Chp.2
Next time when Marcus accepts a mission from anybody, (hint, hint, the Frighteners), he is going to take a lot more time in determining what exactly it consists of. And next time he'll try not to be so damned desperate to the point where even if he did know about the mission specs, he wouldn't accept it because he didn't need it so much.
Well unfortunately for him, he needed the money and is now in a world of hurt. It seemed simple enough on the outside. He had a meeting with Leos Klein himself and Laura Vargras. They both explained in the nicest way possible that one of their facilities for research and development suddenly was lost and they had no idea why. Just one day all comms with the base and them just were cut off. They didn't bother telling him what they were researching in the facility, which obviously mean that it was either illegal or inhuman. Either way it wouldn't end well.
Well at first they just thought that it was a malfunction in either the personnel or the equipment. So they sent in a small group of Mts. Soon after they entered the facility, they were never heard from again. So then they sent in some of their lower ranking Frighteners in to find the Mts and the reason for the sudden disappearances. The same thing happened to them as well. Now they were apparently worried about what the hell was going on.
Marcus quietly had commented at that time, 'My ass, they just don't want to waste anymore money.'
Luckily for him, only Leos heard him and he had laughed wholeheartedly. If Laura had heard him, she probably would have threatened his life or something along those lines. Even still, Leos looked a little desperate for his help. And at the moment, Marcus was very happy to oblige. They had repaired his entire Ac. Now it was armed with a brand new Linear Cannon on the back, the long and slick Karasawa laser rifle on the left arm, and the small but deadly Pixie 3 on the right arm. His Tank was now armored to the brim with armored extensions and some of the best tuning available. Armed with the Hoshi so no one can get on top of him that easily, and an Exceed Orbit Core instead of the traditional Over Boost Core that many other tank models have, he has the firepower to decimate any Ac. Or anything else for that matter. Hell, he might need it.
Now, this is where it went from, Sweet to Shit. He had accepted and everything was done…..except! He had to have an escort. And not any escort. Laura had to go with him.
Sitting in the cockpit of his Ac, he could think of a hundred thousand ways that this would end horrible for him. Here he was sitting in a massive tank on one of the Fleet Model air carriers used to transport Acs and such, right alongside Laura Vargras, in her middle weight model, "Lucifer." Quaint little name ain't it.
The entire trip had been one long silence fest with Marcus bored out of his mind. He had nothing to do but watch the ever-watchful Laura inside her Lucifer. Why the hell she wanted her Ac to face his was beyond him.
Twiddling with an air freshener he had put on one of his upper consoles, he thought of something to do but realized that there was nothing to do. He had already done a system's check, three times. Everything was in perfect working order, save for him. He was running on five hours of sleep and that wasn't good.
Still, he needed something to do. He reached for the comms to see if anybody wanted to talk when he realized that Laura had been sending him a hail. Earlier he had turned his comms off because he wanted sleep badly. She knew this so all she sent was a small hail signal. Guess whatever she wanted to talk about wasn't that important. Hell, anything right now to lift the zombiefied mood would be great.
He flipped the comms switch and saw Laura's steel cold face popped up on his side screen. Marcus had to admit, even though he was heartless and a number of other things, she was still an enchanting woman. She had long dark blue hair that wrapped around her hard face and dazzling but frightening cold light blue eyes and she was only 38. She was donning the black and red pilot's uniform that the Frightener Officers wore that wrapped tightly around her body. Even though he couldn't see much in the screen. He saw plenty out of her Ac. It only confirmed his suspicions as to why Leos made the little game between them. Guess it turned him on or something along those lines.
Finally realizing that he had answered her hail, she seemed a little surprised that he responded. Then she chuckled and said coldly, "So Sleeping Beauty finally walks?"
Marcus stretched his arms out and yawned, "Yeah, needed that beauty sleep." But considering he didn't even sleep, it was a complete lie. "So what did you want?"
