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Commander's Room

Right now, the operators, Ciel, Zero, the Guardians, and Forte are inside discussing their next move when the Operators announced something.

"Someone has broken into our transmission circuits! It's Neo Arcadia!" The operators looked at Ciel for further orders.

"Patch them through." Right after she finished speaking, an image of Copy X appeared on the monitor.

"Can you h-h-hear me? Members of the R-R-Resistance and Dr. C-C-Ciel."

"Master X!" Copy X then noticed the three Guardians in the room.

"So, H-H-Harpuia, it looks like you and the other two G-G-Guardians decided to betray us after a-a-all." Copy X continued on, "W-W-Weil warned me that you three might have b-b-been planning something."

"Dr. Weil was the one who attacked Leviathan, how can you trust that man?" Harpuia couldn't understand how X can still trust him. "How can you launch an attack in a human residential area?"

"We did w-w-what must be done, H-H-Harpuia, don't act like you have the r-r-right to categorize right and w-w-wrong." Copy X then turned his attention to Ciel. "L-L-Listen up, Ciel, we have a p-p-proposition for you."

"What do you want?" Ciel didn't know what to think of Neo Arcadia after the attack on the human settlement.

"Let's put an e-e-end to this foolish c-c-conflict. We want you to s-s-surrender and we will spare y-y-you."

"Surrender?" I can't do that, all that we've worked to fight for will be lost. If we surrender now, then reploids will still be retired, what would everyone who died for our cause have accomplished?

Just then, Dr. Weil appeared on the screen as well. "If you hand over the new energy system you invented, the Ciel System. We will guarantee the safety of you Mavericks and traitors."

"We can't…"

"Based on the information you have sent us, we have determined that by combining that with the Dark Elf, we will be able to produce a huge amount of energy. We can stop the energy crisis in one swoop. How about it, Dr. Ciel? One answer from you can stop all the bloodshed right here and now."

"I…" Can I really hand over the Ciel System to this man? After seeing his actions I'm not sure what to do anymore. Ciel looked at Zero, the Guardians, and Forte and saw that they all trusted her to make the right decision. "…can't trust you."

"What's t-t-that?" Copy X went back on the screen and now faced Ciel.

"You were willing to launch an attack on humans just to get the Dark Elf. I developed that system so that humans and reploids can live together peacefully. After seeing you do that, there's no way we can trust you."

"F-F-Fine, we have been going e-e-easy on you seeing as there's an h-h-human among you. H-H-However, you are nothing but e-e-extremists. Now face the consequences of you're a-a-actions."

"The transmission has been cut off." Just then, the alarms blared and the operators quickly checked the readings. "An attack has been launched by the Neo Arcadians, seems that there are three generals commanding it. The signal has been identified as Hanumachine, Anubis, and Blizzack Staggroff."

"Those guys are back? Alright, I'll prepare to engage the generals in combat." Before Zero could leave he was stopped by Harpuia.

"Zero, you and Forte go defend the Resistance from the attacks. Me, Leviathan, and Fefnir will handle the generals." Harpuia looked at Forte for approval.

"Whatever's fine with me, you guys just go ahead and don't get yourselves killed." Harpuia looked at Zero and got the reply in a nod.

"Alright then, let's go!" The three Guardians all went in different exits going to fight the generals.

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Desert Outside of Resistance

Leviathan just rammed her staff through five pantheons and was waiting to engage the general in combat, but didn't find anyone.

"Be careful, Leviathan, we have a strong energy reading near your current location." The voice in the intercom warned as Leviathan took another look around.

"I don't see anyone here yet, are you sure about that?" Just as she finished her sentence, two halves of a coffin surrounded Leviathan and closed her in. Just then, a jackal-like reploid appeared from the sand.

"Looks like the Guardians aren't so tough after all. This is Necromancess Anubis to Master X, I have just defeated Fairy Leviathan." The coffins started cracking and Leviathan came out spinning her staff.

"You managed to catch me off guard, but you won't be able to do it again." Leviathan readied her staff for battle.

"We'll just see about that, traitor." Anubis launched his staff towards Leviathan. Leviathan managed to dodge that, but Anubis appeared behind her and attacked Leviathan with his staff knocking her back.

"You'll pay for that!" Leviathan shot out the tip of her staff at Anubis, but Anubis vanished into the sand. "Come out and fight me." Just then, the coffin surrounded her and was about to close in. Leviathan managed to avoid it but was caught off guard by another round of coffins right after.

Leviathan came out of the coffin and was low on energy. I can't keep this up, if I keep on getting hit by those attacks, I'll be destroyed. He's a lot stronger than he was before.

Anubis threw his staff at Leviathan again and Leviathan dodged it the same way as before. Anubis appeared behind Leviathan while her back was turned and prepared to strike again, but got damaged as Leviathan swings her staff. Leviathan quickly jumped above Anubis and impaled him in the chest. Anubis disappeared in the sand before he took full damage from the attack.

Alright, now I know to be careful of continuous attacks. The coffins appeared again, but this time Leviathan managed to avoid three times before Anubis reappeared.

"It looks like you're weakened, this ends now." Anubis mumbled something and seemed to blend in with the surroundings. Leviathan looked down and noticed something funny. It looks like the ground is moving. Anubis reappeared when the ground stopped moving and attacked Leviathan, knocking her down.

"What was that?"

"I have the ability to create illusions to attack my enemies. Now, prepare to be retired, traitor." Anubis mumbled something again and the ground started moving, but this time Leviathan was prepared.

Leviathan swings her staff around, sending large shards of ice in every direction. She hears a grunt from somewhere and knew it hit the mark. The illusion disappeared and an injured Anubis reappeared.

"It looks like I'm low on energy, now fallen reploids, hear my cries and crush your target." A bunch of zombie pantheons appear as Anubis started chanting and Leviathan manages to destroy them with some effort. Anubis disappeared in the sand again.

After three waves of attacks, he'll appear and that'll be my chance to attack. Leviathan managed to easily avoid the first two, but during the third coffin, the hand of a zombie pantheon appeared and held her in place. The two coffins crashed together creating a large amount of sand and Anubis came out.

"It looks like I have managed to destroy Leviathan; Master X will greatly reward me for this." When the smoke cleared, Leviathan appeared in mid air. She swung her staff around and prepared for an attack.

"Now Anubis, your grave is here. FROST DRAGON!" The head of an icy dragon appeared from her staff and she launched it at Anubis, hitting him down to the sand as Anubis laid there defeated.

"How'd you manage to survive my last attack?"

"I thrusted my staff downwards to destroy that zombie of yours and pushed myself upwards avoiding your coffins." She raised her staff. "Now Anubis, prepare to be destroyed for good this time." She swung it down and Anubis was destroyed.

"This is Leviathan to the Resistance Base, I've managed to defeat Anubis, preparing to transfer back. Leviathan disappeared as the remains of Anubis exploded.

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