To Former Glory
Marsile stared proudly at Gamma. He willingly volunteered himself to test his new Big Daddy armor. The process to remove the grafted diver suit was undoubtedly excruciating. Now thought Gamma was now Hashmal of the new Esper series (this series will be based of Final Fantasy 12 espers and please know that I'm bad at explaining this so I'll put in a link to a website that shows the body of the new line). Hashmal was equipped with some serious earth plasmids. Giving him the ability to unleash devastating earth attacks and, if his daughter is in serious trouble, and ultimate plasmid attack named Gaia's Wrath.
" I think this will do perfectly for us, but what will you do for the others that can't be in the top thirteen?"
"Hm? Oh! With the way imam have this set up is that the thirteen will be like military leaders as I intend to break Rapture into thirteen parts. All weaker Big Daddies under you will have lesser versions of yourself."
Hashmal simply nodded before looking at his daughter. Little Alice was looking at her daddy with awe and squealed for the first time. Hashmal chuckled before leaning down and allowing his little girl on his shoulder. Hashmal looked at Marsile and made the "follow me" sign with his head.
Now Marsile sighed and followed the Esper to the meeting chamber. Almost immediately signs of speech quieted at the sight of Hashmal.
"My Brethren I appeal to you all please bring forth who you all believe are the top twelve most experienced of us." The Big Daddies who survived the longest stepped forward. "Now my brothers I know I need not ask this but Marsile here will not do what he has done to me without permission; do you all want to be upgraded to better protect your daughter?"
"Of course!"
"Follow me then you twelve you're in for a world of pain."
"Alright all you others, I assume you want to upgrade too?" Nods. "Very well then follow my clones here."
Later that day Marsile stood in front of the entire Esper series. The thirteen espers themselves stood in front of various other types of creatures under their jurisdiction. Marsile then began assigning areas.
"Belias you have area one, Mateus you have area two, Famfrit you have area three, Hashmal you're here in area four, Adrammelech you have area five, Zalera you have area six, Zeromus you have area seven, Exodus you have area eight, Ultima you have area nine, Cuchulainn you have area ten, Zodiark you have area eleven, Shemhazai you have area twelve, and Chaos you have area thirteen. I've taken the liberty of giving all of you former Big Daddies a small connection plasmid that will send out a small signal in the case of emergency."
Marsile sighed before watching the Guardians shamble out. He drearily assigned them sweepers and appliers before crashing. Hashmal chuckled and placed Marsile on his other shoulder before walking back to their room.
Yes this chapter is short even by my standards but I'm sleepy. Also please note that while the forms they take aren't human you can morph them human like in your mind and just think of their still odd appearance a mutation kinda like how a splicer is but in a good way bye