Laura seemed confused at first then looked down at her console remembering that she had sent the request. After a moment she leaned forward placing her elbows carefully on the console in front of her without hitting any buttons that might cause them to go down in a blaze of idiotic mistakes, and carefully asked, "Why did you leave?"
Marcus cocked an eyebrow up and Laura repeated, "Why did you leave the Frighteners?"
Marcus suddenly got a grim look on his face and then looked to the side saying, 'I'd rather not discuss it."
Laura tipped her side a little and asked, "Why not?" her voice carried no remorse seeing as she was hitting a tender stop.
Marcus closed his eyes and said, "I got tired of killing, that's all."
"Bullshit, " Laura stated flatly.
Marcus glared at her.
"You were-no still are a Frightener. I can see it in your eyes. I can see the killing passion in your eyes. Just like my eyes and Leos's." She peered straight at Marcus, concentrating on his eyes.
Marcus growled and replied a little angrily, "Don't compare me to heartless murderers."
Laura then, for the first time Marcus had ever seen or heard about, smiled. "Heartless murderers? Please, mankind has killed each other for different reasons for the entire time he was created in this universe. It isn't even called murder anymore," With a sudden grin that smiled to bring the Lucifer out in her, she continued, "It's just someone killing another for what they believe in. I believe in the Frightener way.'
"Which gives you the right to kill innocents?" Marcus snapped forcefully.
Laura cocked an eyebrow in confusion and finally realized something, "Oh. That's right. You left shortly after the Neo Vass City slaughter. It was your group that did that correct? Exile 13?"
Marcus said nothing. His face however said novels of words. The most basic message was, 'He didn't need to be reminded.'
"I was impressed. So was Leos." She decided to throw in.
"What do you mean by that?" Marcus asked, his anger rising inside of him.
Laura grinned a little and explained, "You were ordered to kill the pirates that decided to take a gamble and steal from one of our conveys. You did so with the proficiency worthy of that of a Frightener."
Marcus looked down, while remembering that day when he had killed so many in just a couple of hours. He had truly learned the power of Acs then. And he didn't like it. The only reason he continued was to complete his true goal in life. No not revenge for anybody listening in. He wasn't a revenge kind of guy. It was something much more grander then that.
"When you had done that," Laura had suddenly shifted her body closer together, "I had so suddenly developed a yearning for you. And even after all these years, I wouldn't mind tapping into that temptation." She gave a sultry look which definitely changed the atmosphere to a different note.
At least on her end. Marcus on the other hand, though the second thing he uses to think with was screaming, 'Do it man!', he commented, "You got turned on because I killed some many people?"
"It was the way you did it," She said with her face turning a little flushed, "It was like a dance with death."
Marcus glared at her, "Sad shame that only one of us feels that way."
Laura looked into Marcus's eyes, "You're not interested in my passion?"
'Yes!' "Nope." He said with a monotone voice.
Laura chuckled and sighed, "I see. I guess I'll just have to entertain myself with Leos."
Marcus growled and snapped off the comms.
After that the only person that said anything was the pilot telling them that there was only twenty minutes till touchdown. Other then that, it was a graveyard. Till the docking bay doors opened and the Pilot said, "Good Luck."
Lucifer was first in it's evil filled black color. It was armed with a dangerous assortment of weapons. A Pixie 3 in the right hand, a Moonlight on the left, and the smaller Gnl on the back. With added armor for extensions and OP-I, it was truly fearful monster in battle. It carried the speed and firepower to take on Marcus's Goliath. It would then only be a matter of skill then. And Marcus is a little aged giving Laura the edge, if only slightly.
Lucifer jumped backwards out into the darkness of the night. It was enveloped in it's own blanket of security, in it's own world as it sliced through the air. Laura expertly activated her boosters at the last second to avoid detection and to prevent her from hitting the ground too hard. Marcus was impressed. She knew exactly how much shock her legs could take and adjusted her boosters to take off any excess stress while making it very difficult to see the exhaust from her thrusters.
