Alpha and Omega - Jackal's Story
Chapter 3
In collaboration with Subzero Dragon. Visit their profile to see the other side of this story. Important events that aren't mentioned here take part in the other side of the story.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I am Alisa Ilinichina Amiella, Acting Captain of the Far East's 1st Unit. We have orders to bring you to the Far East Branch." A voice, identifying themselves to be a person called Alisa speaks up. It takes me slightly by surprise. After all, I was expecting to see Robin. I turn towards them and notice that the person who spoke to me is accompanied by three other people. Turning to the girl, I decide to speak up and give the best smile I can muster, although I doubt that it was a good one as I was mildly depressed that the footsteps I heard belonged to these guys and not Robin,
"Phew, are you a sight for sore eyes. I thought I was going to have to do this alone..." I take the time to look each one over.
The girl I deduce to be Alisa, since she was expecting a response, has unkempt grey hair and wears a beret as well as a black jacket with the zipper being only half way closed, and a red checkered skirt. I notice that she wears black fingerless gloves with the left one extending to her elbow, and black thigh length boots to complete a rather revealing outfit. As for her God Arc, it looks as though she uses a long blade and an assault gun. I deduce that she is a new type God Eater.
The second girl, whose name is unknown to me since she hasn't introduced herself yet, has pink hair and wears a black sleeveless shirt under a green dress which has two pockets. She also wears black fingerless gloves and black leggings and black boots complete her ensemble. She appears to be more appropriately dressed than the previous girl. This girl carries a blast gun and no blades. An old type?
I turn my attention to one of the two males. This male has unkempt orange hair with one lock of hair falling between his eyes. He appears to be a bright individual as accentuated by his bright clothing which consists of a yellow and orange striped cloth cap with earmuffs as well as a scarf with brown and beige stripes. Additionally, he sports a sleeveless yellow cardigan that is open to the chest and under that is a black shirt with a cobweb pattern. To complete his apparel, he wears orange shorts with black vertical stripes along with matching shoes that reach below the ankle. He appears to carry an assault gun with him. Another old type?
Standing besides the previous boy and currently moving closer to me is a dark-skinned man with platinum blond hair although most of it is covered with his dark blue hoodie. Underneath that, he wears a half tucked yellow shirt and a black tie. To complete his ensemble he wears blue boots and black pants with some sort of chain around them. I notice that he carries a buster blade and I can't see a gun of any sorts so I deduce that he is an old type.
"My name's Jackal." I continued before looking over my shoulder and then back at Alisa, "Hey, you didn't see a girl in a blue uniform with a blue implant running by, did you?" I ask with the hope that they had already seen Robin. The girl's confused look worries me.
"No, we haven't seen anyone like that here." Alisa replies which confirms the look on her face. I begin to feel dejected. I'm not sure if my facial features mimicked this but the boy with the bright clothes speaks up,
"Is she your friend? We can help you look, right Alisa?" His words give me some form of happiness but being reminded that she is with the invulnerable snake Aragami worries me.
"Of course we can. We'll all help you. Where-" Alisa begins but I interrupt her, hearing that they were willing to help brought me back to the situation at hand,
"We have to hurry." I look over my shoulder, back towards the alleyways, "We were being chased by a giant Aragami." I say in a slight bit of panic. My words seemed to have caught the attention of the hoodie-wearing male and he walks closer to me,
"Giant Aragami?" He repeats.
"Sorry but I don't have time to chat," I turn my body back around to get ready to run back into the alleyways, "I have to find Robin! She's in trouble!" I get ready to run back, hoping that they would follow me but a hand to my shoulder halts me from doing so.
"Hey, where do you think you're going?" I realise this person is the wearer of the blue hoodie and his grip tightens to make sure I can't move, "There's a strange Aragami on the loose here. It's rumoured to be-"
"Invulnerable? Yeah, don't I know it! We got separated running away from it just now..." I interrupt him, feeling a bit dejected at the thought of the Aragami being impregnable. I feel his hand leave my shoulder but he doesn't move away. I turn back towards them.
