Disclaimer: Armored Core and all of its sequels belong to Agetec and From Software, I do not own Armored Core.
Sorry for taking so long to update this story TT(crying face). I just haven't gotten around to getting it done. Inotherwords, I've been to lazy to do anything. This fan fic has stuff from Armored Core: Nexus, but it's not necessarily based upon anything in the game. It's the only AC game I own so it makes my life easier to use it as a baseline. The AC I outline piece-by-piece a bit later on I actually made.
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Bright lights, painful bright lights. Bring back the soothing darkness...
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Kairen watched as Raiken slowly gained conciousness. His eyes opened slightly, heavily squinting in the light.
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There is a blurred face, who is it? The face is getting clearer, more recognizable. Is it my sister Kairen? It looks like she is saying something, but I cannot hear anything. Wait, there is something, I can hear a faint, soft, voice. It sounds like she is saying...
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"Raiken? Raiken, are you awake? Are you alright?" A slight moan escapes his lips and I have to resist the impulse to hug him and comfort him. I knew that would just make things worse for him.
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My hearing became ultra-sensitive soon after regaining it, like having a hangover. I tried to tell my sister to be a bit quieter, but my mouth wouldn't work. All that came out was a slight moan. This didn't seem to help matters as it looked as if my sister was now restraining herself from a vicious hug. I tried speaking again and my mouth seemed to be more willing to comply.
"Kn oo puls be queet."
"What was that you said?" My headache rages in my head again as she speaks, even though she is speaking quieter than normal.
"Caaan yooo plaaase be quaieeet." With every moment I am regaining more control over my ability to speak.
"You want me to speak quieter?" She says that very softly and quietly of which I am very grateful as my headache doesn't rage quite so much when she said that. A wave of tiredness rushes over me and I give a slight nod before falling asleep.
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It's been over a month since I took the mission from the Nest. I have completely recovered and built a new AC. The new AC is called the Pegasus MKII. It uses the following equipment:
Emblem: Nine-Ball
Head: H07-CRICKET (has a built in radar)
Core: RAKAN (over-boost model)
Arms: CR-A94FL
Legs: LH05-COUGAR
Booster: CR-881 (designed for prolonged flight combat)
FCS: MF02-VOLUTE
Generator: FUDOH
Radiator: RAGORA
Inside: N/A
Extension: N/A
Back Unit L/R: W831 8-PEGASUS (dual back boosters)
Arm Unit R: WH04HL-KRSW (Karasawa )
Arm Unit L: WL-MOONLIGHT
Hangar Unit L/R: N/A
Optional Parts: Reduced damage from energy/solid, increased damage with blade/energy rifle, faster rate of fire for the energy rifle, less energy consumption from the energy rifle
This particular AC design was an energy sucker, but it was very fast and very powerful. It's base color was a light blue, and the added color was dark blue. Everything else was colored black and the head was pitch black.
I had just gotten out of the hospital and built a new AC and I already had a challenge in the Arena. It was a rookie that had challenged me several times before, losing every time. His hope was that one day he would get lucky and get a huge advance in the arena standings. Of course I accepted, like I always do. I'm a good sport and wouldn't turn down an arena request for the world.
So a few days later I show up at the arena. The first thing I notice is that the rookie had completely changed his AC around. This threw me. Every time I had fought this rookie he always preferred a certain style AC. Sure, he would change a few parts around now and then, but the overall effect was the same every time.
This new AC was very heavy. It had a grenade launcher, slug gun, rifle, and a small energy pistol with power equal to most bazookas. I decided that since his AC was so heavy, I could run circles around him very easily. My HUD lights up with the word READY then....GO!
The rookie hits the boosters and takes off, fast. Faster that was possible with heavy AC's. The air pressure created from him taking off was so great that it pulled me about 100 meters towards where he was. There was a tremor in the ground as he landed hard behind me. I turned around and saw a spray of bullets from his slug gun coming towards me. My AC got tossed around as I boosted away from the line of fire. My AC was now covered in bullet holes, but everything was still in working order.
He was on my left side now, I turned in time to see a deadly ball of energy from his pistol tear through my right arm with a large explosion that knocked my AC down. As I got up again, Karne activated his boosters and started to move but they suddenly ran out of energy. I knew I had him now, his generator would take a while to charge. He tried running, but his AC was just too slow. I activated my boosters and went straight torward him as fast as I could. I hadn't realized before how powerful my boosters would be with the new PEGASUS part. I was very thankful that I had a cushioned chair as I got shoved back into my seat very fast. Everything outside of the cockpit was blurred and shaking as my boosters propelled me forward with massive amounts of power. My moonlight extended like a lightsaber and glowed with energy as power was fed into it. I held out the blade of my moonlight like a lance as I aimed for the generator of Karne's AC. My moonlight went through all that heavy armor like a hot knife goes through butter, it was beautiful. Then my fist hit the armor with such force that Karne's AC spiraled backwards. It landed on its head immediately pulverizing it, then the rest of it landed shaking the ground slighty.
Now that the battle was over, I could contemplate what I saw with Karne. His AC was heavy and he was moving faster than some light AC's. Inotherwords, what I saw was supposed to be impossible. Not even the greatly famed optional part OP/INTENSIFY could make an AC do what I saw. A human plus couldn't either.
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The next morning as I checked my e-mail, I noticed one that had "???" as the sender. After I read it, my curiousity was piqued. The e-mail said this:
"You deserve it far more than I do. Use the part you will be getting tomorrow well."
There was nothing to do today but wait. My AC was in the shop being repaired.
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Yeah, you wait all this time for this little chappy. Oh well, I put a lot of detail into the fight (at least I think so). Hope you like it. Dunno how long it'll take me to get another chapter done. Oh well, at least I got SOMETHING done. R&R please.