But of course, Goliath was completely different. After the green light came on, Marcus pushed the tank out of the bay and dropped nearly three times faster then Laura did. But unlike Laura he didn't even activate the thrusters and hit the ground at nearly five hundred miles per hour. Marcus didn't even feel the bump seeing as he had some of the best anti-shock technology wrapping the cockpit. Of course, when the tank hit the ground it made a crater fully accompanied with dust and debris jumping up everywhere. And like a true Goliath, Marcus rolled his tank forward toward Lucifer like nothing had ever happened. That's why Marcus loved Tanks, you can't really hurt them unless you have a tank yourself, then it becomes either a damage race or a true test of skill.
After catching up to Lucifer who was already on her merry way to the little bunker looking base, he was about to ask more about the mission when she interrupted him with, "Need you make so much noise?" Laura snapped coldly apparently getting into that mission mode kind of fame.
Marcus turned Goliath's head to Lucifer and replied, "So sue me. But it's kind-of hard to land a hundred plus ton tank without a whisper if you know what I mean."
"Hmph." Laura snorted, "Tanks are so meaningless."
"How so?" Marcus asked.
Lucifer stopped suddenly near the edge of a dune in the desert where their mission was, and placed a hand out stopping Goliath.
Lucifer peered it's head over the highest point of the dune and saw the desert bunker base, registered as Research Facility Solaris, She knew what was hidden in there. She knew exactly what was being created. How someone else found out and attempted to take the base over was beyond her and Leos. But she had direct orders to found out whom and make them pay, very, very dearly.
Marcus, even if he was of wise age, was getting bored. None of his instincts were going off and his sensors were dead. So it seemed everything was fine. That's when Lucifer activated its OverBoost and launched itself across the short distance between the dune and the Bunker. Groaning at the fact that Laura knew he was in a much slower tank, he pushed Goliath's massive weight forward and took his time taking in everything. They didn't tell him hardly any details on this place. All they told him was that something happened, found out what. But from the looks of it, it was a pretty small bunker with one door just large enough to fit in a single Ac.
Lucifer reached the doors first and sent the signal to open the doors. At first they didn't but after a few seconds they just flew open. The doors led to an elevator just large enough for an Ac.
This puzzled Marcus. To the point where he started looking around for clues and found a few more oddities to this puzzle. There were old blackened craters everywhere indicating that either there was a battle between the Mts or Acs and something else, or it was just something else completely. Whatever it was, Marcus did not like it. This was too familiar, and the last time it happened, he ended up almost dead.
He finally reached the doors and popped them open. He rolled into the elevator and activated the lift. All the gears churned and groaned, giving Marcus a newer and more anxious sense of false security, and started on their trip deeper into the belly of the beast. Lights on all four sides past by periodically giving the whole thing a more surreal type of suspense. Marcus shook his head. He was made of tougher stuff then this. Hell, he used to be a Frightener, if that says anything. Still, something about this unnerved him badly. And the next scene didn't help.
The elevator suddenly stopped and the doors parted to a hallway filled with broken Mts and maimed Acs. Marcus was definitely caught off guard. The hallway flashed with broken lights that gave it an horror movie aura. Considering Marcus was looking at Humans who where brutally killed by something that was obviously very powerful. And now Lucifer was nowhere in sight.
Marcus sighed realizing that he really might be getting too old for them and then rolled Goliath forward. His machine crunched over pieces of dead Acs and for a moment he thought he heard a squish. He pushed his Ac faster, wanting to get through this graveyard of flesh and machine faster, and finally made it to the end which emptied out into a large room.
As Marcus rolled in he realized that large was completely out of the question. It was more like massive. The lighting was poor so he couldn't see the walls but he had a relative idea at where they were. There were columns everywhere and also what it looked like there was some type of battle here. There were scorch marks everywhere and some of this columns were missing pieces. Goliath continued to moved forward scanning every single millimeter of the room but to Marcus's surprise, there was nothing here. No even-
"Marcus!" Speak of the Devil.
Marcus hit the comms switch, "What? Where are you?"
