AN: Sorry this took so long. Somehow i have the ending for this arc already written but getting to that point makes my muse angrier than a dog being taken to the vet.

Also, read the game's Chapter 25. it makes a lot of my ideas easier to take to the screen since i know they are supported by canon. and that i can expand on how much we were shown.

Chapter 39

Kevin Kaslana looked at the Base which had been his home for a whole 42 hours.

It was now on fire.

The hordes of monsters had come out of the woodwork once that damned screech tore into everyone's eardrums. The rest of Fire Moth's operatives had been lucky to have their full suits on.

They had gotten used to the weight and they got told that once there was time, they would get some adjustments to the reaction time since one of the girls in the other squad almost tore her own arm off from punching a zombie in the face. The thing had been turned into a smear in the ground and her arm had looked like it would join in the painting.

Kevin was glad he stuck to his guns instead of allowing his 'jock instincts' (as Su liked to call them). They had been checking on the Lt's helmet when the screech reached them. The Lt had gone down as his ears and eyes began bleeding like fountains. Everyone else around them had gone down the same way as more and more monsters showed up.

In his pursuit of one of the most interesting girls he'd met, he'd gotten Su to teach him all about those key chains Mei liked carrying in her pencils and bags. He'd been surprised when he got told that those most likely were as expensive as an engagement ring given how old and irreplaceable his friend described them to be. Kevin had looked up at those prices and had given up in trying to get Mei a new one for her birthday.

Then the Honkai attacked, and he was now fighting for his life.

Again.

But this time, he could fight back.

The guns he had were glowing red from how much he'd fired them at those monstrosities he'd just recently learned about.

Xenomorphs, no matter what color they were, were a nightmarish force to face. Even with the suit's prediction software, he had some difficulty getting good leads and his shot often landed when they were practically point blank.

Another shot, another racking of the shotgun he'd gotten from the albino soldiers of Steel Locust, another dead Xeno. This had been easier once he found out the button to increase the Gauge in his shots. Now he was firing the rough equivalent of an 8-gauge cartridge into the monsters trying to rip him into pieces.

Aim, shoot, pump, aim, shoot, pump. It all blended together as he stood his ground along with his teammates. Soon he was doing this in automatic, like his short training had told him to. The others were laying down fire with the Gatlings and none of them wanted to break out the knives and swords against those things.

Well, the training from before Lt. Aikawa made then shift tactics still worked. He hadn't found it necessary to switch to them yet.

Looking at the edges of his vision, the assembling horde made him think they would have to use them soon enough.

Dobbins AFB was on fire.

But even then, parts of it still stood defiantly against the horde. Planes had been scrambled with whatever they had once the enemy appeared, but a lot of hardware was lost.

Steel locust had no such problems. Almost all their aircraft and mechs being VTOL made them very good at an emergency scramble. Those YoRHa forces left on the ground relied on heavy firepower and high mobility to lay waste on the hordes of invaders.
The sound of Helicopters reached many ears, who let out relief at the sight of reinforcements. Only those with direct visual frowned at the unfamiliar shapes of the aircraft.

The King Raven helicopters were heavily armored and armed for their size. And as soon as the were in range, their massive chainguns opened fire on the enemies below. Some dropped YoRHa Defender Models, and some dropped the Assault variants into the fray. Several of the Ravens went and collected injured human forces for treatment at the Steel Locust Carriers. Pelican Gunships arrived to lay waste to the Honkai Beasts roaming around.

TSFs formed a perimeter once around the base, keeping any invader out while Flight Units finished the monsters inside.

But the Honkai would not give up, now that their Will was here.

Flying across the ocean, two monsters in human form traded blows that would destroy cities, those hits that landed sent shockwaves through the ocean's surface. Yinsen deflected water jets and whips with the AT fields, and sent out a barrage of lightning strikes and floating guns he created with the energy being thrown around. The Honkai Will used compressed air to destroy the bullets before they reached her and the water to conduct the lightning away from her body.

The only time blows landed was when both engaged in a nasty slugfest that no one would see close up unless they were torn apart by the shockwaves. Armor was shattered and replaced, limbs broken, cut off and regenerated, and holes gouged by bullets of blades filled with LCL or Water.

Weapons could be brought in because as soon as any of the two tried, they lost their hands or got nasty blows to the head from odd angles. "Die already, pest!"

"Weeds never die!" Yinsen parried her clumsy punches and landed his own. With no leverage of their own, both fighters relied on their abilities to harm their opponent, using those brief moments of contact to do as much damage as they could.

Organs were regenerated from being turned into paste, limbs replaced like magazines from guns, weapons shattered and remade. It was fight between an amateur and a novice, both with impossible power, but novices, nonetheless.

Yinsen managed to pull out an Attache Arrow, managing to hit the newly installed auto-deploy button and blocking the kick aimed to his head. The weapon shook but didn't shatter, and he managed to pull the notch and let out an energy arrow that went through the water-made leg, not the one that still had some flesh inside. But he had to block and weave the flurry of punches coming his way.