"Invulnerable?... You don't think?" The pink haired girl says her first words and I see Alisa nod her head in response.
"We'll help you of course. Where did you last see her?" She nodded towards me and I felt a bit happy although the reason why must have been from them confirming their willingness to help despite going after an impregnable Aragami.
"We got separated somewhere in these alleys. C'mon, help me look. She's all alone against that damn electric snake." I gave a gesture with my hand as if to say follow me. That's when we heard a rather loud hiss and my fear shot to heights I didn't think I had and so I ran towards it, hearing the sound of the others behind me.
We don't even reach the alleyway before I feel a firm hand on my shoulder that is exerting enough force behind it to make me stop. As I stop, so do the other God Eaters and I turn to look to the one who stopped me.
"Yeah?" I speak up in a confused manner.
"I don't want to burst your bubble but think about this for a moment; none of us are equipped to handle this beast. There's no point in pursuing it since we'll all get ourselves killed." He speaks matter of factly while looking at me in particular.
"Are you telling me to abandon my friend?!" I look at him incredulously and feel myself tightening my hand into a fist.
"Soma?! What the hell?!" The bright coloured boy speaks up, identifying the hoodie-wearing person as Soma.
"Yeah Soma. I didn't think you were like that." The pink haired girl agrees with the bright coloured boy and me.
"I didn't say that." I sounded either angry or annoyed, either way I didn't like what he was suggesting. "If we all go after this monster like this then we'll all be killed. We have no a plan, we may as well say our goodbyes now." He states and while I admit that he is right, it doesn't mean that I have to agree. I slap his hand off of my shoulder.
"What?! My friend could be about to die! You don't think-"
"He's right." The calm voice of Alisa made me stumble for words.
"Didn't you just say that you'd all help?!" I repeat what Alisa had said not even five minutes ago.
"I did but I didn't think about this." She says before mumbling, "I'm a pretty bad leader..." I heard this and immediately thought that she had her own issues but that didn't deter me from the task at hand.
"Listen. Whether you like it or not I'm going to help my friend." I turn back towards the alleyways before the same guy's hand latches onto my shoulder again.
"That's it..." I clench my hand into a fist and go to punch him. As if anticipating this, he merely leans back and because of the momentum, I find myself tripping over Soma's outstretched leg and flat onto my face.
"Ow."
"With injuries such as those I don't think you'll be going anywhere." As if to prove his point he grips onto my gastrocnemious and squeezes.
"Ow!" I swing my body around and force him to let go.
"Man, I didn't know you were that injured." Kota sounds dejected and, although I'm glad he cares, I don't need his pity. I climb back up to my feet and shake my leg.
"Either way, I don't want my friend to die out there." I turn around again, hearing a tsk stubborn brat as I do so. "I'll be go-"
"You can't go out there when you are injured!" Alisa shouts and I turn back around to face them with an angry expression as if to say stop holding me up.
"I hate to say it but I have to agree." Kota swaps to Alisa's side. Thankfully, I still have one person on my side.
"Wait! I can heal his injuries!" The pink haired girl speaks up and I'm happy for the news that she could help to fix me up.
"Are you sure?" Soma asks her.
"Hey, I'm a medic. I'm all about the field support and... Medicine and bandages and stuff!" She says with such a warm smile that my heart almost melted at how willing she is to help me in every way to find my friend.
"That seems... Reasonable." Alisa says with a hand to her chin in a thinking position.
"Great." I find myself smiling and the pink haired girl walks over to me.
"Just sit down and we'll be finished in no time."
"We still need a plan." Soma speaks up, reminding me that he was still against the idea.
She finishes healing me up only 5 minutes later. I'm not sure what she was using but it really was some fast acting stuff.
"Hey, thanks!" I say before picking myself up from the ground. The girl stands back up from her kneeling spot.