"You have to get out of there now!" Laura warned.
Marcus could sense the genuine worry in her voice. "What are you talking about?"
"You have to get out of there, I found out the reason why and you have to get out now!"
"Why? What's the reason?" Marcus said catching the fear that was jumping around.
"It's right in front of you!" Laura screamed.
"What!" Marcus looked forward with all sensors on max but nothing was there. "What the hell are you talking-"
Suddenly, something rocked his Ac, and hard too. Goliath was skidding backwards for more then three hundred feet. He was pretty much back in the hallway!
"Fucking hell!" Marcus pushed Goliath back into the room and then boosted in the air. All of his sensors where looking for whatever hit him but they couldn't find it. Marcus cut the boosters and hit the ground hard. Then he turned a bit right then back to the left. All of his weapons were hot and ready but no target was in sight. Marcus took this opportunity to take a look at how much damage he took. His Ap gauge started at 9785 but according to his readout, it was now at 6785.
Marcus's jaw just dropped. It wasn't possible. With the amount of armor he had, it would take a couple of Linear Cannon shots alone to do that much damage that quickly. But here he didn't even see what hit him and it didn't look that fancy either so it was a small attack! Marcus hit the readout on his console thinking that maybe the six was supposed to be a nine but it didn't change.
Then out of the corner of Marcus eye, he saw something sparkle. He turned to the source and saw a purple light in what seemed like midair. Marcus concentrated on it and turned Goliath to face it frontal. Better face to face, just in case, then from the side. He waited for something to happen but nothing did. Until another light, this one light blue, appeared under the purple light. This one however was a tad larger and growing with the second.
"Oh shit." Marcus twisted the tank legs on his Ac to the side and pushed the thrusters to max gaining as much air as possible.
The blue light shuddered of a moment, collapsed and then ignited into a beam that was larger then the Linear Cannon. Marcus dropped his thrusters, falling right under the screeching beam of energy. The beam then hit a column slicing right through it and through a handful more till it exploded against something. The explosion though was just as large as the beam, causing a firestorm dome in the darkness of the room. For only a moment the entire room was lit up and Marcus finally realized where he was.
There were Ac corpses everywhere. Mangled machines twisted and bent in everyway possible. Scorched beyond recognition. There were holes in the ground, deep enough to bury Goliath, with what looked like Acs as their occupants. Everywhere the smell and aura of death and destruction remained evident. It was a goddamned slaughterhouse.
"Son of a bitch-" Another beam come flying across his vision barely striking him but still doing serious damage to his Ac. The heat alone of the energy being launched at him was enough to cause more the seven hundred points of damage to his armor. Parts of his armor had been melted just by the heat!
Marcus turned to the purple light, still hanging in the same place and pointed all of Goliaths weapons to it. The purple light then disappeared.
"What in the?" Marcus started looking around, while programming his sensors for heat signatures, maybe then he would be able to get a heads up on where the hell this monster was.
And where the hell was Laura! Marcus snapped on the comms and yelled as loud and gently as he could, "Laura where the fuck are you? You need to back me up goddamnit!"
Suddenly his sensors blared. Marcus turned to the side and shouted while turning to face him, "There!"
The purple light appeared and in a second fired a new weapon. Or what may have been a new weapon. From somewhere, Marcus had no clue as to where, seven more lights appeared surrounding the purple light. Then from each light, beams of green energy shot out. Marcus grinned as he kicked the boosters to max and turned hard to the side landing behind a column. Hopefully the column was enough to withstand these little beams. Yet Marcus hadn't expected what happened next. The beams twisted around the column, passing it then twisted back around and hit Marcus's left arm. The green beams sliced through his armor and almost destroyed it completely. It was only thirty percent functional now.
Inside his cockpit, every siren was going off. Marcus was cursing himself at the fact that that had happened, cursed himself for Laura being a bitch, and cursed himself for being so damned broke as to be desperate enough to take this damned job. With his arm pretty much in pieces trying to hold up a weapon like the Karasawa, it would be a cold day in hell to be able to use it. Even still he didn't have much of a choice. It was now do or die.
