Above the extremely dark thunder grey colored sky with some lighter trout grey mixed inside for an rainstorm, the distance was an dark tazanite, mitten, juice, royal, wisteria, eggplant and violet color above in the top; with the sky also featuring tiger, fire, sandstone, yam, marmalade, rust, ginger and clay orange thrown into the mix as well. But it did not end there as some mahogany, jam, merlot, cherry, brick, currant, lipstick and blush red was seen in the warm morning; finally ending with the laguana, banana, tuscany, gold, royal, flax, cyber, mellow and fire yellow sunlight that shined high above the edge over the horizon within the distance while the sky above still remained in an dark coal, metal and charcoal black sea of stars that twinkled with each passing moment. The clouds were swirling but remained calm as they moved across without an blink and miss feeling while the rain was light on the civilian population within Whiteburah Island's modern district
A 25-Year old Mikekolt stood atop of a building owned by him that was known as his next generations weapon development corps called: "Mikekolt Incorporated LLC." as he made minor decisions such as dropping the liberation out of the name as he preferred the current one being used now. As such the description of the building will be starting at the lowest to highest point in the sky, so here we go with what it looked like:
The lowest point of the structure went straight across from the side made of bricks while the one that went higher had a forward curved ledge, multiple lines going across horizontally like before while an smooth border between the bricklaid pattern was found on the corners. This building had inspiration from the NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building's clock face below the specific Homorakkhan font that spelt out the name of the corporation and side archways that started going out at first before going down to the ground on the side of the building. The same colored golden bronze gate had a square pattern on the bottom with a stripe on top of it, the far end of the bars on opposite sides where the ledge was in front of the gate had an fleur-de-lis which was a little more higher than the other ones. A bar on the top and bottom bordered the pattern of an x-cross and ribbed vertical bar that all went off to the other side, the bars were lightly spaced in between as there was at first a small to slightly medium sized ring with the other one being smaller; the upwards curved arches were on the left to right sides on the top of the bars while pyramid spikes were on exactly where the bars stood. The front wall of the two lower ledges were thick spaced in between as the ridges curved up to the rectangular bricklaid edge which was above a slightly less wide rectangular pattern on the bottom of the top while staying above the thin border. Curving outward with a tiled roof that served no purpose but to act as decoration. On the ledge was a gargoyle representing an idol of Camazotz of Aztec Mythology which was found on all four of the outward ledges of the building. The wall where the ledge was had a vertical brick laid pattern this time with trenches in between, a dual layered ladder on the sides and steps was going into the thick curved edge before the two rods curved over like a square on the upper ledge. There were two small curved edges with a trench in between followed by an another next to the thicker medium edge
It curved upward twice towards the thin line in between with a thicker line on top, followed by a trench with a thin line on both the top and bottom in between the square lined pattern of the trenches as the thick line on the top was the end acting as the highest ledge to be seen in front of the building though it was much more wider on all four sides than what people can see from the ground below. On the center had four rods going upwards in a diamond shape from an top down view as the three more rods went diagonally upwards towards the center rod, the back went towards the left and right sides like a spider-web. The second ledge on the bottom went was found up against the second while the outward arch on the front was found on the top of where the tower structure was standing continuing over to the other side which looked like the same though the archway structures mentioned from before were found below the lowest ledge. The main center of where the diamond edged structures were had three outward curved squares stacked up together with the tower being a tall rectangular pillar with downwards curved edges on the corners; having a square with the same lined pattern as the walls of the ledges and a needle that pointed upwards to the sky which also had a resonating square shaped light. Finally, there was a outward curved overhead archway cover that was ribbed horizontally over to the ends and was widely spaced out in between; shrouding the people hanging out on top of the Mikekolt Incorporated LLC. building in shadows from the sunlight but also lets them get the best view of it while it's rays and blowing winds warmed their skin
Mikekolt was looking at the ceiling with his arms resting against his head and laying right on his back against the swaying hammock made from his black webs, his Bravo Armor gotten an new addition to the front since he's gotta keep up with the times that passed as it's been in an time such as 8½ Years since the fall of the Dragonroot Company whose operations gotten shut down by him and it seems that he still didn't learn a thing about what it means to be a hero in the eyes of Drayko. That would change a few months later on but now was the time for him to get going because he's got some work left to do. There's bound to be a tanker at the shoreline of the modern district coming in from the cable-stayed hybrid bridge and for what's on that tanker, it belongs to him as it's going directly inside of his company's vault; he's fully aware that the Komodo Unit is behind the theft but is not aware that they broke their allegiance to the Dragon Hunters and have gone rogue. The new addition on his chest was five inverted trapezoid shapes on the sides of the belts as they used the same flexibility as his own belt now sporting the full colored Lupineraider crest on the front. In between was perforated cushioning like his desert armor that melted off his body in the microwave hallway that left him with scorching burns which cooled and faded off eventually. The center of each strap was a three way yin-yang with the third one curved over the top, but this was just the next step in what else has changed about him. He jumped off his black web that'll dissolve overtime and backed up from the edge before he ran to leap off into the air, preforming his very own HALO Jump where he spreaded out his bladed vamparic bat wings before gliding over to the block where the bridge was found as no one looked up to see who flew overhead
