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Before you read you should know that some of the terms and part names are a little confusing to someone who has never played Armored Core 2 so I have created a web site that explains about the terms and what each part is. So I recommend you pull up another browser and go to www.geocities.com/tekkaman_kaiser I've been having trouble getting my web site up but it should be working soon. Thank you for taking the time to read my fanfiction.
Armored Core: Legacy of Disorder
Phase 01: Initiation
"Transport to Steelblaze we are under heavy attack request backup now."
"This is Steelblaze I'll see what I can do." But Steelblaze was busy with his own problem in the form of ten MT's. "Damn, they don't pay me enough for this." Steelblaze's AC, Grimblade, was beginning to run low on rifle rounds and had to switch to his EWM-5602.
"Transport to Steelblaze we need backup NOW."
"I know hold on." Said Steelblaze while trying to lock on to an enemy MT. "Finally" he said and released seven missiles taking out five of the ten MT's. Then taking advantage of their panic he picked the rest off with his riffle.
"This is Steelblaze I've come to help." But before he could finish his transmission the final three, heavily armed, MT's converged on him. Steelblaze, with his newly found confidence, rushed the MT's head-on and sliced through the left one, but the center MT blew off a good size piece of armor from Grimblade's right arm.
"Severe damage to right arm." Flashed the computer warning light.
"I know, I know shut up already." Replied Steelblaze with extreme annoyance.
Despite Steelblaze's efforts to confuse the enemy the final two MT's had very skilled pilots. Steelblaze tried to use Grimblade's ZWG-RF/37 but the damage to its arm was really slowing down movement.
"Hey Raven not so tuff now are you?" The leader of the MT pilots said.
"You said it Ji..." But before the second pilot could finish his sentence he was silenced with two missiles clipping his MT right in the cockpit.
"Gotcha" laughed Steelblaze, "Now who's next."
The final MT pilot, in his panic, fired all he had: fifteen light missiles, and four machine guns worth of destruction at Steelblaze.
But Steelblaze dodged it all with relative ease. "Time to die." And with that Grimblade brought down his ZLS-T/100 and cleaved the MT almost perfectly in half.
"Steelblaze to Transport it should be all clear now."
"This is Transport we read you loud and clear thanks for the help."
* * *
"Welcome back, good hunting I take it? Next time try not to mess up your AC so much."
"You think you could have done better Utsusemi." Said Steelblaze smugly.
"Well, back in the day I could have..." But Utsusemi was interrupted with Steelblaze's laughter. "What's so funny" said Utsusemi with a hurt look on his face.
"Sorry" said Steelblaze not very convincingly.
"Well regardless there is something you need to know."
"And what might that be"
"We only received 17,322 credits from that last mission and from the looks of Grimblade's damage it will, most likely, take most of that to repair him."
"That much" said Steelblaze with shock, "but..."
"But what" said Utsusemi with annoyance "You know that core or yours is a custom job, we have to order everything special to repair it. Honestly why couldn't you have gotten a standard core, they're a lot cheaper to repair you know."
"I know but it was...given to me" he paused, "Besides it would cost too much to buy a new one."
"Well regardless it still costs a lot to fix. Oh, yeah before I forget you got a letter today."
"Really" said Steelblaze "What was it another bill?"
"Not quite " said Utsusemi.
"Well what was it." said Steelblaze with growing impatience.
"It was a letter from the arena registration committee" said Utsusemi, "You are the 63rd ranking pilot."
Steelblaze was speechless all he could muster was something that resembled a cry for joy that lasted for about 2 minutes after that he tried to regain his dignity by saying, "Really."
"Well, you look happy"
"Of course. But why was I accepted? Why now?"
"It seem the A.R.C. was very impressed with your mission history and nowadays it's hard to find pilots who really know what they're doing."
"I can't wait for my first match?"
"You don't have to, you first match is in two days from now at the old Zio Matrix power plant."
"That's great" Steelblaze paused "But two days from now, can we make the repairs to Grimblade in time?"
"Well, I've already ordered the parts so if we start now we might finish in time."
But two days came faster than Steelblaze thought.