Marcus gritted his teeth and wheeled around the corner only to find that the little purple dot had disappeared.
"Damnit!" Marcus cursed. Whatever the hell was attacking him obviously had the advantage with superior maneuverability, superior firepower, and it was invisible. That automatically kindof beats Marcus. Even with his sensors, this model of active camo is far more advanced then anything he had ever fought before.
Goliath circled around, all weapons trained forward. But his armor was at barely three thousand. His arm was almost gone, stressing under the weight of the undamaged Karasawa rifle. Then his sensors went off like mad. It was behind him!
Marcus struggled to turn his heavy Ac around but he realized that he would never make it. His sensors detected a massive heat source and he knew what was going to happen. But what he didn't expect was that the beam veered off target and sliced right through a column that was next to him. He finished turning around and saw Lucifer with it's overboost at max. Lucifer had shoulder rammed whatever was attacking him. He saw the purple dot move fast but wasn't able to recover from the hit in time and hit another column. The dot rose up but electricity started zapping from areas around the dot. Then the air around it started to phase and shift, turning into an Ac.
"What the hell is that!" Marcus gasped. It was way different then anything he had ever seen. It looked like a lightweight but carried more weapons then a tank! It had some type of duel back weapon that look like eight spears sticking out. Damn thing look like an ostrich. Then in both of its hands was a beam cannon that was longer then the damned Ac! It was slick like a Karasawa and obviously it was the energy weapon that was hammering him. But still, how was this thing able to hold that and the other two weapons it had which startled Marcus the most. They looked like long barrels on the shoulders where the extensions were supposed to go. The barrels stopped right before knees on the Ac, still, what the hell they were, Marcus didn't even want to know. All he knew was this. The thing was looking at him real hard. So hard in fact that he was raising his hand held beam weapon at him.
Marcus knew he wouldn't be able to hit the thing. Once he saw what it was, it all clicked. So he had to develop a plan now. Attacking the thing from the front would be impossible. Laura didn't realize that fact and dashed right in the line of fire alternating with her grenade launcher and her Machine Gun. But all of her weapons fire was hitting an energy shield of some type.
"Laura!" Marcus yelled. It was only seconds before it would fire. "Hit him from the back! Now!"
Lucifer turned to Goliath for only a second and then dashed forward past the uncaring Ac and turned hard and with a battle cry that seemed to echo through the room, slashed with all her weight with the moonlight. The Ac took the full brunt of the slash but didn't even move.
"More!" But it was too late. The Enemy Ac fired the weapon. Marcus boosted as hard as he could to the side but couldn't stop the beam from completely melting his right arm off with his own machine gun.
After the Ac fired that, it lowered it's weapon and spun around with only a quick thrust of it's boosters and faced Lucifer. The weapon then changed into a more stocker but smaller weapon. Then from the forearm of it's left arm, what looked like a blade armament came out.
Lucifer started going on the defensive by backing up and firing it's machine gun but even with the most advanced FSC on the market, Lucifer just couldn't keep up with the incredibly fast movement of the Enemy Ac. It appeared only as a blur of silver and red steel being propelled by white and blue flaming exhaust. First it rammed Lucifer in the air back then pointed forward it's right arm gun and fired a bolt of energy at Lucifer's head piece shooting it clean off. Lucifer, now headless fell to the ground hard.
The Enemy Ac, while still hovering in the air, swung up the extension units on the Ac, pointed them at Lucifer and opened up into what looked like a single barrel expanding into a tri pod. Each individual section then started to glow a crimson light. Then the dual back weapon separated from the Ac and elevated around it. The eight detached spears then started glowing a bright green. Then it pointed its right arm weapon forward and fired an enormous barrage of energy weaponry. It was a flurry of green, red, and blue energy that hammered Lucifer's armored body.
