Martin Mystery: New Allies
By: Ominae
Rating: PG-13
NOTE:
All characters of Martin Mystery are under the copyright of Marathon; Yu Ominae is a copyright of Striker/Spriggan; John Vattic is a copyright of Codemasters and Free Radical. The character Mark Sy is under my jurisdiction and some parts of his life are based from my experience. The character Patrick Chan is also under my jurisdiction.
Previously:
Martin Mystery and the rest of the task force in the Philippines are now heavily engaged with the Berserker, an ancient robot that was created by an old civilization that has inhabited the planet Earth from the days of old. Now trapped with a ruthless, fierce and mindless killing machine in the depths of the Earth's surface beneath Pampanga, it's up to the crew to bust down the robot, subdue it and save an entire country from total anarchy. What lies in store for the team? Will they be able to apprehend Gio Valdez as he had gotten away from them a while ago? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.
Chapter 10: Mission accomplished
Berserker stasis chamber room - 12:30 P.M.
Despite the debris collected around the floor of the Berserker statis chamber room, the fearless agents in the task force (except Diana, Java and John) continued to keep up their pace against the Berserker, a fearless and mindless killing mechanical beast that seeks to eliminate anything that it considers to be its own enemy for its own sake.
Martin Mystery, Yu Ominae, Patrick Chan and Mark Sy were beginning to feel fatigue all over their body, accompanied with aching joints as they couldn't find a way that they could use in order to disable or paralyze the beast completely. Even if they felt tired, they still kept on pounding on the monster with every martial art technique that they could possibly perform on it.
"We need to distract it first." Patrick thought about his smoke grenades tucked in his vest. He quickly dashed to Yu, who was busy holding off the Berserker and told him that they'll have to distract the beast together so that one of them can jump on the monster's shoulders and lob its head off.
"Good idea, Pat!" shouted Yu as the constant fighting between the agents and the beast made it quite hard for them to communicate with one another.
Patrick immediately took off one L64A1 smoke grenade from his vest and removed its safety pin. He signaled to Yu to use his armbands as to contain the beast from moving any further around the statis chamber room. He nodded and dodged a fist that smashed on the ground instead of Yu. Patrick tossed the L64A1 smoke grenade near the feet of the Berserker and it exploded, surrounding the room with tons of gray smoke that enveloped the entire room.
The Berserker tried to use its laser cannon on Patrick. In reaction, he covered his head by raising his arms as if he was blocking a punch from a boxer. The robot fired its laser cannon mounted on its arm and the laser penetrated a heavy amount of smoke and it reached Patrick's Armored Muscle Suit, but it didn't even bother him since it touched him as if it was a mere laser point.
"GOTCHA!" cried Patrick. "Yu, fire the wire anchors!"
"Right!" replied Yu. He immediately raised his right arm, pressed a button in his armband and the device shot out wire anchors that tied the Berserker's head, which helped in restricting certain amounts of movement.
"I get it now. The laser works best in pure air. But in air that has smoke, the laser's effectiveness is greatly restricted." said Diana.
"Of course. This laser must have been made with the same means that the one was found by ARCAM researchers in Britain." answered John.
"EIYAA!" yelled Martin as he raised his extended X-Staff after doing a midair flip in the air and swiftly used the weapon to give a fatal blow to the mounted weapon on the Berserker's arm before he landed on his feet. Upon impact, it began to short circuit and gave out sparks, meaning that the weapon was no longer in operation.
"Nice one Martin." said Patrick while giving the thumbs up.
"Thanks, mate." replied Martin with a mock salute.
"My turn!" shouted Mark as he held his Fairbarn Sykes Commando Pattern 1 knife and began to make a dash for the beast. It did a straight punch in reponse to his movements, but he immediately disappared for the meantime.
"Where'd he go?" asked Martin.
"Mark move fast?" said Java.
"I think I know what he's going to do." added Yu with a grin.
The Berserker didn't even bother to look behind him without making a sound, Mark materialized once more and he landed on his shoulders. He began to stab its neck with his Fairbarn Sykes Commando Pattern 1 knife, even though the beast exerted every ounce of its own strength in order to throw him off its shoulders. Mark was able to avoid being thrown off the beast and proceeded to plunge the knife's Omihalcon blade deep inside the monster and slowly made a small cut before he tried to tug the knife all the way to the other side of the beast's neck.
