This chapter is an extra one, which mean its not necessary to read it to understand the story but the events are canon
MOUNT REGINALD
NORTH OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGE
A cold wind blows on the ruin of a monastery in the mountain range, a two headed eagle is observing the surrounding on the top of a tower, looking for a prey in the ruins but the only thing it can spot is a humanoid walking trough the ruins with tissues over his face
The man whom then walks to what seemed to be a training area in a court, he then attempts to get inside of the building in the center of it with some difficulties since there is obstacles blocking the entrance… After some struggle he manages to get inside
The interior is empty and destroyed, some remains of corpse can be seen scattered around the room, and by remains: its parts of skeletons
After some minutes of him paying respects, he then leaves the monastery ruins, as he steps out he whispers one thing while girting his teeth…
AN INVENTOR TALES EXTRA
FIELD MARSHAL IN TRANSIT
The night have fallen on the mountain range, down there in a forest, the Marshal is sitting by a camp fire he made, he is looking at his meat that's getting roasted, while holding his gun in case of a sudden encounters, he then decide to get up and pick up some branches on the ground, he scatter them around his camp and then go back to look over at the cooking of the monster meat
Crack
A branch breaks, the sound came behind him, he quickly get behind the log he's sitting on and point his bolt gun at the direction of sound…
"Isn't that a camp fire over there?" Someone says
"It looks like it." Another one responds
The group show themselves 4 humans and 1 strange creature that look like a humanoid dragon, they all have weapons and the humans got some military uniforms with helmets, the humans haveassault rifles looking like a heavily modified version of the one they used during the war with Planeptune and the humanoid dragon have a double head axe
one guy notice the man with his hidden face and point his weapon in his direction
"Dro-" He says
BANG
Before finishing what he had to say, a bullet hit him in the head, he drops on the ground
The rest of the group look at their dead companion, on of them quickly grab him and get him away form the fight, the rest of the group point their weapon at the man
The marshal quickly ducks down behind the log
BANG BANG BANG
The soldiers opened fire but they all missed
The marshal then quickly kicks the wood log in the air and kick it again to launch it towards the soldiers
The dragon cuts it in half before it reach them, the log tough still blocked their sight and the stranger is not longer here
The time that they realized that the man is on their side, one of the troopers see him
"Contact, left!"
BANG BANG BANG
Two bullets hit the two remaining troopers, they collapse on the ground, the humanoid dragon could only watch whats happening
RRROOOOAAAARRRR
The dragon roars in rage, he rushes the man, weapon raised
The man draw his secondary weapon, a mix between a sword and a chainsaw
CLING
he blocks the attack with his weapon, the chains stopped moving
the monster breathes fire on the man
The marshal quickly steps back and protects himself with his sword even if it doesn't fully stops the flames but it prevents a part of himself getting burned
The humanoid dragon rushes down the man with weapon raised once again
The marshal draw his bolt gun and quickly aim seconds before the monster reaches him...
BRRRRTTTTTT
...He shots a burst of bolts in the monster chest, the monster stops, he quickly take advantage of the situation and swing his chains sword in the direction of the neckand chop if its head off, the head then falls on the ground and so does the body of the strange hybrid
The marshal breathes and starts to make his weapons vanishes…
BANG
A bullet hit the leg of the marshal
A gun fire resonate trough the forest, one of the survivingtroopers, even if bleeding out and having his arms shaking, he's holding is assault rifle steady has he can, he aims again at the man and starts to push the trigger…
The marshal quickly get his bolt gun but before he could fire, the man goes unconscious. Relic then goes to trooper and check on him, he's dead
"Ugh..." another trooper moans "W-who... are you?"
The trooper in question is laying on the ground Relic walks to him, with his bolt gun in hands
"Nobody."
Bang
Relic shots the back of his head and then look at his weapon "Wait, there weren't fives?"
[Meanwhile, on another area of the forest...]
A trooper is carrying his injured companion trough the forest
"What... happened?" the injured man asks
"You got shot in the head I'm getting you back to the camp."
"Are the others okay?"
"I don't know..."
SLICK
The trooper falls on the ground and drop his companion
"ARRRGGHH!" he groans in pain
He looks at his leg and see that he stepped on a bear trap, he attempts to open it in vain due to his hand shaking
Someone steps towards him, he looks up in fear realizing that its not people of his company
"NO PLEASE! I'M JUST A CONSCRI-"
BANG
The trooper drops dead near to his companion
"Take the injured guy to the base. I'm staying around in case the rest of his squad comes" Someone says
"Okay."
"Damn, who they fought?"
[A dozen of minute later.]
