Chapter 3: Expositions, expositions and more expositions!

"Ahem. The beginning of my story was when I was 6 years old. I have been enamored by science at this time that I started to do my own inventions. I am apparently a tech genius as I made several of the gadgets that the government use. Like the encrypted frequency the CIA is using to this day. By the way, I sold my products in the black market. Did you know that the all the banks in the world were the mediators for the black market legally? They only show this feature to their VVIPs. Those people are the major stockholders. Isn't it funny that a legal company is holding illegal activities while also making them legal? How I got that privilege is a whole clusterfuck I won't ever mention to anyone. Apparently, they take anything for a price. Mine was they can never know who I am. But that is detrimental for business so I need an alias. But the ones I want were out like Mr. Black, Phantom, Angel of Death, Wick, and Chuck Norris. So I settled for an original. Henceforth, I was known in the underground as Larfouxe."

"WHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTT?!" Henry, Dante, Mathilda and Evangeline exclaimed their surprise at that. Damn that was loud! I picked my ear as they stammer.

Evangeline pointed a shaky finger to me while the three were slack jawed. The rest were confused. Vivian was the one to voice this. I turned to answer but Dante beat me to it.

"You see, a decade ago, there was this mysterious terrorist group who call themselves as Khaos Brigade. Their objective was to cause chaos and destruction. To be precise they want anarchy. They have the most unconventional weaponry known to the military minds at that time. Lasers, plasma bombs and energy shields were their main weapons. No one can stand up to them. It was later found that these weapons came from an ancient civilization."

"Yeah. When I was asked by Obama to analyze the weapons, it was dated back in the 100,000 BC. Those designs were correlated to Atlantian design."

More jaw drops but I knew the elders already knew I was involved. Dante continued.

"Yes, he is right. Now, back then they were unstoppable. I was in the Special Ops back then and Henry was at the SAF. So we were sent by the Philippine government to help the Marines and SAS in the assault. Of course every country had their own representatives. They were found holed up in Greenland which was a good thing because there will be few civilian casualties if ever. But we were informed that the assault will not happen yet. We were to be trained in a new weapon design that will counter the current armament of the group."

I can see Dante recall being with Henry in those insane obstacle courses.

"The designer was crazy but he is good. The tactics we can employ with this in a normal battlefield will give us a huge advantage. What he made was a tactical body armor. And when I said armor, it was a full metal worn armor just like iron man. But the designer watched too many Starship Troopers and made it looked almost exactly like that. The difference was that the back was bigger. That genius asshole made the armor powered with plasma. The armor can function in a week to a month. The function of the armor is to enhance all our movement and overall physical capabilities. A plasma rifle was also attached to the suit. It was the biggest boon and when we raided the Enemy stronghold, we won with no casualties."

"Yeah, though they tried to dissect my work. Well it did not end well for that person. I bet he still feel the tingle every now and then."

I have a smug face by then. Nobody tamper or touch the inner workings of my babies. Dante had his eye twitching at that. He told me later that Jonathan had developed a nystagmus due to that shock. I cleared my throat and gulped down a glass of cool water that I got while Dante was storytelling.

"So continuing on. I was obsessed. I got money on my inventions and I renovated my lab bit by bit. It was a pain in the ass but in the end, I did it. So throughout the years I had been making all of the tech you can see here. The one your left is a railgun. Though it is unfinished. The power output is going tsundere on me. Further to the left is my new creation. It is not a weapon but a field med kit. Inside the kit is a set of syringes that contains a personal made concoction. It can heal any superficial injury in a moment's notice but you still need blood transfusion if you lose a lot of blood. And finally the one to your right is the invention I told you earlier."

They all turned to the invention. They reeled at what they saw. They saw an almost human looking robot. It is an androgynous one. It looked like a girl at 10 years old with that long silvery blue hair. Everyone looked at me with unbridled disgust. I tilted my head in confusion.

After a few seconds, I got it.

"No don't look at me like that! I am not a pedophile! Fuck you people! I don't do that! Look at it! It has no gender!" I frantically tried to save my masculinity. But God had qualms with me that He struck on that day.

"Muuuuuunnnyyyaaaaa~~~"

The android let out a cute yawn. As it rubbed its eyes, it turned to me.

"Mornin' Onii-chan…"

The silence was palpable. They all looked at me with accusing eyes. They all spoke with a dead tone.

"Pedophile."

A single word crushed me like pest. I felt my life faded away. Farewell integrity. Apparently you are not here anymore. I can feel myself turn to stone and crumbled slowly to dust.

As I was wasting away, the girls were excited and asked her name. It gave a squeak and mumbled its name as it curled up in defense which only made it cuter than ever.

"Moka."

The girls let out a squeal at the cute expression. The men tried their hardest not to. I let out a chuckle. At least, I can now test it in its interaction.

Yurille tapped me on the shoulder. I can see her curiosity regarding Moka. I smiled as I addressed everyone.

"Moka is the greatest achievement I have. Currently, it identifies as a female child. It would be rude to call her an it actually. She is made from cutting edge technology. Her skin is actually biological and her nervous system is well constructed to be almost the same as the human one. She can actually feel what she can touch. Her insides though are not biological. It is purely mechanical where the power core actually is. Her Skeletal frame is made to be like the human one but I made adjustments to compensate for the areas where the tendons should be. So what I did was make carbon threads. This threads are the woven intricately to emulate muscle fibers and enhance muscle strength. She can crush diamond by the way. Also her skin was made to be bullet proof. My inspiration for this one was Gantz. I remembered their black body suits and the liquid they use to enhance their strength. So I made her skin soft almost like jelly but more firm to lessen the impact. She is invulnerable to lasers as I built in a shield generator inside her. The energy she uses is connected biomass inside her body. The bioelectric energy she creates via movement is multiplied by a thousand due to chemical injected to her 'bloodstream'. The substitute for blood is a chemical reagent which lubricates the joints and at the same time 'washes off' the rust inside."

