*Crash! Boom!

Satellizer's blade swung down on it's target-only to miss by a hairs breath. Immediately Rana followed up with a flurry of punches -all blocked by their opponent: Chiffon.

As the pair were downed by Chiffon, an explosion could be felt across the complex. Immediately her senses were assaulted. It was as if something was calling out to her. Taking a deep breath, her body returned to normal. For Satellizer and Rana however, that was not the case. The pair, as if possessed, stood up and readied their stances.

"Geez, you two always give me so much trouble..." sighed Chiffon before continuing the fight.


/helicopter bay A/

The VTOLS touched down. From each one came several Pandoras. One in particular held Pandoras not yet in active duty. Among them was Katelyn

'So... here I am.' She thought. She was sent here as part of the task force to investigate a tip from the El-Bridget family.

Katelyn looked around. It was the Alaskan base- one where he was assigned to. She was irritated by the fact that they ordered her platoon to head to the facility but orders were orders. They were deployed without question.

*BOOM!

one of the buildings exploded, exposing a white nova

"Everyone split! Team A-secure the control room. The rest of you, assume anti-Nova formation! Prepare to repel the Nova. GO!" the leader gave the orde and the party split.


*shake

"ughh... Where am I?" the shaking from the explosion woke Thomas. He found himself strapped into a bed again-this time without his armor. The pandoras had stripped it off him when he was arrested.

"...crap" his head was getting fuzzier by the minute. He looked and realized that there was a sedative being pumped into him by means of an IV. He was going to lose conciousness again soon...

*slam!

" Oh my god! Thomas! I'm glad you're safe." the voice said as it's owner disconnected the IV and loosened the straps.

Thomas vision cleared slightly and recognized the woman

"nghh... Jiina? Where am I?" he said shakily

"hold on Thomas. Let me get you out of this." she said. "research lab 4. I asked the researchers nicely." she added as the straps came undone.

Thomas sat up shakily. Aside from the drug in his veins, the electric torture he took did a lot more damage. He fell back down before Jiina helped him up again.

"here. I retrieved it before finding you." she handed him his armor gauntlet. "Sorry I couldn't bring out your other equipment" she added dejectedly

"heh...It's fine. Thanks Jiina." said Thomas as he put on and activated the gauntlet. "so... What happened while I was away?" he asked.

"Right now, we're in a pinch. Amelia and the others used the Mark IV and rebelled for some reason. Then now a Nova is inside the base. I think it's one of us e-pandora who novalized." said a fearful Jiina "I even felt it calling out to me."

"dammit..." Thomas replied. "Alright then. You go and help the other pandoras subdue the nova; whoever or whatever it is. If it's someone you know, try and distract it. I can try to devour the nova cells or something." he added

"and what will you do in the meantime?"

"Grab my stuff. did they take my equipment out of my room?"

"yes. It's in lab 2. All of it I think."

"Then that's where I should be. Good luck Jiina." said Thomas and the pair split up.


/in the control room/

"Two more nova detected! One is a type S. The other, another unknown type!" said the pandora manning the radar system.

"dammit. How could this have happened?!" uttered Spencer.

"well now fool. Have you enjoyed your time playing god?" said a voice.

Spencer turned around only to see Dr. Aoi standing behind him. With the doctor were a dozen pandora.

"Gengo Aoi! what do you mean?" asked the former.

"You used your stupid medicine and created a nova. I suppose it was Oohara's doing." replied Dr. Aoi. The latter, without facing his pandoras, uttered "secure the command room!" to which they obeyed.

Marks Spencer looked around and realized his folly. Behind Spencer was Loius El Bridget. "I see, so the El Bridget family is involved."

Louis and his partner Holly moved to restrain Spencer. He gave up willingly and was led out as Gengo Aoi took charge of the area and directed the pandoras fighting the nova.


"hah... hah..."

Thomas made his way to lab 2. Once there, he found the lock broken - most likely Jiina's doing.

Peeking inside, he saw his equipment lined around a table. He picked each one up, inspecting it for damage before slotting it into the ports of his armor. Already exhausted from his injuries, he made a mental note to quell his habit of always removing his equipment. As he did so, he came across Revealer. Smiling to himself, he removed the data chip containing the AI and slotted it into the back of his helmet. He shivered slightly as a coppery feeling creeped through his body. His neural implants synced with Revealer's main system, granting him its processing power for the time being.