The Tanker was a outer plated syracusia type ship designed to transport and store liquids or gasses in bulk as they carried commodities such as vegetable oils, molasses and even wine; but the size of the cargo was something else to be considered as they're not carrying any of that at all, it's something sinister that lies inside and tells the onlookers that they've got an project that's not meant for their public eyes. The doors where opened by wheels that were turned in order to release the locks before going inside, having searchlights and regular lights that lit the entire deck in the morning of the new day that's still dark like the previous night. This tanker was a disguise to the people who watched it pass by and where they're going to is something that's not known, not even by him because of how disconnected he's been over the times of eight years with no one but his Dragons as he wouldn't talk to people like Axethor; though it didn't mean he wasn't in contact with Drayko over the activities of the Dragon Hunters
He made some changes to his boots with horizontally ribbed on the front with medium outline edges that had spaced out vertical lines, with layered scales all around having a horizontal strap with narrow x-crossed straps on the front that had been aligned with a lot of pyramid spikes that were a little more pointed outwards. The top rim was dual spiked with a lot of pyramid spikes going outwards in the middle while his infamous razor blades remained on the top to bottom. The front metal tipped toe was adorned with five razor blade claws out lined up and spaced a little bit out in between for mauling and stabbing with a kick. The usual merlon and embrasure pattern was still there but so was the thick pyramid spikes that stood in between the pattern on the sides. New to the boots were a pair of dual blades on both the left and right sides, the top going down with the bottom pointed to the top going outwards as serrated blades like on his wrists. Finally, there was two vents on the front and three right on the back that allowed him to achieve top acceleration speed faster than before; using vials of the mixture combined with Zippleback Smoke to skate across all terrain, having armor plates that looked like a upward slanted trapezoid going up against the ankle. He's also gotten around to adding in the bulk up power feature to his Bravo Armor so that he can still remain strong even if he becomes a old man in the future, though the Komodo Unit's armor has allowed them to get stronger since the last time they've fought against each other. His vamparic bat wings made of blades with tight translucent fabric in between to represent the membrane was also modified to be lighter, strapping around himself under his Bravo Armor
At this point he's achieved everything he's gotten planned for though he hasn't gotten to use his heavy war armor for taking a battalion of Komodo Unit forces head on just yet, he will get his chance to do so. Oh yeah and another thing about his boots is that he has five more larger razor blades on the sides that shot backwards like diagonally upward slanted wings. Soon as he retracted his wings upon reaching the block where the bridge was in the distance away, Mikekolt shout out his black web over to a building and swung down across the streets; he was soon flung back upwards into the air where he shot out another web. Swinging over to the bridge's upper catwalk in no time without having to walk the whole way over as by the time he's there, the tanker is past the bridge; calling over his Dragons would waste too much time and that is not something he can make enough of for himself as of now
He was wearing his jacket which was transformed into a leathery raincoat that was now tight padded with a seamless diamond pattern that was vacuumed inward, the sleeves had a pair of parallel rings that sported his golden bronze collars on the outer borders while they had a white collar in the middle. His hood was beaked downward and the top of the raincoat had a snap on button of two rectangular clips as this jacket still had all the previous features of his last one. The top of the sleeves having the crest for the Lupineraider tribe and the back had his next generation weapons development incorporation on the back to replace his family's crest as it wasn't working out for him well. This kept him shrouded and hidden from the eyes of the people as he landed with a fist to the ground on the upper catwalk, from here on out he started walking normally as he waited for his time to jump onto the tanker and the jacket also had a parallel line border on the bottom edge as well as the beaked hood's edge just to keep the idea
