Chapter 35

It is the next morning over at the Reds and Blues with some of the zealots at the gate with their sniper rifles and rocket launchers aimed at the desert. They spent the entire night guarding the entrance from any more Legion invasions. Gray Squad, which is a squad made of the reds and blues that are colorblind, went out over an hour ago to do some reconnaissance to see where the Legion's base is at. But unbeknownst to them, they got raided last night. Washington trains Caboose at the obstacle course. Tex and Carolina are there as well. Tex, Caboose, and Carolina line up in front of the cave and waiting for Washington's signal.

"Alrighty then." Wash says. "Caboose, you get to go first."

"Okay!"

"On your mark...get set...go!"

Caboose ran in for half a second before there was an explosion and a signal horn blowing. Caboose runs away while talking very fast, "Okaythatwasfun! Ihavestuffthatneedstobedoing! Seeyoulater! Okaybye!"

All three Freelancers were just as surprised as ever with Caboose's record.

"What the hell?" Carolina says dumbfounded.

Tex looks at Washington, "I thought you said you made it harder."

Washington looks back at Tex, "I did!" he says flabbergasted, "But that is just seemingly impossible!"

"Do you think that having to do a project maybe the reason why he finishes so fast?" Carolina asks.

"Possibly?" Wash is unsure. "Although the radiation from the robots faded, they were still a huge mess. Only Freckles' AI core survived along with only a few Mantis parts that didn't get melted."

Over at Red Base, Sarge spent the entire night fixing is mortar cannon with little success.

"Dammit!" Sarge swears as he tosses his wrench into the ground, "I can't see what the hell is wrong with this thing!"

Lopez is with him as he says with a sarcastic tone, "Oh claro, arroja tus herramientas alrededor de la ira. Eso lo arreglará."
Translation: "Oh sure, throw your tools around out of anger. That will fix it."

Sarge looks at Lopez, "You're right! It might have something to do with the weather we had!"

Lopez says, "En serio eres un imbécil. ¿Cómo es que en todos estos años, nunca te molestaste en aprender español en lugar de hacer más robots?"
Translation: "You are seriously a moron. How come all these years, you never bothered learning Spanish instead of making more robots?"

"You're right again! Lets get Sanchez over here and get this thing back up and running."

"Oh por el amor de Dios."
Translation: "Oh for fuck's sake."

"SARGE!" Simmons screamed through the radio. He sounds a little distressed. "YOU NEED TO GET HERE! SOMETHING'S HAPPENING!"

"What the-?" Sarge ran-off towards the gate along with Lopez. He made it to Simmons' position with Simmons looking at something in the desert. "What's going on?!" he sounds excited. "Are the barbaric Roman's back!?" But then sounds concern, "I hope not because the mortar cannon ain't working yet."

Simmons looks at Sarge, "Look!"

Simmons, Sarge, and Lopez look at the desert and see at least five trebuchets with five strange people wearing a bit more barbaric armor instead of military uniforms. Same with the hundreds of soldiers armed with an assortment of weapons, armor, and other stuff that you can get from Conan Exiles. Along with a few animals from both Conan Exiles and ARK.

Tucker and Caboose showed up along with Tex, Alpha, Carolina, Washington, and Epsilon. They all look at the trebuchets out in the desert along with the many troops out there. Grif, Donut, Doc, and Sanchez appear as well as they look at the large barbarian army outside.

"Who the hell are these guys?" Tucker asks.

Nonan is sitting on a chair while sipping a skull cap of Legate Judicator filled with desert wine with a thrall fanning him. "Aaaahhhh." he enjoys his drink, "I love a good cup of wine before a war." Nonan then raise his left hand to signal.

A Dafari screamed, "FIRE!"

The five trebuchets fire what appeared to be black, white, and gray humanoids right at the Reds and Blues.

"Oh SHIT!" Grif says as he quickly look at where to duck.

"DUCK!" Donut shouts as he takes cover.

"Those aren't ducks!" Caboose says right before he got whacked by one of the gray bodies. "Aha!"

Tex looks at the bodies and notices something familiar about them. "It's...Gray Squad."

Tucker looks at one of them, "Is that Regina? FUCK! I never got to bone her!"

"What?" Carolina says in disbelief. She looks at the dead and bloody bodies and immediately recognizes them. "Oh my god."

