Chapter Six: Lost Cause of God
"La la la la laaaaa, la la la laaa la. La la la la, lala la laaaaaaaaa." In
an underground shelter beneath Zio City, a middle aged man ran his finger
through is frizzed hair, laughing insanely as he tour locks of hair from
his head. A blue light simmered on his face as he looked back to the
monitor of his computer, hundreds of thousands of little ones running down
the screen. "I'll blow them all away, they'll all get blown away, yes they
will!" In the orbit around Mars, an old derelict satellite changes its
angle. Its scanners locking onto Zio City.
An alarm sounded from Etal Base as its ground began to shake, a large hole opening from the ground. Panel slide to the side as a gigantic weapon began to rise from the ground. Three AC burst from the ground with it, landing on its right arm. On the side of the gigantic weapon read BiSNIT?
A knock came again to Leos' door as Rel Danne stepped in. "Raven, you've been given a mission, it starts now." Rel smirked at his long time rival, Leos moaned from displeasure. "Uhh, do I have too?" Leos' face was disgusted, as he still felt sick from his fight with Sephiroth. "This is an emergency; there is no time for you to complain." Rel was a sick man, and enjoyed seeing Leos in this state of mind.
"The government has ordered you to take out a prototype space carrier which has just launched from Etal Base. You will be given back up as follows; Lt. Raier of the Martian Military and his squadron, Agent Cyanide of the Zio Matrix military, and we have to agents searching through the city for the cause of this." Rel was holding back a laugh, as Leos had fallen back asleep. He stepped out the door and told the crew to wake Leos up and get him ready for battle.
As a car raced through the empty streets of Zio City, an ominous silence befell the once promising metropolis. A shadow hung over the city, as the lights of battle sparkled like stars. "Erg, damn these bots, I can't get past them alone!"
A Lt. Raier screamed at his ally, a female raven who had body enhancements to become a cyborg, named Cyanide. Her AC twisted around through the closing corridors of the heavily guarded ship. "I hear you, but I've got my own problems!" Her AC came to the top of the battle cruisers' head and placed a small explosive in the area. Quickly, she slammed through the glass window which looked down at the city, as the explosion rocked the head of the ship. As she looked at the still standing fortress, an overwhelming sense of fear over took her.
"We're never gonna get out of this, are we?" She calmly spoke to her partner as the ship energy cannon lowers right in front of her, and began to charge it energy. She closed her eye as the beam prepared to fire, when suddenly, something knocked her AC Vapor out of the beams way. She look in awe as the energy light up the sky like the sun, and came crashing into a tower miles off. She watched the tower crumble to the ground, fearful and in wonder of this things power. She turned to find her savior, the Raven, Leos.
"Glad to see you got here." She said to him as her AC's boosters charged up, landing back inside. "You better be glad." He said to her as he cut his AC's boosters allowing him to fall to the ground, where before him stood something he had not expected to see. In front of him stood what could be described as an exact copy of his AC. Its name was Devil's Paintbrush. "Target identified, commencing hostilities." The enemy AC computer roared as it thrust toward Leos, it hydra bazooka firing off three shells into Arch-Nemesis' chest. "Erg! Damn this hacker!" Leos circled the enemy firing off shot after shot of energy from his karasawa. Only to watch as his enemy gracefully dodged them with ease. "LeOs cOMe iN, thIS Is NenE." A transmission came onto Leos' screen as he fought with the mindless Titan.
"This is Leos, Nene, have you found the hacker yet?" A young women sat in a van outside a tower near the fighting, a comm. to her face. "Yeah, we've found the target, he is in sector 231. Ryo is inside right now trying to find him." A man about the age of twenty-one ran through the hallways of the building, a number of men behind him, firing rifles. "This is Ryo, I've had no success yet, except in getting my self in some deep shit." As he turned a corner, he ducked into a small crevice, allowing the guards to run by him. As they stopped to look for him, he readied his weapon. Slowly, he came into the hall way and open fire. In three seconds there laid three dead soldiers in the hall. Quickly, he continued.
Back in the sky, Leos continued his battle with the AC. As he slowly came into close combat, his and the enemy's blade clashed. As Leos' AC kneeled to the ground, his left leg damaged from a chain gun shot, the Devil's Paintbrush burst into a fire. Across from Cyanide was struggling against a group of new MTs. As Vapor's blade tore through the armor of on of the tank MTs, a smaller, bipedal MT landed behind her, its blade glowing, just as a grenade shot struck it from above. In the way of the moon was hovering an AC known as Shadowflare, piloted by the Raven Zero Angel. "I was told to come; I didn't know that I would be a necessity though."
Up by the head of the fortress, a battle was still going on between Raier and a computer controlled AC. "Go to hell you microchip!" Raier screamed towards his enemy, as they both bounced around each AC getting of one shot at a time. Raier's AC Cannon Fodder landed on the top of the fortress, his grenade launcher preparing itself. As he fired off a shot, the enemy AC dodged it with extreme ease. On the side of the enemy AC could be read the phrase GHOST X-1. Then in a flash, the GHOST landed right in front of Raier, as it fired its own shots from its machine gun. As sparks flew from Raier core, he fired of a grenade, knocking him back. Slowly he began to fall.