Lucifer folded its arms over its chest piece and then folded its legs up to add the protection but it didn't matter. The barrage continued relentlessly and turned Lucifer into a hill of blacken scorched steel and titanium-S armor.
Marcus growled but saw his chance. He boosted as hard as his beat up tank could go, realizing now that switching out the OB core for the EO core was the dumbest thing her could have done. Even still he charged forward with his Karasawa and Linear Cannon out and fired both in unison.
The Ac, while scanning the wreckage of it's latest victim, tumbled forward from the hit but retained it's ground, still in the air.
Marcus didn't care, he had to kill it now! He continue his own barrage of energy weapons fire treating deciding to alternate them to the point where it came out like auto weapon fire. Just beam after beam of energy hit the Enemy Ac. But it was like the Ac was frozen and it didn't even move. Once getting close enough, Marcus boosted up into the air, while still firing at the Ac actually causing damage, and then dropped on it. Goliath came down with the Ac under him hard on the ground nearly crushing it.
The Ac though suddenly erupted into a rage and jumped up throwing the hundred ton Ac on it's back.
Now he was screwed. He had no way to get back up and the other Ac was already on top of him. Literally! It laid on top of him, dropping it's right arm weapon and grabbing Goliath by the throat. Then reached back with its blade arm and ignited it. A dark black beam of energy erupted from the outlet ready to slice him in half.
Marcus cursed himself. He had gotten this far and it ends like this? Then he realized his Linear Cannon was still selected and pointing forward. Forward right toward the Enemy Ac's head piece. Marcus thought for only a second and hit a selection of buttons which caused the generator to pump out all of its energy in one wave, straight into the Linear Cannon. Every joint and mechanism in the Ac protested and squealed under the pressure but it worked and the Linear Cannon shot out a beam of energy that was five times the norm. The influx of energy razed the top section of the Ac's core and it's head unit leaving it completely lifeless.
Of course the attack took its toll. Goliath shuddered as the Linear Cannon exploded on it's back and all power to every function just cut itself off. Now stuck between the floor and the other Ac, Marcus had no choice but to abandon the dead Goliath. He popped open the cockpit barrier with the emergency escape lever and watched it soar into the air to harmlessly bounce off the ground. The lighting on the outside seemed bright to his eyes and he tried adjusting to it while escaping from his would-be steel coffin.
Today was definitely not a good day. He slapped his hand against his head in agitation but felt a spasm of pain race through his face. He pulled back his hand, after letting out a nice series of explicit words, and looked at the blood running down his hand. Now thinking about it, he could also feel the blood dripping down the side of his face. Now with the adrenaline decreasing throughout his system. More parts of his body were hurting. His entire body felt like one big callous.
He stood tall and proud though. Even against the odds, he was still victorious. Even if Laura had paid the price. Sad shame too. Because Marcus needed to know where that thing came from. Only then would his true mission begin. But with her death he might get nothing. Leos most likely wouldn't tell him anything other then, "It was an Enemy Ac."
"Shit." He said aloud. "Enemy Ac, my ass."
All of a sudden he heard something explode. At first he thought it was something under him, maybe the Ac he just destroyed. The advance technology involved with that Ac couldn't have been wielded properly by the minds of today but he was still alive. He looked around and saw a large object dropped nearby Laura's Ac. It was a cockpit capsule! They were used as a last resort to keep the pilot alive. It was supposed to stand even the heaviest assaults. Guess even from something that was hundreds of years ahead of it's time, the added protection of the rest of the Ac helped. It was a miracle. The next part though isn't.
Marcus dropped down from his Ac landed roughly onto the solid cold ground, grunting in response to the pain that shot through his body, and took off in a light jog up to the capsule. He got near it when one of the panels shot off into the air. And out came Laura, even though defeated mercilessly, standing tall and proud. Of course she looked the worse for wear. Blood was also running down her forehead but it was also running down her arms, and it seeped through the uniform she wore near both her stomach and her legs.
When she jumped down, Marcus saw the gash that ran down her backside as well. It was at least four inches long. How she survived is beyond him. Still…..