Everyone then looked back at the desert and see a person in a black Zamorian Thief Hood and black leather apron along with black Shemite gloves. The man is surrounded by the dead bodies of the members of Caesar's Legion and their triceratops and raptor mounts. The man raises his hands as some form of purple energy wisp their way towards the dead bodies. What happened next was a many skeletons in the form of humans, triceratops, and raptors started to rise from their corpses. (I know necromancy doesn't exist in Conan Exiles but it does feel naked without any actual sorcery. Hopefully the devs will implement actual sorcery soon in a DLC.)

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" Washington shouts in both frustration and disbelief. "Now we have fucking magic! You have got to be fucking kidding me!"

The man lowers his hands at the gate as the skeletons charge at it.

Tex looks at Sarge, "Sarge! Is the mortar cannon ready!?"

"No! It's still busted!"

Then Tex looks at Caboose, "Caboose! Get the BFG!"

Epsilon pops up in front of Tex, "Yeah about that... It only has one shot left."

"FUCK!" she looks back at the enemy skeletons. "Better save it for later!"

Simmons says, "I'll radio HQ! Get some reinforcements!"

Carolina pulls out a sniper rifle and orders, "Everyone! OPEN FIRE!"

The zealots immediately fire at the enemy skeletons before the Reds and Blues of Blood Gulch started firing. Many skeletons got turned into bony messes as their parts get scattered across the sands. However, it turns out that it is a distraction as the trebuchets fire demon-fire barrages right at them.

Alpha notices them and shouts through his megaphone feature, "INCOMING!"

Almost everyone dodged the barrages with a few zealot casualties.

Nonan looks at the gate through his spyglass as he just laughs at the fiery barrage at the Reds and Blues. He puts his spyglass down with a big grin on his face, "I love the sight of burning enemies. And I love my job." But his grin lowers as he notices glowing blue projectiles being fired at his forces.

His army just look at awe as the energy projectiles hit them that caused them to die.

"What the-?" Nonan says as he is dumbfounded on what just happened. "In the name of Crom, what the fuck just happened."

Back at the Reds and Blues, there was a radio message, "This is Sangheili Winter Patrol 4, reinforcements have arrived. Hang in there humans!"

Nonan looks at what just happened, "Shit." He isn't very happy. "Summon the dragon air strike!" he says to a subordinate behind him dressed as a Set priest.

The priest pulls out a snake arrow and bow to fire it somewhere behind him as a signal. When the arrow hit, soldiers flying on wyverns appear in the skies with lightning, fire, and poison wyverns taking shots at the Reds and Blues at the gate. But there were missiles being fired at them from a fleet of hornets with green SPARTAN soldiers flying them with some having numbers that are the color of bright green, red, or blue. But there is also a SPARTAN that has a blue stripe and a red stripe that seems to be leading them.

"This is Chief." the SPARTAN leader says. "I brought SPARTAN Teams Green, Blue, and Red. Hold tight boys."

The SPARTAN's piloting the hornets fire more rockets at the wyverns with SPARTAN Red Team using rocket launchers to take some of them down while SPARTAN Blue Team fire sniper rounds at the riders. SPARTAN Green Team are the ones piloting. They fired all the rockets and machine gun rounds at the flying beasts which caused many of them to fall. One of them even falls on top of the thrall fanning Nonan into a bloody mess. Some of it even gotten onto Nonan's face.

"Hmm." Nonan curiously went as he wipes the blood off the right side of his face before taking another drink. "Looks like I'm gonna have to use plan C." He looks at his fellow exile dressed as a Set priest. "You know what to do."

The Set priest nods twice before he runs away from Nonan to make room to do something. The strange, silent man raises his arms into the air and looks at the heavens with a shining light peering down on him. From the sands, a gigantic, monstrous, super large snake started to appear for everyone to see.

Back at the Northern Gate, the Reds and Blues were taken by surprise by this sudden appearance of a giant serpent.

"Holy fucking shit." Tucker says as he just looks at it.

"What the hell?" Washington questions. He looks at everyone around him, "Is this for real?"

Simmons fainted at the sight of the Avatar of Set.

Donut looks at Simmons' unconscious body, "Man down!"

Lopez says, "Tienes que estar jodidamente bromeando."
Translation: "You've got to be fucking kidding me."

Grif runs away while screaming, "I'M OUTTA HERE! I DON'T WANNA BE AROUND WHEN THEY SUMMON GIANT FUCKING BATS!"

Sarge yells at Grif, "GRIF! GET BACK HERE! DERELICTION OF DUTY AND FLEEING FROM BATTLE IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH!"

Tex brings out a fuel rod cannon, "OPEN FIRE!"