"Raier, use your boosters, you falling quickly!" Zero Angel screamed as he blasted the top of an MT off with his rockets. "Sorry buddies, you can't help me now, and my boosters are out. Its been good, I'll see you all again someday." As Raier continued to fall, his AC smashed upon the road below, crushing the pilot.
"Leos, come in, its Nene get out of their quickly, we've found the hacker!" The radio operator screamed at Leos through her comm., as Ryo described to her what he was seeing. "Its defiantly Ben Denja, and he is doing something with the satellites. I can't stop him now, I'm out of ammo." Ryo leaned against the doors, gripping his arm where he had been shot. He stared at the man screaming out gibberish. "One, one, one, one, zero, one, one, zero, zero, one, zero, zero, zero, one."
"Ben Denja!" Cyanide screamed with terror as she overboost away from the fortress in a panic. As Leos watched he fly off, he could only wonder what was going through her head. The Nene spoke to him. "Leos, get out of there now. He has gotten control of a military satellite, and its aimed directly at Zio City!" As Leos listened to her in terror, he screamed to the still fighting Zero Angel to evacuate. "I'll blow them to smithereens, I'll blow them to smithereens, and I'll blow them to smithereens!" Ben went out on a rant as the thoughts ran through his head. Flashbacks of his family dying at the hands of a Raven. Memories of the government turning down his weapons. The thoughts of Sephiroth asking for a favor.
"Ryo," Nene looked down at her feet as the cannon far above her head began to charge up. "Yes, Nene," Ryo continued to stare at Ben, as Leos' overboost engines charged up. "I love you." Nene gripped the sides of her seat, as Cyanide continued to overboost away from the city. "I know, Nene." Ryo began to run down the hall, Zero Angel tearing through MT after MT still. As the beam burned through the atmosphere, it struck down onto the land, all of Zio City going up into flames. As Leos' Arch-Nemesis struggled to get out of the blast, he listened to the dying screams of his friends. As he reached up towards his comm. switch to turn it off, he heard Zero Angel mutter his final words. "I can't make it- urg!" As Zero Angel's AC evaporated in the beam, the fortress exploded into a brilliant white ball of energy.
As Leos finally came out of the danger zone, his AC's armor had been melted and disfigured. Then over the comm., he could he the voice of Matthais whisper to him. "The only honorable death is one that leaves a burning crater and thousands dead." As Leos looked upon the empty hole that was once Zio City, only he words which he had first thought when Sacri had died mattered to him. "Sephiroth, Matthais, I'll get you."
An alarm sounded from Etal Base as its ground began to shake, a large hole opening from the ground. Panel slide to the side as a gigantic weapon began to rise from the ground. Three AC burst from the ground with it, landing on its right arm. On the side of the gigantic weapon read BiSNIT?
A knock came again to Leos' door as Rel Danne stepped in. "Raven, you've been given a mission, it starts now." Rel smirked at his long time rival, Leos moaned from displeasure. "Uhh, do I have too?" Leos' face was disgusted, as he still felt sick from his fight with Sephiroth. "This is an emergency; there is no time for you to complain." Rel was a sick man, and enjoyed seeing Leos in this state of mind.
"The government has ordered you to take out a prototype space carrier which has just launched from Etal Base. You will be given back up as follows; Lt. Raier of the Martian Military and his squadron, Agent Cyanide of the Zio Matrix military, and we have to agents searching through the city for the cause of this." Rel was holding back a laugh, as Leos had fallen back asleep. He stepped out the door and told the crew to wake Leos up and get him ready for battle.
As a car raced through the empty streets of Zio City, an ominous silence befell the once promising metropolis. A shadow hung over the city, as the lights of battle sparkled like stars. "Erg, damn these bots, I can't get past them alone!"
A Lt. Raier screamed at his ally, a female raven who had body enhancements to become a cyborg, named Cyanide. Her AC twisted around through the closing corridors of the heavily guarded ship. "I hear you, but I've got my own problems!" Her AC came to the top of the battle cruisers' head and placed a small explosive in the area. Quickly, she slammed through the glass window which looked down at the city, as the explosion rocked the head of the ship. As she looked at the still standing fortress, an overwhelming sense of fear over took her.
"We're never gonna get out of this, are we?" She calmly spoke to her partner as the ship energy cannon lowers right in front of her, and began to charge it energy. She closed her eye as the beam prepared to fire, when suddenly, something knocked her AC Vapor out of the beams way. She look in awe as the energy light up the sky like the sun, and came crashing into a tower miles off. She watched the tower crumble to the ground, fearful and in wonder of this things power. She turned to find her savior, the Raven, Leos.