"Laura!" Marcus barked.
Laura twisted around even through the endless pain that ravaged her senses and gasped when she saw Marcus still alive.
"You're alive…..?" She said in a whisper.
Marcus pointed to the twisted mass of robots that looked like they were trying to get it on.
"They're busy at the moment." He joked, even though his voice was dead serious.
Laura looked at the mangled mess and just shook her head slightly, "Incredible. You were able to beat-"
That's when Marcus came and grabbed her by the neck and then slammed her into the wall of the capsule. Marcus could only guess the amount of pain that tore at her body at the moment. But he couldn't care less right now.
Laura gasped out in pain and for what little air she could get as Marcus started to tighten his grip. "What…..are-"
"Shut up." Marcus ordered. His old instincts started to come back and he was almost taking pleasure from how contorted by brutal pain her face was. "Now I'm going to ask you some questions and you are going to answer me or I'm going to kill you."
Laura didn't respond.
Marcus squeezed tighter and yelled, "Got it!"
Laura nodded through the pain that her brain was trying so hard register.
Marcus grinned and then started assulting her with questions. When he got the answers he needed, he just dropped her whiter then usual body to the ground and turned to the side, folding his arms.
"I see."
Laura, almost gagging for air, looked up and yelled, "What the hell is you're problem! And why do you want to know so badly!"
Marcus looked at her from the corner of his eye and with a glint of what looked like evil, he replied, "I have my reasons. What I didn't know was that Earth was the Ark."
Laura looked at him wide eyed. "You know about-"
"I didn't realize that you Humans had gotten that far. Must have been those damned Controllers that were set up. How they knew though would still be a mystery however."
"How do you know about-"
"But I guess it would make sense. I am however very impressed with your little show of trying to control advance technology. Especially when it is technology nearly a thousand years ahead of your time."
Laura growled in pure fury and decided that the only way she would get answers from him would be the same way he did her. Though it didn't end that way. She charged him but he suddenly moved his large body faster then anything she had ever seen before. She then found her self pinned up against the wall again with one of his hands grabbing on her hair and the arm pinned against her neck.
"I take it you want to know how I know what I know." Marcus said slyly.
Laura nodded.
"Well…..Let's just say I'm one of them." Marcus grinned and blinked his eyes just to show her proof.
Laura gasped as she saw his pupils suddenly light up.
"Ether Energy! That means you're a-"
Snap
Laura's body fell limp and Marcus just tossed her to the ground lifeless. He looked at her dead body, still admiring her beauty even after death and then turned around. He approached the Ac that he had just fought and after climbing his own Ac, he popped open the sliding cockpit doors, and looked around through the darkness. He knew that, even though this would have helped his search out much more, this Ac was beyond repair. Even with his extension knowledge, it would be foolhardy. And since he had no equipment, nor any time to get the equipment, he had no choice but to self-destruct the Sub-Dimensional Ethereal Generator and make sure nothing is left. It will create quite the stir but he now knew what he needed to know.
Earth was the Ark all along. So that means, 'IT'S' here as well.
After programming the system to remote detonate, he quickly made haste. It would be a long run, but he would be able to do it.
It looked like the sun was rising out of the very earth itself. The near nuclear detonation of the core was easily enough to destroy, no more like vaporize everything within fifty miles of the center point.
And even though it was a waste, it would simply have to do. He couldn't allow it to exist in the hands of these disgusting creatures. Actually the fact that they were laying their dirty bloody hands on such wondrous technology churned his stomach to the core. These were pure technological masteries that they were defiling. He wouldn't allow it anymore. He had a basic idea of where the rest of it laid, but getting there would require the assist of many more Ravens. Damn good ones too.
Marcus turned on a dime and slid down the dune he was on. It was a good eighty miles back to Lost Haven and he didn't have anytime to waste.
He thought back to the beginning of this day. He was getting pissy because of how this mission was turning out. And now look, he almost has everything he needs to take back what rightfully belonged to him.