Relic (still masked) advance trough the forest, carefully with his weapons in hands, occasionally looking where he's stepping…
CLING
He quickly steps back, he enabled a bear trap
"damn. Who placed that here?" He says
Relic then notice red spots on the grass, he lean in and smells it
"Blood, look like there was fighting here." He thinks
The forest go silent
"This is too calm..."
CRICK
"Identify yourself!" A feminine voice comes form behind him
He turns around to see a young woman who seem like in the late 10s-early 20s, she have a short blonde colored hair which seem to be a bun hair style and a pair of sky blue eyes, she is wearing a crimson jacket with a white t-shirt under it, she also wears blacks jeans. She's pointing an assault rifle similar to the one used by the ASIC's troopers that the marshal fought earlier
"Drop your weapons and show your face!"
"She doesn't look like a ASIC trooper for sure." Relic thinks
Relic start to remove the tissue on his face, the woman eye widens, her mouth open due to the surprise and she lowers her weapons
"Wait… A-Are you?"
"Yes. I'm the leader of Planeptune army."
"I-i Uh we...i… We must talk!"
"I don't have time for talk… Neither to explain why I'm here." Relic then starts to walks form the direction of the woman "You never seen me okay?"
"But! wouldn't you want to rest with us? Instead of sleeping a forest full of ASIC patrols?"
The Marshal stops walking "Yeah. But first, who are you?"
"I'm form a resistance group. Against these syndicalists."
Relic looks at his leg "Can you remove a bullet?"
The woman looks at his injured leg "We can but you will have to help us in exchange."
"Fair enough. I think I can remove it myself anyway."
"You have thing to disinfect it?"
"...Nope."
"We do. Come with me."
The Marshal and the Rebel walks further into the forest
"So why are you here?"
"I have to go at Lastation and meet the Oracle and try to establish an alliance against the ASIC."
"...You are not supposed to take a plane for that instead of crossing an enemy territory."
"I kinda went there without my oracle authorization."
"You asked?"
"No, but I already knew her response anyway. She would surely have refused."
"Yeah, not hard to understand why… Oh I forgot to introduce myself, I'm MachineGames"
A half hour of walks later, they both make it to a dugout
"This is your hideout?" Asks Relic
"Yes." MachineGames responds
MachineGames then looks at a camera over the dugout, she waves at it and then goes inside of it
"Come."
Relic comes with her inside of it, while keeping a hand on his bolt gun, you know in case...
They than head to a tunnel inside of the dugout, they cross an opened metal door made out of some sheets, someone with an assault rifle is waiting for them
"Who is this guy?" the guard asks
"The marshal of Planeptune, the man who pushed back the ASIC invasion 3 years ago."
"WHAT! It must be liar or some spy!"
"Want a proof uh?" Relic responds
Relic check for his pockets, he show the guard his ID card, the guard looks at it scrupulously
"It seem a valid card for sure, but not enough to convince me, go talk with the superior" The guard says
"Sure." MachineGame responds
They go further inside, and take a branch further inside of the tunnel
[Meanwhile.]
A woman is sitting on a chair, she looking on a map of the region, she also looks at others documents, she scratch her head
"Volition." MachineGames says
She raise her head and look to see MachineGames and someone that she barely seem to recognize, Relic tilt his head has he hear the woman name
VOLITION
THE RESISTANCE MATRON
"Who this is? A new recruit?" Volition asks
"No, He's the military Marshal of Planeptune." MachineGames says
"Marshal uh? What a Marshal can do here? Toss me his name."
The marshal takes a step without waiting the response of MachineGames "I'm Relic." He says
"Relic… Oh Relic!" Volition responds
Volition gets up, shes wearing a fancy business suit similar to THQ one, yet you can see her cleavage and she wears a short cut skirt. She then walks to THQ
"I you grown up well as I see." Volition says
"So did you." THQ says
"Uh… You know each others?"
"Yes, can you leave? I want to talk personally with him."
MachineGames nods and leave the room
"Can you explain me what are you doing here?"
"Simple, the ASIC took everything form us."
"Us?"
"Yes. Remember the monastery?"
"Yeah of course I remember it, it was the good days back then. Until I found it in ruins in the morning."
"...DO you wonder who did it?"
"Of course. I just planed to pass by it to go to Lastation."
"Las… I think I will ask later. But to make it simple. A night, years ago, ASIC troops stormed the monastery, leaded by a black war machine with a gigantic war axe, they killed nearly everyone there, THQ was absent at this moment and couldn't help..."
"SO THAT WAS THEM!?" Relic yells "UHM, sorry."
"That's fine."
"There was survivors at least?"
"We can count them quickly, Me, Vigil and Rainbow."
"That mean… the other died?"
"Yes… Big Huge, Concrete, Helixe, Incinerator, Kaos, Locomotive, Paradigm, Mass Media… They all died during the defense of the monastery, and even so… the ASIC continued to track us and we lost further Makers before we managed to organize the resistance movement."
