I don't own Arknights, Crysis series or anything, all of them goes to all of their respective owners.
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Yeah, Oripathy really changed me. But if I keep wallowing in self-pity, that wouldn't be like me, right? So, no matter what lies in wait in the future...
I should continue working hard on my chosen path.
-Excerpt from Operator Cliffheart records.
1013 Hours
Lungmen Outskirts, Desolated City
The place can be described is wrecked by a Catastrophe, hot, and placed in the desert out of nowhere… an abandoned or a ghost city, but it is a home for the Infected... at least, many people live in here as they're walking with no sense of directions while the infected children playing with each other, but if you closely on the rooftops of the building there's a black Armor suit man with a gun on his back watching them…
"That's 7 unregistered infected…". While I'm taking a shot of some people on the ground streets and then sending it to Amiya through my visor.
I know they're Infected yet don't think the Lungmen should help them? Gave them some aid, food or water. But here we are, the man in high castle doesn't fucking care about them, whether they be dead or not...
They deployed many armed police to take care of the Infected, cleaning up their mess, they said it's for the betterment and safety for the citizens but we all know that's just bullshit, it's all the fucking same, Earth or Terra there is no different.
"This is fucked up man".
-Well they got no choice, you already seen what the Reunion can do, it's normal the L.G.D got precautions about it…
"Yeah well, what about the kid that playing each other then? Are they gonna leave them to starve in this damn out of nowhere fucking place? They're innocent kid, Prophet".
-*Sighed We can't do anything about it son... If I were one of the L.G.D, I'm gonna disobey the order and let the kids through
"I'm tempting to do it but that's going to jeopardize R.I relationship between Lungmen…".
With that I turned around and walked the opposite way, the Nomad city like Hong kong appeared on the horizon a hundred kilometers away in my visor. Full of life, clean, safe unlike this starving dirty city...
I shook my head, vanished my thoughts, and resuming my mission, SECOND gave me notifications there's 23 unregistered people who were tracked and unmarked far away, looks like they're in some slums.
Then I speed up, running on between the rooftops, jumping on the taller buildings, then running again that no normal human can do. The weather's not bad unlike back in Chernobog where meteors dropping out of the skies, that whole thing fucking shook me up, almost piss in my pants... Suit to be exact. It's like the god just decided to end the world right there in front of my face.
But man the temperature in here is hot, just like in the middle east, no kidding, the sun is glaring at me hard, but hey, at least I'm not being cooked up by some mad lady. Without the suit cooling me up like in the winter, I'm probably sweating around, filling the Nanosuit with my body liquids.
I stopped when the slums hundred meters from here, can't get a shot from them the houses blocking my visor, I guess I need to get close to them. I walk up to the edges and drop to the ground with my Armor mode on, the ground cracked some debris fly away from me, smoke dust hiding my body before dispersed away quickly.
Making my way through the tight alley to the slums for a minutes until I arrived at the supposed place, multiple shack and a broken cart with many civilians belongings, a destroyed buildings with cracked walls ready to crumble to dusts. then I see the peoples
A kid six or ten youngers than me with torn clothes playing an improvised plastic football from a trash.
An old man with no shirt sitting on the edge corner, his face was haunted and downcast, holding his bloodied dried up right stump.
Two woman with one of them were pregnant and her bandaged right eye try giving a lanky man a dirty half eaten croissant and bread who is lie down and his face is hopeless seemingly everything was already done for and ready to die.
A man rummaging dump trying to find something to take care of his friend who is guts are wounded from a sharp weapons and vomitting his lunch on the ground.
A daughter asking where her mother was to the infected father who was holding a piece of bloody finger with a ring and crying on it, muttering about his failure for his daughter safety to Lungmen or how remembering his wife was sliced up into many parts.
"This is just fucking depressing".
I'm no stranger to these kinds of thing since I'm always on the frontline, but never had enough to have a sympathetic towards them who were lost about someone or had a mad shit situations.
-Focus soldier
Right, with that I swallowed up my saliva and pushing back my negative thoughts on to my deep mind, remembering what was I supposed to do in the first place. Taking a shot all of them one by one before sending the info to my superiors.