Raining atop of one of the many bridges among Whiteburah Island's modern district all of the civilians roamed about in the streets while he walked atop of the catwalks in the hybrid cable stayed suspension bridge. His face heavily obscured and shrouded with just a pair of glasses that was seen with a green tint along with the lower half of his quill barbed beard that was looking longer than previously. His jacket was covering his entire body and looked very baggy as to the others he looked like he was just walking on his own business, looking at nothing in the process except for what was ahead of him. He could be mentioned that he had no place to be here because there's nothing for him here of interest but the truth couldn't be that far from what a man like him was really looking for here. He just passed on by the civilians who paid no attention to the everyman that was the raincoat wearing bystander who was only interested in one thing, and that is on that tanker under the command of the Komodo Unit as soon as no one else was watching anymore. It was time to get a move one quickly
Mikekolt broke out into a short run before sprinting afterwards with his vented boots kicking in the acceleration at top speed, still wearing his raincoat to hide his identity from the others walking on the sidewalks of the bridge before he jumped to a wall; leaping out into the air as he started to fall from the railing still with a cigarette in his mouth that killed him of any pain he was having in his mind. Once he reached the lower floor of the bridge he shot out a black web as he backflipped off from the wall, swinging just below the lower walkway as his target was just underneath him. A large armored tanker that was enough to be the size of two pairs of syracusia ships combined into one. This treasure which was held in the third hold was the work of the Dragon Divers that used not only his design for a pilotable sea weapon, but were also involved in building something beyond their lifestyle right here
This sea weapon could not only be used to traverse underwater due to it's manta ray styled bipedal tank with legs, it was armed with weapons like it's main aquatic jet cutter in it's mouth; missiles on it's back as well as full-auto submachine guns on the end of each of it's two upward slanted wings to the sides. How this was capable of doing so was thanks to the idea of the Infernal Colossus of the Thunderbay Tribe's use of scalding hot water used to power the trojan horse weapon, which is exactly the perfect name to call this amphibious designed weapon to be formidable on both the ground and underwater. Nothing like having to battle such aquatic weapon inspired from and built to take on the image of both an manta ray and a real threat that should've and he means should've been left in the dust, however he's not going to destroy it. He's taking it back out of their hands and back to Mikekolt Incorporated LLC. because it's his property and he deserved half the funds that were established, but he will not be cheated out of people using his technology to build something like that for their own purposes against the Dragons
Mikekolt swung overhead from the bridge before disconnecting from the black web, flipping over to Rainserviper's saddle as his boots released their vented flames to make him hover on to his saddle softly without landing with a painful impact. He and his bud scouted all around the tanker to get a good view of what they're seeing, catching onto every detail there was in the process before he stroked his quill adorned serpent on the side to make him coo; he got up and dropped down onto the Aft Deck of the tanker as his mission was about to begin here
At the same time a Lakotanbvell A84-Attack Chopper was hovering over in the distance and a man was watching Mikekolt through a pair of binoculars, calling into his radio as he told their officer: "Castlekroftservkhall is just on schedule as planned, he'll have the information about the other half of the Bludvist's Legacy he took eight years ago" The man lowered his binoculars before closing the door, he wasn't just any other man in the Komodo Unit; Mikekolt would come to know his identity after his mission was completed. One thing to know is that he wore a belted durag around his head that had near-middle spinal cord length sashes dangling on the back, with both the Komodo Unit flag and the ten barn stars on both sides. Mikekolt stood up and hid himself out of the sight of the Komodo Unit wearing the similar raincoats in the weather of the morning, time to go over his mission before moving any further: Take out all Komodo Unit forces on the tanker to secure the weapon and then hijack out of their hands, where it'll be brought back to his next generation weapons development corps for his own uses outside to other advanced lands like Whiteburah Island. He'll always have a large scale figure back at his Lair to look back on. Now it's time to move on through because who knows if the Dragon Divers were aware of his weapon about to be taken by the Komodo Unit here
The Aft Deck on the back had two winches on both the left and right side with one diagonally on the upper corners, as the highest point of the top deck had a pair of two tubes next to each other with four short hexagons in front of the tall; forward slanted tubes in the front of the ship. Below the catwalks on the sides were some roofed covers that gates on the sides in which that flared outward into the seas, being able to dump bodies out into the waters so the soldiers couldn't find out about the fate of their comrades. The following areas were all listed here below:
Deck A was shaped like a "U" with a room of lined up rows of lockers to the south while the lounge was shaped like a hallway with an three-way staircase in the rooms of either side of the area. The middle had a glass barrier in front of the chairs and viewing screen on the left while there was a bartender's pantry to the right. Deck B was a square shaped hallway with small rooms on either side of the upper floor, there happened to be a staircase that led up the next floor on the east but was blocked by three big crates while the west did not. The whole hallway was a peacock blue color with some orange tinted lighting even in the daylight. This is where the catwalk led to and is where Mikekolt will be taking as it'll lead him to the Navigational Deck much easier. Deck C was a long corridor with two staircases on either side with the east staircase blocked by crates, the one in the middle led to the upper deck above; not much to say here. Deck D had a kitchen at the west with a pantry in the east, the staircase in the south went up to the highest deck of the tanker; the kitchen's entrance was two sliding doors with one by the staircase leading down to the last one and the other to the south by the staircase leading to the tanker's pilot controls, a series of seats were lined up in rows as this was a kitchen after all. At last was Deck E which was the bridge where the controls of the tanker were as there's a hatch on the left and the second one on the back. Finally the Navigational Deck both had the same upper supported balconies as the west had a tarpaulin that covered a big stack of wooden pallets and spotlight, the middle was raised 20 feet above as it was the crow's nest and the east had nothing; the ladder allowed him to climb up to the top
