Destiny of the Earthmates
"The Child Awakens"
"Alright guys.." one of the Dragoon Leaders told the Marines they were assisting, "Patch yourselves up.. We still have a long battle ahead." he said as his force passed out supplies,
"Thanks..." the Mu Marine Leader said, "ha..." he sighed, "We lost three men to those... things." he grumbled, "Including our communications wizard."
"Hey, don't worry." Mu Dragoon Leader reassured, "We're the most elite fighters in the world! We'll take whatever that is out!"
"I hope so.." one of the Mu Marines muttered as he placed a bandage on his leg, "The deeper we go... The darker it gets..."
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"Wait here..." Kyle told his other Earthmate comrades, "I'll call my friends.." he smiled, then his eyes started to glow.
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In a deep, dark labyrinthine layer inside the fortress, there were rows of iron doors with barred windows on them.
Instantly, a blue wave traveled in their midst, causing many things to howl and scream.
The things started to pound on the doors, and one by one, they each came out, revealing hideous deformed Pseudos with iron claws for hands. After one last bellow, all ran off into the shadows.
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"Shh..." Kappa Marine Leader said, the Kappa team was the one that had penetrated the deepest into the compound,
"Do you hear that?" one of the Kappa marines asked, "You think that's the backup the Commander told us about?"
"I don't know..." another marine mumbled, "But I don't trust anything anymore..." he said and aimed his crossbow,
"My torch is running out, guys." the third marine mumbled, "Do any of y'all have oil? If not, we're going to get stuck in the dark!"
"There's none left..." Kappa Wizard said as he looked in his pack, "May- What was that?!" he shot up in alert as he heard a terrible scraping noise nearby.
"We need that light, Solois!" Kappa leader told the marine with the torch, "Keep it on!"
"What in the gods?" the second marine said as he walked off, seeing a red trickling liquid on the floor, "What?" he looked at the mangled corpse of a Pseudo,
"RAH!" a bloodcurdling scream resonated through the dark,
"WHAT?!" that second marine yelled as he was suddenly dragged, "AAAAAAHHHHH!"
"Ronic!" Kappa Leader said as his comrade was snatched up and taken into the darkness,
"NOOOOOO!" Ronic screamed,
"RAHH!" that same scream sounded once more,
"AHHHHH!" Ronic continued until his screams died down.
"What is going on!?" Solois said in fear as he desperately tried to keep the torch alight,
"I don't know... But I don't like it." the first Kappa marine gulped hard, "Whatever took Solois is coming for our asses to- AH!" he suddenly was grabbed, a metal hand appeared on his chest.
"RAH!"
"AAHHH!" the first Kappa marine was suddenly yanked and taken into the pitch blackness surrounding the squad,
"NO!" Kappa Leader yelled and fired blindly into the shadows, hoping to hit whatever was taking out his men,
"Commander, this is Kappa Squadron! Report!" the wizard started speaking into the crystal ball, "We have something in the shadows! We just lost two men! Help! Send Help! Where is our reinfo- YAH!" he was suddenly dragged as well,
"Shit!" Solois yelled, "We're next!" he prepared for the worst as he saw the torch starting to die down,
"Well..." Kappa Leader told Solois, "It's been a pleasure working with you, Lt. Solois."
"Me too, Captain." Solois saluted the man, "I guess this is goodbye?" he said as the torch's light became dimmer and dimmer, the screams of the Iron Claws increasing in intensity around them.
"Yep..." Kappa Leader responded, then took a deep breath, ready to accept his fate,
"One last song, captain?" Solois asked,
"Alright.." Kappa Leader smiled, "Oh... When we come home from the battle..." he started to sing,
"She'll be waiting from the door..." Solois added,
"Then my pretty lady will love me forever more!" the two sung in unison and the torch went off,
"RAHH!" the Iron claws screeched and quickly went to seek their targets.
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"So... You're almost ready, child." Gilbert chuckled, "That's great!"
However, the Child's tube fluids started to bubble and shake, unbeknownst to the monarch, who was thinking about his victory.
"Hahahaha!" King Gilbert laughed, "I am going to rule the world with you! Then I will show that magic will always defeat science! Huh!?" he saw the large amount of runic activity emanating from the Child.
A huge shockwave fired from the Child,
"ARGH!" Gilbert screamed in pain as a surge of runic forces flowed through him.
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"AH!" the Pseudos started to scream in agony as their runic forces were pushed beyond their limits, even the Iron Claws, already insane, felt the effects of this wave.
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"Dammit!" Aden screamed as he also fell on his knees, his muscles twitching and his eyes turning a fierce blue color unlike anything seen.
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"What is going on!?" Gilbert yelled as he could no longer possess authority over the Pseudos or Earthmates, "What are you doing!?" he told the Child.
"I want to show you my true power..." the Child spoke telepathically, "Behold!"
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"I don't like the sound of that..." one of the Dragoon soldiers yelled as he heard a huge roar of footsteps, the Pseudos were charging madly into the lines of the elite forces.
