For all this time, Dylon felt safe in his home, no worries of spies or anything like that. Unfortunately, his home isn't as unknown as he thought, and not just by its location. In an unknown facility, no knowledge of any location or coordinates, experiments have been taking place. Many scientists conduct bizarre tests, creating terrifying creatures, all for a single goal, the death of the human race. How Verden could convince them of this, it's damn impossible. One of them analyzes information at one of the many terminals. Suddenly, his screen flashes red, files appearing, each labeled "WARNING! BREACH IN SYSTEM." The scientist quickly traces the location of the breach. To his shock, it comes from the island.
In the upper levels of this facility, a man watches over all of them. A small room hangs over an immense area with scientists and experiments happening all at once. Suddenly, he receives a message on his laptop, centered on his desk. "Mr. Ruther, we have an emergency."
Ruther walks over to his laptop and activates the screen, showing the scientist calling for him. "What do you mean by 'emergency'?"
"W-we have a breach in the system originating from… sector 12. This could compromise our work."
Ruther steps away for a moment, becoming agitated, before returning to the screen. "... It's time."
"S-SIR, we need more time before the subjects are ready?!"
"They left us no choice, we'll have to retrieve the specimens from the sector now. Either be ready for departure, or you'll be a guinea pig for the next wave or tests."
"Y-yes… sir."
It has been a day since the meeting, everyone is preparing for the plan. However, Dylon isn't entirely focused, due to the recent situation. He and Jacob begin searching for any signs of Ruven, hoping this was just a joke, it wasn't. Their best guess is that he left the island for god knows where. They regroup back at the shore. "Jacob," Dylon says, agitated and displeased. "How could you let Ruven escape?"
"ME?! I wasn't the one who was with him, no one was."
"He's your friend, you must know where he went."
"I don't know. He could be going to kill that Ada person, or just back home. He left me with nothing to go on."
"Is there any chance of him coming back?"
"Of course he will, he wouldn't trust these people around us. Besides, what were you going to do with him, you're not the punisher-type."
"I was hoping you could do something, so…"
Dylon stops, no attempt to continue speaking. Jacob becomes confused and tries to snap him out of it. "Hey, hey bro, what's wrong? You look like…"
Soon, he stops too. Neither say a word. They turn to the ocean in shock. Dylon finally says something. "Do you feel that?"
"Y-yes, but… what is it?"
"I don't know, but it's something bad."
Suddenly, they see something large coming to shore. A war ship of some sort, but it has no visible weapons, or anything on deck as far as they could see. It continues on its normal speed, showing no attempt of slowing down. Suddenly, several large shells shoot out from it, each of immense size. Dylon and Jacob see them coming for them. They run as fast as they can, the large shells impact send debris everywhere. They finally stop. They turn back around to see six of them in total. Jacob decides to take a closer look. As he does, one of them begins to open. He backs away in a rush. One side of the shell opens up, releasing smoke. Before it clears, an enormous humanoid creature steps out.
Its face looks almost human, lacking pupils with dark grey skin. It wears some sort of armored clothing, small chunks of metal, like locks, are all over it. With each step it takes, the ground shakes. Soon, each shell opens up, revealing the same kind of creatures. Dylon is frozen in fear at the sight of them. One of them looks down on him and begins to wind up for a punch. As it did, Jacob pushes Dylon out of the way before it hits him. Without warning, they run as fast as they can for the mansion. The large creatures, tyrants, follow.
Deborah stands on the outside of the front door, awaiting Dylon and jacob's return. But, as she sees them running, she can hear them screaming. "RUN, GET BACK IN THE HOUSE NOW!"
She sees what is chasing them and does so. As the tyrants follows them, their combined movement causes small quakes, which everyone feels. For anyone near the front of the mansion, they stare in horror. Piers sees what is coming and begins calling for his men to advance. Chris runs by him and stops him. "Piers, what's wrong?!"
"Tyrants, a lot of them. We have to fight."
"What?! Where did they…," he stops as the sound of walls being destroyed follow. In a flash, they start advancing. One of the tyrants smashes through the left side wall of the door, bringing down a small portion of the mansion. Jacob stands at the foot of the stairs in the back of the room. He sees Deborah, trapped under some rubble. The tyrant does not notice her, but was about to step on her. She screams, only to find Dylon, enraged, knocking the creature back with all his strength. As it tumbles back, it knocks down another two tyrants, the others searching for other passages.