He looked up to the catwalk in the Aft Deck and shifted his crossbow into it's full rifle just like it was supposed to be, shooting a bullet arrow that was made to be much more piercingly and deadlier as it couldn't get anymore of that over the span of eight years. Not only taking out an raincoat wearing Komodo Unit soldier armed with a full-auto crossbow, but also managing to draw out a patrol on the west that came to investigate; though he too was out of action when he was shot down. Shooting a black web to launch himself up onto the catwalk before going through the hatch door that led to Deck B inside, he would still use his grappling claw should he come to a point where his webs can't help him up to places; plus he only used his webs to reach lower areas more easily rather than manually climb up due to wanting to get to where he needs to be at fast
He walked through north of the square shaped hallway where a patrol was keeping a look out for intruders, he snuck up from behind as his dual blades found on the top of his wrists sprout out before he gutted the Komodo Unit soldier in the throat; he couldn't leave a body hanging around so he dragged it back outside with the other two. Wrapping them up in black webs as he shot one from the bottom of his right wrist, flinging them into the air before spinning in a wheel all around himself and letting them go flying off into the ocean. Now that he's cleaned up his tracks he returned back inside Deck B to head up the staircase leading up to Deck C, an new kind of threat waited for him as this might not be something he can easily sneak past for the Komodo Unit have all eyes on intruders on board the "MVR Guernsey" Tanker
"Surveillance Viewer..." Mikekolt observed under his breath just as he got up to the entrance of the corridor in front of him, this Komodo Security designed surveillance viewer slid across a rail along the top rim of the wall; slowly turning it's rectangular box shaped viewing device off to the sides in order to ensure full sight to capture anything and anyone with no hope for erasing what was caught in the eyes of this viewing device. Just when it came back he shot an bullet arrow that destroyed it with the Komodo Unit soldier coming in to investigate, taking a communication box out before calling to the headquarters set up elsewhere
"Surveillance Viewer in the Deck C floor is down-" Not wanting the soldier to send in a detective team up here, he killed the soldier with another bullet arrow into the throat. Removing his body afterwards as the communication from their headquarters came out
"What's going on out there, respond!" Mikekolt left as soon as the voice spoke and continued when there was no response out there from one of their soldiers. "Lost contact with patrol in the Deck C corridor: Detective Team, carry out a investigation right away" Following that order on the lower floors, the Komodo Unit soldiers started to head up to the upper floors where they were beginning to suspect that someone was stowing away on board
Mikekolt hid underneath the opened cupboards below the bartender like table in the Deck D kitchen until the investigation was over, returning to their stations and staying alert even at a sleight of hand that there was a sign that an intruder was on board. He tumbled out and stood after peaking over the edge that there wasn't anyone guarding the kitchen, what he did see is bodies of the crew members above that were pale as well as showing marks of being stabbed by blades. Bringing his tusked shield out on his side he looked into an corner mirror on the far end of where he was with the hanging pans in his way, seeing a surveillance viewer just by an doorway as it's where he needed to go in order to reach the stairs leading up to the bridge on Deck E. Mikekolt vaulted over the bartender counter with a slide and threw his shield over to the corner, ricocheting off and striking the surveillance viewer in just a matter of time; taking it back off once he exited through the door and went up the stairs. The reasons he didn't take the hallway around was due to being blocked off by a gate of lasers that would cause alerts to go off, with just one split second shriek of the exclamation point away
Reaching the bridge controls on Deck E, our hero found that the crewmates who like before downstairs were innocent crewmates shot from behind as from what he could speculate on what happened. Walking over to the windows he found one of their new attack choppers in the tanker's frontal bow hovering over to the ship, seemingly waiting for him to come out of hiding to expose himself. That's not going to happen to him as he doesn't want any source of witnesses discovering his presence on board this tanker, he slipped his crossbow through the top of the shuddered glass windows; looking through the scope before he aimed for the rotor on the tail and shot it with a bullet arrow to take it down. The tail rotor exploded as the attack chopper spun out of control towards the sea though it did retain some balance along in hover lowly just below the railing of the deck outside. Another shot was struck in the pilot and the attack chopper was taken down with ease, causing an explosion against the armored plating of the tanker as this was not enough to sink it easily
