Speak to self
Speak to Ghost
The first soldier collapses down as his body bursts in solar light, injuring two nearby soldiers. Joseph chambers another round, and shoots another center mass on the chest.
A soldier then thrusts his spear towards Joseph but he was able to parry the spear to the side with his rifle, he leaps back, chambered another round and shoots the soldier through the skull. The soldier then explodes.
Joseph held his rifle with one hand and threw a knife into one soldier's head as he was charging towards Joseph. Joseph then draws Ace and quickly shoots three in the head they all explode having three die from the blast radius and two injured.
Joseph twirls Ace as he holsters it, he then slides next to a soldier and uses his rifle to sweep the soldiers foot off the ground, while kneeling, he turns and thrusts the bayonet through the soldiers neck a crack and pop as the spinal cord is disconnected, Joseph then turns his rifle and aggressively drags the blade out of the soldiers neck, blood is gushing out of the open wound. He chambers another round while doing a 180 turn and shoots another soldier in the chest.
Joseph forges a sentinel shield as he parries a soldier's sword, his shield dissipates and his fist is surrounded in void light, he strikes the soldier, severing the soldier's head. The body and head start to disintegrate into void light and the particles swirl around Joseph as an overshield is formed and all of his guns reloaded.
"Get away from me!" cried Filo
Joseph turns his attention to Filo's voice as he sees Motoyasu creeping towards her. Her cry for help reminded him of the helpless children that were killed during the Red War.
He remembers it too well, the heat of the fire as he awakened from his lightless, weakened state. Seeing stragglers, lightless guardians and non-guardians alike killed on the spot as he sneaks past the Red Legion. He hears the cries of children, lightless guardians screaming in despair, he hears a gunshot and then silence.
He steps back into reality as a spear has been driven into Joseph's right shoulder. Joseph grips onto the spear, preventing the soldier to pull the spear out. He then draws Ace and hip fires the soldiers stomach point-blank two times and then aims for the head. The body explodes right in front of him.
Joseph pulls the spear out from his shoulder, and not caring about the pain that he has inflicted onto himself, he consumes his vortex grenade, healing all open and internal wounds and then dissipates his rifles. He then starts to forge dual blades, one was an arc blade another was a void. His left eye fluctuating in arc light and his right in void. "I'm done wasting my time with you all. Get out of my way or die." Joseph says in a pissed but collective tone.
The soldiers disregarded Joseph's threat and continued to pursue him.
Joseph sighs with annoyance, "so be it." he utters. To the soldiers eyes, Joseph had simply vanished, then appeared behind a group of soldiers, before any of them could react, Joseph swiftly made quick work with them, slicing the soldiers in half as they disintegrate into arc or void particles.
The soldiers were terrified of Joseph's powers and so they tried to run from him.
"I gave you a chance, t'sa shame seeing you all run. You thought you could kill me? Heh, you should be a comedian." Joseph quickly went to each and every soldier and killed each and every single rest of them.
As Joseph dissipates his blades, he immediately shifts his attention to Motoyasu.
"Get off of me!" Filo cries as she is being hugged by Motoyasu. Filo was able to get him off by kicking Motoyasu in the face. "You creep!" she yelled.
Motoyasu takes aback for a quick moment, then he feels a presence behind him. He turns around to see the eyes of a person who snapped, their eyes were cold like a killer. He was then hit with a force that was unreal to him, like if he was hit by Filo but three times as worse. He notices that a huge chunk of his health was gone in a blink of an eye, he was knocked back and then landed next to Ren and Itsuki.
"Joseph!" Filo cries in relief.
Joseph looks at Filo, who is in her human form. He notices that there is a bracer attached to the wrist of her foot. He takes out Ace and shoots the bracer and it shatters in half, allowing Filo to be free.
Filo was able to stand up and then hugged Joseph, "Thanks Joseph! I really thought that creep would take me away."
"He still can if you're not careful. Let's go back to Naofumi, they need assistance and to get away as far as possible." Joseph said.
The two jump down the cliff, Joseph lands in front of the three heroes while Filo lands where Naofumi is.