The power of the first Herrscher manifested and Yinsen used it to create thrusters to avoid getting hit. The AT field held but the constant water-splitting hits were rapidly waning his concentration.

"Allow me." Yinsen's teenage self spoke, and using the power of Reason, created a little stopgap. The RS Hoppers were a system intended to buy time for EVA-13 to reach its destiny, and in here, thy ould have a similar role. The 'small' biomechanical drones flew and began intercepting the Will's attacks letting Yinsen use Reason Manifest fully.

Ghostly hands held 36mm and 75mm Shotrise Assault Cannons which began peppering the Will's host. The Will shredded the bullets only to barely block the golden spears launched at her. One stayed in contact long enough for Yinsen to appear and pull the hilt right below the handle.
"JACKRISE!
"Surprise!"
"JACKING BREAK!"
A concentrated stream of air and water pierced the Will's arm and looped it off completely. Data flowed into Yinsen's brain about the powers keeping the Former Herrscher's body together. But He didn't have time to parse it as multiple attacks took his attention. Warnings in his HUD alerted him about the Will gathered a large amount of energy and was aiming it his way.

Yinsen gunned his engines and managed to get out of the way in time. The large beam of energy missed him by inches, and he felt the suit's auto repair working overtime to get him to 100% fast enough. He answered the attack by manifesting two weapons that should be overkill for a target the Will's size. One Positron Cannon and nine MM144 Super Electromagnetic Crossbows fired their deadly payload, the Will evading them by close margins but still taking damage from the speeds and heat crated by the weapons' munitions.

The old Yinsen noticed something odd. "She sent that big ass attack at us, so where is the explosion?" Widening his eyes, the Rider spared a look behind him and saw something inside the water glow… and grow. And grow. And grow.

"Oh Shit."

Inside Dobbins AFB, a trio of girls attended to a blaring terminal inside their room. Using the post-it note stuck to a monitor they pulled out the reason for the alarm.

"What is this…" Mei looked at the screens, looked at the angry red spreading across the map.

"Massive energy spike! No- Multiple energy spikes along the East Coast! Reading superior to those of Bixi!" Tesla touched the highlighted parts and numbers made her pale… "I don't know what these units mean! Stupid machine… Honkai Concentration rising!"

"Images coming in!" Einstein pulled the data, and the three girls watched the events unfold.

Tesla voiced their thoughts. "What the hell are those…?"

Himeko was woken up by the sounds of distant thunder and someone splashing water to her face. She opened her eyes to see who she was going to slug for that stupid barracks prank, but instead she was pulled by her arm. "On your feet, Rider!" She felt her consciousness come back as she was hoisted up by someone. "We have much to do!"

She saw the person hoisting her up, and as her mind went back to full awareness, she felt her jaw drop. "How are you alive?" her rescuer turned out to be one of Yinsen's girls, still clad in her White Rider Suit, and missing her whole left side. Some of the armor looked cracked and there was still some blood dripping from the hole where her shoulder used to be.

"Rider tech is amazing, come on! We're needed elsewhere!" Ark urged the older woman, and soon they were both running towards the nearby Pelican. The sound of thunder was coming closer and closer.

Himeko saw her team being picked up by more of Yinsen's people, a lot of them in the Piloting suits and some in simpler BDUs, but she noticed someone was missing. "Where's Yinsen?"

"Dad's fighting whatever the Herrscher has become! Move! We have to get out of here!" The other girl, Zea, ran towards the Pelicans with her suit's back completely missing and bleeding from several wounds before a pair of TSF pilots picked her up and hauled her the rest of the way.

"Eh? Why?" Himeko was still blinking the spots away from her vision when the thunderclaps were practically next to them despite the sunny skies.

"Because of that!" Ark pointed with her remaining hand at something in the horizon, and then Himeko noticed the rising thing coming out of the waves.

The older Rider felt her jaw hit the floor until the pulled it back. "What the hell..."

Right next to the coast of Miami, Washington and New York, something emerged. Glowing water coalesced into a shape, and soon it gained colors saltwater shouldn't be. Large tentacles rose and pulled out a massive body unlike anything alive. Blackened flesh was covered in white plating and lines of glowing pink held together the armor's growing.

It had a humanoid upper body: head, arms, hands and torso. From its back, eight thick tentacles twitched and trashed around, each of them ending in a sharpened tip. Four enormous spider-like legs carried the monster while six smaller ones stabilized it. 130mts tall, the beasts roared. A too human roar coming from a too human face until it was covered in plating, a mix of hatred, pain and crying.

The Kraken were released.

"Coming out of sea like some movie, a monster had appeared! Some in the audience remark that its color resembles those of the reported attacks on various American cities!" the reporter shouted over the running New York masses. The roar of the beast interrupted whatever he might have said as it knocked aside the Statue of Liberty via a humongous tentacle that crushed the monument like a can of soda. "We urge out audience to-" he was silenced by the statue's torch landing on top of him and the fleeing people.