Just then a tri-turbine drone hovered above the tanker once Mikekolt exited outside into the Navigation Deck, taping everything on the surveillance viewer connected on the bottom; this action alone had him shifting his crossbow into a dual pair and shot the surveillance viewer in the bottom that was securing the rectangular shaped box with iron strips to assure he will not be blackmailed or suffer being exposed as an criminal by whoever sent that drone. Although it was taken down with a bomb fired out of the grenade launcher barrel attachment, he could not pinpoint in who was responsible in sending that drone in the first place; someone's out in getting not only cold blood spilled out of him but extortion datapacks to blackmail him. It did not matter to him either way because the surveillance viewer was down when he destroyed the drone, now that it's clear for him to leave without distractions he found the door locked from the inside; better try entering from the back in order to get down to the third hold, as that's where the nicknamed RAY weapon was being held
Snapping to cover underneath the raised platform where the stairs were he found one of the Komodo Minigunners coming out, the appearance of one wasn't explained before but now it is as they haven't changed a bit and neither did the regular brutes themselves. These are the appearances of the minigunners that could not be attacked head on without getting shot by the average joe:
Komodo Minigunners were helmetless brutes with shaven taper fade haircuts, wearing a pair of red colored eye goggles for the lenses along with having red colored binocular scopes that were slanted to the sides and had multiple straps that went diagonally up to the back of the head and back around. Having black armored plated tunics that had short t-shirt sleeves that went down to the biceps with medium sized straps that acted as full support to the revolt to the Dragon Hunters. The thick front straps had the same red color as before on both sides while the middle was an black color as the both of them all had three pouches lined up vertically upward and spaced out in between. The same went for the sides of the large dual rectangular shaped dufflebag backpack that was beltfeeding the miniguns they were all equipped with put together in a pair. Having perforated cushioning in the ribbed chainmail gloves for soft impact to eliminate breaking the bones of the hands, layered against their thighs around to the front was leather plating that had diagonal slanted straps which went upwards to their belts in which there were at least two on each side; the pouches on the sides against the thighs happened to have two vials of liquidized plastic explosives to coat the rubber edged bullet arrows in for a explosive death upon impact. These kinds of brutes had the same knee guards and seismic boots for stomping but this time to destroy the floor underneath and get the drop on the fallen victim. Finally, they carried the same filtered voice like the other Brutes as they were tougher and more vicious sounding; not to mention their muscled arms were exposed and had a thick three ring tattoo pattern
This minigunner was called in to investigate a disturbance above deck as the explosion from the drone didn't sink the tanker but it wasn't quiet either, believing it to be the work of their nemesis whose come to take back what was stolen out of his hands. Mikekolt threw a empty beltclip over to the back of the deck in order to distract the minigunner, running to the door and locking the brute out in the rain that helped out in drowning out the sound of him going over to the entrance back into Deck E. The minigunner searched around to find nothing at all and decided to head down to the Deck A lounge, only to find himself locked outside as there was someone who didn't realize that he's still out here; a shame that the same someone isn't aware that he doesn't take jokes like these with much fun as people do because at least they let him enter, here it looked like someone's ripped off the hatch wheel from the outside. A dick move's going to be punished with that
Returning downstairs to the Deck A lounge he took out another patrol in the port side hallway before coming down, spotting the viewing screen as he took a seat on the couches; not in the slightest interested in them using RAY to conduct tests in the third hold at the lower tanker, a destination that's next in mind as he was just about to make his leave. He took a box from the dead soldier before switching the frequency over to a specific one and spoke inside to report to Rainserviper outside which also held a communication box that he took off from one a few days earlier: "RAY is being held below this tanker and it's got a training function for the pilot, me of course to learn how the hell I control this infernal machine of a marinal beast named after the manta ray. If the tanker is blown to hell then that's me coming back to hide this in a more secure place that the Komodo Unit can't enter" Mikekolt reported in before going out
HTTYD
The next few areas are explained here as Mikekolt heads on down to the Engine Room as this was mostly a golden bronze colored triple stack of three catwalks and walkways on both sides of the tanker, with stairs that both up and down while the large engines in the center were in a sensible way loud as hell which allowed him to use weapons like his gauntlet against them without making a sound due to the engines drowning it all out. The room before this however had a hallway that contained lockers to the front of the wall, one of which had a crewmate's body falling out upon opening the first one; the entrance to the engine room was through a doorway next to the corner of the locker room. A large crate that's able to be crawled under was found next to the ledge of the balcony but it looked like two crates together on the front and back. The port side entrance had a hall that was blocked off by a lasergate with a door on the other side, but can be taken out through the power brick that the Komodo Unit had no time in fixing.
