit of beard on his chin
"Morning Jun...*yawns*..surely I tried my best to wake up early" He yawned for a bit before taking his apron and his barista cap
The man named Jun Murikage, a simple barista that worked longer than Ishui, also an anime fan and one of Ishui's first supporting friend regarding on his side job, being a mangaka
"You've been staying all night again?" Jun asked before taking his apron as well minus the barista cap
"Yeah, you know me, I need to make a manga soon...just one book for a while and let any producer see it.." He sighed before heading behind the counter
"Speaking of your Manga, how's the progression?" he asked while sitting on the next coffee aisle, prepping the coffee machine
"Oh you know, same old, same old, it's been 3 months since my hiatus and I got no ideas whatsoever..." He put his head on the counter while closing his eyes
"No inspiration huh? have you ever tried read other mangas?" Jun asked as he cleaned the coffee machine
"I wish I could but you know I have to earn money to sustain a living right?" Ishui replied before he headed to the coffee cabinets behind him
"Oh right, tell you what, how about I lend you several of my mangas and you could see what was trending in the market!" Jun offered while putting his thumbs up
"Uh, your collections of doujins and hentai manga? dude, I want a fresh start...not do some shady manga that ended up in the television way past children's bedtime..." He said before taking notes on the ingredients
"by the way, we almost ran out of arabica coffee.." he said while writing it on a list
And from what Ishui said before metaphorically stabbed his chest
"Dude, embrace it, Hentai is art..." Jun had slight cartoonish tears dripping from his eyes
"Please no, I want a simple yet exciting manga, maybe adventure or some sort? I could use that as a head start..." Ishui thought before looking for more ingredients to take notes off
"we're short on sugar too.." Ishui took note of it before closing the cabinet
"I can handle those, just look, if you want a good manga, non-hentai or doujin, just call me alright? Cheer up, we're about to open the store..." Jun said before flipping the sign to open
and just then, several people began to park their bikes or even walked towards the coffee shop
Ishui began taking their orders, some wanted coffee, some wanted the special coffee, some wanted the "Best of The Week" menu, some wanted the normal coffee and breakfast and even some just wanted to know the wi-fi password, which Ishui responded by pointing at a sign labeled
[ORDER FOOD/DRINK TO ACCESS WIFI]
The customer eventually gave in and just order a simple black coffee which Ishui did make, and slipped a card written with the wifi username and password
So far the day went on normal for our self-proclaimed mangaka protagonist and his otaku co-worker
Northern Pacific Ocean, 0050 hrs
5th Northern Pacific Flotilla, Part of
Voenno-Morskoi-Flot (VMF) Tikhookeanskiy Flot (Pacific Fleet)
500 Nautical Miles away from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Eastern Russia
A huge missile cruiser could be seen patrolling the arctic ring of the pacific ocean, accompanied by 1 Destroyer Udaloy
A man on his 50's stood firm overlooking the deck of his Cruiser, it had a scratch mark on the face from bear wrestling and his hairs already shown it's grey colours
Admiral Letov Kaczynski
55
Captain of Missile Cruiser Marshall Ustinov
The captain was monitoring his crew, he walked passed each station one by one before speaking up
"Status report!"