"I… Don't get why they are doing this."
"Apparently the ASIC see us: the Makers as a plague for Gamindustri that supports the goddesses..."
"And to them it justify a genocide?"
"They want to resurrect a deity that can destroy the world so..."
"Yeah… Then they are a way worst than I initial thought. I'm sorry for not being there that day."
"I don't blame you. Nobody had way to ask for help anyway."
"What happened to the other survivors?"
"Vigil is in a scouting mission for our next operation, it will happen tomorrow. Not sure what happened to Rainbow but apparently he fled the ASIC territory instead of wanting to fight with us."
"I can't believe that."
"He never was a good fighter to be honest."
"Yeah that's true."
"I will ask you my questions after you got your bullet removed."
[Some hours later.]
Relic after getting his bullet in the leg removed, he heads back to the office of Volition who returned to her planning, she looks up as she hears the marshal entering the room
"So, how's your leg?" Volition asks
Relic looks at his leg "Well it feel better for sure…So… You didn't have questions to ask me?"
Volition smirks "Yes, so first what made you go back here? aren't you an officer in Planeptune?"
"Actually, I'm just passing by. I have to go to Lasatation to convince the oracle to conclude a military alliance with Planeptune."
"Why that?"
"To fight the ASIC of course."
"I heard that the oracle of Lastationis harsh when it comes to negotiation."
"Its beneficial for all parties so she would probably accept that."
"I see… I would have preferred that you stay to help us against the Syndicalists but if its that important then I can let you go."
"But... you know what… I can't let the ASIC get away with what they done to all of us, I will help for your operation tomorrow."
"...Oh? Really?"
"Do I look like I'm joking?"Says Relics while staring right in her eyes
"I guess that's very good then. I will tell you what the operation is about and how we will proceed."
"Go on."
Volition then checks in some drawers, she pull out some maps and other documents, she point at the map
"The ASIC have an important weapon factory here in the city of Geniesburg, an important city at east of the Capital of the ASIC; Arfograd which is next to the gamindustri Graveyard. It used to be a Lastation city until 3 years ago, it was renamed by the are planning to get inside of the city and sabotage the factory, unfortunately there is multiples problems, the first one is that every large cites are protected by borders controls, they checks not only your stuff but also your identity. The second one is that the surveillance is omnipresent in the ASIC cities in general, and the last is that the Factory might be of course guarded." Volition explains
"I see. We could use fake ID's to get inside of the city firstly."
"It was already planed. The problem is to get inside with weapons and explosives."
"… Maybe if we attempt to corrupt the guards with money."
"They could work… the problem is that the ASIC is trying to indoctrinate everyone into their thought, its incredibly risky."
"You said earlier that the ASIC is an authoritarian system trying to pass for a utopia, right?"
"Kinda."
"In general totalitarian and authoritarian systems don't have very good living conditions for the lower class, which include guards. They would be glad to be able to eat three times a day instead of just one. And that's a corruption generator."
"Oh. That make sense said like that, were did you learn that?"
"During a history class in Planeptune military academy. A chapter about Tari. When the CPU went full dictator, the country suffered of paralyzing corruption, one of the cause of the Great Crash that nearly wiped out Gamindustri and ended the Tari civilisation."
"You must have been a model pupil."
"That's just general culture."
"Anyway, let's get back on the subject, the problem number two now, You also have a solution for it?"
And then Relic explains: "Well, then we have to make sure that our weapon is well concealed until we reach the factory, we might have to take hostages and/or kills some guards. Otherwise, we can still try to be stealthy as possible but it will require a gigantic coordination."
"I think it would be better if I give you the plan." Volition responds
"Of course."
Volition hands over the plans of the factory to Relic, there is every details on it going to the entrances and exit to the exact position of security cameras
"Vigil managed to send some plans with the help of some grunts." Volition says
"Let me try to make something up with this." Relic asks
"Take your time." Volition responds
Relic looks at the plans of the operation and of the factory, this last for around 12 minutes
"Okay. So once we are near the factory, we split in multiples group, a group will have to go to the security office and take down the security camera and use the intercom to regroup the guards to a small room and then we will lock it form the outside, then we will have to cover each entrances to prevent anyone to exit and place jammers around the facility to prevent any communication which mean that they can't call for help which will allow us to easily put the explosives charges. Then we evacuate the employees out of the building."
"We will do without evacuating them."
"Why tough?"
"They are ASIC minions."
"No, they are workers, its just their job to do that. And well if we blow up the factory while people are still inside it would be a bad advertisement for your resistance group."
"It show that we are not fucking around with them."
"Yeah! And it will rally their people against your group! THINK ABOUT IT!"
"Really?"