Motoyasu gets up and drinks a potion, recovering all of his health. "Very uncalled for!" he said.
Joseph dust his hands off and cracks his knuckles, "You deserve it." Joseph said. Joseph draws his sword, the Eternity's Edge, gifted to him by Cayde.
Ren tenses his sword. "Do you plan on taking us down?" he asked.
Joseph chuckles, "No, this world needs all four of you. If I kill you three, Naofumi will be the one to fight alone. The only reason I killed them because they were in my way and I even warned them, they disregarded my warning so they deserved what was coming." Joseph said coldly.
"You sick cold-blooded murderer!" said Motoyasu.
"Heh, yeah I guess you could say that." Joseph said. "Don't take this on a personal level, I want to fight you three not to only see where I stand, no. I want to see if you three are even capable of protecting this world. I know Naofumi is, but what about you three?" he asked.
They were offended by what Joseph just said, "Of course we are ready! You don't decide if we're ready or not!" yelled Itsuki.
"I guess you're right on that, but I still want to fight you, a friendly fight to the death, how bout it?" he asked
Ren smirks, "There's nothing friendly about that but fine by me!" he said. Ren starts to make the first move and swings his sword.
Joseph was able to block it with his sword but he sees Motoyasu charging towards him. Joseph, while blocking Ren's sword, flash kicks him as he is sent backwards while Joseph was able to avoid Motoyasu's charge attack, while in the air, Joseph sends in a ki blast towards Motoyasu, hitting him. Joseph lands as he detects a volley of arrows coming his way, Joseph extends his arm forming a void force shield in front of him, blocking all the arrows.
Ren plants his sword to the ground as a glyph appears above him as sword projectiles are being launched towards Joseph. Joseph caught wind of this and sent in a Nova Bomb, consuming all of the swords.
Ren decides to stand his ground and begins to clash the nova bomb with his sword. A light emits from his sword as the sword was able to absorb the nova bomb.
"What!?" Xeno said
Joseph was certainly surprised. His sword absorbed the immense void light! Hah! Now that's something! Joseph cracks a smirk, he was quite excited to see how this fight will unfold. "Impressive! You were able to absorb one of my most powerful attacks! Thats a well good fucking job there!" Joseph compliments
Ren starts to charge towards Joseph with his void empowered sword. They clashed their swords repeatedly, void light spills out from Ren's sword every time they clash. As they keep clashing their blades, Joseph's attacks become faster, heavier, deadlier. Ren takes notice but couldn't withstand Joseph's pressuring attacks.
Joseph was able to pry an opening but before he could land the finishing blow, Joseph was hit by a powerful energy beam. He kneels down as he sees Motoyasu going in for the opportunity. Motoyasu starts thrusting the spear in a quick flurry of attacks.
Joseph took four hits from Motoyasu's attacks then was able to dodge and catch Motoyasu's spear.
"This seems familiar." Joseph chuckles.
Motoyasu definitely does not like Joseph. He hates his cockiness and he hates him for always making himself look bad in front of Malty and his party which is filled with female adventurers.
Ren raised his sword about to strike Joseph, but as the sword was about to hit him, Joseph pulled back Motoyasu's spear in front of Ren's sword, blocking his attack.
"H-hey! Watch it Ren!" Motoyasu yelled
"You watch it! You're in my way!" Ren yelled at Motoyasu.
They're fighting… so, they don't like working together. Joseph extends one of his legs and sweeped the surrounding area to make Ren and Motoyasu fall. As the two heroes fell, Joseph leaped back into safety and Xeno proceeded to heal him.
"Not so fast!" said Itsuki, he notices that Joseph is being healed by Xeno. Itsuki draws back his string and releases, multiple lighting arrows are fired and headed towards Xeno.
Joseph grabs Xeno's shell and pulls him out of the arrows. Joseph lets go of Xeno, "You okay bud?" asked Joseph.
"Yes, thank you." Xeno said.
"Whew, get back in my backpack X, much safer in there." Joseph said.
