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Decided to give the heros a break just like in the previous chapter. Now onward to the story.
Also how everyone meets wont be the same like how they met in the game and Anime if you have not noticed
Chapter 18
The scheming
The next Day
Pongo Village
3rd PoV
Eve was sitting on her throne surveying over her ruined kingdom. Its been 2 days since her awakening and nothing has happened. Ever since the King had re awaken her he had been busy most of day.
While Eve was monitoring, King Prime came up at large monitor. "Forgive me my queen for i have no leisurely time" Eve nods for him to continue. "It seems that we need a powerful energy source in order to re awaken and rebuild our race, but" Graphs and time dats begin to pop up around the screen.
"The source powerful enough was stolen by demons and the location has been lost." Eve gets up from her throne and looks at the window that gave a large view. Ruined buildings covered the place and was giving a dim blue light but it could have been brighter.
"There is an alternative however, but for that we need you my queen" Eve turned to him with a surprised look. "Well we need you and the princess but we also need another"...Eve widened her eyes slightly at the news but not too obvious to alert the King.
Even then faced the monitor and spoke "Who do we need." The king pulled up a photo of Q-proto. "Her but...she is quite dangerous. Due to her being an failed attempt, she has create codes that are quite monstrous." Eve put her hand to her chin. 'If we need this one and Apple then we can...' She looked up again.
"Have you found her whereabouts" King Prime shakes his head no. "She is still on Altera though shall i send seach?" Eve nods and the screen goes out. She then makes her way to a private room at the back of room.
Eve walked a large blue glowing hall until reaching the door with keypad lock. She entered the the code and the door opened with smoke.
When the smoked cleared the room was reveled to have a pod in the back of it with wires coming from everywhere connecting to it.
Eve walked to the pod and placed her hand on it. "Apple..." At the call of her name the girl opened her eyes and looked at Eve. "Sister..." She spoke in a somewhat weak voice. "Do not worry soon we will rebuild our race... and save you" Apple nodded before closing her eyes again to rest.
Altera field
Afternoon
Aisha's PoV
This sucks...why do we have go on a patrol who else could be here other than the nasods. Me, Elsword, and Rena are walking to the pongo's hideout they use in case of dangerous situations in the town.
Recently, there was some strange activity occurring in the vicinity and they wanted to check it out but they aren't the fighting types to do so. So now we have to go check it out and report of anything out of the ordinary.
"All this technology and we could get some kind of cart to like take us there or something" Elsword pits his hand on my shoulder. "If they did we wouldnt be doing this " He's got a point. Well let me study instead of being a bother.
I opened on of my lighting spell books and began reread the incantations for them. Lightning requires an explosion of energy to use it. It has the strongest raw power and accuracy but extremely hard to control. My affinity is lightning so this should yield no problems.
'Scream, Star striker' No too flamboyant, too flashy. Maybe i should improve my strengthen and fortify spell. They could be better. Maybe i could use the strengthen spellimprove magical and sage arts as one, instead of just physical strength for Els.
And fortify can help Rena with intake and outtake her nature force. And maybe...What the. Elsword stopped right in front of me. "Why did..." I was swept off my feet and found myself in Elsword's arms. Before i could say anything an explosion happened making him jump back again.
When the smoke cleared it revealed man with spiky black in a large brown cloak. Was he a magician? i dont see how else he managed to create such a blast. "You! tell me where the pongo village is" What the hell? who does he think he is barking at us like that?!.
Elsword must have felt the same way since he made a face that said he was gonna go serious. "Why should we tell you" He said setting me down. I feel a fight coming on.
"I need to find the whereabouts of them and you have to know since your the only humans i seen." He ruffles under his cloak. Is there something there? some kind if weapon maybe?
"So that gives you reason to attack us?" Rena says staying close to Elsword and her bow ready. The man looks at Rena and makes a shocked face. "Seris!" He began to run over to her but Elsword got in his way and she went behind Elsword.
"That's not her name." He says standing firm in front of the man. "Get away from her! you wont take her away from me again!" He then unsheathed and charged at Elsword.
Elsword pushed Rena back and caught the man's sword with his hands. Damn it i forgot Elsword doesn't have a weapon yet! Elsword kicks the man in his chest making him back off a abit.
I casted my strength spell for Elsword and he smiles back at me. Go get em Els!
Elsword's PoV
The man began another attack aiming for a upward slash. I leaned back the moment of the attack and went for a hook. He blocked it with his sword and went for a kick. I ducked under it punched him right in his gut.
"Gah!" He stumbled abit before attacking again. I dodged it but he nicked my cheek with his blade. "Seris! why do you side with this kid!" Dont you love me! This guy think he knows Rena its really starting to get to me.