Until a ball rolling to my feet, suddenly their attention to me, their facial either scared or anger, one of them even picked up a steel bar and trying to protect of the two women who were helping a starved man up.
"...Fuck, I forgot to activate the cloak first". Facepalming inside my mind
-Yes, yes you are
"You should remind me old man...".
-Should learn your lessons to be aware of your surroundings *Chuckles now quit whining and fix your mistakes
Yeah, What the fuck do I do now? Say hi and sorry? Taking their attention to somewhere else and then running?
Oh yeah I can just cloaked up.
"Umm mister, can you pass the ball?". Said the innocent Zalak kid tilting his head
"Nikolai!". Hushed one of the older kids
Well I've got to take the chance, arms up in the air showing I meant no harm to everyone in the vicinity while crouching to take the ball slowly after that I stretched out my hand the one held the ball towards the rat kid.
"Here take it...". Well I can just throw to him but the ball would explode in the kid's face by my Nanosuit in accident... I ain't gonna do that.
The kid slowly walking to me while the older one trying to stop him from behind which of course were failed.
He's reaching out then take the ball easily from my hand, looking at my visor with his face full of dirt, a bit cut of here and there, his face suddenly turns to a radiant smile showing his white broken teeth from innocent curious.
"Thank you mister!". Forgetting he's talking to a monster in the form of black suit.
"Yeah, no problem kid". I answered softly
...
The sound breeze air of sand overshadowed the silence between all of us.
"*Coughed Right. Sorry for interrupting your activities everyone, So I'm just gonna leave all of you in here...". I said in caution and walking backwards slowly, making my way outta here
That is of course, until someone in a white hooded mask fucking screaming toward us with on top of his lung
"DIE YOU LUNGMENITES!". Swinging his short sword to my head from behind.
The effect of course, just bonking my head and his sword were fucking broken for the pays, the little shit was wide-eyed behind the mask holes and shocked to the core.
What the fuck did he expect? Didn't they're already getting a lesson from Chernobog fiasco? I guess idiotic genes running on their blood just like their leader...
While he was stunned at his half sword, I grabbed his neck and threw his body on the ground hard that I heard his bone cracked and leaving a body mark, then he wasn't moving anymore.
But his life signs are still there so that's a plus...?
-Well that was anticlimactic... lot of enemies squad going in to your positions
I saw multiple boogies inbound catching up the little fuck from behind in my Tac visor, turning my body around twenty eight Reunion mixed soldiers coming to us, five casters, seven snipers, three grenadiers while the rest were just grunts.
Well at least they weren't above fifty...
-A walk in the park...
"No shit, old man".
Brought three mags SCAR and two others for Gauss, enough to clear them up without anti materiel rifle I guess.
Looking to the wounded infected civilian who still holding a steel bar I said to him "Get your guys out of here".
The man shook his head, anger with a thirst of revenge plastered on his face "No way! Those fuckers destroyed our homes and killing my nephew! They told us we're going to be saved instead they're slaughtering all of us the moment we refused to join them, fucking hypocrites all of'em!"
"Yeah, but if you die who is going to protect them then?". Pointing the people behind him, who have dejected and scared face, their body were trembling at the on coming doom.
Besides what the fuck are you going to do with that steel bar? thats not enough to beat the shit all of them anyway, so safe your breath and fucking save yourself.
The man realizes this and the hand gripping his steel bar were shaking, "What about you? Are you going to face all of them by yourself?".
Look at the guns behind my back man, did you really think I'm not prepared for all of this? I appreciate it really, but stop being dramatic and fucking run already.
"...If you're not start running I'm gonna throw your ass to them, really...".
"Come on Jazeer, let's go...". Beg the woman and tugging his sleeve, seems they were scarred for life from whatever those Reunion guys do.
A bit hesitation from him before throwing the bar far away completely, the woman from before face me with a look of grateful then catch up with the others, with that all of them start running away leaving me alone...
Fucking finally...
I turn face back at the enemies who walked to me, marking all of them as hostiles. They notice their targets were gone after they arrived and saw one of their own on the ground his body unmoved.
TACTICAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE
-I recommend you just go fuck'em out, prioritize the snipers if you can
"What? *snort".
