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CHAPTER 4
Sudden Death
As Sean and Co. returned to their homes that evening, they were talking incecantly about what had happened in the span of one day. Not just one, but two of them were joining Sarah as Members of the Hunters Guild. Sean was now working with the Doctor on a theory that Montague had about Sean...that would corrilate to something he and Squall had discovered once. They had even gotten to see a famous, no....Legendary Hunter, Adus!
They split up once they got to their home block, heading to their respective homes for the night.
The next day...
As they met up at the Hunters Guild.....
"Missing!? How many did they say?" someone asked, panicked.
"About twenty-plus....and with no trace too! Not a single shred of evidence!" someone else said.
"I heard they sent Adus to find out what happened! But they haven't heard from him either, not since he entered the Monument......" a third person interjected.
"What!? ADUS!? But....that's impossible! He couldn't have failed!" the first person said.
Sean and David heard the panicked conversation.....Sarah rushed to meet them.
"I just got news that-"She began, "Yeah, we heard! It's crazy!" David said.
"So....you heard......" the voice of Montague floated from behind them...they turned to see him dressed as a Newman Force would clad themselves if they were prepared to go into battle. Elenor, his Android companion and friend, stood beside him with her wicked rifle again.....and even Squall was with them.
"Squall, you're going down there....aren't you?" Sarah asked her mentor, she was his apprentice.
"Yes. I am." He said, his usual humorous attitude was gone, replaced by a serious, grave demeanor. "Then...I'm coming with you, and you had better let me." She said to him, he began to open his mouth...but then remembered an incident that she had helped him with, weeks before. He nodded his head gravely...."Pops isn't gonna like this..." he said. "Well, he is gonna have to...consider it another part of my training." She said.
Montague was reading aloud things on a checklist, with Elenor checking to see that they had the item with them. Sean and David stood watching for a moment, then, surprising all of the others, "We're coming too." They said in unison.
The others looked at them. "Sean, David.....you two aren't ready for combat...not by a long sho-"Squall began before Sean interrupted hotly.
"Yes, we are! Right David?"
"Right!"
Squall looked at them, he studied them, seeing that they had the determination to follow through with their statements. He looked at Montague....who shrugged..."If they wanna....why not? It will be an experience...and we can see if they have what it takes." He said finally.
Suddenly....
Alarms began to blare incesantly throughout the ship.
"Dangit! Incoming!!" Squall shouted, as a red and white blur rushed at them, hitting him hard in the head before even he could react, and flatout knocking out most of the others in the area before they even knew what was happening. Sean's perception of his surroundings became distorted suddenly.....
David and Sarah were both fighting this blur....and soon were knocked out. Sean's vision and senses sharpened to a keen edge....everything around him slowing down.......everything...even the blur, which was clearly the android from before....it looked at him, seeing that he could keep an eye on him, even with its speed. It activated its armblades, and charged at him, still too slow to overwhelm him....
He sidestepped it and clocked it over the head with his Cane, before grabbing its head and running alongside it, carrying it forward with its own momentum and right into a bulkhead. It's head collided with a resonating clang.
It pulled back from the wall, clearly unharmed, but leaving an impression of its head in the bulkhead.
"You....are stronger than this unit had assumed.....threat potential analysis now upgraded......this unit will take it's leave...for now.....farewell, until this unit encounters you again." It said, in that creepy female-type voice, before shooting up the side of the bulkhead and leaping onto the roof of a building, disappearing from view....
His surroundings sped up, his senses did not dull like he had expected though....
The others arose slowly, as though coming out of a deep sleep.....
