Hyper Arc; Green Story - Part 1; The Invaders
We go to Isaac who has traveled a far distance to get back to Leanbox, the good thing is he was able to meet up with Vert on the way. The two of them head to the basilicom. However no one remembered them but the woman called S-Sha one of the Gold Third members let them in because she had a task for them and does know who they are. This is the current situation right now.
"Now, you two are next." She tells the duo. "If you two are worthy of becoming Soldiers who will protect Leanbox, then it will be no problem for you to draw this Holy Sword." However the two were distracted by something else. "What's the matter?"
"We can comprehend the part about the Holy Sword and soldierly capabilities…" Vert tells her and Isaac nods agreeing with her. "But, what in the heavens are you sitting on?!" She points to the mutated Dogoo with a male human figure with black speedo on.
"Him? His name is Gooman. He is, as you can see, a Dogoo Man. Over here is Lady, a Dogoo Lady. They're both my loyal subordinates." S-Sha explains as the Dogoo Lady has a red bikini on her.
"Oooh… the sensation of her rear pressing against the small of my back is… oooh…" The Dogoo Man says enjoying it which gave questionable looks to Vert and Isaac.
"Now, now, Vert dear. Go ahead and pull that sword out!" The Dogoo Lady tells her.
"What kind of situation did we end up with?" Isaac asked himself in his thoughts as Vert pulled out the sword easily. Isaac didn't think it would be a struggle, the great struggle he had was pulling the Master Sword out from in a Lowee forest long ago from the days with the Deity of Sin's revival.
"Congratulations. You two are the 983,067th and 983,068th Wielder of the Sword." S-Sha tells them and both Vert and Isaac were dumbfounded from what they heard.
"Excuse me?!/Say what?!" Vert and Isaac say with their expression of complete confusion.
"Hang on a second! over nine hundred thousand?! Why have so many been able to draw the sword?!" Isaac asks her, still confused.
"Do you not understand? It means that you both are numbers 983,067 and 983,068 of the people who've drawn the sword. It's a simple concept." S-Sha explains
"Which means… there are that many other Wielders of the Sword, Soldiers, such as us?" Vert asks
"You need not concern yourself with that number. Including myself, it's better to have a rather large number of pawns. Now, Vert, Isaac, you've officially become Leanbox soldiers. You'll both get to work immediately. I'm assigning you a mission to suppress outside invaders." S-Sha explains to them.
"Outside invaders? Who are these outside invaders?" Isaac asks
"It's as the name implies. They're those who pose a threat to this nation from the outside." She tells them. "I'll have you both first fight the outsiders in a forest near the coastline. I wish for you both to protect the forest, for the citizens' sake. Also, accept this as a farewell gift." She hands them 100 Credits.
"Wait, this is all I get for a parting gift?!" Vert asks and Isaac agreed that this is completely stupid, though S-Sha just ignored and told them to head out. The two just sighed at their event and left the basilicom.
"After making contact with the other Protectors, I had journeyed back to the city which luckily I met up with Vert. However the citizens of our land greeted us like we were complete strangers to them. Like as both the CPUs and Protectors never even existed while the members of Gold Third have taken over. S-Sha, who is the one having control over Leanbox, has tasked us to take care of outside invaders, and as of now learning about something called the delusionary phenomenon. I also learned that my brother Mark has gone further ahead of us with a different task." Isaac thought to himself. The two rent themselves two rooms at a hotel as they have traveled a far distance with a low amount of shares. "Ugh… this is seriously crap… how could the world have become like this? Is it the work of Jexon's magic? Could he be able to do something big such as this?" Isaac was lost in thought for a while, however he needs to start their task and head to the location they were given. The two get together and head East to where their destination is located.
"We've been walking for quite a while, but have yet to arrive at our destination." Vert says and Isaac stopped as he could hear something moving their way with quick speed. What they saw is another ancient machine crashing through some trees and looking at them.