"Weather condition clear" one crew that handling the weather report replied
"Weapon system nominal" Weapon maintenance crew replied
"Engine Room Clear!" shouted the engine room crew via intercom
"Radar functioning perfectly! no anomalies whatsoever" the radar monitoring team replied
The captain only responded with a nod before replying with a stern yet calm voice
"Good, this marks our last day of our routine sea patrol everyone, we'll head back after we reached the designated point, understand?" he asked for their clearance as he walked back to his seat
"Yes sir!" voices echoed in all sectors of the ship as the small patrol group setting it's course near the core of Arctic sea
At the same time, a meteor could be seen entering the atmosphere, and despite having a major friction, it didn't show any signs of decreasing in terms of size, the meteor itself looked metallic and it positioned itself on the two ships that was located in the arctic rings
"Uh, sir, we have an incoming projectile heading towards us?" one of the radar crew spoke
"What?!" Before he could react the metallic looking meteorite crashed into the front deck of the cruiser, destroying the front part of the ship
"The meteorite hit us on the front sir! we lost our anchors!!" one of the NCO's that monitors the whole ship sections spoke
"Crew status!!" The captain yelled out loud as he tried to recover from the sheer impact of the meteorite crashing the ship
"We lost 5 men on the deck sir!" said the marine that was on the deck of the ship, present at the crash site
"Гавно!! ...why the Headquarters weather and astronomical events forecast didn't inform us about an incoming meteorite!?" He said as he slowly felt the ship sinking slowly but surely
"Damn it! Stabilize it! Send message to Destroyer Udaloy! Track whatever hit us" he yelled to the comms crew
"Yes sir!!" a female communication crew began sending morse code to Destroyer Udaloy
*BEEP* *BEEP*
The crew went silent as they heard beeping noise coming from the radar screen, it showed that the unidentified metallic object from before, it turned around and stayed still
"Captain! that meteorite just moved!" the operator said, captain Letov rushed towards the screen and saw that the metallic object slowly opening it's front side, it expanded to arm like appendages with wires attached to it
"What is that cursed thing doing?" The captain grew impatient of what that thing was capable until he saw that the arms generating electric like particles as it slowly charging up it's center
"it's going to attack!! tell Udaloy to send out the depth charges!" The captain yelled out
"Udaloy you have permission to open fire now!" one of the communication crew spoke as the destroyer launched it's salvos of depth charges towards the "meteorite". After the salvo, the metallic object finished charging up and finally shot out a massive laser towards the destroyer and it got split in half
"U-Udaloy destroyed sir.." one of the crew was both shocked and terrified at the object that was able to obliterate a destroyer in an instant
but all hope was not lost, the salvo of depth charges finally made contact with the meteorite it created a huge explosion
"A direct hit sir!!" one of the sonar operators spoke up and that made the whole ship cheered on, the captain could only let out a sigh of relief
However their celebration was short lived, as the same warning beep rang through the ship, the operator turned towards the screen and saw that the thing itself was barely scratched, it does damage but not enough, it terrified the whole crew more as it charged another attack
"да пребудет с нами Господь" He muttered as he closed his eyes and the ship finally obliterated into pieces. And with that the whole patrol group got decimated by the unknown object.
stretching a bit far away from the scene lies 2 individuals carrying guns, both of them were females, armed to the teeth, one had blue eyes and blonde hair, wearing 3 layers of clothing ; a jacket, an accessory body belt, and a cloak. She also wore shorts and low-knee boots. The other one had almost monochromatic colour long, ponytail hair, she rarely opened her eyes and wore the same attire like her partner, except she wore trousers that blend well with her low-knee boots
"What do you see?" the long haired blonde spoke while maintaining her weapon.
"Quite an interesting sight AN-94...two surface combat ships got annihilated within minutes..." said the silver haired woman.
The blonde had a name of AN-94, as in Avtomat Nikonova Model 94, a T-Doll part of Task Force DEFY under command of Angelia, a mercenary that worked together with GnK Private Military Contractor.
"Was the meteorite belong to Sangvis? AK-12?" she asked before standing up and took her binoculars out.
Her partner's name is AK-12 as in Avtomat Kalashnikov 12, another T-Doll that also a part of Task Force DEFY.
"I couldn't confirm that, the meteorite sunk into the ocean just underneath the arctic ring, but moments before impact, I could see a little bit that the tech wasn't Sangvis', it was way too futuristic to be one, and it could even survive a huge impact and had no damage whatsoever, no debris flying anywhere..." She said before stretching out for a bit.
"So the rumours were true, Ange said that either today or tomorrow a meteorite will fall on the arctic ring, she thought it was part of Sangvis tech..." the blonde sighed before putting her assault rifle by carrying it on her shoulder using a sling.
"Should we tell GnK about this?" AK-12 asked as she prepped herself again before heading back with AN-94.
"Not yet, we need to know what the boss said first..."