As the tyrant regains its footing, it's met with Dylon, grabbing on to his face as he proceeds to attack him. He was like an enraged animal, doing everything he could to kill the creature. Suddenly, he digs his claws into the neck of the tyrant. It roars in pain, only to be silenced as Dylon proceeds to rip its head off. Its body slumps to the ground, leaving Dylon with its head. He runs to Deborah and tosses the debris to the side. "Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine."
He was thankful she was safe, but this wasn't the time to relax. He looks to the side to see the other two, after regaining their balance, come closer. "Deborah, go get the kids, me and Jacob will hold them off."
"Okay, but Dylon," she replies, pausing to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Be safe."
"Right."
Jacob looks up to the left side of the upper level of the room to see Lotus and Gregore coming through. "Master," Lotus yells, "what's happening?!"
"I'll explain later, go help your queen and Lady Alex. Gregore, stay here, I need your help."
They do as they are told. Lotus leaves to ensure Sen's safety while Gregore primes his clawed gauntlets. Dylon backs away from the creatures to where Jacob is. "Jacob, we need to lure them away from here or they'll kill everyone."
"Right… any plans besides going ape-shit on them?"
"No."
"... Okay. Gregore."
In an instant, Gregore charges for them, claws prepared to swing. The two stand their ground for the attack. Suddenly, Gregore runs passed them. They turn to look, only to turn back to a surprise attack. Jacob clings to the tyrant's back. It struggles to remove him while the other squares off with Dylon.
In his mind, Dylon struggles to decide on a risky choice, but with enemies like this, he didn't have one. His body begins to ark, jolting into multiple directions. His back begins to move and wriggle, like something was trying to break free. Without warning, enormous hands sprout from his back, each tipped with gigantic claws. His lips start to recede to reveal enormous teeth, each as thick as railroad spikes and as sharp as blades. He lets out a blood curdling scream before charging at the tyrant. In response, it begins to charge towards him, ready to fight. Dylon jumps mid-air, high enough to meet the tyrant's face, and strikes it in the chest with his large hands. The force tossing the creature far from the mansion.
Around the sides, the others prepare to tear the place down, one on its own, the other two together. The single tyrant is by the outskirts of the forest, staying back to charge and bash down the wall. Before it does, it's shot at in the back. Unfortunately, that did nothing. These creatures were made to be literal one-man armies. It turns to see Chris. "HEY, UGLY, COME AND GET ME!" he yells, firing at it again. The tyrant becomes agitated and decides to go after him. Chris runs as fast as he can into the forest, dodging trees and jumping over obstacles. The tyrant, however, simply knocks the trees out of the way and crushes anything under its feet. Chris begins to analyze his surroundings, as if looking for something. Suddenly, the creature swings its hand out to try and grab him, but Chris manages to stay one step ahead of the hulking creature.
Although his small size was an advantage, he knows he couldn't keep this up for long. He finally stops, looking towards a familiar tree. He snickers before turning to face the tyrant, standing in the distance. It stops to try and find him again, only the hear him yell "OVER HERE!"
It starts running again, Chris stands his ground, muttering "let this work."
At the last second, he jumps out of the way, the tyrant having fallen down an unseen drop off. It begins to tumble down the hill, the ground shaking like crazy, all up to when it collides with the ground floor.
It manages to regain its footing and begins walking back up to get him. As it looks up at him, Chris points up into the trees. The tyrant looks to see a horde of predators looking down on it, angered that it invaded their nest. They begin to attack, clawing at its armor and head. The tyrant becomes overwhelmed. Chris stands their for a moment before rushing back to help the others.
Back at the mansion, Piers, Scott, and Hunter struggle to bring their tyrants down. Scott and Hunter take one of them, trying to hit its head. But it manages to block the bullets with its hands before coming down to try and crush them. Piers has the same amount of trouble with his. Suddenly, the tyrant manages to grab him by the the… everything, these guys are freakin huge. It has him in his hand before tossing him to the ground with great force. It then proceeds to kick him in the side, launching him far away. Scott tries to help, but he and Hunter are too distracted with their tyrant. Piers's tyrant walks over to him as he tries to stand. He can feel his broken bones trying to heal, the process was painful. It looks down on him with the intent to kill.