"What in the?! Another Walker?!" Isaac exclaimed as it targeted them with a laser at them and about to fire which the duo moved out of the way. Isaac noticed the eye of the machine was not blue, but a red purple color instead. "I'm not allowing this." Isaac gets a special arrow from his quiver and loads it to his bow and activates it, and he fires it causing massive damage to make it instantly explode. "The eye of this Walker is different, is it inflicted like with these delusionary monsters?" Isaac's thoughts were interrupted as he noticed Vert fought against a large machine enemy which didn't seem to be from Leanbox technology. While she was distracted there was a sudden quake. "Whoa! What's happening?!" After a short moment it stopped and Vert started to make contact with the basilicom.
"Hello, I wondered who this would be. I didn't think there were any survivors." S-Sha says through the call.
"What exactly is going on? Have you truly had no contact from the force that preceded us?" Vert asks her
"I'll explain in detail, but I need you both to return here immediately. Hurry." She tells them, they were confused why she wants them to return after giving them a task.
"Return… have you gone mad? Aren't there Soldiers stationed there for that giant operation?" Vert asks
"In all likelihood, they're no longer here." S-Sha explains with little detail.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Isaac asks her.
"It's exactly as it sounds. Thankfully, you both are safe. Because you are valuable forces, I can't lose you. Return here at once." She tells them
"We will not listen, I am not just gonna leave injured people up ahead." Isaac tells her and they move forward and find strangely pigs around the area and the other strange part is that S-Sha was also there suddenly.
"Looks like you've seen it all." S-Sha says emotionless
"S-Sha?! Why are you here?! In fact, how did you get here in such a short amount of time?" Vert asked and confused how she got here before they did.
"I happen to have ample knowledge of movement spells. Although, they're limited to outdoor use." She tells them
"No, that isn't what I wished to ask. What happened here?" Vert asks
"Oh, these ran-pigs? They're a mere shadow of the Soldiers who used to gather here." S-Sha explains
"A mere shadow?" Isaac asks a bit confused what she means
"You do know even a little about ran-pigs, don't you?" She asks them, they were silent for a moment then Vert spoke up.
"Could it possibly be a curse?" Vert asks S-Sha and she nodded.
"Once, there was a Demon King. It is said he loved above all else to toy with the human heart. They say he left behind a curse that turns people, whose souls have been ravaged by overwhelming despair, into pigs. The people came to call these pigs born of the curse… ran-pigs." S-Sha tells them
"I have heard of this before, but I always thought it to be a legend." Vert explained.
"Well, it's real." S-Sha replied
"Could this possibly have something to do with this large-scale operation?!" Isaac asks.
"So many… so many people have turned into pigs!" Vert looked gloomy that the citizens of Leanbox have transformed into these pigs. "And if all the Soldiers have become pigs, then how are we supposed to protect Leanbox from outside invaders?"
"I wasn't interested in Leanbox from the start." S-Sha says bluntly.
"Wh-what did you say?!" Vert asks in shock.
"Let's speak in a more private area. Come to the Basilicom." S-Sha tells them and leaves the area towards the city as the two watch her leave.
"S-Sha, What are you thinking?" Isaac asks out loud then the pigs have gotten their attention. "Oh yea, we need to do something about these pigs." Vert and Isaac brought the pigs to the city and put them in a pen. Once they got the pigs in they went back to the Basilicom. They were told that they need to capture the Demon King for some reason that S-Sha won't tell them, and Mark was tasked for another mission later. So they went back to the hotel to rest for the day, and they also went into the Hotel's bath which is split for males and females. "Ah nothing like relaxing in warm water, it's nice to relax the muscles as well."
"Hey there good sir, it looks like you know how to swing a sword." a male voice spoke up in the steam and Isaac can barely see who it is.
"Hmm? Yea, I have wielded a lot of weapons before." Isaac says trying to focus on what the mysterious male looks like, all he can tell is the person is about as tall as him, and has black hair. "You seem to be a swordsman yourself."
"Yeah, you could say that. I have my own skill in swordsmanship, maybe one day you could teach me some stuff. Maybe someday we can test one another." The male says to him. "Although I have a mission to do first
"Sure, I'm already getting pumped for it." Isaac says
"That's great, oh hey I'd like to leave a gift for you. When you are done it's over by the towels." The male explains pointing to the spot for the towels. "I better head out now, good seeing you swordsman." he gets out of the water grabbing his clothes and leaving the place.
