Chapter 2: "The Meeting":

Corneria, Surface

Marketplace—West Side

5:15 PM

Military Time: 1715 Hrs

While sprinting in the Conerian suburbs of tall sky-scrapers, and small distinguished fires that over-came the Marketplace in Coneria, Becker counted three BioMecs in the area, BioMecs are small robots that carry a sufficient AI (Artificial Intelligence) probability to scan the entire area by thermal vision, and normal vision that humans or animals see in real time, Savoks one of the forbidden races in Coneria's planet, has provided the AI from a certain higher-arch of the Turaces clan. The BioMecs usually comes from the combination of Biological warfare, this points to the fact that they are not true Mechs but a cybernetic integrated making them possible to be controlled by a pilot, but however the Turaces have installed one of the cybernetic enhancements in the late era.

300 years ago BioMecs as laborers and tools of war, when the BioMecs began to question their masters, the Turaces realized they had achieved self-awareness and thus attempted to exterminate them. The BioMecs won the resulting war, banishing the Turaces from their home world and reducing them to a race of nomads. The example set by the BioMecs has led to the legally enforced, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society. It was feared that after they drove the Turaces from their home-world, the BioMecs would turn on the rest of the galaxy, but this never happened, and they followed a pattern of isolationism.

Few attempts to hinder or curtail their activities have been attempted, and none have been in any way effective; only lethal force can stop them from carrying out their duties, and no matter how many of them are killed, their numbers are mysteriously maintained, perhaps from within the bowels of Keid Prime in the Turaces atmosphere. Attempts to capture and study them result in a sort of self-destruct, in which acid is released. In fact, in order to maintain the smooth operation of and prevent any potential damage or danger to the station or its inhabitants, the Keid Prime sector deemed it illegal for anyone on the station to terminate, wound or interfere with the Turaces in anyway. The BioMecs evolved over time so that they responded commands from to the Nu Lyncis VII Station and it is implied that they used to take commands directly from Turaces before that. Following this evolutionary change, the Savoks would begin their invasion by making the Turaces to send a signal that compelled the BioMecs away from the Turaces home-planet. Becker stood behind a small cement block that was couple feet away from the BioMecs, the BioMecs had few hostages in hand transporting them into another building towards the west district, some of the hostages were unconscious it looked like the BioMecs were intelligent enough to talk to each other secretly, and stealthy.

Becker thought it would be a wise decision to shoot them with the AxT 7780 the AxT 7780 is the Conerian Military designation for a family of rifles derived from the AX-70's and it was further developed The AxT 7780 is a lightweight, 5.56 mm caliber, air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine-fed assault rifle, with a rotating bolt, actuated by direct impingement gas operation. The rifle is made of steel, aluminum, and composite plastics. Becker then realized that this small gun wouldn't have a good chance to destroy the BioMecs, with the AI they had complete visualization across the entire environment even when it is foggy or very far away, the AI symbol had a light resolution blue cyborg eye, just one bash of the blue eye can disable there functions for quite awhile, there movements seemed unreal, but revealing towards Becker, instead he waited till the BioMecs continued on towards their Rally Point.

He silently perched up near one of the cement blocks again to get a better view of the hostages, he pulled out one of his digital binoculars the binoculars appeared in sight, he muttered towards himself silently, "Lets have a look see, shall we?" when he flicked the button a HUD display showed the lights illuminating each reference point from signaling east to west point, highlighting each number that was close to the objective. The binoculars sensed that there was four hostages gripped by the BioMecs, each of the hostages profiles had "Unknown" highlighted in green right next the HUD display, he flicked the button to turn off the binoculars, as he put it in one of his bags he gripped his AxT ready into place, he went into one of the buildings towards the west and settled up camp there as he discovered that he was in a worse situation, the environment.

The environment had two ways, one towards the left, and one towards the right, each place was tight and barely recognizable there was one big building in front of Becker field of vision even though he was in front of a window, he had trouble perching his gun for cover fire so he can kill those BioMecs, he fired one round at the window, the window shattered into tiny pieces of glass, that was a bad idea for Becker to shoot the window. BioMecs halted the migration at the other buildings, one of the BioMecs swerved his eel synthetic like neck towards the other BioMecs a few clicks were heard seemed like they're communicating to each other, the first one walked off silently to glance at the building were Becker shot.

