The morning
NEAR PLANEPTUNE
MOUNT SEGAMI
17 APRIL
9H00
An ASIC commander was looking in his tent at the map and news papers
He see that the news of the Syndicalists is invading Planeptune circulated quickly among the nations, luckily enough, their officials didn't reacted yet
"Commander Uran, the storm stopped." One of his subordinates enters in and announce that
"Finally, let's move" The commander says
He know that the war must be finished quickly tough, if the Planeptune manage to bring reinforcements and the other nations decide to support them, it will be catastrophic
Tough he's still serene and after that done, he will return to Lowee to help is oppressed people he thinks as he walk outside and see his whole army ready
"Here the plan soldiers! We are going straight and exit the mountain, and then we split up and encircle the whole mountain range and after their troops dies due to lack of supplies we advance and take Planeptune before their reinforcement arrives! VICTORY IS OURS!" Uran explain the plan
"URA!" "URA!" "URA!" The soldiers cheers of their future victory
"Comrades, ONWARD!" Uran exclaims
PLANEPTUNE
MILLITARY BASE
15H00
"So, they restarted to advance?" The marshal says
"Yes, me and my troops managed to slow them down while retreating to the city, but we lost many of them." DICE says
"Their sacrifice won't be in vain, the other armies in the mountains got back here during the night, well apparently they placed decoys in the mountains to trick the syndicalist recons, tough I'm not sure how long they are gonna take to notice it" The marshal explains
"So, they are gonna lose their time encircling the mountains?" DICE asks
"Exactly, and while their lose their time, we fortify the city, we will get you replacements don't worry, go help to prepare the defenses, Mojang is waiting for you at the east of the city" He says
"Yes, sir!" DICE responds and then she leave the marshal office
a few minutes after someone else knock on the door
"Enter."
Bethesda enter the office and salutes
"What its for?"
"Just saying that the production of the vehicle started."
"Okay, and how long its gonna take to get one built?" The marshal ask
"Around one week at best." Bethesda responds
"Got It, you can leave."
Bethesda leave the office
Bethesda told to the guys who took care of building the vehicle that we will came everyday to check the progress
He leave the millitary base and go back to the city
He wander trough the city while thinking about new things to make
He heads toward the guild, on the way he see some propaganda poster things like:
"Crush the syndicalist menace!"
"Neptune want you to destroy the ASIC!"
Yep those kind of things
IF is busy and can't escort him since she is busy, it make Bethesda being more cautious even tough no a lot of people is supposed to know he's alive
But he also have the feeling of getting stalked, so every few seconds he quickly look around him, but there is nothing really seeming to follow him, just random people
After a few minutes he arrive to the guild situated inside the Basilicom
He want to test the B.A.T.S on actual monsters instead of a random mug
He pick a quest, just pick one about killing various monsters in the Virtua forest
He leave the building and exit the city
"Brave, he is heading to the forest." A mouse stalking Bethesda says to someone at the telephone
"Okay, I'm taking care of this." He responds
NEAR PLANEPTUNE
VIRTUA FOREST
17H00
Bethesda is fighting the remaining monsters
He stab a dogoo with his sword
And target the last monster, a tulip
The tulip use a venom attack on Bethesda
Bethesda block the attack with his shield and activate his skill
B.A.T.S
TULIP: HEAD (40%)
TULIP: HEAD (40%)
TULIP: HEAD (40%)
CONFIRM
Bethesda shoots the Tulip with his .44 revolver
He misses the first shot, the second one hits its head and explode it, making petals flies
"Well, I think that's all" Bethesda thinks as he count up the number of monster killed
10 dogoos, 8 tulips and 2 Grand dogoos that's ain't much but that's honest work
He also notice that effectively the B.A.T.S efficiency got reduced
He start to return to the city but someone stop him in his way
"Remember me?" The man with his samurai armor stop him
"Its you." Bethesda responds
Brave draw his nodachi and point it toward Bethesda
"Hang on, how you managed to know I was still alive?"
"We got agents everywhere, they can look like everything, like a human or a mouse." Brave explains
"This time you are not getting away alive." Brave says
"Well, pretty sure that I cant attempt to convince you to stop fighting for the ASIC again, and if I try again it won't work." Bethesda says
"You are goddamn right." Brave responds
Bethesda doubt that Brave is using some kind of jammer again. But its not longer a problem for Bethesda
"Ready, to lose once for all?" Brave says
"I don't lose, I either win or learn form my mistakes, at the end…" Bethesda start...