Deck 2 was a big and long hallway with a golden bronze sepia tone that had lots of sealed hatchdoors as towards the end of the long straight hallway was a smaller one leading to the east. Corridors in the south and the north as well as both the east to west side, there wasn't much to speak of here other than the fact that if a battle was to take place here then there's not that much room to preform some stunts. Too bad that there's no Deck 1 because at the end of corridors was the three holds, first one had a projector that showcased the training arena while the second one had two of them on both screens to showcase the close up weapon demonstrations and the third hold was an arena for the weapon itself. Not much else to talk about here except for one last thing and that was the appearance of RAY's cockpit for the pilot inside
The cockpit of the RAY weapon had a soft seat with a secure harness and pedals for support on the pilot's legs as they were laying a little back towards the seat itself, while the arms on the sides had controls for movement and weapons that were equipped on RAY. The frontal screens acted like the HUD as did the one-way mirror like screen that showed everything in front of the pilot. The cockpit opened on top of the head with three-way split doors with a pair of two diagonally on the sides and one in the back. Two car mirror like structures were found on the sides in front of the pilot's seat. If there's one thing that the developers who used his tech to built this weapon added that he was never ungrateful for, it was the idea that allowed him to set up a training mode to allow him to learn how to control RAY; with setting up destination markers to safe areas to test out the weapons, how to walk on land and how to swim through the seas. He happened to be one of those developers because it was his resources that allowed them to build this Anti-Marinal Frontline Attack Weapon (AMFAW) therefore it belongs to him alone and should this unit be destroyed then he'll build it better than before
Mikekolt headed down to the starboard side of the lounge and dropped down with the Gauntlet of Frynir armed on his right, he was going to give them hell for it after he was denied revenge from Dagur the Deranged as he's the one who wanted to put a end to Savage's gimmick of breaking out of prison and joining new allies. He would spend lone nights with his lover to rid himself of Breyerkolt's sacrifice to him for the past four years, though it worked out to help him remember that of how much time he spent with him; he doesn't mind spending time alone with her because nothing's wrong with loving a beast. Dragur and Rose love each other like that but they also fight together, he's following him as an example between him and her
Coming through the doorway where he entered the tri-stacked catwalks, he snuck up behind a soldier that was getting sleepy before charging up his gauntlet; heavily punching the soldier in the spinal cord that sent him falling down past the second catwalk, landing atop of another comrade as the two of them were dead. Seeing a path over to the far end of the other side, he shot a Zipline Claw over to the railing which then connected back to the one he was at; it's nice of him to have built something like this for both navigating and for launching objects to his enemies as well as bringing down traps on them. He climbed on the cablewire before he proceeded to use it's actual zipline function that let him travel across the air over to the other side, being that this was meant for things such as being separated from a injured Dragon that was either not capable of flight or was injured in the wings
Entering the port side entrance of the engine room's lockers he found another lasergate that was blocking his path, using his tomahawk to chop into the power brick this time as it was out of order; allowing him to pass on through without having to cause an alert to the presence of other soldiers on board
Unknown to him however the minigunner locked outside found his way back inside before coming over to the engine room in order to alert the other soldiers in the ship: "Someone's broken on board the tanker, we're going on high alert; follow me down to Deck 2. We can still catch him off guard at this point if we reach him so let's go!" The minigunner alerted the soldiers and led them down as two of them made a bet on who it was
Having entered through the first corridor of Deck 2, he went nowhere but straight ahead. He kept a look out for all guards that were keeping a lookout for intruders; though found nothing at first glance with his binoculars that he was wearing on him. So far it was left barren but had a soldier that was coming ahead of him, hiding behind the right side of the wall to a door that led to nowhere. Broken hatch doors in fact that couldn't be opened as he's come across more of those than what he can enter into, not seeing a pipe on the side of his leg as it tipped over to the left side and clanked about on the floor. Catching this sudden disturbance the soldier went over to investigate in finding an pipe on the floor, with a second soldier silently coming in to see what's happened. Startled he pointed his crossbow towards him until the light right on the top flickered to reveal who startled him, thus giving him relief
"Have you discovered anything?" The second soldier asked him
"Nothing here to report in the Deck 2 corridor, it was just a fallen pipe from the wall. Stay alert because our minigunner on board just told us about a intruder breaking into the tanker and heading this way, he's after the trojan horse weapon in Hold 3. If you see him then block him off and don't let our target escape" The startled soldier responded and warned him who nodded in return, going back to his position as they both got a move on. Mikekolt peaked out to the side and moved through as the coast was clear to move on
More bodies of the crewmates on board this tanker were found littered in arrowshot wounds on their chests, all of them so far looked pale but did not decompose just yet as there was an sign of bloating from the lips and some form of adipocere decomposing that was beginning to take effect on them. Stopping before a incoming soldier who was listening to music and paid no attention to him, he passed on through the long east hallway before coming at the end of the east hall; entering into the door and getting through without a moment to spare. While a group led by the minigunner were getting closer to Mikekolt, he was getting closer to the end where the three holds were left for him to exit out of the tanker; heading down to the end of the hallway where the entrance to the three holds were and behind the wall as this was a gunfight that he can't run from. He's going to take them all out, risking exposure that he was ever here on this tanker to the eyes of the people outside
He took out his Revenant's Talon III and shifted them into dual crossbows, getting over to the other side as he fired off a round of bullet arrows to hit the soldiers firing at him; though he's not safe from being attacked in the shinguards nor the shoulders as he took the arrows out of him, throwing them to the ground. Igniting the Phoenixripper in the process and charging on through to the arbalists, setting them burning alive to ashes while one of them shot the pipes and struck him in the face with the steam that stunned him; blinded but not willing to let any of his enemies continue having possession of his weapon on board, he got out his sword and started slashing wildly with no sense of where to strike and what he's hitting