T-Dolls
A Tactical Doll(人形战术), also called T-Doll, is an AI-piloted android originally designed to serve as an easily replaceable fire platform for military operations. Early generation dolls were unmistakably robots, but the standard form of Tactical Dolls came to be that of women as the need of easier human-machine interaction appeared.
After seeing heavy use inWorld War Three, Tactical Dolls were made available on the civilian market after the war and non-combatant dolls were made commercially available. As of 2019, most T-Dolls are manufactured byIOPand can be found in use by national armies, police forces, PMCs, security companies, civilian companies and private citizens. Griffin and Kryuger combat forces exclusively employs T-Dolls.
"Tactical Doll" refers specifically to the modern models of dedicated combat androids. Early combat dolls and unarmed civilian dolls are usually called "Autonomous Dolls" (自律人形), privately employed civilian dolls can also be called Domestic Dolls (家用人形).
Task Force DEFY HQ
Vladivostok
0200 hrs
A femalewith Greenish-Grey short straight hair was sitting on her chair listening to the reports that AK-12 and AN-94 submitted.
She had one cyborg arm, replacing her formal skin and bones, she wore a leather-latex composite vest with trousers that was reinforced with knee-pads, she also wore a jacket that she didn't even zip it up.
"So that's the whole story..." She said while crossing her arms before sighing and turned around facing the view of mountain range
"Yes madam...the whole ship got destroyed in a matter of minutes and AK-12 didn't see it resurfacing..." AN-94 spoke up.
"And also it wasn't a Sangvis technology Angie..." AK-12 casually called her superior by her nickname.
"that means we are facing something much worse...it couldn't be any extraterrestrial units, it has to be man made..." She muttered to herself before looking at her trusted T-Dolls.
"Contact GnK...Project : Host needs to be done now..." Angie said before standing up and headed outside her office.
The two T-Dolls saluted at her before heading out to the GnK PMC base of operations located in Endfyld.
Griffin and Kryuger PMC Headquarters
279B Verkhovnoi Rady Boulevard
Endfyld, Ploshad 4
0410 hrs
An old man around his late 40's or early 50's was sitting on his office, he had a short black hair with grey hair could be seen on the sides, had a goatee and brown eyes, his face also had a scar on his right cheek, he was wearing red fur trench coat with black suit and tie underneath it, he also wore a pair of trousers reinforced with knee pads and also boots, the man's name was Berezovich Kryuger, the CEO of Griffin and Kryuger Private Military Company and Security Consultant Company or GK PMC Corp for short
he had a grim look on his face after hearing what Angelia said about what her T-Dolls had witness.
"Mister Kryuger, permission to come in..." a female voice could be heard from outside his office.
"Come in..." Kryuger said with a stern yet anxious tone. The door then opened revealing a female with a long wavy hair, had a mix of green-gray colour on her hair, a pair of golden brown eyes, and wearing a monocle. she had a distinctive stern look on her face, carrying a folder of reports coming from Angelia's Task Force DEFY, she wore a long sleeved red coat with black belt wrapping around her waist, brown pantyhose and black leather low knee boots.
"Reports on Angelia's Task Force DEFY's recon sir-..." She spoke up with a serious tone coming out from her lips but cut off immediately when Kryuger lifted his hand up.
"I already know Helian...it seems what Angelia said regarding this "Man-made Extraterrestrial Project" was true..." Kryuger just sighed while rubbing his forehead.
"How is that cube doing?" He asked while still had his back facing towards Helian, his assistant.
"The development was already complete now we're onto the last phase which was synchronizing all of our T-Dolls Neural Cloud...so far the Uplink was still in trouble due to a constant power surge emitting from the cube itself.
"Start finding the appropriate Commander...let's start the Neural link with the cube after we find the perfect candidate...after that, we will move to our Branch Headquarters based on where the new commander live..." Kryuger said before he stood up and headed to the laboratory where the cube was located
Helian followed her boss towards the laboratory that was located 5 levels below the surface, many T-Dolls were present in the area doing their daily routines, such as repairs, gun maintenance, training, and some even in charged on cleaning dormitories.