"Of course it will! Which mean that they will see their dictatorship as a protector against you."
"...Well… You know we don't really care about humans rights in general, we are not peacekeepers or soldiers. To be effective we must be ruthless and efficient as possible. Our current state is pretty reduced and we can't really care about civilians..."
"I see… So that's explains why your movement is pretty small… I have a teach you how that works..."
Relic start to put out a pipe out of his coat and start to fill it with tabaco
"Hey!"
"What?"
Volition points at a card on the wall with written on it "No smoking inside." seeing that, Relic put down the pipe
"To make it simple. If you want more people to join your resistance group then you will have to treat them well. Take example on the case of the MOD, during the revolt, they treated relatively well the citizens and even their prisoners, the results is that people supported them and some Loweans soldiers even turned against their country, that's how it was effective. Lowee on other hand it was practically the opposite, they either neglected or barely taken any prisoners at all, and thus since rocket artillery is inaccurate it caused civilians causalities."
"OK, that's pretty obvious actually. But how you want to do it the?"
"We should place and detonate the explosives during the night. It will prevent a lot of death."
"I don't think it would change a lot… After what you said about the workers… they will lose their jobs so wouldn't it angers them?"
"It will but still. It will cause less negative attention then if we did it during the day."
"Fair. And what if there is night workers?"
"Chances are low to be honest, we might encounter wardens, but it will be easy to dispose of them, lethally or not, even if it would be preferably to just stun them and get them out of there."
"That mean that we have to re-plan everything. We have to delay the operation to make these modifications on the plan… Just wondering when Vigil will be back?"
"He should returns tomorrow, don't worry."
[The day after, outside of hideout.]
A small group of people walks in the forest, in the head of the group: man with a glowing blue-white eyes, he wears a red robe and have a red hood on his head, he also have a renaissance era armor chest plate
"How many hours we are walking?" A girl asks
"Two, we should be close form the base." The hooded man responds
One of the people notice something in the distance
"Look like we arrived" Another man wearing a helmet states
They finally reach the dugout
"Finally!" The girl responds
"That was sure exhausting." Another woman states and looks at the hooded man "You are sure that you still want to take part in the operation today?"
"Of course I will, I'm not exhausted at all." The hooded man responds
"After one week of mission?"
""I'm a maker, we are superiors humans."
"Jeez, leave him alone." The helmet guy says while entering the hideout
The group then enters in the hideout, The hooded man doesn't take out his hood upon entering, he immediately heads for the meeting room, seeking someone...
At the same moment Volition is standing in front of a board with Relic inside of a large room, there is dozen of people in it
"After some discussion with Relic, we had to make some changes about the operation to make it more successful and less risky. I will let him explain the plan." Voliton says
And Relic imediatly continues "It largely stays the same, to enter the city we will enter trough the secondary gate of the city, we will have to put on masks and fake ID's, the difference is that we will also have to corrupt the guard with money. After we enter the city. We will wait for the night once we are at midnight we will then head for the factory and put the explosives and leave, it will be set to blow up 30 minutes after we leave. Any questions?"
"Yeah I have one." Someone speak up, its the hodded man "Why during the night? It would be fine during the day?"
Relic seem to recognize the man under the hood "Well Vigil, there is a lot of reasons actually..." he responds
VIGIL GAMES
THE AVENGER
And Relic then explains his reasons to Vigil, some minutes later, Relic, Vigil and Volition are in the planning room next to the meeting room, there is only the three makers inside of it
And then speaks Vigil "I'm just trying to understand why you want to spare them so much… They are dirty syndies, its their fault if we all suffered and still have to."
"I told you that were just workers. They are not the one responsible for the raid on the monastery." Relic responds
"...Anyway, uh. I was wondering, wouldn't it would be more practical and more reliable to get into the city trough sewers instead of trying to corrupt a guard?" Volition questions
"Well. I didn't-"
"It wouldn't be possible." Vigil cuts off Relic "They even have cameras in sewers. They will instantly spot us."
"Maybe if we disguise as maintenance agents?" Volition suggests
"No way that will works, better bribe some city guards, it will be less risky." Relic responds
"I still have some doubts about it." Vigil comments
[2 days later.]
EAST OF ASIC STATE
OUTSIDE OF GENIESBURG
16H10
A van rolls in the direction of a large city, it passes to checkpoint, the guard order them to stop the vehicle, the guard then walks to the driver door
"Your ID's please. All of you." The guard asks
The driver hand over the Id's cards of everyone in the van, he carefully checks them and compare the picture on the Id's with the passenger of the van
"Everything seem fine. You will have drive slowly trough the scanner here." The guard says while pointing at a gate looking object and then give back the ID's to the driver
"Can we get trough it without being scanned please? We are in an emergency." The driver asks while handing over a fat stack of credits bills
The guard suspiciously looks at the credits bill and looks at the driver who awkward smiles at him, he then takes it
"You're lucky, I'm in need of money. Pass." The guard says while stepping back
The van rolls towards the gate, just fast enough for it to not trigger. Next to the gate, there was a camera that no one noticed.