As he synced Revealer and his comms to the battle net, the communicator shuddered to life.

"Multiple N1s confirmed. A total of 70 have appeared in the C-3 area.

If he was to help turn the tides, he needed a good vantage point. Searching through the blueprints of the base, he selected a structure and began making his way towards it.


"Pick a target and eliminate it." as much as their leader Su-Na had ordered them to do so, there were simply too many enemies for them to handle. As soon as Cassie Lockheart's group had moved in to relieve the other platoon of the damage they sustained had the Nova begun releasing several humanoid nova clones. As one of the top ranks, Cassie was ready to fight despite an earlier scuffle resulting to the loss of one of her arms- which she would regrow at the medbay later.

As she dodged one attack, another would come rushing in from a different direction. She moved left, right, up and down, all the while dealing blows to the numerous enemies. As she destroyed the core of one, it grabbed her leg and weapon with it's "dying breath", leaving Cassie open to another clone's attack.

'Shit!' she thought as she steeled herself from the incoming attack-yet only the cold mass of it's dead body hit her. Cassie looked and saw that it was not her teammates who saved her, they were too busy. She freed herself in time to dodge another's attack, only to witness it stop and slink to the floor. A smoking hole at it's head showed evidence of a long range fighter. Before she could locate the shooter, a voice patched through...


"This is assault limiter Thomas Shubaltz of West Genetics. I'm providing support fire from the tower in block D3."

Thomas opened a channel after downing two of the clones. He fired again, killing a third. He smiled, who would have thought this weapon would work?

/1 week earlier/

"So you're asking me to make more bullets for your cannon?" asked Rika.

"yes, if another Nova were to attack, I think it can allow regular humans to fight alongside pandoras in the battlefield."

Rika inspected one of the two remaining rail cannon rounds, each laid on a reinforced table due to weight.

"I guess I could replicate it but I'd need some time. And by the way, are you sure you want me to be doing this?"

"yes, I trust you more than a lot of people here. Personally I think they're planning something behind my back."

Rika laughed slightly. "Perhaps, but I think it's that you're... different."

"In what sense?"

"Well, let's see... it's because you fell from the sky and almost single-handedly defeated a Nova with a weapon no one has ever seen before. Most people would think twice before trusting someone with that kind of strength."

"I see... So, what kind of person are you?" asked Thomas

"Hm... between fear and trust, definitely on the latter." she replied.

"Why so?"

"I'll leave that up to your imagination. Said Rika teasingly. "Anyway I'll see what I can do. I don't have anything to offer in exchange for letting me see this but... how are you going to fight if I can't make it in time?" she asked

"I have other equipment I can probably use."replied Thomas, pointing to the bag beside him. "Do you have a place I can test them out?"

"Even better. We have a training simulator. It's in the west wing. You can test them out against dummy Novas under any environmental situation. "

"I see, thanks a lot Rika." said Thomas as he left the room with the bag of weapons.


/present time/

Thomas fired again and again until the carbine was empty. Grabbing a plasma battery, he refilled the weapon's charge and resumed firing once more. The clones continued to fall down under the combined wrath of the plasma bolts from above and the hack and slash method of the pandoras below. However, the clones continued to grow in numbers, leaving the already few pandoras hopelessly outnumbered.

/On another front/

Katelyn dodged another tendril. She and her squad were facing off with the third Nova -to which the pandoras' side was losing. Although their death toll was not so high yet, the pandoras were getting tired and the Nova was not letting up on it's attacks.

*Bam!

the wall behind her was obliterated as the Nova aimed at her life again. This was the routine of the group and with increasing difficulty, they charged at the nova once more.

The Nova fired it's beam, silencing a few people and injuring several others before suddenly releasing it's own batch of humanoid Novas.

"You have got to be kidding me!" she shouted as the chances of winning continued to dwindle...


Chapter 14... CHECK!

Well, heres the next chapter, hope you guys enjoyed.

not much to say except, have fun, review if you want to

Dudewithanm4a1: thanks- as to how far i'm taking it- i can't/ won't say :P but I will go farther than the 12th clash arc for sure.

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