The elevator door opened revealing a female figure, she had a short golden blonde hair tied up into a ponytail with a red ribbon, she had a pair of gloss blue eyes and wearing a beige coloured jacket with white buttoned up shirt underneath, she also wore short black checkered skirt with red lines, she also wearing a pair of different knee socks, one was plain black coloured on her right leg and the other was stripped black-white on her left leg, she also had a pair of sunglasses rested on her head, she also wearing low-knee boots mixed with high heels tone as the soles and a pair of tactical gloves, she was carrying a notepad on her hand while observing the cube
"Kalina, how's the cube progress?" Said Kryuger towards the blonde haired girl named Kalina, she turned around before saluting towards her superior
"So far it's going well sir, Persica still tweaking it's memory storage, and judging by that, she couldn't store all of the T-Dolls duplicate neural memory.." She explained as she returned to observing Persica and several scientists working on the said cube
"What do you mean?" Helian asked while walking towards her, she stopped next to her while still observing the scientists grinding their time and minds on the cube
"I don't know for sure...She knows it all" Kalina only could respond that since she wasn't an expert on high technology stuff
"I'm walking in.." Kryuger grew impatient as he walked into the testing room
"Persica!" he yelled out towards the female scientist, she had a pale cream blonde hair that was let loose and messy, a pair of "Cat ears" on top of her head, she wore the standard lab coat with mocha coloured buttoned up shirt that was very loose, showing a lot of her cleavage, and so wear a skimpy skirt that barely covering her thighs
"Boss! you shouldn't be here we were testing out the cube!" the female researcher named Persica responded
"We got no time, Angelia had spotted the anomaly that just destroyed a Russian naval patrol group couple hours ago..." he said with a combination of anxious and stern tone
"That fast?!" She spat out immediately hearing the report
"Just start finding the perfect candidate for the commander...we'll send the dolls via Neural uplink separately, just send the easiest ones first.." he said while looking at the cube. It had a black matte colour, about a size of a Rubik's cube, except it was monochrome, only Black on the outside, but it was slightly glowing a light blue colour on the lines of the Rubik's cube with small electric sparks could be seen on the surface of the cube
"Are you sure Boss? no testing?" She asked while crossing her arms
"Yes, I gave you a greenlight to find the candidate..." Kryuger simply replied before seeing Persica heading to a large monitor revealing the world map
"Activating Mapping Protocols...Searching Host.." cables then started to attached the cube as it slowly levitating above the small pedestal for the cube itself, the map began pinpointing locations for the potential user, from all cities around the world, reduced into several cities, then the tracker slowed down before pointing the final place which was Nagoya, Japan
"We got a potential user, Nagoya, Japan" she said briefly
"Start finding the person.." Kryuger immediately ordered her as the map zoomed in, revealing the satellite map of Nagoya City, the pinpoint marker went from various places until it stopped at a 2 floor house with a red roof and pale yellow wall, the pinpoint then gathering the identity of the house and a green pop up notification appeared on the screen
[LOCATION FOUND]
Wakayagi-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi prefecture, Japan
[OWNER]
Ishui Kamakura
21
[POSITIVE CAPABILITIES]
[PREPARING FOR TRANSFER]
"Huh, Interesting..." Kryuger observing the picture that the screen provided, a normal boy with black short hair, hazel eyes, medium built and slightly tanned skin and most importantly, didn't look like he had military training whatsoever
"Should we find another candidate?" Persica asked her boss while her hand was hovering at a big red button that labeled [TRANSFER]
"Right now we don't have any choice, send the cube to him, and upload the first T-Doll that was assigned, a handgun would do..." He said as he walked back towards Kalina and Helian
"And as for you two, pack your stuff, we'll head to Nagoya..." he simply said before heading back to the elevator alone, the two girls looked at each other before giving a nod and headed out from the lab
Persica began the uploading process of a single T-Doll that will act as his first guardian
she walked towards a female holding a small standard 9mm Handgun, she had a blonde short layered bob cut hair, pair of azure blue eyes and wearing a steampunk-esque maid outfit, complete with high boots, binoculars, and she also wear a monocle
"Alright, you'll be the first who will meet the new commander...are you up for it?" Persica asked the blonde maid T-Doll
"I sure hope so...hope he's as good as our old commander.." She said nervously while looking at her handgun
"Don't worry, I'm sure he'll be a good person..." Persica assured the anxious T-Doll
"The neural bridge is open, come on" she then attached a memory stick filled with her "conscious" towards the Rubik's cube
"P99, departing for duty!" The T-Doll known as P99 then warped into the cube
P99
The P99 is a semi-automatic pistol developed by German firearms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen. It was intended for law enforcement, security forces, and the civilian shooting market. The P99 also served as a replacement for the Walther P5 and the P88. The P99 and its variants are also made under licence by Fabryka Broni Radom.