Shortly after getting inside of the city, the driver remove her mask, revealing that it was Volition
"You can remove your masks now." Volition says
Everyone inside the van remove their masks expect one person
"There is no one that can see, you can remove it Relic." A man with a helmet and a pair of tainted sunglasses says
"No Croteam. we are never sure enough." Relic responds
"Don't forget to put them back when we exit." Volition says
"Yeah so no use that I remove it anyway. No reason that we change plans." Relic comments
"So what do we do now?." A Girl in the squad asks
"We wait... for 6 hours."
No one responds for a moment
"ARE YOU KIDDING M-"
[Meanwhile…]
The city border guard looks at the horizon, it seems that no more people want to enter trough that checkpoint so he get into the interior of his post and sit on a chair, moments latersomeones shows up at his booth
She wears boots and have a pair of round glasses she wears a typical inspector uniform
"Igor." She address to the guard
He gulps upon hearing her
"Yes inspector?"
"I saw on the cameras that a van went a little to fast to trigger the gate. Can you explain that to me?"
"Well… I-i forgot to tell them to slow down."
"Tough that was 2 year that you work here, you know the protocol. I doubt that you just forgot."
The inspector looks at the lower pocket of the guard uniform
"Its me or it looks a little to big?"
"It must be you."
The inspector suddenly grasp and take out what there is in the pocket of the guard
"Uh, That's a strange amount of credits you are carrying." Points out the Inspector, I doubt that's for lunch!"
The guards sweats
"Come with me."
[Three hours later. At the department of the Homeland Security Bureau.]
The inspector take a coffee next to an interrogation room, a man exit form there while rubbing his hands, he's wearing bloody gloves
"So, how that advance?"
"Welp said that he don't know anything about the people who bribed him. Maybe he really doesn't know about them."
"Uhm… Push it for another hour, to teach him to not accept bribes."
The inspector then leaves the agent to his work
With the increases of spies coming form various nations posing a threat to the state, The Homeland Security Bureau was founded as a political police to prevent interference form other countries, but its not their only use…
The inspector reach an office, there is a middle aged man behind the desk in the center of the room
"He know nothing but I decided to send someone him learn his mistakes So what do we do director?" The inspector asks
"We should put them under surveillance. Find their van and put a tracker on it." The director responds
[30 minutes later.]
The van parks next to a park, Volition turns back to the passengers
"Okay everyone, we meet here at 21H, don't attract the attention of anyone." She says
Everyone nods, and they hop off the van and start to walk away form it. Some moment after everyone are away, a man get to the van and place a device under it, he immediately leaves...
GENIESBURG ARMS FACTORY
22H00
The van is parked outside of the factory on a nearby street, the group of rebels get out of it, there is 11 people with masks reaches the fence, one of them get wire cutters out and make an opening with it, allowing everyone to pass trough it, they reach to the import/export area at the back of the building, they quickly and silently as possible take out some cameras, there is a keycard door which allow to get inside of the factory, they put a hacking device on the door and few seconds later the doors open, and everyone get inside of the factory
[Meanwhile.]
An operator is looking at his screen, there is map of the city, on it there is a red dot next to a place with written on it "weapon factory"
"Uh... Sir! They parked near the weapon factory."
"That's suspicious. Send some agentsto investigate that."
There is Volition waiting outside with her mask next to the van, she hears a nearby car, she looks at it and notice that is a black car, it stops next to the van and two man exits form the vehicle
"Agent's of the HSB we have some questions to ask to you." One of them speaks up as she show her card
"Yes?" Responds Volition "Dang! What they are doing here?! How they even know we are here?!"
"Can we know what are you doing with that van next to this factory?"
"Uh… W-I was just waiting for a friend."
"A friend, can you elaborate."
"Yeah, he forgot some tools inside of the factory and since he don't have a car I had to drive him here."
The agent look at the hole in the wall "So… Your friend work here then?"
"Yeah."
"Yet he could have entered by the main entrance instead of making that hole!"
The agents get their hands in their pocket to reach for their gun
Volition dash to them with a knife and slash their throats in one attack, she quickly grab her phone and call Vigil
"They found out! Hurry up and get back to the van!" She says in panic
"We almost finished."
"I'M NOT ASKING YOU IF YOU FINISHED GET YO ASS BACK HERE!"