"It's no problem. I am a medic, after all." She smiles at me and I can't help but to smile back. Smiles really are infectious.
"You know, I don't think I got your name." I tell her with my smile being removed as I think this.
"It's Kanon. Kanon Daiba of the Defence Unit." She smiles as she introduces herself.
"And what about the others? Are they part of the Defence Unit?" I ask her as I turn my head towards where the other three have congregated.
"Them? Oh no. They're a part of the 1st Unit. You already know Alisa, the other two are Soma and Kota." She confirms their identities but it confuses me that a member of the Defence Unit isn't with their unit.
"So why aren't you with your unit?" I voice my confusion.
"Oh, right. Well, the 1st Unit consists of 6 members but three of them are away on official business. These guys needed one more person for this mission and Alisa asked me. It was pretty lucky that she did otherwise I couldn't have healed your injuries." She tells me, still with a large smile on her face.
"That makes sense. Tell me, Alisa said that she was Acting Captain so is the actual Captain one of the people away on business?" I ask and she just gives the simple, positive answer of yes. Having decided that we were finished talking, we walking over to where the other three were.
"So... Are we heading out now?"
"Soon. Just let us run over a few details." He said and I took notice of markings on the ground.
"Making a plan?" I ask with a smile, glad to see that they were creating a plan since I was stubborn enough that I wouldn't leave with Robin. I wonder how she is holding up. I have a lot of confidence on her but against a beast such as that?
"Okay, here's what we'll do. If we take out the invulnerable Aragami first then we'll be able to find Jackal's friend a lot easier." Soma began. "So if we can find a large open space and set a few traps then we should be able to strike it up close."
"That won't work. My friend tried to use a piercing attack on its tail to unbind it but it had no effect. I tried to attack it with slashes which also didn't work." I speak what I know.
"How about gun fire? Did you try that?" Soma asks me and when I give a careful nod, he determines what happened from it.
"Dammit!" He grunts. "I hate to say it guys but it looks like we've got another Aragami like the Nova on our hands." I hear a few gasps and get confused from it. Clearly he was referencing something but what was it?
"But, we only just managed to defeat that thing. Don't say there's another one." Kanon complains.
"It sound like there is." Kota sighs dejectedly.
"So defeating it at the moment isn't an option but we can't abandon Robin!" I protest.
"Of course we won't. But if the monster is near Robin then one of us may have to distract it." Alisa speaks up.
"Either way, we're not gonna save her by sitting here all day. Let's get going." Soma speaks as he picks up his God Arc and walks towards the alleyways.
"You're finally speaking my language." I smile at his back before running ahead of him. His groan gives me the response that I wanted and soon enough they are all running behind me.
We ran through numerous streets but found nary a clue as to Robin's whereabouts or the beast's. We are just about to give up before we hear the sound of shattering glass nearby as well as a scream. We run in the direction we heard it from and soon come across a large building with many Aragami around it. We duck behind a wall to avoid being seen by one of the closer Zygotes.
"She's got to be in there." I speak up from behind the wall and feel ready to jump out from behind it.
"There are so many Aragami." Kanon speaks in awe at the number of Aragami that there is. From my brief view of it, I was able to estimate about 8 Zygotes, 2 Sariels and 2 Ogretails. I peak my head over the wall to see if I can find the snake-like monster. Another scream alerts me to the fact that all of th Aragami that had been roaming ooutside of the building have no migrated inside of it by smashing through the windows.
"We'll need to take out all of the Zygotes and Sariels first and then we can worry about the invulnerable Aragami." Soma speaks up.
"Guns at the ready!" Alisa shouts and I turn my God Arc into its gun form. I observe Alisa as she rests her God Arc on the wall and I copy her. It will be hard to hit the Aragami from here without sniper rifles but it will have to do. I look down the sight of my God Arc as it faces what was once an office window as told by the numerous deesks, chairs and wires that I could see from it. A Zygote enters my vision.
"Fire!"