"Good idea." Xeno said, he dissipates into Joseph.
Joseph turns his attention to Itsuki. Before Itsuki could aim at Joseph again, Joseph vanishes and appears behind him. Joseph pulls out his M1911 and shoots the back of his legs and pulls his shoulder so Itsuki would face him and Joseph strikes him across the face with an arc punch.
Itsuki saw his health, seeing that there was one fourth left in his bar, gradually going down Itsuki struggled to get up. A mere bullet? Why does he have a gun? A cheater!?
Motoyasu witnessed the brutal hits taken by Itsuki "Itsuki! How dare you!" Motoyasu cried. He charges to Joseph and starts to fire a beam of energy.
Joseph takes a deep breath, and starts to charge his ki and slaps the beam of energy out of his way.
Motoyasu and Ren were surprised that Joseph had the ability to deflect beams of energy.
"Give me thirty seconds and we can continue." Joseph yelled. Joseph looks down at Itsuki while Itsuki is looking up at him. "Stupid move coming from you kid, honestly a foolish one. If I was in your shoes, I would've incapacitate or disoriented you so my allies would finish the job. But no, you wanted the killing blow. Heh, using the bow as only offence, may as well call you the weakest. No brain, only brawn. That'll get you killed." Joseph then went to Itsuki's side and kicked him towards Motoyasu. Joseph tosses a small box towards Motoyasu.
Motoyasu looks at the box, "What's this for?" he asked Joseph.
"Medical supplies for gunshot wounds, I could heal him, but he aint worth the energy. Help him out and make sure he doesn't get up, he'll only hurt himself more." Joseph said.
Motoyasu nods, "Okay… thanks…" Motoyasu says in discomfort.
Joseph turns to Ren, "Just the two of us." Joseph said.
"This'll be interesting," he said as he draws his sword to Joseph.
"Interesting indeed." Joseph chuckles. Before the two started fighting, Joseph asked Ren a question. "Hey," Joseph said
"What?" he asked.
"Do you trust Naofumi?" Joseph asked.
"Why should I?" he said in the sudden question.
"Well, do you really believe what Malty is saying?" Joseph continues to ask.
"I- don't know who to believe, I see that Melty is unharmed and she is also crown princess, even at a young age, she seems more responsible than princess Malty… but, with you killing those knights, it is hard to tell who is right and who is wrong." Ren said.
"I can give you all the evidence, the sources, the info you need to prove Naofumi's innocence, but you, another hero, have to decide if Naofumi really isn't what everyone says he is." Joseph said. "I know for a fact, that Naofumi didn't do what Malty accused him of and I sure as shit know that he did not kidnap Melty." Joseph said.
Ren, still on his guard, still doesnt know what to think of this situation. He wants to believe what Joseph and Naofumi are saying, that Melty did not get kidnaped and Malty is trying to kill Melty, but with the influence from the king and Malty, he doesn't know who to side with.
"Well, how about we talk about this after our fight eh? You've been ready even before I asked you these questions, lets not keep you waiting shall we?" Joseph said.
Ren notices that Joseph takes a deep breath and then he starts to be surrounded in a fiery aura, it intensifies overtime as a set of phoenix-like flaming wings appears on Joseph's back. Then he sees blue electricity static surrounding his body and he lets out his hand as a flaming sword is forged out of his flame.
Ren is astonished at what he is seeing, he has never seen a human like Joseph before, I doubt that this is his full power… so… scary yet exciting. Is he cheating? Or is this another hero from another world? Questions fill his head but quickly disperse. Ren plants his sword in the ground as he sends a volley of swords at Joseph.
Joseph extends his hand as he destroys the swords using stormtrance. He continues to walk to Ren, who then starts to run towards Joseph.
Ren jumps up as he strikes Joseph with an overhead strike, but Joseph parries the attack sending Ren flying. As Ren lands on the ground, he sees Joseph dashes towards him, Ren blocks his attack and counter-attack with a sword thrust. Joseph shifts to the side and proceeds to attack Ren. Ren was able to roll out of the way in time before Joseph's sword could hit him. He stood up and charged his sword and unleashed a shower of swords down towards Joseph.