-*Sighed just use all the Nanosuit abilities kid, shock'em out...
"Are you the one who incapacitated him?". Told her in a hooded coat who I thought to be the squad lead.
I just shrugged my shoulders "Yea, what'ya gonna do about it?".
THREAT DETECTED
Without their lead orders, two casters and snipers shoot at me with their magic baja blast and raining bolts at the same time I'm activating my Armor mode tanking their attacks...
Too bad, their fucking abracadabra proved to be futile against my Nanosuit, Seeing I'm unharmed by their voodoo shits all of them tensed and dispersed taking a cover for the ranged units while the grunts running with their might to me.
Readying up my silenced AR then taking a sight at the closest grunt, pressing the trigger with my finger after the crosshair at his head, the bullet sailed across the air to his forehead and go through to his skull and destroying the mask in the process.
Repeat my action to the other two grunts, the ranged fuckers shot at me with their suck accuracy like a fucking Storm Troopers from Star Wars, blasting the ground close to me instead hitting me. Hell my grandma can do better than that. But I'm glad they're fucking blind and idiots, then I begin cloaked up after jamming their radios with Prophet's help.
"What the hell?!".
"He have Stealth Arts! Stay together!".
"Eyes open everyone! That man is still here!".
I take cover behind the debris wall then take a peek at one of them before uncloaked and shoot three of them in the head their corpses fall to the ground, they were fucking surprised and stunned.
"What the fuck?! Where is he?!".
"There's the fucker! Sniper, Caster kill him! kill him!". Roared one of the grunts pointing and running to me.
-Another cover on the right side. Prophet marking the directions at the Tac visor
I cloaked up again In the blink of an eye I'm fucking gone from that spot before running away to the other covers from many arrows that I dodged, rainbow beam that crumbling the covers, adding molotovs spreading the fires.
The grunts who was spotted me were now fucking scared after his friends wasting their ammo and mana, then arriving my last cover who seems to be there was nothing else other than destroyed walls.
You think you're the only one to have tricks up on your sleeve? Think again motherfuckers.
"W-what?!".
"There isn't anyone else in here!".
"Calm down! It's just one man!".
Uncloaked and begin culling all of them, one of them spotted me, Prophet marking the directions, cloaking then I run to other cover again, peeking at the terrorists, uncloaked and shoot the shit out of'em. Repeat the onslaught.
From one body to two then to three to five to eight, All of them were beginning to scared shitless, after all of their snipers and several grunts were riddled with many bullets, and leaving only a handful of casters and grunts who their legs were trembling hard.
"T-the fuck is-*cracked". One grunt down, head explode, brains scattered around on her buddy face who standing from behind.
"F-farah!".
"N-no! Who is this guy?!"
"C-caster, y-youre fucking useless! All of you!".
"W-wha *globgh". I stab his neck with my knife from behind, cake blood poured out from his windpipe, then I cloaked up.
"NOOOO-!"
"FUCK FUCK FUCK!".
"CALL THE OTHERS! CALL- SEND HELP!".
"I DON'T WANNA DIE! I DON'T WANNA DIE!".
The squad lead picking up her radio hurriedly, channel up the frequencies, instead voices what their met was a loud static mess...
Panic, terrified and horrified shows on their body sign, the squad lead tries reactivating the radio multiple times but no words on her radio ends, one of her members snatched her radio and tries it multiple times even punching the communication, same answers, before throwing it at the ground in frustration, destroying it.
Then their leader suddenly realize something and her whole body shaking, walking staggering backwards.
"N-no... I-its him! the one who jammed all of our communications back at Chernobog! T-the one who fought Talulah!".
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!". The man throwing his magic wand before running away, which I shot him with 4mm Sabot rounds to his neck on accident, the guy was stumbled to the ground, crawling desperately out of here forgetting the red liquid spurted out from his trachea before I killed him with a headshot ending his misery, then reload the mags.
Then I proceed to kill the remnants of them leaving only a few and their leader alive, echoes screaming of horrors can be heard from this place.
After that I uncloaked in front of the only alive in this slums, throwing a fist to the closest to me careful not to busting his intestines out, then he dropped down and curling his stomach groaning painfully.