He rushes with me with a barrage of sword strikes, cutting me in my arms and face. I backed off buy he pressed on with his attack. If i had a blade j could have ended this!
"If you need weapons to do your fights then your no fighter boy" That voice! 'So you want me to win with no weapon' I talked to the lion in my head and i could bet he's smiling right now.
"You don't need a weapon, focus on your energy and you will have the power. You have it already" The voice faded. The man then slashed my arm and kicked me away. He then jumped in the air going for a aerial thrust.
I rolled out the and kicked him in his face. Focus on my energy huh, while fighting? how. The man quickly recovered and went for a downward slash. The attack created a smokescreen with ruble flying.
He's strong, but i can win this. He's not at his best right now. He seems too unreasonable right now and based on his fighting i can tell he is a seasoned fighter. I have to win or i die and who knows what might happen to Rena...
No, i wont let anything happen to her. I looked at her she slightly jumped and made a worried face. No i wont let him take her!
Its time to attack! I charged right into the smoke and went for body shot. "Oof!" He stumbled back but wasn't done. I grabbed his cloak and and headbutt him and then kicked him away.
I then clasped my hands my hands and charged up my sage energy. "Dance and Sing, scorching lantern" i fire several small flames that left a small trail from my mouth. It homed in on the man and a large explosion came. Funny, i didn't even think i could that.
When did i learn this technique? was it when met with the lion? "Tch, so you know magic huh." I looked at the smoke that began to clear up before a large gust cleared it away.
The man swiped his arm...what the...
It was a black and silver armor plated arm with red lights. It had small spikes on its forearm and shoulder. He then points with his armed hand. "If i didn't have this, that fire would have killed me. I was planning on a knockout but..." He brandished his claw hand at me. " This is personal"
I got into a fighting stance and he did the same. I then looked up and saw someone looking down at us. It was...a girl?
When she saw me looking at her she then flew down in the middle of me and the man. I went to shield Aisha and Rena in case of any attacks. When the smoke cleared the girl was staring at me. "Who are you" I asked carefully.
"I...am Q- Proto-00"...what..Well it is obvious she isnt human. She has mechanized wings with floating nasods with a orb on her forehead. (Her clothes are her default appearance).
She then points to me. " You, shall fight with me. I, do not have data on such a fighting style." She turned fully to me and the two small nasods perked up and faced me.
The man on the other hand was not all settled. "I dont care what happens but Seris...why have you betrayed me...are you going to end up like Alex?" He faced Rena when he said and Rena gave a complicated look.
I stepped in front her "Look she dont know you so back off. Or do i need to make you again." I tighten my fist. "That was pure luck fool!" He charged at me with his armored hand but then was blown away by Q-proto. He was knocked out cold with just one hit..
"No, interruptions" She said lowering her hand. She faced me, staring at me. Her eyes...they feel so...empty almost abandoned.
3rd PoV
Q-Proto was about to charge at Elsword but stopped when he asked her a question. "why do you want to fight." She l
stood there making no movement. "I fight for data. I want your data, it is all i fight for" She simple said. Elsword began to walk toward her and she still did not move. When he was at arms length he stopped in front of her.
"Where did you come from" He said looking into her eyes. Her face slightly twitched as Elsword stared at her now. His gaze was piercing through her like a knife through butter. "I come from the all maker" She said finally.
"Do you have a place to return to?" This time Rena asked her and Q-proto shakes her head no. "maybe Adel and the others can find where she came from" Elsword takes her hand and begins to lead her with them.
"Where, are we going?" She asks "Back to the town to find out more about you" Elsword answered. "Why do you do this" Elsword looks back at her. "I wont just leave you here" She then looks over to where Raven had fallen.
"He's an exception." He says but then decided to take him with them. He really can't just leave him there
xXx
Pongo Village
Evening
After pondering the situation the team decided to take Q-Proto back to the Pongo village. The sun was setting when they reached the lift making the journey back a fairly simple one.
They arrived there and went to Amos and Adel. "Hmm I've never seen her before but..." Amos trails off. "It is obviously a nasod from a time before our own" Adel finished.
"And? think you find where she came from?" Elsword asked leaning on a wall with his arms crossed. "Nasods of her time are even more unknown than other ones. But what is truly confusing is why is it even here" Rena then looks at the both if them.
"Its not an it.." Rena says with a frown. Adel and Amos looked at each and then back to her. "A nasod has no gender miss" Adel says simply. "Well its not very polite to just call her an it in her face" Elsword joined in. He too didn't like how they referred to her.
"I see. Well about the other one..." They turned to the bed that Raven was resting on. "This was the leader of the Black Crows whose airship crashed." At this everyone but Q- proto was shocked.