"Are you ready for your match" said Utsusemi.
"Not quite, I don't know any thing about my opponent" said Steelblaze a bit nervously.
"There's not much to know" said Utsusemi with a shrug, "His codename is Neophyte and he pilots the Hellfire, he is a new member like you and his AC is only equipped with some pretty standard stuff a ZWG-RF/37, a EWC-CNG4000, and if memory serves a shield that was taken off the market years ago."
"Shouldn't be much of a problem then, but how did he get into the arena with such poor equipment?"
"Though his AC is poor in quality his piloting is good and the reason his AC isn't very top- of-the-line is because he normally pilots a MT." said Utsusemi shaking his head "I thought I taught you better than to judge someone by the obvious, many people you meet in the future will seem weak but they only seem that way to hide their strength. And many will seem strong but act that way to hide their weakness, you will need to be able to the difference if you...."
Steelblaze interrupted "Ever want to become a good pilot. Right?" But he was answered by a cold look.
"Before we head out I have a present for you" said Utsusemi with a smile, "This is my old WG-RFM118, I used this during my first arena battle."
"Does it still work old man? The thing is pretty old you know. I thought they stopped making these shortly after we colonized Mars."
"Of course it works" said Utsusemi a bit miffed "And it works a lot better than most of the crap that they sell today."
"Ok calm down"
"Anyway" said Utsusemi "Grimblade is already loaded up into the transport and on its way I think we should do the same."
* * *
"We've arrived at the combat area commencing AC drop." Said the pilot of the transport as he dropped Grimblade at his starting point.
Grimblade landed with an earthshaking thud and Steelblaze did a few final system checks before the battle started.
"Battle will commence five minutes, pilots prepare for combat."
"Well, here goes nothing." Said Steelblaze as the battle started.
"Holy shit" yelped Steelblaze as a bolt of plasma whizzed by Grimblade's head. "That doesn't look like a standard rifle to me."
But when the scan results came in Steelblaze's heart sank. "Enemy AC 'Hellfire' is equipped with a ZWG-HC-IR/K99, and a rear ZWX-E90/MAC."
"A few hits from those guns will take me out for sure." Thought Steelblaze as he dodged a blast of plasma.
"Well Steelblaze, looks like it will be over before it began." Laughed Neophyte as he poured bolts of death down on Grimblade.
But Neophyte was living up to his name, Steelblaze was learning his attack pattern and was dodging the shots one by one...until he got hit by a bolt of plasma from Hellfire's rear mounted cannon blasting Grimblade's EWM-5602 right off his back. But Steelblaze was able to get off a few shots before he took the damage. And lucky shots they were, all three went right through Hellfire's head disabling the main camera, radar, and most of the onboard sensors.
The sudden loss of sight sent Neophyte into a panic and he started to shoot in a frenzy without looking at his energy supply until it was too late. "Damn." said Neophyte as he saw the warning that spelled his doom. "Charging."
"Now you pay." said Steelblaze as he raised Grimblade's WG-RFM118 and released the remaining 157 shots into the easy target that was Hellfire. When he was done all that was left of Hellfire were a few mangled limbs and a hulk of metal that once resembled a core.
* * *
"Well, you showed him." said Utsusemi as he slapped Steelblaze on the back, "Good job."
"Why?" said Steelblaze his eyes cold and emotionless. "Why did you lie to me about Neophyte's AC?"
Utsusemi looked back with an equally icy stare. "Why do think I would do such a thing? It's not like I lied on purpose and besides your OK aren't you?"
"Yeah, but my EWM-5602 is gone for good their is no way it can be repaired, which means I'm down on one of my most useful weapons."
"Your forgetting about the prize money"
"You're right." said Steelblaze finally perking up a bit, "How much did we get?"
"5000 credits." Said Utsusemi with a big grin on his face
"WHAT, Grimblade nearly got destroyed, I'm down a weapon, all that work for nothing and all you can do is stand there and grin."
Utsusemi shook his head in mild amusement, "As for your precious missing weapon I guess I'll let you have my EWC-XPD808 and my EWC-CNG4000, I don't use them anyway."