Back and forth he ran across from the corridor until the blindess faded, allowing him to see in a clear sight again. Not only were many of the Komodo Unit soldiers dead on the ground from his blind fury but he'd also cut through some of the pipes that were letting out steam from an number of places. This shootout wasn't finished just yet as a few more were coming down to provide backup to the squad downstairs. Some of them began throwing grenades at him and the minigunner was getting his ass pinned down behind the wall, with his Revenant's Talon III shifted back into it's rifle position he attached the grenade revolver barrel and fired off a Volcanripper Napalm bomb to blow them out of cover. However at least two of them threw an new kind of projectile called the Concussion Detonator which was a spherical shaped ball projectile, both of them took a second to detonate before exploding; stunning Mikekolt and forcing him to shoot his crossbow towards the ceiling with no control over himself nor his weapon, allowing the minigunner to stand and get several hits on him
He regained control over himself and struck the minigunner with the Gauntlet of Frynir a few times, ending the shootout with a charged bone crunching punch to the skull while also taking out the two soldiers who launched that new weapon at him. Afterwards he decided to return back to the door where the hatch was broken but the door was unlocked from his blind fury. Before he entered there was a call over the intercom which caused a change of location:
"Arlingley Bridge checkpoint has been passed, all Komodo personnel must report in the following ten minutes time for the scheduled briefing session with the chief in command of this tanker. Until that time comes you are given direct orders to remain in your posts, there will be no exceptions to this whatsoever. Report at that time sharply and if not, you will go to see the chief in command and explain why you are either cutting the scheduled time or are late; he does not take lateness as a excuse not to come down to the third hold!" The intercom reported to all personnel on deck and warned them not to cut nor be late in coming down to the third hold
Mikekolt cursed the Komodo Unit for forcing him into creating a change in plans, but entered the first hold which appeared to be a blue colored room; bigger than any of the other rooms so far. Launching another Zipline Claw over to the next railing across from where he was, the place he stood from was on the top floor of the entrance; getting across to the other side on the left, moving onto the second hold that had two projectors on the dual screens. Switching off and on periodically from the sides every now and then with him getting down below the hatch, the lower floor allowed him to sneak through without the presence of the personnel above aware that he was now in the same hold as them. Getting down and commando crawling through the flatline shaped tunnels where he was able to come out to stand up, move around easily in the process while he's at it
One of the soldiers above him dropped a beltfed clip through the grates but decided against trying to pick it back up, thus allowing Mikekolt to continue on through to the third hold as it will be here that RAY is being held in the hands of the chief in command who called out for a takeover on this tanker in order to hide an contraband from the eyes of the people outside to their eyes. Now with him getting through down below the hatches and exiting out from their tunnel into a room for him to walk around in, he looked up and managed to snag a panty shot of RAY itself; taking a seat while he's at it. It looked beautiful and for something based off an trojan horse colossus that was destroyed by Drayko years ago when he was their champion, it was stunning and ultimately this meant that a weapon like this belonged in his hands as he's using it to attack major sites from the seas and the land
RAY was exactly as described as being amphibious and based off the mighty manta ray of the seas. It's body was slim but nimble with horizontal ribbing across it's chestplate that was low angled upwards to the main head which both the top and bottom were shaped like a inverted trapezoid, both ends stacking against each other with narrow slanted eyes on the sides along with oval shaped diagonal slanted wings going upwards on the sides. Lower plates of the two wings had vertical ribbed ridges that went across to the tip from the start while the top had a trio of circles on the front and back of each wing. The thighs of the bipedal trojan horse built weapon came in a flat surface cone shape that got smaller towards the tip but was still no less larger like the rest of the weapon itself. The crotch plate was a triangular shape with it's sides going all around like the waistband of boxers, the actual thigh plates were pointed forward to wherever RAY was looking as the weapon mostly stood a little bit upright; with it's knees that were slanted up towards the back end of the thigh plates and having a spherical shape on the end that looked like the feathers of the peacock in the NBC logo, just a reference there. The tipped feet were curved on both the front and back with ribbed ridges all around, having an edge all around on the bottoms for stable support and looking tall at first before going up to the knees still having that ribbed ridges pattern all the way through. On the end of it's back was a flexible tail that had a spaced out pattern in between the thick round edge square link, while the tip was a normal square with a bottom triangular half on top of the rectangle which it's front was slanted forwards. It was lightweight and versatile with missile pods on it's back along with knee mounted missiles for ground defense, full-auto rapid fire submachine guns on the tips of it's wings and it's infamous aquatic jet cutter armed in the mouth. Finally, due to the fact that this was a trojan horse weapon based off the colossus back then; it's paint job was barbaric but well modernized enough to look like it belonged on an advanced island like this, although it had been realized by him that the weapon itself was actually shaped like a bald eagle landing with it's wings going backwards and it's talons going down forwards
Taking the flatline tunnel out of the lower floor of the third hold and appearing on the top of the catwalk, now was his chance to hijack it and escape out of the tanker with the weapon on board; though it would destroy the ship in the process this was vital for him to use against the Komodo Unit's forces should they come with a sinister plan to attack the innocents back home. Running across to the back of RAY he jumped onto it's back that was armed with missiles just as the trojan horse weapon promised, climbing to the top of the head and jumping down into the cockpit; RAY activated itself automatically which alerted the Komodo Unit soldiers who're listening in to the chief in command of this takeover. In response he contacted Grashunov on the communication box and warned him: "Grashunov, RAY's getting hijacked; the intruder's identity is unknown. Going into high alert!"