"Yes his ship was known for being spotted around but then it suddenly went down one night." Elsword then got off the wall he was on and began to leave. "Im gonna go ask Agatha for a sword, see if she has one. Yall coming?"
Rena and Aisha nodded and took Q-proto hand again. "We shall see you guys later then" Adel and Amos nodded.
The four were walking in the neighborhood of the town. The town had a steampunk like appearance making it a bit hard to maneuver through with out running into a moving gear or pipes.
"So Q-proto rememeber anything about the past? Aisha asked walking next to Elsword. "I, do not." She said still staring at the back of Elsword. 'Why is it only me she wants to stare at...'' Elsword thought with a nervous expression.
Elsewhere
Nasod Dumpsite
Mid night
Eve's PoV
I am with my two generals, Ignis and Leviathan. They were chosen to protect me while i and few other of my kind uncover uland retrieve any kind of evidence of Q-proto- 00 existence in this vicinity.
So far... no progress. Only more and more old and scrapped subjects of my race but one thing bothers me. There were some of old age and wear but some others look to have no problems at all in them.
They seem to be in good condition but each of them seemed to have been missing an improtant piece in their interior. Some still had a core but others didn't. Something is destroying and taking their pieces. But who...
I was also picking up strange readings around here. "Seems something else is here my queen" Ignis tells me from my right side. "Go and scout it out. If it is danger, eliminate it." I say holding out ny hand. Ignis nods and flies away.
While watching the drillers, my king is calling. I answered him and a holographic screen comes out of the transmitter. "I hope your search goes well my Queen. Anything of value to report?" I shake my head.
"Ah i see. Well i would like to ask you to go and goto the plains located wast of your current location. Seems like a small battle took place and it may be a sign of her presence." He then signs out and i looked over to Leviathan who nods and flies away as well.
This is ridiculous. I am the Queen but i feel like something is amiss. My purpose is only for reviving our race at which i will achieve but...
While in my thoughts my sensors picked up on a attack homing in on me. I flew away just in time as a purple blast struck the place i was in. A person then came flying down in front of me.
He had on dark purple shirt long sleeve shirt that stopped at his forearms with armored gloves. He had 2 silver chain belts on with black pants with black and and purple boots.
"So...your the Queen." He had on a strange smile. Who is this..."I must say you looj rather enticing. The white dress makes you look almost human. Now if you would hand over those codes kekekekehahahahaha" He laughs a disgusting laugh.
I compose myself and stand firm. I wont let this person get to me. "If its code you seek then you will look elsewhere" My two trusted partners, Moby and Remy cam to my side. The man then came flying at me with his fist ready and his sinister smile.
He fired several blast at but i created a barrier by lifting my hand. The blast were strong but i can enforce the shield how many times i need to. He then punches the barrier breaking it with one punch. I backed away and flew into the skies.
"Photon Ray" Moby and Remy went on opposite sides of me and fired a white laser beam that came together to create bigger laser. He flew out of its way and flew to me. He then back away when blast were shot at him
The workers from before are shooting at him making him dodge each of them. c
"Tch interruptions" He then flies to them but i wont let him. "Photon flare" I used a blast of light to blind him making him crash down to the ground.
The guards wasted no time in pinning him down along with the others gathering around him in case he has an alternative.
I descend to he ground in front of him. He had a look of an emotion i know of. Annoyance. "Tch you and your little bugs wont hold me!" His body began to glow and purple static began to come off of him. I flew away and a large EMP field came from his body destroying all the nasods around him.
He got up and smiled again. "Now, where were we."
Graveyard of Purification
With Ignis
3rd Pov
Ignis flies down and meets with Muta, the supervisor of this area. King Prime fave him new orders after he left Queen Eve's Side. After waiting Muta came out with a device that squared shaped and had small orbs in it.
"Is it complete?" Ignis asked taking it from Muta. Muta nods before leaving to go back to his business. Ignis flies off and report to King Prime on his way.
With Leviathan
Leviathan was heading for the Pongo village. The King told him to take whay information he could from the race that lived there even if it meant force. While on its way, it went up to the garrison to meet up with Sleshu, the commander of the area.
Sleshu was charged with guarding the garrison for the King, but he himself did not know of the reason. After his check up, Leviathan went straight for the Pongo village.
With King Prime
Altera Core
The king was currently inside his private room that was only available to him due to his size and he had secrets he wanted to be kept in there.
He was typing away at his monitors and then looked at a pod. Inside the pod, there was the a humanoid body similar to Eve's but had the body of a male.
The King chuckled before going back to his work.
"Soon I shall rule for good"
An
Earlier than usual since i know how this ark will end and how to build up to it.
Also Characters like Eve and Add will have skills i made up myself as well skills from some of their other classes.
Hope yall like this one.
Peace.