"Really!! alri.........hey I can't use them they'll make Grimblade overweight. That was kind of mean old man."
"Well, boy" said Utsusemi with great emphasis on the last word, "I guess you will have to choose which one you want to use."
"I suppose...hmm...I guess I'll put the EWC-XPD808 where my EWM-5602 used to be and I'll keep my ZRS-554-BW in its old spot.
"See there you have it."
"And" said Steelblaze with a gleam in his eye, "I'll sell the EWC-CNG4000 for money."
"Do you know how long it took me to buy that." said Utsusemi
"Longer than it'll take me to sell it." said Steelblaze as he ran away.
* * *
Later that night as Steelblaze laid in bed he thought about what would have happened if he had lost the battle, especially now that the arena no longer pays for repair, when he heard a loud thud. He got up to see where it came from and heard voices coming from Utsusemi's office.
"I thought we agreed that you were supposed to give minor help to Neophyte, not deck him out with some of the most powerful weapons there are." said Utsusemi with a harshness in his voice.
"True, but...I had to test this Steelblaze of yours. Besides if he has what you claim he has he would need a worthy challenge." said a mysterious voice.
"I don't care about that, we had a deal and..."
"And what" interrupted the voice "You can't coddle him forever especially now that I know what he might be. Just remember that soon the real testing will begin and if he's not worthy...well, you know what will happen."
"Yes, I guess your right" said Utsusemi all the life gone from his voice.
"Good then. I'd love to stay and talk but I have...business to attend to. If you'll excuse me."
"Now wait don't..." But the stranger had already disconnected.
"What am I going to do." sighed Utsusemi.
Steelblaze ,who had overheard the whole thing, didn't think it wise to ask what was going on so he went back to his room and went to bed. But he couldn't seem to fall asleep, he kept thinking about the stranger on the phone and tried to figure out what he meant by "If he has what you claims he has." What could he mean? But Steelblaze shrugged it off and went to sleep but he couldn't shake the feeling that his life was about to change.
Coming soon. Phase 2
Before you read you should know that some of the terms and part names are a little confusing to someone who has never played Armored Core 2 so I have created a web site that explains about the terms and what each part is. So I recommend you pull up another browser and go to www.geocities.com/tekkaman_kaiser I've been having trouble getting my web site up but it should be working soon. Thank you for taking the time to read my fanfiction.
Armored Core: Legacy of Disorder
Phase 01: Initiation
"Transport to Steelblaze we are under heavy attack request backup now."
"This is Steelblaze I'll see what I can do." But Steelblaze was busy with his own problem in the form of ten MT's. "Damn, they don't pay me enough for this." Steelblaze's AC, Grimblade, was beginning to run low on rifle rounds and had to switch to his EWM-5602.
"Transport to Steelblaze we need backup NOW."
"I know hold on." Said Steelblaze while trying to lock on to an enemy MT. "Finally" he said and released seven missiles taking out five of the ten MT's. Then taking advantage of their panic he picked the rest off with his riffle.
"This is Steelblaze I've come to help." But before he could finish his transmission the final three, heavily armed, MT's converged on him. Steelblaze, with his newly found confidence, rushed the MT's head-on and sliced through the left one, but the center MT blew off a good size piece of armor from Grimblade's right arm.
"Severe damage to right arm." Flashed the computer warning light.
"I know, I know shut up already." Replied Steelblaze with extreme annoyance.
Despite Steelblaze's efforts to confuse the enemy the final two MT's had very skilled pilots. Steelblaze tried to use Grimblade's ZWG-RF/37 but the damage to its arm was really slowing down movement.
"Hey Raven not so tuff now are you?" The leader of the MT pilots said.
"You said it Ji..." But before the second pilot could finish his sentence he was silenced with two missiles clipping his MT right in the cockpit.
"Gotcha" laughed Steelblaze, "Now who's next."
The final MT pilot, in his panic, fired all he had: fifteen light missiles, and four machine guns worth of destruction at Steelblaze.