Joseph icarus dashes out of the way and he throws his sword at Ren.
Ren tries to block the sword, but the sword explodes in a fiery explosion, knocking him back and disorienting him.
Joseph rushes in while he is still disoriented and attacks him with multiple slashes, Joseph steps back and Icarus dashes towards Ren and kicks him on the stomach, sending him back to a large rock.
Ren took many heavy blows, he struggled to get back up. Using his sword to lift himself back up, he coughs out blood, noticing that his health is depleting. Before Ren could grab his potions, Joseph stood in front of him. Joseph lifts his sword up like he was going to stab Ren.
Ren closes his eyes, waiting for the inevitable but he felt a warmth, he felt the pain from his wounds disappear. Ren opens his eyes as he sees Joseph's back turned to him, and his sword planted into the ground. The surrounding area is filled with light, as both of their wounds are gone.
"Looks like I've won. Naofumi and the rest of his party are making a retreat." Joseph said.
Ren gets up and sees that they destroyed a path that is beyond from jumping to the other side. "And what about you?" Asked Ren
"Me? Well, depends. Will you hear me out?" Joseph said as he turned to him.
Ren was silent
"I'll take that as a yes. Here" Joseph hands Ren a tablet. "I've been recording this whole journey of mine. During the waves, to when Melty was about to be assassinated to the interrogation of the captain and even right up until now." Joseph said.
Ren looks at the tablet. "No way… from first we met up until now?" Ren said.
"Yup, watch it and at the end of each video, I wrote something to sum everything up and what I think about the situations." Joseph turns his back to him, "Clear his name so he can be treated fairly." Joseph said.
"What about you?" Ren asked.
"What about me? If I'm deemed as a killer so be it. I've been called worse and I've been wanted for crimes for the cause of good in other worlds as well. A title is just a title, the actions that we do speaks for themselves and the reason we have these titles is because of the things we have accomplished, but it never hurts to feel proud or just thinking if we deserve these titles." Joseph said. He starts to walk away.
Ren stood there with Motoyasu while helping Itsuki up.
"Quick get that bastard!" said a knight who was chasing Joseph, more followed as it quickly turned into a small horde.
Joseph turns around and raises his hand.
The knights stop as they hear something.
"You folks gotta be better than this. I've killed armies that are much stronger, smarter and uglier than you all. Hell, might as well say that the Eliksni has a better IQ than you all." Joseph's Jumpship appears on the side of the cliffside it's light blinding the knights. "At least they know when they're beating a dead horse." Joseph's raised hand then forms a fist as missiles were launched towards the cliff, killing and injuring the knights and also causing a landslide, preventing them to track them down for a while.
"Thanks X, let's get a move on. Naofumi and the others are waiting for us." Joseph said. The Duo continues to make their way in the depths of the forest to catch up with Naofumi and his party.
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As the trio are walking with the remaining soldiers that they have left, Ren turns on the tablet as it immediately plays an audio message.
"Okay! So the dipshit who stole my tablet, which is you my good thief. First, what the fuck? Second, please give it back and lastly, if not given back to me for I dunno how long, I will have to hunt you down. P.S, that thing has a tracker. Best part, you can't even take it out cause it's not even in the tablet."
"Bu-u-u-ut, if I gave this tablet you, well, I trust you would give it back yes? These things, despite their size, they are quite expensive because of their high quality and durability. Been with me since my early years of being a guardian. Lost all of my glimmer cause of that thing. Man, I was starving for a week and" Joseph chuckles, "Man, Blake had to do the pay- Uh… shit, getting sidetracked." Joseph is heard chuckling, "my bad. Ahem, well, you have my tablet because you need information, evidence or a lead. What you see in this tablet will be footage, uncut footage of my travels, my battles, my deeds whether good or bad and every end of the recorded footage, I will basically sum everything up and explain what I have discovered." the sound of Joseph taking a few steps and then hears a sigh, "Happy hunting and hope you find the answers you need." Joseph said as the audio recording ends.