Everyone from the Reds and Blues to the Sangheili Winter Patrol to the Three SPARTAN Teams fire everything they got at the massive snake of an unholy god as it slithers closer and closer towards the Northern Gate with every single bullet, rocket, and plasma round trying to take down the great serpent. But that is when they get a surprise attack with a few zealots getting killed by a Khitan in a Khitan mercenary outfit with two Kambujans in Kambujan shaman outfits that threw demon-fire orbs at them that set them a blaze which Lopez notices them.

He runs up with his assault rifle as he says, "Congelar gilipollas!" He points his gun at him.
Translation: "Freeze assholes!"

But the Khitan used some sort of shock spell from the Elder Scrolls series at Lopez which causes him to go, "Heauegerkergerk!"

Lopez goes, "OW! What the hell!? You guys nearly fried my...circuits..." Lopez stops speaking as he realizes that he is speaking English. "Holy shit! My speech unit is fixed! YES!" But the Khitan shocked him again, "Heauegerkergerk!" Lopez shakes it off, "Bien, eso fue...no...oh, hijo de puta."
Translation: "Okay, that was...not...oh, son of a bitch."

Out of frustration on what happened to him, Lopez just fired his weapon at all three of the infiltrators. That is until he notices 15 assassins in Shemite tunic outfits wielding dragonbone two-handed longswords, cutlasses, and demon-fire orbs with a few dead zealots at their feet. Lopez just threw a sticky plasma grenade at one of them and shoots those that try to flee.

"Tómate esa comida sucia, orgánica, chupar la polla, monos de mierda."
Translation: "Take that you dirt eating, organic, cock sucking, motherfucking apes."

The Avatar of Set drew closer and closer towards the Northern Gate. However, someone using a camouflage unit fired a sniper round at the Set priest right through the head. The person that shot him only appeared for a second as he shows his Locus SPARTAN armor that is black with some green on it. Yes, it is indeed Samuel "Locus" Ortez that took out the Set priest. With the death of the summoner, the Avatar of Set disappears. Everyone stopped firing as they were shock to see the gigantic serpent disappeared.

"YEEE-HAAA!" Sarge celebrates. "Take that you fucking anaconda!"

Simmons surprisingly stands back up, "I don't think that was an anaconda."

Sarge looks at Simmons, "Simmons, you're back on your feet."

Back at where Nonan is sitting at, Nonan puts his spyglass down so that he can take one gulp from the last of his desert wine before a camel rider in Aquilonian infantry armor gallops up to the leader.

"Lord Nonan! The assassin strike force has been wiped-out! They failed their mission!"

Nonan gives his rider a 'meh' look while says in a snarky tone, "I saw all of that. Thank you." He looks back at the gate as he scratches the side of his head with his right index finger. "Clearly I need to think of a new strategy." He smirks as he gets off of his chair, "Well, at least I know the true strength of their forces. With that knowledge, I can come up with a way to conquer this puny fort once and for all." He walks away while doing an evil laugh towards his secret encampment somewhere hidden in the desert.

What the Blood Gulch Crew didn't know that that was only a small portion of what Nonan has. Pretty soon, everyone will get to see the horrors that Nonan has at his disposal. But first, he must formulate a plan in order to find a way to deal with them. Nonan them hops on a black horse and gallops off to his hidden base.

Back at the gate, everyone lowered their weapons with all the other soldiers entering the canyon and the hornets landing. Grif is still at his inflatable dome, still hiding just in case of any gigantic bats. Lopez and Sanchez went over towards their new robotic forces in a cave to finish with programming them along with creating new AIs. Master Chief (Not the Halo one, the one from a Halo Machinima called The Heretic and The Codex) approach the Reds and Blues while Ol' Revilie was playing to revive the fallen zealots. An Elite in white ascetic harness also approach the Reds and Blues. All of them line up while the two commanding officers address them.

"Soldiers." Master Chief says to the Reds and Blues, "I don't know what the hell just happened out there but I congratulate you on surviving this far."

"THANK YOU, SIR!" the Freelancers and Blood Gulch Crew say in unison.

Except for Caboose who is facing the wrong direction and says, "Thank you, Principal Jolly Green Giant!"

The commanding officer of the Sangheili Winter Patrol goes, "Uuuhh...is that blue one okay?"

Master Chief continues, "I will need a full report on what happened back at headquarters. Any of you soldiers willing to come with us while my men are here to provide backup?"

Tex, Carolina, and Sarge step forward. "I will!" the three say in unison.

"Then it is settled. The falcon will be prepared by the hour."

Alpha Church, just floating above, comes down and speaks with Master Chief. He floats down on Master Chief's right, "Hey, uh, excuse me?"