"Glad to see you got here." She said to him as her AC's boosters charged up, landing back inside. "You better be glad." He said to her as he cut his AC's boosters allowing him to fall to the ground, where before him stood something he had not expected to see. In front of him stood what could be described as an exact copy of his AC. Its name was Devil's Paintbrush. "Target identified, commencing hostilities." The enemy AC computer roared as it thrust toward Leos, it hydra bazooka firing off three shells into Arch-Nemesis' chest. "Erg! Damn this hacker!" Leos circled the enemy firing off shot after shot of energy from his karasawa. Only to watch as his enemy gracefully dodged them with ease. "LeOs cOMe iN, thIS Is NenE." A transmission came onto Leos' screen as he fought with the mindless Titan.
"This is Leos, Nene, have you found the hacker yet?" A young women sat in a van outside a tower near the fighting, a comm. to her face. "Yeah, we've found the target, he is in sector 231. Ryo is inside right now trying to find him." A man about the age of twenty-one ran through the hallways of the building, a number of men behind him, firing rifles. "This is Ryo, I've had no success yet, except in getting my self in some deep shit." As he turned a corner, he ducked into a small crevice, allowing the guards to run by him. As they stopped to look for him, he readied his weapon. Slowly, he came into the hall way and open fire. In three seconds there laid three dead soldiers in the hall. Quickly, he continued.
Back in the sky, Leos continued his battle with the AC. As he slowly came into close combat, his and the enemy's blade clashed. As Leos' AC kneeled to the ground, his left leg damaged from a chain gun shot, the Devil's Paintbrush burst into a fire. Across from Cyanide was struggling against a group of new MTs. As Vapor's blade tore through the armor of on of the tank MTs, a smaller, bipedal MT landed behind her, its blade glowing, just as a grenade shot struck it from above. In the way of the moon was hovering an AC known as Shadowflare, piloted by the Raven Zero Angel. "I was told to come; I didn't know that I would be a necessity though."
Up by the head of the fortress, a battle was still going on between Raier and a computer controlled AC. "Go to hell you microchip!" Raier screamed towards his enemy, as they both bounced around each AC getting of one shot at a time. Raier's AC Cannon Fodder landed on the top of the fortress, his grenade launcher preparing itself. As he fired off a shot, the enemy AC dodged it with extreme ease. On the side of the enemy AC could be read the phrase GHOST X-1. Then in a flash, the GHOST landed right in front of Raier, as it fired its own shots from its machine gun. As sparks flew from Raier core, he fired of a grenade, knocking him back. Slowly he began to fall.
"Raier, use your boosters, you falling quickly!" Zero Angel screamed as he blasted the top of an MT off with his rockets. "Sorry buddies, you can't help me now, and my boosters are out. Its been good, I'll see you all again someday." As Raier continued to fall, his AC smashed upon the road below, crushing the pilot.
"Leos, come in, its Nene get out of their quickly, we've found the hacker!" The radio operator screamed at Leos through her comm., as Ryo described to her what he was seeing. "Its defiantly Ben Denja, and he is doing something with the satellites. I can't stop him now, I'm out of ammo." Ryo leaned against the doors, gripping his arm where he had been shot. He stared at the man screaming out gibberish. "One, one, one, one, zero, one, one, zero, zero, one, zero, zero, zero, one."
"Ben Denja!" Cyanide screamed with terror as she overboost away from the fortress in a panic. As Leos watched he fly off, he could only wonder what was going through her head. The Nene spoke to him. "Leos, get out of there now. He has gotten control of a military satellite, and its aimed directly at Zio City!" As Leos listened to her in terror, he screamed to the still fighting Zero Angel to evacuate. "I'll blow them to smithereens, I'll blow them to smithereens, and I'll blow them to smithereens!" Ben went out on a rant as the thoughts ran through his head. Flashbacks of his family dying at the hands of a Raven. Memories of the government turning down his weapons. The thoughts of Sephiroth asking for a favor.
"Ryo," Nene looked down at her feet as the cannon far above her head began to charge up. "Yes, Nene," Ryo continued to stare at Ben, as Leos' overboost engines charged up. "I love you." Nene gripped the sides of her seat, as Cyanide continued to overboost away from the city. "I know, Nene." Ryo began to run down the hall, Zero Angel tearing through MT after MT still. As the beam burned through the atmosphere, it struck down onto the land, all of Zio City going up into flames. As Leos' Arch-Nemesis struggled to get out of the blast, he listened to the dying screams of his friends. As he reached up towards his comm. switch to turn it off, he heard Zero Angel mutter his final words. "I can't make it- urg!" As Zero Angel's AC evaporated in the beam, the fortress exploded into a brilliant white ball of energy.
As Leos finally came out of the danger zone, his AC's armor had been melted and disfigured. Then over the comm., he could he the voice of Matthais whisper to him. "The only honorable death is one that leaves a burning crater and thousands dead." As Leos looked upon the empty hole that was once Zio City, only he words which he had first thought when Sacri had died mattered to him. "Sephiroth, Matthais, I'll get you."