"What are they doing?!" a Marine leader yelled, "Shit! Fire!" he ordered his men, who obeyed without hesitation.
The Pseudos, like wild beasts, continued charging despite the deadly volley of arrows and bullets coming towards them.
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"What are you doing!?" Gilbert yelled in horror as all his Pseudos were being systematically butchered by the Child,
"I hate you!" the Child screamed and sent a pulse of runic power into the monarch's head,
"GAHGAH!" Gilbert screamed and fell to the ground, spazzing and salivating like a possessed person.
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"Are these things insane of what?" Zeta Marine Leader said as the Pseudos blindly charged, falling left and right,
"Something must have come over them." Zeta Dragoon Leader answered, "From what I've heard from your marines, these things were cunning, effective killers."
"They were, alright." Marine Leader mumbled, "But what is going on? Maybe we can advance in such confusion..."
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"Hey..." the Omicron marine mumbled as he was set down, "What?" he looked up weakly,
"It's ok..." the Pseudo elf woman said, "You're alright..."
"Where are we?" the marine asked, seeing he was in a room,
"In Daybreak Inn.." the Pseudo responded, "From here we can start our new life together."
"What?" the Omicron marine sat up,
"It's alright..." the Pseudo reassured him, "You haven't been out of it for long... It took me 45 minutes to get here..."
"Is there a reason why I lack armor?" the marine asked, seeing he was only in his underbritches,
"You'll see in nine months..." the elf whispered in his ear..
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"We're really deep into the compound, sir!" the Epsilon Squad Leader alerted, "We haven't made contact with Kappa Squadron!"
"Sir! You have to take a look at this..." an Epsilon Marine called him, pointing to a pair of corpses,
"Dear gods..." the Leader nearly threw up at the sight of the bodies, "What monster did this?"
"Whatever it was, it cut them up pretty good!" the wizard grumbled, "But we must continue, we're really close to the complex!"
"Damn..." Epsilon Leader grumbled, "Kappa... Why?" he muttered as he saw the armor on the carcasses,
"Be careful, Epsilon Squad." the Great Marine Leader said through the crystal ball, "We lost Kappa Squadron to the creatures in the shadows... Stay away from the dark, if you can."
"We're only one man down and have three jars of oil left." Epsilon Leader said, "We can pull through quite nicely. We'll save the King and have everyone back in time for tea and hardtacks!" he joked and signed off.
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"Let's go!" Epsilon Leader said as they reached the doors of the Main Complex, the room in which the child resided,
"Setting bomb!" an Epsilon marine said as he placed a charge, "everyone stand back!" he lit it, then dashed for cover,
KABBBOOOOM! The doors gave way,
"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" Epsilon Leader ordered as his men entered the complex,
"What the hell?" One of the marines said as he saw the Transcendalizer and the Child's capsule,
"The hell has been going on here?" 2nd Epsilon Marine asked as he looked around,
"Is that, a kid?" 3rd Epsilon Marine asked as he walked up to the large capsule,
"Found the king!" 4th Epsilon Marine alerted as he spotted the body of the unconscious monarch,
"King has been secured!" the wizard alerted through the crystal ball, "King has been- Huh?" he said as he saw that his ball was filled with a great magic fluctuation.
"What's going on?" Epsilon Leader asked the wizard,
"I can't seem to patch through..." the wizard responded, "There's something messing with the communications line..."
"Bad men go away..." a quiet voice said,
"Huh?" 2nd Epsilon Marine looked up, "Who said that?"
"Go away, bad men!" the voice continued, this time it was louder,
"Who is saying that?" Epsilon leader looked around to find the source of the voice,
"BAD MEN WILL DIE!" the voice screeched, and the liquid of the capsule bubbled, and after a few moments, the Child started to glow.
"What is going on!?" 4th Marine asked as the room started to shake.
From the Child, a black beam shot out and stopped on the ground in front of the capsule, then it started making a figure,
"What?"
The figure grew more and more from dark matter until it made the shape of a young boy, about the age of 7. He was naked but had no genitalia, just like the Child himself,
"Um... Lad?" the 2nd Marine slowly walked up to him, "You alright?"
"You're a bad man..." the child whispered, "I hate you..."
"Um..." the marine started to back away slowly,
"I HATE YOU!" the child screamed, and with lightning fast speed jumped on the marine and slashed him with huge claws,
"RAH!" the marine screamed as he was horribly slashed and cut in a matter of seconds,
"DWAH!" the 3rd Marine was also pounced on and finished quickly,
"AUGH!"
"AHHHHHHH!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"NOOOOOOO!"
The rest of the elite soldiers screamed as they were brutally massacred by the child's projection, swiftly torn to pieces...
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"We've been paid good money for this." an unknown soldier told his own forces, "Norad wants us to get in there and destroy all evidence to cover the crown up."
The forces, wearing black and red armor, stormed inside through the western entrance.