On the other side of the phone there is Vigil staying emotionless even trough he's getting yelled at, there is Croteam placing the last explosives who looks at him
"What's that about?" Croteam asks
"Nothing." Vigil responds "Look we only got one bomb left to plant, we will be there in a few minutes."
Volition is sweating, she get back inside the van and get ready to go
"Sir, we ain't got response form the agents H and P."
"They probably got killed then. Send the intervention group!"
Three armored vans leaves the building, there is bunch of heavily armed troopers inside of them, after a dozen of minutes, they reaches the factory, fire teams hop off the vans
"Inspect the area. Don't hesitate to shot if you see armed people." The Captain says
They scatter into squads and inspect around the factory, eventually a squad find two bodies on the ground
"We found the agents." A squad leader says to his earphone
"How they are?" The commander asks
"Dead."
"I see. Is the van here?"
"It's not there, it probably left."
The commander look on his map and change the frequency of the radio
"Team C, go inside of the factory."
Another squad head inside of the factory, they carefully enter it expecting for ambushes, but there is nobody, one of the troopers inside of the workshop inspect one of the machines
He's distracted by a flashing red light under a digital lathe, he get down and see a strange rectangular object, his eyes widens as he realize what this is
"They placed explosives, get out!" He yells as he get up and start to run away
His squad leader barely heard that form the distance "What-"
BOOM
The digital lathe explodes
BOOM BOOM BOOM
A series of other explosion is heard trough the factory, some debris are propelled out of the building as it starts to collapses, the commander of the intervention team looks at the falling factory in terror
"Headquarters! Th-the building blown up!" He yells
"There is any people inside?" The director asks
"One squad was inspecting the interior!"
"Okay, we are sending help, don't panic." He responds "So that was what they were doing uh? We must strike them quick before they realize that we planted a tracker on their van."
[Some hours later.]
REBEL'S HIDEOUT
00H23
"It was a close call! At least we can rest." Volition says while she sit on a couch
She's in a rather comfy room, there is also Relic siting on an arm char and Vigil who is standing back to wall
"Sad, I would sure had enjoyed to kill some ASIC agents."
"...Just wondering. Vigil, I hope you are not that kind of people who put feelings before doing their tasks right?"
"You… already know my response. Just remember what they took form us and you will, at least I hope, understand why."
"I do, but we have to stay pragmatic as possible."
"Relic. Maybe its your priority to defeat the ASIC in your way, but I won't just stop to stopping them."
"What do you mean?" Volition asks
"I will wipe them out, I won't bother myself with those Lowee convention bullshit, it shouldn't apply to savages like them. And if I have to die in the process, then I will make sure to take many of them with me."
Relic and Volition looks at each others
"I think we should change topics." Relic says
"About that, remember the old days in the monastery?" Volition says
"Yeah… that were the days back then." responds Vigil "I remember when I used to think that you were useless." he says while looking at Relic
"Remember that I saved your asses back then in that forest." Relic calmly responds
"I still hardly believe that THQ got killed by the ASIC leader." Volition
"remember that she captured five CPU's at the same time, its not surprise."
MachineGames walks in
"Hey what you guys are talking about?"
"About our common past." Relic responds
"You also know Vigil?" She asks
"Yeah, we were trained in the same monastery."
"I wonder if there is a way to beat her." Vigil comments "I remember something that THQ told me..."
THQ MONASTERY
6 YEARS AGO
THQ and Vigil are on the top of a tower which gives a beautiful view of the surroundings areas
"So Vigil… You are sure that you want to stay at the monastery?"
"Yes. I want to transmit your teachings to the future generations so they will shine trough Gamindustri."
THQ chuckles "I'm not sure that anything will happen to me anytime soon."
"Are you sure? And what if you meet someone stronger?"
"Good point. But there is something that I didn't told you. I have a power that allow me to have similar powers of a CPU."
"...What? You can transform?"
"Kinda, It kinda works like a processors but without the need of shares, trough my travels in Gamindustri I found a relic" THQ show him a strange golden disc
"What is that?"
"Its what allow me to transform into what I call the administrator form, tough this is a one use only, I had found 2 of them one of them that I used on myself."
"Can you explain further how that work?"
"You have to put it on your forehead, like if you were inserting it. If you want to be my successor that bad then try it."
THQ hand over the golden disc to Vigil, he try to put it as he told but…
"Uh… I look ridiculous doesn't I?"
THQ laughs but then immediately go back into a serious tone "It seem that it doesn't work on everyone… I should investigate further into that."
[End of the flashback.]
"Incredible! So we have a way to turn into CPU like forms?" Voliton says
"Hey, didn't you listen, it doesn't work on everybody." Relic responds to Voliton and then looks back at Vigil "You know anything else about it?"
"A few weeks before the raid on the monastery. He told me that it maybe have something to do with potential or overall strength of makers or maybe both of them."