"Drop your weapons and hands in the air, or you'll end up like your buddies". Pointing SCAR nose muzzle to them.
Four of them who still alive complies my order quickly, and take a knees in front of me, I even saw one of them were pissing on herself.
"Now, what are all of you doing here?". I begin to interrogate them
One girl, her whole body was shaking and then take a look at her leader who look at her back, the girl spoke "We-"
"Isabel!". Hissed their leader
"What? Do you want to get killed!? Well I don't want it! Not all of us want to!".
"You're going to betray our Captain and Leader?, is that it?!".
"You've seen and heard what he can do! What are we supposed to do about it?! The moment he sided with Lungmen we're dead, he throw that damned our Leader, Emma!".
"It's a rumor! You don't know anything about her!".
"Oh please! You just want her attention to you while the others get slaughtered like a pig, shut the fuck up bitch!".
"Why you-!".
Their bicker goes around like 10 minutes, while I'm standing here like an idiot...
I mean I'm not going into their arguments, women sometimes has a scary aura you know, hell their other two male members were just silenced the whole debacles, that should speak for itself.
For fuck sake my drunk ass, abusive mother even screaming banshee and punching like a gorilla to my cowered father like the coward he was, if some woman was this scary I don't want to get their skin...
Except for the Long hair and that white hair unhinged woman of course.
...
"Alright, that's enough. Now, what is it?". My patience is thinning
"I will never tell you!". Spit Emma seethed in anger
"Our Captain Skullshatterer wants to find an Ursusian girl with a white hair, around 14 years old if I were to guess". Told Isabel with a straightforward while glaring hateful at her leader
"TRAITOR!".
Okay that got my attention, the renowned Skullshatterer- more like a fucking cardboard Rambo, one of the Reunion ring leaders- If Amiya's info was right -wants to find 14 y.o girl? now if it wasn't the said Captain around 16 y.o, I would say they were a fucking pedophile with a trigger happy to explode everything.
And their Grenade Launchers of course, what were they thinking? fucking mount up both hocus-pocus MGL on their hand, Isn't that overkill? first that white hair with her C4, a fucking crazy lady with a dark souls sword, then a mercenary and terrorist kids, now this? What the fuck is wrong in this world.
"What did they want?". I asked Isabel
"I-I don't know, but I overheard that Talulah wants her too, so I would say she was something vital to ours, please don't kill me! I join them because I don't have anything to live!".
"You think spilling all of our secrets he would spare us? Think again! I'm the one who survived the massacres from Ursus army in my village! This wouldn't be any different dumb fuck! Now we're going to die for real this time *chuckles". Reply their team lead with a dry on the last statements.
"Shut up! you wouldn't that... r-right?". Said Isabel with a hope and anxious, while her heartbeat were quickening.
"No one is going to die in here, last I checked killing surrendered enemies wasn't in my book...". I casually said
I would get fucking court-martialed law for a war criminal if I would do that back on Earth, and they do the same in here except they don't do jail sentence for an alien soldier... I mean there's no law for a criminal like me if I were to do that.
I'd rather my head, body and limbs still attached.
"We still get targeted by one of the fanatic Reunion leaders anyway". Depressed Emma
"...Well, If you play good prisoners for Lungmen, maybe you can request sanctuary to Rhodes Island...".
I don't do politics but at least I can help these guys from a mad lady who can burn them alive...
"Really?". Told Emma with a hope to me before SECOND send notifications
INCOMING TRANSMISSIONS
"Yeah, of course. Hold on for a second. Alcatraz here".
"Alcatraz, We have a new order from Madam Ch'en, We have to find Ursusian girl with a white hair and 145 cm tall, Her name is Misha she is infected…"
"What a coincidence! I was on a look out for her too, since she was the most wanted person on Reunion papers that one of the ring leaders even catching eye at her. They already here, brought the Skullshatterer too, I've got the Intel after fighting one of them, and now they're our prisoners".
"Then we need to find her fast. I need to call Madam Ch'en, and I'm calling Yato's squad to your position for the prisoners so that you can track her fast. Good job Alcatraz".
"Roger Amiya and thanks, Alcatraz over and out".