"That will not be necessary, I have orchestrated the opportunity for Castlekroftservkhall to take back his trojan horse. My true plan is about to be unleashed on the San Hjierantruvalo Peninsula miles away from where you are now, Lt. Bostonswelter has briefed you on this did he not? I do not need an answer for that. Our puppet will lead our soldiers to the location as to where the other half of the Bludvist's Legacy is, leave the tanker if you can and should you try to stop him; you will not be coming home tonight. That is a order, the Warlords are going to know what betrayal really is when the legacy is back in our hands!" Grashunov revealed a bit about himself before going offline
After setting RAY into auto pilot where it'll meet him outside, Mikekolt jumped out from the cockpit before making a run for the exit; charging through the soldiers without stopping once while the trojan horse started uncontrollably destroying everything in it's path. Komodo Unit soldiers of both the swordsmen/arbalists and brutes were all being killed as the chief whose briefing them escaped with his life, assuring revenge on the Castlekroftservkhall while he is at it. Before long the trojan horse fired off it's aquatic jet cutter to flood the tanker down into the oceans that it was sailing on, allowing water to spill through the third hold as some of the soldiers were violently drowned in the following tsunami that followed
Mikekolt was above back at Deck A when the flooding of the tanker started, waves of water were pouring into the halls while he was racing up to the upper decks; as not even the food depot next room was safe from flooding, sending waves of ocean water after him. He passed through the lasergate and got back up to the top of where Deck E was, exiting out to the outer navigational deck where he took out that attack chopper outside. What was waiting for him in the meantime happened to be the chief in command who came to stop him, going against his leader's orders not to stop him from taking back what was his as it's supposed to label him as a rogue soldier who sunk an tanker full of personnel from his own unit
However, he had no time in fighting the chief in command of this tanker so he instead made a choice on ending this fight as soon as possible. The following shootout had him leave quite a number of arrowshot marks on his body while the chief tried to stop him by shooting a tarp to block his view. Not impressed he shot the ropes and had it blow away all while the tanker was really starting to break itself apart by the auto pilot feature of RAY who was coming to his pilot's location. A last resort happened to have the chief shoot a lamp in order to blind him by using the light so that he couldn't hit anything, shooting him in the chest and in the arms as it looked like he was going down. Had it not been for RAY's interference as the auto piloted aquatic weapon jumped onto the top of the tanker, then he would've not won either way; Mikekolt took out the light before grappling up onto the head and swung back into the main cockpit. Now with RAY back in his possession he jumped back and flipped over back into the ocean waters in order to escape, disappearing in the darkness of the seas
"He's hijacked RAY and taken it out of our hands, better send in a chopper quickly before this tanker goes down completely" The chief in command asked his superior over the brick he held in his hand. As punishment for going against his warning, Grashunov responded with this in return
"We cannot spare a second attack chopper for extraction, you will have to swim back to base due to a halt in our production line. You know how expensive creating a line of these assault vehicular weapons are do you not? Like before I do not need an answer for that. Return back to base after this failure of a mission, we have all we need to convince the Dragon Hunters to blackmail them into bringing him here to the San Hjierantruvalo Peninsula; he's got what we are looking for" Grashunov responded with a lie at first as punishment but told the chief that they had all the blackmail evidence to use against the Warlords, as he harbored a intensively deep hatred for them; wanting to punish and destroy them through means that will without mercy kill the innocents of the Archipelago as well
Although it sounded like that Grashunov had exposed some parts about his plans and about himself, this is just a cover up in the end because when the revolt starts six years earlier from now; Mikekolt was not aware of the evil that was building up in the shadows. This will not be the end of him fighting against the Komodo Unit because his next journey to stop them once and for all is just beginning. For now he's got some modifications to make right before he is taken by the renegade unit and is forced to start forming a resistance brigade of soldiers who have something against their leader. Until then there was nothing much to discuss here and the real story hasn't even started just yet, this was just the cold opening of what's to come