After a while Isaac finishes up and finds the thing that was left for him which is a box that seems to be the size to hold a sword. He gets dressed after drying off and brings it up to the room he is staying at and opens it to pull out a golden sword.
"No way… is this sword the…" Isaac was surprised to see it, then he notices a note that is on the box. "Hold onto this for me. Huh? Hold on to it? What did he mean by that? And… his voice sounded… similar to Jeff. Well I didn't get the chance to ask his name, however I got my own troubles here."
Some time passed as S-Sha called for them again for another mission in a forest area down south searching for the Demon King as well as taking care of invaders. As they arrived at their location Vert just realized that they weren't given much info so she called S-Sha asking about the invaders, she tells them this time they are humans and only two of them, she also sent Mark there a while ago. They go further into the forest and find Mark holding his sword looking around.
"Hey there little bro." Isaac spoke up startling him and he turned quickly pointing his sword at them. "don't worry it's just us." Says with his hands raised, and Mark relaxed knowing who it is.
"Sorry, I'm really tensed up because our citizens have no memory, and also being a soldier for S-Sha." Mark explains to his brother.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. We just arrived for this Demon King and the invaders." Isaac explains then they hear rustling from the bushes with Mark taking a fighting stance, and Isaac taking out his bow pulling a fire arrow and aiming it where the movement was. "I know you're hiding there. Show yourselves now!"
"Huh? Wait is that… Isaac?" a familiar voice spoke and out popped Adam and Nepgear.
"Adam? Nepgear?" Mark asks and is surprised to see them. "What are you doing here?"
"Are you the outside invaders?" Isaac asks them retracting his bow knowing it is actually their friends.
"Outside invaders? What do you mean by that? We came here to help you guys on Jeff's request. It was not easy getting here, there weren't any boats set to Leanbox. So Nepgear carried me and we had some sudden attacks." Adam explains.
"I get it. Well at least it was a misunderstanding." Isaac says with a sigh of relief. He explains to the duo of what is going on. "And that is about what we know of."
"So that was it, well that is good to know. Also weren't you mentioning something about a Demon King?" Adam asks.
"Oh yea, almost forgot about that. We may need some assistance." Isaac tells them and the five move forwards to where they can find said Demon King. After some walking they get to a place with a strange black mist admitting from the ground. "What is that?" from the mist it starts forming and a monster appears. "Whoa enemy appears!"
"I'm not sure what this monster is, but we will destroy it!" Mark declares as he and Isaac drew out their swords ready for battle, the girls summoned their weapons, and Adam creates an Ice sword. They dodge a swipe attack from the large monster, then it starts aiming at Adam targeting him and trying hard to hit him.
"Take this ugly!" Isaac launches a bomb arrow causing a powerful explosion and Mark jumps high stabbing his sword on it's back causing it to spew out strange green blood. However they noticed the strange mist had spawned another monster. "Another one?! This is bad!" The group decided to spit their targets, Green Heart and Purple sister on the one that just appeared, while Isaac, Mark, and Adam take care of the one that was damaged by them as Adam forms multiple ice swords and slices the beast. Isaac loads a lightning arrow and fires it electrifying the monster.
Suddenly by a sudden snap of fingers something inside the monster triggered and then some strange energy started pulsing inside it as it suddenly moved fast smacking Mark and Adam into the trees.
"Gah! What just happened?!" Mark asked while in pain from the attack, Isaac is currently blocking the sudden powerful attacks with his shield.
"It's like it has gotten a sudden power boost. I wonder if it's those strange blue lines I'm seeing on its body." Isaac could see blue pulsing energy through the whole body. While focusing on the body he didn't notice it's arm coming at him and smacks him into a tree. "Ack damn you, fine I guess I have no choice." Adam saw Isaac grip a golden arrow from his quiver.
"Wait Isaac! Don't use it yet! I got this." Adam tells him as he activates his Demon Slayer magic. "Ice Devil Zero Destruction Bow!" He launches a large ice arrow piercing the enemy and making it burst. "That should do it… However…" The guys see the two girls finished off their target, however the strange mist is still on the ground. The group was worn out from the battle however and it looked like the mist will make another monster appear. "We should retreat for now." The others agreed with Adam and escaped the situation.
End of Part 1 - Green Story