"Overall strength?" MachineGames asks
"Basically both mental strength and physical one. We need someone to do further research."
"I note that, I might know the ideal man for that." Relic says
"Be careful of who you are gonna give it to."
"Just wondering… Did he always carried it?" MachineGames asks
"No, he used to place it in a sage "place" but no idea where it can be." Says Vigil
"Hidden in the monastery?" Voliton says
"Maybe…"
"Its true that there were hidden rooms in the monastery." States Voliton
"The problem is that there is only ruins left." Relic responds to Volition
"Maybe not." Vigil responds
"Well we should look for that tomorrow. Goodnight, expect you MachineGames, its your turn of guard I think."
MachineGames nods and exits the room, she goes at the exterior of the hideout, and observe the surroundings…she see something moving in the distance...
"So… you are leaving tomorrow?" Vigil asks
"I already told you. Soon as the sun rises." Relic responds and then get up "I'm going to sleep."
Relic heads out of the resting room but as he reach the door aloud alarm activates, Relic jumps upon hearing that
"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" Volition yells while getting up
"Shit. I'm going to help you to defend!" Relic says
"If you want to." Volition responds
"No!" Says in a firm way Vigil
Volition and Relic both look at him in confusion
"Why?"
"Planeptune can't afford to lose someone like you. And you have something else to do."
"I will be fine."
"No, he's right. There is a secondary exit, I will ask someone to guide you there."
Relic thinks for a few seconds "Fine, be careful."
"Don't worry, we are prepared for this kind of situations." Volition says
"Until we meet again." Vigil says while exiting the room
"Guess I'm not the only rational guy anymore." Relic comments
[At the surface.]
BANG
MachineGames shot with her rifle and quickly get back behind her cover inside of the dugout
"Let's hope I knocked out enough Syndicalists to force them to retreat."
She then move her head out and look at the surroundings, there is no bodies of dead soldiers at sight but she can still see blood on the grass
"I must have injured a good number of them."
Vigil arrive behind her with some troopers
"MachineGames!" Says Vigil "The ASIC found us?"
"Yeah. They only sent a small force for now, probably for reconnaissance. What do we do?" She responds
"Volition said that we have to evacuate. We will have to hold them back until the vehicles are loaded. After that we will activate the self destruction of the hideout."
"Since they retreated, should we raid them instead?" Croteam asks
"No, we focus on defense indoors the ASIC might send R4's and R4-SDHC and we like of anti tank weapons, that's why we should fight inside, they will be forced to send infantry or small monsters."
"I expect Relic to take the command actually."
"He had to go. He has other battles to fight..."
Its the middle of the day in a border post in a mountain range, the guard inside of it is just tapping is desk with is finger out of boredom waiting for the next immigrate to enter, he looks at the cameras and find another one heading inside the both
A man in the 60s head in front of the guard "Hello again! Lastation is still the greatest country for sure!"
The man put a passport on the desk, the front cover shows a hexagonal shape with rays leaving it like sun rays on the bottom part its written "Polybiyark Passport". the guard grab it and open it to see that's its a badly written one, he instantly knew that it was a fake one
"Polybiyark is not a real country."
"You no like passport, I understand. I comeback with a better one."
The oldie then leaves the booth and another man enters in
"Paper please." The guard says
The man hand over his passport, he reads the information in it
Lev Abramovich Isakovich
Date of birth: 5 May 19XX
Gender: Male
Nationality: Planeptunian
Expiration date: 21 August 20XX
"Reason of the entry?"
"I'm visiting family at Lastation city
"Any other family traveling with you?"
"No, I'm alone."
"Okay, wait a second."
Stamp
The guard gives back the passport to the man
"Welcome to Lastation, We only do everything. Next!"
The man then exit the booth, entering into Lastation country, he walks the long of the road for a moment until a pick up truck stops next to him, he look up at the driver…
[Later in the day.]
The man is sleeping on the back of the truck, there is also other peoples on it.
"Hey! We reached Lastation city! You can hop off now!"
He wake up upon hearing that, he get off the truck. He is currently in a residential area but he doesn't really pay attention to his surroundings and head in the direction of city center where is the Basilicom…
[Meanwhile.]
LASTATION
BASILICOM
END OF THE AFTERNOON
"And so we neutralized them before they managed to do anything, as you asked." Activision says
"Good." Kei Responds
"By the way, me and my men's would like to be payed more for the work. We are professional mercenaries, we got to have money."
"We are not in a very good economic situation I have to remind you. If you don't like it go to Leanbox. They would be glad to have help to clear out pirates."
Activision unhappily leaves the room, A staff man closes the door behind him
"Are you sure that its reliable to send mercenaries to get rid off syndicalists terrorists?" The staff man asks
"It was either that or we continue to let them do what they want." Responds the oracle
"You couldn't have sent the candidate instead?"