"My god! He's actually doing it at last!" yelled John inside his own head as he witnessed the possible conclusion to their battle.
"This is..." He stopped for a few minutes before he made a jerk to his knife's handle and made a swift cut as he made the weapon slice through its neck, completely decapitating the monster. "THE END!" With that, the beast's head went down on the floor while the body continued to stand for a few minutes before it completely collapsed on the ground.
Mark leaped from the shoulders of the Berserker and made another rebound to the walls of the statis chamber before he landed on his knees in front of the decapitated beast, but was covered in smoke due to Patrick's L64A1 smoke grenade that was used to distract the robot.
"Hey! That's my line when I fought the Berserker back in Britain!" muttered Yu to himself.
Sparks and circuits sizzled from the Berserker's neck. Red blood also oozed out of its neck when it collapsed to the ground.
"Where's Mark?" asked Martin.
"Over here!" shouted a voice. Everyone turned to the source of the sound, which was Mark himself when he emerged out of the blue.
"You okay?" inquired Diana.
"I'm fine. But we have to get out of here now! It's too dangerous!" commanded Mark.
"Why?"
"Because it has a self-destruction device embedded on its mechanical body and it'll automatically activate when it's taken out of action!"
"It's true. The Berserker that I fought in Britain had one and it should activate itself right now." interrupted Yu.
BEEPPPPPPPP!
"Me and my big mouth!"
"Oh no!" yelled John.
"Big trouble!" added Java.
"Damn! That's the self-destruction device's activation." shouted Mark. "We have to get out of here... NOW!"
The agents began to hightail out of the statis chamber room. Mark lagged behind for a few minutes in order to make radio contact with M.O.M. after flipping the headset mic to his mouth.
"Mark to M.O.M, Mark to M.O.M., come in please."
"M.O.M. here, what's your status?"
"We managed to take out the Berserker, but Valdez is on the loose, maybe in the area. Have some Special Reaction Squad (SRS) teams deployed right away. We need to have the area cordoned off."
"I'll have it taken care of. M.O.M. out."
"Mark out." Mark then caught up with the rest of the team and told them that help is on the way. They were soon in the main section of the cavern and were now running on the corridor leading to the surface.
A loud explosion was soon heard from the depths of the cave, sending a volley of flames shooting after them.
"Crap!" said Martin looking back. "It's catching up to us!"
"We're almost there!" shouted Mark.
"Just a few more steps." added Diana.
"Java tired." replied Java.
"Java, this is no time to get tired now!" yelled Patrick.
"We're there." cried John as the team was now outside the cave.
"Get down on the ground!" ordered Martin as everyone laid prone to the ground with their hands covering their heads. Within a few seconds, a flaming pillar shot out from the mouth of the cave to the open sky before it extinguished itself after a few minutes.
Outskirts of cave, somewhere in Pampanga, Philippines - 12:50 P.M.
Martin, from lying down on the ground, observed a Center VTOL aircraft landing down on the grass. He motioned to the rest of the team to stand up and meet up with M.O.M., who just exited the aircraft with Billy behind her. She was walking near the agents alongside Billy, who hovered nearby.
"Are you all right, agents?"
"Barely." answered Mark. "We couldn't seem to locate Gio, he must be still around here."
"Strange." uttered John. "I sense that he's still around here."
"Everyone, stay alert!" ordered Patrick as they kept their grip on their weapons.
Martin saw a glimpse of Gio running fast from the left side of the cave with his 9 x 19 Parabellum Beretta 92F automatic pistol. The team concluded that he was aiming it at M.O.M.
"M.O.M.! Get down!" yelled Mark as he pushed her down to cover her body with his. Billy hovered to a safe hiding place while John used his psychic skills and yelled, "PSI SHIELD!" A half-blue sphere emerged from the ground and it covered the entire team, deflecting the 9mm bullet that was meant for M.O.M.
Gio was stunned by what happened and John brought down his Psi Shield at once. Mark took the advantage by doing a ninja teleport move.
"So, where's your friend now? Looks like he abandoned you!" smirked Gio as he pointed his weapon at the terrified group.
"Behind you!"
A voice chuckled in the air, but Gio couldn't seem to find out who said that phrase.
Eventually, a loud rustle was heard from the bushes. Mark emerged from it dashing towards Valdez. He fired a shot from his Beretta 92F automatic pistol, but he teleported out of the way at the last minute.
"Dammit! Where'd you go this time?"