The BioMech scanned the area with his HUD display, the illuminations became a light blue, and everything around it was Hi-Def display, meaning the BioMech can see better than other civilians in Corneria, the whole HUD was displayed scanned the entire area with its obscured features that was central to the Cyber Brain (AI). A highlighted link of a red box scanned the visual information that was a tiny cardboard-box and the BioMech executed an attack with its AXK 25 gas-powered, magazine-power burst. The bullets scattered in its general direction at the box, as the box was penetrated by the bullets, his arm then went into a cease position, the HUD display continued to scan the area and it said, "Area Confirmed, Operation: Successful. All-clear". The com-link towards Becker's ear started to do a low vibrate ring, he tapped his right ear, "Come in, Becker here." "Hey, Becker! Get your ass over here. We're waiting for you. Jesus man, what in the hell is going on out there?" the com-link seemed a bit to loud for Becker as he turned the volume a bit low, "Well, Joey. It's not going as planned right now, is Shepard in the rally point?" "Yeah SGT. Shepard is already here, waiting on you. What's the next plan? In fact, were the hell you at?" stated PFC. Joey. Becker was getting agitated by the facts he's already running late and he should be there by now, he gave a low inaudible sigh, "Alright, I'll be there in a minuet. I found some new hostiles I don't know what's going on with the hostages." "Worry about them later. We got a world to save right now." Becker glanced down as he shook his head in a negative manner as he gave a low smirk on his cheek, he gripped his personal effects, and his AXT again as he went downstairs aiming his AXT with his right arm making a stance pointing downstairs that was gloomy and eerie by the aspects by Becker, leading the way he glanced at the architecture inside the building the pillars were made by the Corinthian style The Corinthian order is the most decorative of the three styles.

Corinthian also uses entasis to make the shafts look straight. However, in time it decayed in wars of Corneria pieces were falling off the pillars although Becker thought it was a good supportive cover if he was going to get shot. He then shifted his head and he glanced at the BioMechs once again, but didn't do anything he wasn't visible towards the BioMecs, he than sprinted off towards the West district in Corneria. When Becker navigated through-out the whole Marketplace he finally reached up with the other two, just like Becker the collation wore charcoal fatigues and matte black impact that bulwarked everything vital from his neck to his knee. His wrists where his leather gloves didn't quite touch his shirtsleeves, embedded inside the shirtsleeve was a small impacted control system to communicate towards other members inside the collation it also controls a GPS system, to have complete reference inside the environment. It also contains the WAV points of enemies that confirmed their positions if there was a friendly nearby Becker or any of the collations like Private first class Joey, or Commander Hughes it would illuminate the awareness as a blue diamond and information will provide distance for the associates, and it will provide information on their current rankings. "About time you showed up, Becker!" Joey stated, "Yeah yeah, whatever. I had trouble at the rundown with the BioMecs" he shifted his arm limb up in the air as he pointed his thumb back at the East district, "That's the first", PFC. Joey again stated quickly lowering his AXT towards the ground, "HEY! What does that suppose to mean?" Becker clinched his fingers into a fist allowing the blood to flow in his veins, Joey then raised his arms up in the air as though he was "surrendering" "Hey take it easy now, Becker". He gave a small laugh, "Quiet, we got work to do." Proclaimed Commander Hughes, he then turned towards David Shepard again, crouching down near him glancing at the computer monitor enlisting each individual names on who, or where they can find "James McCloud" so far they reached, "Lopez McDaniel" Becker muttered towards himself, "This is going to take forever just to find one guy! There's no way we can do this" "Stop being pessimistic" concerned 1st Lt Hughes; more information was being uploaded by the minuet with this computer monitor. "Try typing his full name." he commanded David Shepard, David then typed the full information down with this new tracker device from service records that was enlisted in the Academy. A loud bang came from the south-east a horde of BioMecs came crossing in the camp were Rally Point Alpha was, SGT. Becker and 1st SGT Shepard, took point crouching near a tree that was giving them limited cover fire. Combustion from their AXT's barrels as bullets scattered every-were in its general path, yells came from the soldiers inside the Market district which was previously for food distributions, and a civilian hang-out for friends, and family.

"Throw one of those grenades!" yelled Sgt. Shepard, Becker gripped his personal effects as he pulled out one of the grenades from his velcro pockets, he flicked the pin as he lowered his arms and threw the grenade, as the grenade emitted ignition from the shrapnel it penetrated the hard pierced metal of the BioMecs making them weaker by the minuet, the fire-fight between man and machine took hours, and hours. During the battle of survival each of the collation members remembered there training in Boot camp to keep their adrenaline in a timid battle, "Fire!" David shot and disabled one of the BioMecs point blank in the AI portion. "Nice shot" said Becker.