"So Joseph gave you his tablet to prove Naofumi's innocence?" Motoyasu asked.
Ren nods, "That's what he wants." he said.
Motoyasu looks at the screen as they see the title, "Protecting Melty" "Protecting Melty? Play that!" Motoyasu said.
Ren agrees and taps the title as the video plays.
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The video plays as it shows the brutal deaths of the ten guards who were set to assassinate Melty and to put the blame on Naofumi.
Nine dead, one alive for interrogation. Heh, screwed up big time. Don't know if the group'll trust me after that brutal scene. When I saw Naofumi's eyes as he looked past my shoulder, I knew something was up.
When I turned around and aimed at the guard who was charging at melty with his sword with the means to kill…
Maybe they didn't need to die… but it is too late now.
I was born to protect humanity yet I kill humanity. Fuck…
I can't serve my country at home so it has been a while since I fought against humans… Well, with the exception of those Faunus from Remnant… damn White Fang, even trying to talk to them, they'll just try to kill me, dammit Roman you fool… then my home world... the Blood Devils… a bunch of brainwashed civilians to serve that bastard and I killed them all…
Fanatic is right. I am a killer… but as long as Lillie, our daughter, Xeno, my friends, superiors, Melty, Naofumi and his party are alive, then that's fine by me.
I must stay strong if we're going to get out of this world. Gotta help Naofumi, gotta keep Melty safe. Gotta get information from this captain. He knows something and I intend to get every bit of detail.
Conflict stirs within Joseph, that's what I want from him. Ruthless killer from his pre-guardian time and during the first three years of being a guardian. Now, reluctant to kill another human, only doing so if they decline his warning. He pities the Eliksni but he has no choice but to kill them.
There's a visible pattern I feel like that will get tiring and boring later on. I think at this point, these past chapters were enough to reveal tons of things about Joseph and just progress through the story without a sad blast of the past of Joseph Anderson. This next chapter will close all of this, Joseph's troubles and what his goal is. This said goal won't be accomplished until somewhere in the near end of the season of arrivals. Gotta long way to go huh…
Joseph is like this person who is professional in the work field but becomes immature when he is relaxed. He hides his troubles from his friends and only is talked about with his Ghost, his wife and closest friends.
I hope you enjoyed the action pact chapter that I wrote, and honestly, I do want Malty to be killed by Joseph's hand, but not yet, time will tell. But, putting a few rounds at Itsuki felt nice, notta big fan of that guy, Motoyasu is a simping oaf but Itsuki is just someone I would punch until I see a tooth fall off, whereas Motoyasu is just a sigh and walk away. Ren I feel is on that line of good and bad. Honestly better than out of the three stooges.
Every end of each chapter will be Ren and Itsuki watching the footage and the summary and reflection of the footage they watched. Next chapter will reveal the interrogation of that captain, but, this will be my first time doing a interrogation and torture writing. My fear will be making it bland or doing it over-the-top and possibly make people uncomfortable. What do you guys think? I really want to try this out but it's the fear of what people think. Heh, I honestly envy those who dont give a shit but it does have its limitations.
Loving the new expansion and the raid. I finally know who is behind the whispering when Cayde talked about it when we went to look for his caches. I have such a long way to go, and I really want this world to expand more than ever in the seasons between Shadowkeep and Beyond Light. But still at the topic of Beyond Light, I really really rea-ly want to get that posterity hand cannon and Trustee scout, looks cool and looks like a good feeling gun. Always like to watch Aztecross and his weapon reviews and I am waiting for evanf1997 to release the Deep Stone Crypt video. I adore Uldr- I mean, Crow, it's so cute when us as the Guardian, inspire Crow, even trying to copy the moves that we do. That to me is so funny and adorable, which makes me want to hurt Spider even more, putting a bomb in Gli- I mean, Pulled Pork is so… well to me is very inhumane which I like from him but doing it to an undeserving duo just hurts.
Hope you enjoy your guys's morning, day or night, wherever you guys live.