Piers braces himself, but before the tyrant could crush him, he is saved by Lisa. She springs out of nowhere and leaps onto the tyrant's head. Piers doesn't want her to fight, but she gives him the best opportunity to strike. Ignoring the pain, his arm begins to mutate and charge. The tyrant grabs Lisa by the waist and begins to crush her. As she screamed in pain, Piers lets out all he could and blasts the tyrant in the head. Its head explodes, allowing Lisa to free herself as its body falls to the ground.
Piers lays on the ground in relief. Lisa comes to his side in relief as well. She helps him up and back inside to tend to his wounds.
Scott distracts the tyrant, now focused on him entirely. Hunter takes the chance to hide within the trees to get a shot in without the tyrant blocking it. Scott backs away as he emptied his clip on the tyrant, to no success. It grabs him by the legs, tossing him in the air before grabbing him again by the upper torso. It pulls its fist back, preparing to smash his head in. Unknown to it, a strange silhouette moves about, with no body, onto its shoulder. The gun appears and the silhouette shoots the tyrant right on the side of his face. It jerks away, dropping Scott, and the silhouette moves back.
It reveals itself to be Hunter, using a camouflage ability to make himself invisible. The tyrant regains its focus, only to be met with a shot from Scott, this time with a grenade from his launcher attachment on his gun. The grenade hits dead center on its forehead and explodes. The tyrant falls before the smoke even clears.
Dylon, Jacob, and Gregore continue to hold off their tyrants. Dylon strikes with great force, knocking the tyrant back and forth with no effort, except for landing the killing blow. Jacob latches onto the back of his tyrant and begins to use his claws to dig through the armor and clothing. As the tyrant struggles to remove him, Gregore runs back and forth around it, slashing at it with each pass. Jacob soon gives up his plan of attack and heads straight for the head. He reveals his large teeth and locks them on its neck. The tyrant thrashes about, only making the bite worse. Jacob then pulls with all his strength and tears the head off.
Five down, one to go, Jacob runs to aid Dylon, but stops to see something strange happening. Dylon stops fighting the tyrant as it begins to change. Its armor and clothing begin to rip apart as its body grows, becoming larger, more muscular, and developing giant claws on its fingers. It turns into its super tyrant form, removing its limiter, which controls any mutations.
Scott and Hunter regroup with Piers, aided by Lisa. Suddenly, Chris runs out from the forest and regroups with them as well. "Is yours toast?" asks Hunter.
"Yeah," Chris responds, "come on, we have to stop any others and…"
He stops as the ground shakes. He turns to see the Tyrant he left behind, mutated and holding a dead predator in its hand. It tosses it to the side and charges as the group. Lisa and Piers jump out of the way, they turn to see it following the others as they run back to the front of the mansion. They find Dylon taking another super tyrant head on. They see Jacob to the side, gesturing to them to lead it into the forest. They do so and it follows. Dylon's tyrant notices them and decides to follow too, along with himself, Jacob, and Gregore. They all take the fighting into the forest interior, however, unknown to them, the ship holds more unwelcome guests.
From the ship, now set as close as it can to the island without landing on shore, small crafts are released from the sides, having a strange field around them. They land on shore as far from the water as possible. They open up to reveal the same soldiers that were tracking Ruven in Europe. "Alright men," the apparent captain of them says, "Proceed with caution, no use of live ammunition, only if necessary. Capture any specimen and set off the device."
From the back of the group, two of the soldiers carry out a small device, about the size of a watermelon, with a single activation switch. The captain sets his sight on the mansion and heads straight for it, along with his men.
Lisa heads for the entrance to find no signs of the others. Suddenly, she notices the soldiers coming from the beach. She rushes inside to bring Piers to safety. They hide out in the medical room as the soldiers enter the mansion. Of them, they split up into four groups of five, except for the captain and the two with the device. Each group takes a different part of the mansion as the captain and the two head for a specific location. Lisa turns to Piers for a moment. "Lisa, it's too dangerous. Find anyone you can and leave."
She sets him on the table and hushes him. "Stay… quiet."
In his condition, he does so, hoping Lisa would do what he said. Unfortunately, she decides to follow them instead.