Angel Wings Cafè and Bakery
Nagoya City
Ishui just finished his shift in Angel Wings and he wanted to write his manga again
"I need to finish at least a prologue, the readers must've sick of waiting..." He said while looking down, sighing softly knowing that he didn't make any progress
Upon reaching his house, he was struggling to find the keys until his eyes fixated on a package, it was very small, almost the size of adult palm
"I don't remember ordering anything..." He paused and thinking until he let out a sigh
"it must be my brother...what kind of useless things that he send to me? Just to boast that he had been there and sending me this souvenir..." He opened the door, carrying the package in and instinctively grabbing a cutter and opening the box, he took out the content which made him puzzled
"A rubik's cube...but it's all monochrome..what is this rich people stuff that I'm too poor to understand?" he did what other people do to Rubik's cube, twist and turn it despite having the same colour on every direction
"but it's kind of a stress reliever..." he chuckled before putting it on the table and then headed to his work room and sitting down, grinding all day doing his manga
Ishui sat on his chair and began doing several rough sketches for the characters on his manga, he was deep into his work and didn't notice the time
At the same time, on the living room where the cube's placed, it began to glow light blue and the cube expanded and forming some sort of doorway, P99 walked out from the cube and looking around the house
"huh...quite comfy, despite living alone all by himself.." She said while synchronizing her data with the local time
"Miss Kalina, everyone come in..." she put her hand on her ear as on her HUD which was her eyes, 4 seperate portraits of Kalina, Helian, Kryuger and also Persica appeared on her HUD like a video conference call
"Ah P99, you're arrived at the Commander's house?" Kalina asked her as she just nodded while smiling
"Yes, it's very comfortable, despite not too big" She giggled before looking around
"Well then, where is the commander?" Helian asked while fixing her monocle
"He's in his work room, I don't want to disturb his stuff.." She said while sitting on the sofa
"Very well, if he's done, introduce yourself to him, and contact us" Helian said while logging off from the call followed by the other 3 leaving Kalina and P99 on the line
"Say hello for the commander for me!" She waved at P99 before logging off from the call
P99 looked around the house and noticed that there were dishes that still unwashed on the sink
"Hmm, I better help commander cleaning up, then I'm gonna make him some dinner" She walked towards the sink and began washing the dishes
Back at Ishui, he stretched his back before looking his work
"Huh, this doesn't look so bad...could be a head start for a my new adventure manga..." He smiled knowing he made progress after 3 months of hiatus
But his joy was cut short when he smelled something cooking from the kitchen, he walked outside and saw a foreign looking girl cooking on his kitchen
"Eh?! Who are you?!" He was shocked and grabbed a broom as a weapon
P99 turned around before smiling and bowing at Ishui
"Greetings Commander, I'm Tactical Doll from Griffin and Kryuger PMC Corp, Walther P99 Handgun at your service commander" She then smiled at him which made him blush like a tomato
"Eh...EEHHHHHH?!!!"
Author's Note :
Hello everyone! Sorry for the wait! Hope you enjoyed my first chapter of Girls Frontline Fanfiction!
Give me your thoughts about it and I can take it to the next chapter if you like it!
ERROR-Kun Out!