Looking back at my prisoners... Yato's prisoners... L.G.D prisoners...
Eh, tomato-tomato.
"Stay here, I'm going, the other squad comes to pick you up- you dare to run I will hunt you down -so you better have a good attitude at them". I explain to them
Paused.
"Oh yeah, someone gotta wake that guy up". I continued and pointed at the still stuck unconscious guy on the ground meters away from us.
After helping the infected child who has been harassed by her pursuers back in the slums, she's running to the alley and goes into the destroyed building then hides in one of the rooms
'What do they want with me… why… why are they chasing me'. She thought with mouth on her hand and eyes closed, terrified plastered on her face…
Then no sound can be heard…
'Did they already go?'
Before a hand clamp on her shoulders and faced to the group of men who chased her "Got you!" said one of the man with grinned like a hyena.
Then appeared out of thin air another man with full black armor and red visor behind her pursuers before kicking who close to him, startled one of her chasers trying to attack with a crowbar which the suit man sidestep to the right and swung a punch at him in the face before steal his weapon, the last man still stunned as to what's happening then getting advantaged by him with a smack in the head by his stolen crowbar.
Misha's screamed drop on the ground while yelling "Stay away from me! Please I don't know what I do to anger you!". Backing away from him scarily
"Whoa kid, calm down I'm here to save you from those guys". He said while releasing his helmet, His green eyes filled with concern then footsteps can be heard from outside, another people came into her view.
A fox woman with a rapier turned to him with a disappointment like a wife to her husband "What did you do to her Alcatraz?".
The mentioned man surprised and confused at the same time "I didn't do anything! And stop teasing me already!"
"Oh really~ because our child here is scared of you, you know~". Franka teased him with a finger to her lips, while Alcatraz just made a face 'Shut the fuck up!' before putting his helmet on
"I think you should stop teasing him Franka". Said Vouivre woman with a shield and pistol, Liskarm in a frosty manner
"Hmm~ I don't know he's just funny you know".
"*Sighed You both can flirt when we are done, don't do it now…". Said deadpanned a man with a hat, mask, and a sniper rifle being shouldered, came through the door and leaning to the wall then crossing his arms.
The Cautus girl then came to Misha and offered her hand with a smile on her face "I'm sorry if he scared you Miss Misha…". While in the background can be heard a yelling 'What did I do?!', 'You provoked her', 'I didn't know she was this bad! And she start it first!'.
Notes:
So how was the story and my write? is it improving? good? bad? i don't know, but don't take it too seriously i write it for fun and for the readers after all, but any criticism would be appreciated.
This time I use Alcatraz pov for the most of it rather than narrator which is me (I'm suck at being narrator lol). It's really fun to write his monologue since back in Crysis Legion the man had a very expressive nature and a bit crackhead that always use many creative slur lmao.
I remember back in high school playing Crysis 2 and 3 using stealth mode as primary abilities to kill enemies... man they were so fun that I even confuse Ceph brainmaster boss. Imagine one sec shooting and then turn invisible then shoot again then invisible... lol.
For the Reviewer:
Snipervtk: Thanks for your interesting idea/suggestions and reviews, you remind me how and where Alcatraz can get all his requisite, I almost forgot cuz remembering and focusing Arknights and Crysis lore lol.
As for giving them the firearms blueprints and other methods to build it either for Operators or Alcatraz himself...
Who knows maybe I'll give them since their future enemies would be the Demons, Dragons, Seaborns, Kazdel Royal Court or the Ceph.
Because holy fuck they're all Nightmare (see that capital N and italics?) to deal with.
I'd rather R.I (as a whole) wouldn't get ragged like a doll and slaughtered around like the original story was.
There's a lot of factors that hold me back from giving them (It's not about being how OP it was)...
So stick around and find the hints that I'll be dropping whether I'll give them or not.
About crossposting to other websites, I never tried that and kinda don't understand, so idk maybe in the future I guess?.
And lastly if all of you have any big ideas or suggestions and want to ask something, you can review or pm me (if you really want to have a long discuss or being shy about it).
Hope you guys enjoyed it, thanks for reading, have a nice day wherever you are and good bye.