But Steelblaze dodged it all with relative ease. "Time to die." And with that Grimblade brought down his ZLS-T/100 and cleaved the MT almost perfectly in half.
"Steelblaze to Transport it should be all clear now."
"This is Transport we read you loud and clear thanks for the help."
* * *
"Welcome back, good hunting I take it? Next time try not to mess up your AC so much."
"You think you could have done better Utsusemi." Said Steelblaze smugly.
"Well, back in the day I could have..." But Utsusemi was interrupted with Steelblaze's laughter. "What's so funny" said Utsusemi with a hurt look on his face.
"Sorry" said Steelblaze not very convincingly.
"Well regardless there is something you need to know."
"And what might that be"
"We only received 17,322 credits from that last mission and from the looks of Grimblade's damage it will, most likely, take most of that to repair him."
"That much" said Steelblaze with shock, "but..."
"But what" said Utsusemi with annoyance "You know that core or yours is a custom job, we have to order everything special to repair it. Honestly why couldn't you have gotten a standard core, they're a lot cheaper to repair you know."
"I know but it was...given to me" he paused, "Besides it would cost too much to buy a new one."
"Well regardless it still costs a lot to fix. Oh, yeah before I forget you got a letter today."
"Really" said Steelblaze "What was it another bill?"
"Not quite " said Utsusemi.
"Well what was it." said Steelblaze with growing impatience.
"It was a letter from the arena registration committee" said Utsusemi, "You are the 63rd ranking pilot."
Steelblaze was speechless all he could muster was something that resembled a cry for joy that lasted for about 2 minutes after that he tried to regain his dignity by saying, "Really."
"Well, you look happy"
"Of course. But why was I accepted? Why now?"
"It seem the A.R.C. was very impressed with your mission history and nowadays it's hard to find pilots who really know what they're doing."
"I can't wait for my first match?"
"You don't have to, you first match is in two days from now at the old Zio Matrix power plant."
"That's great" Steelblaze paused "But two days from now, can we make the repairs to Grimblade in time?"
"Well, I've already ordered the parts so if we start now we might finish in time."
But two days came faster than Steelblaze thought.
"Are you ready for your match" said Utsusemi.
"Not quite, I don't know any thing about my opponent" said Steelblaze a bit nervously.
"There's not much to know" said Utsusemi with a shrug, "His codename is Neophyte and he pilots the Hellfire, he is a new member like you and his AC is only equipped with some pretty standard stuff a ZWG-RF/37, a EWC-CNG4000, and if memory serves a shield that was taken off the market years ago."
"Shouldn't be much of a problem then, but how did he get into the arena with such poor equipment?"
"Though his AC is poor in quality his piloting is good and the reason his AC isn't very top- of-the-line is because he normally pilots a MT." said Utsusemi shaking his head "I thought I taught you better than to judge someone by the obvious, many people you meet in the future will seem weak but they only seem that way to hide their strength. And many will seem strong but act that way to hide their weakness, you will need to be able to the difference if you...."
Steelblaze interrupted "Ever want to become a good pilot. Right?" But he was answered by a cold look.
"Before we head out I have a present for you" said Utsusemi with a smile, "This is my old WG-RFM118, I used this during my first arena battle."
"Does it still work old man? The thing is pretty old you know. I thought they stopped making these shortly after we colonized Mars."
"Of course it works" said Utsusemi a bit miffed "And it works a lot better than most of the crap that they sell today."
"Ok calm down"
"Anyway" said Utsusemi "Grimblade is already loaded up into the transport and on its way I think we should do the same."
* * *
"We've arrived at the combat area commencing AC drop." Said the pilot of the transport as he dropped Grimblade at his starting point.
Grimblade landed with an earthshaking thud and Steelblaze did a few final system checks before the battle started.
"Battle will commence five minutes, pilots prepare for combat."
"Well, here goes nothing." Said Steelblaze as the battle started.
"Holy shit" yelped Steelblaze as a bolt of plasma whizzed by Grimblade's head. "That doesn't look like a standard rifle to me."
But when the scan results came in Steelblaze's heart sank. "Enemy AC 'Hellfire' is equipped with a ZWG-HC-IR/K99, and a rear ZWX-E90/MAC."