This scene repeated itself in Washington as the monster wrapped its limb around the Woodrow Wilson Memorial bridge and used it as ammunition against the city of Washington. In both cities, the Steel Locust's Flight units began their counterattack in the beasts, buying time for the human defenders to get in position.

However, in the ruins of Miami, the beast began running.

"Multiple Kaiju across the east coast?" My old self wondered as I materialized more SEM Crossbows, firing another salvo that should have ended anything without an AT field. The dozen or so Positron Cannons weren't given time to cool down before the Will sliced them or crushed them. "This is bad, even if we keep printing forces, we won't be able to deliver the firepower to kill them in time."

"She got us good, didn't she? Split 'em and Kill 'em. This thing… this is why she's such a fucking challenge…" Teenage self operated the RS Hoppers buying us time to manifest more and more weaponry. "She knows we're the only ones who know just what she can do and the ones that have the power to do anything about it. She's keeping us distracted while she takes over our defensive positions…"

"So, what do we do?" I fired the pair of Positron Cannons I finished manifesting and The Will evaded the beams, letting them make the water below her explode into mist. She smiled, as if knowing the thought running in my head. "We have to destroy her host, but we can't also loose the biggest military we need in the fight."

"Shit… where are the AIs?" Teenage self was pulling out a fucking concerto as he weaved the RS Hoppers in a dance intercepting every attack they could.

"They just pulled Himeko and the others out of the range of… is that the fucking Kraken?" My old self was baffled. We had seen the meme and we knew we were very much unprepared to these levels of bullshit. "So… anyone has the Head of a Medusa lying around? Cause we're going to need it right now…"

"Irregular… learn the futility of your actions… And watch as your pets die like the animals they are!" The will flashed me the nastiest smile I had ever, including several exes that I really should forget about.

"Don't underestimate them! And more than that, you're open!" the Positron Cannons I had painstakingly protected had cooled down and finished charging. Ten beams hit the pseudo-deity at once.

The Network felt the needs of core YSN via highly irregular protocols, but comprehensible ones. The orders were received, and the network scoured its archives to accomplish them.
The Criteria were laid on the table, the enemy's capabilities hypothesized via math and compensated for observed margin of reality manipulation.

The network observed, as the Human Conglomerate called 'United States of America' responded withing 120 seconds of the 3 targets classified as 'Kraken'. Their weapons were mildly successful in distracting the beasts, however, the calculated amounts of hardware required to reach anything vital blew the flesh before it regenerated meant the humans needed to focus more than just their aerial forces. Weapons with bigger payload were observed to be unused due to the high concentration of humans in areas near the beasts.

The network corrected its projections as tanks and artillery began shelling the beasts in Washington DC and New York. In Florida, Steel Locust Forces met the Kraken's charge.

Avenger TSA's met their foe face on, shields straining against the mass of the monster stopping against them. Mechanicals heels dug deep in the air and Jump Units flared with power to counter the amounts of kinetic energy the monster released, and then the large tentacles on its back began their own attack on the mechs. TSFs covered the flaking maneuvers of the Thunderbolt TSA's and Railgun-armed TSFs.

The network set aside various subroutines to observe, catalogue and forward the information obtained to the Human analysts in the Forward Operating Base.

"Projected abilities… even with these margins of error… just what can the Honkai do?" Mei looked at the footage, scenes of battle across the screens. The ease with which the monsters took on the might of human weaponry was... both awing and terrifying.

"Better question, is what aren't they able to do?" Einstein drank from her cup of steaming… something. She looked at missiles detonating before they reached their target, some of them grossly veering off course and some of them crashing between them. Some shells could be seen exploding making contact. A barrier of some kind? It was fascinating how many unnatural functions were made to fit into those beasts…

"Incoming transmission, its Commander White!" Tesla brought up a grainy image. Odd, wasn't she in the building next door?

"To anyone alive in Dobbins AFB, can you hear me?" The sounds of gunshots and the odd scream came along with her voice.

"Ma'am! Telsa, Einstein and Tachibana in the hangar CIC!" Tesla tried operating her terminal to lock onto that signal, but from her growls, it didn't seem very feasible.

"You're…! …ger, listen! Arm yourselves… can you contact you YoRHa escort? The Beasts are actively hunting down…! anyone that…!"

"Can you repeat! Commander White! Commander White!" Tesla tried something in her terminal, the beeps didn't announce anything good. "Something is actively jamming us…" The last image had been of the blonde commander drawing a Shotriser from her uniform and practically executing a zombified soldier with a shot from below the jaw.

"That doesn't sound good." Einstein quietly took the Shotriser from its compartment below the terminal, Tesla did the same and threw one to Mei, who fumbled to catch it. The youngest girl then focused on one part that stood out on the short message.

"Did she say something about beasts hunting down something?" A loud noise assaulted their ears, the sound of metal being sheared and crushed. They looked at each other, then the heavy door shook as if a big fist began slamming the door hard enough to make the whole room shake.

"…Fuck." Einstein spoke for everyone as they took aim at the shaking door.