The listeners were gob smacked. All that jargon was hard to understand in layman's term but I was not finished.

"But that is not what my greatest moment. The most important part is her mind. I made her brain with wirings to make an exact copy of a brain. I then made separate chips to make the different functions of the brain. It worked out just fine even though I had doubts at first. They all replicated the real function of a brain so I was satisfied. But the challenge presented to me was to bring it to life. Initially, it just breath, speak and move. But it was so lifeless. Even with all the programs I inputted, they were ineffective. So I tried to make a virtual consciousness. I tried to make that to no avail. One day, I was so fed up that while fiddling with my computer, I inserted a character into the consciousness. It was just last month actually. I played this interesting galge. They have character files and the codes inside it so I combined it. The result was fantastic. When I was finished I was now talking to a confused AI. It had the personality of the game character so I was really doing it with trepidation. She was really scary in the game."

I shivered at that. I have done questionable things in my life but she vamped up the meter to disturbing to a whole new level. Shiro pouted at the last remark I made.

"Mou, Onii-chan. You are so mean to say that."

I deadpanned at her. How dare this little bint tell that to my face?

"Should I remind you of all the fucked up shit you did? Even programmed to do that, it was still you. How about the Third Eye huh?"

I pointed to her. Holy hell, those cannot be unseen by anyone who played that shit. She had the decency to look sheepish at that. Nobody got our conversation and I planned It to stay that way. No need to burn the remaining sanity they have. I never knew what was up in that game even when I finished it. Thank God for Reddit!

"But why do we even need to move if we have this lab? And what the hell? You are filthy rich!" Carlo called me out. I can see most of them nod in agreement. I sighed at this.

"It is not a logical choice. We need to move while everything is still fresh. If we make this drag out while we don't reach a good spot, everything will overwhelm us. There is statistically a lot of survivors right now. I can project 73% still alive right now. This country is a bedlam of crime that anyone who charges a person in public is shot immediately. The world also right now lived watching zombie movies. They know what to do. Also the fortune I get from inventions are only used in my inventions. I try to live an honest life you know?"

Carlo bowed his head in shame. I knew that all this exposition is taking a toll on them and I don't hold this against him and anyone else.

"Then where is our destination?" This time it was Henry that asked the question. He looked so serious right now. I know that they don't really trust me right now. I kept a huge secret from what is practically my real family.

"We need to go north. The Islands of Batanes is perfect for a stronghold. No beaches and it has steep cliffs. They have a good water source too due to the frequent storms. I have a base there. Its stocked with weapons and food. In any case that you all need extraction you can make a distress signal that only I can track."

Mathilda and Dante noticed my words and they were noticeably alarmed.

"But what about you? It looks like you are going somewhere else."

I was really sad at this. I knew this incident had more to it. The experiment the Japanese government is making is very similar to what North Korea tried to do along with Russia. If what I suspected was true, then the world needs my help.

"I have a mission to take. I am sorry. I will ensure you all are safe. We can take anyone with us. But only you guys can enter my base."

They looked sad. I really want to be with them but what I was going to do was so dangerous. I don't want to endanger them so I steeled my resolve.

"It has been a long day. Take the night here and we will all set off tomorrow."

With a hesitant agreement, they found their comfortable places around my lab as I handed out pillows and blankets for their use.

For now, what we need to do is to survive. To live another day. My mind was already whirling with all the information the agent had told us. If she was right, how did the info stay hidden all this time? I knew the connections I had were few but they were the most reliable I can think off. Variables started to show their ugly faces as I continued my mental calculations. This was not a mere accident. This was a controlled action. Someone out there is handling the information quite well and expertly manipulating it so that when time comes, it will all be too late.

I sucked in a breath at a horrible realization. There will be no cure. There is no escape. Only when these abominations are totally annihilated, that this madness will end.

My eyes took a dangerous manic gleam to it. They intend to take this world? Well not on my watch! I have much more to do and to discover! Earth is the greatest specimen and no one will deprive me of my research!

I went to stand in front of Moka. Her striking green eyes burrowed into mine. All she saw was a steely glint.

"Initiate Project Libitina. Priority set to 9."

"Confirmed. Priority set to urgent."

"Recall from 17.7500 degrees north, 142.5000 degrees east, depth 11,000 kilometers. Retrieve Power Matrix Jormungandr and Power Core Fenrir. Activate Angelus Exile. Set Hel Purge to maximum. Primary target: 25 degrees north, 71 degrees west, Secondary target: 51.1789 degrees north, 1.8262 west. Passcode: Ragnarok. Confirm instructions."

"Instructions confirmed. Any further instructions, Master?"

I was already walking away as I finished but I paused. The words spoken were soft and almost unheard.

"Immolate them down to their wretched souls."

AN:

Now I think you guys will have questions on how this escalated so quickly. The story is going to be a very huge multiverse related one. That much I can say and I have previous works (not yet uploaded) that are solely made to correlate with my story. I have a very big base to work on so the escalation might be quicker than you expected. But this chapter is already planned out. So if you will call me out on something, then do so. But honestly, if it doesn't really make much of anything I won't even notice it. Make sure you tell me constructive criticism. I want to learn where did I go wrong so I can correct any mistakes.