"BETHESDA ALWAYS WINS."...and he finishes
BRAVE
THE OUTLAW VIGILANTE
ROUND 2
Bethesda dash toward Brave
Brave slash Bethesda on the side of his torso
Bethesda block the attack by using his shield
Bethesda thrust his sword to stab Brave face
Brave dodge it and kick Bethesda in the belly, pushing him back
Brave then counters attacks by thrusting his odachi to stab Bethesda in the heart to quickly finish the fighting
But Bethesda deviate Brave blade using his own sword and violently bash the edge of his shield into Brave face breaking his nose
Brave recoils in pain
"I see that you got stronger in some ways, but its not a broken nose that's gonna kill me!" Brave says
Brave jump on Bethesda with his odachi to plant his sword on his head
Bethesda step back to dodge it
When Bethesda is about to counter attack he get high kicked making him fall on the ground and making him losing his horned helmet
Bethesda quickly get back up and barely have the time to block Brave with his shield to avoid getting decapitated
Bethesda hook-foot Brave making him lose balance and lean on his back
He quickly help him by kicking him on the torso to make fall on his back
Bethesda grab his ,44 revolver to shot brave but get his arm kicked by brave while he was on the ground, fully disarming Bethesda form his revolver and his shield with only his fists left
Brave get back up and engage back Bethesda by punching him in the jaw, Bethesda spit blood
Brave throw a next punch to Bethesda jaw but Bethesda block it and quickly uppercut Brave and start to strangle him with one hand and manage to remove his helmet with another one
He quickly notice the jammer inside the helmet,
That small moment allow to Brave to break free by punching the shit out of Bethesda arm
Bethesda growl out of pain while dropping Brave neck, He attempt to swing the Brave helmet to his owner
Brave lower himself to dodge the helmet swing and jump on a tree log to bounce toward Bethesda and kick Bethesda head making him collapse on the ground a few meters away
Bethesda noticed that he landed next to his sword, he get back up and grab it
Brave grab his odachi
"I have to admit, you got a way stronger since last time, but this won't save you, its time for you to die." Brave says as he get ready to finish Bethesda
Bethesda look that Brave helmet who is still near to him, with the jammer still inside so no question to use the B.A.T.S since it will be useless but he still have one option left
Bethesda takes a defensive stance
Brave charge at Bethesda with is odachi rising up preparing a powerful attack to break Bethesda guard
Brave strike on Bethesda with his odachi at an incredible speed but Bethesda manage blocks it with his own sword but heavily damage it, at the surprise of Brave who expected it to fully break
DRAGON BUSTER
Bethesda pushes back Brave and quickly stab in the direction of his heart, but brave let him knowing that his attack will be blocked by his armor
…
…
…
Bethesda pierced the armor with his sword and pull his sword out and step back
"H-How?" Brave says confused and dying form his wound
"I used my new skill against you, I needed a strong target to test it on and you was the perfect one. Its over." Bethesda says
"Not… Not for you" Brave responds to him
Brave collapse on the ground
"I'm happy that Compa stopped us before I could use the skill on IF" Bethesda happily thinks trying to ignore the pain
He grab his stuff up, put back his helmet on him and take Brave helmet and his odachi as a trophy he also wanted to take the armor but its a way too heavy
He's quite happy that he got his payback on him but there still that girl and badd in his target list and he still have to help Planeptune to defend against the ASIC, nothing is over yet
So then he returns to Planeptune
PLANEPTUNE
CITY
18H00
IF and Compa hang out after IF finished her task for today, she try to relax a bit before the storm
"Uh, Compa?" IF says
"Yes, iffy?"
"I have to talk about something." IF says
"I am all yours!" Compa says
"Well, you know about the war between Planeptune and the ASIC right?" IF says
"Of course i know about it, I mean everyone is talking about it." Compa responds
"I see that news got quickly arou- wait." IF notice someone familiar
"What?" Compa ask
"Hey, were you have been?" IF says as she notice Bethesda
"Hi beth! Oh what happened to you?!" Compa says while seeing how injured Bethesda is
"Hi girls, well you won't believe what happened." Bethesda says in a tired voice
"That sucks, you will explain it later, let's get him somewhere safer." If says
"I don't live very far form here, let's go." Compa says
After a few moments of walking to Compa home…
"Can you explain how you ended up like that?" IF says as Compa is putting bandages on Bethesda
"So I was going to test the B.A.T.S on some monster in Virtua forest and it just works." Bethesda says
"Okay but that dosen't explain how you got beaten up." IF says
"I was coming to say it. Well there was that same guy who knocked me down when I was still at Leanbox, and he somehow found that I was still alive."
"So, it was him again?" IF says
"Yes." Bethesda confirms
"But how he found ou-."
"Mouse spies." Bethesda say cutting IF
"Seriously?" IF ask and Bethesda just nods
"Wow so they are really everywhere. So they knows that you are alive." IF says
"What happened to that guy?" Ask Compa
"Oh he is no longer a problem, we fought in a battle to death and I won." Bethesda responds
"I wonder how the hell you still manage to always get away form these situations." IF says
"And I have to say, the ability that I learned during our training, IF, it quite saved me, thanks you." Bethesda says
"Oh its nothing." IF responds while blushing a little
Compa finish patching Bethesda up
"By the way I started to cook something, you can stay with us too Beth!"
"Oh thanks but do IF is okay with this?" Bethesda ask to IF
"Of course I am, even if it was only supposed to be me and compa at the base" IF responds
They go at the table and take a seat while compa go get the dinner
GAMINDUSTRI GRAVEYARD
20H00
"You guys only noticed now that they are decoys?! you guys didn't check before encircling the mountain range?!" Magic says in a furious state
"Sorry lady! We the recons were scared to get shot if they got too close!"
"You better manage take Planeptune or at least cause them irreparable damages! Dismiss!" Magic says
The commanders leaves the room
Magic is starting to realize that taking Planeptune is going to be a way harder than she thought even if she still got a numerical advantage
She is also wondering if she can still win politically by proposing a ceasefire at her advantage by keeping the strategic positions of the mountains, but to make a "shield" around the graveyard she must also take control of the northern part of the mountains controlled by Lowee and the eastern part controlled by Lastation.
"Lady magic!" A mouse enters in seeming to be terrified
"What?" She say
"Brave got killed by that inventor!" The mouse says
"So that guy got stronger uh? Well get someone to carry his body here I might have an idea!" Magic says
"What's your idea?" The mouse asks
"We are going to "upgrade" him"