"She is busy at Leanbox right now and I would avoid to risk her getting injured. It was the best choice that we had on the moment, we won't longer need them once the counter terrorists forces will be fully trained. Anyway, next thing. How the assault walker project is advancing?"
"The production should start the next week, they will be affected to the third armored division."
A staff woman enters the meeting room
"Lady Kei."
"Yes?"
"The marshal of Planeptune wants to see you."
"Uh? That's weird. Why he is there?"
"Its about the ASIC."
"Make him come here."
[Later.]
Kei and Relic are sitting on two chairs in front of each others
"So if I understood, you want to create a military alliance against the ASIC." Kei says
"Exactly." Relic responds
"Okay but, Lastation military is superior in means then Planeptune, don't get angry that's a fact."
"I know. But unlike you we fought them, we have knowledge on them that you don't have."
"What proves you that?"
"Well, I heard that the ASIC managed to get the mountain range without even fighting. I don't know what happened to you for deciding to do that. Maybe they proposed something or… They blackmailed you."
A shock goes trough Kei head
"I wouldn't said blackmailed."
"Yet, all of this happened after the ASIC failed invasion of Planeptune, they sure couldn't take it by force but they must have used a CPU instead, uh?"
Kei sighs
"I will think about that. You will be informed of my decision soon and I will call Histoire about this." Kei says
"Don't do it after I left Lastation please. I went here without Histoire authorization, I will probably have problems." Relic says
"...Sure."
"Thanks."
Relic stands up and then leaves the room
"How did he guessed about the blackmail? I see that he is not the leader of Planeptune armies for nothing." Kei says as she gets up "Gotta talk to that with Eugene."
Relic leaves the Basilicom, the night is starting to fall on the highly industrialized city
"Okay, now I gotta reach Leanbox." he thinks as he walks into the streets, he struggle to manage to have his eyes opened "I should get to a hotel, I think I'm gonna die form tiredness."
He eventually reached a hotel, managed to get a room and he closes his eyes while he lays on a soft bed…
When he wakes up he finds himself in a vehicle and he is handcuffed
"What the..."
"Hey, you're finally awake." Someone who looks like an operative says to him
"What the FUCK happened when I was asleep!"
"First, don't worry we are not ASIC but Planeptune guild agents. Secondly we have been sent by Histoire to get you back at our country, which was easy since you fallen asleep in a random hotel and you were easy to pick up."
"I have something very important to do! I'm the marshal!"
"We know but Histoire wants to see you."
"If you don't let me go I'm making this vehicle crash. The fact that I'm handcuffed won't change anything."
"Are you sure about that? We are 1000 meters over the ocean, if you do that you will also die."
Upon hearing that, he realized that he have no other choices but to wait…
The vertidragon lands into the top floor of the Basilicom, A young woman get out of the vehicle and heads to Histoire who was waiting
"The mission is a success. The target didn't even managed to escape."
"He's fine at least?"
"Yes, he just slept a lot."
An operative brings the Marshall out of the tilt rotors, he look up at the Oracle
"You have no right to do this."
"Sorry but we can't be sure that the ASIC won't try again to invade the nation, we need someone competent army."
"...No actually you're right. I should have asked before going rogue like that."
"I still have to put you under surveillance now. How did you managed to reach Lastation?"
"That's a bit long story... Do you really want to hear it?"
"Go ahead it might be interresing."
Both Histoire and Relic heads inside of the Basilicom...
That's it folks! this chaper took a long time to make and its normal since its nearly 8K words long.
Since the extra is a bonus, like the first one i will give some informations about the future of the fanfic. First being that of course the volume 7 will take place right after the 6 and will continue to develop things established in that volume but not only that, it will go back into a similar tone that the volume 2 and 3 and it will probably be the same thing for the volumes onward.
There will be some revelations about Corvidae real identity (the Leanboxian guild agent). But there will also be a certain mercenary team that appeared in the first extra that will show up in this volume. There will also be some revelations about Bethesda himself
The volume 7 will also introduce the oracle before Chika and his radical ideals...
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A stone door opens, Vigil steps inside of it.It give a view on a long corridor made out of stone, he walks it down with a lantern in his hand, after a moment of walking he feel a light going on his face, it look similar to a sunlight
"Wait, how I can see the light of the day even tough I'm in the underground?" He wonders as he looks up
He is now in a strange area, its full of vegetation and it seem to be circular, in the center of it there is a pedestal
"This is a sanctuary, he thinks. its so unreal, its like i went into a pocket dimension."
he move towards the pedestal, his eyes widens
"This is..."
A golden disc is on the pedestal, lighted by an unknown light
"The Golden disc!"