Master Chief turns to face Alpha Church, "What's your name?"

"I'm Leonard Church. But some call me Alpha. Anyway, I would like to make a request."

Tucker says, "Is this the part where you're gonna leave?"

Alpha looks at Tucker, "Yeah. Because I would like to volunteer for something."

"Like what?"

Alpha looks at both of them, "Well, since I am small and able to fly, I think I would be suitable for any scouting missions."

"I wanna come!" Caboose sounds excited. "I LOVE FIELD TRIPS!"

Simmons says, "You just want an excuse to get away from Caboose, don't you?"

Alpha just give a long silence before answering, "Kinda."

"You're gonna have to take that up with the Council of Generals at Headquarters." Master Chief says. "Considering that they don't like it when monitors or other similar devices that can spawn in bases, vehicles and weapons going off on their own."

"Well there could be some good people out there that need help. Unlike the ones that attack, there could be people that are in the same situation as we are. Not to mention that my size makes it hard for me to hit, I'm made of metal so animals can't eat me, and I could fly in order to cover more distances on my own." Alpha does have a good point in many areas. He is small, fast, made of metal, and able to fly across fast distances which makes him more suitable for scouting. But he is also a robot that can spawn weapons so people can hack him and have him spawn weapons and vehicles for whoever hacks him that will give the hackers a bit of an edge in warfare.

"You still need to put up with the Council of Generals."

"Alright, let's go."

Caboose then says, "YES! FIELD TRIP!"

"NO CABOOSE!" Alpha says in an angry tone.

"Goddammit!" Tucker swears. "That means I'm stuck with the idiot again!"

Kaikaina shows up. "HEY!" she yells, "WHAT'S WITH THE EXPLOSIONS!? WAS THERE FIREWORKS OR SOMETHING!? KEEP IT DOWN, I'M STILL SUFFERING FROM A HANGOVER!"

Caboose then says, "I like to hangover a cliff. But I don't have any climbing tools."

"Not that kind of hangover, Caboose." Washington corrected Caboose.

Simmons then says, "I don't think he fully understands on making tools. Or in this case, engrams."

"Yeah. Probably to make sure he doesn't make anything else." Alpha says. "Well, he's your responsibility now! Have fun!"

"Oh that's bullshit!" Tucker complain.

"Cliffhanger!"

That last one to say anything was Caboose.

BICORN: Progression of Project ARES Phase 2: 28%

Progression of Project PHOENIX: 59%

Project REAPER is hereby declared complete by orders of the ADMIN until October 31st. Then canceled for another 365 days until Halloween.

Project YIN-YANG is in progress with two Salems as test subjects.

AN: Guess who's back bitches! Man I had an insane amount of shit done at work but had an enjoyable vacation nonetheless. Hope you guys had some enjoyable holidays, whatever your religion is or what holidays you choose. Now for Q&A!

Artyom-Dreizehn: Expect the unexpected.

Victor John Foxfire:

1st part: Maybe, but it kinda depends on him whether or not to keep his privates (tee-hee ^W^, privates) in order to bang Glynda.

2nd part: You're probably right. In some instances, it's like having your arm removed. Scratch that, having all your limbs removed while having a blindfold for your missing eyes. But it will probably be like Rick and Morty when they split themselves from the cognitive toxins in their bodies which is why the Grimm Salem is a bit more monstrous than before.

3rd part: Sorry, no Adam Jensen from Deus Ex.

last part: Pretty soon! Almost there which is why Alpha Church is gonna leave. Just be patient. It's sorta like waiting for the next season of Game of Thrones. God I can't wait for the next season. Or by the seven, the old gods, or whatever religion they have.

Dracus: What the hell does that mean?

Guest #1: Well it is more of a global experiment being conducted by...Ah! Not spoiling it! The grand reveal is waaaaayyyy too good to reveal.

Guest #2: Good theory there, but not exactly. Project PHOENIX is meant to replenish the planet with sentient life. Well in this case, sentient life that doesn't just go around and kill anyone that isn't one of them. Like the raiders, exiles, or Caesar's Legion. Those guys are sorta like clones spawned through a special device that the leaders of these groups have.

Jeffry: Done and done.

Dude with the BFG: Yep for the first and second questions. The third one: I have no idea but I did add Chibi Ruby and Zwei in Ruby's dream. Does that count?

IdiotBox8893: For the first question, possibly. If I would add them in, their family name will be, Season. Get it? Four Maidens named after a season and their last name is Season and they are sisters? Right? Second, just wait. Be patient!

Although this is early, but consider these new chapters an early Christmas present. Ta-ta!