Only a strong, fierce voice boomed in the air with these words, "FOOL!"
Gio tried to look up, but was blinded by a black shadow that quickly came down and gave a blow to his neck with an elbow attack and a backfist move to his head, rendering him unconscious as Gio's world suddenly became black.
"Hmph! An idiot! Just like all the others!" smirked Mark as he landed on his knees from his teleportation technique.
"Hell yeah!" said Yu and Patrick in unison while giving their thumbs up in approval.
"Are you all right?" asked Diana.
"Never felt better." responded Mark. He soon heard the sounds of helicopter rotors coming near the cavern. Soon, he noticed three Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk choppers hovering near the entrance of the cave and the doors opened.
A thick rope was launched from the chopper's inner cabin to the ground itself and moments later, teams of SRS operators came rappeling down on the grass, armed with Singapore Technologies (ST) Kinetics SAR-21 assault rifles in 5.56 x 45 NATO caliber and Glock 17 pistols in 9 x 19 Parabellum caliber. Their equipment was exactly just as Martin and the gang witnessed a few days back then after terrorists tried to kill them back in Vancouver.
"Sweet!" whistled Patrick.
"New stuff?" asked Mark with a grin and a raised eyebrow.
"Of course. After all, you were the one who suggested it when you and I worked on the formation of the unit a few years ago, right?" replied M.O.M., who exited from a Center Boeing Osprey MV-22B VTOL aircraft with a grin on her face as well. She tilted her head to face the rest of the agents, "After all, he had the rank of Captain for a job well done before he joined up for this mission."
The team responsded merely with ooohhss.
"Yes! We saved the Philippines!" shouted Patrick while pumping his fist in the air. Mark, Patrick and Yu had slinged their rifles on their backs while M.O.M. started to debrief the agents. Mark took off his beret and balaclava in relief.
"Good work agents! Gio Valdez will be taken care of by the SRS operatives. We'll take care of the rest of the Berserker robots that are in the destroyed statis chamber right now." M.O.M. pointed to the team various SRS operatives who were securing the interior of the cave, while others were carting out Berserker statis tanks out of the caves to Center VTOL aircrafts. Apparently, they were fire-proof from the impact of the Berserker's self-destruct system implanted in its body.
"Damn! Why can't I get a rank like that?" thought Martin to himself after hearing about Mark's rank within the SRS.
In front of the cave, two SRS operatives secured Gio Valdez by applying plasticuffs to his wrists after restraining his hands from behind and confiscated his transponder, still intact, from his pockets. They then lead him to a Center Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
Billy hovered out of hiding and spoke to the agents about the sample they asked him to check on.
"Guys. The sample you gave me a while ago is apparently not of this planet."
"Just what do you mean, Billy?" asked Martin with a raised brow.
"The white slime is actually a covering for the Berserker in the statis tank. If the statis tank is opened and exposed to the air, the covering melts, which is why it gives a resemblance to white slime."
"I see. That's why it was colored white. I kinda remember those covering when Diana and Java were with me in the statis chamber room."
"Anyway, nice work done agents." M.O.M. began her walk to the Center VTOL aircraft, but she stopped in her tracks and turned around.
"Is something wrong, M.O.M." asked Patrick.
"Yea. Why'd you stop?" added Diana.
M.O.M. had a grin on her face as she approached Mark and placed her hand on her shoulder. Mark was shivering all over since he didn't know what to do if M.O.M. will scold or give him a sermon.
She only patted him on the cheek. "Nice work."
The team watched her get on board VTOL aircraft depart as it flew up in the sky before it changed from VTOL mode to aircraft mode, sending itself on its way.
Mark had a smirk on his face after the VTOL aircraft disappeared from view.
"Well come on guys! We better get back to Manila. The SRS teams will take care of the mess for us." ushered John as the team began their walk towards their vehicle.
Mark looked back and saw the SRS and other Center personnel cordoning the outskirts of the cave. Most Center personnel were seen doing a bioscan of the area to check for any traces of the Berserker while SRS teams moved into the cave, securing the rest of the chambers inside.
"Yea, I guess. Come on, we better go and get some rest." Mark sighed.
Mark and Diana caught up with the rest of the team, walking together with signs of relief and joy on their faces as their worst nightmares were now over. The Berserker has now been defeated and the threats of the metal beasts against the world are now extinguished. The team members were now able to rest at ease, for now.
Chapter 10 END