"A few hits from those guns will take me out for sure." Thought Steelblaze as he dodged a blast of plasma.
"Well Steelblaze, looks like it will be over before it began." Laughed Neophyte as he poured bolts of death down on Grimblade.
But Neophyte was living up to his name, Steelblaze was learning his attack pattern and was dodging the shots one by one...until he got hit by a bolt of plasma from Hellfire's rear mounted cannon blasting Grimblade's EWM-5602 right off his back. But Steelblaze was able to get off a few shots before he took the damage. And lucky shots they were, all three went right through Hellfire's head disabling the main camera, radar, and most of the onboard sensors.
The sudden loss of sight sent Neophyte into a panic and he started to shoot in a frenzy without looking at his energy supply until it was too late. "Damn." said Neophyte as he saw the warning that spelled his doom. "Charging."
"Now you pay." said Steelblaze as he raised Grimblade's WG-RFM118 and released the remaining 157 shots into the easy target that was Hellfire. When he was done all that was left of Hellfire were a few mangled limbs and a hulk of metal that once resembled a core.
* * *
"Well, you showed him." said Utsusemi as he slapped Steelblaze on the back, "Good job."
"Why?" said Steelblaze his eyes cold and emotionless. "Why did you lie to me about Neophyte's AC?"
Utsusemi looked back with an equally icy stare. "Why do think I would do such a thing? It's not like I lied on purpose and besides your OK aren't you?"
"Yeah, but my EWM-5602 is gone for good their is no way it can be repaired, which means I'm down on one of my most useful weapons."
"Your forgetting about the prize money"
"You're right." said Steelblaze finally perking up a bit, "How much did we get?"
"5000 credits." Said Utsusemi with a big grin on his face
"WHAT, Grimblade nearly got destroyed, I'm down a weapon, all that work for nothing and all you can do is stand there and grin."
Utsusemi shook his head in mild amusement, "As for your precious missing weapon I guess I'll let you have my EWC-XPD808 and my EWC-CNG4000, I don't use them anyway."
"Really!! alri.........hey I can't use them they'll make Grimblade overweight. That was kind of mean old man."
"Well, boy" said Utsusemi with great emphasis on the last word, "I guess you will have to choose which one you want to use."
"I suppose...hmm...I guess I'll put the EWC-XPD808 where my EWM-5602 used to be and I'll keep my ZRS-554-BW in its old spot.
"See there you have it."
"And" said Steelblaze with a gleam in his eye, "I'll sell the EWC-CNG4000 for money."
"Do you know how long it took me to buy that." said Utsusemi
"Longer than it'll take me to sell it." said Steelblaze as he ran away.
* * *
Later that night as Steelblaze laid in bed he thought about what would have happened if he had lost the battle, especially now that the arena no longer pays for repair, when he heard a loud thud. He got up to see where it came from and heard voices coming from Utsusemi's office.
"I thought we agreed that you were supposed to give minor help to Neophyte, not deck him out with some of the most powerful weapons there are." said Utsusemi with a harshness in his voice.
"True, but...I had to test this Steelblaze of yours. Besides if he has what you claim he has he would need a worthy challenge." said a mysterious voice.
"I don't care about that, we had a deal and..."
"And what" interrupted the voice "You can't coddle him forever especially now that I know what he might be. Just remember that soon the real testing will begin and if he's not worthy...well, you know what will happen."
"Yes, I guess your right" said Utsusemi all the life gone from his voice.
"Good then. I'd love to stay and talk but I have...business to attend to. If you'll excuse me."
"Now wait don't..." But the stranger had already disconnected.
"What am I going to do." sighed Utsusemi.
Steelblaze ,who had overheard the whole thing, didn't think it wise to ask what was going on so he went back to his room and went to bed. But he couldn't seem to fall asleep, he kept thinking about the stranger on the phone and tried to figure out what he meant by "If he has what you claims he has." What could he mean? But Steelblaze shrugged it off and went to sleep but he couldn't shake the feeling that his life was about to change.
Coming soon. Phase 2